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COLONEL-  MALCOLM  • 
OF  POLTALLOCH  • 


CAMPBELL 
COLLECTION 


ANNALS 

OF 

THE  KINGDOM  OF  IEELAND, 

BY  THE  FODR  MASTERS, 


FBOM 


THE  EARLIEST  PERIOD  TO  THE  YEAR  1616. 


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

A  TRANSLATION,  AND  COPIOUS  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 
pro  nobis  utUina,  quam  quod  in  commune  non  consulunt  Rarus  duabus  tribusve  civitatibus  ad  propulsandnm  commune 
periculum  conventus :  ita  dum  singuli  pugnant  nniversi  vincuntur." — TACITUS,  AGRIOOLA,  c.  12. 


SECOND    EDITION. 

VOL.  III. 

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

BOOKSELLERS  TO  THE  UNIVERSITY. 

1856. 


DUBLIN  : 

Pvintrt  at  tt)£  amUcrsitij  ^'Jitss, 

BT  M.  H.  GILL. 


B 


emeam 


QO1S  CflttlOSO  1172. 
Qoip  Chpiopo  mile  ceo  peachcmojac  at)6. 


U(X  CaCllCllN  comapba  TTlaeo6i5  DO  ecc. 
ae&a  ua  rmn&in  (t>o  muincip  aipi&  loca  con)  eppcop  copcaije  t>o 
ecc  peap  Ian  Oo  pach  Oe  eippibe,  cuip  oije  a^up  fgna  a  cumpipe. 


8  O'Kane, O'Carliam.-Thisnameisanglicised 
O'Cahan  in  old  law  documents,  inquisitions,  &c., 
but  it  is  at  present  made  O'Kane,  or  Kane,  in  the 
north  of  Ireland,  and  the  form  O'Kane  is  adopted 
throughout  this  translation.  There  were  several 
families  of  the  name  in  Ireland,  of  whom  the 
most  powerful  and  celebrated  were  seated  in  the 
baronies  of  Keenaght,  Tirkeeran,  and  Coleraine, 
in  the  present  county  of  Londonderry ;  but  it 
would  not  appear  that  the  ecclesiastic,  whose 
death  is  here  recorded,  was  of  this  sept. 

b  Successor  of  Maidoc,  Maodhog,  or  Aedhan, 
now  anglicised  Mogue  and  Aidan,  was  the  first 
Bishop  of  Ferns,  and  successor  of  Maodhog  is 
used  in  these  Annals  to  denote  Bishop  of  Ferns. 
The  word  comapba  signifies  successor,  either 
ecclesiastical  or  lay,  but  generally  the  former  in 
these  Annals.  There  were  two  other  ecclesias- 
tical establishments,  the  abbots  of  which  were 
called  Comharbas  of  Mogue,  or  Maidoc,  viz. 
Eossinver,  in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  and  Drum- 
lane,  in  the  county  of  Cavan ;  but  whenever  the 
abbots  of  these  places  are  referred  to,  the  names 


of  the  monasteries  are  mentioned,  as  O'Farrelly, 
Comharba  of  St.  Mogue,  at  Drumlane ;  O'Fergus, 
Comharba  of  St.  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  of  the  place. 

0  Giolla-Aedha,  i.  e.  servant  of  St.  Aodh,  or 
Aldus.  The  word  Giolla  occurs  so  frequently, 
as  the  first  part  of  the  names  of  men,  that  I  shall 
explain  it  here,  once  for  all,  on  the  authority  of 
Colgan.  Giolla,  especially  among  the  ancients, 
signified  a  youth,  but  now  generally  a  servant ; 
and  hence  it  happened  that  families  who  were 
devoted  to  certain  saints,  took  care  to  call  their 
sons  after  them,  prefixing  the  word  Giolla,  in- 
timating that  they  were  to  be  the  servants  or 
devotees  of  those  saints.  Shortly  after  the  in- 
troduction 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- 
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,  1172. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  seventy-two. 


successor  of  Maidoc",  died. 
Giolla  Aedhac  O'Muidhin  (of  the  family  of  Errew  of  Lough  Cond),  Bishop  of 
Cork,  died.     He  was  a  man  full  of  the  grace6  of  God,  the  tower  of  the  virginity 
and  wisdom  of  his  time. 


St.  Kieran.  And  it  will  be  found  that  there  were 
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- 
Aodhain,  Giolla -Breanainn,  Giolla  -  Bhrighde, 
Giolla-Chaomain,  Giolla-Chainnigh,  Giolla-Da- 
chaisse,  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. 

This  word  was  not  only  prefixed  to  the  names 
of  saints,  but  also  to  the  name  of  God,  Christ, 
the  Trinity,  the  Virgin  Mary;  and  some  were 
named  from  saints  in  general,  as  well  as  from 
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, 
the  servant  of  the  Trinity ;  Giolla-Chriost,  the 
servant  of  Christ ;  Giolla- losa,  the  servant  of 


Jesus;  Giolla-Muire,  the  servant  of  Mary.  These 
names  were  latinized  by  some  writers  in  modern 
times,  Marianus,  Christianus,  Patricianus,  Bri- 
gidianus,  &c.  &c.  But  when  an  adjective,  signi- 
fying a  colour,  or  quality  of  the  mind  or  body,  is 
postfixed  to  Giolla,  then  it  has  its  ancient  signi- 
fication, namely,  a  youth,  a  boy,  or  a  man  in  his 
bloom,  as  Giolla-dubh,  i.  e.  the  black,  or  black- 
haired  youth  ;  Giolla-ruadh,  i.  e.  the  red-haired 
youth  ;  Giolla  -riabhach,  the  swarthy  youth  ; 
Giolla-buidhe,  the  yellow  youth;  Giolla-odhar, 
Giolla-Maol,  &c.  &c. 

The  family  name  O'Muidhin  is  unknown  to 
the  Editor. 

d  Of  Errew  of  Lough  Con,  Ctipio  6oca  Con, 
now  Errew  on  Lough  Con,  in  the  parish  of 
Crossmolina,  in  the  barony  of  Tirawley,  and 
county  of  Mayo.  There  was  an  ancient  church 
here,  dedicated  to  St.  Tighernan — See  the  year 
1413.  See  also  Genealogy,  &c.,  of  the  Hy-Fiach- 
rach,  p.  239,  note  '. 

e  Grace  of  God,  path  oe1 — The  word  parh, 
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.  i  rlachcja)  la  hujo  Oe  laci  i 
piull  agup  la  Domnall  mac  Gnnaba  ui  Ruaipc  Dia  cenel  pepin  boi  imaille 
ppiu.  T?o  Di'cfnnab  e  leo.  Ruccpac  a  cfnn  agup  a  copp  50  Docpaib  co 
hach  cliac.  T?o  coccbab  an  cfnn  uap  Dopup  an  ouine  ina  pcac  beapcc- 
cpuaj  Do  jaoibealaib.  T?o  cpochab  beop  an  copp  ppia  hac  cliac  acuaic 
agup  a  coppa  pnap. 


is  employed  throughout  the  Leabfiar  Breac  to 
translate  the  Latin  word  gratia,  from  which  the 
modern  word  jpapa  has  been  obviously  derived. 
1  Tiernagh  O^Malone:  in  the  original,dcchfp- 
nach  ua  ITIaoileoin — The  name  Cicchlpnach 
or Cijeapnach,  which  is  derived  fromUijeapna, 
a  lord,  and  is  synonymous  with  the  proper  name 
Dominic,  is  pronounced  Tiernagh,  and  shall  be  so 
written  throughout  this  translation.  The  name 
ITIaoileoin,  is  written  in  ancient  Irish  characters 
on  a  tombstone  at  Clonmacnoise, 

maerjohaiN  eps; 

i.  e.  Mael-Johannis,  Bishop. 

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  saints,  to  form  proper 
names  of  men,  as  IDaol  Colaim,  IDaol  Seac- 
naill,  which  mean  the  servant  or  devotee  of  the 
saints  Columb  and  Secundinus  ;  but  when  an 
adjective  is  post-fixed  to  MAOL,  it  has  its  ancient 
signification,  as  Maoldubh,  i.  e.  the  black  chief. 

g  Kieran,  Ciapdn.  —  This  celebrated  Irish 
saint  died  in  the  year  549.  Cluain  mac  nois, 
or,  as  it  is  now  anglicised,  Clonmacnoise,  was  a 
famous  monastery  near  the  Shannon,  in  the  ba- 
rony of  Garry  Castle,  and  King's  County.  The 
name  is  sometimes  written  Cluain  muc  Nois,  as 
if  it  meant  the  insulated  meadow,  or  pasturage 
of  Nos.  The  place  was  more  anciently  called 


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  Tiernan  O'Bourke,  <^c.,  Cicchfpnan  ua 
Ruaipc. — The  name  Cijfpnan,  or  Cijjeapnan, 
is  a  diminutive  of  Ctjeapnach,  and  may  be  in- 
terpreted "Little  Dominic."  It  has  been  an- 
glicised Tiernan  throughout  this  translation,  as 
this  is  the  form  it  has  assumed  in  the  surname 
Mac  Tiernan,  which  is  still  common  in  the 
county  of  Eoscommon.  Dervorgilla,  in  Irish 
tDeapBpopgaill,  the  wife  of  this  Tiernan,  who  is 
generally  supposed  to  have  been  the  immediate 
cause  of  the  invasion  of  Ireland  by  the  English, 
died  in  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 
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 
his  age.  Dermot  was  expelled  in  the  seventieth 

year  of  his  age See  Dr.  O'Conor's  Prolegomena 

ad  Annales,  p.  146  ;  and  also  O'Reilly's  Essay  on 
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  Eng- 
lish O'Rourke,  were  anciently  Kings  of  Con- 
naught,  but  they  were  put  down  by  the  more 


1172.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


Tiernagh  O'Malonef,  successor  of  Kieran8  of  Clonmacnoise,  died. 

Tiernan  0'Rourkeh,  Lord  of  Breifny  and  Conmaicne,  a  man  of  great 
power  for  a  long  time,  was  treacherously  slain  at  Tlachtgha1  by  Hugo  de 
Lacy  and  Donnell",  the  son  of  Annadh  O'Rourke,  one  of  his  own  tribe,  who  was 
along  with  them.  He  was  beheaded  by  them,  and  they  conveyed  his  head  and 
body  ignominiously  to  Dublin.  The  head  was  placed  over  the  gate1  of  the  for- 
tress, as  a  spectacle  of  intense  pity  to  the  Irish,  and  the  body  was  gibbeted,  with 
the  feet  upwards,  at  the  northern  side  of  Dublin™. 


powerful  family  of  the  O'Conors,  and  then  be- 
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,  from  the  sea,  at  the  borders  of  Ulster  and 
Connaught,  to  Drogheda.  The  territories  of 
Breifny  and  Conmaicne,  which  comprised  Tier- 
nan's  principality,  would  embrace,  according  to 
this  passage,  the  counties  of  Leitrim,  Longford, 
and  Cavan,  but  no  part  of  the  county  of  Meath 
or  Louth. 

'  Tlachtgha — Dr.  Lanigan,  in  his  Ecclesiasti- 
cal History  of  Ireland  (vol.  iv.  p.  223),  says, 
that  Tiernan  O'Ruairc  was  slain  on  a  hill  not 
far  from  Dublin,  by  Griffin,  a  nephew  of  Mau- 
rice Fitz  Gerald.  Tlachtgha,  however,  is  not  near 
Dublin,  but  was  the  name  of  a  hill  much  cele- 
brated in  ancient  Irish  history  for  the  druidic 
fires  lighted  there  annually  on  the  1st  of  No- 
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 
the  Hill  of  Ward,  which  lies  in  the  immediate 
vicinity  of  Athboy  in  the  county  of  Meath,  as 
is  evident  from  the  fact,  that  in  these  annals 
and  other  authorities  Athboy  is  often  called  Or 
6  ui  be  Claccja,  or  Athboy  of  Tlachtgha,  to  dis- 
tinguish it  from  other  places  of  the  name  Athboy 
in  Ireland.  This  Hill  of  Ward  is  crowned  with  a 
magnificent  ancient  rath,  consisting  of  three  cir- 
cumvallations,  which,  connected  with  the  histo- 
rical references  to  the  locality,  and  the  present 


local  traditions,  establishes  its  identity  with  the 
ancient  Tlachtgha.  The  identity  of  Tlachtgha 
with  the  Hill  of  Ward  was  first  proved  by  the 
Editor  in  a  letter  now  preserved  at  the  Ord- 
nance Survey  Office,  Phoenix  Park.  The  situa- 
tion 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  communica- 
tion from  the  Editor. 

k  Donnell,  in  the  original  t)orhnaU,  is  still 
common  among  the  Irish,  as  the  proper  name  of 
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,  and  is  found  in  the  older  law  docu- 
ments, inquisitions,  &c.,  and  in  the  anglicised 
forms  of  names  of  places  throughout  Ireland,  as 
well  as  in  the  family  names,  O'Donnell  and  Mac 
Donnell. 

1  Over  the  gate,  uap  oopap  an  ouine. — This 
was  the  Danish  fortress  of  Dublin,  which  occu- 
pied the  greater  part  of  the  hill  on  which  the 
present  castle  of  Dublin  stands. 

m  The  northern  side  of  Dublin — The  northern 
side  of  Dublin,  at  this  time,  was  near  the  present 
Lower  Castle-yard.  At  the  arrival  of  Henry  II. 
the  whole  extent  of  Dublin  was,  in  length,  from 
Corn  Market  to  the  Lower  Castle-yard ;  and,  in 
breadth,  from  the  Liffey,  then  covering  Essex- 
street,  to  Little  Sheep-street,  now  Ship-street, 
where  a  part  of  the  town  wall  is  yet  standing. 


Rioghachca 


[1173. 


Oorhnall  o  peapgail  coipeac  Conmaicne  Do  rhapbab  la  muinncip  pij 
Safari. 

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

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. 

TTlac  ^M^Pf001?  caoipeac  cloirine  aeilabpa  peccaipe  chaca  TTlonaij 
DO  mapbab  la  Donnplebe  ua  neochaba  pi  ulab  i  piull.  Ma  plana  bacap 
fcoppa  .1.  maice  ulab  Do  mapbab  OuinDplebe  inD. 


"  Chief  of  Conmaicne — That  is,  of  South  Con- 
maicne,  or  Anghaile,  which  in  latter  ages  com- 
prised the  entire  of  the  county  of  Longford. 

0  Mulmurry  Mac  Murrough,  Lord  of  Muintir 
Birn — The  name  JTlaolniaipe  or  TTIuoltnuipe, 
signifies  the  servant  of  the  Virgin.Mary.  The 
name  is  correctly  latinized  Marianus,  by  Colgan ; 
but  the  Editor  thinks  Mulmurry  a  more  appro- 
priate anglicised  form,  as  it  is  found  in  ancient 
law  documents,  inquisitions,  &c.  Mac  Murrougli 
has  also  been  adopted  throughout,  as  an  angli- 
cised form  of  Ulac  lTlupcha6a.  Muintir  Birn, 
IDumncip  bipn,  was  the  ancient  name  of  a  terri- 
tory in  Tyrone,  bordering  upon  the  barony  of 
Trough,  in  the  county  of  Monaghan. 

P  The  Clann  Aodha  of  Ui  Eathach  Uladh 

Claim  Aodha,  i.  e.  the  clan  or  race  of  Hugh,  was 
the  tribe  name  of  the  Magennises ;  and  it  also 
became  the  name  of  their  territory  ;  but  they 
aferwards  extended  their  power  over  all  Ui 
Ethach  Cobha,  now  the  baronies  of  Upper  and 
Lower  Iveagh,  in  the  county  of  Down,  and,  as 
O'Dugan  informs  us,  over  all  Ulidia.  Ro  jabpac 
Ulao  uile,  "They  took  all  Ulidia."—  Topographi- 
cal Poem.  This  territory  was  called  Ui  Eathach 
Uladh,  or  Ui  Eathach  Cobha,  i.  e.  descendants 


of  Eochaidh  Cobha,  to  distinguish  it  from  Ui 
Eathach  Mumhan,  Ui  Eathach  Muaidhe,  and 
other  tribes  and  districts  called  Ui  Eathach,  in 
different  parts  of  Ireland. 

q  Dermot  G'Kaelly. — The  Irish  name  t)iap- 
maio  is  anglicised  Dermot  in  the  older  law  do- 
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  name  Kelly,  were  located  in  the 
south  of  ancient  Ossory,  and  were  chiefs  of  the 
territory  of  Ui  Berchon,  now  Ibercon,  lying 
along  the  Eiver  Barrow,  in  the  county  of  Kilr 
kenny.  O'Heerin  thus  speaks  of  O'Caelluidhe, 
or  O'Kaelly,  in  his  topographical  poem  : 

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,  who  heavily  return, 
The  land  over  the  bright-watered  Barrow." 


1173.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


Donnell  O'Farrell,  chief  of  Conmaicne",  was  slain  by  the  people  of  the  King 
of  England. 

Mulmurry  Mac  Murrough0,  Lord  of  Muintir  Birn,  was  slain  by  Hugh  Ma- 
gennis  and  the  Claim- Aodha  of  Ui  Eathach  Uladh". 

Dermot  O'Kaelly"  died. 

The  Kinel  Owenr  were  defeated  by  Flaherty  O'Muldorry3  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 
they  [the  Kinel  Owen]  had  plundered. 

The  complete  visitation"  of  the  province  of  Connaught  was  performed  the 
fourth  time  by  Giolla  MacLiag  [Gelasius],  successor  of  St.  Patrick  and  Primate 
of  Ireland,  to  Armagh. 

Mac  Giolla  Epscoip",  chief  of  Clann-Aeilabhra,  legislator  of  Cath  Monaigh*, 
was  treacherously  slain  by  Donslevy  O'Haughy,  king  of  Ulidia*.  The  chiefs  of 
Ulidia,  who  were  as  guarantees  between  them,  put  Donslevy  to  death  for  it 
[i.  e.  for  his  crime]. 


r  Kinel  Owen,  Cenel  n-eojum,  i.  e.  the  race 
of  Eoghan,  the  son  of  Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages. 
This  Eoghan  died  in  the  year  465,  and  was 
buried  at  Uisce  Chaoin,  now  Eskaheen,  an  old 
church  in  the  barony  of  Inishowen,  in  the  north- 
east of  the  county  of  Donegal.  This  tribe  pos- 
sessed the  present  counties  of  Tyrone  and  London- 
derry, and  originally  the  baronies  of  Inishowen 
and  Raphoe,  but  these  were,  in  later  ages,  ceded 
to  the  Kinel  Connell. 

5  O'Muldorry,  O'lDaoloopaio. — This  name  no 
longer  exists  in  Tirconnell,  but  there  are  a  few 
of  the  name  in  Dublin  and  in  Westmeath,  who 
anglicise  it  Muldarry. 

c  Kinel  Connell,  Cenel  cconaill,  i.  e.  the  race 
of  Conall  or  Connell,  who  died  in  the  year  464, 
and  who  was  the  brother  of  Eoghan,  or  Owen, 
ancestor  of  the  Kinel  Owen.  This  tribe  pos- 
sessed, in  later  ages,  the  entire  of  the  county  of 
Tirconnell,  now  Donegal. 

u  A  visitation,  Cuaipc — A  journey  performed 
into  particular  districts  by  the  bishop  or  abbot, 


to  collect  dues,  or  obtain  donations  for  the  erec- 
tion or  repairing  of  churches  or  monasteries. 

*  Mac  Giolla  Epscoip This  name  would  be 

anglicised  Mac  Gillespick,  and  is  the  same  which 
in  Scotland  is  now  Mac  Gillespie. 

w  Cath  Monaigh — The  territory  of  Cath  Mo- 
naigh  is  somewhere  in  the  present  county  of 
Down,  but  its  extent  or  exact  situation  has  not 
been  discovered. 

*  Ulidia,    Ulao — Uladh    was    the    original 
name  of  the  entire  province  of  Ulster,   until 
the  fifth  century,  when  it  was  dismembered  by 
the  Hy-Niall,  and  the  name  confined  solely  to 
the  present  counties  of  Down  and  Antrim,  which, 
after  the  establishment  of  surnames,  became  the 
principality  of  O'h-Eochadha   (now   anglicised 
O'Haughy),  and  his  correlatives.    The  founders 
of  the  principality  of  Oirghialla,   or   Oriel,   in 
the  fourth  century,  deprived  the  ancient  Ulto- 
nians  of  that  part  of  their  kingdom  which  ex- 
tended from  Lough  Neagh  to  the  Boyne ;  and 
the  sons  of  Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages,  in  the 


net 


Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1173. 

Cpeac  pill  la  mac  ClnDuib  uf  ttuaipc,  a5up  la  Sa^anachaib  ap  muinncip 
hQnnjaile,  agup  ap  muinncip  mejiollsan  co  pujpac  bu,  ajup  bpoiD 
lomba.  Sloijeab  leo  Dopibipi  co  hdpoachab  Gppcoip  TTlel  gup  po  aipjpfc 
an  cfp  ap  mebon,  agup  Do  pocaip  leo  oomnall  ua  peapjail,  caoipeac  muinn- 
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 
Qipoeppcop  Uuama  agup  cpi  ceampaill  oo  coipeapDaD  leo. 

aois  chraioso  1173. 

Qoip  cpiopo  mile,  cfcc,  peachcmojac,  a  cpf. 

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  i  nOuibpecclfp  colaim  cille  i  nOoipe  an  10.  la  Do  pebpa. 

fifth  century,  seized  upon  the  northern  and  wes-  their  country,  -which  comprised  the  entire  of  the 
tern  parts  of  Ulster;  so  that  the  ancient  inha-  present  county  of  Longford.  According  to  the 
bitants,  viz.  the  Clanna-Rury  and  Dal-Fiatachs,  genealogical  Irish  MSS.,  the  O'Farrells  derived 
were  shut  up  within  the  bounds  of  the  present  this  tribe  name  from  Anghaile,  the  great  grand- 
counties  of  Down  and  Antrim  ;  but  their  coun-  father  of  Fearghal,  from  whom  they  derived  their 
try,  though  circumscribed,  still  retained  its  an-  surname  in  the  tenth  century, 
cient  appellation.  The  writers  of  Irish  history  z  Muintir  Magilligan,  which  is  usually  called 
have  therefore  used  the  form  Ulidia,  to  denote  Muintir  Giollgain  throughout  these  Annals,  was 
the  circumscribed  territory  of  the  Clanna  Eury,  the  tribe  name  of  the  O'Quins  of  Annaly,  who 

and  Ultonia,  to  denote  all  Ulster See  O'Fla-  were  seated  in  the  barony  of  Ardagh,  in  the  pre- 

herty's  Ogygia,  Part  III.  c.  78,   p.   372;    also  sent  county  of  Longford,  as  will  be  more  distinctly 

Ussher's  Primordia,  pp.  816,  1048  ;  O'Conor's  shewn  in  a  note  under  the  year  1234. 

Dissertations  on  the  History  of  Ireland,  2nd  edit  a  Bishop  Mel, — Bishop  Mel,  who  was  one  of 

p.  176  ;  and  Lanigan's  Ecclesiastical  History  of  the  disciples  of  St.  Patrick,  is  still  the  patron 

Ireland,  vol.  ii.  p.  28.  saint  of  the  diocese  of  Ardagh,  and  the  ruins  of 

y  Annaly,  or  Anghaile,  was  the  tribe  name  of  his  original  church  are  still  to  be  seen  in  the  vil- 

the  O'Farrells,  and  it  also  became  the  name  of  lage  of  Ardagh,  in  the  county  of  Longford. 


1173.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  9 

The  son  of  Annadh  O'Rourke  and  the  English  treacherously  plundered  the 
inhabitants  of  Annalyy  and  Muintir  Magilliganz,  carrying  off  many  cows  and 
prisoners.  They  afterwards  made  another  incursion  into  Ardagh  of  Bishop 
Mel",  and  ravaged  the  country  generally,  and  slew  Donnell  O'Farrell,  chief  of 
Annaly,  on  that  occasion. 

A  synod  of  the  clergy  and  laity  of  Ireland  was  convened  at  Tuam,  in  the 
province  of  Connaught,  by  Roderic  O'Conor  and  Kyley  [Catholicus]  O'Duffy, 
Archbishop  of  Tuam,  and  three  churches  were  consecrated  by  them. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1173. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  seventy-three. 

Murray  O'Coffey",  Bishop  of  Derry  and  Raphoe,  a  son  of  chastity,  a  precious 
stone,  a  transparent  gem,  a  brilliant  star,  a  treasury  of  wisdom,  and  a  fruitful 
branch  of  the  canon, — after  having  bestowed  food  and  raiment  upon  the  poor 
and  the  destitute,  after  having  ordained  priests  and  deacons,  and  men  of  every 
ecclesiastical  rank,  re-built  many  churches,  consecrated  many  churches  and 
burial-places,  founded  many  monasteries  and  Regles's  [i.  e.  abbey  churches],  and 
fulfilled  every  ecclesiastical  duty ;  and  after  having  gained  the  palm  for  piety, 
pilgrimage,  and  repentance,  resigned  his  spirit  to  heaven  in  the  Duibhregles-0 
of  Columbkille,  in  Derry,  on  the  10th  day  of  February.  A  great  miracle11 

h  Murray  (JCoffey,  TTluipfoach  ua  CoKraij.  erected   in   1164,    by    Flaherty   O'Brollaghan. 

The  name    muipeaoach,    which    is   explained  Concerning  the  situation  of  this  old  church,  see 

n£eapna,  a  lord,  by  Michael  O'Clery,  though  it  Trias  T/iaum.,  p.  398. 

would  appear  to  be  derived  from  muip,  the  sea,  d  A  great  miracle,  fyc This  passage  is  thus 

is  now  obsolete  as  the  proper  name  of  a  man,  but  rather  loosely,  but  elegantly,  translated  by  Col- 
it  is  preserved  in  the  surname  Murray,  and  has  gan,  in  his  Annals  of  Derry:  "S.  Muredachus 
been  anglicised  Murray  throughout  this  trans-  O  Dubhthaich"  [recte  O'Cobhthaigh],  "  Episco- 
lation.  The  family  name  O'Cobraij  is  anglicised  pus  Dorensis  et  Robothensis,  vir  virginitatis,  sen 
Coffey  in  the  northern  half  of  Ireland,  but  some-  castitatis  intactas,  lapis  pretiosus,  gemma  vitrea, 
times  barbarously,  Cow/tiff,  in  the  south.  The  Edi-  sydus  praofulgidum,  area  et  custos  Ecclesise  sedu- 
tor  has  adopted  O'Coifey  throughout  this  work.  lus,  et  conservator  canonum  Ecclesise ;  postquam 

0  Duibhregles The   Dubh-Regles  was   the  multos  pauperes,  et  egenos  enutrierit ;    Prass- 

name  of  the  ancient  abbey  church  founded  by  byteros,  Diaconos,  aliosque  diuersorum  ordinum, 

St.  Columbkille    at  Derry  ;    it    was    probably  Deo  consecrauerit ;  postquam  diuersa  monasteria 

called  Dubh,  or  black,  in  contradistinction  from  et  Ecclesias  extruxerit,   et  consecrauerit  ;  post 

the    new   Templemore,    or    cathedral    church,  palmam  pcenitentise,  peregrinationis,  abstinentitu 


10 


[1173. 


Do  ponaD  miopbail  mop  ip  in  oiDche  acbar  .1.  an  oibce  Dopca  Do  poillpiu- 
jab  o  cha  lapnieipge  co  muichDfooil  agup  an  Dap  leo  an  ba  poppel  Do  na 
compocpaibe  Do'n  ooman  baoi  pibe  pop  comlapaD  ajup  lonnamail  caoipe 
moipe  ceneb  Do  eipgi  op  an  mbaile  agup  a  cocr  poipbfp.  Ro  eipijpfo  cac 
uile,  uaip  anoap  leo  po  ba  la  boi  ann  a$up  po  boi  ariilaiD  pin  le  muip 
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  Domi- 
num  migrauitinEcclesiaDorensi,-DMiAn^«  nun- 
cupata,  die  10  Febr.  Miraculum  solemne  patra- 
tum  est  ea  nocte  qua  decessit :  nam  a  media  nocte 
vsque  mane  tota  non  solum  ciuitas,  sed  et  vici- 
nia  ingenti  splendore,  ad  instar  iubaris  diurni, 
circumfusa  resplenduit  :  et  columna  insuper 
ignea  visa  est  ex  ciuitate  ascendere,  et  versus 
orientalem  Austrum  tendere.  Quo  prodigio 
excitati  ciues  tanti  spectaculi  testes  vsque  ad 
ortum  solis,  et  venerabundi  postea  prascones  ex- 
titere. — Quat.  Mag." — Trias  Thaum.,  p.  504. 

The  phrase  cpaob  cnuapaij  na  canome, 
which  is  translated  "  conservator  canonum  ec- 
clesia;"  by  Colgan,  is  more  correctly  rendered 
"the  fruitful  tree  of  the  Canon'.'  in  the  old 
translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster. 

The  account  of  this  miracle  is  given  in  the 
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 
muip  anoip.  It  is  thus  rendered  in  the  old 


English  translation:  "  A.  D.  1173.  There  was 
a  great  miracle  shewed  in  the  night  he  died, 
viz.  the  night  to  brighten  from  the  middest  to 
Cockcrow,  and  all  the  world  burning,  and  a 
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." 

Here  it  is  to  be  remarked  that  neither  this 
translator  nor  Colgan  has  rendered  the  phrase 
pe  muip  anoip,  which  literally  means  east  of  the 
sea.  In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  the  reading  is 
7  po  boi  ariilaio  pin  co  himeal  in  aieoip, 
"  and  it  was  thus  to  the  borders  of  the  sky." 
The  meaning  of  pe  tnuip  anoip  is,  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  east  coast  of  Ulster  saw  the 
sky  illumined  over  the  visible  portions  of  Scot- 
land on  the  east  side  of  the  sea.  For  the  mean- 
ing of  the  preposition  le,  pe,  or  pp1,  in  such 
phrases  as  pe  muip  anoip,  see  the  Editor's  Irish 
Grammar,  p.  314,  line  1,  and  p.  439,  note  e,  and 
Cormac's  Glossary,  voce  TTlo^  Gime,  where  FP1 
muip  anaip  is  used  to  express  "on  the  east  side 
of  the  sea." 

e  CoiMing  O'Hennessy,  Conainj  ua  haenjupa. 
— The  name  Conaing,  which  is  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 
parts  of  the  world  which  were  visible,  were  in  one  blaze  of  light ;  and  the  like- 
ness of  a  large  globe  of  fire  arose  over  the  town,  and  moved  in  a  south-easterly 
direction ;  and  all  persons  arose  from  their  beds,  imagining  that  it  was  day- 
light ;  and  it  was  also  thus  on  the  east  side  of  the  sea. 

Conaing  O'Hennessye,  head  of  the  canons  of  Eoscrea,  died. 

Ettru  O'Meehanf,  Bishop  of  Cluain  [Clonard],  died  at  an  advanced  age, 
after  having  spent  a  good  life. 

Kenny  O'Konan8,  Bishop  of  Glendalough,  died. 

Maelisa  Mac  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  third1  of  Armagh ;  but  this  man  was  killed  in  three  months 
after  this  plundering  of  Armagh. 


a  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  Ua  h-Cten- 
jjupa,  is  now  invariably  anglicised  Hennesy. 
This  family  was  anciently  seated  in  the  terri- 
tory of  Clann  Colgan,  in  the  barony  of  Lower 
Philipstown,  in  the  King's  County,  and  adjoin- 
ing the  conspicuous  hill  of  Croghan. 

1  O'Meehan,  Ua  ITIia&achan This  name  is 

still  common  in  most  parts  of  Ireland. 

g  Kenny  O'Ronan,  Cionaeo  Ua  T?onam. — 
The  name  Cionaeo  is  anglicised  Kineth  by  the 
Scotch  ;  but  Kenny  by  the  Irish,  in  the  family 
name  Kenny.  It  is  obsolete  among  the  latter 
as  the  proper  name  of  a  man.  O'Ronan  is  still 
common  as  a  family  name  in  many  parts  of  Ire- 
land, but  the  O'  is  never  prefixed  in  the  angli- 
cised form,  which  is  Eonayne,  in  the  south  of 
Ireland. 

h  Maelisa  Mac  Ward,  TTlaoilipu  Hlac  an 
baino. — This  family,  who  were  hereditary  poets 
to  O' Kelly,  were  seated  at  Muine  Chasain  and 

C 


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

'  Clonfert,  a  bishop's  see  in  the  south-east 
of  the  county  of  Galway. 

k  Maelmochta  O'Melaghlin,  ITlaelinocfica  ua 
maoilpeacnaill. — The  name  TTIaolTnochca  sig- 
nifies the  servant  or  devoted  of  St.  Mochta,  or 
Mocteus,  first  abbot  and  patron  saint  of  Louth. 
This  family  is  generally  called  O'Maoilseachlainn, 
or  O'Maoileachlainn,  which  was  first  correctly 
anglicised  O'Melaghlin,  but  now  incorrectly 
Mac  Loughlin.  They  are  named  after  their  great 
progenitor,  Maelseachlainn  or  Malachy  the  Se- 
cond, Monarch  of  Ireland,  who  was  dethroned 
by  Brian  Borumha,  and  who  died  in  1022. 
The  name  Mael-Scachnaill  signifies  servant  of 
St.  Seachnall,  or  Secundinus,  the  patron  of 
Dunshaughlin  in  Meath,  and  the  tutelary  saint 
of  this  family. 

1  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: 


12  Rioshachcct  emeaNR  [1174. 

cpmn  mop  apoa  maca.     l?o  mapbab  Dan  an  Feap  ipm  i  ccionn  cpf  mfp  mpp 
on  opccain  pin  apDa  macha. 

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

colaim  cille. 

5iollu  macbacc  mac  RuaiDpi  corhapba  pacpaicc  ppfomaiD  QpDa  maca 
ajup  6penn  uile  mac  oije  Ian  DO  jloine  cpoiDe  ppi  Dia  ajup.  ppi  Daoinib 
DO  ecc  50  pechcnach  lap  pfnDacaiD  coccame,  27,  mapra  oia  ceoaoin 
mp  ccaipcc  ip  in  peccmaD  bliabain  ochrmojac  a  aoipi.  ajup  baoi  pme  pe 
bliabna  Decc  i  nabDaine  coluim  cille  i  nOoipe  pia  ccomapbup  pacpaicc. 

CIO1S  CR1OSO  1174. 
Qoip  cpiopD  mile,  ceD,  peaccmojacc,  aceacaip. 

TTiaoilfopa  ua  connaccam  eppcop  pil  TTluipeaDaig  Do  ecc. 

ITlaolpaccpaicc  ua  banain,  Gppcop  ConDepe  -]  Dal  apame  pfp  aipmiD- 
neac  Ian  Do  naime,  Do  cfnnpa  -|  Do  gloine  cpoiDe  DO  ecc  co  peaccnac  inD 
hf  colaim  cille  mp  SeanoacaiD  cojhaiDe. 

^lollu  mochaiDbeo  abb  maimpDpeac  pfccaip  -|  p6il  i  napDmaca, 
TTloD  cpeabop  caipippi  Don  coimbeab  DO  ecc  an  31.  Do  TTlhapca  Secc- 
mojac  bliaDam  a  aeip. 

plann  (.1.  plopenc)  ua  5°PmalT1  aipopfp  lecchinn  apoa  maca,  i  Gpenn 
uile,  Saoi,  eapgna  eolac  ip  in  eaccna  Diaba  -|  DorhariDa,  lap  mbeic  bbabain 

platece  in  Trian  Massain,  et  tertiani  Trian-mar  tioris  vitse,  disciplinffi   et  bonarum  litterarum 

incendio  deuastantur."  gratia  in  magno  immero  olim  Hiberniam  fre- 

"  Ex  hoc  loco  &  aliis  dictis  supra  ad  annum  quentare  solebant." — See  also  Stuart's  History  of 

1092,    colligimus  ciuitatem   Ardmachanam  in  Armagh. 

quatuor   olim   partes    fuisse    diuisam.      Prima          m  Sil-Murray,    Siol    muipeaoai^,    i.  e.   the 

Rath-Ardmacha,  i.  Arx  Ardmachana,  dicebatur :  progeny,  race,   or  descendants  of  Muireadhaeh 

Secunda  Trian-mor,  id  est  tertia  portio  maior  :  Muilleathan,  king  of  Connaught,  who  died  in 

Tertia  Trian  Massan,  id  est  tertia  portio  Massan.  the  year  701.     The  principal  families    among 

Quarta,  Trian  saxon,  id  est,  tertia  portio  Saxo-  them  were  O'Conor  Don,  O'Conor  Roe,   O'Fi- 

num,  appellata  :   quod  nomen  videtur,   adepta  naghty  of  Clanconway,  O'Flanagan  ofClancahill, 

ex  eo,  quod  vel  mercatores  vel  (quod  verosimilius  and  Mageraghty.    The  Liber  Regalis  Visitationis 

est)  studiosi  Anglosaxones  illi  inhabitauerint.  of  1615,  places  the  following  fourteen  parishes 

Nam  Monachi  et  studiosi  Anglisaxones  abstrac-  in  the  deanery  of  Silmury,  which  was  coexten- 


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  Durrow  of  Columbkille. 

Gilla  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  eighty- 
seventh  year  of  his  age.  He  had  been  sixteen  years  in  the  abbacy  of  St.  Co- 
lumbkille, at  Derry,  before  he  became  successor  of  St.  Patrick. 

i 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1174. 

p 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  seventy-four. 

Maelisa  O'Connaghtan,  Bishop  of  Sil-Murray™  [Elphin],  died. 

Maelpatrick  O'Banan",  Bishop  of  Connor  and  Dalaradia0,  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,  and  versed  in  sacred  and  profane  philosophy,  after 

sive  with  the  territory  :  Elphin,  Kilmacumshy,  the  north  between  it  and  the  River  Boyle  were 

Shankill,  Ballinakill,  Kilcorkey,  Baslick,  Kil-      in  Moylurg See  Moylurg. 

kivgan  (Kilkeevin),  Ballintober,  Kilcooley,  Kil-  n  O'Banan,  O  6anam — There  were  several 

lukin    (now    Killuckin),    Ogulla,    Roscommon,  distinct  families  of  this  name  in  Ireland.     It  is 

Fuerty,  Drumtemple.  now  anglicised  Bannah  and  Banon,  but  incor- 

This,  however,  is  not  a  complete  list  of  all  the  rectly  Banim  by  the  late  celebrated  novel  writer 

parishes  in  Silmurry,  for  the  parishes  belonging  in  Kilkenny. 

to  monasteries,  and  those  of  which  the  tithes  °  Bishop  of  Connor  and  Dalaradia,  i.e.  Bishop 

belonged  to  laymen,  are  omitted.   The  list,  how-  of  Connor  and  Down.     Dalaradia,  according  to 

ever,  as  far   as   it  goes,  is  very  useful  to  the  the  Book  of  Lecan,  extended  from  Newry  to 

topographer,  as  it  proves  where  Moylurg  and  Slieve  Mis    (now  Slemmish,     in    the    present 

Silmurry  meet.    The  parishes  of  Shankill,  Kill-  county  of  Antrim),  and  from  the  sea  to  Linn 

macumshy,  and  Kilcorkey,  were  in  Sil-Murry,  Duachaill,  now  Magheralin,  in  the  west  of  the 

while  Kilcolagh,  and  all  the  parishes  lying  to  present  county  of  Down. 


14 


[11T4. 


ap  pichic  i  pppancaib  -\  i  Saxaib  ace  pocchlaim,  i  piche  bliaDan  ele  05 
ppiochnarh  1  05  pollariinacchab  Scol  Gpenn,  acbae  co  pomrheac  ip  in  cfc- 
caoin  pia  ccaipg  lapp  an  SeaccmojjaD  bliaDan  a  aoipi. 

Tffuipjfp  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. 

TTlaolpuanaib  ua  ciapba  cijeapna  caipppi  Do  mapbab  i  mebail  la  gal- 
laib  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  in  lapla  DinbpaD  TTluriian.  SluaicceaD  ele  la  Ruai&pi 
Dia  hiniDfjail  poppo.  Oc  cualacrap  na  goill  T?uai6pi  Do  rocc  ip  in 
mumain  in  aipfp  cara  ppiu,  po  cocuippioc  goill  dca  cliar  Dm  paijiD  "|  ni 


p  Died  happily,  acbac  co  poinmeac Colgan 

renders  this  phrase  "pie  in  Domino  obdormivit," 
in  his  Annals  of  Armagh.  In  the  Annals  of 
Ulster  the  phrase  is  acbac  co  pcamail,  i.  e. 
"  died  peaceably."  The  whole  passage  is  thus 
rendered  in  the  old  translation  :  "  A.  D.  1174. 
Flan  O' Gorman,  Archlector  of  Ardmagh  and 
Ireland  all,  a  skillfull  notorious  man  in  divine 
knowledge,  and  also  Mundane,  after  being  21 
yeares  in  France  and  England  learning,  and  20 
yeares  keeping  scoole  in  Ireland,  he  died  peacea- 
bly the  13  Kal.  of  April,  on  Wednesday  before 
Easter,  in  the  70th  yeare  of  his  age." 

q  Maurice  O'Duffy,  ITIuipjeapuaDuBcaij. 

The  name  minpjeap,  which  seems  different 
from  rriuipip,  is  anglicised  Maurice  throughout 
this  translation. 

r  Ath  da  laarg  (i.  e.  ac  oa  £ab ul,  vadum  dua- 
rumfwearum,  vide  Trias  Thaum.,  p.  173,  n.  23), 
now  the  abbey  of  Boyle.  There  was  an  ancient 
Irish  monastery  or  church  here  before  the  erec- 
tion of  the  great  Cistercian  one  by  Maurice 
O'Duffy;  as  we  learn  from  the  Irish  Calendar  of 
the  O'Clerys,  that  the  holy  bishop  Mac  Cainne 


was  venerated  here  on  the  1st  day  of  December  : 
"Decembr  1.  The  holy  bishop  Mac  Cainne  of 
Ath-da-larg." 

We  learn  from  the  Annals  of  Boyle  and  Ware, 
that  in  the  middle  of  the  12th  century,  the 
abbey  of  Mellifont,  in  Louth,  sent  out  a  swarm 
of  monks  who  had  settled  in  several  localities 
before  they  procured  a  permanent  establish- 
ment on  the  banks  of  the  Eiver  Boyle.  In  Au- 
gust, 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'Mac- 
cain,  who  removed  the  convent  to  Drumconaind. 
He  was  succeeded  by  Maurice  O'Duffy,  who 
remained  there  nearly  three  years,  when  he 
removed  to  Bunfinny,  now  Buninna,  near  Ton- 
rego,  in  the  county  of  Sligo,  and  after  having 
resided  there  for  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  abbey  was  founded  as  a  daughter  of  Melli- 
font, and  dedicated  to  the  Virgin  Mary. — See 
Annals  of  Boyle,  at  this  year. 


1174.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


15 


having  spent  twenty-one  years  of  study  in  France  and  England,  and  twenty 
other  years  in  directing  and  governing  the  schools  of  Ireland,  died  happilyp  on 
the  Wednesday  before  Easter,  in  the  seventieth  year  of  his  age. 

Maurice  O'Duffy" ,  Abbot  of  the  monastery  of  Ath  da  laargr,  on  the  River 
Boyle,  died. 

Rory  O'Carroll,  Lord  of  Ely8,  was  slain  in  the  middle  of  the  island  of  Inish- 
cloghran1. 

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

Mulrony  O'Keary,  Lord  of  Carburyv,  was  treacherously  slain  by  the  Galls 
[Ostmen]  of  Dublin,  i.  e.  by  Mac  Turnin,  assisted  by  the  son  of  Hugh 
O'Farrell,  and  Kellagh  O'Finnallan,  Lord  of  Delvin-Morew. 

The  diocese  of  Westmeath  was  annexed  to  the  city  of  Clonmacnoise,  by 
consent  of  the  clergy  of  Ireland. 

The  Earl  led  an  army  to  plunder  Munster ;  King  Roderic  marched  with 
another  army  to  defend  it  against  them.  When  the  English  had  heard  of 
Roderic's  arrival  in  Munster,  for  the  purpose  of  giving  them  battle,  they 


This  abbey  was  sometimes  called  TTlainipcip 
Qra  t>a  laapj,  i.  e.  ford  of  two  forks,  but  gene- 
rally TTlaimpcip  na  6uille,  i.  e.  the  monastery 
of  the  (Kiver)  Boyle.  For  the  meaning  of 
laapcc,  see  MS.  Trin.  Coll.,  Class  H.  13.  p.  360. 

s  Ely,  Bile — O'Carroll's  territory,  generally 
called  Ely  O'Carroll,  comprised  the  baronies  of 
Clonlisk  and  Ballybritt,  in  the  south  of  the  pre- 
sent King's  County. 

1  Inishcloghran,  imp  clocpomn. — It  is  an  is- 
land in  Lough  Eee,  in  the  Eiver  Shannon.  See 
note  under  the  year  1193. 

u  O'Coinfiacla. — This  name  is  now  obsolete  in 
Teffia,  which  is  an  extensive  district  in  "West- 
meath. See  note  under  the  year  1207. 

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


noise by  Connell  Macgeoghegan,  the  translator 
states,  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- 
times incorrectly  Carey,  and  is  common  in  the 
counties  of  Meath  and  Westmeath.  ITlaolpua- 
nai6,  which  signifies  the  ruddy  chief,  is  anglicised 
Mulrony  throughout  this  translation ;  for  al- 
though it  is  now  obsolete  as  a  Christian  name, 
it  is  preserved  in  the  surname  Mulrony. 

w  Delvin-More,  now  the  barony  of  Delvin,  in 
the  east  of  the  county  of  Westmeath. — See 
Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  82.  The  family  of  O'Fin- 
nallan were  soon  after  conquered  by  Hugh  de 
Lacy,  who  granted  this  territory  to  Gilbert 
Nugent,  the  ancestor  of  the  present  Marquis  of 
Westmeath ;  and  the  O'Finnallans  have  been 
for  many  centuries  in  a  state  of  obscurity  and 
poverty.  When  the  Editor  examined  the  ba- 
rony of  Delvin  in  1837,  he  did  not  find  many  of 
this  family  in  their  original  locality. 


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eirceavw. 


[1174. 


|io  haipipeab  leo  50  pan^accap  50  ouplap.  Canaic  Oorhnall  ua  bpiain,  -\ 
t»al  ccaip,  -]  cac  mpcaip  connacc,  -\  mopcac  pil  ITluipea&aij  cenmoca 
oipim  fifjpluaij  po  paccbab  lap  an  pi£  T?ucu6pi.  TCo  pijeab  cac  cpoba 
ecep  sallaib,  -\  ^aomelaib  an  t>u  fin,  50  po  ppaoineab  po  Oeoib  cpe  nfpc 
lommbualca  pop  na  jallaib,  -\  po  mapbab  peer  cceo  becc  bo  jallaib  ip 
in  cac  pin,  co  nac  ceapna  ace  ciopuaippi  bfcc  beo  ap  in  cac  pin  Do 


1  Thurles,  in  Irish  Duplap,  a  name  signifying 
"strong  fort,"  now  a   small  but  well-known 
town  in  the  county  of  Tipperary.     In  the  Bod- 
leian copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen,  it  is  called 
Durlus  Ui  Fogarta,   i.  e.  O'Fogarty's  Durlus, 
from  its  situation  in  the  territory  of  Elyogarty. 
''Dint  of  fighting,  neapc  lommbualca. — From 
this  phrase  it  would  appear  that  both  parties 
fought  with  stubbornness  and  bravery.    This 
entry  has  been  abstracted  by  the  Four  Masters 
from  the  continuation  of  the  Annals  of  Tigher- 
nach.     According  to  Giraldus  Cambrensis,  the 
detachment  sent  from  Dublin  were  slaughtered 
in  Ossory  by  the  Irish,  who  attacked  them  early 
in  the  morning,  while  sleeping  in  their  camp. 
Giraldus  also  informs  us  that  this  party  con- 
sisted of  Ostmen,   or  Dano-Irish  soldiers,  and 
that  the  number  cut  oif  was  four  hundred,  be- 
sides four  knights  by  whom  they  were  com- 
manded.    Giraldus  devotes  the  third  chapter  of 
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 
been  followed  by  Cox,  Leland,  and  others,  it  is 
but  fair  to  lay  his  words  before  the  reader  : 

"  Interfeclio  Dublinensium  apud  Ossyriam. 
His  ita  completis,  familiaque  tarn  maris  quam 
terras  successibus  egregie  refecta :  dum  Rey- 
mundus  ob  patris,  quern  audierat,  obitum,  no- 
bilis  videl.  viri  Guilielmi  Giraldida;,  remenso 
pelago,  in  Cambriam  recessisset :  Herueius  ite- 
rum  se  constabularium  gerens :  vt  absente  Eey- 
mundo  aliquid  agere  videretur :  Comitem  cum 
fainilia  Cassiliam  duxit.  Dubliuensium  autem 


exercitus  in  eorum  interim  auxilium  ex  edicto 
veniens,  cum  apud  Ossyriam  forte  pernoctaret: 
ecce  Limiricensium  Princeps  Duuenaldus  vir 
sua  in  gente  non  improuidus,  ipsorum  aduentus 
exploratione  certissima  prsescius,  summo  dilu- 
culo  cum  manu  armata  irruens  in  incautos, 
4.  milites  qui  aliis  praeerant  &  400.  Ostman- 
norum  viros  simul  intere'mit.  His  autem 
auditis,  Comite  Guaterfordiam  cum  confusione 
reuerso,  casus  istius  occasione,  totus  Hibernia; 
populus  in  Anglos  vnanimiter  insurgunt :  ita 
vt  Comes  tanquam  obsessus,  Guaterfordiensi 
nusquam  ab  urbe  discederet.  Eothericus  vero 
Connactiensis  Synnenensis  fluuii  fluenta  trans- 
currens  in  manu  valida  Mediam  inuasit.  Cunc- 
taque  eiusdem  castra  vacua  vsque  ad  ipsos  Dub- 
linise  fines  igne  combusta,  soloque  confracta 
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 
O'Grame.  As  the  English  and  Irish  accounts 
of  this  event  in  Irish  history  differ  so  much,  the 
Editor  thinks  it  necessary  to  give  here,  for  the 
use  of  the  future  Irish  historian,  the  various 
notices  of  it  in  the  older  Irish  annals.  In  the 
Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  it  is 
noticed  in  the  following  brief  manner  : 

A.  D.  1174.  Cach  t)upluip  la  t)omnall  huu 
mbpiain  7  la  concobup  maenrhai^e  pop  mum- 
cip  mic  napepip  .1.  pig  pqxan. 

"A.  D.  1174.  The  battle  of  Thurles  by  Don- 
nell  O'Brien,  and  by  Conor  Moinmoy,  against 


1174.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


17 


solicited  to  their  assistance  the  Galls  [Ostmen]  of  Dublin  ;  and  these  made  no 
delay  till  they  came  to  Thurles11.  Thither  came  Donnell  O'Brien  and  the  Dal- 
cassians,  the  battalion  of  West  Connaught,  the  great  battalion  of  the  Sil-Murray, 
besides  numerous  other  good  troops  left  there  by  the  King,  Eoderic.  A  brave 
battle  was  fought  between  the  English  and  Irish  at  this  place,  in  which  the 
English  were  finally  defeated  by  dint  of  fightingy.  Seventeen  hundred  of  the 


the  people  of  Fitz-Empress,  i.  e.  the  king  of 
England." 

In  the  Annals  of  Boyle,  a  compilation  of  the 
thirteenth  century,  it  is  entered  thus: 

"A.  D.   1174.   Helium  Durlas  comissum  est 
cum  Anglicis  et  Dubliniensibm  a  Domnallo  Rege* 
Mumunie  et  Concobaro  Maenmaigi  cum  suis,  in 
quo  Anglici  defecerunt  ad  mortem,  et  Dublinienses 
perierunt." 

In  the  older  Annals  of  Innisfallen,  preserved 
in  the  Bodleian  Library  (Rawlinson,  503),  the 
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 : 

A.  D.  1174.  Sluaj;eo  la  Jy^laib  Jjlapa  50 
cancacap  in  h-Gli,  co  po  cinolpucap  Domnall 
ua  6piain  7  Guaomumam  50  tiuplap  ui  po- 
cupca,  co  po  cuipeo  each  ecappu,  co  pomaio 
up  £)ulla\b  ^lapa  in  each,  in  quo  Dec.  uel 
paulo  plup  cecioepunc.  Conpcapla  puipc 
laipji  cum  Ducencip  alnp  cecibepunc  la  jal- 
laib  i  noum  fein. 

"  A.  D.  11 74.  An  army  was  marched  by  the 
green  Galls  till  they  came  into  Ely  ;  and 
Donnell  O'Brien  and  the  men  of  Thornond 
flocked  to  Thurles,  and  a  battle  was  fought 
between  them,  and  the  green  Galls  were  de- 
feated in  the  battle,  in  quo  dec.  vel  paulo  plus 
ceciderunt.  The  Constable  of  Waterford,  with 
two  hundred  others,  were  slain  by  the  Galls  of 
their  own  fortress." 

In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfal- 
len also,  the  number  slain  is  stated  to  be  seven 


hundred.  The  literal  translation  of  the  passage 
is  as  follows : 

"A.  D.  1174.  A  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,  and  they  all  marched  to  Durlus-O'Fo- 
garty.  But  Donell  More  O'Brien  there  defeated 
the  Earl  and  the  knights,  and  slew  four  of 
the  knights,  and  seven  hundred  of  their  men. 
When  that  news  came  to  the  hearing  of  the 
people  of  Waterford,  they  killed  the  two  hun- 
dred 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 
then  went  back  again  to  Dublin." 

The  reader  is  also  referred  to  Ware's  Annals, 
cap.  6,  regnant.  Hen.  II.,  to  Cambremis  Eversus, 
p.  89,  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  : 
"  L'armee  etant  restee  sans  chef  par  la  retraite 
de  Eeymond,  Strongbow  en  donna  le  commande- 
ment  a  Hervey.  Ce  Capitaine  voulant  tenter 
fortune,  &  faire  des  incursions  du  cote  de  Lime- 
rick, assembla  les  troupes  de  Waterford  &  de 
Dublin,  &  marcha  du  cote  de  Cashil  ;  mais 
ayant  ete  rencontre  a  Durlas  Hy-Ogarta,  au- 
jourd'hui  Thurles,  dans  le  pays  d'Ormond,  par 
Koderick  O'Connor  le  Monarque,  son  armee 
fut  entierement  defaite,  &  dix-sept  cens  Anglois 
resterent  sur  le  champ  de  bataille.  Wareus 
donne  la  gloire  de  cette  action  a  Donald  O'Brien 


18  aNNdta  uio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1175. 

gallcnb  imon  mpla.     Caeo  piDe  Fo  mela  Dia   cij  50  popcla^e.     Soa,r 
ua  bpiain  Dia  cig  lap  ccopccup. 

maelpeclainn  6  Oonna5dn  cijeapna  apa6  DO  mapbao  U 

QO1S  C171OSO  1175. 
doip  CpiopD  mile,  cfcc,  peaccmojacc,  a  cuig. 

On  ceppoc  ua  bpiain,  eppoc  cille  Dapa  DO  ecc. 

ITlaoiliopa  mac  an  clepij  cuipp  eppcop  ulaD,  DO  ecc. 

^lolla  Domnaill  mac  capmuic  eppcop  ulab  Do  ecc. 

plaicbfpcac  ua  bpolcain  comopba  colaim  cille  cuip  eccna  -\  emj,  FeaP 
Dia  ccuccacop  cleipij  Sipfnn  cacaoip.eppcoip  ap  a  peabup  -]  ap  a  eaccna 
-)  Dia  ccapccup  comopbup  me,  DO  ecc  co  peaccnac  mp  rcpeablaiD  cojai&e 
i  nouibpecclep  colaim  cille,  -|  jiollu  maclmcc  ua  bpandin  DO  oiponeab  ina 
iona&  ip  in  abboame. 

TTlaibm  pop  cenel  nfnoa  pia  neacmapcac  ua  ccacain,  -\  pia  mall  ua 
njaipmleaoaij  -[  ap  mop  Do  cop  poppa. 

TTlajnup  ua  maoilpeaclumn  cicchfpna  aiprip  mibi  Do  cpochaD  la  ^allaib 

lap  ppeallab  pctip  in  at:  rpuim. 

Roi  de  Limerick,  &  diminue  beaucoup  la  perte  Cox,  distinctly  state  that  they  were.    Cox  says 

des  Anglois.     Cet  echec  causa  tant  de  chagrin  (Hibernia  Anglicana),  p.  27,  without,  however, 

au  Comte  Strongbow,  qu'il  s'enferma  pour  quel-  quoting  any  authority,  that  this  massacre  was 

que  tema  a  Waterford  sans  voir  personne."  perpetrated  by  Donald  [Fitzpatrick],  prince  of 

Mr.  Moore,  however,    without    making   any  Ossory,  but  he  observes,  that  the  soldiers  cut 

allusion   to   the  Irish   accounts   of  this   event,  off  were  of  that  sort  of  the  citizens  of  Dublin 

gives  full  credence  to  Giraldus's  story,  and  thus  called  Easterlings. 

manufactures  it  for  the  use  of  posterity  :  "  A  *  Waterford,  in  Irish,  pope  laipje,  which  is 
reinforcement  from  the  garrison  of  Dublin,  the  name  of  the  city  of  Waterford  at  the  present 
which  the  Earl  had  ordered  to  join  him  at  day  in  Irish.  Both  names  seem  to  be  of  Danish 
Cashel,  having  rested  for  a  night  at  Ossory  on  origin,  and  the  latter  is  most  probably  derived 
their  march,  were  surprised  sleeping  in  their  from  a  Danish  chieftain,  Lairge,  who  is  men- 
quarters  by  a  strong  party  under  Donald  tioned  in  these  Annals  at  the  year  95 1 . 
O'Brian,  and  the  greater  number  of  them  put  a  Ara. — The  territory  of  O'Donnagan,  and 
almost  unresistingly  to  the  sword."— History  of  afterwards  of  a  powerful  branch  of  the  O'Briens, 
Ireland,  vol.ii.  p.  273.  He  does  not  even  inform  the  chief  of  whom  was  styled  Mac-I-Brien-Ara, 
us  that  the  soldiers  thus  massacred  were  Ost-  is  now  called  Ara,  and  sometimes  Duharra,  and 
men,  though  Giraldus,  and  even  Sir  Richard  is  a  half  barony  in  the  county  of  Tipperary  bor- 


1175]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  19 

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

Melaghlin  O'Donnagan,  Lord  of  Araa,  was  slain  by  0'Cona[ingb]. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1175. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  seventy-five. 

O'Brien,  Bishop  of  Kildare,  died. 

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

Giolla  Donnell  Mac  Cormac,  Bishop  of  Ulidia,  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  sick- 
ness, in  the  Duibhregles  of  Columbkille ;  and  Gilla  Mac  Liag  O'Branan  was 
appointed  in  his  place  in  the  abbacy0. 

The  Kinel-Endad  were  defeated,  and  a  great  slaughter  made  of  them  by 
Eachmarcach  0'Kanee,  and  Niall  O'Gormly. 

Manus  O'  Melaghlin,  Lord  of  East  Meath,  was  hanged  by  the  English,  after 
they  had  acted  treacherously  towards  him  at  Trim. 

dering  on  the  River  Shannon.  Lough  Foyle  and  Lough  S willy,  that  is,  between 

b  O'Conaing. — The  last  syllable  of  this  name  Lifford  and  Letterkenny.    The  Kinel-Enda  were 

is  effaced  in  the  original,  but  it  is  here  restored  descended  from  Enda,  the  youngest  son  of  Niall 

from  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen.  of  the  Nine  Hostages,  monarch  of  Ireland, 

O'Conaing  resided  at  Caislean  Ui  Chonaing,  now  e  Eachmarcach  CFKane,  Gacmapcac  Ua  Ca- 

corruptly  called  Castleconnell,  in  the  county  of     rain The  name  Gacmapcac,  which  signifies 

Limerick.     See  note  J,  under  the  year  1 1 75.  horse-rider,  egues,  is  anglicised  Eghmarkagh  in 

c  Peacenach  is  used  in  the  Leabhar  Breac  to  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster.   The 

translate  the  Latin  pius,  and  nempechcncic,  im-  surname    Ua    Caram,    is   anglicised    O'Cahan 

plus.     O'Clery  explains  it  by  the  modern  word  throughout  the  same  work,  and  in  most  Anglo- 

pipenca,  i.e.  just,  upright.  Irish  records  previous  to  the  year  1700;  but 

d  Kinel-Enda,   Cinel  6noa,   otherwise  called  the   form  O'Kane  is  now  so   well  established 

Tir-Enda,    was  a    territory  comprising   thirty  in  the  north  of  Ireland,    that   the  Editor  has 

quarters  of  land  in  the  present  county  of  Donegal,  thought  it  the  best  to  adopt  in  this  translation. 

lying  south  of  Inishowen,  between  the  arms  of  — See  p.  2,  note  8. 

D  2 


20 


[1175. 


Oorhnall  caemdmac  mac  oiapmaoa  T?i  laijfn  Do  mapbao  la  hua  poipc- 
cepn  ~\  la  hua  nualldm  i  ppioll. 

TTlac  Oorhnaill  mic  Donncaba  cicchfpna  opppaiji  Do  rhapbab  i  meabail 
la  Domnall  ua  mbpidin. 

Uaohg  mac  pfpjhail  ui  Ruaipc  Do  rhapbab. 

DiapmaiD  mac  caibg  ui  bpiain  -]  TTlaejamain  mac  coipbealbaij  ui 
bpiain  DO  ballab  (.1.  ma  cij  bubein  i  ccaiplen  uf  conaing)  la  Dorhnall  ua 
mbpiam  -j  DiapmaiD  Do  ecc  mprcain.  Ctgup  mac  an  leicoepcc  ui  concobhaip 
.1.  TTlac  ui  Concobaip  copcmobpuab  DO  mapbaoh  beop  la  Dorhnall  ip  in  16 
ceona. 

f  Dannett Kavanagh,  t)orhnall  Caorhanac. — 
He  was  the  illegitimate  son  of  Dermot,  King  of 
Leinster,  and  the  ancestor  of  the  most  distin- 
guished branches  of  the  family  of  Mac  Murrough, 
now  Kavanagh.  He  was  called  Caorhanac 
from  having  been  fostered  at  Cill  Chaoitiam, 
now  Kilcavan,  near  Gorey,  in  the  county  of 
Wexford.  Dermot  Mac  Murrough's  only  legi- 
timate son,  Conor,  was  put  to  death  by  Ro- 
deric  O'Conor,  monarch  of  Ireland,  to  whom 
he  had  been  given  as  a  hostage  by  Dermot. — 
Hib.  Expug.,  lib.  i.  cc.  10,  17.  This  Donnell, 
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  ille- 
gitimacy, he  never  was  able  to,  attain  to  that 
dignity — See  Hibernia  Expugnata,  lib.  i.  c.  3, 
where  Giraldus  writes  :  "  Murchardides  autem 
audito  eorum  aduentu  cum  viris  quasi  quingentis 
(prasmisso  tamen  Duuenaldo  natural!  eiusdem 
filio,  et  quanquam  non  legitimo,  in  sua  tamen 
gente  prreualido)  adeos  statim  ouanter  accessit." 
See  also  Pedigree  of  the  Kavanaghs  in  the 
Carew  Collection  of  MSS.  in  the  Lambeth  Li- 
brary, No.  635,  in  which  it  is  stated  that  Eva, 
the  wife  of  the  Earl  Strongbow,  to  whom  Der- 
mot had  bequeathed  the  kingdom  of  Leinster, 
proved  in  England  and  Ireland  that  this  Donnell, 


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

8  O'Foirtkcern — This  name  is  probably  that 
now  made  O'puaprum  ;  anglicised  Forehan,  or 
Foran. 

h  O'Nolan,  O'Nuallam He  was  chief  of  the 

barony  of  Fotharta  Fea,  now  the  barony  of 
Forth,  in  the  county  of  Carlow.  O'Flaherty 
informs  us  (Ogygia,  Part  iii.  c.  65),  that  the 
last  O'Nuallan  who  had  hereditary  possessions 
here,  died  not  long  before  his  own  time.  The 
family  are,  however,  still  respectable  in  the 
territory. 

'  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 
family  of  Mac  Gillapatrick,  now  Fitzpatrick, 
derived  their  name  and  origin. 

i  Ossory — The  ancient  Ossory  was  a  very 
large  territory,  extending,  in  the  time  of  Aengus 
Oisreithe,  in  the  third  century,  from  the  River 
Barrow  to  the  River  Suir,  and  from  the  Slieve 
Bloom  mountains  to  the  meeting  of  the  Three 
Waters ;  but  at  the  period  of  the  introduction  of 
Christianity  it  comprised  no  part  of  Munster,  for 
it  is  referred  to  in  all  the  lives  of  the  primitive 
Irish  saints  as  forming  the  south-western  por- 
tion of  Leinster,  in  fact,  what  the  present  dio- 
cese of  Ossory  is.  See  Life  of  St.  Patrick,  quoted 


1175.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


21 


Donnell  Kavanaghf ,  the  son  of  Dermot,  King  of  Leinster,  was  treacherously 
slain  by  O'Foirtchern8  and  O'Nolan". 

The  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Donough'1,  Lord  of  Ossoryj,  was  treacherously 
slain  by  Donnell  O'Brien. 

Teigek,  the  son  of  Farrell  O'Rourke,  was  killed. 

Dermot,  the  son  of  Teige  O'Brien,  and  Mahon1,  the  son  of  Turloughm 
O'Brien,  were  deprived  of  sight  in  their  own  house  at  Castleconning",  by  Don- 
nell O'Brien ;  and  Dermot  died  soon  after ;  and  Mac  an  Leithdheirg  O'Conor, 
(i.  e.  the  son  of  O'Conor  Corcomroe0),  was  also  slain  by  Donnell  on  the  same 
day. 


by  Ussher  in  his  Primordia,  p.  855,  where  Os- 
sargy  is  described  as  "  occidentalis  Laginensium 
plaga."  Also  the  life  of  St.  Cronan,  published 
by  Fleming,  where  we  read:  "  Mater  vero  ejus 
Sochla,  id  est,  Larga,  vocabatur  quse  erat  de  oc- 
cidental! Laginiensium  plaga,  id  est  Osraigi 
oriunda."  O'Dugan,  in  his  topographical  poem, 
and  Keating,  in  his  History  of  Ireland,  reign  of 
Aodh  Mac  Ainmire,  describe  Ossory  as  extend- 
ing from  Slieve  Bloom  to  the  sea.  In  the  lat- 
ter centuries  Ossory  has  been  understood  as 
comprising  the  country  of  the  Fitzpatricks,  or 
the  barony  of  Upper  Ossory,  in  the  Queen's 
county  ;  but  its  ancient  extent  is  preserved  in 
the  diocese. 

k  Teige,  Ccroj;. — This  name,  which  signifies 
a  poet,  and  which  was  used  in  the  last  century 
as  an  opprobrious  name  for  a  vulgar  Irishman, 
like  Paddy  in  the  present  century,  is  now  angli- 
cised Timothy  and  Thady,  and  sometimes  latin- 
ised Thaddceus  and  even  Theophilus. 

1  Makon,  marjammn,  said  by  Spenser  to 
signify  a  bear,  is  now  anglicised  Matthew,  as  the 
proper  name  of  a  man  ;  but  the  Editor  prefers 
the  form  Mahon,  as  it  is  used  in  the  Irish  Inqui- 
sitions and  law  documents,  and  also  in  names  of 
places,  and  in  the  family  name  Mac  Mahon. 

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


being  that  most  commonly  found  in  old  law 
documents,  inquisitions,  and  most  Anglo-Irish 
records. 

n  Castleconning,  Cairlen  ui  Chonamj,  i.  e. 
O'Conaing's,  or  Gunning's  Castle,  now  corruptly 
anglicised  Castleconnell.  O'Conaing  was  Lord  of 
Aos  Greine,  the  situation  of  which  is  thus 
described  in  O'Brien's  Dictionary : 

"  Aos-Greine,  the  small  county  of  Limerick, 
from  the  hill  called  Knockgreine  to  Limerick, 
the  ancient  patrimony  of  the  O'Conuings,  whose 
principal  castle,  near  Limerick,  was  called  Cais- 
lean  O'Conaing,  or  Castle  Connell ;  Aos-tri- 
maighe  from  Owny  to  Limerick."  Castleconnell 
is  now  a  village  situated  about  six  miles  to  the 
east  of  Limerick. 

°  Corcomroe,  Copcmoopuao. — The  barony  of 
Corcumroe,  in  the  west  of  the  county  of  Clare, 
preserves  the  name  of  this  territory,  but  the 
territory  was  unquestionably  more  extensive 
than  the  barony,  and  comprised  not  only  this 
barony  but  also  the  entire  of  the  barony  of 
Burrin,  in  the  east  of  which  the  abbey  of  Cor- 
cumroe is  situated.  According  to  the  Irish 
genealogical  books,  this  territory  derived  its 
name  from  Core  Modhruadh,  the  great  grandson 
of  Rury  Mor,  monarch»of  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. 


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

chup  fin. 

Concobop  mac  Concoille  abb  ftecclepa  poil,    •]   pfoaip,   -\   comopba 
Dacpaicc  mpccain  Do  ecc  hi  TCoimh  lap  nool  Do  accallaim  comopba  pfc- 

caip. 

^lolla  coluim  ua  maolmuaiD,  ciccfpna  pfp  cceall  Do  mapbab  la  Puaibpi 

mac  concobaip  meg  cochlain  cpe  meabail. 

QO1S  CR1OSO  1176. 
Goip  CpiopD,  mile,  ceD,  peaccmojaD,  ape. 

pabap,  -|  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  Woods. 

i  O'Molloy,  Ua  maolmuaib.— This  family 
descends  from  IDaolmuaib,  a  name  signifying 
noble  or  venerable  chieftain  [muao  i.  uapal  no 
aipmiom,  Cor.  Glos.~\,  who  was  lord  of  the  terri- 
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 
evidence  to  prove  that  it  originally  comprised  the 
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  (Primor- 
dia,  p.  966)  states  that  Fore  is  called  by  the  Irish 
Bailie  Leabhair,  the  town  of  books  ;  and  he  has 


been  followed  by  Archdall,  O'Conor,  Lanigan, 
and  all  other  writers  on  Irish  topography  ;  nor 
was  this  etymology  questioned  till  the  locality 
was  examined,  in  1837,  for  the  Ordnance  Survey, 
by  the  Editor,  who  found  that  this  is  one  of 
those  inadvertent  errors  into  which  Ussher  has 
fallen  from  his  want  of  intimate  acquaintance 
with  the  Irish  language.  The  Irish  name, 
as  now  pronounced  in  Westmeath,  is  baile 
poBuip,  which  means  the  town  of  Fore,  and  not 
the  town  of  Books;  and  Ussher  was  led  into 
this  error  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- 
nally applied  to  the  remarkable  springs  which 
flow  from  the  hill  into  the  mill-pond  at  the 
village  of  Fore,  for  the  word  pobap,  or  popup, 
is  explained  in  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  Concoillep,  Abbot  of  the  church  of  SS.  Peter  and  Paul,  and 
afterwards  successor  of  St.  Patrick,  died  at  Rome,  having  gone  thither  to  con- 
fer with  the  successor  of  St.  Peter. 

Gillacolum  0'Molloyq,  Lord  of  Fircall,  was  treacherously  slain  by  Rory,  the 
son  of  Conor  Mac  Coghlanr. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1176. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  seventy-six. 

Fore8  and  Kells'  were  laid  waste  by  the  English,  and  by  the  Hy-Briuinu. 
LouthT  was  laid  waste  by  the  Saxons. 

Niall,  the  son  of  Mac  Loughlin,  was  slain  by  Muintir  Branan,  i.  e.  the  Bai- 
rn-Buinne". 


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 
town  of  Kells,  in  the  county  of  Meath,  but  no 
part  of  it  now  remains.  Tradition  ascribes  its 
erection  to  Hugh  de  Lacy. 

u  Hy-Briuin,  uiB  bpuim,  i.e.  the  descendants 
of  Brian,  son  of  Eochaidh  Muighmheodhain, 
monarch  of  Ireland  in  the  fourth  century. 
There  were  many  septs  of  this  race,  but  the 
people  here  referred  to  are  probably  the  Hy- 
Briuin-Breifne,  which  was  the  tribe  name 
of  the  O'Kourkes,  O'Keillys,  and  their  correla- 
tives. 

'  Louth,  lu^riiaj — The  name  is  sometimes 
written  luBmaj,  and  Colgan  thinks  that  it  sig- 
nifies either  the  plain  of  Lugh,  a  man's  name,  or 
the  plain  of  herbs  :  "  Lugi  campus  seu  campus 
herbidus." — Acta  Sanctorum,  p.  731,  col.  2,  n.  7. 

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


Oeipbpiup  oo'n  eojna  an  ^ijpe,  as  signify- 
ing the  same  as  cobap,  a  spring.  Besides 
these  celebrated  rills  which  turn  the  mill  of 
St.  Fechin,  there  are  in  Gleann  Fobhar,  as  it 
was  originally  called,  two  other  wells  dedicated 
to  St.  Fechin,  one  called  cobap  na  Cojaine, 
and  the  other  OaBach  peichin.  For  the  legend 
connected  with  the  rills  and  mill  of  Fore,  see 
Life  of  St.  Fechin,  published  by  Colgan  in  Acta 
Sanctorum,  20th  January.  For  some  account 
of  the  state  of  Fore  in  1682,  see  Sir  Henry 
Piers's  account  of  Westmeath,  published  in  the 
first  vol.  of  Vallancey's  Collectanea ;  and  for  a 
description  of  the  ancient  remains  there  in  1837, 
see  a  letter  written  by  the  Editor  at  Eathowen, 
dated  October  13th,  1837,  now  preserved  at  the 
Ordnance  Survey  Office,  Phoenix  Park. 

1  Kells,  Ceanannup — This  name  was  first  an- 
glicised Kenlis. — See  Ussher,  De  Primordiis, 
p.  691.  The  name  signifies  the  head  seat,  or 
residence,  and  is  now  translated  Headfort,  in  the 
name  of  the  seat  and  title  of  the  present  noble 


24 


[1176. 


Injfn  Ruaibpi  ui  concobaip  (.1.  pi  Gjieann),  bfn  plaicbfpcai£  ui  maoiloo- 
paib  DO  rhapbab  la  macaib  ui  caipellain. 

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

Cumaije  ua  plainn  cicchfpna  ua  cruipcpe,  pfp  If,  ~\  Dal  apaibe  Do  rhap- 
ba&  la  commibe  la  a  bparaip  pen  -\  la  pfpaib  If. 

Sa^ain  Do  lonnapbab  Do  Dorhnall  ua  bpiain  a  luimneac  cpia  popbaipi  Do 
ofnarh  66  poppa. 

CaipDiall  gall  56:  bfnarh  i  ccfnannup. 

Ctn  ciapla  Sa^anach  (.1.  Piocapo)  Do  ecc  in  cich  cliar  Do  bainne  aillpi 
po  jab  ap  a  coip  Do  miopbailip  bpicchoe  colaim  cille  -\  na  naorh  apcfna  ipa 
ceallu  po  milleab  laipp.  Qc  connaipc  piurh  peipin  bpijic  anDaplaip  05  a 
rhapbab. 


Boyne. — This  tribe  was  seated  near  Lough 
Neagh,  in  the  present  county  of  Antrim  ;  and 
their  territory  was  nearly  coextensive  with  the 
district  of  Killultagh,  which  was  a  part  of  the 
county  of  Down  in  the  year  1662,  though  now 
in  the  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 
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 
Nicholas's  Taxation  of  the  Dioceses  of  Down  and 
Connor  and  Dromore,  edited  by  the  Rev.  Wil- 
liam Reeves,  M.  B. 

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

y  OfDonough  0' 'Carroll,  t)onnchaoa  ui  Ceap- 
tiaiU — This  was  O'Carroll,  chief  of  Oriel,  not 
of  Ely  O'Carroll.  There  is  a  curious  entry 
respecting  the  death  of  this  Donough  O'Carroll 


of  Oriel,  in  an  ancient  Antiphonarium,  formerly 
belonging  to  the  cathedral  church  of  Armagh, 
and  now  preserved  in  Ussher's  collection  of 
MSS.  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin 
(Class  B.  Tab.  1.  No.  1).  It  has  been  recently 
published,  with  a  literal  English  translation,  in 
Petrie's  Inquiry  into  the  Origin  and  Uses  of  the 
Round  Towers  of  Ireland,  p.  389. 

1  Gooey  O'Flynn,  cumaije  ua  plainn The 

name  of  this  family  is  now  anglicised  O'Lynn  in 
the  north  of  Ireland,  and  by  some  incorrectly 
made  Lindsay.  Their  territory  lay  between  the 
Lower  Bann,  Lough  Neagh,  and  the  sea,  in  the 
present  county  of  Antrim  ;  but  there  seems  to 
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 
Lyn  and  Monaster  Lynn,  in  the  same  neigh- 
bourhood. 

The  pedigree  of  this  famous  family,  who  were 
the  senior  branch  of  the  Clanna  Rury  of  Uladh, 
or  Ulidia,  is  thus  given  in  a  MS.  in  Trinity 
College,  Dublin,  Class  H.  1.  15.  p.  266,  line 
28: 


1176.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


25 


The  daughter  of  Roderic  O'Conor,  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. 

Cooey  O'Flynn2,  Lord  of  Hy-Tuirtrea,  Firlee,  and  Dalaradia,  was  slain  by 
Cumee,  his  own  brother,  dnd  the  Firlee. 

The  English  were  driven  from  Limerick  by  Donnell  O'Brien,  by  laying 
siege  to  them. 

An  English  castle  was  in  progress  of  erection  at  Kells. 

The  English  Earl  (i.  e.  Richard")  died  in  Dublin,  of  an  ulcer  which  had 
broken  out  in  his  foot  through  the  miracles  of  SS.  Bridget  and  Columbkille, 
and  of  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 

2.  DonnelL,  who  was  son  of 

3.  Cumee,  or  Cu-Midhe. 

i 

4.  Murtough,  or  Moriertagh. 

5.  Alexander. 

6.  Cumee,  or  Cu-Midhe. 

7.  Cooley,  or  Cu-Uladh. 

8.  Cumee,  or  Cu-Midhe. 

9.  Rory. 

10.  Foley. 

1 1 .  Mac  Kieran. 

I 

12.  Hugh,  or  Aodh. 

13.  Donnagan. 

14.  Forgartagh. 

15.  Flann,  the  progenitor,  a  quo  the  O'Lynns 
[Ui  toinn],  &c.  &c.  up  to  Colla  Uais,  monarch 
of  Ireland  in  the  fourth  century. 

The  name  Cu  maighe,  meaning  dog,  or  grey- 
hound of  the  plain,  and  Cumidhe,  dog,  or  grey- 
hound of '  Meath,  were  very  common  among  this 
family.  The  former  is  anglicised  Cooey,  and 
the  latter  Cumee,  throughout  this  transla- 
tion. 


*  Hy-Tuirtre,  Ui  Cuipcpe,  was  the  ancient 
name  of  a  territory  in  the  county  of  Antrim, 
lying  to  the  east  of  Lough  Neagh.  The  parishes 
of  Racavan,  Ramoan,  Donnagorr,  and  Killead, 
the  church  of  Dun  ChilleBice,  now  Downkilly- 
begs,  in  the  parish  ofDrummaul,  and  the  island 
of  Inis  Toide,  now  Church  Island,  in  Lough 
Beg,  were  included  in  this  territory,  which  was 
the  name  of  a  deanery  in  Colgan's  time. — See 
Trias  Tkaum.,  p.  183. 

The  tribe  called  the  Firlee,  and  sometimes 
Fir  Li  of  the  Bann,  were  originally  seated  on  the 
west  side  of  that  river,  but  at  this  period  they 
were  unquestionably  on  the  east  of  it.  They 
were  probably  driven  from  their  original  locality 
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  iii. 
c.  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 
Paris  inserts  the  death  of  this  earl  at  the  same 
year  ;  but  Pembridge  places  it  about  the  1  st  of 


E 


26  aNNcitu  KIU§IIU.UIIOVJ.  eineciNN.  [1176. 

Caiplfn  Sldine  i  paibe  RiocapD  plemeann  co  na  pluaj,  ap  po  bap  oc 
milleaDh  oipsiall  -|  ua  mbpium  i  pfp  miDe  DO  opccam  la  TTlaoileaclainn 
mac  meclochlainn  la  ciccheapna  cenel  neojam  -|  la  cenel  neojain  buben  -\ 
la  haipjiallaib.  l?o  mapbpac  cuicc  cfcc  no  nf  ap  uille  Do  na  gallaib  la 
caeb  ban,  leanam  -\  eac  co  na  cfpna  Duine  i  mbfchaiD  ap  in  ccaipoiall. 
Ro  papaijce  cpi  caipcceoill  im  mibe  ap  nabapach*  ap  uarhan  cenel  neojain 
.1.  caipciall  cfnannpa,  caipplfn  calacpoma  •]  caiplen  Doipe  paccpaic.  l?io- 
capD  plemenn  pein  Do  mapbaD  Don  chup  pin. 

baile  biacaij  DO  lo&baipc  la  puaiopi  ua  concobaip  l?i  Gpeann  Don  coirn- 
6e&  i  Do  naoim  beapac  50  bpac  .1.  baile  cuama  achaD.  IciaD  Slana  na  hoj- 
Dilpi  50  bpac.  CaDla  ua  Dubcaij  aipDeppcop  cuama,  aipeaccac  ua  RoDuib, 
plann  ua  pionnachca,  aoD  ua  ploinn,  Ruapc  ua  TTlaoilbpeanainn,  Ignaiohe  ua 
mannacam,  fyollu  an  coimDeD  mac  an  leapcaip,  ua  hainliji,  -|  concobap  mac 
DiapmaDa,  a  ccopaijeacc  an  baile  pin  DO  bfic  05  Dia  -|  05  beapac  50  bpac 
6  ua  cconcobaip  -|  o  pi  op  a  lonaiD. 

Domnall  mac  coipoealbaij  ui  Concobaip  cicchfpna  cuaipcceipc  Con- 
nacc,  opDan,  Smacc  -|  Dfjcomaiple  na  njaomeaV  Do  ecc  -|  a  aDnacal  i 
maij  eo  na  Sa^an. 

Oorhnall  mac  coipDealbaij  ui  bpiain  piojoarhna  murhan  Do  ecc. 

May,  1177,  and  Giraldus  Cambrensis  about  the  rationis  &  refugii  signum  manebat.   In  vtraque 

1st  of  June.   In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  belli  fortuna  stabilis  &  constans,   nee  casibus 

of  Innisfallen,  Strongbow  is  called  the  greatest  aduersis  desperatione  fluctuans  ;   nee  secundis 

destroyer  of  the  clergy  and  laity  that  came  to  vlla  leuitate  discurrens." — Hibernia  Expugnata, 

Ireland  since  the  time  of  Turgesius.     His  cha-  lib.  i.  cap.  27,   Camden.  Francofurti,   M.D.CIII. 

racter  is  thus  given  by  Giraldus,  who  was  his  p.  774. 

cotemporary :  c  Slane,  Slaine,  now  generally  called  Guile 

"  Comiti  vero  modus  hie  erat.    Vir  subrufus,  Slaine  in  Irish.     It  is  a  small  village  near  the 

lentiginosus,  oculis  glaucis,  facie  foeminea,  voce  Boyne,  midway  between  Navan  and  Drogheda, 

exili,  collo  contracto,   per  cetera   fere  cuncta,  in  the  county  of  Meath.     The  site  of  Fleming's 

corpore  precero,  vir  liberalis  &  lenis.     Quod  re  Castle  is  now  occupied  by  the  seat  of  the  Mar- 

non  poterat,  verborum  suauitate  componebat.  quess  of  Conyngham. 

Togatus  &  inermis  parere  paratior,  quam  impe-  4  Besides  women,  children,  and  horses,  le  caeb 

rare.     Extra  bellum  plus  militis,  quam  Duels  :  ban  leanam  7  eac — This  was  evidently  copied 

in  bello  vero  plus  Ducis  quam  militis  habens  :  by  the  Four  Masters  from  the  Annals  of  Ulster, 

omnia  suorum  audens  consilio  :  Nihil  vnquam  in  which  the  original  reads  as  follows  :  ou  in  po 

ex  se  vel  armis  aggrediens,  vel  animositate  prae-  mapbao  cec  no  ni  ip  moo  oo  jallaiB   pe  caeb 

sumens.     In  proelio  positus  fixum   suis  recupe-  ban  7  leanum   7  ec  in   caipceoil   oo  mapbao 


1176.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  27 

The  castle  of  Slane0,  in  which  was  Richard  Fleming  with  his  forces,  and 
from  which  he  used  to  ravage  Oriel,  Hy-Briuin,  and  Meath,  was  plundered  by 
Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Mac  Loughlin,  Lord  of  the  Kinel-Owen,  by  the  Kinel- 
Owen  themselves  and  the  men  of  Oriel.  They  killed  five  hundred  or  more  of 
the  English,  besides  women,  children,  and  horses'1 ;  and  not  one  individual 
escaped  with  his  life  from  the  castle.  Three  castles  were  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  Derrypatrickf .  Richard  Fleming 
himself  was  slain  on  this  occasion. 

A  ballybetagh  was  granted  in  perpetuity  by  Roderic  O'Conor,  King  of 
Ireland,  viz.  the  townland  of  Toomaghy8  to  God  and  St.  Berach.  The  follow- 
ing were  the  sureties  of  that  perpetual  gift :  Keyly  [Catholicus]  O'Duffy,  Arch- 
bishop 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. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Turlough  O'Conor,  Lord  of  the  north  of  Connaught, 
the  glory,  the  moderator,  and  the  good  adviser  of  the  Irish  people,  died,  and 
was  interred  at  Mayo  of  the  Saxons. 

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

co  nu  cepna  oume  i  mbechaio  ap  in  caipeel.  the  town  of  Athenry,  but  who  was  knighted 

Thus   rendered   in   the  old   translation  of  the  for  having  killed  O'Kelly  and  his  esquire,  in  the 

Ulster  Annals  :  "  where  one  hundred  and  more  battle  of  Athenry,  in  the  year  1316.  q.  v. — See 

were  killed  of  the  Galls,   besides  women  and  Hibernia  Anglicana,  by  Sir  Richard  Cox,  p.  96. 
children,  and  the  horses  of  the  castle,  soe  as          f    Ooipe    pacpaic,    now   Derrypatrick,    a 

none  living  escaped  out  of  the  castle."  townland  containing  the  ruins  of  an  old  castle, 

'   The  castle    of  Caltruim Caiplen  Cala  in  a  parish  of  the  same  name,  in  the  barony  of 

Cpo  ma,  Le.  the  castle  of  Gal  trim.     Gal  trim  is  Deece,   and  county  of  Meath.. — See   Ordnance 

now  the  name  of  a  townland,  containing  a  moat,  Map  of  Meath,  sheet  43. 

in  a  parish  of  the  same  name,  in  the  barony  of         g  Toomaghy,    cuaim   acao — A   ballybetagh 

Deece,  and  county  of  Meath.    The  district  be-  was  the  thirtieth  part  of  a  triocha  cead,  or  ba- 

longing  to  this  castle  was  an  ancient  palatinate,  rony.     It  contained  four  quarters,  or  seisreaghs, 

and  gave  the  title  of  Baron  to  the  family  of  each  seisreagh  containing  120  acres  of  the  large 

Hussey,  whose  ancestor  had  been  a  butcher  in  Irish  measure.    The  name  of  this  ballybetagh  is 

E2 


28 


rcioshachcg  emeaNN.  [1177. 


Oomnall  ua  mailli  cijeajina  urhaill  Do  ecc. 

Oiapmair  mac  copbmaic  1x165  capcaij  pi  Dfpmuman  DO  jabail  la  a 
mac  pfm  copbmac  liarhanac  -[  copbmac  DO  rhapbab  hi  ppiull  la  a  muinrip 
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  i 
ppull  Dua  maoileclamn  (.1.  Qpr),  -\  dpc  DO  aiqiiojab  la  peapaib  mioe,  -j 
pije  (no  cicceapnup)  Do  cabaipc  Do  bonnchab  ua  maoileclainn  agup  plann 
a  mac  Do  mapbab  la  caipppe  ua  cciapba. 

QO1S  CR1OSO  1177. 
Qoip  CpiopD  mile,  cecc  peaccmojac,  a  peace. 

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

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

Sluaicchfo  la  lohn  DO  cuipc  -\  lap  na  piDipmib  i  noal  apame  i  co  Dun 

now  forgotten.     It  must  have  been  applied  to  a  set  at  liberty.     Giraldus  Cambrensis  states,  in 

large  townland,  since  subdivided  into  quarters,  his  Hibernia  Expugnata,  lib.  ii.  c.  17,  that  this 

somewhere  near  Kilbarry,  in  the  north-east  side  Legate  held  a  synod  at  Dublin,  in  which  he  pub- 

of  the  county  of  Eoscommon,  where  St.  Berach's  lished  the  King  of  England's  title  to  Ireland,  and 

principal  church  is   situated.     But    the   name  pronounced   excommunication  against  all  that 

does  not  appear  in  any  form  on  the  Down  Survey  should  oppose  it ;  that  he  also  gave  leave  to  the 

for  Connaught,  or  on  the  Ordnance  Survey.  English,  to  take  out  of  the  churches  and  monas- 

h  Cardinal  Vivianus He  was  sent  to  Ireland  teries  corn  and  other  provisions  as  often  as  they 

by  Pope  Alexander  III.,   as  apostolic  Legate,  should  require  them,    always  paying  the  true 

According  to  Rogerus  Hoveden,  and  the  Chro-  value  for  the  same.    To  which  Hanmer  most 

nicle  of  Man  at  this  year,  Vivianus  was  in  the  impertinently  adds  :  "  He  filled  his  bagges  with 

Isle  of  Man  on  Christmas-day  with  King  Gothred.  the  sinnes  of  the  people  ;  the  English  captaines 

After  Epiphany  he  landed  at  Downpatrick,  and  understanding  of  it,  gave  him  in  charge,  either 

on  his  way  to  Dublin  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  to  depart  the  land,  or  to  goe  to  the  warres,  and 

soldiers  of  John  de  Courcy,  by  whom  he  was  serve  for  pay  with  them,  and  no  longer  to  re- 


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  own  son,  Cormac  Liathanach;  but  Cormac  was  treacherously  slain  by 
his  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. 

Donnell,  son  of  Gillapatrick  [O'Keary],  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 
O'Melaghlin ;  and  his  son  Flann  was  slain  by  the  inhabitants  of  Carbury 
O'Keary. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1177. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  seventy  and  seven. 

Cardinal  Vivianus"  arrived  in  Ireland.  A  synod  of  the  clergy  of  Ireland, 
both  bishops  and  abbots,  was  convened  by  this  cardinal  on  the  first  Sunday  in 
Lent,  and  they  enacted  many  ordinances  not  now  observed. 

Hugh  O'Neill,  popularly  called  an  Macaemh  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'Loughlin1  and  Ardgal  O'Loughlin;  but 
Ardgal  himself  fell  on  the  spot  by  O'Neill. 

An  army  was  led  by  John  De  Courcyj  and  the  knights  into  Dalaradia  and 

ceive  money  for  nought." — Hammer's  Chronicle,  membris  neruosis  &  ossosis,  staturse  grandis,  & 

edition  of  1809,  pp.  295,  296.  See  also  the  corpore  perualido,  viribus  immensis,  audacise 

same  fact  given  as  true  history  by  Sir  Richard  singularis,  vir  fortis  &  bellator  ab  adolescentia. 

Cox  in  his  Hibernia  Anglicana,  pp.  33,  34.  Semper  in  acie  primus,  semper  grauioris  periculi 

1  O'Loughlin The  name  of  this  family,  pondus  arripiens.  Adeo  belli  cupidus  &  ardens, 

which  was  the  senior  branch  of  the  northern  vt  militi  dux  pnefectus,  ducali  plerunque  de- 

Hy-Niall,  is  now  generally  written  Mac  Loughlin.  serta  constantia  Ducem  exuens,  et  militem  in- 

J  John  De  Courcy. — He  set  out  from  Dublin,  duens,  inter  primes  impetuosus  &  preeceps  : 

and  in  four  days  arrived  at  Downpatrick.  The  turma  vacillante  suorum,  nimia  vincendi  cupi- 

character  and  personal  appearance  of  this  extra-  ditate  victoriam  amississe  videretur.  Et  quan- 

ordinary  man  are  thus  described  by  his  cotem-  quam  in  armis  immoderatus,  &  plus  militis 

porary,  Giraldus  Cambrensis  :  quam  Ducis  habens,  inermis  tamen  modestus, 

"  Erat  itaque  lohannes  vir  albus  &  procerus,  ac  sobrius,  &  Ecclesie  Christ!  debitam  reueren- 


30 


[1177. 


oa 
apaibe. 


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


tiam  prsestans,  diuino  cultui  per  omnia  deditus : 
Gratiseque  superna;,  quoties  ei  successerat,  cum 
gratiarum  actione  totum  ascribens,  Deoq;  dans 
gloriam,  quoties  aliquod  fecerat  gloriosura.  Sed 
quoniam,  vt  ait  Tullius,  Nihil  simplici  in  ge- 
nere,  omni  ex  parte  perfectum  natura  expoliuit : 
nimiae  parcitatis  &  inconstantise  nceui,  niueum 
tantse  laudis  nitorem  denigrauerant.  Regis 
itaque  Manniae  Gotredi  filia  sibi  legitime  copu- 
lata,  post  varia  belli  diuturni  proelia  :  &  graues 
vtrinque  conflictus,  tandem  in  arce  victories 
plane  constitutus,  Vltoniam  vndique  locis  ido- 
neis  incastellauit.  &  nusquam  (non  absque  la- 
bore  plurimo)  &  inedia,  multisque  periculis,  pace 
firmissima  stabiliuit.  Hoc  autem  mini  notabile 
videtur  :  quod  grandes  hi  quatuor  Hibernica; 
expugnationis  postes,  Steplianides,  Herueius, 
Beymundus,  &  Johannes  de  Curcy  (occulto  qui- 
dem  Dei  iudicio,  sed  nunquam  iniusto)  legiti- 
mam  ex  sponsis  prolem  suscipere  non  merue- 
runt.  Quintum  autem  his  Meylerium  adiunxe- 
rim,  qui  legitimam  vsque  hodie  de  sponsa  prolem 
non  suscepit.  Sed  hsec  de  lohanne  Curcy  sum- 
matim,  &  quasi  sub  epilogo  commemorantes, 
grandiaq ;  eiusdem  gesta,  suis  explicanda  scrip- 
toribus  reliquentes."  —  Hibernia  Expugnata, 
lib.  ii.  cap.  xvii. 

k  Donnell,  son  of  Cahasagk,  tDomnall  mac 
Cacar-aij — In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals 
of  Ulster,  and  in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  he  is 
called  Domnall  mac  mic  Carupaij,  i.  e.  Don- 
nell, son  of  the  son,  i.  e.  grandson  of  Cahasagh. 
In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen, 
the  chieftain  who  contended  with  De  Courcy 
at  Down,  on  this  occasion,  is  called  Rory  Mac 
Donslevy  ;  and  it  is  certain  that  the  family 
name  was  Mac  Donslevy  at  this  time,  though  it 
was  originally  Cfh-Eockadha  (O'Haughy).  The 
name  is  latinized  Durdeuus  by  Giraldus  Cam- 


brensis  ;  but  Dr.  Hanmer,  who  knew  but  little 
of  Irish  families  or  history,  supposing  that  by 
Dunleuus  (which  he  reads  incorrectly  Dunlenus) 
Giraldus  meant  O'Donnell,  he  speaks  through- 
out of  the  chief  who  contended  with  De  Courcy, 
at  Down,  as  O'Donell !  Giraldus,  who  was  co- 
temporary  with  Sir  John  De  Courcy,  speaks 
in  high  terms  of  the  valour  of  the  King  of 
Down,  who  contended  with  him  on  this  occa- 
sion. It  appears  that  the  Pope's  Legate,  Cardi- 
nal Vivianus,  happened  to  be  at  Downpatrick 
on  De  Courcy's  arrival,  and  that  he  endeavoured 
to  prevail  on  De  Courcy  to  withdraw  his  forces 
from  Down,  on  condition  that  Dunlevus  should 
pay  tribute  to  the  King  of  England.  De  Courcy 
refusing  to  comply,  Dunlevus,  encouraged  by 
the  suggestions  of  the  Legate,  collected  his 
forces,  and  attacked  the  English,  we  are  told, 
with  astonishing  bravery  ;  but  if  we  believe 
Giraldus's  statement,  that  he  mustered  ten 
thousand  warriors,  who,  fighting  manfully 
(viriliter)  with  spears  and  battle-axes,  were  de- 
feated by  three  hundred  English  soldiers,  com- 
manded by  twenty-two  knights,  we  must  con- 
clude that  his  people  were  either  very  feeble 
or  very  unskilful  warriors.  Giraldus  describes 
the  conquest  of  Down  by  De  Courcy  in  the 
sixteenth  chapter  of  the  second  book  of  his 
Hibernia  Expugnala,  where  he  writes  as  follows : 

"  Videns  autem  Dunleuus  se  verbis  minime 
profecturum,  corrogatis  vndiq;  viribus  cum 
10.  bellatoruni  millibus  infra  8.  dies  hostes  in 
vrbe  viriliter  inuadit.  In  hac  etenim  insula 
sicut  et  in  omni  natione,  gens  borealis  magis 
bellica  semper  et  truculenta  reperitur,  &c.,  &c. 

"  Prospiciens  itaq;  lohannes  hostiles  acies 
acriter  ad  vrbem  accedere :  quanquam  manu 
modica,  tamen  perualida,  potius  obuiam  exire, 
&  viribus  dimicando,  belli  fata  tentare,  quam 


1177-] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


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to  Dun  da  leathghlas;  they  slew  Donnell,  the  grandson  of  Cathasach",  Lord  of 
Dalaradia.     Dun  da  leathghlas  was  plundered  and  destroyed  by  John  and  the 


exili  municipio,  quod  in  vrbis  angulo  temriter 
•  erexerat,  diutius  ab  hoste  claudi,  &  fame  confici 
longe  proeelegit.  Igitur  atroci  bello  conserto, 
in  primo  eminus  sagittarum  iaculorumq;  gran- 
dine  perfuso.  Deinde  cominus  lanceffi  lanoeis, 
securibus  enses  confligentes  :  ad  tartara  inultos 
vtrinq;  transmittunt.  Dum  igitur  acerrimo 
Martis  conflictu,  lam  dypeo  clypeus,  vmbone 
repeUitur  vmbo  :  Ense  minax  ensis,  pede  pes,  8f 
cuspids  cuspis:  qui  gladii  loannis  ictus  hie 
cerneret,  qualiter  nunc  caput  ab  humeris,  nunc 
armos  a  corpore,  nunc  brachia  separabat,  viri 
bellatoris  vires  digne  possit  commendare.  Mul- 
tis  igitur  in  hoc  conflictu  se  strenue  gerentibus : 
Roger,  tamen  Poerius  adolescens  imberbis  & 
fiauus,  pulcher  &  procerus  (qui  postmodum  in 
Lechlinia?  &  Ossyrias  partibus  emicuit)  secun- 
dam  non  immerito  laudem  obtinuit.  Post 
graues  itaq;  diuq;  ambiguos,  nimis  impari  cer- 
tamine  belliq;  congressus,  tandem  loannis  vir- 
tuti  cessit  victoria :  hostium  multitudine  magna 
per  marinam  glisin,  quo  transfugerant,  inter- 
empta." 

And  again,  in  his  short  recapitulation  of  the 
battles  of  De  Courcy,  towards  the  end  of  the 
same  chapter: 

"  In  duobus  itaque  magnis  prasliis  Johannes 
apud  Dunam  victor  enituit.  In  primo  post 
purificationem.  In  secundo  circa  Calendas  lulii, 
in  natiuitate  Sancti  lohannis,  vir  de  quindecim 
virorum  militibus  [al.  millibus]  victoriam  obti- 
nuit cum  paucissimis,  hostium  extincta  multitu- 
dine. Tertium  erat  apud  Ferly  in  prseda?  cap- 
tione,"  &c. 

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


from  sea  to  sea,  but  that  he  was  defeated  and 
taken  prisoner,  and  the  greater  part  of  his  men 
slain  by  Eory  Mac  Donslevy ;  that  he  was  after- 
wards set  at  liberty ;  and  that  the  English, 
taking  fresh  courage,  being  led  on  by  De  Courcy 
and  a  valiant  knight  called  Eoger  Poer,  again 
attacked  the  Irish  and  made  a  great  slaughter 
of  them  ;  and  took  from  them  the  croziers  of 
St.  Finghin  and  St.  Eonan,  and  that  then  all 
the  English  of  Dublin  went  to  the  assistance 
of  De  Courcy.  These  Annals  then  add  : — 
"  Melaghlin  O'Neill  [rede  Mac  Loughlin],  at 
the  head  of  the  Kinel-Owen,  and  Eory  Mac 
Donslevy,  at  the  head  of  the  Ulidians,  accom- 
panied by  the  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  Gilla- 
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 
it  from  John  De  Courcy.  A  fierce  battle  was 
fought  between  them,  in  which  the  Kinel-Owen 
and  Ulidians  were  defeated,  with  the  loss  of 
five  hundred  me"n,  among  whom  were  Donnell 
O'Laverty,  chief  of  Clann  Hamill ;  Conor  O'Car- 
ellan,  chief  of  Clann-Dermot ;  Gilla  Mac  Liag 
O'Donnelly,  chief  of  Ferdroma;  Gilla-an  Choim- 
dedh  Mac  Tomulty,  chief  of  Clann  Mongan  ; 
and  the  chiefs  of  Clann  Cartan  and  Clann 
Fogarty.  The  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  the 
Bishop  of  Down,  and  all  the  clergy,  were  taken 
prisoners ;  and  the  English  got  possession  of  the 
croziers  of  St.  Comgall  and  St.  Dachiarog,  the 
Canoin  Phatruic  [i.  e.  the  Book  of  Armagh],  be- 
sides a  bell  called  Ceolan  an  Tighearna.  They 
afterwards,  however,  set  the  bishops  at  liberty, 
and  restored  the  Canoin  Phatruic  and  the  bell, 
but  they  killed  all  the  inferior  clergy,  and  kept 
the  other  noble  relics,  which"  [remarks  this 
compiler]  "are  still  in  the  hands  of  the  English." 
Dr.  Hanmer,  in  describing  this  battle, 


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[1177. 


piDipib  cainic  i  na  pocpaiDe.  Oo  ponab  Dona  caiplen  leo  arm  ap  a 
mai&m  po  6f  ap  ulcaib  -|  maiDm  pop  cenel  eojam  -|  pop  aipgiallaib  aipm  in 
po  Ttmpbab  concobop  o  caipealldin  coipeac  cloinne  DiapmaDa  -]  giollumac- 
liacc  ua  Donnjaile  roipec  pfp  nopoma.  TCo  gonao  ann  beop  Dorhnall  ua 
plaicbfpcaij  Do  poijoib  jup  ba  mapb  e  laparh  Do  na  gonaib  pin  i  pecclep 
poil  in  dpDmaca  lap  ccaicfrh  cuipp  cpiopo  -\  a  pola,  lap  nonjab  -[  aich- 
picche.  l?o  mapbab  Dona  maice  lom&a  aile  leo  cenmochaicpibe.  Udmic 
lohn  DO  cuipr  co  na  pocpaiDi  an  peace  ceOna  i  nuib  cuiprpe  -|  i  ppfpaib 
If.  Ro  loipcc  CuTnibe  ua  plainn  aipceap  maije  perhe.  T?o  loipccpfc  Dona 
cul  pacain,  i  ceallu  iom6a  oile. 

Niall  ua  ^aipmleabaij  cicchfpna  pfp  maije  hire  -|  cenel  fnoa  DO  map- 


that  De  Courcy  was  opposed  by  Eoderic  [OConor] 
the  Monarque  and  O'Donnett,  king  of  Duune  ! 
See  his  Chronicle,  Dublin  edition  of  1809, 
p.  300  ;  and  Cox  (Hibernia  Anglicana),  p.  32, 
gravely  repeats  this  blunder  as  true  history. 
By  this  expedition  and  battle  were  fulfilled,  in 
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. 
The  one  was  a  prophecy  among  the  Britons,  said 
to  have  been  delivered  by  Merlin  of  Caermar- 
then,  in  the  latter  part  of  the  fifth  century,  and 
which  had  declared  that  "  a  white  knight,  sit- 
ting on  a  white  horse,  and  bearing  birds  on  his 
shield,  would  be  the  first  that  with  force  of 
arms  would  enter  and  invade  Ulster."  ("  Miles 
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  who  had  writ- 
ten in  Irish  that  a  certain  pauper  and  beggar, 
and  fugitive  from  another  country  ("  quon- 
dam 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 


citizens  that  the  enemy  would  wade  up  to  the 
knees  in  their  blood.  Stanihurst,  enlarging  on 
a  slight  hint  thrown  out  by  Giraldus  in  his  ac- 
count of  these  prophecies,  writes  thatDe  Courcy, 
in  his  anxiety  to  adapt  these  prophecies  to  him- 
self, took  every  care  to  adapt  himself  to  the  pro- 
phecies, 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 
part !  This,  however,  is  overdrawing  the  pictiire ; 
for  Giraldus  says  that  De  Courcy  happened  by 
mere  chance  (forte)  to  ride  upon  a  white  horse 
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 
which  the  achievements  which  he  himself  was 
predestined  to  perform  were  to  be  seen ;  to  which 
Stanihurst,  drawing  on  his  imagination,  imper- 
tinently adds,  that  he  slept  with  this  book  under 
his  pillow !  "  Ad  dormiendum  proficiscens,  eun- 
dem  sub  cubicularis  lecti  pulvino  collocaret." 
The  charge  brought  by  Dr.  Hanmer  against  Cam- 


1177.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


33 


knights  who  came  in  his  army.  A  castle  was  erected  by  them  there,  out  of 
which  they  defeated  the  Ulidians  twice,  and  the  Kinel-Owen  and  Oriels  once, 
slew  Conor  O'Carellan,  chief  of  Clandermot1,  and  Gilla-Macliag  O'Don- 
nelly,  chief  of  Feardromam;  and  Donnell  O'Flaherty  [now  Laverty]  was  so 
wounded  by  arrows  on  this  occasion,  that  he  died  of  his  wounds  in  the 
church  of  St.  Paul  at  Armagh,  after  having  received  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  set  Annoy"  on  fire;  but  they  burned  Coleraine  and  many 
other  churches  on  this  incursion. 

Niall  O'Gormly,   Lord  of  the   men  of  Magh-Ithe  and  Kinel-Enda°,  was 


brensis,  that  having  malevolent  feelings  towards 
De  Courcy,  he  slightly  passed  over  and  misrepre- 
sented his  actions,  seems  very  unfounded,  for  Cam- 
brensis  speaks  of  the  noble  achievements  of  this 
knight  in  terms  of  the  highest  admiration,  say- 
ing that  he  would  leave  his  grand  exploits  to  be 
blazoned  by  De  Courcy's  own  writers,  evidently 
alluding  to  the  monk  Jocelyn,  who  was  at  the 
time  employed  by  De  Courcy  to  write  the  Life 
of  St.  Patrick.  "  Sed  hasc  de  Johanne  Curcy 
summatim,  &  quasi  sub  epilogo  commemorantes, 
grandiaq;  eiusdem  gesta  suis  explacanda  scrip- 
toribus  reliquentes." — Hiber.  Expugnat.  lib.  ii. 
c.  17. 

1  Clandermot. — The  name  is  yet  preserved  in 
Clondermot,  a  parish  in  the  barony  of  Tirkeeran, 
in  the  county  of  Derry,  east  of  the  Foyle.  The 
O'Caireallans  are  still  numerous  in  this  parish, 
but  the  name  is  variously  anglicised  Carlan, 
Curlaud,  Carellan,  Carelton,  &c. 

m  Feardroma — This  was  an  ancient  terri- 
tory in  the  county  of  Tyrone,  containing  Castle- 
Cauldfield,  anciently  Ballydonnelly,  and  the 
surrounding  district — See  note  on  Ballydon- 
nelly, at  the  year  1531.  It  is  to  be  distin- 
guished from  the  townland  of  papopuim,  or 
Fardrome,  mentioned  in  the  Donegal  Inquisi- 


tions, which  never  at  any  period  belonged  to  the 
O'Donnellys. 

n  Armoy,  Qicfpmui^e The  author  of  the 

Tripartite  Life  of  St.  Patrick,  which  was  trans- 
lated and  published  by  Colgan,  in  his  Trias 
Thaum.,  calls  this  "Artkermugia  prcecipua  civitas 
Dalriedinorum."  It  was  anciently  a  bishop's  see, 
and  an  ecclesiastical  town  of  consequence;  but  in 
Colgan's  time  it  was  only  a  small  village  in  the 
territory  of  Eeuta.  It  is  still  called  by  its  an- 
cient name  in  Irish,  but  is  anglicised  Armoy. 
It  retains  at  present  no  monumental  evidence  of 
its  ancient  importance  except  a  part  of  an  an- 
cient round  tower,  which,  however,  is  no  small 
proof  of  its  ancient  ecclesiastical  importance. 
Colgan  in  his  Acta  S.  S.,  p.  377,  col.  2,  note  6, 
describes  it  as  follows  :  "Est  hodie  vicus  tan  turn 
exiguus  in  regione  Reuta  juxta  Oceanum  octo 
circiter  millibus  passuum  a  Dunliffsia"  [Dun- 
luce]  "distans." 

0  Magh-Ithe  and  Kinel-Enda. — Magh  Ithe,  i.  e. 
the  plain  of  Ith,  is  said  to  have  derived  its  name 
from  Ith,  the  uncle  of  Milesius  of  Spain,  who, 
according  to  some  of  the  Irish  Shanachies,  was 
slain  by  the  Tuatha  De  Dananns,  at  Drumline, 

near  Lifford,  and  buried  in  this  plain See 

Keating's  History  of  Ireland,  Haliday's  edition, 


34 


[1177- 


ba6  la  oonnchab  ua  ccaipeallain  -]  la  cloinn  DiapmaDa  ap  lap  Doipe 
colainn  cille  ap  po  loipcceao  ceac  paip  cfcup  -|  cfpna  mall  am ac  app  -] 
po  mapb'aD  i  noopup  an  cicche  lapccam.  Oa  pome  Dona  OonnchaD  ua 
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  •]  Do  mumncpi  601  pe.  T?o  lobbaip  Dona  baile 
biacai£  i  ppappaD  Domnaij  moip  66ib.  Do  paD  Doib  beop  TTlac  piabac 
.1.  copn  ap  pfpp  boi  i  n6pinn  ip  in  amipip  pin  i  njioll  cpi  pichic  bo.  Oo 
ponaD  imoppa  ceac  Don  clfipeac  i  nionaD  an  cije  po  loipcceaD  ua&a  pop  ua 
njaipmlea&aij.  17o  hiocaD  uile  ppipp  jac  ap  loipcceab  imbe.  Do  paDpac 
clann  nDiapmaoa  uile  lop^niom  cap  a  ccfnn  pen  uacha. 

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


p.  266,  and  note  on  Druim  lighean,  in  these 
Annals,  at  the  year  1522.  From  the  situation 
of  the  parish  church  called  Domhnach  more 
Muighelthe,  or  the  great  church  ofMagh  Ithe, 
now  Donaghmore,  it  is  quite  evident  that  Magh 
Ithe  is  the  tract  of  level  land  in  the  barony  of 
Raphoe,  now  called  the  Lagan.  The  territory 
of  Kinel-Enda  lay  immediately  south  of  Inish- 
owen,  and  comprised  the  parishes  of  Raymoaghy 
aridTaughboyne. — See  Colgan's^cta  Sanctorum, 
Life  of  St.  Baithenus.  The  Editor  has  a  copy 
of  the  will  of  O'Gallagher,  who  was  steward  to 
the  celebrated  Red  Hugh  O'Donnell,  in  which  it 
is  stated  that  Kinel-Enda  contained  thirty  quar- 
ters of  land. 

p  Near  Donaghmore,  Oorhnac  mop,  i.  e.  the 
great  church,  generally  called  Doirinac  mop 
ITluije  Ice,  as  in  the  Tripartite  Life  of  St.  Pa- 
trick, and  in  O'Donnell's  Life  of  St.  Columbkille, 
apud  Colgan.  Trias  Thaum.,  p.  390.  It  is  a 


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  which 
O'Gormly  was  lord.  From  this  passage  it  ap- 
pears that  O'Carellan  had  seized  upon  some  of 
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, 
pronounced  in  the  south  of  Ireland  as  if  written 
piac,  and  anglicised  Reagh  in  names  of  men  and 
places,  signifies  tan-coloured,  or  greyish,  and  is 
translated  fuscus,  by  Philip  O'Sullevan  Beare, 
in  his  History  of  the  Irish  Catholics. — See 
pp.  123,  145,  et  passim. 

1  This  expedition.— The  Dublin  copy  of  the 
Annals  of  Innisfallen  contains  the  following  ac- 
count of  this  excursion : 

"  A.  D.  1177.  A  great  army  was  led  by  the 
English  of  Dublin  and  Tullyard  [near  Trim] 
into  Connaught.  They  proceeded  first  to  Eos- 


1177-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  35 

slain  by  Donough  O'Carellan  and  the  Clandermot  in  the  middle  of  Deny 
Columbkille.  The  house  in  which  he  was  was  first  set  on  fire,  and  afterwards, 
as  he  was  endeavouring  to  effect  his  escape  out  of  it,  he  was  killed  in  the  door- 
way of  the  house.  Donough  O'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 
Derry.  He  also  granted  to  them  a  ballybetagh  near  Donaghmorep,  and,  more- 
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 
that  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. 

Murrough,  the  son  of  Roderic  O'Conor,  brought  Milo  de  Cogan  and  his 
knights  with  him  to  Roscommon,  to  ravage  Connaught,  to  annoy  Roderic  his 
father.  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,  battle  during  all  this  excursion,  for  the  Con- 
Here  they  were  joined  by  Murrough,  the  son  nacians  had  fled,  with  their  cattle  and  other 
of  Roderic  O'Conor,  who  guided  them  through  moveable  property,  into  the  fastnesses  of  the 
the  province.  King  Roderic  at  the  time  hap-  .  country.  On  this  occasion  Tuam  was  evacuated, 
pened  to  be  on  his  -regal  visitation,  and  was  in  and  the  churches  of  Kilbannan,  Kilmaine,  Lack- 
lar-Connaught  when  the  news  of  this  irruption  agh,  Kilcahill,  and  Roskeen,  and  the  castle  of 
into  his  territories  reached  his  ear.  The  Eng-  Galway,  were  burned.  The  English  remained 
lish  proceeded  through  the  Plain  of  Connaught,  three  nights  at  Tuam,  without  being  able  to  ob- 
burning  the  country  as  they  passed  along,  in-  tain  provisions,  or  gaining  any  advantage ;  here 
eluding  the  churches  of  Elphin,  Fert-Geige,  they  were  informed  that  the  men  of  Connaught, 
Imleagh  Fordeorach,  Imleagh  an  Bhroghadhia,  and  Munster  were  on  their  march  to  give  them 
and  Dunamon,  and  making  their  way  to  Ath  battle,  which  indeed  they  soon  perceived  to  be 
Mogha  and  Fiodh  Monach,  and  passing  over  true,  for  they  saw  that  Roderic  gave  them  no 
the  Togher  [causeway]  of  Moin  Coinneadha,  time  to  consider,  for  he  drew  up  his  forces  for 
and  through  the  great  road  of  Lig  Gnathaile,  an  engagement.  The  English  took  to  flight, 
and  the  ford  of  Athfinn,  near  Dunmore,  proceeded  and  escaped  to  Tochar  mona  Coinneadha.  They 
directly  to  Tuam  ;  but  they  made  no  prey  or  were,  however,  hotly  pursued  and  attacked  as 

F2 


36  awwata  Rioghachca  eircectNN.  [1178. 

TTlaibm  pop  ua  maoilDopaib  -]  pop  cenel  cconaill  pm  cconcobop  ua 
ccaipealldin  die  in  po  mapbab  dp  cenel  fntia  im  mac  ui  Seappaij  -|  im 
maicib  lomba  apcheana. 

Oorhnall  ua  heaghpa  ciccfpna  Cuijne  Do  ecc. 

QOIS  CR1OSO,  1178. 
Qoip  CpiopD  mile,  ceo,  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  i  ninip 
eojain  Do  cum  oormchaDa  uf  Duib&iopma.  Cenel  moien  i  ccionn  pence 
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  caec  uf  eDepla  -]  ui  plannajdin  Do  mapbab  concobaip  mic  conallaij 
i  ccoij  Dorhnaill  pfipin  i  meabail  ap  comaipce  aipcinnij  na  hfpnaibe  boi  ina 
pappab  an  can  pin.  Ro  lonnapbpac  laparh  cenel  TTlodin  Dorhnall  ua  jaipm- 

they  were  crossing  the  Togher,  or  causeway,  the  churches  were  burned  by  the  Connacians 
where  they  would  have  been  defeated  had  not  themselves,  and  that  the  English,  who  were  five 
the  son  of  Roderic  assisted  and  guided  them. .  hundred  and  forty  in  number,  lost  only  three  of 
They  next  proceeded  directly  to  Oran-O'Clabby,  their  men  !  "Rothericum  vero  Conactiss  prin- 
and  passed  the  next  night  there,  and  on  the  cipem  cum  3.  exercitibus  magnis  in  sylua  qua- 
day  following  went  on  their  retreat  to  Ath-  dam  prope  Sinnenum  obuium  habens,  inito 
league,  where  they  were  overtaken  at  the  ford  graui  utrinq;  conflictu,  demum  tribus  tan  turn 
by  a  party  of  Connacians,  who  made  a  vigorous  satellitibus  equestribus  amissis,  &  interemptis 
attack  upon  them,  and  they  did  not  know  their  hostium  multis,  Dubliniam  indemnis  euasit." 
losses  until  they  were  clear  out  of  the  province.  s  Colum  Mac  Luighdheach — This  is  the  Col- 
For  this,  and  other  previous  offences,  Murrough  man,  son  of  Lughaidh  (of  the  race  of  Niall  of  the 
O'Conor,  the  son  of  Roderic,  had  his  eyes  put  Nine  Hostages),  whose  festival  is  marked  in  the 
out  by  the  Sil-Murray,  with  the  consent  of  his  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys,  at  the  2nd  of 
father."  Giraldus  Cambrensis,  in  his  account  February.  The  Editor  has  not  been  able  to 
of  Milo  de  Cogan's  excursion  into  Connaught  discover  this  entry  in  any  of  the  older  annals. 
(Hibernia  Expugnata,  lib.  ii.  c.  1 7),  asserts,  that  '  0' 'Loony The  O'Loonys  were  afterwards 


1178.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  37 

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

Donnell  O'Hara,  Lord  of  Leyny  [in  the  now  county  of  Sligo],  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1178. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  seventy-eight. 

The  crozier  of  Columb  Mac  Luighdheach8  openly  conversed  with  its  cleric. 

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  Kinel- 
Moeii";  and  Donnell,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Gormlyv,  was  banished  from  Moy 
Ithe  into  Inishowen,  to  Donough  O'Duibhdhiorma".  In  three  months  after- 
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  set 

driven  into  the  wild  mountainous  district  of  w  O1  Duibhdhivrma. — The  country  of  O'Duibh- 

Muintir-Loony,  in  the  north  of  the  county  of  dhiorma  was  called  Bredach,  and  comprised  the 

Tyrone.  eastern  half  of  Inishowen.    This  is  to  be  distin- 

u  Kinel-Moen — The  Kinel-Moen,  or  race,  or  guished  from  the  half  cantred  of  Bredach  in  Tir- 

descendants  of  Moen,    the  principal  family  of  awley,  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  the  patrimonial 

whom  were  the  O'Gormlys,  inhabited  that  tract  inheritance  of  O'Toghda,   who  was   descended 

now  called  the  barony  of  Kaphoe,  which  was  from  Muireadhach,  son  of  Fergus,  son  of  Amh- 

then    a  part  of  Tir  Eoghain,   or  Tyrone.     In  algaidh,  a  quo  Tirawley.     O'Duibhdhiorma  was 

after  times  this  tribe  was  driven  across  the  river  of  the  Kinel-Owen,  and  his  family  had  their 

Foyle  by  the  O'Donnells,   and   their   original  tomb  in  the  old  church  of  Moville,  near  Lough 

country  was  added  to  Tirconnell.  Foyle.     The  name  is  still  numerous  in  the  ba- 

" O'Gormly. — An  old  map  of  Ulster,  preserved  rony  of  Inishowen,  but  corruptly  anglicised  to 

in  the  State  Papers'  Office,  shews  the  country  Diarmid,   and  sometimes,   but  rarely,    to  Mac 

of  O'Gormly,  who  was  originally  the  chief  of  Dermot,    though  always  pronounced  O'OuiB- 

Kinel-Moen,  as  extending  from  near  Derry  to  biapma  by  the  natives  when  speaking  Irish. 

Strabane.  *  Urney,  Gpnaioe,  i.  e.  Oratorium. — A  parish 


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[1178. 


leabaij  a  coipijeacc  -\  cu^pac  T?uai&pi  ua  plaicbfpcaij  i  ccfnnup  popaib. 
TTleabal  DO  bfnam  la  cpib  macaib  ui  plairbfpcaig  pop  cenel  TTlodin.  Oom- 
nall  mac  oorhnaill  ui  jaipmleabaij  oo  rhapbab  leo,  [-]]  Uicchfpnan 
mac  Rajnaill  mic  Domnaill  •]  occap  DO  mainb  Cenel  moain  immaille  ppiu. 
Rajnall  mac  eacmapcaij  uf  cardin  Do  mapbab  la  cenel  moain  a  ccopac 
an  cpampaib  pin  cona  ina  biojail  pioe  Do  pocaip  galac  ua  luinij  "]  TTluip- 
ceapcac  ua  peacam,  i  ap  na  Diojail  beop  Do  ponab  in  meabail  pempaice 
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  i  njlionn  pije  lapam.  Oo  bCpc 


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

i  O'Flaherty,   in  Irish  Ua   plairBfpcaij; 

This  name  is  still  common  in  the  counties  of 
Donegal,  Derry,  and  Tyrone,  but,  by  an  aspi- 
ration of  the  initial  p,  is  anglicised  Laverty,  and 

sometimes   LafFerty See  note  on   O'Flainn, 

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

z  Derry-  Columbkille — This  passage  is  given 
in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  as  follows  :  "  A.  D. 
1178.  5ao^  ao&al  DO  roijecc  ip  in  mbliaoain 
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 
plup,  a  nooipe  colaitti  cille. 

"  A.  D.  1178.  A  great  wind  occurred  in  this 
year,  which  prostrated  a  great  portion  of  the 
woods,  forests,  and  great  oaks,  and  prostrated 
among  the  rest  six  score  oaks,  vel  paulo  plus,  in 
Roboreto  Columbce  Cille." 

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 


for  which   the   saint  had   a  peculiar   venera- 
tion. 

a  Machaire  Chonaille,  i.  e.  the  plain  of  Conaille 
Muirtheimhne,  a  territory  comprising  the  level 
part  of  the  present  county  of  Louth,  as  appears 
from  the  ancient  Lives  of  St.  Bridget  and  St.  Mo- 
nenna,  and  from  the  Festilogy  of  Aengus,  and 
other  calendars,  which  place  in  this  territory 
the  churches  of  Faughard,  Iniskeen,  Kill  Uinche, 
and  Druim  Ineascluinn.  This  district  retained 
the  name  of  Machaire  Chonaille  in  the  seven- 
teenth century,  as  we  learn  from  Archbishop 
Ussher,  who,  in  his  notices  of  St.  Bridget  and 
St.  Monenna,  has  the  following  notice  of  this 
territory  :  "  Intra  alterum  autem  a  Dundalkia 
miliarium,  in  Louthiano  Comitatu  &  territorio 
olim  Conayl-Murthemni  8f  Campo  Murthernene 
(in  quo  Conaleorum  gens  maxime  viget,  de  qua 
4"  ipsa  sanctissima  Monenna  procreata  est ;  ut 
habet  in  libri  secundi  Vita?  illius  initio  Conchu- 
branus)  hodie  Maghery-Conall  dicto,  posita  est 
villa  Pochard :  quern  locum  nativitatis  Brigidce 
virginis  habitum  fuisse,  &  in  Vita  Malachia; 
notavit  olim  Bernardus,  &  hodierna  totivis  vici- 
nise  traditio  Fochardam  Brigid<e  earn  appellantis 
etiam  nunc  confirmat." — Primordia,  pp.  705, 
706.  The  Conaleorum  gens  here  mentioned 


1178.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


39 


up  Rory  0'Flahertyy  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  this  were  slain  Galagh  O'Loony  and  Murtough  O'Petan;  and  it  was 
in  revenge  of  this,  moreover,  the  aforesaid  act  of  treachery  was  committed 
against  the  Kinel-Moen. 

A  violent  wind-storm  occurred  in  this  year ;  it  caused  a  great  destruction 
of  trees.  It  prostrated  oaks.  It  prostrated  one  hundred  and  twenty  trees  in 
Derry-Columbkillez. 

John  De  Courcy  with  his  foreigners  repaired  to  Machaire  Conaillea,  and 
committed  depredations  there.  They  encamped  for  a  night  in  Glenreeb,  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  century. — See  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  part  iii. 
c.  47. 

b  In  Glenree,  i  njlionn  pige,  i.  e.  the  vale  of 
the  River  Righe.  Giraldus  Cambfensis,  in  his 
brief  enumeration  of  the  battles  of  De  Courcy, 
in  the  sixteenth  chapter  of  the  second  book  of 
his  Hibernia  Expugnata,  calls  this  his  fifth  bat- 
tle, and  says  that  he  fought  it  at  the  bridge  of 
Newry.  In  this  he  is  right  as  to  the  place;  but, 
it  is  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  first 
invaded  Ulster.  Giraldus  came  first  to  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  Newry  was  an- 
ciently called  the  Righe,  and  the  valley  through 
which  it  flows  bore  the  appellation  of  Glenn 
Righe.  Giraldus  states  that  De  Courcy  was 
the  victor  in  this  battle:  "Quintum  apud  Pon- 
tem  luori  in  reditu  ab  Anglia,  unde  tamen  ad 
sua  victor  evasit."  But  in  the  Annals  of  Ulster 


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  pop  gallaiB  7  po  cutpeo  oepj  ap 
poppu.     The  number  of  the  English  slain  on 
this  occasion  is  not  stated  in   the  Annals  of 
Ulster  or  Kilronan,  but  it  is  given  in  the  Dub- 
lin copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen  as  four 
hundred ;  and  it  is  added  that  the  battle  was 
fought  at  Newry,  and  that  O'Hanvy,  chief  of 
Omeath,   and  one  hundred  of  the  Irish,  were 
killed,  and  that  Murrough  O'Carroll,  King  of 
Oriel,    and    Rory    Mac    Donslevy    O'Haughy 
(O'h-eochaoa),  were  victors.     The  name  Rory 
is,  however,  incorrect ;  for,  on  the  death  of  Don- 
nell, 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. 
The  pedigree   of  this  Cu-Uladh  (i.  e.  dog  of 
Ulidia)  is  given  by  Duald  Mac  Firbis  in  his 
genealogical  work,  p.  510.     He  was  succeeded 
by  Rory  Mac  Donslevy,   who  is  introduced  in 
the  interpolated  Annals  of  Innisfallen   as  the 
chieftain  who  opposed  Sir  John  De  Courcy  at 
Down,  in  the  first  battle  in  1 177.     Dr.  Hanmer, 
with  that  love  of  dull  invention  which  distin- 


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emectNN. 


[1178. 


fflupcaD  ua  cfpbaill  cicchfpna  Oipjiall  -]  cu  ulan  mac  Duinnpleb'e  .1.  l?f 
ula6  puabaipc  bioDbab  poppa  gup  po  nrnpbao  -]  $up  po  bdbab  ceicpi  ceo 
co  leir  Diob.  Copcpacap  ceD  Do  na  gaoibealaib  i  ppiorjuin  an  data  im 
ua  namppec  njeapna  ua  meic  rnaca. 

<Cainic  lohn  Do  ctnpc  lap  rcpioll  DO  opccain  Dal  apai6e  -]  »ib  Uuipcpe. 
Uucc  Dona  cumiDe  ua  plainn  ricchfpna  ua  ccuipcpe  -]  pfp  If  Deabaib  Doporh 


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

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  by  the  Editor  of  this  work  when  em- 
ploy ed  on  the  Ordnance  Survey  in  1 834.  Keating, 
Duald  MacFirbis,  O'Flaherty,  and  all  the  ancient 
Bardic  writers  of  the  history  of  Ireland,  state 
that  the  three  Collas,  who  formed  the  territory 
of  Oriel,  deprived  the  Ultonians  of  that  portion 
of  their  kingdom  extending  from  Gleann  Eighe, 
and  Loch  n-Eathach,  westwards.  The  general 
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  an- 
cient Clanna  Eury,  was,  when  formed  into  shire- 
ground,  styled  the  county  of  Down,  from  Down, 
its  principal  town.  This  having  been  established, 
the  Editor,  during  his  examination  of  the  ancient 
topography  of  Ulster,  was  led  to  look  for  Glenree 
somewhere  on  the  boundary  between  the  coun- 
ties of  Armagh  and  Down  ;  and  accordingly,  on 
examining  the  documents,  he  found  that,  on  an 
ancient  map  of  the  country  lying  between 
Lough  Erne  and  Dundalk,  preserved  in  the 
State  Papers'  Office,  the  vale  of  the  Newry  Eiver 
is  called  "  Glenree,"  and  the  river  itself  "  Owen 
Glenree  fiuvius.""1  He  also  found  that  in  the 
Ulster  Inquisitions  the  remarkable  place  near 
Newry  called  Fathom,  is  denominated  Glenree 
Magaffee.  Oriel,  or  Oirghialla,  anciently  ex- 


tended from  this  Glenree  to  Lough  Erne,  and 
comprised  the  counties  of  Louth,  Armagh,  Mo- 
naghan, and  in  later  ages  the  whole  of  the 
county  of  Fermanagh,  as  we  learn  from  O'Du- 
gan,  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 ; 
and  the  entire  of  Maguire's  country  in  it.  That 
the  county  of  Fermanagh  was  considered  a  part 
of  Oriel,  at  least  since  the  Maguires  got  posses- 
sion of  it,  is  further  corroborated  by  the  fact,  that 
throughout  these  Annals  Maguire  is  called  the 
pillar  and  prop  of  the  Oriels.  It  is  stated  in  a 
manuscript  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin  (H.  3.  18. 
p.  783),  that  the  boundary  between  Oriel  and 
Ulidia,  or  the  Clann  Colla  and  Clanna  Eury, 
or  ancient  Ultonians,  was  made  in  the  west  side 
of  Glenree  from  Newry  upwards,  and  that  the 
Clanna  Eury  never  extended  their  territory  be- 
yond it.  This  boundary,  which  consists  of  a 
fosse  and  rampart  of  great  extent,  still  remains 
in  some  places  in  tolerable  preservation,  and  is 
called  by  the  strange  name  of  the  Danes'  Cast, 
in  English,  and  ^ea"n  na  muice  ouibe,  i.e. 
Vattey  of  the  Black  Pig,  in  Irish.  For  a  minute 
description  of  this  ancient  boundary  the  reader 
is  referred  to  Stuart's  Historical  Memoirs  of  the 
City  of  Armagh,  Appendix,  No.  III.,  pp.  585, 
586. 

c  Hy-Meith  Macha. — Now  the  barony  of  Mo- 
naghan, in  the  county  of  Monaghan.  This  was 
otherwise  called  Hy-Meith  Tire,  to  distinguish 
it  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  hun- 
dred and  fifty  of  them.  One  hundred  of  the  Irish,  together  with  O'Hanvy, 
Lord  of  Hy-Meith-Machac,  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  Firleed,  gave  battle  to  him  and 


tainous  district  lying  between  Carlingford  and 
Newry,  in  the  county  of  Louth.  This  is  evident 
from  the  Tripartite  Life  of  St.  Patrick,  published 
by  Colgan,  and  from  the  Irish  Calendars,  which 
place  in  it  the  churches  of  Tehallan,  Tullycorbet, 
and  Kilmore,  all  situated  in  the  present  barony 
of  Monaghan  ;  and  the  former  authority  states 
that  the  place  called  Omna  Benne  was  on  the 
boundary  between  it  and  Crich  Mughdhorn,  now 
the  barony  of  Cremourne,  in  the  county  of  Mo- 
naghan. For  the  descent  of  the  Hy-Meith,  see 
O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  76  ;  and  Duald 
Mac  Firbis's  Pedigrees.  Harris  is  totally  incor- 
rect in  his  account  of  the  situation  of  the  dis- 
tricts called  Hy-Meith — See  his  edition  of  Ware, 
vol.  ii.  p.  51. 

d  Firlee,  pip  li,  a  tribe  and  territory  situated 
on  theBann,  in  the  county  of  Antrim. — Ogygia, 
part  iii.  c.  76.  See  note  under  the  year  1176. 
Grinldui  Cambrensis  writes  this  name  Ferly, 
and  states  that  De  Courcy  fought  his  third  battle 
here,  where  he  lost  all  his  men  except  eleven. 
His  words  are :  "  Tertium  erat  apud  Ferly  in 
Prsedse  captione,  vbi  ob  arctam  viae  transitum 
post  graues  tandem  congressus  &  anxios  :  sic 
pars  lohannis  victa  succubuit,  aliis  interemptis, 
aliis  per  nemora  dispersis,  vt  vix  lohanni  11. 
milites  superstites  adhsesissent.  Ipse  vero  vir- 
tutis  inuicta:  cum  tantilla  suorum  paucitate 
per  30.  milliaria  se  ab  hostili  multitudine  con- 
tinue defendendo,  equis  amissis  omnibus  vsq;  ad 
Castrum  suum  duobus  diebus  &  noctibus,  ieiu- 
nii,  arinati  pedites,  miro  conatu  mcmoriaq;  dig- 
nissimo  euaserunt." — Hiber.  Expugnata,  1.  ii.  c.  16. 


Ii  may  be  curious  to  remark  here,  as  an  ex- 
ample of  the  manner  in  which  Irish  history  has 
been  manufactured  by  English  writers,  how  Dr. 
Hanmer  changes  the  Ferly  of  Cambrensis  into 
Ferny ;  and  attempts  by  the  sheer  force  of 
impudence  to  break  down  his  evidence  in  this 
instance.  He  says  that  Cambrensis  lightly 
"  overskipped  the  achievements  of  De  Courcy, 
partly  upon  private  grudge,  for  that  Sir  John 
De  Courcy  allowed  him  not  for  Vicar-general  1 
in  Ireland,  and  secretary  to  the  state  ;  yet  that 
the  certainty  of  his  exploits  hath  been  preserved, 
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 
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)  not  knowing  the  situation  of 
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 
Hanmer's  time  ;  and  takes  occasion  to  introduce 
Sir  John  De  Courcy  in  1 1 78,  as  fighting  against 
the  rebel  Mac  Mahon.  Now  it  is  worthy  of  re- 
mark here  that  Hanmer's  cotemporary,  Spenser, 
writes  that  Mac  Mahou  was  of  English  descent, 
and  that  the  first  of  them,  an  Englishman,  named 
Fitu-Ursula,  came  to  Ireland  with  his  relative 
Robert  deVere,  Earl  of  Oxford  [1385],  and  de- 


G 


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[1178. 


co  na  jallaib  ipuibe.  Ro  meabaio  poppa.  l?o  cuip  a  nap  epia  rhiojibailib 
pacpaic,  coluim  cille  -)  bpenamn.  Ocup  eeapna  lohn  pein  ap  eccin  ap  co 
cpeaccnaishce  co  painic  co  hac  [cliar]. 

Conprapla  pij  Sa^an  i  nac  cliar  (.1.  hugo),  -|  i  naiprfp  mibe  co  na 
pocpaiDe  DO  cocc  50  cluain  mic  noip.  T?o  aipgpfo  an  baile  ace  na  cempaill 
1  cicche  an  eappcoip.  Do  pome  Dia  "]  ciapdn  miopbaile  poillpi  poppa,  uaip 
ni  po  cumaingpfo  cararh  no  rionabpab  Do  Dfnarh  gup  po  elaibpfo  a  cuipp 
cluana  apabapac. 

Qbann  na  gaillme  Do  cpacchab  ppi  pe  laice  aicfnca.  Na  huile  aiDme 
po  baiDiO  umre  6  cen  co  na  hiapcc  Do  cionol  la  luce  an  Dum  ~\  an  npi  i 
ccoiccmne. 


generating  into  a  wild  Irishman,  changed  his 
name  to  Mac  Mahon,  which  is  a  translation  of 
Fitz-Ursula,  or  son  of  the  bear.  Both  stories 
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  De  Courcy's  time, 
for  it  appears,  from  the  concurrent  testimony  of 
all  the  Irish  annals,  that  O' Carroll  was  then  king 
or  chief  lord  of  Oriel,  and  that  the  Mac  Mahons, 
who  are  a  collateral  branch  of  the  O'Carrolls, 
were  not  heard  of  as  chiefs  of  Oriel  for  some 
time  after  De  Courcy's  disappearance  from  Irish 
history  in  1205.  Hanmer  manufactures  the 
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  for- 
gery, but  each  echoing  the  tale  of  his  prede- 
cessor : 

"  The  third  battaile  that  Sir  John  De  Courcy 
fought  was  in  Ferny,  against  eleven  thousand 
Irishmen  :  the  occasion  was  thus,  Courcy  had 
builded  many  Castles  throughout  Vlster,  and 
especially  in  Ferny  [recte  Ferly],  where  Mac 
Mahon  [recte  O'Lyn]  dwelled  ;  this  Mac  Mahon 
[recte  O'Lyn]  with  solemn  protestations  vowed 
to  become  a  true  and  faithful  subject,  gave 


Courcy  many  gifts,  and  made  him  his  Goship, 
which  is  a  league  of  amitie  highly  esteemed  in 
Ireland.  Whereupon  Courcy  gave  him  two 
Castles,  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  sent  unto  him 
to  know  the  cause  that  moved  him  to  fall  to 
this  villanie:  his  answer  was,  that  he  promised 
not  to  hold  stones  of  him,  but  the  land,  and  that 
it  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 
goes  on  to  give  a  detailed  account  of  a  prey 
taken,  and  a  battle  fought,  in  which,  of  the 
eleven  thousand  Irishmen,  only  two  hundred 
escaped  with  their  lives.  But  the  Doctor  is 
obliged  to  confess  that  there  was  a  totally  dif- 
ferent account  of  this  battle  (alluding  to  that 
already  quoted  from  Cambrensis),  which,  how- 
ever, he  feels  inclined  not  to  believe  :  "  There 
are,"  he  says,  "  some  out  of  the  schoole  of  envy, 
with  grace  to  disgrace  Courcy,  that  report  the 
story  otherwise,  which  deliver  not  wherein  he 
was  to  be  honoured,  but  wherein  he  was  foiled, 
fortuna  de  la  guerra  ;  that  he  was  driven,  with 


1178.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


43 


his  foreigners,  and  defeated  them  with  great  slaughter,  through  the  miracles  of 
Patrick,  Columbkille,  and  Brendan  ;  and  John  himself  escaped  with  difficulty, 
being  severely  wounded,  and  fled  to  Dublin6. 

The  Constable  of  the  King  of  England  in  Dublin  and  East  Meath  (namely, 
Hugo)  marched  with  his  forces  to  Clonmacnoise,  and  plundered  all  the 
town,  except  the  churches  and  the  bishop's  houses.  God  and  Kieran  wrought 
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  dayf ;  all 
the  articles  that  had  been  lost  in  it  from  remotest  times,  as  well  as  its  fish,  were 
collected  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  fortress,  and  by  the  people  of  the  country  in 
general. 


eleven  persons  in  armes,  to  travaile  a  foote  some 
30.  miles,  for  the  space  of  two  dayes,  the  enemy 
still  pursuing  (the  which  they  lay  not  downe), 
all  fasting  without  any  relief,  till  he  came  to  an 
OLD  Castle  of  his  owne,  which  savoureth  not 
altogether  of  truth,  but  forwards  with  the  his- 
tory."— Hanmer's  Chronicle,  Dubl.  edit.  1809, 
p.  309. 

•  Dublin,  or  cliac — The  latter  part  of  this 
name  is  destroyed  in  the  autograph  original ;  but 
is  here  restored  from  Maurice  Gorman's  copy, 
which  had  been  made  from  the  autograph  before 
the  edge  of  the  paper  was  worn  away.  The  place 
to  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- 
bable that  he  fled  to  Downpatrick,  not  to  Dublin. 

Under  this  year  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  An- 
nals of  Ulster  has  a  brief  notice  of  an  attack 
nuide  upon  John  De  Courcy  in  the  territory  of 
Cuailgne,  which  is  not  in  any  of  the  other  An- 
nals, under  this  or  any  other  year,  except  the 
Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen,  in 
which  it  is  entered  under  the  year  1 1 80,  as  fol- 
lows : 

"A.  D.  1180.— John  De  Courcy  plundered 

G 


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 
Dartry ;  and  Gillapatrick  O'Hanvy,  Chief  of 
Mugdorna  [Cremourne],  pursued  and  overtook 
them  :  a  battle  ensued,  in  which  the  English 
were  routed,  and  deprived  of  the  prey  ;  and 
John  De  Courcy  betook  himself  for  shelter  to 
the  castle  of  Skreen-Columbkille,  which  he  him- 
self had  built." 

Hanmer  gives  a  strange  version  of  this  excur- 
sion, evidently  from  the  Book  of  Howth,  whicli 
is  a  collection  of  traditional  stories,  written  by 
an  Anglo-Irish  Romancer  in  the  fifteenth  or  six- 
teenth century. 

f  Natural  day,  laice  aiceanca. — The  word 
aicneb  is  used  in  ancient  Irish  writings  to  de- 
note nature,  and  aiceanra,  natural.  O'Flaherty, 
in  his  Account  of  lar-Connaught  (printed  for 
the  Archasological  Society),  notices  this  occur- 
rence as  follows,  from  which  it  will  be  seen  that 
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 
mbrahar,  or  the  Fryars  Isle,  but  anciently  Olen 
na  gclereagh,  i.  e.  the  Clergy's  Isle  ;  for  the  Irish 
Annals  mention  that,  anno  1178,  from  midnight 


[1178. 


TTlaibm  pia  nape  ua  maoilechlamn,  -|  pia  nuib  pailje,  -]  ]im  n^allaib 
pop  belbna  eacpa,  -|  pop  Hlhaoileachlainn  mbCcc,  ~\  pop  Dpeim  Do  pfpaib 
cfchba  DU  in  po  mapbab  TTluipeaDhac  mac  an  rpionnaigh. 

C(o6  ua  plaicbfpraij  cicclifpna  mpuaip  Connacc  Do  ecc  i  neanach  Duin. 

Qmaljaib  mag  amalgam  Do  mapbab  la  pol  nanmchaoha. 

TTlaelpeclainn  bfcc  ua  maoileclainn  Do  gabdil  cije  pop  Qpc  ua  maoi- 
leaclamn,  •]  Qpc  Do  ceapnub  ap,  -\  plann  mac  meg  arhaljaib  caoipeac 
calpaije  Do  mapbab  ann  la  TTlaelpeclainn. 


to  noon.  Galway  river  became  dry  from  Clergy 
Isle  to  the  sea;  and  much  fish,  and  goods  long 
afore  drowned  therein,  found  by  the  people  of 
the  town." — pp.  28,  29-  See  note  under  the 
year  1191. 

*  Offaly,  Ui  police — This  was  originally  a 
very  extensive  territory  in  Leinster,  and  the 
principality  of  the  O'Conors  Faly.  Before  the 
English  invasion  it  comprised  the  present  ba- 
ronies 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  and  Tinnahinch,  in  the 
Queen's  County.  Shortly  after  the  English  in- 
vasion, however,  the  Fitzgeralds  of  Kildare 
wrested  from  O'Conor  Faly  and  his  correlatives 
that  portion  of  his  original  territory  of  Ui 
Failghe  comprised  within  the  present  county  of 
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,  ex- 
tending into  the  present  King's  and  Queen's 
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 
of  Ireland  in  the  second  century.  See  O'Fla- 
herty's  Oyygia,  part  iii.  c.  59,  and  an  old  map 


of  the  territories  of  Leix  and  Ophaly,  made  in 
the  reign  of  Philip  and  Mary,  the  original  of 
which  on  vellum  is  now  preserved  in  the  Bri- 
tish Museum,  and  copies  in  the  MS.  Library  of 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  and  at  the  Ordnance 
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 
belonged  to  Sil  Anmchadha,  or  O'Madden's 
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 ;  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  82 ; 
and  De  Burgo's  Hibernia  Dominicana,  pp.  305, 
306. 

'  Aniuidown,  Gunuch  Oum,  an  ancient  cathe- 
dral on  the  margin  of  Lough  Corrib,  in  the 
barony  of  Clare,  and  county  of  Galway — See" 
note  f,  infra,  A.  D.  1 179. 

k  Sil- Anmchadha. — This  was  the  tribe  name 
of  the  O'Maddens,  and  was  also  applied  to  their 
country,  which  in  latter  ages  comprised  the 
barony  of  Longford  in  the  county  of  Galway, 
and  the  parish  of  Lusmagh  in  the  King's  County, 
on  the  east  side  of  the  Shannon. — See  Tribes 
ami  Customs  efHy-Mtmy,  published  by  the  Irish 
Archaeological  Society  in  1843,  p.  69,  note  x. 


1178.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


45 


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

Hugh  O'Flaherty,  Lord  of  West  Connaught,  died  at  Annadown1. 

Awley  Mac  Awley  was  killed  by  the  Sil-Anmchadhak. 

Melaghlin  Beg  O'Melaghlin  took  the  house  of  Art  O'Melaghlin,  who  made 
his  escape  out  of  it;  but  Flann,  the  son  of  Mac  Awley1,  chief  of  Calry,  was  killed 
by  Melaghlinm 


1  Mac  Awley He  was  the  chief  of  Calry  an 

chala,  which  comprised  the  parish  of  Bally  lough- 
loe,  in  the  county  of  Westmeath. 

m  The  Bodleian  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innis- 
fallen  has  the  following  brief  notice  of  the  trans- 
actions of  the  English  in  Munster,  which  is 
omitted  by  the  Four  Masters:  A.  D.  1178. 
Copcach  DO  mpiuD  la  mac  true  t)orinnaill 
ua  Capihaij;  7  la  jullaib  jlapa.  Popbaip  la 
TTlilio  Occam  7  la  Hlac  Scemni  i  Copcaij. 
Gupup  la  buoin  Dib  50  h-Gcliao  Da  eo,  50  po 
baoap  Da  la,  7  Da  eochi  innci,  7  appm  50 
Copcaij;  apip  ooib.  lap  pin  Doib  ap  ammup 
Puipclaipje  50  po  climolpacap  na  ^aeoil 
cucu  illanaipoe  lip  mop,  50  po  mapbaic  ule 
pene. 

"  A.  D.  1178.  Cork  was  plundered  by  the 
grandson  of  Donnell,  who  was  the  grandson  of 
Carthach  and  the  green  Galls.  Cork  was  be- 
sieged by  Milo  Cogan  and  Fitz  Stephen.  A 
party  of  their  people  made  an  excursion  to 
Aghadoe,  where  they  remained  two  days  and 
two  nights,  and  then  returned  again  to  Cork. 
After  this  they  went  towards  Waterford  ;  but 
the  Irish  gathered  against  them  at  the  hill  of 
Lismore,  and  nearly  killed  them  all." 

Under  this  year  also  the  same  Annals  record  a 
desolating  war  between  the  Irish  inhabitants  of 
Thomond  and  Desmond,  during  which  the  whole 
country  extending  from  Limerick  to  Cork,  and 
from  the  plain  of  Derryrnore,  near  Koscrea,  to 


Brandon  Hill,  in  Kerry,  was  desolated.  In  the 
Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen  it  is 
stated,  that  during  this  war  several  of  the  Euge- 
nian  septs  fled  from  their  original  territories. 
"A. D.  1178.  There  was  a  very  great  war  be- 
tween the  O'Briens  and  Mac  Carthys,  so  that 
they  desolated  the  entire  country  from  Limerick 
to  Cork,  and  from  the  plain  of  Derryrnore  to 
Brandon  Hill,  and  the  greater  part  of  the  race 
of  Eoghan  fled  to  the  woods  of  Ivahagh,  south 
of  the  River  Lee,  and  others  to  Kerry  and  Tho- 
mond. On  this  occasion  the  Hy-Conaill  Gabhra 
and  the  Hy-Donovane  fled  southwards  over  the 
Mangartan  mountain." 

Dr.  O'Brien,  in  his  History  of  the  House  of 
O'Brien,  published  by  Vallancey,  in  his  own 
name,  in  the  first  volume  of  the  Collectanea  de 
Rebus  Hibernicis,  thus  very  correctly  paraphrases 
this  passage.  "A. D.  1178.  Donal  O'Brien,  at 
the  head  of  the  entire  Dal  Cassian  tribe,  greatly 
distressed  and  reduced  all  the  Eugenians,  laid 
waste  their  country  with  fire  and  sword,  and 
obliged  the  dispersed  Eugenians  to  seek  for 
shelter  in  the  woods  and  fastnesses  of  Ive 
Eachach,  on  the  south  side  of  the  Lee.  In  this 
expedition  they  routed  the  O'Donovans  of  Ive- 
Figeinte,  or  Cairbre  Aodhbha,  in  the  county 
of  Limerick,  and  the  O'Collins  of  Ive-Conaill 
Gabhra,  or  Lower  Connallo  in  said  county,  be- 
yond the  mountain  of  Mangerton,  to  the  west- 
ern parts  of  the  county  of  Cork  :  here  these 


46 


uio§hachca 


[1179- 


QO1S  CR1OSO  1179. 
Cloip  Cjiiopo  mile,  ceo,  peaccmogar,  a  naoi. 

Cuacal  ua  Connachcaij  eppcop  cfpe  bpiuin  caiman  ua  fcannlam»aip- 
cinneac  cluana,  giollu  Dorhnaij  ua  popanndin  aipcinneac  apoa  pparha,  -| 
TTlaelmaipe  mac  giollu  colmain  Secnap  apoa  ppaca  DO  ecc. 


two  exiled  Eugenian  families,  being  powerfully 
assisted  by  the  O'Mahonys,  made  new  settle- 
ments for  themselves  in  the  ancient  properties 
of  the  O'Donoghues,  O'Learies,  and  O'Driscolls, 
to  which  three  families  the  O'Mahonys  were 
always  declared  enemies,  to  the  borders  of 
Lough  Leane,  where  Auliff  Mor  O'Donoghue, 
surnamed  Cuimsinach,  had  made  some  settle- 
ments before  this  epoch."  See  note  under  the 
year  1200. 

The  territory  of  Hy-Figeinte,  here  referred 
to  by  Dr.  O'Brien,  derived  its  name  from  the 
descendants  of  Fiacha  Figeinte,  son  of  Daire 
Cearb,  who  was  the  son  of  Oilioll  Flannbeg, 
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 
Limerick  lying  to  the  west  of  the  Eiver  Maigue. 
Its  situation  is  thus  described  in  the  Life  of  St. 
Molua,  who  was  descended  from  Fiacha  Fidh- 
geiiite :  "  Et  venit  [Molua]  ad  Mumeniam,  et 
lustravit  patriam  suam,  .i.  Nepotes  Fidgenti, 
qua-  gens  est  in  medio  Mumenie,  a  media  planicie 
Mumenie  usque  ad  medium  Montis  Luachra  in 
occidente  ad  australem  plagam  fluminis  Synna." 
—  Vitce  S,  Molue,  Abbatis  et  Confessoris,  as  in  the 
Codex  Killkenniensis  in  Marshe's  Library,  v.  3. 
14.  F.  135.  In  a  MS.  in  Trinity  College,  Dub- 
lin, H.  3.  17.  p.  748,  it  is  described  thus  :  hip 
i  cpich  hua  piogfmbce  o  tuachaip  6pum  co 
frpuP'o"'  7  °  &PUP'5  co  6uaip.  "  The  country 
of  the  Hy-Fidgeinnte  is  from  Luachair  Bruin  to 
Bruree,  and  from  Bruree  to  Buais."  Keating 
describes  this  territory  as  the  plain  of  the  county 


of  Limerick  :  Ui  Piojeince  pe  paionop  clap 

Concae  luimnig  aniu History  of  Ireland  ; 

Reign  of  Diarmaid  Mac  Ceirbheoil  and  Conall 
Caol.  O'Flaherty  has  the  following  notice  of  it 
in  his  Ogygia,  pp.  380,  381 :  "Anno  366.  Crim- 
thannus  films  Fidachi  Heberio  e  semine  Achaio 
Mogmedonio  sororio  suo  Temorise  extremum 
diem  quiete  claudenti  substituitur  Rex  Hiber- 
nise  aunis  tredecim.  Transmarinis  expeditio- 
nibus  in  Gallia,  et  Britannia  ineinorabilis  erat : 
uxorem  habuit  Fidengam  e  regio  Connactise 
stemnate,  sed  nullam  sobolem  reliquit. 

"  Crimthanni  regis  abavus  Fiachus  latus  ver- 
tex rex  Momonias  duos  Olillos  genuit  Flannmor 
et  Flannbeg  cognominibus  distinctos.  Olillus 
Flannmor  rex  Momoniae  sobolis  expers  Olillum 
Flannbeg  fratrem  adoptavit.  Olillo  Flannbeg 
regi  Momonia:  superant  Achaius  rex  Momonia:, 
Darius  Kearb,  ex  quo  O'Donnowan,  Lugaduis 
et  Eugenius. 

"  Darius  Kearb  prseter  Fidachum  Crimthanni 
regis,  et  Mongfinnse  reginaa  Hibernise  patrem 
genuit  Fiachum  Figente,  et  Achaium  Liatha- 
nach,  ex  quo  Hy-Liathan  in  agro  Corcagiensi. 
Fiacho  Figente  nomen  et  originem  debet  Hy- 
Figenta  regio  olim  variis  principibus  Celebris 
in  media  Momonia?  planicie  usque  ad  medium 
mentis  Luachra  in  Kierrigia  ad  australem  Si- 
nanni  fluminis  ripam  ;  licet  hodie  hoc  nomine 
vix  nota,  sed  Limericensis  comitatus  planities 
appellata." 

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


117!).] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


47 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1179. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  seventy-nine. 

Tuathal  O'Connaghty,  Bishop  of  Tir-Briuin";  Colman  O'Scanlan,  Erenagh 
of  Cloyne ;  Gilladowny  O'Forannan,  Erenagh0  of  Ardstraw ;  and  Mulmurry 
Mac  Gillacolum,  seachnab"  (prior)  of  Ardstraw,  died. 


present  county  of  Limerick,  after  this  expul- 
sion. It  is  stated  in  Lewis's  Topograghical  Dic- 
tionary, under  the  article  Croom,  that  Dermot 
O' Donovan  was  possessed  of  the  territory  of 
Coshma  in  the  reign  of  King  John,  when  he 
built  the  Castle  of  Croom  on  the  River  Maigue; 
but  the  Editor  has  not  been  able  to  discover 
any  original  or  trustworthy  authority  for  this 
statement.  It  would  appear,  however,  that  all 
the  Clann-Donovan  were  not  driven  out  of 
Cairbre  Aobhdha  in  1 178,  as  the  name  has  been 
very  common  in  many  parts  of  the  county  of 
Limerick,  particularly  the  parish  of  Kilmoylan  ; 
and  in  the  year  1551,  John  Donevan,  Rector  of 
Derrygallavan,  in  the  diocese  of  Limerick,  ob- 
tained a  grant  of  denization. — (Inrolled  5°  Edw. 
VI.  f.  r.  19.) 

n  Bishop  of  Tir-Briuin.  —  There  were  many 
territories  in  Ireland  called  Tir  Briuin  and  Hy- 
Briuin,  as  Tir  Briuin  na  Sinna,  Hy-Briuin 
Breifne,  Ily- Briuin  Seola,  &c.  Sir  James  Ware 
mentions  a  Tuathal  O'Connachtaigh,  Bishop  of 
Hua  mbriuin,  which  he  explains  by  Enaghdune, 
as  attending  at  the  Council  of  Kells  in  1152, 
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. 
Roderic  O'Flaherty,  in  his  account  of  the  terri- 
tory of  lar-Connaught,  states  that  the  cathedral 
of  the  seigniory  of  the  O'Flahertys  was  "Enagh- 
dun,  dedicated  to  St.  Brendan,  the  16th  of  May, 
Anno  Christi  577,  there  deceased,  in  the  barony 
of  Clare,  on  the  brink  of  Lough  Orbsen."  But 


that  "  in  the  time  of  Malachias  Mac  Aodha,  of 
West  Connaught  extraction,  archbishope  of 
Tuam  [ab  an.  1313,  ad  ann.  1348],  after  a  long 
debate  for  many  years  before  and  in  his  time, 
the  cathedrall  of  Enaghdun  was,  anno  1321, 
united  to  the  see  of  Tuam,  by  the  finall  decision 
of  Pope  John  the  Twenty-second."  Duald  Mac 
Firbis  states,  in  his  Genealogical  work,  that 
Aodh,  the  son  of  Eochaidh  Tirmcharna,  was  the 
first  that  granted  Eanach  Duin  to  God  and  St. 
Brendan. 

0  Erenagh,  Gipcinneac — This  term  is  ex- 
plained as  follows  in  Cormac's  Glossary  :  aip- 
cin&ech  .1.  apcenbach,  apcop  jjpece,  ercelpup 
lacine  oicicup.  Qipcmoecli  Din  .1.  epceno  oj, 
.).  uapal-ceno  comlan.  "  Airchindech,  i.  e. 
arcendach,  archos  Grece  excehus  Latine  dicitur. 
Airchindech  then,  i.  e.  erchend  ogh,  i.  e.  a  noble 
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 
"  A  irchinneck  of  hell  and  prince  of  death,"  cup- 
cinoech  ippipn  7  cafpech  in  baip.  The  first 
mention  made  of  this  office  in  these  Annals  oc- 
curs at  the  year  788.  Thus  t)oimreach,  aip- 
cinoeach  Cpepoib  moip,  oecc,  i.  e.  "  Doimh- 
theach,  airchinneach  of  the  great  Trevet,  died." 
From  this  period  forward,  however,  all  the  an- 
nalists frequently  mention  this  office.  Ussher, 
in  his  Treatise  on  Corbes,  Herenachs,  and  Ter- 
mon  Lands,  published  in  the  second  Number  of 
Vallancey's  Collectanea,  asserts  that  the  office  of 
Herenach  and  Archdeacon  was  the  same  ;  and 
Connell  Mageoghegan,  in  his  Translation  of  the 


48  aNNdta  Rio^hachua  eirceciNN.  [1179. 

Qpo  maca  Dolopccab  ecci|i  cemplaib  -|  pecclfpaib  ace  pecclfp  bpicchDe 
1  ceampall  na  ppfpca  namd. 

Cealla  cipe  heojam  o  pleb  buD  ofp  Do  polmujab  cpe  coccab,  i  com- 
puachab,  cepce,  ~\  oocmacaiD. 

Ua  puabacdn  cicchfpna  ua  neachoac  Do  ecc  Do  galop  rpi  noibci  lap  na 
lonnapbab  cpe  pdpuccab  canoine  pacpaicc  Do  jap  poirhe. 

Sfb  DO  bfham  Do  bonnchab  ua  caipealldin  -|  Do  cloinn  nDiapmaDa  uile 
la  cenel  TTloen -j  la  hua  nsaipmleabaij,  amlaib  mac  mfnman  Dfpbpacaip 
pibe  mnd  an  oonnchaib  pempaice.  ba  hann  po  naibmpfo  a  pf6  pe  apoile 
i  ceampall  apDa  ppara  po  mionnaib  na  heaccailpe  fpin,  Dorhnaij  moip  •] 
na  hfpname.  Uainic  Dona  ua  gaipmleaDaig  .1.  arhlaoib  ap  na  rhapac  Do 
cuingeab  cuilleab  pldna  co  ceac  DonncaiD  ui  caipeallain  Ro  mapbab  pom 
po  cfooip  ap  lap  an  aipeachca  a  noopup  an  cighe  i  ppiabnaipi  a  Dfpbpea- 
rop  .1.  bfn  Donncaba.  Ro  mapbab  beop  cpiup  Dia  muinncfp  i  maille  ppipp 
.1.  cionafb  mac  aipc  ui  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  aipcm-  founded  the  church,  and  called  it  by  the  name 

nech  by  archdeacon.     In  this,  however,  it  is  of  that  saint,  and  then  gave  the  land  to  some 

more  than  probable  that  both  Ussher  and  Ma-  clerke,  not  being  in  orders,  and  to  his  heires  for 

geoghegan  are   mistaken.     The  annalists  have  ever  ;  with  this  intent,  that  he  should  keep  the 

another  term  to  express  the  office  of  archdeacon,  church  clean  and  well  repaired,  keep  hospitality, 

and  it  is  quite  certain  that  the  archdeacon  was  and  give  almes  to  the  poore,  for  the  soul's  health 

always  in  holy  orders,  whereas  the  airchinnech  of  the  founder.     This  man  and  his  heires  had 

was  always  a  layman,  or  at  least  one  who  had  the  name  of  Erenach.    The  Erenach  was  also  to 

merely  received  primam  tonsuram.     The  origin  make  a  weekly  commemoration  of  the  founder 

and  duties  of  the  office  of  Herenach  are  stated  in  the  church  ;  he  had  always  primam  tonsuram, 

as  follows  by  Sir  John  Davies,   in  his  letter  but  took  no  other  orders.     He  had  a  voice  in 

to  the  Earl  of  Salisbury  :  "  For  the  Erenach  :  the  chapter,  when  they  consulted  about   their 

There  are  few  parishes  of  any  compass  or  extent  revenues,  and  paid  a  certaine  yearly  rent  to  the 

where  there  is  not  an  Erenach,  which,  being  an  Bishop,  besides  a  fine  upon  the  marriage  of  every 

office  of  the  Church,  took  beginning  in  this  man-  of  his  daughters,  which  they  call  a  Loughinipy  ; 

nef  :  when  any  lord  or  gentleman  had  a  direc-  he  gave  a  subsidy  to  the  Bishop  at  his  first  en- 

tion  to  build  a  church,  he  did  first  dedicate  some  trance  into  the  bishoprick,   the  certainty  of  all 

good  portion   of  land  to  some  saint  or  other,  which  duties  appears  in  the  Bishop's  Register  ; 

whom   he   chose   to  be  his   patron  ;    then   he  and  these  duties  grew  unto  the  Bishop,  first  be- 


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49 


Armagh  was  burned,  as  well  churches  as  reglesesq,  excepting  only  Regies 
Brighde  and  Teampull  na  bh-Fearta. 

The  churches  of  Tyrone,  from  the  mountain  southwards,  were  left  desolate, 
in  consequence  of  war  and  intestine  commotion,  famine,  and  distress. 

O'Rogan,  Lord  of  Iveagh,  died  of  three  nights'  sickness,  shortly  after  he 
had  been  expelled  for  violating  the  Canoin-Phatruigr. 

A  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- 
in-law  of  the  aforesaid  Donough).  This  peace  was  concluded  between  them 
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,  the  wife  of  Donough.  Three  of  his  people  were  also  killed 
along  with  him ;  namely,  Kenny,  son  of  Art  O'Bracan ;  the  son  of  Gilchreest, 
son  of  Cormac  Mac  Reodan,  the  foster-brother  of  Donough  O'Carellan5. 

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


were 


cause  the  Erenach  could  not  be  created,  nor  the 
church  dedicated  without  the  consent  of  the 
Bishop." 

P  Seachnab — At  the  year  1089  of  these  An- 
nals, Seachnab  is  explained  by  Prior :  in  Cor- 
mac's  Glossary  it  is  explained  secundus  abbas, 
i.  e.  vice  abbot.  The  Irish  word  peach  has  the 
same  signification  in  compound  words  as  the 
English  vice,  in  vicepresident,  viceroy,  vicere- 
gent,  &c. 

q  Regies  seems  to  have  been  abbreviated  from 
the  Latin  Eegidaris  ecclesia,  and  means  a  church 
belonging  to  the  regular,  not  the  secular  clergy. 
O'Flaherty  says  it  is  an  ecclesiastical  word  of  no 
great  antiquity  in  the  Irish  language. — Ogygia, 
p.  16. 

r  Canoin-Phatruig  is  the  old  name  of  the 
ancient  manuscript  book  of  the  Gospels,  com- 
monly called  the  Book  of  Armagh See  a  de- 


scription of  this  manuscript  written  by  the  fa- 
mous Antiquary  Lhuyd,  and  published  by  Dr. 
O'Conor  in  his  Rerum  Hibernicarum  Scriptores, 
vol.  i.  Epist.  Nunc.  pp.  Ivii,  Iviii,  and  reprinted, 
with  an  English  translation,  by  Sir  William 
Betham,  in  his  Antiquarian  Researches,  and  in 
the  original  Latin  in  Petrie's  Essay  on  the  Round 
Towers  of  Ireland,  pp.  329,  330. 

*  O'Carellan. — This  passage  shews  that  O'Ca- 
rellan, Chief  of  the  Clandermot,  had  seized  upon 
that  part  of  Moy-Ithe,  O'Gormly's  country,  in 
which  Donaghmore-Moy-Itha  was  situated. 

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


H 


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,  cuaim  Da  jualann,  Dipfpe  ceallaij, 
ceallmf&oin  -|  balla,  miopiohe  Do  lopccaD  uile. 

TTlaelpeaclamn  ua  maoilmiaDaij  raoipeac  muinnripe  heolaip  Do  ecc. 

lorhap  ua  cacapaigh  cijeapna  na  paichne  Do  ecc. 

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  hi  Sajeain. 


O'Clerys'  at  these  days.  It  was  afterwards  an- 
nexed to  the  see  of  Clogher  ;  but  about  the  year 
1266  it  was  separated  from  the  see  of  Clogher, 
with  other  churches  in  the  territory  of  Hy- 
Fiachrach  Arda  Sratha,  in  the  gift  of  the  Kinel- 
Owen,  and  incorporated  with  the  see  of  Lon- 
donderry.—  See  Ussher's  Primordia,  p.  857  ; 
O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  76  ;  and  Ord- 
nance Memoir  of  the  Parish  of  Templemore. 

"  Clonfert- Brendan,  Cluain  pepca  bpenainn. 
The  church  of  Clonfert,  the  head  of  an  ancient 
bishop's  see,  in  the  barony  of  Longford,  and 
county  of  Galway. 

w  Lorha,  torpa — A  small  village  in  the  ba- 
rony of  Lower  Ormond,  about  six  miles  to  the 
north  of  Burrisokeane.  Here  are  the  ruins  of 
two  abbeys  of  considerable  extent,  but  none  of 
an  antiquity  prior  to  the  Anglo-Norman  inva- 
sion, though  St.  Rodanus,  the  patron  of  the 
place,  had  erected  a  primitive  Irish  abbey  here 
in  the  sixth  century.  For  an  account  of  Ro- 
danus, the  reader  is  referred  to  his  Life,  as 
published  by  the  Bollandists,  at  25th  April. 

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


of  Kerry,  about  four  miles  to  the  north  of 
Tralee,  where  the  ruins  of  several  ancient 
churches  are  still  to  be  seen. 

y  Disert-Kelly,  t)ipepc  Cealtai  j — The  name 
is  now  corruptly  anglicised  Isertkelly,  and  is 
applied  to  an  ancient  church  and  parish  in  the 
diocese  of  Kilmacduagh,  situated  to  the  south- 
west of  the  town  of  Loughrea,  in  the  county  of 
Galway. — See  Ordnance  Map  of  the  county  of 
Galway,  sheet  114. 

1  Kilmaine,  Cill  meabom,  i.  e.  the  middle 
church,  a  small  village  in  a  barony  to  which  it 
has  given  name  in  the  south  of  the  county  of 
Mayo,  and  not  far  from  the  boundary  of  the 
county  of  Galway. 

a  Batta,  or  Bed,  6alla,  a  village  containing  the 
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. — See  Life  of  St. 
Mochua,  published  by  Colgan,  in  Ada  Sancto- 
rum, at  30th  of  March. 

b  Muintir-Eolais. — This  territory,  which  after- 
wards became  the  principality  of  Mac-Rannall, 


1180.] 


ANNALS  OF-  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


51 


One  hundred  and  five  houses  were  burned  in  Clonmacnoise,  during  a  pre- 
datory incursion. 

Clonfert-Brendan",  with  its  churches,  were  burned. 

Lorha",  Ardfert-Brendan*,  Cashel,  Tuam,  Disert-Kellyy,  Kilmaine2,  and 
Ballaa,  were  all  burned. 

Melaghlin  O'Mulvey,  Chief  of  Muintir-Eolais,  died". 

Ivor  O'Casey,  Lord  of  the  Saithne0,  died. 

Melaghlin  Eeagh  O'Shaughnessy,  Lord  of  half  the  territory  of  Kinelea,  was 
killed  by  the  son  of  Donough  O'Cahill". 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1180. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  eighty. 

Lorcan  O'Toole,  i.  e.  Lawrence,  Archbishop  of  Leinster  and  Legate  of  Ire- 
land, suffered  martyrdom6  in  England. 


comprised  the  southern  half  of  the  present 
county  of  Leitrim.  It  extended  from  Slieve-in- 
ierin  and  Lough  Allen  to  Slieve  Carbry,  and 
to  the  west  of  Ballinamuck,  in  the  county  of 
Longford,  and  contained  the  castles  of  Rinn, 
Lough-skur,  and  Leitrim,  and  the  monasteries 
of  Fiodhnacha  Muighe  Eein,  now  Fenagh,  Mao- 
thail,  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.  The  Saithne, 
or  O'Caseys,  are  descended  from  Glasradh,  the 
second  son  of  Cormac  Gaileng,  who  was  of  the 
Munster  race,  and  settled  here  under  King  Cor- 
mac Mac  Art,  in  the  third  century. — See  O'Fla- 
herty's  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  69  ;  and  Mac  Firbis's 
Irish  Pedigrees.  Giraldus  Cambrensis  states,  in 
his  Hiber.  Expugnata,  lib.  ii.  c.  24,  that  Philippus 
Wigorniensis  seized  on  the  lands  of  O'Cathesie, 
to  the  king's  use,  though  Hugh  de  Lacy  had 
formerly  sold  them.  "  Inter  ipsa  igitur  operum 
suorum  initialia,  terras,  quas  Hugo  de  Lacy 

H 


alienuerat,  terrain  videlic.  Ocathesi  &  alias  quam 
plures  ad  Regiam  mensam  cum  omni  sollicitu- 
dine  reuocauit." 

d  CPCahitt,  ua  carail.— O'Shaughnessy  shortly 
afterwards  became  lord  of  all  the  territory  of 
Kinelea,  and  the  O'Cahills  sunk  into  compara- 
tive insignificance.  This  territory  comprised  the 
southern  half  of  the  diocese  of  Kilmacduagh,  in 
the  south-west  of  the  county  of  Galway,  and 
contained  the  churches  of  Kilmacduagh,  Beagh, 
and  Kilbecanty,  and  the  castles  of  Gort,  Fe- 
dane,  and  Ardmulduane. 

e  Suffered  martyrdom This  is  a  mistake  of  the 

Four  Masters,  for  it  is  stated  under  this  year  in 
the  Bodleian  and  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of 
Innisfallen,  as  well  as  in  the  Annals  of  Boyle, 
and  in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals 
of  Clonmacnoise,  that  he  died  [a  natural  death  ?] 
in  France.  The  fact  is  that  St.  Laurence  O'Toole 
died  in  the  monastery  of  Augum,  now  Eu,  in 
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  i 
cille  pop  lap  t>oipe  coknm  pabfin. 


neneac  colaim 


Masters.  Ussher  has  the  following  curious  no- 
tice of  this  distinguished  prelate  in  his  Veterum 
Epislolarum  Hibernicarum  Sylloge,  note  to  the 
Brief  of  Pope  Alexander  III.,  Epist.  xlviii.  Anno 
Christi  1179  : 

"Est  hie  LaurentiusO'Tolus;  cujus  Vitam  ab 
Augiensis  Collegii  monacho  descriptam  tomo  6. 
Vit.  Sanctor.  Novemb.  14.  inseruit  Laurentius 
Surius.  Patrem  habuit,  ut  author  ille  indicat, 
Muriartach  sive  Mauricium  O'Tuohail,  ad  quern 
nan  mod  tea  pars  Hibernice,  quce  Lagenia  dicitur, 
iure Itcereditario  pertinebat :  matrem IngenYbruin 
(ita  enim  legunt  duo  hujus  Vita3,  quse  ego  habeo, 
Manuscripta  exemplaria)  idest,JiliamPrincipis, 
ex  Birnorum,  ni  fallor,  familia.  Annos  natus 
decem,  Dermitio  regi  (qui  alius  ab  illo  Mur- 
chardi  filio  fuit,  a  quo  Angli  in  Hiberniam  sunt 
introducti)  a  patre  obses  datus,  durissime  ab  eo 
habitus  est :  post  biennium  vero  patri  restitu- 
tus,  et  Ecclesiaa  ministerio  ab  eo  dicatus,  sub 
magisterio  Glindelacensis  Episcopi  vixit.  Cum 
annorum  esset  xxv.  Ecclesise  S.  Comgeni  sive 
Keivini  de  Glindelach  Abbas,  Clero  et  populo  id 
postulantibus,  constitutus  est :  ac  demum  Gre- 
gorio  Dubliniensi  Archiepiscopo  defuncto,  ad 
Dubliniensem  cathedram  evectus,  anno  Domini 
1162,  <z  Gelasio  totius  Hibernice  Primate,  in  ipsa 
Dubliniensi  Ecclesid,  multis  Episcopis  prcesen- 
tibus,  gratias  agente  populo,  solemniter  consecratus 
est.  Anno  1179.  una  cum  Catholico  Tuamensi 
Archiepiscopo  et  quinque  vel  sex  Hibernite  Epis- 
copis Rornam  ad  Lateranense  concilium  profec- 
turus,  per  Angliam  transiit :  ubi  omnes  pro 
licentia  transeundi  iuraverunt,  quod  neque  Regi, 
neque  regno  eius  damnum  qucererent ;  quemad- 
rnodum  in  anni  illius  historia  refert  Eogerus 
Hovedenus.  Laurentium  tamen,  ob  privilegia 
in  Lateranensi  Concilia  contra  Regice  dignitatis, 


zelo  siue  gentis,  utferebatur,  impetrata,  Anglorum 
Regi  suspectum  fuisse,  libro  2.  Expugnat.  Hi- 
bern.  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 
Augiense  Normannia?  castrum  (cujus  Comes 
Eichardus  Strongbous  fuerat,  qui  Dubliniam  & 
Lageniam,  Laurentii  sedem  metropoliticam  & 
provinciam,  ipso  vivente  &  vidente  subjugavit:) 
quum  patrise  ab  Anglis  vastatse  calamitatem  de- 
plorasset,  miserabiliter  lingua  materna  dicens : 
Heu  papule  stulte  8f  imipiens  ;  quid  jam  facturus 
es  ?  Quis  sanabit  aversiones  tuas  ?  Quis  mise- 
rebitur  tui?  'Atque  ita,  xvm.  Calendas  Decem- 
bris,  cum  sextce  ferice  terminus  advenisset,  in 
confinio  Sabbati  subsequentis  spiritum  sancti  viri 
requies  (sterna  suscepit ;  inquit  vita  eius  scriptor. 
Annum,  quem  ille  tacet,  Annales  nostri  assig- 
nant  1180.  quo  et  14.  dies  Novembris  in  sextam 
feriam  incidit.  Eogerus  Hovedenus,  &  eum 
secutus  C»sar  Baronius  in  Annalibus  suis  ad 
sequentem  annum  male  referunt.  Nam  ut  ipse 
Rogerus  postea  confirmat,  anno  1181.  Henricus 
Rex  Anglice,  filius  Imperatricis,  dedit  loanni 
Cumin  clerico  suo,  Archiepiscopatum  Divelimce 
in  Hibernid,  viu.  Jdus  Septembris  apud  Eues- 
ham.  (ideoque  Novembris  dies  14.  qui  electionem 
hanc  antecesserat,  ad  annum  1180,  necessario 
retrahendus  est.)  et  anno  1182.  Lucius  Papa 
III.  ordinavit  loannem  Cumin  in  sacerdotem  III. 
Idus  Martij  apud  Velletre :  deinde  consecravit 
eum  in  Archiepiscopum  Divelinice  xn.  Calend. 
Aprilis,  Dominica  in  ramis  Palmarum,  apud 
Velletre,  cui  Calendar!)  quoque  ratio  sufFragatur ; 
quse  anno  1182.  Dominicam  Paschalem  28. .die 
Martij  celebratam  ftiisse  docet.  In  sanctorum 


1180.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


53 


Macraith  O'Deery,  Erenagh  of  Derry  [died]. 

Randal  O'Carellan  was  killed  by  the  Kinel-Moen,  in  defence  of  St.  Columb- 
kille,  in  the  middle  of  Derry-Columbkille. 


vero  numerum  relatus  est  Laurentius  ab  Hono- 
rio  III.  anno  1225.  cujus  canonizationis  Bulla, 
data  Reate,  III.  Id.  Decembr.  anno  Pontificatus 
10.  habetur  in  Laertij  Cherubini  Bullario  ; 
tomo  1 .  pag.  49.  edit.  Rom.  anno  1617."  For  more 
information  about  this  distinguished  prelate,  the 
reader  is  •  referred  to  his  Life,  as  published  by 
Messingham  in  his  Florilegium,  and  to  De  Burgo's 
Hibernia  Dominicana.  Dr.  Lanigan  in  his  Eccle- 
siastical History  of  Ireland,  vol.  iv.  p.  174,  and 
Mr.  Moore,  in  his  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  ii. 
p.  308,  state  that  Muirchertach,  the  father  of 
St.  Laurence,  was  prince  of  Imaile  ;  but  this  is 
as  great  a  mistake  as  that  of  the  author  of  St. 
Laurence's  Life,  who  makes  him  a  son  of  the 
King  of  all  Leinster,  for  O'Toole  was  at  this 
period  Lord  of  the  tribe  and  territory  of  Hy- 
Muireadhaigh,  called  Omurethi  by  Giraldus, 
comprising  about  the  southern  half  of  the  pre- 
sent county  of  Kildare,  to  wit,  the  baronies  of 
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 
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 
Barrow.  According  to  O'Heerin's  topographical 
poem,  O'Teige  was  the  ancient  chief  of  Imaile 
(which  was  a  very  small  district),  but  'O'Toole 
was  Lord  of  Hy-Muireadhaigh,  which  extended 
along  the  Barrow  northwards  as  far  as  the  hill 
of  Almhuin,  now  Allen  : 

Cpiall  cap  6eapba  an  Buipb  ealaij, 
O'n  cip  locluiiaip  uiprhealai  j, 
O  Dmopi^  co  TTIaipoin  mip, 
Oo  6iol  m'uipcip  o  a  n-uaiple. 
O'Cuarail  un  rhuip  meaoaij, 
Qp  Uib  meapba  ITIuipeaoaij, 


Co  h-Qlriiam  an  ceoil  coclaij, 
dn  peoip  bappjlom  bpaoncopcaij. 

"  Pass  across  the  Barrow,  of  the  cattle  abound- 
ing border, 

From  the  land  rich  in  corn  and  honey, 
From  Dinnree  to  the  pleasant  Maisdin  (Mulla- 

mast), 

My  journey  is  repaid  by  their  nobility. 
O'Toole  of  the  festive  fortress, 
Is  over  the  vigorous  Hy-Muireadhaigh, 
As  far  as  Almhuin  of  melodious  music, 
Of  the  fair,  grassy,  irriguous  surface." 
The  ancient  Irish  topographical  work  called 
Dinnsencfius,  places  in  the  territory  of  Ui  Muire- 
dhafgh,  the  old  fort  of  Roeireann,  which  was 
situated  on  the  top  of  the  remarkable  hill  of 
Mullach  Roeireann,  now  Mullagh-Reelion,  about 
five  miles  to  the  south-east  of  Athy,  in  the  county 
of  Kildare.  The  name  of  this  territory  is  pre- 
served even  to  the  present  day  in  that  of  the 
deanery  of  Omurthie,  which,  according  to  the 
Regal  Visitation  Book  of  1615,  comprises  the 
following  parishes,  in  the  county  of  Kildare,  viz., 
Athy,  Castlereban,  Kilberry,  Dollardstown,  Ni- 
cholastown,  Tankardstown,  Kilkea,  Grange- Ros- 
nolvan,  Belin,  Castledermott,  Grange,  Moone, 
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." — See  Ledwich's  Antiquities  of  Ire- 
land, second  Edition,  p.  294,  where  the  author 
ignorantly  assumes  that  Omurethi  was  0' Moore  I 
Soon  after  the  death  of  St.  Laurence  the 
O'Tooles,  or  O'Tuathails,  were  driven  from  this 
beautiful  and  fertile  district  of  Omurethi  by 
the  Baron  Walter  de  Riddlesford,  or  Gualterus 
de  Ridenesfordia,  who,  according  to  Giraldus 


54 


[1180. 


Oonncab  ua  caipeallain  Do  mapbab  la  cenel  cconaill  i  nofogal  a  rheabla 
ap  ua  ngaipmleabaijj  cpe  miopbailib  na  nafrh  ipa  heneac  po  papaijj. 

Ginbilfp  ua  Dochapcaij  bo  ecc  i  nboipe  colaim  cille. 

Car  na  cconcobop  .7.  Concobop  mafnrhaije  mac  TCuaibpi  ui  Chonco^aip 
1  Concobap  ua  ceallaij  (.1.  cijeapna  ua  maine)  bu  i  rcopcaip  Concobop  ua 
ceallai£,  caoj  a  mac,  a  bfpbpacaip  biapmaib,  i  TTlaoilpeachlainn  mac 
biapmaba  ui  ceallaij,  -|  mac  caibj  in  Concobaip  (.1.  caoj). 

TTluipjhfp  ua  hebhin  cijjfpna  ua  bpiacpach  aibne  t>o  mapbab  la  pfpaib 
TTluman. 

Cappjamam  ua  ^lolla  ulcccin  raoipeac  TTluinncipe  TTlaoil  rpionna  Do 
rhapbab  la  hae&  TTlac  cappjamna  i  mmp  enoairh  pop  moploch. 

Oomnall  mac  cai&j  ui  chinneibij  cijeapna  upmuman  Do  ec. 


(Hibernia  Expugnata,  lib.  iL  c.  xxi.),  had  his  cas- 
tle at  Tristerdermot  [Disert  Diarmada,  now  Cas- 
tledennot],  in  the  territory  of  Omurethi.  In 
the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen  it 
is  stated,  under  the  year  1178,  that  the  English 
of  Wexford  set  out  on  a  predatory  excursion 
into  Hy-Muireadhaigh,  and  slewDowlingO'Tua- 
thail  [O'Toole],  king  of  that  territory,  and  lost 
their  own  leader,  Robert  Poer.  But  though  the 
O'Tuathails  were  driven  from  their  original  ter- 
ritory about  this  period,  they  were  still  regarded 
by  the  Irish  as  the  second  highest  family  in  Lein- 
ster,  and  the  Annals  of  Clomnacnoise,  as  trans- 
lated 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, 
took  shelter  in  the  mountain  fastnesses  of  Wick- 
low,  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, 
though  not  King  of  all  Leinster,  was  chief  of  a 
more  important  territory  than  Imaile,  a  fact 
which  has  hitherto  escaped  our  modern  his- 


torians and  topographical  writers,  who  have 
copied  each  other  without  consulting  any  but 
printed  authorities. 

f  Violated. — It  is  worthy  of  remark  here,  that 
whenever  a  chief,  who  had  offered  insult  to  a 
church  or  sanctuary,  happened  to  be  killed,  his 
death  is  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 
tract  in  the  Book  of  Lecan,  treating  of  the  man- 
ners and  customs  of  the  O'Kellys,  viz. :  Clonfert, 
Kilmeen,  Kiltullagh,  Kilcommon,  Gamma  (where 
the  Hy-Manians  were  baptized),  Cloontuskert 
(where  the  O'Kelly  was  inaugurated),  andCloon- 
keen  Cairill.  The  following  families  were  located 
in  Hy-Many,  and  tributary  to  O'Kelly,  viz., 
Mac  Egan,  Chief  of  the  tribe  of  Clandermot ; 
Mac  Gillenan,  Chief  of  Clann  Flaitheamhla  and 
Muintir  kenny  ;  O'Donnellan,  Chief  of  Clann 
Breasail ;  O'Doogan,  Chief  of  Muintir-Doogan  ; 
O'Gowran,  Chief  of  Dal-Druithne  ;  O'Docomh- 
lain,  Chief  of  Rinn-na-hEignidi  ;  O'Donoghoe, 
Chief  of  Hy-Cormaic,  in  Moinmoy ;  and  O'Maoil- 
brighde,  Chief  of  Bredach,  which  was  the  best 
territory  in  Hy-Many.  For  further  particulars 
concerning  the  families  and  districts  of  Hy- 


1180.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


55 


Donough  O'Carellan  was  killed  by  the  Kinel-Connell,  in  revenge  of  his 
treacherous  conduct  towards  O'Gormly,  and  by  the  miracles  of  the  saints  whose 
guarantee  he  had  violatedf. 

Aindileas  O'Doherty  died  at  Derry-Columbkille. 

A  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  Hugh 
Mac  Carroon",  on  Inis  Endaimh1,  in  Mor-loch. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Teige  O'Kennedy,  Lord  of  Ormondm,  died. 


Many,  the  reader  is  referred  to  Tribes  and  Cus- 
toms of  Hy- Many,  printed  for  the  Irish  Archae- 
ological Society  in  1843. 

h  O'Conor It  is  added   in  the  Annals   of 

Kilronan,  that  this  battle  was  fought  at  Magh 
Sruibhegealain,  at  the  head  or  extremity  of 
Daire  na  g-capall. 

' Hy-Fiachrach-Aidhne,\\\  piachpach  Gione. 
A  territory  in  the  south-west  of  the  county  of 
Galway,  which,  as  we  learn  from  the  Life  of  St. 
Colman  Mac  Duach,  published  by  Colgan,  was 
originally  coextensive  with  the  diocese  of  Kil- 
macduagh. 

k  Mac  Carroon,  mac  cappjamna. — This  name 
is  anglicised  Caron  by  O'Flaherty,  in  his  Ogygia, 
part  iii.  c.  85,  and  Mac  Carrhon  by  Connell  Ma- 
geoghegan,  who  knew  the  tribe  well.  The  name 
is  now  anglicised  Mac  Carroon.  O'Flaherty  lo- 
cates them  in  the  territory  of  Cuircnia,  now  the 
barony  of  Kilkenny  West,  in  the  county  of  West- 
meath.  Their  ancestor  was  called  ITIael  Sionna, 
i.  e.  Chief  of  the  Shannon,  from  the  situation  of 
his  territory  on  the  east  side  of  that  river.  They 
are  to  be  distinguished  from  the  O'Caharnys, 
Sionnachs,  or  Foxes  of  Kilcoursey,  whose  tribe 
name  was  Muintir- Tadhgain. 


1  Inis  Endaimh,  is  now  called  Inchenagh,  and 
lies  in  Lough  Ree,  not  far  from  Lanesborough. 
It  is  curious  that  Lough  Eee  is  here  called  mop 
loc,  or  the  great  lake. 

m  Ormond,  Upmumain — Now  the  baronies  of 
Upper  and  Lower  Ormond,  in  the  county  of 
Tipperary.  The  territory  of  Uprhumam  was 
anciently  very  extensive,  but  it  has  been  for 
many  centuries  limited  to  the  baronies  now 
bearing  its  name.  O'Kennedy,  who  descended 
from  Donnchuan,  the  brother  of  Brian  Borumha, 
was  originally  seated  in  Glenomra,  in  the  east 
of  the  county  of  Clare,  whence  they  were  driven 
out,  at  an  early  period,  by  the  O'Briens  and 
Mac  Namaras.  O'Heerin  thus  notices  the  ori- 
ginal situation  of  O'Kennedy  in  his  topogra- 
phical poem  : 

O  Cinneioij  copcpap  ja,  ap  JJhleann  pc"Pr|n5, 

peio  Ompa, 
Sliocc  ap  nOuinocuam,  cpe  cpooucc,  na  pumn 

puaip  jan  lapmopacc. 

"  O'Kennedy,  who  purples  the  javelin,  rules  over 
the  extensive,  smooth  Glenomra, 

Of  the  race  of  our  Donnchuan,  who,  through  va- 
lour, obtained  the  lands  without  competition." 


56 


[1181. 


TTIaolTYiuipe  mac  cuinn  na  mbochr  ppimhpfnoip  Gpeann  Do  ecc. 

dob  ua  caicmab,  cijeapna  loppaip  Do  mapbab  la  hua  cceallacham  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  -|  Dofpclannaib  immaille  ppiu  cennnochdiDpioe.  Ro 
chuippfcc  Connaccaij  po  Daoipe  boib  ppi  pe  imcen  mppan  car  pin.  Cac 
cpice  coipppe  ainm  in  caca  pin. 


11  Mac  Con-na-mbocht,  i.  e.  the  descendant  of 
Conn  of  the  poor,  was  the  name  of  the  Erenaghs 
of  Clonmacnoise. 

0  O'Caithniadh — This  name  is  now  obsolete 
in  Erris,  an  extensive  and  remarkably  wild  ba- 
rony in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of  Mayo, 
unless  it  has  been  changed  to  O'Cahan,  or  O'Kane. 

p  OfBredagh,  na  bjiebca. — This  is  the  name  of 
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  county  of 
Donegal,  which  was  the  inheritance  of  O'Duibh- 
dhionna,  of  the  race  of  Eoghan,  son  of  Niall  of 
the  Nine  Hostages. 

o  Moy-heleag,  maj  helfj — This  is  also  called 
tna£  heleoj  ;  it  was  the  ancient  name  of  the 
level  part  of  the  parish  of  Crossmolina,  in  the 


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 
whom  were  hereditary  Erenaghs  of  this  monas- 
tery, are  still  numerous  in  the  parish  of  Cross- 
molina. They  were  till  lately  in  possession  of 
the  celebrated  reliquary  called  Mias  Tighernain, 
which  is  now  at  Kappa  Castle.  These  O'Flynns 
are  mentioned  by  Giolla  losa  Mor  Mac  Firbis, 
the  compiler  of  the  Book  of  Lecan,  as  the  Brugh- 
aidhs,  or  farmers,  or  Maghheleag — See  Genea- 
logies, Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach, 
printed  for  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society  in 
1844,  p.  113,  note  k,  and  p.  239,  note  '. 

r  Da-Bhac,  now  generally  called  the  Two 
Backs  ;  a  territory  in  the  south  of  the  barony 
of  Tirawley,  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  lying  be- 
tween Lough  Conn  and  the  River  Moy — See 


1181.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  57 

Mulmurry  Mac  Con-na-mbochtn,  chief  senior  of  Ireland,  died. 

Hugh  0'Caithniadhc,  Lord  of  Erris,  was  treacherously  slain  by  O'Callaghan 
at  Kilcommon. 

Auliffe  O'Toghda,  Chief  of  Bredagh",  was  killed  by  O'Gaughan,  Chief  of 
Moy-heleagq. 

Murrough  O'Laghtna,  Chief  of  Da  Bhacr,  was  drowned  in  Lough  Conn. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHKIST,  1181. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  eighty-one. 

Dungal  O'Kaelly,  Bishop  of  Leighlin,  died. 

Mulmurry5  O'Dunan,  Abbot  of  Cnoc-na-Seangan*  (Louth),  died. 

Mulkieran  O'Fiavra,  successor  of  Kieran,  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  Connaught  were  slain  by  the  Kinel  Connell,  as  well  as 
many  others,  both  of  the  nobles  and  the  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]. 

Tribes  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  pp.  11,  165,228.     The  called  in  English,    Pismire  Hill.     It   contains 

name  O'Toghdha,  which  would  be  pronounced  the  ruins  of  a  church,  but  no  part  of  the  great 

O'Toffey  in  this  district,  is  now  obsolete.  Under  abbey  is  now  traceable  on  it.     This  abbey  was 

this  year  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  In-  founded  and  endowed  for  Augustinian  Canons, 

nisfallen,  record  that  John  De  Courcy  fled  from  by  Donough  O'Carroll,  Prince   of  Oriel,   and 

Downpatrick,  and  went  to  Ath  Glaisne  [Ard-  Edan   O'Kaelly,    or   O'Caollaidhe,    Bishop   of 

glass?]  where  he  built  a  castle  which  he  made  Clogher. — See  Trias  T/iaum.,  p.  305  ;  Ware's 

his  residence  for  some  time.     According  to  the  Antiquities,  cap.  26  ;  and  also  his  Bishops  of 

Annals  of  Cloninacnoise  he  returned  to  Down  Louth  and  Clogher,  at  the  name  Edan. 

in  1181,  and  repaired  his  house  there.  u  Both  of  the  nobles  and  the  plebeians. — In  the 

1 Mulmurry,  maelmuipe. — Colgan  says,  Ada  Annals  of  Kilronan  this  phrase  is  given  in  Latin  : 

>SS.,  p.  737,  that  this  was  the  celebrated  Ma-  "  et  alii  nobiles  et  ignobiles  cum  eis." 

rianus,  the  author  of  the  Irish  Martyrology,  so  v  Cath  Criche  Cuirpre. — According  to  the  An- 

often  quoted  by  him   and   other  ecclesiastical  nals  of  Kilronan  the  persons  slain  in  this  battle 

writers.  were  the  following,  viz. :  Brian  Luighnech  and 

1  Cnoc-na-Seangan,  i.  e.  Hill  of  the  ants.  This  Manus  O'Couor  ;  Melaghlin,  Murray,  and  Mur- 

place,  which  is  situated  about  thirty  perches  to  tough,  three  sons  of  Turlough  O'Conor ;  also 

the  east  of  the  town  of  Louth,  is  now  generally  Hugh,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Eory  (O'Flaherty)t 


58 


[1181. 


lap  napaile  liubap  iciacc  na  mfic  pioj  copcpacup  la  plaicbfpcac  ip  in 
cac  pempdice,  bpian  ~\  TTlajnup  Da  mac  coippbealbaij  moip,  *  *  '<  -| 
TTlaolpuanaij,  Da  mac  ele  Ctooa  i  concobaip.  Oo  pocaip  beop  Qo6  mac 
concobaip  ui  cellaijj,  -|  giollacpfpc  mac  megoipeaccaij  ui  Ro&uib.Gachmapcac 
ua  muipfoaij,  Donnchab  mac  bpiain  luignij  ui  Concobaip,  cucuallacca  mac 
TTluipcfpcaijuf  Concobaip,  cpi  huf  maoilbpenainn,  Da  mac  jpollabuiDe,  -|  ao6 
mac  mic  aoba  mic  I?uai6pi,  "|  pocaiDe  ele  DO  pafpclannaib. 

Sloicchfo  la  Domnall  mac  af&a  mec  lachlainn,  -|  la  cenel  neojain  celca 
65  i  nulroip.  17o  rheabpacr  pop  ulcoip,  pop  uib  rcuipcpe,  ~\  pop  pfpaib  If 
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.  T?o  aipccpfo  pip  If,  i  ua  ccuipcpe 
uile  Ruccpar  ilmile  DO  buaib. 

Uomalcac  ua  Concobaip  Do  oiponeab  i  ccomopbup  pacpaicc.  Cuaipr 
cenel  eojain  Do  cabaipc  laipp,  Do  bfpc  a  pfip  uaiDib  ~\  po  paccaib  bfnnaccain. 


King  of  West  Connaught ;  and  Donough,  son 
of  Brian  O'Fallon,  el  alii  multi  nobiles  el  ignobiles 
cum  eis.  The  same  annals  also  state  that  it  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 
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 
of  their  ancestors. 

w  0'  Connor — According  to  the  Annals  of  Uls- 
ter and  of  Kilronan,  three  of  the  sons  of  Hugh,  son 
of  Turlough  O'Conor,  were  slain  in  this  battle, 
namely,  Melaghlin,  Murray,  and  Murtough. 

x  O'Murray,   O'lDuipeaoaij In   1585  the 

head  of  this  family  was  seated  at  Ballymurry, 
in  the  parish  of  Kilrnaine,  barony  of  Athlone, 
and  county  of  Roscommon. 

i  O'Mulrenins,  pronounced  in  Irish  O'lTlaoil 
bpSnamn,  O1  Mul-vrenin. 

*  Kinel-Binny,  Cenel  6mnij It  would  ap- 
pear from  several  authorities  that  this  tribe  was 


seated  in  the  valley  of  Glenconkeine,  in  the 
south  of  the  county  of  Derry. 

a  Toome,  Cuaim This  is   called   peappar 

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 
Lough  Neagh  and  Lough  Beg,  and  on  the  boun- 
dary between  the  counties  of  Antrim  and  Derry. 
"  Fearsait  Tuama  hodie  vulgo  vocatur  Tuaim 
est  vadum  vel  trajectus  ubi  Banna  fluvius  ex 
lacuEchach." — Trias  Tkaum.,  p.  183. 

b  Firlee,  F'P  M- — The  Tripartite  Life  of  St. 
Patrick,  as  translated  by  Colgan,  in  Trias  Thaum., 
pp.  127,  146,  calls  this  territory  "Leaeorum 
fines,"  and  states  that  it  was  on  the  east  side  of 
the  River  Bann.  "  Venit  (Patricias)  in  Leseorum 
fines  Bannse  flumini  ad  orientalem  ejus  ripam 
adjacentes."  But  though  the  Firli  were  unques- 
tionably seated  on  the  east  side  of  the  River 
Bann,  since  the  twelfth  century,  it  would  ap- 
pear, 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- 


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'Con- 
nor™. 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'Mulreninsy ;  the  two  Mac  Gillaboys ;  and  Hugh,  son  of  Hugh, 
who  was  son  of  Roderic,  together  with  many  others  of  the  nobility. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Hugh  Mac  Loughlin,  and  the  Kinel-Owen  of  Tullaghoge, 
made  an  incursion  into  Ulidia,  and  defeated  the  Ulidians,  the  Hy-Tuirtre,  and 
the  Fiiiee,  together  with  Rory  Mac  Donslevy,  and  Cumee  O'Flynn. 

The  men  of  Moy-Ithe,  together  with  O'Kane  (Eachmarcach),  and  the 
Kinel-Binny2  of  the  Valley,  mustered  an  army,  and  crossed  Toome".  They 
plundered  all  the  territories  of  Firleeb  and  Hy-Tuirtre,  and  carried  off  many 
thousands  of  cows. 

Tomaltagh  O'Conor  was  consecrated  successor  of  St.  Patrick.  He  performed 
the  visitation  of  the  Kinel-Owen,  received  his  dues  from  them,  and  left  them 
his  blessing. 


••&• 


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  prepared  an  entertainment  for  St.  Columba ; 
between  the  plains  of  Li  and  Eilne,  and  we  and  Colgan,  in  a  note  on  this  passage,  conjee- 
learn  from  Tirechan  that  the  plain  of  Eilne  was  tures  that  the  plain  of  Eilne  was  west  of  the 
on  the  east  side  of  the  river,  and  consequently  River  Bann,  and  that  which  was  then  called 
the  plain  of  Li,  or  Lee,  was  on  the  west  side  of  "  an  Mkachaire,"  i.  e.  the  plain.  But  that 
it :  "  Et  exiit  [Patricius]  in  Ardd  Eolergg  et  Magh  Li  was  west  of  the  Bann  is  put  be- 
Ailgi,  et  Lee  Bendrigi,  et  perrexit  trans  flumen  yond  dispute  by  the  fact  that  the  church  of 
Band®,  et  benedixit  locum  in  quo  est  cellola  Achadh  Dulihthaigh,  now  Aghadowey,  on  the 
Guile  Raithin  [Coleraine],  in  Eilniu,  in  quo  fuit  west  side  of  the  river  Bann,  is  described  in 
Episcopus,  et  fecit  alias  cellas  multas  in  Eilniu.  ancient  authorities,  as  in  Magh  Li,  or  Campus 
Et  per  Buas  flumen"  [Bush  River]  "  foramen  Li,  on  the  margin  of  the  Lower  Bann — See  Col- 
pertulit,  et  in  Dun  Sebuirgi"  [Dunseverick]  gan's  Acta  Sanctorum,  p.  223 ;  the  Irish  Calen- 
"sedit  super  petram,  &c.  &c.  Et  reversus  est  dar  of  the  O'Clerys,  at  9th  and  22nd  of  Janu- 
in  canipum  Eilni  et  fecit  multas  ecclesias  quas  ary ;  and  Sampson's  Memoir  of  his  Chart  and 
Condiri  [the  clergy  of  Connor  diocese]  habent."  Survey  of  Londonderry,  p.  222.  But  on  the 
Adamnan,  in  his  Life  of  Columba,  says,  lib.  i.  increasing  power  of  the  O'Kanes,  the  Firli  were 

c.  50,   that  Conallus,  Bishop  of  Cuil  Raithin  unquestionably  driven  across  the   Bann See 

[Coleraine],    having    collected   many   presents  note  under  the  year  1 1 78. 

i2 


60  aNNdta  Rio^bachra  eineawR  [1183. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1182. 
Qoip  Cpiopo  mile,  ceo,  ocTicrhogarc,  aDo. 

dob  ua  caellaiji  eppoc  aipjiall,  -\  cfnD  candnach  Gpeann  Do  ecc. 

Oomnall  ua  huallachain  aipoeppoc  muman  Do  ecc. 

Sluaicchfb  la  oomnall  mac  afoa  ui  lachlainn  50  Dun  bo  i  nodil  piaba. 
Oo  pao  pom  cac  bo  jallaib  ip  in  Du  pin  ™°  ™eabaib  pop  cenel  neojain 
l?o  mapbab  ann  ona  Rajnall  ua  bpfiflen,  giolla  cpiopD  6  cacdin  co  pocaibip 
oile  i  maille  ppiu,  T?uccpar  Soipcela  mapcain  leo  Don  cup  pin. 

bpian  mac  coipp&ealbaij;  ui  bpiain  Do  rhapbaD  la  Ragnall  mac  Commapa 
bice  rpe  meabail. 

QoD  mac  cappsamna  raoipeac  muinnnpe  maoilcpionna  DO  mapbab  la 

jiolla  ulrdin  mac  cappgarhna. 

ITIupchab  mac  caichlij  uf  DubhDa,  DO  mapbab  la  TTlaoilpeachlainn  ua 

TTlaolpuanaib. 

Ctrhlaib  ua  pfpjail  Dojabailcaipijecca  na  hangaile  i  Qob  Do  innapbab. 

QO18  C171OSD,  1183. 
Qoiy  CpiopD  mile,  ceD,  ochcmojacc,  acpi. 

lopeph  ua  haoba  Gppcop  ua  cceinnpelaij  [DO  ecc]. 

6ec  ua  hfjpa  ciccfpna  lui^ne  Connacc  Do  mapbab  la  concobap  ua  Diap- 
maca  mic  Ruaibpi,  ap  loc  mic  pfpabaij  ina  rij  pfin  cpe  meabail. 

fDunbo,inDalRiada This  is  a  mistake  of  the  dred-Owen,  and  Kanall  O'Bryslan  was  killed 

annalists,  but  not  of  the  Four  Masters,  as  it  is  there,  and  Gilli  Christ  O'Cahan,  arid  many  more; 

found  in  the  older  Annals  of  Ulster  and  of  Kilro-  and  the  Galls  carried  Martin's  Gospel  with 

nan.  Dunbo  was  not  in  Dalriada  at  any  period,  for  them."  From  a  notice  in  a  manuscript  in  the 

it  is  west  of  the  Eiver  Bann,  in  a  territory  called  Bodleian  Library,  Laud.  615,  p.  81,  it  would 

an  Mhachaire,  the  Plain,  in  Colgan's  time.  Dal-  appear  that  this  copy  of  the  Gospels,  which  was 

riadanever  extended  westwards  beyond  theBann.  believed  to  have  belonged  to  St.  Martin  of  Tours, 

d  St.  Martin — This  passage  is  rendered  in  the  was  brought  to  Ireland  by  St.  Patrick,  and  that 

old  translation  of  the  Ulster  Annals  in  the  Bri-  it  was  preserved  at  Derry  in  the  time  of  the 

tish  Museum,  as  follows  :  "  An  army  by  Donell  writer.  There  was  a  cemetery  and  holy  well 

O'Loghlin  to  Dunbo  in  Dalriada,  and  the  Galla  at  Derry  dedicated  to  this  St.  Martin.  In  the 

gave  battle  to  them  there,  and  vanquished  Kin-  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  and  in  the 


1183.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  6l 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1182. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  eighty  two. 

Hugh  O'Kaelly,  Bishop  of  Oriel,  and  head  of  the  Canons  of  Ireland,  died. 

Donnell  O'Huallaghan,  Archbishop  of  Munster,  died. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Loughlin,  marched  with  an  army  to  Dunbo, 
in  Dal  Riada0,  and  there  gave  battle  to  the  English.  The  Kinel-Owen  were 
defeated,  and  Randal  O'Breslen,  Gilchreest  O'Kane,  and  many  others,  were 
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. 

Hugh  Mac  Carroon,  Chief  of  Muintir  Maoil-t-Sionna,  was  killed  by  Gilla- 
Ultain  Mac  Carroon. 

Murrough,  the  son  of  Taichleach  O'Dowda,  was  killed  by  Melaghlin 
O'Mulrony. 

Auliffe  O'Farrell  assumed  the  lordship  of  Annaly,  and  Hugh  was  expelled'. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1183. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  eighty-three. 

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. 

Annals  of  Kilronan,  the  portion  of  the  passage  Imokilly,  in  the  county  of  Cork.  The  Irish  anna- 
relating  to  theGospel  reads:  7  popcela  mapcain  lists  do  notfurnish  us  with  any  further  particulars; 
oo  Bpec  DO  gallc-io  leo.  but  Giraldus  Cambrensis,  in  his  Hibernia  Expug- 
e  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  of  nata,  lib.  ii.  c.  1 8,  calls  Mac  Tyrus  a  betrayer  :  "  a 
Clonmacnoise,  and  of  Ulster,  record  the  death  of  proditore  Machtyro  qui  eos  ea  noctehospitdridebu- 
Milo  de  Cogan,  the  destroyer  of  all  Ireland,  both  erat,  cum  aliis  quinque  militibus  improuisis  a  tergo 
Church  and  State  ;  also  of  Reymond  de  la  Gross,  securium  ictibus  sunt  interempti."  Sir  Richard 
Cenn  Cuillinn  [Kantitunensis?],  and  the  two  sons  Cox,  in  his  Hibernia  Anglicana,  p.  37,  magnifies 
of  Fitz-Stephen.  The  Annals  of  Kilronan  and  of  this  act  of  Mac  Tyrus  into  an  awful  specimen  of 
Clonmacnoise  add,  that  Milo  was  killed  by  Mac  Irish  treachery,  and  adds,  that  Milo  had  been 
Tire,  Prince  of  Ui  Mac  Caille,  now  the  barony  of  invited  by  Mac  Tyrus  to  lodge  at  his  house  that 


eiReaww.  [1184. 

Do  pala  Deabaib  eccep  ua  plairhbfjicaij,  an  jiollu  piabac,  -]  TTlac  ui 
jaipmleabaij.  Ro  mapbab  ua  plaicbfpcaij  ip  in  mmaipeacc  pin  -|  Dpong 
mop  DO  cenel  TTloain. 

pfpjal  mac  drhlaib  ui  puaipc,  Do  mapbab  la  loclainn  mac  Dorhnaill  ui 
puaipc. 

<5iollaulrdm  mac  cappjamna  raoipeac  muinnpe  maoilcpionna  Do  map- 
ba6  la  macaib  ui  bpaoin  -]  la  macaibh  an  cpionnaijh  ui  cacapnaigh  50 
ccuicceap  ele  a  maille 


CtOlS  C171OSD,  1184. 
Qoip  Cpiopo  mile,  ceD,  ochcmogacc,  a  cfchaip. 

loya  ua  maoilm  Gppcop  eipi&e  Do  ecc. 

bpian  bpeipnec  mac  roipp&elbaig  ui  concobaip  Do  ecc. 

THaoiliopu  ua  cfpbaill  Do  oiponeD  i  ccomopbup  pacpaic  lep  na  paccb'dil 
Do  comalcac  ua  concobaip. 

Qpc  ua  maoileaclamn  ncchfpna  mpraip  mioe  DO  mapbab  i  meabail  la 
Diapmair  ua  mbpiain  .1.  mac  coippbelbaij  cpia  popconjpa  jail,  -\  TTIaoil- 
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  i  call  dip. 

Caiplen  oile  Do  opccain  la  TTlaoilpeaclainn  -]  la  Concobop  mafninaije 
ua  cconcobaip.  Po  mapbab  Dpong  mop  Do  ^allaib  ann. 

Dec  ccicche  pichfc  Do  poijnib  cumDaijri  apoa  macha  Do  opjain  la  jal- 
laib  mi6e. 

TTlainipcip  eapa  puaiDh  Do  eDhbaipr  la  plaichbfpcach  Ua  TTlaolDopaio 
ciccfpna  cinel  cconaill  Do  Dia  •]  Do  naoim  bfpnapD  Do  paich  a  anma. 

night.     The  same  is  repeated  by  Moore,  in  his  Beapcctij).    In  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals 

History  of  Ireland,  vol.  ii.  p.  31  1,  without  quot-  of  Ulster  preserved  in  the  British  Museum,  the 

ing  any  authority,  which  is  very  unfair,  as  it  name  of  this  Tyronian  family,  Ua  phlaicbep- 

turns  out  that  the  prejudiced  Giraldus  is  the  cai  j,  is  anglicised  O'Lathvertay,  which  is  close 

only  authority.  enough  to  the  form  it  has  assumed  in  modern 

f  OTlaherty  —  This  was  not  O'Flaherty  of  times.     The  above  passage  is  thus  Englished  in 

lar  Connaught,  but  of  Tyrone,  where  the  name  is  this  translation  :   "A.  D.I  183.  A  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 

A  battle  was  fought  between  OTlahertyf  (Gillarevagh)  and  the  son  of 
O'Gormly,  in  which  O'Flaherty  and  a  great  number  of  the  Kinel-Moen  were 
slain. 

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'Caharnys. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1184. 
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  Tomal- 
tach  O'Conor  had  resigned  that  dignity. 

Art  O'Melaghlin,  Lord  of  Westmeath,  was  treacherously  slain  by  Dermot 
O'Brien  (i.  e.  the  son  of  Turlough),  at  the  instigation  of  the  English,  and 
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 
was  the  son  of  Mahon  O'Brien. 

A  castle  was  erected  by  the  English  at  Killareh. 

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  Armagh  were  plundered  by  the  English  of 
Meath. 

The  monastery  of  Assaroe'  was  granted  to  God  and  St.  Bernard  by  Flaherty 
O'Muldory,  Lord  of  Kinel-Connell,  for  the  good  of  his  soul. 

leaye's  son ;  and  O'Lathvertay  and  some  of  Kin-  regione  Medise  quse  Hugh  asuil  appellatur  :  in 

dred  Muan  were  killed."  qua  sunt  tres  ecclesise  ;    una  parochialis   viro 

8  Under  this  year  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  An-  sancto  (Aido)  dicata;  alia  qusetemplum  Sanctas 

nals  of  Innisfallen  record  the  erection  of  a  mo-  Brigidas,  et  tertia  qua;  aula  Sanctaa  Brigidee  ap- 

nastery  at  Duleek,  by  Sir  Hugh  De  Lacy.  pellatur  :  et  tres  etiam  fontes  quorum  aquis  in 

h  Killare,  Cillaip. — A  parish  in  the  barony  unum   confluentibus  vicinum  non  sine  miraculo 

of  Rathconrath,  and  county  of  Meath.     Colgan  agitur  et  velociter   mouetur  molendinum."- 

describes  it  as  follows:  "  Killaria  vicus  est  in  Acta  SS.,  p.  423,  col.  2,  note  31. 


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Rio^hachca  eirceawN. 


[1185. 


Cfhopaolao  ua  jpaDa  comopba  cponam  cuama  gpene  DO  ecc. 

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. 
Qoip  CpiopD  mile  ceo  ochcmojjab  a  cuig. 

TTlaoiliopu  ua  muipeaoaij  pfp  leccinn  Doipe  colaim  cille  Do  ecc  lap 
Sfnoacaij  chojaiDe. 

Pilib  Unpeppa  co  n^allaib  uime  Do  bfir  in  apDmaca  co  cfnn  pe  laire 
cona  noiocib  i  mf&on  copjaip  Do  fonnpaD. 

cpiopD  mac  cacmaoil  apo  raoipeac  cenel  peapaDaij  ~\  na  cclann 


There  are  no  ruins  of  the  Castle  of  Killare  now 
visible  ;  but  there  are  considerable  remains  of 
the  churches  mentioned  by  Colgan. 

'  Assaroe,  cap  puao.  —  The  remains  of  this 
abbey  now  stand  about  one  mile  west  of  Bally- 
shannon  ;  one  of  the  side  walls  and  a  part  of  the 
western  gable  of  the  abbey  are  yet  standing, 
The  architecture  is  very  good;  but  there  are 
at  present  no  windows  or  architectural  features 
worthy  of  notice  remaining. 

j  Tomgraney,  Cuaim  ^neine.  —  An  ancient  mo- 
nastery  dedicated  to  St.  Cronan,  in  the  barony 
of  Upper  Tullagh,  in  the  county  of  Clare.  It  is 
now  a  small  village. 

k  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Kilronan 
record  the  falling  of  the  great  church  of  Tuam, 
both  its  roof  and  stone  work  ;  also  the  burning 
by  lightning  of  the  fortress  of  the  Clann  Mul- 
rony,  called  the  Rock  of  Lough  Key,  in  which 
six  or  seven  score  of  persons  of  distinction,  with 
fifteen  persons  of  royal  descent,  were  destroyed. 


'  Philip  Unserra  —  He  is  called  Philip  Worcester 
in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  in 
the  British  Museum,  and  by  his  cotemporary  Gi- 
raldus  Cambrensis,  Philippus  Wigorniensis  —  See 
Topographia  Hibernice,  dist.  2,  c.  50,  where  there 
is  a  strange  story  told  about  his  conduct  at  Ar- 
magh.  Hanmer  repeats  the  same  ;  and  Sir  Richard 
Cox,  who  was  always  anxious  to  hide  the  faults  of 
the  English  and  villify  the  Irish,  has  conde- 
scended  to  tell  the  story  in  the  following  strain  : 
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  ;  he  also  brought  with  him  Hugh  Tirrel,  a 
Man  of  ill  Report  :  He  was  not  long  in  the  Go- 
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- 
magh,  where  he  exacted  from  the  Clergy  a  great 
Sum  of  Mony  ;  thence  he  went  to  Down,  and 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


65 


Kenfaela  O'Grady,  successor  of  Cronan  of  Tomgraneyj,  died. 
Niall,  son  of  the  Sinnagh  (the  Fox)  O'Caharny,  died. 
Auliffe,  the  son  of  Farrell  O'Rourke,  Lord  of  Breifny,  was  treacherously 
slain  by  Mac  Rannall. 

Donnell  O'Flanagan,  Lord  of  Clann-Cahill,  died  at  Conga-Feichin  [Cong]. 
Farrell  O'Reilly  was  treacherously  slain  by  Melaghlin  O'Rourke". 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1185. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  eighty-five. 

Maelisa  O'Murray,  Lector  of  Derry-Columbkille,  died  at  a  venerable  old  age. 
Philip  Unserra1  (of  Worcester)  remained  at  Armagh  with  his  Englishmen 
during  six  days  and  nights  in  the  middle  of  Lent. 

Gilchreest  Mac  Cawell,  Chief  of  Kinel-Farry"1  and  of  the  Clans,  viz.  Clann- 


so  to  Dublin,  loaden  both  with  Curses  and  Ex- 
torsions.  Tirrel  took  a  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 
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  upon 
them  for  their  sacrilege."  Cox,  however,  should 
have  here  stated,  on  the  authority  of  Giraldus, 
that  Tyrell  restored  the  pan  to  the  poor  priests, 
for  Giraldus  writes.:  "Sed  eadem  nocte,  igne, 
proprio  eiusdem  hospitio  accenso,  equi  duo  qui 
cacabum  extraxerant,  cuin  aliis  rebus  non 
paucis,  statim  combusti  sunt.  Pars  etiam  villas 
maxima  eadem  occasione  igne  est  consumpta. 
Quo  viso,  Hugo  Tyrellus  mane  cacabum  inue- 
niens  prorsus  illffisum,  pecunia  ductus,  Arthma- 
ciam  eum  remisit."  It  looks  very  strange  that 
the  Irish  annalists  should  have  passed  over  this 
transaction  in  silence,  it  being  just  the  sort  of 
subject  they  generally  comment  upon. 


m  Kinel-Farry,  cinel  peanaouij,  and  the 
Clans.  The  territory  of  Kinel-Farry,  the  pa- 
trimonial inheritance  of  the  Mac  Cawells  (the 
descendants  of  Fergal,  son  of  Muireadhach,  son 
of  Eoghan,  son  of  Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages) 
was  nearly  coextensive  with  the  barony  of 
Clogher,  in  the  county  of  Tyrone  ;  in  which 
barony  all  the  clans  here  mentioned  were  lo- 
cated, except  the  Hy-Kennoda  and  the  Clann 
Colla,  who  were  seated  in  Fermanagh.  The 
Hy-Kennoda  gave  name  to  the  barony  of  Tir- 
kennedy,  which  is  situated  in  the  east  of  Fer- 
managh, adjoining  the  barony  of  Clogher  in 
Tyrone. — See  it  mentioned  at  the  years  1427, 
1 468,  and  1 5 1 8.  The  family  of  Mac  Cathmhaoil, 
a  name  generally  anglicised  Mac  Cawell  and  lati- 
nized Cavellus, — who  supplied  several  bishops  to 
the  see  of  Clogher,  are  still  numerous  in  this 
their  ancient  territory,  and  the  name  is  also 
found  in  other  counties,  variously  anglicised 
Camphill,  Cambell,  Caulfield,  and  even  Howell ; 
but  the  natives,  when  speaking  the  Irish  language, 
always  pronounce  the  name  IDac  Carrhaoil. 


66 


[1185. 


.1.  dance  aenjupa,  ctann  ouibinnpeacc  clann  pogapcais,  ui  cfnnpooa, ~\  clann 
collu  DO  peapaib  manac  cfnn  comaiple  euaipcipc  Gpeann  Do  mapbao  la  hua 
neccmj  i  la  mumnap  caomdin,  -\  a  cfnn  DO  bpfic  leo  50  pppic  uara  i  ccionn 
miopa  lapccam. 

TTIaoilpfclainn  mac  mmpceapcaijj  ui  laclamn  DO  rhapbab  la  jallaib. 

TTlaoibopa  ua  odlaij  ollarh  epeann,  -j  alban  apo  caoipeac  copcapaibe 
1  copcaoam,  Saoi  oip&epc  ap  Dan,  ap  eneac,  •]  ap  uaiple  Do  ecc  i  ccluain 
lopaipD  oca  oilicpe. 

TTiac  pf£  Sajcan  .1.  Seon  mac  an  oapa  ftenpi  Do  ceacc  i  nGpinn  luce  rpf 
picic  long  DO  jabdil  a  pi£e.  T?o  gab  arcbar,  -\  laigin.  Oo  pome  caipDiall 
oc  noppair  paccna,  -\  occ  apD  pfonain.  T?o  aipj  murha  epDib.  T?o  bpip  cpa 


11  Corcaree,  now  a  barony  in  the  county  of 
Westmeath.  It  is  bounded  on  the  north  and 
north-east  by  Loch  Dairbhreach,  anglice  Lough 
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.  This  territory  is  mentioned  by  our 
genealogists  and  historians  as  the  inheritance 
of  the  descendants  of  Fiacha  Eaoidhe,  the 
grandson  of  the  monarch  Felimy  Reachtmhar, 
or  the  Lawgiver.  —  See  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia, 
part  iii.  cap.  69  ;  and  Duald  Mac  Firbis's  Pedi- 
grees, p.  106.  This  was  originally  the  lordship 
of  O'Hionradhain,  and  not  of  O'Daly,  as  we 
learn  from  O'Dugan  : 

O't)onncha6a  na  noa^-ap, 
Ri  Cealaij  mm  mooapam; 
O'Mionpa6am,  paoipe  pin, 
Ri  Chopca  Raoije  poj  loin." 

"  O'Donaghoe,  of  good  tillage, 
King  of  the  smooth  Tealach  Modharain  ; 
O'Hionradhain,  nobler  he, 
King  of  fairest  Corca  Eee." 

0  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  known.  The  Editor  has  been  long  o 


opinion  that  it  is  identical  with  the  barony  of 
Magheradernon,  in  the  county  of  Westmeath. 
At  this  year,  1185,  we  find  that  O'Daly  had 
possession  of  Corca- Ree,  in  addition  to  his  own 
original  territory  of  Corca-Adain  ;  and  it  is  not 
unreasonable  to  conclude  that  the  two  territories 
adjoined.  Here  it  is  necessary  to  remark,  that,  ac- 
cording to  O'Dugan's  topographical  poem,  Corca- 
Adain  was  in  Teffia,  or  Tir-Maine,  and  that  Corca- 
Ree  was  not ;  that  O'Daly  was  descended  from 
Maine,  and  the  original  inhabitants  of  Corca- 
Ree  were  not.  It  may  therefore  be  lawfully 
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- 
lins,  for  some  great  service  which  that  noble 
poet  had  rendered  them  by  his  sword  or  pen. 
That  Corca-Ree  was  not  in  Teffia  may  be  clearly 
inferred  from  Tirechan's  annotations  on  the  Life 
of  St.  Patrick,  in  the  Book  of  Armagh.  TBus, 
in  describing  St.  Patrick's  travels  through 
Meath,  that  writer  says  :  "  And  he  (Patrick) 
built  another  church  (Lecain)  in  the  country  of 
Roide,  at  Caput  Art,  in  which  he  erected  a  stone 
altar,  and  another  at  Cuil-Corre,  and  he  came 
across  the  River  Ethne  \Inny)  into  the  two 
Teffias."  It  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  by  O'Hegny  and  Muintir-Keevan,  who  carried  away  his  head,  which,  how- 
ever, was  recovered  from  them  in  a  month  afterwards. 

Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Murtough  O'Loughlin,  was  slain  by  the  English. 

Maelisa  O'Daly,  ollave  (chief  poet)  of  Ireland,  and  Scotland,  Lord  of  Cor- 
caree"  and  Corca-Adain0,  a  man  illustrious  for  his  poetry,  hospitality,  and 
nobility,  died  while  on  a  pilgrimage  at  Clonard. 

The  son  of  the  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- 
dom. He  took  possession  of  Dublin  and  Leinster,  and  erected  castles  at  Ti- 
praid  Fachtnap  and  Ardfinanq,  out  of  which  he  plundered  Munster ;  but  his 
people  were  defeated  with  great  slaughter  by  Donnell  O'Brien.  The  son  of 


River  Brosnagh  (which  connects  Lough  Owel 
and  Lough  Ennell)  and  the  baronies  of  Delvin 
and  Farbil,  was  anciently  called  Feara  asail,  or 
Magh  asail,  and  that  the  tract  lying  between  the 
same  river  and  the  barony  of  Eathconrath,  was 
called  Corca-Adain.  Mr.  Owen  Daly  of  Moning- 
town,  in  the  barony  of  Corcaree,  is  supposed  to 
be  the  present  head  of  the  O'Dalys  of  West- 
nieath. 

p  Tibraghny,  cippair  paccna,  L  e.  St.  Fachna's 
•well,  is  a  townland  containing  the  ruins  of  an 
old  castle,  situated  in  a  parish  of  the  same  name, 
on  the  north  side  of  the  River  Suir,  in  the  ba- 
rony of  Iverk,  in  the  south-west  of  the  county  of 
Kilkenny — See  the  Feilire  Aenguis,  at  the  13th 
of  February  and  18th  of  May,  and  Irish  Calen- 
dar of  the  O'Clerys  at  the  same  days,  from 
which  it  will  be  seen  that  this  place  was  in  the 
west  of  the  ancient  Ossory.  See  also  the  Ord- 
nance Map  of  the  county  of  Kilkenny,  sheets  38 
and  39-  Sir  Richard  Cox,  in  his  Hibernia  An- 
glicana,  p.  40,  conjectures  that  this  place  is 
Tipperary ;  and  Dr.  Leland,  and  even  Mr.  Moore, 

have  taken  Cox's  guess  as  true  history. See 

Leland's  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  i.  p.  146  ;  and 
Moore's,  vol.  ii.  p.  320. 


q  Ardfinnan,  Gpo  pionnam,  i.  e.  St.  Fin- 
nan's height,  or  hill.  It  is  situated  in  the  ba- 
rony of  Iffa  and  Offa,  in  the  county  of  Tippe- 
rary. The  ruins  of  this  castle  are  still  to  be  seen 
on  a  rock  overlooking  the  River  Suir.  Giraldus 
states  (Hib.  Expugnata,  lib.  ii.  c.  34)  that  John 
erected  three  castles,  the  first  at  Tibractia,  the 
second  at  Archphinan,  and  the  third  at  Lismore. 
The  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen 
also  state,  that  John  Earl  of  Moreton,  son  of 
Henry,  King  of  England,  came  to  Ireland  this 
year,  accompanied  by  four  hundred  knights,  and 
built  the  castles  of  Lismore,  Ardfinan,  and  Tio- 
braid  [Tiobraid  Fachtna]. 

For  the  character  of  the  English  servants  and 
counsellors  who  were  in  Ireland  about  the  King's 
son  at  this  period,  the  reader  is  referred  to 
Giraldus  Cambrensis'  Hibernia  Expugnata,  lib,  ii. 
c.  35,  where  he  describes  the  Normans  as  "  Ver- 
bosi,  iactatores,  enormium  iuramentorum  au- 
thores,  Aliorum  ex  superbia  contemptores,"  &c. ; 
and  also  to  Hanmer's  Chronicle,  and  Campion's 
Historie  of  Irelande,  in  which  the  Normans  are 
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 
pe  a  acaip  uaip  ape  hugo  ba  poplarhaij  a  hucc  pfj  Sajcan  apa  cionn  in 
Gpmn,  -j  nip  leicc  cfop  na  bpaigoe  cuigepium  6  pijpaiD  Gpeann. 

Coriicoccbail  coccab  Do  pap  i  cconnaccaib  eDip  na  piojDarhnaib  .1.  ernp 
T?uai6pi  ua  concobaip  ~\  concobap  maenmaije,  mac  Ruaibpi,  ~\  concobap  ua 
Diapmaoa,  Cacal  cappac  mac  concobaip  maonmaije,  -]  cacal  cpoiboeapg  mac 
roippbealbaij,  po  mapbaD  pocaiDe  froppa.  Oo  pome  TCuaibpi  ~[  a  mac  pi'6 
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,  ~|  Dopccam  la  concobap  maonmaije  mac  RuaiDpi,  -| 
la  sallaib.  Na  goill  peiyne  Do  ceacc  leip  co  popp  commain,  ~\  mac  Ruaibpi 
DO  cabaipc  cpi  mile  Do  buaib  Doib  i  ccuapapcal. 

Qrhlaoib  ua  muipfbaij  eppcop  apDamaca,  ~\  cenel  pfpabaigh  locpann 
polupca  no  poillpiccheaD  cuac  i  ecclap  Decc,  -|  pojapcac  ua  ceapballdin  Do 
oipDnfb  ma  lonaD. 

OiapmaiD  mag  capcaij  cijeapna  Dfpmurhan  Do  mapbaD  la  ^allaib  cop- 
caije. 

^Domnall  mac  jiolla  paccpaicc  cijeapna  oppaije  Do  ecc. 

QO1S  CR1O3D,  1186. 
Ctoip  CpiopD,  mile,  ceo,  occmogaD,  ape. 

TTlaolcallann  mac  aDaim  mic  cleipcein  eppcop  cluana  peapca  bpenainn 
DO  ecc. 

Oomnall  mac  ao6a  uf  laclamn  Do  cop  a  plairfp,  i  RuaiDpi  ua  plaich- 
beapcaij  DoipDneaD  la  Dpuing  Do  cenel  eojain  cealca  occ. 

r  The  death  of  this  bishop  is  thus  noticed  in  cuaic  7   eclaiy,  in  Chpipco    quieuic  i  nt)un 

the  Annals  of  Ulster:  "A.  D.  1185.  Qriilaim  Cpuenai,  7  a  cabaipc  co  h-onopac  co  t)aipi 

h-ua  TTIuipe&aij,  epiycopup  Qpomaca  7  cen-  Coluim  Gille,  7  a  aonucal  po  copaib  a  acap, 

mil  Gpaoaij,   locpann  polupca  no  poillpijeo  .1.  an  eppuic  h-ui  Cob'caij,   .1.  i  coeB  in  cem- 


1186.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  69 

the  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 
(John)  either  tribute  or  hostages. 

A  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 ;  Cathal  Carragh,  the  son  of  Conor  Moinmoy ;  and  Cathal  Crovderg,  the 
son  of  Turlough.  In  the  contests  between  them  many  were  slain.  Roderic 
and  his  son  afterwards  made  peace  with  the  other  chiefs. 

The  West  of  Connaught  was  burned,  as  well  churches  as  houses,  by  Don- 
nell  O'Brien  and  the  English. 

Cathal  Carragh,  the  son  of  Conor  Moinmoy,  who  was  the  son  of  Roderic, 
burned  Killaloe,  as  well  churches  as  houses,  and  carried  off  all  the  jewels  and 
riches  of  the  inhabitants.  Thomond  was  also  destroyed  and  pillaged  by  Conor 
Moinmoy,  the  son  of  Roderic,  and  by  the  English.  The  English  came  as  far  as 
Roscommon  with  the  son  of  Roderic,  who  gave  them  three  thousand  cows  as 


wages. 


Auliffe  O'Murray,  Bishop  of  Armagh  and  Kinel-Farry,  a  brilliant  lamp  that 
had  enlightened  clergy  and  laity,  diedr ;  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,  1186. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  eighty-six. 

Maelcallann,  son  of  Adam  Mac  Clerken,  Bishop  of  Clonfert-Brendau,  died. 
Donnell,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Loughlin,  died;  and  Rory  O'Flaherty  [O'La- 
verty]  was  elected  by  some  of  the  Kinel-Owen  of  Tullaghoge. 

^ 

paill  bic.  Thus  rendered  in  the  old  transla-  quievit  in  Dun  Cruthny,  and  [was]  brought  no- 
tion preserved  in  the  British  Museum  :  "  A.  D.  nourably  to  Dyry-Columkilly,  and  was  buried  at 
1 1 85.  Auliv  O'Mureay,  Bishop  of  Ardmach  his  father's  feete,  the  Bishop  O'Coffy,  in  the  side 
(Tirone)  and  Kindred-Feray,  a  bright  taper  that  of  the  church."  It  looks  very  odd  that  a  Bishop 
lightneth  spiritually  and  temporally,  in  C Arista  O'Murray  should  be  the  son  of  a  Bishop  O'Coffey! 


70 


[1186. 


Conn  ua  bpfiplein  (.1.  caoipeac  panac)  cainoeal  einij,  -|  jaipcceD  cuaip- 
cipc  Gpeann  Do  mapbab  la  mac  mic  laclainn,  -|  la  Dpeim  Do  cenel  eojain,  i 
imp  eojam  Dopccain  po  a  bicin  jion  50  paibe  cion  Doib  ann. 

T^iolla  paccpaicc  mac  an  jiolla  cuipp  coipeac  ua  mbpandin  Do  mapbab 
Id  Domnall  ua  laclainn  cpe  epail  muincipe  bpandm  po  oein. 

Ruaibpi  ua  concobaip  DO  lonnapbab  i  murhain  la  concobap  maonmaije 
la  a  mac  buoein.  Connaccaij  Do  milleao  fcoppa  Diblinib,  •]  cuccaD  e  Dia 
rip  DO  pibipi  cpe  comaiple  pil  muipeDaij,  -j  DO  paDacc  cpioca  ceo  Dpfpann 

DO. 

llugo  Delacn  TTlalapcac  ~\  Dipcaoilceac  ceall  niomDa  cicchpfna  jail 
TTlibe.  bpfipne,  i  aipjiall.  Qp  Do  Dna  DO  bfipci  cfop  Connacc.  Ctp  pe  po 
j;ab  fprhop  6ipfnn  Do  jallaib.  176  ba  Ian  mi'6e  uile  6  Shionainn  50  paippgi 
DO  caiplenaib  jail  lepp.  lap  ccaipccpin  lapam  caiplen  Dfprhai  je  66  cdimc 


s  Fanad  was  a  territory  in  the  north  of  Tir- 
Connell,  or  the  county  of  Donegal,  extending 
from  Lough  Swilly  to  Mulroy  Lough,  and  from 
the  sea  to  Rathmeltan.  In  the  old  translation 
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  Owen  spoyled  and  preyed  through  that, 
though  innocent  of  it"  [L  e.  of  the  crime,  cm  co 
paiBe  cm  ooib  ann]. 

1  Mac  Lougklin. — There  were  some  monarchs 
of  Ireland  of  this  family,  but  they  w.ere  at  this 
time  only  Lords  of  the  Kinel-Owen. 

u  Cpioca  c^o  signifies  a  cantred,  or  barony, 
containing  120  quarters  of  land.  It  is  thus  ex- 
plained by  Giraldus  Cambrensis  :  "  Dicitur  au- 
tem  cantaredus  tarn  Hibernica  quam  Britannica 
tanta  teme  portio  quanta  100.  villas  continere 

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"  by  Colgan,  in  Trias  Thaitm.,  p.  19,  col.  2, 
n.  51. 


w  Hugo  de  Lacy. — The  character  and  descrip- 
tion of  the  personal  form  and  appearance  of 
Hugo  de  Lacy,  is  thus  given  by  his  contempo- 
rary, Giraldus  Cambrensis  : 

"  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  ner- 
uoso.  Si  staturam  qusris,  exiguus.  Si  factu- 
ram,  defonnis.  Si  mores  :  firmus  ac  stabilis,  & 
Gallica  sobrietate  temperatus.  Negotiis  fami- 
liaribus  plurimum  intentus.  Commisso  quoque 
regimini,  rebusque  gerendis  in  commune  vigi- 
lantissimus.  Et  quanquam  militaribus  negotiis 
plurimum  instructus,  crebris  tamen  expeditio- 
num  iacturis,  Ducis  officio  non  fortunatus  :  post 
vxoris  mortem  vir  vxorius,  &  non  vnius  tantum, 
sed  plurimarum  libidini  datus  :  vir  auri  cupi- 
dus  &  auarus,  propriique  honoris  &  excellentia, 
trans  modes tiam  ambitiosus." — Hibernia  Expug- 
nata,  lib.  iL  cap.  20. 

*  Profaner,  malapcac. — This  word  is  used  in 
the  best  Irish  manuscripts,  in  the  sense  of  pro- 
faner  or  defiler,  and  the  verb  malapcuijim 
means,  I  defile,  profane,  curse.  The  following 


1186.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


71 


Con  O'Breslen,  Chief  of  Fanads,  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  Kinel- 
Owen ;  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  Moin- 
moy.  By  the  contests  between  both  the  Connacians  were  destroyed.  Roderic, 
however,  by  the  advice  of  the  Sil-Murray,  was  again  recalled,  and  a  triocha- 
ched"  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  having  finished  the  castle  of  Durrow2,  set  out,  accompanied  by 


examples  of  it  in  the  Leabkar  Breac,  fail.  19,  b,  b, 
will  prove  its  true  meaning  :  Uuip  ip  menic 
elmjchep  7  malapcaigchep  in  pobul  uili  cpia 
imapbup  aenbmne  ;  conio  aipe  pi  ip  coip  po 
ceooip  a  malaipcpium  nap  ob  juapochc  DO 
pochaioe  he  7  na  caecpac  cpia  pochamo.  "For 
it  is  often  that  all  the  people  are  corrupted  and 
defiled  through  the  crime  of  one  man ;  where- 
fore it  is  proper  to  excommunicate  him,  that  he 
may  not  be  dangerous  to  the  multitude,  and 
that  they  may  not  fall  through  him."  Also  at  fol. 
4,  b,  b,  Ocup  acbepim,  ol  pe,  a  beich  malapca, 
epcoicchenb  cpia  bichu.  "  And  I  say,  quoth  he, 
let  me  be  accursed,  excommunicated  for  ever." 
y  English  castles — For  a  curious  account  of  the 
castles  erected  by  Sir  Hugh  de  Lacy,  the  reader 
is  referred  to  Hibernia  Expugnata,  by  Giraldus 
Cambrensis,  cap.  19,  21,  and  22.  Besides  his 
Meath  castles  he  erected  one  at  New  Leighlin, 
in  Idrone,  called  the  Black  Castle ;  one  at  Tach- 
meho  now  Timahoe,  in  the  territory  of  Leix ; 
one  at  Tristerdermot,  now  Castledermot,  in  the 
territory  of  Hy-Muiredhaigh,  O'Toole's  original 
country ;  one  at  Tulachfelmeth,  now  Tullow,  in 


the  county  of  Carlow ;  one  on  the  Barrow,  near 
Leighlin  ;  and  one  at  Kilkea,  and  another  at 
Narragh,  in  the  present  county  of  Kildare. — 
See  also  Han-trier's  Chronicle,  Dublin  Edition, 
pp.  321,  322. 

*  Oaipmach,  now  Durrow,  situated  in  the 
north  of  the  King's  County,  and  close  to  the 
boundary  of  the  county  of  Westmeath,  where 
St.  Columbkille  erected  a  famous  monastery 
about  the  year  550.  See  Lanigan's  Ecclesiasti- 
cal History  of  Ireland,  vol.  iL  p.  118.  At  the 
period  of  the  erection  of  this  monastery,  Dur- 
row was  in  the  territory  of  Teffia,  and  the  site 
was  granted  to  St.  Columbkille  by  Brendan, 
Chief  of  Teffia,  the  ancestor  of  the  Irish  chieftain, 
Fox,  or  O'Caharny,  at  whose  instigation  Sir 
Hugh  de  Lacy  was  murdered.  Adamnan,  in 
his  Life  of  Columba,  thus  speaks  of  the  founda- 
tion of  a  monastery  in  this  place  by  St.  Columb- 
kille :  "  Vir  beatus  in  mediterranea  Hibernia; 
parte  Monasterium,  quod  Scotice  dicitur  Dar- 
maig,  divino  fundavit  nutu,"  See  his  Life  of 
Columba,  published  by  Colgan  in  Trias  Thaum., 
lib.  i.  cap.  31,  lib.  ii.  c.  2,  and  lib.  iii.  c.  19. 


72  aNNata  Rio^hacnca  emeawN.  [lisa 

amac  50  cqiian  jail  ina  coirhiOeacc  DO  Dechpain  an  cai^len.     Uainic  Din 
aon  occlac  jiolla  gan  lonacap  6  TTliabaij  Do  pfpaib  reachba  Dia  foijib  -] 


Venerable  Bede  has  the  following  notice  of 
the  erection  of  this  monastery  (Histor.  lib.  iii. 
c.  4): 

"Fecerat,  (Columba)  priusquam  Britanniam 
veniret  monasterium  nobile  in  Hibernia,  quod  a 
copia  Koborum  Dearmach  lingua  Scotorum,  hoc 
est,  Campus  Eoborum,  cognominatur." 

Camden  and  Mercator  thought  that  by  Dear- 
modi  in  this  passage,  Bede  meant  Armagh,  and 
the  former,  in  pp.  764,  765,  of  his  Hibernia, 
states,  that  a  celebrated  monastery  was  founded 
at  Armagh  by  Columba,  about  the  year  610 ;  but 
Ussher,  who  knew  Irish  topography  far  better 
than  either  of  these  writers,  proves  that  Dear- 
mach was  the  present  Durrow  in  the  King's 
County. 

"  Columba?  vero  Dearmach  eadem  ipsa  est 
quam  Giraldus  Cambrensis  (Hibern.  Expugnat. 
lib.  ii.  c.  34)  non  Dernach,  ut  habet  liber  editus, 
sed  ut  MSS.  Dervach  vel  Dermach  :  (literam 
enim  M  aspiratam  et  v  consonam  eadem  pene 
sono  Hiberni  efferunt:)  ubi  Midis  ilium  debel- 
latorem  Hugonem  de  Lacy,  a  securiltus  male  se- 
curum,  dolo  Hibernensium  suorum  interemptum 
fuisse  narrat.  In  regio  comitatu  ea  est,  Burrogf) 
vulgo  appellata :  qua?  monasterium  habuit  S. 
Columba?  nomine  insigne;  inter  cujus  Kn^^ia, 
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  dicta  Midenses  sacrum  habent)  diligent! 
cum  editione  vulgata  Latina  collatione  facta,  in 
tiostros  usus  variantium  lectionum  binos  libellos 
concinnavimus." — Primordia,  pp.  690,  691  ; 
•and  Britannicarum  Ecdesimum  Antiquitates, 
London,  1687,  p.  361. 

The  Rev.   Denis  Taaffe,    who   was   well  ac- 
quainted with   the  foregoing    passage,  asserts, 


nevertheless,  that  the  Darmaig  of  Adamnan  is 
Durrow,  in  the  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  G'Meyey.  —  There  are  several  families  of 
this  name  in  the  county  of  Westmeath,  and  in 
the  parish  of  Magheross,  in  the  county  of  Mo- 
naghan. 

Mr.  Moore,  in  his  History  oft  Ireland,  vol.  ii. 
p.  321,  states  that  De  Lacy  "  met  his  death  from 
a  hand  so  obscure,  that  not  even  a  name  remains 
associated  with  the  deed."  And  adds,  in  a  note : 
"  Several  names  have  been  assigned  to  the  per- 
petrator of  this  act,  but  all  differing  so  much 
from  each  other,  as  to  shew  that  the  real  name 
was  unknown.  Geoffry  Keating,  with  that  love 
of  dull  invention  which  distinguished  him,  de- 
scribes the  assassin  as  a  young  gentlemen  in  dis- 
guise." Keating's  account  of  this  murder  referred 
to  by  Mr.  Moore,  is  thus  given  in  Dr.  Lynch's 
translation  of  Keating's  History  of  Ireland  : 

"  Hugo  de  Lacy  Midiae  ab  Henrico  prapositus 
tan  to  illico  in  indigenas  seviendi  libidine  cor- 
reptus  est,  ut  nobilem  imprimis  in  eo  tractu 
Colmanorum  gentem  funditus  pene  deleverit, 
aliisque  regionis  illius  proceribus  insidias  dolose 
instruxerit,  et  laqueis  quas  tetenderat  irretitos 
vita  fortunis  spoliaverit.  Quidem  aiitem  e  no- 
bilitatis  flore  animosusjuvenis  indignissimam  hanc 
suorum  ceedem,  fortunarumque  jacturam  iniquis- 
simo  ferens  animo,  audax  sane  facinus  aggressus 
est.  Cum  enim  Hugo  condendo  castello  Durma- 
giae  in  Midia  teneretur  implicitus,  operarios  quos- 
cumque  idonea  mercede  conducens,  quibus  ita 
familiariter  usus  est,  ut  consortio  eorum  operis- 
que,  quandoque  se  immiscuerit ;  juvenis  itte  no- 
bilis  operarii  speciem  cultu  prae  se  ferens  operam 
suam  ad  hoc  opus  locavit,  confus  fore,  ut  facul- 


1186.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


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three  Englishmen,  to  view  it.     One  of  the  men  of  Teffia,  a  youth  named  Gilla- 
gan-inathar  O'Meyey",  approached  him,  and  drawing  out  an  axe,  which  he  had 


tatem  aliquando  nancisceretur  animam  illam 
tanti  suorum  sanguinis  profusione  cruentatam 
hauriendi ;  nee  sua  spe  frustratus  est ;  quadam 
enim  vice  Hugonem  graviter  in  opus  incumben- 
tem  conspicatus,  bipennem  alte  sublatum  in  ter- 
gum  ejus  adegit,  animam  que  domicilio  suo  ex- 
egit,  ac  extrusit." 

That  this  story  was  not  invented  by  the  honest 
Keating,  will  appear  from  the  following  entry  in 
the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  which 
was  transcribed  long  before  he  was  born. 

A.  D.  1186.  Uja  oe  6aci  .1.  malapcnc  7 
oipcailcec  neimeo  7  cell  Gpenri,  a  mapbao  i 
n-emech  coluitn  cille  ic  oenum  caipceoil  .1. 
a  ntJepmai^;  oo  mapbao  O'  O  ITIiaOaij  oo 
Cecba. 

"  A.  D.  1186.  Hugo  de  Lacy,  i.  e.  the  pro- 
faner  and  destroyer  of  the  sanctuaries  and 
churches  of  Ireland,  was  killed  in  revenge  of 
Columbkille,  while  making  a  castle  at  Durrow  ; 
he  was  killed  by  O'Meyey  of  Teffia." 

This  entry  is  thus  rendered  in  the  old  trans- 
lation of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  in  the  British  Mu- 
seum :  "  A.  D.  1186.  Hugh  de  Lacy  killed  by  a 
workman.  Hugh  de  Lacy,  spoyler  of  churches 
and  privileges"  [neimeb]  "  of  Ireland,  killed  by 
one  of  Brewny,  by  the  Fox  O'Catharny,  in  re- 
venge of  Colum  Kill,  building  a  castle  in  Dorow 
(his  Abby,  Anno  640  [540  ?j  ex  quo  fundata  est 
Dariajicclesia)."  It  will  be  seen  that  in  this  pas- 
sage the  translator,  who  was  well  acquainted 
with  the  English  accounts  of  the  murder  of  De 
Lacy,  renders  O'  miabaij,  by  "a  workman"  \ 
thus  :  "  Hugh  de  Lacy  killed  by  a  workman  of 
Tathva"  (DO  mapbao  O'  O  miaoaij  oo  Cecba). 
But  this  is  so  manifest  a  blunder  that  it  is  unne- 
cessary to  descend  to  particulars  to  refute  it ;  for 
O'  miaoui^  is  decidedly  a  family  name,  not 
meaning  descendant  of  the  labouring  man,  but 


descendant  of  the  honourable  man,  for  miao 
means  honour,  respect,  and  miaoac,  an  honour- 
able or  estimable  man.  In  the  record  of  the 
murder  of  Hugo  De  Lacy,  preserved  in  the  An- 
nals of  Kilronan,  it  is  stated  that  this  O'Meyey 
•was  the  fosterson  of  the  Fox,  Chief  of  Teffia.  The 
passage  is  very  curious  and  runs  as  follows  : 
"  A.  D.  1 186.  Uga  oe  6aci  oo  tDupmaj  Colaim 
cille,  oo  oenam  caiplem  inoci,  7  pluaij  oiaip- 
mioe  oo  jallaib  laip ;  uaip  ip  pe  pa  pij  Pflibe 
7  6pepni,  7  Gipjiall,  7  ip  bo  bo  bepca  cip 
Cotmacc,  7  po  gap  Gpmn  uile  oo  gallaib. 
Ro  po  Ian  Ono  Dlioi  o  Smamn  co  paipci  oo 
[recte  o'a]  caiplenaip,  7  oo  jallaib.  lap  craipc- 
pin  oo  in  rpaocuip  pin  .1.  caiplen  t)upmaije 
Oo  oenaim,  camic  atnacli  bo  pecham  an  caip- 
lein,  7  rpiap  bo  jallaib  laip.  Camic  Ono 
en  occlac  oo  pepuip  mioe  oa  inbpaije,  7  a 
cuajli  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 
eicip  ceno  7  colamo  a  clobh  an  caiplen." 
"  A.  D.  11 86.  Hugo  de  Lacy  went  to  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 
all  Ireland  for  the  English.  Meath,  from  the 
Shannon  to  the  sea,  was  full  of  his  castles,  and 
English  [followers].  After  the  completion  of 
this  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 
Fox  himself,  and  he  gave  him  one  blow,  so  that 
he  cut  off  his  head,  and  he  fell,  both  head  and 
body,  into  the  ditch  of  the  castle." 


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[1186. 


ruaj  po  a  coimm  laipy.  Oo  bfpc  builte  DO  llugo  gup  bfn  a  cfmT  Oe  gup 
cuic  ercip  cfnn  -j  colainn  i  cclaD  an  caiflen  i  neneac  colaim  cille.  Qjup 
Do  cuam  jiolla  jan  lonacap  Do  copa6  a  peaca  apy,  6  jallaib  -|  o  jaoiDealaib 


Now  it  is  quite  clear,  from  these  authorities, 
that  Mr.Moore  is  wrong  in  charging  Keating  with 
dull  invention  for  having  written  that  the  mur- 
derer of  De  Lacy  was  a  young  gentleman  in  dis- 
guise. He  should  have  remembered  that  Keating 
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- 
knowledge that  the  term  could  then  be  properly 
enough  applied  to  a  youth  who  had  been  fos- 
tered by  an  Irish  chief  of  vast  territorial  pos- 
sessions, till  he  had  been  deprived  of  them  by 
De  Lacy.  The  scheme  of  O'Meyey  could  have 
been  known  to  the  Irish  only.  The  English 
might  have  taken  it  for  granted  that  he  was  a 
labourer  at  the  castle.  But  after  all  there  seems 
to  be  no  original  English  authority  which  calls 
the  murderer  of  De  Lacy  a  labouring  man,  nor 
any  authority  whatever  for  it  older  than  Holing- 
shed.  Campion,  who  wrote  in  1571,  gives  the 
following  description  of  the  occurrence,  in  his 
Historic  of  Ireland.,  which  savqurs  really  of 
dull  invention :  "  Lacy  the  rather  for  these 
whisperings,  did  erect  and  edifie  a  number  of 
Castles,  well  and  substantially,  provided  in 
convenient  places,  one  at  Derwath,  where 
diverse  Irish  prayed  to  be  set  on  worke,  for 
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,  he  thought  it  no  small  token  of 
reformation  to  be  hoped,  for  which  cause  he 
visited  them  often,  and  merrily  would  command 
his  Gentlemen  to  give  the  labourers  example  in 
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, 


while  each  man  was  busie  to  try  his  cunning ; 
some  lading,  some  plaistering,  some  heaving, 
some  carving;  the  Generall  also  himselfe  digg- 
ing with  a  pykeaxe,  a  desperate  villain  of  them, 
he  whose  toole  the  Generall  used,  espying  both 
his  hands  occupied  and  his  body,  with  all  force 
inclining  to  the  blow,  watched  his  stoope,  and 
clove  his  head  with  an  axe,  little  esteeming  the 
torments  that  ensued"  [no  torments  ensued,  for 
the  murderer,  who  was  as  thin  as  a  greyhound, 
baffled  all  pursuit — ED.]  "  This  Lacy  was  con- 
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  Hanmer's  Chroni- 
cle, Dublin  Edition,  pp.  322,  323,  where  Han- 
mer  observes  of  the  tragical  end  of  De  Lacy  : 
"  Whose  death  (I  read  in  Holinshed)  the  king 
was  not  sorry  of,  for  he  was  always  jealous  of 
his  greatnesse." 

The  only  cotemporaneous  English  account  of 
this  event  are  the  following  brief  words  of  Gi- 
raldus  Cambrensis,  in  the  34th  chapter  of  the 
second  book  of  his  Hibernia  Expugnata,  which  is 
headed  Brevis  gestorum  recapitulatio :  "De  Hu- 
gonis  de  Lacy  a  securibus  male  securi  dolo  Hi- 
berniensium  suorum  apud  Dernach  [recte  Der- 
uach]  decapitatione."  Giraldus  would  cdH  both 
the  Fox  and  his  fosterson  O'Meyey  the  people 
of  De  Lacy,  inasmuch  as  they  were  inhabitants 
of  Meath,  of  which  he  was  the  chief  lord,  and 
of  which,  it  would  appear  from  William  of  New- 
burg,  he  intended  to  style  himself  king.  The 
Abbe  Mac  Geoghegan,  in  his  Histoire  d'Irlande, 
torn.  ii.  p.  36,  calls  the  murderer  of  De  Lacy  a 
young  Irish  lord  disguised  as  a  labouring  man, 
("un  jeune  seigneur  Irlandois  deguise  en  ouv- 


1186.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


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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, 
and  not  contradicted  by  the  Irish  annals  ;  but 
he  had  no  authority  for  stating  that  Symmachus 
O'Cahargy  (for  so  he  ignorantly  calls  an  Sin- 
nach  OC'aharny,  or  the  Fox,  Chief  of  Teffia), 
who  had  an  armed  force  concealed  in  a  neighbour- 
ing wood,  rushed  upon,  and  put  to  the  sword 
the  followers  of  De  Lacy  ;  or  that  the  Irish 
obtained  possession  of  his  body.  The  fact 
would  appear  to  be,  that  his  own  people  buried 
De  Lacy's  body  in  the  cemetery  of  Durrow, 
where  it  remained  till  the  year  1195,  when,  as 
we  learn  from  Grace's  Annals  and  other  autho- 
rities, the  Archbishops  of  Cashel  and  Dublin 
removed  it  from  the  Irish  territory  ("ex  Hy- 
bernica  plaga"),  and  buried  the  body  in  the 
Abbey  of  Bective  in  Meath,  and  the  head  in  St. 
Thomas's  church  in  Dublin.  It  appears,  more- 
over, that  a  controversy  arose  between  the  ca- 
nons of  St.  Thomas's  and  the  monks  of  Bective, 
concerning  the  right  to  his  body,  which  contro- 
versy was  decided,  in  the  year  1205,  in  favour 
of  the  former,  who  obtained  the  body,  and  in- 
terred it,  along  with  the  head,  in  the  tomb  of 

his  first  wife,  Rosa  de  Munemene See  Harris's 

Ware,  vol.  i.  p.  141,  and  the  Abbe  Mac  Geo- 
ghegan  (ubi  supra).  De  Lacy's  second  wife  was 
Rose,  daughter  of  King  Roderic  0' Conor,  whom 
he  married  in  the  year  1180,  contrary  (says 

Holingshed)  to  the  wishes  of  King  Henry  II 

See  Dublin  Copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen, 
A.  D.  1180,  and  Hanmer's  Chronicle,  Dublin 
Edition,  p.  318.  It  is  stated  in  Grace's  Annals 
of  Ireland,  that  this  Sir  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 

L 


Ulster.  It  also  appears  from  the  Irish  annals, 
that  De  Lacy  had,  by  the  daughter  of  King 
Eoderic  O'Conor,  a  son  called  William  Gorm  ; 
from  whom,  according  to  Duald  Mac  Firbis, 
the  celebrated  rebel,  Pierce  Oge  Lacy  of  Bruree 
and  Bruff,  in  the  county  of  Limerick,  who 
flourished  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth, 
was  the  eighteenth  in  descent ;  and  from  whom 
also  the  Lynches  of  Galway  have  descended. 
(See  Vita  Kirovani,  p.  9,  and  O'Flaherty's  Ac- 
count of  lar-Connaught,  printed  for  the  Irish 
Archaeological  Society,  p.  36.)  The  race  of 
Walter  and  Hugh,  who  were  evidently  the 
sons  of  Hugh  I.,  by  his  first  wife,  became  ex- 
tinct in  the  male  line.  Walter  left  two  daugh- 
ters, namely,  Margaret,  who  married  the  Lord 
Theobald  Verdon,  and  Matilda,  who  married 
Geoffry  Genevile.  Hugh  had  one  daughter, 
Maude,  who  married  Walter  De  Burgo,  who,  in 
her  right,  became  Earl  of  Ulster. — See  Han- 
mer's Chronicle,  Dublin  Edition,  pp.  387,  388, 
392.  For  the  different  accounts  of  the  death  of 
Hugh  de  Lacy  the  reader  is  referred  to  Guliel- 
mus  Neubrigensis,  or  William  of  Newburg,  1.  3, 
c.  9  ;  Holingshed's  Chronicle ;  Camden's  Bri- 
tannia, p.  151  ;  Ware's  Annals,  A.  D.  1186; 
Cox's  Hibernia  Anglicana,  p.  40 ;  Leland's  His- 
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,  perhaps,  be  out  of  place  here  to  re- 
mark, that,  in  our  own  time,  a  somewhat  similar 
disaster  occurred  at  Durrow;  for  its  proprietor, 
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  i  ccfnn  an  cpionnaij  q  ui  bpaoin,  uaip 
appiaD  po  pupdil  aip  an  ciapla  Do  mapbao. 

TTlupcha6  mac  cai&j  ui  ceallai^h  cijfpna  ua  mdine  Do  mapbaD  la 
concobap  maonmaije. 

O  bpfiplem  raoipeac  pdnac  hi  ccenel  cconaill  Do  mapbaD  ta  mac  mic 
laclamn. 

CIO1S  CR1OSO,  1187. 
Qoip  CpiopD  mile,  ceo,  ochcmojhac,  a  peachc. 

ITluipcfpcac  ua  maoiluibip  eppoc  cluana  peapca,  -\  cluana  mic  noip  Decc. 

TTlaoiliopa  ua  cfpbaill  eppucc  aipjiall  Decc. 

RuaiDpi  ua  plaichbfpcaij  cicchfpna  cenel  co-jam  Do  mapbaD  ap  cpec  i 
ccip  Conaill  la  hua  maoloopaij  .1.  plaicbfpcach. 

Cappacc  locha  ce  Do  lopccaD  Do  rene  Doaic.  T?o  baibfo  ~]  po  loipceab 
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  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. 

b  Kilclare,  Coill  a'  cldip — This  place,  which 
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- 

coursy  and  King's  County See  Ordnance  Map 

of  the  King's  County,  sheet  8. 

c  Maelisa  0' Carroll. — He  was  elected  Arch- 
bishop of  Armagh,  and  died  on  his  journey 
towards  Rome — See  Harris's  Ware,  vol.  i.  p. 
180. 

d  Lough  Key — The  Rock  of  Lough  Key,  cap- 
paic  loca  ce,  is  the  name  of  a  castle  on  an 
island  in  Lough  Key,  near  Boyle,  in  the  county 
of  Roscommon.  It  is  still  kept  in  good  repair. 

e  Magh  Luirg,  i.  e.  the  plain  of  the  track,  or  road, 


generally  anglicised  Moylurg.  The  district  is 
now  locally  called  the  "  Plains  of  Boyle."  This 
territory  was  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  River 
Boyle  ;  on  the  east  partly  by  the  Shannon  and 
partly  by  the  territory  of  Tir  Briuin  na  Sionna ; 
on  the  south  by  Magh  Naoi,  or  Machaire  Chon- 
nacht,  which  it  met  near  Elphin ;  and  on  the  west 
by  the  River  Bridoge,  which  divided  it  from  the 
district  of  Airteach.  Moylurg  extended  from 
Lough  O'Gara  toCarrick-on-Shannon;  from  the 
Curlieu  Mountains  to  near  Elphin;  and  from 
Lough  Key  to  the  northern  boundary  of  the  pa- 
rish of  Kilmacumshy.  Mac  Dermot  was  Chief 
of  Moylurg,  Airteach,  and  Tir  Tuathail ;  and  at 
the  time  of  dividing  the  county  of  Roscommon 
into  baronies,  these  three  territories  were  joined 
into  one,  and  called  the  barony  of  Boyle.  Lat- 


1187-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  77 

escape  from  the  English  and  Irish  to  the  wood  of  Kilclareb.  He  afterwards 
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  slain  by 
Conor  Moinmoy  [O'Conor]. 

O'Breslen,  Chief  of  Fanat  in  Tirconnell,  was  slain  by  the  son  of  Mac 
Loughlin. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1187. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  eighty-seven. 

Murtough  O'Maeluire,  Bishop  of  Clonfert  and  Clonmacnoise,  died. 

Maelisa  O'Carroll0,  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,). 

The  rock  of  Lough  Keyd  was  burned  by  lightning.  •  Duvesa,  daughter  of 
O'Heyne,  and  wife  of  Conor  Mac  Dermot,  Lord  of  Moylurge,  with  seven  hun- 
dred (or  seven  scoref)  others,  or  more,  both  men  and  women,  were  drowned 
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. 

terly,  however,  by  a  Grand  Jury  arrangement,  of  Taghboyne,  or  Tibohine." 
the  south-west  part  of  the  barony  of  Boyle  has          (  Seven  score  is  interlined  in   the  original : 

been  called  the  barony  of  French-Park,  from  the  the  compilers  could  not  determine  which  was 

little  town  of  that  name — See  other  references  the  true  number,  and  so  gave  the  two  readings, 

to  Moylurg  at  the  years  1446  and  1595.     The  In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  it 

following  parishes  are  placed  in  the  deanery  of  is  stated  that  the  number  destroyed  on  this  occa- 

Moylurg   by  the  Liber  Regalis   Visitationis  of  sion  was  "un.  cec,  no  ni  ip  moo,"  and  in  the  old 

1615;  but  it  must  be  understood  that  by  Moy-  translation,  the  number  700  is  written  in  Ara- 

lurg  is  there  meant  all  Mac  Dermot's  lordship,  bic  figures.     Thus  :  "  A.  D.  1187.  The  Carrick 

which  comprised  Moylurg  (now  the  plains  of  of  Lough  Ce  burnt  at  noone,  where  the  daugh- 

Boyle),  TirTuathail  andAirteach;  viz.  Kilnama-  ter  of  O'Heiyn  was  burnt  and  drowned.     Coner 

nagh;  Ardcarne;  Killumod;  Assylin,  now  Boyle  Mac  Dermot,   King  of  Moyloyrg,   and  700  or 

parish;  Taghboin,  now  Tibohine;  Killcoulagh;  more,  men  and  women,  were  burnt  and  drowned 

Killewekin,  now  Kulluckin,  in  Irish  Cill  GiBi-  within  an  hower." 

cin  ;    Kilrudan,    Clonard,   and   Killicknan,    be-          The  burning  of  this  fortress  is  recorded  in  the 

longing  then  (as  they  now  also  do)  to  the  parish  Annals  of  Kilronan,  at  the  years  1 185  and  1 187; 


78 


[1187- 


Caiplen  cille  dip  DO  lopccaD  ~\  Do  rhupaD  pop  jallaib  la  concobap 
mafnmaije  -]  la  maelpechlamn  mbecc  cona  cepna  p^eolanja  uaca  jan 
mapbaD,  -\  muDhucchaDh.  Cuccpac  a  bpoibb,  a  naipm,  apceic,  alluipeacha, 
-]  a  neocha  leo,  -\  po  mapbaicc  ofp  Do  piDepibh  leo. 

Oonnchaoh  ua  puaipc  Do  mapbaoh  la  muincip  eolaip  hi  ppiull. 

Opuimcliabh  Do  opccain  Do  mac  TTlaelpeachlainn  ui  puaipc  Do  njeapna 
ua  mbpiuin  -]  conmaicne,  -|  Do  mac  cacail  hui  puaipc,  -|  goill  miDe  aniaille 
ppiu.  Do  poine  Dia,  ~\  coluim  cille  piopr  ampa  innpin,  uaip  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 
colaim  cille.  l?o  mapbaD  Dna  pe  pichic  Dafp  jpdoa  mfic  Hlaoilpechlamn 
ap  puD  conmaicne,  -\  caipppe  Dpoma  cliabh  cpe  miopbail  De,  -|  coluim  cille. 

TTlac  Diapmacra,  TTIuip^fp  mac  raiDcc,  cigfpna  muije  luipcc  Decc  ina 
cigh  pfm  ap  claonloch  hi  ccloinn  cuain. 

Rajnall  mag  cochlain  ciccfpna  Dealbna  Do  ecc. 

QoD  mac  maoileachlainn  ui  puaipc  njeapna  bpeipne  Do  mapbaD  la 
macaib  cuinn  meg  paghnaill. 

Qipeaccach  mac  amalgaiD  caoipeac  calpaije  Do  ecc. 


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  An- 
nals of  Boyle  the  burning  of  Carraic  Locha  Ce 
is  recorded  under  the  year  1186,  but  the  num- 
ber destroyed  is  not  mentioned. 

8  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  Lei- 
trim.  Their  country  was  otherwise  called  Magh 
Rein  ;  and  they  were  as  often  called  Conmaicne 
Maighe  Rein,  as  Muintir-Eolais. 

11  Drumdiff,  Dpuim  cliaB — A  small  village 
in  the  barony  of  Carbury,  and  county  of  Sligo, 
remarkable  for  the  remains  of  an  ancient  round 
tower.  O'Donnell,  in  his  Life  of  St.  Columb- 
kille,  states  that  a  monastery  was  founded  here 
by  that  saint.  This  is  doubted  by  Dr.  Lanigan, 
in  his  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  ii. 


pp.  132-137 ;  but  it  must  be  acknowledged  that 
St.  Columbkille  was  held  in  peculiar  veneration 
at  this  place,  and  was  regarded  as  its  patron— 
See  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys  at  9th  of  June. 

1  Son  of  Mdagklin. — His  name  was  Aedh,  or 
Hugh,  according  to  the'  Dublin  copy  of  the  An- 
nals of  Ulster. 

J  In  revenge  of  Columbkille,  i  rieneac  colaim 
cille. — This  phrase,  which  occurs  so  frequently 
throughout  the  Irish  annals,  is  rendered  "  in 
revenge  of  Columkill"  in  the  old  translation  of 
the  Annals  of  Ulster,  preserved  in  the  British 
Museum,  in  which  the  above  passage  is  rendered 
as  follows:  "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 
shewed  a  miracle  for  Columkill  there,  for  Moy- 
laghlin's  son  was  killed  two  weeks  after,  and 


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The  castle  of  Killare,  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. 

Donough  O'Kourke  was  treacherously  slain  by  the  Muintir-Eolaiss. 

DrumclifP  was  plundered  by  the  son'  of  Melaghlin  O'Rourke,  Lord  of  Hy- 
Briuin  and  Conmaicne,  and  by  the  son  of  Cathal  O'Rourke,  accompanied  by 
the  English  of  Meath.  But  God  and  St.  Columbkille  wrought  a  remarkable 
miracle  in  this  instance;  for  the  son  of  Melaghlin'  O'Rourke  was  killed  in  Con- 
maicne 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  hun- 
dred 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  slain  by  the 
sons  of  Con  Mag  Rannal. 

Aireaghtagh  Mac  Awley,  Chief  of  Calry,  died1. 

Cathel's  son  was  blinded,  with  whom  the  army  him,  and  placed  himself  under  the  protection 

came,    in  O'Moyldory's  house,    in   revenge   of  of  Mac  Dermot,   Chief  of  Moylurg See  Tribes 

Columkill,  and  a  hundred  and  twenty  of  the  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrack,  printed  in  1844, 

chief'est"  [followers]  "of  the  sons  of  Moylaghlin  for  the   Irish   Archaeological  Society,   pp.  163, 

were  killed  in  Conmacne  and  Carbry  of  Drum-  204,  205.     The  name  Claonloch  is  now  forgot- 

klew,  through  the  miracles  of  Columkill."  ten ;  it  was  probably  the  ancient  name  of  the 

k  Clann-Chuain,  Clonn  Chuam,  called  also  lake  of  Castlebar,  for  we  learn  from  the  Book 

Fir  Thire  and  Fir  Siuire  ;  their  territory  com-  of  Lecan  that  the  Clann  Chuain  were  seated  on 

prised  the  northern  part  of  the  barony  of  Carra,  the  River  Siuir,  which  flows  through  the  town 

in  the  county  of  Mayo,   and  was  originally  a  of  Castlebar. 

portion    of  the    country    of  O'Dowda,    under          '  Chie/of  Calry,   raoipeac  calpaije,  that  is, 

whom  it  was  held  by  O'Quin  of  Carra;  but  about  of  Calry-an-chala,   which,  according  to  the  tra- 

the  year  1150,  O'Quin,   in  consequence  of  the  dition  in  the  country,   and  as  can  be  proved 

barbarous  conduct  of  Rory  Mear  O'Dowda,  who  from  various  written  authorities,  comprised  the 

violated  his  daughter  while  on  a  visit  at  his  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. 

doip  CpiopD  mile,  ceD,  ochcmojac,  a  hochr. 

TTlaptain  ua  bpolaijh  aipoeccnaiD  jaoi&eal  -|  pfp  Ifiginn  CtpDa  mocha 
Do  ecc. 

QeDh  ua  bechan  eppcop  innpi  cacaij  Do  ecc. 

Clmlaoib  ua  Daijpe  Oo  cocc  co  hi  Dia  oilicpe,  -]  a  ecc  ann  lap  naicpighe 
coccai&e. 

T?uai6pi  ua  canannain  cijfpna  cinel  cconaill  ppi  hf6,  i  pioghDarhna 
Gpeann  bfop  t>o  mapbaD  la  plaicbfpcac  ua  maoloopaiD  cpe  mebail  ace 
Dpoichfc  Sliccighe  lap  na  bpeccaD  Do  lap  opomacliabh  amach,  -\  bparaip 
ele  DO  Do  mapbaD  amaille  ppip,  -[  Dpfm  Dia  riiumncip.  Tnagnap  ua  gaipb 
roipeac  pfp  nopoma  (po  imbip  larh  ap  ua  ccanannain)  Do  mapbab  la  muinn- 
np  eachmapcaij  ui  Dochapcaij  i  nDiojail  uf  canannam. 

Oorhnall  ua  canamidin  Do  Ifopab  a  coipi  Dia  ruaij  pfin  i  nDoipe  ace 
bfin  apcclamje  connaiDh,  -\  a  ecc  De  cpia  eapccaine  pamca  colaim  cille. 

^oill  caipceoil  riiaije  coba,  ~\  Dpong  Do  uib  eachDach  ulaD  Do  cocc  ap 
cpeich  i  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 

m  CPBroly,  O6polaij — This  name  still  exists  pp.  2-7-  It  continued  to  be  the  seat  of  a  bishop 

in  Derry,  anglicised  Brawly  and  Broly.     This  till  about  this  period  (1188),  when  it  seems  to 

passage  is  given  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  An-  have  been  united  to  the  see  of  Limerick.   Ussher, 

nals  of  Ulster,  as  follows  :  A.  D.  1188.  Hlapcam  however,  who  thought  that  it  owed  its  origin 

hua  bpolaij   apoecnaib  joeibel   uile,   7   apt>  to  St.  Patrick,  informs  us  that  its  possessions 

pep  leiftinn  aipb  maca  DO  ec.     And  thus  ren-  were  divided  between  the  sees  of  Limerick,  Kil- 

dered  in  the  old  English  translation  in  the  Bri-  laloe,  and  Ardfert :  "  Atq;  hie  notandum,  Patri- 

tish  Museum  :   "A.  D.  1188.  Martan  O'Brolay,  cium  in  metropoli  Armachana  successore  relicto 

archlearned  of  the  Irish  all,  and  archlector  of  ad  alias  Ecclesias  constituendas    animum  adje- 

Armagh,  died."  cisse :  in  quibus  sedes  ilia  Episcopalis  fuit  in 

n  Inis- Cathy,  Imp  Carai£ Now  called  Scat-  Sinei  (Sljanan)  fluminis  alveo,  Inis  catti  &  eodem 

tery  Island.    It  is  situated  in  the  Shannon,  near  sensu    in    Provinciali    Romano    Insula    Cathay 

the  town  of  Kilrush,  and  is  remarkable  for  the  appellata.     Is  Episcopatus  inter  Limiricensem, 

remains  of  several  churches,  and  a  round  tower  Laonensem  &  Ardfertensem  hodie   divisus." — 

of  great  antiquity.     A  church  was  founded  here  Primordia,  p.  873. 

by  St.  Senan,  a  bishop,  about  the  year  540 See          °  Sincere  penitence,   iap  naicpijhe  roccaibe, 

Lanigan's  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Ireland,  vol.ii.  literally,  after  choice  penance. — This  phrase  is 


1188.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  81 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1188. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  eighty-eight. 

Martin  O'Broly™,  chief  Sage  of  the  Irish,  and  Lector  at  Armagh,  died. 

Hugh  O'Beaghan,  Bishop  of  Inis-Cathyn,  died. 

Auliffe  O'Deery- performed  a  pilgrimage  to  Hy  [lona],  where  he  died  after 
sincere  penitence0. 

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'Ca- 
nannan were  also  killed  by  him.  Manus  O'Garve,  Chief  of  Fir-Droma  (who 
had  laid  violent  hands  on  O'Canannan),  was  afterwards  slain  by  the  people  of 
Eachmarcach  O'Doherty,  in  revenge  of  O'Canannan's  death. 

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  Columbkillep. 

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- 
Neillr,  where  they  seized  on  some  cows;  Donnell  O'Loughlin  pursued  them 

very  frequently  given  in  Latin  in  the  Annals  "  while  cutting,"  and  this  is,  in  the  opinion  of 

of  Ulster  thus  :  "  in  bona  penitentia  quievit,"  or  the  Editor,  the  true  reading. 

"  in  bona  penitentia  mortuus  est."  1  Moy-Cova,  maj  coba,  a  plain  in  the  ba- 

p  Columbkille — In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  An-  rony  of  Upper  Iveagh,  in  the  county  of  Down. 

nals  of  Ulster  this  passage  reads  as  follows  :  A.  D.  Its  situation  appears  from  the  position  of  the 

1 188.  t)omnall  hua  canannan  oo  lecpao  a  coipi  church  of  Domhnach  Mor  Muighe  Cobha,  now 

Dip  cuaij  pem  t  n&aipe  i  juic  apclainne  con-  Donaghmore,  a  parish  lying  nearly  midway  be- 

naio,  7  a  ec  be  cpia  mipbail  coluim  cille  ;  and      tween  Loughbrickland  and  Newry See  Feilire 

thus  translated  in  the  old  work  already  referred  Aenguis,  at  16th  November, 
to:  "A.  D.  1188.  DonellO'Cananancuthis  foote  T  Leim-mhic-Neill,  i.  e.  the  leap  of  the  son  of 
by  his  oune  hatchet  in  Dyry"  [when  stealing]  "  a  Niall. — This  was  the  name  of  a  place  near  Dun- 
tree  for  fewell,  and  died  thereof  through  Colum-  gannon,  in  Tyrone,  called  after  Donnagan,  the 
kille's  miracles."  Here  it  is  to  be  remarked  that  son  of  Niall,  who  was  son  of  Maelduin,  the  son 
i  ^uir  is  left  untranslated;  it  means  "  stealing,"  of  Aedh  Oirdnighe,  monarch  of  Ireland,  who 
or  "while  stealing."  In  the  Annals  of Kilronan,  died  in  the  year  819-— See  Duald  Mac  Firbis's 
the  reading  is  aj  buam,  i.  e.  "cutting,"  or  Pedigrees  of  the  Kinel-Owen,  p.  126. 

M 


82  aNNdta  Riojjhachca  eiReawN.  [iiss. 

hi  ccaban  na  ccpann  apt),  t>o  paccpac  lomaipecc  Dm  poile,  po  Tncut>h  pop 
jallaib,  po  cuipfo  a  nap.  Oo  paOaD  eirh  pa&aoh  Do  jallja  pop  Dorhnall  a 
aenap,  -|  copchaip  innpin  hi  ppioqjuin  cijfpna  Qilijn,  Dorhnall  mac  aoDa  hui 
laclainn,  piojbarhna  Gpeann  ap  cpur,  ap  ceill,  -\  ap  cpebaipe.  RuccaD  an 
la  pin  pfin  50  hapDmaca.  17o  haDnaicfb  co  nonoip,  -|  co  naipmibin  moip 
laparii. 

6oaom  mjfn  ui  cuinn  bainnjepna  murhan  bai  aja  hoilicpe  i  nDoipe  oecc 
iap  mbpfirh  buaba  6  Dorhan  -|  o  Dfrhan. 

Sluaicceab  la  lohn  Do  cuipc  i  la  jallaib  Gpeann  hi  cconnaccaib  amaille 
le  concobap  ua  noiapmacca.  CionoiliD  pf  connacc  .1.  concobap  maon- 
maije  maice  connacc  uile.  Uainic  Dorhnall  ua  bpiain  co  nDpuing  Do  pfpaib 
TTlurhan  i  pochpairce  pijh  connacc.  Loipcic  na  501 II  apaill  DO  ceallaib  na 
cipe  pfmpa.  Ni  po  Ificcic  pccaoileaD  Doib  co  pan^accap  eapDapa.  ba 
Do  ceacc  i  ccip  conaill  on,  uaip  na  po  Ificcpiocc  connaccaij  map  pia  Dia 
ccfp  iaD.  lap  bpiop  pccel  Do  ua  maoloopaiD  Do  plaicbepcac,  ceajlomaiD 
piDe  cenel  conaill  na  ccoinne  co  Dpuim  cliabh.  OD  cualaDap  na  joill  pin 
po  loipccpfo  eapDapa  co  Ifip.  SoaiD  cap  a  naipp.  CiajaiD  ip  in  coipp- 
pliab.  Oo  beapcpaD  connaccaij  ~\  pip  murhan  arnrnup  poppa.  TDapbaiD 
pochaiDe  rhoip  Dib.  pdccbaiD  na  goill  an  cip  ap  eccin,  "|  nf  po  rhillpfo  a 
beacc  Don  chup  pin. 

iCavannaff-crannard,CaKan  na  ccpann  apo,  Leabhar  Breac,  fol.  52,  b,  and  104,  a;  but  the 

i.  e.  the  hollow  of  the  high  trees.     This  name  Editor  has  translated  it  throughout  by  "  the 

does  not  now  exist  in  Tyrone,  nor  does  it  occur  heat  of  the  conflict,"  or  "thick  of  the  battle." 

in  the  Ulster  Inquisitions,  or  Down   Survey.  u  Spear. — 5a^'/5cn  is  rendered  a  pike  in  the 

There  are  two  townlands  called  Cavan-O'Neill  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  thus  : 

in  the  county  of  Tyrone,  one  in  the  parish  of  "  A  thrust  of  a  Pike  was  given  the  King  among 

Kildress,  near  Cookstown,  and  another  in  the  all,  and  fell  there  unhappily,  viz.    Donell  mac 

parish  of  Aghaloo,  near  Caledon.     Dr.  Stuart,  Hugh  O'Loghlin,  King  of  Ulster  [Aileach]  and 

in  his  Historical  Memoirs  of  the  City  of  Armagh,  heire  of  Ireland  for  personage,   witt,  liberality 

p.  163,  thinks  that  this  is  the  place  now  called  and  housekeeping,  and  was  caried  the  same  day 

Cavanacaw,   situated  within  two  miles  of  Ar-  to  Armagh  and  was  honerably  buried." 

magh  on  the  Newry  road;  but  this  is  far  from          '  OfO'Quin,  Ui  Cliuinn This  was  O'Quin, 

being  certain.  Chief  of  Muintir-Iffernan  in  Thomond,  now  re- 

1  Heat  of  the  conflict,  hi  ppiorsutn. — The  word  presented  by  the  Earl  of  Dunraven.     The  situ- 

pniocjuin,  which  occurs  so  frequently  in  these  ation  of  the  territory  of  O'Quin,  from  whom 

Annals,  literally  means,  the  retort,  or  return  of  Inchiquin  derives  its  name,   is   thus    given  in 

the  assault,  or  onset,  or  the  exchange  of  blows  ;  O'Heerin's  topographical  poem  : 


1188.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  83 

with  his  retainers,  and  overtook  them  at  Cavan  na  g-crann  ard5,  where  an  en- 
gagement took  place  between  them;  and  the  English  were  defeated  with  great 
slaughter.  But  Donnell,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Loughlin,  Lord  of  Aileach,  and 
presumptive  heir  to  the  throne  of  Ireland,  on  account  of  his  personal  sym- 
metry, 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. 

Edwina,  daughter  of  0'Quinv,  and  Queen  of  Munster,  died  on  her  pilgri- 
mage at  Derry,  victorious  over  the  world  and  the  devil. 

John  de  Courcy  and  the  English  of  Ireland  made  an  incursion  into  Con- 
naught,  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 
delay  until  they  reached  Eas-dara  ( Bally sadare),  with  the  intention  of  passing 
into  Tirconnell,  because  the  Connacians  would  not  suffer  them  to  tarry  any 
longer  in  their  country. 

As  soon  as  O'Muldory  (Flaherty)  had  received  intelligence  of  this,  he 
assembled  the  Kinel-Conell,  and  marched  to  DrumclifF  to  oppose  them.  When 
the  English  heard  of  this  movement,  they  burned  the  entire  of  Ballysadare,  and 
returned  back,  passing  by  the  Curlieu  mountains,  where  they  were  attacked  by 
the  Connacians  and  Momonians.  Many  of  the  English  were  slain,  and  those 
who  survived  retreated  with  difficulty  from  the  country,  without  effecting  much 
destruction"  on  this  incursion. 

t)'  O'Chumn  an  cpome  neamnaip  Don  cup  pin.  "  And  the  English  left  the  country 

ITIuincip  paippm^  Ipepnam;  without  doing  much  damage  on  this  occasion." 

dp  copam  an  jille  jlom  In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  it 

pa  copa  pmne  plea&oi^.  reads:  pacbaic  na  jaill  in  cip  ap  eicin  cen  a 

"  To  O'Quin  of  the  good  heart  belongs  becc  D0  &leu6'  which  is  rather  incorrectly  ren- 

The  extensive  Muintir-Ifernan  ;  dered'  "  And  left  the  Countl7  b7  foroe  without 

The  fertile  district  of  this  splendid  man  much  fiSht'"  in  the  old  translation  in  the  Bri- 

Is  at  the  festive  Corafin."  tish  Museum. 

It  is  added  in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  that 

w  Much  destruction,  7  ni  po  millpeo  a  beacc.  Murrough,  the  son  of  Farrell  O'Mulrony,  and 

In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  the  reading   is  :    7  O'Madden,  and  many  others  [alii  midti  mm  eis], 

o  na  guill  in  cip  cen  a  bee  bo  milleo  were  slain  at  the  Curlieus  on  this  occasion. 

M  2 


• 

84  cn-wata  Rio^hachca  eireeaNN.  [1189- 

Cpeach  la  gallaib  ulaD  pop  cenel  neojhain  co  pujupcoip  oorhnall  mac 
aoDa  uf  lachloinn  njeapna  cenel  neojhain  poppu,  -]  po  chuippfc  dp  pop 5al' 
laib,  -|  arpochaip  Domnall  i  ppiocshum  an  chacha  pin. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1189. 
Qoip  Cpiopo,  mile,  ceo,  ocrmojao,  anaoi. 

TTlaolcamnij  ua  pfpcomaip  pep  leccinn  Doipe  Do  bachaD  eccip  dipt)  -| 
imp  eojain. 

Qpomaca  Do  opccain  la  hiohn  Do  cuipc  -]  la  jallaib  Gpeann  ina  pochaip. 

GpDmaca  DO  lopccaD  o  cpoppaib  bpijDe  co  pecclfp  bpiccDi  eccip  pair, 
1  cpian,  "]  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,  ~\ 
DO  paD  ua  cfpbaill  -|  ua  maolpuanaiD  racap  Doib.  TTlaiDiD  pop  ua  ccfp- 
baill,  -]  mapbcap  ua  maolpuanaiD. 

Concobap  maonmaije  (.1.  mac  TCuaiDpi)  aipD  pi  connacc  eiccip  gallaib 
1  jaoiDealaib  Do  mapbaD  la  Dpuinj  Dia  rhuincip  pfm  -\  Dia  oipecr  .1.  la 

*  Aird  is  now  called  Ardmagilligan  and  Tarn-  year  1 165.     This  passage  is  rendered  as  follows 

laght-ard  ;  it  is  a  parish,  situated  in  the  north-  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster : 

west  extremity  of  the  county  of  Londonderry,  "A.  D.  1189.  Murogh  O'Carroll,  Archking  of 

and  is  separated  from  luishowen  by  the  straits  Argiall,  died  in  the  greate  Abbey  of  Meliibnt 

of  Loughfoyle.     That  part  of  this  parish  which  after  good  repentance." 

verges  on  Lough  Foyle  is  low  and  level ;  but  *  Egkmily,  Gciinilio. — This  name,  which  is  an- 

the  high  mountain  of  6eann  Poibne,  now  Ben-  glicised  Eghmily  in  the  old  translation  of  the 

eveny,  is  situated  in  the  southern  part  of  it,  from  Annals  of  Ulster,  and  Acholy,  in  the  Ulster  In- 

whsBCe  it  has  got  the  name  of  Ard,  or  height.  quisitions,  is  compounded  of  ech,  Lat.  equus,  a 

i  The  Great  Monastery,  i.  e.  the  Abbey  of  Melli-  horse,  and   mrlio,   Lat.  miles,  a  soldier.     The 

font,  iu  the  county  of  Louth  which  was  erected  country  of  Mac  Cann  is  shewn  on  an  old  map 

by  Donough  O'Carroll,  Chief  of  Oriel,  in  the  preserved  in  the  State  Papers'  Office,  London, 


1189.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  85 

The  English  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  Kinel-Owen ;  but  Donnell  himself  fell  fighting  in  the  heat  of  the  battle. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1189. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  eighty-nine. 

Mulkenny  O'Fearcomais,  Lector  of  Derry,  was  drowned  between  Airdx 
(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 
Monastery y. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Murtough  Mac  Loughlin,  was  slain  by  the  English  of 
Dalaradia  while  he  was  [staying']  amongst  them. 

Eghmily*,  the  son  of  Mac  Cann,  the  happiness  and  prosperity  of  all  Tyrone, 
died. 

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  tribeb ;  i.  e.  by  Manus, 

as  the  north-eastern  angle  of  the  county  of  Ar-          b  His  own  tribe This  passage  reads  as  follows 

magh,  which  borders  on   Lough   Neagh,    and  in  the  Annals  of  Ulster :  ConcoBup  maenmaiji, 

through  which  the  River  Bann  flows  on  its  way  mac    Ruampi,   aipopi   Connacc,   7   pioamnu 

into  that  lake.  Gpenn  uile,  oo  tnapbao  oa  luce  jpaoa  pein 

*  O'Mulrony,  O'TTIaotpuancnb. — There  were  cpia  epail  a  Bparap;  and  is  thus  rendered  in 

many  distinct  families  of  this  name  in  Ireland,  the  old  translation :    "  Coner  Moynmoy   mac 

The  O'Mulrony  here  mentioned,   was   of  the  Koary,  archking  of  Connaught,  and  to  be  king 

same  race  as  Maguire,  by  whom  the  former,  as  of  Ireland,  was  killed  by  his  minions,  by  his 

well  as  O'Hegny,  who  was  by  far  more  illus-  brother's  advice.'' 
trious,  was  soon  after  subdued. 


86 


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TTlajnup  mac  ploinn  ui  pinacca  (oia  njoipci  an  cpopac  Donn),  -\  la  haoDh 
mac  bpiain  bpeipnij  mic  coippDelbaij  ui  concobaip,  -j  la  TTluipcepcac  mac 
cacail  mic  Diapmaca  mic  caiDg,  -]  la  giolla  na  naom  mac  giollacomam,  mic 
muipfoaij  bain  ui  maoil  TTlicil  Dona  cuacaib.  TTlaips  oipeacc  po  cogaip 
a&bap  aipo  pigh  Gpeann  DO  rhapbaD,  uaip  cuccpac  upmop  Ifice  mojha  a 
ccfnnup  Do  pia  piu  po  mapbaD,  Ooij  cairncc  Oomnall  ua  bpiain  Dia  cij  50 
Dun  leooa,  •]  boi  pfccmam  ina  pappaD,  -\  cue  cpf  picic  bo  jaca  cpioca  ceD  hi 
cconnaccaib  Do,  -j  .p.  peoiD  50  nop,  -|  ni  puce  ua  bpiain  Dib  pin  uile,  ace  copn 
Diapmaca  ui  bpiain  a  pfnarap  pfin,  i  Do  baf  RuaiDpi  mac  Dinnnplebe  pi 
ula6  ina  cij,  ~\  Do  bai  Domnall  mag  cdpcaij  ci jeapna  Dfpmuman  ina  1:155  -| 
DO  paD  pom  cuapupcal  mop  DO  .1.  cuicc  eich  jaca  cpiocaic  cec  hi  cconnac- 
caib. bai  TTlaelpeaclainn  bfg  pi  cfmpa  ina  cigh,  -|  puce  cuapupcal  mop 
Ifip,  i  bai  ua  puaipc  ina  cij,  i  puce  cuapupcal  mop  Ifip. 

lap  mapbab  Concobaip  maonmaiji  canjup  6  piol  muipeaDaij  ap  cfnD 
T7uai6pi  ui  Choncobaip  pi  Gpeann  Do  cabaipc  pije  Do  mp  necc  a  mic,  ~|  6  pdnaic 


c  Croisach  Dorm,  Cpopac  t)onn. — The  word 
cpopac  means  streaked,  seamed,  or  marked  with 
crosses,  and  was  probably  applied  to  O'Finaghty, 
from  having  had  the  cicatrices,  or  seams  of  wounds 
intersecting  each  other  on  his  face.  Shane 
O'Mullan,  a  celebrated  highwayman,  who  flou- 
rished in  the  county  of  Londonderry  about  one 
hundred  years  since,  was,  according  to  tradition, 
called  Shane  Crosach,  from  having  his  face  co- 
vered with  scars  of  this  description. 

d  The  Tuathas — Generally  called  Ceopa  Cua- 
rha,  i.  e.  the  three  districts.  These  were  Tir 
Briuin  na  Sinna,  Kinel  Dofa,  and  Corachlann. 
The  tripartite  territory  called  the  Teora  Tuatha 
formed  a  deanery  in  the  diocese  of  Elphin,  com- 
prising the  ten  parishes  following,  viz.,  Aughrim, 
Kilmore,  Clooncraff,  Kiltrustan,  Kilglass,  Bum- 
lin,  Termonbarry,  Cloonfinlough,  Lissonuffy, 
Kilgefin,  and  Cloontuskert. — See  Liber  Regalis 
Visitationis  of  1615,  and  Colgan's  Trias  Thaum., 
p.524,  where,  speaking  of  the  church  of  Kilgefin, 
he  points  out  its  situation  thus  :  "  Killgeuian 
ecclesia  parochialis  Dircccsis  Alfinensis  in  regione 


et  decanatu  de  Tuatha."  From  these  authorities 
it  is  clear  that  the  territory  called  the  Tuatha,  or 
Three  Tuathas,  comprised  that  part  of  the  county 
of  Eoscommon  extending  from  the  northern 
point  of  Lough  Eee  to  Jamestown,  on  the  Shan- 
non, from  Jamestown  to  near  Elphin,  and  thence 
again  to  Lough  Kee.  It  was  bounded  on  the  east 
by  the  River  Shannon ;  on  the  north  by  the  Shan- 
non and  the  territory  of  Moylurg ;  on  the  west 
by  Sil-Murray,  or  the  Plain  of  Connaught ; 
and  on  the  south  by  the  modern  Hy-Many.— 
See  Map  prefixed  to  the  Tribes  and  Customs  of 
Hy-Many,  published  in  1843,  by  the  Irish  Ar- 
chasological  Society.  According  to  these  an- 
nals, and  to  O'Dugan's  topographical  poem,  the 
O'Monahans  were  originally  the  chiefs  of  Tir- 
Briuin  na  Sinna  (but  were  subdued  by  tlu- 
O'Beirnes);  the  Mac  Branans  and  O'Mulvihils 
of  Corcachlann  or  Corca  Sheachlann ;  and  the 
O'Hanlys  of  Kinel-Dofa. 

e  To  his  house. — This  is  the  phrase  used  by 
the  Irish  annalists  to  denote  "  he  submitted,  or 
made  his  submission."  On  such  occasions  the 


1189.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  87 

the  son  of  Flann  O'Finaghty  (usually  called  an  Crossach  Donnc);  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  Tuathasd. 

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-Mho- 
gha  had  submitted  as  king.  Donnell  O'Brien  had  gone  to  his  house6  at  Dunlof, 
where  he  was  entertained  for  a  week;  and  O'Conor  gave  him  sixty  cows  out 
of  every  cantred  in  Connaught,  and  ten  articles  ornamented  with  gold;  but 
O'Brien  did  not  accept  of  any  of  these,  save  one  goblet,  which  had  once  been 
the  property  of  Dermot  O'Brien,  his  own  grandfather.  Rory  Mac  Donslevy, 
King  of  Ulidia,  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,  the  former  King  of  Ireland,  to  tell  him  of  the  death  of  his 
son£,  and  to  give  [offer]  him  the  kingdom :  and  as  soon  as  Roderic  came  to 
Moy  Naei",  he  took  the  hostages  of  the  Sil-Murray,  and  of  all  Connaught ;  for 

king  to  whom  obeisance  was  made,  always  pre-  of  Ballinasloe   lying  to  the  west  of  the  River 

sented  those  submitting  with  gifts.  Of  this  cus-  Suck,  in  the  county  of  Galway.     Dunlo-street, 

torn  we  have  a  remarkable  instance  on  record  in  in  Ballinasloe,  still  preserves  the  name, 

the  Irish  work  called  Caithreim  Toirdhealbhaigh,  e  His  son. — This  passage   is   so   confusedly 

or  Wars  of  Turlough   O'Brien,  in  which  it  is  given  in  the  original  that  the  translator  has 

stated    that   at   a   national   assembly   held   by  thought  it  necessary  to  transpose  the  order  of 

the  Irish    at    Gaol  Uisce,    near  Ballyshannon,  the  language  in  the  translation,   but  the  ori- 

O'Neill  sent  Teige  O'Brien  one  hundred  horses  ginal  is  printed  exactly  as  in  the  autograph, 

as  wages  of  subsidy,  and  as  an  earnest  of  the  h  Moy  Naei,  maj  naoi.  —  This  is  otherwise 

subordination  and  obedience  due  to  him  from  called  Machaire  Chonnacht.    The  inhabitants  of 

O'Brien  ;   but  O'Brien,  rejecting  the  subsidy  the  town  of  Eoscommon  and  its  vicinity,  when 

and  denying  the  superiority  of  O'Neill,    sent  speaking  of  the  country  generally,  call  the  district 

him    two  hundred   horses,    to   be   received    in  lying  between  them  and  Athlone,  the  Barony,  and 

acknowledgment    of    O'Neill's    submission    to  that  between  them  and  Elphin,  the  Maghery ;  but 

O'Brien.  they  say  that  you  are  not  in  the  Maghery  till  you 

f  Dunk,  Dun  leooa — It  is  the  name  of  a  are  two  miles  and  a  half  to  the  north  of  the  town 

townland,  which  contains  that  part  of  the  town  of  Roscommon.     The  following  are  the  bounds 


Rioshachca  eiraecmN.  [1190. 

T?uampi  50  maj  naof  po  jab  sialla  pil  muipfoaig  i  Connacc,  ap  ap  ann  po 
bacap  geill  Concobaip  maonmuije  i  ninip  clocpann  pop  loc  piB  an  can  pin. 

plaicbeapcac  ua  maolDopaiD  cijeapna  cenel  cconaill  cona  coicep cal  DO 
bfic  illonspopc  ip  in  ccopann,  -\  connaccaij  uile  einp  gall  -\  jaoibeal  ma 
naghaiD  Don  leic  aile. 

Concobap  ua  Diapmaca  DO  mapbaD  la  cacal  cappac  mac  concobaip 
maonmaije  a  nDiojail  a  acup. 

Qn  ceo  Ripofpti  Do  pfojab  op  Sa^aib  .6.  lultj. 

SluaijeaD  la  hua  TTlaoilDopain  (plaicbfpcac)  Do  jabail  ppi  connachcaib 
^up  po  jab  longpopr  ip  in  Copann.  Uangacap  connaccaij  uile  eicip  jal- 
laib  i  jaoibealaib  ina  ajaiD,  ap  a  aoi  m  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  aipeac- 
cach  ua  poDuib,  -\  nf  po  peaDab  a  piooucchaD  pe  poile  Don  chup  pin. 

of  the  Maghery,  according  to  the  general  tra-  Drishaghan,  in  that  parish,  the  navel  or  centre 

dition  of  the  people  in  the  county  of  Eoscommon.  of  the  Machaire  or  plain  of  Connaught,  which 

It  extends  northwards  as  far  as  Lismacooil,  in  conveys  a  distinct  idea  of  the  position  of  this 

the  parish  of  Kilmacumshy ;  eastwards,  to  Falsk,  plain. 

in   the  parish   of  Killuckin;    westwards,   from          '  Mac  Teige It  is  added  in    the  Annals  of 

the  bridge  of  Cloonfree,  near  Strokestown,   as  Kilronan,  that  she  was  the  wife  of  Cosnamhach 

fur  as  the  bridge  of  Castlereagh  ;  and  south-  O'Dowda. 

wards,  to  a  hill  lying  two  miles  and  a  half  north  k  Cathal  Crovderg,  Cccal  cpoibbeapj,  i.  e. 

of  the  town  of  Roscommon.     The  natives  of  the  Cathal,  or  Cahill,  the  Eed-handed.     The  name 

parish  of  Baslick  call  a  hill  in  the  townland  of  Cathal,  which  means  warlike,  and  appears  to  be 


1190.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  89 

the  hostages  that  had  been  delivered  up  to  Conor  Moinmoy  were  on  Inish- 
cloghran,  an  island  in  Lough  Eee,  at  that  time. 

Flaherty  O'Muldory,  Lord  of  Tirconnell,  encamped  with  his  forces  in  Cor- 
ran;  and  all  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  I.  was  crowned  King  of  England  on  the  6th  of  July. 

O'Muldory  (Flaherty)  marched  with  his  forces  against  the  Connacians,  and 
pitched  his  camp  in  Corran.  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. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1190. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  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  Teige1,  died. 

A  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.  Patrick1,  Conor  Mac  Dermot,  and 
Aireaghtagh  O'Rodiv;  but  they  could  not  be  reconciled  to  each  other  on  this 
occasion. 

synonymous  with  the  Welsh  Cadell,  is  now  ge-  Archseological  Society  in  1845.     See  also  note 

nerally  anglicised  Charles,  as  the  Christian  name  under  the  year  1224. 

of  a  man,  but  Cahill  as  a  surname,  which  is  in  '  The  successor  of  St.  Patrick,  Coriiapba  pa- 
Irish  O'Cathail.  Dr.  O'Conor,  in  treating  of  this  cpuic,  i.  e.  the  Archbishop  of  Armagh.  He 
king  in  his  suppressed  work,  Memoirs  of  the  was  Thomas,  or  Tomaltach,  O'Conor,  who  was 
Life  and  Writings  of  Charles  O 'Conor  of  Belana-  related  to  the  rival  princes,  and  "a  noble  and 
ffare,  translates  his  name  "Charles  the  Red-  worthy  man,"  who  was  anxious  to  restore  his 
handed." — See  p.  32  of  that  work.  O'Flaherty  native  province  to  tranquillity — See  Harris's 
translates  it  "Cathald  Red-fist."— See  his  ac-  Ware,  vol.  i.  p.  62. 
count  of  Hiar  Connaught,  printed  for  the  Irish 

N 


90  awNQf-a  Rio^hachca  eiraecmN.     .  [1191. 

Uanaicc  ua  concobaip  i  piol  muipebaij  50  cluam  mic  noip  in  abaij  pin,  -j 
]io  eipig  an  coblac  50  tnoc  apa  bapach,  -]  cangacap  pompa  ap  puo  na 
Sionna  50  pangacap  50  loc  pib.  T?o  eipig  anpab  anbail  Doib  ap  an  loch 
50  po  pccaoilpioc  a  napqiaige  6  apoile  -]  po  cuaipcc  an  canpab  an  cfrap  i 
mbof  6  concobaip  conap  larhab  a  luariiaipeacc  la  meo  an  anpaib,  -]  ba  ip  in 
apcpach  i  mbof  ua  Concobaip  .1.  Cacal  cpoibDepcc,  bai  Gipeachcach  ua 
poouib,  1  concobap  mac  cacail.  Oo  coiDh  an  cfcap  po  uipcce  50  po  baibfb 
i  mboi  innre  cenmord  peipeap  ceapna  im  Charal  cpoiboeapg.  l?o  baibeab 
Qipeaccac  ua  pot>uib,  "]  Concobap  mac  carail,  Concobap  ~\  Qrhlaib  Da 
mac  Qo&a  meg  oipechcaij,  ua  TTlaoilbpenamn,  1  mac  ui  mannacam  co 
pocaibe  ele. 

QO1S  CR1OSD,  1191. 
Qoip  Cpiopo,  mile,  ceo,  nochac  a  hafn. 

T?uai6pi  ua  Concobaip  Do  paccbail  Connacc  -\  a  Dol  co-  rip  Conaill  Do 
paighioh  plaicbfpraij  ui  maoilDopaiD,  ~]  i  rrfp  neojain  lap  pin  DiappaiD 
pocpaicce  ap  cuaipceapr  nGpeann  Do  jabail  T?fje  Connachr  DO  piDipi,  ~\  m 
po  pafmpac  ullca  peaponn  Dpajail  Do  6  connaccaib,  ~\  Do  COID  poirhe  Do 
paijib  gall  na  mi&e,  -]  nf  po  fipjfccup  piDhe  leip,  •]  Do  cafo  ap  pin  ip  in 
mumain,  coniD  eipci  pin  cuccpac  piol  muipfbaij  pCpann  Do,  .1.  cip  piach- 
pach,  i  cenel  aoba  na  heccge. 

Ctillfnn  mjfn  Riaccam  ui  mailpuanaib,  bfn  aipeacraij  ui  pobuibh  DO 
ecc. 

m  It  foundered,  oo  coioh  an  cfrap  po  uipce,  i.e.  the  race  of  Aodh,  or  Hugh,  of  Slieve  Echtghe, 

literally,  "  the  vessel  went  under  water."  now  Slieve  Aughtee.  .  This  was  the  tribe  name 

n  Conor,  son  of  Cathal,  i.  e.  Conor,  Cathal  of  the  O'Shaughnessys  and  their  correlatives, 

Crovderg's  own  son.  The  translator  has  been  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 

which  is  not  properly  arranged  in  the  original,  and  creations  from  places  and  countries,  as  it  is 

but  the  Irish  text  is  printed  exactly  as  in  the  with  other  nations,  but  to  give  the  name  of  the 

autograph.  family  to  the  seigniory  by  them  occupied." — See 

0  Tir  Fiachrach,  i.  e.  Tir  Fiachrach  Aidhne —  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia  Vindicated,  p.  170,  and  Col- 

The  country  of  the  O'Heynes  in  the  south-west  gan's  Acta  Sanctorum,  p.  354,  note  8.  O'Shaugh- 

of  the  county  of  Galway.  nessy's  country  of  Kinelea  comprised  the  south- 

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.  A  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",  who  were  both  drowned,  as  were  also  Conor  and  Auliffe, 
the  two  sons  of  Hugh  Mageraghty;  O'Mulrenin,  and  the  son  of  O'Monahan, 
and  many  others. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1191. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  ninety-one. 

Roderic  O'Conor  set  out  from  Connaught,  and  went  to  Flaherty  O'Muldory 
in  Tirconnell,  and  afterwards  passed  into  Tyrone,  to  request  forces  from  the 
north  of  Ireland,  to  enable  him  to  recover  his  kingdom  of  Connaught ;  but  the 
Ultonians  not  consenting  to  aid  in  procuring  lands  for  him  from  the  Conna- 
cians,  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  Fiachrach0  qpd  Kinelea  of  Echtge". 

Ailleann,  daughter  of  Regan  O'Mulrony,  and  wife  of  Aireachtagh  O'Rodiv, 
died. 

the  county  of  Galway — See  map  prefixed  to  on  cuipp  50  cele  61,  7  ppic  plej  innce  7  cpi 

Tribes  and  Customs  ofHy-Many,  printed  for  the  ouipn  7  cpi    meoip   illeireo  plenna  na  pleije 

Irish  Archaeological  Society  in  1843.     For  a  list  pn,  7  lam  o'n  njjualumn  a  pat>." 
of  townlands  in  Sir  Dermot  O'Shaughnessy's          "  A.  D.  1191.  The  River  Galliv  dried  up  this 

country  in  the  year  1543,  see  Tribes  and  Customs  year,  and  there  was  a  hatchet  found  in  it,  mea- 

of  Hy-Fiachrach,  printed  for  the  same  Society  in  suring  a  hand  from  one  point  to  the  other,  and 

1844,  pp.  375,  376.     Under  this  year  the  An-  there  was  a  spear  found  in  it  measuring  three 

nals  of  Kilronan  record  the  erection  of  the  castle  hands  and  three  fingers  in  breadth,  and  a  hand 

of  Rath  Cuanartaighe,  but  without  giving  the  from  the  shoulder  in  length." 
name  of  the  builder,  or  the  situation  of  the  cas-          See  O'Flaherty's  Account  of  lar-Connaught, 

tie.     They  also  contain  the  following  entry  un-  published  by  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society, 

der  this  year,  respecting  the  drying   up  of  the  p.  29,    and   Ware's  Antiq.   Hibernicce,    c.   xii., 

River  Galway :  A.  D.  1 191.  In  ^mllim  bo  epcijh-  where  we  read :  "  In  Annalibus  Roscomanensi- 

ao  an  ol.aoa.n  p,  7  pp.r  cuuo   innce,   7  lam  bus,  ad  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  i  nDoipe  Do  bfnamh  la 
hua  ccacam  na  cpaibe,  -\  la  hinjhin  ui  Innfipje. 

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  mbliabam  pi. 


longitudinem  uniuscubiti,  repertiinfluvioGaliva: 
turn  desiccate." — See  note  under  the  year  1178. 

q  Of  Creeve,  na  cpaoiBe. — The  district  near 
Coleraine,  west  of  the  River  Bann.  The  cataract, 
now  called  the  Cutt's  Fishery,  was  anciently 

called  Eas  Craoibhe See  O'Flaherty's'  Ogygia, 

Domestica,  cap.  3,  where,  describing  the  course 
of  the  River  Bann,  he  writes :  "  Banna  inter 
Learn  et  Elliam  prater  Clanbresail  regionem 
scaturiens  per  Neachum  lacum  traasiens  ^Endro- 
niensem  agrum  et  Fircriviam  (F'P  na  CpaoiBe) 
Scriniamque  in  Londinodorensi  agro  intersecat, 
et  tertio  e  Culrania,  et  Cataracta  Eascribe  lapide 
se  in  oceanum  transfundit,  salmonibus  totius 
Europe  longe  ffficundissimus." 

r  0' 'Inneirghe,  now  anglicised  Henery This 

family  descends  from  Brian,  grandson  of  Niall 
of  the  Nine  Hostages,  Monarch  of  Ireland  in 
406.  There  are  several  of  this  name  in  the  pa- 
rish of  Ballynascreen,  in  the  county  of  London- 
derry, of  whom  Dr.  Henery,  of  Maghera,  in  the 
same  county,  is  at  present  the  most  respectable. 
— See  Duald  Mac  Firbis's  Irish  Pedigrees,  Lord 
Roden's  copy,  p.  178,  with  which  the  copy  in  the 
Royal  Irish  Academy  corresponds. 

s  Hy-Awky  andHy-Fiaclirach,  i.  e.  the  inhabi- 
tants of  the  baronies  of  Tirawley  and  Tireragh. 

1  Sil-Maelruain — This  was  the  tribe  name  of 
the  O'Flynns  of  Connaught,  and  it  also  became 


the  name  of  their  territory,  which  comprised  the 
entire  of  the  parish  of  Kiltullagh,  and  part  of 
the  parish  of  Kilkeevin,  in  the  present  county 
of  Roscommon.  The  present  head  of  this  sept 
of  the  O'Flynns  told  the  Editor  in  1837,  that  it 
was  the  constant  tradition  in.  the  family,  that 
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 
extending  it  beyond  the  limits  of  the  present 
county  of  Roscomrnon.  It  comprised  the  en- 
tire of  the  mountainous  district  of  Sliabh  Ui 
Fhloinn,  i.  e.  O'Flynn's  mountain,  which  con- 
tains twenty  townlands,  and  lies  partly  in  the 
parish  of  Kiltullagh,  and  partly  in  that  of  Kil- 
keevin. The  lake  called  Lough  Ui  Fhloinn,  i.  e. 
O'Flynn's  lake  (incorrectly  anglicised  Lough 
Glynn  by  Mr.  Weld,  in  his  Statistical  Account 
of  the  county  of  Roscommon),  also  lies  in  this 
territory,  as  does  the  village  of  Ballinlough, 
called  in  Irish  baile  locha  Ui  Phloinn,  i.  e. 
the  town  of  O'Flynn's  lake.  O'Flynn's  castle, 
of  which  the  foundations  only  are  now  trace- 
able, stood  on  the  top  of  the  hill  between  the 
village  and  the  lake. 

The  present  head  of  this  sept  of  the  O'Flynns 
is  Edmond  O'Flynn,  Esq.,  of  Newborough  (the 
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,  1192. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  ninety-two. 

The  doorway  of  the  refectory  of  Duv-regles-Columbkille  was  made  by 
O'Kane,  of  Creeveq,  and  the  daughter  of  0'Heneryr. 

Taichleach  O'Dowda,  Lord  of  Hy-Awley  and  Hy-Fiachrach'  of  the  Moy, 
was  slain  by  his  own  two  grandsons. 

Hugh  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 
this  year. 


Dr.  O'Brien,  in  his  Irish  Dictionary,  printed 
at  Paris  in  1768,  states  that  Edmond  O'Flin,  of 
Ballinlagh,  Esq.  (the  grandfather  of  the  present 
Edmond),  was  then  the  chief  of  this  ancient  fa- 
mily. He  also  states  that  "the  Eight  Hon.  Lady 
Ellen  O'Flin,  Countess  de  la  Hues  of  Lahnes- 
Castle,  in  Normandy,  was  of  the  same  direct 
branch  of  the  O'Flins,  her  ladyship  being  daugh- 
ter to  Timothy  O'Flin,  of  Clydagh,  in  the  Co. 
of  Roscommon,  Esq."  The  Connaught  O'Flynns 
are  of  a  different  race  from  O'Flynns  of  Arda, 
in  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 1 63.  The  only  place  near  the  country  of  the 
Muintir  Maoil-tsionna,  or  Mac  Carroons,  called 
Aughera,  is  the  parish  of  Augher,  in  the  barony 
of  Deece,  in  the  county  of  East  Meath.  The 
Mac  Carroons  were  seated  in  Cuircne  in  Teffia, 
which  was  the  western  part  of  the  county  of 
"Westmeath.  According  to  the  Annals  of  Kil- 
ronan  the  Mac  Carroons  were  defeated  this  year 
at  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  Mac  Branan,  and 


many  others,  both  Irish  and  English,  were  slain. 

w  Jlth-an-  Urchair,  now  called  in  Irish  baile 
aca  upchuip,  and  in  English  Horseleap:  it  lies 
in  the  barony  of  Moycashel,  in  the  south  of  the 
county  of  Westmeath.  Sir  Henry  Piers  of  Tris- 
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- 
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,  i.  e.  six  years  be- 
fore this  castle  was  erected. — See  note  under 
the  year  1186. 

Piers  says  that  this  place  was  called  Horseleap, 
from  Sir  Hugh  de  Lacy  having  leaped  on  horse- 
back over  the  drawbridge  of  the  castle — See 
Vallancey's  Collectanea,  vol.  i.  pp.  84,  85.  He 
describes  this  castle  as  a  stately  structure,  and 
such  no  doubt  it  was,  but  there  are  no  distinct 
ruins  of  it  at  present,  except  the  two  piers  of  the 
drawbridge  ;  masses  of  the  walls  are  seen  scat- 
tered over  the  hill,  but  the  ground-plan  of  the 
building  could  not  now  be  determined — See 
other  references  to  this  place  at  the  years  1207 
and  1470. 

x  Kilbixy,  Cill  6^51,  recte  Cill  6i5fi je,  i.  e. 


94 


[1193. 


Cpeach  mop  Do  oenarh  la  jallaib  laijfn  ap  Domnall  ua  mbpiain,  50 
pangacrap  rpe  clap  cille  oalua  piap  50  majh  ua  croippnealbaij,  -|  pucc- 
parc  Dal  ccaip  oppa  50  po  mapbpac  pochaiDe  Diobh.  Oo  ponpac  ^oill 
caiplen  cille  piacal,  -]  caiplen  cnuic  TCapponn  Don  chup  pin. 

maibm  mop  pia  noomnall  ua  mbpiain  pop  jallaib  opppaije  50  po 
cuipeaD  a  nap. 

CIO1S  CR1OSD,  1193. 
Qoip  CpiopD  mile,  ceo,  nochac,  acpf. 

Gochaib  ua  baoijill  Do  rhapbaD  la  huib  piachpac  apoa  ppara. 
TTlaolpacrpaicc  ua  cobcaij  Do  ecc. 
Cacal  mac  gaichene  DO  ecc. 


the  church  of  St.  Bigseach — This  place  is  de- 
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  after- 
wards became  an  English  town  of  some  impor- 
tance, according  to  Sir  Henry  Piers,  who  wrote 
in  1682  :  "  Kilkixy,  of  old  a  town  of  great  note, 
having,  as  tradition  telleth  us,  twelve  Burgesses 
in  their  scarlet  gowns,  a  Mayor  or  Sovereign 
with  other  officers  suitable  to  so  great  a  port, 
&c."  The  Editor  visited  this  place  in  1837, 
and  found  but  few  traces  of  this  ancient  town. 
They  were  as  follows :  1.  The  Leperhouse,  a 
mere  ruin  ;  2.  The  site  of  the  castle,  but  no 
remains  whatever  of  its  walls  ;  3.  A  moat  sur- 
rounded by  one  circular  fosse  ;  4.  Site  of  the 
gallows.  There  is  a  holy  well  near  the  church 
still  bearing  the  name  Cobap  &i£p  je,  i.  e.  the 
well  of  St.  Bigseach,  a  virgin,  whose  memory 
was  venerated  here,  according  to  the  Irish  Ca- 
lendars, on  the  28th  of  June  and  4th  of  Octo- 
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. 


z  Cill  Piacla,  now  Kilfeakle,  an  old  church, 
giving  name  to  a  parish,  in  the  barony  of  Clan- 
william,  and  county  of  Tipperary,  and  about 
four  miles  and  a  half  to  the  east  of  the  town  of 
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  Innisfallen,  at  the  years  1192,  1196, 
and  1205 ;  Colgan's  edition  of  the  Tripartite  Life 
of  St.  Patrick,  lib.  iii.  c.  32 ;  and  Lanigan's  Ec- 
clesiastical History  of  Ireland,  vol.  i.  p.  290. 

a  Knockgraffon,  Cnoc  Rappon,  i,  e.  the  hill  of 
Raffon,  who,  according  to  Keating  and  the  older 
writers,  was  the  nurse  of  Fiacha  Mulleathan, 
King  of  Munster,  in  the  third  century.  It  is 
a  townland  in  a  parish  of  the  same  name,  in  the 
barony  of  Middlethird,  and  county  of  Tipperary, 
and  about  two  miles  to  the  north  of  the  town  of 
Cahir.  O'Brien  has  the  following  notice  of  this 
place  in  his  Irish  Dictionary,  voce  GRAKANN  : 
"  GRAPANN,  Knockgraffan,  or  Eaffan,  in  the 
county  of  Tipperary,  one  of  the  regal  houses  of 
the  kings  of  Munster  in  ancient  times,  where 
Fiacha  Muilleathan,  and  other  Momonian  kings, 
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 
westwards,  until  they  had  reached  Magh-Ua-Toirdhealbhaighy,  where  they  were 
opposed  by  the  Dalcassians,  who  slew  great  numbers  of  them.  On  this  expe- 
dition the  English  erected  the  castles  of  Kilfeakle2  and  Knockgraffon". 

Donnell  O'Brien  defeated  the  English  of  Ossory,  and  made  a  great  slaughter 
of  them. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1193. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  ninety-three. 

Eochy  O'Boyle  was  slain  by  the  Hy-Fiachrach  of  Ardstraw". 
Mulpatrick  O'Coffey  died. 
Cathal  Mac  Gaithen  died. 


brought  Cormac  Mac  Airt,  King  of  Leath-Coinn, 
prisoner.  In  after  ages  it  was  the  estate,  together 
with  its  annexes,  of  the  O'Sullivans.  A  very 
remarkable  moat  yet  remains  there  to  be  seen  to 
this  day."  Again,  under  the  word  RAFFAN,  he 
writes  ;  "  KAFPAN,  Cnoc-Raffan,  a  beautiful  hill 
near  the  River  Suire,  the  centre  of  the  primitive 
estate  of  the  O'Sullivans,  descended  from  Finin, 
elder  brother  of  Failbhe  Flann,  ancestor  of  the 
Mac  Cartys." 

The  Editor  visited  Knockgraffon  iu  the  year 
1840,  and  found  the  ancient  ruins  to  consist  of 
a  large  moat  surrounded  by  a  rath  of  ample  di- 
mensions. The  moat  is  about  fifty-five  feet  in 
perpendicular  height,  and  sixty  feet  in  diameter 
at  top.  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  pos- 
session of  the  descendants  of  Fiacha  Muillea- 
than,  the  O'Sullivans,  until  the  year  1 192,  when 
the  English  drove  them  from  their  rich  plains 
into  the  mountains  of  Cork  and  Kerry,  and 
erected,  within  their  Rath  of  Knockgraffon,  a 
strong  castle  to  secure  their  conquests.  Of  this 


castle  only  one  small  tower  now  remains,  but  the 
outlines  of  some  of  the  walls  are  traceable  to  a 
very  considerable  extent.  See  Cormac's  Glos- 
sary, voce  Qna  ;  and  Keating's  History  of  Ire- 
land, reign  of  Cormac  Mac  Art. 

The  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen 
records  the  erection  of  the  castles  of  Kilkenny 
and  Kilfeakle,  by  the  English,  in  this  year. 

*  Hy-Fiachrach  ofArdstraie,  ut  piacpac  apoa 
\ para,  i.  e.  the  descendants  of  Fiachra  of  Ard- 
straw. Their  territory  was  situated  along  the 
River  Derg,  in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of 
Tyrone,  and  comprised  the  parish  of  Ardstraw 
and  some  adjoi/iing  parishes.  Ussher  states 
(Primardia,  p.  857),  that  the  church  of  Ard- 
straw, and  many  other  churches  of  Opheathrach, 
were  taken  from  the  see  of  Clogher,  and  incor- 
porated with  the  see  of  Derry.  This  tribe  of 
the  Hy-Fiachrach  are  to  be  distinguished  from 
those  of  Connaught,  being  descended  from 
Fiachra,  the  son  of  Ere,  who  was  the  eldest 
son  of  Colla  Uais,  monarch  of  Ireland  in  the 
fourth  century — 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  maoilu£pa,  •] 
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  cloinne  concob'aip  Do  mapb'ao  la  jal- 
laibh  acha  cliach. 


cDervorgilla,  DeapBpopjaill. — She  was,  there- 
fore, born  in  the  year  1 108,  was  forty-four  years 
of  age  when  she  eloped  with  Dermot  Mac  Mur- 
rough,  King  of  Leinster,  who  was  then  in  the 
sixty-second  year  of  his  age,  a  remarkable  in- 
stance of  a  green  old  age.  Dermot  was  expelled 
in  eight  years  afterwards,  but,  as  Dr.  O'Conor 
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 
Laws,  attempts  to  defend  the  character  of  this 
woman;  but  it  cannot  be  defended,  as  we  have 
the  authority  of  these  Annals,  and  of  the  older 
Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  to  prove  that  she  not 
only  consented  to  go  home  with  Dermot,  but 

also  carried  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  Monastery  of  Drogheda,  TTlamir-np  Opoicic 
Gra. — Colgan  observes  that,  by  the  Monastery 
of  Drogheda,  the  Four  Masters  mean  that  of 
Mellifont,  which  is  near  that  town. — See  Trias 
Thaum.,  p.  309,  and  Ada  Sanctorum,  p.  655, 
776;  see  also  Lanigan's  Ecclesiastical  History 
of  Ireland,  vol.  iv.  p.  167,  note  22. 

'  Clanmalier,  clann  maoilujpa.  —  This, 
which  was  the  territory  of  the  O'Dempsys,  ex- 
tended 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 


territory  of  Clanmaliere  extended  to  the  margin 
of  the  Great  Heath  of  Maryborough,  and  com- 
prised the  barony  of  Portnahinch  in  the  Queen's 
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.  He  founded,  on  the  site  of  an  ancient 
church  dedicated  to  St.  Evin,  about  the  year 
1178,  the  great  Cistercian  abbey  of  Rosglas, 
now  Monasterevin  (ITIainipcip  Giriifn),  which 
he  richly  endowed. — See  his  Charter  of  Foun- 
dation published  in  the  Monasticon  A  nylicanum, 
vol.  ii.  p.  1031.  For  the  extent  of  Ui  Failghe 
before  the  English  invasion,  see  note  under  the 
year  1178. 

f  Murtouffk,  son  ofMurrongh  Mac  Murroitgh. — 
He  was  Murtougli  na  maor  (i.  e.  of  the  Stew- 
ards), son  of  Murrough  na  nGaedhal  (of  the 
Irish),  who  was  the  brother  of  Dermot  na  nGall 
(of  the  English),  who  first  brought  the  English 
to  Ireland).  According  to  the  Book  of  Leinster, 
a  very  important  fragment  of  a  MS.  preserved 
in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin  (H. 
2,  18),  Murrough  na  nGaedhal  was  the  ancestor 
of  the  celebrated  family  of  Mac  Davy  More,  or 
Mac  Damore,  said  by  Sir  George  Carew  to  be  a 
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 


Dervorgillac  (i.  e.  the  wife  of  Tiernan  O'Kourke),  daughter  of  Murrough 
O'Melaghlin,  died  in  the  monastery  of  Droghedad  [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  Mac  Carthy,  was  slain  by  Donnell  Mac  Ca^thy. 

Murtough,  the  son  of  Murrough  Mac  Murroughf,  Lord  of  Hy-Kinsellagh8, 
died. 

HughO'Mulrenin",  Chief  of  Clann-Conor,  was  slain  by  the  English  of  Dublin. 


mere  conjecture,  to  be  of  English  descent. 
From  Donnell  Kavanagh,  the  illegitimate  son 
of  Dermot  na  nGatt  Mac  Murrough,  are  de- 
scended all  the  Kavanaghs,  including  the  Mac 
Dermots  Lav-derg  ;  and  from  Enna,  another 
illegitimate  son  of  the  same  Dermot,  are  de- 
scended the  family  of  the  Kinsellaghs,  now 
so  numerous  in  Leinster.  The  country  of  Mac 
Davy  More,  or  Mac  Damore,  was  in  the  ba- 
rony of  Ballyghkeen,  comprising  the  lands  of 
Glascarrick,  &c.  In  the  State  Papers'  Office, 
London,  is  preserved  a  petition,  dated  1611,  of 
Art  Mac  Dermott  Kavanagh,  Chief  of  the  Kin- 
sellaghs, and  Redmond  Mac  Davimore,  Richard 
Mac  Vaddock,  and  Donnell  Kavanagh  Spaniagh, 
and  other  gentlemen  and  freeholders  of  the 
countries  of  Mac  Dermott,  Mac  Davimore,  and 
Mac  Vaddock,  through  their  agent,  Henry  Walsh; 
and  another  petition,  dated  May,  1616,  of  Red- 
mond Mac  Damore,  gent.,  Chief  of  Mac  Damore's 
country,  in  the  county  of  Wexford,  to  the  English 
Privy  Council,  regarding  the  new  Plantation 
in  Wexfordshire.  In  this  petition  Mac  Damore 
states  that  he  holds  his  lands  by  descent  and  not 
by  tanistry.  This,  however,  is  not  enough  to 
prove  his  descent  from  the  Barrys,  in  opposition 
to  the  Book  of  Leinster,  a  vellum  manuscript, 
at  least  five,  centuries  old,  which  traces  his  pedi- 
gree to  Murrough  na  nGaedhal,  the  brother  of 
Uermot  na  nGatt.  It  is  highly  probable,  now- 
ever,  that  Murrough  na  nGaedhal,  had  married 


a  lady  of  the  Barrys,  and  thus  brought  the  names 
David  and  Redmond  into  this  branch  of  the 
Mac  Murrough  family,  as  the  Kavanaghs  have 
that  of  Gerald,  Maurice,  Walter,  &c.,  from  in- 
termarriages with  other  English  or  Anglo-Irish 
families.  The  pedigrees  of  the  above  septs  of 
the  Mac  Murroughs  are  also  given  in  Duald 
Mac  Firbis's  Genealogical  Book,  p.  473,  and  in 
Peregrine  O'Clery's,  p.  82. 

8  Hy-Kinsellagh — The  people  called  Hy-Kin- 
sellagh,  were  the  descendants  of  Eochy  Kinsel- 
lagh,  King  of  Leinster,  about  the  year  of  Christ 
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- 
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- 
ful part  of  Leinster.  "  Ordinavit  S.  Patricias 
de  gente  Laginensium  alium  episcopum  nomine 
Fyacha  virum  reliyiosissimum  :  quijussione  bea- 
lissimi  Patricii  gentem  Ceanselach  ad  fidem  con- 
vertit  et  baptizavit ;  quce  gens  major  atque  poten- 
tior  pars  Laginensium  eat."  The  country  of  Hy- 
Felmeadha,  north,  which  was  the  ancient  name 
of  the  district  around  Tullow-Ofelimy,  in  the 
present  county  of  Carlow,  was  also  in  the  ter- 
ritory of  Hy-Kinsellagh. 

h  O1  Mulrenin,  Omuoilbpenumn — The  exact 
limits  of  the  cantred  of  Clann-Conor,  the  terri- 


98 


[1194. 


Ua  cfpbaill  ciccfpna  aipjpall  DO  jabail  la  jallaibh,  ~\  a  Dallab  leo  o 
cup,  -]  a  cpochaoh  lapccain. 

Imp  clochpann  DO  07150111  la  macaib  oipoealb,  -\  la  macaib  concobaip 
TTlaonmaije. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1194. 

• 

Goip  CpiopD,  mile,  ceD,  nochac,  acfrhaip. 

Conpcancin  ua  bpain  [ua  bpiain?]  eppoc  cille  Dalua  DO  ecc. 

Oomnall  mac  roipp&ealbaij  ui  bpiain  T?i  muman,  lochpann  polupoa 
piooa  i  coccab  T?eDla  abanra  emj  ~|  fnjnarha  na  muimneac,  -\  Ifice  mo&a 
apchfna  Do  ecc,  ~\  muipcfpcach  a  mac  Do  jabail  a  lonamh. 

^oill  DO  chiachcain  ap  imp]1  ua  ppionncain,  -\  a  ccop  ap  eccin  Di. 

CumiDe  ua  plainn  Do  mapbaD  la  gallaib. 

Sloicchfo  la  jillebepr  mac  joipoealbaij  co  heapp  puaio,  ~\  a  iompu6 
ap pi&en  gan  nach  capba  Dia  Sloijfo  imp. 


tory  of  O'Mulrenin,  cannot  now  be  determined, 
as  this  family  sunk  at  an  early  period  under 
O'Flanagan  and  O'Conor  Roe ;  but  its  where- 
abouts may  be  ascertained  from  O'Diigan's 
topographical  poem,  which  makes  the  Clann- 
Conor  a  subsection  of  the  Clanncahill,  whose 
territory  comprised  the  parishes  of  Kilmacum- 
shy,  Kilcorkey,  and  Shankill,  and  parts  of  the 
parishes  of  Creeve  and  Elphin,  in  the  county  of 
Roscommon.  ITIael  Bpenamn,  the  name  of  the 
progenitor  of  this  family,  signifies  the  servant, 
or  devoted  of  St.  Brendan. 

'  Iniahdoghran,  Imp  Clocpann,  i.  e.  the  is- 
land of  Clothra.  This  Clothra  is  said  to  have 
been  the  sister  of  the  famous  Meadhbh,  or  Meave, 
Queen  of  Connaught.  The  island  lies  in  Lough 
Rue,  near  St.  John's,  and  is  now  sometimes  called, 
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  to  be  seen  on  it ;  and  sometimes 
Quaker's  Island,  from  Mr.  Fail-brother,  the  pre- 


sent occupier.  These  churches,  to  one  of  which 
is  attached  a  very  old  square  belfry,  called  in 
Irish  Clojap,  are  said  to  have  been  erected  by 
St.  Dermot  in  the  sixth  century ;  but  some  of  them 
were  re-edified.  The  famous  Meave  of  Croghan, 
Queen  of  Connaught,  was  killed  on  this  island  by 
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 
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  The  Sons  of  Osdealv,  i.  e.  the  Mac  Costel- 

loes According  to  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  the 

island  of  Inis  Clothrann  was  plundered  this  year 
by  Gilbert  Mac  Gosdealv,  and  his  English  fol- 
lowers, and  the  sons  of  Gilchreest  Mac  Carroon, 
viz.,  Gilla  Croichefraich  and  Auliffe,  who  had 
the  tribe  of  Muintir  Maeltsinna  with  them. 
According  to  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of 


1194.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  99 

4 

O'Carroll,  Lord  of  Oriel,  was  taken  by  the  English,  who  first  put  out  his 
eyes,  and  afterwards  hanged  him. 

Inishcloghran'1  was  plundered  by  the  sons  of  Osdealvk,  and  the  sons  of 
Conor  Moinmoy. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1194. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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  Momo- 
nians,  and  of  all  Leth-Mogha,  died;  and  Murtough,  his  son,  assumed  his  place. 

The  English  landed  upon  [the  island  of]  Inis-Ua-bh-Fionntain1,  but  were 
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   was  plundered  by   Gilbert  de  after  whom  several  places  in  Ireland  are  named, 

Nangle  ;  and  this  is  correct,  for  De  Nangle  was  but  from  a  family  of  the  name  O'Fintan. 

the  original  name  of  the  Costelloes.  m  Cumee  CfFlynn. — This   is   the  celebrated 

Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  re-  chieftain,  who,  in  the  year  1 178,  defeated  De 

cord  the  erection  of  the  Castle  of  Domhnach  Courcy  in  the  territory  of  Firlee,  and  cut  off  all 

maighen,  now  Donaghmoyne,  in  the  barony  of  his  men  except  eleven.    The  name  of  the  person 

Farney,  and  county  of  Monaghan,  but  do  not  by  whom  Cumee  was  slain  is  not  given  in  the 

give  the  name  of  the  builder.     Under  this  year,  Annals  of  Ulster,  Kilronan,  or  Innisfallen.    Do 

also,  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innis-  thapBab  bo  jjullaiB  is  the  phrase  used  by  them 

fallen  record  the  erection,  by  the  English,  of  the  all,    and   the  old  translator  of  the  Annals  of 

Castle  of  Briginis,  in  Thomond,  with  the  con-  Ulster  renders   the   passage  :    "  Cumie   Offlin 

sent  of  Donnell  More  O'Brien,  who,  it  was  be-  killed  by  the  Galls."    The  term  Galls  is  at  this 

lieved,  permitted  its  erection  for  the  purpose  of  period  always  applied  to  the  English,  though  in 

distressing  Mac  Oarthy.     The  same  chronicle  the  previous  century  it  means  the  Danes,  or 

also  enters  under  this  year  the  death   of  the  Scandinavians. 

daughter  of  Godfred,  King  of  the  Isle  of  Mann,  n  Assaroe,  eap  puab,  i.  e.  the  Red  Cataract,  but 

and  wife  of  John  de  Courcy.  the  name  is  more  correctly  Gap  Oobu  puaio,  i.  e. 

1  Inis-Ua-bk-Fionntain,  i.  e.  insula  O'Finta-  the  cataract  of  Aodh  Ruadh,  the  son  of  Badharn, 

norum. — The  situation  of  this  island  is  unknown  who  was  drowned  here  in  the  year  of  the  world 

to  the  Editor.     It  is  not  called  from  St.  Fintan,  4518,  according  to  the  chronology  of  these  an- 

o2 


loo  awwaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1195. 

TTlaolpeachlamn   mac  Dorhnaill  ui  jpollapacpaicc  ciccfpna  oppaije  DO 

ecc. 

Concobap  mac  TTlajnapa  mic  Duinnpleibe  ui  eochaba  Do  mapbab  la  hUa 
nanriluam  i  meabail. 

QeDh  Dall  mac  coippbealbaij  ui  concobaip  Do  ecc. 

Sicpiucc  mac  ploinn  ui  pinoacea  raoipeac  cloinne  mupchaba  Do  65. 

Oonnchab  mac  TTluipcfpcaij  mic  coippbealbai j  Do  mapbab  la  TTluipcfp- 
each  mac  Dorhnaill  ui  bpiain. 

TTlupchab  mac  Qmlaoib  ui  cinoeioij  DO  mapbab  la  lochlainn  mac  micpair 
ui  chinneircij  i  pionjail. 

QO13  CR1O8O,  1195. 
Qoip  Cpiopo,  mile,  ceD,  nocharc,  a  cuicc. 

Domnall  ua  Conaing  eppcop  cille  Dalua  Do  ecc. 

plopenc  mac  Rfaccam  ui  maoilpuanaib  eppcop  oile  pint)  Do  ecc. 

Domnall  ua  pino  comapba  cluana  pfpra  bpenaino  Decc. 

Gacmapcach  ua  cacdpi  Do  ecc  i  pecclep  poll. 

Concobap  mag  paccna  Do  ecc  i  pecclep  ooipe. 

Sirpiucc  ua  jaipmlebaij  DO  rhapbab  Do  mac  Dupm  Slebe. 

Sluaijeab  la  lohn  DO  cuipci,  -\  la  mac  hujo  De  laci  DO  jabdil  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. 

Cachal  mac  DiapmaDa  DO  rochr  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 

nals,  but  in  the  year  3603,  according  to  O'Fla-  called  the  Erne,  in  the  town  of  Ballyshannon. 

herty's  corrected  Irish  Chronology — See  Ogygia,          °  (FFinnaghty There  were  two  families  of 

part  iii.  c.  36.    This  name  is  now  pronounced  this  name  in  Connaught,  of  whom  one  was  Chief 

Assaroe,   but   the   cataract   is    more   generally  of  Clann-Murrough,  and  the  other  was  Chief  of 

known  by  the  appellation  of  the  Salmon  Leap.  Clann-Conway,  and  had  his  residence  at  Duna- 

It  is  on  the  River  Samhaoir,  now  more  usually  mon,  near  the  River  Suck.    These  families  were 


1195.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  101 

Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Donnell,  who  was  the  grandson  of  Gillapatrick,  Lord 
of  Ossory,  died. 

Conor,  son  of  Manus,  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. 

Sitric,  the  son  of  Flann  O'Finnaghty0,  Chief  of  Clann-Murrough,  died. 

Donough,  son  of  Murtough,  who  was  son  of  Turlough,  was  slain  by  Mur- 
tough,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Brien. 

Murrough,  the  son  of  Auliffe  O'Kennedy,  was  slain  wfingail'  by  Loughlin, 
the  son  of  Magrath  O'Kennedy. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1195. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  ninety-Jive. 

Donnell  O'Conaing  [Gunning],  Bishop  of  Killaloe,  died. 

Florence,  the  son  of  Regan  O'Mulrony,  Bishop  of  Elphin,  died. 

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  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 
victoriously  through  the  province.  On  arriving  at  Lough  Mask  and  Inishrobe", 
he  seized  upon  all  the  vessels  [i.  e.  boats]  of  Cathal  Crovderg  O'Conor,  and 

supplanted  by  that  sept  of  the  Burkes  called  eluded  patricide,  matricide,  fratricide,  and  the 

Mac    David,    who    had   their    chief  castle    at  murder  of  any  relation. 

Glinsk,  on  the  west  side  of  the  River  Suck,  in          1  Inis/irobe,  imp  pooba,  i.  e.  the  island  of  the 

the   county   of  Galway — See  note  under  the  River  Robe.     A  small  island  in  Lough  Mask, 

year  1225.  opposite  the  mouth  of  the  River  Robe,  not  far 

vFingail. — Thecrimeof  pion^ail  was  counted  from  the  town  of  Ballinrobe,  in  the  county  of 

worse  than  simple  murder  by  the  Irish.     It  in-  Mayo. 


102  aNNdta  Rioshactiea  eiRecwN.  [1196. 


caiplen  na  caillije  co  noeapna  ulca  lomba  ap  ap  gach  leic  De  co 
cachal  cpoiboeapg  co  nopeim  DO  jallaib  -|  Do  cloinn  maoilpuana,  -\  DO  ponab 
pib  po  66016  pe  mac  oiapmaoa  gep  uo  mop  na  huilc  DO  pome  50  pin. 

CIO1S  CR1OSD,  1196. 
Qoip  Cpiopo,  mile,  ceo,  nochac,  ape. 

l?ecclep  p6il  -[  pecaip  in  GpDmacha  cona  cfmplaib,  -\  50  mbloib  rhofp 
Don  Raic  DO  lopccab. 

TTluipcfpcach  mac  muipcfpcaij  ui  laclamn  cijeapna  cenel  eojain  TJioj- 
barhna  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 
pcpine,  1  cdnoine  pacpaig  boib  im  Dilpi  66.  Rugab  a  copp  laporh  50  ooipe 
colaim  cille,  -|  po  habnacc  hipuibe  50  nonoip,  -\  cdcaib. 

Sloijeao  la  Rudibpi  mac  ouinnplebe  co  njallaib,  i  50  macaib  coipec 
connacc  Do  poighib  cenel  neojain,  •)  na  naipcep,  Uangaccap  cna  cenel 
eojain  celca  occ,  ~\  piopu  aipcip  co  macaipe  dpDamaca  ina  najaib,  ~\  Do 
paopac  cac  boib  50  paoimeab  pop  mac  oumnplebe  ~]  po  lab  Dfpgdp  a  rhuin- 

r  Caulen  na-Caillighe. — Now  called  the  Hag's  w Honour  and  respect. — This  passage  is  trans- 
Castle  in  English :  it  is  situated  in  Lough  Mask,  lated  by  Colgan  as  follows,  in  his  Annals  of 
and  is  a  round  enclosure  of  great  extent.  Derry,  Trias  Tkai/m.,  p.  504:  "  A.  D.  1196. 

5  The  rath,  or  fort,  that  surrounded  the  ca the-  Murchertachus  Hua  Lachlainn,  filius  Murcher- 

dral  of  Armagh  extended,  according  to  tradi-  tachi,  Hiberniro  regis,  Princeps  de  Kinel-eoguin, 

tion,  as  far  south  as  the  present  market  house.  &  expectatione  multorum  Rex  Hibernian  futurus, 

I  Churches  and  fair  nemeds. — Cupjoalaibe  turris    fortitudinis    &   defensionis    Aquilonaris 
oeall  7  caoitTineirrieab  is  translated  by  Colgan  Hibernise,  victoriosus  Anglicarum  Ciuitatum  & 
"  Multarum  Basilicarum  et  Sanctuariorum  fun-  fortalitiorum  expugnator,  &  multarum  Basili- 
dator." — Vide  Trias  Thaum.,  p.  504,  col.  2.  carum  &  Sanctuariorum  fundator,   de  consilio 

II  Blosky  O'Kane. — That  this  Blosky  is  the  an-  quorundam  procerum  de  Kinel-eoguin  qui  per 
cestor  of  the  numerous  clans  of  the  Mac  Clos-  tria  Scrinia,  &  Canones  S.  Patricij  iuramentum 
keys,  in  the  county  of  Londonderry,  can  scarcely  fidelitatis  ante  ipsi  prsestiterant ;  maim   Dun- 
be  doubted.     The  Erenagh  Mac  Closkey  signed  chadi  filij   Bloscadii   O   Cathain    dolose    iriter- 
hi>  name  Blosganus  in  the  reign  of  James  I.,  remptus  occubuit :  eiusque  corpus  Doriam  de- 
which  at  once  affords  a  clue  to  the  true  original  latum  ibi  cum  funebri  pompa  &  honore  septil- 
name  of  this  family.  turn    cst."     And  thus,   very  carelessly   in  the 


1196.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  103 

brought  them  away  to  Caislen  na-Cailligher  [the  Hag's  Castle],  where  he  pro- 
ceeded to  commit  great  ravages  in  all  directions,  until  Cathal  Crovderg,  accom- 
panied 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,  1196. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  ninety-six. 

The  Abbey  of  SS.  Peter  and  Paul  at  Armagh,  with  its  churches,  and  a  great 
part  of  the  Raths,  were  burned. 

Murtough,  the  son  of  Murtough  O'Loughlin,  Lord  of  Kinel-Owen,  presump- 
tive 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",  at  the  instigation  of  the  Kinel-Owen,  who  had  pledged  their 
loyalty  to  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  Upper  and  Lower  Orior,  in  the 

1195.  Murtagh  mac  Murtagh  O'Loghlin,  King  east   of  the   county   of  Armagh.      The    word 

of  Kindred  Owen,   and  that  should  be  King  cnpcep  signifies  Oriental,  or  Eastern ;  and  the 

of  all  Ireland,  the  supporting  Post  of  Leth-  territory  and  people  were  so  called  from  their 

quinforfeatesof  Armes  and  courage  [cuip  J5aT"  situation  in  the  east  of  Oriel ;  and  the  name  of 

ci6  7  enjnoma  leici  cuinn],  Banisher  \_recte  the  inhabitants  is  accordingly  latinized  Artheri 

destroyer]  of  Galls  and  Castles,  Eearer  of  churches  and  Orientates,  by  Probus,  Colgan,  O'Flaherty, 

and  holiness"  [neimeo],  "killed  by  Donogh  mac  and  other  writers.  Probus  calls  this  territory 
Blosgy  O'Cathan,  in  counsel  of  all  Kindred  '  Regio  Orientalium. — See  the  second  Life  of  St. 

Owen,   after  bringing  the  three  schrines  and  Patrick,  published  by  Colgan,  in  Trias  Thaum.; 

canons  of  Patrick  with  him  into  the  south  church  Ussher's  Primordia,  pp.  857, 1 047 ;  O'Flaherty's 

of  Armagh,  and  he  was  carry  ed  to  Dyry  Co-  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  76;  Mac  Firbis's  Genealogical 

lumkille,  and  he  was  buried  honorably."  Book  (Marquis   of  Drogheda's  copy),  pp.  107, 

x   Orion,   aipcep,    i.  e.   the   inhabitants  of  130  ;  and  Dublin  P.  Journal,  vol.  i.  p.  103. 


104  QNHaca  Rio^hachca  eiraeaNN.  [1196. 

cipe.  Uopcpacap  ann  Dna  aoo  becc  DO  macaib  placa,  -\  coipeac  Connacc 
So  pochaibib  oile  DO  bofpcuppluaj  imaille  ppiu.  6a  Diet  maicib  bpian  bume 
via  plaicbepcaij,  mac  maoiliopa  ui  concobaip  a  connaccaib,  mac  ui  conco- 
baip pailge,  -j  mac  ui  paolain  na  nDeipe. 

TTlac  blopccaib  ui  cuipin  Do  apjain  cepmainn  Dabeocc,  -|  po  mapbab 
e  pen  50  nDfpjap  a  muincipe  pia  ccinD  miopa  cpia  piopcaib  De,  i  Dabeog. 

Oomnall  mac  Diapmaoa  mecc  capcaij  Do  bpipeab  coca  ap  jallaib 
luimnij  1  murhan,  -|  po  cuip  a  nDeapg  ap,  1  po  Diocuip  a  luimneac,  -|  po 
bpip  6d  maibm  oile  poppa  cen  mocd  an  mamm  pin. 

Concubap  mac  DiapmaDa  cijeapna  maije  luipj  Do  Dol  hi  nupD  i  mainip- 
cip  na  buille,  -)  po  jjab  romalcach  cijeapnup  Dia  epi. 

QOD  ua  peapjail  njeapna  muincipe  hanjaile  DO  mapbab  i  meabail  la 
macaib  Sicpioja  ui  cuinn. 

TTlaice  muinnpe  heolaip  DO  mapbab  la  mac  carail  ui  Ruaipc  hi  meabail, 

TTluipfbac  mdcc  Rajnaill  .1.  an  jiolla  puaD  cnoipeac  muincipe  heolaip 
DO  mapbab  la  mac  majnupa  ui  Concobaip  cpe  pupdil  mic  carail  ui  Rudipc 
lap  po  mapbab  na  maire  pempaice. 

machjamhain  mac  Concobaip  maonmaije  piojDamr.a  Connacc  Do  map- 

i  Desies,  Oeipe. — At  this  period  the  territory  and  Lanigan's  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Ireland, 

of  Desies  extended   from  Lismore  to  Credan-  vol.  i.  p.  368.  The  stone  chair  of  St.  Daveog,  or 

head,  in  the  county  of  Waterford.  The  last  chief  Daibheog,    the  patron  of  this  Termon,    is  yet 

of  the  Desies,  of  the  family  of  O'Faelan,  was  shewn  in  a  townland  of  Seeavoc,  which  verges 

Melaghlin,  or  Malachy,  who  was  deprived  of  his  on  Lough  Derg  on  the  south  side.     The  church 

principality  shortly  after  the  English  invasion,  lands  of  Termon   Daveog  are  now  called  Ter- 

when  it  was  granted  to  Eobert  Le  Poer,  whose  mon-Magrath. 

descendants  (now  called  Powers)  for  ages  after  a  Limerick — The  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals 

possessed  the  territory See  Cambrensis'  Hi-  of  Innisfallen  state,  under  this  year,  that  Don- 

berniaExpugnala,  lib.  i.  c.  16;  and  O'Flaherty's  nell  More  na  Curra  Mac  Carthy  destroyed  the 

Ogygia,  P.  iii.  c.  69-  castle  of  Kilfeakle,  and  slew  many  of  the  English 

*  Termon- Daveog,  Ceapmann  oubeoj,  j.  e.  there,  and  took  two  of  their  chiefs  prisoners; 

the  sanctuary  of  St.Daveog — The  church  of  this  that  he  also  plundered  the  territory  of'Imokilly, 

Termoa  was  situated  on  an   island  in  Lough  where  he  destroyed  another  castle  and  slew  many 

Derg,  in  the  county  of  Donegal,  but  not  a  trace  of  the  English ;  that  he  and  his  Eugenian  forces 

of  it  now  remains.  For  some  account  of  this  cele-  joined  Cathal  Crovderg  O'Conor  andO'Brien,  and 

brated  island  in  Lough  Derg,  commonly  called  marched  to  Cork,  then  in  the  possession  of  the 

the  island  of  St.  Patrick's  Purgatory,  see  Dean  English,  to  destroy  it ;  but  that  he  did  not  suf- 

Richardson's  work  entitled  Folly  of  Pilgrimages,  fer  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  chief- 
tains 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  Desiesy. 

The  son  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. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Dermot  Mac  Carthy,  defeated  the  English  of  Limerick" 
and  Munster  in  a  battle,  with  dreadful  slaughter,  and  drove  them  from  Lime- 
rick. He  also  defeated  them  in  two  other  battles  in  this  year. 

Conor  Mac  Dermot,  Lord  of  Moylurg,  embraced  Orders"  in  the  monastery 
of  Boyle;  and  Tomaltagh  assumed  the  lordship  in  his  stead0. 

Hugh  O'Farrell,  Lord  of  Muintir-Annaly,  was  treacherously  slain  by  the 
sons  of  Si  trie  O'Quin. 

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 
by  O'More  (Donnell)  and  the  men  of  Leixf,  who  attempted  to  prevent  him 

English  should  quit  it.     The  same  chronicle  re-  this  chief,  state,  that  he  died  i  nouici  monaij, 

cords  an  excursion  made  by  the  English  this  year  "  in  the  noviceship  of  a  monk." 
to  Fordruim,  where  they  slew  O'Kedfy,  and  the          c  In  his  stead,  oia  6pi:  literally,  "  after  him." 
two  sons  of  Buadhach  or  Victor  O'Sullivan,  name-          d  The  Gillaroe,  an  ^'O^0  puab,   i.e.  red  or 

ly,  Murtough  and  Gillycuddy  (JJiolla  ITlocuoa).  red-haired  youth. 

In  the  margin  of  this  work  is  the  following  note,  e  Roydamna,  pto^oariina,  i.  e.  materies  of  a 
which  was  probably  taken  from  Dr.  O'Brien's  king,  a  term  applied  to  the  sons  of  a  king,  like 
copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen :  "  Vide  Wa-  prince,  in  the  modern  acceptation  of  the  word, 
rseum  ad  hunc  annum,  ubi  actiones  hie  descrip-  f  Leix,  laoijip. — This  territory,  which  was  the 
tas  in  sensum  a  reipsa  alienum  et  Anglis  favora-  patrimonial  inheritance  of  the  family  of  O'More, 
bilem,  uti  in  suis  passim  annalibus,  detorquet."  comprised  a  considerable  part  of  the  Queen's 
b  Embraced  Orders,  Do  bol  hi  nupo,  i.  e.  took  County.  If  we  take  from  that  county  the  ba- 
the habit  of  a  monk — The  Annals  of  Kilronan,  ronies  of  Portnahinch  and  Tinahinch,  which 
under  the  year  1197,  in  recording  the  death  of  belonged  to  the  families  of  O'Dunn  and  O'Demp- 


106 


[1197- 


ba6  la  him  m6pt>a  Domnall,  -\  la  laijipp  °cc  copnarii  na  heDala  DO  bfpc  o 
jallaibh  ppipp,  1  cac1ial  cappac  Do  mapbab  ui  mopDa  ina  Dioghail. 

Conjalach  mac  pfpgail  «'  Ruaipc  DO  mapbaD  la  luijnib  ap  pbab  Da  en. 

loDname  ua  mannachain  cijfpna  ud  mbpiuin  na  Sionna  Do  ecc. 

Cachal  mac  afoha  ui  plaichbfpcaig  Do  mapbaD  la  macaib  muipcfpcaij 
miDij. 

CIOIS  C171OSO,  1197. 
Goip  CpiopD,  mile,  ceD,  nocacc,  a  peace. 

SluaijeaD  la  lohn  Do  Cuipc  co  njallaib  ulaD  co  hfppccpaibe,  -\  Do  pon- 
pacc  caiplen  cille  Sanccdin,  176  pdpaijeaD  -|  po.  polrhaigeD  cpioca  ceD 
cianacca  leo.  T?o  pd^aib  Roicpel  pirun  co  pocpaioe  moip  immaille  ppip 


sey,  and  were  a  portion  of  the  territory  of  Ui 
Failghe,  and  the  barony  of  Upper  Ossory,  which 
was  a  part  of  the  ancient  Osraighe,  and  be- 
longed to  the  Mac  Gillapatricks,  or  Fitzpa- 
tricks,.  the  remainder  will  be  Leix. — SeeUssher's 
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  Leac  Eiada,  on  the  plain  of  Magh 
Kiada,  now  Morett,  which  originally  comprised 
all  the  Great  Heath  of  Maryborough.  These  seven 
districts  were  under  the  government  of  seven 
petty  chiefs,  who  were  all  under  the  jurisdiction 
of  one  arch  chief,  called  Righ  Eiada,  who  ge- 
nerally resided  at  Dun  Mask,  now  Dunamase — 
See  Duald  Mac  Firbis's  Genealogical  Book,  un- 
der the  head  LAOIGHIS  LAIGHEAN.  For  the 
bardic  account  of  the  original  acquisition  of  this 
territory  by  Laoighseach  Ceannmhor,  the  ances- 
tor of  the  O'Mores,  the  reader  is  referred  to 
Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clon- 
macnoise,  reign  of  Felym  Eeaghtwar ;  and  to  Keat- 
ing's  History  of  Ireland,  reign  ofCormacMac  Art. 
g  In  revenge  of  him,  ma  Giojcul The  An- 


nals of  Kilronan  state  that  Mali  on  was  slain  by 
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  1196  :  rhac^arhain  mac  concobaip 
maonmaije  DO  mapbao  le  peppenach  .1.  Con- 
5oban,oo  rhumcip  DomnaillUi  mopoa.  Dom- 
nall  ua  rnopoa  pern  oo  cuicim  ip  in  uaip 
ceona  DO  lairh  carait  cappai^.  And  thus  in 
the  Annals  of  Boyle,  but  under  the  year  1197: 
"A.  D.  1197-  IDacjamain  mac  Concubaip 
maenmargi  occisus  ab  aliquo  sagittario  de  fa- 
milia  t)otnnaill  ui  mopba,  et  in  eadem  hora 
<3omnalL  ua  mopDa  cecidit  de  mantt  cacail 
cappaij." 

h  Congalach,  Con^alac — This  name  is  now 
obsolete,  as  the  Christian  name  of  a  man,  but  is 
preserved  in  the  surname  of  Conolly,  in  Irish 
O'Conjalaij. 

'  Slieve-da-en,  pliab  oa  6n,  L  e.  the  mountain 
of  the  two  birds. — This  mountain,  which  retains 
this  name  to  the  present  day,  lies  principally  in 
the  parish  of  Kilross,  barony  of  Tirrerill,  and 
county  of  Sligo,  and  extends  from  near  Lough 


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ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


107 


v 

from  bearing  off  the  spoil  which  he  had  taken  from  the  English;  but  O'More 
was  killed  by  Cathal  Carrach  [O'Conor],  in  revenge  of  hims  [Mahon]. 

Congalach",  the  son  of  Farrell  O'Rourke,  was  slain  by  the  men  of  Leyny,  on 
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 
Midheach1  [Miderisis]. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1197. 

The  Age  of.  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  ninety-seven. 

John  De  Courcy  and  the  English  of  Ulidia  marched,  with  an  army,  to  Eas- 
Creevam,  and  erected  the  castle  of  Kilsanctan",  and  wasted  and  desolated  the 
territory  of  Kienaghta0.  He  left  Rotsel  Pitun,  together  with  a  large  body  of 


Gill  to  Colooney.  It  is  worthy  of  remark,  that 
there  is  a  lough  on  the  north  side  of  this  moun- 
tain called  Loch  da  ghedh,  i.  e.  the  lake  of  the 
two  geese — See  Map  prefixed  to  the  Tribes  and 
Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  printed  in  1844. 

^Hy-Briuin  na-Sin  na,  now  locally  called  Tir  ua- 
Biuin. — It  is  a  beautiful  territory  lying  between 
Elphin  and  Jamestown,  in  the  county  of  Roscom- 
mon,  and  comprising  the  parishes  of  Cill  mor  na 
Sinna,  now  Kilmore,  Eachdhruim  mac  n-Aodha, 
nowAughrim,  and  Cluain  creamha,  now  Cloncraff. 
According  to  the  tradition  of  the  district,  O'Mo- 
nahan lived  at  Lissadorn,  near  Elphin,  now  the 
seat  of  John  Balf,  Esq.,  where  there  is  a  well 
called  Monahan's  well  ;  and  the  last  of  the 
O'Monahans,  who  was  chief  of  this  territory,  was 
killed  here  by  O'Beirne  with  a  blow  of  his  fist, 
unde  nomen,  Lissadorn,  i.  e.  the  fort  of  the  fist. 

1  Murtough  Midheach,  i.  e.  the  Meathian.  He 
was  so  called  from  having  been  fostered  in  Meath. 

Under  this  year  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  An- 
nals of  Innisfallen  state,  that  Gilbert  de  Nangle 
was  expelled  from  Meath  by  the  King's  Deputy, 
Hamon  de  Valentiis  [De  Valoignes]  who  took 

P 


possession  of  his  castles  and  lands. 

m  Eas-Creeva,  fpp  cpaibe,  now  called  the  Sal- 
mon Leap,  or  the  Cutt's  Fishery,  is  a  cataract  on 
the  River  Bann,  to  the  south  of  Coleraine,  in  the 
county  of  Londonderry. 

n  Kilsanctan,  Cill  Scmccam In  the  An- 
nals of  Kilronan  it  is  called  caiplen  cille  San- 
cail,  and  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of 
Ulster,  "  the  Castle  of  Killsandle."  It  was  si- 
tuated on  the  east  side  of  the  River  Bann,  not 
far  from  Coleraine.  There  is  still  a  remarkable 
mound  near  the  Salmon  Leap  on  the  Bann,  called 
Mountsandall — See  Ordnance  Map  of  London- 
derry, sheet  7. 

0  Kienaghta,  Cianacca,  now  the  barony  of 
Keenaght,  in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of 
Londonderry. — The  tribe  called  Cianacca,  i.  e. 
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 
of  surnames  the  principal  family  of  the  Cianachta 
of  this  territory  took  the  surname  of  O'Conor, 
and  is  distinguished  in  the  Irish  Annals  by  the 
appellation  of  O'Conor  of  Glenn  Geimhin. 


108  aNNQ^a  nio^hachca  eiraeaNR  [1197- 

ipin  ccaipciall  hipin,  -\  po  jjabpac  05  mbpab,  ~\  occ  apgain  cuac  -|  ceall  ap. 
Uainij  laporh  Roicpel  phicun  ap  cpeic  co  pope  ooipe,  -|  po  aipg  cluain  f, 
eanac,-]  t>fp5bpuach,1?u5  bna  plaicbeapcac  ua  maoiloopaib  cijeapna  conaill 
1  eojain  co  nuafab  t>o  clanoaib  neill  an  cuaipcipc  poppa,  l?o  pijeb  lomaipfg 
eacappa  pop  cpaig  na  huacon^bdla,  -]  po  cuipeab  a  nap  im  mac  apbjail 
mec  loclainn  cpia  rhiopb'ail  colaim  cille,  cainoij,  -]  bpeacain  ipa  cealla  po 
aipccpeacc. 


P  The  territories  and  the  churches,  ruar  7 
ceall. — By  this  phrase  the  annalists  often  mean 
lay  and  ecclesiastical  property,  loip  ruar  7  cill 
generally  means  "  both  laity  and  clergy." 

q  Cluain-I,  Enagh,  and  Dergbruagh,  cluam  i, 
eanac  7  ofpjbpuach. — The  Editor  has  been 
able  after  much  study  and  attention,  to  identify 
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  Londonderry  ;  6unuc  is  the  old  church 
of  Enagh,  situated  between  the  two  loughs  of 
the  same  name,  in  the  north  of  the  parish  of 
Clondermot;  andlDfpgbpuach,  i.e.  iheredbrink, 
is  the  townland  of  Gransha,  in  the  same  parish. 
Colgan,  in  Trias  Thaum.,  p.  505,  gives  an  in- 
correct translation  of  the  following  part  of  the 
this  passage,  viz. :  Camij  lapaiti  Roicpel  picun 
ap  cpeic  50  pope  ooipe  7  po  aipjj  cluam  i,  ea- 
nach  7  ofpsbpuach.  "  Eotsellus  Pitun  venit 
ad  portum  Dorensem,  Ciuitatem  ipsam,  Ecclesiis 
de  Cluain  an  Eanach,  &  Dearg-bhruach  spoliatis, 
invasurus." 

Here  he  reads  Cluam  I,  Ganach,  "  Cluain  an 
Eanack,'1'1  as  if  i  were  an  abbreviation  of  the  ar- 
ticle in  or  an  ;  but  in  this  he  is  undoubtedly 
mistaken,  for  we  learn  from  the  older  Irish 
Annals  of  Ulster  and  of  Kilronan,  that  three 
churches  are  distinctly  mentioned  in  the  passage, 
viz.,  Cluain  i,  and  Ganach,  and  OeapjBpuac. 
The  passage  runs  as  follows  in  the  Annals  of  Ul- 


ster :  A.  D.  1 197.  Camic  ono  Roicpel  picun  co 
poprtDaipe,  co  poaipc  cluami  7  enach  7  oepc- 
bpuac.  And  thus  rendered  in  the  old  transla- 
tion of  the  Ulster  Annals,  preserved  in  the  Bri- 
tish Museum,  MSS.  add.  4795.  "  This  Rochel 
Pitun  came  to  Port  Dyry,  and  spoyled  Cluain 
hie  and  Anagh  and  Dergbruagh." 

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 
church,  and  this  he  evidently  took  to  be  the 
one  now  in  ruins  between  the  two  lakes  Enagh 
already  mentioned.  Thus  in  the  note  on  his 
wrongly  made  name  of  Cluain  an  Eanach,  he 
writes  :  "  Est  Capella  Difficesis  Dorensis,  juxta 
Eanach  arcem  nobilissirnse  familise  O'Cathano- 
rum  ;  a  qua  et  Cluain  Enaich  appellatur." — 
Trias  Thaum,,  p.  450,  n.  51.  And  again,  in 
his  notice  of  the  church  of  Eanach,  he  writes  : 
"  Ecclesia  vulgo  Eanach  dicta  (juxta  quern  est 
arx  nobilissimaj  familiae  O'Cathanorum)  tertio 
tan  turn  milliari  versus  aquilonem  distat  ab  ipsa 
civitate  Dorensi." — Trias  Thaum.,  p.  377,  col.  2. 

The  Editor,  who  took  for  granted  that  Col- 
gan's  knowledge  of  the  topography  of  this  part 
of  Ireland  was  next  to  perfect,  as  he  was  a  na- 
tive of  Inishowen,  was  very  much  puzzled  by 
these  notes  ;  but  on  examining  the  parish  of 
Clondermot  in  1 834,  he  found  that  Cluain  i  and 
Eanack  were  two  distinct  townlands,  containing 
each  the  ruins  of  an  old  church.  O'Donnell,  in 
his  Life  of  Columbkille,  distinctly  points  out 


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109 


forces,  in  the  castle,  out  of  which  they  proceeded  to  plunder  and  ravage 
the  territories  and  the  churches'".  Rotsel  Piton  afterwards  came  on  a  pre- 
datory excursion  to  the  harbour  of  Derry,  and  plundered  the  churches  of 
Cluain-I,  Enagh,  and  Dergbruaghq.  But  Flaherty  O'Muldory,  Lord  of  Kinel- 
Owen  and  Kinel-Conell,  with  a  small  partyr  of  the  northern  Hy-Niall,  overtook 
him ;  and  a  battle  was  fought  between  them  on  the  strand  of  Faughanvales,  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  calls  simply 
Cluain,  in  the  following  words  : 

"  In  loco  quodam  quern  Cluain  vocant,  a  Do- 
rensi  oppido  ad  adversam  Feabhalii  lacus  margi- 
nem  non  procul  distanti  templum  excitavit." 
(Columba).  O'Donnell  then  goes  on  to  state, 
that  Nicholas  Boston  [Weston],  an  English  Bi- 
shop, had,  not  long  before  his  own  time  (1520), 
pulled  down  this  church  and  commenced  erect- 
ing a  palace  with  the  materials  obtained  from  its 
ruins,  at  a  place  called  Bunseantuinne,  not  far 
from  Derry.  "  Faucis  retro  ab  hinc  annis, 
Episcopus  Anglicus,  Nicholaus  Boston  dictus, 
prsefatum  templum  demolitus,  ex  ejus  rude- 
ribus  palatium  molitus  est,  sed  consummare  non 
potuit  vindicante  Deo."  &c — Trias  Thaum., 
p.  399,  col.  1. 

The  place  called  Deargbruagh  by  the  anna- 
lists is  called  the  "  Grange  of  Dirgebroe,"  in  an 
inquisition  taken  at  Derry,  in  the  year  1609, 
and  is  now,  beyond  dispute,  the  townland  of 
Gransha,  or  Grange,  in  the  parish  of  Clondermot, 
but  its  church  has  been  totally  destroyed. — See 
Ordnance  Map  of  Londonderry,  sheets  13  and  14. 

r  A  small  party,  uacao.— This  word  is  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  year 
1196  [recte  1197]:  "An0.  1196.  An  army  by 
John  de  Coursy  with  the  Galls  of  Vlster  to  Eas- 


Krivy,  and  made  the  castle  of  Killsandle,  and 
wasted  the  Trichaced  of  Kyanaght"  [out]  "  of  that 
castle.  In  that  castle  was  Eochel  Pitun  left  with 
a  number  to  him.  This  Rochel  Pitun  came  to 
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,  Cainegh,  and  Brekan,  whom  they 
spoyled  [i.  e.  whose  churches  they  had  plun- 
dered]." There  is  no  reference  to  Ardgal  Mac 
Loughlin  in  this  translation,  but  his  name  is  in- 
serted in  a  more  modern  hand  in  the  Dublin  copy 
of  the  Annals  of  Ulster.  The  son  of  Ardgal  Mac 
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 
Ireland :  one  near  the  foot  of  Croaghpatrick, 
in  the  county  of  Mayo  ;  a  second  in  the  county 
of  Westmeath,  on  the  borders  of  the  county  of 
Longford  ;  a  third  on  the  Eiver  Boyne,  to  the 
west  of  Drogheda  ;  and  a  fourth  in  the  county 
of  Clare.  The  name  is  translated  Nova  habitatio 
by  Colgan. — See  Acta  Sanctorum,  p.  141,  note  8. 

1  Canice,  camoech — He  is  the  patron  saint 
of  the  territory  of  Kienaghta,  in  which  he  was 
born  in  the  year  516 See  Colgan,  Trias 


no  aNNdta  Rioshachca  eiraectNN.  [1197. 

TTlac  ecij  Do  cianaccaib  Do  plac  alcopa  ceampaill  moip  Doipe  colaim 
cille,  i  cfirpe  cuipn  baD  peapp  po  baoi  in  Gpino  Do  bpeic  eipce,  .1.  mac 
l?iabac,  mac  polap,  copn  ui  maoiloopaiD,  "]  cammcopainD  copn  uf  bocapcai  j, 
T?o  bpipicc  imoppa  -\  Do  all  a  nionnrhappa,  -|  a  loppa  Dib.  popic  [ppir] 
imoppa  na  peoiD  ip  in  cpfp  16  lap  nd  ngoio,  -\  an  cf  po  goiD,  ~|  po  cpochab  la 
plairbeapcac  05  cpoipp  na  piaj  i  neneac  column  cille  ipa  halcoip  po  papaij. 

plaicbfpcac  ua  maoiloopaiD  njeapna  cenel  cconaill,  eojain,  -]  aipjiall 
copnamac  cfmpa,  "]  pio^Darhna  Gpeann  uile  ;  Conall  ap  laoc&acc  epibe, 
Cuculamn  ap  jaipcceab,  <5ua'pe  ap  eneac,  TTlac  lu^ac  ap  occlacup  Decc  (an 
Dapa  la  pebpuapi)  lap  ccpeablaiD  cojaiDe,  i  ninip  Saimep  ipin  cpiocacmab 
bliabain  a  plaiciupa,  -\  ipin  norhaD  bliabain  ap  caogacc  a  aoipe.  Ggup  po 
habnacc  i  nopuim  ruama  co  nonoip  amail  po  baD  Dfop. 

^abaip  eacmapcac  ua  Docapcai£  (.1.  an  giolla  pponrhaol)  cfnnup  cenel 
cconaill  po  ceDoip,  -|  i  ccionn  coicciDipi  mpom  raimj  lohn  Do  cuipc  co  poc- 
paice  rhoip  imaille  ppip  cap  ruaim  hi  ccfp  eogain,  aippiDe  co  hapoppaca  lap- 
pm  cimceall  50  Doipe  colaim  cille.  Qipipic  coicc  haiDce  ann.  CiajaiD  mparh 
co  cnoc  napcain  Dia  momapcap  caipip.  Ueccaic  Dna  cenel  conaill  im  ecmap- 
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.,  p.  182  ;  and  Ada  Sanctorum,  p.  190  ;  z  Guaire  in  hospitality. — He  is  here  compared 

also  Lanigan's  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Ireland,  to  Guaire  Aidhne,  King  of  Connaught,  who  was 

vol.  ii.  pp.  200,  202.  so  distinguished  for  hospitality  and  bounty  that 

u  Mac  Etigh. — In  the  Annals  of  Ulster  and  he  became    the    personification   of  generosity 

Kilronan  he  is  called  Mac  Gilla  Edich.  among  the  Irish  bards.  Guaire  was  King  of  Con- 

w  Their  jewels. — Q  nionmapa  7  a  loppa naught  for  thirteen  years,  and  died  in  the  year 

In  the  Annals  of  Ulster  the  reading  is  :  7  rail  662.— See  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach, 

a  ninnmapa  7  a  lapa  bib  ;  which  in  the  old  printed  for  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society  in 

translation  is  rendered,  "broke  their  gilt  and  1844,  p.  391. 

silver  off  them."  a  Mac  Liighach  in  feats  of  arms — He  was  the 

*  Defender  of  Tara,  copnarhac  cfmna — This  best  spearsman  among  the  Fiana  Eireann,  or 

might  also  be  translated  contender  for  Tara,  i.  e.  Irish  Militia,  in  the  third  century.    He  was  the 

for  the  sovereignty  of  Ireland.  son  of  Daire  Derg,  and  grandson  of  Finn  Mac 

y  Connell. ..  Cuchullin. — These  were  two  of  the  Cumhaill,  the  Fingal  of  Mac  Pherson's  Ossian, 

most  distinguished  of  the  Red  Branch  heroes,  and  was  called  Mac  Lughach,  from  his  mother 

who  flourished  in  Ulster  under  Concovar  Mac  Lugha. — See  Book  of  Lismore,  fol.  204,  b,  where 

Nessa  in  the  first  century.  St.  Patrick  is  introduced  as  asking  the  senior 


11970  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  Ill 

Mac  Etigh",  one  of  the  Kienaghts,  robbed  the  altar  of  the  great  church  of 
Deny,  and  carried  off  the  four  best  goblets  in  Ireland,  viz.  Mac  Riabhach, 
Mac  Solas,  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,  de- 
fender of  Tarax,  heir  presumptive  to  the  sovereignty  of  all  Ireland,  a  Connell  in 
heroism,  a  Cuchullin*  in  valour,  a  Guaire2  in  hospitality,  and  a  Mac  Lughach  in 
feats  of  arms",  died  on  Inis  Saimerb,  on  the  second  day  of  February,  after  long 
and  patient  suffering,  in  the  thirtieth  year  of  his  reign,  and  fifty-ninth  of  his 
age,  and  was  interred  at  Drumhome0  with  due  honour. 

Eachmarcach  O'Doherty  (i.  e.  Gilla  Sron-mael)  immediately  after  assumed 
the  chieftainship  of  Kinel-Connell.  A  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  Cnoc- 
Nascaind,  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  Mac  Ronain,  who  this  Mac  Lughach  was,  side  of  the  river,  about  one  mile  to  the  west  of 

thus  :  Cia  oap  mac  ITIac  luj-ach,  po  piappaijep  the  town  of  Ballyshannon. 
&ic  a  peip,  a  Cailci,  ap  pacpaic.     TTIac  DO          c  Drumhome,  opuim  cuama,    a  church  and 

Oaipe  Oepj  mac  Pmn,  ap  Cailci.     "  Whose  parish  in  the  barony  of  Tirhugh,  and  county 

son  was   Mac  Lughach,   I  asked  of  thee  last  of  Donegal.     This  church  is  referred  to  under 

night,  O  Cailti,.  said  Patrick.     He  was  the  son  the  Latinized  name  ofDorsum  Tommce  by  Adam- 

of  Daire  Derg,  the  son  of  Finn,  replied  Cailti."  nan  in  his  Vita  Cdumbce,  lib.  iii.  c.  23.     It  is 

"  Inis  Saimer,  an  island  in  the  River  Erne,  im-  also  mentioned  in  O'Donnell's  Life  of  Columba, 

mediatelyundertheCataracto'fEasAodhaRuaidh,  lib. iii.  c.  6 1 ;  in  Ussher's  Primordia,  p.  969;  and 

at  Ballyshannon.     For  the  origin  of  the  name  also  in  the  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys,  at 

Imp  Saimep,  see  Keating's  History  of  Ireland,  23rd  September,  where  it  is  stated  that  it  is 

Haliday's  Edition,    p.   164;    and   O'FIaherty's  one  of  St.  Adamnan's  churches. 
Ogyyia,  part  iii.  c.  2.     O'Muldory  had  a  house          <*  Cnoc  Nascain,  was  the  ancient  name  of  a  hill 

un  this  island.     The  monastery  of  Eas  Aodha  near  Lough  Swilly,  in  the  barony  of  Inishowen, 

Uuadh  is  not  on  this  island,  but  on  the  north  but  the  name  is  now  obsolete. 


112  dNNata  Rioghachca  eircecmN.  [iigs. 


cpacap  Da  ceo  Diob  im  eacmapcac  peppm,  im  6onncha6  ua  caipceipc  coipeac. 
cloinne  Sneojile  cong  einij,  "]  eanjnama,  ceille,  -|  comaiple  cenel  cconaill 
uile  mi  jiolla  mbpijoe  ua  nDocapcaijj,  im  rhag  noubam,  im  mhag  p-fpjail,  -] 
im  rhacaib  ua  mbaoijill,  -\  im  paopclanoaib  oite,  -|  po  aipccpfo  imp  eojain. 
1  DO  beapcpacc  bopairhe  mop  leo  epce,  -]  lompoiDicc  laip  pin. 

Concobap  ua  cacdin  Do  ecc. 

Concobap  mac  caiDg  cijeapna  maije  Imps  ~|  maij6  aof,  cuip  opDain, 
aipecaip,  einij,  -|  comaipce  connacc  uile  Decc  lap  naicpije  cojaibe  i  maimp- 
cip  aca  Dalaapg. 

TTIacpair  ua  laicbepcaij  canaipi  cfpe  heojain  "|  TTlaolpuanaiD  ua  cai- 
pelldin  cofpec  cloir,ne  Diapmaoa  Do  rhapbaD. 

Oomnall  mac  Rajnaill  mec  l?ajnaill  Do  rhapbaD  Do  macaib  mec  Duib- 
Dapa  i  piull. 

T?uai6pi  ua  plaicbfpcaij  ci^eapna  mpcaip  connacc  Do  jabail  la  cacal 
cpoibDeapg  la  pij  connacc. 

QO1S  C171O3D,  1198. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  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  i  ccoiccinne. 

PuaiDpi  ua  concobaip  Ri'Conracc  ~\  Gpeann  uile  eiccip  jallaib  ~|  jaoi&e- 

e  Tower,  cuip  --  The  word  cuip  properly  p.  295  ;  but  Rubpai^e  is  found  among  the  Irish 

means  a  prop,  pillar,  support,  or  fulcrum,  and  as  the  proper  name  of  a  man  at  the  earliest  pe- 

cop  means  a  tower.  But  as  Colgan  has  trans-  riod  of  their  history.  —  Id.,  pp.  26,  59,  293. 

lated  cuip  throughout  his  works  by  the  Latin  Throughout  this  translation  the  name  Ruaiopi 

turris,  the  translator  has  adopted  the  word  tower,  is  anglicised  Rory,  except  in  the  name  of  this 

but  it  should  be  understood  in  the  sense  of  sup-  last  monarch  of  Ireland,  which  is  made  Roderic 

port,  or  prop,  throughout.  for  the  sake  of  distinction.  During  ten  years 

f  Roderic  0}  'Conor,  Ruaiopi  ua  ConcoBaip.  —  of  his  life  this  unfortunate  prince  reigned  over 

The  nameTJuaiopi,  which  is  to  be  distinguished  Connaught  only,  for  the  eighteen  following  he 

from  Rubpai^e,  seems  to  be  of  Danish  origin  in  was  acknowledged  by  the  greater  part  of  the 

Ireland.  It  first  occurs  in  the  Irish  Annals  at  Irish  chieftains  as  monarch  of  all  Ireland  ;  but 

the  year  780.  —  See  O'Conor's  edition  of  the  finally,  upon  the  unnatural  revolt  of  his  sons, 

first  part  of  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters,  he  retired,  according  to  the  Annals  ofKilronan, 


\ 
1198.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  113 

slaughtered,  for  two  hundred  of  them  were  slain,  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 
Gilla-Brighde  O'Doherty,  Mag-Duane,  Mag-Fergail,  the  sons  of  O'Boyle,  and 
many  other  nobles.  The  English  then  plundered  Inishowen,  and  carried  off 
a  great  number  of  cows  from  thence,  and  then  returned. 

Conor  O'Kane  died. 

Conor,  the  son  of  Teige,  Lord  of  Moylurg  and  Moynai,  towere  of  the  gran- 
deur, splendour,  hospitality,  and  protection  of  all  Connaught,  died  after  ex- 
emplary penance  in  the  monastery  of  Ath-da-laarg  (Boyle). 

Magrath  0  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,  1198. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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'Conorf,  King  of  Connaught  and  of  all  Ireland,  both  the  Irish  and 

in  1183,  into  the  abbey  of  Cong,  which  had  lustre,  without  any  alloy  from  temerity,  revenge, 
been  founded  and  endowed  by  himself,  where  he  and  despair,"  p.  28.  But  Mr.  Moore,  who  has 
spent  the  last  thirteen  years  of  his  life.  The  weighed  his  character  without  any  bias  from  fa- 
late  Dr.  O'Conor,  in  his  suppressed  work,  Me-  mily  pride,  has  come  to  the  conclusion,  that 
moirs  of  the  Life  and  Writings  of  Charles  O'Conor  "the  only  feeling  his  name  awakens  is  that  of 
of  Belanagare,  has  endeavoured  to  invest  the  pity  for  the  doomed  country  which  at  such  a 
life  and  character  of  this  weak  monarch  with  crisis  of  its  fortunes,  when  honour,  safety,  in- 
heroic  dignity  and  interest,  asserting  that  "  in  dependence,  national  existence,  were  all  at  stake, 
his  adversity  his  fortitude  was  not  of  that  ig-  was  cursed,  for  the  crowning  of  its  evil  destiny, 
noble  species,  which  flows  from  resentment  ;"  with  a  ruler  and  leader  so  utterly  unworthy  of 
but  that  "  his  constancy  shone  forth  in  all  its  his  high  calling." — History  of  Ireland,  vol.  ii. 


114 


[1198. 


laib  Decc  hi  ccanancaib  i  ccunja  lap  naicpije  rojjaibe,  -]  lap  mbpfir  buaba 
6  Dorhan,  i  o  Dearhan,  -|  puccab  a  copp  co  cluain  mic  noip,  -\  po  habnaiceab 
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 
oepdin,  ~]  ua  Depain  peipin  Do  mapbab  ina  Diojail  po  ceboip. 

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 
1  an  cipe  apcfna,  i  ni  pajaD  app  inp  ineallifia  muna  coippeao  aoD  6  nell 
luce  coicc  lonj  co  cill  *  *  *  i  larapnaib,  i  po  loipc  nf  Don  baile,  "|  po  rhapb 
occ  ppip  Decc  Do  jallaib,  l?o  cionoilpfc  joill  maiji  line,  "|  Dail  apai&e  cpi 
ceo  Do  pocrain  aoba,  ~\  ni  po  pachaij  ao6  nac  nf  co  po  Doipcpfc  ina  cfiin  05 


p.  340.  The  only  remark  which  the  Editor 
deems  necessary  to  add  here  on  the  history  of 
this  unfortunate  monarch  is,  that  it  is  stated  in 
the  Historia  Families  De  Burgo,  preserved  in 
the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  that 
Rickard  More,  the  son  of  William  Fitz  Adelm 
De  Burgo,  in  the  battle  of  Leithridh,  near 
Dublin,  deprived  him  of  his  arm  and  kingdom 
with  one  stroke  of  his  sword  !  a  fact  which,  if 
true,  has  been  concealed  by  all  other  writers  on 
Irish  history.  The  descendants  of  Roderic  have 
been  long  extinct  in  Ireland,  in  the  male  line  ; 
but,  if  we  believe  the  author  of  Vita  Kirovani, 
and  O'Flaherty,  the  Lynches  of  Galway  descend 
from  him  in  the  female  line. — See  Account  of 
West  Connaught,  printed  for  the  Irish  Archaeo- 
logical Society,  p.  36:  According  to  Duald 
Mac  Firbis,  the  Lacys  of  the  county  of  Lime- 
rick have  sprung  from  William,  the  son  of  Sir 
Hugh  De  Lacy,  by  the  daughter  of  Roderic 
O'Conor. 

g  Carrick-Braghy,  cappaic  bpacaioe,  a  terri- 
tory comprising  the,  north- western  part  of  Inish- 
owen,  where  the  family  of  O'Maelfabhaill  is  still 


in  existence ;  but  the  name  is  anglicised  Mul- 
faal,  and  sometimes,  incorrectly,  Mac  Paul. 

h  John  De  Courcy. — This  passage  is  also  given 
in  the  Annals  of  Ulster  and  of  Kilronan,  nearly 
word  for  word  as  in  the  text  of  the  Four  Mas- 
ters, except  that  they  add  that  some  of  the 
English  of  Moylinny  and  Dalaradia  were  dressed 
in  iron  mail.  It  is  rendered  as  follows  in  the 
old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster.  The 
Irish  phrases  in  brackets  are  from  the  Dublin 
copy  of  the  Ulster  Annals.  "  A.  D.  1 198  [recte 
1199].  An  army,  by  John  de  Courcy,  into  Tir- 
owen  among  the  churches  [ap  puc  na  ceall], 
viz.,  Ardsraha  and  Rathboth  spoyled  by  him, 
untill  he  came  to  Dyry,  and  was  there  nine 
nights,  spoyling  of  Inis  Owen  and  the  country 
about,  and  [would  not  have]  went  [gone]  from 
thence  for  a  long  tyme  [7  ni  pajab  ap  ppi  pe  po- 
ca],  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,  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,  victo- 
rious 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. 

The  son  of  Brian  Breifneagh,  who  was  the  son  of  Turlough  O'Conor,  was 
slain  by  Cathal  Carragh,  the  son  of  Conor  Moinmoy. 

Cathalan  O'Mulfavil,  Lord  of  Carrick-Braghys,  was  slain  by  O'Dearan,  who 
was  himself  slain  immediately  afterwards  in  revenge  of  him. 

An  army  was  led  by  John  De  Courcy"  into  Tyrone,  among  the  churches ; 
and  Ardstraw  and  Raphoe  were  plundered  and  destroyed  by  him.  He  after- 
wards went  to  Derry,  where  he  remained  a  week  and  two  days,  destroying 
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  *  *  * 
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 
the  midest  of  the  towne  [ap  lap  in  baile]  untill 
the  Galls  were  put  to  flight,  and  gave  them  five 
overthrows  after  untill  they  went  to  their  ships, 
and  killed  but  five  of  O'Neal's  men.  Then  went 
John  away  [from  Dyry]  hearing  of  this." 

'  Kill «  «  in  Lame,  cill  »  *  *  i  lacapna In 

the  Annals  of  Ulster  this  name  is  written  cill, 
with  a  blank  left  for  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 
larapna,  i.  e.  a  church  in  the  territory  of  La- 
tharna; and  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals 
of  Ulster  it  is  made  Killaharna.  Latharna  is 
now  called  Larne,  and  is  the  name  of  a  village 
in  the  east  of  the  corfnty  of  Antrim  ;  but  it  was 
originally  a  tuath,  cinament,  or  regiuncula,  near 
Lough  Laoigh  in  Ulster — See  Colgan's  Trias 
Thaum.,  p.  188,  and  5th  Index.  There  can  be 
little  doubt  that  the  cill,  or  church,  whose  name 
is  here  left  imperfect  by  the  annalists,  is  the 
celebrated  church  of  Cill  Ruao,  now  anglicised 

Q 


Kilroot — but  anciently  Kilroegh  and  Kilreugh — 
which  was  certainly  in  this  district See  the  Ca- 
lendar of  the  O'Clerys,  at  16th  October.  This 
church,  whose  patron  saint  was  a  Bishop  Colman, 
son  of  Cathbhadh,  is  described  as  situated  on 
the  brink  of  Loch  Laoigh  in  Dalaradia,  in  Ulster. 
See  also  the  Feilire,  or  Festilogy  of  Aengus,  at 
the  same  day,  where  this  church  is  described,  as 
pop  bpu  locha  laij  i  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  work,  Marquis  of  Drogh- 
eda's  copy,  p.  248. 

*  Moylinny,.Tf\cr$  line. — This  name  is  still  pre- 
served as  that  of  a  townland  in  the  parish  of  An- 
trim, in  the  county  of  Antrim.  But  Moylinny, 
before  the  present  arrangement  of  the  baronies 
in  the  county  of  Antrim,  was  a  territory  which 

extended  from  Lough  Neagh  to  Carrickfergus 

See  note  *,  p.  23,  on  Dal  Bmnne.   For  its  boun- 
daries in  1609,  see  note  under  the  year  1503. 


116  aNNom  Rio^hachca  eiReaww.  [1199. 

lopccab  an  baile.  17o  pfpab  lomaipeacc  eacoppa  laporii,  -]  po  muib  pop  jjal- 
laib,  i  cuccab  coicc  ma&manna  poppa  6  cd  pin  co  nDeacpac  ma  longaib,  q 
ni  po  mapbab  t»o  mumcip  aoba  ace  coijeap  namd.  lap  cclop  na  pccel  pin 
DO  lohn  po  pagaib  an  baile  i  paibe  .1.  Doipe  colaim  cille. 

Coccab  eicip  cenel  conaill  i  eojain,  -]  cenel  conaill  Do  coimcfnjal  la 
hua  neccnij  in  acchaib  cenel  eojain,  -|  po  boi  coinne  fcoppa  Do  naibm  a 
ccapaopab  hi  ccepmann  Dabeocc.  Uainic  cpd  ao6  ua  neill  50  ccenel  eojain 
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  Denarii  pioba  ppi  cacal  cappac  mac 
concobaip  maonmaije,  -\  a  cabaipr  Don  cip,  •]  peapann  DO  cabaipc  DO. 

CIO1S  CR1OSO,  1199. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  ceo,  nochacc,  anaoi. 

TTlaolfopa  mac  giolla  epdin,  aipcmoeac  cille  moipe  ua  nialldin,  -\  abbap 
coriiapba  pacpaic  Decc. 

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 

1  O'Hegny.—lle  was  at  this  period  the  Chief  observed,  was  the  level  part  of  the  barony  of 

of  all  Fermanagh,  the  Maguires  not  having  as  Eaphoe,  now  called  the  Lagan, 
yet  acquired  any  power  over  that  territory —          °  Kilmare-OneiUand,  cill  mop  ua  medium.— 

See  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  76.  Now  the  parish  of  Kilmore,   in  the  barony  of 

"  A  skirmish,  pceirhleab  tnapcpluai^,  a  skir-  Oneilland,  and  county  of  Armagh,  about  three 

mish  of  cavalry.     In  the  old  translation  of  the  miles  east  of  the  city  of  Armagh. 
Annals  of  Ulster,  it  is  rendered  "  Nell  O'Duiv-          p  Donaghmore-Moy-Imclare,   t>omnac    mop 

dirma  was  killed  uppon  a  skirmish."  muije  imclaip. — Now  Donaghmore,   a  church 

"  The  plain  of  Moy  Itha — This,   as   already  and  parish  in   the  barony  of  Dungannon,   and 


1199.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  11? 

poured  round  him,  while  he  was  burning  the  town.  A  battle  was  then 
fought  between  them,  in  which  the  English  were  defeated.  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. 

A  war  broke  out  between  the  Kinel-Connell  and  the  Kinel-Oweri.  The 
Kinel-Connell  joined  O'Hegny1  against  the  Kinel-Owen;  and  they  had  a  meet- 
ing at  Termon  Daveog,  for  the  purpose  of  forming  a  league  of  amity  with  him. 
Hugh  O'Neill,  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  they  drove  off  a  vast 
number  of  cows,  after  killing  O'Duvdirma  in  a  skirmish1"  between  the  cavalry. 

Hugh  O'Neill  and  the  Kinel-Owen  made  a  second  incursion  into  the  plain 
of  Moy  Ithan,  to  give  battle  to  the  Kinel-Connell ;  but  the  Kinel-Connell  left 
their  camp  to  them,  upon  which  terms  of  peace  and  friendship  were  agreed  on 
between  the  parties. 

Cathal  Crovderg  O'Conor  made  peace  with  Cathal  Carragh,  the  son  of 
Conor  Moinmoy,  brought  him  into  his  territory,  and  gave  him  lands. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1199. 

Tlie  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  one  hundred  ninety-nine. 

Maelisa,  son  of  Gilla-Ernain,  Erenagh  of  Kilmore-Oneilland0,  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-Imclarep,  and  sent 

three  miles  west  of  the  town  of  Dungannon.  This  before  St.  Patrick's  time,  as  we  learn  from  the 

church  was  founded  by  St.  Patrick,  who  placed  Festilogy  of  Aengus,    at   the  6th  September  : 

there  a  St.  Columba,  called  in  Irish  Colum  Ruis  T?opy  jlanoa   aintn    in    baile  ppiup  .1.    j;lcin 

Glarida.     The  place  where  this  church   stands  cnnm  na  cibpao  pil  ann,  7  oomnach  mop  amm 

was  called  Ros  Glanda,  from  a  well  named  Glan,  moiu  ;  "  Ross  Glanda  leas  the  name  of  the  place 


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Dpong  mop  Dia  muincip  DO  riiilleao  -|  Do  cpeachaD  an  cipe.  Camic  Dna  aob 
6  neill  mD  oipfp  an  cploij  coma  comnamic  66,  -|  Do  na  gallaib,  -]  no  la  a 
nap,  i  an  Do  fpna  uaba  po  elaibpfc  pan  aibce  jan  nac  caipfpeam  co  noea- 
carap  rap  cuaim. 

SluaicceaD  la  Puaibpi  ua  nDumnplebe  co  nf  Do  jallaib  miDe,  -[  po  aipcc- 
pec  mainipnp  phoil,  ~\  peaccaip  co  nap  pdccaibpfr  innce  ace  aon  bo. 

Oomnall  ua  Docapcaij  njeapna  cenel  nenDa  -|  apDa  miooaip  Decc. 

OonnchaD  uaicneac  mac  RuaiDpi  ui  Concobaip  Do  rhapbao  la  Sajcaib 
luimnij. 

l?ooub  mac  poeDig  coipec  cenel  aongupa  Do  mapbaD  la  gallaib  ap  cpec 
in  ua  neapca  cein. 

Cacal  cpoibDeapj  ua  concobaip  DO  ionnapba6  a  pijje  Connacr,  ~\  caral 
cappac  Do  jabail  a  lonaiD. 

Sluaicceao  la  haoD  ua  neill  i  poipicm  carail  cpoibDeip^sobpfpaibmaije 
hfoca,  i  co  naipjiallaib  ju  pangaccap  rfj  baoian  aipcij.  Soipfr  lapom  50 


(baile)  first,  i.  e.  from  Glan,  the  name  of  the 
well  which  is  there  ;  and  Domnach  mor  is  its 
name  at  this  day."  See  also  the  Irish  Calendar 
of  the  O'Clerys  at  the  same  day,  where  it  is 
added  that  Domhnach  mor  Moighe  lomchlair  is 
in  Tir  Eoghain,  now  Tyrone.  Magh  Imchlair 
was  the  ancient  name  of  the  plain  in  which  the 
church  of  Donaghmore  stands.  It  is  explained 
by  Colgan  as  follows :  "  Imchlair,  qua?  et  ali- 
quando  Maghdair,  ,i.  campus  planus,  sive  pla- 
nities  legitur  vocata  ;  est  ager  regionis  Tironise, 
non  procul  a  Dungenainn,  et  in  ecclesia  eiusdem 
regionis  Domnach  mor  dicta  colitur  S.  Columba 
Prsabyter  6.  Septemb."— Trias  T/iaum.,  p.  184, 
c.  1. 

q  Toome. — This  passage  is  given  as  follows  in 
the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  :  A.  D. 
1200.  t)o  ponpac  jaill  ulab  cpi  cpecha  i  cip 
neoj^am,  7  in  rpfp  cpech  oo  ponpac  oo  jabpac 
lonjpopr  ic  oomnacli  mop  muiji  imclaiji, 
DO  cuippec  cpech  mop  irnach.  Cainij  aeo 
ua  neill  in  aipcip  na  cpeice  co  po  compac  DO 
7  na  jaill  7  co  po  maio  ap  jallaib,  7  co 


rapair  ap  oiapmioe  poppo,  7  po  elaoup  pan 
aioce  co  noecaoap  cap  Uuaim.  It  is  rendered 
as  follows  in  the  old  translation  :  "  A.  D.  1 199" 
\_recte  1200].  "The  Galls  ofVlster  this  yeare 
prayed"  [preyed]  "  thrice  in  Tyrowen,  and  the 
third  tyme  they  camped  at  Donnaghmore,  and 
sent  forth  a  great  army.  Hugh  0  Neale  came 
to  prevent  them,  and  fought  with  the  Galls  and 
broke  of  them,  and  slaughtered  a  great  number 
of  them,  and  they  stole  away  by  night,  untill 
they  went  beyond  Toame." 

r  O'Donslevy,  ua  oumnpleibe ;  more  cor- 
rectly mac  tDuinnplebe,  in  the  Dublin  copy  of 
the  Annals  of  Ulster.  It  is  thus  rendered  in 
the  old  translation  :  "  A.  D.  1199.  An  army  by 
Eory  Mac  Dunleve  to"  [with]  "  some  of  the 
Galls  of  Meath,  and  spoyled  the  Abbey  of  Paul 
and  Peter,  so  as  they  left  but  one  cowe." 

s  Kinel-Enda  and  Ard-Mire Kinel-Enda 

was  the  ancient  name  of  the  district  situated 
between  the  Rivers  Foyle  and  Swilly,  in  the 
county  of  Donegal — See  p.  19,  note  d.  Ard- 
mire,  or  Ard  Miodhair,  was  the  name  of  a  ter- 


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forth  a  large  body  of  their  troops  to  destroy  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 
night,  tarrying  nowhere  until  they  had  passed  Toomeq. 

Eory  O'Donslevyr,  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. 

Donnell  O'Doherty,  Lord  of  Kinel-Enda  and  Ard-Mires,  died. 

Donough  Uaithneach,  the  son  of  Roderick  O'Conor,  was  slain  by  the  Eng- 
lish of  Limerick. 

Roduv  Mac  Roedig,  Chief  of  Kinel-Aengusa,  was  slain  by  the  English,  on 
a  predatory  incursion,  in  Hy-Earca-Cein'. 

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.  They  returned  again, 


ritory  lying  westwards  of  Kinel-Enda,  in  the 
direction  of  Lough  Finn.  It  is  to  be  distin- 
guished from  Ceann  Maghair,  near  Fanaid.  The 
O'Dohertys  were  afterwards  settled  in  the  ter- 
ritory, now  the  barony  of  Inishowen,  which  had 
been  previously  possessed  by  families  of  the 
Kinel-Owen  race,  who  were  all  tributary  either 
to  Mac  Loughlin,  or  O'Neill ;  but  after  the  set- 
tlement of  the  O'Dohertys,  who  were  of  the 
Kinel-ConneU  race,  the  inhabitants  of  Inish- 
owen generally  paid  tribute  to  O'Donnell. 

'  Hy-Earca-Cein — This  was  the  ancient  name 
of  a  tribe  situated  in  a  valley  in  the  present  ba- 
rony and  county  of  Antrim.— See  Colgan's  Trias 
Thaum.,  p.  183,  col.  2,  note  221. 

The  Kinel-Aengusa  were  a  tribe  of  the  Clanna 
Kury,  in  the  same  neighbourhood.  They  de- 
scend, according  to  Duald  Mac  Firbis,  from 
Aengus,  the  second  son  of  Maelcobha,  and  the 
Chiefs  of  Leath  Cathail,  now  the  barony  of  Le- 
cale,  in  the  county  of  Down,  were  of  them 


See  his  Genealogical  Book  (Lord  Roden's  copy), 
p.  568  :  Da  mac  ITIaoilcoba  .1.  blarmac,  a 
quo  piojpaio  ula6,  7  aongup,  a  quo  cmel 
n-aonjupa:  ap  bib  piojpaio  leice  carail. 

u  Tibohine-Artagh,  Ceac  6aoirm  aipcij,  i.  e. 
the  house,  or  church  of  St.  Baoithin,  of  the  ter- 
ritory of  Airteach.  It  is  now  the  name  of  a  pa- 
rish church  in  the  diocese  of  Elphin. — See  the 
Feilire  Aenguis  at  19th  of  February,  where 
this  church  is  described  as  lying  to  the  west  of 
Croghan,  in  Connaught :  "ppi  cpuacham  Con- 
nachc  aniap ;"  and  the  Irish  Calendar  of  the 
O'Clerys  at  the  same  day,  where  the  saint  is 
called  "  Bishop  Baoithin,  the  son  of  Cuanach, 
of  Airteach." — See  also  Colgan's  Trias  Thaum., 
p.  370,  col.  1,  notes  17,  18,  19  ;  and^eta  Sanc- 
torum, pp.  369,  370  ;  also  Erck's  Ecclesiastical 
Eegister  ;  Beaufort's  Ecclesiastical  Map  of  Ire- 
land ;  and  Archdall's  Monasticon  (at  Tibohin). 
The  parish  called  after  this  church  is  still  some- 
times locally  called  Airteach  ;  but  the  territory 


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panjaoap  eapDapa,  -|  puce  oppa  cacal  cappac  co  maicib  connacc,  -]  uilbam 
bupc  50  njallaib  luimnij  maille  ppip.  peacap  lomaipeacc  earoppa,  -\  po 
ppaomeab  pop  cuaipcepc  Gpeann,  -j  po  pdjbab  ann  ua  heccnij  ci<c;eapna 
oipjiall,  i  pochai&e  cenmocd  porn. 

Sluaigheab  la  lohn  Do  Cuipc  co  ngallaib  ula6,  ~\  la  mac  hujo  De  Ian  co 
ngallaib  mi6e  hi  poipicin  -cacail  cpoiboeipg  50  pangaoap  cill  mic  Duac. 
Cainicc  laporh  cacal  cappac  co  cconnaccaib  imaille  ppip,  ~]  po  cacaijpfc 
ppi  apoile.  Spaoinceap  pop  jallaib  ulab  ~\  mibe  aipm  hi  pabaccap  cuicc 
caca,  ni  cepna  acr  Oa  cac  &fb,  ~\  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 
ceichib  acr  a  noeacaib  i  nearpaib  cap  loc  poip  uara. 

Ruapc  ua  TTlaoilbpenainn  coipech  cloinne  concobaip  Do  ecc. 

Ri  Sa^an  lohn  Do  pioghaoh  op  Sa^ain  .6.  Qppil. 

TTlupchab  mac  cochldm  cigeapna  Dealbna  fchpa  t>o  ecc. 


of  Airteach  was  more  extensive  than  the  present 
parish  of  Tibohine — See  note  under  the  year 
1197.  There  is  another  parish  church  called 
Teagh  Baoithin,  in  the  barony  of  Raphoe,  but 
the  name  is  now  anglicised  Taughboyne,  though 
always  pronounced  Tiboyne  by  the  Scotch  set- 
tlers, and  Tibwceheen  by  those  who  speak  the 
Irish  language.  This  is  called  after  St.  Baoithin, 
orBaithenus,  son  of  Brendan,  son  of  Fergus,  the 
relative  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 
church  in  the  barony  of  Kiltartan,  and  county 
of  Galway.  This  church  was  erected  by  Guaire 
Aidhne,  King  of  Connaught,  about  the  year 
610,  for  his  kinsman,  Colman  Mac  Duach,  who 
is  the  patron  saint  of  the  Hy-Fiachrach  Aidhne, 
a  tribe  who  possessed  the  entire  of  the  present 
diocese  of  Kilmacduagh  before  the  English  in- 
vasion— See  Colgan,  Ada  Sanctorum,  p.  245  ; 
and  Tribes  and  Customs  ofHy-Many,  printed  for 


the  Irish  Archseological  Society  in  1842,  p.  71, 
note  b,  and  map  to  the  same  work. 

x  Rindown,  T?mn  oum,  i.  e.  the  point  or  pe- 
ninsula of  the  dim,  or  earthen  fort.  This  penin- 
sula extends  into  Lough  Eee,  in  the  parish  of  St. 
John's,  barony  of  Athlone,  and  county  of  Ros- 
common,  and  is  about  eight  miles  to  the  north 
of  the  town  of  Athlone. — See  Ordnance  Map  of 
the  county  of  Roscommon,  sheet  46.  This  pe- 
ninsula contains  the  ruins  of  a  castle  of  great 
size  and  strength,  and  of  a  military  wall,  with 
gates  and  towers,  of  considerable  extent  and 
magnificence,  measuring  five  hundred  and  sixty- 
four  yards  in  length,  and  dividing  the  Sinn, 
or  point,  from  the  main  land  by  extending 
from  water  to  water.  It  is  stated  in  the  Irish 
Annals  that  the  Danish  tyrant,  Turgesius,  built 
a  fortress  on  Lough  Ree,  and  it  has  been  con- 
jectured that  by  him  was  erected  the  dun,  or 
fort,  from  which  this  point  of  land  was  denomi- 
nated Uinn  oum. — See  a  very  curious  descrip- 
tion of  this  place,  by  Mr.  Petrie,  in  the  Irish 


1199-] 


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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  many  others 
beside  him,  were  slain. 

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 
them  battle :  and  the  English  of  Ulidia  and  Meath  were  defeated  with  such 
slaughter  that,  of  their  five  battalions,  only  two  survived ;  and  these  were  pur- 
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 
drowned ;  for  they  found  no  passage  by  which  to  escape,  except  by  crossing 
the  lake  in  boats. 

Rourke  O'Mulrenin,  Chief  of  Clann-Conory,  died. 

John  was  crowned  King  of  England  on  the  sixth  of  April. 

Murrough  Mac  Coghlan,  Lord  of  Delviri  Eathra,  diedz. 


Penny  Journal,  No.  10,  pp.  73,  74,  75. 

1  Clann- Conor. —  See  note  under  year  the 
1193. 

*  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  between  the  two 
rivals  of  the  house  of  O'Conor  in  this  and  the 
two  succeeding  years.  The  Annals  of  Clon- 
macnoise add,  that  soon  after  this  slaughter  of 
the  English  at  Lough  Ree,  Cathal  Carragh 
was  treacherously  taken  prisoner  by  Hugh 
De  Lacy,  who  confined  him  in  the  Castle  of 
Nobber  (an  Obaip),  there  to  be  kept  until  he 
should  give  them  their  pay.  The  whole  pas- 
sage is  thus  translated  by  Connell  Mageoghegan  : 
"A.  D.  1200.  Cahall  Crovedearg  O'Connor,  ac- 
companied with  the  forces  of  John  De  Coursey  and 
Hugh  Delacie,  passed  through  Connought,  untill 
they  came  to  Tyrefiaghragh  Aynie,  where  they 


were  mett  by  Cahall  Carragh  O'Connor,  with  all 
his  Irish  and  English  forces,  and  were  overthrown 
and  pursued  to  Royndown  (now  called  Teagh 
Eoyn,  or  John's  house,  neer  Loghrie).  John 
Coursey  was  driven  to  take  boate  when  he  came 
to  that  place,  and  his  people  knew  not  where  to 
betake  themselves  for  their  safety,  but  only  by 
sailing  into  the  islands  of  Loghrie,  where  an  in- 
finite number  of  them  were  slain  and  drowned. 
Soone  after  Cahall  Carragh  was  taken  deceiptfully 
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 
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- 
mediately went  to  Munster  to  Macarthie  and 
William  Burke.  And  for  John  Coursey,  after 
slaying  of  his  people,  [he]  returned  to  Ulster 
again." 


R 


122 


[1200. 


aois  CRIOSO,  1200. 

Goip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceo. 

CaDhla  ua  Dubcaij  aipDeppcop  ruama  Decc  lap  pfnDaeam. 

Uaipeipje  mac  maoilmop&a  mic  uaipeipge  uf  neaccain  uapal  ppuic  Do 
ppuicib  cluana  mic  noip,  pfp  Ian  Do  bepepc,  -]  Da  gac  poalcm  apcfna,  -) 
ceann  cele  nDe  cluana  Decc  an  DeacmaD  la  DO  rhapca. 

TTlaoleoin  ua  capmacdin  comapba  commain  Decc. 

QOD  ua  neill  DO  aicpijaD  la  cenel  neojain,  -|  concobap  ua  loclainn  Do 
pijab  ma  iona6,  ~\  Do  ponaD  cpeac  laip  hi  ccip  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 


land,  together  with  Laurence  O'Toole,  Archbi- 
shop of  Dublin,  andConcors,  Abbot  of  St.  Bren- 
dan's, by  King  Roderic  O'Conor,  to  negotiate 
with  King  Henry  II.  ;  and  they  waited  on  the 
King  at  Windsor,   where  a  grand  council  was 
held,  and  a  convention  ratified,  by  which  Henry 
granted  to  his  liegeman  Roderic,  that  as  long  as 
he  continued  to  serve  him  faithfully  he  should 
be  a  king  under  him  ready  to  do  him  service  as 
his  vassal,  and  that  he  should  hold  his  heredi- 
tary territories  as  firmly  and  peaceably  as  he 
had  held  them  before  the  coming  of  Henry  into 
Ireland.     Roderic  was  likewise  to  have  under 
his  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  Eng- 
land, &c. — See  this  treaty  in  Rymer's  Fcedera, 
vol.  i.  ;  and  also  as  given  in  the  original  Latin  in 
Cox's  Hibernia  Anylicana,  p.  29  ;  and  an  ab- 
stract of  it  in  Leland's  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  i. 
p.  104;  and  in  Moore's  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  ii. 
p.  287. 


Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Kilronan 
state  that  Gormgal  O'Quin,  Dux,  or  Captain  of 
Muintir  Gillagan,  was  taken  prisoner  by  the 
English,  who  plundered  his  people,  and  reduced 
them  to  great  distress  for  want  of  food  and  rai- 
ment. They  also  record  the  erection  of  the 
Castle  of  Granard  under  this  year,  but  without 
giving  the  name  of  the  builder.  The  Dublin 
copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen  state  that  it 
was  built  by  Richard  Tuite,  as  a  stronghold 
against  O'Reilly  in  south  Breiihy ;  and  this  ap- 
pears to  be  correct :  for  Granard  is  very  close  to 
the  ancient  dunchladh,  boundary  wall,  or  ditch, 
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 
is  the  prelate  called  Catholicus  Tuomenensis  by 
Giraldus  Cambrensis,  in  his  Hibernia  Expugnata, 
lib.  i.  c.  34.  He  succeeded  Edan  O'Hoisin  in  the 
year  1161.  In  the  year  1 1 75  he  was  sent  to  Eng- 


1200.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1-23 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1200. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred. 

Kyley  [Catholicus]  0'Duffya,  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  died  at  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.  Comanb,  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. 

Egneghan  O'Donnell,  Lord  of  Tirconnell,  sailed  with  the  fleet  of  Tircon- 
nell  [thirteen  vessels]  by  sea,  and  despatched  his  army  by  land,  and  pitched  his 
camp  at  Gaeth-an-Chairrgine.  The  Clandermot  repaired  to  Port-Roisd  on  the 


In  the  year  1179,  Cadhla,  or  Catholicus 
O'Duffy,  attended  the  second  Council  of  La- 
teran,  together  with  Laurence  O'Toole,  Arch- 
bishop of  Dublin  ;  Constantine,  Bishop  of  Kil- 
laloe  ;  Brictius,  Bishop  of  Limerick  ;  Augustin, 
Bishop  of  Waterford;  and  Felix,  Bishop  of 
Lismore :  but  on  their  passage  through  Eng- 
land, they  were  obliged  to  take  an  oath  that 
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  Innis- 
fallen,  he  died  in  the  Abbey  of  Cong,  in  the 
year  1201. 

"  Successor  of  St.  Coman,  i.  e.  abbot  of  Eos- 
common. 

0  Gaeth-an-Chairrgin,  i.  e.  the  inlet  of  Carri- 
gin — Carrigin  is  a  village  three  miles  to  the 
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  county  of  Donegal,  as  5°°^  Oop 

B 


(Gweedore),  "fiaor:  6eapa  (Gweebarra), 
tuacpoip  (Loughros  Bay),  all  on  the  western 
coast. 

d  Port-Hois,  i.  e.  the  port  or  harbour  of  Eoss. 
— This  is  not  the  Portrush  in  the  parish  of  Bal- 
ly willin,  in  the  county  of  Antrim,  but  Eosses 
Bay,  a  short  distance  to  the  north  of  Derry. 
This  story  is  very  confused  in  the  original.  It 
should  be  told  thus :  "  Egneghan  O'Donnell, 
Lord  of  Tirconnell,  despatched  the  ships  of  Tir- 
connell, thirteen  in  number,  by  sea,  ordering 
their  commanders  to  meet  him  at  Gaeth-an- 
Chairrgin.  He  then  marched  the  remainder  of 
his  forces  by  land,  and  pitched  his  camp  at 
Gaeth-an-Chairrgin.  As  soon  as  the  Clann-Der- 
mot,  his  opponents,  had  heard  of  this  division  of 
his  forces,  they  marched  to  Port-Eois  (Rosses 
Bay),  to  intercept  the  passage  of  the  ships,  and 
prevent  them  from  joining  the  land  forces ;  but  the 
crews  of  the  thirteen  ships  attacked  and  defeated 
them.  This  shews  how  unequal  they  were  to 
compete  with  the  combined  forces  of  O'Donnell. 


124  ctNNata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1200. 

jabail  ppip  an  loinjfp.  Oo  conncaoap  poipne  na  rcpi  lonj  nDecc  baoi  an 
coblac  inopin,  T?o  leccpfc  pochaib  iacc  jop  paoirheaD  pop  cloinn  noiapmaDa. 
Uicc  mace  lacloinn  (.1.  concobap  becc  mac  muipcfpcaij),  ina  bpoipirin,  -|  po 
5ona6  a  eac  poo,  -]  po  cpapccpab  pomh  DI,  copcaip  lapom  la  cenel  cconaill 
in  eneac  colaim  cille,  a  corhapba,  -\  a  pcpim  po  DirhisneaD  pecc  piarh.  Qp 
cpiapan  DimiaD  ceona  po  mapbaoh  TTlupcaD  ua  cpicdin  cijeapna  ua  ppiac- 
pach.  Leanaic  muinnp  eccneacam  an  niamm  mpccain  gup  po  cuippeac  ap 
ap  eojanchaib  ~\  ap  cloinn  noiapmaoa. 

SluaicceaD  la  ITlelfp  -|  la  gallaib  laijfn  50  cluain  mic  noip  i  ccoinne 
cacail  cappaij.  T?o  bacap  of  oiDce  i  ccluain,  -]  aipcccfp  leo  an  baile  eicip 
cpo6  1  biat>,  1  Do  coi&peao  po  a  cfmplaib. 

Cacal  cpoiboeapj  DO  Dol  ip  in  muriiam  Do  paijib  mic  mec  capcaij  -] 
uilliam  bupc. 

J5eppmaiDe  ua  baoiselldm  DO  rhapbab  la  hua  nDorhnaill  .1.  la  hecc- 
neacdn. 

lomaipeacc  eiDip  ua  nDomnaill  -|  ua  puaipc,  ualjapcc,  -\  concobap  na 
jlaippene  ua  Ruaipc.  Ro  rhaib  pop  uib  bpiuin,  -\  po  cuipeaD  DOpgdp  a  niuin- 
cipe  eiDip  b66a6, ")  mapbaDh,  -\  po  bonchea&  concobap  pepin  Don  cup  pin,  occ 
leic  ui  rhaoiloopaiD  Do  ponnpaoh  po  pighfoh  an  lomapjoil  pin. 

e  Murrottgh  O'Creaghan,  TTIupcao  na  cpiocain.  Cambrensis :  "  Meylerivs  vero  vir  fuscus,  oculis 

— This  name  would  be  now  anglicised  Morgan  nigris,  &  toruis,  vnl tuque  acerrimo.  Stature 

Creighan,  or  Cregan.  paulo  mediocri  plus  pusillo».  Corpore  tamen 

f  Ily-Fiachrach,  i.  e.  Hy-Fiachrach  of  Ard-  pro  quantitatis  captu  perualido.  Pectore  qua- 
straw. — See  note  under  the  year  1193.  drato,  ventreq  ;  substricto,  brachiis  ceterisq  ; 

sTkeClann-Dermot,Clar\nt>\upmaoa. — These  membris  ossosis, .  plus  neruositatis  habentibus, 

were  a  tribe  of  the  Kinel-Owen,  who  inhabited  quam  carnositatis.  Miles  animosus  &  eemulus. 

and  gave  name  to  the  present  parish  of  Clonder-  Nihil  vnquam  abhorrens,  quod  aggredi  quis  vel 

mot  (anciently  Clandermot),  on  the  east  side  of  solus  debeat  vel  comitatus.  Primus  in  prrelium 

the  River  Foyle,  in  the  barony  of  Tirkeerin,  ire :  vltimus  conserto  proelio  redire  consuetus  : 

and  county  of  Londonderry.  in  omni  conflictu  omnis  strenuitatis  opera  s*eu 

h  Meyler,  i.  e.  Meyler  Fitz-Hcnry,  natural  son  perire  paratus,  seu  prseire :  adeo  impatiens  & 

of  King  Henry  I.,  by  Nesta,  the  mother  ofMau-  prseceps:  vt  vel  vota  statim,  vel  fata  complere 

rice  Fitzgerald.  He  was  made  Lord  Justice  of  dignum  ducat.  Inter  mortis  &  Martis  triumphos, 

Ireland  in  the  year  1199 See  Harris's  Ware,  nil  medium  ponens:  adeo  laudis  cupidus  &  glo- 

vol.  ii.  p.  102;  and  Cox's  Hibernia  Anglicana,  rise,  quod  si  viuendo  forte  non  valeat:  vincere 

p.  46.  His  personal  form  and  character  are  de-  velit  vel  moriendo.  Vir  itaq;  fuisset  cumulata 

scribed  as  follows  by  his  cotemporary,  Giraldus  laude  dignus  vterque,  si  ambitione  posthabita, 


1200.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  125 

other  side,  to  attack  the  fleet:  when  the  crews  of  the  thirteen  vessels  perceived 
their  intentions,  they  attacked  and1  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  Mur- 
rough  O'Creaghan6,  Lord  of  Hy-Fiachrachf,  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]. 

Gerrmaide  O'Boylan'  was  slain  by  O'Donnell  (Egneghan). 

A  battle  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 
and  killing.  Conor  himself  was  drowned  on  this  occasion.  This  battle  was 
fought  at  Leckymuldory*. 

Christ!  Ecclesiam  debita  deuotione  venerantes,          '  O'Boylan,  ua  baoi^eallam — The  O'Boylans 

antiqua  &  autentica  eiusdem  iura  non  tan  turn  were  chiefs  of  the  territory  of  Dartry-Coininsi, 

illibata  conseruassent:  Quinimo  tarn  noua?,  tarn-  now  the  barony  of  Dartry,  in  the  county  of  Mo- 

que    cruentse    conquisitionis    (plurima   quippe  naghan.      O'Dugan  calls  them  the   blue-eyed, 

sanguinis  effusione,  Christianseq  ;   gentis  inter-  white-handed,  red-lipped  host,    the   griffins   of 

emptione    fcedatas)   partem    placabilem    Deoq  ;  splendid  horses,  and  the  bold  kings  of  Dartry. 
placentem,  laudabili  largitione  contulissent.  Ve-          k  Leckymuldory,   lecrc  ui  riiaoiloopaio,  i.e. 

rumtamen  quod  mage  stupendum  est,  amplioriq ;  O'Muldory's  flag-stone,   or   flat  surfaced  rock, 

dolore  dolendum:  postremum  hoc  vitium   toti  The  Editor,  after  a  minute  examination  of  the 

fere  militise  nostrse  a  primo  adventu,  vsque  in  topographical  names  in   O'Muldory's  country, 

hodiernum  constat  commune  fuisse." — Hibernia  has  come  to  the  conclusion  that  this  is  the  re- 

Expugnata,  lib.  ii.  c.  x.     This  Meyler  was  the  markable   flat   surfaced  rock  called  the  lecic, 

founder  of  the  abbey  of  Great  Connell,  in  the  under  the  cataract  at  Bellice,  now  Belleek,  on 

county  of  Kildare,  in  which  he  was  buried  in  the  River  Erne,  about  two  miles  to  the  east  of 

the  yea.r   1220. — See  Archdall's  Monasticon,  at  Ballyshannon. — See  it  described    in   the  notes 

Great  Connell,  county  of  Kildare,  where  there  under  the  years    1409,    1522.     Hy-Briuin,  or 

are   some   curious  notices   of  this    "  Tameless  Hy-Briuin  Brcifne,  was  the  tribe  name  of  the 

tamer  of  the  Irish  all."  O'Rourkes  and  their  correlatives. 


eirceciNN.  [1201. 


Oonnchab  uairneach  mac  Ruaibpi  uf  Concobaip  DO  rhapbab  la 

luimmj. 

TTlachjariiain  mac  jiollapacpaicc  uf  chiappDa  Do  mapbab  la  jallaib 

cluana  lopaipD. 

Cluain  lopaipD  Do  lopccab  Dua  ciap&a  Do  pojail  pop  na  jallaib  barap 

mnce. 

Cpeach  la  cacal  cpoiboeapj  i  TTlumain  gup  po  loipg  caiplen  ui  conaing, 
1  mapgab  luimnij,  -\  caiplen  uilcin,  -\  rue  uilcfn  cona  mnaoi  illaim  laip  lap 
mapba&  DI  piDepe  becc,  -j  lolap  Daoine  cenmochac. 

piacpa  ua  plamn  raoipeac  pil  ITlhaoilpuain  Do  ecc. 

Carhal  cappac  Do  jabciil  Rige  connacc,  -\  caral  cpoibDeap^  Do  lonriap- 
ba6  DO  i  nulcaib  50  pamig  co  ceaj  ui  Gignij  cijeapna  peapmanac,  -\  aipme 
DO  paijiD  lohn  Do  cuipc  gup  po  naiDm  a  cupa  ppip. 

QO13  CR108O,  1201. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  cheD,  a  haon. 

Uomalcach  ua  concobaip  comopba  parcpaicc,  ~\  ppfomaiD  na  hGpeann 
Decc. 

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, 

1  To  injure  the  English,  opo  jail  pop  na  jal-  of  the  aiFairs  of  Munster,  of  which  the  Four 

laib,  i.e.,  not  for  the  sake  of  destroying  the  Masters  have  collected  no  account  :"  A.  1).  1  200. 

monastery,  but  to  take  revenge  of  the  English  ;  A  great  army  was  mustered  by  William  De 

or  rather,  he  ran  the  risk  of  committing  sacri-  Burgo,  and  all  the  English  of  Munster,  joined 

lege  to  wreak  his  vengeance  on  the  English.  by  Murtough  Finn,  Conor  Roe,  and  Donough 

ra  Besides  them,  cenmocar.  —  This  phrase  is  Cairbreach,  the  three  sons  of  Donnell  More 

very  generally  used  throughout  these  Annals,  O'Brien;  and  they  inarched  through  Munster 

though  it  has  little  or  no  meaning,  and  might  to  Cork.  They  encamped  for  a  week  at  Kin- 

be  left  untranslated  throughout.  neigh,  where  Aulifie  More  O'Donovan,  King  of 

n  Banished  into  Ulster.  —  This  is  a  repetition,  Cairbre  Aodha,  and  Mac  Costello  were  slain. 

for  it  is  mentioned  under  the  last  year.  Then  came  Mahon  O'Heney,  the  Pope's  Legate, 

0  Under  this  year  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  An-  and  the  bishops  of  Munster,  and  made  peace 

iials  of  Inuisfallen  contain  the  following  notice  between  the  O'Briens  [on  the  one  side]  and  the 


1201.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  127 

Donough  Uaithneach,  the  son  of  Roderic  O'Conor,  was  slain  by  the  English 
of  Limerick. 

Mahon,  {he  son  of  Gilla  Patrick-O'Keary,  was  slain  by  the  English  of 
Clonard. 

Clonard  was  burned  by  O'Keary,  to  injure  the  English1  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 
knights,  and  many  other  persons  besides  themm. 

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  amity0. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1201. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  one. 

Tomaltagh  O'Conor,  successor  of  St.  Patrick,  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  con- 
voked a  great  syrtod  of  the  bishops,  abbots,  and  every  other  order  in  the  Church, 

Mac  Carthys,  O'Donohoes,  and  the  rest  of  the  [Mortogh  Fionn  O'Brien]  marched  at  the  head 

Eugenians"  [on  the  other].  of  the  Dal-Cassians,  his  brothers,  Connor  Euadh 

In  a  marginal  note  is  the  following  observation  and  Donough  Cairbreach,  serving  as  officers  un- 

m  Latin:  "O'Donovan,  Rex  Carbriae  Aodha;  der  him,  against  the  Eugenians,  whom  he  greatly 

nam  ab  anno  1178  relagatus  erat  O'Donovan  ex  harassed,   and  slew  Auliff  O'Donovan,   chief  of 

ditioue  sua  de  Cairbre  Aodhbha  in  regione  Li-  that  family,  with  many  others  of  the  Eugenian 

miricensi  in  occidentalem  partem  regionis  Cor-  nobility.     After  which  a  peace  was  concluded 

cagiensis.     Vid.  supra  ad  istum  annum."     The  between  him  and  Donall  Mor  Mac  Carthy,  sur- 

substance  of  this  passage  is  thus  given  by  Dr.  named  na  Curadh,  King  of  Desmond,   by  the 

O'Brien,  in  his  History  of  the  House  of  O'Brien,  mediation  of  Mahon  O'Heney,  Archbishop   of 

published  by  Vullancey,  in  the  first  volume  of  Cashel,  who  was  the  Pope's  Legate  in  Ireland  at 

his  Collectanea  de  Rebus  Hibernicis,  under  the  that  time." — See  note  under  the  year  1254. 
title  of  Law  of  Tanistry.      "  A.  D.   1200.  He 


128 


[1201. 


-]  abbabaib,  -\  jac  5pa6  eccailpi.i  pochame  DO  paopclarroaib  Gpeann  imaille 
ppiu.  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  i  meabail. 

THajnup  mac  Diapmaoa  ui  laclainn  Do  rhapbab  la  muipceapcac  ua  nell, 
1  muipceapcac  Do  mapba6  ina  cionaio. 

Concobap  mac  mmpjfpa  ui  eDin  Decc. 

UaDg  ua  bpaoin  njeapna  luigne  mioe  Decc. 

TTlui|iea6ac  mac  neill  mic  an  cpionnaij  ui  carapnaij  Decc. 

ITlupchao  ua  T71aDaDdin  lee  coipec  pil  nanmcaba  Do  juin  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  Meath ;  and  its  name 
is  still  preserved  as  that  of  a  barony,  anglicised 
Lune,  and  now  corruptly  pronounced  in  Irish 
luibne ;  but  the  ancient  territory  of  Ltiighne  was 
much  more  extensive  than  the  modern  barony, 
for  we  learn,  from  the  Tripartite  Life  of  St.  Pa- 
trick, 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  Fitz- 
Adelm  De  Burgo,  is  given  as  follows  in  the  Annals 
of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Macgeoghegan : 
"A.  D.  1201.  Cahall  Crovedearg  and  William 
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, 
from  thence  to  the  Abbey  of  Athdalaragh, 
where  the  chambers*  and  roomes  of  that  abbey 
were  the  lodgings  of  the  annie.  Cahall  mac 
Connor  O'Dermott  went  to  prey  the  lands  of 
Mac  Dermott"  \recte  Hy-Diarmada],  "  and  was 


slain  by  Teige  mac  Connor  Moenmoye  there ; 
also  Cahall  Carragh  O'Connor,  King  of  Con- 
naught,  came  in  view  of  the  said  forces  to  a  place 
called  Gurthin  Cowle  Lwachra,  and  from  thence 
he  went  to  the  skirmish  between  his  forces  and 
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  others. 

"  Cathal  Crovdearge  and  William  Burk,  after 
committing  these  great  slaughters,  went  with 
their  forces  to  Moynoye  and  Moylorge,  over 
Donleoy  into  Moynemoye,  from  thence  to  West 
Connought,  until  they  came  to  Cowynge  of  St. 
Ffehine,  where  they  kept  their  Easter.  At 
that  time  William  Burke,  and  the  sonne  of 
O'Flathvertye,  privily  consulted  and  conspired 
together  to  kill  Cahall  Crovederge  O'Connor, 
which  God  prevented,  for  they  were  by  great 
oaths  sworn  to  each  other  before,  which  whoso- 
ever wou'd  breake  was  to  be  excommunicated 
with  booke,  bell,  and  candle. 

"  William  Burk  sent  his  forces  to  distrain  for 


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129 


at  Dublin,  at  which  also  many  of  the  nobles  of  Ireland  were  present.  By  this 
synod  many  proper  ordinances,  for  the  regulation  of  the  Church  and  the  State, 
were  enacted. 

A  fortnight  afterwards  the  same  Legate  called  a  meeting  of  the  clergy  and 
laity  of  Conuaught  at  Athlone,  at  which  meeting  many  excellent  ordinances 
were  established. 

Niall  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. 

Teige  O'Breen,  Lord  of  Lunep,  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  their  English  and  Irish 
forces'1,  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 
them  were  soone  after  slain.  William  Burk 
afterwards  repaired  to  Limbrick,  and  Cahall 
Crovederge  tooke  upon  him  the  name  of  King 
of  Connought  again." 

The  Annals  of  Kilronan,  which  may  be  con- 
sidered the  chronicle  of  the  district,  contain  a 
much  fuller  account  of  the  battles  between  these 
two  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 :  "  A  great  army  was  led  into 
Connaught  by  Cathal  Crovderg,  joined  by  Wil- 
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 
and  defiled  the  whole  monastery;  and  such  was 


the  extent  of  tha  profanation  that  the  archers  of 
the  army  had  women  in  the  hospital  of  the 
monks,  in  the  houses  of  the  cloister,  and  in 
every  apartment  throughout  the  whole  monas- 
tery; and  they  left  nothing  in  the  monastery 
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 
the  dormitory  and  the  house  of  the  novices.  On 
this  occasion  William  Burke  commenced  the 
erection  of  a  cashel  [or  circular  wall]  around 
the  great  house  of  the  guests,  on  which  he  be- 
stowed two  days'  work.  On  the  third  day  after 
the  commencement  of  this  wall,  Cathal  Carragh, 
King  of  Connaught,  was  killed  by  the  English, 
as  were  also  Dermot,  son  of  Gilchreest,  son  of 
Dermot,  who  was  son  of  Teige  O'Mulrony,  and 
Tomaltagh,  son  of  Taichleach  O'Dowda,  and 
many  others.  They  then  departed  from  the  mo- 
nastery, after  which  William  Burk  dismissed 


130  aNNCK.a  Rioghachca  eiReaww.  [1201. 

huapan  50  hoilpinn  50  cappaic  loca  ce,  50  mainipcip  aca  Da  loops,  -j  apiaD 
cije  na  mainipcpe  pobcap  boca  lonjpuipr  Doib'.  Oo  coiD  Din  cacal  mac 
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 
Do  poijpD  an  cploij  50  piacc  guipcin  cuil  luacpa  hi  ccompocpaib  Don 
mainipcip.  bacap  parhlaiD  ucc  pe  hucc  co  cfnn  peccrhame,  q  DeabaiD  jac 
laoi  fcoppa.  Hi  popcfnn  na  pee  hipin  Do  Deachaib  cacal  cappac  Do  Deccpin 
na  Deabca.  Spainceap  ppucrhaiDm  Dia  rhuincip  ma  cfnn,  ~|  caipceap  epfm 
ma  ccpecommapcc,  •)  po  mapbaD  e,  ba  cpia  piopcaib  De  •]  ciapdin  inDpn. 
l?o  mapbaD  beop  an  collaio  mac  DiapmaDa  uf  maoilpuanaiD  Don  DeabaiD 
pin  i  maille  pe  pochai&ib  ele.  CuiD  cacal  cpoibDeapg  -|  uilliam  bupc  cona 
plojaib  ap  a  haicle  i  muij  luipcc,  i  muij  naoi,  aippiDe  co  hiapcap  connacc. 
Rangaccap  conga  peicin,  ~\  ap  mnce  DO  ponpac  an  caipcc.  Ci6  cpa,  ace  po 
cogpab  la  huilliam  bupc,  -|  la  clomn  Puaiopi  uf  plaicbfpcaij  peall  Do 
Denam  pop  cacal  cpoibDeapj,  -]  po  paop  Dia  6  Don  cup  pin  cpia  pldnaD  na 

the  sons  of  O'Brien  and  Mac  Carthy  and  their  dred,  vel  amplius.  When  William  Burke  had 
forces.  The  resolution  to  which  Cathal  Crov-  heard  of  the  killing  of  his  people  he  sent  for 
derg  and  William  Burke  then  came,  was  to  O'Conor.  A  forewarning  of  his  intention  reach- 
despatch  their  archers  throughout  Connaught  ing  O'Conor,  he  shunned  the  place  where  William 
to  distrain  for  their  wages,  and  William  Burke  was.  William  then  set  out  for  Munster,  having 
and  his  attendants,  and  Cathal  Crovderg,  re-  lost  the  greater  part  of  his  people." 
paired  to  Cong.  Then  a  miraculous  report  was  r  Oran,  uapdn,  now  Oran. — A  well-known 
bruited  abroad,  and  it  is  not  known  whether  it  place,  containing  the  ruins  of  a  church  and  round 
proceeded  from  a  man,  or  from  the  spirit  of  God  tower,  in  the  barony  of  Ballymoe,  and  county  of 
in  the  shape  of  a  man,  namely,  that  William  Eoscommon — See  Trias  Thaum.,  p.  136,  where 
Burke  was  killed!  There  was  not  a  way  or  road  the  name  is  thus  explained  :  "Huaran  enim  sive 
in  Connaught  through  which  this  report  had  fuaran  idem  Hibernis  sonat  quod  fons  vivus, 
not  passed.  On  hearing  this  news  a  resolution  sive  viva  vel  frigida  aqua  e  terra  scaturiens." 
was  adopted  by  the  tribes  of  Connaught,  as  una-  See  also  the  year  1556,  at  which  mention  is  made 
nimcusly  as  if  they  had  all  met  in  council  for  the  ofGillacolumb  O'Clabby,  Coarb  of  St.  Patrick,  at 
purpose,  and  this  was,  that  each  person  should  this  place.  The  place  is  still  called  Uupan  Ui 
kill  his  guest  [i.  e.  the  soldier  billeted  on  him].  Chlabai  j,  and  "  Patrons"  are  yet  held  there 
This  was  done:  each  tribe  killed  the  number  annually  on  St.  Patrick's  day  (17th  March), 
billeted  among  them,  and  their  loss,  according  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  Oranr,  to  Elphin,  to  the  Rock  of  Lough  Key,  and  to 
the  monastery  of  Ath-da-Loarg  (Boyle)  ;  and  the  houses  of  the  monastery 
served  them  as  military  quarters. 

At  this  time  Cathal  Mac  Dermot  went  on  a  predatory  excursion  into  Hy- 
Diarmada5  :  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  army,  and  arrived  at  Guirtin  Cuil  luachra1,  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  monastery.  They  remained  confronting  each  other  for  a  week,  during 
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  vio- 
lently driven  towards  him,  he  became  involved  in  the  crowd,  and  was  killed. 
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  Crov- 
derg, but  God  protected  him  on  this  occasion  from  their  designs,  through  the 
guarantee  of  the  ecclesiastical  witnesses  to  their  league  of  mutual  fidelity. 

O'Clabbys  used  to  appear  at  the  Patrons,  and  which  the  pilgrims  kneel.     Traces  of  the  foun- 

point  out  to  the  people  the  extent  of  the  Termon  dations  of  other  buildings  are  also  observable  in 

lands  possessed  by  his  ancestors,  on  which  occa-  the  field  adjoining  the  church,  which  shew  the 

sion  the  people  were  accustomed  to  make  a  col-  ancient  importance  of  the  place. 

lection  for  his  support.     The  O'Clabbys,  now          •  Hy-Diarmada This  was  the  tribe  name  of 

Clabbys,  axe  numerous  in  the  county,  but  have  the  family  of  O'Concannon,   in   the  county  of 

retained  no  property  in  this  Termon.  Galway.     The  chief  of  the  name  had  his  seat,  in 

Colgan  calls  this  church  nobilissima  ecdesia  1585,  at  Kiltullagh,  in  the  county  of  Galway. — 

de  Huaran,  but  little  of  its  magnificence,  how-  See  Tribes  and  Customs  o/Hy-Many,  printed  for 

ever,  remains  at  present,  there  being  at  the  place  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society  in  1843,  p.  19. 

but  a  mere  fragment  of  the  ruins  of  the  church,  The  Hy-Diarmada  are  to  be  distinguished  from 

and  the  base  of  its  dogas,  or  round  tower,  mea-  the  Clann-Diarmada,  who  were  at  Dun  Doighre, 

suring  about  fifteen  feet  in  height.     The  uaran,  now  Duniry,   in  the  barony  of  Leitrim,  in  the 

or  spring,  from  which  the  place  derives  its  name,  county  of  Galway. 

is  still  accounted  a  holy  well,  and  frequented  by          <  Guirtin  Cuil  luachra,  i.  e.  the  little  field  of 

pilgrims.    It  has  a  small  stone  cross  over  it  before  the  rushy  corner  or  angle.    This  name  is  now  ob- 

S2 


132  aNNata  Rio^hachca  eircecmN.  [1202. 

Tieaccailpe  baoi  eacoppa  im  bflpi  ppi  apoile.  Can^aDap  mumcip  uilliam 
bupc  mpDcain  Do  cobac  a  ccuapapoail  pop  connaccaib,  linjic  connacraij 
poppapom,  i  mapbaic  700.  Dib.  Soaip  uilliam  co  luimneac  lap  pin  -[  jabair 
cacal  cpoiboeaps  pije  661516  connacc. 

Sloijheab  la  hualjapcc  ua  Ruaipc  Do  6ul  i  ccenel  cconaill,  -|  ap  poch- 
cain  Doib  ipm  ccpfch  Ru^pac  bu  -\  jabala.  Rug  ua  Domnaill  eccreaclian 
poppa  occ  leic  ui  maoilDopam.  peachap  pcainoeap  fcoppa  50  paeimer> 
pop  uib  bpnnn  cona  pocpait»e,  -|  po  laab  a  noeapjap  eicip  rhapbab  -\  babab. 
ba  Don  cup  pin  po  baibeab  concobap  na  jjlaippene. 

Cenel  neojain  Do  rochc  pop  cpeich  naile  i  ccenel  conuill  ipm  16  cfcr,a. 
t)o  pala  fcappa  -]  ua  Domnaill  jup  po  ppaoineab  pop  cenel  neo^ham  -|  po 
mapbab  geappmami  ua  baoijeallain  co  pochaibib  aile  Do  chenel  neo^hain  i 
maille  ppip. 

Cijfpnan  mac  Domnaill  mic  carail  ui  Ruaipc  Do  mapbab  la  mag  piac- 
pac  i  la  cloinn  chachail,  -\  an  reojanac  mag  piacpac  DO  mapbab  ap  an 
laraip  pin. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1202. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  ao6. 

TTluipcfpcac  ua  capmacam  eppcop  cluana  pfpru  bpenainn  Do  ecc. 

TTlaolcolaimm  ua  bponain  aipcinbeac  copaije  Decc. 

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. 

solete,  for  the  oldest  men  in  the  parish  of  Boyle  of,  or  devoted  to,  St.  Columba.     This  name  is 

never  heard  of  it.  made  Malcolm  in  Scotland. 

u  CPCarmacan,  O  Capmacam,  now  anglicised  x  Of  Tory,  Copaije,  and  sometimes  called 
Gormican.  The  family  of  this  name  were  seated  Coip-imp,  i.  e.  the  island  of  the  tower. — It  is  an 
in  the  parish  of  Abbey- Gormican,  in  the  north-  island  off  the  north  coast  of  the  county  of  Done- 
west  of  the  barony  of  Longford,  in  the  county  gal,  where  St.  Columbkille  is  said  to  have  erected 
of  Galway,  which  parish  derived  its  name  from  a  monastery  and  doifftheach,  or  round  tower 

a  monastery  founded  by  a  chief  of  this   tribe.      belfry,  in  the  sixth  century See  O'Donnell's 

The  name  is  written  O'Gormagan  in  the  Galway  Life  of  Columba,  lib.  i.  c.  73,  lib.  ii.  c.  20,  and 

Inquisitions.  Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys,  at  9th  June.     For  the 

w  Maekolum,  TTlaolcolaimm,  i.  e.  the  servant  early  history  of  this  island  the  reader  is  referred 


x202.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  133 

The  people  of  William  Burke  afterwards  went  to  demand  their  wages  from 
the  Connacians ;  but  the  Connacians  rushed  upon  them,  and  killed  seven  hun- 
dred of  them.  William  then  returned  to  Limerick,  and  Cathal  Crovderg  as- 
sumed the  regal  sway  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  pro- 
perty. 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  drown- 
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,  who  was  the  son  of  Cathal  O'Rourke,  was 
slain  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,  1202. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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  in- 
telligence, personal  form,  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  Edi-  the  most  distinguished  saint  of  this  island  next 

tion,  pp.  122,  180,  182;  and  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  after  St.  Columbkille. 

part  iii.  c.  7.     See  also  Battle  of  Magh  Rath,  1  A  good  life. — Thus  expressed  in  Latin,  in 

printed  for  the  Irish   Archasological  Society  in  the  Annals  of  Ulster:  "  Domnall  h  Ua  Brolchain, 

1 842,  p.  1 06,  note  x.     A  St.  Ernan,  son  of  Col-  Prior,  $c.  #c.,  post  magnam   tribulationem   et 

man,  son  of  Maen,  son  of  Muireadhach,  who  was  optimum  penitenciam  in  quinta  Kalendas  Maij 

son  of  Eoghan,  ancestor  of  the  Kinel-Owen,  was  uitam  finiuit." 


134  awMaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [1203. 


ITIaolpinnem  mac  colmain  peanoip  cojaioe  -]  conn  cpaibDec  ua  planna- 
065. 

Oorhnall  cappac  ua  Docapcaijj  (.1.  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 
1  la  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 
laporh  Do  lonnapbab  la  cacal  ~\  p(6  Do  Denorh  pip  po  ceDoip  rpia  impibe  na 
njall. 

Oorhnall  mac  muipcfpcaij  uf  maoileachlainn  Do  ecc. 

Diapmaicc  mac  aipc  uf  maoileachloinn  DO  mapbaD  la  mac  lochlamn  uf 
concobaip. 

CIO1S  CR1OSD,  1203. 
Ctoip  Cpiopo,  mile,  Da  ceD,  arpf. 

Qn  reppcop  mac  jiolla  ceallaij  i  puaiDin  eppcop  cille  mic  Duach  DO  ecc. 

Ooipe  colaim  cille  Do  lopccab  o  ra  pelecc  TTlapcain  co  noppaic  a&am- 
nam. 

TTIainiprip  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  cuaip- 
cipc  DO  cionol  co  haofn  iona6  Do  bul  50  hi  .1.  plopenc  ua  cfpballan  eppcop 
npe  heojain,  TTlaoliopa  ua  Dopij  eppcop  cfpe  conaill,  -|  abb  pecclepa  poil 
1  peaDaip  in  apDmaca,  amaljaib  ua  pepjail  abb  pecclepa  Doipe,  ~\  ainmipe 
ua  cobcaij,  -]  Dpong  mop  Do  muincip  Doipe,  -]  pochaibe  Do  cleipcib  an 
cuaipcipc  jenmofaicpf&e.  CiagaiD  laporh  co  hf,  -]  pcaoilceap  leo  anrhaimp- 


'•  O'Boyles,  muincip  BaoijiU  —  According  to  1284  and  1343. 

O'Dugan's   topographical   poem,  the   O'Boyles  a  At  once,  po  cdooip  .1.  po  ceo  uaip  __  This 

were  chiefs  of  Cloch  Chinnfhaolaidh,  now  Clo-  adverbial  expression,  which  occurs  so  frequently 

ghineely,  in  the  north-west  of  the  barony   of  throughout  these  Annals,  signifies  at  once,  with- 

Kilmacrennan,  and  of  Tir  Ainniire,  now  the  ba-  out  delay,  sine  mora. 

rony  of  Boylagh,  and  Tir  Boghaine,  now  Ban-  b  Awley,  ariial^aio.—  This  name,  which  has 

nagh  barony,  in  the  west  of  Tirconnell,  now  the  been  anglicised  Awley  throughout  this  transla- 

county  of  Donegal  —  See  notes  under  the  years  tion,  existed  among  the  Irish  from  a  remote  pe- 


1203.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  135 

Maelfinen  Mac  Column,  a  venerable  senior,  and  Conn  Craibhdheach  (the 
Pious)  O'Flanagan,  died. 

Donnell  Carragh  O'Doherty,  Royal  Chieftain  of  Ardmire,  was  slain  by  the 
O'Boylesz,  after  he  had  plundered  many  churches  and  territories. 

Conor  Roe,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Brien,  was  slain  by  his  own  brother,  i.  e. 
Murtough,  son  of  Donnell,  who  was  son  of  Turlough  O'Brien. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Roderic  O'Conor,  escaped  from  confinement  ;  and 
Cathal  Crovderg  made  peace  with  him,  and  gave  him  land.  He  afterwards 
expelled  him,  but,  at  the  intercession  of  the  English,  made  peace  with  him  at  oncea. 

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,  1203. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  three. 

The  son  of  Gillakelly  O'Ruaidhin,  Bishop  of  Kilmacduagh,  died. 

Derry-Columbkille  was  burned,  from  the  cemetery  of  St.  Martin  to  the 
well  of  St.  Adamnan. 

A  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  monas- 


riod  of  their  history.     It  is  to  be  distinguished  written  O    pipj^il.      It  was    the   name  of  the 

from  Griilaoib,  which  they  derived  from  their  hereditary  Erenaghs  of  Kilmacrenan,  by  whom 

connexion  with  the  Danes,  and  which  has  been  the  O'Donnells  were  inaugurated.     It  is  now 

anglicised  Aulifie  in  this  translation.     This  lat-  pronounced  as  if  written  O'ppi^il,  by  a  meta- 

ter  is  identical  with  the  Danish  Arnlaff,  Anlaff,  thesis  or  transposition  of  letters,  not  unusual  in 

Olaf,  and  Ole.  The  surname  O'Ferghail  was,  and  many  words  in  the  modern  Irish,  and  always 

is  still,  very  common  in  Tirconnell,  but  usually  anglicised  Freel,  without  the  prefix  O'. 


136 


[1203. 


cip  pemepepcmap  Do  peip  blijeb  na  heccailpi,  -j  po  hoiponeb  an  carhalgaib 
pempaice  in  abbaine  la  rpia  coja  gall  •]  jaoibeal. 

Oiapmaicc  mac  muipcepcaij  uf  loclamn  co  nDpuing  Do  jallaib  Do  bul 
ap  cpec  hi  ccfp  neojain,  -\  po  aipgpfc  Scpin  colaim  cille,  ~\  pugpac  opeam 
DO  cenel  eojain  oppa,  ~|  ppaoinrep  leo  pop  biapmaicc  co  na  jallaib,  -j  po  map- 
ba6  Diapmaio  pfipin  cpia  miopbailib  na  Scpine. 

Sloijeab  la  mac  hu^o  DC  laci  co  nDpuing  Do  jallaib  mibe  i  nulraib  co  po 
Dfocuipfb  lohn  Do  cuipc  a  hulcoib  iap  ccop  caca  fcuppa  i  nDun  Da  Ifcglap, 
in  po  mapbhaoh  pochaibe. 

TTluipcepcac  rerbac  mac  concobaip  maonrhaije  mic  TJuaibpi  uf  concobaip 
Do  mapbab  la  Diapmaio  mac  Ruaibpi ")  la  haob  mac  Ruaibpi  .1.  Da  Deapbpd- 
caip  a  acap  pen  ap  pairhce  cille  mic  Duach. 

TTlaibm  pia  nDomnall  mac  meg  capraij  -]  pia  nofprhumain  pop  jallaib 
Du  hi  ccopcpacop  peapccacr  ap  ceo  no  ni  ap  uille. 

paolan  mac  paolain  njfpna  ua  ppaolam  Do  ecc  i  maimpcip  Congalaij. 


c  Galls,  i.  e.  the  northmen  or  inhabitants  of 
Scotland  who  were  not  of  the  Gaelic  or  Sco tic  race. 

d  This  passage  is  translated  by  Colgari  as  fol- 
lows: "A.  D.I  203.  Kellachus  extruxit  Monas- 
terium  in  Insula  Hiensi,  contra  ius  &  aaquitatem 
renitentibus  loci  senioribus.  Quo  facto  audito 
Clerus  Aquilonaris  Hiberniso  indicit  publicum 
conuentum  ;  ad  quern  Florentius  O'Kervallan- 
Episcopus  Tironise,  Moelia  O'Dorigh  Episcopus 
Tirconallise,  &  Abbas  Monastery  SS.  Petri  &  Pauli 
Ardmacha? ;  Amalgadius  Hua  Fergail,  Abbas 
Dorensis,  Anmirius  O  Cobhthaich,  &  multi  alij 
de  Clero  convenerunt.  Et  postea  omnes  profecti 
sunt  ad  Insulam  Hiensem,  &  Monasterium  jam 
memoratum  a  Kellacho  ibi  extructum,  destrux- 
erunt:  &  prsedictum  Amalgadium,  communibus 
suffragiis  electum,  Hiensi  Monasterio  prsefici- 
unt." — Trias  Thaum.,  p.  501. 

e  Screen- Columbkille,  Scpin  Colaim  cille 

This  is  not  the  shrine  of  Columbkille  in  Ardma- 
gilligan,  as  assumed  by  Archdall  and  Sampson, 
but  the  present  old  church  of  Ballynascreen,  in 
the  barony  of  Loughinsholin.  This  Colgan 


clearly  shews  in  Trias  Thaum.,  p.  494,  col.  2  : 
"  Hie  locus  est  Dioecesis  Dorensis  jacens  in  valle 
de  Gleann  Conncadhain,  unde  diversus  ab  alio 
cognomine  loco  ejusdem  Diocesis."  The  valley 
of  Gleann  Concadhain  here  mentioned  by  Col- 
gan still  retains  its  name,  which  is  correctly  an- 
glicised Glenconkeyne  in  the  Ulster  Inquisitions, 
and  other  Anglo-Irish  official  documents.  It  is 
a  wide  and  beautiful  valley  in  the  west  of  the 
barony  of  Loughinsholin,  and  county  of  London- 
derry, bounded  on  the  south  by  the  remarkable 
mountain  of  Sliabh  Callain,  Anglice  Slieve  Gal- 
lion,  and  on  the  north  by  the  Dungiven  and 
Banagher  mountains.  According  to  the  tradi- 
tion of  the  country,  which  is  corroborated  by 
written  documents,  this  district,  which  was  the 
patrimonial  inheritance  of  O'Henery,  comprised 
the  parishes  of  Ballynascreen,  Kilcronsghan,  and 
Desertmartin. 

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  Loch- 
lainn,  which  tradition  points  out  as  the  site  of  a 


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ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


137 


tery ;  and  the  aforesaid  Awley  was  elected  Abbot  of  lona  by  the  suffrages  of 
the  Gallsc  and  Gaels". 

Dermot,  the  son  of  Murtough  O'Loughlin,  went  on  a  predatory  excursion 
into  Tyrone,  and  plundered  the  Screen-Columbkillee.  He  was  encountered, 
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 
of  Meath  into  Ulidia  ;  and  they  banished  John  de  Courcy  from  thence,  after 
they  had  defeated  him  in  a  battle  fought  at  Dundaleathglas  (Downpatrick),  in 
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  son  of  Mac  Carthy,  and  the  people  of 
Desmond,  over  the  English ;  in  the  conflict  one  hundred  and  sixty  persons,  or 
more,  were  slain. 

Faelan  Mac  Faelanf,  Lord  of  Hy-Faelaing,  died  in  the  monastery  of  Connellh. 


great  battle  fought  between  the  two  rival  chiefs. 
O'Neill  and  Mac  Loughlin,  in  which  the  latter 
was  defeated  and  slain,  and  there  can  be  little, 
if  any,  doubt  that  this  tradition  alludes  to  this 
Dermot  O'Loughlin — See  note  at  1526. 

f  Mac  Faelan — He  is  called  Mackelan  in  the 

work  attributed  to  Maurice  Regan See  Harris's 

Ware,  vol.  ii.  pp.  192,  193. 

6  Hy-Faelain.—1\i.\s,  was  the  name  of  the  tribe 
and  territory  of  the  O'Byrnes.  Before  the  Eng- 
lish invasion,  their  country  comprised  the  pre- 
sent baronies  of  Clane  and  Salt,  and  the  greater 
portion,  if  not  the  entire,  of  those  of  Ikeathy  and 
Oughteranny,  in  the  present  county  of  Kildare, 
as  appears  from  the  Irish  calendars,  and  other 
documents,  which  place  in  this  territory  the 
town  of  Naas,  and  the  churches  of  Claenadh, 
now  Clane;  Laithreach  Briuin,  now  Laragh- 
brine,  near  Maynooth  ;  Domhnach  Mor  Moighe 
Luadhat,  now  Donaghmore  parish  ;  Cluain  Co- 


naire,  now  Cloncurry ;  and  Fiodhchuillinn,  now 
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  the  mountain  fast- 
nesses of  Wicklow,  where  they  dispossessed 
other  minor  families,  and  became  very  power- 
ful  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- 
Muireadhaigh,  under  the  year  1180.  It  is  quite 
clear,  from  the  authorities  here  referred  to, 
that,  previous  to  the  English  invasion,  the 
families  of  O'Tooleand  O'Byrne,  with  their  cor- 
relatives and  followers,  were  in  possession  of  the 
entire  of  the  present  county  of  Kildare,  with  the 
exception,  perhaps,  of  a  very  small  portion  ad- 
joining the  present  county  of  Carlo w. 

h  Connell,    Conjalaij. — Now    the   abbey   of 


138 


[1204. 


CfnanOup  Qch  cpuim  -]  an  Dpoichfcr  nua  DO  lopccab. 
Sicpicc  ceabchac  ua  ceallaij  TTlame  Do  ecc. 

QO18  CR1OSO,  1204. 
Goip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  cheD,  a  ceacaip. 

Sicpiucc  ua  Spuichen  aipchinDeac  na  congbala,  .1.  cfnn  ua  TTluprele  -] 
coipeac  clomne  8ne6jile  aji  rorachc  Decc  lap  noeij  pfnoainn,  i  a  abnacal 
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.  Ac- 
cording to  Ware  this  abbey  was  founded,  under 
the  invocation  of  the  B.  V.  Mary  and  St.  David, 
by  Myler  Fitz-Henry,  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland, 
in  the  year  1202 — See  Harris,  Ware,  vol.  ii. 
p.  262.  It  looks  strange  that  the  chief  of  Hy- 
Faelain  should  die  in  this  monastery  the  year 
after  its  erection.  It  is  probable  that,  after 
being  subdued,  he  consented  to  become  a  monk 
in  the  great  abbey  erected  in  his  territory  by 
the  English  conqueror. — See  Archdall's  Monas- 
ticon.  The  ruins  of  this  abbey,  which  was  one 
of  great  extent  and  magnificence,  are  now  almost 
totally  destroyed,  and  nothing  remains  to  at- 
tract the  notice  of  the  antiquary,  but  the  figure 
of  a  bishop  and  an  old  Latin  inscription  in  the 
Gothic  character,  which  has  been  often  published. 

'  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Kilronan 
contain  the  following  curious  passage,  which  is 
altogether  omitted  by  the  Four  Masters: 

"A.  D.  1203.  William  Burke  marched  with 
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  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  also  given  in  the  Annals  of  Clon- 


macnoise,  but  entered  under  the  year  1202, 
and  it  is  added,  that  it  was  broken  down  the 
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.  Sicpmc  huappuiren  oipcinnec 
na  congBala  .1.  cenn  hua  muptele,  7  coipec 
clainne  r-neiojile  ap  cocucc,  post  optimam  pe- 
nitentiam  feliciter  finiuil  vitam,  et  sepultus  est  in 
templo  quodfactum  est  apud  ipsum." 

1  Conwal,  Conjbail. — This  is  generally  called 
Conjbail  ^lnne  Suili £e,  i.  e.  Conwall  of  the 
vale  of  the  River  Swilly ;  it  is  an  ancient  parish 
church,  now  in  ruins,  near  the  River  Suileach 
(Swilly),  in  the  barony  of  Kilmacrenan,  and 
county  of  Donegal — See  the  Feilire  Aengiis,  and 
the  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys,  at  8th  of 
February,  and  Colgan's  Acta  Sanct.,  p.  406  ; 
also  Erck's  Ecclesiastical  Register,  p.  44.  The 
ruins  of  this  church  are  to  be  seen  on  the 
right  of  the  road  as  you  go  from  Letterkenny  to 
Dunglow,  about  two  miles  from  the  former. 

m  Clann-Snedhgile,  Clnnn  Snebjile,  were  a 
tribe  of  the  Kinel-Connell,  seated  in  Glenswilly, 
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- 


1204.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


139 


Kells,  Trim,  and  Droichead  Nua  (Newbridge)  were  burned. 
Sitric  (the  Teffian)  O'Kelly,  of  Hy-Maine,  died1. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1204. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  four. 

Sitric  O'Sruithen",  Erenagh  of  Conwal1,  i.  e.  head  of  the  Hy-Murtele,  and 
chief  man  of  all  the  Clann-Snedhgilem  for  his  worth,  died,  after  exemplary 
penance,  and  was  interred  in  the  church  which  he  had  himself  founded. 

John  de  Cour.cy",  the  plunderer  of  churches  and  territories,  was  driven  by 


fada,  who  was  son  of  Conall  Gulban,  ancestor  of 
the  Kinel-ConnelL 

n  John  de  Courcy.  —  This  is  the  last  no- 
tice of  De  Courcy  in  these  Annals.  It  is  en- 
tered in  the  Annals  of  Ulster  under  the  year 
1205.  At  the  year  1204  the  Annals  of  Kilro- 
nan  state  that  a  battle  was  fought  between 
Hugo  de  Lacy,  with  the  English  of  Meath,  and 
John  de  Courcy,  with  the  English  of  Ulidia,  in 
which  John  de  Courcy  was  taken  prisoner,  but 
afterwards  set  at  liberty,  lap  na  cpoppao  06  mil 
co  lapupulem,  having  been  prohibited  from  go- 
ing to  Jerusalem.  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  plunder- 
ing of  the  country ;  that  he  was  compelled  to  go 
away  without  making  any  conquest,  and  that 
after  this  he  entered  into  a  league  of  amity  with 
O'Neill  and  the  Kinel-Owen.  In  the  interpolated 
Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen  it  is 
stated,  that  John  de  Courcy  gained  a  great  vic- 
tory at  Carrickfergus  in  1207;  but  this  must 
be  a  mistake.  In  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise, 
as  translated  by  Connell  Mageoghegan,  it  is 
stated,  under  the  year  1203,  that  Sir  John  de 
Courcy  and  his  forcea  were,  in  a  long  encoun- 

T 


ter,  overthrown  at  Downdalethglass  [Down]  by 
Hugh  de  Lacy,  and  himself  banished  into  Eng- 
land ;  but  under  the  next  year  the  same  Annals 
would  seem  to  contradict  this  entry,  or,  if  not, 
to  give  us  to  understand  that  De  Courcy  re- 
turned from  England.  The  passage  is  as  follows : 

"A.  D.  1204.  John  de  Courcy  and  the  Eng- 
lishmen of  Meath  fell  to  great  contentions,  strife, 
and  debate  among  themselves,  to  the  utter  ruin 
and  destruction  of  Ulster.  John  was  gone  to 
the  country  of  Tyreowne,  and  Hugh  Delacie 
went  to  England." 

The  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen, 
in  noticing  the  doings  of  King  John  in  Ireland, 
state  that  he  summoned  the  sons  of  Hugh  de 
Lacy  to  appear  before  him  to  answer  for  the 
death  of  the  valiant  knight  John  de  Courcy, 
who  was  treacherously  killed  by  them.  Mr. 
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 
was  Lord  of  Eathenny  and  Kilbarrock,  in  the 
county  of  Dublin — See  Grace's  Annals  of  Ire- 
land at  the  year  1210,  and  Campion's  Historic 
of  Ireland,  Edition  of  1 809,  p.  109.  Ware  sup- 
poses that  this  Lord  of  Kilbarrock  and  Eathenny 
was  the  natural  son  of  the  great  Sir  John  de 
Courcy,  but  this  does  not  appear  probable,  for 


140 


[1204. 


hi  cip  eojain  ap  comaipce  cenel  neojain  50  painicc  50  cappaicc  pfpjupa,  -] 
po  mapbpac  joill  ulaD  pochaioe  t>ia  rhuincip. 


we  find  that  the  Earl  Eichard  (Strongbow)  had 
granted  Kathenny  to  Vivian  de  Cursun  and  his 
heirs,  as  fully  as  Gilcolm  before  held  them :  and 
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, 
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  Pa- 
tricks of  Kingsale  and  Eingrone. 

The  truth  seems  to  be  that  the  conqueror  of 
Ulster  went  to  England  in  1205.  The  archives 
of  the  Tower  of  London  furnish  us  with  the 
mandate  of  King  John  to  the  Ulster  knights, 
who  had  become  sureties  for  their  chief,  direct- 
ing them  to  cause  him  to  appear  and  perform 
his  service  by  a  term  to  be  assigned  by  his  Lord 
Justice  of  Ireland ;  together  with  the  King's 
safe  conduct  to  De  Courcy,  and  the  names  of  the 
hostages  delivered  on  his  part — See  Eotuli  Li- 
terarum  Patentium  in  Turri  Londiiwnsi  asser- 
vati,  an.  1201  ad.  1216,  vol.  i.,  part  i.,  London, 
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  fate.  The  Book  of  Howth,  now  pre- 
served among  the  manuscripts  in  the  Lambeth 
Library,  P.  628,  contains  a  detailed  account, 
professing  to  be  authentic,  of  his  subsequent  his- 
tory, of  which  the  Editor  is  tempted  to  give 
here  a  brief  outline. 

Immediately  after  his  defeat  at  Down,  De 
Courcy  offered  the  combat  to  Hugh  de  Lacy, 
which  this  cowardly  lord  refused,  alleging  that 
as  he  was  the  representative  of  the  king  in  Ire- 
land, it  would  be  beneath  his  dignity  to  enter 
the  lists  with  a  rebellious  subject.  De  Lacy 


next  proclaimed  De  Courcy  as  a  rebel,  and  of- 
fered a  large  reward  to  any  who  should  seize 
him  and  deliver  him  into  his  hands.  This  having 
proved  ineffectual,  he  next  bribed  the  servants 
and  followers  of  De  Courcy,  and  held  out  great 
rewards  to  them  for  betraying  him.     To  this 
they  agreed,  and  gave  De  Lacy  the  following 
information :  that  De  Courcy  was  a  man  of  such 
gigantic  strength,  and  always  so  well  armed  in 
public  and  private,  that  no  one  man  durst  lay 
hands   upon  him.     However,  that  upon  Good 
Friday  yearly  he  wears  no  arms,  but  remains 
alone,  doing  penance,  in  the  church-yard  of  Down ; 
that  if  De  Lacy  would  have  a  troop  of  horse  in 
readiness  near  Down,  he  could,   by  their  (the 
betrayers')   directions,  apprehend  their  master. 
These   directions   were   followed.     De  Courcy 
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 
socket,  he  dealt  such  powerful  blows  of  it  upon 
his  enemies,  that  he  killed  thirteen  of  them  upon 
the  spot.  He  was,  however,  finally  overpowered, 
fettered,  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 
perpetual  imprisonment.     For  this  service  King 
John  conferred  the  Earldom  of  Ulster  upon  De 
Lacy,  who,  instead  of  rewarding  the  betrayers 
of  De  Courcy,  caused  them  to  be  hanged. 

In  this  condition  would  De  Courcy  have 
passed  the  remainder  of  his  life,  had  it  not  been 
for  some  difference  that  arose  between  John, 
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 
to  put  it  to  single  combat.  King  Philip  had  in 
readiness  a  French  knight  of  so  great  prowess 
and  renown,  that  King  John  found  no  subject 


1204.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


141 


the  son  of  Hugo  de  Lacy  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. 


of  his  realm  willing  to  encounter  him.  At 
length  he  was  informed  by  one  of  his  officers, 
that  there  was  a  mighty  champion  confined  in 
the  Tower  of  London,  who  would  prove  more 
than  a  match  for  the  French  knight.  King  John, 
right  glad  to  hear  this,  sent  to  De  Courcy,  call- 
ing upon  him  to  support  the  honour  of  England; 
and  who,  after  repeated  denials,  is  at  last  pre- 
vailed upon  to  accept  the  challenge.  He  sends 
for  his  own  sword  to  Ireland,  which  was  a 
ponderous  weapon,  of  exceeding  good  temper, 
and  which  he  had  often  imbrued  in  the  blood 
of  the  men  of  Ulster.  The  rigours  of  his  im- 
prisonment were  softened,  and  his  strength  re- 
stored by  proper  nourishment  and  exercise. 
The  day  came,  the  place  is  appointed,  the  list 
provided,  the  scaffolds  set  up,  the  princes  with 
their  nobility  on  each  side,  with  thousands  in 
expectation.  Forth  comes  the  French  champion, 
gave  a  turn  and  rests  him  in  his  tent.  De 
Courcy  is  sent  for,  who  all  this  while  was  truss- 
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.  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 
antagonist  in  the  face  with  a  wonderful  stern 
countenance,  and  passed  by.  The  Frenchman, 
not  liking  his  grim  look,  gigantic  size,  and  sym- 
metric proportions,  stalked  still  along,  and  when 
the  trumpets  sounded  the  last  charge,  De  Courcy 
drew  out  his  ponderous  sword,  and  the  French 
knight,  being  seized  with  a  sudden  panic,  ran 
away,  and  fled  into  Spain ;  whereupon  the  Eng- 
lish sounded  victory,  clapped  their  hands,  and 
cast  up  their  caps. 


The  two  kings,  disappointed  in  their  antici- 
pated pleasure  of  seeing  a  combat  between  mighty 
champions,  intreated  De  Courcy  to  give  them 
some  proof  of  his  bodily  strength.  Complying 
with  their  request,  he  ordered  a  strong  stake  to 
be  driven  firmly  into  the  ground,  on  which  were 
placed  a  coat  of  mail  and  a  helmet.  He  then 
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  wea- 
pon so  deeply  into  the  wood,  that  no  one  but 
himself  could  draw  it  out.  Then  the  kings 
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 
both  their  heads.  His  words  were  taken  in  good 
part,  on  account  of  the  services  he  had  per- 
formed. King  John  gave  him  his  liberty,  as  well 
as  great  gifts,  and  restored  him  to  his  posses- 
sions in  Ulster.  He  then  sailed  to  England,  and 
coming  to  Westchester,  committed  himself  to 
the  mercy  of  the  sea,  but  was  put  back  again 
by  contrary  winds,  which  rose  upon  a  sudden 
at  his  embarkation.  This  he  did  for  fifteen 
days  successively,  and  upon  every  repulse  he 
was  admonished  at  night  in  a  vision,  that  all  his 
attempts  to  cross  the  sea  to  Ireland  were  vain, 
for  that  it  was  preordained  that  he  should  never 
set  foot  upon  Irish  ground,  because  he  had  grie- 
vously offended  there  by  pulling  down  the  mas- 
ter and  setting  up  the  servant.  De  Courcy  re- 
collected that  he  had  formerly  translated  tin- 
cathedral  church  of  Down,  which  had  been 
dedicated  to  the  Holy  Trinity,  into  an  abbey  of 
black  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 


142 


[1204. 


Uilliam  bupc  Do  inDpab  connacc  eicip  chill  -|  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,  re- 
turned to  France,  and  there  died  about  the  year 
1210. 

Dr.  Leland  observes  (History  of  Ireland,  v.  i. 
b.  L  c.  6,  p.  180),  that  those  who  reject  the  su- 
perstitious addition,  have  yet  adopted  the  ro- 
mantic part  of  the  narrative  without  scruple, 
though  both  evidently  stand  upon  the  same  ori- 
ginal authority.  It  is  quite  certain,  however,  that 
it  stands  upon  no  original  authority,  but  is  a 
mere  story  invented  in  the  fifteenth  or  sixteenth 
century  to  flatter  the  vanity  of  the  Howth  fa- 
mily, whose  ancestor,  Sir  Armoric  Tristeram, 
or  St.  Laurence,  married  De  Courcy's  sister, 
and  followed  his  fortunes  into  Ireland.  Leland 
adds,  that  this  romantic  part  of  the  history  of 
Sir  John  De  Courcy  was  invented  by  Irish 
bards  and  romancers,  and  writes  as  follows  : 
"  But  it  would  not  be  worth  while  to  detain  the 
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  narra- 
tive of  Irish  bards  and  romancers,  and  the  liber- 
ties they  assumed  of  enlarging  and  embellishing 
the  real  incidents  of  their  times.  They  who 
lived  in  earlier,  times  are  not  so  easily  detected. 
But  we  see  with  what  caution  we  are  to  receive 
their  narratives,  when,  in  times  less  obscure, 
and  when  confronted  by  other  evidence,  this 
order  of  men  have  hazarded  such  bold  fictions, 
and  with  such  ease  and  such  success  have  ob- 
truded the  marvellous  and  the  affecting  upon 
their  unrefined  hearers  for  real  history.  But  as 
we  find  in  these  instances  that  the  tales  of  the 
Irish  bards  were  founded  upon  facts,  we  may 
reasonably  conclude  that  their  predecessors  took 
the  same  course :  that  they  sophisticated  the 


truth  by  their  additions,  but  were  not  entirely 
inventors." 

There  can  be  little  doubt,  however,  that  this 
story  about  Sir  John  de  Courcy  was  not  invented 
by  any  Irish  bard,  for  it  has  not  been  found  in 
any  Irish  manuscript  in  prose  or  verse.  It  is 
evidently  a  story  got  up  in  the  fifteenth  or  six- 
teenth century,  on  the  slender  basis  of  an  Anglo- 
Irish  tradition,  and  was  first  committed  to  wri- 
ting, with  other  stories  of  a  similar  character,  in 
that  repertory  of  Anglo-Irish  traditions  and  le- 
gends, the  Book  of  Howth. 

A  similar  story  is  told  in  the  mountainous 
districts  of  Kerry  and  Beare,  and  Bantry,  about 
Donnell  O'Sullivan  Beare,  who  fought  with  as 
much  valour  and  desperation  in  the  reign  of 
Elizabeth,  as  Sir  John  de  Courcy  did  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  II.,  and  who  was,  perhaps,  as 
great  a  hero  as  Ireland  ever  produced.  But 
stories  of  this  description  are  poetical  inventions 
of  later  ages,  when  tradition,  through  the  want 
of  written  records,  had  fallen  into  that  degree 
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 
traditional  reminiscences  of  the  valour  of  noble 
warriors,  whose  real  characters,  if  described  by 
writers  who  could  keep  within  the  bounds  of 
nature  and  of  truth,  would  afford  abundance  of 
shining  virtues  to  be  held  up  for  the  admiration 
of  posterity. 

We  have  already  seen  that  Giraldus  Cambren- 
sis  states  that  Sir  John  de  Courcy  had  no  legiti- 
mate son.  According  to  the  Dublin  copy  of  the 
Annals  of  Innisfallen,  he  was  married  in  the 
year  1180  to  [Affrica]  the  daughter  of  Godfred, 
King  of  the  Isle  of  Man ;  and  she  died  in  the  year 


1204.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


143 


William  Burke0  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. 

Murtough  O'Flaherty,  Lord  of  West  Connaught,  died. 


1 193,  having  borne  no  children  up  to  the  middle 
of  the  year  1 1 86,  when  Giraldus's  historical  no- 
tices of  the  Irish  invaders  end.  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 
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  John  de  Courcey,  Earl  of  Ulster,  had  no 
issue,  there  is  a  record  extant  in  the  Tower  of 
London  (Rot.  Pat.  6  Johan.  M.  Dors.),  that 
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.  ii.  pp.  228,  229,  of  the  third  edition.  It 
is  also  stated  in  a  Pedigree  of  the  Mac  Carthys, 
of  Loch  Luigheach,  now  Corraun  Lough,  in 
Kerry,  now  preserved  in  the  Library  of  the 
Royal  Irish  Academy,  that  this  branch  of  the 
Mac  Carthys  descend  from  a  daughter  of  Sir 
John  de  Courcy. 

Lodge  enters  fully  into  the  question  of  the 
legitimacy  of  the  issue  of  De  Courcy  in  vol.  iv. 
pp.  30-32,  edition  of  1754,  and  thinks  that 
wearing  the  hat  in  the  royal  presence  is  con- 
clusive as  to  lawful  issue  ;  but  the  antiquity  of 
the  privilege  has  not  been  proved  by  document- 
ary evidence  sufficient  to  establish  it  to  the  sa- 
tisfaction of  the  historian.  Mr.  Moore  seems 
satisfied  that  De  Courcy  had  one  legitimate  son, 
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 


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  posses- 
sions, both  the  title  and  property  of  the  earldom 
of  Ulster  were,  on  his  decease''  [qr.  before  his 
decease  ?]  "  transferred  to  his  rival,  Hugh  de 
Lacy." — History  of  Ireland,  vol.  iii.  p.  4. 

The  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 
combat  with  the  French  champion.  On  the 
strength  of  the  traditional  story,  however,  the 
heads  of  the  Mac  Patricks,  or  De  Courcy  s  of  Cork, 
have  claimed  and  exercised  the  privilege  of  ap- 
pearing covered  in  the  royal  presence.  It  may  not 
be  impertinent  to  remark,  however,  that  no  men- 
tion is  made  of  this  privilege  in  the  works  of 
Hanmer  or  Campion.  The  former  merely  states 
that  King  John  gave  De  Coury,  Earl  of  Ulster, 
"  great  gifts,  and  restored  him  to  his  former  pos- 
sessions in  Ireland." — Dublin  edition  of  1809, 
p.  368.  And  the  latter  writes  in  1571,  "Lord 
Coureye,  a  poore  man,  not  very  Irish,  the  ancient 
descent  of  the  Courcyes  planted  in  Ireland  with 
the  Conquest." — Historie  of  Ireland,  Dublin  edi- 
tion, 1809,  p.  10. 

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  King  William  III.  covered, 
and  explained  to  that  monarch,  when  his  Ma- 
jesty expressed  surprise  at  the  circumstance,  the 
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 


144 


[1205. 


aois  crcioso,  1205. 

Cloip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  a  cuicc. 

Ctn  caipoeappoc  ua  leienni  [ileinni]  Do  6ol  i  maincini,  -|  a  ecc  po  ceDoip. 
Oonair  ua  bfcDa  eppcop  ua  namalgaba  Do  ecc. 


in  your  Majesty's  presence  is,  to  assert  the  an- 
cient privilege  of  my  family,  granted  to  Sir  John 
de  Courcy,  Earl  ofUlster,  and  his  heirs,  by  JOHN, 
King  of  England."  Burke  adds  :  "  The  King 
acknowledged  the  privilege,  and  giving  the  Baron 
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  published  in  1750,  in  which  it  is  added, 
by  Smith  himself,  but  without  citing  any  autho- 
rity whatever,  to  Hanmer's  account  of  Sir  John 
de  Courcy's  enlargement  from  prison  to  fight  the 
French  champion.  He  also  adds  :  "  The  privi- 
lege of  being  covered  in  the  royal  presence  is  en- 
joyed to  this  day  by  his  lordship,  being  granted 
to  his  great  ancestor,  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  by  King 
John.  On  the  13th  of  June,  1720,  the  late 
Lord  Gerald  de  Courcy  was  by  his  Grace  the 
Duke  of  Grafton,  presented  to  His  Majesty 
King  George  I.,  when  he  had  the  honour  to 
kiss  his  hand,  and  to  assert  his  ancient  privi- 
lege. And  that  on  the  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 
then  adds  :  "  In  May,  1627,  Sir  Dominick 
Sarsfield  was  created  Lord  Viscount  Kinsale,  to 
the  great  prejudice  of  this  ancient  and  noble 
family,  and  set  up  his  arms  in  the  town.  But, 
upon  a  fair  hearing  before  the  Earl  Marshal  of 
England,  he  was  obliged  to  renounce  the  title 
of  Kinsale,  and  take  that  of  Kilmallock.  The 
lords  of  Kinsale  were  formerly  the  first  barons 


of  Ireland,  but  are  said  to  have  lost  their  prece- 
dency anno  1489.  James  lord  Kinsale,  having 
missed  being  at  a  solemn  procession  at  Green- 
wich, King  Henry  VII.  gave  the  title  of  Premier 
Baron  of  Ireland  to  the  lords  of  Athenry,  who 
have  ever  since  enjoyed  the  same ;  but  this 
fact  is  disputed."  It  may  be  here  remarked, 
that  as  the  Barony  of  Athenry  is  now  extinct, 
the  title  of  Premier  Baron  of  Ireland  reverts  to 
the  De  Courcys,  and  that  the  late  John  de 
Courcy,  twenty-sixth  Baron  of  Kinsale,  exer- 
cised the  ancient  privilege  of  his  ancestors  on 
George  the  Fourth's  visit  to  Ireland  in  1821. 

0  William  Burke The  Annals  of  Clonmac- 

noise,  as  translated  by  Connell,  the  son  of  Niall 
Mageoghegan,  in  the  year  1627,  record  the 
death  of  William  Burke  at  an.  1204,  in  the 
following  words :  "  William  Burke  took  the 
spoyles  of  all  the  churches  of  Connaught,  viz. : 
of  Clonvicknose,  Clonfert,  Milick,  Killbyan,  the 
churches  of  O'Fiaghragh,  Twayme,  Kill-Ben- 
eoine,  Killmeoyne.  Mayo  of  the  English,  Cownga 
of  St.  Fechin,the  abbey  of  Athedalaragh,  Ailfynu, 
Uaran,  Roscommon,  with  many  other  churches. 
God  and  the  Patrons  of  these  churches  shewed 
their  miracles  upon  him,  that  his  entrails  and 
fundament  fell  from  his  privie  place,  and  it 
trailed  after  him  even  to  the  very  earth,  whereof 
he  died  impenitently  without  Shrive  or  Extream 
Unction,  or  good  buryall  in  any  church  in  the 
kingdom,  but  in  a  waste  town."  Mageoghegan 
then  adds  the  following  remarks  by  way  of  an- 
notation, though  he  incorporates  them  with  tho 
text: 

"  These  and  many  other  reproachable  words 


1205.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


145 


THE  AGE  OF  CHKIST,  1205. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  jive. 

The  Archbishop  0'Heneyp  retired  into  a  monastery,  where  he  died  soon 
after. 

Donat  O'Beacdha,  Bishop  of  Tyrawley,  died. 


my  author  layeth  down  in  the  old  book,  which 
I  was  loath  to  translate,  because  they  were  ut- 
ter'd  by  him  for  the  disgrace  of  so  worthy  and 
noble  a  man  as  William  Burke  was,  and  left  out 
other  his  reproachfull  words,  which  he  (as  I 
conceive)  rather  declear'd  of  an  Evill  will  he  did 
bear  towards  the  said  William  then"  [i.  e.  than] 
"  any  other  just  cause." 

This  is  the  famous  William  Fitz  Adelm  de 
Burgo,  who  is  generally  called  the  Conqueror  of 
Connaught.  Mageoghegan's  defence  of  him,  in 
opposition  to  all  the  Irish  authorities,  is  to  no 
effect ;  and  should  any  one  be  inclined  to  reject 
the  testimony  of  the  Irish  writers  altogether, 
the  following  character  given  of  him  by  his  own 
countryman  and  contemporary,  Giraldus  Cam- 
brensis,  must  have  some  weight  in  corroborating 
their  veracity  :  "  Erat  autem  Aldelmi  filius  vir 
corpulentus,  tarn  staturse  quam  facturse,  inter 
parum  mediocribus  maiores  satis  idonese  :  vir 
dapsilis  &  curialis.  Sed  quicquid  honoris  cui- 
quam  impendit,  semper  in  insidiis,  semper  in 
dolo,  semper  propinans  sub  melle  venenum, 
semper  latens  anguis  in  herba.  Vir  in  facie 
liberalis  &  lenis,  intus  vero  plus  aloes  quam 
mellis  habens.  Semper 

"  Pelliculam  veterem  retinens,  vir  fronte  politus, 
Astutam  vapido  portans  sub  pectore   vulpem. 

Semper 
Impia  sub  dulci  melle  venena  ferens. 

'_'  Molliti  sermones  eius  super  oleum :  sed  ipsi 
sunt  iacula.  Cuius  hodie  venerator,  eras  eius- 
dem  spoliator  existens,  vel  delator.  Imbcllium 


debellator,  rebellium  blanditor :  Indomitis  do- 
mitus,  domitis  indomitus,  hosti  suauissimus, 
subdito  grauissimus :  nee  illi  formidabilis,  nee 
isti  fidelis.  Vir  dolosus,  blandus,  meticulosus, 
vir  vino  Veneriq;  datus.  Et  quanquam  auri 
cupidus,  &  curialiter  ambitiosus :  non  minus 
tamen  curiam  diligens  quam  curam." — Hibernia 
Expugnata,  lib.  ii.  cap.  xvi. 

Duald  Mac  Firbis,  in  his  account  of  the  Eng- 
lish families  of  Ireland,  attempts,  in  the  pedi- 
gree of  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard,  to  defend  the 
character  of  Fitz  Adelm,  by  stating  that  Giraldus 
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  : 
but  still,  when  it  is  considered  that  De  Burgo's 
character,  as  drawn  by  Cambrensis,  does  not 
much  differ  from  that  given  of  him  in  the  An- 
nals of  Clonmacnoise,  it  is  clearly  unfair  to 
conclude  that  both  are  false,  though  it  may  be 
allowed  that  both  are  overdrawn,  as  Giraldus 
was  undoubtedly  prejudiced,  and  as  the  Irish 
ecclesiastic,  who  compiled  the  Annals  of  Clon- 
macnoise, could  not  be  expected  to  give  an  im- 
partial account  of  an  invader  and  conqueror, 
who  had  plundered  the  church  of  Clonmacnoise 
and  all  the  most  sacred  churches,  of  Connaught. 

p  The  Archbishop  O'Heney. — In  the  Annals  of 
Innisfallen,  at  the  year  1192,  he  is  called  the 
Pope's  Legate.  According  to  the  Annals  of 
Mary's  Abbey,  Dublin,  he  died  in  the  Abbey 
of  Ilolycross,  in  the  county  of  Tipperary — See 


146  dNNata  Rioghachca  einectNN.  [1205. 

Saoipbpecac  ua  DoipeD  oipcinneac  Domnaij  moip,  -\  parpaicc  ua  mojpom, 


oecc. 


TTlajnup  ua  caccnn  mac  cijepna  cianacca,  -|  pep  na  cpaoibe,  cuip  jaip- 
cce6,  1  beobacca  an  cuaipapc  Do  juin  Do  poijic,  -j  a  ecc  lapom. 

TTlac  ^uillbealaij  uf  cepbaill  cijepna  ele  Do  mapbaD  la  jallaib. 

Concobap  ua  bpaoin  bpeajmame  Do  ecc  ma  ailicpe  i  ccluain  mic  noip. 

Rajnall  mac  Diapmaca  ciccfpna  ctomne  Diapmaca  Do  ecc. 

Oomnall  mac  concoiccpice  caoipec  muincipe  Sepcacain  Do  ecc. 

Oomnall  ua  paolain  njeapna  na  nDfipi  murhan  Do  ecc. 

Ca&cc  mac  cacail  cpoiboepcc  Do  ecc  DO  jalap  en  oioce  i  ccluain  mic 
noip. 

TTlaelip  mac  TTlaelip  Do  Dul  ap  eccin  ap  luimneach,  -|  cojab  mop  Dfipji 


Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,   pp.  469, 
470. 

q  Donaghmore,  t)othnac  mop,  is  a  church 
near  Castlefin,  in  the  county  of  Donegal,  of 
which  the  O'Deerys  were  Erenaghs,  according 
to  the  Ulster  Inquisitions. 

r  Kianaghta,  Cianacca,  is  the  present  barony 
of  Keenaght,  in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of 
Londonderry.  It  derives  its  name  from  the 
tribe  name  of  the  family  of  the  O'Conors  of 
Glengevin,  who  descend  from  Cian  (son  of  Olioll 
Olum,  King  of  Munster),  and  who  were  chiefs 
of  it,  previous  to  the  O'Kanes. 

s  Firnacreeva,  pip  na  cpaoiGe,  i.  e.  the  men 
of  the  bush  or  branch  ;  latinized  Fircrivia  by 
O'Flaherty.  This  was  the  name  of  a  tribe  of 
the  O'Kanes  seated  on  the  west  side  of  the  Bann. 
"  Bann,  fluvius  inter  Learn  et  Elliam"  [recte 
Elniam]  "prseter  Clanbreasail  regiouem  scatu- 
riens  per  Neachum  lacum  Oendromensem  agrum 
et  FIRCRIVIAM  Scriniamque  in  comitatu  Derri- 
ensi,  intersecat,  et  tertio  a  Culrania  et  cataracta 
Eascrive  [eap  cpaoiBe]  lapide  in  oceanum  trans- 
fundit." — Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  3.  This  tribe  of 
the  O'Kanes  had  some  time  previously  driven 
the  Firlee  eastwards  across  the  Bann  ;  and  the 


latter  settled  in  Magh  Elne,  where  they  cer- 
tainly were  seated  in  the  time  of  Sir  John  de 
Courcy ;  for  it  appears  from  these  Annals,  at 
the  year  1 177,  that  Cumee  O'Flynn  was  then  in 
possession  of  the  ecclesiastical  town  of  Annoy, 
called  Airther  Maighe,  i.  e.  the  eastern  part  of 
the  plain,  because  it  was  in  the  east  of  Magh 
Eilne,  into  which  the  Firlee  had  been  driven  by 
the  O'Kanes. 

c  Toieer,  cuip — The  word  cuip  properly  means 
prop  or  support.  This  passage  is  rendered  as 
follows  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of 
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 
North  of  Ireland,  was  slayne  with  the  shot  of 
an  arrow." 

u  The  son  of  Guill-bkealach In  the  pedigree 

of  O'Carroll,  given  by  Duald  Mac  Firbis,  he  is 
called  Finn  mac  Goill  an  bhealaigh,  and  is 
made  the  twenty-fourth  in  descent  from  Eile 
Eigdhearg,  from  whom  O'CarrolPs  country,  in 
the  now  King's  County,  was  called  Eile,  or 
Ely — See  note  under  the  year  1174,  p.  15. 

* 'Brawney,  bpeajvhame,  an  ancient  territory, 
now  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  Firnacreeva5,  tower'  of 
the  valour  and  vigour  of  the  North,  was  wounded  by  an  arrow,  and  died  of 
the  wound. 

The  son  of  Guill-bhealach"  O'Carroll,  Lord  of  Ely,  was  slain  by  the  English. 

Conor  O'Breen,  of  Brawney",  died  on  his  pilgrimage  to  Clonmacnoise. 

Randal  Mac  Dermot,  Lord  of  Clandermot,  died. 

Donnell  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  Clon- 
macnoise. 

Meyler,  the  son  of  Meylery,  took  possession  of  Limerick  by  force  ;  on  ac- 


joining  Athlone  and  the  Shannon. 

*  Desies  of  Munster,  Oeip  TTIutiian. — This 
name  is  still  preserved  in  the  two  baronies  of 
Desies,  in  the  present  county  of  Waterford,  but 
the  ancient  territory  was  much  more  extensive 
than  the  present  baronies.  Keating  informs  us 
(Reign  of  Cormac  Mac  Art)  that  the  country  of 
the  southern  Deisi  extended  from  Lismore  to 
Ceann  Criadain, — now  Credan  head,  at  the  east- 
ern 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 
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. 
The  two  districts  formed  the  see  of  St.  Declan 
of  Ardmore,  which  became  united  to  that  of 
Lismore,  and  is  now  comprised  under  its  name. 
These  united  dioceses  extend  northwards  to 
about  midway  between  Cashel  and  Clonmel,  and 
there  also  ended  the  country  of  the  northern 

u  2 


Deisi — See  Ussher's  Primordia,  pp.  782,  866, 
867  ;  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  69 ;  and 
Lanigan's  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  i. 
p.  282.  -The  Deisi  were  originally  seated  near 
Tara,  in  Meath,  and  their  country  there  is  still 
called  t)eir-e  Geampac,  Anglice  Deece  barony. 
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  follows :  O'Meara  of  Hy- 
Fatha  (now  Offa  barony)  ;  O'Neill  of  Hy-Owen 
Finn,  O'Flanagan  of  Uachter  Tire,  Anglice  Up- 
perthird  ;  O'Breslen  of  Hy-Athele,  as  far  as  the 
sea  to  the  south-east ;  O'Keane  of  Hy-Foley, 
along  the  River  Moghan ;  O'Bric  of  Hy-Feathach, 
from  Leac  Logha  (doc  labpair1?)  to  Liath- 
druim,  now  Leitrim,  on  the  boundary  of  the 
counties  of  Cork  and  Waterford. 

y  Meyler — This  passage  is  given  as  follows  in 
Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of 
Clonmacnoise:  "A.  D.I  205.  Meyler  the  younger, 
son  of  Meyler  Bremyngham,  besieged  Limbrick, 
and  at  the  last  tooke  the  same  per  force,  for 
which  there  arose  great  dissention  between  the 
English  of  Meath.  In  which  dissention  Cowley 


dNNaca  Rioxnacnuu  eiuedrW.  [1206. 

JL*iO  *-* 

eicip  jallaib  na  TTliDe  -|  joill  TTlaoilip  cpiD  pin,  -]  cuulab  rhac  conmfoha  uf 
laeghacham  caoipeach  pil  Ronain  Do  rhapbaD  ap  an  ccoccaD  pn  la  cenel 
piachach  mic  neill. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1206. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  Trifle,  Da  cTiecc,  a  pe. 

Ooriinall  ua  rnuipfohaij  aipDpfpleijinn  Doipe  Do  ecc. 

TTlaolpfccaip  ua  calmain  corhapba  cainDij  cuip  cpdbaiD  -|  eccna  cuaip- 
cipc  Gpeann  Do  ecc. 

plaicbfpcac  ua  plaicbfpcaij  ppioip  Duine  sfirhin,  -]  jiollapacpaicc  ua 
palaccaij  aipchinDeac  Duin  cpuicne  Do  ecc. 

Giccnfchdn  ua  oomnaill  Do  Denarii  cpeac  -|  mapbca  i  ccfp  eo^am. 

Comapba  pacpaicc  Do  6ol  i  ccfnD  Righ  Sa^an  Do  cumjiD  pochaip  ceall, 
1  Do  copaoiD  ap  jallaibh  Gpeann. 


Mac  Convey  O'Leygaghan  was  killed  by  those 
of  Kynaleaghe  ;  he  was  Chief  of  Sileronan,  with 
many  other  hurts  done  among  the  Englishmen 
themselves." 

*  0' ' Laeghaghan.  —  This  family  was  other- 
wise called  Mac  Conmeadha,  now  Mac  Namee. 
O'Dugan  makes  O'Eonain  Chief  of  Cairbre 
Gabhra,  which  was  in  North  Teffia ;  but  whe- 
ther O'Eonain  and  O'Laeghachain  of  Sil  Eonain 
were  the  same,  or  of  the  same  tribe,  the  Editor 
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  evi- 
dence of  their  localities,  and  of  their  exact  pedi- 
grees. 

a  Race  ofFiacka,  cmel  piaca  mic  neill,  i.  e. 
the  race  of  Fiagha,  son  of  Niall.  This  Fiagha 
was  the  third  son  of  Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages, 
monarch  of  Ireland  in  the  beginning  of  the  fifth 
century.  His  descendants  were  the  Mageoghe- 
gaus  and  O'Molloys,  whose  country  extended 
from  Birr  to  Killare,  as  we  learn  from  an  entry 
in  Mageoghegaa's  translation  of  the  Annals  of 


Clonmacnoise,  at  the  year  1207.  But  in  later 
ages  the  name  Kinel  Fhiacha,  or  Kiueleaghe, 
was  applied  to  Mageoghegan's  country  only, 
which  comprised  the  present  barony  of  Moy- 
cashel.  It  should  be  here  remarked  that  the 
country  of  Kinel-Fhiacha  was  never  accounted 
a  portion  of  Teffia,  as  asserted  by  some  of  our 
modern  writers.  The  men  of  Teffia  were  the  de- 
scendants of  Maine,  the  fourth  son  of  King  Niall 
of  the  Nine  Hostages,  and  their  country  was  some- 
times called  Tir  Maine.  The  families  of  Teffia 
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 
of  Calry  an  chala,  comprising  the  parish  of  Bal- 
lyloughloe  in  Westmeath  ;  the  O'Breens  of 
Brawney ;  the  Mac  Carghamhnas  (anglicised 
Caron  by  O'Flaherty,  and  Mac  Carrhon  by 
Connell  Mageoghegan,  but  now  always  Mac 
Carroon)  of  Muintir  Maoiltsinna,  placed  by 
O'Flaherty  near  the  Shannon,  in  the  territory 
of  Cuircnia,  now  the  barony  of  Kilkenny  "West ; 


1206.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  149 

count  of  which  a  great  war  broke  out  between  the  English  of  Meath  and  the 
English  of  Meyler,  during  which  Cooley,  the  son  of  Cumee  0'Laeghaghanz,  w-as 
slain  by  the  race  of  Fiacha",  the  son  of  Niall  [i.  e.  the  Mageoghegans,  &c.] 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1206. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  six. 

Donnell  O'Murray,  Chief  Lector  at  Deny,  died". 

Mulpeter  O'Calman,  Coarb  of  St.  Canicec,  and  tower  of  the  piety  and  wisdom 
of  the  north  of  Ireland*1,  died. 

Flaherty  O'Flaherty,  Prior  of  Dungiven',  and  Gillapatrick  O'Falaghty,  Ere- 
nagh  of  Dun-crunf,  died. 

Egneghan  O'Donnell  took  a  prey,  and  killed  some  persons  in  Tyrone. 

The  successor  of  St.  Patrick  went  to  the  King  of  England  on  behalf  of  the 
churches  of  Irelandg,  and  to  complain  of  the  English  of  Ireland. 


the  O'Dalys  of  Corca  Adam ;  the  O'Quins  of 

Muintir  Gilligan,  in  the  present  county  of  Long- 
ford ;  and  a  few  others,  who  all  sunk  into  insig- 
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 
supremus  professor  S.  Theologies  Dorensis  Ec- 
clesise  obiit." — Trias  Thattm.,  p.  504. 

c  St.  Canice  is  the  patron  saint  of  the  barony 
of  Keenaght,  in  the  county  of  Londonderry,  in 
which  the  chief  church  seems  to  be  that  of 
Drumachose. 

d  North  of  Ireland.— The  coarb  of  St.  Canice, 
in  the  north  of  Ireland,  was  the  abbot  of  Tennon- 
kenny,  in  the  territory  of  Kienaghta,  now  the 
barony  of  Keenaght,  in  the  county  of  London- 
derry, of  which  territory  St.  Canice  was  a  native 
and  the  principal  patron.  The  Annals  of  Ulster 
give  a  quotation  from  an  ancient  poem  on  the 
high  character  of  this  ecclesiastic,  and  the  old 
translator  anglicises  his  name  Mael-Peter  O'Cal- 
uian. 


e  Dungiven,  t)un  jjeirhin,  a  village  in  the 
barony  of  Keenaght,  in  the  county  of  London- 
derry. t)un  geimin  signifies  the  fortress  of 
Geimhin.  a  man's  name,  but  no  historical  ac- 
count of  his  tribe  or  period  has  been  discovered 
by  the  Editor. 

f Dun-crun,  Oun  cpuirne,  translated  arx  Cru- 
thcenorum  by  Colgan  in  Trias  Thaum.,  p.  181, 
col.  2.  The  name  is  now  sometimes  anglicised 
Duncroon,  and  is  a  townland  in  the  parish  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 

celebrated  brazier,  Conla See  Tripartite  Life  of 

St.  Patrick,  lib.  ii.  c.  125  ;  and  O'Donnell's  Life 
of  St.  Columbkille,  lib.  i.  c.  99.  See  also  Samp- 
son's Memoir  of  a  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 

to  request  that  the  King  would  compel  the  Eng- 
lish chiefs  in  Ireland  to  restore  their  lands  and 
other  liberties  to  the  Irish  churches.  It  appears 


150 


[1206. 


Comalcac,  mac  concobaip,  mic  biapmara  roic  caibj  njeapna  rhaije 
luipcc  i  aipcigh,  1  na  haicibecra  en  bpanan  cloinne  maolpuanaib  Do  ecc. 

Cpeac  la  heccnecdn  ua  nbomnaill  in  uib  papannain,  -|  hi  cclomn  oiap- 
mara.  Ro  £abhpac  bu  lomDa,  -]  po  mapbhpacc  Daoine.  Ruccpac  uf  Diap- 
macca,  uf  popanndin  -\  uf  gaipmlfohaij  oppa.  Ro  mapbab,  -]  po  bdibfb 
pocaibe  fcoppa,  -\  puccpac  cenel  cconaill  an  ccpeich  po  bfoib  lap  moppao- 
cap. 

TJuaibpi  ua  ga&pa  ciccepna  Slebe  tuja  Do  ecc. 

QoDh  mac  mupchaba  uf  ceatlaij  ciccfpna  ua  maine,  -\  cairnmb  ua  cair- 
nia6  cijeapna  loppaip  Do  ecc. 

Cto6  ua  joipmjiallaij  ciccfpna  papcpaije  cfpa  Do  mapbab  la  peapaib 
cfpa. 

T?uai6pi  ua  cojDa  caoipeac  na  bpeocha  la  hua  narhaljaib  Do  ecc. 

^illibepc  ua  plannaccdin,  -]  lorhap  mac  mupchaib  cdc  Dfob  Do  mapbab 
apoile  ip  pop  comdin. 


from  charters  in  the  Book  of  Kells,  now  in  the 
Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  that  the 
word  pocup  means  advantage,  benefit,  or  freedom. 
It  is  in  this  sense  the  opposite  of  oocap. 

In  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops  (under 
Eugene  Mac  Gillivider,  p.  64),  he  gives  the  fol- 
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 
churches  of  Ireland,  and  to  complain  of  the 
GALLS  (i.  e.  the  English)  of  Ireland."  Harris 
took  this  extract  from  the  old  English  transla- 
tion of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  preserved  in  the 
British  Museum,  which  contains  the  above  quo- 
tation, word  for  word See  note  under  the  year 

1216. 

h  Tumaltagh,  comalcac In  the  Annals  of 

Kilronan  he  is  styled  na  caippjje,  i.  e.  of  the 
rock.  Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare  states  in 
one  of  his  manuscripts,  that  he  built  the  castle 
and  chief  seat  of  the  family  on  one  of  the  islands 
of  Lough  Key,  and  that  this  seat  obtained  the 


name  of  Mac  Dermot's  Rock,  which  it  retains  to 
this  day. — See  Memoirs  of  the  Life  and  Writings 
of  Charles  0 'Conor  of  Belanagare,  p.  305. 

'  Moylurg,  Airtech,  4"c — Mac  Dermot,  or,  as 
the  family  were  more  anciently  called,  O'Mul- 
rony,  was  Chief  of  Moylurg,  Airteach,  and  Tir- 
tuathail,  all  included  in  the  old  barony  of  Boyle. 

k  Clann-Dermot,  clann  tDiapmaOa,  i.  e.  the 
O'Carellans.  These,  as  well  as  the  O'Forannans 
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 
part,  of  Lough  Foyle.  The  O'Donnells  after- 
wards drove  them  out  of  the  plain  of  Magh  Ithe, 
and  established  families  of  the  Kinel-Connell  in 
their  place. 

1  Slialh  Lugha. — The  name  of  this  territory 
is  still  well  known  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  and 
its  limits  pointed  out.  It  comprises  the  parishes 
of  Kilkelly,  Kilmovee,  Killeagh,  Kilcolman,  and 
Castlemore-Costello,  in  the  south-east  of  the 
county  of  Mayo,  that  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'1,  and  chief  hero  of  the  Clann- 
Mulrony,  died. 

Egneghan  O'Donnell  plundered  Hy-Farannan  and  Clann-Dermotk;  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. 

Rory  O'Gara,  Lord  of  Sliabh  Lugha1,  died. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Murrough  O'Kelly,  Lord  of  Hy-Many,  and  Caithniadh 
O'Caithniadh,  Lord  of  Errism,  died. 

Hugh  O'Goirmghialla,  Lord  of  Partry"  in  Carra,  was  slain  by  the  men  of 
Carra. 

Rory  O'Toghda,  Chief  of  Bredagh0  in  Hy-Awley  [Tirawley],  died 

Gilbert  O'Flanagan  and  Ivor  Mac  Murrough  slew  each  other  at  Roscom- 


in  which  there  is  a  range  of  mountains  still 
called  Slieve  Partry;  but  it  would  appear,  from 
the  writings  of  the  Mac  Firbises  of  Lecan,  that 
the  territory  of  Partraighe  extended  originally 
into  the  present  parish  of  Ballintober — See 
Tribes,  Genealogies,  and  Customs  of  the  Hy-Fiach- 
rach,  printed  for  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society 
in  1844,  p.  152,  note  k,  and  p.  189,  note'.  The 
family  name,  O'Goirmghialla,  is  now  called  in 
Irish  O'^opmpuil,  which  is  anglicised  Gormilly, 
Gormly,  and  even  Gorman,  which  latter  is  an 
unpardonable  corruption. — See  Tribes,  Sfc.  of 
Hy-Fiachrach,  pp.  47,  187,  202,  note  b. 

0  Of  Bredagh,  na  bpeocha. — ^This  territory 
which  contained  fifteen  ballys,  or  sixty  quarters 
of  land,  of  the  large  old  Irish  measure,  comprised 
the  parish  of  Moygawnagh,  in  the  west  of  the 
barony  of  Tirawley,  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  and 
a  part  of  the  adjoining  parish  of  Kilfian. — See 
Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiach- 
rach, pp.  10,  11,  165,  228.  ^ 

P  TJop  chomctm,  i.  e.  Bosciis  Sancti  Comani, 


According  to  Downing,  in  his  brief,  but  curious 
and  valuable  account  of  the  county  of  Mayo,  the 
country  of  the  Galengi,  i.  e.  the  O'Haras  and 
O'Garas,  comprised  the  entire  of  the  diocese  of 
Achonry.  The  O'Garas  were  afterwards  driven 
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 
Gara.  In  an  inquisition  taken  at  Castlemore,  on 
the  14th  of  July,  1607,  this  name  is  anglicised 
Slewlowe. 

m  Erris,  loppup,  an  extensive  and  remarkably 
wild  barony  in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of 
Mayo.  The  family  of  O'Caithniadh  are  now 
extinct,  or  the  name  changed,  in  this  barony. 

n  Partry,  papcpcuje — This  name  is  still  well 
known  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  as  a  territory 
forming  the  western  portion  of  the  barony  of 
Ceara,  and  now  believed  to  be  coextensive  with 
the  parish  of  Ballyovey,  or  Odhbha  Ceara, 
which  is  locally  called  the  parish  of  Partry,  and 


152  aNNCtta  Rioghachca  eiraectNN.  [1207. 


TTluipcfpcac  mac  cappjamna  eaoipec  muincipe  maoilcpionna  Do  ecc. 

SloiccheaD  la  mac  huso  t>e  laci  co  ngallaib  mi6e  -\  laijean  i  rcelac 
nocc.  l?o  loipcceD  cealla,  -]  apb'anna  laip,  -\  ni  puce  geill  ndm  fiDipfba 
aoohae  uf  neill  Don  chup  pin. 

Sloiccheao  lap  an  luce  cceDna  i  cciannacraib.  T?o  loipccpfcr  cealla 
ciannacca  uile,  ~]  puccpac  buap  oipfmhe. 

QO1S  CR1OSD,  1207. 
Ctoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  a  peachc. 

Cpeach  la  heiccnfchan  ua  noomnaill  a  bpfpaibh  manach  50  po  jabhpac 
bu.  Ruccpac  pip  manach  poiplion  poppa,  i  po  mapbpac  Ua  t>omnaill  cij- 
eapna  ripe  Conaill,  cuip  fnsnarha,  •]  eimj  an  CUICCID  ina  pfirhfp,  ~\  copcpaccap 
oponj  DO  paopclannaib  ele  i  mailli  ppipp-  Iciac  na  huaiple  Do  pocpacrap 
ann,  an  jiolla  piabac  mac  ceallaij  uf  baoijill,  DonnchaD  conallac  mac 
concobaip  maonmaiji,  "]  TTlacjamain  mac  Domnaill  miDij  ui  concobaip  -\ 
laochpaio  lomoa  cenmocar. 

Dorhnall  mac  pfpjail  uf  puaipc  ciccfpna  upmoip  bpeipne  Do  ecc. 

TTluipfDhac  mac  Ruaiopi  uf  Concobaip,  -]  Qrhlaib  ua  pepjail  raoipec 
muincipe  hQnjaile  Do  ecc. 

Oiapmair  ua  maoajdm  cijeapna  pfl  nanmclia&a  Do  ecc. 

Uaippi  Ruai&pi  ui  concobaip  Rf  Connacc  Do  cabaipc  a  calmain,  -|  a 
ccup  hi  pccpfn  cloice. 

now  the  town  of  Roscorumon,  which  gives  name  noise  record  the  death  of  the  abbot  Cahal  O'Ma- 

to  the  county.  St.  Coman's  well,  called  OaBac  lone,  a  man  of  great  riches  and  learning.  They 

Cliomam,  is  still  in  existence,  and  lies  in  a  field  also  contain  the  following  passage  relative  to  the 

to  the  east  of  the  town,  in  the  townland  of  town  of  Ballyloughloe,  near  Athlone,  in  the 

Ballypheasant.  county  of  Westnieath,  of  which  town  the  Four 

q  These  two  passages  are  rendered,  in  the  old  Masters  have  collected  no  early  notice.  "  A.  I). 

translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  as  follows  :  1206.  The  sons  of  Art  O'Melaghlyu  preyed  the 

"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  were  overtaken  by  Melaghlyn  Begg  O'Melagh- 

caried  neither  pledg  nor  hostage  with  them  for  lyn,  Sile  Crowherf'rey  Mac  Carrhon,  and  cer- 

that  tyme.  An  army  by  de  Lacy  in  Kyanaght,  tain  English  forces,  where  in  pursuite  that 

burnt  many  churches,  and  tooke  many  cowes."  rowte  of  Meathmen  were  discomfitted  and  putt 

r  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmac-  to  flight,   killed  Mortagh,  or  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  Hugh  O'Neill  on  this 
occasion. 

The  same  people  led  another  armyq  into  Kienaghta,  and  burned  all  the 
churches  of  that  territory,  besides  driving  off  a  countless  number  of  cowsr. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1207. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  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 
nobility  were  slain  along  with  him.  The  following  were  the  nobles  who  fell 
on  this  occasion:  Gillareagh,  the  son  of  Kellagh  O'Boyle;  Donough  Conallagh, 
the  son  of  Conor  Moinmoy ;  and  Mahon,  the  son  of  Donnell  Midheach  (i.  e. 
the  Meathian)  O'Conor.  Many  other  heroes  fell  besides  these8. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Farrell  O'Rourke,  Lord  of  the  greater  part  of  Breifny, 
died. 

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  disinterred,  and 
deposited  in  a  stone  shrine. 

Melaghlyn  Begg,  Mortagli  mac  Donnagh  Koyle,  O'Donnell  in  Fermanagh ;  but  the  men  of  Fer- 

and  also  Morrogh  mac  Morrogh  O'Kelly  was  managh  overtook  him  with  a  more  numerous 

taken."  host  than  he  had,  and  slew  O'Donnell,  King  of 

They  also  record  the  death  of  Eobert,  son  of  Tirconnell,  till  then  the  tower  of  valour,  hos- 

Hugh  Delacie,  under  the  same  year.  pitality,  and  bravery  of  the  north  of  Ireland. 

s  Besides  these — This  passage  is  better  given  Some  of  his  chieftains  also  fell,  viz.,  Gillareagh, 

in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan.  The  literal  trans-  son  of  Kellagh  O'Boyle ;  Mahon,  son  of  Donnell, 

lation  is  as  follows  :  the  Meathian  O'Conor;  Donough  Conallagh,  the 

"A.  D.  1207-  A  prey  was  taken  by  Egneghan  son  of  Conor  Moinmoy  O'Conor,  et  alii  multi 


154 


[1207. 


Carol  cpoibbfpcc  6  Concobaip  Rf  Connacc  Do  lonnapbab  Qo&a  uf  plaic- 
beapcaijj  ~\  a  cpioch  Do  cabaipc  Dia  mac  pfm  oCXob  mac  cacail. 

Coccab  mop  eicop  gallaib  laijjean  pfin  .1.  eicnp  TTlaoilip  -\  Sepppaij; 
mapep,  -\  Uilliam  mapupccal  gup  milleab  laigm,  •]  pip  muman  froppa. 

Coccab  mop  popeicnp  hugo  De  Ian  ~\  maoilip,  50  po  milleab  uile  muineip 
TTlhaoilip. 

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  uf  concobaip,  ~| 
copbmac  mac  comalcaij,  Concobap  500  o  hfjpa  njTpna  luighne,  -|  Donnchab 
ua  Duboa  cijeapna  ua  namalja&a,  ~\  ua  ppiachpac  50  po  cliuippioc  cliach- 
ai&  50  po  muioh  pop  cacal  cappac,  -j  50  po  jabaD  e  pfin,  ~\  50  po  Dallab,  ~\ 
po  mapbab  muipjfp  a  mac,  -|  TTlac  Chonjpanna  uf  plannaccam  co  pocaiDib 
ele. 

Cpeach  mop  la  TTIaoilip  occ,  -\  la  TTluipcfpcac  ua  mbpiain,  -\  la  coipp- 


nobiles,  et  ignobiles,  cum  eis  occisi  sunt.  The  son 
of  Mac  Malion,  the  men  of  Fermanagh,  and  the 
Oriels  victores  fuerunt." 

c  Geoffrey,  Mares,  and  William  Maresckal — 
The  former  is  generally  called  Geffry  de  Marisco, 
or  De  Mariscis,  by  English  writers. — See  Han- 
mer's  Chronicle,  Dublin  Edit,  of  1809,  pp.  382- 
385.  He  was  made  Gustos  or  Governor  of  Ire- 
land in  1216,  and  Lord  Justice  in  1226. — See 
Harris's  Ware,  vol.  ii.  p.  103.  William  Mares- 
chal,  or  Marshal,  was  Earl  of  Pembroke,  and 
Prince  of  Leinster  in  Ireland,  in  right  of  his 
wife,  the  granddaughter  of  Dermot  Mac  Mur- 
rough — See  Hanmer's  Chronicle,  Dublin  Edit, 
of  1809,  p.  343,  et  sequen. 

u  These  passages  are  thus  given  in  the  Annals 
of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan : 
"A.  D.  1207.  There  arose  great  warrs  in  Lyn- 
ster  between  the  Englishmen  there,  viz',  between 
Meyler  and  GefFry  March,  and  also  William 
Mareschall,  which  soone  brought  all  Lynster  and 
Munster  to  utter  destruction. 

"  There   arose  also  the  like  contention  and 


strife  between  Meyler  and  Hugh  Delacie,  that 
between  the  said  partys  the  land  of  Foharties 
was  wasted,  preyed,  and  destroyed." 

v  Cathal. — This  passage  is  given  more  fully  in 
the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  but  under  the  year  1 208, 
as  follows:  "A.  D.  1208.  Cathal,  son  of  Der- 
mot, son  of  Teige  O'Mulrony,  King  of  Moylurg, 
was  taken  prisoner  by  Cathal  Crovderg  in  vio- 
lation of  the  guarantee  of  the  bishops  who  were 
securities  between  them,  namely,  Ardgal  O'Con- 
nor, Murray  O'Duffy,  Clement  O'Sneyey.  He 
was,  however,  set  at  liberty,  through  the  guaran- 
tee of  those  bishops,  without  giving  a  hostage  or 
pledge.  After  this  he  went  out  of  the  country 
and  took  a  great  prey,  which  he  drove  on  as  far 
as  Lough  Macnean.  A  week  afterwards  he  set 
out  on  a  predatory  excursion  into  Tir-Oiliolla 
[Tirerrill],  and  drove  off  a  prey  into  the  Cur- 
lieus,  and  over  the  Curlieus  into  Moylurg.  A 
great  force  overtook  him  here,  namely,  Dermot, 
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. 


155 


Cathal  Crovderg  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  expelled  Hugh  O'Flaherty, 
and  gave  his  territory  to  his  own  son,  Hugh  O'Conor. 

A  great  war  broke  out  among  the  English  of  Leinster;  i.  e.  between  Meyler, 
Geoffrey,  Mares,  and  William  Mareschal1.  Leinster  and  Munster  suffered  se- 
verely from  them. 

Another  great  war  broke  out  between  Hugo  de  Lacy  and  Meyler ;  and  the 
result  was,  that  nearly  all  Meyler' s  people  were  ruined". 

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 
of  Manus,  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. 
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 
Eory  O'Gara,  Lord  of  Sliabh  Lugha;  Flaherty 
O'Flanagan,  Chief  of  Clann  Cahill ;  and  Gilla- 
na-nech  O'Monahan,  King  of  Hy-Briuin  na 
Sinna.  When  his  Breifnian  archers  perceived 
that  they  were  overtaken  by  this  great  force, 
they  fled  as  soon  as  they  had  crossed  Lee  Da- 
mhaighe,  and  Mac  Dermot,  being  left  accompanied 
by  his  own  followers  only,  he  was  rushed  upon, 
and  his  son  Maurice,  and  many  others  of  his 
people,  were  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- 
cordingly done." 

Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Ulster  and 
of  Kilronan  record  a  battle  between  the  son  of 
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- 


sylyn — .This  was  the  name  of  a  small  cataract, 
now  nearly  removed  by  the  wearing  down  of  the 
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  river,  opposite 
this  cataract,  originally  called  Gap  tDachonna, 
i.e.  St.  Dachonna's  cataract,  and  Gap  mic  n-eipc, 
i.e.  the  cataract  of  the  son  of  Ere,  that  being  the 
saint's  patronymic  name,  from  his  father  Ere  ; 
but  in  later  ages,  Gap  Ui  phlomn,  O'Flynn's 
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- 

*  Dermot,  son  of  Manus,  who  was  son  of  Mur- 
tough— This  Murtough  O'Conor  was  the  cele- 
brated Muircheartach  Muimhneach,  or  the  Mo- 
monian,  the  eleventh  son  of  Turlough  More 
O'Conor,  monarch  of  Ireland,  and  the  ancestor 
of  that  warlike  clan  of  the  O'Conors,  called 
Clann-Mu  ircheartaigh. 


x2 


156 


[1208. 


Dealbac  mac  Ruampi  uf  Concobaip  i  cci'p  piacpac  aiDne  co  po  aipccpioc 
cuicc  baile  Decc. 

Cacal  mac  T?uai6pi  mac  an  cpormaij  uf  carapnaij  njeapra  rfcba  Do 


ecc. 


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  in  rfp. 

QO18  CttlOSO,  1208. 
Cloip  CpiopO,  mite,  Da  ceo  a  hochc. 

OauiO  bpfcnac  eppcop  puipc  Laip^e  Do  mapbaoh  la  hUa  bpaolam  Dona 
Deipibh. 


y  Fifteen  baMys,  cuicc  baile  o^cc. — A  bally 
was  at  this  period,  the  thirtieth  part  of  a  triocha 
ced,  or  barony. 

z  Teffia,  ceacba — This  was  anciently  a  large 
territory,  comprising,  according  to  several  ancient 
Irish  and  Anglo-Irish  authorities,  about  the 
western  half  of  the  present  county  of  West- 
meath.  It  appears  from  various  ancient  autho- 
rities that  it  comprised  the  following  baronies  : 
1.  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 
Oul  and  Lough  Ennell ;  3.  The  barony  of  Cuircne, 
now  Kilkenny  West ;  4.  The  barony  of  Brawney ; 
5.  Clonlonan  (into  which  the  O'Melaghlins  were 
afterwards  driven),  with  that  part  of  it  which 
was  added  to  the  King's  County,  by  the  procure- 
ment of  the  celebrated  Terence  Coghlan ;  and  6. 
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, 
Petits,  and  Daltons  were  in  Teffia. 

In  the  fourth  century  the  southern  half  of 
this  territory  of  Teffia  was  granted  by  the  Mo- 
narch Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages,  to  his  son 
Maine,  from  whom  it  is  sometimes,  but  not  fre- 


quently, called  Tir-Maine  of  Meath,  and  among 
whose  descendants  it  was  afterwards  subdivided 
into  petty  territories,  the  lords  of  which  were 
tributary  to  the  archchief,  who  was  looked  upon 
as  the  representative  of  Maine,  though  not 
always  of  the  senior  branch  of  his  descendants. 
North  Teffia  was  divided  from  South  Teffia  by 
the  River  Eithne,  now  the  Inny,  and  was  granted 
in  the  fourth  century  to  Carbry,  the  brother  of 
Maine.  This  territory  is  frequently  called  Cair- 
bre  Gabhra  in  the  old  Irish  authorities,  but  for 
many  centuries  before  the  English  invasion, 
North  Teffia  was  the  principality  of  the  O'Far- 
rells,  who  gave  it  their  tribe  name  of  Anghaile, 
or  South  Conmaicne. 

South  Teffia  was  subdivided  into  the  follow- 
ing lordships  or  chieftainries,  viz.  :  1.  Breagh- 
mhaine,  now  Brawney,  the  lordship  of  O'Breen ; 
2.  Machaire  Chuircne,  which  was  originally  the 
lordship  of  O'Tolairg,  but  was  in  the  possession 
of  the  Dillons  from  the  period  of  the  Anglo-Nor- 
man invasion  till  the  seventeenth  century;  3. 
Calry-an-chala,  and  sometimes  Calry-Teaffa,  the 
lordship  of  Magawly,  now  the  parish  of  Bally- 
loughloe;  Muintir  Tadhgain,  the  lordship  of  the 
Fox,  or  O'Caharny,  now  the  barony  of  Kil- 


1208.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


157 


made  a  predatory  incursion  into  Tir-Fachrach  Aidhne,  and  plundered  fifteen 
ballysy  (townlands). 

Cathal,  son  of  Kory,  who  was  son  of  the  Sinnagh  (the  Fox)  O'Caharny, 
Lord  of  Teffiaz,  died. 

The  sons  of  Hugo  de  Lacy  and  the  English  of  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 
was  banished  from  the  country5. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1208.       . 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  eight. 

David  Breathnach  (Walsh),  Bishop  of  Waterford0,  was  slain  by  O'Faelan  of 
the  Desies. 


coursey,  in  the  King's  County;  5.  Corca  Adaim, 
or  Corca  Adam,  now  in  all  probability  the  ba- 
rony of  Magheradernon. 

a  Fircal,  peapa  Ceall,  was,  as  already  shewn, 
a  territory  in  the  south  of  ancient  Meath,  com- 
prising the  present  baronies  of  Ballycowen,  Bal- 
lyboy,  and  Fircall,  or  Eglish,  in  the  King's 
County. 

b  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise 
have  the  following  entries,  altogether  omitted 
by  the  Pour  Masters: 

"A.  D.  1207.  The  English  of  Meath  and 
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. 

"Moriertagh  mac  Bryen  an  Tleyve  besieged 
the  castle  of  Byrre,  and  at  last  burnt  the  whole 
town. 

"  The  castle  of  Athroynny,  in  Lease  [Bally- 
roane,  in  the  Queen's  County],  was  spoyled 
altogether  by  the  said  Mortagh  and  the  sons  of 


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 
and  quite  destroyed  by  the  said  Mortagh 
O'Bryen." 

Under  this  year,  also,  the  Dublin  copy  of  the 
Annals  of  Innisfallen  state,  that  the  churches  of 
Tigh  Damhnad  [Tedavnet],  Kilmurrigan,  and 
Clones"  [in  Ulster],  "  were  burned  by  Hugo  de 
Lacy. 

c  Waterford,  Pope  Icnrije. — Port  Lairge  is 
the  present  Irish  name  of  the  city  of  Waterford. 
See  note  *  under  the  year  1174,  p.  18.  Neither 
Ware  nor  Harris  has  any  notice  of  this  David 

as  a  bishop See  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's 

Bishops,  under  O'Heda,  and  Robert  of  Bedford, 
pp.  551,  552.  His  name  does  not  occur  in  any 
of  the  Irish  annals  known  to  the  Editor,  except 
Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clon- 
macnoise, in  which  his  death  is  noticed  as  fol- 
lows: "  A.D.  1207.  David  Breathnagh,  Bushopp 


158  ctNNata  rcioshactiea  emeaNN.  [1208. 

/ 

Cpeachploiccheab  la  hdobh  Ua  neill  i  ninip  Gojain.  Rucc  ua  bomnaill 
.1.  bomnall  mop  cona  pocpairce  paip,  Ro  cuipfb  cainojijail  fcoppa  in  po 
mapbab  ap  bfpimhe  ap  jach  lee.  Uopcaip  ip  in  maibm  pin  bomnall  mac 
mupchaba,  -]  ap  abbal  bo  cenel  Gojain  imaille  ppipp.  Uopcpacrap  i  pppioc- 
juin  an  rhabma  Cacbapp  o  bomnaill,  pfpjal  ua  baoijill.Copbmac  Ua  bom- 
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  neill  50  puce  pop  cpfcaib  -]  bpaijbib  an  cipe  gup  pnabmab  p'bh 
eicnp  Ua  nborhnaill  •)  Ua  neill,  "]  po  naibmpoc  a  ccapacrpabli  ppiapoile 
i  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,  -\  Qpc  mac  borh- 
naill  mic  pepjail  bo  jabail  a  lonaib  a  hucc  gall. 

lohannep  epipcopup  nopbup  bo  cop  bo  Rij  Sa^an  i  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  by  O'Foylan  of  the  gennis  of  only  a   portion  of  it   called   Claim 

Desies."    Ereathnach,  as  a  family  name,  is  now  Aedha. 

always  anglicised  Walsh.     Waterford  was  made  E  Fineen,  pm^in — This  name,  which  is  very 

an  episcopal  see  in  1096,  and  united  to  the  see  of  common  in  the  family  of  Mac  Carthy,  signifies 

Lismore  in  1363. — See  Harris's  Ware,  vol.  i.  p.  the  fair  offspring.    It  is  Latinized  Florentius  by 

533  ;    and  Lanigan's  Ecclesiastical  History   of  O'Sullevan  Beare,  throughout  his  History  of  the 

Ireland,  voL  iv.  pp.  15,  16,  45.  Irish  Catholics,  and  now  always  anglicised  Flo- 

d  David  CPDoherty — He  is  the  ancestor  of  the  rence.    The  name  Finnen  is  translated  Albinus 

family  of  Mac  Devitt,  now  so  numerous  in  the  by  Colgan. — See  his  Acta  Sanctorum,  p.  353, 

barony  of  Inishowen.  note  3. 

c  Duvinnsi,  ouibmnp. — This  name  signifies          h  Ualgarg,  ualjapcc This  name,  which  was 

the  black,  or  black-haired  man,  of  the  island.  very  common  among  the  family  of  O'Kourke, 

r  Iveagk,  Ui  Gacoach — The  name  of  two  is  now  obsolete,  as  the  Christian  or  baptismal 

baronies  in  the  county  of  Down.     At  this  time  name  of  a  man  ;    but  is  preserved  in  the  fa- 

O'Haughey  was  Chief  of  all  Iveagh,  and  Ma-  mily  of  Magoalric,  a  collateral  branch  of  the 


1208.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  159 

A  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  Donnell  Mac  Murrough,  and  a  great  number  of  the  Kinel-Owen  with  him. 
In  the  heat  of  this  conflict  fell  also  Caffar  O'Donnell,  Farrell  O'Boyle,  Cormac 
O'Donnell,  David  O'Doherty",  and  other  chiefs  of  the  Kinel-Connell.  The 
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  upon  the  spoils  and  hostages  of  the  country. 
A  peace,  however,  was  afterwards  concluded  between  O'Neill  and  O'Donnell, 
who  entered  into  an  alliance  to  assist  each  other  against  such  of  the  English  or 
Irish  as  should  oppose  them. 

Duvinnsi6  Magennis,  Lord  of  Clann-Aodha,  in  Iveaghf,  was  slain  by  the  son 
of  Donslevy  O'Haughy. 

Fineens,  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Cormac  Mac  Carthy,  was  slain  by  his  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 
St.  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. 

O'Rourkes,  now  very  numerous  in  the  county  wrote  him  a  sharp  letter,  upbraiding  him  with 

of  Leitrim.   It  is  derived  from  ucnll,  pride,  and  his  unjust  proceedings,  which  caused  His  Holi- 

5ar5>  fierce.  ness  to  lay  the  whole  kingdom  under  an  in- 

1  John,  Bishop  of  Norwich,  Johannes  Episcopus  terdict.     This   event   is   stated   as   follows   in 

Norbus. — His  name  was  John  de  Gray.    He  was  Mageoghegan's    translation   of  the   Annals    of 

chosen  by  King  John's  recommendation  to  the  Clonmacnoise,  under  the  year  1207  :  "An  Eng- 

archbishopric  of  Canterbury  in  1205;  but  Pope  lish  Bushop  was  sent  over  into  this  land,  by  the 

Innocent  III.  refused  to  confirm  his  election,  King  of  England,  to  govern  the  land  as  Deputie 

and  procured  the  election  of  Cardinal  Stephen  thereof:  he  was  Bushop  of  Norway  [Norwich], 

Langton,  an  Englishman  then  at  Rome,  in  his  and  was  Excommunicated  by  the  Pope,  together 

place,  and  consecrated  him  with  his  own  hands,  with  all  Englishmen  in  England,  which  Excom- 

The  King,  enraged  at  this  conduct  of  the  Pope,  munication  hung  over  them  for  the  space  of  two 


160 


[1209. 


TTluipcfpcac  mac  oomnaill  ui  bpiain  riccfpna  cuaDrhuman  Do  jabdil  la 
jallaib  luimmgh  cop  papuccao  cpi  neppcop  c|ie  popdil  Donnchaib  caipbpijj 
a  Dfpbparap  pfin. 

Oiapmaicc  ua  caomctm  caoipec  o  cuaim  Da  bobap  50  jleoip  Do  ecc. 

Qmlaib  ua  Pocldin  caoipec  calpaije  cuile  cfpnacan  Do  mapbat)  la  hua 
Tftopdin. 

aois  cr?ioso,  1209. 

Qoip  CpiopD,  mfle,  Da  ceD,  a  naoi. 

Cele  ua  Dubcaigh  eppcop  TTlaije  eo  na  Safari,  jiollacpipc  ua  ceapnaij 
comopba  conDepe,  -|  plaicbfpcach  ua  plainn  corhapba  Daconna  eapa  mic 
neipc  DO  ecc. 


or  three  years,  in  so  much  that  their  churches  did 
not  use  the  Sacraments  dureing  the  said  space." 
Hanmer  says  that  this  excommunication  ex- 
tended to  Ireland  also  ;  but  he  should  have  said, 
to  the  English  in  Ireland, — See  his  Chronicle, 
Dublin  Edition  of  1809,  pp.  373,  377. 

k  This  passage  is  rendered  as  follows  in  Ma- 
geoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clon- 
macnoise  :  "A.  D.  1207.  Mortagh  mac  Donnell 
O'Bryen,  prince  of  Thomond,  was  taken  by  the 
Englishmen  of  Lymbrick  against  the  wills  of 
three  Bushopps,  by  the  procurement  of  his 
own  brother  Donnagh  Carbreagh  mac  Donnell 
O'Bryen." 

1  CPKeevan,  ua  caoriiam,  now  sometimes 
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 — See  Tribes,  Sfc. 
ofHy-Fiachrach,  pp.  109,  167,  248,  350. 

m  From  Toomore  to  Gleoir. — Tuaim-da-bho- 
dhar  is  now  anglicised  Toomore.  It  is  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, 
printed  for  the  Archaeological  Society  in  1844, 


p.  242,  note  °,  and  map  prefixed  to  the  same 
work.  According  to  a  tradition  in  the  county  of 
Sligo,  Gleoir  was  the  ancient  name  of  the  river 
now  called  the  Culleen  or  Leafony  river,  which 
takes  its  rise  to  the  south  of  Tawnalaghta  town- 
land,  in  the  parish  of  Kilglass,  and  barony  of 
Tireragh,  and  running  northwards,  empties 
itself  into  the  sea  at  Pollacheeny,  in  Cabrakeel 
townland.  From  the  position  of  this  river,  and 
the  old  church  of  Toomore,  or  Toomour,  it  is 
quite  clear  that  the  O'Caomhains  possessed,  or  at 
least  were  the  head  chiefs  of  all  the  territory  of 
Coolcarney,  and  the  western  portion  of  the  ba- 
rony of  Tireragh,  verging  on  the  River  Moy, 
near  its  mouth,  and  that  their  territory  com- 
prised the  parishes  of  Toomore,  Attymass,  and 
Kilgarvan,  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  and  the  pa- 
rish of  Kilglass,  in  the  county  of  Sligo. — See 
Map  prefixed  to  Tribes,  Genealogies,  and  Cus- 
toms of  Hy-Fiachrach,  printed  for  the  Irish  Ar- 
chreological.Society  in  1844. 

D  O'RotUain,  now  pronounced  by  the  Irish  in 
the  county  of  Sligo  as  if  written  O'Roithleain, 
and  incorrectly  anglicised  Rowley.  It  might  be 
more  analogically  anglicised  Rollin,  which  would 
sound  better.  For  the  extent  of  the  territory 
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'Keevan1,  Lord  of  that  tract  of  country  extending  from  Toomore 
to  Gleoirm,  died. 

Auliffe  O'Kothlain",  Chief  of  Calry  of  Coolcarney,  was  slain  by  O'Moran0. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHEIST,  1209. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  nine. 

Kele  0'Duffyp,  Bishop  of  Mayoq  of  the  Saxons;  Gilchreest  O'Kearney,  Coarb 
(Bishop)  of  Connor";  and  Flaherty  O'Flynn,  Coarb  of  Dachonna5  of  Eas-mic 
n-Eirc  [Assylyn],  died. 


carney,  at  the  year  1225 — See  also  Tribes,  $c., 
of  Hy-Fiaehrach,  printed  for  the  Irish  Archse- 
ological  Society  in  1844,  pp.  167,  423. 

0  O'Moran — He  had  his  seat  at  Ardnarea,  on 
the  east  side  of  the  Eiver  Moy,  at  Ballina-Ti- 
rawley,  and  his  territory  extended  thence  to 
Toomore — See  Tribes,  Genealogies,  and  Customs 
of  Hy-Fiachrach,  pp.  167,  245. 

P  Kele  O'DuJfy.—He  is  called  Celestin,  or 
Cele  O'Dubhai,  in  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's 
Bishops,  p.  602. 

q  Mayo,  maj  eo,  translated  by  Colgan,  cam- 
pus quercuum,  the  plain  of  the  oaks,  though  it 
more  probably  means  plain  of  the  yews.  This 
place,  which  contained  a  monastery  and  a  ca- 
thedral, was  founded  by  St.  Colman,  an  Irish- 
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 
whom  he  had  first  established  on  Inis  Bo  Finne. 
Ussher  states  (Primordia,  p.  964)  that  the  see 


of  Mayo  was  annexed  to  Tuam  in  1559,  and  that 
Eugenius  Mac  Brehoan  was  the  last  Bishop  of 
Mayo. — See  also  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  part  i.  c.  1 ; 
Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  602  ;  and 
Lanigan's  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Ireland,  voL 
iii.  p.  79- 

r  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 

by  Mac  Nise,  who  died  in  the  year  507 See 

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 
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  by  Mac  Donslevy,  and  Hy-Tuirtre  and 
Firlee,  comprising  the  diocese  of  Connor,  by 
O'Lynn — See  note  °,  under  the  year  1174, 
p.  13. 

s  Dachonna. — In  the  Irish  Calendar  of  the 
O'Clurys,  at  the  8th  of  March,  he  is  styled 


162 


[1209. 


Qpc  mac  tioriinaill  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  j  nepinn  peace  cceb  long.  Ip  ann  po  £abpac  in  ach- 
cliac.  baoi  aehaib  amnpein  ace  lejjab  pccipi  na  mapa  be  lap  ccoppachcam 


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 
sou  of  Eire,  i.  e.  of  Dachonna.  6ap  mic  n6ipc, 
now  Gap  ui  phlom,  an  old  church  about  one 
mile  to  the  west  of  the  town  of  Boyle.  Colgan, 
and  after  him  Lanigan,  confounds  this  with  the 
great  Abbey  of  Boyle.  The  Editor  has  adduced 
various  evidences  to  shew  that  Eas  mic  n-Eirc 
is  not  the  great  Abbey  of  Boyle,  in  a  letter,  de- 
scribing the  localities  in  the  neighbourhood  of 
Lough  Key,  written  at  Boyle,  July  23,  1837, 
and  now  preserved  at  the  Ordnance  Survey 
Office,  Phoenix  Park.  In  this  he  has  proved 
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 
nBipc  was  also  often  called  Gup  Dachonna, 
from  St.  Dachonna,  otherwise  Dlochonna  mac 
nGipc,  the  patron  saint  of  the  place.  See  note 
under  the  year  1463. 

c  Seven  hundred  ships,  peace  cc£b  long. 

The  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  has 
the  same  number  :  "  A.  D.  1210.  Ri  Sovran  bo 
raioecc  i  n-Gpmn  co  lonjaip  oiapmioe  .1.  occ. 
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 
the  Irish  Annals.  In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan 
his  fleet  is  styled  lomjjepp  aobctl,  "  a  prodi- 
gious fleet,"  at  the  year  1209 ;  and  coblac  mop, 
"  a  great  fleet,"  at  1210.  In  the  old  translation 


of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  the  entry  is  given  briefly 
as  follows,  without  mentioning  the  number  of 
ships  :  "  A.  D.  1209.  The  King  of  England  came 
to  Ireland  with  a  great  navy."  In  the  Annals  of 
Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan, 
the  account  of  the  acts  of  King  John  in  Ireland 
is  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 
to  Tibreydultan,  called  Ardbreackan,  in  Meath, 
where  Cahall  Crovederg  O'Connor  came  to  the 
King's  house,  banished  Walter  Delacie  out  of 
Meath  into  England,  whereupon  the  King  and 
O'Connor,  with  his  Fleett,  departed,  and  went 
to  Carrickfergus,  and  banished  Hugh  Delacie 
from  out  of  Ulster  into  England. 

"  O'Neal  came  then  to  the  King  of  England's 
house  and  departed  from  him  again,  without 
hostages  or  securitie :  O'Connor  return'd  to 
his  own  house  from  thence  [and]  the  King  of 
England  lay  siege  to  Carrickffergus,  and  com- 
pelled the  Warde  to  leave  the  same,  and  did 
put  a  strong  ward  of  his  own  in  the  same,  and 
from  thence  the  King  came  to  Rathwry,  or 
Rathgwayrie,  [where]  O'Connor  came  again 
to  the  King's  house  and  yealded  him  four  hos- 
tages, viz1.  Connor  God  O'Hara,  prince  of 
Lawyne  in  Connought,  Dermott  mac  Connor 
O'Moyleronie,  Ffyn  O'Carmackan,  chieftaine  of 
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- 


1209.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


163 


Art,  son  of  Donnell,  who  was  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. 

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. 

"  A.  D.  1210.  Johannes,  the  son  of  Fitz- 
Erapress,  King  of  England,  came  to  Ireland 
with  a  great  fleet  this  year.  On  his  arrival  he 
levied  a  great  army  of  the  men  of  Ireland,  to 
march  them  to  Ulster,  to  take  Hugh  De  Lacy, 
or  banish  him  from  Ireland,  and  to  take  Carrick- 
fergus.  Hugh  departed  from  Ireland,  and  those 
who  were  guarding  Carrickfergus  left  it  and 
came  to  the  King,  and  the  King  left  a  garrison 
of  his  own  there.  He  afterwards  dispatched  a 
fleet  of  his  people  to  the  Isle  of  Mann,  who 
plundered  the  island,  and  killed  many  of  its  in- 
habitants. Cathal  Crovderg  O'Conor,  King  of 
Connaught,  and  his  Connacian  forces,  were  on 
this  expedition.  On  their  arrival  in  the  north, 
the  King  of  England  had  told  the  King  of  Con- 
naught  to  return  to  him  at  the  expiration  of  a 
fortnight,  and  the  latter  promised  that  he  would 
do  so,  and  bring  his  son  Hugh  O'Conor  with 
him  to  be  delivered  up  as  a  hostage.  This, 
however,  the  King  did  not  require ;  but  he 
said,  '  Bring  him,  that  he  may  receive  a  charter 
for  the  third  part  of  Connaught.'  But  when 
O'Conor  returned  home,  the  advice  which  he 
and  his  wife  and  people  adopted  was, — the  worst 
that  could  be, — not  to  bring  his  son  to  the 
King.  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 
Dermot,  King  of  Moylurg  ;  Conor  O'Hara,  King 
of  Leyny  in  Connaught ;  Finn  O'Carmacan,  a 


servant  of  trust  to  O'Conor  ;  and  Torbert,  son 
of  the  King  of  the  Gall-Gaels,  one  of  O'Conor's 
lawgivers  (peaccaipib).  The  King  of  England 
then  returned,  and  brought  these  chieftains  with 
him  into  England.  He  left  the  chief  govern- 
ment of  Ireland  to  the  English  bishop,  and  told 
him  to  build  three  castles  in  Connaught.  The 
English  bishop  soon  after  raised  an  army  in 
Meath  and  Leinster,  and  marched  to  Athlone, 
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  Innis- 
fallen,  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  documents  which  are  now  lost,  or,  at 
least,  not  preserved  in  Ireland. 

"A.  D.  1211"  \recte  1210].  "John,  King 
of  England,  with  a  large  fleet  and  a  numerous 
army,  set  sail  for  Ireland,  and  landed  at  Water- 
ford.  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- 
longing, for  which  he  was  to  pay  a  yearly  rent 
of  sixty  marks. 

"  Cathal  Crovderg,  the  son  of  Turlough  More 
O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  repaired  with  a 
great  body  of  troops  to  make  his  obeisance  unto 
him. 

"  King  John  proceeded  from  Waterford  to 
Dublin,  with  the  intention  of  banishing  from 


164 


[1209. 


DO,  i  canaic  o  arhcliac  50  cioppaice  ullrain  i  miohe.  Do  comh  Cacal 
cpoibDfpcc  6  Concobaip  ma  cfch.  T?o  hionnapbab  ualcpa  De  Ian  ap  in 
mibe  hi  Sajcam.  Do  com  laparh  an  TCi  ~\  na  maire  bai  ma  pappab  50  cappaic 
pfp£upa  co  po  biocuip  hugo  De  laci  a  hullcaib  hi  Sapram.  Qooh  6  neill  Do 
bol  po  cojaipm  an  T?ij  -|  a  ceacc  pop  cculaib  $an  giallaDh.  Qn  Rij  Do 
bfic  i  bpopbaipi  pop  an  ccappaicc  co  po  paccbaoh  Do  i,  ~\  cucc  a  muincip 
pfm  innce.  Canaicc  6  concobaip  mporh  Dia  nj  bub  Dfin. 

Do  comh  lapom  Ri  Sa^an  50  paich  nguaipe,  -|  canaicc  ua  concobaip 
Dopmipi  Oia  poi^hm,  1  po  bai  an  T?i  "ace  iappai6  a  rheic  ap  ua  cconcobaip 
DO  jiall  ppi  corhall  Do.  Ni  ccipo  ua  concobaip  a  rhac  uaba,  ace  Do  paD 
cfcpap  Dia  rhuincip  Dia  cionn,  .1.  Concobap  500  6  hfjpa  cijeapna  luijne,  -) 
Diapmair  mac  concobaip  uf  TTlaoilpuanaiD  njeapna  rhuiji  luipcc,  pionn  ua 
capmacdm,  -\  coipbeanD  mac  pij  sallgaoiDel  Do  afp  jpaba  uf  concobaip,  i 
DO  com  an  T?i  50  Sa^ain,  -\  puce  na  bpaijDe  pin  lai]-. 


Ireland  Walter  de  Lacy  (who  afterwards  passed 
into  France).  The  King  marched  from  Dublin 
into  Meath,  and  dispatched  a  large  fleet  north- 
wards to  a  fortress  of  the  English  called  Carling- 
ford,  to  command  the  sons  of  Hugh  de  Lacy, 
viz.,  Walter,  Lord  of  Meath,  and  Hugh,  Earl  of 
Ulster,  and  then  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland,  to 
appear  before  him  to  answer  for  the  death  of  the 
valiant  knight,  John  de  Courcy"  [Lord  of  Ra- 
thenny  and  Kilbarrock — Grace],  "  who  was 
treacherously  slain  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  Ma- 
chaire  Conaille,  and  in  Cuailgne,  before  the 
King's  eyes,  and  also  the  castles  which  had  been 
erected  by  the  Earl  of  Ulster  and  the  men  of 
Oriel,  and  he  himself  fled  to  Carrickfergus,  leav- 
ing the  chiefs  of  his  people  burning,  levelling, 
and  destroying  the  castles  of  the  country,  and, 
dreading  the  fury  of  the  King,  he  himself  went 
over  the  sea. 

"When  the  King  saw  this  disrespect  offered 


him,  he  marched  from  Drogheda  to  Carlingford, 
where  he  made  a  bridge  of  his  ships,  across  the 
harbour,  by  which  he  landed  some  of  his  troops 
on  the  other  side,  and  proceeded  thence  to  Car- 
rickfergus,  partly  by  sea  and  partly  by  land, 
and  laid  siege  to  the  castle,  which  he  took." 

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 
20th  of  June,  1210,  and  was  on  his  return,  at 
Fishguard,  on  the  26th  of  August,  the  same 
year.  For  an  account  of  his  movements  in  Ire- 
land at  this  period,  the  reader  is  referred  to  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Butler's  curious  work  on  the  History 
of  the  Castle  of  Trim. 

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 
give  him  hostages. 

u  Tiopraid  Villain,  i.  e.  St.  Ulltan's  well- 
There  was  a  place  so  called  in  Westmeath  in 
Colgan's  time — See  his  Acta  Sanctorum,  p.  242, 
note  25  ;  and  Lanigan's  Ecclesiastical  History  of 
Ireland,  vol.  iii.  p.  52.  There  is  a  holy  well 


1209.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


165 


of  his  voyage,  and  then  set  out  for  Tioprait  Ulltainu  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 
Carrickfergus,  whence  he  also  banished  Hugo  de  Lacy  to  England.  Hugh 
O'Neill  repaired  hither  at  the  King's  summons,  but  returned  home  without 
giving  him  hostages.  The  King  besieged  Carrick  until  it  surrendered,  and. he 
placed  his  own  people  in  it.  O'Conor  then  returned  home. 

The  King  of  England  then  went  to  Eathguaire™,  whither  O'Conor  repaired 
again  to  meet  him;  and  the  King  requested  O'Conor  to  deliver  him  up  his  son, 
to  be  kept  as  a  hostage.  O'Conor  did  not  give  him  his  son,  but  delivered  up 
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.  The 
King  then  returned  to  England,  bringing  these  hostages  with  him. 


called  Tobar  Dlltain  in  the  townland  of  Bally- 
naskea,  near  the  old  church  of  Rathcore  in 

Meath See  Ordnance  Map  of  Meath,  sheet  48 ; 

and  there  is  also  a  townland  called  Tobar Ulltain 
in  the  parish  of  Killinkere,  in  the  barony  of 
Castlerahen,  and  county  of  Cavan,  and  not  far 
from  the  boundary  of  the  county  of  Meath. 
This  townland  contains  a  holy  well  dedicated  to 
St.  Ulltan,  which  was  formerly  visited  by  pil- 
grims ;  but  it  is  more  than  probable  that  Ma- 
geoghegan  is  right  in  making  the  Tobar  Ulltain, 
visited  by  King  John  on  this  occasion,  another 
name  for  Ardbraccan., — See  p.  162,  supra. 

w  Rathguaire  is  so  called  by  those  who  speak 
Irish  at  the  present  day,  but  anglicised  Rath- 
wire.  It  lies  in  the  parish  of  Killucan,  in  the 
east  of  the  county  of  Westmeath,  and  about 
three  miles  north  north-west  of  Kinnegad. — 
See  Circuit  of  Ireland  by  Muircheartach  Mac 
Neill,  published  by  the  Irish  Archffiological  So- 
ciety in  1841,  p.  49,  note  151.  The  castle  of 
Kathwire  is  thus  described  by  Sir  Henry  Piers 
in  1682,  in  his  Chorographical  Description  of 
the  County  of  Westmeath  :  "  Rathwire  is  the 


first  place  of  note  that  presents  itself  to  our 
view,  and  that  at  a  distance,  if  you  come  from 
the  east,  situate  in  the  barony  of  Farbill,  on  a 
high  rising  ground,  built  as  of  design  not 
to  overlook,  but  to  awe  the  whole  country  ; 
founded  (as  tradition  goes)  by  Sir  Hugh  deLacy, 
who  was  one  of  the  first  English  conquerors, 
and  fixed  in  this  country  in  or  very  near  the 
reign  of  Henry  the  Second.  It  seems,  by  what 
to  this  day  remains  of  the  ruins,  to  have  been  a 
strong,  well-built  fort,  for  the  manner  of  build- 
ing at  that  time  capacious  and  of  good  receipt ; 
now  only  remain  some  portions  of  the  outwalls 
and  heaps  of  rubbish." — Collectanea  de  Rebus 
Hibernicis,  p.  61.  See  also  a  notice  of  this  place 
at  the  year  1450,  where  it  is  mentioned  that 
this  town  was  plundered  and  burned  by  Ma- 
geoghegan.  There  is  scarcely  a  vestige  of  it  now 
remaining. 

*   GaU-Gaeh Of  this   people   O'Flaherty 

writes  as  follows :  "  Gallgaidelios  vero  existimo 
Gaidelios  insulas  Britanniae  adjacentes  turn  in- 
colentes,  Nam  Donaldum  filium  Thada?i  O  Brian, 
quern  Anno  Christi  1 075  Manniee,  ac  Insularum 


166  aNNata  rcioshachna  eiraectNN.  [1210. 


QO1S  C171OSO,  1210. 
Goip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceo,  a  Deich. 

Do  ceacc  co  caoluipcce.  Qo6  6  neill,  -|  Domnall  ua  Dorhnaill  Do 
cionol  cuca  50  po  mapbaic  leo  na  goill  im  henpi  mbecc.  Ro  poinnpioc  a 
nionnrhupa,  -]  a  neDala  pop  na  plojaibh. 

Uoippoelbach  mac  l?uaiopi  ui  concobaip  Do  Denarii  cpece  i  muij  luipcc, 
1  puce  Ifip  if  in  Sejaip  f  Do  paijhiD  Diapmaca  a  bpacap.  LuiD  Qo6  mac 
carail  ma  oeaohaiD  co  nDeachaiD  coippDelbac  ip  in  cuaipceapc  ap  ceicheo 
poimhe. 

bpaijhoe  Connachc  Do  coiDecc  i  nepinn,  concobap  JOD  o  hfjpa  cijeapna 
luishne,  i  Diapmaic  mac  concobaip  ui  maoilpuanaiD,  pionD  ua  capmacain, 
1  aipeaccach  mac  Donnchai6. 

ffluipcfpcach  muimhnech  mac  roippDealbaij  moip  Do  ecc. 

Coccab  mop  Do  eipje  eicip  Rij  Sa^an  -|  T?i  bpfcan,  ceacca  Do  cocr 
o  Righ  Sa^an  ap  cfno  an  jailleappuicc,  ~\  maire  jail  nepeann  imon  nsaill- 
eppcop  DO  'ool  po  cojaipm  T?igh  Sapcan,  "|  T?iocapD  DiuiD  Do  paccbail  ma 
jupcip  i  nepinn,  ~\  an  lupcip  Do  code  co  hdc  luain  ap  Dai^h  50  ccuippeao  a 

proceres  regni  sui  f>rotectorem  acceperunt,  Inse  place,  called  Henry  the  younger." 

Gall,  &   Gallgaedelu  regem    Hibernice   dictum  In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innis- 

reperio.     Hebrides  vero  sunt,  quas  nostri  Inse-  fallen  this  castle  is  said  to  have  been  built  by 

gall  dixerunt."  —  Ogygia,  c.  75,  p.  360.  Henry,   the  King  of  England's  son,  upon  an 

y  Cael-uisge,  i.  e.  narrow  water,  —  now  called  island   [recte  caol?]  of  Lough  Erne,  and  that 

Caol-na-h-Eirne,  —  is  that  part  of  Lough  Erne  he  -was  slain  by  O'Neill  and  Mac  Mahon. 

near  Castle  Caldwell,  where  the  lake  becomes  a  Mac  Donough  __  This  passage  is  copied  in- 

narrow.     No  remains   of  the   castle   are  now  correctly  by  the  Four  Masters,  from  mere  care- 

visible  ;  nor  does  it  appear  that  it  was  left  stand-  lessness  :  indeed  they  have  left  many  entries  im- 

ing  for  any  considerable  period.  perfect  throughout  their  compilation.    It  stands 

1  Henry  Beg.  —  This  passage  is  given  as  follows  more  correctly  in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  as 

in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  follows  : 

Clonmacnoise  :  "A.  D.  1211.  6pai^oe  Connacr  oo  coi^eacc 

"A.  D.  1210.  The  Castle  of  Keyleuskie  was  i  n  Gpmn  .1.  Oiapmaio   mac  Concutiaip  mic 

made  by  Gilbert  Mac  Cosdealvie"  [now  Costello],  Diapmuoa   pij  mui^e  luipc,   j   Concuoap  O 

"  O'Neale  came  with   his  forces  to  the  place,  heajpa  pi  luijni  7  pino  O  Capmacan,  7  coip- 

caused  them  to  desist  from  building  thereof,  beapo    mac    5a^5oet)1^-      Qipeacrac    mac 

killed  the  builders  with  the  constable  of  the  t)uinncaraig  occifup  epc. 


1210.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  16" 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1210. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  ten. 

The  English  came  to  Cael-uisgey.  Hugh  O'Neill  and  Donnell  O'Donnell, 
assembling  their  forces,  marched  thither,  and  slew  the  English,  together  with 
Henry  Begz,  and  distributed  their  goods  and  property  among  their  troops. 

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 
Tuitec  was  left  in  Ireland  as  Lord  Chief  Justice. 


"  A.  D.  1211.  The  hostages  of  Connaught  ar-  death  is  entered  as  follows:  "A.  D.  1210.  Mor- 
rived  in  Ireland,  viz.,  Dermot,  son  of  Conor  Mac  tagh  Moyneagh  mac  Terlagh,  Tanist,  or  next 
Dermot,  King  of  Moylurg;  Conor  O'Hara,  King  successor  of  the  kingdom  of  Connought,  died." 
of  Leyny;  Finn  O'Carmacan,  and  Torbert,  son  This  Murtough  Muimhneach  had  four  sons, 
of  the  Gall-Gael.  Aireaghtagh  Mae  Doncahy  namely,  Manus,  Conor  Roe,  Donough  Reagh,  and 
occisu-s  est."  Here  it  is  to  be  observed  that  the  Conor  Gearr,  who  raised  great  disturbances  in 
death  of  Aireaghtagh  is  a  distinct  entry,  and  Connaught  in  their  time. — See  the  Book  of 
has  nothing  to  do  with  the  account  of  the  re-  Lecan,  fol.  72,  et  sequen.,  and  Duald  Mac  Fir- 
turning  of  the  hostages.  The  list  of  these  hos-  bis's  Genealogical  Book,  Lord  Roden's  copy,  p. 
tages  is  given  correctly  by  the  Four  Masters  219- 
under  the  last  year.  c  Richard  Tuite. — This  is  a  mistake  of  the 

b  Murtough  Muimhneach,  i.  e.  the  Momonian,  Four  Masters,  for  Richard  Tuite  was  not  Lord 

so  called  because  he  was  fostered  in  Munster.  Justice  of  Ireland.     His  name  does  not  appear 

He  was  the  son   of  Turlough  More  O'Conor,  in  the  list  published  in  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's 

Monarch  of  Ireland  and  the  ancestor  of  the  war-  works,  vol.  ii.,  or  in  any  of  the  older  Irish  an- 

like  and  restless  clan   of  the  O'Conors  called  nals.     This  entry  is  given  as  follows  in   Ma- 

Clann  Muircheartaigh.     In  the  Annals  of  Clon-  geoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clon- 

nmcnoise,   as   trauslated    by  Mageoghegan,   his  macnoise,  which  is  more   correct  than   the  ac- 


168 


[1210. 


bpatchpe  co  luimnech,  50  pojic  laipje,  -|  co  loc  japman  i  co  mbiaoh  pfin  in 
Qchcliar,  -\  in  Qc  luain.  Oo  pala  Do  gup  po  cuicpfc  cloca  caiplen  aca  tuain 
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,  -|  caDj  mac  concobaip  TTlaonrhuije  Go  cocc 
cap  SionainD  anaip  ip  na  cuaraib,  ~]  Dpfm  Do  mumcip  anjaile  imaille  ppm 
1  puccpac  cpeich  leo  i  noicpeibh  cfineoil  Dobca.  Oo  cafo  GOD  mac  carail, 


count  of  the  transaction  manufactured  by  the 
Four  Masters:  "A.  D.  1210.  The  English 
Bushopp  that  was  Deputie  and  Richard  Tuite 
founded  a  stone  castle  in  Athlone,  wherein  there 
was  a  Tower  of  stone  built,  which  soon  after 
fell  and  killed  the  said  Richard  Tuite,  with  eight 
Englishmen  more.  My  author  sayeth  that  this 
befell  by  the  miracles  of  St.  Quaeran,  of  St. 
Peter,  and  St.  Paule,  upon  whose  Land  the  said 
Castle  was  built."  After  this  it  is  stated  that 
the  English  bishop  went  to  England.  The  An- 
nals of  Kilronan  also  state  that  the  bridge  of 
Athlone  was  erected  by  the  English  bishop  this 
year,  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- 
naught. 

The  fact  is,  that  the  Four  Masters  have  dis- 
arranged this  passage,  as  appears  by  the  original 
Irish  of  it  given  in  the  margin  of  Mageoghegan's 
translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise.  It 
is  as  follows:  Caiplen  cloice  t>o  benarii  ajj  ac 
luain  la  gallaiB  .1.  lap  an  njailleppoj,  7  la 
Riocupb  t)eUioe.  Cop  cloice  do  oeanarii  ipan 
caiplen,  yucuicim  copomapBRiocapb  7occap 
jallmuille  Fpip-i.  cpia  peupcaib  ciapain,  poll 
7  peabaip  pa  peapann  ap  a  noeapna6  an  caip- 
len  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  evident  from  the  older 


annals :  "  Previous  to  his  being  called  to  Eng- 
land, this  Lord  Justice  (John  de  Gray)  went  to 
Athlone  to  erect  a  castle  there,  that  he  might  send 
his  brothers  [or  relations]  to  Limerick,  Water- 
ford,  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  by  Turlough  More  O'Conor,  in 
the  year  1129.  But  it  happened,  through 
the  effects  of  the  anathema  pronounced  against 
this  warlike  bishop  by  the  Coarb  of  St.  Peter, 
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- 
guished of  his  barons,  as  also  Tuite's  chaplain, 
and  seven  other  Englishmen,  for  one  of  the  towers 
of  the  castle  fell,  and  overwhelmed  them  in  the 
ruins." 

This  Richard  Tuite  received  large  grants  of 
land  in  TefEa  in  Westmeath,  and  was  made 
baron  of  Moyashell.  His  pedigree  is  traced  by 
Mac  Firbis  to  Charlemagne,  but  upon  what  au- 
thority the  Editor  has  not  been  able  to  discover. 
Thus,  the  pedigree  of  Andrew  Boy  Tuite,  of  the 
castle  of  Money  lea,  near  Mullingar,  runs  as  fol- 
lows :  "  Andrew  Boy,  son  of  Walter,  son  of  An- 


1210.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


169 


The  Justice  went  to  Athlone,  with  the  intention  of  sending  his  brothers 
to  Limerick,  Waterford,  and  Wexford,  that  he  himself  might  reside  in  Dublin 
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  Tuathasd,  and  carried  a  prey  with  them  into  the  wilderness 
of  Kinel-Dofae.  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  John  Tuite,  son  of  the 
King  of  Denmark,  son  of  Drobard,  son  of  Richard, 
son  of  Luibincus,  or  Laniard,  son  of  Arcobal, 
son  of  Rolandus,  son  of  Oliver,  son  of  Carolus 
Magnus,  King  of  France. 

In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  is  the  following 
curious  account  of  the  affairs  of  Connaught 
at  this  period:  "A.  D.  1210.  Donough  Cair- 
breach  O'Brien  with  his  forces,  and  Geoffry 
Mares  with  his  forces,  composed  of  the  English 
of  Munster,  and  Hugh,  son  ofRoderic  O'Conor, 
joined  by  the  son  of  O'Flaherty,  marched  into 
Connaught  as  far  as  Tuam,  and  proceeding  thence 
to  Loch  na  n- Airneadh  in  Ciarraighe,  they  seized 
upon  great  preys,  and  remained  a  fortnight,  or 
nearly  twenty  nights,  in  Ciarraighe,  the  Con- 
nacians  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  Geoffry  Mares 
should  make  peace  between  O'Conor  and  the 
English  bishop.  This  was  accordingly  done, 


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  na  cuaraib. — There 
were  three  territories  of  this  name  on  the  west 
side  of  the  Shannon.  The  sentence  would  be  more 
correct  thus,  "oo  rocc  cap  Sionamo  aniap  ip 
na  cuaraiB,"  i.  e.  came  across  the  Shannon  west- 
wards into  the  Tuathas.  For  the  situation  and 
exact  extent  of  the  territory  called  the  Tuathas, 
in  the  county  of  Roscommon,  the  reader  is  re- 
ferred to  Tribes  and  Customs  ofHy-Many,  printed 
for  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society  in  1843,  p. 
90,  note  b,  and  the  map  prefixed  to  the  same. 
The  celebrated  mountain  anciently  called  SliuB 
bapna  na  o-Cuar,  now  Slieve  Baune,  extends 
through  the  Tuathas  from  north  to  south,  nearly 
parallel  with  the  Shannon.  The  word  cuaca  is 
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. 

'  Kinel-Dofa,  cenel  ooBra — This  was  in 
latter  ages  called  Doohy-Hanly,  from  its  chief, 
O'Hanly,  the  senior  of  the  Kinel-Dofa.  It 
was  the  ancient  name  of  a  territory  in  the 
present  county  of  Roscommon,  extending  along 
the  Shannon  from  Caradh  na-dtuath  (now 


170  aNNCtta  Rioshachca  eircecwN.  [1211. 

cpoibDfipcc  ina  nOiaiD,  -\  Do  beaprpac  DeabaiD  Oia  poile  -]  po  rheabaiD  ap 
rhacaibh  RuaiDpi  gup  po  cuipeaD  Dap  Sionamn  paip  DopiDipi  iarn  lap  ppacc- 
bail  t>aoine  -[  each. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1211. 
Goip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  cheD,  a  haon  noecc. 

Sicpiocc  ua  laijjendin  coriiapba  corhgaill  DO  ecc. 

Caiplen  cluana  heoaip  Do  Denarh  la  jallaib  ~\  lay  an  ngailleppoc,  -| 
cpfchpluaiccheab  Do  Denarh  leo  i  ccfp  eojain.  QoD  6  neill  Do  bpeic  oppa,  -\ 
po  ppaoineab  perhe  pop  jallaib,  -|  po  cuip  a  nap  im  TTlaoilip  mac  RobfpD. 

Uomap  mac  uccpaijh  50  macaib  TCajnaill  mic  Somaiplich  Do  cecc  co 
ooipe  coluim  cille  poipfnn  pe  long  peaccmojac,  ~\  an  baile  Do  opgain  -|  Do 
milleaD  leo.  LoDap  appiDe  co  himp  eojam,  i  po  millpfc  in  inpi  uile. 


called  Caranadoe  Bridge)  to  Drumdaff,  in  the 
southern  extremity  of  the  parish  of  Kilgefin.  It 
was  divided  from  Carcachlann,  or  Corca  Sheacli- 
lann,  the  country  of  Mac  Brannan,  by  the  ridge 
of  the  mountain  called  Slieve  Baune,  the  west- 
ern face  of  which  belonged  to  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 
boundary  between  them.  According  to  the 
most  intelligent  of  the  natives,  the  following  are 
the  townlands  of  this  mountain,  which  were  in 
Corcachlann,  viz. :  Aghadangan,  Corrowhawnagh 
(in  Bumlin  parish) ;  Cloonycarron,  Carry  ward, 
Ballymore,  Ballybeg  (in  Lissonuffy  parish) ;  Leck- 
an,  Aghalahard,  Eeagh,  Killultagh,  Aghaclogher 
(in  Cloonfinlough  parish).  All  the  other  town- 
lands  of  the  mountain  lying  east  of  these  be- 
longed to  Kinel-Dofa.  Treanacreeva  at  Scra- 
moge  Bridge  was  also  on  the  boundary  between 
both  territories. 

Kinel-Dofa,  or  O'Hanly's  country,  comprised 
the  following  parishes,  viz.,  the  entire  of  the 
parishes  of  Kilglass  and  Termonbarry,  Cloon- 
tuskert  and  Kilgefin  ;  one  townland  of  the  pa- 


rish of  Bumlin,  now  called  North  Yard  ;  the 
east  half  of  the  parish  of  Lissonuffy  (as  divided 
by  the  ridge  of  Slieve  Baune,  as  aforesaid).  The 
desert  or  wilderness  of  Kinel-Dofa  (in  which  St. 
Berach,  or  Barry,  founded  his  church  of  Cluain 
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  moun- 
taine  (Slieve  Bawn),  situate  most  upon  the  north- 
east side  of  it,  and  beyond  the  north  part  thereof, 
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- 
non, interspersed  here  and  there  with  some  little 
islands  of  profitable  land,  interrupted  one  from 
another  by  interpositions  of  the  said  bogs." 

O'Dugan  speaks  of  O'Hanly's  country  as  fol- 
lows: 

tDuraio  oo'n  pecroam  aipmjep, 

Cenel  ooBca  nolur  airhpeb; 

6!  coiriipeapc  um  cptoe 

dp  oipeacc  6  n-ainlije. 


1211.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


171 


was  fought  between  them,  in  which  the  sons  of  Roderic  were  defeated,  and 
again  driven  eastwards  across  the  Shannon,  leaving  some  of  their  men  and 
horses  behind. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1211. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  eleven. 

Sitric  O'Laighenainf,  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  the  sons  of  Randal  Mac  Sorleyg  came  to  Deny 
with  a  fleet  of  seventy-six  ships,  and  plundered  and  destroyed  the  town.  They 
passed  thence  into  Inishowen,  and  ravaged  the  entire  island  [recte  peninsula]. 


"  The  country  of  the  tribe  of  sharp  weapons 
Is  Kinel-Dofa  fast  and  uneven; 
There  dwells  affection  in  my  heart 
For  the  people  of  O'Hanly." 

The  following  pedigree,  as  given  by  Duald 
Mac  Firbis,  will  shew  how  O'Hanly  descends 
from  Dofa: 

Loughlin,  son  of 

Hugh,  or  Aedh,  who  was  the  son  of 

Conor,  or  Conchobhar. 

Donnell,  or  Domhnall. 

Ivor,  or  Imhar.  • 

I 
Donnell. 

Amlaff,  or  Amhlaoibh. 

i 
Ivor  mor. 

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  White  Steed. 

Raghnall,  who  fought  at  the  battle  of  Clontarf 


in  1014. 

i 


Morough,  or  Murchadh. 

Teige,  or  Tadhg. 

Donnell. 

Teige. 

Murtough,  or  Muircheartach. 

Anly,  or  Ainlighe,  a  quo  O'Hanly. 

Hurly,  or  Urthuile. 

Muldoon,  or  Maelduin. 

Cluthechar. 

Funis. 

Dofa,  or  Dobhtha,  the  progenitor  of  the  Kinel- 
Dofa,  and  from  whom  St.  Berach,  or  Barry, 
the  patron  saint  of  the  district,  was  the  fifth 
in  descent. 

Aengus. 

Ere  the  Bed. 

I 
Brian. 

Eochy  Muighmheodhain,  Monarch  of  Ireland 
in  the  fourth  century. 

f  0' ' Laighenain,  now  anglicised  Lynam. 

8  Mac  Sorley,  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. 

Cujaela  ua  heiDhin  Do  ecc. 

T?ajnailr  •)  Caillec  De  Df  injin  T?uai6pi  ui  Concobaip  DO  ecc. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1212. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceb,  a  DoDecc. 

Dpuimcaoin  cona  cfmpall  bo  loy>ccab  la  cenel  neojain  gan  cfo  Dua 
neill. 

pfpjal  ua  cacain  cijeapna  ciannacca  -]  pfp  na  cpaoibe  Do  mapbab  la 
jallaib. 

^illibepc  mac  joipDelbaij  Do  mapbab  i  ccaiplen  caoiluipcce,  -|  an 
caiplen  pfippin  Do  lopccab  la  hua  neiccnigh. 

Caiplen  cluana  heoaip  DO  lopccab  la  hGob  ua  neill,  •)  la  cuaipceapr 
epenn. 

Donnchab  ua  hfi&m  DO  ballab  la  hQob  mac  cacail  cpoibDeipj  gan  cfo 
Dua  concobaip. 

TTlaibm  caille  na  ccpann  DO  rabaipc  la  copbmac  mac  Qipc  ui  maoilfc- 

Sawairle  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  : 

Ulster.     Samhairle,  anglicised  Sorley,   was  a  "A.  D.  1211.  Cormack  mac  Art  O'Melaghlin 

name  very  common  among  the  Mac  Donnells  of  expelled  the  Englishmen   out   of  Delvyn,   and 

Scotland.     Thomas  Mac  Uchtry  was   Earl   of  gave  a  great  overthrow  to  a  company  of  Eng- 

Athol  in  Scotland,  and  the  son  of  Alan  de  Galla-  lishmen  that  were  left  to  defend  that  contrey, 

way.  in  which  discomfiture  Robertt  Dongomer,  their 

ti  Cael-uisge,  caol  uip^e,  i.  e.  narrow  water,  constable  and  chief  head,  was   slain,    together 

is  now  called  Caol  na  h-Eirne,  and  is  that  narrow  with  Gillernew  Mac  Coghlan,  the  Prince  of  Del- 

part  of  Lough  Erne  near  Castle  Caldwell.     No  vyn's  son." 

remains  of  the  castle  are  now  visible.  k  Baghnailt.  —  A  woman's  name,  corresponding 

1  Duncomar  —  This  passage  is  given  as  follows  with  the  man's  name  Raghnall,  or  Randall. 

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.  173 

An  army  was  led  by  the  Connacians,  at  the  summons  of  the  English  bishop 
and  Gilbert  Mac  Costello,  to  Assaroe ;  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  posses- 
sion of  that  territory,  and  killed  their  constable,  Robert  of  Duncomar1. 

Cugaela  O'Heyne  died. 

Raghnailtk  and  Caillech  Del,  two  daughters  of  Roderic  O'Conor,  died. 

.     THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1212. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  twelve. 

Drumquin™,  with  its  churches,  was  burned  by  the  Kinel-Owen,  without  the 
consent"  of  O'Neill. 

Farrell  O'Kane,  Lord  of  Kienaghta  and  Firnacreeva,  was  slain  by  the  Eng- 
lish. 

Gilbert  Mac  Costello  was  slain  in  the  castle  of  Cael-uisge ;  and  the  castle 
itself  was  burned  by  O'Hegny. 

The  castle  of  Clones0  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  victory  of  Caill-na-gcrannp  was  gained  by  Cormac,  the  son  of  Art 

appear  to  be  the  feminine  form  of  Cele  De,  which  dered  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of 

is  Latinized  Deicola  by  Giraldus  Cambrensis,  Ulster:  "A.  D.  1212.  Drumkyn  with  its  churche 

and  Anglicised  Culdee.  burnt  by  Kindred  Owen,  without  O'Neil's  li- 

m  Drumquin,  opuim  caoin — This  is  the  name  cence." 

of  a  townland  and  village  in  the  barony  of  Omagh,  °  Clones. — A  well-known  town  in  the  county 

in  the  county  of  Tyrone,  and  about  six  miles  to  of  Monaghan.     A  round  tower  and  large  stone 

the  west  of  the  town  of  Omagh — See  Ordnance  cross,   with   antique   ornaments,    and   now   or 

Map  of  Tyrone,  sheet  33.  lately  used  as  the  market  cross,  point  out  the 

n  Without  the  consent,  jan  c6ao   oua  neill,  antiquity  of  this  town. 

"  O'Nello  invito."     5an  ceab  Co  is  an  idiomatic          ' '  CaiU-na-gcran,  ccnll  na  ccpann,  written  coill 

expression,  generally  denoting  "  in  despite  of,"  no  ccpann,  in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  i.  e.  the 

or  "  in  defiance  of."     This  passage  is  thus  ren-  wood  of  the  [great]  trees This  place  is  now  called 


174  awwaca  Kio^hachca  eiReaww.  1212. 

lainn  -\  la  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  i  nDopup  peclep 
a  Doipe. 

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. 
an  jiolla  piabach  roipeac  cloinne  Snfibjile  -]  cloinne  pinjin.  TCucc  imoppoo 
caipcfipc  poppa,  -]  pfpaib  Deabaib  ppiu  -]  mapbcap  6  bub  ofipin  ag  cop- 
namh  a  einigh. 

Ceach  Do  gabdil  la  Diapmaic  mac  17uaibpi  ui  Concobaip  pop  Gob  mac 
TTlajnupa  uf  Concobaip  hi  ccill  colmain  pinn  hi  ccopann  gup  po  loipccic 
cuicc  pip  becc  ap  picir  ann. 

TTlaiDm  Do  cabaipc  DO  bomnall  mac  Domnaill  bpfjaij  i  maoilfchlainn 
pop  copbmac  Ua  maoileachlamn  Du  in  po  mapbab  jiolla  cpiopD  mac  coljan 
co  pocaibe  ele  amaille  ppip. 

Oomnall  mac  Domnaill  ui  maoileaclainn  Do  mapbab  ap  cpfic  la  muincip 
TTlaoilip. 

Sluaicceab  la  gallaib  TTluman  50  Ropcpe  50  nDeapnpac  caiplen  ann. 

Kilmore,  or  Great  Wood,  and  is  situated  in  the  and  were  thus  translated,  in  the  year  1627,  by 

parish  of  Killoughy,  barony  of  Bally  boy,  and  Connell  Mageoghegan  of  Lismoyny,  who  knew 

King's  County. — See  Ordnance  Map  of  that  coun-  this  place  well: 

ty,  sheet  24.  The  name  Coill  na  g-orann  has  been          "A.  D.  1211.  The  English  Bushop  came  over 

long  obsolete,  but  we  have  the  clearest  evidence  into  this  land  again,  and  was  Deputie  thereof, 

to  prove  its  situation  and  modern  name.     Thus,  and  went,  with  all  the  English  forces,  of  Ireland 

the  writer  of  the  old  Irish  story  called  the  Bat-  to  Cloneis,  in  the  north,  where  he  built  a  castle, 

tie  of  Moylena  (Cath  Maighe  Lena),  in  describing  The  English  Bushop  sent  certain  of  the  army  to 

the  rout  oftheMunster  forces  coming  to  the  Magmahon's  Land  to  take  the  preys  of  the  Land; 

battle  field  of  Moylena,  which  is  about  two  miles  they  were  overtaken  and  mett  by  Magmahon, 

to   the  north  of  Tullamore,   states  that  they  [who]  slew  divers  of  them  about  Myler  mac 

marched  by  Coill  na  g-crann,  which  was  then,  Eobert,  and  Myler  himself,  and  divers  of  the 

he  says,  called  Coill  Mhor   (or  Great  Wood).  Englishmen  of  Lynster,  took  and  caused  them 

But,  if  we  had  no  other  evidence,  the  following  to  leave  the  prey  and  horses,  and  gave   them 

passage  in  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  would  be  many  fierce  onsetts  as  well  by  night  as  by  day 

sufficient  to  shew  the  situation  and  modern  name  from  thence  forward. 

of  this  place.  In  these  annals  the  above  passages          "  The  said  Deputie  came  from  thence  to  Lyn- 

are  given  more  fully  than  by  the  Four  Masters,  ster,  and  sent  for  the  forces  of  Munster,  who 


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. 

Donough  Mac  Canii,  Chief  of  Kinel-Aengusaq,  died. 

Donnell  O'Devine  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Mac  Loughlin  in  the  doorway  of 
the  abbey-church  of  Derry. 

A  prey  was  taken  by  Gillafiaclagh  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'. 

Dermot,  the  son  of  Koderic  O'Conor,  forcibly  took  the  house  of  Hugh, 
the  son  of  Manus  O'Conor,  at  Kilcolman-Finns,  in  Corran.  Thirty-five  men  were 
burned  in  the  house  on  this  occasion. 

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  slain,  while  on  a  predatory 
excursion,  by  the  people  of  Meyler. 

An  army  was  led  by  the  English  of  Munster  to  Roscrea,  where  they  erected 

came  accordingly,  with  Donnogh  Carbreagh  honic  legal  phrase,  occurs  very  frequently 
O'Bryen,  and  marched  with  all  their  forces  to  throughout  the  Irish  annals.  This  passage  is 
Killnegrann  in  Ffercall,  now  called  Kilmore,  rendered  as  follows  in  the  old  translation  of  the 
where  they  were  met  by  Cormac  mac  Art  Annals  of  Ulster:  "  A.  D.  1212.  An  army  by 
O'M,elaghlyn,  who  discomfitted  them,  where  Gillafiaglagh  O'Boyle,  and  some  of  Kindred  Con- 
t.hey  left  all  their  cowes,  horses,  gold,  silver,  nell,  vppon  Tirowen,  being  in  protection  with 
and  pther  things  to  the  said  Cormack."  the  Conells  and  especially  of  O'Tirchirt"  [7  par 
11  Kind-Aengusa — This  is  anglicised  Kindred  ap  emec  ceneoil  conaill  uile  7  hui  raipcepe 
Eneas  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  co  j-onpaoacj.  "  O'Tirchert  came  uppon  them, 
Ulster.  It  was  the  tribe  name  of  the  Mac  Canns  fought  with  them,  where  Gillariavagh  O'Tir- 
and  their  correlatives,  who  were  seated  in  the  chert  was  slayne,  King  of  Snedgaile  and  Clan- 
present  county  of  Armagh,  where  the  Upper  fynin,  in  saving  his  credit." 

Bann  enters  Lough  Neagh.     There  were  several          «  Kikdman-Finn,  cill  Colmdm  F'nn This 

other  tribes  of  this  name  in   the  province  of  is  certainly  the  present  Kilcolman,  an  old  church 

Ulster,  as  well  as  in  other  parts  of  Ireland.  near  Ballaghaderreen,  in  the  barony  of  Costello, 

While  defending  his  guarantee,  aS  cornam  and  county  of  Mayo ;  but  it  is  at  least  nine  miles 

a  emij,  while  defending  those  whom  he  had  from  the  nearest  boundary  of  the  present  barony 

guaranteed  to  protect — This,  which  is  a  Bre-  of  Corran,  in  the  county  of  Sligo.     The  festival 


176 


[1213. 


dppaiDe  50  cill  achaiD  50  puce  TTluipcfpcac  mac  bpiain  oppa  cona  ploij  50 
ccapo  oeabaiO  ooib.  17o  loireaoh  TTlaoileachlainn  mac  carail  cappaijj  gup 
bo  mapb  tna  jonaib. 

QO1S  CR1OSD,  1213. 
Goip  Cpiopb,  mile,  Da  cecc,  a  cpi  Decc. 

fillet  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,  ~\  ap  gac  maic  apcfna 
[DO  ecc]. 

Comap  mac  uchrpaigh  -j  Puaiopi  mac  Rajnaill  DO  opccain  ooipe 
coluim  cilli  -|  DO  bpeich  peoD  rhumcipe  Doipe,  -\  ruaipcipc  6peann  apcfna  a 
lap  cfmpaill  an  T?ecclepa,  -|  a  mbpfic  leo  50  cuil  paicin. 


of  St.  Colman  Finn,  or  Column  the  Fair,  is 
marked  in  the  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys  at 
the  4th  of  April. 

c  Killeigh,  cill  acaio,  anciently  called  cill 
acaio  opoma  FODai  and  referred  to  in  the 
Feilire  Aenguis,  at  25th  of  June,  as  in  Ui 
Failghe. — It  is  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 
of  a  great  abbey,  and  also  a  holy  well  dedicated 
to  the  two  St.  Sinchells.  This  place  is  to  be 
distinguished  from  Killoughy  in  the  barony  of 
Ballyboy,  in  the  same  neighbourhood.  The 
Murtough,  son  of  Brian,  who  opposed  the  Eng- 
lish here,  was  son  of  Brian  Breifneach  O'Connor, 
who  died  in  1 1 84. 

It  is  to  be  suspected  that  this  entry  refers  to 
the  same  event  as  that  already  given  under  the 
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 


found  them  entered  in  different  forms  and  under 
different  years  in  the  compilations  of  more  ancient 
writers.  The  present  entry  is  given  somewhat 
differently  in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the 
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- 
est forces  took  their  journey  to  Killnegrann  in 
Ffercall,  where  they  were  mett  by  Cormack 
mac  Art  O'Melaghlyn,  and  were  quite  over- 
thrown by  Cormack,  with  a  slaughter  of  the 
chiefest  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- 
beggan,  and  the  place  called  Bealagh-monie-ne- 
Sirrhyde.  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. 


177 


a  castle.  From  thence  they  proceeded  to  Killeigh',  where  they  were  overtaken 
by  Murtough,  the  son  of  Brian  [O'Conor],  and  his  army,  who  gave  them 
battle ;  in  which  Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Cathal  Carragh  [O'Conor]  received 
wounds  of  which  he  died". 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1213. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  thirteen. 

Gilla-na-naev  O'Rowan,  Bishop  of  Leyny,  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. 

u  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise 
record  the  death  of  William  Petitt,  and  contain 
the  two  entries  following,  which  the  Four  Mas- 
ters have  very  much  shortened : 

"  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, 
where  were  killed  Gillechrist  mac  Murrough 
Macoghlan,  and  Donslevey  mac  Connor  O'Me- 
laghlyn, with  many  others. 

"  Donnell  mac  Donnell  Bregagh  O'Melaghlyn, 
next  in  succession  of  Meath  and  Irish  of  Ire- 
land, made  a  journey  to  take  a  prey  from  Mey- 
ler,  was  overtaken  by  Meyler  himself,  and  great 
forces  of  both  English  and  Irishmen,  who  killed 
the  said  Donnell  with  many  others  with  him,  at 
the  River  of  Rahan  in  Ffercall." 

w  Died. — This  passage  is  thus  translated  by 
Colgan :  "  Anmirus  O'Cobhthaich,  Abbas  Do- 


rensis,  vir  sapientia,  religione,  mansuetudine,  et 
eleemosynis  selectissimus,  obiit." — TriasT/iaum., 
p.  505.  In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of 
Ulster,  the  character  of  this  Ainmire  O'Coffey 
is  thus  given  :  "  A  noble  ecclesiastic,  distin- 
guished for  his  piety,  descent,  meekness,  majesty, 
mildness,  charity,  and  every  other  goodness, 
post  optimum  penitentiam  ingressus  est  mam  uni- 
verse carnis  in  Dubrecles  Coluim  Cille." 

*  Coleraine,  cuil  jiuirin,  now  locally  but  cor- 
ruptly called  in  Irish  ctip-parain,  but  more  cor- 
rectly anglicised  Coleraine.  This  name  is  trans- 
lated "  Secessus  jilicis,"  in  the  Tripartite  Life  of 
St.  Patrick,  lib.  ii.  c.  1 36,  published  by  Colgan  in 
his  Trias  Thaum.,  where  its  situation  is  distinctly 
pointed  out  as  "  in  aquilonari  Banncei  fluminis 
margined  i.  e.  on  the  north  (eastern)  side  of  the 
River  Bann.  Colgan,  who  was  well  acquainted 
with  the  situation  of  places  in  the  north  of  Ire- 
land, shews  that  Cuilraithin  is  the  place  now 
called  Coleraine:  "  civitas  Dcdriedm  seu  Reuta, 


2  A 


178  aNNatct  Rio^hachca  emecmN.  [1213. 

Ua  caram,  -|  pip  na  qiaoibe  DO  reacr  50  Doipe  Do  gabail  cighe  ap 
macaibh  meg  lachlainn.  l?o  mapbab  celloip  mop  Recclepa  Doipe  fcoppa 
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  cille  i  noopup  in  Duibpecclepa. 

Caiplen  cuite  Rarain  Do  benarii  la  romap  mac  ucrpaij  -|  la  gallaib 
ulab,  1  po  pccaoileab  pelcce,  ~\  cuphoaijjce  an  baile  uile  Do  cum  an  caiplein 
pin  cenmoca  an  cfmpall. 

Qo6  ua  neill  Do  cabaipr  ma&ma  ap  jallaib  -\  po  la  a  nofpccap,  -\  po 
loipcceab  beop  laip  an  capplongpopc  ipm  16  ceccna  eicnp  Daoimbh,  -\ 
inDibbh. 

Donn  6  bpfiplem  caoipeac  pdnarc  Do  mapbab  Da  Thuinnp  pfin  i  meabail. 

pionD  ua  bpolcdin  maop  i  bomnaill  (.1.  Domnall  mop)  Do  bol  i  cconnac- 
caib  DO  cuinjib  cfopa  f  bomnaill.  Ctppeab  Do  coib  cecnup  co  caipppe 
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  corh- 
aipleicc  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 
lappin  ap  lomjabail  uf  bomnaill  hi  ccloinn  17iocaipo.  lap  na  piop  pin  oLla 
Dorhnaill  DO  ponab  leipcionol  ploij  laip  ma  Deaohaib,  ~|  nf  po  aipip  co  painicc 

Culraine  vulgo  dicta." — Trias  Thaum.,  p.  183,  nor  vicar." 

col.  2,  note  127.  a  Castle — This  passage  is  thus  rendered  in 

i  O'Karw — In  the  old  translation  of  the  An-  the  old  translation  of  the  Ulster  Annals : 

nals  of  Ulster  this  passage  is  rendered  thus:  "  A.  D.  1213.  The  castle  of  Cailrathan,  built 

"  O'Kathan  and  the  men  of  Kriv  came  to  Dyry  by  Thomas  Mac  Ugh  try  and  Galls  of  Vlster,  and" 

to  take  house  vppon  the Maglaghlans,  and  killed  [they]  "broke  down  all  the  stones,  pavements, 

between  them  the  great  Caller  of  the  Church  of  and  fences,  of  all  the  town  for  that   work,   the 

Dyry.      God  and  Columkille   shewed   a  great  church  only  excepted." 

miracle,  viz.,  the  gatherer  and  bringer,  Mahon  The  Irish  text  is  thus  given  in  the  Dublin 

Magaithne,  [was]  killed  at  Columkill  his  prayer  copy  of  the  same  annals: 

justly  in  the  church  doore."  Caipcel  cula  pacain  DO  oenutn  le  Comaf 

1  Prior,  celloip  in  the  original.     It  is  thus  mac  uccpai£  -j  le  jallaib  Ulao  7  po  pcaileo 

explained  in  O'Brien's  Dictionary.  "  Cealloir,  the  peilce   7  clacana   7   cumoaici    in    baile   uile 

superior  of  a  cell  or  monastery;  ex.,  ni  cealloip  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 
of  the  son  of  Mac  Loughlin.  The  great  prior2  of  the  abbey  church  of  Derry, 
who  interposed  to  make  peace  between  them,  was  killed.  God  and  St. 
Columbkille  wrought  a  miracle  on  this  occasion ;  for  Mahon  Magaithne,  the 
person  who  had  gathered  and  mustered  the  army,  was  killed  in  the  doorway 
of  the  church  of  Duvregles,  in  revenge  of  Columbkille. 

The  castle1  of  Coleraine  was  erected  by  Thomas  Mac  Uchtry,  and  the  Eng- 
lish 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. 

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  Con- 
naught  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 
Lissadillc ;  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 
do  so).  The  poet,  being  enraged  at  his  conduct,  seized  a  very  sharp  axe,  and 
dealt  him  a  blow  which  killed  him  on  the  spot,  and  then,  to  avoid  O'Donnell, 
he  fled  into  Clanrickard.  When  O'Donnell  received  intelligence  of  this,  he 
collected  a  large  body  of  his  forces,  and  pursued  him  to  Derrydonnelld  in 

town  in  the  barony  of  Lower  Dundalk,   and  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  or  in  the  Annals  of  Kil- 

county  of  Louth.     This  passage  is  rendered  as  ronan. 

follows  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  c  Lissadill,  liap  a  ooill,  i.  e.  the  Lit,  or  fort 

Ulster  :  of  the  blindman ;  it  is  situated  in  the  south- 

"  A.  D.  1213.  Hugh  O'Neile  broke  of  the  Galls,  west  of  the  barony  of  Carbury,  near  the  Bay  of 

and  had  a  great  slaughter  of  them,  and  burnt  the  Sligo.  On  an  old  map  of  the  coast  of  the  counties 

Cairlongfort  the  same  day,  both  men  and  cattle."  of  Mayo,  Sligo,  and  Donegal,  made  in  the  reign  of 

The  same  work  gives  the  following  entry  im-  Elizabeth  or  James  I.,  preserved  in  the  State 

mediately  after  the  foregoing:  Papers'  Office,  London,  Lissadill  is  marked  as  a 

"  John,  King  of  England,  gave  England  and  castle. 

Ireland  into  the  Pope's  hands,  and  the  Pope  sur-  d  Derrydonnell,  Doipe  ui  borhnaill,  i.  e.  Robo- 

rendered  them  to  himself  againe,  and  1000  marks  return  Odonnelli. — A   townland  containing  the 

to  him,  and  after  every  yeare  700  out  of  Eng-  ruins  9?  a  castle  in  the  parish  of  Athenry,  and 

land,  and  300  out  of  Ireland."  about  three  miles  to  the  east  of  Oranmore,  in 

But  this  passage  is  not  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  county  of  Galway.     The  territory  of  Clan- 

2  A  2 


183  awwata  raioshachca  eiRecmw.  [1213. 

Doipe  i  Dorhnaill  i  ccloinn  Riocaipo,  cona6  ua6  po  jab  ammniuccab,  ap  a 
b'eic  aDhaib  longpoipc  ann.  l?o  jab  pop  cpeaclopccab  an  cfpe  gup  bo  piapac 
TTlac  uilliam  Do  po  bfoib,  -|  co  po  biocuip  Tlluipfbhac  Dia  comaipje  i 
rcuabrhurham.  Oo  raeo  ua  Dorhnaill  ma  biuib,  -\  geibib  pop  inopab,  •]  op- 
ccam  na  cpiche  ipin  copop  accuip  oonnchab  caipbpec  ua  bpiain  TTluipfohac 
ua6a  i  nucc  mumcipe  Immnij.  Ro  Ifn  ua  Dorhnaill  e  co  Dopup  luimni j,  -j 
baf  i  ppopbaippi  i  hi  bpoplonjpopc  ag  mom  ui  borhnaill  conab  ua6  ainnimjh- 
cfp.  Ro  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 
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 
noorhnaill,  -\  ba  he  an  cpeap  Dan  Dibh  pmhe,  Q  bomhnaill  Deablarh  po 
pich,  •=[c.  Do  paoaoh  pich  Dopomh  ap  a  abmolcaibh,  -|  gabaib  O  Dorh- 
naill ma  rhuincfpap  e  mporh,  i  DO  paD  popba,  i  pfpann  DO  peib  po  ba  oaca 
laip. 

Cpeach  la  Copbmac  ua  maoileachlamn  pop  caiplen  chinn  claip  50  po 

rickard  comprised  six  baronies  in  the  county  of  ploring  his  protection.     It  begins,  cpeao  ajaib 

Galway,  namely,  Leitrim,  Loughreagh,  Dunkel-  001615  a  ^cem?  i.  e.  "What  brings  a  guest 

lin,  Killartan,  Clare,  andAthenry — See  Tribes  to  you  from  afar?"     In  this  poem  (of  which 

and  Customs  of  Hy-Many,  printed  for  the  Irish  there  is  a  good  copy  on  paper  in  the  Library  of 

Archaeological  Society  in  1843,  pp.  17,  18;  and  the  Royal  Irish  Academy),  the  poet  calls  him- 

Map  to  the  same,  on  which  boipe  ui  oorhnaill  is  self  O'Daly  of  Meath  (see  note  n,  under  the  year 

shewn  due  east  of  the  town  of  Galway,  and  on  1185,  pp.  66,  67),  and  states  that  he  was  wont 

the  boundary  between  the  territories  of  Clann  to  frequent  the  courts  of  the  English,  and  to 

Fergaile  and  Hy-Many ;  see  also  Ordnance  Sur-  drink  wine  from  the  hands  of  kings  and  knights, 

vey  of  the  county  of  Galway,  sheet  95.  of  bishops  and  abbots;  that,  not  wishing  to  re- 

e  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  of  Conn,  he  fled  to  one  who,  with  his  mail-clad 

Lord  to  whom  King  Henry  III.  granted  the  warriors,  was  able  to  protect  him  against  the 

province  of  Connaught  in  the  year  1225.     On  fury  of  the  King  of  Derry  and  Assaroe,  who 

this  occasion  O'Daly  addressed  a  poem  to  De  had  threatened  him  with  his  vengeance,  though 

Burgo,  stating  the  cause  of  his  flight,  and  irn-  indeed  the  cause  of  his  enmity  was  but  trifling, 


1213.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  181 

Clanrickard, — a  place  which  was  named  from  him,  because  he  encamped  there 
for  a  night ; — and  he  proceeded  to  plunder  and  burn  the  country,  until  at  last 
Mac  William6  submitted  to  him,  having  previously  sent  Murray  to  seek  for 
refuge  in  Thomond.  O'Donnell  pursued  him,  and  proceeded  to  plunder  and 
ravage  that  country  also,  until  Donough  Cairbreach  O'Brien  sent  Murray 
away  to  the  people  of  Limerick.  O'Donnell  followed  him  to  the  gate  of  Lime- 
rick, and,  pitching  his  camp  at  Monydonnell  (which  is  named  from  him),  laid 
siege  to  that  town-,  upon  which  the  people  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,  having  first  traversed  and 
completed  the  visitation  of  all  Connaught.  He  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  in  praise  of  O'Donnell,  imploring  peace  and  forgive- 
ness from  him.  The  third  of  these  poems  is  the  one  beginning,  "  Oh!  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  the  castle  of  Kinclaref,  burned  the  bawn, 

for  that  the  fugitive  had  only  killed  a  plebeian  of  his  house  and  its  inmates, — calls  him  the  chief 

his  people  who  had  the  audacity  to  affront  him !  of  the  English,   the  lord  of  Leinster,  the  King 

becij  ap  Bpala  pip  an  Bpeap,  of  Connaught,   the  proprietor  of  the  forts  of 

baclac  oo  b'eir  oom  cameao,  Croghan,  of  Tara,  of  Mac  Coisi's  wall  of  stone, 

jni  DO  rhuptiab  an  riio£a6;  and  of  Mur  mic  an  Duinn,  then  called  Caislen 

a  6e  1  an  doBap  anpolao  ?  Ui  Chonaing,— and  hints  that  he  might  yet  invite 

the  poets  of  the  five  provinces  to  his  house.  He 
"  Small  is  our  difference  with  the  man,  ,  .,  ._.  ,  •,,,,..  ,  i  c  i 

then  tells  Rickard  that  whatever  deeds  of  valour 
A  shepherd  was  abusing  me,  , 

any  one  may  have  achieved,  he  cannot  be  truly  re- 
And  I  killed  that  clown  :  T 

nowned  without  protecting  the  venerable  or  the 
O  (rod!  is  this  a  cause  for  enmity?  •,  f 

feeble;  and  that  he  now  has  an  opportunity  ot 

He  calls  upon  the  puissant  knight  Rickard,  making  himself  illustrious  by  protecting  O'Daly 

the  son  of  AVilliam,  to  respect  the  order  of  the  of  Meath,  a  poet,  whose  verses  demand  attention, 

poets,  who  are  never  treated  with  harshness  by  and  who  throws  himself  on  his  generosity.     He 

chieftains,  and  to  protect  the  weak  against  the  concludes  by  reminding  him  of  his  duties  as  King 

strong.     He  next  bestows  some  verses  of  pane-  of  the  famous  province  of  Connaught. 
gyric  upon  him, — describes  the  splendour  of         f  OfKindare,  chmn  clcnp. — This  name  is  now 


182 


[1213. 


loipcc  an  babbDun,  -|  50  paoirhib  po]i  na  sallaib  co  rcuccab  eic  -]  eirce 
lomba  uacha. 

TDoppluaijeab  la  gallaib  Gpeann  bionnpaicchib  Copbmaic  mic  Qipr  gup 
compaicpior  ace  bpoichfc  cine,  peachap  lomaipfcc  fcoppa,  -]  po  riieabaib 
pop  rhac  aipr,  ~\  Do  pocaip  l?uaibpi  ua  ciapba  ip  in  beabaib  pin,  -\  po 
ofocuipeab  mac  Qipn  a  oealbna,  -|  po  haipccfoh  a  rhuinnp.  Do  coibpioc  na 
50111.50  hoc  luain,  -\  t»o  ponab  caiplen  leo  ann.  Do  ponpar  bfop  caiplen 
cinneicij,  caiplen  bioppae,  -\  caiplen  bnpmaije.  • 

Cpeach  la  copbmac  mac  Ctipc  i  nbealbna  co  po  aipcc  TTlaoilpeachlainn 
bfcc  -\  50  po  lonnapb  ap  an  cfp.  l?o  mapb  once  uilliam  TTluilinn,  q  po  jab 
pfm  cigfpnap  bealbhna. 


obsolete,  but  the  situation  of  the  place  is  dis- 
tinctly pointed  out  in  Mageoghegan's  translation 
of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  in  which  it  is 
stated  that  it  was  originally  called  Claire  Ath- 
moynie,  and  situated  to  the  west  of  Lismoyny 
(which  was  the  name  of  Mageoghegan's  own 
house),  and  is  still  that  of  a  townland  in  the  pa- 
rish of  Ardnurcher,  orHorseleap,  in  the  barony 
of  Moycashel,  county  of  Westmeath See  Ord- 
nance Map  of  that  county,  sheet  37.  The  trans- 
actions of  the  O'Melaghlins  in  this  year  are 
given  in  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  as  follows: 

"A.  D.  1213.  Cormack  mac  Art  O'Melaghlyn 
took  a  great  prey  from  the  town  of  Ardinurcher, 
and  the  next  morrow  after  took  the  spoyles  of 
the  Castle  of  Ardinurcher,  and  markett  of  the 
same;  he  tooke  many  other  small  preys  and 
booties. 

"  The  said  Cormack  mac  Art  tooke  a  prey 
from  the  Castle  of  Kyimclare,  together  with 
the  spoiles  of  the  Bawne  and  Markett  of  the 
said  town,  and  also  killed  many  of  the  English- 
,  men,  that  they  left  him  twenty-eight  horses, 
with  eight  other  harnished  horses,  and  shirts  of 
Mail,  and  burnt  many  men  in  the  said  town,  [and] 
returned  to  his  own  house  without  loss.  All  the 
forces  of  the  English  of  Ulster,  Munster,  Lyn- 
ster,  and  Meath,  together  with  all  the  Irish 


forces  that  owed  service  to  the  King  of  England 
throughout  all  the  provinces  and  parts  of  Ire- 
land, assembled,  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 
couragiously  withall,  where  four  principall  men  of 
the  said  Cormack's  army  were  slain,  as  Eowrie 
O'Kiergy,  and  others.  The  English  army  came 
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  [expedi- 
tion]." 

"  Cormack  mac  Art  O'Melaghlyn  wentto  Ath- 
boye"  [Ballyboy]  "  and  there  devised  a  strata- 
gem to  make  the  Ward  come  out  of  the  Castle, 
and  killed  ten  of  them  immediately,  and  took  all 
theirs  and  spoyles  of  the  towne  with  him.  Soone 
after  he  departed  the  contrey,  and  came  after  a 
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, 
killed  the  knight  called  William  Moylyn,  and 
took  the  possession  of  the  country  again  against 
them. 

"  Cormack  mac  Art  tooke  the  spoyles  of  the 


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ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


183 


and  defeated  the  English,  and  carried  away  from  them  many  horses  and 
accoutrements. 

The  English  of  Ireland  led  a  great  army  against  Cormac,  the  son  of  Art 
[O'Melaghlin].  They  met  him  at  the  bridge  of  Tines,  where  a  battle  was  fought 
between  them,  in  which  the  son  of  Art  was  defeated,  and  Rory  O'Keary  was 
killed.  The  son  of  Art  was  then  banished  from  Delvin,  and  his  people  were 
plundered.  The  English  then  went  to  Athlone,  where  they  erected  a  castle. 
They  also  erected  the  castle  of  Kinnityh,  the  castle  of  Birr1,  and  the  castle  of 
Durrowk. 

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  himself1. 


Castle  of  Smerhie,  together  with  all  the  cowes, 
horses,  and  other  cattle  in  the  towne,  was  over- 
taken and  fought  withall  by  the  English  of  the 
towne,  where  the  English  forces  were  over- 
thrown, three  of  their  knights  slain,  with  their 
Constable  and  Cheif  man,  and  Cormack  broght 
himself,  men,  and  prey  home  salfe  and  sound." 

g  Bridge  of  Tine,  opoichec  Cine. — This  name 
would  be  anglicised  Drehidtinny.  It  must  have 
been  the  name  of  some  old  wooden  bridge  on  the 
Brosna  or  on  the  Silver  Kiver  ;  but  there  is  no 
bridge  or  place  at  present  bearing  the  name  in 
the  King's  County,  or  in  the  county  of  West- 
meath.  The  name  Tinnycross,  a  townland  in  the 
parish  of  Kilbride,  barony  of  Ballycowan,  and 
King's  County,  would  seem  to  retain  a  portion 
of  this  name,  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 
bearing  any  analogy  to  opoichec  Cine. 

h  Kinnity,  cenn  eicij,  i.  e.  the  head  of  Etech, 
so  called,  according  to  a  note  in  the  Feilire 
Aenguis,  at  the  Yth  of  April,  from  Etech,  an 
ancient  Irish  heroine,  whose  head  was  interred 
here — It  is  the  name  of  a  townland  and  parish 
in  thu  barony  of  Bally  brit,  in  the  King's  County. 


'  Birr,  bioppa. — Now  generally  called  Par- 
sonstown,  from  the  family  name  of  the  present 
noble  and  distinguished  proprietor,  Lord  Ross. 
This  name  is  explained  by  O'Clery  as  "  a 
watery  plain,"  thus:  6ioppae  .1.  maj  uipje: 
oip  ap  lonann  bip  7  uir^e  :  lonann  pop  pae  7 
ma£.  "  Biorra,  i.  e.  a  plain  of  water  :  for  bir 
means  water  ;  and  me  means  a  plain."  A  mo- 
nastery was  founded  here,  according  to  the  Irish 
Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys,  by  St.  Brendan,  the 
son  of  Neman,  who  died  on  the  29th  of  Novem- 
ber, A.  D.  572. 

k  Durroie,  oupmcn j.  —  A  castle  had  been 
finished  at  this  place  by  Sir  Hugh  de  Lacy,  the 
elder,  so  early  as  the  year  1186.  In  the  Annals 
of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Connell  Ma- 
geoghegan,  it  is  stated,  more  correctly,  that  the 
English  on  this  occasion  "  finished  and  aided  the 
Castles  of  Dorrowe,  Byrre,  and  Kynnety." 

1  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise 
state,  that  Finn  O'Dempsey,  and  his  brother 
Donough,  were  most  deceitfully  taken  by  Gef- 
frey March  [De  Marisco],  who  conveyed  Finn 
to  Dublin,  where  he  was  bound  to  a  horse's  tail, 
and  so  dragged  through  all  the  streets,  and  after- 
wards hanged. 


184  QNNaca  Rio^hachca  eircectNN.  [1215. 


aois  crcioso,  1214. 

Goip  Cpiopo,  mile,  Da  ceo,  a  ceachaip  Decc. 

Qn  ceppcop  6  ceatlaij  .1.  eappcop  6  ppiacpach  Do  ecc. 

Qpojap  ua  concobaip  eppcop  pfl  TTluipfDaij  Do  ecc. 

6fnmi6e  injfn  eccnigh  bfn  ao&a  uf  neill  bamcijeapna  oilij;  Decc  lap 
nDfijbfchaib. 

Cpeach  t»o  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  ciccfpna  TTluije  luipcc,  cuip  opDam 
Connachc  DO  ecc. 

bpian  mac  T?uai6pi  f  plairbfpraig  mac  ciccfpna  lapraip  Connachc 
DO  ecc. 

Cpeach  cpiche  caipppe  Do  Denam  la  hualgapcc  ua  puaipc  ap  pi  lip  mac 
joipoelbaij  co  puce  bu  lomba  laip. 

Q018  CR10SO,  1215. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  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  in  ecclaip  lacepanenpip. 

m  Bishop  of  Hy-Fiachrack,  eaypoj  ua  ppiac-  "  6rnmioe  injen  hi  Gicnic  .1.  bfn  Oeoa  hi  neill, 

pach  —  He  was  Bishop   of  the  Hy-Fiachrach  .1.  pi  Oilij,  in  bona  penitentia  quieuit." 

Aidhne,  whose  country  was  co-extensive  with  °  Elagh,  oileach  —  This  was  one  of  the  four 

the  diocese  of  KilmacduagTi.    He  could  not  have  royal  palaces   of  Ireland,    and   its    ruins    are 

been  bishop   of  the   northern    Hy-Fiachrach,  situated  on  a  hill  about   six  miles   north   of 

or  Killala,  as  Corrnac  O'Tarpaidh  was  bishop  of  Derry.      Colgan   thus    speaks   of  it   in    Trias 

that  see  from  1207  to  1226  —  See  Harris's  Edi-  Thaum.,  p.  181,  col.  1,  note  169  :  "  A  priscis 

tion  of  Ware's  Bishops,  pp.  649,  650.  scriptoribus  Ailech  Neid,   hodie  vulgo  Ailech 

n  0/TO]  Hegny,  ejnij.  —  The  Four  Masters  appellatur.     Fuit  perantiqua  Begum  Hibernia; 

have  omitted  the  ui  by  mere  oversight.     In  the  sedes,  et  post  tempora  fidei  per  easdem  derelicta, 

Annals  of  Ulster  the  reading  is,  bfnmioe  injen  Temoria  denuo  repetita  et  restaurata.  Jacetin 

hui    Gijnij,  Sec.,   aud   in  those   of  Kilronan  :  Peninsula  Borealis  Ultoniffi  Inis  Eoghuin  dicta 


1-215.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  185 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1214. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  fourteen. 

O'Kelly,  Bishop  of  Hy-Fiachrachm,  died. 

Ardgar  O'Conor,  Bishop  of  Sil- Murray  [Elphin],  died. 

Behmee,  daughter  of  [0']  Hegny",  and  wife  of  Hugh  O'Neill;  Queen  of 
Aileach0,  died,  after  having  spent  a  virtuous  life. 

A  depredation  was  committed  by  Hugh,  the  son  of  Melaghlin  O'Loughlin, 
on  the  coarb  of  Columbkille ;  but  Hugh  himself  was  killed  before  the  expira- 
tion of  a  year  afterwards,  through  the  miracles  of  God  and  Columbkille. 

Cathal  Mac  Dermot,  the  son  of  Teige,  Lord  of  Moylurg,  and  tower  of  the 
gloryp  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  cowsq. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1215. 

The  Age  of  C/irist,  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."  nobleness,  or  dignity,  in  a  paper  MS.  in  Trinity 
P  Glory,  opban — The  word  opban,  which  oc-  College,  Dublin,  H.  1,  15,  p.  946.  Colgan  trans- 
curs  so  frequently  in  these  Annals,  is  explained  lates  cuip  opoain  7  oipeachaip  lapcaip  Domain, 
jjldip,  no  uipechap,  glory,  nobility,  in  the  Gloss  to  supremum  caput  ordinum  &  procerum  occiden- 
Fiach's  Hymn,  in  the  Liber  Hymnorum  ;  uap ul  tis." — Trias  Thaum.,  p.  298. 
jpu6,i.  e.  noble  grade  or  dignity,  in  a  MS.  in  Tfin.  q  Under  this  year  (1214)  the  Annals  of  Kil- 
Col.  Dublin,  H.  3,  18,  p.  550;  it  is  glossed  apb  ronan  record  the  erection,  by  the  English,  of  the 
uinm,  i.  e.  high  name  or  fame,  in  the  Amhra  castles  of  Clonmacnoise  and  Durrow;  and  they 
Shenain,  preserved  in  the  Leabkar  Breac,  fol.  add  that,  shortly  after  the  completion  of  the 
121,  a;  5pu6  no  uaiple,  dignity  or  nobility,  castle  of  Clonmacnoise,  Cormac,  the  son  of  Art 
by  Michael  O'Clery,  in  his  Glossary  of  ancient  O'Melaghlin,  who  had  been  expelled  from  Del- 
Irish  words;  and  apo  uuiple,  no  uipeacap,  high  vin,  returned  into  that  territory,  and  plundered 

2  B 


186 


[1215. 


Qnnub  ua  muipfohaij  eppcop  Conmaicne,  -\  TTlaolpoil  ua  muipfohaij 

ppioip  buine  jfirhin  Do  ecc. 

CpaD  ua  maoilpabaill  coipec  cenel  pfpjupa  cona  bpaicpib,  q  co  nDpuing 
moip  ele  immaille  ppiu  Do  mapbaD  la  TTluipeabac  mac  mopmaip  Ifmna. 

OonnchaD  ua  Duibbiopma  coipeac  na  mbpeoca  DO  ecc,  i  nDuibpecclep 

Doipe. 

Qongup  ua  caipelldin  coipeac  cloinne  Diapmaca  Do  mapbab  la  a  bpair- 

pib  pen. 

TTlupchab  mac  cacmaoil  coipec  ceneoil  pfpaDhai  j  Do  ecc. 
TTlag  cana  coipec  cenel  afnjupa  Do  mapbab  la  a  bpaicpibh. 
Ruaibpi  ua  ploinn  ciccfpna  Dfplaip  DO  ecc. 

cuicpijh  mac  cappjamna  caoipec  mumcipe  maoilcpionna  Decc. 

caoimgin  ua  ceallaij  bpfj  Do  jabdil  la  jallaib  i  maimpcip  pfc- 
caip  ace  achluam,  •]  a  cpochab  leo  in  achcpuim. 

;  mac  eicigein  caoipeac  cloinne  Diapmaca  Do  ecc. 

versed.  The  diocese  of  Ardagh,  however,  was 
extended  beyond  the  country  of  these  tribes  at 
the  synod  of  Kath  Breasail,  about  the  year  1118, 
when  it  was  defined  thus  :  "  the  discese  of  Ar- 
dagh, from  Ardcana  to  Slieve-an-ierin,  and  from 
Ceis  Coran  to  Urchoilten." 

5  O'Mulfavitt,  Ua  maolpabaiU — This  name, 
which  is  Anglicised  Moylfavill  in  the  old  transla- 
tion of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  is  still  common'in 
Inishowen,  but  Anglicised  Mulfaal,  and  some- 
times Mac  Paul.  The  same  name  is  Anglicised 
Lavelle  in  Connaught,  though  pronounced  in 
Irish  O'Mullaville.  The  territory  of  the  Kinel- 
Fergus,  of  whom  O'Mulfaal  was  chief,  was  called 
Carraic  Bhrachaidhe,  and  comprised  the  north- 
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 
of  Loch  Lomond,  and  uniting  with  the  Clyde  at 
the  town  of  Dumbarton.  It  gave  name  to  a  dis- 
trict coextensive  with  the  present  Dumbarton- 
shire in  Scotland.  O'Flaherty  thinks  that  the  great 


the  castle  of  Clonmacnoise  of  its  cattle,  and  de- 
feated the  English  who  were  defending  it. 

Under  this  year,  also,  the  Annals  of  Ulster 
and  of  Kilronan  mention  the  appearance  of 
a  certain  character,  called  Aedh  Breiffe,  or  the 
false,  or  pretended,  Hugh,  who  was  styled  the 
Cobhartach,  the  Aider,  Liberator,  or  Deliverer. 
He  was  evidently  some  person  who  wished  to 
make  it  appear  that  he  came  to  fulfil  some  Irish 
prophecy,  but  failed  to  make  the  intended  im- 
pression. 

1  Bishop  of  Conmaicne. — That  is,  bishop  of  the 
see  of  Ardagh,  which  comprises  the  country  of 
the  eastern  Conmaicne ;  that  is,  Annaly,  the  ter- 
ritory of  O'Farrell,  in  the  county  of  Longford  ; 
and  Muintir  Eolais,  that  of  Mac  Eannall,  in  the 
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  first  century. — See  O'Fla- 
herty's  Oyygia,  part  iii.  c.  46,  where,  by  a  mere 
oversight  in  the  construction  of  a  Latin  sen- 
tence, the  situation  of  these  territories  is  re- 


1215.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


187 


Annudh  O'Murray,  Bishop  of  Conmaicner  [Ardagh],  and  MaelpoilO'Murray, 
Prior  of  Dungiven,  died. 

Trad  O'Mulfavill8,  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. 

Eory  OTlynn  [O'Lynn],  Lord  of  Derlasx,  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  Etigen,  Chief  of  Clann-Dermot,  diedy. 


Stewarts  of  Leamhain,  or  Lennox,  were  descend- 
ed from  Maine  Leamhna,  the  son  of  Core,  King 
of  Munster,  by  Mongfinna,  the  daughter  of  Fe- 
radhach,  King  of  the  Picts.  In  the  year  1014 
Muireadhach  (a  name  which  the  Scotch  write 
Murdoch),  the  mormaer  of  Leamhain,  assisted 
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 
thought  that  they  discovered  a  strong  resem- 
blance between  the  pronunciation  of  the  dialect 
of  the  Gaelic  which  is  spoken  in  this  territory, 
and  that  spoken  in  Munster. 

u  CPDuvdirma — This  name  is  yet  common  in 
Inishowen,  but  sometimes  corrupted  to  Mac 
Dermot.  Bredach  was  the  north-east  part  of 
Inishowen. 

w  Clann-Dermot,  clann  oiapmaoa,  was  the 
tribe  name  of  the  Mac  Egans,  situated  in  the 
district  lying  round  Duniry,  in  the  south  of 
the  present  county  of  Galway. 

x  Derlas,  oeplap,  called  ouplapin  the  Annals 
of  Ulster  and  of  Kilronan.  It  was  the  name  of 

2  B 


the  seat  of  O'Lyn,  Chief  of  Hy-Tuirtre.  This 
name,  which  signifies  a  strong  fort,  was  applied  to 
many  other  places  in  Ireland,  and  is  sometimes 
Anglicised  Thurles.  The  Editor  has  met  several 
forts  of  this  name  in  Ireland,  but  none  in  Hy- 
Tuirtre  in  the  county  of  Antrim.  The  most 
remarkable  fort  of  the  name  remaining  in  Ire- 
land is  situated  in  the  parish  of  Kilruane,  in  the 
barony  of  Lower  Ormond,  in  the  county  of  Tip- 
perary  :  it  consists  of  three  great  circular  em- 
bankments and  two  deep  trenches: 

y  Under  this  year  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  An- 
nals of  Innisfallen  record,  that  a  great  war  broke 
out  between  Dermot  of  Dundronan,  the  son  of 
Donnell  More  na  Curra  Mac  Carthy,  and  his 
brother  Cormac  Finn;  that  the  English  were 
assisting  on  both  sides  ;  and  that  during  this 
war  the  English  acquired  great  possessions,  and 
made  great  conquests  of  lands,  on  which  they 
built  castles  and  strong  forts  for  themselves,  to 
defend  them  against  the  Irish.  The  following 
were  the  castles  erected  on  this  occasion  : 

The  castle  of  Muintir  Bhaire,  in  Kilcrohane 

2 


188 


[1216. 


QO1S  CR1OSO,  1216. 
Ctoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  cecr,  a  pe  oecc. 

TTlacjamain  ua  laicbfpcais  cijeapna  cloinne  oorhnaill  DO  ecc. 

^lolla  apndin  ua  mapcain  ollarh  Gpenn  i  mbpeicfrhnup  Do  ecc. 

Uomalcac  mac  aoDa  mic  aipeaccaij  ui  jioDuib  Do  mapbaD  la  Domhnall 
mac  afoha  mic  Diapmacra. 

each6onn  mac  gilliuiohip  comapba  pacpaicc,  -|  ppiomaiD  na  hGpeann  Do 
ecc  hi  Roimh  lap  nofiglibfchaio. 

TTlaoilpeaclainn  mac  Diapmaca  Do  rhapbaD  Dpeapaib  ceall,  ~\  Do  mumcip 
TWiaoilip. 

TTlupchaD  mac  T?uaibpi  uf  Concobaip  DO  ecc. 


parish,  erected  by  Mac  Cuddihy See  Ordnance 

Map  of  the  County  of  Cork,  sheet  129. 

The  castles  of  Dun  na  mbarc  [Dunnamarc] 
and  Ard  Tuilighthe,  by  Carew. — See  Ordnance 
Map  of  the  county  of  Cork,  sheet  118. 

The  castles  of  Dun  Ciarain  [Dunkerron]  and 
Ceapa  na  Coise  [Cappanacusha],  near  the  Ken- 
mare  River,  in  Kerry,  by  Carew. — See  Ordnance 
Map  of  Kerry,  sheet  92. 

The  castle  of  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,  by 
the  same  Maurice. — See  Ordnance  Map  of  Kerry, 
sheets  47,  56. 

The  castles  of  Moylahiff,  of  Gala  na  feirse 
[Callanafersy],  of  Cluain  Maolain  [Cloonmea- 
lane],  and  of  Curreens  [now  Currans],  by  the 

son  of  Maurice  Fitzgerald See  Ordnance  Map 

of  Kerry,  sheets  46,  47,  48,  56. 

The  castle  of  Arlioch,  by  Roche. 

The  castles  of  Dunnagall  and  Dun  na  sead 
[Baltimore],  by  Sleviny.  The  ruins  of  the  for- 
mer are  marked  on  the  Ordnance  Map  of  the 
County  of  Cork,  sheet  150,  on  Ringarogy  Is- 


land, in  the  parish  of  Creagh,  in  the  east  divi- 
sion of  the  barony  of  West  Carbery ;  and  the 
ruins  of  the  castle  of  Baltimore,  which  was  an- 
ciently called  Dun  na  peoo,  are  shewn  on  the 
same  sheet,  at  Baltimore  village. 

The  castle  of  Traigh-bhaile,  near  the  harbour 
ofCuanDor  [Glandore],  was  erected  by  Barrett. 
This  castle  was  afterwards  called  Cloghatrad- 
bally,  and  belonged  to  Donell  na  Carton  O'Do- 
novan,  Chief  of  Clann-Loughlin,  who  died  on 
the  10th  of  May,  1580,  and  to  his  son  and 
grandson.  It  was  situated  in  the  townland  of 
Aghatubridmore,  in  the  parish  of  Kilfaughna- 
beg,  and  is  now  generally  called  Glandore  Castle. 
See  Ordnance  Map  of  Cork,  sheet  142. 

The  castles  of  Timoleague  and  Dundeady  were 
erected  by  Nicholas  Boy  de  Barry. — For  their 
situation  see  Ordnance  Map  of  the  County  of 
Cork,  sheets  123,  144. 

1  Clann-Donnell,  clcmn  oorhnaill.  —  These 
were  a  distinguished  sept  of  the  Kinel-Moen, 
originally  seated  in  the  present  barony  of  Ra- 
phoe,  but  afterwards  driven  across  the  Foyle 
by  the  O'Donnells. — See  the  year  1178,  where 
it  is  stated  that  Rory  O'Laverty  was  elected 
chief  of  all  Kinel-Moen,  in  place  of  Donnell 


1216.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


.18!) 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1216. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  sixteen. 

Mahon  O'Laverty,  Chief  of  the  Clann-Donnel?,  died. 

Giolla  Amain  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. 

Eachdonn  Mac  Gilluirea,  Coarb  of  St.  Patrick  and  Primate  of  Ireland,  died 
at  Rome,  after  a  well-spent  life. 

Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Dermotb,  was  slain  by  the  men  of  Fircallc  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  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 
the  Annals  of  Ulster,  as  follows  :  "A.  D.  1216. 
Gchoonrv  mac  5'^e  uibip,  comapba  parpaic, 
7  ppimaic  Gpenn  pope  jenepale  conyiliutn 
iacepanenpe  Rome  pelicicep  oboopmmic." 
Thus  rendered  in  the  old  translation  :  "  A.  D. 
1216.  Eghdon  Mac  Gilluir,  Coarb  of  Patrick 
and  Primate  of  Ireland,  post  generate  Consilium 
Lateranense  Romce  feliciter  obdormiuit." — See 
note  under  the  year  1206. 

b  Melagftlinn,  the  son  of  Dermot. — His  surname 
was  O'Dempsey,  according  to  Mageoghegan's 
translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise. 

c  Fircatt, — The  territory  of  Feara-Ceall,  as 
already  observed,  comprised  the  baronies  of  Bal- 
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 
Fiacha,  the  son  of  Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages. 
It  was  bounded  on  the  north  by  Muintir-Thadh- 


gain,  or  Fox's  country,  and  Kinel-Fiacha,  or 
Mageoghegan's  country,  both  which  it  joined 
near  Kilbeggan  ;  on  the  west  by  Delvin  Eathra, 
or  Mac  Coghlan's  country  ;  on  the  east  by  Of- 
faly,  O'Conor  Faly's  country  ;  on  the  south-east 
by  Hy-Regan,  or  Duthaidh  Riagain,  O'Dunne's 
country  ;  and  on  the  south  by  Ely  O'Carroll, 
from  which  it  was  separated  by  the  Abhainn 
Chara,  which  falls  into  the  Little  Brosna,  near 
the  town  of  Birr — See  Feilire  Aenguis,  pre- 
served in  the  Leabhar  Breac  of  the  Mac  Egans, 
fol.  9,  in  which  Kinnity  (church)  is  placed  on 
the  frontiers  of  Ely  and  Feara  Ceall :  "  pman 
cam  Cino  ecij  i  ccoicpich  hell  7  pep  cell." 
"  Finan  Cam  of  Kinnity,  on  the  frontiers  of  Ely 
and  Feara  Ceall."  The  following  places  are  men- 
tioned by  the  old  Irish  writers  as  in  this  territory, 
viz. :  Eathain(now  Rahen) ;  Durrow ;  Magh-leana, 
now  the  parish  of  Moylena,  alias  Kilbride,  con- 
taining the  town  of  Tullamore  ;  Lann  Elo  (now 
Lynally) ;  Coill-na-gcrann  (now  called  Kilmore 
and  Greatwood,  and  situated  in  the  parish  of 
Killoughy);  Pallis ;  Ath-buidhe  (now  Bally  boy); 
Eglish;  Baile-an-duna ;  Drumcullen.  O'Dugan 
honours  the  peapa  ceall  with  the  following 
quatrain : 


190 


[1217. 


Caiplen  cille  Dalua  DO  Denam  la  Seappaij  mapep,  -\  an  jailleappoc 
pop  DO  benamh  cighe  innre  ap  eiccin. 

On  cpfp  ilenpg  Do  pioghaDh  op  Sa^ain  19.  Occobep. 

aois  crcioso,  1217. 

Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  a  pechc  Decc. 

5iolla  cijeapnaijh  mac  jiolla  Ronam  eppcop  Qipjiall,  -\  cfnn  cananac 
Gpeann  Do  ecc  lap  bpCnnainn,  -\  lap  nairhpicche. 

Oiapmair  mac  concobaip  mic  Diapmaca  njeapna  muiji  luipcc  Do  ecc. 
TTlop  mjfn  uf  bpiain,  .1.  bomnaill  bfn  carail  cpoibbfipcc  Do  ecc. 
Oomnall  ua  ga&pa  Do  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  cloinne  pfpmaije  Do  ecc. 


T3i  bpeap  ceall  na  j-clotoearii  pean 
O'TTlaoilriiuaiD, — paop  an  plomoeao, — 
l?o  paomao  506  lann  leipean  ; 
T?arf  na  aonap  aijepean. 

"  King  of  Feara  Ceall  of  ancient  swords 
Is  O'Molloy, — noble  the  surname, — 
Every  sword  was  vanquished  by  him  ; 
He  has  a  division  to  himself  alone." 

d  T/te  castle  ofKittaloe — This  passage  is  given 
in  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by 
Connell Mageoghegan,  as  follows:  "  A.  D.  1216. 
Geffrey  Marche"  [De  Marisco]  "  founded  a 
Castle  at  Killaloe,  and  forced  the  inhabitants 
to  receive  an  English  Bushop."  The  name  of 
this  bishop  was  Eobert  Travers.  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 
succeeded  in  1409 — See  Harris's  edition  of 


Ware's  Works,  vol.  i.  pp.  521-593. 

e  Under  the  year  1216  the  Annals  of  Kilro- 
nan  contain  the  following  entries,  which  the 
Four  Masters  have  omitted: 

"A.  D.  1216.  A  synod  of  the  clergy  of  the 
world  at  Rome  at  Lateran,  with  the  Pope  Inno- 
centius,  and  soon  after  this  synod  (council),  Pope 
Innocentius  quieuit  in  Christo. 

"John,  King  of  England,  was  deposed  by  the 
English  this  year,  and  died  of  a  fit.  (In  the 
Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Ma- 
geoghegan, it  is  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 
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 
ordered  to  go  to  the  Eiver  [Jordan]. 

"  The  abbot  O'Lotan,    a  learned  and  pious 


1217-] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


191 


The  castle  of  Killaloed  was  erected  by  Geoffrey  Mares.   The  English  Bishop 
also  built  a  house  there  by  force. 

Henry  III.  was  crowned  in  England  on  the  19th  of  October6. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1217. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  seventeen. 

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  slain  by  Murrough  Carragh  O'Farrell. 

Gillapatrick  Mac  Acadhain,  Chief  of  Clann-Fearmaighe8,  died. 


man,  in  pace  quieuit.  Gregory,  son  of  Gilla-na- 
naingel,  abbot  of  the  monks  of  Ireland,  in  pace 
quieuit,  in  the  East,  being  expelled  by  the  monks 
of  Drogheda,  through  envy  and  jealousy. 

"  The  Archbishop  O'Eooney  was  cruelly  and 
violently  taken  prisoner  by  Maelisa  O'Conor, 
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." 

f  Repentance,  iap  bpfnamo  7  naichpicche 

In  the  Annals  of  Ulster  at  1218,  andofKilro- 
nan  in  1217,  this  phrase  is  given  in  Latin  thus: 
"5'U-a  cisfpncuj-  tnac  fylla  Ronain  er-puc 
aipgiall  7  cfnn  cananac  Sperm  in  bona  peni- 
tentia  quieuit." 

*Clann-Fearmaighe. — The  natives  still  remem- 
ber the  name  of  this  territory,  and  that  of  the 
adjoining  one  of  Muintir  Kenny,  both  which  are 
contained  in  the  present  barony  of  Dromahaire, 


in  the  county  of  Leitrim  ;  Muintir-Kenny  lying 
principally  between  Lough  Allen  and  the  boun- 
dary of  the  county  of  Eoscommon,  and  Clann- 
Fermaigh,  comprising  all  the  valley  of  Glanfarne. 
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,  now  the  barony  of 
Tullyhaw,  in  the  same  county ;  Mac  Consnamha, 
now  Mac  Kinnaw  (and  sometimes  ridiculously 
anglicised  Fordc),  Chief  of  Muintir-Kenny,  and 
Mac  Cagadhain,  Chief  of  Clann-Fermaighe,  both 
in  the  present  barony  of  Dromahaire,  in  the 
county  of  Leitrim  ;  Mac  Darcey,  Chief  of  Kinel- 
Luachain,  a  territory  which  comprised  the  pre- 
sent parish  of  Oughteragh,  at  the  foot  of  Slieve- 
an-ierin  ;  and  Mac  Clancy,  and  his  correlatives 
in  Dartry  and  Calry,  territories  nearly  all  in- 


192 


Rio§hachra 


[1218. 


Domnall  mac  TTlupchab  rheg  cocldin  cigeajina  uprhoip  oealbna  Do  rhap- 
bab  DO  tiiacaib  TTlaoileaclamn  meag  coclin  i  meabail  i  liarDpuim. 

Cacal  pionn  6  lacrna  caoipeac  an  Da  bac  Do  mapbaD  la  hua  pploinn 
maighe  Vieleocc  i  ppiull  iria  njh  pfin. 

Copbmac  mac  Uomalcaij  ooipDneDh. 


QOIS  CR1OSO,  1218. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  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  ter- 
ritory of  Delvin  Mac  Coghlan,  now  called  Liath- 
druim, unless  we  may  suppose  Leitra,  in  the  pa- 
rish of  Clonmacnoise,  to  be  a  corruption  of  it.  See 
Ordnance  Map  o'f  the  King's  County,  sheet  13. 
There  is  a  place  called  Liathdruim,  Anglice  Lei- 
trim,  in  the  parish  of  Monasteroris,  in  the  same 
county. — See  Ordnance  Map,  sheet  1 1 . 

'  Moy-h  JSleoff,  tnaj  heleog. — A  level  district 
in  the  parish  of  Crossmolina,  in  the  barony  of 
Tirawley,  in  the  county  of  Mayo.— See  note 
under  the  year  1 1 80.  The  territory  of  the  Two 
Backs  lies  principally  bet\veen  Lough  Conn  and 
the  Kiver  Moy. 

k  This  entry  should  be  made  a  part  of  the 
second  paragraph  under  this  year,  relating  to 
Dermot  mac  Dermot,  Lord  of  Moylurg,  for  so 
it  is  given  in  the  more  ancient  and  more  correct 
Annals  of  Ulster  and  of  Kilronan.  It  stands 
thus  in  the  Annals  of  Ulster  : 

A.  D.  1218.  tDiapmaio  mac  ConchuBaip 
mic  Oiapma&a  pi£  ITluije  luipj  mopcuup  epc. 
Copmac  DO  jabcnl  pi£i  oa  £ip. 

In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  which  is  the  Chro- 
nicle of  the  district,  this  Cormac  is  called  the 


son  of  Tomaltagh  of  the  Eock,  the  son  of  Conor. 

Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  con- 
tain the  following  entries,  which  have  been 
altogether  omitted  by  the  Four  Masters ; 

"  A.  D.  1217.  Oisin,  Abbot  of  Abbeyderg  [in 
the  county  of  Longford],  died. 

"  The  fishermen  of  all  Ireland,  from  Water- 
ford  and  Wexford  in  the  south,  to  Derry- 
Columbkille  in  the  north,  went  to  the  Isle  of 
Mann  to  fish,  where  they  committed  aggressions, 
but  were  all  killed  in  Mann  in  retaliation  for 
their  violence. 

"  The  Abbots  of  all  Ireland  went  to  England, 
to  the  general  chapter  held  there  this  year ;  but 
their  attendants  were  dispersed,  and  the  most  of 
them  were  slain  in  England;  and  the  Abbot  of 
Drogheda  was  deprived  of  his  abbacy  at  this 
chapter." 

"  Every  fruit  tree  produced  abundance  of  fruit 
this  year." 

"  The  English  of  Ulidia  mustered  a  plunder- 
ing army,  with  which  they  proceeded  to  Armagh, 
and  totally  plundered  it.  O'Fotuelan  was  the 
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 


1218.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


193 


Donnell,  the  son  of  Murrough  Mac  Coghlan,  Lord  of  the  greater  part  of 
Delvin,  was  treacherously  slain  by  the  sons  of  Melaghlin  Mac  Coghlan,  at 
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  inaugurated11. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1218. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  eighteen. 

Clemens,  Bishop  of  Leyny  [Achonry],  died. 

Gilla-na-naev  O'Gormally,  priest  of  Rathloury1,  died  on  his  pilgrimage. 


Roe  and  Mac  Mahon  came  and  took  a  great  prey 
from  the  English,  namely,  one  thousand  two 
hundred  cows.  The  English  and  O'Fotuelan 
pursued  them,  but  the  Kinel-Owen  turned  upon 
them,  and  killed  fourteen  men  who  were  clad  in 
coats  of  mail,  besides  the  Constable  of  Dundalk ; 
and  O'Fotuelan  was  killed  in  revenge  of  St. 
Patrick." 

1  Rathloury,  Rac  lupaij,  i.  e.  St.  Lurach's 
fort. — This  church,  about  the  situation  of  which 
our  topographical  writers 'have  committed  so 
many  strange  blunders,  is  still  well  known;  it 
is  the  head  of  a  deanery  in  the  county  of  London- 
derry, and  is  situated  in  the  town  of  Maghera, 
anciently  called  Machaire  Eatha  Luraigh,  where 
the  church,  grave,  and  holy  well  of  St.  Lurach 
are  still  to  be  seen,  and  where  his  festival  was 
celebrated  on  the  17th  of  February — See  Ca- 
lendar of  the  O'Clerys  at  this  day.  The  situa- 
tion of  this  church,  which  some  have  supposed 
to  be  the  same  as  Ardstraw,  was  well  known  to 

Ussher See  his  Primordia,  pp.  856,  857,  where 

he  says  that  the  bishopric  of  Ardstraw,  together 
with  that  of  llathlurig,  then  a  deanery  called 
Rathloury,  was  annexed  to  the  see  of  Derry.  Its 
situation  was  also  well  known  to  Ware  and  even  to 


Harris. — See  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops, 
p.  286,  under  Flathberty  G'Brokain,  where  it  is 
stated  that  "the  episcopal  see  was  translated 
from  Ardsrath  to  Maghere,  which  was  dedicated 
to  St.  Luroch,  whose  festival  is  celebrated  on  the 
17th  of  February."  In  a  Latin  epitaph  on  a  tomb- 
stone in  the  cemetery  of  the  Roman  Catholic  chapel 
of  Maghera,  the  late  Dr.  Makeever,  P.  P.  of  Ma- 
ghera, is  called  ParochusRatUurensis.  The  patron 
saint  is  now  locally  called  St.  Loury.  The  cathe- 
dral church  of  the  Kinel-Owen  was  originally  at 
Ardstraw,  in  the  north-west  of  Tyrone,  whence  it 
was  afterwards  translated  to  Rath  Luraigh,  in  the 
present  town  of  Maghera,  in  the  county  of  Lon- 
donderry. In  course  of  time  the  ancient  bishop- 
ric of  Ardstraw  became  a  part  of  the  see  of 
Clogher;  but  on  the  elevation  of  Derry  into  a  bi- 
shop's see  in  the  year  1 158,  the  bishopric  of 
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 
bishopric  of  Ardstraw  was  separated  from  the 
diocese  of  Clogher,  and  annexed  to  that  of  Derry, 
about  the  year  1266 — See  note  under  the  year 
1179. 


2  c 


194 


[1218. 


TTlaoiliopa  ua  Oai^pe  ai]iclnnneach  Doipe  column  cille  Do  ecc  an  roccrhaD 
la  Do  becembep  lap  mbfic  cfcpacar  bbaDain  ma  aipchinDeac,  -]  lap  nDenam 
jaca  maicfpa  pop  caorhnaccaip  Do  gniorh  hi  call  -|  i  ccuaic. 

Ufmpall  mainipcpe  na  buille  Do  coippeaccaD. 

TTluipcfpnac  ua  ploinn  ciccfpna  ua  ccuipcpe  Do  mapbab  la  gallaib,  -] 
Conjalach  ua  cuinn  raoipeac  TTlaije  lujaD,  -]  fil  ccacapaicch  uile,  cuip 
jaipcceb,  einijjh,  ~\  oipoeapcaiy  cuai^cipc  Gpeann  DO  mapbab  la  gallaib  beop 

ip  in  16  ceDna. 

Ruaibpi,  i  TTIaoilpeaclainn  Da  riiac  meg  coclain  Do  ecc  i  maimpcip  cille 

bfccain. 

Cochlamn  ua  Concobaip  Do  ecc  -|  mainipcip  cnuic  tnuai&e. 


mMaelisa  O^Deery This  passage  is  thus  trans- 
lated by  Colgan :  "  Moelisa  Hua  Doighre  Ar- 
chidnechus  Dorensis  in  hospitalitatiis,  aliisque 
bonis  operibus  prsedicabilis,  postquam  munus 
Archidnechi  quadraginta  annis  exercuerat ;  obiit 
Doria  8  Decembris."  The  aipcinneach  was 
not  the  archdeacon,  as  many  respectable  anti- 
quaries have  supposed. 

n  Hoy-Lughad,  mag  lujao. — This  is  called 
Magh  Lughach  in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan. 
There  were  several  districts  in  Ireland  of  this 
name,  but  the  one  here  mentioned  is  a  level  dis- 
trict in  Hy-Tuirtre,  in  the  present  county  of 
Antrim,  which  is  mentioned  in  these  Annals  at 
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 
colony  into  Ireland.  This  passage  is  rendered 
in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  as 
follows:  "A.  D.  1218.  Murtagh  O'Flyn,  King 
of  Turtry,  was  killed  by  the  Galls,  Congalach 
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." 

0  Kilbeggan,  cill  beccain. — Now  a  town  in 
the  south  of  the  county  of  Westmeath.  There  is 
not  a  vestige  of  the  monastery  now  remaining, 


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- 
tery is  now  a  green  field. 

p  Louffftlin  0: 'Conor. — He  was  the  tenth  son  of 

Turlough  More  O' Conor,  Monarch  of  Ireland 

See  Book  of  Lecan,  foL  72,  6,  col.  4. 

iRmockmoy,  Cnoc  mucuoe,  i.  e.  Collis  Muadice. 
— Now  the  Abbey  of  Knockmoy,  in  the  barony 
of  Tiaquin,  in  the  county  of  Galway,  and  about 
six  miles  to  the  south-east  of  Tuam.  This  is 
the  first  mention  made  of  this  monastery  by  the 
Four  Masters.  According  to  Grace's  Annals  of 
Ireland,  the  Abbey  of  Knockmoy,  which  was 
otherwise  called  de  Cotte  Victoria;,  was  founded 
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  Gal- 
way,  and  also  his  annals,  place  its  foundation  in 
the  year  1190.  It  is  the  general  opinion  of 
Irish  historians  that  Cathal  Crovderg  founded 
this  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;.  In  a  compilation  of  the  sixteenth 
century,  now  at  the  Convent  of  Esker,  near 
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 


.  Maelisa  0'Deerym,  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. 

The  church  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 
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  in  the  monastery  of 
Kilbeggan0. 

Loughlin  O'Conorp  died  in  the  monastery  of  Knockmoyq. 


founded  by  Carolus  O'Conor  about  the  year 
1220;  but  this  is  totally  wrong  in  the  name 
and  date  of  the  foundation,  for  the  original  Irish 
name  is  not  cnoc  buaio,  the  hill  of  the  victory,  but 
cuoc  imiaioe,  the  hill  ofMuaidh,  a  woman's 
name,  denoting  good,  or  noble  (maic  no  uapal) ; 
and  this  name  is  unquestionably  older  than  the 
time  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  for  the  plain  adjoining 
the  hill  of  Knockmoy  was  called  Magh  Muaidhe 
at  a  very  early  period.  The  Editor  has  dis- 
covered no  contemporaneous  or  trustworthy  ac- 
count of  the  battle  said  to  have  been  fought  and 
won  by  Cathal  Crovderg  at  this  place,  and  is  in- 
clined to  think  that  Cottis  Victories  is  but  a  fan- 
ciful translation  of  the  ancient  Irish  name  of  the 
hill,  as  if  it  were  cnoc  rnbtiaib.  Of  such  fanci- 
ful translations  we  have  several  instances  in 
other  parts  of  Ireland,  as  de  Rosea  Vatte,  for 
Rop  ^lap;  de  Viridi  ligno,  for  Newry,  or  luBap 
Cinn  cpajja;  de  Voile  salutis,  for  tnamirrip  an 
BeuUnj,  &c.  The  Book  of  Howth,  and  from  it 
Hanmer,  in  his  Chronicle  (Dublin  edition  of 
1809,  pp.  338-341),  give  an  account,  but  with- 
out mentioning  the  place,  of  a  "bloody  battaile" 
between  O'Conor  and  Sir  Armoric  St.  Lawrence, 
in  which  Sir  Armoric  and  all  his  small  band  of 
steel-clad  warriors  were  annihilated;  but  it  is  a 
mere  romance,  and  should  not  be  received  as  his- 

2  c 


tory  without  being  corroborated  by  some  cotem- 
poraneous  English  or  Irish  authority.  Dr.  Led- 
wich  says,  that  the  battle  in  commemoration  of 
which  the  Abbey  of  Knockmoy  was  built,  was 
fought  in  Ulster!  "  In  the  height  of  the  battle," 
writes  the  doctor,  "  O'Conor  vowed  to  build  an 
abbey  in  his  own  country,  if  he  was  crowned  with 
success,  and  he  erected  Knockmoy,  in  Irish,  Cnoc- 
mugha,  the  hill  of  slaughter,  and  in  monkish  wri- 
ters styled  '  Monasterium  de  Colle  Victoria,'  to 
perpetuate  the  remembrance  of  O'Conor's  vic- 
tory."— Antiquities  of  Ireland,  second  edition, 
p.  520. 

Dr.  Leland,  however,  with  that  display  of 
philosophic  inference  from  legendary  events, 
which  renders  his  work  worthless  as  an  autho- 
rity, treats  as  true  history  the  account  of  this 
supposed  battle  contained  in  the  Book  of  Howth, 
which  he  quotes  (but  without  knowing  that  it 
was  the  Book  of  Howth),  as  a  MS.  in  the  Lam- 
beth Library,  P.  No.  628,  and  draws  the  fol- 
lowing conclusion,  which  shews  that  a  man  may 
be  a  sound  logician,  though  a  bad  judge  of  the 
authenticity  of  historical  monuments.  After 
describing  the  fictitious  battle,  lie  writes:  "  An 
advantage  gained  with  such  difficulty  and  so 
little  honour,  was  yet  sufficient  for  the  levity 
and  vanity  of  Cathal.  He  founded  an  abbey 

2 


196 


[1219. 


Cpeac  DO  Denarii  la  gallaib  mme,  -|  la  muipcfprac  cappac  ua  ppfpjail 
ap  uib  bpium  na  Sionna,  -\  Diapmaic  mac  coippbealbaij  mic  maoileaclamn,  -| 
Dpeam  Do  connachcaibh  t>o  bpeic  poppa  50  paimiD  popp  na  jallaib  50  ccop- 
cpacap  cuilleaD  ap  ceo  eiccip  mapbaD,  "|  ba&ab  Oiob.  Do  pochaip  mac  uf 
Concobaip  i  pppiofguin  na  pjainnpe  50  nopuing  Dia  muincip  a  maille  ppip. 

aois  CRIOSO,  1219. 

Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  a  naoi  Decc. 

Goo  ua  maoileoin  eppcop  cluana  mic  noip  t»o  bacao. 

ponachcan  ua  bpondin  comopba  coluim  cille  DO  ecc,  -|  plann  ua  bpol- 
chain  oo  oiponeaD  ma  iona6  ip  in  corhopbup. 

TTlaelfpclamn  mac  Concobaip  maonmaije  t>o  mapbab  la  TTlajnup  mac 
coipp&ealbaij  i  Concobaip  lap  ngabail  cije  paip  i  ccluain  cuaipcipc. 

SluaiccheaD  la  hUa  noomnaill  .1.  oomnall  mop  i  ngaipbcpian  connacr  Da 


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." 

Mr.  Moore  says,  in  opposition  to  all  writers, 
that  this  battle  was  fought  on  the  site  of  the 
abbey,  between  two  rivals  of  the  house  of 
O'Conor,  but  he  quotes  no  authority,  and  we 
must  therefore  conclude  that  he  drew  his  account 
of  the  event  by  inference  from  other  collateral 
facts.  The  truth  would  seem  to  be  that  there  is 
no  evidence  to  prove  that  such  a  battle  was  ever 
fought,  and  it  is,  therefore,  but  fair  to  assume 
that  the  name  de  Colle  Victories  is  but  a  fanciful 
Latinized  translation  of  cnoc  ITIuaiDe,  orKnock- 
moy. 

1  Hy-Briuin  of  the  Shannon,  otherwise  called 
Tir  Briuin  na  Sionna,  now  Tir  ui  Bhriuin. — -A 
beautiful  district  in  the  county  of  lloscommon, 
lying  between  Elphin  and  Jamestown,  of  which 
O'Manachain,  now  Monahan,  was  chief  up  to  the 
year  1249,  but  after  that  period  it  became  the 


lordship  of  O'Beirne.      To   this   circumstance 
O'Dugan  refers  in  the  following  lines : 

TTIuincip  Beipn,  cpo&a  an  carpal, 
Qp  riiacaiB  O'lTlannuchdn; 
Cpe  jleo,  cpe  Bpi  j,  cpe  Bagap, 
dp  leo  cip  a  o-canjaoap. 

"  The  O'Beirnes,  a  brave  battalion, 
Are  over  the  race  of  O'Monahan  ; 
By  fighting,  by  vigour,  by  threatning, 
The  district  into  which  they  came  is  their's." 

s  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Ulster  and  of 
Kilronan  record  the  death  of  Gilla-Ernan  O'Mar- 
tan,  chief  Brehon  of  Ireland,  who  had  retired 
into  a  monastery ;  and  the  latter  annals  record 
the  death  of  the  poet  O'Maelrioc,  the  most  dis- 
tinguished of  the  poets  of  Ireland,  next  after  the 
O'Dalys  ;  also  the  death  of  O'Nioc,  Abbot  of 
Kilbeggan ;  and  they  also  record  the  burning  of 
that  part  of  the  town  of  Athlone  belonging  to 
Meath. 

E  In  his  place. — This  passage  is  thus  rendered, 


12190 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


197 


A  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,  over- 
took them,  and  defeated  the  English,  of  whom  upwards  of  one  hundred 
persons  were  either  slain  or  drowned.  The  son  of  O'Conor  and  some  of  his 
people  fell  fighting,  in  the  heat  of  the  conflict*. 

4 
THE  AGE  OF  CHKIST,  1219. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  nineteen. 

Hugh  O'Malone,  Bishop  of  Clonmacnoise,  was  drowned. 

Fonaghtan  O'Bronan,  Coarb  of  St.  Columbkille,  died ;  and  Flann  O'Brol- 
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  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  (Donnell  More)  into  the  Eough  Third  of 


word  for  word,  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals 
of  Ulster  :  "  A.  D.  1219.  Fonaghtan  O'Bronan, 
Coarb  of  Colum-kill,  died.  Flan  O'Brolcan  was 
put  in  his  place  in  the  coarbship ;"  and  thus  by 
Colgan,  in  Trias  T/taum.,  p.  506 :  "  Fanactanus 
O'Broin,  Abbas  Dorensis,  obiit;  et  in  ejus  locum 
Flannius  O'Brolchain  suffactus  est." 

In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  it 
is  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  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,  when  a  dispute  arose  between 


him  and  Godfrey  O'Deery,  the  Erenagh,  about  the 
professorship,  when  the  matter  was  referred  to 
the  Coarb  of  St.  Patrick,  who  settled  their  dif- 
ferences, and  decided,  by  consent  of  all  the  parties, 
that  John  Mac  Infhir  leighinn  should  be  ap- 
pointed to  the  professorship. 

u  Manm,  mctjnur-. — He  was  the  tenth  son  of 
Turlough  More  O'Conor,  Monarch  of  Ireland — 
See  Book  of  Lecan,  fol.  72,  b,  col.  4. 

w  Cloontuskert,  cluctin  ruaipcipc There  are 

two  places  of  this  name  in  Connaught,  but  the 
one  here  referred  to  is  unquestionably  that  si- 
tuated near  the  River  Suck,  about  five  miles 
south  of  Ballinasloe,  in  the  county  of  Galway, 
where  are  the  ruins  of  an  extensive  monastery 
erected  by  O'Kelly.  Conor  Moinmoy  O'Conor, 
the  father  of  Melaghlin  O'Conor,  who  had  his 
house  here,  made  great  efforts  to  wrest  the  ter- 
ritory of  Moinmoy  from  the  O'Kellys  of  Hy- 
Many,  and  erected  a  castle  at  Ballinasloe,  in  the 
very  heart  of  their  country. 


Rio^hachna  eiReawN.  [1220. 


bpuaip  bpai^De,  -]  urhla  uf  puaipc,  i  ui  ftai^illij,  -\  cara  aoba  pinn  uite  -[ 
gabail  Do  mp  fin  cpe  pfpaib  manach  50  |io  milleab  laip  gac  conaip  cpep  a 
ccuDlicaiD  ecip  all,  ~\  cuaic  ooneoc  bai  i  pppfpabhpa  ppipp. 

Ualcjia  oe  lacg,  1  mac  uilliam  biipc  Do  ceacc  a  Sajcoibh. 

Ouboapa  mac  TTluipfoaij  ui  maille  Do  mapbab  i  n^fimeal  la  carol 
cpoibhbfpcc  ina  longpopn  pfm  cpe  na  rhijniorhaibh. 

Gnoa  ijac  t>anaip  ui  rhaoilciapdm  Do  ecc. 

QO1S  CR1O3O,  1220. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceo,  a  pice. 

lacobup  Do  rocc  i  nGpinn  ina  lejaiDec  on  bpapa  Do  pfiDiuccaD,  -\ 
DopoucchaD  Dal  ecclapracoa  na  hGpeann,  ~\  a  ool  pop  cculaibh  Dopioipi. 

Oiapmaic  mac  TCuaiDpi  (.1.  mac  coippDealbaig  rhoip)  Concobaip  Do  map- 
ba6  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. 

ITlaolpeachlainn,  mac  maoilpeclainn  bice  Do  bachab  ap  loc  pib. 

Diapmaic  mac  bpiain  Daill  Do  mapbab  Do  mac  marjarhna  ui  bpiain  cpe 
rheabail. 

SluaijeaD  la  ualcpa  De  lacg,  -)  la  gallaib  mi&e  50  liach  liacc  50  nDfpn- 

x  Rough  Third  of  Connaught,  jaipBcpiun  Con-  Brian,  the  brother  of  the  Monarch  Niall,  of  the 

nacc  —  Connell  Mageoghegan,  in  his  translation  Nine  Hostages,  and  ancestor  of  the  most  dis- 

of  the  Annals  of  Clonniacnoise,  states  that  the  tinguished  families  of  Connnught. 

rough  third  of  Connaught  comprised  the  counties  *  CPMattey,  ua  maille.  —  The  O'Malleys  were 

of  Leitrim,  Longford,  and  Cavan.  "  A.  D.  765.  The  chiefs  of  Umhall,  a  territory  comprising  the  ba- 

Kules  of  St.  Quasran  and  St.  Aidan  were  preached  ronies  of  Murrisk  and  Burrishoole,  in  the  west 

in  the  three  thirds  of  Counaught,  whereof  the  of  the  county  of  Mayo.     It  was  divided  into  two 

two  Brenyes  and  Annally,  counties  of  Leytrym,  parts,  called  Upper  and  Lower  Umhall,  the  for- 

Longford,  and  Cavan  were  one  third  part  called  mer  comprising  the  barony  of  Murrisk,  and  the 

the  Rough  Third  Part  of  Connaught."  latter  that  of  Burrishoole.     These  divisions  are 

y  Race  of  Aedh  Finn,  car  ae6a  pinn,  i.  e.  the  called  the  Owles  by  English  writers  —  See  map 

O'Rourkes,  O'Reillys,  and  their  correlatives,  de-  prefixed  to  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of 

scended  from  Aedh  Finn,  son  of  Feargna,  the  son  Hy-Fiac/irac/t,  printed  for  the  Irish  ArcliEeologi- 

of  Fergus,  son  of  Muireadhach,  son  of  Eoghan  cal  Society  in  1844. 

Sriabh,  son  of  Duach  Galach,  who  was  son  of  a  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, 
and  from  all  the  race  of  Aedh  Finny.  He  afterwards  passed  through  Ferma- 
nagh, and  destroyed  every  place  through  which  he  passed,  both  lay  and  eccle- 
siastical 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,  1220. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  twenty. 

Jacobus  came  to  Ireland  as  the  Pope's  Legate,  to  regulate  and  constitute 
the  ecclesiastical  discipline  of  Ireland,  and  then  returned  homeb. 

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.  Mulrony  O'Dowda  was  drowned  on  the  same  expedition. 

Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Melaghlin  Beg  [O'Melaghlin],  was  drowned  in  Lough 
Ree. 

Dermot,  the  son  of  Brian  Dall,  was  treacherously  slain  by  the  son  of'Mahon 
O'Brien. 

An   army   was   led   by  Walter  de    Lacy  and  the  English  of  Meath  to 

contain  the  following  entries,  of  which  the  Four  Salvation." 

Masters  have  collected  no  account:  "A.D.  1219-          But  in  the  Annals  ofKilronan,  under  the  year 

The  Coarb   of  Feichin   of  Fore   mortuus   est."  1221,  this  entry  is  given  differently,  thus:  A.  D. 

"Cluain  Coirbthe  [Kilbarry]  was  burned,  both  1221.  lacop  penciail  DO  rfcc  map  legdm  6 

its  houses  and  church,  in  this  year,  and  Drogheda  Roim  bo  pebujao  6al  ejlapDacoa,  7  eipeaju 

was  carried  away  by  the  flood.  na  n-ec  D'dp,  7  o'aipjeo  DO  eimrujuo  66   o 

b  Returned  home. — In  the  Annals  of  Clonmac-  cleipcib  6penn  cpe  Simoncacc,  7  imceacc  DO  a 

noise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  this  passage  h-6pmn  if  in  mbliaoum  ceona.     "A.  D.  1221. 

is  given  as  follows :  Jacob  Penciail  came  to  Ireland  as  a  Legate  from 

"  A.  D.  1 220,  Jacob,  the  Pope's  Legate,  came  Rome,  to  settle  the  ecclesiastical  affairs,  and  he 

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,  clergy  of  Ireland  by  simony,   and  he  departed 

and  constituted  many  wholesome  rules  for  their  from  Ireland  the  same  year." 


cmwac-a  Kio^hachca  eireeaNR 


200  cmwac-  [1221. 

rac  upmop  caifUm  ann.  Sluaijeab  ele  la  cacal  cpoibofpcc  cap  Sionamn 
roip  ip  in  ccalab,  gup  5ab  eccla  na  5oill  50  noeapnpac  pic  le  hua  cconcobh- 
aip,  i  co  po  pccaoilpioc  connaccaigh  an  caiplea 

Qn  caipneach  piabach  ma5  Flanncha6a,  -[  pfpjal  ™a5  pampaDam  DO 
mapbao  la  hdooh  ua  puaipc  .1.  mac  oomnaill  mic  peapjail,  -\  la  cloinn 
pfprnaighe. 

aois  cr?ioso,  1221. 

Qoip  Cpiopt),  mfle,  Da  ceo,  pice  a  h-doin. 

Sancc  Dominic  [DO  ecc]. 
Copbmac  ab  comaip  Do  rhapbaD. 

TTlac  hujo  De  laa  Do  fechc  i  nGpinn  Do  nfriiroil  Rig  Sajcan,  -|  camij 
i  mbaib  aoDa  uf  nell.  Oo  coiDpioD  ap  aon  i  najaiD  jail  Gpeann,  -|  Do 


c  Qr  baj,  now  called  baile  aca  liaj  and 
Anglicised  Ballyleague.  The  name  ac  liaj  was 
originally  applied  to  the  ford  on  the  Shannon  at 
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- 
naught. — See  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy-Many, 
printed  for  the  Irish  Archa;ological  Society,  in 
1843,  and  the  map  prefixed  to  the  same  work. 
The  Athliag  on  the  Shannon  is  called  Alhliag 
Finn  in  the  work  called  Dinnsenchus,  where 
it  is  explained  tlie  ford  of  Finn's  [Mac  Cum- 
haill's]  stones.  There  is  another  place  on  the 
River  Suck,  called  anciently  Athliag  Maenacain, 
i.  e.  St.  Maenacan's  Stony- ford,  now  Anglicised 
Athleague. 

d  Caladlt — This  territory  is  still  well  known 
in  the  country,  and  contains  the  parish  of  Eath- 
cline,  in  the  west  of  the  county  of  Longford. 
This  passage  is  given  as  follows,  in  Mageoghe- 
gan'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,  which  they  finished  almost; 


whereupon,  Cahall  Crovederg,  King  of  Con- 
nought,  with  his  forces,  went  to  the  west"  [recte 
east]  "  of  the  river  of  Synen,  and  the  English- 
men, seeing  them  encamped  at  Calace,  were 
strocken  with  fear,  and  came  to  an  attonement 
of  Truce ;  the  Englishmen  returned  to  their  own 
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: 

A.  D.  1221.  Cairlen  Ctra  liaj  bo  puabaipc 
Do  oenurh  oo  Ualopa  Oelaci,  7  DO  fluaj;  na 
iriibe  ule.  Oo  cualaoap  imoppu  Connacca  pm 
cancooap  caipip  miap  co  pancoDap  rpi  lap 
ITluincipe  h  Qnjoile,  7  a  maj  mbpea£mui6e 
jup  loipceDop  Dumjjfn  hi  Chumn,  7  co  noea- 
caoap  cpetnic  pap  ip  in  Cala6,  cup  pacba& 
ooib  in  caiplen  ap  eicin,  7  cpe  coip  pira. 

"A.  D.  1221.  The  Castle  of  Ath  liag  was  at- 
tempted to  be  made  by  Walter  De  Lacy  and  the 
forces  of  all  Meath.  But  when  the  Connacians 
heard  of  this,  they  came  across  [the  Shannon] 
from  the  West,  and  proceeded  through  the  mid- 
dle of  Muintir-Annaly,  and  Magh  Breagh- 


1221.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


201 


Athliagc,  where  they  erected  the  greater  part  of  a  castle.  Another  army 
was  led  by  Cathal  Crovderg,  eastwards  across  the  Shannon,  into  the  territory 
of  Caladhd,  and  the  English,  being  stricken  with  fear,  made  peace  with  him ; 
and  the  Connacians  destroyed  the  castle. 

The  Cairneach  Biabhach"  Mac  Clancyf,  and  Farrell  Magaurans,  were  killed 
by  Hugh,  the  son  of  Donnell,  who  was  son  of  Farrell  O'Rourke,  and  by  the 
Clann-Fermaigheh. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1221. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  twenty-one. 

St.  Dominic  [died]. 
Cormac,  Abbot  of  Comar',  was  killed. 

The  son  of  Hugo  de  Lacy  came  to  Ireland,  without.the  consent  of  the  King 
of  England,  and  joined  Hugh  O'Neill.  Both  set  out  to  oppose  the  English  of 


mhuidhe,  and  burned  O'Quin's  fortress,  and  pass- 
ing through  it  westwards  into  the  territory  of 
Caladh  [i.  e.  Caladh  na  h-Anghaile],  they  com- 
pelled the  castle  to  be  left  to  them,  on  conditions 
of  peace." 

'  The  Cairneach  Riabhach,  i.  e.  sacerdos  fuscus, 
the  swarthy  or  tan-coloured  priest.  O'Clery  ex- 
plains the  word  cuipneuc  by  receipt,  a  priest. 
It  was  the  name  of  a  celebrated  saint,  who  nou- 
rished in  the  sixth  century,  and  had  his  principal 
church  at  Dulane,  near  Kells  in  Meath. — See 
Battle  of  Magh  Eath.  pp.  20,  146. 

f  Mac  Clancy,  mag  plunnchaoa,  was  chief  of 
l)artry,  now  the  barony  of  Eossclogher,  in  the 
north  of  the  county  of  Leitrim. 

8  Magauran,  mac  rampaoain.  This  name  is 
sometimes  Anglicised  Magovern  and  Magowran. 
The  head  of  the  family  was  chief  of  the  territory 
of  Tealach  Eachdhach,  now  the  barony  of  Tully- 
haw,  in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of  Cavan. 

h  Clann-Fermaighe. — See  note  under  the  year 
1217.  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Kilronan 
record  the  death  of  Gilchreest  Magorman,  the 


great  priest  of  Taghshinny"  [in  the  county  of 
Longford], — "a  senior  distinguished  by  his  piety, 
charity,  wisdom,  learning,  and  writings, — on  his 
pilgrimage  in  the  sanctuary  of  Jniscloghran"  [in 
Lough  llee]. 

They  also  record  the  coming  of  Lucas  de  Le- 
treuille  [Netterville]  into  Ireland,  as  Primate  of 
all  Ireland,  and  remark  that  he  was  the  first 
Englishman  that  became  Primate  of  Ireland. 
For  more  of  this  Primate's  history,  see  Har- 
ris's Ware,  vol.  i.  pp.  64,  65. 

'  Comar This  place  is  called  Domhnach  Com- 

buir,  in  the  sixth  life  of  St.  Patrick,  upon  which 
Colgan  writes  the  following  note  in  Trias  Thaum., 
p.  114,  col.  2,  note  142:  "  Domnach  commuir 
hodie  sine  addito  vocatur  Comar,  estque  nobile 
coenobium  Diocesis  Dunensis  et  Connerensis." 
It  is  now  a  village  on  the  north-west  branch  of 
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 
Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  the  phrase 
is  bu  innoeoin,  which  would  mean  "  in  despite 


202 


[1222. 


beacarcap  cecup  50  ciilpacam,  ~\  po  pcaoilpioc  a  caiplen.  toccup  laparh 
i  niiDe,  -|  i  laijmb  gup  po  millpior  lie  Don  cup  pom.  Cionolaio  rpa  goill 
Gpeann  cfcpe  cara  picfc  50  Dealccam.  Uainicc  aob  6  neill  -|  mac  hugo 
cerpe  cara  commopa  ma  nagam  co  cruccpac  goill  annpinn  a  bpfr  pfin  Dua 
nell. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1222. 
Qoip  Cpiopo,  mfle,  Da  ceo,  pice  aoo. 

Gn  reppcop  mag  ^elain  eppcop  cille  Dapa  t>ecc. 

Qilbm  ua  maolmuaiD  eppcop  pfpna  Decc. 

TTlaoilipa  ua  ploinn  ppioip  eapa  mic  nepc  oecc. 

Ua6g  ua  baoijill  ponup  i  cacca6  cuaipcipr  Gpeann,  noonaicreac  peD, 
~\  maoine  oaop  jaca  Dana  Decc. 

Niall  6  nell  Do  papucchao  ooipe  im  injin  uf  cacdin.  l?o  Diojail  Dia  -| 
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 : 

"A.  D.  1221.  Hugo  de  Lacy  his  son,  came 
into  Ireland  against  the  King  of  England's  will, 
and  came  to  Hugh  O'Neale,  and- they  on  both 
sides  went  against  the  Galls  of  Ireland,  and 
spoyled  much  in  Meath,  Leinster,  and  Vlster, 
and  broke  down  the  castle  of  Culrathan.  And 
the  Galls  of  Ireland  gathered  24  Battles"  [bat- 
talions] "  to  Delgain,  and  Hugh  O'Neale  and 
Hugh  de  Lacye's  son  came  against  them  4  Bat- 
tles" [battalions]  "  where  the  Galls  gave  O'Neale 
his  own  will"  [co  cuc|xjc  juill  bpec  a  beoil 
pein  D'  O  Neill]. 

1  Under  this  ygar  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  re- 
cord the  death  of  DermotO'Culeachain,  "a  learned 
historian  and  scribe ;  a  man  who  had  more  books 
and  knowledge  than  any  one  of  his  time, — he  who 
had  transcribed  the  Mass  Book  of  Knock,  and  a 
befitting  Office  Book  for  Dermot  Magcraghty,  his 
tutor,  and  for  Gillapatrick,  his  own  foster-bro- 
ther, who  were  successively  coarbs  of  Achadh 


Fabhair"  [Aghagower,  in  the  county  of  Mayo]. 

m  Albin  O^Mnlhi/. — He  was  raised  to  this  dig- 
nity in  the  year  1 186.  He  wns  the  great  rival 
of  Giraldus  Cambrensis,  to  whom  the  bishop- 
ric of  Ferns  had  been  oifered  by  John  Earl  of 
Moreton,  afterwards  King  John;  but  Giraldus 
refusing  to  accept  of  it,  Albin  O'Molloy,  then 
Abbot  of  Baltinglass,  was  elected  bishop.  It  is 
stated  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innis- 
fallen,  that  this  "  righteous  philosopher  preached 
an  excellent  sermon  at  a  synod  in  Dublin,  iu 
the  year  1185,  on  the  chastity  of  the  clergy,  and 
proved  satisfactorily  before  the  archbishop,  John 
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,  who  was  called  Cam- 
brensis." 

For  more  particulars  of  the  history  of  this  re- 
markable prelate,  the  reader  is  referred  to  Har- 
ris's Ware,  vol.  i.  pp.  439,  440;  and  Lanigan's 


1222.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


203 


Ireland,  and  first  went  to  Coleraine,  where  they  demolished  the  castle.  They 
afterwards  went  into  Meath  and  Leinster,  and  destroyed  a  great  number  of 
persons  on  that  occasion.  The  English  of  Ireland  mustered  twenty-four  batta- 
lions at  Dundalk,  whither  Hugh  O'Neill,  and  the  son  of  Hugo  de  Lacy,  came 
to  oppose  them  with  four  great  battalions.  The  English  upon  this  occasion 
gave  his  own  demands  to  O'Neill1. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1222. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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-neircn,  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.  277- 
n  Eas-mac-neirc,  now  called  Gap  ui  pliloinri, 
from  the  family  of  O'Flynn,  who  were  the  he- 
reditary Erenaghs  of  the  place.  Ware  thought 
(Antiq.  c.  26,  at  Roscominon),  that  this  place 
might  have  been  the  same  as  Inchmacnerin,  an 
island  in  Lough  Key ;  but  this  notion  cannot  be 
reconciled  with  the  statements  of  the  older 
writers,  who  never  speak  of  it  as  an  island,  and 
agree  in  placing  it  near  the  River  6uiU  (Boyle). 
Colgan  thought  that  it  was  the  very  monastery 
which,  many  centuries  later,  fell  into  the  posses- 
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.  Hodie  vocatur  Monasterium 
Buellense  etque  ordinis  Cisterciensis." — Act. 
SS.  p.  494.  But  Colgan,  who  knew  but  little 
of  the  localities  about  Lough  Key,  is  unques- 
tionably wrong,  for  the  great  Cistercian  Abbey 
of  Boyle  was  that  called  Ath-da-Laarc.  O'Don- 

2 


nell,  in  his  Life  of  Columbkille,  lib.  i.  c.  104,  dis- 
tinctly points  out  the  situation  of  Eas  mic  Eire, 
as  follows: 

"  Inde  ultra  Senannum  versus  occidentem 
progressus  pervenit  [Columba]  ad  eum  locum 
cui  praeterlabentis  Buellii  fluininis  vicina  cath- 
aracta  nomen  fecit  Eas-mic-Eirc,  eumque  Deo 
sacravit."  The  place  is  now  called  Assylyn, 
which  is  but  an  anglicised  form  of  Gap  u  i  plilomn, 
and  is  situated  on  the  north  bank  of  the  River 
Boyle,  about  a  mile  west  of  the  town.  The  ruins 
of  the  church  still  remain,  and,  in  the  memory  of 
the  old  inhabitants,  a  part  of  a  round  tower  was 
to  be  seen  adjoining  it. 

0  Violated. — In  the  old  translation  of  the  An- 
nals of  Ulster  this  passage  is  rendered  as  follows : 
"  A.  D.  1222.  Neal  O'Neal  forcibly  took  away 
O'Cathan  his  daughter,  and  God  and  Columb- 
kill  miraculously  shortened  his  days."  The 
word  papujab  in  this  sense  means  to  profane 
or  violate.  We  cannot  understand  from  this 

n2 


204 


1223. 


police  mochoinni    ua    cacail   cijeapna    ceneoil  aooa    roip  q    riap    Do 
mapbab  la  Sfcnapac  mac  jiolla  na  naomli  uf  Sfchnapaigh  mp  na  bpac  Da 

muipcip  pen. 

TTlop  injean  ui  baoijill  bfn  Qrhlaib  uf  beollain  Decc. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1223. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceo,  pice,  a  cpf. 

TTlailiopa  mac  roippDealbaij  uf  Choncobaip  ppioip  innpi  mfooin  Decc. 

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 
Derry  by  some  misconduct  towards  the  daugh- 
ter of  O'Kane.  The  papujao  -would  be  com- 
mitted by  taking  her  a  prisoner  from  the  sanc- 
tuary, in  order  to  detain  her  as  a  hostage ;  by  vio- 
lating her  person,  without  carrying  her  away;  or 
by  forcing  her  away  in  abduction,  with  a  view  of 
marrying  her. — See  note  under  1223,  on  bacall 
mop  col  main  cille  mic  Duac. 

p  Maelisa,  t/ie  son  of  Turlough  0' 'Conor. — Ac- 
cording to  the  Book  of  Lecan,  fol.  72,  b,  col.  4, 
this  Maelisa  was  the  eldest  of  the  three  sons  of 
Turlough  More  O'Couor,  monarch  of  Ireland,  by 
his  married  wife.  It  appears  that  he  embraced 
a  religious  life  in  his  youth,  and  left  his  younger 
brothers  to  contend  with  each  other  for  the 
sovereignty  of  Connaught,  and  crown  of  Ireland. 

q  Inishmaine,  Imp  mfooin,  i.  e.  the  middle 
island. — It  is  situated  in  the  east  side  of  Lough 
Mask,  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  between  the  islands 
called  Inis  Cumhang  and  Inis  Eoghain.  It  con- 
tains the  ruins  of  a  small  but  beautiful  abbey. 

'  Croghan,  Cpuacam,  now  generally  called 
Rathcroghan — It  is  situated  in  the  parish  of 
Kilcorkey,  nearly  midway  between  Belanagare 
and  Elphin,  in  the  county  of  Roscominon.  This 


was  the  ancient  palace  of  the  Kings  of  Connaught, 
so  celebrated  in  the  Bardic  histories  of  Ireland 
as  having  been  erected  in  the  first  century  by 
Eochaidh  Feidhleach,  monarch  of  Ireland,  the 
father  of  the  celebrated  Meave,  Queen  of  Con- 
naught.  As  the  remains  at  Rathcroghan  have 
never  been  minutely  described  by  any  of  our 
topographical  writers,  the  Editor  is  tempted 
here  to  give  a  list  of  the  forts  and  other  ancient 
remains  still  visible  at  the  place.  It  may  be 
described  as  the  ruins  of  a  town  of  raths, 
having  the  large  rath  called  Rathcroghan,  placed 
in  the  centre.  This  great  rath  is  at  present 
much  effaced  by  cultivation ;  all  its  circumval- 
lations  (for  such  it  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,  round  chamber  with  a  conical  roof.  The 
natives  of  the  district  believe  that  there  were 
apertures  all  round  the  moat  which  admitted 
light  and  air  to  this  internal  chamber,  which  is 
now  inhabited  only  by  Queen  Mab  and  her  at- 
tendant fairies.  The  following  are  the  present 
names  of  the  raths  and  other  artificial  features 
which  stand  around  it.  Many  of  them  are 
clearly  modern,  though  the  features  to  which 
they  are  applied  are  ancient. 


1223.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


205 


Gilla  Mochoiimi  O'Cahill,  Lord  of  Kinelea  East  and  West,  was  slain  by 
Shaughnessy,  the  son  of  Gilla-na-naev  O'Shaughnessy,  after  having  been  be- 
trayed by  his  own  people. 

More,  daughter  of  O'Boyle,  and  wife  of  Auliffe  O'Beollain  [Boland],  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1223. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  twenty-three. 

Maelisa,  the  son  of  Turlough  O'Conorp,  Prior  of  Inishmaineq,  died. 

Duffagh  O'Duffy,  Abbot  of  Cong,  died. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  (Donnell  More)  to  Croghanr,  in  Connaught, 


1.  Rath  Screig,  to  the  north,  in  the  townland 
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.  Rath- 
beg,  in  the  townland  of  Rathcroghan,  lying  to 
the  north-west  of  the  great  central  rath  ;  5. 
Rathmore,  lying  about  five  hundred  paces  to  the 
north-west  of  Rathbeg ;  6.  Knockaun-Stanly, 
i.  e.  Stanly's  Hillock,  a  fort  lying  a  quarter  of  a 
mile  to  the  north-west  of  Rathcroghan  ;  7.  Rath- 
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.  Rath  fuadach,  lies  to  the  south-west  of  Rath- 
croghan, in  the  parish  of  Baslick,  and  gives  name 
to  the  townland  in  which  it  is  situated  ;  10. 
Caisiol  Mhanannain,  i.  e.  Manannan's  stone  fort, 
lies  to  the  south-west,  about  a  quarter  of  a  mile 
from  Rathcroghan,  in  the  townland  of  Glenbally- 
thomas.  This  caisiol  or  circular  cyclopean  fort 
of  stone,  is  now  level  with  the  ground,  but  its 
outline  can  yet  be  traced  ;  11.  Roilig  na  Riogh, 
i.  e.  the  Cemetery  of  the  Kings,  lies  a  quarter  of 
a  mile  to  the  south  of  Rathcroghan.  This  was 
the  royal  cemetery  of  Connaught  in  pagan  times, 
and  has  been  much  celebrated  by  the  bards.  It 


is  of  a  circular  form,  is  surrounded  with  a  stone 
wall  now  greatly  defaced,  and  it  measures  one 
hundred  and  sixteen  paces  in  diameter.  It  ex- 
hibits several  small  tumuli,  now  much  effaced 
by  time.  One  of  these  was  opened  by  the  uncle 
of  the  late  Mr.  O'Conor,  of  Mount  Druid,  who. 
found  that  it  contained  a  small  square  chamber 
of  stone-work,  without  cement,  in  which  were 
some  decayed  bones. 

Close  to  the  north  of  Roilig-na-Riogh  is  a 
small  hillock,  called  Cnocan  na  gcorp,  i.  e.  the 
Hillock  of  the  Corpses,  whereon,  it  is  said,  the 
bodies  of  the  kings  were  wont  to  be  laid  while 
the  graves  were  being  dug  or  opened.  About 
two  hundred  paces  to  the  north  of  the  circular 
enclosure  called  Roilig-na-Riogh  is  to  be  seen  a 
small  circular  enclosure,  with  a  tumulus  in  the 
centre,  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  an- 
cestor of  the  O'Dowdas  of  Tir  Fiachrach.  This 
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,  and  three  feet  near  the  top.  It  gradually 
tapered,  and  was  nearly  round  at  the  top.  It  is 
called  the  caipre  oeari^,  or  red  pillar-stone,  by 


206 


[1224. 


appame  In  ccuacaib  connachc,  i  cap  Suca  piap  ^np  mill  -)  gup  cpfchloipcc 
jach  cip  gup  a  paimcc  co  ppuaip  a  mbpai£oe  -\  a  nurhla. 

Seachnupach  mac  jiolla  na  naom  uf  peachnupaij  Do  rhapbab  DO  cloinn 
cuilein,  i  papucchaD  na  bacMa  moipe  Cholmdin  cille  mic  Duach  uime. 

ITlupcTiaD  cappac  ua  pfpjail  Do  mapbab  Daon  upcop  paijDe,  05  Denarh 
Speippi  ap  Got)  mac  Qmlaoibh  uf  pfpjuil. 

QO1S  CR1O3D,  1224. 
Cloip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceo,  a  cfchaip. 

TTlamipcip.  8.  ppompiaip  i  nacluain  Do  nonnpcnab  la  cacal  cpoiboeapg  ua 
cconcobaip  la  pij  connacc  in  eppuccoioeacc  cluana  mic  noip  ap  bpu  na 
pionna  allanoip. 


Duald  Mac  Firbis,  in  his  account  of  the  monarch 
Dathi,  in  the  pedigree  of  the  O'Dowdas.  See 
Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  printed  for 
the  Irish  Archasological  Society  in  1 844,  pp.  24, 
25,  note  m. 

12.  Cathairna  Babhaloide,  the  caher  or  stone 
Fort  of  the  feasting  Party,  lies  about  three  quar- 
ters of  a  mile  to  the  east  of  Rathcroghan  ;  13. 
Carn  Ceit,  lies  one  mile  to  the  south-west  of  Eath- 
croghan  ;  it  is  a  tumulus  raised  over  the  cele- 
brated Ceat  Mac  Magach,  a  Connacian  champion 
who  flourished  in  the  first  century,  and  was  con- 
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  north- 
west of  Rathcroghan,  the  one  a  large  square  rock 
called  Milleen  Meva,  the  other,  measuring  nine 
feet  in  length,  two  feet  in  breadth,  and  about 
two  feet  in  thickness,  is  called  Misgan  Meva. 

There  are  also  some  curious  natural  caves  near 
this  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 


the  Ordnance  Map  of  the  county  of  Roscominon, 
sheets  21  and  22. 

8  Clann-Cuilen — Until  the  year  1318  the 
territory  of  the  Clann  Cuileain,  which  belonged 
to  the  Mac  Namaras  of  Thomond,  was  a  small 
district  lying  eastwards  of  the  River  Fergus  in 
the  county  of  Clare,'  and  containing  the  follow- 
ing parishes,  viz.,  Quin,  Tulla,  Cloney,  Dowry, 
Kilraghtis,  Kiltalagh,  now  included  in  the  parish 
of  Inchacronan,  Templemaley,  Inchacronan,  and 
Kilmurry-na-Gall.  But  after  the  year  1318,  in 
which  the  Hy-Bloid  were  defeated  by  the  descen- 
dants of  Turlough  O'Brien,  aided  by  the  Mac 
Namaras,  the  latter  got  possession  of  nearly  the 
entire  country  lying  between  the  River  Fergus 
and  the  Shannon. 

'  Backal  tnor,  i.  e.  the  great  crozier This  re- 
lic is  yet  extant,  but  in  very  bad  preservation. 
It  is  in  the  cabinet  of  George  Petrie,  Esq.,  Au- 
thor of  the  Essay  on  the  Round  Towers,  and  an- 
cient Ecclesiastical  Architecture  of  Ireland. 

u  Colman  Mac  Duach,  i.  e.  Colman  the  son  of 
Duach,  who  founded  the  church  called  Kilmac- 
duagh,  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 
Clann-Cuilen5,  a  deed  by  which  the  Bachal  mor'  of  St.  Colman",  son  of  Duacli, 
was  profaned*. 

Murrough  Carragh  O'Farrell  was  slain  [at  Granard,  An.  Ult.]  by  an  arrow, 
in  a  battle  against  Hugh,  the  son  of  AulifFe  O'Farrell". 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1224. 

* 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  twenty-four. 

The  Monastery  of  St.  Francis  at  Athlone,  was  commenced  by  Cathal  Crov- 
derg  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  in  the  diocese  of  Clonmacnoise,  on  the  east- 
ern 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  unbounded  hospitality.  See  Colgan's  Jlcta 
SS.,  p.  248. 

"  Was  profaned,  oo  papu  jab When  parties 

had  sworn  on  a  crozier  or  any  relic  to  observe 
certain  conditions,  such  as  to  offer  protection  to 
a  man  in  case  he  made  his  appearance,  and  that 
such  an  oath  was  afterwards  violated,  the  crozier 
or  relic,  in  the  language  of  these  Annals,  was 
said  to  be  profaned.  The  true  application  of  the 
word  papu^ab  will  appear  from  the  following 
passage  in  these  Annals  at  the  year  907  : 

A.  D.  907.  Sapuccab  Gpomacha  ta  Cfpn- 
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 
Goba,  pij;  in  tuaipcipc  ip  in  loc  ceona  hi 
ccionn  papai^re  paopaicc. 

It  is  translated  by  Colgan  as  follows  in  his 
Annals  of  Armagh  : 

"  907.    Basilica  slrdmathana  sacrileqam  vim 

«7 


passaper  Kernachamimjiliwn  Dulgeni  ;  qui guen- 
dam  Captiuum  eo  refugij  causa  effuffientem,  ex 
Ecclesia  sacrilego  ausu  extraxit,  et  in  lacu  de  Loch 
Kirr  vrbi  versus  occidentem  adiacenti,  suffbcauit, 
sed  Kernac/iamts  iustam  tanii  sacrilegij  poenam, 
max  luit,  per  Niettum  filium  Aidi  Regem  Aquilo- 
naris  partis  :  et  postea  totius  Hibernire  in  eodt-m 
lacu  suffocatus." — Trias  Thaum.  p.  296 ;  see  also 
note  on  Termon  Caelainne  under  the  year  1225. 

w  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  have 
the  following  entries,  which  have  been  omitted 
by  the  Four  Masters  : 

"A.  D.  1223.  Clonmacnoise  was  burned,  in- 
cluding two  churches,  and  many  valuable  arti- 
cles. 

"  A  great  storm  occurred  the  day  after  the  fes- 
tival of  St.  Matthew,  which  destroyed  all  the' 
oats  throughout  Ireland  that  remained  unreaped 
in  the  fields. 

"  Finn  O'Carmacan,  a  steward  to  the  King  of 
Connaught,  and  who  held  much  laud,  died. 

"  Twenty-six  feet  were  added  to  the  church  of 
Tigh  .Sinche  [Taghshinny,  in  the  county  of 


208 


[1224. 


niaolmuipe  6  connmaic  eppoc  ua  bpiacpac  -|  cenel  ao6a  Do  ecc. 

Gppoc  Conmaicne,  .1.  an  jailleppoc  Decc. 

TTluipjiup  cananac  mac  Ruaibpi  uf  concobaip  aon  ba  Deappcnaijci  Do 
£aoibelaib  illegionn,  i  ccannraipeacr,  -\  a  noenarh  ueppa  Decc,  ~|  a  abnacal 
i  ccunga. 

TTlaolcaoi  17151  n  ua  Scingin  aipanneac  apDa  capna  Decc. 

TTlaoibpu  mac  an  eppuic  uf  rhaoilpajmaip  peappun  ua  bpiacpac  -|  ua 
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  i  ccuiD  Do  connaccaib,  .1.  i  ccip  maine  i 
Sooam,  i  m  uib  oiapmaca  =]c.  Diap  pap  ce6m,  ~|  jalap  aibbpec  DO  cfcpaib 


Longford],  by  the  priest  of  the  town,  namely, 
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  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.  Wil- 
liam Delacie  and  the  English  of  Meath,  with  their 
forces,  founded  a  castle  at  Loghloygeaghan ;  the 
Connoghtinen  of  the  other  side  came  with  their 
forces  to  Loghloygeachan"  [and]  "  the  ward  of 
the  said  castle  came  forth  to  the  principalls  of 
Connoght,  and  as  soone  as  they  were  out  of  the 
Castle  the  Connoughtmen  broke  the  same,  and 
so  departed.'' 

*  The  Bishop  of  Hy-Fiachrach  and  Kittelea, 
eappoc  ua  ppacpac  7  cinel  aooa. — By  this 
the  Annalists  mean  the  Bishop  of  Kilmacduagh: 
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- 
duagh. They  should  have  called  O'Conmaic 
Bishop  of  Hy-Fiachrach  Aidhne,  which  would 
express  the  diocese  of  Kilmacduach  without 
adding  another  word ;  or  have  called  him  Bishop 


of  Coill  Ua  bh-Fiachrach  and  Kinel  Aodha  na 
h-Echtghe,  which  would  express  and  distinguish 
the  two  districts  of  which  the  diocese  consisted, 
namely,  the  countries  of  O'Heyne  and  O'Shaugh- 
nessy :  but  the  fact  is,  that  the  Four  Masters 
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 
were  the  O'Farrells  and  Mac  Eannalls,  whose 
territories  are  comprised  in  the  diocese  of  Ar- 
dagh.  The  name  of  this  bishop  was  Eobert,  but 
his  surname  no  where  appears.  He  was  an  Eng- 
lishman, and  had  been  the  eleventh  abbot  of  St. 
Mary's  Abbey,  Dublin,  before  he  was  elevated 

to  the  see  of  Ardagh See  Ware's  Bishops  by 

Harris,  p.  250. 

z  Maurice. — The  natives  of  Cong  still  point 
out  his  tomb  in  the  Abbey,  but  some  suppose 
it  is  the  tomb  of  his  father  Roderic. 

a  Poetical  compositions,  a  noenarii  ueppa,  li- 
terally "  in  making  of  verses."  In  the  Annals 
of  Kilronan,  the  term  employed  is  ueppofnmui- 
beacc,  i.  e.  in  verse-making.  In  the  Lowland 
Scotch  a  maker  signifies,  "  a  poet." 

b  Ardcarne,  Qpb  capna. — A  vicarage  in  the 


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ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


209 


Mulmurry  O'Conmaic,  Bishop  of  Hy-Fiachrach  and  Kineleax  [Kilmacduagh] 
died. 

The  Bishop  of  Conmaicney  [Ardagh],  i.e.  the  English  bishop,  died. 

Maurice2,  the  Canon,  son  of  Roderic  O'Conor,  the  most  illustrious  of  the 
Irish  for  learning,  psalm-singing,  and  poetical  compositions*,  died,  and  was  in- 
terred at  Cong. 

Mulkevin  O'Scingin,  Erenagh  of  Ardcarne5,  died. 

Maelisa,  son  of  the  Bishop  O'Mulfover,  parson  of  Hy-Fiachrach  and  Hy- 
Awley,  and  materies  of  a  bishop  for  his  wisdom,  was  killed  by  the  son  of  Do- 
nough  O'Dowda,  a  deed  strange  in  him,  for  none  of  the  O'Dowda's  had  ever 
before  killed  an  ecclesiastic. 

A  heavy  and  awful  shower'  fell  on  a  part  of  Connaught,  namely,  on  Hy- 
Manyd,  Sodane,  in  Hy-Diarmadaf,  and  other  districts,  from  which  arose  a  mur- 


diocese  of  Elphin,  situated  in  the  barony  of 
Boyle  and  county  of  Roscommon,  and  about  four 
miles  to  the  east  of  the  town  of  Boyle.  This 
church  was  founded  by  St.  Beo-Aedh,  a  bishop 
who  died  on  the  8th  of  March,  524 ;  and  it  conti- 
nued for  some  time  to  be  the  head  of  a  bishop's 
see.  For  some  account  of  the  patron  saint  of 
this  church,  the  reader  is  referred  to  Colgan's 
Ada  Sanctorum,  at  8th  of  March ;  the  Feilire 
Aenguis,  and  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys,  at 
the  same  day ;  and  also  toLanigan's  Ecclesiastical 
History  of  Ireland,  vol.  i.  p.  462.  Archdall  places 
Ardcharn  in  the  county  of  Westmeath,  which 
is  a  very  strange  blunder,  as  Colgan,  his  autho- 
rity, had  described  it  as  in  Maghluirg,  in  Con- 
naught. 

Considerable  ruins  of  the  church  of  Ardcarne 
are  still  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  consti- 
tuted the  ancient  village  of  Ardcarne. 

c  A  heavy  and  awful  shower,  cior  aoBal 
aouarihap. — This  shower  is  also  mentioned  in 
the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  but  not  in  any  way  con- 

2 


nected  with  the  death  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  of 
which  the  Four  Masters  represent  it  as  an  omi- 
nous presage.  The  literal  translation  is  as  fol- 
lows: "A.  D.  1224.  A  shower  fell  in  parts  of 
Connaught,  namely,  in  Tirmany,  in  Soghan,  in 
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 
the  people,  after  having  taken  of  their  milk  and 
flesh,  contracted  many  diseases." 

d  Hy-Many,  ui  maine. — O'Kelly's  country, 
originally  extending  from  Athenry  to  the  Shan- 
non, and  from  the  borders  of  Thomond  to  Lanes- 
borough,  on  the  Shannon. 

"  Sodan This  was  the  country  of  the 

O'Mannins,  and,  as  appears  from  various  autho- 
rities, 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  terri- 
tory, in  the  year  1617,  the  reader  is  referred  to 
Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy-Many,  printed  for  the 
Irish  Archaeological  Society  in  1843,  p.  164. 

' Hy-Diarmada,  ui  Oiapmaoa. — This  was  the 
tribe  name  of  the  O'Concannons,  which  also  be- 
E 


210 


[1224. 


net  ccpfoc  pempairi  lap  ccaicfrh  an  peoip  do  pliuch  an  aoc  pa  66ib.  Do 
jnioD  beop  lace  na  ninnileb  pn  galpaign  inmeoDonca  50  hepcarhail  Do  na 
oaomib  Do  coimleb  e.  6a  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 


came  that  of  their  country.  The  head  of  the 
O'Concannons  was  seated  at  a  place  called  Kil- 
tullagh,  in  the  county  of  Galway,  in  1585,  and 
his  country  was  then  considered  a  part  of  Hy- 
Many. — See  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy- Many,  p. 
19,  note  '. 

8  Cathal  Crovderg,  Carol  cpoiboeapj,  i.e. 
Cathal,  or  Charles  of  theRedHand. — 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  hua  concobuip, 
pi  connacc,  7  pi  jjaioel  Gpenn  ap  tocuccaobac 
i  mainipcip  cnuic  tnuaioe  u°.  Kul.  lunn,  in 
caen  jaioel  ip  pepp  camij  o  bpian  bopoma 
anuap  ap  uaipli,  7  ap  onoip ;  cojbalach  rpep- 
ajmup  cocuccacna  cuar;  pobapcanacpaiobip 
fuairnij  pomennail  na  pircana,  0615  ip  p6 
peiriiep  DO  jabao  oecmaio  co  olijcech  ap  cup 
i  n-iar  Gpenn ;  columain  connail  cpatobec 
ceprbpiarpac  cpemrhi  "j  cpipcaibecca  ;  cep- 
caijreoip  na  cincac,  7  na  coiboenach  ;  muj- 
aijceoip  na  meiplec  7  na  malapcac;  coime- 
cai  jcoiccenn  cacbuaoac  in  pecca  poo  blepcai^, 
o'd  cue  t)ia  be^onoip  i  culrham,  7  in  plaiciup 
netnoa  call  ap  nej  in  aibic  rhanaic  DO,  lap 
mbpeic  buaoa  6  ooman  7  o  oeman." 

Thus  rendered  in  the  old  translation  of  the 
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  Abbey  of  Knock-moy,  5  Kal.  Junij. 
The  best  Irishman  that  was  from  the  time  of 
Brien  Boroma,  for  gentility  and  honor ;  the  up- 


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.  Threshold,  meek  and  honest,  of 
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,  con- 
ning and  couragious ;  to  whom  God  gave  great 
honour  in  this  life,  and  everlasting"  [life]  "  in 
heaven,  dying  in  a  Munck's  habit,  overcoming 
the  world  and  the  Devill." 

Cathal  Crovderg  was  the  son  of  Turlough 
More  O'Conor,  Monarch  of  Ireland,  and  the  bro- 
ther of  Roderic  O'Conor,  the  last  of  the  Irish  mo- 
narchs.  According  to  the  traditional  story 
told  about  him  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Ballin- 
tober,  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  he  was  the  illegi- 
timate son  of  King  Turlough  by  Gearrog  Ny- 
Moran  of  the  territory  of  Umhall.  The  tra- 
ditional story,  which  is  very  vivid,  and  believed 
to  be  true,  runs  as  follows : 

"  Shortly  before  the  English  invasion  of  Ire- 
land, the  King  of  Connaught,  who  was  of  the  fa- 
mily of  O'Conor,  having  no  issue  by  his  lawful 
queen,  took  to  his  bed  a  beautiful  girl,  out  of 
the  territory  of  Umhall,  by  name  Gearrog  Ny- 
Moran,  who  soon  exhibited  Symptoms  of  fertility. 
When  the  Queen  of  Connaught  heard  of  this  de- 
monstration of  her  own  barrenness,  she  became, 
like  Sarah  of  old,  jealous  in  the  highest  degree, 
and  used  every  means  in  her  power  to  persecute 
the  King's  concubine.  She  even  had  recourse 
to  witches,  who  were  then  numerous  in  the  pro- 
vince, but  without  success,  until  at  last,  shortly 


1224.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


211 


rain  and  dreadful  distemper  among  the  cattle  of  the  aforesaid  territories,  after 
they  had  eaten  of  the  grass  moistened  by  this  shower,  and  the  milk  of  these 
cattle  produced  a  variety  of  inward  maladies  in  the  people  who  used  it.  It  was 
no  wonder  that  these  ominous  signs  should  appear  this  year  in  Connaught,  for 
great  was  the  evil  and  affliction  which  they  suffered  in  this  year,  viz.,  the  death 
of  Cathal  Crovderg*,  son  of  Turlough  More  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  a  man 


before  Gearrog  was  about  to  be  delivered,  a  ce- 
lebrated witch,  more  skilful  than  the  rest,  who 
lived  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Bally  toberpatrick, 
in  the  county  of  Mayo,  presented  the  Queen  with 
a  magical  string,  with  three  intricate  knots,  tel- 
ling her,  that  as  long  as  she  kept  it  in  her  pos- 
session Gearrog  Ny-Moran,  against  whom  its 
magical  properties  were  directed,  could  never  be 
delivered  of  a  child.  Before,  however,  the  string 
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  soon  as  the  last  word  of  the  incantation 
had  been  pronounced,  he  was  fixed,  spell-bound, 
in  his  awkward  position.  He  continued  thus  for 
several  days  and  nights,  and  though  his  mother 
wished  for  death  she  could  not  die.  At  length 
a  certain  good  man,  who  had  heard  of  the  magi- 
cal string,  and  of  the  pitiable  condition  of  O'Mo- 
ran's  daughter',  called  one  day  at  the  palace,  with 
a  view  to  destroy  the  properties  of  the  string, 
and  the  Queen,  who  held  him  in  high  esteem, 
having  no  suspicion  of  his  design,  bade  him  wel- 
come and  asked  him  the  news.  He  answered, 
with  some  expression  of  annoyance  on  his  coun- 
tenance, that  the  principal  news  in  the  west  of 
Connaught,  was,  that  Gearrog  Ny-Moran  had 
brought  forth  a  son  for  the  King  of  Connaught. 
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 
daughter  from  giving  birth  to  a  roydamna,  and 
cast  it  into  the  fire  in  his  presence,  calling  down 

2 


all  sorts  of  execrations  on  the  head  of  the  old 
sorceress,  who  had  so  much  deceived  her.  No 
sooner  had  the  last  knot  of  the  string  been  de- 
stroyed by  the  action  of  the  fire,  than  the  King's 
son,  who  had  been  so  long  kept  spell-bound  by  its 
influence,  was  ushered  upon  the  theatre  of  his 
future  greatness;  but  his  crov,  or  that  part  of 
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 
he  received  the  cognomen  of  Cnoib-beapj,  or 
'  itie  Red-handed''  Crov-derg. 

"The  Queen  of  Connaught,  who  was  of  a  most 
powerful  family,  continued  to  persecute  the 
red-handed  child  and  his  mother,  with  all  the 
perseverance  of  a  jealous  barren  woman;  but 
the  child,  who  had  all  the  appearance  of  royalty 
in  his  countenance,  was  sheltered  by  the  clergy 
of  the  province ;  and  when  the  Queen  discovered 
that  he  was  lurking  in  one  monastery,  he  was 
secretly  sent  away  to  another.  In  this  manner 
was  he  sheltered  for  three  years  in  the  monaste- 
ries of  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 
the  child  any  longer.  His  mother  then  fled 
with  him  into  Leinster,  where,  for  many 
years,  disguised,  she  supported  him  by  labour- 
ing work.  When  the  boy  grew  up,  although 
he  was  constantly  told  of  the  royalty  of  his 
birth,  and  of  the  respectability  of  the  O'Mo- 
rans,  still,  having  no  hopes  of  being  able  to  re- 
turn to  his  native  province  as  long  as  the  Queen 
lived,  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 
cpuatlleD  a  jfnmnaiDeacca  cap  a  heip  co  a  bap.  Qp  pe  a  linn  beop  ap 
mo  po  gabao  DeacmaD  50  Dlijceac  cecup  i  nGpinn.  Qn  Rf  pfpen  poipccliDi 
pi,  -]  an  caicmileb  conDail  cpaibcec  ceipcbpfcac  D'CCC  an  coccmab  la  picfc 
DO  pampab  (Dia  luain  Do  painnpiub)  i  naibi'o  manaij  lee  i  maimpnp  cnuic 


labouring  work  for  subsistence;  and  it  was  ob- 
served by  the  clowns  of  Leinster,  that  he  exhi- 
bited no  appearance  of  industry,  or  taste  for 
agricultural  pursuits,  but  was  constantly  telling 
stories  about  Kings,  wars,  and  predatory  ex- 
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  and  buddaghs, 
whom  he  held  in  the  highest  contempt.  At 
length  a  Connaught  Bollscaire,  or  bearer  of  pub- 
lic news,  passing  through  Leinster,  happened  to 
come  into  the  very  field  in  which  Crovderg 
was  employed,  with  several  others,  reaping  rye. 
They  immediately  recognized  by  his  dress  that 
he  was  a  Bollscaire,  and,  therefore,  inquired 
what  proclamation  he  was  publishing.  He  re- 
plied in  the  set  words  of  his  commission,  that 
the  King  of  Connaught  was  dead,  and  that  the 
people,  assembled  in  council,  had  declared  that 
they  would  have  no  king  but  Cathal  Crovderg 
his  son ;  and,  he  added,  I,  and  many  others,  have 
been  for  several  weeks  in  search  of  him  in  diffe- 
rent parts  of  Ireland,  but  without  success ;  some, 
who  wish  to  support  the  claim  of  rivals  to  the 
throne  of  Connaught,  have  reported  that  the 
Queen,  his  step-mother,  had  him  secretly  assas- 
sinated, but  others  are  of  opinion,  that  he  lurks 
in  some  •  obscure  place,  disguised  in  humble 
garb,  and  that  he  will  return  home  as  soon  as 
he  will  hear  of  this  proclamation.  He  will  be 


at  once  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  mi- 
nutes in  a  reverie.  His  comrades  told  him  to 
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 
mitten,  with  which  he  constantly  kept  the  red 
hand  concealed,  and  exhibited  it  to  the  Bolls- 
caire ;  and  his  eye  beamed,  and  his  countenance 
glowed  with  all  the  majesty  of  his  father's, 
when  he  first  mounted  the  throne  of  Connaught. 
The  Bollscaire  recognizing  him  at  once  by  his 
resemblance  to  his  father,  fell  prostrate  at  his 
feet.  Cathal  cast  the  sickle  on  the  ridge,  say- 
ing: 'Slan  leur,  a  coppam,  anoif  oo'n  cloi- 
6eam,'  i.  e. '  Farewell,  sickle,  now  for  the  sword.' 
And  to  this  day,  Slan  charail  paoi  an  cpeajal, 
i.  e.  Cathal's  farewell  to  the  rye,  meaning  a  fare- 
well never  to  return,  has  been  a  common  proverb 
among  the  Sil-Murray  and  their  followers. 

"  He  returned  home  without  delay,  and  was 
solemnly  inaugurated  King  of  Connaught  on 
Carnfree,  near  Tulsk,  in  the  presence  of  the  twelve 
chieftains  and  twelve  coarbs  of  Sil-Murray ;  and 
though  he  found  many  rivals  in  the  province 
before  him,  he  put  them  all  down  by  his  supe- 
rior wisdom  and  valour.  When  he  had  restored 
his  native  province  to  tranquillity  he  did  not 
forget  his  old  friends  the  friars,  who  had  made 


1224.] 


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 
God  most  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, 
in  whose  time  most  tithes  were  lawfully  received  in  Ireland  ;  this  just  and  up- 
right king,  this  discreet,  pious,  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 
Knockmoy11,  ( which  monastery,  together  with  its  site  and  lands,  he  himself  had 


such  efforts  to  save  him  from  the  fury  of  the 
Queen.  He  erected  several  monasteries  for  them 
on  an  extensive  scale,  and  in  magnificent  style, 
namely,  the  monastery  of  Ballintober  in  Mayo, 
which  was  three  years  in  building,  and  which 
was  roofed  and  shingled  with  oak  timber ;  the 
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.  72,  b,  col.  4,  that  Turlough  More 
O'Conor,  King  of  Ireland,  had  three  sons  by 
his  married  wife,  namely,  Maelisa,  Coarb  of  St. 
Comau,  who  was  his  eldest  son  and  heir,  Aedh 
L)all,  and  Tadhg  Aluinn. 

Dr.  O'Conor,  in  his  suppressed  work.  Memoirs 
of  the  Life  and  Writings  of  Charles  O'Conor  of 
Belanagare,  who  was  his  own  grandfather,  al- 
ludes to  the  traditions  preserved  in  the  country 
about  the  valour  of  "  Charles  the  Red-handed," 
but  makes  no  allusion  whatever  to  the  story 
above  given,  which,  though  in  great  part  fabu- 
lous, is  generally  believed  to  be  true  by  the 
story-tellers  and  farmers  in  the  counties  of 
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 
other  entries  in  those  Annals,  and  the  Editor 
must,  therefore,  reserve  the  discussion  of  the 


question  for  another  work. 

Ledwich,  in  his  Antiquities  of  Ireland,  second 
edition,  p.  520,  says,  that  there  is  a  monument 
to  Cathal  Crovderg  in  the  Abbey  of  Knockmoy ; 
but  the  monument  in  that  abbey  to  which  he 
alludes,  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 
died  in  1402.  Ledwich  was  of  opinion  that  the 
fresco  paintings  on  the  north  wall  of  the  choir 
of  this  abbey,  were  executed  in  the  seventeenth 
century,  "  when,"  he  says,  "  the  confederate 
Catholics  possessed  themselves  of  the  abbeys  of 
Ireland,  which  they  everywhere  repaired,  and, 
in  many  instances,  adorned  with  elegant  sculp- 
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  Ma- 
lachy 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,  from  the  style 
of  the  abbey  of  Ballintober,  which  unquestion- 
ably exhibits  the  architecture  of  the  latter  part 
of  the  twelfth  century,  that  there  is  no  part  of 
that  of  Knockmoy  as  old  as  the  period  of  Cathal 
Crovderg. 

h  Knockmoy According   to   the   Annals   of 

Clonmacnoise,  as    translated   by   Mageoghegan, 


214 


[1224. 


muaibe  lap  na  he&baipr  Do  bu&en  Do  t)ia,  i  Do  na  manchaib  poime  pin  juna 
ponn  ~\  peaponn,  ~|  a  aDnacal  innce  co  huapal  onopac.  Q  bpupr  loca 
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& 
cpe  eccfn  mnd  Do  cabaipc,  i  a  Idrha  ~\  a  copa  Do  ben  Do  neoc  oile  lap 
nDeriarh  meple  Do.  t)o  coimeD  pmacca  placa  innpin. 

Qo6  mac  Concobaip  maonrhoiji  Decc  05  coibecc  6  lepupalem,  -j  6  ppur 
lopDanen  Do. 

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  mac  cerfpnaijui  cepin  njeapnaciappaije  toca  na  naipnea6 
Decc. 


Cathal  Crovderg  died  at  Broyeoll  in  Connoght. 
Bruigheol,  or  Briola,  is  in  Clann-Uadagh,  near 
the  River  Suck,  in  the  county  of  Eoscommon. 
The  entry  is  as  follows : 

"A.  D.  1223.  Cahall  Crovederge  O'Connor, 
King  of  Connoght,  and  King  of  the  Irish  of  Ire- 
land, one  that  used  reverence  and  bounty  towards 
the  Church,  and  both  ritch,  fortunate,  and 
happy,  died  in  Broyeoll  in  Connought,  and  Hugh 
mac  Cahall,  his  son,  was  constituted  King  of 
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 
Lough  Mask.  Cula6,  in  this  part  of  Ireland, 
signifies  a  landing  place  for  boats,  and  is  synony- 
mous with  pope;  though  in  the  county  of  Eos- 


common  it  means  a  wet  meadow,  or  a  strath  or 
holm  on  the  margin  of  a  lake  or  river. 

k  ^  robbery,  iap  noenarii  m6ple This  pas- 
sage is  given  more  satisfactorily  in  the  An- 
nals of  Kilronan,  as  follows:  ',' Hugh  O' Conor, 
his  own  son,  assumed  the  government  of  Con- 
naught  after  him,  and  right  worthy  of  the  dig- 
nity he  was,  for  he  had  been  a  king  for  his  effi- 
ciency, might,  and  puissance,  in  his  father's 
life-time,  and  he  had  the  hostages  of  Connaught 
in  his  hands.  And  God  permitted  his  succession, 
for  such  was  the  strictness  of  his  law,  that  no 
evils  were  committed  in  Connaught  at  his  ac- 
cession, but  one  act  of  plunder  on  the  road  to 
Croagh-patrick,  for  which  the  perpetrator  had 
his  hands  and  feet  cut  off;  and  one  woman  was 
violated  by  the  son  of  O'Monahan,  for  which  he 
was  deprived  of  sight." 


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  as- 
sumed 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  rob- 
bery". 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-Tomalty1,  died 
on  his  pilgrimage,  at  Toberpatrick"1. 

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. 

Mahon,  the  son  of  Kehernagh  O'Kerrin,  Lord  of  Kerry  ofLough-na-narneyn, 
died. 

1  Clann-Tomalty,  clann  comalcai  j.  —  This  rony  of  Costello,  in  the  south-east  of  the  county 

tribe  was  situated  in  the  plains  of  Roscommon,  of  Mayo.  Colgan,  and  after  him  O'Flaherty, 

not  far  from  Rathcroghan,  but  they  sunk  into  have  supposed,  that  the  territory  of  Kierrigia  de 

obscurity,  and  were  deprived  of  property  at  so  Loch  nairne  was  co- extensive  with  the  barony 

early  a  period,  that  the  extent,  or  even  exact  of  Belathamhnais,  otherwise  called  Costello,  in 

position,  of  their  cantred,  cannot  now  be  -deter-  the  county  of  Mayo.— See  Trias  Thaum.,  p.  137 ; 

mined-  and  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  46,  p.  276.  But  this, 

m  Toberpatrick,  copap  pacpuic,  i.  e.  St.  Pa-  which  is  put  as  a  mere  conjecture  by  Colgan,  is 

trick's  well — This  is  certainly  the  Abbey  of  certainly  incorrect ;  for  the  mountainous  district 

Ballintober,  in  the  county  of  Mayo.  There  are  of  Sliabh  Lugha,  which  belonged  to  the  Galengse, 

countless  other  places  in  Connaught  so  called.  and  of  which  the  Kierrigii  never  possessed  any 

n  Kerry  of Lough-na-narney,  ciappaije  loca  na  portion,  formed  the  greater  part  of  that  barony. 

naipneao. — This  territory  is  now  simply  called  The  boundary  of  the  diocese  of  Achonry  runs 

ciuppaije  by  the  natives  of  it,  who  speak  the  across  the  barony  of  Costello,  in  such  a  manner 

Irish  language  remarkably  well.  It  comprises  as  to  divide  it  into  two  almost  equal  parts.  That 

the  parishes  of  Annagh,  Bekan,  and  Aghamore,  part  of  the  barony  to  the  north  of  this  boundary 

which  form  about  the  southern  half  of  the  ba-  is,  even  at  this  very  day,  called  Sliabh  Lugha, 


216 


emeciNN. 


[1224. 


Qn  capbap  gan  buain  50  peil  bpijoe,  -j  an  cpeabao  aga  Denarh  Do  bpij 
an  coccaib,  ~]  na  DominDe. 

TTlainiprip  Do  cojbdil  la  TTluipip  mac  gfpailc  (6  rrdcc  jfpalcaij  cille 
Dapa,  i  jeapalcaij  ofpmuriian)  in  eochaill  in  eappcoboicceachr  cluana  ip  in 
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 
boundary  is  Kerry  of  Lough-na-narney.  The 
lake  of  loc  na  n-dipnea6,  i.  e.  Lake  of  the  Sloes, 
from  which  this  territory  took  its  name,  is  si- 
tuated ou  the  boundary  between  the  parishes  of 
Bekan  and  Aghamore,  in  the  barony  of  Costello, 
and  is  now  more  generally  called  Mannin  Lough. 
Downing,  who  wrote  about  the  year  1682,  when 
the  name  of  this  lake  was  well  remembered,  puts 
the  situation  of  this  lake  beyond  dispute  by 
stating  that  the  castle  of  Mannin  is  in  Lough 
Arny.  "  There  is  likewise,"  he  says,  "  a  small 
lough  in  the  barony,  called  Lough  Arny  in  for- 
mer times.  In  the  west  end  thereof  stands  an 
antient  ruin  of  a  castle  called  Mannin."  See 
Map  to  the  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  ofHy- 
Fiachrach,  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  be- 
tween Kerry  of  Lough-na-narney  and  Sliabh 
Lugha,  or  O'Gara's  country. 

0  Maurice  Fitzgerald. — He  was  the  grandson  of 
the  Maurice  Fitzgerald  who  came  to  Ireland  with 
the  Earl  Strongbow,  and  who  died  on  the  1st  of 
September,  1177.  For  the  origin  of  the  family  of 
Fitzgerald  the  reader  is  referred  to  the  History  of 
the  Earls  of  Desmond,  by  the  celebrated  Daniel 
O'Daly,  published  at  Lisbon  in  1655,  under  the 
title  of  "  Initium  Incrementum  et  Exitus  Familice 
Giraldinorum,  Desmonice.  Comitum  Palatinorum 
Kyerria  in  Hibernia,  ac persecutionis  Hcereticorum 
Descriptto,  ex  nonnullisfragmentis  collecia,  ac  La- 
tinitate  donata."  In  this  work  O'Daly  deduces 
the  pedigree  of  the  Fitzgeralds  from  Troy,  and 
places  their  ancestors  among  the  followers  of 


-iEneas  into  Italy,  where  they  settled  in  Tus- 
cany, or  Etruria,  from  whence  some  of  the  fa- 
mily passed  into  Normandy,  thence  into  Eng- 
land, and,  in  process  of  time,  into  Ireland.  But 
the  Editor  is  of  opinion  that  there  is  no  authen- 
tic monument  of  the  history  of  this  family  earlier 
than  the  time  of  William  the  Conqueror,  with 
whom  they  seem  to  have  come  into  England, 
though  Mr.  Burke,  in  his  pedigree  of  the  Duke 
of  Leinster,  asserts  that  his  ancestor  Otho  was  a 
Baron  of  England  in  the  16th  year  of  Edward 
the  Confessor. 

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  Con- 
quest, is  given  as  follows  by  his  contemporary, 
Giraldus  Cambrensis  : 

"Erat  autem  Mauritius  vir  venerabilis  &  vere- 
cundus  :  vultu  colorato,  decentique  :  mediocri 
quodam  modicitate,  tarn  mediocribus  minor  quam 
modicis  maior.  Vir  tarn  animo  quam  corpore 
modificato  :  nee  illo  elato,  nee  hoc  dilatato:  In- 
nata  vir  bonitate  bonus  &  tamen  longe  cura  pro- 
pensiore  bonus  fieri,  quam  videri  malens.  Mau- 
ricio  modus,  in  omnibus  seruare  modum  :  vt 
credi  possit  suaruin  partium,  suique  temporis 
tarn  censura  morum,  quam  facetiarum  exemplum. 
Virbreuiloquus  et  sermone  perpauco  sed  ornato: 
puta,  plus  pectoris  habens  quam  oris,  plus  rati- 
onis  quam  orationis  :  plus  sapientia  [sapientiffi  ?J 
quam  eloquentia.  Et  tamen  cum  sermonem  res 
exigebat :  ad  sententiam  dicendam,  sicut  serus, 
sic  scientissimus.  Rebus  quoque  in  Martiis,  vir 
animosus  :  et  nulli  fere  strenuitate  secundus.  Ad 
capessenda  tamen  pericula,  nee  impetuosus  nee 
prseceps  :  sed  sicut  prouidus  in  aggrediendis  : 


1224.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


217 


The  corn  remained  unreaped  until  the  Festival  of  St.  Bridget  [1st  Fe- 
bruary], when  the  ploughing  was  going  on,  in  consequence  of  the  war  and 
inclement  weather. 

A  monastery  was  erected  by  Maurice  Fitzgerald3,  from  whom  the  Fitzge- 
ralds  of  Kildare  and  Desmond  are  descended,  at  Youghal",  in  the  diocese  of 
Cloyne,  in  Munsterq,  for  Franciscan  friarsr. 


sic  pertinax  erat  in  aggressis.  Vir  sobrius,  mo- 
destus,  et  castus  :  stabilis,  firmus,  atque  fidelis. 
Vir  quidem  non  expers  criminis  :  crimine  tamen 
omni  notabili  carens  et  enormi." — Hibernia  Ex- 
pugnata,  lib.  i.  c.  42. 

It  is  stated  by  some  popular  Irish  writers 
that  this  first  Maurice  Fitzgerald  was  ap- 
pointed Chief  Governor  of  Ireland  by  Henry 
II.  in  1173;  but  this  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 
Chief  Governors  of  Ireland  given  in  Harris's 
Ware,  vol.  iL  c.  15,  p.  102,  nor  in  any  other  trust- 
worthy authority  that  the  Editor  has  ever  seen ; 
but  his  grandson,  the  Maurice  mentioned  in  the 
text,  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  manda- 
tory letter  of  Henry  III.,  dated  26th  November, 
1216,  he  was  put  into  possession  of  Maynooth, 
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  Li- 
merick. According  to  the  tradition  among  the 
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 
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,  nor  any  authority  whatever 
older  than  a  manuscript,  entitled  Carbrice  No- 
titia,  written  in  1686,  which  formed  No.  591  of 


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 
shall  find  few  till  we  pass  Clancahill,  a  territory 
belonging  to  the  Donovans,  a  family  of  Royall 
Extraction  amongst  the  Irish.  They  came  hither 
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."  Dr.  Smith,  who  has  used  the  infor- 
mation in  this  MS.  throughout  his  Natural  and 
Civil  History  of  Cork,  repeats  the  same  passage, 
vol.  i.  p.  25,  but  quotes  no  authority  whatever. 

This  Maurice  died  on  the  20th  of  May,  1257, 
in  the  habit  of  St.  Francis,  and  was  succeeded 
by  his  son  Maurice  Fitz-Maurice  Fitzgerald, 
who  was  appointed  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland  on 
the  23rd  of  June,  1272. — See  Lodge's  Peerage, 
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  copy  from  the  Autograph  of  Duald  Mac 
Firbis,  in  the  same  Library. 

'  Toughed,  Gocmll,  a  well-known  town  in 
the  county  of  Cork,  situated  on  the  River  Black- 
water,  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 
sometimes  prefixed  to  names  of  territories  and 
countries  in  the  Irish  language. 

'  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  con- 
tain the  following  entry  relative  to  the  son  of 


2  F 


218  aNNa?,a  Rioghachca  eircecmN.  [1225. 

aois  crcioso,  1225. 

QOIJ"  Cpiopo,  mfle,  Da  ceo,  pice  a  cuig. 

Qrhlaoib  ua  beolldin  aipcinneac  t>jioma  cliab,  Saoi  eccna,  ~]  biaccac 
coircfnn  Decc. 

Ua  ITlaoilbpenainn  ab  maimprpe  na  buille  Decc  Do  bicin  cuiplinne  DO 
leicceab  66. 

TTlaolbpigOe  ua  maiccin  ab  copaip  paDpaicc,  mac  oije  ~\  eccnaibe  Oecc. 
Gplep  ]\o  nonnpcnab  ceampal  cobaip  parpaic,-]  po  popbaiD  jjona  Shanccaip, 
1  cpopaib  lap  mop  paocap  a  nonoip  pacpaic,  "|  TTluipe,  coin,  i  na  nappcal. 

5'o^ct  an  coirhDeD  mac  giolla  cappai^  uapal  paccapc  ~\  peappun  cije 
baoicin  Dej. 

Dionip  6  maoilciapain  aipcinneac  apDa  capna  Decc. 

(5iollacoippre  ua  mujpoin  Decc,  "]  a  a&nacal  i  cconga  pecin. 

Coimepje  mop  pluaig  Do  Denam  la  hua  nell  i  cconnaccaib  Do  congnam 
le  cloinn  T?uaiDpi  ui  concobaip,  .1.  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 


Hugh  de  Lacy:  "A.  D.  1224.  The  son  of  Hugo  English  were  challenged  to  approach  them  in 

came  to  Ireland,  despite  of  the  King  of  England,  those  places.  However,  when  the  English  of  Ire- 

and  a  great  war  and  contention  arose  between  land  perceived  that  they  occupied  such  strong 

him  and  the  English  of  Ireland,  all  of  whom  rose  positions,  they  came  to  the  resolution  of  making 

up  against  him  and  banished  him  to  O'Neill,  peace  with  the  sons  of  Hugo,  and  to  leave  the 

King  of  Aileach.     Thither  the  English  and  Irish  conditions  to  the  award  of  the  King  of  England. 

of  Ireland    pursued  them,  with  their  forces,  The  English  of  Ireland  then  dispersed  without 

namely,  Hugh,  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  King  obtaining  tribute  or  reward  from  Hugh  O'Neill." 

of  Connaught;  Donough    Cairbreach    O'Brien,  s  BiatdffA,  biacach,  a  public  victualler.  —  Sir 

King  of  Munster  ;  Dermot  Cluasach   Mac  Car-  Richard  Cox  thought  that   this  term  was  the 

thy,  King  of  Desmond  ;  and  all  the  other  chiefs  same  as  Buddagh,   a  clown  or  villain  ;  but  the 

of  Ireland,  except  the  Kinel-Connell  and  Kinel-  two  words  are  essentially  different  in  their  ap- 

Owen.      They  marched  to  Muirtheimhne  and  plication  and  derivation,  biacach  being  derived 

Dundalk,  where  they  demanded  hostages  of  the  from  bia&,  food,  and  booac,  which  is  a  name  of 

sons  of  Hugo  and  of  O'Neill.  Then  came  O'Neill  contempt,  from  a  different  radix.  The  Biatagh  was 

with  his  English  and  Irish  forces,  and  distributed  endowed  with  a  quantity  of  laud  called  a  baile 

them  on  the  passes  of  Sliabh  Fuaid  and  the  Gates  biacai£,  or  ballybetagh,  which  was  the  thirtieth 

of  Emania,  and  the  woods  of  Conaille;  and  the  part  of  a  triocha  ced,  or  barony,  and  contained 


1225.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  219 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1225. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  twenty-jive. 

Auliffe  O'Beollan  (Boland)  Erenagh  of  Drumcliff,  a  wise  and  learned  man, 
and  a  general  Biatagh5,  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  sanc- 
tuary and  crosses,  had  been,  with  great  exertions,  begun  and  finished,  in  honour 
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,  who  wanted  to  be  revenged  of  O'Conor  (i.  e. 
Hughw),  for  having  deprived  him  (Mageraghty)  of  his  lands,  and  marched  into 
Connaught  to  assist  the  sons  of  Rdderic,  viz.,  Turlough  and  Hugh.  But 

four  quarters  or  seisreaghs,  each  containing  one  was  bound  by  law  to  keep  one  hundred  labourers, 

hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  land.    The  ancient  and  one  hundred  of  each  kind  of  domestic  ani- 

Irish  had  two  kinds  of  farmers,  the  one  called  mals.     For  a  curious  dissertation  on  the  tenure 

BiataghsandtheotherBrughaidhs(Brooees),who  of  the  Irish  Biataghs,  the  reader  is  referred  to 

seem  to  have  held  their  lands  of  the  chief  under  Harris's  Ware,  vol.  ii.  c.  10,  pp.  157,  158;  and 

different  tenures ;  the  former,  who  were  com-  Statute   of  Kilkenny,  edited  by  Mr.  Hardiman 

paratively   few   in   number,    would   appear   to  for  the  Irish  Archseological  Society,  pp.  4,  5. 

have  held  their  lands  free   of  rent,   but  were  l  Toberpatrick. — NowBallintober,  in  the  county 

obliged  to  entertain  travellers,  and  the  chief's  of  Mayo,  where  the  ruins  of  a  great  abbey  and  of 

soldiers,  when  on  their  march  in  his  direction;  a  small  church,  dedicated  to  St.  Patrick,  may  be 

and  the  latter  would  appear  to  have  been  sub-  seen. 

ject   to   a   stipulated   rent   and   service.      Ac-  u  O1  Hulkieran,  O  maoilcictpam. — This  name 

cording  to  the  Leabhar  Buidlie,  or  the  Yellow  is  still  common  in  the  vicinity  of  Boyle  and 

Book  of  the  Mac  Firbises   of  Lecan,  preserved  Ardcarne. 

in  the  Manuscript  Library  of  Trinity  College,  w  Hugh,  GOD,  i.  e.  Hugh,  the  son  of  Cathal 

Dublin,  H.  3,  18,  p.  921,  it  appears  that  the  Crovderg,  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  -\  lapcap  connachc  im  ao6  ua 
plairbfpcaij  njeapna  mpcaip  Connace,  -]  gaoi&il  an  cuiccm  oopmop 
coimepjp  ina  05016  ace  mac  Diapmara,  .1.  copbmac  mac  comalraij.  Ocila 
uf  nell  nfp  haipippeab  lep  50  paini^  lap  pfl  muipeaohaij.  Gipibe  50  peaoha 
ara  luain,  50  mbaof  t>d  ofoce  05  TTiuilleann  juanac  jup  lomaipccfpcup  loc 
nen  50  puce  peoio  uf  concobaip  op.  Ueccam  aipi'6e  50  capn  ppaich.  T?ioj- 
rap  roippoealbac  mac  T?uai6pi  annpm,  ~|  cet>  aob  ua  nell  cona  mumcip  oia 


31  Foes  of  AtMone,  peaoa  aca  luain,  i.  e.  the 
woods  of  AtMone. — This  was  the  name  of  O'Nagh- 
tan's  country,  containing  thirty  quarters  of  land 
in  the  barony  of  Athlone,  and  county  of  Eos- 
common. — See  Inquisition  taken  at  Athlone,  on 
the  26th  of  October,  1587,  and  another  taken 
at  Roscommon,  on  the  23rd  of  October,  1 604 ; 
also  Tribes  and  Customs  ofHy-Many,  printed  for 
the  Irish  Archzeological  Society  in  1843,  pp. 
1 75,  1 76,  and  the  map  prefixed  to  the  same. 

y  Muitteann  Guanach — In  the  Annals  of 
Ulster  and  of  Kilronan  this  name  is  written 
muillib  ucinac,  and  muilliB  uainioe,  in  the 
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.  A  great  army  by  Hugh  O'Neale 
into  Connought  with  the  sons  of  Rory  O'Coner, 
and  consent  of  all  Sylmurea,  only  Mac  Dermot, 
viz.,  Cormac  mac  Tumultach,  that  he  went  along 
Conought  southerly  into  the  woods  of  Athlone, 
that  they  were  two  nights  at  the  Mills  of  Vo- 
nagh,  and  prayed  Loghnen,  and  brought  O'Con- 
ner's  Juells  and  goods  out  of  it.  He  came  after 
to  Carnefrich  and  prayed"  [recte  inaugurated] 
"  Tirlagh  mac  Roary  there,  and  went  in  haste 
home,  hearing"  [that]  "a  great  army  of  Galls  and 
JNIounsternion  about  Donogh  Kerbregh  O'Brian 
and  Geffry  Mares,  with  Hugh  O'Coner  and  Mac 
Dermot  coming  uppon  him ;  and"  [these]  "having 


not  overtaken  O'Neile,  they  followed  Roary's 
son  until  they  dog'd  him  to  O'Neile  againe. 
Mounster  in  that  journey  killed  Eghmarkagh 
O'Branan,  Chief  of  Corkaghlyn  at  Kill-Kelly, 
after  banishing  Roary's  son  out  of  Connaght, 
Hugh  mac  Cathall  Crovderg  reigned  in  Con- 
naght after  him."  The  account  of  the  coming 
of  O'Neill  into  Connaught  on  this  occasion  is  also 
given  in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  An- 
nals of  Clonmacnoise,  but  incorrectly  entered 
under  the  year  1224,  as  follows:  "  A.  D.  1224. 
Hugh  O'Neale  and  Tyreowen"  [recte  the  Kinel- 
Owen],  "  with  their  forces,  accompanied  with 
Terlagh  O'Conor  and  his  brothers,  the  sonns 
of  Rowrie  O'Connor,  with  their  forces  also, 
wasted  and  destroyed  all  Moyntyrr  Arteagh, 
and  the  most  part  of  the  countrey  of  Moy- 
noye.  Donn  Mac  Oyreaghty  made  a  retraite 
upon  Hugh  O'Connor,  and  afterwards  went  to 
O'Neale.  O'Connor  returned  to  the  Deputie, 
Geffrey  March  his  house  in  Athlone;  where- 
upon the  said  Geffrey  March  sent  his  letters 
to  all  parts  of  Ireland,  and  assembled  to- 
gether his  forces  of  the  five  Provinces,  which 
being  so  assembled  and  gathered  together,  the 
Deputie  and  O'Connor,  with  their  great  forces, 
sought  to  banish  O'Neal  and  the  sons  of  Rowrie 
O'Connor,  from  out  of  Connought,"  [and]  "  pur- 
sued them.  O'Neale  returned  to  his  own  house, 
and  left  the  sons  of  Rowrie  O'Connor  in  Con- 
nought,  between  whom  and  the  forces  of  the  De- 
putie and  O'Connor  all  Counought  was  wasted. 
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  inhabi- 
tants 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, 
whence  he  marched  to  the  Faes  of  Athlone* ;  and  he  remained  two  nights  at 
Muilleann  Guanachy,  and  totally  plundered  Lough  Nenz,  from  whence  he  car- 
ried off  O'Conor's  jewels.  Thence  he  proceeded  to  Carnfreea,  where  Turlough, 
the  son  of  Roderic,  was  inaugurated;  and  then  O'Neill,  with  his  people, 
returned  home ;  for  all  their  own  people  were  faithful  to  the  sons  of  Roderic, 


Twayme,  from  Esroe  to  Clonvicknose,  in  so  much 
that  there  was  not  in  all  those  Contreys,  the  door 
of  a  church  unburnt,  with  great  slaughters  of 
both  partys.  Eachmarkagh  Mac  Brannan,  Chief- 
taine  of  Corckaghlan,  was  killed.  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.  The  sons  of  Rowrie  O'Connor  left 
Connought.  Hugh  O'Connor  took  hostages  of  all 
the  Provence,  and  Geffrey  March  the  Deputie, 
with  the  most  part  of  the  English,  returned  to 
their  houses." 

z  Lough  Nen,  loc   ne"n This   is   the  place 

now  called  Loch-na-n-ean,  or  lake  of  the  birds. 
It  lies  to  the  west  of  the  castle  of  Eoscommon, 
and  is  said  to  have  been  originally  a  deep  lake  ; 
but  at  present  it  is  generally  dried  up  in  sum- 
mer, in  consequence  of  drains  which  were  sunk 
to  carry  off  the  water ;  but  in  winter  the  drains 
are  not  sufficient  for  this  purpose,  and  the  land 
becomes  inundated. 

1  Carnfree. — This  earn,  which  was  called  after 
Fraech,  the  son  of  Fiodhach  of  the  Red  Hair, 
was  the  one  on  which  the  O'Conor  was  inau- 
gurated. It  is  situated  in  the  townland  of  Cams, 
in  the  parish  of  Ogulla,  in  the  barony  and 
county  of  Roscommon.  The  situation  of  this 
earn,  so  often  mentioned  in  Irish  history,  was 


never  before  pointed  out  by  any  of  our  topo- 
graphical writers.  One  of  the  legends  given  in 
the  Dinnseanchus  points  out  its  situation  very 
distinctly  in  the  following  words  :  "  They  con- 
veyed the  body  of  Fraech  to  Cnoc  na  Dala  (Hill 
of  the  Meeting)  to  the  SOUTH-EAST  of  Cruachain, 
and  interred  him  there  ;  so  that  it  is  from  him 
the  earn  is  named  :  unde  dicitur  Cam  Fraeich, 
i.  e.  the  earn  of  Fraech." — Book  of  Lecan,  fol. 
243,  p.  a,  col.  a. 

It  is  a  small  earn  of  stones  and  earth,  situated 
to  the  south  of  the  village  of  Tulsk,  and  about 
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  a  very  conspicuous  object  in  the  plain 
of  Croghan ;  and  a  good  view  of  it,  as  well  as  of 
Rathcroghan,  may  be  had  from  the  street  of 
Elphin.  Not  far  from  this  earn,  in  the  same 
field,  is  a  long  standing  stone,  called  cloc  FQDa 
na  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  no  such  stone,  nor  tradition  respecting  it.  It 
is  probable  that  it  was  either  destroyed  or  carried 
away  several  centuries  since.  The  green  moat  to 
the  east  of  Carufree  is  the  Dumha  Kealga,  so 


222  ciNNacci  Rio^hachca  eirceciNN.  [1225. 

ccijhib.  (o  poba  raipipi  Id  cloinn  RuaiDpi  a  naipecca  buDen)  ace  ma6  aop 
gpaoa  ao6a  namd,  .1.  mac  oiapmaoa,  -]  Dauic  ua  ploinn,  ^fc. 

Clpf  corhaiple  ap  ap  cinneao  annpin  le  mac  carail  cpoibDeips,  Dul  i 
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 
nupmop  Doparh  alop  a  arap,  i  ap  apon  pepin  uaip  bd  cuapupclac  ciob- 
laicrec  mD  apaon  Doib.  piaohaibiD  goill  poirhe  pim  50  lurjdipec  q  congbaio 
fcoppa  e  50  16m  jpa&ac  achaiD  lap  pin.  Uuccparh  an  uipcip  -]  map  lop  laip 
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 
Connacr,  po  cecpioD  pompa  i  ccpic  luijne,  ~\  i  ccfp  namalsaib  jona 
mbuap  i  inmleaba,  ~\  po  paccaibpioD  meic  17uai&pi  in  uaca6  pocpaiDi. 
UeccaiD  clann  T?uaiopi  uf  concobaip  pompa  lapom  an  lion  bdccup  co  cill 
ceallaij  ap  cul  a  mbo  -|  a  mbuaip.  Imcupa  aoba  50  ngallaib  uime  cuipiD 
piopra  piublaca  uara  Dapccain  aopa  jpdib  cloinne  Ruai&pi,  i  congbaio 
cpom  a  ploij  ina  rnmcel  pe  hionnpaijiD  Do  rabaipc  oppa  bu&en.  UeD  ao6 
mac  Ruai&pi  rmc  TTluipceapcaig,  Dorhnall  ua  plairbfpcaij,  cijeapndn  mac 
carail  miccdpain,  •]  mac  roippbealbaij  mic  RuaiDpi  Danacul  coDa  Da  naop 
5pai&.  UeccaiD  goill  im  ao6  mac  carail  cpoib&eipg  lappin  i  cnmceal  coipp- 

celebrated  in  the  Dinnseanchus  and  Lives  of  St.  been  willing  to  acknowledge  the  King's  right  to 

Patrick.  make  such  a  grant. 

b  Had  paid  them  wages,  $c.,  uaip  ba  ruapup-  c  Troops. — All  this  is  much  better  told  in  the 
rlac,  cioolaicreac  lao  apaon  doib — The  cuap-  Annals  of  Kilronan,  in  which  it  is  stated  that 
upcul  was  the  stipend  or  wages  paid  by  the  su-  the  sons  of  Eoderic  were  left  with  a  few  Koy- 
perior  to  his  assistant.  It  never  means  tribute,  damnas,  chieftains,  horse-boys,  and  servants :  7 
or  even  rent,  but  a  stipend  or  salary  for  work  po  pa^buic  meic  Ruaiopi  jan  cinol  aipecca,  7 
or  service  done.  The  Annalists  here  look  upon  ni  paib'e  na  Bpappao  acr  uacao  pioamnaD  7 
the  English  as  hireling  soldiers,  who  were  em-  caoipec,  7  jille  ech,  7  jplle  ppireolriia. 
ployed  in  the  service  of  the  King  of  Connaught.  d  Kllkelly,  cill  ceallaij,  i.  e.  the  church  of  St. 
They  do  not  appear  to  have  been  aware  of  the  Ceallach — An  old  church  in  a  village  and  pa- 
mandate,  dated  12th  June,  1225,  issued  by  King  rish  of  the  same  name,  in  the  barony  of  Costello, 
Henry  III.,  directing  William  Earl  Marshall,  and  county  of  Mayo.  See  it  marked  on  the 
the  Lord  Justice,  to  seize  on  the  whole  country  map  prefixed  to  Genealogies,  1'ribes,  and  Customs 
of  Connaught,  stated  to  have  been  forfeited  by  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  printed  for  the  Irish  Archas- 
O'Conor,  and  to  deliver  it  to  Richard  de  Burgo;  ological  Society  in  1844,  and  noted  in  the  expla- 
or,  if  they  were  aware  of  it,  they  may  not  have  natory  Index  to  the  same  Map,  p.  484. 


1225.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  223 

excepting  only  the  supporters  of  Hugh,  namely,  Mac  Dermot,  David  O'Flynn, 
&c. 

The  resolution  then  adopted  by  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  was  to  repair 
to  the  English  to  the  Court  of  Athlone  ;  for  it  happened,  fortunately  for  him, 
that  the  chiefs  of  the  English  of  Ireland  were  at  that  very  time  assembled 
there,  and  the  greater  part  of  them  were  friendly  to  him,  on  his  father's  account 
as  well  as  on  his  own,  for  both  had  paid  them  wagesb  [for  military  services],  and 
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 
engaged  in  his  cause  the  Lord  Justice,  and  as  many  of  the  chiefs  of  the  English 
of  Ireland  as  he  considered  necessary,  together  with  Donough  Cairbreach 
O'Brien,  and  O'Melaghlin,  with  their  forces. 

When  the  inhabitants  of  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 
troops0.  The  sons  of  Roderic  O'Conor  afterwards  proceeded  to  Kilkelly"  with 
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 
despatched  light  marauding  parties  to  plunder  the  retainers  of  the  sons  of 
Roderic,  but  detained  the  main  body  of  their  army  about  them  for  the  purpose 
of  making  an  attack  upon  [the  sons  of  Roderic]  themselves.  Hugh,  the  son  of 
Roderic,  Donnell  O'Flaherty,  Tiernan,  the  son  of  Cathal  Miccarain6,  and  the 
son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Roderic,  went  to  protect  some  of  their  Aes  graidhf. 

e  Catlial  Hiccarain — He  is  called  Cathal  "  servants  of  trust."  It  is  stated  in  the  Annals  of 
Miogharan  by  Duald  Mac  Firbis,  in  his  Pedigree  Kilronan  that  they  went  on  this  occasion  to  pro- 
of the  O'Conors,  in  Lord  Eoden's  copy  of  his  tect  the  cows  and  people  of  Farrell  O'Teige,  who 
Genealogical  Book,  p.  219.  He  was  the  fifteenth  had  taken  an  oath  to  be  faithful  to  them,  but  that 
son  of  Turlough  More  O'Conor,  Monarch  of  Ire-  he  was  the  first  of  the  Connacians  that  violated 
land. — See  also  the  Book  of  Lecan,  fol.  72,  b,  his  oath  to  the  sons  of  Eoderic  ;  and  that  he 
col.  4.  This  Cathal,  who  was  one  of  the  illegiti-  brought  in  their  stead  Hugh,  the  son  of  Cathal 
mate  sons  of  King  Turlough,  left  one  son,  Conor,  Crovderg,  and  the  English,  to  protect  his  cows 
of  whose  descendants  no  account  is  preserved.  and  people  ;  that  it  was  on  this  occasion  the 

f  To  protect  some  of  their  Aes  gradha,  oanacul  English  came  in  collision  with  Turlough,  the 

cooa  &a  naop  gpaio,  i.  e.  to  protect  their  stew-  son  of  Eoderic,  who,  perceiving  the  treachery 

ards  and  chief  servants  of  trust.  Qop  5pcii6  is  of  O'Teige,  made  a  judicious  and  clever  retreat 

used  throughout  these  Annals  in  the  sense  of  by  the  help  of  Donn  Oge  Mageraghty,  Flaherty 


•224  QHHata  Kjoshacua  eipeaNN.  [1225. 

bealbaij.  lap  na  aipiuccaD  pin  Doparh  cuipip  a  jlapldic  i  pemeup  poime, 
Oonn  occ  mag  oipeacraij  jona  anpabaib,  plaiebeapcac  ua  plannagain,  -\ 
uaeab  Darhpaib  eojanac  baoi  ina  pocaip,  opoaijip  iaD  Dia  nimDiDfri  ina 
nDeoib  50  eeeapnaDap  parhlaiD  ona  mbiobbabaib  gan  aon  no  euicim  Diob. 
Oo  pala  an  la  pin  Dpong  t»o  piopcaib  aoba  ui  concobaip  i  ccfnn  eacmapcaij 
mic  bpandin  50  nDeachaib  Do  copnarh  a  b'oicpece  oppa  50  ecopcaip  eacmap- 
cac  Don  anbpoplann  galccao  baoi  na  05016.  Leanaip  ao6  6  concobaip  50 
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 
annpin.  Sir  Do  Denarii  lap  na  apgain  cap  cenn  an  ciopuaippi  Do  pdccbab  Da 
hinnilib  illuijmu. 

Qp  ann  bdccap  meic  T?uai6pi  mun  ampa  a  ccorhjap  Do  loc  mic  peap- 
abaij  i  njlfnD  na  mocapc.  Comaiplijip  ao&  pe  na  jallaib  annpin  na 
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  i  plijiD  nac  pmuainpeaD  gall  co  bpctc  Dul 
cpempe  .1.  hi  bpio6  ngaclaij  50  piaccpac  dc  cfje  in  meppaij  jup  aipccpioD 
cuil  cepna6a  lap  noiljfnn  a  Daoine  Doib.  ^ac  ap  gab  50  Dubconga  Do  luce 

O'Flanagan,  and  some  of  the  Tyronian  route  of  to  the  ratification  of  the  peace. 

soldiers,  who  covered  their  retreat.  '  Lough  Macfarry,  loc  mic   pepaoaig,  called 

8  Tyronian  soldiers. — These  were  some  of  the  loc  rntc  Gpaocnj,  in  the  Annals  of  Connaught, 

soldiers  left  by  O'Neill  to  assist  Turlough,  the  and  loc  mic  Gipecroaij,  in  those  of  Kilronan. 

son  of  Eoderic,  whom  he  had  set  up  as  King  of  This  name  is  now  forgotten  ;  but  the  Editor 

Connaught.     In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  these  thinks  that  it  was  the  old  name  of  the  Lake  of 

are  called  becigan  oon  Rue  Go  janac,  i.  e.  some  Templehouse,  in  the  county  of  Sligo. 
of  the  Eugenian,  or  Kinel-Owenian,  route,  turma,          ^Inhabitants  of  the  Tuathas — This  is  better  told 

or  company  of  soldiers.  in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  thus :  "  The  resolution 

h  Him — In    the    Annals    of  Kilronan   it   is  which  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg  then  adopted, 

stated  that  Mac  Brannan  displayed  great  valour  was  to  go  with  the  English  in  pursuit  of  the  cows 

in  defending  himself,    but  that  he  was   over-  of  the  Tuathas,  of  the  Sil- Murray,  and  of  the 

whelmed  by  too  many  men  of  might.  Clann- Tomalty,  by  a  way  which  no  Englishman 

1  Meelick,   ITlilmc. — A    church,    near  which  had  ever  passed  before,  that  is,  by  Fidh  Gadlaigh, 

are  the  ruins  of  one  of  the  ancient  Round  Towers,  until  they  arrived  at  Attymas,  and  they  received 

in  a  parish  of  the  same  name,  in  the  barony  of  neither  javelin  nor  arrow  on  that  rout.     They 

Gallen,  and  county  of  Mayo.  plundered   Coolcarney,  where  they  seized  upon 

k  Then  left,  Do  paccbub — That  is,  the  num-  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.  225 

The  English,  with  Hugh,  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  then  set  out  to  sur- 
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  soldiers5,  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  Mac  Branan,  who  had  gone  to  protect  his  cows 
against  them;  and  Eachmarcach  fell  by  the  overwhelming  force  of  the 
warriors  who  fought  against  him11.  Hugh  O'Conor,  and  the  English,  pursued 
the  sons  of  Eoderic  that  night  to  Meelick',  and  for  three  nights  afterwards 
continued  plundering  Leyny  in  all  directions.  This  was  unfortunate  to 
O'Hara,  who  had  to  make  peace  with  them,  in  consideration  of  the  inconsider- 
able number  of  its  cattle  then  leftk  in  Leyny. 

The  sons  of  Eoderic  were  at  this  time  stationed  near  Lough  Macfarry1,  in 
Gleann-na-Mochart.  Hugh  then  proposed  to  the  English  that  they  should 
pursue  and  plunder  the  inhabitants  of  the  Tuathasm,  the  Sil-Murray,  and 
Clann-Tomalty,  as  they  had  fled  before  him  [with  their  cattle]  ;  and  this 
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  Attymas0 ;  and  they  plundered  Coolcarneyp,  after 

but  such  of  these  as  were  not  drowned  in  the  °  Attymas,  CMC  cijje  an  rheppai^. — A  parish 

attempt  were   killed    or  plundered.      It   was  forming  about  the  southern  half  of  the  territory 

pitiful!     Such  of  them  as  proceeded  to  Dubh-  of  Coolcarney,    in  the  barony  of  Gallen,    and 

chonga  were  drowned,  and  the  fishing  weirs  with      county  of  Mayo See  Map  to  Genealogies,  Tribes, 

their  baskets,  were  found  full  of  drowned  child-  and  Cwtoms  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  printed  in  the 

ren.     Such  of  the  flitting   Clann-Tomalty  as  year  1844,  and  Explanatory  Index  to  the  same, 

escaped   the  English   and  the  drowning,   fled  p.  477. 

to    Tirawley,    where    they   were   attacked   by          P  Coolcarney,  Cuil  Ceapna&a This  territory 

O'Dowda,  and  left  without  a  single  cow."  retains  its  name  to  the  present  day.     It  is  si- 

n  Would  never  have   thought   of  taking,   nac  tuated  in  the  barony  of  Gallen,  and  county  of 

pmuainpeao  jail  co  bpac  t>ul  rpeimpe,  that  is,  Mayo,  and  comprises  the  parishes  of  Kilgarvan 

Hugh,  who  was  intimately  acquainted  with  the  and  Attymas,  which  are  divided  from  the  county 

passes  and  population  of  the  country,  conducted  of  Sligo  by  a  stream  called  Sruthan  geal.     Ac- 

the  English  by  a  rout  which  they  themselves  cording   to   the   Book    of  Hy-Fiachrach,    Cuil 

would  never  have  thought  of.     The  Annals  of  Cearnadha  extended  from  Beul  atha  na  nidheadh, 

Connaught  and  of  Kilronan  describe  these  trans-  six  miles  from  Ballina,   to  the  road  or  pass  of 

actions  more  fully  than  those  of  the  Four  Masters.  Breachmhuighe  (Breaghwy),  which  is  the  name 

2  G 


226  QNNaca  Rioghachca  eiReaww.  [1225. 

an  cecrhe  po  bdi&ic  a  nopmop.  Gp  arhlaib  Do  gebn  na  cfpcanna  nap  a 
ccaippib  lomldn  Do  leanbaib  lap  na  mbdchaD.  ^ac  a  cceapna  Don  coipc 
pin  Dfob  6  jallaib,  -|  on  lombdeaD  pempdice  loDap  i  ccip  namatjam  50 
noeacam  6  ouboa  pura  jondp  pdccaib  aon  bo  aca. 

UlaD  100  clann  RuaiDpi  rpa  api  comaiple  Do  ponpae  05  loc  mic  pea- 
pa6ai£  pgaoileaD  6  apoile  Doib  50  pgepDip  pocpaioe  jail  pe  hao6.  Donn  mag 
oipeccaij,  i  apoile  Dm  maieib  Do  cop  DO  paijib  uf  plaicbaepeaij  a  ppip  com- 
luiji  i  corhcooaij.  TTleic  muipceapraij  uf  concobaip,  -|  njeapnan  mac  cacail 
Do  Dul  ap  cul  a  mbo  -\  a  minnceap,  -|  Sic  Do  Denarii  Doib  cap  a  ccfnn  50 
bpdgbaiDip  501 II  mac  cacail  cpoiboeipj.  Qp  ann  baoi  ao6  mun  am  pom  i  moij 
neo,  •]  ciajaiD  meic  muipceapcaij  muminij  ma  cfnn  ap  Shlanaib"]  comaipcib. 

TTlaD  an  caob  ceap  Do  connaccaib  Dana  nip  bo  cunn  Doib  Don  Dul  pom, 
uaip  canjaDap  goill  laijfn  ~\  muman  inn  muipceapcac  ua  bpiain,  goill  Dfp 
muman  beop,  ~\  Sippiam  copcaije  ma  ccpecomnpc  gup  mapbpac  a  noaoine 
Doneoc^p  a  pucpac  Diob,  -|  jup  lonnpaDap  a  mbpuij  -|  a  mbailce.  ba 
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 
ccualaDap  Dpdjail  Don  lupDip  jjona  jallaib  i  cconnaccaib  an  can  pom.  Qp 
Don  puacap  po  Do  mapbaiD  cecpe  meic  mec  mupchaiD  ap  en  lacaip. 

6d  cpuacch  cpa  an  nerhpen  Do  beonaij  Dfa  Don  cuicceD  Do  bpfpp  baoi 
i  nGpinn  an  lonbaiD  pi,  uaip  ni  coiccleaD  an  mac  occlaoic  apoile  ace  50 
cpeachaD  "]  apccain  pona  curhanj.  Do  cuipiD  beop  mnd,  •)  lenirii,  painn,  i 
poDaome  Dpuacc  -|  jopca  Don  coccaD  pin. 

of  a  townland  in  the  parish  of  Castleconor,  lying  Lough,  in  the  parish  of  Attymas,  in  the  barony 

to  the  east  of  Ardnarea.  of  Gallen,  and  county  of  Mayo See  Ordnance 

q  After  having  destroyed  its  people,  lapnoiljenn  Map  of  the  county  of  Mayo,  sheet  40;  and  also 

a  oaoine  ooiB. — The  word  bil^erm  or  oi^eann  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiach- 

signifies  destruction,  or  depopulation.     O'Clery  rack,  pp.  242,  243,  and  map  to  the  same, 

writes  it  biljionn,  according  to  the  modern  Irish  s  The  baskets  of  the  fishing  weirs,  na  cepcanna 

orthography,  and  explains  it  p jpiop,  no  oiolair-  uar-  a  ccaippiB — In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  the 

piujaoh.     The  compound  uile-biljenn  means  reading  is,  na  cappanna  co  na  ceapcanoaib; 

total   destruction,    extirpation,  or  annihilation,  and  in  the  Annals  of  Connaught,  na  caipp  co 

— See  Annals  of  Tighernach  at  the  year  995.  na  ceppacliaib,  i.  e.  the  weirs  and  baskets.   The 

r  Duvconga. — This  place  is  now  called  beal  children  that  had  been  carried  away  by  the  floods 

aca  conja  in  Irish,  and  Anglicised  Bellacong  were  found  entangled  in  the  baskets,  which  were 

and  Ballycong.     It  is  situated  near  Ballymore  placed  for  nets  in  the  carrys  or  fishing  weirs. 


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having  nearly  destroyed  its  people".  Some  of  them  fled  to  Duvcongar,  but  the 
greater  part  of  these  were  drowned ;  and  the  baskets  of  the  fishing  weirs5  were 
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  Mac- 
farry,  was  to  separate  from  each  other,  until  the  English  should  leave 
Hugh;  to  send  Donn  Mageraghty,  and  others  of  their  chieftains,  to  O'Flaherty, 
their  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  irruption  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 
heard  what  good  things  the  Lord  Justice  and  his  English  followers  had  obtained 
in  Connaught  at  that  time.  During  this  incursion  the  four  sons  of  Mac  Mur- 
rough  were  slain  on  the  same  spot. 

Woeful  was  the  misfortune,  which  God  permitted  to  fall  upon  the  best  pro- 
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  feeble,  and  the  lowly  poor",  perished  by  cold  and  famine  in 
this  war ! 

1  Tiernan,  the  son  of  Cathal. — He  was  the  son  Kilronan  it  is  stated  that  the  sons  of  Murtough 

of  Cathal  O'Conor,  who  was  one  of  the  sons  of  "  went  into  his  house  [to  make  their  submis- 

Turlough  More  O'Conor,  Monarch  of  Ireland.  sion]  under  sureties  and  guarantees." 

u  Under  protection  and  guarantee,  ap  planaiB  w  The  poor. — The  Annals  of  Kilronan  state, 

7  comaipciB,  that  is,  they  had  persons  to  gua-  that  during  this  war  women,  children,  young 

rantee  their  safety  on  their  arrival  in  his  presence,  lords,  and  mighty  men,  as  well  as  feeble  men, 

to  make  their  mock  peace.  In  the  Annals  of  perished  of  cold  and  famine.  Oo  cuipic  mnu 

2o2 


228  QNMaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1225. 

lap  nDul  cpa  Do  macaib  muijicfprai^  muimnij  Do  lacaip  aoba  ui  con- 
cobaip  DO  peip  map  Do  pdibfmap,  Do  cuaiD  ap  ndbapac  50  cill  mf66in. 
Compaicic  rpf  ploi£  na  njall  arm  pin  pe  poile,  -|  ap  bfg  nap  bo  Ian  an  cpioca 
ceD  ina  mbaccap  Ifr  ap  Ifc  eDip  gallaib  ~\  jaoiDealaib.  Uainicc  aoD  6 
plaicbeapcaicc  ap  copaib  ~\  ap  pldnaib  maire  jail,  -]  Donnchaba  caipbpij  ui 
bpiain  a  caipDfpa  cpiopD  hi  ccfnn  ao&a  in  concobaip,  -|  an  mpDip  co  noeapna 
pic  cap  cfnn  a  buaip,  ~[  a  Daoine  pip,  ap  macaib  Ruainpi  Oaccop  uaio.  Imcijip 
ao&  tap  pin,  ~\  a  joill  irnaille  pip  co  cuaim  Da  jualann,  -]  leiccip  goill  laijean, 
1  Drpmurhari  uaio  annpin.  lompaiDip  pen  ap  ccula  Do  com  uf  plaicbfpcaij 
oip  ni'op  bo  caipipe  laip  epiDe,  uaip  bacrap  meic  RuaiDpi  poime  pin  allaniap 
DO  loc  aicce,  ~\  Donn  6cc  mas  oipeacraij  apaon  piu. 

Qnnpin  po  pcap  mac  magnupa  pe  cloinn  RuaiDpi  jup  mnpaij;  hi  ccfp 
namalgaiD  ap  cfnn  a  bo,  -\  a  mumcipe  50  bpuaip  mcr  50  poDanac  gan 
cpeachaD  gan  apccain.  T?ucc  leip  iao  lapam  po  Dioean  ui  l?uaipc,  -\  e  lap 
ccpeachao  pilip  meic  goipDelbai^. 

OonnchaD  caipppeac  ua  bpiain  Dana  Do  cuip  piDe  Dpong  Dia  muincip  poime 
50  neoalaib  aiDblib.  lap  na  piop  pin  DaoD  mac  RuaiDpi  ~\  Deojan  6  eibin 
loDup  pompa  uaraD  DfjDaoine  gup  muioeaD  pop  muimnecaib,  jop  beanaD  a 
neoala  Diob,  ~\  gup  conjbab  bpaijDe  Da  mainb  uaca.  lap  na  clop  pin  Do 
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  oijci^eipn  7  cpeom   7  eccpeom   pe  aijje,  7  a  cliamam  pem   .1.  t)ortn  Oj  maille 

puacc  7  pe  jopca  oon  cogao  pin.  pp)u.     "  He  then  came  to  another  resolution, 

*  Of  his  gossip,  a  caipoeupu  Cpfopo — This  namely,  to  return  back  to  O'Flaherty,  for  he 

term  is  used  in  the  modern  language  to  denote  did  not  like  how  he  left  him  ;  for  he  had  on 

a  gossip,  or  one  who  is  a  sponsor  for  a  child  at  the  west  side  of  the  lake  the  sons  of  Roderic, 

baptism.— See  O'Brien's  Dictionary  in  voce.—  and  his  own  son-in-law,  that  is,  Donn  Oge  along 

See  also  Harris's  Ware,  vol.  ii.  p.  72,  for  Gossi-  with  them." 

pred.     Hanmer  says,   that  it  was  a  league  of  *  Manus.— According  to  the  Book  of  Lecan, 

amity  highly  esteemed  in  Ireland — See  note  d  foi.  72,  4,  col.  4,  he  was  the  ninth  son  of  Tur- 

under  the  year  1178,  p.  42,  supra.  iough  More  O'Conor,  monarch  of  Ireland.     His 

»  Donn  Oge.— It  is  stated  in  the  Annals  of  descendants  took  the  surname  of  Mac  Manus, 

Kilronan  that  Donn  Oge  Mageraghty  was  O'Fla-  and  were  seated  in  Tir  Tuathail,  in  the  north- 

herty's   son-in-law:  Do    pome    pirn    comuipli  east  ofthe  barony  of  Boyle,  in  the  county  of 

aili  ann  pin  .1.  impoo  bo  cum   1  Plaicbepcai^  Roscommon. 

up  cula,  uaip  nip  caipipi  leip  map  Do  puguib  e,  «  After  having  first  plundered,  mp  ccpeachao. 

uaip  oo  buoap  meic  Ruuibpi  alia  amap  DO  loc  That  is,  on  his  passage   through  the  present 


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The  sons  of  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) 
was  filled  with  people,  both  English  and  Irish.  Hugh  OTlaherty,  under  the 
protection  and  guarantee  of  the  chiefs  of  the  English,  and  of  his  gossip1, 
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  to  Tuam,  where  he  dismissed  the  English  of  Leinster  and  Desmond ; 
after  which  he  returned  back  to  (watch)  OTlaherty,  for  he  did  not  confide  in 
him,  as  OTlaherty  had,  some  time  before,  the  sons  of  Roderic  at  the  west  side 
of  the  lake,  together  with  Donn  Ogey  Mageraghty. 

The  son  of  Manusz  then  parted  from  the  sons  of  Roderic,  and  set  out 
for  Tirawley,  in  quest  of  his  cows  and  people,  and  fortunately  found  them 
there,  without  having  been  plundered  or  molested. .  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  their  spoils,  and  detained  some  of  their  nobles 
as  hostages.  When  Donough  Cairbreach  heard  of  this,  he  came  to  Hugh,  the 
son  of  Roderic,  and  made  a  solemn  peace"  with  him,  and  bound  himself  never 

barony  of  Costello,  which  lay  on?  his  way  to  and  people,  and  found  them  in  good  condition, 

O'Rourke,  he  plundered  Mac  Costello.     In  the  without  having  been  plundered   or  molested, 

Annals  of  Kilronan,  the  language  of  this  pas-  and  they  took  them  with  them  to  O'Eourke, 

sage  is  much  better  than  that  written  by  the  and  on  their  way  they  took  a  great  prey  from 

Four  Masters.     It  runs  thus :  Ip  ann  pin  po  Philip  Mac  Costello." 

.oeilij  meic  nflajnupa  pe  macaiB  Ruai&pi,  7          b  A  solemn  peace,   plr  bairce  combel,  i.  e. 

no  cuacap  a  ccip  nariialjaio  ap  cenn  a  mbo  a  peace  of  the  extinguishing  of  candles,  i.  e.  a 

7  a  mumceap,    7    puapaoap   lao   50  po&anac  peace  so  solemn,  that  he  who  should  violate  it 

can   mpao  can  apjum,  7   pugpac  leo    lac   a  would  incur  excommunication,  of  which  cere- 

nucc  1   Ruaipc,   7  oo  ponpar  cpeic   tnoip  ap  mony  the  extinguishing  of  the  candles  formed 

Philip   mac  ^oipoealbh.     "Then  the  sons  of  the  last  and  most  terror-striking  part.      Ma- 

Manus  separated  from  the  sons  of  Eoderic,  and  geoghegan  expresses  it,  "  a  peace  so  solemn  that 

they  went  to  Tirawley  in  quest  of  their  cows  whoever  would  break  it  was  to  be  excommuni- 


230 


[1225. 


a  aop  jpaiD  cuije.  5lDeaDn  ™  P°  comaM  Porn  a  co™5i°ll  t>°  mac  Ruaibpi 
(lap  bpajail  a  rhuincipe  66  uam)  uaip  cainicc  ap  an  ceD  pluaijeao  ma 
ajjaiD  la  hao&  mac  cacail  cpoibDeipg. 

Ceo  ao6  ~[  an  mpDip  gona  jallaib  mppm  50  cala6  innpi  cpfma  jup 
beccin  Do  plaicbeapcaicch  imp  cpfrha,  ~\  oilen  na  cipce  50  napcpaijib  anloca 
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  mumnpe  aicce  imaille  pe  hiomao  penneo,  -]  peapojlaoc  oip  nfop  bo 
caipipi  laip  connacraij  acrmab  bfcc.  Uuccporh  annpin  maire  a  oipeacca 
illairii  gall  a  njioll  pe  a  ccuapaprlaib,  .1.  plairbeapcac  6  plannaccain,  pfp- 
gal  ua  caibg,  i  apoile  Do  mainb  connacr,  i  ap  Doib  pen  DO  beccin  a  bpuap- 
laccaD. 

Qp  a  haicle  pin  lompaiDip  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 
annpin  cecca  i  pjpibne  Do  paijiD  an  luprfp  Dia  poillpiujaD  pin  Do,  i  Diap- 
paiD  puilleaD  pocpaioi..  Nip  bo  haicepc  po  lap  Dopam  pin,  uaip  Do  ppeccpa- 


cated  with  book,  bell,  and  candle." — See  note 
under  the  year  1200. 

c  Lord  Justice — He  was  Geoffry  de  Marisco, 
or  De  Mariscis,  or  Geffry  March,  as  he  is  called 
by  Mageoghegan,  in  his  translation  of  the  An- 
nals .of  Clonmacnoise,  at  the  years  1225,  1226. 
He  was  succeeded  by  Richard  de  Burgo,  the  great 
Lord  of  Connaught,  on  the  10th  of  March,  1227. 
See  list  of  the  Chief  Governors  of  Ireland  given 
in  Harris's  Ware,  vol.  ii.  p.  103,  where  it  is  in- 
correctly stated  that  Hubert  de  Burgh,  after- 
wards Earl  of  Kent,  was  appointed  Lord  Justice 
of  Ireland,  on  the  10th  of  March,  1227,  and 
Richard  de  Burgo  appointed  Lord  Deputy  of 
Ireland,  on  the  same  day  and  year. 

d  Inis  Creamha — This  is  a  small  island  in 
Lough  Corrib,  near  the  Castle  of  Cargins, 
and  belonging  to  the  barony  of  Clare,  in  the 
county  of  Galway.  The  name  is  translated 
Wildgarlick  Isle  by  Roderic  O'Flaherty,  in  his 
Account  of  West  Connaught,  where  he  speaks 


of  it  as  follows  :  "  Iniscreawa,  or  Wildgarlick 
Isle,  is  near  Cargin,  in  the  barony  of  Clare  ;  a 
small  island,  where  the  walls  and  high  ditch  of 
a  well  fortified  place  are  still  extant,  and  en- 
compass almost  the  whole  island.  Of  this  isle, 
Macamh  Insicreawa,  a  memorable  ancient  magi- 
cian, as  they  say,  had  his  denomination." — See 
Territory  of  Hiar  Connaught,  by  Roderic  O'Fla- 
herty, printed  for  the  Irish  Archaeological  So- 
ciety in  1845,  p.  25.  The  walls  here  referred 
to  by  O'Flaherty  still  remain,  and  are  of  a  cy- 
clopean  character.  The  natives  assert  that  this 
was  the  castle  of  Orbsen,  from  whom  Loch 
Orbsen,  now  Lough  Corrib,  took  its  name. — 
See  Map  to  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy-Many, 
printed  in  1843,  on  which  the  position  of  this 
island  is  shewn. 

The  transaction  narrated  in  the  text  is  thus 
stated  by  O'Flaherty,  in  his  Account  of  West 
Connaught:  "Anno  1225.  The  Lord  Justice  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, 
after  obtaining  his  people  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 
Justice0,  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 
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 
many  soldiersf  and  warriors;  for  the  Connacians  were  not  faithful  to  him,  ex- 
cept very  few.  After  this  Hugh  gave  up  to  the  English  the  chiefs  of  his  people, 
as  hostages  for  the  payment  of  their  wages8,  as  Flaherty,  O'Flanagan,  Farrell 
O'Teige",  and  others  of  the  chiefs  of  Connaught,  who  were  subsequently  obliged 
to  ransom  themselves. 

After  the  departure  of  the  main  army  of  the  English  from  Hugh,  the  sons 
of  Cathal  Crovderg,  O'Flaherty,  the  son  of  Murtough1,  and  all  the  other  nobles, 
revolted  against  him,  and  joined  the  sons  of  Roderic.  Hugh  O'Conor  then 
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,  to  de-  the  reward  or  wages  to  be  paid  them  by  the 

liver  that  island,  Kirke  Island,  and  the  boats  King  of  Connaught  for  their  services  in  war. 

of  Lough  Orbsen,  into  the  hands  of  Odo  O'Con-  This  had  nothing  to  do  with  the  tribute  to  be 

nor,  King  of  Connaught  (Cathald  Redfist's  son),  paid  to  the  King  of  England  in  accordance  with 

for  assurance  of  his  fidelity."— p.  25.  the  Treaty  of  Windsor. 

e  Oilen  na  Circe,  now  Castlekirk  island,  in  h  CfTeige  is  now  anglicised  Teige,  and  some- 

the  north-west  part  of  Lough  Corrib,  containing  times  Tighe.  The  name  is  common  in  the  neigh- 

the  ruins  of  a  very  ancient  castle — See  Hiar  bourhood  of  Castlereagh,  in  the  county  of  Ros- 

Connaught,  by  Roderic  O'Flaherty,  pp.  22,  24.  common. 

f  Soldiers,  penneo — According  to  the  An-  i  The  son  of  Murtough,  mac  ITluipchepcaij, 

nals  of  Kilronan,  the  Lord  Justice  left  with  i.e.  the  sons   of  the   celebrated  Muirchertach 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  on  this  occa-  Muimhneach,     or    Murtough    the    Momonian 

sion,  a  few  [ua^ao]  of  the  chiefs  of  the  English  O'Conor,  who,  according  to  the  Book  of  Lecan, 

and  many  archers  [peipreonuij;  imoa]."  was  the  eleventh  son  of  Turlough  More,  monarch 

g  Wages,  cuaparcluib.— In  the  Annals  of  of  Ireland. 

Kilronan,  the  reading  is,  a  n5.U  pe  ccuapup-  *  Additional.— FuiUe6  is  the  old  form  of  the 

oal,  i  e.  in  pledge  for  their  pay  or  stipend,  i.  e.  modern  word  cuilleao,  more.    In  the  Annals  of 


232 


[122o. 


Dap  goill  50  pomnirh  paipepccaib  e.  Gcc  cfna  ba  cuillmeac  Doibpiom  an 
rupup  pin  61  p  pa  mop  a  net>ala,  -\  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 
politic  in  uib  Diapmaca  map  a  ccuala  meic  Ruampi  Do  beir  jan  lion  poc- 
paiDe,  uaip  nf  pangacrap  a  luce  combd6a  iao  mun  am  pom,  ~\  cuipip  pebli- 
mi&  a  bpacaip,  "|  apoile  Do  maicib  a  rhuincipe,  i  pocpaiOe  mop  DO  jlapldraib 
gall  DionnpaD  eojain  uf  e&m  in  uib  bpiacpac  aibne  co  mbdoap  abaij  long- 
puipc  in  apD  pacain  pa  comaip  na  rfpe  Dapccam  a  muca  na  mamne  ap 
ccionn. 

Poillpijceap  Dua  plairbeapraij,  •]  Do  macaib  muipceapraij  (baDap 
05  lonnpaijib  mac  T?uai6pi)  goill  DO  6ul  Do  cpeachaD  a  bpip  comluicce, 
Gojan  6  hei&in,  •)  a  mbec  an  apD  pacain,  nip  paillicceab  pin  piuporh  oip 
Do  Ifnpac  mcc  Denroil  ~|  Denaoncaib  50  pangaoap  i  ccompoccup  Doib.  Oo 
comaple  pe  poile  annpin,  .1.  ruacal  mac  muipceapcaij,  ~\  caiclec  ua 


n  The  toffker,  i.  e.  the  causeway.  This  cause- 
way, which  was  called  cocap  mono  comea&a, 
is  still  well  known,  and  its  situation  pointed 
out  by  the  natives,  though  the  country  is  very 
much  improved.  It  is  situated  in  the  parish  of 
Templetogher,  in  the  barony  of  Ballimoe,  and 
county  of  Galway.  Hugh  O'Conor,  who  had 
his  residence  in  the  plain  of  Croghan,  marched 
on  this  occasion  across  the  ford  at  Ballimoe,  and 
directing  his  course  south-westwards  crossed 
this  causeway,  and  proceeded  into  Hy-Diarmada, 
or  O'Concannon's  country,  where  he  had  heard 

his  rival  was  staying See  note  r,  under  the 

year  1 1 77,  pp.  34,  35,  36.  Also  note  under  the 
year  1255. 

0  Recruits,  jjlar-taaraib,  i.  e.  raw  recruits, 
or  soldiers  lately  enlisted.  The  Annals  of  Kil- 
ronan call  them  juillpeipreancaiB,  i.  e.  Eng- 
lish archers. 

p  Ardrahin,  apt)  parain,  a  fair-town  in  the 
barony  of  Dunkellin,  and  county  of  Galway, 
and  a  vicarage  in  the  diocese  of  Kilmacduagh. 
Here  is  still  to  be  seen  a  small  portion  of  the 


Kilronan,  the  reading  is,  biappaib  cuillenb 
focpume. 

1  Struggle  trifling,  ba  becc  a  nimpfpjna. — 
In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  the  reading  is :  DO 
^etBci]'  erala  7  ni  pa^oai  y  gac  na  himeapap- 
cam,  i.  e.  "  They  used  to  obtain  the  spoils,  but 
did  not  expose  themselves  to  the  danger  of 
the  conflict."  The  word  itnpepjna,  which  is 
used  by  the  Four  Masters,  is  thus  explained  in 
O'Clery's  Glossary  of  ancient  Irish  Words  :  im- 
peapjtjna,  .1.  imeapopjam,  .1.  bpuijean.  "  Im- 
seargna,  i.  e.  striking  on  every  side,  i.  e.  con- 
flict." Both  forms  of  the  word  are  correctly 
explained  in  the  Irish  Dictionaries  of  O'Brien 
and  O'Reilly,  both  having  taken  them  from 
O'Clery. 

m  William  Grace,  Uilliam  Ccpap. — In  the 
Annals  of  Kilronan  he  is  called  IMliam  Cpap, 
i.  e.  Gulielmus  Crassus.  Cras,  or  Gras,  was  the 
soubriquet  of  Raymond  le  Gras,  and  afterwards 
became  a  family  name,  which  is  now  always 
incorrectly  written  Grace.  It  is  derived  from 
the  French  Gras,  or  Gros. 


1-225.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


233 


an  ineffectual  one,  for  the  English  responded  to  his  call  cheerfully  and  expedi- 
tiously;  and  well  was  their  promptness  rewarded,  for  their  spoil  was  great,  and 
their  struggle  trifling1.  The  English  of  Leinster,  under  the  conduct  of  William 
Grace"  and  the  sons  of  Griffin,  were  sent  to  aid  him.  On  the  arrival  of  these 
forces,  Hugh  proceeded  westwards,  across  the  Togher"  [the  Causeway],  against 
the  sons  of  Roderic,  and  advanced  to  Hy-Diarmada,  where  he  had  heard  they 
were  stationed,  without  any  considerable  forces,  for  their  allies  had  not  as  yet 
joined  them ;  and  he  sent  his  brother  Felim,  and  others  of  the  chiefs  of  his 
people,  and  a  great  number  of  the  English  recruits0  into  Hy-Fiachrach  Aidhne, 
to  plunder  Owen  O'Heyne.  These  encamped  for  one  night  at  Ardrahenp,  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  to  join  the  sons  of  Roderic,  having  received  intelligence  that  the  English 
had  gone  to  plunder  their  sworn  partisan,  Owen  O'Heyne,  and  were  stationed 
at  Ardrahen,  did  not  abandon  their  friend,  but,  with  one  mind  and  accord,  fol- 
lowed 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  Murtoughr 


ruins  of  an  ancient  cloigtheach,  or  Round  Tower. 
1  They  then  held  a  council,  Do  gniac  comaiple 
pe  poile  ann  pin — This  attack  on  the  English 
at  Ardrahen  is  much  better  described  in  the  An- 
nals of  Kilronan,  particularly  in  giving  the  names 
of  persons,  which  are  so  confusedly  given  by 
the  Four  Masters.  It  runs  as  follows  :  "  O'Fla- 
herty and  the  sons  of  Murtough  [O'Conor],  as 
they  were  coming  to  join  the  sons  of  Eoderic, 
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 
their  heads.  They  travelled  all  night,  and 
early  in  the  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  chief- 
tains he  would  wish  to  accompany  him,  while 


2H 


O'Flaherty,  and  the  other  son  of  Murtough, 
was  to  remain  outside  the  town.  The  Irishman 
selected  to.  accompany  Tuathal  O'Conor,  was 
Taichleach,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Dowda ;  and  they 
entered  the  town  with  great  cotirage  and  bold- 
ness, and  the  English  fled  out  of  the  town,  one 
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  wounded  the  constable  of  the  English,  who 
fell  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 From  the 


234  dNNata  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1225. 


Duboa  50  noipim  amaille  piu  DO  cup  DO  poigiD  an  baile  cecup  ua  plaicbeap- 
raij  -]  mac  muipceapcaijj  iman  mbaile  peccaip  guna  pocpaiDib.  LuiD 
cuanal,  -|  caicleac  gona  bpianldc  50  mfnmnac  meapDana  i  ecpecommupc 
gall  ip  in  mbaile  50  rcucpac  eiuj  puabaipc  bio6bai&  oppo.  TTlaiDreap  pop 
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  paj- 
ba6  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, 
jiolla  cpiopD  mac  Diapmaoa,  mall  mac  peapjail  ua  cai&g,  ^jc.  Clcr  cfna 
po  mapbaD  an  peap  po  rhapb  mall  6  caiDj,  .1.  bpacaip  colen  uf  biomupaij. 

Oala  mac  Ruai&pi  coniDpecaiD  ap  abapac  pe  hua  pplaicbeapcaij,  -]  pip 
an  ccuiD  oile  Da  naop  comra  50  rcangacap  pompa  a  nDeap  50  Dpmm  cfnan- 
nam.  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 
annpin  in  uacaD  pocpaiDe  looap  Do  paijiD  ao6a  uf  nell,  -\  Donn  mag  oipeac- 
caij  imaille  pifi. 

lonnpaijip  aoD  mac  carail  cpoibDeipj  ua  plaicbeapraij  annpin  50  ccuc 
jell,  i  eoipeaDa  uam.  Uainic  poime  lapam  50  cill  meaDom,  -\  50  moij 
neo  i  nDiaiD  mic  muipceapcaij,  -]  cijfpndm  mic  carail  miccapain  50 
noeapnpar  pic  rap  cfnn  a  mbuaip  -]  a  muinnpe,  i  50  noeacpac  Do  lacaip 

manner  in  which  this  name  is  given  by  the  Four  See  Book  of  Lecan,  fol.  75,  b,  a  ;  Book  of  Bal- 

Masters,  one  would  suppose  that  this  Tuathal  lymote,  fol.  23,  p.  b,  col.  a,  line  29  ;  and  Duald 

was  one  of  the  O'Dowda  family  ;  but  the  more  Mac  Firbis's  Genealogical  Book,  p.  575. 

ancient  annals  shew  that  he  was  Tuathal,  the  c  Druim  Ceanannain  __  The  Editor  could  not 

son  of  the  celebrated   Muircheartach  Muimh-  find  any  place  of  this  name  in  the  county  of 

neach    O'Conor,    and    the   brother    of  Maims  Galway.     There  is  a  Liscananaun  in  the  parish 

^onor-  of  Lackagh,  in  the  barony  of  Clare,  and  county 

5  They  joined,  comopecaiD  —  In   the   Annals  of  Galway. 

ofKilronan  the  reading  is,  po  compuiceaoap,  "Residence  __  )Tlfnnao,  is  explained  by  O'Clery, 

i.  e.  they  met.     The  word  comopecam  is  often  in  his  Vocabulary,  at  the  word  muipeaoac,  thus: 

used  to  translate  the  Latin  word  conveniunt  —  "  ITluipeaohac   .1.  n^eapna.  muipeaoac   506 


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[O'Conor],  and  Taichleach  O'Dowda,  with  numerous  forces,  into  the  town,  while 
OTlaherty  and  the  [other]  son  of  Murtough  were  to  remain  with  their  forces 
outside.  Tuathal  and  Taichleach,  with  a  strong  body  of  their  soldiers,  marched 
spiritedly  and  boldly  into  the  town,  and  made  a  powerful  attack  upon  the 
English  there,  who  were  routed  east  and  west.  They  pursued  those  who  fled 
eastwards.  Tuathal  wounded  the  constable  of  the  English  with  his  first  shot ; 
and  Taichleach,  by  another  shot,  gave  him  so  deep  a  wound,  that  he  was  left 
lifeless.  As  to  the  English  who  were  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 
occasion  Mahon,  the  son  of  Hugh,  who  was  son  of  Conor  Moinmoy;  Gilchreest 
Mac  Dermot;  Niall,  the  son. of  Farrell  O'Teige,  and  others,  were  slain;  but  the 
man  who  slew  Niall  O'Teige,  i.  e.  the  brother  of  Colen  O'Dempsey,  was  slain 
himself  also. 

As  to  the  sons  of  Roderic,  they  joined"  O'Flaherty  and  their  "other  allies 
the  next  morning,  and  proceeded  southwards  to  Druim-Ceanannain' ;  but  Hugh, 
the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  with'his  English,  set  out  after  them.  The  tribes 
who  supported  the  sons  of  Roderic  now  held  a  consultation,  and  came  to  the 
resolution  that  each  of  them  should  return  to  his  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 
hostages  and  pledges  from  him.  He  then  proceeded  to  Kilmaine  and  Mayo,  in 
pursuit  of  the  sons  of  Murtough"  and  Tiernan,  the  son  of  Cathal  Migaran 
[O'Conor]  who  came  before  him  under  the  guarantee  ofDonough  Cairbreach, 

meunnacca,  .1.  cijeapna  ap  jac  lonaoh:  mfn-  turn  to  his  people  and  cattle,  and  leave  the  sons 

nao  .1.  lonao."  of  Roderic.     The  sons  of  Eoderic  then  left  the 

T  Went  to  Hugh  O'Neill,  looap  oo  paijjio  aooa  country,  for  they  had  no  English  or  Irish  forces 

ui  neill. — The  compound  preposition,  or  prepo-  at  hand,  and  Donn  Oge  went  again  to  O'Neill, 

sitional  phrase,  Do  paijib,  is  now  obsolete,  and  And  nothing  resulted  from  this  expedition,  but 

o'lonnpuijio,  or  DO  cum,  used  in  its  place.  This  that  the  best  province  in  Ireland  was  injured 

passage  is  given  somewhat   differently  .in   the  and  destroyed  between  them. 
Annals   of  Kilronan,    thus  :    "  The   resolution          w Murtough,  i.  e.  the  celebrated  Muircheartach 

they  adopted  was  that  each  of  them  should  re-  Muimhneach  O'Conor. 

2  n2 


236  QNNata  Rioshachca  eiRecwN.  [1225. 

aoba  ui  Concabaip  ap  planaibeacc  oonnchaba  caipbpij,  -]  maire  na  ngall. 
6a  cumpanab  na  lonam  pin  uaip  ni  paibe  cill  na  cuaic  i  cconnaccaib  an  can 
pom  gan  loc  ~\  Idinmilleb. 

Uebm  Diopulamj  DO  ceccbdil  i  ccpic  connacc  an  ionbai6  pi,  .1.  cpeablaiD 
cpom  rfpaijcn  gup  polmaijeab  mop  mbailce  61  jan  elaibrec  bfca  Dpdgbdil 
lonnca. 

plann  mac  arhlaoib  ui  paltamam  coipec  cloinne  huaoac  DO  mapbaoh 
opeblimib  mac  cacail  cpoiboeipg  Don  coccab  pin.  ^065  ua  pfnnacra  peap 
5pai6  Daob  mac  Ruaibpi  Do  mapbab  la  muinnp  mec  aobasain  ip  in  coccab 
ceDna. 

Qmlaoib  mac  peapcaip  uf  pallarhain  coipec  a  Duccupa  pen  Do  bpeapp 
Don  cenel  Da  mboi  Do  ecc. 

TThnpeabac  ua  pinnacca  cofpec  cloinni  mupchaba  Decc  in  apcpac  ap 
loc  oipbpion,  •]  e  plan  05  Dol  inn. 

Ueac  Do  jabdil  pop  concobap  mac  caibj  ui  ceallaij;  (cijfpna  ua  mame) 
1  pop  apD^al  a  bpacaip  Id  macaib  caibg  ui  ceallaij,  -j  a  lopccab  ann  ap 
aon. 

Duapcdn  6  hfjpa,  cabj  6  hfjpa,  -]  eDaoin  injean  Diapmaca  mic  Domnaill 
ui  ejpa  Decc. 

x   A    necessary    tranquillity,    curiipanab    na          y  Clann-Uadach,  a  territory  in  the  barony  of 

ion«m — In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  the  reading  Athlone,  and  county  of  Roscommon,  comprising 

is  :  ip  cumpanao  panjjup  a  leap  pin,  uaip  ni  the  entire  of  the  parish  of  Gamma,   and   the 

paibe  ceall  na  ruac  jan  milLeao   in  la  pin  u  greater  part,  if  not  the  entire,  of  that  of  Dysart. 

ConnuccuiB.     lap  naipgnib  7  lap  mapBao  bo  Briola,    in    the   parish   of  Dysart,    is   referred 

in  cipe  7  a  buome,  7  ap  cup  caic  pe  puacc  7  to  in  old  manuscripts  as  in  this  territory See 

pe  jopra,   oo  pap  ceiom   mop^alaip  ip  in  cip  Tribes  and  Customs  of  By-Many,  printed  for  the 

uile   .1.  cenel   cepca   cpep  a  bpolriiui^ce  na  Irish  Archaeological  Society,    in   1843,   p.   19; 

baileaoa  jan  ouine  beo  opacbail   mncib. —  and  map  to  the  same.    O'Fallon  resided  at  Mill- 

"  This  rest  was  wanting,  for  there  was  not  a  town,  in  the  parish  of  Dysert,  in  the  year  1585, 

church  or  territory  in  Connaught,   which  had  as  appears  from  a  curious  document  among  the 

not  been  destroyed  by   that   day.     After  the  Inrolments  tempore  Elizabethce,  in  the  Auditor 

plundering  and  killing  of  the  cattle,  people  had  General's   Office,    Dublin,    dated    6th  August, 

been  broken  down  by  cold  and  hunger,  and  a  1585,    and  entitled    "Agreement  between  the 

violent  distemper  raged  throughout  the  whole  Irish  chieftains  and  inhabitants  of  Imany,  called 

country,    i.  e.   a   kind   of  burning  disease,   by  O'Kelly's  country,  on  both  sides  of  the  River 

which  the  towns  were  desolated,  and  left  with-  Suck  in  Connaught,  and  the  Queen's  Majesty." 
out  a  single  living  being."  '  Clann-Murrough,  Clann  niupchaoa. — Ac- 


1225.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  237 

and  the  chiefs  of  the  English,  and  on  condition  that  he  shotild  spare  their 
people  and  cattle.  This  was  a  necessary  tranquillity",  for  there  was  not  a 
church  or  territory  in  Connaught  at  that  time  that  had  not  been  plundered 
and  desolated. 

An  oppressive  malady  raged  in  the  province  of  Connaught  at  this  time : 
it  was  a  heavy  burning  sickness,  which  left  the  large  towns  desolate,  without 
a  single  survivor. 

Flann,  the  son  of  Auliffe  O'Fallon,  Chief  of  Clann-Uadaghy,  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-Murroughz,  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  way,'  and  that  each  sept  had  twenty-four 
were  two  chiefs  of  the  O'Finaghtys  in  Con-  ballys,  or  ninety-six  quarters  of  lahd.  Both 
nought  (516  enrhaicne  ni  hionann),  one  called  septs  were  dispossessed  soon  after  the  English 
Chief  of  Clann  Murchadha,  and  the  other  Chief  invasion  by  that  family  of  the  Burkes  called  Mac 
of  Clann  Conmhaigh.  The  latter  name  is  still  Davids,  who  descended  from  a  furious  heroine, 
remembered  and  now  pronounced  Clanconow,  named  Nuala  na  meadoige,  the  daughter  of 
but  the  former  is  totally  forgotten.  According  O'Finaghty,  who  was  the  mother  of  David 
to  Duald  Mac  Firbis,  and  the  tradition  in  the  Burke,  the  ancestor  of  Mac  David,  Lord  of  Clan- 
country,  the  O'Finaghtys  were  seated  on  both  conow,  and  by  whose  treachery  the  O'Finaghtys, 
sides  of  the  River  Suck,  and  their  territory  her  own  tribe,  were  dispossessed.  In  the  year 
comprised,  before  the  English  invasion,  forty-  1628,  Sir  Ulick  Burke,  only  son  of  Edmond 
eight  ballys,  or  large  Irish  townlands.  Some  Burke,  of  Glinske,  Lord  of  Clanconow,  was 
think  that  the  sept  of  them  called  Clann-Mur-  created  a  baronet  of  Ireland,  and  from  him  the 
rough  were  on  the  east  side  of  the  River  Suck,  present  Sir  John  Burke,  of  Glinsk  Castle,  the 

in  the  present  county  of  Roscommon,  and  that      present  head  of  this  family,  is  descended See 

called  Clannconow,  or  Clanconway,  on  the  west  Genealogies,  Tribes,  $c.,  oflly-F iachracft,  p.  108, 

of  the  same  river,  in  the  now  county  of  Gal-  note  b.                . 


[1225. 


TTluirhmg  -|  goill  Do  Dul  po  ceapmann  caolainne,  ap  na  ngall  DO  cop  Don 
coipc  pin  rpe  peapcaib  De  -|  caolainne. 

Qri  eapbap  50  buam  a  haicle  na  pell  bpfjDe. 


1  The  Momonians,  fyc — This  entry  relating  to 
the  plundering  of  TearmannCaelainne,  is  entered 
in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  under  the  year  1 224. 
These  annals  state  that  when  O'Neill  (after  having 
inaugurated  Turlough,  the  son  of  Eoderic,  as 
King  of  Connaught)  had  heard  that  Donough 
Cairbreach  O'Brien  and  Geoffry  Mares  were 
coming  into  Connaught,  he  retreated  with  all 
possible  expedition;  and  that  the  Momonians  and 
English  not  finding  O'Neill  in  Connaught  before 
them,  pursued  the  sons  of  Koderie,  and  banished 
them  to  O'Neill  a  second  time,  &c.  &c.  They 
then  add  :  "  The  English  and  the  Momonians 
then  attacked  Tearmann  Caoilfinn,  but  the  Eng- 
lish were  slaughtered  through  the  miracles  of 
Caoilfinn." 

b  Tearmann  Caelainne,  i.  e.  the  Termon,  or 
sanctuary  of  the  virgin,  St.  Caelainn.  The  si- 
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 
the  Irish  Saints,  p.  733,  states  that  it  is  in 
Connaught.  Thus:  "  Caolpionn  6  Cfpmonn 
Caolainne  i  cconachcaib,"  i.  e.  "  CaoLfionn  of 
Termon  Caolainne  in  Connaught."  It  appears 
from  an  Inquisition  taken  on  the  27th  of  May, 
1617,  that  Termon- Kealand  belonged  to  the 
monastery  of  Eoscommon.  The  Editor,  when 
examining  the  localities  of  the  county  of  Ros- 
common  for  the  Ordnance  Survey,  found  that 
this  place  is  still  well  known,  and  that  its  ancient 
name  is. not  yet  forgotten,  though  Termonmore 
is  that  more  generally  used.  It  is  situated  in  the 
parish  of  Kilkeevin,  and  about  one  mile  to  the  east 
of  the  town  of  Castlereagh,  in  the  county  of  Eos- 
common,  where  the  virgin,  St.  Caellain,  is  still 
vividly  remembered,  and  curious  legends  told 
about  her  miracles.  Her  holy  well,  called  Tobar 


Caelainne,  is  situated  in  the  townland  of  Moor, 
in  the  same  parish,  and  from  it  an  old  road  led 
across  the  bog  to  the  Termon,  where  her  nun- 
nery 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  Tober- 
caelainne,  are  shewn. 

This  virgin  was  the  patron  saint  of  the  tribes 
called  Ciarraighe  or  Kierrigii,  of  the  original 
settlement,  of  whom  in  this  neigbourhood,  as 
well  as  in  the  present  barony  of  Costello,  in  the 
county  of  Mayo,  the  following  account  is  pre- 
served in  a  vellum  MS.  in  Trinity  College,  Dub- 
lin, H.  3,  17,  p.  875. 

Cum  tancatap  Ciappaijji  a  Conaccaib? 
Nm.  1  n-aimpp  Qe6a  itiic  Gacach  Cipmcapna. 
Cia  bib  cainic  ap  rup?  NTn.  .1.  Coipbpi  mac 
Conaipe  ramie  a  muriiam  a  nbeap  lap  na  m- 
bapba  eipci.  Uainic  cpa  co  n-a  tnumcip  uile 
co  hGeb  mac  Gachach  Cipmcapna.  6ai  m- 
jfn  bfppcaicech  la  coipppi;  po  chumoij;  Qeo 
ap  a  hachuip  hi.  Camic  pi  peace  aon  bo  rijj 
a  harap.  Ro  jab  a  haruip  pein  coippi  moip  i 
n-a  piabnaipi.  Ro  piappaib  in  injfn  oe  cib 
Ota  mbui.  Rio  beic  jjan  pfpann  pop 
fcc  ap  pe.  Canjap  on  pi  j  ap  cfnn  na 
lap  pin.  Ro  cino  unoppu  an  mjm  na  pajab 
cpia  Bichu  co  capoca  pfpann  maic  bia  haraip. 
Oo  beappa  DO  ap  Qeo,  boneoc  a  ciucpa  am- 
cheall  i  n-aen  lo  bo  na  poichpib  pea  piap,  7 
bo  beaprap  Caelainb  cpaibceach  ppip  na 
bilpi.  Cimceallaib  pin  laparh  co  mop  an  cip 
pin  amail  a  bubpab  pip  7  bo  poich  pa  beoij 
bia  cig.  6eipib  a  tnumcip  ip  na  pfpanbnib 
pin.  Caipijib  Connacca  co  mop  an  ci  Qeo  ap 
a  mec  leo  bo  pab  b'pfpanb  bo  choipbpi,  7  ap- 
beapcacap  coipbpi  bo  mapBur.  Ni  pfrpaibrfp 


1225.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


239 


The  Momonians"  and  English  attacked  Tearmann  Caelainneb,  but  the 
English  were  slaughtered  on  this  occasion,  through  the  miracles  of  God  and 
St.  Caelainn. 

The  corn  remained  unreaped  until  after  the  festival  of  St.  Bridget  [the  1st 
of  February6]. 


pin,  ctp  Qe6,  ap  oca  Caelamo  a  n-oilpi  ppip 
pern,  7  ppia  pfpanb.  Qcc  cfna  t>6ncap  lino 
ajaib  DO,  7  cabap  oeoc  neriie  DO  aeon  lino  pin, 
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 

00  paijib  na  pleiji.    Ci6  Dia  pum  papaibip,  a 
Qe6?  ap  pi.     Sapaiopecpa   cupa  poo  piji  inD. 
C'oi^piap   DUIC  mo,   ap  an   pij.      <5eDao>   an 
Caelamb.     6eip   oo    b'peic  ono,    ap   an    pij. 
6epaD,  ap  pi.     Qp  ip  cpta  lino  po    poibpip  a 
mapba6,  ap  pi,  a  meach  no  eag  piprmai^,  ap 
pi,  .1.  pi  Connacr  Dia  neaba  linb  Ciappai  je  co 
bpar;  conao  oe  pin  na  benaib  ciappaije  linb 
bo  pij  Connacc  bo  £pfp.     pfpann  oaiii  p£m, 

01  in  cailleac.     Rajaio  ap  an  pij.     t)o  bfp- 
rap  in  Ufpmano  mop  01  lapam  ;  conab  anD  pil 
i  ceall  anm. 

"  WTien  first  did  the  Kierrigii  come  into  Con- 
naught  ?  Not  difficult.  In  the  time  of  Aedh, 
son  of  Eochy  Tirmcharna.  Which  of  them  came 
first?  Not  difficult.  Coirbri,  son  of  Conairi, 
who  came  from  the  south  of  Munster,  when  he 
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.  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 
being  without  land  in  exile,'  said  he.  Messen- 
gers 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 
portion  of  land  to  her  father.  '  I  will  give  him,' 
said  Aedh,  '  as  much  of  the  wooded  lands  to  the 
west,  as  he  can  pass  round  in  one  day;  and 


Caelainn,  the  Pious,  shall  be  given  as  guarantee 
of  it.'  Coirbri  afterwards  went  round  a  great 
extent  of  that  country,  according  to  the  mode 
directed,  and  finally  returned  to  his  house.  He 
brought  his  people  into  these  lands.  The  Con- 
nacians  greatly  criminated  Aedh  for  the  too 
great  extent  of  land,  as  they  deemed,  which  he 
had  given,  and  said  that  Coirbri  should  be  killed. 
'  This  cannot  be  done,'  said  Aedh,  '  for  Caelainn 
is  guarantee  for  himself  and  for  his  land.  But, 
however,  let  some  beer  be  made  by  you  for  him, 
and  give  him  a  poisonous  draught  in  that  beer, 
that  he  may  die  of  it.'  A  feast  was,  therefore, 
afterwards  prepared.  This  thing  was  afterwards 
revealed  by  the  Lord  to  Caelainn.  She  came  to 
the  feast.  '  Why  hast  thou  violated  my  guaran- 
tee,' said  she  to  Aedh.  'I  will  violate  thee  as 
regards  thy  kingdom.'  Accept  thy  own  award, 
in  compensation  for  it,'  said  the  King.  '  I  will,' 
said  Caelainn.  '  Pass  thy  sentence,  then,'  said  the 
King.  '  I  will,'  said  she.  '  Because  it  is  through 
the  medium  of  beer  thou  hast  attempted  to  de- 
stroy him  [Coirbri],  may  the  King  of  Connaught 
meet  decline  or  certain  death,  if  ever  he  drink 
of  the  beer  of  the  Kierrigii.'  Hence  it  happens 
that  the  Kierrigii  never  brew  any  beer  for  the 
Kings  of  Connaught.  '  Grant  land  to  myself,' 
said  the  Nun.  '  Choose  it,'  said  the  King.  The 
Termonmore  was  afterwards  given,  where  her 
church  is  at  this  day." 

c  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmac- 
noise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  record 
that  Moylemorrey  O'Connor  of  Affalie  [Offaly], 
was  killed  at  Eosseglassie"  [now  Monasterevin], 
"  by  Cowlen  O'Dempsie." 

Under  this  year  also  the  Dublin  copy  of  the 


aNNdta  Rioshacihca  emeciNR  [1226. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1226. 
Qoip  CpiopD  mfle  Da  ceo  pice  ape. 

Donum  Dei  eppcop  na  THiDe  Do  ecc. 

Connmach  ua  capppa  eppoc  luijne  Do  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 
cainic  Da  ciniD  pe  haimpip  epiDe,  Do  mapbab  Do  Donnchab  6  Duboa  -\  Da 
cloinn. 

Nuala  mjCn  17uai6pi  uf  concobaip  bamnjeapna  ulaD  Decc  i  cconga 
pecin,  i  a  ha&nacal  50  honopac  i  creampall  cananac  conga. 

Dorhnall  mac  T?uaiDpi  ui  plaicbeapcaij  Do  mapbaD  Do  rhacaib  muipcfp- 
caij  uf  plaicbeapraij  mp  rijabail  cije  paip  Doib  pfn,  ~\  DpeDlim  mac  cacail 
cpoibhDeipg. 

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 
concobap  mac  copbmaic  uf  maoilpuanaiD  ap  loc  aillmne. 

TTluipjfp  mac  Diapmaca  Do  mapbaD. 

Annals  of  Innisfallen  record  the  erection  of  the  arts  of  poetry,  embroidery,  and  penmanship,  and 

castles  of  Dublin  and  Trim  by  the  English.  every  other  known  science. 

d  Donum  Dei — He  is  called   "Donum  Dei,  f   CPMulmoghery,    O   Plaolmoceip^e. — This 

BushoppofMeath,"inMageoghegan'stranslation  name  is  still  common  in  the  county  of  Donegal, 

of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  ;  but  in  the  An-  but  anglicised  Early,  because  moceip^e  signifies 

ftals  of  Multifernan  he  is  called  "  Deodatus  elec-  early  rising,     niaolmoceipje  signifies    chief  of 

tue   Midie." — See    Harris's   edition    of  Ware's  the   early  rising.     The   word  maol,   when  not 

Bishops,   p.  142,  where  it  is  conjectured  that  prefixed  to  the  name  of  a  saint,   signifies  a  king 

he  was  never  consecrated.  or  chief,  as  in  the  present  instance,  but  when 

e  A  learned  singer — In  the  Annals  of  Kilro-  prefixed  to  the  name  of  a  saint,  it  means   one 

nan,  it  is  stated  that  he  made  a  kind  of  musical  tonsured  in  honour  of  some  saint,   as  we  learn 

instrument  for  himself  which  had  never  been  from  Colgan  :    "  Mail,    seu  ut  varie  scribitur 

made  before,  and  that  he   was   skilled  in  the  Hibernis  maol,  mael,  moel,  idem  nunc  quod  do- 


1226.1  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  241 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1226. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  twenty-six. 

Donum  Deid,  Bishop  of  Meath,  died. 

Connmagh  O'Tarpy  (Torpy),  Bishop  of  Leyny,  died. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Donn  O'Sochlaghan,  Erenagh  of  Cong,  a  learned  singer1, 
a  scribe,  and  a  man  expert  in  many  trades,  died. 

Matthew  0'Mulmogheryf  died. 

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. 

Nuala,  daughter  of  Roderic  O'Conor,  and  Queen  of  UlidiaK,  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. 

Farrell  O'Teige,  surnamed  an  Teaghlaigh,  Chief  of  the  household11  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 
( VReilly  and  Conor,  the  son  of  Cormac  O'Mulrony. 

Maurice  Mac  Dermot  was  slain. 

minus  vel  rex,  idem  mine  quodeafows,  tonsus,  vd  of  his  son  after  him."     The  word  locc  nje  is 

coronatus." — Ada  Sanctorum,  p.  188,  n.  4.    See  anglicised  Loghty,  and  Loghtee  in  some  Anglo- 

also  p.  386,  n.  1,  of  the  same  work.  Irish  documents,  in  which  the  term  is  used  to 

8  Queen  of  Ulidia She  was  the  wife  of  Mac  denote  mensal  lands,  or  lands  set  apart  for  the 

Donslevy,  who  was  at  this  period  styled  King  maintenance  of  the  chiefs  table — See  Harris's 
of  Uladh  ;  but  by  this  is  not  to  be  understood  Ware,  vol.  ii.  p.  70.  There  was  a  celebrated 
the  entire  province  of  Ulster,  but  only  that  territory  in  Oriel,  called  luce  cije  TTIej  mar- 
part  of  it  lying  eastwards  of  Glenree,  Lough  jariina,  anglicised  "  the  Loughty,"  as  appears 
Neagh,  and  the  Lower  Bann.  from  several  ancient  maps  of  Ulster. 

h  Of  the  household,  rea^laij — In  the  Annals  '  Lough  Allen,  loc  aillmne. — A  well  known 

of  Kilronan  :  Dux  locca  cije  Carail  CpoiB-  lake  in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  near  the  source 

oeipj  7  a  riiic  na  6iai6,  i.  e.  "Leader  or  chief  of  the  Shannon, 
of  the  household  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  and  of  that 

2  i 


242  ctNHaca  Rioshachca  eiraectNN.  [1227. 

Caiplen  cille  moipe  Do  leaccab  la  cacal  6  Paijillij. 
Qooh  mac   cacail  cpoibDeips  Do  jal'd.l  QoDlia  ui  plaicbfpcaij,  -|    a 
rabaipc  i  lairh  jail. 

_ 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1227. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceo,  pice,  apeachc. 

Concobap  mac  Neill  ui  chacliapnaij  Do  mapbab  la  harhpaib  laijneac  ]io 
baoi  i  pochaip  T?ij  Connachc. 

6np(  ua  maoileacloimi  -|   muipcfpcac  ua  maoileacloinn  Do  mapbab  la 

jalloib. 

TVIaolpeacVilaimi  ua  concobaip  pailje  Do  mapbab  la  cuilen  ua  nofomu- 

paij. 

ua  ttlaoilmuaib  DO  mapbab  la  hua  TTlopoha. 

Gpearn  Do  comcpuinniuccab  50  hdrcliar.  Qob  mac  carail  cpoib- 
5  17i  connacc  DO  cocuipeab  Doib.  lap  noul  Do  Da  paijib  po  cionnpcam- 
peallab  paip.  Uilliam  mapiipccdl  a  peap  capaDpaib  Do  rochc  cuicce 
j;ona  yocpaiDe,  i  e  Da  bpec  Gaimbeoin  gall  ap  lap  na  cuipne  amac,  -|  a 
loblacab  bo  50  nteachaib  i  cconnaccaib. 

dob  mac  cacail  cpoibbeipg  DO  benarh  coinne  lap  pin  05  laraij  cafccucbil 
pe  huilliam  mapep  mac  Seappaib  .1.  mpcip  epenn,  -]  nf  Deachaib  piorh  cap 

k    Demolished,    bo    leaccao,    literally,     was  himselfe  and  his  brother.    Hugh  O'Flaithvertay 

thrown  down.     In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  the  committed  by  Hugh   mac  Cathal  Crovderg  & 

verb  used  is  oo  bpipeao,  and  in  the  Annals  of  did  deliver  him  into  the  hands  of  the  Galls." 

Ulster  DO  pcaileb,  and  in  the  old  translation  m  Henry  (f  Melaghlin — This  entry  is  given  as 

the  passage  is  rendered  :  "  The  Castle  of  Kil-  follows  in  Mageoghegau's  translation  of  the  An- 

rnore  broken  down  by  Cahall  O'Kely."  iials  of  Clonmacnoise,  but  under  the  year  1226, 

1  The  passage  is  given  as  follows  in  the  An-  "  Henry  O'Melaghlyn,  son  of  the  knight  O'Me- 

n&ls  of  Ulster  :  A.  D.  1226.  p-eiolim  hua  Con-  -laughlyn,  was  killed  by  the  Englishmen  of  Ardi- 

cob'aip  DO  jabail  caiji  ap  Domnall  hua  plaic-  nuroher.  Murtaghmac  Melaghlyn  Begg  was  also 

bepcaic  gup  mapb   7  jup   loipc   e   p^in   7  a  killed  by  the  English." 

bparaip.    Qeo  hua  placbepcaic  oo  jabail  la  n  Assembled  at  Dublin. — In  the  Annals  of  Kil- 

lideb   mac   carail  cpoiboeipj    7    a  cobaipc  ronan  this  passage  is  entered  under  the  year 

illaim  ngall.     And  thus  rendered  in  the  old  year  1226.     It  begins  thus:  Cuipc  oo  Denarii 

translation :  "  Felim   O'Conor,   taking  a  house  bo  jallaib  ara  cliar  7  Gpenn  a  nQr  cliur,  7 

uppon  Doneli  O'Flaithvertay,  killed  and  burned  UOD  mac  Carail  Cpoiboeipj  oo  jaipm  pnippe, 


1-227-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  243 

The  Castle  of  Kimlore  was  demolished"  by  Cathal  O'Keilly. 
Hugh,  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  took  Hugh  O'Flaherty  prisoner,  and 
delivered  him  up  into  the  hands  of  the  English1. 

* 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1227. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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. 

Henry  0'Melaghlinm  and  Murtough  O'Melaghlin  were  slain  by  the  English. 

Melaghlin  O'Conor  Faly  was  slain  by  Cuilen  O'Dempsy. 

Gilla-Colum  O'Molloy  was  slain  by  O'More. 

The  English  of  Ireland  assembled  at  Dublin"  and  invited  thither  Hugh,  the 
son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  King  of  Connaught.  As  soon  as  he  arrived  they 
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  assist  Hugh,  and  by  the  help  of 
of  Dublin  and  of  Ireland,  at  Dublin,  and  they  his  sword  and  strength  of  his  hand  he  con veighed 
summoned  Hugh,  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg  to  Hugh  away  from  them,  and  so  departed  to  Con- 
it."  naught  in  safety.  Within  a  week  after  the  Eng- 
The  account  of  this  transaction  is  more  fully  lishmen  kept  court  in  Athlone,  whereunto  the 
given  in  Mageoghegaa's  translation  of  the  An-  Connoughtmen  came,  and  tooke  captive  William 
nals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  follows  :  "  A.  D.  1226.  March,  the  Deputie's  son,  and  tooke  other  prin- 
Hugh  O'Connor,  King  of  Connaught,  went  cipal  men  belonging  to  him,  and  also  killed  a 
to  the  English  Court  of  Dublin ;  by  the  com-  good  knight  at  his  taking." 
pulsarie  means  of  the  English  they  tooke  his  °  Lathach  Caiclitubil. — This  Lathack,  or  slough, 
sonii  and  daughter  as  hostages,  with  the  hos-  is  now  dried  up,  but  the  .old  men  living  near 
tages  of  all  the  principall  men  in  Connought;  Athlone  still  point  out  its  situation  and  exact 
upon  examining  of  some  criminall  causes  there  extent.  The  name  is  still  preserved  in  that  of 
objected  to  the  said  Hugh,  he  was  found  guilty  a  village  and  townland  lying  immediately  to  the 
in  their  censure,  and  being  to  be  apprehended  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, 
and  of  great  favour  and  power  with  the  King  of  into  the  Lathack.  The  name  of  this  village  is 

2  i2 


244  aNNdta  Rioshachca  eircecmN.  [12-27. 


lacaij  anonn  accmab  uachab  Deagbaoine,  .1.  copbmac  mac  comalcaij, 
Oiapmaio  mac  majnupa,  majnup  mac  muipcfpcaij  ui  concobaip,  cab^  mac 
macgamna  ui  cepin,  -j  TCuaibpi  ua  maoilbpenamn.  Uilliam  mapep  Do  ceacc 
occap  mapcac  ina  combail.  O  DO  cuimmj  6  concobaip  an  peall  pempaice 
epjip  i  ccoinne  na  ngall,  gpepip  a  muincip  poca  lonnpaijib  pen  uilliam 
mapep  gup  jabapcaip  e  po  ceDoip.  Ciob  laD  a  muincip  ann  po  ppeaccaip- 
pioo  gpeapacc  ui  Concobaip  po  ICiccpioO  pona  gallaib  mo  gup  moibpioo 
oppa,  mapbaicc  Conpcapla  aca  tuain,  gabam  maijipoip  Slemne  -|  hugo 
aipDDin.  Cuipip  ao6  na  goill  pin  i  mbpai£ofnup  rap  lacaij  puap.  Luib 
poirhe  jon  a  pocpame  ap  a  haicle  gu]!  aipjfpDai]!  mapgab  aca  luain,  -\  gup 
loipcceapcaip  an  baite  50  hiomtan.  ba.  jmom  pocaip  Oo  connaccaib  an 
jniom  po,  6ip  puaippiorh  a  mac,  a  injean,  -|  bpaijoe  connacc  ap  ceana  bac- 
cap  ap  larhaibh  gall  Do  compuapglab  ap  na  bpaijbib  pempaice  genmocd  Sir 
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  i  ccuaipceapc  Connacc  ^up  loipcpioc  imp  mfboin  gup  aipccpiob  an 
cpioc  i  ccanjaoap,  -]  gup  jabpac  a  bpaijDe. 

Sluaigeab  la  peappaib  mapep  -\  ta  coippbealbac  mac  17uaibpi  ui  conco- 

now  correctly  enough  Anglicised  Bellaugh,  and  Costello   included  in  the  diocese   of  Achonry. 

sometimes,  but  incorrectly,  Bellough,  and  even  The  remaining  parishes  in  this  barony  are  in 

Bullock.      The   Irish,    however,    call    it    dis-  the  diocese  of  Tuam,  and  constitute  the  territory 

tinctly  b£cd  larai£,  and  understand  it  as  refer-  of  Kerry  of  Lough-na-uarney.  —  See  note  under 

ring   to  the  lacac  which    lay  between  it   and  the  year  1224. 

Athlone  —  See  map  prefixed  to  the  Tribes  and         q  By  the  devise,  Tpe  imoeall  __  In  the  Annals 

Customs  ofHy-Many,  printed  for  the  Irish  Ar-  of  Ulster  the  phrase  is  written  cpe  imoell.  The 

ehseological  Society  in  1843,  on  which  this  name  whole  entry  is  thus  rendered  in  the  old  trans- 

is  Siven-  lation:    "A.  D.  1226.   Dunleve  O'Grada  was 

p  Sliabk  Lug/ia,  i.  e.  Looee's  mountain  —  This  killed  by  [the  son  of]  his  own  brother,  and  he 

territory  still  retains  its  name,  and  comprises  was  killed  therefor  himselfe  soone  by  the  devise 

the  northern  half  of  the  barony  of  Costello,  in  of  Hugh  O'Connor." 

the  county  of  Mayo,  viz.,  the  parishes  of  Kil-          r  The  son  of  William  Burke,   i.  e.  Rickard 

beagh,  Kilmovee,  Ifclcolman,  and  Castlemore-  More,  the  son  of  William  Fitz-Adelm. 

being  the  portion   of  the   barony  of         •  Geoffrey  Mares.—  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 
eight  horsemen.  But  when  O'Conor  recollected  the  treachery  already  men- 
tioned, 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 
defeated  them ;  they  killed  the  constable  of  Athlone,  and  took  Master  Slevin 
and  Hugo  Arddin  prisoners.  Hugh  sent  these  Englishmen  across  the  Lathach 
to  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 ;  and  obtained  moreover  a 
peace  for  the  men  of  Connaught. 

Donslevy  O'Gara,  Lord  of  Sliabh  Lughap,  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. 

Hugh,  son  of  Roderic  O'Conor,.  and  the  son  of  William  Burker,  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  was  led  by  Geoffrey  Mares8  [de  Marisco]  and  Turlough,  the  son 

lation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  these  trans-  Connought,  returned  from  Tyrconnell,  into 

actions  are  given  somewhat  more  copiously,  as  which  he  was  banished  by  Geffrey  March, 

follows  :  brought  with  him  his  wife,  son,  and  his  brother 

"A.  D.  1226.  Geffrey  March,  Deputie  of  Ire-  Felym  O'Connor,  and  came  to  a  place  in  Con- 
land,  with  a  great  army,  went  to  Connought  to  noght  called  Gortyn  Cowle  Lwachra,  out  of 
expell  Hugh  O'Connor  from  out  of  that  pro-  which  place  Mac  Meran,  his  porter,  fled  from 
vence,  which  he  did  accordingly,  and  established  him,  and  betraid  him  to  the  sons  of  Terlagh 
the  two  sons  of  Rowrie  O'Connor,  named  Ter-  O'Connor,  who  came  privilie  to  the  said  Gortyn, 
lagh  and  Hugh,  in  the  possession  and  superiority  without  knowledge  of  the  said  Hugh.  O'Connor, 
thereof.  knowing  them  to  be  then  about  the  house,  tooke 

"  Hugh  O'Connor,  that  was  before  King   of  one  of  his  sons,  his  brother  Ffelym  tooke  the 


246  aNNa^a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1228. 


baip  i  mag  aoi  go  noeapnpac  caiplen  ipTCinn  Dinn,  -\  gup  gabpac  bpaigoi  pil 
muipfohaig. 

Ctob  mac  cacail  cpoibDeipg  Do  bul  i  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 
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.  Q  noul 
aipfbe  i  ccpich  ceapa,  -\  bpaigoe  mac  muipceapcaig  Do  gabdil  ooib,  -]  nuimip 
DO  buaib  peolmaig  ap  cec  cpioca  ceo  Do  coippbealbac  uaca. 

Cumapa  o  Oomnalldin  Do  mapbab  i  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,  1228. 
Cloip  Cpiopc,  mile,  oa  ceo,  pice  a  hocc. 

Ctob  mac  cacail  cpoibteipg  uf  concobaip  pi  connacc  Do  mapbab  hi 
ccuipc  Sepppaib  mapep  cpe  meabail  ap  aplac  jail  mp  na  bfocup  Do  con- 
naccaib. 

other  son,  and  so  departed  safely,  save  only  that  this  year,  he  calls  this  castle  "  Rindowne,"  and 

the  Lady  Ranelt,  Hugh  his  wife,  and  daughter  adds,  "  now  called  Teagh   Eoyn,  or  John   his 

of  O'Fferall,  was  taken.     Melaughlyn  mac  Hugh  House,  neer  Loghree." — See  a  curious  account 

mac  Bryen  O'Connor  was  killed,  and  the  said  of  this  castle,  written  by  Mr.  Petrie,  in  the  10th 

Ranelt  delivered  to  the  Englishmen.  Number  of  the  Irish  Penny  Magazine,  Septem- 

"  The   Englishmen  immediately  founded  a  '  ber  5th,  1840,  pp.  73-75. 

castle  in  Rindowne,  now  called  Teagh  Eoyn,  or          »  The  sons  of  Murtougk In  the  Annals  of 

John  his  house,  neer  Loghree."  Kilronan  they  are  called  clann  muipceapcai£ 

<  Moynai,    ma^  naoi.— Now   Maghery-Cou-  muiir.nij,  i.  e.  the  sons  of  Murtough  Muimhneach 

naught,  lying  between  Strokestown  and  Castle-  O'Conor,  who  was  one  of  the  sons  of  Turlough 

ruagh,  and  Roscommon  and  Elphin.  More  O'Conor,  Monarch  of  Ireland. 

'   Rindown,    Rinn    oum — A    peninsula    on  *  Athlcague,  now  Bally  league,  the  western,  or 

Lough  Ree,  in  the  county  of  Roscommon — .See  Connaught  part  of  the  village  of  Lanesborough, 

note  under  the  year  1199-     In  Mageoghegan's  on  the  Shannon.     It  is  in  the  parish  of  Cloon- 

translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  at      tuskert,  and  the  barony  of  south  Ballintober 


12-23.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  247 

of  Roderic  O'Conor,  into  Moynai1,  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 
a  number  of  fat  beeves  out  of  every  cantred  in  their  possession. 

Cumara  O'Donnellan  was  slain,  while  in  fetters,  by  Rory  Mac  Donslevy, 
in  revenge  of  his  father. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Conor  O'Diarmada,  was  slain. 

The  castle  of  Ath league*  was  erected  by  Geoffrey  Mares  [De  Marisco]. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1228. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  twenty-eight. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  was  trea- 
cherously killed  by  the  English  in  the  court  [mansion]  of  Geoffrey  Mares,  at 
the  instigation  of  the  English,  after  he  had  been  expelled  by  the  Connaciansy. 

See  Ordnance  Map  of  the  county  of  Roscominon,  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clon- 

sheet  37.  According  to  the  Annals  of  Clonmac-  raacnoise  as  follows: 

noise,  as  translated  by  Connell  Mageogeghan,  this  "A.  D.  1227.   Hugh  O'Connor  came  to  an 

castle  was  erected  by  William  Delacie  and  the  atonement  with  Geffrey  March,  and  was  again 

Lnglish  of  Meath.     Under  this  year  the  same  restored  to  his  kingdome  of  Connoght  by  the 

annals  record  the  erection  of  the  castle  of  llahen  said  Deputie,  and  being  afterwards  in  the  De- 

O'Swaine  (now  Kahen,  near  Tullamore,  in  the  putie's  house  was  treacherously  killed   by  an 

King  s  County),   by  Syraon  Clifford,  who  gave  Englishman,   for  which   cause  the  Deputie  the 

an  annuity  of  four  hundred  [?]  to  the  Prior  and  next  day  hanged  the  Englishman  that   killed 

Convent  of  Dorrowe.  him  for  that  fowle  fact.     The  cause  of  killing 

*  Connexions — The  account  of  the  murder  of  the  King  of  Connaught  was,  that  after  the  Wife 

Hugh  O'Conor  is   more  satisfactorily  given  in  of  that  Englishman  that  was  so  hanged  by  the 


248  aNNQf,a  rcioshactiea  emecmN.  [1228. 

CoccuD  moji  DO  eijije  hi  cconnaccaib  enji  Da  mac  Ruaibpi  ui  concobaip, 
.1.  ecip  ao6  ~|  coippbealbac,  mp  mapbab  an  ao6a  jiempaice,  ap  nf  rucc  an 
mac  bd  po  urhla  Don  mac  ba  pine  ju|i  millpear  Connacca  eacoppa  -\  po 
pctpaijeab  leoo  eappoapa  co  habainn  ua  ppiacpac  po  &fp  ace  mab  beacc  hi 
Sleib  luccha,  -]  lucr  aipnj  nama. 

Niall  mac  congalaij  uf  Ruaipc  njeapna  Daprpaicce,  -\  cloinne  pfpmaije 
DO  mapbab  la  Da  mac  aipc  mic  Domnaill  uf  T?uaipc,  .1.  ape  ~|  amlaoib. 
Grhlaib  gfjip  mac  neitl  mic  conjalaij  DO  rhapbab  hi  pocpaccab  la  hamlaib 
mac  aipc  ceona. 

pfpgal  mac  picpiucca  nf  puaipc  DO  mapbaD  la  macaib  nell  mic  conja- 
laij  uf  l?uaipc. 

TTluipcfprac  mac  plairbeapcaicch  uf  plannaccain  Do  mapbaD  la  macaib 
raibj  uf  gabpa. 

GOD  mac  oonnchaiD  uf  peapjail  Do  mapbaD  la  hao&  mac  amlaoib  uf 
peapjail. 

DauiD  ua  ploinn  caoipeac  pil  maoilpuain,  -|  Puai&pi  ua  maoflbpenainn 
Decc. 

17iocapD  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 
an  luprfpgomaicib  connacc  ap  belaib  coippDealbaij  a  bpacap  pa  pine  map. 

Deputie,  had  so  washed  his  head  and  body  with  toms  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  on  which  the  relative  po- 

sweet  balls  and  other  things,  he,  to  gratifie  her  sition  of  these  territories  is  shewn, 
for  her  service,  kissed  her,  which  the  English-          a   Dartry   is    generally    called    Dartry-Mac 

man  seeing,  for  meer  jealousie,  and  for   none  Clancy,  as  being  the  territory  of  Mac  Clancy, 

other  cause,   killed  O'Connor  presently  at  un-  It  looks  wild  and  romantic  at  the  present  day, 

awares."     Dr.  Leland  had  this  passage  furnished  and  was  anciently  formidable  in  its  mountains 

him  by  Charles  O'Conor,  of  Belanagare,  and  has  and  fastnesses.     It  comprises  the  entire  of  the 

given  its  substance  in  a  note  in  his  History  of  present  barony  of  Rossclogher,  in  the  north  of 

Ireland,  vol.  i.  p.  208,  b.  2,  c.  1.  the  county  of  Leitrim,  for  which  it  is  at  present 

1    Airteach    is   a   territory    in    the  present  the  most  usual  popular   appellation.     In  this 

county  of  Roscommon,  comprising  the  parish  of  territory  were  situated  the  castles  of  Rossclogher 

Tibohine,  lately  in  the  west  of  the  barony  of  (from  which  the  barony  took  its  name),  Dun- 

Boyle,  but  at  present  in  the  barony  of  French-  Carbry,  and  the  Crannog  of  Inishkeen,  an  island 

park.     It  adjoins  Sliabh  Lugha,  which  is  the  in  Lough  Melvin,   as  well  as  all  the  islands  of 

northern  part  of  the  barony  of  Costello,  in  the  that  beautiful  lake,   with  the  monasteries   of 

county  of  Mayo — See  map  to  Tribes  and  Cus-  Doire  Melle,   Carcair  Sinchill,   Bealach   Mith- 


1228.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  249 

A  great  war  broke  out  in  Connaught  between  the  two  sons  of  Roderic 
O'Conor,  Hugh  and  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 
[Ballysadare],  southwards,  to  the  river  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  excepting  only  a 
small  portion  of  Sliabh  Lugha,  and  the  territory  of  the  people  of  Airtechz. 

Niall,  the  son  of  Congalagh  O'Rourke,  Lord  of  Dartrya  and  Clann  Fear- 
maighe,  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. 

Farrell,  the  son  of  Sitric  O'Rourke,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Niall,  the  son 
of  Congalagh  O'Rourke. 

Murtough,  the  son  of  Flaherty  O'Flanagan,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Teige 
O'Gara. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Donough  O'Farrell,  was  slain  by  Hugh,  the  son  of  AulifFe 
O'Farrell. 

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  Justiciary1". 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Roderic  O'Conor,  assumed  the  kingdom  of  Connaught, 
by  the  election  of  the  Justiciary  and  the  chiefs  of  Connaught,  in  preference  to 
Turlough,  his  elder  brother0. 

idhein  (now  Ballaghmeehin),  and  Rossinver.  The  the  Plunderer,  who  deduced  his  lineage  from  Ith, 

ancestors  of  the  family  of  Mac  Clancy,  with  the  uncle  of  that  Milesius. — See  O'Flaherty's 

their  neighbours  the  Calry  Laithim,  or  Calry  of  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  67.  There  was  another  family 

Lough  Gile,  in  the  barony  of  Carbury,  in  the  of  this  name  in  the  county  of  Clare,  but  of  a  to- 

county  of  Sligo,  who  settled  in  this  part  of  Con-  tally  different  lineage,  being  descended  from  the 

naught  at  a  very  remote  period,  have  sprung  from  same  stock  as  the  Mac  Namaras.     Both  now  An- 

a  stock  totally  different   from  the  Hy-Bruin-  glicise  their  name  Clancy. 

Breifne  and  Conmaicne,  who  occupied  the  re-          b  Justiciary This  passage  is  given  in  the 

maining  part  of  the  county  of  Leitrim;  but  we  Annals  of  Kilronan  under  the  year  1227.  Ac- 
have  no  accurate  record  of  how  they  were  ena-  cording  to  the  list  of  the  Chief  Governors  of 
bled  to  settle  here.  The. Mac  Clancys,  and  their  Ireland,  given  in  Harris's  Ware,  vol.  ii.  p.  103, 
correlatives,  in  this  neighbourhood,  are  not  of  the  Richard  de  Burgo  was  appointed  Lord  Deputy 
race  of  Milesius  of  Spain,  being,  if  we  can  depend  of  Ireland  on  the  10th  of  March,  1227. 
on  the  Bardic  pedigrees,  descended  from  Daire,  °  Elder  In-other The  sons  of  Roderic  O'Co- 

2u 


250  awNata  raioshachra  eiReaww.  [1229. 

TTIaolpeaclainn  mac  coippoealbaij  mic  RuaiDpi  uf  concobaip  Do  rhapbab 
la  haooh-pi  Connacc.  , 

^opca  oiopulaincc  i  cconnaccaib  cpi  coccao  cloinne  Ruai&pi.  T?o  haipc- 
cicc  cealla  -\  ruara.  Ro  Diocuipic  a  clepij  -]  a  hollamain  hi  ccpfochaib 
cianaib  corhaijcib,  i  acbac  cm  apaill  Dib  Dpuacr  ~\  DO  jopca. 

OauiO  ua  ploinD  caoipeach  pi  TTlhaeilpuain  Do  65. 

Cte6  mac  DonnchaiD  uf  pfpjail  DO  mapbab  la  haeb  mac  arhlaoib  uf  pfp- 
ghcni. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1229. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceD,  pice  anaof. 

ITlaineiprip  S.  ppanpeip  hi  ccopcaij  DO  cogbdil  la  mag  capcaij  mop, 
Diapmaicc. 

TTluipfDac  ua  japmjaile  ppioip  innpi  mic  nepm  paoi  connachc  hi  ccpa- 
ba6  i  in  eccna  [oecc]. 

Diapmaic  ua  piaic  abb  pecclepa  jillamolaipi  uf  510^arain  cuaim  Decc, 
1  a  aDnacal  in  apDcapna. 

nor,  King  of  Ireland,  are  set  down  in  the  follow-  suined  by  Rickard,  the  son  of  William  Burke, 

ing  order,  in  the  Book  of  Lecan:  Aedh,  Tadhg,  5lurc're<^c  na  h-Gpenn  oo  jabail  oo  mac 

Concobhar  Maenmaighe,  Muireadhach,  Toirdhel-  uilliam  bupc  .1.  picapo.     Thus  rendered  in  the 

bhach,  Murchadh,   Diarmaid." — Fol.  73.     But  old  translation  :  "  The  Justiceship  of  Ireland 

it  is  highly  probable  that  they  are  set  down  in  taken  by  Mac  William  Bourk." 

the  order  of  their  celebrity,  rather  than  in  that  A.  D.  1228.  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of 

of  their  births.  Kilronan  contain  the  following  passages,  which 

d  Mdaghlin,   maolpeaclamn He  was  the  have  been  altogether  omitted  by  the  Four  Mas- 
son  of  Toirdhealbach,  who  was  the  fifth  son  of  ters  : 
Eoderic  O'Conor,  Monarch  of  Ireland.  "A.  D.  1228.  Einn  duin  was  plundered  by 

e  Famine — Thus  rendered  in  the  old  trans-  Felim  O'Conor  and  Conor  Boy,  the  son  of  Tur- 

lation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster:  l°ugh,  and  Teige,  the  son  of  Cormac,  were  killed, 

"A.  D.    1228.  Hugh  mac  Roary  tooke   the  and  the  justiciary  came  to  Tearmann  Caoluinne, 

kingdome   of  Connaght   and   prayed  [preyed]  and   the   town  was  burned,    as  was   also    the 

Church  and  Laity  of  Connaght,  and  their  Clerks  church  of  Imleach  Urchadha. 

&  Learned  men  were  banished  into  strange  coun-  "  Felim  gained  the  victory  of  Cluanacha  over 

trys."  the  sons  of  Roderic,  and  over  Conor,  the  son  of 

f  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-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  251 

Melaghlind,  the  son  of  Turlough,  who  was  the  son  of  Roderic  O'Conor,  was 
slain  by  Hugh,  King  of  Connaught. 

An  intolerable  dearth  prevailed  in  Connaught,  in  consequence  of  the  war 
of  the  sons  of  Roderic.  They  plundered  churches  and  territories  ;  they 
banished  its  clergy  and  ollaves  into  foreign  and  remote  countries,  and  others  of 
them  perished  of  cold  and  famine6. 

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,  1229. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  twenty  -nine. 

The  monastery  of  St.  Francis,  at  Cork,  was  founded  by  Mac  Carthy  More 
(Dermot). 

Murray  O'Gormally8,  Prior  of  Inis-macnerinh,  and  the  most  renowned  in 
Connaught  for  piety  and  wisdom,  died. 

Dermot  O'Fiach,  Abbot  of  the  church  of  Gilla-Molaisse  O'Gillarain,  of 
Tuaim,  died,  and  was  interred  at  Ardcarne 


of  Kilronan  he  is  called  O  ^opropuilij  ppioip  localities  __  See  notes  under  the  years  1209  and 

pegUppa  mnp  mac  neipin."  1222.     That  the  correct  name  of  this  place  is 

h  Inis-macnerin,  Imp  mac  n6pm,  now  gene-  Imp  mac  nBipnin  appears  from  the  Irish  Ca- 

rally  called  Church  Island.     It  is  situated  in  lendar  of  the  O'Clerys  ;  and,  that  it  received  this 

Lough  Key,  near  Boyle,  in  the  county  of  Eos-  name  from  St.  Barrfionn  Mac  Ernin,  and  his 

common.     Archdall  thought  that  this  was  the  brothers,  who  were  the  patrons  of  the  place, 

same  as  Eas-mac-neirc  ;  but  it  appears,  from  the  and  venerated  there  on  the  22nd  of  September. 

meaning  of  the  words  and  from  these  Annals,  that 

'  "  Sept.  22.  Barrfhionn  Mac  Ermn. 
they  were  two  distinct  places.    The  island  fin'Pl 

,,,               ._,  .  -  Ihe  sons  of  Ernm  of  Ims-mac 

of  the  sons  of  Erin  could  not  be  the  same  as  the  _...,.        ,   , 

r       ,    .,  ,                          _..     „.  n-Lirmn  m  Lough  Key,  in  Connaught." 
cataract  [eap]  of  the  son  of  Ere.    The  Cistercian 

Abbey  of  Boyle  was  that  called  by  the  Irish  mm-  The  family  of  O'Gormaly  are  still  numerous  in 

nipcip  arc  t>a  laapc.     Gap  mic  neipc  is  the  pre-  this  neighbourhood  ;  but  they  are  to  be  distin- 

sent  Assylyn;  andlnipmac  n-eipin,  ormorepro-  guished  from  the  ui  JJa'proleaoatj,  or  O'Gorm- 

perly  imp  mac  nSipntn,  is  the  present  Church-  lys  of  Tyrone,  who  are  of  a  different  lineage. 

Island  in  Lough  Key.  Ware,  Colgan,  Archdall,  This  island,  which  now  goes  by  the  name  of 

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. 

2  K2  . 


252  aNNCtta  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1230. 

Oiapmaic  mac  jiollacappaiij,  aipcmneac  cije  baoinn,  ~\  uapal  pacapc 
Decc.  Q  a6laca&  i  mainipcip  na  cpinoiDe  lap  nd  buam  amac  6  ceapr  Do  na 
canancaib,  Do  rhancaib  maimprpe  na  buille,  ~\  bof  piDe  c|if  hoiDce  jan  aola- 
cab  ap  baoap  na  manaij  aga  popoaD  ma  mainipcip  peipin. 

7)ipapD  ua  carain  cananac  Dob  eccnaibe  po  b'aoi  Don  opD  cananac  Decc. 

Duibeaya  ingean  17uai6pi  bean  cacail  mic  Diapmaca  Do  ecc  ina  caillig 
ouib. 

OiapmaiD  mag  capraij  cijeapna  Dfpmurhan  Decc. 

Oionip  ua  mopDa  eppcop  ShfllTluipeDhaij  DO  cpecceo  a  eppuccoioe  ap  6ia. 

Loclainn  ua  manncdin  Do  rhapbaD  la  Deapbparaip  a  arap. 

QOIS  CR1OSO,  1230. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  Da  ceD,  cpioca. 

plopenc  ua  cfpballain  eppcop  ripe  heojain,  uapal  pfnoip  coccame  Decc 
lap  pe  blia&noib  ochcmogar  a  aoipi. 

^lollaiopa  ua  cleipi^  eppcop  Luijne,  lopep  mac  ceceDam  eppcop  con- 
maicne,  TTlac  Raic  TTlaj  Seppaij  eppcop  conmaicne,  T?ool  pecir  eppcop  na 
miDe  Riagloip  coccai&e,  -]  miliD  Cpiopc,  510^a  coimDeab  ua  Duilenndin 
comapba  peicin,  -\  ab  peicclepa  cananac  eappaoapa,  TTluipf6ac  ua  gopm- 
jaile  ppioip  innpi  mic  nepin,  ITIaolmuipe  ua  maoleoin  comapba  ciapdm 
cluana  mic  noip,  giollacapcaij  ua  heilsiupdin  cananac  i  anscoipe,  Donn- 
plebe  ua  hionmamen  manac  naorhca  -]  apomaijipcip  paoip  maimpcpe  na 
buille  Decc. 

1  Died. — His  death  is  entered  in  the  Annals  holy  a  man  interred  in  their  sanctuary, 

of  Ulster,  but  they  make  no  mention  of  the  '  Duvesa. — In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  she  is 

contention  about  his  body.     The  entry  is  thus  called  the  daughter  of  Koderic  O'Couor  :  Oui- 

given  in  the  old  translation  :    "  A.  D.    1229.  beappa   mjen    Ruaiopi    hi    ConcuBaip,    bean 

Dermot  Mac  Gillcarrick,  Erhenagh  of  Tybohin,  cacuil  meic  t)iapmuba  Do  eg  ma  caillig  ouib' . 

and  gentle  priest,   and  best  man  for  Almes  &  m  Dionysius  O'More. — In  the  Annals  of  Clon- 

liberality  in  those  parts  of  Connaught,  in  Christo  macnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  he  is 

quieuit."  called,  "  Denis  O'More,  Bushopp  of  Oilfynn." 

k  Had  attempted  to  retain  it,  baoap  na  ma-  He  resigned  the  duties  of  his  bishopric  to  apply 

nai  j  aj  u  popoao,  literally,   "  the  monks  were  himself  more  sedulously  to  devotion. 

keeping  it  in  their  own  monastery  ;"  that  is,          n  Bool  Petit He  is  called  Ralph  Petit  in 

they  wished  to  have  the  honour  of  having  so  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  142.     In- 


1230.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  253 

Dermot  Mac  Gillacarry,  Erenagh  of  Tibohine,  and  a  noble  priest,  died'. 
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 
to  retain  it"  in  their  own  monastery. 

Gerard  O'Kane,  the  wisest  of  the  order  of  canons,  died. 

Duvesa1,  daughter  of  Roderic  [O'Conor],  and  wife  of  Cathal  Mac  Dermot, 
died  a  nun. 

Dermot  Mac  Carthy,  Lord  of  Desmond,  died. 

Dionysius  0'Morem,  Bishop  of  Sil-Murray  [Elphin],  resigned  his  bishopric 
for  the  sake  of  God. 

Loughlin  O'Monahan  was  killed  by  his  father's  brother. 

\ 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1230. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  thirty. 

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  Leyny  [Achonry] ;  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 
of  the  church  of  the  Canons  at  Easdara  [Ballysadare] ;  Murray  O'Gormally, 
Prior  of  Inis-mac-nerin ;  Mulmurry  O'Malone,  Coarb  of  St.  Kieran,  of  Clon- 
macnoise  ;  Gilla-Carthy  O'Helgiusain,  a  canon  and  anchorite  ;  and  Donslevy 
O'Hinmainen0,  a  holy  monk  and  the  chief  master  of  the  carpenters  of  the 
monastery  of  Boyle,  died. 

the  Annals  of  Kilronan  his  death  is  thus  en-  Abbey." 

tered  under  the  year  1229:  "Rool  peicic  e'pp.          In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster 

rvi  mice,   uir  religiosus  et  caritatissimus,  et  Dei  his  death  is  entered  thus :  A.  D.  1230.  t)onn- 

famidus  in  Christo  quieuit."  -pleibe  hua  mmuinen  naerii   7  maijiptep  paep 

0  This  passage  is  thus  correctly  translated  in  quieuir  in  Chpipco ;  and  thus  rendered  in  the 

Archdall's  Monasticon  :    "Died  Donn  Sleibhe  old  translation:    "A.  D.  1230.  Dunleve  O'ln- 

O'Hionmaine,  a  reverend  and  holy  monk,  and  manen,  a  sacred  monk  and  free  master,  died." 

now  principal  master  of  the  carpenters  of  this  In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  he  is  styled  Dlanac 


254 


[1230. 


TTlaolpeclaimi  mac  pipeomD  uapal  paccapr  -]  maijipap  leijinn  Decc  ina 
noinpc  rhanaij  i  maimpnp  na  buille. 

Sloicceab  la  hua  nDorhnaill  (oomnall  mop)  hi  ccmcceaD  Connacc  int> 
aghaiD  Ctoba  mic  Ruai&pi  f  Cboncobaip  baoi  hi  pppicbfpc  ppip  co  po  mill 
maj  naof,  -]  mopdn  Don  rip,  acr  apa  aof  nf  po  jiallpac  clann  TCuai&pi  Don 
Dnl  pin. 

Sloiccheab  la  mac  uilliam  bupc  i  cconnaccaib  jup  milleao  mopdn  Do 
Connaccaib  laip,  -|  po  mapba&  Donn  65  maj  oipeccaij,  ~\  eiccijeapn  mac  an 


naorii  7  aporiiai^ipbip  paop  tnam^Opec  na 
buille.  "Monachus  sanctus,  et  archimagister 
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,  governed  by  mai^ipoip. 
But  if  we  take  poop  to  be  an  adjective,  and  pre- 
fix it  to  rnamir-bpec,  thus  :  aporhaijjir-eip  paop- 
rhamip opec  na  &uiUe,  then  it  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- 
tery of  Boyle." 

P  A.  D.  1230.  The  Annals  of  Kilronan  give  a 
much  longer  account  of  the  death  of  Donn  Oge 
Mageraghty,  and  of  the  contentions  between  the 
son  of  William  Burke  and  the  Connacians,  but 
under  the  year  1229.  It  is  as  follows  : 

"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  Donn  Oge,  son  of  Donncahy 
Mageraghty,  and  of  Cormac,  the  son  of  Tomal- 
tagh  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 


Duff;  and  Donn  Oge  and  the  sons  of  Manus 
[O'Conor],  and  the  young  soldiers  of  the  Sil- 
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- 
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  Con- 
nacian  who  had  joined  him  and  opposed  himself 
[the  son  of  William].  They  first  advanced  to  the 
castle  of  Bun-Galvy"  [i.  e.  the  castle  at  the 
mouth  of  the  River  Gaillimh,  which  flows  through 
the  town  of  Galway],  "  to  attack  Hugh  O'Fla- 
herty.  Then  Hugh,  the  son  of  Roderic,  went  to 
the  relief  of  Hugh  O'Flaherty,  and  was  joined 
by  the  Connacians  under  the  conduct  of  the 
sons  of  Murtough  [Muimhneach]  O'Conor;  and 
the  Connacians  were  on  the  west  side  of  the 
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,  con- 
sulted together,  and  resolved  upon  going  in 
pursuit  of  the  cows  and  the  people  who  had  fled 
into  the  mountains  and  fastnesses  of  the  country 
and  upon  the  islands,  and  they  went  that  night 
from  the  castle  of  Bungalvy  to  Droichead  Ing- 
hine  Goillih  [i.  e.  the  bridge  of  the  daughter  of 
Goillin]  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. 

An  army  was  led  by  the  son  of  William  Burke  into  Connavight,  and  deso- 
lated a  large  portion  of  that  country,  and  Donn  Oge  Mageraghtyp  and  Egh- 


Then  the  son  of  William  inquired,  '  Is  there  a 
pass  between  us  and  the  lake,  by  which  a  party 
of  the  Connacians  could  come  down  ?'  The 
Guides  answered  and  said,  '  There  is.'  He  then 
arrayed  a  party  of  horse  to  proceed  to  Cong  and 
Kilmaine  (or  Inishmaine).  At  this  time  it 
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 
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 
they  went  to  Toberpatrick  [the  Abbey  of  Bal- 
lintober],  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 
them  that  night.  This  request  of  their's  was 
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 
[Aghagower],  and  encamped  in  the  town,  on 
the  east  side  of  the  church,  that  is,  at  Marge- 
nana,  on  the  margin  of  Lough  Crichan.  Hither 


Manus,  the  son  of  Murtough,  came  into  their 
house,  and  gave  them  hostages.  On  the  day 
following  the  English  returned  to  Muine  Maicin, 
and  remained  there  for  a  night,  and  on  the  next 
day  they  went  to  Magh  Sine,  and  thence  they 
passed  through  Leyny,  and  Ceis  Corann  ;  thence 
they  set  out  for  Coirshliabh  [the  Curlieu  moun- 
tains], where  though  the  guides  missed  the 
common  pass,  they  crossed  the  whole  mountain 
without  meeting  any  accident.  With  respect  to 
Hugh,  the  son  of  Roderic,  and  Cormac,  the  son  of 
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 
larainn,  not  to  come  in  collision  with  the  Eng- 
lish on  this  occasion  ;  but  Donn  Oge  said  that 
he  would  not  agree  to  this  resolution  ;  but  that 
he  would  proceed  to  the  west  side  of  the  Eng- 
lish ;  and  he  set  out  forthwith  for  Fincarn, 
accompanied  by  his  own  brother,  the  youths  of 
Sil-Murray,  his  English  allies,  the  son  of  Don- 
nell Bregach  O'Melaghlin  with  his  English,  and 
Brian,  the  son  of  Turlough  O'Conor.  On  his 
arrival  at  Fincarn,  Donn  sent  forth  to  battle  a 
body  of  his  troops,  who  fought  well  with  the 
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. 


[1230. 


bpficfmain  f  mionacain  -|  p  ochaibe  oile  ndc  dipimrfp,  -|  po  hionnapbaDh  (rpia 
anppoplann)  do6  mac  TCuaibpi  T?i  Connacr  la  mac  uilliam,  -]  la  gallaib 
Don  cup  pin  50  haob  ua  neill  cpe  iompu6  66  ap  jallaib,  i  po  pfojao  peiblim 
mac  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, 
eiefpfba,  nd  cfop  Do  jail  na  Do  jaomeal,  pfp  Do  paD  maDmanna,  -]  dpa  mopa 
mence  pop  jallaib.  Ctipcreoip  jail  -\  saoibeal.  pfp  po  cpiall  lonnpoijiD 
Gpeann  uile  Decc  jen  jup  paofleaD  bap  naile  Dpajbdil  Do  ace  a  ruicim  Id 
jallaib. 

Qpc  mac  aipr  uf  puaipc  Do  mapbaD  Id  pa^nall  ua  ppinD  i  meabail. 

TTlaolpeaclainn  ua  mannacdin  DO  rhapbab  la  a  bpairpib.  • 


archers  and  horsemen  towards  the  earn,  and 
they  were  not  perceived  until  they  had  the  earn 
surrounded,  and  Donn  Oge  was  thus  left  almost 
alone,  being  accompanied  only  by  Brian,  the  son 
of  Turlough  O'Conor,  and  a  few  of  his  own  re- 
latives ;  and  these  were  but  a  short  time  left 
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 
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, 
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 . 
The  routed  forces  were  driven  towards  him,  but 
Hugh  escaped  by  the  strength  of  his  hand  with- 
out discredit.  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 


sent  its  shaft  through  him,  after  which  he  made 
his  escape. 

"  The  English,  being  fortunate  in  thus  cut- 
ting off  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 
the  English  camp.  In  consequence  of  this  spo- 
liation many  of  the  natives  perished  of  cold  and 
famine.  On  the  next  day  the  English  departed, 
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 
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  Hugh  O'Neill. — The  notice  of  the  death  and 
character  of  this  O'Neill  is  thus  given  in  the  An- 
nals of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghe- 
gan: "A.  D.  1230.  Hugh  O  Neale,  King  of 
Aileagh,  the  greatest  spoyler  of  the  Churchmen 
and  Churches  of  Connaught,  and  the  only  ba- 
nisher  and  extyrper  of  the  English,  and  de- 
stroyer of  the  Irish,  died."  And  thus  in  the 


1230.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


257 


tighern,  the  son  of  the  Brehon  O'Minaghan,  and  many  others  not  enumerated, 
were  slain.  Hugh,  the  son  of  Roderic,  King  of  Connaught,  was  expelled  by 
the  son  of  William  [Burke]  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] 
by  the  son  of  William  [Burke]. 

Hugh  O'Neillq,  Lord  of  Tyrone'  and  Roydamna  [heir  presumptive  to  the 
throne]  of  all  Ireland, — the  defender  of  Leth-Chuinn  against  the  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 
Ireland, — died5  [a  natural  death],  although  it  was  never  supposed  that  he  would 
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  relatives". 


old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  :  "A.  D. 
1230.  Hugh  0  Neile,  King  of  the  north  of  Ire- 
land, and  King  of  all  Leithquin,  and  that  shou'd 
bee  King  of  all  Ireland  ;  a  man  that  most  killed 
and  prayed"  [preyed]  "  Galls,  and  broke  most 
Castles  of  the  Irish,  died,  and  a  man  thought 
less  to  dye  by  the  Galls."  A  much  more  pa- 
triotic character  of  him  is  given  in  the  Annals 
of  Kilronan  under  the  year  1229,  thus  :  "A.  D. 
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 
given  hostages  or  pledges  to  any  man  English  or 
Irish  ;  a  king  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 
the  most  hospitable  and  defensive  that  had 
come  of  the  Irish  for  a  long  period." 

r  Tyrone,  rip  6050:111,  comprised  the  present 
counties  of  Tyrone  and  Londonderry,  and  the 
baronies  of  Inishowen  and  Raphoe,  in  the  county 

2 


of  Donegal.  The  inhabitants  bore  the  generic 
name  of  Kinel-Owen,  and  had  at  this  period 
branched  off  into  various  families,  who  were  all 
tributary  to  one  archchief,  commonly  called  pij; 
cineil  eojum;  and  who  was  sometimes  of  the 
family  of  Mac  Loughlin,  sometimes  of  that  of 
O'Neill,  and,  in  one  or  two  instances,  of  that  of 
O'Flaherty,  now  Laverty,  descended  from  Aedh 
Allan,  who  was  one  of  the  sixteen  monarchs  of 
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  who  have  entered  into 
holy  orders. 

s  Died,  oecc The  phrase  used  in  the 

Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  is  "quievit 
in  Christo." 

1  Treacherously,  i  meaBcnl. — In  the  old  trans- 
lation of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  this  sentence  is 
rendered  :  "  Art  mac  Art  OEoirke  killed  by 
llanall  0  Fin  mutherously." 

u  Relatives,  bpairpib. — The  word  bpacaip  in 


258  aNNata  Rio^hachca  eiraectNN.  [1231. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1231. 

Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceo  cpioca,  a  hdon. 

Oionip  ua  mopba  eppcop  ailpmn  Do  cpiocnuccab  a  bfrab  in  oilen  na 
cpmoioe  ap  loc  ce  an  .15.  DO  Decembep  -|  oonnchaD  ua  concobaip  Doiponeao 

na  ionaD. 

plann  ua  connacraij  eppcop  ua  mbpiuin  bpeipne  Decc. 

Srepan  ua  bpaoin  aipcmnec  TTlaije  eo  [oecc]. 

Celecaip  ua  Dobailen  aipcinnech  camca  peap  Depcac,  cpaiboeac,  ecc- 
naiDe,  epnaijrec  [Decc]. 

pecpoilje  injfn  concobaip  mic  Diapmara  bfn  muipceapcaij  muimmj  mic 
coippDealbaij  rhwp  [oecc]  maraippi&eTTlajnupa  TnicTTluipcepcaij,  concobaip 
puaiD,  ruarail,  -]  coipp&ealbaij  paccaipc,  -]  ppioip  pecclepa  peaDaip  -\  poil. 

Oubcoblaijj  injfn  concobaip  nnc  Diapmaca  Decc  i  mainipcip  na  buille. 

plairbfprac  ua  plannaccdin  caoipeac  cloinne  cacail  meic  muipfDaij 
muillfcain  Decc  ina  oilicpe  i  maimprip  na  buille.  Dubcfriipac  injean  uf 
cuinn  bfn  an  plaicbeapcaij  hipin  Decc. 

Ual^apcc  ua  Ruaipc  njeapna  bpeipne  Decc  ina  ailirpe  ap  plijiD  an 
cppoca. 

^lollaiopa  mac  parhpaDain  njeapra  ceallaij  ecbac,  i  DuinDin  ua 
TTIaolconaipe  ollam  pil  muipfohaij  muillfcain  Decc. 

ancient  manuscripts  signifies  a  brother  ;  but  in  of  O'Kelly,  and  his  people  of  Hy-Many,  that  all 
the  modern  Irish  language  bpacaip  means  a  the  Hy-Many  were  baptized  here.  "  St.  Bridget 
kinsman,  and  oeapBporaip  is  the  word  used  has  the  baptism  of  the  race  of  Maine,  and  al- 
to denote  a  brother.  though  the  children  may  not  (always)  be  brought 
w  Bishop  of  Hy-Briuin  Breifney — This  is  the  to  her  church  to  be  baptized,  her  Coarb  has  the 
Bishop  of  Kilmore,  called  Florence  O'Conacty  power  to  collect  the  baptismal  penny  from  these 
in  Harris's  Ware,  vol.  i.  p.  226.  In  the  Annals  tribes.  This  money  is  divided  into  three  parts, 
of  Ulster  he  is  called  Bishop  of  Breifney,  and  in  of  which  she  herself  (rectius  her  Coarb)  has  one 
those  of  Kilronan,  Bishop  of  Hy-Briuin.  part,  Druim  Dreastan  (now  Drum  parish)  the 
x  OfCamma,  camca. — A  parish  church  in  the  second,  and  Cluain  Eamhain  (now  Cloonoun) 
barony  of  Athlone,  and  county  of  Roscommoii,  the  other  third  part.'' — See  Tribes  and  Customs 

dedicated  to  St.  Bridget.     The  small  village  of  of  Hy-Many,  printed  for  the  Irish  Archaeological 

Tober   Brighde,    generally   called   in    English  Society,   p.   78,  note  d,  and  map  to   the   same 

Brideswell,  is  in  it.     We  learn  from  a  tract  pre-  work. 

served  in  the  Book  of  Lecan,  fol.  92,  treating          i  Fethfoilge In  the  Annals  of  Kilronau  she 


1231.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  259 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1231. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  thirty-one. 

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  Gamma3',  a  charitable,  pious,  wise,  and 
prayerful  man  [died]. 

Fethfoilgey,  daughter  of  Conor  Mac  Dermot,  and  wife  of  Murtough 
Muimhneach,  the  son  of  Turlough  More  [died].  She  was  the  mother  of 
Manus,  Conor  Roe,  Tuathal,  and  Turlough  the  Priest,  Prior  of  the  Church  of 
SS.  Peter  and  Paul. 

Duvcovlagh,  daughter  of  Conor  Mac  Dermot,  died  in  the  monastery  of 
Boyle. 

Flaherty  O'Flanagan,  Chief  of  the  race  of  Cathal,  the  son  of  Muireadhach 
Muilleathanz,  died  on  his  pilgrimage  in  the  monastery  of  Boyle.  Duvtawragh, 
daughter  of  O'Quin,  and  wife  of  this  Flaherty,  died. 

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  nagans,  the  O'Morans,  and  their  correlatives.  The 
thus  noticed:  "A.  D.  1231.  Fethfailghe,  the  extent  of  their  territory  is  still  remembered  in  the 
daughter  of  Conor  Mac  Dermot,  and  the  wife  of  neighbourhood  of  Elphin,  Belanagare,  and  Man- 
Murtough  Muimhneach,  the  son  of  Turlough  tua,  between  which  it  principally  lies — See  note 
More  O'Conor,  died  this  year.  She  was  the  h,  under  the  year  1193,  pp.  97,  98. 
largest,  the  most  beautiful,  the  most  hospitable,  a  Tealach  Eachdhach,  now  sometimes  called 
the  most  chaste,  and  the  most  famous  woman  of  Tullaghagh,  but  generally  Tullyhaw,  a  barony  in 
Leith  Chuinn.  She  was  the  mother  of  Manus,  the  north-west  of  the  county  of  Cavan,  the  an- 
Conor  Roe,  Tuathal,  and  Turlough  the  priest,  cient  inheritance  of  the  family  of  Magauran,  or 
i.  e.  the  Prior  of  the  Regies  of  SS.  Peter  and  Magovern.  The  level  part  of  this  barony,  con- 
Paul."  taining  the  village  of  Ballymagovern,  or  Bally- 
1  The  race  of  Cathal,  son  of  Muireadhach  Muil-  magauran,  i.  e.  Magauran's  town,  was  anciently 
leathan — This  was  the  tribe  name  of  the  O'Fla-  called  Magh  Sleacht. 

2L2 


260 


[1232. 


Concobap  goer  ua  lifjpa  cijeapna  lm£rie  Decc. 

SloicceaD  Id  oomnall  ua  jiDorhnaill  rijeapna  ripe  conaill,  -|  la  haonjup 
mac  gillepinnein  co  pocpaioe  peap  nianac  Do  paijib  i  l^ai^illij  cacail. 
Ruccpac  loir.ccfp  leo  pop  loc  uaccaip,  -]  po  aipccpfc  eo  imp.  Uucpac  apiap 
la  caob  peoD  niaofne  ~\  lonnmup  an  baile  uile  leo 

pemlimib  mac  carail  cpoibDeipg  Do  jabail  la  mac  uilliam  bupc  i  mfliucc 
cap  pldnaib  maice  gall  epeann. 

QO1S  CR10SO,  1232. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceD,  cpioca,  aDo. 


Paccna  ua  hallsaic  corhopba  Dpoma  mucaba,  ~\  oipicel  ua  ppiacpac  pfp 
cije  aoibfD,  Ifijinn,  -|  lubpa,  -|  Ifpaijce  cpua^  Do  ecc. 

Uempall  cille  moipe  i  ccfp  bpiuin  na  pionna  Do  coippeccao  la  Donrichao 


h  Conor  God,  ConcoBap  ^occ In  the  An- 
nals of  Ulster  and  of  Kilronan  the  name  is 
written  Concobop  5°°-  I'^e  adjective  job  is 
used  in  medical  Irish  MSS.,  to  translate  the 
Latin  balbus,  or  balbutiens. 

c  An  army  teas  led. — This  event  is  given  some- 
what, more  satisfactorily  in  the  Annals  of  Kilro- 
nan, as  follows: 

"A.  D.  1231.  A  great  army  was  led  by 
Donnell  O'Donnell,  King  of  Tirconnell,  and 
by  Aengus  Mac  Gilla-Finnen,  against  Cathal 
O'Reilly,  and  they  brought  a  fleet  [of  boats  and 
cots]  with  them  upon  Lough  Oughter,  and 
plundered  Eo-inis,  and  killed  the  best  white 
steed  that  was  in  Ireland,  and  carried  away 
Cacht,  the  daughter  of  Mac  Fiachrach,  the  wife 
of  O'Reilly,  and  the  jewels  and  goods  of  the 
whole  town." 

d  Mac  Gilla-Finnen,  now  made  Mac  Gillinnion. 
— The  name  is  still  very  common  in  the  west  of 
the  county  of  Fermanagh ;  but  many  have 
changed  it  to  Leonard.  This  family  is  of  the 
Kinel-Connell  race,  and  descend  from  Flaherty 
Mac  Loingsigh,  who  was  Monarch  of  Ireland 


from  the  year  727  to  734.  For  the  pedigree  of 
this  family  see  Battle  of  Magh  Rath,  printed 
for  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society  in  1842, 
p.  335. 

c  Eo-inis — Archdall  states  that  Eo-inis,  or 
Inis-eo,  was  an  island  in  Lough  Erne ;  and  even 
Colgan,  in  Ada  SS.,  p.  222,  places  Inis-eo,  not 
Eo-inis,  in  Lough  Erne;  but  this  passage  af- 
fords evidence  to  shew  that  Eo-inis  .was  in  Lough 
Oughter.  It  is  at  present  the  name  of  an  island 
in  Lough  Oughter,  Anglicised  Eanish  (eci-inip, 
in  accordance  with  the  Ultonian  pronunciation), 
but  no  remains  of  antiquity  are  to  be  seen  on  it, 
except  an  earthen  fort. 

f  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  re- 
cord, that  Cormac,  the  son  of  Tomaltagh  [Mac 
Dermot],  commenced  the  erection  of  a  market- 
town  at  Port  na  Cairrge.  This  is  the  place  now 
called  Rockingham,  the  well  known  and  mag- 
nificent seat  of  Lord  Lorton. 

8  Faghtna. — This  entry  is  given  somewhat 
differently  and  better  in  the  Annals  of  Kilro- 
uan,  as  follows: 

A.  D.  1232.   puccnu   O  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-Finnend,  with  the  forces  of  Fermanagh,  against  O'Reilly  (Cathal): 
they  brought  boats  with  them  upon  Lough  Oughter,  and  plundered  Eo-inise, 
and,  after  obtaining  their  own  award,  they  carried  away  with  them  all  the 
jewels,  treasures,  and  wealth  of  the  whole  town. 

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 
the  English  chieftains  in  Irelandf. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1232. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  thirty-two. 

Faghtna5  O'Hallgaith,  Coarb  of  Drumacoo",  and  official  of .  Hy-Fiachrach 
[Aidhne],  who  had  kept  an  open  house  for  strangers,  the  sick,  and  the  indi- 
gent, and  also  for  the  instruction  of  the  people,  died. 

The   church    of  Kilmore'1,    in    Hy-Briuin  na-Sinna,    was   consecrated   by 

opomma   mucaba,  7  Oippipoel   ua    ppiacpac,  under  the  name  of  opium  rnocua,  as  in  the  dis- 

peap  ci£e  aioeb,  7  luBpa  7  leijinn  7  leppuijri  trict  of  COILL  UA  BH-FIACHRACH,  a  short  dis- 

cipe  7  caiman  in  oc  anno  quieuic.  tance  to  the  south-west  of  Kilcolgan,  and  not 

"  A.  D.  1232.  Faghtna  O'Hallgaith,  Coarb  of  far  from  the  margin  of  the  Bay  of  Galway. 

Druim  Mucadha,  and  official  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  '  Kilmore,  in  Hy-Briuin-na-Sinna, — now  Kil- 

a  man  who  had  kept  a  house  for  the  entertain-  more,  a  parish  church  in  the  district  now  called 

ment  of  strangers  and  of  the  sick,  and  also  for  Tirarune,  but  anciently  Tir-Briuin,  situated  in 

the  instruction  and  improvement  of  the  country  the  east  of  the  county  of  Roscommon,  stretch- 

and  the  land,  in  hoc  anno  quimit."  ing  along  the  western  bank  of  the  Kiver  Shan- 

h  Of  Drumacoo,  Opoma  rnucaoa — A  parish  non,  and  about  six  miles  east  of  Elphin.  Archdall 

belonging  to  the  diocese  of  Kilmacduagh,  in  the  has  confounded  this  place   with  Coill-mor,  near 

barony  of  Dunkellin,  and  county  of  Galway —  St.  John's,  at  Lough  Ree. 

See  Ordnance  Map  of  the  County  of  Galway,  There  is  a  curious  stone  inserted  in  the  wall 

sheet  103;  and  also  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy-  of  the  church-yard  of  Kilmore,    exhibiting  a 

Many,  printed  for  the  Irish  Archaeological  So-  fragment  of  an  inscription  in  Saxon  characters, 

ciety  in  the  year  1843,  p.  71,  note  b,  where  it  is  which  runs  thus: 

shewn  that  the  territoryof  Hy-Fiachrach  Aidhne  "  A.  D.  M:  CCC.L:  vii.  EATHEAN  INGEAN  MIC 

was  co-extensive  with  the  present  diocese  of  Kil-  BRANAN  ME  FECIT." 

macduagh.     See  also  the  map  prefixed  to  the  "  A.  D.   1357-  EATHEAN  DAUGHTER  OP  MAC 

same  work,  on  which   this   church  is  shewn,  BRANAN,  MADE  ME." 


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[1232. 


ua  concobaip  eppcop  ailpinn,  -|  canancng  DO  benam  ipin  mbaile  cet>na  la 
conn  ua  plannaccam  baof  na  ppfoip  ann. 

Uioppaicce  ua  bpaoin  corhopba  commdin  paof  cleipcecca,  pfncupa,  -] 
bpficfmnappa  Decc  in  imp  clocpann  ina  ailicpe. 

Clob  mac  arhlaoib  mic  Dorhnaill  uf  peapjail  coipeac  muincipe  hangaile 
no  Ic/pcca6  ap  imp  loca  cuile  la  cloinn  aoba  ciabaij  mic  mupchaba  ui 
pepjail  lap  ccaicfm  naoi  mbliaban  i  ccoipijecc  na  hangaile  Dfip  mupchaib 
cappaij  i  pepgail. 

TTlajnup  mac  amlaib  mic  caibg  mic  maolpuanaib  cainDel  einij,  eang- 
narha,  -|  cpabaib  Decc. 

Oonnchab  mac  comalcaij  meic  DiapmaDa  paoi  ap  eineac,  ~\  ap  fnjnam, 
lecrpoman  Connacc  DO  ecc  ip  in  aiciDecc. 

Concobap  mac  Qoba  mic  Ruaibpi  DO  elub  6  jallaib,  -|  clanna  cofpeac 
Connacn  Do  rionol  ina  cimceall.  i  a  nDol  ip  na  cuacaib  ap  lonnpaijib.  17o 
mapbab  cpa  eipiom  lap  na  Cuarhaib,  -|  giollaceallaij  ua  hfibm,  giolla- 
cpiopr  mac  Donnchaba  mic  Diapmaoa,  ~\  pochaibe  amaille  ppiu.  Qpe  an 
la  pin  po  jealpac  na  cuara  na  pamcaca  uile,  an  can  acpubpao  peap  pam- 
caije  gile  Do  mapbab  meic  aooha. 

T?ije  Do  cabaipc  Daob  mac  Ruaibpi  la  mac  uilliam  bupc  DO  pibipe,  -]  pic 
DO  Denarh  bo  pip  lap  njabdil  pfiblim  mic  cacail  cpoiboeipg  Do. 


k  There. — This  passage  is  rendered  as  follows 
in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster : 
"A.  D.  1232.  The  church  of  Kilmore  sanctified, 
and  canons  made  in  the  same  by  Con  O'Flana- 
gan." 

1  CoarbofSt.  Coman,  i.  e.  the  Abbot  of  Koscom- 
mon.  Inisclothrann  is  an  island,  containing  the 
ruins  of  seven  churches,  in  Lough  Eee,  an  expan- 
sion of  the  Shannon  between  the  counties  of 
Longford  and  lioscommon — See  note  under  the 
year  1193. 

m  Auli/e,  cimlaoiD. — He  was  the  son  of  Teige, 
who  was  the  son  of  Mulrony,  the  ancestor  after 
whom  the  Mac  Dermots  of  Moylurg  were  called 
Clann-Mulrony. 

n  Aicideacht — Under  the  year  1206  Mac  Der- 
mot  is  called  Lord  of  Moylurg,  Airteach,  and 


Aicidheacht;  and  at  the  year  1273,  O'Quin  is 
styled  lercoir-eac  na  haicioeacca,  from  which 
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, 
notek ),  and  which  O'Quin  had  placed  under  the  pro- 
tection of  Mac  Dermot  about  the  year  1 150.  The 
word  aicioeacca  is  used  in  the  Annals  of  Kilro- 
nan  in  such  a  manner  as  will  shew  that  it  was 
used  to  denote  chiefry,  as  in  the  following  pas- 
sage: "A.D.  1225.  Cotmeipje  cocra  oeipje  if 
in  mbliaoain  pi  la  CoippoealBac 
mic  Coippoealbaij,  7  le  h  Qeb  mac 
7  le  hQo6  O  Neill  DO  copnurn  CUICID  Con- 
nacc pe  hGeo  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". 

Tipraide  O'Breen,  Coarb  of  St.  Coman1,  who  was  learned  in  theology,  his- 
tory, and  law,  died  on  the  island  of  Inis-Clothran,  on  his  pilgrimage. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Auliffe,  who  was  son  of  Donnell  O'Farrell,  Chief  of  An- 
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,  Morrogh  Carrach  O'Ferrall. 

Manus,  son  of  Auliffe"1,  the  son  of  Teige  Mac  Mulrony,  lamp  of  hospitality, 
feats  of  arms,  and  piety,  died. 

Donough,  son  of  Tomaltagh  Mac  Dermot,  eminent  for  his  hospitality  and 
feats  of  arms,  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 
an  incursion  into  the  Tuathas ;  but  Conor,  with  Gilla-Kelly  O'Heyne,  and  Gil- 
chreest,  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 
of]  the  Tuathas  whitened0  all  the  handles  of  their  battle-axes,  because  it  was 
rumoured  that  it  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, 
by  the  son  of  William  Burkep,  who  made  peace  with  him  after  he  had  taken 
Felim,  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  prisoner. 

raoipij  pi  rnuipeaoatj  a  noijuil  a  peapuinn  who  had  opposed  him  whitened  the  handle  of 

1  a  aicioeacra  oo  buam  oe.  i.  e.  A  war  was  his  battle-axe,  in  order  that  his  slayer  might 

kindled  in  this  year  by  Turlough,  the  son  of  not  be  identified,  from  fear  of  the  vengeance  of 

Roderic,  who   was  the  son    of  Turlough,    and  his  father,  who  was  then  very  powerful,  and  be- 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Roderic,  and  by  Hugh  O'Neill,  came  King  of  Connaught  immediately  after, 

in  contesting  the  province  of  Connaught  with  P  The  son  of  William  Burke. — This  was  the 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  at  the  so-  celebrated  Richard  de  Burgo,  who  was  called  the 

licitation  of  Donn  Oge  Mageraghty,  royal  chief-  Great  Lord  of  Connaught.     He  was  the  son  of 

tain  of  Sil-Murray,  in  revenge  of  the  loss  of  his  William  Fitz- Adelm  de  Burgo,  by  Isabel,  natu- 

lands  and  Aicidheacht.'"  ral  daughter  of  Richard  I.,  and  widow  ofLle- 

°  Whitened,  po  £ealpac,  i.  e.  a  rumour  having  wellyn,   Prince  of  Wales.     He  is  said  to  have 

spread  abroad,   that  the  person  who  slew  him  struck  off  the  arm  of  King  Roderic  O'Conor,  in 

carried  a  white-handled  battle  axe,  each  of  those  the  Battle  of  Leithridh,  near  Dublin.     He  was 


264 


[1232 


Caiplen  bona  jaillme  DO  benam  la  RiocapD  oe  bupco,  -|  caiplen  Duin 
lomjjain  Do  cinDpcfccal  la  haoam  Soonoun. 

^lolla  na  naorh  ua  odlaij  paof  pe  Dan,  -|  le  rfj  ai6ea6  coiccfnn  DO  conj;- 
bail  Do  rpuaccaib  -\  Do  rpenaib  Decc. 

TTlaeleom  bobap  ua  TTlaolconaipe  Do  jabail  cluana  bolcain. 

pfiblimib  mac  cacail  cpoiboeipj  DO  leccab  amac  la  jallaib. 

Concubap  mac  neill  uf  gaipmlfohai^  coipeac  cenel  Tfloain  Decc. 

Sloijeab  la  Doriinall  ua  laclamn  njeapna  cfpe  heojain  co  ngallaib,  -]  co 
njaoibealaib  i  ccfp  conaill  Dia  po  mill  mop  hi  ppanaic,  i  cue  bpaijoe  Dom- 
riaill  uf  baoijill,  -]  uf  caipceipc  Ifif. 

Sloicceab  la  hua  noorhnaill  i  ccfp  eojam  co  piacc  culac  nocc  Dia  po 
mapb  bu  lomba  Dia  po  loiyc  apbanna,  -]  Dia  po  milleab  mopan,  ~\  cainic  ap 
cula  co  copccpach. 

TTliDbec  i    fajhinif  Do  opccam  la  cinel  eojain  uaip  Do  poccaccap   a 


Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland  in  1227t  and  died  on 
his  passage  to  France  in  January,  1243,  in  pro- 
ceeding to  meet  the  King  of  England  at  Bour- 
deaux,  attended  by  his  barons  and  knights.  He 
married  Hodierna,  daughter  of  Robert  de  Ger- 
non,  and  grand-daughter,  maternally,  of  Cathal 
Crovderg  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  and  had 
by  her  two  sons,  Walter  and  William,  the  for- 
mer of  whom  marrying  Maud,    daughter  and 
heiress  of  Hugh  de  Lacy,  Junior,  became,  in  her 
right,  Earl  of  Ulster  on  the  death  of  his  father- 
in-law,  and  had  by  her  one  son,  Richard,  com- 
monly called  the  Red  Earl,  who  was  considered 
the  most  powerful  subject  in  Ireland. — See  Pedi- 
gree of  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard  by  Duald  Mac 
Firbis,  O'Clery,  Lodge,  and  Burke-,   and  the 
manuscript  entitled  Historia  Familice  De  JBurgo, 
preserved  in  the  MS.  Library  of  Trinity  College, 
Dublin,  F.  4,  13. 

q  OfBungalvy,  bona  juillriie,  i. e.  of  themouth 
of  the  River  of  Gal  way,  from  which  river  the  town 
takes  its  name.  In  Mageoghegan's  translation  of 
the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  this  name  is  Angli- 
cised Bonagalvie,  thus:  "A.  D.  1222.  The  Castle 


of  Bonagalvie  was  made  by  the  son  of  William 
Burk ;"  and  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals 
of  Ulster  it  is  made  Bun-Gallaway.  Thus : 

"A.  D.  1232.  An  army  by  William  Burke 
[recte,  the  son  of  William  Burke]  to  the  castle 
of  Bun-Gallaway,  and  there  made  another  cas7 
tie."  This  castle  was  erected  near  the  mouth  of 
the  River  Galway,  on  the  east  side. 

There  had  been  an  earlier  castle  erected  here 
in  the  year  1 1 24  by  the  Irish.  See  the  earlier 
part  of  these  Annals  at  the  years  1124,  1132, 
1149;  see  also  O'Flaherty's  Account  of  West 
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 
Galway  in  the  same  work,  at  p.  30. 

1  Dunamon,  Gun  lomjum A  place  on  the 

River  Suck,  on  the  borders  of  the  counties  of 
Roscommon  and  Galway.  Tradition  says  that 
Dunamon  was  originally  the  residence  of  O'Fi- 
naghty,  whose  territory,  consisting  of  forty-eight 
ballys,  or  townlands,  lay  on  both  sides  of  the 
River  Suck,  and  this  tradition  is  curiously  cor- 
roborated by  a  notice  given  of  this  family  in 


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265 


The  castle  of  Bungalvyq  was  erected  by  Bickard  de  Burgo,  and  the  erection 
of  the  castle  of  Dunamonr  was  commenced  by  Adam  Staunton. 

Gilla-na-naev  O'Daly,  a  learned  poet,  who  had  kept  a  house  of  hospitality 
for  the  indigent  and  the  mighty,  died. 

Malone  Bodhar  [the  Deaf]  O'Mulconry  took  Cluain  Bolcain8. 

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. 

An  army  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,  and  then  returned  home  in  triumph. 

Mevagh"  and  Aughnishw  were  plundered  by  the  Kinel-Owen,  fpr  their  ships 


Mac  Firbis's  Book  of  Pedigrees,  the  original 
of  which  is  in  the  possession  of  Lord  Roden,  and 
a  faithful  copy  of  it  in  the  Library  of  the  Royal 
Irish  Academy.  The  literal  translation  of  it 
is  as  follows : 

"  Conmhach  was  the  son  of  Muireadhach,  and 
he  was  his  eldest  son,  and  in  consequence  of  this 
seniority,  the  descendants  of  Conmhach  (though 
inferior  in  power)  are  entitled  to  great  privileges 
from  the  descendants  of  the  other  sons  of  Mui- 
readhach, 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- 
fore the  representative  of  Conmhach,  or  Chief  of 
Clann  Conway.  O'Finaghty  was  the  royal  chief- 
tain of  Clann  Conway,  and  had  forty-eight  ballys 
about  the  Suck  before  the  English  Invasion ;  but 
the  Burkes  drove  him  from  his  patrimonial  inheri- 
tance, so  that  there  livcth  not  of  the  family  of 
O'Finaghty,  at  the  time  of  writing  this  Book 
(1650),  any  one  more  illustrious  than  the  blessed 
and  miraculous  priest,  James,  whose  brothers 
are  William  and  Redmond,  sons  of  Cathal,  son 
of  Donough,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Rory,  son  of 


Cathal,  son  of  Teige  Oge,  son  of  Teige,  son  of 
Cathal." 

Dunamon,  oun  lom^uin,  means  the  dun  or 
fort  of  lomghuin,  a  man's  name  :  the  dun 
is  yet  in  existence — See  Ordnance  Map  of  the 
County  of  Roscommon,  sheet  38 ;  and  of  Gal- 
way,  sheets  8  and  20. 

8  Fanat. — A  district  in  the  north-east  of  the 
barony  of  Kilmacrenan,  in  the  county  of  Do- 
negal.— See  note  s,  under  the  year  1 186,  p.  70. 

1  Cluain  Bolcain — The  O'Mulconrys  were, 
and  are  still,  seated  at  Clonahee,  near  Strokes- 
town,  in  the  county  of  Roscommon;  but  there 
is  no  place  in  that  neighbourhood  now  called 
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 
Ros  Guill,  extending  into  Sheephaven  and  the 
Atlantic  Ocean — See  Ordnance  Map  of  the 
County  of  Donegal,  sheets  7  and  16. 

v  Aughnish,  Gagimr1,  recte  eac-mip,  i.  e.  horse- 
island. — An  island  in  Lough  Swilly,  near  Rath- 
melton,  in  the  east  of  the  barony  of  Kilmacrenan, 
M 


266  aNNCita  Rioshachca  eiRecwR  [1233. 

loingfp  an  Du  pn,  -|  Do  pala  Dpfm  Do  cenel  conuill  im  mac  neill  uf  Dorhnaill 
cuca,  po  lab  dp  na  lomjpi  laip,  ~\  po  mapbaD  pom  peipin  hi  pppiorguin. 
na  nafrh  6  odlaij  paoi  i  noan  Decc. 

aois  cr?iosu,  1233. 

Goip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceo,  cpioca,  arpf. 

j  ua  oaijpe  aipcinnec  Doipe  colaim  cille  [oecc]. 

TTlaoliopa  ua  TTlaonaij;  uapal  paccapr  no  jabab  a  pyalcaip  gac  laoi  ace 
Dia  Dorhnaij  namd  [DO  ecc]. 

Oonncarhaij  aipcinnec  achaib  pobaip  pfp  pfibijce  gaca  cuipi,  ~\  jaca 
caingne,  pfp  co  ncnpmiom,  -\  co  nonoip  Decc  an  .15.  Do  Decembep. 

Sloijeat)  la  peiDlimio  mac  cacail  cpoibDeipj  i  cconnaccaib,  ~\  DO  Deacaib 
copbmac  mac  comalcaij  (£ijeapna  maije  luipj)  ma  Dail,  -]  rue  lep  i  maij 
luipcc  e.  Oo  ponab  longpopr  leo  occ  Dpuim  jpegpaije.  baoi  copbmac, 
concobap  a  mac,  ~\  na  cpf  cuaca,  Da  mac  muipcfpcaij  meic  Diapmaoa,  .1. 
Donncab,  ~\  TTluipcfprac  ina  pappaiD  annpin.  Ctpi  comaiple  Do  ponpac  Dol  i 
nDiaiD  aoba  (pij  Connacc),  ~|  cloinne  17uai6pi  ap  cfna.  lap  nool  Doib  ina 
noocum,  po  ppaofneab  pop  aob  mac  Ruai&pi  po  mapbab  6  pein,  ~|  ao6  muirhnec 

in  the  county  of  Donegal.  The  ruins  of  the  Hugh  was  King  of  Connaught  for  five  years, 

original  church  of  the  parish  of  Aughnish  are  and  that  he  was  the  last  of  the  descendants  of 

still  to  be  seen  on  this  island. — See  Ordnance  Roderic  that  was  King  of  Connaught ;  that  the 

Map  of  the  County  of  Donegal,  sheets  37  and  Pope  offered  Roderic,  and  his  issue,  for  ever,  the 

46.  title  to  the  sovereignty,  and  six  married  wives, 

x  Gilla-na-naev — This  is  a  repetition.  if  he  would  thenceforward  abstain  from  the  sin 

y  Excepting  Sunday — In  the  old  translation  of  the  women  ; — that  Roderic  did  not  accept  of 

of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  this  passage  is  rendered  this  offer  on  such  conditions ;  and,  as  he  did  not, 

as  follows  :  "  A.  D.  1233.  Moylisa  O  Moynig,  that  God  deprived  him  and  his  race  for  ever  of 

a  gentle  priest  that  would  repeat  his  psalter  reign  and  sovereignty,  in  revenge  of  the  sin  of 

every  day,  Sunday  excepted,  died."  concupiscence.  t)eobplair  cloinni  'Ruaiopi  hi 

z  The  Three  Tuathas — These  were  three  dis-  ConcuBaip  pi  Gpenn  innpn.  Uaip  capcaio  an 

tricts  on  the  west  side  of  the  Shannon,  in  the  papa  ceapc  ap  Gpmn  oo  pein  7  oa  piol  na 

east  of  the  county  of  Roscomnion — See  note  d,  oiaio  50  bpasr,  7  peipeap  oo  mnaib  popoa,  7 

under  the  year  1189,  p.  86.  r5uP  °°  Peca°  no  mban  6  pin  amac;  7  nip 

a  Defeated  Hugh,  the  son  of  Roderic. — It  is  £ab  Uuaiopi  pin,  7  6  nap  jab  oo  bean  oia  pije 

stated  in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  that  this  7  plaicearhnup  Da  piol  co  ppac  i  noiojolcap 


1233.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  267 

touched  at  these  places  ;  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 
Niall  himself  was  slain  in  the  heat  of  the  conflict. 
Gilla-na-naevx  O'Daly,  an  adept  in  poetry,  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1233. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  thirty-three. 

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]. 

Donncahy,  Erenagh  of  Aghagower,  settler  of  every  dispute  and  covenant, 
a  man  of  esteem  and  honour,  died  on  the  15th  of  December. 

An  army  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 
Gregraighe,  and  Cormac,  his  son  Conor,  the  people  of  the  Three  Tuathas2, 
the  two  sons  of  Murtough  Mac  Dermot,  namely,  Donough  and  Murtough, 
joined  him  there.  The  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  but  it  is  certain  that  Giraldus  Cambrensis  does 

which  he  has  manufactured  and  put  into  the  not  make  Dermot  charge  King  Roderic    with 

mouth   of  Dermot   Mac   Murrough,    King   of  any  such  crimes,  in  the  speech  which  he  puts 

Leinster,  makes  him  say  to  the  men  of  Leinster  into  his  mouth.     In  this   speech   no   allusion 

and  the  British  knights :  "  The  tyrant  Eoderic  whatever  is  made  to  Roderic's   lasciviousness, 

hath  murdered  his  own  naturall  brother,  he  hath  but  he  is  called  a  tyrant,  and  an  artful,   ambi- 

three  wives  alive,  he  hath  eleven  bastards  by  tious  man  :  "  Malleus  ille  malarum  artium  & 

severall  women.     O  villaine !  to  behold  a  mote  ambitionum  omnium  magister  &  author,  violento 

in  our  eye,  and  cannot  see  a  beam  in  his  owne."  dominatu  cunctos  opprimere  cupiens  :   ad  nos 

Hammer's  Chronicle,  Dublin  Edition  of  1809,  p.  iterum  a  patria  pellendos,  vel  etiam   in   ipsa 

235.     Whether  Dr.  Hanmer   found  materials  (quod  absit)  delendos,  ecce  super,  capita  nobis 

for  this  speech  in  any  old  historical  collection  iam  imminet.  De  multitudine  superbus  £  elatus 

among  the  families  of  the  English  Pale  in  Ire-  ambitionem  suam  brrfchio  metitur.     Sed  inermi 

land,  or  whether  it  is  a  pure  fabrication  of  his  multitudini  &  inerti  plerunq ;  gravis  esse  solet 

own,  the  Editor  has  not  been  able  to  determine ;  animosa  paucitas  et  armata.     Sed  (si)  Lageniam 

2  M  2 


268  QNNCK,a  Ri  .  [1233. 

a  Deapbparaip,  -j  a  mac,  -\  oonnchab  mop  mac  Diapmaoa  mic  Ruaibpi,  1  lie 
oile  cfnmorac.  Ro  mapba6  ann  Dana  Rajallac  ua  plannagdin,  -|  comdp 
bipip  conpcapla  na  hGpeann,  eoan  a  bparaip,  eoan  juep,  -|  gaill  iom6a  ele 
beop  lap  mburnn  clog  -|  bacall,  mp  nDenarh  eapccaome  -\  bachab  comoell 
DO  cleipcib  Connacr  oppa  uaip  po  papaig  -\  po  ylacc  ao6  muimneac  ceaj 
baoinn,  -]  cealla  lomDa  ap  cfna  ^up  po  cuicpfc  pein  in  enec  na  naom  ipa 
cealla  po  pdpaijpfc.  TCo  bfnab  pije,  1  cfnoup  ConDace  DO  cloinn  ftuaibpi 
mic  coippbealbaij  ip  in  16  pin.  £abaib  peblmnb  mac  carail  cpoiboeipj 
pije  Connacr  mpccain,  -]  na  caiplefn  DO  ponab  la  neapc  cloinne  T?uai6pi  uf 
concobaip,  -\  mic  uilliam  bupc  DO  pgaoileaD  Imp  iao,  .1.  caiplen  bona  gmllme, 
caiplen  na  cipce,  caiplen  na  caillije,  -\  caiplen  Duin  lom^ain. 

Sloicceab  la  huilliam  mac  hugo  DC  lari  (m^fn  Ruaibpi  uf  concobaip  a 
maraip  pibe),  i  la  gallaib  mi&e  amaille  ppip  ip  in  mbpeipne  in  Docum  cacail 
ui  Rajallaij  co  noeapnpac  cpeaca  mopa.  Ruccpac  imoppo  Opong  Do  mum- 
np  ui  ftajallaij  pop  uilliam  De  laci,  -\  pop  rhainb  an  cploij  i  nDeoib  na 
ccpeac  ciiccpac  cacap  Dia  poile,  mapbcap  ann  uilliam  bpic,  i  Dponj  Do 
mainb  gall  ap  aon  pip.  T?o  jonao  uilliam  De  laci  co  pocaibib  oile.  Soaicc 
ap  an  cip  jan  giall  jan  eiccepe.  Do  ceap  uilliam  De  laci  -\  Seplup  mac 
carail  gaill  uf  concobaip,  peopup  pionn  mac  na  gaill  piojna,  -|  oiapmaiD 
beapnac  ua  maoilpeclamn  Do  na  ^onaib  DO  paDab  poppa  in  lomaipecc  TDona 

quserit:  quoniamaliciiiConnactensmm  aliquando  dropping  stones  into  the  lake. — See  this  castle 

subiecta  fuit:  Ea  ratione  &  nos  Connactiam  pe-  referred  to  at  the  year  1195,  p.  102,  note  r. 

timus,    quia  nostris  aliquoties  cum  totius  Hi-  d  William. — He  was  the  ancestor  of  the  cele- 

bernias  subdita  fuerat  monarchia.    Nee  ille  more  brated  Pierce  Lacy,  of  the  county 'of  Limerick ; 

monarchy  dominari  quserit :  sed  damnare,  sed  and  also  of  the  Lynches  of  Galway. — See  note 

a  patria  propellere,   &   in  omnium   iura  solus  under  the  year  1186.     In  Mageoghegan's  trans- 

succedere:  &  omnia  solus  obtinere." — Hibernia  lation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  this  event 

Expugnata,  lib.  i.  c.  8.  is  noticed  as  follows  :  "  A.  D.  1233.  William 

b  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  Europe,  and  the  hardiest  and  strongest  hand  of 

the  north-west  part  of  Lough  Corrib,   in  that  any  Englishman,  from  the  Nicen  seas  to  this 

arm  of  the  lake  which  receives  the  river  of  Beal-  place,  or  Irishman,   was  hurt  in  a  skirmish  in 

anabrack,  and  belongs  to  the  parish  of  Cong.  the  Brenie,  came  to  his  house,  and  there  died  of 

0  Caislen-na-Caillighe,  now  called  the  Hag's  the  wound.  Charles  O'Connor  was  also  wounded 

Castle,  which  is  a  translation  of  its  Irish  name,  the  same  day,  and  died  thereof.     Neale  Ffox, 

It  stands  on  an  artificial  island  in  the  east  side  King  of  Teaffa-land,   was  likewise  hurt  in  the 

of  Lough  Mask,  said  to  have  been  formed  by  said  skirmishe,  came  to  his  house  in  like  man- 


1233.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  269 

Hugh  Muimhneach,  his  son,  Donough  More,  the  son  of  Dermot,  who  was  son 
of  Roderic  [0' Conor],  and  many  others  besides  them.  There  were  also  slain 
on  this  occasion  Raghallagh  O'Flanagan,  Thomas  Biris,  Constable  of  Ireland, 
John,  his  relative,  John  Guer,  and  many  other  Englishmen;  after  they 
had  been  cursed  and  excommunicated  by  the  clergy  of  Connaught,  by  the 
ringing  of  bells  with  croziers,  and  the  extinguishing  of  candles;  for  Hugh 
Muimhneach  had  violated  and  plundered  Tibohine,  and  many  other  churches, 
so  that  he  [and  his  pa,rty\  fell  in  revenge  of  the  saints  whose  churches 
they  had  violated.  The  kingdom  and  government  of  Connaught  was  on 
that  day  taken  from  the  sons  of  Roderic,  the  son  of  Turlough.  After  this 
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 
Bungalvy,  Castle-Kirkb,  and  Castle-na-Callyc,  and  the  castle  of  Dunamon. 

An  army  was  led  by  Williamd,  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 
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 
slain.  William  de  Lacy,  with  many  others,  was  wounded.  They  returned 
from  the  territory  without  hostage  or  pledge.  And  William  de  Lacy,  Charles, 
the  son  of  Cathal  Gall6  O'Conor,  Feorus  Finnf,  the  son  of  the  English  Queen, 
and  Dermot  Bearnaghg  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  in  France See  Hanraer's  Chronicle, 

altar  and  Extream  Unction,  died  penitently."  Dublin  edition  of  1809,  p.  353. 

e  Catlial  Gall,  Cacal  gall,  i.  e.  Cathal  the  Eng-  s  Bearnach.  —  This  word,  which  signifies 

lishman;  he  was  so  called  by  way  of  reproach,  gapped,  is  often  applied  to  a  person  who  had  lost 

for  speaking  the  English  language.  his  front  teeth. 

f  Feorus  Finn,  i.  e.  Pierce  the  Fair. — He  must  h  Maoin-crann-caoin,  i.  e.  the  bog  or  morass 

have  been  half  brother  to  Henry  III.,  whose  of  the  beautiful  trees.  There  is  no  place  at  pre- 

inother,  Queen  Isabella,  who  was  the  daughter  sent  bearing  the  name  in  the  county  of  Cavan, 

and  heir  of  Amerie,  Earl  of  Angolesm,  after  the  which  comprises  the  entire  of  the  territory  of 

death  of  King  John,  married  the  Count  de  la  Breifny  O'Reilly. 


270  aNNCtca  Rio^hachca  eiRectNN.  [1234. 

cpann  caom.    Niall  pionnac  ua  cacapnaij  cijeapna  peap  ceacba  DO  juin  ip 
in  amup  ceona,  -j  a  ecc  ina  cigh  lap  noenam  a  ciomna,  -|  lap  na  ongab. 

Q01S  CR10SU,  1234. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceo,  cpioca,  acfcaip. 

Gonjup  ua  maolpojmaip  eppcop  ua  ppiacpac,  <5i°Ha  "a  naomh  mac  aipr 
ui  bpaoin  aipcmneac  Ropa  commain,  THaoliopa  mac  oamel  uf  jopmjaile 
Ppioip  innpi  mac  nepin,  TTlaolpeaDaip  ua  capmacdin  maigipcip  Ropa  comain, 
1  jiolla  lopa  ua  gibellain  manac  -|  ancoipe  oilein  na  cpinome  Decc. 

Oomnall  mac  aoba  f  neill  cijeapna  cenel  eojain,  abbap  pfj  Gpeann  DO 
mapBab  la  mag  laclamn  .1.  Domnall  -\  la  cenel  eojain  po&em,  -|  Domnall  Do 
gabdil  cijeapnaip. 

Qonjup  mac  jillepmDein  cijeapna  loca  hfipne  Do  iompu&  ap  ua  noom- 
naill,  -]  a  Dol  ap  cpeic  i  ccfp  conuill,  i  6  Domnaill,  .1.  Domnall  mop,  DO  bpfic 
aip,  i  a  mapbab  a  noiojail  eiccneacam. 

Ctob  ua  hfjpa  cijeapna  luijne  Do  rhapbaD  la  DonnchaD  mac  Duapcdm  i 
eagpa  (lap  lopccab  cije  paip,  ~\  lap  ccecc  app),  a  nDiojail  a  Deapbparap, 
-]  coipc  mac  Deapbparap  a  arap  DO  mapbpom,  ~\  a  Deapbpacaip  ele  DO 
&alla&  laip. 

OiapmaiD  ua  cuinn  caoipeac  mumcipe  jiollgain  Do  mapbaD. 

Riocapo  mac  uilliam  mapapcal  DO  ool  inD  ajaiD  17ij  pa^an  hi 


1  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  re-  Muinter  Pheodachain. 

cord  the  death  of  Donncatha,  Erenagh  of  Ag-  k  Huintir-Gittagan.  —  This  territory  was  dis- 

hagower,  on  the  18th  of  the  Calends  of  January;  tributed  among  the  baronies  of  Ardagh,  Moy- 

a  man  respected  in  the  Church  and  State  for  his  dow,  and  Shrule,   in  the  county  of  Longford. 

wisdom  and  personal  form  ;    a  man  the  most  The  townlands  of  which  it  consisted  are  speci- 

bountiful  of  his  cotemporaries  in  bestowing  cat-  fied  in  an  Inquisition  taken  at  Ardagh,  on  the 

tie  and  food;   protector  of  the  poor   and   the  4th  of  April,  in  the  tenth  year  of  the  reign  of 

mighty;  the  ornament  of  the  country,  and  the  James  I.,  which  found  that   thirty-five  small 

guide  and  settler  of  every  covenant  among  his  cartrons    of  Montergalgan   then    belonged    to 

own  people,  and  all  in  general.  O'Farrall  Bane,  and  seventeen  one-half  cartrons 

>  Mac  Gittafinnen,  now  Mac  Gillinion.  —  Ma-  of  like  measure  to  O'Farrall  Boye's  part  of  the 

guire  was  not  as  yet  powerful  in  Fermanagh,  county  of  Longford.     The  territory  of  Caladh 

The  Mac  Gillinions  were  afterwards  chiefs  of  na  h-Anghaile,  called  in  this  Inquisition  "  the 


1234.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  2?1 

also  wounded  in  this  battle,  and  died  at  his  own  house,  after  making  his  will 
and  being  anointed'. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1234. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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'Gor- 
mally,  Prior  of  Inismacnerin ;  Mulpeter  O'Carmacan,  Master  at  Roscommon ; 
and  Gilla-Isa  (Gelasius)  O'Gibellan,  a  monk  and  anchorite  on  Trinity  Island, 
died. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  Lord  of  the  Kinel-Owen,  and  heir  pre- 
sumptive to  the  sovereignty  of  Ireland,  was  slain  by  Mac  Loughlin  (Donnell), 
and  the  Kinel-Owen  themselves,  and  Donnell  [i.  e.  Mac  Loughlin],  assumed 
the  lordship. 

Aengus  Mac  Gillafinnen1,  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. 

Hugh  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 
out  of  it),  in  revenge  of  his  brother,  and  the  five  sons  of  his  father's  brother, 
whom  he  [Hugh]  had  slain,  and  of  another  brother  who  had  been  plundered 
by  him. 

Dermot  O'Quin,  Chief  of  Muintir-Gillagank,  was  slain. 

Richard,  the  son  of  William  Mareschal1,  having  rebelled  against  the  King 

Callow," — a  name  still  locally  remembered  as  Prince  of  Luinster,  in  Ireland. — See  Hanmer's 

that  of  a  low  district  in  the  barony  of  Rathcline,—  Chronicle,  Dublin  Edition  of  1 809,  pp.  346,  347- 

lies  between  Muintir  Gillagan  and  the  Shannon.  The   Four   Masters   have  given   this    account 

— See  note  on  Magh  Treagha,  under  the  year  very  imperfectly.     They  should  have  written  it 

1 255 .  thus  :• "  A.  D.  1 254.  Richard,  the  son  of  William 

'  Richard,  tlie  son  of  William  Mareschal He  Mareschal,  having  rebelled  against  the  King  of 

was  the  second  son  of  William  Mareschal,  or  England,  came  over  to  Ireland,  and  took  posses- 
Marshall,  or,  as  Hanmer  will  have  it,  Maxfield.  sion  of  Leinster.  The  English  of  Leinster  as- 
He  was  Earl  Marshall  of  England,  Earl  of  Pern-  sembled  to  oppose  him  on  behalf  of  the  King, 
broke,  in  Wales,  and  of  Ogie,  in  Normandy,  and  namely,  Maurice  Fitzgerald,  the  Justiciary, 


272 


[1235. 


-\  cocr  DO  caipip  anoip  co  po  jab  illaijnib.  Uionoilir  joill  Gpearm  na 
po  ocnj  pfj  pa;ran,  .1.  mac  TTluipip  uipcip  na  hGpeann,  hugo  oe  laci  mpla  ulab, 
1  ualepa  t>e  laci  rijeapna  na  mi&e.  Uangaccap  50  cuippec  lipe  hillaijnib 
gup  cuippioc  car  ppip  an  mapapgal,  -\  mapbrap  an  mapapcal,  -\  po  jaba6 
Seppaij  mapapcal,  -]  nf  paibe  05  cup  an  cara  ace  epiorh  a  aonap  lap  na 
cpejeb  Oia  muinnp  bunein. 

QO1S  CP1OSU,  1235. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  t>a  ceo  cpiocac,  acuicc. 

Ipaac  ua  maoilpojmaip  aipcinoec  cille  halaib  t»ecc. 
TTlacheup  ppioip  oilein  na  rpinome  [oecc]. 
TTlaDaban  ua  maoabam  cijeapna  pil  nanmchaba  oecc. 
Loclamn  mac  eiccijepri  uf  ceallaij  'oo  rhapbaD  la  macaib  an  jiolla 
Piabaij  uf  baoijill. 


Hugo  de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Ulster,  and  Walter  de 
Lacy,  Lord  of  Meath.  They  came  to  Curragh- 
Liffey,  in  Leinster,  where  they  had  appointed  to 
hold  a  conference  with  the  Earl.  But  they 
quarrelled  with  him  at  the  conference,  and  took 
him  prisoner,  after  having  first  wounded  him 
mortally,  for,  being  deserted  by  his  false  friend, 
Geoffry  de  Marisco,  he  was  left  almost  alone  on 
the  field,  and  his  stubborn  valour  would  not 
allow  him  to  submit  tamely  to  his  betrayers." 

m  Mac  Maurice — This  is  a  mistake,  for  the 
person  who  opposed  Richard  Mareschal  was 
Maurice,  the  son  of  Gerald  Fitzgerald.  He 
might  have  been  called  Mac  Maurice,  patro- 
nimically,  from  his  grandfather,  but  it  does  not 
appear  that  he  ever  was. 

0  Currech-Liffey,  Cuippec  lipe,  i.  e.  Cur- 
ragh  of  the  Liffey — The  Curragh  of  Kildare 
is  so  called  throughout  these  Annals,  from 
which  it  may  be  safely  concluded,  that  the 
Curragh  anciently  extended  eastwards  as  far 
as  the  River  LifFey,  for  the  enclosures  which 
from  time  intruded  on  the  plain  have  gradu- 


ally narrowed  it.  The  word  cuippec,  or,  as  it 
is  now  written,  cuppac,  has  two  significations, 
namely,  a  shrubby  moor,  and  a  level  plain, 
or  race  course ;  and  it  appears  from  the  deriva- 
tions given  of  the  word  in  Cormac's  Glossary, 
that  it  has  this  two-fold  application  from  a  very 
early  period. 

0  Geoffry  Mareschal. — This  is  an  error  of  name 
and  fact,  for  there  was  none  of  the  great  family 
of  the  Mareschals  called  Geoffry,  and  the  person 
evidently  referred  to  was  Geoffry  de  Marisco, 
who  did  not  stand  alone  fighting  in  the  field  of 
battle,  but,  according  to  Mathew  Paris,  marched 
away  with  four  score  of  the  Earl's  company,  who 
had  been  bribed  to  this  desertion. 

The  fact  seems  to  be  that  the  Irish  annalists 
knew  nothing  of  the  insidious  plot  laid  by  the 
Anglo-Irish  barons  against  Richard  Mareschal, 
and  therefore  described  it  as  a  regular  battle. 
The  best  account  of  the  plot  against  Mareschal 
is  given  by  Matthew  Paris,  who  bestows  four- 
teen 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.  The 
English  of  Leinster  assembled  to  oppose  him,  on  behalf  of  the  King :  Mac 
Maurice"1,  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland;  Hugo  de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Ulster;  and  Walter 
de  Lacy,  Lord  of  Meath.  They  came  to  Cuirreach-Life0,  in  Leinster,  where 
they  engaged  with  Mareschal,  and  killed  him ;  and  they  made  a  prisoner  of 
Geoffry  Mareschal0,  who  had  stood  alone  fighting  on  the  field  of  battle,  after 
all  his  people  had  fled  from  himp. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1235. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  thirty-jive. 

Isaac  O'Mulfover,  Erenagh  of  Killala,  died. 
Matheus,  Prior  of  Trinity  Island  [died]. 
Madden  O'Madden,  Lord  of  Sil-Anmchadha,  died. 

Loughlin,  the  son  of  Echtighern  O'Kelly,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Gilla- 
Eeagh  O'Boyle. 


History  of  Ireland,  book  ii.  c.  1,  vol.  i.  pp.  213- 
219;  and  Moore's,  vol.  iii.  pp.  16-19-  Dr.  Han- 
mer,  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, 
uppon  the  great  Heath  called  the  Curragh, 
fighting  against  the  O'Connors!" — Dublin  Edi- 
tion, p.  346. 

In  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals 
of  Clonmacnoise,  the  account  of  this  rencounter 
at  the  Curragh  of  Kildare,  is  thus  briefly  and 
incorrectly  entered:  "A.  D.  1234.  William 
Marshall  gave  battle  to  the  rest  of  the  English- 
men of  Ireland,  where  William  himself  was  slain 
and  Geoffry  March  was  taken." 

The  compiler  of  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  also, 
who  appears  to  have  known  nothing  of  the  plot 
against  the  Earl,  described  the  encounter  on  the 
Curragh  as  a  regular  battle,  and  adds,  that  the 
death  of  Richard  was  one  of  the  most  lamenta- 
ble occurrences  of  these  times. 

2 


p  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmac- 
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,  leav- 
ing 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 
year,  as  follows:  «'A.  D.  1234.  Snecca  mop 
icip  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  trans- 
lation of  the  Annals  of  Ulster:  "  A.  D.  1234. 
Extreame  snow  betweene  both  Christmas's  this 
yeare.  Great  frost  after  that.  Men  and  horses, 
with  their  loads,  went  uppon"  [the]  "rivers  and 
lakes  of  Ireland." 


N 


274 


[1235. 


Uaicleach  mac  ao&a  ui  Duboa  cigeapna  ua  namaljaba  -|  ua  ppiacpac 
oo  mapbao  Oaon  upcap  poijoe  i  nfoaipjaipe  i  longpopc  peblimiD  mic  cacail 
cpoiboeipg. 

Sluaicceab  la  gallaib  Gpeann  ap  na  ccionol  la  RiocapD  mac  uilliam 
biipc.  Clpiao  pohoap  oipoepca  bdoap  pop  an  pluaijeao  pin  laip  TTlac  muipip 
mpcfp  na  hGpeann,  huccooe  Ian  lapla  ula&,  ualcpa  T?iccabapo  apo  bapun 
laijfn  co  ngallaib  laijfn,  -|  eoan  gojan  co  nsallaib  murhan,  -|  T?uca6a  Gpeann 
apaon  piu.  Uangaccap  cap  acluain  50  popcomain.  T?o  loipccpfc  an  baile. 
Qppen  co  hoilpinn.  T?o  loipcpfc  cfmpall  mop  ailpinn.  dppen  co  maimpcip 
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.  bet  spam  mop  la  maiab  gall  in  nf  pin,  ~|  t>o  cuippioc 
pop  ccula  506  ni  ppfc  Giob  pin,  -]  po  focpac  Dap  cfnn  an  nfic  na  ppfc.  T?o 
cuippfc  apabdpac  pipce  uaoaib  co  cpeic,  co  caipfe  muilcen,  co  cop  glinne 


q  T/ie  most  illustrious — Qy  iao  poboap  oip- 
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 
O'Conor,  of  Belanagare,  iii  the  preface  to  his 
Dissertations  on  the  History  of  Ireland,  says  that 
the  Four  Masters  had  in  their  writings  preserved 
the  language  of  the  sixth  century ;  and  though 
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- 
rowing phrases  from  the  oldest  specimens  of  com- 
position in  the  language  ;  but  they  generally 
abstracted  the  words  of  the  older  annalists,  with- 
out much  regard  to  strength  or  neatness  of  ex- 
pression, or  purity  of  style. 

r  Mac  Maurice. — This  name  should  be  Mau- 
rice Fitzgerald. 

s  Walter  Eittabard. — He  is  called  Gualterus 
de  Ridenesfordia  by  his  cotemporary,  Giraldus 
Cumbrensis,  in  his  Hibernia  Expugnata,  lib.  ii. 
c.  xxi;  and  Walter  de  Riddlesford  by  most 
modern  writers.  He  had  his  chief  castle  at 


Tristerdermot,  now  Castledermot,  in  the  terri- 
tory of  Omurethi,  in  the  south  of  the  now 
county  of  Kildare,  whence  he  and  his  followers 
had  expelled  the  O'Tooles,  shortly  after  the  Eng- 
lish invasion See  note  under  the  year  1180, 

pp.  53,  54  ;  and  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Cus- 
toms ofHy-Fiachrach,  pp.  400,  401,  note  a. 

r  John  Goggan O'Flaherty,  in  his  Hiar- Con- 
naught,  quoting  this  passage,  calls  him,  "the 
Lord  John  Cogan."  The  name  is  still  numerous 
in  Munster,  but  now  generally  Anglicised 
Goggan. 

u  Routes. — The  word  puca,  which  is  derived 
from  the  Norman-French  word  route,  is  Eng- 
lished Rotate  by  Mageoghegan,  in  his  translation 
of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  at  the  year  1 237- 
It  means  a  band  or  company  in  a  military  sense, 
but  in  a  legal  sen«e  it  signifies  an  assembly  of 
persons  going  forcibly  to  commit  an  unlawful 
act.  In  Dr.  Cowel's  Law  Dictionary  this  word  is 
correctly  explained routa,  turma,cohors,  and  Jacob, 
in  his  Law  Dictionary,  derives  it  from  the  French 
route,  and  explains  it,  "  a  company  or  number." 
In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  at  the  year  1225, 


1235.  J  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  275 

Taichleach,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Dowda,  Lord  of  Tirawley  and  Tireragh, 
was  killed  by  one  shot  of  an  arrow  during  his  interference  [to  quell  a  quarrel] 
in  the  camp  of  Felim,  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg. 

An  expedition  was  made  by  the  English  of  Ireland  [this  year],  being  assembled 
by  Richard,  the  son  of  William  Burke.  The  most  illustriousq  of  those  who  were 
with  him  on  this  expedition  were  Mac  Mauricer,  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland;  Hugo 
de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Ulster;  "Walter  Rittabard8,  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 
bridge]  at  Athlone,  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 
night  of  Trinity  Sunday  precisely.  Parties  of  their  soldiers  assailed  the  monas- 
tery, broke  into  the  sacristy,  and  carried  away  chalices,  vestments,  and  other 
valuable  things1*.  The  English  chiefs,  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-muilchenny, 


O'Neill's  band,  or  company  of  soldiers,  is  called  cuipeaoup  a  pipre  7  a  peppe'naij  aP 

Rue  Gojanac  ;  and,  at  the  same  year,  pucaoa  7  apucaoa  ceiceipne  50  cpeic   7  co   caipri 

ceiceipne  is  used  to  denote  bands,  or  companies,  muilce,  7  up  pin  co  rop  jlinne  peapna.  "  They 

of  kernes,  or  light-armed  infantry.  sent  on  the  next  day  their  scouts,  their  archers, 

"Chalices,  vestments,  $c.  —  The  passage  relating  and  their  routes  [cotiortes]  of  kerne  to  Creit,  to 

to  the  robbing  of  the  abbey  of  Boyle  is  given  as  Cairthi   Muilche,    and   thence   to   Tor-Glinne- 

follows,  in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  An-  fearna."     There  is  no  place  in   the  county  of 

nals  of  Clonmacnoise  :  "A.  D.  1235.  The  Eng-  Leitrim  now  called  Creit,  unless  it  be  Creagh, 

lish  of  Ireland  went  with  their  forces  to  Con-  in  Kiltogher  parish. 

noght,  untill  they  came  to  the  abbey  of  Boylle,          1  Cairthe  Muilchenn,  now  called  in  Irish  Gleann 

where  they  encamped  within  the  walls  of  the  a  Chairthe,  and  in  English,  Glencar.     It  is  a 

said  abbey,  tooke  all  the  goods  they  cou'd  finger,  valley,  in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  and  adjoining 

as  well  as  holy  vestments,  Challices,  as  also  the  the  barony  of  Carbury,  in  the  county  of  Sligo  — 

habitts  of  the  Monks,  and  striped  the  fryers  and  See  its  position  marked  on  the  map  prefixed  to 

Monks  very  irreverently  of  their  habbitts  in  the  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  afHy-Fiachrach, 

middest  of  their  Cloister.     Took  also  a  great  published  by  the  Archaeological  Society  in  1844. 

prey  from  Cormack  Mac  Dermott,  which  was  See  also  Ordnance  Map  of  the  County  of  Lei- 

then  generally  called  the  prey  of  preys."  trim,   sheet   6,   and   of  the  County   of  Sligo, 

*  Marauding  parties,  pipce  —  In  the  Annals  sheet  9- 
of  Kilronan   the   reading   is   as   follows  :   t>o 

2N2 


276  dNNata  Rioghachca  emeaNN.  [1235. 

peapna,  -\  cuspac  cpeaca  mopa  leo  co  hapo  capna  i  ccoinoe  an  mpcip.  Oo 
ponpac  joill  comaiple  mcleice  annpin  cpia  aplac  eojain  uf  ebm  Do  biojail 
a  cneab  ap  muimneacaib,  -|  ap  bonnchab  caipppec  ua  mbpiain,  .1.  fob  ina 
pppicdng  if  in  conaip  ceona  hi  ccfp  rhaine,  immaonmai^,  ~\  appibe  50  cuab- 
mumain  gan  pabab  gari  pacujab  Do  muimneachaib.  Oo  ponab  cpeaca 
ofpirhe  leo. 

OD  connaipc  peiblirmb  mac  cacail  cpoiboeipg  na  goill  DO  bul  uaba  api 
comaiple  po  cinD  Dol  cona  pocpaioe  i  mbaib  muimneac,  -]  lap  poccain  Do  Dia 
poijib  no  cuipDip  Deabca  cpoba  jac  laoi.  Qn  la  oeibeanac  cpa  DO  coDap 
Connaccaij,  i  muimnij;  if  in  caclacaip,  ~\  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. 
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,  -|  concobap  puab  mac  muipceapcai^  muirhnij  Do 
bpfic  laif  Do  foi^ib  i  borhnaill,  .1.  Domrall  mop,  -|  an  cfp  uile  Dpcifuccab  pop 
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 
pic  na  eicepfba  Doib.  l?o  cuipp fc  Dm  goill  6  bun  mujoopD  plo£  Diaipmibe 
pa  macaib  puaibpi  jup  po  aipccp fc  eccuill,  -\  DO  beapcpac  cpeaca  icmba 

"  Tor-Glinne-fearna,  i.  e.  the  tower  of  Glen-  now  bearing  the  name  in  Glenfarn. 

fame,  or  the  alder  glen,  a  remarkable  valley,  "  Moinmoy,  ITIaonihujj. — A  level  territory  in 

in  the  parish  of  Cloonclare,  near  Manor-Hamil-  thecountyofGalway,comprisingMoyode,Finure, 

ton,  in  the  barony  of  Rossclogher,  and  county  and  all  the  champaign  lands  around  the  town  of 

of  Leitrim.     Glenfarn  Hall  is  in  this  valley —  Loughrea,  in  the  county   of  Gal  way.     It  was 

See  Ordnance  Map  of  the  County  of  Leitrim,  bounded  on  the  east  by  the  territory  of  Sil- Anm- 

sheet  13.     The   tower  here  referred  to  would  chadha;  on  the  south  by  the  mountain  of  Slieve 

not  appear  to  have  been  a  castle  or  steeple,  but  Aughty;  and  on  the  west  by  the  diocese  of  Kilmac- 

either  a  Cyclopean  fort,  or  a  natural  rock  resem-  duagh.     This  was  the  original  inheritance  of  the 

bling  a  tower,  like  the  rocks  called  tors  on  the  O'Mullallys  and  O'Naghtans,  who,  shortly  after 

coast  of  Antrim  and  Donegal.  There  is  no  place  the  English  Invasion,  were  driven  from  it  by  the 


1235.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  277 

to  Tor-Glinne-fearnaz,  and  they  carried  off  great  spoils  from  those  places  to  the 
Lord  Justice  at  Ardcarne.  Here  the  English  held  a  private  consultation,  at 
the  request  of  Owen  O'Heyne,  who  wished  to  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 
giving  the  Momonians  any  notice  or  forewarning  of  their  intentions.  [This  they 
accordingly  did],  and  committed  great  depredations. 

Now  when  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 
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- 
prudence of  Donough  Cairbreach.  The  Connacians  then  returned  home", 
and  on  the  next  day  O'Brien  made  peace  with  the  English,  and  gave  them 
hostages.  The  English  returned  into  Connaught,  and  went  first  to  Hugh 
O'Flaherty,  who  made  peace  with  them  in  behalf  of  his  people  and  cattle.  As 
to  Felim,  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  the  resolution  which  he  adopted  was  to 
take  with  him  to  O'Donnell,  i.  e.  Donnell  More,  all  the  cows  belonging  to  such 
of  the  inhabitants  of  Conmaicne-mara  and  Conmaicne-Cuile  who  should  take 
his  advice,  together  with  the  son  of  Manus,  and  Conor  Roe,  the  son  of  Mur- 
tough  Muimhneach,  and  leaving  the  whole  country  desolate  for  the  English. 
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,  who  plun- 

Burkes,  when  the  former  settled  in  the  barony  of  stated  that  the  Connacians  returned  from  this 

Dunmore,  near  Tuam,  and  the  latter  in  the  woody  battle,  having  gained  great  credit  for  their  va- 

district  of  the  Faes,  in  the  barony  of  Athlone,  lour  and  skill,  without  having  lost  any  man  of 

in  the  county  of  Roscommon — See  Tribes  and  distinction :  Cuncocap   Connaccaij  aipoe  po 

Teiritories  of  Hy- Many,  printed  for  the  Irish  pcenh  enjnuriia  7  pomaip  gan  oume  puacenra 

Archaeological  Society,  p.  70,  note  *,  and  the  oo  mapoao  oib. 

map  prefixed  to  the  same  work.  c  Dun-Mughdord,  now  Doon,  a  castle  in  the 

b  Home. — In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan   it  is  parish  of  Aghagower,  about  three  miles  east  of 


[1235. 

leo  50  Dpuimm  ni  i  ccoinne  jail.  Canaic  Dana  aob  ua  plaicbeapcaig,  -| 
eojan  ua  hebin  pluaj  mop  ele  cimceall,  -|  apcpaije  leo  ap  na  ccappainj 
co  Uonan  cino  mapa.  ftangaccap  na  haprpaije  pin  cona  pocpaiDe,  -|  an 
lupcip  ma  ccoinDe  co  Dpuimni  co  calab  inpi  aonaij. 

lTla5nup,imoppo,  bai  piDe  -|  a  lonja  ap  ppuc  na  hinnpi,  ~\  Deabca  memce 
ua6a  pop  jallaib,  ~\  imapeac  6  jallaib  paippiom.  T?o  pciinjic  cpa  gaill  ppip 
pin,  1  apeaD  Do  ponpac  a  lonjpopc  Do  bpeic  leo,  -]  a  napcpaije  Do  cappaing 
cuca  i  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  connca- 
Dap  gaill  majnup  cona  muincip  Do  6ol  pop  na  hoilenaib  hipln,  po  cojbaDap  a 
naprpaije  leo  ap  puD  na  cpaja,  -]  po  cuippfc  pop  muip  lac,  -|  po  lionaic  co 
hobann  Do  pluaj,  -j  Do  pipchib  apmca  eDi^ce,  -|  locup  popp  na  hoilenaib  i 
mbaoap  muincip  majnupa  (cenmoca  imp  paicm  i  mbaoi  majnup  pepin),  -| 
po  mapbpac  a  ppuopaDap  Do  baoinib  inncib.  Do  DeochaiD  majnup  i  i 
mbaoi  Dia  muincip  in  imp  paicne  ma  lonjaib,  -]  po  pajaibpfc  an  inpi,  -\ 
Diambab  caipipi  la  majnup  muincip  maille  po  cuippeaD  a  longa  hi  ccfnn 
loinjip  na  njall. 


Westport — See  Ordnance  Map  of  the  county 
of  Mayo,  sheet  88. 

d  Achill,  Gccuill,  a  well-known  island  in  the 
barony  of  Burrishoole,  and  county  of  Mayo — 
See  its  most  remarkable  features  and  antiqui- 
ties shewn  on  the  map  prefixed  to  Genealogies, 
Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  published 
by  the  Irish  Archseological  Society  in  1844. 

e  Druimni. — There  is  no  place  at  present 
bearing  this  name  in  the  barony  of  Burrishoole 
or  of  Murresk,  in  the  county  of  Mayo — See  Ord- 
nance Map  of  that  county,  sheet  87,  &c. 

f  Which  they  carried. — Roderic  O'Flaherty,  in 
his  Account  of  Hiar-Connaught,  says  that  the 
boats  of  Lough  Orbsen  were  drawn  from  Bon- 
bonan  for  five  miles  [recte  six  miles  and  a-half] 
on  this  occasion. 

s  Linan  Cinn-mara,  is  now  called  Leenaun, 
a  well  known  place  near  the  Killary  Harbour, 
in  Connamara,  in  the  north-west  of  the  county 
of  Galway.  It  is  described  by  O'Flaherty,  in 


his  Account  of  Hiar-Connaught,  printed  for  the 
Archaeological  Society  in  1845,  as  "  Imair-an- 
Linain,  antiently  Linan  Kinmara,  a  long  green 
spot  of  land  by  the  sea  of  Coelshaly  Eo"  [Kil- 
lary]. 

h  The  sound  near  the  island,  ppuc  na  hinpi. — 
In  this  part  of  Ireland  priur  means  a  sound  or 
inlet  of  the  sea,  into  which  the  tide  flows  with 
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 
an  cppora,  or  streamstown,  near  Clifden,  in 
Connamara  ;  and  ppur  na  maoile,  in  the  north 
of  Ireland,  near  Ballyshannon. 

'  Large  strand. — This  strand  lies  to  the  north 
of  Murresk  Lodge,  and  extends  from  Bartraw 
point  to  Annagh  Island,  near  the  foot  of  Croagh- 
patrick. 

*  Inis-raithni,  i.  e.  the  Ferny  Island,  now  cor- 
ruptly Anglicised  Inishraher.  It  is  an  island  in 
the  Bay  of  Westport. — See  Ordnance  Map  of 


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ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


279 


dered  Achilld,  and  carried  off  great  spoils  to  Druimnic.  Hugh  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 
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  removed  their  camp,  and  drew 
their  vessels  into  the  angle  of  a  large  strand'  at  that  place.  When  Manus 
observed  this,  he  landed  on  Inis-raithni",  and  sent  a  party  of  his  people  on  the 
Island  of  Inis-Aonaigh1.  As  soon,  however,  as  the  English  perceived  that 
Manus  and  his  people  had  landed  on  these  islands,  they  drew  their  boats  along 
the  strand,  and  having  them  on  the  sea,  they  quickly  filled  them  with  a  nume- 
rous army  and  troops  of  well-armed  and  mail-clad  soldiers ;  and  these  landed 
on  the  islands  on  which  the  people  of  Manus  were  (except  Inis-Kaithinm,  where 
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.  See  also  Genea- 
logies, Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach, 
p.  303,  note  h,  and  the  map  prefixed  to  the  same 
work. 

1  Inis-Aonaigh,  i.  e.  the  island  of  the  fair  or 
market,  now  correctly  anglicised  Inisheany.  It 
is  an  island  in  the  same  bay,  lying  immediately 
to  the  east  of  Bartraw  point,  and  nearly  due- 
south  of  Inis-Raithin.  It  is  nearer  to  the 
large  strand  alluded  to  in  the  text  than  Inis- 
Raithin. 

m  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 
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 


means  clearly  besides.  According  to  the  Annals 
of  Connaught  and  of  Kilronan,  from  which  the 
Four  Masters  seem  to  have  abstracted  their  ac- 
count of  this  transaction,  the  English  landed  on 
the  two  islands.  These  Annals  state,  that 
"  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  Inis- 
Rathain,  and  some  of  his  people  landed  on  Inis- 
Aonaigh,  and  took  some  sheep  there  to  kill  and 
eat  them.  When  the  English  observed  this  they 
rose  up  actively  and  drew  their  boats  along  the 
strand  with  rapidity,  and  launching  them  on  the 
sea,  filled  them  with  well-armed  and  mailed 
soldiers  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> 


280  QHwaca  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1235. 

Ni  baof  bo  ap  oilen  in  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. 

T?o  mapbaio  po&aoine  lomba  la  jallaib  an  oibce  pin.  Ctn  aoine  imoppo 
ap  na  riiapac  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 
pibe  ina  nuibeohaib  imceacca  co  hfppoapa  co  noeapnaoap  cpeic  ap  ua 
noorhnaill  ap  tmijm  lonnapbca  peblimib  cuicce.  TTanjarcap  appibe  i 
ccoipppliab  na  pejpa,  -\  50  calab  puipc  na  caippcce  ap  loc  ce  Da  jabail  ap 
npuing  DO  muincip  peDlimib  ui  concobaip  -\  copbmaic  mic  comalcaij  baof 
occa  coimeD.  "Cuccpar  imoppo  gaill  Gpeann,  i  an  lupnp  comaipce  -\  cfp- 
mann  DO  clapup  mac  Rlailin  DaipciDeocam  oilepino,  •]  Do  cananacaib  oilein 
na  rpinoiDe  in  onoip  na  naom  cpmoiDe,  -\  DO  coib  an  lupcip  pen,  -\  maire  na 
ngall  Do  becam  an  lonaiD  pin,  ~\  Do  benarh  pleccana  ~\  fpnai^ce  an  Du  pin. 

Oo  ponpar  gaill  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,  neologies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiaehrack, 

then  went  into  their  ships,"  &c.  printed  for  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society  in 

n  Insi  Modh — This  is  a  general  name  for  a  1844,   p.   153,  note  s,*and  p.  402.     There  is 

group  of  islands  in  Clew  Bay,  said  to  be  365  in  another  place  of  the  name  in  the  parish  of  Boyle, 

number. — See  Ordnance  Map  of  the  County  of  in  the  county  of  Eoscommon ;  it  is  a  hill  in  Lord 

Mayo,  sheets  67,  76,  and  87,  and  the  Map  to  Lorton's  demesne,  and  now  pronounced  lu^Bup- 

Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Territories  of  Hy-Fiach-  ban  in  Irish,  and  Lurton  in  English. 

rack,  already  referred  to;  and  also  the  paper  on  P  Port^na-Carrick. — This  name  is  now  angli- 

Inis  Mochaoi,  published  by  the  Down  and  Con-  cised  Rockingham.     It  is  situated  in  the  county 

nor  and  Dromore  Architecture  Society,  in  which  of  Roscommon,  near  the  shore  of  Lough  Key,  and 

the  author,  the  Rev.  William  Reeves,  corrects  is  well  known  to  tourists  as  the  princely  seat  of 

an  error  of  Dr.  O'Conor,  who  had  stated  that  Lord  Lorton.     The  natives  of  the  town  of  Boyle 

the  Insi  Modh  were  the  Copeland  Islands.  and  its  vicinity,  when  speaking  Irish,  always 

0  Luffertane,  lujBupodn,  a  townland  in  the  call  Rockingham  pope  no  caipje. 

parish  of  Ballintober,  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  i  And  pray  there. — This  passage  is  given  in 

containing   the  ruins  of  a  castle  said  to  have  the   Annals   of  Boyle,    as   follows  :   Do   cueo 

been  erected  by  the  family  of  Burke — See  Ge-  imoppo   in   tupcip   7    maci    njaU    Gpenn    DU 


1235.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  281 

There  was  not  a  single  cow  upon  any  of  the  Insi  Modh"  islands  which  the 
English  did  not  carry  off  to  the  shore  in  one  day ;  and  those  to  whom  these 
cows  had  belonged  would  have  been  obliged  to  come  off  their  islands,  in  con- 
sequence of  thirst  and  hunger,  if  they  had  not  been  [killed  or]  taken  prisoners. 

Many  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 
that  day,  in  honour  of  the  crucifixion  of  Christ. 

After  the  English  had  plundered  and  devastated  Umallia,  both  by  sea  and 
land,  they  marched  on  with  their  cows  and  spoils  to  Luffertane0 ;  thence  they 
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  guard- 
ing it.  On  this  occasion  the  English  of  Ireland  and  the  Lord  Justice  spared 
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  him- 
self, and  the  chiefs  of  the  English,  went  to  see  that  place,  and  to  kneel  and 
pray  thereq. 

The  English  afterwards,  with  great  art  and  ingenuity,  constructed  wonder- 
ful engines',  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  suffi- 
cient. By  this  expedition  the  English  left  the  Connacians  without  food,  rai- 

oecpum  in  muic  fen  7  o'aipmcce  ann  DO  rab-  translation,  which  is  as  follows  :  "  The  Justiciary 

aipc  cabip  oo  jun  na  lldmao  ouni  eaponoip  and  the  chiefs  of  the  English  of  Ireland  went  to 

in  nmuic  pen.    Which  is  thus  most  incorrectly  see  that  place,  and  to  pray  and  to  pay  veneration  to 

translated  by  Dr.  O'Conor  :  "  Profecti  sunt  vero  it,sothatnoneshouldoflerdishonourtotheplace." 

Justitiarius,    et  Magnates  Alienigenarum  Hi-  r  Wonderful  engines — The  Annals  of  Boyle 

bernise,  ad  expugnandam  istam  gentem  istam,  contain  a  very  curious  account  of  the  pirrels,  or 

et  transegerunt  noctes  ibi,   dantes  impetus  in  engines,  constructed  by  the  English  for  taking 

earn  absque  vulneratione  Arcis  durante  eo  tern-  the  Rock  of  Lough  Key  on  this  occasion  ;  but  Dr. 

pore."  The  conduct  of  the  English  was,  however,  O'Conor  has  mistranslated  almost  every  sentence" 

the  very  reverse,  as  will  appear  from  the  true  of  it. 

2  o 


282  aNNdca  Rio^hachra  eirceciNN.  [1235. 

jan  eallac,  -|  nf  po  pdjaibpeao  pic  nd  pdirhe  innce,  ace  mab  ^aoibil  pfm  05 
plac  i  05  mapbab  a  cele.  Qp  a  aoi  m  puccpac  goill  jjiall  na  eicepe  Don 
cup  pin. 

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  i  ccfnn  picfc  aibce 
laporii  lap  nDol  Don  conpcapla  imac  co  nDpuinj  moip  Da  rhumcip  imme,  po 
lab  peap  oiob  pfm,  .1.  6  hopcin  an  baile  cap  a  neip,  ~|  Do  paD  DO  copbmac 
lapccam.  Po  hioblaiceab  na  jaill  ap  comaipce  co  hoilen  na  cpmoioe,  -|  po 
cuipeab  plan  ap  an  cfp  iao.  Upapjapcap  -|  muprap  an  cappacc  la  copbmac 
laporh  conac  jabDafp  jaill  Dopi&ipi. 

Oorhnall  -\  muipceapcac  Da  mac  muipeaoaij  uf  rhaille  DO  rhapbab  la 
norhnall  mac  majnupa  mic  muipceapcaij  uf  concobaip,  ~\  la  mall  puab  mac 
cacail  mic  concobaip  T  cliapa,  -|  a  nabnacal  innre  beop. 

Uuacal  mac  muipceapcaij  uf  concobaip  Do  rhapbab  la  concobap  mbuibe 
mac  coippbealbaij  ui  concobaip,  -\  la  concobap  mac  aoba  muimnij. 

Caiplen  TTlilic  Do  bpipeab  la  peblimib  ua  concobaip. 

' 

'  Free  of tribute. — According  to  the  Annals  of  O'Conor:  "A.  D.   1236.    Bryen  Mac  Terlagh 

Kilronan,  Felim  was  to  receive  rent  and  custom  O'Connor  was  then  established  in  the  possession 

out  of  these  five  cantreds.     Dr.  O'Conor,  in  his  of  the  five  cantredes  belonging  to  the  King  of 

suppressed  work,  Memoirs  of  the  Life  and  Writ-  Connaught,  who  preyed  the  provence  and  de- 

ingsofCharlesO'ConorofBelanagare,p.41, states  stroyed  it,  without  respect  to  either  spirituall 

that  Felim  obtained  a  royal  charter  in  the  year  or  temporall  land." 

1257,  "granting  to  him,  and  to  his  heirs  for          '  Taken The  Annals  of  Kilronan  state  that 

ever,  free  and  peaceable  dominion  over  five  ba-  O' Hoist  remained  inside  the  gate  and  closed  it 

ronies,  in  as  ample  a  manner  as  ever  they  were  against  the  constable;  and  that  thereupon  the 

enjoyed  by  his  ancestors."     These  five  cantreds  English  fled  to  Clarus  Mac  Mailin,  who  afforded 

would   seem   to   have  constituted   the  mensal  them  protection.     The  same  account  is  also  given 

lands  of  the  Kings  of  Connaught  from  time  im-  in  the  Annals  of  Boyle,  but  totally  falsified  by 

memorial.     According  to  the  Annals  of  Clon-  Dr.  O'Conor. 

macnoise,  Felim  O'Conor  was  deprived  of  "  the  u  Cliara,  so  called  at  the  present  day  in  Irish, 

King's  five  cantreds"  in  the  year  1236,   when  but  anglicised  Clare  Island.      It  is  a  celebrated 

they  were  given  to  Brian,  the  son  of  Terlagh  island   in    Clew    Bay,     still    belonging    to    the 

O'Connor."    Thus,  after  describing  the  treache-  O'Malleys,    and  containing  the  ruins  of  a  castle 

rous  but  unsuccessful  attempt  of  the  Justiciary  and  monastery  erected  by  that  family — See  Map 

to  take  Felim  O'Conor  prisoner,  the  following  prefixed  to  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of 

observation  is  made  on  the  character  of  Brian  Hy-Fiachrach,  and  Ordnance  Map  of  the  County 


1235.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  283 

ment,  or  cattle,  and  the  country  without  peace  or  tranquillity,  the  Gaels  [Irish] 
themselves  plundering  and  destroying  one  another.  The  English,  however, 
did  not  obtain  hostages  or  pledges  of  submission  on  this  expedition. 

Felim  made  peace  with  the  Lord  Justice;  and  they  [the  English]  gave  him 
the  King's  five  cantreds,  free  of  tribute5  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  Don- 
nell,  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. 

Tuathal,  the  son  of  Murtough  O'Conor,  was  slain  by  Conor  Boy,  the  son  of 
Turlough  O'Conor,  and  by  Conor,  the  son  of  Hugh  Muimhneach  [O'Conor]. 

The  Castle  of  Meelick"  was  demolished  by  Felim  O'Conor. 

1 

of  Mayo,  sheets  84,  85.  Island,  and  they  enter  the  deaths  of  Gilla-an- 

w  The  Cattle  ofMeelick  is  near  the  Shannon,  in  Choimdedh  O'Cuilin,  Prepositus  of  Insula  mac 

the  barony  of  Longford,  and  county  of  Galway.  Nerin,  and  of  the  father  of  Clarus  Mac  Mailin, 

Under  this  year  (1235)  the  Dublin  copy  of  Archdeacon  of  Elphin,  in  the  following  words  : 

the  Annals  of  Innisfallen  contain  the  following  "  Gilla  Coimdedh  O'Cuilin,  Prepositus  de  Insula 

notices  of  the  transactions  of  Munster,  which  mac  Nerin  et  Pater  Clari  Elfenensis,  Archidia- 

have  been  omitted  by  the  Four  Masters.  coni,  feliciter  in  Christo  quieuit ;    et  in   insola 

"A.D.  1235.  Teige  Duvdedagh,  the  son  of  Sancte  Trinitatis  est  sepidtus  die  Sancti  Finniani, 

Dermot  of  Dundronan,    who  was  the  son   of  cujus  anima  requiescat  in  pace.'1''     The  .Editor 

Donnell  More  na  Curadh  Mac  Carthy,  was  slam  has  not  been  able  to  determine  satisfactorily  of 

by  Cormac  Finn  and  Donnell  God,  the  two  sons  what  family  this  celebrated  ecclesiastic,  Clarus 

of  Donnell  More  na  Curadh  Mac  Carthy.  Mac  Mailin,   was  ;    but  inclines  to  think  that 

"  The  Irish  were  defeated  by  the  English  at  he  was  a  branch  of  the  O'Mulconrys ;  for,  in 

Tralee,  in  a  conflict,  in  which  Cormac,  the  son  Mageoghegan's  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  under 

of  Cormac  Finn,  who  was  the  son  of  Donnell  the  year  1260,  he  is  called,  "Clarus  Mac  Moy- 

More  na  Curadh  Mac  Carthy,  Gasginach  O'Dris-  lyn  O  Moylchonrie." — See  note  under  that  year, 

coll,  and  Murtough,  his  brother,  were  slain."  respecting  the  removal  of  the  canons  of  Trinity 

Under  this  year    the   Annals    of  Kilronan  Island,  in  Lough   Key,   to   Trinity  Island,  in" 

record  the  death  of  Matheus,  Prior  of  Trinity  Lough  Oughter,  in  Breifny. 

2  o2 


284  dNNCtta  Rio^hachca  eirceciNN.  [1236. 


QO1S  CR1OSU,  1236. 
Goip  Cpiopr,  mile,  Da  ceo,  cpioca,  ape. 

Tflacpaic  mac  maoilfn  Sagapc  cille  ITlic  rpeana  [oecc]. 

Qo6  ua  gibelldin  Sagapc  cille  Rooain.  6a  cananac  e  po  Deoib  in  oilen 
na  cpinoiDe  Decc  oibce  not>lac. 

Qn  lupcip,  .1.  mac  muipip  Do  cionol  gall  Gpeann  na  coinne  co  hoc  peo- 
painne.  Uainic  pfiblim  mac  cacail  cpoiboeipg  T?f  Connacc  ip  in  coinne 
lupin.  Ipeab  ba  mfnmapc  leo  uile  peall  pop  peiblim  ge  po  baoi  na  caipDeap 
cpfopc  05  an  lupcip,  ~\  ba  he  pin  pocann  a  cnonoil  co  haon  rhaijm.  lap  bpiop 
pgeil  i  lap  ppajbdil  paba6  Dpeiblimib  po  piacr  ap  in  ccoinne  uachab  mapc- 
pluaij  co  popcomain.  T?o  leanao  ap  pen  co  opoicfc  plicci  je,  -)  Do  cuaib  in 
ucc  uf  Dorhnaill,  -|  6  nac  puccpar  paip  DO  ponpac  cpeaca  mopa  ap  cabg  ua 
cconcobaip,  -]  pucpar  Oeaj  mna  imba  i  mbpoiD  •]  i  nDaofpe.  Co  pangaccap 
jup  na  gabalaib  pin  leo  50  Dpuim  njpeccpaije  i  maij  luipcc,  uaip  ap  ann 
baoi  an  mpnp  pfm  occa  nupnaibe.  6a  lap  nDol  mic  inlliam  hi  pajcaib  Do 
ponab  an  coinne  hfpm. 

Sobaip  an  lupcip  •)  na  joill  lap  pin  Oia  cnjib,  "|  po  pajaib  poplarhup  an 
ripe  a^  bpian  mac  coippbealbaij. 

Cpeaca  mopa  Do  benam  la  bpian  ~|  la  hampaib  an  lupcip  ap  macaib 
aoba  mic  carail  cpoibbeipg,  -]  ap  pocaibib  oile  DO  muinnp  peiblimib.  Cpea- 
ca 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  muipceap- 
caijh  uf  concobhaip. 

TTlaolmuipe  ua  lacrndin  DO  coja  in  eppcopoiDe  ruama,  •]  a  bul  i 


x  KUmactranny,  Cill  mic  Cpeana  —  Charles  west  of  the  county  of  Roscommon. 
O'Conor  adds:  i  ccip  Oiliollcc;  but  the  Editor          *  Ath-feorainne,  now  Afeor^n,  a  townland  on 

does  not  think  it  proper  to  give  it  in  the  text.  the  east  side  of  the  River  Suck,  in  the  parish  of 

Kilmactranny  is  a  vicarage  in  the  diocese  of  El-  Taghboy,   barony  of  Athlone,   and   county    of 

phin,  situated  in  the  barony  of  Tirerrill,  in  the  Roscommon.  —  See   Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy- 

county  of  Sligo.  Many,  printed  for  the  Irish  Archsological  So- 

Y  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. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  thirty-six. 

Magrath  Mac  Mailin,  Priest  of  Kilmactranny*,  died. 

Hugh  O'Gibellan,  Priest  of  Kilrodany,  and  finally  canon  on  Trinity  Island, 
died  on  the  Christmas  night. 

The  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  Mac  Maurice,  summoned  the  English  of 
Ireland  to  meet  him  at  Ath-feorainnez,  at  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  intelli- 
gence and  forewarning  of  their  design,  departed  from  the  assembly ;  and, 
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  not  overtake  him  they  committed  great  acts  of  plunder  upon  Teige 
O'Conor,  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 
between  both  parties. 

Conor,  the  son  of  Hugh  Muimhneach,  was  slain  by  Manus,  the  son  of 
Murtough  O'Conor. 

Mulmurry  O'Laghtnan  was  appointed  to  the  bishopric  of  Tuam,  and  went 

tion  from  a  grant,  in    1612,   to  Captain  Colla      He   was  sponsor   or   godfather  to   one    of  his 

O'Kelly.  children.     Caipoear  cptopc  is  still  the  common 

1  Gossip,  J5e  po  baoi  na  caipoeap  cpforr —      term  used  in  Ireland  to  denote  gossip  or  sponsor. 


286  aNNata  Rio^hachca  eiraeciNN.  [123(5. 


-]  jpaoa  DO  eabaipe  paip  cpia  pcpibfnnaib  comapba  pfcaip,  -]  cpia  comaonea 
pfj  Sa;ran. 

TTlac  uilliam  DO  cuibece  a  pajcaib,  -|  ni  pfp  cecip  cuce  i  cuDchaib  pa  po 
pfe  no  po  eipie. 

peblimib  mac  caeail  cpoib&eipj  Do  cocr  i  cconnaccaib  Dopi&ipi  lap  na 
cocuipeab  Do  Dpuing  Do  connaceaib  .1.  ua  ceallaij  ua  plainD  mec  aoba  mic 
carail  cpoiboeipg,  -\  mac  aipc  uf  maoilpeaclainn  50  pabacap  uile  cfifpe 
caea  corhmopa  ~\  po  lonnpaijpfc  mpom  co  pinD  Duin  aipm  i  mbdoap  bu  an 
cfpe  uile  ag  bpian  mac  coipp6ealbai£,  -\  05  eojan  ua  fibin,  i  05  concobap 
buioe  mac  coippbealbaij,  -|  05  mac  soipoelb.  Rangaoap  cpa  muincip  peD- 
limi&  cap  Dunclab  -\  cap  Damjean  clapaij  an  oilen,  i  po  cuip  jac  cfiiD  ploij, 
1  506  caofpioc  bui&ne  Dib  a  ppolapcnaib  Do  na  buaib  peampa  arhail  po 
jebccfp  ap  a  cconaip  IOD  ap  a  canD.  T?o  pgaoilpfc  mumcip  peolimiD  ap  na 
heDalaib  co  na  po  aipip  ina  pocaip  Dona  ceisrpib  cacaib  accmab  aon 
cfrpap  mapcac  nama. 

Oo  connaipc  bpian  mac  coippDealbaig  ~|  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 
muincipe,  nf  po  aipij  concobap  buibe  mac  coippbealbaij  ni  conup  capla  i 
ccfnn  mac  nao&a  mic  carail  cpoiboeipj  i  piocc  a  muincipe  pfin,  ~]  po  cuic- 
piorii  la  puai&pi  mac  aoDa  mic  cacail  cpoibDeipj. 

Ro  meabaiD  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  mui^  Don  oilen  Do  macaib  mallacc,  ~|  Do  luce  Denma  uile  ace 

' 

b  Mac  William.  —  In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  sion  ;    they  abandoned  their  lord,  their  guaran- 

it  is  stated  that  he  did  not  do  much  good  for  tee,  and  their  valour,  for  the  spoils  which  they 

Ireland  by  his  journey  to  England.  met.     They  left  their  lord  and  king,  attended 

0  Rindown,  pinn  bum.  —  See  note  *,  under  the  only  by  four  horsemen  out  of  the  four  batta- 

year  1199,  p.  120.  lions  which  he  brought  with  him,  so  that  the 

d  Dispersed  with  their  spoils  —  The  Annals  of  king  strained  his  voice  calling  them  back." 
Kilronan,  which  describe  this  attack   on  Ein-          *  Foot-soldiers,  ariipaiB.  —  The  Annals  of  Kil- 

down  more  fully,  have  the  following  remark  on  ronan  call  them  feppenaij,  i.  e.  archers. 
the  conduct  of  Felim's  people  on  this  occasion  :          f  He  fell  by  him  __  This  is  very  lamely  ex- 

"  Lamentable  was  their  conduct  on  this  occa-  pressed  by  the  Four  Masters,  who  appear  to 


1236.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  287 

to  England,  where  he  was  consecrated,  after  having  received  the  Pope's  letters, 
by  consent  of  the  King  of  England. 

Mac  Williamb  returned  from  England,  but  whether  with  peace  or  with  war 
was  unknown. 

Felira,  the  son  of  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 
O'Melaghlin ;  all  forming  four  equally  strong  battalions.  They  marched  to 
Riudown0,  where  Brian,  the  son  of  Turlough,  Owen  O'Heyne,  Conor  Boy,  son 
of  Turlough,  and  Mac  Costello,  had  all  the  cows  of  the  country.  Felim's 
people  passed  over  the  ramparts  and  ditches  of  the  island  [recte  peninsula], 
and  every  chief  of  a  band  and  head  of  a  troop  among  them  drove  off  a  propor- 
tionate 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  their  forces, 
observed  that  Felim's  people  were  dispersed  with  their  spoils'1,  they  set  off 
actively  and  quickly  with  a  small  party  of  horse  and  many  foot-soldiers'  to 
attack  Felim  and  his  few  men.  Conor  Boy,  son  of  Turlough,  did  not  perceive 
his  situation  until  he  came  up  with  Rory,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg, 
and,  mistaking  him  for  one  of  his  own  people,  he  fell  by  himf. 

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  persons8  and  doers  of 

have  left  the  sentence  unfinished.     It  is  better  cai£  ITlic  tDiapmaoa  nam6." 
told  in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  but  it  would          The  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by 

swell  this  work  to  too  great  a  size  to  notice  dif-  Mageoghegan,  describe  Felim's  attack  on  Rin- 

ferences  of  this  kind.  down  as  follows  :  "  A.  D.  1236.  Felym  O'Connor 

g  Excommunicated  persons,  tnacaib  mallacc,  with  an   army  came  to  Connoght   again,    and 

literally,  eons  of  curses. — In  the  Annals  of  Kil-  marched  on  untill  he  came  to  John's  house, 

ronan,  the  reading  is  :  "  Ro   mapbab  pocaioe  took   all  the   spoiles  of  the   town  and  islands 

Don  cpluaj  ip  in  oilen  7  allamoig  son  oilen  DO  thereof,  and  left  nothing  that  they  cou'd  take 

oaomib  tnallai^ce  comniol-Buirce  ip  in  mai6m  or  see  from  the  door  of  the  Castle  foorth  :  Fe- 

pn,  ace  niuo  Caoc  mac  copmaic  tnic  Comal-  lym's  camp  lay  at  the  market!  cross  of  the  town ; 


288  ctNNata  Rio^hachca  eiraeaNN.  [1236. 

mab  cabs  mac  copbmaic  mic  comalcaij  mic  Diapmaca  nama.  Oo  cualaib 
cpa  mac  uilliam  an  maibm  pin  Do  cabaipc  ap  gac  aon  Dap  lompoib  paip,  po 
eipij  la  hua  concobaip  oia  ccfnnpucchab.  Do  chuaib  Dana  DiapmaiD  mac 
magnupa  lap  net  clumpin  pin  Dionnpoigib  majnupa  mic  muipceapcaij  ui 
concobaip. 

Uanig  lapam  mac  uilliam  jan  pabab  gan  pacuccab  50  cuaim  Da  jualann, 
ap  pibe  50  maij  eo  na  pa^an,  -\  nf  po  pdjbaib  cpuac  na  cliab  apba  i  pelic 
rhoip  maije  eo  na  hi  pelic  cfmpaill  rmchil  apcainjil,  i  cucpac  cfirpi  picic 
cliab  ap  na  reamplaib  pfipin.  UangaDap  na  beaohaib  co  ruplac,  -|  cucpac 
an  Diac  ceDna  paip.  Do  cuippfc  Dana  pluaj  Do  cpeachaD  muincipe  Diap- 
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 
majnup  muinnp  DiapmaDa  Do  Dfochnp  -]  Dionnapbab  ua6a.  Oo  chuam 
concobap  pwab  apabapac  hi  cech  mic  uilliam,  "|  Do  pome  pic  ppip,  1  puaip 
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  maj- 
nupa  hi  cceach  jail  cap  cfnn  a  bo,  -]  a  muincipe  Doneoc  po  pajbab  occa. 
Cuib  mac  uilliam  co  balla,  -]  po  bof  oibce  ann,  Do  chuaib  aip  pfbe  co 
cuaim  Da  ^ualann,  i  po  pagaib  coicceab  connacc  jan  pic  na  paime  gan  biab 
i  ccill  na  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  jiolla  bpuDe  ui  17uaipc  cijeapna  ua  mbpium  Do  ecc. 

many  of  the  meaner  sort  of  Felym's  people  were  height,  in  good  preservation. 

drownded  in  the  puddle  of  that  town  ;  he  left          k  Balla,  situated  near  the  boundary  between 

[behind]muchofthesmallcattleofthesaidprey."  the  baronies  of  Carra  and  Clanmorris,  in  the 

h   Went  over  to,    cuam   Dionnpoijio. — This  county  Mayo;    it    is   a   fair-town  and   a  vica- 

phrase  simply  means  to  go  to,  or  towards.     In  rage  in   the  diocese  of  Tuam.     It  contains  the 

the  Annals   of  Kilronan    the   phrase   used   is,  ruins  of  an  ancient  church  and  round  tower. 

came  a  nucc;  which  means   that  Dermot  re-          '  Within  it This  account  of  the  desolation 

paired  to  Manus  for  protection.  of  the  province  of  Connaught  is  given  much 

1  Turlaffh,  now  Turlagh,  situated  in  the  ba-  better  in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan.     They  state 

rony  of  Carra,  and  county  of  Mayo.     It  is  a  fair-  that  on  this  occasion  the  people  of  Brian,  the 

town  and  a  rectory,  in  the  diocese  of  Tuam,  son  of  Turlough  O'Conor,  burned  the  church  of 

•where  there  is  a  round   tower  of  considerable  Imlagh   Brocadha  over  the  head   of  O'Flynn's 


1236.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  289 

evil,  excepting"  only  Teige,  son  of  Cormac,  who  was  son  of  Toraaltagh  Mac 
Dermot.  As  soon  as  Mac  William  learned  how  O'Conor  had  defeated  all  who 
had  turned  against  him,  he  joined  him  to  reduce  them.  Dermot,  the  son  of 
Manus,  upon  hearing  this,  went  over  toh  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.  They  afterwards  went  to  Turlagh'1,  on  which  they 
inflicted  a  similar  calamity.  They  then  sent  a  body  of  men  to  plunder  the 
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  indiscri- 
minately ;  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  a  restoration  of  the  prey  of  cows  which 
had  been  taken  from  him ;  and  such  part  of  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  Ballak,  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  it1. 

Hugh  O'Flaherty,  Lord  of  West  Connaught,  died. 

Dermot,  the  son  of  Niall  O'Rourke,  was  deprived  of  sight  by  Cuconnaught™ 
O'Reilly. 

Cathal  Reagh,  son  of  Gilla-Brude  O'Rourke,  Lord  of  Hy-Briuin,  died.^ 

people,  while  it  was  full  of  women,  children,  compounded,  as  Cu  Ula6,  the  hero  of  Ulster,  a 

and  nuns,  and  had  also  three  priests  within  it  ;  name  translated  canis  Ultonice,  by  the  compiler  of 

and  that  Tearmann  Caoluinne  was  also  burned  the  Annals  of  Ulster;  Cu  mi6e,  the  hero  of 

by  the  Lord  Justice.  Meath  ;  Cu  luacpa,  the  hero  of  Luachair;  cu 

m  Cuconnaught. — Charles  O'Conor,  ofBelana-  tnuriian,  the  hero  of  Munster;  Cu  blaoma,  the 

gare,  anglicises  this  name  Constantine.    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- 

pleochab  mop,  Doineann,  "]  coccab  Deaprhaip  ip  in  mbliabampi. 

niaiDm  cluana  caca  Do  cabaipn  la  peblimm  ua  cconcobaip  ap  clomn 
T?uai6pi,  i  ap  concobap  mac  copbmaic  meic  Diapmaoa. 

^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 
choiche  cap  mill  gac  cfp  gup  a  painicc,  -|  Da  ppuaip  geill  -\  umla  o  uprhop 
ulab. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1237. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceD,  cpiocac,  apeacc. 

Comap  ua  puabam  eppcop  luijne  [oecc]. 

u  mac  an  pcelaiji  uf  copmaij  eppcop  Conmaicne  [oecc]. 
na  necc  ua  mannacam  Decc  i  maimpcip  na  buille. 

SluaijeaD  la  peblimiD  mac  cacail  cpoibDeipg  cona  bpairpib  hi  cconnach- 
caib.  Cuconnacc  ua  TJajallaij  con  ufb  bpiuin  uile,  -|  cafal  mag  Rajnaill 
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 

n  Heavy  rains. — The  Annals  of  Kilronan  give  county  of  Down,  which  is  now  called  in  Irish 

a  horrible  account  of  the  weather,  wars,  dis-  lubhar  Chinn  Tragha. — See  Battle  ofMagh  Rath, 

tresses,  and  crimes  of  this  year.  printed  for  the  Irish  Arch  Ecological  Society  in 

0  Cluain  Cat/ta,  now  Battlefield,  a  townland  1842,  p.  276,  note  c.  Under  this  year  (1236) 

and  gentleman's  seat  in  the  barony  of  Corran,  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by 

and  county  of  Sligo,  about  four  miles  southwards  Mageoghegan,  record  the  death  of  Hugh  O'Ma- 

of  Ballymote.  lone,  Bishop  of  Clonmacnoise,  in  the  abbey  of 

P  TearmonnCaolla,imie. — The  Annals  of  Kilro-  Kilbeggan.  They  also  record  the  erection  of 
nan  state  that  this  act  was  committed  by  the  the  castle  of  Loughreagh  by  Mac  William  Burk, 
Lord  Justice,  when  he  went  to  Connaught  to  and  of  the  castle  of  Ardrahan  by  the  Lord  De- 
assist  the  son  of  William  Burke — For  the  situa-  puty  Mac  Maurice  ;  also  of  the  castle  of  Ullin 
tion  of  Termonn  Caelainne  see  note  b,  under  the  '  Wonagh,  but  without  mentioning  by  whom, 
year  1225,  p.  238.  Acording  to  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  the  castle 

q  lubhar  Chinn  Choiche — This  is  the  more  of  Muille  Uanach  was  erected  by  the  Justiciary 

ancient  name  of  the  town  of  Newry,  in  the  Mac  Maurice  [Fitzgerald]  after  Felim  O'Conor 


1237-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  291 

Heavy  rains",  harsh  weather,  and  much  war  prevailed  in  this  year. 

The  victory  of  Cluain  Catha0  was  gained  by  Felim  O'Conor,  over  the  sons 
of  Roderic,  and  Conor,  the  son  of  Cormac  Mac  Dermot. 

Gillapatrick  Mac  Gillaroid,  Lord  of  Kinel-Acngusa,  died. 

Tearmonn  Caollainnep  was  burned  by  the  Lord  Justice. 

0'Donnell(Donnell  More)  marched  with  an  army  to  lubhar  Chinn  Choicheq 
in  Ulidia,  and  destroyed  every  territory  through  which  he  passed :  he  also 
obtained  hostages  and  submission  from  most  of  the  Ulidians. 


o 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1237. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  thirty-seven. 

Thomas  O'Rowan,  Bishop  of  Leynyr,  [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  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  fled  to  O'Donnell,  and  while  the  son  of  neach,  i.  e.  the  youth  of  the  horses. 

William  Burke  was  in  England.     The  Annals  '  Conmaicni,  i.  e.  the  Conmaicni  of  Moy-Rein, 

of  Kilronan  record,  under  this  year,  the  killing  who  possessed  the  southern  part  of  the  county 

of  Melaghlin  O'Malley  by  Donnell,  son  of  Manus  of  Leitrim. — See  note  r,  under  the  year  1215, 

who  was  the   son  of  Murtough   Muimhneach  p.  186. 

O'Conor,  on  the  island  of  Oilen  da  Chruinde,  u  Coirrshliabh-na-Seaghsa.—rf\ns  is  the  Irish 

which  is  a  small  island  near  Rinvile,  in  the  ba-  name  of  the  Curlieu  mountains,  situated  to  the 

rony  of  Ballinahinch,  in  the  north-west  of  the  north  of  Boyle,  in  the  county  of  Roscommon. 

county  of  Galway.  w  Drumraitte,  now  Drumrat,  a  parish  in  the 

r  Bishop  of  Leyny,  i.  e.  of  Achonry.  barony  of  Corran,  and  county  of  Sligo,  situated 

8  Gilla-na-necc. — In  the  Annals  of  Kilronan  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 
paijipiorii  pin,  ni  po  puilngfccap  na  hampa  50  cian  an  lomruap^am  an  ran  po 
ppaoineab  poppa  i  ccfnn  a  mumcipe.  T?o  mapbab  opong  mop  Diob  im  ITIac 
mibpicc  Don  cup  pin. 

Oo  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 
niuipeabaij  leo.  T?o  haipcceab  a  muincip  nile  la  pe&lirmo,  -\  Do  ponab 
cpeaca  iom6a  ap  concobap  mac  copbmaic  hi  rnp  nailealla.  RuccupDap 
laporii  a  lomjjfp  pop  loc  ce,  ~\  po  Diocuip  De  copbmac  mac  DiapmaDa  njeapna 
maije  luipg,  -j  po  aipcc  maj  luipcc  uile.  paccbaiD  Dana,  cijeapnup  an 
rfpe  i  an  loca  05  DonnchaD  mac  muipcfpraij  luarpuflij. 

Sic  Do  Denarii  Don  lupnp  pe  pe&limiD,  ~|  cnccaD  cuig  cpiuca  an  pfgh 
Doporh  gan  cpoD  jan  ciop  oppa.  —  (Vide  supra,  1230). 

TTlajnup  mac  DiapmaDa  mic  majnupa  Do  rhapbaD  la  Dorhnall  mac  Diap- 
maoa  mic  T?uai&pi  ui  concobaip. 

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 


TTIainipcip  candnac   DO  rionnpcnab  la  clapup  mac  mailin  in  oilen  na 
cpmoiDe  ap  loc  uacraip  lap  na  corhaipleaccab  bo  6  cacal  ua  TJajallaij. 

x  Mac  Mibric  __  This  name  is  still  extant  in  Lough  Key  and  Lough  Arvagh  [Lough  Arrow], 

the  county  of  Mayo,  but  always  anglicised  Mer-  on  this  occasion. 

rick.  This  family,  which  is  of  Welsh  extraction,  ''Free  of  cattle-tribute  or  rent.  —  This  is  scarcely 

was  seated  in  the  valley  of  Glenhest,  to  the  west  true  ;  for  it  appears,  from  an  entry  on  a  great 

of  Glen-Nephin,  in  the  county  of  Mayo  —  See  roll  of  the  Pipe,  of  the  forty-sixth  year  of  Henry 

Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Ily-Fiach-  III.,  A.  D.  1262,  that  Ffethelmus  O'Konechor 

rack,  published  by  the  Irish  Archaeological  So-  owed  5000  marks  and   2000  cows,  for  having 

ciety  in  1844,  pp.  331,  332,  401.  three  cantreds  of  land   in  Connaught  in  fee- 

»  Lough  Key  —  The  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  farm,  viz.,  the  cantreds  of  Machney  [ma£  naoi], 

state  that   Felim   O'Conor  took    possession    of  Tyrtotha    [cpi    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.  A 
great  number  of  them  were  slain,  and,  among  the  rest,  Mac  Mibricx. 

When  the  descendants  of  Roderic  saw  the  flight  and  confusion  into  which 
their  forces  were  thrown,  they  retreated  from  their  position  without  the  loss 
of  a  man.  After  this  defeat,  however,  they  were  dispersed  in  such  a  manner 
that  they  had  no  residence  in  [the  territory  of]  Sil-Murray.  All  their  people 
were  plundered  by  Felim,  and  many  preys  were  taken  from  Conor,  son  of 
Cormac,  in  Tirerrill.  They  [Felim's  party]  afterwards  brought  their  fleet  on 
Lough  Keyy,  and  drove  from  thence  Cormac  Mac  Dermot,  Lord  of  Moylurg, 
and  plundered  all  Moylurg ;  and  the  lordship  of  the  territory  and  lake  they 
gave  to  Donough,  the  son  of  Murtough  Luath-Shuileach. 

The  Lord  Justice  made  peace  with  Felim ;  and  the  five  cantreds  of  the 
King  were  given  him  [Felim],  free  of  cattle-tribute,  or  rentz. — (  Vide  supiw, 
1230.) 

Manus,  son  of  Dermot,  who  was  son  of  Manus,  was  slain  by  Donnell,  son 
of  Dermott,  who  was  son  of  Roderic  O'Conor. 

Murtough,  son  of  Dermott,  who  was  son  of  Roderic,  was  slain  by  the  son 
of  Mauus,  son  of  Murtough  Muimhneach  [O'Conor]. 

A  prey  was  taken  by  Conor,  son  of  Cormac,  from  Rory  O'Gara,  and  Rory's 
brother  was  slain. 

The  hostages  of  Conor,  the  son  of  Cormac,  were  put  to  death  by  Felim, 
son  of  Cathal  Crovderg. 

A  monastery  for  canons  was  commenced  by  Clarus  Mac  Mailin,  on  Trinity 
Island*  in  Lough  Oughter,  under  the  patronage  of  Cathal  O'Reilly. 

Hurdiman's  History  of  Galway,  p.  48,  note  x.  and  1 1  perches,  English  measure.  According  to 

*  Trinity  Island  in  Lough  Oughter. — This  island  Ware  this  monastery  was  founded  in  the  year 

is  in  the  upper  or  southern  part  of  Lough  Ough-  1249. — See  Harris's  edition  of  his  Antiquities, 

ter,  and  belongs  to  the  parish  of  Kilmore,  in  the  p.  272. 

barony  of  Upper  Loughtee,  and  county  of  Cavan.  Under  this  year  (1237)  the  Annals  of  Kilro- 
— See  Ordnance  Map  of  this  county,  sheet  20,  nan  and  of  Clonmacnoise  record  the  death  of  Do- 
on  which  Trinity  Abbey  and  grave-yard  are  nat  O'Fidhubhra,  called  in  the  latter  O'Furie, 
shewn.  The  island  contains  122  acres,  2  roods,  Archbishop  of  Armagh. 


294  ciNNCtta  Rio^hachca  eircecmN.  [1238. 


bapuin  na  hepeann  Do  cocc  i  cconnaccaib,  -\  caiplem  Do  nnnpcfcal  Doib 
Do  Denarii  irince. 

QO1S  C171OSC,  1238. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  Da  cheo,  cpiocac,  a  hochc. 

Peli;c  ua  Ruanaoa  aipoeppcop  cuama  lap  ccop  a  eppcoboiDe  De  ap  6ia 
piap  an  ran  pin,  ~\  lap  ngabdil  habice  mancfppa  ime  hi  call  muipe  in  accliac 
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 
aoba  mic  carail  cpoib'Deipg,  -\  an  can  pujaD  Dia  coimeo  6  po  mapb'par  a 
bpairpe  bubDein,  .1.  meic  ao&a  uf  fjpa  ap  an  plijiD  a  ccip  bpiuin  na  pionna. 

plairbeapcac  mac  Carmaoil  apocaofpeac  cenel  pfpa&aij,  ~]  coipeac 
cloinne  Congail,  ~\  6  ccfnnpoDa  i  ccfp  manac,  peije  jaipccib  1  einij  cfpe 
heogam  Do  mapbaD  la  DonnchaD  mac  cacmaoil  la  a  bpacaip  pfm  cpia  cang- 
nacc. 

OonnchaD  mac  muipceapraij  Do  Dol  ip  in  mbpeipne  50  hua  Pajallaij, 
1  PU5  r^ua5  """^P  ^aT  ]  cconnacraib,  -|  po  aipccpfc  mumcip  cluana  coippri, 
1  po  mapbaD  pochai&e  Do  mainb  muincipe  heolaip  hi  ccopaijeacc  na  cpece 
pin,  ~\  Dpong  mop  Dona  cuachaib. 

TTlaolpuanaiD  mac  Donncha&a  ui  DubDa  DO  mapbaD  la  maolpeaclainn 

b  Under  this  year  the  Annals   of  Kilronan  resigned  in  the  year  1235,  he  spent  the  remain- 

state,   that   Donough,    the    son   of  Murtough  der  of  his  life  in  St.  Mary's  Abbey,  near  Dublin, 

O'Conor,  granted  the  lands  of  Drumann  iarthar,  where  he  died  in  the  year  1238.     It  is  stated  in 

and  the  tract  extending   from  Lathach  Cille  the  annals  of  this  abbey,  that  he  covered  the 

Braoin  to  the  lake  [Lough  Key],  both  wood,  church  and  belfry  of  the  Blessed  Virgin,  near 

bog,  and  plain,  to  the  congregation  of  the  Holy  Dublin,  with  lead  ;  and  that  he  was  magnificently 

Trinity  of  Lough  Key,  and  to  Clarus  Mac  Mailin,  interred  in  the  chancel  of  the  church,  at  the 

and  that  he  reigned  but  one  month  after  making  steps  of  the  altar,  on  the  left  hand  side. 

this  grant.  d  Cluain-  Coirpthi  __  In  the  Feilire  Aenguis,  at 

:  Felix   CfHooney.  —  In   Harris's    edition   of  the  15th  of  February,  this  place  is  described  as 

Ware's  Bishops,  p.  605,  in  which  he  is  called  i  noicpib  cenel  oobra  i  connaccaiB,  i.  e.  "  in 

Felix  O'Euadan,  it  is  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.  295 

The  barons  of  Ireland  went  to  Connaught,  and  commenced  erecting  castles 
there6. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1238. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  thirty-eight. 

Felix  O'Rooney0,  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  Clann-Congail,  and  of 
Hy-Kennoda  in  Fermanagh,  the  most  illustrious  in  Tyrone  for  feats  of  arms 
and  hospitality,  was  treacherously  slain  by  Donough  Mac  Cawell,  his  own 
kinsman. 

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 
of  Cluain-Coirpthid;  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 
number  of  [inhabitants  of]  the  Tuathas. 

Mulrony,  the  son  of  Donough  O'Dowda,  was  slain  by  Melaghlin,  the  son  of 

Colgan's  Acta  Sanctorum,  at  the  15th  February,  parish  of  Termonbarry,  in  O'Hanly's  country, 
and  the  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys,  at  the  near  the  Shannon.  The  ruins  of  several  churches 
same  day.  St.  Berach,  or  Barry,  the  original  are  still  to  be  seen  there,  and  there  was  a  round 
founder  of  this  church,  flourished  about  the  year  tower  standing  near  one  of  them  in  the  memory 
580.  The  situation  of  Cluain  Coirpthe,  which  has  of  some  old  persons,  with  whom  the  Editor  con- 
been  mistaken  by  Archdall,  and  even  by  the  accu-  versed  in  the  year  1837,  when  he  visited  this 
rate  Dr.  Lanigan  (see  his  Ecclesiastical  History,  celebrated  locality. 

vol.  ii.  p.  325),  is  still  well  known  to  the  natives  e  Muintir-Eolais — The  O'Ferralls  were  called 

of  Kinel-Dofa,  in  the  county  of  Roscommon.    It  Muintir   Anghaile  ;    the  Mac  Ranals   Muintir 

is  now  called  Kilbarry,  and  is  situated  in  the  Eolais. 


296  QNNaca  Rio^hachca  eircectNN.  [1239. 

mac  concobaip  ]iuai6  mic  muipceapcaij  muirhnij,  ~\  la  mac  ci^eapncnn  mic 
cacail  miccapam  ui  concobaip. 

Caiplena  Do  Denarii  hi  muinnp  mupchaDa  hi  cconmaicne  cuile,  -[  a  ccfpa 
lap  na  bapunaib  perhpaice. 

Sluai£ea&  la  mac  muipip  lupa'p  na  hepeann,  •]  la  hujo  De  laci  mpla 
ula6  hi  ccenel  eojain  -\  hi  ccenel  conaill.  Ro  aiepijpfc  mag  laclamn 
(.1.  Domnall)  i  rucpac  cijeapnup  cenel  eojjam  DO  mac  ui  neill,  -|  po  gabpac 
pfm  bpai^De  an  cuaipcipc. 

Cloicreac  eanaij  bum  t>o  Denam. 

Cacal  mag  piabaij  caoipeac  peap  pceone  t>ecc. 

QO1S  CR1O3D,  1239. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  t>a  ceD,  cpiocar,  anaoi. 

TDuipcfpcac  mac  Domnaill  uf  bpiaiam  Do  ecc. 

Cac  caipn  cpia&ail  Do  cabaipc  la  Domnall  maj  laclainn  ou  in  po  mapba6 
Domnall  camnaije  ua  neill,  maj  macjamna,  Somaiple  ua  gaipmleabaij, 
caoc  bfpnaip  ua  gaipmleaDaij,  -\  maire  cenel  moain  50  pochaibib  iom6a 

f  Muintir  Murchadha This  was  the  tribe  h  Cloictheach  is  the  Irish  name  by  which  the 

name  of  the  O'Flahertys,  and  it  became  also  round  towers  of  Ireland  are  still  known  in  their 

that  of  the  territory  which  they  possessed,  and  respective  localities,  as  cloijceac  cille  pij,  in 

which,  before  the  English  invasion,  was  nearly  the  county  Kilkenny;  cloicceac  cluana  Uttia, 

co-extensive  with  the  barony  of  Clare,  in  the  Cloyne  steeple. — See  O'Brien's  Dictionary,  in 

county  of  Galway.     In  an  Inquisition  taken  at  wee  cloijceac  and  cuilceac.     In  some  parts  of 

Galway,  on  the  20th  of  March,   1608,  before  Ireland  the  wordis  made  cuilcceacby  metathesis, 

Geffry  Osbaldston,  Esq.,  this  territory  is  called  and  in  others  clojap  is  the  form  used  to  express 

Muinter-murroghoe,  and  described  as  forming  steeple  or  round  tower.     O'Brien  gives  cloig- 

the  northern  part  of  the  barony  of  Clare,  then  a  ilieach  and  cv.ilcea.ck   as   denoting  a  steeple  or 

part  of  Clanrickard.     The  O'Flahertys  seem  to  belfry ;  and  clogas  as  a  belfry  or  steeple.  O'Eeilly 

have  been  driven  from  this  territory  in  the  year  also  gives  both  forms  of  the  term. — See  Petrie's 

1238,  or  very  soon  afterwards,  when  they  settled  Inquiry  into  the  Origin  and  Uses  of  the  Round 

in  that  part  of  the  county  of  Galway  lying  west  Towers  of  Ireland,  p.  390. 

of  Lough  Orbsen,  where  they  became  as  power-          '  Annadown,  Sanac  oum A  townland,  con- 

ful  as  ever  they  had  been  in  their  more  original  taining  the  ruins  of  a  monastery  and  several 

territory  of  Muintir  Murchadha.  churches,  near  the  margin  of  Lough  Corrib,  in 

8  The  son  of  O'Neill, — Charles  O' Conor  writes  the  barony  of  Clare  and  county  of  Galway. 

inter  linens,  .1.  DO  6hpian,  i.  e.  to  Brian.  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  son  of  Cathal  Miccarain  Q'Conor. 

Castles  were  erected  in  Muintir-Murchadhaf,  in  Conmaicne-Cuile,  and  in 
Carra,  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 
(Donnell),  and  gave  the  government  of  Tyrone  to  the  son  of  O'Neill8,  and  they 
themselves  obtained  the  hostages  of  the  north. 

The  Cloictheach"  of  Annadown'  was  erected. 
.  Cathal  Mac  Reevy",  Lord  of  Feara-Scedne1,  diedm. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1239. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  thirty-nine. 

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  Caech- 


glicised  Mac  Creevy,  or  M'Greevy. 

1  Feara-Scedne. — The  situation  of  this  tribe,  to 
whom  there  is  no  other  reference  in  the  Irish 
annals,  has  not  been  determined.  Duald  Mac 
Firbis,  in  his  Genealogical  Book  (Lord  Roden's 
copy,  p.  783),  gives  a  list  of  the  families  of  the 
Feara  Sgenne,  consisting  of  Mac  Eiabhaigh,  as 
chief,  and  thirty-one  other  families ;  but  he  does 
not  inform  us  where  they  were  located.  O'Dug- 
gan,  in  his  Topographical  Poem,  makes  Mac 
Eiabhaigh  the  ancient  Chief  of  Moylurg,  in  the 
now  county  of  Eoscommon  ;  but  we  cannot  be- 
lieve that  he  and  his  thirty-one  families  had  any 
power  in  Moylurg  at  this  period,  unless  as  fol- 
lowers of  the  Mac  Dermots,  who  were  then  its 
chief  lords. 

m  Under  this  year  (1238)  the  Annals  of  Clon- 
macnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  contain 
the  following  passage,  relating  to  the  afiairs  of 
Ulster,  of  which  the  Four  Masters  have  collected 

2 


no  notice:  "A.  D.  1238.  Mac  Gille  Morie,  a 
good  chieftaine  of  Ulster,  was  killed  by  some  of 
the  people  of  Hugh  Delacie,  Earle  of  Ulster,  as 
he  was  going  to  the  Earle's  house ;  whereupon 
Mac  Donnsleyve,  the  King  of  Ulster's"  [rede 
Uladh's,  or  Ulidia's]  "  son,  Melaghlyn,  Prince  of 
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  the  lands  again,  in  the 
three  months  of  harvest,  and  banished  Melagh- 
lyn from  thence  into  Connought.  O'Neale  the 
liead  took  the  superioritie  and  principalitie  of 
Tyre  Owen  afterwards." 

n  Carnteel,  capn  cpiaoail,  i.  e.  the  Cam  of 
Siadhail,  Sheil,  or  Sedulius  ;  a  small  village  in 
a  parish  of  the  same  name,  in  the  barony  of 
Dungannon,  and  county  of  Tyrone,  a  short  dis- 


298  QNNaca  Ric-shachca  emeawM.  [1240. 

immaille  ppiu,  •]  po  jab  apfp  an  cijjeapnup,  •]  po  bfnab  6e  jan  puipeac  Deip 
an  rhabma  pin. 

Coippbealbach  mac  puaibpi  uf  Concobaip  (17i  Connachc)  Decc. 
.  pfpjal  mac  conconDacr  uf  pajallaij  cijeapna  Dapcpaije  -|  cloinne 
pfpmaije,  •)  njeapna  bpeipne  6  pliab  paip,  ma6  mp  leabap  oile,  oo  rhapbab 
la  maolpuanaib  mac  peapgail  ~\  la  concobap  mac  copbmaic  ap  noula  66  ap 
cpec  50  mac  neill  mic  conjalaij  Dia  po  aipcc  iaD,  -\  Diap  gab  ceaj  oppa,  -] 
caimc  TTnuipcfprac  mac  neill  ap  bpficip  ap  an  nj  amach.  l?o  gabab  e,  -j 
po  mapbab  po  cfcoip  Deip  mic  uf  Rajallaij  DO  mapbaD. 

Cpeac  DO  benarh  la  gallaib  Gpeann  ap  ua  nDomnaill  gup  po  aipjpfc 
caipppi,  i  po  baof  an  lupcfp  pfin  occ  TppDapa  occa  nupnaibe,  ~\  DO  beacaoap 
a  pipn  50  Dpuim  cliab. 

Lapaippina  mjfn  carail  cpoibbepj  bfn  huf  Domnaill  Do  cabaipc  Ifrbaile 
Da  peaponD  popca  .1.  T?op  bipn,  DO  clapup  mac  maoflin,  -j  Do  coimcionol 
candnac  oilen  na  rpmoiDe  ap  loc  ce  in  onoip  na  cpinoioe  ~\  muipe. 

Copbmac  mac  aipc  huf  maofleaclainn 


QO1S  CR1OSU,  1240. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceD,  cfrpachac. 

TTlameipreip  Do  rhogbail  i  bpuprlaipje  la  Sip  hugo  puppel  oo  bpairpib 
.8.  ppainpeip. 

na  naorh  ua  Dpeain  aipcinneach  apDa  capna  Do  ecc. 


tance  to  the  north-east  of  Aughnacloy,  on  the  which  it  appears  that  the  Mulrony  and  Conor 

road  to  Dungannon.  here  mentioned  were  sons  of  Cormac  Mac  Der- 

0  Caeck-Bearnais,  i.  e.  the  blind  man  of  Barnis.  mot,  Chief  of  Moylurg. 

"Mountain.  —  The  mountain  of  Breifny  means          s  Eosbirn.  —  The  Down  Survey  shews  a  deno- 

Slieve-in-ierin.  mination   of  land   called  Rossborne,   near  the 

q  CongaUagh.  —  See  an  entry  under  the  year  mouth  of  the  Ballysadare  River,  in  the  parish  of 

1228,  where  this  Niall,  the  son  of  Congalagh,  is  Kilmacowen,  barony  of  Carbury,  and  county  of 

called  O'Rourke,  and  said  to  have  been  Lord  of  Sligo.    This  barony  belonged,  at  this  period,  to 

Dartry  and  Clann-Fearmaighe.  O'Donnell,  who  must  have  given  this,  and  other 

r  The  son  of  O'Reilly.  —  This  story,  which  is  lands  in  its  vicinity,   as  a  tinscra,  or  dowry,  to 

so  briefly  and  imperfectly  told,  has  been  copied  his  wife,  according  to  the  old  Irish  custom. 
by  the  Four  Masters  from  the  Annals  of  Con-          l  Cormac  —  His  death  is  noticed  as  follows  in 

naught.  —  See  entry  under  the  year  1240,  from  Mageoghegan's   translation    of  the   Annals   of 


1240.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  299 

Bearnais0  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. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Roderic  O'Conor  (King  of  Connaught),  died. 

Farrell,  the  son  of  Cuconnaught  O'Reilly,  Lord  of  Dartry  and  Clann- 
Fermaighe,  and,  according  to  another  book,  Lord  of  Breifny,  from  the  moun- 
tain1' eastwards,  was  slain  by  Mulrony,  son  of  Farrell,  and  Conor,  son  of  Cormac 
[Mac  Dermot],  after  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 
and  killed,  immediately  after  the  son  of  O'Reilly1  had  been  slain. 

A  prey  was  taken  by  the  English  of  Ireland  from  O'Donnell,  and  they 
plundered  Carbury ;  and  the  Lord  Justice  himself  was  awaiting  them  at  Bally- 
sadare,  and  his  scouts  went  as  far  as  Drumcliff. 

Lasarina,  daughter  of  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 
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,  Erenagh  of  Ardcarne,  died. 

Clonmacnoise :  "A.  D.  1238.  Cormac  mac  Art  by  the  Four  Masters: 

O'Melaghlyn,  the  prince  that  most  annoyed  and  "A.  D.  1238.  Geffrye  O'Dalie,  an  excellent 

hinder'd  the  English  in  his  own  time,  and  next  poett,  died  in  pilgrimage  in  Sruhir. 

successor  of  the  Kingdome  of  Meath,  if  he  had  "  Walter  Delacie   repaired   to  the   King  of 

lived  and  were  suffered  by  the  English,  died  England. 

quietly  in  his  bed,  without  fight  or  dissention,  "  The  Earle  of  Ulster's  sonn  was  killed  by 

in  Inis  Dowgyn,  upon  the  river  of  Sack."  the  Ulster  men,  and  twenty-eight  men  in  shirts 

The  same  Annals  contain  the  following  pas-  of  mail  with  him." 
sages,  under  this  year,  which  have  been  omitted 

2  Q2 


300 


[1240. 


SluaijeaD  mop  la  comconnacc  ua  pajallaij  pop  copbmac  mac  nDiap- 
maca  co  po  aipcc  an  cip  uile  co  hapD  capna,  -|  po  mapb  oaoine  lomba  i 
noiojenl  a  meic,  -]  copbmac  mac  romalcaij  DO  airpfjab,  -]  Donnchab  mac 
muipcfpraij  DO  gabdil  cijeapnupa  muije  luipj. 

peblimib  ua  concobaip  Do  Dol  Do  laraip  pi£  pa;can  Do  copaoiD  jail  -| 
jaoibeal  ppip,  1  puaip  onoip  mop  on  pij  Don  cup  pin,  -]  cainig  plan  Dia  cij. 

CtoD  mac  giolla  na  naorh  cpuimm  uf  Seacnupaij  DO  mapbab  la  concobap 
mac  aoba  mic  cacail  cpoiboeipj,  -\  la  piacpa  ua  ploinn. 

Sa&b  mgean  uf  ceinneiDij  bfn  DonnchaiD  caipbpij  uf  bpiain  Decc. 

TTlainepnp  cighe  TTlolaga  hi  ccaipppe  ipin  murhain  in  eppcopoiDecc  puip 
Do  ponnpaD  Do  cogbail  Do  bpairpib  .8.  Ppanpeip  la  TTlag  capraij  piabac 
cijeapna  caipppeach  -\  a  rumba  pein  Do  Denorh  hi  ccopaib  na  mbpacap. 
Ctp  innce  pop  aDnaiccfp  an  bappach  mop,  -]  6  TTlacjamna  caipppeac,  -| 
bapun  cuppach. 


u  Felim  0' 'Conor. — In  tlie  Annals  of  Clonmac- 
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- 
land, because  the  English  of  Ireland  refused  to 
yeald  him  any  justice;  the  King  graunted  him 
the  five  cantreds,  which  himself  had,  and  [he] 
returned  in  safety." 

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  com- 
plaints ;  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,  who  merely  copies  him, 
that  there  was  any  powerful  man  named  John  de 
Burgo  in  Ireland  at  this  time.  So  effectually  did 
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 


in  those  parts,  nor  suffer  it  to  bud  forth  any 
longer."  "  Ut  ipsius  iniquse  plantationis,  quani 
Comes  Cantiae  Hubertus  in  illis  partibus,  dum 
sua  potentia  debaccharet,  plantavit,  infructuo- 
sam  sicomorum  radicitus  evulsam,  non  sinerat 
pullulare." — See  Matthew  Paris  at  this  year. 
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, 
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 
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 
by  Rymer,  refers  to  a  later  period,  as  Dene  was 
not  Justiciary  before  1260. 

v  Sabia,  8a6b. — This  was  very  common  as  the 
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. 


301 


A  great  army  was  led  by  Cuconnaught  O'Reilly  against  Cormac  Mac 
Dermot,  and  plundered  the  entire  country  as  far  as  Ardcarne,  and  slew  many 
people,  in  revenge  of  his  son.  Cormac,  the  son  of  Tomaltagh,  was  deposed, 
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. 

Sabiav,  daughter  of  O'Kennedy,  and  wife  of  Donough  Cairbreach  O'Brien, 
died. 

The  Monastery  of  Timoleaguew,  in  Carbery,  in  Munster,  in  the  diocese  of 
Ross,  was  founded  for  Franciscan  Friars,  by  Mac  Carthy  Reagh,  Lord  of 
Carbery,  and  his  own  tomb  was  erected  in  the  choir  of  the  Friars.  In  this 
monastery  also  Barry  More,  O'Mahony  of  Carbery,  and  the  Baron  Courcy,  are 
interred*. 


word  signifies  goodness. 

w  Timoleague,  a  monastery,  now  in  ruins,  in 
the  barony  of  Barryroe,  in  the  county  of  Cork. 
Ceac  tnolaga  signifies  the  house  of  St.  Malaga, 
who  probably  erected  a  primitive  Irish  mo- 
nastery at  this  place,  but  of  this  we  have  no 
record.  This  saint  was  a  native  of  Fermoy, 
and  his  principal  monastery  was  at  a  place 
in  that  territory  called  Tulach  min  Molaga — 
See  his  Life  given  by  Colgan,  in  his  Ada  Sanc- 
torum, at  20th  January,  p.  148.  The  year  of 
his  death  is  not  recorded,  but  it  must  have  been 
after  the  year  665,  as  we  learn  from  his  life  that 
he  survived  the  great  pestilence  which  raged  in 
that  year.  Dr.  Smith,  in  his  description  of  this 
abbey,  gives  the  following  account  of  its  tombs : 
"Here  are  several  tombs  of  the  Irish  families, 
viz.,  Mac  Carthy  Reaghs,  in  the  midst  of  the 
choir ;  west  of  it  is  an  old  broken  monument  of 
the  O'Cullanes ;  and  on  the  right  a  ruined  tomb 
of  the  lords  Courcy.  The  O'Donovans,  O'Heas, 


&c.,  were  also  buried  here." — Natural  and  Civil 
History  of  Cork,  vol.  i.  p.  251.  In  the  will  of 
Daniell  O'Donovane,  made  at  Rahin,  in  August, 
1629,  and  now  preserved  in  the  Registry  of  the 
Court  of  Prerogative  in  Ireland,  he  orders  his 
"bodie  to  be  buried  in  the  Abby  ofTymolege," 
but  his  descendants  soon  after  placed  their  tomb 
in  the  churchyard  of  Myross.  Most,  if  not  all 
the  other  families  have  also  discontinued  to  bury 
in  this  abbey. 

x  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmac- 
noise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  contain  the 
following  passages,  which  have  been  omitted  by 
the  Four  Masters: 

"A.  D.  1240.  William  Delacie,  Lord  of  Meath, 
the  only  son  of  Walter  Delacie,  and  his  wife, 
died  in  one  week.  Some  say  they  were  poysoned. 

"  There  arose  great  dissentions  in  Ulster 
against  the  Earle  of  Ulster  this  year.  Richard 
Tuite,  with  a  company  of  3000  soldiers,  went 
to  assist  him." 


302  dNNata  Rio^hachca  emeawN.  [1241. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1241. 
Qoip  Cpiopc  mile,  Da  ceo,  cfcpacacc  a  haon. 

dn  ceppcop  ua  plaicbeapcaij  (.1.  TTluipcfpcac),  .1.  eppcop  eanaij  Dum 

[Do  ecc]. 

Coipeapccab  cfmpaill  na  mbpacap  minup  in  acluain  la  comapba  PQ- 

cpaic. 

Oomnall  mop  mac  eccneacdin  hui  Dorhnaill  njfpna  cfpe  conaill,  peap- 
manac,  -|  foccaip  conoacc  co  coipppliab,  "|  oipjjiall  6  clap  anuap  Decc  in 
aibfc  manaij  mp  mbpeic  buaba  6  Dorhan,  -|  o  6frhan,  -]  a  aonacal  co  nonoip 
1  50  naipmmin  i  maimpDip  eappa  puaib  ip  in  pojmap  DO  ponnpaD. 

TTiaolpeaclainn  ua  oomnaill  Do  oipDnfo  i  mjfpnup  cfpe  conaill  int»  iona6 
a  acap.  Ua  neill,  .1.  bpian  t»o  ceacc  cuije  lap  na  iont>apba6  la  Domnall 
mag  laclainn,  ~\  ua  Domnaill  Do  &ula  cona  pocpaiDe  la  bpian  ua  neill  hi 
cenel  eo^ain,  -|  cuccpac  each  Do  mag  laclainn,  .1.  cac  caimeipje,  •]  po  riiapb- 
pac  Domnall  ua  laclainD  cijfpna  cenel  eojain,  ~\  Decneabap  Da  Depbpine,  -] 
caoipicch  cenel  eojain  uile  immaille  ppip,  ~[  po  hoiponeaD  bpian  Don  chup 
pin  i  ccigfpnup  cenel  eojain. 

OiapmaiD  mac  magnupa  mic  coippDealbaij  moip  ui  concobaip  paof  einijj 
1  eangnama  Do  ecc. 

Sicpiucc  rtiag  oipeaccaij  caofpeac  cloinne  comalcaij  Decc. 

Ualcpa  De  laci  cijfpna  miDe  6  jallaib,  i  cfnn  comaiple  gall  epeann  065 
hi  pajcaib. 

mac  puai&pi  uf  5aDpa  Decc. 

ua  concobaip  DO  apguin  Dapcpaije  i  cloinne  pfpmaije. 


'  The  plain,  clap.  —  The  plain  here  referred  believe  to  be  that  of  the  battle  here  referred 

to  is  Machaire  Oirghiall,  or  the  level  part  of  the  to. 

county  of  Louth,  which  was  then  in  the  posses-  a  Walter  de  Lacy  —  His  obituary  is  given  as 

sion  of  the  English.  follows  in   Mageoghegan's    translation  of  the 

1  Caimeirge.  —  There  is  no  place  of  this  name  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  : 

now  in  the  ancient  territory  of  Kinel-Owen.  "A.  D.  1241.  "Walter  Delacie,  the  bountifull- 

But  tradition   points  out  the  site  of  a  great  est  Englishman  for  horses,  cloaths,  money,  and 

battle  between  the  rival  families  of  O'Neill  and  goold,  that  ever  came  before  his  time  into  this 

Mac  Loughlin,  near   Maghera,   in  the   county  kingdom,  died  in  England  of  a  Wound." 

of  Londonderry,  which  the  Editor  inclines  to  His  only  son,  William,  died  in  1  240  —  See 


1241.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  303 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1241. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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  suc- 
cessor of  St.  Patrick. 

Donnell  More,  the  son  of  Egnaghan  O'Donnell,  Lord  of  Tirconnell,  Fer- 
managh, 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  monas- 
tery of  Assaroe,  in  the  harvest  time. 

Melaghlin  O'Donnell  was  installed  in  the  lordship  of  Tirconnell,  in  the 
place  of  his  father.  O'Neill  (i.  e.  Brian),  after  having  been  expelled  by  Mac 
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 
Caimeirge2,  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  and  prowess,  died. 

Sitric  Mageraghty,  Chief  of  Clann-Tomalty,  died. 

Walter  de  Lacy"1,  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  [in  the  county  of 
Leitrim]. 

note  x  under  that  year.     This  Walter  left  two  was  re-united  in  favour  of  Roger  Mortimer,  who 

daughters,  co-heiresses,    Margaret   and   Mabel,  married  Geneville's  grand-daughter  and  heiress, 

the  elder  of  whom  married  Lord  Theobald  de  — Eot.  Pat.  2  Hen.  V.  137.  See  Grace's  Annals 

Verdon,  and  the  second,  Geoffry  de  Geneville.  of  Ireland,  edited  by  the  Eev.  Richard  Butler, 

The  palatinate  of  Meath  was   divided  between  for    the    Irish    Archaeological    Society,     p.    30, 

these  two  ladies,  Lough  Seudy,  now  Ballymore-  note  c. 

Lough  Seudy,  in  Westmeath,  being  the  head  of  b Head of 'the  Council,  ceann  accoriicupc,  means 

Verdon's  moiety,  and  Trim  that  of  Geneville's.  nothing  more  than  that  he  was   so  politic  and 

In  1330,  after  Verdon's  forfeiture,  the  palatinate  prudent  as  to  be  always  consulted  by  the  Eng- 


304  dNNCK,a  rcioshachca  eiReawH.  [1242. 

Sluaj  mop  bo  benarh  lap  an  lupcip,  .1.  muipip  mac  geapailc  i  maij  nae 
50  po  aipccpfc  piacpa  ua  plamn,  -]  Donnchab  mac  Diapmaoa,  -|  puccpac 
uacab  Do  muinnp  ui  concobaip  poppa,  -\  po  mapbab  leo  nap  mac  giolla 
ceallaij  -]  pochaibe  ele. 

Dorhnall  mag  plannchaba  caoipeac  Dapcpaijje  Do  ecc. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1242. 
Ctoip  Cpiopr,  mfle,  Da  c6o,  cfcpacao,  aDo. 

Oomnall  mac  aipcen  Do  ecc  ma  candnac  hi  ccill  rhoip. 

Caibicil  mop  la  Ppfmaib  apDa  maca,  -)  la  habbabaib  cananach  epeann 
i  lujmab  Dia  po  cogbab  mopan  Do  caipib  Do  nonoil  mocca  on  176irh. 

Oonnchab  Caipppeac  ua  bpiain  (cijfpna  oail  ccaip)  ruip  opDain  -j 
oipeacaip  Oeipapc  Gpeann,  -\  a  mac  roippbealbac  mac  Donnchaba  caipbpij 
oecc. 

Concobap  ua  bpiain  DO  jabail  pije  cuabmuman. 

Cteb  ua  concobaip  (.1.  an  caiccleipeac)  mac  aoba  mic  Ruaibpi  uf  Clion- 
cobaip  Do  rhapbab  la  roippbealbac  mac  aoba  mic  cacail  cpoibbeip^. 

bpian  mac  Donnchaib  uf  ouboa  cigeapna  ua  ppiacpach,  •]  ua  namalgaba 
1  loppaip  Go  mapbab  ap  plicchib  ace  Dol  Da  oilirpe  co  maimpcip  na  buille. 

Sluaijeab  mop  lap  an  lupnp  -\  la  gallaib  epeann  apcfna,  •]  la  peDlimm 
mac  cacail  cpoiboeipg  hi  cenel  cconaill  in  Diaib  caibg  uf  concobaip  Do  coib 
Dionnpoijib  cenel  cconaill.  Ro  5abpaD  na  ploij  pin  Longpopn  i  nopuim 
cuama,  ~\  po  rhillpfc  a  Ian  Don  cuaipc  pin  gen  gup  cpegeab  cabj  boib.  Uabg 
ua  Concobaip  Do  jabail  lapcrdin  Id  coinconnacc  ua  Rajallaij  rpia  pop- 
conjpa  peiblimib  mic  cacail  cpoibbeipj. 

lisli  whenever  they  engaged  in  a  war,  or  came  In  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of 

on  terms  of  peace  with  the  Irish.  Clonmacnoise,  he  is    called    a    Scotchman,    the 

c  Nar. — The  Mac  Gillakellys  had  this  name  translator  having  mistaken  Qlmaineac,  a  Ger- 

from  Nar,  the  eldest  son  of  Guaire  Aidhne,  King  man,  for  Qlbcmac,  a  Scotchman, 

of  Connaught,  from  whose  son  Artghal  they  e  Mochta. — In  an  epistle  attributed  to  him, 

descend — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  he  styles  himself,  "  Mauchteus  peccator  presbyter, 

of  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  69.  Scmcti  Patricii  discipulus."    He  was  by  nation  a 

d  Primate — His  name  was  Albert  of  Cologn.  Briton,  and  is  generally  supposed  to  have  been 

—See  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  65.  the  first  Bishop  of  Louth.    He  died  on  the  19th 


1242.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  305 

The  Lord  Justice,  namely,  Maurice  Fitzgerald,  mustered  a  great  army 
with  which  he  marched  into  Moynai  [in  the  county  of  Koscommon],  and  plun- 
dered Fiachra  O'Flynn  and  Donough  Mac  Dermot ;  a  small  party  of  O'Conor's 
people  overtook  them,  and  slew  Narc  Mac  Gillakelly,  and  many  others. 

Donnell  Mac  Clancy,  Chief  of  Dartry,  died. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1242. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  forty-two. 

Donnell  Mac  Airten  died  a  Canon  at  Kilmore. 

A  great  chapter  was  held  by  the  Primate"  of  Armagh,  and  the  abbots  of 
the  Canons  Regular  of  Ireland,  at  Louth,  on  which  occasion  many  of  the  relics 
which  Mochtae  had  collected,  and  brought  from  Rome,  were  taken  up. 

Donough  Cairbreach  O'Brien,  Lord  of  the  Dalcassians,  tower  of  the  splen- 
dour and  greatness  of  the  south  of  Ireland,  and  his  son  Turlough,  died. 

Connor  O'Brien  assumed  the  lordship  of  Thomond. 

Hugh  O'Conor  (i.  e.  the  Aithchleireachf),  son  of  Hugh,  who  was  son  of 
Roderic  O'Conor,  was  slain  by  Turlough,  son  of  Hugh,  who  was  son  of  Cathal 
Crovderg. 

Brian8,  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. 

A  great  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 
Teige  O'Conor,  who  had  fled  to  Kinel-Connell.  The  army  encamped  at 
Drumhome,  and  they  destroyed  much  on  this  expedition,  but  Teige  was  not 
abandoned  to  them.  Teige  O'Conor  was  afterwards  taken  by  Cuconnaught 
O'Reilly,  at  the  request  of  Felim,  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg. 

of  August,  in  the  year  535. — See  Colgan,  Acta          &  Brian. — Charles  O'Conor  writes,  inter  lineas. 

Sanctorum,    p.  737;     Irish    Calendar    of    the  .1.  6pian  oeapj,  i.  e.  "Brian  the  Red."    It  does 

O'Clerys,    at  19th  of  August ;   and   Lanigan's  not  appear  from  the  pedigree  of  the  O'Dowdas, 

Ecclesiastical  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  i.  pp.  308-  compiled  by  Duald  Mac  Firbis,  that  he  left  any 

310.  descendants — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Cus- 

f  Aithchleireack,  i.  e.  the  denounced  or  super-  toms  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  115. 
animated  clergyman. 

2  R 


306  dNNa&a  Rioghacbca  eiReaww.  [1243. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1243. 
Goip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceD,  ceacpacac  acpf. 

Pecpup  macpaic  mp  ccinneb  a  bfchab  i  ccandnchaib  oilen  na  cpmoiDe 
ap  loc  ce  Decc,  -|  a  abnacal  td  pele  mapcain. 

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 
DiapmaDa,  Copbmac  mac  Uomalcaij,  -|  e  pein,  i  a  bfn  injfn  meg  capraij 
(.1.  ecaoin  mjfn  pmjin,  i  bd  hipi&e  machaip  cai&g  bu&Dein)  Do  jabdil,  -|  a 
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  i  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 
ann  i  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  i  muij  nippe,  -| 

h  Coarb  ofSt.Eenen,  i.e.  successor  of  St.  Benig-  or  manager,  of  the  church  lands, 

nus,  who  was  a  disciple  of  St.  Patrick  and  his  k  Festival  of  St.  Bearach,  that  is,  of  St.  Bea- 

immediate  successor  in  the  see  of  Armagh.    The  rach,  or  Barry,  of  Cluain  Coirpthe,  now  Kil- 

most  celebrated  of  his  monasteries  were  Druim  barry,  in  Kinel-Dofa,  or  O'Hanly's  country,  in 

lias,  in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  and  Kilbannon,  the  east  of  the  'county  of  Eoscommon.     The 

near  Tuam,  in  the  county  of  Galway.     It  is  not  memory  of  this  saint  was  celebrated  annually, 

easy  to  determine  of  which  of  these  the  Finaghty  on  the  15th  of  February. — See  the  Feilire  Aen- 

in  the  text  was  coarb.  guis ;  the  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys ;  and 

'  Archdeacon,  aipcioeochmn — This  term  is  Colgan's  Acta  Sanctorum,  at  this  day. 

to  be  distinguished  from  aipcinneach,  the  for-          '  Moy-Nissi,  maj  nipp This  is  called  maj 

mer  meaning  the  archdeacon,  and  the  latter,  the  nepi  in  O'Dugan's  topographical  poem,  and  ma^ 

hereditary  warden,  prepositus,  or  chief  farmer,  neipi  in  the  Book  of  Fenagh,  in  which  it  is 


1243.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  307 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1243. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  forty-three. 

Petrus  Magrath,  after  having  retired  to  spend  his  life  among  the  canons  of 
Trinity  Island,  on  Lough  Key,  died,  and  was  interred  on  St.  Martin's  festival 
day. 

Finaghty  O'Lughadha,  Coarb  of  St.  Benen",  died. 

Malone  O'Creghan  [Crean],  Archdeacon'  of  Tuam,  after  having  returned 
across  the  sea  as  a  professor,  died  in  Dublin. 

Cahasagh  O'Snedhuisa,  Deacon  of  Muintir-Mulrony  [i.  e.  the  Mac  Dermots 
of  Moylurg],  died  at  Ardcarne  on  the  10th  of  August. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  was  set  at  liberty  by 
O'Reilly,  and  he  came  with  his  forces  to  the  Abbey  of  Boyle,  and  afterwards 
to  the  house  of  Mac  Dermot  (Cormac,  son  of  Tomaltagh),  whom  he  took 
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  festival  of  St.  Martin  following,  with  a  small  party, 
to  a  meeting  appointed  by  O'Reilly.  Teige  was  taken  by  treachery,  and  his 
people  were  slain,  and  he  himself  was  kept  in  confinement  until  the  festival 
of  St.  Bearachk  ensuing. 

A  great  army  was  mustered  by  the  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. 

Cathal,  son  of  Hugh  O'Conor,  the  fosterson  of  the  O'Reillys,  turned  against 
them,  and  committed  depredations  on  Murtough  Mac  Gilhooly  in  Moy-Nissi1, 
and  made  a  prisoner  of  Murtough  himself,  whom  he  afterwards  put  to  death 

stated  that  it  was  granted  to  St.  Caillin,  the  shoot.     Moy-Nissi  -was  the  name  of  a  level  tract 

first  abbot  of  Fenagh,  who  was  of  the  same  race  of  country  on  the  east  side  of  the  Shannon,  in 

as  the  Mac  Eannalls,  the  head  chieftains  of  Con-  the  barony  and  county  of  Leitrim.     The  family 

maicne  of  Moy-Rein.     According  to  O'Dugan  name  Mac  Gilhooly  is  still  common  in  this  dis- 

it  was  the  patrimonial  inheritance  of  the  O'Mul-  trict,  but  the  prefix  Mac  is  usually  rejected . 

veys,  of  whom  the  Mac  Gilhoolys  were  an  off-  See  note  r,  p.  309,  infra. 

2  R2 


308  aNNCtta  Rio^hachca  eiraecmN.  [1241. 

TTluipceaprac  pfin  DO  jaBail  Do,  -]  a  rhapBaD  hi  cill  Seppin.     Cpeac  oile  Do 
Denorh  66  po  ceDoip  ap  cloinn  peapmaige  -]  ap  DapcpaijpB. 

Cpeac  maije  pein  la  cacal,  -]  po  eipij  cogaD  eiccip  ua  cconcobaip  -|  ua 
Pajallaij. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1244. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mfle,  Da  ceo,  cfcpacar  a  ceacaip. 

OonncaD  mac  pmjpn  mic  maoilpeaclamn  mic  ao6a  mic  roippDealbaij  in 
concoBaip  eppcop  oile  pinn  Decc  an  23.  appil  i  nimp  clorpanD,  ~\  a  aDnacal 
i  maimpcip  na  buille. 

Qpcioeocham  cuama  DO  Ba6a6  ap  glaiplmD  cluana. 

Oonnchab  mop  ua  Dalai^  paof  nap  pdpaijeab,  "|  nac  paipeocap  le  Dan 
Do  ecc,  i  aonacal  hi  mainipnp  na  buille. 

CaDg  mac  aoba  mic  cacail  cpoiB6eip5  DO  DallaD  i  Do  chpochaoh  la 
coinconnacc  ua  Rajallaij  i  pel  beapaij  occ  imp  na  conaipe  pop  loch. 
aillinDe  lap  na  Bfic  illairh  aije  6  peil  mapcain  gup  an  lonBaiD  pin.  Ruai&pi 

m  Kitt-Sessin,  now  pronounced  in  Irish  as  if  Moy-Turey,   who  passed  through  it  as  far  as 

written  cill  rp^ipm,  and  Anglicised  Kilteashin.  Fenagh,  where  they  were  overtaken,  slain,  and 

It  is  the  name  of  a  townland  in  the  west  of  the  interred,  and  where  their  graves  are  still  pointed 

parish  of  Ardcarne,  where,  according  to  tradi-  out. 

tion,  the  Bishop  of  Elphin  had  formerly  his  pa-  P  Inishdoghran — An  island  in  Lough  Eee  in 

lace. — See  note  under  the  year  1258.  the  Shannon — See  note  ',  under  the  year  1193, 

n  Clann  Fearmaigke,  was  a  territory  in  the  p.  98. 

county  of  Leitrim,  adjoining  Dartry,  which  is  i  Glaidinn    signifies  green  pool,  or  pond. — 

now  called  the  barony  of  Eossclogher,  and  Tir  There  is  no  place  at  present  bearing  this  name 

Tuathail,  in  the  county  of  Koscommon.  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Tuam,  and  there  are  so 

0  Moy-Rein,  mag  p6m — This  comprised  the  many  places  near  it  called  Cluain  that  it  is  im- 

southern  or  level  part  of  the  county  of  Leitrim.  possible  to  determine  to  which  of  them  this  pool 

The  inhabitants  were  called  Conmaicne  Maighe      or  pond  belonged See  Tribes  and  Cuxtomt  of 

Rein,   and  also  Muintir  Eoluis,  of  whom,  since  Hy-Many.f.  130,  where  Glaisl  inn  is  referred  to 

the  establishment  of  surnames  in  the  tenth  cen-  as  at  the  head  of  Magh  Finn,  which  was  a  terri- 

tury,  the  Mac  Eannalls  were  by  far  the  most  tory  in  the  barony  of  Athloue,  in  the  county 

celebrated  family.     In  the  Book  of  Fenagh  the  Eoscommon. 

name  maj  p6m  is  explained  plain  of  the  track,  r  Donough  More  CPDaly. — In  Mageoghegan's 

and  the  name  is  said  to  have  been  derived  from  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  he  is 

the  flight  of  the  Fomorians,  from  the  battle  of  called  "  chief  of  Ireland  for  poetry."   It  is  gene- 


1244.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  309 

at  Kill-Sessinm.  Immediately  after  this  lie  committed  another  predatory 
outrage  in  the  territories  of  Clann-Fearmaighe11  and  Dartry  [in  the  county  of 
Leitrim]. 

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,  1244. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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  Inish- 
cloghranp,  and  was  interred  in  the  abbey  of  Boyle. 

The  Archdeacon  of  Tuam  was  drowned  in  the  Glaislinnq  of  Cluain. 

Donogh  More  0'Dalyr,  a  poet  who  never  was  and  never  will  be  surpassed, 
died,  and  was  interred  in  the  abbey  of  Boyle. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  was  blinded  and  hanged* 
by  Cuconnaught  O'Reilly,  on  the  festival  of  St.  Bearach,  on  Inis-na-Canaire1 
[an  island],  in  Lough  Allen,  having  been  kept  in  confinement  by  him  from  the 
feast  of  St.  Martin  to  that  time.  Rory,  the  son  of  Hugh,  his  brother,  was 

rally  supposed  that  this  Donough  was  Abbot  of  Ovid,  in  the  soft   luxuriance   of  his   poetical 

Boyle,  but  it  does  not  appear  from  the  Irish  imagery,  or  daring  flights  of  his  genius.     His 

Annals,  or  any  written  authority,  that  he  was  poems  are  principally  of  a  religious  or  moral 

an  ecclesiastic.     According  to  the  tradition  pre-  character,  and  possess  considerable  merit,  though 

served  in  the  north  of  the  county  of  Clare,  he  not  so  much  as  to  entitle  him  to  the  unqualified 

was  the  head  of  the  O'Dalys  of  Finnyvara,  in  praise  bestowed  upon  his  powers  by  the  Four 

the  north  of  Burrin,  where  they  still  point  out  Masters. — See  O'Reilly's  Irish  Writers,  pp.  88- 

the  site  of  his  house  and  his  monument.     He  is  92,  for  a  list  of  his  poems, 

the  ancestor  of  the  O'Dalys  of  Dunsandle,  whose  s  Was  blinded  and  hanged,  DO  oallab  7  bo 

ancestor  came  from  Finnyvara  with  Ranailt  Ny-  cpochao. — Charles  O'Conor  writes  inter  lineas 

Brien,  the  wife  of  Teige  Roe  O'Kelly,  of  Callow,  "  DO  ppocao  potius  ;  vide  infra."  In  the  Dublin 

in  the  latter  part  of  the  fifteenth  century. — See  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  the  reading  is,  t)o 

Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy-Many,  p.  125.  oallao  7  DO  pbochuo,  i.  e.   "was  blinded  and 

O'Reilly   says  that  he  was  called  the  Ovid  emasculated."     The  old  translator  of  the  Ulster 

of  Ireland,   and  such,  indeed,   he  may  be  re-  Annals  renders  it,  "  Teige  O'Conner  blinded  and 

garded,  though  it  must  be  acknowledged  that  maymed  by  Coconaght  O'Rely." 

he  could  bear  no  comparison  with  the  Roman  c  Jnis-na-Canaire  is  now  called  variously  Big 


310  awNa^a  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1244. 


mac  aot>a  a  Dfpbparaip  Do  ba&a6  ap  an  cuippfn  connaccach  ag  acliacc  na 
pionna  an  9.  la  Do  rhapra,  -|  a  a6nacal  i  maimpcip  cluana  cuaipcipe  co 
haiprhiDneac  onopac. 

Concobap  mac  ao&a  mic  cacail  cpoiboeipj  Do  ecc  hi  ccmD  rhfopa  oeap- 
pach. 

SluaijjeaDla  pe6limi6  mac  caeail(cpoibDeip5  ip  in  mbpeipne  paip  50  hua 
Rajallaij  Do  Diojail  a  Dalca  -\  a  bpacap  paip,  .1.  caDg  ua  concobaip.  1?o 
bdoap  abaij  longpuipe  hi  piobnac  maije  pein,  nf  paibe  an  comapba  ip  in 
baile  an  aiDce  pin,  -|  nf  paibe  cinD  pop  ceampall  piobnaca,  -\  o  nac  paibe  po 
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. 
Ro  mpp  a  epaic  ap  ua  cconcobaip.  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 
pin  ap  ua  concobaip.  Nf  me  icip  ap  majmip  ace  an  cf  ap  cfnn  ap  an  pluaj. 
Nf  pcepabpa  pib  ap  an  comapba  co  ppajjap  epaic  mo  Dalca.  Locap  an 
pluaj  lap  pin  ap  an  baile  amac,  ~\  Do  lean  an  comapba  iaD.  Oo  coiDpfc 
co  hac  na  cuippe  poppin  ngeipccij,  -]  po  baof  an  cuile  cap  bpuachaib  Di,  ~\ 
nf  caorhnacacap  code  caippe  gup  po  pcaoilpfc  ceac  Sepel  coin  baipce  Do 

Island,    Gilhooly's   Island,     Mary   Fitzgerald's  west  of  the  town  of  Roscommon,  is  the  Ath  Hag 

Island,  and  lastly,  O'Eeilly's  Island,  from  the  mentioned  by  the  Four  Masters,  at  the  year 

present  head  landlord.    It  lies  near  the  southern  1266. 

extremity  of  Lough  Allen,  not  far  from  Drum-  *  Cluain-tuaiscirt,  now  Cloontuskert,  a  parish 

shambo.  containing    the   ruins   of  a   small  abbey,  near 

uCmrreen-Connaughtagh,Cuipp'mConnaix;acln,  Lanesborough,  in  the  barony  of  South  Ballinto- 

now  locally  called  Curreen.     It  is  the  name  of  ber,  and  county  of  Roscommon.  —  See  Ordnance 

the  southern  extremity  of  the  townland  of  Bally-  Map  of  that  county,  sheet  37.    There  is  a  larger 

dare,  in  the  parish  of  Cloontuskert,  near  Lanes-  abbey  of  the  same  name  in  the  barony  of  Clon- 

borough.    It  is  often  overflooded  by  Lough  Ree.  macnowen,  in  the  county  of  Galway.  —  See  it 

w  Ath-liag-na-Sinna,    now   beal   aca    bag,  marked  on  the  Ordnance  Map  of  that  county, 

Anglice  Ballyleague,    that    part    of  Lanesbo-  sheet  88. 

rough  lying  on  the  Connaught  side  of  the  Shan-  'i   Fenagh-Moy-Rein,    Flo6nac   ma'je    p6m, 

non.     The  Qc  Uaj;  mentioned  in  these  Annals,  now  Fenagh,  in  the  barony  and  county  of  Lei- 

underthc  years  1140,  1220,  1227,  and  1244,  is  trim.     A  monastery  was   erected  here  by  St. 

Ballyleague,  or  Lanesborough.     The  little  town  Caillin,  in  the  sixth  century.     It  is  now  a  pa- 

of  Athleague,  on  the  River  Buck,  to  the  south-  rish  church  in  the  diocese  of  Ardagh.    There  is 


1244.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  311 

drowned  in  Cuirreen  Connaughtaghu,  at  Ath-liag-na-Sinnaw,  on  the  9th  day  of 
March,  and  was  interred  in  the  monastery  of  Cluain-tuaiscirt*,  with  great  vene- 
ration and  honour. 

Conor,  son  of  Hugh,  who  was  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  died  at  the  end  of 
the  first  month  of  Spring. 

An  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 
kinsman,  Teige  O'Conor.  They  encamped  for  a  night  at  Fenagh-Moy-Reiny. 
The  Coarb  was  not  homez  on  that  night,  and  there  was  no  roof  on  the  church 
of  Fenagh,  and  as  there  was  not,  a  party  of  the  troops,  without  the  permission  of 
their  chiefs,  burned  some  tents  and  huts  which  were  within  the  church,  and  the 
Coarb's  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  de- 
manded 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 
Manus,  the  son  of  Murtough  Muimhneach,"  said  O'Conor.  "  I  am  not  at  all," 
said  Manus ;  "  it  is  he  who  is  head  of  the  army."  "  I  will  not  depart  from 
you,"  said  the  Coarb,  "  until  I  obtain  eric  for  my  ward."  The  army  then 
marched  out  of  the  town,  and  the  Coarb  followed  them.  They  proceeded  to 
Ath-na-Cuirre,  on  the  River  Geirctheachb,  but  the  flood  had  then  over- 
still  extant  a  curious  manuscript  which  belonged  which  nineteen  Irish  kings  were  baptized, 
to  Fenagh,  and  which  enumerates  the  lands,  z  The  Coarb  was  not  at  home. — In  the  Annals 
privileges,  and  dues  of  the  monastery.  The  ori-  of  Connaught  the  language  of  this  passage  is 
ginal  is  preserved  in  the  British  Museum,  and  a  better  arranged,  thus :  "  There  was  no  roof  on 
copy  made  in  1517,  by  Maurice,  son  of  Paidin  the  church  of  Fenagh,  and  the  Coarb  was  not  at 
O'Mulconry,  was  lately  in  the  possession  of  a  home  that  night ;  and  as  he  was  not,  a  party  of 
Rev.  Mr.  Eody,  who  lived  near  Fenagh,  of  which  Felim's  troops,  &c." 

the  Editor  made  a  copy  in  the  year  1 829,  which  a  Eric. — An  amercement  or  fine  for  blood- 
is  now  in  the  Library  of  the  Royal  Irish  Aca-  shed;  a  mulct  or  reparation.  It  was  exactly 
demy.  Clog-na-riogh  still  exists  and  is  preserved  similar  to  the  were  or  mergild  of  the  Saxons — 
in  the  chapel  at  Foxfield,  near  Fenagh,  where  it  See  Harris's  Ware,  vol.  ii.  p.  7 1  • 

is  regarded  as  a  sacred  relic,  and  held  in  great          b  Geirctlieach This  is  the  river  now  called  the 

veneration.  According  to  the  Book  of  Fenagh,  Yellow  River,  which  is  formed  by  a  junction  of 
it  was  called  Clog-na-riogh,  i.  e.  Bell  of  the  Kings,  several  streams  rising  in  Sliabh  an  larainn,  and 
because  it  was  used  to  contain  the  water  in  is  subject  to  great  floods;  it  passes  through  the 


312  awMaca  rcioshachca  eiReaNN.  [1245. 

baof  inD  imeal  inD  dca  Dia  cup  cappan  abamn  Do  Dol  caippi  Don  cpluaj;. 
Oo  beacaib  TTlagnup  mac  muipceapeaij  muirhmj  ip  in  cij,  1  concobap  mac 
copbmaic  mic  oiapmat>a.  17o  pai6  majnup  pip  in  bpfp  baof  ap  mullac  an 
cije  occa  pccaofleab  05  pfneab  a  ctoioeam  uaDa  puap,  05  pin  ap  pe  an 
raippnge  congbup  an  maiDe  gan  cuicim.  Qga  pd6  pin  Do  po  cuir  pecce  an 
cfje  hi  ccfnn  magnupa  co  nDepna  bpuipij  Dia  cino  gup  bo  mapb  po  ceooip 
ap  an  laraip  pin,  -\  po  haDnaiceaD  e  hi  nDopap  ceampaill  pioDnaca  alia 
amuij,  i  cucca6  cpf  Ian  cluij  na  pfj  Doppail  ap  a  anniain,  i  Dec  nee  picfc. 
^onab  arhlaiD  pin  puaip  comapba  Caillfn  epaic  a  Dalra.  Do  ponaD  lecc 
Do  clochaib  pnaicce,  -]  cpop  caoinDenmac  uap  a  cmD,  i  po  bpipeaD  la 
mumcip  puaipc  mrc  ciob  mp  ccpiol. 

Copbmac  mac  romalcaij  mic  concobaip  mic  DiapmaDa  njeapna  cloinne 
maoilpuanaib  uile  Decc  in  aibic  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  i  pill 
in  imp  ppaoic  pop  loc  jile. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1245. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mfle,  Da  ceD,  ceacpacacr  acuicc. 

Oomnall  ua  planoagdin  abb  cunja  Decc. 

Concobap  puab  mac  muipceapcaij  rhuirhmj  mic  roippoealbaij  uf  conco- 
baip Do  lor  Dua  nmmaic  Da  rhaop  buoDem  la  pcfn  cpia  lomaccaillairh  peipcci 
DO  cecc  froppa  hi  pupc  na  leicci,  -]  giollacpiopr  mac  lomap  uf  bipn  Do 

little  town  of  Ballinamore,  which  it  sometimes  age  whatsoever.      They  killed  both  men  and 

almost  inundates.  beasts  without  any  remorse.     At  last  they  came 

c  Fractured  it. — This  passage  is  given  more  to  the  Corre,   where  there  was  a  tymber  house 

briefly  and  somewhat  differently  in  the  Annals  of  couples  into  which  Magnus  mac  Mortagh  and 

of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  Connor  mac  Cormack  entered,  and  immediately 

as  follows:  "A.  D.  1244.  Felym  O'Connor  with  there  arose  a  great  blast  of  Winde  which  fell 

great  forces  went  to  be  revenged  for  their  sinis-  downe  the  house,  whereof  one  couple  fell  on  the 

ter  dailings  on  the  O'Reillys  and  the  Breniemen,  said  Magnus,  and  did  put  the  topp  of  his  head 

and  made  havock  of  all  they  could  meet  withall  thro  his  brains  to  his  very  neck,  and  caused  his 

in  that  country,  without  respect  to  either  sex  or  neck  to  sinck  into  his  breast ;    was  strocken 


1245.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  313 

flowed  its  banks,  and  they  were  not  able  to  cross  the  ford ;  so  they  pulled 
down  the  chapel-house  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  which  was  on  the  margin  of  the 
ford,  that  they  might  place  its  materials  across  the  river,  that  the  army  might 
pass  over  it.  Manus,  the  son  of  Murtough  Muimhneach,  and  Conor,  son  of 
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  rafter  of  the  house  fell  down  on  his  own  head  and 
fractured  it0,  so  that  he  died  immediately  on  the  spot.  He  was  buried  outside 
the  door  of  the  church  of  Fenagh ;  and  three  times  the  full  of  Clog-na-Biogh, 
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.  A 
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  lord- 
ship twenty-six  years. 

Farrell  Mac  Tagadain  was  treacherously  slain  by  Conor  Mac  Tiernan  on 
Inishfree",  an  island  in  Lough  Gill. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1245. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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  con- 
sequence of  an  angry  conversation  that  occurred  between  them  at  Port-na-leiccee. 

dead.     This  is  the  end  of  this  man  that  escaped  It  lies  near  that  extremity  of  Lough  Gill,  where 

narrowly  from  many  dangers  before,   lost  his  it  receives  the  River  Buanaid  (Bonet)  from  the 

life  in  this  manner  by  a  blast  of  Wynde  mise-  county  Leitrim. — See  map  prefixed  to  Genea- 

rably."  logies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  on 

d  Iniskfree,  Imp  ppaoich,  i.  e.  the  Island  of  the  which  the  position  of  this  island  is  shewn. 

heath — This  island  retains  its  name  to  this  day.  *  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, 
-|  pe  piol  muipfoaij  uaip  po  popcongpaD  pop  peDlim  a  Denarh  ap  a  pinjing 
pfm,  -]  cloca,  i  ael,  -\  cije  ppicel  na  rpmoioe  Do  rappaing  cuicce  lap  ccab- 
aipr  an  lonaib  ceona  lap  an  lupcip  Do  clapup  mac  mailm  in  onoip  na  naorh 
cpmoioe. 

SloijeaD  mop  la  pij  pa;can  i  mbpfcnaib,  -|  po  gab  longpopr  oc  caiplen 
gannoc,  -\  po  cocuip  ma  Docum  an  mprfp  co  njallaib  epeann,  ~\  pe&limib  mac 
cacail  cpoibDeipg  cona  pocpaiDe.  O  Do  cuacap  cpa  po  milleaD  bpfcain  leo, 
-\  apa  aof  nf  po  ^abpac  geill  na  eicepfba  Don  cup  pin.  6d  honopac 
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  uf  Dalaij  Decc. 

Caiplen  puicfn  Do  Denom. 


place  on  the  Shannon,  near  Jamestown,  in  the 
county  of  Roscommon ;  but  it  is  now  obsolete. 

f  Gannoc  is  a  castle  in  Caernarvonshire,  near 
the  shore  of  the  Conwy,  called  Diganwy  by  the 
Welsh — See  Gough's  Camden,  p.  560,  col.  2, 
where  it  is  related  that  Henry  III.  was  reduced 
to  great  straits  under  its  walls  in  the  year  1245. 

8  He  invited  to  his  aid,  oo  cocuip  tna  bo- 
cam,  literally,  "  he  invited  to  him."  The  Irish 
annalists  speak  as  if  the  King  had  no  right  to 
summon  them.  It  appears  that  at  this  time  the 
Irish  barons,  among  other  peculiar  rights,  claimed 
that  they  were  not  bound  to  attend  the  King  be- 
yond the  realm,  differing  in  this  from  the  nobles 
of  England,  who  were  bound  by  law  to  assist 
the  King  in  his  expeditions,  without  as  well  as 
within  the  kingdom.  That  King  Henry  was 
aware  of  the  exemption  claimed  by  them  is  evi- 
dent from  the  writs  issued  by  him  on  this  occa- 
sion, having  been  accompanied  by  an  express 
declaration  that  their  attendance  now  should  not 


be  brought  forward  as  a  precedent — See  Close 
Eoll,  28  Henry  III.  Matthew  Paris  gives,  in 
his  Chronicle  at  this  year,  a  letter,  said  to  have 
been  written  at  the  time  by  a  nobleman  in 
Henry's  camp,  which  conveys  a  vivid  idea  of 
the  distressed  condition  of  the  English  army 
before  the  Irish  had  joined  them.  Its  substance 
is  as  follows:  "The  King  with  his  army  lyeth 
at  Gannocke  fortifying  that  strong  castle,  and 
we  live  in  our  tents,  thereby  watching,  fasting, 
praying,  and  freezing  with  cold.  We  watch  for 
fear  of  the  Welshmen,  who  are  wont  to  invade 
and  come  upon  us  in  the  night-time ;  we  fast 
for  want  of  meat,  for  the  halfpenny  loaf  is  worth 
five-pence;  we  pray  to  God  to  send  us  home 
speedily;  we  starve  with  cold,  wanting  our  win- 
ter garments,  having  no  more  but  a  thin  linen 
cloth  between  us  and  the  wind.  There  is  an  arm 
of  the  sea  under  the  castle  where  we  lie,  whereto 
the  tide  cometh,  and  many  ships  come  up  to  the 
haven,  which  bring  victuals  to  the  camp  from 


1245.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  315 

The  steward  was  killed  by  Ivor  O'Beirne  ;  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 
Ireland,  and  by  the  Sil-Murray;  for  Felim  [O'Conor]  was  ordered  to  erect  it  at 
his  own  expense,  and  to  convey  the  stones,  lime,  and  houses  of  Trinity  Hospital 
thither,  after  the  Lord  Justice  had  granted  that  place  to  Clarus  Mac  Mailin, 
in  honour  of  the  Holy  Trinity. 

A  great  army  was  led  by  the  King  of  England  into  Wales,  he  pitched  his 
camp  at  the  castle  of  Gannocf ;  and  he  invited  to  his  aids  the  Lord  Justice,  the 
English  of  Ireland,  and  Felim,  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg  O'Conor,  and  his  forces, 
to  come  to  him.  As  soon  as  they  had  come  they  desolated  all  Wales,  but  ob- 
tained neither  hostages  nor  pledges  on  this  occasion.  The  King  treated  Felim 
O'Conor  with  great  honour  on  this  expedition. 

The  castle  of  Ath-an-chip  [on  the  River  Shannon],  on  the  borders  of  Moy- 
Nissi  [in  the  county  of  Lei  trim],  was  erected  by  Myles  Costello. 

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." — See  Matthew  Paris,  ad  Justice,  to  Ireland,  he  performed  a  successful 

an.  1245;  Hanmer's  Chronicle,  Dublin  edition  expedition  against  the  Irish  of  Ulster,  but  that 

of  1809,  p.  393;  and  Moore's  History  of  Ireland,  this  was  of  no  avail,  for  that  the  King,  whose 

vol.  iii.  p.  20.     "  All  this  time,"  says  Matthew  displeasure  was  inexorable,  dismissed  him  from 

Paris,   "  the  King  was  looking  impatiently  for  his  office,  and  appointed  Sir  John,  the  son  of 

the  Irish  forces,  mused  with  himself,  fretted  Geoffry  de  Marisco,  in  his  place.    Maurice  Fitz- 

with  himself,  the  wind  serving,  and  yet  said  gerald,  after  some  contests  with  the  Irish,  and 

nothing.     At  length   their  sails  were  descried,  the  new  Lord  Justice,  took  upon  him  the  habit 

and  Maurice  Fitzgerald  and  the  Prince  of  Con-  of  St.  Francis,   in  the  monastery  of  Youghal, 

naught  presented  themselves  in  battle  array  be-  where  he  died,  in  1 256. 

fore  the  King."     Hanmeradds:  "When  all  the  h  The  Castle  of  Suicin  was  probably  near  the 

forces  joyned    together,    the   Welshmen   were  head  of  the  Suck,  in  the  county  of  Mayo.    In  the 

overthrowne;  the  King  manned  and  victualled  townland  of  Cashel  and  parish   of  Kiltullagh, 

his  Castles,    returned  into   England,    gave  the  and  county  of  Roscommon,  near  the  head  of  the 

Irishmen  leave  to  returne,  winking  awhile  in  Suck,  which  is  called  Bun  Suicin,  there  is  an 

policie  at  the  tarriance  and  slow  coming  of  Mau-  ancient  Irish  cashel,  or  Cyclopean  tower;   but 

rice  Fitzgerald."     Hanmer  also  remarks  that,  no  ruins  of  a  modern  castle  are  now  visible  near 

on  the  return  of  Maurice  Fitzgerald,  the  Lord  Bun  Suicin,  excepting  the   site  of  O'Flynn's 

2  S2 


316  cmNata  Rioshachca  eirceawN.  [1246. 

TCajnall  ua  maoilmiabaij  DO  rhapBab  la  connaccaib. 

TTluipcfjicac  mac  muipjiupa  mic  cacail  mic  DiapmaOa  Do  mapBab  la 

peapaiB  bpeipne. 

Sluaicceab  la  hUa  nDomnaill  (Ulaoilechlainn)  pop  jallaiB,  -\  jaoibelaiB 
loccaip  connachc  co  ccuccpac  bu  -|  eDala  iom6a  leo  Don  cupup  pin. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1246. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mfle,  ba  ceb,  cfchpacha,  ape. 

Goin  ua  hujpoin  mac  corhopba  mochua,  eppcop  oilepinn  an  ceoin  fpin  Do 
ecc  i  Raic  ae&a  mec  bpic. 

loam  mac  mgppi  Do  cochc  ma  lupcfp  in  Gpmn  ~\  TTluipip  mac  gfpailc  DO 
airpijab. 

Opuim  Ifchain  Do  lopccaD  an  bliaDampi. 

TTlaoilpeaclamn  mac  Concobaip  puaiD  mic  muipcfpcaig  muirhmj  ui  Con- 
cobaip  DO  riiapbab  la  hua  nDuBoa,  .1.  muipcfpcac.  ITIuipcfpcac  Do  ionnapba6 
cap  muip  Dfip  an  mapbra  pin. 

Sluaijfo  DO  Dfnam  Do  TTluipip  mac  jjfpailc  i  ccip  Conaill  -|  e  DO  cabaipr 

castle,  near  Ballinlough.— See  note  under  Sil  Cluanense  aliosque  nostros  annales." — Colgan's 

Maelruain,  at  the  year  1200.  Acta  SS.  p.  423,  col.  2,  notes  30,  31. 

'  Rath-Aedha-mic  Brie,  now  Rahugh,  a  parish  This  St.  Aedh  is  still  vividly  remembered  at  the 

in  the  barony  of  Moycashel,  about  three  miles  foot  of  Slieve  League,  in  the  barony  of  Banagh, 

south-east  of  Kilbeggan,  in  the  county  of  West-  and  county  of  Donegal,  on  which  mountain  his 

meath.  The  name  signifies  the  fort  of  Hugh  the  little  chapel  is  yet  to  be  seen  in  ruins.     The 

son  ofBrec,  a  saint  who  founded  a  monastery  Sainthimself  is  called  in  English  HughyBreaky  I 

there,  within  a  rath  or  fort,  in  the  sixth  century.  He  is  also  remembered  at  Killare,  in  the  county 

"  Hoec  ecclesia  est  hodie  Parochialis  Dioecesis  of  Westmeath,  but  not  here  at  Kahugh. 

Midensis  in  regione  de  Kinel-fiacha  et  denomi-  k  John  Fite-Geqffry,  i.  e.  Sir  John,  the  son  of 

natione  a  viro    sancto  sumpta,    vocatur  Bath-  Geoffry  de  Marisco,  who  had  been  Lord  Justice. 

aodha."  Florilegus   writes    on   the   depriving   of  Fitz- 

"  Colitur  in  diversis  ecclesiis,  ut  patronus,  ut  gerald  as  follows  : 

in  Enach-Briuin,  in  regione  Muscragia;  in  Mo-  "  Mauritium  Hibernian  Justiciarium  eo  quod 

monia;  Sliebh-lieg  in  Tirconallia,  ubi  capella  ipsi  ficte  &  tarde  auxilium  ab  Hibernia  domino  Et-gi 

sacra,  et  solemnis  perigrinatio  ;  Rath-aodha  in  duxerat  periclitanti  a  Justitiaria  deposuit." — 

Kinel-Fiacha,  et  Killaria  quas  vicus  est  in  re-  See  Hanmer's  Chronicle,  Dublin  edition  of  1 809, 

gione  Midiie  qua?  Magh-assuil  appellatur.    Obiit  p.  395. 

autem   S.  Aidus,   anno   588  juxta    Chronicon  John  Fitz-Geoffry  de  Marisco  was  appointed 


1246.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  317 

Randal  O'Mulvey  was  slain  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,  1246. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  forty-six . 

John  O'Hughroin,  son  of  the  Coarb  of  Moclnia,  Bishop  of  Elphin,  died 
in  Rath- A  edha-mic-Bric'. 

John  Fitz-Geoffryk  came  to  Ireland  as  Lord  Justice,  and  Maurice  Fitzgerald 
was  deprived1. 

Drumlahanm  was  burned  in  this  year. 

Melaghlin,  son  of  Conor  Roe,  the  son  of  Murtough  Muimhneach  O'Conor, 
was  slain  by  O'Dowda  (Murtough),  who  was  banished  over  sea  after  the  com- 
mission of  that  deed. 

Maurice  Fitzgerald  marched  with  an  army  into  Tirconnell :  he  gave  the 

Lord  Justice  of  Ireland  on  the  4th  of  November,  to  annihilate  or  reduce  to  a  state  of  abject  slavery 

1245 ;  and,  it  is  quite  clear  that  Maurice  Fitz-  the  Irish  of  Desmond;  but  they  received  a  great 

gerald    performed   the   expedition  into   Ulster  check  from  the  fierce  and  warlike  clan  of  the 

against  O'Donnell  after  he  was  deprived  of  his  Mac  Carthys  in  the  year  1261. 

office,  notwithstanding   Hanmer's    assertion  to  '  Deprived,  aicpiogao,    literally  dethroned,  or 

the  contrary.     See  the  year  1247.     Mr.  Moore  unkinged,  that  being  the  term  used  by  the  an- 

seems  to  think  that  Maurice  Fitzgerald  retired  nalists   to  express  the  deposing    of  their  own 

from   the   world   immediately   after   being  re-  petty  kings  or  chieftains. 

moved  from  office. — See  his  History  of  Ireland,  m  Drumlaltan,   opium  I  from,  but  more  cor- 

vol.  iii.  p.  21 ;  but  it  is  evident  from  the  older  rectly  opuim  Iftan,  i.  e.  the  broad  ridge  or  hill, 

Irish   annals   that  he  continued  his   struggles  now  generally  anglicised  Drumlane,  a  townland 

with  the  native  Irish,  and  even  with  the  new  and  parish,  remarkable  for  the  ruins  of  a  church 

Justiciary,  for  some  years  before  he  retired  into  and  round  to-.ver,  in  the  barony  of  Lough  tee  and 

the  monastery  of  Youghal.     After  his  removal  county  of  Cavan,  and  about  three  miles  from  the 

the  Geraldines  for  some  time  kept  the  state  of  town  of  Belturbet.     St.  Mogue,  or  Maidoc,  of 

an  independent  sept,   supporting  themselves  by  Ferns,  is  the  reputed  patron  saint  and  founder 

their  own  power,  and  making  war  and  peace  by  of  this  church,  which  was  monastic ;  but  Dr.  La- 

their  own  authority.   They  marie  mighty  efforts  nigan  thinks  that  a  monastery  had  existed  here 


318 


Rioshachca  emeawN.  [1247. 


Ifiche  dupe  Conaill  Do  copbmac  mac  oiapmaDa  mic  RuaiDpi  uf  Concobaip,-] 
bpaigoe  uf  Dorhnaill  Do  jabail  ap  an  tfic  oile.  Y\a  bpaijDe  Do  paccbail  i 
ccaiplen  fliccije. 

Ua  ooriinaill,  .i.TTlaoilpeaclamn  -]  maice  cenel  cconaill  Do  reace  laSamna 
50  Slicceac.  6a6un  an  baile  Do  lopccaD  boib."  Ni  po  pfopae  Dol  pop  an 
ccaiplen,  -|  po  chpochpac  luce  an  caiplen  a  mbpaijDi  ma  ppiabnaipi  mp  na 
leccab  piop  DO  mullac  an  chaiplen,  .1.  6  TTlmndin  oiDe  uf  Domnaill  i  a  chom- 
alca. 

TTlupchaD  ua  hanluain  ncchfpna  na  naipffp  Do  mapbao  ap  popconjpa 

bpiain  uf  nell. 

Qe6  mac  afoa  uf  Concobaip  DO  gabail  -[  a  apgain. 

Uoippoealbac  mac  af6a  uf  Concobaip  Do  elub  a  cpanoij  locha  Ifipi  ip 
in  pojmap.  Qn  luce  coimfoa  bof  aip  Do  bdbab  Do,  .1.  copbmac  ua  muip- 
eabaij  i  Da  ua  ainmipeac.  Uoippbealbac  Do  gabail  Do  pi&ipi  ap  comaipce 
eppcoip  cluana  -|  mp  na  cabaipc  illaim  jail  a  chup  i  ccaiplen  acha  luain. 

Qlbepr  almameach  aipDeppuc  QpDamacha  DacpuccaD  Docum  na  hun- 
5api. 

QO13  CR1OSO,  1247. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceo,  cfchpacha  apeacc. 

Concobop  uaTTluipea&ai  j  eppcop  ua  ppiacpach  ai&ne  Do  ecc  -\  mbpipcuma. 

Qeb  mac  concaillfo  abb  cluana  heoaipp  Do  ecc. 

TTlaoilpeachlainTi  6  Domnaill  cicchfpna  chipe  Conaill,  cenel  TTIodin,  inpi 
heojain  ~\  pfprnanac  Do  mapbaD  la  TTluipipp  mac  gfpailc.  6a  harhlam  po 
pop  caomnaccaip  pi&e.  Sluai^fb  mop  Do  cionol  la  TTluipipp  mac  gfpailc  i 

before  St.  Maidoc  was  born — See  his  Ecclesias-  suggestion.     In  the  old  translation  of  the  An- 

tical  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  ii.  p.  336,  note  122.  nals  of  Ulster  this   passage  is  rendered  thus: 

n  Lord  of  the  Oriors,  ciccheapna  na  naipceap,  "  A.  D.  1246.  O'Hanlon,  King  of  Oirthir,  killed, 

i.  e.  dominus  Orientaliiim,  i.  e.  of  the  two  baro-  through  the  persuasion  of  Brien  O'Neal." 
nies  of  Orior,  in  the  east  of  the  county  of  Ar-          P  Lough  Leisi. — This  name  is  now  obsolete. — 

magh.     The  inhabitants  of  these  baronies  were  See  note  under  the  year  1452,  where  it  is  shewn 

so  called  from  their  situation  in  the  east  of  the  that  Lough  Leisi  was  the  ancient  name  of  Muc- 

territory  of  Oriel.  kenagh  Lough,  near  the  old  church  of  Kilglass, 

0  Command,  popconjpa — This  word  signifies  in  O'Hanly's  country,  in  the  east  of  the  county 

order  or  command,  and  sometimes  request  or  of  Eoscommon. 


124?.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  319 

half  of  Tirconnell  toCormac,  son  of  Dermot,  who  was  son  of  Eoderic  O'Conor, 
and  obtained  hostages  from  O'Donnell  for  the  other  half.  These  hostages  he 
left  in  the  castle  of  Sligo. 

O'Donnell  (Melaghlin),  and  the  chiefs  of  the  Kinel-Connell,  came  on  All- 
Saints'  day  to  Sligo,  and  burned  the  bawn,  but  were  not  able  to  make  their 
way  into  the  castle ;  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. 

Murrough  O'Hanlon,  Lord  of  the  Oriors",  was  put  to  death  by  command" 
of  Brian  O'Neill. 

Hugh,  son  of  Hugh  O'Conor,  was  taken  prisoner  and  plundered. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Conor,  made  his  escape  from  the  Crannog 
[wooden  house]  of  Lough  Leisip  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,  1247. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  forty-seven. 

Conor  O'Murray,  Bishop  of  Hy-Fiachrach  Aidhne  [Kilmacduagh],  died  at 
Bristol. 

Hugh  Mac  Conchaille8,  Abbot  of  Clones,  died. 

Melaghlin  O'Donnell,  Lord  of  Tirconnell,  Kinel-Moen,  Inishowen,  and 
Fermanagh,  was  slain  by  Maurice  Fitzgerald.  He  was  enabled  to  accomplish 
this  in  the  following  manner :  A  great  army  was  led  by  Maurice  Fitzgerald, 

q  Albert,    the   German,    albepc  almameach.  Rath  Luraigh  [Maghera],   was  elected  to  the 

— See  note  under  the  year  1242,  and  also  Har-  archbishopric  of  Armagh. 

ris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  66,  where  it          *  Mac  Conchaille. — This  name  is  still  extant 

is  stated  that  Albert  of  Cologne  resigned  his  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Clones,  in  the  county 

see  in  1 247,  and  died  beyond  seas.  of  Monaghan,  and  in  the  county  of  Fermanagh, 

r  Under  this  year  (1246)  the  Dublin  copy  of  but  anglicised  by  some  to  Woods,  and  by  others 

the  Annals  of  Ulster  record,  that  the  Bishop  of  to  Cox,  because  it  is  assumed  that  Caille,  or 


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la  gallaib  apcfna  50  piachcatjap  Sligeac  ap  cup,  aippme  co  hfpp  ae&a  puam 
mic  babaipn.  Oo  beachaib  copbrpac  mac  DiapmaOa  nncRuai&pi  uf  Concobaip 
ma  chionol.  t>a  ipm  cfcaoine  lap  ppel  pfccaip  •]  poll  inDpin.  T?o  chionoil  ua 
Dorhnaill  cenel  Conaill  ~\  eojam  ap  a  ccinD  conap  leccpfc  jail  na  gaoibeal 
rap  ach  Sfnaij  annnn  pe  >if6  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 
moincij  poip  gan  aipiujaD  DO  neac  co  painic  bel  ara  culuain  pop  fipne.  Nf 
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 
goill  aipe  cenel  Conaill  pop  an  tnapcpluaij  canjaDap  Do  Ific  a  nDpumann 
chuca,  uaip  Do  bob  Lfpbh  leo  na  caorhpacaoip  i  pppfpoal  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/Badh- 
arn. — This  was  the  ancient  name  of  the  cataract 
called  the  Salmon  Leap,  at  Ballyshannon,  in  the 
county  of  Donegal.  The  name  is  now  pronounced 
as  if  written  eapa  puao,  and  in  English  Assaroe, 
— See  note  n,  under  the  year  1 194,  p.  99. 

u  Bethought  them. — Qipeacc  means  a  sudden 
thought  or  impulse  of  the  mind.  This  passage, 
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 
translation  of  these  annals : 

"  A.  D.  1247.  Melaghlin  O'Donnell,  King  of 
Tirconnell,  and  Gilla  Munelagh  O'Boyl,  and 
Mao  Sowerly"  [were]  "  killed  by  Mac  Morris 
in  Belasena.  Kindred  Conell  defended  the  ford 
for  a  whole  weeke,  that  there  could  not  pass 
neither  English  nor  Irish,  untill  Cormac  O'Con- 
ner  used  craft  at  last ;  for  he  carried  with  him 
a  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 
upon  the  Erne.  And  Kindred  Conell  wot 
nothing"  [ni  po  aipi^r-ec  Cenel  Conuill  ni] 


"  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  Mac  Maurice  had  their 
killing  as  aforesaid."  The  meaning  of  this 
passage,  the  language  of  which  is  so  lamely  con- 
structed by  the  Four  Masters,  is  evidently  as 
follows.  "  When  it  was  perceived  by  Fitzgerald's 
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  re- 
course to  the  following  stratagem,  which  was 
suggested  by  Cormac,  the  grandson  of  King  Eo- 
deric  O'Conor,  who  had  been  appointed  as  chief 
of  half  the  territory  of  Tir-Connell,  a  short  time 
before,  by  Maurice  Fitzgerald.  Cormac  proceeded 
at  the  head  of  a  strong  body  of  horse  first  west- 
wards, along  the  plain  of  Moy-Ketne,  so  as  to 
make  the  Kinel-Connell  believe  that  he  was  re- 
treating into  Connaught.  He  then  turned  up- 
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 
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 


1247.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


321 


and  the  other  English  chiefs,  first  to  Sligo,  and  thence  to  the  Cataract  of  Aedh 
Roe,  the  son  of  Badharn1.  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  west- 
wards 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  accord- 
ingly done],  and  the  Kinel-Connell  knew  nothing  of  the  movement  until  they 
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  Bally- 
shannon,  and  advanced  on  the  rear  of  O'Don- 
nell's  forces,  who  were  still  defending  the  ford. 
The  latter,  who  had  expected  no  such  ma- 
noeuvre, being  alarmed  at  the  approach  of  a 
large  body  of  fierce  cavalry,  suddenly  turned 
their  faces  towards  them,  to  sustain  their  onset, 
leaving  the  ford  unprotected.  When  Maurice 
Fitzgerald  perceived  that  the  defenders  of  the 
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 
enemy,  thinking  that  the  forces  of  O'Donnell 
would  not  be  able  to  sustain  the  attack  on  both 
sides.  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, 
and  both  united  routed  the  Kinel-Connell, 
&c.  &c." 

w  On  their  rear,  DO   letr  a  ccuil  cuca In 

2 


Grace's  Annals  of  Ireland  this  sentence  is  thus 
given  in  Latin :  "  Occurrit  O'Donell  cum  suis  ex 
tota  Kineoil  Conaill  ad  vadum  Athshani,  eos 
cum  preterire  minime  andirent  ibidem  7  dies  de- 
finuit,  missus  igitur  Cormacus  cum  equitum 
parte  clam  ad  vadum  Cuiluanise,  Erne  fluminis, 
terga  hostium  aggreditur,  qui  statim  in  fugam 
conversi  sunt,  &c." 

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 
of  the  cavalry,  their  backs  were  turned  towards 
Fitzgerald's  forces,  who  were  on  the  south  side 
of  the  ford. 

i  Who  had  advanced  upon  their  rear,  an 
mapcpluaj  ranjaoap  DO  leir  a  nopumann 
chuca,  i.  e,  equitatu*  qui  venerunt  a  tergo  in  eos. 
— Here  the  nominative  case  to  the  verb  canjct- 
oap  is  the  relative  a,  understood,  for  in  ancient 
Irish  compositions,  which  the  Four  Masters  af- 
fected to  imitate,  the  verb  has  a  plural  termina- 


322  ctNNata  Rioghachua  eirceaNR  [1247. 

pfcc  an  car  puppo  50  mbaoap  cenel  cconatll  in  eoipmfoon  a  mbiobbab  lap 
niabab  6oib  lompo  Da  gac  Ific.  dec  cfna  po  mapbab  ua  Domnaill  ap  an 
lacaip  pin,  an  cammuinelac  ua  baoijill  ppiomcaoipeac  na  ccpf  ccuac, 
TTiac  porhaiple  ncchfpna  aipfpjaoi&eal  •]  maici  cenel  Conaill  apcfna.  Ro 
baibic  •)  po  mapbaiD  t>ponj  mop  DO  plojaib  mic  jfpailc  annpin.  I?o  baibiD 
Dana  apaill  Dib  ap  an  ppinn  bub  chuaic  •)  pocnaibi  oile  Don  nploij  cfccna 
i  ccfpmonn  Dabeocc  i  ccopai^eacc  na  ccpeac  po  cecpfc  pfnrtpu  im  uilliam 
bpic  Sippiam  Connacc  ~]  im  T?iDipe  occ  oile  ba  Deapb'pacaip  DopiDe.  Po 
InnDpeab  ~\  po  haipccfb  an  cfp  leo  mppin.  T?o  paccaibpfo  cfnnup  cenel 
cconaill  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  i 
noailpiaDa. 

UoippDealbac  mac  aoDa  uf  Concobaip  Do  elub  a  hdc  luain. 

TTlilib  mac  goipDelb  Do  gabail  pfoa  Conmaicne  •]  caral  mag  l?a£naill 
Do  Diochup  epDib  ~\  cpannocc  clafnlocha  DO  jabail  Do,  -|  luce  a  gabala  DO 
pdgbail  Do  innce  ua&a  pen.  Cacal  -\  coipp&ealbac  Da  mac  af6a  ui  Conco- 
baip DocoimfipjelamajRajnaill  Do  Diochup  meic  goipoelb  a  pmConmaicne. 
l?o  gabpaD  an  cpannocc  -]  an  loch,  T?o  Scaoilpfcc  caiplen  lecce  Deip^e  i 
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,  ~]  po  DIO- 
chuipeaD  clann  goipoelb  ap  in  cfp  amac  uile. 

tion  to  agree  with  the  relative  when  its  antece-      Gaels This  is  the  name  by  which  Argyle  in 

dent  is  a  noun  of  multitude,  or  of  the  plural  Scotland  is  always  called  by  the  Irish  writers, 

number — See  the  Editor's  Irish  Grammar,  part  and  not  Ard-na-Ngaodhal,   as  O'Flaherty  very 

111.  c.  i.  pp.  359,  360.  erroneously  states  in  Ogygia  Vindicated,  Dedica- 

'  Chieftain  of  ike  Three  Tuathas,  Coipeac  na      tion,  p.  li See  Colgan's  Trias  T/iaum.,  p.  1 15. 

ccpi  ccuac — These  were  three  territories  in  the          b  QfCanannan There  is  not  one  of  this  name 

north-west  of  the   county  of  Donegal.     They  at  present  in  Tirconnell,  though  they  were  the 

passed  afterwards  into  the  possession  of  a  branch  ancient  chiefs  of  it  preceding  the  O'Donnells. 

of  the  Mac  Sweenys,  who  received  from  them  c  Armoy,  aipreap  mai^e — An  ancient  eccle- 

the  appellation  of  Mac  Suibhne  na  dtuath.  siastical  town  in  the  barony  of  Carey,  in  the 

*  Argyle,  aipep  jaoioeal,  i.  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  Kinel- 
Connell  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  Cammhuinea- 
lach  [Wry-necked]  O'Boyle,  the  head  Chieftain  of  the  Three  Tuathas2,  Mac 
Sorley,  Lord  of  Argylea,  and  other  chiefs  of  the  Kinel-Connell.  A  great 
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 
Britt,  sheriff  of  Connaught,  and  his  brother,  a  young  knight.  The  country 
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,  after  having  gone  on  a  predatory  excursion  into  his  country 
as  far  as  Armoyc  in  Dal-Riadad. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Hugh  0' Conor,  made  his  escape  from  Athlone. 

Miles  Mac  Costello  took  possession  of  Feadha  Conmaicne6,  and  expelled 
Cathal  Mac  Rannall  from  thence  :  the  Crann6g  of  Claenloughf  was  also  taken 
for  him,  and  he  left  those  who  had  taken  it  to  guard  it  for  him.  Hereupon  Cathal 
and  Turlough,  two  sons  of  Hugh  O'Conor,  rose  up  to  assist  Mac  Rannall  in  ex- 
pelling Mac  Costello  from  Feadha-Conmaicne.  They  retook  the  Crann6g  and 
the  Lake,  and  demolished  the  castle  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  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. 

der  the  year  1 177,  p.  33.  bearing  this  name  in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  but 

d  Dal-Riada —  A  territory  which   compre-  the  Down  Survey  shews  "  Clean  logli"  in  the 

hended  that  part  of  the  county  of  Antrim  north  parish  of  Killarga,  in  the  barony  of  Dromahaire, 

of  Slemmish. — SeeUssher's  Primordia,  p.  1029.  having  the  Duff,  now  Diffagher  River,  running 

e  Feadha  Conmaicne,  i.  e.  the  woods  of  Con-  from  it  to  Lough  Allen.     This  Lough  is  now 

maicne. — A  district,  near  the  River  Shannon,  in  called  Belhavel  Lough,  and  is  shewn  under  this 

Mac  Rannall's  country,  in  the  south  of  the  county  name  on  the  Ordnance  Survey  of  the  county  of 

of  Leitrim.  Leitrim,  sheet  15. 

f  Claetilovgh — There  is  no  lough  at  present  g  Tuaim-mna,  now  Tumna,  a  parish  in  the 

2T2 


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  Con- 
nacc. l?o  cionoil  coippbealbac  clanna  ciccfpnab  Connacc  50  piachcaoap 
pib  ua  noiapmaDa  -)  muinnip  pachaib.  T?o  mapbpae  Oaofne  lomba.  Panga- 
Dap  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 
6oib,  t)U  in  po  mapbab  Dponj  Oo  jallaib,  Cooap  uaca  Da)m6e6m  co  pangaDop 
cfpa.  l?o  chionoil  cpa  Siupcan  De^fcpa,  Clann  aoaim,  ~[  ^oill  cfpa  50 
coippbealbac  poppdccaib  coippoealbac  an  cfp  boib  6  na  bof  coimlion  ppiu. 

buipjep  cinncpachca  Do  lopccab  la  ca6g  mac  concobaip  puaiD,  -\  la 
ca&j  mac  cuacail  mic  muipcfpraij  muimnij,  ace  cfna  nf  pnapaDap  joill  Con- 
nacc ppi  pe  imcen  poime  pin  pamail  coccaD  na  piojoamnab  poppa  Don  cup 
pin.  Cona  bof  cuac  no  cpiocha  cfcc  DO  cpich  ^all  i  Connaccaib  jan  cpech 
jan  apccain  uabaib. 

T?opp  commain  -j  apD  capna  DO  lopcab  la  gallaib. 

pionnjuala  injfn  RuaiDpi  ui  Concobaip  Do  ecc  i  ccunja  peclifn. 

Lomgfpp  DO  ceacc  Do  ua  Duboa  -\  Dua  baoi  jill  Do  apccain  caipppi,  -\ 
luce  luinje  Dib  Do  baDaD  occ  mpi  cuac  papp  pa  ma^nup  ua 


barony  of  Boyle,  and  county  of  Roscommoii,  ad-  k    The    castle   of  Bungalvy,    Caiplen    bona 

joining  the  River  Shannon.     Archdall  does  not  5ai'^"le>   i-  e-  the  castle  at  the  mouth  of  the 

mention  this  monastery.     In  the  Irish  Calendar  River  Gal  way.     O'Flaherty,  in  combating  the 

of  the  O'Clerys,  the  patron  saint  of  this  church  assertions  of  Ptolemy  as  to  the  tribes  enume- 

is  called  Etaoin,  at  the  5th  of  July.     Thus  :  rated  by  him,  thus  speaks  of  this  river  :  "Flu- 

"  Gcaom  o  Cuaimna  a  maj  luipj  le  caob  vius   in   occidental!   Connacta;  e   lacu   Orbsen 

ubann  6uiUe,  i.  e.  Etaoin  of  Tumna,  in  Moy-  (Lacus  Curb)  dilabens  nunquam  Ausoba  aut 

lurg,  at  the  bank  of  the  River  Boyle."     This  Ausona,  nomine  innotuit,  sed  Gaillimh,  a  quo 

virgin  is  still  vividly  remembered  at  this  church,  urbs  Celebris,  Connact»  decus,  in  ostio  nomen 

and  her  grave  is  shewn  in  the  churchyard  —  See  Galviam  mutuavit."  —  Ogygia,  pp.  16,  17. 

note  under  the  year  1249.  '  Mac  Elget.—  Mageoghegan  calls   him  Mao 

h  O*  Gittapatrick.  —  In  Mageoghegan's  transla-  Eligott.     A  family  of  this  name,  and  probably 

tion  of  the  Annals  of  Clomnacnoise  he  is  more  the  descendants   of  this   seneschal,   settled   at 

correctly   called   Donnogh  mac  Anmchie  mac  Bally-Mac-Elligott,  near  Tralee,  in  the  county 

Donnogh  Mac  Gillepatrick.  of  Kerry,  where  they  were  highly  respectable 

1  Fiodh-  Ua-n-Diarmada,  i.  e.  the  wood  of  the  till  the  close  of  the  seventeenth  century. 

territory  of  Hy-Diarmada,   or   O'Concannon's  mBuirges  Chinntrachta,  i.  e.  the  borough  at  the 

country,  in  the  county  of  Galway.  head  of  the  strand  __  That  this  place  was  in 


124?.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  325 

A  great  war  [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 
whom  he  proceeded  to  Fiodh-Ua-n-Diarmada'  and  Muintir-Fahy,  where  they 
slew  many  persons.  From  thence  they  marched  to  the  castle  of  Bungalvyk 
[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- 
said] 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 
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. 

Buirges  Chinntrachtam  was  burned  by  Teige,  son  of  Connor  Roe,  and 
Teige,  son  of  Tuathal,  who  was  son  of  Murtough  Muimhneach.  The  Eng- 
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 
English  in  Connaught  which  they  did  not  plunder"  and  devastate. 

Roscommon  and  Ardcarne  were  burned  by  the  English. 

Finola0,  daughter  of  Roderic  O'Conor,  died  at  Conga-Fechin  [Cong]. 

O'Dowda  and  O'Boyle  brought  a  fleet  to  plunder  Carbury ;  and  the  crew 
of  one  ship,  under  the  command  of  Manus  O'Boyle,  were  drowned  at  Inis- 
Tuathrass". 

Connaught,  and  not  lubhar  Chinntrachta,  now  °  Finola,  pionnjualu,  signifying  of  the  fair 
Newry,  in  Ulster,  no  doubt  can  be  entertained,  shoulders,  was  common  as  the  name  of  a  woman 
It  was  in  all  probability  the  ancient  name  of  in  Ireland,  till  the  latter  end  of  the  seventeenth 
Burriscarra,  which  is  situated  at  the  north-east  century ;  but  it  is  now  entirely  obsolete, 
extremity  of  Lough  Carra,  in  the  barony  of  P  Inis-Tuathrass,  i.  e.  the  island  of  the  district 
Carra,  and  county  of  Mayo,  and  where  the  Eng-  of  the  Roses.  There  is  no  island  off  the  coast 
lish  fortified  themselves  in  the  year  1238. — See  of  Sligo,  or  Donegal,  now  bearing  this  name.  It 
Genealogies,  Tribes,  aiut  Customs  oflly-Fiachrach,  was  probably  the  ancient  name  of  Cruit  Island, 
pp.  202,  203.  off  the  coast  of  Tuathrass,  now  the  district  of  the 
n  Which  they  did  not  plunder,  literally,  there  Rosses,  in  the  northwest  of  the  barony  of  Boy- 
was  not  a  tuagh  or  cantred  of  the  territory  of  lagh,  in  the  county  of  Donegal.  The  ship  of 
the  English  in  Connaught,  without  being  preyed  Manus  O'Boyle  would  seem  to  have  been  lost 
and  plundered  by  them."  before  she  had  cleared  the  coast  of  Tirconnell. 


QNNata  Rio^hachca  eireeaHN.  [1248. 

Uabg  mac  Concobaip  puaib  Do  lopccab  mpi  moipe  claenlocha  -]  ochcaji 
ap  pichic  Do  jallaib  Do  lopccab  innce. 

TTlamepnp  Do  ofnorii  i  njaitlirh  in  aipDepppocoicecc  cuama  td  huilliam 
bupc  njeapna  cloinne  PiocaipD  Do  bpairpib  .8.  ppampeip.  Oo  ponaDh  cuam- 
ba&a  lomDa  la  opuing  moip  DO  mairib  an  baile  ip  in  mamepcip  pin. 

TTlainipcip  Inpe  i  rruabriiurham  in  epppocoicecr  cille  Da  Lua  Do  Denarii 
la  hua  mbpiain  conab  innre  biop  abnacal  pil  mbpiain. 

Slot  jeaD  mop  la  TTlac  TTluipip  mec  geapailc  •]  la  gallaib  ap  cappaing  gop- 
pa&a  uf  Dorhnaill  50  hepp  T?uaiD.  Do  chaoc  RuaiDpi  6  canannam  50  ccenel 
cconaill  ina  najaib,  -|  m  po  chumainjpfc  nf  Do  ma  Dul  peacha  pin  Don  chup 
pin 

aois  crcioso,  1248. 

Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  cfchpaca,  a  hochc. 

DiapmaiD  ua  cuana  Saccapr  mop  oile  pinn  DO  ecc  -\  a  aDnacal  i  ccill 
rhoip. 

TTlaijipDip  gillbepc  ua  cfpbaill  DO  ecc. 

Opichm  5uep  Do  mapba6.Do  giollamocoinne  ua  cacail. 

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 
inpib  mo6,  T?o  chionoil  Siupcan  De^ecpa,  Seon  buicilep,  Pobbfn  laiglep  -| 
Daoine  imDa  immaille  ppiu  Uanjaoap  50  baile  copaip  paccpaicc  aippibe 
j;o  hachab  pabaip.  T?o  aipccpioo  umall  ap  nabapach  chuaic  -]  reap. 


q  Claenlough  —  This  cannot  be  the  Lough  Cleane  rally,  they  were  not  able  to  do  aught  to  him. 

in  the  parish  of  Killarga,  in  the  county  of  Lei-  '  Or  to  proceed  further,  oul  peaca  pm,  literally, 

trim  above  mentioned  in  note  f,  because  that  "  to  go  beyond  that,"  i.  e.  beyond  Assaroe,  at 

lough  contains  no  island.    There  is  another  lake  Ballyshannon. 

which  anciently  bore  this  name  near  Castlebar,  u  0'  'Cuana  __  This  name   is  now   Anglicised 

in  the  county  of  Mayo.  Cooney. 

r  Race  of  Brian,  pol  mbpiain,  i.  e.  of  the  w  Kilmore,   i.  e.    the  church   of  Kilmore  na 

race  of  Brian  Borumha,  Monarch  of  Ireland.  Sinna,  to  the  north-east  of  the  town  of  Elphin. 

These  are  the  O'Briens  of  Thomond,  and  all  the  x  Inse  Modka,,—  named  from  Modha,  one  of  the 

branches  that  shot  off  from  them.  Clann  Hua  Mor,  a  tribe  of  the  Firbolgs,—  a  clus- 

s  Were  unable,  ni  po  cumain5rft  "i  GO,  lite-  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. 

A  monastery  was  founded  in  Galway,  in  the  archdiocese  of  Tuam,  by 
William  Burke,  Lord  of  Clanrickard,  for  Franciscan  friars.  Many  tombs 
were  erected  in  this  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'. 

A  great  army  was  led  by  the  son  of  Maurice  Fitzgerald  and  the  English  to 
Assaroe  [at  Ballyshannon],  at  the  desire  of  Godfrey  O'Donnell.  Rory  O'Can- 
annan,  with  the  Kinel-Connell,  came  against  them,  and  the  English  were  unable* 
to  do  him  any  injury,  or  to  proceed  furthur'  on  that  occasion. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1248. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  forty -eight. 

Dermot  O'Cuana",  the  great  priest  of  Elphin,  died,  and  was  buried  at 
Kilmore". 

Master  Gilbert  O'Carroll  died. 

( )pichin  Guer  was  slain  by  Gilla-Mochoinne  O'Cahill. 

The  son  of  Manus  and  the  son  of  Conor  Roe  rose  up  together  against  the 
English.  The  castle  of  Mac  Henry,  i.  e.  of  Piers  Poer,  was  burned  by  them, 
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 
to  Bally toberpatrick",  and  from  thence  to  Aghagower* ;  and,  on  the  next  day, 

of  Murrisk  and  Erris,  in  the  county  of  Mayo.  St.  Patrick's  rick  or  stack.     The  author  of  the 

y  Battytoberpatrick,  6aile  Copaip  pacrpuicc,  Tripartite  Life  of  St.  Patrick  thus  speaks  of 

now  called  Ballintober.     A  village  in  the  ba-  this  place :  "  Progressus  Patricius  pervenit  us- 

rony  of  Carra,  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  where  the  que  in  Umalliam  quse  est  regio  maritima  occi- 

ruins  of  an  abbey  founded  in  the  year  1189  or  dentalis  ConnacisB.     Ibi  extructse  Ecclesise    de 

1190,  by  Cathal  Crovderg,  King  of  Connaught,  Achadh  fobhair  prasfecit,  et  iu  Episcopum  conse- 

are  still  to  be  seen  in  good  preservation.  cravit  S.  Senachum  virum   vita?  innocentia  & 

'  Aghagower,  Qcab  paBaip,  a  parish  church  animi  submissione  longe  celebrem." — Lib.  ii.  c. 

in  the  barony  of  Murrisk,  county  Mayo,  east  of  62.     And   again  :  "  His   peractis  descendit  de 

the  famous  mountain  called  Cpuacphaopaij,  or  monte  (Cruach  Patraic)  Patricius,  ac  in  ecclesia 


328  QNNaca  Rio^hachca  emeaNR  [1248. 

Gnpf  Dana  mop  pluai£eab  in  urhall  (Dia  rip  bubfn)  uaip  ap  mnce  boi  a 
aiccpeabab.  Oo  poijne  Din  piapup  puep  mac  6npf  Sic  pe  Dorhnall  mac 
majnupa.  T?o  jeall  Dana  Dorhnall  50  cciobpab  pocpaiDe  -]  apcpaiji  DO 
DO  cum  Dula  ap  a  bpaicpib. 

Oala  mac  uf  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 
mac  na  ^cullp0^6  1  Seon  mac  an  gall  pacaipc.  17o  mapba6  beop  la  Diap- 
maiD  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  .1.  Diapmaio  mac  majnupa  ip  in  maijin  pin. 

UaDcc  mace  Concobaip  puaiD  DO  mapbaD  la  jallaib.  6a  mop  cpa  abuac 
1  imeacclu  an  caiDj  pin  pop  gallaib  i  gaomealaib  Doneoc  Do  biob  na  aghaib 
61  ob  50  ppudip  a  aioheaD. 

SluaijeaD  la  TTluipip  mac  gfpoilc  i  ccip  conaill.  Cpeaca  ai&ble,  upcha, 
1  aipccrie  DO  Dfnam  laip.  RuaiDpi  ua  cananndin  Do  lonnapbaD  bo  i  ccenel 
Gojain  -\  cicchfpnup  cenel  cconaill  Do  paccbail  05  goppaib  mac  DomnaiU 
ui  Domnaill. 

Sluaiccheab  Do  bfnarh  la  cenel  neojain  -\  la  hua  ccananndm  i  cap  Conaill 
Dopibipi  50  ccugpao  cac  Do  joppaib  ~|  Do  cenel  cconuill  jup  mapbab  ua 
canannain  .1.  Ruaibpi  i  lomaD  ina  pocaip  Don  coipc  pin. 

Sluaicchfb  oile  la  lupcip  na  hfpeann  i  ccenel  neojain  50  hua  nell. 
Ctppi  comaipli  DO  ponpaD  cenel  eojain  annpin  bpaijoe  Do  cabaipc  uaca  o  DO 
buf  nfpc  gall  pop  jaoibealaib  Gpfnn,  -\  pic  DO  ofnam  piu  cap  cfnn  a  ccfpe. 
Qp  Don  cup  pin  Do  ponpac  goill  Dpoichfc  na  banna  -|  caiplen  Dpoma  caip- 
picch. 

de   Achadh-fobhair  reliquam  paschaj  celebravit          a  Umallia,  north  and  south North  Umallia 

solemnitatem."     Colgan  has  the  following  note  is  the  present  barony  of  Burrishoole,  and  south 

on    its    situation,    in    Trias  Thamn.,    p.    178,  Umallia  is  the  barony  of  Murrisk.     The  former 

col.  b,   note  118:  "  Ecclesia  de   Achadhfobhair  is  called   Umhall  iochtrach,   or  lower  Umhall, 

est  Diocesis   Tuamensis   et  Comitatus  Mageo-  and  the  latter,   Umhall  Uachtrach,    or   upper 

nensis   in   Connacia.      Et   licet   hodie   sit  tan-  Umhall,  by  the  Irish,  and  both   "  the  Owles" 

turn  parrochialis,   &  caput   ruralis   Decanatus,  by  English  writers. 

iuit  olim  sedes  Episcopalis." — See  Genealogies,          b  Lord  Justice According   to   the   Dublin 

Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiac/track,  printed  for  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen,  this  expedi- 

the  Irish  Archaeological  Society,  p.  150,  noteh.  tion  against  O'Neill  was  performed  by  Theobald 


1248.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  329 

they  plundered  Umallia  north  and  south'1.  Henry  came  with  a  numerous  army 
into  Umallia  (his  own  country),  for  his  residence  was  there.  Pierce  Poer, 
the  son  of  Henry,  made  peace  with  Donnell,  son  of  Manus,  and  Donnell  pro- 
mised that  he  would  give  him  men  and  vessels  to  attack  his  kinsmen. 

As  to  the  sons  of  O'Conor,  who  were  on  the  [islands  of]  Inse  Modh,  they 
received  information  that  a  body  of  men  had  gone  from  the  son  of  Henry 
[Poer]  to  Donnell,  for  the  purpose  of  bringing  his  ships ;  and  O'Conor's  sons, 
on  learning  this,  went  forth  and  killed  O'Huain,  son  of  the  Englishwoman, 
and  John,  the  son  of  the  English  priest.  In  the  affray,  Sinnott  Guer,  and  a 
number  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 
valiant  hero  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  great  depredations  and  plunders.  He  banished 
Rory  O'Canannan  into  Tyrone,  and  left  the  lordship  of  Kinel-Connell  to  God- 
frey, the  son  of  Donnell  O'Donnell. 

The  Kinel-Owen  and  O'Canannan  mustered  a  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  Justice6  of  Ireland  into  Tyrone,  against 
O'Neill.  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  Bann°,  and  the  castle  of  Druim  Tairsigh". 

Butler,  who  was  then  the  Lord  Justice.  "  A.  D.  1248.  An  army  by  the  Galls  of  Ire- 

e  The  bridge  of  the  Bann,   bpoicfc  na  banna.  land    to   Culraghan,    and   [they   erected]   the 

— This  is  not  the  bridge  now  called  Banbridge,  bridge  of  the  Banna,  and  the  castle  of  Drom- 

in  the  county  of  Down,  but  a  bridge  on  the  tarsy,  and  a  dwelling  at  Drom." 

Lower  Bann  at  Coleraine.   In  the  old  translation          d  Druim  Tairsigh In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the 

of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  this  passage  is  given  as  Annals  of  Ulster,  the  passage  is  given  thus: 

follows  :  A.  D.  1248.  lupoir-  no  henenn  bo  oul  rluaj 

2  U 


330 


Rioghachca  emecwN.  [1248. 


Qpcpaiji  Do  cabaipc  la  bpian  ua  nell  ciccheapna  chipe  heojain  6  loch 
peabail  i  maj  nice  cap  cfpmann  Da  beocc  50  pamicc  loc  neipne  50  noepna 
cpeaca  Dioaipme  i  jup  bpipp  caiplen  ann. 

Cortmaicne  mapa  uile  Dapccain  Do  jallaib.  "fiaill  DO  bul  pop  pluai^eab 
DO  com  ui  plaichbepcaij.  mai&m  Do  cabaipc  Do  poppa  -|  pochai&e  Do 

mapbao  61  ob. 

ITluipceapcac  ua  oubDa  .1.  an  caiccleipeac  (.1.  cijeapna  6  all  Dapbile  co 
cpaij)  DO  mapbaD  la  mac  pe&limiD  uf  concobaip. 

Uilliam  bupc  DO  ecc  i  papraib.  Q  copp  DO  cabaipc  co  heipinn  -|  a  aona- 
cal  in  ac  ipeal. 

T?)  ppanc  DO  6ul  co  hiepupalem  DO  copnarh  na  cpiopDaiDeachoa. 

loan  cpnal  DO  mapbaD  la  jiollu  na  naerh  ua  bpfp^ail. 

peblimiD  mac  cacail  cpoibDeipg  DO  cabaipc  paca  na  pomanac  Do  can- 
dnchaib  cille  moipe  cpe  popconjpa  cai&j  ui  mannacdin  an  onoip  naem  muipe 
1  .p.  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  pal- 
lium laip,  i  aipppionn  DO  paba  Do  leip  a  bpeil  peoaip,  i  poll  in  apornacha. 

50  cul  pacain,  7  caiplen  7  opoiceao  DO  oenum  repaired. 

66iB  ag  opuim  raippic,  L  e.  "  The  Justiciary  of          e  Vessels These  were  cots,  or  small  boats, 

Ireland  went  to  Coleraine  with  an  army,  and  a  which  were  carried  by  land  on  the  shoulders  of 

bridge  and  a  castle  were  built  by  them  at  Druim  men,  to  be  launched  on  lakes  for  plundering 

thairsich."  islands.     This  passage  is  not  in  the  Dublin  copy 

There  is  no  place  on  the  River  Bann  now  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  but  it  is  thus  given  in 

called  Druim  Tairsigh,  or  Drumtarsy ;  but  there  the  old   translation:    "A.   D.    1348.   Shipping 

can  be  no  doubt  that  it  was  on  the  western  side  brought  by  Brian  O'Nell,  Archking  of  all  the 

of  that  river,  opposite  Coleraine.     According  to  North  of  Ireland,  from  Lochfevail  to  Moynitha, 

Pope  Nicholas's  Taxation  (in  1291),  there  was  over  Termon  Daveog  to  Logh  Derge,  till  he  came 

a  parish  of  Drumtarsi,  in  the  diocese  of  Derry,  to  Lough  Erne,  until  he  made  a  great  prey  and 

which  must  be  somewhere  about  Killowen,  as  it  broke  a  castle  .there."     Termon-Daveog  is  now 

is  mentioned  between  Camus  and  Dunbo.     In  called  Termon  Magrath,   and   its  church   was 

the  year  1347,  Donald  O'Kenalar  was  parson  of  situated  on  an  island  in  Lough  Derg,  near  Petti- 

Drumtarsny,  in  the  diocese  of  Derry ;  and,  in  goe,  in  the  county  of  Donegal. 
1 382,  the  castle  of  Druntarcy  was  ordered  to  be 


1248  ]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  331 

Brien  O'Neill,  Lord  of  Tyrone,  brought  vessels6  [small  boats],  from  Lough 
Foyle  into  Magh-Ithef,  and  across  Termon  Daveog,  until  he  reached  Lough 
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. 

Murtough  O'Dowda,  that  is,  the  Aithchleireach,  Lord  of  the  tract  of 
country  extending  from  Kildarvilla*  to  the  Strand,  was  killed  by  the  son  of 
Felim  O'Conor. 

William  Burke  died  in  England.  His  body  was  brought  over  to  Ireland, 
and  buried  at  Athassel". 

The  King  of  France  went  to  Jerusalem  in  defence  of  Christianity. 

John  Tyrrell  was  slain  by  Gilla-na-naev  O'Farrell. 

Felim,  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  gave,  by  order  of  Teige  O'Monahan,  Rath- 
na-Romhanach'  to  the  canons  of  Kilmore,  in  the  honour  of  the  Blessed  Virgin 
Mary  and  St.  Augustine. 

AulifFe,  son  of  Cathal  Reagh  O'Rourke,  was  treacherously  slain  by  Cathal 
Carrach  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  into  Moy-Ithe — The   ancient  Tireragh,  in  the  counties  of  Mayo  and  Sligo. 
Irish  gave  the  name  of  Lough  Foyle  to  the  whole          h  Athassel,  ac  ipeal,  i.  e.  the  low  ford. — A  vil- 

extent  of  water  from  the  mouth  of  the  lake  to  lage  situated  in  the  barony  of  Clanwilliam,  in 

Lifford.     They  had  no  River  Foyle.     Magh  Ithe  the  county  of  Tipperary,  on  the  west  side  of 

lies  to  the  west  of  what  is  now  called  the  River  the  River  Suir,  where  William  Fitz-Adelm  de 

Foyle.  Burgo  founded  a  priory  for  canons  regular  of 

s  KildarvUla,  cill  oaipbile,  i.  e.  the  church  of  the  order  of  St.  Augustine. — See   Ware  and 

St.  Dervilla, — This  is  a  very  ancient  church  in  Archdall. 

the  south  of  the  parish  of  Kilmore,  in  the  ba-          '  Rath-na-Romhanach  is  the  name  of  a  town- 

rony   of  Erris,    and    county   of  Mayo.      The  land  in  the  parish  of  Kilmore  in  the  territory  of 

strand  here  alluded  to  is  Traigh  Eothaile,  Tiear  Tir-Briuin  na  Sinna,  of  which  O'Monahan  was 

Tanrego,  in  the  county  of  Sligo,  which  formed  chief  at  this  period.   It  is  now  called  in  English 

the  eastern  boundary  of  O'Dowda's  country  at  Rathnarovanagh. — See  Ordnance  Survey  of  the 

this  period.     This  O'Dowda  was  chief  of  the  en-  county  of  Roscommon,  sheet  17- 
tire  of  the  baronies   of  Erris,   Tirawley,    and          k  Raighned. — His  real  name  was  Reiner.    For 

2  u2 


332  cnwata  Rioshachcci  emeaNR  [1249. 

aois  crcioso,  1249. 

Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceo,  cearpacac  a  naof. 

TTlaolmuipe  ua  lachrnam  aipDeppcop  ruama,  -]  maijipDip  a  ccanom  DO 
ecc  ip  in  ngeimpeaD  gap  beacc  pia  noDlaicc. 

Gnopiap  mac  gilla  gep  comopba  pecin  Decc. 

TTlaolciapain  ua  lenacain  uapal  paccapc  ruama  mna,  peap  cije  aoi6ea6 
coiccinn  iDip  eacclaip  -\  ruair  t»o  ecc  ap  plicchiD  05  Oul  50  hapocapna 
DeipDeacc  penmopa  ip  in  aome  pe  lucchnapaD  ~|  a  a&nacql  50  huapal  ono- 
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  i  ccill  moip  na  pionna. 

CoccaD  mop  -|  uilc  iom6a  DO  Denarii  Do  pm£m  mag  capcaij  ap  gallaib 
Deapmurhan. 

Piapup  puep  mac  Gnpi,  oabic  rpiu,  -\  pocaiDe  DO  jillib  occa  amaille  piu 
DO  coiDeachc  le  mac  peopaip  i  cconnaccaib  co  caiplen  pliccij.  Qocuap  DO 
mac  peolimiD  ui  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. 

Imrupa  mac  peolimiD  lappin  ramie  poime  50  cip  piacpac  -]  ap  puD 
chpiche  mic  peopaip  gup  lomaipcc  i  6  rhuaiD  co  cpaicch  neoruile  an  rpaoip. 


account  of  this  archbishop,  whose  surname  was  built   by   the  family   of  Lenaghan.      The 

or  country  has  not  yet  been  determined,  see  name  is  still  extant  in  the  parish. 

Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  66.     He  °  Gitta-  Muinelack  O1  Boyle,  i.  e.  the  wife  of  Gilla 

returned  from  Rome  in  the  year  1247.  Cammhuinelach,   or   the  wry-necked,  O'Boyle, 

1  A  proficient  in  the  canon  law,  maijipcip  a  who  was  slain  at  Ballyshannon,    in   the  year 

ccanom  —  By  this  is  meant  that  he  was  an  emi-  1247. 

nent  canonist.  p  Made  a  great  war.  —  This  passage  could  not 

">  Coarb  of  Fee/tin,  i.  e.  abbot  of  Cong,  in  the  be  literally  rendered  into  English.     The  reader 

county  of  Mayo.  may  form  an  idea  of  the  construction  by  the 

nTuam-mna.  —  See  note  g,  ad  an.  1248,  p.  323.  following  Latin  version:  "  Bellum  magnum  et 

There  is  a  tradition  in  the  neighbourhood  of  mala  multa  facta  sunt  per  Florentium  Mac  Car- 

Carrick-on-Shannon,  that  the  chapel  of  Toomna  thy  in  Anglos  Desmonije." 


1249-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  333 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1249. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  forty-nine. 

Mulmurry  O'Laghtnan,  Archbishop  ofTuam,  a  proficient  in  the  canon  law1, 
died  in  winter,  a  short  time  before  Christmas. 

Andreas  Mac  Gillager,  Coarb  of  Fechinm,  died. 

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'Boyle0,  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  Mac  Carthy  made  a  great  warp  on  the  English  of  Desmond,  and 
inflicted  many  evils  upon  them. 

Pierce  Poer,  the  son  of  Henry,  David  Trew,  and  a  number  of  young  men, 
went,  along  with  Mac  Feorais",  into  Connaught,  to  the  castle  of  Sligo.  The 
son  of  Felim  O'Conor  marched  to  meet  them,  and  a  fierce  battle  was  fought, 
in  which  Pierce  Poer,  David  Trewr,  and  many  of  the  youths  aforesaid,  were 
slain ;  and  their  bodies  were,  carried  to  Ballysadare  for  interment. 

As  to  the  son  of  Felim,  he  proceeded  after  this  to  Tireragh,  and  through  Mac 
Feorais's  country,  which  he  entirely  plundered  from  the  Moys  to  Traigh  Eothuile- 

q  Mac  Feorais,  now  pronounced  Mac  Keorish,  Harbour See  his  Ethnography  of  the  Celtic 

the  initial  p  being  aspirated.  This  was  the  Irish  Race,  sect.  xii.  par.  2.     O'Flaherty  thus  speaks 

surname    assumed  by   the  Berminghams  from  of  this  river,  Ogygia,  p.  165:   "MuadusAdam- 

Feorus,  or  Piarus,  the  son  of  Myler  Berming-  nano  Moda,  Moadus  Giraldo  Cambrensi,   Cal- 

ham,  their  ancestor. — See  Harris's  Ware,  vol.  ii.  gano  Muadius,  Moy  Anglis,  unde  Moyus  Waraeo 

p.  59-  e    Lugnia   districtus    Sligoensis    in    Galengam 

r  David  Trew — Mageoghegan  writes  the  name  Mayonensem    dimanat,  &    oceanum    ingrediens 

David  Drew,  in  his  translation  of  the  Annals  of  utrumque  comitatum  disterminat,  Tirficria  Sli- 

Clonmacnoise.  goensi,  &  Tiramalgad  Mayoensi  ultra  citraque 

5  The  Moy, — This  river  is  the  Moda  of  Adam-  positis." 
nan,  which  Dr.  Prichard  takes  to  be  Wexford          Thus  Colgan,  Trias  Tliaum.,  p.  374,   col.  «, 


334 


eiraeciNR 


[1249. 


Leanaipp  gejioicin  mac  peopaip  iao  co  pu$  ap  DonncaD  mac  majjnupa  gup 
cpfccnaijeaD  e  laip.  ^aBcap  beop  lap  nci  juin  i  bepceap  e  50  Dun  concpea- 
cam.  Leanaipp  mac  pet>limi6  iaD  lapom  50  crucc  mac  magnupa  leip  lap 
mapbab  gepoiccm.  TTlac  ma£nupa  Do  ecc  lapom  DO  bicin  an  tuic  pin  -|  ba 
moipeapbaib  epibe. 

TTlac  muipip  DO  cionol  pocpaioe  50  ccainicc  i  cconnaccaib  gup  ben  an 
ineo  ap  a  puce  Dona  cpeachaib  Do  mac  peDlimib.  OD  cuala  peolimiD  mac 
cacail  cpoiboeipj  cionol  na  ngall  Do  beic  ina  compoccup  cap  ep  na  mop  olc 
DO  poijne  a  mac  oppa  app  i  comaiple  DO  pinne  a  imipceacha  Do  cop  cap 
pionainn  poip  ip  in  mbpeipni,  -|  i  ccuaipceapc  eipeann.  'CionoilipDinan  lupcfp 
goill  mibe  i  laijfn  50  ccaimcc  pluaj  mop  poirhe  cap  achluam,  aippiDe  i 
piol  muipeaDaij  ~\  mac  muipip  Don  leic  apaill,  joill  connacc  i  muman 
mapaon  pip.  Cangaoap  na  pluaispi  DO  jach  caoib  50  hoilpinn  mp  milleab 
pil  muipeaoaij  pompo  50  pin,  i  cuccpac  cuca  coippbealbac  mac  aoba  mic 


note  35 :  "  Moda  fluvius  est  Connacise  Celebris, 
vulgo  Muaidh  &  nobis  Latine  Moadus  sive  Mua- 
dus  appellatus." 

c  C|iaij  ©oruile  an  cpaoip,  i.  e.  the  strand  of 
Eothuile  the  artifex,  anciently  called  cpaij  an 
caipnand  cpaijl?uipaip5i&.  A  very  large  strand 
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 
lapidum  (unde  Traigh- an-chairn  dictum  videtur) 
etiamnum  conspicitur  in  medio  littore  semper 
fluctibus  niirabiliter  eminens."  This  earn  is  now 
called  Cairgin  mor,  and  it  is  believed  that  it  is 
never  covered  by  the  tide. 

u  Gereoitin  Mac  Feorais,  i.  e.  little  Garrett 
Bermingham.  Mageoghegan  calls  him  Gerdin 
Bremyngham,  in  his  translation  of  the  Annals 
of  Clonmacnoise,  under  this  year. 

w  Them,  iao. — The  most- remark  able  imperfec- 
tion in  the  style  of  these  Annals  is  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  personal  pronouns.  The  leading  nomi- 
native in  this  sentence  is  the  son  o/Felim,  and  yet 
the  writer  suddenly  introduces  iuo,  them,  though 


there  is  no  plural  noun  in  the  previous  part  of 
the  sentence  to  which  it  could  refer.  This  is 
to  be  attributed  to  the  carelessness  or  want  of 
skill  in  the  writers,  perhaps  to  both,  not  to  any 
imperfection  in  the  language,  for  nothing  could 
be  easier  than  to  set  the  sentence  right  by  intro- 
ducing pocpaioe  instead  of  iao. 

x  Dun  Contreathain,  now  Donaghintraine,  a 
townland  in  the  parish  of  Templeboy,  in  the 
barony  of  Tireragh,  and  county  of  Sligo. — See 
Ordnance  Map  of  that  county,  sheet  12  ;  and 
Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiach- 
rach,  p.  283. 

3  As  much  of  the  preys,  that  is,  as  much  as  he 
•could  catch  of  those  preys  which  the  son  of  Fe- 
lim  had  driven  away  from  Tireragh,  then  in  the 
possession  of  the  Berminghams. 

z  The  Lord  Justice. — This  passage  is  well 
translated  as  follows  in  Mageoghegan's  Annals 
of  Clonmacnoise  under  this  year. 

"  The  Deputie  of  Ireland  assembled  together 
all  the  English  of  Meath"  [and]  "  Lynster,  and 
with  them  came  to  Athlone,  from  thenee  to  Sile- 
moreye.  Mac  Morishe  was  of  the  other  side,  with 


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335 


an-tsaoir.  Gereoitin  Mac  Feorais"  pursued  them"  [i.  e.  the  sonofFelim  and  his 
forces],  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. 
Mac  Maurice  [Fitzgerald]  mustered  an  army,  and,  proceeding  into  Con- 
naught,  took  from  the  son  of  Felim  as  much  of  the  preys"  as  he  could  overtake. 
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 
done  to  the  English,  he  adopted  the  resolution  of  sending  his  moveable  pro- 
perty eastwards  across  the  Shannon  into  Breifny,  and  into  the  north  of  Ireland. 
The  Lord  Justicez  then  assembled  the  English  of  Meath  and  Leinster,  who 
marched  a  great  army  across  [the  bridge  of]  Athlone,  and  thence  into  Sil- 
Murray;  and  Mac  Maurice  [Fitzgerald],  on  the  other  side,  had  with  him  the 
English  of  Connaught  and  Munster.  Both  these  armies,  having  first  plundered 


all  the  forces  of  the  English  of  Connought  and 
Munster.  Both  armies  mett  at  Alfyn,  destroy- 
ing and  spoyleing  all  Silmorey  to  that  place, 
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.  They  afterwards  preyed 
and  spoyled  the  lands  of  Brenie,  and  also  made 
many  great  hurts  in  that  contrey,  and  con- 
veighed  their  preys  along  with  them;  remained 
twenty  nights  at  Silemorey,  ruining  and  de- 
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 
Silemorey. 

"The  Nobility  of  Connought  went  to  Athen- 
rie,  to  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,  the  Sheriff  of  Connoght, 
with  many  Englishmen,  were  in  the  said  towne 


before  them,  the  Sheriff  and  Englishmen  desired 
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 
against  the  will  of  the  said  Terlagh,  which  Jor- 
dan de  Exetra,  the  Sheriff,  and  Englishmen  see- 
ing, they  rushed  forthe  to  meet  with  the  said 
Irishmen,  where  the  Virgin  Mary  wrought  mi- 
raculouslie  against  the  said  Nobility.  When 
the  Irish  Nobility  saw  the  Englishmen,  well 
apoynted  with  harness,  armes,  and  shirts  of 
mail,  make  towards  them,  they  were  daunted 
and  affirigted  at  their  sight  and  presently  dis- 
comfitted.  Hugh  mac  Hugh  O'Connor  was 
killed  in  that  pressence,  Dermott  roe  Mac  Cor- 
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- 
mack  mac  Dermodda,  Finnanagh  mac  Brannan, 


336  CINNCK,CI  reioshachca  eiraeaNN.  [1249. 

cacail  cpoibDeips  jup  piogpaD  6  an  iona6  peobmiD  mic  carail.  l?o  aipcc- 
pfcc  cpioc  bpepni  laparii.  Do  ponpac  uilc  lomba  innce  Da  jjac  aipo.  'Cucc- 
paD  cpeaca  Dipimi  eipDi.  6aDap  piche  omche  jona  laib  i  piol  muipea&aig 
50  milleaDjupaipccpioD  loc  ce  gona  oilenaib  -|  an  cappac  immaille  piii.  Do 
cuam  cpa  an  uipcip  ipm  miDi  mppm  i  mac  muipip  50  plicceac.  paccbam 
coippoealbac  05  coirheO  pil  muipeabai^. 

Sluaiccheab  la  piojbarhnaib  connacc,  .1.  coippbealbac  -\  aeo  Da  rhac  aeba 
mic  carail  cpoiboeipg  50  hac  na  piog  Da  lopccab  i  Da  lomapccain  im  pel 
muipe  nne&on  pojrhaip.  baoi  pippiam  connacc  ip  in  baile  ap  a  ccionn,  -|  joill 
lom&a  ma  pocaip.  lappaiD  na  joill  caipDi  an  laoi  pin  ap  cloinn  pij  connacr 
an  onoip  naerh  tnuipe  pa  pel  bof  ann.  Nocan  puaippfc  pin  uacha.  5lOea^ 
bof  coippbealbac  ga  croipmeapc  im  an  mbaile  DionnpaijiD,  -\  nocap  Dampac 
uaiple  an  cpluaij  gan  a  paijiD  Da  airiibeoin.  Oo  connaipc  piupcdn  50 
njallaib  pin  cangaoap  ap  ip  mbaile  amac  i  ccoinne  an  cploij,  -j  iaD  apmca 
eoijce.  ^abaip  cpa  eacclu  -]  uiprheacachc  occbaiD  an  cpluai^  apaill  ga 
hpaicpin  parhlaiD  ma  ccoipijcib  cara  lonnup  gup  meabpao  pompo  cpe  miop- 
baibb  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 
majnupa,  cappac  in  piubail  mac  nell  ui  concobaip,  baor^alac  mac  ae6ac- 
cam,  Da  mac  lochlamn  ui  concobaip.  Oorhnall  mac  copbmaic  meic  Diap- 
maoa,  an  pionnanac  mac  bpandin,  cumurhan  mac  cappaplaij;,  i  apaill 
immaille  piu. 

OonncaD  ua  jiollapaccpaicc  .1.  mac  anmcaoa  mic  DonncaiD  Dopppaijib 
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."  "  Donnogh  mac  Anmchy  mac  Dormogh  mac 

"•  Twenty  nights  and  days,  piche  oioche  50  na  Gillepatrick,  the  besthead  of  a  companie  thatever 

IdiB,  literally,  "  twenty  nights  with  their  days."  descended  of  Ossei^e,  of  the  race  of  Colman  mac 

b  The  rock  —  Mac  Dermot's  castle  in  Lough  Brickne  high"  [recte  6icne  caoic],  "  or  Scanlan 

Key,  in  the  barony  of  Boyle,  and  county  of  Eos-  mac  Kynfoyle  down,  for  manhood,  vallour,  and 

common.  bounty,  was  killed  by  the  Englishmen  of  Forgip, 

c  Truce,  caipoe,  literally,  respite.  as  he  deserved  of  the  English  divers  times  before, 

d  Donough  CPGillpatrick.  —  This  passage  is  given  for  he  killed,  preyed,  and  burnt  many  anEnglish- 

as  follows  in  Mageoghegan's  Annals    of  Clon-  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 
place  of  Felim,  the  son  of  Cathal.  They  afterwards  plundered  Breifny,  and 
committed  many  injuries  there  in  every  direction,  and  carried  away  from  thence 
innumerable  spoils.  They  were  twenty  nights*  and  days  in  Sil-Murray  rav$g- 
ing  it,  so  that  they  plundered  Lough  Key,  with  its  islands,  and  also  the  Rockb. 
The  Lord  Justice  then  went  to  Meath,  and  the  son  of  Maurice  to  Sligo,  leaving 
Torlough  in  charge  of  Sil-Murray. 

An  army  was  led  by  the  Roydamnas  [heirs  presumptive]  of  Connaught, 
namely,  Turlough  and  Hugh,  two  sons  of  Hugh,  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg, 
to  Athenry,  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. 
The  English  demanded  a  trucec  for  that  day  from  the  sons  of  the  King  of 
Connaught,  in  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  Eng- 
lish saw  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 
battle  array,  were  seized  with  fear  and  dismay,  so  that  they  were  routed ;  and 
this  was  through  the  miracles  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary,  on  whose  festival 
they  had  refused  to  grant  the  truce  demanded  from  them.  Of  their  chiefs 
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  Mac  Dermot ;  Finnanach  Mac 
Branan ;  Cumumhan  Mac  Cassarly,  and  others  besides. 

Donough  0'Gillapatrickd,  i.  e.  the  son  of  Anmchadh,  son  of  Donough,  one 
of  the  Ossorians,  was  killed  by  the  English.  This  was  a  retaliation  due  to 
the  English ;  for,  up  to  that  time,  he  had  killed,  burned,  and  destroyed  many 

man  that  [most]  war'd  against  the  Englishmen,  son  of  Anmchy  in  his  own  person,  did  use  to 

after  the  first  footing  in  this  land,  viz.,  Connor  goe  to  take  view  of  the  Englishmen's  towns  and 

O'Melaghlyn,  Connor  of  the  Castles  Mac  Cogh-  forts,  in  the  habbitt  of  a  poor  man,  carpenter, 

Ian,  and  this  Donnogh  mac  Aimichy;  for  the  turner,  or  other  tradesman." 

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338  avwata  Rioshacea  eiReaNN.  [1250. 

loipcc  i  po  lepionnaip  biob  50  pin.  bahe  an  Donncab  pa  an  cpeapp  jaoi&eal 
bub  mo  Dpojlab  oppa,  .1.  Concobap  ua  maoilpeaclainn,  Concobap  naccaiplen 
mac  cochlain  ~\  TTlac  anmchabha  .1.  an  bonncab  pa.  Oip  ap  e  cejeab  Do  bpac 
na  mbailceab  mapccab  i  ccpuc  bume  boicc,  no  paofp  no  ropnopa,  no  ealabna, 
no,oo  bfnarh  cepoe  cfnnaiji,  amail  po  pai&fo. 

616  na  Shaep,  bib  na  copnoip, 
616  mo  laoj  na  leabpoip 
616  05  pec  pfona  ip  cpoicionn, 
map  a  bpaicfnn  pe  pfpmoin. 

Oun  ,mop  Do  lopccab  t»o  cloinn  pij  Connacr. 

Sluaiccheab  la  hua  noomnaill,  .1.  goppaio  in  loccap  Connaccjnp  milleab 
1  gup  lomaipcceab  laip  6  coipppbab  co  muaib  co  ccamicc  plan  lap  mop 
copccap  oon  cup  pin  co  neoalaib  ~\  co  mbpaijoibh  lomDaib. 

QO13  CR1O3O,  1250. 
Ctoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceo,  caocca. 

"Comap  ua  meaUaij  eppucc  Ganaij  Duin  Do  ecc. 

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  a  cenel  neojain  Do  pai£i&  na  bpfipne.  QippiDe  ip  na  cuaraib  ~|  Con- 
cobap mac  ciccfpnam  mapaon  pipp.  QippiDe  i  rcfp  maine  gup  Diocnuippfo 
coijipoealbac  aConnaccaib  amac  50  noeachaiD  in  uchc  jail  Dopibipi.  Cio- 
noilm  pe&lim  imipceaca  Connacc  laip  cap  pliab  pejpa  pfop  gup  cuippioD 

e  He  is,  bio — This  translation  is  strictly  li-  of  Tuam,  in  the  county  of  Galway.  A  short 

teral,  word  for  word,  except  that  bib  is  in  the  distance  to  the  west  of  the  town  are  the  ruins  of 

consuetudinal  present  tense  in  Irish,  which  has  a  castle  in  tolerable  preservation,  which  was 

no  corresponding  tense  in  English.  originally  erected  by  Hosty  Mac  Mebric,  or  Mer- 

f  Dun  mor,  i.  e.  the  great  fort,  now  the  little  rick,but  which  afterwards  fell  into  the  possession 

town  of  Dunmore,  about  eight  miles  to  the  north  of  the  Berminghams. 


1250.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  339 

of  them.  This  Donough  was,  of  the  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  a  carpenter,  he  isc  a  turner, 
My  nursling  is  a  bookman, 
He  is  selling  wine  and  hides, 
Where  he  sees  a  gathering. 

Dunmoref  was  burned  by  the  sons  of  the  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  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],  died. 

Turlough,  son  of  Mortough  Muimhneach  O'Conor,  Prior  of  the  church  of 
SS.  Peter  and  Paul,  died. 

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 all  the  moveable  property  of  Connaught,  and  proceeded  with  it  down 
across  Sliabh  Seaghsa  [the  Curlieu  Mountains],  but  the  English  sent  messen- 

g  Mac  Kidnel. — He  is  called  Congalach  Mac-      p.  226,  where  he  is  given  as  Bishop  of  Kilmore. 
Eneol  in  Harris's  edition   of  Ware's  Bishops, 

2x2 


340  aNNaca  Rioghachca  emeaNN.  [1251. 

5oill  ceachca  na  6eoi6  50  nDfpnao  pic  fcoppa,  -|   a  piji  Daipeacc  66  pen 

O0plt)lpl. 

bpaijoe  Connachc  Do  batlao  in  arh  luain  DO  jallaib. 

Cpeac  mop  Do  6fnarh  la  peDlimiD  pop  cacal  ua  Concobaip  ~|  a  accop  a 
connaccaib. 

Caipbpe  ua  maoilpeaclainn  Do  mapbab  i  ppell  la  Dauic  Roicpi. 

OiapmaiD  ua  hfjpa  ncchfpna  luijne  Do  ecc  i  bppiopun  05  mag  geapailc. 

Sluaicchf  6  mop  la  muipip  mac  geapailc,  cacal  ua  pajallaij,  cuconnachc 
ua  pa^allaij,  -|  maice  ua  mbpiuin  uile  immaille  ppiu  i  ccenel  eojain  50 
pabaoap  cfopa  hoi&ce  i  cculaij  occ.  puaippioD  mop  Dulc  -|  DimneaD  ainn- 
pine.  Nochap  jabpac  jell  na  eDipeaoa  6  uib  nell  Don  cup  pin.  lap  cceachc 
Doib  cap  a  naipp  i  ccenel  Conaill  muipip  mac  jepailc  Do  jabail  uf  canannain 
cicchfpna  cenel  cconaill  ap  comaipce  an  eappuicc  uf  cfpballdm.  Q  mapbab 
boib  mppin  -|  e  05  cpiall  ap  eccin  uara. 

Pmjfin  mag  capchaijh  Do  mapbaD  la  gallaib  Dfpmurhan. 

QO1S  C171OSO,  1251. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  caoccae  a  haen. 

T?ai  jneo  aipDeppcop  apDamaca  Do  Dul  Do  Roim  Dia  oilicpe. 

plopinc  mac  ploinn  DoipDneaD  la  not>lac  in  aipDeppcopoiDeacc  cuama 
ap  meD  a  eccna  -|  a  eolaipp. 

TTlainepcip  hi  call  na  mullach  in  eppcopoiccecc  copcaighe  Dochumoach 
lapan  mbappach  ~\  cojha  aDnaicce  na  mbappac  pin  innce. 

^lollumocoinne  mac  giollamocoinne  uf  cachail  DO  mapbaD  la  Concobop 
mac  afoha  mic  cacail 


h  Were  blinded,  oo  ballao  __  This  would  ap-  lin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen,  he  was 

pear  to  have  been  done,  not  by  putting  out  the  slain  by  his  own  uncle,  Donnell  God  MacCarthy, 

eyes,  but  by  thrusting  needles  into  them.  —  See  who  was  assisted  by  the  head  of  the  Goggans,  or 

Genealogies,  fyc..,  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  337.  De  Cogans,  though  they  were  at  peace  with  him. 

'  Bishop  O'Carolan.  —  He  was  German,  or  Gilla-  This  Fineen  was  the  son  of  Dermot  of  Dundro- 

Coimdedh  O'Carolan,  who  was  Bishop  of  Derry  ban,  who  was  the  son  of  Donnell  More  na  Curra 

from  the  year  1230  till  his  death  in  1279  __  See  Mac  Carthy. 

Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  288.  *  Raighned.  —  His  real  name   was   Reiner,  as 

k  Fineen  Mac  Carthy  —  According  to  the  Dub-  appears  from  the  public  records.     He  obtained 


1251.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  Ml 

\ 
gers  after  him,  and,  a  peace  being  concluded  between  them,  his  kingdom  was 

again  restored  to  him. 

The  hostages  of  Connaught  were  blinded"  by  the  English  at  Athlone. 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  Felim  on  Cathal  O'Conor,  and  the 
latter  was  driven  out  of  Connaught. 

Carbry  O'Melaghlin  was  treacherously  slain  by  David  Roche. 

Dermot  O'Hara,  Lord  of  Leyny,  died  in  prison,  where  he  had  been  con- 
fined by  Fitzgerald. 

A  great  army  was  led  by  Maurice  Fitzgerald,  Cathal  O'Reilly,  Cucon- 
naught  O'Reilly,  and  all  the  other  chiefs  of  Hy-Briuin,  into  Tyrone,  and 
remained  three  nights  at  Tullaghoge,  where  they  sustained  much  injury  and 
hardship,  but  obtained  no  pledges  or  hostages  from  the  O'Neills  on  this 
expedition.  On  their  return  into  Tirconnell  Maurice  Fitzgerald  took  O'Can- 
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 
from  them. 

Fineen  [Florence]  Mac  Carthy"  was  slain  by  the  English  of  Desmond. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1251. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  fifty-one. 

Raighned1,  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. 

A  monastery  was  founded  at  Kilnamullaghra,  in  the  diocese  of  Cork,  by 
Barry,  who  chose  a  burial  place  for  his  family  in  it. 

Gilla  Mochoinne,  son  of  Gilla  Mochoinne  O'Cahill,  was  slain  by  Conor,  son 
of  Hugh,  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg. 

the  King's  license  for  five  months  on  the  llth  the  hills  or  summits It  is  now  called  Buttevant, 

of  June,  1253,  to  repair  to  Koine,  in  order  to  and  is  situated  in  the  barony  of  Orrery,  in  the 

settle  some  affairs  relating  to  his  church,     ite  county  of  Cork See  O'Sullivan  Beare's  His- 

never  returned,  but  died  at  Rome  in  1256 See  tory  of  the  Irish  Catholics,  p.   159,  where  he 

Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  66.  translates  this  name  "  Ecclesia  tumulorum." 
01  Kilnamuttagh,   oil  net  mullach,  church  of 


342  QNNaca  Rioshachca  emeawN.  [1251. 

Ua6j  mac  ruarail  mic  muipcfpraij  muirhnijj  ui  Concobaip  t>o  mapbab 
DO  gallaib. 

t)a  mac  ftuaibpi  ui  nell  60  mapbab  i  call  moip  ua  nialldin. 

Clpbgal  ua  lairhbfpcaij  coinbeal  ^aipccib  -]  emj  cuaipccipc  Gpeannbo 
ecc. 

^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  mac  aipc 
ui  Ruaipc. 

TTluipeabac  ua  caibj  bo  ecc. 

Cior  mop  bpeapcain  la  pell  poll  -|  pebaip  in  uib  bpium  50  pnarhab  eacop 
abbal  cimceal  baile  cille  moipe  na  Sionna,  -|  50  melpeab  muilfnn  ap  an  ppuc 
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,  part  of  the  county  of  Leitrim,  for  Druim  da 
L  e.  the  great  church  of  the  territory  ofHy-Niallain,  eitkiar,  now  Dromahaire,  in  the  county  of  Lei- 
now  the  church  ofKilmore,  in  the  barony  of  trim,  is  mentioned  as  in  the  territory  of  Calrigia. 
Oneilland,  and  county  of  Armagh,  and  about  r  Hy-Briuin-na-SimM  comprehends  the  pa- 
three  miles  to  the  east  of  the  city  of  Armagh.  rishes  of  Aughrim,  Kilmore,  and  Clooncraff,  in 

0  Fanad. — A  territory  in  the  north-east  of  the  east  of  the  county  of  Eoscommon.  It  was 

the  barony  of  Kilmacrenan,  in  the  county  of  divided  from  Kinel-Dofa,  or  O'Hanly's  country, 

Donegal. — See  note s,  under  the  year  1 1 86,  p.  76.  by  a  chain  of  lakes  now  called  Muckinagh,  and 

f  Kinel-Farry,  cinel  pfpaDcnj; A  territory  separating  the  parish  of  Kilglass  from  those  of 

in  the  barony  of  Clogher,  in  the  county  of  Ty-  Kilmore  and  Clooncraff;  and  from  the  territory 

rone.  of  Corcachlann,  by  the  Kiver  Uar,  or  Owenoor. 

q  Calry,  caljiai^e,  and  Latinized  Calrigia —  Coradh  na  dtuath,  the  weir  or  dam  of  the 
A  territory  in  the  north-east  of  Connaught,  the  Tuathas,  now  a  bridge  on  an  arm  of  the  Shan- 
name  of  which  is  still  preserved  in  the  parish  of  non,  and  on  the  road  from  Eooskey  to  Drumsna, 
Calry,  in  the  barony  of  Carbury,  and  county  of  divided  Tir  Briuin  from  Kinel  Dofa,  and  the 
Sligo;  but  it  is  quite  clear  from  a  passage  in  ford  of  Bellanagrange,  now  spanned  by  a  bridge 
the  Tripartite  Life  of  St.  Patrick,  lib.  ii.  c.  103,  on  the  road  from  Strokestown  to  Drumsna,  is 
that  this  territory  originally  comprised  some  the  point  at  which  the  three  Tuathas  met — 


1251.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  343 

Teige,  son  of  Tuathal,  who  was  son  of  Murtough  Muimhneach  O'Conor, 
was  slain  by  the  English. 

The  two  sons  of  Rory  O'Neill  were  slain  in  Kilmore-0'Neillandn. 

Ardgal  O'Laverty,  the  lamp  of  the  valour  and  hospitality  of  the  north  of 
Ireland,  died. 

Gilchreest  O'Breslen,  Chief  of  Fanad0,  and  his  brother,  were  slain  by 
Kellagh  Balbh  [the  Stammering]  O'Boyle. 

Donough  Mac  Cawell,  Chief  of  Kinel-Farryp,  was  slain  by  the  men  of  Oriel. 

Ivor  Mac  Madden,  Chief  of  Clann-Ruadhrach,  was  slain. 

Conor,  son  of  Cormac,  who  was  son  of  Tomaltagh  Mac  Dermot,  illustrious 
for  hospitality  and  prowess,  died. 

Flaherty  O'Carroll,  Chief  of  Calry",  was  slain  by  Art,  son  of  Art  O'Rourke. 

Murray  O'Teige  died. 

On  the  festival  of  SS.  Peter  and  Paul,  a  great  shower  of  rain  fell  in  Hy- 
Briuin-na-Sinnar,  so  that  a  large  boat  might  have  sailed  round  the  town  of 
Kilmore-na-Sinna ;  and  a  mill  might  grind  on  the  stream  which  ran  from  the 
hill  down  to  the  ford  of  Ath-na-faithche,  at  Fenagh,  during  the  time  that 
vespers-  were  being  chaunted. 

Flann  O'Laghtnan,  Chief  of  the  Two  Bacs,  died'. 

See  entries  at  the  years  1398  and  1451,  where  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  and  of  Connaught 

the   churches  of  Aughrim  and  Clooncraff  are  contain   the  following  notice  of  the  death  of 

mentioned  as  in  this  territory.  Clarus  Mac  Mailin,  Aichdeacon  of  Elphin : 

5  Two  Bacs,    an    oa   bac This    territory  "  Clarus  Archidiaconus  Olfyn,  vir  providus  & 

retains  its  ancient  name  to  the  present  day,  discretus,  qui  Carnem  suam  jeinniis  et  orationi- 

and  is   applied  to  a   Roman   Catholic  parish,  bus  macerabat,  qui  patientiam  et  Coronam  ob- 

which  comprises  the  ancient  parishes  of  Bally-  servabat,  qui  persecutionem  a  multis   propter 

nahaglish  and  Kilbelfad,  in  the  barony  of  Tir-  justitiam  patiebatur,  venerabilis  fundator  Loco- 

awley   and  county    of  Mayo.     But  it    appears  rum  fraternitatisSanctse  Trim  tatis,  per  totamHi- 

from  the  Book  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  as  transcribed  berniam  specialiter  fundator  Monastery  Sanctas 

by  Duald  Mac  Firbis,  that  Ardagh,  Kilmore-  Trinitatis  apud  Loghke,  yir  Locum  Sepulture 

Moy,  and  Eosserk,  were  originally  comprised  in  ibidem   elegit,    et  in  Christo  quievit    Sabatho 

this  territory.     It  was  bounded  on  the  east  by  Penthecostes  dominicse,  cuius  anima:  propitietur 

the  River  Moy,  and  on  the  west,  to  a  consider-  Deus  omnipotens  in  Coelo,  cui  ipse  servivit  in 

able  extent,  by  Lough  Cullin  and  Lough  Conn,  seculo,  in  cuius  honore  ecclesiam  de  Ryndoyne, 

See   Genealogies,   Tribes,    and  Customs   of  Hy-  et  monasterium   Sanctse  Trinitatis  apud  Ath- 

Fiachrach,   p.  232,   note  k,   and  note  r  under  moye,   Ecclesiam  Sanctse  Trinitatis  apud  Kill- 

the  year  1180,  p.  56,  eupra.     Under  this  year  ruisse  ajdificavit." 


344  ctNNata  TJio^hachca  eiraeaNN.  [1252. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1252. 
Ctoip  Cpiopo,  mile,  od  ceo,  caocca,  aoo. 

ITlaolmae&occ  ua  beolldin  corhopba  colaim  cille  in  Dpinm  cliab,  pfp  ba 
mop  caoup  ~\  conac,  ba  hoip&fpca  oineac,  ba  huille  onoip  ~\  aipmiDin  6  jal- 
laib  -]  6  jaoibealaib  pe  a  linn  Do  ecc. 

Caipplen  caoiluipcce  Do  Dfnam  la  mac  muipip  meic  gfpailc  -|  caiplen 
riiuiji  coba. 

Concobop  ua  Dochapcaijj  coipeac  apDa  miooaip,  cuip  omij  -]  fngnama  an 
cuaipcceipc  Deg. 

Concobop  mac  cacmaoil  coipeac  cenel  ppfpabaij  i  lolcuac  apcfna.  SIOD- 
aighe  Conaille,  6ojain,  -|  oip^iall  Do  mapbao  la  muincip  bpiain  ui  nell  05 
copnam  a  comaipci  ppiu,  lap  mbeic  Do  pop  planaib  ui  gaipmleaDaij  -]  ui 
cachdin. 

Cuconnacc  mac  Conpnama  coipeac  muincipe  cinaic  Do  ecc.  • 

J5iollu  ipu  ua  cfpbaill  coipeac  calpoiji  Dpoma  cliab  Do  ecc. 

TTlaghnup  mac  jiollu  Duib  coipeac  ceallaij  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 

1  Cael-uisce,  i.  e.  Narrow-water — This  place  County  of  Down,  p.  294. 

retains   its   ancient  name   to  the  present  day          u  Moy-Cova,    maj  coBa,   i.  e.   the  plain  of 

among  those  who    speak  Irish,  but  is  always  Eochy-Cova,    the  ancestor  of  the  tribe   called 

called  in  English  Narrow-water.     It  is  situated  Ui  Eathach  Cobha,   located  in  the  present  ba- 

between  Warren's  Point  and  Newry,  in  the  ba-  ronies   of  Upper   and   Lower    Iveagh,    in    the 

rony  of  Upper  Iveagh,  and  county  of  Down.  county  of  Down See  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  part 

The  name  was  originally  applied  to  the  narrow  iii.  c.  78.     The  Four  Masters,  and  from  them 

part  of  the  river,  near  the  head  of  Carlingford  Colgan  and  others,   have  erred  in  placing  this 

Lough — See  the  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys,  plain  in  Tyrone  ;  and,  Dr.  Lanigan  has  been  set 

at  the  2nd  of  April,  where  the  church  of  Cluain  astray  by  them,  where  he  conjectures  (Eeclesi- 

Dallain,   now   Clonallon,    is  described   as  near  astical  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  iv.  p.  11,  note  26), 

Snamh  Each,  i.  e.  the  harbour  which  is  near  the  that  Magh  Cobha  was  probably  where  the  vil- 

Cael  in  Iveagh,  in  Ulidia.  "  Conall  rnuc  Good  lage  now  called  Coagh  is  situated :  but  the  situ- 

6  cluain  ball6m  a  Bpail  r-narha  eac  .1.  an  cuan  ation  of  the  plain  of  Magh   Cobha  is  fixed  by 

lairii  pir-   in  caol  i  nllib  eacac  Ulao." — See  the  older  writers  who  place  it  inUibh  Eathach, 

also   Dubourdieu's   Statistical   Survey    of  the  now  Iveagh,  and  who  place  in  it  the  church  of 


1252.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  345 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1252. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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  him- 
self being  under  the  protection"  of  O'Gormly  and  O'Kane. 

Cuconnaught  Mac  Consnava,  Chief  of  Muintir-Kennyx,  died. 

Gilla-Isa  O'Carroll,  Chief  of  Calry  of  Drumcliffe,  died. 

Manus  Mac  Gilduff,  Chief  of  Tullygarveyy,  died. 

The  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland  came  to  Armagh  with  a  very  numerous  army, 
and  proceeded  thence  to  Iveagh,  from  which  he  marched  back  to  Cluain- 
Fiachna2.  Brian  O'Neill  and  his  brother  made  submission  to  him,  and  Rory 

Domhnach  more  Muighe  Cobha,  which  is  un-  Kindred  Feragh   and  many  other   places,  also 

questionably  the  present  Donaghmore,  in  the  the  upholder  of  liberality  and  fortitude  of  the 

barony  of  Upper  Iveagh,   nearly  midway  be-  North  of  Ireland ;  the  peace-maker  of  Connells 

tween  Newry  and  Loughbrickland — See  Fei-  and  Owens,  and  Airgialls   also,  killed  by  the 

lire  Aenguis,  at  16th  November;  and  Haliday's  Rutes"  [cokortes]  "  of  Brien  O'Neal,  defending 

edition  of  Keating's  History  of  Ireland,  p.  318,  his  comrick  from  them,  being  upon  O'Garmely 

where  the  plain  of  Magh  Cobha,  which  is  said  &  O'Cahan's  word  himself." 

to  have  been  cleared  of  wood  in  the  reign  of          x  Muintir- Kenny,  muincip  cinctir The  name 

Irial  Faidh,    is  said  to  be  situated  in  Aoibh  of  a  tribe  and  territory  in  the  barony  of  Drcrtna- 

Eachach,  anglide  Iveagh — See  note  q,   under  haire,  in  the  county  of  Leitrim.     The  name  is 

the  year  1188,  p.  81,  supra.  still  locally  known  and  applied  to  the  district 

w  Under  the  protection — This  passage  is  not  in  lying  between   Lough    Allen    and    the   River 

the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  but  it  Arigna. 

is  given  in  English  as  follows,  in  the  old  trans-  ?  Teattach  Gairbheth,  now  the  barony  of  Tully- 

lation  preserved  in  the  British  Museum :  "  A.  D.  garvey,  in  the  north-east  of  the  county  of  Cavan. 

1252.  Conner  Mac  Cathmoyl,  kingly  chief  of  z  Cltiain  Fiachna,    \.  e.  St.  Fiachna's  lawn, 

2  Y 


346  ctNNata  Rio^hachca  eireectNN.  [1253. 

bpajaio  Doibh.  Qp  ap  an  pluaigheab  po  raplu  impeapain  lonjpuipc  eoip 
pfpaib  mibe  ~\  rhuimneacaib  i  noun  Dflgan  co  ccopcpDap  pochaibe  Do  pfpaib 
murhan. 

Ueapbac  mop  -\  riopmac  ip  in  pampab  50  ccejcf  copaib  riopmaib  rap 
ppiorhaibhnib  Gpeann.  Gpbanna  Gpeann  beop  50  mbuain  piche  laice  pia 
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  i  maigh  pen. 

CpeacTipluaijeab  la  goppaiDh  ua  TiDorhnaill  hi  cip  neoghain  Dia  ccap- 
paib  bu  i  bpaighoe  lie.  TCucc  bpian  ua  neill  paip  05  pdjbdil  an  cfpe.  Ro 
piccheab  lomaipeag  arhnup  fcoppa  aoiu  "]  anall  50  pairiiib  pop  cenel  neogh- 
ain  co  ppapgaibpfc  ap  cfnn  im  Dpuing  riioip  Dia  nDaghoaoinib. 

QO13  CR1OSD,  1253. 
Ctoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceo,  caocca,  a  cpf. 

Qlinn  ua  Suilleabdin  eppucc  leapa  moip  Do  ecc. 

Oauic  mac  ceallaij  uf  siollupaccpaicc  eppcop  cluana  mic  noip  t>o  ecc, 
1  comap  ua  cuinn  bpacaip  mionup  Doiponeab  ip  in  l?oirii  na  lonab. 

^lollaceallaij  ua  TCuaibfn  eppuc  ua  ppiachpac  Do  ecc.  Seon  ua  laioij 
bparaip  DopD  .8.  Dominic  Doiponeab  ina  lonab  i  ccill  alaD  ua  ppiachpac,  -] 
5]iaba  eppuic  Do  rabaipr  paip  i  ccuaim  an  Dapa  Dorhnac  Don  geariicopjup. 

niaimpDip  Do  benarii  Do  bpaicpib  .8.  Oomimc  i  Slicceach. 

meadow,  or  bog-island.     It  is  mentioned  at  the  b  Thomas  0'  Quin — He  was  a  Francisca'n  friar, 

ye*s  1003  and  1069  as  a  monastery;  but  its  and  was  confirmed  by  King  Henry  III.,  on  the 

exact  situation,  or  modern  name,  lias  not  been  20th  of  February,    1252,  English   style. — See 

determined.  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  171. 

a  Discontinued,   oo   cpfcceub,  literally,   teas          c  Gilla-Ketty  WRuaidliin See  Harris's  edi- 

abandoned.     In  modern  times  this  entry  would  tion  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  650,  where  the  Edi- 

be  thus  expressed:  New  coin  was  issued  in  Ire-  tor  writes,  under  JOHN  O'MAILFAGAMAIR,  who 

land  by  order  of  the  King  of  England,  and  the  died  in  1234 :  "  I  do  not  find  who  was  his  next 

old  coin  was  called  in.  successor.     But  it  is  certain  the  see  was  vacant 


1253.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  .  347 

O'Neill  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. 

Great  heat  and  drought  prevailed  in  this  Summer,  so  that  people  crossed 
the  [beds  of  the]  principal  rivers  of  Ireland  with  dry  feet.  The  reaping  of  the 
corn  crops  of  Ireland  was  going  on  twenty  days  before  Lammas  [the  1st  of 
August],  and  the  trees  were  scorched  by  the  heat  of  the  sun. 

New  money  was  ordered  by  the  King  of  England  to  be  made  [coined]  in 
Ireland,  and  the  money  previously  in  use  was  discontinued11. 

Murrough  O'Fallon,  High  Constable  of  Connaught,  was  slain  in  Moy-Kein 
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,  in  which  the  Kinel- 
Owen  were  defeated,  and  left  behind  many  heads,  with  a  great  number  of 
their  chieftains  [i'  e.  as  prisoners]. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1253. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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. 

Gilla-Kelly  0'Ruaidhinc,  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. 

A  monastery  for  Dominican  Friars  was  founded  at  Sligo. 

on  the  22nd  of  June,  1253,  on  which  day  King  mair,  or  who  intervened;  but  there  is  mention 

Henry  III.  granted  a  licence  to  proceed  to  the  made  in  the  Records,  of  a  Bishop  of  Kittala 

election  of  a  Bishop  of  Killala,  as  appears  in  the  (whose  name  is  not  told)  who  went  to  England 

Records  of  the  Tower  of  London."     He  then  with  Florence  Mac  Flin,  Archbishop  of  Tuam, 

remarks,  under  O'LAIDIG  :    "I  do   not  know  A.  D.  1255,  to  complain  of  grievances." 
whether  he  immediately  succeeded  (P Mailfaga- 

2  Y2 


348  aNNCttcr  Rio§hacl-)ca  eiReanw.  [1253. 


TTlainipoip  Do  copainn  Dona  bpairpib  cena  05  ar  lechan 

Cuipc  DO  benarh  la  comalcac  ua  cconcobaip  eppcop  oilipinn  i  call  cepin. 

Gojjan  ua  hebin  cicchfpna  ua  ppiachpac  Do  ecc. 

Injfn  an  mpla  uleoig  bfn  milib  rrnc  goipoealbaij  Do  ecc  ~\  a  habnacal  i 
mainipoip  na  buille. 

Sluaiccheab  mop  la  jallaib  eipeann  im  TTlac  TTlmpipgo  noeachaib  i  ecip 
neogham  Do  paijpb  uf  nell  ~|  nochap  gabpac  jell  na  eDipeaba  innce,  uaip 
cuccab  ap  abbal  mop  Don  oul  pin  oppa. 

Coccab  mop  Do  Denarii  la  bpian  ua  nell  plaic  cenel  neojain  pop  gallaib, 
1  Dul  Do  50  moij  coba  gup  rpapccpaD  a  caiplen  leipp  immaille  le  mop  DO 
caiplenaib  oile.  Coipcccfp  an  Spaobaile  leipp  i  polmai^ip  macaipe  ulab. 

SluaiccheaD  Do  Denarii  Do  Domnall  uaRajallaij  -j  Don  caec  uaRajallaij 
DO  cacal  ua  concobaip  ~\  DO  jiollu  na  naerii  6  peapgail  i  muincip  eolaipp 
Dionnpaighib  cacail  mecc  17ajnaill  gup  aipccpfcc  an  np  uile.  baDap  Da 
oibce  longpuipc  05  culaig  dlainn,  i  an  cpfpp  oibce  ag  eanac  buib.  Oeiljip 
giollu  na  naerii  ua  pfpgail  ppiu  annpin.  CeaccaiD  muincipRajallaiji  carol 
6  concobaip  50  cluam  conmaicne  co  mbaDap  abaij  longpuipc  innce.  OD 

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,  the  Four  Masters.     The  literal  translation  is  as 

in  the  barony  of  Gallen,  and  county  of  Mayo.  —  follows  :  "  A  great  hosting  by  the  Galls  of  Ire- 

See   Ordnance  Map   of  the   county  of  Mayo,  land  about  Mac  Maurice,  so  that  they  went  into 

sheet  61.     The  Four  Masters   are   wrong   in  Tyrone  against  O'Neill,  and  they  did  not  take 

placing  this  in  the  territory  of  Leyny,  for  it  is  hostages   or    pledges,    for   a    prodigious    great 

certainly  in  the  ancient  territory  of  Gailenga,  slaughter  was,    on  that   occasion,    brought  on 

O'Gara's  original  country.  them."     It  is  thus  Englished  in  the  old  transla- 

e  Killtesin,  now  Kilteashin,  the  name  of  a  town-  tion  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster:  "  A.  D.  1253.  A 

laud  in  the  west  of  the  parish  of  Ardcarne,  in  the  great  army  by  Mac  Morris,  &c.,  went  to  Tyrone, 

barony  of  Boyle,    and  county    of  Eoscomnion.  and  tooke"  [i.  e.  obtained]   "  neither  force  nor 

There  are  at  present  no  ruins  of  this  palace  to  be  might  there.     And  the  Galls  lost  a  great  navy" 

seen  here,  but  there  is  a  mound  called  Suidhe  \recte  army]  "  by  that  journey." 

an  Easbuig,  i.  e.  the  Bishop's  seat,  near  which,  e  Chief  of  Kind-  Owen.  —  In  the  Dublin  copy 

tradition  says,  the  Bishop  of  El  phin  had  formerly  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  he  is  called  pi  j  ripe 

a  palace.  —  See  entries  under  the  years  1  243  and  heoj^am,  i.  e.  King  of  Tyrone,   and  in  the  old 

1258.     It  is  sometimes  called  Cill  Seisin  by  the  translation  of  these  Annals  he  is  styled  Arch- 

annalists,  but  now  always  cill  cSeipn,  or  Kil-  king  of  the  North  of  Ireland.     Thus: 

teashin,  by  the  natives.  "A.  D.    1253.    An  army  by  Brien   O'Neal, 

f  But  far  from  obtaining  —  The   language   of  Archking  of  the  North  of  Ireland,  to  Moycova. 


1253.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  349 

Another  monastery  for  the  same  order  of  friars  was  founded  at  Ath- 
Leathand  in  Leyny. 

A  palace  was  erected  by  Tomaltagh  O'Conor,  Bishop  of  Elphin,  at 
Killtesin6. 

Owen  O'Heyne,  Lord  of  Hy-Fiachrach  [Aidhne],  died. 

The  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  wife  of  Miles  Mac  Costello,  died,  and 
was  interred  in  the  Abbey  of  Boyle. 

A  great  hosting  by  the  English  of  Ireland,  under  the  command  of  Mac 
Maurice  (Fitzgerald),  and  they  marched  into  Tyrone  against  O'Neill ;  but,  far 
from  obtainingf  either  hostages  or  pledges  from  him,  they  were  cut  off  with 
very  great  slaughter  on  that  occasion. 

A  great  war  was  waged  with  the  English  by  Brian  O'Neill,  Chief  of  Kinel- 
Oweng.  He  marched  to  Moy-Cova,  the  castle  of  which,  with  a  great  number 
of  other  castles,  he  demolished.  He  also  burned  Sradbhaile",  and  desolated 
Machaire-Uladh' . 

An  incursion  was  made  by  Donnell  O'Reilly  and  the  Caech  [Monoculus] 
O'Reilly,  Cathal  O'Conor,  and  Gilla-na-naev  O'Farrell,  into  Muintir-Eolais, 
against  Cathal  Mac  Rannall,  and  they  plundered  the  entire  country.  They 
remained  two  nights  encamped  at  Tulach-alainn",  and  stopped  the  third  night 
at  Annaghduff1,  where  Gilla-na-naev  separated  from  the  others.  The  O'Reillys 
and  Cathal  O'Conor  then  marched  to  Cluain-Conmaicnem,  where  they  remained 

broke  down  the  castle,  and  many  castles  more  which  simply  means  "  street-town." 

in   Ulster,  &"   [killed]    "many  men   in    that  '  Machaire  Uladh,  i.  e.  the  plain  ofUlidia — 

journey. '  This  was  an  ancient  name  for  the  level  part  of 

11  Sradlhaile,  i.  e.  Street-town — This  is  still  the  county  of  Down,  which  was  at  this  period 

the  local  name  for  the  town  of  Dundalk,  in  the  called  Uladh  by  the  Irish. 

county  of  Louth;  but  sometimes  the  natives  of  k  Tidach-aluinn. — The  ancient  name  of  a  hill 

its  immediate  vicinity  call  it  simply  an  cppcno,  at  the  village  of  Carrigallcn,  in  the  county  of 

i.  e.  "t/te  street,"  without  adding  baile;  in  like  Leitrim. 

-manner  as  they  call  Drogheda  \_Pontana  civitas]  '  Annaghduff,    eanac  ouilj. — A  parish   near 

simply  an    bpoiceao,  i.  e.  "the  bridge,"  with-  Drumsna,  in  the  county  of  Leitrim. 

out  adding  arn,  i.  e.  of  the  ford.  The  strand  near  m  Cluain  Conmaicne — Now   the   village   of 

Dundalk   was    anciently   called   Traigh    Bhaile  Cloone,  in  the  barony  of  Mohill,  and  county  of 

mhic  Buain,  i.  e.  the  strand  of  Baile,  the  son  of  Leitrim.     There  was  a  monastery  erected  here 

Buan,  but  this  has  no  connexion  whatever  with  in  the  sixth  century  by  St.  Cruimther  Fraech, 

its   more    modern    appellation    of  SpaoBaile,  but  there  is  not  a  vestige  of  it  at  present — See 


350  aNNata  Rioshachca  eineaNN.  [1254. 

cuala  ae6  mac  peblimib  pin  cionoilip  co  einneapnac  a  muinrep.  tenaipp 
laopom  50  cluam  Uuccpac  cpfpp  a^apb  Dia  poile  gup  moibib  pop  mumcip 
rjajallai j,  mapbrap  ann  oonnchaoh  mac  jiollu  lopu  mic  Donncaib  uf  17ajal- 
laij,  mac  jiollu  coeoocc  ua  biobpaij,  q  pochaibe  oile  imaille  piu. 

TTlamepcip  .8.  Ppanpeip  in  apDpeapca  Do  oenom  la  ITlac  TTluipip  ciap- 
pai^e. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1254. 
Qoip  Cpiopo,  mile,  Da  ceD,  caocca,  a  cearaip. 

TDaolpinnen  ua  beollain  comopba  Dpoma  cliab  DO  ecc. 

ITlupcaD  ua  maoilpeaclamn  DO  rhapbaD  la  mac  an  cpionnaij  ui  cacap- 
naij. 

ua  hinnfpji  cuip  enjnama  chuaipccipr  epeann  Do  ecc. 
ppamiprep  cicchfpna  conmaicne  Dum  moip  Do  ecc. 

TTlainipDip  bparap  .8.  Oominic  in  ac  leachan  Do  lopccab  uile. 

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,  q  amlaoib  ua  biobpaij  Do 
mapbaD  la  Connachcaib  i  ccluain  Conmaicne. 

TTlajnup  ua  gabpa  DO  mapbab  cpe  anpocham  Do  muincip  mic  pebbmib 
in'  concobaip. 

('olgan's  Acta  Sanctorum,  p.  346,  and  Lanigan's  Londonderry.  This  passage  is  not  in  the  Dub- 
Ecclesiastical  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  ii.  p.  324.  lin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster;  but  it  is  found 
The  name  of  this  saint  is  now  locally  pronounced  thus  Englished  in  the  old  translation:  "A.  D. 
Cruffer  Ree.  1254.  Anyles  Hinerge,  the  threshold  of  man- 

n  Ardfert  is  a  village  in  the  barony  of  Clan-  hood  [eangnutiia],  in   the  North   of  Ireland, 

maurice,  and  county  of  Kerry,  about  four  miles  died." 

to  the  north-west  of  Tralee.      The   extensive  i>  Conmaicne  of  Dunmor'e. — This  territory  is 

ruins  of  this  monastery  are  still  to  be  seen  a  comprised  in  the  barony  of  Dunmore,   in  the 

short  distance  to  the  east  of  the  village.  north  of  the  county  of  Gahvay,  which  at  this 

0  G'Henery — The  O'Henerys  were  seated  in  period  belonged  to  the  family  of  Bermingham, 

the  valley  of  Glenconkeine,  in  the  county  of  or  Bramingham,  of  which  name  Pramistcr,  in 


1254.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  351 

encamped  for  a  night.  When  Hugh,  the  son  of  Felira,  heard  this,  he  quickly 
assembled  his  forces,  and  followed  them  to  Cluain.  They  gave  each  a  fierce 
battle,  in  which  the  Muintir-Reilly  were  defeated,  and  Donough,  son  of  Gilla- 
Isa,  the  son  of  Donough  O'Reilly,  the  son  of  Gilla-Toedog  O'Biobhsaigh,  and 
many  others,  were  slain. 

The  Franciscan  monastery  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'Henery0,  tower  of  the  valour  of  the  north  of  Ireland,  died. 

Pierce  Pramister,  Lord  of  Conmaicne,  of  Dunmorep,  died. 

The  Dominican  monastery  of  Ath-leathan  [Ballylahan,  in  the  county  of 
Mayo]  was  totally  destroyed  by  fire. 

Pierce  Ristubart",  Lord  of  Sil-Mailruainr,  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. 

Donough,  son  of  Donough,  who  was  son  of  Tomaltagh  [Mac  Dermot],  and 
Auliffe  O'Biobhsaigh,  were  slain  by  the  Connacians,  at  Cluain-Conmaicne. 

Manus  O'Gara  was  unjustly5  slain  by  the  people  of  the  son  of  Felim  O'Conor. 

the  text,  is  obviously  a  corruption.  Mailruain, — Baro  ille, — occisus  est  super  Lacum 

i  Pierce  Ristubard. — At  the  year   1235  the  Righe  per  Murchadum  O'Melaghlin." 
Four  Masters  call  the  Baron  Walter  de  Riddles-          r  Sil-Maelruain. — This   was  the  tribe  name 

ford  by  the  strange  name  of  6alcaip  Riccabapo,  of  the  O'Flynns  of  Ballinlough,  in  the  west  of 

and  the  probability  is,  that  Ristubard  is  here  an  the  county  of  Roscommon,  who  appear  to  have 

attempt  at  writing  the  same  surname.     If  not,  been  for  a  time  subdued  by  this  baron  ;  but 

the  name  intended  may  be  Rochfort.     This  sen-  they  recovered  their  possessions  soon  after  his 

tence  is   rather  carelessly  constructed  by  the  death. 

Four  Masters.     The  literal  translation  is  as  fol-          s  Unjustly Cpe  anpocam  means  per  nefas  ; 

lows:  "  Piarus  Ristubardus,  dominus    de  Sil-  pocain  means  cause;  an-pocam,  wrong  cause. 


352  awwaca  Rioghachca  eirceavw.  [1255. 

T?i  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,  1255. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  caocca,  a  cuij. 

Oonnplebe  6  ploinn  abb  pecclepa  peDaip  ~\  poll  in  Qpomaca  Do  ecc,  ~\ 
pacrpaicc  ua  muipeabaij  ppioip  an  cije  ceDna  Do  ro£a  Do  cum  na  hab- 
6ame. 

Uomap  mac  Diapmaoa  aipcinneac  oilepinn  Do  ecc.  peappun  maijhi 
luipj  aipci^,  i  cloinne  cuain  eipi&e. 

Ua  laioig  aipcinneac  eanaij  Dum  DO  ecc. 

QeD  mac  peolimio  ui  concobaip  Do  Dull  crfp  eojain  i  pir  Do  Denamh  66 
eoip  a  araip  pen  i  ruaipccfpc  Gpeann  -\  a  paite  Do  connaccaib  ap  eppir 
ipm  cuaipccfpc  DO  rabaipc  lepp  acuaic  rpe  lap  a  bfpgnamao  cona  nimep- 
?;ib,  .1.  mec  RuaiDpi  ui  concobaip  -]  goill,  -|  nocha  lamDaoip  upcoio  Do  Denarii 
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  Dublin  copy  of  the  An-  in  the  county  Cork],  about  the  fight  of  Cow- 

nals  of  Inhisfallen,  and  a  fragment  of  a  Munster  boys,  by  the  people  of  O'Mahony." 
copy  of  the  same,  contain  the  following  notice  of          The  Crom  here  mentioned  is  the  ancestor  of 

a  local  feud  in  Munster:  all  the  septs  of  the  O'Donovan  family  in  the  ba- 

_"A.   D.    1254.   Fln5'"    Reanna    pom,    mac  ronies  of  Carbery,  in  the  county  of  Cork,  and  of 

Oomnaill  ^uio,  7  O  OonnaBuin  DO  liiapBao  several  others  in  Leinster.     He  gave   name  to 

Oiaptnaoa  uimar^amna,  an-eipic  anChpuim  Gleann  a  Chruim,  i.  e.  Crom's  Glen,  a  district 

hui  Dhonnaodm  Do  mapbuo  np  Innpe  an  B^il,  in  the  county  of  Cork,  comprising  that  portion 

cimceall  qiooa   buacaillioe  bo,   le    muincip  of  the  parish  of  Fanlobus  lying  southwards  of 

hUi  miicirjamna.  the  River  Bandon.     According  to  the  pedigree 

'  A.  D.  1254.  FineenReanna  Roin  [of  Ring-  of  O'Donovan,  given  by  Duald  Mac  Firbis,  this 

rone],  the  son  of  Donnell  God  [Mac  Carthy],  Crom  had  three  sons,  namely,  Cathal,  Aneslis, 

and  O'Donovnn,   killed  Dermot  O'Mahony,  in  and  Loughlin,  who  were  the  founders  of  three 

revenge  of  Crom   O'Donovan,    who  had  been  distinct  septs,  called  Clann-Cahill,  Sliocht-Anes- 

slain  at   Inis  an  bheil  [Phale,   near  Inishkeen,  Us,  and Clann-Loughlin,  which  became  the  names 


1255.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  353 

The  King  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 
they  [his  family]  have  a  superb  tomb  in  the  chapel  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary 
in  this  monastery'. 

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. 

O'Laidig,  Erenagh  of  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 
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  parish  of  Myross,  and  that  his  magical  ship  is 

are  well  defined  in  the  public  records.     Cathal,  seen  once  every  seventh  year,  with  all  her  courses 

the  eldest  son  of  Crom,  had  two  sons,  namely,  set  and  colours  flying,  majestically  floating  on 

Teige,  the  ancestor  of  the  subsequent  chiefs  of  the  surface  of  that  lake.     John  Collins,  of  My- 

Clann-Cahill,  and  Ivor,  otherwise  called  Gilla-  ross,  who  was  intimately  acquainted  with  the 

reagh,  who  is  said  to  have  built  Castle- Ivor,  in  traditions  and  legends  of  these  districts,  writes, 

the  parish  of  Myross,  in  the  year  1251  [1351?],  in  his  pedigree  of  the  O'Donovans  :  "I  have 

which  remained  in  the  possession  of  his  descen-  seen  one  person  in  particular  testify  by  oath  that 

dants  till  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth  century,  he  had  seen  this  extraordinary  phenomenon  in 

This  Ivor  is  still  remembered  in  the  wild  tradi-  the  year  1778." 

tions  of  the  district  as  a  celebrated  navigator  and          u  Erenagh,  aipcmneac Mageoghegan  calls 

necromancer,  and  it  is  firmly  believed  that  he  is  him  Archdean,  but  we  have  shewn  elsewhere 

enchanted  in  a  lake  called  Lough  Cluhir,  near  that  this  is  a  mistake — See  note  °,  under  the 

his  castle,  in  the  townland  of  Listarkin,  in  the  year  1179,  p.  47. 

2  z 


354  aNNdta  Rio^hachca  eroeaNN.  [12.56. 


pa;can  1  gac  nf  Dap  pipeapoaip  choip  Dpacchail  Do  o  onoip  an  piojj  -|  a 
coi&eachc  anoip  DO  pi&ipi. 

TTlacjarhain  6  mannacdin  Do  mapbaD  ag  buimlinn. 

OiapmaiD  6  cuinn  attilaoib  a  mac  ~\  maici  mumcipe  ^lollccain  immaille 
piu  Do  mapbab  05  papabdn  moije  cpeaja  la  giollu  na  nafrh  ua  ppfpjail  -| 
a  napccam  laparh. 

Coinne  mop  eDip  6  cconcobaip,  .1.  peblimiD,  -\  mac  uilliam  bupc  05  cocop 
mona  comneaba.  Sic  Do  bfriarii  Doib  annpin  -|  jac  Dal  ina  paibe  peblimio 
Do  leccab  lepp. 

luliana  ingfn  comopba  caillin  i  jiollu  na  nafm  a  Dfpbpachaip  DO  ecc. 

Ragnailc  ingfn  uf  pfpgail  DO  ecc  i  nDabaij  pocpaicce. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1256. 
Qoip  Cpiopc  mfle,  Da  ceD,  caocca  ape. 

plann  mac  ploinn  aipoeppcop  cuama  Do  ecc  i  mbpipcuma. 

QipDeppoc  acha  cliach  Do  ecc. 

^iollu  an  coimDeaD  ua  cinnpaelai6  abb  Ganaij  Duin  Do  ecc. 

Ua  jiollapam  abb  eaccailpi  na  rpmoiDe  i  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 
imaille  pip  .1.  oorhnall  pua&  -\  Niall,  a  Dfpbpacaip  cuconnacr,  cpi  meic 
carail  Duib  uf  pajallaijh  .1.  joppaiD,  pfpgal,  i  Domnall,  -|  annaD  mac  Dom- 
naill  uf  pajallaij  DO  mapbaD  la  Concobap  mac  cicchfpnam.  Niall  .1.  an 

T  jBuimlinn,  now   Bumlin,    a   vicarage  near  taken  at  Ardagh  on  the  10th  of  April,  in  the 

Strokestown,  in  the  diocese  of  Elphin,  in  the  ba-  tenth  year  of  the  reign  of  James  I.,  from  which 

ronyand  county  of  Roscommon.     St.  Midabaria,  its  exact  extent  may  still  be  determined. 

the  sister  of  St.  Berach,  is  the  patron  of  this  x  Toe/tar  Mona  Coinneadha,  i.  e.  the  togher  or 

parish  __  See  Colgan's  Acta  Sanctorum,  p.  344.  causeway  of  the  bog  of  Coinneadh.     The  situa- 

w  Faradhan  Moiglie  Treagha,  i.  e.  the  meeting  tion  of  this  causeway  is  still  well  known.     It  is 

place  of  Magh  Treagha,   which  is  a  territory  in  in  the  parish  of  Templetogher,  between  Ballimoe 

the  barony  and  county  of  Longford,  containing  and  Dunmore,  in  the  north-east  of  the  county 

the  parish  of  Clongesh.     The  townlands  of  this  of  Galway,  and  the  ruins  of  a  church  and  castle 

territory,  which  is  called  Moytra  in  Anglo-Irish  are  to  be  seen  near  it  __  See  note  n,  under  the 

documents,  are  enumerated  in  an  Inquisition  year  1225. 


1256.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  355 

the  King  of  England;  and  all  that  he  requested  was  obtained  by  him  from  the 
king's  honour;  and  he  returned  home  again. 

Mahon  O'Monahan  was  slain  at  Buimlinnv. 

Dermot  O'Quin,  Auliffe,  his  son,  together  with  the  chiefs  of  Muintir  Gilla- 
gan,  were  slain  at  Faradhan  Moighe  Treagha",  by  Gilla-na-naev  O'Farrell,  who 
afterwards  pillaged  their  territory. 

A  great  meeting  took  place  at  Tochar  Mona  Coinneadha*  between  O'Conor 
(Felim)  and  Mac  William  Burke.  A  peace  was  concluded  between  them,  and 
all  his  conditions  were  conceded  to  Felim. 

Juliana,  daughter  of  the  Coarb  of  St.  Cailliny,  and  Gilla-na-naev,  his  brother, 
died. 

Ranailt,  daughter  of  O'Farrell,  died  in  a  bath. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1256. 

N 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  fifty-six. 

Flann  Mac  Flynn  died  in  Bristol. 

The  Archbishop  of  Dublinz  died. 

Gilla-an-Choimhdheadh  O'Kinnfaela,  Abbot  of  Annadown,  died. 

O'Gillaran,  Abbot  of  Trinity  Church  at  Tuam,  died.  « 

A  party  of  the  O'Reilly  family  were  slain  by  Hugh,  the  son  of  Felim 

[O'Conor],  namely,  Cathal  O'Reilly,  Lord  of  Muintir-Maelmoraa,  and  of  all  the 

race  of  Hugh  Finn";  his  two  sons,  namely,  Donnell  Roe  and  Niall;  his  brother, 

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 

y  Coarb  of  St.  Caittin — He  was  O'Rody,  the  a  Muintir-Maelmora  was  the  tribe  name  of  the 

hereditary  warden  and  chief  farmer  of  the  lands  O'Reillys,  which  they  derived  from  their  ances- 

of  the  church  of  Fenagh,  in  the  county  of  tor  Maelmordha,  the  fifteenth  in  descent  from 

Leitrim.  Duach  Galach,  King  of  Connaught. 

1  The  Archbishop  of  Dublin — "We  learn  from  b  Hugh  Finn  was  the  fifth  in  descent  from 

the  Annals  of  Mary's  Abbey  that  his  name  was  Duach  Galach,  King  of  Connaught,  and  the  an- 

Luke,  but  his  surname  no  where  appears.  He  cestor  of  the  O'Rourkes,  O'Reillys,  and  of  all 

had  been  Dean  of  St.  Martin's,  London,  and  the  tribes  called  Hy-Briuin  Breifne.  From  this 

Treasurer  of  the  King's  Wardrobe See  Har-  passage  it  would  appear  that  O'Reilly  was  chief 

ris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  pp.  320,  321.  of  the  two  Breifnys  at  this  period. 

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 
1  Sochai&e  5en  mo  chaircpioe,  ~\  po  bpipeaoop  po  chpf  an  glapplaic  pop 
copac  an  cpluaij  apaill  no  50  puce  anppoplann  oppa  po  beom.  Ctg  Sailcfn 
na  ngapdn  puj  coppac  an  rpluaijpi  pop  muinop  Rajallaij  cfoup  •]  po  Ifnpao 
iaD  co  hair  cicche  mec  cuippin  aippibe  co  lacaip  an  mop  caca. 

lupcip  t>o  rhocc  in  fipinn  o  pij  Sa^ran.  Coinne  DO  Dfnarh  Do  pen  ~\  Dafo 
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  ja&pa  cijfpna  Slebe  luga  Do  mapbab  la  DabiD  mac  RiocaipD 
cuipin.  Cteb  mac  pe&limiD  uf  Concobaip  Do  apccain  pfpainn  mic  RicaipD 
cuipin  a  nDiojail  ui  gaDpa  Do  mapbaD  Doporh.  Leaccaip  a  caiplen,  TTlapbaiD 
a  mbof  Do  Daoimb  ann  -|  gabaip  oilein  locha  rechfcr  uile. 

c  Jtfac  Tiernan — In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Ballymagauran  is  in  it.     It  is  bounded  on  the 

Annals  of  Ulster  he  is  called  conchubap  mac  west  by  Magh  Eein,  the  plain  in  which  Fenagh, 

cijepnam   hui    T?uaipc,   "Conor,   the   son   of  in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  is  situated. 
Tiernan  O'Rourke."   There  are  two  distinct  fa-          e  Alt-na-/ieittte,  i.  e.  the  precipice  of  the  doe. — 

milies  of  Mac  Tiernans;  one  located  in  the  dis-  It  is  stated  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of 

trict  of  Tir  Tuathail,  in  the  north-east  of  the  Ulster,  under  the  year  1257,  that  it  is  situated 

county  of  Eoscommon,  and  also  atLanesborough ;  at  the  extremity  of  Slieve  an-Ierin.    "  Qllc  na 

and  the  other  in  the  barony   of  Tealach  Dun-  heillci  op  bealach  na  beici^e  i  cinn  pleibe  in 

chadha,  now  Tullyhunco,  in  the  county  of  Ca-  lapamo."     Magh  Slecht,  as  already  stated,  was 

van,  who  are  of  the  same  race  as  the  O'Rourkes,  the  level  part  of  the  barony  of  Tullyhaw,  in 

and  who  Anglicise  their  name  Mac  Kiernan,  and  which  the  village  of  Ballymagauran  is  situated, 
sometimes  incorrectly  Kiernan,  without  the  pre-  f  Bealach-na-beithe,  i.  e.  road  of  the  birch 

fix  Mac.  trees — There  is  a  townland  of  this  name,  now 

"  Moy-Slec/it. — It  appears  from  a  manuscript  Anglicised  Ballaghnabehy,  in  the  parish  of  Cloon- 

Life  of  St.  Maidoc,  that  Magh  Sleacht,   so  cele-  clare,  barony  of  Dromahaire,  and  county  of  Lei- 

brated  in  the  lives  of  St.  Patrick,  as  the  plain  on  trim;  but  it  cannot  be  the  same  as  that  referred 

which  stood  the  idol  Crom  Cruach,  was  the  level  to  in  the  text,  which  was  in  the  plain  of  Magh 

part  of  the  barony  of  Tullyhaw,  in   the  north-  Slecht,  at  the  extremity  of  Slieve  an-Ierin.     By 

west  of  the  county  of  Cavan.     The  village  of  extremity  of  Slieve  an-Ierin  must  be  here  under- 


1256.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  357 

Tiernanc ;  Niall,  i.  e.  the  Caech  [Monoculus]  O'Reilly ;  Tiernan  Mac  Brady ; 
Gilla-Michael  Mac  Taichligh;  Donough  O'Biobhsaigh ;  Manus,  son  of  Mac 
Gilduff ;  and  upwards  of  sixty  others  of  the  chiefs  of  their  people  were  slain 
along  with  them.  This  engagement  is  called  the  Battle  of  Moy  Slecht",  and 
was  fought  on  the  margin  of  Athderg,  at  Alt-na-heilltee,  over  Bealach-na-beithef. 

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-nGasans  that  the  van  of  that  army  first 
came  up  with  the  O'Reillys,  from  which  place  they  pursued  them  to  Ait-Tighe- 
Mec-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  Lough  Techetk. 

stood  that  portion  of  the  mountain  now  called  ris's  Ware,  Alan  de  la  Zouch,  formerly  Chief 

Bartonny,  near  the  village  of  Ballinamore,  in  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench  in  England,  was 

the  county  of  Leitrim,  which  borders  on  the  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland  from  the  year  1 255  to 

plain   of  Magh  Slecht.      The  whole  range   of  1259,  so  that  he  is  the  Justiciary  above  referred 

these  mountains  was  originally  called  Sliab  an  to  in  the  text. 

lapamn,  i.  e.  the  mountain  of  the  iron.  '  Cuisin. — This  name  is  now  written  Cushen. 

8  Sailtean-na-nGasan.  —  There  are   several  k  Lough  Techet,  now  Lough  Gara,  in  which 

places  in  the  county  of  Leitrim  called  Sailtean,  the  River  Boyle,  in  the  county  of  Eoscommon, 

Anglice  Seltan ;  but  the  Sailtean  alluded  to  in  has  its  source.      The  following    story  in   the 

the  text  is  evidently  the  townland  now  called  Tripartite   Life   of  St.   Patrick,   will  at  once 

Seltannahunshin,  in  the  parish  of  Oughteragh,  shew  the  identity  of  Loch  Techet  with  Lough 

in  the  barony  of  Carrigallen,   which  townland  Gara:   "St.   Patrick  (when  in  the  regions  of 

is  very  near  the  plain  of  Magh  Slecht,  on  which  Connaught)  having  resolved  to  visit  Moylurg, 

the  parties  came  to  the  general  engagement.^  passed  through  Bearnas  Hua  Noililla  [the  gap 

h  Justiciary — According  to  the  list  of  the  at  Coloony],  and  moved  onwards  towards  the 

Chief  Governors,  &c.,  of  Ireland,  given  in  Har-  River   Buill  [Boyle],  which  takes  its  rise  in 


358 


[1257- 


Rajjnall  mac  bpandin  acchfpna  copcachlann  Do  ecc. 

Cpeacpluaigeab  la  mac  uilliam  bupc  pop  l?uaibpi  ua  plaicbfpraij  gopo 
aipccfpraip  jno  mop  -]  gno  beacc  -]  po  ^abapoaip  locli  oipbpion  uile. 

Oonncachab  mac  pfnlaic  DO  ecc  i  mamipDip  na  buille. 

Coccab  mop  ofipje  eDip  aob  6  cconcobaip  ~\  conn  o  l?uaipc  (.1.  mac  cig- 
eapnam)  gep  ba6  gpabach  im  apoile  50  pin.  Ua  T?uaipc  Do  Oul  i  ccfnn  gall 
lapam.  Sir  Do  pna&mab  piu  Do  pen  cona  muincip  gan  cfo  Dpeblimib  na  Da 
mac.  deb  ua  concobaip  DO  cpeachab  vri  l?uaipc  lappin  an  cfoaofn  pia 
noolaic.  Do  jniao  Sfc  pfpoile  ap  a  hairle. 

Qc  luain  i  Dun  boi  jpe  DO  lopccab  in  fn  16. 

Sloiccheab  la  hua  nDomnaill,  .1.  5°FFPaiD  n1  FF^paib  manach  Da  ppuaip 
comra,  -]  bpaijDe.  Ufic  appibe  i  mbpeipne  ui  puaipc.  Do  paopac  pibe  a 
oijpfip  bo. 

QO13  CR1O8D,  1257. 
Ctoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  caocca  apeacc. 

fllac  T?obiap  abb  cluana  heoaipp  Do  ecc. 

TTluipeabac  mac  maoilbpi jDe  ui  paipceallaij  comopba  mafbocc  Do  ecc. 

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 
the  chariot,  and  lies  near  the  waterfall  of  Eas 
mac  n-Eirc."  The  name  of  this  ford  is  now  for- 
gotten in  the  country,  but  Eas  mic  n-Eirc  is  well 
known,  being  that  now  called  Assylin. 

1  Corcachlann,  a  territory  in  the  east  of  the 
county  of  Roscommon,  comprising  the  parishes  of 
Bumlin,  Kiltrustan,  Cloonfinlough,  and  the  west- 
ern half  of  the  parish  of  Lissonuify,  which  half  was 
anciently  called  Templereagh.  An  Inquisition 
taken  on  the  1st  of  June,  34  Eliz.,  finds  that 
"  the  rectory  of  Corcaghlan  extended  into  all 
the  townlands  of  the  parishes  of  Bumlin,  Kil- 
trustan, Cloonfenlovighe,  and  Tamplereoghe." — 


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  pre- 
sented Imleach-Ona,  now  Elphin,  to  St.  Patrick. 
The  present  representative  of  the  family  is  Hu- 
Bert  Brannan,  of  Bellmount,  near  Strokestown, 
who  still  enjoys  a  small  property  of  about  fifty- 
six  acres  in  Corcachlann,  one  of  the  most  ancient 
hereditary  estates  in  the  world. 

m  Mac  William.—  This  was  Walter  de  Burgo, 
the  son  of  Eichard  More,  and  grandson  of  Wil- 
liftn  Fitz-Adelm.  He  became  Earl  of  Ulster  in 
the  year  1264,  in  right  of  his  wife  Maud,  daugh- 
ter of  Hugo  de  Lacy  the  jrounger. 


1257-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  359 

Randal  Mac  Brannan,  Lord  of  Corcachlann1,  died. 

Mac  William™  Burke  set  out  on  a  predatory  expedition  against  Rory 
O'Flaherty.  He  plundered  Gno-More  and  Gno-Begn,  and  took  possession  of  all 
Lough  Oirbsion  [Lough  Corrib]. 

Donncahy  Mac  Shanly  died  in  the  Abbey  of  Boyle. 

A  great  war  broke  out  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 
other.  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.  They  afterwards 
made  peace  with  each  other. 

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  Breifny- 
O'Rourke,  where  they  gave  him  his  own  demand. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1257. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  fifty-seven. 

Mac  Robias,  Abbot  of  Clones,  died. 

Murray,  son  of  Maelbrighde  O'Faircheallaigh",  Coarb  of  Maidoc,  died, 

Maelpatrick  Mac  Keleq,  Erenagh  of  Killala,  was  slain. 

n  Gno-More  and  Gno-Beg. — These  two  terri-  Hy-Many,  printed  in  1843  for  the  Irish  Ar- 
tories  are  comprised  in  the  present  barony  of  chaeological  Society,  p.  169,  and  the  map  pre- 
Moycullen,  in  the  county  of  Gal  way.  "  Gno-  fixed  to  the  same;  and  also  the  Ordnance  Map 
begg  was  meared  and  bounded  from  Srawan  of  the  County  of  Gal  way,  sheet  116. 
Icarwan,  or  Srwan  Igravan  north,  to  Galway  p  O'Faircheallaigh — This  name  is  now  angli- 
south,  saving  the  liberties,  and  so  along  the  cised  Farrelly,  and  is  very  common  in  the  neigh- 
River  of  Alley,  or  Donkelly  west,  to  Galway  bourhood  of  the  church  of  Drumlahan,  or  Drum- 
east." — See  History  of  Galway,  p.  40.  lane,  in  the  county  of  Cavan,  of  which  they  were 

0  Dun-doighre,  now  Duniry,  a  townland  and  hereditary  Erenaghs. — See  note   b,  under   the 

parish  in  the  barony  of  Leitrim,  and  county  of  year  1172. 

Galway,  where  the  family  of  Mac  Egan  had  a  q  Mac  Kele,  mac  cele — This  is  probably  the 

celebrated  school — See  Tribes  and  Customs  of  name  now  anglicised  Mac  Hale. 


360  dNNata  Rioghachca  eiraecwR  [1257. 


Comap  ua  maoilciapam  Saof  Gpfnn  in  eaccna  Do  ecc. 

fflainipDip  muipe  i  poppcommam  Do  coippeacaD  lap  an  eppucc  comal- 
cac  ua  concobaip  DO  bpaichpib  .8.  Donnmc. 

Conn  mac  cicchfpnam  ui  Ruaipc  (.1.  ci£eapna  bpepne)  Do  Dul  i  rceaj 
ui  Concobaip  ~|  a  mec  DO  DainjniucchaDa  pioDa  piu  •)  a  mbpfic  pfm  Dpfp- 
onn  na  bpfipne  DO  cabaipc  Doibh  immaille  le  cloich  inpi  na  ccopc  ap  loc 
pionnmoije.  Luce  coimfoa  Do  cop  innce  DoeD  mac  peblimiD. 

Cacal  caipceac  mac  afoa  mic  cacail  cpoibDeipg  -\  af6  mac  concobaip 
mic  afba  mec  cacail  cpoiboeipg  DO  DallaD  Daf6  mac  peDlimiD  mic  cacail 
cpoibDeipg  cpe  cnuch  ~\  popmao  cap  papujab  laoc,  clfipeac,  i  mionn  ccon- 
nacc. 

Cono  mac  cacail  uf  paijillij  caoipeac  mumcipe  maoilmopDa  Decc. 

Cloch  mnpi  na  ccopc  pop  loch  pionnmaije  DO  lopccab  Dua  Ruaipc,  -| 
luce  a  coimhecca  Do  leccaD  epce. 

Sicpeacc  mac  ualjaipcc  ui  puaipc  Do  cop  i  cciccfpnup  Ddo6  ua  conco- 
baip hi  ccfnD  concobaip  meic  ciccfpnam  uf  puaipc,  ~\  Domnall  mac  conco- 
baip 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.  T?o  pigfoh  iopjal  ainiapba  amDpfnnoa  fccoppa.  Ro 
cioppbaic  cuipp,  Ro  Ifonaic  laoich,  T?o  buaiDpic  cfopaba  cfccapnae  Dibh. 

r  Clock-  inse-na-dtorc,  i.  e.  the  stone  fortress  of  which   has  received  the  new   name  of  Cherry 

Hog  Island.  —  The  ruins  of  this  fortress  are  still  Island,  contains  the  ruins  of  an  old  castle,  in 

to  be  seen.     Garadice  Lough,  lying  to  the  east  which  the  United  Irishmen  took  shelter  in  the 

of  Ballinamore,  in  the  barony  of  Carrigallen,  and  year  1798. 

county  of  Leitrim,  is  called  "  L.  Fenvoy"  on  the  s  Cathal  Cairceach  __  He  is  called  Cathal  Caech, 

engraved  map  from  the  Down  Survey  ;  and  this  i.  e.  the  blind  or  purblind,  in  the  Annals  of  Con- 

island,  which  is  in  the  east  side  of  the  lake,  is  naught.     The  word  cuipce,  from  which  the  ad- 

shewn,  by  a  mistake  of  the  engraver,  under  the  jective  caipceac  is  derived,  is  glossed  in  a  MS. 

name  of  "madark"  [for  I.  nadork].  This  island,  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  Cloch- 
inse-na-dtorcr,  in  Lough  Finvoy,  in  which  Hugh,  son  of  Felim,  placed  guards. 

Cathal  Cairceach',  son  of  Hugh,  who  was  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  and 
Hugh,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Hugh,  who  was  son  of  Cathal  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  laity, 
clergy,  and  relics  of  Connaught. 

Con,  son  of  Cathal  O'Reilly,  Chief  of  Muintir-Maelmora,  died. 

Cloch-inse-na-dtorc,  in  Lough  Finvoy,  was  burned  by  O'Rourke,  those 
who  guarded  it'  being  first  permitted  to  come  out  of  it. 

Sitric,  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 
which  Donnell,  son  of  Conor,  killed  Sitric. 

A  conference  was  held  by  Felim  O'Conor  at  Athlone,  with  the  Lord  Justice 
of  Ireland,  with  Mac  William  Burke  and  the  other  English  chiefs,  and  they 
made  peace  with  one  another. 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  Hugh  O'Conor  on  O'Rourke  about 
Easter. 

A  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-cedeu,  in 
the  territory  of  Carbury,  to  the  north  of  Sligo.  A  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  pinna,  i.  e.  a  film  on  the      in  the  parish  of  DrurnclifF,  in  the  barony  of  Car- 
eye,  bury,  and  county  of  Sligo.     An  arm  of  the  sea 

1  Those  who  guarded  it,  i.e.  O'Conor's  warders,      runs  up  to  Drumcliff,  which  divides  the  Bosses 
who  were  in  the  castle.  from  the  plain  of  Machaire  Eabha. 

u  Ros-cede,  now  the  Rosses Two  townlands 

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362  ctNNata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1257. 

T?o  cocaigeab  an  caclaraip  co  corhnapc  la  cenel  cconaill,  -j  Do  beprpar 
bpfipim  Clip  banapoa  pop  £allaibh  ip  in  ngleo  50  po  ppaofneab  poppa  po 
bfoib  50  po  laoh  a  nap.  Qp  a  aoi  cpa  Do  cpomgonab  gopppam  pfippin  ip 
in  caicgleo  pin,  ap  capla  pibe  enech  in  loncaib  ppip  TTluipip  mac  jjeapailc  ip  in 
ngliaioh  fpin  50  po  gonpacap  apoile  gan  Dicell.  6a  cpia  agh  an  chaca  pin 
Do  Di'ocuipeab  goill  -j  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 
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 
joppaiD  po  cpaicceaD  "|  po  Diopccaoileab  laip  caiplen  caoil  uipcce  Do  ponaD 
la  jallaib  pecc  piarh  Dpopbaipi  pop  cenel  cconaill. 

TTluipip  mac  5Q1ctl^c  lupcip  6peann  pe  hfoh  Diopccaoilceach  gaoioh- 
eal  Decc. 

Caipc  Do  cabaipc  6  TJigh  Sa^ran  Dpelim  ua  concobaip  ap  cuicc  cpiuca 
an  pi  j. 

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  -j  Do  rhuinnp  Ulaca  uf  Raijillij 
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:  were  continued  without  interruption  until  1255, 

"  In  1240  Felim  went  to  the  court  of  England  when  Felim  sent  the  Archbishop  of  Tuam  with 

to  complain  of  those  English  adventurers,  who,  ambassadors  to  England,  and  obtained,  in  1257, 

headed  by  De  Burgo,  usurped  part  of  his  pro-  a  Royal  Charter,  granting  to  him  and  his  heirs 

vince  ;  he  appealed  to  the  treaty  of  Windsor,  for  ever,  free  and  peaceable  dominion  over  five 

strongly  insisted,  in  the  Latin  language,  on  the  baronies,  in  as  ample  a  manner  as  ever  they  were 

justice  of  his  cause,  and  returned  home  so  well  enjoyed  by  his  ancestors. 

pleased  with  the  reception  he  had  met,  that  in  "  After  obtaining  this  grant  he  built  the  mag- 
1245  he  marched  with  a  body  of  forces  to  join  nificent  abbeys  of  Eoscommon  and  Tumona,  and 
Henry  in  an  expedition  against  the  Welsh.  But  died  in  1264.  Leland  remarks,  that  in  his  re- 
all  this  could  not  prevent  the  invaders  of  his  monstrance  to  Henry  III.  against  the  damages 
province,  who  were  secretly  instigated  by  Henry  which  he  had  sustained  by  Walter  de  Burgo,  he 


1257-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  363 

by  the  Kinel-Connell,  who  made  such  obstinate  and  vigorous  onsets  upon  the 
English  that,  in  the  end,  they  routed  them  with  great  slaughter.  Godfrey 
himself,  however,  was  severely  wounded ;  for  he  met  Maurice  Fitzgerald  face 
to  face  in  single  combat,  in  which  they  wounded  each  other  severely.  In  con- 
sequence of  the  success  of  this  battle,  the  English  and  the  Geraldines  were 
driven  out  of  Lower  Connaught. 

On  the  same  day  Mac  Griffin,  an  illustrious  knight,  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 
this  battle  of  Creadran.  They  (O'Donnell's  people)  then  returned  home  in 
consequence  of  O'Donnell's  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;  and  the 
English  were  slaughtered  by  him.  Teige  O'Brien1  also  committed  great  depre- 
dations 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  December7. 

charges  the  burning  of  churches  and  the  mas-  Innisfallen,  in  which  his  death  is  entered  under 

sacre  of  his  clergy  at  a  thousand  marks." — Me-  the  year  1256,  which  is  certainly  incorrect.  He 

moirs  of  the  Life  and  Writings  of  Charles  0?  Conor  was  the  son  of  Concobhar  na  Siudaine. — See 

of  Belanagare,  p.  41.  note  ',  under  the  year  1258,  p.  368. 

w  Conor  O'Brien — He  is  the  Conor  O'Brien  y  Under  this  year,  1257,  the  Annals  of  Clon- 

usually  called  Conchobhair  na  Siudaine  in  the  macnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  record 

pedigrees  of  the  O'Briens.  the  founding  and  erecting  of  a  house  for  friars 

*  Teige  O'Brien. — He  is  called  Teige  Gael-  of  the  Order  of  St.  Dominic  at  Roscommon,  by 

Uisce  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Felim  O'Conor. 

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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. 

Uarep  De  palepna  aipoeppcop  cuama  "|  Deccanac  mop  LonnDan  DO  ecc 
In  Sa^aib  mp  na  coja  ip  na  cfimionnaib  pempaice  la  pij  Sa^an  an  bliabain 
poirhe  pin.  Uomalcach  6  concobaip  eppcop  oilepinn  Do  coja  Docum 
aipoeppcopoiOechca  ruama. 

£)iollacpipc  o  capmacam  Deccanach  oilipinn  Decc. 

Qn  manach  ua  cuipnin  paoi  cpabaib  Decc. 

macha  mac  giolla  puaioh  ui  poouibh,  .1.  an  maijipcip  Decc. 

Cuipr  an  eppcoip  in  oilpinn,  -|  cuipc  cille  Sepin  Do  pgaoileaD  DQo6  6 
concoBaip. 

O  Oomhnaill  joppaiD  Do  bfich  in  oraiplighe  a  ecca  pe  hC6  mbliaona 
ap  loch  beachach  lap  ccop  cara  cpfopam.  lap  na  piop  pin  Dua  neill 
(.1.  bpian)  cionoiliD  a  plojha  in  en  lonao  Do  cochc  hi  ccip  Conuill,  i  paoi&ip 
cechca  ua&a  hi  ccfno  uf  Domnaill  DO  chuingib  jiall,  eioipfoh  ~\  umla  pop 
conallcoibh,  o  po  bacap  jan  cijeapna  inpfbma  aca  Deip  ^oppaba.  lap 
rcabaipc  aicipcc  Dua  Domnaill  Do  na  ceccaib  loccup  pop  ccula,  -)  amail  ap 
ofini  luibpioc. 

T?o  popcongaip  6  Domhnaill  pop  conallcoib  cionol  ap  jach  aipD  cuicce,  -\ 
lap  rcapcclamab  Doib  po  cojaipm  a  cnccfpna  po  popail  poppa  ona  baf 
lor.aipcap  leo  an  rapach  ina  mbepcaoi  a  copp  po  beoib  Do  benam  bo,  i  a 
cop  ann,  -]  a  lomcap  in  eioipmfbon  a  rhuinnipe.  T?o  pamh  piu  calma  DO 
Denam  opo  bai  pfm  fcoppa,  -\  gan  rpfn  a  nfpccapacr  Do  leicfn  poppa. 

*  Great  Dean — He  was  Dean  of  St.  Paul's,          b  Kilsesin.—See  note  under  the  year  1253. 

London.     Harris  states  that  he  died  in  London,  The  place  is  now  called  Cill  cSeifm  in  Irish, 

on  his  return  from  Rome,  without  ever  seeing  and  anglicised  Kilteashin.  The  Irish  word  cinpc, 

his  bishopric,  about  the  middle  of  April,  1258.  which  seems  to  have  been  borrowed  from  the 

See  his  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  606.  English  court,  is  now  used  to  denote  any  large 

The  monk. — In   the  old  translation  of  the  square  house  with  many  windows,  without  any 

Annals  of  Ulster,  this  entry  is  rendered :  "  A.  D.  regard  to  the  dignity  or  title  of  the  occupier. 
1258.  The  munck  O'Cuirnyn  died  in  Christ."  c  Loch-Beathach,  i.  e.  Birch  Lake — This  lake 


1258.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  365 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1258. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  fifty-eight. 

Abraham  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 
month  of  June. 

Walter  de  Salerna,  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  and  Great  Deanz  of  London,  died 
in  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  Tuam. 

Gilchreest  O'Carmacan,  Deacon  of  Elphin,  died. 

The  monk"  O'Curnin,  a  pious  sage,  died. 

Matthew,  son  of  Gillaroe  O'Rodiv,  i.  e.  the  Master  [Professor],  died. 

The  Bishop's  palace  at  Elphin,  and  the  palace  of  Kilsesinb,  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- 
Beathachc.  When  O'Neill  [i.  e.  Brian]  obtained  intelligence  of  this,  he  collected 
his  forces  together  for  the  purpose  of  marching  into  Tirconnell,  and  sent  mes- 
sengers to  O'Donnell  to  demand  hostages,  pledges,  and  submission,  from  the 
Kinel-Connell,  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. 

O'Donnell  ordered  the  Kinel-Connell  to  assemble  from  all  quarters  and 
come  to  him ;  and  after  they  had  assembled  at  the  summons  of  their  lord,  he 
ordered  them,  as  he  was  not  able  to  march  with  them,  to  make  for  him  the 
bierd  wherein  his  body  would  finally  be  borne,  and  to  place  him  in  it,  and  carry 
him  in  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- 

still  retains  this  name,  which  is  anglicised  Lough          d  Bier,  apac The  word  used  in  the  modern 

Beagh  and  Lough  Veagh.     It  is  situated  near  language  to  denote  bier  is  cpocap.     The  word 

the  village  of  Church-Hill,  in  the  parish  of  Gar-  apac  is  thus  explained  by  O'Clery,  in  his  Glos- 

tan,   barony    of  Kilmacrenan,    and    county    of  sary  of  ancient  Irish  words:  "  Gpac  .1.  cpoc  hap. 

Donegal.  1m  t'ipach  .1.  pa  cpochap." 


3G(j  aNNCtta  Rioshachca  eiraecmN.  [1258. 

Rangaccup  pompa  an  cucc  pin  ma  pfirnim  la  popcongpa  a  ccijfpna  hi 
ccoinne  ploigh  f  neill  co  ccapla  an  Da  pluaij  ogham  in  aghaib  imon  aBainn 
Dianib  ainm  Suileach.  T?o  lonnpaighpioc  a  cele  gan  coiccill  Do  caipofp  no 
DO  coirhpiallup  gup  meaBaib  pop  an  pluaj  nfoganach  cap  anaip,  gup  pacc- 
baccap  Daoine  lom&a,  eic,  ~\  eDala  aibble.  Qcc  cioncuDh  Don  cpluag  conal- 
lach  on  maibm  po  Ificceab  an  capach  i  mbof  6  Dorhnaill  ap  ppaiDplige  na 
congbdla  gonaoh  ann  Do  beachaib  a  ainim  ap  Do  gaib  cpo  na  ngon,  ~]  na 
ccpechc  Do  paDab  paip  hi  ccach  cpfopam,  ~\  nip  bo  bap  ap  mioblacup  an 
bap  hipin  ace  mp  mbpfich  buaba  gach  can  pop  a  biobtiabaibh. 

O  po  clop  cpa  la  hua  neill  ecc  i  Dorhnaill  po  cuip  cecca  DopiDipi  hi 
ccfnO  conallach  Do  cuingiDh  giall  ~\  urhla  poppa,  bdccap  cenel  cconuill  a 
ccorhaiple  a^a  pccpuDab  ci6  Do  jenoaip  ppip  pm,  no  cia  cofpeac  Dib  pfm 
Da  cciubpaccaip  urhla,  no  aiDioe  uaip  na  bai  cijfpna  epDalca  oca  opo  ecc 
goppaib.  Oia  mbarcap  pop  na  hiompaicib  pin  ac  conncaccap  Oorhnall  occ 
mac  Dorhnaill  moip  i  Dorhnaill  cuca  a  halbain  ina  macafrh  occ  aiDfbach  in 
afip  a  occ  mbliaban  nDecc,  -|  DO  paopac  cenel  cconaill  a  ccfnDup  Do  po 
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 
(oopomh)  ba  popail  laippiunih,  -j  ba  paipbpigh  innpin.  Conab  ann  Do  paib 
an  cpfmbpiacap  aipbipc  cpia  pan  ngaoibilcc  nalbanaigh  bof  occa  ace  a^al- 
lairh  na  cceccab  .i.  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 

e  Suileack,  now  the  Eiver  Swilly,  which  dis-  in  the  handwriting  of  Charles  O'Conor,  of  Be- 

charges  itself  into  Lough  Swilly,  near  the  town  lanagare,  this  Donnell  Oge  was  the  son  of  Don- 

of  Letterkenny,  in  the  county  of  Donegal.  nell  More  O'Donnell,  by  a  daughter  of  Cathal 

f  Street  of  Congbhail,  now  Conwal,  near  Let-  Crovderg  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught.  Though 

terkenny,  where  there  was  anciently  a  monas-  the  Annals  of  Ulster  and  Clonmacnoise  state 

tery  arid  village  ;  but  there  are  no  ruins  now  to  that  all  the  northern  chiefs  submitted  to  O'Neill 

be  seen  at  the  place,  except  the  walls  of  an  old  at  Cael-Uisce,  it  is  more  probable  that  this 

church  of  small  dimensions.  There  is  a  tradi-  youthful  chief  did  not ;  for  though  he  was  inau- 

tion  that  the  village  was  destroyed  by  an  acci-  gurated  about  the  same  time,  by  the  consent  of 

dental  fire  first  kindled  by  a  cat,  after  which  it  O'Neill,  it  does  not  appear  that  any  individual 

was  never  rebuilt;  but  that  the  town  of  Letter-  of  the  Kinel-Connell  race  assisted  O'Neill  in  the 

kenny  soon  after  supplied  its  place.  unfortunate  battle  of  Down,  in  1260.  This 

*  Donnell  Oge.— According  to  a  marginal  note  jealousy  and  emulation  between  the  two  great 


1258.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  367 

vail  over  them.  They  then,  by  order  of  their  lord,  proceeded  on  their  march 
against  O'Neill's  army;  and  the  two  armies  met  face  to  face,  at  the  river  called 
Suileach6.  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 
was  carried  was  laid  down  in  the  street  of  Congbhailf,  and  here  his  soul  departed, 
from  the  venom  of  the  scars  and  wounds  which  he  had  received  in  the  battle 
of  Creadran.  This  was  not  death  in  cowardice,  but  the  death  of  a  hero,  who 
had  at  all  times  triumphed  over  his  enemies. 

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 
obedience,  as  they  had  no  certain  lord  since  Godfrey  died.  Whilst  they  were 
engaged  in  such  speeches,  they  saw  approaching  Donnell  Ogeg,  the  son  of  Don- 
nell  More  O'Donnell,  a  valiant  youth,  then  eighteen  years  of  age,  who  had 
arrived  from  Scotland,  and  the  Kinel-Conell  immediately  conferred  the  chief- 
tainship upon  him.  This  they  lawfully  did,  as  he  was  their  own  legitimate  and 
worthy  lord.  When  the  Kinel-Connell  told  him  of  the  message  which  the 
emissaries  of  O'Neill  had  brought  them,  he  deemed  it  extravagant  and  exor- 
bitant11. It  was  on  this  occasion  he  repeated  the  celebrated  proverb,  in  the 
Albanian  Gaslic,  in  which  he  conferred  with  the  emissaries,  namely,  "That  every 
man  should  have  his  own  world."  Similar  to  the  coming  of  Tuathal  Teacht- 
inhar  over  the  sea  from  Scotland,  after  the  extirpation  of  the  royal  race  of 
Ireland  by  the  Attacots'1,  was  this  coming  of  Donnell  Oge,  to  consolidate  the 

races  of  Owen  and  Connell  finally  wrought  the  O'Keilly's  Dictionary,  and  used  in  that  sense  by 

destruction  of  the  chieftains  of  Ulster,  as  is  quite  the  Four  Masters  at  ths  year  1573.     What  the 

evident  from  various  passages  in  these  Annals.  annalists  mean  is,  that  the  young  chieftain,  who 

h  Extravagant  and  exorbitant,  ba  pojiail  laip-  had  been  fostered   and  educated  in   Scotland, 

umh  7  ba  paipbpij  mnpn.     The  Irish  word  thought  the  demands  of  O'Neill  exorbitant  and 

popdil  is  explained  "  lomapccnoh,"  i.  e.  excess,  extravagant. 

too  much,  by  O'Clery,  in  his  Glossary  of  ancient  '  Attacots,  airhechruucaib,  i.  a  the  plebeian 

Irish  words,  and  the  word  paipbpij  is  nearly  tribes — These  are  said  to  have  been  tribes  of  the 

synonymous  with  it,  and  is  explained  "excess"  in  Firbolgs,  who  murdered   the  monarch  Fiacha 


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[1258. 


le  hiomuaim  naipopijhe,  le  carucchaD  cuar,  -\  le  copnarh  a  cpiche  pfm  ap 
coiccpiocaibh  on  16  in  po  hoipDneab  e  i  cciccfpnup  gup  an  lairhe  po  Deoioh 
a  ppuaip  a  oibeab. 

TTlainepcip  clafna  i  Caijnib  in  eppcoboioecr  cille  Dapa   Do  cogbdil  Do 
bpaicpib  .8.  ppanpeip. 

Sloicceab  mop  la  haob  mac  peiblimiD,  ~\  la  caoj  ua  mbpiain  hi  ccoinne 
bpiam  uf  neillgo  caoluipcce  50  ccuccpac  na  maice  pin  Ifc  ap  Ifch  cfnnup  Do 
bpian  ua  neill  pop  jaoiDelaib  lap  noenam  pioba  Doib  pe  poile.  bpaijDe 
Qo6a  uf  concobaip  Oopom  pe  comall,  -]  bpaijhDe  muincipe  paijillij  -|  ua 
mbpiuin  6  cfnanoupso  Dpuim  cliab  oGoD  mac  pfiolimm  map  an  cceona. 
ITlac  Sorhaiple  Do  cecc  hi  loingfp  nmcell  Connacc  a  hinpibh  gall  50 


Finola,  and  all  the  kings  and  nobles  of  the  royal 
Milesian  blood  in  the  second  century.  The 
Queen  of  Ireland,  who  was  then  pregnant,  fled 
from  the  general  massacre  into  Scotland,  where 
she  brought  forth  a  son,  named  Tuathal,  who 
afterwards  returned  to  Ireland,  conquered  the 
plebeians,  and  restored  the  Milesian  chieftains 
to  their  territories;  after  which  he  was  elected 
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  Claena,  now  Clane,  a  fair-town  in  the  county 
of  Kildare,  about  fifteen  miles  from  Dublin. 

k  Gael  Uisge. — In  the  Dubbin  copy  of  the  An- 
nals of  Ulster  it  is  remarked,  inter  linens,  that 
this  place  was  at  Lee  Ui  Mhaildoraighe,  which 
is  unquestionably  the  place  now  called  Bel  lice, 
or  Belleek,  on  the  Erne,  to  the  east  of  Bally- 
shannon — See  note  ',  under  the  year  1200, 
p.  125. 

'  Brian  O'NeiU. — The  account  of  this  meet- 
ing of  the  Irish  chieftains  at  Cael-Uisce  is  also 
given  in  the  Annals  of  Ulster  and  of  Clonmac- 
noise,  at  the  year  1258;  but  it  is  entered  in  the 
Caithreim  Thoirdhealbhaigk,  and  in  the  Dublin 
copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen,  under  the 
year  1252,  in  which  a  different  account  of  the 


meeting  is  given.  In  these  authorities  (if,  in- 
deed, they  can  be  so  called),  it  is  stated,  that  a 
meeting  of  the  Irish  chieftains  took  place  at 
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  Conor  na  Siudaine  O'Brien, 
sent  one  hundred  horses  over  the  river  to  be 
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  har- 
nesses and  with  golden  bits,  to  be  presented  to 
O'Brien  as  an  earnest  of  the  subordination  and 
obedience  due  by  him  to  O'Neill ;  that  O'Brien 
sent  them  back  again,  and  the  result  was,  that 
the  meeting  broke  up  without  electing  a  king 
or  chief  prince.  Dr.  O'Brien  receives  all  this 
as  authentic  in  his  History  of  the  House  of 
O'Brien,  published  in  Vallancey's  Collectanea  de 
Rebus  Hibernicis,  and  states  that  Teige  Gael 
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 

1258,  and  that  Teige  O'Brien  lived  till  the  year 

1259,  under  which  year  his  death  is  entered  in 
the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster.     It 
will,  however,  be  readily  believed  from  the  older 
annals,  that  the  chiefs  of  Connaught  and  Ulster 


1258.] 


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369 


monarchy,  to  cement  territories,  and  to  defend  his  own  country  against  foreign- 
ers, from  the  day  on  which  he  was  installed  in  the  lordship  until  the  day  of 
his  death. 

The  monastery  of  Claenaj,  in  Leinster,  in  the  diocese  of  Kildare,  was 
founded  for  Franciscan  Friars. 

A  great  host  was  led  by  Hugh,  son  of  Felim,  and  Teige  O'Brien,  to  meet 
Brian  O'Neill,  at  Cael-Uisce".  The  aforesaid  chieftains,  with  one  accord,  con- 
ferred the  sovereignty  over  the  Irish  on  Brian  O'Neill1,  after  having  made 
peace  with  each  other;  for  the  observance  of  which  agreement  the  hostages  of 
Hugh  O'Conor  were  delivered  up  to  him,  and  the  hostages  of  Muintir-Reilly, 
and  of  all  the  Hy-Briuinm,  from  Kells  to  Drumcliff. 

Mac  Sorley"  sailed  with  a  fleet  from  the  Insi  Gall  [Hebrides]    around 


submitted  to  Brian  O'Neill  on  this  occasion, 
and  rendered  him  hostages.  The  passage  is  thus 
given  in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  An- 
nals of  Clonmacnoise,  with  which  the  more  ac- 
curate Annals  of  Ulster  agree:  "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  was  concluded  be- 
tween them,  and"  [they]  "  agreed  that  Bryan 
O'Neal  shou'd  be  King  of  the  Irish  of  Ireland" 
[cucuoup  na  maici  pin  uile  apoceannup  DO 
6pian  O  Neill,  Ann.  Ult.~],  "whereupon  Hugh 
mac  Ffelym  yealded  Hostages  to  Bryan ;  also  the 
chiefest  of  the  Bryans  [Hy-Briuin]  and  Montyr- 
Kellys,  from  Kelles  to  Dromkliew,  yealded  hos- 
tages to  Hugh  O'Connor."  The  Annals  of 
Ulster  add,  that  Donnell  O'Donnell  was  inau- 
gurated chief  of  Tirconnell  on  this  occasion,  and 
that  all  the  Kinel-Connell  rendered  him  hostages. 
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  at- 
tended a  meeting  here  six  years  earlier,  and  the 
account  of  his  refusing  to  acknowledge  the  su- 
periority of  O'Neill,  may  not  have  had  its  origin 
in  the  wild  and  creative  fancy  of  John,  the  son 
of  Rory  Magrath,  chief  historiographer  of  Tho- 


mond,  who  wrote  the  Caithreim  Thoirdhealbhaigli, 
or  Triumphs  of  Turlough  O'Brien,  in  the  year 
1459-  It  is  a  very  strange  fact  that  neither 
Leland  nor  Moore,  the  ablest  writers  of  the  his- 
tory of  Ireland,  should  have  noticed  this  attempt 
of  the  Irish  chieftains  to  unite  against  the  Eng- 
lish. O'Neill  fought  soon  after,  at  the  head  of 
the  chiefs  of  the  north  and  west  of  Ireland,  with 
all  the  valour  and  desperation  of  his  royal  an- 
cestors; but,  being  inferior  to  his  enemies  in 
military  accoutrements  and  discipline,  he  and 
his  people  were  cut  off  with  dreadful  slaughter, 
and  none  of  the  O'Neills  ever  after  acquired  any 
thing  like  the  monarchy  of  Ireland. 

m  Hy-Briuin,  i.  e.  the  Hy-Briuin  Breifne. — 
These  were  the  O'fieillys,  O'Rourkes,  and  their 
correlatives, 

n  Mac  Sorley. — This  passage  is  thus  given  in 
Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of 
Clonmacnoise: 

"A.  D.  1258.  Mac  Sowarle  brought  a  great 
fleet  with  him  from  the  Islands  of  Scotland, 
went  about  Ireland  of  the  West,  where  they 
robbed  a  Marchant's'  shipp  of  all  the  goods 
therein,  as  wine,  cloath,  brass,  and  Irons.  Jor- 
dan de  Exetra,  then  Sheriff  of  Connought,  pur- 
sued him  at  seas  with  a  great  Fleet  of  English- 
B 


370  dNNata  Rio^hachca  eiraeawN.  [1258. 

pamicc  Conmaicne  mapa  gup  jabupcaip  long  cfnoaige  annpm  50  nDfpna  a 
lifoail  eiDip  pfon,  eoach,  urha,  -]  lapn.  Siupcan  De;ccep  Sippiam  connachc 
Do  Ifnmam  mic  Sorhaiple  gup  an  alien  in  po  aipip,  -]  a  longa  pop  a  nanj- 
caipibh  ina  ccorhpoccup.  Peacap  lomaipecc  fcroppa,  mapbrap  Siupcan  po 
ceooip,  -|  piapup  accabapD  Pioepe  Dia  muinncip,  -|  pocaibe  cenmocacporh. 
TTlac  Sorhaiple  gona  muincip  DO  cilleab  Dopibipi  50  haireapach  eoalach  50 
naimcc  a  rip  buoein. 

Oomnall  mac  Concobaip  mic  cijeannain  uf  puaipc  baof  i  mbpaijofnup 
cap  cfnn  a  acap  05  pfiblimib  6  concobaip,  -\  ja  mac  (.1.  Qob)  t>o  leccean 
amach  Doibh,  "|  cijfpnup  na  bpeipne  Do  cabaipc  Do  a  nionao  a  arap. 

TTlacpaich  mace  cigeapnam  coipeac  cellaij  Dunchaba  &o  mapbab  la 
Domnall  mac  concobaip  ui  puaipc.  60iaiD  connaccai£,  ~\  pip  bpeipne  50 
coiccionn  a  cijfpnup  Do  borhnall  annpin,  ~|  mapbaicc  ceallach  Dunchaba  a 
bfpbpacaip,  cacal  mac  Concobaip.  Uuccab  cijeapnup  ua  mbpiuin  mppin 
Do  Qpc  mac  cacail  piabaij  uf  puaipc,  .1.  o  Sliab  poip. 

bpian  mace  pampa&din  njeapna  ceallaij  eachDac  Do  mapBab  la  con- 
naccoib. 

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  in  eccmaip  pe&limib  uf  Con- 
cobaip, "]  pich  DO  Denamh  eaccoppa. 

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,  own  Contrey." 

and  seeing  the  Sheriff  with  his  people  make  °  Conmaicne-mara,  i.  e.  the  maritime  Con- 

towards  them,  Mae  Sowarle  gyrte  himself  with  maicne,  now  the  barony  of  Ballynahinch,  in  the 

his  armour  and  harness  of  steel,  and  so  did  all  north-west  of  the  county  of  Galway.    The  name 

the  companie  that  were  with  him  out  of  hand ;  of  this  ancient  territory  is  yet  preserved,  but 

whereupon  the  Sheriff  landed  on   the   Island,  shortened  to  Connamara. 

where  he  was  well  served  by  Mac  Sowarle.  The  P  Mac  Tiernan,  now  generally  anglicised  Ker- 

Sheriff  himself  was  instantly  killed,   with  Sir  nan.     This  family   of  Tealach   Dunchadha,  or 

Pyers   Caward,   a  worthy  knight,   with  many  Tullyhunco,  in  Breifny,  are  to  be  distinguished 

others.     The  English,  after  receiving  this  great  from  the  Mac  Tiernans  of  the  county  of  Eoscom- 

loss,  returned,  and  Mac  Sowarle  also  returned,  mon,  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-mara0,  where  he  took  a  mer- 
chant 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.  An  engagement  took  place 
between  them,  in  which  Jordan  was  at  once  killed,  as  was  also  Pierce  Agabard, 
a  knight  of  his  people.  Mac  Sorley  and  his  people  returned  exultingly  and 
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. 

Magrath  Mac  Tiernanp,  Chief  of  Teallach-Dunchadha,  was  slain  by  Donnell, 
son  of  Conor  O'Rourke.  The  Connacians,  and  the  men  of  Breifiiy  in  general, 
upon  this  took  the  lordship  from  Donnell,  and  the  inhabitants  of  Tealach- 
Dunchadha  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. 

O'Brian  Magauran,  Chief  of  Tealach  Eachdhachr,  was  slain  by  the  Con- 
nacians. 

AulifFe,  son  of  Art  O'Rourke,  Lord  of  Breifny,  from  the  mountain  west- 
wards, died. 

Thomas  O'Beirne  died. 

Ardgal  O'Conor,  son  of  the  Coarb  of  Coman,  died. 

A  great  war  [broke  out]  between  the  English  and  Conor  O'Brien,  during 
which  were  burned  Ardrahen",  Kilcolgan',  and  many  street-towns,  and  much  corn. 

A  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  Miogha-  r  TeaUach  Eackdhack,  now  the  barony  of  Tul- 

ran,  son  of  Turlough  More  O'Conor,  Monarch  laghagh,  or  Tullyhaw,  in  the  north-west  of  the 

of  Ireland.  county  of  Cavan,   in  which  the  Magaurans,  or 

q  Mountain  eastwards. — By  "  the  mountain"  is  Magoverns,  are  still  very  numerous, 

here  meant  the  range  of  Slieve-an-ierin.  Breifny  *Ardratien,  a  fair- town  in  the  barony  of  Dun- 

from  the  mountain  eastwards,  means  the  county  kellin,  and  county  of  Galway. 

of  Cavan  ;  and  Briefny  from  the  mountain  west-  (  Kilcolgan,  a  well-known  place  on  the  bay  of 

wards,  means  the  county  of  Leitrim.  Galway,  in  the  same  barony  and  county. 


372  QNNaca  Rioshachca  eiraeaNN.  [1259. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  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  i  ccuipe  an  papa, 
Pallium  Do  eabaipe  laipp  -\  Socaip  rhopa  Don  eacclaip  apchfria. 

Qn  jiollu  cam  mac  giollu  ciapam  Saof  i  lecchionn  i  i  nDan  Decc. 

Qe&  ua  ConcoBaip  Do  cabaipr  ionai6  amlaoib  mic  aipr,  Do  ape  beacc 
mac  aipc  uf  Ruaipc  -j  ape  mac  cacail  piabaij  uf  Ruaipc  Do  jabail  laip  lap 
ccup  Qmlaoib  ip  in  lonac  paiDe  pin  Do. 

GOD  ua  Concobaip  DO  Dul  50  Doipe  colaim  cille  DO  cabaipc  ingfne 
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. 

Sic  DO  Dfnam  DaoD  ua  cconcobaip  le  Domnall  ua  T?uaipc  ~|  6  Do  rabaipc 
.  cicchfpnaip  na  bpfipne  Do  Domnall  ap  a  haiele. 

Caichleac  mac  DiapmaDa  Do  ecc. 

TTliliD  mac  joipDelbaij  DO  ecc. 

^illbepc  mac  goipDealbaij  Do  gabail  la  haoD  ua  cconcobaip  -\  pliab 
lugha  Do  lomapcain  Do  uile.  ^illbepc  Do  cabaipc  a  cpiap  mac  i  mbpaig- 
Dfnup  cap  a  cfnn  buben,  -|  aoD  na  concobaip  Da  leccen  pen  amac  ap  a  haiele. 

Ua6g  ua  bpiain  TCiogDamna  muman  Do  ecc. 

SiopaiD  ua  baoijill  Do  mapbaD  Da  bfipbpme  pepin. 

u  Great  benefits. — This  passage  is  given  as  fol-  w  Devenish,  oairiiinip,   i.  e.  the  Ox  Island,  or 

lows  in  Mageoghegan's  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise :  bovis  insula,  as  it  is  translated  in  the  Life  of 

"A.  D.  1259-   Thomas  mac  Terlagh  mac  Me-  St.  Maidoc.     It  is  situated  in  Lough  Erne,  near 

laghlyn   O'Conor  came  from  Kome  this   year,  Enniskillen,  in  the  county  of  Fermanagh.   Lais- 

\vhere  he  received  the  orders  of  Bishopp,  and  rean,  or  Molaisse,  the  patron  saint  of  this  island, 

brought  his  Pallium,  with  many  other  profitts,  flourished  in  the   sixth   century,    having  died, 

to  the  Church."  according  to  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters,  in 


1259-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  373 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1259. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  fifty-nine. 

Cormac  O'Luimlin,  Bishop  of  Clonfert-Brendan,  and  the  most  illitstrious 
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  and  poetry,  died. 

Hugh  O'Conor  gave  the  place  [seat]  of  Auliffe,  son  of  Art,  to  Art  Beg,  son 
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  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. 

Hugh  O'Conor  and  Brian  O'Neill  held  a  conference  at  Devenishw,  in  Lough 
Erne. 

Hugh  O'Conor  made  peace  with  Donnell  O'Rourke,  and  afterwards  gave 
him  the  lordship  of  Breifny. 

Taichleach  Mac  Dermot  died. 

Miles  Mac  Costello  died. 

Hugh  O'Conor  made  a  prisoner  of  Gilbert  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. 

Siry  0'Boyley  was  slain  by  his  own  tribe. 

the  year  563,  but,   according  to  the  Annals  of  *  Sliabh-Lugha,  a  mountain  district  in  the 

Ulster,  in  the  year  570.  The  ruins  of  an  ancient      barony  of  Costello,  and  county  of  Mayo See 

church  and  of  an  abbey  of  the  fifteenth  century,  note  ',  under  the  year  1206,  p.  150. 

and  a  beautiful  round  tower  in  good  preserva-          r  Siry  0' Boyle In  the  old   translation   of 

tion,  are  still  to  be  seen  on  this  island.  the  Annals  of   Ulster  this  entry  is   rendered 


374 


[1260. 


O  borhnaill  (Domnall  occ)  Do  cionol  ploicch  lanrhoip  in  aom  lonao,  -|  a 
bol  i  rcip  Gojam.  Gob  buibe  6  neill  bo  cecc  plocch  ele  ina  coinne.  Qn 
cip  uile  DO  milleab  leo,  -]  a  nDol  appibe  in  oipjiallaibh  50  no  jiallab  Doib 
jach  lonabh  map  jabpacc  50  poaDh  Doibh  ma  pppicing. 

peblimib  ua  cuachail  cijeapna  Sil  Tfluipeabaij  Do  ecc. 


CIOIS  CR1OSO,  1260. 
Goip  Cpiopb,  nrile,  Da  ceD,  Seapccaicc. 

Cionaoc  ua  bipn  ppioip  cille  moipe  Do  ecc. 

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  i  ccopcpabap  pochaibe 


thus  :  "  Syry  O'Boyle  killed  by  his  own  bro- 
thers." 

1  Hugh  Boy  O'Neill,  i.  e.  Hugh  the  Yellow 

This  is  the  ancestor  of  the  O'Neills  of  Clanna- 
boy,  or  race  of  Hugh  Boy,  who  shortly  after  this 
period  acquired  a  new  territory  for  themselves, 
in  the  counties  of  Down  and  Antrim.  Davies 
and  Leland  seem  to  think  that  these  territories 
were  not  wrested  from  the  English  settlers  till 
after  the  murder  of  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  in  the 
year  1333. — See  Leland's  History  of  Ireland, 
vol.  L  p.  296,  b.  2,  ch.  4. 

*  Sil-Muireadhaigh. — Charles  O' Conor  writes, 
or  VM,  inter  lineas.  The  prefix  Sil  is  here  a  mis- 
take for  Ui,  or  Hy,  as  the  O'Tuathails,  or 
O'Tooles,  were  always  called  Ui  Muireadhaigh, 
to  be  distinguished  from  the  Sil-Muireadhaigh, 
which  was  the  tribe  name  of  the  O' Conors  of 
Connaught  and  their  correlatives.  The  Hy- 
Muireadhaigh  were  originally  located  along  the 
Kiver  Barrow,  in  the  present  county  of  Kildare, 
and  the  Sil-Muireadhaigh  in  the  present  county 


of  Eoscommon. — See  note  e,  under  the  year  1180, 
pp.  51-54,  and  note  m,  under  the  year  1174, 
p.  12. 

b  Under  this  year  (1259)  the  Dublin  copy  of 
the  Annals  of  Innisfallen  record,  that  the  cas- 
tles of  Dunnamark,  Dunnagall,  Dundeady,  Rath- 
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  Kttmore — From  the  name  O'Beirne  it  is 
quite  evident  that  this  was  the  church  of  Kil- 
more  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. 

e  Melagklin  CP  Conor. — He  was  Bishop  of  El- 
phin. See  Ware's  Bishops,  by  Harris,  p.  629, 
where  he  is  called  "  Milo,  or  Melaghlin,  Mac- 
Thady  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 
into  Tyrone.  Hugh  Boy  O'Neill2  came  with  another  army  to  meet  him,  and 
all  the  country  was  burned  by  them.  They  went  from  thence  into  Oriel,  and 
hostages  were  given  up  to  them  in  every  place  through  which  they  passed, 
until  their  return. 

Felim  O'Tuathail,  Lord  of  Sil-Muireadhaigha  [Omurethi],  diedb. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1260. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  sixty. 

Kenny  O'Beirne,  Prior  of  Kilmore,  died0. 

Mael-Finnen  0'Meehind  died. 

The  dignity  of  bishop  was  conferred,  by  the  Coarb  of  St.  Patrick,  upon 
Melaghlin  0'Conore,  at  Dundalk. 

The  battle  of  Druim-deargf,  near  Dun-da-leath-ghlas  [Downpatrick]  was 
fought  by  Brien  O'Neill  and  Hugh  O'Conor,  against  the  English  of  the  North 
of  Ireland.  In  this  battle  many  of  the  Irish  chieftains  were  slain,  viz.  Brian 

He  was  consecrated  by  Abraham  O'Conallan.  O'Neill's  head  was  sent  to  England.     There  is" 

f  The  battle  of  Druim  dearg,  i.  e.  of  the  Red  yet  extant  a  poem  composed  by  Gilla  Brighde 

Hill  or  Ridge-^Sir  Richard  Cox,  in  his  Hibernia  Mac  Con  Midhe  (Mac  Namee),  in  lamentation  of 

Anglicana,  p.  69,  states  that  this  battle   was  Brian  O'Neill  and  the  other  chieftains  who  were 

fought  in  the  streets  of  Down.     His  words  are:  killed  in  this  battle.     In  this  poem  Mac  Namee, 

"  Stephen  de  long  Espee,  Lord  Justice  (some  call  the  bard  of  O'Neill,  states,   that  the  head  of 

him  Earl  of  Salisbury,  and  Burlace  styles  him  O'Neill,  King  of  Tara,  was  sent  to  London  to 

Earl  of  Ulster ;  but  I  think  there  is  no  ground  the  King  of  England,  and  that  the  Irish  fought 

for  either  of  the  Titles),  he  encountered  O^Neale,  at  a  great  disadvantage,  being  dressed  in  satin 

and  slew  him  and  three  hundred  and  fifty-two  shirts  only,  while  their  English  antagonists  were 

Irishmen  in  the  streets  of  Down;  but  not  long  protected  with  shirts  of  mail, 
after  the  Lord  Justice  was  betrayed  and  mur- 
dered  by  his  own  people."     Dr.  Hanmer  notices  N<3  5°!U  6 

this  battle  under  the  year  1258,  and  Cox,  Grace,  "°  puba'U  °, 

and   others,  under   1259;    but  the  Annals  of  J^5™ 

Ulster,  and  those  of  Kilronan,  Connaught,  and 

Clonmacnoise,  notice  it  under  the  year  1260.  Ceaccpom  DO  cuaoap  pa  cae, 

In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen  "fcmll  ajup  jaoioil  ceanipac; 

it  is  entered  under  the  year    1258,  and  it  is  Ce'mce  caoiriippoill  ap  cloinn  cuinn, 

stated  that  it  was  fought  on  Sunday,  and  that  ^oill  lonnct  naonBpom  lapuinn. 


376 


[1260 


DO  maicib  gaoibel,  .1.  bpian  6  nell  uachcopan  Gpfnn,  comnall  6  caippe, 
DiapmaiD  mace  lachloinn,  TTlajnup  ua  cacain,  Cian  ua  hinnep^e,  Donnplebe 
mag  cana,  concobop  6  Duiboiopma  -\  a  mac,  .1.  aob,  aob  ua  cacain,  TTluipcfp- 
cac  ua  cacain,  amlaoib  ua  jaipmleaDhai  j,  cuulab  6  hanluam,  i  mall  6  han- 
luain.  Qcc  chfna  Do  mapbab  cuicc  pip  Decc  Do  maicib  muinncipe  cacain 
ap  an  lachaip  pin.  "CopcpaDop  Dpong  Do  maicib  Connacc  ann  beop,  .1.  jiollu 
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  ui  maoilpuanaib,  DiapmaiD  mac  caibg  mic  muipeabaij  mic 
comalcaigh  ui  maoilpuanaib,  Concobop  mac  giollu  appaic,  Cabg  mac  cen  uf 
jabpa,  giollu  bfpaij  ua  cuinn,  Cappolup  mac  an  eppuicc  ui  muipeabaij  -] 
Sochaibe  mop  Duaiplib  ~\  Danuaiplib  gaoibeal  irnmaille  piu. 

Sloicchfb  la  mac  uilliam  bupc  Do  com  peblimib  ui  Concobaip  Do  paijib 
gopo  inoep  an  ci'p  poime  50  piachc  l?op  commam.  Nochap  lamapcaip  Dul- 
peaca  pin  pfop  uaip  boi  peblimib  i  a  mac,  .1.  aob  na  ngall  pe  a  nucc  ip  na 
cuacaib,  i  ba  Connacc  ap  a  ccul  ip  in  Dichpeib  conab  f  comaiple  Do  ponpac 
Da  jac  caoib  Sic  Do  bfnam  pfpoile.  Oo  jni'ao  pamlaib.  lompaibip  mac 
uilliam  ma  ppicens  ap  a  haichle. 

annalists,  draw  their  date  of  1260;  but  they 
must  have  had  more  authorities  than  this  poem, 
as  they  have  enumerated  several  chieftains  who 
fell  in  this  battle,  not  noticed  in  the  poem. 

Cpi  picio  Oeuj  bliaoam  Ban, 
TTlile  o  jem  cpiopo  50  coriiplan, 
^up  ruic  pan  piao  gopm  upjlap 
6pian  a  long  Dun-oa-leacjlaif. 

"  Thirteen  times  twenty  years  exact, 
And  one  thousand  from  the  birth  of  Christ, 
Until  fell  Brian  on  the  rich  green  land 
At  the  fortress  of  Dun-da-leath-glas." 

Mac  Namee  observes,  in  a  tone  of  grief  and 
despondency,  that  all  the  former  victories  of  the 
Kinel-Owen  were  more  than  counterbalanced  by 
their  defeat  on  this  occasion. 


"  The  Galls  from  London  thither, 
The  hosts  from  Waterford, 
Came  in  a  bright  green  body, 
In  gold  and  iron  armour. 

"  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." 

He  lauds  the  hospitality,  and  laments  the  loss 
of  Brian,  King  of  Tara,  in  bardic  eloquence  ; 
bewails  the  misfortunes  of  the  Irish  in  losing 
him ;  enumerates  the  chiefs  of  the  Kinel-Owen 
who  fell  along  with  him,  among  whom  he  men- 
tions Manus  O'Kane  as  the  greatest  loss  next 
after  the  King  himself.  He  preserves  the  date 
in  the  following  quatrain,  from  which  it  is  pro- 
bable the  Four  Masters,  and  some  of  the  older 


1260.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  377 

O'Neill,  the  Chief  of  Ireland8;  Donnell  O'Cairre;  Dermot  Mac  Loughlin;  Manus 
O'Kane ;  Kian  O'Henery ;  Donslevy  Mac  Cann ;  Conor  O'Duvdirraa,  and  his 
son  Hugh;  Hugh  O'Kane;  Murtough  O'Kane;  Auliffe  O'Gormly;  Cu-Uladli 
O'Hanlon ;  and  Niall  O'Hanlon.  In  a  word,  fifteen  of  the  chiefs"  of  the  family 
of  O'Kane  were  slain  on  the  field.  Some  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 
not,  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 
themk  in  the  wilderness';  so  that  they  came  to  a  resolution,  on  both  sides,  to 
make  peace  with  each  other.  Accordingly  they  did  so,  and  then  Mac  William 
returned  home. 

In  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  h  Fifteen    of  the   chiefs. — This  is  rendered, 

Clonmacnoise  this  battle  is  called  the  battle  of  "  fifteen  of  the  best  of  the  O'Cahans  were  slayn 

Downe  Daleglass,  and  it  is  stated  that  "  Brian  at  that  present,"  in  the  old  translation  of  the 

O'Neill  is   since  called  Bryan  Catha  in  Duin,  Annals  of  Ulster;  and  "fifteen  of  the  chiefest 

which  is  as  much  as  to  say  in  English,  Bryan  of  of  the  Family  of  the  O'Kaghans"  in  Mageoghe- 

the  Battle  of  Downe."  Manus  O'Kane  and  other  gan's  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise. 

chiefs  who  fell  in  this  battle   are  also   called  '  Son  of  the  bishop,  mac  an  epbuij,  &c. — In 

"Catha  an  Duin,"  Le.  "of  the  Battle  of  Down,"  Mageoghegan's  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  this  is 

in  the  pedigree  of  their  descendants  in  all  the  rendered:  "  Charles,  the  Bushopp  O'Mory's  son, 

Irish  genealogical  books.  with   many  others  of  the  Noble  and   Ignoble 

8  Chief  of  Ireland,   uaccctpdn  hepeann. — In  sort." 

Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clon-  k  Behind  them,  ap  ccut — This  phrase  gene- 

macnoise  this  is  interpreted,  "  Bryan  O'Neale,  rally  means  under  their  protection, 

named  the  King  of  the  Irish  of  Ireland."     He  '  In  the  wilderness,  i.  e.  in  the  wilderness  of 

is  evidently  so  called  by  the  annalists,  because  Kinel-Dofa,  or  O'Hanly's  country,  in  the  east 

at  the  meeting  held  at  Gael  Uisce  in  1258,  the  of  the  county  of  Roscommon.     The  church  of 

greater  part  of  the  Irish  chiefs  consented  to  sub-  Kilbarry,  anciently  called  Cluain  Coirpthe,  was 

mit  to  him  as  their  chief  leader.  in  this  wilderness. 

3  c 


378  aNNdta  Rio^hachca  eiraeaNN.  [1260. 

Sluaicchfo  la  mac  muipip  i  ccuaDmumain  Do  paijiD  Concobaip  uf  bpiain, 
joccapla  ua  bpiain  i  ccoill  bfppdin  -j  nonol  ina  cimceal  Do  mainb  a 
muinnpe  apa  cionnpom.  VTlaiDcfp  pop  jallaib  piu  po  cfooip  -]  mapbcap 
oauic  Ppmoepcap  Rioipe  pomfpcmap  eppiDe,  an  pailgeac,  peappun  aipD- 
parain,  Uomap  bapoic,  ~\  SochaiDe  nach  aipirhcfp  Diob. 

TTlajnup  mac  aoba  mecc  oipeacheaij  Do  mapbaD  ta  Domnall  ua 
pplaichim. 

Lochlainn  mac  amlaoib  mic  aipr  ui  T?uaipc  ~\  cicchfpnan  a  Dfpbpacaip 
Do  mapbab  Dao6  ua  Concobaip  lap  na  ccoipbepc  Do  la  Domnall  mac  nell 
mic  Congalaij  ui  Ruaipc. 

Oomnall  mac  Concobaip  mic  cicchfpndm  uf  Ruaipc  Do  mapbaD  la  ceal- 
lach  nDunca&a  i  meabail  ~|  TTluipceapcac  a  Deapbpacaip  Do  mapbaD  Daoo 
ua  Concobaip  lap  pin.  Qpc  beacc  mac  aipc  ui  Ruaipc  DO  mapbaD  DaoD  ua 
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  i  mbeannan  bpechmoije.  Opfm  Do  lopccaD  1  Do 
mapbab  leo  &iob. 

Cpeac  a&bal  DO  ofnarh  Dua  Dorhnaill  ap  mac  muipip  gup  aipccfpcap 
caipppe  uile. 

Longpopc  Concobaip  uf  ceallaij  Do  lopccaD  la  muincip  ao6a  uf  Conco- 
baip. 

m  Mac  Maurice — This  was  the  celebrated  Sir  toms  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  325,  note  f,  where  it 

Gerald  Sugagh  Fitzgerald,  who  died  soon  after,  is  shewn,  that  Clann  an  Fhailghe  were  a  Welsh 

n  Coitt-Bearain,  now  Kilbarran,  in  the  parish  tribe.  Under  the  year  1316,  the  Annals  of 

of  Feakle,  barony  of  Upper  Tulla,  county  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan, 

Clare.  contain  the  following  notice  of  this  sept : 

0  The  Failgeach — He  was  the  head  of  a  Welsh  "A.  D.  1316.  Felym  O'Connor  took  a  prey 

sept  called  Clann  an  Fhailghe  then  in  Ireland,  from  the  sonns  of  Failge,  killed  Eichard  him- 

but  the  Editor  has  not  been  able  to  determine  self"  [i.  e.  their  chieftain],  "  and  made  a  great 

their  location. — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Cm-  slaughter  of  his  people." 


1260.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  37;) 

An  army  was  led  by  Mac  Maurice10  into  Thomond,  to  attack  Conor  O'Brien. 
O'Brien,  attended  by  the  chiefs  of  his  people,  met  him  at  Coill-Bearaina ;  and 
the  English  were  defeated  at  once,  with  the  loss  of  David  Prendergast,  a  most 
puissant  knight;  the  Failgeach0;  the  parson  of  Ardrahin,  Thomas  Barrott;  and 
others  not  mentioned. 

Manus,  the  son  of  Hugh  Mageraghty,  was  slain  by  Donnell  O'FlahifP. 

Loughlin,  son  of  Auliffe,  the  son  of  Art  O'Rourke,  and  Tiernan  his  brother, 
were  slain  by  Hugh  O'Conor,  after  they  had  been  delivered  up  to  him  by  Don- 
nell, son  of  Niall,  the  son  of  Congalagh  O'Rourke. 

Donnell,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Tiernan  O'Rourke,  was  treacherously  slain 
by  the  inhabitants  of  Tealach-Dunchadha  [Tullyhunco]  ;  and  Murtough,  his 
brother,  was  afterwards  slain  by  Hugh  O'Conor.  Art  Beg,  son  of  Art  O'Rourke, 
was  also  slain  by  Hugh  O'Conor. 

Teige  Duff,  son  of  Niall,  the  son  of  Congalagh,  was  slain  by  Melaghlin,  son 
of  Auliffe,  who  was  son  of  Art  (O'Rourke). 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  Hugh  O'Conor  in  Tuath-ratha" ;  on 
which  occasion  Conor  Mac  Branan,  Chief  of  Corc-Achlann,  Murtough  O'Maeny, 
the  son  of  Brian  O'Fallon,  and  many  others,  were  slain. 

A  depredation  was  committed  by  Mac  Maurice  on  O'Donnell.  A  party  of 
O'Donnell's  men  overtook  them  (i.e.  the  plunderers)  at  Beannan  Breacmhoigher, 
and  burned  and  killed  some  of  them. 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  on  Fitzmaurice  by  O'Donnell,  who 
plundered  the  whole  of  Carbury. 

The  garrison  of  Conor  O'Kelly  was  burned  by  the  people  of  Hugh  O'Conor. 

p  CPFlahiJf,  ua  plairirii. — This  name  is  now  T  Beannan  Breacrnhoighe,  i.  e.  the  hill  of 

pronounced  as  if  written  O'plairim,  and  angli-  Breachmhagh.  There  are  several  places  in  the 

cised  Lahiff.  This  family  is  now  respectable  in  county  of  Donegal  called  Breachmhagh ;  the  place 

the  neighbourhood  of  Gort,  in  the  south  of  the  here  referred  to  is  probably  the  townland  of 

county  of  Galway.  Breachmhagh,  Anglice  Breaghwy,  in  the  parish 

q  Tuath-ratha,  now  anglicised  Tooraah,  in  the  of  Conwal,  in  the  barony  of  Eaphoe. — See  Ord- 

north-west  of  the  county  of  Fermanagh.  Hugh  nance  Map  of  this  county,  sheet  45.  There  is  a 

O'Conor  went  on  this  occasion  to  plunder  remarkable  hill  called  Binnion  in  the  parish  of 

O'Flanagan,  Chief  of  Tooraan.  All  the  persons  Taughboyne,  in  the  same  barony ;  but  it  is  the 

mentioned  as  having  been  slain  were  of  his  own  place  called  bemnin  in  these  Annals  at  the  year 

followers.  1557,  and  not  the  becmndn  here  referred  to. 

3  c2 


380  awwaca  Rioghachca  eiReaNN.  [1261. 


Sicpeacc  mac    pfnlaich  Do  mapBab  in  drluain  DO  Donncachaigh 
oipeachcaij  -|  Do  comalcac  maj  oipeachraij. 

Cpkhpluaiccheab  la  hua  nDomnaill  pop  cenel  neocchain  rap  eip  caca 
ouin  jup  haipceeab,  ~\  gup  loipcceab  upmop  cenel  neocchain  Ifip  Don  cup 
pin. 

Qbpaham  ua  conallain  comopba  pacpaicc  Decc. 

QO1S  CR1OSD,  1261. 
Goip  CpiopD,  mile,  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  i  nooipe  colaim  cille  im  ConcoBap  ua  ppipjil. 
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  •]  coiccfp 
oile  DO  luijniB  Do  mapBab  imaille  pip  i  ccempall  mop  pechin  in  eapp- 
Dapa. 

.  Coccab  mop  -|  uilc  lomba  DO  bfiiam  Dpingm  mac  Domnaill  mecc  caprai^ 
1  Da  bpairpiB  ap  jallaiB. 

Sluaicchfb  mop  la  clomn  gfpailc  i  nofpmumain  Do  paijib  mecc  capcaij, 
.1.  pinjm.  TTlacc  capcaij  oa  nionnpaijjibpiom  50  ccucc  maibm  poppa  Dap 
mapBab  ochc  mbapuin  -\  cuiccfp  piDipfb  im  Dpfim  ele  DuaipliB  jail  ip 

8  Under  this  year  (1260)  the  Annals  of  Clon-  tory  of  Ffearkeall." 

macnoise  contain  the  two   passages   following,          "  Clarus  Mac  Moylyn  O'Moylechonrie  brought 

which  have  been  altogether  omitted  by  the  Four  the  White  Cannons  of  the  Order  of  Premonstra, 

Masters  :  neer  Christmas,  from  Trinity  Island,  on  Loghke, 

"  A.  D.  1260.  Carbrey  O'Melaghlyn,  a  worthy  to  Trinity  Island  on  Logh  Oghter,  in  the  Brenie, 

prince  for  manhood,   bounty,  and  many  other  and  were  there  appointed  by  the  Lycense  of  Ca- 

good  parts,   was   treacherously  killed  by  David  hall  O'Reyllie,  who  granted  the  place  after  this 

Koche  in  Athboye"   [Ballyboy]  "  in  the  terri-  manner  :  In  puram  et  perpetuam  Elimozinam  in 


1261.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  381 

Sitric  Mac  Shanly  was  slain  at  Athlone  by  Donncahy  Mageraghty  and 
Tomaltagh  Mageraghty. 

A  predatory  incursion  was  made  by  O'Donnell,  against  the  Kinel-Owen, 
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),  died5. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1261. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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 
at  Deny  by  Conor  O'Neill  and  the  Kinel-Owen,  together  with  Conor  O'Firgil1. 
Conor  O'Neill  was  slain  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. 

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]. 

A  great  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  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]  the  hereditary  coarbs  of  Kilmacrenan,  is  now 

"gaudent  consimili  privilegio  cum  monacMo  ita  Anglicised  Freel.  This  passage  is  given  as  fol- 

quodadullam  aliam  ordinem  trawire  possent."  lows  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  .of 

This  passage  must  have  been  misplaced  by  Ulster:  "A.  D.  1261.  The  best  of  the  clergy  of 
the  transcriber,  because  the  death  of  Clarus  is  Tirconnell  was  killed  by  Conor  O'Nell  and  Kin- 
entered  under  the  year  1251.  dred  Oen,  in  Derry-Columbkill,  about  Conor 

"  John  de  Verdon  came  over  into  Ireland  this  O'Fergill.  Conor  O'Nell  was  killed  soon  after, 

year-"  through  the  miracles  of  Columbkill,  by  Don 

"  Robyn  Lawless  died  on  Easterday."  O'Brislen,  Chief  of  Fanaght." 


382 


[1261. 


in  ccliacaij  pin  imaille  pe  Seon  mac  comaip  ~\  pip  an  mbappac  mop.  Oio- 
aiprhmi  a  ccopcaip  t»o  Daopccopplua£  jail  ip  in  ccaciopgail  pempaice. 

pmgin  mag  capraij  Do  mapbaD  la  jallaib  lap  pin,  -]  cicclifpnup  ofprmi- 
man  Do  jabail  Da  Dfpbpacaip  Don  aicclfipeac  maj  capraij. 

Qpc  mac  cacail  piabaij  ui  Ruaipc  DeluD  o  aoD  ua  concobaip,  -|  roipijj 
na  bpeipne,  "]  conmaicne  DO  rabaipc  cfnnaip  na  bpeipne  Do. 

Oomnall  ua  heajpa  Do  Dfnam  cpece  pop  cloinn  peopaip  in  Diojail  mapbca 
cacail  ui  eajpa  Doib  -|  papaijci  ceampaill  pechin  gup  mapb  Sepfn  mac 
peopaip,  1  an  caccluicc  cuccupcaip  a  ceampall  eapaoapa  ap  e  baoi  ima 
cfnn  05  a  mapbaD. 

bpian  pua6  ua  bpiain  Do  lopccaD  ~]  Do  pcaoileaD  caiplen  ui  conainj  i  po 
mapb  a  mbof  DO  baoinib  ann. 

Lonjpopc  aoba  ui  Concobaip  (05  pnam  inpeDaij)  Do  lopccaD  Dpeapaib 
bpfipni. 


u  Battle — This  battle  is  noticed  in  the  Annals 
of  Ulster  and  Multifernan,  under  the  year  1261. 
It  was  fought  at  Callainn  Gleanna  O'Kuach- 
tain,  about  five  miles  eastward  of  Kenmare,  in 
the  parish  of  Kilgarvan,  in  the  barony  of  Glena- 
rough,  and  county  of  Kerry.  There  is  a  much 
more  satisfactory  account  of  this  battle  given  in 
the  Annals  of  Innisfallen,  under  the  year  1260. 
Dr.  Hanmer  has  the  following  notice  of  it  under 
the  same  year:  "Anno  1260.  William  Denne 
was  made  Lord  Justice,  in  whose  time  Green 
Castle,  Arx-Viridis,  was  destroyed,  and  the 
Carties  plaied  the  Divells  in  Desmond,  where 
they  burned,  spoiled,  preyed,  and  slue  many  an 
innocent ;  they  became  so  strong,  and  prevailed 
so  mightily,  that  for  the  space  (so  it  is  reported) 
of  twelve  yeeres  the  Desmond  durst  not  put 
plow  in  groun'd  in  his  owne  country ;  at  length, 
through  the  operation  of  Satan,  a  bane  of  dis- 
cord was  thrown  betweene  the  Carties  and  the 
Odriscoles,  Odonovaines,  Mac  Donoch,  Mac 
Mahonna,  Mac  Swines,  and  the  inhabitants  of 
Muscrie,  in  so  much  that  by  their  cruell  dissen- 
tion,  they  weakened  themselves  of  all  sides,  that 


the  Desmond  in  the  end  overcame  and  over- 
topped them  all ;  but  in  the  beginning  of  these 
Garboils,  I  find  that  the  Carties  slue  of  the  Des- 
monds, John  Fitz-Thomas,  founder  of  the  Mo- 
mastery  and  Convent  of  Trally,  together  with 
Maurice  his  sonne,  eight  Barons,  fifteen  Knights, 
besides  infinite  others,  at  a  place  called  Callan, 
where  they  were  buried.  Mine  Authors  are 
lohn  Clinne  onely,  and  the  Booke  of  Houth." 
— Hanmer '«  Chronicle,  Dublin  edition  of  1809, 
p.  400.  The  same  account  of  the  battle  is  given 
in  Coxe's  Hibernia  Anglicana,  p.  69,  except  that 
the  author  adds,  out  of  his  own  head,  that  the 
victory  was  gained  "  by  ambuscade."  But  Dr. 
Leland,  who  had  the  English  and  Irish  accounts 
of  this  battle  before  him,  and  who  was  too  high- 
minded  to  distort  facts  or  give  any  details  with- 
out authority,  has  come  to  the  conclusion  that 
it  was  a  fair  battle ;  but  he  should  have  stated, 
on  the  authority  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen, 
and  other  documents,  that  William  Denn,  the 
Justiciary,  Walter  de  Burgo,  Earl  of  Ulster, 
Walter  de  Riddlesford,  the  great  Baron  of  Lein- 
ster,  and  Donnell  Koe,  the  son  of  Cormac  Finn 


126L] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


383 


the  English  nobles,  as  also  John  Fitz  Thomas  and  Barry  More.  Countless 
numbers  of  the  English  common  soldiers  were  also  killed  in  the  aforesaid 
battle". 

Fineen  Mac  Carthy  was  afterwards  killed  by  the  English",  and  the  lordship 
of  Desmond  was  assumed  by  his  brother,  the  Aithcleireach  Mac  Carthy. 

Art,  son  of  Cathal  Reagh  O'Rourke,  made  his  escape  from  [the  custody  of] 
Hugh  O'Conor;  and  the  nobles  of  Breifny  and  Conmaicne  gave  him  the  lord- 
ship of  Breifny. 

Donnell  O'Hara  committed  a  depredation  upon  the  Clann-Feoracs  [Ber- 
minghams],  in  revenge  for  their  having  slain  Cathal  O'Hara,  and  desecrated  the 
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-redaighy)  was  burned  by  the 
men  of  Breifny. 

x  The  bell,  that  is,  Sefin  had  on  his  head  a 
blessed  bell,  which  he  had  taken  away  from  the 
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 
had  obtained  it  by  robbery. 

"  Snamk-in-redaigh. — This  is  probably  the 
place  now  called  Druim  Snamha,  Anglice  Drum- 
sna,  on  the  Shannon,  on  the  boundary  between 
the  counties  of  Leitrim  and  Roscommon.  Dr. 
Lanigan  supposes  (in  his  Ecclesiastical  History  of 
Ireland,  vol.  i.  p.  24),  that  Drumsnave  in  Leitrim 


Mac  Carthy,  with  all  his  Irish  followers,  as- 
sisted the  Geraldines  against  Mac  Carthy  Eeagh 
and  such  of  the  Irish  of  the  Eugenian  race  as 
espoused  his  cause. 

After  this  signal  defeat  of  the  English,  Fineen 
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  Hy-Conaill-Gaura,  and 
killed  their  English  warders. 

w  Killed  by  the  English — According  to  the 
Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen,  Fineen 
Reanna  Roin  Mac  Carthy,  who  was  the  greatest 
hero  of  the  Eugenian  line  of  Desmond  that  ap- 
peared since  the  English  Invasion,  was  killed  by 
Miles  Cbgan  and  the  De  Courcys,  at  the  castle  of 
Rinn  Roin,  or  Ringrone,  from  which  was  derived 
his  historical  cognomen,  which  he  never  bore 
till  after  his  death. 


might  be  the  place  anciently  called  Snamh  da-en ; 
but  we  have  direct  authority  to  prove  that 
Snamh  da-en  was  the  ancient  name  of  that  part 
of  the  Shannon  between  Clonmacnoise,  in  the 
King's  County,  and  Clonburren,  in  the  county 
of  Roscommon. — See  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy- 
Many,  p.  5,  note  f ;  also  MS.  in  Trinity  College 
Dublin,  H.  2,  16,  p.  871. 


384  aNNatct  Rioghachca  eiraeciNN.  [1262. 

Lopcca6  cluana  puilionn,  .1.  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. 
6pipf6  DO  cabaipc  annpin  pop  blaib  Da  pluaj  jup  mapbab  pochaibe  nap 
boippDeipc  6iob. 

Qo6  buibe  ua  nell  Dionnapbab,  ~\  Niall  culctnac  6  nell  DoipDnea6  ina 
lonab. 

Niall  ua  gaipmleaohaij  coipeac  cenel  moain  Do  ecc. 

TTiai&m  mop  la  hua  noomnaill  pop  mall  culanach  6  neill  Du  in  po  map- 
bab  i  in  po  gabab  pocaibe  DO  rhainb  cenel  eojain  pa  mac  carmaoil  roipeac 
cenel  pfpabhaij  co  nopuing  Do  maicibh  ele  nach  aipirhcfp  ponD. 

QO1S  C171O3U,  1262. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  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 
ccip  Conaill  ap  ceceab  na  ngall,  i  buf  pen  in  imp  Saimepa  ap  cul  a  bo  -]  a 
muincep.  Uaimc  mac  uilliam  bupc  cap  cocap  mona  comneaba  iniap,  ~|  ploj 
mop  immailli  pip  50  paimc  oilpinn.  lupbfp  na  hepeann  ~|  Goan  De  uepDun 

1  Cluain  Suilionn,  now  Cloonsellan,  a  town-  affairs  of  Munster,  which  have  been  omitted  or 

land  in  the  parish  of  Kilteevan,  barony  of  Bal-  but  slightly  noticed  by  the  Four  Masters,  under 

lintober  south,  and  county  of  Eoscommon — See  the  year  1262;  such  as  the  landing  of  Richard 

Ordnance  Map  of  this  county,  sheets  40  and  42.  de  Rupella  at  Portnalong,  in  Ivahagh ;  a  great 

*Drumlahan. — This  place  is  now  more  usually  battle  between  Cormac  na  Mangarton,  the  son 

called  Drumlane.  It  is  situated  near  Belturbet,  of  Donnell  God  Mac  Carthy,  and  the  English 

in  the  county  of  Cavan,  and  is  remarkable  for  of  Ireland,  at  Tuairin  Chormaic,  on  the  side  of 

its  round  tower.  Colgan  states  that  it  is  situated  the  Mangarton  mountain,  where  Cormac  was 

on  the  boundary  between  the  two  Breifnys.  slain  and  his  people  slaughtered  ;  and  also  a 

b  Under  this  year  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  An-  victory  gained  by  Donnell  Mael,  the  son  of  Don- 

nals  of  Innisfallen  contain  several  notices  of  the  nell  God  Mac  Carthy,  over  the  English,  on 


1262.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  385 

Cluain  Suilionnz,  i.  e.  the  Fortress  of  Felim  O'Conor,  was  burned. 

Turlough  Oge,  son  of  Hugh  O'Conor,  was  given  in  fosterage  to  Art 
O'Rourke. 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  Hugh  O'Conor  in  Breifny ;  and  he 
advanced  to  Drumlahana,  where  a  part  of  his  army  was  defeated,  and  many  of 
the  less  distinguished  of  them  were  slain. 

Hugh  Boy  O'Neill  was  banished,  and  Niall  Culanagh  was  elected  in  his 
place. 

Niall  O'Gormly,  Chief  of  Kinel-Moen,  died. 

A  great  victory  was  gained  by  O'Donnell  over  Niall  Culanagh  O'Neill  [in 
a  battle],  in  which  many  of  the  chiefs  of  Kinel-Owen,  under  the  conduct  of 
Mac  Cawell,  Chief  of  Kinel-Farry,  and  many  other  chiefs  not  mentioned  here, 
were  killed  or  taken  prisoners'1. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHKIST,  1262. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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. 

A  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 
sent  off  the  greater  number  of  the  cows  of  Connaught  into  Tirconnell, 
away  from  the  English,  and  remained  himself  on  Inis  Saimer0  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 

which  occasion  he  slew  twelve  of  their  knights,  cataract  of  Assaroe  at  Ballyshannon. 

and  the  greater  part  of  their  muster.  d  Tochar  Mona    Coinneadha A   celebrated 

These  three  brothers,  the  sons  of  Donnell  God,  causeway  in  the  parish  of  Templetogher,  and 

were  the  most  heroic  of  the  Mac  Carthy  family  barony  of  Ballymoe,  in  the  north-east  of  the 

since  the  English  Invasion.  county  of  Galway. — See  other  references  to  it 

c  Inis  Saimer. — See  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  c.  ii.  at  the  year  1177,  pp.  34-36;  also  note  n,  under 

p.  163,  where  he  describes  Inis  Samer  as  "Erneo  the  year  1225,  p.  232;  and  note  under  the  year 

fluvio."     It  is  now  called  Fish  Island,  and  is  1255. 
situated  in  the  Kiver  Erne,  very  close  to  the  . 

3D 


386  aNwaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawR  [1262. 

oo  cocc  cap  Ctcluam  anoip  50  Ropcommam.  LecciD  piopra  uaca  i  ccenel 
oobca  mic  aongupa  gup  aipccpioD  an  meD  po  an  cap  ep  uf  Concobaip  i 
cconnaccaib  Don  coipc  pin,  I  DD  copainnpioD  aic  caiplein  i  l?opcommdin. 
Data  aooha  uf  concobaip  cpa  po  cionoilpibe  a  pocpaioe,  -|  luiD  in  mpcap 
Connacc  gup  aipjiopcaip  6  TTloij  eo  na  Sa^an,  -|  o  bhalla  iniap.  Loipccip  a 
mbailce  -|  a  napbanna  50  pliab  luja,  -]  po  mapbupcaip  Daoine  lonDa  fcoppa 
pin.  Cuipip  a  coipij  -]  a  ogplaca  uam  in  uachcop  Connacc  gup  loipccpioo,  -| 
jup  aipccpioo  6  Uuaim  Da  gualann  50  hacluam,  ~\  po  mapbpac  a  ccapla  Do 
oaoinib  inpea&ma  fcoppa.  CuipiD  501!!  laparii  cecca  nara  Docum  ui  Conco- 
baip i  a  mic  Do  caipcpin  pfo&a  Doib.  Uicc  aob  mppin  ina  ccoinne  50  hach 
Doipe  cuipc.  Oo  gnfaD  pic  ann  pe  poile  gan  bpaijhDe  jan  eDipeaDa  6  cech- 
cap  na  Da  cele.  6aoi  aoD  ua  concobaip  -\  mac  uilliam  bupc  in  en  leabaib 
an  oi&ce  Dep  na  pfoDa  50  pubac  poirheanmnac,  ~\  imcijiD  goill  apabapaD  lap 
cceliobpab  Dua  Concobaip. 

Gooh  buiDe  ua  Nell  DoipOneaD  Dopibipe,  "|  Niall  culdnac  DaicpiojaD. 

Cpfc  mop  DO  Denarh  la  gallaib  na  miDe  ap  jiolla  na  naorh  ua  peapjail 
cijeapna  na  hdngaile,  i  a  oipeachca  pdn  Do  &ul  uaiD  i  cclfic  gall.  Q 
aicpio^aD  Doib,  i  a  cijeapnup  Do  cabaipc  Do  mac  mupchaiD  cappaij  uf  pfp- 
jail.  Uilc  lom&a,  cpeaca,  gpeappa,  upca,  "]  aipccne,  ~\  mapbca  Do  Denam 
DO  jiolla  na  naorh  pop  gallaib  mppin.  Uijeapnup  na  hangoile  Do  copnarh 
DO  ap  eccin,  ~\  mac  mupchaiD  cappaij  DionnapbaD  Do  ap  an  cfp  amac. 

Oonnplebe  mac  cacmaoil  caoipeac  cenel  peapaDhaij  Do  mapbab  Dao6 
buiDe  ua  nell. 

SluaijeaD  la  mac  uilliam  bupc  -]  la  jallaib  Gpeann    i   nDeapmumain 

e  The  Lord  Justice — He  was  Sir  Richard  de  ,     s   Kinel-Dofa-mic-Aengusa,    i.  e.    O'Hanly's 

Rupella,  or  Capella — See  Harris's  Ware,  vol.  ii.  country,  to  the  east  of  Slieve  Baune,  in  the 

p.  103.  county  of  Roscommon. — See  note  e,  under  the 

f  John  de  Verdun. — According  to  the  Annals  year   1210,   p.   169;  and  pedigree  of  O'Hanly, 

of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  p.  171. 

he  came  to  Ireland  in  1260.     He  married  Mar-          h  SliahhLugha This  was  originally  O'Gara's 

garet,  daughter  of  Walter  de  Lacy,  in  whose  country,  but  it  now  belonged  to  the  family  of 

right  he  became  Lord  of  Westmeath,  and  had  his  Mac  Costello.     It  forms  the  northern  part  of 

chief  residence  at  Ballymore,  Lough  Seudy the  barony  of  Costello,   in  the  county  of  Mayo. 

See  Grace's  Annals,  edited  by  the  Rev.  Richard  — See  note  ',  under  the  year  1206,  p.  150;  and 

Butler,  note  ',  p.  30.  also  note  n,  under  the  year  1224,  pp.  215,  216. 


1262.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  387 

Lord  Justice6  of  Ireland  and  John  de  Verdunf  came  across  [the  bridge  of] 
Athlone  to  Roscommon.  They  sent  out  marauding  parties  into  Kinel-Dofa- 
mic-Aengusag,  who  plundered  all  that  remained  after  O'Conor  in  Connaught ; 
and  they  marked  out  a  place  for  a  castle  at  Roscommon.  As  to  Hugh  O'Conor, 
he  assembled  his  troops,  and  marched  into  the  West  of  Connaught,  and  plun- 
dered the  country  from  Mayo  of  the  Saxons,  and  from  Balla,  westwards ;  and 
he  also  burned  their  towns  and  corn  as  far  as  Sliabh  Lugha",  and  slew  many 
persons  between  them  [these  places].  He  sent  his  chiefs  and  young  nobles 
into  Upper  [i.  e.  South]  Connaught,  who  burned  and  plundered  [the  country] 
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 
son,  to  offer  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 
hostages  or  pledges  on  either  side.  After  they  had  concluded  this  peace, 
Hugh  O'Conor  and  Mac  William  Burke  slept  together  in  the  one  bed,  cheer- 
fully and  happily";  and  the  English  left  the  country  on  the  next  day,  after 
bidding  farewell  to  O'Conor. 

Hugh  Boy  O'Neill  was  again  elected,  and  Niall  Culanagh  deposed. 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  the  English  of  Meath  on  Gilla-na- 
naev  O'Farrell,  Lord  of  Annaly;  and  his  own  tribe  forsook  him,  and  went  over 
to  the  English.  He  was  deposed  by  them,  and  his  lordship  was  bestowed  on 
the  son  of  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 
O'Neill. 

An  army  was  led  by  Mac  William  Burke  and  the  English  of  Ireland  into 

'  Derryquirk,  ooipe  cuipc,  a  townland  in  the  William  Burke  (Walter,  son  of  Richard,  who 

parish  of  Killuckin,  in  the  barony  and  county  was  son  of  William  Fitz-Adelm),  passed  the 

of  Eoscommon.  night  together  merrily  and  amicably,  and  even 

k  Cheerfully  and  happily This  sentence  is  slept  together  in  one  bed.  Hugh  O'Conor  and 

very  rudely  constructed  by  the  Four  Masters,  this  Mac  William  were  near  relations,  the  for- 

They  should  have  written  it  thus :  "  After  the  mer  being  the  grandson,  and  the  latter  the  great 

conclusion  of  this  peace  Hugh  O'Conor  and  Mac  grandson  of  Cathal  Crovderg  O'Conor." 

3  D2 


388  QNNaca  Rio§hachca  eirceciNN.  [1263. 

DionnpaijiD  ITlej  capcaig  50  panjaDap  mangaprac  loca  len.  TTlapbrap 
geapalc  poirpi  annpin  la  TTlag  capcaij,  -|  a  Dfipri  jup  beyiDe  an  cpeap  bapiin 
Do  bpeapp  in  epinn  ina  aimpip  pfm.  ba  hdirfp  50  nandirfp  Do  Dfpmurhain  pin 
uaip  DO  mapbaD  copbmac  mac  Domnaill  JUID  meg  capraij  Don  cacap  po. 
Qchc  cfna  ba  hfpbaoac  joill  -[  jjaoiDil  mun  marijapcai^  an  ta  pempdicre. 
Oomnall  ua  mannacdin  Do  mapbaD  Do  cloinn  RuaiDpi  ~\  caiDcc  uf  Con- 

cobaip. 

SluaicceaD  la  hua  nDomnaill  (Domnall  6cc)  hi  ppfpaib  manach  cecup, 
1  appiDe  i  ngaipbrpian  Connachc  -|  50  jpanapD  cfchba  50  po  piappac,  -] 
50  po  jiallparc  gach  np  gup  a  paimcc  Do,  -|  cainicc  Dia  ngh  mp  mbuaiD 
ccopccaip. 

QO13  CR1O3O,  1263. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  ^epcac,  arpf. 


ua  ceallaij  ey>  puc  cluana  peapca,  -\  TTlaolciapam  ua  maoileoin 
(.1.  ab  cluana  mic  noip)  Deg. 

Oauich  ua  pinD  ab  mainipcpe  na  buille,  -|  51o^aPac]iaicc  rnac  S10^0  "a 
njuipen  ppioip  Ooipfin,  Saof  cpabaiD  i  emj  Dej. 

Oonn  ua  bpeplen  Do  mapbaD  la  Domnall  ua  nDomnaill  i  ccuipc  an  eypuicc 
i  pair  borh. 

SluaijheaD  la  mac  uilliam  DionnpaijhiD  peDlimiD  ui  concobaip  -|  a 
mfic  50  pangaDap  l?opcomdm,  ~\  po  ceicpioo  piol  muipeaDaij  pompa  i 
ccuaipceapc  Connacr,  -j  nochan  puaippioD  joill  cpeaca  pe  a  noenarh  Don 

1  TTIan^apcac  loca  lein,  now  anglicised  Man-  oon  cup  pin,  i.  e.  on  that  occasion,  would  be 

garton,  a  lofty  mountain  over  Lough  Leane,  in  much  more  correct. 

the  barony  of  Magunihy,  and  county  of  Kerry.  °  Granard  in  Teffia.  —  Now  Granard,  a  small 

m  Cormac,  son  of  Donnell  God.  —  The  Dublin  market  town  in  the  county  of  Longford,  four 

copy  of  the  Annarls  of  Innisfallen  notices  this  miles  north  of  Edgeworthstown.     The  most  re- 

battle  under  the  year  1261,  and  states  that  it  markable  feature  of  antiquity  now  to  be  seen 

was  fought  on  Tuarain  Chormaic,  on  the  side  of  at  Granard  is  a  large  moat  with  a  considerable 

the  Mangarton  mountain.  part   of  two  circumvallations    around    it.      It 

n  On  that  day,  an  la  pempdicce,  literally,  on  is  said  that  this  moat  was  opened  about  fifty 

the  day  aforesaid.     This  is  incorrect  writing,  years  ago,  and  that  the  arched  vaults  of  a  castle 

because  no  particular  day  is  mentioned  in  the  were  found  within  it,  built  of  beautiful  square 

previous  part  of  the  sentence.  Their  usual  phrase,  stones,  which  are  well  cemented  with  lime  and 


1263.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  389 

Desmond,  against  Mac  Carthy,  and  arrived  at  Mangartagh1,  of  Lough  Leane. 
Here  Gerald  Roche,  who  was  said  to  be  the  third  best  knight  of  his  time  in 
Ireland,  was  slain  by  Mac  Carthy.  This  was  a  triumph  without  joy  to  Des- 
mond, for  Cormac,  son  of  Donnell  Godm  [the  Stammering]  Mac  Carthy,  was 
slain  in  this  battle.  Indeed,  both  the  English  and  the  Irish  suffered  great  losses 
about  the  Mangartagh  mountain  on  that  dayn. 

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  Teffia0 ;  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,  1263. 
The  Age  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  Gillapatrick,  son  of 
Gilla-na-nguisen,  Prior  of  Doirean",  a  man  eminent  for  piety  and  hospitality, 
died. 

Donn  O'Breslen  was  slain  by  Donnell  O'Donnell,  in  the  bishop's  court 
[palace]  at  Raphoe. 

An  army  was  led  by  Mac  William  Burkeq  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  occa- 

sand  mortar.     Dr.  O'Conor  writes   this   name  rane,  Durrane,  &c.    It  is  situated  in  the  district 

5pian-apt>,  which  he  translates  collis  solis,   i.  e.  of  Fiodh  Monach,  a  short  distance  to  the  north 

as  hitt  of  the  sun  ;  but  there  is  no  authority  for  of  the  town  of  Roscommon.-^-See  Ordnance  Map 

writing  the  first  syllable  gpian.     In  Leabhar-  of  the  county  of  Roscommon,  sheet  35.  Accord- 

na-h-Uidhre   the  name  is  written   jpanapec.  ing  to  the  tradition  in  the  country,  this  was  a 

The  town  of  Granard  has  been  removed  from  house  of  great  importance ;  but  the  Irish  Annals 

its  ancient  site,  which  see  marked  on  the  Ord-  contain  very  few  notices  of  it. 

nance  Map  of  the  parish.  q  Mac  William  Burke — He  was  Walter,  the 

P  Doirean — This  place  is  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.  [1263. 

Dul  pin.  T?o  mnpai£  DonnchaD  ua  plomcc  -]  caD£  a  rhac  an  plua£,  -]  Do 
mapbp  ac  ceD  Diob  eDip  maic  -|  pair,  im  diem  puicpel  -]  imma  mac,  -|  mi  cuic 
riiacaib  conconnacc  ui  concobaip  imaille  pe  pochaibe  oile.  Soaic  an  pluaj 
po  mela  oia  ccijib  lap  pin. 

ITlaolpabaill  ua  hebm  Do  mapbab  la  gallaib. 

Dianmaic  clepeac  mac  copbmaic  meic  Diapmaca  t>o  ecc. 

QinOilep  mag  pionnbapp  caoipeac  mumcipe  ^eapaDain  Do  ecc. 

Caiplen  Do  Denarii  la  mac  uilliam  bupc  05  ach  angail  ipin  ccopann. 

TTlachaip  ua  puabdin  DO  mapbab  la  gallaib  i  noopup  cempaill  cilb 
Sepccnen. 

Gcaoin  injean  uf  plannaccam  Do  ecc. 

SluaicceaD  la  hua  nDorhnaill  (Dorimall  occ)  hi  cconnaccoib  50  ccorhpa- 
naicc  ppi  haooh  ua  cconcobaip  ace  coipppliab.  Lorcap  appi&e  50  cpuacam 
appiDe  cap  Suca,  appibe  hi  ccloinn  piocaipD  gup  milleab  ~\  gup  lep  lom- 
aipccfb  leo  50  heccje  -|  50  gaillim,  ~|  lap  niompub  DQoD  ua  concobaip  6  ua 
nDorhnaill,  po  apccna  6  Domnaill  cap  Spucaip,  cap  RoDba,  ap  puo  cipe  harh- 
aljaiD,  1  laporh  cap  muaib,  ~|  Do  bfpc  a  o^piap  ua&aib  uile. 

Cpeach  mop  Do  Denarh  la  haeb  mac  peblimiD  ap  gallaib  plebe  luja,  -j  i 

Ulster  very  soon  after  this  period — See  note  f ,  of  Ath  Anghaile,  i.  e.  Annaly's,  or  Hennely's, 

under  1264.  ford. 

r  Muintir-Gearadhain This  territory,    the          '  Kilsescnen,  Cill  Sepccnen,    now  anglicised 

name  of  which  is  anglicised  Montergeran  in  old  Kilshesnan.     It  is  an  old  church  in  ruins,  in  a 

Jaw  documents,  stretched  along  Lough  Gowna,  townland  of  the  same  name,  in  the  parish  of  Kil- 

on  the  west  side,  in  the  north  of  the  present  losser,  barony  of  Gallen,  and  county  of  Mayo — 

county  of  Longford.     According  to  an  Inquisi-  See  its  situation  shewn  on  the  map  to  Genealogies, 

tion  taken  at  Ardagh,  on  the  4th  of  April,  in  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  printed  in 

the  tenth  year  of  the  reign  of  James  I.,  Monter-  1844,  for  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society.    The 

geran,  in  the  county  of  Longford,  was  divided  family  of  Rowan  are  still  in  the  neighbourhood 

from  Clanmahon,  in  the  county  of  Cavan,  by  of  this  church. 

that  part  of  Lough  Gowna  called  Snabeneracke.          u  River  Suck — The  Suck  rises  from  the  hill 

The  townlands  of  Aghnekilly  and  Aghacanncjn,  of  Eiscir  ui  Mhaonacain,  in  the  townland  of  Cul- 

near  Lough  Gowna,  belonging  to  Edmond  Kear-  fearna,  parish   of  Annagh,  barony  of  Costello, 

nan,  who  died  in  1634,   were  a  part  of  this  ter-  and  county  of  Mayo.     In  a  tract  on  the  ancient 

ritory.  state  of  Hy-Many,    preserved  in  the  Book  of 

*  Ath  Any/tail,  in  Corran. — Corran  is  the  name  Lecan,  fol.  92,  it  is  stated  that  the  River  Suck 

of  a  barony,  in  the  county  of  Sligo ;  but  there  is  flows  from  a  well  in  Sliabh  Formaili,  now  Sliub 

no  place  in  this  barony  now  bearing  the  name  ui  plomn.    "X^ealBna,  6  ar  liaj  co  Suca  map 


1263.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  391 

sion.  Donough  O'Flynn  and  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. 

Mulfavill  O'Heyne  was  slain  by  the  English. 

Dermot  Cleireach,  son  of  Cormac  Mac  Dermott,  died. 

• 

Aindiles  Mag-Fhionnbharr  [Maginver],  Chief  of  Muintir-Gearadhainr,  died. 

A  castle  was  erected  by  Mac  William  Burke  at  Ath-angail,  in  Corran". 

Machair  O'Ruadhain  [Rowan]  was  slain  by  the  English  in  the  doorway  of 
the  church  of  Kilsescnen1. 

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 
totally  ravaged  the  country  as  far  as  Echtge  and  Galway.  O'Conor  then  sepa- 
rated from  O'Donnell ;  and  O'Donnell  proceeded  across  the  Rivers  Sruthair" 
and  Rodhba*,  through  Tirawley,  and  afterwards  across  the  Moy,  and  obtained 
his  full  demands  from  all. 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  Hugh,  son  of  Felim,  on  the  English 

a  mbpuccan  ap  a  tobap  05  Sliab  popmaili."  Shannon  Bridge.     It  flows  through  a  very  level 

But  the  River  Suck  does  not,  properly  speak-  country,  and  is  remarkable  for  its  sinuosity  and 

ing,   issue  from  a  mountain,   nor  from  a  well,  inundations. 

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  Blackriver,  which  flows  through  the  village  of 

side  of  a  low  Esker  or  ridge.     It  oozes  through  Shrule  (to  which  it  gives  name),  and  forms,  for 

the  Esker,  and  appears  at  the  east  side  of  it,  not  some  miles,  the  boundary  between  the  counties 

as  a  well,  but  in  scattered  tricklings  of  bog  wa-  of  Mayo  and  Galway. 

ter.    From  the  east  side  of  the  Esker  onwards,  a          *  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  Ui  Fhloinn,    at  Ballin-  county  of  Mayo,   passing  through  the  demesne 

lough;  hence  it  winds  its  way  in  an  eastern  di-  of  Castlemagarret,   and   through  the  town  of 

rection,  and  passes  under  the  bridge  of  Castle-  Ballinrobe,  to  which  it  gives  name,  and  dis- 

reagh,  where  it  turns  southwards,  and,  passing  charges  itself  into  Lough  Mask,   opposite  the 

through  Ballymoe,  Dunamon,  Athleague,  Mount  island  of  Inis  Rodhba,  which  also  derives  its 

Talbot,    Belafeorin,    and   Ballinasloe,   pays   its  name  from  it. 
tribute  to  the   Shannon,    near  the  village   of 


392 


[1264. 


cciayipaije,  i  po  mapbab  pochaibe  mop  DO  jallaib  laip,  -]  Do  par  buap  lomba 
uaibib. 

» 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1264. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  t>a  ceD,  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 
laip  oppa  iman  mbpopnaij  eDip  mapbab  -\  babhab. 

TTluipceaprac  mac  Doriinaill  uf  aipc  Do  mapbab,  ~\  a  muincip  Do  lopcab 
la  Donn  maj  uibip. 

Cpeac  mop  DO  Denam  Do  Dealbnaib  ap  Shiol  nanmcaDa,  -|  cuic  meic  uf 
maDaDam  DO  mapbab  Don  roipc  pin. 

Coinni  eDip  lupDip  na  hGpeann  (jona  jallaib  im  mpla  ulaD,  ~]  im  muipip 
mac  geapailc  jona  ccoimcionol  Ifc  ap  lee)  i  pebbmiD  ua  Concobaip  gon  a 


y  Sliabh  Lugha,  and  in  Ciarraighe These  two 

territories  are  included  in  the  present  barony  of 
Costello,  in  the  south-east  of  the  county  of 
Mayo — See  them  completely  defined  at  pp.  150, 
215,  216,  supra. 

1  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise, 
as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  contain  the  fol- 
lowing curious  entry:  "Ebdon,  King  of  Den- 
mark, died  in  the  islands  of  the  Orcades,  as  he 
was  on  his  journey  to  come  to  Ireland." 

a  O'Cluman. — This  name,  which  is  still  com- 
mon in  the  counties  of  Sligo  and  Mayo,  is  now 
generally  anglicised  Coleman.  Cluman  would 
sound  nearly  as  well;  but  Irish  families  in  an- 
glicising their  names  are  not  influenced  by 
sound,  but  by  the  respectability  of  those  fa- 
milies with  whose  names  they  assimilate  their 
own. 

b  Brosna — A  river  which  flows  through  the 
county  of  Westmeath  and  the  King's  County, 
and  pays  its  tribute  to  the  Shannon,  near  Bana- 
gher — See  Colgan's  Trias  Thaum.,  p.  159.  In 


Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of 
Clonmacnoise,  this  passage  is  rendered  as  fol- 
lows :  "A.  D.  1264.  Art  mac  Cormac  mac  Art 
O'Melaghlyn  made  great  warrs  upon  the  Eng- 
lish of  Meath,  and  made  great  slaughter  upon 
them  at  the  river  of  Brosnagh,  where  he  that 
was  not  killed  of  them  was  drowned  in  that 
river." 

c  Donn  Maguire. — According  to  the  tradition 
in  the  country,  this  is  the  first  of  the  Maguire 
family  who  became  Chief  of  Fermanagh.  His 
spirit  is  believed  to  haunt  the  mountain  of 
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  Garry- 
castle,  in  the  King's  County. — See  note  h,  under 
the  year  1178,  p.  44. 

e  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  many  cows  from  them2. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1264. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  sixty-four. 

Aengus  O'Cluman8,  Bishop  of  Leyny,  died  in  the  Abbey  of  Boyle,  having 
resigned  his  bishopric  long  before. 

A  war  broke  out  between  Art  O'Melaghlin  and  the  English  of  Meath;  and 
he  destroyed  great  numbers  of  them  near  the  River  Brosna",  both  by  killing 
and  drowning. 

Murtough,  son  of  Donnell  O'Hart,  was  killed;  and  his  people  were  burned 
by  Donn  Maguirec. 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  the  inhabitants  of  Delvin.[Eathrad] 
on  the  Sil-Anmchadhae;  and  the  five  sons  of  O'Madden  were  slain  on  the  occa- 
sion. 

A  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,  the  grandson  of  William  Fitz-  married  Thomas,  Earle  of  Kildare;  4.  Katherine, 

Adelm.  According  to  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  that  married  the  Earle  of  Louth ;  5.  Margaret, 

Annals  of  Innisfallen,  he  obtained  this  title  in  that  married  the  Earle  of  Desmond ;  6.  Ettinor, 

the  year  1264,  after  his  marriage  with  [Maud]  that  married  with  the  Lord  Mullon.  Notwith- 

the  daughter  of  Hugh  de  Lacy  the  younger.  standing  these  honourble  matches  and  amity  con- 

Dr.  Hanmer  has  the  same  statement  under  the  eluded  in  the  outward  sight  of  the  world,  there 

same  year.  His  words  are  as  follows:  "  Anno  rose  deadly  warres  between  the  Geraldines  and 

1264.  Walter  Bourke,  commonly  called  Walterus  Burks,  which  wrought  blood  sheds,  troubles,  by 

de  Burgo,  was  made  Earle  of  Vlster,  hee  had  partaking  throughout  the  Kealme  of  Ireland ;  at 

married  the  daughter  and  heire  of  Sir  Hugh  De-  the  same  time  the  fury  of  the  Giraldins  was  so 

lacy,  the  younger,  and  in  her  right  enjoyed  the  outrageous,  in  so  much  that  Morice  Fitz  Mau- 

Earledome.  rice,  the  second  Earle  of  Desmond,  opposed  him- 

"  The  Booke  of  Houth  layeth  down  the  de-  selfe  against  the  sword,  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  Capella,  the  Lord  Justice,  Theobald  le  Butler,  and 

had  issue  five  daughters ;  1.  Etten,  that  married  lohn,  or  Millis  de  Cogan,  and  committed  them 

Robert  le  Bruse,  King  of  Scotland ;  I.Elizabeth,  to  the  prisons  in  Leix  andDonamus;  but  the 

3  E 


cn-wata  Rioghachca  eiReaNN.  [1264. 

mac  in  Clc  luain.  Gaccla,  -j  anbdcao  inrinne  Do  jabail  na  ngall  OD  conn- 
caoap  l?f  Connacc  ~\  a  mac  50  lionmap  Ifipaonoilce  05  cocc  ina  ccorh&dil. 
5ona6  i  comaipli  ap  ap  cinnpeaD  pic  oiappaiD  oppa.  Ctoncaijip  peoliimm 
-|  maice  a  muincipe  an  epic  DO  Denarii,  ~\  po  pcappac  pe  poile  50  pioccanca 

laporh. 

Cocca6  Depgi  eoip  mac  uilliam  bupc  (.1.  lapla  ulab),  -|  muipip  mac 
jjeapailc,  gup  milleab  upmop  Gpeann  fcoppa,  gup  gab  an  ciapla  apaibi  Do 
caiplenaib  i  cconnaccaib  05  mac  jeapailc,  gup  loipcc  a  mainep,  -]  jup  aip- 

jjfpcaip  a  muincip. 

Qpc  ua  maoilpeacloinn  Do  lopccaD  apaibe  DO  caiplenaib  -\  Do  ppacc- 
bailcib  i  noealbna,  a  ccalpoiji,  -j  a  mbpfshmaine  sup  Diocuipfpcaip  a  ngoill 
epcib  uili.  5a^air  bp«i5noe  a  ccoipeac  ap  a  hairle.  < 

lupoip  na  hGpeann,  Seoan  ^ogan,  -j  ceboio  buicelep  Do  gabdil  Do  muipip 
mac  gepailc  i  ccempal  coippeccra. 

Caiplen  loca  meapcca  -\  caiplen  Qipo  patain  Do  jabailDo  mac  uilliam. 

Qipoeppcop  QpDamacha  TTlaolpaccpaicc  6  Sccannaill  Do  cabaipc  na 
mbpacap  minup  50  hCtpDmacha,  -]  ape  mac  Domnaill  jjallocclac  (DO  peip 
gnaccuimne)  DO  cionnpsam  in  mainepcip  pin  Do  cojbail  6  copac. 

yeere  following,  Henry  the  third  not  pleased  Ireland,  had  a  meeting  with  Ffelym  O'Connor, 

with  these  commotions  and  hurly  burlies,  by  and  with  Hugh,  his  son,  in  Athlone.     The  Eng- 

mature  advice  taken  of  his  Councell,  pacified  the  lish  nobility,  seeing  the  great  multitutes  of  peo- 

variancebetweenthem;dischargedZ>ewwy[Denn]  pie  follow  Ffelym  and  his  sonn,  were  strocken 

of  his  Justiceship,  and  appointed  David  Barry  with  great  fear;  whereupon  .they  advised  with 

Lord  Justice  in  his  place." — Hanmer's  Chronicle,  themselves  that  it  were  better  for  them  to  be  in 

Dublin  edition  of  1809,  pp.  401,  402.  peace  with  Ffelym  and  his  son,  than  in  con- 

The  Book  of  Howth  is,  however,  wrong  in  tinual  dissention,  which   [peace]  was  accepted 

this  genealogy ;  for  we  know  from  more  authen-  of  by  Ffelym  and  concluded  by  them, 
tic  Irish  and  English  authorities,  that  Walter,          "  Also  there  arose  dissention  between  Mac 

the  first  of  the  De  Burgo  family,  who   became  William   Burk,   the  Earl  of  Ulster,  and  Mac 

Earl  of  Ulster,  was  the  father,  and  not  the  grand-  Gerald  this  year,  [so]  that  the  most  part  of  the 

father,  of  the  ladies  above  enumerated;  and,  that  kingdome  was  brought  to  utter  ruin  by  reason 

his  eldest  son  was  named  Richard,  not  Walter.  of  all  their  warrs  against  one  another,  in   so 

«  Burned  his  manors. — This  and  the  preceding  much  that  the  said  Earle  took  all  the  castles  of 

entry  are  given  as  follows  in  Mageoghegan^s  trans-  Mac  Gerald  in  Conndught  into  his  own  hands, 

lation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  :    "  A.  D.  and  burnt  and  destroyed  all  his  manours." 
1264.    The  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland,  the  Earle  of          h  Street-tovns,  i.  e.  villages  consisting  of  one 

Ulster,  Mac  Gerald,  and  the  English  nobility  of  street,  without  being  defended  by  a  castle. 


1264.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  395 

with  their  respective  forces),  on  the  one  side,  and  Felim  O'Conor  and  his  son 
on  the  other.  The  English  were  seized  with  fear  and  perplexity  of  mind  when 
they  saw  the  King  of  Connaught  and  his  son  approaching  them  with  a  nume- 
rous and  complete  muster  of  their  forces,  and  came  to  the  resolution  of  suing 
for  peace.  Felim  and  the  chiefs  of  his  people  consented  to  make  the  peace, 
and  they  afterwards  separated  on  amicable  terms. 

A  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  all  the  castles  that  Fitzgerald  possessed  in  Connaught,  burned  . 
his  manors2,  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 
from  their  chieftains'. 

The  Lord  Justice  of  Irelandj,  John  Goggank,  and  Theobald  Butler,  were 
taken  prisoners  by  Maurice  Fitzgerald  in  a  consecrated  church1. 

The  castle  of  Lmigh  Mask  and  the  castle  of  Ardrahin  were  taken  by  Mac 
William  Burke. 

The  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  Maelpatrick  O'Scannal,  brought  the  Friars 
Minor  to  Armagh;  and  (according  to  tradition),  it  was  Mac  Donnell  Gallo- 
glaghm  that  commenced  the  erection  of  the  monastery. 

'  From  their  chieftains,  that  is,  from  the  Irish  Cowgan,  which  seems  more  correct.     The  name 

chieftains  whom  he  placed  over  these  territories  is   now  usually  written   Goggan,    and   is  very 

after  the  expulsion  of  the  English.     These  were  common  all  over  the  south  of  Ireland,  particu- 

Mac  Coghlan,  Magawley,   and   O'Breen.      The  larly  in  the  county  of  Cork. 

Delvin  here  mentioned  is  the  present  barony  of  */«  a  consecrated  church — This  was  the  church 

Garrycastle,    Mac   Coghlans'    country,   in   the  of  Castledermot,  in  the  county  of  Kildare — See 

King's  County.      Calry  comprised  all  the  pa-  Annals  of  Ireland  by  Camden  and  Grace.     In 

rish  of  Ballyloughloe,  in  Westmeath,  and  Braw-  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen 

ney  is  still  the  name  of  a  barony  adjoining  Ath-  this  passage  is  incorrectly  given  under  the  year 

lone  and  the  Shannon  in  the  same  county,  in  1266.     According  to  Camden  and  Hanmer  the 

which  the  O'Breens    are   still   numerous,    but  prisoners  were  confined  in  the  castles  of  Duna- 

have  changed  the  name   to  O'Brien.  mase  and  Ley,  then  in  the  possession  of  the 

J  The  Lord  Justice — He  was  Richard  de  Eu-  Geraldines. 

pella,  or  Capella.  m  Mac  Donnell  GaUoglagh  of  the  Gallowglasses, 

k  John  Goggan — In  Mageoghegan's  translation  or  heavy-armed  Irish  soldiers,  was  chief  of  Clann- 

of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  he  is  called  John  Kelly,  in  Fermanagh. 

8x8 


396  aNNCtf-ct  Rio^hachca  eirceawN.  [1265. 

QOIS  CR1OSU,  1265. 
Cioip  Cpiopr,  mile,  Da  ceD,  pepcac,  acuicc. 

Uomap  mac  peapjail  meic  DiapmaDa  eppuc  oilipinn,  comap  ua  maicm 
eppuc  luigne,  -\  TTlaolbpigDe  ua  spuccain  aipcinneac  oilepinn  Do  ecc. 

TTluipip  mac  nell  uf  concobaip  Do  coja  DO  cum  eppucoiDe  oilepmn. 

Caiplen  Sticcij  Do  p^aoileaD  la  hao6  ua  cconcobaip,  ~\  la  hua  noomnaill. 
Caiplen  an  bfnnacca,  -|  caiplen  Rara  aipD  cpaoibe  DO  lopcaD  ~\  Do  pcaoil- 
eaD  leo  beop. 

TTlamipcip  copaip  pacpaicc  Do  lopccaD. 

UaDg  mag  pionnbapp  Do  mapBab  Do  Concobap  mag  pagnaill  1  Do  mac 
oomnaill  uf  peapjail. 

peblimiD  mac  carailcpoibDeipg  uf  Concobaip  Ri  Connacc,  peap  copanca 
1  cocaigrn  a  cuicciD  pfin,  -]  a  capaD  pop  gac  caoib,  peap  lonnapbra  -| 
aipgce  a  eapcapac,  peap  Ian  Denec,  Deanjnam,  1  Doipoepcup,  peap  mea- 
Daighce  opD  eccailpeac,  -|  ealaban,  DfjaDbap  pfj  Gpeann  ap  uaipli, 
ap  cpur,  ap  cpo&achc,  ap  ceill,  ap  lochc,  ap  pipinne  Do  ecc  lap  mbuaiD 
nonjca  -|  naicpiji  i  maimpcip  jbpacap  .8.  Domemc  i  Ropcomdin  cucc  pfm 
poime  pin  Do  Dia  -\  Don  upD.  CtoD  ua  Concobaip  a  mac  pein  Do  pfogab  uap 
Connachcaib  Da  ep,~)  a  cpeac  pfji  Do  Denam  Do  ap  uib  pailje,1]  lap  niompuD 

11  Beannada,  now  Banada,  a  small  village  near  banisher  of  his  Enemies,  where  he  could  find 

which  are  the  ruins  of  an  abbey,  in  the  barony  them:  one  full  of  bounty,  prowess"  [eanjnarii], 

of  Leyny,  and  county  of  Sligo.  "  and  magnanimity,  both  in  England  and  Ire- 

0  Eath-ard-  Creeva — This   name  is  now  ob-  land,  died  penitently,  and  was  buried  in  the 
solete.  Fryers  Preachers'  (monastery)  of  Roscommon, 

P  Toberpatrick,  i.  e.  the  great  abbey  of  Ballin-  which  he  himself  before   granted  to  the   said 

tober,  in  the  county  of  Mayo.  order,  in  honor  of  God  andSt  Dominick.    After 

1  Mag-Finnvar. — He  was  Chief  of  Muintir-  whose  death  his  own  son,  Hugh  O'Connor  (a 
'  Geran,  a  territory  on   the  west  side  of  Lough  vallarous  and  sturdy  man),  tooke  upon  him  the 

Gowna,  in  the  north  of  the  county  of  Longford  name  of  King  of  Connought,  and  immediately 

1  Felim — This  passage  is  rendered  as  follows  made  his  first  regal  prey  upon  the  countrey  of 

in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Affailie,  made  great  burnings  and  outrages  in 

Clonmacnoise :  that  countrey,  and  from  thence  returned  to 

"  Felyrn  mac  Cahall  Crovedearg  O'Connor,  Athlone,  where  he  put  out  the  eyes  of  Cahall 

king  of  Connoght,  defender  of  his  own  province  Mac  Teige  O'Connor,  who,  soone  after  the  losing 

and  Friends  every  where,  and  destroyer  and  his  eyes,  died." 


1265.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  397 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1265. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  sixty-jive. 

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  of  Toberpatrickp  was  burned. 

Teige  Mag-Finnvarq  was  slain  by  Conor  Mac  Rannal  and  the  son  of  Don- 
nel  O'Farrell. 

Felimr,  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 
his  foes, — a  man  full  of  hospitality,  prowess5,  and  renown ;  the  exalter  of  the 
clerical  orders  and  men  of  science;  a  worthy  materies  of  a  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  own  son,  was  inaugurated  king  over  the  Connacians,  as  his 
successor.  Hugh  committed  his  regal  depredation"  in  Offaly",  and  on  his 

*  Prowess,  eanjnaiti,  is  used  throughout  these  "  Mr.  Grose  has  given  a  faithful  view  of  this 
Annals  in  the  sense  of  prowess  or  dexterity  at  abbey.  The  steeple  of  the  abbey,  of  late  un- 
arms— See  extract  from  the  Annals  of  Kilro-  dermined  by  a  gentleman  who  wished  to  pro- 
nan,  at  the  year  1235,  where  the  phrase  popgeim  cure  materials  for  building  a  house,  fell  about 
eanjjnariia  is  used  to  express  "with  credit  for  two  years  ago"  [he  was  writing  in  1796],  "and 
prowess."  the  monument  of  Felim  is  covered  with  rubbish 

'  Roscommon.  —  Dr.    O'Conor,    in   his   sup-  and  with  ruins."     The  Editor  examined  this 

pressed  work,  Memoirs  of  the  Life  and  Writings  monument  in  1837,  when  it  was  very  much  in- 

of  Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare,  writes,  p.  43  :  jured,  but  could  discover  no  fragment  of  an 

"  Felim  was  interred  in  his  own  abbey  of  Eos-  inscription  upon  it. 

common,  and  his  monument,  of  which  Mr.  u  Regal  depredation,  a  cpeac  piji — It  appears 
Walker  has  given  a  drawing  in  his  Dress  of  the  that  every  king  after  his  inauguration  was  ex- 
ancient  Irish,  is  an  object  of  melancholy  curio-  pected  to  achieve  some  grand  act  of  depredation. 
slty  to  this  day."  And  he  adds  in  a  note  : —  w  Offaly,  a  territory  of  considerable  extent  in 


398  aNNCtta  Rio^hachua  emeawH.  [1266. 

Do  50  hat:  luain  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  mag 
pajnaill  caoipeac  muincipe  heolaip,  ~\  TTluipeabac  ua  ceapbaill  caoipeac 
calpoiji  Do  ecc  beop. 

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  a  ccill  meaDoin. 

Oeapbpopgaill  ingfn  ui  DubDa  (macaip  an  aipDeppuic  chomalcaij  uf 
Concobaip)  Decc  lap  mbuaiD,  ^fc. 

QO13  CR1OSU,  1266. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  pepcac,  ape. 

^paba  eppuicc  DO  cabaipc  ap  bpacaip  DopD  .8.  Domenic  (.1.  ua  Scopa) 
in  apD  Ulaca  Do  cum  beic  i  Raic  bor  Do. 

Uomap  ua  maolconaipe  aipciDeochain  Cuama,  i  TTlaoilipu  ua  hanainn 
ppioip  ]?opa  commain,  ~\  Qra  liacc,  Do  ecc. 

Comap  ua  miaDacam  Do  gabail  eppocoioe  luigne. 

Cojq  eppuicc  Do  cocc  on  T?6im  50  cluain  pepca  bpenainn,  i  ^pa&a 
eppuicc  Do  cabaipc  Do  pfm  ~]  Do  comap  6  miaDacdin  in  Qc  na  pfog  an  Dom- 
nac  pia  Noolaic. 

Oomnall  ua  hGjpa  cijeapna  luigne  Do  mapbaD  Do  jallaib,  -\  e  05  lopcab 
QipD  na  piaj. 

Leinster. — See  note  g,  under  the  year  1178,  same  name,  in  the  south  of  the  county  of  Mayo, 

p.  44  ;  and  note  e,  under  the  year  1 193,  p.  96.  Harris,  in  his  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  607, 

x  David  Prendergast — The  seal  of  this  chief  says  that  this  quarrel  took  place  "  at  Kilme- 

still  exists,  as  would  appear  from  an  impression  than,  a  manor  belonging  to  the  arclibishoprick." 

of  it  in  the  museum  of  Mr.  Petrie.  It  bears  his  z  Athleague,  ar  liaj. — This  is  ar  liaj  maena- 

arms  on  a  shield,  and  the  legend  is,  "  S.  DAVID  cam,  a  village  and  parish  on  the  Eiver  Suck,  in 

DE  PEENDERGAST."  the  north-west  of  the  barony  of  Athlone,  in  the 

y  Kilmaine,  cill  tneaoom,  i.  e.  the  middle  county  of  Roscommon.  It  }S  to  be  distinguished 

church,  a  parish  and  village  in  a  barony  of  the  from  Athliag  na  Sinna,  now  Ballyleague,  at 


1266.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  399 

return  to  Athlone  put  out  the  eyes  of  Cathal,  son  of  Teige  O'Conor,  who  died 
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  Mac  Eannall,  Chief 
of  Muintir-Eolais,  and  Murray  O'Carroll,  Chief  of  Calry,  died. 

A  conference  was  held  by  Tomaltagh  O'Conor  (Archbishop  of  Tuam)  with 
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,  1266. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  sixty-six. 

The  dignity  of  bishop  was  conferred  at  Armagh  on  a  friar  of  the  order  of 
St.  Dominic  (i.  e.  O'Scopa),  and  he  was  appointed  to  Eaphoe. 

Thomas  O'Mulconry,  Archdeacon  of  Tuam,  and  Maelisa  O'Hanainn,  Prior 
of  Roscommon  and  Athleague2,  died. 

Thomas  O'Meehana  became  Bishop  of  Leyny. 

A  bishop-elect"  came  from  Rome  to  Clonfert-Brendan,  and  the  dignity  of 
bishop  was  conferred  on  him,  and  on  Thomas  O'Meehan,  at  Athenry,  on  the 
Sunday  before  Christmas. 

Donnell  O'Hara  was  killed  by  the  English  while  he  was  in  the  act  of  burn- 
ing Ardnareac. 

Lanesborough,  in  the  same  county.  variety  of  statues  of  excellent  workmanship," 

a  Thomas  Of  Median. — In  Harris's  edition  of  was  built  by  him  ;  but  there  can  be  little  doubt 

Ware's    Bishops,  p.  659,    he  is    called    Dennis  that  this  frontispiece,  or  ornamented  doorway, 

O'Miachan.     His  predecessor  was  Thomas.  is  at  least  two  centuries  older  than  his  time. — 

b  Bishop-ekct. — Ware  calls  him  John,  an  Ita-  See  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  639- 
lian,   the  Pope's  nuncio  ;  and  says  that  he  sat          c  Ardnarea,  i.  e.  the  height  or  hill  of  execu- 

for  many  years,  and  was  at  last,  in  1 296,  trans-  tions,    now  Anglicised  Ardnaree.     It  may  be 

lated  to  the   archbishopric    of   Benevento,    in  now  said  to  form  the  eastern  part  of  the  town  of 

Italy.  Ware  thought  that  "  the  fair  frontispiece  Ballina.     On  an  old  map  of  the  coasts  of  Mayo, 

at  the  west  end  of  the  church,  adorned  with  a  Sligo,  and  Donegal,  preserved  in  the  State  Pa- 


400  awNaca  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1266. 

mac  cficepnaij  uf  cfipfn  cijecqina  ciappaije  Do  mapbaD  la 


ua  cuilfin  cijeapna  claonglaipi  Do  mapbaD  Da  mnaoi  pein 
Den  builli  Do  Scan  cpe  eD. 

Caiplen  ciji  Da  coinne  Do  bpipeab,  "|  Conmaicne  uile  Dpdpujjhao. 

Uoipp&ealbach  mac  Qo6a  mic  cacail  cpoiboeips  Decc  i  mainipDip  cnuic 
TTluaiDe. 

Oiapmair  puao  mac  Concobaip  mic  cojibmaic  meic  Diapmaca,  i  Donn. 
cacaijj  mac  Dumn  oicc  meg  oipechraij  Do  Dalla6  oao&  ua  Concobaip. 

buipjep  beoil  an  cacaip  Do  lopcaD  Do  plann  puaD  ua  ploinn,  ~]  mopdn 
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 
amlaoib  mic  aipc  uf  puaipc,  -\  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. 

Qp  mop  DO  rabaipc  Do  Dpoing  Do  muinnp  ui  concobaip,  .1.  Do  Loclumn 
mac  Diapmaca  mic  muipcfpcaij,  Do  mac  cfirepnaij,  ~\  Do  mac  Domnaill 
Duib  ui  Gajpa,  ap  bpfrnachaib,  -|  ap  luijnib  in  lapcap  Connacr,  1  en  ceann 
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  i  Seancup  DO  ecc. 

TTlaolpacpaic  6  Scanoail  Ppiomaio  CtipD  maca  Do  cabaipc  bparap  mio- 
nup  50  hapD  maca,  -]  IfrainDfoj  lanoomain  Do  Denarii  laip  im  an  eacclaip 
laparh. 

pers  Office,  it  is  called  "  Monasturie,  and  Castle  territory  was   at  this  period  narrowed  by  the 

of  Ardnaree."  encroachments  of  the  English  settlers. 

d  CfCuikain  —  This  name  is  now  Anglicised  f  Tigh  da  Cfioinne,  now  Tiaquin  in  the  county 

Collins  all  over  the  south  of  Ireland".  of  Galway.     The   Conmaicne   here  mentioned 

'  Claenghlais,  now   Clonlish,  a  wild  district  must   be   Conmaicne  Kinel-Dubhain,   now  the 

in  the  barony  of  Upper  Connello,  in  the  south-  barony  of  Dunmore,  in  the  county  of  Galway, 

west  of  the  county  of  Limerick,   adjoining  the  and  not  the  Conmaicne  on  the  east  side  of  the 

counties  of  Kerry  and  Cork.     O'Cuileain  was  Shannon. 

originally  Chief  of  Hy-Conaill-Gaura  ;  but  his  8  Bel-an-tachair,    now  Ballintogher,  a  small 


1266.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  401 

Mahon,  son  of  Kehernagh  O'Kerrin,  Lord  of  Ciarraighe  [in  the  County  of 
Mayo],  was  slain  by  the  English. 

Mahon  O'Cuileind,  Lord  of  Claenghlaisi',  was  killed  by  his  own  wife  with 
one  stab  of  a  knife,  given  through  jealousy. 

The  castle  of  Tigh-da-Choinnef  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. 

An  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. 

A  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,  near  the  boundary  of  the  county  of  Lei-      non,  at  the  place  now  caDed  Shannon  Harbour 

trim,  in  the  barony  of  Tirerill,  and  county  of     See  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy-Many,  note  *, 
Sligo.  p.  5,  and  map  to  the  same  work.    See  also  note 

h  Ath-CrocMa. — More  usually  written  Ath-      under  the  year  1547. 

Crocha.   It  was  the  name  of  a  ford  on  the  Shan-          '  Welshmen — These   were   the  Joyces,  Bar- 

3F 


402  QNNata  Rio^hachua  eiReawN.  [1268. 


QO1S  CR1OSU,  1267. 
Cloip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceo,  pepcac  .  apeacc. 

Gppucc  cluana  pfpra,  .1.  ftorhanac  DO  Dul  Do  poigiD  an  papa. 

TTlupcab  mac  SuiBne  Do  gabail  in  umall  Do  Domnall  mac  majnupa  ui 
Concobaip,  a  cabaipc  ap  lairh  an  mpla,  -\  a  ecc  i  bppiopun  aicce. 

bpian  mac  coippDealbaijj  mic  RuaiDpi  ui  concobaip  Do  ecc  i  mainipnp 
cnuic  muaiDe. 

Cpeac  DO  Denarii  Do  mac  uilliam  ap  ua  cconcobaip  gup  aipjfpoaip  cip 
maine  -\  clann  uaDac. 

Cpeac  DO  Denam  Do  gallaib  lapcaip  Connacc  i  ccaipppe  Dpoma  cliab,  -j 
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. 

Ctlip  injean  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. 

QOIS  CR1O3U,  1268. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  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  injjfn, 

retts,  Merricks,  Hostys,  and  others.  —  See  Ge-  in  the  counties  of  Eoscommon  and  Galway. 

neologies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  m  Clann-Uadagh  —  O'Fallon's  country,  in  the 

pp.  324-339.  barony  of  Athlone,  and  county  of  Eoscommon.  — 

J  Mac  Sweeny  —  This  is  the  first  notice  of  the  See  note  \  under  the  year  1225,  p.  236. 

family  of  Mac  Sweeny  occurring  in  these  Annals.  n  Mac  Carroon  __  According    to  O'Flaherty, 

k  The  Earl,  i.  e.  Walter  Burke,  or  De  Burgo  Mac  Carrghamhna  was  seated  in  the  barony  of 

who  was  made  Earl  of  Ulster  in  1264.  Cuircnia,   or  Kilkenny  West,  in  the  county  of 

1  Tir-Many,  i.e.  Hy-Many,  O'Kelly's  country,  Westmeath. 


1268.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  403 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1267. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  sixty-seven. 

The  Bishop  of  Clonfer 1,  who  was  a  Roman,  went  over  to  the  Pope. 

Murrough  Mac  SweenyJ  was  taken  prisoner  in  Umallia  by  Donnell,  son  of 
Manus  O'Conor,  who  delivered  him  up  to  the  Earlk,  in  whose  prison  he  died. 

Brian,  son  of  Turlough,  who  was  son  of  Roderic  O'Conor,  died  in  the 
monastery  of  Knockmoy. 

A  depredation  was  committed  by  Mac  William  on  O'Conor;  and  he  plun- 
dered Tir-Many1  and  Clann-Uadaghm. 

A  depredation  was  committed  by  the  English  of  West  Connaught  in  Car- 
bury  of  Drumcliff,  and  they  plundered  Easdara  [Bally sadare]. 

Donough,  son  of  Rory,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Conor,  was  slain  by  the  English. 

A  dangerous  disease  attacked  the  King  of  Connaught;  and  the  report  of  it 
spread  all  over  Ireland. 

Alice,  daughter  of  Mac  Carroon",  died. 

Hugh  O'Murray,  Chief  of  Lagan0,  was  slain  at  Killala  by  O'Mulfover, 
coarb  of  the  church,  on  a  Sunday,  after  hearing  mass. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1268. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  sixty-eight. 

Hugh,  son  of  Conor  O'Flaherty,  Official  of  Annadown,  died. 
The  Great  Church  of  Armagh  was  begun  by  the  Primate,  Gillapatrick 
O'Scannal. 

Conor  Roe  O'Brien,  Lord  of  Thomond,  Seoinin,  his  son,  his  daughter,  his 

"  Loffan — The  name  and  extent  of  this  ter-  Barretts  and  Lynotts. — See  Genealogies,  Tribes, 

ritory  are  still  remembered. .  It  is  situated  in  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,   pp.  222,  223, 

the  north  of  the  barony  of  Tirawley,   in   the  notes  *  and  '. 

county  of  Mayo.     It  originally  comprised  the          Under  the  year  1267,  the  Dublin  copy  of  the 

parishes   of  Kilbride  and  Doonfeeny,   and  ex-  Annals  of  Innisfallen  contain  an  account  of  the 

tended  eastwards  to  the  strand  of  Lacken,  where  revolt  of  the  tribes  of  Thomond  against  Conor 

it  adjoined  the  territory  of  Caeille  Conaill.    The  na  Siudaine  O'Brien,  of  which  the  Four  Masters 

O'Murrays  were  soon  after  dispossessed  by  the  have  collected  no  account. 

3  F2 


404  aNNata  raioshachca  eiraeaNW.  [1268. 

mac  a  injine,  .1.  mac  Ruaibpi  uf  jpaoa,  Dubloclamn  ua  loclainn,  comap  ua 
beollain,  ~|  Socai&e  oile  Do  mapbabla  Diapmaic  mac  muipcfpcaijj  ui  bpiain 
-]  epfin  DO  mapbab  inn  laparh.  t>pian  mac  concobaip  uf  bpiain  Do  gabail 
njeapnaip  euabmuman  ap  a  hairle. 

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,  nj- 
eapna  innpi  jail,  ~|  aipip  gaoioeal  Do  ecc. 

ITluipip  puaD  mac  geapailc  DO  bdrhaD  pop  muip  50  lucr  luin^i  imaille 
pip  05  coiDechc  6  Shajcaib. 

lonnpaijiD  Do  cabaipr  Dao&  ua  concobaip  pop  gallaib  50  har  luain.  Na 
joill  DO  cocc  ma  comne  jup  na  peaDhaib,  cachop  DO  cup  eacoppa,  bpipeao 
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 
coclam  Do  mapbaD  ta  gallaib. 

Qenjup  ua  maoilpojmaip  DO  mapbaD  la  huib  TTluipea&aij  i  nDiojail  a 
ccino  pine. 

*  Airer-Gaedheal,  i.  e.  the  district  or  territory  say,  but  the  son  of  Maurice,  who  was  Lord  Jus- 

of  the  Gaels.     This  is  the  name  by  which  Ar-  tice  in  1272. 

gyle,  now  Argyleshire  in  Scotland,  is   always  r  Faes,  na  peaoa,  i.  e.  the  woods.     This  was 

called  by  correct  Irish  and  Erse  writers.  the  name  of  O'Naghtan's  country,  in  the  ba- 

q  Maurice  Roe  Fitzgerald.  —  This  passage  is  rony  of  Athlone,   and  county  of  Eoscommon. 

given  as  follows  in  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  In  an  inquisition  taken  at  Roscommon  on  the 

as  translated  by  Mageoghegan  :   "A.  D.   1268.  26th  of  October,  1587,  this  territory  is  called 

Morish  Roe  Mac  Gerald  was  drownded  in  the  "Les  Ffaes,  alias  O'Naghten's  Cuntry;"  and  it 

sea  coming  from  English  to  this  kingdome,  and  appears  from   another  inquisition  taken  at  the 

a  shipp  full  of  passengers,  being  his  own  people,  same  place,  on  the  23rd  of  October,  1604,  that 

were  drownded  too."    Sir  Richard  Cox  says,  in  "  the  territory   of  the  Ffaes,    or  O'Naghten's 

his  Hibernia  Anglicana,  p.  70,  that  this  Maurice  Cuntry,  contained  thirty  quarters  of  land." 

Fitzgerald  was  not  of  Desmond,  as  the  Annals          s  With  the  loss  of  many This  passage  is  very 


12G8.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  405 

daughter's  son,  i.  e.  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 
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,  Tower  of  Protection  to  the  Conmaicni,  was  treacherously 
slain  by  the  English. 

Conor  O'Kelly,  Lord  of  Hy-Many ;  Aengus  O'Daly,  a  man  eminent  for 
poetry,  and  keeper  of  a  house  of  hospitality ;  Manus  Mageraghty,  Chief  of 
Clann-Tomalty;  Donnell  O'Grady,  Chief  of  Kinel-Dongaly  ;  and  Dugald  Mac 
Rory,  Lord  of  Insi-Gall,  and  of  Airer-GaedheaP  [Argyle],  died. 

Maurice  Roe  Fitzgeraldq  was  drowned  in  the  sea,  together  with  a  ship's 
crew,  while  on  his  return  from  England. 

Hugh  O'Conor  set  out  for  Athlone  against  the  English,  who  came  to  the 
Faesr  to  oppose  him;  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,  and  Melaghlin  Mac  Coghlan,  were  slain 
by  the  English. 

Aengus  O'Mulfover  was  slain  by  the  O'Murrays,  in  revenge  of  their  Kennfine'. 

abruptly  constructed  in  the  original.     The  lite-  lying  between  Elphin  and  Jamestown,  in  the 

ral  translation  of  it  is  as  follows  :  "  An  incur-  east  of  the  county  of  Eoscommon,  and  had  his 

sion  was  made  by  Hugh  O'Conor  upon  the  Eng-  residence  at  Lissadorn,  near  Elphin,  till  shortly 

lish  to  Athlone.  The  English  came  against  him  after  this  period,  when  they  were  dispossessed 

to  the  Faes.  A  battle  was  fought  between  them,  by  the  O'Beirnes,  who  are  still  numerous  and 

A  breach  upon  the  English,  and  many  of  them  respectable  in  the  territory, 
were  killed.  The  correct  grammatical  construe-          l  Kenfinne,  ceonn  pine,  i.  e.  head  of  a  sept  or 

tion  would  read  as  follows  :  cue  uoo  ua  Conco-  tribe.  This  term  is  generally  applied  to  the  heads 

Buip  lonnpaigio  50  fiGcluam  popJJaUaiB;  oo  of  minor  families.     There  is  a  very  curious  dis- 

cuaiD  nu  joill   ma  comne  gup  na    peaoaiB,  pute  concerning  the  exact  meaning   of  it  in  a 

agup  oo  cuipeao  cac  eacoppa,  i  n-ap  bpipeao  report  of  a  pleading  between  Teige  O'Doyne, 

pop  jallaiB,  ajup  i  n-ap  mupBao  pocaioe  6ioB.  chief  of  Oregan,  and  his  brother,  Doctor  Charles 

ss  G'Monahan — The  head  of  this  family  was  Dunne,  preserved  in  Marsh's  Library,  Dublin, 

chief  of  the  beautiful  district  of  Tir  -  Briuin,  Class  No.  3.  Tab.  2.  No.  26.  pp.  221,  331. 


406  aNNaca  Rioghachua  emeaNN.  [1269. 

QO1S  CT71OSU,  1269. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceo,  Sepcac,  anaof. 

Oauich  ua  bpajain  eppucc  clocaip  DO  ecc,  ~\  a  abnacul  i  mainipcip 
melipoinc  uaip  ba  manac  Da  manchaib  e. 

Ua&s  mac  nell  mic  muipeaDhaijj  ui  concobaip  Do  mapbao  in  oilpinn  Docc- 
lac  DO  muinnp  a  bpacap  pen,  ~[  an  cf  Do  pinne  an  gniorh  pin  Do  cuicim  inn. 

lomup  ua  bipn  occlac  -]  lampeap  gpaDa  aoDa  ui  Concobaip  Do  cop  an 
cpaojail  De  ap  lap  a  cloinne  -|  a  condic,  -|  Dul  50  mainipDip  l?opa  comdin  Do, 
gup  caic  an  peal  baoi  poime  Da  pao£al  eoip  bpairpib  .8.  Oomenic. 

bpian  mac  Dorhnaill  Duib  ui  Gajpa  Do  mapbaD  Do  gallaib  i  Slicceac. 

benmme  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. 

Gchmilib  macaipren  Do  mapbaD  Dua  anluain. 

Domnall  ua  peapjoil,  -|  ao&  a  mac,  capaio  Dejeimj  Dfplaigreac  Do 
mapbaD  Do  giolla  na  naorh  ua  pfpjail  -j  DO  jallaib. 

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  -\  Dua  Dorhnaill  poime  pin. 

u  David  O'Bragan — In  Harris's  edition  of  tics.  Ussher  calls  it  Mom  Bladina  by  a  mistake, 

Ware's  Bishops,  he  is  called  David  O'Brogan. —  in  Primordia,  p.  962,  which  O'Flaherty  corrects 

See  p.  182.     In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  in  Ogygia,  p.  3,  c.  3.     It  was  originally  called 

of  Ulster,  his  death  is  entered  under  the  year  SliabhSmoil.    See  Ogygia,  p.  iii.  c.  81,  and  Vita 

1267,  thus:  "  David  ua  Bragan  Eps.  Clochair,  Sancti  Aloliue,  given  by  Colgan  in  his  ^1  eta  Sane- 

qui  uirtuose  et  fideliter  pro  defensione  iusticie  torum,  at  26th  March.    ' 

ecclesie  Clochorensis  per  tempus  uite  eius  labo-  i  Mac  Artan  was  Chief  of  Kinelarty,  in  the 

rauit  obiit  hoc  anno,  &c."  county  of  Down. 

v  Monks,  i.  e.  he  had  retired  into  the  monas-  z  CPHanlon  was  Chief  of  Oriel,  in  the  county 

tery  some  time  before  his  death.  of  Armagh. 

w  Duv,  oub,  i.  e.  Black.  a  Two. — Capaio  means  a  brace,  pair,  or  couple. 

*  OfSlieve  Bloom,  rieBe  btaoma,  a  mountain          b  Christina The   character   of  O'Naghtan's 

on  the  confines  of  the  King's  and  Queen's  coun-  daughter  is  thus  given  in  Mageoghegan's  trans- 


1269.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  407 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1269. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  sixty-nine. 

David  O'Bragan",  Bishop  of  Clogher,  died,  and  was  interred  in  the  monas- 
tery of  Mellifont,  for  he  had  been  one  of  its  monks7. 

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. 

Brian,  son  of  Donnell  Duvw  O'Hara,  was  slain  by  the  English  of  Sligo. 

Benmee,  daughter  of  Turlough  (son  of  Roderic  O'Conor),  and  wife  of 
Mulmurry  Mac  Sweeny;  Jeffrey,  son  of  Donnell  Clannagh  Mac  Gillapatrick, 
Lord  of  Slieve  Bloom1;  and  Hugh  OTinaghty,  a  learned  minstrel,  died. 

Eghmily  Mac  Artany  was  slain  by  O'Hanlonz. 

Donnell  OTarrell  and  Hugh,  his  son,  two"  truly  hospitable  and  munificent 
men,  were  slain  by  Gilla-na-naev  O'Farrell  and  the  English. 

Christinab,  daughter  of  O'Naghtan,  and  wife  of  Dermot  Midheach  Mac 
Dermot,  the  most  hospitable  and  chaste0  woman  of  her  tribe,  and  the  most 
bountiful  to  the  order  of  Grey  Friars,  died,  after  the  victory  of  penance". 

The  castle  of  Sligo  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,  the  best  hospitality  and  purity.     Her  character 

O'Neaghtean's  daughter,  the  wife  of  Dermod  is  stated  in  more  correct  language  in  the  Annals 

Myegh  Mac  Derinoda,  a  right  exceeding  beau-  of  Ulster,  and  thus  rendered  in  the  old  transla- 

tiful  woman,  well  lymmed,   bountiful  in  be-  tion :  Anno  1 268  (rectius  1 270).  "  Christina  Ny- 

stowing,    chaste  of  her   body,    and   ingenious  Neghtain,  Dermot  Myegh  Mac  Dermot's  wife,  a 

and  witty  delivery  of  her  mind,  devout  in  her  woman  of  best  name  and  quality  that  was  in  her 

prayers,  and,  finally,  she  was  inferior  to  none  time,  and  that  gave  most  to  the  White  Order, 

other  of  her  tune  for  any  good  parts  requisite  in  quievit." 

a  noble  gentlewoman,  and  charitable  towardsthe          d  Penance,  cnrpije This  word  is  generally 

order  of  Graye  moncks,  died  with  good  penance."  used  by  the  Four  Masters,  where  the  Annals  of 

c  The  most  hospitable  and  chaste Literally,  of  Ulster  have  penitentia. 


408 


[1270. 


Caiplen  T?opa  comain  Do  Denarh  la  T?oibepc  Depopc  lupDip  na  hepionn, 
1  apeao  po  Dfpa  a  Denam,  Gob  ua  Concobaip  T?i  Connacc  Do  her  eapplan, 
lonnup  nap  rualamj  eacap  no  ceaccbail  t>o  cabaipr  Do  jallaib,  na  coip- 
mfpcc  Do  cop  ap  an  ccaiplen  Do  Denam.  Connacraij  Do  beic  ina  cceDib 
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,  1270. 
Goip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceD,  peachrmojac. 

TTlaolpacrpaicc  ua  ScanDail  aipDeppucc  QipD  maca  Do  oul  Do  lacaip 
T?i<ij  Sapan.  Qn  Rf  Da  glacab  50  honopac,  •]  coibechc  rap  a  aip  Do  imaille 
pe  mop  cumaccaib. 

Coccab  mop  eDip  ua  cconcobaip  -]  mpla  ulaD  uacep  a  bupc,  jup 
tionoil  an  napla  maice  gall  epeann  im  an  nsiupDip,  -\  a  pann  gaoiDeal 


e  Eobert  de  TJffwd,  Roibepc  Depojic — In  the 
Annals  of  Ulster  he  is  called  Roibepc  fiuppopc. 
According  to  the  list  of  the  Chief  Governors  of 
Ireland,  given  in  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  An- 
tiquities, Robert  de  Ufford  was  Lord  Justice  of 
Ireland  in  1268;  and  Richard  de  Oxonia,  or 
D'Exeter,  was  Lord  Justice  in  1269-  In  Ma- 
geoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clon- 
macnoise,  he  is  incorrectly  called  Hobert,  or  Ro- 
bert Sufford,  or  Stafford.  The  entry  is  worded  as 
follows  :  "  A.  D.  1269.  Hobertor  Robert  Sufford, 
or  Stafford,  came  over  from  England  as  Deputie 
of  this  kingdome,  apointed  by  the  King  of  Eng- 
land for  the  reformation  of  the  lawes,  customes, 
and  statutes  of  this  land,  and  made  his  first 
voyage"  [expedition]  "  with  his  forces  to  Con- 
naught,  and,  by  the  help  of  the  English  forces 
of  Ireland,  he  built  a  castle  at  Roscommon.  The 
opportunity  and  occasion  of  building  of  the  said 
castle  was,  because  Hugh  O'Connor,  King  of 
Connaught,  fell  sick  of  a  grievous  disease,  sup- 
posed to  be  irrecoverable." 


f  CPMaelfina,  pronounced  O'Molina,  or  O'Mul- 
leena,  but  now  generally  Anglicised  Mullany. 
The  little  town  of  Crossmolina,  called  in  Irish, 
cpop  ui  mhaoilpina,  i.  e.  O'Molina's  Cross,  re- 
ceived its  name  from  this  family.  The  territory 
of  Calry  of  Moy-heleog  was  nearly  co-extensive 
with  the  parish  of  Crossmolina,  in  the  barony  of 
Tirawley. — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs 
of  Hy-Fiachrach,  pp.  13,  165,  and  the  map  prefix- 
ed to  the  same  work.  The  family  name  Gaughan 
is  still  common  all  over  the  county  of  Mayo — 
Id.,  pp.  13,  238. 

8  A  great  war. — This  is  related  more  clearly 
in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of 
Clonmacnoise,  as  follows:  "  There  arose  great  dis- 
sention  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  an- 
noying each  other.  The  Earle  procured  the 
Lord  Deputy,  with  all  the  English  forces  of 
Ireland,  to  come  to  Connaught.  They  came  to 


1270.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


409 


The  castle  of  Roscommon  was  erected  by  Kobert  de  Ufford6,  Lord  Justice 
of  Ireland.  He  was  induced  to  erect  it  because  Hugh  O'Conor,  King  of  Con- 
naught,  was  ill,  and  was  therefore  unable  to  give  the  English  battle  or  opposi- 
tion, or  prevent  the  erection  of  the  castle.  The  Connacians,  until  his  recovery, 
were  plundered  and  trodden  under  foot  by  the  English. 

Flaherty  O'Maelfinaf,  Chief  of  half  the  territory  of  Calry  of  Moy-heleog, 
was  slain  by  Gaughan,  Chief  of  the  other  half. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1270. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  seventy. 

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  war*  broke  out  between  O'Conor  and  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  Walter 
Burke.  The  Earl  assembled  the  chiefs  of  the  English  of  Ireland,  together 


Roscommon  the  first  night,  thence  to  Portlike, 
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 
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 
River  Synen,  at  the  Furney  [aca  pupnai6]. 
After  the  Earle  had  passed  to  Ath-Cora-Connell 
as  aforesaid,  he  was  assaulted  by  a  few  of  O'Con- 
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  where  O'Connor  encamped,  where  the 
English  did  likewise  encampe  that  night.  The 
Englishmen  advised  the  Earle  to  make  peace 
with  Hugh  O'Connor,  and  to  yeald  his  brother, 

3 


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 
concluding  the  said  peace,  which  was  accord- 
ingly condescended  and  done,  as  soone  as  Wil- 
liam 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 
journey  to  Athenkip,  where  O'Connor  beheaved 
himself  as  a  fierce  and  froward  lyon  about  his 
prey,  without  sleeping  or  taking  any  rest,  that 
he  did  not  suffer  his  enemies  to  take  refection 
or  rest  all  this  time,  and  the  next  day  soon  in 
the  morning,  gott  upp  and  betook  him  to  his 
arms  :  the  Englishmen,  the  same  morning,  came 
to  the  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, 

G 


410  dNNCita  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1270. 


apcfna  50  Connaccaib  50  piaccaoap  l?op  comdin  an  ceo  aohaij,  Oilpinn 
an  Dapa  habaig,  Qippib  50  pope  lecce.  5atktlD  r°Fat>  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  i  moij  nipe 
ap  cionn  na  njall,  •)  Do  an  an  ^mpDip  -\  bfccdn  Don  cpluaj  jail  allaniap  Do 
Sionamn  50  nupnaibe.  lap  noul  Don  lapla  cap  ae  capab  Conaill  po  epjiooap 
uachab  Do  mumeip  uf  concobaip  Do  na  gallaib  i  ccoillcib  Conmaicne  50 
noeapnpaD  mapbab  oppa.  Cooap  lapam  50  mag  nipe  gup  jabpaD  poplonj- 
popc  ann  in  oibci  pin.  Oo  jniaD  Do  comaiple  pepoile  amnpiDe  8fc  Do  Denarii 
16  l?i'j  connacc,  ~\  Deapbpacoip  an  mpla  (uilliam  65  mac  T?iocaipD  mic 
uilliam  concuip)  DO  cop  ap  lairii  muincipe  uf  concobaip  an  ccfm  Do  bee  pe 
pen  i  ccij  an  lapla  05  pnabmaD  na  piooa.  Oo  gmcfp  parhlaiD.  dec  cfna 
DO  gabpaD  mumcip  ui  concobaip  Deapbpacoip  an  lapla  poceDoip,  ~\  po  riiapb- 
paD  Seaan  Dolipfn  50  na  mac.  peapgaigceap  an  ciapla  mp  na  clop  pin  Do. 
TCucc  ap  an  aoaij  pin  50  himpnioriiac  achcuippeach.  6pccip  i  muicoeaboil 
na  maione  apabapac  jona  gallaib  -]  jaoibealaib  ceanjailce  coipighce  ma 
cimceal,  -|  gluaipiD  Do  paijib  ui  concobaip  50  pangaoap  ac  an  cip.  Do 
gebiD  coippbealbac  ua  bpiain  cuca  ashaioh  in  aghdiDh  annpin,  -\  e  05  cochc 
i  ccommbdib  ui  concobaip.  Oo  bfip  an  ciapla  pen  a  ajaiD  ap  coippbealbac, 
1  po  cuirnmj  a  eccpaiDfp  Do  50  ccopcaip  coippbealbac  laip  poceDoip.  Oala 
Connacc  cpa  pucpaD  oppa  Do  com  an  aca  Don  Dul  pin  lonnup  gup  bpuchc- 
boipcpioD  ina  cceann  Do  coip  -]  Dead  gup  bpipeaoop  pop  a  ccopac,  -)  511)1 
cuippioD  a  noeipeab  ap  a  nionac  Da  naimDeoin.  TTlapbcap  naonbap  DO 
mairib  a  Rioipeab  Don  lappaib  pi  a  ccimceal  an  aca  imaille  pe  RiocapD 

and  made  their  hindermost  part  runn  and  break  things  were  thus  done,  O'Connor  killed  William 

upon  their  outguard  or  foremost  in  such  man-  Oge,  the  Earl's  brother,  that  was  given  him  be- 

ner  and  foul  discomfiture,   that  in  that  instant  fore  in  hostage,  because  the  Earle  killed  Ter- 

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  against  the  Earle. 

Butler,  who  were  killed  over  and  above  the  said  "  O'Connor   immediately    tooke    and    brake 

knights.     It  is  unknown  how  many  were  slain  down  the  castles  of  Athengalie,   the  castle  of 

in  that  conflict,  save  only  that  a  hundred  horses,  Sliew  Louth.  and  the  castle  of  Killcalman  :  also, 

with  their  saddles  and  other  furniture,   with  a  he  burnt   Roscomon,  Rynndwyne,  alias  Teagh 

hundred  shirts  of  mail,  were  left.     After  these  Owen,  and  Ullenonach." 


1270.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  411 

with  the  Lord  Justice"  and  all  his  Irish  faction,  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. 

The  King  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 
Shannon,  awaiting  the  Connacians.  After  the  Earl  had  crossed  [the  ford  of] 
Ath-Caradh  Conaill1,  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- 
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 
Conquerork),  while  he  himself  (i.  e.  O'Conor)  should  be  in  the  Earl's  house 
concluding  the  peace.  This  was  accordingly  done;  but  O'Conor's  people  took 
the  Earl's  brother  prisoner  at  once,  and  slew  John  Dolifin  and  his  son.  When 
the  Earl  heard  of  this,  he  became  enraged,  and  passed  the  night  in  sadness  and 
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-chip1, 
where  they  met  face  to  face  Turlough  O'Brien,  who  had  come  to  assist  O'Conor. 
The  Earl  himself  faced  Turlough,  mindful  of  the  old  enmity  between  them, 
and  slew  him  at  once;  but  the  Connacians  came  up  with  the  Earl's  troops  at 
the  ford,  where  they  poured  down  upon  them,  horse  and  foot,  broke  through 
their  van,  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 

h  Lord  Justice — According  to  the  list  of  Chief  i  Moy-Nise,  a  level  district  in  the  county  of 

Governors  of  Ireland,  given  in  Harris's  edition  Leitrim,  on  the  east  side  of  the  Shannon. — See 

of  Ware's  Antiquities,  Sir  James  Audley,  or  de  note  under  the  year  1 263. 

Aldithel,  was  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland  in  the  k  William  the  Conqueror,  that  is,  William  Fitz 

year  1270.  Adelm  de  Burgo,  who  is  usually  styled  by  Irish 

'  Ath-Caradh  Conaill,  i.e.  the  ford  of  Council's  writers,  the  Conqueror,  because  it  was  believed 

weir.  This  was  the  name  of  a  ford  on  the  Shan-  that  he  conquered  the  province  of  Connaught. 

non,   near  Carrick-on-Shannon,  but  the  name  '  Ath-an-chip,  i.  e.  the  ford  of  the  stock  or 

has  been  long  obsolete.  trunk  ;  a  ford  on  the  Shannon,  near  Carrick- 

3  o2 


412 


[1270. 


na 


coilleab,  -|  pe  Seaan  buicelep,  ^an  dipfrh  ap  a  ccopcpaDap  Dfob  eoip 
maic  -]  pair  uaca  po  amac.  Dfpim  beop  na  heodla  Do  bfnao  Dib  Dapm, 
DeoeaD,  -]  Deachaib,  ^c.  fflapbcap  Deapbparaip  an  mpla  (.1.  uilliam  occ) 
icnipin  la  hua  cconcobaip  a  nepaic  mic  uf  bjtiain  DO  mapbaD  Don  lapla. 

Caiplen  acha  anguili,  caiplen  plebi  luja  -]  caiplen  cille  caiman  Do 
leaccao  Dua  concobaip.  T?op  comain,  T?mn  Dum  -)  Uillinn  uanac  DO  lopcaD 

laip  beop. 

bpian  puab  ua  bpiam  oiompuo  pop  ^allaib.  dipsn  aioble  DO  Denarh  Do 
oppa,  i  caiplen  cldip  dca  Da  capao  Do  gabail  Do. 

Cpeaca  mopa  Do  Denarii  Don  mpla,  -|  Do  gallaib  Connacr  i  ccfp  noilealla 
ap  muinnp  CtoDha  uf  concobaip,  1  Dauir  cuipin  Do  mapbaD  Don  Dul  pin. 

TTlac  mupchaiD  cappaij  ui  pfpsatl,  bfirip  ap  beooachc,  oncu  ap  fngnarii 
DO  mapbaD  la  gallaib. 

Caname  mop  mac  Duinnfn  mic  neDe  mic  conaing  buibe  uf  maoilconaipe 
DoipDneab  in  apDollariinachc  connacc,  -]  poipcionn  DO  Dul  pop  ollarhnachc  an 
Dubpuibj  m  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  ob- 
solete. 

m  Richard  na  Coille,  i.  e.  Richard  of  the  Wood. 
According  to  the  Dublin  copy,  and  the  old 
translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  this  Richard 
was  the  Earl's  brother  [bpacctip]  :  "  And  this 
was  one  of  the  soarest  battayles  that  the  Irish 
ever  gave  to  the  Galls  in  Ireland,  for  Eichard 
ne  kill,  the  Earl's  brother,  and  John  Butler, 
and  many  more  knights,  and  many  English  and 
Irish  besides,  and  at  least  100  horse,  with  their 
saddles,  were  left." — Old  Trans. 

a  John  Butler. — Hanmer,  referring  to  Clinne, 
and  the  interpolated  copy  of  the  Annals  of  In- 
nisfallen,  state  that  the  Lords  Eichard  and  John 
Verdon  were  slain  on  this  occasion  ;  but  this 
is  obviously  an  error.  It  has  been,  however, 
perpetuated  by  Cox  and  Moore. 


0  Ath-Angaile The    castle   of  Ath-Angaile 

was  in  the  territory  of  Corran,  as  appears  from 
an  entry  under  the  year  1263.  The  name 
has  been  long  obsolete.  The  castle  of  Sliabh 
Lugha  is  the  one  now  called  Castlemore-Cos- 
tello,  situated  a  short  distance  to  the  south- 
west of  Kilcolman,  in  the  same  barony.  Kilcol- 
mau  castle  stood  near  the  old  church  of  Kilcol- 
man, in  the  parish  of  the  same  name,  barony  of 
Costello,  and  county  of  Mayo.— See  Map  to 
Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiach- 
rach,  on  which  its  true  position  is  shewn,  though 
in  the  explanatory  index  to  this  map,  p.  484, 
it  is  inadvertently  placed  in  the  barony  of  Clan- 
morris. 

p  UiUin  Uanagh. — The  name  of  this  place  has 
been  variously  corrupted  by  the  transcribers 
of  the  original  Irish  Annals.  The  Four  Masters 


1270]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  413 

na  Coille™  and  John  Butler",  exclusive  of  others,  both  noble  and  plebeian. 
Immense  spoils  were  also  taken  from  them,  consisting  of  arms,  armour,  horses, 
&c.  The  Earl's  brother  (William  Oge)  was  put  to  death  after  this  battle  by 
O'Conor,  as  an  eric  for  the  son  of  O'Brien,  who  had  been  slain  by  the  Earl. 

The  castle  of  Ath-Angaile°,  the  castle  of  Sliabh  Lugha,  and  the  castle  of 
Cill  Caiman,  were  demolished  by  O'Conor.  Rindown  and  Uillin  Uanaghp  were 
also  burned  by  him. 

Brian  Roe  O'Brien  turned  against  the  English,  and  committed  great  depre- 
dations upon  them;  and  the  castle  of  Clar-Atha-da-charadhq  was  taken  by  him. 

Great  depredations  were  committed  by  the  Earl  and  the  English  of  Con-- 
naught in  Tirerrill   on    the    people    of  Hugh    O'Conor ;    and  David  Cuisin 
[Cushen]  was  killed  on  that  occasion. 

The  son  of  Murrough  Carragh  O'Farrell,  a  bear  in  liveliness,  and  a  leopard1 
in  prowess5,  was  slain  by  the  English. 

TanyMore,  son  ofDuinnin,  son  ofNedhe,  son  of  Conaing  Boy  O'Mulconry, 
was  elected  to  the  chief  ollavship'  of  Connaught ;  and  the  ollavships  of  Dubh- 
shuileach  O'Mulconry  and  Dunlang  O'Mulconry  were  abolished. 

Sligo  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 

write  it  Muitteann  Guanach,  at  the  year  1225,  name  of  the  town  of  Clare,  near  Ennis,  in  the 

but  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  and  Kilronan  make  it  county  of  Clare. 

Muillibh  Uanack,  while  those  of  Connaught  r  Leopard,  oncu. — The  word  onncu  is  ex- 
make  it  Muittibh  Uainidhe.  At  the  year  1236,  plained  leopard  by  O'Keilly.  It  was  borne  on 
it  is  written  Muillibh  Uanach  in  the  Annals  of  the  standard  of  the  King  of  Connaught,  and  his 
Kilronau,  and  Ullum  Wonaghe  in  Mageoghe-  standard  bearer  was  called  peap  lomcaip  na 
gan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise.  honcon — See  note  under  the  year  1316. 
From  the  notice  of  it  at  the  year  1225,  it  is  s  Prowess,  ecmgnurii,  prowess,  dexterity  at 
quite  obvious  that  it  was  in  the  barony  of  Ath-  arms. 

lone,  and  that  it  was  the  name  of  a  hill  or  mill  l  Chief  OUavship,    apoollcirhnacc,   i.   e.    the 

in  the  townland   of  Onagh,  in  the  barony  of  office  of  chief  poet. 

Athlone,  and  county  of  Eoscommon.   The  castle  u  Christina — This   is  a  repetition.     See  her 

afterwards   became  the  seat  of  that  branch  of  death  already  entered  under  the  last  year.    Her 

the  O'Kellys  called  Makeogh — See  Tribes  and  death  is  entered  in  the  old  translation  of  the 

Customs  of  Hy-Many,  p.  19,  note11.  Annals   of  Ulster   as  follows:    "A.  D.    1268 

q  Clar  A  tha-da-charadh,  i.  e.  plain  of  the  ford  (rectius  1270).   Christina  ny  Neghtain  Dermot 

of  the  two  weirs.     This  is  probably  the  original  Myegh  Mac  Dermot's   wife,   a  woman  of  best 


414  aNNCi6a  Rioghachca  eiraeciNN.  [1271. 

ecc,  bfn  po  bu6  maic  Deipc  -\   omeac,  -|  Do  paD  almpana  lomoa   Don  opo 
liac. 

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  i  ccaiplen  na 
gaillme  lap  mbuaiD  naicpije  DO  jalap  aichgeapp. 

Uomap  mac  muipip  Do  ecc  i  mbaile  loca  meapcca. 

lomap  ua  bipn  lainpeap  jpaDa  ao6a  ui  concobaip  Do  ecc  i  l?op  comdin 
lap  mbuaiD  naicpije,  -\  a  a&nacul  mnce. 

Qo6  ua  concobaip  mac  comopba  comam  DO  mapbaD  Do  romap  buicelep 
05  muine  mjme  cpechain. 

Oomnall  ua  ploinn  Do  mapbab  Do  mac  17obfn  laiglep  ip  in  16  ceona  i 
ccionn  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. 

name  and  quality  that  was  in  her  times,  and  called  "  Thomas  Mac  Morish  Fitzgerald."    Bal- 

that  gave  most  to  the  white  [grey  ?]   order,  lyloughmask  is  now  called  Lough  Mask  Castle, 

quievit."  and  is  situated  on  the  east  side  of  Lough  Mask, 

w  Earl  of  Ulster. — His  death  is  thus  entered  in  the  parish  of  Ballinchala,  barony  of  Kilmaine, 

in  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  and  county  of  Mayo.    This  castle  was  re-edified 

Mageoghegan:    "  A.  D.  1271.   Walter  Burke,  by  Sir  Thomas  Burke,  shortly  after  the  battle  of 

Earle  of  Ulster,  and  Lord  of  the  English  of  Kinsale. — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs 

Connaught,  died  in  the  castle  of  Gallway  of  one  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  pp.  202,  478. 

week's  sickness,   after  good  penance,   and  was  1  Muine-inghine-Chrechain,   i.  e.   the  hill  or 

entred  [interred]  in  Rathcahall."  shrubbery  of  the  daughter  of  Creaghan.     The 

x  Thomas  Mac  Maurice In  Mageoghegan's  name  is  now  obsolete. 

translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  he  is  '•  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,  1271. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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. 

Thomas  Mac  Maurice1  died  at  Ballyloughmask. 

Ivor  O'Beirne,  the  head  and  confidential  servant  of  Hugh  O'Conor,  died  at 
Roscommon,  after  penance,  and  was  buried  there. 

Hugh  O'Conor,  son  of  the  coarb  of  St.  Coman,  was  killed  at  Muine-inghine- 
Chrechainy,  by  Thomas  Butler. 

Donnell  O'Flynn  was  slain  on  the  same  day,  by  the  son  of  Robin  Lawless, 
at  the  upper  end  of  Sruthairz. 

Mahon  O'Conor  was  slain  by  the  English  of  Dunmore". 

Nicholas,  the  son  of  John  Verdun,  Lord  of  Oriel,  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  County  Leitrim]. 

The  castle  of  Teagh  Templab,  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 
the  village  of  Shrule,  and  forms  for  several  was  erected  by  the  English  in  the  thirteenth 
miles  the  boundary  between  the  counties  of  century. — See  Harris's  edition,  vol.  ii.  p.  271. 
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  sion  of  Major  O'Hara,  a  castle  was  built  here 
north  side  of  this  river,  and  also  to  the  village  by  the  O'Haras,  but  the  date  of  its  erection  is 
which  grew  up  around  it,  and  also  to  the  parish,  not  added.  The  name  is  now  anglicised  Tem- 

a  Dunmore,  a  village  in  a  barony  of  the  same  plehouse,  and  is  that  of  the  residence  of  Colonel 

name,  about  eight  miles  to  the  north  of  Tuam,  Perceval,  situated  in  the  east  of  the  barony  of 

in  the  county  of  Galway.  Leyny,  in  the  county  of  Sligo See  the  posi- 

b  Teagh  Templa.— According  to  Ware,  this  tion  of  this  castle  marked  on  the  map  prefixed  to 


416  awNdta  uiofrhachca  emeciNN.  [1272. 

CtOlS  CR1OSC,  1272. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceo,  pechcmo^ac,  aDo. 

llenpi  bmcelep  cijeapna  urhaill,  ~\  hoicpe  meDbpic  Do  mapbaD  Do  caral 
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 
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. 

TTIiiipsiop  mac  Donnchaib  mic  comalcaij  uf  maoilpuanaiD,  Saoi  emj,  -] 
fnjnama  a  cineao  Do  ecc  illonjpopc  uf  Dorhnaill  i  mupbar,  -|  a  cabaipc  50 
mamipcip  na  buille  Da  aohnacul. 

Oonncha&mac  giolla  na  naorh  meg  parhpaoam  Do  mapbaD  Da  Dfpbpafaip 
comap. 

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. 

O  Domnaill  (oorhnall  occ)  Do  rionol  (cap  ~\  baD  pop  loch  eipne,  ~] 
aippiDe  pop  loch  uachcaip.  TTlairfpa,  -]  eoala  na  ripe  ina  cimcell  (baccap 
pop  innpib  an  locha  pin)  Do  bfm  eipoib,  "|  a  nopccam  laip  co  mbaccap  ap  a 

Genealogies,   Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiach-  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Ma- 

rach,  printed  for  the  Archaeological  Society  in  geoghegan,  he  is  called  Hodge  Mebric,  and  in 

1844,  and  Explanatory  Index  to  the  same  map,  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  hoiop 

p.  497.    Sir  Richard  Cox  states,  under  the  year  mac  TTlepic.     According  to  the  tradition  in  the 

1270,  that  the  castles  of  "  Aldleek,  Eoscomon,  county  of  Mayo,  this  Hosty  gave  name  to  Glen- 

and  Scheligah  (perhaps  Sligo),  were  destroyed."  hest  in  that  county,  and  is  the  ancestor  of  the 

These  incorrect  names  he  took  from  Hanmer,  families  of  Hosty  and  Merrick. 

•who  had  taken  them  from  some  incorrect  copy  d  Clann-Murtough  C? Conor,  clann  muipceap- 

of  Irish  Annals.     In  the  old  translation  of  the  caij  ui   concoBaip. — These   were   the  descen- 

Annals  of  Ulster  the  entry  is  thus  given :  "  A,  D.  dants  of  the  celebrated  Murtough  Muimhneach, 

1269  (al.  1271).     The  castle  of  Eoscomon,  the  the  son  of  Turlough  More  O'Conor,  Monarch  of 

castle    of  Sligo"  [SU^i^]  "and  the   castle   of  Ireland. 

Athleag,  were  broken  by  Hugh  Mac  Felim  and  e  James  Dodaly — Hanmer,    ad  ann.  1270, 

Conaght."  calls  him  the  Lord  James  Audley,  and  says  he 

c  Hosty  Merrick,    hoicpi    meobpic — In  the  died  "  with  the  fall  of  a  horse."     Cox  says  that 


1272.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  417 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1272. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  seventy-two. 

Henry  Butler,  Lord  of  Umallia,  and  Hosty  Merrick0,  were  slain  by  Cathal, 
son  of  Conor  Roe,  and  by  the  Clann-Murtoughd  O'Conor. 

The  castle  of  Roscommon  was  demolished  by  Hugh  O'Conor,  King  of  Con- 
naught. 

Teige  Dall  (the  Blind),  son  of  Hugh,  the  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  died. 
He  had  been  the  best  materies  of  a  king  of  all  his  tribe,  until  he  was  blinded 
by  the  O'Reillys. 

James  Dodaly",  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  was  slain  by  0'Broinf  and  the 
Connacians. 

.  Maurice,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Tomaltagh  O'Mulrony,  the  most  hospitable 
and  valiant8  of  his  tribe,  died  in  O'Donnell's  garrison  at  Murvaghh,  and  was 
conveyed  to  the  abbey  of  Boyle,  to  be  interred  there. 

Donough,  son  of  Gilla-na-naev  Magauran,  was  slain  by  his  brother  Thomas. 

Richard  Tuite'1,  the  noblest  of  the  English  barons,  died. 

Meath  was  burned,  as  far  as  Granard",  by  Hugh  O'Conor.  Athlone  was 
also  burned  by  him,  and  its  bridge  was  broken  down. 

O'Donnell  (Donnell  Oge)  collected  the  vessels  and  boats  upon  Lough  Erne, 
and  [proceeded]  thence  to  Lough  Oughter.  The  goods  and  valuables  of  the 
surrounding  country  (which  were  upon  the  islands  of  that  lake)  were  seized 

he  was  killed  in  Thomond,  by  a  fall  from  his  eanjnarh  is  used  to  express  a  leopard  in  prowess, 

horse,  on  the  23rd  of  June,  1272.  or  warlike  activity. 

f  (yBroin,  ua  bpom — This  is  a  mistake  for  h  Murvagh,  mupBac,  i.  e.  a  sea  plain,  or  salt 

O  6piam.    In  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  marsh,   now   Murvagh,    Ordnance   Map,    sheet 

Annals    of  Clonmacnoise    this    entry   is    thus  99   and   107,    in   the  barony   of  Tirhugh,   and 

given  :  "A.  D.  1272.  James  Dowdall,  Deputie  county  of  Donegal,  about  one  mile  to  the  west 

of  Ireland,  was  killed  by   O'Brien,   and  some  of  Ballyshannon.     There  is  another  place  of  the 

Connoughtmen."  name  about  three  miles  south-west  of  the  town 

«  Valiant,  paoi  emij  7  eanjnarh The  Irish  of  Donegal. 

word  eanjnam  is  used  by  the  Irish  annalists  to  '  Richard  Tuite. — In  Mageoghegan's  transla- 

denote  prowess,  valour,  and  dexterity  at  arms.  tion  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  he  is  called 

See  note  b,  p.  277,  where  po  pceitri  enjnuriia  the  "worthiest  baron  in  all  Ireland." 

is  used  to  denote  laudability,  or  credit  of  prowess,  k  Granard,  a  small   town  in   the  county  of 

and  note  under  the  year  1270,  where  oncu  ap  Longford — See  note  under  the  year  1262. 

3  H 


418  aNNata  rcioshachca  eiReaNN.  [1273. 

cumup,  Upen  -|  cpfipi  Do  jabcul  DO  in  gach  maijm  ma  ccompochpoibh  Don 
cup  pin. 

Ctn  ceD  eouapD  Do  piojjaDh  op  Sa^aib.  16.  Nouembep. 

QOIS  CR1OSU,  1273. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  Da  ceo,  peachrmogar,  acpf. 

plann  6  cijfpnaijj  cijfpna  cfpa  DO  mapbab  Do  TTluipeabaijj  im  chijfp- 
nup  cfpa  rpia  neapc  aoDha  mic  peblimib  uf  concobaip. 

Concobap  buiDe  mac  Qmlaoib  mic  aipc  uf  puaipc  cijeapna  bpepne  Do 
mapbab  DO  cloinn  concobaip  mic  cijeapndm  uf  concobaip,  -\  Do  mapbpom  an 
mac  DO  bpeapp  Dibpiom  njeapndn. 

GochaiD  mag  macgamna  cijeapna  oipjiall,  ~\  Sochaibe  imaille  pip  Do 
mapbab  Dua  anluain,  "]  Do  cenel  neojam. 

Cpeac  Do  Denam  Do  Siupcdn  De^erpa  ipm  ccopann.  Uarab  Do  piojoarh- 
naib  connacr  Do  bpeir  oppa,  airhjliocup  comaiple  Do  Denarii  Doib  ap  pupai- 
learii  coDa  Da  noaopccoppluaj,  jup  mapbab  Domnall  mac  Donnchaib  mic 
majnupa,  TTlagnup  mac  aipc,  aipeachcac  mac  aobaccam,  Qob  ua  bipn,  -| 
Sochaibe  oile. 

TTIoppluaj  la  mac  muipip  meic  gepailc  i  ccuabmurhain  jup  jab  bpaijDi 
1  neapr  ap  ua  m6piam. 

Copbmac  mac  DiapmaDa  mic  17uaibpi  Decc. 

1  Made  king. — t)o  piojaoh  literally  signified  "  was    crowned."    Hamner  has  the   following 

to  be  kinged,  or  made  king.     This  was  the  day  remark   under  this  year  (1272)  :    "  The  most 

of  his  father's  death.     He  was  then  absent  in  renowned  King  Henry  the  Third,  having  lived 

the  Holy  Land,  and  was  not  crowned  till  the  65  yeeres,  and  reigned  56,  and  28  dayes,  ended 

15th  day  of  August,  1274.     Among  the  Irish  his   dayes,   and   was   buried   at   Westminster, 

themselves  DO  piojao  means  to  be  inaugurated  Edward,  the  first  of  that  name,   sonne  of  King 

king  ;  but  it  appears  from  the  dates  given  by  Henry  III.,  surnamed  Long  Shankes,  of  the  age 

them  for  the  piojcto  of  the  kings  of  England,  of  35  yeers,  began  his  reigne,  anno  1272." 
that  they  merely  meant  their  succession,  which          m  QfTierney — This  name  is  now  locally  made 

takes  place  the  very  instant  their  predecessors  Tiernan,  and  is  still  common  in  the  barony  of 

dies. — See  Blackstone's    Commentaries,    vol.  i.  Carra,  in  the  county  of  Mayo, 
p.  249  ;  sec  also  the  years  1199  and  1216,  where          "   O1  Murray s,    now   Hurrays,    without  the 

the  piojdo  has  been   inadvertently    rendered  prefixed  O — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Cus- 


1273.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  419 

on  and  carried  off  by  him;  and  he  acquired  control  and  sway  in  every  place 
in  the  neighbourhood  on  this  expedition. 

The  first  Edward  was  made  king1  over  the  English  on  the  16th  of  No- 
vember. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHEIST,  1273. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  seventy-three. 

Flann  0'Tierneym,  Lord  of  Carra,  was  slain  by  the  O'Murrays11  in  a  dispute 
concerning  the  lordship  of  Carra,  and  through  the  power  of  Hugh,  son  of  Felim 
O'Conor. 

Conor  Boy,  son  of  Auliffe,  son  of  Art  O'Rourke,  Lord  of  Breifny,  was  slain 
by  the  sons  of  Conor,  son  of  Tiernan  O'Conor;  and  he  killed  the  best  of  them, 
namely,  Tiernan. 

Eochy  Mac  Mahon,  Lord  of  Oriel,  and  many  others  along  with  him,  were 
slain  by  O'Hanlon  and  the  Kinel-Owen. 

A  depredation  was  committed  by  Jordan  d'Exeter  in  Corran0.  A  few  of 
the  young  princes  of  Connaught  overtook  him ;  but  these  having  adopted  an 
imprudent  plan,  suggested  by  some  of  the  common  peoplep,  it  fell  out  that 
Donnell,  son  of  Donough,  Manus,  son  of  Art  [O'Conor],  Aireaghtagh  Mac 
Egan,  Hugh  O'Beirne,  and  many  others,  were  slain. 

A  great  army  was  led  by  Mac  Maurice  Fitzgerald  into  Thomond,  where  he 
took  hostages,  and  obtained  swayq  over  O'Brien. 

Cormac,  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Roderic  [O'Conor],  died. 

toms  of  Hy-Fiackrach,   printed  for  the   Irish  men,  whereby  Donell  Mac  Donogh  Mac  Manus, 

Archaeological  Society  in  1844,  pp.  187,  189.  and   Manus   Mac    Art,    and    Oreghtagh    Mac 

0  Corran,  copann,  now  the  barony  of  Corran,  Egan,    and    Hugh    O'Birn,    and   many   more" 

in  the  county  of  Sligo.  [were  killed]. 

P  Common  people,  oaofccappluaj In  the  q  Obtained  sway,  neapc  DO  juBail — Ma- 
Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  the  term  geoghegan  has  this  passage  as  follows  in  his 
vised  is  opocoaine,  i.  e.  bad  people.  The  whole  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  : 
passage  is  thus  rendered  in  the  old  translation:  "A.  D.  1273.  Morish  Mac  Gerald,  with  great 
"A.  D.  1270  (al.  1272,  w/1273).  A  pray  made  forces,  went  to  Thomond,  and  tooke  hostages 
by  Jordan  de  Exeter  in  Goran,  and  a  few  of  the  from  the  O'Bryens,  and  subdued  the  whole 
nobles  of  Conaght  came  upon  them,  and  used  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. 

O  Oorhnaill  (Domnall  occ)  Do  cop  ploij  lanmoip  in  aom  lonao  Do  maich- 
iph  Conallach,  -|  Do  maichibh  Connacc,  i  Dol  Do  i  ccip  neocchain,  -]  an  cip 
GO  milleao  laip. 

Domnall  6  cuinn  Ifch  coipeac  na  haiciDecca  t>o  rhapbaD  la  hua  noub- 
chaijj. 

CIOIS  CR1OSU,  1274. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceD,  peachcmojjac,  a  ceacoip. 

Clooh  mac  pe&limiD  mic  cacail  cpoibDeipg  l?i  connacc,  T?f  po  polrhaij, 
~\  po  papaij  Connacca  ap  jallaib  ~\  jaoiDealaib  biDfp  na  ajhaib,  l?i  Do 
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  -|  copccap,  eneac  -\  oipDfpcup,  peap  millce  -| 
leapoighri  Gpeann  epi6e,  a  ecc  lap  mbuaiD  nairpiji  Dia  Dapoaoin  ap  aoi 
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  e,  .1.  Ruaibpi  mac  coipp&ealbaij  mic 
ao6a  ui  concobaip  i  ccempall  bpacap  Ropa  comdin,  "|  Qo&  mac  cacail  Doill 

r  Donnett  Irrais. — The  Annals  of  Ulster  re-  gponn  7  corccap In  the  old  translation  of  the 

cord  the  death  of  this  Donnell  at  the  year  1271  Annals  of  Ulster,  this  is  rendered,  "he  that 

or  1274.  It  is  thus  entered  in  the  old  transla-  terrified  and  put  down  most  of  any."  In  Ma- 

tion  :  "A.  D.  1271  (rectius  1274).  Donell  Mac  geoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clon- 

Manus  Mac  Murtagh  Muvnagh  O'Coner,  a  tryed  macnoise  the  whole  passage  is  given  in  English 

golden  chief  and  perfect  overseer  to  all,  quievit  as  follows:  "A.  D.  1274.  Hugh  Mac  Felym 

in  pace.'1''  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught  for  nine  years, 

s  O'Quin — This  was  O'Quin  of  Clann-Cuain,  died  the  fifth  of  the  noones  of  May,  on  Thurs- 

who  was  at  this  time  tributary  to  Mac  Dermot  day,  that  is  to  say,  upon  the  feast  day  of  the 

of  Moylurg,  who  had  a  house  on  an  island  in  Invention  of  the  Cross.  This  is  the  king  that 

Claenloch  in  Clann-Cuain — See  note  ",  under  wasted  and  destroyed  Connaught  upon  the  Eng- 

the  year  1232  ;  see  also  the  entry  under  the  lish  ;  this  is  he  that  razed  and  broke  down  their 

year  1206,  where  Mac  Dermot  is  styled  Lord  of  houses  and  castles,  made  them  even  with  the 

Moylurg,  Airteach,  and  Aicideacht,  p.  151.  earth,  and  gave  themselves  many  great  over- 

'  A  king  the  most  successful,  fyc.,  Ri  ba  mo  throws  and  conflicts;  this  is  he  that  took  the 


1274.]  .     ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  421 

Donnell  Irraisr  [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. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  seventy-four. 

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  successful1  and  triumphant,  the  most  hospi- 
table and  renowned;  the  destroyer  and  improver  of  Ireland,  died,  after  gaming 
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  was  only  one  quarter  of  a  year  in  the  government,  when  he  was 
slain,  in  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 

hostages  of  Ombryan"  [Hy-Briuin],  "  and  Tyre-  own  kinsman  or  brother,  Eowrie  Mac  Turlagh 

connell ;  this  is  he  that  spoyled  and  defended  O'Connor,  in  the  church  of  the  Fryers  Preachers 

from  others  the  spoiles  of  the  provence  of  Con-  at  Roscommon. 

naught ;  and  finally  this  is  he  that  most  was          "  After  him  succeed  Hugh  mac  Cahall  Dall 

feared  of  [i.  e.  by]  the  English,  of  all  the  kings  O'Connor,  as  king  of  that  province,  who  did  not 

of  Connaught  that  were  before  his  time ;  and  reigne  as  long  as  his  predecessors  was  short, 

was   with    great    reverence    buried  with   the  Hugh  Mac  Cahall  reigned  but  a  fortnight,  when 

moncks  in  the  abbey  of  Boyle.     After  whose  he  was  killed  by  one  Thomas  Mac  Oreaghty  and 

death  Owen  mac  Rowrie  mac  Hugh  mac  Cahall  O'Beyrne.     After  him   succeeded,   as  King  of 

Crovederge  was  ordained  King  of  Connaught,  Connaught,  Teige  Mac  Terlagh  Mac  Cahall,  the 

who  reigned  not  long  (butt  one  quarter  of  a  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 
oipechcaij,  comalcac,  -|  la  hua  mbipn,  -]  cab£  mac  coippDealbaij  mic  aoba 
mic  cacail  cpoibbeipj;  Do  piojab  uap  Connaccaib  laparh. 

Uijeapnan  mac  aoba  ui  puaipc  cijjeapna  bpepne,  -|  Oomnall  mac  ma^- 
nupa  mic  muipcfpcaij  muimnij,  Saoi  enij,  -|  engnarha  Gpeann  uili  065. 

^lolla  na  naorh  mac  aoba  mic  amlaoib  uf  pfpjail  cijeapna  na  hanjaile, 
compup  coimeDa  etnj,  -|  enjnama  cloinne  T?u6pai6e,  peap  Ian  tmaipli,  -| 
omnclecc  50  nguaipbepcaib  pop  naimOib  50  ccaoinfp  16  caipDib,  Do  ecc  lap 
mbuaiDh  nairpije. 

TTlaoileaclainn  mac  amlaoib  mic  Qipc  ui  Ruaipc  cijeapna  Dapcpaiji  -| 
cloinne  peapmuije  Do  mapbab  la  Concobap  mac  Domnaill  mic  neill  ui  puaipc. 

Cabj  mac  ceapbaill  buibe  ui  Dalaij  ollam  aoba  uf  concobaip  16  ban  beg. 

Oomnall  occ  mac  Domnaill  mic  aipc  ui  T?»aipc,  -]  Cacal  mag  planncaib 
raoipeac  bapcpaigi  Do  ecc. 

pfpghal  6  caichniab  cijeapna  loppaip  Do  ecc  i  nua  mic  caechdm. 

QO1S  C171OST:,  1275. 
Ctoip  Cpiopr,  mfle,  Da  ceD,  pechcmojac,  a  cuicc. 

Ua  laibij  eppucc  cille  halaib,  -\  Caipppe  ua  Scuapa  eppucc  T?dca  boc  i 
ccfp  Conaill  bo  ecc. 

Ruaibpi  mac  coippbealbaij  ui  Concobaip  bo  jabail  bua  Concobaip  (cabg 
mac  coippbealbaij  a  bparaip).  T?uaibpi  belub  laparh,  ~]  Concobap  ua 
hainliji  Da  bpficleip,  Uopaigechc  Do  bpeic  poppa,  -\  concobap  uahamliji  bo 
mapbab  boib. 

Ua&5  mac  cacail  meic  biapmaca  bapccam  bua  concobaip. 

Concobap  mac  peapgail  mic  bonncaib  mic  muipcfpcaig  bo  mapbab  ba 
bpaicpib  pfm. 

u  Prowess. — eanjnarii.  Dumha  Caecliain,  still  point  out  the  position  of 

"  Hy-Mac-Caechain. — This  was  the  name  of  a      this   territory See    Genealogies,    Tribes,    mid 

district  in  the  northern  extremity  of  the  ba-  Customs  of  Hy- Fiacfirack,  •  pp.  173,  280. 

rony  of  Erris,  in  the  county  of  Mayo.    The  fort  *  0' 'Scuapa. — According  totheAnnals  ofClon- 

called  Doonkeeghan,  and  the  sand  banks  called  macnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  he  was 


1275.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  423 

Dall,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  was  made  king  by  the  Conna- 
cians;  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 
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-Caechainw. 

^ 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1275. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  seventy-Jive. 

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 ;  but  they  were  pursued,  and  overtaken,  and 
Conor  O'Hanley  was  killed. 

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  by  his  own  kinsmen. 

first  a  friar  of  the  order  of  Preachers. — See  also  where  it  is  stated,  on  the  authority  of  the  Annals 
Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  271,  of  Lough-Kee,  that  he  died  at  Kome  in  1275- 


424  aNNdta  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1276. 


Gpc  mac  carail  piabaij  ui  puaipc  cijeajina  bpepne  Do  mapbaD  la  TTlaj 
pionnbapp,  i  la  gallaib  i  ngpanapo,  -]  dp  a  muincipe  Do  cup. 

TTIaiDm  mop  pop  jallaib  i  nulcaib  50  pdimcc  Da  ceD  eac,  -\  Da  ceD  ceann 
in  dipfrii  Dib  an  eccmaip  ap  mu&aijeaD  Da  TiDaopccoppluaj. 

Uomap  mag  panipabain  Do  mapbab  la  cenel  luacdin. 

Cenel  Goccham  Do  cechc  hi  ccfp  Conaill  co  po  millpioc  blob  mop  Don  rfp, 
1  6  Domndill  (Domnall  occ)  Do  cionol  a  muincipe  ina  Docom,  -|  a  Ifnmain  50 
huchc  plebe  cpuim  50  pafirhib  poppa  50  ppapccaibhpioc  dp  Daoine,  eic 
iom6a,  paiDb,  aipm  i  eOea&a  ag  cer.el  cconaill  Don  cup  pin. 

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 
mumham  i  cconnaccaib.  Q  oul  lappin  i  ccfnn  ui  Domnaill.  O  Domnaill 
Do  cocc  laip  50  lion  a  cionoil  50  hecfnac,  ua  Domnaill  oiompuD  uaiD  annpin, 
1  aoD  Dpuipeac  i  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-  the  south  of  the  village  of  Newtown-Stewart, 

tory  of  Muintir-Geran,    situated  on  the  west  in  the  barony  of  Strabane,  and  county  of  Ty- 

side  of  Lough  Gowna,  in  the  county  of  Long-  rone. 
ford.  b  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmac- 

z  Kinel-Luachain  —  This  territory  comprised  noise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  contain 

the  entire  of  the  parish  of  Oughteragh,  in  the  the  two  following  entries,  omitted  by  the  Four 

north   of  the  barony  of  Carrigallen,    in   the  Masters  :    "  A.  D.  1275.    Art   Mac   Cormack 

county  of  Leitrim,  adjoining  the  barony  of  Tul-  O'Melaghlyn  was  hurt  by   O'Moylloy,  and  by 

lyhaw,  Magaurau's  country.  —  See  Irish  Calendar  those  of  Kynaleaghe,  and  the  two  sons  of  Mahon 

of  the  O'Clerys  at  7th  July.  Magawlye  were  also  killed  by  them.     John  de 

*  Slieve  Truim.  —  This  name  is  now  obsolete,  Verdon  and  thirteen  knights  were  poysoned  to- 

but  it  is  given  on  a  map  of  Ulster,  dated  1590,  gether  in  England. 

by  Francis  Jobson,  under  the  anglicised  form          c  Hugh  Muimhneach,   i.  e.  Hugh  the  Momo- 

of  Slevetrym.  This  name  has  been  since  changed  nian.    He  was  an  illegitimate  son  of  King  Felim 

by  the  proprietor  to  the  unmeaning  appellation  O'Conor,   and  was  called  Muimhneach,    or  the 

of  Bessy  Bell.    It  is  situated  a  short  distance  to  Momonian,    from  his  having  been  fostered  in 


1276.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  425 

Art,  son  of  Cathal  Reagh  O'Rourke,  Lord  of  Breifny,  was  slain  by  Mac 
Finnvary  and  the  English  at  Granard,  and  his  people  were  slaughtered. 

A  great  victory  was  gained  over  the  English  in  Ulidia,  so  that  there  were 
counted  two  hundred  horses  and  two  hundred  heads,  besides  all  who  fell  of 
their  plebeians. 

Thomas  Magauran  was  slain  by  the  Kinel-Luachainz. 

The  Kinel-Owen  came  into  Tirconnell,  and  desolated  a  great  part  of  the 
country.  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 
behind  them  to  the  Kinel-Connell  on  this  expedition1*. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1276. 

i 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  seventy-six. 

Gilla-an-Choimhdhe  O'Carolan,  Bishop  of  Tyrone  (Deny),  died. 

Hugh  Muimhneach0,  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. 

A  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  Clon-  tioned  in  the  pedigree  of  the  O'Conors,  given  in 

macnoise,    as  translated  by   Mageoghegan,    in  the  Book  of  Lecan,  fol.  72,  'et  seguen.     Thus  : 

which  this  entry  is  given  as  follows:  "A.  D.  Peiolimij  mac  cucail  cpoibbeipj,  aen  mac 

1276.    A   base    son   was    presented   to   Pelym  aici  .1.  aeo  mac  peiolimij,  7  mac  aili  ap  na 

Mac   Cahall   Crovederg    O'Connor,    after    the  chup  chuici   .1.  aeo  muimneic,   j  po    job  in 

death  of  the  said   Ffelym   a   long  space,    who  caeo  pn  piji    Connacc  :  "  Felim,   the  son  of 

was  called  Hugh  Moyneagh,    because  he  was  Cathal  Crovderg,  had  one  son,   namely,    Hugh 

nurished  and  brought  up  in  Munster,  and  came  Mac  Felim,  and  another  son  was  fathered  upon 

to  Connoght  from  thence,  and  as  soon  as  he  him,    namely,.   Hugh    Muimhneach,    and   this 

came  and  was  known  to  be  the  son  of  Felym,  [latter]  Hugh  assumed  the  government  of  Con- 

Silemoreye  and  Clann-Moyleronie  accepted   of  naught." 

him,  and  had  him  in  great  accoumpt  and  rever-  d  Echenach,    now    Aughanagh  ;    an    ancient 

ence."     This  Aedh  Muimhneach  is  also  men-  church  said  to  have  been  built  by  St.  Patrick, 

3  i 


426  QNNaca  reioshachca  eiraeaNN.  [1277. 

Cpeac  DO  oenam  Do  mac  peblimib  ap  cloinn  muipceapcaij,  -]  jiolla  na 
namjjeal  ua  conpoi  Do  mapbab  Do  cloinn  muipceapcaij  a  ccojiaijechc  a 
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  (.1.  giolla  an  ime),  -\  pochaibe  oile  Do  mumcip 
TJuaipc  Do  mapbab  ooib.  51o^acPlorc  ua  neaccain,  Do  mapbab  Do  Ruaibpi 
mac  coippbelbaij;  lappin. 

Diapmairc  maj  jiolla  muipe  rijeapna  leiche  cachail  DO  ecc. 

QO1S  CR1OSC,  1277. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceD,  pecrmogac  apeachc. 

bpaon  ua  maoilmoiceipji  ab  cfnannoip  DO  ecc. 

bpian  puab  ua  bpiain  njeapna  cuabmuman  DO  jabail  i  meabail  DO  mac 
lapla  claipe.  Q  cappaing  eDip  eachaib  ap  a  haicli  lap  noenarh  caipDip 
cpippc  pe  poile  Doib  poime  pin,  ~\  Do  rabaipc  clocc  •)  mionn  Da  cele  imma 
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 
naicpije. 

Caiplen  popa  comain  DO  leaccab  Daob  mac  peblimib  (.1.  aob  muirhneac) 
50  cconnaccaib  mime,  i  Do  Domnall  ua  Domnaill. 

and  which  gives  name  to  a  parish  in  the  barony  g  Under  this  year,   the  Dublin  copy  of  the 

of  Tirerrill,  and  county  of  Sligo See  Genea-  Annals  of  Innisfallen  gives  an  account  of  the 

logies,    Tribes,   aivl  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  expulsion  of  Brian  Koe   O'Brien  out   of  Tho- 

jirinted  for  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society  in  mond,  and  the  election  of  Turlough,  the  son  of 

1 844,  p.  490 ;  and  the  map  prefixed   to  the  Teige  Caeluisce  O'Brien,  in  his  place, 

same  work,  on  which  this  church  is  shewn,  on  h  Brian  Roe  O'Brien — This  passage  is  given 

the  west  side  of  Lough  Arrow.  in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of 

c  Clann-Murtough — These  were  the  descen-  Clonmacnoise  as  follows:    "A.  D.  1277.   The 

dants  of  Murtough  Muimhneach  O'Conor,  the  Earle  of  Clare  his  son,  took  Bryen  Roe  O'Bryen 

son  of  Turlough  More,  Monarch  of  Ireland.  prisoner,  very  deceitfully,  after  they  had  sworn 

1  Lecale — Cear   Cacail,  i.  e.   Cathal's  half,  to  each  other  all  the  oaths  in  Munster,  as  bells, 

now   the  barony   of  Lecale,    in  the  county  of  relics  of  saints,  and  bachalls"  [croziers],  "  to  be 

true  to  each  other  for  ever,   and  not  endamage 


1277-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  427 

A  depredation  was  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 
the  prey. 

A  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 
O'Rourkes,  were  slain  by  them.  Gilchreest  O'Naghtan  and  William  O'Naghtan 
were  afterwards  slain  by  Rory,  son  of  Turlough. 

Dermot  Mac  Gillamurry,  Lord  of  Lecalef,  died5. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1277. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  seventy-seven. 

Braen  O'Mulmoghery,  Abbot  of  Kells,  died. 

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  into  gossipred'  with  each  other,  and  taken  vows  by  bells  and  relics 
to  retain  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  castle  of  Roscommon  was  pulled  down  by  Hugh,  son  of  Felim  O'Conor 
[i.e.  Hugh  Muimhneach],  aided  by  the  Connacians  and  Donnell  O'Donnell. 
• 

each  other  ;  also  after  they  became  sworne  gos-  tains  a  much  more  detailed  account  of  the  cir- 
gips,  and  for  confirmation  of  this  their  indis-  cumstances  attending  the  murder  of  Brian  Roe 
soluble  bond  of  perpetuall  friendship,  they  drew  O'Brien.  This  murder  is  alluded  to  by  the  Irish 
part  of  the  blood  of  each  of  them,  which  they  chieftains  in  their  remonstrance  to  Pope  John 
putt  in  a  vessall,  and  mingled  it  together  :  after  XXII.,  as  a  striking  instance  of  the  treachery 
all  which  protestations,  the  said  Bryen  was  of  the  English  and  Anglo-Irish  then  in  Ire- 
taken  as  aforesaid  and  bound  to  sterne  steedes,  land.  They  call  the  murderer  of  Brian  Roe, 
and  so  was  tortured  to  death  by  the  said  Earle's  the  Duke  of  Gloucester's  brother. — See  Memoirs 
son."  This  passage  is  quoted  by  Mr.  Moore,  in  of  the  Life  and  Writings  of  Charles  O' 'Conor  of 
a  note  in  his  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  iii.  p.  33 ;  Belanagare,  p.  74. 

but  he  does  not  mention  what  annals  he  quotes          '    Gossipred. — lup    noenaih    caipDir-  cpiopc 

from.     The  Irish  work  called  Caithreim  Thoir-  pe    apotle,    i.   e.    after  one  of  them  had  been 

dheaWhaigh,  or  Wars  of  Turlough  O'Brien,  con-  sponsor  to  the  other's  child  at  baptism. 

3  i2 


428  aNNata  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1278. 


Cpeac  mop  Do  Denarii  Do  ceallac  ecbac  pop  cenel  luacain  a  nglionn  pa 
Duile  Dap  mapbpac  concobap  mag  Dopchaibe  -|  pochaib  immaille  pip. 

QO1S  CR1OSD,  1278. 
Qoip  Cpiopb,  mile,  Da  ceb,  peachrrhojaD,  a  hochrc. 

Uomdp  ua  cuinn  eppucc  cluana  mic  noip  Do  ecc. 

plairbfprac  ua  oairhm  nccfpna  pfpmanac  Decc. 

Caocc  mac  coippbealbaij  mic  aoba  mic  carail  cpoiboeipg  T?i  connacr 
Do  rhapbaDh  la  cloinn  cacail  meic  DiapmaDa. 

T?uaibpi  mac  coippbealbaij  ui  Concobaip  Do  mapbab  la  giollu  cpiopo 
mag  plannchaib,  -|  la  Daprpaiccib  ap  bopD  Dpoma  cliab,  -|  an  peappun  piabac 
mac  ciccfpndin  ui  Concobaip,  ~\  pochaibe  oile  ndc  aipirhcfp  ponn. 

Oonnchab,  pfpgal,  -\  giollucpiopD  cpi  meic  muipgfpa  meic  DonncaiD  mic 
comalcaij  Do  mapbab  la  cabcc  mac  bomnaill  loppaip. 

TTIaiDm  cuince  Do  cabaipr  DO  Donnchab  mac  bpiain  puaib  ~\  DO  cloinn 
oile  uf  bpiain  ap  mac  mpla  claipe  jup  loipccpfo  ceampal  cuince  pop  a 
mumcip  -]  50  ccuccpar  ap  Diaiprfie  poppa  et>ip  lopccab  -\  mapbab. 

Uomalcac  mace  oipeachcaij  Riojcaoipeac  pil  muipeabaij  Do  mapbhaDh 
lap  na  cuachaib. 

k  Gleann-da-duile,  a  valley  in  the  parish  planted  it  with  his  own  followers ;  and  also 

of  Oughteragh,  barony  of  Carrigallen,  and  the  treacherous  execution  of  Brian  Roe  O'Brien 

county  of  Leitrim.  Kinel-Luachain,  the  terri-  by  the  said  Thomas  de  Clare,  at  the  instiga- 

tory  of  the  Mac  Dorcys,  comprised  the  parish  tion  of  his  (de  Clare's)  wife  and  father-in-law, 

of  Oughteragh,  which  adjoins  Teallach  Each-  These  events  are  very  unsatisfactorily  treated 

dhach,  or  the  barony  of  Tullyhaw,  in  the  north-  of  by  the  Four  Masters.  Under  this  year  also, 

west  of  the  county  of  Cavan.  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by 

1  Under  this  year  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Mageoghegan,  contain  the  following  notice  of 
Annals  of  Innisfallen  contains  an  interesting  the  death  of  Conor  O'Melaghlin,  which  has 
account,  evidently  abstracted  from  Magrath's  been  omitted  by  the  Four  Masters  :  "A.D.  1277. 
Caithreim  Tltoirdhealbkaigh,  of  the  coming  of  Connor  Mac  Donnell  Breagagli  O'Melaghlyn,  he 
Thomas  De  Clare  into  Thomond  to  assist  Brian  that  most  warred  with  Englishmen  in  his  owne 
Roe  O'Brien,  against  Turlogh,  the  son  of  Teige  time,  a  second  Gwarie  for  bounty,  a  lyon  for 
Caeluisce.  They  also  record  the  erection  of  the  strength,  and  tyger  for  fierceness  in  time  of  en- 
castle  of  Bunratty  by  Thomas  de  Clare,  who  terprises  and  onsetts,  and  one  hop'd  to  be  king 
dispossessed  the  old  inhabitants  of  Tradry,  and  of  Ireland,  if  he  were  suffered  by  the  English, 


1278.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  429 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  [the  people  of]  Eachdhach  upon 
the  Kinel-Luachain,  in  Gleann-da-duilek,  during  which  they  slew  Conor  Mac 
Dorcy,  and  a  host  of  others'. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1278. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  seventy-eight. 

Thomas  O'Quin,  Bishop  of  Clonmacnoise,  died. 

Flaherty  O'Davinem,  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. 

Donough,  Farrell,  and  Gilchreest,  the  three  sons  of  Murrough,  son '  of 
Donough,  son  of  Tomaltagh,  were  slain  by  Teige,  son  of  Donnell  [O'Conor], 
of  Erris. 

The  victory  of  Cuinche"  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 
of  them,  both  by  burning  and  killing0. 

Tomaltagh  Mageraghty,  Royal  Chieftain  of  Sil-Murray,  was  slain  by  the 
[people  of  the]  Tuathas. 

died  penitently  at  Kilbeggann."  one,  dedicated  to  St.  Finghin.    The  great  abbey 

m  (yDavine,  ua  oairhin. — This  name  is  very  of  this  place  was  not  erected  till  the  year  1402, 

common  in  the  counties  of  Londonderry  and  Ty-      or,  according  to  Ware,  till  1433 See  Harris's 

rone,  where  it  is  anglicised  Devine.    The  family  edition  of  Ware's  Antiquities,  p.  280. 

are  of  the  same  race  as  the  Maguires  and  Mac  °  Burning  and  killing, — This  passage  is  thus 

Mahons  of  Oriel.  The  family  of  Maguire  had  not  stated  by  Mageoghegan,  in  his  translation  of  the 

as  yet  obtained  the  chief  sway  in  Fermanagh,  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise:  "Donnough  Mac  Bryeu 

though  Donn  Maguire  had  made  great  exertions  Eoe  O'Bryen  gave  the  overthrow  of  Coynche  to 

to  put  down  all  rivals  a  few  years  before.  Thomas   de  Clare  (the  Earle),   and  burnt  the 

n  Cuinche,  now  Quin,  in  the  barony  of  Bun-  church  of  Coynche  over  the  heads  of  the  said 

ratty,  about  five  miles  *o  the  east  of  Ennis.   The  Earle  and  his  people,  where  infinite  numbers  of 

church  here  referred  to  was  an  ancient  Irish  people  were  both  slain  and  killed  therein,  and 


430  ctNNata  Rio^hachca  eiReanN.  [1279. 

Gob  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  mapbab  Diap  mac  TTlhaoilip  moip,  -\  Concobap  pua6  mac  peo- 
paip,  ~\  apoile  cen  morhdc. 

aois  CRIOSO,  1279. 

Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  Da  ceo,  peachDmojjaD,  a  naof. 

Uomalcac  mac  coipp&elbaij  mic  maoilpeachloinn  ui  Concobaip  aipD 
eppucc  mama  Saoi  fipfnn  uile,  i  neaccna,  i  neolup  -|  i  nDepepc  DO  ecc  mp 
mbuaib  nairhpicche. 

£)iolla  an  choimDfoh  6  cfpbatlain  epppoc  rhfpe  heojam  Do  ecc. 

Concobop  mac  DiapmaDa  mic  majnupa  nf  Concobaip  Do  mapbab. 

TTlupcab  6  neachcain  Do  mapbab  Do  Domnall  6  neacram  -\  compac 
Dpoccpa  DoRoibfpD  ua  neaccam  ofpbpacaip  mupcaib  ap  Domnall  ~]  RoibfpD 
DO  mapbab  Ifipp  mppin. 

Oomnall  mac  giollucpiopc  uf  neaccam  Do  mapbab  la  haob  6  ccoincfnamn. 

TTlaolpeachlomn  mac  coippbelbaij  DO  mapbab. 

J5iolla  fopa  mop  mac  pipbipij  ollarh  ua  ppiacpac  i  pfnchup  Do  ecc. 

escaped  narrowly  himself,  which  escape  myne  elected,  at  least,  to  minor  chieftainries.  Dr. 
author  sayeth  that  himself  was  sorry  for."  Charles  Dunne,  in  his  arguments  against  his 
P  Hugh  Muimhneach. — Dr.  O'Conor  does  not  brother,  Teige  O'Doyne,  Chief  of  Hy- Regan,  in 
take  any  notice  of  this  King  of  Connaught  in  the  reign  of  James  I.,  asserts  that  for  many 
his  historical  account  of  the  family  of  O'Conor,  hundred  years  "  no  bastard  attained  to  the 
prefixed  to  the  Memoirs  of  the  Life  and  Writ-  chiefrie  of  Iregaine  in  the  Queen's  County ;" 
ings  of  Charles  O'Oonor  of  Belanagare.  In  Ma-  but  this  amounts  to  an  acknowledgment  that 
geoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clon-  bastards  had  attained  to  the  chiefry  in  more 
macnoise,  this  entry  is  in  English  as  follows  i-  ancient  times.  In  a  Chancery  record  of  a  law- 
"  A.  D.  1278.  Hugh  Moyneagh  Mac  Felym  was  suit  between  Donell  O' Donovan,  Chief  of  Clan- 
ordained  and  made  King  of  Connought."  This  cahill,  in  the  county"  of  Cork,  and  his  brother, 
is  an  instance  of  the  inauguration  of  a  bastard  Teige,  the  latter  states,  "  that  by  the  usage  and 
as  King  of  Connaught,  and  of  one  who  does  not  custome  of  the  contrie  of  Carberie,  an  illegiti- 
appear  to  have  been  ever  acknowledged  by  his  mate,  or  base  son,  was  to  be  secluded  and  put 
father — See  note  under  the  year  1276.  It  ap-  besides  the  chieftanrie,  signorie,  and  inheritance, 
pears  from  several  authentic  records  that  bas-  so  that  he  that  was  lawfullie  borne  was  ever 
tards,  particularly  muliers,  were  sometimes  interested  by  custome  in  them  and  no  bastard." 


1279-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  431 

Hugh  Muimhneach",  son  of  Felim,  assumed  the  sovereignty  of  Connaught, 

Brian  O'Dowda  and  Art  na  g-Capall  [of  the  Horses]  O'Hara,  Lord  of  Leyny, 

gave  battle  to  the  Clann-Feorais  [Birminghams],  in  which  the  Clann-Feorais 

were  defeated,  and  the  two  sons  of  Meyler  More,  Conor  Roe  Mac  Feorais,  and 

others  besides,  were  slain. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1279. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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  chal- 
lenge 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  legists  of  the  children  of  Turlough  More  O'Co- 

witnesses   prove,    that    "  the  custome   of  the  nor,  King  of  Ireland,  who  were  twenty-four  in 

countrie   waranteth   that   bastards,    especiallie  number,  and  of  whom,  according  to  the  Book 

muliers,  by  the  civill  law,   might  be  O'Dono-  of  Lecan,  only  three  were  by  his  married  wife, 

vans."    The  fact  seems  to  be  that  bastards  who  and  even  these  were  thrown  into  the  shade  by 

were  of  a  warlike  character  were  preferred,  in  the  superior  valour  of  their  illegitimate  bro- 

those  lawless  times,  to  legitimate  children  of  less  thers. 

combative  disposition,  especially  when  they  q  Cf  Cardan. — His  death  has  been  already  en- 
were  of  a  higher  or  more  powerful  family  by  tered  under  the  year  1276,  which  is  the  date 
the  mother's  side  than  by  the  father's.  The  assigned  to  it  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals 
marriage  ceremony  does  not  appear  to  have  of  Ulster.  In  the  old  translation  of  the  Ulster 
stamped  as  much  dignity  on  the  character  of  Annals,  both  dates  are  given  thus  :  "A.D.  1276 
the  offspring,  as  the  respectability  and  power  (a/.  1279).  Gilcomy  O'Cerballan,  Bishop  of  Ti- 
of  the  mother's  family,  and  their  own  bravery,  roen,  quievit."  In  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's 
which  always  commanded  the  admiration  of  Bishops,  p.  289,  his  death  is  assigned  to  the 
the  subalterns.  We  have  a  striking  instance  year  1279,  on  the  authority  of  the  Annals  of 
of  this  fact  in  the  account  given  by  the  genea-  Lough  Kee. 


432  aNNata  Rio^hachca  eircecmN.  [1281. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1280. 
Qoip  Cpiopo,  mile,  Da  ceo,  ochcriiojac. 

Seaan  ua  lai&ig  eappocc  cille  hala6,  q  ITlacha  mac  majjnupa  uf  Conco- 
baip  abb  na  buille  Do  ecc. 

Impfppam  Do  fipge  eDip  aob  muimneac  mac  pe6limi6  mic  carhail  cpoib- 
ofip5  l?i  Connacc  1  clann  muipcfpcaij;  muirhnij  ui  Concob'aip.  Qo&  muim- 
neac Do  rhapbaD  Doib  i  ccoill  in  Dainjin  -|  maoilpeaclainn  mac  magnupa  Do 
gabail  an  la  cfona  piu.  Ua  Oomnaill  Da  puaplacaD  uaca.  Cfirpi  cfo  bo  -j 
piche  eac  apfo  puaippioD  app. 

Carol  mac  Concobaip  puaiD  mic  muipcfpcaij  muirhnij  mic  coippbealbaij 
moip  uf  ConcoBaip  Do  pioja6  Do  Connachcaib  mppin. 

TTlaoilpeaclamn  6  jaipmleaDhaij  coipeac  cenel  moccin,  ~\  Concob'op  na 
Saipmleaohaij  Do  cuicim  le  ceallac  mo&apain. 

QOIS  CR1O3O,  1281. 
Qoip  Cpiopo,  mile,  Da  ceD,  ochrmojac  a  hoen. 

^065  mac  carail  meic  DiapmaDa  ncchfpna  moi  je  luipcc,  Saoi  in  eneac 
i  nfngnam  -\  i  nuaiple  Do  ecc. 

Cac  Dipipr  Da  cpioch  eDip  cenel  cconaill  "|  cenel  eojairi.  QoD  buiDi  mac 
Domnaill  oicc  mic  aoDa  mec  mic  aooa  pip  a  paicci  an  macaomh  coinleapcc 
-]  joill  ulaD  imaille  pip  Don  Dapa  ler.  Domnall  65  ua  Domnaill  ncchfpna 
cenel  cconaill,  pfp  manac,  aipgiall,  upmoip  jaoi&eal  ulaD  uile  -|  Connacc 

r  O'Laidhigh — In  the  old  translation  of  the  bably  the  townland  of  Dangan,    now  divided 

Annals  of  Ulster  he  is  called   "  John  O'Loyn,"  into  the  several  portions  of  Danganbeg,  Dangan 

and  in  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  650,  Eighter,  and  Dangan  Oughter,  in  the  parish  of 

"  Friar  John  O'Laidig,  or  O'Loyn."  Killererin,  in  the  barony  of  Tiaquin,  and  county 

s  Murtough  Muimhneach — The  descendants  of     of  Galway See  Ordnance  map  of  that  county, 

this  Mortogh  are  henceforward  called  Clann-  sheet  44. 

Muircheartaigh  in  these  Annals.     They  became  u  Teattach  Modharain. — There  was  a  tribe  of 

very  contentious,  and  are  often  mentioned.  this  name  located  near  Corcaree  in  Westmeath. 

1  Dangan — Dainjean,  a  fastness,  or  fortress.  See  note  n,  p.  66,  supra.     But  this  tribe  were 

There  are  several  places  of  this  name  in  Con-  in  Ulster,  and  seated  near  Strabane,  in  Tyrone, 

naught.     The  Dangan  here  referred  to  is  pro-          w  Prowess,  en^narii This  word  is  translated 


1281.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  433 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1280. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  eighty. 

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. 

Cathal,  son  of  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 
the  tribe  of  Teallach-Modharain". 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1281. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  eighty-one. 

Teige,  son  of  Cathal  Mac  Dermot,  Lord  of  Moylurg,  illustrious  for  hospi- 
tality, 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  Toinleascy,  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  ral  neinij  7  nenjnoriia  quieuir  in  chpipco." 
translator  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  by  whom  this          x  Disert-cia-chriock,    now    Desertcreaght,    a 

passage  is  thus  rendered  :  "  A.D.  1278  (al.  1281).  townland  and  parish  in  the  north  of  the  barony 

Teg  Mac  Cathall  Mac  Diermod,  King  of  Moilurg,  of  Dungannon,  in  the  county  of  Tyrone. 

an  excellent  man  in  liberality  and  feats,  quiemt."          y  Macaemh   Toinleasc Mageoghegan    Eng- 

The  original  Irish  is  given  as  follows  in  the  Dub-  lishes  this  "  Hugh  Boye  mac  Donnel  Oge  mac 

lin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  :  "  A.  D.  1278.  Hugh,  surnamed  the  Fatt,  mac  Hugh,  who  was 

maccacailrnicOiapmaoapimuijiluipg  called  the  leasy-arsed  youth." 

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434  aNNQta  Rio^hachca  eineaNH.  [1281. 

acho  ma6  beacc  -|  na  bpepne  uile  Don  lee  apaill.  Ro  rheabaib  cpa  an  cacpo 
pop  cenel  cconaill.  T?o  mapbaD  t>oriinall  ua  t)orhnailt  ann  .1.  an  cafn  gaoiDeal 
DO  bpfpp  eneac,  fnsnam,  aipeachup  -]  uaiple  Do  jaoibealaib  Gpeann  ip  in 
aimpip  fin.  pechfm  coiccionn  mpcaip  Goppo  uite  epi&e  -|  a  aDnacul  i 
maimpDip  na  mbpacop  i  nDoipe  colaim  cille  mp  mbpfich  buaba  gacha 
maichfppa  Do  56  pin.  Qciacc  annpo  an  luchD  po  bpfpp  Dap  mapbaD  ina 
pocaip  ITIaolpuanaiD  ua  baoijill  caoipeac  na  ccpi  ccuac,  Gojanmac  maoil- 
peaclamn  mic  Oomnaill  moip  ui  Dorhnaill,  Ceallac  mac  giollubpijDe  uf 
baoijill  an  cafn  caoipeac  Do  bpfpp  fnsnarh  "|  eneac  Depib  1  Dollariinaib  bof 
in  fnaimpip  pipp,  ainDilfpp  6  baoijill,  Dubgall  a  mac  pom,  giollu  cpiopD  mag 
planncaioh  caoipeac  Dapcpaicche,Dorhnall  mac  jille  pinnen  caoipeac  mumn- 
cipi  peoDacdin,  Gnna  6  jaipmleaDhaig  apDcaoipeac  cenel  modin,  Copbmac 
mac  an  piplejinn  uf  Domnaill  caoipeac  panaD.giollu  an  comDeaD  ua  maolDum 
caoipeac  luipcc,  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 
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. 
T?o  mapbaD  ann  uilliam  baipeD,  aDam  plemenD,  -\  SochaiDe  imaille  piu. 
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 
baoijill,  -\  caichleac  6  Duboa  laiDpi&e. 

QoDh  TTluimneach  mac  coippoealbaij  uf  bpiain  DO  ecc. 

z  O'Donnell.— Charles   O'Conor   wrote  inter  his  time,  and  was  buried  in  the  church  of  Derie, 

lineas,  "pan  41  bliabam  oia  aoip,  i.  e.  in  the  after  he  had  all  things  fallen  out  with  him  for- 

forty-first  year  of  his  age."  tunately  untill  that  day  of  his  death." 

a  Hospitality,  prowess,  fyc.,  eneac,  enjnarii,  b  The  greatest  contfnander,  pechem  coircionn 

&c — The  translation    of  this  passage  given  by      mpcaip  eoppa The  old  translator  of  the  An- 

Mageoghegan  in  his  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  nals  of  Ulster  renders  this,  "the  overseer  of 

has  a  close  agreement  with  the  text  of  the  Four  the  west  of  Europe." 

Masters.    Thus  :  "Donnell O'Donnell  was  slain;          c  Dowell,  oub£aU This  name,  which  sig- 

the  best  Irishman  for  bounty,  prowess,  worthi-  nifies   black   Gaul,   or   foreigner,   is   generally 

ness,  and  many  other  perfections  that  lived  in  anglicised  Dowell  by  the  Irish,   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  illustrious  man  of  the  Irish  of  his  time  for  hospitality",  prowess,  splendour, 
and  nobility,  and  the  greatest  commanderb  in  the  west  of  Europe,  was  slain ; 
and  he  was  interred  in  the  monastery  of  Derry,  having  obtained  the  palm  in 
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 
O'Boyle,  and  Dowellc,  his  son  ;  Gilehreest  Mac  Clancy,  Chief  of  Dartry ;  Don- 
nell Mac  Gillafinnen,  Chief  of  Muintir-Feodachain11;  Enna  O'Gormly,  Chief 
of  Kinel-Moen ;  Cormac,  son  of  the  Ferleighin  [Lector]  O'Donnell,  Chief  of 
Fanad ;  Gilla-an-Choimhdheadh  O'Muldoon,  Chief  of  Lurge ;  Cormac,  son  of 
Cormac  O'Donnell ;  Gilla-na-n-6g  Mac  Dail-re-docair ;  Melaghlin,  son  of  Niall 
O'Boyle;  Andiles,  son  of  Murtough  O'Donnell;  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- 
rated here. 

Hugh,  son  of  Donnell  Oge  O'Donnell,  was  inaugurated  in  the  place  of  his 
father. 

A  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.  the  Muldoons  are  still  numerous. 

d  Muintir  Feodachain. — The  territory  of  the  f  Dexterity  at  shooting,  lamac This  passage 

Mac  Gillinnions  extended  from  the  ArneyEiver  is  thus  given  in  English  in  the  old  translation 

to  western  extremity  of  Belmore  mountain,  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  :  "A.  D.  1278  (al.  1281). 

in  the  barony  of  Magheraboy,  and  county  of  A  battell  between  the  Barets  and  the  Cusacks, 

Fermanagh.  where  the  Barets  were  put  to  flight,  and  Wil- 

'  Lurff,  is  now  the  name  of  a  barony  in  the  liam  Baret  was  killed,"  [and  also]  "  Adam 

north  of  the  county  of  Fermanagh,  in  which  Flemin,  and  many  more  men ;  and  there  were 

3  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 
bpfpp  eneac  ~[  lonnpaicchiD  Da  cineab  ina  aimpip  Do  rhapbab  la  haoam  aom- 
pocc  ap  rpaicch  6ochaile. 

tappaippiona  injfn  cacail  cpoibDeipg  uf  Concobaip  bfn  oomnaill  moip 
ui  oomnaill  i  maraip  Dorhnaill  oicc,  bamcfnn  ban  Ifice  cuinn  ipDe  Do  ecc. 

TDacaua  Rajallaijj  ncchfpna  mumncipi  maoilmopba,  -|  510^u  10ru  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 
courage  and  shooting,  viz.,  Taichlegh  O'Duvda, 
and  Taichlegh  O'BoyL" 

It  is  thus  given  by  Mageoghegan,  in  his  trans- 
lation of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise :  "  A.  D. 
1281.  There  was  a  feild  fought  between  the 
Barretts  of  the  one  side,  and  the  Cusaks  of  the 
other,  where  the  Barretts  were  vanquished. 
William  Barrett  and  Adam  Fflemyng,  with 
many  others,  were  slain.  There  were  two  Irish- 
men of  Cusack's  side  that  surpassed  the  com- 
panys  of  both  sides  for  prowes,  manhood,  dex- 
teritie  of  handling  of  arms,  hardiness,  and 
all  other  parts  of  activitie,  named  Taihleagh 
O'Dowdie,  and  Taihleagh  O'Boylle."  According 
to  the  Historic/,  Families  De  Burgo,  a  manuscript 
in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  already  re- 
ferred to,  this  battle  was  fought  at  Moyne,  in 
the  barony  of  Tirawley,  near  the  ancient  church 
of  Kilroe :  "  Bellum  apud  Mayn  de  Kilro  per 
Adam  Cymsog  ex  una  parte,  et  William  Bareth 
ex  altera  parte,  ubi  vulneratus  et  captus  est 
idem  William.  Et  postea  de  hiis  vulneribus 
mortuus  fuit.  Adam  Fleming  et  multi  alii 


[occisi  sunt]."  The  place  here  called  Kilro  re- 
tains that  name  to  this  day,  and  is  remarkable 
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  it — See 
Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiach- 
rach,  p.  328. 

z  Under  this  year  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  An- 
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  Mac  Murrough. — According  to  Grace's  An- 
nals, these  were  slain  at  Arklow  in  1282.  Dr. 
Hanmer  notices  their  death  as  follows,  at  1281  : 
"  Murtough  Mac  Muroch,  with  Art,  his  brother, 
lost  their  heads  at  Wickloe  :  another  saith  at 
Artchloe,  so  Clyn  and  Dowling  doe  report." 

'  O'Dowda. — The  notice  of  TaichleachO'Dow- 
da's  death  is  given  as  follows  in  Mageoghegan's 
translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  : 


1282.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


437 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1282. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  eighty-two. 

Murtough  Mac  Murrough",  King  of  Leinster,  and  Art,  his  brother,  were  slain 
by  the  English. 

Taichleach,  son  of  Mulrony  O'Dowda',  Lord  of  Tireragh,  the  most  hospita- 
ble and  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  Tiernan1, 
usually  called  Gilla-Isa  More,  Chief  of  Teallach-Dunchadha,  died. 

Cathal,  son  of  Gilla-na-naev  O'Farrell,  Lord  of  Annaly,  died  on  Inis-Cuanm 


"  A.  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  Eng- 
lish and  all  foreigners,  in  defence  of  his  contrey, 
was  killed  by  Adam  Cusack  at  Beerhaven." 
Here  he  renders  Traigh  Eothaile  by  Beerhaven, 
but  this  is  a  great  error.  Haliday,  in  his  trans- 
lation of  Keating's  History  of  Ireland,  p.  193, 
falls  into  a  similar  error  in  supposing  it  to  be 
Youghal.  The  Traigh  Eothaile,  mentioned  by 
Keating  at  the  page  above  referred  to,  is  de- 
scribed by  Duald  Mac  Firbis,  a  native  of  Tire- 
ragh, as  in  Tir  Fiachrach  :  Cpcn£  T?uip  aipjio 
pe  pdioceap  C-paiji;  Bocuile  ip  in  dp  phiacpac 
po  a  cam,  i.  e.  "  the  strand  of  Ros  Airgid, 
which  is  called  Traigh  Eothuile,  in  this  Tir 
Fiachrach  in  which  we  are." — Lib.  Geneal. 
(Marquis  of  Drogheda's  copy),  p.  8.  Traigh 
Eothuile  is  now  generally  called  Trawohelly, 
and  is  a  large  and  beautiful  strand  at  the  mouth 
of  the  Ballysadare  River,  in  the  barony  of  Tire- 
ragh, and  county  of  Sligo.  It  extends  from  the 


Strand  road  to  Beltraw,  near  Tanrego See  Ge- 
nealogies, Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy- Fiachrach, 
p.  117,  and  the  map  prefixed  to  the  same  work. 

k  Leth-Chuinn,  i.  e.  Conn's  half,  means  the 
northern  half  of  Ireland.  In  the  old  transla- 
tion of  the  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 
Kiernan,  which  is  the  present  anglicised  form. 
This  family  of  Teallach  Dunchadha,  now  the  ba- 
rony of  Tullyhunco,  in  the  county  of  Cavan,  is 
to  be  distinguished  from  Mac  Tiernan,  of  the 
county  of  Roscommon,  descended  from  Tiernan, 
the  son  of  Cathal  Migarain  O'Conor. 

ra  Inis-Cuain,  in  the  river  of  Cluain-lis-Bece- 
mic-Conla. — These  names  are  now  obsolete. 
The  nearest  name  to  Cluain-lis,  now  remaining 
in  the  county  of  Longford,  is  the  parish  of 
Cloongish  ;  but  they  cannot  be  considered  iden- 
tical, as  Cloongish  is  called  in  Irish  Cluain 
fteipe. — See  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys,  at 
25th  April. 


438  anwata  Rioshachea  eiraecmN.  [1284. 

ninipp  cuan  pop  abainn  cluain  lip  bece  TYIIC  connla.    SeappaiD  mac  giollu  na 
nafrh  ui  pfpjail  Do  jabail  cicchfpnaipp  na  hangaile  Da  ep. 

QO18  CR1OSO,  1283. 
Ctoip  CpiopD,  mftfe,  Da  ceD,  ochomogao,  acpf. 

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 
copccap  t>a  cenel  ma  aimpip.  6a  pioj&arhna  Diongbala  Dfipinn  eppibe,  Do 
mapbaD  la  mag  macjariina,  bpian,  -|  la  haipjiallaib  -|  la  jiollu  lopu  puao 
mac  Domnaill  ui  TTajallaij. 

Ua6j  mac  Domnaill  loppaip  uf  concobaip  Do  loc  la  luighmb  i  a  chaipbipc 
DO  chachal  6  concobaip  -j  a  ecc  lappin  Do  bichm  a  luic. 

CXch  elide  -\  ceampall  cpiopD  Do  lopccaD. 

aO13  CR1OSU,  1284. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  ochcmocchacc,  a  ceachaip. 

TTluipip  ua  concobaip  eppcop  oile  pinn  Decc,  i  Qmlaoib  ua  comalcaij  DO 
oipDneao  ina  iona6  ~\  a  ecc  laprcam.  ^lolla  lopa  mac  an  liaranaij  ui  con- 
cobaip Qbb  oilen  na  cpmoiDe  ap  loch  ce  (DopD  pepmonpcpa)  Do  rosha  in 
epppocoiDecc  oile  pinn  lappin. 

n  Under  this  year  (1282),  the  Dublin  copy  of  event  is  recorded  with  equal  brevity,  but  more 

the  Annals  of  Innisfallen  contain  some  notices  of  correctly,  thus:  "A.  D.  1283.  Arsit  Dublinise 

the  affairs  of  Thomond,  which  have  been  omitted  pars  et   Campanile  Trinitatis."     For  a   fuller 

by  the  Four  Masters.     They  would  appear  to  account  of  this  event,   see  Clynn's  Annals,  and 

have  been  abstracted  by  the  compiler  of  this  Hanmer's  Chronicle,  ad  ann.     Under  this  year 

Chronicle  from  the  Irish  work  en  titled  Caithreim  the  Annals  of  Cloumacnoise,  as  translated  by 

Thoirdhealb/iaigk,  or  Wars  of  Turlough  O'Brien.  Mageoghegan,  record  the  death  of  Art  O'Me- 

0  ONeitt. — In  Mageoghegan's   translation   of  laghlin,  surnamed  "  of  the  castles,"  in  the  fol- 
the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  he  is  called  King  lowing  words  :   "A.  D.  1283.  Art  Mac  Cormack 
of  Aileagh.  O'Melaghlyn,   surnamed  Art  na  Gaislean,  the 

P  Oriel* OipjiallaiB,  Mac  Mahon's  follow-      greatest  warrior  in  Ireland  in  his  time  against 

ers  were  so  called.  the  Englishmen,  and  he  that  killed  most  of  the 

1  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  ;  and  Geoffrey,  son  of 
Gilla-na-naev  OTarrell,  assumed  the  lordship  of  Annaly  after  him". 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1283. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  4wo  hundred  eighty-three. 

Hugh  Boy  O'Neill0,  Lord  of  Kinel-Owen ;  head  of  the  liberality  and  valour 
of  the  Irish  ;  the  most  distinguished  in  the  North  for  bestowing  jewels  and 
riches,  the  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]  after  this  died  of  the 
effect  of  his  wound. 

Dublin  and  Christ's  church  were  burned". 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1284. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  eighty-four. 

Maurice  O'Conor,  Bishop  of  Elphin,  died,  and  Auliffe  O'Tomalty  was  con- 
secrated his  successor;  but  he  died  soon  after.  Gilla-Isa,  son  of  Liathanagh 
O'Conor,  Abbot  of  Trinity  Island  in  Lough  Ree  (of  the  Premonstratentianr 
Order),  was  then  elected  to  the  bishopric  of  Elphin. 

seven-and- twenty  castles,  both  great  and  small,  noticed  by  the  Four  Masters  under  the  year  1284. 

in  the  course  of  his  warrs,  and  he  that  gave          r  Premostratentian ThePremostratentian,  or 

many  great  overthrows  to  the  English  and  Irish,  White  Canons,  were  originally  a  branch  of  the 

died  with  good  penance  ;  after  whose  death  his  Canons  Regular,  and  lived  according  to  the  rule 

son,  Carbry,  succeeded  him  in  his  place,  and  of  St.  Augustine.     They  were  reformed  by  St. 

was  constituted  King  of  Meath."  Norbert  of  Lorrain  about  the  year  1 120,  at  Pre- 

Under  this  year  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  An-  monstre,  in  the  diocese  of  Laon  inPicardy.  Pope 

nals  of  Inisfallen  contains  an  account  (abstracted  Calixtus  the  Second,  confirmed  this  order,  and 

from  the  CaithreimThoirdhealbhaigh)  of  the  battles  gave  them  the  title  of  Canons  Regular.     The 

between  De  Clare  and  Turlough  O'Brien,  and  of  habit  of  their  order  is  a  white  cassock,  with  a 

t,hedeathofDonough,thesonofBrianRoeO'Brien,  rochet  over  it,  a  long  white  cloak,  and  a  cap  of 

who  assisted  De  Clare.  This  latter  event  is  briefly  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  plan- 
rajain,  biapmaicr,  -\  maoileacloinn.  Coccab  •)  epaonca  beipje  hi  ccon- 
nachcraib  cpep  an  mapbab  pin.  Cpeacha  mopa  bo  bfnom  bo  jallaib  apa 
haicle  •]  a  naipfg  co  hiomlan  bo  rhuinnp  oilen  na  cpinoibe,  i  bo  manchaib 
maimpcpe  na  buille. 

Caiplen  cille  colmdin  bo  leaccab  la  cachal  mac  concobaip  puaib  (T?i 
connacc). 

Oun  mop  bo  lopccab  la  piacpa  ua  pplomn. 

aois  crciosu,  1285. 

Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  ba  cheb,  ochcrhocchac,  a  cuicc. 

Siomon  6  Ruaipc  eppcop  na  bpeipne  becc. 

Ruaibpi  ua  gabpa  cijeapna  Slebe  luja  bo  mapbab  la  TTlac  peopaip  pop 
loch  ui  jabpa. 

ITluipip  maol  TTlac  ^epailc  bo  ecc. 

s  Donovgh   O'Brien The  Irish  work  called  is  to  be  seen  near  the  small  village  of  Cross- 

Caithreim    Thoirdhealbhaigh,    gives    a   detailed  roads,  which  is  the  present  capital  of  the  terri- 

account  of  the  death  of  this  Donough,  which  has  tory  of  Cloghineely. 

been  abstracted  by  the  compiler  of  the  Dublin  u  Mac-na-h-Oidhche  Mac  Dorcy. — Mac-na-h- 

copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen.  Oidche  signifies  son  of  the  night,  and  was  rather 

c  Clock  Chinnfaelaidh,  i.  e.   Kinfaela's  stone,  a  soubriquet,  or  nickname,  than  the  baptismal 

The  name  is  now  anglicised  Cloghineely,  and  is  name  of  a  man.     It  is  now  obsolete.     The  ter- 

that  of  a  district  in  the  north-west  of  the  barony  ritory   of  Kin  el- Luachain,    in  which   the  Mac 

of  Kilmacrenan,  in  the  county  of  Donegal.   This  Dorcys  are  still  extant,  comprised  the  parish  of 

is  one  of  the  three  Tuathas,  or  districts,  which  Oughteragh,  or  Ballinamore,  in  the  east  of  the 

originally  belonged  to  O'Boyle,  and,   more  re-  county  of  Leitrim. 

cently,  to  Mac  Sweeny  na-d-Tuath.     The  stone  w  To  the  family,  fyc.,   that  is,  they  gave  up 

from  which  this  district  takes  its  name,  and  of  the  spoils  to  the  heads  of  these  monasteries,  to 

which  strange  legends  are  told  in  the  country,  be  disposed  of  as  they  should  think  proper. 


1285.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  441 

Donough  O'Brien*,  Lord  of  Thomond,  was  slain  by  Turlough  O'Brien. 

Dowell,  son  of  Manus  O'Boyle,  Chief  of  Cloch  Chinnfaeladh',  was  slain  by 
the  people  of  O'Mulgeeha. 

Mac-na-h-Oidhche  Mac  Dorcy",  Chief  of  Kinel-Luachain,  died. 

Simon  de  Exeter  was  slain  by  Brien  O'Flynn  and  the  two  sons  of  O'Flana- 
gan,  Dermot  and  Melaghlin ;  in  consequence  of  which  war  and  dissensions 
arose  in  Connaught.  After  this  the  English  committed  great  depredations;  but 
they  restored  the  whole  of  the  spoils  to  the  family"  of  Trinity  Island",  and  the 
monks  of  the  abbey  of  Boyle. 

The  castle  of  Kilcolman"  was  thrown  down  by  Cathal,  son  of  Conor  Roe, 
King  of  Connaught. 

Dunmorez  was  burned  by  Fiachra  O'Flynn. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1285. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  eighty-jive. 

Simon  O'Rourke,  Bishop  of  Breifuy,  died. 

Rory  O'Gara,  Lord  of  Sliabh-Lugha",  was  slain  by  Mac  Feorais  [Berming- 
ham]  on  Lough  0'Garab. 

Maurice  Mael  [the  Bald]  Fitzgerald  died. 

x  Trinity  Island — See  other  notices  of  this  the  castle  of  Ennis,  in  Thomond,  by  Turlough, 

island  at  the  years  1231, 1234,  1235, 1236, 1237,  the  son  of  Teige  Caeluisce  O'Brien. 
1239,  1243,  1247,  and  1249  ;  and  see  its  situa-          *  Sliabh- Lugha. — This  name  is  sometimes  An- 

tion  in  Lough  Key,  and  the  ruins  of  the  abbey  glicised  Slewlowe  in  old  Anglo-Irish  documents, 

shewn  on  the  Ordnance  map  of  the  county  of  See  note  '  under  the  year  1206,  p.  150. 

Roscommon,  sheet  6.  b Lough  O'Gara toe  ui  jaopa,  i.e.  O'Gara's 

T  Kilcolman,  a  townland  in  a  parish  of  the  lake.    This  lake  is   now  more  usually  called 

same  name  in  the  barony  of  Costello,  and  county  Lough    Gara.     It   was    anciently    called   Loch 

of  Mayo. — See  note  under  the  year  1 270.  Techet,  and  received  its  present  name  from  the 

1  Dunmore — This   is   the  Dunmore   in   the  family  of  O'Gara,    who,  after  they  had  been 

county  of  Galway,   eight  miles  to  the  north  of  driven  from   their  original   territories   of  Ga- 

Tuam,  where  are  still  to  be  seen  the  ruins  of  lenga  and  Sliabh  Lugha,  in  the  now  county  of 

a  strong  castle  erected  by  the  family  of  Mac  Mayo,  by  the  Jordans  and  Costelloes,  settled  in 

Feorais,  or  Bermingham.  the  present  barony  of  Coolavin,  in  the  county  of 

Under  this  year  (1284),  the  Dublin  copy  of  Sligo,  and  erected  a  castle  at  Moygara,  or  Moy 

the  Annals  of  Innisfallen  record  the  erection  of  O'Gara,  near  the  north-east  extremity  of  this  lake. 

3  L 


442 


[1286. 


Gnpi  mac  jiolla  pinDein  DO  ecc. 

Tllaibm  DO  chabaipr  DO  majnup  ua  cconcobaip  ap  doom  ciompocc  -|  ap 
jallaib  lapchaip  Connachc  05  6app  Dapa  Ou  map  mapbaicc  Daoine  iom6a 
I  map  jaba&  coilin  ciorhpocc  Dfpbpachaip  Goaim. 

TTlaiDlirn  Do  chabaipr  Do  pibb  mac  goipoelbaij  ap  rhuinnp  TTIajnupa 
uf  concobaip  ap  Sliab  gam  DU  in  po  mapbao  pochai&e  Do  mumcip  TTIajnupa. 


QO1S  CR1OSU,  1286. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  Da  cheD,  ochcrmocchacc,  ape. 

SloijeaD  mop  la  hiapla  ulab  i  cconnachraib  gup  po  milleaD  mopan  DO 
rhainipcpib  -|  Do  cheallaib  peachnon  Connacc  laip.     Ro  jab  neapc  in  506 


c  Mac  Gillaftnnen — This  name  is  now  angli- 
cised Mac  Gillinnion,  and  sometimes  changed  to 
Leonard.  The  family  were  seated  in  the  dis- 
trict of  Muintir  Feodachain,  extending  from  the 
Arney  Eiver  to  the  western  extremity  of  Bel- 
more  mountain,  in  the  barony  of  Magheraboy, 
and  county  of  Fermanagh. 

d  Sliabh  Gamh,  a  chain  of  mountains  in  the 
baronies  of  Leyny  and  Tireragh,  in  the  county 
of  Sligo.  The  name  is  now  incorrectly  trans- 
lated Ox  Mountains,  because  the  natives  believe 
that  the  true  Irish  form  of  the  name  is  SliaB 
6arh,  i.  e.  mountains  of  the  oxen  ;  but  this  is  a 
local  error,  for  the  name  is  spelled  Sliab  5arii 
in  all  the  ancient  and  modern  Irish  annals. 

e  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise, 
as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  contain  the  fol- 
lowing passages,  which  have  been  altogether 
omitted  by  the  Four  Masters:  "A.  D.  1285. 
Hugh  mac  Hugh  O'Conor  and  Flann  O'Me- 
laghlyn,  with  other  noble  youth  in  their  com- 
panys,  took  a  great  prey  from  William  Crocke, 
where"  \_recte  but]  "  they  were  pursued  and  quite 
discomfitted,  in  so  much  that  above  twenty  of 
them  were  slain  and  drownded,  together  with 
Bryan  mac  Donnell  Brcagagh  O'Melaghlyn,  a 


youth  then  of  the  age  of  fifteen  years. 

"  Theobald  Buttler,  with  his  forces,  accompa- 
nied with  the  forces  of  O'Kelly,  of  Elie  O'Kar- 
roll,  of  Ormond,  of  Arye,  of  Ohne"  [Owney] 
"  O'Mulryan,  of  Sileamnchye,  and  Clann  Wil- 
liam of  the  Burks,  came  to  Delvin  Mac  Coghlan 
to  take  the  spoyles  of  that  Contrey,  and  to  de- 
stroy and  subvert  itself  by  their  Power.  Car- 
brey  O'Melaghlyn,  King  of  the  Irish  of  Meatli, 
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  Lomclone  O'Doynne,  now  called  Lomclone 
Offlathrie"  [now  Lumcloon,  or  Lumploon,  near 
the  village  of  Cloghau,  in  the  barony  of  Garry- 
castle,  and  King's  County],  "  where  there  were 
killed  on  the  sudden  Sir  William  de  la  Eochelle, 
Knight,  with  many  others,  with  Morrogh  mac 
Cormack  O'Connor,  and  divers  of  the  chiefest 
of  the  said  Theobald's  army  slain,  besides  many 
Captives  that  were  taken,  as  Sir  Ilobert  Dunn 
mac  William  Burke,  Knight,  with  four  other 
principall  Englishmen  with  him. 

"  Theobald  Buttler  died  at  Beerehaven. 

"  Mac  Gerald  Genville  and  Bremyngham 
made  up  a  great  army  with  the  forces  of  Meath, 


1286.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


443 


Henry  Mac  Gillafinnen0  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  of  Manus  O'Conor  on  Slieve  Gamh", 
where  many  of  Manus's  people  were  slaine. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1286. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  eighty-six. 

A  great  army  was  led  by  the  Earl  of  Ulster  into  Connaught ;  and  many 
monasteries  and  churches  throughout  the  province  were  destroyed  by  him. 
He  obtained  swayf  in  every  place  through  which  he  passed,  and  took  the  hos- 


and  marched  to  the  contrey  of  Affailie"  [Of- 
faly],  "  where  they  seized  upon  a  great  prey  of 
Cowes,  whereupon  the  inhabitants  of  the  said 
contrey  assembled  together  their  forces,  and 
went  on  the  strengths  and  passages  of  the  con- 
trey to  offend"  [resist]  "them,  and  said  to 
Carbrey  O'Melaghlyn,  King  of  Meath,  Clyn- 
colman,  and  Irishrie  of  Meath,  to  come  to  aid 
them  against  the  said  armie,  their  adversaries, 
who  came  with  a  well  appointed  army  of  Sol- 
diers, and  mett  the  Englishmen  in  the  field; 
the  Irishrie  of  Meath  and  Inhabitants  of  Affalie 
striking  stiffly  to  their  head,  and  chief  man 
Carbrey  O'Melaughlin  made  fiercely  and  cou- 
rageously 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  con- 
tinued. 

"  Gille  Issa  Mac  Tiernan,  Chief  of  Teallagh 
Donnogha,  died." 

(  Obtained  swat/,  po  job  neapc The  word 

3  L 


neapc,  when  thus  applied,  signifies  power, 
strength,  or  sway.  In  the  old  translation  of 
the  Annals  of  Ulster  this  passage  is  rendered  as 
follows  :  "  A.  D.  1282  (rectius  1286).  A  great 
army  by  the  Earle  of  Ulster  into  Connaght, 
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 
made  Nell  Culanagh  O'Nell  King."  It  is  given 
in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of 
Clonmacnoise  as  follows:  "A.  D.  1286.  The 
Earle  of  Ulster  repaired  with  great  forces  to 
Connought,  committed  great  outrages  in  that 
Provence,  and  especially  in  the  abbeys  and 
church  lands,  and,  notwithstanding  their  unru- 
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 
Bryen  O'Neale  of  his  principallity,  and  gave  the 
rule,  government,  and  chief  name  of  Ulster  to 
Neale  Culanagh  O'Neale."  The  latter  Annals 
contain  the  following  passages  under  this  year 
(1286),  which  have  been  omitted  by  the  Four 
Masters  : 


444  aNNdta  Rioshachca  eiReanw.  pass. 

conaip  Dap  jab,  -|  po  jab  bpaijhoe  Connacc  uile.     Rug  lapam  Connachcaij 
laip  jup  po  jab  bpaijDe  Conaill  •)  fojain.     T?o  aicpij  Domnall  mac  bpiain 
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 
DiapmaDa,  cijeapna  pil  maoflpuain,  pfp  ba  pfpp,  ba  pine,  -|  ba  huaiple  Da 
chineaD  Do  ecc. 

TDaolpeachnaill  mac  comalcaij  meg  oipeccaij  Do  rhapbab  la  coipp- 
Dealbac  mac  eojain  ui  concobaip  i  nDiogal  a  arhap  Do  cpegeaD  Don  Comol- 
cac  pempdice. 

QDam  ciorhpocc,  bean  muman  mgfn  uf  chacain,  -|  Oomnall  6  hamlije 
caofpeac  cenel  Dobcha  Do  ecc. 

Q013  CR10SC,  1288. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  cheo,  ochccrhoccac  a  hochcc. 

Scephan  aipDeappob  cuama  Do  gualann  Decc. 
TTlichael  mac  an  cSaoip  eppcop  clochaip  DO  ecc. 

ITlaghnup  mac  Concobaip  puaiD  uf  Concobaip  (imaille  pe  na  bpuaip  Do 
Chonnaccaib,  Do  uib  bpiuin,  -|  DO  Conmaicnib)  Do  cache  co  hdc  Slipean  DU 

"  Finola  Ny-Melaghlyn,  archabbesse  of  Meath,  Mailruanaidh,  or  Clann-Mulrony,  which  was 

died.  the  tribe  name  of  the  Mac  Dermots  of  Moy- 

"  Cahall  O'Madden,  Prince  of  Silanmchie,  died,  lurg,  in  the  county  of  Koscommon.     Sil-Mail- 

"  There  was  such  scarsitie  of  victualls  and  ruain  was  the  tribe  name  of  the  O'Flynns  of 

corn  in  the  Spring  time  and  Summer  of  this  Ballinlough,  in  the  same  county.  In  Mageoghe- 

year,  that  a  Hoope  or  Cronnocke  was  sold  for  gan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise, 

four  shillings,  and  there  was  also  a  great  morren  this  Donnell  Midheach  Mac  Dermot  is  called 

of  Cowes  the  said  Spring."  "  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.  445 

tages  of  all  Connaught.     lie  then  brought  the  Connacians  with  him,  and  took 
the  hostages  of  the  Kinel-Connell  and  Kinel-Owen.     He  deposed  Donnell,  the 
son  of  Brian  O'Neill,  and  gave  the  lordship  to  Niall  Culanagh. 
Philip  Mac  Costello  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1287. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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  [i.  e.  the  Meathian],  son  of  Dermot,  who  was  son  of 
Maurice  Mac  Dermot,  Lord  of  Sil-MailruainB,  the  best,  oldest,  and  noblest  man 
of  his  tribe,  died. 

Melaghlin,  son  of  Tomaltagh  Mageraghty,  was  slain  by  Turlough,  the  son 
of  Owen  O'Conor,  to  avenge  the  desertion  of  his  [Turlough's]  father  by  the 
aforementioned  Tomaltagh. 

Adam  Cusack,  Benmumhan,  daughter  of  O'Kane,  and  Donnell  O'Hanly, 
Chief  of  Kenel-Dofa  [in  the  county  of  Roscommon],  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1288. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  eighty-eight. 

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  to 
muster  of  the  Connacians  and  of  the  Hy-Briuin  and  Conmaicnek,  proceeded  to 

correct  than  the  text  of  the  Four  Masters.  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  182,   where  it  is  stated 

h  Stephen,  Archbishop  of  Tuam His  name  was  that  he  succeeded  in  1268,  and  died  in  1285. 

Stephen  de  Fulburn,  or  of  Fulburn.     He  sue-  The  family  name  lilac  an  cpaoip,  meaning  son 

ceeded  in  1286. — See  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  of  the  carpenter,  is  now  sometimes  anglicised 

Kishops,  p.  607.  Mac  Intire,  and  sometimes  translated  Carpenter. 

'  Michael  Mac-an-t-Sair. — See  Harris's  edition  k  The  Hy-Briuin  and  Conmaicne. — These  were 


446  aNNCtta  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1289. 

ipaibe  a  Deapbacaip(T?i  Connacc)  cona  pocpaiDe.  T^achup  Do  cup  fcoppa  Ifch 
ap  Ifc.  Cnchal  DO  gabail  Imp  mp  maibm  pop  a  mumcip,  -\  pige  Connacc  DO 
gabail  ap  eiccin  Do  rhagnup  ann  pin  i  a  Dfpbbpachaip  DO  aicpiogaD.  "Ceac  Do 
gabail  ap  an  ITlagnup  peinpaicce  Do  coippbealbac  mac  6ogam  ui  concobaip 
ipin  l?opp  mop,  -|  TTlagnup  Do  loc  ann,  -[  Niall  gealbuiDe  6  concobaip  DO  loc 
beop.  TCaghnall  mag  Ragnaill  caoipeac  TTlhuincipc  heolaip  DO  mapbaD  an 
ran  pin  Dofn  upcup  poigDe.  SloigeaD  la  TTlajnup  6  cconcobaip  ap  a  haicle 
lap  na  leijiup  i  Siol  TTluipfDaij  gup  jab  a  neapr,  •)  a  mbpaighoe. 

SloigeaD  lap  an  lapla  puaD,  TJipoepo  mac  uacep  lapla  ulab  mic  Rioc- 
aipD  mic  uilliam  conquepep  Dionnpaijib  connacc  50  piachc  50  popp  corn- 
main  map  i  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.  5ona^  f  corhaiple  Do  ponaD  lap  an  lapla  an  cfp  Dpacc- 
bail,  i  a  pluacch  Do  pcaoileaD  lapam. 

QO18  CR1OSO,  1289. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  ochDmogaD,  a  naof. 

TTlilep  eppocc  Conmaicne,  .1.  an  ^ailleappucc  i  Siomon  ua  pinnacca 
aipcmneac  oilepinn  Do  ecc. 

the  inhabitants  of  the  present  counties  of  Cavan  Shannon  at  the  celebrated  weir  ordain  called 

and  Leitrim.  Caradh-na-dtuath,   where  there  is  now  a  good 

1  Atk-'Slisean,  or  Beal-atha-Slisean,  now  Bel-  bridge  in  place  of  the  old  Irish  caradh — See 

laslishen  Bridge,  on  the  road  between  Elphin  references  to  this  place  at  the  years  1309,  1342, 

and  Strokestown,  in  the  county  of  Eoscommon,  and  1595. 

and  within  one  mile  of  Elphin.  It  is  on  the  mBossmore — In  Mageoghegan's  translation  of 
Eiver  Uair,  a  silent,  sluggish  stream,  which  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  it  is  stated  that  this 
flows  with  such  lenity  that  one  could  scarcely  house  belonged  to  Flann  O'Donollan,  archpoet 
discern  which  way  it  glides.  This  river  rises  in  of  Connaught.  Thus:  "A.  D.  1288.  Terlagh 
Lough  Mey,  in  the  parish  of  Shankill,  and  mac  Owen  mac  Eowrie  tooke  a  house  upon 
meanders  its  way  in  a  most  extraordinary  man-  Maims  mac  Connor  Eoe,  burnt  the  house  over 
ner,  passing  under  the  bridges  of  Bellaslishen,  his  head,  and  afterwards  Manus  escaped  against 
Bellavahane,  and  Bellagrange,  enters  Cloonahee  the  said  Terlagh.  The  house  belonged  to  Flann 
Lough  near  the  seat  of  O'Mulconry,  and  then  O'Donollan,  archpoet  (for  Irish  poetry)  of  Con- 
expands  into  a  large  lake  now  called  Muicken-  noght.''  It  is  the  present  townland  of  Eossmore, 
agh,  dividing  Tir-Briun-na-Sinna  from  Kinel-  in  the  parish  of  Ballynakill,  barony  of  Leitrim, 
Dofa,  and  finally  glides  into  the  embrace  of  the  and  county  of  Galway — See  Ordnance  map  of 


1289-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  447 

Ath-Slisean1,  where  his  brother  [Cathal],  the  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 
possession  of  the  sovereignty  of  Connaught,  and  deposed  his  brother.  A  house 
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 
wounded.  Ranall  Mac  Ranall,  Chief  of  Muintir-Eolais,  was  slain  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  Earl0,  Richard,  son  of  Walter  Earl  of  Ulster, 
son  of  Richard,  son  of  William  the  Conquerorp,  against  Connaught ;  and  he 
arrived  at  Roscommon,  where  Manus,  the  son  of  Conor  Roe,  King  of  Con- 
naught,  Fitzgerald,  and  the  people  of  the  king,  then  were,  all  of  whom  assem- 
bled 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,  1289. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  eighty-nine. 

Miles,  Bishop  of  Conmaicne",  that  is,  the  English  bishop,  and  Simon  O'Fin- 
naghty,  Erenagh  of  Elphin,  died. 

that  county,  sheet  132.  p  William  the  Conqueror This  was  William 

n  One  shot  of  an  arrow,  boen  upcup  poi  joe. —  Fitz  Adelm  de  Burgo,  who  was  called  the  Con 

In  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  queror,  because  he  was  said  to  have  conquered 

this  is  rendered  "  by  one  shot  of  an  arrow."  the  province  of  Connaught. 

0  The  Red  Earl. — He  was  the  second  Earl  of  q  Miles,  Bishop  of  Conmaicne,  i.  e.  of  Con- 
Ulster,  and  from  his  great  possessions  was  maicne  Moy-Rein  and  Annaly.  The  Conmaiqne 
esteemed  the  most  powerful  subject  in  Ireland,  were  the  OTarrells  and  Mac  Rannalls,  whose 
He  died  in  the  year  1326,  and  was  succeeded  by  territories  are  comprised  in  the  diocese  of  Ar- 
his  grandson,  William,  the  third  and  last  Earl  dagh.  This  bishop  is  called  Milo  de  Dunstable 
of  Ulster  of  this  family,  who  was  murdered  in  by  Ware,  who  states  that  he  took  that  name 
the  year  1333. — See  Lodge's  Peerage,  and  also  from  a  town  in  Bedfordshire,  where  he  seems 
the  pedigree  of  De  Burgo,  as  given  by  Duald  to  have  been  born. — See  Harris's  edition  of 
Mac  Firbis,  and  in  the  Historia  Families  De  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  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  ccon- 
cobaip  T?i  Connacc  Do  paighib  uf  maoilpeacloinn.  O  maoilpeaclainn  Do 
rionol  ma  najhaib  co  paimcc  cpoip  Shliab  cona  mumncip  i  ccompocpaib 
Doibpiorh.  pfpcap  lomaipeacc  fcoppa.  l?o  mapbab  piocapD  DiuiD  ann  .1. 
an  bapun  mop  cona  bpaicpib  •]  Siecup  6  ceallaij. 

piacpa  6  ploinn  caoipeac  pi  I  maoilpuam,  pfp  ba  pfpp  eneac  -]  fnjnarh  Do 
coipeachaib  Connacc  Do  Dul  Do  Dfnarii  clfrhnupa  le  jallaib  -|  a  mapbab  i 
meabail  la  mac  piocaiD  pir.n  bupc,  la  mac  uilliam  ~\  la  mac  peopaipp. 

Sloiccheao  mop  la  mac  peopaip  -|  la  gallaib  illaijnib  Docum  an  calbaig 
uf  Concotiaip.  T?o  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. 


r  Matthew  O'Sgingin. — The  family  of  O'Sging- 
in  were  originally  seated  at  Ardcarne,  in  the 
barony  of  Boyle,  and  county  of  Roscommon. 
A  branch  of  them  afterwards  passed  into  Tir- 
connell,  where  they  became  chroniclers  to  the 
O'Donnells.  This  branch  became  extinct  about 
the  year  1382,  and  were  succeeded  by  the 
O'Clerys — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs 
of  Hy-Fiachrack,  pp.  76,  77,  78. 

s  Clann-Chathail. — According  to  the  tradition 
in  the  county  of  Roscommon,  this  territory,  of 
which  O' Flanagan  was  the  chief,  extended  from 
Belanagare  to  Elphin  ;  and  the  O'Flanagan 
resided  at  Mointeach,  now  refined  to  Mantua. 
This  tradition  agrees  with  the  position  of  O'Fla- 
nagan on  "  Ortelius  Improved,"  and  is  corro- 
borated by  a  passage  in  these  Annals  under  the 
year  1601,  in  which  Elphin  is  mentioned  as  on 
the  confines  of  Moylurg,  Tir-Briuin,  Clann  Ca- 
thail,  and  Moy-Nai.  The  Abbe  Mageoghegan 
makes  this  territory  extend  all  the  way  from 
Elphin  to  Lough  Arrow,  which  is  a  silly  blun- 
der, for  Moylurg,  Mac  Dermot's  country,  lay 
between  them.  From  various  evidences  derived 


from  tradition  and  ancient  documents  it  appears 
that  Clann-Chathail,  O'Flanagan's  country, 
comprised  the  parishes  of  Kilmacumshy,  Kil- 
corkey,  and  Shankill,  and  the  greater  part  of 
the  parishes  of  Creeve  and  Elphin.  The  follow- 
ing places  were  in  it :  1st,  Scor-mor,  in  the 
parish  of  Kilmacumshy,  and  in  the  very  centre 
of  the  district,  now  called  the  Lathach  riabhach, 
the  present  traditional  name  for  O'Flanagan's 
country;  2nd,  Loch-na-ngasan,  which  cannot  be 
identified ;  3rd,  Kilnegoone,  in  O'Flanagan's 
country  "  did  belong  unto  the  Dominican  abbey 
of  Elphin,"  Inquis.  27,  Eliz. ;  4th,  Caldragh,  in 
the  parish  of  Shankhill, — Inquisition  tempore 
lac.  I,  finds  "  that  Cormac  O'Flenegan  of  Cal- 
dragh is  seised  of  fee  of  the  Cartrons  of  Caldragh 
and  Cloneboyoge ;"  5th,  Ballroddy,  said  by  tradi- 
tion 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 
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. 


1289.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


449 


Matthew  0'Sginginr,  chief  historian  of  Ireland,  died. 

Teige  O'Flanagan,  Chief  of  Clann-Chathail8,  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 
to  oppose  them,  and  marched  to  Crois-Shliabh',  in  their  vicinity.  A  battle  was 
fought  between  them,  in  which  Richard  Tuite,  i.  e.  the  Great  Baron,  with  his 
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  [the  Fair] 
Burke,  Mac  William,  and  Mac  Feorais  [Bermingham]. 

An  army  was  led  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 
English  were  slain ;  they  were  also  deprived  of  many  horses  and  other  spoils". 


Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise, 
as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  contain  the  two 
following  passages,  which  have  been  omitted  by 
the  Four  Masters : 

"A.  D.  1288.  There  were  fifteen  ecclesiasti- 
call  men,  both  Abbotts  and  Priours,  drownded 
this  year  coming  from  Rome,  upon  the  coasts  of 
Ireland. 

"  Donnell  Breagagh  O'Melaghlyn  was  killed, 
with  the  privitie  of  Carbrey  O'Melaghlyn,  by 
Melaghlyn  O'Melaughlyn." 

'  Crois-Shliabh. — This  name,  which  signifies 
cross-mountain,  is  now  obsolete  in  Westmeath, 
and  it  is  useless  to  conjecture  what  mountain  it 
was  the  name  of  until  some  distinct  evidence  of 
its  situation  be  discovered.  The  Annals  of 
Clonmacnoise,  which  would  probably  give  us 
the  exact  situation  and  modern  name  of  this 
place,  are  defective  at  this  period,  the  manu- 
script having  lost  ten  years,  i.  e.  from  1289  to 
1299,  before  Connell  Mageoghegan  had  trans- 
lated it  in  1627. 

u  Calvagh  O'Conor He  was  O'Conor  Faly, 


Chief  of  Ofialy  in  Leinster.  The  name  Calvagh 
is  now  anglicised  Charles. 

w  The  entries  placed  under  this  year  in  the  An- 
nals of  the  Four  Masters  are  given -under  the 
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 
which  they  are  rendered  as  follows : 

"A.  D.  1285,  d.  1289.  Teig  O'Flanegan, 
Chief  of  Clancathal,  died. 

"  Mathew  O'Skingin,  Arch-chronicler  of  all 
Ireland,  died. 

"  Miles,  Bishop  of  Conmaicne,  i.  e.  the  English 
Bishop,  died. 

"  Symon  O'Fynaghta,  Airchinech  of  Olfin, 
quievit. 

"  An  army  by  Richard  Tuit,  and  Galls  of 
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" 
M 


450  QNNaca  Rioshachua  eiReaNN.  [1291. 

CIOIS  CR1OSO,  1290. 
Qoip  Cpiopo,  mile,  Da  cerr,  nochace. 

O  Seoacdin  eppucc  cille  mic  Duaich  Do  ecc. 

Caipppi  6  maoileacloinn  T?i  miDe  an  macaom  bo  moijijiiiorhaije  in  Gpinri 
ina  aimpip  DO  riiapbaD  la  maj  cochlam. 

SloiccfD  la  Domnall  mac  bpiain  uf  nell  i  ccenel  neojain  $up  chuip 
ni all  culdnac  6  nell  ap  eccin  epDe  -\  cicchfpnup  cenel  neojain  Do  jaoail  Do 
pen  a  lop  a  lam. 

Qoo  mac  Domnaill  oicc  uf  Dorhnaill  DairpiojaD  Da  Dfpbpacaip  pen  Coinji- 
6ealBac  ua  Domnaill  cpe  cumaccaib  cimb  a  marop,  .1.  cloinm  Domnaill  -\ 
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. 
UoippDealbac  mac  Gojain  ui  Concobaip  aoinpfp  ba  mo  eneac,  fnjnam 
1  copccap  pe  a  linn  in  Gpinn  Do  mapbaD  la  mall  njealbui&e  6  cconcobaip. 

[Sil  mailpuanai^],  "  the  only  man"  [recte  the  Irishrie  of  Meath,   was   slain  by   David   Mac 

most  distinguished  man]  "in  liberality  and  feats,  Coghlan,  prince  of  Delvin  Mac  Coghlan.    David 

and  Comrick  that  was  in  Connaght"  [in  caen  himself  was  the  first  that  strocke  him  ;  his  bro- 

ouine  po  bpepp  emec  7  enjnotn  7  comaipce  ther  Gille-Koewgin  mac  Coghlan,  with  sixteen 

oo  bi  i  connaccmb],   "went  to  marry  one  of  others  of  the  Familie  of  the  Mac  Coghlans,  did, 

the  Galls,  that  he  [was]  killed  by  Makrickard  in  like  manner,  strike  him,  the  said  David  being 

Fin  Bourk,  Mac  William,    and  Makoruis,  by  a  Gossipp  of  the  said  Carbrey  before  ;  for  which 

murther.  cause  the  Earle  of  Ulster  spoyled  and  destroyed 

"  A   great   army   by  Makoruis   to   Cellagh  the  said  Mac  Coghlan  and  his  Contrey,   tho' 

O'Conner,   and  the  nobility  of  Leinster,   but  O'Melaghlyn  was  in  the  wrong  at  first. 

they  were  much  discomfited,    and  Meiler   de  "  Morrogh  O'Melaghlyn,  son  of  the  said  Car- 

Setra,  and  many  other  Galls,   and  many  horses,  brey,  succeeded  him  in  his  place.'' 

lost  by  him."  On  this  David  Mac  Coghlan  Mageoghegan  has 

x  Mac  Coghlan — This  entry  is  given  in  the  the  following  note : 

Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Ma-  "  This  David  Mac  Coghlan  (as  I  take  him  to 

geoghegan,  under  the  year  1289  :  "  A.  D.  1289.  be)  was  the  ancestor  of  Sleight  Donnell,  who 

Carbrey  mac  Art  O'Melaghlyn,    King  of  the  was  son  of  Donnell  himself,  and  father  of  Ffy- 


1291.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  451 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1290. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  ninety. 

O'Sedaghan,  Bishop  of  Kilmacduagh,  died. 

Carbry  O'Melaghlin,  King  of  Meath,  the  most  noble-deeded  youth  in  Ire- 
land in  his  time,  was  slain  by  Mac  Coghlan*. 

An  army  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. 

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  forcey. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1291. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  ninety-one. 

Edru  Magrath,  Abbot  of  the  monastery  of  the  Blessed  Trinity  in  Lough 
Key,  died. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Owen  O'Conor,  the  most  hospitable,  most  expert  at 
arms,  and  most  victorious  man  of  his  time  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  Duagh,  died. 

sept  of  Leackagh.     His  other  brother,   Rosse,  "  Carbre  O'Melaghlin,  King  of  Meath,  the 

was  the  ancestor  of  the  sept  of  Clondownie,  and  Roiallest  actor  that  was  in  Ireland  in  his  tyme, 

his  nephew,  Mac  Rosse,  of  the  sept  of  Boynean."  killed. 

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  to  kindred  Owen,  and  put  Nel  O'Nele  out  of 

of  the  Annals  of  Ulster.     The  old  translation  the  contry  by  force,  and  made  himself  king  by 

gives  both  dates  as  follows  :  strength  of  armes. 

"A.  D.  1286,  (d.  1290.  William  Brimingham  "Hugh   O'Donel  deposed  by  his   brother, 

made  Archbishop."      He  was   Archbishop   of  Tirlagh,  by  the  force  of  his  mother's  kindred, 

Tuam,  to  which  dignity  he  succeeded  in  1289,  viz.,    Clan   Donell,    and   many  other  Gallow- 

and  died  1311.     See  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  glasses." 

3  M2 


452  dNNdca  Rio^tiachca  eiraectNN.  [1291. 

Concobop  6  Duboa  (.1.  concobap  conallach)  cicchfpna  ua  ppiacpac  Do 
barab  ap  an  pionamn. 

Conjalac  vnacc  eochaccain  caoipec  cenel  ppiacac  DO  ecc. 

Sloicchfb  la  T?iocapo  t>upc  mpla  ulab  Da  ngoipn  an  ciapla  l?uab  i 
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  mac  ao&a  buiDe  ui  nell  a  huchc  an  mpla  ceDna 
le  mac  maipcin  "|  le  mac  Goin,  ~]  po  Diocuipeab  epiom  a  rip  eojain. 

Sluaiccfb  lap  an  lapla  i  cnp  conaill  Do  chum  roippbealb'aij  mic  Dorhnaill 
o'5i  5UP  cnpcc  an  cip  eDip  cill  -\  ruair.  Raimcc  mppin  50  hoil  pinn  i  ccori- 
nachoaib  -]  ruccpar  Connachoaij  i  mbpaijoe  Do. 

Comroccbail  Do  bfnam  DO  cacal  6  Concobaip,  Do  mall  jjelbuibe  ~\  Do 
luce  a  ccommbaba  eDip  jallaib  ~\  gaoibealaib  Daifpiojab  majnupa.  lomai- 
peacc  Do  cabaipr  Doib  Dia  poile  i  ccuil  maile.  Carol  Do  loc,  mupcab  mac 
caibj  DO  rhapbab  ~\  Sochaibi  nac  aipirhcfp.  ITlaibm  pop  majnup  Dana  -\ 
e  pen  Do  Dul  [ap]  po  laim  lap  mben  mopain  Dia  eachaib  be.  Cpeaca  mopa 
DO  bfnam  i  ccaipppi  DO  mumncip  cacail  uf  concobaip  -\  nell  jealbuibe  lap 
nguin  cacail.  Oala  majnupa  uiChoncobaip  rpa  lap  ccochcDoShiol  muipeab- 
aij  Dia  aop  jpaba  buben  -\  Do  jallaib  l?opa  commdm  ma  poipirin  apabapac 
mppan  maibm  DO  cuaib  inaipcip  na  ccpeac  50  ccapla  na  ccfnn  e  ap  ppaich 
an  pepain  ~\  ap  an  aonac.  Na  cpeaca  DO  buain  Dfob  ann  pin  -\  mall  DO 
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£- 
Dfnup.  IDopan  oile  Don  rpluacch  beop  eDip  gallaib  ~\  jaoibealaib  Do  map- 
bab -]  DO  mubujab.  Uochc  Do  mall  ip  in  cip  lappin  ap  pic  -j  a  pfpann  pen 
Do  cabaipc  Do.  Do  ponab  fDapcopaoiD  mop -j  lonnlach  aDbal  fcoppa  DO 
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  erril,   not  far  to  the  south  of  Bally  sadare;  and 

Connaught,  printed  for  the  Irish  Archaeological  it  appears  from  several  passages  in  these  Annals 

Society  in  1845,  it  is  stated  that  this  is  Killoony,  that  he  is  right. — See  note  at  the  year  1598. 

in  the  county  of  Sligo,  by  which  he  meant  the  a  Between  them,    fcopjin,    i.  e.    between    the 

present  village  of  Coloony,  in  the  barony  of  Tir-  parties  of  Cathal  and  Manns  O'Conor. 


1291.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  453 

Conor  O'Dowda  (i.  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 
Earl,  into  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 
country,  Niall  Culanagh  was  slain.  This  deed,  however,  was  not  a  fortunate 
one  for  Donnell;  for  Brian,  son  of  Hugh  Boy  O'Neill,  was  inaugurated,  by  the 
influence  of  the  said  Earl,  by  Mac  Martin  and  Mac  Eoin,  and  the  other  [Don- 
nell] was  banished  from  Tyrone. 

An  army  was  led  by  the  Earl  into  Tirconnell  against  Turlough,  son  of 
Donnell  Oge,  and  plundered  the  country,  as  well  ecclesiastical  as  lay  property. 
He  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]. 
They  gave  battle  to  each  other  at  Cuil-Mailez,  where  Cathal  was  wounded,  and 
Murrough,  son  of  Teige  [O'Conor],  and  many  others  not  enumerated  here,  were 
killed.  Manus  was  defeated,  and  secretly  effected  his  escape,  after  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-an- 
f  herain,  and  at  Aenach,  where  he  deprived  them  of  the  prey ;  but  Niall  made 
his  escape  by  dint  of  valour  and  prowess.  Thomas  Mac  Costello  was  slain,  and 
his  brother,  David  Mac  Costello,  taken  prisoner,  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 
own  lands  were  restored  to  him ;  but  great  complaints  and  dissensions  occurring 
between  them",  Niall  thought  fit  to  leave  the  country. 

Brian  O'Flynn  [O'Lyn],  Lord  of  Hy-Tuirtreb  died. 

b  Hy-Tuirtre — This  was  the  ancient  name  of     ing  to  the  east  of  Lough  Neagh.    See  note  *  ivn- 
a  territory  in  the  present  county  of  Antrim,  ly-      der  the  year  1 176,  p.  25,  where  the  parish  of  Kil- 


454 


emeaNN. 


[1292. 


Cpeach  mop  DO  oenarh  Do  majjnup  6  concobaip  ap  mall  jealbuibe. 
QoDh  6  pollamhain  DO  mapbaDh  no  DO  ecc. 

QO1S  CR1OSO,  1292. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  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. 

TTlaj  cochlain  cicchfpna  Dealbna  moipe  Do  rhapbaD  Do  Shipm  mac  peo- 
paip  cpe  pupailfm  an  lapia. 

Conjalach  6  ceallaijh  occfpna  bpfgh  [DO  ecc]. 


lead  is  inadvertently  said  to  be  a  part  of  this  ter- 
ritory. It  should  be  the  church  of  Kill-gad,  which 
stood  on  the  townland  now  corruptly  called  Gil- 
gad,  and  situated  in  the  parish  of  Connor. 

b  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 
appear  in  the  old  translation,  the  words  of 
which  are  here  inserted,  that  the  reader  may  be 
enabled  to  compare  the  translations  : 

"Anno  1287,  al.  1291.  Tirlagh  mac  Owen 
O'Conner,  the"  [largest]  "  most  beautifull  and 
best  of  liberality  and  otherwise  in  Ireland  of 
his  tyme,  killed  by  Nell  Galvoi  O'Conner. 

"  An  army  by  Richard  Bourk,  Earle  of 
Ulster,  into  Tyrone,  and  deposed  Donnell  mac 
Brian  O'Neale,  and  made  Nell  Culanagh  king  ; 
and  when  the  Earle  left  the  country,  Nell  Cu- 
lanagh 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 
Mac  Martin  and  Mac  Eoin  mac  Hugh  Boy 
O'Neale ;  and  Donell  left  the  contrey. 

"  An  army  by  the  Earle  into  Tirconell,  upon 


Tirlagh"  [O'Donnell],  "  and  preyed  the  contry 
spirituall  and  temporall,  and  came  into  Conaght 
to  Olfin,  and  Conaght  made  him  the  feast  of  St. 
Briget"  [cucaoup  connacca  pelbpaijoe  DO, 
i.  e.  the  Connacians  gave  him  treacherous  hos- 
tages]. 

"  Conor  O'Duvda,  King  of  Offieghragh, 
drowned  upon  the  Shannon. 

"  A  rising-out  gathered  by  Cathal  O'Coner 
and  Nel  Gelvoy,  and  all  that  they  could  pro- 
cure of  Galls  and  Irish,  to  depose  Magnus,  and 
were  interrupted  at  Cara  Culin"  [alias  Cul 
Maile],  "  where  Cathal  was  wounded,  and  Mo- 
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 
made  by  Cathal  O'Conor  and  Nell  Gelvoy" 
[after]  "  Cathal  being  wounded  at  Carbry;  and 
Manus  O'Coner, — when  Syl-Mureah,  i.  e.  (Sept- 
Mureah)  came  to  him  and  his  own  loving 
frends"  [a  aepa  jpaoa  pein],  "  with  the  Galls 
of  Roscomon  to  assist  him  on  the  morrow  after 
the  breach, — came  to  meete  the  prayes,  and 


1292.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


455 


A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  Manus  O'Conor  upon  Niall  Geal- 
bhuidhe. 

Hugh  OTallon  was  killed  (or  died"). 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1292. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  ninety-two. 

Aindiles  O'Doherty,  Chief  of  Ardmire,  a  man  of  universal  hospitality,  and 
Donough,  son  of  Owen  O'Conor,  died. 

Sorley  O'Gormly  was  slain  by  O'Neill. 

Niall  Gealbhuidhe  O'Conor  was  slain  by  Teige,  son  of  Andreas  O'Conor, 
and  Tuathal0,  son  of  Murtough. 

Mac  Coghlan,  Lord  of  Delvin  More",  was  slain,  by  order  of  the  Earl,  by 
Sinn  Mac  Feorais  [Birmingham]. 

Congalagh  O'Kelly',  Lord  of  Bregia,  died. 


overlooks  them  at  Srath  in  Ferain  and  Inagh, 
tooke  all  the  prayes  from  them,  and  Nell  him- 
self escaped  hardly"  [L  e.  with  difficulty]  ; 
"Thomas  O'Gosteloy"  [was]  "killed there,  and 
his  brother  David  taken  and  killed  in  the  same 
captivity,  and  many  more  of  that  army,  both 
English  and  Irish.  And  Neale  made  peace, 
came  into  the  country,  and  had  his  own  land 
given  him. 

"  Hugh  O'Fallon  quievit  in  Ckristo. 

"  Congalach  Mageoghegan,  chief  of  Kindred 
Fiegh,  mortuus  est." 

c  Tuathal. — This  name,  which  is  now  gene- 
rally anglicised  Toole,  is  rendered  Tully  in  the 
old  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster.  Thus  : 
"  Anno  1288,  al.  1292.  Nell  Galvoy  O'Coner 
killed  by  Teig  mac  Anrias  O'Coner,  and  by 
Tully  mac  Murtagh." 

''  Delvin  More. — This  is  a  mistake,  it  should 
be  Delvin-Eathra,  or  Delvin  simply.  The  en- 
try is  thus  given  in  the  Annals  of  Ulster : 
"  A.  D.  1288.  ITIaj  coclan  pi  oelbna  DO  map- 
bub  oa  ppn  mac  peopaip  cpe  popjoll  an 


lapla."  And  thus  rendered  in  the  old  transla- 
tion :  "Anno  1288,  al.  1292.  Mac  Coghlan, 
King  of  Delvin,  killed  by  Seffin  Brimingham, 
at  the  Earle's  request." 

e  CortgcdaghO'KeUy. — Though  he  is  here  styled 
Lord  of  Bregia,  it  is  highly  probable  that  he  re- 
tained but  a  small  portion  of  his  principality,  as 
the  English  were  at  this  period  firmly  establish- 
ed in  Dublin  and  Meath.  This  once  great  fa- 
mily, who  descended  from  Hugh  Slaine,  son  of 
Dermot  Mac  Kervell,  monarch  of  Ireland,  have 
been  since  so  dispersed  that  they  cannot  now 
be  distinguished  from  the  O'Kellys  of  other 
races  and  districts.  Connell  Mageoghegan,  who 
translated  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  in  the 
year  1627,  has  the  following  curious  remarks 
upon  this  family  and  their  territory  of  Bregia  or 
Moybrea,  under  the  year  778 :  "  To  the  end  that 
the  reader  may  not  be  ignorant  of  Moybrea  and 
the  inhabitants  thereof,  I  will,  in  a  few  words, 
shew  the  bounds  thereof,  and  to  whom  it  was 
allotted.  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,  -]  po  imcigh  gan  bpaijOe  gan  neapc  Don  rupup  pin,  50  po  Ifn 
TTlajpiiip  an  napla  50  TTHliuc  50  crapD  a  oijfpip  nDo. 


QO1S  C1710SC,  1293. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  Da  ceo,  nochac,  a  rpi. 

plopinc  o  cfpballdin  eppocc  Doipe  oecc. 

Uaipi  parpaig,  Coluim  cille,   -\  bpijDe  Do  poillpiuccab  DO  Niocol  mac 


issue  Hugh  Slane,  Colman  More,  and  Colman 
Begg.  To  the  race  of  Hugh  was  allotted  this 
Moyvrey,  extending  from  Dublinn  to  Bealagh- 
brick,  westerlie  of  Kells,  and  from  the  hill  of 
Houthe  to  the  mount  of  Sliew  Fwayde  [Sliub 
puuib]  in  Ulster.  There  reigned  of  King  Hugh 
his  race  as  monarchs  of  this  kingdom  nine  kings, 
as  shall  be  shewed  when  I  come  to  the  place 
where  remembrance  ought  to  be  made  of  them. 

"  There  were  many  other  princes  of  Moyvrey 
besides  the  said  kings,  and  behaved  themselves 
as  becomed  them,  and  because  they  were  neerer 
the  invasions  of  the  land  than  other  Septs, 
they  were  sooner  banished  and  brought  low  than 
others.  The  O'Kelly  of  Brey  was  the  chief 
name  of  that  race,  though  it  hath  many  other 
names  of  by-septs,  which,  for  brevity's  sake,  I 
omit  to  particulate.  They  are  brought  so  low  now- 
a-days  that  the  best  Chronicles  in  the  kingdom 
are  ignorant  of  their  Discents,  though  the  O' Kel- 
ly's are  so  common  every  where  that  it  is  unknown 
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  know- 
eth  not  [sic]  the  name  of  his  own  great  grand- 
father, and  are  turned  to  be  meer  churles,  and 
poore  labouring  men,  so  as  scarse  there  is  a  few 
parishes  in  the  kingdom  but  hath  some  one  or 
other  of  those  Kellys ;  I  mean  of  Brey." 

f  The  relict  of  Patrick,  Columbkitte,  and  Brid- 


get.— This  passage  is  given  in  the  Dublin  copy 
of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  under  the  year  1289, 
but  in  the  old  translation  both  dates  are  given, 
thus:  '•'•Anno  1289  al.  1293.  The  bones  of  Pa- 
trick, Columbkill,  and  Bridget,  [were]  revealed 
to  Nichol  Mac  Moilisa,  coarb  of  Patrick,  to  be 
in  Patrick's  Saval,  and  [he]  digged  them  up, 
and  after  they  were  digged  many  miracles  were 
sayd  to  be  made  [sic]  and  he  did  save  them  up 
in  a  saving  Shryne  honourably."  The  original 
Irish  runs  as  follows  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the 
Annals  of  Ulster  : 

"  A.  D.  1289 Cair-p   pabpaic    j   Colum 

cille  i  6pi5De  DO  poillf  mjao  DO  nicol  mac 
rnailippu,  DO  comapba  paopaic,  DO  beir  i 
Saoull  parpaic,  j  a  cojbail  DO,  7  lap  no  coj- 
bail  pepca  mopn  7  mipbuileaoa  DO  Denum,  7 
a  cup  Dopun  a  pcpm  cutnoaij  co  honopac." 
It  is  very  strange  that  no  reference  has  been 
made  to  this  passage  in  any  of  the  discussions 
about  the  jreal  place  of  St.  Patrick's  sepulture. 
According  to  Giraldus  Cambrensis,  in  his  Topo- 
graphia  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. 
In  the  Office  of  the  Translation  of  the  Relics  of  SS. 
•  Patrick,  Columba,  and  Brigida,  printed  at  Paris 
in  1620,  and  reprinted  by  Colgan,  Messingham, 
and  Ussher,  a  minute  account  of  their  discovery 


1293.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


457 


An  army  was  led  b/y  the  Red  Earl  against  Manus  O'Conor;  and  he  arrived 
at  Roscommon,  but  departed  without  obtaining  hostages  or  acquiring  any  power 
by  this  expedition.  Manus,  however,  followed  the  Earl  to  Meelick,  and  gave 
him  his  full  demands. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1293. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  ninety-three. 

Florence  O'Carolan,  Bishop  of  Derry,  died. 

It  was  revealed  to  Nicholas  Mac  Maelisa  (Coarb  of  StPatrick)  that  the  relicsf 


in  1 1 85  is  given,  and  which  has  been  abstracted 
by  Dr.  Lanigan  in  his  Ecclesiastical  History  of 
Ireland,  vol.  iv.  p.  274,  et  sequen.  The  substance 
of  it  is  as  follows :  It  being  generally  believed 
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 
church  of  Down,  he  saw  a  light  like  a  sunbeam 
traversing  the  church  :  on  seeing  this  he  prayed 
more  intensely  that  it  might  move  to  and  stop 
at  the  spot  where  the  bodies  were  interred.  [De 
visione  predicts  Episcopus  multum  exultans 
intensius  orabat  ne  radius  ille  discederet,  quous- 
que  reliquias  absconditas  inveniret].  The  light 
soon  moved  to  the  spot.  Immediately  procuring 
the  necessary  implements,  Malachy  dug  that 
irradiated  spot  and  found  the  bones  of  the  three 
bodies,  which  he  deposited  in  distinct  boxes  or 
coffins,  and  placed  again  under  the  ground. 
Having  communicated  his  discovery  to  John  de 
Courcy,  then  Lord  of  Down,  they  determined 
on  sending  messengers  to  Pope  Urban  III.  for 
the  purpose  of  procuring  the  translation  of  these 
relics  to  a  more  dignified  part  of  the  church. 
The  Pope,  agreeing  with  their  request,  sent  as 
his  legate  on  this  occasion  Vivian,  cardinal  priest 
of  St.  Stephen  in  Monte  Caelio,  who  had  been  at 

3 


Down  about  nine  years  before,  and  who  had 
been  acquainted  with  Sir  John  de  Courcy  and 
the  Bishop  Malachy.  On  his  arrival  the  relics 
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 
been  pointed  out  by  an  angel  at  Glastonbury 
the  year  before.  See  Ussher's  Primordia,  p.  892. 
But  the  most  extraordinary  circumstance  con- 
nected with  the  history  of  the  relics  of  the  Trias 
Thaumaturge  is,  that  the  Irish  annalists,  that 
is,  such  as  wrote  in  the  Irish  language,  do  not 
appear  to  have  ever  heard  of  the  discovery  of 
them  by  Malachy  in  1185,  and  hence  it  is  but 
fair  to  conclude  that  Malachy 's  dream  at  Down 
was  got  up  by  the  English  party  in  order  to  add 
dignity  to  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 
this  story  of  their  discovery  at  Down,  in  1185; 
for,  if  they  had  been  deposited  in  a  costly  shrine 
at  Down  in  1185,  as  stated  by  Giraldus,  it  is 
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 
in  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, 

N 


458  ctNNata  Rio^hachca  eirceanR  [1293. 

maoilipu  (comapba  parjiaicc)  Do  bfic  i  Saball,  a  croccbonl  laip,  pfpca 
mopa  -]  miopbaile  Do  Denarii  Doib  laparh  ~]  a  ccup  i  Sccpin  lap  na  cumDac  50 
honopach  ap  a  haicle. 

TTlupcaD  o  TTlaoileclainn  T?i  miDe  Decc. 

TTlajnap  6  concobaip  T?f  connachr,  pfp  cojrac  conjalac  ba  moa  gpdin 
gaipcceab,  "|  pun  oinij  Do  jaoibelaib  Gpeann  ina  aimpp  Decc,  lap  mbfir 
pdiche  i  ngalap  Do,  i  CtoD  mac  eojain  Do  pijao  ina  lonab  cpia  neapr  an 
lupcip,  i  an  oeachmab  la  mp  na  oipDneaD,  po  jabab  eip&e  la  TTlac  geapailc, 
1  po  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 
piji  Connacc  Do  gabail  Do  cpe  nfpc  an  lupciy1  -\  mumcipe  an  pigb.  Q 
jabail  Do  mac  <5fyai^c  i  meabail  an  ofchmaD  la  mp  na  piojab.  Cpeacha 
mopa  DO  Denarii  aip,  ~\  caocca  Da  muinnp  Do  rhapbab. 

pfpjal  ua  Raijillij  ciccfpna  mumcipe  maoilmopDa  Decc. 

ITlop  msfn  pCiolimib  ui  concobaip  Decc. 


to  whom  it  was  pointed  out  in  a  vision.    It  seems  here  by  St.  Patrick  having  received  the  appella- 

tlierefore  quite  clear  that  the  discovery  of  them  tion  of  paball  or  barn  is,   that  it  was  built 

at  Down  in  1  1  85  was,  like  the  prophecy  of  Merlin,  after  the  form   and   position   of  the   barn   of 

already  alluded  to  under  the  year  1  177,  a  scheme  Dichu,  St.  Patrick's  first  convert;  but  Dr.  La- 

of  Sir  John  De  Courcy  and  his  writers,  and  that  nigan  thinks  that  it  was  originally  nothing  else 

their  discovery  at  Saul  in  1  293  was  a  counter-  than  a  real  barn  belonging  to  Dichu,   in  which 

scheme  of  Nicholas  Mac  Maelisa,  who  was  one  of  St.  Patrick  celebrated  divine  worship,   "  in  the 

the  greatest  opposers  of  the  English  that  ever  same  manner,"  he  adds,  "  as  even  in  our  own 

governed  the  see  of  Armagh.    It  may,  however,  time  barns  have  been  used  in  Ireland  for  the 

have  happened  that  both  bishops  had  dreamed  same  purpose."  —  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Ire- 

of  bones,  and  that  bones  were  found  at  both  places,  land,  vol.  i.  pp.  212,  213. 

8  Sabhatt,  now  Saul,  a  small  village  situated          h  Manus  O*  Conor,  King  of  Connaught.  —  The 

about  two  miles  to  the  east  of  Downpatrick,  in  language  of  this  and  the  subsequent  entries  is 

the  county  of  Down.     The  name  of  this  place  is  nearly  the  same  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  An- 

usually   written   in    Irish    Saball    phtiopuij,  nals  of  Ulster,  as  in  the  text  of  the  Four  Mas- 

which  the  monastic  Latin  writers  rendered  Za-  ters,  and  are  thus  rendered  in  the  old  transla- 

bulum  vel  Ilorreum  Patricii,  i.  e.,  Patrick's  barn,  tion:   "  Anno  1289,  al.  1293.    Manus  O'Conor, 

See  Ussher's  Primodia,  p.  847-     The  reason  as-  king  of  Conaght  for  the  time  of  five  years  and  a 

signed  by  these  writers  for  the  church  erected  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  valiant  man,  the  most 
victorious,  puissant,  and- hospitable  of  the  Irish  of  his  time,  died,  having  been 
ill  a  quarter  of  a  year;  and  Hugh,  son  of  Owen,  was  inaugurated  his  successor, 
through  the  influence  of  the  Lord  Justice;  but  on  the  tenth  day  after  his  elec- 
tion he  was  taken  prisoner  by  Fitzgerald,  and  some  of  his  people  were  slain, 
and  others  plundered. 

Cathal  O' Conor  was  slain  by  Rory,  son  of  Donough  Reagh. 

Cathal  Roe  O'Conor,  having  made  a  prisoner  of  Hugh,  son  of  Owen,  as- 
sumed the  kingdom  of  Connaught,  but  was  killed  a  quarter  of  a  year  afterwards 
by  Rory,  son  of  Donough  Reagh  O'Conor.  Hugh,  son  of  Owen,  afterwards 
received  his  liberty,  and,  aided  by  the  power  of  the  Lord  Justice1  and  the  peo- 
ple of  the  king  [of  England]  took  possession  of  the  kingdom  of  Connaught ; 
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. 

frend[ly]  and  warlike,  most  liberall  and  ventu-  Justice,  and  the  King's  army,  and  the  tenth 

rous  in  his  time  of  the  Irish,  sick  a  whole  quarter  day  of  his  raigne  was  treacherously  made  cap- 

of  a  year,  died.  tive  by  Mac  Geralt,  and  50  of  his  men  killed, 

"  Cathal  O'Conor  [was]  killed  by  Rory  mac  and  great  prayes  made  uppon  him. 

Donogh  Rievagh.  "  Ferall  O'Rely,  King  of  Muinter  Mulmora, 

"  Cathal  Roe  O'Connor  taking  the  kingdome  died. 

of  Connaght,  having  taken  Hugh  mac  Owen,  "  More,  daughter  to  Felim  O'Conor,  quievit. 

and   the  same   Cathal   [was]    killed   after  one  "  Murtagh  O'Flanaga-      _,uef  of  Clann  Ca  - 

quarter  by  Roary  mac  Donogh  Rievagh  O'Conor,  thai,  quievit. 

and  Hugh  mac  Owen  set  at  liberty  and  tooke  the  "  Tully  mac   Murtagh  [O'Coner]  killed  by 

kingdome  of  Conaght  by  the  power  of  the  Deputy.  Munter  Egra." 

"The  castle  of  Sligo,  made  by  John  Fitz  '  Lord  Justice.— He   was  William   de  Vescy 

Thomas,  and  [he]  went  over  to  the  King  of  Eng-  who  is  celebrated  in  English-Irish  history  for  his 

land's  house  [Cair-len  Sligij  DO  oenum  DO  Seon  dissensions  with  John  Fitz  Thomas  Fitz  Gerald, 

pizcomap,  7  a  oul  caipif  co  cec  pij  Sqian],  Baron  of  Ofialey. 

"  Hugh  mac  Owen  O'Conner  tooke  the  king-  k  Taken  prisoner  by  Fitzgerald — This  is  ano- 

dome  of  Conaght  through  the  power   of  the  ther  version  of  the  second  last  entry. 

3  N2 


460  dNNata  Rio^hachca  eiraecwN.  [1294. 

TT)ui]icf|icach  o  plarmaccain  cijfpna,  no  caoipeac,  cloinne   cacail  becc. 
Uuacal  mac  TTluipcf|)cai5  ui  Concobaip  DO  majibab  la  muincip  6jpa. 
Caiplen  Sliccigh  Do  cabaipc  DO  Seon  piczrhomap,  ~]  Seon  bubDfin  Do  6ol 
550  Saproibh. 

QO1S  CR1OSC,  1294. 
Goip  Cpiopc,  mile,  6a  ceo,  nochac  a  cfchaip. 

Cpeacha  mopa  DO  benom  la  hae6  mac  eojam  ap  cloinn  niuipcfpcaij. 

ITluipcfpcach  mac  majnapa  ui  concobaip  aDbap  coiccfoaig  DO  bpeapp 
Da  cinfo  DO  mapbab  Do  CODJ  (.1.  caDg  ua  concobaip)  ~\  DO  Dorhnall  mac 
caiDj. 

TTlaoileaclainn  6  plannaccam  caoipeac  cloinne  cacail  Do  mapbaD  la 
cacal  mac  raiDcc  meic  DiapmaDa  ap  SpdiD  pliccigh.  Cacal  mac  caiog  meic 
DiapmaDa  ci^eapria  moije  luipcc  Decc  lap  pin,  -\  TTlaolpuanaiD  mac  jiolla- 
cpipr  meic  DiapmaDa  Do  jabhail  a  lonaiD. 

Donnchao  mac  Conpnarha  raoipeac  muincipe  cionaoir,  Ouapcan  mac 
cijeapnam  cijfpna,  no  caoipeac  ceallaij  Dunchaba,  -\  Oeapbpail  mjfn  camg 
mic  cacail  meic-  Diapmaca  Decc. 

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. 

1  Went  to  England — It  is  said  that  he   was  a  report  professing  to  be  faithful  is  preserved  by 

summoned  to  England  on  this  occasion,  to  an-  Holingslied  ;  but  it  is  to  be  suspected  that  the 

swer  to  certain  charges  tendered  against  him  by  speeches  put   into  their  mouths  by  that  rude 

William  de  Vescy,  Lord  ot'Kildare.  See  Grace's  chronicler,  were  pure  inventions  of  his  own,  or 

Annals  at  the  year  1 294.     The  feud  between  founded  on  very  slender  materials.   For  example, 

these  noblemen  would  appear  to  have  originated  the  following  replication  of  De  Vescy :   "  '  A  gen- 

in  a  dispute  about  their   estates,  as  Vescy,  in  tleman !'   quoth  the  Lord  Justice,    '  thou  bald 

right  of  his  mother  Agues,  one  of  the  daughters  Baron,  I  tell  thee,  theVescies  were  gentlemen  be- 

of  Sibilla,  Countess  of  Ferrers  (to  whom,  as  one  fore  the  Giraldins  were  Barons  of  Ophaly ;  yea, 

of  the  sisters  of  the  Earl  Marshal,  the   county  and  before  that  Welsh  bankrupt  thine  ancestor 

ofKildare  was  assigned),  became  entitled  to  a  feathered  his  nest  in  Leinster!' "    The  pleadings 

seventh  part  ofKildare.     Being  both  admitted  ended  in  a  combat  which  was  offered  by  the  Baron 

to  plead  their  cause  before  the  King,  in  council,  of  Offaley,   and  which  his  antagonist  accepted  ; 

they  there  showered  upon  each  other  speeches  but  when  the  day  approached  for  the  battle,  De 

lull  of  vulgar  abuse  and  recrimination,  of  which  Vescy,    il  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  England1. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1294. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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 ;  and  Mulrony,  the  son  of  Gil- 
chreest  Mac  Dermot,  assumed  his  place. 

Donogh  Mac  Consnavam,  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  was  razed  by  Hugh,  son  of  Owen  O'Conor. 

Richard  Burke,  i.  e.  the  Red  Earl,  was  taken  prisoner  by  Fitzgerald,  in 
consequence  of  which  all  Ireland  was  thrown  into  a  state  of  disturbance. 

began  to  cry  creak"  [craven]  "  and  secretly  sailed  and  county  of  Kildare,  to  wit,  every  thing  he  had 
into  France."  It  is  added  that  "  King  Edward  or  could  have  in  Ireland,  and  the  King  directed 
being  advertised  thereof,  bestowed  De  Vescy's  his  Justiciary,  John  Wogan,  to  take  possession 
lordships  of  Kildare  and  Kathangan  on  the  Ba-  of  them.  Rot.  Cane.  Antiq.  45,  46.  Kildare  re- 
ron  of  Offaley;  saying,  that  albeit  De  Vescy  mained  in  the  King's  hands  until  the  14th  of 
conveyed  his  person  to  France,  yet  he  left  his  May,  1316,  when  Edward  II.,  by  Letters  Patent, 
lands  behind  him  in  Ireland."  See  Cox's  Hi-  declared  thathe had  granted  to  JohnFitz- Thomas 
hernia  Anfflicana,  p.  84,  and  Moore's  History  of  "  castrum  et  villam  de  Kildare,  cum  terris,  red- 
1  reland,  voL  iii.  p.  39.  These  stories  of  Holing-  ditibus,  et  aliis  pertinentiis,  sub  honore  et  no- 
shed should  not,  however,  be  regarded  as  true  mine  Comitis  de  Kildare,  ipsurnque  prsefecisse 
history  without  being  supported  by  contempora-  in  comitem  ejusdem  loci." — See  Lodge's  Peerage, 
neous  writers,  for  he  is  by  no  means  a  trust-  by  Archdall — KILDARE. 

worthy  authority.    In  1297,  William  De  Vescy          m  MacConsnava. — Now  anglicised  Mac Kinaw, 

surrendered  to  King  Edward  the  castle,  manor,  and  often  incorrectly  Forde. 


462  QNNaca  Rio^hachca  eiraeaNN.  [1295. 


TTloipcpfch  meabla  t»o  Denarh  Do  mac  jeapailc  -|  Do  mac  pfopaip  ap 
connaccaib.  dob  mac  Gojain  Do  pamluccab  Dairpioghab  Doib.  Qn  cfp  Do 
rhillfoh,  i  sibfb  nocap  cuippfc  DO  nfpc  uippe  ace  a  combuaibpeab  arhlaib. 

Oauie  mac  giolla  appaic  Do  mapbab  Do  rhacaib  Dorhnaill  Duib  vri  Gajpa. 

Oomnall  ua  hfjpa  nccfpna  luijne  DO  ecc. 

Qn  napla  Do  jabdil  la  mac  jeapailc,  -j  buai6pea6  Gpeann  uite  Do  cecc 
cpep  an  ngabdil  pin. 

Oiapmaice  6  cafrhdin  DO  ecc. 

CIOIS  CR1OSC,  1295. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceo,  nochac,  a  cuig. 


Qn  ciapla  puab  Do  Ificcfn  ap  a  bpaijDfnup  Do  mac  5eaPa1^c  cl'e  T1^PC 
T?ij  Sajcan,  -|  bpaijDe  maice  Da  cmfb  pfin  Do  jabail  app. 

bpian  mac  Qoba  bui&euf  neill  ciccfpna  cinel  eojain  Do  mapbab  Do  Dom- 
nall mac  bpiain  uf  neill,  ~\  ap  mop  Do  cop  ap  jallaib  -|  ap  jaoibealaib 
amaille  pip. 

Coimeipje  coccam  i  ccfp  conaill  eiDip  Qo6  mac  Dorhnaill  oicc,  -|  coipp- 
bealbac  a  bfpbparaip  imon  cijfpnup  gup  milleab  mopan  Don  cfp  fcoppa  enp 
ecclaip  i  chuaic.  UoippbealbacDaicpiojab  mppin,  "|  aaccop  a  cfp  conaill, 
i  ccfnn  cenel  eojain  ~\  cloinne  Domnaill. 

Oomnall  ua  ceallaij  cijfpna  ua  maine,  aon  ba  glioca  comaiple  ina  aim- 
pip  Decc  in  aibfo  manaij,  ~\  a  abnacal  i  maimpnp  cnuic  muaibe. 

TTlac  bpandin  (.1.  co'nn)  raoipech  cope  achlann  Decc.  Uomalrac  mac 
bpandin  an  caoipeac  Do  ponab  ma  lonaD  Do  mapbab  la  muincip  conalldin. 
a  nDfojail  a  nacap  Do  mapbab  laippium  peaccpiamh. 

n  A  state  of  disturbance.  —  This  general  distur-  Annals,  Richard  Earl  of  Ulster  was  taken  pri- 

bance,  "  propter  capcionem  Kicardi  de  Burgo  soner  "  cito  postfestum  S.  Nicolaf  (Dec.  6)  and 

Comitis  Ultonie  per  Johannem  filium  Thome,"  detained  in  the  castle  of  Lea,  "adfestum  S.  Gre- 

is  mentioned  in  an  entry  in  Rot.  Pat.  13  Ed.  II.  gorii  Papae'"'  (March  12).  It  is  stated  in  Grace's 

80.  —  See  Grace's  Annals  of  Ireland,  edited  by  Annals  of  Ireland  that  the  Earl  of  Ulster  was  set 

the  Rev.  Richard  Butler,  for  the  Irish  Archae-  at  liberty  on  this  occasion  by  the  King's  Parlia- 

ological  Society  in  1842,  p.  43,  notem.  ment  at  Kilkenny,  and  that  John  Fitz-Thomas, 

0  CfCaomhain  —  See  note  '  under  the  year  as  a  penalty,  lost  the  castle  of  Sligo  and  all  his 

1208,  p.  160.  possessions  in  the  province  of  Connaught,  and 

p  The  Red  Earl  —  According  to  Pembridge's  also  the  castle  of  Kildare. 


1295.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  463 

A  great  depredation  was  treacherously  committed  upon  the  Connacians  by 
Fitzgerald  and  Mac  Feorais  [Birmingham].  Hugh,  son  of  Owen,  was  attempted 
to  be  deposed  by  them.  The  country  was  desolated;  yet,  though  they  thus 
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  cap- 
ture Ireland  was  thrown  into  a  state  of  disturbance". 

Dermot  O'Caomhain0  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1295. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  ninety-Jive. 

The  Red  Earl"  was  let  out  of  prison  by  Fitzgerald,  through  the  power  of  the 
King  of  England  ;  and  good  hostages  of  his  own  tribe  were  received  in  his 
stead. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Hugh  Boy  O'Neill,  Lord  of  Kinel-Owen,  was  slain  by 
Donnell,  the  son  of  Brian  O'Neill,  and  a  great  slaughter  made  of  the  English 
and  Irish  [who  were]  along  with  him. 

Hostilities  broke  out  in  Tirconnell  between  Hugh,  son  of  Donnell  Oge,  and 
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  monas- 
tery of  Knockmoy. 

Mac  Branan  (i.  e.  Con),  Chief  of  Corcachlann,  died;  and  Tomaltagh  Mac 
Branan,  who  was  elected  his  successor,  was  slain  by  the  Muintir-Conallanq,  in 
revenge  of  their  father,  who  had  been  killed  by  him  some  time  before. 

i  Muintir-Conallan,  i.  e.,  the   family  of  the  from  the  O'Quinlans  of  Iveleary  near  Trim,  in 

O'Conallan's,  who  were  located  in  the  Plain  of  Meath,   and  from  the  O'Coinghiollains,  or  Con- 

Connaught,  to  the  west  of  the  territory  of  Core-  nellans,  who  are  now  numerous  in  the  county  of 

achlann.     This  family  are  to  be  distinguished  Sligo. 


464  aNNata  Rio^hachca  eiraeaNR  [1296. 

Caiplen  an  bmle  nuf,  -]  Caiplen  moighe  bpecpoije  Do  leccaoh  la.  Seapp- 
paib  obpfpjail,  -]  caiplen  rhuige  Duma  DO  Ifgab  laip  map  an  ccfcna. 

QO1S  GR1OSC,  1296. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceo,  nochac,  ape. 

5'olla  lopa  mac  an  liacdnaij  eappucc  oilipinn  -\  ITlaolpfoaip  6  Duibjfn- 
nam  aipooeocam  na  bpeipne  o  bpuimcbab  50  cfnannup  Decc. 

Qob  macGojain  uf  Concobaip  Dairpiojab  la  a  oipecc  pfin.  ClannTTIhuip- 
cfpcaij  Do  cabaipc  ma  lonab.  Q  ccfannup  DO  rabaipe  Doib  Do  concobap 
puab  mac  cacail,  •]  a  mbjiaijoe.  Gn  cfp  uile  eicip  cill-|  ruair  Do  milleab 
cpep  an  aichpioghab  pin.  TTIoppluaicceab  Do  nonol  im  Qob  6  cconcobaip  Do 
jjallaib  i  gaoibelaib  im  Uilliam  bupc,  -\  im  cepoiD  a  bujic  50  ccucc  Don  cfp 
mcc  50  mbacap  cfirpe  laice  cona  roibcib  ga  milleab  ~|  50  mop  apccain  ecip 
cpob  i  apbap.  Ceccaic  caoipi£  na  cfpe  ina  cfnn  lap  pin,  -|  puce  Ifip  iaD 
Do  laraip  an  lapla  Do  Denarh  pice  piu.  Oala  cloinne  TTluipcfpcaig  cpa  po 
loipccpiocc  -|  po  millpiocc  cpfoc  Caipppe  uile,  -|  Do  cuaibpiocc  po  a  cfm- 
plaib.  51O^°  P°  t>iojail  Dia,  TTluipe,  -|  colum  cille  pa  cfmpail  po  pdpaigh- 
piocc  pin  oppa  50  liarjoipicc  ap  a  haicle. 

Imcupa  na  ccaoipeac  pempdice  lap  njeallab  Doib  oijpfip  Qoba  Do 
benam  po  cillpiocc  Dia  ccijib,  -\  ni'p  anpac  a  mbun  a  pioccdna  oQob  uaip  Do 

• 

p  Batte-nui,   L  e.   Newtown — According  to  ruins,  lies  in  the  townland  of  Bawn  and  parish 

Grace's  Annals  of  Ireland,  which  contain  more  of  Moydoe;  it  is  surrounded  by  a  fosse.     There 

copious  and  more  authentic  information  respect-  are  two  ruins  of  castles  in  the  parish  of  Moydoe 

ing  Leinster  than  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Mas-  in  this  county,  one  called  Bawn  and  the  other 

ters,  this  castle  is  in  the  county  of  Wicklow,  and  Castlereagh,  each  giving  its  name  to  a  townland; 

that  called  Newcastle  M'Kynegan.  but  it  is  not  easy  now  to  decide  which  of  them 

q  Magk-Breacruighe. — There  is  no  place  in  the  is  the  one  here  referred  to  as  demolished  in  the 

county  of  Longford   now  called  by  this  name,  year  1295.     A  great  part  of  Castlereagh  is  yet 

unless  Barry  be  a  corruption  of  it.     Barry  is  a  standing  in  tolerable  preservation, 
village  in  the  parish  of  Taghshinny,  near  Bally-          s  The  Clann-Murtoiigh. — These  were  the  de- 

niahon,  where  the  ruins  of  a  castle  are  now  to  scendants  of  Murtough  or  Muircheartach  Muimh- 

be  seen.  neach,  son  of  Turlough  More  O'Conor,  Monarch 

T  Magh-Dumha — Now  Moydoe,  or  Moydow,  of  Ireland. 

the  name  of  a  parish  and  barony  in  the  county          c  Conor  Roe. — He  was  Conor  Roe,  the  son  of 

of  Longford.     The  castle  of  Moydoe,   now  in  Cathal,   who  was  son  of  Hugh  Breifneach,  who 


1296.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  465 

The  castle  of  Baile-nuip  and  the  castle  of  Magh-Breacruigheq  were  razed  to 
the  ground  by  Jeffrey  O'Ferrall ;  and  the  castle  of  Magh-Dumhar  was  also 
demolished  by  him. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1296. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  ninety-six. 

Gilla-Isa  Mac-an-Liathanaigh,  Bishop  of  Elphin,  and  Maelpeter  O'Duigen- 
nan,  Archdeacon  of  Breifny,  from  Drumcliff  to  Kells,  died. 

.Hugh,  the  son  of  Owen  O'Conor,  was  deposed  by  his  own  tribe,  and  the 
Clann-Murtough1  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  the  country,  as  well  ecclesi- 
astical as  lay  property,  was  spoiled.  A  great  force  was  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], 
and  he  led  them  to  the  Earl,  in  order  to  conclude  a  peace  with  them.  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  for  this  shortly  after- 
wards. 

As  for  the  aforementioned  chieftains,  after  they  had  promised  submission  to 
Hugh,  they  returned  to  their  [respective]  homes;  but  they  did  not  remain  long 

was  son  of  Cathal  Roe,  King  of  Connaught  in  deposing.     All  Crich  Carbre  burnt  and  spoyled 

1279,  who  was  son  of  Conor  Eoe,  who  was  son  by  Clan  Murtagh,  and  [they]  rifled  the  churches 

of  Murtough  Muimhneach,  who  was  son  of  Tur-  of  the  con  try ;  and  God  and  Columb-Kill,  and 

lough  More  O'Conor,  Monarch  of  Ireland.     This  our  Lady  Mary,   whose   churches   they  rob'd, 

passage  is  given  in  the  old  translation  of  the  were  revenged  on  them.  Conor  Roe  mac  Cathall 

Annals   of  Ulster  as  follows:  "  Anno  1292,  al.  killed  by  Mac  Dermott  prosecuting  a  pray,  and 

1296.     Hugh  mac  Owen  O'Conner  deposed  by  Loughlin  mac  Conner  taken.     Manus  mac  To- 

his  own   subjects,  and  Clan  Murtagh   brought  malti  taken,  and  other  men  killed.     This  was 

into  the  contery  in  his  place.     Pledges  given  to  done  at  the  end  of  Keda"  [now  Keadew  in  the 

Conner  Roe  mac  Cathall,  and  all  the  country,  both  barony  of  Boyle],  "in  Tyrtohall.  Hugh  O'Con- 

spirituall  and  temporal!,  spoyled  through  that  her,  Mac  Dermot,  O'Farrall,  and  these  men  made 

3  o 


466  aNNac.a  Rio^hachca  eiraeciNN.  [1297. 

gabpac  le  cloinn  muipcfpcaijj  Dopi&ipi.  GOD  mac  eojam  Do  cecc  ip  na 
cuacaib  annpin,  6  pfpjail  ~|  mace  Rajnaill  cona  nimipcib  Do  cabaipc  leip 
DO,  cecca  DO  cop  uaib  DO  paijipb  meic  Diapmaca  -|  ui  plannagdin,  laopom 
oiompob  ap  clomD  muipcfpcaij;  cap  na  hoipeccoib  oile  annpin,  -]  gabdil  Doib 
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  5«p  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  muipcfp- 
caij  an  la  ceona.  Loclamn  mac  concobaip  Do  DallaD  lappin  •]  a  ecc  ina  ochap. 
SluaicclieaD  la  T?ij  Sa^an  i  nalbam  50  po  jabh  nfpc  mop  ap  an  ccpich 
pin.  Do  baccap  maiche  gall  6peann  apan  pluaijjeaD  pin,  .1.  Piocapo  a 
bupc  lapla  ula6,  ~|  gfpailc  mac  geapailc,  i  Seon  pizchomap,  -\  po  gabpac 
pop  milleao  alban  eicip  cuaic  ~\  eacclaip.  T?o  milleab  leo  Dana  TTlainepcip 
bpacap  baof  ip  in  ccpich,  -j  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. 

QO13  CR1OSU,  1297. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceo,  nocac,  a  peachcc. 

ITIaoilpechlainn  mac  bpiain  abb  na  buille  DO  coja  Do  cum  eppuccoiDe 
ailepinn,  -)  TTlapian  6  oonnabaip  oopo  .8.  oonnnic  Do  coja  pia  TTIaoileach- 
lainn  •]  a  nDol  apaon  Don  17oim,  "]  TDaoilechlainn  Decc. 

great  prayes   upon  Claim  Murtagh  the   same  stone  of  it,  and  killed  many  savenrits  [sic']  and 

day."  women.     And  the  best  men  of  Ireland  were  at 

u  An  army — This  passage  is  given  in  the  old  that  army,  viz.,  Richard  Bourke,  Earle  of  Ulster, 

translation  of  the  Annals  of  Uster  as  follows :  [and]  Mac  Gerald,  viz.,  John  Fitz- Thomas." 

'•'•Anno  1292,  al.  1296.     "A  forcible  army  by          "Ecclesiastics,  aop  jpciio This  term,   when 

the  King  of  England  into  Scotland,  that  he  bare  applied  to  laymen,  denotes  servants  of  trust,  or 

sway  of  all  the  country,  and  spoyled  countries,  officers  ;   but  when  applied  to  ecclesiastics  it 

and  destroyed  subjects  and  churches,  especially  means  friars,  priests,  &c. 
an  Abby  of  Friers,  that  he  left  no  stone  upon  a          w  Not  able   to  bear  arms — Oaome  nap  bo 


1297.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  407 

at  peace  with  him,  for  they  [soon  afterwards]  again  sided  with  the  Clann-Mur- 
tough.  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  Clann- 
Murtough,  in  opposition  to  the  other  tribes,  and  sided  with  Hugh.  When 
Conor  Roe  had  heard  of  this,  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  was  slain,  and  Loughlin,  his  son,  and  Manus,  son  of  Tomaltagh, 
were  taken  prisoners,  after  the  loss  of  many  on  both  sides.  Mac  Dermot 
brought  the  prisoners  to  Hugh.  On  the  same  day  Hugh  (i.  e.  the  O'Conor), 
O'Farrell,  Mac  Dermot,  Mac  Rannall,  and  the  abovementioned  tribes,  com- 
mitted a  retaliatory  depredation  on  the  people  [followers]  of  the  Clann-Mur- 
tough.  Loughlin,  the  son  of  Conor,  was  afterwards  blinded,  in  consequence  of 
which  he  died. 

An  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  expedition.  They  commenced  ravaging  Scotland,  both  territories  and 
churches.  A  monastery  of  friars  in  that  country  was  plundered  by  them,  and 
they  prostrated  it  to  the  ground,  so  that  they  left  not  one  stone  of  it  above 
another  on  its  site,  and  this  after  they  had  killed  many  of  its  ecclesiasticsv, 
besides  women  and  persons  not  able  to  bear  arms". 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1297. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  ninety-seven. 

Melaghlin  Mac  Brian,  Abbot  of  Boyle,  was  elected  to  the  bishopric  of  El- 
phin ;  and  Marian  O'Donnaver,  a  friar  of  the  order  of  St.  Dominic,  who  had 
been  elected  [to  the  same  see]  before  Melaghlinx,  repaired  both  to  Rome,  where 
Melaghlin  died. 

h-meacca,    i.e.  persons  not  fitted  for  action;      to  be  done;  mpeaotna,  capable  of  doing  a  manJy 
ineacca,  fitted  for  action;  in,  in  compound  words,      action;   inaipm,  fitted  to  bear  arms,  &c. 
signifies  meet,  fit,  or  proper,  as  moeanca,  fit          x   Before   Melaghlin. — This   entry   is   better 

3  o  2 


468 


[1297- 


Gnpi  mace  oipechcaij  eappucc  Conoepe  oecc,  -\  a  abnacal  i  mamipcip 
opoichic  ctcha.  TTlanach  epiohe. 

Uhlliam  6  Dubcoijh  ep puce  cluana  peapea  DO  ruinm  Dia  eac,  -\  a  ecc 

Dia  bicin. 

Concobap  mac  caichligh  meic  Diapmaca  cigfpna  moije  luipcc  -|  aipcij, 
pfp  poba  pfpp  rpoiD,  -|  rachap,  joil,  i  jjaipcceaD,  lonnpaijm,  -[  ana6,  pfon,  -| 
ceapmonn,  pipmne  -|  plairfmnup  ma  comaimpip  oecc,  -\  a  abnacal  i  maimp- 
cip  na  buille. 

TTIajnup  6  hainliji  coipeac  cenel  oobca  oecc. 

Cuula6  6  hanluam  nccfpna  oipnp,  Qonjup  mag  marjamna,  -]  mopan 
oile  t»o  maicib  a  muincipe  DO  mapbaD  la  gallaib  ouin  Dealccan  ace  iompu6 
Dia  ccijib  Doib  (.1.  DO  na  gallcnbh)  on  mpla. 


given  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of 
Ulster,  thus:  " A.  D.  1293  [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 
[tTlaeleclainn]  a  eg  Don  cupup  pm." 

"A.  D.  1293  [1297].  Melaghlin  Mac  Brian, 
abbot  of  Boyle,  was  elected  to  the  bishopric  of  El- 
phin,  and  Marian  O'Donnover,  a  Friar  Preacher, 
who  had  been  elected  before  him,  went  to  Rome 
in  contention  for  the  same  bishopric,  and  [Me- 
laghlin] died  on  that  journey." 

This  entry  is  not  in  the  old  translation  of  the 
Annals  of  Ulster,  preserved  in  the  British  Mu- 
seum. 

Y  Henry  Mageraghty. — In  the  Dublin  copy  of 
the  Annals  of  Ulster,  his  death  is  thus  entered 
under  the  year  1293:  "  Anno  Domini  1293. 
henpi  majoipeccais  eppuc  Connipe,  manac 
liar,  quieuic  tn  Chpipro,  7  a  aolucuo  i  mai- 
nifDip  opochaiD  ara." 

"Anno  Domini  1293.  Henry  Mageraghty, 
Bishop  of  Connor,  a  grey  monk,  quievit  in 
Christo,  and  was  buried  in  the  monastery  of 
Drogheda."  But  in  the  old  translation  of  the 
Ulster  Annals  it  is  entered  as  follows  : 


"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  monk,  is  men- 
tioned as  Bishop  of  Achonry,  and  his  death  placed 
in  the  year  1297-  In  the  same  work,  p.  288,  men- 
tion 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- 
pear to  be  that  he  was  Bishop  of  Derry  (t)oipe) 
only,  and  that  acao  Conaipe  and  Comoepe 
are  mere  mistakes  of  transcribers.  We  know 
from  the  public  records  that  he  was  really  Bi- 
shop 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 
Achonry,  except  the  old  translation  of  the  An- 
nals of  Ulster,  which  Ware  and  Harris  seem  to 
have  used See  note  ',  infra. 

•  Airtech. — The  text  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster 
is  very  nearly  the  same  as  that  of  the  Four  Mas- 
ters, but  the  old  translator  does  not  attempt  a 
close  version  of  it.  He  shortens  it  thus :  "  Anno 
1293  (al.  1297).  Conor  mac  Tachly  mac  Der- 
mot,  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, 


1297-] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


469 


Henry  Mageraghtyy,  Bishop  of  Conor,  died,  and  was  interred  in  the  monas- 
tery of  Drogheda.  He  was  a  monk. 

William  O'Duffy,  Bishop  of  Clonfert,  fell  from  his  horse,  and  died  in  con- 
sequence. 

Conor,  the  son  of  Taichleach  MacDermot,  Lord  of  Moylurg  and  Airteach2, 
the  best  man  of  his  time  for  combat  and  contest,  valour  and  prowess,  incursion 
and  wealth,  protection  and  refuge,  veracity  and  governing  authority,  died,  and 
was  interred  in  the  monastery  of  Boyle. 

Manus  O'Hanly,  Chief  of  Kinel-Dofa,  died. 

Cu-Uladh1  O'Hanlon,  Lord  of  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 
example  of  the  alliteration  and  tautology  of  the 
inflated  prose  style  of  the  Irish  writers  of  the 
fifteenth  and  sixteenth  centuries. 

The  territory  of  Airteach  extends  from  the 
western  extremity  of  the  parish  of  Tibohine,  in 
the  county  of  Eoscommon,  where  it  joins  the 
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 
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. 

A  stream  called  Abhainn  na  Foraoise,  rising  in 
the  bog  of  Belanagare,  and  falling  into  the  Bree- 
doge  Eiver,  divides  Airteach  from  Machaire 
Chonnacht ;  and  the  River  Breedoge  which  rises 
in  Lough  Bealaigh,  in  the  parish  of  Kilcolagh, 
and  falls  into  Lough  O'Gara,  is  the  boundary 
between  it  and  Moylurg.  Airteach  lies  between 
the  Eivers  Lung  and  Breedoge,  and  is  bounded 
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 


the  middle  of  the  fourteenth  century  :  1st,  the 
Mac  Dermot  himself,  who  was  Chief  of  Moy- 
lurg, Airteach,  and  Tir-Tuathail  ;  2nd,  Mac 
Dermot  Gall,  or  the  Anglicised,  who  possessed 
Airteach,  but  was  tributary  to  the  chief  Mac 
Dermot;  and,  3rd,  Mac  Dermot  Eoe,  who  was 
Chief  of  Tir-Tuathail,  and  tributary  generally 
to  the  Mac  Dermot  of  Moylurg,  but  sometimes 
to  Mac  Donough  of  Tirerrill,  in  the  county  of 
Sligo,  who  was  another  offshoot  from  the  same 
family. 

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 
allow  no  one  to  be  buried  but  a  Mac  Dermot 
Gall,  not  even  their  wives  when  of  a  different 
family. 

a  Cu-  Uladlt. — This  name,  which  is  very  com- 
mon in  the  families  of  O'Hanlon,  Mac  Mahou, 
and  others,  is  translated  Canis  Ultonice,  by  the 
compiler  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  and  anglicised 
Cooley  by  Fynes  Morrison,  and  other  writers 
of  the  reign  of  Elizabeth  ;  and  Cowley  by  Con- 
nell  Mageoghegan,  in  his  translation  of  the  An- 
nals of  Clonmacnoise. 

b  Aengits. — This  name  is  still  in  use,  but  lati- 


470  dNNata  Rioghachca  eiReawN.  [1299. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1298. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceo,  nochac,  a  hochcc. 

Uomap  6  haipeccaijh  abb  eappa  puaiD  Decc. 

Saob  injfn  Qooa  buibe  uf  neill  bfn  caiDg  mic  amDpiapa  uf  concobaip 
Decc. 

bpian  bpeajach  mac  SampaDain  raoipeac  ceallaij  echDach  Do  mapbab 
la  hdob  mbpeipneac  6  cconcobaip,  i  la  cloinn  muipcfpraij  apcfna. 

Oonnchab  mac  Domnaill  uf  eajpa  an  caonmac  caoipij  ba  peapp  omec, 
1  larh  ace  copnamh  a  cfpe  Do  mapbaD  Da  bpacaip,  bpian  cappac  6  hfghpa. 

Comap  pizmuipip  bapun  Do  jfpalcacaib  ppip  a  nabaprai  on  coibpe 
cam  DO  ecc. 

QO13  CR1O3C,  1299. 
Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  Da  ceD,  nocac,  a  naof. 

Niocol  mac  maoiliopa  Ctipoeppcop  QpDamacha  an  cafn  clepec  po  ba 
Diaoha  cpaibDije  bai  in  6pmn  ma  aimpip  Decc. 

peapjal  ua  p^S1^  eppu'cc  l?acha  borh  Do  ecc.  ba  hepibe  peappa  ecclaipi 
po  ba  mo  amm  Dfipce,  -|  Daonnacca,  cpabaD,  ~]  caofnjniom  baoi  ma  aim  pip. 

CtljeanDaip  mace  Domnaill,  aoin  peap  ba  pfpp  enec,  -]  engnarh  Da  paibe 
Dia  cinfoh  in  Gpinn,  •]  in  albain  DO  mapbaD  la  hale^anoaip  mac  Dubgaill, 
1  dp  Dfpime  oia  mumcip  amaille  pip. 

nised  to  jEneas.  It  is  made  Enos  by  Mageoghe-  raghty,  while  others  of  the  same  race  £nd  name, 
gan,  which  is  not  far  from  its  Irish  pronuncia-  who  have  migrated  to  Leinster,  have  changed  it 
tion,  which  is  Ennees  in  Connaught,  Ennais  in  to  Harrington!  The  Mageraghtys,  who  are  of  the 
Munster,  and  Ennoos  in  Ulster.  same  race  as  the  O'Conors,  Kings  of  Connaught, 
c  CPHeraghty. — This  name  is  to  be  distin-  were  originally  located  in  the  district  of  Muin- 
guished  from  Mageraghty,  or  Geraghty,  which  tir-Eodjv,  in  the  plain  of  Connaught,  and  are 
is  that  of  a  family  of  royal  extraction  in  Con-  now  very  numerous  in  the  counties  of  Eos- 
naught.  The  O'Heraghtys,  who  were  never  a  common,  Galway,  and  Mayo,  and  even  in  Lein- 
family  of  any  distinction,  were  located  in  the  ster,  where  they  generally  reject  the  Mac  and 
present  county  of  Donegal,  where  they  are  still  shorten  the  name  to  Geraghty,  and  even  to 
numerous  ;  some  of  them  are  also  on  the  island  Gearty  and  Gerty,  which  latter  forms  are  not 
of  Inishrnurray,  off  the  coast  of  Sligo,  where  to  be  approved  of.  O'Heraghty  is  as  different 
they  are  beginning  to  change  the  name  to  Ge-  from  Mageraghty  as  O'Donnell  is  from  Mac  Don- 


1299-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.       .  4?1 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1298. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  ninety-eight. 

Thomas  O'Heraghty0,  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  Car- 
ragh  O'Hara. 

Thomas  Fitzmaurice,  a  Baron  of  the  Geraldines,  usually  called  the  Crooked 
Heir",  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1299. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  two  hundred  ninety-nine. 

Nicholas  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  by  Alexander  Mac  Dowelle,  together 
with  a  countless  number  of  his  people  who  were  slaughtered. 


nell,  or  O'Neill  from  Mac  Neill.   They  differ  in  "  CInno  Domini  1294  [1298].  Comcip 

name,  in  descent,  and  in  locality  ;  the  pedigree  pip,  bapun  mop  DO  cloinn  ^epailc  pip  na- 

and  history  of  the  former  is  unknown,  those  of  baipcea  in  ceijpin  cam,  quieuir  in  Chpifco." 

the  latter  are  recorded  with  considerable  mi-  And   thus   rendered   in   the  old    translation  : 

nuteness  till  about  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth  "Anno   1294,   al.   1298.   Thomas   Fitz   Moris, 

century,  when  they  sunk  into  comparative  po-  Baron  of  the  Fitzgeralds,  that  was  called  the 

verty  and  obscurity,  though  in  1585  there  was  Crooked  heire,  guievit." 

a  recognized  chief  of  the  name,  and  the  Editor          e  -Mac  Dowett.  —  This   surname  is   generally 

is  informed  that  his   lineal  descendant  is  still  written  Mac  Dugald  by  the  Scotch.     This  pas- 

living  near  Moylough,  in  the  county  of  Galway.  sage  is  thus  given  in  the  old  translation  of  the 

d  Crooked  heir.  —  This  passage  is  thus  given  Annals  of  Ulster  :  "Anno  1295,  al.  1299.  Alex- 

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,  1300. 
Qoip  Cpiope,  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  ploinn. 

Cepoicc  buicelep  po  ba6  bapun  oipofipc  Decc. 

Qoam  Sconoun  bapun  mop  ele  epibe  Do  ecc. 

Seoinin  6cc  mac  muipip  Do  mapbab  la  Concobap  ua  pploirm  50  noaoimb 
ele  amaille  ppip. 

aois  crciosc,  1301. 

Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  Da  ceD,  a  haon. 

pionnjuala  mjfn  pfiblimiD  ui  concobaip  banab  cille  cpaobnacc  Decc. 
Caipbpe  mac  copbmaic  uf  maofleclainn  Do  mapbaD  cpe  aplac  mic  aipc 
ui  maoileachlainn  a  bparhap. 

and  Scotland,  was  killed  by  Alexander  Mac  ever,  this  territory  was  divided  into  two  parts 

Dubgall,  with  a  great  slaughter  of  his  people."  between  the  rival  chiefs  O'Conor  and  O'Lough- 

The  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  lin,  and  the  eastern  division,  which  was  allotted 

Mageoghegan,  record  the  death  of  Sir  John  De-  to  O'Loughlin,  was  called  East  Corcomroe, 

lamare  this  year  in  the  following  words  :  while  the  western,  which  fell  to  the  share  of 

"  Sir  John  Delamare,  knight,  the  best,  wor-  O'Conor,  was  called  "West  Corcomroe — See  the 

thiest,  powerfullest,  and  bountifullest  knight  of  Irish  work,  called  Caithreim  Thoirdheabbhaigh,  at 

all  Meath,  was  killed  by  Geffrie  O'Ferrall  in  the  year  1311,  where  the  present  barony  of 

pursuite  and  defence  of  his  own  preye."  Burren,  in  the  north  of  the  county  of  Clare,  is 

"  The  families  of  Delamares,  Ledwitches,  called  East  Corcomroe.  But  in  process  of  time. 

Frenies,  and  Cables,  are  of  the  remnant  of  the  East  Corcomroe  began  to  be  more  generally 

Danes  that  remaine  in  this  kingdome."  called  Burren,  i.  e.  the  rocky  district,  and 

f  Congalagh  O'Loughlin In  Harris's  edition  O'Loughlin,  its  chief,  who  previously  to  the 

of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  629,  he  is  set  down  as  fourteenth  century,  had  been  styled  Chief  of 

Bishop  of  Kilfenora,  which  is  perfectly  correct,  Corcomroe,  was  called  O'Loughlin  Burren.  The 

for  the  original  country  of  the  people,  or  tribe,  extent  of  the  western  division  of  Corcomroe  is 

called  Corcomroe,  was  exactly  coextensive  with  now  preserved  in  the  barony  of  Corcomroe, 

the  diocese  of  Kilfenora.  In  after  ages,  how-  while  that  of  East  Corcomroe  is  preserved  in 


1301-.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  473 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1300. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred. 

Congalagh  0'Loughlinf,  Bishop  of  Corcomroe,  a  man  of  learning,  hospita- 
lity, and  piety,  died. 

Felim  Mac  Carthy8,  heir-apparent  to  the  lordship  of  Desmond,  died. 

The  castle  of  Ath-Cliath-an-Chorainn  (i.  e.  of  Ballymote)  was  commenced 
by  the  Earl". 

John  Prendergast  was  slain  by  the  son  of  Fiachra  O'Flynn. 

Theobald  Butler,  an  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,  1301 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  one. 

Finola,  daughter  of  Felim  O'Conor,  Abbess  of  Cill-Craebhnatt',  died. 
Carbry,  son  of  Cormac  0'Melaghlink,  was  slain  at  the  instigation  of  the  son 
of  Art  O'Melaghlin,  his  kinsman. 

the  barony  of  Burren.     Thus  we  see  the  reason  by  the  Eeade  Earle  this  year." 
why  the  great  abbey  of  Burren  is,  even  to  this          '  Adam  Staunton — In  Mageoghegan's  trans  - 

day,  called  the  abbey  of  Corcomroe.     O'Lough-  lation   of   the  Annals    of  Clonmacnoise  he  is 

lin    retained   all   his    division    of    Corcomroe  called  "  Addam  Stontan,  Lord  of  Keera,  died." 

(namely  Burren)  till  the  time  of  Cromwell,  but          >   CM  Craebhnatt,    Citl    Cpaobnucc This 

the  entire  of  O'Conor's  portion  of  it  was  granted  nunnery,  which  is  called  Killcreunata  by  Ware 

to  Sir  Donnell  O'Brien,  in  the  reign  of  Queen  and  Archdall,  is  now  called  Kilcreevanty.    It  is 

Elizabeth,  except  Ennistimon,  which  was  left  situated  in  the  county  of  Galway,  about  three 

to  O'Conor  himself;  but  he  lost  it  soon  after.  miles  to  the  north-west  of  Tuam.     Extensive 

8   Felim   Mac    Carthy —  In    Mageoghegan's  ruins  of  this  nunnery  still  remain,  but  its  archi- 

translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  he  is  tectural  features  are  all  destroyed,   except  one 

called  "  Felym  Mac  Carrhie,  young  prince  of  window  which  shews  that  the  architecture  was 

Desmond."  extremely  beautiful.   The  situation  of  this  nun- 

h  The  Earl. — In  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  nery  was  unknown  to  Archdall  and  even  to  Dr. 

the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,    this   passage  is  Lanigan. 

thus  rendered  :    "  A.  D.  1 300.    The   castle   of         k  O'Melaghlin. — Mageoghegan's  translation  of 

Athkle-an-Corran,  a/t'a*Ballenmote,  was  founded  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  contains  the  two 


474 


[1302. 


Uilliam  mace  planncham  coipeac  Dapcpaijje  DO  mapbaD  la  hualjapcc 
mac  Dorhnaill  mic  aipc  nf  puaipc. 

Cpeach  mop  DO  Denarii  DGo6  mac  carail  ui  concobaip,  -|  DO  cloinn  minp- 
cfpcai^h  ap  ca&g  mac  amOpiapa  i  moij  cceOne. 

SluaiccheaD  la  Pigh  Sa;can  in  Qlbain,  -]  mac  gfpailc,  -\  mac  pfopaip,  -| 
maiche  bapun  Gpeann  uile  cenmoed  lapla  ula6  DO  6ol  leip  ap  an  pluaigeab 
pin,  -]  a  bfic  DoiB  o  caicciDip  pia  lujnapaD  50  Sarhain  in  Qlbain,  -|  jan  a  lain- 
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. 


passages  following  which  have  been  omitted  by 
the  Four  Masters :  "  Cormack  Mac  Cormack 
O'Melaghlyn  was  killed  by  the  son  of  Art 
O'Melaghlyn,  who  was  his  own  Cossen  Germain, 
his  father's  brother's  son." 

"  Gille  Issie  Mac  Firvisse,  chief  chronicler  of 
Tyrefiaghragh,  wonderful!  well  skilled  in  his- 
tories, poetry,  computation,  and  many  other 
sciences,  died. 

1  Teige,  the  son  of  Andreas — This  Andreas 
was  the  son  of  Brian  Luighneach,  the  ancestor  of 
O'Conor,  Sligo — See  pedigree  of  the  O'Conors 
of  Connaught  in  the  Book  of  Lecan,  fol.  72,  et 
sequen, 

""  Moy-g-  Cedne — TTIaj  j-ceone,  a  plain  situ- 
ate between  the  rivers  t)pobaoif  (Drowes)  and 
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  Earne  et  Drohes  [Drowes]  in  com' 
Donigall,  Letrym,  et  Slygoe,  vel  eorum  altero." 
For  very  early  references  to  this  plain,  see 


O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  Part  iii.  c.  14  ;  and  Duald 
Mac  Firbis's  genealogical  work  (Marquis  of 
Drogheda's  copy),  p.  15. 

n  Except  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  Cenmoca  lapUi 
Ulao. — This  would  also  bear  to  be  translated 
"  besides  the  Earl  of  Ulster,"  for  the  Irish  cen- 
mocd, like  the  Latin  prceter,  sometimes  means 
besides,  and  sometimes  except.  The  phrase  used 
in  the  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  trans- 
lation of  these  annals  it  is  rendered  "  besides 
the  Earle  of  Ulster."  Thus:  "  Anno  1297,  al. 
1301.  An  army  by  the  King  of  England  into 
Scotland,  and  Mac  Geralt  and  Mac  Korus,  and 
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,  and  made  noe  great  hand 
there."  It  is  rendered  in  Mageoghegan's  trans- 
lation of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  as  follows : 
"  A.  D.  1301.  The  King  of  England,  with  Mac 
Gerald,  the  Lord  Bremyngham,  with  all  the 


1302.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


475 


William  Mac  Clancy,  Chief  of  Dartry,  was  slain  by  Ualgarg,  the  son  of 
Donnell,  son  of  Art  O'Rourke. 

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  Lammas0  until  Allhallowtidep,  but  were  not  able 
to  effect  the  total  conquest  of  the  country. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1302. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  two. 

Stephen  O'Bragan,  Archbishop  of  Cashel  [died]. 

Miles,  Bishop  of  Limerickq,  grandson  of  the  Leinster  Earl,  and  the  Bishop 
of  Corkr,  died.  The  latter  had  been  a  monk  before  he  was  consecrated  Bishop. 


forces  of  the  English  of  Ireland,  save  onely  the 
Earle  of  Ulster,  went  to  Scotland  to  conquer 
the  said  kingdome,  where  they  continued  from 
a  fortnight  before  Lammas  untill  Hollantide, 
and  made  no  intire  conquest  thereof." 

The  probability  is  that  the  Earl  of  Ulster  was 
not  on  this  expedition,  and  that  he  did  not  go 
to  assist  King  Edward  into  Scotland  until  the 
year  1303.  The  Editor,  therefore,  has  trans- 
lated cenmoc  by  except. 

°  Lammas.  —  tu^napa,  called  in  English 
Lammas,  is  the  name  by  which  the  first  of  Au- 
gust is  still  known.  The  word  is  thus  explained 
in  Cormac's  Glossary :  lujnappab  .1.  nappao  no 
aupcac  loja  mic  Gicliono  .1.  oenac  no  pepca 
laip  im  cuioe  pojariiaip  in  cec  bliabain. 
Cluice  no  oenac  no  aupcac  ip  oo  ipamm  nap- 
pab,  i.e. "  Lughnassadh,  i.e.  the  games  or  festival 
of  Lughaidh,  the  son  of  Eithliond.  There  was  a 
fair  held  by  him  each  year  in  the  beginning  of 
harvest.  Nassadh  signifies  game,  fair,  or  fes- 
tival." 

3p 


P  Atthattowtide. — Sam u in,  ig  yet  the  name 
of  the  first  of  November :  it  is  explained 
in  O'Clery's  glossary  as  follows  :  "Saihum 
q.  d.  pampum  .1.  puin  an  cpampaio.  puin  .1. 
cpfocnujab."  Samhuin  q.  d.  Samh-fhuin,  i.  e. 
the  end  of  summer  ;  fuin,  i.  e.  end." 

q  Miles,  Bishop  of  Limerick. — The  surname  of 
this  Miles,  Bishop  of  Limerick,  is  not  given  in 
any  of  the  Irish  annals ;  but  the  Annals  of 
Ulster  and  Clonmacnoise  agree  in  calling  him 
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 
(perhaps  illegitimate)  grandson.  He  would  ap- 
pear to  be  the  Bishop  of  Limerick,  called  by 
Ware  Gerald  k  MarescaM,  who  died  in  1301 
(English  style).  The  Fitzgeralds  were  not  styled 
Earls  of  Leinster,  or  even  of  Kildare,  till  the 
year  1316. 

r  The  Bishop  of  Cork — His  name  was  Robert 

2 


470  QMNata  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1303. 


Oorhnall  puab  mag  capraij  cijfpna  Dfprhuman,  Donn  cappach  mag 
uibip  ceD  ngfpna  pil  uibip  i  ppfpaib  manach,  -\  Puaibpi  mac  DomnaiU 
uf  eajpa  aDbap  cijeapna  luijne  Decc. 

Cpeach  mop  Do  benamh  oGob  mac  cacail  ap  raog  mac  bpiain,  -\  ap 
Shicpiucc  mac  an  caipnijh  meg  plannchaib  i  moigh  cceiDne. 

QO1S  C171OSU,  1303. 
Goip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  ceD,  acpi. 

TTIaoilechloinn  mac  bpiain  eppucc  oile  pinn  Decc,  -]  Oonnchab  6  plannac- 
cain  abb  na  buille  Do  gabail  na  heappuccoioe  Dia  eip. 

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  plann- 
chaib caoipeac  Dapcpaij;e.  Oonnocaram  cigeapna  peap  na  cpaoibe,  -|  cian- 
achca,  Donnchab  macmfnman,  Qob  mac  mfanman,  Da  mac  mic  an  pip  Ifiginn 
ui  borhnaill,  mail  mac  neill  uf  baoijill  aobap  raoipij  na  ccpf  ccuach,  mac 
hugoppa,  a  mac  ~|  a  bfpbparaip,  Qoam  SanDal,5oill,  ~\  jjaoibil  lomba  ap  cfna. 
Qob  mac  Dorhnaill  oicc  Do  bfich  i  ccijfpnup  ripe  conaill  mppin  50  pobanac 
poinmech  an  ccem  Do  maip. 

Mac  Donogh.     He  had  been  a  Cistercian  monk,  died.     Great  comparisons  ha.ve  been  made  be- 

and  succeeded  to  this  dignity  in  the  year  1277- —  tween  this    Donn   Magwyre  and  Donnell   Roe 

See  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  559-  Mac  Carthy  (before  mentioned)  for  their  bountys 

s  The  Sil-  Uidhir. — The   Sil-Uidhir   are   the  and  hospitalities,  which  Donn  Magwyre,  by  the 

Maguires,   Mac  Awleys,  Mac  Caffrys,  Mac  Ma-  judgment  of  a  certain  learned  Irish  poett  (which 

nuses,     and    their  correlatives    in   Fermanagh.  remained  for  a  long  space  in  the  houses  of  the 

In  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  said  Donn  and  Donnell   covertly,   and  in  the 

Clonmacnoise,   the  following   notice  occurs    of  habitt  of  a  karrogh,    or  common  gamester,  to 

this  first  of  the   Maguires  who  acquired    the  know  which  of  them  surpassed  the  other)  was 

chieftainship  of  Fermanagh  :  "A.  D.  1302.  Donn  counted  to  excell  Donnell  in  all  good  parts,  as 

Magwyre,  prince  of  Fermanagh,  the  best  of  all  by  this  Irish  verse,  made  by  the  said  poet,  you 

Ireland  for  hospitality,  liberality,  and  prowess,  may  know  : 


1303.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  477 

Donnell  Roe  Mac  Carthy,  Lord  of  Desmond ;  Donn  Carragh  Maguire,  the 
first  lord  of  the  Sil-Uidhirs  in  Fermanagh;  and  Rory,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Hara, 
heir-presumptive  to  the  lordship  of  Leyny,  died. 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  Hugh,  son  of  Cathal,  in  Magh 
g-Ceidne,  upon  Teige,  son  of  Brian,  and  Sitric,  son  of  Cairneach  Mac  Clancy. 

/ 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1303. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  three. 

Melaghlin  Mac  Brian',  Bishop  of  Elphin,  died  ;  and  Donough  O'Flanagan 
took  the  bishopric  after  him. 

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  Kinel- 
Owen,  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;  Donn  O'Kane,  Lord  of  Firnacreeva  and  Kien- 
aghta  ;  Donough  Mac  Menman,  and  Hugh  Mac  Menman  ;  two  grandsons  of  the 
Ferleighin  [Lector]  O'Donnell ;  Niall,  son  of  Niall  O'Boyle,  heir  presumptive 
to  the  Three  Tuathasv;  Mac  Hugossa,  his  son,  and  brother;  Adam  Sandal;  and 
many  others,  as  well  English  as  Irish.  After  this,  Hugh,  son  of  Donnell  Oge, 
enjoyed  the  lordship  of  Tirconnell  in  happiness  and  prosperity  as  long  as  he 
lived. 

"  Donn  ma5uiDip  mao  re  pin,  of  Elphin  with  Marian  O'Doimaver.  Accord- 
mo  Deapmumam  'na  ouraio  ing  to  Ware  he  died  at  Rome  about  the  close  of 
ITI6  fa  bo  ooldio  Dumn  tj]e  year  1302 

dec  cio  mo  ooman  Oomnaill."  u  Cnoc-an-Madhma,  i.  e.  hill  of  the  defeat. 
"  which  is  as  much  to  say  in  English,  as  not-  The  Editor  is  not  aware  that  any  place  re- 
withstanding  Desmond,  and  the  lands  of  Don-  taining  this  name  is  now  to  be  found  in  Tir- 
nell  Mac  Carthie,  be  far  greater  than  the  lands  connell. 

of  Donn  Magwyce,  yet  Donn  retaineth  in  his          v  The  Three  Tuathas — These  were  three  dis- 

house  twice  as  many  as  Donnell  doth."  tricts  in  the  barony  of  Kilmacrenan,   in   the 

1  Melaghlin   Mac  Brian. — See  a  notice  of  his  north-west  of  the  county  of  Donegal,   which 

going  to  Rome  in  1 297,  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  conco- 
baip  i  mbun  Duibe  i  ccopaijecc  cpeice  boi  Do  bpfic  laip  a  moij  cceiDne. 

TTla&nap  mace  parhpabain  caoipeac  ceallaij  echbac,  i  Niall  mac  jille- 
pmnein,  Decc. 

^epoiD  171  ac  5^Pa'^  Decc.     • 

Cpeach  mop  Do  benarh  la  cloinn  TTluipcfpcaijj  ap  rhuincip  cionair,  i 
Hluipceapcac  mac  Conpnarha  aobap  caoipj  mumcipe  cionair  Do  mapbab  Don 
cup  pin. 

Sluaijeab  mop  la  T?ij  Sapcan  in  Qlbain,  •)  an  ciapla,  5oill  ~\  gaoibil 
lomba  DO  bol  coblac  mop  a  hGpinn  Do  congnarh  laip.  Caicpeca  lomba  DO 
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,  i.  e.  Mac  Sweeny  of  the  tuatks,  or  dis- 
tricts. • 

w  Donnell  Oge  Mac  Carlhy. — He  was  the  son 
of  Donnell  Roe,  Prince  of  Desmond,  who  died  in 
1302 ;  who  was  the  son  of  Cormac  Finn,  Prince 
of  Desmond,  who  was  the  son  of  Donnell  More 
na  Curra,  who  was  the  fourth  in  descent  from 
Carthach,  the  progenitor  after  whom  the  Mac 
Carthyshave  taken  their  surname.  The  silver  seal 
of  this  Prince  is  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Petrie, 
and  is  in  its  style  very  similar  to  that  of  his 
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 
with  sword  in  hand.  The  legend  "  S.  Dove- 
naldi  og  fili  D.  Eogh  Mac  Arthy." 

*  Bun  Duibhe,  i.  e.  the  mouth  of  the  River 
Dubh,  now  Bunduff,  a  village  in  the  barony  of 
Carbery,  in  the  county  of  Sligo.  The  names  of 
many  villages,  townlands,  &c.  situated  at  the 
mouths  of  rivers,  are  compounded  of  bun,  foot, 


mouth,  and  the  name  of  the  river,  as  bun 
tDpoGaoipe,  i.  e.  the  mouth  of  the  River  Drowes, 
q.  d.  Drowes-foot,  bun-na  Dimple,  now  Bona- 
margy,  in  the  county  of  Antrim;  bun  na  pinne, 
the  mouth  of  the  River  Fin. 

y  Garrett  Fitzgerald — He  was  the  eldest  son 
of  John  Fitz-Thomas,  Baron  of  Offaly. — See 
Cox's  Hibernia  Anglicana,  p.  87,  A.  D.  1304. 

z  MM  Consnava,  ITlac  Copnariia.  —  This 
name  is  generally  written  ITlac  Condriia  in  the 
Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster.  It  is 
now  sometimes  correctly  anglicised  Mac  Kin- 
naw,  and  very  incorrectly  translated  Forde.  The 
territory  of  Muintir  Cionaoith,  which  still  re- 
tains its  ancient  name,  lies  in  the  county  of 
Leitrim,  to  the  west  and  north-west  of  Lough 
Allen,  and. is  nearly  co-extensive  with  the  ba- 
rony of  Dromahaire. 

a  Into  Scotland. — This  passage  is  rendered  as 
follows  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of 
Ulster:  "  Anno  1299,  al.  1303.  A  great  army 
by  the  King  of  England  into  Scotland  ;  many 
cityes  taken  by  them  ;  and  the  Earle  and  Eng- 


1303.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


479 


Donnell  Oge  Mac  Carthy",  Lord  of  Desmond,  died. 

Dermot  O'Flanagan,  Chief  of  Tuathratha,  his  two  sons,  and  many  others 
along  with  them,  were  slain  at  Bun  Duibhe",  by  some  of  the  household  of  Don- 
nell, son  of  Teige  O'Conor,  who  had  pursued  them,  to  deprive  them  of  a  prey 
which  they  were  carrying  off  from  Magh-g-Cedne. 

Manus  Magauran,  Chief  of  Teallach  Eachdhach  [Tullyhaw,  in  the  county 
of  Cavan],  and  Niall  Mac  Gillafinnen,  died. 

Garrett  Fitzgerald7  died. 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  the  Clann-Murtough  [O'Conor]  in 
Muintir-Kenny,  on  which  occasion  Murtough  Mac  Consnavaz,  Chief  of  Muintir- 
Kenny,  was  slain 

A  great  army  was  led  by  the  King  of  England  into  Scotland8 ;  and  the 
[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 
sway",  over  Scotland.  Theobald  Burke0,  the  Earl's  brother,  died  after  his 
return  from  this  expedition,  on  Christmas  night,  at  Carrickfergus". 


lish  and  Irish  went  out  of  Ireland,  a  great  navy, 
and  conquered  much  there.  Tibot  Bourk, 
brother  to  the  Earle,  died  after  returning  from 
that  journey,  at  Carrigfergus,  on  Christmas  eve." 

Sir  Richard  Cox  has  the  following  remarks 
upon  the  Red  Earl,  in  his  Hibernia  Anglicana, 
p.  87  :  "  A.  D.  1303.  Richard  Burk,  Earl  of 
Ulster,  accompanied  with  Eustace  le  Poer,  and  a 
good  Army,  went  to  aid  the  King  in  Scotland; 
and  the  Earl  made  thirty-three  knights  in  the 
castle  of  Dublin  before  he  set  out ;  and  it  is  ob- 
servable that  in  all  commissions,  and  even  in 
the  Parliament  Rolls,  this  Earl  is  always  named 
before  the  Lord  Justice." — See  also  Leland's 
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 : 

"  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 


the  English  and  Irish  inhabitants.  Several  feuds 
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- 
ments. The  disorder  extended  even  to  the  seat 
of  government;  and  the  utmost  efforts  of  the 
chief  governour  and  the  well-affected  lords  were 
scarcely  sufficient  to  defend  the  province  of  Lein- 
ster." 

b  Gained  sway,  neapr  alban  oo  jaBail  leo, 
i.  e.  the  strength,  power,  or  sway  of  Scotland 
was  obtained  by  them.  Neapc  oo  jaBail  sig- 
nifies to  obtain  power,  or  to  effect  a  conquest. 

c  Christmas  night,  a&uij  noolac — The  Irish 
word  ciouij,  night,  is  now  always  written  oioce, 
and  the  word  seems  to  have  lost  an  initial  n,  as 
it  is  evidently  cognate  with  the  Latin  nox,  noctis, 
and  the  English  night. 

d  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,  1304 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  rpf  ceD,  a  cfchaip. 

Concobap  mac  Qoba  ui  concobaip  Domapbabla  hoibfponapplaicbeapcaij 
lap  nDenarh  mebla  Dopom  ap  DonnchaD  ua  pplaitbfpcaij,  i  hoibfpD  DO  cuicim 
inn  poceDoip. 

Qn  concaoipbfn  Riocaipo  a  bupc  mpla  ulab,  .1.  an  ciaplal?ua6,  ~\  Uacep 
a  bupc  oijpe  an  lapla  cfona  DO  ecc. 

QO1S  CttlOSC,  1305. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  rpf  ceo,  a  cuig. 

O  Concobaip  pailge,  .1.  muipcfpcac,ffiaolmopoa,  a  bpacaip,  i  an  calbac 
6  concobaip  amaille  ppi  naonbap  ap  picic  Do  mainb  a  muinnpe  Do  rhqpbaD 
Do  Ship  piapup  mac  pfopaip  cpe  peill  -)  meabail  i  ccaiplen  meic  peopaip. 

Caiplen  nua  mpi  heoccain  DO  6enam  lap  an  lapla  puab. 

TTlaiDm  la  hQob  mac  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. 

•  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  sent  the  massacre  as  having  taken  place  in  the  cas- 

as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  have  the  following  tie  of  Carrickfergus,  instead  of  Carrick-Carbury . 

entry,  which  is  omitted  by  the  Four  Masters  :  According  to  Grace's  Annals  of  Ireland  this 

"A.  D.  1304.  William  Oge  mac  William  Gallda  massacre  was  perpetrated  by  Jordan  Comin  and 

Mageoghegan  died,  the  prides  of  the  Ides  of  Oc-  his  comrades,  at  the  court  of  Peter  Brimingham 

tober  this  year."  at  Carrick  in  Carberia.  It  is  referred  to  as  an 

f  Mac  Feorais's  oven  castle — This  is  Castle^  instance  of  the  treachery  of  the  English  to  their 

carbury  in  Birmingham's  country,  which  com-  Irish  neighbours  in  the  Remonstrance  sent  by 

prised  the  present  barony  of  Carbury,  in  the  the  Irish  Chieftains  to  Pope  John  XXII.  in 

north-west  of  the  county  of  Kildare.  Extensive  1315.  It  is  stated  in  this  document  that  Mau- 

ruins  of  this  castle  are  still  to  be  seen.  ricius  O'Conor  and  Peter  Brumichehame  were 

g  Deceit. — This  entry  is  given  in  the  Annals  fellow-sponsors  ;  that  Peter,  who  was  called  the 
ot'Ulster  and  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Ma-  treacherous  Baron,  invited  Mauritius  and  his 
geoghegan,  in  nearly  the  same  words  as  in  the  brother,  Calvacus,  to  an  entertainment  on  the 
text  of  the  Four  Masters,  except  that,  by  some  feast  day  of  the  Holy  Trinity ;  and  that  the  in- 
unaccountable  mistake,  the  latter  annals  repre-  stant  they  stood  up  from  the  table,  he  cruelly 


1305.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  481 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1304. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  four. 

Conor,  son  of  Hugh  O'Conor,  was  slain  by  Hubert  O'Flaherty,  after  he  had 
acted  treacherously  towards  Donough  O'Flaherty.  Hubert  was  killed  in  retalia- 
tion immediately  after  this. 

The  Countess,  wife  of  Richard  Burke,  Earl  of  Ulster,  i.  e.  the  Red  Earl,  and 
Walter  de  Burgo,  heir  of  the  same  Earl,  died'. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1305. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  jive. 

O'Conor  Faly  (Murtough),  Maelmora,  his  kinsman,  and  Calvagh  O'Conor, 
with  twenty-nine  of  the  chiefs  of  his  people,  were  slain  by  Sir  Pierce  Mac  Feo- 
rais  [Bermingham]  in  Mac  Feorais's  own  castlef,  by  means  of  treachery  and 
deceit8. 

The  new  castle  of  Inishowen"  was  erected  by  the  Red  Earl. 

A  victory  was  gained  by  Hugh,  son  of  Cathal  O'Conor,  and  the  Clann- 
Murtough1,  over  the  O'Reillys,  in  a  contest  in  which  Philip  O'Reilly,  the  heir 
of  Clann-Sweeny,  and  Mac  Buirche,  head  of  the  Gallowglasses,  together  with 
one  hundred  and  forty  others,  were  slain. 

massacred  them,  with  twen ty- four  of  their  fol-  the  natives.    The  magnificent  ruins  of  this  castle 

lowers,  and  sold  their  heads  at  a  dear  price  to  sufficiently  shew  that  it  was  a  fortress  of  great 

their  enemies  •,  and  that,  when  he  was  arraigned  strength  and  importance,   and  in  every  respect 

before  the  King  of  England,  no  justice  could  be  worthy  of  the  princely  Earl  by  whom  it  was 

obtained  against  such  a  nefarious  and  treache-  erected  in  so  important  a  situation,  to  subdue  the 

rous  offender." — See  Memoirs  of  the  Life  and  O'Neills  and  O'Donnells, and  check  the  incursions 

Writings  of  Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare,  p.  74,  of  the  Scots — See  note  under  the  year  1555.  This  • 

and  also  Grace's  Annals  of  Ireland,  edited  for  castle  is  shewn  on  Mercator's  Map  of  Ireland, 

the  Irish  Archaeological  Society  in  1842,  by  the  under  the  name  of  Newcastle.     According  to 

Rev.  Richard  Butler,  p.  58,  note  e.  Hanmer's  Chronicle,  and  Grace's  Annals  of  Ire- 

b  The  new  castle  of  Inishowen — Green  Castle,  land,  Arx  Viridis  in  Ultonia  was  thrown  down 

near  the  western  margin  of  Lough  Foyle,  in  the  in  1260  ;  but  the  Annals  of  Ulster  and  Clon- 

parish  of  Moville,    barony  of  Inishowen,    and  macnoise  agree  in  placing  its  first  erection  in 

county  of  Donegal,  is,  even  at  the  present  day,  the  year  1305. 
called  Caip  lean  nua,  i.e.  New  Castle,  in  Irish  by          '  Clann-Murtough,    Clann 

3Q 


482  aHwaca  Rioghachca  eiraeaNN.  [1306. 

TTlara  occ  6  paijillij  DO  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,  a  pe. 

Oonnchab  6  plaicbfpcaich  eppucc  cille  halaib  paof  cpdbaib  na  njaofbeal 
Decc  i  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,  -|  TTlaijipcip  Comdp 
6  ndan  aipciDeocham  T?dra  boc,  -|  coja  eappuicc  na  hecclaipi  cfcrna  Decc. 

T^oippDealbac  ua  bpiain  ci^fpna  cuabmuman,  pfp  ba  hoipfjoa,  ~\  ba 
pfpp  cpabaib,  i  caoirhofipc,  dj,  ~\  engnarh  bof  in  Gpmn  ina  aimpip  Dbec,  -\ 
Donnchab  a  mac  Doiponeab  ina  ionaD. 

Oorhnall  cuipcpec  6  neitl  DO  mapbab  in  lompairne  la  luchr  nje  uf  neill- 

pfpjal  mag  pajnaill  raoipeac  mumnpe  heolaip  DO  rhapbab  la  a  bfp- 
bpaicpib  i  la  Dpuing  Dia  oipeachr  pein. 

Coccab  mop  ecip  Qob  mac  eojain  uf  concobaip  T?i  Connacc  50  mairib 
pil  TTIuipfbaij  imaille  pip,  ~\  Ctob  mac  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  cpe- 

These    were    the    descendants    of    Murtough  'Poland,   in  the   barony  of  Inishowen,    in  the 

Muimhneach,  the  son  of  Turlough  More  O'Co-  county  of  Donegal,  the  original  locality  of  the 

nor,  Monarch  of  Ireland.  family ;  but  in  the  Island  of  Achill,  in  the  west 

k  Dunbuimie,    now  Dunboyne,    a  small  vil-  of  the  county  of  Mayo,  where  some  of  the  family 

lage  in  a  barony  of  the  same  name,  in  the  south  settled  with  the  O'Donnells,  in  the  latter  part  of 

of  the  county  of  Meath.  the  seventeenth  century,  it  is  less  correctly  an- 

1  Muttingar — This   is   the   first  mention  of  glicised  Thulis. 

Mullingar  in  these  Annals.  According  to  tradi-          n  Killaspugbrone,  cill  eappuicc  6pom,  i.  e. 

tion  the  place  took  its  name  from  a  mill  which  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 

Kilbixy  was  originally  the  head  town  of  West-  sands,  in  the  south-west  of  the  barony  of  Car- 

meath.  bury,  in  the  county  of  Sligo.    For  some  account 

111 0'Tuathalain. — This  name  is  now  anglicised  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,  1306. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  six. 

Donough  O'Flaherty,  Bishop  of  Killala,  the  most  eminent  of  the  Irish  for 
piety,  died  at  Dunbuinne",  on  his  way  to  Dublin,  and  was  interred  with  honour 
at  Mullingar1,  in  the  house  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary. 

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  Tuirtreach0  O'Neill  was  slain  through  mistake  by  the  household 
of  O'Neill. 

Farrell  Mac  Rannall,  Chief  of  Muintir-Eolais  [in  the  county  of  Leitrim], 
was  slain  by  his  brothers  and  a  party  of  his  own  people. 

A  great  war  [broke  out]  between  Hugh,  son  of  Owen  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  and  tribes  of  Breifny.  They  [the  two  armies]  were  for  the  space  of 
four  months  encampedp  at  both  sides  of  the  Shannon.  Some  of  Hugh's  people 
encamped  in  the  Tuathas,  where  they  committed  great  depredations.  Flann, 

ferred  to  the  Tripartite  Life  of  St.  Patrick  as  appears  from  various  examples  of  its  use  in  an- 

published  by  Colgan  in  his  Trias  Thaum.,  and  cient  and  modern  manuscripts,  signifies  a  siege, 

Lanigan's  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  i.  or   encampment,   as,    popbaip.  Opoma   Oarii- 

p.  346.  55a'Pe»  the  encampment  of  Drom  Damhghaire, 

0  Tuirtreach,  i.  e.  of  Hy-Tuirtre,   a  territory  now  Knocklong,   in   the  county  of  Limerick, 

in  the  south  of  the  county  of  Antrim,  for  the  which  is  made  the  subject  of  an  ancient  Irish 

extent  of  which  see  note  a  under  the  year  1 176,  story,  by  which  the  meaning  of  the  word 

p.  25.  baip  is  fully  established. 

p  Encamped. — The  Irish  word   popbaip,   as 

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484  dNNata  Rioghachca  emeaNN.  [1307. 

acha,  i  aipccne  ipui&e.  plann  mac  piacpac  uf  ploinn  abbap  caofpj  pi 
maoilpuam,  ~|  bpian  mac  Donnchaib  piaBaij  ui  concobaip  50  pochaibib  hi 
maille  ppiu  Do  mapbab  Do  muinnp  ainliji  bacrap  05  copaigheacc  a 
ccpeiche.  Gp  iaD  cpa  ba  pfpp  barrap  ap  an  ppopbaip  pin  Ruai&pi  mac 
cacail  uf  concobaip,  Donnchab  mac  Concobaip  an  copam  mic  pfpjail  abbap 
njfpna  moije  luipcc  ap  aj  -|  einec  gup  an  la  pin.  Ci6  cpa  ache  panc- 
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,  -[  mapbcap  Oonnchao  mac  Concobaip  an  copain  50 
nopuing  Dia  mumcip  ma  cimcel. 

Cpeac  mop  Do  Denarii  DO  cloinn  muipcfpcaij  i  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 
na  cpfiche  ipm. 

O  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  oile  pinn  Decc. 

i  Palace. — Charles  O'Conor  writes,  inter  li-  bank,  together  with  some  broad  pavements  an- 

neas,  "  .1.  pailip  cluain  ppaoic."     The  place  nexed  to  it."     The  fort  here  described  forms  a 

is   now   called  Cloonfree,    and  is    a    townland  square,  the  side  of  which  measures  fifty  paces 

situated  about  one  mile  westwards  of  Strokes-  in  length ;  but  it  does  not  bear  any  resemblance 

town,  in   the  county    of  Eoscommon.      It  is  to  Rathcroghan,  as  Keogh  asserts  in  the  above 

described  as  follows  by  the  Eev.  John  Keogh  description. 

of  Strokestown,   for   Sir  William   Petty's   in-  r  Tuaim-da-Bhodar,  now  Toomore,  a  parish 

tended  Atlas  in  1683  :     "  Here   is  a  kind   of  near  Foxford,   in    the  barony  of  Gallen,   and 

fort  (like  Rathcroghan)  four-square,  which  an-  county  of  Mayo.     Gleoir  was  the  original  name 

ciently  was  the  King  of  Connaught's  palace,  of  the  River  Leafony,  in  the  barony  of  Tireragh, 

but  so  very  long  ago  that  the  very  ruins  of  the  in  the  county  of  Sligo. 

building,  if  there  were  any  considerable,  are  'Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmacuoise, 

defaced,  and  no  remainder  of  it  to  be  seen  but  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  contain  the  fol- 

the  said  fort,  the  wall  whereof  is  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 
O'Hanlys,  who  were  in  pursuit  of  them  for  their  prey.  The  most  distinguished 
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  many 
of  their  people  as  had  survived,  until  they  arrived  at  O'Conor's  fortress.  They 
then  burned  the  palace  of  the  King  of  Connaughf.  Hugh,  the  son  of  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 
extending  from  Tuaim-da-Bhodarr  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*. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1307. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  seven. 

Laurence  O'Laghtnair  (i.  e.  a  Grey  Friar),  Bishop  of  Kilmacduagh,  and 
Donough  O'Flanagan,  Bishop  of  Elphin,  died. 

Four  Masters,  though  they  are  in  the  Annals  sinns   as  often  as  he  sayeth  it."     It   is   thus 

of  Ulster:    "A.   D.   1306.    Robert  Bruise  was  given  in  the  old  translation  of  the  Annals  of 

crowned  King  of  Scotland,  against  the  King  of  Ulster  :  "  Anno  1302  (al.  1306).  Nichol  O'Du- 

England's  will.  nacha,  a  young  priest  that  was  in  Drumkliew, 

"  Sir  William  Prendergrass,  a  noble  and  wor-  killed  by  Gerran  Duf  of  the  Barretts,  without 

thy  knight,  died.  any  cause,  but  martirised  him  ;  and  whosoever 

"  Nicholl   O'Dorchie    [recte   O'Donchie],    a  saieth  a  Pater  Noster  for  his  soule,  he  hath  26 

priest  and  a  virgin  from  his  birth,  was  killed  by  dayes  forgivnes  of  his  sins  as  often  as  he  sayth 

the  Black  Horse  [jeappan  ouB]  of  the  Bar-  it." 

retts,    without   any    occasion  ;    and  whosoever          '  Laurence  CPLaghtnan  and  Donougk  CPFla- 

<=ayeth  one  Pater  Noster  and  Ave  Maria  for  his  nagan — O'Lachtnain   is  now   generally  angli- 

soule.  he  shall  have  plenary  indulgence  of  his  oised   Laughnan,    and   sometimes,    incorrectly, 


486 


[1307- 


Oorhnall  mac  caiDg  mic  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 
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  cceal- 
laij  njfpna  6  maine  ace  ac  eapccpac  cuan,  ou  i  rropcaip  pilip  muinDep, 
peaan  mumoep,  ~\  maiu  Dpiu  imaille  pe  pocamhib  nach  ainmmjrfp.  17o 
gabab  ann  Diapmaicc  gall  mac  Diapmaca,  copbmac  mac  cficepnaij,  -\ 
Sippiam  Roppa  comdin,  ace  Do  Ifigofh  iao  lap  ccpioll,  -|  DO  ponpac  pir  ap 
pon  an  baile  Do  lopccab  le  hemann  buicilep.  Ctn  DonnchaD  po  6  ceallaij 
Decc  mppna  gmomaib  pi,  ~|  nip  bo  bap  mp  mioDhlachap  pin  ace  ba  hecc  lap 
njniorhaib  501  le,  ~\  jaipcciD,  lap  rciobnacal  peD  ~\  mafne. 

Ctilbe  mjfn  caiDcc  ui  concobaip  Decc. 

TTlaoileachlainn  6  gaipmlfohaij  caoipeac  cenel  moctin,  i  majnup  mace 
oipeaccaij  Decc. 


Loftus.  The  notices  of  these  ecclesiastics  are 
more  fully  given  in  Mageoghegan's  translation 
of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  and  it  would 
appear  from  these  and  various  other  entries  that 
the  Four  Masters  have  not  fully  copied  the  ori- 
ginal of  these  Annals.  In  Mageoghegan's  trans- 
lation these  entries  run  as  follows  :  "  Laurence 
O'Laghtnan,  abbott  of  Easroe,  abbott  of  the 
Boyle  for  a  time,  afterwards  abbott  of  Cnock- 
moy,  and  at  last  Bishop  of  Kilmacduagh,  died. 

"  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,  devotion,  and  other  good  parts  be- 
longing to  his  function  throughout  all  Europe. 
One  that  never  refused  any  one  whatsoever, 
neighter  for  meat  or  cloathes  :  one  that  main- 
tained, protected,  and  made  peace  between  the 
inhabitants  of  the  province  of  Connaught :  one 
full  of  wisedome  and  good  delivery  to  maintain 
any  thing  he  took  in  hand ;  one  charitable  and 


free-hearted  towards  all  men,  died  penitently, 
of  5  weeks  sicknesse,  the  10th  of  the  Kallends  of 
June." 

The  probability,  however,  is,  that  the  manu- 
script from  which  Mageoghegan  made  his  trans- 
lation had  lost  some  folios  from  Mageoghegan's 
time,  1627,  till  1636,  when  the  Four  Masters 
compiled  their  Annals. 

"  Donnett,  son  of  Teige — This  Donnell  is  the 
ancestor  of  O'Conor  Sligo.  According  to  the 
pedigree  of  the  Conors,  preserved  in  the  Book  of 
Lecan,  fol.  72-74,  he  (Donnell)  had  seven  sons, 
of  whom  Cathal,  King  of  Connaught,  was  the 
most  illustrious. 

u  A  man  distinguished  for  hospitality,  paoi 
nemi£. — The  Irish  word  pao!  means  a  gentle- 
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.  Cu- 
an's  esker  or  ridge,  now  Ahascragh,  a  small  town 


1308.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  487 

Donnell",  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Andreas,  son  of  Brian  Luigh- 
neach,  who  was  son  of  Turlough  More  [O'Conor],  Tanist  of  Connaught,  a  man 
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  Roscommon,  were  taken  prisoners;  but  they  were  afterwards 
set  at  liberty,  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  cowar- 
dice, 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  river,  in  a  parish  of  the  same  Deputie  of  Ireland." 

name,  in  the  east  of  the  county  of  Galway,  where  It  is  thus  less  correctly  rendered  in  the  old 

the  memory  of  St.  Cuan  is  still  held  in  great  translation   of  the  Annals  of  Ulster :    "  Anno 

veneration.     See  Ordnance  Map  of  the  county  1303  (al.  1307).    The  Galls   of  Eoscomon   all 

of  Gal  way,  sheet  61.  killed  by  Donogh  O'Kelly,    King  of  Omane, 

w  Edmond  Hutler.—This  passage,  which  is  so  at  Atheskragh,  where  Philip  Munder,    Magiu 

very  rudely  given  by  the  Four  Masters,  is  thus  Drew,  with  many  more,  were  killed  and  taken, 

rendered  by  Connell  Mageoghegan,  in  his  trans-  Dermot  Gall  Mac  Dermot,    Cormac  Mac  Ke- 

lation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  :  "  A.  D.  therny,  and  the  sheriff  of  Koscomon,  were  taken, 

1307.  The  Englishmen  of  Roscommon  were  all  and  were  enlarged  after  a  while,  making  peace 

killed  by  Donnogh  Moyneagh  O'Kelly,  before  for  the  towne." 

his  death  at  Athaskragh,  where  Phillip  Montyre,  It  would  appear  that  the  town  of  Ahascragh 

John  Montyre,  and  Mathew  Drew,  with  70  other  had  been  burned  by  Edmond  Butler  (who  be- 

persons,  were  taken  and  killed.    Also  the  sheriff  came  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland  in  1312),  and  that 

of  Roscommon,  Dermott  Gall  Mac  Dermott,  and  O'Kelly  had  detained  in  captivity  the  sheriff  of 

Cormack   Mac  Kehernie,  were  by  him  sett  at  Roscommon,  and  his  accomplices,  Dermot  Gall 

libertie,   and  concluded  peace  with  him  for  the  Mac  Dermot  and  Cormac  Mac  Keherny,  until 

burning  of  the  town  by  Edmond  Butler,   then  they  made  restitution  for   the   loss    sustained 


488  awwata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1303. 

Concobap  mac  piacpac  uf  ploinn  Duine  65  ba  peapp  omeac  -[  gaipcceab 
baof  Dia  cenel  DO  ecc. 

Gn  Oapa  heDuapD  Go  piojaoh  op  pajcaib,  ~|  lulij. 

QO1S  CR1OSC,  1308. 
Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpi  ceo,  a  hochc. 

Saijjnen  rembcije  Do  cuicim  i  mainipcip  na  mbpacop  i  l?op  comain  50 
pop  bpip  an  mainipccip. 

Cpeac  mop  Do  Denam  la  TTlaolpuanai&mac  Diapmaca  ap  cloinn  oorhnaill 
HI  concobaip  i  ccpich  coipppe,  -\  cpfch  oile  beop  DO  cloinn  muipcfpcaij  oppa 
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, 
inaioceap  pop  sallaib,  -|  baof  maiDm  oppa  50  pangarrap  Ifc  eapa  Dapa. 
Copcaip  comap  mac  ualcaip  conpcapla  bum  pinne,  a  Dfpbpacaip,  -j  pocaibe 
imaille  piu. 

by  O'Kelly  in  the  burning  of  his  town  of  Ahas-  of  Gascoigne,  and  Lord  of  Ireland,   died  in  the 

cragh.     Mac  Dermot  Gall,  i.  e.  the  Englishman,  35th  year  of  his  reign,  and  in  the  66th  year  of 

was  so  called  for  speaking  the  English  language,  his  age.     After  whose  death  the  crown  of  Eng- 

and  joining  the  English  against  his  own  coun-  land,  Wales,  Ireland,   and  Scotland,  was  given 

trymen.  to  Edward,  surnamed  Edward  of  Carnarvan." 

x  Was  made  king,  oo  piojaoh,  literally  was          i  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmac- 

kinged. — This  term  is  applied  by  the  Irish  an-  noise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  contain 

nalists  to  the  inauguration  of  their  own  kings  the  following  passage,  which  has  been  omitted 

and  chieftains,  but  not  to  the  crowning  of  the  by  the  Four   Masters:   "A.  D.  1307.  Carolus 

kings  of  England,  as  is  quite  evident  from  the  Mac  Anliahanye  was  elected  to  the  Bishoprick 

dates.     Edward  II.,  styled  of  Caernarvon,  the  of  Alfyn,  of  the  one  part  (and  was  abbott  of 

place  of  his  birth,  began  his  neign  on  the  7th  of  Loghke,   who  received  his  orders  at  Ardmach, 

July,   1307,   and  was  crowned  at  Westminster  and  enjoyed  the  profitts  of  the  Bishoprick  for 

on  the  24th  of  February  following.    The  Annals  the   space  of  three  years  and  a  half)  ;  William 

of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  Bremyngham  did  ellect  Molassy  Magooge  [Mac 

contain  the  following  notice   of  the  death   of  Hugo,  or  Mac  Aedha]  of  the  other  side,  to  be 

Edward  I. :    "A.  D.  1307.  Edward  the  Great,  Bishopp  of  the  said  place,  who  resided  in  Rome 

King  of  England,  Wales,  and  Scotland,  Duke  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,  1308. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  eight. 

Lightning2  fell  upon  the  monastery  of  the  friars  of  Roscommon,  and  de- 
stroyed it. 

A  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 
them.  The  sons  of  Donnell  O'Conor  after  this  proceeded  to  Slieve-da-en, 
taking  nothing  with  them  but  their  steeds,  horses,  and  accoutrements.  As 
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  Bunfinne0, 
his  brother,  and  many  others,  were  slaind. 

also  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  631.  b  Leac-Easa-dara,  i.  e.  the  flat  rock  of  Bal- 

This  is  the  last  year  in  the  old  translation  of  lysadare.    This  was  applied  to  a  flat  rock  in  the 

the  Annals  of  Ulster,  preserved  in  the  British  river. 

Museum.     The  Dublin  Irish  copy  extends  to  c  Bunfinne  is  now  anglicised  Buninna,  which 

the  year  1504.  is  the  name  of  a  townland  in   the   parish    of 

z   Lightning. — Mageoghegan  gives  a  strictly  Drumard,  barony  of  Tireragh,  and  county  of 

literal  translation  of  this  in  his  version  of  the  Sligo.     It  is  so  called  from  its  situation  at  the 

Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  :  "  A  thunderbolt  came  mouth  of  a  small  stream  called  the  Finn. 

from  heaven  and  lighted  upon  the  abbey  of  the  d  Many  others  were    slain. — This   passage   is 

Fryers  of  Roscommon,  and  broke  down  the  said  somewhat  better  given  in  the  Annals  of  Clon- 

abbey  on  St.   Stephen's   night,   in   Christmas  macnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  as  fol- 

holy  days."  lows:  "A.  D.I  308.   Moyleronie  Mac  Dermoda 

a  Slieve-da-en — On  an  old  map  preserved  in  tooke  a  great  prey  from  the  sonns  of  Donnell 

the  State  Papers'  Office,   London,  this  moun-  O'Connor  in  the  land  of  Kriche  Carbrey,  in 

tain  is  shewn  as  situated  a  few  miles  south  of  Connaught. 

Sligo,  between  Lough  Gill  and  Colloony.  "  Bryan   O'Dowdie,    and    the    English    of 

3  E 


490 


[1309. 


Cpeach  Oiojalca  t>o  oenom  t>Go6  mac  cachail  ap  a  oeapbpachaip  ap 
Puaibpi  mac  carhail,  oia  po  mapbao  TTIajjmip  mac  TTlajjnupa  nopuing  ele 
imaille  ppip. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1309. 
Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  tpf  ceo,  anaof. 

Qo6  mac  eojjam  mic  Ruai&pi  mic  aoba  mic  cacail  cpoibofipcc,  T?i  Con- 
nachc,  i  ofjabbap  aipopfj  6penn,  aon  jaomel  ba  pfpp  einec  •]  fnjnam 
cainic  ma  pfirhfp  oo  mapbab  la  hQo6  mbpeipneac  mac  cacail  uf  concobaip 
i  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, 


Lwynie  and  Tyrefiaghragh,  tooke  another  prey 
from  the  said  parts. 

"  Clann-Mortagh  also  tooke  another  prey  from 
the  said  sonns  of  Donnell  O'Connor,  after  that 
they  had  agreed  and  delivered  hostages  for  secu- 
rity of  the. peace  before.  After  all  which  preys 
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 
being  there,  assembled  their  forces  and  followed 
them  to  the  said  Mounte.  The  sonns  of  Don- 
nell and  Mac  Donnogh  retrayted  upon  them, 
where  they  gave  them  an  overthrow,  and  put 
them  to  flight,  and  pursued  them  to  a  place 
called  Leack-easa-dara,  where  they  killed  Tho- 
mas Mac  Walter,  Constable  of  the  Castle  of 
Bonnafinne,  with  his  brother,  and  divers 
others." 

e  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmac- 
noise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  contain 
the  two  passages  following,  which  have  been 
omitted  by  the  Four  Masters:  "A.  D.  1308. 
Piers  Gaveston,  a  great  favourite  of  the  King  of 
England,  came  to  this  kingdome  this  year,  and 


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- 
cord the  death  of  Peter  Bermingham,  the  noble 
tamer  of  the  Irish.  He  is  the  Piarus  or  Feorus 
who  was  commonly  called  the  treacherous  Baron 
by  the  Irish,  and  from  whom  the  Berminghams 
seem  to  have  taken  the  surname  of  Mac  Feorais. 
See  note  under  the  year  1305. 

f  Slain  by  Hugh  Breifneach. — It  is  stated  in 
the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  maim 
recentiori  inter  lineas,  that  he  was  slain  with  a 
hatchet  by  Dael  O'Sochlachan,  a  clown  of  a 
tanner :  "  7  in  tDael  ua  Sochlacan  DO  fin  lath 
DO  oa  mapKao  le  cuaij;  .1.  booac  puoaipe." 

8  Coitt  an  Clochain,  i.  e.  the  wood  of  the 
clochan,  or  ford  of  the  stepping  stones.  Ac- 
cording to  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  trans- 
lated by  Mageoghegan,  this  place  is  situated  in 
the  territory  of  the  Brenie  (i.  e.  Breifny).  It  is 
probably  the  place  now  called  Kilclogha,  situated 
in  the  parish  of  Drumgoon,  barony  of  Clankee, 
and  county  of  Cavan.  The  whole  passage  is  trans- 
lated by  Mageoghegan  as  follows  :  "  A.  D.  1309. 
Hugh  mac  Owen  mac'  Rowrie  mac  Hugh  mac 


1309.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


491 


A  retaliatory  depredation  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  'OF  CHRIST,  1309. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  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 
Hugh  Breifneachf,  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  Car- 


Cahall  Crovederg  O'Connor,  King  of  Connaught, 
one  for  birth,  prowes,  liberality,  and  many 
other  parts,  worthy  to  be  king  of  a  [rede  the] 
kingdom,  was  killed  by  Hugh  Breffneagh  mac 
Cahall  Roe  O'Connor,  in  Kilcloaghan,  in  the 
territory  of  the  Brenie,  with  these  ensuing  per- 
sons that  were  killed  at  the  said  place  with  him, 
viz.:  Connor  Mac  Dermoda,  Dermot  Koe  mac 
Teig  mac  Andryas,  Dermott  mac  Cahall  Car- 
ragh  mac  Dermoda,  Hugh  mac  Mortagh  mac  Teig 
mac  Moyllronie,  [and]  Dermott  Oge  O'Hblie, 
who  was  a  modest,  liberal,  and  great  house- 
keeper ;  Moyledownie  the  Galloweglass,  Giller- 
new,  chief  Brehon  of  Conaught,  Fogartagh 
O'Dowailgie  of  the  household  men  of  Tomaltagh 
Mac  Dermott,  with  many  others,  with  the  loss 
of  a  hundred  more  of  them.  After  which  deed 
Hugh  Brenagh  came  to  his  house,  where  the 
three  Thawthies,  that  is  to  say,  the  three  thirds 
of  the  Provence  [No,  but  the  Three  Tuathas  in 
the  east  of  the  present  county  of  Roscommon. 
ED.]  came  to  congratulate  him. 

"  In  the  mean  time  MoyleronieMac  Dermoda, 
prince  of  Moylorge,  with  the  assemblies  and 
forces  of  his  allies  and  friends  of  all  parts,  came 

SR 


to  the  middest  of  Sile  Moriegh,  to  maintain  the 
principalitie,  and  name  of  King  of  Connaught, 
for  his  own  fosterson. 

"  Felym  O'Connor  sent  his  messengers  to  all 
his  friends  and  allies  of  the  English  and  Irish 
that  they  should  come  to  him,  to  assist  him  in 
that  enterprize  ;  and  William  Burke,  with  his 
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  Hugh  Breffnagh  (the 
aforesaid  king-killer),  to  make  him  king  of  the 
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 
the  Inhabitants  to  take  their  oaths  never  to 
yeald  to  any  other  but  to  Felym,  the  said  Mull- 
ronie's  fosterson,  whereupon  William  Burke  re- 
turned to  Olfyn. 

"  Hugh  Brenagh  went  to  Meath  to  meet  with 
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  camp  of  Oghterhirie  aforesaid." 

2 


492  QNNaca  Rio^hacbca  eiReawH.  [1309. 

1  Diapmaic  6  helijp  plaicbpuccaib  DO  bpfpp  ma  aimpip.  Uopcaip  Don  ler 
apaill,  jjiolla  na  naorii  mac  ao&accain  ollam  Connachc  i  mbpficfarhnap,  -| 
aom  pfp  Do  DfppcnaiD  Do  bpfirfrimaibh  na  haimpipe  i  mbaof.  pajapcac 
ua  oobailen,  ~\  Oaoine  oile  nac  aipiriicfp.  Siol  muipfohai^  Do  rabaipc  cijfp- 
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. 

Coinne  Do  Denarii  Duilliam  bupc  ~[  DO  connaccaib  (.1.  Don  mfiD  boi  ma 
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  muipcfp- 
caij  DO  Dol  50  np  noilella.  Qpbanna  iom6a  Do  milleab  Doib,  ~\  toipccce  Do 
benarii.  TTlac  uilliam  Do  recc  cap  coipppliab  anuap  mppin.  T?uai6pi  mac 
Cacail  DO  cop  ap  a  longpopc  Do,  -]  Donnchab  ua  pfonnacca  Do  mapbaD  Do 
ropach  ploijh  meic  uilliam,  "|  Daoine  lomDa  oile. 

Cpeach  Do  Denorh  Do  ITIac  uilliam  i  cloinn  pfpmaije,  -|  cpeach  oile  50 
beinn  julban. 

Concobap  mac  bpiain  puam  uf  bpiain  Do  rhapbaD. 

h  Brughaidh,  i.  e.,  a  farmer.  south  of  the  town  of  Elphin,  in  the  county  of 

'  Chief  Brehon — Ollam  Connacc  i  mbpeir-  Roscommon. — See  note  at  the  year  1288. 
eurhnap,  i.  e.  chief  ollav  of  Connaught  in  law ;          ro  Clann- Mur tough. — These  were  the  descen- 

ollath  signifies  a  chief  professor  of  any  science,  dants  of  the  celebrated  Murtough  Muimhneach 

In  Cormac's  Glossary  it  is  derived  from  oil,  O'Conor.     They  were  at  this  time  moving  from 

great,  and  bdm,  a  learned  man.  territory  to  territory  without  any  fixed  posses- 

i  Lordship,    cijfpnup — This  is  not   a   very  sions;  but  in  the  year  1342  they  became  so 

correct  term  used  by  the  Four  Masters  ;  for  powerful  that  their  chief  leader,  Hugh,  the  sou 

although  the  territory  of  the  O'Conors  was  at  of  Hugh  Breifneach,  became  King  of  Connaught 

this   time   much   circumscribed,    the    O'Conor  in  despite  of  the  O'Conors  of  Sligo,   or  race  of 

was  still  inaugurated  King  of  the  Irish  of  Con-  Brian  Luighneach,  and  of  the  race  of  Cathal  Crov- 

naught,   according  to  the  ancient  Irish  cere-  derg :  but  in  the  succeeding  century  they  sunk 

monies.  into  obscurity,   and  disappeared  from  history. 

k  The,  Plain Qn   ihacaipe,  i.  e.   ITlacciipe  The  pedigree  of  this   tribe  of  the  O'Conors  is 

Connacr,  i.  e.  the  plain   of  Connaught.    It  is  given  as  follows  in  the  Book  of  Leccan,  fol.  72, 

the  level  part  of  the  county  of  Roscommon,  and  el  sequen.  :  I.  Murtough  Muimhneach,  the  son  of 

lies  between  Castlerea  and  Strokestown.  Turlough  More  O'Conor,  monarch  of  Ireland, 

1  Ath  Slisean This  is  still  the  name  of  a  had  four  sons,  namely,  1,  Manus  (the  father  of 

ford  on  the  Abhainn Uar,  a  short  distance  to  the  Donnell  ofErris);  2,  Conor  Roe;  3,  Donough 


1309-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  493 

ragh  Mac  Dermot ;  Hugh,  son  of  Murtough,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Mulrony  ; 
and  Dermot  O'Healy,  a  princely  brughaidh,  the  best  of  his  time".  On  the  other 
side  fell  Gilla-na-naev  Mac  Egan,  Chief  Brehon'  of  Connaught,  and  the  most 
illustrious  of  the  Brehons  of  his  time ;  Faghartach  O'Devlin,  and  others  not 
mentio'ned.  The  Sil-Murray  then  conferred  the  lordshipj  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.  as  many 
of  them  as  were  on  his  side)  with  Rory,  son  of  Cathal,  at  Ath-Slisean1.  They 
violated,  however,  the  rules  of  a  conference,  and  a  battle  was  fought  between 
them,  in  which  Rory  was  defeated,  and  some  of  his  people  were  slain.  Wil- 
liam Burke  went  to  the  abbey  of  Boyle,  and  the  Clann-Murtoughm  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 
O'Finnaghty  and  many  others  were  slain  by  the  van  of  Mac  William's  army. 

A  depredation  was  committed  by  Mac  William  in  Clan-Fearmaighe,  and 
another  at  Binn-Gulban°. 

Conor,  the  son  of  Brian  Roe  O'Brien,  was  slain. 

Keagh ;  and  4,  Conor  Gearr.   II.  Conor  Eoe,  the  the  upspringing  vigour  and  power  of  the  desceu- 

second  son  of  Murtough  Muimhneach,  had  two  dants  of  Cathal  Crovderg,  and  the  O'Conors  of 

sons,  Cathal  and  Manus,  who  were  both  kings  Sligo. 

of  Connaught.      III.  Cathal  Roe,  King  of  Con-  n  His  fortress,  lon%po\\c,  i.e.,  his  fortified  camp. 

naught  in  1279,  had  two  sons,  1,  Rory  (the  fa-          °  Binn-Gulban This  was  the  ancient  name 

ther  of  Teige,  who  was  the  father  of  Murtough  of  a  conspicuous  mountain  in  the  barony  of  Car- 
Balbh) ;  and  2,  Hugh  Breifneach,  a  warrior  of  bury,  in  the  north  of  the  county  of  Sligo.  The 
great  prowess  and  celebrity.  IV.  Hugh  Breif-  name  is  now  corrupted  to  Binbulbin.  The 
neach  had  two  sons,  1,  Hugh,  King  of  Connaught  language  of  this  passage  is  very  rudely  con- 
in  1342,  and  Cathal.  V.  Hugh,  King  of  Con-  structed  by  the  Four  Masters.  It  is  thus  given 
naught,  the  fifth  in  descent  from  the  monarch  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster : 
Turlough  More,  had  one  son,  Dermot,  who  is  "A.  D.  1305  [recte  1309].  Cpec  bo  oenam  le 
the  last  generation  of  this  line  given  in  the  Book  FDac  Uilliam  i  cloino  pepriiuije;  Cpec  eile 
ofLecan;  and  his  brother  Cathal  had  seven  sons,  leip  co  beinn  julban  7  nip  pence  pip.  A.  D. 
namely,  1,  Owen;  2,  Hugh;  3,  Rory;  4,  Manus;  1305  [recte  1310].  A  depredation  was  made  by 
5,  Conor  Roe;  6,  Cathal  Roe;  7,  Murtough;  of  Mac  William  in  Clann  Fermuighe  ;  another  de- 
whose  descendants  no  further  account  is  given,  predation  by  him  as  far  as  Benn  Gulban,  and 
They  were  afterwards  thrown  into  the  shade  by  further  down"  [i.e.  northwards].  The  meaning 


494  aNNata  Rio^hachca  emeawN.  [1310. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1310. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  ceo,  aoeich. 

Concobap  ua  bpiain  piojDamna  Do  bpfpp  ina  aimpip  DO  mapbab  Dona 
jallaib  Dubha  i  meabail. 

TTloipcpfcha  Diojla  Do  Denam  la  hCtoD  tnbpeipneac  -|  le  cloinn  muip- 
cfpcaigh  apcfnq,  ap  maolpuanaib  mac  Diapmacca.  OonnchaD  mac  Donn- 
cham  oapjain  Doib.  6  pfin  i  Dpong  DO  maicib  a  mumnpe  Do  jabail.  Opfm 
oile  DO  mapbaD,  "]  Do  lopccaD  Doib,  a  bfn  injCn  uf  plannaccam  Do  mapbaDh. 

pfpjal  mace  DopcaiDh  Decc. 

Pionnjuala  injfiiTTlajnaip  uf  concobaip,  ~\  Una  injean  QoDa  micpfiDlimiD 
Decc. 

SloicceaD  la  SeppaiD  6  bpfpjail  50  Dun  uabaip,  Du  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 

intended  to  be  conveyed  is,  that  Mac  William  Ireland,  p.  61,  objects  to  this  definition,  and  says 

plundered  the  territory  of  Claim  Fermaighe,  in  that  Roydamhna  was  the  king  elect,  or  prince 

the  county  of  Leitrim,  and  made  another  plun-  appointed  to  succeed  the  reigning  monarch  of 

dering  excursion  as  far  as  the  mountain  of  Bin-  the  whole  island,   or  of  one  of  the  provinces, 

bulbin,  and  beyond  it  to  the  north.  But  it  is  quite  evident  from  the  many  examples 

p  Roydamna — Riojoamna,  signifies  a  king  of  the  use  of  the  terms  throughout  these  and  the 

in  fieri  ;  a  prince  designed  or  fit  to  be  a  king,  older  annals  that  O'Flaherty's  definition  is  cor- 

In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  he  rect.     QbBap  is  indeed  applied  to  kings  and 

is  called  the  best  son  of  a  king  in  Leath  Mogha,  chieftains,  as  well  as  to  professors  of  arts  and 

i.  e.  the  southern  half  of  Ireland.     O'Flaherty  sciences,  but  not  so  often, 

thus  explains  this  word  :  "  Quisque  e  reliquis  i  By  the  black  English. — Oo  na  jallaiB  ouBa. 

families  candidatus  Kiojoarhna  dictus  est;  quod  The  Editor  does  not  know  the  meaning  of  OuBa 

est  regia  materies ;  nimirum  materies  apta  ad  in  this  passage.     It  is  probably  used  to  denote 

recipiendum  regiam  formam  suse.  families.     Si  the  English  lately  come  over,  who  were  black 

vero  liberae,  aut  Mechanics  artis  alumnus  fuerit,  strangers  in  comparison  with  the  Irish-English. 

abbup  tantum,   quod  materiem  etiam  denotat  The  term  is  also  used  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the 

vocatur  ;  quippe  materies  disposita,  ut  tali  pro-  Annals  of  Ulster. 

fessione  informetur." — Ogygia,  p.  58.     Charles  '  Retaliatory  depredations,  moipcpeuca  oto jla, 

O'Conor,  in  his  Dissertations  on  the  History  of  literally  "  great  preys  of  revenge,"  i.  e.,  preys 


1310.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  495 

THE  AGE  OF  CHEIST,  1310. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  ten. 

Conor  O'Brien,  the  best  roydamnap  of  his  time,  was  treacherously  slain  by 
the  black  English". 

Great  retaliatory  depredationsr  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  pri- 
soners ;  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  was  led  by  Geoffrey  O'Farrell  to  Dun-Uabhair,'  where  Donnell, 
son  of  Hugh  Oge  O'Farrell,  Hugh,  son  of  Maelisa,  and  Godfrey,  son  of  Mur- 
tough,  were  slain. 

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. 

Hugh  Breifneach  O'Conor,  the  worthy  heirv  to  the  kingdom  of  Connaught, 

taken  in  reprisal  for  others,  that  had  been  taken  countrey,   but  the  natives  and  inhabitants  of 

by  Mac  Derrnot  from  the  Clann-Murtough.  the  countrey  so  well  behaved  themselves  against 

s  Mac  Dorcy. — This  family  was  located  in  the  them  in  the  defence  of  their  countrey  and  goods, 

territory  of  Kinel  Luachain,  comprising  the  pa-  that  they  killed  Donnell  Mac  Hugh  Oge  O'Fer- 

rish  of  Oughteragh,  in  the  east  of  the  county  of  rail,   Hugh   Mac  Moylissa,   and   Geoffry   Mac 

Leitrim.  Mortagh." 

1  Dun  Uabhair. — This  is  described  in  other          u  The  castle  ofBunfinne,  near  Tanrego,  in  the 

annals  as  in  Mageoghegan's  country  of  Kyne-  barony  of  Tireragh,   and  county  of  Sligo,  in 

leagh,  or  Kinel-Fiachach,  from  which  it  is  quite  Connaught. 

certain  that  it  is  the  present  Donore,  near  Ard-          v  Worthy  heir. — OfjaoBup    Rij  Connaoc, 

nurcher,  in  the  barony  of  Moycashel,  and  county  literally,  "a  good  materies  of  a  king  of  Con- 

of  Westmeath.    This  passage  is  given  as  follows  naught,"  that  is,  one  who,  from  his  descent  and 

in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  personal  qualifications,  might  be  elected  King  of 

Clonmacnoise  :    "  Geffrey  O'Ferall,   with    the  Connaught,  according  to  the  ancient  Irish  cus- 

forces  of  the  Analie,  came  to  Donover,  in  Kyne-  torn.     The  oeaj  aobap,  or  worthy  heir,  was  no 

leagh,   to  take  the  spoyles  and  preys  of  that  always  the  eldest  son  of  the  last  chief. 


496 


CCNNCCCXI 


[1310. 


uiDilm  .1.  Seonacc,  baof  ap  buannachc  aicce  pfm  cpe  peill,  -|  mebail,  i  ba 
cpe  loijioeacc  DO  pinne  innpin. 

piche  eonna  pfona  DO  cop  i  ccip  i  moij  ccet.ne. 

Caiplen  Sliccij  DO  Denarii  Don  mpla  puab. 

pfiolimiD  mac  Go6a  mic  eojjain  uf  concobaip  Do  £abail  ionaiD  a  achap. 

Copbmac  ua  plannaccdin  raoipeac  cuaice  paca  Do  mapbaD  la  henpi 
mac  jillepinnein  caofpeac  muincipe  peoDachdm. 

TTlacpaich  mace  uiDip  canaipi  pfp  manach,  -j  Donn  mac  jiollamicil 
raoipeac  cloinne  con^aile  Do  lopccaD  la  poolb  mag  macjamhna. 


*  Mac  Quittin,  TTlac  Uibilin.— The  head  of 
this  family  was  chieftain  of  the  Koute,  a  terri- 
tory in  the  north  of  the  county  of  Antrim.  This 
family  was  among  the  early  Welsh  settlers  in  this 
country  about  the  year  1 172.  Duald  Mac  Firbis, 
in  his  account  of  the  English  and  Irish  families  of 
Ireland  (Lord  Koden's  copy,  p.  832),  states  that 
the  ancestor  of  the  Mac  Uidhilins,  who  was  of 
Dalriedan    descent,    passed    over   into   Wales, 
where  his  posterity  remained  until  the  reign  of 
Henry  II.,  when  a  branch  of  them  returned  and 
settled  in  the  same  part  of  Ireland  from  which 
their  ancestor  had   emigrated  many  centuries 
before.    This,  however,  is  a  mere  legend,  copied 
from  a  modern  compilation  by  Mac  Firbis,  who 
remarks  that  he  would  not  vouch  for  its  authen- 
ticity: "  ni  jaBaitn  optn  a  n-iomlame  ucc  peb 
puapup  pom." — Id.,  p.  829. 

*  For  a  bribe — It  is  stated  in  the  Annals  of 
Clonmacnoise,  as   translated  by  Mageoghegan, 
that  Mac  Quillin  was  bribed  by  Mac  William 
Burke.     As  the  account  of  this  transaction  is 
so  imperfectly  given  by  the  Four  Masters,  the 
Editor  deems  it  his   duty   to   lay  before  the 
reader  an  account  of  it  given  in  the  Annals  of 
Clonmacnoise,   which  is  much  fuller  and  more 
consecutive  :  "  Hugh  Breffneagh  made  a  great 
prey  called  the  prey  of  Toy  ten,  or  fire  (Cpeac 
an  coicean),   upon   Mulronie   Mac  Dermott  in 
Clogher,  where  Donnogh  Mac  Dermott  was  taken 


prisoner,  and  his  wife  (O'Flannagan's  daughter) 
was  killed  ;  women,  children,  and  many  others 
were  also  there  killed ;  and  encamped  at  Oghter 
heire,  before  Mac  Dermott  and  the  inhabitants 
of  Sile  Morie  :  which  when  Mac  William  Burke 
heard,  he  encamped  at  Kil  Lomatt,  in  the  sight 
of  the  said  Hugh  Breiffneagh.  The  latter  sent 
privie  message  to  his  brother  Rowrie  mac 
Cahall,  that  he  shou'd  go  then,  in  the  absence  of 
William  Burke,  to  his  castle  of  Bonnafynne, 
which  he  did  accordingly,  preyed  and  spoyled 
the  castle  of  Bonnafynne  aforesaid,  and  con- 
verted all  they  could  there  find  to  their  own 
uses. 

"  Hugh  Breffneagh  staid  there  with  his  Bwan- 
naghtmen,  and  their  chief  head,  Johnock  Mac 
Vuellen;  and  when  this  Johnock,  with  his  heired 
Bwannaghtmen,  saw  Breffnagh  all  alone  after 
the  sending  of  the  most  part  of  all  his  forces 
with  his  brother  to  take  the  spoyles  of  Bonna- 
finne  aforesaid,  being  provocked  thereunto  by 
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 
William  Burke  before  made. 

"When  tidings  thereof  came  to  William  Burke, 
Mollronie  Mac  Dermoda,  and  Sile.morie,  to  their 
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),  who  was  on 
bonaght  with  him.     It  was  for  a  bribe"  that  Mac  Quillin  did  this. 

Twenty  tuns  of  wine  were  washed  ashore  in  Magh-Cedney. 

The  castle  of  Sligo  was  erected2  by  the  Red  Earl. 

Felim,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Owen  O'CoHor,  assumed  the  place  of  his. 
father1. 

Cormac  O'Flanagan,  Chief  of  Tuathratha,  was  slain  by  Henry  Mac  Gilla- 
finnen,  Chief  of  Muintir  Feodachainb. 

Magrath  Maguire,  Tanist  of  Fermanagh,  and  Donn  Mac  Gilla-Michil,  Chief 
of  Clann-Conghaile,  were  burned  by  Roolv0  Mac  Mahon". 


followers  and  people  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,  nor  no  parish  without 
oppression,  nor  no  good  man  without  great 
wrong  done  him  during  the  reign  and  govern- 
ment of  William  Burk,  after  the  death  of  Hugh 
Brenagh. 

"  When  Molronie  Mac  Dermott  saw  his  fos- 
terson  Felym  was  sett  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,  who  conjectured  that  if  Molronie  were 
cutt  off,  that  there  would  be  no  resistance  in 
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, 
whether  they  would  or  no ;  whereupon  he 
brought  the  said  Felym  with  him  to  Carne- 
froeigh  (where  they  then  used  to  create  their 
kings),  and  there  made  him  King  of  Connaught 
after  the  manner  used  before  in  his  predecessors' 
tymes ;  he  was  installed  King  with  as  great 
sollemnity,  ceremonies,  and  other  the  customs 


theretofore  practized,  as  anyone  of  his  ancestors 
since  the  time  of  his  ancestor  Bryan  Mac  Eaghy 
Moymeone,  sometime  King  of  Counaught :  also 
the  said  Mollronie  made  a  magnificent  feast  in 
honour  thereof,  with  the  assembly  and  presence 
of  all  the  nobility  of  Connaught,  such  as  none 
of  his  ancestors  predecessors  Kings  of  Con- 
naught  ever  before  him  was  heard  or  read  in 
books  to  have  made." 

From  this  passage  it  is  quite  clear  that  the 
Four  Masters  did  not  fully  copy  the  Annals  of 
Clonmacnoise. 

i  Magh-  Cedne,  a  plain  in  the  south  of  the 
county  of  Donegal,  lying  between  the  rivers 
Drowes  and  Erne. 

1  Was  erected,  DO  ofnurh — In  Mageoghegan's 
translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  this 
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 
King  of  the  Irish  of  Connaught. 

b  Muintir  Feodachain — A  territory  in  the 
barony  of  Magheraboy,  in  the  county  of  Ferma- 
nagh, extending  from  the  Arney  river  to  the 
western  extremity  of  Belmore  mountain. 

c  Roolv. — This  is  a  Hibernicised  form  of 
Ralph,  or  Rudolph. 

d  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmac- 


3s 


498  aNNdta  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [isii. 


aois  CPIOSU,  1311. 

Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpi  ceo  aoeich,  a  haon. 

Oomnall  6  puaipc  ciccfpna  bpfipne  Decc. 

Cpeac  a&bal  Do  &enam*la  cloinn  muipcfpcaij;  i  cconnaccaib,  ~|  jiolla- 
cpiopc  mac  muipjfpa  meic  DonnchaiD  mic  Oiapmaca,  Qo6  mac  copbmaic, 
Donnchab  mac  comalcaij,  uilliam  mac  giolla  appdir,  -\  pocaibe  cen  mocab 
DO  mapbaD  leo. 

SloicceaD  mop  la  huilliam  bupc  ipm  murhain  in  aghaib  an  clapaij,  Carh 
DO  cabaipc  Doib,  maiDhceap  pop  an  cclapac.  6aoi  uilliam  bupc  pop  Dapachc 
05  leanmam  an  mabma.  la&aiD  muincip  an  clapaij  uime  ~\  gab'cap  leo  6, 
apa  aof  ape  ba  copccpac  ip  in  ccarh. 

Cabcc  6  hainliji  Do  mapbaD  Do  Shiupcan  De^erpa. 

CoccaD  mop  i  cruaDmumain.  Car  DO  cabaipr  Do  oonnchab  mac  Con- 
mapa,  -|  Da  oipeacr  (.1.  rpiocar  ceD  6  ccaipm)  Dua  bpiain  -]  Dpfpaib  muman. 
TTlaiDhceap  pop  mac  Conmapa,  mapbrap  epein,  -]  Dorhnall  6  gpaDa  ciccfpna 
cinel  Dungaile  ap  an  lacoip  pin,  -|  ap  Dipime  Don  rpluaj  cfccapDa. 

OonnchaD  ua  bpiain  T?i  muman,  i  aobap  pij  Gpeann  ap  einec  -\  gniorh- 
apcoib  Do  mapbaD  la  TTlupchaD  mac  macjamna  uf  bpiain  i  meabail  mp  pin, 
1  ITluipcfpcac  ua  bpiain  Do  oipOneaD  in  ionaD. 

Loclairm  piabac  6  Dea^aD  DO  TTlapbaD  la  TTlacgamain  mac  oomnaill 
connachcaijh  uf  bpiain. 

noise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,   have  the  of  the  Annals  of  Clomnacnoise  : 

following   entries,    which    have   been   entirely          "  But  by  the  way  this  much  I  gather  out  of 

omitted  by  the  Four  Masters  :  this  Historian,  whom  I  take  to  be  an  authentic 

"  A.  D.    1310.    Tanaye    More    O'Mullconrie,  and   worthy  prelate  of  the  Church,   that  would 

chief  Chronicler    of  Silemorrey,   died    in    the  tell  nothing  but  truth,  that  there  reigned  more 

Spring  of  this  year.  dissentions,  strife,  warrs,  and  debates  between 

"  Joan,  daughter  of  O'Connor  of  Affailie,  and  the  Englishmen  themselves  in  the  beginning  of 

wife   to   Mortagh    Mageoghegan,     chieftain    of  the  conquest  of  this  kingdome,  than  between  the 

Kyneleagh,  died.  Irishmen,  as  by  perusing  the  warrs  between  the 

"  Feral  mac  Mortagh  More  Mageoghegan  was  Lacies  of  Meath,  John  Coursey,  Earle  of  Ulster, 

killed  by  these  of  the  Analie."  William  Marshall,  and  the  English  of  Meath  and 

e  A  great  army.  —  Upon  this  dissension  be-  Munster,  Mac  Gerald,   the  Burks,  Butler,  and 

tween   Clarus    and   De   Burgo,    Mageoghegan  Cogan,  may  appear." 
writes  the  following  remark,  in  his  translation          f  Hy-Caisin  __  This  is  the  name  of  the  origi- 


1311.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  499 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1311. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  eleven. 

Donnell  O'Rourke,  Lord  of  Breifny,  died. 

A  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] ;  William  Mac  Giolla-Arraith  ;  and  many  others  besides, 
were  slain  by  them. 

A  great  armye  was  led  by  William  Burke  into  Munster,  against  Clarus  [De 
Clare],  and  a  battle  was  fought,  in  which  Clarus  was  defeated.  William  Burke 
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  slain  by  Jordan  de  Exeter. 

A  great  war  [broke  out]  in  Thomond.  Donough  Mac  Namara  and  his 
adherents  (i.  e.  the  inhabitants  of  the  cantred  'of  Hy-Caisinf )  gave  battle  to 
O'Brien  and  the  men  of  Munster  ;  but  Mac  Namara  was  defeated,  and  he  him- 
self and  Donnell  O'Grady,  Lord  of  Kinel-Dungaileg,  were  slain  on  the  battle 
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  slain  by  Mahon,  the  son  of  Donnell  Connagh- 
tagh  O'Brien. 

nal  territory  of  the  Mac  Namaras,  in  the  county  by  the  Mac  Namaras,  the  latter  got  possession 

of  Clare,  and  is  only  their  original  tribe  name  of  nearly  the  entire  of  that  part  of  the  county 

transferred  to  their  territory.  The  exact  extent  of  Clare  lying  between  the  rivers  Fergus  and 

of  it  is  preserved  in  the  ecclesiastical  division  Shannon. 

called  the  deanery  of  Ogashin,  which  contains  g  Kind-Dungaile — This  was  the  tribe  name 

the  parishes  of  Quin,  Tulla,  Cloney,  Dowry,  Kil-  of  the  O'Gradys,  and  became,  as  usual,  attached 

raghtis,    Templemaley,    Inchicronan,    and   Kil-  to   their  country.     Since  the  year   1318,   this 

murry-na-Gall ;  but  after  the  year  1318,  when  district  comprised  the  parishes  of  Tomgraney, 

the  Hy-Bloid,  who  had  inhabited  the  eastern  Mayno,  Inishcaltra,  and  Clonrush,  of  which  the 

part  of  the  now  county  of  Clare,  were  defeated  two  latter   parishes   are  now  included  in  the 

by  the  descendants  of  Turlough  O'Brien,  aided  county  of  Galway,  though  sixty  years  ago  the 

3  s2 


500 


Kio§nactica 


[1312. 


Seonacc  mac  ui&ilfn  DO  mapbab  an  gpuiDelaij;  i  mbaile  copaip  bpijoe, 
1  epfin  DO  mapbab  inn  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 
ap  bopo  moije  cceDne,  -|  maoileclainn  mac  Concobaip  pip  a  paiccf  cfnD  an 
me6il  DO  mapbab  ann,  "|  pocaibe  oile. 

Oiapmaic  cleipec  6  bpiain  Decc. 

Oomnall  6  bipn  caoipeac  cipe  bpiuin,  -|  giolla  fopu  6  Oalaij  ollamh  le 
Dan  Decc. 

QO1S  CR1OSC,  1312. 
Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpi  cheo,  a  oech  a  Do. 

Uilliam  mac  pfopaip  aipoeappucc  cuama,  -\  benmichc  6  bpaccdin  eppucc 
luijne  Decc. 

TTlaoileacloinn  mace  ao&a  eppucc  oilepinn  Do  coja  in  aipDeppuccoiD- 
eachr  mama  laparh. 


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 
deanery  of  O  m-Bloid. 

h  Battytoberbride.—  ba\\e.  cobaip  bpijoe,  now 
Ballintober,  a  small  village  which  gives  name 
to  a  barony  in  the  county  of  Roscornmon.  The 
ruins  of  O'Conor  Don's  extensive  castle  are  still 
to  be  seen  here  in  tolerable  preservation.  It 
was  a  square  bawne,  defended  at  each  of  the 
four  angles  by  a  tower  of  considerable  strength 
and  size.  The  number  of  rooms  in  the  four 
towers  was  about  sixteen,  and  some  of  them 
were  of  good  size.  The  north-west  tower  was 
rebuilt  in  1627,  as  appears  from  a  stone  in  the 
wall  exhibiting  that  date  and  the  name  Rury. 
The  other  three  towers  were,  according  to  tra- 
dition, built  as  early  as  the  reign  of  King  John'. 
St.  Bridget's  well,  from  which  the  place  took 
its  name,  is  yet  in  existence  here,  but  not  re- 
garded as  a  holy  well.  Charles  O'Conor  of  Bal- 


linagare,  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 
Don,  which  is  inscribed  with  the  date  1636; 
but  no  epitaph  appears  for  either. 

'  Short  axe,  jedpppariicac. — This  passage  is 
given  as  follows  in  Mageoghegan's  translation 
of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  :  "A.  D.  1311. 
Seonag  or  John  Oge  Mac  Vuellin  was  killed  in 
a  fray  at  Ballentober-Bryde,  by  the  same  Gal- 
loweglasse"  [axe]  "  wherewithall  he"  [had] 
"  killed  Hugh  Brenagh  before  :  Mine  author 
prayeth  God  to  reward  him  that  killed  him  for 
murtheririg  Hugh  Brenagh,  as  before  is  re- 
cited." 

k  Cean-an-Medhil.  —  This  passage  is  entered 
in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster, 
under  the  year  1 307,  as  follows : 

"A. D.  1307.  Cpec  oo  oenurii  le  Peiolitnio 
o  concobuip  pi  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. 

A  depredation  was  committed  by  Felim  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  upon 
the  Clann-Murtough,  on  the  border  of  Magh-Cedne,  where  Melaghlin,  son  of 
Conor,  popularly  called  Ceann-an-Medhil",  and  many  others,  were  slain. 

Dermot  Cleireach  O'Brien  died1. 

Donnell  O'Beirne,  Chief  of  Tir-Briuin™,  and  Gilla-Isa  O'Daly,  an  ollav  in 
poetry,  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1312. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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  Tuam0. 


catlap  bopo  muiji  ceicni  7  maelpeclamn  mac 
concobuip  puaio  pipi  paicea  ceann  in  Ttieiyl 
DO  mupbao  ann  7  oaine  eile." 

"  A.  D.  1 307.  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  per- 
sons, were  killed  there. 

1  Dermot  Cleireach  O'Brien. — His  death  is 
recorded  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of 
Ulster,  under  the  year  1 307 :  but  in  Mageoghe- 
gan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise, 
Dermot  Klereagh  O'Bryen,  King  of  Munster,  is 
said  to  have  been,  deposed  in  1311,  when  Mor- 
tagh  O'Bryen  was  constituted  in  his  place,  and 
the  death  of  Dermott  Klereagh  is  recorded  un- 
der the  year  1313. 

m  Of  Tir-Briuin,  i.  e.  of  the  territory  of  Tir- 


Briuin-na-Sinna,  lying  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Shannon  between  Elphin  and  Jamestown,  in  the 
county  of  Roscommon. 

n  Mac  Aedha,  iriaj  aooa This  name  is 

sometimes  anglicised  Magee  and  sometimes  Mac 
Hugh. 

0  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmac- 
noise, as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  contain 
the  following  passages,  which  have  been  omitted 
by  the  Four  Masters  :  "  A.  D..  1312.  The  Tem- 
ples were  destroyed  thro'  out  all  Christendum 
this  year. 

"  Pyers  Gaveston  was  killed,  the  King's  my- 
nione. 

"  Dervorgill,  daughter  of  Manus  O'Connor, 
King  of  Connaught,  died. 

"  The  feast  of  Easter  this  year  was  in  the 
month  of  March.  26  Martii  Dominica  Pas- 
ckalia." 


502  awNaca  Rioshachca  eiReaNN.  [1315. 

QOIS  CR1OSC,  1313. 
Goip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  cheD,  acpi  oecc. 

UaDcc  mac  amDpiapa  mic  bpiain  luijnij,  ~]  Caral  macTTlupchaib  cap- 
paigh  uf  pfpgail  Decc. 

5'olla  lopa  mag  Dopchaib  Do  mapbab  la  Concobap  ccappach  mac  Diap- 
maca. 

Q018  CR10SU,  1314. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  rpf  cheD,  a  Dech,  acfchaip. 

TTlacha  mace  mbne  eppucc  na  bpeipne  Decc. 

Niall  (.1.  mall  bfcc)  mac  maoileaclainn  mic  coippbelbaij  cnuic  an 
maDma  uf  Domnaill  Do  mapbaD  DQoD  mac  Cfooa  uf  Domnaill. 

TTlara  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  f  eaghpa  oo  mapbaD  la  TTiajnap  mac  uilliam 
uf  eaghpa. 

aois  CRiosr,  1315. 

Qoip  CpiopD,  mile,  cpi  cheD,  a  Dech,  a  cuicc. 

Loinsfp  mop  Do  recc  a  halbain  50  hepinn  la  bfpbparaip  Rig  alban  la 
heOuapD  50  po  jabpac  i  ccpiocaib  ulaD.  Cpfcha  mopa  Do  Denarh  Doib  ap 
muincip  an  mpla  -]  ap  £allaib  na  mibe.  Sluaj  mop  DO  rionol  Don  mpla  i 
nacchaiD  na  nalbanacli.  pfiblimiD  mac  aoba  uf  concobaip  co  nDpuing  moip 

p  Maguibne — In  Harris's   edition    of  Ware's          1  By  his  own  kinsmen,  oa  bpairpifc  p^in 

Bishops,   p.  227,   he  is   called   Matthew  Mac  Mageoghegan  translates  this :    "  Rohalve   Mac 

Duibne,  and  said  to  have  been  a  man  of  great  Mahon  was  killed  by  his  own  brothers."     The 

account  in  his  country.  Irish  word  bpdcaip  originally  signified  a  brc- 


1315.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  503 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1313. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  thirteen. 

Teige,  son  of  Andreas,  son  of  Brian  Luighneach  [O'Conor],  and  Cathal,  son 
of  Murrough  Carragh  O'Farrell,  died. 

Gilla-Isa  Mac  Dorcy  was  slain  by  Cathal  Carragh  Mac  Dermot. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1314. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  fourteen. 

Mathew  Maguibne",  Bishop  of  Breifny  [Kilmore],  died. 

Niall  [i.  e.  Niall  Beg],  the  son  of  Melaghlin,  son  of  Turlough  of  Cnoc-an- 
madhma  O'Donnell,  was  slain  by  Hugh,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Donnell. 

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 
and  very  wealthy  man,  died. 

Manus,  son  of  Donnell  O'Hara,  was  slain  by  Manus,  son  of  William  O'Hara. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1315. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  Jif  teen. 

A  great  fleet  arrived  in  Ireland'  from  Scotland,  commanded  by  Edward, 
the  King  of  Scotland's  brother,  and  landed  in  Ulster.  They  committed  great 
depredations  on  the  Earl's  people  and  the  English  of  Meath.  The  Earl  mus- 
tered a  great  army  to  oppose  the  Scots,  and  was  joined  by  Felim,  son  of  Hugh 

ther;  but  it  is  now  generally  used  to  denote  a  rony  of  Lower  Glenarm,  in  the  county  of  An- 

relative.  trim.     Lodge  (Peerage,  Athenry)  says  that  he 

c  Arrived  in  Ireland. — According  to  Grace's  landed  at  Olderfleet,  which  was  the  old  name  of 

Annals   of  Ireland,    Edward  Bruce  landed  at  Larne  Lough,  in  the  same  county. 
Glondonne,  i.  e.  the  Glendun  River,  in  the  ba-  , 


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  ~\  oip- 
oeapcup  DO  piojDamnaib  Connacc  mun  am  pin,  -|  a  Dfpbpacaip  Oomnall  DO 
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. 

ITlarsamain  mag  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 
mac  Qoba  bpeipmj  Do  mapbaD  po  baoi  DO  Ific  mfic  Diapmaca  an  la  pin. 

O  Domnaill,  .1.  QoD  mac  Domnaill  oicc  DO  cochc  im  caiplen  Sliccij  50 
moppluaj  imaille-pip,  Qn  baile  Do  jabdil  Do,  i  mopan  Do  miliroh  na  rim- 
ceal. 

T7uai6pi  mac  Domnaill  uf  concobaip  Do  mapbaD  la  cfiripn  gallocclac  ap 
pupailfm  Dfpbpopgailli  injine  majnapa  uf  concobaip  rucc  cuppocpaic  Doibh 
aipe. 

Ctmlaoib  6  pfpjail  DO  ecc. 

6  huijinn  paoi  i  noan  DO  ecc. 


*  Mac  Anveely.  —  This  was  the  Irish  name  as-  from  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals 

sumed  by  the  Stauntons  of  Carra,  in  the  now  of  Clonmacnoise,  it  being  the  most  copious  Irish 

county  of  Mayo.  account  of  his  proceedings  in  Ireland  yet  disco- 

'  Muintir-Cearbhallain.  —  This  was  the  tribe-  vered.     It  agrees  very  closely  with  the  Irish  of 

name  of  the  O'Mulveys  and  their  correlatives  the  Annals  of  Connaught  : 
in  the  west  of  the  county  of  Lei  trim.     Their          "  1315.  Edward  mac  Robert  Bruise,  Earle  of 

country  was  otherwise  called  Magh  Nisi  __  See  Carrick,  and  Brother  of  King  Robert,  King  of 

note  at  the  year  1243  and  1270.  Scotland,  Landed  with  a  fleet  of  300  shipps  in 

u  As  the  events  of  this  year  are  so  very  briefly  the  north  of  Ulster,  at  whose  coming  all  the 

and  imperfectly  treated  of  in  the  Annals  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Kingdom,  both  English  and 

Four  Masters,  the  Editor  deems  it  necessary  to  Irish,  were  stricken  with  great  terrour,  that  it 

supply  the  deficiency  by  inserting  here  the  ac-  made  the  Lands  and  Inhabitants  of  Ireland  to 

count  of  the   transactions   of  Edward  Bruce,  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,  mus- 
tered 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 
day  also  slain  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  Anveely0  were  taken  prisoners. 

Mahon  Mac  Rannall,  Chief  of  Muintir-Eolais,  O'Mulvey,  Chief  of  Muintir- 
Cearbhallainp,  and  many  of  their  people,  were  slain  by  Mulrony  Mac  Dermot, 
Lord  of  Moylurg.  Conor  Roe,  son  of  Hugh  Breifneach,  who  fought  on  Mac 
Dermot's  side  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,  Ath-  common,  from  thence  he  marched  on  to  Athlone, 
firdia,  and Rathinore"  [i.e.  Rathmore-Moylinny.  thro'  the  borders  of  Meath  and  Moyebrey,  ac- 
— Ann.  Connaught],  "  harried  and  spoyl'd  all  companied  with  flelym  O'Connor,  King  of  Con- 
Ulster  in  generall,  tooke  their  hostages,  collected  nought ;  their  army  consisted  of  twenty  Co- 
the  revenews  of  that  province  to  himself,  and  hortes. 

made  the  Ulstermen  to  consent  and  acknowledge  "  The  English  army  never  spared  neighther 

him  as  their  King,  delivered  him  the  Regalities  spiritual!  nor  Temporall  Land,  in  every  place 

belonging  to  the  King,  and  gave  him  the  name  where  they  came,  without  respect  of  Saint  or 

of  King  of  Ireland.  Shrine,  or  sacred  place,  from  the  river  of  Synen 

"  When   Richard   Burke,    Earle   of  Ulster,  of  the  South,  to  Cowlerayne  of  the  North,  and 

heard  that  Edward  Bruise  was  thus  arrived,  Innis   Owen.     As   this   great   army  was  thus 

and  that  he  usurped  the  name  of  King,  and  ex-  marching  on,  spoyleing  and  destroyeing  all  places 

ercised  the  before  recited  tyranies,  he  out  of  all  in  their  way,  they  saw  Edmond  Butler,  then 

parts  gathered  a  great  army  with  him  to  Ros-  Deputy  of  Ireland,   likewise  marching  on  to- 

3  T 


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comata 


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aois  CRIOSU,  me. 

Qoif  C|i»ofcf  nnlc,  cpi  chco,  croech,  abc 
oo  ewnol  la  peilim  6  cco-ncofcnp,  Ic  THac 


galknfc  wpcai|i  comachc.     Uocr  0016  50  cocap  mona  comnearw. 


wanbdKMwidb  30 

%4diera,  amed  «t  all  paint*  at  wbcee  light  tW 

Eati  waa 


find 


VOW  to  expel 

ovt  of  all  dK  KingdoMe, 
' 


•car  tk*  Mowrte  «Wl*d  OtuAny  [v*  mo6 
fH«*e  bpco^  —  AMU.  CviuuHijQ  and  Edwwd 
*  SeoMiA  wd  Ukttraxn,  *t 
;  Ae  E«k  tibe  aext  daf  Mlowcd 
ftd  «  tibe  towne  <A  Loodk 
fioHce,  to  ««ke  M«e  Mhwottge  of 


*  few  kiD«d<t«idMr  tide, 

MA«  for  Cdmad  Bnwe,  ad  lw  wwj,  by 
Ae  f«oc«n>Mat  of  OTTtafe  «od  Ubtcnwa,  he 
v«ifce  Ui  ymnty  to  CVjwkr^n*  of  die  Korifc 
•«d<odwborJc»«fIan«yir«a,Md  fefl  dowae 
Md  fmfce  tfc*  Bridge  of  Cowknyae,  to  Mopp 
die  Ecriefr  fumft  «r«r  die  Kmr  of  Bom, 
•few  dK  E«4e  fefemd  OBtiH  he  CMK  to  tW 
M*e  mer,  Md  fhw  dM»ce  dm/  Ubter,  wfcoe 
«•  dMirowrae  of  fpojMaf 


Cbordt  or  Cbsppd  [putoU,—  >4»n. 
in  MDodi  dwt  diejr  did  not  Icvre  ne»- 
«f  Corae  oadettrojred,  nor  towne  «n- 
""^yii'C'lf1^   piece  fwcfe  it 
49  deleft)  voMteffcw 

to  neere  M!M>,  dK  rerjr 
dMtkjrndMir«i^riDtodwbMtrftoaau  The 
af  «Udb  wario  ofbr/ds  «dt»  of  die 
mw  M  MKO0r«*k*t,  dwt  MsdKr 


coo'd  header  or  ofend  die  odier,  for  dtey 
s  •ewrad  fro*  e*eh  od»«T  by  die  Mid  deep, 
•oodb  ruamog  rirer;  aererdidm 
diey  bad  daily  tone  Mootiag  of  raovei  of 
bodi«dc»ofd>em«r. 


hearing  of  dK  great : 
of  FeijM  O'Connor,  King  of  CoMiaaght,  y« 
dien  waa  widt  dK  red  Eerie,  be  teat  1am  pmie 
:  y*  be  would  give  bia  y*  province  of 
x/stion,  and  to  adhere  to 
and  akw  to  rctarne  from  die  Eerie  to 
prorence,  tow*  offer  the  Mid 
Feiym  tyftened  and  acknowledged  to  accept  of 
ban.  In  dK  mew  tone  Bowrie  n*  Cabal. 
(/Connor  teeing  hwnaetf  to  bare  bia  opporto- 
nity  in  dK  abaenee  of  Fdym  and  bia  nobiea 
dnt  went  wid»  him  in  dK  journey  of  Utaer, 
be  alao  Made  bia  repair  towarda  Edward  Brtme, 
widi  wboM  be  bad  aeerett  coMMWticatka,  and 
proMiaed  dK  Mid  Eerie  to  bani»b  aO  Eng- 
UchMen  from  out  of  aU  Conaaugbt,  if  Ed- 
ward would  be  pleaaed  to  accept  of  hk  </wn 
wrvke.  Edward  aodxrrized  him  to  warr« 
againat  EngfiahnMn,  and  not  to  Meddle  witb 
dK  kndaofFfelyM.  But  Kc/wrie  baring  fee* 
that  ftrour  of  Bnuee  be  did  not  only  war  • 


WmtfiAmtn,  bat  ak*>  upon  FWym  and  bia  par- 
taken, and  aoogbt  all  mean*  to  f «U  dK  Kinie- 
6am  of  CoMHNwbt  into  bia  #wn  baada,  awl  im- 
MtdiaUiy  aa»embkd  togedier  Br«nyn««,  and 
cTMt  cxMpaoiea  of  OaflowglaMe*  and  O/n- 
•aaftbniirn,  and  Made  towaida  dK  middk  parta 
«f  Siknorref,  where,  first  of  all,  be  >/arnt  dM 
atraet  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  arm j  vas  mustered  by  Fefim  O*Conor.  brMacFecnib 
ham].  ^  the  English  of  West  Connftoghi     They  marched  to 


otaardtoM 

MtdkoU   tb 

*  •*      •Mwhi  c*MrtcBn  to£9UMf  fooT  i 
It     w»Ji  1 111  ttfia  tfctt  irk*  »-> 

l«fkma« 
td«o«s«tWO-     •»  ftr  k»  ow»  ftetar  fiftbtr.  3f 


I  VMlll  tt  Aft  tBM  rf  tfct  bnHtH*  rf      Jfcjl>H%  3BCMMF  It 


Morrey.  F**7™t  «•*  *•"".'  •>  *•«*»  «f  <*«  w 
oMBtrcr  ••  he  nffMMl  to  «6ek  «t>  fthm  ki 
OtToaaor.  and  tb«  wow'd 


•    -     - 


of  F«hrm  «*d  k»     FWtim  and 
la  »W  •*»  OM  F»-     iniUMr  i  « 
lia  QTuuui  l^ii^l  »ii^  hiarntf  Thil  F  irrii 

iakbab- 


kow  KowrW  «o«U  ««rr  a^anst  koa  w  Co»-  UkwnM*  fittnrai  tknat,.  a*i  «s  ti*?T  wt«  »« 

br  this  opportviitT  k«  k*d  ia  tfceir  nbauaou.  ««M  t*kv«.»iO»  ttwnro^y 

•e  MtoJNWi  to  VHJH%  troM  tht  tlh^  ma  fiuit  kuMMMfe  tool 

to  dWo*d  kjs  f^T^  i»  Oo^MMkcku  vko  ck*Mvi  frai 

thro"  Uktar  aad  Criott  kmd  not  <MMBM;  iito  t 

ont  d«T  of  lost,  bwt  oMUraall  MOHBitt  a*d  kodi  of  tk*  EM&k  a*ol  lri$h. 

;  umuU  b«  c*B»«  K>  Granard.  and  *>  a  kow*.  m  kofo  to  bo  tolkwi  bx 

3x2 


508 


[1316. 


Ua  concobcnp  Ri  Connachr  Do  bul  ina  najhaib  Ifon  a  pocpaicce,  lomcnpecc 
Do  cop  fccoppa,  bpipean  pop  17uampi,  6  pfin  DO  riiapBaD,  ~[  na  mctice  pi  ele 


oppression  of  Rory  O'Connor.  These  ensuing 
persons  were  the  chiefest  men  of  note  that  had 
recourse  to  him  :  Felym  O'Connor,  Kinge  of 
Connaught  ;  Mortagh  O'Bryen,  prince  of  Tho- 
mond;  Mullronye  Mac  Dermott,  prince  ofMoy- 
lorge  ;  Gilbert  O'Kelly,  prince  of  Imanye  ;  who 
all  were  banished  out  of  their  lands  and  posses- 
sions. 

"  When  they  were  thus  mett,  and  that  Mull- 
ronye Mac  Dermott  saw  so  manie  exiled  Noble- 
men together  in  one  house,  he  recounted  with 
himselfe,  was  abashed,  and  said,  that  he  would 
never  after  be  reckoned  amongst  so  many,  or 
that  number  of  deposed  Chieftains,  but  would 
repay  re  to  Teige  O'Kelly,  by  whose  intercession 
he  thought  to  come  in  favour  and  credit  of  Rorye 
and  get  his  own  again,  which  accordingly  was 
done,  upon  yielding  of  hostages  by  the  said 
Mullronie  to  Rory  O'Connor  for  keeping  his 
allegiance  and  Fidelity  with  him. 

"  Hugh  Ballagh  O'Connor  was  treacherously 
killed  by  Cahall  mac  Donnell  O'Connor;  Hugh 
mc  Art,  and  Dermot  mc  Symon  ne  Traye,  were, 
in  like  manner,  killed  by  him  in  revenge  of  his 
Father,  that  before  was  killed  by  the  said  Der- 
mott. 

"  Donell  the  next  day  took  a  great  preye  from 
the  sonnes  ofMortaugh,  where  Magnus  mc  Mag- 
nus, and  Donell  his  brother,  were  killed  in  pur- 
suit thereof,  and  Tomaltagh  mc  Donnogh  was 
taken  captive,  after  committing  of  which  ex- 
ploite  they  took  parte  and  partaked  with  the 
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, 
went  to  the  sonnes  of  Donnell  O'Connor,  vidzc. 
to  Rorye,  Magnus,  Cahall,  Mortagh,  Donnogh, 
John,  and  Teige,  and  after  someconference  had, 
they,  with  the  help  of  their  kinsmen,  and  such 


others  as  joined  with  them,  preyed  Bryen 
O 'Dowdy e,  took  another  prey  from  Arteagh  of 
Dermott  Gall,  killed  -many  of  his  people,  and 
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- 
Cwirck,  and  they  could  not  drive  the  prey  by  rea- 
son of  the  greate  moisture  of  the  bogge,  because 
the  feete  of  the  Cattle  waded  so  deep  in  the 
Moore,  and  also  being  pursued  by  a  greate  com- 
pany, insomuch  that  all  the  forces  of  the  sonnes 
of  Cahall,  and  that  partye  did  overtake  them, 
with  Mahon  Mc  Granell,  chieftain  of  Moyntir- 
eolis,  with  his  kinsmen  and  followers.  Mac  Der- 
mot, hearing  the  clamorous  noise  of  the  Drivers, 
and  such  as  were  about  the  said  prey,  coming 
to  Cara  [Cowla-Cwirc]  aforesaid,  he  followed 
them  to  Kowlevaher,  and  seeyinge  the  preye 
stayed,  and  like  to  be  kept,  by  the  owners,  he 
did  not  well  like  it,  but  had  rather  their  prey 
should  be  taken  by  Felym  and  his  adherents. 
Whereupon  he  imediately  assisted  Phelym, 
notwithstanding  the  greate  multitudes  that 
were  against  him,  and,  upon  the  suddaine,  Con- 
nor Roe  mac  Hugh  Breffnye  O'Connor  was  kill- 
ed, Mahon  Mc  Granell,  chieftaine  of  Moyutere- 
olais  O'Mullmyay,  chief  Moyinnter  Kervallan, 
etc. ;  and  discomfitted  these  that  withheld  their 
prey  from  Felym,  took  the  preye  himself. 
without  restitution  to  the  owners,  came  that, 
night  to  the  Abbey  of  Boyle,  the  next  day  over 
Segass  North-easterlye  from  thence  to  Kowll 
Offynn,  to  the  Korann,  and  to  the  Country  of 
Lwynie,  where  Ffelym  expected  his  coming. 
When  Rorye  O'Connor  heard  that  Mullronye 
Mc  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 


Coinneadha".     Rory,  the  son  of  Cathal  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  came 
against  them  with  all  his  forces  ;  and  a  battle  was  fought  between  them,  in 


from  all  parts  his  forces,  and  with  them  encamp- 
ed that  night  at  Ballymore  O'fflyn ;  made  little 
respect  of  the  reverence  due  to  the  churches 
of  Kill-Athrachta  and  Easse-da-chouua  ;  and 
preyed  the  moncks  of  the  abbey  of  Boyle. 

"  Tomaltagh  mc  Morgiessa  Mc  Donnogh,  with 
all  his  followers  and  dependants,  went  to  assist 
Ffelym;  Dermott  Gall  went  to  Crwachann,  the 
King's  Pallace,  and  Teig  O'Kelly  went  to  assist 
Rowrie,  and  there  followed  his  promise  of  alle- 
giance upon  Mullronie  Mac  Dermott ;  and  being 
so  joined  together  they  pursued  Felym  and 
Mullrony  to  Letter-Long  [leicip  luijne,  Ann. 
Conn.~\,  and  to  the  borders  of  the  mount  of  Sliew- 
gawe,  and  also  to  the  valley  called  Gleanfahrowe, 
where  infinite  numbers  of  Cowes,  Gerans,  and 
sheep  were  killed  by  them.  They  strip'd  Gentle- 
men [mnu  uair-le,  i.  e.  gentlewomen.  Ann.  Conn.'] 
that  could  make  no  resistance  of  their  cloaths 
to  their  naked  skinns  ;  destroyed  and  killed 
without  remorse  children,  and  little  ones  of  that 
Journey.  There  was  not  seen  so  much  hurt 
done  in  those  parts  before  in  any  man's  memory, 
without  proffit  to  the  doers  of  the  harm.  Mull- 
ronie Mac  Dermott  hearing  that  Dermott  Gall 
sate  in  the  privilege  seat  of  his  ancestors  at 
Carrick  of  Loughke,  and  with  honour  conveigh- 
ed  to  Cruachan  [cpuaccm],  to  enjoye  the  prin- 
cipality belonging  to  himself  as  his  right,  and  that 
he  made  havouck  and  killed  all  his  Cowes  at 
Gleanfahrowe  (as  before  is  specified),  he,  with  his 
household,  and  such  other  as  he  had  in  readiness 
for  the  purpose,  march'd  towards  Carrick,  turned 
his  back  to  Kara  and  Synen,  and  the  three  Ker- 
ryes,viz[.  the  Lower  Kerrie,  Kerrie  Moy-Ie,  and 
Kerrie  Arthie,  with  their  Cattle :  it  is  thought  that 
in  these  days  there  was  not  such  an  assault  given, 
or  such  a  prey  taken,  by  any  man  whatsoever, 
lor  they  made  all  the  country  to  shake  for  their 


fear.  The  wife  of  Mac  Dermott  Gall  was  taken 
prisoner  at  once  with  the  said  prey,  together 
with  a  few  of  her  gentlewomen.  Dermott  Gall, 
after  that  day,  never  enjoyed  any  happy  day  ; 
besaught  restitution,  and,  upon  refusal!,  preyed 
Moylorge  ;  took  all  the  cowes  and  horses  they 
could  meet,  notwithstanding  Dermott  had  warn- 
ing before,  which  did  nothing  availe  him,  al- 
though he  had  a  great  assembly  of  people  before 
them,  and  left  Moylorg  waste  and  voyde  of  cat- 
tle. There  was  no  respect  of  either  temporall  or 
Church-land  in  that  country ;  their  cattle,  corn, 
and  other  things  were  snatched  even  from  the 
very  altars,  and  delivered  over  to  the  Gallow- 
glasses  for  their  wages. 

"  The  towne  of  Dunmore  was  burn't  by  Row- 
rie O'Connor. 

"  Eaghroym  O'Manie  (Aughrim),  was  burnt 
by  the  said  Rowrie,  and  the  Castles  thereof  fal- 
len downe. 

"  The  Cantred  of  Moynmoye  was  wasted  and 
destroyed  by  Teig  O'Kellie. 

"  Felym  O'Connor,  mac  Dermod,  Tomaltagh 
mac  Donnogh,  and  the  sons  of  Donnell  O'Con- 
nor, partaked  with  the  English  of  Ighter  Con- 
naught,  and  after  they  accorded  peace  with  them 
they  destroyed  Tyrenna  Tyrneaghten,  Moyntyr 
Kreghan,  and  the  demense  of  Dunmore,  called 
Convacknie. 

"  Richard  Burk,  Earle  of  Ulster,  called  the 
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  inha- 
bitants, great  scarcitie  of  Victualles  and  slaugh- 
ter of  people,  and  some  ugly  and  fowle  weather. 

"  Hugh  O'Donnell,  prince  of  Tyreconnell, 
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 
mac  cfceapnaij  caoipeac  ciappaijje,  -|  pocaibe  oile  Duaiplib  a  jallocclac,  -| 
a  mumcipe  pampfoaiji. 

T?i£e  Connacc  Do  jabail  Dpelim  apip.  Slo£  mop  Do  cecclamaD  Do  Dionn- 
paijpD  aca  Ifcain,  "|  an  baile  DO  lopccab  Ifp.  Slemne  De^ecpa  ciccfpna  an 
baile  DO  mapbab  leo,  -j  an  goccanach  beop,  .1.  an  bapun  ba  paofpe  in  Gpinn 
ma  aimpip,  -]  lomar  ^all  ele  apcheana  •]  eoala  mopa  DO  Denam  Doib. 

Sloicceab  lanmop  DO  cionol  la  pelimib  6  cconcobaip  imaille  pe  mainb  an 
cuiccib.  t>a  Dia  maicib  pbe  Oonnchab  ua  bpiain  50  maichibh  murhan,  O 
maoileachlainn  T?f  mibe,  Ualgapcc  na  puaipc  cijfpna  bpepne,  O  pfp^ail  cicc- 
fpna  mumcipe  hanjaile,  caDj  ua  ceallaij  cijfpna  6  mame,  TTlajnap  mac 
Dorhnaill  uf  concobaip  ranaipi  Connacc,  Ctpc  6  hfjpa  cijeapna  luijne,  -] 
bpiano  DubDa  ciccfpna  ua  ppiacpac.  UiajaicpiDe  uile  johacnapioj.  T?o 


wife,  the  daughter  of  Magnus  O'Connor,  and 
came  herself,  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  fal- 
len down  by  O'Donnell  of  that  Journey." 

v  Tochar  mono,  Coinneadha — This  is  the  name 
of  a  celebrated  causeway  in  the  parish  of  Tem- 
pletogher ,  in  the  barony  of  Ballimoe  (anciently 
called  Clanconway),  in  the  county  of  Galway. 
See  it  referred  to  at  the  years  1225,  1255,  and 
1262. 

w  Ciarraighe. — A  territory  in  the  county  of 
Mayo,  comprised  in  the  present  barony  of  Cos- 
tello. 

x  His  own  particular  friends, — This  passage  is 
repeated  in  the  autograph  by  a  mistake  of  the 
transcriber. 

i  Ath  leathan,  i.  e.,  Broad  ford,  now  Ballyla- 
han  in  the  barony  of  Gallen  and  county  of  Mayo, 
formerly  the  seat  of  Mac  Jordan  de  Exeter. 

'  A  very  great  army — The  account  of  the 
battle  is  more  fully  given  in  the  Annals  of  Clon- 
raacnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  and  is 


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" 
[Ricupo  pailjech  peln- — Ann.  Conn.'],  "and 
made  a  great  slaughter  of  his  people. 

•'  After  which  things  Ffelym  O'Connor  ga- 
ther'd  together  a  huge  armie  both  of  Irish  and 
Englishmen,  among  whom  the  Lord  Bermyng- 
ham,  Mullronie  Mac  Dermott,  the  sons  of  Don- 
nell  O'Connor,  and  other  noblemen  (which  for 
brevity's  sake  I  omitt),  are  not  to  be  forgotten, 
to  give  battle  to  Eowrie  mac  Cahall  Roe  O'Con- 
nor, which  [who]  took  the  kingdom  of  Con- 
naught  before  of  the  said  Ffelym.  Being  so 
accompanied  they  marched  on  towards  Silemor- 
rey;  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, 
and  being  so  sett,  he  saw  Ffelym  and  his  ffoster- 
father,  Mullronie  Mac  Dermodda,  with  their 
squadrons  well  sett  in  battle  arraye,  fiercely 
make  towards  him,  Ffelym  himself  and  his  fos- 
ter-father, Mullronie,  in  the  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 
army,  and  marched  against  Ath-leathany ;  he  burned  the  town,  and  slew  Slevin 
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  armyz  was  mustered  by  Felim  O' Conor  and  the  chiefs  of  the 
province  [of  Connaught].  Among  these  chiefs  were  the  following,  viz.  Donough 
O'Brien,  with  the  chiefs  of  Munster  ;  O'Melaghlin,  King  of  Meath  ;  Malgary 
O'Rourke,  Lord  .of  Breifny;  O'Farrell,  Lord  of  Annaly;  Teige  O'Kelly,  Lord  of 
Hy-Many;  Manus,  son  of  Donnell  O'Conor,  Tanist  of  Connaught;  Art  O'Hara, 
Lord  of  Leyny;  and  Brian  O'Dowda,  Lord  of  Hy-Fiachrach.  They  all  marched 
to  Athenry".  The  English  of  West  Connaught  mustered  their  forces,  to  oppose 


"  rank,  together  with  the  most  part  of  the  Eng- 
lish of  Connaught,  especially  of  that  part  of  the 
Provence  following  them,  and  drawing  to  a  place 
in  his  presence  called  Togher  Mone  Konneye. 
The  Connoughtmen,  with  their  King,  Rowrie 
mac  Cahall  O'Connor,  mett  them  in  the  same 
place,  where  King  Rowrie  and  his  army  by 
the  multiplicity  of  hands  and  arms  against  him, 
was  quite  overthrown  and  discomfitted  ;  King 
Rowrie  himself  (a  man  of  wonderful  prowes ;  a 
destroyer  of  foreigners,  and  an  expeller  of  them 
out  of  the  Kingdom),  was  killed :  also  Dermott 
Gall  Mac  Dermott,  prince  of  Moylorg;  Cormack 
Kehearnie,  prince  of  Kerrie  ;  Gillechriste  Mao 
Dermodda,  Connegan  Mac  Cunneagan,  Donnell 
Mac  Coneagan,  Donnogh  Mac  Rowrie,  with  a 
hundred  Gallowglasses,  and  divers  others,  were 
killed:  Dermott  and  Donnell  O'Boyle,  and  also 
Robock  Bremyngham  of  the  other  side  were 
hurt.  This  battle  was  given  the  7th  of  the  Ka- 
lends of  March  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1316. 

"Felym   O'Connor   afterwards   took   all  the 
preyes  and  spoyles  of  all  that  belonged  to  Rowrie 


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 
from  Easroe  in  Ulster  to  Eaghtge  ;  took  hostages 
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  whome  he  went  to  banish  the  English  of 
Connought ;  immediately  burnt  the  town  of 
Athlehan ;  killed  Stephen  Dexeter  therein,  Miles 
Cogan,  William  Prendergass,  and  John  Stanton, 
Knights;  and  also  William  Lawless,  with  a  great 
slaughter  of  their  people.  He  burnt  all  the 
contrey  from  the  place''  [called]  "  Castlecorran 
to  Roba;  took  all  their  preyes  and  spoyles;  re- 
turned to  his  house  with  a  ritch  booty  of  his 
enemies,  and  a  fortunate  success  in  his  affairs.'' 
a  Atkenry,  cir  na  pi£.  i.  Alhenria,  i.  e.  Regum 

Vadum Ogygia,  p.  16.     It  was  a  borough  or 

corporate  town  in  a  barony  of  the  same  name  in 
the  county  of  Galway,  but  now  an  obscure  village 


512  aNwaca  RK^hachca  eirceciNR  [I3i(j. 

cionoilpioc  cpa  joill  lapcaip  connacc  ina  najhaib,  .1.  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 
jaoibelaib  po  beoib.  TTlapbcap  peblimib  6  concobaip  l?i  Connacc  ip  in 
ccainopjail  pin,  ~\  ba  hepibe  enjaoibel  ap  moa  pe  a  paibe  puil  05  peapoib 
6peann.  T?o  mapbab  bfop  cabcc  6  ceallaij  ciccfpna  6  maine  -|  occap  ap 
picic  ouaiplib  pil  cceallaij  imaille  pip,  TTlajnup  mac  Domnaill  uf  Concobaip 
canaipiConnachr,  Qpr  ua  heajpa  cijeapna  lui^ne,  TTIaoileachlainn  cappacli 
6  oubhoa,  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,maoilpec- 
lainn  occ  mac  majnupa,  Seaan  mac  mupchaib  uf  maoabam,  Domnall  mac 
Qo&a  uf  concfnamn  ciccfpna  ua  noiapmaca,  ~\  TTluipcfpcac  a  bfpbpacaip, 
TTlupcliab  6  maoaoam,  Domnall  6  baoijill,  -|  DonnchaD  ua  maolmuaib  cona 
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 
giollacpipc,  ITlupchaD  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 
pe  Docaip  uf  Dobailen  pfp  lomcapca  -]  lomcoimeoa  bpacaije  uf  Concobaip, 

without  a  market.     According  to  the  Annals  of  suspected  that  it  is  one  drawn  from  his  own 

Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  imagination,  as  he  does  not  tell  us  where  it  is 

Felim  O'Conor  mustered  this  army  to  banish  preserved.     However  his  remarks  on  it  and  the 

William  Burke  out  of  Connaught.  Dr.  O'Conor  result  of  the  battle  are  amusing,  and  shall  be 

gives  a  curious  account  of  the  battle  of  Athenry  here  laid  before  the  reader  : 
in  his   suppressed  work,   Memoirs  of  the  Life          "  Such  was  the  speech  of  Felim,  and  so  great 

and  Writings  of  Charles  0'  Conor  of  Belanagare,  was  the  enthusiasm  of  his  army  that  10,000 

p.  79-     He  remarks  that  the  English  were  well  of  his  men,   and  twenty-nine  of  the   subaltern 

armed  and  drawn  up  in  regular  systematic  ar-  chiefs  of  Connaught  were  killed  in  this  deci- 

ray,  commanded  by  Sir  William  de  Burgo  and  sive  engagement.     Tradition  says  that,  like  the 

Richard  de  Bermingham  ;    and  that  the  Irish  Fabian  family,  the  O'Conors  were  so  completely 

•fought  without  armour.  He  also  gives  the  speech  defeated,   that  throughout  all   Connaught   not 

said  to  have  been  delivered  to  the  Irish  army  by  one  man  remained  of  the  name,   Felim's  bro- 

Felim  O'Conor  before  the  battle;  but  it  is  to  be  ther   excepted,    who  could   be   found   able   to 


1316.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  513 

them,  namely,  William  Burke;  the  Baron  Mac  Feorais  [Bermingham] ,  Lord  of 
Athenry;  and  the  greater  part  of  the  English  of  Leath  Chuinn.  A  fierce  and 
spirited  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 
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 ;  Art  O'Hara,  Lord  of  Leyny  ;  Me- 
laghlin  Carragh  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'Con- 
cannon,  Lord  of  Hy-Diarmada,  and  his  brother  Murtough;  Murrough  O'Madden; 
Donnell  O'Boyle  ;  Donough  O'Molloy,  and  his  people  along  with  him  ;  Mur- 
rough, the  son  of  Murrough  Mac  Mahon,  and  one  hundred  of  his  people;  Niall 
Sinnagh  [the  Fox],  Lord  of  the  men  of  Teffia,  and  his  people ;  Farrell,  son  of 
John  Gallda  O'Farrell ;  William,  son  of  Hugh  Oge  O'Farrell ;  Thomas,  son  of 
Auliffe  O'Farrell;  and  five  of  the  Clann-Donoughb,  namely,  Tomaltagh,  son  of 
Gilchreest;  Murrough,  son  of  Donough;  Conor,  son  of  Teige;  Murtough,  son 
of  Donough ;  and  Melaghlin,  son  of  Donough.  In  this  battle  were  also  slain 
John  Mac  Egan,  O'Conor's  Brehon;  Gilla-na-naev,  son  of  Dailredocair  O'Devlin, 

carry  arms.    The  annals  remark  that  they  were  government,  and  the  insulted  sufferers  of  all  the 

defeated  by  the  superiority  of  the  English  arch-  calamities  which  her  mercantile  monopoly  has 

ers,  who  swept  off  every  thing  that  opposed  them,  brought  upon  all  three. 

and  that  Felim  was  killed  on  the  field  of  bat-  "  Cox  boasts  that  '  after  this  battle  the  Ber- 
tie in  the  twenty-third  year  of  his  age,  and  minghams  took  a  prey  of  2000  cows  from  the 
performed  prodigies  of  valour,  which  shewed  O'Conors;'  but  certain  it  is  that,  considering 
that  he  was  as  worthy  as  Bruce  of  the  mo-  the  inferiority  of  the  Irish  arms,  we  find  no  cause 
narchy  of  all  Ireland.  Had  he  succeeded  at  the  of  wonder  that  8000  Irish,  as  Cox  has  it,  or 
battle  of  Athunree  it  is  probable  that  Ireland  11,000,  as  the  Irish  annals  say,  were  slain  at  the 
would  be  as  independent  as  any  other  nation  in  battle  of  Athunree ;  and  that  the  King  of  Eng- 
Europe;  nor  can  it  be  conjectured  at  this  time  land,  on  receiving  the  news  of  this  victory, 
how  far  that  independence,  with  an  alliance  be-  granted  to  Kichard  de  Birmingham  the  title  of 
tween  the  Scots  of  Ireland  and  the  Scots  of  Al-  Baron  of  Athunree,  which  his  descendants  have 
bany,  would  have  contributed  to  render  the  Eng-  enjoyed  ever  since.'  " 

lish,  then  at  war  with  the  Welch,   and  detested          b  Clann-Donough,  i.  e.  the  Mac-Donoughs  of 

by  all  their  neighbours,  a  tributary  people,  the  Tirerrill,  who  are  a  branch  of  the  Mac  Dermots 

inhabitants  of  a  province  remote  from  the  seat  of  of  Moylurg. 

3u 


514  QNNata  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1317. 

1  Uomdp  6  conallam.  Gcc  cfna  m  hfiDip  a  paipnfip,  no  a  innipm  gacha  ccop- 
cpaccap  DO  maicib  Connacc,  murhan,  -\  mibe  ip  in  ccac  cceona.  La  pele 
.8.  labpap  DO  ponnpab  cuccab  an  cpomcach  po.  Cfopa  bliabna  ap  pichicc 
ba  haoip  Dpfiblimib  an  can  pin.  Ruaibpi  na  bpfb  mac  Donnchaib  mic 
6ojam  mic  Ruaibpi  uf  Concobaip  DoipDneab  i  ccijeapnup  Connacc  laparh. 

Sloicceab  aDbal  pe  mac  uilliam  bupc  i  pfol  muipfohaij.  O  concobaip 
1  Sfol  TYimpfohaij,  -]  mopan  Doipeacc  connachc,  -|  Da  nuaiplib  Do  Denarh 
pi  re  pip.  Qcc  cfna  nocap  paorii  mac  Diapmaca  ancpic  Do  Denom,  TTlac 
uilliam  Do  paijiD  inoije  luipcc  mppin,  Cpeacha  ai&ble  Do  Denarii  Do  im  dc 
an  cip  -j  in  uaccap  cfpe,  Qn  cfp  uile  Do  lopccab  ~\  Do  milleaD  Do.  Qchc 
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. 

QO1S  C171O3U,  1317. 
Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  cheD,  a  Dech,  aSeachcc. 

OonnchaD  ua  bpiain,  l?f  murhan  Do  rhapbao. 

UoippDelbac  mac  Cto&a  mic  Goccain  .1.  mac  RuaiDpi  mic  afoha  mic  carail 
cpoibbeipg  Do  piojab  Do  connachcoibh. 

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  Dorh- 
naill ui  concobaip,  -j  Dorhnall  mac  caibg  mic  Dorhnaill  loppaip  uf  concobaip 

c  Thomas  O'Conattan In  the  Annals  of  Clon-  d  Na-bhFeadh,  i.  e.  of  the  Faes,  which  was 

macnoise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  he  is  the  name  of  O'Naghtan's  country  in  the  barony 

called   "  Thomas    O'Connolan     of    the  King's  of  Athlone,  and  county  of  Roscommon. 

Guard."     This  family  was  located  in  the  county  e  Ath-an-chip — The  name  of  a  ford  on  the 

of  Gal  way,  but  the  exact  position  of  their  terri-  Shannon,  near  the  town  of  Carrick-on-Shannon. 

tory  has  not  been  determined.     They  are  to  be  f  Uachtar-tire,  i.  e.,   the  upper  part   of  the 

distinguished   from    the   O'Coindealbhains    or  country.     The  northern  part  of  the  barony  of 

Quinlans  of  Tullyard,  near  Trim,  in  Meath,  as  Boyle,  containing  the  small  village  of  Keadew, 

well  as  from  the  O'Caoindealbhains  or  Quinli-  is  still  locally  so  called. 

vans  of  Munster,  and  from  the  O'Coinghiollains  g  Donough  O'Brien — There  is  a  long  account 

of  Sligo.  of  the  battle  in  which  he  was  slain  given  in  the 


1317-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  515 

O'Conor's  standard-bearer;  and  Thomas  O'Conallan0.  In  short,  it  is  impossible 
to  enumerate  or  tell  all  the  chiefs  of  Connaught,  Munster,  and  Meath,  who  fell 
in  this  battle.  This  terrible  battle  was  fought  on  the  festival  day  of  St.  Law- 
rence [10th  of  August].  Felim  O'Conor  was  twenty-three  years  of  age  at  the 
time.  Rory  na-bhFeadhd,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Rory  O'Conor 
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- 
lurg,  committed  great  depredations  about  Ath-an-chipe,  and  in  Uachtar-tiref, 
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,  1317. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  seventeen. 

Donough  O'Brien*,  King  of  Munster,  was  slain. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  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 
his  brother,  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, 
son  of  Donnell1 -Erris  O'Conor,  was  slain  along  with  him,  together  with  four- 
Irish  work  called  Caitkrem  Toirdhealbhaigh,  from  a  great  army  of  Gallowegl  asses,  to  assist  his  bro- 
which  it  has  been  abstracted  by  the  compiler  of  ther,  Edward  Bruise,  to  conquer  and  bring  in 
the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen.  subjection  this  kingdome,  and  to  banish  all  Eng- 

h  Great  army. — In   the  Annals  of  Clonmac-      lish  here  hence." 

noise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  this  pas-  '  Donnett-Erris  O1  Conor. — He  was  the  son  of 
sage  is  thus  given:  "  A.  D.  1317.  llobert  Bruise,  Manus,  who  was  the  son  of  Murtough  Muim- 
King  of  Scotland,  came  this  year  to  Ireland  with  neach,  the  son  of  King  Turlough  More  O'Conor. 

3  u2 


516  QNNaca  Rioshachca  emeaNN.  [1313. 

DO  rhajibab  bfop  amaille  pip,  ~\  ceicpe  pip  Decc  Dia  muinap  imapaon  piu. 
Qp  bopD  mechenaiji  (.1.  abonn)  Dpoma  cliab  Do  ponab  na  jnioma  pin. 

Caiplen  aca  clmr  an  copainn  (.1.  baile  an  moca)  Do  bpipeab. 

TTlaoileclainn  cappach  mac  Diapmara  aDbap  cijfpna  moije  luipcc,  Con- 
cobap  6  concobaip,  .1.  mac  corhopba  comdin,  -]  TTlajnup  6  plannaccdin  aDbap 
caoipij  cloinne  cacail  Do  mapbab  la  jillbepc  mac  goipoealbaij  co  pochaibib 
oile. 

TTlaibm  cille  moipe  pop  mac  Ruaibpi,  i  pop  pfpaib  bpeipne.  Tllac  Ctoba 
bpeipmj  uf  concobaip  Do  jabail  ann.  Da  mac  nefll  uf  puaipc,  concobap 
buibe  mag  cijeapnain  raofpeac  ceallaij  Dunchaoa,  TTlacjamain  mace  cijeap- 
nain,  an  giolla  puab  mac  an  aipcmDij  mic  cijfpndm,  niocol  mac  an  maijipnp, 
1  pechc  bpichic  jallocclac  Do  mumcip  rhfic  RuaiDpi  Do  rhapbab  ann,  -j 
pocaibe  nach  aipnfibcfp. 

TTlaeliopa  puab  mac  aobaccdin  paof  Gpeann  i  bppeneacup  -|  i  mbpeic- 
frhnup  Decc. 

Rajnall  mag  pajnaill  raofpeac  mumcipe  heolaip  Do  jabail  i  bpioll,  -| 
caoipech  DO  benam  Do  Shepppaib  mag  pajnaill  ma  ionaD. 

QO13  C171OSC,  1318. 
Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  cheD,  a  Dech,  a  hochc. 

TTlaibm  mop  Dorabaipc  i  nelib  ap  jalloib  la  hua  ccfpbaillDu  i  ccopcaip 
doom  mapep  •]  Socaibe  Do  jalloibh. 

j  Ballymote  is  in  the  barony  of  Corran,  and  "  This  Fenechus  or  Brehon  lawe,  is  none  other 

county  of  Sligo.  but  the  civill  Lawe,  which  the  Brehons  had  in 

k  Kilmore,    the   seat   of  a    bishopric    in   the  an  obscure  and  unknown  language,  which  none 

county  of  Cavan.  could  understand  except  those  that  studied  in 

1  Mac- an- Master. — This  name  is  still  extant  the  open  schools  they  had.     Some  were  judges 

in  the  county  of  Cavan,  but  generally  anglicised  and  others  were  admitted  to  plead  in  the  open 

Masterson.  air  as  barristers,  and  for  their  fees,  costs,  and  all, 

m  Mac  Egan — Mageoghegan  gives  this  entry  received  the  eleventh  part  of  the  thing  in  demand 

in  his  version  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  thus :  of  the  party  for  whom  it  was  ordered ;  the  loser 

"  Moyleissa  Roe  Mac  Keigan,  the  best-learned  paid  no  costs. 

in  Ireland  in  the  Brehon  Lawe,  in  Irish  called  "  The  Brehons  of  Ireland  were  divided  into 

Fenechus,  died."     To  this  he  adds  the  following  severall  tribes  and  families,  as  the  Mac  Keigans, 

note:  O'Deorans,    O'Breasleans,    and    Mac    Tholies. 


1318.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  517 

teen  of  their  people.  It  was  on  the  brink  of  the  Methenagh  (i.  e.  a  river)  of 
DrumclifF,  that  these  deeds  were  done. 

The  castle  of  Ath-cliath  an  Chorainn  (i.  e.  of  Ballymotej)  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 
the  chieftainship  of  Clann-Cathail,  and  many  others,  were  slain  by  Gilbert  Mac 
Costello. 

The  son  of  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 
Mac  Tiernan,  Gillaroe,  son  of  the  Erenagh  Mac  Tiernan,  Nicholas  Mac-an- 
Master1,  one  hundred  and  forty  of  the  gallowglasses  of  the  people  of  the  son 
of  Rory,  and  others  not  enumerated,  were  slain. 

Maelisa  Roe  Mac  Egan™,  the  most  learned  man  in  Ireland  in  law  and  judi- 
cature, died. 

Randal  Mac  RannalP,  Chief  of  Muintir-Eolais  [in  the  county  of  Leitrim], 
was  treacherously  taken  prisoner,  and  Geoffrey  Mac  Rannall  was  made  Chief 
in  his  place. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1318. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  eighteen. 

A  great  victory  was  gained0  over  the  English  in  Elyp,  by  O'Carroll ;  and 
Adam  Mares  and  many  other  Englishmen  were  slain. 

Every  contrey  had  its  peculiar  Brehaive"  [bpei-  which  this  passage  is  given  as  follows  :  "  A.  D. 

ceaih]  "dwelling  within  itself,  that  had  power  1317.  Eandalph  Mac  Granell  was  deposed  of  the 

to  decide  the  causes  of  that  contrey,  and  to  main-  chieftaineship  by  the  people  of  his  own  contrey, 

tain  their  controversies  against  their  neighbour  and  the  captainrie  given  over  by  them  to  Geffrey 

contreys,  by  which  they  held  their  lands  of  the  Magranell  as  more  worthy  thereof." 
Lord  of  the  Contrey  where  they  dwelt.     This          °  A  great  victory  was  gained. — maiotn  mop  oo 

was  before  the  lawes  of  England  were  in  full  caBaipc,  literally,  "  a  great  defeat  was  given." 

force  in  this  Land,  and  before  the  kingdom  was          p  Ely The  Ely  of  which  O'Carroll  was  chief 

divided  into  Shyres."  comprised  the  baronies  of  Ballybrit  and  Clonlisk, 

11  Mac  Rannall. — This  name  is  anglicised  Ma-  in  the  south  of  the  present  King's  County ;  that 

granell  or  Mac  Granell,  by  Mageoghegan  in  his  is,  that  part  of  the  King's  County  lying  south 

translation   of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  in  of  the  boundary  of  the  diocese  of  Meath. 


518  aNNdta  Rio^hachca  emeawN.  [1318. 

Slog  mop  oocionol  Do  TTlhaolpuanam  mac  Diapmaca  eiccfpna  moiji  luipcc 
DO  paijiD  caeail  mic  Dorhnaill  ui  concobaip  50  pappa  coilleaD.  'Cainicc  ap 
in  ploijfo  pin  UoippDelbac  mac  Qo6a  mic  Gojain  ui  concobaip,  Ualgapcc 
ua  puaipc  eiccfpna  bpepne,  concobap  oceallaij;  eiccfpna  un  maine,  -\  Uomal- 
eac  mac  Donnchaib  eigfpna  ripe  hoilella.  lap  nDul  50  pappa  corlleaD  Go 
na  maicib  pin  po  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, 
gup  pfpao  lomaipecc  air  arhnup  fccoppa,  50  ccopcaip  bpian  mac  coipp&eal- 
baij  uf  concobaip  piojDamna  Connacc,  Concobap  6  ceallaij,  6pam  mac 
majnupa,  Cacal  mac  giollacpiopc  meic  Diapmaca,  -|  pocaiDe  oile  Duaiplib  -| 
Danpabaib  an  cpluaij  apcfna  la  cacal  co  na  muincip. 

Cacal  mac  Domnaill  Dionnpaiccib  ui  concobaip  -|  rhfic  Diapmaca  mppin, 
50  nDeapna  cpeacha  aioble  i  moij  luipcc,  -\  gup  haicpiogaD  coippbealbac  mac 
ao6a  laip.  ^abaT  F^1n  cfnnup  Connacc  lapam,  ~\  cfio  coippoealbac  DO 
paijiD  uilliam  bupc  -|  gall  ap  a  haichle. 

Seaan  mac  Dorhnaill  uf  neill  Do  mapbab  la  hua  nDomnaill,  .1.  Qo6  mac 
Domnaill  oicc  i  nooipe  choluim  cille,  -|  mac  Dorhnaill,  -]  pocai&e  ele  DO  rhap- 
ba6  •]  DO  bdchaD. 

q  Fassa-CoiHe This  was  the  name  of  a  woody  which  the  whole  passage  runs  as  follows : 

district  in  the  barony  of  Carbury,  in  the  north          "  A.  D.  1318.  Molronie  Mac  Dermodda,  prince 

of  the  county  of  Sligo.     See  it  mentioned  again  of  Moylorge,   gathered  together  a  great  army 

at  the  year  1397.  consisting  of  the  ensuing,  viz.,  Terlagh  O'Con- 

r  Cathal,  son  ofDonnett  0' 'Conor. — FromMur-  nor,  King  of Connought, Ularg O'Royrck,  prince 
tough,  the  brother  of  this  Cathal,  O'Conor  Sligo  of  the  Brenie ;  Connor  O'Kelly,  prince  of  Imaine ; 
descended,  thus :  Murtough,  father  of  Donnell,  and  Tomaltagh  Mac  Donnogh,  prince  of  Tyre- 
who  was  father  of  Owen,  who  was  father  of  Don-  allella,"  [and]  "marched  towards  Cahall  mac 
nell,  who  was  father  of  Cathal  Oge,  who  was  fa-  Donnell  O'Connor,  who  dwelt  at  Fasagh  Koyllie. 
'ther  of  Teige,  who  was  father  of  Cathal  Oge,  Cahall  offered  them  great  gifts  and  bribes,  and 
who  was  father  of  Donnell  O'Conor  Sligo,  who  not  to  come  to"  [annoy]  "  him ;  which  they  re- 
was  father  of  Sir  Calvagh  or  Sir  Charles  O'Conor  fused,  and  marched  towards  the  middest  of  the 
Sligo.  See  Pedigree  of  O'Conor  Sligo,  given  by  place  where  he  encamped ;  which  he  seeing,  hav- 
Duald  Mac  Firbis  in  his  Genealogical  AVork  jng  none  other  remedy,  he  tooke  hearte  anew, 
(Lord  Eoden's  copy),  p.  221.  and  with  a  courageous  stomack,  without  daunt- 

*  Great  presents — comra  mopa. — Mageoghe-  ing,  he  issued  from   out  his   house,  and  made 

gan  renders  this  "great  gifts  and  bribes,"  in  his  fiercely  towards  the  place  he  saw  his  enemies 

translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  in  approache,  and  gave  them  a  valourous  onsett ; 


1318.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  519 

A  great  host  was  mustered  by  Mulrony  Mac  Dermot,  Lord  of  Moylurg, 
with  which  he  marched  to  Fassa-Coilleq,  to  attack  Cathal,  son  of  Donnell 
O'Conorr.  In  this  army  came  Turlough,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Owen  O'Conor  ; 
Ualgarg  O'Kourke,  Lord  of  Breifny  ;  Conor  O'Kelly,  Lord  of  Hy-Many  ;  and 
Tomaltagh  Mac  Donough,  Lord  of  Tirerrill.  On  the  arrival  of  these  chieftains 
at  Fassa-Coille,  Cathal  offered  them  great  presents8;  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 
fought  between  them,  in  which  Brian,  the  son  of  Turlough  O'Conor,  heir  pre- 
sumptive 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]  William  Burke  and  the  English. 

John,  son  of  Donnell  O'Neill,  was  slain  by  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of 
Donnell  Oge)  at  Derry-Columbkille,  and  Mac  DonnelF  and  many  others  were 
slain  and  drowned. 

killed  Connor  O'Kelly,  prince  of  Imaine  at  first ;  out  of  his  house,  and  made  fiercely  towards  the 
Bryan  mac  Terlagh  O'Connor,  Tanist  or  next  place  he  saw  his  enemies  approache,  and  gave 
successor  of  the  Kingdom  of  Connought;  Bryan  them  a  valourous  onsett:  killed  Connor  O'Kelly, 
mac  Magnus,  Cahall  mac  Gillechrist,  and  many  prince  of  Imaine,  at  first;  Bryan  Mac  Terlagh, 
others  of  the  noble  and  ignoble  sort  were  killed  O'Connor,  Tanist  or  next  successor  of  the  king- 
therein  ;  and  immediately  afterwards"  [he]  dome  of  Connaught ;  Bryan  Mac  Magnus ;  Cahall 
"  tooke  a  great  prey  from  Dermodda;  tooke  the  Mac  Gillechrist,  and  many  others  of  the  noble 
government  and  name  of  King  of  Connought  to  and  ignoble  sort.'1 

himself,  and  deposed  Terlagh  O'Connor  thereof,  u  Mac  Donnell. — Mageoghegan,  in  his  transla- 

and  for  his  defence  partaked  with  William  Burke  tion   of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  gives  this 

and  the  English  of  Connought."  passage  differently,  as  follows : 

1  In  nowise  daunted. — This  part  of  the  pas-  "  A.  D.  1318.  John  O'Neale's  son,  that  is  to 

sage  is  translated  by  Mageoghegan  as  follows,  in  say,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Neale,  was  killed  by 

his  version   of  the  Annals   of  Clonmacnoise  :  Hugh  O'Neale  in  the  town  of  Derry.     The  said 

"  Which  he  seeing,  having  none  other  remedy,  Hugh  and  divers  others  were  killed  and  drownd- 

he  tooke  heart  anew,  and  with   a  couragious  ed  the  same  day."' 
stomack,    without    daunting,    he  issued   from 


520  awNata  uio^hachca  eiraeawN.  [1319. 

GouapO  a  bpiup  pfp  millce  Gpenn  50  coiccenn  ecip  gallaib,  1  jaoioealaib 
Do  mapbab  DO  jallaib  cpe  nfpc  cacaijce,  -|  cpobacca  i  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 
imcfin  inGpinn  gniorh  ap  mo  ap  a  ccdinic  a  Ifp  map,  uaip  cdinic  jjopca  coiccenn 
pe  linn  an  Gouaipo  pi  innce  co  mbiDip  Daoine  05  comailc  apoile  ppi  pe  na 
ccfopa  mbliaban  50  Ific  baoipiorh  fccoppa. 

Seaan  6  pfpjail  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. 

5'olla  an  choimDeaD  maccionafohauf  jopm^aile  -]  gopmlaic  injeanmeic 
bpandin  a  bean  Do  65. 

GDIS  CT71OSU,  1319. 
Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpi  cheD,  a  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 

noise,  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  give  the  not  a  better  deed  that  redounded  more  to  the 

account  of  Bruce's  death  more  fully,  as  follows :  good  of  the  Kingdom  since  the  creation  of  the 

"  Edward  Bruise,  a  destroyer  of  all  Ireland,  World,  and  since  the  banishment  of  the  Fine 

in  generall,  both  English  and  Irish,  was  killed  Fomores  out  of  this  land,  done  in  Ireland  than 

by  the  English   in  battle  by  their  valour  at  the  killing  of  Edward  Bruise,  for  there  reigned 

Dundalk,  the  14th  of  October,  1318,  together  scarcity  of  victuals,  breach  of  promises,  ill  per- 

with  Mac  Eowrie,  King  of  the  Islands,  and  Mac  formances  of  covenants,  and  the  loss  of  men  and 

Donnel,  prince  of  the  Irish"  [Gaels]  "  of  Scot-  women  thro'  out  the  whole  Kingdom  for  the 

land,  with  many  other  Scottishmen.     Edward  space  of  three  years  and  a  half  that  he  bore  sway, 

Bruise  seeing  the  Enemies  encamped  before  his  insomuch  that  men  did  commonly  eat  one  an- 

face,   and   fearing  his  brother,  Robert  Bruise,  other  for  want  of  sustenance  during  his  time." 
King   of  Scotland  (that  came  to  this  kingdom          The  battle  in  which  Edward  Bruce  was  slain 

for  his  assistance),  would  acquire  and  gett  the  was  fought  near  the  hill  of  Faughard,  within  two 

glorie  of  that  victorie,  which  he  made  himself  miles  of  Dundalk,  and  the  natives  still  point  out 

believe  he  would  gett,  of  the  Anglo-Irish,  which  the  spot  where  he  fell.     It  would  appear  from 

he  was  sure  he  was  able  to  overthrow,  without  the  Anglo-Irish  accounts  of  this  battle  that  the 

the  assistance  of  his  said  brother,  he  rashly  gave  English  owed  the  victory  to  the  desperate  bravery 

them  the  assault,  and  was  therein  slain  himself,  of  John  Maupas,  an  Anglo-Irish  knight,   who, 

as  is  declared,  to  the  great  joye  and  comfort  of  under  the  persuasion  that  the  death  of  Bruce 


1319.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  521 

Edward  Brucev,  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 
Donnell,  Lord  of  Argyle,  and  many  others  of  the  chiefs  of  Scotland,  were  slain. 
And  no  achievement  had  been  performed  in  Ireland  for  a  long  time  before, 
from  which  greater  benefit  had  accrued  to  the  country  than  from  this  ;  for, 
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  arrow1. 

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,  1319. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  nineteen. 

Henry  Mac-an-Chrosain,  Bishop  of  Raphoe,  died ;  and  Thomas,  son  of  Cor- 
mac  O'Donnell,  Abbot  of  Ashroe,  was  then  elected  to  the  bishopric  of  Raphoe. 

himself  would  ensure  the  victory  to  the  English,  edited  by  the  Rev.  Richard  Butler,  p.  95. 
rushed  devotedly  to  the  place  where  he  saw  him,          w  Were  wont  to  devour  one  another. — Grace  and 

and  when,  after  the  battle,  the  body  of  Bruce  Pembridge  state  that  some  of  the  people  were  so 

was  discovered,  that  of  John  Maupas  was  found  pinched  with  famine  that  they  dug  up  the  graves 

lying  stretched  across  it.     (See  Campion's  His-  in  the  church-yards,  and,  after  they  had  boiled 

torie  of  Ireland,  A.  D.  1318).     Sir  John  Ber-  the  flesh  in  the  scull  of  the  dead  body,  eat  it  up ; 

nungham  is  said  to  have  brought  Bruce's  head  but  this  is  evidently  an  exaggerated  account  of 

to  the  King,  and  received  as  a  reward  the  earl-  this  dearth,  for,  surely,  if  the  famine  had  not 

dom  of  Louth  and  the  barony  of  Ardee.     The  consumed  the  pots  as  well  as  the  food,  they 

hands  and  heart  of  Bruce  are  said  to  have  been  might   have    easily   found   better  utensils   for 

carried  to  Dublin,  and  his  other  limbs  sent  to  cooking  human  flesh  than  the  sculls  of  men.    Dr. 

different  places ;  but  tradition  says  that  his  body  Drummond  thinks  that  this  story  owes  its  origin 

was  buried  in  the  churchyard  of  Faughard,  where  to  the  ambiguity  of  the  word  "  scull,''  which  is 

they  still  pretend  to  point  out  his  grave.     Bar-  frequently  used  by  old  English  writers  to  denote 

bour,  however,  says  that  Gib  Harper  wore  Ed-  a  covering  for  the  head ;  but  when  it  is  considered 

ward  Bruce's  armour,  and  that  his  body  was  con-  that  the  chroniclers  of  the  event  wrote  in  the 

sequently  mistaken  for  that  of  Bruce,  and  his  Latin  language,  this  conjecture  will  be  found  to 

head  salted  in  "  a  kest,  and  sent  as  a  present  to  lose  much  of  its  ingenuity. 
King  Edward."     See  Grace's  Annals  of  Ireland,          x  Wit/tone  shotfrom  an  arro!0,oaon  opcop  poig- 

3  x 


522  dNNCica  Rio^hachca  eiRecthw.  [1320. 

Gppucc  boipe,  O  bdndin  Gappucc  clochaiji,  -\  Gppucc  cluana  pfpca  bpe- 
nainn  Decc. 

Qme  mjean  meic  biapmaca  bfn  rheic  Conpndma  oecc. 

Gachmapcach  mac  bpandin  caoipeac  copcachlann  DO  mapbab  Uhomal- 
caij  ui  maoilbpenainn,  gibfb  nocap  mapbab  in  apccaib  pin  uaip  puaippiurh 
pfipin  bap  a  ccionn  an  rpfp  laoi  lap  pin  DO  bicin  na  ngon  rucc  Uomalcac 
paip. 

Dorhnall  6  neill  ciccfpna  cfpe  heoccam  oaccop  ap  a  plaichfp  cpe  nfpc 
gall  i  cloinne  Goba  buibe,  -\  a  6ul  co  pfpaib  manac  ap  comaipci  plaicbfp- 
cai^  rheg  uibip,  ")  pip  manach  Do  cpeacab  a  muinncipe. 

O  neill,  .1.  Dorhnall  Do  jabail  a  ci^fpnaip  pfm  Do  pibipi. 

bpian  mac  oomnaill  ui  neill  cdnaipi  cenel  eojain  Do  mapbab  la  cloinn 
aoba  buibe  ~\  la  hannpaoi  mac  oauill  05  pair  lupai  j. 

aois  crciose,  1320. 

Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpi  cheD,  apiche. 

ITIainepnp  bfnorpai^e  i  nDucaij  ui  Suilleabain  in  eppcopoiccecc  T?uip, 
DO  cogbdil  la  hua  Suilleaban  Do  bpairpib  .8.  ppanpeip,  -]  ap  ip  an  mainepcip 
pin  baoi  cogha  abnaicche  ui  Shuilleabdin  ~\  mopdin  buaiplib  oile. 

Coinne,  -)  combdil  eioip  Cacal  6  concobaip  i  maolpuanaib  mac  Diapmaca, 
50  nofpnpac  pic  connail  cat]iDfrhail  pe  poile,  -|  mac  Diapmaca  Do  roibecc 

be  —  Mageoghegan   renders   this  passage  thus  :  was  riot  killed  gratis,  i.  e.,  his  death  cost  Mac 

"  A.  D.  1318.  John  O'Farrell  was  killed  by  his  Branain  his  own  life. 

own  son  with  an  arrow."  c  The  Clann-Hugh-Boy.  —  These  were  the  de- 

i  The  Bishop  o/Derry  —  He  was  Odo  or  Hugh  scendants  of  Hugh  Boy  O'Neill,  who  was  slain 

O'Neill,  and  succeeded  in  the  year  1316.     See  in  the  year  1283,  and  were  located  in  the  terri- 

Harris's  Edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  289-  tory  of  Clannaboy,  in  the  counties  of  Down  and 

z  O'Banan  —  He  is  called  Gelasius  O'Banan  Antrim. 

by  Ware.     He  succeeded  in  1316.  d  Ratk-lury,  Rac  lupai^.  —  This  place  is  now 

a  The  Bishop  ofClonfert.  —  The  Bishop  of  Clon-  called  Maghera,  which  is  a  small  town  in  the 

fert  who  died  in  this  year  was  Gregory  O'Brogy,  county  of  Londonderry.  St.  Lurach's  or  Loury's 

who  succeeded  in  1308.     See  Harris's  Edition  well  and  grave  are  still  pointed  out.     See  note  ' 

of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  639.  under  the  year  1218,  p.  193,  supra. 

He  did  not  escape  scatMess  —  ^'oeaoh  nocap  e  Monastery  o/Bantry.  —  Dr.  Smith,  in  his  Na- 

i  narfcnD  pirl)  literally  signifies  "he  tural  and  Civil  History  of  Cork,  book  ii.  c.  5, 


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1320.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  523 

The  Bishop  of  Derryy,  0'Bananz,  Bishop  of  Clogher,  and  the  Bishop  of 
Clonfert1,  died. 

Aine,  daughter  of  Mac  Dermot,  and  wife  of  Mac  Consnava,  died. 

Eachmarcach  Mac  Branan,  Chief  of  Corcachlann,  slew  Tomaltagh  O'Mul- 
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 
the  power  of  the  English  and  the  Clann-Hugh-Boyc,  and  went  to  Fermanagh 
under  the  protection  of  Flaherty  Maguire  ;  but  the  inhabitants  of  Fermanagh 
plundered  his  people. 

O'Neill,  i.  e.  Donnell,  assumed  his  own  lordship  again. 

Brian,  son  of  Donnell  O'Neill,  Tanist  of  Tyrone,  was  slain  by  the  Clann- 
Hugh-Boy  and  Henry  Mac  Davill  at  Rath-lury". 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1320. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  twenty. 

The  monastery  of  Bantrye,  in  O'Sullivan's  country,  in  the  bishopric  of  Rossf , 
was  founded  by  0' Sullivan  for  Franciscan  Friars.  In  this  monastery  O'  Sullivan 
and  many  other  nobles  chose  burial  places  for  themselves. 

A  meeting  and  conference  took  place  between  Cathal  O'Conor  and  Mul- 
rony  Mac  Dermot:  a  kindly  and  amicable  peace*  was  concluded  between  them, 

states  that  this  monastery  was  founded  in  1460,  friendly  attonement  was  agreed  and  concluded 

by  Dermot  O'Sullivan  ;  but  he  quotes  no  au-  between  them ;  whereupon  Mullronie  upon  some 

thority.  No  vestige  of  this  building  now  re-  occasions  of  his  left  the  countrey ;  [and]  the 

mains.  said  Cahall,  contrary  to  his  said  agreement, 

f  Boss — This  diocese  comprised  the  western  tooke  his  advantage  by  the  oportunity  he  had 

part  of  the  county  of  Cork. — See  Smith's  Na-  in  his  absence,  and  mett  him  at  a  place  called 

tural  and  Civil  History  of  Cork,  Book  i.  cc.  2  Torawnagh,  whom  he  instantly  took  prisoner, 

and  4  ;  and  Lanigan's  Ecclesiastical  History  of  and  also  took  Granie,  daughter  of  Mac  Magnus, 

Ireland,  vol.  ii.  p.  194.  wife  of  the  said  Mullronie,  whom  he  found  stay- 

*  A  kindly  and  amicable  peace,  TIC  connctil  ing  for  a  boat  to  pass  over  into  the  island  of 

caipoectrhuil. — Mageoghegan,  in  his  translation  Carrick  Logha  Ke  ;  he  tooke  the  spoyles  and 

of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  renders  this  preys  of  the  contrey:  also  he  tooke  prisoner 

passage  as  follows  :  "  Cahall  O'Connor  and  Mull-  Mac  Donnogh,  Lord  of  the  territorye  called 

ronie  Mac  Dermott  had  a  meeting,  where  a  Tyreallealla  in  Connought." 

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  i  bpupc  na  caippse. 
TTlaoiliopu  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, 
1  ap  einech  Do  mapbab  DO  mac  maipcfn,  ~\  epfm  Do  mapbab  ina  Diojail. 

macjarhain  mac  Domnaill  connaccaij  uf  bpiain  ranaipi  muman  DO  map- 
bab Do  cloinn  cuilein. 

TTlop  injean  uf  baoijill  bfn  uf  pfpjail  Decc. 

TTlacTriaipcfn  DO  mapbab  ma  cij  pfin  la  hafoh  mac  camhj  uf  concobaip, 
Clann  TTlaipcfn,  i  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  mapbab  DO  jallaib  Duin  oealgan  i 
meabhail. 

h  Muttagh  Doramknach.  —  There  is   no   place  renders  this  as  follows,  in  his  Annals  of  Clon- 

now  bearing  this  name  in  Mac  Dermot's  country,  macnoise  :    "Hugh   mac   Teige   O'Connor,   a 

It  was  probably  the  ancient  name  of  the  town-  young  man  of  great   worth   and   expectation, 

land  of  Mullaghmore,  in  the  parish  of  Killukin,  and   one   sufficient  for   birth,    composition   of 

barony  of  Boyle,  and  county  of  Roscommon.  body,  and  liberalitye,  to  be  a  Kinge,  was  killed 

1  Port-na-  Cairrge  —  This  was  the  name  of  the  by  Mac  Martynn,  who  was  killed  in  revenge 

quay  or  bank  opposite  Mac  Dermot's  Castle,  thereof. 

called  Carraig  Locha  Ce,  or  the  Rock  of  Lough  '  Clann-  Cuilein  __  This  was  one  of  the  tribe 

Key.     The  spot  is  still  so  called  by  the  natives  names  of  the  Mac  Namaras  of  Thomond. 

when  speaking  Irish.  m  Clann-Martin  __  This   was   a   sept   of  the 

"  A  good  materies,  ofjjaobap  —  Mageoghegan  O'Neills  of  Tyrone.    The  Clann-  Hugh  Boy  were 


1321.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  525 

and  Mac  Dermot  then  returned  to  his  own  country.  Cathal,  however,  after- 
wards violated  the  conditions  of  this  peace,  for  he  made  a  prisoner  of  Mac 
Dermot  at  Mullagh  Doramhnach",  and  also  of  his  wife,  the  daughter  of  Mac 
Manus,  at  Port-ua-Cairrge'.  Maelisa  Don  Mac  Egan  and  his  son,  and  Tomaltagh 
Mac  Donough,  Lord  of  Tirerrill,  were  also  made  prisoners,  and  the  country 
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  Mac  Martin, 
who  was  himself  slain  in  revenge  of  it. 

Mahon,  son  of  Donnell  Connaghtagh  O'Brien,  Tanist  of  Munster,  was  slain 
by  the  Clann-Cuilein1. 

More,  daughter  of  O'Boyle,  and  wife  of  O'Farrell,  died. 

Mac  Martin  was  slain  in  his  own  house  by  Hugh,  the  son  of  Teige  O'Conor; 
but  the  Clann-Martinm  and  the  Clann-Hugh-Boy  put-sued  Hugh  to  Clogher", 
where  they  killed  him. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1321. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  twenty-one. 

* 

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  treacher- 
ously 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  same  family,  who,  soon  after  near  Athlone,  in  the  county  of  Roscommon,  in 

this  period,  made  themselves  masters  of  an  ex-  which  he  was  fostered. 

tensive  territory  in  the  counties  of  Down  and          P  Kinsman,  bpaccnp. — Mageoghegan  renders 

Antrim,  to  which  they  gave  their  clan- name.  it  brother  in  his  translation  of  the  Annals  of 

n  Clogheris  the  head  of  a  bishop's  see,  in  a  Clonmacnoise,    thus  :    "  A.  D.  1321.    Magnus 

barony  of  the  same  name,  in  the  county  of  Ty-  O'Hanlon,  prince  of  the  Orhir  was  blinded  by 

rone.  his  own  brother,  and   mightily  oppressed  by 

0  OftheFaes He  was  so  called  from  the  Neale  mac  Conuley  O'Hanlon,  upon  Wednesday,, 

territory  of  the  Faes,  or  O'Naghtan's  country,  the  week  before  Easter." 


526  aNNata  Rio^hachca  eiraeaNN.  ^1322. 

ITlaiDm  abbal  Do  cabaipc  DO  Gincpiu  mac  pfopaip  •)  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. 

Goip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  cheD,  piche,  aDo. 

TYlarha  ua  heochaij  eppuccConmaicne  (no  apoachaio),  ~\  QinDpiap  mace 
maoibn  apomaijipcip  Dlijib  nuipiaDnaipi  1  Shenpeacca  i  lejc,-]  i  ccanoin  Decc. 

Lucap  ua  TTluipeDhaij  aipchiDeocham  cluana  Do  ecc. 

TTlupchao  mac  giollq  na  naorh  uf  pfpjail  ciccfpna  na  hanjaile  Do  mapbaD 
DO  mac  a  Dfpbparap  Seomin  6  pfpgail  ^  ccluain  lip  bficc  cpe  mebail.  TTIuip- 
cfpcac  mac  amlaoib  ui  pfpjail  Do  mapbaD  an  la  ceDna  Dia  bpairpibh  pfippm 
(lochlumn,  "|  RoibfpD)  cpe  mebail.  Loclamn  mac  amlaoib  uf  pfpjail  DO 
mapbaD  la  Seomin  lap  pin. 

OonnchaD  mac  DOnnchaiD  meic  Diapmaca  Decc. 

l^annpaoi  mac  gillepinnem  caoipeac  mumcipe  peoDacain  Do  rhapbab  la 
cloinn  Qrhlaoibh  meg  ufDip. 

^ill'bepc  6  ceallaij  ciccfpna  6  maine  Decc. 

TTlaolpuanaib  mac  Diapmacca  Do  jabail  16  concobap  mac  caibg  ui  con- 
cobaip,  ~\  Do  luce  cije  cacail  uf  concobaip  i  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  Clann-Auliffe,  and  gave  name  to  a  barony  in 

of  a  seat  of  one  of  the  O'Farrells,  in  the  county  the  county  of  Fermanagh,  now  anglicised  Clan- 

of  Longford,  is  now  obsolete.  awley,  and  sometimes  incorrectly  Glenawley. 

r  The  sons  of  Avliffe  Maguire The  descen-  s  Cluain-Cumuisc — This  name  would  be  an- 

dants  of  this  Auliffe  took  the  tribe  name  of  glicised  Clooncummisk,  but  there  is  no  place 


1322.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  527 

A  great  defeat  was  given  by  Andrew  Mac  Feorais  [Bermingham]  and  the 
English  of  Meath  to  the  sons  of  the  Chieftains  of  Offaly. 

William  and  Matthew  Mac  Gillafinnen  were  slain  by  Henry  Mac  Gillafinnen, 
at  a  meeting  of  his  own  tribe. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1322. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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. 

Lucas  O'Murray,  Archdeacon  of  Cluain,  died. 

Murrough,  the  son  of  Gilla-na-naev  O'Farrell,  Lord  of  Annaly,  was  trea- 
cherously slain  at  Cluain-lis-Becq  by  his  brother's  son,  Seoinin  O'Farrell.  Mur- 
tough,  the  son  of  Auliffe  O'Farrell,  was  treacherously  slain  on  the  same  day,  by 
his  own  kinsmen  (Loughlin  and  Robert).  Loughlin,  the  son  of  Auliffe  O'Far- 
rell, was  afterwards  slain  by  Seoinin  [O'Farrell]. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Donough  Mac  Dermot,  died. 

Henry  Mac  Gillafinnen,  Chief  of  Muintir-Feodachain,  was  slain  by  the  sons 
of  Auliffe  Maguirer. 

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-Cummuisc8,  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  to  the  Editor  now  bearing  the  name  in      defeat  was  given  by  Brian  O'Brian  to  the  Eng- 
the  county  of  Roscommon.  lish." 

1  Suffered  a  signal  defeat. — Literally,  "A  great          u  Liath,  i.  e.  grey,  hoary. 


528  aNMata  Rio^hachca  eiraeaNR  [1323 

TTIuipip  mac  an  comapba  DO  65. 

Op^ap  mac  lochlainn  rhej  uibip  DO  mapbab  la  caral  6  Ruaipc. 
Pecpup  6  bpfplen  ollam  bpficfman  pfpmanac  Do  ecc. 
pinjin  6  caipiDe  ollam  pfpmanac  i  leijjiup  Do  ecc. 

peapjal  puab  mac  Sarhpabain  ~[  ^lolla  lopa  mac  Sampabdin  DO  rhapbao 
la  cloinn  Qmlaoib  meg  ui&ip. 

aois  CRIOST:,  1323. 

Goip  Cpiopc,  mfle,  cpf  cherc,  piche,  a  cpf. 

5'olla  aipnfn  6  cachupaij  aipchinoeac  cluana  Da  T?ar  DO  ecc. 

Caipppe  an  pccpeccam  (.1.  l?i  mibe)  mac  copbmaic  uf  maoileclamn  pi 
mi6e  DO  mapbab  la  oorhnall  ua  maoilmuaiD  cpia  canjnacc. 

TTiaolmopDa  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. 

T?uaibpi  mag  macjamna  mac  cijeapna  oipgiall,  •)  ITIaolpeaclainn  6  Sfg- 
anndin,  ~\  mac  TTlaeileDum  Do  mapbab  la  cacal  6  T?uaipc  i  mbeol  Qcha 
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  i  pfncup,  -]  lucap  a  mac 
Do  mapbab  la  concobap  mac  jaipbir  mej  uibip. 

Loclamn  mac  eogain  uf  oalaij  Do  mapbab  la  cloinn  afba  buibe  uf  neill. 

T  Cluain-da-rath. — Cluain  oa  par,  i.  e.  the  that  there  were  here  an  hospital  and  Termon, 

pasturage  of  the   two  forts,   now  Clondara,   a  Irenagh,  or  Corbeship,  endowed  with  four  car- 

townland  and  village,  containing  the  ruins  of  an  trons  of  land See  Arc/tdalPs  Monasticon,  p.  438, 

abbey,  in  the  parish  of  Killashee  in  the  west  of  with  MS.  additions,  in  the  library  of  the  Royal 

the  county  of  Longford. — See  Ordnance  Map  of  Irish  Academy. 

that  county,  sheets  8  and  13.     The  Inquisition          w  G '  Connmhachain. — This  name  is  still  extant 

of  the  27th  January,  37  Queen  Elizabeth,  finds  in  the  district  of  Ballycroy,  in  the  county  of 


1323.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  529 

Maurice,  son  of  the  Coarb,  died. 

Henry  Mac  Gillafinnen,  Chief  of  Muintir-Feodachain  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,  1323. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  twenty-three. 

Gilla-airnin  O'Casey,  Erenagh  of  Cluain-da-rathT,  died. 

Carbry  an  Sgregain,  son  of  Cormac  O'Melaghlin,  King  of  Meath,  was  trea- 
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*. 

Niall,  son  of  Niall  Cam,  was  slain  by  Loughlin  and  Melaghlin  O'Reilly. 

Mac  Feorais  (Bermingham)  and  the  English  marched  with  a  great  army 
against  Donnell,  son  of  John  O'Farrell,  to  Coill-na-n-amhasy,  where  Kepagh  and 
Calvagh,  and  many  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 
son,  were  slain  by  Conor,  the  son  of  Garvey  Maguire. 

Loughlin,  the  son  of  Owen  O'Daly,  was  slain  by  the  tribe  of  Hugh  Boy 
O'Neill. 

Mayo,  and  is  now  generally  anglicised  Conway.  y  Coitt-na-n-amhas,  i.  e.  wood  of  the  hireling 

*  At  Bel-atita-  Chonaitt. — 1m  6eol  Qra  Con-  soldiers,   now  Kilnaneawse,   near  Edgeworths- 

naill,  now  Ballyconnell,  a  village  in  the  barony  town,   in  the  county  of  Longford.     It  appears 

of  Tullaghagh,  or  Tullyhaw  (ceallac  ecoach),  from  an  Inquisition  taken  at  Longford,  on  the 

in  the  county  of  Cavan,  and  about  eleven  miles  1st  of  August,  1627,  that  this  and  ten  other 

to  the  north-east  of  the  town  of  Cavan.  townlands  in  the  same  neighbourhood  had  been 

3  Y 


530  aNNQ6a  Rioghachca  eiReawN.  [1325. 

(5°ppai6  mac  giolla  fopa  uf  bdlaig  DO  rhapbab  la  bpian  mac  Ruaibpi 
111  Concobaip. 

QO18  CR1OSU,  1324. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  ceo,  piche  acfchaip. 

Carol  (.1.  Rf  connacc)  mac  Dorhnaill  mic  caiDcc  mic  bpiam  mic  ain- 
opiapa  mic  bpiam  luijnij  mic  coippbealbaij  moip,  aon  Duine  ba  bfo&a,  ba 
mo  maicfp,  -j  mop  aicfp  Da  mbaof  in  aon  aimpip  pip  DO  mapbab  la  coipp- 
bealbac  6  cconcobaip  i  ccfp  bpiuin  na  Sionna,-]  TTlac  uf  Domnaill,  .i.TTlaoileac- 
lainn  mac  coippbealbaij  cnuic  an  mabma,  mic  Domnaill  ofcc,  rdnaipi  cfpe 
conaill  lap  na  lonnapbaD  Dua  Domnaill,  .1.  QOD  mac  Domnaill  oicc  •]  510^a' 
cpiopc  6cc  mac  DonnchaiD,  ~\  pocaiDe  oile  Do  mapbab  annpin  bfop  im  cacal 
6  cconcobaip,  i]  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  T?uaipc  ~\  ngeapndn  mag  Ruaipc  Do  jabail  la  cloinn  TTlacha 
uf  Rajallaij,  -\  laDporh  Dia  ccaipbepc  Do  TTlhag  machjamna,  -|  a  mapbab 
laip  a  nDiojail  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,  1325. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  cheD,  piche  a  cuig. 

Oorhnall  mac  bpiam  uf  neill  cigeapna  cenel  nfogain  Do  ecc  occ  loch 
laoghoipe. 

Cuulab  mac  Domnaill  mic  bpiam  uf  neill  Dfjabbap  ciccfpna  cipe  heojjam 
Do  mapbab  la  cloinn  neill  mic  bpiam,  clann  Dfpbpacap  a  arop. 

in  the  possession  of  Francis  Edgeworth,  then  geoghegan,  thus  : 

lately  deceased.  "A.  D.  1324.  Cahall  mac  Donnell,  King  of 

*  Along  with  Cathal  0' Conor This  passage,  Connaught,   was  killed  by  Terlagh  mac  Hugh 

which  is  given  in  a  very  confused  manner  by  mac  Owen,  who"  \recte  he]  "  was  held  to  be  the 

the  Four  Masters,  is  somewhat  better  in  the  hardiest  and  substantiallest  Irishman  of  his  time. 

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,  1324. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  twenty-four. 

The  King  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- 
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  Tir- 
connell,  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 
Cathal  O'Conor1.  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  Gillapatrick,  Lord  of  Ossory,  died. 

Brian-  O'Reilly  and  Gilchreest  [O'Reilly]  were  slain  by  the  O'Rourkes. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1325. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  twenty-Jive. 

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. 

christe  Oge  Mac  Donnogh,  with  many  others,  the  wills  of  the  Irish  and  English ;  after  whose 

were  killed  at  once  with  him"  [i.  e.  along  with  death  Terlagh  O'Connor  succeeded  in  the  king- 

him],  "  in  the  Contrey  of  Tyrbryen,  the  seventh  dome  of  Connought." 

of  the  Kallends  of  September,  after  hehad  reigned  B  Lough  Laeghaire,  i.  e,  Leary's  lake — This 

King  of  Connaught  six  years  and  a  half,  against  lake  is  said  to  have  taken  its  name  from  Leary 

3  y2 


532  QNNaca  TJio^hachca  eiraectNN.  [1326. 


clepec  mac  Diapmacca  -)  bpian  6  jabpa  Decc. 

Oiapmaic  6  maoilbpenainn  apDcaoipeac  cloinne  Concobaip  Do  ecc 

TTlaolpeachlamn  6  plannajdin  caoipeac  ruaiche  Rdcha  Do  mapbaDh  la 
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  mac  corhapba  TTlaoDog  Do  ecc. 

Rajnailc  mjfn  Gnoaib  ui  Rajallaij  bfn  Donnchaba  me5  bpaoaij 
DO  ecc. 

Oonnchab  mac  cionair  Do  rhapbaD  in  eacclaip  meg  TTlachjamna. 

QO1S  C171O3U,  1326. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  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  ~\  connacc  Dupmop, 
aon  poja  jail  Gpeann  uile  Do  ecc  a  nDfipfb  Sampaib. 

the  victorious,  one  of  the  heroes  of  the  Red  Man  his  principal  depot.  In  Cormac's  Glos- 

Branch  in  Ulster,  in  the  first  century.  The  name  sary  (voce  TDanannan)  he  is  described  as  a 

is  now  obsolete  ;  butf  as  appears  from  several  famous  merchant  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  and  the 

references  to  it,  the  lake  was  situated  in  the  best  navigator  in  the  western  world,  and  for 

barony  of  Clogher,  in  the  county  of  Tyrone  —  that  reason  called  the  God  of  the  sea  by  the 

See  other  references  to  it  at  the  years  1431,  Scots  and  Britons:  "  Inde  Scoti  Britonesque 

1436,  1500,  and  1509.  eum  deum  vocaverunt  maris,  eutnque  filium 

b  Dermot  O'Mulrenin.  —  This  is  the  same  Der-  maris  esse  dixerunt,  i.  e.  Mac  Lir."  It  is  added 

mot  mentioned  in  the  second  last  entry,  and  that  the  Isle  of  Man  derived  its  name  from  him. 

the  transcriber  writes  oepmao,  "  a  mistake,"  There  exists  a  tradition  in  the  county  of  Lon- 

before  this  entry.  donderry,  that  the  spirit  of  this  celebrated  navi- 

c  Manannan.  —  He  was  generally  surnamed  gator  lives  in  an  enchanted  castle  in  the  tuns, 

Mac  Lir,  i.  e.  the  son  of  the  sea,  and  said  to  have  or  waves  of  Magilligsn,  opposite  Inishowen,  and 

been  a  great  navigator  and  merchant  of  the  that  his  magical  ship  is  seen  there  once  every 

Tuatha  De  Danann  colony,  who  made  the  Isle  of  seventh  year.  O'Mulrenin  is  called  the  Manan- 


1326.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  533 

Gilchreest  Cleireach  Mac  Dermot  and  Brian  O'Gara  died. 

Dermot  O'Mulrenin,  Head  Chieftain  of  Clann-Conor,  died. 

Melaghlin  O'Flanagan,  Chief  of  Tuath-ratha  [in  Fermanagh],  was  slain  by 
the  sons  of  Dermot  O'Flanagan. 

Dermot  O'Mulreninb  (the  great  chieftain),  the  Manannanc  of  the  chiefs  of 
Connaught  in  his  time,  died. 

Thomas  O'Connery,  Deacon  of  Breifny,  died. 

A  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, 
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. 

Donough  Mac  Kennae  was  slain  in  Mac  Mahon's  church. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1326. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  twenty-six. 

Laurence  O'Laghtnan,  Bishop  of  Elphin,  died;  and  John  O'Finnaghty'  was 
elected  his  successor  in  the  bishopric. 

Richard  Burke,  i.  e.  the  Red  Earl,  Lord  of  Ulster,  and  of  the  greater  part 
of  Connaught,  the  choicest8  of  all  the  English  of  Ireland,  died  at  the  close  of 
Summer. 

nan  of  the  chieftains  of  Connaught,  in  conse-  f  John  O'Finnaghty. — In  his  Patent  of  rese- 
quence of  his  being  an  experienced  sailor,  tution  to  the  temporalities,  dated  1st  March, 

d  Nicholas,  i.e.  Nicholas  O'Farrelly,   son  of  1 326,  he  is  called  John  of  Roscommon.   He  died 

the  coarb  of  St.  Maidoc,  orMogue,  of  Drumlane,  in  1354,  and  was  buried  in  the  cathedral  of  El- 

in  the  county  of  Cavan.  phin.     See  Harris's  Edition  of  Ware's  Bishops, 

•  Mac  Kenna. — He  was  chief  of  the  terri-  p.  631. 

tory  of  Trough,   anciently  called  Triocha  ched  «  The  choicest. — This  entry  is  rendered  as  fol- 

an  chladaigh,  now  the  barony  of  Trough,  in  the  lows  by  Mageoghegan  in  his  translation  of  the 

north  of  the  county  of  Monaghan,  whence  a  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise : 

branch  of  the  same  family  removed  to  the  pa-  "A.  D.I  326.  Richard  Burke,  Earle  of  Ulster 

rish  of  Maghera,  in  the  county  of  Londonderry,  and  Lord  of  Connought,  the  choyce  Englishman 

in  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century,  where  of  all  Ireland,   this  yeare  died,  a  little  before 

the  name  is  now  very  numerous.  Lamas  day." 


534  aNNdta  Rioshachca  eiraeciNR  [1327. 

lorhap  mag  pajnaill  caoipeac  muinnpe  heolaip  DO  mapbab  la  a 
bpaicpib. 

Niocol  6  hfohm  Decc. 

Uoippbealbac  mac  an  chaoic  DO  ec. 

Coippbealbac  mag  machgamna  DO  ecc. 

Gn  cpfp  GouapD  Do  pioghaoh  op  Sa^aib.  25.  lanuapn. 

Cpeach  maighe  hionaip  Do  Denarh  la  hua  T?uaipc,  ualgapg,  aipm  in  po 
mapbab  goppaib  mag  gappaib  la  cacal  ua  T?uaipc. 

TTlai&m  Do  chabaipc  la  Oomnall  caipbpeac  mag  capraig  ap  TTlac 
comaip  i  ap  jallaib  murhan  Du  in  po  mapbaic  l?iDepea&a  iom6a. 

Qmlaoib  TTihag  umip  Do  ecc. 

QO1S  CRIOSC,  1327. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mfle,  rpf  cheD,  piche,  a  Seachc. 

plaicbfpcac  mag  uiohip  ciccfpna  pfp  manach,  ~]  ^opmlaic  injean  meic 
Diapmara  bfn  magnapa  mic  Domnaill  uf  concobaip  ranaipi  connacc  pe  hfb, 
bfn  concobaip  uf  ceallaig  ciccfpna  6  maine  apa  haicle,  -]  bfn  pfpgail  uf 
eaghpa  ngfpna  luigne  lappin,  Decc  lap  mbuaio  naicpige  enig,  ~|  oipofpcaip. 

TTIaoilechloinn  piabac  mac  Domnaill  nnc  caiDg  uf  concobaip  Decc  DO 
galap  bpfc. 

pfpgal  mac  ualgaipc  uf  Ruaipc,  Cuilen  ua  Diomapaigh,  -]  SaDb  ingfn 
meic  aobaccdin  Decc. 

CogaD  mop  einp  Righ  Sapcan  -|  a  bfn,  .1.  ingfn  Righ  ppanc,  -]  T?f  Sa^-an 
Do  aichpiogab  lap  an  mnaof  cfrna,  -\  a  mac  DO  gabail  pige  ip  in  mbbabam 

h  By  his  kinsmen,   la  a   bpairpiB. — "  Was  tion  of  Ware's  Antiquities,  p.  59,  that  a  branch 

killed  by  his  own  brothers." — Mageoghegan,  in  of  the  Desmond  Fitzgeralds,  seated  in  the  county 

Ann.  Clonmacnoise.  of  Waterford,  took  the  name  of  Mac  Thomas. 

'  Magh   hionais. — This  was   the  name   of  a          k  After  the  victory  of  penance,    iap   mbuai6 

level  district  in  the  present  barony  of  Clanawley,  nairpi^e — This  passage,  the  language  of  which 

in  the  south  of  the  county  of  Fermanagh.   It  is  is  so  oddly  constructed  by  the  Four  Masters,  is 

to  be  distinguished  from  Samh  Inis  Maighe  (now  translated  by  Mageoghegan  as  follows,  in  his 

ridiculously  anglicised  Inismacsaint),  which  is  version  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise : 
situated  in  the  north-west  of  the  same  county.  "  A.  D.  1 327.  Gormphley,  the  daughter  of  Mac 

J  Mac  Thomas. — It  is  stated  in  Harris's  edi-  Dermodda,  first  married  to  Magnus  mac  Don- 


1327.]  ANNALS  OP  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  535 

Ivor  Mac  Rannall,  Chief  of  Muintir-Eolais,  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. 

O'Rourke,  Ualgarg,  plundered  Magh-hionais',- where  Godfrey  Mac  Caffrey 
was  slain  by  Cathal  O'Rourke. 

A  victory  was  gained  by  Donnell  Cairbreach  Mac  Carthy  over  Mac  Thomasj 
and  the  English  of  Munster.  Many  knights  were  slain. 

Auliffe  Maguire  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1327. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  twenty-seven. 

Flaherty  Maguire,  Lord  of  Fermanagh,  and  Gormlaith,  the  daughter  of 
Mac  Dermot,  and  wife  of  Manus,  son  of  Donnell  O'Conor,  Tanist  of  Connaught, 
for  some  time  afterwards  wife  of  Conor  O'Kelly,  Lord  of  Hy-Many,  and  after- 
wards wife  of  Farrell  O'Hara,  Lord  of  Leyny,  died,  after  the  victory  of  penance", 
hospitality,  and  renown. 

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. 

A  great  war  [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  year1  assumed  the  government  by  her  order,  in 

nell  O'Connor,  Tanist  of  Connought  for  a  time,  "  6  cup  pojriiaip  na  bliaona  peacmata  50  mi 

afterwards  married  to  Connor  O'Kelly,  prince  rneaoom  pojriiaip   na  btiaona  ppeacnaipce, 

of  Imaine,  and  lastly  to  Fferrall  O'Hara,  the  i.  e.  from  the  beginning  of  the  autumn  of  the 

best  woman  for  liberality,  manners,  and  hospita-  past  year  to  the  month  of  mid-autumn  of  the 

lity  of  her  sept,  died,  after  good  penance."  present  year." 

In  the  last  year,  ip  in  mbliaoain  pfcmaca.  In  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated 
The  word  pfcmaca  is  used  by  the  best  Irish  by  Mageoghegan,  the  dethroning  of  King  Ed- 
writers  to  denote  past,  or  last  past.  It  is  thus  ward  is  entered  under  the  year  1326,  thus: 
used  by  the  Four  Masters  at  the  year  1582:  "  A.  D.  1326.  There  arose  great  warrs  between 


536  awwaca  raioshachca  eiReaNN.  [1328. 

peachmaca  maghaib  a  achap  rpia  popconjpa  a  marap,  -|  a  oipMieab  la 
comaiple  Shajcan. 

T?f  alban  DO  cochc  in  epinn. 

Cogab  einp  rhumcip  Ruaipc  -|  muincip  Rajallaij,  -]  cloch  locha  huach- 
caip  Do  lopcaDh  la  cachal  ua  TCuaipc. 

Caiplen  locha  huachcaip  Do  jabail  la  hua  Ruaipc,  rpfgaip  ap  picic  bo. 

£)iollacp]opr  Dall  rhag  Rajnaill  DO  rhapbab  la  TTlac  ui  rhaoil  TTlhiaDaigh 
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. 

Comap  6  mellaij  eppucc  eanaij  Dum  oecc  ipin  l?oirh. 

TTiuipip  6  gibellain  apDimaigipcip  epeann  i  noligeaD  nua  •)  i  pfinolicceab, 
i  ccanom  •]  i  le^,  pellporh  pfpeolac,  paof  pipodna,  cananac  copab  i  ccuaim 
Da  gualann,  i  noilpinn,  i  nachab  conaipe,  i  ccill  alaib,  i  neanac  Dum,  -]  i 
ccluain  pfpca,  oippicel  -\  bpficfrh  coiccionn  na  haipDeappuccoiDe,  Decc. 

the  King  of  England  and  his  Queen,  the  French  Bruce  landed  at  Carrickfergus  in  the  year  1328, 

King's  daughter,  where  at  last  the  King  was  and  sent  word  to  the  Justiciary  and  the  Council 

deposed  of  his  Crown,  and  given  [recte  which  that  he  came  to  make  peace  between  Ireland 

was  given]  to  his  own  son  Edward,  by  the  ad-  and  Scotland,  and  that  he  would  meet  them  at 

vice  of  the  counsell  of  England."  Green  Castle,  but  that,  the  latter  failing  to  come 

Under  the  year   1327    the   same  chronicle  to  the  meeting,  he  returned  to  Scotland. 

notices  his  death   in   the  following  words  : —          n  The  castle  of  Lough  Oughter This  is  more 

"  A.  D.  1327.  King  Edward   the  Second  was  usually  called   Clock  Locha   Uachtair,  i.  e.  the 

pressed  to  death  by  pressing  a  great  Table  on  stone,  or  rock,  of  Lough  Oughter.   It  is  a  round 

his  belly,  this  year,  with  many  other  tortures,  castle  of  great  strength  in  the  lake  of  Lough 

in  the  Castle  of  Berckley,  and  was  entered  in  Oughter,   not  far  from  Kilmore,  in  the  county 

Glocester."  of  Cavan. — See  other  references  to  it  at  the 

Edward  III.  was  proclaimed  King  of  Eng-  years  1369  and  1370. 

land  on  the  25th  of  January,  1327,  and  crowned  °  Galar  Breac,  literally  the  speckled  disease. 

on  the  1  st  of  February  following.  This  passage  is  thus  rendered  by  Mageoghegan, 

m  The  King  of  Scotland,  i.  e.  Eobert  Bruce —  in  his  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmac- 

According  to  Grace's  Annals  of  Ireland,  Robert  noise  : 


1328.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  537 

opposition  to  his  father.  He  was  crowned  by  the  council  [i.  e.  the  parliament] 
of  England. 

The  King  of  Scotland"1  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 
twenty  cows. 

Gilchreest  Dall  Mac  Rannall  was  slain  in  his  own  bed  by  the  son  of 
O'Mulvey. 

The  Galar  Breac0  raged  throughout  Ireland,  of  which  many  died. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1328. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  twenty-eight. 

The  Bishop  of  Breifny  [Kilmore],  O'Cridagain,  died. 

Thomas  O'Meallaigh,  Bishop  of  Annadown,  died  at  Rome. 

Maurice  O'Gibellan",  Chief  Professor  of  the  New  Law,  the  Old  Law,  and 
the  Canon  Law,  a  truly  profound  philosopher,  a  learned  poet,  and  a  canon 
chorister  of  Tuam,  Elphin,  and  Achad-Chonaire",  Killala,  Annadown,  and  Clon- 
fert,  the  official  and  the  general  Brehon  [i.  e.  Judge]  of  the  archbishopric,  died. 

"A.  D.  1327.  There  reigned  a  disease  called          "A.  D.  1328.  Morishe  O'Gibelan,  master  of 

the  pied  pox,  or  little  pox,  in  Ireland  in  general,  art,  one  exceeding  well  learned  in  the  old  and 

and  took  away  persons  both  great  and  small."  new  laws,   Civille  and  Canon,  a  cunning  and 

Throughout  the  province  of  Connaught,  5alap  skillful  philosopher,  an  excellent  poet  in  Irish, 

bpeac  means  the  small-pox  ;  but,  in  the  south  an  elegant  and  exact  speaker  of  the  speech  which 

of  Ireland,  where  boljac  is  used  to  denote  the  in  Irish  is  called  Ogham,  and,  in  some  [sum],  one 

small-pox,  jalap  bpeac  is  used  to  denote  the  that  was  well  seen  in  many  other  good  sciences, 

spotted  fever.     It  is  highly  probable,  however,  He  was  a  Cation  and  Singer  at  Twayme,  Olfyn, 

that  the  Four  Masters  intended  the  term  to  de-  Aghaconary,  Killalye,  Enaghe  Downe,  and  Clon- 

note  the  small-pox,  as  their  cotemporary  Ma-  fert." 

geoghegan  translates  it,    "  pied  pox,  or  little          q  Achad-C/ionaire,    now  anglicised  Achonry, 

pox." — See  Dublin  P.  Journal,  March  30,  1833,  a  small  village  in  the  barony  of  Leyny,  county 

vol.  i.  p.  314.  of  Sligo,   situated  about  sixteen  miles  to  the 

P  Maurice  O'Gibellan. — This  passage  is  thus  south-west  of  Sligo.     It  was  formerly  an  epis- 

rendered  by  Mageoghegan,  in  his  translation  of  copal  see,  but  is  at  present  united  to  Killala. 
the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  : 

3z 


538  cmNCK-a  Rio^hachca  eiraeaNR  [1328 


na  nainjel  6  caichlij  aipooeocham  mnpi  Decc. 

TTlaoilpecloinn  6  pai  jillij  nccfpna  muincipe  maoilmop&a  Do  loc  Do  jal- 
laib  na  mibe,  a  jabail  Doib  mppin  50  bpuaippior  bpaijDe  ap,  a  ecc  Oia  jonaib 
ma  njjh  pfin  apa  haicle. 

^lolla  Ctoamnain  6  pipjil  comapba  Goarhnam  Decc. 

Uoipneac  -\  remreac  a6bal  ip  in  pampaD  50  po  milleab  mfp,  -|  copra 
epeann  50  Diorhop,  -]  jup  pdpaccap  apbanna  pionna  papa. 

Ufibm  jalaip  50  coiccenn  pecnoin  epeann  (oa  ngoipchi  Slaoccan),  -j  a 
bfich  cpi  laice,  no  a  cfcaip  ap  jac  aon  Da  ngabab  gup  bo  canaipi  bdip  Doib  6. 

Uilliam  bupc,  .1.  an  ciapla  Donn  mac  Sip  Seon  (.1.  mpla)  mac  an  lapla 
puaiD  Do  cocc  in  epinn. 

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  i  cconnaccaib  gup  haipcceaD  laip  mopdn 
Daop  jjpaDa  coippDealbaij  uf  concobaip  pij  Connacc. 

Sip  Seon  mac  pfopaip  mpla  Lugmaij,  aon  bapun  ba  bfooa,  bpiojmaipe,  -| 
ba  pfpp  omec  Do  jallaib  Gpeann,  Do  mapbaD  i  ppell  Da  mumcip  pfm  .1.  Do 
jallaib  oipgiall,  "1  pocaibe  imaille  pip  Do  jallaib  •]  Do  gaoi&elaib.  6a  Dib- 

"  Gilla-na-nangel  CPTaicttigh  —  The  transac-  Ireland  called  the  Murre,   which  continued  for 

tions  of  this  year  are  incorrectly  placed  under  the  space  of  three  or  four  days,  and  brought 

1  325,    in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the   Annals   of  divers  even  to  the  point  of  death." 
Ulster.     This  entry  reads  as  follows  :  ^illa  na          u  An-t-Iarla  Donn,  i.  e.  the  Brown  Earl.    He 

nainjel  o  caiclij  aipcinnech  tDaniiinnp   mop-  was  so  called-from  the  colour  of  his  hair.    He  is 

cuup    epc,   i.e.    Gilla-na-n-angel   O'Taichligh,  called  "  the  Dun  Earl"  by  Mageoghegan  in  his 

Erenagh  of  Devenish,  mortuus  ext.  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoisc,   in 

s  Great  thunder  and  lightning  —  This  passage  which  the  whole  passage  is  rendered  thus  : 
is  thus  rendered  by  Mageoghegan,  in  his  trans-          "A.  D.  1328.  The  Earle  of  Ulster,  called  the 

lation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  :   "  There  Dunn  Earle,  grandchild  to  the  Read  Early,  called 

was  great  thunder  and  lightning  this  year,  that  William  Burke,  Sir  John  Burke's  sonn,  came 

it  destroyed  great  part  of  the  corns  of  the  king-  to  Ireland." 

dom,   that  they  grew  whitish  by  reason  they          w  Sir  John  Mac  Feorais.  —  This  passage  is  thus 

lost  their  substance."  given  in  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  trans- 

c  Slaedan,  a  cough,  or  influenza.     This  pas-  lated  by  Mageoghegan  : 

sage  is  thus  rendered  by  Mageoghegan  in  his          "  Sir  John  Bermingham,   Earl  of  Louth,  the 

translation  of  the   Annals    of  Clonmacnoise  :  best  Earl  for  worthiness,  bounty,  prowes,  and 

"  There  was  a  general  disease  throughout  all  vallour  of  his  hands,  was  treacherously  killed 


1328.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  539 

Gilla-na-nangel  0'Taichlighr,  Archdeacon  of  Innis  [rede  Devenish],  died. 

Melaghlin  O'Reilly,  Lord  of  Muintir-Maelmora,  was  wounded  by  the  Eng- 
lish of  Meath,  who  afterwards  took  him  prisoner,  and  received  hostages  for 
his  ransom.  He  afterwards  died  of  his  wounds  in  his  own  house. 

Gilla-Adamnan  O'Firghil  [O'Freel],  Coarb  of  St.  Adamnan  [at  Raphoe], 
died. 

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. 

A  disease,  called  Slaedan',  raged  universally  throughout  Ireland,  which 
afflicted,  for  three  or  four  days  successively,  every  person  who  took  it.  It  was 
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  tribe  were  killed. 

Conor  Mac  Branan,  heir  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,  and  hospitable  of  the  English  of  Ireland,  was  treacherously  slain  by 
his  own  people,  namely,  by  the  English  of  Oriel.  With  him  were  also  slain 

by  his  people,  the  English  of  Uriel,  and"  [recte  rap  a  leireio   Do  reacc  piam  o  cuip  Domain 

who]    "  also  killed   at   once   with  him,    many  pip  in  elaoam  pin  a   mapbab  pem  7  a  oepb- 

good  and  worthy  English  and  Irishmen:   Mul-  paraip  niaic  etle  ooib  ap  in  lacaip  cebna." 

ronie  Mac  Kervel,  chief  Musician  of  the  King-          *  Earl  of  LoutJi Pembridge  and  Grace  state 

dome,  and  his  brother  Gillekeigh,  were  killed  that   this    squabble    took    place   between   the 

in  that  company,   of  whom  it's  reported  that  Anglo-Irish   families  of  Uriel   at    Balebragan, 

no  man  in  any  age  ever  heard,  or  shall  here-  now  Bragganstown,   in  the   county  of  Louth. 

after  hear,  a  better  Timpanist."     The  original  They  give  a  far  better  account  of  the  results  of 

Irish  of  the  part  of  this  passage  relating  to  the  the  conflict  than  the  Irish   annals  ;  and  it  is 

minstrel    is   given   as   follows    in    the    Dublin  curious  to  remark  that,  while  the  Irish  annalists 

copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  in  which  it  is  en-  record  no  name  except  that  of  the  Earl  of  Louth 

tered  under  the   year   1325:    "In  caec  mac  and  Mac  Carroll,   "as  great  a  minstrel  as  the 

Cepb'aill  .1.  maelpuanciij,  aen  paja  cimpunac  world   ever   heard,"    the    English    chroniclers, 

6penn  7  Qlban,  7  in  Domain  uile  7  ni  oepb-  who  regarded  the  minstrel  as  a  mere  harper,  or 

3  z2 


540  QNNac,a  Rio^hachca  eirceaNN.  [1328. 

piohe  an  caoc  6  cfpbaill,  .1.  TTlaolpuanaib,  aon  po£a  aompanac  epeann,  i 
alban  epibe  ma  aimpip. 

bpian  mac  Uomalcaigh  meic  oonnchaib  Do  mapbab  DO  bpian  mac  caibg 
meic  Donnchaib. 

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  i  pop  ^illbepc 
cona  muincip. 

Oonnchab  jalloa  mac  Domnaill  uf  concobaip  DO  mapbab  la  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  uf  Glije  bfn  Oomnaill  mic  raibj  uf  concobaip  DO  ecc. 

give  only  a  long  list  of  the  distinguished  Anglo-  personage,  and  sufficient  to  govern  a  monarchy, 

Irish  gentlemen  who  fell  in  the  conflict.  and  with  him  80  persons  were  killed." 

y  Minstrel.  —  Ciompanac  is  explained  by  *  A  meeting. — This  passage  is  thus  rendered 

O'Brien,  a  harper  or  minstrel.  by  Mageoghegan  in  his  translation  of  the  An- 

z  Conor  O'Brien — This  part  of  the  passage  is  nals  of  Clonmacnoise  :  "There  was  a  general 

thus  given  in  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  meeting  at  a  place  called  Athkynlogha  Techye 

translated  by  Mageoghegan  :  between  Walter  Mac  William  Burke,  Gilbert 

"  Connor  O'Brien  was  killed,  who  was  a  young  Mac  Cossdelye,  of  the  one  side,  and  Mulronie 

man  of  great  expectation,  bounty,  comeliness  of  Mac  Dermodda,  Tomaltagh,  his  son,  Donnell 


1328.]  ANNALS  OP  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  541 

many  others  of  the  English  and  Irish,  amongst  whom  was  the  Blind  O'Carroll 
[recte  Mac  Carroll],  i.  e.  Mulrony,  Chief  MinstreF  of  Ireland  and  Scotland  in  his 
time. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Tomaltagh  Mac  Donough,  was  slain  by  Brian,  the  son  of 
Teige  Mac  Donough. 

A  great  army  [was  led]  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'Brienz,  a  good 
materies  for  a  King  of  Ireland,  by  reason  of  his  personal  shape,  wisdom,  hos- 
pitality, and  renown,  was  slain  on  this  occasion,  as  were  also  eighty  persons, 
including  chieftains  and  plebeians. 

Teige,  son  of  Turlough  O'Conor,  was  slain  by  Dermot  O'Gara. 

A  meeting*  for  a  conference  took  place  at  Ath-chinn-Locha  Techetb  between 
Walter,  son  of  William  Burke,  and  Gilbert  Mac  Costello,  on  the  one  side;  and 
Mulrony  Mac  Dermot,  Tomaltagh,  his  son,  Tomaltagh  Mac  Donough,  and  the 
chiefs  of  Clann-Mulrony,  on  the  other  :  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  Mac  Rannall,  Chief  of  Muintir-Eolais,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Gil- 
chreest  Mac  Rannall. 

Duvesa,  daughter  of  O'Farrell,  and  wife  of  Mac  Murrough  of  the  Mountain, 
died. 

The  Blind  Mac  Carroll",  whose  name  was  Mulrony,  the  chief  of  the  min- 
strels of  Ireland  in  his  time,  was  slain. 

Edwina,  daughter  of  Mac  Mahon,  and  wife  of  Maguire,  died. 

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 

family,  of  the  other  side  :  whereupon  some  dis-  Lough  Gara. 

tastful  words  that  passed  between  them,  from          c  Muintir  Gearan — A  territory  and  tribe  in 

words  they  fell  to  blows  of  armes ;  in  the  end  the  north-east  of  the  county  of  Longford,  lying 

Mac  William  Burke  was  overthrown."  along  Lough  Gowna,  on  the  west  side. 

b  Ath-chinn-Locha  Techet,  i.e.  the  ford  at  the          d  The  Bliml  Mac  Carroll. — This  is  a  repetition. 


542  ctNNaca  Rio^hachca  emeawN.  [1329 

Sluaijeab  oile  la  TTluipcfpcac  6  mbpiam,  ~\  la  clomn  cuilein  oionnpaijpb 
bpiain  uf  bpictin  oopibipi  t>ia  po  ppaomeab  pop  muipcfpcac,  -\  Dfa  po  mapbab 
concobap  6  bpiain,  -|  Dorhnall  na  noomnall,  -)  TTlaccon  mac  conmapa  50  poch- 
aibib  oile. 

TTlai&m  mop  DO  cabaipc  la  TTldg  eochagam  ap  jallaib  ou  in  po  mapbab 
cuig  ceo  Decc  ap  pichic  ceo  gall  im  balacunachaib,  -|  im  mac  an  RiDepe 
Uallaij. 

Qrhlaoib  maj  pinobaipp  DO  mapbab  la  Carhal  ua  Ruaipc. 

GDIS  CR1OSU,  1329. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile  cpi  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  i  ngh  RiocaipD  DIUID  i  TTlamipcip  pobaip. 

TTluipcfpcac  mac  oorhnaill  uf  Concobaip  ciccfpna  caipppe,  i  ofghabbap 
pigh  Connachc  Decc. 

Cacal  mac  Qoba  mic  6ojain  uf  concobaip  Do  bfochup  ap  eiccin  ap  na 
pfbaib  i  a  cip  maine  cpe  popcongpa  Uacep  a  bupc  ap  Shfol  cceallaij,  -\  ap 
uib  maine  ap  cfna. 

Coccab  mop  ecip  Uoippbealbac  6  cconcobaip  •)  clann  maolpuanaib  jup 
milleab  mopan  earcoppa  Diblionaib. 

t 

e  Three  thousand  five  hundred.  —  This  number  135,  i.  e.  cuij  o6c  ap  picic  ap  ceo  gall,  and  that 

is  decidedly  an  error  of  transcription,  for  it  is  the  introduction  of  the  word  c6o  twice  into  the 

incredible   that  the  petty  chief  Mageoghegan,  text  is  a  modern  falsification.    This  falsification, 

with  his  few  followers,  could  have  killed  so  however,  may  not  have  been  committed  by  the 

great  a  number  of  their  enemies,  —  a  number  Four  Masters  ;  but  it  looks  strange  that  the  pas- 

greater  than  all  the  inhabitants  of  his  territory  sage  is  not  to  be  found  in  the  Dublin  copy  of 

of  Kinel  Fiachach.   According  to  Pembridge  and  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  in  the  Annals  of  Clon- 

Grace,  the  number  of  the  English  common  sol-  macnoise,   as   translated   by   Mageoghegan,    in 

diers  slain  on  this  occasion  was  about  140,  be-  which  there  is  no  apparent  chasm  at  this  year, 

sides  several  distinguished  knights  ;  and  nothing  in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,  or  in  the  Annals  of 

is  more  evident  than  that  the  number  of  common  Connaught.     The  Abbe  Mageoghegan,  in  de- 

soldiers  recorded  by  the  original  annalist  was  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. 

The  English  sustained  a  great  defeat  from  Mageoghegan,  three  thousand 
five  hundred'  of  them  being  slain  in  the  contest,  together  with  some  of  the 
Daltons,  and  the  son  of  the  Proud  Knight. 

Auliffe  Mac  Finnvar  was  slain  by  Cathal  O'Rourke. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1329. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  twenty-nine. 

Augustine,  Abbot  of  Lisgabhailf  on  Lough  Erner  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 
English  of  Meath,  in  the  house  of  Richard  Tuite,  at  the  monastery  of  Foreg. 

Murtough,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Conor,  Lord  of  Carbury,  and  a  good 
materies  of  a  King  of  Connaught,  died. 

Cathal,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Owen  O'Conor,  was  forcibly  expelled  from 
the  Faes  and  from  Tir-Many  by  order"  of  Walter  Bourke,  to  the  O'Kellys,  and 
the  other  tribes  of  Hy-Many. 

A  great  war  [broke  out]  between  Turlough  O'Conor  and  the  Clann- 
Mulrony,  and  much  property  was  destroyed  between  them. 

mon  soldiers  were  knights  or  commanders  (see          8  Fore,  paBap See  note  s  under  the  year 

his  Histoire  D*Irlande,  torn.  ii.  p.  104),  and  1176,  p.  22.  The  place  now  belongs  to  the 
quotes  Pembridge,  who  gives  the  account  very  Marquis  of  Westmeath,  not  to  the  Tuites. 
differently — See  Ware's  Annals,  ad  ann.  1329 ;  h  By  order,  i..e.  Walter  Burke  issued  an  order 
and  Grace's  Annals,  edited  for  the  Irish  Archteo-  to  the  O'Kellys  to  banish  Cathal  O'Conor  from 
logical  Society  by  the  Eev.  Richard  Butler,  p.  1 15.  their  territory,  which  order  was  executed.  The 
f  Lisgabhail,  liop  £aoail,  i.  e.  the  fort  of  the  passage  is  thus  rendered  by  Mageoghegan  in  his 
fork,  now  anglicised  Lisgole  or  Lisgool.  The  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise : 
place  is  situated  on  the  west  bank  of  Lough  "  A.  D.  1329.  Walter  mac  William  Burck,  called 
Erne,  a  short  distance  southwards  of  Enniskillen,  Mac  William,  procured  the  banishment  of  Ca- 
in the  barony  of  Clanawley  and  county  of  Fer-  hall  mac  Hugh  mac  Owen  O'Connor  out  of  the 
managh.  The  monastery  of  this  place  existed  Fewes  and  the  Territory  of  Many  of  the 
to  a  late  period.  O'Kellys." 


544  ctNNCita  Rioghachca  emeaNR  [1330. 

Cpeac  Do  Denam  la  comalcac  mac  Diapmaca  ap  oiapmaic  6  bplannac- 
cciin  caoipeac  cloinne  cacail. 

Qme  mjean  pfpjail  uf  Raijillij  bfn  Comalcaij  meic  Diapmaca  Decc. 

CaDg  mac  coippbealbaij  mic  Tnacgarhna  uf  concobaip  Do  rhapbab  la 
hua  ngabpa  -)  la  luchc  Qipcigh. 

Sich  DO  oenorh  Do  mac  uilliam  bupc  -]  Diapla  ulab  pe  TTlac  romdip. 

Oabac  Dono  mac  uilliam  RiDipe  uapal  mopconaij  Do  ecc. 

Oonnchab  mac  giollapacpaicc  Do  mapbaD  la  hiapla  ulaD. 

ITlaoiliopa  Donn  mac  QoDhajam  apDollam  connachc  Do  ecc. 

^uipc  gan  buain  50  hiap  ppeil  TTIichil  ap  puD  epeann  lap  an  ppleachab. 

QO18  CR1O3U,  1330. 
Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mfle  cpf  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 
mic  6ojam  ui  concobaip  i  bpfponn  na  Dapach,  "|  Siomann  mac  in  pailgij  Do 
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  -\  a  abnacal  i  mamipcip  in  cabain  i  naibfo  na  mbpdcap  mionup,  -] 
ba  hfpiDe  ceo  punDuip  na  maimprpe  pempaice. 

TTlaoilechlamn  mac  capmaic  bpujaiD  ceDach  conaich  Do  ecc. 

Sluai^eaD  la  hualjapcc  ua  puaipc  50  pioDh  an  acha.  501^  an  °a'le 
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,    i.  e.   land  of  the   oak.  Mac  Nally,  or  Mac  Anally. — See  note  under  the 

The  name  is  now  obsolete:  year  1316. 

k  Mae-in-Fhailghe,  was  the  name  of  a  Welsh          '  Brughaidh  Cedack,  a  farmer  who  had  one 

tribe,  but  their  location  has   not  been  deter-  hundred  of  each  kind  of  cattle, 
mined.    It  is  probably  the  name  now  anglicised          m  Fiodh-an-atha,  i.  e.  the  wood  of  the  ford, 


1330.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  545 

A  depredation  was  committed  by  Tomaltagh  Mac  Dermot  upon  Dermot 
O'Flanagan,  Chief  of  Clann-Cathail. 

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  Michael- 
mas, in  consequence  of  wet  weather. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1330. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  thirty. 

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  na- 
darach1  by  Cathal,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Owen  O'Conor;  and  Simon  Mac-in- 
Fhailghe*  was  slain  with  him. 

Gilla-Isa  Roe  O'Reilly,  Lord  of  Muintir-Maelmora,  and  of  the  entire  terri- 
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. 
.  Melaghlin  Mac  Carmaic,  a  wealthy  Brughaidh  Cedach1,  died. 

An  army  was  led  by  Ualgarg  O'Rourke  to  Fiodh-an-atham,  whereupon  the 
English  of  that  town  rose  up  against  him.  O'Rourke's  people  were  defeated ; 
and  Art  O'Rourke,  a  materies  of  a  chief  lord  of  Breifny,  Rory  Magauran,  and 
many  others,  were  slain  by  the  English. 

An  attack  was  made  by  Turlough  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  upon  the 

now  anglicised  Finae,  a  fair  town  in  the  barony      Girne.     Over  this  stream   there  is  a  bridge, 
of  Half  Fowre,  and  county  of  Westmeath.    It  is      which  separates  the  counties  of  Westmeath  and 
a  small  but  neat  village  on  a  stream  which      Cavan. 
unites  the  two  lakes  of  6oc  Sileann  and  6oc 

4  A 


546  cwNata  Rio^hachua  eiReaNN.  [1330. 

pop  uacep  mac  uilliam  bupc  i  Ifccmoij  i  rnoij  luipcc,  ~|  a  puaccab  Do  aippibe 
50  caipce  liacc  pacca.  ^j^bepc  mac  JoifDelBaij  (ci^fpna  plebe  luja  mun 
am  pin)  Do  cechc  50  Ifon  a  mumcipe  DO  cuioiuccab  le  mac  uilliam.  Comal- 
cac  mac  Donnchaib  cona  mumcip  Do  code  Do  commopab  meic  uilliam  bfop 
iap  niompob  pop  ua  cconcobaip  ooib.  Na  pluaij  pin  oiblionaib  Dionnpaijib 
ui  concobaip.  l?o  cuipfb  mmaipfcc  fccoppa  Ifc  pop  Ific  50  pangacap  ach 
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  i  ccill  lomacc  i  ccompocpaib  Dua  ccon- 
cobaip. Sloijeab  Connacc  eicip  jallaib  -|  £aomelaib  (Don  meD  po  gab  a 
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 
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,  .1.  an  ciapla  Donn  Diappaib  a  chonganca  in  aghaib  meic  uilliam. 

bpian  mac  giollacpiopc  meg  Raghnaill  Do  mapbab  la  caohj 


"  Leagmhagh,  now  Legvoy,  a  townland  in  the  cated  to  a  Saint  Nuadhan,  of  whom  no  account 

parish   of  Killukin,   not  far  from   Carrick-on-  is  found  in  the  Irish  Calendars,  unless  he  be  the 

Shannon,  in  the  barony  of  Boyle,  and  county  of  Nuadha  Anchorite  set  down  in   the  Irish  calen- 

Koscommon.  darof  the  O'Clerysat  3rd  of  October.     His  holy 

0  Cairthe-liag-fada,  now  probably  the  town-  well,  called  cobap  nuaoam,  is  still  in  existence, 

land  of  Cnoc  a  capra,  in  the  parish  of  Killukin,  but  at  present  very  seldom  resorted  to  by  pil- 

in  the  county  of  Roscommon.     The  place  is  so  grims.     There  is  a  tradition  in  the  country  that 

called  from  a  large  capca,  or  pillar  stone,  which  there  was  a  town  here,  but  no  trace  of  it  now 

stands  on  the  top  of  the  hill,   and  said  to  have  remains.     The  following  extract  from  an  Inqui- 

been  thrown  by  a  giant  from  a  distant  locality.  sition  taken  in  the  reign  of  Elizabeth  seems  to 

9  Ath-Disirt-  Nuadhan,  i.  e.  the  ford  of'Disert  corroborate  this  tradition: 

Nuadhan  —  This  name  is  written  or  oipipc  nua-  "  Quod  est  quoddam  forum  sive  mercatum  in 

6ox  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  die  Sabbatis  qualibet  septimana  quondo  non  est 

and  now  corruptly  called  in  Irish  cipp  Nuaoain,  guerra  in  patria,  juxta  tcmplum  Sancti  "Wogani 

and  strangely  anglicised  Eastersnow,  which  is  vulgaritc  Temple-Issetnowne  in  baronia  dc  Moy- 

the  name  of  a  parish  in  the  barony  of  Boyle  and  lurg." 

county  of  Roscommon.     This  parish  was  dedi-  In  another  part  of  this  Inquisition  it  is  angli- 


1330.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  547 

camp  of  Walter,  the  son  of  William  Burke,  at  Leagmagh",  in  Moylurg,  and 
forced  him  to  retreat  from  thence  to  Cairthe-liag-fada0.  Gilbert  Mac  Costello 
(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 
O'Conor,  came  also  to  Mac  AVilliam's  assistance.  These  combined  forces  at- 
tacked O'Conor,  and  an  engagement  took  place  between  both  parties  at  Ath- 
Disirt-Nuadanp,  where  Donough,  son  of  Donnell  Mac  Mahon,  Mac  Gillacowan, 
and  a  few  of  O'Conor's  people,  were  slain.  Around  the  ford  O'Conor  and  the 
chiefs  of  his  people  effected  a  retreat  into  the  Tuathas  by  force;  and  Mac 
William  (then)  pitched  his  camp  at  Killomadq,  near  O'Conor.  The  forces  of 
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,  and  he  had  them  in  readiness  to  depose  O'Conor.  When  Mac  Dermot 
received  intelligence  of  this,  he  turned  against  Mac  William,  and  took  part  with 
O'Conor  ;  and  a  kindly  and  amicable  peace  was  concluded'  between  both. 

A  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.    The  Irish  wordDisert,  which  mett  and  joined  together,  retrayted  upon  O'Con- 

signifies  a  desert,   wilderness,  and  sometimes  a  nor  to  Athdisert  Nwan,  and  there,  about  that 

hermit's  retreat,  has  been  variously  anglicised  forde,  killed  a  few  of  his  people,  with  Donnough 

Ister,  Ester,  Easter,  Tristle,  Desert,  and  Dysart.  mac  Donnell  mac  Mahone,  and  the  son  of  Gille- 

q  Killumod,  a  parish  in  the  barony  of  Boyle  cowgan  with  others  that  for  prolixity's  \recte 

and  county  of  Eoscommon.  brevity's]    sake  I  omitt  here  to  name,  and  so 

*  Peace  teas  concluded. — This  passage  is  ren-  O'Connor  escaped  vallourously  and  came  to  the 

dered  by  Mageoghegan  as  follows  in  his  transla-  Twathies,  whom  Mac   William   followed,   and 

tion  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise :  encamped  at  Kill-lomatt  in  his  presence ;  where- 

'•  A.  D.I  330.  Terlagh  O'Connor,  King  of  Con-  upon  Mac  William  assembled  all  the  forces  of 

nought,  gave  an  assault  to  Walter  Mac  William  the  English  and  Irish  of  Connought,  with  intent 

Burke,  at  a  place  called  Leakmoye,  in  Moylorg,  to  take  the  kingdom  and  name  of  King  of  Con- 

and  from  thence  chased  him  to  Carhalyagefad.  nought  to  himself.     Mac  Dermott  and  O'Connor 

Gilbert  Mac  Cosdeally,  with  a  great  company,  came  to  a  friendly   agreement,  and  peace  was 

came  to  assist  Mac  William;  and  also  Tomaltagh  concluded  between  them." 

Mac  Dermod  came  to  relieve  him  too,  and  being  s  Dartry,  i.  e.  Dartry  Mac-Clancy,  now  the 

4A2 


548  QHNaca  Rio^hachca  eireeaNN.  [1331. 

Qeoh  i  Diajimaic  Da  rhac  TTlupchaiD  uf  pfpjail  DO  rhapbab  la  haeb  6 

pjail. 

Pecpup  mac  comapba  Tnaeboige  Do  rhapbab  la  jallaib  cfnannpa. 


CR1OSU,  1331 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  rpf  ceD,  cpiochac,  a  haon. 

Comapba  Caillfn,  .1.  giolla  na  naorii  mac  cele  DO  ecc  i  mainipcip  TTlaocla. 

TTlaolpuanaib  mac  Diapmaca  ciccfpna  maije  luipcc  Dpaccbail  a  ciifp- 
naip,  -)  aibiD  rhanaij  Do  gabail  Do  i  mainipcip  na  buille,  -]  comalcac  mac 
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. 

SloicceaD  la  Uacep  mac  uilliam  bupc  i  maish  luipcc.  Ctn  n'p  uile 
DionnpaD  Do  ace  cealla  nama,  uaip  cucc  comaipce  -\  ca&ap  Doibhpi&e. 
Uomalrac  mac  Diapmaca  cona  muincip  Dia  nionnpaighiD.  ^oill  DO  rabaipc 
amaip  paip  ap  a  haichle  gup  raapbpac  poipfiin  Dia  muincip..  Oppab  Do 
Denarii  Doib  pe  poile  -]  udcep  Dpagbail  na  cipe. 

TTlaoilip  mag  eochagdin  Decc. 

TTlupchaDh  mag  TTlachjarhna  Do  rhapbab  la  Seaan  maj  TTlachjjariina,  -\ 
la  'jallaib  machaipe  aipjiall. 

mac  concaippje  uf  ploinn  Do  ecc. 


barony   of  Rossclogher,    in   the   north   of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  : 

county  of  Leitrim.  "  A.  D.  1331-  Mulronie  Mac  Dermoda,  prince 

1  Caittin.  —  He  was  the  patron  saint  of  Fenagh,  of  the  territorie  of  Moylorg,  forsook  his  govern- 

in  the  county  of  Leitrim.  ment  and  principallity,  and  entered  into  religion, 

u  Maethail,  now  MohiU,  a  village  in  a  barony  in  the  order  of  Gray  Monks,  in  the  abbey  of 

of  the  same  name  in  the  county  of  Leitrim.     St.  Boylle,  and  within  a  short  while  after  died,  after 

Manchan'  erected  a  monastery  herein  the  year  whose  death  his  sonn   Tomaltagh,    the  6th  of 

652.     See  Colgan's  Acta  Sanctorum,  p.  332,  and  May,  succeeded  him  in  his  place." 
Ussher's  Primordia,  p.  989-     There  are  no  re-          w  An  army  was  led.  —  This  passage  is  some- 

mains  of  the  monastery  at  present,  and  its  site  what  better  given  in  Mageoghegan's  translation 

is  occupied  by  the  parish  church  of  Mohill.  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  follows  : 

y  Mulrony  Mac  Dermot.  —  This  passage  is  given          "  A.  D.  1  33  1  .  Walter  Burke  (called  Mac  Wil- 

as  follows  by  Mageoghegan  in  his  version  of  the  liam),  with  a  great  army  repaired  to  Moylorge, 


1331.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  549 

Hugh  and  Dermot,  two  sons  of  Murrough  OTarrell,  were  slain  by  Hugh 
OTarrell. 

Petrus,  son  of  the  Coarb  of  St.  Maidoc,  was  slain  by  the  English  of  Kells. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1331. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  thirty-one. 

The  Coarb  of  [St.]  Caillin',  Gilla-na-naev  Mac  Cele,  died  in  the  monastery 
of  Maethail". 

Mulrony  Mac  Dermot',  Lord  ofMoylurg,  resigned  his  lordship,  and  assumed 
the  habit  of  a  monk  in  the  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. 

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  pro- 
tection 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. 

Murrough  Mac  Mahon  was  slain  by  John  Mac  Mahon  and  the  English  of 
Machaire  Oirghiallx. 

Thomas,  the  son  of  Cuchairrge  O'Flynn,  died. 

where  he  burnt,  preyed,  and  destroyed  all  places  pie,  and  killed  divers  of  them,  which  Tomaltagh 
in  that  contrey,  save  only  churches  and  church-  did  not  leave  unrevenged,  for  he  could  not  digestt 
lands,  which  he  reverenced  and  had  in  great  that  so  many  of  his  people  were  killed,  and  that 
respect.  But  Tomaltagh  Mac  Dermot  cou'd  not  they  shou'd  not  escape  without  rendering  him 
well  brook  that  Mac  William  should  be  suffered  an  accompt  of  so  many  heads  of  theirs,  too,  for 
to  enjoye  any  rest  in  that  contrey,  and  therefore  entring  so  boldlie  into  his  territory." 
they  suddainly  betooke  themselves  to  their  arms,  x  Machaire- Oriel,  TYlacnipe  Oipjiall,  i.  e. 
which  they  then  held  to  be  their  best  and  readi-  the  plain  of  Oriel.  This  was  one  of  the  ancient 
nst  friends  in  time  of  greatest  need,  and  gave  names  of  the  level  part  of  the  county  of  Louth. 
them  the  onsett,  but  Mac  William  and  his  peo-  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,  a  06. 

Uacep  mac  Sip  uilliam  bupc  Do  gabail  lap  an  mpla  noonn,  ~\  a  bpeic 
laip  lapam  co  caiplen  nua  innpi  heojain,  a  ecc  Do  jopca  ap  a  haichle  hi 
bppiopun  an  caiplein  perhpaice. 

TTlaiDni  bfipne  an  mil  pop  comalcach  mac  noiapmara,  -|  pop  mac  uilliam 
pe  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,  ~\  Dpong  DO  rappaing 
o  cele  Dibh  ma  Dioghail. 

y  Walter — In  Grace's  Annals  of  Ireland  he  is  church  is  shewn.     See  another  reference  to  Cill 

incorrectly  called  Richard  de  Burgo.  Thestarv-  Oiridh  under  the  year  1416. 

ing  of  this  Walter  in  the  prison  of  Green  Castle,          c  Earl  of  Ulster There  is  a  much  more  cir- 

was  the  chief  cause  of  the  murder  of  the  Earl  of  cumstantial  account  of  the  death  of  this  Earl  of 

Ulster  in  the  following  year.  Ulster  given  by  Pembridge  and  Grace  under 

1  The  new  castle — Green  Castle,  in  the  barony  this  year.  Lodge  gives  the  following  particulars 

of  Inishowen,  near  the  mouth  of  Lough  Foyle,  of  it:  "He  was  murdered  on  Sunday,  June  6, 

in  the  north-east  of  the  county  of  Donegal,  is  1333,  by  Robert  Fitz-Richard  Mandeville  (who 

still  called  caiplean  nua  in  Irish  by  the  natives,  gave  him  his  first  wound),  and  others  his  ser- 

a  Kinel-Fiachach,  now  the  barony  ofMoycashel  vants,  near  to  the  Fords,  in  going  towards  Car- 

in  the  south  of  the  county  of  Westmeath.  rickfergus,  in  the  21  st  year  of  his  age,  at  the  in- 

b  Citt- Oiridh,   now   Killery,    an   old  church  stigation,  as  was  said,  of  Gyle  de  Burgh,  wife 

which  gives  name  to  a  parish  near  Lough  Gill,  of  Sir  Richard  Mandeville,  in  revenge  for  his 

in  the  barony  of  Tirerrill  and  county  of  Sligo,  having    imprisoned    her    brother  Walter   and 

and  adjoining  the  county  of  Leitrim.     See  map  others." 

prefixed  to  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  This  young  earl  left  an  only  child,  Elizabeth, 

Hy-Fiachrach ;  on  which  the  situation  of  this  who  was  married  in  the  year  1352  to  Lionel, 


1333.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  551 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1332. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  thirty-two. 

Walter',  son  of  Sir  Walter  Burke,  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  Dun  Earl,  and 
brought  to  the  new  castlez  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 
Tomaltagh  Mac  Donough. 

William  Gallda,  son  of  Mur tough  More  Mageoghegan,  Lord  of  Kinel-Fiach- 
ach1"1,  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1333. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  thirty-three. 

. 

Florence  Mac-an-Oglaich,  Archdeacon  of  Cill-0iridhb,  died. 

William  Burke,  Earl  of  Ulster0,  was  killed  by  the  English  of  Ulster.  The 
Englishmen  who  committed  this  deed  were  put  to  death,  in  divers  ways,  by  the 
people  of  the  King  of  England  ;  some  were  hanged,  others  killed,  and  others 
torn  asunder",  in  revenge  of  his  death. 

third  son   of  King  Edward  III.,  and  this  prince  selves  independent,  renounced  the  English  dress 

was  then  created,  in  her  right,  Earl  of  Ulster  and  language,  and  adopted  Irish  names,  Sir  Wil- 

::ml  Lord  of  Connaught,  and  these  titles  were  liam  taking  the  name  of  Mac  William  Oughter, 

enjoyed  through  marriage  or  descent  by  different  or  the  Upper,  and  Sir  Edmund  that  of  Mac  Wil- 

princes  of  the  royal  blood,  until  at  length,  in  the  liam  Eighter,  or  the  Lower.    Under  these  names 

person   of  Edward  FV.,  they  became  the  special  these  two  powerful  chieftains  tyranized  over  the 

inheritance  and  revenue  of  the  crown  of  England,  entire  province  of  Counaught,  and  though  Lionel 

Immediately  on  the  Earl's  death  the  chiefs  of  the  Duke  of  Clai'ence,  in  right  of  his  wife,  laid  claim 

junior  branches  of  the  family  of  Burke  or  De  to  their  usurped  possessions,  the  government  ap- 

liurgo,   then   seated   in  Connaught,  fearing  the  pears  to  have  been  too  weak  to  assert,  the  autho- 

transfcr  of  his  possessions  into  strange  hands  by  rity  of  the  English  laws,  so  that  the  territories 

the  marriage  of  the  heiress,  seized  upon  his  estates  of  the  Burkes  were  allowed  to  descend  in  course 

in  Connaught.     The  two  most  powerful  of  these  of  tanistry  and  gavelkind.    See  Hardiman's  His- 

were  Sir  William  or  Ulick,  the  ancestor  of  the  tory  of  Galway,  pp.  56,  57. 
Karls  of  Clanrickard,  and  Sir  Edmund  Albanagh,          *  Torn   asunder,  i.  e.  torn   limb  from   limb. 

f  lie  progenitor  of  the  Viscounts  of  Mayo.  These,  Mageoghegan  renders  it  "hanged,  drawn,  and 

"having  confederated  together  and  declared  them-  quartered." 


552  aNNdta  TJio^hachca  emectNN.  [1333. 

Comalcach  mac  Donnchaib  meic  Diapmaca  cijfpna  ripe  hoilella,  pfp 
ha  pfpp  pipinne,  cabup,  ~|  comaipce  Da  mbaf  in  en  aimpip  pip  Decc. 

pfibbmib  Ua  Domnaill  an  canaipi  rijfpna  pa  h'uaiple,  pa  haipfjba  -|  ap 
mo  pip  a  paibe  puil  Dfipionnchaibh  Decc. 

^illibepc  mac  goipoelbaijj  Do  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  .1.  la 
coippbealbac  ua  cconcobaip  l?i  connacr  -|  la  cijfpndn  mag  l?uaipc,  -| 
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. 

QoDh  mac  oomhnaill  oicc  f  Domnaill  cijfpna  cenel  cconaill,  cenel  moam 
innpi  heosham,  pfpmanach,  locraip  connachc,  -\  na  bpeipne,  -]  abbap  pigh 
ulab  uile  bfop,  aon  poba  mo  spam  ~|  abiiar  a  eccpacc  poirhe  baof  Do 
£aoibelaibh  a  aimpipe,  aon  ap  mo  lep  cuic  Do  jallaib  -]  DO  jaoiDelaibh 
baccap  ina  ajhaib,  aon  po  bpfpp  pmacc,  peacr,  -]  piaghail  bai  ma  comh- 
pochpaib,  peichfrii  coiccenn  mpcaip  eoppa  ap  emeach  -]  ofplaccaDh  Decc 
lap  mbpfic  buaba  o  borhan  •]  Dfman  in  aibfcr  manaijh  i  ninip  paimep,  -|  a 
abnacal  co  nonoip,  -|  co  naipmioin  moip  i  mainipcip  eapa  puaioh.  Concobap 
ua  Domnaill  (a  mac)  Do  jabail  a  lonaiD.  Ro  pap  lapam  lOTncopnarh  enp 
concobap  i  Ctpc  (a  bfpbparaip)  imon  pplaireapp  50  po  mapbaoh  Qpr  a 
ccpaicre  la  concobap. 

e  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  treacherously." 

branch  of  the  Mac  Dermots  of  Moylurg  in  the  g  Inis  Saimer. — This  is  a  small  island  in  the 

county  of  Eoscommon.  river  Erne,  close  to  the  cataract  of  Assaroe  at 

f  Mac  Dermot  Gall. — He  was  located  in  the  Ballyshannon.     It  is  to  be  distinguished  from 

territory  of  Airteach,  in  the  county  of  Roscom-  the  monastery  of  Assaroe,  which  is  situated  on 

mon,   adjoining  the  barony  of  Costello  in  the  the  north  side  of  the  river,  about  one  mile  to  the 

county  of  Mayo.  This  passage  is  thus  translated  west  of  the  town  of  Ballyshannon. 

by  Mageoghegan  in  his  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise:  hMageoghegan  translates  it  thus,  in  his  version 

"  Cahall  Mac  Dermodda  Gall  killed  Gillebert  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  : 


1333.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  553 

Tomaltagh  Mac  Donough  Mac  Dermotc,  Lord  of  Tirerrill,  the  most  cele- 
brated 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. 

Gilbert  Mac  Costello  was  treacherously  slain  in  the  middle  of  his  own 
house  by  Cathal  Mac  Dermot  Gallf. 

Hugh  Mac  Consnava,  Chief  of  Muintir-Kenny,  died. 

Mac-na-h-Oidhche  Oge  Mac  Clancy  was  slain  by  the  Connacians  (i.  e.  by 
Turlough  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  assisted  by  Tiernan  Mag-Kuairc);  and 
the  lordship  of  Breifny  was  given  to  O'Reilly. 

Donough,  son  of  Hugh  O'Kelly,  was  taken  prisoner  by  Turlough  O'Conor, 
King  of  Connaught. 

A  peace  was  proclaimed  by  the  King  of  England  to  the  Clann- William 
Burke. 

Conor  Mac  Branan,  Chief  of  Corcachlann,  died. 

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 
him;  the  most  eminent  man  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 
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". 

"  Hugh  O'Donnell,  King  of  Tyreconnell  and  this  year,  after  he  had  overcome  the  world  and 
Fermanagh,  one  that  took  hostages  of  the  terri-  the  devill,  and  also  after  he  had  reigned  fortu- 
tory  of  Carbry  and  Sligeagh,  and  Brenie ;  one  nately  in  the  principality  of  Tyrconnell  fifty 
deputed  to  be  next  successor  of  the  Kingdom  of  years,  and  after  he  had  entred  into  religion  in 
Ulster,  the  best  man  in  Ireland  for  bounty,  the  habitt  of  a  gray  monck,  receiving  the  sacra- 
prowess,  magnanimity,  rule,  and  good  govern-  ments  of  Penance  and  Extream  Unction.  After 
ment,  and  in  summer  he  that  killed  most  of  the  whose  death  his  son,  Connor  O'Donnell,  was 
English  and  Irish  that  were  his  enemies,  died  in  constituted  to  succeed  him,"  &c. 

4  B 


554  aNwaca  Rio^hachca  eii?eaNN.  [1335. 

Q01S  CR10SU,  1334. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile  cpf  cheo,  cpiochacc,  a  cfchaip. 


b  ia  connachcaibh  uile  ecip  jallaibh  •)  jaoioealaib  if  in 
inumain  oo  paigioh  rhfic  Conmapa  50  po  gabpac  a  bpaijjoe  -\  gup  cuippfc  a 
nfpc  aip.  Ueampall  Oo  lopccao  Do  opuing  oon  cpluaijh  pom  ina  mbaccap 
ochcmojhac  ap  ceo  oo  oaofnibh,  i  omp  Saccapc  imaille  piu,  i  gan  aon  Oiob 
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,  i  Seonacc  mac 
TTIuipcfproijh  moip  meg  eochaccain  cijfpna  cenel  piachacb  oecc. 

Uilliam  mag  eochajan  oo  ecc. 

Concobap  mac  bpandin  oo  ecc. 

Goin  mac  jiolla  ulcain  oo  mapbao  la  oomnall  mac  aeoa. 

QOIS  CR1OSC,  1335. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile  cpi  cheo,  cpiochacc,  a  cuicc. 

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 
geapailc  Oap  mapbaoh  mac  mfic  muipip.  Cpeach  oile  la  cloinn  muipip  ma 
oioghail  pin  pop  cloinn  oomnaill. 

lapcap  connachc  uile  oo  milleao  la  hemonn  a  bupc. 

Uilc  oipfme  eiOip  lopccaoh  ~\  mapbaoh  Do  oenarh  06  bfop  ap  mac  in 
japla,  i  ap  cloinn  Riocaipo  a  bupc,  -|  Sir  Oo  oenam  Ooib  pe  poile  mpcrain. 
na  naingeal  6  caipioe  ollarh  leighip  peapmanach  oo  ecc. 


'  Loch  Techet.  —  Now  Lough  Gara,  near  Boyle,          J  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise 
in  the  county  of  Roscommon,  on  the  borders  of     as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  have  : 
the  county  of  Sligo.  "  There  was  such  a  great  snow  in  the  spring  of 


1335.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  555 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1334. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  thirty-four. 

A  great  army,  both  of  English  and  Irish,  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. 

Ten  of  the  people  of  Donough,  the  son  of  Melaghlin  Carragh  Mac  Dermot, 
were  drowned  in  Loch  Techet1. 

Teige,  the  ^on  of  Cathal,  son  of  Donnell  O'Conor,  died. 

Donough  Mac  Consnava,  Chief  of  Muintir-Kenny,  and  Johnock,  son  of 
Murtough  More  Mageoghegan,  Lord  of  Kinel-Fiachach,  died. 

Conor  Mac  Branan  died. 

John  Mac  Gilla-Ultan  was  slain  by  Donnell  Mac  Hugh. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1335. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  thirty-jive. 

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 ;  and 
the  greater  part  of  his  people  were  plundered. 

A  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. 

The  entire  of  the  West  of  Connaught  was  desolated  by  Edmond  Burke. 
Great  evils  were  also  wrought  by  him,  both  by  burning  and  slaying,  upon  the 
son  of  the  Earl  and  the  race  of  Richard  Burke.  They  afterwards  made  peace 
with  one  another. 

Gilla-na-n- Angel  O'Cassidy,  Chief  Physician  of  Fermanagh,  diedj. 

this  year  that  the  most  part  of  the  fowle  of  Ire-          It  appears  strange  that  this  entry  should  have 
land  died."  been  omitted  by  the  Four  Masters,  as  they  state 


aNNdta  Rio^hachca  eircecmN.  [1336. 

CIOIS  CR1OSU,  1336. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpi  cheD,  cpiochacc,  a  pe. 

6  naan  aporhaigipcip  i  nealaohnaibh  lomoa,  i  le^  ~\  i  ccanoin 
Decc. 

Uomalcac  'gfpp  (na  ccpfch  ccimcil)  mac  Diapmaca,  cijeapna  11111156 
luipcc.  don  f>d  mo  copcciip  ap  eapccaipDib,  ba  pfpp  cdbup,  ~\  comaipce, 
ensnam,  ~\  eineac  Da  mbaof  Don  cineab  Dia  paibe  oecc  oibce  bomnaij  na 
cpionoioe  ma  cigh  pfin  i  ccala6  na  caippce,  ~\  a  aDhnacul  i  mamipcip  na 
buille  50  honopach.  Concobap  a  mac  Do  jabail  cijfpnaip  cap  a  eip. 

Ueaboio  a  bupc  mac  uilliam  ~\  TTlaoilip  mac  Siupcan  De^ecpa  Decc. 

TTlaiDm  Do  rabaipc  Deojan  6  maoaDain  pop  clomn  Riocaipo  a  bupc,  i 
pocaibe  Da  mumcip  Do  mapbaoh  uacha  .1.  peipfp  -]  cpi  pichic. 

Cpeach  mop  la  cloinn  Diapmaca  gall,  -\  la  mac  pfmlimiD  ui  concobaip 
pop  cloinn  joipoelbaij,  -\  ITlaiDiuc  mac  uaillopfn  DO  mapbab  ma  copaigh- 
eacc. 

Cpeach  la  hemann  mac  uilliam  bupc  ap  cloirm  cachail  Dap  baipcceab 
concobap  ua  planngain  -\  Daoine  iom6a  oile.  fflaoileachlamn  ua  plannagam 
DO  rhapbaD  i  copaijjeachc  na  ccpeach  Don  Dnl  pin,  •]  bpachaip  Do  mac  an 
mileab  DO  j^abail  Don  copaij  laporh,  -|  bpai^e  DO  oenam  De. 

Concobap  mac  Diapmaca  ci^eapna  mai^e  luipcc,  Qob  mac  pfiDlimibmic 
afoha  ui  Concobaip  50  luclic  ci£i  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  Clonmac-  commenced  the  erection  of  a  market- town  herein 

noise  before  them.  1231  : 

k  Now  a  field  close  to  Rockingham,  the  beau-  "1231.  Copmac  mac  Comulcuig  incepit 
tiful  seat  of  Lord  Lorton,  in  the  county  of  Eos-  bailli  mapsaio  DO  oenuB  i  pope  na  Caipje." 
common,  near  Boyle.  It  is  still  called  Port-na-  The  Rev.  John  Keogh,  in  his  Account  of  the 
Cairge  by  the  old  natives  of  the  district.  The  County  of  Roscommon,  drawn  up  for  Sir  Wil- 
low, level  part  of  the  townland  of  Rockingham,  liam  Petty's  intended  Atlas  in  1683,  states  that 
verging  on  Lough  Key,  is  the  locality  called  Ca-  Carraig  Mac  Dermott  was  then  named  Rocking- 
la-na-Cairge,  i.  e.,  the  callaw  or  strath  of  the  ham  : 

rock  (the  castle  on  the  opposite  island  in  the  lake  "  Carrig  Mac  Dermot,  newly  named  Rock- 
so  called).  We  learn  from  the  Annals  of  Boyle  ingham,  is  not  now  noted  for  many  dwellers,  of 
that  Cormac,  the  son  of  Tomaltach  Mac  Dermot,  which,  I  doubt  not,  Sir  Robert  King  will  give  a 


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13:36.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  557 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1336. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  thirty-six. 

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  in  the  abbey  of  Boyle.  Conor,  his  son,  assumed  the  lordship  after  him. 

Theobald  Burke  Mac  William  and  Meyler  Mac  Jordan  de  Exeter,  died. 

Owen  O'Madden  defeated'  the  Clanrickard  Burke,  and  killed  sixty-six  of 
them. 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  the  sons  of  Dermot  Gall  [Mac  Der- 
mot] and  the  son  of  Felim  O'Conor,  upon  the  Clann-Costello  ;  and  Maiduic 
Mac  Waldrin  was  slain  while  in  pursuit  of  the  booty. 

A  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  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  Mul- 

true  account."  Keogh,  however,  here  confounds  viz.,  six  and  three  score."  It  is  rendered  thus  by 

Port-na-Cairge,  the  townland  on  which  Rock-  Mageoghegan  in  his  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  : 

ingham  House  now  stands,  with  the  Carrig  itself,  "A.  D.  1236.  Owen  O'Madden  gave  an  over- 

which  is  an  island  in  Lough  Key,  on  which  the  throw  to  the  Burkes,  when  sixty-six  of  them 

castle  still  remains.  were  killed." 

Lougphort  inic  Diarmada  is  now  called  Long-  ">  J/oc  Aveely,  mac  an  mileao,  i.  e.,  son  of  the 

ford  Hill,  and  is  situated  in  Lord  Lorton's  de-  knight.  This  was  the  Irish  name  adopted  by  the 

mesne,  not  far  from  Rockingham  House.  family  of  Staunton,  who  were  seated  in  the  ba- 

1  Defeated. — Literally,  "  a  defeat  was  given  rony  of  Carra,  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  where 

by  Owen  O'Madden  upon  the  clan  Clanrickard  they  still  retain  it,  and  where  there  are  many 

Burke,  and  many  of  their  [his]  people  were  killed,  respectable  persons  of  the  name. 


558 


Rioghadhca 


[1336. 


cpeic  hi  rfp  piacpach  50  pangaccap  mullach  Racha.  6a  na  cipe  Do  cheich- 
ea6  pompo.  TTlaipbeDala  mopa,  lomaD  capall,  beaccan  Deachaib,  -\  pochpob 
ilapDa  DO  cabaipc  leo,  -|  Daome  Diaiprhe  Do  rhapbab  Doib,  -\  mo  pfin  Diompub 
plan  Dia  cnghib. 

Oiapmairc  6  plannagam  njeapna  cloinne  cachail  oecc. 

Coippbealbach  ua  Concobaip  T?f  Connacc  Do  chionol  imipceab  na  ccuar 
cloinne  cacail,  cloinne  Concobaip,  -\  moigh  luipj  co  haipceach.  Caiplen 
mop  tneic  goipDealbaij  Do  gabail  Dua  Concobaip  Don  coipcc  pin,  *|  a  bpipeab, 
1  cfichfpn  congrhala  an  baile  Do  cochc  amach  ap  comaipce  meic  Diapmaca. 

Dorhnall  mac  Seaain  mic  Dorhnaill  uf  Concobaip  Decc. 

Niall  mac  Concobaip  mic  caib^  DO  rhapbaDh. 

TTlainepcip  .8.  Ppanpeip  hi  ccappaic  na  Siuipe  in  epppocoiccecc  leapa 
moip  DO  chogbail  la  hiapla  Upmuman  Semap  buinlep. 

TTlachjamain  6  Raijhillij  DO  tfiapbaD  la 

O  TTlichiDein  comapba  TTlolaipi  DO  ecc. 


nMttllagh-l{atAa,i.e."ihe  summit  of  the  fort." 
It  would  appear  from  various  references  to  this 
place  in  the  writings  of  the  Mac  Firbises  of  Le- 
can,  that  it  was  the  original  name  of  the  townland 
of  Kathlee  in  the  parish  of  Easkey,  in  the  barony 
of  Tireragh  and  county  of  Sligo.  See  Genealo- 
gies, Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrack,  p.  251, 
note  b,  and  the  Ordnance  map  of  the  county  of 
Sligo,  sheets  10  and  11. 

0  Were  driven  off. — Literally,  fled  before  them. 
Thewholepassageis  given  as  follows  inMageoghe- 
gan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  : 
"  A.  D.  1336.  Connor  Mac  Dermoda,  prince 
of  Moylorg,  Hugh  mac  Ffelim  mac  Hugh  O'Con- 
nor, and  the  household  mene  of  O'Conor,  toge- 
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  Tyre- 
fiaghragh,  came  to  Mullagh  Rath,  from  whom  all 
the  cowes  of  the  con  trey  fledd;  notwithstanding 
they  returned  not  empty-handed,  for  they  had 
some  moveables,  gerans,  and  a  few  horses,  and 


committed  slaughter  in  that  contrey,  returned 
safe  and  sound  without  bloodshed  or  loss  of  any 
of  themselves." 

P  Inanimate  spoils. — TTIaipBeoala,  signifies 
literally  inanimate  spoils,  meaning  corn,  furni- 
ture, gold,  or  silver,  in  contradistinction  to  ani- 
mate spoils,  such  as  cows,  horses,  sheep,  &c. 

*  Horses  [of  burden] — In  some  parts  of  Ire- 
,land  the  word  capall  denotes  a  mare;  but  the 
original  signification  seems  to  have  been  adraught 
horse.  It  is  thus  derived  in  Cormac's  Glossary : 
"capul  .1.  cap,  capp  7  peall,  eac.  Capull, 
i.  e.,  Cap,  a  car,  &nd  peall,  a  horse,  i.  e.,  a  car- 
horse;  the  Greek  word  K»j3/3«AA>i$,  signifies  a 
work  horse. 

r  Steeds — 6ac  signifies  a  steed  ;  Lat.  Equus  ; 
jEolian  Greek,  IX.X.IH;. 

s  Small  cattle. — pocpob,  small  cattle  ;  po,  in 
compound  words,  implies  little,  inferior,  small, 
mean,  &c. ;  po-cpoo,  small  cattle  ;  po-6ume,  a 
mean  man ;  poBapo,  a  bardling  ;  po^eaj,  a 
small  branch. 

'  Castiemore-  Costetto  is  situated  in  the  barony 


1336.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


559 


lagh-Ratha".  The  cows  of  the  country  were  driven  off0  before  them.  They 
carried  away  many  inanimate  spoils",  many  horses  [of  burden"],  a  few  steeds', 
and  many  flocks  of  small  cattle8 ;  and  after  they  had  killed  countless  persons 
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. 

The  Franciscan  Monastery  at  Carrick-on-Suir,  in  the  diocese  of  Lismore, 
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- 
comraon.  See  map  to  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and 
Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach. 

"Kern Mageoghegan  renders  this,  in  his 

translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  thus : 
"  A.  D.  1336.  Terlagh  O'Connor,  King  of  Con- 
nought,  with  all  the  forces  of  Twahes  and  Clann 
Kahili,  with  Moylorg,  went  to  Arteagh;  took 
Castlemore  of  Mac  Gosdeallie,  and  afterwards 
broke  downe  the  same,  the  warde  of  which  castle 
came  foorth  upon  Mac  Dermott's  protection, 
whose  lives  he  saved  accordingly." 

The  word  cethern  is  explained  by  O'Flaherty : 
"MilitumManipulus  et  a  cohorte  Latina  non  ab- 
ludit."  Ogygia,  p.  208.  The  kerns  were  a  light- 
armed  infantry.  Ware  thus  speaks  of  them  in 
\\isAntiquitiesofIreland,  c.  xxi.  :  "Alii  levi- 
oris  armaturse  Henrico  Marleburgensi  Turbi- 
culi,  quibusdam  Turbarii  vulgo  Kernii  dicti  ; 
jaculis  amentatis,  machaeris  et  cultris,  sive  sicis 
Skeynes  vocatis  demicabant.  In  Rotulo  Clause 


anno  5  Edward  III.  Membr.  25,  inter  articulos 
in  Hibernia  observandos  sextus  est  contra  sus- 
tentatores,  et  ductores  Kernorum  et  gentis  vo- 
catse  Idlemen  nisi  in  Marchiis  suas  proprias  ad 
Custas." 

The  etymology  of  this  word,  Cethern,  is  thus 
given  in  Cormac's  Glossary:  "Cerepn  .1.  coipe 
ccimoe,  undedicitur  ceiripnae  :  cecepn  oin.  cir, 
cac  ocor-  opn,  opgam." 

"  Cethern,  i.  e.  a  band  of  soldiers ;  unde  dicitur 
Cethirnach,  i.  e.  manipularius  seu  unus  e  cohorte; 
cethern,  then,  i.  e.  cir,  a  battle,  and  upn,  a 
slaughter ;  q.  d.  a  slaughter  in  battle." 

w  Mahon  O'Reitty He  is  the  ancestor  of  that 

sept  of  ths  O'Reillys  called  Clann-Mahon,  who 
gave  name  to  the  barony  of  Clannmahon  in  the 
west  of  the  county  of  Cavan. 

*  CPMeehin. — He  was  the  coarb  of  the  church 
of  Ballaghmeehin,  in  the  parish  of  Rossinver,  in 
the  north  of  the  county  of  Leitrim,  where  his 
lineal  descendant  and  representative  still  farms 
the  termon  lands. 


560  aNNata  Rioghacnca  eiReaww.  [1337. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1387. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  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,  -|  i 
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,  ~\  i  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  i  ccopaijeachr  cloinne 
hlomaip  Da  combpairpib  lap  cnonol  Ian  pocpaiDe,  Doib  mi  uilliam  mag 
marjamna,  -\  im  Da  mac  oile  lomaip  meg  pagnaill,  Concobap  -\  Uomalcac. 
TTlagnup  6  peapjail  DO  mapbab  Doib  an  la  ceona.  Uaoipeach  Do  benom  Do 
Cabg  mac  lomaip  meg  Pajnaill  lappm. 

Oorhnall  l?uab  6  maille  -\  copbmac  a  mac  Do  mapbab  la  cloinn  TTlebpic, 
1  Do  jallaib  oile  immaille  ppiu  oiohche  pele  Srepham. 

TTlacha  ua  huigino  paoi  pe  Dan,  ~\  pe  oaonnachc  Decc. 

€npf  mac  TTlaipcin  Do  mapbab. 

y  O'Rothlain — This  name  is  now  usually  an-  as  Bryan  Bane  wasted  of  the  demesne  of  William 

glicised  Rowley  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  where  Burke,  should  be  held  by  Bryan  Bane  for  the 

there   are    several  respectable   persons    of  the  valuable  rent  thereof." 
name.                                      »  *  Clann  Uadagh. — A  territory  in  the  barony  of 

z  Bryan  Bane — This  passage  is  given  as  fol-  Athlone,   south  of  the  county  of  Eoscommon. 

lows  by  Mageoghegan  in  his  translation  of  the  Laurence  Fallen,  Esq.,  of  Mount  Prospect,  and 

Annals  of  Clonmacnoise:    "  That  as  much  lands  Malachy  Fallon  of  Ballynahan,  Esq.,  are  thepre- 


1337-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  561 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1337. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  thirty-seven. 

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 
for  wisdom  and  piety,  died. 

The  Master  [Professor]  O'Rothlain"  died. 

A  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  was  pitched  at  Athleague  by  the  King  of  Connaught,  to  oppose 
Edmond  Burke. 

John  O'Fallon,  Lord  of  Clann-Uadagha,  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 ;  and 
the  son  of  Maurice  Mac  Clancy  was  killed  while  in  pursuit  of  the  preys. 

Teige  and  Melaghlin,  two  sons  of  Ivor  Mac  Rannall,  were  taken  prisoners 
by  Cathal  Mac  Rannall.  Cathal  was  afterwards  slain  by  their  "kinsmen,  who, 
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.  Manus  O'Farrell  was  slain  by  them  on  the  same  day. 
Teige,  the  son  of  Ivor  Mac  Rannall,  was  then  made  chieftain. 

Donnell  Roe  O'Malley  and  Cormac,  his  son,  were  slain  on  St.  Martin's 
night  by  Clann-Merrickb,  and  other  Englishmen  who  were  along  with  them. 

Matthew  O'Higgin,  a  man  eminent  for  poetry  and  humanity,  died. 

Henry  Mac  Martin0  was  slain. 

sent  representatives  of  the  O'Fallons  of  Clann  does  not  admit  of  translation.     See  Genealogies, 

Uadagh.  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  pp.  331, 

"  The  Clann-Merrick — This  family,  which  is  332. 

of  Welsh  descent,  is  still  numerous  in  the  county          c  Mac  Martin. — This  became  the  surname  of 

of  Mayo,  where  they  have  received  the  inglo-  a  collateral  branch  of  the  O'Neills  of  Clannaboy. 

rious   sobriquet  of  bunoun    membptc,    which  See  note  b,  under  the  year  1291,  p.  454. 

4c 


562  QNNaca  Rio^hachca  emectNN.  [1338. 

Oonncha6  mac  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  mag  uibip  cijfpna  pfpmanach  aompfp  ap  mo  Do  coipbi]i 
oaipgfcc  i  DeDach  oeachaib,  i  Dinmlib  uaib  Deigpib,  -]  Dollamnaib  Gpionn 
ma  aimpip  pfm  DO  piol  Umhip  Decc. 

OonnchaDh  mac  RuaiDpi  ui  Concobaip  Do  mapba6. 

TTlac  lapla  ula6,  .1.  GmanD  DO  jabait  Demann  a  bupc,  Cloch  DO  cop  po  a 
bpajairc,  •)  a  baDhaD  i  loch  mfpcca  laip.  TTlilleaD  gall  Connacc,  -\  a  clnneab 
pem  DO  recc  cpiap  an  ngmorh  pin.  UoipDealbac  6  concobaip  Ri  Connacc 
DionnapbaD  emainn  mec  uilliam  bupc  lap  pin  a  connachcaib  amach  lap  mil- 
leaD  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. 

Luijni  i  an  copann  Dpolrhujab  i  Dpapujab  imma  njallaib,  i  a  cci^eaii- 
nup  DO  jabail  Da  njaoiDelaib  Duchcappa  buDDein  ap  nDiochup  a  njall 
epoibh. 

UaDhj  mac  T?uai6pi  mic  cachail  ui  choncobaip  (pip  a  pdici  bpacacli 
pijhm)  DO  jabail  Do  chomap  mac  pampaohain,  -|  mopan  Da  mumcip  DO 
mapbaDh.  TTlac  Shampaoam  (.1.  comap)  Do  Dul  50  cfgh  uf  Concobaip  mppin, 
1  05  ceachc  capa  aip  Do,  clann  muipcfpcaij  ~|  mumcip  eolaip  Do  chom- 
chpummu  jaD  apa  chionn,  ~\  a  jabail  lap  mapbaD  mopain  Dia  mumcip. 

d  The  people  of  Offaly,  i.  e.  the  O'Conors  was  the  progenitor  oftheMaguires  ot'Fernianagh. 

Faly.  This  tribe  name  is  now  locally  pronounced 

'  Hugh  Reamhar,  i.  e.  Hugh  the  gross  or  fat.  Sheel-ivvlr. 

f  Rory  an  einigh,  i.  e.  Roger  or  Roderick  of  h  The  son  of  the  Earl  of  Ulster. — This  passage 

the  hospitality,  or  the  hospitable.  is  given  as  follows  in  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise, 

6  Sil-  Uidhir,  i.  e.  the  progeny  of  Odhar,  who  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  Fer- 
managh. 

Donough  More  O'Dowda,  Tanist  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1338. 

T7ie  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  thirty-eight. 

Rory-an-einighf  Maguire,  Lord  of  Fermanagh,  a  man  who  had  bestowed 
more  silver,  apparel,  steeds,  and  cattle,  on  the  learned  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",  i.  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], 
resulted  from  this  deed.  .Turlough  O'Conor  afterwards  banished  Edmond 
Mac  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. 

A  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  to  the  house  of 
O'Conor;  but,  on  his  return,  the  Clann-Murtough'1',  and  the  Muintir-Eolais, 
assembled  to  meet  him,  and  took  him  prisoner,  after  having  slain  many  of  his 
people. 

Edmond,  the  Earle  of  Ulster's  son,  was  taken  by          "  Clann  Murtough,  i.  e.   the  descendants  of 

the  other  Edmond  Burke,  and  [he]  died.  Murtough  Muimhneach  O'Conor,  the  son  of  Tur- 

1  Bratach  Rig/iin,i.e.  the  tough  or  stiff  standard,      lough  More  and  brother  of  Brian  Luighneach, 

4  C  2 


564  awNQta  Rioghacnca  eiReaNN.  [1339. 

Geoh  an  clenj  mac  Puaibpi  uf  concobaip  DO  lor  ap  oeipeab  a  pluaij 
pfpin,  i  a  ecc  oa  bicin. 

Ofpbail  injfn  Cachail  meic  TTlupchaoa  bfn  DonnchaiD  meic  Qeoha  615 
oecc. 

GDIS  CR1OSU,  1339. 
Goip  Cpiopc,  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. 

Uomap  TTlag  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 
Dochapcaij. 

6mann  mac  uilliam  bupc  jona  loingfp  Dionnapbab  ooilenaib  na  paipj^e 
pop  a  mbof  DO  poijhib  ulaD  la  coippoealbac  ua  cconcobaip  pi  Connachc. 

Injfn  roippoealbaij  uf  bpiain  bfn  meic  lapla  ulaD  DO  cabaipc  Do  coipp- 
Dealbac  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  son  of  Brian  of  the  battle  of  Down,  who  was  slain 

the  O'Conors  of  Connaught,  in  the  Book  of  Le-  in  1 260.  He  is  the  ancestor  of  all  the  succeed- 

can,  fol.  72,  et  sequen.  ing  chiefs  of  the  O'Neills  of  Tyrone. 

j  Hugh  an  cMetigk,  i.  e.  Hugh  of  the  quill,  a  n  Taken  to  wife,  DO  raBaipc,  i.  e.  ducta  est  i/t 
soubriquet  applied  to  him  because  his  mother  matrimonium.  p6pa6,  the  modern  Irish  word 
could  weave.  It  is  so  explained  by  Mageoghe-  for  marriage,  a  word  evidently  derived  from  the 
gan  in  his  version  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmac-  French,  is  very  seldom  used  by  the  Irish  Anna- 
noise,  lists. 

k  Dearbhail. — This  entry  is  copied  word  for  °  Kilronan,  CiU  Ronain,  i.  e.  the  church  of 

word  from  the  Annals  of  Ulster.  St.  Ronan An  old  church  which  gives  namr 

1  The  Clann-Murtough — These  were  a  sept  of  to  a  parish  in  the  north  of  the  barony  of  Boyle, 

the  O'Conors,  who  descended  from  the  celebrated  in  the  county  of  Rosconunon,  verging  on  Lough 

Muircheartach  or  Murtough  Muimhneach,  the  Allen.  See  a  notice  of  this  church  at  the  year 

son  of  King  Turlough.  1586,  whei'eit  is  stated  that  it  is  on  the  confines 

m  Hugh  Ream/tar,  i.  e.  Hugh  the  fat  or  gross.  of  Breifny,  Moylurg,  and  Tirerrill.  It  has  not 

He  was  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Neill,  who  was  the  been  yet  determined  which  of  the  many 


1339.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  565 

Hugh  an  ChletighJ,  son  of  Rory  O'Conor,  was  wounded  in  the  rear  of  his 
own  army,  and  died  in  consequence. 

Dearbhail",  daughter  of  Cathal  Mac  Murrough,  and  wife  of  Donough,  sou 
of  Hugh  Oge,  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1339. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  thirty-nine. 

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-Murtough1. 

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 
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  [broke  out]  in  Meath  between  the  English  and  Irish. 

The  church  of  Kilronan0  was  erected  by  Farrell  Muimhneach"  O'Duigenan*1. 

ot'  this  name  in  the  Irish  calendar  was  the  pa-  "The  daughter  ofTerlagh  O'Bryeu,  late  wife 

tron  of  this  church.  of  the  Earle  of  Ulster's  son,  was  taken  to  wit'e 

The  ruins  of  this  church  still  remain  in  tole-  by  Terlagh  O'Connor,  and  he  put  away  his  own 

rable   preservation,   and    the  character   of  the  wife,    the   Lady  Dervaile,    Hugh    O'Donnell's 

architecture  perfectly  corresponds  with  that  of  daughter. 

all   the    Irish    churches    of  this    period.     The  "  There  arose  great   dissention,   warrs,   and 

O'Duigenans  were  the  Erenaghs  of  this  church,  debate  between  the  English  and  Irish  of  Meath 

as  well  as  the  chroniclers  of  the  Clanmulrony.  this  year. 

P  JfuimhneaeK,  i.e.  the  Momonian  or  Munster-  "All  the  corti  of  Ireland  were  destroyed, 
son :  O'Duigenan  was  certainly  so  called  from  his  whereupon  ensued  a  generall  famine  in  this  king- 
having  been  fostered  in  the  province  of  Munster.  dome." 

''  The  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  translated  This  entry,  it  will  be  observed,  has  been  en- 

liy  Mageoghegan,    give   the  entries  under  this  tirely  omitted  by  the  Four  Masters, 

year  as  follows:                                                        .  "  Ferall  Moyneagh  O'Dowgennan  founded  the 

"A.  D.  1339-  Edmond  Burke  withhi«  shipps  church  of  KillronaTi." 
were  banished  into  Ulster. 


566  awwaca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1340. 

Q01S  CR10SC,  1340. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  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  .8.  ppan- 
peip  la  TTlag  capcai£  mop  ppionnpa  Decipmuman,  Dorhnall  mac  caibg,  i  DO 
cojhpac  lomacc  Do  maichib  an  cipe  a  nabnacal  ip  in  mamepcip  pin.  Ctp 
oibpibe  6  Suilleaban  mop  -\  an  Da  ua  Donnchaba. 

Comcogbail  cojaib  eicip  TTlaineachaib,  .1.  eiccip  cabj  mac  caibg  ui  ceal- 
laij  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 
1  cona  mumcip  copaijeachc  Do  co  noeachpac  i  ndic  lombuailce  chuige. 
lompaioip  uilliam  ~\  a  mumnp  ppiu  pochfcoip  50  po  pfpan  caichgleo  fcoppa. 
Qcc  chfna  po  mapbab  DonnchaD  mac  aoDha  ui  cheallaij,  -]  po  jabab  cabg 
6  ceallaij  lap  na  loc  co  nDeachaib  Decc  DC  lapom. 

TTlaoilpeachlamn  ua  gaipmleabaij  caoipeach  cenel  ITloam  Decc. 

r  Oirbhealach. — This  name  is  anglicised  Irre-  enchanting   music   issuing  from  a   rock,  from 

lagh  by  Ware,  who  states  that  the  monastery  which  they  concluded  that  it  must  be  the  locality 

was  founded  in  the  year  1440.  of   Carraig-an-chiuil,    or  rock   of  the    music, 

s  Carraig-an-chiuil,  i.  e.  the  rock  of  the  music,  shewn  to  their  chief  in  the  vision ;  and  they  re- 
According  to  the  tradition  in  the  country,  and  a  turned  home  stating  what  had  occurred.  Mac 
MS.  description  of  Kerry,  written  about  the  year  Carthy,  on  hearing  their  story,  felt  satisfied  that 
1 750,  and  now  preserved  in  the  Library  of  the  they  had  found  the  true  locality  intended  by 
Royal  Irish  Academy,  the  site  on  which  this  ab-  Heaven  for  his  monastery,  and  he  accordingly 
bey  was  to  be  built,  was  pointed  out  to  Mac  commenced  the  erection  of  it  there  without 
Carthy  More  in  a  vision,  which  warned  him  not  delay. 

to  erect  his  monastery  in  any  situation  except  at          c  Loch  Lein This  is  the  ancient  and  present 

a  place  called  Carraig-an-chiuil ;  and  there  being  name  of  the  lower  lake  of  Killarney  in  the  county 
no  locality  of  that  name  known  to  him,  he  sent  of  Kerry.  The  abbey  of  Irrelagh,  or,  as  it  is  now 
out  a  number  of  his  faithful  followers  to  discover  usually  called,  Muckruss,  is  situated  near  the 
where,  within  his  principality,  this  place  was  rocky  shore  of  a  small  bay  at  the  eastern  end  of 
situated.  The  story  goes  on  to  state  that,  after  the  lower  lake  of  Killarney,  and  within  the  de- 
searching  various  places,  they  were  returning  mesne  of  Muckruss,  from  which  it  has  taken  its 
home  in  despair;  but  passing  by  Oirbhealach,  modern  appellation, 
i.  e.  the  eastern  road  or  pass,  they  heard  the  most  uDonnell,son  ofTeige. — Here  is  a  most  glaring 


1340.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  .567 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1340. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  forty. 

The  monastery  of  Oirbhealachr  at  Carraig-an-chimT,  at  the  eastern  end  of 
Loch  Lein',  in  the  diocese  of  Ardfert,  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. 

A  war  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  Donough  Muimhneach 
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  a  mere  Four  Masters  have  lost  sight  of  all  chronology  in 

error  of  transcription  for  Donnell,  son  of  Cormac,  placing  the  erection  of  this  monastery  under  the 

for  he  was  really  the  prince  of  Desmond  in  1340.  year  1340,  after  ascribing  it  to  Donnell  the  son 

The  Editor  has  not  been  able  to  find  the  record  of  Teige,  prince  of  Desmond,  inasmuch  as  Teige 

of  the  erection  of  this  monastery  in  any  of  the  his  father  did  not,  according  to  themselves,  be- 

older  Annals,  and  has  never  been  able  to  discover  come  king  or  prince  of  Desmond  till  the  death 

where  the  Four  Masters  found  it.     Nothing  can  of  his  father  in  1391,  that  is,  fifty-one  years  after 

be  more  certain  than  that  both  Ware  and  the  its  supposed  erection  by  his  son  Donnell !    The 

Four  Masters  are  wrong  in  ascribing  the  foun-  fact  seems  to  be,  that  the  foundation  of  the  mo- 

dation  of  this  monastery  to  Donnell,  son  of  Teige  nastery  was  laid  some  years  previously  to  1440, 

Mac  Carthy,  for  he  lived  a  century  later,  having  by  Teige  Mainistreach  (not  by  Donnell,  as  Ware 

died  in  the  year  1 468.     Teige,  the  father  of  this  has  it),  and  that  the  work  was  completed  by  his 

Donnell,  was,  according  to  tradition,  the  original  son  Donnell  in  1440.     For  some  curioxis  notices 

founder  of  this  monastery,  and  this  is  corro-  of  the  modern  state  of  the  ruins  and  tombs  of 

borated  by  the  fact   that   he  is  called  Tadhg  this  abbey,  see  an  interesting  articleby  Mr. Petrie 

Mainistreach,  i.  e.  Teige  of  the  Monastery,  in  the  in  the  Dublin  P.  Journal,  vol.  i.  pp.  409-1 1. 
authentic  pedigrees  of  the  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  -\  pochaibe  immaille  ppipp.  Conab  f 
pin  ceopola  muincipe  T?uaipc  -|  cloinne  TTluipcfpcaij  muimnij  ppm  apotle. 
Cachal  mac  afoha  bpepnij  Do  chopaigheachc  a  chpeche  mppm  50  puj; 
ap  cloinn  ualjaipcc  uf  Ruaipc.  l?o  pfpnb  lopgal  arhnup  fcoppa.  Oomnall 
ua  Ruaipc  (aon  pogha  na  bpeipne  Dabbap  cijeapna)  Do  mapbab  Don  chup 
pom  50  pochaibi  moip  immaille  pip.  510^ac]11orc  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. 

Qob  mac  peblimib  uf  concobaip  Do  jabail  DO  pij  Connachc,  ~\  a  cop  i 
ccaiplen  17oppa  commain  Da  choimeD.  Coccob  mop  ~|  combuaibpeao  Deipjhe 
eiccip  ua  cconcobaip  i  mac  Diapmaoa  cpep  an  ngabail  pm  gup  po  milleab 
mopdn  earoppa  oa  gach  raob.  5uaPacl1c  1  S^pjabab  Dpajail  oua  Conco- 
baip lappin  Dionnpoijib  cucc  mac  Diapmacca  chuicce  Don  copantl  jop 
cuipeab  50  haimDeonacli  e  i  mbaile  an  mocaij  ipceach,  ~|  pic  Do  cfnjal  ooib 
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 
TPaoileacloinn  chappaij  TTlec  DiapmaDa  cpe  cheilg  i  liop  Sealbaij  i  cloinn 
Concobaip. 

1  The  sons  of  Uolgarg  CfRorke. — The  descen-  son  of  Conor  Roe,  son  of  MurtoughMuimhneach, 

dants  of  this  Ualgarg  took  the  surname  of  Mac  son  of  Turlough  More  O'Conor,  monarch  of  Ire- 

Ualghairg,  and  are  still  numerous  in  the  county  land."  This  Cathal  had  seven  sons,  Owen,  Hugh, 

of  Leitrim,  where  they  anglicise  the  name  Ma-  Kory,  Manus,  Conor  Eoe,  Cathal  Koe,  and  Mur- 

golrick  or  Magoalrick.  tough,  who  are  the  last  generation  of  the  pedi- 

*  Cathal,  son  of  Hugh  Breifneach — He  seems  to  gree  of  the  Clann-Murtough  given  in  the  Book 

have  been  the  principal  leader  of  the  turbulent  of  Lecan,  from  which  it  looks  highly  probable 

Clann-Murtough  O'Conor  at  this  period.  His  line  that  the  tribe  disappeared  fromhistory  soon  after. 

of  descent  is  given  as  follows  in  the  pedigree  of  r  Took  a  prey  from  him This  passage  is  given 

the  O'Conors  preserved  in  the  Book  of  Lecan,  fol.  more  clearly  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals 

72:  "Cathal,  son  of  Hugh  Breifneach,  son  of  of  Ulster,  in  which,  however,  it  is  incorrectly 

Cathal  Roe,  King  of  Connaught  [A.D.  1279],  entered  under  the  year  1337. 


1340.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  569 

The  sons  of  Ualgarg  O'Rourke7,  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 
of  Murtough  Muimhneach,  and  many  others,  were  slain  by  them  on  the  same 
day.  This  was  the  first  rupture  between  the  O'Rourkes  and  the  race  of  Mur- 
tough Muimhneach.  Cathal,  son  of  Hugh  Breifneach,  afterwards  went  in  pur- 
suit 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 
O'Rourke  and  Mac  Consnava  were  taken  prisoners,  after  the  defeat  of  their 
people.  Teige,  the  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Cathal  O'Conor,  who  had  been  im- 
prisoned by  O'Rourke,  was  liberated  as  the  condition  of  the  ransom  of 
Gilchreest  O'Rourke. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Felim  O'Conor,  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  King  of  Con- 
naught,  and  sent  to  be  confined  in  the  Castle  of  Roscommon.  A  great  war 
and  disturbance  arose  between  O'Conor  and  Mac  Dermot,  in  consequence  of 
this  capture,  and  much  destruction  was  caused  by  them  on  both  sides. 
O'Conor  was  in  jeopardy  and  extreme  peril  on  the  occasion  of  an  incursion 
which  Mac  Dermot  made  against  him  into  Corran,  when  he  was  forcibly 
driven  into  [the  Castle  of]  Ballymotey,  where  they  afterwards  concluded  a 
peace  with  each  other. 

Jordan  Roe  Mac  Costello  was  slain  by  Cathal  Mac  Dermot  Gall. 

Cathal  Mac  Dermot  Gallz,  the  only  choice  of  his  tribe  for  his  prowess, 
valour,  might,  and  puissance,  was  treacherously  slain  by  Donough  Reagh,  the 
son  of  Melaghlin  Carragh  Mac  Dermot,  at  Lis-sealbhaigha  in  Clann-Conor. 

'  Into  \the  castle]  of  Ballymote This  passage  of  Ballenmotte,   which  saved  the  King's  life; 

is  rendered  as  follows  in  Mageoghegan's  transla-  and  afterwards  they  grew  to  a  composition  of 

tion  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise :  peace." 

"  A.  D.  1340.  Hugh  Mac  Felym  O'Conor  was  '  Cathal  Mac  Dermot  Gall.— Be  was  chief  of 

taken  by  Terlagh  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  Airteach,  in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of 

and  committed  to  the  Castle  of  Roscommon  to  Roscommon;  and  it  is  stated  in  tne  Annals  of 

be  safely  kept ;  for  which  cause  there  grew  great  Ulster  that  he  extended  his  sway  over  the  adjoin- 

debate  between  the  King  of  Connought  and  Mac  ing  territory  of  Sliabh  Lugha,  ap  capao  a  lais 

Dermott.   Mac  Dermott,  in  a  skirmish  between  Iciioipe,  i.  e.  by  the  power  of  his  strong  hand. 

him  and  the  said  King,  chased  him  into  the  castle  "  Lia-seaWhaigh,  now  Lissalway,  in  the  parish 

4  I) 


570  aNNata  Rioshachca  eirceaNN.  [1341. 


mac  cachail  mic  oomnaill  uf  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  TCajjnaill,  i  afoh  ua  maoflmiabai£  Do  map- 
bob  apoile. 

pilib  6  DuibgfnDain  ollarh  Conmaicne  Decc. 

Uilliam   mac  gillibepc   mic  joipDealbaij  Do  rhapbat)  ap  jpfiff   ip   in 
mbpeipne  DO  cellach  eacDac. 

RuaiDpi  mac  majnupa  uf  fgpa  Decc. 

TTlachjamain  mac  anoaib  uf  Rajhallaij  DO  mapbab  la  hdinDpeap  mac 
bpiain  uf  Raijillij  ~|  cpeacha  mopa  Do  Denorh  66  ipm  mbolgan  apa  hairhle. 

Ueampall  cille  Ronain  Do  lopccaDh. 

Niall  ua  huijinD  paoi  pipodna  Do  bachaD. 

'  Concobap  ua  Domnaill  n^eapna  ripe  conaill  cona  nonol  Do  6ul  i  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  piu. 

Oorhnall  mac  DopchaiD  raoipeach  cenel  Duachdm  Decc. 

OonnchaD  mac  meic  na  hoiDchi  meg  planncVia&a  Do  mapbaD  la  haeb  mac 
UaDjj  meg  planncha&a. 

O  gaipmlfoaij  caoipeac  cenel  Hloain  065. 

Cachal  mac  cficfpnaij  Do  mapbaD  Do  fpccop. 

ofBaslick,  barony  of  Ballintober,  and  county  b  Bdgan  __  A  district  near  Bel  turbet,  in  the 

of  Roscommon.     This  fixes  the  position  of  the  north  of  the  county  of  Cavan,  coextensive  with 

O'Mulrenins,  who  bore  the  tribe-name  of  Clann-  the  parish  of  Drumlane.     In  the  year   1454, 

Conor  —  See  note",  under  the  year  1193,  p.  97,  Donnell  Bane    O'Reilly  had   the   territory   of 

supra.  Bolgan,  alias  Dnimlahan,  in  the  neighbourhood 


1341.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  571 

Manus,  the  son  of  Cathal,  son  of  Donnell  O'Conor,  was  slain  by  Cathal, 
son  of  Hugh  Brefneach  O'Conor. 

Brian  Oge  Magauran  was  slain  by  the  people  of  Teallach  Dunchadha. 

Owen  O'Heyne,  Lord  of  Hy-Fiachrach-Aidhne,  was  slain  by  his  own 
kinsmen. 

Owen,  son  of  Geoffrey  Mac  Rannall,  and  Hugh  O'Mulvey,  slew  each  other. 

Philip  O'Duigenan,  Ollav  [i.  e.  Chief  Poet]  of  Conmaicne,  died. 

William,  the  son  of  Gilbert  Mac  Costello,  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  O'Reilly,  was  slain  by  Andreas,  the  son  of 
Brian  O'Reilly,  who  afterwards  committed  great  depredations  in  the  [district 
of]  Bolgan". 

The  church  of  Kilronan  was  burned. 

Niall  O'Higgin,  a  learned  poet,  was  drowned. 

Conor  O'Donnell,  Lord  of  Tirconnell,  proceeded  with  his  troops  into 
Connaught. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1341. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  forty-one. 

Murtough  Mac-an-Gowanc,  Abbot  of  Clogher,  died. 

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  slain  by  Hugh, 
son  of  Teige  Mac  Cany. 

O'Gormly,  Chief  of  Kinel-Moen,  died. 

Cathal  Mac  Keheeny  was  killed  by  a  fall. 

of  Belturbet,  for  his  appanage.     This  name  is      the  smith.  This  name  is  generally  anglicised  Mac 
still  well  known  in  the  country ;  and  Bolgan  is      Gowan  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  but  in  Meath 
given  in  Carlisle's  Topographical  Dictionary  as      and  Leinster  it  is  often  translated  Smith, 
an  alias  name  for  the  parish  of  Drumlane.  "  Kinel  Duachain. — More  usually  called  Kinel 

c  Mac-an-Gowan,  mac  an  joBann,  i.  e.  son  of     Luachain,   the  name  of  a  tribe  and  territory 

4  D2 


5-2  QNNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1342. 

Caiplen  Roppa  commain  DO  jabail  la  coippoealbac  ua  cconcobaip,  ~\  aeb 
mac  pelim  bof  i  mbpaighDfnup  ann  Do  legfn  amach,  i   puapjjlaD  Do  cabaipc 

arr- 

Seaan  mag  machjamna  DO  chup  a  haijijiallaib'. 
bpian  ua  plomn  cigeapna  cellaij  cupnain  Decc. 
Cuconnachc  ua  cuinn  caoipec  mumcipe  giolljain  Decc. 
Oiapmaic  puaD  mac  copbmaic  615  meic  Diapmaca  065  i  naibicc  manai£ 
i  mainipcip  na  buille. 


aois  CRIOSC,  1342. 

Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  cheo,  cfcpacharc,  a  Do. 

Coimfipje  coccaiD  eiDip  roippoealbac  ua  cconcobaip  ~\  concobap  mac 
DiapmaDa  cijeapna  moiglie  luipg.  Gmann  a  bupc  ofipje  a  ccommbaio  meic 
Diapmaca  in  aghaib  ui  concobaip. 

Qooh  mac  peDlimiD  uf  concobaip  i  DonnchaD  ua  bipn  caoipeac  cfpe 
bpiuin  na  Sionna  Do  chop  coippbealbaij  ui  Choncobaip  i  rceampall  oile  pmn 
lap  TiDol  Do  Do  jabail  gill  cpeche  Do  ponpac  mumcip  bipn  ap  hoibepD  a 
bupc,  "]  CUID  Do  galloglacaib  ui  concobaip  Do  mapbaD  Doib  immaille  pe  na 
conpabal,  .1.  mac  RuaiDpi. 

CoccaD  coicccfnn  Dfipghe  hi  cconnachraib  lap  pin.  Clann  muipcfpcaij 
DO  Dol  i  pann  uf  concobaip  ap  rup  in  ajaiD  meic  Diapmaca,  lompuD  Doib 
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  Oughte-  f  Muintir-GiUigan  __  A  territory  in  the  county 

ragh  or   Ballinamore,   in   the   county   of  Lei-  of  Longford.     See  note  k,  under  the  year  1  234, 

trim.  p.  270. 

e  A  ransom  was  given,  &c.  —  This  entry  is  dif-  .    «  To  obtain  reprisals.  —  Magcoghegan  renders 

ferently  worded  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  this  passage  as  follows  in  his  Annals  of  Cloninac- 

of  Ulster.     In   the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  noise:  "  O'Byrne  chased  King  O'Connor  into  the 

translated  by  Mageoghegan,   it  is  given  thus:  church  of  Olfin,  where  some  of  his  gallowglasses 

"A.  D.  1341.    The  castle   of  Roscommon    was  were  killed,  together  with  their  constable  and 

taken  by  Terlagh  O'Connor,  King  ofConnought;  head,  Mac  Rory.     This  was  done  upon  an  occa- 

[it]  was  betrayed  and  yealded  over  to  the   said  sion  of  King  Terlagh  coming  to  O'Byrne's  con- 

Terlagh  by  Hugh  mac  Ffelym  O'Conor,  before  trey  to  distrain  for  a  prey  that  O'Byrne  took 

mentioned,  that  was  prisoner  therein."  before  from  Robert  Burke,  whereof  ensued  great 


1342.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  5?3 

The  Castle  ofRoscommon  was  taken  by  Turlough  O'Conor;  and  Hugh, 
the  son  of  Felim,  who  was  a  prisoner  therein,  was  liberated,  and  a  ransom  was 
given  for  him6. 

John  Mac  Mahon  was  banished  from  Oriel. 

Brian  O'Flynn,  Lord  of  Teallach-Curnain,  died. 

Cuconnaught  O'Quin,  Chief  of  Muintir-Gillaganf,  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,  1342. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  forty-two. 

A  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-Briuin- 
na-Sinna,  drove  Turlough  O'Conor  into  the  church  of  Elphin,  after  he  had  gone 
to  obtain  reprisals8  for  a  prey  which  O'Beirn'e's  people  had  carried  off  from 
Hubert  Burke.  On  this  occasion  some  of  O'Conor's  gallowglasses,  and  his 
constable,  Mac  Rory",  were  slain  by  them. 

After  this  a  general  war  broke  out  in  Connaught.  '  The  Clann-Murtough 
[O'Conor],  at  first  took  part  with  O'Conor  against  Mac  Dermot;  but  after- 
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  meeting1 

and  uncommon  calamities  thro' out  the  whole  stood  in  the  north  of  Ireland.  tJapoj  an  oipeac- 

provence,"  &c.  &c.  caip  was  the  name  of  a  large  oak  tree  which  stood 

h  Mac  Rory.— He  was  the  leader  of  a  Scottish  atBlackhill,  in  the  parish  of  Desertmartin,  county 

band  of  Gallowglasses  from  the  western  islands  of  Derry,  and  the  people  understand  that  it  means 

of  Scotland,  who  were  at  this  period  in  the  pay  of  "the  tree  of  the  meeting  or  assembly."  This 

the  King  of  Connaught.  The  Mac  Rorys  descend  word  is  used  to  denote  the  meetings  which  the 

from  Rory  the  brother  of  Donnell,  the  ancestor  of  Irish  held  on  hills  in  the  open  air,  to  which  re- 

the  Mac  Donnells  of  Scotland  and  Ireland.  The  ference  is  often  made  in  the  old  English  statutes, 

Mac  Rorys,  Mac  Donnells,  and  Mac  Dowells,  were  in  which  it  is  anglicised  Iragtites.  Fora  good 

called  the  Clann- Samhairle,  or  Clann-Sorley.  example  of  the  use  of  the  word  the  reader  is  re- 

'  A  meeting,  oipeaccap,  is  translated  "  Assem-  ferred  to  an  extract  from  tliePrivy  Council  Book 

bly"  by  Mageoghegan.  The  word  is  still  under-  (of  25  Eliz.),  quoted  in  Hardiman's  Irish  Min- 


574  ctNNata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1342. 

bupc  DO  mapbab  Doib,  -|  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  i  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 
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  i  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  i  laim  concobaip  meic 
DiapmaDa,  i  a  cop  Da  coimeD  i  ccappaic  locha  ce. 

Oorhnall  ua  Dochapcaij  coipeach  apoa  TTlioDhaip  -\  cpiocha  cheo  cfpe 
henDa,  peap  Ian  Deineac,  i  Dfngnam  Decc,  ~\  Seaan  6  Docapraij  Do  gabail  a 
lonaiD. 

Siol  TTluipeaDhaij  uile  Do  iompu6  ap  roippDealbac  mac  afoha  mic 
m  immaille  pip  na  maichib  oile  barap  ja  coipneab.  dp  iaD  ap  oip- 
DO  eipij  bo  an  lonbaib  pin,  Gmann  mac  uilliam  bupc,  Concobap  mac 
DiapmaDa  cighfpna  maigi  luipg  cona  bpairpib,  ~\  cona  oipecc  uile,  aob  mac 
afba  bpeipnig  mic  carhal  puaioh  uf  Concobaip,  UaDhg  mac  RuaiDhpf  ui 
choncobhaip,  Cachal  mac  afoha  bpeipmj  mic  cachail  puaib  50  pochpaioi  na 
bpeipne  ~\  conmaicne  apcfna,  •]  afoh  mac  pelim  mic  aooha  mic  Goghain  uf 
concobaip.  Uionol  Doibpiom  uile  inD  agaib  ui  concobaip,  -]  a  achcop  50  haim- 
beonac  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 
Dpiop  a  nDionjnab  pic  pip.  ^^^  FuaraccaP  c^ar)T1  TTluipcfpcaij  pjela  na 

strelsy,  vol.  ii.  p.  159:  "  Item,  he  shall  not  as-  "  Beal-atha-slissen,  i.  e.  mouth  of  the  ford  of 

semble  the  Queen's  people  upon  hills,  or  use  any  the  beetles.     This  ford  still  retains  this  name, 

Iragktei.  or  paries  upon  hitts."  and  is  on  the  Abhainn  Uar  near  Elphin,  as  al- 

J  Seoinin,  i.  e.  little  John.  ready  stated.     See  note  under  the  year  1 288. 


1342.]  ANNALS  OP  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  575 

of  their  own  people  against  the  Clann- William  Burke :  Thomas  Burke  was 
killed  by  them ;  and,  with  similar  treachery,  Seoininj  Burke  was  slain  by  the 
Clann-Bickard,  at  the  instigation  of  the  Clann-Maurice  and  O'Conor.  In  the 
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-Slisenk,  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  Oriel,  set  out  upon  a  predatory  excursion 
against  Hugh,  son  of  Roolv  [Rodolph]  Mac  Mahon ;  and  was  slain  in  the  rere 
of  the  prey,  and  his  gallowglasses  were  destroyed  by  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  man 
full  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  who  were  for  deposing  him.  Of 
those  who  rose  up  against  him  at  that  time,  the  following  were  the  most  dis- 
tinguished, namely,  Edmond  Mac  William  Burke ;  Conor  Mac  Dermot,  Lord 
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,  and  Conmaicne;  and  Hugh,  son  of  Felim,  who  was  son  of  Hugh,  son 
of  Owen  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 
ascertain  if  he  would  make  peace  with  him.  But  the  Clann-Murtoughm  had 

1  Duv,  ouB,  black. — This  epithet  is  sometimes          m  Clann- Murtongh,  i.  e.   the  descendants   of 
anglicised  duff,  and  sometimes  doo.  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  i  ngebab  co  longpopc  meic  Diapmaca.  Qcc  cfna  Do  chuaib  coipp- 
Dealbac  en  cpiap  mapcac  cappa  no  gup  heipgfb  66  ap  cocap  an  longpuipc. 
Loiccfp  cachal  mac  aeoha  bpeipnig  laip  po  cfecoip,  -]  gep  buachab  i 
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.  Ciob  cpa  ache  nochap  bpeap  Do  mac  DiapmaDa  coipp- 
bealbac  Do  beir  ip  in  moipeccfn  pin  no  50  ccuala  an  cfijim,  an  maipgneac 
1  an  mallachab  mop  ga  benam  peachnon  an  longpuipc,  -\  lap  ppajbail  pgel 
DO  cuipip  Daoine  caipipi  op  ipeal  i  coinne  ui  concobaip  Dm  bpeic  gup  an 
ccappaic  Da  caomna  50  ppfpab  pfm  an  ppeDpab  a  pfb  Do  Denarii.  6aof 
6  concobaip  mp  pin  pecrmain,  ~\  mairhe  na  ripe  05  cochc  ap  cuaipc  chuige, 
1  uaoha  ap  pupailearii  mec  DiapmaDa.  51Dea^  °  nac  bpuaip  mac  DiapmaDa 
cfo  na  piche  Do  benarh  reiD  pein  buibfn  mapcploij  lep  gup  po  pagbarap  e 
i  l?op  commain. 

Concobap  (.1.  concobap  puab)  mag  Gochagam  ngfpna  cenel  piachach  Do 
riiapbab  la  gallaib. 

'Comap  ua  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 

the  son  of  Hugh  Breifueach  was  now  the  chief  Dermod's  house,  whereof  Clanmortagh  having 

loader.  had  intelligence  lay  privily  in  ambush  in  his 

n  Intention,  coriiaiple. — The  literal  meaning  way,  as  he  was  passing  with  four  or  five  horse- 

of  cothaiple  is  counsel  or  advice;  but  it  is  often  men  in  his  companie  in  the  dark  of  the  night  to 

used  in  the  same  sense  as  the  Latin  consilium.  Mac  Dermott's  house  [but  he]  escaped  narrowly 

"They  posted  themselves — This  part  of  the  pas-  by  the  force  of  his  vallourous  and  hardy  hand" 

sage  is  better  expressed  in  the  Annals  of  Ulster  [cainic  uairiB  ccprapab  a  lama  lamipe. — Ann. 

and  of  Connaught.  It  is  also  somewhat  better  Ult.~\  "  grievously  wounded  Cathall  mac  Hugh, 

given  in  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  trans-  Breffneagh  (one  of  these  that  lay  in  the  ambush), 

lated  by  Mageoghegan,  as  follows :"  Whereupon  whereof  Mac  Dermott  had  no  notice  until, 

he  advised  with  his  best  friends  to  come  to  Mac  O'Connor  was  ferried  over  into  Mac  Dermott's 


1342.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  577 

intelligence  of  this  intention0,  and  of  the  particular  night  on  which  O'Conor 
would  come  to  Mac  Dennot ;  and  they  posted  themselves0  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,  com- 
pared 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 
that  Turlough  was  in,  until  he  heard  the  cries,  groans,  and  imprecations  that 
were  uttered  through  the  garrison ;  but  as  soon  as  he  had  obtained  informa- 
tion, he  privately  dispatched  trusty  persons  to  conduct  O'Conor  to  the  [castle 
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  con- 
clude peace  with  him,  he  escorted  him  with  a  troop  of  cavalry,  and  left  him  at 
Koscommon. 

Conor  (i.  e.  Conor  Roe)  Mageoghegan,  Lord  of  the  Kinel-Fiachach,  was 
slain  by  the  English. 

Thomas  O'Kinga,  Maurice  Mageoghegan  [and]  Simon,  son  of  Conor,  son 
of  Simon  Mac  Gillaarraith,  one  of  the  chieftains  of  Leyny,  died. 

Murrough,  son  of  Tomaltagh  OTlanagan,  the  third  best  man  of  his  tribe, 
was  slain  by  the  Gallowglasses  of  the  son  of  Cathal  [O'Conor]. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Hugh  Breifneach,  son  of  Cathal  Roe  O'Conor,  was  inau- 
gurated by  the  Connacians  and  Mac  William  Burke,  on  the  first  Monday  of 
winter,  after  the  deposing  of  Turlough  ;  and  the  Tanistship  of  Connaught  was 

house  of  Carrick,  where  being  come  Mac  Dermott  allies  to  have  access  to  him  to  converse  with  him. 

heard  the  Crys  and  Lamentations  made  for  the  At  last  when  Mac  Dermott  could  not  be  licensed 

hurting  of  Cahall;  nevertheless  he  kept  O'Conor  to  come  to  an  agreement  of  peace  with  him,  he 

with  him  for  the  space  of  a  sevenight,  useing  sent  him  with  safe  conduct  to  the  castle  of  Kos- 

him  in  his  house  with  such  reverence  as  befitted  common,  where  he  left  him.     Hugh  mac  Hugh 

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 
ui  Concobaip.  dp  noilella  Do  chabaipc  Dpfpgal  mac  Diapmacca. 

Uab$  Tnac  comolcaij  mic  TTlmpjiupa  meic  Donnchaib  Dionnapbab  ap  a 
bucaij  pfin  la  concobap  mac  Diapmaca  -]  la  a  bpaicpibh,  -]  e  Do  beic  i  ppap- 
pab  coippDealbaij  vri  concobaip,  -|  pfpjal  mac  comalcaij  Do  jabail  ripe 
hoilella  Dia  ep.- 

Qn  giolla  Dub  mag  uibip  Do  bachab  pop  loch  eipne. 

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  calma- 
cap,  ap  cpabaiD,  ~\  coinDepcle,  Do  mapbaD  la  a  Deapbpachaip  Niall  6  Domnaill 
mp  ccabaipc  ammaipp  oiDce  paip  ina  longpopc  pfm  i  TTIupbach,  -\  Niall  peipin 
DO  jabail  a  lonaiD. 

plann  65  6  Dorhnallam  ollam  connachc  i  nocin  DO  ecc. 

Oomnall  6  coinleipj  paoi  pfnchaiD  DO  rhapbab  la  huib  DiapmaDa  jap 
pia  ccaipg. 

Uomap  mac  jiollacoipglij  paoi  ap  eineac  -]  ap  fngnam  Do  ecc. 

Piapup  albanac  Do  rhapbab  la  cloinn  TTlaoilip  meic  peopaip. 

Connought  by  Mac  William  Burke  and  Con-  duibh,  often  shortened  to  Illduff. 
noughtmen,  the  first  Monday  of  Winter,  and          r  Matthew  Mac  Manus — According   to   the 

also   Hugh   mac  Ffelym   was  made  Tanist  of  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  he  dwelt 

Connought.    The  territory  of  Tyreallella  was  on  Lough  Erne.     The  head  of  the  family  of 

granted   to   Fferall   Mac   Dermott,    Teig   mac  Mac  Manus  of  Fermanagh  had  his  residence  at 

Tomulty  mac  Dermott  [being]  deposed  thereof,  Belle  Isle,  in  Upper  Lough  Erne,  which  is  still 

and  banished  by  Connor  Mac  Dermoda,  where-  called    Ballymacmanus  by  the    natives.     This 

upon  Teig  joyned  with  Terlagh  O'Connor."  family  is  a  branch  of  the  Maguires,  and  is  to  be 

P  He  went  over  to — Literally,  "he  was  along  distinguished  from  Mac  Manus  of  Tir-Tuathail, 

with  Turlough  O'Conor."  Mageoghegan  renders  who  descended  from  Manus,  the  son  of  Turlough 

it  :    "  Whereupon  Teig  joyned   with   Terlagh  More  O'Conor,  monarch  of  Ireland. 

O'Connor."  s  Murbhach There  is  a  place  of  this  name 

q  Gittaduv,  an  jiolla  ouB,  i.  e,.juvenis  niger.  about  three  miles  to  the  south-west  of  the  town 

This  name  is  variously  anglicised  Gillduff,  Gilly-  of  Donegal.     See  note  h  under   the  year   1 272, 

duff,  Kilduff;  and,  in  the  surname  of  Mac  Gilla  p.  417 — See  also  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Cut- 


1342.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  579 

given  to  Hugh,  the  son  of  Felim  0' Conor.  Tirerrill  was  given  to  Farrell  Mac 
Dermot. 

Teige,  son  of  Tomaltagh,  son  of  Maurice  Mac  Donough,  was  banished  from 
his  own  patrimony  by  Conor  Mac  Dermot  and  his  kinsmen  ;  whereupon  he 
went  over"  to  Turlough  O'Conor  ;  and  Farrell,  the  son  of  Tomaltagh  [Mac 
Dermot]  took  possession  of  Tirerrill  after  him. 

Gilladuvq  Maguire  was  drowned  in  Lough  Erne. 

Matthew  Mac  Manusr  a  general  and  wealthy  Brughaidh  [farmer],  who  never 
rejected  the  countenance  of  man,  whether  mean  or  mighty,  died. 

Conor,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Donnell  Oge  O'Donnell,  Lord  of  Kinel- 
Connell,  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,  by  the  Hy-Diarmadau. 

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  daugh-  notices  of  the  name  to  be  found  in  the  Annals 

ter   of  O'Donnell   is   called    "  the   woman   of  relate  to  poets.     For  a  short  account  of  the 

Murbhach."  celebrated  persons  of  the  family  of  O'Donnellan 

In  the  margin  of  the  copy  of  the  Annals  of  of  Ballydonnellan  in  modern  times,  the  reader 

the  Four  Masters,  preserved  in  the  library  of  is  referred  to  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy-Many, 

Trinity  College,  Dublin,  H.  2.  1 1 ,  the  following  p.  167. 

words  are  added  to  the  above  passage  in  the  u  Hy-Diarmada. — This  was   the  tribe-name 

hand-ipiting  of  Roderic  O'Flaherty,  author  of  of  the  O'Concannons  of  Killtullagh  in  Hy-Many 

the  Ogygia  :  "  In  ostio  domus  su«e  apud  Find-  in  the  county  of  Galway — See  note  s,  under  the 

rois  a  Niello,  filio  Patris  sui  combustae  corruit. —  year  1201,  p.  131,  supra. 

O'Mulconry"  v  Mac  Gilla  choisgle. — This  name  is  still  com- 

1  O'Donnellan. — This  family  had  a  small  dis-  mon   in  the  county  of  Fermanagh,  and  in  the 

trict  in  Hy-Many,  called  Clann-Breasail ;  but  neighbourhood  of  Clones  in  the  county  of  Mo- 

our   annalists   have   preserved    no    account   of  naghan,    where  it  is   anglicised    Cuskly,    and, 

them  as  chieftains  of  that  district.    The  only  sometimes,  Cosgrove. 


580  dNNCtta  Rio^hachca  eiRecmN.  [1343. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1343. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  cheo,  ceachpacharc,  a  cpf. 

Seaan  TTlac  Goaijj  eppcop  conmaicne  Decc. 

lohannep  6  Lairhirh  eppcop  cille  halaib,  -]  carhal  mac  an  liacanaij  abb 
na  rjunoicce  Decc. 

Oonncha6  clepech  6  TTlaoilbpenainD  cananac  copaib  oile  pmn  Do  map- 
bab  oupcup  poighoe  le  muincip  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  i  mainipcip  na  buille,  -\ 
nocha  ccaimcc  poimpe  Dia  cineab  aombfn  pug  bapp  a  maicfppa. 

Oubcablaij  mjfn  meic  DiapmaDa  bean  uf  bipn  Decc. 

TTluipcfpcach  ua  bpiain  cijeapna  ruaDmuman  Decc,  -|  Diapmaicr  ua 
bpiam  Do  gabdil  an  cijeapnaip,-]  a  achcop  ap  a  plaicfp  la  bpian  ua  mbpiain, 
1  maiche  cuaDhrhuman  Do  umlugaD  Do  bpian  mppin. 

Uomap  mace  Sharhpaohain  raoipeac  ceallaij  eachbac  Decc. 

Uilleac  mac  RiocaipD  mic  uilliam  leic,  macaorh  jail  epeann  in  eneach 
1  in  fnjnorh  Decc. 

TTlaibm  mop  pia  ccloinn  peopaip  -|  pia  ccloinn  piocaipo  pop  uib  maine 
DU  in  po  mapbao  aofnpfp  Decc  Duaiplib  tnameach  im  Concobap  cfppbac  6 
cheallaij. 

"  Mac  Eoaigh — In  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  his  name- 
Bishops,  p.  252,  he  is  set  down  under  the  name  is  written  lohcmnep  olluicaim  (the  c  and  m  left 
of  John  Mageoi,  as  Bishop  of  Ardagh,  from  the  unaspirated),  and  his  death  placed  under  the 
year  1331  to  1343.  year  1340. 

*  G'Laithimh — This  name  is  now  usually  an-          y  Inis  Doighre — This  is  probably  the  island 

glicised  Lahiff,  but  some  have  rendered  it  Guth-  in  the  river  Boyle  now  called  Inishterry.     See 

rie,  from  an  erroneous  notion  that  it  is  derived  the  Ordnance  Map  of  the  County  of  Roscommon, 

from  laraij,  i.  e.  of  the  slough  or  puddle.     In  sheet  7. 

Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  650,  this          *  Nobly  and  honourably  interred,^  huupal  ono- 

bishop  is  incorrectly  called  John  O'Laitin.    In  the  pad. — This  is  the  Irish  mode  of  expressing  "She 


1343.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  581 

THE  AGE  OF  CHEIST,  1343. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  forty-three. 

John  Mac-Eoaighw,  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  own  tribe  for  hospitality 
and  renown,  was  slain  by  the  Clann  Rickard. 

Dearbhail,  daughter  of  Hugh  O'Donnell,  came  on  a  visit  to  Mac  Dermot  to 
Inis-Doighrey,  where  she  was  seized  with  a  fatal  sickness  and  died,  and  was  nobly 
and  honourably  interred*  in  the  monastery  of  Boyle.  There  never  was  born1  a 
woman  of  her  tribe  who  surpassed  her  in  goodness. 

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  chieftains0  of 
Hy-Many,  together  with  Conor  Cearbhach"  O'Kelly  were  slain. 

was  buried  with  great  pomp  and  solemnity."  "A.  D.  1243.  Ulick  mac  Ulick  mac  Richard 

m  There  never  was  born. — The  literal  transla-  mac  Ulick,  surnamed  Ulick  Leigh,  chief  of  all 

tion  is :  "  There  came  not  before  her  of  her  tribe  the  English  of  Ireland  for  bounty  and  prowes, 

any  woman  who  surpassed  her  in  goodness."  died." 

b  Ulick,  son  of  Richard. — This  agrees  with  the          c  Chieftains Mageoghegan  renders  it:  "where 

text  of  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster;  Connor  Karavagh  O'Kelly,  with  eleven  princes' 

but  in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  sons  of  that  family  were  slain. 

of  Clonmacnoise  it  is  given  as  follows :  d  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.  6  oomnaill)  cip  aooha 
ooib.  Cachap  t>o  ceccrhail  lappin  eiDip  aongup  -\  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  "|  pochai&e  oile  DO  rhapbab  an  ran 
pin,  i  aenjup  Do  bpeic  bua&a. 

Dauic  mag  oipechcoigh  corhopba  pacpaicc  Decc. 

66m  mag  Duibne  aipchiDeocham  Dpoma  leachain  Do  ecc. 

Concobap  mac  Diapmaca  cijfpna  muige  luipg  ruile  opoain,  -|  oipea- 
chaip  cloinne  maolpuanaib  moip  mic  caiDg  mic  carail  mic  concobaip  DO 
ecc  pia  cijh  pem  peccmam  pia  pamain  Dia  paraipn  ap  aoi  laice  peacrmume 
lap  mbpeic  buaDha  o  Doman  -\  o  oeman,  -|  a  abnacal  i  mainipnp  na  buille, 
1  pfpjal  mac  Diapmaca  a  Dfpbpachaip  pfin  DO  oipDneao  ma  lonaD. 

T?uai6pi  mag  cpaich  ollam  leiche  moga  le  Dan  Do  ecc. 

'  Achadh  mona,   i.e.  bog-field,    now  Agha-  in  the  year  1337-  See  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's 

woney,  a  townland  in  the  parish  and  barony  of  Bishops,  p.  81,  and  Grace's  Annals,  edited  by  the 

Kilmacrenan,  and  county  of  Donegal See  the  Rev.  Richard  Butler,  p.   131.     According  to  a 

Ordnance  Map  of  the  County  of  Donegal,  sheets  note  in  O'Flaherty's  hand- writing,  in  the  College 

36  and  45.  copy  of  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters,  this 

f  Tir-  Ainmirech,  i.  e.  the  territory  of  Ainmire,  David  died  in  the  year  1346. 

son  of  Sedna.     This  was  not  O'Boyle's  original  *<  Mtdrony  More — He  was  the  brother,  and, 

territory,  for,  previously  to  the  arrival  of  the  according  to  some  genealogists,   the  eldest  bro- 

Mac  Sweenys  from  Scotland,  he  was  chief  of  the  ther  of  Aedh  an  gha  bhearnaigh,  or  Hugh  of  the 

Tri-Tuatha,  in  the  north-west  of  the  barony  of  broken  Spear,  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  who 

Kilmacrenan.     Tir- Ainmirech  was  the  ancient  was  slain  in  the  year  1067-    From  this  Mulrony 

name  of  the  present  barony  of  Boylagh,  in  the  the  Mac  Dennots  and  Mac  Donoughs  derived 

west  of  the  county  of  Donegal.  their  tribe  name  of  Clann-Mulrony. 

*  David  Mageraghty. — This  name  agrees  with  '  Teige,  i.e.  Tadhg  an  eichghil,  or  Teige  of  the 

that  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  White  Steed,  King  of  Connaught,  who  was  slain 

at  the  year  1342;  but  he  is  called  O'Hiraghty  in  the  year  1030. 

by  Grace  and  Pembridge,  who  state  that  he  died  J  Catfial. — He   was  King   of  Connaught,  and 


1343.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  583 

Niall  O'Donnell  was  driven  from  his  principality  by  Aengus  O'Donnell, 
Donnell  Duv  O'Boyle  and  O'Doherty,  by  the  power  of  Hugh  Reamhar  O'Neill 
and  the  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  Tir- 
hugh  to  O'Donnell  ;  and  Aengus  (i.  e.  the  O'Donnell),  made  them  a  grant  of 
the  territory  of  Tirhugh.  Some  time  afterwards  a  battle  was  fought  at  Achadh- 
monac  between  Aengus  and  Niall ;  and  the  Clann-Murtough  rose  up  with 
Aengus  against  Niall,  and  they  defeated  Niall  and  his  people.  In  this  battle 
Aindiles  O'Boyle,  chief  of  Tir-Ainmirechf,  with  his  son,  Owen,  son  of  Art 
O'Donnell,  and  many  others,  were  slain,  and  Aengus  gained  the  victory. 

David  Mageraghtys,  coarb  of  St.  Patrick,  died. 

John  Mac  Duibhne,  Archdeacon  of  Drumlahan,  died. 

Conor  Mac  Dermot,  Lord  of  Moylurg,  fountain  of  the  splendour  and  pre- 
eminence of  the  race  of  Mulrony  More"  the  son  of  Teige',  son  of  CathalJ,  son 
of  Conork,  died  at  his  own  house  a  week  before  Allhallowtide,  on  a  Saturday, 
after  having  overcome  the  world  and  the  devil,  and  was  buried  in  the  abbey  of 
Boyle.  Farrell  Mac  Dermott,  his  own  brother,  was  installed  his  successor1. 

Rory  Magrathm,  Ollav  of  Leth-Mogha  in  poetry,  died". 

died  in  the  year  1009.  was  buried  in  the  abbey  of  Boylle  ;  in  whose 
k  Conor,  Concobup. — He  was  King  of  Con-  place  succeeded  his  own  son  as  prince  of  Moy- 
naught,  and  the  progenitor  after  whom  the  lorge,  namel  Fferall  mac  Connor." 
O'Conors  of  Connaught  have  taken  their  sur-  The  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  con- 
name.  He  died  in  the  year  972.  From  this  it  tains  a  quotation  from  a  contemporaneous  poet, 
appears  that  the  Mac  Dermots  of  Moylurg  are  who  asserted  that  this  Conor  Mac  Dermot  ex- 
virtually  O'Conors,  and  that  their  real  name  is  celled  all  the  chieftains  of  the  Irish  race  of  his 
Mac  Dermot  O'Conor.  See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  time  in  wisdom,  valour,  hospitality,  and  bounty. 
and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  213,  note  k.  It  also  states  that  the  Farrell  or  Ferall  was  his 
1  His  successor. — Mageoghegan  translates  this  brother,  not  his  son,  as  Mageoghegan  makes  him. 
passage  as  follows  in  his  version  of  the  Annals  m  Rory  Magratlt. — He  was  chief  poet  and  his- 
of  Clonmacnoise  :  torian  to  O'Brien  in  Thomond. 

"  Connor  Mac  Dermodda,  prince  of  Moylurg,  n  Under  this  year  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise, 

the  fountain  and  well-spring  of  all  goodnesss  of  as  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  record  that  Tur- 

the  family  of  Clanmolronie,  and  the  son  of  Teig  lough  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  was  restored 

mac  Cahall  mac  Connor,   died  in  his  house  on  to  his  kingdom,   and  that  peace  was  concluded 

Saturday,   seven  days  before  Alhallontide,  and  between  him  and  Mac  Dermot. 


584  awNQta  Rio^hachca  emecmN.  [1345. 


CR1OSU,  1344. 
Goip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpi  cheD,  ceachpacharc,  a  ceachaip. 

Gppcob  luigne  Decc. 

TTlupchab  mac  rhaoilrhuaib  uf  fghpa  abb  na  buille  -\  abbap  eppcoip 
luijne  DO  ecc. 

Niocol  maccpaic  corhopba  cfpmamn  Dabeoucc  Decc. 

Qpc  mop  mac  copbmaic  uf  maoileaclamn  pi  mibe  Do  mapbab  la  copb- 
mac  mballac  ua  maofleachlamn,  -|  e  pfin  Do  jabail  a  lonaiD. 

Qooh  mac  Rooilbmeg  TTlachjamnacijeapna  oipjiall  Decc,  -]  niupchab 
65  mag  mar^amna  Do  jabail  an  cijeapnaip  na  6eoi6,  ~\  a  ecc  hi  cinn  f  eaclic- 
maine.  Ulajnuf  mac  Gocha  mic  l?ooilb  meg  rharhsamna  DO  jab'ail  an 
njeapnaiy  lappin. 

Uilliam  mac  macjjamna  meg  T?ajnaill  DO  rhapb'ab  la  macaib  cachail 
me5  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,  1345. 
Qoip  Cpioyc,  mile,  rpf  cheD,  ceachpachacc,  a  cuij. 

^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)  i  ppiob  Dopaoha  hi  muin- 
cipi  eolaip  mp  nDol  Do  conjnam  bo  la  raohg  mag  Rajnaill  i  najaiD 
clomne  TTluipcfpcaij  muirhmj  uf  concobaip  co  loc  aipinD.  Clann  TTluipcfp- 

0  Intended  bishop,  aobap  eappoij,  i.  e.  Mate-  of  Donegal,  near  Pettigoe.     See  note  ',  under 

ries  Episcopi,  i.  e.  Episcopus  in  fieri.     In  Ma-  the  year  1196,  p.  104. 

geoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clon-  *Ballagh,  bcdlac,  i.  e.  freckled. 

macnoise  he  is  called  "  Murrogh  mac  Bryen  of  r  Muintir-Healy,  i.  e.  the  family  of  O'Healy. 

the  Chalices  of  the  mass."  This  passage  is  entered  in  the  Dublin  copy  of 

p  Termon-Daveog  is  now  called  Termon  Ma-  the  Annals  of  Ulster  as  follows,  under  the  year 

grath,  and  is  situated  in  the  south  of  the  county  1341  : 


1345.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  585 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1344. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  forty-four. 

The  Bishop  of  Leyny  [Achonry]  died. 

Murrough,  son  of  Molloy  O'Hara,  Abbot  of  Boyle,  and  intended  Bishop0  of 
Leyny,  died. 

Nicholas  Magrath,  coarb  of  Termon-Daveogp,  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  Mur- 
rough Oge  Mac  Mahon  next  assumed  the  lordship,  but  died  in  a  week  after- 
wards ;  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 
Mac  Rannall. 

Mahon,  the  son  of  Gilchreest  Cleireach  Mac  Dermot,  was  slain  on  the  Coir- 
sliabh  [the  Curlieu  Mountain],  by  Muintir-Healyr. 

Brian,  son  of  Rory  Maguire,  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1345. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  forty-jive. 

Gilla-na-naev  O'Keenan,  Abbot  of  Lisgabhail',  died. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Owen  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  was 
killed  in  Autumn  by  one  shot  of  an  arrow,  at  Fidh  doradha',  in  [the  territory 
of]  Muintir-Eolais,  after  he  had  gone  to  Loch-Airinnu  to  aid  Teige  Mac  Rannall 

"  Anno  Domini  1341.  (Tiara  tnac  jiUicpipc  c  Fidh  doradha,  now  Fedaro,  a  townland  in 

clepift  mic  oiapmaoa  oo  mapbao  le  mumcip  the  parish  of  Annaduff,  barony  of  Mohill,  and 

n-Gilioeap  in  coippliab."  Here  it  is  to  be  noted  county  of  Leitrim — See  Ordnance  map  of  that 

that  cleipij,  which  is  a  cognomen  of  sillicpipc,  county,  sheet  32.     The   territory  of  Muintir- 

is  in  the  genitive  case  singular  to  agree  with  it.  Eolais  comprised  the  barony  of  Mohill,  and  all 

5  Lisgabhail,  now  Lisgool,  on  the  margin  of  that  level  portion  of  the  county  of  Leitrim,  south 

Lough  Erne,  near  Enniskillen,  in  the  county  of  of  the  range  of  Slieve-an-ierin. 

Fermanagh.  u  Loch  Airinn — This  name  is  still  in  use,  but 

4F 


586  QNNaca  Rjoghachca  emeaNN. 

caig,  i  an  chuio  oile  DO  mumcip  eolaip  Dia  leanmam  50  pioD  oopaoha,  -]  a 
mapbaD  ap  guiprfp  na  ppioeoige,  -]  nocha  cropchaip  Do  jaoibealaib  pe 
hachaiD  poirtie  imcfin  pgel  buD  mo  map,  ~|  Gob  mac  coippDealbaij  DO  piojan 
ma  lonarc. 

bpian  ua  pfpjail  Dfgha&bap  njeapna  na  hanjaile  Decc.  peap  na  po 
cuill  imoeapgaD  im  nf  Da  bpuaip  ip  in  mbic,  co  pug  buaiD  o  borhan,  -|  o 
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  la  macaib 
ualjaipg  meic  pfpjail. 

Q013  CR1OSC,  1346. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpi  cheD,  cOchpachac,  a  pe. 

CoccaD  Do  pap  eicip  ua  l?uaipc,  .1.  ualgapg,  -j  T?uai6pi  mac  cachail  uf 
concobaip.  Uachap  Do  cfgmail  fcoppa  i  ccalpaije  locha  gile,  -\  Spameab 

it  is  generally  anglicised  Rinn  Lough,  or  Lough  "  There  had  not  fallen — This  passage  is  trans- 

a  Rinn,  which  is  that  of  a  lake  situated  a  short  lated  by  Mageoghegan  in  his  version  of  the  An- 

distance  to  the  south  of  the  town  of  Mohill,  in  nals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  follows  : 

the  barony  of  Mohill  and  county  of  Lei  trim.  "A.  D.  1345.  Terlagh  O'Connor,  King  of  Con- 

The  ruins  of  a  small  castle  of  the  Mac  Ranalls  naught,  after  he  had  reigned  twenty-one  years, 

are  still  to  be  seen  on  the  margin  of  this  lake.  was  killed  by  the  shoote  of  an  arrow  in  Ffyedo- 

w  The  rest. — In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  rowe  in  Moynter-Eolas,  being  [having]  purposely 

of  Ulster  the  reading  is  bloo  oo  mumncip  60-  gone  thither  to  assist  Teige  Mac  Ranell  against 

luip,  i.  e.  "Some  of  the  Muinter  Eolais,"  which  Clann  Mortagh,  at  Logh  Aryn,  whom  the  said 

is  better.  Clann  Mortagh  and  the  rest  of  the  inhabitants 

x  Gurtin  na  Spideoige,  i.  e.  the  little  garden  or  of  Moyntir   Eolas  pursued   to  Fydorowe,    and 

field  of  the  robin  redbreast.    This  name  is  now  there,  at  a  place  called  Gortyn  Spideoge,  was 

forgotten.    The  place  so  called  was  in  the  imme-  killed  by  an  arrow,  as  aforesaid.     There  was  not 

diate  vicinity  of  Fedaro  townland.    In  an  inqui-  a  greater  exploit  done  by  an  arrow  since  Neale 

sition  taken  in  the  year   1631,    Federree  and  of  the  Nine  Hostages  was  killed  by  Eochie  mac 

Cornespedoge  are  mentioned  as  in  the  barony  of  Enna  Kynseallagh  at  the  Tyrhian  seas ;  in  whose 

Mohill  and  county  of  Leitrim.  [i  e.  Terlagh's]   place  Hugh  Mac  Terlagh  was 


1346.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  587 

against  the  descendants  of  Murtough  Muimhneach  O'Conor.  The  Clann-Mur- 
tough  and  the  rest"  of  the  Muinter-Eolais  pursued  him  as  far  as  Fidh  Doradha, 
and  killed  him  at  Gurtin-na-spideoige*.  For  a  long  time  before  there  had  not 
fallen"  of  the  Gaels,  any  one  more  to  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  censurez  on  account  of  anything  he  ever  acquired,  even  up 
to  the  hour  when  he  overcame  the  world  and  the  devil. 

Hugh  O'Neill  went  with  a  fleet  on  Lough  Neagh,  and  the  Clann-Hugh- 
Boya,  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 
them,  in  his  ships. 

Manus  O'Flynn6  Line  [i.  e.  of  Moylinny],  was  slain  by  Donnell  Donn  and 
Brian  O'Neill. 

Cormac,  the  son  of  Rory  O'Conor,  died. 

Cormac,  son  of  Murtough  Mac  Loughlin,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Ualgarg, 
son  of  Farrell  [O'Rourke]0. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1346. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  forty-six. 

A  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-Lough- 

constituted  King  of  Connaught."  to  the  east  of  Lough  Neagh  in  the  present  coun- 

1  Earned  censure In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  ties  of  Down  and  Antrim,  and  which  was  called 

Annals  of  Ulster  the  reading  is,  "paimc  janaen  Clann  Aodha  Buidhe, — Anglice,  Clannaboy, — 

juc  acmopam  6  ejpib  7  6  ollainnaib  6penn,"  from  their  tribe-name. 

i.   e.    "  he   passed   through  life    without    any  b  O'Flynn.— This  name  is  now  usually  angli- 

reproach  from  the  literati  or  chief  poets  of  Ire-  cised  O'Lyn,  by  aspirating  the  initial  p,  which 

land."     The  meaning  is,  that  he  had  been  so  seems  to  have  been  also  the  mode  of  pronouncing 

generous  to  the  poets  that  none  of  them  at-  the  name  at  a  very  early  period.   See  note '  under 

tempted  to  lampoon  him.  the  year  1 176,  pp.  24,  25. 

1  Clann-Hugh-Boy,  i.  e.  the  race  of  Hugh  Boy  '  Under   this  year  O'Flaherty  adds,  in  the 

O'Neill,  who  was  slain  in  the  year  1283.     They  College  copy,   the  following  passages  from  the 

possessed,  at  this  period,  an  extensive  territory  Annals  of  Lecan  : 

4  F  2 


588  aNwata  raioshachca  eircecwN.  [1346. 

pop  ua  Ruaipc  -\  a  jallocclaca  uile  Do  mapbaD,  .1.  mag  buippce  [i]  mac 
neill  caimm  co  na  mumcip.  O  Ruaipc  Do  leanmain  Do  RuaiDpi  ua  cconco- 
baip  i  DO  clomn  nDonnchaib  apa  hairhle,  -\  a  mapbaD  la  maolpuanaib  mac 
oonnchaib,  -|  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 
laip  co  Caipiol  copccpaigh,  -|  a  mapbaD  Do  ann  pin. 

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  -\  coppmac  caocn  mac  pinjin  Do  mapbaD  boib  imaille 
ppip. 

Concobap  ua  bipn  Do  mapbaD. 

lorhap  mac  TTlupchaoa  uf  pfpjail  DO  mapbaD  la  bpian  mac  cijeapnam,  i 
la  clomn  meic  TTluipcfpcaij. 

Qpc  mac  comdip  uf  Ruaipc  DO  mapbaD  la  Dorhnall  mag  njeapnain. 
• 

"OdoO'RoirkRodericumfiliusCathaldiO'Co-  trained  two  kinds  of  infantry;  one,  called  gal- 

nor  apudpapacoilleao  depraedatus,  in  templum  lowglasses,  were  armed  with  an  iron  helmet,  a 

cille  lioipi^  confugit,  et  templo  incenso  occidi-  coat  of  mail  and  a  cuirass,  and  carried  in  one 

tur MS.  L."  hand  a  fine-edged  battle-axe,  like  that  used  by 

"  Amlaus  (Donaldus  reor)  O'Flaherty  occi-  the  ancient  Gauls,  of  whom  Marcellinus  speaks 

den  tails  Connacise  dominus  obiit. — MS.  L."  in  his  19th  Book  ;  the  other  were  light-armed, 

"  Jacobus  O'Corcrain,  Archidiaconus  Bre-  and  are  called  by  Henry  of  Marleburgh  Turbi- 

tiniae,  et  Florentius  O'Corcrain  insignis  Cytha-  culi,  by  others  Turbarii,  and  popularly  kerns : 

raedus  obierunt."— MS.  L.  they  fought  with  javelins  tied  with  strings,  darts, 

A  Ccdry-Loiu)h-GiU,,ca\,\\a.\tp  loca  ^ile,  was  a  and  knives  called  skeynes.  In  an  Act  passed  in 

territory  in  the  county  of  Sligo,  bordering  upon  the  fifth  year  of  Edward  III.,  c.  25,  among  the 

Lough  Gill.  The  name  is  still  preserved  in  Calry  articles  to  be  observed  in  Ireland  the  sixth  was 

or  Colry,  a  parish  bordering  upon  this  lake.  "against  the  leaders  and  supporters  of  kerns  and 

e  Gallote-fflasses. — The  Irish  of  the  middle  ages  the  people  called  idlemen,  unless  on  the-  confines 


1346.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  589 

Gill",  in  which  O'Rourke  was  routed,  and  all  his  gallowglassese  slain,  i.  e.  Mac 
Buirrce,  and  Mac  Neill  Camf  with  their  people.  O'Rourke  was  afterwards 
pursued  by  Rory  O'Conor  and  the  Clann-Donough,  and  was  killed  byMulrony 
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  slain  by  Donnell  Mac 
Cawell. 

A  victory  was  gained  by  Brian  Mac  Mahon  over  the  English,  and  three 
hundred  of  their  heads'  were  counted  [after  the  battle]. 

Niall  O'Donnell,  the  Clann-Murtough  [O'Conor],  the  son  of  Felim  O'Conor 
and  Maurice  Mac  Dermot,  pursued  Rory,  the  son  of  Cathal  [O'Conor]  to  Cul- 
Maoile  [Coloony],  where  they  defeated  him  and  the  Clann-Donough  with  great 
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  slain  by  Donnell  Mac  Tiernan. 

of  the  enemy's  territory,  and  at  their  own  ex-  .of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  in  which  it  is  stated  that 

pense." — Ware's  Antiquit.  c.  xxi.  the  killing  of  O'Rourke  is  the  most  lamentable 

"The  gallowglass  succeeded  the  horseman,  event  that  had  occurred  in  Ireland  since  the  kil- 

and  he  is  commonly  armed  with  a  skull,  a  shirt  ling  of  Cormac  Mac  Cullennan. 
of  mail,  and  a  Gallowglass  axe,"  &c.  &c. — Bar-          h  Loch-an-Sguir,   now   Lough    Scur.      It  is 

nabie  Riches'  New  Irish  Prognostication,  p.  37.  situated  in  the  parish  of  Kiltubbrid,  in  the  ba- 

'  Mac  Buirrce,  fyc  — The  Four  Masters  have  rony  and  county  of  Leitrim,  near  the  village  of 

omitted  the  7,  ajup,  which  renders  this  passage  Keshcarrigan.     There  is  an  island  in  this  lake 

obscure,  but  the  Editor  has  restored  it  from  the  called  Castle  Island,  on  which  stand  the  ruins  of 

Uublincopyofthe  Annals  of  Ulster.  MacBuirrce  a  castle  called  CcnrleanSeom,  or  John's  castle, 

and  Mac  Neill  Cam  were  Scots,  and  captains  of  and  another  island  called  Prisonlsland  on  which, 

irallowglasses  employed  in  O'Rourke's  service.  according  to  tradition,  Mac  Rannall  was  wont  to 

g  Lamentable  deed. — This  entry  is  more  briefly  confine  his  prisoners, 
but  far  more  correctly  given  in  the  Dublin  copy  '  Three  hundred  heads — This  is  very  rudely 


590  QHwata  Rio^hachca  eiraeaNR  [1347. 

CIO1S  CR1OSU,  1347. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  cheD,  ceacpachacc,  a  Seachc. 

TTIaolmafDoj  6  caiclij  oippicel  locha  hepne  Do  ecc. 

55'olla  net  naom  mac  SeapppaiD  mic  giolla  na  naom  uf  pfpghail  cijeapna 
na  hangaile  cfnn  copanca  conmaicneac  ap  joil  ap  jaipcciD,  ap  eneach,  -\  ap 
oippoeapcup  Do  ecc  i  ccluam  lip  beic  mp  mbeir  aehaib  imchian  in  aipDcfn- 
nup  na  hanjoile  66  "|  e  Do  bpeic  bua6a  6  Doman  ~\  6  6fman.  Cachal  mac  mup- 
chaba  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  rhumcipe  heolaip  Do  jabail  Do  cloinn 
muipcfpcaijj. 

Uilliam  TTlac  DauiD  Do  mapbaD  DO  ca&j  pua6  mac  Diapmaca  jail  i 
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  neill,  pionnjuala  injean  TTIaoilpeaclamn  uf 
TCaijillij,  i  an  jiolla  Dub  mac  gille  TTlochua  Decc. 

OonnchaD  mac  aeDha  615  uf  pfpghail  Decc. 

SfDpab  6  cuipnfn  paof  pileab  ~\  ollam  na  bpeipne  epibe  DO  ecc. 

stated  by  the  Four  Masters.  In  the  Dublin  copy  side  of  the  river  Suck  in  the  barony  of  Ballimoe 

of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  the  reading  is:  "  ITlaDm  and  county  of  Galway.     See  note  z,  under  the 

la  bpian  mag  tnacjathnu  ap  jallaiBoa  jiamic  year  1225. 

epi  c.  ceann  co  lacaip,"  i.e.  "a  defeat  was  given  '  Ballintober,  baile  an  copaip,  i.e.  the  town 

by  Brian  Mac  Mahon  to  the  English,  of  whose  of  the  well.     This  is   the  Ballintober  in  the 

heads  three  hundred  were  brought  in  his  pre-  county  of  Roscommon,  which  is  usually  called 

sence."  by  the  annalists  baile  copaip  6pi5»e,  i.  e.  the 

i  Cluain-lis-Bec. — See  other  references  to  this  town  of  St.  Bridget's  well,  to  distinguish  it  from 

place  at  the  years  1282  and  1322.  baile  copaip  paopuij,  now  Ballintober,  in  the 

k  Mac  David  Burke He  was  chief  of  the  ter-  county  of  Mayo.  Mac  Dermot  Gall  was  Chief  of 

ritory  of  Clanconow  or  Clanconway,  on  the  west  Airteach,  in  the  county  of  Roscommon. 


1347.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  591 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1347. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  forty-seven. 

Maelmaedhog  O'Taichligh,  Official  of  Lough  Erne,  died. 

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. 
Cathal,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Gilla-na-naev  O'Farrell,  assumed  the  lord- 
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  the 
Clann-Mur tough  [O' Conor]. 

William  Mac  David  [Burke]  was  slain  at  Ballintober1  by  Teige  Roe  Mac 
Dermot  Gall. 

Thomas  Mac  Artan,  Lord  of  Iveaghm,  in  Ulidia,  was  hanged  by  the  English. 

Owen  O'Madden,  Chief  of  Sil-Anmchadha,  died  ;  and  Murrough,  his  son, 
assumed  the  chieftainship  of  Sil-Anmchadhan. 

Aengus,  the  son  of  Gara  O'Madden,  died. 

The  church  of  Kilronan  was  re-erected  by  Farrell  O'Duigenan0. 

Finola,  daughter  of  Mac  Fineen,  and  wife  of  Farrell  O'Duigenan,  died. 

Henry,  son  of  Hugh  Boy  O'Neill ;  Finola,  daughter  of  Melaghlinp  O'Reilly  ; 
and  Gilladuv  Mac  Gillamochua,  died. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Hugh  Oge  O'Farrell,  died. 

Siry  O'Curninq,  a  learned  poet  and  Ollav  of  Breifny,  died. 

m  Lord  oflveagh The  Mac  Artans  did  not  wife  of  Farrell  Muimhneach  O'Duigenan,  Ere- 

retain  this  dignity  long,  for  the  Magennises  ap-  nagh  of  Kilronan,  died." 

pear   henceforward   as  lords   of  this  territory.  P   Melaghlin,  JTIaolfeaclainn.  —  This   name, 

•  Sil-Anmchadha. — This  is  pronounced  Sheel-  which  is  sometimes  written  TTIaoilp eacnaill,  and 

Anmchy:  for  its  situation  and  extent  see  note  k  TTIaoileaclainn    is  usually  anglicised  Malachy, 

under  the  year  1 178,  p.  44,  supra.  but  with  what  degree  of  propriety  may  be  ques- 

°  O'Duigenan This  passage  is  better  given  tioned,  as  it  signifies  the  servant  or  devotee  of 

from  O'Mulconry's  Annals,  by  O'Flaherty,  in  St.  Seachlainn  or  Secundinus,  disciple    of  St. 

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  eiraeaNN.  [1348. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1348. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpi  cheD,  cfchpachacc  a  hochr. 

^lolla  na  naorh  ua  cicmain  abb  Ifpa  gabail  Do  ecc. 

Niall  gapb  ua  oorhnaill  cigfpna  ripe  conaill,  lap  bpagbail  mop  nimpfpna 
66  hi  rrigfpmip  -]  pia  ccigfpnup,  DO  mapbaD  la  TTlaghnupp  meablach  ua 
noomnaill  qua  cheilg -|  piongail  (.1.  i  pope  inp  Saimep).  ba  cup  cpooha 
comnapr  copnarhach  an  ci  mall  go  pin,  -|  ba  liach  a  aoiDeaD  arhlaiD  pin. 
Clongup  mac  concobaip  ui  6oriinaill  baoi  in  impeapam  ppi  mall  Do  £abail 
an  cijeapnaip. 

Cachal  6  pfpgail  njeapna  na  hanjaile  Decc. 

TTlaoileachlainn  mag  oipeachcaij  caoipeac  muincipe  poouib,  •)  Donnchab 
mag  bpaoaij  raoipeach  cuile  bpigDe  Decc. 

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  i  mbpaigDeanup  ip  in  mbaile  app 
immaille  pe  gach  bpagaiD  oile  Da  ppuaippfcr  ann. 

Clann  peopaip  DO  lonnapbaD  la  hemann  a  bupc  gup  bo  heigfn  Do  TTlac 
peopaip  cocc  Dia  corugaD  go  ceag  uf  concobaip. 

by  O'Flaherty  in  the  College  copy  of  these  Annals,  emperor  of  hospitality,  the  servant  of  generosity, 

call  him  "  a  learned  poet  and  musician  ;"  and  add,  and  the  shelterer  of  benevolence."     And  it  is 

that  he  died  "  in  religione  et  peregrinatione."  added,  that  the  professors  of  poetry  and  the 

tO'Keenan. — His  death  has  been  already  en-  sciences  were  grieved  and  broken-hearted  on 

tered  under  the  year  1345.  hearing  of  the  death  of  this  kind  chieftain. 

s  Murderously,  i  pionjail Properly  means          *Cuil-Brighde. — This,  which  is  more  generally 

the  murder  of  a  kinsman.  written  Cuil  Brighdein,  was  the  name  of  Mac 

'  Meabhlach,  i.  e.  the  deceitful.  Brady's  territory,  comprising  the  district  round 

u  Inis-Saimer At  Ballyshannon.     See  note  Stradone,  in  the  county  of  Cavan.     See  other 

b  under  the  year  1197,  p.  111.  notices  of  it  at  the  years  1378  and  1412.     The 

w  Mdaghlin  Mageraghty In  the   Annals  of  name  Mac  Brady  is  now  always  made  Brady, 

Ulster  he  is  called  "  impep  in  einij,  peicriieoip  without  the  prefix  Mac. 

na  peile  7  oioneoip  na  oaennacca,  i.  e.  the          i  Mac  Dermofs  fortress,  lon^popc  meic  oiap- 


1348.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.       •  593 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1348. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  forty-eight. 

Gilla-na-naev  O'Keenan",  Abbot  of  Lisgabhail,  died. 

Niall  Garve  O'Donnell,  Lord  of  Tirconnell,  after  having  experienced  much 
contention,  before  and  during  the  term  of  his  lordship,  was  treacherously  and 
murderously5  slain  by  Manus  Meabhlaclr  O'Donnell,  his  kinsman,  at  the  port  of 
Inis-Saimeru.  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  Mageraghty1*,  Chief  of  Muinter  Rodiv,  and  Donough  Mac  Brady, 
Chief  of  Cuil  Brighdex,  died. 

A  war  broke  out  between  Farrell  Mac  Dermot,  and  Rory,  the  son  of  Cathal, 
son  of  Donnell  O'Connor.  Mac  Dermot's  fortress"  was  burned  by  Rory.  Mac 
Dermot  afterwards  assembled  his  friends,  and  they  pursued  Rory  to  his  fortress 
at  Ballymote,  and  burned  the  town,  both  stone  and  wooden  edifices,  and  they 
did  not  meet  any  opposition  until  they  reached  homez.  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  Feorais3  was  compelled  to  go  to  the  house  of  O'Conor  lor  his 
support1". 

muoa. — This  was  not  the  castle  in  Lough  Key  but  although  this  is  obviously  not  the  meaning 

commonly  called   Cappaij  £oca   Ce,    or   the  intended,  the  Editor  has  thought  proper  to  pre- 

rock  of  Lough  Key ;  but  a  fortification  situated  serve  the  order  of  the  original  construction,  to 

on  Longford  hill,  now  enclosed  in  Lord  Lorton's  give  the  reader  an  exact  idea  of  the  style  of  the 

demesne.  original. 

'•  Until  they  reached  home This  is  the  literal  a  Mae  Feorais,  i.  e.  the  head  of  the  Berming- 

translation  ;  but  the  idea  intended  to  be  con-  hams. 

veyed  is,  that  they  returned  home  without  hav-  b  Support.— O'Flaherty  adds  from  the  Anuals 

ing  met  any  opposition.     The  words,  as  con-  of  Lecan,  in  H.  2.  1 1  (Trinity  College,  Dublin)  : 

structed  in  the  original  Irish,  might  imply  that  "  Gelasius  Mac  Tigernan  obiit.— MS.  L." 

thpy  did  receive  opposition  on  their  return  home ;  "  Cln  ch) ice  rnultos  e  vita  sustulit — MS.  L." 

4G 


594  ctNNata  uioshachca  eiReaww.  [1349 


QO1S  CRIOSr,  1349. 

t 

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  plannchaba,  lochlainn  .mac  ainbilip  uf  baofghill 
1  pochaibe  immaille  ppiu  Do  rhapbab  Don  commapc  hipin. 

Gom  Dub  mac  Domnaill  Do  rhapbab  la  TTlajnup  mac  eochaba  mej  maf- 
^amna. 

^lolla  ria  naom  6  huijinD  Saof  le  Dan  Decc. 

Coimeipje  Do  Denorh  eiDip  mac  nDiapmaoa  Do  RiDip  -\  17uai6pi  ua  conco- 
baip  gup  po  cionoil  TTlac  Diapmaoa  an  meD  puaip  Do  jallaib,  ~\  gaomealaib 
im  cloinn  TTluipcfpcaij  "|  im  cenel  cconaill  Do  poijiD  mic  cachail.  Puaibpi 
DO  jluayacc  pompa,  -|  a  cup  50  cloinn  pfpmaije  boib.  51&ea&  nocTiap 
peDpacc  uile  eiccip  jallaib  ~|  jaoibealaib  gpeim  Do  jjabail  aip.  lompafo 
apa  haicle  ^an  nfpr  gan  eioipfoha.  Ruaibpi  Do  chionol  pocpaiDe  lappm  gup 
loipg,  gup  mill,  i  gup  aipccfpccaip  upmop  maighe  luipg  uile. 

plaij  mop  in  epinD,  ~\  go  haipibe  i  muig  Impg  co  ccugab  dp  Diapmibe  ap 
Daoimb  Da  bfcm.  Ulacha  mac  cachail  uf  Ruaipc  Decc  Don  plaig  lupin. 

Oonnchab  piabach  mac  TTlaoileachloinn  cappaij  meic  Diapmaoa  Do  gabail 
la  copbmac  bobap  mac  Diapmaca,  ~|  6  Da  bpeic  laip  i  naipceach,  ~\  a  map- 
bab  i  nbuinechaibe  DO  muincip  aipcig,  Do  mac  giollacpiopc  mic  caiclig,  -| 
bua  ceapnaig. 

l"?ipDepD  ua  l?agallaig  cijeapna  na  bpeipne  choip,  -|  mac  an  mpla  DO  ecc. 

^illebepr  ua  planoagdin  caoi  peach  ruairhe  T?acha  Do  mapbab  DO  macaib 
bpiain  uf  plannagdin. 

c  Mac  Clancy  —  This  name  is  now  anglicised  \vas  at  this  time  the  chief  leader  of  the  race  of 

Clancy,  without  the  prefix  Mac.     It  is  locally  Brian  Luighneach,  the  ancestor  of  O'ConorSligo. 

pronounced  in  Irish  as  if  written  mag  lanna-  The  Clann-Murtough  were  the  descendants  of 

caioe.  Murtough-Muimhneach,    the  brother  of  Brian 

d  Dariry.  —  This  territory  comprised  the  pre-  Luighneach. 

sent  barony  of  Kossclogher,  in  the  north  of  the  f  Plague.  —  This   plague    is    noticed   in    Ma- 

county  of  Leitrim,  where  the  Clancys,  or  Ma-  geoghegan's  version  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmac- 

glanchys,  are  still  numerous.  noise,  under  the  year  1348,  as  follows  : 

e  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,  1349. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  forty-ninn. 

Hugh  O'Rourke  defeated  Flaherty  O'Rourke,  Donough  O'Donnell,  and  the 
people  of  Dartry  ;  and  Hugh  Mac  Clancy0,  Chief  of  Dartry",  Gilchreest  Mac 
Clancy,  Loughlin,  son  of  Aindiles  O'Boyle,  and  many  others,  were  slain  in  the 
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  all  the  English  and  Irish  whom  he  found  to  aid  him,  together 
with  the  Clann-Murtough  and  the  Kinel-Connell,  against  the  son  of  Cathale. 
Rory  moved  before  these,  and  they  drove  him  to  Clann-Fermaighe,  but  the 
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. 

A  great  plague  [raged]  in  Ireland,  and  more  especially  in  Moylurg,  by 
which  great  numbers  were  carried  off.  Matthew,  the  son  of  Cathal  O'Rourke, 
died  of  this  plague*. 

Donough  Reagh,  the  son  of  Melaghliri  Carragh  Mac  Dermot,  was  taken 
prisoner  by  Cormac  Bodharg  Mac  Dermot,  who  led  him  to  Airteach  ;  and  he 
was  killed  in  secret  murder11  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. 

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   this  passage  is  entered  under  the  year 

Karle  of  Ulster's  grandchild  died:  also  Mathew  1346.     In  a  manuscript  in  the  Library  of  the 

mar  Cahall  O'Royrck  died  of  it."  Royal  Irish  Academy,  No.  315,  p.  288,  this  term 

s  Jiod/iar  (pronounced  bower),  i.  e.   the  deaf,  is  thus  defined  :  "tDumaraioe,  .1.  mapbao  ouine 

From  this  the  Hiberno-English  word  bother  is  i  ffM,  pa  copp  DO  polcao  lap  pin,  i.  e.   Duin- 

supposed  to  have  been  formed.  athaide,  to  kill  a  man  in  treachery,  and  to  con- 

11  Secret  murder This  is  written  oumirai&e  ceal  his  body  afterwards." 

in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  in  '  Tuath-.-dlw — Now  anglicised  Tooraah.     It 

4  c2 


596  awNaca  Rioghachca  eiReawN.  [1350. 

TTluipcfpcach  piaccdnach  mag  aonjupa  Do  mapbab  la  a  bpaicpib  bubbein. 

Ruaibpi  ua  cachain  cijfpna  na  cpaoibe,  -]  aipt>i  cianacra  Do  ecc. 

Qo6  ua  Rajallaij  Do  ecc. 

Qn  jiolla  caech  mag  Dopchaib  Do  ecc. 

Wuinghfp  mac  Donnchaib  caoi'peac  an  copamn  peap  Ian  oaicne,  -\  Deneac 
DO  ecc. 

TTlaibm  mop  DO  cabaipc  lap  an  lupnp  -\  la  gallaib  na  TTlibe  ap  ua  TTlaoi- 
leachloinn  -|  ap  jaoibealaib  na  TTlibe  oil  i  noopcpacap  pochaibe  oia  mainb. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1350. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  rpf  cheo,  caoccacc. 

Uilliam  6  DubDa  Gppcop  chille  hQlaDh,  pfp  cogbala  ceall  -|  neimfDh, 
Saof  biaDha,  bepcach,  baonnachrac  Do  ecc. 

QoDh  (.1.  pf  connacr)  mac  afoha  bpeipnicch  ui  concobaip  pip  a  pdici  ua 
concobaip  Do  mapbab  la  haeb  ua  puaipc  i  moijh  angaiDhe. 

pfpjal  ua  puaipc  mac  ualjaipcc  Do  mapbab  Do  mac  cachail  cleipig 
meic  Donnchaba. 

bpian  mac  DiapmaDa  abbap  cijeapna  rhaijhe  luipcc  Do  mapbab  i  T?op 
commain  la  muincip  an  eppcoip  uf  pinacca  Daon  upchap  poighoe  co  cfg- 
rhaipeac,  -\  an  peap  ap  ap  cuipeab  an  cpoijeao  DO  chairfm  (Ruaibpi  an 
rpeompa  6  Donnchaba)  Do  cioppbab  po  cfccoip  ma  epaic. 

is  still  the  local  name  of  a  district  in  the  county  as  follows : 

of  Fermanagh,  lying  between  Lough  Melvin  and  "  A  great  victory  was  gained  by  the  Justiciary 

Lough  Erne,  and  comprising  the  parishes  of  Inis-  and  the  English  of  Meath  over  O'Melaghlin  and 

macsaint  and  Boho.     See  note  q  under  the  year  the  Irish  of  Meath,  and  many  of  the  Irish  chief- 

1260,  p.  379.  tains  were  slain." 

k   Kinsmen,   bpcnrpiB.  —  In    Mageoghegan's  n  Man,  pnoi. — The  word  raoi,  which  is  ren- 

translation   of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  this  dered  doctor  by  Colgan,  has  the  same  meaning 

is  rendered  "brothers,"  thus:  in  the  ancient  Irish  as  oume  uapal  has  in  the 

"A.  D.I  348.    Mortagh  Riaganach   Magenos  modern.     It  might  be  translated  "gentleman" 

was  killed  by  his  own  brothers."  throughout,  but  the  Editor  has  translated  it  by 

1  Ard-Keanaghta. — The  prefix  ard  here  is  evi-  "  learned  man,"  "  eminent  man,"  or  "  distin- 

dently  a  mistake.  guished  man"  throughout. 

m  A  defeat  was  given. — This  is  the  literal  trans-  °  Magh-Angaidlie. — This  is  probably  the  place 

lation.   It  would  be  better  expressed  in  English  in  Breifny,   now  called  Moy,  alias  New-town- 


1350.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  5[/7 

Murtough  Riaganagh  Magennis  was  slain  by  his  own  kinsmen". 

Rory  O'Kane,  Lord  of  Creeve  and  Ard-Keanaghta1,  died. 

Hugh  O'Reilly  died. 

Gilla-Caech  Mac  Dorcy  died. 

Maurice  Mac  Donough,  Chief  of  Corran,  a  man  full  of  intelligence  and 
hospitality,  died. 

A  great  defeat  was  given™  by  the  Lord  Justice  and  the  English  of  Meath  to 
O'Melaghlin  and  the  Irish  of  Meath,  in  which  many  of  their  chieftains  were 
slain. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1350. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  fifty. 

William  O'Dowda,  Bishop  of  Killala,  founder  of  many  churches  and  sanc- 
tuaries, 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- 
ach  Mac  Donough. 

Brian  Mac  Dermot,  materies  of  a  lord  of  Moylurg,  was  accidentally  slain  at 
Roscommon  with  one  shot  of  a  javelinp  by  the  people  of  Bishop  0'Finaghtyq ; 
and  the  man  who  was  charged  with  having  cast  the  dart  (Rory-an-t-Seomra 
O'Donohoer),  was  immediately  mangled*  as  an  eric  [retaliation]  for  him 
[Brian]. 

Gore. — See  Ordnance  map  of  the  county  of  Lei-  O^Findsa,  an  error  which  arose  from,  mistaking 

trim,  sheet  26.  the  contracted  writing  of  the  name,  o  pi  no  fa,  in 

v  Of  a  javelin,  r-oi^oe. — The  Irish  word  f  ot-  the  Annals  of  Ulster  or  of  Lough  Kee. 

TJeao  or  paijeao,  which  is  cognate  with  the  Latin  r  0'Z><moAoe.— He  was  evidently  one  of  the 

sagitta,  generally  signifies  a  shaft  or  arrow;  but  sept  of  O'Donnchadha  of  Hy-Cormaic  in  Moin- 

it  sometimes  also  denotes  a  javelin  not  discharged  moy.    See  Tribes  and  Customs  ofHy-Many,  p.  76, 

from  a  bow,  but  thrown  by  the  hand.  note  ". 

q  Bishop  O'Finaghty He   was  John  O'Fi-  s  Was  mangled,  DO  cioppbao — In  the  Dublin 

naghty,  Bishop  of  Elphin,  called  John  of  Roscom-  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  the  reading  is  "  oo 

mon,  in  his  Patent  of  restitution  to  the  tempo-  cippbao  7  oo  mapbuo  ann,   was  mangled  and 

ralities,  1st  March,  1326.     In  Harris's  edition  of  killed  for  it." 
Ware's  Bishops  he  is  erroneously  called  John 


598  ciNNaca  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1351. 

bpian  mac  Domnaill  mic  bpiain  puaib  ui  bpiain  Do  mapbab  cpe  peill  la 
macaib  lopcdin  meic  ceoach.  Qp  Do  po  paibeab 

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  i 
nDiojail  a  misniorha,  a  bpfponn  -]  a  ccpob  Do  bem  Dfob  beop. 

PuaiDpi  mac  carhail  mic  Domnaill  ui  concobaip  Do  rhapbaD  i  pell  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  mag  eochajdin  ci^fpna  cenel  piachach,  aoD  mac  arh- 
laoib  meguiDip,  ~\  TTluip^fp  mac  Donnchaba  oecc. 

Qonghup  puab  ua  Dalaij  paof  epeann  i  nodn,  -|  aonghopp  ua  heobopa 
Dfighpfap  Dana  oecc. 

aois  cr?iO3u,  1351. 

Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  cheD,  caoccacr,  a  haori. 

TTlamepcipRuip  oipbealaij  in  eppcoiboiDecc  ruama  Do  bfnom  Do  bpaifpib 
.8.  ppanpeip. 

Goghan  na  lachaiji  mac  Suibne  Do  mapbab  la  TTlagnup  ua  nDoihnaill. 

Pilib  mdj  uibip  caoipeac  muincipe  phcoDacdin,  "|  Gnna  6  plannagdin 
caoipeaoh  ruaiche  parha  oecc. 

1  Pity  his  going,  $c. — i.  e.  Pity  he  perished  by  mountain  hi  the  baronies  ofTirerrill  and  Corrau 

a  death  unlocked  for.  in  the  county  of  Sligo,  lying  between  Lough-na- 

"  The  ,Clg,nn-Keogh — These  were  evidently  the  leiby  and  Kesh-corran. — See  Genealogies,  Tribes, 

family  that  gave  name  to  Bally makeogh,  in  the  and  Customs   of  Hy-Fiackrach,  p.  481,  and  map 

territory  of  Owney,  in  the  county  of  Tipperary,  prefixed  to  the  same.     See  this  mountain  again 

which  afterwards  belonged  to  the  head  of  the  referred  to  at  the  year  1512.     Bricklieve  town- 

Ryans  of  that  neighbourhood.  land  and  castle  are  shewn  on  the  Ordnance  map 

w  Garrdha-na-jiongaile,  would  be  now  angli-  of  the  county  of  Sligo,  sheet  34. 
cised  Garrynafinely,  but  the  name  is  obsolete.  y  The  inhabitants   of  tlte    Tuathas, — i.  e.    the 

1  ErecshUnbh — Now  anglicised  Bricklieve, — a  O'Hanlys,  Mac  Brannans,  O'Monahans,  and 


ia51.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  ,599 

Brian,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Brian  Roe  O'Brien,  was  treacherously 
slain  by  the  sons  of  Lorcan  Mac  Lorcan.  Of  him  was  said  : 

Pity  the  only  son  of  Donnell  of  the  meeting  ; 

Pity  the  heir  of  Brian  Borumha  ; 

Pity  his  going1  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-Fiongailew  on  Brecshliabh*,  by  the  sons  of  Farrell  Mac  Donough, 
at  the  instigation  of  Hugh,  the  son  of  Turlough. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Turlough,  was  deposed  by  Mac  William  Burke  and  by 
the  people  of  the  Tuathasy  of  Connaught  ;  and  Hugh,  the  son  of  Felim,  was 
inaugurated  by  them  in  opposition  to  him. 

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  the  poets  of  Ireland,  and  Aengus 
O'Hosey,  a  good  poet,  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1351. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  fifty-one. 

• 

The  monastery  of  Ros-0irbhealaghz,  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  Slieve  Bann  in  a  Muinter-Pheodachain. — A   well-known   dis- 

the  east  of  the  county  of  Roscommon.    See  note11  trict  in  the  barony  of  Maheraboy  in  the  county 

under  the  year  1189,  p.  86.  of  Fermanagh.     It  had  belonged  to  the  family  of 

"  Ros-Oirbheallaigh. — l?of  Oipoeallai£,    now  Mac    Gillafinnen   before    this   Philip    Maguire 

Rosserelly,  on  the  river  of  Ross,  near  Headford,  wrested  it  from  them,  and  they  recovered  it  soon 

in  the  barony  of  Clare,  and  county  of  Galway,  after.     See  note  d  under  the  year  1281,  p.  435. 
where  the  extensive  ruins  of  a  monastery  still          b  Tuath-ratha. — See   note   e   under  the  year 

remain  in  good  preservation.  1349. 


600  QNNaca  Rio^hachca  emecuw.  [1352. 

Qooh  mac  coippoealbaig  Do  jabail  neipc  oopibiyi,  bjiaighoi  connacc  oo 
rabaipr  Do  -]  afb  peDlimib  Dionnapbab  ap  an  cfp. 

Gob  ua  Puaipc  DO  jljabail  Do  mac  pilbi'n  mic  uilliam  bupc  05  cecc  6 
cpuaic  pacpaicc  Do,  -\  TTlac  Diapmaca  Deipje  i  najaiD  cloinne  pilbm  cpfo 
pin.  Cpeaca  -\  comaipccne  mopa  bo  bfnorh  fcoppa  oepibe. 

TTlachjamain  mac  conpndrha  Do  mapbab  la  cloinn  oonnchaib  meic  con- 
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 
juppac  buibi^  uile  Depium  "|  Dia  mac,  .1.  DO  TTlaeleachloinn. 

QO13  CR1OSU,  1352. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile  cpf  cheD,  caoccacr,  aoo. 

Qob  mac  coippbealbaij  uf  concobaip  Do  ghabail  na  pijhe  oopioipi  Dannh- 
beom  a  mbaoi  ina  ashaib  DO  jallaib  ~\  Do  jaoibealaib. 

Qooh  6  puaipc  cijfpna  bpeipne  DO  mapbab  la  carhal  mac  aeba  bpeipnij; 
uf  concobaip,  ~\  la  cloinn  muipcfpcaij,  ~\  dp  Do  cup  ap  ^allocclachaib  cloinne 
j'uibni  an  can  pin. 

Ctob  ua  maoilbpenainD,  -]  a  bd  mac  Do  mapbab  la  haeb  mac  peblimib 
uf  concobaip. 

c  Croaghpatrick — A  celebrated  mountain  about  neighbourhood. 

rive  miles  to  the  west  of  the  town  of  Westport,          d  Mae  Philbin — This  name  was  assumed  by 

in  the  barony  of  Murresk,  in  the  county  of  Mayo.  a  branch  of  the  Burkes  who  resided  at  the  Castle 

O'Rourke  had  gone  thither  on  a  pilgrimage,  and  of  Doon,  about  three  miles  to  the  oast  of  West- 

on  his  return  to  Breifny  he  had  to  pass  by  Mac  port,  in  the  county  of  Mayo. 
Philbin's  castle  of  Doon.     This  passage  is  given          '  0' 'Kelly. — This  passage  is  given  in  Mageoghe- 

in  the  Annals  of  Clonniacnoise,  as  translated  by  gan's  translation  of  the  Annals  ot'Clonmacnoise, 

Mageoghegan,  as  follows:  as  follows  : 

"  Hugh  O'Royrck  was  taken  by  Mac  Phillipin  "  William  Mac  Donnough  Moyneagh  O'Kelly 

Mac  William  Burke,  as  he  was  returning  from  invited   all   the  Irish    Poets,  Brehons,    Bards, 

the  pilgrimage  of  Crwagh  Patrick."  Harpers,    Gamesters,    or    Common    Kearroghs, 

This  mountain   is   still  visited  by   pilgrims,  Jesters,  and  others  of  their  kind*  in  Ireland  to 

particularly   on   the   last   Sunday  in  summer,  his  house  upon  Christmas  upon  this  year,  where 

which  is  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  Con- 
naught  were  delivered  up  to  him  ;  and  Hugh,  son  of  Felim,  was  banished  from 
the  country. 

Hugh  O'Rourke,  on  his  return  from  Croagh-Patrickc,  was  taken  prisoner  by 
Mac  Philbin"  Mac  William  Burke  ;  in  consequence  of  which  act  Mac  Dermot 
rose  up  against  the  Clann-Philbin.  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. 

A  general  invitation  was  given  at  Christmas  by  William,  the  son  of  Do- 
nough Muimhneach  O'Kelly6,  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  all  thankful  to  him  and  his  son,  Melaghlin. 

i 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1352. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  fifty-two. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Turlough  O'Conor,  assumed  the  government  [of  Con- 
naught]  againf,  in  despite  of  all  the  English  and  Irish  who  were  opposed  to  him. 

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  Mac  Sweenys  on  the  occasion8. 

Hugh  O'Mulrenin  and  his  two  sons  were  slain  by  Hugh,  the  son  of  Felim 
O'Conor. 

mas  holydays,  and  gave  contentment  to  each  of  rendered  by  Mageoghegan  as  follows,  in  his  ver- 

them  at  the  time  of  their  departure,  so  as  every  sion  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise : 
one  of  them  was  well  pleased,  and  extolled  Wil-          "  A.  D.  1352.  Hugh  mac  Terlagh  O'Connor 

liam  for  his  bounty,  one  of  which  assembly  com-  tooke  upon  him  the  name  of  King  of  Connought, 

posed  certain  Irish  verses  in  commendation  of  in  spight  of  such  of  the  English  and  Irish  race 

William  and  his  house,  which  begin  thus :  as  opposed  him. 

"  Pilio  epeann  50  haoinceac.  "  Hugh  O'Eoyrck,  prince  of  the  Brenie,  was 

[The  poets  of  Erin  to  one  house.]"  killed  by  Cahall  mac  Hugh  Breaffneagh  O'Con- 

For  an  account   of  the  descendants   of  this  nor  and  Clann  Mortagh,  and  a  great  slaughter 

William,   see  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy- Many,  of  the  Gallowglasses  belonging  to  the  families  of 

pp.  104,  105,  106.  the  Mac  Swynes  was  also  made." 

f  Auumed  the  government  of  Connaught  again.          g  On  the  occasion,  an  can  pn — Literally,  at 

— This,  and  the  passage  next  following  it,  are  that  time. 

4H 


602  aNNata  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1353. 


Ctonjup  mac  concobaip  mic  afoha  mic  Domnaill  615  ui  bomnaillcijeapna 
cfpe  Concoll  pfy  beoba  bopppabac,  -\  aon  ba  pfpp  fngnom  ~\  uaiple  i  nul- 
caib  immon  amm  pom  Do  mapbab  la  TTla^nup  ua  noomnaill.  pelim  ua  Dorh- 
naill.  DO  jabail  a  lonaiD  -|  Seaan  mac  Concobaip  ui  Domnaill  Do  beir  ace 
cojab  ppip  im  an  cnjeapnap. 

Combac  baile  an  Dum  la  hafb  mac  coippoealbaij  ui  concobaip. 

Concobap  mac  TTluipjfpa  meic  DonnchaiD  peicfm  coiccinD  Daop  gaca 
cfipDe,  Oabucc  Diolmain  mac  uillic  umaill  cfnn  cfirhpne  ~\  Diolmainec  con- 
nachc,  comdp  mag  Rajnaill,  -)  raohj  mac  Siacapa  uf  ceallaij  Decc. 

QO18  CP1OSU,  1353. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  cheD,  caoccacc,  a  rpf. 

66m  ua  caipbpe  comapba  njfpnaij  cluana  heoaip  Decc. 

^opmlaic  injfn  uf  Domnaill  bfn  uf  neill  Decc,  -]  nocha  paibe  in  en  aimpip 
ppia  bfn  po  bub  mo  clu,  i  oippDeapcup  ind  ipi. 

Ctooli  mac  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 
cSepppaib  meg  pajnaill. 

Qooh  mac  coippbealbaij  Do  airpiojab  i  mac  bpandin  Do  [od]  consmail 
ip  in  rip. 

TTlainepcip  cille  conaill  in  eppcopoiccecc  cluana  pfpra  hi  connaccaib 
DO  chogbdil  DO  bpaichpib  .8.  ppanpeipla  huilliam  ua  cceallaij  cijeapna  na 
Hlaine. 

h  Baile-an-duin,i.e.  town  of  the  dun  or  earthen  explained  bpipeab,   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,  k  Under  this  year  O'Flaherty  adds  the  follow- 

in  the  barony  of  Tirerrill  and  county  of  Sligo.  ing  entries  from  the  Annals  of  Lecan  and  of 

'  Was  demolished,  combac.  —  In  the  Dublin  O'Mulconry,  in  H.  2.  1  1  (Trinity  College,  Dub- 

copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  the  reading  is,  lin)  : 

"comtnac  baile  in  oum  la  haeo  mac  coipp-  "  Odo  O'Roirk,   aobop  aipopij  6  mbpium, 

oelbaij  hui   concobuip,    j   Die  bo   j   caepac  filios  Murcherti  apud  5^eann   ^ctible    spoliat, 

ann.     The  demolition  of  Ballindoon  by  Hugh,  et  Majo  proximo  a  Cathaldo,   filio  Odonis  Bre- 

son  of  Turlough  O'Conor,  and  cows  and  sheep  finii  et  Tadaeo  filio  Roderici  O'Conor,   et  aliis 

were  destroyed  there."     The  word  comae  is  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  prowess  and  nobleness,  was  slain  by  Manus  O'Don- 
nell. Felim  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. 

Conor,  the  son  of  Maurice  Mac  Donough,  general  patron  of  men  of  all  arts ; 
Dabuck  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,  1353. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  fifty-three. 

John  O'Carbry',  Coarb  of  Tighernach  of  Quam-cois",  died. 

Gormlaith,  daughter  of  O'Donnell,  and  wife  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  died  ;    and 

• 

there  was  not  in  her  time  a  woman  of  greater  name  and  renown. 

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  ;  and  Mac  Branan  detained  him 
in  the  country. 

The  monastery  of  Kilconnell,  -in  the  diocese  of  Clonfert,  in  Connaught,  was 
founded  for  Franciscan  friars  by  William  ,O'Kellyn,  Lord  of  Hy-Many. 

"  Flathbertus    O'Eoirk    dominus    Brefiniae  of  St.  Patrick's  copy  of  the  Gospels  given  to  St. 

obiit O'Mulconry,  1353."  Mac  Carthenn  of  Clogher.— See  the  account  of 

"  Matthajus   Magdorchaidh  casus  per  filios  the  ancient  Irish  Reliquary,  called  the  Domnach- 

Murcherti MS.  L."     "  Dennitium  tnuc  Ce-  Airgid,  printed  in  the  eighteenth  volume  of  the 

ceapnaij MS.  L."  Transactions  of  the  Royal  Irish  Academy,  An- 

"  Finola  filia  Domini   Mac  Dermott  obiit —  tiquities,  p.  16,  and  plate  at  p.  24. 

MS.  L.  et  O'Mulconry."  ra  Cluain  eois.—Now  Clones,  a  small  town  in 

"  Tadseus    filius    Siacusi    O'Kelly    obiit.—  the  barony  of  Dartry  in  the  county  of  Monaghan, 

MS.  L.  and  0'Mnlconry."  where  a  monastery  was  founded  by  St.  Tigher- 

1  John  O'Carbry The   name,  of  this    John  nach  in  the  sixth  century. 

O'Carbry  is  inscribed  on  the  cumhdach,  or  case  n  William  O'Kelly.— On  this  date,  ascribed  to 

4  H  2 


604  QNNata  Rioghachca  emeaNN.  [1354. 

QO1S  CR1OSC,  1354. 
Gofp  Cpiopc,  mile,  rpi  cheD,  cdoccac,  a  ceachaip. 

Qn  ceppcob  6  lachcndin,  .1.  eappcop  connachr,  i  Seaan  ua  pfnacca 
eappcop  oile  pinO  Decc. 

TTIac  TTlupchaDa  Do  bdpujaD  la  jallaib,  ~\  coccab  mop  Do  pap  oepi&e 
eicip  gallaib  -|  jaoioelaib. 

TCubpaiDe  6  mopDa  cijfpna  laoijipi  DO  mapbaD  la  a  bpairpib  pfm  i  la 
a  luchc  ncche. 

bpian  6  Duboa  plaichcfnn  rfpe  piachpach  Decc,  •)  a  mac  oomnall  Do 
jabcnl  a  lonaiD. 

bpian  mac  afoh  moip  uf  neill,  Cachal  mac  neill  uf  17uaipc  SepppaiD  mag 
pajnaill,  SepppaiD  ua  paghallai^,  Sicpiucc  mace  SampaDam,  •]  pfpjall 
mace  eochagain  raoi peach  ceneoil  piachac  Do  ecc. 

RuaiDpi  mac  Seaan  mecc  machjamna  Do  mapbaD  i  longpopc  meg  rhach- 
jamna. 

TTlaibm  mop  DO  cabaipc  la  cloinn  afoha  bui&e  uf  neill,  ~\  la  jallaib 
Dinne  oealjan  ap  ao&  ua  neill  i  Dponj  mop  DO  mapbaD  ip  in  maiDm  hi  pin. 

Oeppopgaill  mjfn  uf  concobaip,  peolimiD  mac  cachail  uf  concobaip  •] 
hoibepo  a  bupc  Do  ecc. 

plaichbfpcach  mac  giolla  pinnein  •)  a  bpacaip  DO  mapbaD  la  a  mumcip 
pein. 

TTIupchaD  mac  cacail  uf  peapjail  i  Caohg  mac  Seanlaich  DO  ecc. 

Safpbpfchac  mac  TTlaoiliopa  Duinn  meic  afoajdin  ollam  conmaicne  DO 
ecc  i  ninip  clonhpann. 

TTlaolpeaclainn  mac  Ricbeapcaij  ollam  peapmanac  i  nDan  Decc. 

the  erection  of  the  abbey  of  Kilconnell,  O'Fla-  O' Kelly  intended  by  Ware  is  William,  the  grand- 

herty  writes  the  following  remark  in  the  Col-  son  of  this  William  Boy,  who  died  in  1 420,  and 

lege  copy  of  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters  who  was  the  ancestor  of  theO'Kellys  of  Aughrim. 

(H.  2.  11)  :  °  O'Laghtnan. — In  Mageoghegan's  translation 

"  Quare  perperam  1414  Warseus  in  Ant.  Hib.  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  he  is  called 

habet,  cum  fundator  ipse  in  summa  senectute  "  O'Laghtna,  Bishop  of  Twayme  [Tuam]  and 

A°.  1381,  decesserit,  74  annis  post  mortem  pa-  Connought."  Ware  does  not  mention  him  in 

tris  A°.  1307  mortui."  his  list  of  the  Archbishops  of  Tuam. 

It  is  quite  evident,  however,  that  the  William  p  OfLeix,  laoijipe. — This  territory  comprised 


1354.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  005 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1354. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  fifty-four. 

O'Laghtnan0,  Bishop  of  Connaught,  and  John  O'Finaghty,  Bishop  of  Elphin, 
died. 

Mac  Murrough  was  put  to  death  by  the  English  ;  in  consequence  of  which 
a  great  war  broke  out  between  the  English  and  Irish. 

Rory  O'More,  Lord  of  Leixp  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  ;  Sitric  Magauran  ;  and  Farrell 
Mageoghegan,  Chief  of  Kinel-Fiachach,  died. 

Rory,  the  son  of  John  Mac  Mahon,  was  slain  in  Mac  Mahon's  fortress. 

Hugh  O'Neill  received  a  great  defeatq  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  his  kinsman,  were  killed  by  their  own  people. 

Murrough,  the  son  of  Cathal  O'Farrell,  and  Teige  Mac  Shanly,  died. 

Saerbhreathach5,  son  of  Maelisa  Donn  Mac  Egan,  Ollave  of  Conmaicne, 
died  on  Inis  Cloghrann'. 

Melaghlin  Mac  Rithbheartaigh",  Ollav  of  Fermanagh,  in  poetry,  died". 

the  greater  part  of  the  Queen's  county.  See  note  their  country,  in  the  counties  of  Down  and  An- 

f  under  the  year  1 196,  pp.  105,  106,  supra.  trim,  is  called  the  Clannaboy  by  English  writers. 

i  Received  a  great  defeat.— Literally,  "  A  great  s  Saerbhreathack — This  name  is  usually  latin- 
defeat  was  given  by  theClann-Hugh-Boy  O'Neill  ised  Justinus,  and  anglicised  Justin.  It  signifies 
and  the  English  of  Dundalk  to  Hugh  O'Neill,  "  the  noble  judge." 

and  a  great  number  was  slain  in  that  defeat."  '  M»  Clothrann.—Au  island  in  Lough  Ree, 

It  is  translated  by  Mageoghegan,  in  his  version  belonging  to  the  county  of  Longford.  See  note  ' 

of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  follows:  under  the  year  1 193,  p.  98,  supra. 

"A.D.  1354.  The  O'Neals  of  Clannaboye,  with  u  Mac  Rilliblieartaigh — This  name  is  still  ex- 

the  help  of  the  English  of  Dundalk,  gave  a  great  tant  in  Fermanagh,  and  usually  anglicised  Mac- 

overthrow  to  Hugh  O'Neale  [and  the  people  of  Crifferty.    It  is  to  be  distinguished  from  O'Raf- 

Tyrone],  and  made  a  great  slaughter  of  them."  fcrty  and  Magroarty. 

'  Race  of  Hugh  Boy This  tribe  as  well  as  w  Under  this  year  O'Flaherty  adds,  in  H.  2. 


6<X>  aNNom  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1355 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1355. 
CIoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  cheo,  caoccarr,  a  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  oonn  mac  mupchaba  ap  e  po  rhapb  eipiom  i  longpopr  meg  ui&ip. 

Domnall  mac  Seaain  uf  pfpjjail  cijeapna  na  hQngaile  oecc. 

Dmpmaic  ua  maoflrhia&aij  raofpeach  mumnpe  cfpballain  oo  rhapbab 
la  mumcip  bipn  ~\  pochai&e  Do  muincip  eolaip  imaille  ppip. 

Carhal  6  cuinn  raoipeac  mumcipe  siolljain  Do  rhapbao  Do  clomn  cSeaain, 
1  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  i  pemeachap  Decc. 

TlTaibm  DO  cabaipr  DO  jallaib  lapchaip  connachc  pop  mac  uilliam,  -] 
mopdn  DO  rhapbab  Dia  mumcip. 

11,  the  following  entries  from  the  Annals  of  bpeipne,  et  Magister  Lucas  O'Curnin  obierunt." 

Lecan,  and  of  O'Mulconry,  which  he  has  trans-  x  Sruthair,  now  corruptly  called  in  Irish  mai- 

lated  into  Latin :  nipcip  Spuille,  and  anglicised  Abbeyshrule,  a 

"  Amlaus   filius   Dermitii   O'Ffarell  a  Mac  well-known  place  in  the  barony  of  Shrule,  in 

Oirebeard  Csesus MS.  L."  the  south  of  the  county  of  Longford. 

"  Lasaria   (Deapbpop^aill, — C.  6cm),   filia  y  Donn — In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals 

Domini  O'Conor  Odonis  obiit MS.  L."  of  Ulster  the  slayer  of  O'Donnell  is  called  ootn- 

"  Odo  filius  Cormaci  buioip  occisus  a  filiis  nail  mac  mupchaio. 

Donchadi  piabai  j. — OMulconry."  *  Muinter-Birn,   i.  e.  the  O'Beirnes  of  Tir- 

"  Odo    Magsharnhradhain     (Magauran)    ab  Briuin,  a  territory  lying  between  Elphin  and 

O'Foelan   csesus. — O'Mulconry,    et   MS.   L.   ad  Jamestown  in  the  county  of  Eoscommon.     The 

1355."  Muinter-Eolais  were  the  Mac  Rannalls  and  their 

"5'olla  lopa  mac  aooa  oo  ecc. — MS.  L."  correlatives,  who  were  seated  in  the  southerner 

[Gilla-Isa  Mac  Aedha,  died.]  level  portion  of  the  county  of  Leitrim,  on  the 

"  Diermitius  O'Curnin,  aobap  ollarhan  na  opposite  side  of  the  Shannon. 


13.55.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  (JOT 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1355. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  fifty-five. 

Conor  Mac  Consnava,  Bishop  of  Breifny  [Kilmore],  from  Drumcliff  to  Kells, 
died. 

Mac  Gallgael,  Prior  of  the  [monastery  of  the]  Blessed  Trinity,  died. 

Mac  Cathail,  Abbot  of  Sruthair1,  died. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Felim,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Donnell  Oge  O'Donnell. 
was  slain  as  he  was  carrying  off  Gormaith,  daughter  of  Hugh  Roe  Maguire 
(i.  e.  the  Maguire),  by  force.  It  was  Donny  Mac  Murrough  who  slew  him  in 
Maguire's  fortress. 

Donnell,  son  of  John  O'Farrell,  Lord  of  Annaly,  died.- 

Dermot  O'Mulvey,  Chief  of  Muintir-Carolan,  and  many  of  the  Muintir- 
Eolais,  were  slain  by  the  Muintir-Birnz. 

Cathal  O'Quin,  Chief  of  Muintir-Gillagan*,  and  five  others,  were  slain  by  the 
Clann-Shane  and  the  Clann-Hughb. 

Cormac  Rannall,  Chief  of  Muintir-Eolais,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Ivor  Mac 
Rannall. 

Farrell,  the  son  of  Farrell,  son  of  Murtough  More,  son  of  Congalagh  Ma- 
geoghegan,  Chief  of  Kinel-Fiachach,  died. 

Murrough,  the  son  of  Cathal  O'Farrell ;  Dervorgilla,  the  daughter  of 
O'Farrell  ;  and  Teige  Mac  Egan,  a  man  learned  in  the  Fenechasc,  died. 

The  English  of  West  Connaught  defeated"  Mac  William  [Burke],  and  killed 
many  of  his  people. 

a  Muinler-Gillagan. — A  district  in  the  county  commonly  called  the  Brehon  Laws  by  English 

of  Longford,  for  the  extent  of  which  see  note  k  writers, 
under  the  year  1234,  p.  270,  supra.  d  Defeated.— Literally  "  a  defeat  was  given  by 

"  Clann-Sheme  and  Clann-Hugh. — These  were  the  English  of  West   Connaught   to  William 

septs  of  the  O'Farrells.     The  Clann-Hugh  were  Burke,  and  many  of  his  people  were  killed." 

located  in  the  barony  of  Longford,  adjoining  the  Mageoghegan  renders  it  as  follows  in  his  version 

district  of  Magh  Treagh,  and  the  townlands  of  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise : 
which  they  were  possessed  are  specified  in  an          "  A.  D.  1355.  The  English  of  West  Connought 

inquisition  taken  at  Ardagh,  on  the  4th  of  April,  gave  an  overthrow  to  Mac  William,  and  killed 

in  the  tenth  year  of  the  reign  of  James  I.  divers  of  his  people." 

c  The  Fenechas,  i.  e.  the  old  laws  of  Ireland, 


608  aNNCtca  Rio^hachca  emectNN.  [1356. 

Gmann  mac  uilliam  mic  T?iocaipD  no  rhapbab  la  piol  nanmchaba. 

lTlai6nn  mop  Do  chabaipc  la  Riocapo  occ  ap  luchr  nje  meic  uilliam,  .1. 
Gmann  i  ap  piol  nanmchaba  Dap  mapbab  Sciamna  mac  Siupcain  enpf  mac 
Pilbin  -]  pe  pip  becc  Duaiplib  pi  nanmcliaba. 

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,  1356. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  rpf  cheD,  caoccacc,  a  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  i  mbaile 
locha  oeacaip  la  Donnchab  cappac  ua  ceallai  j,  -|  la  cloinn  meic  an  baipo 
ap  popailfrh  maineac  i  ccionaib  mjfine  Seoinm  a  bupc  bfn  uf  cheallaij  DO 
bpfir  leip  ap  aiceab,  ~\  ap  elob  poirhe  pin. 

e  The  Sil-Anmchadha,  i.  e.  O'Maddens  in  the  He  also  adds  the  following  entries  from  the 

barony  of  Longford,  in  the  county  of  Gahvay.  Annals  of  Lecan,  of  O'Mulconry,  and  of  Clon- 

f  Were  brought  forth,  DO  bpeic. — This  verb  is  macnoise  : 

applied  in  Irish  to  the  parturition  of  all  animals.  "  Hiberni  Lagenise  retulerunt  victoriam  de 

Mageoghegan  renders  the  passage  as  follows  in  Anglis  Dublinii — 0' Mulconry." 

his  version  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise :  "  Tuamia  .1.  cuaim  oa  jualann,  cremata  a 

"  A.  D.  1355.  One  sheep  had  ten  lambs  this  Cathaldo  65  O'Conor  et  a  Mac  William  (i.  e. 

year."  Edmundo  de  Burgo) — O'Mulconry,  et  War  :  in 

s  Under  this  year  O'Flaherty  has  the  follow-  Tuam  prsesul.  1356,  et  Cod.  Cluain.  1355." 

ing  note  on  the  chronology  of  the  Irish  anna-  "  Rex  Gallias  cum  filio  in  Angliam  captivi 

lists  about  this  period,  in  the  College  copy  of  ducti  5.  Febr.  1355-6,  Cod.  Cl." 

the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters,  H.  2.  1 1 :  "  Una  ovis  decem  agnos  hoc  anno  peperit."- 

"  Quse  habentur  in  MS.  L.  ab  anno  1355,  ad  C.  6cm. 

1373,  inclusive,  per  annos  19,  uno  anno  poste-  h  Mac  Rannall.—this  is  evidently  a  mistake 

riora  sunt,  quam  ut  in  his  et  O'Mulconry  An-  of  the  Four  Masters,  as  we  know  from  the  public 

nalibus  prseter  pauca,  quse  suis  locis  notabo."  records  that  the  Primate  of  Armagh  was  Richard 


1356.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  609 

Edmond,  the  son  of  William,  son  of  Richard  [Burke],  was  slain  by  the  Sil- 
Anmchadha6. 

A  great  defeat  was  given  by  Richard  Oge  [Burke],  to  the  household  of 
Mac  William  (i.  e.  Edmond),  and  to  the  Sil-Anmchadha,  in  which  Stephen 
Mac  Jordan,  Henry  Mac  Philbin,  and  sixteen  of  the  chiefs  of  Sil-Anmchadha, 
were  slain. 

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  forthf  at  once  by  one  sheep8. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1356. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  fifty-six. 

Farrell,  the  son  of  Jeffrey  Mac  Rannall",  Primate  of  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-Deacair1  by  Donough  Carragh  O'Kelly  and  the  sons  of  Mac-an- 
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,  who  was  certainly  not  one  of  the  ment.  It  is  called  cloj  an  uoacca  in  the  Dublin 

Mac  Rannalls.  See  Prince's  Danmonii  orientates  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  and  by  the  Four 

illustres,  p.  294,  and  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Masters  at  the  year  1425,  q.  v.    It  was  evidently 

Bishops,  p.  81.     The  Editor  has  not  been  able  so  called  because  it  was  mentioned  in  an  ancient 

to  discover  this  entry  in  any  of  the  older  Irish  document  called  the  uoacc,  or  Testament  of  St. 

Annals,  and  believes  it  to  be  a  blunder.  Patrick.    This  bell  still  exists  in  excellent  pre- 

1  Mac  Cahasy,  mac  cacara'j — This  name  is  servation,  and  is  now  in  the  Cabinet  of  George 

now  made  Mac  Casey  and  Casey  simply.  Petrie,  Esq.,  Author  of  the  Essay  on  the  ancient 

Ware  writes  the  name  Mac  Catasaid,  without  ecclesiastical  Architecture  of  Ireland.     It  had 

aspirating  the  t  or  d.     See  Harris's  edition  of  belonged  to  the  church  of  Donaghmore,  near 

Ware's  Bishops,  p.  1 84,  where  it  is  stated  that  Dungannon  in  Tyrone. 

this  bishop  succeeded  in  1320,  and  died  in  Au-  '  Baile  Locha  Deacair,  i.  e.  the  town  or  town- 

tumn,  1356.  land  of  Loch-Deacair.     This  is  now  anglicised 

k  Clog  an  Eact/tac/ita,  i.  e.  the  bell  of  the  testa-  Balloughdacker,  and  is  the  name  of  a  townland 

4  i 


610  aNNQta  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1357. 

Qo6  mac  peblinnm  uf  concobaip  Do  jabail  lain  pije  connachc  mpom. 

Concobap  mac  caiDg  uf  cheallaij  DO  mapbaD  la  raDg  mac  Diapmaoa  ui 
cheallaij. 

UoippDealbach  mac  afoha  bpeipnij  uf  concobaip  Do  mapVmD  la  clomn 
noonnchaiD. 

OiapmaiD  mac  DiapmaDa  rhecc  caprai  5  -|  DonnchaD  a  mac  Do  mapbaD  la 
mac  uf  Suilleabdin. 

ITlop  mjfn  uf  concobaip  Decc,  bfn  uf  pfpjail  ipiDe. 

TTIuipcfprach  mac  Seaain  uf  neill  DO  rhapbaD  la  pilib  mag  uibip. 

Oubghall  mac  Suibne  DO  mapbaD  Do  Domnall  ua  concobaip. 

T?uai6pi  mac  afoha  uf  Choncobaip,  -]  oomnall  mac  afoha  bpeipni^  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. 

ITlupchaD  mac  bpiain  uf  neill  DO  ecc. 

pelim  mac  afoha  mic  Domnaill  oicc  cijfpna  rfpe  conaill  Do  mapbaD  la 
mac  a  Deapbbpachap  pfin  Seaan  mac  concobaip  uf  Domnaill,  ~\  Seaan  Do 
^abail  ci^eapnaip  ripe  conaill  jan  impeapam. 

QO1S  C171OSU,  1357. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cpf  cherc,  caoccacc,  a  Seachc. 

Clemenr  6  Duibgfnnam  biocaipe  cille  17ondm  Decc.  Saccapc  na  pionnac 
acbepcf  ppip- 

mds  machjamna  njhfpna  oipjialljLochlainn  macTTluipchfpuai^ 


containing  a  lough,  in  the  parish  of  Athleague,  arii,  1355-6,  Sir  Mauricius  Fiiius  Thomas  Comes 

barony  of  Killian,  and  county  of  Galway  __  See  Desmoniw,    et   Hiberuise  Justiciarius,  obiit  — 

the  Ordnance  map  of  that  county,  sheets  20  and  Cambd.  annal.  O'Mulconry,  1355,  MS.  L.  1356.'' 

33.  "  Fercarius  O'Fallon  dynasta  de  Clann-ua- 

m  Clann-Donough,  i.  e.  the  Mac  Donoughs  of  dach,  obiit  __  O'Mulconry." 

Tirerrill,  in  the  county  of  Sligo,  who  are  a  branch  "5eapo'c'"  cpial  DO  cappaing  (no  oo  Ba- 

of  the  Mac  Dermots  of  Moylurg.  fuccao  DO  tiiuinnp  pi^  Sovjxtn  ap   pairce  aca 

n  O'Flaherty  adds,   in  H.  2.  1  1  :  *'  25  Janu-  cliar,    a  rt-giis   quibus  a  Daltonis    traditus  — 


1357.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  611 

Hugh,   son  of  Felim  O'Conor,    then  assumed  the  entire  government  of 
Connaught. 

Conor,  the  son  of  Teige  O'Kelly,  was  slain  by  Teige,  the  son  of  Dermot 
O'Kelly. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Hugh  Breifneach  O'Conor,  was  slain  by  the  Clann- 
Dorioughm. 

Dermot,  the  son  of  Dermot  Mac  Carthy,  and  Donough,  his  son,  were  slain 
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  Hugh  O'Conor,  and  Donnell,  son  of  Hugh  Breifneach  O'Conor, 
died. 

Donough  Mac  Namara,  the  best  son  of  a  chieftain  in  Leth-Mogha  in  his 
time,  was  slain  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  O'Neill,  died. 

Felim,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Donnell  Oge  [O'Donnell],  Lord  of  Tircon- 
nell,  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,  1357. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  fifty -seven. 

Clement  O'Duigenan,  Vicar  of  Kilronan,  died.  He  was  called  Sagart-na- 
Sinnach0. 

Manus  Mac  Mahon,  Lord  of  Oriel;  Loughlin,  son  of  Murtough  ;  and  Farrell 

MS.  L.  1356,  et  Cod.  Cl.n  °  Sagart-na-Sinnach,  i.  e.  priest  of  the  Foxes. 

"  Justitiarius  Dublinii,  obiit. — (Sc.  SirThomas      It  is  not  easy  to  determine  why  he  was  so  called, 
Rokesby,  Cambd.  1356,  1357).  MS.  L."  as  he  does  not  appear  to  have  had  any  connexion 

"  Dominus  Bermingham  ab  Anglis  csesus. —      with  the  Sinnachs,  or  Foxes,  chiefs  of  Teffia,  in 
O'Mulconry,  1357,  &  MS.  L."  Westmeath. 

4  12 


612  awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1358. 

uiChoncobaip,  i  pfpjal  muirhneac  ua  Duibjfnnan  ollarh  conmaicne  -\  cloinne 
maoilpuanaiD  cfp  ~\  cuap  065. 

Seaan  mac  bpiain  uf  Pajallaij  DO  rhapbaD  la  jallaib. 

bpian  mac  jiollacpiopc  ui  Ruaipc  -\  TTlajhnup  buibe  mag  Shampabain  DO 
rhapbaD  i  pura  meic  uiDilin  la  hao6  6  neill. 

Oonnplebe  mac  cfpbaill  paopmaijipnp  pfnma  ~\  aippheceach  DO  bub 
pfpp  ma  aimpip  pen  oecc. 

Sfch  coirchfnn  eicip  an  Da  chachal,  cachal  mac  aoDha  bpeipnigh  -|  carhal 
6cc  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 
mbpeich  buaoa  6  oomhan  •)  6  nearhan  Do. 

TTlai&m  Do  chabaipc  oaooh  ua  neill  pop  aipjiallaib,  -\  pop  pfpaib  manac 
DU  in  po  mapbao  ae&  mac  caba,  -]  mac  an  eppcoip  uf  ouboa  (.1.  maoileac- 
loinn)  co  pochaiDib  imaille  ppiu. 

TTlai&m  mop  DO  chabaipc  Dua  mop&a  pop  £allaib  acha  cliar,  -]  t)d  pichicr 
Decc  DO  rhapbaD  ap  en  lachaip  laip  6fob. 

p  Clann-Mulrony,   Lower  and   Upper. — The  thus  given  in  the  Book  of  Lecau  :  "  Cathal,  son 

Lower  Clann-Mulrony  were  the  Mac  Donoughs,  of  Hugh  Breifneach,  son  of  Cathal  Roe,  King  of 

who  were  seated  in  the  barony  of  Tirerrill,   in  Conuaught  in  1 279,  son  of  Conor  Eoe,   son  of 

the  county  of  Sligo  ;  and  the  Upper  Clann-Mul-  Murtough  Muimhneach   (the   ancestor   of  the 

rony  were  the  Mac  Dermots  of  Moylurg.  Clann-Murtough),  who  was  the  son  of  Turlough 

q  The  Route. — This  is  still  the  name  of  a  terri-  More  0' Conor,  monarch  of  Ireland, 
tory  forming  the  northern  portion  of  the  county  s  Cathal  Oge,  the  son  of  Cathal. — He   was  at 

of  Antrim.     The  name  is  supposed  to  be  a  cor-  this   time   the  chief  leader  of  the  O'Conors  of 

ruption  of  Dal  Riada See  Ussher's  Primordia,  Sligo,  and  the  most  heroic   that  hitherto  ap- 

p.  1029,  and  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  Part  iii.  c.  63.  peared  of  that  sept  of  the  O'Conors.     He  was 

r  Cathal,  the  son  of  Hugh  Breifneach. — He  was  the  son  of  Cathal,  King  of  Connaught,  who  was 

the  chief  leader  of  that  sept  of  the  O'Conors  the  son  of  Donnell,  Tanist  of  Connaught,  who 

called  the  Clann-Murtough.     His  pedigree  is  was  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Andreas, 


1358]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  (J13 

Muimhneach  O'Duigennan,  Ollav  of  Conmaicne  and  Clann-Mulrony,  Lower 
and  Upperp,  died. 

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  peace  was  ratified  between  the  two  Cathals,  namely,  between 
Cathal,  the  son  of  Hugh  Breifneachr,  and  Cathal  Oge,  the  son  of  Cathal8,  son  of 
Donnell'. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1358. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  jifty-eiyht. 

Brian  Mac  Cawell,  Bishop  of  Oriel  [Clogher],  died. 

Manus  Maguire  was  slain  by  the  Clann-Cawellu. 

Donnell  O'Hara,  Lord  of  Leyny,  died  on  Easter  day. 

Conor  O'Hanly,  Chief  of  the  Race  of  Dofa,  son  of  Aengus,  died,  after  gaining 
victory  over  the  world  and  the  Devil. 

A  victory  was  gained  by  Hugh  O'Neill  over  the  people  of  Oriel  and  Fer- 
managh [in  a  battle],  in  which  Hugh  Mac  Cabe,  Melaghlin,  the  son  of  the 
Bishop  O'Dowda™,  and  many  others  were  slain. 

A  great  defeat  was  given"  to  the  English  of  Dublin  by  O'More  ;  and  two 
hundred  and  forty  of  them  were  killed  by  him  on  the  field  of  battle. 

son  of  Brian  Luighneach,  the  ancestor  of  the  "  Padinus  mop  O'Mcelchonary  Archiantiqua- 

O'Conors  of  Sligo,  who  was  the  son  of  Turlough  rius  Connacise  obiit  sestate  post  mortem  Odonis 

More  O'Conor,  monarch  of  Ireland.  O'Conor  domini  sui. — MS.  L." 

'  O'Flaherty  adds  to  this  year  in  H.  2.  1 1  :  u  The  Clann-Caieell,  i.  e.  the  family  of  Mac 

"Comes  Desmonia  transfretando  submersus.  Cawell,  who  were  located  in  the  present  barony 

O'Mulconry,  et  Cod.  Cl."  of  Clogher,  in  the  county  of  Tyrone. 

"  Fedlimius  O'Donell  et  filius  ejus  Ragnallus  w  The  Bishop  O'Dowda. — He  was  William 

capti.— Cod.  Cl."  O'Dowda,  Bishop  of  Killala,  who  died  in  1350. 

"A  Joanne  O'Donell  c»si O'Mulconry,  1356,  — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  und  Custom*  of  Hy- 

fupra."  Fiachrach,  p.  117. 

."  Mathgamanius  5a^DCI  Maguir  obiit. —  x  A  great  defeat  was  given — Mageoghegan 

MS.  L."  translates  this  passage  as  follows,  in  his  version 


614  aNNQ6a  Rio^hachca  emeawN.  [1359. 

Uoippoealbach  mac  afba  na  piobbaibe  uf  neill  i  mac  aincpiu  meic  peo- 
puip  Decc. 

Cioch  mop  opfpram  i  cpich  coipppe  ip  in  Sampab  co  nap  mo  piabuball 
ma  gac  cloc  oe. 

Senicin  mac  uibilin  apDconpabla  cuigiD  ulab  DO  ecc. 

Ulac  giolla  fopa  uf  plannajam  DO  rhapbab  la  TTflagnup  mac  carail  mic 
afoha  bpeipnij. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1359. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  rpf  chet>,  caoccacr,  anaof. 

Copbmac  mac  capraij  cijfpna  Deapmuman,  i  Oorhnall  mac  £0165  uf 
marjarhna  Decc. 

TTlaibm  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 
po  -)  a  ecc  Da  bichin  mp  pochrain  a  chijhe  pfm  Do.  Cachal  bobap  mac 
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  multurn  corrupit. — MS.  L." 

discomfiture  to  the  English  of  Dublin,  where  "  Manus. — According  to  the  pedigree  of  the 

were  killed  of  them  240  persons."  O'Conors,  given  in  the  Book  of  Lecan,  he  was 

•v  Hugh  na  Fidlibhaighe,    i.  e.   Hugh    of  the  the  fourth  son  of  Cathal. 

wood.  b  To  this  year  O'Flaherty  adds  the  following 

1  Wild  apple, — -Mageoghegan    translates  this  entries,  H.  2.  1 1  : 

passage  as  follows,  in  his  version  of  the  Annals  "  Matthseus  filius  Thomse   O'Eoirk  obiit. — 

of  Clonmacnoise :  MS.   L.  1357,    O'Muleonry,    et  Cod,   CL   et  C. 

"A.  D.  1358.  There  was  a  great  shower  of  Gem." 

hail  in  the  Summer-time  of  this  year  in  the  ter-  "  Murchertus  filius  Tigernani  O'Eoirk  obiit. 

ritory  of  Carbrey  ;  every  stone  thereof  was  no  MS.  L." 

less  than  a  crabb."  "  Cacc  in  jean  ui  cheallmj  bean  muipjffxi 

To  this  entry  O'Flaherty  adds,  in  H   2.  1 1  :  mic  Donnchaoa   0*5  [i.  e.  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. 

A  heavy  shower  [of  hail]  fell  in  Carbury  in  the  summer,  each  stone  of 
which  was  not  smaller  than  a  wild  apple2. 

Senicin  [  Jenkin]  Mac  Quillin,  High  Constable  of  the  province  of  Ulster, 
died. 

The  son  of  Gilla-Isa  O'Flanagan  was  slain  by  Manus",  the  son  of  Cathal, 
son  of  Hugh  Breifneach  O'Conorb. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1359. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  fifty-nine. 

Cormac  Mac  Carthy,  Lord  of  Desmond,  and  Donnell,  the  son  of  Teige 
O'Mahony,  died. 

A  great  victory  was  gained  at  Bally  shannon  by  Cathal  Ogec,  the  son  of 
Cathal  O'Conor,  over  John,  the  son  of  Conor  O'Donnell,  and  the  Kinel- 
Connell.  John  O'Doherty,  Chief  of  Ardmire,  Owen  Connaghtagh,  and  Tur- 
lough Mac  Sweeny,  were  taken  prisoners  on  this  occasion  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 
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,  and  wife  of  Maurice  Mac  Donough,  taken,  and  a  great  many  others  slain  besides, 

died.] — MS.  L."  Mathew  Magawran,    next   successor  w  Teal- 

c  Cathal  Oge He  was  the  son  of  O'Conor  laghaagh,    was  hurt  in   the   same  place,   from 

Sligo,  and  the  most  heroic  of  the  O'Conors  at  thence  was  conveighed  to  his  house,  and  died  of 

this  period.  the  wound.     The  said  Cahall  went  to  the  lands 

d  Materies  of  a  lord,    aoBap   ci^fpna. — Ma-  of  O'Gormley,    where   Cahall    (surnamed   the 

geoghegan   translates  this,  "  next  successor  of  deaf)    O'Ruwyrck    was  killed   by  Melaughlyn 

Teallaghaagh,"  in  his  version  of  the  Annals  of  O'Gormley." 
Clonmacnoise.    Thus  :                                             .          e  During  tlie  same  war — Cathal  Oge,  the  son 

"A.  D.  1359-  Cahall  Oge  O'Connor  gave  an  of  O'Conor  Sligo,  made  great  efforts  to  conquer 

overthrow  to  the  Inhabitants  of  Tyreconnell  at  Tirconnell  at  this  period ;  and  it  is  stated  in  the 

Belaseanie,  where  John  O'Dochortie,  Cheiftain  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  under  the 

of  Ardmire,   and  Terlagh   Mac   Swynie   were  year  1 356  \reclc  1 359],  that  he  became  prince 


616  QNNCK-a  Rioghachca  eiraeaNN.  [1360. 

concobaip  50  rfp  conaill  50  pan^acap  Dpong  Da  rhuincip  Duceaib  uf  gaipmle- 
naij  im  cachal  bobap  ua  l?uaipc. 

ITluipcfpcach  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 
pfnca  Doipeachr  uf  jabpa. 

Gnpf  mac  uillicc  mic  T?iocaipD  a  bupc  oecc. 

TTlupchab  6cc  mac  marhjamna  aobap  cijeapna  copco  baipcinD  Do  map- 
bab la  ffol  mbpiain. 

maghnaj1  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,  -]  ap  comaipje 


Decc. 


Ctmlaoib  mac  Seapppaib  meg  Raghnaill  Do  mapbab. 
Sip  TCoibfpD  Sabaofp  -]  Diapmaicc  6  hamlije  Decc. 

17op  commam,  Daimimp,  Sliccec.TTlainipcip  Ifpagabail,  pioDhnach-j  Dpuim 
Imp  DO  lopccab. 

Se^an  mac  giollacpiopr  uf  TCuaipc  Do  mapbab  baeb  mag  bopchaib. 
Oiapmair  ua  bpiain  oairpiojab  Do  mac  a  bpachap  bubbem. 


of  Tirconnell  :   "  RiJ'  cipe    conaill  oo  gabail  that  it  was  in  Irish  in  the  original,  and  that  the 

DO  mac  i  Concobuip."  The  Four  Masters,  how-  Latin  is  O'Flaherty's  translation  : 

ever,  who  had  the  Annals  of  Ulster  before  them,  "  Cathaldus  Og  filius  Cathaldi  O'Conor  et 

have  suppressed  this  passage,  thinking  that  it  Odo  mop  O'Neill   diem   statuunt   ad  fppuaio 

would  derogate  from  the  glory  of  the  O'Donnells  !  verum  Odo  bellis  implicitus  ad  statum  diem 

This  passage  is   given  from  the  Annals  of  non  pervenit  :  quo  comperto  Johannis  O'Donell 

Lecanby  O'Flaherty,  in  the  margin  of  H.  2.  11,  Tirconallia  dominus  cum  copiis  inter  fppuaio 

as  follows.     It  should  be  observed,    however,  et  Doriam  conflatis  Cathaldum  Domini  O'Conor 


1360.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  617 

into  Tirconnell,  and  a  party  of  his  people  arrived  in  O'Gormly's  territory  under 
the  command  of  Cathal  Bodhar  O'Rourke. 

Mnrtough,  the  son  of  Thomas  O'Flynn  Linef,  heir-apparent  to  Hy-Tuirtre, 
was  slain  by  Hugh,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Hugh  Boy  O'Neill. 

Brian  Mac  Donnell,  heir  to  the  lordship  of  Tirerrill,  was  slain  by  Mac 
Seancha,  one  of  the  adherents  of  O'Gara. 

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,  1360. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  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,  con- 
quests, and  protection,  died. 

Auliffe,  son  of  Geoffrey  Mac  Rannall,  died. 

Sir  Robert  Savadge"  and  Dermot  O'Hanly  died. 

Roscommon,  Devenish,  Sligo,  the  monastery  of  Lisgool,  Fenagh,  and  Druim- 
lias',  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. — See  note1  under  the  year  1176, 

aggreditur:  verum  Cathaldus  victor  (ut  supra)  pp.  24,  25,  supra. 

Tirconallise    dominium    ea   vice    adeptus    est.          g  Magennis. — He  was  Chief  of  Iveagh,  in  the 

Eugenius  Wardeus,   ollam  cipe  conaill,  in  hac  county  of  Down. 

pugna  occubuit. — MS.  L."  h  Savadge. — This  family  was  seated  in  Qpb 

f  (yFlynn   Line,  i.  e.   O'Lyn   of  Moylinny,  Ula6,  now  the  Ardes,  in  the  east  of  the  county 

Chief  of  Hy-Tuirtre.     This   family  was   soon  of  Down. 

after  dispossessed  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  eireectNN.  []36l. 

Oiapmaic  mac  oonnchaba  piabaijj  meic  Diapmara  Do  mapbab  la  caral 
65  mac  cachail  uf  concobaip. 

Ingfn  coippbealbai£  uf  concobaip  bfn  pfpjail  uf  Raijilli^  t»o  litapbab 
oeapgap. 

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  Decc. 

TTlac  pij  Sa^an  DO  cochc  in  Gpino. 

Qpc  mac  giolla  piabaij  mej  afnjupa  DO  mapbab  la  cloinn  an  rpabaoij-i^ 
-|  la  mac  TTluipcfpeaij  Riaganaig  meg  aonjupa  i  meabail. 

Sluaijeb  la  cachal  i  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. 

Ctpc  mac  TTlupchaba  T?f  laijfn  -]  Domnall  piabach  piojhbamna  laijean 

in  the  barony  oi'  Dromahaire,  and  county  of  administration,  in  the  year  1367,  that  the  me- 

Leitriip.  morable  Parliament  was  held  at  Kilkenny,  which 

J  Eas-dara,  i.  e.  Ballysadare,  in  the  county  passed  the  celebrated  Statute  known  generally 

of  Sligo.  by  the  name  of  the  Statute  of  Kilkenny  ;  an 

k  0' '  Connmhaigh — This  name  is  now  locally  ordinance  which  contains  some  enactments  full 

pronounced  in  Irish  as  if  written  O'Connu^a,  of  that  penal  spirit  which  kept  the  aborigines  of 

and  anglicised  Conway,  without  the  prefix  O.  this  island  in  a  state  of  warfare  with  the  Eng- 

1  The  son  of  the  King  of  England. — He  was  lish  Pale  for  centuries  after.  This  Statute 

Lionel,  Duke  of  Clarence,  third  son  of  Edward  was  edited  for  the  first  time,  with  a  transla- 

III.  He  landed  in  Dublin  with  a  body  of  1500  tion  and  notes,  for  the  Irish  Archaeological  So- 

men  on  the  15th  of  September,  and  held  the  ciety,  by  James  Hardiman,  Esq.,  Author  of  the 

office  of  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland  for  nearly  History  of  Galway,  and  requires  no  comment 

three  years,  when  he  returned  to  England ;  and,  here.  For  some  curious  particulars  respecting 

though  during  that  period  he  achieved  nothing  Lionel  and  his  officers,  the  reader  is  referred  to 

worthy  of  notice  in  Ireland,  he  was  in  the  Davis's  Discovery,  pp.  23,  24  ;  and  to  Grace's 

course  of  the  three  years  following  twice  in-  Annals  of  Ireland,  edited  by  the  Rev.  Richard 

trusted  with  the  same  office.  It  was  during  his  Butler,  p.  153. 


1361.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  619 

Dermot,  son  of  Donough  Reagh  Mac  Dermot,  was  slain  by  Cathal  Oge,  son 
of  Cathal  O'Conor. 

The  daughter  of  Turlough  O'Conor,  and  wife  of  Farrell  O'Keilly,  was  killed 
by  a  fall. 

A  bridge  of  lime  and  stone  was  built  by  Cathal  O'Conor  across  the  river  of 
Eas-daraj. 

Farrell,  the  son  of  Geoffrey  Mac  Rannall,  and  Tuathal  O'Finnaghty,  died. 

Naevag  O'Duigennan  died. 

Cathal,  son  of  the  Caoch  Mac  Rannall,  was  slain. 

Gilla-na-naev  O'Conmhaighk,  Chief  Professor  of  Music  in  Thomond,  died. 

The  son  of  the  King  of  England1  came  to  Ireland. 

Art,  son  of  Gillareagh  Magennis,  was  treacherously  slain  by  the  sons  of 
Savadge  and  the  son  of  Murtough  Riaganagh  Magennis. 

Cathal  (O'Conor)  marched  with  an  army  into  Tirawley,  and  destroyed 
many  of  its  hoxises  and  churches'". 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1361. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  sixty-one. 

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  (.1.  le  Cacal  65  6  Conco- 

"  5'olla  annpiap  mac    IDaoilpoil  en  &aoi  Baip)  t>o  cum  Sip  6mann  a  bupc,   7  bap  aipg 

Gpeann   pe    cimpanacr,    ap   oobapram  7   ap  epic   rhic    Dill-lam   co    caiplen    na  lecmpe  :" 

opocpemm,    oo   ej  :    [i.  e.  Gilla  Andreas  Mac  [i.  e.  an  army  was  led  by  him  (i.  e.  by  Cathal 

Maelpoil,  the  only  clown  of  Ireland  for  tympan-  Oge  O'Conor)  to  Sir  Edmond  Burke,  by  which 

ship,  penury,  and  bad  music,  died.]-; — MS.  L."  he  plundered  Mac  William's  country  as  far  as 

"  Filia  O'Gairmleodha  uxor  Magni  eojanaij  the  castle  of  Lehinch.] — MS.  L." 
O'Donell,  et  ejusdem  mulieris  mater  filia  O'Ca-          n  Killaraght. — Cill  acpacc,  i.  e.  church  of 

han  obierunt. MS.  L."  Athracht,  a  virgin,  who  took  the  veil  from  St. 

"  Joannes  filius  Sinicin  Mac  Uidhilin  occisus.  Patrick  ;  it  is  the  name  of  a  parish  in  the  ba- 

— O'Mukomy:'1     "  A  filio    Savagii  in  dolo. —  rony  of  Coolavin,  in  the  south  of  the  county  of 

MS.  L."  Sligo,  where  the  memory  of  this  virgin  is  still 

"  ITIac    VJi;5   Safari   oo   rocc  t  nGpino. —  held  in  great  veneration. 
MS.  L.,  8  Sept.  1 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  l?i  mibe,  Oonnchab  ua  loclilainri  cig- 
eapna  copcomopuaoh,  cachal  -|  muipchfpcach  Da  rhac  afoha  mic  eogam, 
Oubocc  ingfn  afoha  meg  uibip  bfn  conconnacc  mic  pilip  meg  margamna, 
Uomap  mag  cigfpnain  raoipeac  ceallaig  ounchaba,  Niocol  6  pionacca  Cua- 
clial  6  TTlaille,  mopibe  Deg  uile. 

Sip  emann  a  bupc,  17emann  mac  bupcaig  an  mume,  Uacep  Sconoun  -] 
5'Uebepc  mac  maoilip  Oecc. 

Cluiclie  an  pig  i  nepinn  uile  co  comcoicchionn  -|  Ripoepo  Sauaoip  Decc 
oa  biclnn. 

ITIac  Raic  ua  pinD  ollarh  pi  I  TTluipebaig  i  pfmm  -\  i  ciompdnacc  Decc. 

Cpeacha  mopa  Do  Denarii  la  Hlac  uilliam  bupc,  -\  la  TTlac  peopaip,  i  la 
gallaib  connacc  uile  ap  cacal  6g  mac  cacail  ui  concobaip  go  po  cpeachpac, 
1  go  po  aipgpfc  luigne  -|  rip  piachpac.  SluaigeaD  la  cacal  ifpccain  Do 
Diogail  i  noeapnpac  go  po  aipcc  oipecc  meic  peopaip,  -]  cpioch  emamn  meic 
hoibepD  gup  po  mill  -]  gup  po  loic  an  cfp  go  leip. 

QO13  CR1O3U,  1362. 
Qofp  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpi  cheD,  Seapccac,  a  Do. 

O  beollam  comapba  Dpoma  cliab,  giolla  an  coimDeab  mac  Hlugpom 
oipcinoec  cille  an  lomaipe  Oipeachcach  mac  bpanain  oipcmoeach  oile  pino 

0  Sir  Edmoivi  Burke O'Flaherty   adds,  in  follows  in  the   Dublin  copy   of  the  Annals  of 

H.  2.    11:  •"  Hospitalitate,    fortitudine,   pru-  Ulster,  but  entered  under  the  year  1158  : 

clentia,  peritia  e't  justitia  clarissimus  hie  Ed-  "A.  D.  1158.  Cluice  in  pij  DO  beir  co  c\uj 

mundus  [vocatur]  in  Libro  TDic  pipbipij."  if  ln  mbliaoain  p  i  n6pmn.     Ripoepo  SaBaip 

What  O'Flaherty  here  calls  Liber  ITlic  F'P-  oec  6e-" 

bipij,  is  evidently  the  copy  of  the  Chronicon  "A.  D.  1158.    The  game  of  the  King  was 

ticotorum   in    the   handwriting   of   Duald   Mac  thick  [i.  e.   rife]   this   year  in  Ireland.  Eichard 

Firbis,  now  preserved  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  Savadge  died  of  it." 

College,  Dublin.  It  is  thus  given  by  Mageoghegan,  in  his  An- 

p  Burke  of  Muine In  Mageoghegan's  trans-  nals  of  Clonrnaenoise,  under  the  correct  date  : 

lation  of  the  Annals   of  Clonmacnoise,   he  is  "A.  D.  1361.    The  King's   Game  was  used 

called  "  Redmond  Burke  of  the  Moniemore."  generally  throughout  Ireland.    Richard  Savadge 

'  Cluithe  an  righ. — This  passage  is   given   as  thereof  died." 


1362.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  621 

to  the  throne  of  Leinster,  were  treacherously  made  prisoners  by  the  son  of  the 
King  of  England     They  afterwards  died  in  prison. 

Cormac  Ballach  O'Melaghlin,  King  of  Meath;  Donough  O'Loughlin,  Lord 
of  Corcomroe;  Cathal  and  Murtough,  two  sons  of  Hugh,  son  of  Owen  [O'Conor] : 
Dubliog,  daughter  of  Hugh  Maguire,  and  wife  of  Cuconnaught,  son  of  Philip 
Mac  Mahon;  Thomas  MacTiernan,  Chief  of  Teallach-Dunchadha  [Tullyhunco, 
in  the  county  ofCavan];  Nicholas  O'Finnaghty,  and  Tuathal  O'Malley,  all 
died. 

Sir  Edmond  Burke;  Redmond,  son  of  Burke  of  Muine",  Walter  Staunton, 
and  Gilbert  Mac  Meyler,  died. 

Cluithe  an  righ"  [was  rife]  throughout  all  Ireland  in  general,  and  Richard 
Savadge  died  of  it. 

Magrath  O'Finnaghty,  Chief  Musician  and  Tympanist  to  the  Sil-Murray, 
died. 

Great  depredations  were  committed  by  Mac  William  Burke  and  Mac  Feo- 
rais  [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 
army  was  led  by  Cathal  afterwards,  to  take  revenge  for  what  they  had  done ; 
and  he  plundered  Mac  Feorais's  people  and  the  territory  of  Edmund  Mac 
Hubert  [Burke],  and  spoiled  and  destroyed  the  whole  country. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1362. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  xlxty-two. 

O'Beollan,  Coarb  of  Drumcliff;  Gilla-an-choimhdhe  Mac  Mughroin,  Ere- 
nagh  of  Cill-an-iomairer;  Oireachtach  MacBranan,  Erenagli  of  Elphin;  Aengus 

O'Flaherty,  in  H.  2.  11,  glosses  "cluirean  than  because  it  was  commonly  believed  to  be 

P'5>"  by  "•'•  an  pla'j,"  i-  e.  the  plague.  cured  by  the  royal  touch  ;  and  it  may  be  safely 

This  must  have  been  a  name  for  some  epidemic  conjectured  that  the  name  cluithe  an  righ  for 
disease  ;  but  the  Editor  has  not  discovered  any-  this  plague  had  its  origin  in  some  similar  notion, 
thing  to  prove  what  was  the  exact  nature  of  it,  r  Cill-an-iomaire. — Cill  an  lomaipe,  i.  e.  the 
or  why  it  was  called  Cluithe  an  righ,  or  "  the  church  of  the  ridge,  now  Killanummery,  a  pa- 
King's  Game."  The  scrofulous  disease  called  rish  in  the  barony  of  Dromahaire,  and  county  of 
the  King's  evil,  is  so  called  for  no  other  reason  Leitrim. 


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. 

Cucoigcjnche  mag  eochagam,  mac  biajimaba  me5  eochagain,  ~\  ITluipip 
mac  muipcfpcaij  meg  eochagam  becc. 

Cachal  65  -|  mac  peblimib  uf  concobaip  bo  gabail  caiplen  baile  an 
copaip. 

Sluaijeab  abbal  mop  la  pij  connacc  aob  mac  peblimib,  ~|  la  caral  65 
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  lomba  bo  bfnom  poppa  bon  chup  pin,  a  niompob  plan  bia  cciglub  lapam. 

Cabg  mac  concobaip  mic  coippbealbaig  uf  bpiam  bo  rhapbab  la  clomri 
coilein. 

Cachal  6g  6  concobaip  an  cen  pioghbamna  ba  mo  allab,  i  oippbeapcnp 
neapc,  -\  niabachup,  eneach,  -|  fngnom  in  aon  aimpip  pip  bo  ecc,  i  Sligeach 
bo  plough. 

s  Cill-airidk. — This  is  called  cill  oipio  in  the  Imagia  was  a  parish  church  in  the  time  of  Colgan 

Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  and  the  (1645). — See  his  Ada  Sanctorum,  pp.  140,  141 ; 

same  spelling  is  used  by  the  Four  Masters  at  see  also  O'Flaherty's   lar-Connaught,    printed 

the  years   1333  and   1416.     The  name  is  now  for    the    Irish    Archaeological    Society,   p.  113, 

anglicised  Killerry,  and  is  that  of  a  parish  near  where  he  says,    "  St.  Fechin  erected  an  abbey 

Lough  Gill,  in  tlie  barony  of  Tirerrill,  and  county  therein,  but  now  the  parish  church  is  only  ex- 

of  Sligo — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  tant,  whereof  St.  Fechin  is  patron,  the  20th  of 

of  Hy-Fiac/irach,  p.  486,  and  map  to  the  same.  January  worshipped."      Colgan   had  a  manu- 

c  Oflmaidh,    lomca. — This  name  is  latinised  script  Irish  life  of  St.  Fechin,  which  belonged  to 

Imagia   by   Colgan,    and   anglicised   Imay    by  this  church. 

Roderic  O'Flaherty.     The  name  is  now  usually  u  Battintober This  is  the  first  notice  of  this 

written  Omey,   and  is  that  of  an  island  on  the  castle  occurring    in   these    Annals.     For   some 

coast  of  Connamara,   in  the  north-west  of  the  account  of  the  present  state  of  the  ruins  of  it 

county  of  Galway.   Guaire,  the  hospitable  King  see  note  h  under  the  year  1311,  p.  500. 

of  Connaught,  bestowed  it  on  St.  Fechin,  who  v  Kilkenny,  i.  e.  Kilkenny  west,  in  a  barony 

founded  an  abbey  on  it  in  the  seventh  century.  of  the  same  name  in  the  county  of  Westmeath. 


1362.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  623 

Mac  an  Oglaoich,  Erenagh  of  Cillairedh5  ;  O'Fergusa,  Vicar  of  Iraaidh' ;  and 
Murrough,  the  monk,  Mac  Teige,  died. 

Owen  Finn  O'Conor,  son  of  the  King  of  Connaught;  Mulrony  O'Dowda 
and  his  wife,  daughter  of  Mac  Donough;  Niall  Magauran,  Chief  of  Teallach 
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. 

A  very  great  army  was  led  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], 
after  which  they  returned  in  safety  to  their  homes. 

Teige,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough  O'Brien,  was  slain  by  the  Clann- 
Coilen". 

Cathal  Oge  O'Conor,  a  Roydamna*  of  more  fame,  renown,  strength,  heroism, 

hospitality,  and  prowess,  than  any  in  his  time,  died  of  the  plague  at  Sligo. 

i 

This  passage  is  given  somewhat  better  in  Ma-  who  were  otherwise  called  Hy-Caisiu.     They 

geoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clon-  were  seated  in  the  county  of  Clare,  between  the 

inacnoise,  as  follows  :  River  Fergus  and  the   Shannon. — See    note  f 

"A.  D.  1362.  Hugh  mac  Felym  O'Connor,  under  the  year  1311,  pp.  498,  499,  supra. 
King  of  Connought,  and  Cahall  Oge  O'Connor,          x  Roydamna,  i.  e.  materies  regie,  or  one  who, 

marched  with  their  forces  to  Meath,  burnt  and  from  his  descent,    personal  form,   and  valour, 

destroyed  all  places  where  they  came,  to  [as  far  might  be  elected  a  king.    This  passage  is  trans- 

as]  the  hill  of  Cnock-Aysde  in  Kynaleaghe.    Of  lated  by  Mageoghegan   in  his  .version   of  the 

that  journey  they  burnt  14  Churches,  and  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  follows: 
church  of  Kilkenny,  in  Machairie  Kwyrcknie          "A.  D.  1362.  Cahall  Oge  O'Connor,  the  har- 

[ITIacaipe  Cuipcne] ;  committ'd  many  outrages  diest  and  man  of  greatest  valour  of  any  noble- 

upon  the  English  of  Meath,  and  were  so  many  man  of  his  time,  died  of  the  plague  at  Sligeagh, 

that  it  were  hard  to  recoumpt  them  ;  returned  the  3rd  of  November." 
:it  last  to  their  houses  in  safety."  This  Cathal  Oge  was  tlie  son  of  Cathal,  King 

w  The  Clann-Coilen,  i.  e.   the  Mac  Namaras,  of  Connaught,  who  was  the  son  of  Dounell,  Ta- 


624  ciNNata  Rio^hachca  eii?eaNN.  [1363. 

TTluipcfpcacli  mac  comdip  mic  carail  piabaij  ui  Ruaipc  DO  ecc. 

Oorhnall  mac  uf  ceallai  j  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  TTIaoileac- 
lainn  cappaig  uf  Duboa,  -|  muipceapcac  a  mac  iaiopit>e  uile  Do  65. 

CIOIS  CR1OSC,  1363. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpi  cheo,  Seapccacc,  acpf. 

TTlajnap  eoghanaeh  mac  concobaip  mic  afoha  mic  Domnaill  615  uf  oom- 
naill,  i  Qob  puab  rhdg  uibip  cigeapna  pfpmanach  Decc. 

TTlajnup  (meblach)  mac  afoha  uf  bomnaill  aDbap  cigfpna  cfpe  conaill 
pfp  ap  mo  Do  pijne  Duaiple  -]  DO  juaipbfpcaib  ina  aimpip  Do  rhapbab  la 
TTlaghnup  mac  cachail  ppamaij  uf  concobaip. 

UaDg  mac  conpnarha  raoipeach  muinnpe  cionafic  DO  lor  DO  cacal  mac 
afoha  bpeipmj,  -|  a  jabail  Do  mppin  50  bpuaip  bap  ma  bpaijoeanup. 

Lapaippiona  injfn  uf  pfpjail  ben  uf  Rajaillij  Decc. 

TTluipceaprac  puab  mac  Domnaill  loppaip  uf  concobaip  Do  rhapbab  Do  mac 
TTlajnupa  (.1.  cabj). 

bebinn  injfn  meg  Gochagam  bfn  an  cpionnaig  Decc. 

Cachal  mac  Donnchaib  Do  mapbab  Do  mumcip  muije  luipg. 

^ctoch  abbal  mop  DO  bpipeab  lomaD  cfmpall  ~\  cumraighn  ip  in  mblia- 
oam  pi,  i  lolop  long,  -]  laoiDeang  DO  bacab  Di  beop. 

Concobap  ua  Duboa  DO  mapbab  la  Donnchab  ua  nouboa  i  la  muipceap- 
c mac  Donnchaib  uf  buboa. 


nist  of  Connaught,  and  ancestor  of  the  O'Conors  peac  mumnpe  UoouiB  peste  obiit.  —  MS.  L." 
of  bligo.  "  Cormacus  Ballagh  O'Maelseachlainn,   Rex 

Intended  Ollav,  a&bap  ollariian,  literally,  Midiae  obiit.  —  Cod.  Cl.  et  C.  6." 
materies  of  an  ollav,  or  chief  professor  of  poetry          a  Eoghanach,  i.  e.  of  Tyrone.    He  was  so  called 

or  history.  from  his  having  been  fostered  in  Tyrone. 

1  To  this  year  O'Flaherty  adds  the  two  fol-          b  Meabhlach.  i.  e.  the  guileful,  treacherous,  or 

lowing  notices  in  H.  2.  11:  crafty. 

"  Item  Gillapatricius  mac  Oipeac'caij  caoi-          c  Perilous,  oo  juaipbeapcaib  —  Literally,  of 


1363.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  625 

Murtough,  the  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Cathal  Reagh  O'Rourke,  died. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  O'Kelly,  died.. 

Cuconnaught  O'Duigennan,  Vicar  of  Kilronan,  died. 

Auliffe  Mac  Firbis,  intended  Ollavy  of  Tireragh;  Farrell,  the  son  of  Teige 
Mac  Egan,  a  learned  Brehon  ;  John,  son  of  Donough  Mac  Firbis,  intended 
Ollav  of  Tireragh;  Dermot,  son  of  Mac  Carthy  ;  Conor,  son  of  Melaghlin  Car- 
ragh  O'Dowda,  and  Murtough,  his  son,  all  died2. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1363. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  sixty-three. 

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  man  who  had  performed  a  greater  number  of  noble  and  perilous0 
actions  than  any  other  man  of  his  time,  was  slain  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  Hugh  Breifneach  O'Conor.  He  died  in  his 
confinement. 

Lasarina',  daughter  of  O'Farrell,  and  wife  of  O'Reilly,  died. 

Murtough  Roe,  the  son  of  Donnell-Erris  O'Conor,  was  slain  by  Teige  Mac 
Manus. 

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  year  threw  down  several  churches  and  houses, 
and  also  sank  many  ships  and  boats. 

Conor  O'Dowda  was  slain  by  Donough  O'Dowda,  and  Murtough,  son  of 
Donough  O'Dowda. 

dangerous  deeds,  i.  e.  deeds  the  achievement  of     lineal,  "  no  cacaipiona."     To  this  year  O'Fla- 
which  was  attended  with  peril.  herty  adds  the  following  passages  in  H.  2.  11: 

A  Sramach,  i.  e.  the  blear-eyed.  "Grania  filia  Donaldi  O'Conor;  filia  Donaldi 

e  Lasarina. — Charles   O'Conor  writes,    inter      puceo  O'Mally  uxor  Donaldi  O'Dowd ;   Mael- 

4L 


626  QNNata  Rioshachca  emeaNN.  [1365. 

QOIS  CR1OSU,  1364. 

* 

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  in^fii  udreip  a  bupc  bean  afba 
mic  peiolimib  ui  concobaip  pi  Connachr  065. 

CIOIS  CR1OSU,  1365. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpi  cheo,  Seapccac,  a  cuij. 

Paiom  6  conjaile  pfppun  -]  aipchmneach  Roppa  aipcip  Decc. 
TCuaibpi  mac  Domnaill  ui  neill  Do  mapBab  Daon  upcap  poijjDe  la  TTlaoi- 
leachlamn  mac  an  ghipp  meic  cacmaofl. 

sechlunnius  filius  Murgesi  Mac  Donogh  ;  Fer-  after  good  pennance,  as  a  good  Christian." 

gallus  Mac  Conrnama  ;  et  Odo  Mac  majnupa,  «  0 'Duvdavoran — This  name  is  now  short- 

obierunt — MS.  L."  ened  to  Davoran.    The  head  of  this  family  was 

"  Diermitius  mac  lairiie  .1.  mac  mic  Diap-  originally  seated  at  Lisdoonvarna,  in  the  aouth- 

maoa  mejCapraij,  csesus.— MS.  L."   [Dermot  west  of  the  barony  of  Burren,  in  the  county  of 

Mac  Laimhe,  i.  e.  son  of  the  son  of  Dermot  Mac  Clare.    There  are  still  many  respectable  person? 

Carthy,  was  slain.]  of  the  name  in  the  county. 

f  After  gaining  the  palm — This  passage  is  "  Na  Sgel,  i.  e.  of  the  tales  or  stories.    • 

given  somewhat  differently  as  follows  in   Ma-  >  To  this  year  O'Flaherty  adds  the  two  t'ol- 

geoghegan's  translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clon-  lowing  obits  in  H.  2.  1 1  : 

macnoise  :  " Niellus  ITIaj; Cajaoan  occisus  a  ITIacOiap- 

"  A.  D.  1364.  Hugh  O'Neale,  King  of  Ulster,  maoa  ^all.— MS.  L." 

the  best  King  of  any  province  in  his  time,  died,  "  Brannus  O'Broin  insignis  Cytharasdus  obiit. 


1365.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  627 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1364. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  sixty-four. 

Hugh  O'Neill,  King  of  Kinel-Owen,  the  best  man  of  the  Irish  of  his  time, 
died,  after  having  gained  the  palmf  for  humanity,  hospitality,  valour,  and 
renown. 

Dermot  O'Brien,  Lord  of  Thomond;  Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son 
of  Gilla-na-naev,  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  ;  Gilla-na-naev  0'DuvdavoranE,  Chief  Brehon  of  Cor- 
comroe;  and  Affrica,  daughter  of  Brian  O'Reilly,  and  wife  of  Brian  Mac  Tiarnan, 
died. 

Donnell,  son  of  Rory  O'Kelly,  heir  to  the  lordship  of  Hy-Many,  died. 

Gilla-na-naev  Mac  Gowan,  [surnamed]  na  Sgelh,  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,  1365 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  sixty-five. 

Paidin  0'Congailej,  Parson  and  Erenagh  of  Ross-Airthir",  died. 
Rory,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Neill,  was  killed  with  one  shot  of  an  arrow'  by 
Melaghlin  Mac-an-Girr  Mac  Cawell. 

—O'Mukonry,   1365,  MS.  L.  1364,   C.  C.  6."  sorry.     It  is  situated  on  the  west  side  of  the 

[i.  e.  Bran  O'Byrne,  a  celebrated  harper,  died.]  narrow  part  of  Lough  Erne,  a  short  distance  to 

j  Paidin  O'Conghatie. — In  modern  times  this  the  south  of  Enniskillen,  in  the  county  of  Fer- 

name  would  be  anglicised  Paddy  Conneely.  The  managh. 

name  O'Conghaile,  which  is  pronounced  as  if  '  One  shot  of  an  arrow.— This  might  be  also 

written  O'Conao.le,  is  to  be  distinguished  from  rendered  "  one  cast  of  a  javelin."     The  passage 

O'Conjalcnj,  which  is  pronounced  O'Conna-  is  translated  by  Mageoghegan  as  follows,  in  his 

ICM£,  and  now  always  anglicised  Connolly,  with-  version  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  : 

out  the  prefix  O.  "  A.  D.  1365.  Rowrie  mac  Donnell  O'Neale 

*  Ross-Airthir.— This  name  is  more  usually  was  killed  by   Melaughlyn  mac  Engyrr   Mac 

written  Rop  oiprip,  and  is  now  anglicised  Ros-  Cathmoyle  by  the  shott  of  an  arrow." 

4  L2 


628  aNNQta  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1355. 

peblimib  an  eimj  mac  Oomnaill  ui  concobaip  cijeapna  copcomoopuab 
paof  gan  aicbe  neinijh,  i  nfnsnomha  Oecc. 
Uomap  mac  TTlupchaba  uf  pfpjail  065. 

lonopoijcpb  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  i  mumcip  eolaip,  Cpeacha  mopa  Do  benom 
oppa,  i  nochap  cpeacha  jan  oiogail  laiDpibe,  uaip  Do  mapbab  copbmac  mac 
DiapmaDa  puaib  biacac  coircionn  connacc,  t»a  mac  comalcaij  uf  bipn,  .1. 
TTlaoileachlainn  Oall  ~\  jiollacpiopc  (imaille  pe  pochaibib  oile)  la  lieolap- 
achaib  i  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.  Gleam- 
nap  Dpopailfrh  Do  ap  Somaiple  mac  6om  Duib  meic  Domnaill  (aobap  njeapna 
inpi  gall,  i  apDconpubal  cuigib  ulab).  5°  ccuc  a'P  '^sean  uf  Ra^allaij  Do 
leigfn,  i  a  mgfn  pfm  Do  cabaipr.  Nip  bo  cian  lap  pin  50  rcuc  TTlaj  mar- 

m  Felim-an-einigh This  passage  is  thus  ren-  p  Not  with  impunity — Literally,  "  but  these 

dered  by  Mageoghegan  in  his  version  of  the  were  not  depredations  unrevenged." 

Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  :  q  Mac  Tiernan This  name  is  now  always 

"A.  D.    1365.    Felym   Aneny,    in   English  anglicised  Kiernan,  in  the  barony  of  Tullyhunco, 

called   Felym  the   bountifull,    son  of  Donnell  in  the  west  of  the  county  of  Cavan,   where  it 

O'Connor  of  Corcomroe,  died."  is  very  common. 

n  Unebbing. — The  word  airbe  is  explained  by  r  Brian,  the  son  of  Hugh  Mac  MaJion. — This 

Michael  O'Clery,  in  his  Glossary  of  ancient  Irish  story  is  very  differently  told  in  the  Annals  of 

words,  as  follows  :  "  Qirbe  .1.  cpajao,  no  laj-  Clonmacnoise,  as   translated  by  Mageoghegan, 

oujhaoh  na  mapu.     Aithbhe,  i.  e.  the  ebbing  as  follows  : 

or  lessing  of  the  sea."  "A.  D.  1365.    Bryan  mac  Hugh  Magmahon 

0  Muintir-Eolais,   i.  e.  the  Mac  Eanalls  and  tooke  upon  him  the  principallitye  of  the  con- 

their  followers  in  the  southern  or  level  portion  treys  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. 

An  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. 

Hugh  Mac  Dermot  made  an  incursion  into  [the  country  of]  the  Muintir 
Eolais0,  and  committed  great  depredations  upon  them,  but  not  with  impunity"; 
for  Cormac  Mac  Dermot  Roe,  General  Biatach  of  Connaught;  the  two  sons  of 
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 
taken  prisoners. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Matthew  Mac  Tiernan";  Chief  of  Teallach  Dunchadha 
[Tullyhunco],  the  most  distinguished  for  valour,  renown,  fame,  and  power,  of 
the  sub-chieftains  of  Breifny,  died.  Of  him  was  said  : 

Brian  Mac  Tiernan  of  the  battles, 
Whose  hospitality  was  incomparable ; 
.  He  followed  generosity  without  hatred, 

And  heaven  was  the  goal  of  his  career. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Hugh  Mac  Mahonr,  assumed  the  lordship  of  Oriel.  He 
sued  for  an  alliance  by  marriage  with  Sorley,  son  of  Owen  Duv  Mac  Donnell, 
heir  to  the  lordship  of  the  Insi-Gall,  and  High  Constable  of  the  province  of 
Ulster;  and  he  induced  him  to  put  away  O'Reilly's  daughter,  and  espouse  his 

stable  and  head  of  the  galloglasses  of  Ulster;  In  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster, 

was   procured   to   put   away  the  daughter  of  however,  Brian  Mac  Mahon  is  made  the  perpe- 

O'Rellye   that  was   formerly  married   to  him.  trator  of  this  horrid  deed,  and  it  is  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  the  son  of  Alexander,  heir  to  the  kingdom  of 

inner  roome  therein,    as   though  to  pass   the  Insi  Gall.     Alexander,  the  father  of  Eoin  Dubh, 

time  in  conversation  and  drinking  of  wine,  was  was  the  son  of  Aengus  More,  who  was  the  son 

filthily  taken   by  his   said   Father-in-law,    and  of  Donnell,  the  progenitor  of  the  Mac  Donnells 

committed  him  to  a  strong  place  on  a  lough  to  of  Scotland,  who  was   the  son  of  Randal,  who 

bee  kept,  for  which  cause  Sawarle  was  banished  was  the  son  of  Somhairle,  the  progenitor  of  all 

from  out  of  the  whole  country."  the  Clann-Sorley,  namely,  the  Mac  Donnells, 


630  dNNCtta  Rioghachca  emeaNK  [1365. 

^arhna  epiom  ap  cuipeaD  chuige,  ~\  lap  mbfich  Doib  aehaib  05  61  rapla 
impfpam  fcoppa.  labaip  bpian  a  lama  ma  rhimciollporh,  "]  cucc  poDeapa 
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, 
bpian  mac  enpf  uf  neill  50  mainb  cloinne  aoba  buioe,  i  roippDealbac  mop 
mac  oorhnaill  cona  paibe  Da  chineab  i  nulcaib  Do  chionol  hi  cfnn  apoile 
lappm.  Oul  Doib  Den  laim  "]  Den  aonca  50  haipgiallaib  co  pangaccap  hi 
compocpaib  Rctra  culach  longpopr  meg  macjamna.  T?aba6  Do  pochram 
pompa  co  bpian  gup  ceichepcaip,  i  50  po  pagbao  an  baile  pap  polam  apa 
ccionn.  laopom  Do  leanmam  meg  marjamna,  ~|  epfin  •)  mairhe  an  cipe  Do 
beic  hi  ccimceall  a  ccpuib,  ~|  a  ccfchpa  Da  ccup  po  Damgean  an  cfpe- 
TTlaibm  Do  cabaipc  pop  aipjiallaib  annpm,  a  neoe,  ~\  a  ninnile  Do  buam  Diob. 
TTlag  mar^amna  Dacchup  ap  a  6urai6  peipin  i  nuchr  mumcipe  maoilrhopba 
lappin,  i  a  bean  ~\  a  mjfn  Do  jabail. 

Cuconnachc  6  Raijillij  cijfpna  bpeipne  Do  Dul  ip  na  bpaicpib,  -|  a  chij- 
eapnap  Do  pagbail  aja  Dfpbpachaip  pilib. 

Qo6  mac  Neill  uf  Dorhnaill  (.1.  aDbap  cijeapna  npe  conuill)  Do  mapbaD 
la  Dorhnall  mac  TTluipcfpcaij  ui  concobaip.  Uabg  mac  ma^nupa  uf  conco- 
baip  DO  bpfic  ap  Dorhnall  an  la  cfona,  i  bpipeaD  Do  rabaipc  aip,  -|  Dponj  oa 
rhumcip  Do  mapbaD  im  aob  mac  concobaip  mic  caiDg. 

RoibepD  mac  uacm  baipeD  DO  ecc. 

TTlac  pi 5  Sa^an  DO  pagbdil  epenn. 

Mac   Dowells,    Mac   Rorys,    O'Gnimhas   (now  7  500  inab  a  ppir  a  mumncip  &o  mapbab  7  oo 

Agnews),  and  Mac  Eoins  of  Ardnamurchon.  haipjeb  icic.     ITIaips  aoriian  7  ralatti  7  uifci 

*  This  being  accordingly  done. — This  sentence  is  map  polchao  m  cpaepclann  poceneoil  .1.  ao- 

very  rudely  constructed  by  the  Four  Masters,  bap  pij  mnp  gall,  tnac  com  ouib  mic  alajc- 

It  is  far  better  given  in  the  Annals  of  Ulster  as  anouip." 

follows  :  "  Shortly  after  this  he  invited  him  to  his  own 

"  5^PP  ar  a  al^le  j'in  co  cue  cuiji  ma  cec  house  to  drink  wine  ;  and  when  he  expected  to 

pern  e  ool  pna,  7  map  DO  pail  in  pin  opajoail  get  the  wine,  the  treatment  he  received  was 

ip  e  cuipeo  puaip  j;up  iao  bpian   pern  a  oa  this:  Brian  himself  folded  his  arms  about  him, 

laim  raipip  7  a  gabail  co  oocpac   oomiaoac  and  seized  him  roughly  and  disrespectfully,  and 

7  a  cojbail  amac  7  uachao   oa  mumncip  ma  carried  him  out,   with  a  few  of  his  people  along 

pocaip,  gup  cpapleo  7  jup  cfnglao  a  copa  7  with  him;  and  his  hands  and  legs  were  crippled 

a  lama  oa  ceile,  7  jup  cuipeo  a  loc  6,  7  ni  and  tied  tp  each  other,   and  he  was  thus  cast 

pep  a  pjela  o  pin  amac.     t)o  I'jeb  pon   cip,  into  a  lake,  and  no  further  tidings  of  him  were 


1365.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  631 

own.  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  neighbouring  lake  :  [and 
this  being  accordingly  done']  he  was  at  once  drowned.  Upon  this  Donnell, 
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  all  of  his  tribe  in 
Ulster,  assembled  together,  and,  with  one  accord,  marched  into  Oriel  as  far  as 
the  confines  of  Rath-Tulach11 ,  the  mansion-seat  of  Mac  Mahon.  Intelligence  of 
this  having  reached  Brian,  he  fled,  leaving  the  town  empty  and  desolate  to 
them.  They,  however,  pursued  Mac  Mahon,  who,  with  the  chiefs  of  his  terri- 
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  banished  from  his  own  country  to  Muintir-Maelmora*,  and 
his  wife  and  his  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  Manus  O'Conor,  encountered  Donnell,  and  defeated  him,  with  the  loss 
of  a  great  number  of  his  people,  among  whom  was  Hugh,  the  son  of  Conor,  son 
of  Teige. 

Robert  Mac  Wattin"  Barrett,  died. 

The  son  of  the  King  of  England  left  Ireland. 

heard.    Parties  were  dispatched  throughout  the  w  Cattle, — It  is  stated  in  the  Dublin  copy  of 

country,  and  wherever  his  people  were  found  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  that  they  were  pursued  as 

they  were  killed  and  plundered.     Wo  to  the  far  as  Lough  Erne,  where  they  were  deprived 

world,  the  land,  and  the  water  where  this  noble  of  their  flocks  and  herds  by  the  men  of  Ferma- 

offspring  was  submersed,  i.  e.  the  materies  of  nagh,  as  well  as  by  the  forces  who  pursued  them. 

ii  king  of  the  Inns!  Gall,  the  son  of  Eoin  Dubh,  *   Muintir-Maelmora. — This   was   the  tribe 

son  of  Alexander."  name  of  the  O'Reillys  of  the  county  of  Cavan, 

1  Clannaboy,  in  the  original   Clann  Qoba-  then  called  East  Breifny. 

b'uioe,  i.  e.  the  descendants  of  Hugh  Boy  O'Neill.  y  Robert  Mac  Wattin. — O'Flaherty  remarks  in 

u  Rath-Tulach. — This  was  a  place  in  the  barony  H.  2.  11,  that  he  is  called  Robu;;  mac  uurm. 

and  county  of  Monaghan,  but  the  name  is  now  in  the  Annals  of  Lecan,  in  which  his  death  is 

obsolete.  entered  under  the  year  1366,  and   that  he  is 


632  awNCK-a  Rioghachca  emeaMN.  [1366. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1366. 
Qofp  Cpfopc,  mile,  rpi  cheD,  Seapccac  aSe. 

Gppcop  pacha  borh,  .1.  mac  TTlaengail  Do  ecc. 

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  i  pell  la  peapaib  manac 
ap  ppar  peap  luipg,  i  cpeacha  aibble  DO  Denarh  6oib  ap  cloinn  muipcfp- 
caij,  ~]  iaD  Do  oenorh  pioba  pe  mumnp  Ruaipc,  i  DO  mairfrh  a  ppolcanaip 
Doib  ap  ulc  pe  cloinn  TTluipcfpcaij,  i  muincip  Ruaipc  DO  Denam  an  ceDna 
ppiuporh.  TTlacRuaibpi  ui  concobaip  DO  gabail  lonaiD  cachail  lapom.  TTluin- 
cip  Ruaipc  DO  6ul  pop  imipce  a  ccorhDail  pfp  manach.  5neiPr  cimchill  Do 
Denom  Dogbaib  cloinne  muipcheapcaij  gup  po  mapbpac  cachal  mag  plann- 
chaib  caoipeac  Dapcpaije. 

TTluipcfpcac  mac  Rajnaill  mic  Rajnall  moip  meg  pajnaill  aDbap  cofpij 
jan  ppeapabpa  Do  mapbaD  i  pell  la  TTlaoileacloinn  mag  pajnaill  raoipeac 
mumcipe  heolaip,  i  maoileaclomn  pein  Decc  i  ccionn  Da  mfp  Da  eip  pin. 

Copbmac  Donn  mag  capcaij  njeapna  6  ccaipbpe,  -]  6  neachbach  muman 
Do  mapbaD  i  pell  Da  bpachaip  mac  Domnaill  na  nDorhnall. 

Concobap  ua  concobaip  njeapna  ciappaije  luacpa  DO  mapbaD  Do  bpana- 
chaib. 

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          b  Excursion. — According  to  the  Dublin  copy 

Barretts]  in  O'Mulconry's  Annals.  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  this  excursion  was  made 

*  Mac  Maengail. — His  name  was  Patrick —  by  the  O'Rourkes  into  Breifny,  by  which  is 
See  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  272.  meant  that  part  of  Breifny  in  which  the  Clann- 
The  name  is  still  extant  in  the  county  of  Done-  Murtough  O'Conor  had  established  themselves, 
gal,  where  it  is  anglicised  Mac  Monigal.  and  from  whence  they  had  driven  out  the  ori- 

*  Srath-Fear-Luirg,  i.  e.  the  strath  or  holm  ginal  proprietors. 

of  the  men  of  Lurg,  an  ancient  territory,  now          c  Melaghlin. — O'Flaherty  adds  to  this  entry 

a  barony  in  the  north  of  the  county  of  Ferma-  in  H.  2.  11:  "  Qui  Mselsechlunnius  Conmac- 

nagh.     It  is  probably  the  place  called  Strana-  niorum  fulcrum  et  columen  erat. — MS.  L." 
hone,  in  this  barony — See  Ordnance  map  of         d  Carbery. — A  large  district  in  the  south-west 

Fermanagh,  sheets  2  and  6.  of  the  county  of  Cork. 


1366.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  633 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1366. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  sixty -six.  • 

The  Bishop  of  Raphoe,  i.  e.  Mac  Maeugail2,  died. 

Cathal,  the  son  of  Hugh  Breifneach,  son  of  Cathal  Roe,  and  Manus,  his 
son,  and  also  Murtough  Mac  Dail-re-docair,  Maurice  O'Maeltuile,  Dermot  Mac 
Simon,  and  Dermot  Mac  Gilla-Bearaigh,  were  treacherously  slain  at  Srath-Fear- 
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-Mur- 
tough 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.  Melaghlin0  himself  died  in  two  months 
afterwards. 

Cormac  Don  Mac  Carthy,  Lord  of  Carbery",  and  of  Ivahagh  of  Munster', 
was  treacherously  slain  by  his  relative,  the  son  of  Donnell  na-n-Domhnallf. 

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 

'  Ivahagh  of  Munster. — This  was  the  ancient  f  Na-n-Domhnall. — Mageoghegan  renders  this 

name  of  the  country  of  O'Mahony  Finn,  other-  "  Donnell  of  the  Donnells."     He  was  probably 

wise   called    O'Mahony   the  Western.     In   the  so  called  from  having  many  men  of  the  name 

manuscript  entitled  Carbrice  Notitia,  its  extent  Donnell  among  his  household, 

is  described  thus  :  "  The  whole  peninsula  from  *  Ciarraighe-Luachra. — This  was  the  original 

Ballydehab  to  Dunmanus  bay  is  called  Ivagh,  name  of  a  territory  comprising  about  the  north- 

and  did  formerly  belong  to  O'Mahone  Pune,  the  ern  half  of  the  present  county  of  Kerry, 

best  man  of  that  name.     The  whole  of  this  ter-  h  Branaghs — This  was  the  name  of  an  Eng- 

ritory  paid  tribute  to  Mac  Carthy  Reagh  for  lish   family   seated   in    the    neighbourhood   of 

several  centuries  ;  but  before  the  English  Inva-  O'Kerry.     O'Flaherty  in  H.  2.  11,  makes  the  a 

sion,  both  it   and  the  whole  of  Carbery  had  in  bpanacaib'  long,  and  adds  "  familia  scilicet 

belonged  to  O'Driscoll.  Anglica  ei  vicina.— 

4  M 


634  aNNCtta  raioshachca  emeaNN.  [i366. 

noorhnaill  gona  gallocclachaib  Du  in  po  mapbab  pochajbe.  TTIac  Suibne  -] 
Dpong  Do  maicib  cfpe  conaill  Do  jabail  ~\  bpaighoe  DO  Dfnorii  bfob. 

Uionol  DO  ofnam  Do  bomnall  ua  Neill  -]  Do  cloinn  nDorhnaill,  .1.  Do  coipp- 
bealbac  mac  oomnaill-]  DoQla;canouip  a  mac,  Dionnpoijib  neill  in' neill.  TTIac 
cachrhaoil  DO  cop  ap  an  rip  Doib  co  noeachaib  i  pann  neill  ui  neill  gona  ebib 
1  inDilib.  larcporh  Do  bpeic  ap  ofipeab  muincipe  meic  cachrhaoil  cona 
ccfchpaib,  i  lam  DO  cabaipc  cap  pa  gup  bfnpacc  a  ccpob  bfob.  Ragnall 
mac  alajcanoaip  oijpe  cloinne  Gla^anoaip  DO  cecc  a  hinpibgall  mun  ammpoin 
i  ccommbdiD  Neill  uf  neill.  Qn  cfchfpn  DO  gach  caoib  oocfgmail  i  ccom^ap 
Dia  poile,  .1.  aipecca  cloinne  Domnaill.  Rajnall  Do  cop  ceachcaD  map 
apaibe  coippbealbac  -]  a  mac  alajcanoaip  co  na  mumcip  DiappaiD  an  cpli^e 
bo  leijfn  DO  i  nonoip  a  pinnpipecca  ~\  Do  caob  a  mbpachaipyi  pe  apoile. 
Do  ponab  Dimbpij  leopom  Don  aichfpg  lupin  uaip  Do  lonnpaijpfc  guy  an  ac 
a  bpacaDap  eipiorh  05  cpiall  raipip.  Uucpac  rachap  cpen  cinnfpnach  Da 
cheile  hipuibe  gup  mapbaD  i  gup  loicfb  Dpong  Dipfm  Diob  Da  gach  leir. 
TPapbcap  mac  Do  pajnall,  i  ccommaycc  caich  la  coippbealbach,  -]  gahcap 
mac  coippoealbaij  (alajcanoaip)  la  mumcip  Rajnaill  gup  bpeacnaijpfc  a 
mapbab  po  cfccoip.  Qcc  cfna  nip  comaiplecc  Rajnall  ooib  uaip  po  pdiD 
nac  biaD  a  mac  -|  a  bpachaip  in  aompeacc  an  la  pin  Da  eapbaib. 

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 
6  maine  in  uachcap  connachc  50  cloinn  RiocaipD,  i  a  inbeic  popgla  17aice  i 
bpopbaipi  pop  apoile.  Nfpc  DO  jab'dil  Do  mac  uilliam  pa  beoib,  -)  bpaijoe 

1  His  son  and  his  kinsman — This  entry  is  men,  the  other  Mac  Donells,  of  the  other  side, 

given  in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  An-  Terlagh,  and  his  son  Alexander.  Randolph 

nals  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  follows  :  sent  Alexander,  his  son  and  heirc,  and  Terlagh 

"A.  D.  1366.  Donell  O'Neale  made  great  Mac  Donell,  to  his  kinsmen,  desireing  them,  in 

preparations  and  assemblies  to  warre  against  regard  they  were  his  kinsmen,  and  he  cheife  of 

Neale  O'Neale,  banished  Mac  Cathmoyle  out  of  the  house  they  were  of,  that  they  would  be 

his  country.  Randolph  mac  Alexander,  chief  pleased  to  desist  from  contending  against  him. 

of  the  Mac  Donells,  came  out  of  the  Isles  to  They,  little  regarding  the  entreaties,  made 

assist  Neale  O'Neale  in  that  warre,  where  the  fiercely  towards  the  foorde  where  they  saw 

two  forces  of  the  Mac  Donells  met,  that  is  to  Randolph  stand,  which  was  answered  by  the 

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 
Sweeny  and  many  of  the  chiefs  of  Tirconnell  were  taken  and  led  away  pri- 
soners. 

An  army  was  mustered  by  Donnell  O'Neill  and  the  Clann-Donnell,  i.  e. 
Turlough,  the  son  of  Donnell,  and  Alexander,  his  son;  and  they  marched  against 
Niall  O'Neill.  They  expelled  Mac  Cawell  from  the  country,  upon  which  he 
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,  they  took 
their  cattle  from  them. 

Randal,  son  of  Alexander,  the  heir  to  Clann- Alexander,  arrived  at  this  time 
from  the  Inis-Gall  [the  Hebrides],  to  assist  Niall  O'Neil.  The  kerns  of  both 
parties  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, 
for  they  advanced  to  the  ford,  which  they  saw  him  [Randal]  crossing.  Here 
they  gave  each  other  a  fierce  and  stubborn  battle,  in  which  countless  numbers 
were  killed  and  wounded  on  both  sides.  One  of  Randal's  sons  was  killed  by 
Turlough  in  the  heat  of  the  conflict ;  and  Turlough's  son,  Alexander,  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. 

A  great  war  broke  out  between  the  English  of  Connaught.  Mac  Maurice 
was  banished  from  his  territory  by  Mac  William  ;  and  Mac  Maurice  fled  for 
protection  to  the  Clann-Rickard.  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  in  mutual  hostilities,  until  at  last  Mac  William  subdued  the 

his  companye.    At  last  the  son  of  Randolph  was  kill  Alexander,  that  he  wou'd  not  loose  his  son 

killed,  and  Alexander  Mac  Donell  was  taken  by  and  kinsman  together,  and  that  he  thought  the 

Randolph's  Company,  whome  the  company  would  killing  of  his  son  a  sufficient  loss,  and  not  to 

kill  in  revenge  of  Randolph's   son,   but  they  suffer  his  own  men  to  kill  his  kinsman  too. 

were  not  suffered  by  Randolph   himself,  who  Also    there    was    great    slaughter    of   Donell 

worthilie  said  to  them  that  were  so  intended  to  O'Neale's  people  in  that  pressence." 

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,  1367. 
Ctoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cpi  cheo,  Seapccac  aSeachc. 

Qn  ceppcop  (  i.  maolpeaclainn)  6  pfpjjail,  .1.  eppcop  GpDachaib,  Saof 
eapbaib  i   ccpabaD,  i   nDfipc,  i   nDofnnachc,  i   i  neagna,  -j  ITIalacliiap  rhag 
uioip  aipchiDeocham  oipgiall  Do  65. 

Cuconnachc  ua  Raghallaij  cijfpna  bpeipne  no  jup  cpeicc  i  ap  6ia  Do 
Dul  i  clepcecc,  -\  pilib  Do  jabail  a  lonaib. 

Clann  muipcfpcaij  Do  cecc  ap  imepce  50  mag  nippe.  lonnpoi^m  Do 
chabaipc  6oib  i  muij  luipg.  ba  hiao  ba  hoipfjba  ap  an  piobal  pin,  ^065 
mac  I?uai6pi  uf  concobaip.  peap^al  mac  cijfpnain  cijeapna  feallaig  Di'm- 
chaba,  ~\  Diapmaic  mag  Rajnaill  cijeapna  muinape  heolaip,  -|  jallocclaca 
lomba  ma  bpappab.  Congpopc  aoDha  meic  Diapmaoa  Do  lopgab  leo.  pfpjal 
mac  Diapmaca  njeapra  mat  je  luipg  Do  bpeic  oppa,  -]  Gob  mac  DiapmaDa 
immaille  ppip.  Cachap  DO  rabaipc  Doib,  i  Daoine  lomba  DO  mapbab  eac- 
ruppa  lean  ap  lee.  lompob  Do  rabg  6  Concobaip  -|  DO  mh-'i^  PaglinaiU 
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  maj- 
nupa  uf  Concobaip  pop  cpaij  neoruile  an  cpaofp.  5a^°S^a'S  mic 


^Fer-Tulach  __  Now  the  barony  of  Fertullagh,  "  O'OuKlai^e  pa  Dio^amn  pach 

in  the  south-east  of  the  county  of  Westmeath.  12i  B-peap  D-cpiac-uapal  o-eulach." 

This  was  Tyrrell's  country,  from  the  period  of  For  some  account   of  the   migration   of  the 

the  Anglo-Norman  invasion  till  their  forfeiture  O'Dooleys  to  Ely  O'Carroll,  where  they  are  yet 

in  1641  ;  but  previously  to  their  arrival  it  was  numerous,  see  Duald  Mac  Firhis's  pedigree  of 

the  patrimonial  inheritance   of  the  O'Dooleys,  O'Melaghlin. 

as    we   learn  from  these  Annals    at  the  years  'Under  this  year  O'Flaherty  adds  the  follow- 

978,  1021,  1144,  and  from  O'Dugan's  topogra-  ing  entries  in  H.  2.  11  : 

phical  poem,  in  which  O'Dooley  is  thus  men-  "  Magister  Florentius  mac  an  ojlaoic  obiit. 

tioned  :  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,  Lord  of  Sliabh  Lugha,  died. 

Huggin  Tyrrell,  Lord  of  Fer-Tulachk,  was  slain  by  the  Clann-Feorais  [Ber- 
niinghams1]. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1367. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  sixty-seven. 

The  Bishops  O'Farrell  (i.  e.  Melaghlin),  Bishop  of  Ardagh,  a  sage  not  want- 
ing in  piety,  charity,  humanity,  or  wisdom;  and  Malachias  Maguire,  Archdeacon 
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-nissem,  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. 

A  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  t-Saoir".  The  gallowglasses  of  the  son  of 

"  Joannes   Mac   Costellow    Dominus   SleiBi  mini  O'Farell  lilius  obiit — Mac  Firb." 
lu£a  obiit."  "  Jordanus  Dexeter,   Albia  filia  O'Flannagan 

"  Dermitius   Un  heili  je  dominus  Mac  Og-  nxor  Cathaldi  filii  Donaldi,   et  Mac  Conniara, 

laich  obiit, Mac  Firb.  (1397.  MS.  L.)"  dynasta  de  Cloinn  Colen  decesserunt — AfacFirb. 

"  Wilielrmis  mac  an  peappum  (.i.  filiusRick-  (1367.  MS.  L.)" 

ardi  de  Burgo  Rectoris  de  Loghreagh.  Annal :          ™  Magh  Nisse,  now  the  name  of  a  level  dis- 

domini  Mac  William)  filii  Wilielmi  de  Burgo,  trict   lying   in   the  county  of  Leitrim,   imme- 

occisus  per  Clannrickardios  in  monasterio  Conga.  diately  to  the  east  of  Jamestown  and  Carrick- 

M<tc  Firb.  (1367.  MS.  L.)"  on-Shannon. 

"  Conchavarus  (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  bomnall  mac  Somaiple  im  borhnall  65  a  mac  im  an  Da  TTlac  Suibne  im 
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 
DO  rhapbab  i  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,  -\  Seanaoh  mac  ITlagnupa,  i  eDala  icmba 
DO  rhabaipr  leo,  -\  nlleab  plan  Doib  Do  l?ibipi. 

QO1S  CR1OSC,  1368. 
Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cpf  cheo,  Seapccac,  a  hochr. 

Comapba  TTlaobocc  -]  aipciDeocain  na  bpeipne  peap  Ian  Do  pac  an 
Spiopacu  naoim  Decc  lap  mbpeir  buaba  6  boman  ~\  6  beamon. 

great  and  well-known  strand,  near  Ballysadare,  are  now  obsolete.     Inis-mor  was  the  name  ol  an 

in  the  county  of  Sligo.  island  in  Upper  Lough  Erne,  near  Belle-isle  ; 

0  The  son  of  the  Bishop  O'Dowda. — O'Flaherty  and  Loch  m-Bearraid  was  the  name  of  a  branch 

adds  in  H.  2.  11,  that  his  name  was  "  Cosnam-  of  Lough  Erne. 

hach,"  and  quotes  "  MS.  L." — See  also  Genea-          *  Senad-Mac-Manus This   place   is   now 

logies,  Tribes,  $c.  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  117,  called  Ballymacmanus  by  the  natives,  but  it 
note  c.  is  more  generally  known  by  the  name  of  Belle- 
s' Na-m-Brigh,  i.  e.  of  Bryze,  or  Brees,  a  well-  Isle.  It  is  a  very  beautiful  island  in  the  Upper 
known  castle  in  the  parish  of  Mayo,  barony  of  Lough  Erne,  and  is  now  the  property  of  the 
Clanmorris,  in  the  bounty  of  Mayo — See  Ge-  Eev.  Gray  Porter  of  Kilskeery. 
neologies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  s  O'Flaherty  adds  the  following  passages  to 
p.  482.  this  year  in  H.  2.  1 1  : 

q  Inis-mor,    Loch  m-Bearraid. — These   names  "  Donaldus,  filius    Murcherti    O'Conor  cum 


1368.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  639 

Manus,  one  hundred  and  fifty  in  number,  were  slain  ;  as  were  also  Donnell, 
son  of  Sorley,  Donuell  Oge,  his  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, 
were  treacherously  slain  by  the  English. 

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-Brighp  ;  Owen,  son  of  Rory  O'Kelly;  Murtough,  son  of 
Murtough  O'Conor  ;  and  Bebinn,  daughter  of  Ualgarg  O'Rourke  and  wife  of 
Tomaltagh  Mac  Donough,  died. 

The  Clann-Murtough  made  an  incursion  into  Fermanagh,  and  plundered 
Inis-mor,  Loch  m-Berraid",  and  Seaad  Mac  Manusr;  and,  after  carrying  off  a 
great  quantity  of  booty,  returned  home  in  safety5. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1368. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  sixty-eight. 

The  Coarb  of  St.  Maidoc  and  Archdeacon  of  Breifny,  a  man  filled  with  the 
grace  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  died,  after  overcoming  the  world  and  the  devil. 

Mac  Dermott,   Hoberto  filio  Walteri,  et  Theo-  "  loip  fcipionnchaiB  7  albancaib O'Mtil- 

baldo  filio  Wilielmi  65  .1.  uilleajj  (de  Burgo —  conry." 

CPMulc.}  sub  quo  Clann-Swiny,  duce  Tordel-          "  Tadfeus  filius  Magni  O'Conor  (paulo  ante 

vaco  Mac  Swiny  merebantur,  Kuarkis  et  Clann-  cladem    de    cpaij  eoruile  et  eadem  sestate 

donoghis,  duce  Tadseo  Mac  Donogh  in  Tirfiach-  MS.  L.)  victor  contra  incolas   Montis  Lughy: 

riam   Mullach  Ruadh  usque  irruit,   pradasque  cassis    Milone    Mac   Jordan    oub,    Davide   Mac 

egit.    Tadams  filius  Magni  O'Conor  ad  Traigh-  Philip,   Seonaco  filio  Joannis  Mac  Jordan  oub', 

eothuile  cum  illis  congressus  evertitur — Mac  et  Wilielmo  Mac  Jordan  Ruaio  cum  multis  de 

Firb."  Clann- Gosdelvais ;  et  ex  parte  victoris  Murcherto 

"  Mac    William    spoliat    Tirolillam  :    captis  filio  Matthasi  O'Durnin.     Idem  Tadasus  violavit 

O'Hara,  Joanne  O'Hara  et  Wilielmo  O'Mally —  fcedus   cum    O'Roirk    Clanndonnochis    fidejus- 

Mac.  Firb.''  soribus  ictum  :  quapropter  Cormacus  Mac  Do- 

"  Pax  inter  Anglos  et  Hibernos. —  Ibid.'1''  nogh   ab   eo   ad    Donaldum    filium    Murcherti 


640  aNNata  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1368. 

Qo6  mac  peblimib  in'  concoftaip  l?f  connachc  cfnn  jaile  -]  gaipccm 
gaoibeal,  Luj  lampaoa  leiche  cuinn  i  najaib  gall  -\  eapccapaD  Do  ecc  mp 
mbuaib  nairhpije  i  Pop  commam.  T?unibpi  mac  roippbealbaij  Do  jabail 
cfnnaip  connachcc. 

Cpioch  coipppe  Do  poinn  ap  66  eiccip  mac  TTlajnupa  "|  Domnall  mac 
ITluipcfpraij. 

pfpjal  mac  oiapmaoa  cijeapna  maije  luipj,  leoman  uaiple  -]  fnjnarha 
a  cimb,  l^omalcac  mac  peapjail  meic  Diapmaoa  canaipi  maiji  luipg,  -| 
Copbmac  mac  oiapmaoa  DO  ecc. 

QOD!I  mac  Concobaip  meic  Diapmaoa  Do  ^abail  cijeapnaip  maije  luipg. 

I?nai6pi  mac  Seonuicc  11165  eochagam  Seabac  uaiple  ~|  engnama  a  chimb, 
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£ 
caipppeac.  CX  ciobnacal  DO  gallaib  -]  a  bapu  jab  Doib  lappin. 

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  i  ninip  cua. 

piacpa  6  plomn  abbap  caoipij  yil  maoilpuam,  aon  Do  bpfpp  Da  chineab 
pein  ma  aimpip  Decc  cona  mnaoi. 

O'Conor  dcscivit.     Itaque  Donaldus,  Cormacus,  "  Fedlim  O'Reylly  obiit. — Ibid." 

et  Tigernanus   O'Roirk   eum   apud  cfpB  tnic  "  f.a]xiippona  injean  romaip  TTIej  pathpa- 

raioj  in  coillm  mic  an  piplejinn  spoliant.    Ille  6am  bean  ihaoileaclamn  ui  Ruaipc  oo  ecc. — 

prsedani  apud  Dromcliabh   assecutus  equum  a  Ibid."     [i.  e.  Lasarina,  the  daughter  of  Thomas 

Cormaco,  et  Tadseo  05  O'Durnin  equum  a  Do-  Magauran,   and  wile   of  Melaghlin  O'Rourke, 

naldo  ceosos  amisit.     Donaldus  partem  prsedse  in  died.] 

Breftniam,  et  filius  Magiii  fil.  Cathaldi  O'Dowd,  r  Lughaidh  Long-handed. — He  was  a  King  of 

et  O'Hara  aliam  ad  Mueolt  in  Lugnia   retule-  the  Tuatha  de  Dananns,  and  is  much  celebrated 

runt — Mac  Firb.     Eundem  Tadeeum  Dominus  in  Irish  stories  for  his  valour,  and  particularly 

O'Donell,    Clanndonnoghi,    et    O'Roirk    apud  for  his  having  been  the  first  that  instituted  the 

Nemus  spissum  deprajdantur. — Ibid.'''1  Games  of  Tailtenn  in  Meath,   which  continued 

'•  Murchadus  piubac  filius  mic   mupchaou  to  be  celebrated  down  to   the  reign  of  Roderic 

f.  Luca;  ab  agnatis  cassus Ibid."  O'Conor,    the  last  monarch   of  the  Irish. — See 

"  Jonacus  Mac  Philbin  obiit. — Ibid."  O'Flaherty's  Ogygiu,   Part  iii.  c.  13.     This  pas- 

"  Cathaldus  filius  Imari  Mac  Tigernan  obiit.  sage  is  translated  by  Mageoghegan  thus,  in  his 

— Mac  Firb."  version  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  : 

"  Fergallus  O'Reylly  fortuito  csesus. — Ibid."  "  Hugh  Mac  Felym  O'Connor,  King  of  Con- 


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  lion  of  the  nobility  and  valour 
of  his  tribe ;  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  man  from  Dublin  to  Drogheda;  and  Tiernan, 
the  son  of  Cathal  O'Rourke,  died. 

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  man  of  his  tribe  in  his 
time,  died;  and  his  wife  died  also. 

naught,   a  prince  both   hardy  and  venturous,  now,  and  for  a  long  time  past,  are  of  the  meanest 

worthy  to  be  compared  to  Lowaie  Lawady  for  of  their  own  name." 

prowess  and  manhood  in  all  his  attempts,  as  w  Inis-Cua,  now  Inishcoe,  a  townland  ex- 
well  against  the  English  as  Irish  that  were  tending  into  Lough  Conn,  in  the  south-east  of 
against  him,  after  12  years  reign  as  King  of  the  parish  of  Crossmolina,  in  the  barony  of  Tir- 
Connaught,  died,  with  good  penance  at  Ros-  awley,  and  county  of  Mayo — See  Genealogies, 
common.  The  territory  called  Crich  Carbry  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  114, 
was,  after  his  death,  divided  into  two  parts,  n.  ",  and  p.  124,  n.  *.  This  passage  is  given  as 
whereof  one  part  was  allotted  to  Donnell  mac  follows  in  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the  An- 
Mortagh,  and  the  other  part  to  the  son  ofManus  nals  of  Clonmacnoise  : 
O'Connor."  "William  Saxanagh,  son  of  Sir  Redmond 

"  Rory Mageoghegan  has  the  following  re-  Burke,  Heyre  of  the  Mac  Williams,  died  of  the 

mark  upon  this  man  :    "  Tho'    mine    Author  little  pox  at  Innis-Kwa." 

maketh  this  greate  account  of  this  Rowrie,  that  O'Flaherty  adds,  in  H.  2.  1 1  :  "  i.  e.  in  domo 

he  extolleth  him  beyond  reason,   yett  his  Issue  Wilielmi  Barett — O'Mulconry." 

4  N 


642  aNNdta  Rioghachca  eiraeccNN.  [1368. 

Sloigeab  mop  la  Niall  ua  Neill  T?f  ciniuil  nfogain  i  noipgiallaib,  i  maice 
an  coigio  uile  Deipge  laip  Dpopbaipi  ap  bpiain  mag  machgamna.  Longpopc 
DO  gabail  Doib  i  meDon  an  ripe.  Cornelia  mopa  DO  chaipcpin  Do  mag  mar- 
gamna  66,  .1.  leac  aipgiall  Do  cabaipc  DO  mall  mac  TTlupchaiD  mic  bpiain  na 
ccoileac  noipppenn,  .1.  an  cigeapna  baoi  poime  ap  an  cip,  "]  comrha  aibble 
oile  Dua  neill  buDDein  in  foe  meic  Oomnaill.  Ua  neill  Do  aoncugaD  piocchcma 
66-  ap  na  corhcaib  pin.  TTiac  mupchaiD  meg  margarhna  -|  Qta^anoaip  65  mac 
Domnaill  cigeapna  na  ngallocclac  Do  gluappacc  Den  comaiple,  cpi  coipijre 
cficfipne  Dionnpoijio  meg  machjamna  gan  ceaougaD  Dua  neill,  ~\  ammup 
longpuipc  DO  chabaipr  Doib  aip.  TTiag  macgarhna  go  Ifon  a  rfglaig  DO  heir 
ap  a  ccoirheD,  ~\  iaD  apmcha  innilce  im  a  longpopc  lonnup  gup  eipgeoap 
Doibpiom  gan  chaipDe.  peapchap  gliam  namnaip  nairhgeip  earoppa.  bpip- 
ceap  pia  mag  margamna  oppapom  Ro  mapbaD  mac  TTlupchaiD  meg  mac- 
gamna  canaipi  oipgiall,  Qla^anDaip  mac  coippDealbaig  mec  Domnaill 
conpabal  na  ngalloglac,  -|  Goghan  mac  coippDealbaig  mic  maoileachloinn 
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 
cheilg  DO  RuaiDpi  mac  coippDealbaig  (oua  concobaip)  ma  longpopc  pein  i 
nQpD  an  coillfn  lap  na  bpec  leip  Do  copbmac  mac  DonnchaiD  go  cfgh  ui 
concobaip,  ~\  a  caipbepc  Do  Dorhnall  mac  ITiuipcheapcaigh  uf  concobaip  ap  a 
haicle,  i  a  mapbaD  pa  DeoiD  la  Domnall  i  ccaiplen  Sligicch.  Ctcc  cfna  ap 
ppip  na  gmorhaibpi  Do  poigneab  ap  mac  TTlagnupa  uf  concobaip  Do  pamailcf 
gach  olc,  gup  bo  peanpocal  puaicniD  la  each  nap  mfpa  gabdil  no  mapbaD 

*  In  the  very  centre,  i  ccfpcmfoon — The  word  Boy  were  certainly  possessed  of  the  territory  of 

used  in  the  Annals  of  Ulster  is,   "  i  mboljdn  Hy-Tuirtre  at  this  period, 

in  cipe,"  i.e.  umbilico  territorii.  b  Teige,  son  of  Manu*. — He  was  the  near  re- 

i  Nag-CoUeach  n-Oifrinn,  i.e.  of  the  chalices  lative   and   rival   of  Donnell    Mac    Murtough 

of  the  Mass.  O'Conor  of  Sligo.     He  was  of  an  older  branch 

z  Without  O'Nettl's  permission — The  meaning  of  the  descendants  of  Brian  Luighneach  than 

evidently  is,  that  they  made  this  attack  upon  his  slayer,   being  the  son  of  Manus,   who  was 

Mac  Mahon  without  asking  O'Neill's  permis-  son  of  Cathal,    King  of  Connaught   in   1324, 

sion.  whose  brother,   Murtough,   was  the  father  of 

1  O'Flynn,  now  O'Lyu.     This  Thomas  could  Donnell,  the  slayer  of  Teige,  and  the  founder  of 

not  have  been  lord  of  all  the  district  of  Hy-  the  family  of  the  O'Conors  of  Sligo. 

Tuirtre,  for  the  O'Neills  of  the  race  of  Hugh  c  Ard-an-choillin,  i.  e.  height,   or  hill  of  the 


1368.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  643 

A  great  army  was  led  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  terri- 
tory. Mac  Mahon  offered  him  great  terms,  namely,  to  cede  one-half  of  the  terri- 
tory of  Oriel  to  Niall,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Brian  na  g-Coileach  n-0ifrinnv, 
i.  e.  he  who  had  been  lord  over  the  territory  before  himself ;  and  other  great 
gifts  to  O'Neill  himself,  as  eric  for  [the  death  of]  Mac  Donnell.  O'Neill  con- 
sented to  make  peace  with  him  on  these  conditions;  but  the  son  of  Murrough 
Mac  Mahon  and  Alexander  Oge  Mac  Donnell,  Lord  of  the  Gallowglasses,  with- 
out O'Neill's  permission2,  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  O'Flynn",  Lord  of  Hy-Tuirtre,  a  man  full  of  hospitality  and  renown* 
died. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Manusb,  son  of  Cathal,  son  of  Donnell  O'Conor,  was  trea- 
cherously taken  prisoner  by  Rory,  the  son  of  Turlough  (i.  e.  the  O'Conor),  in 
his  [Rory's]  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 
to  Donnell,  son  of  Murtough  O'Conor,  by  whom  he  was  at  last  killed  in  the 
castle  of  Sligo.  It  was  afterwards  common  to  compare  any  evil  deed  with 
those  acts  committed  against  the  son  of  Manus  O'Conor  ;  so  that  it  became  a 
proverb  familiar  with  every  one,  that  "  the  taking  and  killing11  of  the  son  of 

little  wood,  now  Ardakillin,  a  townland  in  the  "  A.  D.  1368.  Teig  mac  Magnus  mac  Cahall 

parish  of  Killukin,  in  the  barony  and  county  of  was   deceitfully   taken   by   the   King   of  Con- 

Roscommon.    No  ruins  are  now  to  be  seen  here  nought,  in  his  house  of  Ard-an-Killin,  being 

except  three  earthen  forts See  the  year  1388.  brought  tither  to  the  King's  house  by  Cormack 

d  Taking  and  kitting. — This  passage  is  given  Mac  Donnogh  upon  his  security,  of  which  vil- 

more  clearly  as'  follows  by  Mageoghegan,  in  his  lainous  dealing  that  old  Irish  proverb  grew  by 

version  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise  :  comparing  thereof  to  any  wicked  art :    '  The 

4N2 


644  QNNata  Rio^hacbca  emeaNN.  [1369. 

mec  ma^nupa,  ina  gibe  peiljmorh  Do  cluinci  DO  benorh.  Cojab  mop  DO  pa}1 
111  cconnaccaib  eiccip  ua  cconcobaip,  TTlac  uilliam,i  mac  Diapmaca  cpep  an 
n^abdil  pin  ~\  epep  an  mapbab. 

Cuulab  mac  an  jipp  mic  carmail  cfnn  a  chimb  pein,  -\  an  mac  baoi  aije 
ina  maijhipcip  poipccce  ofpppcaijre  i  nealabnaib  Decc  i  Sa^raib. 

Uilliam  mac  Donnchaib  muimnij  uf  ceallaij  njeapna  ua  maine  Do  jabail 
la  hua  TTlaDabam  •]  la  cloinn  mic  neojain.  Domnall  mac  concobaip  ui  ceal- 
laij,  i  apojal  65  6  concfnamn  Do  rhapbab  la  ua  TTlaDabain  an  la  pin. 

Oomnall  mac  conmapa  DO  ecc. 

Slemni  mac  uiblin  conpabal  coijib  ulab  DO  ecc. 

ITiuipeabac  6  paipceallaijj  corhapba  TTlafDoj,  -|  aipciDeocham  na  bpeipne 
DO  ecc. 

Oiapmaic  lairhoeapg  mac  TTlupchaba  pf  lai^fn  DO  ^abail  la  jallaib.  6a 
heipibe  coigfoac  po  ba  cpoba  baoi  ina  aimpip. 

QO1S  CR1OSU,  1369. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile  cpf  cheD,  Seapccac,  anaoi. 

QoDh  ua  neilleppcop  clochaip,  Saoi  cpaibDeach  coinnepcleach,i  RiocapD 
6  Raijillij  eppcop  cille  moip  Decc. 
Qn  Deaccanach  6  bapoain  Decc. 

taking  of  mac  Manus  is  no  worse.'     He  was  Writers,  except  the  celebrated  archbishop,  Hugh 

within  a  little  while  after  worse  used,  for  he  Mac  Caghwell,   who   wrote  the  Commentaries 

was  given  over  to  Donnell  mac  Mortagh  O'Con-  upon  the^vorks  of  Duns  Scotus,  and  other  works, 

nor,  who  vilely  did  put  him  to   death  in  the  in  the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century, 

castle  of  Sligeagh  ;  whereof  ensued  great  con-  f  Clann-mic-n-Eoghain,  i.  e.  the  race   of  the 

tentions  and  generall  discords  throughout  all  son   of  Eoghan.     These   were   a  branch  of  the 

Connought,  especially  between  O'Connor,  Mac  O'Kellys  descended  from  Eoghan,  the  third  son 

William,  and  Mac  Dermoda."  of  Donnell  More  O'Kelly,  Chief  of  Hy-Many, 

'  Professor  of  sciences.  — This  passage  is  in  who  died  in  the  year  1 224.     This  sept  gave 

the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  ;  but  name  to  the  barony  of  Clanmacnowen,   in   the 

the  Editor  has  not  been  able  to  discover  any  ac-  east  of  the  county  of  Galway,   in  which  they 

count  as  to  what  part  of  England  he  taught  in.  were  seated. — See  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy- 

There  were  several  bishops  and  other  very  dis-  Many,  pp.  102,  165. 

tinguished  ecclesiastics  of  this  family,  but  no  g  To  this  year  O'Flaherty  adds  the  following 

literary  man  of  the  name  appears  in  Ware's  Irish  passages  in  H.  2.  1 1  : 


1369-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  (J45 

Manus  was  not  worse  than  whatever  treacherous  deed  they  used  to  hear  of 
being  perpetrated."  In  consequence  of  this  taking  and  killing,  a  great  war 
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,  who  was  a  learned  and  illustrious  Professor  of  Sciences6,  died  in  England. 

William,  son  of  Donough  Muimhneach  O'Kelly,  Lord  of  Hy-Many,  was 
taken  prisoner  by  O'Madden  and  the  Clann-mic-n-Eoghainf.  On  the  same 
day  Donnell,  son  of  Conor  O'Kelly,  and  Ardgal  Oge  O'Concannon,  were  slain 
by  O'Madden. 

Donnell  Mac  Namara  died. 

Slevny  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 
prisoner  by  the  English.  He  was  the  most  valiant  of  the  [Irish]  provincial 
kings  in  his  time8. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1369. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  sixty-nine. 

Hugh  O'Neill,  Bishop  of  Clogher,  a  pious  and  humane  man,  and  Richard 
O'Reilly",  Bishop  of  Kilmore,  died. 
The  Deacon  O'Bardon  died. 

"Mora  filia  O'Roirk  Odonis  uxor  Mac  Do-  "  Cpic  Cuipbpe  DO  jjaBail  oo  Ooriinall  mac 

nogh  obiit MS.  L.  (1367.  O'Mulconry)."  Hluipceapraij.— 1369.MS.L."  [Lethe  country 

"  Mathgamanius  O'Tuathail  ab  Anglis  CSESUS.  of  Carbury  was  taken  by  Donnell,  the  son  of 

— MS.  L."  (MacFirb.  1367.)  Murtough.] 

•' Mac MagnusadeTirtuathail  obiit. — MS.  L."  "  Ard  an  choillin,  Koderici  domus  in  Ma- 

(1367.  Mac  Firb.)  chaire  Connaglit  infra  ad  ann.  1388." 

"  Imarus  films  Tomalti  O'Birn  obiit. — Mac  h  Richard  O'Reilly. — His  death  is  set  down  in 

Firb."  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  under 

"  Laighsechus  films  Davidis  O'Morra  suo  the  year  1366,  which  should  be  1369-  Imme- 

oultro  caesus. Ibid."  diately  after  the  notice  of  the  death  of  Richard 

"  Donaldus  filius  Mac  Conmara  obiit. — Ibid.'"  O'Reilly,  those  Annals  enter  the  death  of  Wil- 

(MS.  L.  1369.)  Ham,  Archdeacon  of  Breifny;  of  Brian,  the  son 

"  Anna  filia  O'Durnin  uxor  Tadfei  O'Huigin  of  Murtough  O'Conor;  of  John,  son  of  Edmond 

obiit. Mac  Firb."  Mac  Hubert  [Burke];  of  Randal  O'Hanly,  and 


646  aNNCita  Rio^hachca  eiraeciNN. 

Ciiconnacc  6  Rajallaij  cijeapna  bpeipne  Oo  ecc. 

Pilib  ua  Raijilbj  DO  jabdil  la  a  bpaicpib  pein,  -\  a  cup  Doib  i  cloic  locha 
huachcaip  50  noochap  cfngail  -]  cuibpi£ce  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  i  mblen  cupa.  ^pi  meic  copbmaic  uf  pfp- 
^ail,  Seomin,  TTlaoileacloinn,  -\  pfpjup,  peDlimib  mac  aooha  an  cleinj  ui 
concobaip,  Da  mac  plaichim  moip  mec  conpuba  .1.  Donn,  -)  bpian,  Sirpeacc 
na  Spona  mac  an  rhaighipcip  ~\  pochaibi  oile  Do  mapbaD  Don  cacup  pin. 

^eapalc  caomanach  pioghDarhna  laijen  Do  mapbaD  Don  RiDipe  Dub. 

Uighfpndn  ua  17uaipc  Do  Dul  pop  cpeich  i  lupg.  Cpeach  mop  DO  cabaipr 
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  i  mbpai^oenup  aca. 

TTlachsamain  maonrhaije  ua  bpiain,  cijeapna  ruaDmurhan,  jaoibeal  DO 
bpeapp  i  Do  baipfajDa  i  lech  moDha  Decc  ma  longpopc  pfm  mp  mbuaio 
naicpije.  6pian  6  bpiain  Do  jabdil  cijeapnaip  ciiaDmuman  cap  ep  TDac- 
?;arhna. 

O  TTlaolouin  (.1.  Domnall)  caofpeac  cuaiche  luipg  Do  mapbaD  la  cloinn 

\ 

Cormac  O'Hanly,  both  of  whom  were  carried  off  character  with  Reginald's  Tower  at  Waterford, 

by  the  plague  called  cluice  in  pij  ;  of  Hugh  and  with  the  keep  of  the  castle  of  Dundrum,  in 

O'Beirne,  who  perished  of  the  same  plague  (con  the  county  of  Down.     The  island  in  which  it 

plaio  cetma)  ;  of  John  Mac  Egan,  and  Gilbert  stands  is  said  to  have  been  formed  by  dropping 

O'Bardan,  two  professional  youths  of  Conmaicne ;  stones  into  the  lake.     The  Editor  examined  this 

and  of  Melaghlin  Mac  Mahon,  heir  to  the  lord-  castle  in  May,  1 836,   when  it  was  in  a  tolerable 

ship  of  Oriel.     The  Anglo-Irish   annalists    do  state  of  preservation. 

not  call  this  plague  by  any  name.     Under  the  k  Blen-Cupa  is  now  anglicised  Blencup,  and 

year  1370,    Grace  has:    "Incepit  tertia  pestis  is  a  townland  in  the  parish  of  Kilmore,  about 

que  nobiles  permultos,  aliosque  innumeros  sus-  four  miles  to  the  west  of  the  town  of  Cavan. 

tulit."  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  Oughter5,  severely  bound  and  fettered.  Manus 
O'Reilly  then  assumed  the  lordship.  In  consequence  of  this  capture,  war  and  dis- 
turbance broke  out  in  Breifny.  A  great  army  was  mustered  by  Annadh,  the  son 
of  Richard  O'Reilly,  who  was  joined  by  Mac  Mahon  and  all  the  other  chiefs  of 
Oriel,  to  rescue  Philip  O'Reilly  from  Manus  by  force.  Maims  and  his  kinsmen, 
however,  came,  together  with  their  entire  forces,  to  contest  the  [chieftainship  of 
the]  country  for  themselves.  A  battle  was  fought  between  them  at  Blen-cupak. 
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 
Chleitigh  O'Conor;  the  two  sons  of  Flaithim  More  Mac  Conruva,  namely,  Donn 
and  Brian;  Si  trie  na  Srona1  Mac  Master,  and  a  number  of  others. 

Gerald  Kavanagh,  heir  to  the  kingdom  of  Leinster,  was  slain  by  the  Black 
Knight1". 

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  Lavderg0  Mac  Murrough,  after  having  been  confined  for  a  long 
time  by  the  English  of  Dublin,  was  put  to  deathp  by  them. 

Mahon  Moinmoy  O'Brien,  Lord  of  Thomond,  the  best  and  most  illustrious 
of  the  Irish,  died  in  his  own  fortress,  after  the  victory  of  penance.  Brian 
O'Brien  assumed  the  lordship  of  Thomond  after  Mahon. 

O'Muldoon  (Donnell),  Lord  of  the  territory  of  Lurg,  was  slain  by  the  sons 

m  Black  Knight O'Flaherty  adds,  in  H.  2. 1 1,  bastard  son  of  Dermot  Mac  Murrough,  King  of 

that  this  "pioipe  bub"  was  "  oo  jjjallaib  aca  Leinster,   in  whose  time  the  English   first  in- 

cliac,"  i.  e.  one  of  the  English  of  Dublin.  vaded   Ireland.     From    this   Dermot   Lavderg 

"  Lurg,  now  the  barony  of  Lurg,  in  the  north  descended  a  celebrated  sept  of  the  Kavanaghs, 

of  the  county  of  Fermanagh.  called  Sliocht  Diarmada  Laimhdheirg ;  but  they 

0  Dermot  Lavderg,  i.  e.  of  the  Red  Hand.    He  are  now   reduced   to   obscurity   and   poverty. 

was  the  son  of  Gerald,  who  was  the  son  of  Mur-  O'Flaherty  adds  in  the  margin  of  H.  2.  11:  "ab 

tough  Roe,  who  was  son  of  Maurice,  who  was  Equite  nigro  dolose  captus. — O'Mulconry." 
the  son  of  Murtough,  who  was  the  son  of  Don-          p  Was  put  to  death. — O'Flaherty  adds  in  H.  2. 

nell,   who   was  the  son  of  Donnell  Kavanagh,  11:"  facinus   illis  temporibus  tristissimum — 

who  was,  according  to  Giraldus  Cambrensis,  the  O'Mitlconry." 


648  dNNCtta  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1369. 

nell  ui  DorhnaiU,  ~\  a  cpeach  Do  bpeir  leo  pop  oilen  Doilenaib  locha  hepne 
DianaD  amm  babba  ~\  pilib  mag  uibip  eigeapna  peachc  cuar  DO  Dul  loingfp 
lanmop  Do  biogail  a  oglaoic  ap  cloinn  uf  bomnaill  -]  mall  65  mac  neill  gaipb 
mic  afba  mec  Domnaill  615  DO  rhapbab  laip  i  ccpoio  loingpi  ap  pionnloc  la 
raob  an  oilein. 

6pian  mac  afoha  buibe  uf  neill  Dfghabbap  pig  epeann  Duaiple,  Deineac, 
1  Dfngnam  DO  eg. 

TTlaibm  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 
bapoachca  an  baile  cuije,  -j  peaflab  Dona  gallaib  banap  ip  in  mbaile  paip 
gup  po  mapbpac  e.  ba  mop  an  cechc  hipm  i  lee  pe  mac  caofpi£. 

Pilib  mag  uibip  njeapna  peap  manach  DO  bpeic  loingip  50  loch  uachraip,-] 
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. 

TTlaolpeachlamn  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  afoha- 
gain,-]  ^illebepc  6  bapoain  Da  paop  macaorh  cpuicealaDnachConmaicne  Deg. 

UiUiam  6  paipceallaig  comapba  TTlaebog,  -]  aipchmeochain  na  bpeipne 
DO  ecc 

q  Badhbha. — This   island    still    retains   this  %  Oglach. — This  word  literally  means,  a  young 

name,  but  it  is  generally  anglicised  Boa  Island.  hero  or  soldier;    but   it  is   often   used   in  the 

It  is   usually  called  by  the  natives   of  Tuath  sense  of  vassal,  such  as  O'Muldoon  was  to  Ma- 

Ratha  dwelling  on    the  south   side  of  Lough  guire.     From  oglac,  in  this  sense,  is  derived 

Erne,  opposite  this  island,  who  speak  Irish  well,  oglacap,  vassallage,  servitude. 

Imp  baobdnn,  or  Oile6n  baoBann.     It  is  the  '  Finn-loch,  i.  e.  the  white  lake.     This   was 

largest   island  in    Lower   Lough  Erne,   and   is  evidently  the  name  of  the  Lower  Lough  Erne, 

situated  not  far  from  its  northern  shore,  a  short  which  might  have  been  locally  so  called  to  dis- 

distance  to  the  south  of  the  village  of  Pettigoe.  tinguish  it  from   the  Upper   Lough  Erne,    as 

r  The  seven  Tuathas,  i.  e.  the  seven  Tuathas,  being  a  brighter  sheet  of  water,  and  less  studded 

or  districts,   comprised   in  the  principality  of  with  islands. 

Fermanagh,  of  which  Maguire  was,   at  this  pe-  u  Clann  Culein,  i.  e.  the  Mac  Namaras. 

.  riod,  the  chief  lord.  "  Brought  vessels,   i.  e.  he  carried   boats  by 


1369.}  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  649 

of  Niall  O'Donnell,  who  carried  the  spoils  of  his  territory  with  them  to 
one  of  the  islands  of  Lough  Erne  which  is  called  Badhbha".  Philip  Maguire, 
Lord  of  the  Seven  Tuathasr,  set  out  with  a  large  fleet  to  take  revenge  upon 
the  sons  of  O'Donnell  for  the  death  of  his  Oglach8 ;  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. 

A  great  defeat  was  given  by  Brian  O'Brien,  Lord  of  Thomond,  to  the 
English  of  Munster.  Garrett,  Earl  of  Desmond,  and  many  of  the  chiefs  of 
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  lamenta- 
ble treatment  of  the  son  of  a  chieftain. 

Philip  Maguire,  Lord  of  Fermanagh,  brought  vessels"  to  Lough  Oughter, 
took  [the  castle  of]  Clough-Lough-Oughter*,  and  liberated  Philip  O'Reilly,  who 
was  confined  therein,  and  who  thereupon  re-assumed  the  lordship. 

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,  diedy. 

William  O'Farrelly,  Coarb  of  St.  Maidocz,  and  Archdeacon  of  Breifny, 
dieda. 

land  from  Lough  Erne,  in  the  county  of  Fer-  z  Coarb  of  St.  Maidoc. — O'Farrelly  was  coarb 

managh,  to  Lough  Oughter,  in  the  county  of  of  St.  Maidoc,   or  Mogue,   at  Drumlahan,   or 

Cavan.    The  boats  thus  carried  were  mere  cur-  Drumlane,  near  Belturbet,   in  the  county  of 

raghs  or  cots,   such  as  they  have  on  those  lakes  Cavan.     Archdeacon  of  Breifny  means  Areh- 

at  the  present  day.  deacon  of  the  diocese  of  Kilmore. 

x  Clogh-Lofigh-  Oughter,  i.  e.  the  stone,  or  stone  a  O'Flaherty  adds  the  following  entries  to  this 

fortress  of  Lough  Oughter.  year  in  H.  2.  11: 

i  Died. — All  these  died  of  the  plague  called  "  Joannes  O'Donellan  Connacia?  Poeta  obiit.  — 

cluice  an  pij,  or  the  King's  game. — See  note",  MS.  L.  (Mac  Firb.  1368)." 

pp.  645,  646,  supra.  "  Rodericus  filius  Joannis  Q'Hara  Tirfiach- 

4o 


650  QNMata  Rio^hachca  emeawN.  [1370. 


aois  cRiosr,  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  mac  cachmafl  caoipeac  chenel  pfpa&aig,  cuulab  a  mac 
-]  ingean  magnupa  meg  machgamna  a  bfn,  Do  mapbaD  la  cloinn  afoa  meic 
cacmaoil  cpe  peill.  TTlupchaD  a  ofpbparhaip  DO  jabail  a  lonaiD  ip  in 
raoipijecc  lappm. 

Cachaoip  ua  concobaip  a&bop  njeapna  6  bpailge,  ~\  muipceapcac  ua 
mopoa  DO  cuicim  ap  cpeic  la  gallaib  laijfn. 

Dubcoblai^  mjfn  uf  rJaghallaij  bfn  pilip  meg  uibip  Do  ecc. 

TTlajnup  6  Rajallaig  Do  jab'ail  la  cloinn  comaip  mic  TTiargamna  uf 
Raijillig,  i  a  chup  i  cloich  locha  huachcaip. 

Cachal  mac  Debug  uf  concfnainn  cigeapna  ua  nDiapmaoa,  Sioban  cam 
mjfn  meg  capcaig  bfn  mec  conmapa,  SfoDa  chille  cainmg  mac  Seaain  meic 
conmapa,  Seaan  6  nfgpa  aDbap  cigeapna  luigne,  ~\  Oiapmairr  mac  cacail 
oig  uf  concobaip  Do  ecc. 

bpfipim  mabma  DO  cabaipc  la  Niall  ua  neill  ngeapna  ceneil  eogam  ap 
bpian  mag  margamna  cigeapna  oipgiall,  -\  Dponga  Deapmapa  DO  mumcip 
TTIeg  macgamna  Do  rhapbaD  "|  Do  bacaD. 

Domnall  mac  TTlaeileacloinn,  ~\  ra&g  mac  lochlainn  uf  ceallaig  cona  6iap 
mac  Do  ecc. 

riam    IDuaioe   diripiens   ab    incolis   et   Scotis  Oj  de  Burgo  captus  —  MS.L.  (MacFirb.  1368)." 

occisus.  —  MS.  L.  (MacFirb.  1368)."  "  Brianus  Mac  Mahon  Anglos  Orgiellia;  spo- 

"  Cormacus   booap    Mac    Dermott    obiit  __  Hat  :  ubi  Maelsechlunnius  Mac  Mahon  per  Sefin 

MS.  L.  (Mac  Firb.  1368)."  Fait  praedam  insequentem  caesus.  —  Mae  Firb. 

"Dermitius  filius  Thomaj  F'nn  m'c  mur-  (MS.L.  1370)." 

chaoa,  obiit  __  MS.  L.  (Mac  Firb.  1368)."  "  Wilielmus  Mac  Uidhilin  Ultoniffi  Constabu- 

"  Finnuala  iilia  Briani  O'Dowd  obiit.  —  Mac  larius  obiit  —  Mac  Firb." 

Firb."  "  Adamus  Alamar  filius  Mac  Hoirebert  obiit. 

"  Brianus   filius    Henrici.   fil.    Odonis  tiavi  —  Mac  Firb." 

Ultonia?  heeres  obiit  __  Mac  Firb."  "  Multi  Anglorura  Midiae  mortui  —  Mac  Firb. 

"  Brianus  Og  O'Flaherty  (.1.  bpian  na  nom-  (peite  rear  de  quo  Cambd.  1370)." 

peac)  occidentalis  Connacise  heeres  a  Rickardo  "  Sequentia,  MS.L.  ad  annum  1370.  —  Mar 


1370.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  651 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1370. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  seventy. 

A  firm  and  sincere  peace  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. 

Gillapatrick  Mac  Cawell,  Chief  of  Kinel-Farry ;  Cu-uladh,  his  son,  and  his 
wife,  the  daughter  of  Manus  Mac  Mahon,  were  treacherously  slain  by  the  sons 
of  Hugh  Mac  Cawell.  Murrough,  his  [Gillapatrick' s]  brother  then  became 
Chieftain  of  Kinel-Farry. 

Cahirb  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. 

Cathal,  son  of  Davock  O'Concannon,  Lord  of  Hy-Diarmada  ;  Joanna  Cam, 
daughter  of  Mac  Carthy,  and  wife  of  Mac  Namara  ;  Sheeda,  of  Kilkenny,  son 
of  John  Mac  Namara;  John  O'Hara,  heir  to  the  lordship  of  Leyny;  and  Dermotc, 
son  of  Cathal  Oge  O'Conor,  died. 

Niall  O'Neill,  Lord  of  Kinel-Owen,  routed  Brian  Mac  Mahon,  Lord  of  Oriel; 
and  very  great  numbers  of  Mac  Mahon's  people  were  cut  off  by  slaying  and 
drowning. 

Donnell,  son  of  Melaghlin,  and  Teige,  son  of  Loughlin  O'Kelly,  with  his 
two  sons,  died. 

Firb.  1369,  habent."  ad  dominum  Mac  William  confugerunt  (O'Mul- 

"  Honoria  filia  Mac  William  de  Burgo  (mjfn  conry  ad  ann.  1370,  et  infra  prope  finem)  e  qui- 

uiUej MSS.  L.)  uxor  Koderici  O'Conor  Kegis  bus  Conchovarus  puao  filius  Cathaldi  fil.  Odonis 

Connaci*  obiit."  Brefinii  obiit,  A.  D.  1371— MS.  L." 

"  Mielsechlunnius    O'Hanluain   Orientalium  "  Murchertus    Sinnach  Teffiorum    dominus 

dominus  obiit."  obiit  19  Febr.  1370.— O'Mulcomj." 

"  Cahir  O'Conor  Hyfalgiae  hares  ab  Anglis  "  Cahir,  Cacaoip — This  name  is  now,  and 

caesus."  hfts  been  for  ^Q  last  two  centuries,  anglicised 

"  O'Roirk,  O'Farell  Maguir  et  O'Conor  ex-  Charles. 

pulerunt  posteros  Murcherti  Tnuirhnij  O'Conor  c  Dermot.—He  was  the  eighth  son  of  the 

ad  Muintir  eolais  :  unde  ipsi,  et  Mac  Tigernan  hero,  Cathal  Oge  O'Conor,  who  was  the  son  of 

4  0  2 


652  awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiraeaNN.  [1371. 

rnaelpeacloinn  connaccac  6  pfpgail,  -\  Cacal  65  6  pfpgail  DO  ecc. 

Uabg  6  Puaipc  DO  gabail  cigeapnatp  na  bpeipne.  Clann  TTluipceapcaij  -| 
ITlag  ngfpnain  Da  moapbab,-]  concobap  pna6  mac  carail  mic  aeba  bpeipnig. 
1  a  cup  i  epic  mic  uilliam. 

Uilliam  DonD  mac  uillec  DO  ecc. 


QOIS  CR1OSU,  1371. 
Qoip  Cpvopc,  mile,  rpf  cheD,  peachrmoghac,  a  haon. 

Clipoeppucc  cuama  .1.  Seaan  6  gpaDa  cfnn  eaccna  -j  emg  a  aimpipe  DO 
ecc. 

peapjal  mag  coclain  DO  ecc  i  laim  05  ua  ccmneDij. 

peapjal  mag  eocaccain  Do  ecc. 

TTlupchaD  6  maDabdnn  (.1.  mac  eojain)  pficheam  coiccionn  cliap,  aibelj- 
neac,  ~\  pfopbocc  Gpfnn  DO  mapbab  Daon  opcop  poijoe  ap  Depeab  cpfice  i 
nupmurham. 

bpian  ua  cmneDij  cijfpna  upmuman  Do  mapbaD  i  bpell  la  gallaib. 

Gmann  6  cinneDij  aobap  cigeapna  upmuman  DO  ecc. 

UaDg  65  mac  majnupa  uf  concobaip  Do  mapbaD  i  bpell  Do  Oomnall  mac 
TYiuipcfpcoij  uf  concobaip  i  ccaiplen  pliccij  mp  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. 

Cathal,  King  of  Connaught  in  1324,  who  was  Cathal,  who  was  the  son  of  Hugh  Breifueach 

the  son  of  Donn'ell,  Tanist  of  Connaught,  and  O'Conor),    who  was  joined   by    Mac   Tiernan 

the  ancestor  of  O'Conor  Sligo.  O'Conor." 

d  'Conor  Roe.— Re  was  at  this  time  the  chief  e  To  this  year  O'Flaherty  adds  the  following 

leader  of  that  sept  of  the  O'Conors  called  Clann-  entries  in  H.  2.  1 1  : 

Murtough.    This  sentence  is  very  rudely  con-  "  1370.    David   Bruis   Eex   Scotia;   obiit. — 

structed  by  the  Four  Masters.    It  should  stand  Mac  Firb.  (MS.  L.  1371)." 

thus  :  "  Supremus    Christianorum    Papa    ubiit. — 

"Teige  O'Rourke  assumed  the  lordship  of  Mac  Firb.  (1371,  MS.  L.  el  Bellarni)." 

Breifny,    but   was   soon   after   banished   from  "  Verum   19  Dec.    1370.    Onuphrius   ponit 

Breifny,    and   forced    to   take   shelter   in   the  mortem  Urbani  5." 

country  of  Mac  William  Burke,  by  the  Clann-  "  Midia  .1.  bean  mine,  tilia  Cathalcli  O'Conor 

Murtough,  headed  by  Conor  Roe  (the  son  of  obiit — 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  Tiernan,  and  Conor  Roed,  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,  1371. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  seventy-one. 

John  O'Gradyf,  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  the  leading  mang  for  wisdom  and 
hospitality  in  his  time,  died. 

Farrell  Mac  Coghlan  died  while  detained  in  prison  by  O'Kennedy. 

Farrell  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,  heir  to  the  lordship  of  Ormond,  died. 

Teige  Oge,  the  son  of  Manus  O'Conor,  was  treacherously  killed1  in  the 
castle  of  Sligo  by  Donnell,  the  son  of  Murtpugh  O'Conor,  after  he  had  been 
sent  to  him,  as  already  mentioned",  by  the  King  of  Connaught  (Rory,  the  son 
of  Tur lough). 

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 O'Flaherty  adds,  in  H.  2. 1 1,  the  year  1368.  It  is  stated  in  the  Dublin  copy  of 

"  that  he  is  called  Sir  John  O'Grady,  Archbp.  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  that  Donnell  killed  Teige 

of  Connaught,  in  MS.  L.  and  G'Mulconry."  with  his  own  hand  while  in  confinement,  and 

g  The  leading  man Literally,  "  the  head  of  that  the  act  was  the  most  repulsive  and  abomi- 

the  wisdom  and  hospitality  of  his  time."  nable  deed  ever  committed  in  Ireland.  To  this 

h  By  one  shot  of  an  arrow,  Daon  opcop  poijoe,  passage  O'Flaherty  adds  the  following  clause,  in 

i.e.  uno  jactu  sag ittce.  This  may  also  mean  "  with  H.  2.  11,  from  O'Mulconry,  MS.  L.  and  Mac 

one  cast  or  shot  of  a  javelin."  Firb. : 

1  Killed,  oo  mapBciD,  or  "put  to  death."  "  Ipsius  Donaldi  manu  confossus,  postqnaiu 

k  As  already  mentioned. — Literally,  "  accord-  ab  anno  1368  detentus  ab  eo  in  vinculis.  Anno 

ingly  as  was  said  before  us." — See  note  b,  under  1372,  MS.  L." 


654  QNNaca  Rio^hachca  eiraecmR  [1372. 

VTlaoilip  rnac  hoibfpD  DO  rhapbab  la  hua  cconcobaip. 

Cpeacha  mopa  DO  benarh  la  hua  nDuboa  (oomnall)  hi  cfp  piacpach 
muaibe  50  jio  haipjeab  co  leip  an  rip  laip,  -|  50  po  jab  a  caiplein  .1.  caiplen 
dipo  ha  piaj,  -\  caiplen  mic  concobaip,  -\  i  mbaoi  inncib  Do  jallaib  Do  bfochup 
eipcib,  i  an  rip  Do  poinn  ap  a  bpairpib,  ~\  ap  a  muincip  pein  ap  a  haicle. 


QO18  CR1OSU,  1372. 
Goip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cpi  ceo,  Seachcrhojac,  ODO. 

bpian  mop  mag  machgamna  cijfpna  oipjiall  Do  cpiall  i  ccomne  gall  DO 
caboipr  cacoip  Doib,  i  gallocclac  Da  muinnp  pen  Da  rhapbab  50  hincleice  i 
bpell,  1  e  buben  DeluD  ap  an  pluaj  lappin. 

Seaan  mop  6  oubaccam  Saoi  peancaba-)  ollam  6  maine  DO  ecc  lap  mbuaib 
nongra  i  naichpije,  i  l?inn  ouin  05  muincip  coin  baipoe. 

TTluipcfpcac  muimneac  mac  muipceaproij  moip  mecc  eocaccdin,  caoi- 
peac  ceneil  piachach  DO  ecc  lap  mbuaib  nairpi£e. 

TTIac  peopaip  Do  jabail  oua  ceallaij  -|  Da  cloinn,  ~\  T?ipoepD  mac  peopaip 
a  oibpe  DO  mapbab. 

1  Tir-Fhiachrach  Muaidhe,  i.  e.  Tir-Fhiach-  hillock,  on  a  point  of  land  extending  into  the 

rach  of  the  Kiver  Moy,  now  the  barony  of  Tire-  River  Moy. — See  Genealogies,  $c.  of  Hy-Fiach- 

ragh,  in  the  county  of  Sligo,  which  is  bounded  rach,  pp.  175,  282.    To  this  passage  O'Flaherty 

on  the  west  by  the  Eiver  Moy.                            .  adds  the  following  clause  in  H.  2.  11: 

m  Ard-na-riagh,  now  Ardnarea,  forming  the  .       "  Divisitque  [O'Dowd]  regionem  illam  inter 

eastern  portion  of  the  town  of  Ballina,  in  the  sues  clientes  pro  inodico  vectigali ;  earn  subji- 

barony  of  Tirawley,  and  county  of  Mayo. — See  ciens  suse  familiae  et  posteris  suis. — Mac.  Firb." 

note  c,  under  the  year  1266,  p.  399,  supra.  °  To  this  year  O'Flaherty  adds  the  following 

n  Castle-mic- Conor,  Cdiplen  mic  concobaip,  entries  in  H.  2.  1 1  : 

i.  e.  the  castle  of  the  son  of  Conor.  This  was  ori-  "  Dermitius  films  Cormaci  fil.  Dermitii  Eufi 

ginally  called  t)un  mic  Concobaip,  i.e.  the  Dun,  a  Clannrickardis   csesus. — MS.  L.    (Mac  Firb. 

or  earthen  fort,  of  the  son  of  Conor.  The  name  is  1 370)." 

now  applied  to  a  townland  and  parish,  situated  "  IDaoiu  mac  an  pmipe,   Hobertus  et  David 

on  the  east  side  of  the  Eiver  Moy,  in  the  barony  filii  Walteri  Oj,   Fefalgia,   filia  Mac  Donogh, 

of  Tireragh  and  county  of  Sligo — See  the  Ord-  mater  filiorum  Murcherti  O'Conor  (viz.  Donaldi 

nance  map  of  that  county,  sheet  22.    The  town-  O'Conor — MS.  L.)  et  filiorum  Walteri  65  filii 

land  contains  the  ruins  of  a  castle  standing  on  Eickardi,  matrona  pia,   ac  eleemozinaria,  deces- 

the  site  of  the  ancient  dun,   or  earthen  fort,  on  serunt — MS.  L.  1371 ;  Mac  Firb.  1370." 

a  hill  called  cnocan  ul  6uboa,  or  O'Dowda's  "  Comes  Desmonis  redemptus — MS.  L.  1371; 


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-Fhiach- 
rach1  Muaidhe  ;  the  whole  country  was  ravaged  by  him,  and  its  castles  were 
taken,  namely,  the  castles  of  Ard-na-riaghm  and  Castle-mic-Conor",  and  all  the 
English  that  were  in  them  were  driven  out ;  and  the  country  was  after  this 
parcelled  out  amongst  his  kinsmen  and  his  own  people0. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1372. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  three  hundred  seventy-two. 

Brian  More  Mac  Mahon,  Lord  of  Oriel,  marched  to  give  battle  to  the  English; 
but  he  was  privily  and  treacherously  slain  by  a  gallowglass  of  his  own  people, 
who  thereupon  fled  from  the  army. 

John  More  O'Dugan",  a  learned  historian  and  ollav  of  Hy-Many,  died,  after 
the  victory  of  Extreme  Unction  and  peuance,  at  Rinn-duin,  among  the  monks 
of  John  the  Baptist. 

Murtough  Muimhneach,  son  of  Murtough  More  Mageoghegan,  Chief  of 
Kinel-Fiachach,  died,  after  the  victory  of  penance. 

Mac  Feorais  [Bermingham]  was  takenq  prisoner  by  O'Kelly  and  his  sons  ; 
and  Richard  Mac  Feorais,  his  heir,  was  slain. 

Mac  Firb.   1370."  cal  prose  pieces  addressed  to  the  O'Kelly s,  his 

"  Donnchadus  O'Birn  obiit Mac  Firb.,  et  patrons,  of  which  copies  are  preserved  in  a  frag- 

O'Mulc."  ment  of  the  Book  of  Hy-Many,  in  the  Library 

p  John  More  CPDugan It  is  stated  in  the  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin  (H.  2.  7),  and  in  the 

Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  that  this  possession  of  Denis  H.  Kelly,  of  Castlekelly,  Esq. 

John  More  O'Dugan  was  the  chief  historian  of  For  some  account  of  this  remarkable  man  and 

all  Ireland,  and  that  he  had  been  seven  years  in  his  works,  the  reader  is  referred  to  O'Keilly's 

the  monastery  of  Rinn-duin  before  his  death,  Irish  Writers,  pp.99,  100,  101. 

which  this  chronicle  places  incorrectly  under  i  Mac  Feorais  was  taken — O'Flaherty  adds  to 

the  year  1370.     He  was  the  author  of  a  curious  this  passage  in  H.  2.  11,  so  as  to  make  it  read 

topographical  poem,  in  which  he  gives  the  names  as  follows  : 

of  the  principal  tribes  and  districts  in  Ulster,  "  Ulac   Peopaip  DO  jaBuil  oua  ceallutj  -| 

Connaught,  and  Meath,  and  the  chiefs  who  pre-  oa  cloinn,  i  bemuno  mac  hoibepo,  -\  Ripoepb 

sided  over  them  before  they  were  dispossessed  mac  Peopatp  a  oiope    DO    mupbuo — MS.  L. 

by  the  English,  or  by  other  Irish  tribes.     He  1371,  Mac  Firb.  et  Athenry  Regest." 

was  also  the  author  of  several  poems  and  poeti-  He  also  adds  the  two  obits  following  : 


656  awnaca  rcioshachca  eirceawN.  [1372. 

Uilliam  mac  uillicc,  ceann  puapcupa  -)  paoipb'e]0  bupcac,  -|  Uilliam  occ 
6  ceallaij  aobop  cigeajina  6  maine  Do  ecc. 

"  Gillajesus  filius  Tigernani  Magauran  hajres  "  Magister    Nic.    Mac    Tegheden    Officialis 

Tellachachse,  obiit MS.  L."  Cluan,  obiit — Mac  Firb." 

"  Murchertus  Mac  Donogh  obiit. — MacFirb.'"  "  Mac  William  Burke  aggressus  est  Donal- 

r  To  this  year  O'Flaherty  adds  the  following  dum  filium  Murcherti  O'Conor  optimatibus  in- 

passages  in  H.  2.  11:  ferioris  Connacise  stipatum  apud  Turlach  de  .  . . 


1372-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.       .  657 

William,  the  son  of  Ulick,  the  most  distinguished  man  of  the  Burkes  for 
gaiety  and  polite  manners,  and  William  Oge  O'Kelly,  heir  to  the  lordship  of 
Hy-Many,  diedr. 

[sic]  sed  Donaldus  liberorurn  et  satellitii  sui          "  Ad  aim.  1372.  Tempestas  in  vigilia  S.  Bri- 

viribus  evasit  et  Mac  Donogh  captus  est Mac     gidise  domos  et  templa  diruit. — Mac  Firb.  et 

Firb."  MS.  L." 


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