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aNNoLa  Rioghachca  emeaNN. 

ANNALS 

OF 

THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND, 

BY  THE  FOUR  MASTERS, 

FROM 

THE  EARLIEST  PERIOD  TO  THE  YEAR  1616. 


EDITED  FROM  MSS.  IN  THE  LIBRARY  OF  THE  ROYAL  IRISH  ACADEMY  AND  OF  TRINITY  COLLEGE,  IHBLIN,  mUi 

A  TRANSLATION,  AND  COPIOUS  NOTES, 

BY  JOHN  O'DONOVAN,  LLD.,  M.R.I.A., 

BARRISTER  AT  LAW. 


"  Olim  Regibus  parebaut,  nunc  per  Principes  factionibus  et  stndiis  trahuntuv :  nee  aliud  adversus  validissimas  gente? 
pro  nobis  utilius,  quam  quod  in  commune  non  consulunt.  Rams  duabns  tribusve  civitatibus  ad  propulsandum  commune 
periculum  conventus  :  ita  dum  singali  pugnant  universi  vincuntur." — Tacitus,  Agricola,  c.  12. 


SECOND    EDITION. 


VOL.  V. 

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

BOOKSELLERS  TO  THE  UNIVERSITY. 

1856. 


Dt  ELIX  : 

Stíntcíi  at  ifje  ffinibcisiii.i  Picss, 

BY  M.  H.  GILL. 


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aNTiaLo  Rioghachca  eiReoNw. 


1839305 


aNT\iaí.c(  Rioghcíchua  eiReaiMN. 


aOlS  CRIOSC,  1501. 
QoipCpiopr,  TTlile,  cúicc  ceD,  a  haon. 

06QN  mac  Ropa  mic  comaiy^  óicc  megumip  baí  na  canánac  copaoli  hi 
cclocap,  na  pea]i)"iin, -|  na  ai]icinnec  1  nacliaó  lupcaip  Saoí  ecctiaióe  eajiccna 
illaiDin, "]  1  ngaoióilcc  pfji  cicce  aoióeaó  coiccino  Da  jac  aon  nó  picceaó  a 
leap,-)  a  écc  in  Id  lún. 

Niall  mac  aipc  mic  eoccain  ui  néill  Décc. 

Tíúbpaije  mac  uí  concobaip  pailsij,  .1.  mac  cacaoip  mic  cuinn  mic  an 
calbaij  Décc. 

Ruopai^e  mac  mejmacjamna,  .1.  bpian  mac  l?emainn  do  mapbab  la 
cloinn  meg  aenjupa. 

CoccaD  ecip  oipjiallaib  pfin,  .1.  Sliocc  aooa  puaiD,  ■]  pliocc  Remainn. 
niag  marjarhna  (Ropa)  do  bpfir  a  caopaijecca  leip  pop  an  luce  cije,  -) 
pliocc  Pemainn  Do  cop  ap  an  rip  amac  1  cfnn  hui  neill.  mag  mar^amna 
Dionnpaicció  pop  pliocc  Remainn,-]  cfccrhailDÓ  poile  Doib  ace  at  an  coileip. 

s  John,  the  son  ofRossa — The  Dublin  copy  of  appears  from  various  old  maps  of  Ulster,  is  now 

the  Annals  of  Ulster  adds,  that  this  John  was  comprised  in  the  barony  of  Monaghan,  in  the 

the  son  of  Koss  the  Bishop,  and  that  he  died  county  of  Monaghan,  and  which  was  so  called 

"  in  id.  Jun.  mane  die  Dominico?^  because  it  was  allotted  for  the  maintenance  of 

''  Creaghts,  i.  e.  his  cattle  and  their  caretakers.  Mac  Mahon's  locc  cije  or  household See  Ac- 

— See  note ',  under  the  year  1496,  p.  1 224,  s!/;)ra.  count  of  the  Territory  or  Dominion  of  Farney, 

'  Lovghty,  or  Louty,   a  territory  which,  as  by  Evelyn  Philip  Shirley,  Esq.,  p.  30,  note  17. 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


THE  AGE  or  CHRIST,  1501. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  one. 

John,  the  son  of  Rossa^  son  of  Thomas  Oge  Maguire,  who  had  been  a  canon 
chorister  in  Clogher,  Parson  and  Erenagh  in  Achadh-Urchair  [Aghahircher],  a 
wise  man,  learned  in  Latin  and  Irish,  who  kept  a  house  of  general  hospitality 
for  all  that  stood  in  need  of  it,  died  in  the  Ides  of  June. 

Niall,  the  son  of  Art,  son  of  Owen  O'Neill,  died. 

Rury,  the  son  of  O'Conor  Faly,  i.  e.  the  son  of  Cahir,  son  of  Con,  son  of 
Calvagh,  died. 

Rury,  the  son  of  Mac  Mahon,  i.  e.  of  Brian,  the  son  of  Redmond,  was  slain 
by  the  sons  of  Magennis. 

\  A  war  [broke  out]  among  the  people  of  Oriel  themselves,  i.  e.  between  the 
descendants  of  Hucjh  Roe  and  the  descendants  of  Redmond.  Mac  Mahon 
(Rossa)  brought  his  creaghts''  with  him  into  the  Loughty',  and  drove  the  de- 
scendants of  Redmond  from  the  country  to  O'Neill.  Mac  Mahon  pursued  the 
descendants  of  Redmond,  and  they  came  to  an  engagement  with  each  other  at 

See  also  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Antiquities,  his  Table,  called  Loghty"  [or  Logh-tee],  "  but 
p.  70,  where  the  following  notice  of  the  term  particularly  out  of  some  tributary  Exactions 
Loughty  occurs  :  called  Cosherings,  which  he  imposed  on  all 
"  The  Dynast,  or  Chieftane,  being  elected.  Lands  except  those  of  the  Church,  and  of  such 
supported  himself  and  his  train,  partly  out  of  to  whom  he  granted  special  priviledges  of  Ex- 
certain  Lands  set  apart  for  the  Maintenance  of  emption." 


1260  awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1501. 

Uoippóealbac  (.1.  mac  inline  an  lajila)  mac  ciiinn  mic  en]!!  iii  neill  Do  hC\t 
ace  consnarh  la  pliocc  Remainn.  Coi}ipóealbac  umopjio,  mac  njeapna  a 
aoipi  poóéin  bá  pfpp  Do  gaoióealaib  do  rhapbaD  la  mag  rhacjamna  annpin, -| 
TTlac  mec  Domnaill  jallocclac  (60111  mac  Colla)  do  mapbab  co  pocaibib  ele. 

TTlac  me^uiDip  comáp  mac  comáip  oicc  mic  c<n  jiolla  buib  (.1.  maguiDip) 
Do  mapboD  ap  pliab  Hfra  la  cloinn  bpiam  mic  T?emainn  me5  marjamna  co 
nap  a  rhuincipe  ina  pappaD.  Qriao  na  mairepo  mapbab  ann.  ^lolla  lopa 
mac  emainn,  Uomáp  mac  Duinn  mic  emainn,  -]  copbmac  mac  Sfain  mic 
emainn  meguiDip,  T?i)aiDpi  buióe  mac  emamn  óicc  me5uiDip,i  6mann,i  TDaj- 
nup  eoT^anac  oa  mac  aoba  mic  bpiain  rhésnióip,  bpian,  -]  Donncliaó  Da  mac 
raibcc  mic  oabfio  mic  jiolla  buibe  mic  majnupa,  -\  cóiccfp  Don  cinib  ceDna 
co  pocaibib  oile  no  mapbab  amaille  ppiú. 

Caiplén  pliccij  do  jabail  le  r!peimi]iib,  "|  rocc  paip  anuap  ap  a  bapp  la 
cloinn  T?uaibpi  mic  roippbealbaij;  cappaij  ui  concobaip,  *]  la  cloinn  peib- 
limib  mic  roippbealbaij  cappai^  ui  concobaip.  Qn  Calbac  caoc  mac  Doiii- 
naill  mic  eoccain  ui  concobai]i  oo  mapbab  ann,  ~\  Sfan  mac  Ruaibpi  mic 
coippoealbaij;  cappaij  ui  concobaip  do  riiicim  lap  an  ccalbac  a  pppirj^uin 
ap  in  laraip  pin. 

Qibne  mac  Sfaiii  i  caráin  Do  mapbab  la  a  Deapbpacaip  pfippin  bpian 
pionn. 

niac  Domnaill  cloinne  ceallaij  (jiolla  na  naem  mac  pibe  copbmaic  mic 
aipr)  DO  mapbab  la  peiblimib  mac  Dotmchaib  mic  comáip  mégiiibip. 

6mann  mac  Ricaipo  a  búpc  Do  ^abóil  lé  mac  uilliam  cloinni  Riocaipo 
aj  cocr  Ó  cupup  San  Sem.  puapcclab  mop  do  bfm  ap,  -]  bpaijDe  maire 
Dia  muincip  imó  mac. 

'  Ath-an-choileir,  i.  e.  the  ford  of  the  quarry.  mainn,   coiiióealBac,    mac    injine   lapla  ciUe 

This  name  is  now  obsolete.  oajiu,  .1.  mac  cuinn,  mic  enpi  ui  neiU,  an  moc 

'  The  Earl's  daughter,  i.  e.  the  daughter  of  njeapna  a  noipe  poóéin  ba  pfpp  do  jaoioea- 

thc  Earl  of  Kildare.  laib  an   can   pin,  -|   bo   mapbao  é    ip   in  jcar 

"'  This  Ttirlough This  is   a  remarkable  in-  hipin,  y5a. 

stance  of  the  defect  of  the  style  of  these  Annals.  °  Sliahh  Beatha,  i.  e.   Bith's  mountain,  now 

The  language  should  be  thus  constructed  :  Slieve  Bahn,  or  Slieve  Beagh,  a  long  range  of 

D'lonnpaij  mac  macjuiiina  pop  pliocc  Re-  mountains  extending  in  a  north-eastern  direc- 

mainn,  -\   po   cfjairiipfc  d"ú  poile  ace   or  an  tion  through  the  barony  of  Magherastephana,  in 

coiléip.     Ro  bnoi  aj  conjnurii  lu  pliocc  Re-  the  county  of  Fermanagh,  and  through  the  pa- 


1501.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1261 

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

The  son  of  Maguire,  i.  e.  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  Oge,  son  of  Gilla-Duv, 
i.  e.  the  Maguire,  was  slain  on  Sliabh  Beatha",  by  tlie  sons  of  Brian,  son  of  Red- 
mond Mac  Mahon,  with  a  slaughter  of  his  people  along  with  him.  The  following 
are  the  chieftains  who  were  there  slain  :  Gilla-Isa,  son  of  Edmond  ;  Thomas, 
the  son  of  Don,  son  of  Edmond;  and  Cormac,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Edmond 
Maguire  ;  Rory  Boy,  the  sou  of  Edmond  Oge  Maguire  ;  Edmond  and  Manus 
Eoghanagh,  the  two  sons  of  Hugh,  son  of  Brian  Maguire;  Brian  and  Donough, 
the  two  sons  of  Teige,  son  of  David,  son  of  Gilla-Boy  Mac  Manus,  and  five  of 
the  same  tribe,  besides  numbers  of  others. 

The  castle  of  Sligo  was  taken  by  [means  of]  ladders ;  and  the  sons  of  Rory, 
son  of  Turlough  Carragh  O'Conor,  and  the  sons  of  Felim,  son  of  Turlough  Car- 
ragh  O'Conor,  made  their  way  into  it  from  the  top.  Calvagh  Caech,  the  son  of 
Donnell,  son  of  Owen  O'Conor,  was  slain  in  it ;  and  John,  the  son  of  Rory,  son 
of  Turlough  Carragh  O'Conor,  fell  by  [the  hand  of]  Calvagh  in  the  heat  of  the 
contest. 

Aibhne,  the  son  of  Jolm  O'Kane,  was  slain  by  his  own  brother,  Brian  Finn. 

Mac  Donnell  of  Clankelly  (Gilla-na-naev,  the  son  of  Cormac,  who  was  son 
of  Art),  Avas  slain  by  Felim,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Thomas  Maguire. 

Edmond,  the  son  of  Rickard  Burke,  was  taken  by  Mac  William  of  Clan- 
rickard,  on  his  return  from  the  pilgrimage  of  St.  James  [in  Spain].  A  great 
ransom  Avas  exacted  for  him,  and  good  hostages  of  his  people,  besides  his  son. 

rishes  of  Clones  and  Tedavnet,  and  along  the  describes  the  situation  of  this  mountain  as  fol- 

western  boundary  of  the  barony  of  Trough,  in  lows  in  his  Ada  Sanctorum,  p.  216,  note  13: 

the  county  of  Monaghan,  and  through  a  part  of  "  Est  mons  Beatha  in  Ultonia  in  coniitatuni  de 

the  parish  of  Clogher,  in  the  county  of  Tyrone.  Monechan  et    de    Permanach    confinibus."'     In 

For  some  account  of  the  origin  of  this  name  the  the  Down  Survey  the  name  of  this  mountain  is 

reader  is  referred  to  the  LecAhar  Gahhala  of  the  correctly  enough  anglicised  Slicve  Beagh  ;  but 

O'Clerys  ;    Haliday's  edition  of  the  first  part  in  Seward's  Topographical  Dictionary  it  is  in- 

of  Keating's  History  of  Ireland,  pp.  152,  154;  correctly  made   Slieve  Baugh.     The  local  and 

and  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  1.    Colgan  aboriginal  pronunciation  of  the  name  will  be 


1262  aNNaf,a  Kio^hachca  eiReanN.  [i502. 

TTlaoileaclaiTin  mac  uilljam  mes  pajnaill  caoipeac  muincipe  heólaip  bécc 
ia]i  ccian  aoi)\ 

Uaóg  mac  coipjibealbaij  mic  péilim  pinn  Do  majibaó  la  cloinn  Puaiópi 
mec  Dia]iniaDa. 

bpictn  mac  Ruaiópi  mec  Diapmaca  Do  mapbaó  a  caiplén  ruillpce  amac 
oaon  upcop  poijoe,  -]  ni  po  liaDrhab  cia  pop  mapb. 

Cpeac  la  hua  cconcobaip  pop  concobap  mac  Diapmaca  hi  ccaipiul  bpa- 
cóin  UÍ  bpocain,  "|  an  baile  do  lopccaó  laip. 

Oomnall  ua  liuiccinn  oiDe  pccol  epeann  lé  Dan  Décc  lap  Drocr  ó  cupup 
pan  péin. 

OonncViab  ócc  mág  capcaij  mac  DonncliaiD  mic  copbmaic  mic  DonnchaiD 
mic  Diapmaca  mic  copbmaic  pinn  mic  Domnaill  móip  Décc,  ciccfpna  Galla 
eipiDe. 

Uoippbealbac  o  bpiam  ciccfpna  cuabmuman  Do  lopccaó  conncae  luim- 
nigh,  1  coipi  máiji  pan  ngfimpfDli. 

aOlS  CRIOSC,  1502. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  CÚ1CC  ceD,  a  do. 

Semup  mac  RúDpuije  meg  marjamna  corhapba  cluana  heoaip  Decc. 

Qpc  ua  gallcubaip  "|  eóin  ó  loipce  Diap  abbaó  baí  in  impfpain  ppia  poile 
im  abbaine  eapa  puaió,  -]  a  nécc  in  aén  ló  co  noibce. 

TTlainipcip  na  mbpafap  pan  ccaban  Do  ^nouccaó  la  hua  Pajallaij  on 
Róim  Do  na  bpairpib  De  obpepuancia,  i  nacchaiD  na  mbpórap  De  comuni  uica. 

recognised  by  the  Irish  scholar  from  the  phrase  ■■  Ealla. — This  is  a  river  which  gives  name  to 

used  in  the  parisli  of  Clones  by  the  natives  in  the  territory  now  barony  of  Ducaij  Galla,  or 

welcoming  their  visiters,  namely,  Sé  do  Beaca  Duhallow,    in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of 

ap  ShliaB  6eaca.  Cork.     The   head  of  this   branch   of  the  Mac 

°  Caisiul-Bracain-  Ui-Brocain,  i.  e.  the  cashel  Carthys  took  the  name  or  title  of  Mac  Donough. 

or  stone  fort  of  Bracan  O'Brocain. — See  this  — See   Smith's   Natural  and   Civil  Histori/  of 

place  mentioned  before  at  the  year  1472.     The  Cork,  chap.  vi. 

ruins  of  this  cashel  arc  still  to  be  seen  in  the  '^  Cois-Maighe,  i.  e.  along  the  Eiver  Maigue, 

townlaud   of  Carrickmore,   a  short  distance  to  now  Coshma,  a  barony  along  the  Eiver  Maigh, 

the  south-east  of  the  town  of  Boyle,  in  the  parish  or  Maigue,  in  the  county  of  Limerick, 

and  barony  of  Boyle,  and  county  of  Roscommon.  The  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  con- 


1502.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1263 

Melaghlin,  the  son  of  William  Mac  Eannall,  Chief  of  Muintir-Eolais,  died  at 
an  advanced  age. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Felim  Finn,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of 
Rory  Mac  Dermot. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Eory  Mac  Dermot,  was  slain  by  a  dart  cast  from  the  castle 
of  Tulsk  ;  and  it  was  not  confessed  who  it  was  that  killed  him. 

O'Conor  took  a  prey  from  Conor  Mac  Dermot  at  Caisiul-Bracain-Ui-Bhro- 
cain°,  and  burned  the  town. 

Donnell  O'Higgin,  Chief  Preceptor  to  the  schools  of  Ireland  in  poetry,  died, 
after  his  return  from  the  pilgrimage  of  St.  James. 

Donough  Oge  Mac  Carthy,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  Do- 
nough,  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Cormac  Finn,  son  of  Dounell  More,  died.  He 
was  Lord  of  Ealla''. 

In  the  Winter  of  this  year  Turlough  O'Brien,  Lord  of  Thomond,  burned 
the  county  of  Limerick  and  Cois-Maighe''. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1502. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  two. 

James,  son  of  Rury  Mac  Mahon,  Coarb  of  Clones,  died. 

Art  O'Gallagher  and  John  O'Loiste,  two  abbots  who  contended  with  each 
for  the  abbacy  of  Assaroe,  died  on  the  one  day. 

The  monastery  of  the  friars  in  Cavan'  was  procured  from  Rome,  by  O'Reilly, 
for  the  friars  of  the  order  De  Observantia,  in  opposition  to  the  friars  [of  the 
order]  De  Communi  Vita. 

tains  the  two  entries  following,  omitted  by  the  kinsmen.    The  most  distinguished  of  those  who 

Four  Masters  :  were  killed  on  this  occasion  were  the  son  of  the 

"A.  D.  1501.  The  daughter  of  Mao  Manus  Lordof  Aig,  and  the  three  sons  of  Colla,  son 

died  this  year,  i.e.  More,  the  daughter  of  Cathal,  of  Alexander    Mac    DonneU,    i.   e.    Turlough, 

son  of  Cathal  More  Mac  Manus,   and  wife  of  Donough,  and  Ludar." 

O'Fialain,  i.  e.  Farrell,    an  undeniably  distin-  '  Cavan, — According   to  Ware   the   monas- 

guished  woman.  tery  of  Cavan  was  founded  by  Gelasius  Rufus 

"The  Scots  sustained  a  great  defeat  on  Pa-  O'Reilly,   in  the  year  1300,  for  Friars  Minor, 

trick's  day  this  year,  and  sixty  of  them  were  and  given  to   the  Friars  Minor  of  the  Obger- 

slain  by  Art,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  and  his  vance  in  the  year  1502. 


1264  aNNQi-a  Pio^hachra  eiReawH.  [1502. 

Caócc  mac  cuinn  inic  ooriinaill  ui  neill,  Oorhnall  mac  peilim  ui  neill, 
Gocchan  bocc  mac  neill  mic  enpi  ui  neill,  -]  Domnall  mac  pilip  mejuiDip 
Décc. 

"CaXicc  mac  comalcaij  an  eini^  mac  Diapmaca  ranaip  mai je  luipcc  t)o 
rhapban  50  hairfpac  la  clomn  l?iiait)|ii  meic  DiapmaDa  hi  ccoillcib  cléijii^. 

nioióm  na  colca  pinne  .1.  i  nslionn  Gibnije  do  fabaipc  la  cloinn  coipp- 
bealbaij  óicc  mic  coippbealbai^  mic  neill  puaiD,  ap  ó  mbaoijill  Deapbparaip 
a  narap  .1.  Niall  buióe,  dú  in  po  luapbab  ó  baoijill,  Niall  cona  óiap  mac  .1. 
Rubpaijei  Domnall  ballac  co  nopuing  ele,"]  ba  he  ó  baoijill  po  inDill  celcc 
pop  cloinn  coippóealbaij  Dia  po  mapbab  é  buóéin. 

InDpaicciD  ló  hiia  paijillij  (Sfan  mac  cacail)  ap  pilip  mac  coippDel- 
baij  méguiDip,  1  maijpéióe  an  cípe  op  cfnn  cloinne  hamlaoib  do  piubal  "]  do 
lopcaó  leó,  1  Gmann  mac  pilip  piabai^  mic  amlaoib  co  nDpuing  oile  Do 
mapbab.  Po  inapbaó  on  rpluaj  pin  vii  Rajallaij,  TTiac  111  Rajallaij  buóéin 
.1.  Oomnall  an  rhaja  -|  mac  inic  maoilmapcain  concobap. 

OonnchaD  mac  concobaip  mic  comaip  óicc  meguibip  Decc  do  jaib  cpo  na 
ngon  DO  paDaó  paip  hi  maibm  pleibe  bfra. 

Ctpc  mac  enpi  mic  eoccain  ui  neill  do  mapbab  la  hapc  mac  cuinn  mic 
enpi  mic  eojain  ui  neill. 

Gojan  mac  aoba  mic  aipc  ui  neill  Do  mapbab  la  haob  mac  cuinn  ui 
neill. 

Caral  mac  maoileclainn  Duib  mégpampabain  Do  mapbab  le  cloinn 
ui  pa^allai^  ap  cappaig  mic  bpiain  -]  a  cloinne. 

Slóicceab  la  haob  ócc  mac  aoba  puaib  ui  bomnaill, "]  ITlasuibip  Sfan  do 
Ó0I  la  mac  ui  bomnaill  ap  lonnpaiccib  i  nDapcpaije  coininnpi  ap  mac  Sfain 

'  Oteen  Bocht,  i.  e.  Owen  or  Eugene  the  poor,  in  the  same  parish.     Tulach-finn  is  situated  ex- 

'  Coilte  Cleirigh,  i.  e.   the  clerk's   or  clergy-  actly  in  the  middle  of  this  valley.     The  River 

man's  woods.     This  name,  which  was  that  of  a  Eidhneach,  which  was  the  ancient  boundary  of 

■woody  district  in  the  barony  ofBoyle,  and  county  the  territory  of  Tir-Boghaine,  now  the  barony 

of  Roscommon,  is  now  obsolete.  of  Banash,  discharges  itself  into  the  harbour  of 


'D"l 


"  Tulach-finn,  now  Tullaghfin,  a  townland  in  Inver,   in  the   bay   of  Donegal. — See  Battle  of 

the   parish   of  Inver,   barony  of  Banagh,    and  Magh  Rath,  p.  156,  note  ■■. 
county  of  Donegal.  x  Mac  yl!c%.— Tliis   was   the    name   of  the 

*  Glenn- Eidhnighe,  i.  e.  the  vale  of  the  River  chief  of  a  branch  of  the  Mnguircs,  seated  in  the 

Eidhneach,  now  Gleneany,  a  remarkable  valley  barony  of  Clanawley,  in  the  south-west  of  the 


1502.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1265 

Teige,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Donnell  O'Neill  ;  Donnell,  the  son  of  Felim 
O'Neill ;  Owen  Bocht',  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Henry  O'Neill  ;  and  Donnell, 
the  son  of  Philip  Maguire,  died. 

Teige,  son  of  Tomaltagh  the  Hospitable  Mac  Dermot,  Tanist  of  Moylurg, 
was  exultingly  slain  at  Coillte  Cleirigh',  by  the  sons  of  Rory  ]\Iac  Dermot. 

The  defeat  of  Tulach-finn",  in  Glen-Eidhnighe",  was  given  by  the  sons  of 
Turlough  Oge,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Niall  Roe,  to  O'Boyle,  their  paternal 
uncle,  i.  e.  Niall  Boy,  where  O'Boyle  himself  and  his  two  sons,  Rury  and  Don- 
nell Ballagh,  and  others,  were  slain.  It  was  O'Boyle  himself  that  had  plotted 
a  snare  against  the  sons  of  Turlough,  by  which  he  himself  was  killed. 

An  incursion  was  made  by  O'Reilly  (John,  the  son  of  Cathal)  against  Philip, 
the  son  of  Turlough  Maguire,  and  he  traversed  and  burned  the  level  part 
of  the  district  lying  above  Clann-Awley,  and  slew  Edmond,  the  son  of  Philip 
Reagh  Mac  Awley",  and  some  others.  Of  O'Reilly's  own  army  were  slain 
O'Reilly's  own  son,  Donnell-an-mhagha",  and  the  son  of  Mac  Mael-Martain*, 
i.  e.  Conor. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Conor,  who  Avas  son  of  Thomas  Oge  Maguii'e,  died  of 
the  virulence  of  the  wounds  inflicted  on  him  in  the  battle  of  Sliabh  Beatha". 

Art,  the  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen  O'Neill,  was  slain  by  Art,  the  son  of 
Con,  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen  O'Neill. 

Owen,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Art  O'Neill,  was  slain  by  Hugh,  the  son  of 
Con  O'Neill. 

Cathal,  son  of  Melaghlm  Duv  Magauran,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  O'Reilly, 
at  the  instigation  of  the  son  of  Brian  [Magauran]  and  his  sons. 

Hugh  Oge,  son  of  Hugh  Roe  O'Donnell,  mustered  a  force,  and,  being  joined 
by  Maguire,  i.  e.  John,  they  made  an  incursion  into  Dartry-Coninsi",  against  the 

county  of  Cavan.  '   Mac    Mael-Martain. —  This   name   is    now 

'  Donnell-an-mkagha,  i.  e.  Donnell,  or  Daniel,  always  anglicised  Martin, 

of  the  plain.     This  place  is  now  called  m"^  "i  ^  Sliabh  Beatha,  now  Slieve  Beagh. — See  note 

Irish,  but  strangely  anglicised  Muff.     It  is  si-  under  the  year  1501. 

tuated  in  the  parish  of  Enniskeen,  about  four  ^  Dartry-Coninsi,  now  Dartry,  a  barony  in 
miles  from  the  town  of  Bailieborough,  in  the  the  west  of  the  county  of  Monaghan.  Coninsi, 
barony  of  Clankee,  and  county  of  Cavan.  Here  the  latter  part  of  this  compound  name,  is  the 
are  still  to  be  seen  the  ruins  of  a  castle  erected  genitive  case  of  Cu-insi,  a  man's  name,  signify- 
by  Conor,  the  son  of  Conor  More  O'Reilly.  ing  dog  of  the  island. 

7  T 


1266  aNwaca  Rio^hachua  eiReaNH.  [1503. 

buioe  méj  riiacgarhna,  -\  baile  rhic  Sfain  buióe  -|  an  np  uile  Do  lomloi^cab 
len.  Cpeaca  an  cipe  Do  rficfrh  pfmpo.  Oiii^ialla  ó  abainn  na  heójanaca 
apceac  do  bpfic  pop]ia,  -|  Sliocc  peiblimiD  ui  Rajallaig,  -]  yliocr  DonnchaiD 
mesuiDiii.  niac  ui  DomnaiU-i  ITlasiiiDip  do  imfeacc  co  cpoóa  copccapac  aji 
eiccin  opjia  pin  uile,  -]  mapbaó  Do  oeriam  Doib  a|i  an  coip  im  peilim  mac 
concobaip  mic  péilim  ui  Paijaillij  co  pocaiDib  oile,  -\  cocc  plan  Dia 
cnjib. 

OonnchaD  ua  bpiain  do  écc.  TTlac  piDe  bpiam  true  concobctip  mic  TTIar- 
^amna  mic  TTluipcfpcaij  mic  coippDelbaij  mic  raiDg  mic  concobaip  na 
piúDaine  mic  DonnchaiD  caipppig  -\]}a.  Uopap  póiD  -|  paiDbpfpa  muman  ap 
mfóón,  ciT^eapna  ó  at  Dapa  50  luimneach,  "]  on  mbaile  nua  co  mainipnp  an 
aonai^.     Uijeapna  fchoplac  -)  clioille  beichne  an  Donnchaó  hi  pin. 

aOlS  CPIOSU,  1503. 
QoiS  Cr?iopc,  niile,  cuicc  ceo,  acpi. 

Ua  beóllam  comapba  colaim  cille  1  nopuim  cliab  Decc. 

ITlajuiDip  Sfan  mac  pilip  mic  comaip  rhoip  (.1.  an  gioUaDub)  en  poja 
Duppaóaib  epeann  ina  ami  pip,  an  caon  jaoiDeol  pa  mo  rpócaipe  -]  Daonnacc, 
-|  ap  peapp  Do  caomain,  -|  Do  copain  a  cip,  ■]  a  ralam,  Do  bpeapp  Do  clef 
coccaiD  1  nacchaió  ainpine,  -[  coiccpioc,  pa  peapp  pmacc,  pecc, -]  piajail  hi 

°  His  town — 111  the  original  unnecessary  tau-  and  territory  so  called,  see  note  under  the  year 

tology  is  used,  as  will  appear  from  the  literal  1457. 

translation,  which  is  as  follows  :  f  Ac/are,    úc  Dapa See  note  '',   under  the 

"  A  hosting  by  Hugh  Oge,  son  of  Hugh  Roe,  year  1464,  p.  1034,  supra. 
O'Donnell,  and  Maguire,  John,  went  with  the  e  Baik-nua,  now  Newtown,  in  the  parish  of 
son  of  O'Donnell,  on  an  incursion  into  Dartry-  Kilkeedy,  barony  of  Pubblebrien,  and  county  of 
Coninsi,  against  the  son  of  John  Boy  Mac  Limerick. — See  the  Ordnance  map,  sheet  4. 
Mahon,  and  the  town"  [seat]  "of  John  Boy,  ''  Mainistir-an-aenaigh,  now  Mannisterane- 
and  all  the  territory,  were  completely  burned  uagli,  situated  about  five  miles  to  the  north- 
by  them,"  &c.  lie.  west  of  the  little  town  of  BrufF,  in  a  parish  of  the 

^  Fkd  before  them — In  the  Dublin  copy  of  same  name,  barony  of  Pobblebrien,  and  county 

the  Annals  of  Ulster  the  reading  is:   "  pppeió  of    Limerick.      O'Brien,    King    of    Thomond, 

an  cipi   DO   reirhiD   pompa,  i.e.  the  people  of  founded  here,  about  the  year  1 151,  a  monastery 

the  territory  fled  before  them  with  their  cattle."  for  Franciscan  Friars,  the  magnificent  ruins  of 

*■  Owenagh. — For  the  situation  of  the  river  which    still   remain    in    tolerable    preservation. 


1503.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1267 

son  of  John  Boy  Mac  Mahon  ;  and  they  totally  burned  his  town"  and  the  whole 
territory.  The  spoils  of  the  country  fled  before  them".  The  people  of  Oriel 
from  the  River  Owenagh'  inwards,  the  descendants  of  Felim  O'Reilly,  and  the 
descendants  of  Donough  Maguire,  came  up,  and  opposed  them  ;  but  the  son  of 
O'Donnell  and  Maguire  made  a  brave  and  triumphant  retreat  from  them  all, 
and  slew  some  of  their  piu-suers,  among  whom  was  Felim,  the  son  of  Conor,  son 
of  Felim  O'Reilly,  with  many  others,  and  returned  safe  to  their  homes. 

Donough  O'Brien  died.  He  was  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Conor,  son  of 
Mahon,  son  of  Murtough,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Conor-na-Siud- 
aine,  son  of  Donough  Cairbreach,  &c.  This  Donough  was  the  fountain  of  the 
prosperity  and  afiluence  of  all  Munster  ;  he  was  Lord  of  [that  district  extend- 
ing] from  Adare*^  to  Limerick,  and  from  Baile-nua^  to  Mainistir-an-aenaigh", 
(and)  Lord  of  Aharlagh'  and  Coill-Beithne". 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1503. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  three. 

O'Beollain,  Coarb  of  St  Columbkille  at  DrumcliiF,  died. 

Maguire,  i.  e.  John,  son  of  Philip,  son  of  Thomas  More,  i.  e.  Gilla-Duv,  the 
choice  of  the  chieftains  of  Lreland  in  his  time,  the  most  merciful  and  humane 
of  the  Irish,  the  best  protector  of  his  country  and  lands,  the  most  warlike  oppo- 
nent of  inimical  tribes  and  neighbours,  the  best  in  jurisdiction,  authority,  and 

Before  the  erection  of  the  monastery  the  place  The  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster 

had  been  called  Aenach-beg,  i.  e.  the  small  fair-  contain  the  two  following  passages  under  this 

place.  year  which  have   been   omitted  by  the  Four 

'  Aharlagh,  a  romantic  valley  in  the  barony  Masters  : 

of  Clanwilliam,  and  county  of  Tipperary,  and  "A.  D.  1502.    The  daughter  of  Rory  Caech 

about  three  miles  due  south  of  the  town  of  Tip-  Maguire  died  in  this  year,  i.  e.  Meave,  who  was 

perary.     It  lies  between  Slievenamuck  and  the  wife  to   Teige  Mac   Gaillghille"    [now  Lilly], 

Galty  mountains,  the  former  being  on  the  north  "and  who  had  brotight  forth  children  for  the 

side,  and  between  it  and  the  town  of  Tipperary.  young  abbot. 

^  Coill-Beithne,    now   Kilbehiny,    an  ancient  "  There   was   much  inclement  weather  this 

church,  giving  name  to  a  parish  in  the  south-  year  so  that  it  killed  the  most  of  the  cattle  of 

east  extremity  of  the  barony  of  Coshlea  (coif  Ireland,  and  prevented  the  husbandmen  from 

pléiBe),  in  the  county  of  Limerick.  tilling  the  earth." 

7  Y  2 


1268  aNNQf-a  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [i503. 

ccill  1  1  ccuair  Oecc  ina  longpopc  pfin  i  ninip  cfirlionn  Dia  Domnaij  do  y'onn- 
paó  lap  nfiyrfcc  aippinn,  an  Seccma'6  callainn  Qppil,  mp  mbuaib  onjca 
1  aicpicche,  -|  a  aonacal  i  mainiy^np  na  mbpacap  i  noun  na  njall  lap  rcoja 
6Ó  innce. 

ITlac  ui  DorhnaiU  .i.  Donnchab  na  nopDócc  oo  jabóil  lé  cloinn  ciiinn  ui  neiU, 
1  albanaij  boDap  hi  ppappab  cloinne  cuinn  Dm  bpfir  leó  Do  paiccib  in  bom- 
naill  aob  puab,  l  Dorhnall  mac  ui  borhnaill  Do  pccarab  Donnchaib  (.i.  ocon 
abainn  Dian  hainm  an  Daol)  i  a  écc  De. 

6pian  mac  aoba  méjuibip  Décc. 

Gmann  mac  eojain  mic  aoba  Tfiéjnibip  cona  mac,  TTlac  copbmaic  mic 
aoba  megiiiDip, "]  mac  coippbealbai  j  ui  maoileDúin  Do  mapbab  i  noibfipcc 
oibce  If't  cloinn  bpiain  mic  aoba  mésuibip. 

TTlac  ui  caráin  (RipDfpD)  Do  pccacab  la  a  Deapbpacaip  pfin  Dorhnall 
clfipeác. 

CebóiD  mac  uacéip  a  bíipc  nccfpna  conmaicne  cúile  cólab  cfnn  Daon- 
nacca  -]  Da^oinij  jail  connacr  Décc  lap  peanDacaib. 

Uoippbealbac  occ  ua  concobaip  (.i.  ua  concobaip  Donn)  Décc  i  mbaile 
robaip  bpijijDe  lap  ccpebloio  paDa. 

TTlaibm  aobal  mop  la  mac  uilliam  cloinne  T?iocaipD  pop  ua  cceallaij,  -] 
pop  bpfim  no  conmaicmb  cúile  Dú  in  po  mapbab  eprhóp  a  njallójlac  oiblinib 
DO  cloinn  nDomnaill, "]  do  cloinn  cpuibne  a  ccimceall  a  cconpapal,  i  in  po 
mapbab  uarép  mac  Sfain  a  bupc  paoi  cmnpfbna  epibe. 

Uebóio  mac  uaceip  a  bupc  nccfpno  mupccpaije  cuipc  do  mapbab  la 
Donnchab  an  cuilinn  mac  ui  ceapbaill  -|  la  concubap  ua  nDuibibip. 


'  'I'o  0''J)o7iiieU,  00  paicciD  ui  DoriinaiU,  i.  e.  tiou   aiiioiig  the  natives    this  river  was  called 

to,  or  towards  O'Donnell.     t)o  pncició,   or  bo  Dael,    i.  e.    the   chafer,    because  it   bends    and 

poi^io  is  used  in  the  best  Irish  manuscripts  lor  winds  itself  like  that  insect, 
the  modern   Dionnpoijio,   to,   or  towards,  i.  e.  °  Muscraiyhe-Chuirc. — This  was   the  ancient 

(«/,  or  tisqiie  ad.  name  of  the  barony  of  Clanwilliam,  in  the  south- 

"  Dael,  now  the  River  Deel,    or  Burn  Deel,  west  of  the  county  of  Tipperary.     The  name 

which   rises   in  Lough  Deel,   in  the  barony  of  Clanwilliam  is  derived  from  the  clan,   or  race, 

Raphoe,  in  the  county  of  Donegal,  and,  winding  of  William  Burke,  who  were  seated  therein  for 

its  course  in  a  south-east  direction,  discharges  many  centuries.     Keating,   who   was  well  ac- 

itself  into  the  River  Foyle,  a  short  distance  to  quainted  with  the  situation  of  this  territory, 

the  north  of  Lifford.     According  to  the  tradi-  mentions  the  church  of  St.  Beacan  at  the  foot  of 


1503]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  12G9 

regulation,  both  in  Church  and  State,  died,  in  his  fortress  at  Enniskillen,  on 
Sunday,  the  7th  of  the  Calends  of  April,  after  having  heard  mass,  and  after  the 
victory  of  Unction  and  Penance,  and  was  buried  in  the  monastery  of  the  friars 
at  Donegal,  which  he  had  selected  [as  his  place  of  interment]. 

The  son  of  O'Donnell,  i.  e.  Donough-na-nordog,  was  taken  prisoner  by  the 
sons  of  Con  O'Neill,  and  some  Scots  who  were  along  with  them  (the  sons 
of  Con),  and  brought  to  O'Donnell',  i.  e.  Hugh  Roe  ;  and  Donnell,  the  son  of 
O'Donnell,  maimed  Donough  (at  the  river  which  is  called  Dael"),  in  conse- 
quence of  which  he  died. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Hugh  Maguire,  died. 

Edmond,  the  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Hugh  Maguire,  with  the  son  of  Torlogh 
O'Muldoon,  were  slain,  in  a  nocturnal  affray,  by  Brian,  the  son  of  Hugh  Maguire. 

The  son  of  O'Kane  (Richard)  was  maimed  by  his  own  brother,  Donnell 
Cleireach. 

Theobald,  the  son  of  Walter  Burke,  Lord  of  Conmaicne-Cuile-Toladh  [in 
the  county  of  Mayo],  head  of  the  humanity  and  hospitahty  of  the  Enghsh  of 
Connaught,  died  at  an  advanced  age. 

Turlough  Oge  O'Conor  (i.  e.  O'Conor  Don)  died  at  Ballytober-Bride  [in  the 
county  of  Roscommon],  after  a  long  sickness. 

Mac  William  of  Clanrickard  gave  a  very  great  overthrow  to  O'Kelly'  and  a 
party  of  the  people  of  Conmaicne-Cuile,  where  the  greater  part  of  the  gallow- 
glasses  of  both  the  Clann-Donnell  and  Clann-Sweeny  were  slain  around  their 
constables,  and  where  Walter,  the  son  of  John  Burke,  a  distinguished  captain, 
was  also  slain. 

Theobald,  the  son  of  Walter  Burke,  Lord  of  Muscraighe-Chuirc",  was  skin 
by  Donough-an-Chuilinn,  the  son  of  O'CarroU,  and  Conor  O'Dwyer. 

Slieve  Grott,  one  of  the  Galty  mountains,  as  in  peacon,  and  is  situated  in  the  parish  of  Killal- 

Mus-craighe  Chuirc.     His  words  are  :  drifF,  in  the  barony  of  Clanwilliam,  and  county 

"  6écan  naoiiica  do  beannuij  a  jjciU  béa-  of  Tipperary,  at  the  foot  of  that  part  of  the 

coin  a  TTIupcpai  je  Chuipc  Do'n  leic  éuaió  Do  Galty  mountains  still  called  Slieve  Grott.     It 

ShliaB  5-Cpoc,  i.e.  the  holy  Becan,  who  blessed  should  be  also  remarked  that  there  is  a  lough, 

Kilbecan  in  Muscraighe  Chuirc,  on  the  north  called  Lough  Muscraighe,   on  the  Galty  moun- 

side  of  Slieve  g-Crot." — Reign  of  Dermot,  the  tains,   on  the  south  boundary  of  the  parish  of 

Son  of  Fergus.  Templeneiry,   in  the  barony  of  Clanwilliam. — 

The  church  of  this  saint  is  now  called  Kil-  See  the  Leabhar  Breac,  fol.  1 1 1. 


1270  awwaca  Rio^hachca  eiTjeaNW.  [i503. 

lajila  cille  Oapa  do  óol  hi  8a;raib,  -\  a  ceacc  po  Buaió  eipce  ")  a  inac  bai 
hi  lairh  pij  pa;can  Oo  rabaipc  Ifip. 

Sluaicceao  lap  an  lapla  cceona  la  gallaib  "|  la  gaoibelaib  laijfn  50 
majline  50  ca|i]iaicc  pfpccupa  Dia  po  bpip  caiplén  beóil  peppoe,  -\  Dia 
TiDeapna  conprábla  hi  cappaicc  pfpccupa  t)0  rhac  an  rpanrcdaij. 

Sluaiccean  aobal  itióp  la  mall  mac  cuinn  niic  aoba  buióe  cona  corhaoncab 
gall  -|  5aoibel  1  ccip  eojam  oia  po  imrij  rip  eojain  co  hiomlán,  -\  ui  eacDac 
uile  CO  puce  a  lupcc  lomlón  Dia  rij. 

nriaibm  la  cloinn  bpiain  line  neill  galloa  in  po  mapBab  "]  in  po  gaBab 
maire  gall  caippje  pfpccupa. 

Rajnall  mop  mac  jiollaeappoi^  mac  mic  DoiTinaill  conpapal  albanac 
épeann,  C)o  écc  1  nouiBcpian  ulab. 

Clob  mac  concoBaip  mic  ui  concoBaip  puaib,  "]  Ruaibpi  mac  Donnchaib 
buBpuilij  Da  canaipi  roccaibe  00  rhapBao  a  ineaBail  la  Sliocc  ócc  peiblimib 
pinn  ui  concoBaip. 

Peiolimib  mac  maolpuanaib  megpajnaill  DajabBap  caoipicch  pop  a 
buchaij, -]  Donnchab  baipileip  mac  maoilcuile  oécc. 

TTla5  capraij  mop  .1.  cabcc  mcic  DomnaiU  óicc  Décc,  copnamac  a  arapba, 
iplijceóip  a  namac,  apoaijreóip  a  capac  an  rabg  ipin. 

Copbmac  mac  Donnchaib  mic  t>omnaill  piaBaij  Décc.  pfp  5a  paiBe 
cigheapnaip  ~\  cánaipceacc  ó  ccaipppe  Do  nfimcfD  bfpBpacap  a  arap  .1.  Diap- 
maca  an  oúnaib. 

r?U)ipe  an  jlfnna  Decc  .1.  Gmann  mac  romaip,  mic  pilip  mic  Sfain  mic 
an  piDipe. 

Uabcc  boipnec(c,  TTlupchab,  "]  TTlar^amain,  clann  TTlarsamna  í  bpiam 
ConcoBap  mac  bpiain  mic  muipcfpraij  mic  bpiain  puaib, "]  TTlac  ui  loclainn 
concoBap  mac  T?uaibpi   mic   Qna,  -\  TTluipcfprac,  mac  UoippbealBaij,  mic 

°  In  the  cmtodi/  of  the  King  of  England. — The  principally  in  the  barony  of  Upper  Antrim,  in 

Dublin  copy  of  tliu  Annals  of  Ulster  adds,  that  the  county  of  Antrim.    According  to  an  Inqui- 

his  son  had  been   eight  years   in  captivity  in  sition,   preserved   in   the   Rolls   OfSco,    Dublin 

London;  and  that  on  his  being  set  at  liberty  (7    Jac.    1),    the    territory    of  Moylinny    was 

he  married  him  in  England  to  the  daughter  of  bounded  on  the  south  and  south-east  by  the 

an  Earl.  River  Six-mile- water;  on  the  north  and  north- 

^  Magh-lhie. — Tins  name,  which  is  anglicised  west  for  two  miles  by  the  stream  of  Glancurry 

Moylinny,    is   that   of  a    level   territory   lying  [now  jleunn  a'  coipe,   Glenwherry],  as  far  as 


1503.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1271 

The  Earl  of  Kildare  went  to  England,  and  returned  home  with  success, 
bringing  with  him  his  son,  who  had  been  in  the  custody  of  the  King  of  England". 

A  hosting  by  the  same  Earl,  attended  by  the  English  and  Irish  of  Leinster, 
to  Magh-line''  [and]  to  Carrickfergus  ;  and  he  demolished  the  castle  of  Belfast, 
and  made  the  son  of  Sandal'  constable  of  Carrickfergus. 

A  very  great  army  was  led  by  Niall,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Hugh  Boy 
O'Neill,  with  his  English  and  Irish  confederates,  into  Tyrone,  and  traversed  all 
Tyrone  and  Iveagh,  and  brought  all  his  men  in  safety  to  his  house. 

A  battle  was  gained  by  the  sons  of  Brian,  son  of  Niall  Gallda  [O'Neill],  in 
which  the  chiefs  of  the  English  of  Carrickfergus  were  slain  or  taken  prisoners. 

Randal  More,  son  of  Giolla  Easpuig,  who  was  son  of  Mac  Donnell,  Constable 
of  the  Scotsmen  of  Ireland,  died  in  Duibhthrian-Uladh''. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  O'Conor  Eoe,  and  Rory,  the  son  of  Donough 
the  Black- eyed,  two  select  tanists,  were  treacherously  slain  by  the  young  de- 
scendants of  Fehm  Finn  O'Conor. 

Felim,  the  son  of  Mulrony  Mac  Rannall,  worthy  heir  to  the  chieftainship  of ' 
his  country,  and  Donough  Baisileir  Mac  Maoiltuile,  died. 

Mac  Carthy  More,  i.  e.  Teige,  the  son  of  Donnell  Oge,  defender  of  his  patri- 
mony, humbler  of  his  enemies,  and  exalter  of  his  friends,  died. 

Cormac,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Donnell  Reagh  [Mac  Carthy],  died. 
[He  was]  a  man  who  had  retained  the  lordship  and  tanistry  of  Hy-Carbery  in 
despite  of  his  father's  brother,  Dermot-an-Duna. 

The  Knight  of  Glynn  died,  namely,  Edmond,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Philip, 
son  of  John,  son  of  the  Knight. 

Teige  Boirneach",  Murrough  and  Mahon,  two  sons  of  Mahon  O'Brien;  Conor, 
the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Murtough,  son  of  Brian  Roe  ;  the  son  of  O'Loughlin, 
i.  e.  Conor,  the  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Ana  ;  and  Murtougli,  the  son  of  Turlough, 

the  mountain  of  Carncally ;  its  boundary  then  county  of  Antrim.     It   is  now  a  family  of  no 

extended  southwards  to  Connor,  and  thence,  in  distinction  in  Ireland.    In  England  it  is  usually 

.  a  southern  direction,   to  Edenduifcarrick   [now  written  Sandell. 

Shanescastle,  near  the  town  of  Antrim],  where  •■  Diiibktiiriaii-  Uladh,  i.  e.   the  black  third  of 

the  aforesaid  River  Six-mile-water  discharges  Ulidia,  now  Dufferin,  a  barony  stretching  along 

itself  into  Lough  Ncagh.  the  left  side  of  Loch  Cuan,  or  Strangford  Lough, 

''    Sandal.  —  This    Anglo-Irish    family   gave  in  the  county  of  Down, 
name  to  Mount  Sandal,   near  Coleraine,  in  the  *  Boirneach,  i.  c.  of  Burren,  a  rocky  district. 


1272  aNHQca  Rio^hachca  eiReanN.  [i504. 

mupcbaiD  mic  caiDcc  do  óol  la  mac  ui  plaicbfpcaij  .1.  Gojan  1  rnapcap  con- 
nacr  co  pochaióe  moip  maille  ppiú  lap  no  ccappainj  oon  eojan  céona  1 
nashaió  a  b]ia;r|iec  (r?uair)|ii  occ"]  oomnall  an  bail)  oó  rhac  í  plairbepraij). 
Qp  anil  baoappme  aji  a  ccionn  a  bpoplonjpojic  05  an  ccaolpáile  puaoh. 
l?o  lonnpaigpec  piol  nibpiain  -j  eojan  an  poplongpojic,  ~\  Do  jionpac  cpeca  "] 
éoala.  Leanaic  clann  í  plairbfpcaiji  an  rip  a  ccopaijecc  lao  50  po  pijft) 
lop^al  fcoppa,  50  ccopc|iacap  clann  TTlargarhno  í  bpiain, -]  eojan  ó  plaicbfp- 
rai5  la  miiincip  plairbeapraig  Don  chup  pin. 


aois  cr?iosu,  i504. 

Cloip  Cpiopc,  ÍTlile,  cúicc  céD,  a  cfraip. 

^iollapacpoicc  ó  conoálai^  (.i.  mac  enpi)  abb  cluana  heoaip,  lap 
ngnonccan  eppcopoiDe  clocaip  dó  Décc. 

Pilip  ó  Rajallai^  abb  cfnannpa,  1  a  bfpbparaip  Gojan,  cananac  baoí 
ipin  mbaile  céona  Décc. 

TTlaghnap  mac  bpiain  mic  DonncViaiD  abb  mainipcpe  na  cpmóiDe  pop  locb 
ce  compaip  1  cipce  coirheDa  eccna  "]  eolaip  connacc  Décc,  hi  ccíll  DuibDÚin, 
-|  a  aónacal  in  oilén  na  cpinoíoe  ap  loc  cé. 

Uoippóealhac  majiiióip  cananac  copaD  1  clocap,  pfppún  Doipe  rhaoláin  1 
ppióip  loca  Deipcc  Do  ruicim  Do  SDaijpe  cloc  1  mbaile  ara  buióe  im  péil 
Pacpaic  co  po  écc  De,  -|  a  aónacal  1  mainipcip  an  chabhain. 

RuaiDpi  maj  marjamna  biocaipe  cliiana  heoaip  Décc. 

now  a  barony   ia  the  north  of  the  county  of  "  Under  this  year  the  Dublin  copy   of  the 

Clare.  Annals  of  Ulster  contain  the  two  passages  fol- 

■  Cael-sJiaile-ruadh,  i.  e.  the  narrow,  reddish  lowing,  omitted  by  the  Four  Masters  : 

brine,  now  the  KUlary  harbour,   which  forms  "  A.  D.  1503.  The  wife  of  the  King  of  Eng- 

the  southern  boundary  of  the  barony  of  Mur-  land,  Isibel,  the  daughter  of  King  Edward,  died 

resk,  in  the  county  of  Mayo See  Genealogies,  this  year.     She   was  the  most   illustrious   for 

Tribes,  and  Customs  of  IIi/-Fiachrach,    p.  482,  charity  and  benevolence  from  Italy  to  Ireland  ; 

and  note  8,  under  the  year  1235,  p.  278,  supra,  and  the  daughter  of  the  King  of  the  Castles" 

The  name  is  now  corruptly  pronounced  by  the  [Castile]  "  was  married  by  the  King, 

natives  of  Murresk  and  Connamara,  as  if  written  "  The  Mape"  [of  Maperath,  in  ileath]  "  was 

caol-púipe  puoD,  of  which  Killary  is  a  further  killed  this  year  in  his  own  castle  by  the  sons 

anglicised  form.  of  Edmond,  the  son  of  Glasny  O'Eeilly,  in  con- 


1504.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1273 

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

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1504. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  four. 

Gilla-Patrick  O'ConoUy"  (i.  e.  the  son  of  Heiwy),  Abbot  of  Clones,  died, 
after  having  obtained  the  bishopric  of  Clogher. 

Philip  O'Reilly,  Abbot  of  Kells,  and  his  brother  Owen,  who  had  been  a 
canon  in  the  same  town,  died. 

Manus,  the  son  of  Brian  Mac  Donough,  Abbot  of  the  Monastery  of  the 
Blessed  Trinity  on  Lough  Key,  repertory"  and  repository  of  the  wisdom  and 
knowledge  of  Connaught,  died  at  Cill-Duibhdhuin^  and  was  buried  in  the 
Monastery  of  the  Blessed  Trinity  on  Lough  Key. 

Turlough  Maguire,  who  had  been  Canon  Chorister  at  Clogher,  Parson  of 
Doire  Maelain  [Derryvullan],  and  Prior  of  Lough  Derg,  fell  down  a  stone  stair- 
case at  the  town  of  Athboy,  about  the  festival  of  St.  Patrick,  and  died  of  the 
fall  ;  and  he  was  buried  in  the  monastery  of  Cavan. 

Rory  Mac  Mahon,  Vicar  of  Clones,  died. 

sequence  of  wbich  a  war   arose   between  the  game,    according  to   the   Dublin    copy  of  the 

English  and  Irish,  during  which  the  English  Annals    of  Ulster — See    also  Ware's  Annals, 

sustained  great  injuries,  and  Mac  Simon"  [Fitz-  under  the  year  1504. 
Simon]  "was  slain  by  the  Irish.  "  Repertory — Coriipaip  means   an  envelope, 

"  The  son  of  Thomas  Plunkett,  i.  e.   Alex-  or  any  thing  in  which  precious  articles  are  de- 

ander,  died  this  year  after  the  Earl  of  Kildare's  posited  for  protection.— See  Book  of  Fenagh, 

return.     He  was  a  man  of  great   dignity,  and  p.  2,  col.  2,  line  15. 
the  best  English  youth  of  his  time."  i  Cill-Diiibhdhuin,    i.e.   Dubhduin's  church, 

"-  Gilla-Patrick  0' Connolly He  died  of  the  now  Killadoon,  a  townland  giving  name  to  a 

pestilence  called  cUiici   in  pi^,   i.  e.  the  king's  parish  in  the  barony  of  Tirerrill,  and  county  of 

7  z 


1274  awwa^a  Rio^hachca  emeaNH.  [1504. 

ConcoBap  mac  PiiaiDpi  ttiic  oinpmacca  canaifi  fil  Tíiaol|iuanaió,  mac 
njeapna  bá  cpeiy^i  cainicc  Da  óúclioij  pé  cian  Daimpip  do  mapbaó  la  mac 
Diapmaca  i  mbealac  na  miiibpoincfDh. 

Ctpc  mac  caipppe  mic  aeóa  uí  neill  cona  mac-|  cona  ófpbpafaip  do  map- 
baó  la  Sliochr  Pémainn  meg  mar^amna. 

6pian  mac  meguiDip  (Sfan  mac  pilip)  1  ITlag  paitipaDain  emann  Décc. 

TTIac  Diapmacra  moije  luipcc  (Concobap  mac  RuaiDpi  mic  Diapmacra) 
DO  rhapbaó  lá  maolpuanaió  mac  comalcaij  mic  Diapmacra. 

pairbfpcac  mac  pailge  mic  bpiain  mic  caba  Do  mapbaó  lé  bpian  mac 
Qla;ranDaip  oicc  mic  caba. 

O  cianáin  jiollapaccpaicc  mac  caiDcc,  ITIaoileclainn  mac  arai]ine  ui 
fóDopa,  O  caipiDe  cuile  (.i.  piapup  mac  comaip)  ollarh  leaja  rheguiDip,  Saoi 
Deapbra  i  irigionn,  i  hi  ppipicceacc,  pfp  nge  aoiDfó  coicchinn,  -\  Qinopiap 
majcpair  mac  comapba  cfpmoinn  Dabeócc  biacac  coiccfnn  Décc. 

TTlaiDm  beoil  ara  na  ngapban  do  rabaipc  la  Sfan  abupc  mac  uillicc  mic 
mic  uillicc  mic  RiocaipD  rdnaipi  cloinne  RiocaipD  pop  ua  cceallai  j  Du  hi 
ccopcaip  uacép  mac  Sfain  mic  comaip  a  biipc  aóbup  cigeapna  conmaicne  co 
pochaiDe  móip  amaille  ppip  Do  cloinn  nDoiiinaill,  ~\  Do  cloinn  nDubjaiU. 

Upi  caipléin  la  hua  cceallaij  do  bpipeob  lé  TTlac  uilliam  (.i.  an  rpfp 
uillfcc)  .1.  an  japbóoipe,  TTluine  an  liifoa,  -|  gallach  conaó  rpfirhiDpiDe  do 
cuaió  Ó  ceallaij, ITIaoileclainn  Déccaoíne  a  imnió  pip  an  iiipcip  Dia  po  ciiipeaó 
maióm  cnuic  cirnjh. 

Sligo See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  "^  Bel-atka-na-ngarbhan,  i.  e.  moutli  ol'  the  ford 

Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  485,  and  map  to  the  same  work,  of  the  rough  stones.  This  name  is  now  obsolete. 

^  Bealack-iia-n-  Urbrointeadh,  i.  e.  tlie  road  or  "*  The  Clann-Donnell  and  Clann-Dowell,  i.  e. 

pass  of  the  mill-stones. — See  note  ',  under  the  the  families  of  Mac  Donnell  and  Mac  Dowell,  or 

year  1473.  Mac  Diigald,  who  were  leaders  ofgallowglasses. 

*  O'Keeuan,  i.  e.  Gilla-Patrick. — This  is  the  "  Garbh-dhoire,  i.  e.  the  rough  oak  wood,  now 

last  entry  in  the  Dublin  copy  of  the  Annals  of  corruptly  Garbally,  a  townland  in  the  parish  of 

Ulster.     But  the  copy  of  these  Annals  used  by  Moylough,   barony  of  Tiaquin,   and  county  of 

the  Four  Masters  came  down  to  1532,  and  the  Galway.    Some  portions  of  the  ruins  of  a  castle 

Bodleian  copy  has  entries  of  events  down  to  the  are  still  to  be  seen  in  this  townland. 

close  of  the  reign  of  Elizabeth.  f  Midne-an-mheadha,  i.  e.  the  brake  or  shrub- 

^Guil. — This  is  often  called  cúil  nu  n-oipeup,  bery  of  the  mead  or  metheglin,  now  Monivea,  a 

and  is  now  anglicised  Coole.     It  is  a  barony  in  village  in  a  parish  of  the  same  name,  barony  of 

the  south-east  of  the  county  of  Fermanagh.  Tiaquin.     Accordins   to   the   tradition  in  the 


1504.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1275 

Conor,  son  of  Rory  Mac  Dermot,  Tanist  of  Sil-Maelruana,  the  most  powerful 
son  of  a  lord  that  had  been  for  a  long  time  born  in  the  country,  was  slain  by 
Mac  Dermot,  at  Bealach-na-n-urbrointeadh^. 

Art,  the  son  of  Carbry,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  and  his  brother,  were  slain 
by  the  descendants  of  Redmond  Mac  Mahou. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Maguire  (John,  the  son  of  Philip),  and  Magauran  (Ed- 
mond),  died. 

Mac  Dermot  of  Moylurg  (Conor,  the  son  of  Rory  Mac  Dermot)  was  slain 
by  Mulrony,  the  son  of  Tomaltagh  Mac  Dermot. 

Faherty  [rede  Flaherty],  son  of  Failge,  son  of  Brian  Mac  Cabe,  was  slain  by 
Brian,  son  of  Alexander  Mac  Cabe. 

0'Keeuan,i.e.GilIa-Patrick^  the  son  of  Teige ;  Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Ahairne 
O'Hussey  ;  O'Cassidy  of  CidP  (i.  e.  Pierce,  the  son  of  Thomas),  Ollav  to  Ma- 
guire in  physic,  a  man  truly  learned  in  literature  and  medical  science,  who  had 
kept  an  open  house  of  hospitaUty  ;  and  Andreas  Magrath,  sou  of  the  Coarb  of 
Termon-Daveog  [Termonraagrath],  a  general  Betagh,  died. 

The  defeat  of  Bel-atha-na-ngarbhan''  was  given  by  John  Burke,  the  son  of 
Ulick,  son  of  UHck,  grandson  of  Rickard,  Tanist  of  Clanrickard,  to  O'Kelly,  in 
which  fell  Walter,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas  Burke,  heir  to  the  lordship 
of  Conmaicne,  and  many  others  of  the  Clann-Donnell  and  Clann-Dowell'',  were 
slain. 

Three  castles  belonging  to  O'Kelly,  viz.  Garbh-dhoire^  Muine-an-mheadha'', 
and  Gallach^,  were  demolished  by  Mac  William  Burke  (i.  e.  UHck  the  Third). 
O'Kelly,  i.  e.  Melaghlin,  went  to  the  Lord  Justice  to  complain  of  the  injury  done 
him,  the  result  of  which''  was,  defeat  of  Cnoc-Tuagh. 

country,    the   site  of  O'Kelly's   castle  of  tliis  was  made  by  Kildare  "  not  by  warrant  from  the 

name  is  now  occiipied  by  a  mansion-house  in  King,  or  upon  his  charge  (as  is  expressed  in  the 

Monivea  demesne— See  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Book  of  Howth),  but  only  upon  a  private  quar- 

Hy-Many,  p.  120,  note'.  rel  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare."    And  Ware  has  writ- 

8  Gallach,    now  Gallagli,    otherwise    Castle-  ten  the  following  remarks  on  this  battle  in  his 

Blakeney,  a  small  town  in  the  barony  of  Killian.  Annals  of  Ireland  under  the  year  1504  :  "  Some 

A  few  fragments  of  this  castle  still  remain  on  a  do  not  stick  to  report  (how  true  I  know  not),  that 

green  hill  near  Castleblakeny.  all  this  business  took  its  first  rise  from  a  pri- 

"  The  result  of  which,  ^c— Sir  John  Davis  in  vate  grudge  between  Kildare  and  Ulick,  which  at 

his  Historical  Relations  asserts  that  this  journey  last  broke  out  into  that  open  war."— See  edition 

7  z2 


1276  aHMQí'.a  i^io^haclica  eiReawN.  [i504. 

Slóicchfó  aóbal  Do  rfcclamaDli  lap  an  liipcip  5Q101CC  mac  comaif  lapla 
cille  Dapa.  Oo  beacarrap  cécrup  tnaire  leice  cuinn  ina  Docum  .1.  ó  Dorh- 
naill  aob  jiuaoli,  ■]  a  rhac  co  mainb  cenél  conaill,  -|  Dpong  60  connaccaib  .1. 
ua  concobaiji  puaó,  aeb  mac  peilim  pinn,  -]  mac  Diapmaoa  cijfpna  maije 
luipcc.  Uangacca]!  beóp  maice  ulaó  cenmora  ó  néiU  ipin  rionol  ceona  .i.  npc 
mac  aeóa  uí  neill  canaipi  cenel  eojain,  Dorhnall  mac  mécc  aénjupa,  TTlaj; 
macjamna,  "]  6  hanluam.  Uangaccap  Dna  ó  Rajallai j,  o  pfpjail  j.  an 
ceppop,  ó  concobaip  pailge  Siol  cceallai^,  "]  clann  uiUiam  bupc,  -]  lCt  ciimn 
uile  Dupmóp,  ní  po  anpac  na  ploij  lan  rhopa  hípm  co  pangarap  co  clomn  Rioc- 
aipo.  TTIac  uilliam  clomne  Riocaipo  ona,  Ro  nonóil  pióe  plóij  lomóa  aóbal 
mojia  ina  najaib  pibe  .1.  Uoippbealbac  ua  bpiain  (.1.  mac  raibcc)  njeapna 
cuabmuiTian  cona  bpaifpib  cona  rionol,"|  50  Síol  aoba  apcfna,  ÍTlaoljiuanair) 
iia  cfpbaill  .1.  cijeapna  ele  cona  ruaraibli  ■]  uaoípearaib, "]  co  niainb  up- 
murhan, "]  apaob.  Oo  ponab  comaiple  cpoba  anopin  la  mac  uilliam, -]  ló 
hua  mbpiain  cona  pocpaiDe  .1.  gan  urnla  na  fmipfba  do  rabaipr  oon  lucr  baí 
ap  a  ccionn,  acbr  a  pppfccpa  im  cacb  hi  ccnoc  cuajb  do  ponnpab.  ^nicfp 
car  cpoba  froppa  Dana  ppir  a  lonnparhail  ip  na  Dfibfncoib  co  clop  co  paDa 
o  na  pfbnacaib  caraip  na  ccaifmileab,  pCbmanna  na  ppfmDeb,  Puarap  na 

of  1705.    The  Book  of  Howth  contains  ai)  exag-  book  iii.  c.  5  : 

gerated  account  of  this  battle,  which  the  reader  "  In  the  remains  of  the  old  Irisl:;  annalists  we 

may  see  in  full  in  the  Additional  Notes  to  Har-  do  not  find  any  considerable  rancour  expressed 

diman's  edition  of  O'Flaherty's  lar-Connaught,  against  the  English.     They  even  speak  of  the 

p.  149.    In  this  account  it  is  stated  that  O'Neill  actions  and  fortunes  of  great  English  lords  with 

fought  in  this  battle,  but  we  learn  from  the  affection  and  sympathy.     In  the  few  memorials 

Annals  of  Ulster  that  O'Neill  was  not  present  remaining  of  this  present  period,  written  by  an 

on  the  occasion.     The  Anglo- Irish  writers  have  Englishman,  we  are  told  that  immediately  after 

boasted  much  of  the  success  of  the  English  arms  the  victory  of  Knocktow,  Lord  Gormanstown 

in  this  battle,  but  the  boast  is  silly  and  stupid,  turned  to  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  in  the  utmost 

because  it  was  fought,  not  between  the  English  insolence  of  success,   '  we  have  slaughtered  our 

andlrish,but, like  the  battles  of  Moy-Lena,Moy-  enemies,'  said  he,   'but  to    complete  the  good 

Mucruimhe,   and  Moy-Alvy,    between   Leath-  deed,  we  must  proceed  yet  farther, — cut  the 

Chuinn  and  Leath-Mhogha,  and  the  southerns  throats  of  the  Irish  of  our  own  party.' — Boot 

were,  as  usual,  defeated.    The  honest  Leland,  of  Hoicth,  MS." 

who  was  disgusted  with  the  petty  insolence  of  '  G'FarreU. Ware  calls  him  "William  Feral!, 

the  writer  of  the  account  of  this  battle  in  the  Bishop  of  Ardagh,   sometime  Lord  of  the  An- 

Book   of   Ilowth,    has   the    following    remarks  naly,  even  after  his  consecration." 

upon   the   subject   in  his  History  of  Ireland.  i*  The  Clann-William  Burke,  i.e.  the  Lower 


1504.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1277 

A  great  army  was  mustered  by  the  Lord  Justice,  Garrett,  the  son  of  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Kildare.  He  was  joined,  first,  by  the  chieftains  of  Leath-Chuinn,  namely, 
O'Donnell,  i.  e.  Hugh  Roe,  and  his  son  ;  then  by  the  principal  chieftains  of 
Kinel-Connell,  and  a  party  of  the  Connacians,  namely,  O'Conor  Roe,  i.  e.  Hugh, 
the  son  of  Felim  Finn  ;  and  Mac  Dermot,  Lord  of  Moylurg.  There  came  also 
in  the  same  muster  [all]  the  chiefs  of  Ulster,  except  O'Neill,  namely.  Art,  the 
son  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  Tanist  of  Kinel-Owen  ;  Donnell,  the  son  of  Magennis  ; 
Mac  Mahon,  and  O'Hanlon  ;  also  O'Reilly,  and  O'Farrell',  i.  e.  the  bishop  ; 
O'Conor  Faly  ;  the  O'Kellys  ;  the  Clann-William  Burke'' ;  and  the  forces  of 
almost  all  Leath-Chuinn'.  These  numerous  forces  marched,  without  stopping, 
till  they  arrived  in  Clanrickard.  Mac  William  of  Clanrickard  mustered  a  great 
army  to  give  them  battle,  namely,  Turlough,  the  son  of  Teige  O'Brien,  Lord  of 
Thomond,  and  his  kinsmen,  with  their  forces,  the  Sil-Aedha" ;  and  Mulrony 
O'CarroU,  Lord  of  Ely,  with  all  clans  and  chieftains,  joined  by  the  chieftains  of 
Ormond  and  Ara".  Mac  William  and  O'Brien,  Avith  their  forces,  then  came  to 
a  brave  resolution  not  to  }áeld  submission  or  hostages  to  their  enemies,  but  to 
come  to  a  battle  with  them  exactly  at  Cnoc-Tuagh".  A  fierce  battle  was  fought 
between  them,  such  as  had  not  been  known  of  in  latter  times.  Far  away  from 
the  [combating]  troops  were  heard''  the  violent  onset  of  the  martial  chiefs,  the 
vehement  efforts  of  the  champions,  the  charge  of  the  roj'al  heroes,  the  noise 

r 

Mac  Williams,  or  Burkes  of  Slayo.     It  is  stated  lated  by  Campion   in  1570,  now  Knockdoe,  a 

in  the  Book  of  Howtli  that  "  there  was  a  sore  remarkable  hill  in  the  parish  of  Clare-Galway, 

fight  after"  [the battle  of  Knocktow]  "between  about  eight  miles  north  and  by  east  from  the 

Mac  William  east  and  Mac  William  of  the  west.  town  of  Galway.    According  to  the  tradition  at 

By  reason  of  that  Held  aforesaid  they  held  not  the  place  this  battle  was  fought  between  the 

together  ;  but  he  of  the  east  had  the  worse."  summit  of  the  hill  of  Knockdoe  and  the  town- 

'  All  Leath-Chuinn. — It  is  quite  evident  from  land  of  Turloughmore.    Some  musket  balls  and 

this  list  of  chieftains  that  the  main  body  of  Kil-  one  cannon  ball  are  said  to  have  been  found  a 

dare's  army  consisted  of  aboriginal  Irishmen.  few  years  since  on  the  side  of  the  hill.     This 

™  The  Sil-Aedha^  i.  e.  the  race  of  Aedh,  or  battle  was  fought,  according  to  Ware's  Annals, 

Hugh.     This  was  one  of  the  tribe-names  of  the  on  the  19th  of  August,  1504. 

Mac  Namaras  of  Thomond.  •■  Were  heard. This  vague  description  of  the 

"  The  chieftains  of  Ormond  and  Ara,  i.  e.  the  battle  is  taken  nearly  word  for  word  from  the 

JIac-I-Briens  of  Ara,   and  the  O'Kennedys  of  Annals  of  Ulster.     It  is  in   that  bardic  prose 

Ormond.  style,    which     sacrifices    sense   to    sound,    and 

°  Cnoc-tna(jh,  i.  e.  the  hill  of  axes,  as  trans-  strength  to  alliteration. 


1278  awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [1504. 

Iiiojlac,  ro|iann  na  rrjiiar,  ~\  bpopccaii  na  nibuiofn  aga  mbaojlucchaDh, 
mui]in-|  mfnmanpaó  na  maqiaióe,  cuinnporh  na  ccpfinpeap  acca  rcpafccpaó, 
-]  lompopcpaib  na  nuapal  ap  na  huipiflib.  ITIaiDeaó  rpa  an  cacpoóeóib  ap 
mac  uilliain  ap  ua  nnbpiain,  1  pop  Ifirmoja, "]  l?o  lab  a  nop  im  TTlupchab 
mac  in'  bpiain  apab  co  pochaibe  do  paopclanoaib  oile.  Ctipm  umoppo  i 
pabacap  na  naoi  ccoipijre  gallocclac  ina  ccipe  corhbaingfn  caro  ni  cfpna 
Dib  noma  acr  mab  aon  copucchan  fpbabach.  l?o  mapbairc,  -\  po  muobuijic 
Dponja  Diprhe  Do  pocpaiDe  an  nipnp  gep  bo  pfmpa  po  ba  paén.  bá  Dícu- 
rhaincc  áipfrh  no  aipnOp  in  po  mapbab  Do  mapcpluaj -j  Do  rpoicchceacaib 
ipin  cac  pin  ap  bd  Doimreacca  an  maijfn  popp  mbncap  la  haibble  *]  la 
hiobomac  na  néchc  nionncoitiapnach  ina  bpaoitilijib  ap  na  bpiaplfopab,  na 
ccpaoipeac  ap  na  ccoirhmbpipeab,  na  pciar  ap  na  pcolcab  na  ccloibfiii  cara 
ap  na  mblobab  na  ccolann  ccioppra  ccpopbuailce  pi'nce  pfcmapb,"]  na  njioUab 
nócc  narnulcac  co  hachéiDij  ap  na  noioeab.  lap  ppaoineab  an  mabma  pin 
lap  an  lupcip  po  comapleicc  ppi  hua  nDorhnaill  Dol  po  céooip  50  jaillimli. 
ISeab  acbfpc  ua  DomnaiU  ppip,  po  mapbaic,  "|  po  miiDliuijic  ap  pe  poclmibe 
Diap  muincip "]  ara  ap  aiU  Dib  co  hfppaice  map  neccmaip.  ISeab  ip  cécra 
nnn  aipi)nm  anocc  ipm  maijin  po  a  n:onncomapca  copccaip, "]  poplongpopc 
DO  benam  linn  uaip  ciocpaic  ap  ppianlac,  -|  ap  nanpab  map  noocum  la  cab- 

1  T//e  noise  of  the  lords,    copann  na  ccpiar,  southern  chieftains,  were  at  length  defeated  and 

literally,   "  the  noise  of  the  lords  or  chiefs."  cut  ofi'  with  such  dreadful  slaughter,  that  of  the 

"■  W/ien  endangered,    aj    a    tnbaojlucchaD,  nine  battalions  which  they  had  in  a  solid  phalanx 

being  brought  into  danger,   being  thrown  into  on  the  field,  only  one  survived,  and  even  this  had 

such  confusion  as  that  death  was  inevitable.  suffered." 

^  The  triumphing,  lompopcpaió O'Eelly  ex-  Ware  says  that  "  the  fight  was  sharply  con- 
plains  this  word  "  derout,  defeate,"  and  quotes  tinued  for  some  hours  with  equal  loss  on  both 
this  very  passage  as  his  authority.  In  the  An-  sides  ;"  but  that  "  at  last  the  victory  fell  on 
nals  of  Ulster  it  is  written  "iniupcaió."  Kildare's  side." 

'  C/izV/s  o/"ieo!<^-i¥^o(//ia,  i.e.  of  the  southern  "  ^  countless  number. — The  celebrated  Ed- 
half  of  Ireland.  These  were  few  in  comparison  mund  Campion,  who  wrote  in  1570,  asserts,  in 
with  the  overwhelming  number  of  the  northern  his  Historie  of  Ireland,  that  "  not  one  English- 
Irish  chieftains  wlio  were  arrayed  against  them,  man  was  killed  or  hurt  in  this  battle'' !  and 

"  One  broken  battalion. — In  the  Dublin  copy  of  Ware  remarks  that  the  same  "  almost  incredible 

the  Annals  of  Ulster  the  language  is  somewhat  thing  was  set  down  in  the  White  Book  of  the 

better    arranged.      It   should   have   boon    con-  Exchequer  in  Dublin"  !  I     The  fact  would  ap- 

structed  as  follows  :  pear  to  be  that  there  was  no  Englishman  fight- 

"  Mac  William    Burke,    O'Brien,     and    the  ing  in  the  battle  on  either  side.     According  to 


o 


1504.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1279 

of  the  lords",  the  clamour  of  the  troops  when  endangered',  the  shouts  and  exul- 
tations of  the  youths,  the  sound  made  by  the  falling  of  the  brave  men,  and  tlie 
triumphing'  of  the  nobles  over  the  plebeians.  The  battle  was  at  length  gained 
against  Mac  William,  O'Brien,  and  [the  chiefs  of]  Leath-Mhogha' ;  and  a  great 
slaughter  was  made  of  them  ;  and  among  the  slain  was  Murrough  Mac-I-Brien- 
Ara,  together  with  many  others  of  the  nobles.  And  of  the  nine  battalions  which 
were  in  solid  battle  array,  there  survived  only  one  broken  battalion".  A  count- 
less number"  of  the  Lord  Justice's  forces  were  also  slain,  though  they  routed 
the  others  before  them.  It  would  be  impossible  to  enumerate  or  specify  all  the 
slain,  both  horse  and  foot,  in  that  battle,  for  the  plain  on  which  they  were  was 
impassable,  from  the  vast  and  prodigious  numbers  of  mangled  bodies"  stretched 
in  gory  litters  ;  of  broken  spears,  cloven  shields,  shattered  battle-swords,  man- 
gled and  disfigured  bodies  stretched  dead,  and  beardless  youths  lying  hideous^ 
after  expiring.  After  having  gained  this  victory,  the  Lord  Justice  proposed  to 
O'Donnell  that  they  should  go  immediately  to  Galway,  and  O'Donnel?  replied 
[as follows] :  "A  considerable  number,"  said  he,  "of  our  forces  have  been  slain 
and  overpowered,  and  others  of  them  are  scattered  away  from  us,  wherefore  it 
is  advisable  to  remain  in  this  place  to-night,  in  token  of  victory,  and  also  to  pitch 
a  camp,  for  our  soldiers  and  attendants  will  join  us  on  recognizing  our  standards 
and  banners."     This  was  accordingly  done,  and  on  the  following  day  the  Lord 

the  exaggerated  and  lying  account  given  of  this  gled,  and  of  young  men  stretched  in  heaps  of 

battle  in  the  Book  of  Howth,  nine  thousand  of  carnage,  and  of  beardless  boys,  loathsome,  un- 

Mac  William  Burke's  people  were   slain  ;  but  sightly." 

Ware,    whose   knowledge   was   very   accurate,  '  Hideous,    aréioij. — This  word  is   written 

thinks  that  the  real  number  was  two  thousand.  eioiji   in  the  Dublin    copy  of  the    Annals   of 

"  Mangled  bodies. — This  part  of  the  sentence  Ulster.     It  means,  ugly,  unsightly,  &c.,  and  is 

is  not  in  the  Annals   of  Ulster,  in   which   the  glossed  by  jpánna,  in  O'Clery's  Glossary  of  old 

language  is  simpler  and  better,  as  follows  :  Irish  words.     The  ar  prefixed  to  this  word  by 

"^up  airiipeiDij^eabup  an  paijri  o  na  hec-  the  Four  Masters  in  an  intensitive  particle, 

caib  pe  himub  na  cpaipech  7  na  cloiDim  7  na  '' G' Doniiell. — This  reply  is  very  different  from 

caépjiaé  7  na  colann  cpopbuailci  comaprac  7  what  the  Book  of  Howth  makes  Lord  Gormans- 

na  plaeoojlac  pinci  pecmapb  7  nu  njillaioe  na-  town  say  to  the  Earl  of  Kiklare  after  this  battle  : 

mulcac  neioiji  nairbpe^óu,  i.  e.  So  that  the  "  We  have,   for  the  most  number,  killed  our 

field  became  rough  from  the  heaps  of  carnage,  enemies  ;   and  if  we  do  the  like  with  all  the 

from  the  number  of  the  spears,  the  swords,   the  Irishmen  that  we  have  with  us,  it  were  a  good 

battle-shields,  the  bodies  cross-wounded,   man-  deed."     If,  however,  O'Donnell  and  the  other 


1280  aNwaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1505. 

aipc  aicne  pop  ap  meipjCooib, "]  pop  ap  mbpacacaib.  Do  ponaó  paippnirh 
pin.  LuiD  an  lupcip  "]  o  Dorhnaill  ap  aBapach  50  jaiUimli,  -]  Da  rhac  mic 
uilliam,  -|  a  niT^fn  a  laimli  lop  an  lupcip,  1  bácap  aoliaió  ipin  mbaile  a 
ppocaip  apoile  co  piibac  poiiiirnmnacli  lapp  an  ccopccap  pérhpáice.  LoDap 
laparh  co  hc'tr  na  pio^,1  pnaippfc  an  baile  pop  a  ccomiip.  Celebpaió  ua  Dorh- 
naill"! na  niaire  apcfno  Don  lupcip,"]  cfib  cac  uaiDib  Dia  ccijib. 

Puabaipc  peille  pop  ua  neill  (.1.  Domnall)  la  caócc  ua  nóccain  cona 
clomn  111  ccaiplén  uí  neill  pfin  .1.  Dungfnainn,  "|  an  caiplén  Do  jabóil  Dóib. 
T?o  Diójail  Dm  an  gniorii  pin  poppa  po  ceDÓip  uaip  po  bfnaó  an  baile  Diob,  "| 
po  cpochaD  caDcc  "|  Diap  Dia  clomn, "]  po  pccachaD  an  cpfp  mac  Do  cloinn 
an  caiDcc  ceona. 

pinjin  (.1.  mag  capcaig  piabac)  mac  Diapmaoa  an  Dúnaió  mégcaprai^ 
cijeapna  ua  ccaipbpe  oécc,  "|  a  bpacaip  Diapmaic  moc  Diajimaca  an  DúnaiD 
Do  jabail  a  lonaiD. 

Uilliam  mac  douid  mic  Gmainn  Décc.     'Comap  a  bpacaip  ina  lonaD. 

aois  cRiosr,  1505. 

QoiS  Cl?ioSc,  TTlile,  cúicc  céD,  a  cúicc. 

Donnchnó  ua  cacaui  abb  mainipcpe  maige  copccpain  do  cpoclmD  la  Diap- 
maicc  mac  Puaibpi  mic  majnupa  ui  cacain^ "]  DiapmaiD  pfin  Do  pccacbab 
cpiap  an  ngniomh  pin. 

Gmann  Dopca  (00  Sliocc  an  piDipe  .1.  an  cSimunaij)  Ppioip  pobaip  Décc. 

Labpap  iia  plannaccain  ppioip  Dairhinpi  Décc. 

Oomnall  mac  aipc  mic  eojain  ui  neill  Do  rhapbab  la  bpian  mac  cuinn 
mic  enpi  mic  eoccbain  ui  neill. 

Irish  chieftains  of  their  party  had  not  assisted  daughters,  Diap  mac  7  Diap  injfn. 

the  insolent  Gormansto\'m  in  this  silly  battle,  ^O^Hogan This  name  is  now  madeO'Hagan. 

O'Brien  and  Mac  William  of  Clanrickard  would  The  chief  of  this  family  was  seated  at  TuUaghogc. 
not  have  found  much  difficulty  in  cutting  off  the  "^  Mac  Carthy  Reagh. — A  notice  in  the  margin 

forces  of  the  Pale.  states  that  this  entry  belongs  to  the  year  1505. 

"  Daughter It  is  stated  in  the  Dublin  copy  "•  Magk-Cosgrain,  i.  e.   Cosgran's  plain,  now 

of  the  Annals  of  Ulster  that  the  Earl  of'Kildare  anglicised  Macosquin,  a  parish  in  the  barony  of 

took  with  him  four  of  Mac  Williams  children  Coleraine,  and  county  of  Londonderry,  situated 

on  this  occasion,   namely,    two  sons  and  two  about   three   miles  to   the  south-west   of  the 


1505.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1281 

Justice  and  O'Donnell  proceeded  to  Galway,  the  Lord  Justice  carrying  with 
him,  as  prisoners,  the  two  sons,  and  also  a  daughter',  of  Mac  William.  They 
remained  for  some  time  together  in  this  town,  cheerful  and  elated  after  the 
aforesaid  victory.  They  afterwards  went  to  Athenry,  and  obtained  possession 
of  the  town  ;  [whereupon]  O'Donnell  and  the  other  chiefs  took  their  leaves  of 
the  Lord  Justice,  and  went  home  to  their  respective  houses. 

A  treacherous  attack  was  made  upon  O'Neill  (i.  e.  Donnell)  by  Teige 
O'llogan""  and  his  sons,  in  O'Neill's  own  castle  of  Dungannon  ;  and  they  took 
the  castle.  But  God  took  immediate  vengeance  on  them  for  that  act,  for  the 
castle  was  re-taken  from  them ;  and  Teige  and  two  of  his  sons  were  hanged,  and 
his  third  son  was  maimed. 

Fineen  (i.  e.  Mac  Carthy  Reagh'^),  the  son  of  Dermot-an-Duna,  Lord  of  Hy- 
Carbery,  died  ;  and  his  brother,  Dermot,  took  his  place. 

William  Mac  David,  the  son  of  Edmond,  died  ;  and  Thomas,  his  brother, 
took  his  place. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1505. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hmdredjive. 

Donough  O'Kane,  Abbot  of  the  monastery  of  Magh-Cosgrain",  was  hanged 
by  Dermot,  the  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Manus  O'Kane  ;  and  Dermot  himself  was 
maimed  for  that  deed. 

Edmond  Dorcha  (of  the  descendants  of  the  Knight)  Fitz  Simon,  Prior  of 
Fore^,  died. 

Laurence  O'Flanagan,  Prior  of  Devenish'^,  died. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Art,  son  of  Owen  O'Neill,  was  slain  by  Brian,  the  son 
of  Con,  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen  O'Neill. 

town  of  Coleraine. — See  Archdall's  Monasticon  p.  22,  supra.     The  great  abbey  of  this  place,  of 

at  Camus  ;  Ussher's  Primordia,  p.  1009;   and  which  the  splendid  ruins  yet  remain  in  tolerable 

Lanigan's    Ecclesiastical     History    of    Ireland,  preservation,  was  founded  in  1218,  for  Benedic- 

vol.  ii.  p.  67,  and  iii.  p.  146.  tine  monks,  by  Walter  de  Lacy,  Lord  of  Meath. 

'  Of  Fore,  fobaip — -This  place  is  called  by  — See  Ware's  Monasticon. 

the  natives  in  Irish  bade  f-obaip,  which  Ussher  f  Devenish,  a  celebrated  island  in  Lough  Erne, 

and  Ware  have  incorrectly  interpreted  the  town  near  Enniskillen. — See  note  ",  under  the  year 

of  books — See  note  ^    under   the   year   1176,  1259,  p.  372,  ««jom. 

8  A 


1282  aNNaí,a  Rio^hachca  emeaHH.  [1505. 

O  OomhnaiU  noó  puaó  mac  néiU  gaipb  mic  coiiijióealbai^  an  píona 
ricchf]iTia  cí|ie  conaill,  inpi  heo^ain,  cenél  moam, "|  ioccai|i  connacc  pfp  oáp 
jiallacrap  pi|inianoc,  oippalla,  clann  aoóa  buióe,  an  púca  -|  cacánaij,  Ro 
^iallpac  Dna  501II,  -]  jaoióil  connacc  6  niac  nilliain  cloinne  RiocaijiD  anuap 
nó,  -|  51Ó  eipióe  ann  do  óiojail  ó  Dorhnaill  a  aniniila  pai]i  a  Ificpe  Dol  ina 
óúrhaij  DÓ  airhóeóin  co  nieinic  cona  baí  aen  cfcpairiie  pfpainn  ó  puca  anuap 
-]  o  Sliab  o  naeóa  Don  caoíb  ciap  nac  paibe  pó  cíopcain  Dua  óorhnaill.  Qn 
cua  DoiíinaiU  pi  rpa  epcca  lomlan  einij  -]  uaiple  an  cimipceipr,  pfp  bó  mó  . 
5pfnn,  1  jaipcceaó,  pfpbá  pfpp  lonnpaicció-]  anaD,pfp  pobpfpp  pmacc,  Reacc, 
-|  Ria^ail  baí  inepinn  ina  aimpip  do  ^aoioealaib,  ap  ní  Déncaoí  do  coiméo  1 
ccip  cnnaill  pé  a  linn  acc  laóaó  Dopaip  na  gaoice  noma,  pfp  bó  pfpp  do  cionD 
ecclaipi,  1  eiccpi,  pfp  po  noólaic  almpana  aióble  1  nonóip  an  coiniDe  na  nDiil, 
pfp  lap  po  cupccbaD  1  lap  po  curhoaijfo  caiplén  cérup  1  noun  na  ngall  po 
Daij  gomaó  inneoin  popai5Ci  Dia  clanninaicne  ma  óeaDliaió,  -\  mainipcip 
bparap  De  obpepuancia  1  ccip  conaill  .1.  TTlainiprip  óúin  na  ngall,  pfp  lap  a 
nDeapnaó  ilioniac  Do  cpeacpluaijfóoib  runcill  po  epinn,  pfp  Dap  Dílfp  augiipr 
lapraip  cuaipceipc  eoppa  Do  póó  ppip,  Dpajail  báip  lap  nibuaiD  ó  Doman  "| 
o  ófman,  lap  nongaD,  -j  lap  nairpije  coccaije  ina  longpopc  pfin  1  nonn  na 
n^all  Dia  haoine  do  ponnpaó  ipin  cuicciD  id  lulii,  ipin  ocrmaD  bliaóain  Sfcc- 
tnojac  a  aoipi, -]  ipm  cfcpamaó  bliaDain  cfrpacar  aplafa,  1  a  abnacal  1 
mainipnp  ninn  na  ngall. 

ITiaj  cápcai^  caipb]ieac  .1.  pinj^m  mac  Diapmara  an  DiinaiD  mic  Dorhnaill 
piaboij^  Decc,  -]  a  Dfpbpachaip  Diapmaic  Do  jabdil  a  lonaiD. 

pfiolimiD  mac  neill  mic  aipc  mic  eoccain  ui  neill  Do  rhapbaó  la  cloino 
coippDealbaicch  ui  maoíleDÚin. 

8  W/w  had  obtained  hostages,  literally,  "  to  given  hostages  to  O'Domiell;  and,  after  gruni- 
whom  they  gave  hostages  ;"  but  the  construe-  bliug  a  good  deal  about  their  exaggerations  of 
tion  of  the  Irish  could  not  be  imitated  in  Eng-  the  exploits  of  O'Donnell,  he  concludes  thus  : 
lish.  A  critic,  who  read  the  work  of  the  Four  "  6peic  le  baióe  cicá  ann  do  leaBap  Ici  huu 
Masters,  about  two  centuries  since,  has  under-  t)oitinaiU.  Coiiallac  arii  rú,  i.  e.  a  partial  sen- 
lined  the  words  pipmanac,  oipjialla,  clann  tence  for  O'Donnell  is  in  thy  book.  Thou  art 
uoDU  Buioe,  an  puca  and  cacónai^,  in  the  auto-  indeed  a  Tirconnelliau  !" 

graph  copy,  and  has  written  in  the  margin  in  ^ SUabh  0  n-Aedha,  i.e.  the  mountain  ol'  the 

Irish  that  it  is  "a  bpeuj  jpaineumuil,  i.e.  a  race  of  Aedh,  i.e.  the  mountain  of  Kinel-Aedha. 

disgusting  lie,"  to  say  that  those    people  had  This  was  the  name  of  that  part  of  the  mountain 


1505.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1283 

O'Donnell,  Hugh  Roe,  the  son  of  Niall  Garv,  son  of  Turlough  of  the  Wine, 
Lord  of  Tirconnell,  Inishowen,  Kinel-Moen,  and  Lower  Connaught,  died  ;  a 
man  who  had  obtained  hostages^  from  the  people  of  Fermanagh,  Oriel,  Clanna- 
boy,-  and  tlie  Route,  and  from  the  O'Kanes,  and  also  the  English  and  Irish  of 
Connaught,  with  the  exception  of  Mac  William  of  Clanrickard,  who,  however, 
did  not  go  unrevenged  for  his  disobedience,  for  O'Donnell  frequently  entered 
his  territory,  and  left  not  a  quarter  of  land  from  the  River  Suck  upwards,  and 
from  Sliabh  O  n-Aedha"  westwards,  which  he  did  not  make  tributary  to  him. 
Tlois  O'Donnell  was  the  full  moon  of  the  hospitality  and  nobihty  of  the  North, 
the  most  jovial  and  vahant,  the  most  prudent  in  war  and  peace,  and  of  the  best 
jurisdiction,  law,  and  rule,  of  all  the  Gaels  in  Ireland  in  his  time  ;  for  there 
was  no  defence  made  [of  the  houses]  in  Tirconnell  during  his  time,  except 
to  close  the  door  against  the  wind  only  ;  the  best  protector  of  the  Church  and 
the  learned  ;  a  man  who  had  given  great  alms  in  honour  of  the  Lord  of  the 
Elements  ;  the  man  by  whom  a  castle  was  first  raised  and  erected  at  Donegal, 
that  it  might  serve  as  a  sustaining  biilwark  for  his  descendants  ;  and  a  monastery 
for  Friars  de  Observantia  in  Tirconnell,  namely,  the  monastery  of  Donegal ;  a 
man  who  had  made  many  predatory  exciu'sions  around  through  Ireland;  and  a 
man  who  may  be  justly  styled  the  Augustus  of  the  North-west  of  Europe.  He 
died,  after  having  gained  the  victory  over  the  Devil  and  the  world,  and  after 
[Extreme]  Unction  and  good  Penance,  at  his  own  fortress  in  Donegal,  on  Fri- 
day, the  5th  of  the  Ides  of  July,  in  the  seventy-eighth  year  of  his  age,  and  forty- 
fourth  of  his  reign,  and  was  interred  in  the  monastery  of  Donegal. 

Mac  Carthy  Cairbreach',  i.  e.  Fineen,  the  son  of  Dermot  an-Duna,  son  of 
Donnell  Reagh,  died  ;  and  his  brother,  Dermot,  took  his  place. 

Felim,  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Art,  son  of  Owen  O'Neill,  was  slain  by  the 
sons  of  Turlough  O'Middoon. 

of  Sliabh  Eclitglie,  now  Slieve  Auglit}-,  situ-  '  jl/ac   Carthy  Cairbreach,    i.  e.    Mac  Carthy 

atcd  in  the   territory  of  Kinelea,  on  the  con-  Reagh,   Chief  of  Carbery,  a  territory  now  di- 

fines  of  the  counties  of  Clare  and  Galway See  vided  into  four  baronies,  in  the  south-west  of 

Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy- Many,  p.  91,  note  ",  the  county  of  Cork.     It  is  stated  in  the  margin 

and  the  map  to  the  same  work.     The  stream  that  this  passage  has  been  extracted  from  the 

called  Abhainn-da-loilgheach,  i.  e.   the  river  of  Book  of  Mao  Brody.  —  See  it  entered    before, 

the  two  milch  cows,  divided  Sliabh  O'n-Aedha  under  the  year  1504,  by  a  ndstake  of  the  Four 

from  the  southern  portion  of  Sliabh  Eohtghe.  Masters. 

8  A  2 


1284  awNa^a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [i505. 

TTlac  Dorhnmll  gallocclach  (.1.  colla  mac  colla)  conpapal  111  neill  Do 
tiiapbaó  in  apomaca  la  jiolla  eay^puicc  mac  Somaiple  puaiD  mic  Dorhnaill. 

C Reach  la  cloinn  giolla  parpaicc  mic  emann  meguioip  aji  clomo  óicc 
an  emamn  ceDna,  bpian,  -|  eoccan,  -]  eocchan  Do  majibaDh  la  cloinn  jiolla 
pacpaicc  a  ccopaijeacc  na  cpeice,  1  pipgur  mop  mac  caba  do  mapBao 
o  cloinn  giolla  pacpaicc  Don  cup  pin. 

TTlac  mejuiDip  (.1.  Sfan  mac  Pilip)  -i-  coippoealbac,-]  Da  mac  caiDj  meg 
gappaiD, "]  caDcc  occ  mac  emainn  mic  gailljille,  co  nocc  pfpaib  Décc  amaille 
ppiu  DO  baraD  1  ccoice  pop  loc  eipne. 

TTlac  UÍ  plannaccain,  copbmcic  mac  copbmaic  Décc. 

SluaicceaD  la  mac  ui  Domnaill  (aoD  occ  mac  aoDa  puaiD)  hi  ccip  neo- 
cchain, "]  baile  1  neill  (.1.  Domnaill)  DÚn  ngfnainn  Do  lopccaD  Ifip,"]  baile  aoóa 
mic  Domnaill  ui  néill,  1  o  abainn  móip  apceac  Dimúeacc  Dó  gan  ppirbeapc 
ppip.  SuiDe  pa  caiplén  na  Deipcce  Do  ap  a  lonipúD,  an  caiplén  Do  jabail  do 
(.1.  ap  cloinn  neill  mic  aipc),  1  a  uápDa  Dpaccbóil  ann.  Ool  do  ap  pin  50 
cill  mic  nenáin, -]  cijeapna  Do  jaipm  De  pop  rip  conaill  an  Dapa  In  Daugupr 
Do  roil  De  1  Daoine. 

Caipppe  mac  bpiain  ui  uiccinn  oiDe  lé  DÓn  Décc  1  niapcap  miDe, "]  bpian 
ÓCC  mac  bpiain  mic  Domnaill  caim  ui  uiccinn  Décc. 

Sfan  mac  T?iocaipD  a  búpc  poja  gall  macaem  Gpeann  Do  mapbaD  a  men- 
boil  hi  mainipcip  ropaip  pacpaicc  la  cloinn  uillic  a  búpc. 

Caiplén  baile  an  cobaip  do  jabail  la  hua  concobaip  nDonn, "]  la  mac 
Diapmaoa  pop  pliocc  5páinne  injine  ui  cecdlaij.  Síó  00  óénarii  bóibia 
nDuchaig  Do  cabaipc  Do  pliocc  gpainne. 

^  Mac  Gaillgile. — This  name  is  still  common  county  of  Donegal. — See  note  '',  under  the  year 

in  Fermanagh,  but  now  incorrectly  anglicised  1461,  p.  1012,  supra. 

Mac  Alilly,  and  by  some  shortened  to  Lilly.  °  Consent  of  God  and  man,  i.  e.  by  the  consent 

'  Abkainn-moi;    i.  e.    the   great   river,    now  of  the  clergy  and  laity.     For  some  account  of 

called  the  Blackwater. — See  note  ',  under  the  the  ceremony  of  inaugurating  the  O'Donnell  at 

year  1483,  pp.  1125,  1126,  supra.  Kilmacrenau,   the  reader  is  referred  to  Genea- 

">  Laid  siege  to,  literally,  "  sat  under  Castle-  logies.    Tribes,   and   Customs   of  Hy-Fiachrach, 

derg."     In  Cromwell's  time  the  English  phrase  pp.  426-440.     The  inauguration   stone  of  the 

was   "  sat  round,   or   sat    before    the  town    or  O'Donnells,  which  is  said  to  have  been  originally 

castle."  on  the  hill  of  Doon,  near  the  village  Kilmacre- 

"  CiU-mic-Nenain,  now  Kilmacrenau.   in  the  nan,  and  in  latter  ages  in  the  church  of  Kilma- 


1.505.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1285 

Mac  Donnell  Galloglagh  (i.  e.  CoUa,  the  son  of  Colla),  O'Neill's  constable, 
was  slain  at  Armagh,  by  Gillespick,  the  son  of  Sorley  Roe  Mac  Donnell. 

The  sons  of  Gilla-Patrick,  son  of  Edmond  ]\|aguire,  took  a  prey  from  the 
young  sons  of  the  same  Edmond,  namely,  from  Brian  and  Owen  ;  and  Owen, 
while  in  pursuit  of  the  prey,  was  slain  by  Gilla-Patrick  ;  and  Fergus  More  Mac 
Cabe  was  slain  on  the  side  of  the  sons  of  Gilla-Patrick  on  that  occasion. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Maguire  (i.  e.  John,  the  son  of  Philip),  the  two  sons 
of  Teige  Mac  Caifry,  and  Teige  Oge,  the  sou  of  Edmond  Mac  Gaillgile",  toge- 
ther with  eighteen  men  who  were  along  with  them,  were  drowned  in  a  cot  on 
Lough  Erne. 

The  son  of  OTlanagan,  i.  e.  Cormac,  the  son  of  Cormac,  died. 

An  army  was  led  by  the  son  of  O'Donnell  (Hugh  Oge,  son  of  Hugh  Roe) 
into  Tyrone  ;  and  O'Neill's  (Donnell)  town,  Dungannon,  the  town  of  Hugh, 
the  son  of  Donnell  O'Neill,  were  burned  by  him  ;  and  he  traversed  from  the 
Abhainn-mor'  inwards  without  meeting  with  any  opposition.  Upon  his  return 
he  laid  siege  to"  Castlederg,  took  that  castle  from  the  sons  of  Niall,  the  son  of 
Art,  and  left  his  warders  in  it ;  and  he  proceeded  from  thence  to  Cill  mic-Nenain", 
where  he  was  nominated  Lord  of  Tirconnell,  on  the  2nd  day  of  August,  by 
consent  of  God  and  man°. 

Carbry,  the  son  of  Brian  O'Higgin,  Professor  of  Poetry,  died  in  Westmeath ; 
and  Brian  Oge,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Donnell  Cam  O'Higgin,  died. 

John,  the  son  of  Rickard  Burke,  choice  of  the  English  youths  of  Ireland, 
was  treacherously  slain  by  the  sons  of  Ulick  Burke,  in  the  monastery  of  Tober- 
Patrick". 

The  castle  of  Ballintober''  was  taken  by  O'Conor  Don  and  Mac  Dermot  from 
the  descendants  of  Grainne",  daughter  of  O'Kelly.  A  peace  was  [afterwards] 
made  ;  and  their  patrimonial  inheritance  was  given  to  the  descendants  of 
Grainne. 

crenan,  was  preserved  iu  the  choir  of  the  ruins  tectural  features  will  be  preserved  for  poste- 

of  that  church  till  about  forty  years  ago,  when  rity. 

it  was  stolen  or  destroyed.  ''  Ballintober,  i.  e.   Ballintober  castle,   in  the 

P  Tober-Patrick,  i.  e.  Patrick's  well,  now  the  county  of  Roscommon, 

monastery   of  Ballintober,    in    the   county   of  '  The  descendants  of  Grainne,  i.e.  that,  sept  of 

JIayo.     This   noble  monastery  is   now   under-  the    O'Conors    descended    from    Grainne,     the 

going  repair,  and' its  venerable  walls  and  arehi-  daughter  of  O'Kelly. 


1286  aNNQi-a  Rio^hachca  eiueaNN.  [1506.- 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1506. 
CtoiS  CRiopc,  TTlile,  cuicc  ceo,  a  Sé. 

Uomap  bmóe  mac  copccpaij,  oipcinneac  cluana  heoaip,  -|  Sfan  6  piaic 
oi|ic:inneac  a|i  cpian  aipió  bpopccaij  Décc. 

TTIac  iTiéguióip  aeó  mac  emamn  mic  comaip  015  meguioi))  t)o  mapbaó  a 
crópaijcacc  cpeice  Do  pinnfo  la  cloinn  cuino  mic  enpi  ui  néill  ap  cúil  na 
noipfp,"!  ba  he  pilip  mac  Smainn  mac  giolla  paccpaicc  po  mapbli  ei]'iumli. 

Semiip  mac  pilip  mic  an  jiolla  Dinb  méguióip  pfp  connail  cpáiboeac  eipibe 
Do  écc  "1  a  aónaccil  1  nDún  na  ngall. 

TTIajnap  mac  goppaDa  puaiD  méguióip  -]  TTlac  bpiain  reallaije  fcóac 
(.1.  peilim)  Decc. 

Uomap  mac  oiliuep  pIomjceD  Do  mapBaó  la  pliocc  TTlafgamna  ui  pa^al- 
lai5  .1.  lap  an  ccalbach  mac  pfiólimiD,  "j  let  a  clomn.  CoccaD  gall  -]  gaoióel 
Dfipje  cpicpin. 

TTlac  ui  carain  .1.  bpian  pionn  mac  Sfain  do  rhapbaD  la  Domnall  mac  neill 
mic  enpi  mic  eojain  ui  néiU, "]  moc  Don  bpian  ]^ui  Do  mapbaD  la  DonnchaD 
ua  cafám. 

TTlac  uibilin  .1.  ualrap  mac  copbmaic  mic  Sfinicin  do  rhapbaD  la  Inia 
ccarain  .1.  comap  mac  aibne,  -\  po  mapbaD  apaon  pip  Da  mac  cuarail  ui 
DoitinaiU,  Da  mac  ui  igpa,  cpi  mic  ui  baoijellain,  ~[  Dc't  mac  ui  cuinD, "]  peace 
pip  óécc  Do  mainbh  a  rionóil  ipin  púra  Do  ponnpaó. 

QoD  puaD  mac  glaipne  meg  marjamna  do  mapbaD  la  Inia  pajallaij 
(Sfan  mac  carail)  -]  la  a  cloinn. 

Oomnall  ua  cpaiDen,  cfnnaije  cpaibDecli  coccupac  Decc  ace  eipceacc 
aippinn  i  noun  na  ngall. 

paiDin  ua  maolconaipe  en  pojaBpeann  ina  aimpip  lé  Sfncup,  ■]  lé  pilibecr 
Decc. 

'  Cuil-na-nOircar,  now  the  barony  of  Coole,  mahon,  in  the  soutli- west  of  the  county  of  Ca  van. 

on  the  east  side  of  the  Upper  Lough  Erne,  in  "  Between  the  English  and  the  Irish,  i.  e.  be- 

the  south-east  of  the  county  of  Fermanagh See  tween  the  Anglo-Irish   of  the   Pale,    and   the 

note  under  the  year  1486.  Gaels,  or  mere  Irish. 

'  Descendants  ofMahon  O^ReiUy. — These  were  "  Aibhne,  now  anglicised  Evenew. 

seated  in  and  gave  name  to  the  barony  of  Clann-  "  0'' Craidhen,    now  anglicised   Crean.     This 


1.506.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1287 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1506. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  six. 

Thomas  Boy  Mac  Cosgraigh,  Erenagli  of  Clones,  and  John  O'Fiaich,  Ere- 
uagh  of  the  third  part  of  Airech-Broscaigh  [Derrybrusk],  died. 

The  son  of  Maguire,  i.  e.  Hugh,  the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Thomas  Oge 
Maguire,  was  slain  in  pursuit  of  a  prey  which  the  sons  of  Con,  son  of  Henry 
O'Neill,  were  carrying  off  from  Cuil-na-nOirear'.  It  was  Philip,  the  son  of 
Edmond,  son  of  Gilla- Patrick,  that  slew  him. 

James,  the  son  of  Philip,  son  of  Gilla-Duv  Maguire,  a  prudent  and  pious 
man,  died,  and  was  interred  at  Donegal. 

Manus,  the  son  of  Godfrey  Roe  Maguire,  and  Felim,  the  son  of  Brian  of 
Teallach-Eachdhach  [Tullyhaw],  died. 

Thomas,  the  son  of  Oliver  Plunkett,  was  slain  by  the  descendants  of  Mahon 
O'Reilly',  namely,  by  Calvagh,  the  son  of  Felim,  and  his  sons  ;  in  consequence 
of  which,  a  war  broke  out  between  the  English  and  the  Irish". 

The  son  of  O'Kane,  i.  e.  Brian  Finn,  the  son  of  John,  was  slain  by  Donnell, 
the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Henrj'^,  son  of  Owen  O'Neill  ;  and  a  son  of  this  Brian 
was  slain  by  Donough  O'Kane. 

Mac  Quillin,  i.  e.  Walter,  the  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  Jenkin,  was  slain  by 
O'Kane,  i.  e.  Thomas,  the  son  of  Aibhne".  There  were  slain  along  with  him 
two  sons  of  Tuathal  O'Donnell,  two  sons  of  O'Hara,  three  sons  of  O'Boylan,  two 
sons  of  O'Quin,  and  seventeen  of  the  chief  men  of  his  tribe,  in  [the  territory  of] 
the  Route. 

Hugh  Roe,  the  son  of  Glasny  Mac  Mahon,  was  slain  by  O'Reilly  (John,  the 
son  of  Cathal)  and  his  sons. 

Donnell  O'Craidhen''  [O'Crean],  a  pious  and  conscientious  merchant,  died, 
while  hearing  mass  in  Donegal. 

Paidin  O'Mulconry",  only  choice  of  Ireland  in  his  time  for  history  and 
poetry,  died. 

family  afterwards    acquired   considerable   pro-  ment  to  this  family  in  the  monastery  of  Sligo, 

perty  in   lands,    and  are   now   represented   by  of  which  Mr.  Petrie  has  made  a  careful  drawing. 

Andrew  Crean  Lynch,  Esq.  of  Hollybrook,  in  yPairfm  O'iV/M/cowry,  i.e.  little  Patrick  O'Mul- 

the  county  of  Mayo.    There  is  a  curious  monu-  conry.     He  was  the  lather  of  Maurice  O'Mul- 


1288  aNNQca  Rioghacnua  eiReawN.  [1507. 

etc  c|iuim  00  lo]^ccaó  Do  rene  Domr. 

TTlag  capcaij  caipbpeac  .1.  DiajimaiD  mac  Diajimaoa  an  Dúnaió  mic  Dorh- 
naill  piabaij  Décc. 

O  carain  comáp  mac  ailme,"]  clann  cSfain  mic  aibne  Donnchaó  1  Domnall 
clepeac  do  bol  cap  banna  poip  50  ccucc]^ac  aipjfDa,  1  gpfja  lomDa  leó,  -| 
ceacc  50  niolac  -|  50  nairfp  pop  ccúla. 

Caicilin  injfn  mpla  Dfpriiurhan  .1.  comap  mac  Semaip  baincijeapna  ua 
ccaipppe  bfn  Depcach  Dfijeinij  Décc,  ap  lé  Do  ponaDh  an  bfnn  Dub,-]  Dun  na 
mbfno. 

Opnicfc  puipc  cpdipi  pop  pionainn  Do  óénarh  la  luia  mbpiam,  coippDeal- 
bach  mac  caiócc  mic  coippDealbai  j,  i  la  Domnall  a  Deapbpacaip,  la  heppcop 
cille  Da  lua  1  la  heppcop  cille  pionnabpach. 

aOlS  CRIOSC,  1507. 
QoiS  CRiopc,  TTlile,  cuicc  ceD,  aSeaclic. 

Seon  paiiinc  eppcop  na  miDe  bpacaip  ppepeDiuplepióe,-]  piapup  ua  maol- 
uiDip  abb  clocaip  Décc. 

^painne  injfn  mcgiiioip  (.i.  emann)  bfn  pilip  mic  coippóealbaij,  bfn 
óépcac  ofijemij,-]  cacapinna  injfn  conconnacc  mic  majnupa  mé^  macjarhna 
Décc. 

O  plonnaccain  cuaire  paca  TTluipceapcac  mac  TTluipceapcaij  Decc. 

^pfip  oiDce  la  mall  puaó  mac  Dorhnaill  mic  neill  jaipb. 

conry,  who  made  a  beautiful  transcript  of  the      Cork See  Smith's  Natural  and  Civil  History 

Book  of  Fenagh,  in  the  year  1517,  for  Teige  of  Cwk,  books  ii.  c.  4,  where  he  erroneously 

O'Rody,  the  Coarb  of  Fenagh.  states  that  this  castle  was  built  by  the  Dono- 

'  Herds,  aipjfóa  is  the  nominative  plural  of  vans.     It  was  the  principal  seat  of  Sir  Owen 

aipje,  a  herd.     The  word  occurs  again  at  the  Mac  Carthy  Reagh,  whose  daughter,  Joan,  was 

year  1582.  married  to  Daniel  O'Donovan,  of  Castle  Dono- 

'  Horses,   gpf^t'  is   the  nominative  plural  of  van,  about  the  year  1584. 

jpfj,  a  horse.  "=  Dun-na-m-beann,  i.  e.  fort  of  the  gables,  or 

''  Beann-dubk,  i.  e.  the  black  gable  or  pinnacle,  pinnacles,  now  Dunmanway,  a  small  town  about 

now  BandufF,  or  Bendufl",  otherwise  Castle  Salem,  twelve  miles  west  of  Bandon,   in  the  county  of 

a  strong  castle  situated  about  a  mile  to  the  Cork.     Dr.  Smith  gives  no  account  of  the  erec- 

north-east  of  Kosscarbery,    in    the   county  of  tion  of  this  castle  in  his  Natural  and  Civil  His- 


1507]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1289 

Ath-Trim  was  burned  by  lightning. 

Mac  Carthy  Cairbreach,  i.  e.  Dermot,  the  son  of  Dermot-an-Duna,  son  of 
Donnell  Reagh,  died. 

O'Kane,  i.  e.  Thomas,  the  son  of  Aibhne,  and  the  sons  of  John,  son  of  Aibhne, 
namely,  Donough  and  Donnell  Cleireach,  went  eastwards  across  the  Bann,  and 
carried  oíF  from  thence  many  herds''  and  horses^,  and  returned  in  exultation 
and  triumph. 

Catherine,  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  i.  e.  Thomas,  the  son  of  James, 
Lady  of  Hy-Carbury,  a  charitable  and  truly  liospitable  woman,  died.  It  was 
by  her  that  Beann-dubh"  and  Dun-na-m-beann"  were  erected. 

The  bridge  of  Port-Croisi''  upon  the  Shannon  was  erected  by  O'Brien,  i.  e. 
Turlough,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Turlough ;  Donnell,  his  brother ;  the  Bishop 
of  Killaloe ;  and  the  Bishop  of  Kilfenora. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1507. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  seven. 

John  Pauint^  Bishop  of  Meath,  a  friar  preacher,  and  Pierce  O'Maeluire, 
Abbot  of  Clogher,  died. 

Grainne,  the  daughter  of  Maguire  (i.  e.  Edmond).  and  wife  of  Philip,  the 
son  of  Tiu'lough  [Magmre],  a  charitable  and  truly  hospitable  woman,  and 
Catherine,  daughter  of  Cuconnaught,  son  of  Manus  Mac  Mahon,  died. 

O'Flanagan  of  Tuath-Ratha,  i.  e.  Mvu'tough,  the  son  of  Murtough,  died. 

A  nocturnal  assault'.     Niall  Roe,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Niall  Garv. 

tory  of  Cork,  where  he  treats  of  the  origin  of  years  1510  and  1597. 

the  town,  book  ii.  c.  4.  This  castle  afterwards  ^  John  Panint. — His  real  name  was  John 
belonged  to  Mac  Carthy  of  Gleann-a-Chruim,  Pain.  He  succeeded  in  1483.  He  was  the  per- 
in  whose  possession  it  remained  till  about  the  son  appointed  to  preach  the  sermon,  and  pro- 
year  1690.  claim  the  title   of  the  mock   prince,   Lambert 

*  Port-Croisi This  name  is  yet  preserved  in  Simnel,  at  his  coronation  in  Christ  Church,  in 

that  of  the  townland  of  Portcrush,  situated  on  the  year  1485,  for  which  he  received  a  pardon  in 

the   Shannon,    in    the    north-west  end   of  the  1488. — See  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops, 

parish  of  Castleconnell,  in  the  county  of  Lime-  p.  151. 

rick,  where  there  was  a  wooden  bridge  across  f  A  nocturrml  assault. — This  entry  is  evidently 

the  Shannon. — See  it  again  referred  to  at  the  left  imperfect. 

8b 


1290  aNNaí,a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1507. 

Gnpi  mac  aeóa  uí  neill  faoí  cinnpfóna  Duine  bá  pfpp  airne  ap  jac  ealaó- 
ain  t)écc. 

peilim  TTiag  uinnpennain  opicelci|ie  conaill  b|ifirírn  roccaióe  paoí  clépi^ 
CO  ccpabaó  1  co  ccaoínjnioiTiaib  Décc  .12.  lulu. 

Siubán  injfn  rhég  mar^arhna  (.1.  deb  puaó)  Décc. 

Slóicceab  lá  hua  nDoriinaill  (aoó  ócc  mac  aoóa  puaió)  1  ccíp  eojain. 
poplonjpopc  Dó  óénam  Do  im  caiplén  uí  néill  (Dúnsfnam)  "]  pochaióe  do 
mapbaD  do  luce  an  baile  im  TTlac  jilla  puaió  .1.  bpian,  -\  ó  néill  Do  óenam 
píoDa  ppip  ua  nDomnaill.  Ua  Domnaill  Do  óol  apióe  I11  ccfnn  an  lupcip,  1 
cenel  iTloain  Do  cpeacaD  la  hua  neill  na  DeaDhaió,  -|  bpian  mac  uí  jaipm- 
leaóai^  Do  rhapbaD  laip. 

Nmll  mac  cuinn  mic  aeóa  buióe  mic  bpiain  ballaij  uí  neill  Do  jabail  lá 
muincip  caippge  pfpjupa,  a  bfic  pé  hachaió  hi  lairh,  -|  a  légeaó  amach  lap 
pm,  1  8é  bpaijDe  Décc  Do  buain  app. 

Coccaó  erep  ó  neill  -|  clann  cuinn  uí  neill.  Clann  aipc  Do  bfir  do  raob 
clomne  cviinn,  -|  cpi  cpeaca  do  Dénam  leó  ap  cenelpfpaDhaij.  Cpeaca  mop 
DO  bénarh  la  hua  neill  ap  cloinn  aipc  po  béoiD. 

QodIi  mac  coippbealbaij  mic  pilip  méjuibip  Do  rhapbabla  mac  uí  puaipc, 
cijfpnán  ócc  mac  eocchani. 

TTlac  meguibip  (cabcc  uiac  concobaip  mic  comáip  óicc)  Do  rhapbab  lá 
clomn  Donnchaib  mejuibip  ~\  lá  Remann  ócc  macc  macgamna. 

Caiplen  móp  caippje  pfpjupa,  1  mépe  an  baile  peippm  Do  jabáil  ló  nmll 
mac  cumn  (po  gabab  leopoiti  peacr  piarh)"]  a  bpai^^De  pfin  do  bí  pan  ccaiplén 
Do  buain  amac  nó. 

Ceampall  achaib  bfice  do  lopccab,"]  eprhóp  maicfpa  an  cípe  Do  lopccab 
ann. 

Gmann  mac  comaip  óicc  mic  comaip  óicc  Decc  do  nnneap  aon  oibce. 

Ua  DÍinám  borhnai^  maije  Da  claoíne  do  rhapbab  do  pabab  Do  pcín  la  a 
bparaip  pfin  jiolla  paopaicc  mac  pibp. 

s  Moffuinnsenain This  uame  is  still  common  lie  School  ot'  Oldcastle,  was  of  this  family. 

ill  the  counties  of  Meath  and  Cavan,  where  it  is  '^  Were  taken. — One  verb  is  employed  to  ex- 
made  Mac  Elsinan  by  some,  Gilson  by  others,  and  press  the  taking  of  the  castle  and  the  capturing 
in  some  instances  it  has  been  changed  to  Nugent,  of  the  mayor,  which  would  not  be  considered 
The  late  Charles  Gilson,  the  founder  of  the  Pub-  correct  in  English  conjposition. 


1507.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1291 

Henry,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  a  distinguished  captain,  a  man  most  skilled 
in  every  science,  died. 

Felim  Maguinnsenain^,  Official  of  Tirconnell,  a  select  Brehon,  an  ecclesi- 
astic eminent  for  piety  and  benevolent  deeds,  died  on  the  12th  of  July. 

Joan,  daughter  of  Mac  Mahon  (i.  e.  Hugh  Roe),  died. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  (Hugh  Oge,  the  son  of  Hugh  Roe)  into 
Tyrone  ;  he  pitched  his  camp  around  O'Neill's  castle  of  Dungannon,  and  slew 
numbers  of  the  people  of  the  town,  besides  Mac  Gilroy,  i.  e.  Brian.  O'Neill 
made  peace  with  O'Donnell,  and  O'Donnell  thence  went  to  the  Lord  Justice. 
After  O'Donnell's  departure  O'Neill  plundered  Kinel-Moen,  and  slew  Brian,  the 
son  of  O'Gormly. 

Niall,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Hugh  Boy,  son  of  Brian  Ballagh  O'Neill,  was 
taken  prisoner  by  the  people  of  Carrickfergus.  He  remained  for  some  time  in 
their  custody,  but  was  at  last  liberated,  sixteen  hostages  being  obtained  in  his 
stead. 

A  war  [broke  out]  between  O'Neill  and  the  sons  of  Con  O'Neill  ;  and  the 
sons  of  Art  sided  with  the  sons  of  Con,  and  they  took  three  preys  from  Kinel- 
Farry.  Great  depredations  were  afterwards  committed  by  O'Neill  upon  the 
sons  of  Art. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Philip  Maguire,  was  slain  by  the  son  of 
O'Rourke,  Tiernan  Oge,  the  son  of  Owen. 

The  son  of  Maguire  (Teige,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Thomas  Oge)  was  slain 
by  the  sons  of  Donough  Maguire  and  Redmond  Oge  Mac  Mahon. 

The  Great  Castle  of  Carrickfergus  and  the  mayor  of  the  town  were  taken" 
by  Niall,  the  son  of  Con,  who  had  some  time  before  been  taken  by  them  ;  and 
he  rescued  his  own  hostages  who  were  in  the  castle. 

The  church  of  Achadh-beithe  [Aghavea]  was  burned ;  and  the  greater  part 
of  the  riches  of  the  country  were  burned  within  it. 

Edmond,  the  son  of  Thomas  Oge,  son  of  Thomas  Oge,  died  of  one  night's 
sickness. 

O'Dunan  of  Domhnach-maighe-da-Chlaoine'  was  killed  with  a  stab  of  a 
knife  by  his  own  brother,  Gilla-Patrick,  son  of  Philip. 

'  Domhnach-maighe-da-chlaoine,  i.  e.  the  great      Donagh,  an  old  church  giving  name  to  a  parish 
church  of  the  plain  of  the   two  slopes,    now      in  the  barony  of  Trough,  and  county  of  Mo- 

8  b2 


1292  aNNQf-a  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1508. 

6pmn  mac  meg  y^ariipaooin  (Domnall  bfpnac)  do  riiapbaó  la  coip|i6ealBac 
mac  aeóa  mic  eoccain  Tneg  y^arhpabain. 

TTIac  conmibe  (Solarh  mac  Sfain  mic  folaim)  ollarii  ui  neill  Saoi  i  noan 
1  ppojlaim,  1  111  ppilióeacc,  •]  pfji  rije  aoiófó  coiccinn  [oecc]  .30.  Ocrobep. 

TTIajcpaic,  comap  (.1.  mac  pibp  mic  romaip  mic  maolmuijie  015  mic 
maolmunii  moip),  ua  cuill  cfriDpaolaó,  O  oalaij  pionn  joppaioh,  O  oálaij 
caipppeac  aengiip  (.1.  mac  aenjupa  caoic)  -\  ó  gépain  (Sfan  .i.  mac  conco- 
batp)  Décc. 

mac  an  baipD  aipj^iall,  giollapaopaicc  mac  aoOa,  1  "Cuatal  buióe  mac 
aóaim  gaipb  mic  an  baipo  Do  ifiapbaD  ap  aon  la  coinulaD  ua  conDalaij;  "|  la 
a  bpairpib. 

Caiplén  Dpoma  Da  eciap,  ■]  caiplen  na  ofipcce  Do  ruicim. 

Qn  bappac  puaó  Semap  mac  Semaip  do  Dol  Dia  oibrpe  Don  ppáinn  co 
maicib  a  muinncipe  apaon  pip,  -\  lap  noenam  a  noilicpe  Dóib  Do  cuacap  In 
luing  DO  poaD  ma  pppicin^  1  ni  pfp  a  mbóp  no  a  mbeara  ópin  alle.  Oom- 
nall  mac  caiDcc  mic  giolla  micil  í  piaic  yá^t  epeann,-]  alban  DoiDe  lé  Sfncup 
a  ccuiccpi  laiDne,  -]  piliDeacra  do  bacaD  hi  ppappaD  an  bappaij  ap  an  oili- 
rpe  pin  a  Dubpamap. 

Sfan  a  búpc,  mac  uillicc,  mic  uillicc,  mic  RiocaipD  óicc  canaipre  cloinne 
piocaipD  paop  clann  ^all  epeann  poiDeac  Ian  Deineac,i  Dpipinne,cinne  cpuaDa 
lé  coruccab  Décc. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,   1508. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  TTIile,  ciiicc  ceo,  a  liocr. 

TTlaiji  magcpair  eppcop  cliiana  pfpca  paoi  parmap  piajalca  ceilliDi 
cpaibDeac,  Décc,  "|  OauiD  mac  comaip  a  bi'ipc  Décc  ap  plicciD  na  póma  lap 
na  oiponeaD  ma  lonaó  ipin  fppcopóiDe. 

naghau.     The  ruins  of  tliis  church  are  still  to  an  Irish  title  assumed  by  the  head  of  a  branch 

be  seen  near  the  village  of  Glasslough.  of  the  family  of  De  Barry.     The  name  is  still 

''  Aiac  Conmidhc,  now  Mac  Namee.    The  lineal  retained  in  the  barony  of  Barryroe,  in  the  south 

descendants  of  this  poet  are  still  livang  in  the  of  the  county  of  Cork,  which  was  the  patrimonial 

village  of  Draperstown,  in  the  county  of  Lon-  inheritance  of  this  branch  of  the  Barrys. — See 

donderry.  Natural  and  Civil  Hisiori/  of  Cork,  book  ii.  chap.  3. 

'  Barry  Roe,  i.  e.  Barry  the  Red.     This  was  "'  On  board  a  ship,  Sjc,  literally,  "  they  went 


1.508.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND,  1293 

Brian,  the  son  of  Magauran  (Donnell  Bearnach),  was  slain  by  Turlotigh, 
the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Owen  Magauran. 

Mac  Conmidhe''  (Solomon,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Solomon),  Ollav  to 
O'Neill,  an  adept  in  rliyming,  [general]  literature,  and  poetry,  and  who  kept  a 
house  of  general  liospitality,  died  on  the  30th  of  October. 

Magrath  (Thomas,  the  son  of  Phihp,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Maelmurry  Oge, 
son  of  Maelmurry  More)  ;  O'Cuill  (Kenfaela)  ;  O'Daly  Finn  (Godfrey,  the  son 
of  Donough)  ;  O'Daly  Cairbreach  (Aengus,  the  son  of  Aengus  Caech)  ;  and 
O'Geran  (i.  e.  John,  the  son  of  Conor),  died. 

Mac  Ward  of  Oriel,  i.  e.  Gilla-Patrick,  the  son  of  Hugh,  and  Tuathal  Boy, 
the  son  of  Adam  Garv  Mac  Ward,  were  both  slain  by  Cu-Uladh  O'Connolly 
and  his  kinsmen. 

The  castle  of  Druim-da-Ether  [Dromahaire]  and  the  castle  of  the  Derg 
[Castlederg],  fell. 

Barry  Roe',  i.  e.  James,  the  son  of  James,  went  on  a  pilgrimage  to  Spain, 
attended  by  many  of  the  chiefs  of  his  people  ;  and  after  having  performed  their 
pilgrimage  they  embarked  on  board  a  ship",  to  return  home,  but  no  further 
account,  as  to  whether  they  survived  or  perished,  was  ever  received.  Upon 
the  pilgrimage  aforesaid,  along  with  Barry,  was  drowned  Donnell,  the  son  of 
Teige,  son  of  Gilla-Michael  OTiaich,  quahfied  by  his  knowledge  of  Latin  and 
poetry  to  become  chief  professor  of  history  for  Ireland  and  Scotland. 

John  Burke,  the  son  of  Ulick,  son  of  Ulick,  son  of  Eickard  Oge,  Tanist  of 
Clanrickard,  the  noblest  of  the  English  of  Ireland,  a  vessel  filled  with  hospita- 
lity and  truth,  and  a  link  of  steel  in  sustaining  [the  battle],  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1508. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  eight. 

Maigi  Magrath,  Bishop  of  Clonfert,  a  prosperous,  religious,  wise,  and  pious 
man,  died  ;  and  David,  the  son  of  Thomas  Burke,  who  was  appointed  his  suc- 
cessor in  the  bishopric,  died  on  his  way  from  Rome". 

into  a  ship  to  return  back,   and  their  death  or      have  most  undoubtedly  perished,  as  is  evident 

their  living  has  not  been  known  ever  since."      from  the  subsequent  part  of  the  passage. 

This  is  the  Irish  mode  of  saying  that  they  must  "  On  his  way  from  Rome,  literally,  "  on  the 


1294  aNwaca  Rio^hacbca  eiReaNM.  [1508. 

Uomap  Ó  congaláin  6p]^cop  Oilepinn,  1  Uaceji  a  blc'ic  eppcop  cluana  mic 
nóip  Décc. 

Uilliam  ÓCC  mac  aipc  mic  carmaoil  ofjanac  clocaip  oécc,  oeajibjiaraip 
pióe  óeócchan  Deppcop  clocaip. 

O  maolmuaió  (aoó  ócc)  Do  mapbaó  ina  caiplén  pfipin  lá  a  bpairpib 
bubofm. 

Oorhnall  ua  bpmin  (.1.  mac  raiócc  mic  roippóealbaij)  ranaipi  cuaomu- 
man,  "]  ^epoicc  mac  aoóa  mic  cacail  ui  pajallaij  oécc. 

íílac  mécc  macjamna,  Remainn  ócc  mac  Remainn  Do  mapbao  i  riDomnac 
maije  Da  claoine  la  péle  parpaicc  la  mac  rfiejuiDip  pilip  mac  emainn.  bá 
harhlaió  Do  pónaó  an  gníorii  lupin  pilip  Do  Dol  i  nonoip  pacpaic  Déipceacc 
oipppinn  Don  baile,  1  aitiail  bácap  occ  an  oipppionn  ipin  ecclaip  Do  puacc 
r?émann  ócc  50  mbuióm  móip  ina  pocaip  imon  cfmpall.  T?o  haónair  cfince 
leo  hi  ccficpe  haipDib  an  cfmpuiU.  Ctp  na  cluinpin  pin  Do  mac  megiiiDip  do 
páib  nac  leíccpeab  cfmpall  pacpaicc  Do  lopccab.  T?o  jpeip  a  muinnp  im 
calma  Do  benarh,  cicc  pilip  cona  bpairpib  amac  1  nanmaim  Dé,  1  parpaic. 
Oo  pala  froppa  cop  cpapcpab  Remann  Din  eoc  ~\  po  mopbab  lapam  cona 
corhalca  amaille  ppip  .1.  mac  bpiain  puaib  mic  giollabpijoe  -]  jabrap  beóp 
bpaijDe  ann  co  po  mópab  ainm  Dé  -\  pacpaic  cpír  pin. 

Copbmac  ó  cianáin  paoí  ShfncaDa  "|  pipbána  1  Donnchab  mac  bpiain  mic 
pilip  méjuibíp  Décc. 

ITluipcfprac  mac  aeba  mic  pfpjail  óícc  mic  pfpjail  puaib  mejeoccaccám 
DO  mapbaD  lá  a  bpaifpib  péin. 

way  of  Rome,"  which  may  signify  either  on  his  descendant  of  Laeghaire,  Monarch  of  Ireland  in 

way  to  or  from  Rome.  St.  Patrick's  time.     Harris  says,  in  his  edition 

°   0'' Conghalain,    now  Conallan,    or   Conlan.  of  Ware's   Bishops,  p.  254,  that  this  Thomas 

This  surname  is  formed  from  Conghalain,  the  O'Congalan,  who  died  in  1508,  was  Bishop  of 

genitive  of  Conghalan,  which  is  a  diminutive  of  Ardagh,    and  adds,    "  Some   have   called   him 

Conghal.    Surnames  now  often  confounded  with  Bishop  of  Elphin.     But  to  give  you  my  Scnti- 

each   other  have  been  formed  from  ancestors  ments  of  the  matter,  it  seems  evident  to  me 

named  Conallan,  Con;^alán,  Coin^ioUán,  Com-  that  he  never  governed  the  see  of  Elphin." 
óeulBán,  and  Cuoinóealbún,  but  there  is  little  ""  Owen,  Bishop  ofClogher. — This  is  the  prelate 

or  nothing  known  of  the  descents,  pedigrees,  or  called  Eugene  Mac  Camaeil  in  Harris's  edition  of 

localitiesof  any  ofthemexceptO'CoinoealBain,  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  187-    He  succeeded  in  1508, 

now  Quinlan,  who  was  the  Chief  of  Iveleary,  and  died  in  1515. 
near  Trim,   in  Meath,   and  who  was  the  lineal  '  Domknack-maighe-da-cklaoine,  now  Donagh, 


1508.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1295 

Thomas  O'Conghalain",  Bishop  of  Elphin,  and  Walter  Blake,  Bishop  of 
Clonmacnoise,  died. 

William  Oge,  the  son  of  Art  Mac  Cawell,  Dean  of  Clogher,  died.  He  was 
brother  of  Owen,  Bishop  of  Clogher''. 

O'MoUoy  (Hugh  Oge)  was  killed  in  his  own  castle  by  his  own  kinsmen. 

Donnell  O'Brien  (i.  e.  the  son  of  Brian),  son  of  Turloiigh,  Tanist  of  Tho- 
inond,  and  Garrett,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Cathal  O'Reilly,  died. 

The  son  of  Mac  Mahon,  i.  e.  Redmond  Oge,  son  of  Redmond,  was  slain  at 
Dombnach-maighe-da-Chlaoine"^,  on  St.  Patrick's  Festival,  by  the  son  of  Maguire, 
i.  e.  Philip,  the  son  of  Edmond.  This  act  was  perpetrated  thus  :  Phihp  went 
to  the  town  to  hear  mass,  in  honour  of  St.  Patrick,  and  while  they  [he  and  his 
attendants]  were  at  mass  within  the  church,  Redmond  Oge  came  around  the 
church  with  a  large  party,  and  set  fire"'  to  the  four  corners  of  the  building. 
When  Maguire  heard  of  this,  he  said  that  he  would  not  suffer  the  church  of 
St.  Patrick'  to  be  burned  ;  and,  exciting  his  people  to  courage,  Phihp,  with  his 
kinsmen,  came  out  in  the  name  of  God  and  of  St.  Patrick.  A  conflict  ensued, 
in  which  Redmond  was  thrown  from  his  horse,  and  afterwards  slain,  together 
with  his  foster-brother,  the  sou  of  Brian  Roe  Mac  Gillabride'  ;  and  prisoners 
were  also  taken  there.  And  the  names  of  God  and  St.  Patrick  were  magnified 
by  this  occurrence. 

Cormac  O'Keenan,  a  learned  historian  and  poet,  and  Donough,  the  son  of 
Brian,  son  of  Philip  Maguire,  died. 

Mitrtough,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Farrell  Oge,  son  of  Farrell  Roe  Mageo- 
ghegan,  was  slain  by  his  own  kinsmen. 

in  the  barony  of  Trough,  in  the  north  of  the  originally  erected  by  St.  Patrick,  and  they  were 

county  of  Monaghan.     It  is  to  be  distinguished  so  called,  according  to  the  Tripartite  Life  of  St. 

from   Donaghmoyne,   which  is   called  in   Irish  Patrick,    published  by  Colgan,   lib.  ii.  c.  119, 

Dorhnac  maigin — See  note  under  the  year  1507.  because  the  saint  had  marked  out  their  founda- 

'  Set  fire,  ^■c.,  literally,  "  fires  were  kindled  tions  on  Sunday :  "  In  istis  partibus  in  regione 

by  them  in  the  four  corners  of  the  church,  or  Kennacts  septem  diebus  dominicis  commoratus 

tires  were  kindled  by  them  in  the  church  in  the  septem   Domino  sacrarum   sdium   fecit  funda- 

four  opposite  points,"   i.e.  north,   south,  east,  menta  quas   proinde  Dominicas  appellavit."  — 

and  west.  Trias  Tliaum.,  p.  146.     See  also  Jocelyn,  c.  91. 

5   Church  of  St.  Patrick. — Every    church    in  and  Ussher's  Primordia,  p.  852. 
Ireland  whose  name  begins  with  Domhnach  was  '  Mac  Gillabride.— This  name  is  iiow  anglicised 


1296  QHwaca  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1508. 

pdip  mac  bpiain  mic  pfiolinnio  ui  Rajallaij  cfno  pfóna,  -|  pfp  cije  aoiofoh, 
pfp  Ian  Daicne  ap  jach  ealaóatn  oécc  lap  mbuam  onjra  -|  airpicche. 

Uicchfpnan  ócc  mac  eojain  (.1.  n  l?uaipc)  ui  piiaipc  do  mapbaó  ló  Sfan 
mac  cijfpnáin  pinn  ui  Puaipc. 

Niall  mac  ala;ranDoip  mic  cabba,  1  enpi  mac  bpiain  mic  caba  oécc. 

O  Doiiinaill  Q0Ó  ÓCC  mac  aoóa  puaió  do  rocc  1  nfrpaib  pop  loc  eptie,  -] 
caiplén  inpi  cfirlionn  Dpa^ailDo  ó  RuaiDpi  majuiDip,-]  o  Domnaill  Do  rabaipc 
an  caipléin  Do  pilip  mac  coippóealbaij  méguiDip,-]  bpai^De  an  cipe  Dpajail 
Dua  Domnaill.  O  neill  .1.  Dorhnall,  "|  TTlaguiDip  .1.  concobap  Do  ceacc  co  hmip 
cficlfnD  DO  paijijiD  ui  Domnaill"!  a  piapuccaó  Doib,  "|  píó  Do  Denam  ppip. 
Pilip  mac  bpiam  mégu'óip  do  bpipeaó  a  caiplém  pfin  ap  fccla  ui  Domnaill, 
-|  clann  bpia.n  pfin  Dpáccbc'iil  an  cipe  .1.  l?uaiDpi  Do  Dol  hi  ccfnn  ui  puaipc,  "| 
Pilip  hi  ccfnD  aipc  óicc  mic  cuinn  ui  néill. 

Tiloc  ui  cacain  (goppaiD  mac  comaip)  Do  mapbaó  la  pliocc  majnupa 
ui  cacóin. 

6óin  mac  Domnaill  juipm  do  mapbaó  lá  mac  uióilín. 

Slóicceaó  In  liua  nDoriinaill  1  nioccap  connacr,"]  bpaijDe  loccaip  connacr 
DO  rabaipc  laip  Dia  cij. 

bpian  mac  pilip  mic  DonnchaiD  meguióip  Do  jabáil  lá  majuioip  hi  ccfm- 
pall  achaiD  lupcaipe. 

Pilip  ÓCC  mac  amlaib  .1.  mac  pilip  piabaij  mic  bpiain  mic  arhlaoib  mic 
Pilip  mic  amlaoib  mic  Dumn  cappaij  meguiDip  Décc.  Cfnn  a  aicme  pfin  -| 
pfp  cije  aoiofo  epiDe. 

Copbmac  mac  neill  mic  an  jiolla  Duib  mic  aeóa  do  rhapbaD  la  ceallac 
eacDac,  1  la  cloinn  pilip  mic  bpiain  meguiDip  ap  jpeip  oiDce. 

6mann  mac  majnupa  ui  jaipmlfDhaij  do  liiapbaó  lá  conn  mac  neill 

Mac  Bride  in  the  county  of  Monaglian  ;  but  in  therefore,  the  Editor  has  not  repeated  the  re- 
the  more  northern  counties  of  Ulster  it  is  made  dundant  nominative  O'Donnell,  but  has  sub- 
Mac  Kilbride,  or  Kilbride  simply.  stituted  he  for  it.     The  literal  translation  is  as 

'^  Full  of  knowledge. — An  English  writer  would  follows: 

say,  who  was  profoundly  skilled  in  the  sciences,  "  O'ljonnell,   Hugh  Oge,   the  son   of  Hugh 

but  the  Editor  has  attempted  to  preserve  the  Eoe,  came  in  vessels  upon  Lough  Erne,  and  the 

idiom  of  the  Irish.  castle  of  Enuiskillen  was  obtained  by  him  from 

"■  And  delivered  it. — The  language  is  unne-  Rory  Maguire,   and  O'Donnell  gave  the  castle 

cessarily  redmndant  here  in  the  original,  and,  to  Philip,   the  son  of  Turlough  Maguire,  and 


1,508.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1297 

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

Tiernan  Oge,  the  son  of  Owen  O'Rourke  (i.  e.  the  O'Rourke),  was  slain  by 
John,  the  son  of  Tiernan  Finn  O'Rourke. 

Niall,  the  son  of  Alexander  Mac  Cabe,  and  Henry,  the  son  of  Brian  Mac 
Cabe,  died. 

O'Donnell  (Hugh  Oge,  the  son  of  Hugh  Roe)  went  with  boats  upon  Lough 
Erne,  took  the  castle  of  Enniskillen  from  Rory  Maguire,  and  delivered  it"  up 
to  Philip,  the  son  of  Turlough  Maguire  ;  he  also  obtained  the  hostages  of  the 
country.  O'Neill,  i.  e.  Donnell,  and  Maguire,  i.  e.  Conor,  came  to  Enniskillen 
to  meet  O'Donnell;  and  they  gave  him  his  demands,  and  made  peace  with  him. 
Philip,  the  son  of  Brian  Maguire,  demolished  his  own  castle  through  fear  of 
O'Donnell.  The  sons  of  Brian  left  the  country,  i.  e.  Rory  went  over  to  O'Rourke, 
and  Philip  to  Art  Oge,  son  of  Con  O'Neill. 

The  son  of  O'Kane  (Godfrey,  the  son  of  Thomas)  was  slain  by  the  descen- 
dants of  Manus  O'Kane. 

John  Mac  Donnell  Gorm  was  slain  by  Mac  Quillin. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  into  Lower  Connaught",  and  brought  the 
hostages  of  Lower  Connaught  with  him  to  liis  house. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Philip,  son  of  Donough  Maguire,  Avas  taken  prisoner  by 
Maguire,  in  the  church  of  Achadh-lurchaire  [Aghalurcher]. 

Philip  Oge  Magawley,  i.  e.  son  of  Philip  Reagh,  son  of  Brian,  son  of  AuliiFe, 
son  of  Philip,  son  of  AidiiFe,  son  of  Don  Carragh  Maguire,  died.  He  was  the 
head  of  his  own  tribe'',  and  kept  a  house  of  hospitality. 

Cormac,  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Gilla-Duv,  son  of  Hugh  [Maguire],  was  slain, 
in  a  nocturnal  assault,  by  the  people  of  Teallach-Eachdhach  [TuUyhaw]  and 
the  sons  of  Philip,  son  of  Brian  Maguire. 

Edmond,  the  son  of  Manus  O'Gormly,  was  slain  by  Con,  the  son  of  Niall 

the  hostages  of  the  country  were  also  obtained  Connaught." 

by  O'Donnell,"  &c.  ^  Head  ofhk  own  tribe He  was  head  of  that 

^  Lower  Connaught -The  northern  part  of  sept  of  the  Maguires  who  took  the  surname  of 

Connaught,  at  this   period   the  principality  of  INIagawley,  and  gave  name  to  the  barony  of  Cla- 

O'Conor  Sligo,  was  and  is  still  usually  "  Lower  nawley,  in  Fermanagh,  which  was  their  territory. 

8c 


1298  aNNQi^a  Rio^hachca  eipeaNH.  [1508. 

bfjinai^  mic  enjii  mic  eo^ain,  -|  conn  pfin  Do  riiapbaó  la  bpian  mac  cuinn  mic 
enpi  mic  eojain  ipin  mi  céona. 

InDpaicchió  lá  cloinn  oonnchaió  mejuióip  (comap,  pilip,  pfiólimió)  1  lá 
cloinn  rpfain  buióe  mejniacjarhna  ap  Tíiaguióip  concobap.  TTIasuióip  ofipje 
ina  nacclmio"!  bpipeaó  dó  poppa.  pfi6limió  mac  oonncliaib  Do  rhapbaó  lei]'. 
bpian  mac  Sfam  buióe  méj  marjarhna  00  buala6"|  00  ^abail  laip,  -]  eóccan 
mac  cómaip  mic  aipr  puaió  méj  macjarhna  Do  gabail  béo]>. 

Cpeaca  mópa  lá  hapc  mac  cuinn  uí  néill  ap  cenél  peapaohaij.  Gojan 
mac  uíneill,-]  clann  mec  carrhaoíl  Do  bpfic  paip.  Qenjup  mac  Sorhaiple  bac- 
ai^  DO  rhapbaD  ó  apc  1  apr  pfin  Dimceacr  ap  éiccin  -]  na  cpfca  do  bpfic  laip. 

Qibilm  in^fn  iií  cacóin  (.1.  remap),  bfn  eojain  puaiD  meic  iií  neill  Décc. 

Oomnall  (.1.  mac  ui  bpiain  apa)  mac  caiócc  mic  coippóealbaij  mic  mup- 
chaiD  na  paicinije,  Saoí  cinnpfDna  bá  caoín  lé  caipoib,  bá  hainDiuiD  lé 
lieapccaipDib  Décc  lap  ccairfrh  a  n^ap  Do  céD  bliaDain  lé  huaiple,  1  lé  hoip- 
bfpc. 

O  hfÍDippcceoil  móp  concobap  mac  pín^in  mic  miccon  Décc.  pfp  cpoóa 
copancac,  capa  na  nópD,  "|  na  nficcTp  ej^ibe,  1  a  mac  pinjm  DÓipDneoó  na 
lonab  lap  ná  rabaipc  amac,  ap  ]io  baoí  hi  lairh  I11  ccopcoi^  cuiUeaD  ap 
bliaóam. 

ITlag  caprai^  móp  Dorhnall  mac  caiDcc  mic  Dorhnaill  óicc  pfp  péjainn 
poajallma  aja  paibe  airni  ip  na  healabnaib  Décc. 

Coccaó  Dfipje  ecep  caóg  mac  Domnaill  .1.  mac  Don  mácc  cáprai j  pin,  -] 
Dfpbparaip  még  cápfai^  .i.  copbmac  laDpac  mac  caiDcc  mic  Domnaill  óicc 
Dia  ccainicc  Dír  Daoíne  iiaip  Do  ruir  occ  picic  Décc  co  cuilleaD  fcoppa. 

ITIac  mic  piapaip  Décc  .1.  Semup  mac  emamn  mic  Semaip  mjc  uilliam  mic 
mic  piapaip  buicilep.    RiDipe  ap  laim  1  laoc  ap  jaipcceaD  epióe. 

'  Upon  Kinel-Fcmy,   i.  e.  the   Mac   Cawells,  It  is  generally  supposed  that  it  was  co-extensive 

seated  in  the  barony  of  Clogher,  in  Tyrone.  with    the   half   barony   of  Ara,   or   Duthaidh- 

"'  Aibhilin. — This  name  is  usually  anglicised  Aradh,  in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of  Tip- 

Eveleen.  perary ;  but  we  have  sufficient  evidence  to  prove 

''  Mac-I-Brian-Ara. — The  territory  of  Ara,  that  it  was  originally  more  extensive,  for  the 

or  Aradh- Tire,  which  originally  belonged  to  the  church  of  Kilmore,  situated  four  miles  to  the 

O'Donagans,  became  the  inheritance  of  a  branch  south  of  Nenagh,    and  now  in  the  barony  of 

of  the    O'Briens    (descended    from    Brian   Roe  Upper  Ormond,  is  mentioned  iu  the  Life  of  St. 

O'Brien,  King  of  Thomond)  after  the  year  1318.  Senan  as  in  the  territory  of  Aradh-Tire.     Tin- 


1508.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1299 

Bearnagh,  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen  [O'Neill]  ;  and  Con  himself  was  slain  in 
the  same  month  by  Brian,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen. 

An  attack  was  made  on  Maguire,  i.  e.  Conor,  by  the  sons  of  Donough  Ma- 
guire  (Thomas,  Philip,  and  Felim),  and  by  the  sons  of  John  Boy  Mac  Mahon. 
Maguire  opposed  them,  and  routed  them,  and  slew  Felim,  the  son  of  Donough ; 
he  also  struck  and  took  prisoner  Brian,  the  son  of  John  Boy  Mac  Mahon  ;  and 
also  made  a  prisoner  of  Owen,  the  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Art  Eoe  Mac  Mahon. 

Great  depredations  were  committed  by  Art,  the  son  of  Con  O'Neill,  upon 
the  Kinel-Farry''.  Owen,  the  son  of  O'Neill,  and  the  sons  of  Mac  Cawell,  over- 
took him  ;  and  Aengus,  son  of  Sorley  Bacagh,  was  slain  on  the  side  of  Art ; 
but  Art  himself  made  his  escape  from  them,  and  carried  off  the  prey. 

AibhiUn%  the  daughter  of  O'Kane  (Thomas),  and  wife  of  Owen  Roe,  the 
son  of  O'Neill,  died. 

Donnell  (i.  e.  Mac-I-Brian-Ara''),  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of 
Murrough-na-Raithnighe'^,  a  distinguished  captain,  who  was  kind  to  friends,  and 
fierce  to  enemies,  died,  having  spent  nearly  one  hundred  years  in  nobleness  and 
illustrious  deeds. 

O'DriscoU  More  (Conor,  the  son  of  Fineen,  son  of  Maccon)  died.  He  was 
a  brave  and  protecting  man,  the  friend  of  the  [religious]  orders  and  the  learned; 
and  his  son  Fineen  was  installed  in  his  place,  after  being  liberated,  for  he  had 
been  imprisoned  in  Cork  for  more  than  a  year. 

Mac  Carthy  More  (Donnell,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Donnell  Oge),  a  comely 
and  aíFable  man,  and  who  had  a  knowledge  of  the  sciences,  died. 

A  war  arose  between  Teige,  the  son  of  Donnell,  i.  e.  the  son  of  that  Mac 
Carthy,  and  Mac  Carthy's  brother,  i.  e.  Cormac  Ladhrach,  son  of  Teige,  son  of 
Donnell  Oge,  whence  came  the  destruction  of  [their]  people,  for  upwards  of 
three  hundred  and  sixty''  persons  fell  [in  the  conflicts]  between  them. 

The  son  of  Mac  Pierce  died,  i.  e.  James,  the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  James, 
son  of  William,  the  son  of  Mac  Pierce  Butler.  He  was  a  knight  in  [dexterity 
of]  hand,  and  a  hero  in  valour. 

river   of  Nenagli,    which  was   anciently  called  ^  Murroiigh-na-raithnighe,  i.  e.  Murrough,   or 

Finnshruth  and  Abhainn-0-gCathbhath,  formed  Morgan,  of  the  Femes. 

for  many  miles  the  boundary  between  Aradh-  ^  Three  hundred  and  sixty,  literally,  "  eighteen 

Thire  and  Muscraighe-Thire.  score." 

8  c2 


1300  aNNaí,a  pio^hachra  eiReoNN.  [isoy. 

ITlainifcip  haile  ui  Ruaipc  oa  ngoipcfp  cajipuicc  parpuicc  hi  cconnaccaib 
in  epfcopóioecc  QRoachaió  Do  rionnpjnaó  lá  hua  Ruaipc  Góghan  -]  lá  a 
mnaoí  TTlaipjpés  in^fn  concobaip  uí  bpiain. 

aOlS  CR108U,  1509. 
Qoi)"  Cpiopr,  ITlile,  cúicc  céo,  a  naoí. 

bT?ian  mac  caiócc  rhej  uinnyennain  oppicel  clocaip  oécc. 

Oonnchaó  imaj  puaibpi  aipcinneac  macaipe  na  cpoipe,  pfp  urhal  inipeal 
ap  peipc  íiDé,  "I  pfp  conjmala  ciglie  aoiófó  [oecc]. 

TTlac  uí  tieill  apc  mac  cuinn  mic  éripí  mic  eojam  t)o  jabáil  a  bpioll  lé 
liapc  an  caipléin  niac  neill  mic  apc  mic  eoj;ain  uí  néill  lap  mbficli  ina  cáipofp 
cpíopc  aicce,  1  lap  na  rocuipeab  cnicce  nia  caiplén  pfin, -j  a  mac  mall  mac 
aipr  1  peilim  ua  maoileaclainn  do  jabail  amaille  ppip,  "|  a  cuabaipc  liil- 
laimh  UÍ  Domhnaill,  i  buaiDhpfoh  mop  do  cheachc  rpép  an  njaBóil  pin. 

SloicceaD  lap  an  lupcip  lapla  cille  Dapa  In  cci'p  eocchain  a]i  fappainj 
clomne  cuinn  ui  neill, "]  caiplen  óume  jfnainn  (.i.  caiplén  í  neill)  Dpa^ail  do 
cloinn  cuinD  pia  piú  ramie  an  lupcip  ina  rimcell.  Qn  lupcip  Do  Dol  af  pin 
im  caiplen  na  liojmuije  co  po  gabaó  laip.  Po  jabaó  laip  ann  coipjiDealbac 
mac  neill  mic  aipc  ui  neill,  ~\  eocchan  puaó  mac  Suibne.  Po  bpipeao  an 
caiplen  lap  an  lupcip,  "|  Do  co  6  lappin  Dm  rix;ch. 

O  neill  Domnall'mac  enpi  mic  eoccain  cijeapna  cipe  heojam,  pfp  ap  mo 
po  mill  1   imop  milleaD,  "]  ap  mo  do  póine  do  coccaó,  "]  do  rpeacaib  ace 

"^  O^Rourkc's  town. — Ware  calls  this  inonas-  was  the  first  who  put  a  Latin  grammar  into  the 
tery  "  Cruleagh  or  Balli-ruark."  The  place  hands  of  Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare. — See 
was  afterwards  called  Craebhliath,  i.  e.  the  grey  Memoirs,  Sfc,  by  Dr.  O'Conor,  p.  157.  Consi- 
bush  or  branch,  and  the  name  is  now  anglicised  derable  ruins  ol'  this  abbey  stUl  remain,  with 
Creevlea.  It  is  situated  near  the  village  of  the  tombs  of  O'Rourke,  and  of  some  of  the  more 
Dromahaire  (which  is  the  O'Rourke's  town  of  distinguished  of  the  local  fiimilies. 
the  annalists),  in  the  parish  of  Killanummery,  '  Carrickpatrick,  cappuic  pcicpuic,  i.e.  Pa- 
barony  of  Dromahaire,  and  county  of  Leitrim.  trick's  rock.  This  monastery  is  said  by  tradi- 
Ware  says  that  this  monastery  was  founded  in  tion  to  have  been  on  or  near  the  site  of  a  pri- 
1509,  by  Margaret,  wife  of  Eugenius  Ruark.  mitive  church  of  this  name  erected  by  St.  Pa- 
The  friars  were  living  in  cottages  near  the  trick,  but  the  Editor  has  not  been  able  to  get 
abbey  in  1718,  when  a  poor  friar  of  this  convent  any  evidence  to  support  this  tradition.    For  the 


1509]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1301 

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


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1509. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  nine. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Teige  Maguinnsennain^,  Official  of  Clogher,  died. 

Donough  Mac  Rory",  Erenagh  of  Machaire-na-Croise',  an  humble,  meek 
man,  for  the  love  of  God,  and  a  man  who  kept  a  house  of  hospitality  [died]. 

The  son  of  O'Neill  (Art,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen)  was 
treacherously  taken  prisoner  by  Art  of  the  Castle,  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Art,  son 
of  Owen  O'Neill,  although  he  was  his  gossip,  and  had  been  invited  by  him  to 
his  own  castle  ;  and  his  son,  Niall  Mac  Art,  and  Felim  O'jMelaghlin,  were  also 
taken  prisoners  along  with  him,  and  delivered  into  the  hands  of  O'Donnell. 
Great  troubles  arose  out  of  this  capture. 

An  army  was  led  by  the  Lord  Justice,  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  into  Tyrone,  at  the 
instance  of  the  sons  of  Con  O'Neill;  but  the  sons  of  Con  had  obtained  O'Neill's 
castle  of  Duneannon  before  the  Lord  Justice  arrived  at  it.  The  Lord  Justice 
proceeded  thence  to  the  castle  of  Omagh,  and  took  it,  making  prisoners  of 
Turlough,  the  son  of  Niall^  son  of  Art  O'Neill,  and  Owen  Roe  Mac  Sweeny. 
The  Lord  Justice  demolished  the  castle,  and  then  returned  home. 

O'Neill  (Donnell,  the  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen),  Lord  of  Tyrone,  a  man 
who  [of  all  the  Irish  chieftains]  had  destroyed  most  men,  and  about  whom  the 
most  had  been  destroyed,  who  had  carried  on  the  most  war,  and  committed 
most  depredations  in  contending  for"  the  lordship,  until  he  finally  gained  it, 

acts  of  tbe  Irish  apostle  in  this  neighbourhood  cross,  now  Magheracross,  a  parish  in  the  barony 

the  reader  is  referred  to  the  Tripartite  Life  of  of  Tirkennedy,  and  county  of  Fermanagh. 

St.  Patrick,  published  by  Colgan,  lib.  ii.  c.  103.  J   Turlotiijh,  the  son  of  Niall. — Ware  says  in 

The  great  monastery  erected  by  St.  Patrick  in  his  Annals  of  Ireland  that  the  Earl  of  Kildare 

this  neighbourhood  was  at  Druim-lias,  about  a  on   this   occasion    released  Arthur,   Con's  son, 

mile  east  of  the  town  of  Dromahire.  who  had  been  kept  prisoner  in  the  castle. 


h 


6  Maguinnsennain,  now  anglicised  Gelsinan.  ''  Contending  for,  copnarii  means  contention 

Mac  Rory,  now  often  anglicised  Rogers.  as  well  as- defence. — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and 

^Machaire-na-Croise,    i.e.   the   plain   of  the      Customs  of  Ihj-Fiachmch,  p.  182,  note'i. 


1302  aNNQi-a  í?io5hachca  eiReawN.  [1509. 

copnarh  nccfimaip  co  fio  jab  é  po  óeóib,  oécc  an  Seipeab  la  do  mi  augupc,"] 
apr  mac  aoba  mic  eojain  ui  neill  ooipDneab  ino  lonaó. 

Slóicceaóló  hiia  noomnaill  aob  ócc  mac  ao6a  puaió  ap  mac  noiopmaca 
CO  po  mill  mópan  hi  maij  luipcc.  Uomap  mac  Remainn  mic  pilip  méguióip 
no  ma]ibab  on  cpluaj,  "|  ó  oomnaill  Dionnpúó  cap  a  aip  oon  cupup  pin. 

O  baoijill  (emann  buibe  mac  neill)  Do  mapbaó  ipin  oióce  Daon  upcop 
5ae  la  concobap  ócc  ua  mbaoijill  bi  luacpop. 

Qpr  Ó  neill  Do  lécceaó  ap  a  bpnijofnup, -]  bpaijDe  ele  do  bol  af  .1.  a  mac 
pfin,  "1  a  bCpbparaip  bpian. 

Pilip  mac  bpiain  mic  pilip  iiieguibip,  ITlaolmópba  mac  pailje  mic  Dorh- 
TiaiU  bam  ui  pajallaij,  1  eojan  mac  cuinn  mic  aoba  buibe  ui  neill  Decc. 

InDpaicchib  la  bpian  mac  cumn  ui  neill  op  j'bocc  injine  mec  mupcaib  ap 
bpú  loca  laojaipe.  Gnpi  ócc  mac  enpi  óicc,  eoccan  mac  neill  bfpnai^  ui  neill, 
bpian  mac  neill  bfpnaij,  1  Tflac  aoba  bailb  ui  neill  do  riiapbab  laip,  ~\  cfirpe 
beic  ap  cpi  piccib  do  buain  Diobh. 

Copbmac  mac  Sfain  mic  concobaip  óicc  mejuibip,  Oiapmaic  moc  plomn 
mic  an  baipD,  -]  cabg  6  cianain  Decc. 

TTlac  uilliam  cloinne  piocaipD,  uillecc  mac  uillicc  mic  RiocaipD  óicc,  pip 
cfnDaip  lé  cáipDib,  eccfnoaip  lehfpccaipDib  Decc. 

ÍTiac  an  pilfb  giollacpipc  mac  arhlaib  paoi  pipDÓna  Decc. 

Qn  coccmaDb  ÍSting  nenpn  do  piojab  op  Sa;raib  .22.  Qppil. 

'  In  this  army,  on  cplua^,    i.e.  ex  exercitu,  1431,  1436,  and  1500. 

i.  e.  Thomas,  the  son  of  Redmond  Maguire,  who  °  Hugh  Balbh,  i.  e.  Hugh  the  Stammering, 

accompanied  O'Donnell  on  this  expedition,  was  p  Mac  an  FhiUdh,  i.  e.  son  of  the  poet.     This 

slain.  name,  which  is  common  in  Ulster,  is  now  angli- 

■"  Luaeliros,  now  Loughros,  which  gives  name  cised  Mac  Nilly. 

to  a  bay   situated  between  the  baronies  of  Ba-  'i  The  llnd  of  April. — This  is  the  true  date  of 

nagh  and  Boylagh,  in  the  west  of  the  county  of  the  accession  of  Henry  VIH. — See  Chronology 

Donegal.     The  point  of  land  originally  called  o/"//í«íor^,  by  Sir  Harris  Nicolas,  second  edition, 

Luachros  is  that  extending  westwards  from  the  p.  333.     He  was  crowned  on  the  24th  of  June 

village  of  Ardara,  between  the  bays  of  Lough-  following.     The  style  first  adopted  by  Henrj- 

rosbeg  and  Loughrosmore.  VIII.  was,  "  Henricus  Dei  Gratia  Kex  Anglia; 

"  Loch  Laeghaire,  i.  e.  the  lake  of  Laeghaire  et  Francia;  et  Dominus  Hiberniss  ;  but  in  the 

Buadhach,  one  of  the  heroes  of  the  Eed  Branch,  thirty-third  year  of  his  reign  it  was  resolved 

who  flourished  in  the  first  century.. — See  other  in  the  English  Cabinet  that  an  Irish  Parliament 

notices   of  this  lake  at  the  years  1150,  1325,  should  confer  the  title  of  King  of  Ireland  upon 


1509.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1303 

died  on  the  sixth  day  of  the  month  of  August ;  and  Art,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son 
of  Owen  O'Neill,  was  inaugurated  in  his  place. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  (Hugh  Oge,  son  of  Hugh  Roe)  against  Mac 
Dermot,  and  he  destroyed  much  in  Moylurg.  Thomas,  the  son  of  Redmond, 
son  of  Philip  Maguire,  was  slain  in  this  army'.  And  O'Donnell  returned  from 
that  expedition. 

O'Boyle  (Edraond  Boy,  the  son  of  Niall)  was  slain  at  night,  with  one  cast 
of  a  javelin,  at  Luachros",  by  Conor  Oge  O'Boyle. 

Art  O'Neill  was  released  from  captivity,  and  other  hostages  were  given  in 
his  stead,  namely,  his  own  son,  and  his  brother  Brian. 

Phihp,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Philip  Maguii-e  ;  Maelmora  (Myles),  son  of 
Failge  (Faly),  who  was  son  of  Donnell  Bane  O'Reilly  ;  and  Owen,  the  son  of 
Con,  son  of  Hugh  Boy  O'Neill,  died. 

An  attack  was  made  by  Brian,  the  son  of  Con  O'Neill,  upon  the  descendants 
of  the  daughter  of  Mac  MiuTough,  on  the  margin  of  Loch  Laeghaire".  Henry 
Oge,  the  son  of  Henry  Oge  ;  Owen,  son  of  Niall  Bearnach  O'Neill  ;  and  the 
son  of  Hugh  Balbh°  O'Neill,  were  slain  by  him  ;  and  sixty-four  horses  were 
taken  from  them. 

Cormac,  the  sou  of  John,  son  of  Conor  Oge  Maguire  ;  Dermot,  son  of  Flann 
Mac  Ward  ;  and  Teige  O'Keenan,  died. 

Mac  William  of  Clanrickard  (Ulick,  the  son  of  Ulick,  son  of  Rickard  Oge), 
a  man  kind  towards  friends,  and  fierce  towards  enemies,  died. 

Mac  an  Fhiledh''  (Gilchreest,  son  of  Auliife),  a  learned  poet,  died. 

Henry  VIII.  was  made  King  of  England  on  the  22nd  of  April"*. 

him  and  his  heirs.  The  Lord  Deputy,  St.  Statutes  of  the  Realm,  35  Hen.  VIII.  c.  3,  and 
Ledger,  was  commissioned  to  summon  a  Parlia-  Leland's  History  of  Ireland^  book  iii.  c.  7-  Tlie 
ment,  which  enacted,  that  "forasmuch  as  the  object  of  conferring  this  title  upon  Henry  was 
King  and  his  progenitors  ever  rightfully  en-  to  enable  him,  with  the  more  authority,  to  carry 
joyed  all  authority*  royal,  by  the  name  of  Lords  on  the  Reformation,  and  to  confiscate  the  abbey 
of  Ireland,  but  for  lack  of  the  title  of  King  had  lands  in  Ireland.  Some  ordinances  of  state  made 
not  been  duly  obeyed,  his  Highness,  and  his  shortly  afterwards  by  the  Irish  Parliament,  for 
lieirs  for  ever,  shall  have  the  style  and  honour  the  regulation  of  those  districts  in  Ireland  not 
of  King  of  Ireland,  and  that  it  should  be  entirely  consonant  to  the  English  laws,  are  ad- 
deemed  high  treason  to  impeach  this  title."—  mirable,  such  as  that  laymen  and  boys  should 
.See  Ware's  Annals  of  Ireland,   cd  aim.  1542^  not  be  admitted  to  ecclesiastical  preferment». 


1304  aNNata  Rio^hachca  emeawN.  [1510. 

aois  cT?iosr,  1510. 

QoiS  CRioSr,  IDile,  cúicc  céo,  aoeich. 

ITluipcfpcach  mac  mupchaió  mic  coippóealbaij  epy^cop  cille  pionnabpac 
Décc. 

O  Rajallaij  Sfan  mac  cacail  Decc.  QS  loip]^i6e  cuccab  cerup  bpairpe 
oe  obpepuanuiae  Don  cabcm  a  hujoappap  an  papa. 

bpian  puao  mac  Dorhiiaill  mic  aoba  ui  neill  oécc. 

bpian  mac  pilip  ui  pagallaij  t)o  mapbab  la  clomn  Remainn  mic  jlaipne 
meg  marjamna  a  ccopai^ecc  cpeice. 

11105  cciba  bpeipne  .1.  peilim,  "]  mac  loclaiiin  .1.  uairr.e  Dccc. 

O  pialán  pfpgal  oiDe  ofppccaijre  lé  Dan,  -\  eocchan  mac  bp;ain  ui  uiccinn 
oiDe  Gpeann  oécc. 

niac  an  baipD  ci'pe  conaill  eoccan  puao  oécc  1  ninip  mic  an  ouipn. 

SloicceaD  la  sQunD  lapla  cille  oapa  (.1.  an  nip  rip)  In  ccúicceb  muman  50 
maicib  jail"!  gaoibeal  lai jen  laip  Dia  po  cumt-aij  caiplén  Dairiibéoin  gaoibeal 
muman  Vu  ccappaicc  cical.  Leanaip  ó  Doitinaill  é  co  nuachab  pochaibe 
cpiap  an  mibe,  i  ipm  murhain  piap  co  compainic  ppip  ann  pm.  Uiajaic  1 
nGalla  apibéin,  jabair  caiplén  cinncuipc,  1  aipccic  an  rip.  Uiagaicc  lappin 
1  nDTpmumain  móip,  gabaic  caiplén  na  pailipi,  -]  caiplén  ele  ap  bpú  mainje 

'  Murtough. — This  is  the  prelate  called  Maurice  own  succession  to  liis  kingdoms. — See  Ware's 

O'Brien  in  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  Annals  of  Ireland,  ad  a  nit.  1509,  1510. 

[).  G24.     He  succeeded  in  1491.  "  Carraiff-Cital,  now  Carrigkettle,  a  remark- 

'  Mac  Lougklin He  was  the  head  of  a  once  able  rock  in  the  parish  of  Kilteely,   barony  of 

powerful  family  of  the  Kinel-Owen,  at  this  pe-  Small-county,    and  county  of  Limerick.     The 

riod  reduced  to  insignificance,  and  seated  in  the  castle  is  shewn  on  the  map  engraved  from  the 

territory  of  Ini'showen,  in  the  now  county  of  Down  Survey,  under  the  name  of  Carrickittle. 

Donegal.  The  natives  state  that  the  castle  stood  on  the 

'■  Inis-mic-an-duirn,  now  Inishmacadurn,  one  top  of  the  Rock  of  Carrigkettle,   but  no  part  of 

of  the  cluster  of  islands  opposite  the  Rosses,  in  its  ruins  now  remains.          * 

the  barony  of  Boylagh,  in  the  west  of  the  county  '^  Ceann-tuirc,  i.  e.  the  head,  or,  perhaps,  hill  of 

of  Doucal.  the  boar,  now  Kanturk,  a  small  town  situated 

"  Lord  Justice Henry  VIII.,  by  new  letters  at  the  confluence  of  the  rivers  Alio  and  Dalua, 

])atent,  constituted  Garrett,  or  Gerald,  Earl  of  whose  united  streams  flow  into  the  River  Black- 

Kildare,  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  and  intimated  'water,   about  two  miles  below  the  town.     No 

fo  him  by  letters  his  father's  decease  and  his  part  of  the  older  castle  of  Kanturk  now  remains. 


1510.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1305 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1510. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  ten. 

Murtough',  the  son  of  Murroiigh,  son  of  Turlough  [O'Brien],  Bishop  of 
Kilfenora,  died. 

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

Brian  Roe,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  died. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Philip  O'Reilly,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Redmond,  son  of 
Glasny  Mac  Mahon,  while  in  pursuit  of  a  prey. 

Mac  Cabe  of  Breifny,  i.  e.  Felim,  and  Mac  Loughlin',  i.  e.  Anthony,  died. 

O'Fialan  (Farrell),  a  distinguished  Professor  of  Poetry,  and  Owen,  the  son 
of  Brian  O'Higgan,  Chief  Preceptor  of  [all]  Ireland,  died. 

Mac  Ward  of  Tirconncll  (Owen  Roe)  died  at  Inis-mac-an-Duirn'. 

An  army  was  led  into  Munster  by  Garrett,  Earl  of  Kildare,  Lord  Justice" 
of  Ireland,  attended  by  the  chiefs  of  the  English  and  Irish  of  Leinster  ;  and  he 
erected  a  castle  at  Carraig-CitaF  in  despite  of  the  Irish.  O'Donnell  followed 
■with  a  small  number  of  troops  [to  assist  him]  through  Meath,  and  westwards 
into  Munster,  imtil  he  joined  him  at  that  place.  Thence  they  passed  into  Ealla 
[Duhallow],  and  they  took  the  castle  of  Ceann-tuirc"',  and  plundered  the  coun- 
try. Then,  proceeding  into  Great  Desmond,  they  took  the  castle  of  Paihs'',  and 
another  castle  on  the  bank  of  the  River  Mang^  after  which  they  returned  in 

but  the  walls  of  the  more  magnificent  one  com-  Descriptive  Notices  of  Cork,  &c.,  second  edition, 

meuced  by  Mac  Donoiigh  Mac  Carthy  in  the  pp.  386,  387- 

reign  of  Elizabeth,  and  which  was  never  finished,  i  Castle  on  the  bank  nftke  River  Mang. — This 

still  remain  in  good  preservation. — See  Smith's  castle  gave  name  to  the  village  of  Castlemaine, 

Natural   and  Civil   Ilistor;/  of  Cork,    book   ii.  which  is  called  in  Irish  Cairleán  na  tTlainje, 

*^'  "•  and  is  situated  on  the  Kiver  Maine,   ur  Mang, 

"  Pailis — This  castle  stood  on  an  eminence  which  falls   into    the   harbour  of  Castlemaine, 

in  a  to^vnland  of  the  same  name,  a  little  to  the  about  two  miles  below  the  village.     There  is  a 

north  of  the  lower  lake  of  Killarney  in  Kerry,  view   or  map   of  this  castle  given  in  Carew's 

and  in  view  of  Laune  Bridge  ;  but  it  was  de-  Pacata  Hibernia,  according  to  which  it  was  a 

stroyed  in  the  year  1837,  by  a  road  jobber  who  bridge-castle   across  the  river.     It  was  demo- 

renooved  its  materials  for  the  repair  of  the  ad-  lished  by  General  Ludlow  during  the  Parlia- 

joining  highway See  Windele's  Historical  and  mentary  wars. — See  Smith's  History  of  Kerry. 

8d 


1306  aNNQf-a  Rio^hachca  emeaNH.  [1510. 

"]  cfccaicc  flan  rap  a  naip  hi  cconncae  luimnij.  Oo  niao  aiccionnl  pluaii;; 
lajipin,  -\  cpuinnijir  jeapalcaij  na  muifinn  im  Shemup  mac  lapla  DCpmuman  co 
njallaib  muman  apciVia,  -|  TTIncc  cápraij  piabacli,  Oomhnall  mac  oiapmaDa 
mic  pinjin,  Copbmac  occ  mac  copbmaic  mac  caibg,  "]  501 II  -|  jaoióil  TTlibe,  -\ 
laijfn,  -|  cia^aic  laparh  50  luimneac.  Uionóilio  roippóealbac  mac  caibcc 
UÍ  bpiain  ciccfpna  ruaómuman  50  lion  a  pocpaiDe,  ITlac  conmapa  Siol  aoba 
1  clann  RiocaipD  plóij  lánmópa  ele  ina  naghaib.  Uicc  an  niapla  (.1.  an 
uipnp )  cona  pluaj  cpé  bealac  na  paobaije,  -|  cpé  bealac  na  njarhna  co 
painicc  Dpoicfc  cpomn  (.i.opoicfc  puipc  cpoipi)  do  pónab  la  hua  mbpiain  pop 
Sionainn,  -|  bpij'ib  piorh  an  D]ioicfc,  1  anaip  oibce  hi  ppoplonjpopc  ip  in  cip. 
^cíbaib  6  bpiain  poplongpopc  ina  compoccup  co  ccluineab  each  oiob  ^uch  -| 
compab  apoile  in  oibce  pin.  lap  na  iriapac  po  opoaig  an  lupcip  a  pUiaj  -\ 
po  cuip  501II  -|  gaoibil  muman  a]\  cup,  5°'^^  mibe,  -\  ata  chat  ap  Deipfb  a 
plói  j.  Uoiplmsfb  Ó  Domnaill  an  bfccón  buibne  po  bai,  "|  anaip  ap  beipeb 
amfpcc  gall  aca  cliar-j  mibe,  1  jabair  an  achgoipic  cpé  moín  na  nibparap 
50  luimneac.  i?o  lonnpaijpior  pluajj  pil  mbpiain  an  pliiaj  gall,  "|  mapbrap 
leo  bapvin  cinu,  1  bf|inaualac  cipcupcoiim,  "]  pochaibe  Do  Deajbaoinib  nac 
aip;mffp.  Uiagair  ap  an  plua^ij  gall  a  ccóip  mabma  poaic,  pluag  pil  mbpiam 
lap  nairfp  "|  lap  néoalaib  lomba  -]  ni  baoi  00  jallaib  na  Do  jjaoibealaib  ap 
on  Da  pluaij  pin  en  lam  bet  mo  clú  cpóbacca  "j  gaipccib  in  la  pin  ina  6 
borhnaill  ace  bpfic  beipij  plóij  na  njall  laip. 

TTlac  muipij'  cioppai^e,  Gmann,  mac  comaip,  mic  paDpaicin  poibeac  Ian 
Dfccna,  1  Doineacli  oecc. 

OiapmaiD  mac  Domnaill  mic  Dorhnaill  meg  capfaij  clunpaig  Decc. 

'•    Bealach-na-Fadbaighe    and    Bealach-na-n-  now  Mouabraher,   a  townland  in  the  parish  of 

Gamhna. — These  were  old  names  of  roads  or  Killeely,  on  the  north  side  of  the  Shannon,  near 

passe.s  on  the  south  side  of  the  Shannon,  between  thí^  city  of  Limerick. 

the  city  of  Limerick  and  the  townland  of  Port-  "^  The  short  cut  to  Limerick. — From   this   ac- 

crusha  ;  but  they  are  now  obsolete.  count  it  would  appear  that  the  Earl's  party  did 

"  Portcroise,  now  Portcrusha,   a  townland  in  not  wait  to  fight  their  enemies.     Ware  gives  a 

the  parish  of  Castleconnell,  in  the  county  of  dift'erent  account  of  this  rencounter  in  his  An- 

Limerick.    This  place  is  not  to  be  confounded  nals  of  Ireland,  thus  : 

with  O'Brien's  Bridge. — See  other  notices  of  it  "  Both  parties  resolved  on  a  Battel,  and  begun 

at  the  years  1507  and  1597.  a  sore  Fight,  with  great  loss  on  either  side  ;  but 

'' Jfom-wa-m-^i-ai^ar,  i.  e.  the  bog  of  the  friars,  on   the  Earl's   side   fell   the   greatest  loss,    his 


1510.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1307 

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

Mac  Maurice  of  Kerry  (Edmond,  the  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Pati'ickiu),  a 
vessel  of  wisdom  and  hospitality,  died. 

Dermot,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Donnell  Mac  Carthy  Cluasach,  died. 

Army  being  laden  with  spoils  and  spent  with  of  Meath,  sheet  39. 

long  marchings.     Night  ended  the  Battel.    The  ^  0' DonneU,  literally,  "  There  was  not  of  the 

next  day  the  Deputy  by  advice  of  his  Officers  Galls,  or  Gaels,  in  the  two  armies  any  hand  of 

(the  Armies  keeping  their  Ranks),  withdrew,  greater  fame  for  bravery  and  prowess  on  that 

and  without  any  other  loss  returned  home." —  day  than  O'Donnell  in  carrying  off  the  rere  of 

Edition  of  1705.  the  English  army  with  him." 

^  Kircmtown,    now  Crickstown,    a   townland  The  Four  Masters  praise  O'Donnell  whether  he 

and  parish  in  the  barony  of  Ratoath,  and  county  defeats  or  is  defeated  !    But  this  is  pardonable  in 

of  Meath See  the  Ordnance  map  of  the  county  them  as  long  as  they  keep  within  bounds  of  truth. 

8  D  2 


1308  aNNaí,a  Kio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1511. 

O  Domnaill  aoó  mac  aoba  ]iuai6  do  bol  t»on  poirh  Dm  oilirpe,  -]  an  ccfm 
DO  bai  amuicch  baccap  a  pann  ~\  a  capaiD  1  mbpón,  1  noojailpi,  -]  1  nDoirhfn- 
main  ina  beaDham,  -\  TTlajnap  ó  DoitinaiU  a  mac  Dpa^bctil  Do  05  lomcopnarh 
an  cipe  an  ccfm  no  biab  ma  péccmaip. 

aois  cr?iosu,  1511. 

Qoip  Cpiopc,  TTIile,  cuicc  céD,  a  baonDecc. 

Ctpr  mac  cuinn  ui  neill  (baoi  hiUairh  ace  ua  noorhnaiU  occ  imceacr  do 
Don  r?oirh)  do  léccab  ap  a  bpai jDfnup  la  TTlajnap  mac  ui  Domnaill,  jan  cCo 
Dua  Domnaill,"!  a  mac  .1.  mall  occ  Do  cechc  app  1  ngioll  lé  comall  jac  pior- 
chána  Da  noeapnpar. 

Uomap  mac  anDptu  méjBpaDaij  eppcop-]  aipcinneac  an  Da  bpeipne  ppi  pé 
rpiocac  bliabam,  aoin  cfnn  po  piapaijpioc  501II, -]  jaoibil,  Saoi  1  neacna  -]  hi 
ccpabab,  locpann  polupca  no  poillpicceab  ciiara  ~\  eccalpa  rpé  poipcfcal  -| 
ppoicfpc,  ao^aipe  raipipi  na  hfgailpi  lap  noipDneab  Saccapc  -|  aopa  gaca 
5paio  apcfna  do  lap  ccoippeccab  rfmpall  -]  peilccfb  niomba,  lap  rciobnacal 
SeoD  -)  bÍD  Do  cpuajaib  -|  cpenaib,  po  paoiD  a  ppipar  Dociim  nirhe  an  .4. 
calamn  do  mapca  (no  aiigupr)  Dm  maipc  Do  ponripab  1  nDpuim  Da  eiciap, 
mp  ccocc  DO  coippeaccab  fccailpe  ipin  mbpeipne  mpp  an  peaccmab  blmDain 
Sfpccac  a  aotpi,-]  a  abnacal  hi  mainipcip  an  cabáin  Dm  haoine  a]\  aoi  laire 
Seaccrhaine. 

Copbmac  mace  pampabciin  Dm  pojoipeab  eppcop  ipin  mbpeipne  Décc  pia 
norclaicc. 

Upmóp  pfn  oibpe  cfmpoill  apDomaca  Do  lopccab. 

O  concobaip  pailje,  caraip  mac  cuinn  mic  an  calbaicc  peicfrh  coiccfnn 
Déiccpib,  paoi  cinnpfbna  ppi  gallaib,  "|  jaoibelaib  Do  mapbab  la  Dpuinj  Dm 
cinfb  pfm  .1.  clann  caibcc  ui  concobaip,  -]  clann  rpfain  ballaij  ui  concobaip 
10  caob  mainipcpeac  peopaip. 

•"  After  him,  i.  e.  in  his  absence.  caipipi  na  hfjailpi.     This  phrase  is  translated, 

s  Thirty  years. — According  to  Harris's  edition  "  Pmtor  f  delis  Ecclesice,"  by  Colgan,  in  his  Trias 

of  Ware's  Bishops,   p.   229,   this  prelate  ■sue-  Thautn.,  p.  305. 

ceeded  to  the  bishopric  of  Kilmore   in  1489,  '  Druim-da-ethiar,  now  Dromahaire,  a  village 

which  would  leave  him  but  twenty-two  years.  in  a  barony  of  the  same  name,  in  the  coiuity  of 

''  A  faithfvl  shepherd  of  the  Church,  aojaipe  Leitrim. 


1511.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1309 

O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Hugh  Roe),  went  upon  a  pilgrimage  to  Rome. 
While  he  was  abroad,  his  adherents  and  friends  were  in  grief  and  sadness  after 
him*^  ;  and  his  son,  Manus  O'Donnell,  was  left  by  him  to  protect  the  coimtry, 
while  he  [himself]  should  be  absent  from  it. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1511. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  eleven. 

Art,  the  son  of  Con  O'Neill,  who  was  in  O'Donnell's  custody  at  his  setting 
out  for  Rome,  was  liberated  from  his  captivity,  by  Manus,  the  son  of  O'Donnell, 
without  leave  from  O'Donnell ;  and  Niall  Oge,  the  son  of  Art,  gave  himself  up  in 
his  stead,  as  a  pledge  for  the  observance  of  every  peace  which  they  had  concluded. 

Thomas,  the  son  of  Andrew  Mac  Brady,  Bishop  and  Erenagh  of  the  two 
Breifnys  during  a  period  of  thirty  years^ ;  the  only  dignitary  whom  the  English 
and  Irish  obeyed  ;  a  paragon  of  wisdom  and  piety  ;  a  luminous  lamp,  that 
enlightened  the  laity  and  clergy  by  instruction  and  preaching  ;  and  a  faithful 
shepherd  of  the  Church" — after  having  ordained  priests  and  persons  in  every 
degree — after  having  consecrated  many  churches  and  cemeteries — after  having 
bestowed  rich  presents  and  food  on  the  poor  and  the  mighty,  gave  up  his  spirit 
to  heaven  on  the  4th  of  the  Calends  of  March  (or  August),  which  fell  on  a 
Tuesday,  at  Druim-da-ethiar' — having  gone  to  Breifny  to  consecrate  a  church, 
in  the  sixty-seventh  year  of  his  age — and  was  buried  in  the  monastery  of  Cavan, 
the  day  of  the  week  being  Friday. 

CormacMagauran",  who  was  called  Bishop  in  Breifny,  died  before  Christmas. 

The  greater  part  of  the  old  works  of  the  church  of  Armagh  were  burned. 

O'Conor  Faly  (Cahir,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Calvagh),  general  patron  of 
the  learned,  a  distinguished  captain  among  the  English  and  Irish,  was  slain  by 
á  party  of  his  own  tribe,  namely,  by  the  sons  of  Teige  O'Conor  and  the  sons  of 
John  Ballagh  O'Conor,  beside  Mainistir-Feorais'. 

^   Cormac  Magauran. — This  is   the   Bishop  provincial  synod  held  at  Drogheda  on  the  6th 

Cormac  mentioned  in  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  of  July,    1495,   in   an   act  of  which   they  are 

Bishops,  p.  229,  as  having  contested  the  right  styled,   "  Thomas  et  Cormac  Dei  Gratia  Kilmo- 

to  the  see  of  Kilmore  with  Thomas  Brady,  men-  rensis  Episcopi." 
tioned  in   the  last  entry.     Both  assisted  at  a  '  Mainistir-Feorais,    now  Monasteroris,  near 


1310  aNNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1511. 

O  ceallaij  TTlaoilpeaclainn  mac  caibcc,  niic  Donnchaib,  mic  maoileac- 
lainn,  mic  uilliam  mic  Donnchaib  rhuirhnij  oécc.  pfp  coraiccce  a  cpice,  a 
caparr, "]  a  clann  maicne.  peicfm  coiccfnD  Dam  1  DeopdiD,  pfp  lap  a  noeap- 
naoh  caiplen  ^allai^  an  gapbboipe  -\  TTIiiine  an  mfoa. 

TTlac  mupcaóa,  TTlupcao  ballac  mac  DonnchaiD  mic  aipr  oécc. 

Uomáp  mac  slaipne  mic  concobaip  ui  paijillij,  1  emann  mac  glaipne 
Décc. 

^laipne  mac  concobaip  mic  Sfain  ui  paijillij  do  mapbaó  lá  lucr  cije 
méjmafjamna. 

Gojan  mac  bpiain  puaió  mic  carail  ui  paijillij  Décc. 

O  Docapcai^  Sfan  mac  DomnaiU  mic  concobaip  Décc,  1  ó  Docapcaij  do 
jatpm  Do  concobap  cappac. 

TTlac  DonnchaiD  cipe  hoilella  Sfan  Décc,  -|  a  Deapbpacaip  ele  pfpsal 
canaipce  ripe  hoilella  Do  itiapbaD  la  mac  Diapmara. 

Ctpc  mac  cuinn  mic  enpi  1  néill  do  sabóil  cuapapcail  ó  aoó  mac  Domnaill 
mic  enpi. 

Seaan  mac  Gmamn  mic  comáip  015  mejuibip  Do  écc. 

Cín  Diolifiaineac  (.1.  Semap)  macaipe  cuipcne  oécc. 

Qob  mac  peilim  mic  majnupa  Do  mapbab  la  Sémup  mac  Sfain,  mic  an 
eppcoip  rheguibip. 

Oubrac  mac  Dubraij  ui  Duibjfnnóm  paoí  lé  pfncup,  pfp  ponapa,  1  paiD- 
bpfpa  moip  Décc. 

Sloicceab  la  hua  néiU  apr  mac  aoba  hi  crip  conaill  Dap  loipcc  gleann 
pinne,  "]  ó  puilij  anall,  "]  bfnaip  bpaijDe  Dua  Docapraij. 

Edenderry,  in  tlie  barony  of  Coolestown,  in  the  Annals  of  Ireland,  edition  of  1 705  : 
north-east  of  the  King's  County.     This  abbey  "  In  these  days  Charles,   or  Cahir  O'Connor, 
was  founded  in  the  year  1.325,   for  Conventual  Lord  of  Oifaly,  was  slain  by  his  own  Country- 
Franciscans,  in  the  territory  of  Totmoy,  or  cuac  men,  near  the  Abbey  of  Friars  Minors  of  Mo- 
oá  riiai  je,  in  OfFaly,  by  Sir  John  Bermingham,  naster-Feoris." 

Earl  of  Louth,   who  was  called  Mac  Feorais  by         ^Gallach,Garbh-dkoire,and Muine-an-mheadha, 

the  Irish,  and  after  whose  Irish  surname  the  now  Gallagh,  Garbally,  and  Monivea. — See  the 

monastery  was  called See  Ware  and  Archdall,  exact    situations  of  those   castles    pointed  out 

and  also   Harris's   edition    of  Ware's   Bishops,  under  the  year  1504,  pp.  1274,  1275,  supra. 
Tuam,    p.  610.     The   notice  of  the   death  of         '^Household. — The  territory  of  Mac  Mahon's 

O'Conor  Faly  is  entered  as  follows  in  Ware's  household    is    called    by    English    writers    the 


1511.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1311 

O'Kelly  (Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Melaghlin, 
son  of  William,  who  was  son  of  Donough  Muimhneach),  died.  He  was  a  sup- 
porter of  his  territory,  friends,  and  sons,  and  a  general  patron  of  the  learned 
and  distressed.  It  was  he  who  erected  the  castles  of  Gallach,  Garbh-dhoire,  and 
Muine-an-Mheadha". 

Mac  Murrough  (Murrough  Ballagh,  son  of  Donough,  who  was  son  of  Art), 
died. 

Thomas,  the  son  of  Glasny,  son  of  Conor  O'Reilly,  and  Edmond,  son  of 
Glasny,  died. 

Glasny,  the  son  of  Conor,  Avho  was  son  of  John  O'Reilly,  was  slain  by  the 
household"  of  Mac  Mahon. 

Owen,  son  of  Brian  Roe,  who  was  son  of  Cathal  O'Reilly,  died. 

O'Doherty  (John,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Conor)  died;  and  Conor  Car- 
ragh  was  called  O'Doherty. 

Mac  Donough  of  Tirerrill  (John)  died  ;  and  his  brother,  Farrell,  Tanist  of 
Tirerrill,  was  slain  by  Mac  Dermot. 

Art,  the  son  of  Con,  sou  of  Henry  O'Neill,  accepted  stipend"  from  Hugh, 
the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Henry. 

John,  the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Thomas  Oge  Maguire,  died. 

The  Dillon  (i.e.  James),  of  Machaire-Chuircne  [Kilkenny  West],  died. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Felim,  son  of  Manus,  was  slain  by  James,  the  son  of  John, 
son  of  the  Bishop  Maguire. 

Dufly,  the  son  of  Duify  O'Duigennan,  a  learned  historian,  and  a  man  of  great 
affluence  and  riches,  died. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Neill  (Art,  son  of  Hugh)  into  Tirconnell ;  and  he 
burned  Gleann-Finne''  and  [the  country]  from  the  Swilly''  hitherwards,  and  also 
forced  O'Doherty  to  give  him  hostages. 

Lough ty.  It  is  comprised  in  the  present  barony  voge,  lying  to  the  south-west  of  the  town  of 

of  Monaghan,  in  the  county  of  Monaghau.  Letterkenny,  in  the  county  of  Donegal. 

°  Stipend — This  was  a  token  of  Art's  infe-  i  The  Swilly,  a  river  in  the  county  of  Done- 

riority  to  Hugh.     He  who  accepted  of  cuapap-  gal,  which  flows  through  the  romantic  valley  of 

cal,   among  the  ancient  Irish,  was  considered  Glenswilly,    and    discharges  itself  into   Lough 

the  servant  or  vassal  of  him  who  paid  it.  Swilly,    near  the   town    of  Letterkenny. — See 

P  Gleann-Finne,  i.  e.  the  vale  of  the  River  other  references  to  this  river  at  the  years  1258, 

Finn,  a  romantic  valley  in  the  parish  of  Kiltee-  1567,  1587,  1595,  and  1607. 


1312  awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReoHH.  [1512. 

Cenel  pfpaóaij  (.i.  1  cip  eóccain)  do  léip  cpeachaó  la  majnap  ua 
nDoriinaill. 

O  neill  ape  mac  aoba  do  cpuintnuccaó  pluaij  Do  Dol  hi  crip  conaill  lap 
nDol  Í  Domnaill  Docum  na  poma.  Ro  jab  nnajnup  ó  Domnaill  -)  na  cpi  mfic 
puibne  -]  apD  caoipij  ceneoil  cconaill  ace  copnarh,  1  ace  lOTTicoirhfrc  na  cipe 
ariiail  ap  Deac  po  péDpac.  Qp  a  aoi  cpa  po  imcij  ó  néill  cona  pluag  ó 
pbab  poip,  -]  poaip  Dia  C15  gan  cpeich  gan  car. 


-    aois  CRiosr,  1512. 

Qoip  Cpiopc,  ill  lie,  cúice  céo,  a  Do  Decc. 

QoD  Ó  niaolrhoceipje  comapba  Dpoma  Ifrain  Do  baraaó. 

Piapap  mac  cpaiDin  oeccanac  cloinne  haoóa  Decc. 

Niall  mac  cuinn  mic  ao6a  buióe  mic  bpiain  ballaij  1  neill  cijeapna 
cpin  conjail,  pfp  emij  coiccinn,  -]  meoaijre  ópD,  1  eeclap  pfp  ajrhap  aic- 
eapach  na  cucc  cióp  no  coma  Do  cloinn  neill  no  do  cloinn  noálaij  na  Dpiop 
lonaiD  P15  Sa^on,  pfp  bá  cianpoDa  pen  -]  paojal,  pfp  fpccna  eolac  ap  gac 
nealaóain  ecip  Shfncup,  Dan,-]  Shfinm  do  ecc  .11.  Qppil. 

Gpc  mac  cmnn  mic  neill  jaipb  í  Domnaill  Decc  (33.  Decembep)  do  faom 
cinip  hi  múp  na  mbparap  1  nDun  na  ngall,  -]  a  aónacal  50  honopac  ip  an 
mainipcip. 

Uuaral  ó  cleipij  (.1.  ó  cleipicc)  mac  caiDcc  caim  paoi  hi  pfncup -]  hi 
nDan,  pfp  ci^e  aoiófD  coiccinn  Do  cpénaib,-]  Do  cpua^aib  Decc  lap  nonjab,  -] 
lap  nairpije  .12.  nouembep. 

O  Domnaill  QoD  mac  aoba  puaió  Do  roiDeacc  on  Roim  lap  ppopbab  a 
oilicpe  lap  mbfic  pé  peccrhame  Decc  hi  lonDain  ace  Dol  poip,i  pé  peccmuine 

'  The  mouTiiain,  i.  e.  the  range  of  Barnesmore,  Inquisitions,  is  now  translated  to  Early.    Hlael 

lying  to  the  north-east  of  the  town  of  Donegal.  moceipje,  the  name  of  the  progenitor  of  this 

'  Without jn-ei/ or  battle,  literally,  sine prceda,  family,   signifies,   "chief  of  the  early  rising," 

sine  proelio — This  is  the  Irish  mode  of  expres-  and  hence  Early  is  considered  a  sufficiently  full 

sing  "  without  acquiring  any  spoils  or  coming  translation, 
to  battle."  "    Clann-IIugh,    a    district    comprising    the 

'    O' Maelmocheirghe. — This    name,    which    is  mountainous  portion   of  the  barony  of  Long- 
correctly  anglicised  O'Mulmoghery  in  the  Ulster  ford,  in  the  county  of  Longford. 


1512.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1313 

Kinel-Farry,  in  Tyrone,  was  totally  plundered  by  Manus  O'Donnell. 

O'Neill  (Art,  the  son  of  Hugk)  mustered  an  army,  and  proceeded  into  Tir- 
connell,  after  O'Donnell  had  set  out  for  Rome.  Manus  O'Donnell,  the  three 
Mac  Sweenys,  and  the  principal  chieftains  of  Tirconnell,  proceeded  to  protect 
and  defend  the  country  as  well  as  they  could  ;  and  O'jSTeill  passed  bn  with  his 
army  from  the  mountain"'  eastwards,  and  returned  to  his  house  without  prey  or 
battle'. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1512. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  twelve. 

Hugh  O'Maelmocheirghe',  Coarb  of  Dromlane,  was  drowned. 

Pierce  Mac  Craidin,  Dean  of  Clann-Hugh",  died. 

Niall,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Hugh  Boy,  son  of  Brian  Ballagh  O'Neill,  Lord 
of  Trian-Congair,  a  man  of  general  hospitahty,  exalter  of  the  [religious]  orders 
and  of  the  churches,  a  successful  and  triumphant  man,  who  had  not  paid  tribute 
to  the  Clann-Neill  or  Clann-Daly'',  or  to  the  deputy  of  the  King  of  England, — 
a  man  of  very  long  prosperity  and  life,  and  a  man  well  skilled  in  the  sciences, 
both  of  history,  poetry,  and  music,  died  on  the  11th  of  April. 

Art,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Niall  Garv  O'Donnell,  died  of  a  fit  of  sickness, 
on  the  23rd  of  December,  in  Mur-na-mbrathar^  at  Donegal,  and  was  honourably 
interred  in  the  monastery. 

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

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

"  Trian-Congail. — This  territory  comprised  O'Neills,  or  O'Donnells,  who  were  the  two  do- 

the  districts  in  the  counties  of  Down  and  An-  minant  families  in  Ulster  at  this  period, 

trim,   afterwards  called  Clannaboy,  Upper  and  '  Mm--na-mbrathar,    i.  e.    the   house   of  the 

Lower — See  other  references  to  this  territory  friars.     This  name  is  still  preserved,  and  is  now 

at  the  years  1383,  1427,  1450,  1471,  1473,  1483,  applied  to  the  rector's  house,   in   the  town  of 

1485,  1489,  and  1493.  Donegal,  which  occupies  the  site  of  the  house 

*  The  Clann-Neill,  or  Clann-Daly,  i.  e.  to  the  of  the  friars. 

8  B 


1314  aNwaí-a  Rio^bachca  emeaNH.  [1512. 

Décc  ele  acc  ceacc  anoip.  puaipfiom  ona  onoi]!-]  aiiimmin  ó  R15  Sci;j:an  Bing 
hanpi,  ránic  mparh  f  lán  co  hepinn,  -]  baoí  lé  haraió  hi  ppiaBpu)"  pan  mióe,  -| 
lap  ppajbáil  pláince  Dó  ráinicc  Dia  t\cc,  1  bá  pubac  popbpaoilij  cealla  -| 
cuaca  Dia  roióecc. 

Coccaó  móp  er]]\  ó  noorhnaill  -|  ó  neill  apr  mac  aona.  Coccab  ele  beóp 
ecip  ó  nDomnaill  -]  mac  uiUiam  bupc  .1.  Gmann  mac  T?iocaipo,  T?o  popr 
ua  Dorhnaill  cúicc  céo  Décc  cuacc  hi  ccíp  conaill  lii  pfpaib  manac,  1  hi  ccúicc- 
eaó  connacc,  "|  00  paD  buannacc  DóiB  ap  na  hionaóaib  pin,  Do  raoD  porii 
lapam  -j  ÍTlajnap  cona  pocpaioe  amaille  ppiu  ó  óoipe  50  panjaoap  loccap 
connacc,  appme  1  njailfnjaib,  -|  puibic  im  caiplén  beóil  an  cláip,  -j  po  gabab 
anbailelaip.  pá^baip  a  bapna  ann,  locrap  cap  anaip  anuap  rpé  pliab  5am, 
1  hi  ccip  piacpac,  baccap  annpibe  acliaió  oá  naimpip.  Od  cualaTTlac  iiiUiam 
búpc  an  ni  pin  cánicc  50  líon  a  pocpame  a  ccimceall  an  caiplém  pin  beóil 
an  cláip  m  po  páccaib  ó  oorhnaill  a  bapoa,  O  l?o  clop  lá  hiia  noorhnaill  mac 
iiilliam  DO  bfic  imon  mbaile,  luiD  50  haclarh  imépccaiD  cap  a  aip  pimp  cpe 
pliab  sarh,  O  T?o  piccip  mac  uilliam  ó  Dorhnaill  Dobfic  Dia  paijiD  po  páccaib 
an  baile  conac  pucc  ua  Domnaill  paip,  Do  caoo  mac  uilliam  h\  ccíp  piacpac, 
-)  po  cinp  I6n"|  bapoa  bi  ccaiplén  eipcpeac  abann  lap  na  bfin  do  Dúcccfpocaib 
an  haile  pfin  Dia  ccapD  ó  Domnaill  é  piap  an  can  pin.  O  í?o  piDip  ó  Dorhnaill 
jup  ab  hi  ccíp  piacpac  do  gab  mac  uiUiam  po  Ifn  50  nfmlfpcc  nfriipaoal  é 
cap  a  aip  apíp  cappna  plebe  5am.     Od  c'uala  mac  uilliam  pin  pájbaip  a 

"  Gaileangn. — The  country  ol'  the  Gaileanga,  "  Wheu  the  mooue  gave  light  Eichard  Bing- 

or  O'Haras  and  O'Garas,   in  Connaught,   com-  liam"   [being  at  the  abbey  ol'  Bennada]  "  arose, 

prised  the  entire  of  the  diocese  of  Ardagh,  in  and  addressing  himself  and  companye  marched 

the  counties  of  Mayo  and  Sligo.     The  name  is  towards  Belolare,  seven  myles  from  the  abbeye 

now  retained  in  the  barony  of  Gallen,   in   the  in  the  highwaye  towards  the  enemy.     Here  one 

county  of  Mayo.  of  the  espyalls  came  in  bringinge  news  that  the 

*  Bel-an-chlair,  now  Ballinclarc,   a  townland  Scots  lay  still   encamped  at  Ardnarye,   which 

in  the  parish  of  Kilmacteigc,   barony  of  Leyny  was  twelve  myles  from  the  foresaid  abbeye  of 

(a  part  of  the  ancient  Gaileanga),  and  county  of  Bauneda,   and  eight  myles  from  the  abbeye  of 

Sligo,  where  there  is  an  old  castle  in  ruins,  said  Belclare." 

to  have  been  erected  by  the  family  of  O'Hara.  ''  And  they. — The  language  of  the  original  of 
The  situation  of  this  castle  appears  from  the  this  passage  is  very  faulty  in  the  use  of  the  pro- 
following  passage  in  Dockwra's  Account  of  Ser-  nouns,  and  the  Editor  has  been  obliged  to  de- 
vices done  in  Connaught  by  Sir  Richard  Bing-  viate  from  it.  The  literal  translation  is  as  fol- 
ham :  lows  : 


1512.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1315 

respect  from  the  King  of  England,  King  Henry.  He  arrived  safely  in  Ireland, 
but  was  for  some  time  [lying]  ill  of  a  fever,  in  Meath.  On  recovering  his  health, 
he  went  home  to  his  house  ;  and  the  clergy  and  laity  were  glad  and  joyous  at 
his  return. 

A  great  war  [broke  out]  between  O'Donnell  and  O'Neill  (Art,  the  son  of 
Hugh).  And  another  war  also  [broke  out]  between  O'Donnell  and  Mac  Wil- 
liam Burke  (Edmond,  the  son  of  Rickard).  O'Donnell  hired  fifteen  hundred 
axe-men  in  Tirconnell,  Fermanagh,  and  the  province  of  Connaught,  and  billeted 
them  on  those  places.  He  and  Manus  afterwards  marched  with  their  forces 
from  Derry,  until  they  reached  Lower  Connaught,  and  from  thence  into  Gaile- 
anga^ ;  and  they  besieged  the  castle  of  Bel-an-Chlair'' ;  and  they"  took  the  town, 
and  left  their  warders  in  it ;  they  then  returned  over  Sliabh  Gamh",  into  Tire- 
ragh,  where  they  remained  for  some  time.  When  Mac  William  Burke  heard 
of  this  [occurrence],  he  marched  with  all  his  forces,  and  surrounded  the  castle 
of  Bel-an-Chlair,  in  which  O'Donnell  had  left  his  warders  ;  [but]  when  O'Don- 
nell heard  that  Mac  William  was  besieging  the  town,  he  returned  vigorously 
and  expeditiously  over  Sliabh  Gamh.  Mac  William,  being  apprized  of  O'Don- 
nell's  approach,  left  the  town,  so  that  O'Donnell  was  not  able  to  overtake  him. 
Mac  William  then  proceeded  into  Tireragh,  and  placed  provisions  and  warders 
in  the  castle  of  Eiscir-Abhann'',  having  [previously]  taken  that  castle  from  its 
hereditary  possessors,  to  whom  O'Donnell  had  sometime  before  given  it  up. 
When  O'Donnell  was  informed  that  Mac  William  had  gone  into  Tireragh,  he 
followed  him  eagerly  and  expeditiously  back  again  over  Sliabh  Gamh  ;  but 
Mac  William  being  made  aware  of  this,  he  left  his  son  and  heir,  Ulick,  son  of 

"  He  went  afterwards,  and  IManus  with  their  ''  Eiscir-Ahliann,   now  Inishcronc,    near   the 

forces  along  with  them,   from  Derry  until  they  Eiver  Moy  iu  Tireragh.     On  an  old  map  of  the 

reached  Lower  Connaught,  thence  into  Gaile-  coasts  of  Donegal,  Leitrim,  and  Sligo,  preserved 

anga,  and  they  sat  around  the  castle  of  Bel-an-  in  the  State  Papers'  Office,  London,   this  castle 

chlair,  and  the   town  was  taken  by  him.     He  is  shewn   under  the  name  of  Uskarowen,  and 

leaves  his  warders  there.     They  went  back  up  placed   near  the   margin  of  the   "  Baye  of  the 

through  Sliabh  Gamh,  and  into  Tireragh."  Moye,"  opposite  the  island  of  Bartragh,   and  in 

The  sudden  change  from  thet^  to  he  in  this  the  parallel  of  Killala.     In  the  year  1 432,  this 

construction  is  very  inelegant,  and  the  Editor  castle  was  in    the  possession  of  Teige   Reagh 

has  not  adopted  it  in  liis  translation  in  the  text.  O'Dowda,   Lord  of  Tireragh — See  Genealogies, 

*=  Sliahh  Gamh. — See  other  references  to  this  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Ht/-Fiachrach,  pp.  1 69 

mountain  at  the  years  1285  and  1490.  and  305. 

8  e2 


1316  aNHW.a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1512. 

Iliac  1  a  oiDiie,  uillfcc  mac  Gmainn,  mic  RiocaniD,  i  bapoa  ele  amaille  ]ii|' 
If  in  ccaiplén  pn  eiyccpeac  abann,  i  oo  lui6  pfin  poirhe  arriail  ay  oeine  con- 
jióinic  oocum  a^]\X)  na  piaj.  Ruccpac  apaill  Do  mapcpluaij  í  borhnaiU  paóapc 
aji  mac  uilliam,  -|  Ificcirc  ma  óeaoliaiD  larc  50  po  cuijipfc  a  mamm  é  po 
pnárhna mimibe.  Rolfnaó  cap  muaió  anonn  é,i  do  bfnab  eici  Daoine  lomóa 
De,  "I  cépna  ap  ficcm  uaóaib.  Sóaip  ó  Dorhnaill  cona  pluaj,  "|  puióic  pá 
caiplén  eipcpeac  abann  aipm  ambaoi  mac  mic  iiilliam.  1?q  jabaó  an  caiplén 
leó  pó  cfnD  cfifpe  lá  lap  mop  paocap,  -|  do  bfpc  eineac  -|  anacal  Don  bapoa. 
Gp^abfap  mac  mic  mlliam  laip  50  mbaoi  1  nsiallup  aije.  Ro  popconjaip  an 
caiplén  Do  cop  ap  imirnfoaib  lap  pin,  -|  po  Ifccaó  50  lap,  Do  com  lapam  Dia 
cicc  CO  mbuaiD  "]  copccap.  Uaraicc  cpa  mac  uilliam  ma  Diaió  lap  pin  50  Dun 
na  njall,  -]  Do  bfpc  a  ójpiap  duo  Dorhnaill,  léig'D  ó  DoriinaiU  a  mac  la  mac 
uilliam  Dia  ri  j. 

Slcóiceaó  lá  hua  nDorhnaill  hi  rcip  eoja  n  50  maicib  loccaip  connate  1 
pfpmanac,  1  co  mbuanDabaib  lomóa,  Do  pai^ib  í  neill  aipc  mic  aoDa.  niill- 
reapi  loipccreap  leó  ceDup  cip  enccain  pfmpa  no  5a  panjacrap  Dun  njfnainn. 
bacrap  peccmain  ipm  rip  ajá  milleaó  co  ccapacr  ua  néill  píó  Dóib,  "j  co  po 
mair  Dua  Dorhnaill  j^ac  accpa  Do  mbaoi  fcip  a  ]'innpfpaib  .1.  ciop  ceneoil 
moain,  innpi  heojain,  -|  pfpmanac  uile.  Uicc  ua  Dorhnaill  lappin  Don  ógmaiji 
cuTTiDaijip  caiplén  na  hoj^maije  ppi  pé  aoin  cpeccmaine  lap  na  bpipeoD  la 
biopla  cille  Dapa  pecc  piarn  1  pógbaip  ua  Dorhnaill  a  bapDa  ann. 

SlóicceaD  la  jfpóicc,  lapla  cille  Dapa  lupnp  na  hepearn  cap  ác  luain  hi 
cconnaccaib,  Cpeacaip  -|  loipeip  clann  connmaij,  gabaip  Pop  comain  -\ 
páccboip  bapoa  ann,  Ufio  lap  pin  hi  maij  luipcc"|  gabaip  caiplén  baile  na 
huarha  lap  milleao  mópóin  Don  cip.  Uicc  ua  Dorimaill  pluaj  mop  Dm  ccoip 
ipm  coipppliab  Dagallarh  an  lapla  "]  Do  óénarh  abála  pip.  Uicc  cap  a  ai]'  an 
oióce   céDna   co  bpficpliab  Da   poplongpopc   pfin,  1   po  mapbab  bfccán  Dia 

''  Be  placed  upon  posts,  i.  e.   when   a  breach  then  dragged  from  under  it  by  means  ol'  ropes 
was  made  in  one  ol'  the  walls  towards  its  base,  pulled  by  men  or  horses,   and  the  edifice  turn- 
to  introduce  a  prop   to   sustain    the    superLn-  bled  often  without  breaking  into  fragments, 
cumbeut  weight  while  the  men  would  be  un-  ^  Permitted  his  son,  literally,   "  O'Donnell  let 
dermining  the  next  wall,  under  which,   when  his  son  [go]  with  Mac  William  to  his  house." 
undermined,  a   similar   prop  should  be  intro-  s  Be/ore  them. — This  is  the  Irish  mode  of  ex- 
duced,  and  so  on  till  all  the  base  of  the  walls  of  pressing  "as  they  passed  along." 
the  building  were  removed.     The  props  were  "  Baile-na-huamha,  now  Cavetown,  near  the 


1512.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1317 

Edmond,  son  of  Rickard,  and  other  guards  along  with  him,  in  the  castle  of 
Esker-Abhann,  and  he  himself  marched  forward,  with  all  the  speed  that  might 
be,  for  Ardnarea.  Some  of  O'Donnell's  horsemen,  espying  Mac  "William,  went 
in  pursuit  of  him,  and  drove  him  to  flight,  and  to  swim  across  the  Moy.  He 
was  followed  across  the  Moy,  and  many  horses  and  men  were  taken  from  him ; 
but  he  made  his  escape  from  them.  O'Donnell  returned  with  his  army,  and  laid 
siege  to  the  castle  of  Eiscir-Abhann,  wherein  the  son  of  Mac  William  was ;  and 
after  four  days'  great  labour,  they  took  the  castle  ;  and  O'Donnell  gave  protec- 
tion and  guarantee  to  the  warders.  He  took  the  son  of  Mac  William  prisoner, 
and  detained  him  as  a  hostage.  He  then  ordered  that  the  castle  should  be 
placed  upon  posts',  and  it  was  tumbled  to  the  earth,  after  which  he  returned 
home  with  victory  and  triumph.  Mac  William  afterwards  followed  O'Donnell 
to  Donegal,  and  gave  him  his  own  demands  ;  [and]  O'Donnell  permitted  his  son*^ 
to  go  home  with  Mac  William. 

A  hosting  was  made  by  O'Donnell,  accompanied  by  the  chiefs  of  Lower 
Connaught  and  Fermanagh,  and  many  hired  soldiers,  into  Tyrone,  against 
O'Neill  (Art,  the  son  of  Hugh).  They  first  ravaged  and  burned  Tyrone  before 
them^,  until  they  reached  Dungannon.  They  were  for  a  week  in  the  country 
destroying  it,  until  O'Neill  made  peace  with  them,  and  relinquished  in  favour 
of  O'Donnell  every  claim  that  had  been  [in  dispute]  between  their  ancestors, 
namely,  the  rents  of  Kinel-Moen,  Inishowen,  and  all  Fermanagh.  O'Donnell 
then  came  to  Omagh,  and  in  the  space  of  one  week  re-erected  the  castle  of 
Omagh,  which  had  been  some  time  before  broken  down  by  the  Earl  of  Kildare  ; 
and  O'Donnell  left  his  own  warders  in  it. 

An  army  was  led  by  Garrett,  Earl  of  Kildare,  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  across 
[the  Shannon  at]  Athlone,  into  Connaught.  He  plundered  and  burned  Clann- 
Conway,  took  Roscommon,  and  left  warders  in  it.  He  afterwards  proceeded 
to  Moylurg,  and  took  the  castle  of  Baile-na-huamha",  after  having  destroyed  a 
great  part  of  the  country. 

O'Donnell  set  out  with  a  numerous  army  on  foot  to  the  Curlieu  inouiitaiiis, 
to  confer  with  the  Earl,  and  to  form  a  league  with  him.  He  returned  back  the 
same  night  to  Breic-Shliabh',  to  his  own  camp  ;  but  a  few  of  his  people  were 

small  village  of  Croghan,  in  the  barony  of  Boyle,      to  this  castle  at  the  years  1487,  1492,  and  1527- 
and  county  of  Roscommon See  other  references  '  Breic-Shliahh.  i.  e.  the  speckled  mountain. 


1318  awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1512. 

rhuinciii  ace  reaccrap  a  aip  ipn  mbealac  mbuiDe.  Ro  puib  ia|iam  iin  caiplén 
8I1CC15, 1  po  milleao  laip  DÚrai^  pleacra  bpiam  1  concobaip  uile,  1  ni  pócc 
laip  an  baile  Do  jabóil  Don  cup  pin. 

SlóicceaD  lá  jfpóiD  lapla  cille  Dapa  lupcip  na  hepeann  ap  rpmn  conjail 
Dia  po  j^ab  caiplén  beoil  pfippce,")  Dia  po  bpip  caiplén  mic  eoam  na  njlinne, 
"1  Dap  aipcc  na  jlinne,  1  niópan  Don  ci'p,  "j  cue  mac  neill  mie  cuinn  1  mbpaij- 
Dfnup  laip. 

InDpaiecibla  Dorhnall  mac  bpiain  mic  Domnaill  mie  enpi  1  neill  ap  jiolla- 
pácpaiec  mac  pilip  mic  roippóealbaij  mejuiDip,  báccap  pliocc  plaicbep- 
caicc  méjuiDip  in  ppappao  Doriinatll,  Dol  Dóib  ap  baile  bon  abann,  "|  cpeaca 
Do  jlacaD  lec),  bpipceap  lapaiti  poppa,  -]  po  bfnab  a  ccpeaca  Di'b.  Po 
mapbaó,  1  po  báiDeaó  Dpong  do  muincip  im  mac  majnappa  mic  bpiain  mic 
concobaip  óicc  méguiDip  enp  baile  bono  abann,  -]  imp  móip,  -|  Dorhnall  mac 
bpiain  pfin  Do  jabail  bi  rcamnaij  an  pfca  In  ppfpann  na  liapDa  mumcipe 
luinin  -]  naonbap  Da  muincip  Do  babaó  hi  ccapaib  iniiincipe  banain  an  la 
céDna. 

Pilip  mac  coippbealbaij  méjuiDip  cona  cloinn,  -]  clann  comaip  mic  maj- 
napa  megpariipaDain  Do  bol  ap  lonnpaiccib  hi  cceallac  eacbac,  -]  cpeac  do 
Dénamh  Doíb  ap  coippbealbac  mac  aoba  mégpampabaín  (ranaipce  an  ripe), 
"]  coippbealbac  pOpin  Do  rhapbaD  hi  ccopai^ecc  na  cpeice  hipin,  loccap 
appibe  po  cparicóicc  méjpampabaín  po  gabab  leó  an  cpannócc,  "]  mac  pam- 
pabáin  pfin  56  do  baoi  cinn,  pctcaibceap  lapam  mac  pampabáin  DÓij^  nip 

now  Brickliff,  or  Brioklieve,  a  mouatain  situated  0' Conor,  King  of  Ireland, 

to  the  west  of  Lough  Arrow,  in  the  baronies  of  "  Bun-abhann,  i.  e.  the  river's  mouth,  nov- 

Tirerrill  and  Corran,  in  the  county  of  Sligo. —  Bunowen,  the  name  of  a  level  district  at  tlie 

See  note  ",  under  the  year  1 350,  p.  598,  supra,  mouth  of  the  Eiver  Arney,   in  the  barony  of 

''  Bealach-buidhe,  i.  e.  the  yellow  road,  an  old  Clanawley,  on  the  west  side  of  Lough  Erne,  in 

road  over  the  Curlieu  mountains See  note  ^,  the  county  of  Fermanagh.     There  is  an  island 

under  the  year  1497,  p.  1238,  supra,  and  also  in  the  lake  opposite  this  district  called  Greagh- 

the  year  1499,  p.  1252.  Bunowen. 

'  Laid  siege  to  the  castle  of  Sligo,  literally,  °  hiis-mor. — This  is  the  island  called  Inis- 

"  sat  round  the  castle  of  Sligo."  mor    Loch-mBerraidli,    under   the   year    1367, 

^  Of  Brian  0^  Conor — Charles  O'Conor  inter-  p.  638,  supra,  where  the  Editor  has  inadver- 

polates    Luijnij,  which  is  correct,  for   all  the  tently  stated  that  these  names  are  now  obsolete. 

O'Conors  of  Sligo  were  descended  from  Brian  It  should  have  been  there  stated  that  the  name 

Luighneach,  one  of  the  sons  of  Turlough  More  of  the  island  is  now  corrupted  to  Inishore,  and 


1512]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1319 

slain  oil  his  return  through  Bealach-Buidhe".  He  afterwards  laid  siege  to  the 
castle  of  Sligo',  and  destroyed  all  the  country  of  the  descendants  of  Brian 
O'Conor",  but  did  not  succeed  in  taking  the  town  on  that  occasion. 

An  army  was  led  by  Garrett,  Earl  of  Kildare,  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  into 
Trian-Chongail  [Clannaboy]  ;  and  he  took  the  castle  of  Belfast,  demolished  the 
castle  of  Makeon  [Bissett]  of  the  Glynns,  plundered  the  Glynns  and  a  great 
portion  of  the  country,  and  led  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Con  [O'Neill],  away  into 
captivity. 

All  attack  was  made  by  Donnell,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Donnell,  son  of 
Henry  O'Neill,  being  joined  by  the  descendants  of  Flaherty  Maguire,  against 
Gilla-Patrick,  the  sou  of  Philip,  son  of  Turlough  Maguire.  He  made  an  irrup- 
tion into  the  townland  of  Bun-abhann",  and  seized  upon  spoils  ;  but  he  was 
afterwards  defeated,  and  stripped  of  those  spoils.  Many  of  his  party,  besides 
the  son  ofManus,  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Conor  Oge  Maguire,  were  slain  and 
drowned  between  the  townland  of  Bun-abhann  and  Inis-mor°.  Donnell,  the  son 
of  Brian  himself,  was  taken  prisoner  at  Tamhnach-an-reata'',  in  the  land  of  Arda- 
Muintire-Luinin'' ;  and  nine  of  his  people  were  drowned  at  Caradh  Muintir- 
Banain"'  on  the  same  day. 

Philip,  the  son  of  Turlough  Maguire,  with  his  sons  and  the  sons  of  Thomas, 
son  of  Manus  Magauran,  made  an  incursion  into  Teallach-Eachdhach  [Tully- 
haw],  and  took  a  prey  from  Turlough,  the  son  of  Hugh  Magauran,  Tanist  of 
the  territory  ;  and  they  slew  Turlough  himself  [as  he  followed]  in  pursuit  of 
the  prey.  From  thence  they  proceeded  to  the  Crannog  of  Magaiu'an,  which 
they  took  ;  and  they  also  made  a  prisoner  of  Magauran  himself,  although  he 

that  the  name  Loch  m-Berraidh  is  still  preserved  "  TamJinack-an-i'eata,  now  Tawny,  in  the  pa- 

and  correctly  anglicised  Lough  Barry.     It  is  a  rish  of  Derryvullan,   in  the  barony  of  Tirken- 

part  of  the  Upper  Lough  Erne,  and  contains  nedy  and  county  of  Fermanagh, 

several  islands,  which  belong  partly  to  the  pa-  'i  Arda  Muintire  Luinin,  now  Arda,  a  town- 

rishes  of  Derryvullan  and  Aghalurcher,  on  the  land  in   the   parish    of  Derryvullan    aforesaid, 

east  of  the   lake,   and  partly  to  the  parish  of  For  a  curious  notice  of  the  family  of  Muintir 

Cleenish,  m   the  barony  of  Clanawley,   on  the  Luinin,  or  O'Luinins,  see  note  ',  under  the  year 

west  of  the  lake.  The  island  now  called  Inishore-  1441,  p.  924,  supra. 

Lough  Barry  contains  an  area  of  nine  acres,  and  '  Caradh-Muintir-Banain,  i.  e.  the  weir  of  tlie 

belongs  to  the  parish  of  Aghalurcher. — Seethe  family  of  O'Banan,   now  capaó   LI  I  óhánáiti. 

Ordnance  map  of  the   coimty  of   Fermanagh,  anglice  Carryvanan,  in   the  parish  of  Derryvul- 

sheets  27  and  33.  Ian,  about  fifty  chains  to  the  south  of  Belle  Isl.i 


1320  aNHQca  Kio^hachca  eiReann.  [1513 

péoacap  a  cabaijir  leó.  Rucc  laporh  mac  ui  RaijiUij  .1.  eniann  puat)  mac 
aoba  mic  carailap  na  mancacaib  pin-|  ap  mac  ma^naip.  bpifcfp  laip  oppa, 
1  Ro  mapbaó  Donnchaó  mac  T?emainn  mic  pilip  méguióip,  pilip  mac  eojain 
mic  Domnaill  ballaij  méjuióip,  Qoó  mac  eojam  mic  coippóealbaij  méjjuióip, 
TTIuip'cfpcac  puab  mac  mupchaió,  "]  8éma['  mac  mic  cpair  rhégmóip  co  poc- 
aibib  ele,  "]  l?o  beanaó  beóp  eic  lomba  óiob  ipin  ló  pm. 

TTlac  méjuibip  bpian  mac  émainn  mic  comaip  oécc. 

TTlac  pampaóáin  cacal  mac  aeóa  mic  eoccain  Décc,  ■]  cijeapna  do  jaipm 
Do  comáp  mac  majnupa  méjpampaóáin. 

TTlac  cijeapnáin  (.1.  uilliam)  ceallaij  Duncaóa  Décc. 

Pailje  mac  rhaolífiópba  ui  pajallaij  do  mapbab  la  cloinn  rpfain  mic 
eojain  mic  Dorhnaill  báin-|  la  pemup  mac  coippbealbaij  mic  eoccatn  i  nDpuim 
Ifrain. 

Uabcc  mac  Domnaill  ui  bpiain  Décc,  1  bpian  mac  Dorhnaill  mic  caibcc 
mic  coippbealbaij  Décc  pó  cfnDlfr  páire  laparh. 


aOlS  CR108U,  1513. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  TTlile,  CÚ1CC  ceD,  a  cpi  Décc. 

TTluipip  Ó  pirceallaig  aipDeppoc  cuama  maijipcip  DioDacra  po  ba  mo 
clú  cleipceacca  ina  aimpip  péin  Décc. 

Qn  coippicel  magcongail  Décc. 

r?oppa  mac  Dlajnapa  méj  machsarhna  ncceapna  oipjiall,")  Uabcc  mac 
maoileclainn  ui  ceallaij  (.1.  ciccfpna  ua  maine)  Décc. 

poplonjpopc  00  Denarh  Dua  bomnaill  1  cnmcell  Sliccij  ó  pel  bpijhDe  co 
cincciDip,  ap  a  aoi  ni  po  jab  an  baile  ppip  an  pé  pin,  1  po  maptiao  Duine 
uapal  no  muincip  ui  Domnaill  Don  cup  pin  .1.  Niall  mac  Gpemóin  do  cloinn 
cpuibne  pónacc. 

House.     See  the  Ordnance  map  of  Fermanagh,  '  Siz  weeks,  Ifc  poire,  i.  e.  half  a  quarter  of 

sheet  27.  a  year. 

=  Mac  Tiernan,  now  Kiernan  and  Kernan,  a  "  G'Fihelly. — For  a  curious  account  of  this 

name  very  numerous  in  the  barony  of  Tullagh-  singularly  gifted  prelate,  who  was  called  Flos 

donaghy,    or  Tullyhunco,   in   the  west  of  the  Mttndi  by  his  co  temporaries,  and  "  who  had  for 

county  of  Cavan.  many  years  taught  the  liberal  arts  with  univer- 


1513.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1321 

was  sick,  but  they  afterwards  left  him  behind,  because  they  could  not  [conve- 
niently] take  him  with  them.  The  son  of  O'Reilly,  i.  e.  Edmond  Roe,  the  son 
of  Hugh,  son  of  Cathal,  afterwards  came  up  with  these  men  of  Fermanagh,  and 
with  the  son  [recte  grandsons]  of  Maniis,  defeated  them,  and  slew  Donough,  the 
son  of  Redmond,  son  of  Philip  Maguire  ;  Philip,  the  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Don- 
nell  Ballagh  Maguire  ;  Hugh,  the  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Turlough  Maguire  ; 
Murtough  Roe,  son  of  Murrough  ;  and  James,  the  son  of  Magrath  Maguire, 
besides  many  others  ;  and  many  horses  were  taken  from  them  on  that  day. 

The  son  of  Maguire  (Brian,  the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Thomas)  died. 

Magauran  (Cathal,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Owen)  died  ;  and  Thomas,  the 
son  of  Manus  Maguire,  was  styled  Lord. 

Mac  Tiernan'  of  Teallach-Dunchadha  (William)  died. 

Failghe,  the  son  of  Maelmora  O'Reilly,  was  slain  at  Drumlane  by  the  sons 
of  John,  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Donnell  Bane,  and  James,  the  son  of  Turlough, 
son  of  Owen  [O'Reilly]. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Brien,  died ;  and  Brian,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son 
of  Teige,  son  of  Turlough,  died  in  six  weeks'  afterwaitis. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1513. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  thirteen. 

Maurice  O'Fihelly",  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  a  professor  of  divinity  of  the  highest 
ecclesiastical  renown,  died. 

The  Official  Mac  Congail"  died. 

Ross,  the  son  of  Manus  Mac  Mahon,  Lord  of  Oriel,  and  Teige,  the  son  of 
Melaghlin  O'Kelly,  Lord  of  Hy-Many,  died. 

O'Donnell  formed  a  camp  around  Sligo,  and  remained  there  from  the  Fes- 
tival of  St.  Bridget  to  Whitsuntide  ;  he  did  not,  however,  take  the  castle  in  all 
that  time.  A  gentleman  of  O'Donnell's  people  was  slain  on  that  occasion,  i.  e. 
Niall,  the  son  of  Heremon,  of  the  Clann-Sweeny  of  Fanad. 

sal  applause  at  Padua,"  see  Harris's  Edition  of  ™  Mac  Congail. — This  name  is  still  extant  in 

Ware's  Bishops,  Tuam,  pp.  613,  614,  and  Wri-  the  county  of  Donegal,  where  it  is  usually  an- 
ters,  pp.  90,  91-  glicised  Magonigle. 

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1322  awNa^.a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1513. 

Cocal  ÓCC  mac  oomnaill  mic  eoccliani  iii  concobaip,  mac  ciccfpna  ba  pQip 
einec  -\  fngnarh,  jaoiy  ~\  gliocu]'  bai  i  nioccap  connachc  do  majibao  la  a 
bQibiiaraiii  pfin  .i.  Góccan  mac  Domnaill  hi  ppiuU  la  caob  baile  iii  jiolljáin, 
-|  ceacc  t>o  b]ifirfriinap  oipeac  do,  eójan  pfin  oo  cpochab  la  hua  riDomnaill 
po  cfnn  cpi  la  mp)  an  canpm. 

Gójan  ua  máille  oo  recc  luce  cpi  long  50  cuan  na  cceall  mbfcc  ij-ni 
oióce,"]  maire  an  ripe  an  can  pin  ap  éipje  ainac  1  ppappao  ui  Domnaill, 
Qipccir, "]  loipccic  an  baile,  -]  gabaic  bpaijDe  lomoa  ann.  l?ucc  Doinfnn 
poppa  gup  bo  hficcfn  oóib  anamain  1  nimeal  an  ripe  Do  niao  cfinnce,  -\  rfn- 
DÓla  in  impocciip  a  long.  Rncc  macafm  ócc  aiofoach  Do  cloinn  cpuibne 
poppa  .1.  bpian-|  clann  bpiain  mic  an  eappaic  111  gallcubaip,  -]  buiófn  pcolócc 
1  baclac,  "|  lonnpaigicr  lao  co  Dfijiiifipnig,  1  mapbrap  leó  Gogan  n  máille  ~\ 
cuicc  picir  ni)  a  pe  amaille  ppip,  "]  bfncap  do  luing  Diob,  1  na  bpaigDe  po 
gabpar  cpé  miopbuilibh  De  "]  caicfpióna  ipa  baile  po  papaigpior. 

O  Domnaill  do  DoI  bfccón  pfóna  in  Qlbain  ap  cócuipeab  pig  Qlban,  lap 
ccop  licpeac^]  ceacraó  ap  a  cfno, -|  lap  nDol  poip  do  puaip  onóip,  -j  apccaoa 
mópn  on  Rig, "]  iap  mbfir  páife  do  ina  pappaó, "]  lap  ccafrhclub  comhaiple 
Don  l?ig  gan  cecc  m  epuin  amail  po  rpiall,  cicc  ó  Domnaill  Dia  cig  lap 
ppagail  guapacca  mcnp  do  poji  muip. 

TTIac  iiilliam  búpc  Gmann,  mac  RiocaipD,  mic  Gmainn,  mic  comúip,  pfp 
Dap  bo  muincip  na  luiipD,  "j  na  hoUamain  do  mapbao  hi  ppiull  cloinn  a  bfpb- 
pacap  .1.  cepóiD  piabach,"]  Gmann  ci'ocapac  do  rhac  Uáceip  mic  T?iocaipD.' 

Slóicceab  lá  hua  neill  .1.  Qpc  mac  Qoba  hi  rrpinn  congail  Dia  po  loipcc 
magbne,  1  Dia  po  cpeac  na  glinne.  T?ucc  mac  neill  mic  cuinn  ["]]  mac  uibilin 
ap  cuiD  Don  rpluaig,  -|  po  mapbab  Ctob  mac  ui  neill  Don  cup  pin.  CeccmaiD 
an  pluag  1  an  cóip   ppi   apoile   ap   na  rhapacli,  1  po  mapbab  TTlac  uibilin  .1. 

^  Jiaile-Ui-Ghinlgain,   i.  e.   O'Gilgan's  town,  '  St.  Catherine. — St.  CatlieriiK'  is  tlie  patron 

now  BiiUygilgan,  a  townland  in  the  parish  of  saint  of  Killybegs. 

DrumclifF,  barony  of  Carbury,  and  county  of  "  On  his  arrival  there,  literally,    "  at'ter  his 

Sligo.     See  the  Ordnance  map  of  that  county,  going    to    the    east,"    .Scotland    lying    east    of 

sheet  8.  O'Donnell's  country. 

'  Killybegs,  cecxUa  beaccci,  i.  e.  the  small  ''  Changed,  cafiticluó. — This  woi'd  is  trans- 
churches.  This  is  the  name  of  a  small  town  lated  mutatis  by  Colgan  in  Trias  Thaum.,  p.  295, 
giving  name  to  a  harbour  in  the  barony  of  and  it  occurs  again  in  these  Annals  in  that 
Banagh,  and  county  of  Donegal.  sense  at  the  year  15.36.     It  would  appear  from 


I 


1513.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1323 

Cathal  Oge,  the  son  of  Donnell.  son  of  Owen  O'Conor,  son  of  a  lord,  best  in 
hospitality,  prowess,  wisdom,  and  prudence,  of  all  that  were  in  Lower  Connaught, 
was  treacherously  slain  by  his  own  brother,  Owen,  son  of  Donnell,  adjacent  to 
Baile-Ui-Ghiolgain".  The  just  judgment  of  God  followed,  for  Owen  himself  was 
in  three  days  after  this  evil  deed  hanged  by  O'Donnell. 

Owen  O'Malley  came  by  night  with  the  crews  of  three  ships  into  the  har- 
bour of  Ivillybegs"  ;  and  the  chieftains  of  the  country  being  all  at  that  time  in 
O'Donnell's  army,  they  plundered  and  burned  the  town,  and  took  many  prisoners 
in  it.  They  were  overtaken  by  a  storm  [on  their  return],  so  that  they  were 
compelled  to  remain  on  the  coast  of  the  country  ;  and  they  lighted  fires  and 
torches  close  to  their  ships.  A  youthful  stripling  of  the  Mac  Sweenys,  i.  e. 
Brian,  and  the  sons  of  Brian,  son  of  the  Bishop  O'Gallagher,  and  a  party  of 
farmers  and  shepherds,  overtook  them,  and  attacked  them  courageously,  and  slew 
Owen  O'Malley,  and  five  or  six  score  along  with  him,  and  also  captured  two  of 
tlieir  ships,  and  rescued  from  them  the  prisoners  they  had  taken,  through  the 
miracles  of  God  and  St.  Catherine%  whose  town  they  had  profaned. 

O'Donnell  went  over  to  Scotland  with  a  small  band,  at  the  invitation  of  the 
King  of  Scotland,  who  had  sent  letters  and  messengers  for  him.  On  his  arrival 
there\  he  received  great  honour-  and  gifts  from  the  King.  He  remained  with 
him  a  quarter  of  a  year.  After  having  changed*"  the  King's  resolution  of  coming 
to  Ireland,  as  he  intended,  O'Donnell  arrived  at  his  house,  after  having  encoun- 
tered great  dangers  at  sea. 

Mac  Wilham  Burke  (Edmond,  the  son  of  Rickard,  son  of  Edmond,  son  of 
Thomas),  a  man  whose  domestics"  were  the  Orders  [Friars]  and  the  OUavs 
[Chief  Poets],  was  treacherously  slain  by  the  sons  of  his  brother,  viz.  Theobald 
Reagh  and  Edmond  Ciocrach",  two  sons  of  Walter,  the  son  of  Rickard. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Neill  (i.  e.  Art,  the  son  of  Hugh)  into  Trian  Chon- 
gail,  by  which  he  burned  Moylinny,  and  plundered  the  Glinns.  The  son  of 
Niall,  son  of  Con,  and  Mac  Quillin,  overtook  a  party  of  the  army,  and  slew 
Hugh,  the  son  of  O'Neill.     On  the  next  day  the  army  and  the  pursuers  met 

this  passage  that  King  James  IV.  of  Scotland  '  W/iose  domestics,   óóp  bo  muincip,  i.  e.  to 

meditated  an  invasion  of  Ireland.     O'Donnell's  whom  they  were  as  a  family, 

advice,  and  the  recollection  of  the  fate  of  Edward  <i  Edmond  Ciocrach,  i.  e.  Edmond  the  greedy, 

Bruce,  would  appear  to  have  deterred  him.  or  ravenous. 

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1324  awNata  Rio^hachca  eiReawR  [1513. 

RifoQio  mac  Puohpuioe,  -]  nponj  oalbanchoil)  lap  an  ploj,  -)  cicc  ó  néiU 
raji  a  aip  lapam. 

Caiylen  óúinli)-  do  jabail  la  liUa  noorhnaill  a]i  cloinn  jepoirc  iiiic 
umilin, -]  a  rabaipc  Do  cloinn  Ualcaip  rhec  inbilin. 

Qpr  mac  néill  mic  aipc  ui  neill  Decc  .6.  aujiipr,  -|  a  aóriacal  i  noun  na 
iijjall. 

Gojan  |uia6  mac  puibne  oo  inapBaó  la  cloinn  u  Deapbparap  pfin,  -]  le 
Donnchaó  mac  coippbealbaij  iii  baoi;5ill. 

Innpaicchib  cille  x.o  rabaipr  la  cabcc  na  Ifrfina  ap  copbmac  laDpac  mac 
raibcc  mic  Domnaill  óicc,  ap  ngaipm  meg  ccipfaijli  Da  gach  pfp  oib, "]  an 
rfjh  1  paibe  Copbmac  Do  lopccaó,  "]  é  pfin  -j  a  conpapail  do  óol  amach  ap 
an  cfsli,"!  conpapal  Uaiocc  do  mapbaó  leo, -|  cojibmac  cona  rhuinnp  Dim- 
fechc  50  hagmap  airfpach  Ofpniuma  do  poinii  ap  do  ecip  copbmac"]  caóg 
CO  bap  caiDcc. 

TTlac  macjaifitia  oécc  .1.  rabcc,  mac  coippóealbai^,  mic  raiDcc  mic  Donn- 
chaiD  na  plaice. 

O  macsamna  Concobap  piomi  mac  concobaip  mic  Diapmaca  ui  mafgamna 
Decc,  pfp  Do  cuaiDli  cap  laiiiaibh  pinnpfp  "|  poipfp  hi  ccfnDiip  a  T)nicbce  fin 
coricobop  lupin. 

'  T/ien  returned  home,  literally,  "  and  O'Neill  written  dum  liBpe  by  the  writer  oi'  a  short  jonr- 

comes   back  afterwards,"   which   is   very   rude  nal  of  the  Irish  civil  wars  of  1(J41,  which  is  the 

and  imperfect,  and  the  Editor  has   taken    the  present   Irish  form  oi"  the  name  Dvmluce;  but 

liberty  of  substituting  then  for  afterwards.  that  by  Dunlios  the  Four  Masters  meant  Dun- 

'  Diinlis,  i.  e.  the  strong  fort.     A  compound  luce,  in  the  county  of  Antrim,  no  doubt  can  be 

of  Dun  and  Iiop,  in  which  Dun  becomes  an  ad-  entertained.     Ware  says  in  his  Annals  of  Ire- 

jective  to  loip,  and  signifies  strong  or  fortified.  laud  under  this  year,  that  "Donald  [the  son  of 

The  name  is  now  anglicised  Uunluce,  which  is  Walter]  Mac  Guillin  took  the  Fort  of  Dunluse 

that  of  a  celebrated  castle  on  the  north  coast  of  in  Ulster  by  assault."    For  some  account  of  this 

the  county  of  Antrim.      The  word  Dunliof  is  castle  the  reader  is   referred   to  Dubourdieu's 

used  by  Keating  in  the  sense  of  a  fortified  resi-  .Statistical    Survey  of  the    county  of  Antrhu, 

dence,  as  will  be  seen  in  the  following  sentence:  PP-  ^-i,  578,  609,  and  Hamilton's  Letters  con- 

"  6eipiD  Turgosius  a  laim  50  Duiiliop  ÍTIhaoil-  cerning  the  North  Coast  of  Antrim,  pp.  7,  1 17- 
I'eachlamn  map  a  paibe   )  ealao  a  njeibionn  ^  -1  treacherous  attock,  inopuiccio  cille,  i.  e. 

nca,  i.  e.  they  conveyed  Turgesius  a  prisoner  to  cluen-inDpai^m.     The  I  should  not  be  doubled 

the  dunlios  of  Maelseachlainu,  where  they  de-  in  cile.     In  Cormac's  (ilossary  the  word  cil  is 

tained  him  for  some  time  in  captivity."     This  explained  by  claen,  false,  treacherous. 
name   is   latinized   Dunlifsia   by    Colgan,    and  ''  Teige-na-Leamhna.  i.  e.  Teige,  Thaddieus,  or 


1513]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1325 

each  other,  and  Mac  Quillin,  i.  e.  Richai'd,  the  son  of  Rury,  and  a  party  of  Scots, 
were  slain  by  the  army.     And  O'Neill  then  relumed  home". 

The  castle  of  Dun-lis*^  was  taken  by  O'Donuell  from  the  sons  of  Garrett  Mac 
Quillin,  and  given  up  to  the  sons  of  Walter  Mac  Quillin. 

Art,  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Art  O'Neill,  died  on  the  sixth  of  August,  and 
was  interred  at  Donegal. 

Owen  Eoe  Mac  Sweeny  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  his  own  brother  and 
Donough,  the  son  of  Turlough  O' Boyle. 

A  treacherous  attack^  was  made  by  Teige  na  Leamhna''  upon  Cormac  Ladh- 
rach,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Donnell  Oge,  each  having  been  styled  Mac  Carthy : 
and  the  house  that  Cormac  was  in  was  burned,  but  he  himself  and  his  constable 
made  their  way  out  of  the  house,  and  slew  Teige's  constable' ;  and  Cormac  and 
his  people  departed  successfully  and  triumphantly.  Desmond  was  divided  into 
two  parts  between  Cormac  and  Teige,  until  the  death  of  Teige. 

Mac  Mahon^  (Teige,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Donough  na 
Glaice)  died. 

O'Mahony  (Conor  Finn,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Dermot  O'Mahouy)  died. 
This  Conor  made  his  way  to  the  chieftainship  of  his  native  territory  in  despite 
of  the  Sinsear  and  the  Soisear". 

Timuthy   of  the   Leamliain,    auglicL'   Lauue,    a,  lácotlaud — See  Colga.n's  Acta  tSaudorum,  y.  252, 

river  in  the  county  of  Kerry,  which  rises  in  the  and  O'Flaherty's    Ogyfjia,   part  iii.   cc.   32  and 

north-west  extremity  of  tlie  lower  lake  of  Kil-  8 1 . 

larney,   and  discharges   itself  into  the  bay   of  '  Teiyes  constable,  i.  e.  the  captain  ol'  his  re- 

Castlemaine.    Acording  to  the  Bardic  Histories  tained  Gallowglasses. 

of  Ireland  this  river  first  began  to  spring  in  the  J   Mac   Ma/ton. — This    was    Mac    Jlahon    of 

reigu  of  Sirna  Seaghlach,  or  Sirna  the  Long-  Corca-Vaskin,   in  the  south-west  of  the  county 

lived,  who  was  monarch  of  Ireland,  according  to  of  Clare,  in  Munster,   not  Maf  Mahon  of  Oriel, 

<  )'Flaherty's  Chronology,  in  the  year  of  the  world  in  Ulster. 

:{.360.   Dr.  Smith  thought  that  the  name  of  this  "  In  despite  u/t/ie  Si/isear  itiul  Soisear,  i.e.  in 

river  was  derived  from /a»,  full;  but  the  name  despite   of  his  senior  and   junior   rivals;    cup 

is  not  Ian,  but  leamhain,  which  might  be  inter-  lámaib   in   this  sentence  means  literally"  be-  , 

preled  the  insipid  river,  or  river  of  the  elm  trees ;  yond  their  hands,"  i.  e.  beyond  their  exertions ; 

but,  according  to  the  Irish   Shanachies,  it  was  the  hands  of  both  senior  and  junior  rivals  being 

derivedfrom  thenameofalady.  There  is  a  river  raised  to  prevent  him  from  making  his  way  to 

of  the  same  name,  and  more  correctly  anglicised  the  cfnoup,    headship    or   cliieftaniship    ol    his 

Leven,   which    flows   out   of  Loch    Lomond    in  native  tfrritorv  of  Ivahagh. 


1326  aNNQca  Rioghachca  eiueaHH.  [1514 

aOlS  CRIOSC.  1514. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  inile,  CÚ1CC  ceo,  a  cfraip  Décc. 

Pac]iaicc  Ó  Duiblfclic'tin  abb  cfnannpa, "]  Qob  mac  giUicjiU'r  í  piaic  bioc- 
mpi  Qipib  bpopcca  oécc. 

O  Néill  Qpc,  mac  Qo6a,  mic  eojam,  mic  netll  óicc  Décc.  pfp  cuiccpeac 
cocacrac,  aipbfpcach,  ealaónacli,  cpoba,  cfnoapach,  eipióe,  ap  pob  annarh 
mac  cánaipce  na  nccfpna  pop  cenel  eojam  piam  poime.  Qpr  mac  Cuinn 
mic  Gnpi  Doiponeab  na  lonaó. 

OonnchaD  mac  concobaip  iii  bpiam  oo  mapbaó  go  naimDfrhail  miojaolrhap 
la  cloinn  coippóealbaij  mic  mupchaió  í  bpiain  .i.  TTlupcbaó,  "|  oonnchaó.  ^oga 
pfp  nepeann  t)o  loirn  i  Do  rofacc,  do  cpuap,  "]  Do  cpóbacc  an  ci  copcaip 
annpin. 

UaDcc  na  Ifmna,  mac  Dorhnaill,  mic  caiDcc  meg  capraig  oécc  pé  haóapr 
map  nap  paoílió,  pfp  ap  mo  po  mill,  •]  imóp  milleaD  Da  ccainicc  Dia  aicme 
le  cuirhne  cóicb. 

CfnDup  pfona  mop  la  hiapla  cille  Dapa,  uaip  Do  imnj  cpe  coicceaó  ulaó 
CO  cappaic  pfpjupa,-]  an  muma  50  pailip  mégcápraij.  Qn  ciapla  ceDna  do 
Ó0I  im  Ifim  Í  banáin,  -]  ní  Dob  onnarh  laip  gan  an  caiplén  do  bpipeaó  no  do 
gabáil,  ap  ni  po  péD  ní  Dó.  -|  cfiD  Dia  cij  do  cionól  plóij-]  opoanaip  ba6  mo. 
QSeaD  cainic  De  pin  Dóporh  galap  a  écca  Dia  gabáil  co  népbailc  De.  6a 
RiDipe  ap  gape  gaipcciD,  ba  piogóa,  piajalca  bpiarpa  -\  bpfra  an  ri  rfpca 
annpin  .1.  ^epóicr  lapla. 

'  O^Duibkeacltain,  now  anglicised  Doolaglian,  j'ear  1513,  p.  1325,  supru. 

■without  the  prefix  O.  p  Pailis. — See  the   situation  of  this  'pointed 

"■  Beeyi  Lord  of  Kind- Owen,  na  riccfpna  pop  out  under  the  year  1510.     The  word  paillp  is 

cmel  eojam  .i.'na  rijeapna  or  lona  cijeapna,  generally  applied  to  old  forts,  in  the  sense  of 

i.  e.  in  his  lord,  i.  e.  a  lord.  His  father,  Hugh,  who  palace  of  the  fairies. 

was  the  tanist,  never  attained  to  the  chieftain-  '   Leim-  Ui-Blianain,    i.   e.    O'Banan's   leap, 

ship,  and  it  had  seldom  occurred  that  the  son  of  This  castle  bears  its  name  to  the  present  day 

a  tanist,  who  had  not  succeeded  to  the   sove-  among  the  few  who  speak  Irish  in  its  vicinity, 

reignty,  had  the  good  fortune  to  be  made  O'Neill,  but  it  is  now  generally  called  by  the  translated 

"  Unbecomingly,  riiiojaolmap,  i.  e.  in  a  man-  name  of  the  Leap  Castle.     It  is  situated  in  the 

ner  unbecoming  kinsmen.  barony  of  Ballybritt,   which  is  a  part  of  Ely 

"  Teige-na-Leamhna. — See  note  ^,  under  the  O'CarroU   (now   in    tlie   King's   County),  and 


1514]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1327 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1514. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  fourteen. 

Patrick  O'Duibhleachain',  Abbot  of  Kells,  and  Hugh,  the  son  of  Gilchreest 
O'Fiaich,  Vicar  of  Airidhbrosca  [Derrybrusk] ,  died. 

O'Neill  (Art,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Owen  Oge)  died.  He  was  an  intelli- 
gent, powerful,  nobly-acting,  scientific,  brave,  and  majestic  man  ;  and  seldom, 
indeed,  had  the  son  of  a  Tanist  been  Lord  of  Kinel-Owen""  before  him.  Art, 
the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Henry,  was  inaugurated  in  his  place, 

Donough,  the  son  of  Conor  O'Brien,  was  vindictively  and  unbecomingly" 
slain  by  the  sons  of  Turlough,  son  of  Murrough  O'Brien,  namely,  by  Murrough 
and  Donough.  The  slain  had  been  the  choice  of  the  men  of  Ireland  for  his 
dexterity  of  hand,  puissance,  vigoiir,  and  braver}'. 

Teige-na-Leamhna°,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Teige  Mac  Carthy,  died  in 
his  bed,  as  was  not  expected,  he  being  a  man  who  had  destroyed  more,  and 
about  whom  more  had  been  destroyed,  than  any  one  that  came  of  his  tribe, 
within  the  memory  of  man. 

Great  generalship  [was  exhibited]  by  the  Earl  of  Kildare  ;  and  he  t)verran 
the  province  of  Ulster  as  far  as  Carrickfergus,  and  Munster  as  far  as  the  Mac 
Carthy's  [castle  of]  Pailis''.  The  same  Earl  went  to  Leim-Ui-Bhanain",  and, 
what  was  seldom  the  case  with  him,  he  neither  broke  down  nor  took  the  castle, 
for  he  was  not  able  to  do  it  any  injury.  And  he  [therefore]  returned  to  his 
house,  to  collect  more  forces  and  larger  ordnance  ;  but  it  happened  that  he  was 
taken  with  a  disease,  of  which  he  died.  The  man  who  thus  died,  namely,  Gar- 
rett, the  Earl",  was  a  knight  in  valour,  and  princely  and  religious  in  his  words 
and  judgments. 

nearly  midway  between  Birr,  Kinnity,  and  Ros-  forces,  he  began  his  march,  but  on  his  journey 

crea — See  other  notices  of  this   castle  at  the  he  iell  sick  at  Athy,  where  he  kept  his  bed  for 

years  1516  and  1557.  a  few  days,   and  died  on  the  30th  of  the  Nones 

"■  Garrett,  the  Earl. — The  Four  Masters  should  of  September.     Immediately  after  his  death  the 

have  entered  the  death  of  this  Earl  under  1513.  government  of  Ireland  was,   by  assent  of  the 

According   to  Ware's   Annals  of  Ireland,   this  Privy  Council,  conferred  on  his  son,  Gerald,  by 

Earl,  after  having  resolved  to  prosecute  the  war  the  name  of  Lord  Justice,  and  the  King  after- 

with  sufficient  forces  in  Ely-0'Carroll,  at  length,  wards,  by  new  letters  patent,   constituted  him 

in   the  month  of  August,   1513,   collecting  his  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland. 


1328  aHNQca  líio^hachca  eiReaHW.  [1514. 

Slóicceaó  lá  hiapla  ciUe  oapa  ^^poi^c  ócc  mac  5e|ioirr,  ipn  mbpeipne, 
1  Di'r  mó]i  Oo  oénum  Dóib  innce  Don  cup  pn  .1.  O  Raijillij  Qoó  mac  carail 
r)o  rhapbaó  lai]-",  pilip  a  ófpbpacaip,  1  mac  00  pilip, "]  ^epoicc  mac  Gmainn 
mic  comóip  UÍ  paijilli^.  Qccmab  enní  Do  mapbaó  cerpe  pip  Decc  Duaiplib 
-\  DapDmairib  muincipe  pajaillij  cenmo  zá  pochaiDe  Dia  muincip.  Ro  gabaD 
ann  bfóp  mág  caba  .1.  ITlaine  mac  marsamna. 

Caiplén  cúla  parom  do  jabáil, -|  Dobpipeaóla  hua  nDomnaill  mépaic  a 
plana  Do  bpipeaD  Do  Dorhnall  ua  camin. 

Cpeaca  mópa  Do  Dénam  la  liUa  nDomnaill  1  njailfngaib  Dap  loipcc]  DÓp 
aipcc  an  rip  50  cpuachan  gailCnj,  ~[  mapbrap  6  Puaóain  laip  ~\  pocaibe  ele. 

CoccaD  ofipcce  erip  ó  nDomnaill  (Q06  mac  Qoóa  puaió),"]  ó  néll  (Ctpc 
mac  cuinn),  1  mópan  Dooineaó  opoprab  ooib  ap  gac  caoib,  "]  a  inbfir  a  bpaD 
hi  ppoplonjpopc  1  nashaiD  apoile,  -\  a  recu  Do  ^pápaib  an  ppipaic  nafirh,  "] 
DO  corhaiple  a  nDajDaoineab  píócaipDfrhailDo  bénam  Doib  pepoile,-]  a  nDol 
111  ccfnD  apoile  ap  Dpoicfc  Qpoappara, -|  caipDfp  cpipc  do  Dénarh  Doib  le 
chéle, -|  capcacha  nuaa  (amaille  le  Daingniuccab  na  ]'fncapcac)  Do  cabaipc 
la  hua  neill  Dua  óomnaill  ap  cenel  moóin,  ap  imp  Gojain, "]  ap  pfpaib  manac, 
-]  6  Dorhnaill  do  rabaipc  a  rhfic  map  aipccib  Dua  néill  .1.  Niall  ócc  baí  appaD 
piap  an  ran  pin  illáim  aicce  1  njioll  le  caipipeacr. 

Coblac  long  ppoDa,  1  bÓD  do  rappaing  la  hua  nDomnaill  pop  loc  Gpne,  1 
a  bfic  pé  poDa  na  comnaibe  1  ninip  cerlenn.  Qipccip  ")  loij'ccip  oiléin  cúil 
na  noipfp, "]  Do  jní  ^^it)  pe  pfpaib  manach  lap  ccop  a  curhacc  poppa. 

ÍTlac  an  lapla  móip  .1.  henpg  mac  ^epóicc  do  ^abóil  lap  an  lapla  ócc 
.1.  ^epoicr  ócc. 

InDpaicchib  la  hQob  mac  Dorhnaill  í  néll,  ~\  \á  conn  mac  neill  ap  Sbfan 
mac  Cuinn  50  cliiain  Dabail,  -]  baile  Sbfain  do  lopccab  leó.   Cpeaca  an  ripe 

'  Cruackan-Gaileanff,  now  Croaghan,  a  well-  agreed  that  O'Neill  should  become  sponsor,  or 

known  district  in  the  parish  of  Killasser,  barony  godfather,  to  the  first  child  that  should  be  born 

of  Gallen,  and  county  of  Mayo. — See  Genealogies,  to  O'Donnell,  and  that  O'Donnell  should  become 

Tribes,  and  Customs  oflly-Fiachrach,  p.  487,  and  sponsor  to  the  first  child  that  should  be  born  to 

map  to  the  same  work,  on  which  the  position  of  O'Neill.     This  formed  a  most  sacred  tye  of  reli- 

this  district  is  shewn.  gious  relationship  among   the  ancient  Irish — 

'  CfRuadliain,  now  anglicised  Rowan,  without  See    Harris's    Edition    of  Ware's    Antiquities, 

the  prefix  O.  p.  72. 

"  Tkey  became  gossips  to  each  other,  i.  e.  they  '  The  islands  o/ Cuil-na-noirear — These  are 


1514.]  ■    ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1329 

An  army  was  led  by  the  Earl  of  Kildare  (Garrett  Oge,  the  son  of  Garrett) 
into  Breifny,  and  committed  great  havock  in  that  country  on  that  expedition, 
i.  e.  he  slew  O'Reilly  (Hugh,  son  of  Cathal),  his  brother  Philip,  a  son  of  Philip, 
and  Garrett,  the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Thomas  O'Reilly  ;  in  short,  fourteen 
of  the  gentlemen  and  principal  chieftains  of  tlie  O'Reillys,  with  a  great  number 
of  their  people,  were  slain.  Mac  Cabe  (Many,  the  son  of  Mahon)  was,  more- 
over, taken  prisoner. 

The  castle  of  Coleraine  was  taken  and  demolished  by  O'Donnell,  in  revenge 
of  Donnell  O'Kane's  violation  of  his  guarantee. 

O'Donnell  committed  great  havock  in  Gaileanga  ;  he  burned  and  plundered 
the  country  as  far  as  Cruachan-Gaileang^  and  slew  O'Ruadhain',  and  many 
others. 

A  war  arose  between  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Hugh  Roe)  and  O'Neill 
(Art,  the  son  of  Con)  ;  and  they  hired  many  persons  on  both  sides,  and  remained 
for  a  long  time  encamped  opposite  each  other.  It  happened,  by  the  grace  of 
the  Holy  Ghost,  and  the  advice  of  their  chieftains,  that  they  made  a  friendly 
peace  with  each  other,  and  came  to  a  meeting  with  each  other  on  the  bridge  of 
Ardstraw  ;  and  they  became  gossips  to  each  other".  And  new  charters  were 
given  by  O'Neill  to  O'Donnell  (together  with  a  confirmation  of  the  old  charters) 
of  Kinel-Moen,  Inishowen,  and  Fermanagh.-  O'Donnell  also  delivered  up,  as  a 
free  gift,  to  O'Neill,  his  [O'Neill's]  son  (Niall  Oge),  Avhom  he  had  for  a  long 
time  before  in  his  custody  as  a  hostage  for  the  observance  of  fidehty . 

O'Donnell  went  with  a  fleet  of  long  ships  argi  boats  upon  Lough  Erne,  and 
took  up  his  abode  for  a  long  time  in  Enniskillen.  He  plundered  and  burned 
the  islands  of  Cuil-na-noirear',  and  made  a  peace  with  the  people  of  Fermanagh, 
after  imposing  his  authority  upon  them. 

The  son  of  the  Great  Earl  [of  Kildare]  (i.  e.  Henry,  the  son  of  Garrett)  was 
taken  by  the  Young  Earl,  i.  e.  Garrett  Oge. 

An  irruption  was  made  by  Hugh,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Neill,  and  Con,  the 
son  of  Niall,  into  Cluain-Dabhaiir,  against  John,  the  sou  of  Con  ;  and  they 

beautiful  islands  in  the  Upper  Lough  Erne,  oppo-      references  to  this  place  at  the  years  1486,  1506. 
sitethe barony ofCoole,  which wasancientlycalled      See  this  passage  repeated  under  the  year  1515. 
cull   na  n-oipeap,    \.  a.  anguhim  portuuni,  the  '"Cluain-Dahhaill. — On  an  old  map  of  Ulster, 

corner  or  angle  of  the  harbours.   There  are  other      made  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  orJamesI. 

8  G 


1330  aNNQca  Rioghachca  eiReawN.  [1515. 

i)o  c()]i  jifinpct  Tjoil).  O  neill,  ■]  TTIac  Dorhnnaill  Do  bpfir  o|i|ia  cóip  cponi,  na 
cpfcha  DO  bfin  Diob, "]  bpipeab  ojijici.  Cúiccfp  Do  i^liocc  ai|ic  í  néll  Do  map- 
ban  ann  .i.  coijipóeaUmc,  mac  neill  mic  Qipc,  Pailje  mac  nell,  l?uaiD|ii  mac 
aoDa  mic  aipc,  Oomnall  ballach  mac  Ctipc  an  caipléin, -|  Qob  mac  6mainn 
mic  aipc  Í  neill.  Oo  mapbab  ó  Qob  ann  Da  mac  rhec  a  jiopp  .1.  Ctpc  ócc  -] 
bpian.  r?o  mapbab  ann  beóp  pélim  ócc  ó  ndeallain,  1  Conn  ó  concobaip,  -\  po 
bfnaDh  Deich  neicli  piclifc  Do  Clionn  Don  cup  pin. 

Piapup  mac  an  abbaib  móip  méguibip,  1  ^iollapacpaicc  mac  pelim  mic 
ma  jnapa  Decc. 

O  Dálaijcopcumpuabrabgmac  Donndiaib,  mic  caibcc,  mic  cfpbaill,  oiDe 
lé  Dan,  pfp  cije  ooiDlifDh  coicclnnn  Decc  ina  ci^li  pen  In  ppínaij^  bfpa, -|  a 
abnacol  1  mainipuip  copcumpuab. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1515. 
Qoi]'  C]iiopc,  mile,  cúicc  céD,  a  cúicc  Décc. 

mfnma  mac  capmaic  eppcop  l?ara  bor  Decc. 

Gojan  mac  aipr  mic  eóin,  mic  aipr  mic  carmaoil  eppcop  clocaip  Decc. 

^loUapacpaicc  ó  hnlcacain  pfppún  acliaib  bfiri  Decc. 

Semup  mac  comáip  puaib  mic  an  abbaib  méguibip  -\  mac  jiémainn  mic  an 
yjepapuin  méjuibip  Do  mapbab  lap  an  ccorhapba  maguibiphi  ppeaponn  claoin- 
innpe. 

liud  uow  preserved  in  the  State  Papers'  Office,  New  Quay,   iu  the  parish  ol"  Abbey,    biirouy  of 

London,  this  locality  is  shewn  under  the  name  of  Burren,  and  count}'  of  Clare.     At  this  place  is 

Clandawell,  and  as  bounded  on  the  north  and  shewn  the  site  of  an  old  stone  house,   in  which 

north-west  by  the  Kiver  Blackwater,  and  on  the  O'Daly  is  said  to  have  kept  a  poetical  or  bardic 

south  by  Armagh  and  Owenmagh,   or  Emauia.  school ;  and,  near  it,  at  the  head  of  an  inlet  of 

The  River  Dabhall,  which  flows  through  Rich-  the  sea,  is  shewn  the  monument  of  Donough 

hill,  falls  into  the  Bkckwater  near  Charleniont,  More   O'Daly,   a  poet  and  gentleman  of  much 

and  Loch  Dabhaill  is  in  the  same  vicinity.  celebrity  in  his  time,  of  whom  many  traditional 

*  With  a  stro7ig  body  of  troops,   cóip   cpom,  stories   are    told   in    the   neighbourhood. — See 

literally,   "a  heavy  pursuit,"  i.e.   a  strong  or  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hj/-A[an)/,'^.\26,  wciaiiXso 

large  body  of  pursuers."  note  ^,  under  the  year  1244,  p.  308,  supra. 

•'  On  the  side  of  Hugh,  ó  aoó,  literally,  "  there  ^  The  abbey  of  Corcomroe,  i.  e.  the  abbey  of 

were  killed yVowi  Hugh,"  i.e. yrowi  or  o/'Hugh's  the  territory  of  Corcomroe,    which   comprised 

people.  the  entire  of  the  diocese  of  Kilfenora.     In  the 

2  Finaigh-Bheara,   now  Finny  vara,    near  the  Caithreim  Toirdhealbhaigh,  at  the  year  1267,  it 


1515.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1331 

burned  John's  town,  [and]  they  sent  the  preys  of  the  country  before  them. 
O'Neill  and  Mac  Dounell,  with  a  strong  body  of  troops",  pursued  and  overtook 
them,  deprived  them  of  the  preys,  and  routed  them  [in  a  conflict,  in  which] 
were  slain  five  of  the  descendants  of  Art  O'Neill,  i.  e.  Turlough,  the  son  of 
Niall,  son  of  Art;  Failghe,  the  son  of  Niall;  Rory,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Art; 
Donnell  Ballagh,  the  son  of  Art-an-Chaislein  ;  and  Hugh,  the  son  of  Edmond, 
son  of  Art  O'Neill.  There  fell  also  on  the  side  of  Hugh"  the  two  sons  of  Mac- 
a-ghiorr  [Mac  Kerr],  i.  e.  Art  Oge  and  Brian.  There  were  also  slain  there 
Felim  Oge  O'Meallain  and  Con  O'Conor  ;  and  thirty  horses  were  taken  from 
Con  on  that  occasion. 

Pierce,  the  son  of  the  great  abbot,  Maguire,  and  Gilla-Patrick,  the  son  of 
Felim  Mac  Manus,  died. 

O'Daly  of  Corcomroe  (Teige,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Car- 
roll), a  professor  of  poetry,  who  kept  a  house  of  general  hospitality,  died  at 
Finaigh-Bheara%  and  was  buried  in  the  abbey  of  Corcomroe''. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1515. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  fifteen. 

Meanma  Mac  Carmac",  Bishop  of  Raphoe,  died. 

Owen,  the  son  of  Art,  son  of  John,  son  of  Art  Mac  Caweir,  Bishop  of 
Clogher,  died. 

Gilla-Patrick  O'Hultachain,  Parson  of  Achadh-beithe  [Aghavea],  died. 

James,  the  son  of  Thomas  Roe,  son  of  the  Abbot  Maguire,  was  slain  l)y 
Maguire,  the  Coarb,  on  the  land  of  Claoininis  [Cleenish]. 

is  called  the  abbey  of  Burren,  and  the  abbey  of  Pouldoody,  and  interred  in  this  abbey. 

the  east   of  Burren.     This  abbey,   which   was  ''  Meanma  Mac  Carmac In  Harris's  edition 

founded  in  the  year  1194,  by  Donnell  O'Brien,  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  274,  he  is  called  Mene- 

King  of  Thomond,  is  situated  in  the  parish  of  laus  (or  Menma)  Mao  Carmacan.     He  was  edu- 

Abbey,  in  the  barony  of  Burren.     Its  church,  cated  at   Oxford,   and   died  in  the  habit  of  a 

which  was  built  in  a  beautiful  style,  is  still  in  Franciscan  friar  on  the  9th  of  May,   1515,  and 

good  preservation  ;  and  its  chancel  contains  a  was  buried  at  Donegal  in  the  convent  of  the 

tomb   having  a  figure  of  Conor   na   Siudaine  same  order. 

O'Brien,  who  was  kUledby  O'Loughlin  Burren  "^  Mac  Caieell. — He  succeeded  in  1508. — See 

in   1267,    at    Bel-a-chlogaidh,    at   the   head   of  Harris' edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  187. 

8  G  2 


1332  aNwata  Rio^hachra  eiReawN.  [1516. 

Oorhnall  mac  aoba  puaib  1  oomnaill  Do  rhapbaó  le  haoó  mbuióe  ó  noorh- 
naill  ya  ruaic  blabaij,  25.  nouembep. 

Qn  jioUa  Dub  mac  coippbealbaij  mésinbip  Décc. 

Caócc  niac  roippóealbaij  mejuioip  oécc  cpé  bicin  fpccaip  pimip. 

Uaócc  ó  huiccinn,"!  uarep  bpffnac  Diap  pacapc  00  baóaó  lá  raob  lea)^a- 
jabail. 

Carol  mac  pfpjail  mic  Dorhnaill  bóin  uí  pajallaij  Décc. 

Coblac  lonj  ppaoa  lá  Inia  nDorhnaill  aoó  ócc  mac  aoóa  puaió  pop  loc 
eipne,  -]  an  loc  50  pope  na  cpuma  Dimreacr  "]  Do  pipfó  laip  Daiífióeóin  na 
cípe,  nnapbra,  -|  loipccce  ile  Do  Dénarh  lá  a  plójaib  pop  oilénaib  cloinne 
emainn  rhéjuióip. 

Slóicceaó  lá  luia  néiU  (Qpr)  i  noipjiallaib, "]  cfccrhail  Do  Dpuinj  Don 
rpluaj  ppi  muincip  meg  macjamna,  1  apc  balb  mac  még  macgaTfina  paoí 
cinnpfóna  do  rhapbaó  láp  an  pluaj,  1  uo  conDalaig  .1.  emann. 

aois  cRiosr,  1516. 

Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cúicc  céD,  aSé  oécc. 

Uilliam  mac  Donnchaió  uí  pfpjatl  eppcop  na  hangaile  Décc. 

Qn  coipcmneac  ó  muipjeapa  .1.  mail  Décc. 

O  Docapcaij  (concobap  cappac)  Décc. 

ITlac  méjuibip  bpian  mac  concobaip  mic  comaip  óicc  do  mapbaó  lé  bpian 
ncc  móg  macajamna,  1  lé  cloinn  DonnchoiD  méjuiDip. 

lllac  Dorhnaill  cloinne  ceallaij  .1.  colla  do  mapban. 

Coccaó  móp  Déipje  ecip  ó  nDomnaill  -\  o  néill,  -]  popoaD  móp  Daoíne  Do 
Dénam  lá  gac  cijeapna  aca.  Cpeaca  mópa  do  óénam  ló  TTlajnup  ó  nDorn- 
naill  ap  enpí  mbalb  ó  néill, ")  uprhóp  an  cípe  mle  ó  pliab  apceac  do  lopccaD 
laip.     Cpeaca  aióble    ele   do  Denarh   lá  bpian  ó   néill  hi    ccenel  ííloéin. 

''  Tuath-bhladhaclt,  a  district  in  the  north  of  cuicim,   and  so  translated  by  D.  F. 

Tirconnell,  which  according  to  O'Dugan's  topo-  ^  Port-na-erumu,  i.  e.  the  port  or  harbour  ul' 

graphical  poem,  anciently  belonged  to  the  fami-  Crum,  an  island  in  the  Upper  Lough  Erne,  in 

lies  of  O'Cearnachain  and  O'Dalachain.  the  barony  of  Coole,  or,  as  it  was  anciently  called, 

'^/a//,  eapcap. — This  word  is  used  through-  Cúil.na  n-oipeap,  on  which  Crum  Castle  now 

out  these  Annals  to  denote  a  fall,  the  same  as  stands — See  this  overrunning  of  Lough  Erne, 


1516]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1333 

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

Gilla-Duv,  the  son  of  Turlough  Maguire,  died. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Turlough  Maguire,  died,  in  consequence  of  a  fall'  which 
he  got. 

Teige  O'Higgin  and  Walter  Walsh,  two  priests,  were  drowned  alongside  of 
Lisgool. 

Cathal,  son  of  Farrell,  who  was  son  of  Donnell  Bane  O'Reilly,  died. 

O'Donnell  (Hugh  Oge,  son  of  Hugh  Roe)  went  with  a  fleet  of  long  ships 
upon  Lough  Erne  ;  and  he  passed  over  and  searched  all  the  lake  as  far  as  Port- 
na-Cruma^  in  despite  of  all  the  country.  His  troops  vxpon  this  occasion  perpe- 
trated many  slaughters  and  burnings  upon  the  islands  of  the  sons  of  Edmond 
Maguire. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Neill  (Art)  into  Oriel ;  and  a  part  of  this  army  met 
MacMahon's  people,  and  slew  Art  Balbh^,  the  son  of  MacMahon,  a  distinguished 
captain,  and  O'Conolly,  i.  e.  Edmond. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1516. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  sixteen. 

William,  the  son  of  Donough  O'Farrell,  Bishop  of  Annaly  [Ardagh],  died. 

The  Erenagh  O'Morissy  (i.  e.  Niall)  died. 

O'Doherty  (Conor  Carragh)  died. 

The  son  of  Maguh'e  (Brian,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Thomas  Oge)  was  slain 
by  Brian  Oge  Mac  Mahon  and  the  sons  of  Donough  Maguire. 

Mac  Donnell  of  Clankelly  (i.  e.  CoUa)  was  slain. 

A  great  war  arose  between  O'Donnell  and  O'Neill ;  and  each  lord  hired  a 
great  number  of  men.  Great  depredations  were  committed  by  Manus  O'Donnell 
upon  Henry  Balbh  O'Neill,  and  the  greater  part  of  the  country  from  the  moun- 
tain inwards  was  burned  by  him.     Other  great  depredations  were  committed 

by  O'Donnell,  already  entered,  evidently  from  island  of  Coole-na-norior.     Crum  island  is  one 

a   different   authority,    under    the   year    1514,  of  these,    and   still   belongs    to  the  barony  of 

where  the  islands  of  the  sons  of  Edmond  Ma-  Coole-na-norior. 

guire  are  called  Oiléin  cúile  nu  noiptdp,  the  8  j[ft  Balbh,  i.  e.  Art  the  stammering. 


1334  awNata  Rio^hacnca  eiReawKi.  [1516. 

0  Dorhnaill  laparh  oo  6ol  hi  rcip  eóccam,  i   cenel  pQmóaig  oo  lopccaó  laiy", 

1  (v\  rip  inle  511]'  an  abamn  Dan  hainm  iina,  "]  ng  ]''lán  Dia  rij  laparh. 

Caiflén  pliccij;  do  gabóil  lá  hua  noomnaill  aoó  ócc  mac  aoóa  puaió  iap 
mbfic  acliuió  paoa  ina  péccmaip  Qp  ariilaió  appícc  laip  a  jabáil,  RiDipe 
ppancac  Do  cocc  Dm  oilirpe  co  piipjacróip  pacpaicc  pop  loc  gepcc,  Po  jab 
DO  paijiD  Í  Domnaill  ace  Dol  i  ace  ceacc  ceo  ppuaip  onoip,  -|  aiprhiDin  cioD- 
laiere,i  caViapcaip,-)  Do  pónpac  aonraiD  "j  capaDpaD  pé  apoile,"]  Rocingeall 
an  RiDipe  pin  lonj  ap  a  mbiab  jonnaóa  rnopa  do  cop  do  paijió  uí  Domnaill 
lap  na  clop  Do  50  paibe  an  caiplén  pm  Sliecij  accá  lomcopnam  ppip.  r?o 
comaill  éiccin  an  T?iDipe  an  ni  pin  iiaip  do  piacc  an  lonj  co  cuan  na  cceall 
mbfcc.  l?o  peólaD  piap  1  5ac  noipeac  do  paijiD  pliccij,  "]  6  DomnaiU  cona 
pocpaiDe  pop  rip  co  corhpanccacap  Do  miiip,  1  do  cip  iinon  mbaile.  Ro 
bpipeab  an  baile  leó  pia  piú  puaippioc  he,  -\  do  bfpc  ó  Dorhnaill  mairfrii 
nanacail  Don  bópDa.  Oo  caoD  iia  Domnaill  ap  pin  hi  ccip  noilella,  1  gabaip 
caiplén  cúile  maoíle,  caiplén  loca  Dfpecóin, ■]  Díin  na  móna  an  lá  pin.  pág- 
baip  bapDa  hi  ccuiD  Dib,  -|  cucc  gialla  -|  bpaijoe  ón  ccuiD  ele.  T?o  mapbaD 
Dna  niac  DonnchaiD  baile  an  rtióca,-]  mac  niic  oonnchaiD  acc  ceacc  hi  ccfnD 
plóicc  uí  Dottinaill  le  DonnchaD  mac  coippbealbaij  í  baoijiU.  Cicc  iia  Dorh- 
naill plan  Dia  riec  lap  mbuaió  ccopccaip  loppin. 

Caiplén  inic  puibne  pánarc  .1.  T?áir  maoláin  do  riiicim. 

O  Dorhnaill  do  doI  po  óí  pop  j^naijeab  hi  ccíp  neoccain,  1  gan  racup 
nó  rfsmáil  ]iip  innce,  ná  Diojbáil  oipDeapc  Do  óénarh  aip  nó  laip  acc  an  rip 
Dimrecc  ~\  a  huprhóp  do  rhilleaó. 

Coccaó  ecip  geapalcacail)  -j  Semup  mac  muipip  .1.  oiópe  na  hiaplacra, 
Do  puióe  im  loc  ngaip.     Rob  laD  aipi^  a  pUiai^  TTlag  capraig  caipppeac 

"  Kinel-Fanj,  now  included  in  the  barony  of  '  The  castle  ofLough-Bargan,  nowCastledargan, 

Clogher  in  Tyrone.  in  the  parish  of  Kilross,   near  Colooney,  in  the 

Una^   now    Oona,    a    stream    which    flows  county  of  Sligo. — See  note',  under  the  year  1422. 

through  the  parish  of  Clonfeacle,  in  the  barony  ™  Dun-na-mona,    i.  e.    the   fort   of  the  bog. 

ofDungannon,andcountyofTyrone,  and  pays  its  This  castle,  which  is  situated  in  the  parish  of 

tribute  to  the  Blackwater,  near  Battleford  Bridge.  Kilross,  in  the  barony  of  Tirerrill,  is  now  called 

— See  the  Ordnance  Map  of  Tyrone,  sheet  61.  Doonamurray,  but  in  the  deed  of  partition  of 

"  Lough  Gerg,  now  Lough  Derg,  in  the  barony  the  Sligo  estate.   1687.  it  is  called  Downamory, 

of  Tirhugh,    in   the  county  of  Donegal See  alias  Downamony. 

notes  under  the  year  1497,  p.  1238,  supra.  "  Rath-Maelain,    now  RathniuUan,    a  small 


1516.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1335 

by  Brian  O'Neill  in  Kinel-Moen.  O'Donnell  afterwards  went  to  Tyrone,  and 
burned  Kinel-Farry",  and  the  whole  country,  as  far  as  the  river  called  Una',  and 
afterwards  returned  safe  to  his  house. 

The  castle  of  Sligo  was  taken  by  O'Donnell  (Hugh  Oge,  the  son  of  Hugh 
Roe),  after  it  had  been  a  long  time  out  of  his  possession.  It  was  thus  he  suc- 
ceeded in  taking  it :  A  French  knight  came  upon  his  pilgrimage  to  St.  Patrick's 
Purgatory  on  Lough  Gerg" ;  and  on  his  arrival,  and  at  his  departure,  he  visited 
O'Donnell,  from  whom  he  received  great  honours,  gifts,  and  presents ;  and  they 
formed  a  great  intimacy  and  friendship  with  each  other  ;  anel  the  knight,  upon 
learning  that  the  castle  of  Sligo  was  defended  against  O'Donnell,  promised  to 
send  him  a  ship  with  great  guns  ;  and  the  knight,  too,  performed  that  promise, 
for  the  ship  arrived  in  the  harbour  of  Killybegs.  She  was  steered  directly 
westwards  to  Sligo  ;  and  O'Donnell  and  his  army  marched  by  land,  so  that 
they  met  from  sea  and  land  at  the  town.  They  battered  the  town  very  much 
before  they  obtained  possession  of  it,  and  O'Donnell  gave  protection  to  the 
warders.  From  thence  O'Donnell  proceeded  into  Tir-Oililla,  and  on  the  same 
■day  took  the  castle  of  Cuil-Maoile  [Colooney],  the  castle  of  Lough  Deargan', 
and  the  castle  of  Dun-na-mona™  ;  in  some  of  these  he  left  warders,  and  he 
brought  away  hostages  and  prisoners  from  the  others.  Mac  Donough  of  Bally- 
mote  and  his  son  were  slain,  as  they  were  coming  towards  the  army  of  O'Don- 
nell, by  Donough,  the  son  of  Turlough  O'Boyle.  O'Donnell  then  returned  home 
with  victory  and  triumph. 

The  castle  of  Mac  Sweeny  Fanad,  i.  e.  Rath-Maelain",  fell. 

O'Donnell  made  two  incursions  into  Tyrone,  without  battle  or  opposition, 
or  without  sustaining  or  inflicting  any  remarkable  injury^,  except  traversing 
the  countxy. 

A  war  broke  out  among  the  Fitzgeralds  ;  and  James,  the  son  of  Maurice, 
the  heir  to  the  earldom,  laid  siege  to  Loch  Gair".     The  chiefs  of  his  army  were 

town  consisting  oi'  a  single   street  on  the  west  of  Knox,  whicli  has  preserved  the  walls  in  tole- 

niurgin  of  Lough  Swilly,   in  the  barony  of  Kil-  rable  preservation  to  the  present  day. 

luacrenan,  and  county  of  Donegal.     The  castle  "  Remarkable  injury.,  Dio^Knil  oipoeupc,  i.  e. 

of  Rathmullan  was  soon  after  rebuilt  by  Mac  without  receiving  or  inflicting  any  celebrated 

Sweeny  Fanad,  and  in  the  year  1G18,  this  castle,  harm. 

and  a  small  Carmelite  abbey  attached  to  it,  were  p  Loch  Gair,  now  Lougli  Gur,  a  lake  in  the 

converted  into  a  dwelling-house  by  the  family  parish  of  Knockan}'.   barony  of  Small  County, 


1336  awNata  Rio^hachca  eiReanN.  [1516. 

.1.  Dorhnall  mac  pingin,  Copbmac  05  mac  cojibmaic  mic  caibcc,  Copbmac 
mac  DonnchaiD  oicc  meg  capcai^  cijeajina  Galla,  an  RiDipe  pionn,  Rmipe 
an  jlfnna,  "|  an  Rioijie  ciapjiaijeac,  TTlac  mui]Hj''  -|  6  concobai]i,  "]  ciiiji  lom- 
pulaing  an  cfluaij  mag  capraij  mop  .1.  copbmac  laópac.  Uicc  Sfan  mac 
an  lapla  Deccaoine  a  imne  lé  Dal  ccaip  ap  po  bai  coDac,  -\  clfmna|'  fcoppa, 
iiaip  bo  hi  mop  injfn  DonnchaiD  mic  bpiain  Duib  bfn  an  cSfam  pin.  Gipjip 
ua  bpiain  ppi  bóió  "|  connalbup,  "]  nonoilip  cuaDmuimnij,  ~\  cicc  piapup 
mac  Semuip  buicilép,  1  apaile  oa  pann  ina  óócom,  "|  ciajaio  Do  paijiD  an 
cplóij  jfpalraij.  Od  connaipc  mac  an  lapla  maire  móppluaij  píl  mbpiaui 
Da  lonnpaijiD  api  comaiple  do  pónpar  jan  ceaccmáil  pé  poile,  -|  páccbdil 
an  baile  jan  baojluccaó  50  po  pjappar  pé  poile  amlaiD  pin. 

íTlaj  ca]irai5  mop  .1.  copbmac  luDpac  mac  caiDcc  cijeapna  Dfpmurhan 
an  CÍ  ap  pfpp  puaip  cijeapnap,  "]  a^  mo  puaip  Do  coccaD  no  50  paibe  na 
rijeapna  jan  ppfpabpa,  an  ci  ba  pfpp  do  cfnn  DeopaiD  ~\  oeiblén  ba  pfpp 
pfcc  "]  piajail  Do  cijfpnaDaib  Ifire  mocca  Décc. 

Caiplén  baile  í  cfpbaiU  .1.  Ifim  1  bánóin  do  jabóil  le  hiapla  cille  Dapa 
jfpóiD  mac  gfpóiD  lap  ppfimófó  a  jabctla  Dia  araip,  1  ap  ofcmaic  ma  po 
bai  ipin  aimpip  pin  caiplén  do  baó  cpuaiDe  copnam  -\  conjriiáil  map  50  po 
bpipeaD  im  cfnD  a  bapoaó  he. 

ITIaióm  mop  do  rabaipc  Demann  mac  comaipbuinlép  ap  piapup  buicilép, 
-|  ap  mac  mic  piapaip,  1  Dpong  mop  do  muincip  "j  Da  mbuanDaóaib  Do  buain 
Dibh. 

TTlac  conmiDe  bpian  ócc  mac  bpiain  puaiD  Décc. 

and  county  of  Limerick,  about  two  miles  and  a  native.     It  should  be  constructed  as  follows  : 

half  to  the  north  of  the  town  of  Bruff.     Here  O»  connoipc  mac  cm  lapla  maire  móppluciij 

are  the  ruins  of  a  great  castle  and  other  mili-  pi  mbpiuin  oú  icnnpaijio,  ap  !  corhaiple  do 

tary  works  erected  by  the  Earls  of  Desmond.  P'jne    gan    ceaccinail     ppiu,     ace    an    baile 

'^  Dal-Cais,    i.  e.   the   O'Briens  of  Thomond  DpaccBuil  gan  baojlu^cio;  agup  po   pjappar 

and  their  correlatives.  pé  poile   ariilaió   pin.     The   meaning  is,   that 

■■  Of  the  race  of  Brian,  Sil  mbpiain,  i.  e.  of  when  James,  the  son  of  Maurice,  who  was  be- 

the  O'Briens,  who  descend  from  Brian  Borumha,  sieging  the  fortress  of  Lough  Gur,  had  perceived 

who  was  Monarch  of  Ireland  fi'om  1002  till  1014.  the  army  of  the  O'Briens  marching  upon  him  to 

*  The  resolution  he  came  to,  ap  í  comaiple  do  raise  the  siege,  he  retreated  with  his  besieging 

ponpac,  literally,  consilium  quod  ceperunt.  Here  forces  so  expeditiously  that  the  O'Briens  did  not 

the  construction  of  the  sentence  is  faulty,   be-  think  it  prudent  to  pursue  him. 

cause  the  son  of  the  Earl  is  the  leading  nomi-  '  Parted  from  each  other,  po  pjappuc  pé  poile, 


1516.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1337 

[the  following] :  Mac  Cartliy  Cairbreach  (Donnell,  the  son  ofFineen);  Cormac 
Oge,  the  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  Teige  ;  Cormac,  the  son  of  Donough  Oge  Mac 
Carthy,  Lord  of  Ealla  [Duhallow] ;  the  White  Knight ;  the  Knight  of  Glyn ;  the 
Knight  of  Kerry  ;  Mac  Maurice  ;  O'Conor  ;  and  the  sustaining  tower  of  the 
army,  Mac  Carthy  More  (Cormac  Ladhrach).  John,  the  son  of  the  Earl,  went 
to  complain  of  his  distress  to  the  Dal-Cais*",  for  there  existed  friendship  and 
affinity  between  them,  for  More,  the  daughter  of  Donough,  son  of  Brian  Duv 
[O'Brien],  was  the  wife  of  this  John.  O'Brien,  with  friendship  and  respect, 
rose  out  and  assembled  the  ThOmonians,  and  was  joined  by  Pierce,  the  son  of 
James  Butler,  and  others  of  his  confederates  ;  and  they  advanced  to  meet  the 
Geraldine  army.  When  the  son  of  the  Earl  perceived  the  nobles  of  the  great 
army  of  the  race  of  Brian'  approaching,  the  resolution  he  came  to'  was,  not  to 
come  to  an  engagement  with  them,  but  to  leave  the  town  unharmed  ;  and  thus 
they  parted  from  each  other'. 

Mac  Carthy  More  (Cormac  Ladhrach,  the  son  of  Teige),  Lord  of  Desmond, 
one  who  had  best  acquired  [earned]  his  lordship,  and  who  had  encountered 
most  hostility  until  he  became  Lord  without  dispute,  the  best  protector  of 
the  destitute  and  the  needy",  and  of  best  law  and  regidations,  of  all  the  lords  of 
Leath-Mhodha,  died. 

The  castle  of  O'Carroll's  town,  i.  e.  Leim-Ui-Bhanain*,  was  taken  by  the 
Earl  of  Kildare  (Garrett,  the  son  of  Garrett),  his  father  having  failed  to  take 
it.  There  was  scarcely  any  castle  at  that  period  better  fortified  and  defended 
than  this,  until  it  was  demolished  upon  its  warders. 

A  great  defeat  was  given  by  Edmond,  the  son  of  Thomas  Butler,  to  Pierce 
Butler  and  the  son  of  Mac  Pierce,  and  he  deprived  them  of  a  great  number  of 
their  people  and  bonaghtmen  [hired  soldiers]. 

Mac  Namee  (Brian  Oge,  the  son  of  Brian  Roe)  died. 

i.  e.  they  parted  with  each  other  ;  and  this  idiom  Leap,    in    Ely-0'CarrolI,     near    Roscrea.  —  See 

is  still  used  in  English,  though  evidently  faulty,  note  ""i   under   the   year    1514.     This  fine  old 

"  The  needy,  oeiblen.— This  word  is  used  in  castle  now  forms  a  part   of  the   residence   of 

old  Irish  manuscripts  in  the  sense  of  orphan,  H.  Darby,  Esq.    It  occupies  a  high  bank  imme- 

or  any  helpless  person.     In  the  Feilire  Beg,  a  diately  under  the  hill  of  Knock,  and  commands 

manuscript  in  the  Library  of  the   Royal  Irish  a  splendid  view  of  the  lofty  acclivities  of  the 

Academy,  it  is  glossed  by  ^'■debilis  .i.  anbann."  mountain  of  Sliabh  Bladhma,  the  ancient  bul- 

"  Leim-Ui-Bkanain,  now  the  castle  of  the  wark  of  the  O'CarrolIs.     Ware,  in  his  Annals 

8  H 


1338  aNwata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1517. 

Uoi|ipóealbac  mac  bpiain  uaine  í  jallcubaip  corhajiba  na  cai|i]icce  oécc. 

TTlac  bpiain  caoic  toic  caiDcc  nriic  eojain  iii  concobaip  do  mapoao  hi 
ppioll  la  mac  raióg  na  cnai^e  mic  peilim  mic  eoccain, "]  Do  pliocc  an  c Tpp- 
baiT^. 

aois  cr?iosr,  1517. 

Qoip  Ciiiopr,  mile,  cúicc  céD,  a  Seclir  Decc. 

O  concoBai|i  pailj^e  bpian  mac  caiDcc  mic  an  calbaicc  Decc, "]  an  colbac 
mac  raiDcc  Doiiionfoh  11a  lonaD. 

OonnchaD  mac  roijipDealbaij  ui  baoijill  pfp  acumacca  poba  pfpp  Do 
Duine  uapal,  ap  mo  do  pinne  Do  coccaD,  ~\  do  juaipbfpcaib  do  ccáinicc  Da 
ciniD  pfin,  DO  Dol  luce  báiD  co  copai^,  -|  gaoc  Dia  bpuaDac  ipin  bpaippge 
piap,  1  ni  po  pirh  aon  pocal  Dia  pcélaib  ó  pin. 

Sfan  mac  cumn  mic  enpi  mic  eoccain  í  neill,  mac  cijeapna  bá  mó  coice, 
1  rpom  conacli  1  nulcaib  ina  pé  Decc. 

Pilip  mac  coippDealbaig  mésuiDip  paoí  cinn  pfóna  Décc. 

Pilip  mac  Sfain  buióe  meg  margamna  pfp  pa  mair  cairfm"]  copnarh  Decc. 

Qi?c  mac  aoóa  mic  Domnaill  ui  néill  Do  mapbaD  lé  mall  mac  cuinn,  mic 
aipc  ui  nell. 

O  cuarail  .1.  Qpr  Do  rhapbaD  la  a  bpaicpib. 

Qn  5iolla  Dub  mac  DonncbaiD  mic  comáip  méjuiDip  Décc. 

Uomap  mac  uiUicc,  mic  uillicc  abupc  do  rabaipc  cpeice  a  hupmurham, 
copaijecc  rpom  Do  bpfir  aip  hi  pope  omna,  muincfp  1  mapcpluaj  romaip 
Do  cop  DO  Dpuim  na  ccpeac  lap  an  ccopai^ecr,  na  cpeaca  Do  buain  Di'b,  -\ 
comóp  DO  mapbaD,  pfp  a  aoipi  pa  pfpp  oipbfpc  cainic  Do  gallaib  epeann  ma 
oimpip,  ap  ip  leip  do  haipcceaó  1  do  pápaijfDh  mainij  peachc  piamh. 

Caiplén  an  loca  do  jabóil  ap  cloinn  copbmaic  laDpai^,  ~\  a  ccop  pfin  u|i 

of  Ireland,  ad  ann.  1516,  incorrectly  calls  this  'Dangerous  exploits,  do  juaipbfpcaiB,  i.  e.  of 

the  castle  of  Lemevan,  which  is  an  attempt  at  exploits,   acts,   or  deeds,   the  accomplishing  of 

writing  Leni-i-vanan,  léitn  !  Bánáin.  which  was  attended  with  danger. 

^  Brian  Uaine,  i.  e.  Brian,  Bernard,  or  Bar-  "  Who  had  come,  oa  ccáinicc,  i.  e.  who  had 

naby  the  Green.  been  born  of  his  race  and  name. 

"  Teige-na-tuaighe,  Teige,  or  Thaddseus,  of  the  ''  Torach,  now  Tory  Island,  off  the  north-west 

hatchet,  or  battle-axe.  coast  of  the   connty  of  Donegal. — See  note  ', 


1517.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1339 

Turlougb,  son  of  Brian  Uaine"  O'Gallagher,  Coarb  of  Carraic,  died. 

The  son  of  Brian  Caech,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Owen  O'Conor,  was  treache- 
rously slain  by  the  son  of  Teige-na-tuaighe^  son  of  Felim,  son  of  Owen,  and  the 
descendants  of  the  Cearrbhach  [the  gambler]. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHEIST,  1517. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  seventeen. 

O'Conor  Faly  (Brian,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Calvagh),  died  ;  and  Cal- 
vagh,  the  son  of  Teige,  was  inaugurated  in  his  place. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Turlough  O'Boyle,  a  man  who,  for  his  means,  was  the 
best  gentleman,  and  who  had  carried  on  the  most  Avar,  and  performed  most 
dangerous  exploits^,  of  all  who  had  come^  of  his  own  tribe,  set  out  with  the 
3rew  of  a  boat  for  Torach"  ;  but  a  wind  drove  them  westwards  through  the 
sea,  and  no  tidings  of  them'^  was  ever  since  heard. 

John,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen  O'Neill,  a  son  of  a  lord, 
the  most  affluent  and  wealthy  of  his  time  in  Ulster,  died. 

Philip,  the  son  of  Turlough  Maguire,  a  distinguished  captain,  died. 

PhiUp,  the  son  of  John  Boy  ]\Iac  Mahon,  a  man  of  good  spending  and  pro- 
tection, died. 

Art,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Donnell  O'Neill,  was  slain  by  Niall,  the  son 
of  Con,  son  of  Art  O'Neill. 

O'Toole,  i.  e.  Art,  was  slain  by  his  own  kinsmen. 

Gilla-Duv,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Thomas  Maguire,  died. 

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

The  castle  of  the  Lake  [Killarney]  was  taken  from  the  sons  of  Cormac 

under  the  year  1202,  p.  132,  supra.  from  that  time."     This  is  a  very  peculiar  Irish 

"  No  tiding»  of  them,  literally,   "  one  word  of      idiom,  which  occurs  very  frequently  in  old  ro- 
tidings  of  them  has  not  reacHed  [their  friends]      mantic  tales. 

8  h2 


1340  aNNQ^.a  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [isig. 

Dibipc  hi  Ifir  mfic  muipif.  Cpeaca  mópa  lá  mac  muipip  oáp  lépaipcc  maj 
Ó  ccoincinD  ó  cnocaib  anmp. 

Slóicceaó  lap  an  lupcip  ap  cappaincc  cloinne  injine  an  lapla  hi  ccip 
eoccain,  i  caiplén  í  neill  (i.  Qpc  mac  cuinn)  .1.  Dim  gfnoinn  do  bpipeaó  laip 
Don  cup  pin. 

Cr?eaca  mópa  lá  hiia  ccfpbaill  (íílaolpuanaiD)  1  nDelbna.  Caiplén  ctnn- 
copaó  DO  jabail  laip,  -]  a  apccain.  CoccaD  mop  cpiDpiDe  enp  ó  ccfpbaill  ~\ 
Dealbna,  O  maoileaclainn,  -|  laccpom  do  cappuins  an  lapla  Dia  po  bpipfó 
caiplén  an  pocaip  Delbna  (.1.  japba  an  caiplém). 

aOlS  CPIOSU,  1518. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cúicc  ceD,  a  hocr  Décc. 

ÍTlainipcip  na  mbparap  i  napomaca  Do  gnouccaó  do  cuin  na  nibparap 
DC  obpepuancia. 

Qeó  mac  Rnpa  mic  comaip  oicc  méjuióip  cananac  copaD  hi  cclocap, 
pfppun  in  acaD  iipcoip,  -|  pfppún  In  cclaoininip  pop  loc  épne,  pfp  pial  pop- 
bpaoili  j,  1  paoi  cleipic  Décc. 

Tilac  puibne  pónacc  .1.  Ruaiópi  mac  maolmuipe,  ail  coraijre  ^aca  corh- 
lainn  ace  copnam  a  ciT^eapna,  pfp  coipbfpca  peóD,  -]  maoíne  Da  jac  aon  no 
piccfó  a  Ifp  Do  écc. 

O  heoDopa  ciorpuaiD  mac  araipne  paoi  pip  Dana,  -\  pfp  cije  aoibeaó 
coircinD  Do  écc. 

peilim  mac  bpiaiii  mic  concobaip  óicc  méjuiDip  Décc  lap  rrilleaó  Dó 
ó  caraip  pan  pern  cap  fip  a  riipaip  bliaDain  na  nj^pap,  1  a  aDlacaó  1  mainip- 
rip  mninfcáin. 

Clann  í  neill  (.1.  conn  1  aoD)  .1.  clann  DomnaiU  inic  enpí  mic  eo^am, -|  an 
corhapba  máguióip  Do  óol  ap  cpeic  ap  bpian  mac  cuinn  mic  enpi,  1  bpian  do 

''  Magh  O^gCoinchinn,  uow  Magunihy,  a  ba-  and  King's  County.— See  the  Ordnance  map  of 

rouy  in  the  county  of  Kerry. — See  note  ^,  under  that  county,  sheets  14  and  15. 

the  year  1495,  p.  1220,  supra.  ^Gardka-an-C/iaMlein,  now  Gairy castle,  which. 

^  Ceann-cora,  i.  e.  the  head  of  the  weir,  now  gives  name  to  a  barony  in  the  west  of  the  King's 

Kincora,  a  townland  in  the  parish  of  Wlieery,  County. — See  Bealach-an-fliothair. 

alias  Killegally,  in  the  barony  of  Garrycastle,  s  /«  defence  ofliig  lord,  ace   coi'nnni  <i  rij- 


1518.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1341 

Ladhrach  [Mac  Carthy],  and  they  themselves  were  banished  to  Mac  Maurice. 
Great  depredations  were  committed  by  Mac  Maurice  [in  revenge],  laying  waste 
Magh  O-gCoinchinn"  from  the  hills  westwards. 

An  army  was  led  by  the  Lord  Justice,  at  the  instance  of  the  sons  of  the 
Earl's  daughter,  into  Tyrone,  and  he  demolished  Dungannon,  the  castle  of 
O'Neill  (Art,  the  son  of  Con),  on  that  occasion. 

O'Carroll  (Mulrony)  committed  great  depredations  in  Delvin,  and  took  and 
plundered  the  castle  of  Ceann-cora',  in  consequence  of  which  a  great  war  broke 
out  between  O'Carroll  and  the  people  of  Delvin.  O'Melaghlin  and  they  pre- 
vailed on  the  Earl  to  come  to  their  assistance  ;  and  on  this  occasion  Caislen- 
an-fhothair  in  Delvin,  i.  e.  Gardha-an-chaislein'^,  was  demolished. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHEIST,  1518. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  eighteen. 

The  monastery  of  the  friars  at  Armagh  was  obtained  for  the  friars  of  the 
Observance. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Rossa,  son  of  Thomas  Oge  Maguire,  canon  chorister  at 
Clogher,  Parson  of  Achadh-Urchair  [Aghaliu-cher],  and  Parson  of  Claoin-inis 
[Cleenish]  in  Lough  Erne,  a  hospitable  and  cheerful  man,  and  learned  eccle- 
siastic, died. 

Mac  Sweeny  Fanad  (liory,  the  son  of  Maelmurry),  a  rock  of  support  in 
each  battle  in  defence  of  his  lord^  and  his  country,  and  a  bestower  of  jewels 
and  riches  on  all  who  stood  in  want  of  them,  died. 

O'Hosey  ( Ciothruaidh,  the  son  of  Athairne),  a  learned  poet,  who  kept  a 
house  of  general  hospitality,  died. 

Felim,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Conor  Oge  Maguire,  died,  after  his  return 
from  the  city  of  St.  James  [in  Spain],  and  after  performing  his  pilgrimage,  in 
the  year  of  grace",  and  was  buried  in  the  monastery  of  Monaghan. 

The  sons  of  O'Neill,  i.  e.  Con  and  Hugh,  i.  e.  the  sons  of  Donnell,  son  of 
Henry,  son  of  Owen,  and  Maguire,  the  coarb,  set  out  to  y)lunder  Brian,  the  son 

eupnci,  i.  e.  of  O'Donnell,  who  was  his  lord  and      lary  leaders  of  gallowglasses  to  the  O'Donnells. 
master.     The  three  Mac  Sweenys  were  heredi-  '■  The  year  of  graee,  i.  e.  of  the  Jubilee. 


1342  aNNQi-a  Rioghachca  eiKeaNN.  [1519. 

bjifir  popiia  05  ooiTinac  an  eic,  -\  maDmuccao  po]ipf(  gopo  gabctb  ao6  mac 
Dorhnaill.  Ro  gonaó  mac  carmaoil  Donnchaó  mac  emainn,  -]  po  mapbai> 
pochaióe  Do  cenel  peapaoViaij,  aobar  mac  carmaoil  laparh  oia  jonoib. 

CX06  balb  mac  cuinn  (.1.  ó  neill)  í  néill,  do  jabóil  ló  hénpí  mbalb  ua  neill, 
-|  cíiicc  heoca  Décc  do  bfm  Dpuapcclab  app. 

IriDpaicció  la  pilip  mac  émainn  méguióip  lií  ccíp  cfnnpoDa  ap  benpi 
mbalb  ó  neill,  -|  oilén  clapaij  Do  jabáil  laip,  1  bpaijDe  barcap  acc  enpi  Do 
bpfir  laip  uoóa  .1.  aeó  balb  mac  cumn  í  neill,  -]  mac  aoóa  mic  cappaiD  baoí 
ó  pilip  pfin  oca,  Ro  mapbaó  Dna  caral  mac  Duinn  mic  emainn  mégiiióip 
6  pilip  Don  cup  pin. 

Qn  raoD  balb  mac  cuinn  pm  (.1.  ó  neill)  a  Dubpamap  Décc  1  riDeipeaD 
pogmaip. 

TTlac  mic  magnapa  Remann  mac  carail  óicc  mic  majnapa  pfp  Deapcac 
Daonnaccac  do  écc. 

íTlac  mupcoDa,  Qpc  buióe  mac  Domnaill  piabaij  mic  gepailr  caomónai^ 
Décc. 

TTlupchao  ó  maoíleaclainn  (.1.  ó  ITlaoíleaclatnn)  paoí  epeann  ap  cpoDacr 
1  ap  cfnnap  pCóna  Do  mapbaó  hi  maij  elle  lá  a  Deapbparaip  pfin  apc,  ap  po 
mapbpnrh  a  beapbparaip  .1.  peilim  piap  an  ran  pm  conaD  ina  DiojailpiDe  T?o 
mapbaópom  ló  hapc,  -|  roippóealbac  do  gabail  a  loilaib. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1519. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuícc  céD,  a  naoi  Décc. 

Semup  mac  pilip  mic  Semaip  mic  Rubpaije  méjrharjamna  eppcop  Doipe 
Décc. 

Gmann  (.1.  Diib)  ó  Duibibip  abb  eappa  puaiD  oécc  an  céD  lá  Do  Nouembep, 

'  Domhnach-an-eich,  now  Donaghanie,  a  town-  diet  the  former  assertion  that  Henry  Balbh  ob- 

land  in  the  parish  of  Clogherny,   in  the  barony  tained  fifteen  horses  as  a  ransom  for  Hugh.   The 

of  Omagh,  and  county  of  Tyrone. — See  Ordnance  two  entries  were  copied  from  two  different  au- 

map,  sheet  43.  thorities,  and  the  Four  Masters,  as  usual,  did  not 

'^  Clapach,  now  Clappy  island,  in  Lough  Erne,  take  the  trouble  to  reconcile  them.  It  looks  very 

belonging  to  the  parish  of  Derrybrusk.  strange  if  Philip  Maguire  rescued  these  prisoners 

'  Carried  off  with  him. — This  seems  to  contra-  by  force,  that  Henry  Balbh  O'NeiU  should  have 


1519]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1343 

of  Con,  son  of  Henry.  Brian  met  them  at  Domhnach-an-eicli',  and  dei'eated 
them  ;  Hugh,  the  son  of  Donnell,  was  taken  prisoner;  Mac  Cawell  (Donough, 
the  son  of  Edmond)  was  wounded,  and  many  of  the  Kinel  Farry  were  slain. 
Mac  Cawell  died  of  his  wounds  afterwards. 

Hugh  Balbh,  the  son  of  Con  O'Neill  [i.  e.  the  O'Neill],  was  taken  prisoner 
by  Henry  Balbh  O'Neill,  and  exacted  fifteen  horses  for  his  ransom. 

An  incursion  was  made  by  Philip,  the  son  of  Edmond  Maguire,  into  Tir 
Ceann-foda  [Tirkennedy],  against  Henry  Balbh  O'Neill,  and  he  took  the  island 
of  Clapach",  and  carried  off  with  him'  [two]  prisoners  who  were  with  Henry, 
i.  e.  Hugh  Balbh,  the  son  of  Con  O'Neill,  and  Hugh  Mac  Caifry,  whom  he  had 
of  Philip's  [own  people].  Cathal,  the  son  of  Don,  son  of  Edmond  Maguire,  was 
slain  on  the  side  of  Philip  on  this  occasion. 

This  Hugh  Balbh,  whom  we  have  mentioned,  the  son  of  Con  (i.  e.  the 
O'Neill),  died  at  the  end  of  Autumn. 

The  son  of  Mac  Manus  (Redmond,  the  son  of  Cathal  Oge  Mac  Manus), 
a  charitable  and  humane  man,  died. 

Mac  Murrough  (Art  Boy,  the  son  of  Donnell  Reagh,  son  of  Gerald  Kava- 
nagh),  died. 

Murrough  O'Melaghlin  (i.e.  the  O'Melaghlin),  the  paragon  of  Ireland  for 
valour  and  leadership,  was  slain  in  Magh-Elle",  by  his  own  brother.  Art ;  for 
he  had  some  time  before  slain  his  other  brother,  Felim,  and  it  was  in  revenge 
of  him  that  Art  slew  him ;  and  Turlough  took  his  place. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1519. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  nineteen. 

James,  the  son  of  Philip,  son  of  James,  who  was  son  of  Rory  Mac  Mahon, 
died. 

Edmond  Duv  O'Dwyer,  Abbot  of  Assaroe",   died  on  the  first  day  of  No- 

(jbtained  a  ransom  for  Hugh   Balbh   O'Neill  ;  of  Kilmanaghan,    barony    ot'   KUcoursey,    aud 

but  the  fact  is,  that  the  account  of  this  transac-  King's  County. — See  the  Ordnance  map  of  that 

fion  is  left  unfinished  by  the  Four  Masters.  county,  sheet   1,   and  note  "",   under  the  year 

"' ,U«yi-£&,  now  Moyelly,  or  Moyally  castle,  1475,  p.  1094,  supru. 

in  a  townland  of  the  same  name,   in  the  parish  "  Agsaroe. — See  note  '.  under  the  year  1184. 


1344  aNNQta  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1519. 

1  aónacal  i  noun  na  ngall  i  naibic  .S.  Ppoincep  \a\\  ccjieccean  aibiri  manaig 
puippe. 

Coniapba  cluana  conmaicne  cfnn  einij-]  aoiófócaipe  ceallconrnaicni  Decc. 

O  neill  ape  ócc  mac  cuinn  paoi  cinnpfóna  peap  oaonnacuac  ofsairnrc  do 
écc, "]  a  Deajibpacaip  conn  [bacac]  mac  cuinn  DotpDneab  na  lonaó. 

O  concobai|i  puaó,  eojan  mac  péilim  pinn  Decc. 

TTlac  uiUiain  cloinne  Riocaipo  .i.  RiocapD  ócc  do  écc. 

peiolim  mac  majnupa  mic  bpiain  mic  Dorhnaill  ui  concobaip  njeopna 
loccaip  connacc  Decc  pfp  Depcac  Daonnaccac  eipiDe. 

CaDcc  puaó  mac  maoleaclamn  ui  ceallaij  cijeapna  an  calaD  Decc. 

Oonnchaó  caorhanac  peap  pacmap  po  conái^  Do  Ian  mairib  laijfn  Decc. 

rriaoilin  mac  copna  ui  rhaoilconaipe  ollarh  pil  muipeaDbai^  peap  Ion  Do 
par"!  Deicpi  pfp  do  ro^accap  jeapalcaij,  -]  501II  cap  ollamnaib  epeann,  pfp 
DO  geibeaó  peóio,  ■]  maoíne  ó  jac  aon  pop  a  ccuinjfó  Do  écc  hi  mainipnp 
Dfipcc  hi  cfrba. 

pfipcfipcne  ócuipnín  pfp  jpaóa  eojain  uí  T?uaipc  cfnD  eiccpi  an  pine  Dia 
mbaoí,  1  Domnall  ó  cuipnin  Décc. 

Uaócc  mac  bpiain  mic  comalraij  í  bipn  canaipre  ua  mbpiúin  Décc. 

InDpaicciD  lá  clomn  í  néill  (lá  cloinn  Domnaill  mic  enpi)  ap  mac  í  neill 
.1.  bpian  mac  cuinD,  CReaca  mópa  do  jabail  Dóib  ap  pliab  ríop,  T?obaD 
Dpajail  DO  bpian  1  é  do  rionól  a  mbaí  laip  Do  Daoínib  pop  a  ccionn,  -]  a 
Ifnmam  a  crópaijechc  -]  bpipeaó  Dó  ap  clomn  í  néill  lap  nimreachc  a  muin- 
cipe  uaraib  lap  na  cpecliaib,  Oa  mac  í  neill  (aoó  -\  eoccan)  do  gabail  ann, 

p.  64,  and  note  ",  under  the  year  1194,   p.  99,  Cloone,  in  the  barony  of  Mohill,  in  the  county 

sujwa.  of  Leitrim. — See  note  "',  under  the  year  1253, 

°  Donegal,  Diin  na  njull,  i.e.  the  fort  of  the  p.  349,  supra. 

strangers.    The  first  mention  made  of  this  place  ''  Bacagh. — Tiiis    is    in    the    handwriting   of 

in  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters  occurs  at  the  Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare. 

year  1 159-     The  monastery  was  not  built  till  '  Caladh,  a  territory  in  Hy-Many,  in  latter 

1474. — See   the    first    entry  under  that   year,  times  included  in  the   present  barony  of  Kil- 

There  seems  to  have  been  an  earthen  fort  erected  connell,  in  the  county  of  Galway;  but  in   an 

there   by  the   Danes  at  an  early  period.     See  ancient  tract  on  the  tribes  and  customs  of  Hy- 

note  ",  on  Ath-na-nGall,   under  the  year  1419,  Many,   preserved  in   the   Book   of  Lecan,    and 

p.  838,   supra,  and  the  article  on  Donegal,  in  printed  in    1843,    for  the  Irish   Archa;ological 

the  Irish  P.  Journal,  written  by  Mr.  Petrie.  Society,  the  territory  of  Caladh  is  described  as 

'    Cliiain-Gonmhaicne,    now   the   village    of  extending  from  Moin-inraideach  to  Cluain-tuais- 


1519]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1345 

vembei',  and  was  buried  at  Donegar,  in  the  Franciscan  habit,  which  habit  he 
chose  rather  than  that  of  a  monk. 

The  Coarb  of  Cluain-Conmhaicne'',  head  of  the  hospitality  and  generous 
entertainment  of  the  churches  of  Conmaicne,  died. 

O'Neill  (Art  Oge,  the  son  of  Con),  a  distinguished  captain  and  a  humane 
and  intelligent  man,  died  ;  and  his  brother,  Con  [Bacagh'],  the  son  of  Con,  was 
inaugurated  in  his  place. 

O'Conor  Roe  (Owen,  the  son  of  Felim  Finn),  died. 

Mac  William  of  Clanrickard  (Rickard  Oge),  died. 

Felim,  the  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Donnell  O'Conor,  Lord  of 
Lower  Connaught,  died.     He  was  a  charitable  and  humane  man. 

Teige  Roe,  son  of  Melaghlin  O'Kelly,  Lord  of  Caladh',  died. 

Donough  Kavanagh,  a  prosperous  and  wealthy  man,  and  one  of  the  chief 
nobles  of  Leinster,  died. 

Maoilin,  son  of  Torna  O'Mulconry,  Ollav  of  Sil-Murray,  a  man  full  of  pros- 
perity' and  learning,  who  had  been  selected  by  the  Geraldines  and  English  to 
be  their  Ollav,  in  preference  to  all  the  chief  poets  of  Ireland,  and  who  had 
obtained  jewels  and  riches  of  all  from  whom  he  had  asked  them,  died  in  Mai- 
nistir-derg'  in  Teffia. 

Ferceirtne  O'Cuirnin,  a  confidential  servant  of  Owen  O'Rourke,  and  head 
of  the  literary  men  of  his  tribe,  and  Donnell  Glas  O'Cuirnin,  died. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Tomaltagh  O'Beirne,  Tanist  of  Hy-Briuin, 
died. 

An  incursion  was  made  by  the  sons  of  Donnell,  son  of  Henry  O'Neill, 
against  the  son  of  O'Neill  (Brian,  the  son  of  Con),  [and]  they  took  great  preys 
on  the  Lower"  Mountain.  Brian,  however,  received  intelligence  [of  their  pro- 
ceedings], assembled  all  his  men  to  attack  them,  went  in  pursuit  of  them,  and 
defeated  the  sons  of  O'Neill  [themselves] ,  their  people  having  gone  on  before 
them  with  the  preys.     The  two  sons  of  O'Neill,  Hugh  and  Owen,  were  taken 

cirt-na-Sinna — See  note',  under  the  year  1475,  in  the  Leabhar  Breac  by  the  Latin  viorá gratia. 
p.  1097,  supra.  '  Mainistir-derg,  i.  e.  the  red  abbey,  now  Ab- 

^  Prosperity — The  Irish  word  par  now  de-  beyderg,  in  the  county  of  Longford See  note', 

notes  prosperity,  but  in  ancient  manuscripts  it  under  the  year  1476,  p.  1098,  supra. 

denotes  "  the  grace  of  God,"  and  is  translated  "  Lower,  ciop. — In  this  part  of  Ireland  riop 

8  I 


1346  aNNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1520. 

-]  mac  eoccain  beóp  do  mapbab  "]  mac  carrhaoil  cúulaó  mac  emainn,  Comap 
mac  emainn,  -\  emano  mac  jioUaparrpaicc  mic  carrhaoil  do  riiajibaó. 

Oa  mac  RuaiDjii  mic  bjiiain  meguióip  (.1.  l?opa,  -j  caócc)  do  jabail  lay^ 
an  ccomapba  majuiDip.  Riiaiópi  pfin,  "|  an  cuiD  ele  Da  cloinn  do  cop  ap  a 
nDucliaij;  Do,  ■]  a  ccaopaijecc  Do  buain  Dib,")  an  corhapbaDO  cop  na  caopaij;- 
ecca  pó  buanDaóaib  DÓ  pfin  co  po  pupáil  ua  Domnaill  ap  an  ccomapba  a 
caopaigeacc  Do  cabaipc  do  puaiDpi  DopiDipi. 

Coccaó  mop  1  nDealbna  ecip  pliocc  pfpjail  méjcocláin  1  j^Iiocc  Doitinaill 
Dia  po  mapbaó  Semup  majcoclám  Ppióip  gailmne,  ■]  píojDamra  Dealbna 
frpa  Dupcop  DO  peilép  ap  caiplén  cliiana  Darhna. 


aOlS  CPIOSC,   1520. 
Ctoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cuicc  céD,  pice. 

Nicláp  mac  piapaip  ui  plannaccáin  pfppún  Dairiiinnpi  do  roccbail  ap  a 
lonaD  CO  heccopac  lé  nfpc  cuacaD,  ~\  a  écc  1  mboraib. 

TTIas  aonjupa  Domnall  mac  aoDa  mic  aipc  Décc,  "|  peilim  an  einij  a 
óeapbparaip  DoipDneaó  na  lonaD,  a  écc  pin  Dna,  "|  TTlag  aonjupa  Do  jaipm 
Demann  buiDe  mágaénjiipa. 

TTIuipip  moc  comaip  mic  comaip,  lapla  Dfpmurhan  Décc. 

TTlac  uilliam  cloinne  piocaipD  .1.  uillfcc  mac  uilbcc  Décc. 

ITIac  uilliam  biipc  .1.  maoilip  mac  repoic  do  mapbat)  la  cloinn  cpfoinin 
móip  mfic  mic  Seóinín. 

TTlac  méguiDip  (.1.  pilip  mac  emainn)  do  óol  ap  lonnpoij^iD  ap  mac  pilip 

means    towards    the    north,    and    ruap   south-  Mac  Coghlan,  and  is  now  included  in  the  barony 

wards.  of  Garrycastle,  in  the  west  of  the  King's  County. 

"  Creagkts. — These  were  the  shepherds  who  This  territory,  though  small,  is  very  celebrated 

took  care  of  the  cattle  in   time  of  peace,    and  in  Irish  history   for  its   churches  and  castles. 

drove  the  preys  in  time  of  war  and  incursions.  The  following  places  are  referred  to  as  in  it, 

"  Gailinne,  now  Gillen,  an  old  church  in  ruins  viz.,  the  churches  of  Clonmacnoise,  Gallen,  Kil- 

giving  name  to  a  parish  in  the  barony  of  Gar-  oolgan,  Eeynagh,  Tisaran,  and  Lemanaghan,  and 

rycastle,  in  the  King's  County.  the  castles    of   Kincora,    Garrycastle,   Faddan, 

'  Dealhhna  Eathra This  territory  is  other-  Clonawny,  Esker,  and  Coole.    In  the  will  of  Sir 

wise  called  Dealbhna  Meg  Cochlain,  or  Delvin  John  Coghlan,  dated  .July  10th,  1595,  he  be- 


1520.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1347 

prisoners  there,  and  the  son  of  Owen  was  killed.  Mac  Cawell  (Cu-Uladh,  son 
of  Edmond),  Thomas,  the  son  of  Edmond,  and  Edmond,  the  son  of  Gilla- 
Patrick  Mac  Cawell,  were  [also]  slain. 

The  two  sons  of  Rory,  son  of  Brian  Maguire,  i.  e.  Rossa  and  Teige,  were 
taken  prisoners  by  Maguire,  the  Coarb.  Eory  himself  and  the  rest  of  his  sons 
were  driven  out  of  their  territory,  and  deprived  of  their  creaghts" ;  and  the 
Coarb  kept  the  creaghts  in  his  own  service,  until  O'Donuell  ordered  him  to 
return  his  creaghts  to  Rory. 

A  great  war  [broke  out]  in  Dealbhna  between  the  descendants  of  Farrell 
Mac  Coghlan  and  the  descendants  of  Donnell,  in  the  course  of  wliich  James 
Mac  Coghlan,  Prior  of  GaiUnne",  and  the  Roydamna  of  Dealbhna  Eathra'',  was 
killed  by  a  shot  fired  from  the  castle  of  Cluaiu-damhna^. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1520. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  twenty. 

Nicholas,  the  son  of  Pierce  O'Flanagan,  Parson  of  Devenish,  was  unjustly 
removed  from  his  place  by  the  influence  of  the  laity,  and  died  at  Bohoe*. 

Magennis  (Donnell,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Art)  died;  and  Felim  the 
Hospitable,  his  brother,  was  inaugurated  in  his  place ;  and  he  also  died,  and 
Edmond  Boy  Magennis  was  styled  the  Magennis. 

Maurice,  the  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Desmond,  died. 

Mac  William  of  Clanrickard  (Ulick,  the  son  of  Ulick)  died. 

Mac  William  Burke  (Meyler,  the  son  of  Theobald)  was  slain  by  the  son  of 
Seoinin  More,  son  of  Mac  Seoinin^ 

The  son  of  Maguire   (Philip,   son  of  Edmond)  made  an  incursion  into 

queaths  gifts  to  the  churches  of  Clonmacnoise,  in  the  barony  of  Garrycastle,  and  King's  County. 

Gallon,  Fuire  [now  Wheery],  Eaonagh  [now  ^  Bokoe,  1  mbocaiK. — This  is  the  name  of  a 

Reynagh],  Tisaran,  and  Lea-Manchayn,  all  in  parish  in  the  baronies  of  Magheraboy  and  Cla- 

the  territory  of  Delvin  Mac  Coghlan.  nawley,  in  the  county  of  Fermanagh. — See  note  ", 

'  Cluain-damhna,  nowClonawny,  or  Clononey,  p.  1 147. 

a  townland  containing  the  ruins  of  a  castle  now  '•  Mac  Seoinin,  now  anglicised  Jennings.  This 

in  good  repair,  situated  on  the  left  bank  of  the  family,  whicli  is  a  branch  of  the  Burkes,  is  still 

River  Brosna,  near  the  demesne  of  Moystown,  highly  respectable  in  the  province  of  Connaught. 

8  l2 


1348  aNwata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  '       [i52o. 

VIÍ  ]ia^allai5  i  nioccaji  ripe,  cpeaca  do  jlacaó  Dóib,  ~\  cói]i  cpom  do  bpfir 
o]ipa  im  pliocc  bpiain  in'  paijillij-]  im  cloinn  meic  carail  í  pajiUi^  (.1.  pfpgal, 
1  maolmopóa),  1  im  cloinn  nDoifinaill  na  coininnf  1,  b]iipfó  Dóib  aji  mac  mej- 
uióip,  1  ap  inac  pilip  mic  coippbealbciij  méjuióip, -)  ITlac  mejuiDip  (Pilip) 
cona  mac  comap  do  mapbab  onn,  -]  Da  mac  pilip  inic  coippDealbai^  (jiolla- 
parpaicc,  -\  emanri)  "]  coippDealbac  mac  plairbeapcaij  mic  romai]-  6icc 
méjjuiDip  DO  riiapbaó  anD  beóp  50  pocaiDib  ele  amaille  ppiú. 

RiiaiDpi  mac  aoóa  meguiDip  do  jabáil  a  bpioll  lé  Donn  mbuioe  mac 
mejuiDip  .1.  TTlac  concobai]!  mic  comaip  óicc, -|  a  roipbepr  do  jiollapacpaic 
ócc  mic  5ioUaparpaicc  mic  emainn  méguibip,  "|  a  mapbaó  laippiDe. 

Caipppe,  mac  concobaip,  mic  caipppe,  mic  copbmaic  í  bipn  conpal  -]  cfinti- 
brip  maicne  muipfóaij  Do  écc. 

ooippóealbac  mac  peilim  mejcocloin  njeapna  Dealbna  fcpa  paoi  1  nfcna 
-|  in  eolap,  pfp  para  ~[  po  paióbpfpa,  pfp  lap  a  nofpnab  caiplén  an  pfDOin, 
1  caiplén  cmncopab  Do  écc  lap  nofi  jbfchaib. 

piáij  mop  pan  macaipe  pcepanac  Dm  po  éccparcap  pocaióe  do  óaj 
Daoinib. 

O  caipiDe  peibm  mac  caibcc  ollam  Ifja  pleacca  pilip,"|  Rubpaij^e  mac 
Donnchaib  mic  aoba  méguióip  Décc. 

niuipip  mac  comáip,  mic  an  lapla  poja  sail  nsfpalroc  Do  liiapbab  la 
conn  mac  maoileaclainn  í  mópDa  co  pochaióe  ele  amaille  ppip. 

■^  loclitar-tire,    i.  e.   the   lower   part   of  the  means  the  leading  family  among  his  descendants, 

country.     According   to   the   tradition   in  the  The  principal  families  of  this  race  at  this  period 

neighbourhood  of  Belturbet  and  Drumlane  this  were  the  O'Conors  Don,  and  Eoe  of  the  Plain 

was  the  name  in  ancient  times,  and  still  is  among  of  Connaught ;  the  O'Conors  of  Sligo  ;  the  Mac 

the  old  people  who  speak  the  Irish  language,  Dermots  of  Moylurg,   Airteach,   and  Tir-Tua- 

for  that  part  of  the  county  of  Cavan  comprising  thail ;  and  the  Mac  Donoughs  of  Corran  and 

the  baronies  of  Upper  and  Lower  Loughtee,  in  Tirerril!,   to  all  of  whom  the   O'Beirnes  were 

the  East  Breifny,  or  the  county  of  Cavan.  inferior. 

''  Con-inis,  i.  e.  dog  island,  now  Coninish,  in  '  The  castle  o/Feadan,  i.  e.  the  castle  of  the 

the  barony  of  Dartry,  in  the  west  of  the  county  stream  or  rivulet,  now  Faddan.     This  castle  was 

of  Monaghan.    This  barony  is  often  called  Dar-  situated  in  the  townland  of  Newtown,  parish  of 

traighe  Coininse  from  this  island.  Lusmagh,   barony  of  Garrycastle,    and  King's 

*■  Race  of  Muireadkach,  i.  e.  of  Muireadliach  County,  but  it  is  now  level  with  the  ground. — ■ 

Muilleathan,  King  of  Connaught,  who  was  the  See  the  years  1540  and  1548. 

ancestor  of  the  O'Beirnes,  but  they  were  by  no  »  The  castle  of  Ceann-Corodli,  i.  e.  the  head  ot 


1520.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1349 

lochtar-tire'^  against  the  son  of  Pliilip  O'Reilly.  They  [Philip's  men]  seized 
on  preys,  but  were  overtaken  by  a  very  strong  body  of  pursuers,  with  the 
descendants  of  Brian  O'Reilly  and  the  grandson  of  Cathal  O'Reilly,  namely, 
Farrell  and  Maelmora,  together  with  the  Clann-Donnell  of  Con-inis".  They 
defeated  Maguire  and  the  son  of  Philip,  son  of  Turlough  Maguire  [in  a  con- 
Hict  in  which]  the  son  of  Maguire  (Philip),  and  his  son,  Thomas,  as  also  the 
two  sons  of  Philip,  son  of  Turlough  ( Gilla-Patrick  and  Edmond)  and  Turlough, 
son  of  Flaherty,  son  of  Thomas  Oge  Maguire,  together  with  many  others,  were 
slain. 

Rory,  the  son  of  Hugh  Maguire,  was  treacherously  taken  prisoner  by  Donn 
Boy  Maguire;  i.  e.  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Thomas  Oge,  and  delivered  up  to 
Gilla-Patrick  Oge,  the  son  of  Gilla-Patrick,  son  of  Edmond  Maguire,  by  whom 
he  was  put  to  death. 

Carbry,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Carbry,  son  of  Cormac  O'Beirne,  the 
consul  and  chief  leader  of  the  race  of  Muireadhach",  died. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Felim  Mac  Coghlan,  Lord  of  Delvin-Eathra,  a  sage 
in  wisdom  and  learning,  a  man  of  prosperity  and  great  affluence,  and  by  whom 
the  castle  of  Feadan*^  and  the  castle  of  Ceann-Coradh^  were  erected,  died,  after 
[having  spent]  a  good  life. 

A  great  plague  raged  in  Machaire-Stefanach",  of  which  many  good  men 
died. 

O'Cassidy  (Felim,  tlie  son  of  Teige),  oUav  tu  the  descendants  of  Philip 
[Maguire],  in  physic,  and  Rory,  the  son  of  Donough,  was  son  of  Hugh  Ma- 
guire, died. 

Maurice,  the  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  the  Earl,  the  choice  of  the  Englifh 
[family  of  the]  Geraldiues,  was  slain  by  Con,  the  son  of  Melaghlin  O'More,  as 
were  also  many  others  along  with  him. 

the  weir,  now  Kincora,  a  townland  in  the  parish  the  Ordnance  map  of  the  King's  County,  slu'ets 

of  Killegally,  barony  of  Garrycastle,  and  King's  14  and  15,  and  note  under  the  year  1548,  infra. 
County.     The  Down  Survey  shews  a  castle  and  ''  Machaire-Stefanach,  now  Magherastcpliana, 

a  mill  here  ;  but  there  are  no  ruins  of  a  castle  a  barony  in  the  east  of  the  county  of  Fermanagh, 

in  this  townland  at  present,   and  it  is  not  im-  This  territory  derived  its  name  from  its  liaving 

probable  that  the  castle,  which  was  originally  been  the  inheritance  of  Steafan,  or  Stephen,  the 

called  Ceuiin  copao,  is   that  in  the  adjoining  son  of  Odhar,  the  progenitor  of  tlie  Maguires  of 

townland  of  Coole,  on  the  River  Brosna.— See  Fermanagh. 


1350 


awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawN. 


[1521. 


aOlS  CRIOSU,  1521. 
Qoip  CpioSc,  mile,  cúicc  céo,  pice,  a  haon. 

Ppióip  oairhinpi  Décc  .i.  Remann  mac  pfiipuin  innpi  maijeparh,  peap 
cléipcióe  comnipcil  Depcac,  Daonnaccac  eipioe. 

TTlag  marsariina  oécc  .i.  Pemann  mac  glaipne,  mic  Remamn,  mic  Rub- 
paije,  1  TTlacc  marjarhna  Do  ^aipm  Da  mac  .i.  glaipne  ócc. 

O  cacóin  .1.  Uomap  mac  aibne  Décc,  "|  po  gabab  é  piap  an  can  pa,  -|  do 
bfnab  an  cijeapnap  ap  eiccin  De  la  Donnchab  ua  carcnn. 

Oonncliab  mac  Ruaibpi  mic  bpiain  méjuibip  do  mapbab  la  macaib  meg 
pampabáin  .i.  Dorhnall  ócc  mac  Domnaill  bfpnaij,  Uaicne  mac  majnupa  még- 
pampabáin,  -]  ní  baí  Dm  cmib  pfp  a  aoípi  bá  pfpp  iná  an  Donnchab  ipm. 

^Rainne  in^fn  comáip  í  eojain  maraip  an  comapba  méjuibip,  bfn  há 
mop  ponap -|  paiDbpfp,  Deaplaccab  l  Deajeineac  Décc. 

Rubpaije  mac  éiccneaccnn  í  DorhnaiU  do  mapbab  la  gallaib  ag  Dún  oeal- 
jan,  1  é  hi  ppappab  í  neill  .i.  cuinn  mic  cuinn. 

Uoippbealbac  mac  Donnchaib  mic  puibne  do  écc. 

Cijeapnup  Decdbna  Do  poinn  (ló  hua  maoileaclainn  coippbealbac,  "|  lá 
hua  cceapbaill  ITlaolpuanaib)  ecip  an  piopbopca  mac  méjcocláin,  pínjin 
puab  1  copbmac. 

Síle  injfn  Néill  ghaipb  uí  Domnaill  oécc  an  14  Qujiipc. 

'  Inis-Maighe-Samh,  i.e.  island  of  the  plain  6ipne,  -|   pob    eipioe  Ninnio   paoBpuipj,   i.  e. 

of  sorrel,    now   Inisli-mac-saint,    an   island    in  Ninny,  bishop  of  Inis  moighe  samh,   on  Lough 

Lough  Erne,  containing  the  ruins  of  a  church  Erne,  and  he  was  Ninny  Saobhruisc." 

giving  name  to  a  parish  in  the  north-west  of  the  Colgan  has  given  a  life  of  Nennidhius  from 

county  of  Fermanagh.    The  patron  saint  of  this  various  authorities,  but  he  seems  to  confound 

church  is  St.  Ninny  Saebhdhearc,  or  Saebhruisc,  him  with  Nennidh  Lamhghlan,  who  was  unques- 

i.  e.  torvi  oculi,  who  was  a  disciple  of  St.  Finian      tionably  a  different  person See  Lanigan's  Ec- 

of  Clonard,  and  cotomporary  with  St.  Columb-  clesiastical  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  ii.  pp.  51,  55. 

kille.     He  was  a  bishop,   and  his  festival  was  Colgan  states  that  the  bell  of  this  saint  was  pre- 

celebrated  there  on  the  18th  of  January.  —  See  served  in  his  time  in  the  church  of  Inis  Muighe 

Feilire  Aenguis,  and  the  Irish  Calendar  of  the  Samh,  in  Lough  Erue.     His  words  are  : 

O'CIerys,  at  18th  January,  and  Colgan's  .4cia  "  Hoc  Monasterium  ohm  percelebre  temporis 

Sanctorum,  at  the  same  day.  His  name  is  entered  iuiuria  in  parochialem  cessit  ecclesiam  peramplo 

in  the  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'CIerys  thus  :  gaudentem  districtu  in  qua  festum  Sanctissimi 

"  Ninnib  ecippoj  ó  Imp  moije  parh  pop  i,oc  Nennij  celebratur  die  18,  vel  vt  alij  scribunt  16 


1521.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1351 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1521. 

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

The  Prior  of  Devenish  died,  Redmond,  son  of  the  Parson  of  Inis-Maighe- 
Samh',  a  clerical",  kind,  charitable,  and  humane  man. 

Mac  Mahon  died,  i.  e.  Redmond,  the  son  of  Glasny,  son  of  Redmond,  son 
of  Rury ;  and  his  son,  Glasny  Oge,  was  styled  the  Mac  Mahon. 

O'Kane,  i.  e.  Thomas,  the  son  of  Aibhne,  died.  He  had  before  this  time 
[of  his  death]  been  taken  prisoner,  and  forcibly  deprived  of  his  lordship  by 
Donough  O'Kane. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Brian  Maguire,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of 
Magauran,  namely,  Donnell  Oge,  son  of  Donnell  Bearnagh,  and  Owny,  the 
son  of  Manus  Magauran.  And  there  was  not  of  his  tribe  in  his  time  a  better 
man  than  this  Donough. 

Grainne,  daughter  of  Thomas  O'Eoghain,  and  mother  ol'  Maguire,  the 
Coarb,  a  woman  of  great  prosperity  and  wealth,  of  bounty  and  true  hospitality, 
died. 

Rury,  the  son  of  Egneghan  O'Donnell,  was  slain  at  Dun-Dealgan  [Dundalk], ' 
by  the  English,  wliile  he  was  in  company  with  O'Neill,  i.  e.  Con,  the  son  of 
Con. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Donough  Mac  Sweeny,  died. 

The  Lordship  of  Delvin  was  divided  (by  O'Melaghlin,  Torlogh,  and  O'Car- 
roU,  Mulrony)  between  Ferdoragh,  the  son  of  the  [last]  Mac  Coghlan  (Fineen 
Roe),  and  [his  relative]  Cormac. 

Celia,  the  daughter  of  Niall  Garv  O'Donnell,  died  on  the  14th  of  August. 

lanuarij  et  ibidem  in  magna  semper  veneratione  It  is  of  bronze,  of  a  quadrangular  form,   and 

habitum  est  usque  ad  nostros  dies  Cymbalum  wrought,  not  cast,  and  measures  five  inches  in 

quod  Cloc  Nennidh  .i.  Cymbalum  seu  campana  height,  four  inches  in  breadth  at  the  bottom, 

Nennij   appellatur,  auro  et  argento  coelatum  :  and  three  inches  at  the  top.  The  hill  of  Knock- 

per  quod  in  veritatis   asserenda;  sacramentum  ninny,  which   gives  name  to  a  barony  in  the 

illius  tractu  indigense  alijque  vicini  iurare  so-  south  of  the  county  of  Fermanagh,  is  said  by 

lent."— 4cte  ,96'.,  p.  114.  tradition  to  have   derived  its  name  from   this 

This  bell  is  still  preserved  in  the  Museum  at  saint. 
Castle  Caldwell,  in  the  county  of  Fermanagh.  ^Clerical  cléipcióe,  i. e.  clergyman-like. 


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1352  aNNQca  Tiio^hachca  eiReaHw.  [1522. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1522 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  cto,  fice,  aoó. 

l?eniann  jnmó  májuióip,  Pjiióip  \Cya  gabail  Décc. 

Coccaó  anbáil  ap  nOjije  enp  ua  riDomnniU,-]  ó  neill,  ÍTlac  niUiam  cloinne 
piocaijiD,  goilli  sao'óil  connacc,  Síol  mbjiiain,  Siól  ccfnneiccij"]  píol  ccfiibaill 
Do  Denam  comaonca  1  coinicfnsal  lé  hua  neill  i  na^^aiD  í  Domnaill  Docum  an 
coccaiD  pin,  Qciac  na  main  do  cfnjail  pé  poile  ag  cecr  ap  an  pluaig  aniap. 
Tílac  uilliam  clainne  piocaipD,  uillec  mac  uillic  an  píona,  -\  Dpong  Do  rhairib 
píl  mbpiain,  Oonnchaó,  "1  caócc,  clann  coippóealbais  mtc  caiócc  í  bpiain,  1 
an  reppcop  ócc  6  bpmm,  ó  cfpbaiU  ÍTlaolpuanaib  mac  Sfain,  -|  píol  ccein- 
neicci^,  1  ni  biacc  amóin  acc  na  Daoíne  pop  a  paibe  a  cíopcáin  do  connacc- 
aib,i  DO  bí  urhal  DÓ  50  pin,  ó  concobaip  puaó,  ó  concobaip  Donn,  TTlac  uilbam 
búpc,  ITlac  Diapmaca  maij^e  luipcc, "|  jac  a  mbaoí  fcoppa  pin  bi  cconnacraib. 
t)ácap  ]'iDe  uile  1  neplaime  Do  recc  ap  ua  nDorhnaill  -\  im  péil  muipe  pojmaip 
po  óólpac  p]ii  bua  néiU  bi  ccip  aoba. 

O  neiU  cpa  po  cionoilpióe  cenelneoccain  cérup,  clann  aenjupa,  oip^ialla, 
Raijillij,  pipmanac,-|  pecc  aóbal  albanac  pa  mac  mic  Domnaill,  alapcpann. 
■Canjacap  ann  beóp  plojbuiDne  lomoa  Do  gallaib  na  mióe,  -|  Do  gallocc- 
laecaib  cuicció  laijean  do  cloinn  nDorhnaill,"i  do  cloinn  cpirij  apbctiD  injine 
lapla  cille  Dapa  poba  maraip  Dua  neill. 

O  Domnaill  Dna  po  cionóilpióe  a  pocpaiDe  mbicc  nDeipb  Dilip  buDem  bi 
ccenél  conaill  .1.  ó  baijill,  ó  Docapcaij,  na  cpi  mic  puibne,-]  muincip  jallcu- 
baip  imo  mac  ÍHajnup  co  mbarcap  pop  an  bfipn  mbaojail  in  po  ba  D0Í5  leó 
6  neill  Dia  nionnpoicciD  .1.  pope  no  rrpi  namar,  o  po  clop  la  bua  neill  an  ní 

'    Combined  forces,    literally,    these  are  the  martial  affairs  than  became  his  episcopal  I'linc- 

chiefs  who  united  with  each  other  in  coming  on  tion. 

this  expedition  Jrom  the  west.  "  In  readiness,    1   nepluirhe. — See   the   year 

■^  The  young  Bishop  O'Brien. — He  was  Tur-  1587,  where  eplumab  is  used  in  the  sense  of 

lough,  Bishop  of  Killaloe,  who  succeeded  to  that  "  preparing  or  getting  ready." 

see  in  1482,  and  died  in  1525,  so  that  he  could  °  Th'e  Clann-Donnell  and  Clann- Sheekt/,  i.  e. 

not  have  been  very  young  at  this  period.  Ware  of  the  Mac  Donnells  and  Mac  Sheehys,  who 

says  that   he   was  a  prelate    of  great  account  were  Albanachs,   or  families   of  Scotch   origin, 

among  his  people  for  his  liberality  and  hospita-  and  now  employed  in  Leinster  and  various  other 

lity,  but  that  he  was  much  more  addicted  to  parts  of  Ireland  as  hireling  soldiers. 


1522.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1353 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1522. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  twenty-tiro. 

Redmond  Roe  Maguire,  Prior  of  LisTOol,  died. 

A  great  war  arose  between  O'Donnell  and  O'Neill.  Mac  William  of  Clan- 
rickard,  the  English  and  Irish  of  Connaught,  the  O'Briens,  the  O'Kennedys, 
and  the  O'Carrolls,  joined  and  leagued  with  O'Neill  against  O'Donnell  in  that 
war.  The  following  are  the  chiefs  who  came  from  the  west  with  their  com- 
bined forces'  on  this  expedition :  Mac  William  of  Clanrickard  ( Ulick,  the  son 
of  Ulick  of  the  Wine) ;  and  a  party  of  the  chiefs  of  the  O'Briens  [namely], 
Donough  and  Teige,  the  sons  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige  O'Brien ;  and  the 
young  Bishop  O'Brien" ;  O'Carroll  (MuLrony,  the  son  of  John),  and  the  O'Ken- 
nedys ;  and  not  they  alone,  but  such  of  the  Connacians  as  had  been  until  that 
time  under  his  tribute,  and  had  been  obedient  to  him  [O'Donnell],  namely, 
O'Conor  Roe,  O'Conor  Don,  Mac  William  Burke,  Mac  Dermot  of  Moyliu-g,  and 
all  that  were  amontrst  them  in  Connauorht.  All  these  forces  were  in  readiness" 
to  march  against  O'Donnell,  and  it  was  on  Lady-day  in  Harvest  they  appointed 
to  join  O'Neill  in  Tirhugh. 

O'Neill,  in  the  meantime,  assembled,  in  the  first  place,  the  forces  of  Kinel- 
Owen,  [then]  the  Clan-Aengusa  [Magennises],  the  Oriel,  the  Reillys,  the  people 
of  Fermanagh,  and  a  vast  number  of  Scots,  under  the  command  of  Alexander, 
the  son  of  Mac  Donnell.  Great  numbers  of  the  English  forces  of  Meath,  and 
the  gallowglasses  of  the  province  of  Leinster,  of  the  Clann-Donnell  and  Clann- 
Sheehy°,  also  came  thither,  from  their  attachment"  to  the  daughter  of  the  Earl 
of  Kildare,  who  was  O'Neill's  mother. 

O'Donnell  [on  the  other  hand]  assembled  his  own  small,  but  truly  faithful, 
forces  in  Kinel-Comiell,  namely,  O'Boyle,  O'Doherty,  the  three  Mac  Sweenys^ 
and  the  O'Gallaghers,  with  his  son  Manus,  at  Port-na-dtri-namhad",  a  perilous 

'■  Attachment,    búió. — This   word  is  still  in  '  The  three  Mac  Sweenys,   i.  e.  Mac  Sweeny 

common  use  in  the  sense  of  "'esteem,  affection,  Fanad,    Mac    Sweeny    na   d-Tuath,    and    Mac 

or  altuchment,"  arising  from  relationship,  alii-  Sweeny  Banagh.' 

ance,  or  identity  of  country.    It  is  distinguished  '  Port-na-dtri-namhad,  i.  e.   the  port   of  the 

from  5páD,  peapc,  and  cion,  which  express  love  three  enemies.     This  name  is  now  forgotten  in 

or  affection  of  a  more  intense  kind.  the  country,  but  the  position  of  Portnatrynod 


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]Mn  api  conai)!  oo  lui6  cpm  cenel  neoccain  jan  annuccab  50  ]iiacc  co  rfiimann 
nabeócc  aypioe  50  hac  pfnaij,  bai  mac  inic  puibne  rijie  bogctine,  bjiian  an 
coblaij  (l?o  pa^aib  ua  DomnaiU  ace  lomcoirheb  caipléin  beoil  ara  pfnaij) 
05  copnam  an  baile  ppi  hua  néill  amail  ap  ofc  pop  caorhnaccaip  apa  aoi 
cpa  po  gabab  a  baile  pa  Deóió  ló  liua  néill,  1  po  mapBaó  mac  mic  puiline 
Inip  CO  nDpiiing  móip  Dia  muincip,  l?o  mapboD  ann  ona  Oiap  ooLlarhtiaib 
1  oomnaill  .1.  oiapmaic  mac  camcc  caim  í  cléipij  paoí  pfncaba  ~\  pipóána,  pfp 
cije  aoiofo  coiccinn  t)o  rpenaib  ~\  do  rpua^aib,  i  mac  mic  an  baipo  (.1.  aoh 
mac  aeóa), -|  apaill  ele  cenmoráo  (.1.  an  11  lún).  Ro  jabaó "]  po  loipccean 
bun  Dpobaoipi  1  bél  leice  la  hua  neiU  Don  cup  pin.  Q5  póaó  Do  opeim  Oia 
plua^aib  6  bun  opoaaoipi,  Po  mapbaó  Puópaije  mac  goppaba  gnllDa  í 
Domnaill,"]  mac  mic  ceallai^  na  bpeipne  la  caoib  pjaipbe  innpi  an  ppaoi'c  leo. 

IQl?  no  cluinpin  oua  oomnaill  na  gnioma  pin  do  oenam  In  hua  neill  po 
popcongaip  po]i  majnup  ua  nooitinaill  co  nDpuinj  Dia  pluaij  Dol  do  cpeac- 
lopccat)  ripe  heo^ain,  "]  Do  DeachaiD  pfm  cap  bfpnup  gup  an  lion  capupcaip 
ina  pappaD  1  nDeabaiT^  1  neill  DmiDeagail  cipe  haoba.  Oála  TDajnupa  po 
cpeacloipcceaD  laipina  mbaoi  ina  corhpocpaib  Do  cenel  eoccain  l?n  mapbaic 
1  po  muDhai  jir  Daoine  loniDa  laip  beóp,  -|  poaip  50  ccopccnp. 

O  i?o  piDip  (')  neill  (ITIaj^nap  Do  Dol  hi  ccip  eoccain)  poaip  ina  ppicinj 
cap  pinn,  -]  po  nrll  an  ci'p  poirhe  j;o  cfnn  magaip, "]  do  bepc  cpeach  a  cionn 
majaip  laip,  -\  luib  co  ccopccap  oia  rip. 

is  shewn  on  Mercator's  Map  of  Ireland,  as  on  the  Eidneaoh,  now  the  River  Eany,  to  the  stream  of 

Tyrone  side  of  the  River  Finn,  ojiposite  LifFord. —  Dobliar,  which  floAVs  from  the  rugged  mountains. 

See  other  references  to  this  place  at  the  years  It  is  the  present  barony  of  Banagh,  in  the  west 

1524,  1526,  and  1583.    The  voluminous  Life  of  of  the  county  of  Donegal. 

St.  Columbkille,  now  preserved  in  the  Bodleian  "  Bundrozees.- — 6un  opoBooipe,  i.e.  the  mouth 

Library  at  Oxford,  was  compiled  in  the  castle  of  the  River  Drobhaois,  or  Drowes,  as  it  is  now 

of  Port-na-dtri-namhad,  in  the  year  1532,  under  written  in  English See  note  s,  under  the  year 

the   direction    of  Manus    O'Donnell. — See    the  1420,  p.  843,  stfpra. 

Stowe  Catalogue,  p.  397-  '  Beal-lice,  béul  lie,   translated  os  rupis  by 

'  Perilous  pass,  beapn  bao^jil,    i.  e.  a  gap  Philip  O'Sullevan   Beare  in  his  Histori/  of  the 

of  danger.  Catholics,  fol.  136.     The  name  is  now  anglicised 

'  Tir-Boghaine,  i.  e.  the  land  or  territory  of  Belleek,   and  is  that  of  a  village  on  the  River 

Enna  Boghaine,  the  second  son  of  Conall  Gulbau,  Erne,  in  the  barony  of  Lurg,  and  couuty  of 

the  progenitor  of  all  the  Kincl-Connell.     This  Fermanagh,  and  about  two  miles  to  the  east  of 

territory  is  described  in  the  Book  of  Fenagh,  Ballyshannon.     The  name  signifies  ford-mouth 

fol.   47,    a,   a,    as    extending    from    the    River  of  the  flag-stone,   and  the  place  was  so  called 


1522.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1355 

pass',  througli  which  he  supposed  O'Neill  would  make  his  onslaught  upon 
them.  When  O'Neill  heard  of  this  [position  of  the  enemy],  the  route  he  took 
was  through  Kinel-Owen  :  [and  he  marched]  unperceived  until  he  arrived  at 
Termon-Daveog,  and  from  thence  to  Ballyshannon.  The  son  of  Mac  Sweeny 
of  Tir-Boghaine'  (Brian  of  the  Fleet),  whom  O'Donnell  had  left  to  guard  the 
castle  of  Ballyshannon,  defended  the  town  against  O'Neill  as  well  as  he  was 
able  ;  it  was,  however,  at  length  taken  by  O'Neill,  and  the  son  of  Mac  Sweeny, 
with  a  great  number  of  his  people,  was  slain  by  him.  There  were  also  slain 
there  two  of  O'Donnell's  ollaves,  namely,  Dermot,  the  soil  of  Teige  Cam  O'Clery, 
a  learned  historian  and  poet,  a  man  who  kept  an  open  house  of  general  liospi- 
pitality  for  the  mighty  and  the  indigent,  and  the  son  of  Mac  Ward  (Hugh,  the 
son  of  Hugh),  with  several  others  besides  these.  This  was  on  the  11th  day  of 
June.  Bundrowes"  and  Beal-lice'  were  also  taken,  and  burned  by  O'Neill  on 
this  occasion.  On  his  return  from  Bundrowes,  a  party  of  his  forces  slew  Rory, 
son  of  Godfrey,  who  was  son  of  Hugh  Gallda  O'Donnell,  and  the  son  of  Mac 
Kelly  of  Breifny,  near  Sgairbh-innsi-an-fhraoich". 

When  O'Donnell  heard  that  O'Neill  had  done  these  deeds,  he  ordered  his 
son,  Manus  O'Donnell,  to  proceed  into  Tyrone  with  a  detachment  of  his  army, 
and  to  plunder  and  burn  that  country  ;  and  he  himself,  with  the  number  of 
forces  he  had  kept  with  him,  directed  his  course  over  Bearnas",  in  pursuit  of 
O'Neill,  and  to  defend  Tirhugh.  As  to  Manus,  he  plundered  and  burned  all 
the  neighbouring  parts  of  Kinel-Owen  ;  he  also  slew  and  destroyed  many  per- 
sons, and  [then]  returned  in  triumph. 

When  O'Neill  discovered  that  Manus  had  gone  into  TjTone,  he  returned 
across  the  [River]  Finn,  and  spoiled  the  country  before  him  as  far  as  Ceann- 
Maghair^  from  whence  he  carried  oifa  prey;  and  he  then  proceeded  in  triumph 
to  his  own  country. 

I'rom  the  flat-surfaced  rock  in  the  ford,  which,  "  Bearnas,   i.  e.   the    gap  of  Barnismore,   in 

when  the  water  decreases  in  summer,  appears  the  barony  of  Tirhugh,  and  county  of  Donegal. 

as  level  as  a  marble  floor.  The    road   from   Donegal  to   Stranorlar  passes 

™  Sgairbk-innsi-an-fhraoich,  i.  e.  the  scarriff,  through  this  gap. 

or  shallow  ford  of  the  island  of  the  heath.    This  '  Ceann-Maghair,  now  Kinnaweer,  a  district 

name  is  unknown  to  the  Editor.    Inis-fraoich  is  in  the  north  of  the  parish  and  barony  of  Kil- 

the  name  of  an  island  in  Lough  Gill,  in    the  macrenan,   and  county  of  Donegal.— See  note 

county  of  Sligo.  under  the  year  1392,  p.  725,  supra. 

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T?o  jabaó  laparh  longpopr  lá  liua  néill  05  cnoc  buiób  aj  loc  monann 
(f]vy  a  paireap  o  ccoircinne  cnoc  an  boja)  -^uy  an  pocpame  pérhpaice  cén 
mocá  an  i^óg  an  ap  arhail  petnebeprmap. 

Imruy^a  í  borhnaill  po  pai  z:a]\  bTpnu]'  mp  porcain  majniipa  50  nétmlaib 
lomba  Dia  fai^ió  ó  na  cappaió  ua  neill  05  af  i^fnaijh  -]  o  ná  pucc  paip  lop 
nDenam  cpeice  cinne  majaip,  po  Ifipcfjlamaó  lai)'  an  conpanajoip  00  poc- 
paioe  gep  bó  huacab  ppi  hiolap  oópoíh  an  can  pin  50  pan^arap  50  liaon 
inaijin  co  opmmlijfn.  Ro  pgpiiDpac  a  ccoitiaiple  t>np  cm  00  Dénoaoíp  nn  na 
oeacpaib  Dicuirhjib  bai  pop  cmo  oóib  uaip  po  pfoacap  no  biaó  a  nacitiaoin 
10  hua  néll  conu  plua j "]  lap  an  pluaj  cconnaccac  po  DÓil  cuca  Dia  ccip  oia 
poipeab  leo  poccain  a  cceann  apoile  conab  1  comaiple  appicc  leó  inojxiicchib 
1  neill  ap  ape  bet  neapa  Dóib  uaip  poba  lainne  leo  a  mubucchab  Do  riiaijin 
oloap  a  mbiorpognarh  Do  neoc  ipin  inbir.  Ctp  paip  ofipib  leo  (o  po  báccap 
pop  lion  ploij  ma  naccham)  amup  longpuipc  no  rabaipc  tpin  aohaib  pop 
iia  néill.  l?ainic  pabab  -]  pGrhpiop  na  corfiaiple  pm  50  hua  neiU  50  po  la 
popaipfba  ppi  popcoiTtieo  jac  conaipe  map  Dóij  leó  cenél  cconaill  do  poc- 
ram  Dia  paiccib,"]  bai  pfin  cona  pló;cj  h\  ccafaip  lap  na  ccfilaib  ma  lonjpopc. 

lap  nmoeall,  1  ia]i  noiiDuccab,  lap  nspepacc  -\  lap  ngéplaoibfb  a  bfcc  plóicc 
Diia  DorhnaiU,  Ro  popconjaip  poppa  a  neacpa  Dpágbóil,  ap  ni  bai  mrnmajic 
aca  a  lacaip  lombuailre  Diom  jabail  munbab  pfinpabá  paén.  l?o  apccnaccap 
cpá  an  cucc  pin  co  po  Dailpior  In  ccfnD  locca  m  popcoimecca  gan  aipinccab 
oóib,   ap  a  aoi  rprt  po  ^abpac  a  luce  pfirriie  ajá  eppiiaccpa  nm  ininiinp  co 

'  Ciioc-Buidkbh,  anciently  proiiouaced  Knock-  which  nienioranduiii  was  evidently  written  im- 

Boov,    and    now   Knockavoe.     It   received    its  mediately  after  this  period,  this  battle  is  Called 

name  from  Budhbh,  or  Boov  dearg,  a  chieftain  iTlaiom  <',oca  ITlonann,  i.  e.  the  Breach  of  Lougli 

of  the  Tuatha  de  Danann  Colony,   from  whom  Monann. 

several  celebrated  fairy  hills  in    Ireland  were  "Zírwí'wí-Xi^^Aea»,  now  Drumleene,  a  townlaud 

ealled. — See  Genea/ogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  nf  in  the  parish  of  Clonleigh,  barony  of  Eaphoe, 

Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  410.     This  hill  is  now  called  and  county  of  Donegal,  a  short  distance  to  the 

cnoc  a  boja,  anglice  Knockavoe,  and  is  a  very  north  of  the  town  of  Liftbrd. — See  this  place 

lofty  one  situated  over  the  town  of  Strabane,  on  mentioned  in  Keating's  Histori/  of  Ireland,  Ha- 

the  boundary  of  the  parish  of  Leckpatrick. —  liday's  edition,  p.  266,  and  again  in  these  An- 

See  the  year  1600.  nals,  at  the  years  1524  and  1583. 

"  Lorh  Monann. — This  was  the    name    of  a  "^  To  become  slaves,  literally,  "  for  it  was  more 

lough  near  the  foot  of  Knockavoe.     In  a  memo-  pleasing  to  them  their  lieing  slaughtered"  [i.,e. 

randum  in  the  Book  of  Ballymote,  fol.  180,  col.  a,  that  they  should  be  slaughter<!il]  "  by  field  tlian 


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1522.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1357 

O'Neill  afterwards  pitched  his  camp  at  Cnoc  Buidhbh%  at  Loch  Monann\ 
commonly  called  Cnoc  an  Bhogha,  with  all  the  forces  before  mentioned,  except 
the  western  army,  as  we  have  said  before. 

As  to  O'Doimell,  after  -his  son  Manus  had  reached  him  with  many  spoils, 
as  he  had  not  caught  O'Neill  at  Ballysliannon,  and  as  he  had  not  overtaken  him 
after  the  plundering  of  Ceann-Maghair,  he  returned  across  Bearnas,  and  mustered 
all  the  forces  he  had,  though  they  were  few  against  many  at  that  time,  and  they 
all  came  to  one  place  to  Druim-Lighean''.  They  held  council  to  consider  what 
they  should  do  in  tlie  strait  difficulties  they  had  to  meet,  for  they  knew  that 
they  would  not  be  at  all  able  to  maintain  a  contest  with  O'Neill  and  his  army, 
and  with  the  Connacian  army,  which  was  then  marching  towards  their  country, 
should  they  succeed  in  joining  each  other  [before  the  engagement]  ;  so  that  the 
resolution  they  adopted  was  to  attack  O'Neill,  as  he  was  the  nearest  to  them, 
choosing  rather  to  be  slain  on  the  field  than  to  become  slaves"  to  an;^  one  in  llie 
world.  They  agreed  (as  the  army  opposed  to  them  were  so  very  numerous)  to 
attack  O'Neill's  by  night.  A  notice  and  forewarning  of  this  resolution  reached 
O'Neill,  so  that  he  placed  sentinels  to  guard  every  pass  by  which  he  thought 
the  Kinel-Connell  might  come  to  attack  him,  while  he  himself,  with  [the  main 
body  of]  his  army,  remained  on  the  watch''  at  the  rere  in  his  camp. 

O'Donnell,  having  arrayed  and  marshalled,  excited  and  earnestly  exhorted 
his  small  army,  commanded  them  to  abandon  their  horses,  for  they  had  no 
desire'  to  escape  from  the  field*^  of  battle  unless  they  should  be  the  victors^. 
They  [his  forces]  then  advanced  until  they  came  up  to  the  sentinels  [of 
O'Neill]  Avithout  being  perceived  by  them.     However,   the  sentinels  began  to 

their  constant   servitude  to  any  person  in  the  means  to  avoid  or  shun.   It  is  thus  explained  by 

world."  Michael  O'Clery :    lomjaBáil   .1.   pecicna.    Ro 

''  On  the  watch,  I11  ccaraii\    The  word  caécnp  lomjaib  .1.  do  feacuin. — See  also  Battle  o/Maqh 

is  explained  pciipe  no  puipeacpup,  i.e.  "watch-  Rath,  p.  202,  line  3.     The  meaning  is,   that  if 

iug,    or  awaiting,"   by  Michael   O'Clery  in  his  they  should  not  defeat  the  enemy  they  did  not 

(jlossary  of  ancient  Irish  words.  wish  to  have  horses  at  hand  to  fly.    This  despe- 

'  Desire,  mfnmapc — This  word  is  not  in  the  ration  secured  them  the  victory, 
published  Dictionaries,  but  is  explained  pmuui-  z    Unless  they  should  he  the  victors,    niiiriBaó 

neoD,    i.  e.    thought,    in    the    Book    of   Leciin,  iifmpa  ba  paén,  literally,    ■"  unless   the  derout 

fol.  165,  b.  should  be  before  them,"  i.  e.  unless  they  should 

^    To   escape  from   the  fieUI,    u   luruip    lom-  make  the  enemy  retreat  before  them.   This  idiom 

liuuilre     oiomjubúil.      The    word    lomjaBáil  is  of  very  constant  occurrence  in  these  Annals. 


1358  aNNa(',a  Rio^haóhca  eiReanN.  [1522. 

mbácap  a  mbionbaóa  oia  poijib.  Oo  cnra|i  cpá  ceriél  cconcull  ap  a  ninDeall 
la  a  ófine  -]  lá  a  Diojaipe  po  cin5pfc  ap  a  uariian  leó  na  popcoiniéoaise  do 
poccain  pfmpa  do  y^aijio  í  néill  gnp  bó  a  naoínpecc  pangaccap  an  lon^popr. 
T?olái]^fc  gáipe  mopo  óy  áipD  ace  poccoin  hi  ccfnn  apoile  Dnib.  Nip  bo  meipb 
]io  ppeaccpaD  an  conjaip  pin  la  hanpabaib  1  néill  ap  po  gabpac  co  calma 
copancac  ace  imDiDfn  a  pplara"]  a  bpoplonjpuipc.  baoi  on  pluaj  cfccapóa 
ace  commbualao  "|  ace  comnnapbaD  apoile.  l?o  bacaji  cpeóin  accá  rrpao- 
rliaD,  -|  laoic  aja  Ifopao  Do  cfcrap  an  Da  Ifice.  6ácap  pip  ago  ppobbab, 
maccab  "|  mibiac  pop  meapjappaib  ipin  maijin  pin.  QS  punill  ma  po  pfp  la 
cfcrapna  aca  cib  ppip  a  ppfpab  a  corhlann  ap  nip  bo  poppeil  Dóib  ai^re 
apoile  la  Doipce  na  hoibce  -|  ap  a  blúire  po  báccap  hi  cupeenmapc  apoile.  r?o 
paoineab  cpa  po  beóib  ap  ua  néill  cona  plój  -\  po  páccbab  an  poplongpopc 
ag  ua  nDorhnaill.  6á  habbal  rpa  an  cap  ciiccab  ap  ua  neill  ipin  laraip  pin, 
ap  po  háipmfb  lá  luchc  na  ceeall  in  po  habnaicic  Dponga  bib,."]  lap  na  coib- 
nfpaib  báccap  hi  ecorhpocpaib  Dóib  cuilleab  ap  naoi  ccéD  Do  ruicim  Do  poc- 
paiDe  Í  neill  ipin  maioni  pin,  50  po  Ifir  ainm,  ~\  aipoepcup  an  mabma  pin  po 
epinn  uile.  bacap  laD  bá  hoipnfpca  copcaip  ipin  maibin  pin,  Doriinall  óee  mac 
Dorhnaill  50  nDpuing  Dipiiti  00  gallócclacaib  cloinne  Domnaill,  Uoippbealbae 
mac  PÍC15  CO  pocaibe  moip  Dia  itiuincip,  Góin  bipéo  co  nupmóp  na  nalbanac 
ráinicc  laip,  aob  mac  eoccain  mic  uilliam  mécc  mctcgcdiinn  co  nDpeim  Dia 
muincip,  r?uaibpi  maguiDip  1  apaill  Dia  muincip  amaille  ppip.  Uopcpaccap 
ann  beóp  ile  Do  laijneacaib  "|  Dpepaib  TTIibe  ap  ni  ráinicc  cCnn  plóig  na  poc- 
aibe Ó  bfcc  CO  mop  ipin  cionól  pin  í  néill  nop  bó  heccaoíncec  lao  Diap  pacc- 
atbpfc  Dia  mumcip  ipin  maigin  pin  cona  do  na  hápaib  Daoíne  ap  mó  cuecaD 
ecip  conallcoib  1  engancaib  an  maibm  pin  cnuic  buibb.  UapcaDap  cpá  cenel 
cconaill  eic,  aipm,-]  eoeab,  Ion  bib,"]  biocáille,"]  peóiD  porhaipeaca  painfmla 

''   The  sentinels,    na   poipcoimé&ai^e. — This  r/estinj/,  or  bad  end. 

term  is  ti-anslated  "  advanced  guards"  in  a  copy  '  The//  cotdd  not  discern   oiie  another^s  faces, 

of  these  Annals  made  for  the  Chevalier  O'Gor-  literally,  "  for  not  visible  to  them  were  the  faces 

man,  and  now  preserved  in  the  Library  of  the  of  each  other  for  the  darkness  of  the  night,  and 

Royal  Irish  Academy.  for  the  closeness  in  which  they  were  in  the  in- 

'  Death,  "  madcao  .1.  mapBao." — O'Clery.  termixture  of  each  other." 

^  Evil  destiny,  mibiac.    Diac,  "  fate,  destiny,  ^  The  camp  was  left  to  O'Donnell. — An  English 

end." — O'ReiUy.     iTlioiac  is  used   in   the  best  writer  would  say,   "  O'Donnell  was  left  master 

Irish   manuscripts  in  the  sense  of  ill  fate,  evil  of  the  camp." 


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1522.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1359 

give  notice  to  tlieii-  people  that  their  enemies  were  approaching.  The  Kinel- 
Connell  now,  fearing  that  the  sentinels"  would  reach  O'Neill  before  them, 
rushed  onwards  with  such  violence  and  vehemence  that  they  went  out  of 
array;  and  they  [and  the  sentinels]  reached  the  camp  together.  On  thus 
coming  into  collision  with  one  another  they  raised  great  shouts'  aloud,  and 
their  clamour  was  not  feebly  responded  to  by  O'Neill's  common  soldiers,  for 
they  proceeded  bravely  and  protectively  to  defend  their  chief  and  their  camp. 
Both  armies  were  [engaged]  at  striking  and  killing  each  other,  and  mighty 
men  were  subdued,  and  heroes  hacked,  on  either  side ;  men  were  hewn  down, 
and  death'  and  evil  destiny"  seized  vigorous  youths  in  that  place.  Scarcely 
did  any  one  of  them  on  either  side  know  with  whom  he  should  engage  in 
combat,  for  they  could  not  discern  one  another's  faces'  on  account  of  the  dark- 
ness of  the  night,  and  their  close  intermixing  with  each  other.  At  last,  how- 
ever, O'Neill  and  his  army  were  defeated,  and  the  camp  Avas  left  to  O'Donnell"". 
Great"  indeed  was  the  slaughter  made  upon  O'Neill  [recte,  O'Neill's  forces]  on 
that  spot,  for  it  was  calculated  by  the  people  of  the  churches  in  which  many 
of  them  were  interred,  and  by  those  of  the  neighbours  who  were  near  them 
[and  recognized  the  bodies],  that  upwards  of  nine  hundretl  of  O'Neill's  army 
fell  in  that  engagement,  so  that  the  name  and  renown  of  that  victory  spread 
all  over  Ireland.  The  most  distinguished  men  who  fell  in  that  engagement 
were  [the  following]  :  Donnell  Oge  Mac  Donnell,  with  a  countless  number  of 
gallowglasses  of  the  Clann-Donnell  [Mac  Donnell]  ;  Turlough  Mac  Sheeliy, 
with  a  great  number  of  his  people  ;  John  Bissett,  with  the  greater  part  of  the 
Scots  who  had  come  with  him ;  Hugh,  the  son  of  Owen,  son  of  William  Mac 
Mahon,  with  a  party  of  his  troops  ;  and  Rory  Maguire,  and  some  of  his  people 
along  with  him.  There  fell  there  also  many  of  the  Lagenians  and  of  the  men 
of  Meath,  for  there  came  not  a  leader  of  a  band  or  troop,  small  or  great,  in 
that  muster  of  O'Neill,  who  did  not  complain  of  the  number  of  his  people  that 
were  left  [dead]  on  that  field ;  so  that  this  battle  of  Cnoc  Buidhbh  was  one  of 
the  most  bloody  engagements'  that  had  ever  occiu'red  between  the  liinel- 
Connell  and  the  Kinel-Owen.     The  Kinel-Connel  seized  upon  hor.ses,  arms, 

"  Great,  "  aobal  .1.  mop." — O'C/eiy.  It  means      [or  among]  the  greatest  slaughter.s  of  men  made 
simply  great,  or  immense  between  the  Connellians  and  (hvenians  was  tliis 

"  Blood  I/  engagement!!,   literally,   -'so   that  of      defeat  of  Cnoc-Buidhbh." 


1360  aNNW.a  Rio^hachca  emeawN  [1522 

eri]i  cpccpaib  -]  blfiofohaib  na  plo^  FTP  V'  ITaoineab  leó  -|  ^é  po  Barcap 
mutncip  1  óorhraill  jan  eoca  ace  Dol  ipn  ccafiojijail  baccaji  eic  lomóa  leó 
on  piallac  po  nijib^pfc  ipn  ó]irhac  ipn.  Oo  cooap  apaill  00  ^-'lojaib  ui  óorii- 
naill  In  a  néoalaib  r>ia  rciccib  jan  comaiplfccan  do,  Qpa  noi  rpn  po  pmacr 
pom  poppa  roibecr  ina  óocom  pó  céDoip,-]  po  apcna  arhail  op  oéine  conpain- 
icc  (lap  na  rcojaipm  co  liaon  baile)  rap  bfpnnp  mop  piap  cap  eipne,  rap 
npobaoip,  cap  Duib,  cpé  loccap  caipppi  50  po  gab  poplongpopc  a  ccfcparhain 
na  matiaó  Don  caofb  uimm  00  bOnD  j^ulban,  nap  cangaccap  an  pluacc  con- 
naccac  oo  páiDpfm  50  mbacap  1  niompuióe  im  plicceac  bail  i  mbáccap  báp- 
íiana  í  nomnaill  ap  ní  baí  aipipfmh  poppa  jan  reacc  co  cíp  conaill  acr  co 
ngabDaoíp  an  bade.  Ctn  can  ac  cualacap  an  oá  mac  uilliam,  an  Da  ua  con- 
cobaip  mac  Diapmaca,  clano  í  bpiain,  ó  cfpbaill  "j  piól  ccfinneicci  j  cona 
plóccaib  ua  Domnaill  do  jabóil  poplongpuipc  1  niompoccup  Dóib,"]  an  maióm 
pin  Do  ppaoíneaó  laip  ap  ua  néill  ap  í  corhaiple  po  cmnpfr  ceacca  Do  cop 
iiaca  Daplac  píoba  ap  ua  nDomnaiU,  -]  do  paipccpfc  Do  peib  acbepaó  iTlajnup 
n  Dorhnoill -|  ó  cfpbaillerip  iia  nDorhnaill  1  mac  uilbam  im  jac  caingin  -)  im 
l^ac  ní  baí  froppa.  bacap  laD  po  poiófD  ppip  na  copccaib  pin,  UaDcc  mac 
coippóealbaig  í  b^iiain,  co  nnajoaoinib  ele  amaille  ppip.  IN  aipfc  cpa 
bacap  na  reacca  acc  aipnfip  a  nairipcc  Dua  Dorhnaill  api  comaiple  do  pón- 
pac  maife  na  plój  pin  cona  plójaib  elub  jan  piop  ón  lompuibe  hi  pabacap, 
1  po  cinnpfc  pop  an  ccomaiple  hi  pm  gép  bó  hionjnab"]  gép  bó  Deacaip  lonn- 
parhail  an  cplóicc  baoí  annpin  ap  líonmaipe  a  lépnonóil  ap  uaiple  a  naipeac, 
-|  ap  aibble  a  neccpaic  ppip  an  rí  baoí  pop  a  ccionc  Do  pÓD  pón  parhail  pin 
co  po  airfb  "]  co  po  Diojlan  các  Díob  a  amnmne  pop  apoile.  Ní  po  hanab "]  ní 
po  haipipeab  lap  na  plóccaib  pin  ppi  a  cceccaibh  ná  ppi  hiomluab  nainpcc 
píoba  no  caoíncompaic  co  puaccacap  coipppliab  gup  bóhann  pcappar  cijeap- 
naba  "]  caoipij  na  ploj  pin  pé  poile. 

P  Eiscras. — It  appears  from   Cormac's  Glos-  '  Ceathramha-na-madadh,  i.  e,  the  quarter  of 

sary,  in  voce  Gppcop  pina,  that  epcpa  was  a  the  dogs,  now  Carrownamaddoo,  a  townlund  in 

brazen  vessel  for  measuring  wine.  the  parish  of  Ahamlish,   near  the  mountain  of 

">  Goblets. — 6leió  is  explained  "  a  drinking  Binn  Golban,  now  Binbulbin,  barony  of  Car- 
cup,  a  goblet,"  by  O'Brien,  in  his  Irish  Die-  bury,  and  county  of  Sligo.  — See  Genealoffies, 
tionary,  which  is  correct.  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrack,  pp.  480, 

'  Warriors. — "  piallac  .1.  pianlaoc,  no  poi-  483,  and  the  map  to  the  same  work,  on  which 

petiiin  laoc  no  jaip^eaóac." — O'Clery.  the  exact  position  of  this  townland  is  shewn  — 


1522.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1361 

armour,  a  store  of  provisions,  strong  liquors,  and  several  beautiful  and  rich 
articles,  both  eiscras"  and  goblets'",  of  the  forces  vi^hom  they  had  defeated  ;  and 
though  O'Donnell's  people  were  without  horses  on  going  into  the  engagement, 
they  had  many  horses  from  the  warriors'  whom  they  had  cut  off  in  that  slauoh- 
ter.  Some  of  O'Donnell's  forces  went  to  their  houses  with  their  [share  of  the] 
spoils,  without  his  permission,  but  he  sent  them  a  peremptory  order  to  return 
to  him  at  once  ;  and  after  they  had  collected  to  one  place  at  his  summons,  he 
marched,  with  all  the  speed  that  might  be,  westwards,  through  [the  gap  of] 
Bearnas  Mor,  over  the  [Rivers]  Erne,  Drowes,  and  DuíF,  and  over  the  lower 
part  of  Carbury,  and  pitched  his  camp  at  Ceathramha-na-madadh',  on  the  north 
side  of  Binn-Golban,  because  the  Connacian  army,  of  which  we  have  [already] 
spoken,  had  advanced  to  Sligo,  and  were  laying  siege  to  that  town,  in  which 
O'Donnell  had  placed  warders  ;  and  nothing  delayed  their  march  to  Tirconnell 
but  the  taking  of  the  town.  When  the  two  Mac  Williams,  the  two  O'Couors, 
Mac  Dermot,  the  O'Briens,  O'Carroll,  and  the  O'Kennedys,  with  their  forces, 
heard  of  O'Donnell's  having  encamped  in  their  vicinity,  and  of  that  victory 
which  he  had  gained  over  O'Neill,  they  resolved  to  dispatch  messengers  to  sue 
for  peace  from  him  ;  and  they  offered  to  him  to  leave  all  the  covenants  and 
matters  in  dispute  between  O'Donnell  and  Mac  William  to  the  arbitration'  of 
Manus  O'Donnell  and  O'Carroll.  Teige,  the  son  of  Turlough  O'Brien,  with 
other  chiefs,  were  sent  with  these  proposals.  While  the  messengers  were  deli- 
vering their  embassy  to  O'Donnell,  the  chiefs  of  the  army,  together  with  all 
their  forces,  came  to  the  resolution  of  raising  the  siege  and  retreating  privately  ; 
and  thev  acted  on  this  resolution,  though  it  was  strange  and  wonderful  that 

■J  'DO 

such  an  army  as  was  there — so  numerous,  so  complete,  with  leaders  so  noble, 
and  with  enmity  so  intense  against  the  persons  opposed  to  them — should  have 
retreated  in  this  manner,  [and  should  not  have  waited]  until  each  party  had 
expended  its  fury,  and  wreaked  its  vengeance  on  the  other.  These  troops  did 
not  halt  or  wait  for  [the  return  of]  their  messengers,  or  the  report  of  their 
embassy  as  to  peace  and  tranquillity,  until  they  reached  the  Curlieu  mountains, 
where  the  lords  and  chieftains  of  the  army  separated  from  one  another. 

See  also  note  ",   under  the  year  1 309,  p-  493,      as  follows  :   "  And  they  offered  to  him  as  [i.  e. 

supra.  such  terms  as]  Manus  O'Donnell  and  O'Carroll 

'  To  the  arbitration. — The  literal  translation  is      should  say  [pronounce]  between  O'Donnell  and 

8   L 


1362  aNNQf-a  Rioshachca  eiReawN.  [1523. 

O  Dorhnmll  iiiioji]io  tn  picip  pbe  na  ]'>lóicc  do  óol  uaba  pón  lonnup  fin,  ap 
oia  ppfpaó  no  biab  ina  lupc  orhail  aj^  oéine  conicpob.  Ro  cuiji  cpa  ma^nup 
Ó  Domnaill  loólacaó  lap  na  reaccaib  .i.  la  rabcc  mac  coipjiDealbaij  í  bpiaiti 
conió  ace  copiipliab  puce  pop  a  rhumnp.  Qp  puaill  ma  po  bá  mó  00  clú  no 
00  copccap  nua  Domnaill  ap  piio  epeann  an  maibm  pm  cnuic  butbb  in  po 
papccbab  ap  Daoine,  -)  éoála  amble,  iná  an  bctnmaibm  pin  cen  50  po  puilij- 
eaoh  no  50  po  popbeapecab  pop  neac  fcoppa. 

Oomnall  (.1.  Domnall  cleipeac)  mac  Sfain  ui  cacain  Saop  macaorh  acinib 
pfin,  1  peap  einij  coiccinn  do  rhapbab  lap  an  pijca. 

Oorhnall  mac  Domnaill  iii  l?uaipc  paoi  ap  iiaiple  1  ap  oipbfpc  D»  mapbab 
10  cloinn  peiblimm  ui  puaipc. 

rriaij^iprip  peilim  ó  copcpáin  paoí  Deappccaijce  1  noliccfb  cánonca  oécc. 

aOlS  CPIOSU,  1523. 
QoiS  CRioSr,  niile,  cúicc  céD,  piche,  orpí. 

Sfan  Ó  maonai^  baí  na  pfpj'ún  1  njéipill,-]  na  cananac  copab  hi  cill  Dapa, 
an  raon  eleipeac  bá  mó  ainm  -]  oipoeapcap  Do  baoí  i  nuaccap  laijean  Do  écc. 

O  eacóin  Donnchab  mac  Sfain  ceanD  Dam  ~\  Deópob  bá  pípp  ina  aimpip 
Dia  cinib  pfin  Do  écc. 

O  mópba  céDac  mac  laoijpicc  Décc. 

rnáipe  mjfn  1  rhaille  bfn  mic  puibne  pónar  an  aoinbfn  conpapail  bá  pfpp 
ina  haimpip  Décc. 

O  maille  copbmac  mac  eoccain  péicrrii  coiccfnn  ap  fngnaih  -]  ap  eineoc 
oécc. 

mac  ci^fpnain  ptpjal  mac  giolla  íopa  óicc,  mic  jiolla  íopa,  mic  bpiain 

Mac  William,  respecting   every   covenant  and  which  means  wMfe  martyrdom,  i.  e.  bloodless 

respecting  every  thing  that  was  between  them."  martyrdom. 

"Bloodless  defeat,  bán-maióm,  literally,  w/iite  '  Donnell  Cleireacli,  i.  e.  Donnell  the  Clergy- 

defeat.    The  word  ban,  when  thus  compounded,  man,  so  called  probably  from  his  having  been 

has  a  kind  of  negative  meaning,  as  in  ban  map-  educated  for  the  Church.  His  castle  was  situated 

cpao  (used  in  the  very  ancient  manuscript  at  near  the  old  abbey-church  of  Dungiven,  in  the 

C^arabray,  an  extract  from  which  has  been  given  barony  of  Keenaght,  and  county  of  Londonderry, 

by  Mr.  Purten  Cooper,  so  well  read  by  Pertz),  where  some  of  his  descendants  are  still  e.xtant. 


1523.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1363 

O'DonncU,  however,  did  not  know  that  these  hosts  had  fled  from  him  after 
this  manner,  for  had  he  known  it  he  would  have  pursued  them  with  all  pos- 
sible speed.  Manus  O'Donnell  sent  an  escort  with  the  messengers,  i.  e.  with 
Teige  O'Brien  [and  his  associates],  and  it  was  at  the  Curlieu  mountains  he 
overtook  his  people.  Scarcely  did  the  defeat  of  Cnoc-Buidhbh,  in  which  many 
men  had  been  slaughtered  and  vast  spoils  obtained,  procure  greater  renown  or 
victory  for  O'Donnell  throughout  Ireland  than  this  bloodless  defeat",  although 
no  one  among  them  had  lost  a  drop  of  blood- or  received  a  single  wound. 

Donnell  [i.  e.  Donnell  Cleireach"] ,  the  son  of  John  O'Kane,  the  paragon  of 
the  youth  of  his  tribe,  and  a  man  of  general  hospitality,  was  slain  by  the 
[people  of]  the  Route". 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Rourke,  distinguished  for  his  nobleness  and 
great  deeds,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Felim  O'Rourke.     * 

Master  Felim  O'Corcran,  a  learned  doctor  of  the  canon  law,  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1523. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  twenty-three. 

John  O'lVIaenaigh",  who  was  parson  of  Geshill,  and  a  canon  chorister  at 
Kildare,  a  clergyman  of  the  greatest  name  and  renown  in  the  upper  part  of 
Lemster,  died. 

O'Kane  (Donough,  the  son  of  John),  the  best  patron  of  his  own  tribe,  in 
his  time,  of  the  learned  and  the  distressed,  died. 

O'More  (Kedagh,  the  son  of  Laoighseach),  died. 

Mary,  the  daughter  of  O'Malley,  and  wife  of  Mac  Sweeny  Fanad,  the  best 
wife  of  a  constable  in  her  time,  died. 

O'Malley  (Cormac,  the  son  of  Owen),  a  general  supporter  for  his  prowess 
and  hospitality,  died. 

Mac  Tiernan  (Farrell,  the  son  of  Gilla-Isa  Oge,  son  of  Gilla-Isa,  son  of 

It  stood  on  the  brink  of  a  remarkable  precipice  the  Mac  Quillins,  an  Irish  family  of  Welsh 
over  the  Eiver  Roe,  but  its  foundations  are  now  origin.  The  Mac  Donnells  had  not  as  yet  in- 
scarcely  discernible.  vaded  this  territory. 

"  The  Route,  a  territory  in  the  north  of  the  ^   G'Maenaigh,    now    anglicised    Mooney,    in 

county  of  Antrim,  inhabited  at  this  period  by     Heath  and  in  the  King's  County. 

8  l2 


1364  aHMQi^a  Rio^hachca  eiT?eaMN.  [1523. 

rijeapna  ceallaij;  Dúncaóa  pea|i  Depcac  oaonriaccac  Decc,  -]  a  óeapbpachaiii 
DO  ^abail  a  lonaib. 

6Rian  mac  caincc  an  comaio,  mic  coippbealbai^  mic  bjnain  cara  an 
aonaij  opa^riil  bái]'  obainn  hi  ccluain  paiTipoDa  pó  péil  paccpaicc. 

TTlac  111  bpiain  cuanmurhati  .1.  rancc  mac  roipnealbaijij,  mic  caibcc,  mic 
coippDelbai^  mic  bpiain  cam  an  aonaij  do  mapbaó  Dupcop  do  peilep  i  nar 
an  camaip  j^op  piúip  lá  buicilepacaib  (.1.  lap  an  lupcip  piapup  puaó  buicilép) 
pfp  a  aopa  pep  mo  eaccla  a  fpccapac  an  cabg  pin. 

TTlac  gille  fain  loclainn  do  mapbab. 

TTlac  conmibe  TTlaoileaclainn  Decc. 

Qon  buibe  mac  cuinn  mic  neill  mic  aipc  1  neill  do  mapbao  lei  RuaiDpi 
cappac  mac  copbmaic  mic  aoba. 

Gojan  mac  peiliitl  mic  Donnchaib  mic  cijCpnáin  óicc  í  puaipc  Do  bacaoh 
ap  loc  glinDe  éoa. 

r?opa  mac  r?uaibpi,  mic  bpiam  mic  peilim  méguibip  npajoil  bóip  1  mbpaij- 
Deannp  ace  an  ccoinapba  majuiDip  .i.  cúconnachc. 

Qon  mac  aipc  1  cuarail  pfp  a  aoipi  bo  mo  cUi  einij  -]  uaiple  do  pine  Do 
majibab  la  bpanacaib. 

Coccab  ecip  ó  neill  .1.  conn,  -j  ó  Domnaill  aob  [oub]  mac  Qoba  puaib. 
O  Domnaill  Do  bfic  hi  ppoplongpopn  pé  hfb  an  eappaij  1  njlionn  pinne,  "| 
TTlajnup  Ó  Domnaill  DO  bol  1  nalbain, -]  a  coióecc  plan  lap  cpiocnuccaD  a 
cuapra.  O  Doriinaill-|  Tllajnap  do  bol  hi  rci'p  eoccain,  -|  an  cip  iiile  ó  bea- 
lach  coille  na  ccuippicin  50  Dun  ngft.airin  do  milleab  1  Do  lopccaoh  leó.  baile 
mic  Dorhiiaill  .1.  cnoc  an  cluice  Do  lopccab  ló  hua  nDomhnaill  "|  lubjopc  pain- 

>  Teige-an-Cliomliaid,  i.  e.   Teige,   Thaddfeus,  not  far  from   the  boundary   of  the   county  of 

or  Timothy  of  Coad,  a  townland  containing  the  Donegal.     According   to   the  tradition   in    the 

ruins   of  an   old  church,   near  Corofin,   in  the  country  this  was  the  Scene  of  the  first  jealousy 

county  of  Clare.  that  took   place   in   Ireland,    namely,    between 

'  Aih-aii-Chamais,  i.  e.  the  ford  of  the  wind-  Partholan  and  his  wife  Delgnaid,  a  couple  who 

ing  water,  now  Camus  bridge,  situated  two  miles  flourished  at  a  very  remote  period  of  Irish  his- 

to  the  north  of  Cashel,   in  the  county  of  Tippe-  tory,   for  some  account  of  whom  the  reader  is 

rary.                                                                            ,  referred  to  Keating's  Ilistoiy  (if  Irelarul,  Hali- 

*  Mac  G'dle  Eaiii,  now  Mac  Lean.  day's  edition,  p.  166. 

*•  Mac  Conmidhe,  now  Mac  Namce.  ''  Co?i.— Charles  O'Conor  interpolates  bacac, 

■^  Glenn-éda,  i.  e.   the  glen  or  valley  of  jea-  which  is  correct. 

lousy,  now  Glenadc,  in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  *■  Gleann-Fhuie,  now  Glenlinn,  or  the  vale  of 


1523.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1365 

Brian),  Lord  of  Teallach-Duncliadha  [TuUyhunco],  a  charitable  and  hnniane 
man,  died ;  and  his  brother  assumed  his  place. 

Brian,  son  of  Teige■an-Chomhaid^  son  of  Torlogh,  wlio  was  son  of  Brian 
Chatha-an-Aonaigh,  died  suddenly,  about  the  festival  of  St.  Patrick,  at  Cluain 
Ramhfhoda  [Clonroad]. 

The  son  of  O'Brien  of  Thomond  (Teige,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige, 
son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Brian  Catha-an-aenaigh),  was  killed  by  a  shot  of  a  ball 
at  Ath-an-Chamais'',  upon  the  River  Suir,  by  the  Butlers,  i.  e.  Pierce  Roe 
Butler,  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland.  This  Teige  was,  of  all  men  of  his  age,  the 
the  most  dreaded  by  his  enemies. 

Mac  Gille  Eain"  (Loughlin)  was  slain. 

Mac  Conmidhe'',  i.  e.  Melaghlin,  died. 

Hugh  Boy,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Art  O'Neill,  was  slain  by 
Rory  Carragh,  the  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  Hugh. 

Owen,  the  son  of  Felim,  son  of  Donough,  son  oi  Tiernan  Oge  O'Rourke, 
was  drowned  in  the  Lough  of  Glenn-eda". 

Ross,  the  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Felim  Maguire,  died  in  captivity 
with  the  Coarb  Maguire  (Cuconnaught). 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Art  O'Toole,  the  most  celebrated  of  his  tribe  in  his  time 
for  hospitality  and  nobleness,  was  slain  by  the  Byrnes. 

A  war  [broke  out]  between  O'Neill,  i.  e.  Con"  and  O'Donnell  (Hugh  Duv, 
son  of  Hugh  Roe).  O'Donnell  remained  encamped  during  the  Spring  in 
Glenn-Finne^  and  Manus  O'Donnell  went  to  Scotland ;  and  he  returned  in 
safety  after  his  visit.  O'Donnell  and  Manus  [then]  went  to  Tyrone,  and 
ravaged  and  burned  the  whole  country  from  Bealach  Coille  na  g-Cuirritin*^  to 
Dungannon.     The  town  of  Mac  Donnell,  i.  e.  Cnoc-an-Chluiche^,  was  burned 

the  River  Finn,  in  the  barony  of  Raphoe,  and  barony  of  Raphoe,  and  coiinty  of  Donegal.  This 

county  of  Donegal.     The   River   Finn  has  its  place  was  then  a  part  of  Tyrone, 
source  in  Lough  Finn,  situated  in  the  parisli  of  s  Cnoc-an-chluiche,  i.  e.  the  hill  of  the  game, 

Inishkeel,    barony  of  Boylagh,  and   county  of  or  play.    This  place,  which  was  the  seat  of  Mac 

Donegal,  and  it  flows  through  the  town  of  Stra-  Donnell,  the  head  of  O'Neill's  gallowglasses,  is 

norlar,  and  joins  the  River  Mourne  (mu^oopnu)  so  called  at  the  present  day,  and  is  anglicised 

near  the  town  of  Lifford.  Knockincloh}-.     It  is  a  townland  in  the  parish 

^  Bealacli-Coille-na  gCiiirritin,  now  the  road  of  Ponieroy,  in  the  barony  of  Dungannon,  and 

of  Killygordin,  in  the  parish  of  Donaghmnre,  county  of  Tyrone. 


1366  aNwata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1523. 

frhail  bai  ann  do  jfppaó  "]  Do  reayccab  lap  an  fluaj,  -|  a  mbfic  aDhaiD 
longpuiiic  111  cculaij  ócc.  Qn  n'ji  Do  milleao,  "|  Do  rhóp  apccain  ap  500  caob 
Díb,  bóccap  Dna  aDliaiD  poplongpuipc  la  caobh  caipn  rpmjail,  T?o  mapbaó, 
-]  l?o  buailfó  buap  lomba,  -]  aipccre  aióble,  -|  cangaccap  plan  lap  monnpab 
an  ripe  leó  Don  cup  pin. 

Do  beachaiD  cpá  ua  Doriinaill  Do  pióipi  hi  rcip  neojain.  l?o  lioipcceab 
-|  po  inilirD  an  cip  laip  co  noeapna  ua  neill  píó  pip  a  nDfipfó  na  bliabna  pa, 
■)  ni  Deapna  écr  oipofipc  froppa  artilaiD  pin. 

InDpaiccib  la  bua  nDorhnaill  aoó  ócc  mac  aoóa  puaiD  lap  nDénaifi  píoba 
lá  bua  néill  lap  rceacclainab  a  pocpaiDe  hi  crip  -]  bi  ccoiccpic  laip,  Dol  do 
CO  bpeipne  ui  Ruaipc.  Cpeacba,  l  éDÓla  an  cipe  Do  cbup  la  piopu  bpeipne 
I  nDiampaib  ")  i  nDpoibelaib  an  ripe  Dm  niomcoimeD  "]  Dia  niinbiDln  pop 
ua  nDorhnaill.  6ácap  clann  ui  puaipc  jup  an  lion  pluag  cappupcaip  ma  bpap- 
pab  a^  imbfjail  an  cipe,  ap  a  aoi  cpá  Do  imcij  ua  Dorhnaill  an  cip  Don  cupup 
pin.  Ro  loipcceab  laip  a  poipccnfrha,  -]  a  bapbanna,  co  nap  pnccaib  ni  bá 
lonaiprhe  innce  gan  lopccab.   , 

Sluaicceab  abbal  mop  la  geapoiD  lapla  cille  Dapa,  -|  la  jallaib  mibe,  -| 
In  bua  néill  conn  mac  cuinn,  mic  enpi,  mic  eojain  ap  ua  cconcobaip  ppail je, 
1  ap  conall  ua  mópba  "]  a\\  jaoibealaib  laijfn  apcfna.  Na  gaoibil  pm 
Danarhain  uile  ap  pób  í  néill,  -|  ap  a  bpfirfrhnap  froppa,  -]  an  riapla,-]  ó  néill 
ap  nDénarh  píoba  fcoppa  Do  cabaipc  jiall,  "]  bpajarc  na  njaoibeal  pin  i 
in  uplaim  on  lapla  a  ngioll  lé  jac  accpa  DO  paibe  aicce  oppa, "]  a  pccapab 
pé  poile  po  pib  arhlaib  pm. 

pfpabac  buibe  6  maDaccnin  cánaipi  píl  namcaba  do  mapbab  la  I'lua^^ 
ui  ceapbaill  .1.  ITiaolpuanaib. 

*' Herb  garden,  luB^opc This  word,  which  i  Neighbou7-hootl. — Coiccpioc,  which  is  now  iu- 

is  often  incorrectly  written  lu^bopc,  is  ex-  correctly  used  to  denote  a  stranger  or  foreigner, 
plained  luib-^opc  .i.gopcluibe,  an  herb-garden,  is  always  employed  by  the  Four  Masters  in  the 
in  Cormac's  Glossary.  Its  diminutive,  lubjop-  sense  of  "  neighbourhood  or  confine."  It  is  de- 
can,  is  the  name  of  some  townlands,  anglicised  rived  from  com,  which  is  equivalent  to  the 
Luffertaue,  Lorton,  and  even  Lowertown.  Latin  con,  com,  and  cpioc,  i.  e.jinis.     It  is  very 

'  Caini  i-iSzo^/iai/,  i.  e.  the  earn  of  Sedulius,  or  strange   that   Keating  used  it  in  the  opposite 

Shell,  now  Carnteel,  a  small  village  in  the  ba-  sense,    namely,    in  that  of  strange    or  foreign 

rony  of  Dungannon,   and  county  of  Tyrone. —  country. 

See  note  ",  under  the  year  1239,  p.  297,  supra.  ^  Breifny-0'' Rourke. —  This   territory   com- 


1523]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1367 

by  O'Donnell,  and  a  beautiful  herb  garden"  tliere  was  cut  down  and  destroyed 
by  his  forces.  They  remained  for  some  time  encamped  at  TuUyhoge,  and 
ravaged  and  plundered  the  country  on  every  side ;  and  again  they  encamped 
for  a  time  at  one  side  of  Cam  t-Siaghail'  [Carnteel],  where  they  killed  and  de- 
stroyed numbers  of  cattle,  and  committed  other  great  depredations,  and  they 
returned  safe  after  having  [thus]  plundered  the  country  on  that  expedition. 

O'Donnell  went  again  to  Tyrone  and  continued  to  plunder  and  devastate 
the  country  until  the  end  of  the  year,  when  O'Neill  made  peace  with  him,  and 
so  no  other  remarkable  exploit  was  performed  between  them. 

O'Donnell  (Hugh  Oge,  the  son  of  Hugh  Eoe),  after  having  made  peace 
with  O'Neill,  assembled  the  forces  within  his  own  territory,  and  those  of  his 
neighbourhood',  and  made  an  irruption  into  Breifny-O'Rourke''.  Spoils  and 
goods  of  the  country  were  conveyed  by  the  men  of  Breifny  into  the  wilds  and 
fastnesses  of  the  country,  to  guard  and  protect  them  against  O'Donnell.  The 
sons  of  O'Rourke,  with  all  the  forces  which  they  had  with  them,  were  defendincf 
the  country  against  O'Donnell.  O'Donnell,  however,  overran  the  country  on 
this  occasion,  burned  its  edifices  and  corn,  and  left  nothing  worth  notice  in  it 
without  burning. 

A  very  great  army  was  led  by  Garrett,  Earl  of  Kildare,  the  English  of 
Meath,  and  O'Neill  (Con,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen),  against 
O'Conor  Faly,  Connell  O'More,  and  the  Irish  of  Leinster  in  general.  All  these 
Irish  abided  by  the  decision  and  arbitration  of  O'Neill  between  them  and  the 
Earl,  and  O'Neill,  after  having  made  peace  between  them,  delivered  the  pledges 
and  hostages  of  the  Irish  into  the  keeping  of  the  Earl,  in  security  for  [the  per- 
formance of]  every  demand'  he  made  of  them ;  and  so  they  separated  from 
each  other  in  peace. 

Fearadhach""  Boy  O'Madden,  Tanist  of  Sil-Anmchadha,  was  slain  by  the 
army  of  O'CarroU,  i.  e.  Mulrony. 

prised  the  whole  of  the  present  county  of  Lei-  of  Irish  Aunals   for   Sir  James  Ware  ah'eady 

trim,  and  originally  the  baronies  of  TuUyhaw  often  quoted. 

and  Tullyhunco,  in  the  west  of  the  county  of  ""  Fearctdhach. — This  name,  which  was  very 

Cavan,  but  in  latter  ages  these  baronies  w^ere  a  common  among  the  O'Maddens  and  O'Naghtans 

part  of  Breifny-O'Reilly.  till  very  recently,  is  now  obsolete  as  the  proper 

'  Demand^  accpa. — This  word  is  translated  name   of  a  man  ;    but  it   is  preserved    in  the 

cliallenge  by  Duald  Mac  Firbis,   in  his  version  counties  of  Tyrone  and  Fermanagh,   in  the  sur- 


1368  aNNa?,a  i^ioshachca  eiReawN.  [1524. 

aois  cRiosr,  1524. 

QOIS  Cr?10S<C,  mile,  cúicc  cén,  piche,  acearaiii. 

Oiap  inac  í  boriinaill,  mall  japB,  1  eoccan  clann  aoóa  óicc  mic  aoDa 
|iuaió  00  cfngal  comnribáóa  coccaiD  pé  poile,-]  a  mbfic  lé  hachaib  ace  buaih- 
peab  an  ci]ie  j^o  po  cuijieab  puraib  péin  Dol  i  nacchaió  a  cele.  Ro  jaban 
baile  néill  jaipb  .1.  cpannócc  loca  bfdiaij  la  heojan,  lap  mbfir  Don  baile  pop 
a  locr  1  pop  a  loncaib  péin.  páccbaip  mall  an  cip,  1  rucc  lonnpaicció  pat.a 
imcian  Dopióipi  ap  an  mbaile  co  mbaoi  a  cceilcc  a  ccompoccuy  Do.  l?o  piDip 
eojan  an  ni  pin,  -|  po  lonnpaij  50  haiprn  1  mbaoi  mall,  ]?o  jabpac  05  lomm- 
biialab  achaib  paoa  pe  poile  50  po  mapbab  eojan  aj\  an  larap  pin.  l?o  cpom- 
loiceab  mall  co  nepbailc  Dia  ^onaib  lappm.  l?o  bn  m(')p  an  recr  piap  an 
can  pin  an  Diap  copcaip  ann  pin. 

Diapmairc  mac  an  jiolla  buiB  111  bpiain,  pfp  a  nj^eapnaip  péin  ay  pfpp 
no  piapab  luce  ciiinjfna  rfir  paip,  pfp  po  ba  buame  eineac, -]  engnam,  pfp  po 
paoileab  Danmain  le  hinrne-]  lé  hoipeacup  a  búicce  Do  écc  lap  nongoD  "|  lap 
nairpije. 

Slóicceab  let  hua  nDorhnaill  In  crip  neoccain  inap  loi)^cceub  1  Diap 
liaipcceab  an  cip  laip,  1  ceacc  plan  laparh. 

Sloicceab  lap  an  lupcip  .1.  jfpóicc  mac  gfpóicc  lapla  cille  Dapa  Dpoipib  n 
a  bparap  í  neill  .1.  conn  mac  cuinn  bi  infbón  pojmaip  no  ponnpab  Do  rocc  pop 
iia  nDomnaill  Daice  a  mniccne  paip,  -]  ni  po  haipipeob  leó  co  piaccaccap 
pope  na  ccpi  nattiac,  ap  ba  hmnill,  "]  bo  Daingfn  leó  bfir  ipin  maigin  pin  np 
uarhan  í  borhnaill,  ap  po  báccap  Domain  Díoja  caiman  -|  Ifcan  clapa  lán- 
Dainj^ne  ina  nuipfimceall  ann  do  ponab  la  TTlajnup  ua  nDorhnaill  pecc  piam. 

name  Farry,  which  is  an  anglicising  of  O'Fea-  bush  in  its  vicinity." 

radhaigli.  ''  Be/ore  t/iis  time,  piap  an  run  pin,  i.  e.  liad 

°  Loch  Beatha,  now  Lough- Veagh,  near  Gar-  they  fallen  before  they  had  disturbed  the  countrj' 

tan,  in  the  county  of  Donegal. — See  note  "^,  under  by  their  contentions,   their  deaths  would  have 

the  year  1258,  p.  364,  supra.  been  the  cause  of  great  lamentations  in  Tircon- 

"  From  a  great  distance. — This  could   not  be  nell.     But  at  this  time  the  people  thought  it  a 

literally  translated.    The  nearest  that  the  Eng-  blessing  that   they   had   fallen  by  each  others' 

lish  would  bear  is  the  following  :  "  Niall  leaves  hands,  as  the  civil  war  in  the  kingdom  of  Tir- 

the  country  and  gave  [made]  a  long,  far  incur-  connell  was  then  at  an  end,  and  their  father  was 

sion  again  on  the  town,  so  that  he  was  in  am-  enabled  to  wage  war  with  more  effect  on  O'Neill 


1524.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1369 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1524. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  twenty-four. 

The  two  sons  of  O'Donnell,  namely,  Niall  Garv  and  Owen,  the  sons  of 
Hucrh  Oge,  son  of  Hugh  Roe,  formed  a  confederacy  to  wage  war ;  and  they 
continvied  for  some  time  disturbing  the  country,  until  at  length  they  were  in- 
duced to  oppose  each  other.  The  town  of  Niall  Garv,  i.  e.  the  Crannog  of 
Loch  Beatha",  in  which  he  had  been  left  [only]  by  Owen  as  protector  and  care- 
taker, was  seized  [to  his  own  use]  ;  Niall  left  the  territory,  and  again  marched 
from  a  great  distance"  to  attack  the  town  [mansion]  ;  and  he  lay  in  ambush  in 
its  vicinity.  Owen,  having  received  intelligence  of  this,  repaired  to  the  place 
wliere  Niall  was  ;  and  they  fought  there  for  a  long  time,  until  Owen  was  slain 
on  the  spot ;  and  Niall  was  so  deeply  wounded,  that  he  died  of  his  wounds 
[soon]  afterwards.  The  [loss  of]  two  who  fell  there  would  have  been  the  cause 
of  great  grief  before  this  time"". 

Dermot,  son  of  Gilla-Duv  O'Brien,  a  man  who  assisted  those  that  requested 
any  thing  of  him  better  than  any  other  man,  owning  a  like  extent  of  territory ; 
a  man  of  the  most  untiring  hospitality  and  prowess,  who  was  rather  expected 
to  live  and  enjoy  the  wealth  and  dignity  of  his  patrimony,  died,  after  Unction 
and  Penance. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  into  Tyrone  ;  and  he  burned  and  ravaged 
the  country,  after  which  he  returned  safe. 

An  array  was  led  by  the  Lord  Justice  (Garrett,  the  son  of  Garrett,  Earl  of 
Kildare),  precisely  in  the  middle  of  Autumn,  to  relieve  his  kinsman,  O'Neill, 
i.  e.  Con,  the  son  of  Con,  and  to  wreak  his  vengeance  upon  O'Donnell ;  and  he 
never  halted  until  he  arrived  at  Port-na-dtri-namhad'',  for  they  [i.  e.  he  and  his 
forces]  considered  themselves  secure  and  protected  in  that  place  against  O'Don- 
nell, of  whom  they  were  afraid,  for  there  lay  all  around  them  deep  ditches  and 
strong''  and  broad  trenches,  which  had  been  formed  some  time  before  by  Manus 

and  his  neighbours.    Charles  O'Conor  writes  in  ''  Port-na-dtri-namhad This  was  the  name 

Irish  in  the  margin  :  "  The  brothers  of  Manus,  of  a  place  on  the  east  side  of  the  River  Foyle,  near 

son  of  Hugh  Duv,  son  of  Hugh  Roe,  fell  by  each  Strabane. — See  note  under  the  year  1522. 

other,  and  in  good  soothe  they  richly  deserved  •■  Strong The   adjective  lán&ainjne  is  here 

this  misfortune."  made  to  agree  with  clapa,  which  is  incorrect ; 

8  M 


1370  awMaca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNW.  [1524. 

00  jionab  cionol  cpom  plói^  lá  liua  riDoriinaiU  do  copnarh  a  cjiice  p|iip  an 
luprip, "]  ppi  hua  neill.  bácrap  lao  canjaccap  hi  pocpaióe  í  óoitinaill  cen- 
moca  a  pocpaioe  bunaió  buóóéin,  peacr  aóbal  albanac  ouaiplib  cloinne 
Dorhnaill  na  halban  pa  mac  Dorhnaill  pfin  Qlapopann  mac  eóin  caranaij,  -| 
pet  aengnp  mac  eóin  caranaij,  pa  mac  oomnaiU  jallócclac  co  pocami  do 
Deajóaoínib  ele  a  lialbain  amaille  pimi.  Ni  po  lianaó  leó  pióe  co  panjarcap 
CO  Dpuimlijfn,  1  po  bai  jfallaó  immbualaiD  fcoppa  ap  na  rhapac.  Ro  bai 
TTlajnup  ó  Dorhnaill  aj  lappaib  an  lupnp  -\  ó  néill  Dionnpaicció  in  aoham 
pin  -]  ni  po  paom  ó  Dorhnaill  pin  la  Dainjne  an  lonaiD  itia  pnbarrap,  -|  ap 
iiarhan  an  opDanáip  bácap  lá  muincip  an  lupcíp.  Do  cóió  cpa  majnup  gan 
corhapléccab  Dua  Dorhnaill  hi  mfpcc  na  njjallócclac  Dia  coip  do  cairfm  i  do 
rhfpccbuaiDpeaó  cpluaij  an  líipríp  -|  í  neill"!  po  gabpac  pop  a  noiiibpaccab 
Do  paicib  paijicc  conc'ip  Ificcpfc  cararh  no  cionnabpaó  Dóib  go  po  mapbaD 
an  calbac  mac  iii  bpiain  leo  co  pochaiDe  ele  amaille  pip,  -\  pob  écc  mop  epióe 
ina  Duchaij  pfin.  Qpi  comaiple  po  cinn  an  uipcip, "]  ó  neill  ap  abapac  coinne 
píoóa  Do  cop  50  hua  nDorhnaill,  Do  ponab  on,  ap  po  naibm  an  nipcip  piD  eciji 
Ó  nDorhnaill  ~\  ua  neill,  ~\  é  pfin  hi  plónaib  fcoppa.  Oo  pónao  beóp  caipDfp 
cpíopc  map  an  ccéDna  erip  an  lúpcip,  1  ó  Domnaill  co  po  pcappacr  po  piDh, 

1  po  caomcompac  cpe  rhiopbailib  Dé  Don  Diil  pin.  Qcc  cionnciib  Don  lupcip, 
1  Dua  neill  puapaccap  aoD,  mac  neill,  mic  cuinn,  mic  aoba  buibe,  mic  bpiain 
ballai^  pluacc  mop  ace  milleab  cipe  heoccain,  1  an  can  do  cuala  aob  na 
plóij  pin  DO  bfic  cuicce,  T?o  cuip  uprhóp  a  plóij  péin  poirhe  ló  cpeacaib  ")  lá 
héDalaib  an  cípe.  l?o  aipip  pein  co  cian  ma  nDfohaiD  in  uachaD  plnig  co 
puccpac  ciucc  an  cpUjij  ele  paip.  T?o  lonnpaij^pioc  é  lap  no  pajbail  1  nfccap- 
baojal  CO  po  mapbaó  (6.  occobep),  -]  co  po  mubaijheaD  leo  he  ap  in  lacaip 
pin.     bá  cpog  cpa  -\  ha  D01I15  an  cpaop  clann  poicinélac  Doioheaó  arhlaib 

tor  although  the  clupa,  or  trenches,  helped  to  na-dtri-nanihad,  where  the  enemy  was  encamped, 
render  the  fortification  oainjean,  strong,  still  ^  A  promise  of  battle. — This  is  the  literal  trans- 
thcy  could  not  with  propriety  be  said  to  be  lation,  but  the  meaning  is  that  there  was  every 
oaingean  themselves.  But  the  Editor  cannot  appearance  that  they  would  conic  to  an  engage- 
help  this,  for  he  must  allow  the  Four  Masters  nient  on  the  following  day. 
theii- own  mode  of  expression,  though  it  be  often  ^  Was  desirous,  literally,  "  Manus  O'Donnell 
inelegant,  and  even  sometimes  incorrect.  was  asking  to  attack  the  Justiciary  and  O'Neill 

*  Druinúighean,  now  Drimilcen,  on  the  west  that  night." 

side  of  the  River  'Foyle,  and  not  far  from  Port-  '  To  conclude  a  peace,  literally,  to  send  a  mes- 


1524.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1371 

O'Donnell.  O'Donnell  mustered  a  numerous  army  to  defend  his  country  against 
the  Lord  Justice  and  O'Neill.  The  following  are  those  who  joined  the  ai-my  of 
O'Donnell  on  this  occasion,  exclusive  of  his  own  native  forces  :  a  great  body  of 
Scots,  consisting  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  Clann-Donnell  of  Scotland,  under  [the 
conduct  of]  Mac  Donnell  himself,  i.  e.  Alexander,  the  son  of  John  Cahanagh, 
and  under  Mac  Dounell  Galloglagh,  with  many  others  of  the  chieftains  of  Scot- 
land who  accompanied  them.  These  never  halted  until  they  arrived  at  Druim- 
lighean",  and  there  was  a  promise  of  battle'  between  them  on  the  morrow. 
Manus  O'Donnell  was  desirous"  of  attacking  the  Lord  Justice  and  O'Niall  on 
that  night,  but  to  this  O'Donnell  would  not  consent,  on  account  of  the  strength 
of  the  position  of  the  enemy,  and  from  a  dread  of  the  ordnance  which  the  Lord 
Justice's  people  had  with  them.  Manus,  however,  without  consulting  O'Don- 
nell, set  out  on  foot  with  a  party  of  gallowglasses,  to  harass  and  confuse  the 
army  of  the  Lord  Justice  and  O'Neill,  and  commenced  discharging  showers  of 
■  arrows  at  them,  so  that  they  neither  alloAved  them  to  sleep  nor  rest ;  and  they 
slew  Calvagh,  the  son  of  O'Brien,  who  was  a  great  loss  in  his  own  territory, 
and  many  others  along  with  him.  The  resolution  which  the  Lord  Justice  and 
O'Neill  adopted  on  the  following  day  was,  to  send  messengers  to  O'Donnell, 
requesting  him  to  come  to  a  conference,  and  conclude  a  peace".  This  was 
accordingly  done,  and  the  Lord  Justice  confirmed  a  peace  between  O'Neill  and 
O'Donnell,  he  himself  being  as  surety  between  them.  A  gossipred  was  also 
formed  between  the  Lord  Justice  and  O'Donnell,  so  that  on  this  occasion  they 
parted  from  each  other  in  friendship  and  amity,  through  the  miraculous  inter- 
position of  God.  The  Lord  Justice  and  O'Neill,  on  their  return,  found  Hugh, 
the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Con,  son  of  Hugh  Boy,  son  of  Brian  Ballagh,  ravaging 
Tyrone  with  a  numerous  army  ;  and  Hugh,  when  he  heard  that  these  hosts 
were  approaching  him,  sent  the  greater  number  of  his  forces  onwards  with  the 
preys  and  spoils  of  the  country,  and  he  himself  remained  at  a  great  distance 
behind  them,  with  only  a  small  body  of  troops,  so  that  the  main  body  of  the 
other  army  overtook  him.  They  attacked  him,  and,  being  caught  in  a  perilous 
condition,  he  was  overpowered  and  killed  on  the  spot,  on  the  6th  of  October. 
It  was  a  rueful  and  grievous  thing  that  this  noble  and  highborn  chieftain  should 

sage  of  peace.     This  indeed  was  done,   for  tbe      nell  and  O'Neill,  and  he  himself  as  surety  be- 
Lord  Justice  ratified  a  peace  between  O'Don-      tween  them. 

8  m2 


1372  aNNQ^a  Rioshachca  eiReoNN.  [1524. 

I'ln  ap  ni  baoi  a  f amail  do  cenél  eojain  pe  cmn  Daimpip  ap  uaiple,  a]\  ipjna 
ap  eineac  ap  cpóliacr,  ap  comnapc,  ap  copnarii  conab  Dpopairrhfc  a  báip  po 
páióeaó  : 

Ct  cfraip  picfc  pip  poin, 

mile  cúicc  céo  Oo  bliaónaib, 

ó  jfin  Dé  CO  haoó  óoióió 

Da  mbe  aon  oá  piappoijib. 

TTlac  uióilín  copbmac, "]  mac  pfain  Duib  mic  Domnaill  oo  loc  -\  Do  ji^abail 
a  hairle  an  mapbra  pin  lá  muincip  í  neill. 

^opmlaió  injfn  uí  óomnaill  (Qob  piiab)  bfn  aoba  mic  neill  mic  cumn 
í  néiU,  bfn  po  ba  mo  ofplaccab  -|  Deijeineac  -]  po  ba  mo  cumaoín  ap  opDaib 
-]  eccalpaib,  ap  eiccpib  i  ap  ollamnaib  (oeirbip  ón  aj\  baoí  ofi  jpfp  o  biong- 
mala  lé)  oécc  lap  mbpCir  buaba  ó  ooman,  -\  ofman. 

Coccab  móp  ecip  cacancaib  DÓp  mapbab  cumai^e  mac  bpiain  puiri  uí  cac- 
áin,  "I  pfpDopca  mac  Rimibpi  an  púca, "]  po  niapbab  pop  an  coccao  pin  aob 
cappac  mac  uí  bocapraij  lé  goppaib  mac  5oppaba  uí  carain, "]  opong  DÓ 
mumnp  amaille  pip  lap  nool  Dóib  do  congnam  ló  Sfan  mac  comáip  í  caráin. 
Cumaije  ballac  mac  Dorhnaill  í  cacáin  paoí  biiine  uapail  ap  a  curhaccaib 
DO  mapbab  lá  cuiD  Don  pucca. 

ÍTlac  Donnchaib  npe  hoilella  Décc  .1.  RuaiDpi  mac  comalcaij  mic  bpiam, 
-]  impeapain  oo  bfic  ecip  cloinn  nDonchaib  pa  cijeapnup  na  rípe,  1  mac 
Donnchaib  do  gaipm  Do  copbmac  mac  caibcc  mic  bpiam. 

TTlac  puibne  cipe  bojaine  mail  mop  mac  eoccam  conpapal  bá  pfpp  láiti 
-|  laochbacr,  1  bá  cpnaibe  cpoibe  ■]  corhaiple,  bá  pfpp  aipipiorh,  1  lonnpaijib, 
-|  bá  p.fpp  enec  1  fngnam,  bá  mó  muipfp  "]  mfpjappab,  "|  ap  lia  lap  po  bpipeoD 

"   Tir-Boghaine,  i.  e.    the    country   of  Euna  and  published  by  Culgau  (lib.  ii.  c.  40),  places 

Boghaine,   who  was  the  second  son  of  Conall  the  lofty  mountain  of  Sliabh-Liag,  now  Slieve- 

Gulban,  the  ancestor  of  all  the  Kinel-Connell.      league,    in   this  territory See  Trias  Tkaum., 

This  territory  is  described  in  theBookofFenagh,  p.  135.     The  name  of  this  territory  is  still  pre- 

fol.  47,  «,  a,  as  extending  from  the  River  Eidh-  served  in  that  of  the   barony  of  Baghaineach, 

jieach,  now  the  Elver  Eany,  which  falls  into  the  now  anglice  Banagh,  in  the  west  of  the  county 

harbour  of  Inver,    in  the   bay  of  Donegal,    to  of  Donegal.     According  to  O'Dugan's  Topogra- 

the  stream  of  Dobhar  flowing  from  the  rugged  phical   Poem,    this    territory   belonged   to    the 

mountains. — See  Battle  of  Magk  Rath,  p.  156.  O'Boyles  ;  but  for  about  two  centuries  before 

The  Tripartite  Life  of  St.  Patrick,  translated  the  confiscation  of  Ulster  it  was  the  country  of 


I 


1524.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1373 

thus  be  cut  off, — for  his  peer  for  nobleness,  intelhgence,  hospitality,  valour, 
prowess,  and  protection,  had  not  been  [found]  for  a  long  time  [before]  among 
the  Kinel-Owen.  The  following  [quatrain]  was  composed  in  commemoration 
of  [the  year  of]  his  death  : 

Four  and  twenty  years,  'tis  true, 

A  thousand  and  five  hundred. 

From  birth  of  Christ  till  death  of  Hugh, 

Should  any  one  inquire. 

Mac  Quillin  (Cormac)  and  the  son  of  John  Duv  Mac  Donnell  were  wounded 
and  taken  prisoners  after  this  killing  [of  Hugh],  by  O'Neill's  people. 

Gormley,  the  daughter  of  O'Donnell  (Hugh  Roe),  and  wife  of  Hugh,  the 
son  of  Niall,  son  of  Con  O'Neill,  a  most  bounteous  and  hospitable  woman,  who 
had  bestowed  many  gifts  upon  the  orders  and  churches,  and  upon  the  literary 
men  and  ollaves  (which,  indeed,  was  what  might  have  been  expected  from  her, 
for  she  had  a  husband  worthy  of  her),  died,  having  gained  the  victory  over  the 
Devil  and  the  world. 

A  great  war  [broke  out]  among  the  O'Kanes,  in  which  Cumaighe,  the  sou 
of  Brian  Finn  O'Kane,  was  slain,  and  Ferdoragh,  the  son  of  Rory,  (jf  the  Route. 
In  this  war  was  also  slain  Hugh  Carragh,  the  son  of  O'Doherty,  by  Godfrey, 
the  son  of  Godfrey  O'Kane,  together  with  a  party  of  his  people,  they  having 
gone  to  assist  John,  the  son  of  Thomas  O'Kane. 

Cumhaighe  Ballagh,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Kane,  a  distinguished  gentleman, 
considering  his  means,  was  slain  by  some  [of  the  people]  of  the  Route. 

Mac  Donough  of  Tirerrill  died,  namely,  Rory,  the  son  of  Tomaltagh,  son  oi 
Brian ;  whereupon  a  contention  arose  among  the  Mac  Donoughs,  concerning 
the  lordship  of  the  country ;  and  Cormac,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Brian,  was 
[at  last]  styled  the  Mac  Donougli. 

Mac  Sweeny  of  Tir-Bogh'aine"  (Niall  More,  the  sou  of  Owen),  a  constable 
of  hardiest  hand  and  heroism,  of  boldest  heart  and  counsel,  best  at  withholding 
uiid  attacking",  best  in  hospitality  and  prowess,  who  had  the  most  numerous 
troops,  and  most  vigorous  soldiers,  and  who  had  forced  the  greatest  number  of 

Mac  Sweeny  Banagh,  a  hereditary  leader  of  dicious  in  deciding  when  it  was  best  to  retreat, 
gallowglasses  to  the  O'Donnells.  or  keep  from  action,   and   when   to  join  battle 

"  Withholding  and  attacking,  i.e.  the  most  ju-      with  the  enemy. 


1374  aNNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReaww.  [1524. 

DO  brpnaoaiV)  baojailom  caorh  cenel  pfiri  t)écc  ia]i  nonjat)  -\  ia|i  nairiiije  ina 
caiplén  pfin  In  pafain  .14.  oecenibep. 

O  concobctip  ciajijiaije  (concoBap  mac  concobaip)  Do  Dol  ap  cpeic  1 
nDuchaig  ealla -)  copbmac  occ  mac  copbmaic  mic  caiDcc  Do  bpfir  paip,i 
paoineaó  laip  pop  ua  cconcobaip,  -]  ó  concobaip  péin  do  loc  -]  do  jabail, 
Concobap  mac  Diapmaoa  mic  an  giolla  Diiib  1  bpiain,  -\  DiapmaiD  mac  copb- 
maic UÍ  rháille  Do  mapbaó  ipin  mbpipeab  pin  la  copbmac  mac  caiócc. 

TTiag  capraij  piabac  (Domnall  mac  pingin,  mic  Diapmaoa)  Do  Dol  ap 
piubal  cpeice  1  nglionn  plfipce,  -\  muincip  na  cipe  ap  mbpfic  paip  05  pogbail 
an  jliVina,  é  pfin  do  jabc'iil  -]  Dpong  Dia  muincip  Do  rhapbaD. 

TTlajjpajnaill  (caral  occ  mac  cacail)  Do  itiapbaD  a  ppioll  ap  paicce  a 
baile  pfin  lé  cloinn  1  rhaoilrhiaDaij. 

TTlop  in^ean  í  bpiain  (.1.  coippbealbac  mac  caiDcc)  bean  DonnchaiD  mic 
marjarhna  1  bpiain,  bfn  rije  aoiófó  coiccinn  Décc. 

Qibilín  injfn  l?iDipe  an  jleanna,  bfn  í  concobaip  ciappaije  Dfijbfn  Dépcac 
Daonnacrac  Décc. 

Uoippóealbac  mac  peilim  buióe  uí  concobaip  t)o  rhapbaD  la  coippbealbac 
puaó  mic  caiDcc  buióe  mic  cacail  piiaib. 

RuaiDpi  mac  bpiain  mic  pilip  meguiDip  paoi  cinnpfóna  Décc. 

Tllac  UÍ  pcdjillij;  .1.  cacal  mac  eoccain  mic  carail  Do  jabail  la  cloinn 
cpfam  mic  carail  ui  paijillij,  -]  milleaó  na  bpéipne  uile  Do  reacr  cpir 
pin  ecip  Ó  Raijillij  -[  clann  cpfain  1  Raijillij,  ■]  ó  néill  (conn  mac  cuinn) 
DO  óolpluaj  pó  61  ipin  mbpeipne  Do  milleaó  coDa  cloinni  cSfain  Don  bpeipne, 
1  clann  rpfain  Do  milleaó  coDa  iii  paijillij,  1  an  ppioip  occ,  mac  carail,  mic 
peapjail,  mic  Sfain  do  rhapbaD  Dopcop  do  pilép  pó  caiplén  colca  moain, 
Roba  paoi  cinnpfóna  eipiDe. 

'  Perilous  parses,  literally,    "  and  by  whom  >>  Gleann-Fleisce,  i.  e.  the  vale  of  the  Flesk,  a 

most  of  gaps  of  danger  were  broken."  river  rising  in  the  south-east  of  the  barony  of 

'  Rathain,  now  Eahin  castle,  not  far  from  the  Magunihy,   in  the  county  of  Kerry,  and  falling 

viliageofDuncaneely,  in  the  parish  of  Killaghty,  into  the   Lower  Lake   of  Kilkenny,    near   the 

barony  of  Banagh,  and  county  of  Donegal.  town. 

*   Dutkaigh-Ealla,    i.  e.    the  district    of  the  "^  The  Green,  pairce,    i.  c.  the  green,  lawn. 

River  Ealla,  now  DuhaUow,  a  barony  in   the  ploiea,  or  field  of  exercise,   opposite  his  house, 

north-west  of  the  county  of  Cork See  note  ■",  or  castle. 

under  the  year  1501,  p.  1262,  supra.  ^  At  the  castie,  literally,  under  the  castle.  The 


1524.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1375 

perilous  passes''  of  any  man  of  his  own  fair  tribe,  died,  after  Unction  and  Penance, 
in  his  own  castle  of  Rathain\  on  the  14th  of  December. 

O'Conor  Kerry  (Conor,  the  son  of  Conor)  set  out  upon  a  predatory  incur- 
sion into  Duthaidh-Ealla^  but  was  overtaken  by  Cormac  Oge,  the  son  of  Cor- 
mac,  son  of  Teige  [Mac  Carthy],  who  defeated  O'Conoi',  wounded  him,  and 
took  him  prisoner.  In  this  defeat  Conor,  the  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Gilla-Duv 
O'Brien,  and  Dermot,  the  son  of  Cormac  O'lNIalley,  were  slain  by  Cormac.  son 
of  Teige  (Mac  Carthy). 

Mac  Carthy  Reagh  (Donnell,  the  son  of  Fineen,  son  of  Dermot)  made  a 
predatory  incursion  into  Gleann-Fleisce'' ;  but,  being  overtaken  by  the  people 
of  the  country  as  he  was  leaving  the  glen,  he  liimself  was  taken  prisoner,  and 
some  of  his  people  were  slain. 

MacRannall  (Cathal  Oge,  the  son  of  Catlial)  was  treacherously  slain  on  the 
green'^  of  his  own  town,  by  the  sons  of  O'Mulvey. 

More,  the  daughter  of  O'Brien  (i.  e.  Turlough,  the  son  of  Teige),  and  wife 
of  Donough,  the  son  of  Mahon  O'Brien,  a  woman  who  kept  a  house  of  open 
hospitality,  died. 

Eveleen,  daughter  of  the  Knight  of  Glynn,  and  wife  of  O'Conor  Kerry,  a 
good,  charitable,  and  humane  woman,  died. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Felim  Boy  O'Conor,  was  slain  by  Turlough  Roe,  the 
son  of  Teige  Boy,  son  of  Cathal  Roe. 

Rory,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Philip  Maguire,  a  distinguished  captain,  died. 

The  son  of  O'Reilly  (Cathal,  the  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Cathal)  was  taken 
prisoner  by  the  sons  of  John,  son  of  Cathal  O'Reilly,  the  consequence  of  which 
was,  the  desolation  of  all  Breifny,  between  O'Reilly  and  the  sons  of  John  O'Reilly. 
0''Neill  (Con,  the  son  of  Con)  twice  marched  with  an  army  into  Breifny,  to 
destroy  that  part  of  it  which  belonged  to  the  sons  of  John  ;  and  the  sons  of 
John  destroyed  O'Reilly's  part ;  and  the  young  Prior,  son  of  Cathal,  son  of 
Farrell,  son  of  John,  a  distinguished  captain,  was  killed  by  the  shot  of  a  ball  at 
the  castle"  of  Tulach  Moain'. 

Imll  must  have  been  fired  through  a  wmdow  or  in  Irish  culaij  iriaoin,  and  anfflice  Tvil\a.\in.    It 
aperture  in  the  castle  while  he  was  standing  is  the  name  of  a  small  village  on  the  road  lead- 
beneath,  ing  from  Cootehill  to  Cavan,   and  about  three 
*  Tulac/i  Moain.  i.  e.  Moan's  hill,    now  called  miles  from  the  former. 


1376  aNNata  Rio^hachca  eiiieawH.  [1525. 

ITlac  mé5ui6i]i  concobaji  mac  Sfain  mic  pilip  oo  riiajibab  la  pliocc  aijic 
Í  néill. 

Po|^l^  mac  Ruaiópi  mic  comaiy  óicc  mejuir)!]!  do  bacliat)  In  pojir  claoin 
inn]^i  lap  ccabaijic  cpeice  do  ó  mac  méguióni  .1.  gioUa  paccpaicc  mac  conco- 
bai]i. 

bpian  mac  gioUaparpaicc  mic  aoóa  óicc  még  mafjarhna.  Qpojol  mac 
aoDa  Ó1CC,  1  eochaiD  mac  aooa  óicc  Do  reacn  50  boile  mégmacjamna  (.i- 
jclaipne  mac  Remainn,  mic  glaipne  mejmarjarhna)  Depnaibm  "|  do  bainj- 
niiiccab  a  pioba  pip,"]  lap  nDenaiti  a  ccuip  -]  a  ccfnsail,  -]  a  pioba  Dóib  pip 
pa  rhionnaib  -]  pa  plánaib  lorhba,  Ro  páccaibpior  an  baile  5011  eaccla  5011 
imuariian.  T?o  cuipeab  bpian  na  moiceipje  maj  marjarhna  1  lucr  cije  még- 
mar^arhna  ina  Ifnmain,  •]  po  mapbab  bpian  -|  apDjal  leó  rpé  ranjnacc  "] 
meabad,  -|  bá  biac  pfin  Diap  a  ccomaopa  brt  pfpp  bai  ina  ccompocpaib. 

Sfan  buibe  mac  ainopiapa  megcpair  pfp  puim  poconáij  50  niomar  pam- 
bpfpa  epen,  -\  a  écc. 

O  bpeiplfm  eoccan  occ,  mac  eoccain,  ollam  rhejuibip  lébpfirfrhnap  Décc. 

rriac  pirbfpcaij  (.1.  cuconnacc)  ollam  méjuibip  lé  DÓn  Décc. 

dOIS  CPIOSU,  1525. 
Qoip  Cpíopc,  mile,  cuicc  céD,  pice,  acúicc. 

^níom  up5panna  abuarmap  Do  bénarh  an  bliabainpi  .1.  eppcop  Ificjlinr.e 
ap  na  mapbab  bi  meabail  ló  mac  an  abbab  mic  mupcaóa,  -|  lié  ina  caoimreacc 
amaille  lé  jpab  -\  lé  capranacr,  -|  an  Dponj  ap  a  pucc  lapla  cille  Dapa  do 

'  Brian-na-moickeirghe,  i.  e.  Brian  or  Bernard  land  ;  but  in  Dowling's  Annals  the  murder  is 

of  the  early  rising.  entered  under  the  year  1522,  and   the  punish- 

6  Mac  Mahori's  household. — They  gave  name  ment  of  it  under  1524,  or  1525,  but  evidently 

to  the  Loughty   [Uicc  cije],   a  territory  now  by  a  mistake  of  the  transcriber.    Dowling  gives 

included  in  the  barony  and  county  of  Monaghan.  the  following  account  of  the  transaction  : 

"   Treachery. —  "  Cun^nacc  .i.  meabal   no  "  A.  D.  1522.  Mauritius  episcopus  Leighlen 

peall." — 0''Clery.  cognominatus    Deoran    in    Lexia    jam    vocata, 

i  Mac  Ribhbkeartaigh,    now    anglicised   Mac  Queenes  County  in  Leinster,  frater  minorum, 

Crififerty.  professor  in  Theologia,  controversia  et  conver- 

j  Abominable  deed. — This  murder  is  entered  satione  eloquentissimus  predicator,  castus  a  na- 

under  the  year  1525,  in  Ware's  Annals  of  Ire-  tivitate,  episcopatum  regebat  annum  cum  dimi- 


1525.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1377 

The  son  of  Maguire  (Conor,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Philip)  was  slain  by 
the  descendants  of  Art  O'Neill. 

Ross,  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Thomas  Oge  Maguire,  was  drowned  in  the  port 
of  Claoininis  [Cleenish],  after  having  carried  off  a  prey  from  the  son  of  Ma- 
guire, i.  e.  Gilla-Patrick,  the  son  of  Conor. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Gilla-Patrick,  son  of  Hugh  Oge  Mac  Mahon  ;  Ardgal,  son 
of  Hugh  Oge  ;  and  Eochy,  son  of  Hugh  Oge,  came  to  the  town  of  Mac  Mahon 
(i.  e.  of  Glasny,  the  son  of  Redmond,  son  of  Glasny  Mac  Mahon),  to  confirm 
and  ratify  their  peace  with  him  ;  and  there,  having  made  peace,  and  concluded 
their  covenants  and  compacts  with  him  by  many  oaths  and  sureties,  they  left 
the  town  without  fear  or  apprehension ;  but  Brian-na-Moicheirghe*^  Mac  Mahon, 
and  Mac  Mahon's  househokF,  were  sent  in  pursuit  of  them,  and  Brian  and 
Ardgal,  two  of  the  best  men,  of  their  years,  in  their  neighbourhood,  were  slain 
by  them  through  treachery"  and  deceit. 

John  Boy,  the  son  of  Andrew  Magrath,  a  man  of  note,  a  prosperous  man, 
and  very  wealthy,  died. 

O'Breslen  (Owen  Oge,  the  son  of  Owen),  Ollav  to  Maguire  in  judicature, 
died. 

Mac  Rithbheartaigh'  (i  e.  Cuconnaught),  Ollav  to  Maguh'e  in  poetry,  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1525. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  twenty  five. 

A  foul  and  abominable  deed'  was  committed  in  this  year,  namely,  the  Bishop 
of  Leighlin  was  treacherously  murdered  by  Mac  an-Abbaidh  Mac  Murrough 
[and  others],  who  was  in  his  company,  with  [the  appearance  of]  love  and  cha- 
rity.    As  many  of  the  perpetrators  of  this  crime  as  were  apprehended  by  the 

dis  et  duobus  mensibus  ;   interfectus  fuit   per  oves  quam  destruere. 

Maurum  Cavenagh  archidiaconum  dioceseos  in-  "A.  D.  1524.  Geraldus  Comes  Kildarias  ju- 

ter  Kilneyu  et  Cloagliruish,  eo  quod  dicti  archi-  ratusdeputatus,  qui  Maurum  Guer,  id  est  'sharp' 

diaconi  et  aliorum   redarguit  perversitatem  et  interfectorem   episcopi   Deoran    predicti    cruci 

corrigere  proposuit.    Iste  Episcopus  in  jocundo  affigere  curavit,  at  the  head  of  Glan  Reynald  by 

ejus  adventu  quibusdam  persuadentibus  dupli-  Leighlin,  et  ibidem  iutralia  ejus  lecit  comburi, 

cari  subsidium  cleri  respondit :   Meluis  radere  anno  1525." 

8  N 


1378  aNNaí,a  i^io^hachca  eiueciNH.  [1525. 

luce  Dénma  an  rhíjníorha  )'in  jio  pojiconjaip  a  mbpCir  ju]^  an  maijin  in  ]io 
riiaplipac  an  reppcop,  -]  hi  bpfnoao  beó  aji  rúp,  a  nabaije  -)  o  nionaraip  do 
bfm  apDa,  1  a  lopccaó  ina  bpiaónaipi. 

Uoippóealbac  mac  marjarnna,  nnic  coippnealbaij,  niic  hpiain  cara  in 
aonaij  í  bpiain  eppcop  cille  Da  lua  Do  écc. 

Qn  DÍ^anac  niac  bpiain  |uiaió  mic  connnóe  peap  cije  aoiDlD  coircnin 
Décc. 

Corhcpiiinniuccaó  pfp  népeann  50  haonbaile  1  nac  cliac  lap  ati  iiiprip  lajila 
cille  Dapa  (gfpóm  ócc  mac  ^fpnic)  Dú  hi  rcangarcap  laplaóa  1  bajiúin,  Rmi- 
peaóa,  -|  poóaoíne,  "|  upmóp  jaomeal  ■]  gall  epeann  apcfna.  Do  cuaió  cpa 
ó  neill  conn  mac  cuinn,  "]  ó  Domnaill,  aoó  mac  aoóa  puaió  00  cfnjal  a  ccop 
1  DarDainjnniccaó  a  píoóa  hi  ppiaónaipi  an  lupcíp,  tap  craccpa  -]  lap  naiTjnfp 
jaca  cainjne  po  baí  fcoppa  piarh  50  pin  oóib  pfin  -|  DÓ  ccaipoib  gall  -]  50016- 
eal  ní  po  cuimjCb  a  píoóuccab  lap  an  luprip  na  lap  na  mainb  ap  cfna  50 
cconjarrap  po  eippíó  t)ia  cci^ib  50  po  páp  an  coccaó  céona  froppa  Dopmipe. 
Oo  t)eacliai6  cpa  im  oomnaiU  po  6í  hi  críp  eojain  an  bl'aóam  pi  50  po 
loipceaó, "]  50  po  léipinopaD  jac  aipo  in  po  jab  oon  ríp  uile  laip,  1  ní  piiaip 
cacap  no  reoccrháil  pip  acc  Dol  nó  acc  reacc  aoinpecc  Oib  pin.  Oo  ponnr 
píb  laparh  fcoppa  a  crúp  un  po^maip  r)o  ponnpaó  co  po  nn^eallpac  aipiplm 
ap  gac  caoíb  peib  acbépab  an  iiipcipi  TTlaj^nup  ó  norhnaill. 

O  cacain  .1.  Sfan  mac  comaip  00  mapbaó  lá  npfim  Dia  cinm  pfin  .1.  mac 
Ruampi  an  púra  uí  cafcnn,  -]  mac  joppaóa  iií  carain,  ^. 

Cacapiona  ingfn  í  nmbjfnnám  oécc,  9.  lun,  ~[  a  haónacal  co  lionopac  hi 
luaniipcip  tiínn  na  njall. 

T?oip  wj^Cfí  megumip  (Sfan)  Décc. 

biubón  injfn  mécc  mafjamna  (bpian)  oécc. 

''  Burned  before  them This  is  badly  told.    It  indeed   they  have   iVoni   a   diflerent  autliority. 

should  be,  "  and  the  entrails  of  one  of  the  mur-  but  evidently   without    recognising    that  they 

derers  were  taken  out  and  burned  before  the  were  recording  the  same  event  which  they  had 

faces  of  others  who  were  living,  but  flayed,  and  entered  under  1525.     This,  and  many  other  en- 

of  others  who  were  as  yet  untouched,   but  al-  tries  of  a  similar  nature,  prove  that  their  work 

lowed  to  view  the  horrible  tortures  which  they  is  a  hurried  compilation, 

themselves  were  presently  to  receive."  ™Co».-CharlesO'Conor interpolates  bacuc,  i.  e. 

'j4  general  meeting TheFoiir]V{asters  should  the  lame,  which  is  correct.  He  was  the  chief  of  Ty- 

have  given  this  entry  under  the  next  year,  a?  rone,  who  was  afterwards  created  Earl  of  Tyrone. 


1525.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  137«) 

Earl  of  Kildare,  were  by  liis  orders  brought  to  the  spot  on  which  they  had 
murdered  the  bishop,  and  condemned  to  be  first  flayed  alive,  and  then  to  have 
their  bowels  and  entrails  taken  out  and  burned  before  them''. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Mahon,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Brian  Catha  an  aenaigh 
O'Brien,  Bishop  of  Killaloe,  died.  , 

The  Dean,  the  son  of  Brian  Roe  Mac  Conmidhe  [Mac  Namee],  who  kept  a 
house  of  general  hospitality,  died. 

A  general  meeting'  of  the  [principal]  men  of  Ireland  was  held  in  DubUn, 
by  the  Lord  Justice,  the  Earl  of  Kildare  (Garrett  Oge,  son  of  Garrett).  Thi- 
ther repaired  the  earls  and  barons,  knights  and  other  distinguished  men,  and 
the  greater  number  of  the  Irish  and  the  English  of  all  Ireland.  Thither  repaired 
O'Neill  (Con",  the  son  of  Con)  and  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Hugh  Roe), 
with  intent  to  form  a  league  and  reconfirm  their  peace  in  presence  of  the  Lord 
Justice.  [But]  after  they  themselves,  and  their  English  and  Irish  friends,  had 
debated  and  argued  upon  every  covenant  that  had  ever  been  entered  into 
between  them  till  that  time,  it  was  still  found  impossible  for  the  Lord  Justice 
and  all  the  other  chieftains  to  reconcile  them  to  each  other ;  so  that  they 
returned  to  their  homes  at  strife,  and  the  war  between  them  was  renewed. 
O'Donnell  went  twice  into  Tyrone  this  year,  and  burned  and  devastated  every 
part  of  the  country  through  which  he  passed,  and  received  neither  battle  nor 
opposition,  either  in  going  or  returning,  on  either  of  these  expeditions.  In  the 
beginning  of  the  following  harvest,  however,  a  peace  was  concluded  between 
them  ;  and  they  mutually  agreed  to  abide,  on  each  side,  by  the  arbitration  of 
the  Lord  Justice  and  Manus  O'Donnell. 

O'Kane,  i.  e.  John,  the  son  of  Thomas,  was  slain  by  a  party  of  his  own  tribe, 
namely,  Rory  O'Kane  of  the  Route",  the  son  of  Godfrey  O'Kane,  and  others. 

Catherine,  the  daughter  of  O'Duigennan,  died  on  the  9tli  of  June,  and  was 
honourably  buried  in  the  monastery  of  Donegal. 

Rose,  the  daughter  of  Maguire  (John),  died. 

Joan,  daughter  of  Mac  Mahon  (Brian),  died. 

°  Rory  O'Kane  of  the  Route. — A  branch  of  the  they  were  dispossessed  in  this  century  by  Sorley 

O'Kanes  had,  about  a  century  previous  to  this,  Boy  Mac  Donnell  of  the  Isles,  to  whom  Queen 

established  themselves  at  Dunseverick,   iu  this  Elizabeth  made  a  grant  of  all  his  conquests  in 

territory,  in  despite  of  the  Mac  Quillins,  but  this  territory. 

8n2 


1380  aNNaí,a  nio^liachca  ei4?eaNN.  [1526. 

aOlS  CR108U,  1526. 
(loíp  Cpioj^c,  mile,  cúicc  céo,  pice,  aSé. 

^laifne  mac  aoóa  méjaonjupa  abb  manac  an  lubaip  ppíoip  oúin  -]  Sab- 
aill  DO  itiapbaó  ló  cloinn  Dorhnaill  még  aonguj^a  .1.  ló  Dorhnall  ócc  cnna 
bpairpib. 

O  Rai^illij  Décc  .1.  eójan.  Coccaó  móp  do  pop  erip  a  cinfb  imón  njeap- 
iiap  lap  na  eccporh  co  po  gaipeaó  iia  pai^illi^  opfpjal  mac  Sfain  a  coiiiaiple 
an  lupnp  -]  rhopaín  do  itiainb  jall  -]  jaoibel  ge  po  baccap  Daoíne  bu  pine 
ina  pom  acc  cup  cuicce. 

TTlac  uí  Ruaipc  .1.  caócc  niac  eoccain  do  mapbao  1  meabail  lá  muitinpa 
Deapbparap  pfm. 

O  neill  .1.  conD, -]  TTlajnap  n  DomnaiU  do  bol  no  lacaip  an  lujxip  Do 
óenarh  píoba  conallac,-]  eojjanac,-]  ap  cnonól  mopáiti  Do  mairib  gall  -\  jaoiDel 
DÓ  poijib  Dia  piobiiccaD,  tií  po  péopac  naibm  piono  tió  cai]iofpa  fcoppa  co 
ccangaccap  ap  ccúlaibh  po  eippíb  Don  cup  pm. 

Sluaicceab  la  Inio  nDorhnaill  (lap  ccoióecr  TTlajnupa  ó  ár  t.liar)  -|  lá 
TTlajnup  pfippm  cona  pocpaioe  Diblínib  I11  ccúp  an  eappaij  Do  ponnpab  hi 
ccíp  eogain.  Cpeaca  lomDa  -|  atpccche  aibble  do  bénarh  leó  ipm  cíp,~|  in  inir 
Do  bénam  bóib  popp  na  cpeacaib  y\x)  hi  ccoill  na  lon  lii  piol  mbaoi^ill,  -]  ran- 
?;accap  plan  Dia  ccigib  lapom  co  neDcilaib  lomoaib. 

Gapaénca  rhóp  ap  nfipje  i  nioccap  connacr,  ap  po  cfnglaccap  a  nuprh(')|i 
nile  pé  pi)ile  i  na^aib  í  bomnaill.  bá  hian  Do  póine  an  coimcfngal  pin  bpian 
mac  peilnn  in'  concobaip,  ÍTlac  carail  óicc  uí  concobaip  (.1.  cabcc)  pó  pbochr 

"  OfNeíPn/,  ati    lutaip,   i.e.  of  the  yew Journal,  p.  102.     No  part  uf  the  ruins  of  this 

See  the  first  part  of  these  Annals  at  the  year  monastery  is  now  extant. 

1162.     A  monastery  was  erected  at  hibap  cmn  '' Elder  than  he This  is   the  literal  transla- 

cpacca,  i.  e.  the  yew  at  the  head  of  the  strand,  tion,  but  the  meaning  intended  to  be  conveyed 

now  the  town  of  Newry,  in  the  county  of  Down,  is,  that  some  of  his  rivals  were  his  elders,  or  of 

by  Muirchertach,  or  Mauricius  IMac  Loughlin,  a  senior  branch  of  the  family,  according  to  the 

King  of  all  Ireland,  about  the  year  1160. — See  law  of  tanistry. 

the  charter  of  foundation,  printed  in  its  original  ^  Manits  G'Donnell — This   is  the  true  date 

form  by  Dr.  O'Conor  in  his  Tternm  Biheriiicanim  and   account   of  what  has  been   above  entered 

,Scrij>tm-es,   2  prnkgomena   ad  Annates,    p.  158,  under  the  year   1525,   where  it   is  stateil  tliat 

and  a  translation,  with  notes,  in  the  Dublin  P.  O'Donnell  himself  attended  at  Dublin.     Ware 


1526]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1381 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1526. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  twenty-six. 

Glasny,  the  son  of  Hugh  Magennis,  Abbot  of  the  Monks  of  Newry',  and 
Prior  of  Down  and  Saul,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Donnell  Magennis,  namely, 
by  Donnell  Oge  and  his  kinsmen. 

O'Reilly,  i.  e.  Owen,  died.  After  his  death  a  great  war  arose  among  the 
chiefs  of  his  tribe  concerning  the  lordship,  [and  continued]  until  Farrell,  the 
son  of  John,  was  styled  O'Reilly,  by  advice  of  the  Lord  Justice  and  many 
others  of  the  English  and  Irish  chieftains,  though  some  of  his  rivals  were  elder 
than  he". 

The  son  of  O'Rourke,  i.  e.  Teige,  the  son  of  Owen,  was  treacherously  slain 
by  his  own  brother's  people. 

O'Neill  (Con)  and  Manus  O'Donnell'  went  before  the  Lord  Justice  to  make 
peace  between  the  Kinel-Connell  and  Kinel-Owen  ;  and  many  of  the  chiefs  of 
the  English  and  Irish  assembled  to  reconcile  them,  [but]  they  were  not  able  to 
establish  peace  or  amity  between  them,  so  that  they  returned  home  in  enmity 
on  that  occasion. 

O'Donnell  (after  the  return  of  Manus  from  Dubhn),  and  Manus  himself, 
with  the  forces  of  both,  marched,  in  the  beginning  of  Spring,  into  Tyrone;  they 
(committed  many  depredations  and  great  devastations  in  the  territory.  They 
feasted  upon  those  preys  during  Shrovetide'  at  Coill-na-lon%  in  Sil-Baoighill, 
and  then  retui'ned  home  in  safety,  loaded  with  great  booty; 

A  great  dissension  arose  in  Lower  Connaught.  The  greater  number  of 
them'  [i.  e.  of  the  inhabitants]  combined  against  O'Donnell.  The  following 
were  those  who  formed  this  confederacy :  Brian,  the  son  of  Felim  O'Conor,  and 
TeÍG[e,  the  son  of  Cathal  (Jije  O'Conor,  together  with  the  descendants  of  Cormac 

gives  the  account  of  the  meeting  between  O'Neill  ■•they   made    or    passed    Shrovetide    on    those 

and  the  deputy  of  O'Donnell,  under  the  year  preys."     This  strange  idiom  is  still  in  comnion 

1Ó26  only,  whicli  is  tlie  correct  date,  and  says  use. 

that  the  person  who  attended  at  Dublin  was  '  Coill-naloii,  i.e.  the  wood  of  the  blackbirds, 

Manus,  the  eldest  son  of  Hugh  O'Donnell.  Lord  now   Kilnalun.    in   Tyrone,    on    the   borilers  of 

of  Tirconnell.  Donegal. 

'  Ih(rÍ7t(/  S/iroi-etii/e,  vwr  T>o  óéníiu  .  literally.  '  Oftliern. — The  style  is  here  awkward,   but 


1382  aNNQi-Q  Rioghacbca  eikeaNN.  [i526 

copbmaic  mic  Donnchom  .1.  eoccan,  "|  ITluipcfjicac  cona  cclomn,  "]  cona  luce 
Ifnariina,  on  pónpac  on  Ukc  pin  cjieac  a  tiiocca]i  caipppi  ap  pliocc  peilim 
vnic  eoccain  ui  concobai]i,i  jiuccpar  na  c]ieaca  leo  hi  tnaig  Impcc  ap  poboap 
]M'nóai^  piú  ap  bol  1  nacchaio  ui  óomhnaill. 

Oi)  cuala  Ó  DorhnaiU  na  cpeaca  ym  00  benarh,  00  pónaó  cionol  pluai^ 
Inip  hi  ccfnn  apoile  .1.  cuiD  00  mairiB  conallac,  "|  majuióip,  cúconnacc  co 
neip^e  aniac  pfpiiianac  amaille  ppif,  00  cuaib  po  ceoóip  hi  ccaipppi.  Ro 
bpipfo  caiplén  na  gpainpije  gan  puipeac  laip  .1.  baile  pleacca  bpmin  ui  con- 
cobaip,  DO  raéb  laparh  piap  an  plua^  pin  hi  nmi^  luipcc  po  inilleaó  1  po 
loipcceablaip  an  cip,-|  do  coccap  pliocc  bpiain  ui  concobaip  pop  a  lomjabail 
T)on  cup  pin,  1  cainic  piorii  Dm  C15.  Od  cualaccap  an  rpiol  cconcobaip  pm 
Ó  Dorhnaill  Do  Dol  cap  a  aip  hi  cci'p  conaill  cangaccap  pTin  1  an  clann  Dotin- 
chaió  jierhpáice  co  lion  a  ccionoil  a  ccimceall  pliccij.  Po  jabpac  aj  jfppaD 
^opc  "]  apbann,  -]  po  baccap  ace  cup  Do  cum  an  baile  Do  jabóil  no  gup  map- 
ba6  DuiMc  uiaic  oci  muincip  .1.  RuaiDpi  ballac  mac  í  aipc,  Roimci^pfc  on 
mbaile  an  ló  pin,-)  cpuinnijic  do  pibipi  imon  mbaile, -]  lap  ccluinpin  na  pccél 
pin  Dua  Dorhnaill  cainic  co  nfmlfpcc  nfrhpabal  gan  puipeac  jan  paiUij;e 
Dpóipibin  cplicci  j,  1  ni  po  hanab  ppip  ap  poccain  do,  op  on  cómpioc  píol 
cconcobaip  "]  clann  nDonnchoib  50  bél  on  Dpoicic.  T?o  Ifn  ó  DomnoiU  cono 
I'luaijj  locc  cduoil  op  Deine  conponccaccop,  -|  po  ppooineab  po  céoóip  pop 
piol  cconcobaip,  -|  pop  cloinn  noonnchaib,  1  po  mapbab  mac  meic  Donnchaib 
.1.  niaoileaclainn  mac  eojoin  mic  Donnchaib  co  pochaibe  ele  amaille  ppip. 
r?o  cuipeob  bpion  mac  peilim  mic  mo^jnupo  ui  concobaip  Dia  eoc, -]  bo  he 
Dlúp  1  Doinjne  no  coilleab  cajila  o  ccimceall  beóil  on  Dpoicic  puce  ap 
uoibib  é,  -|  oDbepac  apoile  nop  bo  hógplón  on  moibmpin  olle  co  bpuoip  bap 
lap  ccpioll.     l?o  póccaib  an  pluacc  connaccac  pin  éoala  mópa  eac,  aipm,  1 

the  Editor  would  not  consider  himself  justified  of  the  town  of  Sligo. 

in  improving  it,  even  in  the  translation.  "  Bel-an-droichit,  now  Ballydrihid,  or  Bella- 

"  The  rising  out,   i.  e.   the  number  of  forces  drohid,  about  three  miles  to  the  south-west  of 

usually    sent    to   battle    out   of  the    territory.  the  town  of  Sligo. — See  note  ',  under  the  year 

Fyues  Moryson  frequently  uses  this  expression  1495,  p.  1214,  supra. 

in  his  account  of  the  rebellion  of  Hugh,  Earl  of  '  The  G'Conors  and  Mac  Donougks. — The  style 

Tyrone.  is  here  very  clumsy,  but  the  Editor  does  not 

'  Grainseach,  now  Grange,  a  small  village  in  deem  it  proper  to  change  the  structure  of  the 

the  barony  of  Carbury,  eight  miles  to  the  north  language. 


1526.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1383 

Mac  Donough,  namely,  (])wen  and  Murtough,  with  their  sons  and  tbllowers. 
These  people  committed  a  depredation  in  the  lower  part  of  Carbury,  upon  the 
descendants  of  Felim,  the  son  of  Owen  O'Conor ;  and  they  carried  oíF  the  preys 
with  them  into  Moylurg,  for  the  inhabitants  of  tliat  territory  were  at  peace  with 
them,  for  having  opposed  O'Donnell. 

When  O'Donnell  had  heard  of  these  depredations  having  been  committed, 
he  mustered  his  forces  together,  namely,  some  of  the  chiefs  of  Tirconiiell  and 
Maguire  (C'uconnaught),  Avith  the  rising-out"  of  Fermanagh.  He  first  proceeded 
to  Carbury,  where  he,  without  delay,  demolished  the  castle  of  Grainseach',  the 
town  [i.  e.  mansion-seat]  of  the  descendants  of  Brian  O'Conor.  He  afterwards 
marched  at  the  head  of  this  army  into  Moylurg,  and  ravaged  and  burned  the 
country  ;  the  descendants  of  Brian  O'Conor  having  shunned  him  on  this 
occasion,  he  returned  home.  When  the  O'Conors  heard  that  O'Donnell  had 
returned  into  Tirconnell,  they  and  the  Mac  Donoughs,  already  mentioned, 
came  with  all  their  forces  around  Sligo,  and  proceeded  to  cut  down  the 
crops  and  corn  fields  ;  and  they  were  preparing  to  take  the  town,  until  Rory 
Ballagh,  tlie  son  of  O'Hart,  a  good  man  of  their  people,  was  slain  ;  and  they 
departed  from  the  town  on  that  day  ;  but  they  again  collected  aroiuid  it. 
O'Donnell,  on  receiving  intelligence  of  their  proceedings,  went,  without  delay 
or  neglect,  vigorously  and  expeditiously,  to  the  relief  of  Sligo  ;  but  the  others 
did  not  await  his  coming,  for  the  O'Conors  and  Mac  Donoughs  went  to  Bal-an- 
droichit".  O'Donnell  pursued  them  with  all  possible  speed,  and  he  at  once 
routed  the  [said]  O'Conors  and  Mac  Donoughs".  The  son  of  Mac  Donougli 
(Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Owen)  and  many  others  besides  him,  were  slain  ;  Brian, 
the  son  of  Felim,  son  of  Manus  O'Conor,  was  thrown  from  his  horse,  and  it  was 
by  the  closeness  and  fastness  of  the  wood  that  surrounded  Bel-an-droichit  that 
lie  was  enabled  to  escape''  from  them, — and  some  say  that  he  was  never  per- 
fectly well  from  [the  period  of]  that  defeat  until  he  died  some  time  afterwards. 
The  Connacian  army  left  great  spoils,  [consisting  of]  horses,  arms,  and  armour, 

^  To  escape.  —  The  litural  translation  is,  ''and  of  his  escape,   which   could  hardly   be  allowed 

it  was  the  closeness  and  the  fastness  of  the  wood  by  sound  criticism,  and  the  Editor  has  taken 

that  happened  to  be  around  Bel-an-droichit  that  the  liberty  to  make  a  slight  idiomatic  alteration 

brought  him  from    them."     Here    the   nouns  in  the   translation,    not   warranted  by   the  ori- 

olúp  and   oainjne  are  made  the  active  agents  ginal. 


1384  aNNaí,a  Riojhachca  eiReaNN.  [1526. 

éiDeaó  ag  cenel  cconaiU  oon  cuii  )-in,  iiai]i  ó  oo  pan  aoó  puaó  niac  neill  jaipB 
inaióm  an  cfiDij  ópoijnij  pop  connacraib  lii  rropcpacap  ile  oíb  ní  rapDpar 
cenél  cconaill  pnp  connacraib  én  maióm  po  ba  copccpaióe  Dóib  no  cup,  ~\  óp 
liaióble  a  nénala  ináp  an  niaibm  pin  beóil  an  Dpoicir. 

O  néill  no  feacc  Do  roipmfpcc  caipléin  no  rionnpccain  ITlajjnap  ó  norh- 
íiaill  hi  pope  na  crpi  natfiac,  ■]  ÍTlajnup  no  rfgrhoil  pia  ccúp  an  rpluaij;, -| 
enpi  mac  pfain  í  neill  no  ^abáil  laip,-|  ó  néill  pfin  nimreacc  a  ccóip  niaóma. 

O  cacáin  .1.  joppaió  mac  goppaóa  no  mapbaó  05  bealac  an  camám  ló 
nmc  í  néill  .1.  mail  ócc,"]  mail  pfin  Do  jabáil  po  cfnn  rpill  lappin  ló  hua  neill, 
1  a  hfir  1  mbpaijnfnap  ppí  pé  pona. 

ÍTIac  í  caroin  (joppaió)  aóbap  n^^eapna  a  cípe  peipin  no  óol  ap  piubal 
cpeice  1  n^lionn  concaóan  a  mí  lanuapii  no  ponnpaó, "]  a  éccporh  ppi  haópu- 
aipe  na  píne  jfirhprca  conac  ppir  aon  pocal  oia  pcélaib  no  50  pppír  a  copp 
a  nnfipfó  an  copj^aip  ap  cinn, "]  eiipi  mac  neill  mic  bpiatn  rijepna  baile  no 
bpajac  no  rhapban  non  cup  pm,  "|  pocaiói  ele  beóp  nécc  no  puacc, "]  Do 
inapbaó  amaille  ppiú. 

maióm  no  rabaipc  lá  mac  mic  piapaip  ap  cloinn  emainn  mic  romaip 
buicilép  nú  in  po  mapbaó  concobap  ócc  mac  concobaip  caoic  uí  óomnaill  baí 
na  conpapal  gallócclac,-]  ajá  mbaílárh  maic  co  minic  piap  an  can  pm, -]  an 
lá  pin  náipibe  ap  nip  lOcc  men  a  rhfnman "]  peabap  a  lóime  óó  anacal  no 
^abóil  lap  na  raipccpin  no,  -|  copcpacap  pocaióe  mop  no  najDaoi'nib,  no 
mapcpluaj,  1  no  gallocclacaib  ipin  maióm  pin  ina  pappaó. 

O  nocapcaij  eacmapcac  rijeapna  innpi  heoccain  nécc,  "|  impfpain  mop 

'  Anr/. — In  the  original  it  is  uaip,  ybr,  which  randum  written  by   the  scribe  at   the  end  :  — 

is  incorrect,   even  according  to  the  genius  and  "Q  ccciiplen  puipc  nuccpi  narhac  imoppii  Do 

idiom  of  the  Irish  language.  DeaccuD  in  Kearao  po  cm  zan  ha  plan  oú  blia- 

'  Ceideach-droighneach,  i.e.  hill  of  the  black-  óuin  oéc   ap    picic  ap  cúic  céo  up   thile  oon 

thorn,    or  sloe  bushes,    now   Keadydrinagh,    a  cijeapnu."  —  See    this    manuscript    described, 

townland  in  the  barony  of  Carbury,  and  county  Stowe  Catalogue,  p.  397.     This  castle  stood  on 

of  Sligo.  the  east  side  of  the  river,  close  to  the  present 

''  Port-na-dtri-namhad. — The  erection  of  this  town  of  Strabane — See   note   under  the  year 

castle  was  completed  by  j\Ianus  O'Donnell,  who  1522. 

compiled  there,  in  the  year  1532,  his  celebrated  '  Bealach-an-chamain,    i.e.   the  pass  of  the 

Life  of  St.  Columbkille,   the  original  of  which  winding,  now  Ballaghcommon,  in  the  barony  of 

is   now  preserved  in    the  Bodleian  Library  at  Strabane,  and  county  of  Tyrone. 
Oxford,  as  appears  from  the  following  memo-  "*  (?/eann-Co«co(tta«,  anglicised  Glenconkeine, 


1526.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1385 

to  the  Kinel-Connell  on  that  occasion  ;  and^  from  the  time  that  Hugh  Roe,  the 
son  of  Niall  Garv,  had  gained  the  battle  of  Ceideach-droighneacli"  over  the 
Connacians,  where  many  of  them  were  slain,  the  Kinel-Connell  had  not  given 
a  defeat  to  the  Connacians  which  redounded  more  to  their  triumph,  or  by  which 
they  obtained  more  spoils,  than  this  defeat  of  Bel-an-droichit. 

O'Neill  set  out  to  prevent  the  erection  of  a  castle  which  Manus  O'Donnell 
had  begun  at  Port-na-dtri-namhad"  ;  but  Manus  met  the  van  of  his  army,  and 
took  Henry,  the  son  of  John  O'Neill,  prisoner ;  whereupon  O'Neill  himself  took 
to  flight. 

O'Kane  (Godfrey,  son  of  Godfrey)  was  slain  at  Bealach-an-Chamain°,  by  the 
son  of  O'Neill  (Niall  Oge)  ;  and  Niall  himself  was  soon  afterwards  taken  pri- 
soner by  O'Neill,  and  he  was  detained  a  long  time  in  captivity. 

The  son  of  O'Kane,  i.  e.  Godfrey,  heir  to  the  lordship  of  his  own  country, 
set  out  upon  a  predatory  incursion  into  Gleann-Concadhan'',  in  the  month  of 
January  ;  and  he  perished  in  consequence  of  the  intense  cold  of  the  winter^  ; 
nor  was  there  a  word  heard  about  him  until  the  end  of  the  following  Lent, 
when  his  body  was  discovered.  Henry,  son  of  Niall,  who  was  son  of  Niall,  Lord 
of  Baile-na-braghat^,  was  slain  on  this  occasion  ;  and  many  others  perished  of 
cold  and  were  slain  along  with  them. 

A  defeat  was  given  by  the  son  of  Mac  Pierce  to  the  sons  of  Edmond,  sou 
of  Thomas  Butler,  in  which  was  slain  Conor  Oge,  son  of  Conor  Caech  O'Don- 
nell, who  was  a  constable  of  gallowglasses,  and  who  had  often  before  that  time, 
but  especially  on  that  day,  made  a  display  of  the  prowess  and  activity  of  his 
arm  ;  for  the  greatness  of  his  mind  and  the  dexterity  of  his  hand  would  not 
suffer  him  to  accept  quarter,  after  it  had  been  offered  him.  And  a  great  num- 
ber of  chieftains  of  cavalry  and  of  gallowglasses  were  slain  in  that  defeat  along 
with  him. 

O'Doherty  (Eachraarcach),  Lord  of  Inishowen,  died  ;  and  a  great  contention 

a  name  now  applied  to  a  valley  in  the  barony  sept  of  the  Kinel-Owen,   who  were  tributary  to 

of  Ballynascreen,  in  the  south-west  of  the  county  O'Neill,  not  to  O'Kane,  whose  territory  joined 

of  Londonderry ;  but  it  was  anciently  the  name  them  on  the  north  side. 

of  a  territory  comprising  the  parishes  of  Bally-  «   Intense  cold  of  the  winter,   literally,    "  he 

nascreen,  Kilcronaghan,  and  Desertmartin.  Ac-  died  of  the  intense  cold  of  the  wintry  weather." 

cording  to  the  tradition  in  the  country  this  was  ^  Baile-na-braghat,     now   Braid,  a  townland 

the   territory  of  the  O'Henerys,  a  respectable  in  the  barony  of  Omagh,  and  county  of  Tyrone. 

80 


1386  aNHQf-a  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [1.526. 

a]i  nfipje  eri]i  a  cineaó  péin  pa  njeapnap  50  po  joipeao  cijeapna  Do  jeapalr 
mac  DomnaiU  tnic  pfilim  í  bocaprai^. 

Sluaiccheaó  lá  liuo  nDorhnaill  ln  rríp  amaljaib  a■^^  cappamj  plecru 
Riocaipo  a  búpc,  barcap  maice  ceneóil  cconaill  ap  an  pluaicceoó  pin, -| 
TTIájuióip  cúconnacc  co  néip^e  amac  pfpmanac  amaille  ppip,  ní  po  lianaoli 
-|  ní  po  haipipfó  lap  na  huaiplib  pin  co  panjaccap  co  plicceac  cecúp.  l?o 
caippngfo-i  po  cfglnmar)  apBanna  lomoa  baoí  acc  pliocc  bpiain  hí  concobaip 
hi  ccúil  loppa  50  pliccenc  lap  an  ]4iia  j  pin  uí  Dorhnaill  -]  an  ní  rá  ]io  rap- 
]iain5pfc  t)e  po  rhiUpfc  co  léip  lié.  UfiD  ó  Domnaill  cona  plua^  hi  ccíp  nam- 
aljaió,  -]  po  jaViaó  caiplén  caoprannáin  -|  cpop  maoiliona  laip,  -]  puaip 
bpai^oe,  1  éoala  lomóa  pna  caiplénaib  ípin.  í?o  leaccaó,  -j  po  láinhpipfó 
laip  lacr  conap  56  hionaiccpeaba  innuib  ap  a  hairle.  Oo  pónaó  laip  lap  pni 
pír,  caoac,  -]  cortiaonraD  ecip  pliocc  T?iocaipo  a  búpc  1  baipéoaij  comoa]i 
cópai^  ppia  poile.  Q5  póaó  Oua  Dorhnaill  po  ^ab  poplongpopc  im  cul  maoile 
bai  in  éccpaiofp  -j  in  anurhla  pip  an  can  pin.  l?o  milleao "]  po  loipcceaó  ma 
tnbaoí  Dapbap  ag  pliocu  copbmaic  rnic  DonncViaib  laip  conaó  lap  na  Tnillear) 
1  lap  na  mi  imipr  Do  ponpac  a  bper  pfin  Do  pir  pip  ua  nDomnaill, "]  cuccpar 
bpaijDe  DO  ppi  comall  gac  nfic  po  jeallpac  ppip.  Oo  ponpac  pliocc  bpiam 
.)'  concobaip  an  céona  uaip  cuccpac  a  piap  1  o  bpfc  pfin  do  pic  Dua  DomnoiU 
lap  mbpipfó  caiplém  na  jpcnnpije,  -|  lap  milleab  a  mbaipp,  "|  a  napba  uile,  1 
DO  paDpac  a  ccaopai^eacc  Don  cip  laparh,  Do  caoD  6  Dorhnaill  cona  plócc 
l'lán  lap  mbuaiD,  1  ccopccap  Don  cup  pm,  "|  fó  bfcc  pia  pamhain  Do  pónaó  an 
pliiaicceaó  pin  la  hiia  nDomnaill. 

bpeapal  ua  maDajáin  (.1.  ci;^eapna  pil  naniiicaóa),  pfp  caoi'n  cpóóa, 
clVinpa  ceapcbpfrac  Décc. 

^  Until. — It  will  be  seen   that  the  construe-  county  of  Sligo  ;  but  it  appears  t'roui  the  deed 

tion  would  not  make  perfect  sense  without  sup-  of  partition  of  the  Sligo  estate,  dated  21st  of 

plying  the  words  enclosed  in  brackets.     "  But  July,  1687,  that  the  district  of  "  Cullurra  coni- 

at  length"  would  be  considered  better  in  Eng-  prised  the  parishes  of  St.  John,   Kilinacowen, 

lish.  and  Killaspickbrone." 

I"  The  rising  out,   i.  e.   the  military  force   of  ''  Caerthanan,  i.  e.  a  place  abounding  in  the 

Fermanagh.  mountain  ash.   The  place  is  so  called  in  Irish  at 

'  Cuil-irra. — This  is  now  applied  to  a  district  the  present  day,  but  it  is  generally  called  Cas- 

supposed  to.be  coextensive  with  the  parish  of  tlehill  in  English.     It  is  situated  on  the  west 

Killaspugbrone,  in  the  barony  of  Carbury,  and  side  of  Lough  Conn,  in  the  barony  of  Tirawley, 


1526.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1387 

arose  among  his  tribe  concerning  the  lordship,  [and  continued]  untiF  Gerald, 
the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Felim  O'Doherty,  was  at  last  styled  Lord. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  into  Tirawley,  at  the  instance  of  the  descend- 
ants of  Richard  Burke.  In  this  army  were  the  chiefs  of  Tirconnell  and  Ma- 
guire,  with  the  rising-out"  of  Fermanagh ;  and  tliese  chieftains  marched,  without 
delaying  or  halting,  on  to  Sligo.  This  army  of  O'Donnell  collected  in  Cuil-irra' 
a  great  quantity  of  corn,  belonging  to  the  descendants  of  Brian  O'Conor,  and 
drew  it  into  Sligo  ;  and  such  corn  as  they  did  not  carry  off  they  totally  de- 
stroyed. O'Donnell  then  marched  his  army  into  Tirawley,  where  he  took  the 
castles  of  Caerthanan''  and  Cros-Maoiliona',  in  which  he  found  hostages  and 
many  spoils  ;  and  he  then  threw  down  and  totally  demolished  these  castles,  so 
that  they  were  no  longer  habitable".  He  afterwards  established  peace,  amity, 
and  concord,  between  the  descendants  of  Rickard  Burke  and  the  Barretts,  so 
that  they  were  [for  a  long  time  afterwards]  friendly  towards  one  another.  On 
his  way  home  O'Donnell  pitched  his  camp  at  Cul-Maoile  [Collooney],  the  inha- 
bitants of  which  were  in  [a  state  of]  hostility  and  insubordination  to  him  at  that 
time  ;  and  he  destroyed  and  burned  all  the  corn  belonging  to  the  descendants 
of  Cormac  Mac  Donough  ;  and  it  was  not  until  after  they  had  been  plundered 
and  ruined  that  they  made  peace  with  O'Donnell,  upon  his  own  conditions,  and 
gave  him  hostages  for  the  fulfilment  to  him  of  every  thing  they  promised.  The 
descendants  of  Brian  O'Conor  acted  in  like  manner,  for  they  gave  O'Donnell  his 
demands,  and  made  peace  with  liim  on  his  own  terms,  after  he  had  demolished 
the  castle  of  Grainseach  [Grange],  and  destroyed  all  their  crops  and  corn. 
They  afterwards  took  their  creaghts  into  the  country.  O'Donnell,  with  his 
army,  returned  safe,  after  victory  and  triumph,  on  that  expedition.  Tliis  hosting 
was  made  by  O'Donnell  a  short  time  before  Allhallowtide. 

Breasal  O'Madden,  Lord  of  Sil-Anmchadha,  a  kind,  brave,  mild,  and  justly- 
judging  man,  died. 

and  county  of  Mayo — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  of  Lough  Conn,  and  six  miles  west  from  Bal- 

and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachro.ch,  pp.  233,  482.  lina. — See  Genealogies,   Tribes,  and  Customs  of 

'  Cros-Maoiliona. — This  sliould  be  Cros-Ui-  Hy-Fiachrach,  pp.  12,  13,  487. 

Mhaoilfhiona,  i.e.  O'MuUeeny's  cross,  now  Cros-  ""  So  that  they  were  no  longer  habitable — This 

molina,  a  village  in  the  barony  of  Tirawley,  and  might  also  be  rendered  "  so  that  they  were  not 

county  of  Mayo,  sitiiated  one  mile  north-west  fit  to  be  dwelt  in  afterwards." 

8  02 


1388  aNNQta  Rio^hachca  emeaNH.  [1527. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1527. 
QoiS  CRiopc,  mile,  cúicc  céD,  piche  apeacc. 

Labjia)'  abb  Ifpa  gabail  oécc. 

moguiDip  concobap  Décc,-|  TTlaguiDip  00  jaijim  iiui  lonaó  Don  comhapba 
.1.  DO  comconnacr,  mac  conconnacr,  mic  bpiain,  la  hua  nDomnaill. 

UoipjiDealbac  mac  eiccneacáin  1  Domnaill,  -j  peilim  mac  goppaoa  mic 
Sfam  luipcc  í  Domnaill  Do  écc. 

TTIac  DonnchaiD  cipe  hoilella  .1.  copbmac  mac  caiDcc  mic  bpiain  Decc,  1 
impeapain  do  bfir  ecip  cloinn  nDonncbaiD  pan  cijeapnap  no  gup  goipeaó  mac 
DonnchaiD  Deoccan  mac  DonnchaiD  mic  mupchaiD. 

bpian  mac  peilim  mic  ITlagnupa  ui  concobaip,  -\  Domnall  mac  peilim  mic 
roippDealbai^  cappaij  ui  concobaip  Decc. 

piaicbfpcac  mac  RuaiDpi  mic  bpiain  méguióip  Do  rhapbaó  la  reallac 
eacDac  i.  la  huaifne  mac  TTlaj^nupa  mégpampaDain. 

Qrhlaoib  ócc  Dub  majarhalgaib  caoipeac  calpaije  do  cuicim  la  cloinn 
colmáin, "]  jio  Diojailpiorh  é  pein  pia  na  mapbaó  uaip  do  mopbaDh  pmcha 
maseocagáin  laip  ap  an  larai]i  pin. 

O  cléipij  .1.  cm  giolla  piabac  mac  caibcc  caim  paoi  lé  healaóain  hi  pfncup, 
I  nDÓn,  1  hi  Ifi^ionn  pfp  puim,  paióbip,  poconóig,  1  curhaing  móip  éipióe, "]  a  écc 
in  aibírc  San  pponj^eip  an.  8.  la  do  ITlhapca. 

Qn  Doccuip  ua  Duinnpleibe  Donnchab  mac  eoccain,  Doccúip  hi  Ifijea]'  ~\ 
yaoi  ineaolabnaib  ele,  pfp  conaij  móip, "]  Saibbpfpa,  1  cije  naoibfb  coircinn 
Decc  .30.  Sepcembep. 

TTlac  ma^nupa  mcguibip  .1.  romáp  ócc  mac  carail  oicc,  mic  cacail  óicc 
biacac  an  cpfnaij,  oppicél  loca  héipne,  pfp  fpccna  eólac  in  ealaDnaib,  pfp  po 
bit  Ian  DO  clii  1  Doipbeapcap  in  gac  lonaD  bai  ma  cnriipoccup,  -]  a  écc. 

l?uaiópi  mac  inupchaiD  mic  puibne  Do  rhapbaD  la  a  bpaicpib. 

"  John  Luirg,  i.  e.  John  of  Lurg,  so  called  Magaurans  ol'  the  barony  of  Tiillyhaw,  in  the 

liecause  he  was  fostered  in  the  barony  of  Lurg,  north-west  of  the  county  of  Cavan,   adjoining 

in  the  north  of  the  county  of  Fermanagh,  by  Fermanagh, 
the  O'Muldoons.  p  Claim- Colman. — This  was   the  tribe-name 

°  Teallack-Eachdhach,  i.  e.  the  family  or  tribe  of  the  O'Melaghlins,  whose  territory  at  this  pe- 

of  Eachaidh.     This  was  the  tribe-name  of  the  riod  was  circumscribed  to  the  limits  of  the  pre- 


1527.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  138<) 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1527. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  twenty-seven. 

Laurence,  Abbot  of  Lisgool,  died. 

Maguire  (Conor)  died ;  and  the  Coarb,  namely,  Cuconnaught,  son  of  Cucou- 
naught,  who  was  son  of  Brian,  was  styled  Maguire  in  his  place  by  O'Donnell. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Egueghan  O'Donnell,  and  Felim,  the  son  of  Godfrey, 
son  of  John  Luii'g"  O'Donnell,  died. 

Mac  Donough  of  Tireri'ill  (Cormac,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Brian),  died  ; 
and  a  contention  arose  between  the  Clann-Donough  concerning  the  lordship, 
[and  continued]  until  Owen,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Murrough,  was  styled 
Mac  Donough. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Felim,  son  of  Manus  O'Conor,  and  Donnell,  the  son  of 
Felim,  son  of  Turlough  Carragh  O'Conor,  died. 

Flaherty,  the  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Brian  Maguire,  was  slain  by  Teallach- 
Eachdhach°,  i.  e.  by  Owny,  the  son  of  Manus  Magauran. 

Auliife  Oge  Duv  Magawley,  Cliief  of  Calry,  fell  by  the  Clann-Colman'' ;  but 
before  his  fall,  he  hiinself  avenged  himself,  for  he  slew  Fiacha  Mageoghegan  on 
the  field  of  contest. 

O'Clery  (Gilla-Reagh,  the  son  of  Teige  Cam),  a  scientific  adept  in  history, 
poetry,  and  hterature,  and  a  man  of  consideration,  wealth,  prosperity,  and  great 
power,  died  in  the  habit  of  St.  Francis,  on  the  8th  day  of  March. 

The  physician  O'Donlevy  (Donough,  son  of  Owen),  a  Doctor  of  Medicine, 
and  learned  in  other  sciences,  a  man  of  great  affluence  and  wealth,  who  kept  a 
house  of  general  hospitality,  died  on  the  30th  of  September. 

Mac  Manus  Maguire  (Thomas  Oge,  the  son  of  Cathal  Oge,  son  of  Cathal 
Oge),  Biatach  of  Seanadh"",  and  Oflicial  of  Lough  Erne,  a  wise  man,  skilled  in 
the  sciences,  a  man  of  great  fame  and  renown  throughout  his  neighbourhood, 
died. 

Rory,  the  son  of  ^lurrough  Mac  Sweeny,  was  slain  by  his  own  kinsmen. 

sent   barony   of  Clanlonan,    in    the   county  of  ^  Biatach  of  Seanadk,  i.  e.  farmer  of  Belle  Isle, 

Westmeatli.    The  Magawleys  were  in  the  parish  in  the  Upper  Lough  Erne.    This  was  the  son  ol" 

of  Ballyloughloe,    in   the  same  territory,   and  the  compiler  of  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  whose 

tributary  to  the  O'Melaghlins.  death  is  recorded  above  under  the  year  1498. 


1390  aNHQca  Rio^hachra  eiReawN.  [1527. 

Uilliam  mac  amD|iiafa  méjcpaic  peap  paiobpeafa  -\  poconrhgh  oecc. 

CaiciUn  in^fn  ciiinn  inic  Dorhnaill  í  neill  bfn  c]iail'óeac  óejeinij  po  baí 
(«5  Dfjpfpaib  .1.  05  net  Rajallai'^  ap  cup,  1  ctcc  ua  T?uaipc  lappin  oecc  lap 
non5aó  "j  lap  nairpije. 

Sloicceaó  lá  hua  nDorhnaiU  aoó  mac  aoóa  puaib  00  bol  hi  cconnaccaib, 
Qriacc  canjaccap  ina  pochpaicce,  o  baoijill,  o  oocapraij,  na  cpi  irific 
fuibne,  maguióip,  cuconnachc  co  neipje  amac  pfpnianac,  -j  maire  locraip 
connacc  cona  nfipje  amac  -|  ni  po  haipipeaó  leó  co  piaccaccap  mag  luipcc. 
r?o  milleaó  an  ci'p  co  Ifip  leó  ecip  apbap  -]  poipccnfrh.  Qpfó.locap  laparh 
CO  caiplén  mop  mic  goipDealbaij^  Dia  jabáil.  bá  Daingfn  oíoroglilaiji  eipióé 
ap  po  bónap  an  utle  aióme  jabála  ppi  naimoib  peib  ip  oeacb  baoi  in  epinn 
an  can  pin  ipin  mbaile  I'pin  ecip  biuó  -|  opoanáp  1  jac  aióme  apcfna,  apa 
aoi  cpa  po  jabpac  na  maire  pin  ace  lompuióe  imon  mbaile,-]  Ro  ppeacnaijpfr 
a  plo^a  ina  uipnmceall  conáp  Ificcpfc  neac  anonn  no  anall  Oia  paicció  50 
po  gabab  an  caiplén  leó  po  óeóió. 

Ro  gabab  leó  Don  cup  pin  caiplén  an  mfnooDa,  caiplén  an  calaib,  baile 
na  hiiarha,  -|  an  caiplén  piabac,  -]  po  bpipic  na  caipléin  pin  uile  leo  lap 
na  njabail.  Ro  mapbab  beóp  aob  binbe  mac  an  oubálraij  uí  gallcubaip 
ap  an  pluaicceab  pin  (ó  ua  nDorhnaill)  mucr  an  bealaig  buibe. 

Caiplén  Ificbip  Do  cpíocnuccabló  ITIajnup  ua  nDorhnaill  erip  obaip  cloice, 
cpoinn,  -]  clápaijji  ua  neill  a  ccoccab  paip.  Qp  ann  po  oonnpccnab  an  obaip 
pin  la  majnup  an  céDaoín  lap  ppéil  bpenainn  ipin  rparhpao  ■)  po  cpiocnuicceaD 
a  ccuiD  Don  cpariipab  ceDna. 

■■  Rising-oui,  i.  e.  the  forces.     This  phrase  is  castle  is  shewn, 

used  even  by  the  English  writers  of  the  reign  '  Mewinoda,    now  Banuady,   near   the  littk' 

of  Elizabeth. — See  Moryson's  History  of  Ireland,  town  of  Ballaghaderreen,  close  to  the  boundary 

book  ii.  c.  i,  edition  of  1735,  pp.  235,  237.     It  of  the  counties  of  Mayo  and  Eoscommon. 

was  used  by  Hugh  Mac  Curtin  so  late  as  1717;  "  Cala,  now  Callow,   a  small  tract   of  level 

see  his  Brief  Discourse   in    Vindication   of  the  land  on  the  south  side  of  Lough  Gara,  in  the 

Antiquity  of  Ireland,  p.  173.  parish  of  Kilnamannagh,  barony  of  Frenchpark 

'  Castlemore-Costello,  cai|'len  mop  mic  joip-  (lately  apart  of  the  barony  of  Boyle),  and  county 

óecilbuij,  i.e.  the  great  castle  of  Mac  Costello,  of  Roscommon.     The  foundations  of  this  castle, 

now  Castlemore,  in  the  barony  of  Costello,  and  which   was  locally  called  baoBovm   a  calaio, 

county  of  Mayo. — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  i.  e.  the  Bawn  of  Callow,  are  still  pointed  out 

Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  482,  and  the  map  on  the  margin  of  the  lake, 

to  the  same  work,  on  which  the  position  of  this  *"  Baile-na-huamha,  i.  e.   town  of  the  cave. 


15270  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1391 

William,  the  son  of  Andrew  Magrath,  a  man  of  wealth  and  prosperity,  died. 

Catherine,  the  daughter  of  Con,  son  of  Donnell  O'Neill,  a  pious  and  truly 
hospitable  woman,  who  had  been  married  to  good  men,  namely,  first  to  O'Reilly, 
and  afterwards  to  O'Rourke,  died,  after  unction  and  penance. 

An  army  was  mustered  by  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Hugh  Roe),  to 
march  into  Conuaught.  The  following  were  those  who  joined  his  forces  : — 
O'Boyle,  O'Doherty,  the  three  Mac  Sweenys,  Maguire  (Cuconnaught),  with  the 
rising-out'  of  Fermanagh,  and  also  the  chiefs  of  Lower  Connaught,  with  their 
rising-out ;  and  they  marched  on,  without  halting,  until  they  reached  Moylurg. 
They  destroyed  the  whole  country,  both  corn  and  buildings.  They  afterwards 
proceeded  to  Castlemore-Costello',  for  the  purpose  of  taking  it.  This  was  an 
impregnable  fortress,  for  it  contained  provisions,  and  every  kind  oi'  engines, 
the  best  to  be  found  at  that  time  in  Ireland  for  resisting  enemies,  such  as 
cannon,  and  all  sorts  of  weapons.  These  chieftains,  nevertheless,  proceeded 
to  besiege  the  castle  ;  and  they  placed  their  army  in  order  all  around  it,  so  that 
they  did  not  permit  any  person  to  pass  from  it  or  towards  it,  until  they  at  last 
took  it. 

On  this  expedition  they  [also]  took  the  castle  of  Meannoda',  and  the  castles 
oi  Cala",  Baile-na-huamha",  and  Castlereagh",  all  which  they  demolished,  after 
they  had  taken  them.  One  of  O'Donnell's  men,  Hugh  Boy,  the  son  of  Dubh- 
altach  O'Gallagher,  was  slain  close  to  Bealach-buidhe''  [Ballaghboy]. 

The  castle  of  Leithbhir''  was  completed  by  Manus  O'Donnell,  with  its  works 
of  stone,  wood,  and  boards,  while  O'Neill  was  at  war  with  him.  Manus  com- 
menced this  work  on  the  Wednesday  before  the  festival  of  St.  Brendan^  in 
sinnmer,  and  finished  it  in  the  course  of  the  same  summer. 

now  Cavetowu,   four  miles  to  the  south  of  the  iiamhad,  i.  e.  the  port  of  the  three  enemies,  and 

town  of  Boyle,  in  the  barony  of  Boyle — See  is  shewn  on  Mercator's  map  of  Ireland  at  Lif- 

this  place  before  referred  to  under  the  years  ford,  but  on   the  east  side  of  the  river  Finn, 

1487,  1492,  and  1512.  where  it  unites  with  the  Mourne,  or  the  Foyle, 

"  Castlereajh. — See  the  years  1489,  1499-  as  it  is  now  called See  the  notice  of  the  com- 

'  Bealach-buidhe. — See  this   pass  before  re-  mencement   of  the  erection  of   this   castle  by 

ferred  to  at  the  years  1497,  1499,  and  1512.  Manus  O'Donnell,  under  the  year  1526. 

'  LeiMldr,  now  LifFord,  on  the  River  Foylo,  "  Festival  of  St.  Brendan,  i.  e.  of  St.  Brendan 

in  the  barony  of  Raphoe,  and  county  of  Donegal.  of  Clonfert,   whose  festival  fell  <pn  the  1 6th  of 

This  castle  was  otherwise  called  Port-na-dtri-  May. 


1392  aNNQf-a  Ri05hachca  eiReaNN.  [1528. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1528. 
Qoi}^  Cpiopr,  mile,  cúicc  ceo,  pice,  a  hochr. 

O  Ruaipc  eóccan  cijeajina  na  bpeipne  ujipa  coraijre  eimgh,  eangnarha, 
1  uaiple  pleacca  aoóa  pinn  oécc  in  aibicr  .8.  Pjionpeip  laji  non5aó,  ~\  laji 
naiqiije. 

O  bpmin  .1.  roippóealbac  mac  raiócc  an  caon  mac  jaoióil  bá  poiDe  lé 
huaiple, -]  lé  lieineac  oolfir  moja,  oiQpe  Diongrhala  bpiain  boiioirhe  ap  con5- 
iháil  coccaiD  pé  gallaib  tiécc  lap  nonccat),  i  lap  nairpige  i  a  mac  DÓipDneaó 
ina  lonab  .i.  concobap  mac  coippóealbaig. 

pionnjimla  injean  í  bpiain  (.i.  Concobaip  na  ppóna  mic  coippóealbaij; 
mic  bpiain  caca  an  aonaij)  bfn  ui  óomnaill  Qoó  puaó,  an  aoín  bfn  ap  mó  do 
copain  clú  1  oipbeapciip  Da  mbaoi  na  comaimpip  a  Ific  ppia  cupp  "j  ppia 
hanmam  lap  ccairfrh  a  haoipi  -]  a  liinrhe  lé  Déipc,  -|  lé  Daonnacr  i  lap  mbfir 
t>a  bliabam  a]i  picic  in  aibicc  San  Pponpéip  Décc  an  céD  ló  Don  copccap 
(.1.  an.  5.  pebpuapii),"!  a  baónacal  i  mainipcip  DÚin  na  ngall  Do  pónaD  ina 
haimpip  buDein. 

Conn  mac  néiU  mic  aipc  í  néill  paoí  cinnpfDna  epióe  Do  riiapbaó  (.1.  an. 
15.  appil)  la  mac  aipc  015  i  neill  (.1.  ó  neill),  -\  la  cuiD  Do  pliocc  aoóa  meg- 
uiDip,  1  DO  mac  1  neill  (.1.  ape  occ)  .1.  enpi,  ~\  copbmac  bai  1  lairh  05  ua  neill 
(.1.  conn  moc  cuinn)  a  ppaD  piap  an  can  pin  Do  cabaipc  (Diia  neill)  do  cloinn 
cuinn  mic  neill,  -|  clano  cmnn  Do  cpocaD  na  Deipi  pin  a  noiojail  a  narap. 

ITlac  DiapmaDa  maije  luipcc  (Copbmac  mac  puaiDpi)  peicearh  coiccfnc 
ap  eineac  -)  ap  péile,  mip  cpuaóa  connacc  ap  coccaD  ~\  corhpuacaD,  pfp  cop- 
anca  a  cpice  ap  eaccaipcenélaib  Decc  lap  nongaD  1  lap  naicpicce  "]  a  Deapb- 
pafaip  Diapmaic  Do  jabail  a  lonaic. 

TTIocc  caprai^  piabac  Domnall  Decc. 

Cai]'lén  cúile  maoile  do  gabáil  ap  mac  nDonncbaiD  la  a  Deapbpafaip 
pfin  la  muipceapcac  mac  DonnchaiD  mic  mupchaiD, "]  mac  DonncbaiD  péin  1 

''  Onsen. — Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare  adds  '  The  5th  of  February. — This  is  a  palpable 

his  pedigree,    inicr  lineas  :    "mac  rijeapnuin  error,  and  should  evidently  be~  the  5th  of  April, 

mic  caiDj  mic  ci^eapnain  moip,  i.e.  the  son  of  ''  Iti  captivity,  literally,   "who  were  on  hand, 

Tiernan,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Tiernan  More."  i-  e.  in  captivity  (i.  e.  Con,  the  son  of  Con)  with 


1528.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1393 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1528. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  twenty-eight. 

O'Rourke  (Owen''),  Lord  of  Breifny,  sustaining  pillar  of  the  hospitality, 
prowess,  and  nobility,  of  the  race  of  Hugh  Finn,  died  in  the  habit  of  St.  Francis, 
after  unction  and  penance. 

O'Brien  (Turlough,  the  son  of  Teige),  who,  of  all  the  Irish  in  Leath  Mhogha, 
had  spent  the  longest  time  in  [acts  of]  nobility  and  hospitality,  the  worthy  heii- 
of  Brian  Boru  in  maintaining  war  against  the  English,  died,  after  unction  and 
penance  ;  and  his  son,  Conor  Mac  Turlough,  was  appointed  to  his  place. 

Finola,  the  daughter  of  O'Brien  (Conor-na-Sroua,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of 
Brian  Cathaan-aenaigh),  and  wife  of  O'Donnell  (Hugh  Roe),  a  woman  who,  as 
regarded  both  body  and  soul,  had  gained  more  fame  and  renown  than  any  of 
her  contemporaries,  having  spent  her  life  and  her  wealth  in  acts  of  charity  and 
humanity,  and  after  having  been  twenty-two  years  in  the  habit  of  St.  Francis, 
died  on  the  first  day  of  Lent  (which  fell  on  the  5th  of  February"^),  and  was 
buried  in  the  monastery  of  Donegal,  which  had  been  founded  in  her  own  time. 

Con,  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Art  O'Neill,  a  distinguished  captain,  was  slain 
on  the  15th  of  April,  by  the  son  of  Art  Oge  O'Neill  (i.  e.  the  O'Neill),  and  a 
party  of  the  descendants  of  Hugh  Maguire  ;  and  the  two  sons  of  O'Neill  (Art. 
Oge),  namely,  Henry  and  Cormac,  who  had  been  detained  in  captivity"  by  [the 
other]  O'Neill  (i.  e.  Con,  the  son  of  Con),  for  a  long  time  before,  were  given 
up  by  him  to  the  sons  of  Con,  son  of  Niall ;  and  the  sons  of  Con  hanged  them 
both,  in  revenge  of  their  father. 

Mac  Dermot  of  Moylurg  (Cormac,  the  son  of  Rory),  a  general  supporter  of 
hospitality  and  generosity,  the  hardiest  man"  in  Connaught  in  war  and  in 
battle,  the  defender  of  his  territory  against  exterior  tribes,  died,  after  unction 
and  penance  ;  and  his  brother,  Dermot,  took  his  place. 

Mac  Car  thy  Reagh  (Donuell)  died. 

The  castle  of  Cuil-Maoile  [Colooney]  was  taken  from  Mac  Donougli  by  his 
own  brother,  Murtough,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Mui-rough  ;  and  Mac 

O'Neill  for  a  long. time."  literally,  the  piece  of  steel  of  Connaught,  which 

^   The  hardieit  man,    mip  cpuaóa  connacc,      is  rather  a  rude  metaphor. 

8p 


1394  awNaca  Rio^hachna  eiReawN.  [1529. 

a  mac  iTiu]ichaó  00  jabáil  50  hairjeapji  laii  ]^in  Id  Inia  nDUboa,  -|  lap  an 
muipcea|icac  ccéona,  "|  mac  ele  Do  mac  Donnchaió  .1.  Donnchaó  do  iriapbaó 
leó  an  can  pin. 

SlóicceaD  lá  hua  nDomnaill  (co  nD]iuin5  móip  Dalbancaib  amaille  ppip  im 
alapcpann  mac  coin  carónaij^)  hi  mai^  luipcc, "]  an  bealac  buióe  Do  geajijiaD 
leó.    bpaijDe,  -]  ciop  Do  pajbail  ó  mac  Diajiniaoa, -|  roibecc  plan  Dia  cfp. 

O  maoilrhiaóaij  raoipeac  ceallaig  ceajiballáin  .1.  cacal  mac  Domnaill 
iTiic  uaicne  buiDe  Décc. 

^aor  rhóp  ap  nfipje  an  aoine  pia  noDlaicc  50  po  la  pioó  áp  móp  pó  Gpinn 
50  po  cpapcaip  cioD  apaill  Do  ciimDaijrib  cloch  1  cpann,  l?o  hpip  beop  mup 
mainipcpe  Dúin  na  ngall,  Po  puaDaijj  T}o  báiD,  -\  po  bpip  aprpaije  lomóa. 

aOlS  CPIOSC,  1529. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cíiicc  céD,  pice,  anaoí. 

Tllac  pinbne  pánac  Dorhnall  ócc  mac  Dorhnaill,  mic  coijipDealbaij  puaiDb 
riTijeapna  pánac  ppi  haon  bliabain  Décc  do  pajail  báip  lap  ccop  aibicce  uipD 
imiipe  uime. 

Smann  mac  Domnaill  mic  puibne,  "|  emann  puoD  a  mac  do  riiicim  in  aon 
ló  ló  coippóealbac  mac  l?iiaiópi,  mic  maolmuipe  mic  puibne. 

bpian  ballac  mac  néill  mic  cuinn  í  neill  Do  mapbaó  lá  copbmac  mac 
uióelín  (lap  mbfir  Don  copbmac  pin  In  ppappab  bpiain  pfin  -|  poji  a  liuiince- 
pup)  lap  bpaccbóil  caippge  peapgupa  DÓib. 

Coral  mac  eoccain  mic  aoDa  meguiDip  Décc. 

bpian  puaD  mac  pfain  méj5uiDip  do  mapbaD  Daon  upcop  Do  paij^iD  ace 
fnapjijaipe  enp  muincip  ria  cinle,  -|  minnnp  an  macaipe. 

'  Becdach  Buidhe,    now  Ballaghboy,    to   the  of  Composition,  made  in  1585,  it  appears  that 

north  of  Boyle,  in  the  county  of  Roscommon. —  the  family  of  O'Mulvey,  and  the  Sleight  Eyre 

See  note  %  under  the  year  1497,  p.  1232,  Sí<jwí-a.  Magranill,  had  fifty  and   one-half  quarters  of 

^  TeoUach-Chearbhallain This  was  the  tribe-  land  in  Moyntirolish  Oghteragh,  otherwise  called 

name  of  the  O'Mulveys,  who  were  seated  near  Moynyshc. — See    O'Flaherty's   lar-Connwajht, 

the  River  Shannon  in  Maigh-nis,  in  the  upper  edited  by  Mr.  Hardimau  for  the  Irish  Archaso- 

part  of  Muintir-Eolais,  in  the  south  of  the  pre-  logical  Society,   Appendix,  p.  .349. 
sent  county  of  Leitrim.     From  the  Indentures  ''  The  Mw\  i.  e.  mvip  nu  m-bpacáp. — Thi^ 


1529  ]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1395 

Donough  himseli"  and  his  son,  JMurrougli,  were  soon  afterwards  taken  prisoners 
by  O'Dowda  and  the  same  Murtough  ;  and  another  of  Mac  Donough's  sons, 
i.  e.  Donough,  was  slain  by  them  at  that  time. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell,  accompanied  by  a  great  body  of  Scots,  under 
the  conduct  of  Alexander,  the  son  of  John  Cahanagh,  into  Moylurg,  and  Bea- 
lach  buidhe*^  was  cut  through  by  them.  He  obtained  hostages  and  rents  from 
Mac  Dermot,  and  then  returned  home  safe  to  his  country. 

O'Mulvey,  Chieftain  of  Teallach-Chearbhallain^  (Cathal,  the  son  of  Donnell, 
son  of  Owny  Boy),  died. 

A  great  wind  arose  on  the  Friday  before  Christmas,  which  prostrated  a 
great  number  of  trees  throughout  Ireland,  threw  down  many  stone  and  wooden 
buildings,  destroyed  the  Mur"  of  the  monastery  of  Donegal,  and  swept  away, 
sank,  and  wrecked  many  vessels. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1529. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  twenty-nine. 

Mac  Sweeny  Fanad  (Donnell  Oge,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Turlough 
Roe),  Lord  of  Fanad  for  eleven  years,  died,  after  having  taken  the  habit  of  the 
order'  of  [the  Blessed  Virgin]  Mary. 

Edmond,  the  son  of  Donnell  Mac  Sweeny,  and  Edmond  Roe,  his  son,  fell 
on  the  same  day  by  [the  hand  of]  Turlough,  the  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Maelmurry 
Mac  Sweeny. 

Brian  Ballagh,  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Con  O'Neill,  was  slain  by  Cormac 
Mac  Quillin,  the  said  Cormac  having  set  out  from  Carrickfergus  in  company 
and  friendship  with  Brian. 

Cathal,  the  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Hugh  Maguire,  died. 

Brian  Roe,  the  son  of  John  Maguire,  was  slain  by  one  cast  of  a  dart,  while 
interposing  [to  quell  a  riot]  between  the  people  of  Coole  and  Machaire''. 

was  the  name  of  a  distinct  house  at  Donegal,  crenan. — See  note  under  the  year  1516. 

and  its  site  is  now  occupied  by  the  rector's  ^  Beticeen  the  people  of  Coole  and  Machaire,  \.e- 

house,  which  retains  its  name.  between  the  inhabitants  of  the  barony  of  Coole- 

'  The  habit  of  the  order,   ^x.,  i.e.  in  his  o\Tn  na-noirear  and  those  of  Magherastephana,  in  the 

abbey  of  Eatlimullen,  in  the  barony  of  Kilma-  county  of  Fermanagh. 

8  p2 


1396  aNHQca  Rioshachca  eiReanw.  [1530. 

TTlac  mfic  Dubgaill  na  Imlban  do  riiapbaó  lú  haob  mbnióe  ua  nDomnaill 
oaon  Biiille  do  cloiDirh  1  nDojiup  cúile  mic  an  r]ieóin. 

Caiplén  cúile  mic  an  cjiein  Do  jabáil  la  Tnajnuj^  ua  nDomnaill,  -]  ia|i 
j^ccpUDoD  a  corhaiple  apfo  do  cinnfo  laip  an  caiylen  do  bpif  fó. 

Qn  copnarhac  mac  pQijail  mic  DonncliaiD  Diiit»  mic  aeóaccóin  paoí  pó 
lioijiDeajica  hi  ppfmeacup, -|  In  ppilióeacc,  i  In  mhpfirfmnup  ciiaice  bai  In 
ccipib  gaoiDeal  Decc,  ~\  a  abnacal  1  noilpinn. 

Ulac  aeoaccain  (.1.  upmuman)  .1.  Dorhnall  mac  aeóa  mic  Dorhnaill  cfnn 
eiccfp  If.re  moja  ap  pfineacup  "]  pilióeacc  Décc. 

Gojan  mac  peilim  mic  majnupa,  1  a  bean  jpainne  injfn  concobaip  mtj- 
niDip  Decc. 

aois  cpiosr,  1530. 

Qoip  cpiopc,  mile,  cincc  ceo,  cpiocar. 

Gppcop  oilpinn  .1.  an  ceppcop  jpéccac  Decc. 

CaibiDil  na  mbparap  1  noun  na  ngall, "]  bet  he  na  DomnaiU  (.i.  aoó  ócc) 
DO  poD  Dóib  gac  ni  pangoccap  a  leap,  "j  pób  aiDilcc  leó  Don  cup  pin  an  ccfin 
báccap  hi  ppappab  apoile. 

Caicilin  injfn  mic  puibne  bfn  í  Docapraij,"]  Róip  injfn  1  cacáin  bfn  peilim 
Í  Docapcaij  Decc. 

Concobap  ÓCC  o  baoi'ccill  canaipi  baoijeallac  do  itiapbaó  lá  cloinD  uí 
buiT^ill  (.1.  mall  mac  coijipóealbaiTÍ;)  ap  an  leacac  an.  6.  lanuapii. 

péilim  mac  concobaip  ui  bui^ill  do  ihapbaD  la  cloinn  ui  baoijill. 

TTlaolmuipe  mac  puibne  conpapal  ripe  bajaine  [Decc]. 

Domnall  mac  bpiain  mic  Doiiinaill  í  neill  do  DoI  ap   cpfic  pan  macaipe 

'  Cuil-mic-an-treoin,    now  Castluforward,   in  professors  of  law  and  physic  in  Ireland  : 

the  barony  of  Raphoe,  and  county  of  Donegal,  "  They  speake  Latine  like  a  vulgar  language, 

and  about  seven  miles  from  Londonderry. — See  learned  in  their  common  schooles  of  Leachcraft 

note ',  under  the  year  1440,  pp.  920,  921,  s/ij)ra.  and  Law,  whereat  they  begin  children,  and  hold 

■"  Fenechas,  i.  e.  the  Brehon  law See  note  ",  on  sixteene  or  twentie  yeares,  conning  by  roate 

lAder  the  year  1317,  p.  516,  supra.  the  Aphorismes  of  Hypocrates  and  the  Civill 

°   La^  Brehonship. — The   celebrated    Jesuit,  Institutions"  [i.  e.  the  Pandects  of  Justinian], 

Edmund   Campion,   who  wrote  his  Historie  of  "  and  a  few  other  parings  of  these  two  faculties. 

Ireland  in  1570,  has  the  following  notice  of  the  I  have  seene  them  where  they  kept  Schoole,  ten 


1530.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1397 

The  son  of  Mac  Dowell  [Mac  Dugald]  of  Scotland  was  slain  by  Hugh  Boy 
O'Donnell  with  one  stroke  of  a  sword,  on  the  threshold  of  [the  castle  of]  Cuil- 
inic-an-treoin'. 

The  castle  of  Cuil-mic-an-treoin  was  taken  by  Mamis  O'Donnell ;  and  having 
called  a  council  to  decide  on  what  was  best  to  be  done,  he  determined  on 
demolishincf  the  castle. 

Cosnanihach,  the  son  of  Farrell,  son  of  Donough  Duv  Mac  Egan,  the  most 
distinguished  adept  in  the  Fenechas",  poetry,  and  lay  Brehonship",  in  all  the 
Irish  territories,  died,  and  was  interred  at  Elphin. 

Mac  Egan  of  Ormond  (Donnell,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Donnell),  head  of 
the  learned  of  Leath-Mhogha  in  Feneachus  and  poetry,  died. 

Owen,  the  son  of  Felim  Mac  Manus,  and  his  wife,  Grainne,  daughter  of 
Conor  Maguire,  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1530. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  thirty. 

The  Bishop  of  Elphin,  i.  e.  the  Greek  Bishop",  died. 

A  chapter  of  the  friars  was  held  at  Donegal  ;  and  it  was  O'Donnell  (Hugh 
Oge)  that  supplied  them  with  every  thing  they  stood  in  need  of,  or  desired, 
while  they 'remained  together  on  that  occasion. 

Catherine,  the  daughter  of  Mac  Sweeny,  and  wife  of  O'Doherty,  and  Rose, 
the  daughter  of  O'Kane,  and  wife  of  Felim  O'Doherty,  died. 

Conor  Oge  O'Boyle,  Tanist  of  Boylagh,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  O'Boyle 
(Niall,  the  son  of  Turlough),  on  the  Leacach'',  on  the  6th  of  January. 

Felim,  the  son  of  Conor  O'Boyle,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  O'Boyle. 

Mulmurry  Mac  Sweeny,  Constable  of  Tir-Baghaine",  [died]. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Brien,  son  of  Donnell  O'Neill,  went  upon  a  predatory 

in  some  on  chamber  groveling  upon  C(3uches  of  shop  is  given  by  Ware  or  Harris,  nor  in  any 

straw,  their  bookes  at  their  noses,   themselves  of  the  older  Irish  annals  known  to  the  Editor, 
lying  flatte  prostrate,   and   so  to  chaunte  ovit  p  Lecwach,    now   Lackagli,    a   townland   near 

their  lessons  by  peece  meale,   being  the  most  Loughros  Bay,  in  the  barony  of  Boylagh,  in  the 

part  lustie  fellowes  of  twenty-five  yeares  and  west  of  the  county  of  Donegal, 
upwards." — Dublin  edition  o/'1809,  pp.  25,  26.  "  Tir-Baghaine,  now  the  barony  of  Banagli, 

°  The  Greek  Bishop No  account  of  this  bi-  in  the  west  of  the  county  of  Donegal. 


1398  awNata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1530 

l'ceapánac,  -\  c]ifc  do  jlacaD  la  a  muinciii.  Qn  ci|i  do  cpuinniuccaó  "]  a 
Ifnrhain  50  y^liab  bfra  50  pucfar  paip,-]  Domnall  do  nonncúó  ppip  an  ropaib, 
1  ]iaoínfó  po]i]ia  50  jio  láó  a  nap  laip,  Díi  map  jabaó  Da  mac  eojain  puaiD 
Í  néill  in  po  mapbao  rpiúp  Do  cloinn  Ruaibpi  na  Ifpjan  Diap  mac  majnai]- 
méjrharjorhna, -|  mac  enpi  mic  bpiam, -|  comap  na  caippcce  mac  émamn 
méjjuiDip. 

^ioUa  pacrpaicc  mac  copbmaic  mic  aipc  cúile  méjuiDip  oécc,  -]  pob 
eipiDe  pfp  a  inrhe  bá  pfpp  cfj  naoibfo  ina  aimpip  hi  ppfpaib  manac. 

Slóicceoó  lá  hua  nDorhnaiU  hi  ccúicceaó  connacr,  QSeab  po  jab  cércup 
rpia  coillcib  concobaip,  epcib  pibe  cpiap  an  canaipceacc  hi  maij  Inipcc  do 
copab  Dpoma  púipcc  cap  pionainn.  T?o  loipcceab,  -]  po  láinrhillettb  miiincip 
eolaiplaip,  l?o  mapbab  Dponj  Dia  muincip  im  caiplen  liar  Dpoma  im  Tllhaj- 
nu)f'  mac  an  pipbopca  mic  puibne  -|  im  ITlhac  mic  coili'n  roippbealbac  Dub.  Oo 
coib  laparh  appin  cap  pionainn  piap  Do  macaipe  connacr,  do  Dpoicfc  aca 
moja  cap  puca,  l?o  cpoicfb,  ~\  po  cpeacloipcceab  clann  connmaij  laip,  Ro 
loipcc  beóp  5linnpce  1  cill  cpuam  bailee  mfic  DÓuib,  1  puaip  éDala  aibble 
pna  cipib  pvn.  Ro  loipcceab  beop  laip  lapam  baile  an  cobaip,  ~\  piiaip  a  ciop 
6  ua  cconcobaip  puab  .1.  Se  pmginne  pan  ccfcpamain  Dri  Diichaij,  -]  cicc  cap 
a  aip  cpep  an  mbeala(^mbuibe  gan  Die  Do  bénarh  bó  lap  millfb  muije  luipcc. 
Uanaic  lapccain  Don  bpfipne  i  po  loipcceab  la  plua^  ui  borhnaill  an  CÍ5 

■■  Sliabh-Beatha,  now  Slieve  Beagh,  a  range  Moglaa  at  the  year  1595.   It  is  now  called  Beal- 

of  mountains  in  Ulster,  extending  through  the  atba-Mogha,    anglice   Ballimoe,    or   Ballymoe, 

barony  of  Magherastephana,   in  the  county   of  which  is  a  small  village  on  the  River  Suck,  on 

Fermanagh. — See  note  ",  under  the  year  1501,  the  borders  of  the  counties  of  Eoscommon  and 

p.  1260,  sn])ra.  Galway. — See  note  under  the  year  1595. 

^  Coillte-Chonchuhhair. — See  note  '',  \inder  the  "  Glinsce,  now  Glinske,  a  townland  contain- 

year  1471,  p.  1071,  supra.  ing  the  ruins  of  a  beautiful  castle,  in  the  parish 

■  Caradh-Droma-ruisc. — This  name  is  usually  of  Ballynakill,  barony  of  Ballymoe,  and  county 

anglicised  Carrickdrumroosk,  which  was  the  old  of  Galway. 

name  ofthe  present  town  of  Carrick-on-Shannon,  '  CiU-Cruain,  now  KUcrone,  an  old  church 

as  appears  from  the  Down  Survey,  and  several  giving  name  to  a  townland  and  parish  in  the 

ancient  maps  of  Ireland. — See  also  Dean  Swift's  barony  of  Ballymoe,  and  county  of  Galway.  The 

translation  of  piéapáca  na  Ruapcac.  castle  of  Kilcrone  stood  near  the  high  road,  a 

"  Mac  Colin,  now  Cullen,  a  family  still  res-  short  distance  to  the  west  of  the  old  church  of 

pectable  in  the  county  of  Leitrim.  Kilcrone.     It  is  said  to  have  been  the  residence 

™  Ath-Mogha This  place  is  called  Bel-atha-  of  a  celebrated  heroine  called  Nuala-na-meadoige 


1530.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1399 

excursion  into  Machaire-Stefanach  [Magherastephana] ,  and  his  people  seized 
on  a  prey.  [The  people  of]  the  country  assembled,  and  pursued  them  to 
Sliabh-Beatha^  where  they  overtook  them  ;  but  Donnell  turned  round  on  the 
pursuers,  and  defeated  them  with  great  slaughter,  in  which  the  two  sons  of 
Owen  Roe  O'Neill  were  taken  prisoners,  and  three  sons  of  Rory  na  Leargan  : 
two  sons  of  Manus  Mac  Mahon,  the  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Brian,  and  Thomas 
of  the  Rock,  the  son  of  Edmond  Maguire,  were  slain. 

Gilla-Patrick,  the  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  Art  Guile  [of  Coole]  Maguire,  died. 
He  kept,  for  his  means,  the  best  house  of  hospitality  of  all  those  that  were  in 
Fermanagh  in  his  time. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  into  the  province  of  Connaught ;  he  lirst 
passed  through  Coillte-Chonchiibhair',  and  from  thence  proceeded  through  the 
Tanist's  portion  of  Moylurg,  by  the  Caradh-Droma-ruisc',  across  the  Shannon, 
and  burned  and  totally  desolated  the  territory  of  Muintir-Eolais  ;  some  of  his 
people  were  slain  around  the  castle  of  Leitrim,  among  whom  were  Manus,  the 
son  of  Ferdoragh  Mac  Sweeny,  and  the  son  of  Mac  Colin"  (Turlough  Duvj. 
He  afterwards  proceeded  westwards  across  the  Shannon,  into  Machaire  Chon- 
nacht,  to  the  bridge  of  Ath-Mogha".  He  destroyed  and  devastated  by  fire  the 
territory  of  Clann-Conway ;  he  also  burned  Glinsce''  and  Cill-Cruain\  the  towns 
[castles]  of  Mac  David  ;  and  he  obtained  great  spoil  in  these  countries.  He 
afterwards  burned  Ballintober  also,  and  obtained  his  tribute  from  O'Conor  Roe, 
namely,  six  pence  on  every  quarter  of  land  in  his  territory.  After  having 
destroyed  Moylurg,  he  returned  home  by  Bealach-buidhe  [Ballaghboy],  without 
sustaining  any  injury.     He  afterwards  went  to  Breifny,  where  his  army  burned 

Ny-Fiuaglity,  the  mother  of  David  Burke,   the  The  Ibunder  of  this  I'ainily,  howe-sx-r,  was  Sir 

ancestor  of  Mac  David  Burke  of  Glinske.     The  David,  the  son  of  Rickard  Finn,  by  NuaLi,  the 

effigy  of  William  (said  to  be  the  founder  of  this  daughter  of  O'Finaghty,  through  whose  treach- 

family),  beautifully  carved  in  limestone,  and  re-  ery  he  obtained  the  territory  of  Clann-Conway, 

presented  as  clad  in  mail,  with  a  conical  helmet  which  was  O'Finaghty's  country.    The  William 

and  slender  sword,  is  to  be  seen  in  the  old  church  represented  by  this  effigy  was  probably  William, 

'il'  Ballynakill,  near  Glinske.     Under  the  effigy  the  son  of  David,  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Hubert, 

is  the  following  inscription  :  who  was   son  of  Sir  David  (from   whom   this 

"  Here   stands  the  effigies  of  William  branch  of  the  Burkes  took  the  Irish  surname  of 

Burke,  the   first  of  whom  died  1*1G,  and  Mac  David),  who  was  son  of  Rickard  Finn,  sou 

ERECTED  BV  Harry  Bukke,  1722."  of  Rickard  More,  son  of  William  Fitz  Adelni.       0 


1400  aHNQca  Rio^hachca  eiiieawN.  [1531. 

cpanngaile  ay  oeacli  bai  in  eiiunn  .1.  cf^  rhfic  conynama  cqi  loc  aillinne.  Rn 
TTiiUearj,  1  po  Dioláicjiiccheaó  an  bpeipne  uile  ó  plmb  paj^  leó  Don  cupup  pin. 

CReac  riiop  t)o  bénarh  lá  haob  nibuióe  ua  nDoriinaiU  1  ngaiirnjjaib. 

Slóicceab  lá  liua  nDorhnaill  (hi  mi  Sepcembep  00  ponnpaó)  ap  mac  uil- 
Imm  búpc  Dia  po  milleaó  blaó  móp  Don  cíp.  r?o  hfpnaibmeaó  pír  fcoppa 
lapccain,  -]  ricc  ó  Domnaill  plan  Dia  ncc. 

lCtpla  cille  oapa  gfpóiD  mac  gfpóiD  (baí  pé  cian  I11  láirh  acc  pf  Sa;ran) 
DO  ceacc  in  6pinn,  1  lupnp  8a;canac  Do  rfcc  laip, "]  a  mbfic  ap  aon  acc 
milleaó  mópain  pa  gaoibealaib.  l?o  ^abab  leó  Dna  ó  Raijillij  lap  rreacr 
ina  ccfnn  ap  a  niocc  pfin. 

Rubpai je  mac  eoccani  mic  aoba  bailb  mic  pfain  uí  Docapcaij,  échc  nióp 
ma  ríp  pfin  Do  écc. 

Injfn  uí  baoí^ill  .1.  Róip  injfn  coippbealbaig  mic  néill  puaiD  bfn  Dépcach 
Deijeini^,  1  Síle  injfn  uí  pallarhain  bfn  caipppe  mic  an  ppiopa  bfn  Daonnac- 
cac  DeigDealbba  Do  écc. 

Qob  ó  plannaccain  mac  pfppúin  innpi  maije  pam  paoí  1  rifccna,  -)  1  neal- 
obcítn,  pfp  puaipc,  Sé^ainn,  -|  pfp  po  ba  maic  cQ;  naoibfb  Décc. 


aois  crjiosc,  1531. 

Qoíp  Cpiopc,  rriíle,  cuicc  céD,  cpioca,  abaon. 

Uuaral  mac  í  neiU  .1.  mac  aipr  mic  cuinn  oo  Tijabáil  lá  liua  néll  .1.  lé  conn 
mac  cuinn. 

'  Mac  Consnava,  now  ridiculously  anglicised  ^  O^ReiUif. — He  was  Farrell,  the  eldest  son  of 

Fordc  by  the  whole  clan  in  the  county  of  Lei-  John   O'Reilly,  by  his   second  wife,  Catherine 

trim.     Towards   the   close  of  the  seventeenth  O'Neill,  or  Ny-Neill. 

century  it  was  anglicised  Mac  Kinaw,  and  some-  "^  Upon  hoiwur,  ap  a  mocc  pfin,  at  their  own 

times  Mac  Anawe.  request  and  assurance  of  faith  and  honour.     In 

^  A71  English  Justiciary He  was  Sir  William  the  pedigree  of  the  Count  O'Eeilly,  compOed 

Skeffington,  a  Leicestershire  man.   They  arrived  by  the  late  Chevalier  O'Gormau,  this  passage  is 

in  Dublin  in  the  month  of  June,  and  a  solemn  incorrectly  translated  as  follows,  and  the  same 

procession  of  the  mayor  and  citizens  came  to  version  is  given  in  the   copy  of  these  Annals 

meet  them  on  the  Green  of  St.  Mary's  Abbey,  made  by  Maurice  Gorman,  now  in  the  Library 

who  received  Kildare  with  great  acclamations. —  of  the  Royal  Irish  Academy  : 

See  Ware's  .áwwafe  o/"/«/awrf  at  this  year.  "  A.  D.  1530.  Gerald,  Earl  of  Kildare,  who 


1531.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1401 

the  best  wooden  house  in  all  Ireland,  i.  e.  the  house  of  Mac  Consnava^  on  Lough 
Allen.  The  whole  of  Breifny,  from  the  mountam  westwards,  was  destroyed 
and  desolated  by  them  on  that  expedition. 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  Hugh  Boy  O'Donnell  in  Gaileanga 
[Gallen,  in  the  county  of  Mayo] . 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell,  in  the  month  of  September,  against  Mac 
William  Burke  ;  and  he  destroyed  a  large  portion  of  his  country.  A  peace  was 
afterwards  ratified  between  them,  and  O'Donnell  returned  safe  to  his  house. 

'  The  Earl  of  Kildare,  Garrett  Oge,  the  son  of  Garrett,  who  had  been  for  a 
long  time  in  the  hands  [i.  e.  custody]  of  the  King  of  England,  returned  to  Ire- 
land, in  company  with  an  English  Justiciary'' ;  and  thej^  both  continued  to  do 
much  injury  to  the  Irish.  They  made  a  prisoner  of  O'Reilly",  who  had  gone 
upon  honour"^  to  visit  them. 

Rury,  the  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Hugh  Balbh,  son  of  John  O'Doherty,  died  ; 
a  great  loss"  in  his  own  country. 

The  daughter  of  O'Boyle,  i.  e.  Rose,  daughter  of  Turlough,  son  of  Niall  Roe, 
a  charitable  and  truly  hospitable  woman,  and  Sile  [Celia],  daughter  of  O'Fallon, 
and  wife  of  Carbry,  son  of  the  Prior,  a  humane  and  beautiful^  woman,  died. 

Hugh  O'Flanagan,  son  of  the  Parson  of  Inis-maighe-Sarah^  a  paragon  of 
wisdom  and  science,  and  a  merry  and  comely  man,  who  kept  a  good  house  of 
hospitality,  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1531. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  thirty-one. 

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

had  been  kept  ia  confinement  in  England  for  "  on  their  own  word  of  honour." 

some  time,  returned  to  Ireland  with  Sir  William  ^  A  great  loss,  écc  mop,  generally  means  an 

Skeffington,  the  English  Lord  Justice,  both  of  occurrence,   or  catastrophe,  which  excites  great 

wlioni  did  great  damage  to  the  Irish.   They  even  grief  or  compassion. 

made  O'Reilly  prisoner,  though  they  came  to  his  ^Beautiful,    DeigtjealBoa,  i.e.   well-counte- 

house  for  hospitality,  without  being  invited."  nanced,  or  comely-faced. 

But  ina  ccfnn  in  this  passage  clearly  means  f  Lds-maighe-samh,  now  Inishmacsaint,  a  pa- 

••to  them,"  not  "to  him,"  and  ap  a  niocc  ffin  rish  in  O'Flanagan's  country  of  Tooraah,  in  the 

does  not  mean   "  without  being   invited,"  but  north-west  of  the  county  of  Fermanagh. 


1402  aNNaí.a  Rio^hachca  eiRecxNN.  [1531. 

IDaj  caiirai^  pmbac  Doriinall  mac  pingin  mic  Diajimara  cijeapna  ua 
ccaipp|ie,  pfp  ]io  ba  maif  pmacc,  -]  piajail,  pfp  po  ba  inaic  oineac  -]  fngnarh, 
pfp  cucc  jaipm  eimj  DpfiioiB  Gpeann  ooneoc  baí  ag  cuinjió  nfir  Dib,  do  écc. 

Oonnchaó  mac  coippóealbaij^  mic  raiócc  »í  bpiairi  cánaipi  cuaDmnman 
pfp  Denrha  einij,  -]  uaiple  oécc. 

ÍTlac  í  Docapcaij  .i.  mail  mac  concobaip  cappai^  Décc. 

Conn  mac  Sfain  bume  inésmarj^arhna  no  rhapBaó  ló  máj  mac^amna.  -]  1« 
clomn  bpiain  mésmargamna. 

Goccan  mac  ^ioUaparrpaicc  óicc  me^uibiji  '00  rhapbaó  ló  a  beapbpafaip 
(.1.  emann). 

Concobap  mac  carail  mic  Duinn  méguióip  do  mapbaó  la  híoccap  n'pe. 

O  plannaccóm  ruaire  páca  TTlajnup  mac  jillibepc  mic  cophmaic  paoí 
lé  huaiple,  ~\  conjiiiálaió  ci^e  aoiófó  oécc  (25.  pebpuapii),  1  ó  plannajáin 
t)o  ■^aipm  Do  giolla  íopa  mac  coippóealbai?j. 

miiipcfpcac  mac  concobaip  meg  cocláni  ppióip  jailinne,  "]  bioca)pe  lér- 
mancóin  00  ruiuim  hi  ppiull  lá  coippóealbac  ócc  ó  maoíleaclainn  -\  lá  puó- 
paijije. 

Diapmairc  mac  Sfain  mic  aooa  an  uí  00  bpfpp  uaiple  i  ;>aontiací:  t)0 
pbocc  aoba  mic  maolpiianaib  oécc. 

Copbmac  mac  cacail  óicc  mic  carail,  mic  TTla^nupa  pfp  cijije  aoiofn 
oipneapc  oécc. 

Uuaral  mac  í  bomnalláin  nmcaipe  maonmaij^e,  "|  j^iolla  paccjiaicc  mac 
ftbairh  mic  an  baipo  oécc. 

Inopaiccm  lé  mac  mhegiiibip  copbmac  hi  ccenel  pfpaohaij,  00  pónab 
cpeac  lai]^  ipm  maijm  pin  ap  mac  bpiain  í  neill,  -|  po  mapbab  mac  bpioin 
pfipin  ace  cópai^earc  a  cpeice,  -]  oo  pao  mac  megiiiDip  an  ccpeic  laip. 

s  .1  man  of  hosjiitality,  c'j-c.,  literally,   "  a  man  was  originally  monastic,  and  its  ruins  are  to  be 

of  the  making  of  hospitality  and  nobleness,"  i.  e.  seen  in  Mr.  Armstrong's  demesne,  adjoining  the 

a  man  who  had  practised  acts  of  generosity  and  village  of  Farbane. 

nobleness.  ''  Liath-Manchain^    i.  o.   St.   Manchau's  grey 

^  lochtar-tire,  the  lower  or  nothern  part  of  the  land,  now  Lemanaghau,  a  parish  in  the  north 

territory. See  note  *=,  under  the  year  1520.  of  the   barony  of  Garry  castle,    in    the   King's 

'  GailÍ7i9i,  now  Gillen,  an  old  church  giving  County,   where  there  is  an  old  church  of  great 

name  to  a  parish  in  the  barony  of  Garrycastle,  antiquity,  dedicated  to  St.  Manchan,  the  son  of 

in  the  north  of  the  King's  County.    This  church  Innai,  whose  festival  was  celebrated  there  an- 


1.531.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1403 

Mac  Carthy  Eeagh  (Donnell,  the  son  of  Fineen,  son  of  Dermot),  Lord  of 
Hy-Carbery,  a  man  of  good  jurisdiction  and  rule,  and  of  great  hospitality  and 
prowess,  a  man  who  had  given  a  general  invitation  of  hospitality  to  all  those  in 
Ireland  who  sought  gifts,  died. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige  O'Brien,  Tanist  of  Thomond, 
a  man  of  hospitality^  and  nobleness,  died. 

The  son  of  O'Doherty,  i.  e.  Niall,  the  son  of  Owen  Carragh,  died. 

Con,  the  son  of  John  Boy  Mac  Mahon,  was  slain  by  Mac  Mahon  and  the 
sons  of  Brian  Mac  Mahon. 

Owen,  the  son  of  Gilla-Patrick  Oge  Maguire,  was  killed  by  his  brother, . 
Edmond. 

Conor,  the  son  of  Cathal,  son  of  Don  Maguire,  was  slain  by  [the  people  of] 
lochtar-tire". 

O'Flanagan  of  Tuath-Ratha  (Manus,  the  son  of  Gilbert,  son  of  Cormac), 
distinguished  for  his  nobleness,  and  the  keeper  of  a  house  of  hospitahty,  died 
on  the  25th  of  February  ;  and  Gilla-Isa,  the  son  of  Turlough,  was  styled 
O'Flanagan. 

Murtough,  the  son  of  Conor  Mac  Coghlan,  Prior  of  Gailinn',  and  Vicar  of 
Liath-Manchain",  was  treacherously  slain  by  Tiirlough  Oge  O'Melaghlin  and 
Rury. 

Dermot,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Hugh,  the  most  noble  and  humane  of  the 
descendants  of  Hugh,  son  of  Mulrony  [Mac  Donough],  died. 

Cormac,  the  son  of  Cathal  Oge,  son  of  Cathal  Mac  Manus,  illustrious  for  his 
house  of  hospitality,  died. 

Tuathal,  the  son  of  O'Donnellan  of  Machaire-Maenmaighe',  and  Gilla-Patrick, 
the  son  of  Adam  Mac  Ward,  died. 

An  irruption  was  made  by  the  son  of  Maguire  (Cormac)  into  Kinel-Farry. 
He  there  took  a  prey  from  the  son  of  Brian  O'Neill,  and  the  son  of  Brian  himself 
was  slain  in  pursuit  of  the  prey ;  and  the  son  of  Maguire  carried  oíF  the  prey. 

nually  on  the  24tli  of  January.     It  is  stated  in  Catholic  chapel  of  this  parish, 
the  Liber  Viridk  Midensis  that  the  old  church  '  Machawe-Maenmaighe,    i.  e.    the    plain    of 

of  Lemanaghan  was  situated  in  the  middle  of  a  Moinmoy,  which  was  the  ancient  name  of  the 

bog,  impassable  in  the  time  of  the  writer,  i.  e.  level  district  around  Loughrea,  in  the  county  of 

A.  D.  1615  ;  but  it  is  no  longer  so.  The  shrine  Galway See  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy- Many, 

of  St.  Manchan  is  still  preserved  in  the  Koman  p.  70,  note  '■. 

8  q2* 


1404  aNNQca  Rioghachca  eiReaNN.  ^  [1531. 

Slóicceaó  lay  an  luj^np  8a;ranac,  16  hmpla  cille  Dajia,  i  lé  mairib  jaoioel 
6peann  111  cci'p  neoccain  ap  capiiaing  í  DorhnaiU "]  neiUóicc  í  neill,"]  Sleacca 
aoba  Í  reill,  -]  cip  eoccain  do  lopccaó  leó  6  óún  jál  co  liabainn  móip.  Caiplén 
nua  puipc  an  paillfccáin  do  bpq^fó,  "]  Duchaij  bpiain  na  moiceipje  do  cpfch 
lopccaó  lap  an  pluacc  ípin,  -\  muineacóin  Dpaccbáil  polarh  pop  a  ccionn. 
O  DomnaiU  i  mail  do  óol  hi  ccfnn  an  rpluaicch  gallDa  pin  co  cinnapo,  ■] 
caiplén  cinnaipD  Do  bpipCn  leó.  O  nell  imoppa  baí  piDe  pUiaj  Dípínne  pé  a 
nucr  CO  náp  larhpac  Dol  raipip  pin  lii  ccíp  neoccain  co  po  impáipioc  na  plúij; 
pm  Dia  ccijibh  Ifr  ap  Ifr  gan  píc  gan  opaó  a^  ua  neill  piú. 

T?uaiDpi  galloa  mac  í  neill  do  jabail  ló  hua  néill  .i.  lá  conn  mac  cuinn. 

Qoó  ócc  mac  comaip  mic  comaip  mic  an  jiolla  óuib  meguibip  Décc  lap 
mbpfic  buaba  ó  Dorhan  -]  o  Dfrhan. 

Semup  ó  plannaccam  mac  pfppúm  mnpi,  pfp  po  ba  móp  ainm  ~[  oipDeapcup 
ina  ríp  pfin  Décc. 

baile  uí  Donnjaile  Dionnpaijió  lá  mail  ócc  mac  aipc  mic  cuinn  í  néll  an 
baile  DO  bpipfó  laip,  •]  mac  í  néill  (oalca  uí  óonnjaile)  do  jabail  i  a  bpfir 
laip  CO  neacaib,  i  co  neDalaib  an  baile  apaon  pip. 

Caiplen  beóil  leice  Do  jabáil  le  haob  mbuibe  ua  nDomnaiU, "]  buaibpeab 
cipe  conaill  Do  reacc  De  pin. 

TTlajuibip  Do  bol  pluaj  hi  rcíp  conaill  ap  rappaing  iií  DorhnaiU  ap  pn 
Bárcap  clann  uí  borhnaill  i  ppicbeapc  ppia  poile  ap  oman  nec  uabaib  Do 


"•  Dungal, — This  was  anglicised  Dunnagoale,  '  Innis,  i.  e.  of  Inislimacsaint,  a  parish  in  the 

and   was   the  name  of  a   townland  adjoining  territory  of  Tooraah  in  Fermanagh. 

Annaghilla,  in  the  parish  of  Errigal  Keeroge,  '  Baile-  Ui-Don/ighaile,  i.  e.  the  town  or  resi- 

and  barony  of  Clogher,  and  about  midway  be-  dence  of  O'Donnelly,  a  family  which  derives  its 

tween    Augher   and    Ballygawly See    Ulster  name  and  origin  from  Donnghaile  O'Neill,  seven- 

Inquisttions,  Tyrone,  No.  19-  teenth  in  descent  from  Niall  the  Great,  ancestor  of 

"  Ahhainn-mhor,  i.  e.  the  River  Blackwater. —  the  royal  house  of  O'Neill.    This  place  is  shewn 

See  note  *,  under  the  year  1483,  p.  1125,  supra,  on  an  old  map  of  Ulster,  preserved  in  the  State 

"  Port-an-Fhaileagain,  now  Portnelligan,  the  Papers'  Office,  London,  as  "  Fort  and  Lough 

seat  of  T.  J.  Tenison,   Esq.,  in  the  barony  of  O'Donnellie,"  to  the  west  of  Dungannon.  Bally- 

Tiranny,  and  county  of  Armagh.  donnelly  (which  is  now  called  Castlecaulfield, 

P  Brian-na-Moicheirglie,  i.  e.  Brian  or  Bernard  after  that  distinguished  soldier.  Sir  Toby  Caul- 

of  the  Early  Rising.  field,  ancestor  of  the  Earls  of  Charlemont,  to 

■i  Kinard Now  Caledon,  in  the  barony  of  whom  it  was  granted  by  King  James  L)  con- 

Dungannon,  and  county  of  Tyrone.  tained  twenty-four  ballyboes,  as  ajppears  from  an 


1531.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1405 

An  army  was  led  by  the  English  Lord  Justice,  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  and  the 
chiefs  of  the  Irish  [rede  English]  of  Ireland,  into  Tyrone,  at  the  instance  of 
O'Donnell  and  Niall  Oge  O'Neill,  and  of  the  descendants  of  Hugh  O'Neill ;  and 
they  burned  Tyrone  from  Dungal"  to  Abhainn-mhor",  demolished  the  new  castle 
of  Port-an-Fhaileagain°,  and  plundered  and  burned  the  country  of  Brian-na- 
Moicheirghe''.  Monaghan  was  left  empty  to  them.  O'Donnell  and  Niall  set  out 
to  join  that  English  army  at  Kinard',  and  demolished  the  castle  of  Kinard ;  but, 
O'Neill  being  near  them  with  a  very  numerous  army,  they  dared  not  advance 
further  into  Tyrone ;  so  that  these  hosts  returned  to  their  several  homes,  O'Neill 
not  having  come  to  terms  of  peace  or  armistice  with  them. 

Rory  Gallda  (the  Anglicised),  son  of  O'Neill,  was  taken  prisoner  by  O'Neill 
(Con,  the  son  of  Con). 

Hugh  Oge,  the  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Gilla-Duv  Maguire, 
died,  after  having  gained  the  victory  over  the  Devil  and  the  world. 

James  O'Flanagan,  the  son  of  the  Parson  of  Innis'',  a  man  of  great  name  and 
renown  in  his  own  country,  died. 

Baile-Ui-Donnghaile'  was  assaulted  by  Niall  Oge,  son  of  Art,  son  of  Con 
O'Neill.  He  demolished  the  castle  ;  and  he  made  a  prisoner  of  the  son  of 
O'Neill,  who  was  foster-son  of  O'Donnelly',  and  carried  him  off,  together  with 
the  horses  and  the  other  spoils  of  the  town. 

The  castle  of  Belleek  was  taken  by  Hugh  Boy  O'Donnell,  from  which  fol- 
lowed the  disturbance  of  Tirconnell. 

Maguire  proceeded  with  an  army  into  Tirconnell,  at  the  instance  of  O'Don- 
nell, for  O'Donnell's  sons  were  at  strife  with  each  other,  from  fear  that  the  one 

inquisition  taken  at  Dungannon  on  the  23rd  of  over  the  northern  forces  by  Sir  Phelim  O'Neill 
Augiist,  1610.  The  following  is  translated  from  in  1641,  and  was  one  of  Sir  Phelini's  chief  coun- 
an  Irish  MS.  Journal  of  the  rebellion  of  1641,  sellors,  and  mainly  instrumental  in  inducing 
in  the  possession  of  Lord  O'Neill.  him  to  assume  the  title  of  Earl  of  T^Tone. 
"A.  D.  1641,  October.  Lord  Cauldfield's  Pynnar,  in  his  Survey  of  Ulster,  in  1618-19, 
Castle  in  Baile-I-Donghaile  was  talcen  by  Pa-  calls  this  place  Ballydonnell,  but  this  is  a  pal- 
trick  Modardha  (the  gloomy)  O'Donnelly."  It  pable  error. — See  Appendix,  p.  2429,  for  the 
appears  from  the  depositions  taken  before  the  pedigree  of  O'Donnelly. 

government  commissioners  after  the  rebellion,  '  Foster-son  of  O'Donnelhj. — This  was  the  ce- 

and  now  preserved  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  lebrated  John  Donnghaileach,  or  the  Donnellian 

College,   Dublin,    that  this  Patrick  Modardha  O'Neill,   otherwise    called   John   or  Shane-au- 

O'Donnelly  was  one  of  the  four  Captains  placed  diomais,  i.  e.  John  of  the  Pride,  or  ambition. 


140(3  aNNaí,a  Rioghachca  eiReaNN.  [1532. 

]ioccain  ]iia  na  poile  i  ccrnnuy^  ia|i  nécc  a  narap  aji  po  Ifr  ainm  -]  eipDeapcap 
TTlajjnuj^a  uí  Oorhnaill  pó  G[iinn  uile,  ní  nama  hi  ccenel  cconaiU  acr  ip  na 
cípib  a  neaccai|i,"|  ]io  baí  acc  pojipán  pop  a  bpairjiib  painnpiub.  6á  Viimfccla 
ló  hua  nDorhnaill  gailpme  oo  óénarh  Dóib  pop  apoile  -]  a  bol  pfin  i  neineipre 
app  a  lop  conaó  aipe  po  rojaipm  ua  DoTfinaill  TTIa^uioip  Dia  paijió  Dup  an 
ccaompaccíp  ÍTla jnup  Do  cuiboiujaD  ppi  caipipi  -\  bparaippi  ppi  a  corhpuilióib. 
Oo  cóiD  laparh  majuióTp  ")  aoó  buióe  ua  DomnaiU  co  na  pocpaioe  50  pangac- 
cap  CO  pinn  50  po  cpfcpac  ina  mbaoí  pó  rhámiip  ÍTlhajmipa  ó  op  co  hop.  bá 
hann  baoí  lllajnuf'  an  can  pm  pop  pairce  caipléin  na  pinne  50  líon  a  rionóil, 
00  cuaccap  rpa  clann  ma^nupa  co  nopuing  Dia  muincip  cap  pccaipb  beccoice 
ap  lonchaib  an  baile  i  naipfp  ~\  1  noócum  an  cplóijbaí  Dia  paijiD.  Spaoínceap 
poppa  lá  maguióip  1  lá  hao6  inbuióe  50  po  cuipic  50  haimóeónac  pó  óiofn  an 
caiplfin.  Oo  bfpc  aon  do  muincip  jallcubatp  Do  rhapcpluaj  majnupa  pop- 
^arh  00  jae  pop  roippbealbac  mac  oonncbaió  mic  bpiain  niic  pilip  niejuióip, 
-)  DO  epná  beógonca  ap, -]  bpfca  laparh  Dia  C15  co  népbailc  pia  ccionn  ceópa 
noibce  lap  mbuaió  naicpise.     Do  caoc  cóc  uaióib  Dia  lonjpopc  laparii. 

aois  cr?iosu,  1532. 

Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  céo,  cpiocac,  a  Dó. 

T!^omap  mac  piapaip  puaió  (.1.  mpla  upmuman)  Do  rhapbaD  1  noppai  jib  lé 
Diapmaicc  mac  giolla  paccpaicc,  aóbap  cijeapna  oppaije  an  DiapmaiD  pin, 
-]  níp  bó  cian  lap  pin  50  po  coipbipeaD  DiapmaiD  lá  a  Deapbparaip  péin  (lú 
mac  giolla  paccpaicc)  Don  iapla,-|  po  cfnglaó  Diapmaicc  laparh  lap  an  lapla 
a  nDíojail  a  rhic,  ■]  jac  iiilc  ele  Da  nDeapnaó  lé  Diapmaic  ppip  50  pin. 

"  The  one  might  attain,  4'C — "The  senior  fear-  county  of  Donegal, 
ing  that   the  junior   should  be  elected  to  the  ^  Opposite,  ap  lonchaib  .1.  ap  ajciió,  rio  op 

chieftainship,  in  preference  to  himself,  and  the  comaip.     The  phrase   eineac  1   n-ionchaiB  is 

junior  being  so  conscious  of  his   own  power,  used  throughout  these  Annals  in  the  sense  of 

popularity,  and  fame,  that  he  was  determined  "  face  to  face." 

to  win  the  chieftainship,  whatever  troubles  he  '  Forced  to   retreat  :  literally,    "  they  were 

might  cause  in  the  territory."  forcibly  driven  under  the  shelter  of  the  cas- 

^  Scairbh-Beijoige,  i.  e.  the  shallow  ford  of  tie." 
Begog,  a  ford  on  the  Eiver  Finn,  near  the  little  "  Belonging  to  :  literally,  "  one  of  the  O'Gal- 

town  of  Castlefinn,  in  the  barony  of  Raphoe,  and  laghers  of  Manus'  cavalry." 


1532.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  14()7 

might  attain  to  the  chieftainship  in  preference  to  the  other",  after  tlieir  father's 
death  ;  for  the  name  and  renown  of  Manus  O'Donnell  had  spread  not  only 
through  all  Tirconuell,  but  through  external  territories ;  and  he  was  oppressing 
his  own  kindred.  O'Donnell  was  afraid  that  they  would  commit  fratricide  upon 
each  other,  and  that  his  own  power  would,  in  consequence,  be  weakened,  where- 
fore he  had  invited  Maguire  to  come  to  him,  to  see  wliether  they  could  lecon- 
cile  Manus  with  his  relatives  through  friendship  and  brotherly  love.  Maguire 
and  Hugh  Boy  O'Donnell  afterwards  marched  with  their  troops  until  they 
arrived  at  the  [River]  Fin ;  and  they  plundered  all  [the  territory]  tliat  was  under 
the  jurisdiction  of  Manus,  from  border  to  border.  Manus  at  this  time  was  oji 
the  Green  of  Castlefinn,  with  all  his  forces  assembled  ;  and  the  sons  of  Manus, 
with  a  party  of  their  people,  set  out  across  Scairbh-Begoige",  opposite*  the  town 
[castle],  to  await  and  meet  the  army  that  was  advancing  towards  them.  They 
were  routed  by  Maguire  and  Hugh  Boy,  and  forced  to.  retreat''  into  the  castle 
for  protection.  One  of  the  O'Gallaghers,  belonging  to"  Manus's  cavalry,  made 
a  thrust  of  a  spear  at  Tiuiough,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Brian,  sou  of  Philip 
Maguire,  who  escaped'',  severely  wounded,  and  was  then  carried  to  his  house, 
where  he  died  at  the  end  of  three  nights,  after  the  victory  of  penance.  They 
all  then  returned  to  their  several  fortresses. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1532. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  thirty-two. 

Thomas,  the  son  of  Pierce  Roe,  Earl  of  Ormond,  was  slain  in  Ossory  by 
Dermot  MacGillapatrick^  who  was  heir  to  the  lordship  of  Ossory.  Not  long 
after  this,  Dermot  was  delivered  up  by  his  own  brother  (the  Mac  Gillapatrick) 
to  the  Earl,  by  whom  he  was  fettered,  in  revenge  of  his  son  and  of  every  other 
misdeed  which  Dermot  had  committed  against  him  up  to  that  time. 

^  Escaped,  Do  epna  beójoncu. — lie  escaped  terwards,  they  had  the  consolation  to  see  liim 

severely  wounded.     This  is  a  strange  mode  of  die  a  good  penitent,  and,  what  was  an  almost 

expression.    The  meaning  intended  to  be  con-  equally  great  satisfaction  in  those  days,  to  have 

vcyed    is,     that    Turlough,    though    moitally  him  interred  in  his  own  family  tomb  under  th< 

wounded,  escaped  from  falling  into  the  hands  of  tutelage  of  his  own  patron  saint, 

his  enemies,  which  was  some  satisfaction  to  his  '  Mac   Gillapatrick,    now  always   anglicised 

friends,  for  though  he  died  in  three  nights  af-  Fitzpatrick. 


1408  aNNQ^a  Rioghachca  emeawH.  [1532. 

O  cfpbaiU  (rnaol]uianaió)  an  raon  pfii  ba  pf]i|i  5a]ic,  gaipcceao,  aj  i 
oipoeapcap  Dm  cmél  pfipin,  an  ci  Dap  bo  buióeac  DOtn,  -|  Deópaió  eccalj'a  i 
éiccpi,  ■]  ap  mo  do  rionoil, -]  Do  rioólaic  cainic  oia  bunaib  piiéirh,  Cuingib 
conjmala  cóic,  Sdivii|i  cfpc  cobpaiD  a  cinfó  buacail  rfnn  caipccil  na  ccpeaB, 
mól  meaópac  mópóálac  muman,  Ifg  ló^ttiap,  jfin  capprho^ail,  inneóin  popaip, 
"1  uaicne  óiji  na  neileac  Decc  (.1.  la  pele  mara  pmpcel)  ma  lonjpopc  pfin,  "| 
a  mac  pfpganamm  DÓipDneaD  ina  lonao.  TTlaiDin  an  la  pin  péin  pé  nécc 
maolpuanaiD  lá  a  cloinD  ap  lapla  npmuman, -|  ap  clomn  cpfain  1  cfpbaiU. 
l?o  bfnaó  Daoíne  "]  eic  lomba,  "|  opoanap  Da  ngoipn  pabcnin  Di'b,  coniD  oe  do 
Ifn  bél  aca  na  ppabcún  Don  or  in  po  ppaoíneaó  an  niaiDm  ipiii  1  bo  he  pin 
copccap  Déiófnac  TTIaolpuanaió.  í?o  gaipeab  ó  cfpbaill  (arhail  a  Dubpamap) 
DpiopganainiTi  ap  belaib  a  pinnpiop  clann  cpfain  ui  cfpbaill.  Uangaccap  uilc 
lomóa  cpeimc  pin  ipin  cip  ap  po  j^nbpac  clann  cpfoin  cerup  caiplén  bioppa, 
1  po  rnillpioc  an  cip  ap.  l?o  cuic  mac  an  pfppúin  ui  ceapbaiU  la  mac  1  ceap- 
baill  .1.  la  caDcc  caoc  ap  paicce  bioppa.  Q8  a  hairle  pin  po  cappainj  ó  cfp- 
baill (pfpganainiii)  a  cliamain  .1.  lapla  cille  Dapa  luj^cip  na  liGpeann  ap 


*  Generosity^  Scipi^. — This  word  is  explained 
eineac  by  O'Clery,  and  pele  in  Cormac's  Glos- 
sary. 

'  A  triumphant  traverser  of  tribes,  buacail 
cfnn  caipcil  na  ccpeab,  literally,  a  boy  of  stout 
traversing  of  tribes.  The  style  is  here  child- 
ishly ridiculous.  The  meaning  is  that  he  was  a 
boy  or  youth  who  made  stout  incursions  among 
tribes.  But  as  buacail  really  means  "  a  cow- 
boy," it  is  entirely  beneath  the  dignity  of  the 
bombastic  bardic  style,  which  tlie  Four  Masters 
here  affect  to  imitate,  to  apply  it  to  O'CarroU. 

f  Munster  champion. — The  territory  of  Ely 
O'Carroll  originally  belonged  to  Munster,  and 
still  belongs  to  the  diocese  of  Killaloe,  though  it 
is  now  a  part  of  the  King's  County,  in  Leinster. 
O'Carroll  was  originally  chief  of  all  the  tract  of 
country  now  divided  into  the  baronies  of  Clon- 
lisk  and  Ballybritt,  in  the  King's  County,  and  of 
the  adjoining  barony  of  Ikerrin,  in  the  county  of 
Tipperary,  but  for  many  centuries  his  country 
was  considered  as  co-e.\tensive  with  the  two  ba- 


ronies in  the  King's  County  above-mentioned. 
O'Carroll's  strongest  castle  was  Leim-Ui-Bha- 
nain,  now  the  Castle  of  the  Leap. — See  the  years 
1514,  1516.  Sir  Charles  O'Carroll,  in  a  letter 
to  the  Lord  Deputy,  written  in  1595,  preserved  in 
the  Library  at  Lambeth  Palace,  complains  that  the 
Eight  Honourable  the  Earl  of  Ormond  had  sub- 
tracted several  territories  from  Thomond  which 
he  added  to  his  "  Countie  Pallentine  of  Typpe- 
rarie,  though  there  be  no  coullor  for  it,  parti- 
cularly Muskryhyry,  which  he  improperlye  and 
iisurpedly  called  the  Heither  [Neither  ?]  Ormond, 
though  it  was  ever  heretofore  reputed,  knowen, 
and  taken  as  of  Thomond,  until  of  late  sub- 
tracted by  the  greatnesse,  countenance,  and  ex- 
port power  of  the  said  Erie." 

8  Carbuncle  gem This  is  a  far  better  meta- 
phor than  "  buucail  cfim-caipcil  na  ccpeaB."' 
"  Principatum  habent  carbuiiculi  in  gemmis." — 
Pliny,  xxvii.  7.  "  It  is  believed  that  a  car- 
buncle doth  shine  in  the  dark,  like  a  burning 
coal,  from  whence  it  hath  its  name." — Wilkini. 


1532.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1409 

O'Carroll  (Mulrony),  the  most  distinguished  man  of  his  own  tribe  for  gene- 
rosity'*, valour,  prosperity,  and  renown  ;  a  man  to  whom  the  poets,  the  exiled, 
the  clergy,  and  the  learned,  were  indebted  ;  who  had  gathered  and  bestowed 
more  [wealth]  than  any  other  person  of  his  stock;  a  protecting  hero  to  all;  the 
guiding,  firm  helm  of  his  tribe  ;  a  triumphant  traverser  of  tribes'  ;  a  jocund 
and  majestic  Munster  champion'^ ;  a  precious  stone  ;  a  carbuncle  gem^ ;  the 
anvil  of  the  solidity,  and  the  golden  pillar  of  the  Elyans^  died  in  his  own  for- 
tress, on  the  festival  of  St.  Matthew  the  Evangelist ;  and  his  son,  Ferganainm, 
was  inaugurated  in  his  place.  On  that  very  day,  and  before  the  death  of  Mul- 
rony, his  sons  defeated  the  Earl  of  Ormond  and  the  sons  of  John  O'Carroll,  who 
were  deprived  of  many  men  and  horses,  and  of  cannon  called  falcons',  in  conse- 
quence of  which  the  ford  at  which  the  defeat  was  given  was  called  Bel-atha-na- 
bhfabhcim"  ;  and  this  was  Mulrony's  last  victory.  His  son,  Ferganainm  (as 
we  have  already  stated),  was  styled  the  O'Carroll,  in  preference  to  his  seniors, 
the  sons  of  John  O'Carroll.  Many  evils  resulted  to  the  country  in  consequence 
of  this,  for  the  sons  of  John  first  took  the  castle  of  Birr,  and  plundered  the 
country  out  of  it'.  The  son  of  the  parson  O'Carroll  was  slain  on  the  Green" 
of  Birr  by  Teige  Caech,  the  son  of  O'Carroll.  After  this  O'Carroll  drew  his 
cliamhain"  [father-in-law],  the  Earl  ofKildare,  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  against 

''  Elyans,  i.  e.  of  the  men  of  Ely.  O'Meagher  any  name  like  it  in  the  King's  County,  or  any 
Chief  of  Ikerrin,  was  another  chieftain  of  the  where  in  its  neighbourhood. 
Elyans  ;  but  O'Fogarty,  who  got  possession  of  '  Out  of  it,  i.  e.  making  sudden  sallies  from 
south  Ely  at  an  early  period,  was  not  of  the  the  castle  they  plundered  the  country, 
race,  but  descended  from  Eochaidh  Balldearg,  ™  Green,  pairce,  a  field  of  exercise,  is  trans- 
King  of  Thomond.  The  men  of  Ely  descended  lated  platea  in  Cormac's  Glossary.  It  is  now 
from  Eile,  the  seventh  in  descent  from  Kian,  generally  used  to  denote  a  fair-green.  The  term 
the  son  of  Oilioll  Olum,  King  of  Munster  in  the  enters  largely  into  the  names  of  places  in  Ireland, 
third  century.                                                                     "  Cliainhain This   word   means  relative  by 

'  Falcons,  paBcúin. — "  A  falcon  is  a  sort  of  marriage.      Ferganainm    was    married    to   the 

cannon,    whose   diameter    at   the    bore    is    five  Earl's  daughter,  as  we  are  informed  by  "Ware 

inches,  weight  seven  hundred  and  fifty  pounds,  in  his  xlnnals  of  Ireland,  under  the  year  1532, 

length  seven  foot,  load  two  pounds  and  a  quarter,  where  he  writes:  "And  to  strengthen  himself 

shot   two  inches   and  a  half  diameter  and  two  the  better  by  the  Friendship  of  the  Irish,  he 

pounds  and  a  half  weight." — Harris.  [the  Earl  of  KildareJ  gave  one  of  his  daughters 

"  Bel-atha-rva-hhfahhcún,    i.  e.   mouth   of  the  to  wife  to  O'Conor  of  Offaly,  and  the  other  to 

ford  of  the  falcons.     This   name  has  not  been  Ferganainm  O'Carroll."  —  See  Ware's  Works, 

perpetuated,  at  least  the  Editor  could  not  find  edition  of  1 705,  p.  86. 

S  u 


1410  aNwaca  Rio^hachca  eipeaHN.  [1532. 

cloinn  cy^fain  5n|i  gabaó  leó  caiplen  cille  lujun,  caij^lén  na  lieccailpi,"|  cai]'lén 
baile  an  Dúnaió.  l?o  puiópioo  ia|iarh  1  ccimceall  bio)i]iae,  "|  bai  oeabaib 
fcopjia  -]  bópDa  an  caiflein  50  ]io  bfn  peilcp  ina  caob  Don  lapla  nj-  an 
ccaiplén  amac.  l?o  Dicleir  innpm  50  ]io  gabaó  an  caiplén.  Luió  an  ciapla 
cap  a  aip,  1  bai  an  pelép  inn, "]  bá  ipin  eappac  ap  cann  rainicc  ap  an  raob 
apaill  De.     5á  Dpopairmfc  baip  maolpuanam  ui  cfpbail.l  oo  páiófó. 

mile  bliaóain  ip  cúicc  cét), 
pice  1  DO  bliaóain  oécc, 
ó  jfin  cp)opr  DO  plánaij  pmn, 
50  pojrhap  bmp  m  cTpbaill. 

Goccan  mac  cijeapnáin  mic  eoccain  111  Ruaipc  paoi  Duine  iwq'ail  Do 
Tiiapbaó  lá  bua  niaoílmiabaij,  ■]  lá  a  bpairpib  1  mamipcip  opoma  do  enap. 

tUoippóealbac  mac  meg  planncbniD  Do  mapbaó  lá  a  Diap  Deapbparap 
pfin  1  nDopup  baile  méjplannchaiD,  -|  bpian  ó  puaipc  Do  miUeaó  moprnn  1 
nDapcpaije  r]iep  an  mapbaó  pni. 

máipe  inT^fn  mic  ]'uibne  pánar  bean  in  baoijill  Décc  co  bobanD  )ap  na 
lieapccap  Dia  beoc  i  noopup  a  baile  péin,  21  appil. 

ITlac  uiólín  irnlrap  mac  jfpóicc  do  rhapbaó  1  nfcclaip  búine  bó,-]  concobap 
mac  UÍ  caráin,  pfp  coicreac  cpomóonói^  Do  lopccaó  anD  ~\  ITlac  conulab 
.).  Semup  mac  aipr  inic  comilab  do  jabnil  la  clomn  Doiiinaill  clépi^  í  cacáin. 

"  Cill-Iurin,  now  KiUurin,  a  townland  iu  tlie  distance  to  the  south-west  ol'  the  road  leading 

west   of  the   parish  of  Geshill,    iu  the   King's  from  Birr  to  Cloghan. 

County.     No  ruins  of  the  walls  of  this  castle  'Sat  roiaul,  S)-c. — I?o  puiorioc  lapaiii  i  ccim- 

now  remain,  but  the  entrenchments  which  sur-  ceall    bioppae,     insederunl  postea    in    circuit u 

rounded  it  are  still  to  be  seen.     This  castle  is  Birra',  i.  c.  prwcinxervnt  nppidiun  copiis.    This  is 

shewn  on  the  old  map  of  Leix  and  Ophaly  made  the  Irish  phrase  to  express  "  they  laid  siege  to, 

in  the  reign  of  Philip  and  Mary.  sat  about,  beleaguered,  or  invested  the  castle." 

''  Eaglais,    i.  e.   eccksia,    now   Eglish,   which  '  IJis  other  side AVare  enters  the  account  of 

gives  name  to  a  parish  and  barony  in  the  King's  this  inroad  into  Ely  O'Carroll  under  the  year 

County.  1533,  which  is  the  correct  date,  as  follows  : 

1  Baih-an-dtiiM,  i.  e.  the   town  of  the  fort,  "  The  Parliament  being  prorogued,  the  Earl 

now  Ballindown,  in  the   barony  of  Eglish,  or  of  Kildare  made  an  iurode  with  his  Army  into 

Fircall,  in  the  King's  County.    The  walls  of  this  Ely  O'Caroll,  by  the  advice  of  his  Son  in  Law, 

castle  are  now  level  with  the  ground,  but  its  Fergauanim  (that  is  without  a  name)  O'Caroll 

site  is  still  traceable  in  the  south-west  extre-  (who  assumed  the  right  of  that  Country  to  him- 

mity  of  the   townland   of  Ballindown,   a  short  self),   where,  whilst  he  was  destroying  and  ha- 


1532]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1411 

the  sons  of  John;  and  they  took  the  castle  of  Cill-Iimn",  the  castle  ofEaglais'', 
and  the  castle  of  Baile-an-duna''.  They  afterwards  sat  round  Birr"^;  and  a  fight 
was  continued  between  them  and  the  warders  of  the  castle,  until  a  ball,  fired 
from  the  castle,  entered  the  side  of  the  Earl,  but  this  [circumstance]  was  kept 
secret  until  the  castle  was  taken.  The  Earl  returned  home,  and  the  ball  remamed 
in  him  until  the  following  spring,  when  it  came  out  at  his  other  side'. 

It  was  in  commemoration  of  the  year  of  the  death  of  Mulrony  O'CarroU  that 
the  following  [quatrain]  was  composed : 

One  thousand  and  five  hundred  years. 

Twenty  years  and  twelve  beside, 
From  the  birth  of  Christ  who  saved  us 
To  the  autumn  when  O'Carroll  died. 
Owen,  the  son  of  Tiernan,  son  of  Owen  O'Rourke,  a  distinguished  gentleman, 
was  slain  by  O'Mulvey  and  his  kinsmen,  in  the  monastery  of  Druim-da-Ethiar 
[Dromahaire]. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Mac  Clancy,  was  killed  by  his  own  two  brothers,  on 
the  threshold  of  Mac  Clancy's  mansion  ;  and  Brian  O'Rourke  destroyed  much 
in  Dartry,  on  account  [i.  e.  in  revenge]  of  this  killing. 

Mary,  the  daughter  of  Mac  Sweeny  Fanad,  and  wife  of  O'Boyle,  died  sud- 
denly, after  having  been  thrown  from  her  horse,  at  the  door  of  her  own  mansion, 
on  the  21st  of  April. 

Mac  Quillin  (Walter,  the  son  of  Garrett)  was  killed  in  the  church  of 
Dunbo' ;  and  Conor,  the  son  of  O'Kane,  a  rich  and  aflluent  man,  was  burned 
in  it,  and  Mac  Con-Uladh"  (viz.  James,  the  son  of  Art  Mac  Con-Uladh)  was 
taken  prisoner  by  the  son  of  Donnell  Cleireach  O'Kane. 

rassing  those  parts,   when   he   came    near  the  thrice  shot  with  Bullets,  yet  I  am  now  whole ; 

castle  of  Bir,  which  was  prepossessed  by  the  son  and  that  the  Earl  should  sharply  reply  in  these 

of  the  deceased  O'CarolL"  [This  is  incorrect words  :  I  would  you  had  received  the  fourth  in 

Ed.]     "  He  was  wounded  in  the  thigh  with  a  my  stead." — Edition  of  170-5,  p.  87-   Cox  asserts 

Bullet,  which  hastened  his  return  :  nor  did  he  that  the  Earl  was  shot  in  the  head  on  this  occa- 

ever  after  fully  recover  his  former  health.     A  sion,  but  he  had  no  authority  for  this  assertion, 

story  goes  of  the  Earl,   being  thus  hurt,   and  '  i)MW-éo,  i.e.  the  fort  of  the  cow,  now  Dunboe, 

groaning  with  the  pain  of  his  Wound,   that  a  a  townland  giving  name  to  a  parish  in  the  ba- 

common  souldier  standing  nigh  him  should  say,  rony  of  Coleraine,  and  county  of  Londonderry. 

My  Lord,  why  do  you  sigh  so,  I  myself  was  "  Mac  Con  Uladh,  now  Mac  Cullagh,  an  Irish 

8  r2 


1412  aHNQca  iiio^hachca  emeanH.  [1532. 

Corha|iba  píoónaca  .1.  hjiian  nécc. 

Copbmac  uct  liulcacain  oi|icinneac  achaió  bfire  oécc. 

TTlac  parh]ioóá  n  .1.  mac  ITlajriupa  inic  comnip  caoiyeac  reallai^  eac6ac 
oécc. 

Sfan  mac  pilip  mic  coippoealbaij,  mic  pilip  mejuibip  oo  mapban  In  norh- 
nall  mac  méjuióip  .1.  mac  conconnacc  mic  bpiain  iinc  pilip  naon  paraó  00 
pcín. 

O  moolconaipe  cópna  Décc,  "|  ó  maolconaipe  no  ^aipm  ma  lonah  no  con- 
cobap  mac  nomnaill  puam,  -\  a  éccpióe  50  hairjfpp  lap  pin. 

Ooomnadl,  -]  TTlaguióip  ap  nnol  hi  ccAin  on  iiipcip  Slia;ranaij  .1.  uillicdn 
pceimoncon,-]  pann  ~\  cnrcac  no  cfngal  nóib  pé  poile,  an  iiipcip  no  reacr  leó 
111  crip  eogain,  -]  nun  ngfnainn  no  bpipeaó, "]  an  cip  no  millean. 

lapla  cille  napn  .1.  gepoicc  mac  jepóicc  Do  ceacc  1  nepinn  ina  lupcip  on 

P'S- 

O  Domnaill  no  óol  hi   mai^  Impcc  cona  plojhaib,  "|  mac  nomnaill  laip 

.1.  alapnpann  mac  eóin  cafatiaij,  T?o  cpeachan,  ~\  po  lopccan  ITlaj  liiipcc  la 

luia  nnomiiaill  00  parr  mac  oiapmaca  a  piap  60  po  neóib  jup  bo  pioboc  ppip. 

Clann  ni  ncill  .1.  clann  atpc  o'cc,  nomnall,  ~\  cuafal  hai  a  bpacr  a 
mbpaijnfriap  ace  ua  neill  no  cpochaó  laip. 

Caiplen  aipn  na  piag  no  jabáil  Ir'i  clouin  1  ónbna  ap  mac  pfain  a  biipc  -| 
coccaónftiije  fcoppa, "]  pliocc  piocaipc  a  bupc.  Cpeaca  "]  mapbra  lomba  no 
nénam  nóib  pop  ajioile. 

Cpeaca  aióble  "|  aipccfe  aniiapmapraca  no  nénarh  lá  mall  ócc  ó  neill 
ap  l?uibilin  mac  nomnaill,  ~\  a  mbpfir  laip  hi  ppfpaib  manor. 

Copbmoc  mac  mej^móip  Do  jabáil  ippiulllá  cloinn  í  neill  .1.  lé  pfpnopca 
mac  cuinn  mc  cunln,  -]  la  peilim  noiblénoij  mac  oipc  óicc  nnc  ciiinn  í  neill, 
-]  npong  Dfi  mapcpluag  no  rhapbab  amaille  ppip  im  uilliam  mac  Diopmoro, 

I'amily,   of  whose  history   very  little  has  been  destruction.      The   Four  Alasters    should  have 

collected  by  the  Four  Masters.  entered    the   account    of  his    inroad   into    Ely 

"'  As  Lm-d  Justice He  arrived  in  Dublin  in  O'CarroU,  above  given,  under  the  year  15.33,  as 

August,  1.532,  where  he  was  received  with  great  Ware  has  done. 

acclamations,  and  received   the  sword   of  state  "  Ard-na-riagli,  now  Ardnarea,  a  suburb   to 

from  Skeffington,  who,  however,  harboured  re-  Ballina,   in  the  (X)unty  of  Mayo. 

venge  in  his  breast,  and  soon  after  lodged  sucii  i  On  both  sides,  literall}',   "  on  each  other." 

accusations  against  him  as  finally  wrought  his  ''  Felim  Doibhlenach,  i.  e.  Felim  the  Devlinian, 


1532  ]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1413 

The  Coarb  of  Fenagh,  i.  e.  Brian,  died. 

Cormac  O'Hultachain,  Erenach  of  Achadh-Beitlie  [Aghavea],  died. 

Magauran,  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Thomas,  Chief  of  Teallach-Eachdhach 
[TuUyhaw],  died. 

John,  the  son  of  PhiHp,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Phihp  Maguire,  was  killed 
with  one  stab  of  a  knife  [dagger]  by  Donnell,  the  son  of  Maguire,  i.  e.  by  the 
son  of  Cuconnaught,  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Pliilip. 

O'Mulconiy  (Torna,  the  son  of  Torna)  died;  and  Conor,  the  son  of  Don- 
nell Roe,  was  styled  O'Mulconry  in  his  place.    He,  too,  died  shortly  afterward. 

O'Donnell  and  Maguire  went  to  the  English  Lord  Justice,  William  Skef- 
lington,  and  after  they  had  formed  a  league  of  mutual  friendship  and  amity 
with  each  other,  the  Lord  Justice  went  with  them  into  Tyrone.  The  castle 
of  Dungannon  Avas  broken  down  and  the  country  was  ravaged. 

The  Earl  of  Kildare  (Garrett,  the  son  of  Garrett)  came  to  Ireland  from 
the  King  as  Lord  Justice". 

O'Donnell  proceeded  to  Moylurg  with  his  forces,  being  accompanied  by 
Mac  Donnell,  namely,,  Alexander,  the  son  of  John  Cahanagh.  O'Donnell  plun- 
dered and  burned  Moylurg,  until  at  last  Mac  Dermot  gave  him  his  own 
demand  that  he  might  be  at  peace  with  him. 

The  sons  of  O'Neill,  i.  e.  the  sons  of  Art  Oge,  namely,  Donnell  and  Tuathal, 
who  had  been  for  a  long  time  detained  in  captivity  by  [the  other]  O'Neill,  were 
hanged  by  him. 

The  castle  of  Ard-na-riagh"  [Ardnarea]  was  taken  by  the  sons  of  O'Dowda 
from  the  sons  of  John  Burke,  in  consequence  of  which  a  war  arose  between 
them  and  the  descendants  of  Richard  Burke,  and  many  depredations  and 
.slaughters  were  committed  on  both  sides''. 

Great  depredations  and  desperate  ravages  were  committed  by  Niall  Oge 
O'Neill  upon  Ruibilin  Mac  Donnell,  and  he  carried  the  spoils  into  Fermanagh. 

Cormac,  the  son  of  Maguire,  was  treacherously  taken  prisoner  by  the  sons 
of  O'Neill,  namely,  by  Ferdoragh,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Con,  and  Felim 
Doibhlenach^  the  son  of  Art  Oge,  son  of  Con  O'Neill.  A  party  of  his  cavalry 
were  slain,  and,  among  the  rest,  William,  the  son   of  Dermot,  son  of  Cormac- 

so  called  because  he  was  fostered  by  O'Doibhlen,      the  west  side  of  Lough  Neagh,  on   the  borders 
«H<7/ice  O'Devlin,  Chief  of  Muintir- Devlin,   on      of  the  counties  of  Londonderry  and  Tyrone. 


1414  aHwata  Rioghachca  eiReawN.  [i533. 

mic  copbmaic,  imic  jappaib  -j  inrión  ngiolla  ballad  mac  enjii  buióe  mic  gopjiaib 
50  pocaibih  ele, -|  ]io  jabab  cib  ajiaill  ann  beóp.  Cm  lacc  clann  í  neill  ona 
nip  bo  bioTTilán  lorcap  pop  ccúlaib  ap  do  buaileaó  "|  00  loiceab  uprhcSp  a 
muincipe  iin  peilim  mac  í  néill. 


aOlS  CRIOSU,  1533. 
'     Ctoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cúicc  céo  cpioca  ocpí. 

niac  Diapmacca  maije  luipcc  Diapmoio  mac  Ruaibpi  mic  oiapmara  Do 
mapbab  a  ppiull  la  cloinn  eoccain  mic  raibcc  mic  Diapmacca,-)  eoccan  mac 
caibcc  DO  jabáil  cijeapnaip  na  Deaohaib. 

O  maolmuaib  Domnall  caoc  mac  an  copnamaij  cijeapna  peap  cceall  Do 
rhapbab  a  ppuill  la  a  Deapbparaiji  péin  (.1.  cucoicpice),-]  la  mac  a  Deapbpa- 
fap  .1.  ape  a]\  paicce  lainne  heala,  ■]  ó  maolmuaib  do  jaipm  do  Deapbpacaip 
.1.  caraoip. 

peilim  bacac  mac  neill  mic  cuinn  1  neill  Décc. 

Oa  mac  peilim  mic  Puaibpi  bacaij  1  neill  do  rhapbab  la  ITIajnup  ua 
nDorhnaill. 

Gmann  mac  cuinn,  mic  neill,  mic  aipc  do  mapbab  la  cloinn  mesuibip. 

Caiplén  pliccij  Do  gabail  la  cabcc  6cc  mac  caibcc,  mic  aoba  ui  concobaip 
ap  lonnpaiccib  oibce  lap  mbpac  an  baile,  -[  lap  na  cup  amac  Do  bapDaib  on 
caipléin  pfin. 

Caiplén  aipD  na  piaj  do  ^abóil  map  an  cceDna  pan  oibce  la  cloinn  comaip 
a  búpc  ap  cloinn  1  DÚbDa. 

Cpeac  mop  Do  bénarh  lá  hua  nDorhnaill  ap  ua  nf^pa  mbume  ecip  Da 
abainn  cpé  na  airhpfip  Do  benarh  Dua  nfjpa. 

Niall  mac  mupchaib  mic  puibne  do  rhapbab  ap  Dpoicfc  pliccij.  bá  hepibe 
ÓCC  macaorh  bá  pfpp,  1  bá  Dfppcaijfe  Dia  cinib  buném. 

TTluipceapcac  mac  peilim,  mic  coippbealbai^  cappai^  ui  concobaip  Do 

*  Fircali,  peapa  ceall. — See  note  "^,  under  the  town  of  Tullamore,  in  the  King's  County.    There 

year  1216,  p.  189,  supra.  was  a  church  erected  here  in  the  sixth  century 

*■  Lann-EaUa, — i.  e.  the  church  of  Ealla,  which  by  St.  Colman  Elo.  —  See  Ussher's  Primordia, 

was  the  name  of  an  ancient  forest, — nowLynally,  pp.  910,  961.    The  present  ruins  of  the  church 

situated  about  a  mile  to  the  south-west  of  the  of  Lynally  are  not  ancient,  but  the  wall  which 


1533.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1415 

» 
Mac  Caffry,  and  Gilla-Ballagh,  the  son  of  Henry  Boy  Mac  Caffiy,  and  many 

others.  Several  were  also  taken  prisoners;  but,  though  tlie  sons  of  O'Neill  were 

victorious,  they  did  not  return  scathless,  for  the  greater  part  of  their  people  were 

severely  beaten  and  wounded,  and  among  the  rest  Felira,  the  son  of  O'Neill. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1533. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  thirty-three. 

Mac  Dermot  of  Moylurg  (Dermot,  the  son  of  Kory  i\iac  Dermot)  was 
treacherously  slain  by  the  sons  of  Owen,  son  of  Teige  Mac  Dermot ;  and  Owen, 
the  son  of  Teige,  assumed  the  lordship  after  him. 

O'MoUoy  (Donnell  Caech,  the  son  of  Cosnamhach),  Lord  of  Fircall",  was 
treacherously  slain  on  the  Green  of  Lann-Ealla"  by  his  own  brother,  Cucogry, 
and  Art,  his  brother's  son  ;  and  his  brother,  Cahir,  was  styled  O'MoUoy. 

Felim  Bacagh,  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Con  O'Neill,  died. 

The  two  sons  of  Felim,  the  son  of  Rory  Bacagh  O'Neill,  were  slain  by 
Manus  O'Donnell. 

Edinond,  tlie  sou  of  Con,  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Art  [O'Neill],  was  slain  by 
the  sons  of  Maguire. 

The  castle  of  Sligo  was  taken  by  Teige  Oge,  the  son  of  Teige  Oge,  sou  of 
Hugh  O'Conor,  by  means  of  a  nocturnal  assault,  the  Avarders  of  the  castle 
having  betrayed  it  and  surrendered  it  to  them. 

The  castle  of  Ard-na-riagh  [Ardnarea]  was  likewise  taken  at  iiight  by  the 
sons  of  Thomas  Burke,  from  the  sons  of  O'Dowda. 

A  great  depredation  was  committed  by  O'Donnell  upon  O'Hara  Boy,  between 
the  two  rivers",  because  the  latter  had  been  disobedient  to  him. 

Niall,  son  of  Murrougli  Mac  Sweeny,  was  slain  on  the  bridge  of  Sligo.  He 
was  the  best  and  most  renowned  youth  of  his  own  tribe. 

Murtough,  son  of  Felim,  who  was  son  of  Turlough  Carragh  O'Conor,  was 

encloses  the  cliurcliyard  is  of  considerable  anti-  "^  Beticeen  the  two   rivers,    i.  e.   between    tlie 

«juity.      There  is  a  moat  to  the  south   of  the  Owenmore,  which  flows  through  Collooney,  and 

church  which  would  appear  to  have  belonged  to  the  river  of  Coolaney,  which  unites  with  it  near 

a  castle,  as  it  contains  in  its  interior  a  vault  Annaghmore,  in  the  barony  of  Leyny  and  county 

built  of  stone  with  lime  and  sand  cement.  of  Sliso. 


1416  awNai-a  uio^hachca  eiReawH.  [1534. 

cpocab  la  biia  nooriinaill  ap  paifce  caipléin  eanaigh  ia]i  ppéimDeaó  Da 
clomn, "]  Da  bpairpib  an  baile  i;o  rabaipc  ap. 

lapla  rille  oapa  Do  ceacc  apip  50  hele  Do  cabaip  pipgaridimn  1  ceapbaiU 
50  piiiDc  an  jióin,  1  a  Bfic  a  bpopbaij^i  imon  ccaiplén,  1  conpapal  maic  Dia 
rhuincip  Do  mapboD,  "|  a  lompuD  lap  ngabáil  an  baile.  O  cfpbaill  Do  gaipm 
Duairne  cappac  mac  Sfain  in  occaiD  pipgnnainim,  1  fpaonca  coccaib  oéipcce 
1  néle  cpícpin. 

Copbmac  mac  cocláin  ogeapna  cloinne  concobaip  De.cc. 

Caraoip  mac  coclóin  aipcmneac  cluana  mic  nói]'  oécc. 


aOlS  CRlObC,  1534. 
Cioip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cuic  ceD,  cpioca,  a  cec(ra  p. 

O  concobaip  puab  caDcc  buiDe  mac  cacail  puaiD  Décc,  1  ó  concobaip  Do 
^aipm  no  mac  .1.  coippoealbac  puaD. 

iliac  DiapmaDa  maije  liiipcc  (eoccan)  Décc  pan  ccappaicc  lap  mbfir 
bliaDain  a  ccigeapnap,  "|  TTlacc  luipcc  Do  beir  eapaoncaDac  cograc  pe  a  linn, 
TTlac  Diapmacca  do  ^aipm  Dabb  na  biiille  .1.  aoD  mac  copbmaic  mic  Diap- 
marca.  Clann  caiócc  mic  Diapmacca  do  ^abail  na  caippcce  paip,  -|  nip  bo 
lucca  a  cóc  fapaonca  an  cipe  pe  a  linn. 

Goccan  mac  aoDa  mic  néill  mic  cuinn,  an  caoin  peap  ba  peapp  Do  pliocc 
c(oDa  buiDe  Do  mapbab  la  halbancoib  Dupcop  Dopaijicc  pop  loc  cuan. 

Uoippbealbac  oub  ó  Diomapaicc  do  rhapbab  a  ppiull  la  a  bparaip  pein, 
la  ITliiipceaprac  ócc  6  noiomapaicc  lap  mbfif  bo  aji  plánab  Dé  "i  naoírh  éimin, 
-]  niuipceaprac  ócc  bubbéin  do  rhapbab  a  rrpaiDe  lap  pin  la  hua  mópDa 
cpe  miopbuilib  De,  -)  éirhin. 

O  fjallcubaip  .1.  Gmann  mac  eóin  mic  cuafail  Décc  co  liobann. 

Copbmac  mac  pfp^ail  mic  an  baipD,  paoi  lé  Dan  aon  ba  pfpp  baoi  ina 
aimpip  Dia  cinfb  a  Ifir  ppi  Deipc  1  ppi  Daonnacr  Décc  nonjan,  -\  lap  nairpicce. 

''  Eanack,  i.  e.  a  boggy  land,  now  Annagh,  a  ^  Sieid/ie-an-rom,  i.  e.  the  sitting  place  of  the 

townland  in  the  barony  of  Carbury,  and  county  seal  or  hairy  person,  now  Shinrone,  a  small  town 

of  Sligo.     See  Deed  of  Partition  of  the  Sligo  in  the  King's  County,   about  five  miles  to  the 

estate,  already  often  referred  to.  north  of  Roscrea. 


1534.]  ANNALS.  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1417 

hanged  by  O'Donnell  on  the  Green  of  the  castle  of  Eanach",  his  sons  and  rela- 
tives having  previously  refused  to  give  up  the  castle  for  his  ransom. 

The  Earl  of  Kildare  went  a  second  time  into  Ely,  to  assist  Ferganainm 
O'CarroU,  to  Suidhe-an-roin' ;  and  he  laid  siege  to  the  castle,  on  v^hich  occasion 
he  lost  a  good  constable  of  his  people ;  and,  having  taken  the  castle,  he  returned 
home.  Owny  Carragh,  son  of  John,  vpas  styled  O'Carroll  in  opposition  to 
Ferganainm,  in  consequence  of  which  internal  dissensions  arose  in  Ely. 

Cormac  Mac  Coghlan,  Lord  of  Clann -Conor,  died. 

Caliir  Mac  Coghlan,  Erenagh  of  Clonmacnoise,  died. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHEIST,  1534. 

The  Age  of  CJwist,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  thirty -four. 

O'Conor  Eoe  (Teige  Boy,  the  son  of  Cathal  Eoe)  died  ;  and  his  son,  i.  e. 
Turlough  Roe,  was  styled  O'Conor. 

Mac  Dermot  of  Moylui'g  (Owen)  died  in  the  Rock  [of  Lough  Key],  after 
having  been  a  year  in  the  lordship,  during  which  time  Moylurg  was  in  a  state 
of  disturbance  and  commotion.  The  Abbot  of  Boyle  was  then  styled  Mac  Der- 
mot, namely,  Hugh,  the  son  of  Cormac  Mac  Dermot.  The  sons  of  Teige  Mac 
Dermot  [however]  took  the  Rock  from  him,  and  the  country  was  not  less  dis- 
turbed during  his  time. 

Owen,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Con,  the  best  man  of  the  descen- 
dants of  Hugh  Boy  [O'Neill],  was  slain  with  a  cast  of  a  dart  by  a  party  of  Scots, 
on  Loch  Cuan^ 

Turlough  Duv  O'Dempsey  was  treacherously  killed  by  his  own  kinsman, 
Murtough  Oge  O'Dempsey,  although  he  was  under  the  protection  of  God  and 
St.  Evin^.  Murtough  Oge  was  slain  himself  soon  afterwards  by  O'More,  through 
the  miracles  of  God  and  St.  Evin. 

O'Gallagher,  i.  e.  Edmond,  the  son  of  John,  sou  of  Tuathal,  died  suddenly. 

Cormac,  the  son  of  Farrell  Mac  Ward,  a  learned  poet,  the  best  of  his  tribe 
in  his  time  for  ahns-deeds  and  humanity,  died,  after  unction  and  penance. 

f  Loch  Cuan,  now  Lough  Cone,  or  Strangford  ^  St.  Evin. — He  was  the  patron  saint  of  the 

Lough,  in  the  county  of  Down.  O'Dempseys,   and  the  original  founder  of  the 

8s 


1418  awNa^a  Rioghachca  eiReawN.  [1535. 

TTlaolmuipe  mac  eocaba  aoba]!  ollarhan  lai^ean  lé  Dctn,  pfp  fjiccna  lolloa- 
nac  bá  mair  rCf;  naoiófó  do  rhajibao  50  cfccmaipeac  la  Dfiibpariub  a  macaii 
10  cloinn  1  rimrail. 

TTlajriup  bume  ó  ODibjfnnám  00  cacraó  oá  rhriaoí  pfin  pan  oióce. 

Gccnac,  -]  loTncopaoÍD  móp  oo  60I  ó  mainb  jail-]  ón  comaiple  ap  an  lup- 
cip  (la)ila  cille  oapa  ^fpoicc  ócc  mac  jjfpóicc,  mic  comaip  poplaiiiaió  nfipc 
1  curhacca  6iieann)  gup  an  píj  an  roccrhab  enpi  50  8a;:aib,  7  an  riapla  do 
bol  DO  paijiD  an  jiíj  do  jabail  a  Ificpcéil  p]iip,  ~\  níp  bo  capba  Dó  ap  po 
jjabab  é,  ■]  ]io  ciiipeaó  ipin  cop,  -|  baoí  ann  ppi  hCó  mbliabna,  -\  po  báp  acc 
nnipc  DI151D  paip.  l?o  póccaib  an  napla  gfpóicr  cloibirh  an  pij  050  mac 
comap  aj  Dol  Dó  50  pa^aib.  Qcbfpac  apoile  jup  bó  lie  uilliam  pcceimonron 
baoí  ina  lupcip  m  lonaD  ;^eapóicc. 

aois  críiosc,  1535. 

Qoíp  Cpiopr,  mile,  cuicc  ceD,  cpioca,  a  cúicc. 

IQpla  olle  Dapa  (.1.  lupcip  na  IiGpeann)  gfpóirc  ócc  mac  gfpóicc  mic 
comaip  Deappcaijreac  gall  -|  gaoibeal  Gpeann  ina  aimpip,  uaip  ní  namá  po 
Ifr  a  amm  ■)  a  epoeapcup  po  epmn  nile  acc  po  clop  lii  cpiochaib  eicipcianaib 
eaccaip  ceneóil  a  allaó,  ~\  a  apo  nóp,  do  écc  ina  bpaijofniip  hi  lonnDain.  T?o 
gab  mparh  mac  an  lapla  .1.  comap  ag  Díojail  a  arap  ap  jallaib,  "|  ap  506 
naén  cucc  pocann  Dia  cop  a  hfipinn,  1  po  accuip  cloiófrh  an  píj  uaóa,  1  Do 
j;m  nilc  lomóa  pp)  jallaib,  1  po  jeib  aipoeppoc  aca  cliar  aoióeaó  laip,  cip 

church  of  Mainistir  Eimuin,  now  Monastereven,  '  Skeffington. — As  soou  as  the  King  had  heard 

notwithstanding  Dr.  Lanigan's  attempt  to  prove  that  young  Thomas  had  resigned  the  sword  and 

the  contrary. — See  note  "■,  under  the  year  1394,  broken  out  into  open  rebellion,   he  again  ap- 

p.  731,  supra.  pointed  William  Skeffington,  Lord  Deputy  of 

"  His  son  Thomas. — Ware  says,  in  his  Annals  Ireland. — See  Ware's  Annals, 

of  Ireland,  that  before  his  departure  from  Ire-  ''  Who  had  been  instrumental,  literally,  "</e- 

land  he  received  a  command  from  the  King  to  derunt  causam,  who  gave  cause."     Ware  gives 

choose  a  successor,  on  whose  fidelity  he  miglit  a  much  better  account  of  these  transactions  in 

rely,  and  that  the  Earl  in  an  unlucky  hour  laid  his  Annals  of  Ireland,   under  the  year   1534, 

this  solemn  charge  on  the  weak  shoulders  of  his  where  he  says  that  the  enemies  of  the  family  of 

eldest  son,  who  was  then  scarcely  twenty-one  the  Geraldines  went  to  work  deceitfully;  that 

years  of  age,    in    the   presence    of  the  King's  no  sooner  was  the  Earl  cast  into  prison  than  he 

council,  at  Drogheda,  where  he  took  shipping.  was  beheaded,  and  that  the  same  fate  threatened 


1535.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1419 

Mulmurry  Mac  Keogh,  intended  Ollav  of  Leiuster  in  poetry,  a  learned  man, 
skilled  in  various  arts,  who  kept  a  good  house  of  hospitality,  was  accidentally 
killed  by  his  mother's  brothers,  the  sons  of  O'Toole. 

Manus  Boy  O'Duigennan  was  strangled  in  the  night  by  his  own  wife. 

Great  complaints  and  accusations  were  transmitted  from  the  chiefs  of  the 
English  [of  Ireland]  and  from  the  Council,  to  the  King,  Henry  VIII.,  of  Eng- 
land, against  the  Lord  Justice  (i.  e.  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  Garrett  Oge,  the  son 
of  Garrett,  son  of  Thomas,  commander  of  the  strength  and  power  of  Ireland)  ; 
and  the  Earl  went  over  to  the  King,  to  vindicate  his  conduct  before  him,  but 
it  was  of  no  avail,  for  he' was  taken  and  confined  in  the  tower,  where  he  re- 
mained for  one  year,  and  they  were  exerting  [the  rigours  of]  the  law  against 
him.  The  Earl  Garrett,  on  his  departure  for  England,  left  the  sword  of  the  King 
with  his  son,  Thomas*.  Others  [however]  say  that  it  was  William  Skeffiugton' 
who  succeeded  Garrett  in  the  office  of  Lord  Justice. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1535. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  thirty-jive. 

The  Earl  of  Kildare,  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland  (Garrett  Oge),  the  son  of 
Garrett,  son  of  Thomas,  the  most  illustrious  of  the  English  and  Irish  of  Ireland 
in  his  time,  for  not  only  had  his  name  and  renown  spread  through  all  Ireland, 
but  his  fame  and  exalted  character  were  heard  of  in  distant  countries  of  foreign 
nations,  died  in  captivity  in  London.  After  which  his  son,  Thomas,  proceeded 
to  avenge  his  father  upon  the  English  and  all  who  had  been  instrumental  in 
removing  him  from  Ireland.  He  resigned  the  King's  sword,  and  did  many 
injiu-ies  to  the  English.    The  Archbishop'  of  Dublin  came  by  his  death  through 

Thomas,   his  two  brothers,  and  uncles.     That  cured  the  murder  of  Archbishop  Alan  ;  that  in 

the  rash  youth,  suffering  himself  to  be  deceived  the  mean  time  his  father,  having  notice  of  these 

with  these  lies,  on  the  11th  day  of  June,  being  proceedings  in  prison,  was  struck  through  as 

guarded  with  one  hundred  and  forty  well-armed  with  a  deadly  arrow,  gave  himself  wholly  up  to 

horse,  he  hastened  towards  Mary's  Abbey,  near  sadness,   and  died  in  the  month  of  September, 

Dublin,  where  he  resigned  up  the  sword  and  1534. 

robes  of  state,  the  Lord  Chancellor  Cromer  per-  '  The  Archbishop. — John  Alan,  Archbishop  of 

suading  him  in  vain  to  the  contrary,  and  that  Dublin,  was  murdered  at  Artane  on  the  28th 

he  then  broke  out  into  open  rebellion  and  pro-  of  July,    1534,   by  John  Teling  and  Nicholas 

8  S  2 


1420  aHNQi-a  Rio^hachca  eiReaHN.  [1535. 

baoípióe  i  naccaió  a  aca|i  -\  )io  ma]iba6  beo]^  Daoi'ne  ele  anmille  p]iif.  Oo 
gabaó  laip  baile  afa  cliar  on  ngfca  nua  amach,  -|  oo  jmoab  geill  -|  b|iai5De 
6Ó  aji  a  Oman  on  cciiicr  ele  Don  baile.  l?o  léijiaipccfó,  "]  ]io  láinrhilleab 
pine  jail  ó  Shliab  puan  jn  oiioicfr  ara  jup  bo  poo  cpifij  an  rhióe  uile  la 
mac  an  lapla  Don  cup  pin.  lap  nrt  piop  pin  Don  pi'j  do  cuip  póipiDin  50  jallaib 
.1.  uilliam  pcemoncon  ma  iiipcip,  ~\  Imapo  jpai  50  ccoblac  mop  amaille  ppiu 
-]  pojabpacc  pióe  occ  milleaoa  mbaoi  pó  mamupmic  an  lapla.  ^abcap  leó 
lapccain  baile  comaip  .1.  TTlaj  nuaDac  "|  po  lonnapbpacr  comap  ap  an  rip. 
Gipgicc  beop  cfoicceap  Deapbparap  a  arap  1  naj^liaib  comaip  do  conjnam 
la  gallaib  (Semup  mfpccfc,  oiliuép,  Sfan,  uacep,  -|  RipDfpD)  ap  bo  DÓ15  ^^" 
^omaó  la  haon  aca  an  laplacc  Dia  ccloin  inni  romap.  Qn  can  na  caorhnacrap 
na  pa;rain  pérhpáire  coniap  Do  fpgabail  lap  mbiiain  a  bailcfb  i  a  rhainep  De, 
1  lap  na  accup  1  nucc  5aoiDel  ófipcipc  epeann,  "|  50  ponnpabac  pi'ol  mbpiain, 
1  Ó  concobaip  pailse, -|  lacpém  iiile  ma  ccleic  cobpaiD  coifinaipc  ina  naccaiD 
05  coccaD  ppiú  bá  he  ní  Do  pccpúDpac  ina  naiple  bpécc  píó  Do  caipccpin  Do, 
-]  cealcc  Do  óénarh  cuicce  50  po  paoíópfc  lopD  ImapD  hiccfnn  mic  an  lapla, 
"1  po  finj^eall  piDe  papDÚn  DÓ  a  hucc  an  pij  50  po  bpécc  laip  50  papraib  é. 
^abra])  mac  an  lapla  po  céDoip,  -|  ciiiprfp  hi  ccop  an  jii^  é  1  mbpaiT^ofniip 
-]  cimiDeacc.  "Canaic  lopD  linapo  1  nepinn  cap  a  aip  DopiDipi,  "j  po  écc  an 
lupcip  baoi  1  nepinn  .1.  uiUiam  Scemoncon, -]  jeibiDpium  lonaD  an  lupcip  ciiicce 

Wafer,  two  of  Kildare's  servants. — See  Ware's  county  of  Dublin. 

Annals  of  Ireland  at  the  year  1534,  Cos's  i//ier-  "  lVe)>il>le,   literally,    so  that  all  Meatli   was 

nia  Anglicana,  p.  234,   and  Harris's  edition  of  [made]  a.trembling  sod  by  the  son  of  the  Earl 

Ware's  Bishops,  p.  347.     For  this  murder  the  on  that  occasion. — See  a  similar  phrase  relating 

sentence  of  excommunication,  in  its  most  venge-  to  the  invasion  of  Bruce  in  1315,  quoted  from  a 

ful  and  tremendous  form,  was  issued  against  Lord  fragment  of  the  Book   of  Hy-Many  in  Tribes 

Thomas  and  his  uncles,  John  and  Oliver,  and  it  and  Customs  of  Hy-Many,  p.  137  :  "5"  P<i'l>i 

is  said  that  a  copy  of  this  awful  curse  was  trans-  Sipiu   'na  li-aéncuinó  cpicij  Da'ii  coimeip^i 

raitted  to  the  Lieutenant  of  the  Tower  of  Lon-  pm."     This  is  paraphrased  by  Mageoghegan  in 

<lon,  and  shewn  to  Kildare,  the  sight  of  which  his  Translation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise 

struck  him  through  the  heart.  as  follows  : 

"  Slieve  Roe. — Sliab  puaó,  i.  e.  the  reddish  "  All  the  inhabitants  of  the  kingdom,  both 

mountain.     This  name  is    still  applied  to  the  English  and  Irish,  were  stricken  with  so  great 

Three-rock  mountain,   near   Dublin,   by  those  terrour  that  it  made  the  Lands  and  Inhabitants 

who  speak  Irish  in  Meath,   and  by  the  Con-  of  Ireland  to  shake  with  fear." 
naughtmen,  though  the  name  is  forgotten  in  the  "  Magh-Nuadhat,  i.  e.   the  plain  of  Nuadhat, 


1535.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1421 

him,  for  he  had  been  opposed  to  his  father  :  many  others  were  slain  along  with 
him.  He  took  Dublin  from  Newgate  outwards,  and  pledges  and  hostages  were 
given  him  by  the  rest  of  the  town  through  fear  of  him.  The  son  of  the  Earl 
on  this  occasion  totally  plundered  and  devastated  Fingall  from  Slieve  Roe""  to 
Drogheda,  and  made -all  Meath  [as  it  were]  tremble"  beneath  his  feet.  When 
the  King  had  received  intelligence  of  this  he  sent  relief  to  the  English,  namely, 
Wilham  SkeiEngton,  as  Lord  Justice,  and  Leonard  Gray,  with  a  great  fleet, 
and  these  proceeded  to  plunder  all  (the  territory)  that  was  under  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  the  Earl's  son.  They  afterw.ards  took  Magh  Nuadhat",  Thomas's  town, 
and  expelled  himself  from  his  territory.  His  father's  five  brothers  also  rose 
up  against  Thomas,  to  assist  the  English,  namely,  James  Meirgeach,  Oliver, 
John,  Walter,  and  Richard,  for  they  thought  that  if  Thomas  were  conquered 
one  of  themselves  might  obtain  the  earldom.  When  the  aforesaid  Englishmen 
were  not  able  to  make  a  prisoner  of  Thomas  (after  having  taken  his  manors 
and  towns  from  him,  and  driven  him  for  an  asylum  to  the  Irish  of  the  south  of 
Ireland,  especially  to  the  O'Briens  and  O'Conor  Faly,  who  all  were  a  firm  and 
powerful  bulwark  against  them,  and  at  war  with  them)  they  rffsolved  in 
council  to  proffer  him  a  pretended  peace,  and  take  him  by  treachery'' ;  where- 
upon they  sent  Lord  Leonard  to  the  Earl's  son,  who  promised  pardon  on 
behalf  of  the  King,  so  that  he  coaxed  him  with  him  to  England,  where  he  was 
immediately  seized  and  placed  in  the  King's  tower,  in  bondage  and  captivity. 
Lord  Leonard  returned  to  Ireland  ;  and  the  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  William 
Skeifington,  having  died,  he  assumed  his  place,  and  he  took  to  him  the  sons  of 

a  man's  name,  now  Maynooth,  in  the  county  of  annalists  make  no  mention  of  it,  we  may  easily 

Kildare. — See  Dublin  P.  Journal,  vol.  i.  p.  299,  believe  it  to  be  one  of  the  many  pure  fabrica- 

where  the  Editor  published  a  translation  of  this  tions  with   which   Stanihurst  has  embellished 

passage  in  the  year  1 833.     The  castle  of  May-  his  narrative. 

nooth  was  besieged  by  Skeifington  on  the  15th  ■'  By  treachery Ware  does  not  seem  to  be- 

of  March,   1535,   and  the  fortress,   vsrhich  was  lieve  that  Gray  promised  him  a  pardon ;  but  it 

accounted,  for  the  abundance  of  its  furniture,  is  quite  obvious  from  the  letter  of  the  Council 

one  of  the  richest  houses  under  the  crown  of  of  Ireland  to  King  Henry  VIII.  (State  Papers, 

England,  is  said  by  Stanihurst  to  have  been  be-  ciii.),  that  the  hopes  of  pardon  were  held  out 

trayed  by  Christopher  Pareis  ;  but  in  Sir  Wil-  to  Lord  Thomas  more  strongly  than  they  were 

liam  Skeffington's  ovirn  account  of  the  siege  in  willing  to  express  to  the  angry  monarch.     la 

the  State  Papers,  there  is  not  the  slightest  allu-  their  prayer  they  state  that,  in  consequence  of 

sion   to   any   such  betrayal  ;   and   as  the  Irish  "  the  words  of  comfort  spoken  to  Lord  Thomas. 


1422  aHNQi-a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1535. 

1  cucc  Dia  paiccib  clann  mpla  rhóip  cille  Dapn  .1.  clann  gfpóicc  mic  comaip, 
Semiip  mfipjfc,  OiIeiié[i,  Sfan  iiácép,  -|  i?iy^Deapt)  1  bacra|i  ma  caoirhreacc, 
-]  ina  mumceajiap  Do  siief.  l?o  jabaó  lai]^  lacc  pó  Deoioiap  nnbeic  Dóib  pop 
a  loncaib, "]  Do  cuip  do  paijiD  pij  Sa;ran  mo.  Ro  cuipirc  pióe  pó  céoóip  hi 
rcop  an  pí^  aipm  1  mbaoi  oi6pe  na  Tiiaplacca  .1.  roinap  50  iTibaccap  ann  inn 
I'Tipeap. 

Giccneacan  mac  Dorhnaill  í  Domnaill  do  riiapbao  la  cloinn  ui  baoi  jill. 

INjfn  Í  neill  Siuban  inj^fn  cuinn  mic  enpi  mic  eoccain  bfn  TTlasnupa 
UÍ  Domnaill  Decc  (.1.  an.  21.  Qujupc)  a  lap  mfóón  a  haoip "]  «  liinrhe,  bfn  a 
liaopa  bá  Dfppccaijre  cpóbaó,  "]  fineac  bai  in  aon  aimpip  pia  ap  nip  bo  plan 
Di  acr  .;clii.  an  can  po  paoib  a  ppipac,  i  a  babnacal  50  honopac  hi  mainipuip 
.S.  ppouipeip  hi  noun  na  njall. 

ITIac  piiibne  cipe  bojaine  TTlaolmui]ie  mop  mac  neiU  mic  puibne  Do  riiap- 
bao hi  ppioll  la  a  Deapbparaip  pfin  .1.  mall  05  Dopup  caiplfin  mic  puibne 
.1.  riacain  a  bpeil  pfDoip  -\  póil. 

pCpDopca  mag  cocláin  cijeapna  Dealbna  frpa  Decc,  -|  pelim  mac  máoílip 
meg  cocláin  do  gabail  a  lonaib. 

Pin5in  mac  connla  meg  coclain  Do  riiapbao  ló  pfpjanainm  mac  pipDopca. 

ITluipceapcac  mac  Donnchaió,  mic  mupchaió,  1  a  biap  mac  Sfc(n  glap  -] 
peapgal  Do  riiapbab  hi  riiaij  imleac  la  hua  nfjpa  mbuibe  lap  na  mbpach  50 
meablac  Do  neoc  Da  muincip  pfin. 

TTlaibm  mop  do  rabaipc  la  mac  ariilaoib  Du  map  mapbab  ciT^eapna 
claon^laipi,  1  Ulac  giobúm,  "|  cópuccab  mop  do  cloinn  cpirij,  po  mapbaD  ann 
pop  o  pppiocjuin  maolmuij,e  mac  bpmin  mic  puibne  conpapal  mic  ariilaoib 
a  ccopac  na  hiomjona. 

to  allure  hdm  to  yealde  himself  up,"  the  royal  rony  of  Garrycastle,  in  the  King's  County, 
clemency  might  be  extended  towards  him,  "more  ^  Magh-Imleach,  now  Moyemlagh,  a  townland 

especially  as  regarded  his  life."  in  the  parish  of  Kilcolman,  barony  of  Leyny, 

■I  Rathain,  now  Rahin  Castle,  near  Inver  Bay,  and  county  of  Sligo. 
in   the  barony  of  Banagh,   in   the  west  of  the  '  Mac  Auliffe — He  was  seated  in  the  barony 

county  of  Donegal. — See  note   under  the  year  of  Duhallow,  in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of 

1524.  Cork,  and  was  in  latter  ages  tributary  to  Mac 

'  Delvin  Eathra,  oealBna  eacpa This  ter-  Donough  Mac  Carthy,  head  chief  of  all  Duhal- 

ritory,   which  is  otherwise  called  Delvin  Mac  low,  as  were  the  O'Keefes  and  O'Callaghans. — 

Coghlan,  was  coextensive  with  the  present  ba-  See  Smith's  Natural  and  Civil  Hietory  of  Cork, 


1535.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1423 

Garrett,  the  son  of  Thomas,  the  Great  Earl  of  Kildare,  namely,  James  Meir- 
geach,  Oliver,  John,  Walter,  and  Kichard,  and  they  were  for  some  time  in  his 
company  and  friendship.  They  were  [however]  finally  seized  on,  they  being 
under  his  protection,  and  sent  to  the  King  of  England  ;  and  they  were  imme- 
diately clapped  into  the  King's  tower,  in  which  was  also  the  heir  to  the  earl- 
dom, i.  e.  Thomas ;  and  there  were  they  all  six ! 

Egneghan,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Donnell,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  O'Boyle. 

The  daughter  of  O'Neill  and  wife  ofManus  O'Donnell,  namely,  Judith, 
daughter  of  Con,  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen,  died  on  the  21st  of  August,  in 
the  middle  of  her  age  and  affluence.  She  was  the  most  renowned  woman  for 
her  years  of  her  time  for  piety  and  hospitality,  for  she  was  only  forty-two 
years  of  age  when  she  resigned  her  spirit,  and  was  honovu'ably  buried  in  the 
monastery  of  St.  Francis  at  Donegal. 

Mac  Sweeny  of  Tir-Boghaine  (Mulmurry  More,  the  son  of  Niall  Mac 
Sweeny)  was  treacherously  slain  by  his  own  brother,  Niall,  at  the  door  of  Mac 
Sweeny's  castle  of  Eathain'',  on  the  festival  of  SS.  Peter  and  Pai;l. 

Ferdoragh  Mac  Coghlan,  Lord  of  Delvin  Eathra\  died,  and  Felim,  the  son 
of  Meyler  Mac  Coghlan,  took  his  place. 

Fineen,  the  son  of  Conla  Mac  Coghlan,  was  slain  by  Ferganainm,  son  of 
Ferdoragh. 

Murtough  Mac  Donough,  the  son  of  Murrough,  and  his  two  sons,  John 
Glas  and  Farrell,  were  slain  at  Magh-Imleach'  by  O'Hara  Boy,  having  been 
first  deceitfully  betrayed  by  one  of  their  own  people. 

Mac  AuliiTe'  gained  a  great  battle,  in  which  were  slain  the  Lord  of  Claen- 
glais"  and  Mac  Gibbon",  with  a  large  battalion  of  the  Clann-Sheehy".  Mael- 
murry,  son  of  Brian  Mac  Sweeny,  was  slain  in  the  commencement  and  fury  of 
the  conflict. 

vol.  i.  p.  42,  edition  of  1750.  raids See  note  ",  under  the  year  1266,  p.  400, 

"  Claenglais,  now  anglicised  Clonlish,   a  wild  supra. 
district  in  the  barony  of  Upper  Connillo,  in  the  "  Mac  Gibbon,  now  Fitzgibbon.    He  was  chief 

south-west  of  the  county  of  Limerick,  adjoining  of  the  territory  of  Clangibbon,  in  the  county  of 

the  counties  of  Cork  and  Kerry.     O'Coileain,  Cork. 

now  Collins,  was  originally  the  chief  of  this  dis-  "  Clann-Sheehy,  i.  e.  the  Mac  Sheehys,  who 

trict;  but,  at  the  period  of  which  we  are  now  were  of  Scotch  origin,  and  hereditary  gallow- 

treating,  it  belonged  to  a  branch  of  the  Fitzge-  glasses  in  Ireland. 


1424  awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1536. 

rnaoileaclainn  mac  caipppe  1  bipn  Do  rhapbaó  lá  cloinn  cacail  mic  meic 
Diapmaca. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1536. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  cpiocci,  a  Se. 

TTIairupcip  Dpoma  óá  eriap  Do  lopccao  50  cfccmaipeac  pan  oibce  lap 
ccoDlaó  DO  cóc  a  ccoiccinne,  "|  eperhon  ó  Domnaill  bparaip  minup  Do  lopccan 
innre,  ~\  mopán  mairfpa  apcfna  Do  rhiUeaD  innce. 

CeaómaTina  1  gctlpa  ile  ipin  nibliaDain  pi  .1.  pláij  coiccTnn,  jalap  bpeac, 
plu;r,  1  piabpap  Dia  po  éccpar  pocaióe. 

Copbmac  ócc  mac  copbmaic  mic  caiDcc  mégcapraij,  aon  poja  gaoibeal 
Ifice  moja  Decc  lap  mbpfic  bnaóa  ó  óorhan,  -]  o  ófman  -]  a  oDnacal  hi  ccill 
cpeDe. 

TTlac  uilliam  cloinne  piocaipD,  Sfan  mac  RiocaipD  mic  emainn  Decc  "i 
coccaó  mop  Dfipje  hi  cloinn  RiocaipD  pan  njeapnap  Dia  po  gaipmfo  Da 
mac  uilliam  ipm  rip,  TTlac  uilliam  Do  T?ipDeapD  bacac  mac  uillicc,  "|  mac 
uilliam  uuillfcc  mac  T?iocaipD  óicc,  -]  uillfcc  na  ccfnD  Do  bfir  ag  conjnarh 
la  T?ipDeapD  mbacac. 

O  l^ajaillij  pTpgal  mac  pfam  mic  carail  njeapna  ua  mbpiúin  -]  con- 
maicne  pfp,  pial,  popaiD,  pipinneac,  Deaplaicceac  Dfijeimj  Decc  lap  ccomain 
1  pacappaic. 

TTlag  plannchaiD  caoipeac  Daprpaije  .1.  pfpaDac  mac  uilliam  Decc, "]  bá 
pfp  Dépcac,  Daonnaccac  eipiDe. 

Uomap  Ó  huiccinn  oiDe  pfp  nepeann,  "|  alban  lé  Dan  Decc. 

peilim  mac  peilim  í  puaipc  Decc  1  ngfimel  aj  bpian  mac  eoccain  mic 
cijeapnain  í  puaipc. 

Carol  mac  Sfoínín,  mic  Sfain  ui  maoilmoicfpje  pfp  biorcairmfc  huan 
conáij  DO  écc. 

'  Gahr-breac,  i.  e.  the  small  pox.  so  called  from  the  many  heads  of  enemies  which 

•  Kilcrea See  note  ',  under  the  year  1475,  he  had  cut  off. — See  note  ',  under  the  year  1432, 

p.    1038,    and  note  ',    under  the   year   1495,  p.  889,  and  note  \  under  the  year  1457,  p.  998, 

p.  1213,  svpra.  supra. 

"  Richard  Bacagh,  i.  e.  Richard  the  lame.  '  Hy-Briuin  and  Conmaicne,  i.  e.  he  was  lord 

*  Ulick-wi-gCeann,  i.  e.  Ulick  of  the  heads,      of  the  Hy-Briuin  in  the  two  Breifnys,  and  of 


1536.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1425 

Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Carbry  O'Beirne,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Cathal, 
son  of  Mac  Dermot. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1536. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  thirty-six. 

The  monastery  of  Druim-da-ethiar  [Dromahaire]  was  accidentally  burned  in 
the  night,  while  all  were  asleep,  and  Eremon  O'Donnell,  a  Friar  Minor,  was 
burned  within  it,  and  a  great  quantity  of  property  was  also  destroyed  in  it. 

Many  diseases  and  maladies  raged  in  this  year,  namely,  a  general  plague, 
galar-breac'',  the  flux,  and  fever,  of  which  many  died. 

Cormac  Oge,  the  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  Teige  Mac  Carthy,  the  choice  of 
the  Irish  of  Leath-Mhogha,  died,  after  having  gained  the  victory  over  the 
Devil  and  the  world,  and  was  interred  at  Kilcrea^. 

Mac  William  of  Clanrickard  (John,  son  of  Rickard,  son  of  Edmond)  died; 
and  a  great  war  broke  out  in  Clanrickard,  concerning  the  lordship ;  two  Mac 
Williams  were  nominated  in  the  country,  namely,  Richard  Bacagh",  the  sou 
of  Ulick,  was  called  Mac  William,  and  Ulick,  son  of  Richard  Oge,  was  called 
Mac  William  also.  On  this  occasion  Ulick-na-gCeann''  sided  with  Richard 
Bacagh. 

O'Reilly  (Farrell,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Cathal),  Lord  of  Hy-Briuin  and 
Conmaicne"",  a  generous,  potent,  upright,  and  truly  hospitable  man,  died,  after 
receiving  the  communion  and  sacrifice. 

Mac  Clancy,  Chief  of  Dartry  (Feradhach,  the  son  of  William),  died.  He 
was  a  charitable  and  humane  man. 

Thomas  O'Higgin,  Chief  Preceptor  of  the  men  of  Ireland  and  Scotland  in 
poetry,  died. 

Felim,  the  son  of  Felim  O'Rourke,  died  in  captivity  with  Brian'',  the  son  of 
Owen,  son  of  Tiernan  O'Rourke. 

Cathal,  the  son  of  Johnin,  son  of  John  O'Mulmoghery  a  constantly-spending 
and  lastingly-affluent  man,  died. 

the  Mac  Rannalls  or  Conmaicne-Eein,   in  the      he  and  Brian  were  imprisoned  together,    but 
south  of  the  county  of  Leitrim.  that  Felim  was  the  prisoner  of  Brian  when  he 

^  In  captivity  with. — This  does  not  mean  that      died. 

8t 


1426  aNwa^a  Rio^liachca  eiReawN.  [i536. 

TTlaire  loccaip  connacc  .1.  caócc  ócc  mac  raiócc,  mic  aoóa  caócc  mac 
carail  óicc  uí  concobaiji  clann  noonncViaib,  "|  claim  1  óiiboa  Do  60I  aji  pliocc 
l?iocaipo  a  búpc  ap  cappaing  an  eppaig  baipéo,  -|  cpeaca  an  ripe  do  rficfm 
pfmpa  50  cfpmann  cijfpnam  oipió  -|  an  cfppog  no  rabaipc  ap  an  rfpmaMti 
DO  pai^ió  an  cploi^,  1  gan  na  cpeaca  Dai  peace  1  nonóip  an  naoim. 

O  concobaip  do  ^aipm  Do  cabcc  occ  mac  raibcc  mic  aoba  mic  roi]ipDeal- 
baij  cappai^  iii  concobaip  -)  hú  liepióe  céo  Dume  Dap  goipeaó  o  concobaip 
1  nioccap  connacr  Do  pliocc  bpiam  luijnigli  óip  bá  mac  Domnaill  mic  muip- 
ceapraij  ainm  an  ci  no  bioó  hi  ccfnnap  no  a  ccurhacca  an  cpleacca  pin  có 
pin,  1  bo  ap  Daij  onópa "]  do  Deappccujaó  Dona  njfpnaib  cainic  pfirhe  t)o 
pome  piurh  an  caomcliiD  anma  pm.  Qn  cua  concobaip  mia  j'ni, "]  mac  carail 
Ó1CC  UÍ  concobaip  do  Dol  ap  lonnj-ai^iD  In  ccloinn  goipnealbaij, -]  ni  puccpar 
ap  cpfic  -|  Ó  na  puaippioc  eDala  po  gabpac  poplonjpopc  a  ccimceall  cille 
colmam  .1.  baile  mic  puópai^e  mic  joipDealbaij,  -|  cainic  péin  Inllaiin  jjo 
hua  cconcobaip  ap  a  baile  Doléccan  paop  do,  "]  do  bfpc  lúipeac  oipoeapc  do 
bai  aicce  .1.  Iviipeac  mic  peopaip  Dim  concobaip  1  ncc  na  concobaip  co 
plicceac  5U)>  an  mbpajaicr  pin  laip  a  ngioll  lé  a  lánpuapccloó. 

í?o  éipij  an  can  pin  coccab  ~\  Ipaotica  ecip  ua  nDomnaill  -|  nmire  iocrai]i 
connacr  uile  cenmoca  bpian  mac  eoccain  ui  piiaipc  namd,  ap  ni  baoípióe 
a^congnam  la  cfccap  na  Dib  pa  nionani  pin.  l?o  nonoileaó  Depióe  plóicceoó 
Irt  hua  nDomnaill  cona  cloinn  accmaó  Tllajnup  namct  uciip  ni  cainiccpiDe  hi 
pocpaiDe  a  arap  Don  cup  pa  ap  baiTjin  1  néill.  Uainicc  ip  in  j'ocpaine  pin 
Í  DorhnaiU,  niasiiiDip  ciiconnacc  TTlac  ui  neill,  mall  ncc  mac  aipc,  lilac  1 
]iaiT^illi^  .1.  aoD  mac  manlmopDa  co  nfip;^e  amac   ni  paiTjilliT;.    Uanj^acraji 

^  The  Clann- Donough,  i.  e.  the  Mac  Dououghs.  sept  of  the  O'Conors  at  the  years  1413,    1420, 

'  Bishop  Barrett.  — ne  was  Richard  Barrett,  1431,  1462,  1471,  1488,  1494,  1495. 

Bishop    of   Killala. —  See    Harris's    edition    of  i    Outshine.  —  t)o    oecippccujao    do,    always 

Ware's  Bishops,  p.  652.  means,  to  excel  (?r  outshine,  and  the  preposition 

s  Errew,  a  monastery  on  the  margin  of  Lough  oo  in  this  phrase  means  over,  above,  or  beyond. 

Conn,  in  the  barony  of  Tirawley,  and  county  ol'  It  lias  the  same  meaning  in  the  ancient  phrase 

Mayo. — See  note',  binder  the  year  1413,  p.  813,  po  cm  &o,  i.  e.  excelled,  exceeded,  or  outshone. 

supra,  and  note '',  under  the  year  1 1 72.  — See   the    Editor's   Irish    Grammar,    part   ii. 

''  Mac  Donnell  Mic  Murtough. — This  appella-  chap.  vii.  p.  302. 

tion  or  title  was  derived    from    Donnell    Mac  ''  Kilcolman. — The  name  of  a  church  in  the 

Murtough,  LordofSligo  andCarbury,  who  died  barony  of  Costello,  and  county  of  Mayo. — See 

in   1395. — See  other  notices  of  chiefs   of  this  note  °,  under  the  year  1270,  p.  412,  and  note'. 


1536.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1427 

The  chiefs  of  Lower  [i.  e.  north]  Connaught,  namely,  Teige  Oge,  the  son 
of  Teige,  who  was  son  of  Hugh  ;  Teige,  the  sou  of  Cathal  Oge  O'Conor;  the 
Clann-Donough",  and  the  sons  of  O'Dowda,  went  [on  an  excursion]  against  the 
descendants  of  Richard  Burke,  at  the  instance  of  the  Bishop  Barrett*^.  The 
spoils  of  the  country  fled  [i.  e.  were  carried]  before  them  to  the  Termon  of  St. 
Tiernan  of  Errew^,  but  the  bishop  took  them  out  of  the  Termon  to  the  army, 
and  the  spoils  were  not  restored  in  honour  of  the  saint. 

Teige  Oge,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Turlough  Carragh 
O'Conor,  was  styled  O'Conor.  He  was  the  first  man  of  the  descendants  of 
Brian  Luighneach,  in  Lower  Connaught,  who  was  styled  O'Conor,  for  he  who 
until  then  had  the  leadership,  or  chief  command,  of  that  tribe  was  styled  Mac 
Donnell  MicMurtough";  and  it  was  for  sake  of  honour,  and  in  order  to  outshine' 
the  lords  who  had  preceded  him  that  he  made  that  change  in  the  name.  This 
new  O'Conor  and  the  son  of  Cathal  Oge  O'Conor  made  an  incursion  against 
the  Clann-Costello ;  but  they  seized  on  no  prey,  and  as  they  did  not  obtain 
any  spoils,  they  encamped  around  Kilcolman",  the  town  [i.  e.  mansion]  of  the 
son  of  Rury  Mac  Costello,  who  came  to  O'Conor,  and  delivered  himself  into 
his  hands,  on  condition  that  O'Conor  would  spare  his  town,  and  presented  to 
O'Conor  a  grand  coat  of  mail  which  he  had,  namely,  the  coat  of  mail  of  Mac 
Feorais'.  O'Conor  then  returned  to  Shgo  with  this  hostage  [and  pui'posing  to 
keep  him]  in  pledge  for  a  full  ransom  for  him. 

At  this  time  war  and  contentions  arose  between  O'Donuell  and  all  the 
chieftains  of  Lower  Connaught,  with  the  single  exception  of  Brian,  the  son  of 
Owen  O'Rourke,  who  did  not,  on  this  occasion,  join  either  side.  An  army  was, 
therefore,  mustered  by  O'Donnell  and  his  sons  (excepting  Manus  alone,  who 
did  not"  come  into  his  father's  army  on  this  expedition,  because  he  was  biassed 
by  O'Neill).  Into  this  army  of  O'Donnell  came  Maguire  (Cuconnaught) ;  the 
son  of  O'Neill  (Niall  Oge,  the  son  of  Art) ;  and  the  son  of  O'Reilly  (Hugh,  the 

under  the  year  1285,  p.  441,  supra.  thing  to  that  effect. 

'  The  coat  of  mail  of  Mac  Feorais Here  the  "  Who  did  not,  literally,  "  for  he  was  not  aid- 
language  is  abrupt  and  the  narrative  imperfect.  ing  any  of  them  at  that  time  ;"  but  the  áp,  for. 
It  should  be :  "  And  he  presented  to  O'Conor  is  incorrectly  applied  in  this  sentence,  and  the 
a  splendid  suit  of  armour  which  he  had  won  Editor  has  taken  the  liberty  to  leave  it  out  in 
from  Mac  Feorais  in  a  recent  battle,"  or  some-  the  translation. 

8  t2 


1428  aNwata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1536 

pol  ]nnbne,  1   baoijeallaiji;  ipin  cionol   pin  í  DorhnaiU  peib  ba  5|iépac  leó. 
Looap  na  ploij  pin  ó  ar  pfnaij  Deoólaoí  co  po  gabpar  popoD  -]  longpopc  ecip 
Duib"!  Dpobaoip.     lap  crócaicfrh  a  bppoinne  i  a  ccorhalcaip  DÓib  po  cuippfr 
luce  pfirrhe  -|  puipfcpciip  Do  coirheD   na  conaipe  baoi  fcoppa  -|  ma^  ccficne 
ap  bci  horhan  leó  piol  cconcobaip  cona  rcionól  do  rabaipc  amaip  lonjpuipr 
poppa  DÓ15  po  bacrap  piDe  ma  ccaoip  boDba  ap  na  léip  cionól  n]i  a  ccionn  lit 
plicceac, "]  laD  ace  coriiairfm  cocaip  do  rabaipc  Dua  Dorhnaill  cen  co  po  poip- 
eaó  leó  pocrain  apoile.  6á  he  cecup  lui6  ipm  ppopaipe  Diomcoirhécc  Don  rplói; 
iia  baoijiU,  mall  mac  roippbealbaij  ap  bá  Dóij  laip  50  bpuijbfó  a  bioDbaóa 
a  ccionn  cortiaip  cuicce  Diniipc  a  bapainne  popaib.    Do  cóió  Dna  rnuincip  aoóo 
buiDe  nnic  í  Dorhnaill  DpnpcoiméD  In  cconaip  naile  gan  póruccaó  Dua  mbaoij^ill 
nac  Dia  muincip,  do  pfccairh  ecip  na  Dib  bniDnib  50  po  gabpac  ac  coriimbua- 
laó  apoile,  "]  ni  capac  Dponj  Dib  aicne  pop  apaill.  /  bci  liainDpfnoa  ainiapDa 
Do  pijib  an  imaipfcc  pm  la  Inia  mbaoijill  i  nagliaió  a  bioóbaó  (anoaplaip) 
jjo  jio  muDbaijeaD  jan  coiccill  laip  Dponj  rhóp  Don  cplój  an  can  bai  05  a 
ppoppach  an  cucc  pin  Do  pónpacc  buaile  bóbba  ina  uipriinceall  50  bpnaip 
aoibfo  pa  beóió  lá  a  píop  caipDib  ip  in  Dapa  calainn  aujupc  ap  ai  laire  pecc- 
Tiiuine.   5á  Doili^  móp  Do  boccaib  -]  DaDailccneacaib  Do  cliapaib  "]  cfiffpt  aib 
(in  ri  copraip  annpin  .1.  an  ci  moll  mac  coippbealbai^.    ^ép  bii  poor  let  liua 
nnomnaill  an  móip  ecc  pin,  ni  po  coipmipcc  a  eaccpa,  -]  UiibpOrhe  50  paimcc 
750  pmnpip.    Do  caeD  Dpong  do  mapcpluaj  carail  óicc  .1.  Do  muincip  aipc  50 
bprija.cc  cuilli^e,  Uiajaic  Dpfiii   Do  mapcpluag  í  borhnaill  ina  na^baib  50 
coiiipainicc  eric   Dib  ppio  poile  1  mbealac  Dui'n  lapainn.      lllapbrap  inapcac 
niair  DO  muincip  aipc  ipin  cacap  pin,  -]  ofblaic  pe  poile  Don  cup  pin.   Ctipij'ib 
ua  Doriinaill  ina  poplonjpopc  pfin  in  aDhaib  pin,  -|  luib  poime  ij^in  maitnn  ap 

"  Duff  and  Drovses. — These  are  two  rivers  in  ''  Braghait-CkiiiUighe,  now  Bradhullian,  in  the 

tlio  south  of  the  county  of  Donegal  close  to  the  barony  of  Carbury,   to   the   south-west  of  the 

borders  of  the  county  of  Sligo. — See  note  under  mountain  of  Binbidbin.     On  an  old  map  of  the 

the  year  1522.  coasts  of  the  counties  of  Sligo  and  Donegal,  this 

°  Magh  gCeidne. — See  note  ™,  under  the  year  place  is  shewn  with  a  castle,   and  called  Brad- 

1301,  p.  474,  supra.  hillye. 

''  Finfir,  now  Finned,  a  townland  in  the  pa-  '  Bealach-Ditin-iarainn,  now  anglicised  Doo- 

rish  of  DrumclifF,  situated  between  the  Drum-  nierin,  is  the  name  of  a  fort  and  townland  about 

cliff  strand  and  that  inlet  of  the  sea  near  Carney  four  miles   to   the   north-west  of  the  town  of 

village.  Sligo.     The  old  road  from   Sligo  to  lirumelift 


1536.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1429 

son  of  Maelmora),  with  O'Reilly's  rising  out.  Into  this  muster  of  O'Donnell 
came  also,  as  usual,  the  Mac  Sweenys  and  the  O'Boyles.  These  forces  marched 
from  Ballyshannon  in  the  afternoon,  and  pitched  their  camp  that  night  between 
the  rivers  Duff  and  Drowes" ;  and  there  having  taken  dinner  and  refreshments 
they  sent  guards  and  sentinels  to  watch  the  pass  between  them  and  jNIagh 
gCeidne",  for  they  were  afraid  that  the  O'Conors,  with  all  their  forces,  might 
surprise  them  [that  niglit]  in  their  camp,  inasmuch  as  they  were  then  all 
assembled  in  a  flaming  body  at  Sligo,  threatening  to  give  battle  to  O'Donnell 
as  soon  as  they  should  meet  him.  The  first  person  who  went  oiit  to  watch 
for  the  army  Avas  O'Boyle  (Niall,  the  son  of  Tm-lough),  who  supposed  that  his 
enemies  would  soon  come  up  to  him,  and  that  he  would  be  able  to  wreak  his 
vengeance  upon  them.  But  the  people  of  Hugh  Boy,  the  son  of  O'Donnell, 
went  at  the  same  time,  without  giving  notice  to  O'Boyle,  or  his  people,  to 
guard  another  pass.  Both  parties  met,  and,  neither  of  them  recognising  the 
other,  they  proceeded  to  strike  at  each  other.  Fiercely  and  resolutely  did 
O'Boyle  fight  in  this  skirmish  against  his  enemies  (as  he  thought),  and  he  un- 
sparingly cut  off  great  numbers  of  [the  opposite]  host ;  but  as  he  was  slaugh- 
tering them  in  this  manner,  they  formed  a  huge  circle  around  him,  so  that  he 
at  last  met  his  death  from  his  own  true  and  faithful  friends,  on  the  second  of  the 
Calends  of  August,  *  *  *  day  of  the  week.  The  death  of  the  person  being  the 
here  slain,  i.e.  Niall,  the  son  of  Tiu'lough,  was  a  cause  of  great  grief  to  the, poor 
and  indigent,  and  to  the  literati  and  the  kerns.  Although  O'Donnell  was  much 
grieved  at  this  lamentable  occurrence,  it  did  not,  nevertheless,  prevent  his  [pro- 
jected] expedition,  but  he  marched  onward  as  far  asFinfir''.  A  party  of  Cathal 
Oge's  [O'Conor's]  cavalry,  composed  of  the  O'Hartes,  set  out  for  Braghait- 
Chuillighe'',  and  a  troop  of  O'Donnell's  cavalry  marched  likewise  against  them ; 
and  they  met  at  Bealach-Duin-iarainn",  where  a  skirmish  ensued,  in  which  a 
distinguished  horseman  of  the  O'Hartes  was  slain,  whereupon  both  parties  Avith- 
drew  for  that  time.      O'Donnell  remained  within  his  own  camp  that  night,  and 

ran  ulose  to  this  tort,  I'ruin  which  it  received  its  iind  if  the  tide  be  out  they  cau  cross  tlie  I'earsad 

ancient  name  of  Bealach  Duin-iarainn,  or  Doo-  (trajectus),  and  proceed  directly  to  Grange. — 

nierin  road.     Sometimes  people  going    to   the  See   Genealogies,    Tribes,    and    Customs   of  Hi/- 

village  of  Grange  still  travel  by  this  old  road  as  Fiachrach,  p.  479,  and  map  to  the  same  work, 

far  as  the  strand  to  the  south-west  of  DrumclifF,  on  which  the  position  of  this  road  is  shewn. 


1430  aNNQi'.a  Rio^hachca  eiReawn.  [1536 

tia  rhapac  50  }:fpfc(icc  pfnna  an  liaccám  do  doI  rai]!!]--  In  ccml  ijijiae.  6aoi 
Ó  concoV)aip  Vii  plicceac  a^  opouccaó  a  muincipe  do  60I  i  noiiifp  í  Dorhnaill 
j;up  an  ppfppaiuc  ccéccna  ace  coiiimfpcc  a  Dola  caippiV),  an  ccfm  bá  lán  an 
rhuip  bacrap  na  flói^  05  miDearhain  1  ace  mópDéeain  apoile.  6á  pi  eomaiple 
po  einn  iia  concoBaip  iiaip  nac  baoi  coirhb'on  ]4ói5  lá  luia  nDoriinaill  jan 
cacnji  ppif  ii'in  maijin  pin  ap  po  ^aB  gpainn  ~\  aóuaf  fippiurh  cona  plój  pia 
liua  nDoriinaill,  ap  ninneall"]  ap  nopDiiccaó  a  riiuincipe  ap  pinDiuecaó  a  ngon- 
naD  "]  a  noiDmfDaiT^  apcfna  ap  iipna  peippDe  50  ppa^baó  50  nfrnpúiptce  he  hi 
mai^in  naile.  UéiD  ó  Domnaill  rap  an  ppfppaic  jan  nac  ppioropjain  lapna 
paecbáil  gan  copnaifi  gan  cocuecaD  ap  a  cionn.  l?o  cuippioc  mparh  oponj 
DO  riiairib  loccaip  connacc  pai;i5in  lompiiaccfa  pop  irmiririp  í  Dorhnaill.  Ro 
ppeaprlaD  ")  po  ppeagpaD  mcc  lap  an  plimj  naile  50  po  innpbaD  ecc  mop  Do 
cloinn  noonnchaiD  Don  cup  pui  .1.  ITIaeleaclamn  mac  caiDce  mic  puaiDpi  Dup- 
cop  peléip.  í?o  mapBoD  Dna  mapcac  ele  Do  muincip  1  Domnaill  la  puapma 
DO  gae  .1.  Semijp  ballac  mac  néill  mie  Sfain.  T?o  Deili^pioc  lappin  ppia  poile. 
Do  CÓ16  laparii  6  Doriinaill  1  nDúraig  pleacca  bpiam  1  concobaip,  -\  bai  cfopa 
hothche  05  milleaD,  "|  ace  lopccaD  an  ripe,"]  ó  concobaip  ina  eoriipocpaib  1 
mbél  an  Dpoicir  hi  ppoplonspopc.  Qpi  conaip  Do  DeachaiD  lapccain  rap 
cpai^  piap  hi  ccip  piacpac  inuaiDe.  Ro  motpriiilleaD  apbannn  1  bailre  loriiDa 
lap  an  pluag  6iji  baoi  an  rip  ap  a  eiimap  pfin  accmaD  cuiD  Da  caiplenaib. 
Ruccpac  na  plóij  ap  buap  lomba  a  cnmcell  plebe  jam.  Uiajaicc  rap 
muaiD  piap  ap  cappaing  plecca  Ricaipo  a  búpc  hi  Ifnriiain  coDa  do  caópaij- 
eacc  clomne  í  DÚbDa.  Uappup  leó  Don  cup  pin  injfn  uácéip  a  búpc  bfn  eoceain 

'  Fearsat-reanna-an-Liagain. — This  was  the  is  as  follows  :  "  The  resolution  which  O'Conor 

ancient  name  of  a  ford  on  the  river  of  Sligo  adopted  was,  because  he  was  not  equal  in  forces 

(or  Gitly,  as  it  is  now  called),   near  its  mouth.  to  O'Donnell,  not  to  fight  with  him  at  that  place 

This  river  is  still  fordable  near  its  mouth  at  (for  dismay  and  horror  seized  him  with  his  army 

low  water. — See   Genealogies,   Tribes,  and  Cus-  at  [the  sight  of]  O'Donnell,  on  account  of  the 

/07««  of  Hi/-Fiachrach,  p.  490,  and  the  map  to  order  and  arrangement  of  his  people,   the  po- 

the  same  work.  sition  of  their  guns  and  other  military  engines 

'  Cuil-irrae,  a  well  known  district  in  the  ba-  on  the  margin  of  the  Fearsat),   [but  to  wait] 

rony  of  Carbury,   lying  between  the  rivers  of  till  he  should  find  him  unprepared  in  another 

Ballysadare  and  Sligo,  and  containing  the  con-  place."     There  is  a  free  but  correct  translation 

spicuous  hill  of  Knocknarea — See  note  '',  under  of  this  passage  given  in  the  O'Gorman  copy  of 

the  year  1422,  p.  856,  supra.  these  Annals,  in  the  Library  of  the  Royal  Irish 

"  Seeing  that. — The  literal  translation  of  this  Academy,  evidently  made  by  Charles  O'Conor 


1536]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1431 

on  the  morrow  marched  on  to  Fearsat-Reanna-an-Liagain',  to  cross  over  into 
Cuil-irrae'.  O'Conor  was  at  Sligo,  preparing  his  people  to  march  against 
O'Donnell  to  the  same  Fearsat,  to  prevent  his  crossing  it.  While  the  tide  was 
full  both  armies  were  reconnoitering  and  observing  each  other.  O'Conor  see- 
ing that"  he  had  not  equal  forces  with  O'Donnell's,  and  being,  together  with 
liis  army,  seized  with  terror  and  awe  at  the  sight  of  the  arrangement  and  array 
of  his  [O'Donnell's]  troops,  and  the  position  of  his  cannon,  and  other  military 
engines,  on  the  borders  of  the  Fearsat,  resolved  not  to  come  to  an  engagement 
with  liini  at  that  place,  but  to  wait  until  he  should  find  him  less  prepared  some- 
where else.  O'Donnell  crossed  the  Fearsat  without  [meeting]  any  opposition, 
it  being  left  without  defence",  without  guard  against  him.  Some  of  the  chief- 
tains of  Lower  Connaught  sent  a  party  to  skirmish  with  O'Donnell's  army  ; 
[but]  they  were  responded  to  and  opposed  by  the  other  host,  and  one  who  was  > 
a  great  loss  to  the  Mac  Donoughs,  namely,  Malachy,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of 
Rory,  was  killed  on  that  occasion  with  the  shot  of  a  ball.  Another  horseman 
of  O'Donnell's  people,  namely,  James  Ballagh,  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  John 
[O'Donnell],  was  slain  by  a  thrust  of  a  spear.  They  withdrew  from  each  other 
then  ;  and  O'Donnell  proceeded  into  the  country  of  the  descendants  of  Brian 
O'Conor,  and  remamed"  for  three  niglits  destroying  and  burning  the  country  ; 
and  O'Conor  was  all  this  time  encamped  near  him,  at  Bel-an-droichit".  After 
this  O'Donnell  marched  westwards  across  the  Strand'',  into  Tireragh  of  the 
Moy  ;  and  his  army  did  extensively  destroy  the  corn  and  many  towns,  for  the 
country  was  in  their  power,  except  a  few  of  its  castles.  The  forces  seized  on 
many  cows  around  Sliabh  Gamh";  they  marched  westwards  across  the  [River] 
Moy,  at  the  instance  of  the  descendants  of  Richard  Burke,  in  pursuit  of  a  party 
of  the  creaghts  of  tlie  sons  of  O'Dowda.  On  this  occasion  the  daughter  of 
"Walter  Burke,  the  wife  of  Owen  (^'Dowda,  was  taken  by  them,  with  her  pro- 
of Belanagare,  who  always  made  the  translation  Eothuile,  near  Ballysadare See  it  before  re- 
elegant,  whether  the  original  was  so  or  not.             ferred  to  at  the  years  1249,  1282,  1367,  and  see 

^Witfiout  defence.— An  English  writer  would      its  exact  position  pointed  out  in  note  '.  under 
-ay,   "  it  being  left  undefended  against  him."  the  year  1282,  p.  437,  «upra. 

^Remained,  literally,  "were."  "  5i!íaéA  Gawi/i,  now  sometimes  corruptly  tailed 

'  Beí'-a/í-rfro!c/«'í,nowBaIlydrihid. — See  note',      the   0.x   mountain See   other    references   to 

under  the  year  1495,  p.  1214,  supra.  this  mbimtain    at  the  years    128.5,    1490.   and 

'  The  strand,  i.e.  the  great  strand  of  Traigli       1512. 


1432  aNNQi-a  liioghachca  eiReaNN.  [1036. 

1  óubóa  cona  cjieic.  Ro  baoi  oamble  cpeac  -|  eoala  plói^  1  oorhnaiU  50 
rrabajicctoi  ha  ma|ir  a\\  an  nibonn  ina  poflongpopc  an  can  ^''m.  Cicc  mac 
Diapiiiacna, -]  clann  caiDcc  mic  Diapmacca, -]  clann  mic  oauioli  do  congnarh 
la  liiocrap  connacc  1  nacchaió  uí  óoriinaiU.  C]naUaió  ó  oorhnaill  poaócaji  a 
aip  ia]i  noénarh  a  ccoy>cca  hi  t;cí|i  piacpac  óon  Dul  pm.  Ro  ba  cinnce  -|  pob 
uplaiii  lap  na  tnairib  pin  loccaiji  connacr,  -\  lá  50c  pocpaioe  cangaccap  ina 
ccionol  50  rciubpaoaip  cacap  ona  oorhnaill  acc  ceocc  rap  a  aip,  1  ní  rucc- 
l>ac  eiccin  acc  paijin  lompuajra  ag  pfppair  pfnoa  an  liaccóin  (ap  a)pe 
aobeapap  pmn  liagain  pip  an  maijin  pin  uaip  liagan  laoc  mileaó  Dporhoipib  no 
ceap  ann  lá  lu^  lainpaoa  ag  cocr  oó  paijió  caca  niuije  rinpeat»  cona  uaóa 
ainmnijceap)  6á  pop  an  lompuaccaó  pin  ag  Dol  cap  an  ppfppaicc  do  plój^ 
í  Doirinaill  po  mapbaD  mapcac  do  muincip  cacail  015  í  concobaip  .1.  aoó  bal- 
lad mac  bpiain  mic  aoóa,  1  po  cpomloiceaD  mac  mic  Diapmaca  .1.  aoD  mac 
eoccain  mic  caiDcc.  Oo  óeacliaib  ua  Domnaill  Dut  C15  5an  cíop  jan  cobac 
T^an  urhla  gan  uppaim  Dpajail  ó  maicib  loccaip  connacc  Don  Dul  pm  amail 
po  ba  nfmjnác  laip. 

TTIac  DonncliaiD  do  gaipm  Do  Donnchaó  mac  caiócc  mic  Ruaiópi  mic  con- 
cobaip  mic  caibcc  mic  comalcaij  mic  muip^fpa  mic  DonnchaiD,  1  gan  mac 
DonncliaiD  pén  Décc  .1.  eo^an  mac  DonnchaiD  mic  mupcliaió,  ap  a  aoí  baoí 
pióe  1  neppa  aoipi  lap  na  oallao.  Ro  eipij  coccaó  ecip  cloinn  eojain  -]  mac 
DonnchaiD  imon  cijeapnap  acc  ní  po  milleab  ní  puaicneaó  fcoppa. 

Slóicceab  lá  hua  cconcobaip  pliccij,  -]  la  bpian  mac  uí  puaipc,  1  lá  mac 
cacail  óicc  m  concobaip  ap  cappaing  mic  DiapmaDa,  1  cloinne  caibcc  mic 

'■  Bonn. — This  word  is  still  used  in  Ireland  to  a  cow. 

denote  a  groat,  or  four-penny  piece. — See  Ware's  "^  Intentions. — Copcca  is  the  plural  of  coipc, 

Annals  at  the  year  1563,  where  it  is  stated  that  which  is  explained  "  voluntas  liorninis'''  in  Cor- 

the  BungaU  [bonn  jeal],  as  called  by  the  Irish,  mac's  Glossary  : 

passed  for  six  pence.    In  the  O'Gorman  copy  of  "Nac  ni  laparii   ip  laino,   no   ip  aolaic  lu 

these  Annals  this  word,   bonn,    is  incorrectly  buine   ippeó    ip  bepap.  coipc   oatii   .1.   ip   coil 

translated  "  a  milch  cow."     Thus  :  oairi,  i.  e.  whatever  is  pleasing  to  one,  or  what- 

"  Such  was  the  immensity  of  the  prey  and  ever  is  his  wish,  is  called  coipc  ;  coipc   oairi, 

booty  taken  by  him  on  this  expedition  that  two  i.  e.  it  is  my  will." 

beeves  would  be  given  for  one  milch  cow  within  ^  Fearsat-Reanna-an-Liagan  would  mean  the 

the  camp."  pass,  or  trajectus  of  the  point,  or  promontory,  of 

The  translator,  in  fact,  mistook  bonn,  a  groat,  tlie  piUar  stone,  and  it  is  to  be  suspected  that  the 

for  bom,  the  dative  or  ablative  singular  of  bo,  derivation  in  the  text  is  a  mere  invention  of  the 


1536.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1433 

perty.  So  immense  were  the  preys  and  spoils  obtained  by  O'Donnell's  army 
on  that  expedition,  that  two  beeves  used  to  be  given  for  a  honn^  in  his  camp 
at  that  time.  Mac  Dermot,  the  sons  of  Teige  Mac  Dermot,  and  the  sons  of 
Mac  David,  came  to  aid  [the  people  of]  Lower  Connaught  against  O'Donnell. 
O'Donnell,  after  having  accomplished  his  intentions"  in  Tireragh  on  that  expe- 
dition, prepared  to  return  home.  The  chiefs  of  Lower  Connaught,  and  all  those 
who  joined  their  muster,  were  resolved  and  prepared  to  come  to  an  engagement 
with  O'Donnell,  on  his  return  ;  they  did  not,  however,  [give  him  battle],  but 
merely  came  to  a  slight  skirmish  with  him  at  Fearsat-Reanna-an-Liagan''.  (This 
place  is  called  Rinn-Liagain  from  Liagan,  a  heroic  warrior  of  the  Fomorians» 
who  was  slain  there  by  Lugh  the  Longhanded",  as  he  was  on  his  way  to  the 
battle  of  Magh-Tuircadh'^,  and  from  him  it  is  named).  It  was  in  this  skirmish, 
while  O'Donnell's  army  was  crossing  the  Fearsat,  that  a  horseman  of  the  people 
of  Cathal  Oge  O'Conor,  namely,  Hugh  Ballagh,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Hugh 
[0' Conor],  was  slain  ;  and  the  son  of  Mac  Dermot,  namely,  Hugh,  the  son  of 
Owen,  son  of  Teige  Mac  Dermot,  was  also  severely  wounded.  O'Donnell 
returned  home,  without  obtaining  rent  or  tribute,  submission  or  homage,  from 
the  chiefs  of  Lower  Connaught,  on  that  occasion,  which  was  unusual  Avith  him. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Tomaltagh,  son 
of  Maurice,  son  of  Donough^,  was  styled  Mac  Donough,  before  the  death  of 
Mac  Donough  himself,  namely,  Owen,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Murrough,  who, 
however,  was  in  the  decline  of  his  life,  and  had  lost  his  sicht.  A  war  broke 
out  between  the  sons  of  Owen  and  [the  new]  Mac  Donough,  concerning  the 
lordship  ;  but  nothing  remarkable  was  destroyed  [in  the  contests]  between 
them. 

An  array  was  led  by  O'Conor  Sligo  ;  Brian,  the  son  of  O'Rourke  ;  and  by 
the  son  of  Cathal  Oge  O'Conor,  at  the  instance  of  Mac  Dermot  and  the  sons  of 

writer  of  the  account  of  the  second  battle  of  '  Magh-Ttdreadh,  i.  e.   the   Northern  Magh- 

Magh-Tuireadh.     The  Four  Masters  should  not  Tuireadh,  now  Moytuirry,  or  Motirry,  in  the 

have  incorporated  this  notice  of  the  derivation  parish  of  Kilmactranny,  barony  of  Tirerrill,  and 

of  the  name  of  this  place  with  the  text.  county  of  Sligo — See  note  '^,  under  the  year 

'  Lugh  the  Longhanded,  or  iyughaidh  Lamh-  1398,  pp.  762,  763,  supra. 
chadha.     He  was  king   of  the  Tuatha  de  Da-  8  Son  of  Donough. — This  is  the  Donough  from 

nanns,   A.  M.  2764,  according  to  O'Flalierty's  whom  this  family  has  taken  their  surname  of 

Chronology.  Magh  Donough. 

8u 


1434  aHNQca  Rio^hachca  eineaNN.  [1536. 

oiapmacra  a|i  coippDealbac  puaó  mac  caiój  buióe  mic  carail  puaib  í  conco- 
V)ai|i.  Na  cluaince  do  rhilleab  leó  ecip  cill  -|  cuaif.  Ool  Doib  ap  pin  i|^  na 
cuaraibh,  -]  inuinci|i  áinliji  do  fabaipr  jiall  -j  bpn^arc  Dóib  cap  cfnn  a 
rcijie  a  uDol  appiDe  50  maineacaib,  1  jac  aon  bá  capa  niia  concobaip  puaó 
Oib  DO  rhilleab"]  do  rhnpapccain  leó  acr  an  rhéiD  do  ainic  mac  ui  puaipc  ap 
MÍ  DO  milleaD  nfir  do  cuaiD  ace  Do  pioóuccaó  ecip  mac  DiapmaDa  cona  bpair- 
pib, "]  Ó  concobaip  puab  cona  combáió  coccaió  Da  gac  lee  ^abrap  lap  na 
ploccoib  ipi'i  CQiplén  an  ruppaicc  1  bpipcfp  leó  he.  Uicc  DonnchaD  mac 
émamn  ui  ceallaij  ciica  1  njéillpine  ap  oitian  a  npe  Do  milleaó  leó.  'Cia?;- 
aicc  an  pluaj  pm  rap  anaip  lap  ccop  a  ccuapca  arhail  bá  lainn  leó, -]  rucc- 
I'ar  na  bpai^De  pin  50  plicceoc  .1.  mac  ui  ceallai^,  1  mac  ui  amliTji,  ruccpar 
leó  beop  coriila  bpeac  an  caiplein  pin  po  gabaó  leó  Dia  cop  ppi  Dopap  caipleti 
pliccij. 

Slóicceaó  lap  an  lupcip  Sa;:anac  ij'in  mumain  piap  Dia  po  j;ah  cappaic 
o  cainnell -|  Dia  po  bpip  Dpoicfc  TTIhupchaiD  í  bpiain  1  aDbfparc  apoile  50 
mbaoi  cuiD  DO  óonnchaó  mac  1  bpian  do  fappaing  an  nipcip  Don  cup  ]^in. 

O  Puaipc  Do^aipm  Dobpian  mac  eo^ain  mic  cijfpnain  ui  puaipc  "|  caiplén 
an  caipre  do  IfccaD  laip. 

Domnall  mac  Donnchaib  ui  ceallaij  cfnnpfDna  coccaibe,  -\  canaipre 
ua  inaine  ó  capaib  50  gpfin, "]  eiccneacán  mac  maoileaclainn  mic  Donnchaib 
a  Deapbparaji  do  rhapbab  opaon  hi  ppiull  la  ITIaoileaclainn  mac  uilliam 
mic  maoileaclainn  ui  ceallai^  05  pfbaib  ara  luain  C]iia  popcongpa  cloinne 
Dfpbparop  Domnaill  buDein  .1.  clann  roibcc  iiuc  Donnchaib  i  cellai^. 

Clann  mic  uilliam  cloinne  piocaipD  Sfan  Dub,  -)  Rémann  puab  Diap  mac 

''  The  Cluainte,  now  anglice  Cloonties,  a  well-  castle  iu  ruins  on  a  lofty  hill,   in  a  townlaud  o( 

known  district  situated  to  the  west  of  Strokes-  the  same  name,  in  the  barony  of  Pubblebrien, 

town,  in  the  county  of  Eoscommon.    It  consists  about  four  mUes  from  the  city  of  Limerick. 

(if  twenty-four  townlands,  whose  names  begin  '  Brian. — Charles  O'Conor  interpolates  bcil- 

Avith  Cluain.  lac,  i.  e.  speckled,  which  is  correct. 

'  Turmic,  now  Tarrock,  a  townlaiul  in  tlie  ">  Caislen-an-chairthe,    now    Castlecar See 

parish   of   Taghboy,    barony   of  Athlono,    and  note '',  under  the  year  1487. 

county  of  Roscommon — Qee  Tribes  and  Customs  "  From  Garaidh  to  G^rian. — All    authorities 

of  Hy- Many,  p.  ill,  and  the  map  to  the  same  agree  that  the  territory  of  Hy-Many  extended 

work  ;  and  also  the  Ordnance  map  of  thf  county  from  Caradh  to  Grian.     It  is  highly  probable 

of  Koscommon,  sheet  44.  that  the  former  is  Carranadoo,  in  the  barony  of 

*  Carrac  0''Cainnell,  now  Carrigogonnell,  a  Ballintober,  and  county  of  Roscommon,  and  the 


1536]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OP  IRELAND.  '  1435 

Teige  Mac  Dermot,  against  Turlough  Roe,  the  son  of  Teige  Boy,  son  of  Cathal 
Roe  O'Conor.  They  desolated  the  Cluainte",  as  well  ecclesiastical  as  lay  pos- 
sessions. From  thence  they  marched  into  the  Tuathas,  where  the  O'Hanlys 
gave  them  pledges  and  hostages  in  behalf  of  their  country  ;  and  from  thence 
they  passed  into  Hy-Many,  where  they  spoiled  and  completely  plundered  every- 
one who  was  the  friend  of  O'Conor  Roe,  save  only  those  whom  the  son  of 
O'Rourke  protected,  for  it  was  not  to  destroy  that  O'Rourke  had  gone  thither, 
but  to  establish  a  peace  between  Mac  Dermot  and  his  kindred  on  the  one  side, 
and  O'Conor  Roe  and  all  his  allies  on  the  other.  These  troops  took  the  castle 
of  Turraic",  and  demolished  it.  Donough,  the  son  of  Edmond  O'Kelly,  came 
and  surrendered  himself  as  a  hostage,  lest  they  should  destroy  his  country. 
These  troops  [then]  i-eturned,  having  accomplished  their  expedition  as  was 
pleasing  to  them ;  and  they  took  with  them  to  Sligo  those  hostages,  namely,  the 
son  of  O'Kelly  and  the  son  of  O'Hanly  ;  and  they  also  carried  with  them  the 
variegated  door  of  the  castle  which  they  had  taken,  in  order  to  place  it  as  a 
door  to  the  castle  of  Sligo. 

The  English  Justiciary  marched  with  an  army  into  Munster,  where  he  took 
Carrac-O-Cainnell",  and  broke  down  the  bridge  of  Murrough  O'Brien.  Some 
assert  that  the  son  of  Donough  O'Brien  was  a  party  to  inducing  the  Chief  Jus- 
tice to  go  on  this  expedition. 

Brian',  son  of  Owen,  who  was  son  of  Tiernan  O'Rourke,  was  styled  the 
O'Rourke;  and  he  pulled  down  Caislen-an-chairthe""  [now  Castl^ar]. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Donough  O'Kelly,  a  distinguished  captain,  and  Tanist 
of  Hy-Many  from  Caraidh  to  Grian",  and  Egneghan,  the  son  of  Melaghlin,  son 
of  Donough,  his  nephew,  were  both  treacherously  slain  by  Melaghlin,  the  son 
of  William,  SOB  of  Melaghlin  O'Kelly,  in  the  Feadha°  of  Athlone,  at  the  insti- 
gation of  the  sons  of  Donnell's  own  brother,  namely,  the  sons  of  Teige,  son  of 
Donough  O'Kelly. 

The  sons  of  Mac  William  of  Claurickard,  John  Duv  and  Redmond  Roe,  the 

latter  is  certainly  the  Eiver  Grian,  which  rises  on  Mantf,  p.  J  .■?4. 

the  confines  of  the  county  of  Clare.   But  though  "  The.  Feadha,  i.  e.   the  woods  of  Athlone,  a 

Hy-Many  was  once  of  this  extent,  it  was  of  much  woody  district  containing  thirty  quarters  of  land, 

narrower  limits  at  the  period  of  which  we  are  in    the    barony    of  Athlone. — See    Tribes   and 

now  treating — See  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy-  Customs  of  Hy-Many,  p.  175. 

8  u2 


1436  aNMQf^a  Rio^hachra  eiReawN.  [1537. 

RicaipD  mic  inllicc  00  rhapbaó  lé  cloirin  mic  uiUiani  oile  .1.  clann  Riocaipo 
Ó1CC  mp  mb|ifir  poppa  a  rropai^eacr  "|  icip  ccfcclamaó  cpeac  an  cipe  Dóib. 

TTIac  joipoealbaij  Sfan  mac  an  jioUa  Duib,  pfp  ofplaicreac,  ofijeini^ 
tjfijcfnnaip  pfóna  ppi  Denarii  uaiple  do  liiapbaD  rpé  ranjnacc  la  Dpuing  Dia 
cinfó  pfin. 

O  concobaip  pailje,  bpian  mac  caraoip  Dionnapbab  aj'  a  óúchaij,  "|  a 
caipléin  uile  Do  bpipfó  lap  mapbaó  pocaiDe  Dia  muincip  ago  njabail  lap  an 
mpcip  Sa;ranac  .1.  lopD  linapD,  1  cpia  popmac,  1  rpia  imoeoll  oeapbpárap 
UÍ  concobaip  pfin  .^.  cafal  puaD  Do  pónaD  innpin. 

DonncliaD  ua  cfpbaill  DaicpiocchciD  pip^anainm,  "|  iiaifne  cappai5li  a 
Dfpbparaip  pfm,  i  cij^fpnap  do  bfin  Díb  apaon. 

aois  cr?iosu,  1537. 

Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cúicc  céD,  cpiocar,  a  Seacr. 

CoccaD  ecip  aoD  mbuiDe  ó  nDorimaill  "|  TTia^nup  6  Doriinaill.  Clann  ui 
baoi^ill  DO  bfic  ajcongnarii  la  haoD, "]  aob  pfippin  Do  bfic  i  ccaiplen  DÚin  na 
115011.  1?o  eipi^  commbiiaibpeaD  mop  hi  ccenel  cconaill  rpe  fpaonca  cloinne 
Í  Doriinaill  ppia  poile  Dia  po  mapbaD  Dpong  Do  pliocc  an  eppuicc  ui  gallcubaip 
Id  cloinn  ui  baoijill  .1.  mac  coippDealbaij  6icc  mic  bpiain, -|  Dmp  mac  eoccain 
ballaij  mic  bpiain  -]  apaill  ele  cenmorac. 

O  Doinlintiill  aob  mac  aoba  puaib  mic  iieill  ^aipb  inic  uoippoealbaij  an 
piona  cijfpna  cipe  conaill  innpi  lieoccam,  cenel  moain  pfpmanac,  -\  loccaip 
connacc,  pfp  gup  a  ccanjaccap  comfa,  -\  ciopcana  <)  ripib  oile  cuicce  popp 
mbaoi  a  pmacr  "|  a  cumacca  ariiail  acá  maj^  luipcc,  ÍTlacai]ie  connacc  clann 
connmaij^,  joipoealbai j,  gailfnsaij,  cip  amalgaib,"]  conmaicne  cúile  Don  raob 

''  Lord  Leonard. — This  should  be  Lord  Leo-  county  of  Roscommou. 
nard   Gray. — See  the  year  1535,    where  he  is  ^  Machaire-Chonnacht,  i.  e.  the  plain  of  Con- 
called  f,inapD  5pai.  naught,   comprising   the   countries  of  O'Conor 

''  Extended  hk  jurisdiction,  c^j-c,  literally,   "  a  Roe  and  O'Conor  Don,  in  the  county  of  Ros- 

luan  to  whom  came  gifts  and  tributes  from  other  common. 

territories  on  which  his  jurisdiction  and  power  '  Clann-Conway. — This  was  at  the  period  of 

was."  which  we  are  treating  Mac  David  Burke's  coun- 

'  Moylurg,  i.  e.  Mac  Dermot'.s  country,  coex-  try,  in  the  barony  of  Ballymoe,  in  the  nortli-east 

tensive  with   the  old  barony  of  Boyle,  in   the  of  the  county  of  Galwav. 


1537]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1437 

two  sons  of  Rickard,  sou  of  Ulick,  were  slain  by  the  sons  of  the  other  Mac  Wil- 
liam, namely,  the  sons  of  Rickard  Oge,  they  being  overtaken  in  a  pursnit,  after 
they  had  gathered  the  preys  of  the  country. 

Mac  Costello  (John,  son  of  Gilla-Duv),  a  bountiful  and  truly  hospitable 
man,  a  captain  distinguished  for  noble  feats,  was  treacherously  slain  by  a  party 
of  his  own  tribe. 

O'Conor  Faly  (Brian,  the  son  of  Cahir)  was  banished  from  his  country,  and 
all  his  castles  were  demolished  ;  and  numbers  of  his  people  were  slain,  during 
tlie  taking  of  them,  by  the  English  Lord  Justice,  i.  e.  Lord  Leonard''.  And  this 
was  done  through  the  envy  and  machinations  of  Cathal  Roe,  O'Conor's  own 
brother. 

Donough  O'Carroll  deposed  Ferganainm,  and  Owny  Carragh,  his  own  bro- 
ther, and  deprived  both  of  the  lordship. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1537. 

The  Aye  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  thirty-seven. 

A  war  [broke  out]  between  Hugh  Boy  O'Donnell  and  Manus  O'Donnell. 
The  sons  of  O'Boyle  sided  with  Hugh,  who  was  in  the  castle  of  Donegal.  In 
consequence  of  this  dissension  between  the  sons  of  O'Donnell,  a  great  commo- 
tion arose  in  Tirconnell,  during  which  a  party  of  the  descendants  of  the  Bishoj) 
O'Gallagher  were  slain  by  the  sons  of  O'Boyle,  namely,  the  son  of  Turlough 
Oge,  son  of  Brian,  and  the  two  sons  of  Owen  Ballagh,  the  son  of  Brian,  and 
others  besides  these. 

O'Donnell  (Hugh,  tlie  son  of  Hugh  Roe,  son  of  Niall  Garv,  son  of  Turlough 
of  the  Wine,  Lord  of  Tirconnell,  Inishowen,  Kinel-Moen,  Fermanagh,  and  Lower 
Connaught),  [died  ;  he  was]  a  man  to  whom  rents  and  tributes  were  paid  by 
other  territories  over  which  he  had  extended  his  jurisdiction  and  power",  such 
as  Moylurg',  Machaire-Chonnachf,  Clann-Conway',  Costello",  Galleanga",  Ti- 

"  Costello,  a  barouy  in  the  south-east  of  the  O'Haras  and   O'Garas,   in  tlie  county  of  SUgo  ; 

county  of  Mayo,  taking  its  name  from  the  fa-  but  it  was  applied,  at  the  period  of  which  we  aiv 

mily  of  Mac  Costello,  who  were  at  this  period  now  treating,  to  Mac  Jordan's  country,  or  the 

the  proprietors  of  it.  present  barony  of  Gallen,    in   the  east   of  tlie 

™  Gulleanga. — This  was  the  tribe  name  of  tlie  county  of  Mayo. 


14;38  QNNai'.a  Rio^hachca  eiReoNN.  [1537. 

noji,  "1  Don  caob  roiji  Beop,  oi]iecc  í  cacátn,  an  púca  "]  clann  aoba  buibe,  ap 
ni  baoi  aon  cip  oibpibe  nóc  ccuccpar  corhra  oó  la  caob  a  cio^a  copanca 
DÍOC  50  liuriial  ppip.  6á  he  an  pfp  po  cpa  po  cabaij  capcaca  nuaa  ap  imp 
eoccain  a'j[\  cenel  moain,  1  ap  pfpaib  manac  (ap  an  ccfrpap  cijfpnana  bácap 
pé  na  linn  i  ccip  eoccain)  i)o  bainjnniccaD  ap  na  pfncapcacbaib  bai  accct 
pmnpeapaib  ap  na  ci'pib  pin  lonnap  co  mbaoi  a  cci^fpnap  -)  a  nfipje  atnac  co 
pocaip  piorcanca  aicce.  Nip  bo  maccnaó  pon  óip  ni  pacvip  a  buaib  50 
bioóbaib,  1  ni  rapo  cpoicc  reichib  pé  nuarab  no  pé  pocaibe,  pfp  coipccri 
Dóijniorh  1  opocbép,  peap  mubaigci  "|  malapca  mfipleac  1  mbirbfnac,  pfp 
nliifaiTjre  pecca  -]  piajla  lap  na  récca,  pfp  aja  pabaccap  piona  lap  na  ccóip 
ppia  pfmifp  gup  bo  roipreac  cupcuprac  niiiip  -]  cip  ina  plair,  pfp  lap  po 
cuipfn  gac  aon  ina  cip  pop  a  buchaij  ntnbp  buofipin  cona  baoi  aincpibe  neic 
oib  ppia  poile,  pfp  na  po  leicc  nfpc  gall  ina  cip  bubfin  uaip  po  cfngail  fit) "] 
capaopab  lé  Rij  Sa;can,  oD  connaipc  no  cctpopac  gaoibil  cfnnap  oaon  uaibib 
buofin  ace  an  coop  caipofpa,  "|  coimpialapa  a  pppicbfpc  ppia  poile,  pfp 
congmala  a  nfiriicenacaip  lap  na  cóip  Dupoaib  -]  oeccalpaibh  Dpilfbaib,  1 
t)ollarhnaib.  Qn  cna  Domnaill  pémpaice  (aob  mac  aoba  puaib)  t>écc  .5.  uilu 
Dia  Dapoaoin  00  ponpab  1  mainipcip  Dúin  na  njall  lap  nool  1  naibicc  San 
Ppoinpéip,  lap  ccaoi  a  cionab  1  a  cupgabal  lap  naicpije  ina  peccoib  -]  caipm- 
ceaccaib,  "]  a  abnacal  ipin  mainipcip  céDna  co  nonóip  -|  co  naipmiDin  móip 
arhail  po  ba  Dip.  TTlajnup  ó  Dorhnaill  DoipDneab  ina  lonab  la  corhapbaib 
coluim  cille  Do  cfo  1  do  corhaiple  maice  cenel  cconaill  ecip  cuaic"]  ecclaip. 

'^  Tirawly,   in  Mayo,   at  this  period  was  the  territories  paid  tribute  to  O'Donnell  he  was  tlie 

country  of  the  Burkes  and  Barretts.  most  powerful  man  in  Ireland  at  this  period ; 

y  Conmaicne-Cttile,  now  the  barony  of  liil-  but  it  is  to  be  feared  that  his  own  historiogra- 

maine,  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  at  this  time  tlie  pliers  have  exaggerated  his  tributes  and  influ- 

country  of  the  Lower  Mac  William  Burke.  ence,  though  there  can  be  but  little  doubt  that 

2   Oireachi-Ui- Chatham. — O'Kane's    country,  he  had  overrun  all  these  territories  and  carried 

in  the  county  of  Londonderry.  off  preys  and  prisoners  from  each  of  them. 

*  The  Route. — This   was   the  country  of  the  '  Tribute  of  protection Ciop  coparica  was  a 

Mac  QuUlins,   in   the  north   of  the  county  of  certain  tribute  paid  to  O'Donnell  by  the  chiefs 

Antrim.     The  Mac   Donnells  had    not  as  yet  of  these    territories    for    his    jjrotecting    them 

wrested  this  territory  from  them.  against  their  enemies.    For  a  notice -of  a  similar 

''  Claiinaboi/,  in  the  present  counties  of  Down  tribute  paid  to  the  lower  Mac  William  Burke 

and  Antrim,  the  principality  of  a  very  powerful  by  Cathal  Duv  O'Dowda,   see  Historia  familire 

and  warlike  branch  of  the  O'Neills.    If  all  these  de  Burgo,  a  curious  manuscript  preserved  in  the 


1537]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1439 

rawly'',  and  Conmaicne-Cnile',  to  the  west ;  and  to  the  east,  Oireacht-Ui-Chath- 
ain'',  the  Eoute",  and  Clannaboy'' ;  for  of  these  there  was  not  one  territory  that 
had  not  given  him  presents,  besides  his  tribute  of  protection".  It  was  this  man 
also  that  compelled  the  four  lords  who  ruled  Tyrone  during  his  time  to  give 
him  new  charters  of  Inishowen,  Kinel-Moen,  and  Fermanagh,  as  a  further  con- 
firmation of  the  old  charters  which  his  ancestors  had  lield  [as  a  proof  of  their 
title]  for  these  countries  ;  so  that  he  quietly  and  peaceably  had  lordship  over 
them,  and  commanded  their  rising-ouf*.  This  was  not  to  be  wondered  at,  for 
never  was  victory  seen  Avith  his  enemies,  never  did  he  retreat  one  foot  from  any 
army,  small  or  great ;  he  was  the  represser  of  evil  deeds  and  evil  customs,  the 
destroyer  and  banisher  of  rebels  and  thieves,  an  enforcer  of  the  laws  and  ordi- 
nances after  the  justest  manner;  a  man  in  whose  reign  the  seasons  were  favour- 
able^  so  that  sea  and  land  were  productive  ;  a  man  who  established  every  one 
in  liis  country  in  his  proper  hereditary  possessions,  that  no  one  of  them  might 
bear  enmity  towards  another ;  a  man  who  did  not  suffer  the  power  of  the  Eng- 
lish to  come  into  his  country,  for  he  formed  a  league  of  peace  and  friendship 
with  the  King  of  England,  when  he  saw  that  the  Irish  would  not  yield  supe- 
riority to  any  one  among  themselves,  but  that  friends  and  blood  relations  con- 
tended against  one  another  ;  a  man  who  duly  protected  their  termon  lands'^ 
for  the  friars,  churches,  poets,  and  ollavs.  The  aforesaid  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the 
son  of  Hugh  Roe)  died  on  the  5th  of  July,  being  Wednesday,  in  the  monastery 
of  Donegal,  having  first  taken  upon  him  the  habit  of  St.  Francis,  and  having 
wept  for  his  crimes  and  iniquities,  and  done  penance  for  liis  sins  and  transgres- 
sions. He  was  buried  in  the  same  monastery  with  great  honour  and  solenmity, 
as  was  meet ;  and  Manus  O'Donnell  was  inaugurated  in  his  place  by  the  suc- 
cessors of  St.  Columbkille^,  with  the  permission  and  by  the  advice  of  the  nobles 
of  Tirconnell.  both  lay  and  ecclesiastical. 

Library  of  Trinity  College,   Dublin,    V.  4.  13,  cieut  Irish  that  when  the  reigning  prince  was 

and   Genealogies,   Tribes,   and   Customs   of  lly-  jvist,  the  seasons  were  favourable,  and  tlie  earth 

Fiachrach,  p.  455.  and  sea  productive See  Battle  af  Miujh  Ruth, 

^  Commanded  their  rising  out,    i.  e.   that  he  p.  100,  note  °. 
peaceably  enjoyed  dominion  over  them,  and  had  f   Termon  lands,    nfiiTicemeacai|'. — ,See  this 

authority  to  call  their  forces  to  the  field  when-  word  explained  in  a  manuscript  in  the  Library 

ever  he  required  them.  of  Trinity  College,   Dublin,  H.  2.  16,  p.  120. 

*■  Favourable. — It  was  a  belief  amona:  the  an-  s  The  successors   of  St.  Columbkitle,    i.  e.   the 


1440  aNNQta  i^io^hachca  eiReawN.  [1537. 

TTlagiiióip  cúconnacc,  mac  conconnacc  nrnc  bpiain  mic  pilip  njfpna  pfp- 
iTianac,  pfp  oépcac  ttaonnaccac  bá  mó  clú  láirhe,"]  uaiple  1  einij  Da  ccamicc 
t)o  pliocr  na  ccollab  lé  pé  cian  naimpip, ")  00  cuip  ó  cliiain  eoaiy  co  caol- 
uipcce  pó  a  pmacc,  pfp  coi]'ccri  birfnac, "]  aopa  uilc,  pfp  nccá  mbaoí  ponap 
-|  paióbpiop  pe  ct  linn  Do  mapbaó  (.8.  occobep)  ap  cpeacari  (.1.  oilen  na 
TTibporap)  pop  loc  eiptie  a  ppiull  In  pliocc  comaip  mejiiioip, -|  lá  pliocr 
romaip  meguibi]!, "]  lá  pliocc  roippóealbaicch  (.1.  plairbenprac  mac  pilip 
mic  coippóealbai^)  meguiDip.  Q  aónacal  1  nt)aiminip  ap  rúp,  Po  uóccbaD  a 
ccfnn  acliaió  lap  pin  lap  ria  bpaicpib  minupa, -]  ruccpac  leó  hé  co  mainipcip 
óuin  na  ngall,  "|  po  habnaicfó  é  ap  a  hairle  lap  na  bpairpib  amail  po  ba  dú. 

Slóicceaó  lá  hua  neill  (conn)  hi  crpian  conjail  co  po  mill,  ~\  co  po  cpeac 
mopán  Don  rip  apa  aoí  po  jiijabaó  mac  í  neill  ag  bél  pfippre  ap  DfipiTo  rpluai^ 
"I  cicc  ó  neill  Dia  ri5  lapam. 

Niall  ócc  mac  neill  mic  cuinn  í  neill  cijeapna  cpin  conjail  Décc  50  hobann 
an  ran  pin.  O  neiU  Do  poaó  Do  pióipi  bi  crpian  conjail,  -]  a  mac  baí  hi 
laimh  Dpajbáil  DÓ,  "j  eaj>aonca  1  impeapain  do  bfir  1  rcpian  congail  pón 
rijfpniiy'. 

Niall  mac  c(o6a  mic  neill  mic  cumn  mic  aoóa  buióe  aóbap  ri^fpna  rpin 
congail  pfp  lép  coprhail  Ifnifiain  luipcc  a  pinnpiop  ap  uaiple  ap  eineac,  ap 
Díol  Dam  1  Deopaó  do  mapbab  lá  halbancoib. 

TTlac  uí  Raijillij  (bpian  mac  pfpjail  écc  abbal  ina  búrhaij  pfippin)  Do 
rhapbab  ló  muinrip  an  lupnp  Sa;):anai5  ap  cceacc  Doib  ap  cpeic  1  ccloinn 
marjamna. 

niac  mfic  puibne  (lílaolmiiipe)  Do  rhapbob  lá  cloii.n  mupchaib  mic  Smbne. 

Slóicceab  lá  hua  nDoriinaiU  ITlaj^nup  1  niocrap  connacc  hi  mí  peprebep 
Dia  po  milleab  apbap  loinbcc  laip,  Diap  loipcc,  t  Diap  imricc  locrap  connacc 
uile  .1.  Caipppe,  cíp  piacpac,  an  oá  luiccne,  an  copann  -]  ríp  oilella,  1?o  ^abab 

Bishop  of  DeiTy  and  the  coarbs  of  Kilmacrenan,  '  Creachan,  now  Craghan,  an  island  in  Lough 

and  other  churches ;  but  O'Freel,  the  Coarb  of  Erne,  belonging  to  the  parish  of  Derryvullan, 

Kilmacrenan,  was   the  ecclesiastic  whose  pre-  barony  of  Tirkennedy,   and  county  of  Ferma- 

sence  was  indispensable  at  the  inauguration  of  nagh. 

O'Donnell.  ^  In  a  becoming  manner,  literally,   "as  was 

'•    Gael- Uisffe,     now    Cael-na-h-Eirne,    near  meet." 

Castlecaldwell,  in  the  county  of  Fermanagh. —  '  Clann-Mahon,  now  Clannmahon,    a  barony 

See  note  ',  under  the  year  1210,  p.  166,  supra.  in  the  south-west  of  the  county  of  Cavan. 


1537]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1441 

Maguire  (Cuconnaught,  the  son  of  Cuconnaught,  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Philip), 
Lord  of  Fermanagh,  a  charitable  and  humane  man,  the  most  renowned  for  dex- 
terity of  hand,  nobleness,  and  hospitality,  that  came  of  the  race  of  the  Collas  for 
a  long  period  of  time  ;  who  had  brought  under  his  jurisdiction  [that  tract  of 
country]  from  Clones  to  Cael-Uisge";  the  suppressor  of  thieves  and  evil-doers; 
a  man  who  possessed  happiness  and  affluence  in  his  time,  was,  on  the  8th  of 
October,  treacherously  slain  on  Creachan',  an  island  in  Lough  Erne,  belonging 
to  the  Friars,  by  the  descendants  of  Thomas  Maguire,  and  the  descendants  of 
Turlough,  i.  e.  by  Flaherty,  the  son  of  Philip,  son  of  Turlough  Maguire.  He 
was  first  buried  in  Devenish,  but  was  sometime  afterward  disinterred  by  the 
Friars  Minor,  who  carried  him  to  the  monastery  of  Donegal,  and  there  interred 
him  in  a  becoming  manner". 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Neill  (Con)  into  Trian-Chongail  [Clannaboy],  and 
spoiled  and  plundered  a  great  part  of  the  country ;  the  son  of  O'Neill,  however, 
was  taken  prisoner  in  the  rear  of  the  ai'my,  at  Belfast.  O'Neill  then  returned 
to  his  house. 

Niall  Oge,  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Con  O'Neill,  Lord  of  Trian-Chongail 
[Clannaboy],  died  suddenly  at  that  time  ;  [and]  O'Neill  returned  again  into 
Trian-Chongail,  and  obtained  his  son,  who  was  in  captivity  ;  and  dissensions 
and  contentions  afterwards  arose  in  Trian-Chongail  concerning  the  lordship. 

Niall,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Con,  son  of  Hugh  Boy,  heir  to 
the  lordship  of  Trian-Chongail,  a  man  who  was  likely  to  follow  in  the  wake  of 
his  ancestors  in  nobleness  and  hospitality,  and  in  the  patronage  of  the  learned 
and  the  destitute,  was  slain  by  the  Scots. 

The  son  of  O'Reilly  (Brian,  the  son  of  Farrell),  a  great  loss  in  his  own 
country,  was  slain  by  the  people  of  the  English  Lord  Justice,  who  came  to 
commit  ravages  in  Clann-Mahon'. 

The  son  of  Mac  Sweeny  (Mulmurry)  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Murrough 
Mac  Sweeny. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  (Manus)  into  Lower  Connaught,  in  the 
month  of  September ;  and  he  destroyed  much  corn,  and  traversed  and  burned" 
all  Lower  Connaught,  namely,  Carbury,  Tireragh,  the  two  Leynys",  Corran, 

■"  Traversed  and  burned. — In  the  original  it      correct, 
is  "  burned  and  traversed"  which  is  not  very  "  The  two  Lennys,  i.  e.  the  territories  of  the 

8x 


1442  aNNaí,a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1537. 

Id  liiia  riDorhnaill  Don  cii]i  pn  baile  í  ísjia  jnabaij  "|  Do  jiaD  eineac  -|  mairfiii 
nanacail  Oua  nfgjia  pfin  lap  mbfir  Do  pop  a  cumap, -j  Do  bf|ic  laip  1  ngiallnup 
é  Dia  cij. 

O  5aD]ia  eoccan  mac  Dia|iniaca,  mic  eoccain  njeapna  cúile  ó  ppinti 
Décc. 

Uaócc  mac  aoba  mic  aoóa  mic  conpnama  caoipeac  muinnpe  cionaoir 
Decc. 

TTiac  1  Raijillij  (Cacaoip  moDapra  mac  Sfain  mic  cacail)  Do  rhapbaó 
a  ccopaijecr  la  8a;)caricoib. 

TTlac  UÍ  Docapcaij  .1.  mall  caoc  mac  jfpailc  mic  Domnaill  mic  peilim  do 
mapbaó  ap  jpfip  oiDce  la  Puópuije  mac  peilim  í  Docapcaij  1  mbaile  na 
ccanánac  In  ccfpmmann  Doipe. 

O  plannaccain  ruaire  paca  gioUa  iopa,  -]  a  mac  do  mapbab  la  a  cinfo 
pfm  1  uilc  lomDa  Do  óenam  1  ppfpaib  manac  ecip  lopccaó  "]  cpeacaó  lap 
mbóp  mé5uiDip. 

Cpeaca  ~\  loipccci  Do  óénarh  lap  an  ccalbac  ó  nDorhnaill  hi  ccloinn  aih- 
laoib,  1  cpeac  ele  Do  bénam  laip  ap  ó  ccaráin. 

O  concobaip  pailje  Do  jabail  nfipc  a  buirce  Dopibipi  Do  nfmroil  an 
lupcip  Sha;ranc(i5,  1  a  bpairpeac  pfm  .1.  clann  ui  concobcjip  -\  pocaibe  Da 
nDaoinib  Do  mapbab  laip. 

TTlac  UÍ  rhaoileaclainn,  Semup  mac  mupcliaba  do  mapbab  la  mac  1  con- 
cobaip pailje  pfp  a  corhaopa  bo  mo  clú,  1  cairpfim  Dia  cinib  pfin  fipibe. 

Coippbealbac  clépeac  .1.  ó  maoíleaclainn  do  mapbab  In  ccalpaije  la 
clomn  peilim  .1.  céDac  -]  conall,  -]  ape  o  maoileaclainn  Do  ^abail  lonain  í 
riiaoileaclainn. 

Uomap  mac  lapla  cille  oapa  mac  ap  pfpp  cainicc  ina  aini]'ip  Do  jallaib 

two  O'Haras,  both  included  in  the  present  ba-  Canons,  now  corrupted  to  Ballymagown,  but  in 

rony  of  Lcyny,  in  the  county  of  Sligo.  the  Ulster   Inquisitions   it  is   called   Ballygan, 

"  Muintir-Kcntiy. — See  a  territory  on  the  west  which  is  a  corruption  of  Ballygannon.  The 
side  of  Lough  Allen,  in  the  county  of  Leitrim  ;  termon  of  Derry  comprised  the  greater  portion 
note  ^,  under  the  year  1252,  p.  345  ;  note  ",  of  that  part  of  the  present  parish  of  Temple- 
under  1294,  p.  461 ;  and  note  ',  under  the  year  more  situated  on  the  west  side  of  the  Eiver 
1303,  p.  478,  supra.  Foyle See  the  Ordnance  Memoir  of  that  pa- 

P  On  a  pursuit,  i.  e.  in  the  pursuit  of  a  prey.  rish. 

1  Baile-na-gCananach,   i.  e.  the  town  of  the  '  Clanawlet/,  a  barony  in  the  county  of  Fer- 


1537.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1443 

and  Tirrerill.  On  this  occasion  the  town  [castle]  of  O'Hara  Eeagh  was  taken 
by  O'Donnell ;  and  having  got  O'Hara  himself  in  his  power,  he  extended  to 
him  mercy  and  protection,  and  carried  him  away  as  a  hostage  to  his  own  house. 

O'Gara  (Owen,  the  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Owen),  Lord  of  Coolavin,  died. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Mac  Consnamha,  Chief  of  Muintii'-Kenny", 
died. 

The  son  of  O'Reilly  (Cahir  Modardha,  the  soil  of  John,  son  of  Cathal)  was 
slain  by  the  English  on  a  pursuit''. 

The  son  of  O'Doherty  (Niall  Caech,  the  son  of  Gerald,  son  of  Donnell,  son 
of  Felim)  was  slain  in  a  nocturnal  assault  by  Rury,  son  of  Felim  O'Doherty,  at 
Baile-na-gCananach'',  in  the  Termon  of  Derry. 

O'Flanagan  of  Tuath-Ratha  (Gilla-Isa)  and  his  son  were  slain  by  his  own 
tribe  ;  and  many  other  misdeeds  were  done  in  Fermanagh,  both  by  burning 
and  plundering,  after  the  death  of  Maguire. 

Depredations  and  burnings  were  committed  by  Calvagh  O'Donnell  in  Clan- 
awley";  and  another  depredation  was  committed  by  him  on  O'Kane. 

O'Conor  Faly  obtained  the  dominion  of  his  own  territory  again,  contrary  to 
the  will  of  the  EngUsh  Lord  Justice  and  his  own  relatives,  the  sons  of  O'Conor ; 
and  many  of  their  people  were  slain  by  him. 

The  son  of  O'Melaghlin  (James,  son  of  Murrough)  was  slain  by  the  son  of 
O'Conor  Faly.  He  was  the  most  illustrious  and  triumphant  of  his  tribe  in  his 
time. 

Turlough  Cleireach,  i.  e.  the  O'Melaghlin,  was  slain  in  Calry,  by  the  sons  of 
Felim,  namely,  Kedagh  and  Connell ;  and  Art  O'Melaghlin  took  the  place  of 
O'Melaghlin. 

Thomas',  the  son  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  the  best  man  of  the  EngUsh  of  Ire- 

managli,  oa  the  west  side  of  Lough  Erne.  compiler  of  the  Book  of  Howth.  It  appears 
^  Thomas. — He  was  usually  called  Silken  from  a  curious  letter,  written  by  Lord  Thomas 
Thomas.  Cox  gives  many  particulars  of  the  to  liothe,  that  be  was  not  allowed  during  his 
rebellion  of  this  rash  young  lord,  but  as  his  confinement  the  commonest  necessaries  of  life, 
details  are  not  at  all  borne  out  by  the  public  but  was  indebted  to  the  charity  of  his  fellow- 
records,  or  Irish  annals,  the  Editor  shall  pass  prisoners  for  the  tattered  garments  which  co- 
them  by  in  silence,  believing  them  to  be  mere  vered  him.  In  this  letter  he  writes  as  follows  : 
traditional  stories,  arranged,  enlarged,  and  em-  "  I  never  had  eny  mony  sins  I  cam  into  pry- 
bellished   by   Holinshed,    Stanihurst,    and    the  son,  but  a  nobull,  nor  I  have  had  nether  hosyn, 

8x2 


1444  aNNQi-a  Rio^hachra  eiReawH.  [1537. 

6peann,-|  cuiccf|i  Dfjibjiarap  a  afap  arhail]ieThebepcma]i  (i.Semuf  mfipccfc, 
Oiliuep,  Sfan,  uacéji,  -\  Pipoeapo)  Do  coji  cum  báip  hi  ];^a;raib  .3.  nonap  pe- 
bjiiiapii, "]  jfjialcai^  lai^fn  uile  tiacciiji  "]  Dionnapbab.  la]ilacc  cille  t)a|ia  do 
cóccbóil  DO  cum  an  ]\^j;~\  j;ac  niiine  ap  a  |iuccaD  do  clejieac  no  do  ruaca 
Da  muinci|i  do  cup  cum  báip"]  biocoiDfoa.  6a  habbal  na  hécca  "|  na  hfpbaóa 
ap  puD  Gpeann  laDpén  an  can  pin. 

Gicpicicceacc,  "]  Sfcpán  nua  In  pa;raib  cpia  biumap,  -]  lonnoccbctil  rpia 
accobap,  1  ancoil,  -]  cpé  lomacc  ealaóan  neccpamail  co  noeacarrap  pip 
]'a;ran  1  naccaiD  anpiiapa"]  na  pórha  acr  ará  ní  cTna  po  aópacrap  do  baparh- 
laib  e;camlaib,  -|  do  pfnpeacc  maoipi  ap  airpip  an  ciniD  iiiDaije,"]  po  jaippioc 
áipDcfnn  fcclaipi  do  ina  plairfp  pTin  Don  pij.  Do  pónaó  lap  an  pi^  -]  lap  an 
ccorhaiple  Dlijre  -]  pcacuin  nuaiDe  lap  na  ccoil  pfin.  Po  pcpiopaD  leó  na 
IiuipD  Diap  bo  cfDai^fec  pealb  paojalra  Do  bfic  occa  .i.  maiiaij,  cananai^ 
cailleaca  Duba,  i  bpairpi  cpoipi, "]  na  cfirpe  huipD  bochca  .1.  an  ropD  miniip 
ppepiDiup,  capmulin,  1  aujuprmiani.  l?o  cóccbaó  a  cciccfpnup  1  a  mbfca 
po  uile  gup  an  pij.  T?o  bpipeab  leó  Dna  na  mainipcpeca.  l?e  Reacpar  a 
ccinn  -|  a  cclucca  cona  baoi  aon  itiainipcip  ó  apainn  na  naorii  co  muip  niocc 
j^an  bpipeab,  gan  buanpebab  ace  mab  bfccan  noma  1  népmn  no  rviccpac  501II 

dublet,   nor  shoys,   nor  shyrt  but  on"  [one]  ;  neccpamail,  i.  e.  through  a  multiplicity  of  va- 

"  nor  eny  other  garment,  but  a  syngyll  fryse  rious,  or  strange  sciences.   The  adjective  éccpa- 

gowne,  for  a  valve  fui-ryd  wythe  bowge,  and  so  mail  .1.  ecc-copamail,  sometimes  means  dissi- 

I  have  gone  wolward,  and  barefote,  and  bare-  milar,  diverse,  different,   or  strange,  and  some- 

legyd,  dirirse  times   (whan   ytt  hath  not  ben  times,  but  rarely,  various.     Galaóa,  or  eala- 

vory  warme)  ;  and  so  I  shuld  have  done  styll,  oain,  means  any  art  or  science, 

and  now,  but  that  pore  prysoners,  either  gen-  "  Adopted,  Ro  aopaccap  &o — This  phrase, 

tylnes,  hath  sumtyme  geven  me  old  hosyn,  and  which  would  literally  mean  "  they  paid  worship 

shoys,  and  old  shyrtes." — Lord  Thomas  Fitzge-  to,"  is  of  constant  occurrence  iu  ancient  Irish 

raid  to  Rothe,  State  Papers,  clviii.  writings  in  the  sense  of  "  they  embraced,  loved, 

'  Tortured  and  put  to  death. — In  the  original  followed,  or  respected  ;  aj  aópaó  00  rhnaoi 
two  verbs  nearly  synonimous  are  used,  which  and  05  aojiao  o'ppmne,  occur  very  frequently, 
could  not  be  literally  translated  into  anything  '  In  his  own  kingdom,  i.  e.  they  appointed 
like  respectable  English.  It  would  look  rather  King  Henry  VIII.  supreme  head  of  the  Church 
ridiculous  to  say  that  a  man  was  killed,  put  to  of  God  as  far  as  his  temporal  jurisdiction  ex- 
death,  and  exterminated.  tended.     The  word  pluirfp  sometimes  means  a 

"  Sprang  up. — There  is  no  verb  in   the  ori-  kingdom,   and  sometimes  the  reign  of  a  king, 

ginal.  and  the  reader  may  take  his  choice  of  either 

"  Many  strange  sciences,  cpe  lomctc  eulaóan  sense  here. 


1537.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1445 

land  in  his  time,  and  his  father's  five  brothers,  whom  we  have  already  mentioned, 
namely,  James  Meirgeach,  Oliver,  John,  Walter,  and  Richard,  were  put  to  death 
in  England  on  the  3rd  of  the  Nones  of  February  ;  and  all  the  Geraldines  of 
Leinster  were  exiled  and  banished.  The  earldom  of  liildare  was  vested  in  the 
King ;  and  every  one  of  the  family  who  was  apprehended,  whether  lay  or  eccle- 
siastical, was  tortured  and  put  to  death'.  These  were  great  losses,  and  the  cause 
of  lamentation  throughout  Ireland. 

A  heresy  and  a  new  error  [sprang  up"]  in  England,  through  pride,  vain-glory, 
avarice,  and  lust,  and  through  many  strange  sciences",  so  that  the  men  of  Eng- 
land went  into  opposition  to  the  Pope  and  to  Rome.  They  at  the  same  time 
adopted"  various  opinions,  and  [among  others]  the  old  law  of  Moses,  in  imita- 
tion of  the  Jewish  people  ;  and  they  styled  the  King  the  Chief  Head  of  the 
Church  of  God  in  his  own  kingdom^  New  laws  and  statutes  were  enacted  by 
the  King  and  Council  [Parliament]  according  to  their  own  will.  They  destroyed 
the  orders  to  whom  worldly  possessions  were  allowed,  namely,  the  Monks, 
Canons,  Nuns,  Brethren  of  the  Cross^,  and  the  four  poor  orders,  i.  e.  the  orders 
of  the  Minors,  Preachers,  Carmelites,  and  Augustinians ;  and  the  lordships  and 
livings  of  all  these  were  taken  up  for""  the  King.  They  broke  down  the  mo- 
nasteries, and  sold  their  I'oofs  and  bells,  so  that  from  Aran  of  the  Saints'"  to 
the  Iccian  Sea*^  there  was  not  one  monastery  that  was  nof*  broken  and  shat- 
tered, with  the  exception  of  a  few  in  Ireland,  of  which  the  EngHsh  took  no 

'  Brethren  of  the  Cross,  i.  e.   the   Crossed    or  Lives  of  St.  Albeus  and  St.  Declanus  in  proof  of 

Crouched  Friars See  Archdall's  Monasticon,  this  fact:  "Est  autem  mare   Icht  illud  quod 

ji.  XX.  Galliam   et    Britanniam   interfluit." — See  also 

^  Taken  up  for,    i.  e.   were   confiscated   and  Colgan's  iTna*  J';Í«m?w.,  p.  2,  c.  30  ;  O'Flaherty's 

vested  in  the  king.  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  85  ;   and  Gougli's  Camden, 

'•  Aran  of  the  Saints,  i.  e.  the  island  of  Aran-  vol.  i.  p.  221. 
more,  in  the  bay  of  Galway,  celebrated  as  the  ''    That  was  not,    literally,    "  without   being 

residence  of  St.   Endeus,   and  afterwards  of  a  broken    and    shattered."      An    English   writer 

multitude   of  anchorites    and  holy   men — See  would  say:  "So  that  from  the  great  island  of 

Ogygia,    part  iii.    c.   11,    and    Hiar-  Connavght,  Aran  (oíF  the  west  coast  of  Ireland)  to  the  Eng- 

p.  79.  lish  channel,   there  was  not  one  monastery  left 

■^  The  Iccian  Sea. — This  is  the  name  by  which  undemolished,  with  the  exception  of  a  lew  in 

the  ancient  Irish  writers  always  call  the  British  the  more  remote  parts  of  Ireland,  which  were 

Sea,  which  divides  England  from  France. — See  protected  by   the  power   of  the    native   chief- 

Primordia,  p.  823,  where  Ussher  refers  to  the  tains." 


1446 


aNwata  Rio^hachca  eiReawH. 


[1537. 


t)ia  nuioh  nac  oia  naipe.  l?o  loipc)^fc  beop, -|  po  bpippicc  lomáije  oipDeapca 
pcjiine  "1  caipi  naerh  Gpeann  -\  Slia;can.  Ro  loipccfioc  map  an  ccéona  lap  fi 
nealb  iiluipe  oipoeapc  baoi  in  ar  rpuiin  do  jnioD  pfpca  -|  miopbala  do  plán- 
aijfó  Doill,  buiDip,  -]  bacaiji;,  "I  aoy  gaca  cfoma  apcfna,  ■)  an  bacall  iopa  baoi 


•  Took  no  notice  or  heed,  ná  cuccj'oc  501U  Dia 
nuioh  nac  t>ia  naipe,  literally,  "  which  the 
English  did  not  give  to  their  heed  or  observa- 
tion." The  Four  Masters  frequently  use  syno- 
nimous  words  of  this  kind  merely  for  the  sake 
of  sound.  Uioh  means  heed,  and  aipe,  notice, 
or  observation.  The  number  of  monasteries, 
nunneries,  priories,  &c.,  destroyed  on  this  occa- 
sion has  not  been  determined.  It  appears  from 
various  Inquisitions  that  many  of  them  were 
concealed  for  a  long  time  after  this  period,  and 
the  friars  continued  to  live  in  the  neighbourhood 
of  several  of  them  to  a  recent,  and  some  still  re- 
main, as  at  Multifarnham,  BaUyhaunis,  &c. 

^  Celebrated  image,  oealB  muipe  oipóeapc 

Here  the  adjective  oipoeapc  agrees  with  oealb, 
and  not  with  muipe,  for  if  it  agreed  with  the  lat- 
ter it  would  be  written  DealB  muipe  oipóeipce. 
This  is  the  celebrated  image  of  the  Blessed 
Virgin  Mary  which  Archbishop  Bro-wne  calls 

the  "Idoll  of  Trym,"  10th  August,  1538 See 

it  already  referred  to  at  the  year  1 397,  p.  750, 
and  note  °,  under  the  year  1444,  p.  936,  su- 
pra. 

8  The  staff  of  .Jems. — This  was  the  crozier  of 
St.  Patrick,  who  is  said  to  have  received  it  from 
a  hermit  in  an  island  of  the  Etruscan  Sea,  to 
whom  it  had  been  delivered,  as  was  believed,  by 
the  Redeemer  himself  (whence  the  name  Bachall 
Isa),  with  an  order  to  give  it  to  St.  Patrick 
when  he  should  arrive  there.  Jocelyn  and  the 
Tripartite  Life  of  St.  Patrick  (lib.  i.  c.  36,  37), 
give  some  prodigious  stories  relative  to  it,  and 
compare  it  with  the  rod  of  Moses.  It  is  men- 
tioned in  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters  at  the 
years  784,  1027,  and  1030,  but  Dr.  O'Conor,  not 
understandingthe  meaning  of  the  word  papujao. 


has  mistranslated  these  passages.  This  word  he 
renders,  at  784,  sacrilpga  direptio ;  at  1027,  sa- 
crilege raptum;  and  at  1030,  ablatum  saailege  ; 
from  which  it  is  quite  clear  that  he  took  the 
word  púpu  jao  to  mean  "  a  sacrilegious  and 
forcible  carrying  oíF,"  and  he  gives  his  readers 
to  understand  that  the  Bachall  Isa  was  forcibly 
carried  away  from  Armagh  on  those  occasions  : 
but  that  such  is  not  the  meaning  of  pápujaó 
in  those  passages  can  be  proved  to  a  demonstra- 
tion from  various  examples  of  the  use  of  the 
term,  and  from  the  definition  of  it  given  by  the 
glossographers  of  the  Brehon  laws.  And  the 
Editor,  seeing  that  Dr.  O'Conor  has  done  much 
injury  to  the  cause  of  the  truth  of  Irish  history, 
by  giving  to  certain  Irish  words  meanings  which 
were  never  attached  to  them  before  his  time, 
deems  it  his  duty  to  correct  him  ;  and  to  avoid 
all  dogmatical  assertions  respecting  the  meaning 
of  pnpu  jab,  he  shall  here  lay  before  the  reader 
such  evidences  as  will  enable  him  to  judge  for 
himself  In  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters,  at 
the  year  907,  the  word  pápu  jao  is  thus  used  : 

"A.  D.  907.  Sapujaó  apoamacha  la  cfpna- 
chan  moc  ouilgen  .1.  cimbio  do  Bpeir  ap  in 
ciU  -|  a  baouD  hi  loch  cuip  ppi  hapomacha 
aniap.  Cfpnachan  00  baóao  la  mall  mac 
Qoóa,  pi  j  in  cuaipcipc  ip  m  loc  ceona  hi  ccion 
pápaiT^re  paopaicc." 

"  A.  D.  907.  The  sarugkad/i  of  Armagh  by 
Cearnachan,  son  of  Duilgen ;  i.  e.  he  took  a  per- 
son prisoner  out  of  the  church  and  drowned 
him  in  Loch  Cuir  to  the  west  of  Armagh.  Cear- 
nachan was  drowned  by  Niall,  son  of  Aedh, 
king  of  the  north,  in  the  same  lake,  in  revenge 
of  the  sarughadh  of  Patrick." — See  note  ',  under 
the  year  1223,  p.  207,  supra. 


1537.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND." 


1447 


notice  or  heed^  They  afterwards  burned  the  images,  shrines,  and  reUcs,  of  the 
saints  of  Ireland  and  England  ;  they  likewise  burned  the  celebrated  imao-e'  of 
[the  Blessed  Virgin]  Mary  at  Trim,  which  used  to  perform  wonders  and  mira- 
cles, which  used  to  heal  the  blind,  the  deaf,  and  the  crippled,  and  persons  affected 
with  all  kinds  of  diseases  ;  and  [they  also  burned]  the  staff  of  Jesus^  which  Avas 


Now  if  sarughadh  meant  "  a  forcible  and  sa- 
ci'ilegious  carrying  off,"  as  Dr.  O'Conor  tliinks, 
it  would  follow  that  the  church  of  Armagh 
and  St.  Patrick  would  have  been  forcibly  carried 
off  on  this  occasion  !  But  it  is  evident  that  the 
crime  of  sarughadh  was  committed  against  the 
church  and  St.  Patrick,  by  violating  the  privi- 
lege of  protection  which  the  sanctuary  of  Ar- 
magh possessed  ;  and  that  Cearnachan  (as  it  is 
expressly  stated  in  the  passage)  was  punished, 
not  for  taking  and  drowning  the  prisoner,  who 
had  probably  deserved  his  fate,  but  for  violat- 
ing the  privilege  of  the  church  of  St.  Patrick. 

In  a  tract  on  the  settlement  of  the  people 
called  Ciarraighe,  in  Connaught,  preserved  in 
the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin  (H.  3.  17, 
p.  875),  an  example  of  the  use  of  this  word  oc- 
curs which  shews  that  the  idea  of  carrying  off  is 
not  attached  to  it.  It  is  stated  that  Aedh,  King 
of  Connaught,  granted  to  this  people  a  tract  of 
country,  and  that  the  virgin  St.  Caelainn,  the 
patroness  of  the  Ciarraighe,  was  guarantee  for 
the  observance  of  the  conditions;  that  afterwards 
the  king,  wishing  to  annul  the  grant,  ordered  that 
Cairbre,  the  chief  of  the  Ciarraighe,  should  be  poi- 
soned at  a  public  feast,  but  that  St.  Caelainn,  hav- 
ing received  notice  of  his  intention,  came  to  the 
feast  and  asked  the  king,  "  ció  oia  pum  pápat^ip 
u  Qeo?  Sápaijpecpa  cupa  poo  piji  in».  Why 
hast  thou  violated  me,  O  Aedh  ?  I  will  violate 
thee  as  regards  thy  kingdom  for  it."  Here  it  is 
evident  that  Aedh  had  not  committed  the  crime 
of  fápu^aó  against  the  pious  virgin  by  "  carry- 
ing her  off'  forcibly  and  sacrilegiously,"  but  by 
violating  her  guarantee.  According  to  a  tract 
of  the  Brehon  laws,  preserved  in  the  Library  of 


Trinity  College,  Dublin  (H.  3.  18,  p.  159),  there 
were  different  kinds  of  j^opu  jaó,  for  which  dif- 
ferent fines  were  paid,  according  to  the  dignity 
of  the  person  whose  guarantee  was  violated,  or 
the  character  of  the  relic  or  sanctuary  which 
was  profaned.  In  another  manuscript  in  the 
same  library  (H.  4.  22,  p.  76),  Dian-pápuj^aó  is 
thus  defined  :  "  Ipeaó  cip  Dian-púpugaó  anti, 
po  picip  a  beic  pop  comcnpci  -]  nocap  cmaic 
nana  oligi  do  caipcpin,  i.  e.  a  dian-sarughadh 
(i.  e.  violent  sarughadh),  is  when  it  is  known 
that  he  is  under  protection,  and  the  benefit  of 
the  law  is  not  extended  to  him."  But  to  return 
to  the  crozier.  St.  Bernard  describes  it,  in  his 
Life  of  St.  Malachy,  as  covered  over  with  gold, 
and  adorned  with  most  precious  gems,  and  says 
that  Nigellus,  the  usurper  of  the  see  of  Armagli, 
had  taken  it  away,  together  with  the  book  of 
the  Gospels,  which  had  belonged  to  St.  Patrick, 
adding,  that  both  were  held  in  such  veneration 
that  any  one  who  had  them  in  his  possession 
was  considered  by  the  foolish  people  as  the  real 
bishop.  Giraldus  Cambrensis  says  that  it  was 
removed  from  Armagh  to  Dublin,  shortly  after 
the  English  Invasion.  For  more  particulars  re- 
specting the  history  of  this  relic  see  Colgan's 
Trias  Thaum.,  p.  2G3  ;  Lanigan's  Ecclesiastical 
History  of  Ireland,  vol.  i.  p.  178,  &c.  ;  and  OUts 
and  Martyrology  of  Christ  Church,  Dublin,  Intro- 
duction, p.  i.  to  XX. — See  also  Ware's  xVnnals, 
where  the  notice  of  the  destruction  of  this  cro- 
zier, and  of  the  image  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  at 
Trim,  is  entered  under  the  year  1538. 

The  celebrated  Jesuit,  Edmund  Campion,  who 
wrote  his  Historie  of  Ireland  in  1571,  has  the 
following  notice  of  the  Bachall  Isa  : 


1448  awHad^a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1538. 

in  ar  clmr  ace  oenam  miopbal  beop  ó  airrif  ip  paciiaicc  gup  an  pé  fin,  "|  baoi 
illáirh  cpiopr  oia  nibaoi  enp  óaoínib.  Do  pónaó  leó  cpa  aipoeppcoip,  -]  Suib 
epi'^coip  aca  pfin,  1  jep  mop  mji^pCinii  na  nimpipfó  Rórhanac  1  nacchaió  na 
hfccailpi  ap  puaUl  inct  cainic  a  coriiniop  po  on  poiiii  anoip  piarh  conr'tc  ficcip 
a  ruapupcbáil  opaipnfip  no  oinnipin  niuna  naipnCiofb  an  ri  00  c  onnaipc  1. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1538. 
QoiS  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  cpioca,  aliocc. 

Q0Ó  buióe  ua  OorhnaiU  mac  aoóa  mic  aoóa  puaió  aóbap  cijeapna  ripe 
conaill,  pfp  po  ba  mate  aicne  "]  eoliip  in  jach  ealaóain,  bá  pfpp  oeaplacab "] 
ofijeineac,  bo  pfpp  fngnamh  i  njiipc  gliaó,  1  i  mbfipn  baojail,  "]  ap  mo  po 
paoi'leab  Do  pocrain  cijfpnaip  a  fi'pe  pfin  do  pfip  poipnne  "]  aippbin  do  écc 
111  ccill  Ó  ccorhpaip  lap  ccomain,  -|  Sbacpamen  .22.  Do  mapci. 

Niall  mac  cuinn  mic  aipc  í  ueill  paoi  coccaióe  ap  oipbeapr  1  ap  uaiple 
Do  mapbab  ap  gpfip  oibce  lé  mac  neill  t  néiU  hi  ccaiplén  na  hójrhaije  lap 
mbpar  an  baile  Do  opCim  Da  paibe  ipcijh  ipin  ccaiplén  1  mall  ó  neill  do 
bpipfb  an  caipléin  lap  pin,  -]  a  bfic  a  nDiaib  an  inapbra  pin  pop  a  mac  péin. 

TTlac  meg  plannchaiD  cacaoip  mac  pfpaDhaig  mic  uilliam  abbap  caoipig 
Daprpaige  oécc  inDún  ccaipppe. 

pfpganamm  mac  pipDopca  méc  coclóin  canaipi  Dealbna  frpa  Do  liiapbao 
la  cloinn  un  ppiopa  meg  cocláin. 

Slóicceab  lá  hiia  noomnaill  ITlajnup  i  nioccap  connacr  Dia  pojabab  laip 
caiplén  pliccig  50  bairfpac  bai  po  congaib  mair  bapDab  "]   opoanaip  lap 

"  They  liave  been  used  in  solemne  controver-  ''  For  t/iemselves,  i.  e.  without  any  authority 

sies,  to  protest  and  sweare  by  Saint  Patrick's  from  the  Pope. 

StafFe,   called  Bached  estt,  which  oath,  because  '  Scarcely/,    ip  puaiU,   .1.  ip  ceapc.     O'Clery 

upon  breach  thereof  heavy  plagues  ensued,  they  glosses  it  by  beaj,  little. 

feared  more  to  breake  then  if  they  had  sworne  ''  From  Rome,   literally,   "  from  Rome  from 

by    the   holy  Evangelist." — Edition   of  1809,  the  east;"  i.  e.  scarcely  had  so  great  a  persecu- 

pp.  23,  24.  tion  of  the  Church  of  Christ  issued  from  Rome 

It  may  be  here  added,  that  the  breach  of  the  when  she  was  the  focus  of  Pagan  power  and 

oath  here  referred  to  by  the  good  Campion,  was  superstition,  than  that  now  set  on  foot  in  Chris- 

technically  called  Sápu^aó  na  baicle  Ipa,   by  tian  England.     The  adverb  anoip   here  means 

the  ancient  Irish  writers.  "  from  the  east,"  but  not  from  Pagan  Rome 


1538]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  144() 

in  Dublin,  performing  miracles,  from  the  time  of  St.  Patrick  down  to  that  time, 
and  had  been  in  the  hands  of  Christ  while  he  was  among  men.  They  also 
appointed  archbishops  and  sub-bishops  for  themselves";  and,  though  great  was 
the  persecution  of  the  Roman  emperors  against  the  Church,  scarcely'  had  there 
ever  come  so  great  a.  persecution  from  Rome''  as  this ;  so  that  it  is  impossible  to 
narrate  or  tell  its  description,  unless  it  should  be  narrated  by  one  who  saw  it. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1538. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  thirty-eight. 

Hugh  Boy  O'Donnell,  son  of  Hugh'  [Duv],  son  of  Hugh  Roe,  heir  to  the 
lordship  of  Tirconnell,  a  man  who  was  well  skilled  and  learned  in  every  science, 
who  was  most  distinguished  for  munificence  and  hospitality,  for  prowess  in  the 
field  of  battle  and  the  gap  of  danger,  and  who  was  expected,  from  his  steadiness 
and  [other]  characteristics,  to  attain"  to  the  lordship  of  his  own  coimtry  [Tir- 
connell], died  at  Cill  O'dTomhrair",  on  the  22  nd  of  March,  after  having  received 
the  Communion  and  Extreme  Unction. 

Niall,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Art  O'Neill,  a  man  illustrious  for  his  valiant 
deeds  and  nobleness,  was  slain  in  a  nocturnal  assault  by  the  son  of  Niall  O'Neill, 
in  the  castle  of  Omagh  ;  the  castle  having  been  first  betrayed  by  a  party  who 
were  within  the  castle.  Niall  O'Neill  afterwards  destroyed  the  castle,  and  per- 
secuted his  own  son  for  this  killing. 

The  son  of  Mac  Clancy  (Cahir,  the  son  of  Feradhach,  son  of  William),  heir 
to  the  chieftainship  of  Dartry,  died  in  Dun-Carbry"^. 

"  Ferganainm,  the  son  of  Ferdoragh  Mac  Coghlan,  Tanist  of  Delvin  Eathra, 
was  slain  by  the  sons  of  the  Prior  Mac  Coghlan. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  (Manus)  into  Lower  Connaught,  and  tri- 
umphantly took  the  castle  of  Sligo,  which  was  well  defended  by  warders  and 

into  Ireland,  but  over  the  Christian  congrega-  the  O'Tomhrairs,  awjr&e  Toners,  now  Killymard, 

tions  of  the  west.  in  the  barony  of  Raphoe,  and  county  of  Donegal. 

^  Hugh. — Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare  in-  "  Dun-Cwrhry,  now  Doongarbry,  a  townland 

terpolates  ouiB,  black,  which  is  correct.  containing  the  ruins  of  a  castle  in  the  parish  of 

■"  To  attain,  no  poccain,  to  reach  to.  Rossinver,  barony  of  Rossclogher,  and  county  of 

"  Cill  G'dTomhrair,  i.  e.  church  of  the  family  of  Leitrim. 

8  Y 


1450  awNata  uioshachca  emeaNN.  [1539. 

mbfir  DO  aclmit)  ina  péccrhaip  aja  co|>narh  co  comna|ic  p]ii  a  araip  co  na 
caomnacaji  a  jaliail  50  pin,  -|  ap  njabail  an  baile,  "|  lap  ppáccbáil  a  bapoa 
arm  oo  faot)  lapoiii  hi  mai^  luipcc, "]  po  milleab  an  cip  co  léip  laip.  Q5  coió- 
eacc  cap  a  aip  00  po  caóaill  jup  an  ccaiplén  oian  Viainm  TTlaj  ui  ^abpa,  -] 
po  jabab  laip  é.  l?o  mapbaó  mac  í  bomnaill,  11  Decembep,  (mail  ^apb 
mac  magniipa)  50  cupbaóaé  Diipcop  do  peilép  ap  an  ccaiplén  an  can  baccap 
ag  lonccpaicciD  an  baile.  Do  paDaD  maicfm  naiiacail  la  liua  nDorhnaill  Don 
CÍ  DO  poine  anjnioTTi  ipin  50  po  cuip  plan  é  Dia  lonchaib.  ■  Oo  caoDóDorhnaill 
cona  plóg  plan  (cenmoca  an  móip  échc  ]"ni)  lap  milleaó  maije  liiipcc  1 
macaipe  connacc,  acr  an  rheD  po  ba  piapac  do. 

aOlS  CPIOSU,   1539. 
Qoip  cpiopc,  mile,  cúicc  céo,  cpioca,  anaoí. 

O  bpiain  cuaómuman,  Concobap  mac  coippDealbaij^  nuc  caiDcc  Decc  lap 
nibfir  acbaiD  i  ccijfjinup, -|  an  cip  Do  bfic  co  coicreac  cpomconái^  pé  a  linn. 
TTlupchaD  mac  í  bpiain  .1.  mac  coippDealbai;^  mic  caiDg  DóipDnfó  na  lonab 
amail  do  ruill  a  aipillfb  pfippm. 

Slóicceab  lá  hua  nDorhnaill,  ITlajnup  1  nioccap  connacc  ecip  noDlaicc  1 
peil  bpijjDe  Dia  po  bfn  a  lam  péip  do  cióp  -]  Do  bpai^Dib  Diob,  "|  cainic  y^uii 
Dia  ri^. 

O  Néill  .1.  conn  Do  rocc  50  Dvm  na  ngall  im  caipcc  Do  j'oit^idIi  ui  boih- 
naill, "1  po  naiDmpioc  yir,  capaDpab,"]  coDac  ariiail  ap  Deac  -\  ap  Dainjne  po 
péDpac  ppia  poile. 

ÍTlac  rhéguibip  copbmac,  mac  conconnacc,  mic  conconnacc,  mic  bpiain, 
mic  pilip  canaipi  pfpmanac  Dfi^pfp  co  nuaiple  1  co  nfineac  Do  rhapbab  hi 
meabail  la  muinrip  a  neapbpaifpeac  ina  ppiaDnaipe  [pmbnai]'e]  bábéin. 

'^  A/ier  it  had  been. — An  English  writer  would  Moygara,    or  Moyogara,    where   the   extensive 

f.\press  it  thus  :   "  The  O'Donnells  had  been  for  ruins  of  a  castle  are  still  to  be  seen,  near  the 

a  considerable  time  deprived  of  this  castle,  for  it  margin  of  Lough  Gara,  at  its  northern  extre- 

had  made  an  effectual  resistance  to  the  present  mity,  in  the  barony  of  Coolavin,  and  county  of 

O'Donnell's  father,    and  neither  of  them  sue-      Sligo See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of 

ceeded  in  taking  it  until  that  time."  Hy-Fiackrach,  p.  494,  and  map  to  the  same  work. 

''  Magh-Ui-Ghadhra,  i.e.  O'Gara's  plain,  now  ^  Under  Ms  protection,  i.  e.  when  tlie  castle 


1539.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1451 

cannon,  after  it  had  had  been''  for  some  time  out  of  his  possession,  having  been 
powerfiuly  defended  against  his  father,  and  it  could  not  be  taken  until  then. 
And  after  having  taken  this  castle,  and  left  his  warders  in  it,  he  proceeded  to 
Moylurg,  and  ravaged  all  that  country.  Upon  his  return  he  visited  the  castle 
called  Magh-Ui-Ghadhra'',  and  took  it.  The  son  of  O'Donnell  (Niall  Garv,  the 
son  of  Manus)  was  unfortunately  slain  on  the  11th  of  December  by  the  shot 
of  a  ball  [fired]  from  the  castle,  when  they  were  approaching  the  town.  The 
person,  however,  who  had  done  this  act  was  pardoned  by  O'Donnell,  who  sent 
him  away  under  his  protection'.  O'Donnell  then  returned  with  his  army,  safe 
(except  the  great  misfortune  already  alluded  to),  after  having  ravaged  all  Moy- 
lurg and  Machaire-Chonuacht,  excepting  such  parts  as  were  obedient  to  him. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1539. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  tJdrty-nine. 

O'Brien  of  Thomond  (Conor,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige)  died,  after 
having  been  for  some  time  in  the  lordship  ;  and  the  country  was  prosperous 
and  flourishing  in  his  time.  Murrough',  the  son  of  O'Brien,  i.  e.  the  son  of 
Turlough,  son  of  Teige,  was  inaugurated  in  his  place,  as  his  quahfications 
deserved. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  (Manus)  into  Lower  Connaught,  between 
Christmas  and  the  festival  of  St.  Bridget ;  and  he  exacted  from  them  [the  inha- 
bitants] his  full  tribute  and  hostages,  and  returned  safe  to  his  house. 

O'Neill,  i.  e.  Con,  came  to  Donegal  about  Easter,  to  visit  O'Donnell  ;  and 
they  made  peace,  friendship,  and  alUance  with  each  other,  as  well  and  as  firmly 
as  they  possibly  could. 

The  son  of  Maguire  (Cormac,  the  son  of  Cuconnaught,  son  of  Cuconnaught, 
son  ofBrien,  son  of  Philip),  Tanist  of  Fermanagh,  a  good  man  of  nobleness 
and  hospitality,  was  treacherously  slain  by  the  people  of  his  brother,  in  his 
[brother's]  own  presence. 

was  taken  the  person  who  had  fired  the  ball  at  protection.  He  was  then  O'Donnell's  protegee, 
Niall  Garv  would  have  been  killed  on  the  spot  and  whoever  happened  to  kill  or  maim  him 
by  O'Donnell's  people,  had  not  O'Donnell  inter-      should  pay  eric  to  O'Donnell. 

posed,  and  extended  to  him  not  only  pardon  but  '  Mui-ruugh He  was  the  brother  of  Conor, 

8  Y  2 


1452  ,    aNHaf.a  Rio^nacnca  eiReawN.  [1539. 

Slóicceaó  lá  hua  néill  conn,"]  lá  huo  nDorhnaill,  TTlaT^rmp  oaon  cornaiple 
-]  t)aon  aonca  gup  an  mibe  -j  an  pob  aitiipiajiac  Dóib  Dona  cipib  pin  do  rhilleaó 
"]  DO  lopccaD  pfmpa  50  cfiiipaij.  pó  pic  eDala  aióble  lonióa  Don  cupup  pin 
ap  ni  po  rionoilpioc  gaoióil  Do  pai^ib  jail  ip  na  hoimpeapaib  Dfiofncoib  aoii 
jloijfó  ap  mo  lép  milleab  Do  mairfp  na  miDe  map  an  cpeacploi jea6  ipin, 
DÓ15  pob  lomDa  éoala  óip  -|  aipccirc,  urha,  -]  lapainn,  lonnmup,  "i  lolrhaoine, 
-]  jaca  mairfpa  apcfna  ciiccpac  a  baile  ara  pipbiaD,-]  ap  a  nuacongbáil  lap 
iia  loinapccain  leó  Don  cupup  pin.  Q5  cionncuó  Dona  plójaib  pin  ma  pppir- 
mg,  l?o  jab  bpij, -)  bopppaD,  uaill, "]  Diomup  laD  ap  aibble  a  néDala  ono 
puaippio-  ppicbfpr  ppiú.  Qn  ran  po  clop  lap  an  lupcip  Sa,ranach  Copr> 
ImapD  na  pccela  pm,  Do  pónaó  lép  cionól  a  paibe  Do  Sa;rancoib  1  nepinn  uile 
laip,  1  pocpaiDe  bailcfo  mop  na  miDe  ecip  cill  -\  rnair,  -|  a  mbaoi  do  cob- 
laijib  ap  na  cuancaib  ina  compocpaib,  "|  co  liaipiDi  coblac  aóbal  baoí  pop 
cuan  caiplinne.  lap  ccocc  na  ccóicfpral  pin  uile  50  haonbaile  gup  an  lupcip 
polfn  an  pluaj  jaoibealac  50  hoipjiallaib,  hi  ppfpnmaij  aipm  accá  bél  ara 
hoa,  ni  puacc  lap  an  pluaj  njaoióealac  Dol  in  inneall  no  a  nopDuccaD  arhail 
]io  ba  Dip  Dóib,  -]  ni  mo  po  upmaippioc  comaiple  a  naipeac  do  jabáil  Do 
copnaiii  no  do  coruccab  carlairpeac  ace  po  imcijpioc  50  hfppaice  anopDai jre 
jfí  po  pagaibpioc  mop  Dia  neDalaib  pfin  -|  DeDalaib  gall  ipm  maijmpin  aga 
mbiobbabaib  lap  ppaoinfo  poppa.  Ro  mapbab  Dpong  Dia  nDaopjap  pluaj  -j 
ni  po  mapbab  a  bfcc  Dia  nuaiplib  cénmoca  TTlaolmuipe  mfipjfc  mac  eóin 
puoib  niic  piiibne  copcaip  ó  cenel  conaill  ap  an  laraip  pin.  TTlaj  aonjupa 
muipceapcac  do  jabail  let  Dpfim  Doipjiallaib,  lap  no  pajbail  1  niiarab  lap 

which,  if  the  annalist  had  thought  of  mentioning,  called  an  Uaih,  which  is  its  present  Irish  name, 

would  have  saved  them  the  trouble  of  repeating  as  pronounced  by  the  natives  of  Meath.     Ware, 

the  pedigree.  who  seems  to  have  known  the  ancient  and  mo- 

'  Nuachongbhail. — It  appears  from  the  Life  of  dern  names  of  this  place,  calls  it  Navan,  in  his 

St.  Fechin,  published  by  Colgan,  that  this  was  Annals  of  Ireland,  at  this  year, 
the  ancient  name  of  the  place  where  the  town  of  "  In  the  adjacent  harbours. — The  word  cuan 

Navan,  in  Meath,  now  stands  :  certainly  means  a  harbour,  and  is  synonimous 

"  Nuadlichongbhail  est   oppidum  Media;  ad  with  the  Latin  sinus. 
ripam   Boiiniii  fluvii  a   Pontano"    [Drogheda]  "  Carlinnc. — This  is  still  the  Irish  name  of 

"  decem  millibus  passuum  distans  ab  Authru-  Carlingford  harbour,  in  the  north-east  of  the 

mia  quinque." — Acta  Sanctorum,  pp.  135,  141.  county  of  Louth. 

In  the  account  of  this  invasion  of  the  Pale,  ^  Bel-atka-hoa. — The  site  of  this  battle  was  at 

given  in  the  Annals  of  Kilronan,   this  town  is  a  ford  near  the  old  bridge  of  Belahoe,  whicli 


153!).]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1453 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Neill  (Con)  and  O'Donnell  (Manus),  with  one  will 
and  accord,  into  Meath  ;  and  such  part  of  these  territories  as  were  disobedient 
to  them  they  spoiled  and  burned  before  them,  as  far  as  Tara,  and  the  posses- 
sions of  all  those  who  refused  to  submit  to  them.  They  obtained  immense  and 
innumerable  spoils  on  this  expedition,  for  the  Irish  had  not  in  latter  times 
assembled  to  oppose  the  English  army,  that  destroyed  more  of  the  property  of 
Meath  than  this  plundering  army ;  for  many  were  the  spoils  of  gold  and  silver, 
copper,  iron,  and  every  sort  of  goods  and  valuables  besides,  which  they  took 
from  the  towns  of  Ardee  and  Nuachongbhair,  which  they  entirely  plundered 
on  that  expedition .  Upon  their  return,  these  troops  were  elated  with  courage 
and  high  spirits,  [and  filled  with]  pride  and  haughtiness,  on  account  of  the 
vastness  of  their  spoils,  and  because  they  had  not  met  any  opposition.  When 
the  English  Lord  Justice,  Lord  Leonard,  heard  the  news  of  this,  he  made  a 
complete  muster  of  all  the  English  in  Ireland,  the  forces  of  the  great  towns  of 
Meath,  both  ecclesiastical  and  lay,  and  all  the  fleets  in  the  adjacent  harbours", 
and  especially  the  large  fleet  in  the  bay  of  Carlinne™.  After  all  these  forces 
had  collected  to  one  place  to  the  Lord  Justice,  he  set  out  in  pursuit  of  the  Irish 
army  into  Oriel,  and  [came  up  with  them]  at  a  place  called  Bel-atha-hoa'',  in 
Farney.  The  Irish  army  were  not  able  to  go  into  order  or  array,  as  was  meet 
for  them  ;  nor  did  they  take  the  advice  of  their  chiefs,  to  stand  and  maintain 
their  battle-ground,  but  they  fled  in  a  scattered  and  disorderly  manner,  leaving 
a  great  deal  of  their  own  property,  and  of  the  spoils  taken  from  the  English  at 
that  place,  to  their  enemies,  after  being  routed.  Some  of  their  common  people 
were  slain,  but  none  of  their  gentlemen,  except  Mulmurry  Mergeach,  son  of 
John  Roe  Mac  Sweeny,  whom  the  Tirconnellians  lost  on  that  field.  After  this 
defeat"  of  Bel-atha-hoa,  Magennis  (Murtough),  who  had  wandered  away  from 

was  the  principal  pass  into  the  famous  territory  by  a  party  of  the  Oriels,  after  he  was  found  with 

of  Farney  in  Oriel.    It  is  about  four  miles  and  a  a  few,  after  having  separated  from  his  people  in 

quarter  south  of  Carrickmacross,  on  the  boun-  this  defeat  of  Bel-atha-hoa,  and  he  was  for  some 

dary  of  the  counties  of  Meath  and  Monaghan,  time  privately  in  their  custody,   so  that  ^  they 

close  to  the  lake  of  the  same  name See  Some  afterwards  killed  him  treacherously  at  the  in- 

Account  of  the  Territory  or  Dominion  of  Farney,  stigation  of  a  party  of  his  own  tribe,   for  they 

p.  .37.  gave  rewards  from  them  (to  the  people  with 

''  After  this  defeat. — The  literal  translation  is  whom  he  was)  for  putting  him  to  death." 
as  follows  :  "Magennis  (Murtough)  was  taken  In  the  fabricated  account  of  this  battle  given 


1454  aHNQf-a  Rioghachca  emeaNN.  [1540. 

nofoail  |ié  a  rhuinnp  ij'in  inaibm  pin  hernl  ara  hoa,i  a  bfir  lé  hachaiD  lUáirh 
50  hinclfire  aca  50  po  rhcqibpcic  1  meabad  é  lap  pn  r|ié  ay^lac  npuinje  Dia 
cinfo  pfin,  uaip  cucpar  pióe  corhfa  iiara  (Don  luchc  ago  mbaoi)  ap  a  cop  cum 
báip. 

Nicdl  ÓCC  o  baoi^iU  00  mapbnb  la  concobap  mac  ui  baoi^ill. 

O  maoileaclainn  ape,  pfp  ajiiiap  lonnpaijreac,  -\  a  mac  caraoip  o  maoi- 
leaclainn  oeccanac  cluana  do  rhapbab  1  ppopnocc  la  cloinn  peilun  ui  maoi- 
leaclainn, 1  pcilim  DO  jabail  cijfpnaip. 

TTlaj;  coclóin  peilim  mac  maoilip  do  mapbab  1  mbfnDcop  la  cloinn  í  ITia- 
Dajóin  .1.  maoileaclainn  50D,  eccecpi,a  nDiaib  aippinn  Dia  Domnaig  an  Dapa 
nonap  lulii. 

Uijeapnap  Dectlbna  Do  poinn  la  hua  inaoileoclcnnn  peilim  erip  ape  mac 
copbmaic  meg  coclcnn,  Dorhnall  mac  ptpDopca, "]  Tílaoíleclainn  mac  emainn. 

aOlS  Ct?10SU,  1540. 
Qoip  cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  cfrpacac. 

T?uaibpi  ua  maoíleóin  eppcop  apDachaib,  "j  pfp  lonaiD  eppcoip  cluana 
[TTihic  Nóip]  pfp  pacrhap  po  conaig  eipibe  do  écc. 

TTlainiprip  cluana  pampaDa  do  rabaipc  Dona  bpairpib  De  obpepuanna 
ap  popconjpa  ui  bpiain  TTlhupchaib  mic  roippbealbai 5, 1  maire  cuabmurhan 
Do  cfc  1  Daoncaib  uaccapón  Da  opD  .8.  ppoinpeip. 

8a;canai5  Do  bfic  (in  gac  áic  ap  puD  epeann  map  cuippfr  a  ccurhacca) 
aj  injpeim  -|  05  lonnapbab  na  nopD,  -]  50  liaipibe  ITIainpcip  rhuineacáin  do 
milleaD  bóib,-]  gaijiDian  na  mamipcpe  50  nDpuinj  do  na  bpairpib  Do  bicfnDab 
leó. 

Oiap  mac  ui  baoijill  mall  puab,  -j  concobap  do  bfic  1  nimpfpain  -]  1  nfp- 

by  Holinshed  in  his  Chronicles,  on  which  Cox  He  even  rejects  the  account  of  it  given  in  the 

relies  as  true  history,  it  is  stated  that  Magennis  Annals  of  Kilronan,  which  the  Editor  translated 

was  killed  by  the  Baron  of  Slane. — See  Some  for  his  use,  and  which  was  transmitted  to  him 

Account  of  ike  Territory  or  Dominion  of  Farney,  by  Mr.  Petrie  several  years  since.    Ware,  whose 

by  Evelyn  Philip  Shirley,  Esq.,  p.  37;  Cox's  judgment  is  almost  invariably  correct,  mentions 

Hibernia  Anglicana,   A.  D.   1539.     Mr.  Moore  the  defeat  at  Belahoe,  and  adds  that  O'Neill  made 

does  not  seem  to  believe  that  there  is  any  truth  this  descent  upon  the  Pale  in  August,  1539,  in 

in  the  account  of  this  rencounter  at  Belahoe.  retaliation  for  an  expedition  made  into  Ulster 


1540.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1455 

his  people,  and  was  attended  only  by  a  few  troops,  was  taken  prisoner  by  a 
party  of  the  people  of  Oriel ;  and  they  privately  detained  him  for  some  time  as 
a  prisoner,  and  afterwards  treacherously  slew  him,  at  the  instance  of  a  ;f)arty  of 
his  own  tribe,  who  had  bribed  them  to  put  him  to  death. 

Niall  Oge  O'Boyle  was  slain  by  Conor,  the  son  of  O'Boyle. 

<])'Melaghlin  (Art),  a  successful  and  warlike  man,  and  his  son,  Cahir  O'Me- 
laghlin.  Deacon  of  Cluain^,  were  slain  at  Fornocht',  by  the  sons  of  Felini 
O'Melaghlin  ;  and  Felim  assumed  the  lordship. 

Mac  Coghlan  (Felim,  the  son  of  Meyler)  was  slain  at  Beannchor'',  by  the 
sons  of  O'Madden  (Melaghlin  God,  &c.),  after  he  had  heard  mass  on  Sunday, 
the  second  of  the  Nones  of  July. 

The  lordsliip  of  Delvin  was  parcelled  out  by  O'Melaghlin  (Felim)  among 
Art,  the  son  of  Cormac  Mac  Coghlan  ;  Donnell,  the  son  of  Ferdoragh  ;  and 
Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Edmond. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1540. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  forty . 

Rory  O'Maloue,  Bishop  of  Ardagh,  and  representative  of  the  Bishop  of  Clon- 
macnoise,  a  prosperous  and  affluent  man,  died. 

The  monastery  of  Cluain-Ramhf  hoda  [Clonroad]  was  given  to  the  friars  of 
the  Observance,  by  order  of  O'Brien  (Murrovigh,  the  son  of  Turlough)  and  the 
chiefs  of  Thomond,  and  by  the  consent  and  permission  of  the  superiors  of  the 
Order  of  St.  Francis. 

The  English,  throughout  every  part  of  Ireland  where  they  extended  their 
power,  were  persecuting  and  banishing  the  Orders,  and  particularly  they  de- 
stroyed the  monastery  of  Monaghan,  and  beheaded  the  guardian,  and  some  of 
the  friars. 

The  two  soils  of  O'Boyle,  Niall  Roe  and  Conor,  were  in  contention  and  at 

by  the  Lord  Gray  in  the  preceding  May.  in  the  barony  ot'Clonluuaii,  and  county  ot  West- 

'•  Cluain,  i.  e.  of  Cluain-mic-Nois,  now  Clou-  meath. 

iiiacnoise,  in  the  King's  County.  ti  Beannchor,  now  Banagher,   a  town  ou  the 

'^  Fornocht — This  is  probably  the  place  now  east  side  of  the  Shannon,  in  the  barony  of  Gar- 

i-alled  Farnagh,  situated  near  the  town  of  Moat,  rycastle,  and  King's  County. 


1456  awNata  Rio^hachca  eiiíeanN.  [1540. 

aoncci  |ié  ]ioile, "]  mall  do  6ol  ap  Kmnpaiccio  ap  concobap  co  luacpaf(ap  ba 
liann  bai  aipipiorii  i  corhnaibe  concobaip),  "]  a  bfir  a  cceilcc  in  aoliaib  pin  i 
rrfmpall  Sfncóin,-]  concobap  do  reacc  ap  na  bapac  pop  an  Dpomain  la  caob 
an  rfmpaill.  Niall  co  na  muinrip  Deipje  no  ap  an  cfmpall.  Od  connaipc 
concobap  Dia  paijió  laD  luiD  pop  a  niomgabail  ó  ná  baí  pocaióe  ina  pappab 
céninorá  uachab  namá  nrip  bó  liinpfbnia.  Qpfb  do  beacliain  a  aenap  cap 
cpaij  luacpaip  píop.  Cfnaib  mail  é  peib  ap  ofine  conpánaic,  -|  |iucc  uibe  pia 
na  muincip  pfippin  acc  cogpaim  concobaip  co  ccappaibé  co  mba  corhpainicc 
nóib  pe  poile  co  beoba  bapbapba  jan  popairitifc  caipDfpa  nó  coirhpialapa. 
Oo  pao  concobap  bfim  do  moll  ina  cfnDrhuUac  50  po  rpapccaip  50  lóp  é  ap 
an  lacaip  pin.  Luib  concobap  opé  cpecrnaijre  ap.  Uanjaccap  a  rhuinnp  do 
paij^ib  néill,-)  acbepc  ppiú  concobap  do  Ifnmain,-)  ná  baoí  pfin  1  nsuaip  écca 
Don  cup  pin.  Oo  pónao  paippiom  pin,  1  piiccpac  muincip  néill  ap  concobap  la 
caob  loca  baoi  ina  ccompoccup,  ■)  ni  po  larhpac  lombualab  ppip  50  po  rpap- 
ccaippioc  é  lap  na  clocaib  baoi  i  naipfp  in  loca  conab  lop  net  cpapcaipc  po 
imippfc  apm  paip,  1  05  poab  Oóib  po  jeibicc  mall  mapb  gan  anmainn.  Ni 
baoi  Dia  ccinfb  pfin  lé  hachaib  Diap  a  ccorhaopa  po  bab  mo  Deccaib  inciiD 
an  Diap  pin  ropcaip  pe  opoile. 

Clann  uilliam  mac  an  eappuicc  in'  ^allcubaip  .1.  uilliam  ócc  "]  aoob  j;pu- 
amba  do  mapbab  la  cloinn  ui  baoijill  .1.  la  Domnall  1  la  coippbealbac  a 
noigail  mapbra  a  nacap. 

SlóicceaD  lá  hua  noorhnaill,  TTlajnup  hi  ccóicceab  connacc,  -]  ni  po  aipip 
50  painicc  ITlaj^  luipcc,  appibe  hi  ccloinn  connmaij.  TTIaj  luipcc  "j  clann  conn- 
maij  DO  léiprhilleab  1  Do  lopccab  laip,  do  poine  laparh  cpfca  an  coipppléibe, 
"]  cainicc  plan  lap  pin  lap  mbuaib,  "|  copccap. 

Slóicceab  ele  Id  hua  noorhnaill  báccap  laD  cangaDap  ina  pocpaiDe,  mall 
mac  aipc  óicc  cánaipe  cípe  heoccain,  1  mac  mic  Domnaill  na  halban  Colla 
mac  alapDpainn  co  nalbancoib  lomba  amaiUe  ppipp, "]  ó  Dorhnaill  -]  an  pló^ 

"  Luachras,  now  Loughros,  near  Ardara,  in  of  three  old  churches  are  still  to  be  seen  in  the 

the  west  of  the  county  of  Donegal. — See  note "",  neighbourhood  of  Loughros  bay,  namelj',  Kil- 

under  the  year  1509,  p.  1302,  supra.    The  site  turis,  Kilkenny,  and  Kilcashel,  but  the  memory 

of  O'Boyle's  residence  at  Loughros  Bay  is  yet  of  St.  Senchan  is  not  now  celebrated  at  any  of 

pointed  out  by  the  natives  of  the  barony  of  Boy-  them. 

lagh.    It  was  called  Crannog  bhuidhe,  i.  e.  the  ^  Ferociousli/. — Co    bapbapóa    might   mean 

yellow  crannog,  or  wooden  house.     The  ruins  "  barbarously,"  but  this  is  scarcely  the  meaning 


1540]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1457 

strife  with  each  other.  Niall  made  an  incursion  against  Conor  into  Luachras' 
(for  Conor  had  his  seat  and  residence.there),  and  remained  that  night  in  ambush 
in  the  church  of  St.  Seanchan.  Conor  next  morning  went  upon  the  hill  adjacent 
to  the  chiirch,  and  Niall  and  his  people  sallied  forth  from  the  church  against 
him.  When  Conor  saw  them  approaching  him,  he  ran  away  to  avoid  them,  as 
he  had  with  him  only  a  few  [and  these]  persons  unfit  to  bear  arms,  and  he  pro- 
ceeded alone  down  across  the  strand  of  Luachras.  Niall  pursued  him  as  quickly 
as  he  was  able,  and  he  outran  his  own  people  in  his  eagerness  to  catch  Conor  ; 
he  overtook  him,  and  they  engaged  each  other  vigorously  and  ferociously", forget- 
ful of  friendship  and  relationship.  Conor  gave  Niall  a  blow  on  the  top  of  the  head, 
and  prostrated  him  on  the  ground,  and  then  fled  away,  severely  wounded. 
His  people  came  up  to  Niall,  who  told  them  to  pursue  Conor,  and  that  he  him- 
self was  not  in  danger  of  death  on  that  occasion.  They  did  so  at  his  request, 
and  overtook  Conor  on  the  borders  of  a  neighbouring  lake ;  and  they  did  not 
dare  to  come  to  blows  with  him,  until  they  had  first  knocked  him  down  with 
the  stones  which  were  on  the  strand  of  the  lake ;  and  when  he  was  prostrated, 
they  struck  at  him  with  weapons.  And  on  their  return  they  found  Niall  dead^ 
There  had  not  been  of  their  tribe,  for  some  time,  two  of  the  same  ages  who 
were  more  generally  lamented  than  these  two  who  were  slain  by  each  other. 

The  sons  of  William,  son  of  the  Bishop  O'Gallagher,  namely,  WiUiam  Oge 
and  Hugh  Gruama,  were  slain  by  the  sons  of  O'Boyle,  namely,  by  Donnell  and 
Turlough,  in  revenge  of  their  father. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  (Manus)  into  Connaught,  and  never  halted 
until  he  arrived  in  Moylurg,from  whence  he  passed  into  Clann-Conway;  and  he 
totally  devastated  and  burned  Moylurg'  and  Clann-Conway.  He  afterwards 
plundered  the  Curlieu  Mountains,  and  then  returned  home  safe,  after  victory 
and  triumph. 

Another  hosting  was  made  by  O'Donnell,  and  he  was  joined  by  NialF,  the 
son  of  Art  Oge,  Tanist  of  Tyrone,  and  by  Mac  Donnell  of  Scotland  (CoUa,  the 
son  of  Alexander),  with  many  Scots  along  with  him.  O'Donnell  and  this  army 

intended  by  the  Four  Masters.  ^  Moylurg. — This  is  a  striking  example  of  the 

*  Dead,    literally,    "  they  found  Niall  dead  redundance  of  the  style  of  the  Four  Masters, 

without  a  soul,"  which  is  a  strange  redundance  e  Niall. — Charles  O'Conor  interpolates  Conal- 

of  language.  lach,  i.  e.  the  Conallian,  which  is  correct. 

8z 


1458  aNNQf-a  Rioshaclica  eiReawN.  [1540. 

fin  00  óolcéruphi  ppfpaib  manac,-]  mópan  do  itiillfo  DÓib  ipin  cip  ap  cup  50 
bpuaippioc  laparh  cuip  1  plana  lé  na  ]nap.  Oo  luiópioc  laparh  cpe  bpéipne 
ui  puaipc  appibe  co  coippplml)  -\  poplonjpopc  do  óénarh  Dóib  ipin  coippplicib, 
-]  an  bealac  bume  do  ^fppaó  leó,  -]  jac  conaip  Dooaing  ele  baoi  pop  a 
ccionn  DO  peiDuicchab  bóib.  oanjacrap  clann  maolpuanaib  uile  cuca  lap 
pin,  1  cucpac  bpaijoe  Dua  Doiiinaill  lé  na  bpfir  pfin  ó  pin  amac,  -|  raimc 
plan  laparh  Dia  cicch. 

ClanD  1  Domnaill  (.1.  Qob  ócc  mac  aoba  puaib)  Oonncab  caipbpeac,  -| 
Sfan  luipcc  do  doI  1  na^aib  1  borhnaill  (TTlajnup  a  nofpbparaip  peipin), ")  a 
nDol  pop  cpannóicc  loca  bfchaij,  -]  laD  Do  bftr  ace  millfb  an  ripe  eipre. 
O  Dorhnaill  Da  njabáil  ina  noip,  1  do  gabdil  éiccneacáin  ui  Domnaill  1  mbaile 
na  congbóla.  Sfan  luipcc  do  cpocbab  laip,  Giccneacan  -]  Donnchab  Do  cop  1 
nsfimlib,  1  cpannócc  loca  bfchai^  Do  bpipfD  -\  Do  bianpjaoileab  bo. 

O  Docapcaij  .1.  jfpalc  mac  Domnaill  mic  peilim  peap  co  nuaij-le  -)  co 
nfineacli  Décc  lap  ccianaoip  lap  mbpfir  buaba  6  boman,  ■]  ó  bfrhon. 

O  baoijill  DO  gaipm  do  Doitinall  mac  néill  í  baoijill. 

Sfan  mac  cuinn  1  Domnaill  Do  liiapbaD  la  cloinn  ITIupchaib  mic  puibne  na 
ccuar. 

Caiplén  liacDpoma  do  bénaiti  lá  hua  puaipc  bpian  mac  eoccain,"]  coccab 
mop  DO  bfic  paip  ap  gac  raob  .1.  bi  maij  luipcc,  1  muincip  eolaip,  -]  1  mbpfipne 
ui  paijillij,"!  a  mac  pfin  1  Dpong  Dpfpaib  bpeipne  Dobfic  a  ccoccab  pip  map 
an  cceDna,  ")  do  pónab  an  caiplén  laippiorh  lé  haimpip  air^ipp,  "]  do  mill 
mópán  bi  maij  luipcc  pana  luce  coccaib. 

^aipm  einij  Do  rabaipc  la  Ruaibpi  mac  caibcc  mic  DiapmaDa,  1  ló  a 
mnaoi  injfn  itific  uilliam  clomne  piocaipD.  Scola  Gpeann, "]  luce  cuinj^foa 
nfir  DO  reacc  cuca  jup  an  ccappaicc,  1  (t  piapuccaD  uile  lap  an  Ictnarhain 
pm. 

Uabcc  mac  bpiain  mic  majnupa  meic  Diapmaoa  puaib  do  barab  pop  an 
mbanna,  "|  é  pop  pluocc  hi  ppappab  ui  puaipc. 

''  The  Glann-Mulrony,  i.  e.   the  Mac  Dermots  of  Kilmacreiiau,   aud  county  of  Donegal.     The 

and  Mac  Donoughs.  island  on  which  this  wooden  house  stood  was 

'TlieCrannogofLoch-Beathaigh,  i.e.  the  wooden  well  known  some  years  since  for  a  potteen  dis- 

house  of  Lough  Beithe,    now  Loughveagh,   a  tillery,  belonging  to  a  Teige  O'Boyle,  who  gave 

beautiful  lake  in  the  parish  of  Gartan,  barony  the  Editor  some  curious  information  connected 


1540.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND  1459 

proceeded  into  Fermanagh,  and  they  at  first  destroyed  much  in  the  country, 
until  they  obtained  pledges  and  guarantees  of  submission.  After  that  they 
inarched  through  Breifny  O'Rourke,  and  from  thence  to  the  Curlieu  mountains, 
where  they  pitched  their  camp,  and  destroyed  Bealach-Buidhe,  and  cleared 
every  other  difficult  passage.  Upon  this  the  Clann-Mulrony"  came  to  them,  and 
gave  hostages  to  O'Donnell  for  the  observance  of  his  own  conditions  for  the 
time  to  come.     O'Donnell  then  returned  safe  to  his  house. 

The  sons  of  O'Donnell  (i.  e.  of  Hugh  Oge,  the  son  of  Hugh  Eoe),  namely, 
Donough  Cairbreach  and  John  of  Lurg,  rose  up  in  opposition  to  O'Donnell 
(Manus,  their  own  brother),  and  went  into  the  Crannog  of  Loch-Beiathaigh', 
from  which  they  proceeded  to  spoil  the  country.  O'Donnell  took  them  both 
prisoners,  and  took  also  Egneghan  O'Donnell  in  the  town  of  Conwall".  He 
hanged  John  of  Lurg,  and  put  Egneghan  and  Donough  in  fetters  ;  and  he  broke 
down  and  demolished  the  Crannog  of  Loch-Beathaigh. 

O'Doherty,  i.  e.  Gerald,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Felim,  a  noble  and  hos- 
pitable man,  died  at  an  advanced  age,  after  having  vanquished  the  Devil  and 
the  world. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Niall  O'Boyle,  was  styled  O'Boyle. 

John,  son  of  Con  O'Donnell,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Morogh  Mac  Sweeny- 
na-dtuath'. 

The  castle  of  Leitrim  was  erected  by  O'Rourke  (Brian,  the  son  of  Owen) 
while  a  great  war  was  waged  against  him  on  every  side,  namely,  in  Moylurg, 
Muintir-Eolais,  and  Breifny-O'Reilly  ;  and  his  own  son  and  a  party  of  the  men 
of  Breifny  were  also  at  war  with  him.     He  finished  the  castle  in  a  short  time, 
and  destroyed  a  great  portion  of  Moylurg  on  liis  opponents. 

A  general  invitation  of  hospitality  was  given  by  Rory,  the  son  of  Teige  Mac 
Dermot,  and  his  wife,  the  daughter  of  Mac  William  of  Clanrickard.  The  schools 
of  Ireland,  and  those  who  sought  for  presents,  flocked  to  them  to  the  Rock  [of 
Lough  Key],  and  they  were  all  attended  to  by  that  couple. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Manus  Mac  Dermot  Roe,  was  drowned  in 
the  [River]  Bann,  while  on  an  excursion  along  with  O'Rourke. 

with  the  ancient  localities  of  this  part  of  the  kenny,  in  the  county  of  Donegal — See  note  ', 
county  of  Donegal  in  the  year  1835.  under  the  year  1258,  p.  366,  supra, 

^  Gonwoll. — This  was  a  village  near  Letter-  '  Mac  Sweeny-na-dTuadh,  i.  e.  Mac  Sweeny 

8  z2 


1460  aNNata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1541. 

Semup  ÓCC  mac  an  Ppiopa  méj  cocláin  Do  óícfnDaó  lá  céDac  ua  maoí- 
leaclainn  hi  ppiull  ina  caiylen  pfin  .1.  caiplén  on  pfDain,-]  Díc  mop  Do  Dénam 
Don  cíp  rpÍD  pióe.  peilim  ó  maoíleaclainn  do  rabaipr  Sa;ranac  -|  an  rpfip- 
ineip  leip  50  DelBna,  -]  ap  a  aoí  ní  po  jaBpar  an  pfoan,  -|  po  impaibpioc  Dia 
rnjib  lap  millfo  mópáin  Dóib. 

Ooriinall  mac  an  pipóopca  még  cocláin  ceano  a  jabláni  pfin  oécc  pia 
mapbaó  Semaip  óicc  mic  an  ppiópa. 


aOlS  CRIOSU,  1541. 
Ctóip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cúic  céD,  cfcpaca,  ahaon. 

Doinfnn  Dfptfiaip,  Sioc,  -|  pnfcra  a  rcúp  na  bliaóna  po  co  ná  po  léicc  ap 
ná  cpeabaó  lap  ccoip  Do  Dénam  i  nepinn. 

O  cfpbaill  pCpganainm  mac  maolpiianam  Do  rhapbaó  (I11  ppiull  1  é  Dall 
Dípaóaipc)  la  caócc  mac  Donncliaió  mic  Sfain  uí  cfpbaill  cona  bpairpib,  •]  lá 
mac  uí  rhaoílmuaiD  Sían  mac  Dorhnaill  caoíc  hi  ccaiplén  cluana  lipcc,  1  56 
po  baoí  ó  cfpbaill  ina  pfnóip  cianaopDa  do  pome  fngnarh  -\  congnarh  móp  Do 
cóió  1  nainm  "]  1  noipDeapcup  Dó  ap  liicc  a  mapbca.  T?o  mapbaó  ona  DÓ  pfp 
bécc  Dia  rhuincip  amaille  ppip. 

O  maolmuaiD  .1.  caraoíp,  pfp  po  ba  móp  clú,-)  oipoeapcup  ina  aimpip  pfin 
Décc. 

'Cea5  papain  ecip  rijib  -\  cfmplaib  do  lopccaó  -]  Dopccain  ipin  copju)- 

DO  ponnpaó  lá  cloinn  uí  TílaDasáin,  TTlupoliaD,  bpeapal,  ■]   cacal.     peilim 

\ 

uf  the   districts,   which  had   belonged    to    the  weather,  and  means,  bad,  inclement,  or  severe 

O'Boyles  before  the  Mac  Sweenys  came  thither  weather.     t)eapniaip  is  explained  in  Cormac's 

from  Scotland.  Glossary  by  aóBal  mop,  i.  e.  very  great. 

"'  Feaclan,  now  Faddan,  in  the  parish  of  Lus-  ''  He  being  blind,    literally,    "  and   he  blind, 

magh,  barony  of  Garrycastle,  and  King's  County.  sightless,"  which  is   a   strange  redundancy  of 

— See  it  already  referred  to  at  the  year  1520,  language. 

;ind  again  at  1548  and  1557.  ''  Cluain-lisg,  now  Clonlisk,  giving  name  to 

"  The  treasurer,  i.  e.  Sir  William  Brabazon a  barony  in  the  south   of  the  King's  County. 

See  Table  of  Chief  Governors   of  Ireland  in  In  a  manuscript  missal,  preserved  in  the  Library 

Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Antiquities,  p.  1 09.  of  Trinity  CoUege,  Dublin,   Class  B.  Tab.  3. 

"  Severe  weather,    Doinfnn   oeapriiaip The  No.  1,  there  is  a  memorandum  of  the  death  of 

word  Doinfnn  is  the  opposite  of  fomfnn,  fair  Ferganainm  O'CarroU,  as  foUows : 


1541]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1461 

James  Oge,  son  of  the  Prior  Mac  Coghlan,  was  treacherously  beheaded  by 
Kedagh  O'Melaghlin,  in  his  own  [James  Oge's]  castle,  i.e.  the  castle  of  Feadan", 
in  consequence  of  which  great  injury  was  done  to  the  country.  Felim  O'Me- 
laghlin brought  the  English  and  the  Treasurer"  with  him  to  Delvin,  but  did  not, 
however,  take  the  Feadan ;  and  they  returned  to  their  [respective]  homes,  after 
having  destroyed  much. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Ferdoragh  Mac  Coghlan,  head  of  his  own  branch  [ol' 
that  family],  died  before  the  killing  of  James  Oge,  son  of  the  Prior. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1541. 

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

There  was  much  severe  weather",  frost,  and  snow,  the  beginning  of  this 
year,  which  prevented  tillage  and  ploughing  from  being  properly  done  in  Ire- 
land. 

O'Carroll  (Fergauainm,the  son  of  Mulrony)  was  treacherously  slain  (he  being 
blind'')  by  Teige,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  John  O'Carroll,  and  his  kinsmen, 
and  by  the  son  of  O'Molloy  (John,  the  son  of  Donnell  Caech),  in  the  castle  of 
Cluain-lisg'' ;  but  though  O'Carroll  was  an  old  man,  he,  nevertheless,  displayed 
great  prowess  and  strength  [in  defending  himself]  against  his  slayers,  which 
gained  him  a  name  and  renown.  Twelve  of  his  people  were  killed  along  with  him. 

O'Molloy"^  (Cahir),  a  man  of  great  character  and  renown  in  his  time,  died. 

Teagh-Sarain^  both  houses  and  churches,  was  burned  and  plundered  in 
Lent  by  the  sons  of  O'Madden,  namely,  Murrough,  Breasal,  and  Cathal.    After 

"Hie  obiitVir  sine  nomine"  [F^ap  5011  ainm]  taneus  in  Octava  Epiphanie  et  sepultus  in  Kyl- 

"  qui  fuit  dominus  et  princeps  Elie  occisus  in  cormac,  A.  D.  1542." 

Castro  sue  proprio  in  Cluoinlis  morte  incognita,  "  Teagh-Sarain,  i.  e.  St.  Saran's  cliurcli,  now 

ct  nisi  predicitur  improvisa,  et  qui  fuit  magne  Tisaran,  an  old  church  giving  name  to  a  parish 

sapientie  et  mirabilis  fortitudinis  ;  cujus  anime  in  the  barony  of  Garrycastle,  and  King's  County. 

propitietur  Deus.  Amen,  in  anno  Domini  mil-  It  is  situated  in  the  centre  of  the  demesne  of 

lessimo  cccccxli°."  Moystown  [maj  ipceun],  on  the  west  side  of 

■■  O'Molloy.— ThQ  death   of  this   chieftain   is  the  River  Brosna,  and  near  it  is  a  holy  well  de- 

tnus  noticed  in  a  memorandum  in  the  same  ma-  dicated  to  St.  Saran.    A  curious  account  of  this 

Euscript :  saint  is  given  in  the  Registry  of  Clonmacnoise, 

"  Obiit  Karolus  O'Mylmoy  sue  nationis  capi-  as  translated  by  Duald  Mac  Firbis  for  Sir  James 


1462  QHwaca  Rio^hachca  eipeaNN.  [1541. 

iia  maoileaclainn  oo  bol  co  cluam  pfpca  lap  pn,-]  cfinpall  mop  cluana  pfpca 
-)  an  mainipnp  oo  bpipft)  f  oopccain  laip. 

"Cuatal  balb  mac  Sfam  mic  Tíuaiopi  iií  jallcubaip  paoí  ouine  baoí  ap 
rfno  mainb  oipecca  ripe  conaill  Decc  (i  pebpuapii),  pfp  ba  moir  gal  -| 
jjaipcceab  jen  50  mapbaó  no  co  muDhaijCo  t>aoine  ap  ni  oeachaiD  piDe  hi 
rcpoir  no  i  ccacap  nác  biab  bpc'iije  loip.  6á  pfo  paoeapa  Dóporh  pm  ap  po 
baoi  apaile  ainipip  ina  aoioib  aj  coirpfcc  ppi  pfnmóip  -\  ppi  ppocfpr  bparap 
painpfóaig  Do  bpairpib  bum  na  ngall,  -|  accuala  agá  ppioccao  nap  bo  mair 
DO  poccain  pocpaice  oaoine  t)0  mapbab  na  Doprab  a  ppola,  conab  aipe  pm 
po  cmn  eiccm  ma  mfnmam  gan  gum  Duine,  "j  po  comaill  do  gpép  mnpm  an 
ccéin  poba  beó. 

TTlaibm  mop  Do  rabaipc  Do  miiac  uibilin  .1.  l?ubpaige  mac  ualcaip  ap 
clomn  aoba  ui  néill  oú  in  po  mapbab  aonjiip  mac  Donncbaib  mic  maolmuipe 
meic  puibne,  -|  Dpong  Do  jallócclacaib  ripe  conaill  apaon  pip.  r?o  mapbao 
ann  Dna  cópiicchab  gallocclac  do  clomn  nDomnaill  jallócclac  -\  pocaibe  ele 
cenmocar.  TTlac  uibilm  Do  bol  pluaj  Dopibipi  ap  clomn  aoba  ui  neill,  -|  clann 
aoba  .1.  conn,  *]  Dorhnall  Do  mapbab  laip. 

O  Domnaill  TTIajniip  do  DoI  hi  ccfnn  an  lupcip  Sha;canai5  Don  cabán -| 
an  lupcip  Del  jabcnl  cuicce  lé  honóip  -]  lé  peuepeup  móp.  Sir,  caDoc,  -] 
capaopab  Do  cfngal  Dóib  pé  poile  Don  cup  pm. 

Qn  cpannócc  aiprfpac  baoi  ap  loc  glinne   Dalláin  Do  jabail  la  clomn 

Ware,  now  preserved  in  the  British  Museum,  by  the  Four  Masters  : 

Clarend.  No.  LI.  "  I  found  a  fragment  of  an  Epistle,  wherein 

'  T/iouffh  he  never  used  to  kill. — In  this  phrase  a  vertuous  Monke  declareth  that  to  him  (tra- 

xen  TO  is  negative.  vailing  in  Vlster)  came  a  grave  Gentleman  about 

"  In  his  youth,  ma  aoíDió. — The  word  aoioe  Easter,  desirous  to  be  confessed  and  howseled" 

is  glossed  by  oije,  youth,  in  O'Clery's  Glossary,  [i.e.  to  receive  the  communion],  "who  in  all 

and  by  Teige  O'Rody  in  his  gloss  on  the  Ode  to  his  lifetime  had  never  yet  received  the  blessed 

Brian  na  Murtha  O'Kourke.   This  passage  shews  sacrament.     When  he  had  said  his  minde,  the 

that  Tuathal  had  not  been  well  instructed  in  Priest  demaunded  him,  whether  he  were  fault- 

the  Ten  Commandments  in  his  childhood.     The  lesse  in  the  sinne  of  Homicide  ?     He  answered, 

celebrated  Jesuit,  Edmund  Campion,  has,  in  his  that  hee  never  wist  the  matter  to  bee  haynous 

Historie  of  Ireland,  cap.  vi.,  the  following  refer-  before;  but,  being  instructed  thereof,  hee  con- 

ence  to  the    religious   ignorance    of  the    Irish  fessed   the   murther  of  five,    the   rest  he   left 

fighting  gentlemen,  which  is  not  very  diíFerent  wounded"  \_recte,  and  the  wounding  of  others], 

from  this  account  of  Tuathal  O'Gallagher  given  "  so  as  he  knew  not  whether  they  lived  or  no. 


.541.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1463 

this  [and  in  revenge  of  it]  Felim  O'Melaghlin  went  to  Clonfert,  and  demolished 
and  plundered  the  Great  Church  and  the  monastery  of  Clonfert. 

Tuathal  Balbh  [Balbus],  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Rory  O'Gallagher,  a  worthy 
man,  and  one  of  the  most  powerful  of  the  sub-chieftains  of  Tirconnell,  died  on 
the  1st  of  February.  He  was  a  man  of  valour  and  prowess,  though  he  never 
used  to  kill'  or  destroy  persons,  for  there  was  no  battle  or  skirmish  into  which 
he  went  from  which  he  would  not  bring  away  prisoners.  The  reason  of  his 
acting  thus  was  this :  one  time  in  his  youth"  that  he  was  listening  to  a  sermon 
and  exhortation  of  one  of  the  friars  of  Donegal,  he  heard  it  incvdcated  that,  in 
order  to  attain  [everlasting]  reward",  it  was  not  meet  to  kill  persons,  or  to  shed 
their  blood  ;  wherefore  he  made  a  resolution  never  to  wound  a  man,  and  this 
[vow]  he  always  kept  while  he  lived. 

A  great  defeat  was  given  by  Mac  Quillin  (Rury,  the  son  of  Walter)  to  the 
sons  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  in  which  was  slain  Aengus,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of 
Mulmurry  Mac  Sweeny,  together  with  a  party  of  the  gallowglasses  of  Tircon- 
nell. In  it  were  also  slain  a  battalion  of  the  gallowglasses  of  the  Clann-Donnell, 
Galloglagh,  and  many  others  besides.  Mac  Quillin  went  a  second  time  with  a 
force  against  the  sons  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  and  slew  Con  and  Donnell,  the  sons  of 
Hugh. 

O'Donnell  (Manus)  went  to  Cavan  to  meet  the  English  Lord  Justice ;  and 
the  Lord  Justice  received  him  with  great  honour  and  respect;  and  they  formed 
a  league  of  peace,  alliance,  and  friendship  with  each  other. 

The  eastern  crannog''  on  the  Lough  of  Glenn-Dallain''  was  taken  by  the 

Then  was  he  taught  that  both  the  one  and  the  "  Gleann- Dallam,    i.  e.  Dalian's  glen,   a  ro- 

other  were  execrable,  and  verie  meekelie  hum-  mantle  valley  in  the  parish  of  Killasnet,  barony 

bled  himself  to  repentence."  of  Rossclogher,  and  county  of  Leitrim.  It  is  now 

Here  the  good  Jesuit,  whether  he  was  telling  generally  called  Glencar,  from  O'Kourke's  castle 
the  truth  or  not  (and  who  can  doubt  his  vera-  of  Caislean  a'chartha See  Colgau's  Acta  Sane- 
city  "i),  has  written  as  rudely  as  the  Four  Mas-  iorum,  p.  337,  where  this  valley  is  erroneously 
ters,  as  appears  by  the  words  in  brackets.  placed  in  Carbria  :  "  Osnata  de  Gleann  dallain 

"  Reward,  pocpaice The  word  pocpaice  is  in  Carbria."    It  is  true  that  this  valley  extends 

used  in  ancient  Irish  Avritings  to  denote  "  re-  into  the  barony  of  Carbury,  in  the  county  of 

ward  in  the  next  world,"  and  sometimes  "  eter-  Sligo,  but  the  church  of  St.  Osnata,  now  anglice 

nal  happiness." — See  the  Leabhar  Breac,   fol.  Killasnet,  is  in  that  part  of  it  which  lies  in  the 

127,  4,  «•  county  of  Leitrim. — See  this  valley  again  re- 

^  Crannoff,  a  wooden  house.  i'erred  to  at  the  years  1595  and  1597. 


1464  aNNQi-a  Rio^hacbca  eiReawN.  [1541. 

tjorhnaill  mic  Donncham  ui  puaipc  ap  Donncliab  mac  Donncaió  tjiuaipc.  Q 
cfnn  aiinpipe  mji  pn  rucpac  clann  Donnchaib  ui  puaipc  (Dornnall,  -]  pf|i- 
ganainm)  lonnpaicció  ap  an  ccpannóicc  50  po  cuippfc  cfine  ip  in  mbaile  gan 
pio]'.  T?o  páraijfó  -|  po  moraijfb  in  ni  pin,i  Ifncap  lao  ipinloc,-]  bfipic  clann 
DorhnoiU  oppa,  TTlapbrap  -\  bdirfp  len  pfpjanainni  mac  Donnchaió,  l?o  jabaD 
annpin  Domnall,  -|  po  cpocliaó  lapatfi  la  cloinn  Domnaill  mic  Donncliaib 
ui  puaipc. 

Slóicceaó  lá  hua  noorhnaill  TTlajnup  In  ccoinne  an  luprip  8ha;ranai5  ^' 
cn'p  eoccain,  -]  an  cip  Dimreacc  ■]  Do  milleaó  leó  Don  coipcc  pin.  Qn  luprip 
Do  nlleaó  cap  a  aip  ipin  mibe,  -|  ó  Domnaill  DiompuD  uaóa  cap  a  aip  cpé 
cip  eojain,  -)  ceacc  plan  jan  racap  jan  cfjmail  Dpajail  do  ace  Dol  no  ace 
ceacc  Don  cupup  pin,-|  O  Domnaill  Do  jabail  Don  caoB  coip  Do  loc  i  ppfpaib 
manacli.  Cúil  na  noipfp  -]  ó  loc  poip  do  rhilleaD  laip  ecip  cip  "|  oiléna  uaip 
bóccap  báiD  "|  apcpaicce  aige  aj  milleab  "]  ace  apccain  na  noilén,  1  a  pluaj 
05  mnpaó  na  cipe  50  po  páccaib  1  neapbaiD  apba  laD  an  bliabam  pin, 

Slóicceaó  la  hua  nDomnaill  a  ccfnn  achaiD  lap  pin  In  ppfpaib  manac  Don 
caob  ciap  Do  loc, "]  po  cuip  Dponj  Dia  plójaib  1  napcpaijib  ap  puD  an  loca, 
1  po  jab  pfin  5up  an  lion  plóicc  cappupcaip  ina  pappaDh  pop  cip  50  po  inDip- 
pioc  an  cpioc  uile  a  ccoinne  a  ceile  do  loch  -]  do  cip  50  pangaoap  50  hinip 
eficlionn.  Ro  bpipfó,  "j  po  Ifjaó  leó  caiplén  innpi  cficbonn,-)  canjaccap  plan 
lap  ccopccap  Don  cup  pin. 

Oomnall  mac  neill  jaipb  mic  aoba,  mic  aóa  puaiD  Do  mapbaDh  la  hua 
mbaoi jill  ap  nDol  do  Dornnall  do  conjnarh  la  coippbealbac  mac  ui  baoijill 
in  acchaiD  a  arap.  Uuccpoccparh  puaicc  Dua  mbaoijill  ap  cup  impaíóiD 
ua  baoijill  ppiuporh,  -\  maiDhiD  poppa  50  po  mapbaó  an  mac  pin  néill  i  Dom- 
naill laip. 

Conn  mac  bpiain  mic  eoccain  ui  T?uaipc  Do  rhapbaó  lá  cloinn  TTiajnupa 
cipe  cuacail. 

TTlac  an  baipD  concobap  puaó  mac  pfpjailollam  ui  Domnaill  lé  Don  oiDe 
pcol"]  paoi  jan   upDubaD  1  ppojlaim  an  Dana-]  1  nealabnaib  oile,  pfp  cije 

''  The  town,  baile — This  word  is  applied  to      the  county  of  Fermanagh See  this  territory 

any  village,  be  it  ever  so  insignificant.  already  referred  to  at  the  years  1486,  1506,  and 

*  Cuil-na-nOirear,  now  the  barony  of  Coole,  1514. 

on  the  east  side  of  Lough  Erne,  in  the  south  of  "  Clann-Manus. — They   were  a  sept  of  the 


1541.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1465 

sons  of  Donnell,  son  of  Donnell  O'Rourke,  from  Donough,  the  son  of  Donough 
O'Rourke.  In  some  time  after  this  the  sons  of  Donough  O'Rourke,  i.  e.  Donnell 
and  Ferganainra,  made  an  attack  upon  the  crannog,  and  privately  set  fire  to  the 
town^ ;  but  that  thing  being  discovered  and  perceived,  they  were  pursued  upon 
the  lake,  and  overtaken  by  the  sons  of  Donnell.  Ferganainm,  the  son  of 
Donough,  was  slain  and  drowned  ;  and  Donnell  was  taken,  and  afterwards 
hanged,  by  the  sons  of  Donnell,  son  of  Donough  O'Rourke. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  (Manus)  into  Tyrone,  to  meet  the  English 
Lord  Justice ;  and  they  traversed  and  desolated  the  country.  The  Lord  Justice 
returned  into  Meath,  and  O'Donnell,  separating  from  him,  went  back  through 
Tyrone,  and  arrived  safe,  without  meeting  battle  or  opposition  on  that  occasion, 
either  in  going  or  returning.  And  O'Donnell  marched  along  the  eastern  side 
of  the  lake  in  Fermanagh,  and  destroyed  Cuil-na-noirear",  and  from  tlie  lake 
eastwards,  both  mainland  and  islands  ;  for  he  had  boats  and  vessels  spoiling 
and  plundering  the  islands,  and  his  army  devastating  the  country,  so  that  he 
left  them  in  want  of  corn  for  that  year. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell,  some  time  afterwards,  into  Fermanagh, 
[and  pursued  his  route]  on  the  west  side  of  the  lake  ;  and  he  sent  part  of  his 
forces  in  boats  along  the  lake,  while  he  himself,  with  the  number  he  kept  along 
with  him,  proceeded  by  land,  so  that  they  plundered  the  whole  country,  both 
lake  and  land,  until  they  reached  Enniskilleri ;  and  they  broke  and  tlirew  down 
the  castle  of  Enniskillen,  and  returned  safe  from  that  expedition  in  triumph. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Niall  Garv,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Hugh  Roe  [O'Donnell], 
was  slain  by  O'Boyle,  after  Donnell  had  gone  to  assist  Turlough,  the  son  of 
O'Boyle,  against  his  father.  They  first  gave  O'Boyle  the  onset,  but  O'Boyle 
turned  upon  and  defeated  them,  and  slew  this  son  of  Niall  O'Donnell. 

Con,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Owen  O'Rourke,  was  slain  by  the  Clann- 
Manus"  of  Tir-Tuathail. 

Mac  Ward  (Conor  Roe,  the  son  of  Farrell),  Ollav  to  O'Donnell  in  poetrj-, 
a  superintendent  of  schools,  and  a  man  not  excelled''  in  poetry  and  other  arts, 

O'Conors,  seated  in  Tir-ThuathaU,  orTirhoohil,      1464,  1486,  and  1495. 

in   the  north-east  of  the  barony  of  Boyle,  in  ■=  Not   excelled,    literally,    "  a    sage   without 

the  county  of  Roscommon See  this  territory      eclipsis,"  i.  e.  not  eclipsed,  excelled,  or  thrown 

already  referred  to  at  the  years   1411,    1460,      into  the  shade  by  another. 

9  A 


1466  aHNQta  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [1542. 

aomfo  coiccinn  do  congTiiail  -]  opocuccaó  oécc  lap  nonsat),  "j  lap   nairpije 
an  20  oecembep. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1542. 
•    C(oi|'  Cpiopc,  TTiile,  cuicc  ceo,  cfrpacha,  aoó. 

TTlac  1  neill  .1.  pelim  caoch  mac  cuinn  mic  cuinn  00  liiapbaó  la  mac  Dom- 
naill  5allocclacli  oaon  buille  5a,  -|  oiap  mac  ele  00  cloinn  í  neill  oecc. 

bpian  mac  neill  mic  aipr  óicc  mic  cuinn  í  neill  oamna  cijfpna  cenel 
nfojain,  pfp  poba  mo  clú  uaiple,  eini 5,  -)  fngnama  cúmicc  Do  cenel  eoj^am 
nnc  neill  le  cian  Daimpip  Decc  ipin  cpfn  caiplen. 

ITlac  UÍ  Bpiain  coippbealbac  mac  ITIupchaiD  mic  coippbealbai^  Decc  le 
habapc  in  ivinpi  Í  cumn  pfp  a  afpa  ba  pfpp  lam,  lompaDh,  -]  oipbfpcup  ina 
aimi^ip  epioe 

TTlac  con  mic  conmfoa  mic  DonnchaiD  mic  í?uaiópi  mic  iniccon  c'fnnmóip 
Do  riiapbab  50  miojaolrhap  la  ITlaccon,  mac  Riiaiopi,  mic  miccon  mic  l?uaibpi 
mic  miccon  cfnnrhóip. 

Copbmac  mac  Diapmaca  mic  caiDcc  caim  ui  clépij  bpacaip  minup  co^- 
aibe  DO  conueinr  oúm  na  n^all  Decc. 

lilac  conmibe  bpian  Dopclia  mac  Solaiiti  paoi  le  Dan,  "]  le  poghlaim,  pfp 
coicreach,  cpom  conaijh,  pfp  rislie  aoiDhfob  coiccinn  do  cóc  oecc  im  peil 
colaim  cille,  rpe  miopbuilib  De  -\  colaim  cille, "]  cpe  eapccaine  ui  Robbap- 
caigb,  ap  DO  paD  pnp,  -|  Dimiccin  Don  cpoip  moip,  ap  pop  buoil  í  piap  an  ran 
pin. 

O  niaoileachlainn,  pelim  ócc,  mac  pelini,  mic  cumn,  mic  uipc,  mic  cuinD 
mic  copbmaic  oicc,  mic  copbmaic  ballaij;  Do  rhapbab  1  mbaile  pccpiccin  ipin 
oibche  la  cloinn  meg  eochajain,  connla,  -]  ceDacb  puab,  "|   la  hemann  puaDb 

^  Niatt. — Charles    O'Conor    interpolates    co-  situated  ou  a  peninsula  at  the  northern  side  of 

nallai  j,  i.  e.  the  Conallian,  or  of  Tirconnell,  a  remarkable  lake,  and  consists  of  the  remains 

which  is  correct.  of  a  barbican  tower,   keep,   and   old  mansion- 

*  Inis-I-Chuinn,  i.  e.  O'Quin's  lake,  now  In-  house  attached  to  it.     Mr.  Petrie  is  of  opinion 

chiquin,  giving  name  to  a  barony  in  the  county  that  this  castle  was  erected  by  Teige  O'Brien, 

of  Clare.     The  castle  of  this  name,  which  was  King  of  Thomond,  who  died  in  1466,  as  its  ai'chi- 

built  by  the  head  of  the  O'Briens  some  time  tectural  features  are  most  strictly  characteristic 

nfter  the  expulsion  of  the  family  of  O'Quin,  is  of  the  style  of  the  age  in  which  he  flourished. 


1.542.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1467 

who  had  founded  and  kept  a  house  of  general  hospitality,  died  on  the  20th  of 
December,  after  unction  and  penance. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1542. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  forty-two. 

The  son  of  O'Neill  (Felim  Caech,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Con)  was  killed 
with  one  cast  of  a  javeUn,  by  Mac  Donuell  Galloglagh.  Two  other  sons  of 
O'Neill  died. 

Brian,  son  of  Niall",  son  of  Art  Oge,  son  of  Con  O'Neill,  heir  to  the  lordship 
of  Tyrone,  the  most  illustrious  man  for  nobleness,  hospitality,,  and  prowess,  of 
all  that  canie  of  the  tribe  of  Owen,  son  of  Niall,  for  a  long  time,  died  in  the  old 
castle. 

The  son  of  O'Brien  (Turlough,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Turlough)  died 
in  his  bed,  at  Inis-I-Chuinn\  He  was  the  most  expert  at  arms*^,  the  most 
famous  and  illustrious  man,  of  his  years,  in  his  time. 

Mac  Con,  son  of  Cu-meadha,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Maccon 
of  the  large  head  [Mac  Namara],  was  unbecomingly  slain  by  his  kinsman,  by 
Maccon,  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Maccon,  who  was  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Maccon  of 
the  large  head. 

Cormac,  the  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Teige  Cam  O'Clery,  a  worthy  Friar  Minor 
of  the  convent  of  Donegal,  died. 

Mac  Conmidhe^  (Brian  Doragh,the  son  of  Solomon),  a  man  skilled  in  poetry 
and  literature,  a  rich  and  affluent  man,  who  kept  a  house  of  general  hospitality 
for  all,  died  about  the  festival  of  St.  Columbkille,  through  the  miracles  of  God 
and  St.  Columbkille,  and  the  cui'se  of  O'Roarty,  because  he  had  profaned  and 
dishonoured  the  Great  Cross,  for  he  had  struck  it  before  that  time. 

O'Melaghlin  (Felim  Oge,  the  son  of  Felim,  son  of  Con,  son  of  Art,  son  of 
Con,  son  of  Cormac  Oge,  son  of  Cormac  Ballagh)  was  slain  in  the  night,  at 
Baile-Sgrigin'",  by  the  sons  of  Mageoghegan,  namely,  Conla  and  Kedagh  Roe, 

f  Most  expert  at  arms,  literally,  "  the  man  of     Namee. 

his  age  [i.  e.  years]  of  best  hand,   report,  and  ^  Baile-Sgrigin The   Editor  has   not   been 

renown,  in  his  time  was  he."  able  to  find  any  place  now  bearing  this  name  in 

8  Mac  Conmidhe,  now  always  anglicised  Mac      the  county  of  Westmeath. 

9  A  2 


1468  aNNaí,a  Rio^hachca  eiTjeawN.  [1542. 

Oiolnuiin,  pf|i  t)io|i  bó  Dú  aipeacliup,  -\  plairfp  a  pnnfeap  epóe.     Conao  00 
cuirhniucchar)  báip  iií  maoileachlainn  t)o  jiaiohfoh  : 

ÍTiile  bliaóan  ip  cúicc  céo, 
QDó  cfrlipachac  jan  béo 
o  bpfich  cpioj'C  rpe  cion  an  cpoinn, 
ecc  peibm  uí  rhaoileclainn. 

Siúbal "]  lonDpaicchib  Do  óénarh  la  cloinn  iií  11100050111  pa  caiplen  an 
pfoain  Dio  pa  loipccpioc,  1  Dio  po  cpfchpac  an  baile.  í?o  mopBpar  TTlao- 
leachlauin  ó  paishne  oon  cup  pin,  do  óeochaiD  an  rip  ino  Ifninain  50  C15I1 
Sopain,"]  po  ppaomeoD  ap  an  rópaió  Ro  mapbaó  TTlaeleclilainn  mac  emamn 
mic  cochláin,  douid  moc  pelim  niic  DonnchaiD,  "|  coippDealboc  mac  pfpj^ail 
mic  concoboip  co  pocoiDib  ele  amoille  ppiú  in,  4".  nonop  occobpip. 

SlóicceaD  10  huo  nooriinaill  Tllajnup  o  nioccap  connocr  co  no  cloinn  .1.  an 
calbac  1  aoD.  Qn  clann  pin  i  uo  Docapcoij  Do  Dol  op  piubal  cpeice  piap 
on  pló^  50  baile  on  rhocaij,  -]  Iliac  Donncliam  do  cpCclioD  Dóib, "]  no  c]ieaca 
DO  robaipc  50  luio  nDorhnoiU.  ITIaire  loccoip  connocc  do  ceacc  ino  cfnn,  1 
TTlac  Donnchaib  boile  on  moroi^  do  j^onnpoD  a  noioiD  a  cpfice,  -|  a  ciop  Dioc 
pip  (')  nDorhnaiU  Dóib  Don  Dul  pin. 

O  concobaip  (.1.  o  concoboip  puab)  coippDealboc  piioD  do  Tjobo'l  la 
puoiDpi  mac  caiDcc  mic  Diopmocca  op  coppoicc  loco  cé. 

Qn  colboc  Ó  Dorhnaill  do  doI  op  piiibol  cpeice  ap  pliocr  nobo  ballai?; 
nnc  Dorhnoill.  Cpeaca  -\  mapbro  Do  Denarii  loip  pnppo  -\  ceacr  plan  Don 
cup  pin  lap  ccopccop. 

Slóicceaó  ló  huo  nDoriinaill,  -|  lop  an  ccolboc  In  porripaD  no  bliaona  yn. 
Canaicc  o  puaipc'bpian  hi  pocpairce  ui  DoriinaiU,  Cánoicc  béop  ó  coram 
TDo^nup  mac  DonnchoiD  ipin  coicfpcol  céDno  lap  crfcclomaD  Dóib  apfó  po 

'  Feadan. — See   this    castle   already  referred  those  who  had  carried  it  oli". 
to  at  the  years  1520  and  1540.  °  Brian. — Charles  O'Conor  interpolates  bul- 

''  (T Raighne,  now  Rainy.  lac,  "  speckled,  or  freckled,"  which  is  correct, 

'  Teagh-Sarain,    now  Tisaran. — Sec    note   ',  and   he   adds    in    the    margin,    "  cliariicnn   do 

under  the  year  1541.  ITIha^nup  an  cua  Ruaipc  pin  .i.  bpian  ballac, 

"^Property. — The  original  is  a  noiaió  a  cpfice,  i.  e.  this  O'Rourke,  i.  e.  Brian  Ballagh,  was  son 

which  is  not  correct,  for  the  property  carried  in  law  to  Manns." 
off  could  be  called  a  cpeac  in  reference  only  to  °  Joined  their  muster. — The  construction  of 


1542.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1469 

and  Edmond  Roe  DilloiL  He  was  the  lawful  possessor  of  the  chieftainship  and 
principality  of  his  ancestors.  It  was  to  commemorate  [the  year  of]  O'Melagh- 
lin's  death  the  following  [quatrain]  was  composed  : 

One  thousand  and  five  himdred  years, 

And  two-and-forty,  without  error, 
Since  Christ  was  born  for  the  crime  of  the  Tree, 

To  the  death  of  Felim  CMelaRhlin. 


D 


An  irruption  and  attack  was  made  by  the  sons  of  O'Madden  against  the 
castle  of  Feadan';  and  they  burned  and  plundered  the  town.  On  this  occasion 
they  slew  Melaghlin  0'Raigne\  The  people  of  the  territory  went  in  pursidt 
of  them  as  far  as  Teagh-Sarain' ;  but  the  pursuers  were  defeated,  and  Melaghlin, 
the  son  of  Edmond  Mac  Coghlan  ;  David,  the  son  of  Felim,  son  of  Donough  ; 
Turlough,  the  son  of  Farrell,  son  of  Conor  ;  and  many  others,  were  slain,  on 
the  4th  of  the  Nones  of  October. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  (Manus),  with  his  sons,  i.  e.  Calvagh  and 
Hugh,  into  Lower  Connaught.  These  sons  and  O'Doherty  went  on  before  the 
army,  on  a  plundering  excursion,  as  far  as  Ball}Tnote  ;  and  they  plundered 
Mac  Donough,  and  carried  off  the  spoils  to  O'Donnell.  The  chiefs  of  Lower 
Connaught  came  to  O'Donnell,  and  particularly  Mac  Donough  of  Ballymote, 
who  came  in  pursuit  of  his  property";  and  they  all  paid  O'Donnell  his  rents  on 
that  occasion. 

O'Conor  Roe  (Turlough  Roe)  was  taken  prisoner  by  Rory,  the  son  of  Teige 
Mac  Dermot,  on  the  Rock  of  Lough  Key. 

Calvagh  O'Donnell  went  upon  a  plundering  excursion  against  the  descen- 
dants of  Hugh  Ballagh,  son  of  Donnell.  He  committed  depredations  and  slaugh- 
ters upon  them,  and  returned  home  safe  after  that  enterprise,  in  triiunph. 

A  hosting  by  O'Donnell  and  Calvagh  in  the  summer  of  this  year ;  and 
(/Roirrke  (Brian")  and  O'Kane  (Manus,  the  son  of  Donough)  joined  their  mus- 
ter'.    After  they  had  assembled  together,  they  agreed  to  march  against  Mac 

the  original  is  here  very  rude.  The  literal  trans-  nell.     O'Kane  also,  Manus,   son  of  Donough, 

lation  is  as  follows  :  "  A  hosting  by  O'Donnell  came  into  the  same  muster.    After  they  had  as- 

and  by  the  Calvagh  in  the  summer  of  this  year.  sembled   what   they   resolved   upon  was  to  go 

O'Rourke,  Brian,  came  into  this  army  of  O'Don-  against  Mac  Quillin,"  &c. 


1470  awNaca  Rioshachca  eujeaHH.  [1542. 

cinrifioc  ool  a\\  mac  uiDilin  (.i.RuDjiaije  mac  ualcaqi),  -j  ni  po  liaipiffó  leógo 
panjacrap  gup  an  mbanna.  Ro  pannaó  an  f  lua 5  a  crpi  leo  do  ool  cap  pfpycib 
na  banna  ap  po  coipccic  aprpaije  na  banna  poppa  po  cóij  baí  ÍTiac  uióilín 
"]  pocaiDe  rhóp  00  ^allaib  ma  pappaó  Don  caob  apaiU  015  copnarh  na  habann 
ppiú  coná  léicceaó  róippi  lacc  ap  a  aoi  do  óeacaccap  na  plóicch  Dia  naimDeóin 
ra]\  banna  ononn  -]  puapaccap  bcioccal  bóicci  -|  guappacc  aóbal  móp  aj  Dol 
raippi.  lap  nool  hi  ccíp  Dóib  Do  leiccpfc  pcceimealca  pccaoilce  pgannjiaijre 
ap  puD  an  cípe  uaca  .1.  Sgeirhleaó  poip  50  cnoc  lea,  -]  Sccfimlfó  ele  lá  caob 
banna  puap,-]  puccpac  pop  cpeacaib  cpoma  coiprfrhla,-]  pop  aipcccib  aióblib 
lolapoaib  in  jac  maijin  in  po  jabpac.  Qcc  cfna  po  pic  lóp  an  ccalbac  ó  nDorh- 
naill,  la  bua  puaipc,"]  lá  liua  ccacáin  co  na  plóccaib  cpeaca  barcap  moa  -| 
baccap  lolapDa  oIdód  na  cpeaca  caprup  láp  an  plój  aile.  l?o  jab  jac  plóg 
aca  poplorigpopc  ap  leic  in  oiDce  pin  cona  ccpeacbaib  -]  cona  néoalaib.  Ro 
popconjaip  ó  Domnaill  poppa  ap  ná  bápac  na  cpeaca  -]  na  liaipgci  oiDble 
p;n  DO  bualaó,  "]  Do  beorhapbaD  Do  combach  -\  Do  cnáimgfjipaó.  Oo  pónaó 
paippiorh  inn  pm.  Níp  bó  hupu]xi  rpá  píom  nó  aipfrh  an  cpeach  buailce  Do 
panaó  ann  pin  cenmórá  a  ccuccpacc  pip  bpfipne  -\  cafanaij  jan  mapbaóleó 
Dia  ccipib  Dib.  Uanaicc  Dna  mac  uióilín  hi  ccGiD  í  Dorhnaill  lap  pm  "|  Do 
paD  corhra  mopa  Deacaib  "|  DfiDfó,  "|  Do  péDaib  painfmlaib  óó  1  Do  póine  pió 
ppip.  Uicc  ó  Dorhnaill  co  na  plóccaib  plan  Don  cup  pin  Dia  ccijib  lap  ccop- 
ccap. 

TTIac  uiDiUn  .1.  Ruopctijre  mac  ualcaip,"]  TTIac  mic  Domngill  i)0  ool  in 
oipeacr  ui  cacain, "]  cpeaca  mopa  Do  Denam  óóib.  O  carc'nn  .1.  TTla^nup  mac 
DonnchaiD  do  doI  a  ccopaijecc  na  cepTc  7  buannana  do  cloinD  cpuibne  Do 
bfir  ma  pappab  an  can  pin  .1.  mac  meic  puibne  panac,  ~\  pliocc  puaiDpi  mic 
Suibne.  lap  mbpeic  Dua  cacam  "]  Do  cloinn  cpuibne  ap  mac  uiDilin  cona 
cpeacaib  po  piccfó  lomaipfcc  ainDpfnca  fcoppn,  ~\  po  rheabaió  pop  mac 
uiDilin  1  po]i  na  lialbancoib  lomóa  báccap  ina  pappaó  co  ppapccaibpioc  op 
Daoine  im  TTlhac  alapopainn  cappaij  mic  Dorhnaill, "]  im  mac  mic  Sfain  50 
nopumj  móip  ele  Do  pluag  Tlleic  uiDilin.     Qc  piilaib  mac  innilin  pfm  "]  mac 

''  To  defend  the  ricer,  aj  copnaiii  na  litilionn  tuated  to  the  south  of  Ballycastle,  in  the  barony 

Fpiu.     This  might  be  also  translated,   "  to  con-  of  Carey,  and  county  of  Antrim, 
test  the  river  with  them."  'Substantial,  coipcfriilu,  i.  e.  bulky,  i.  e.  what 

''  Cnoc-Lea,  now  Knpcklayd,  a  mountain  si-  has  substance  and  real  value. 


1542]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1471 

Quillin  (Eury,  the  son  of  Walter),  and  they  did  not  halt  until  they  arrived  at 
the  Bann.  Here  they  divided  the  army  into  three  portions,  in  order  to  cross 
the  fords  of  the  Bann,  for  they  were  prevented  from  using  the  boats  of  the  river, 
because  Mac  Quillin,  together  with  a  strong  body  of  English  troops,  was  at  the 
other  side,  to  defend  the  river"'  against  them,  and  to  prevent  them  from  crossing 
it.  The  forces  [of  O'Donnell],  however,  crossed  the  Bann  in  despite  of  them, 
though,  in  crossing  it,  they  were  in  danger  of  being  drowned,  and  encountered 
very  great  peril.  Upon  landing,  they  sent  forth  light  scouring  and  terror-striking 
parties  through  the  country,  namely,  one  detachment  eastwards  to  Cnoc-Lea", 
and  another  up  along  the  Bann,  and  these  seized  upon  heavy  and  substantial' 
preys,  and  many  great  spoils,  in  every  place  through  which  they  passed.  But 
Calbhach  O'Donnell,  O'Rourke,  and  O'Kane,  and  their  forces,  obtained  still 
greater  and  more  numerous  spoils  than  those  seized  upon  by  the  other  detach- 
ments. Each  of  these  detachments  encamped  separately  with  their  preys  and 
spoils  for  that  night.  On  the  morrow  O'Donnell  ordered  them  to  knock  down, 
kill,  hough,  and  break  the  bones  of  these  immense  spoils  and  preys,  which 
they  accordingly  did  ;  and  it  would  be  difficult  to  enumerate  or  reckon  the 
number  of  cattle  that  were  here  struck  down,  besides  more  which  the  men  of 
Breifny  and  the  O'Kanes  drove  off  to  their  own  countries  alive.  After  this 
Mac  Quilhn  came  to  O'Donnell,  and  bestowed  upon  him  great  presents,  con- 
sisting of  horses,  armour,  and  other  beautiful  articles  of  value,  and  made  peace 
with  him.  O'Donnell,  with  his  army,  returned  home  safe  and  in  triumph  from 
that  expedition. 

Mac  Quillin,  i.  e.  Rury,  the  son  of  Walter,  and  the  son  of  Mac  Donnell,  weut 
into  Oireacht-Ui-Chathain',  and  committed  great  depredations.  O'Kane,  i.  e. 
Manus,  the  son  of  Donough,  with  bonaghtmen  of  the  Clann-Sweeny,  whom  he 
had  then  in  his  service,  namely,  the  son  of  Mac  Sweeny  Fanad,  and  the  descen- 
dants of  Rory  Mac  Sweeny,  went  in  pursuit  of  the  preys  ;  and,  having  over- 
taken Mac  Quillin  with  his  preys,  a  fierce  engagement  took  place  between  them, 
in  which  Mac  Quillin  and  the  numerous  Scots  whom  he  had  along  with  him 
were  defeated,  with  a  great  slaughter  of  men,  together  with  the  son  of  Alexander, 
Carragh  Mac  Donnell,  and  the  son  of  Mac  Shane,  with  many  others  of  Mac 

^Oireackt-Ui-Ckat/iain,  i.e.  O^Kane's  country,      and  Coleraine,  situated  between  the  Foyle  and 
comprising  the  baronies  of  Tirkeeran,  Keenaglit,      the  Bann.  in  the  eotinty  of  Londonderry. 


1472  aNwaca  Rioghachca  eiiíeaNN.  [1542. 

meic  Domnaill  ap  eiccin  ap,  -]   po  bairfn   j>ocai6i  nió|i   oia   muinciji  ap  on 
mbanna  ag  ool  caippi  Dóib. 

Slóicceob  la  mac  uióilin  ap  ó  ccafain  Dopioiy^i  lap  rcuppairig  an  cpeipmep 
Shapranaij  1  opuinge  moipe  do  jallaib  amaille  ppip.  Caiplén  uí  cacáin  .i. 
Ifitn  an  maoaio  oo  gabail  leó  -]  ma  mbaoi  do  bapDaib  ipin  mbaile  do  rhapbab 
1  Do  muDucchaD, "]  ITlac  uiDilin  Dimrecc  plan  lap  ccopccap  Don  cup  pin. 
TTlac  uiDiUn  iimoppo  a  ccfnn  acbaib  lap  pin  Do  rojaipm  clotnn  puibne  cuicce 
ap  buannacc  .i.  Sliocc  RuaiDpi  mic  puibne  TTlac  DonnchaiD  nuc  ineic  puibne 
na  ccuaf,  TTlac  mupcbaiD  mic  puibne,  "|  TTlac  meic  puibne  bajanaij  co 
nDpuing  rhoip  ele  Dóccaib  cloinne  puibne  amaille  ppiú.  Oo  coDap  pen  Do 
paijiD  meic  uiDilin,  "j  bcirrap  co  miaóac  muipneac  ina  pappaD  ag  cfngal  a 
ccuip  1  a  cconnnpra  ppip.  Oo  pónaD  comaiple  menblac  miopúnac  lá  mac 
meic  Doiiinaill,  1  la  halbancoib,  "|  la  muinrip  inic  uDilin  beop  .i.  an  cpaop 
clann  poicenelac  pin  cloinne  puibne  DionnpaicchiD  lap  nDol  ina  ccfnn  Dóib,  -\ 
lap  nDénam  -^ac  cfnjail  Dct  noeapnpacc  lé  TTlac  uibilin.  T?o  cinnpfr  pop  an 
ccomaiple  ipin,  -]  po  pobaippioc  lacr  jan  piop  gan  aipiuccab  lap  bpóccbail 
baile  meic  uibilin  50  po  rhapbpac  uile  a  nuprhóp.     T?o  mapbab  ann  Dna  mac 


'  Leim-an-Mhadaigh,  i.  e.  the  dog's  leap.  This  tain  devises  for  the  reformation  of  Ireland  (in 

castle  stood  over  the  Eiver  Roe,  in  a  beautiful  the  State  Papers,  Ireland),  signed  John  Tiavers, 

situation,  near  the  present  town  of  Newto^vn-  who  was  Master  of  the  Ordnance  and  warden 

Limavady,   in   the   barony  of  Keenaght,    and  of  the  castle  of  Coleraine  in  1542,  the  following 

county  of  Londonderry.     No  part  of  the  ruins  notice  of  the  irruptions  of  the  Scots  into  this 

remains.  part  of  Ireland  occurs  : 

^Higkhorn. — So  iceneluc,  means  of  good  tribe,  "Item,  whereas   a  company  of  Irishe"  [i.e. 

race,  or  family.  Gaelic   speaking]    "  Scottes,   otherwise  called 

'  After  they  Juul  yone  to  them. — This  clause  is  Eedshankes,  daily  cometh  into  the  northe  partes 

intended  to  explain  the  great  wickedness  of  the  of  Ireland,   and   purchaseth    castels    and   piles 

plot.     The  meaning  is,   that  the  son  of  Mac  uppon  the  see  coste  ther  so  as  it  is  thought  that 

Donnell,  with  his  Scots,  and  Mac  Quillin's  own  there  be  at  this  present  above  the  nombre  of 

people,  concocted  this  plot,  though  they  knew  two  or  three  thousande    of  them  within   this 

that  the  Mac  Sweenys  had  come  into  the  terri-  Realme,  it  is  metft  tliat  they  be  e.xpulsed  from 

tory  at  the  invitation  of  Mac  Quillin,  who  had  the  said  castels,  and  order  taken  that  non  of 

entered  into  a  regular  compact  with  them.  The  them  be  permytted  to  haunte  nor  resorte  into 

Mac  Donnells  were  at  this  time  meditating  the  this   countrye,    rather    becawse    they   greatly 

invasion  of  Mac  Quillin's  territory,    and   they  coveyt  to  populate  the  same  being  most  vile  in 

dispossessed  this  family  soon  after  by  treachery.  their  living  of  any  nation  next  Irishmen. 

— See  Gough's  Camden,  vol.  iv.  p.  431.   In  cer-  "  Item,  that  the  captain  appointed  at  Knock- 


1542.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1473 

Quillin's  forces.  Mac  Quillin  himself  and  the  son  of  Mac  Donnell  escaped  with 
difficulty  by  flight ;  but  great  numbers  of  their  people  were  drowned  as  they 
were  crossing  the  Bann. 

Mac  QuilUn,  having  induced  the  English  Treasurer  and  a  great  number  of 
the  English  to  assist  him,  made  a  second  incursion  against  O'Kane.  They  took 
O'Kane's  castle,  i.  e.  Léim-an-Mhadaidh',  and  slew  and  destroyed  all  the  war- 
ders who  were  in  the  town  ;  and  Mac  Quillin  departed  safe  and  victorious  on 
that  occasion.  Some  time  afterwards  Mac  Quillin  called  into  his  service  the 
descendants  of  Rory  Mac  Sweeny  ;  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Mac  Sweeny- 
na-dTuath  ;  the  son  of  Murrough  Mac  Sweeny  ;  and  the  son  of  Mac  Sweeny 
Banagh;  and  many  others  of  the  youths  of  the  Clann-Sweeny  along  with  them. 
These  repaired  to  Mac  Quillin,  and  were  treated  by  him  in  an  honourable  and 
friendly  manner,  and  entered  into  agreements  and  covenants  with  him.  A 
treacherous  and  malicious  plot  was  formed  by  the  son  of  Mac  Donnell,  by  the 
Scots,  and  also  by  Mac  QuilUn's  people,  namely,  to  come  upon  those  noble  and 
high-born"  youths  of  the  Clann-Sweeny  and  attack  them,  after  they  had  gone 
to  them',  and  after  every  agreement  they  had  made  with  Mac  Quillin.  They 
resolved  upon  this  plot,  and  fell  upon  them  as  they  were  coming  out  of  Mac 
Quillin's  town,  without  warning",  and  unperceived  by  the  Mac  Sweenys,  so  that 
they  slew  the  greater  part  of  them.     There  were  slain  here  the  son  of  Mac 

fergus  in  Wolderflyt  may  have  a  galley  or  barke  rogh,  otherwise  called  Mac  Donell,  who,  as  him- 

assigned,  which  he  shall  man  from  tyme  to  tyme  selff  saith,  will  take  the  kinge's  parte  against 

to  kepe  the  seas  betuxt  Scotlande  and  Irrlande,  all  men,  and  so  he  promysed  me  at  our  laste 

so  as  the  Skottes  may  be  dryven  from  further  being  together,  but  under  the  pretence  to  doo 

arryval  in  those  partes  of  the  northe."  the  kinge's  grace  servyce  since  he  takyth  the 

It  would  appear  from  a  letter  in  the  State  countrie  to  himself  and  others  of  the  Scottes." 
Papers  of  Ireland,  vol.  iii.  p.  1 33,  from  Brabazon  to  Duald  Mac  Firbis,  in  his  pedigree  of  the  Earl 

Cromwell,  A.  D.  1539,  that  Alexander  Carragh,  of  Antrim,   states  that  they  had  been  Lords  of 

the  father  of  Sorley  Boy  Mac  Donnell,  had  some  the  Glynns   for  227  years  before  the  date  at 

castles  in  the  Glinns  at  this  time.  The  writer  says :  which  he  wrote,  1650,  and  if  so,   they  had  set- 

"  I  doo  certifie  your  Lordship  that  ther  is  tlements  her»  so  early  as   1423.     But   Sorley 

now  of  Scottes  dwelling  in  Ireland  above  2000  Boy  was  certainly  the  person  that  deprived  Mac 

men  of  warre,  as  I  am  credibly  informed,  which  Quillin  of  his  territory  in  the  reign  of  Elizabeth. 
Scottes  have  as  well  dryven  away  the  freeholders  "  Without  warning. — An  English  writer  would 

being  Englishmen  of  that  country  as  others  the  say,  "  without  giving  any  warning  beforehand 

Irishmen,  and  have  buylded  certeyn  castells  ther.  of  their  design,    and  unperceived  by  the   Mac 

The  hed  capteyn  of  them  is  con  Alexander  Kar-  Sweenys." 

9  B 


1474  awNata  Rjo^hachca  emeaNN.  [1542. 

meic  ]^uibne  ba^ancnj^  -|  mac  mujicliaio  niic  y^iiibne,  co  nác  mop  ceapna  ay  i 
nacpé^ar)  in  jio  iTia|ibaó  Díob. 

Uanaic  luce  luinge  paioe  do  Denarii  pojla  -|  cfna  a  biayifap  connacr  hi 
crip  conaill.  6á  bann  po  jabpcic  hi  peacpainn  inuincipe  hipn  bi  cci'p  bo^aine. 
lap  nri  piop  pin  do  coi  ppDealbac  mac  meic  puibne  cipe  bojaine  do  bfpc 
póbaipc  poraib  co  na  ceaiina  pfp  innipce  pccel  ap  Dib  ace  mab  an  caipeac  -] 
an  coDnac  boi  poppo  .1.  TTIac  iii  plairbrpraicc  Dia  reaper  eoippDealbac 
maicfrii  nanacail,  -|  po  cuip  plan  Dia  loncaib  é  co  piace  conmaicne  mapa. 

Slóicceaó  lá  hua  nDotrinaill  TTlajnup  mac  aoóa  mic  aoba  puaió  hi  ccon- 
Tiaccoib  hi  ppojriinp  na  bliaóna  po,  "|  canjaeeap  maiee  loceaip  connace  ma 
cfnn  maille  lé  pir  1  le  caipofp, -]  po  locpae  a  ci'op  "]  a  eijfpnap  50  huriial 
ppip, "]  Do  com  uaiDib  Dia  ehiccb. 

Nip  bo  cian  lap  pccaoíleaó  Don  epluacc  pin  1  Dorimaill  50  cectmic  TTlac 
uilliam  cloinne  T?iocaipD  uilleacc  na  ccfnn  mac  RiocaipD,  1  rtlac  uilliam 
bupc  DauiD  mac  uillicc  plua;^  Ian  riiop  ele  do  60I  1  nioceap  connace.  l?o 
jabaD  leó  baile  ui  plannaccáin  beóil  aéa  hiiaceaip  ap  eup,  "|  cfccaicr  pfin, 
TTlac  Diapmaeea,  ■]  clann  eaiDcc  mic  DiapmaDa  1  nioceap  connace.  Uangae- 
cap  epa  maiee  loceaip  connace  hi  ccfnn  mic  nilliam, -]  po  gabab  laip  laee 
-|  liiib  pop  ccúlaib  50  cloinn  RiocaipD  50  mbpaijDib  1  co  nfiDipib.  Qciao 
eiDipfba  bóeeap  occa,  O  Dubna,  TTlac  Donnchaib  an  copainn  ~\  cuiD  no  cloinn 
epuibne  connace  im  TTlaolmuipe  mac  colla  "|  a  écc  ina  bpaijDfnap  pia  piii 
p6  leiccfb,  1  bpaijDe  ele  ó  mac  caéail  óicc  uí  concobaip. 

TTlac  UÍ  Doriinaill  an  calbac  do  bol  hi  cfnn  an  nipcip  Sha;ranai^  -|  pic 
UÍ  Doriinaill,  -\  a  pi'b  pfin  do  cfngal  -)  do  pnabmab  ppip  "|  eeace  plan  laparii. 

"/«  comparison  ivitk,  in  arpé^aó. — The  word  of  Qiieen  Elizabeth. 

aépejuó  means  comparison.     The  literal  trans-  '  lieachrainn-Muintire-Birn,    i.  e.  O'Beirne's 

lation  is,  "  so  that  what  escaped  of  thein  was  Reachrainu,  or  rocky  island,  now  Eaghlybirne, 

not  great  in  comparison  with  what  was  killed  an  island   situated   in   the  ocean,   about  three 

of  them."  —  See    note    under    the  year    1543,  miles  to  the  west  of  Teelin  head,  in  the  parish 

infra.  of  Glencolumbkille,   barony   of  Tir-Boghaine, 

'  To  plunder  and  prey^  literally,   "to  make  ancflice  Banagh,  and  county  of  Donegal, 

plunder  and  prey."    Ceana,  in  this  sentence,  is  ^  Outside  his  jn-otectioii,  i.  e.  when  the  son,  Mac 

the  genitive  case  of  c ion,  spoil,  prey,  booty.    It  Sweeny,    extended   protection    to  the   son   of 

is  frequently  used  íb  this  sense  by  Fergananim  O'Flaherty,  he  was  bound  in  honoiir  to  prevent 

Mac  Keogh,  in  his  poem  reciting  the  triumphs  his  being  killed  within  the  district  over  wluch 

of  Hugh  O'Byrne  of  Glenmalure,   in  the  reign  he  had  command  ;  but  when  he  had  sent  him 


1542.]  -   ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1475 

Sweeny  Banagh,  and  the  son  of  Murrough  Mac  Sweeny ;  and  the  number  that 
escaped  was  not  great,  in  comparison  with"  the  number  killed. 

The  crew  of  a  long  ship  came  from  West  Connaught  to  Tirconnell,  to  plun- 
der and  prey''.  The  place  which  they  put  in  at  was  Reachrainn-Muintire-Birn^, 
in  Tir-Boghaine.  When  Turlough,  the  son  of  Mac  Sweeny  of  Tir-Boghaine, 
received  intelligence  of  this,  he  made  an  attack  upon  them,  so  that  none  of  them 
escaped  to  tell  the  tale  [of  what  had  happened],  except  their  chief  and  captain, 
namely,  the  son  of  O'Flaherty,  to  whom  Mac  Sweeny  granted  pardon  and  pro- 
tection ;  and  he  sent  him  home  safe,  outside  his  protection^  to  Conmaicne-mara^ 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  (Manus,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Hugh  Roe) 
into  Connaught,  in  the  autumn  of  this  year  ;  and  the  chieftains  of  Lower  Con- 
naught  came  to  him  with  peace  and  friendship,  and  obediently  paid  him  his 
rents  and  chiefries  ;  and  he  then  returned  to  his  house. 

Not  long  after  the  dispersion  of  this  army  of  O'Donnell,  Mac  William  of 
Clanrickard  (Ulick  na-gCeann,  the  son  of  Rickard),  and  Mac  William  Burke, 
marched  another  very  great  army  to  proceed  into  Lower  Connaught.  They 
first  took  the  town  of  O'Flanagan  at  Bel-atha-Uachtair'',  and  then  proceeded, 
together  with  Mac  Dermot  and  the  sons  of  Teige  Mac  Dermot,  into  Lower 
Connaught.  The  chieftains  of  Lower  Connaught  repaired  to  meet  Mac  Wil- 
liam ;  and  he  made  them  his  prisoners,  and  returned  home  to  Clanrickard  with 
prisoners  and  hostages.  These  were  the  hostages  :  O'Dowda,  Mac  Donough 
of  Corran,  and  some  of  the  Clann-Sweeny  of  Connaught,  with  Mulmurry,  the 
son  of  CoUa,  who  died  in  captivity  before  he  was  set  at  liberty'',  and  other  pri- 
soners, taken  from  the  son  of  Cathal  Oge  O'Conor. 

The  son  of  O'Donnell  (Calvagh)  repaired  to  the  English  Lord  Justice,  and 
confirmed  and  ratified  the  peace  of  O'Donnell',  and  his  own  peace,  with  him, 
and  then  returned  safe. 

home  in  safety  he  was  not  bound  to  protect  him  county  of  Eoscommon. 

any  longer.  d  Before  he  was  set  at  liberty. — What  the  writer 

"  Conmaicne-mara,  now  Conamara,  or  the  ba-  intends  to  say  is,  that  he  was  not  liberated  at 

rony  of  Ballynahinch,  in  the  north-west  of  the  all,  but  that  he  died  in  his  imprisonment  before 

county  of  Galway.  his  friends  had  time  or  means  to  pay  a  ransom 

■=  Bel-atha-  Uachtair,    i.  e.   the  mouth  of  the  for  him. 

upper  ford,   now  Ballyoughter,   a  townland  in  ^  The  peace  of  0' Donnell,  i.e.  he  concluded  a 

the   parish  of  Kilcorkey,    in    the   barony   and  peace  with  him  in  behalf  of  his  father  and  himself. 

9  b2 


1476  QNNaca  Rioshachca  eií?eaNN.  [1542. 

O  Doriinaill  TTiajna]^  Do  rabaijic  ruaire  paca  1  luijicc  00  iTlhajuioiii,  Sfan 
mac  conconnacr  ap  milleab  mojiáin  pá  maguiDi]!  yioime  pin  la  hua  nDomnaiU- 
Tíláguióip  01a  rabaipc  pfin, -^  00  rabaipc  a  ripe  -\  a  rolman  oua  óoitinaill 
ap  a  pon  pin,  i  50  liaipiDe  cucc  ITlaguióip  eip^e  amac  aip  pfin  1  ap  a  Duchaij^ 
bo,  no  coin  pan  eip  je  amnc  nac  ppui^ri.  Uucc  beop  Ifr  épca  mapbra  oiiire 
a]\  puo  pfpinanac  uile  map  an  ccéona  Dua  DorhnaiU. 

O  neill  conn  mac  cuinn  Do  Dol  hi  ccfnD  pi's  pa;ran  .1.  ari  cocrmaD  lienpi  -| 
an  pi  Do  ^aipm  lapla  Dua  neill, "]  a  popcongpa  pa:p  gan  6  neill  do  jaipm  be 
ni  ba  pipe,  1  piiaip  6  neill  onóip  rhóp  on  pij  Don  cup  pin. 

TTlac  uilliam  cloinne  RiocaipD  uillfcc  na  ccfnn,  "|  ó  bpiain  .1.  íílupchaó 
DO  Dol  hi  Sa;raib,  1  lapla  Do  ^aipm  Da  jac  aon  aca, -|  cangaccap  cap  a  naip 
plan  ace  mac  uilliam  baoi  hi  ppiabpap  "l  nip  bo  hójplán  uaóa. 

ÍTlaolmuipe  mac  eojain  mic  puibne  Do  mapbab  la  cloinn  Tllaolnuiipe  mic 
colla  mic  puibne  a  ccfnD  cpeacrmaine  lap  nécc  TTlaolmuipi  mic  colla  bubéin. 

Clann  TTlaolmuipe  mic  colla  Dionnapbab  ap  an  cip,  1  a  mbailce  do 
bpipeab,  pfp  Diob  pfin  -\  Dpong  Da  luce  Ifnamna  Do  mapbab. 

TTlaguibipSfan,  ~\  clann  ui  Dorhnaill  (.'.aeb  ócc  mac  aoba  puaib),RubpaiT^e 

^  Tuath-Eatha  and Lurg Tuath-ratha,  which  the  forces  of  Maguire's  country,  and  whenever 

was  O'Flanagan's  country,  is  included  in  the  ilaguire  could  not  furnish  such  forces  he  agreed 
present  barony  of  Magheraboy,  in  the  countj'  to  pay  a  certain  tribute  in  lieu  of  them." 
of  Fermanagh,  and  Lurg  is  still  the  name  of  a  '  (f  Neill. — Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare 
barony  in  the  same  county,  separated  from  interpolates  bacac,  which  is  correct.  O'Neill 
.Tuath-Ratha,  or  Tooraah,  by  the  Lower  Lough  had  renounced  the  Pope's  authority  at  May- 
Erne,  nooth,  in  January  this  year.     He  set  sail  for 

«  Upon  Maguire,  literally,  "under  Maguire."  England  in  September,  accompanied  by  Hugh 

An  English  writer  would  say,  "  O'Donnell  hav-  O'Cervallan,  Bishop  of  Clogher,  and  arrived  on 

ing  some  time  before  destroyed  much  of  Ma-  the  24th  of  that  month  at  Greenwich,  where  in 

guire's  territory  or  property."  the  most  humble  manner  he  disclaimed  the  name 

'■  Rifing  out,  literally,   "Maguire  gave  him-  of  O'Neill  and  the  title  of  prince,  and  surren- 

self,  and  gave  his  country  and  land  to  O'Donnell  dered  his  territory  and  all  that  he  had  into  the 

for  that,  and  particularly  Maguire  gave  a  rising  King's  hands  ;  but  he  received  a  re-grant  of  the 

out  on  himself  and  on  his  country  to  him,  or  a  same  by  letters  patent  under  the  great  seal  of 

tribute  in  the   rising  out  which  would  not  be  England,  bearing  date  at  Greenwich  the  1st  of 

obtained."     An   English   writer   would   say  it  October  1542,  together  with  the  title  of  Earl  of 

thus:  "In  return  for  this  Maguire  submitted  Tirowen,  and  at  the  same  time  Matthew  (falsely 

himself,  his  country,  and  lands,  to  O'Donnell,  supposed,  in  the  opinion  of  Camden  and  Ware, 

and  ceded  to  him  the  privilege  of  calling  for  all  to  be  his  son)  was  created  Baron  of  Dungannon, 


1542.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1477 

O'Donnell  (Manus)  gave  Tuatli-Eatha  and  Lurg*^  to  Maguire  (John,  son  of 
Cuconnaught),  O'Donnell  having  some  time  before  destroyed  a  great  deal  upon 
Maguire^.  For  this  Maguire  gave  up  himself,  his  country,  and  his  land,  to 
O'Donnell,  and  in  particular  the  privilege  of  calling  for  the  rising-out"  of  his 
country,  or  a  tribute  in  lieu  of  the  rising-out  not  obtained.  1  le  also  gave  [i.  e. 
agreed  to  give]  to  O'Donnell  half  the  eric  [i.  e.  fine]  paid  for  killing  men  through- 
out Fermanagh. 

O'Neill'  (Con,  the  sou  of  Con)  went  to  the  King  of  England,  namely, 
Henry  VIII.  ;  and  the  King  created  O'Neill  an  Earl,  and  enjoined  that  he 
should  not  be  called  O'Neill  anv  lon^^er.  O'Neill  received  srreat  honour  from 
the  King  on  this  occasion. 

Mac  William  of  Clanrickard  (Uhck  na  gCeann)  and  O'Brien'  (Murrough) 
went  to  England,  and  were  both  created  Earls  ;  and  they  returned  home  safe, 
except  that  Mac  William  had  taken  a  fever  [in  England],  from  which  he  was 
not  perfectly  recovered". 

Mulmurry,  the  son  of  Owen  Mac  Sweeny,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  Mul- 
murry,  the  son  of  CoUa  Mac  Sweeny,  a  week  after  the  death  of  [their  father] 
Mulmurry,  the  son  of  Colla. 

The  sons  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Colla  Mac  Sweeny,  were  banished  from  their 
country,  their  towns  were  destroyed,  and  one  of  themselves  and  a  party  of  his 
followers  were  slain. 

Maguire  (John),  and  Rory  and  Naghtan,  the  sons  of  O'Donnell  (Hugh  Oge, 

and  two  of  the  family  of  Magennis,  who  accom-  creations,   see  Cox's  Hibernia  Anglicamt,  A.  D. 

panied  him,  were  dubbed  knights,  and  the  Bishop  1541,   1542,   1543,  o.nA'iAoox&'s  History  of  Ire- 

of  Clogher  was  confirmed  by  the  King's  patent,  land,  vol.  iii.  p.  322. 

It  appears  from  a  letter  written  by  the  King  to  J  O'Brien. — This  should  be  entered  under  the 

the  Lord  Deputy   and  Council  (State  Paters,  year  1543.     Maurice  O'Bryen  was  created  Earl 

ccclxxxi.),  that  O'Neill  had  no  money  of  his  of  Thomond,  July  1st,  1543.   The  King  granted 

own  on  this   occasion.     After  announcing  the  to  each  of  these  noblemen  a  house  and  lands  near 

creation  His  Majesty  adds:  "And  for  his  reward  Dublin,   for  the  keeping  of  their  retinues  and 

We  gave  unto  him  a  chayne  of  threescore  poundes  horses,  whenever  they  resorted  thither  to  attend 

and  odde.  We  payd  for  his  robes  and  the  charges      Parliament  and   Councils See    State    Papers, 

of  his  creation  three  score  and  fyve  poundes  cccxcvi. 

tenne  shillinges  two  pens,  and  we  gave  him  in  "  Not  perfectly  recoeered. — He  died,  according 

redy  money  oon  hundreth   poundes   sterling."  to  Sir  Richard  Cox,   on   the  19th  of  October, 

For  some  curious   particulars   respecting  these      1545 See  note  under  the  year  1544. 


1478  aNNQiLa  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1543. 

-|  neacrain  Oo  bol  ap  pubal  cpeice  i  noapcpaije,  i  y^cceirhlfo  Do  f ccaoileaó 
uara  aji  puD  an  cí|ie,-]  TTlac  uí  DomnaiU  neaccain  Do  riiapbab  Dupcop  Do  jae. 

pelini  Dub  mac  ao6a  uí  néill  oo  mapbab. 

TTlaipe  injfn  meg  pampabáin,  bfn  még  plannchaib  (pfpabac)  oécc. 


aOlS  CRIOSU,  1543. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  inile,  cuícc  ceo,  cearpaca,  acpi. 

GmanD  mac  bpiain  uí  jallcubaip  eppcop  para  bor  oecc,  26  pebpuapn, 
lap  ppajbáil  ppirbfpca  imon  eppcopoicce. 

ITIac  meic  puibne  panac  ITlaolmuipe  mac  bomnaill  óicc  abbap  rtjfpna 
pánacc  00  riiapbab  lácloinn  meic  puibne  pánacc  .1.  oonricliab")  lllaolmuipe, 
clann  coippbealbaij,  mic  puaibpi,  mic  TTlaolmuipe  iat)pibe.  5^^'  1  Saifcceab, 
fngnarh  1  uppclaiji  Do  oenairi  bó  arhail  po  ba  jpepac  laip  pia  na  mapbab, 
uaip  po  mapb  an  Dubalcac  mac  ptpbopca  mic  puibne  an  geppac  jaipccib  bá 
Deappccaijre  baoí  ina  accbaib. 

TTlac  mec  puibne  bajaimj,  6oin  moDapba  mac  neill  móip  Do  écc  a  ccúp 
a  aoípi  1  c(  oipbfpua. 

Tílac  uí  baoijill,  bpian  mac  neill,  mic  coippbealbaij  Do  rhapbab  cpe  rang- 
nacc  lá  clomn  neill  óicc  uí  baoi  jill  baccap  ina  rhuinceapup  pfin,"|  ina  pappab 
1  pop  a  cuapay>cal. 

O  Domnaill  TTlajnup  Do  Dol  gup  an  ccorhaiple  moip  co  Imr  cliar  co  na 
bpairpib  maille  ppip  éiccneacán  ")  Donnchab  baccap  1  ngeirhlib  le  barhaib 
occa,  1  a  Ificcfn  cpé  comaiple  an  uipcip, "]  ITlhaire  Gpeann  apcfna  lap  nDé- 
nam  pióba  "]  caoncompaic  fcoppa.  Conn  ó  Dorhnaill  (a  bfpbparaip  baoí  lé 
harhaib  pooa  I11  pa;coibh)  do  piobiiccab  pip  map  an  ccéDna.  Conn  Do  bol  50 
pa;raib  Dopibipi  do  pai^ib  an  pi^, "]  a  bfic  ma  pocaip  co  nonóip  "|  co  naipiiiiDin. 

Caiplen  Ifirbip  po  págaib  ó  Dorhnaill  ag  caraoip  mac  cuarail  bailb 
UÍ  gallcubaip,  1  ace  opumg  Do  pliocc  aoba  ui  gallcubaip  Dia  lomcoimeD,  6a 

'  Bishop  of  Eaphoe. — Harris  makes  no  men-  ""  In  his  friendship,  i.  e  on  friendly  terms  with 

tion  of  this  Bisliop  in  his  list  of  the  Bishops  of  him. 

Eaphoe.     There  is  a  chasm  in  his  list  from  the  "  Between  them,  i.  e.  between  O'Donnell  and 

year  1515  till  1550.  his  kinsmen,  Egneghan  and  Donough. 


1.543.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1479 

the  son  of  Hugh  Roe),  went  upon  a  predatory  excursion  into  Dartry,  and 
despatched  a  marauding  party  through  the  country  ;  and  Naghtan,  the  son  of 
O'Donnell,  was  killed  by  the  cast  of  a  dart. 

Felim  Duv,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  was  slain. 

Mary,  the  daughter  of  Magauran,  and  wife  of  Mac  Clancy  (Feradhach),  died. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1543. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  forty-three. 

Edmond,  the  son  of  Brian  O'Gallagher,  Bishop  of  Raphoe',  died  on  the  26th 
of  February,  after  having  received  opposition  respecting  the  bishopric. 

The  son  of  Mac  Sweeny  Fanad  (Mulmurry,  son  of  Donnell  Oge),  heir  to 
the  lordship  of  Fanad,  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  [the  late]  Mac  Sweeny  Fanad, 
namely,  Donough  and  Mulmurry,  the  sons  of  Turlough,  son  of  Rory,  son  of 
Mulmurry.  Before  his  death  he  shewed,  as  usual,  great  valour,  bravery,  prowess, 
and  dexterity  at  arms  ;  for  he  slew  Dubhaltach,  the  son  of  Ferdoragh  Mac 
Sweeny,  the  most  valiant  champion  that  opposed  him. 

The  son  of  Mac  Sweeny  Banagh  (John  Modhordha,  the  son  of  Niall  More) 
died  in  the  beginning  of  his  life  and  renowned  career. 

The  son  of  O'Boyle  (Brian,  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Turlough)  was  treache- 
rously slain  by  the  sons  of  Niall  Oge  O'Boyle,  who  were  in  his  friendship"",  in 
his  company,  and  in  his  pay. 

O'Donnell  (Manus)  repaired  to  the  great  Council  at  Dublin,  together  with 
his  relatives,  Egneghan  and  Donough,  who  had  been  for  some  time  held  in 
fetters  by  him,  but  were  set  at  liberty  by  the  advice  of  the  Lord  Justice  and  the 
chiefs  of  Ireland  in  general,  after  they  had  made  peace  and  friendship  between 
them".  Con  O'Donnell,  his  brother,  who  had  been  a  long  time  in  England,  was 
also  reconciled  to  him.  Con  returned  to  England  to  the  King,  and  remained 
with  him,  with  honour  and  respect. 

The  castle  of  Leithbher°,  which  O'Donnell  had  given  to  Cahir,  the  son 
of  Donnell  Balbh  O'Gallagher,  and  to  a  party  of  the  descendants  of  Hugh 

°  The  castle  of  Leitkbher,  i.  e.  of  Lefford,  on      Tyrone See   note   ',    under   the   year    1527. 

the  frontiers  of  the   counties  of  Donegal   and      p.  1.391,  supra. 


1480  awNata  Rioghachca  eiReoNH.  [1543 

fCx)  DO  ponab  leoy^orh  an  caiplén  do  conjrhail  aca  oaoó  mac  ui  óoitinaill -| 
Doib  baóéin,  -]  |io  arcuippiocr  painTTiuiTici]i  ui  Dorhnaill, "]  ooiiij^eóip  an  baile 
uaóaib.  6á  baipneac  n  Dorhnaill,"i  an  calbac  ppiú  oepóe,  1  po  gab  an  calbac 
paui]ia.ó  ago  aire  poppa  a  tiOeipgenpac  co  po  muóaijfó  apaill  Do  Daoinib 
fcoppa  cfccap  nae  la  caob  cfrpa, -)  mnile  Do  riialaipc,  "j  Do  mi'imipc.  Ro 
iTiapbaD  la  lucr  an  baile  an  Dubalcac  mac  colla  mic  puibne  gallócclac 
coccaióe  ap  aoi  gaipcció "]  fngnama  epibe.  6aoi  rpa  Donnchaó  mac  ui  Dom- 
naill  ace  congnarh  la  pliocc  aoDa  í  gallcubaip,  í?iiópaiDe  mac  ui  Domnaill 
pfpDopóa  mac  eóin  mic  cuarail  ui  gallcubaip  cona  cloinn, "]  mac  Sfam  bal- 
laig  mic  eoin  Do  gabail  la  DonnchaD  uiac  at  Dorhnaill,  1  la  cacóoip  iiiac 
ruarail  bailb  ui  gallcubaip. 

TTlac  ui  Docapcaij  (Caraoip  mac  jfpailc  mic  Dorhnaill,  mic  peilimj  do 
rhapbab  la  cloinn  ui  bocapcaig,T?ubpaige  -]  Sfan,  clann  peilim  mic  concobaip 
cappaij.  Ro  TYiapbpac  beop  mac  aoba  gpuamDa  ui  bocapcaig, -]  O  Dorhnaill 
cona  plóg  DO  bol  ap  ua  noocapraij  Do  Diojail  na  nécc  pin  paip,  "]  po  gab 
pop  inilleab  apbann  an  cipe  50  ppuaip  bpaijDe  ó  ua  nuocapraig  a  ngioll  lé 
na  piap,  -\  le  na  bpfir  pfin  cpé  coll  a  pmacca. 

Rogabab  lap  pin  caraoip  mac  ruacail  bailb  la  hua  noocapcaig  -)  do  paD 
Dua  bomnaill,  ■]  Ro  gab  o  Dorhnaill  peippin  coippbealbac  mac  peilim  pinn 
ui  gallcubai]),  -)  do  bfpc  na  bpaigDe  pin  laip  do  paigib  lecbip  Dup  an  ppuigbfb 
an  baile  -)  nocan  puaip  iDip  Don  cup  pin. 

Sliocc  eoccain  mic  puibne  1  Sliocr  copbmaic  mic  Donnchaib  bol  ap  piubal 
cpeice  ap  ó  nfgpa  mbuiDe, -|  ó  concobaip  .1.  cabcc  ócc  mac  raibcc  mic  aooa, 
-|  o  bfgpa  Dobpfir  poppa  "]  po  ppaoinib  leo  ap  cloinn  cpuibne  go  po  mapbab 
puaibpi  mac  Dubgaill,  1  clann  maolniuipe  mic  eogain,  ■]  opong  do  pliocc 
copbmaic  mic  DonnchaiD  go  pocaibib  Dm  muincip  amaille  ppiu  Don  cup  pin. 
• 

''Abused. — The   Irish  were   in    the  habit  of  under  the  year  1224,  p.  210. 
houghing  the  cattle  of  their  enemies  with  their  ''    Violation   of  his  jurisdiction.,    cpé    coll    a 

slaughtering  knives  whpn  they  did  not  find  it  pmacca The  word  coll,  as  used  by  the  Four 

convenient  to  drive  them  off  alive — See   the  Masters,  A.  D.  889,   in  the  phrase  "  hi  ccoll 

entry  under  the  year  1542,  p.  1472,  line  15,  einic   pbaopaic,"    is  translated   impingere  by 

supra.     The  word  rhalaipc,  as  here  used,  is  to  Colgan,    Trias  Thaum,  p.  296  ;  and  again  used 

be  distinguished  from  the  modern  word  malaipc,  in  the  sense  of  "  to  break,   or  violate,"  by  the 

exchange,  or  barter. — See  note  ",  on  malapcac.  Four  Masters,  at   the  year  1549;   cpé   coll  a 

under  the  year  1186,   pp.  70,   71,  also  note  s,  peacca,  for  breaking,  or  violating  his  law — See 


1.543]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1481 

O'Gallagher,  to  be  guarded  by  them,  was  maintained  by  them  for  Hugh,  the 
son  of  O'Donnell,  and  for  themselves  ;  and  they  banished  O'Donnell's  loyal 
people,  and  the  doorkeeper  of  the  castle.  O'Donnell  and  Calvagh  were  greatly 
incensed  at  this,  and  Calvagh  in  particular,  [who]  proceeded  to  wreak  his  ven- 
geance upon  them  for  what  they  had  done,  so  that  some  persons  were  killed 
[in  the  contests]  between  both  parties,  besides  herds  and  flocks  which  were 
abused''  and  injured.  The  people  of  the  town  slew  Dubhaltach,  the  son  of  CoUa 
Mac  Sweeny,  a  gallowglass  distinguished  for  his  valour  and  prowess.  Donough, 
the  son  of  O'Donnell,  assisted  the  descendants  of  Hugh  O'Gallagher  on  this 
occasion.  Rory,  the  son  of  O'Donnell ;  Ferdoragh,  the  son  of  John,  son  of 
Tuathal  O'Gallagher,  and  his  sons;  and  the  sons  of  John  Ballagh,  son  of  John, 
were  taken  prisoners  by  Donough,  the  son  of  O'Donnell,  and  by  Cahir,  the  son 
of  Tuathal  Balbh  O'Gallagher. 

The  son  of  O'Doherty  (Cahir,  the  son  of  Gerald,  son  of  Donuell,  son  of 
Felim)  was  slain  by  the  sons  of  O'Doherty,  Rory  and  John,  the  sons  of  Felim, 
son  of  Conor  Caragh.  They  also  slew  Hugh  Gruama  O'Doherty.  And 
O'Donnell  marched  with  his  forces  against  O'Doherty,  to  take  revenge  of  him 
for  these  deaths,  and  proceeded  to  destroy  the  corn  of  the  country,  until  he 
obtained  hostages  from  O'Doherty,  as  pledges  for  his  obedience,  and  for  his 
own  award  for  the  violation  of  his  jurisdiction''. 

Cahir,  the  son  of  Tuathal  Balbh',  was  afterwards  taken  prisoner  by  O'Doherty, 
and  delivered  up  to  O'Donnell ;  and  O'Donnell  himself  made  a  prisoner  of 
Turlough,  the  son  of  Felim  Fin  O'Gallagher,  and  brought  both  these  prisoners 
to  Lifford,  to  see  whether  he  could  obtain  the  town  ;  but  he  did  not  obtain  it 
on  that  occasion. 

The  descendants  of  Owen  Mac  Sweeny  and  the  descendants  of  Cormac  Mac 
Donough  went  on  a  predatory  excursion  against  O'Hara  Boy.  O'Conor  (Teige 
Oge,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Hugh)  came  up  with  them,  and  defeated  the 
Clann-Sweeny,  and  slew  Rory,  the  son  of  Donnell,  the  sons  of  Mulmurry,  son 
of  Owen,  and  a  party  of  the  descendants  of  Cormac  Mac  Donough,  together 
with  numbers  of  their  people,  on  that  occasion. 

also  Book  of  Lismore,  p.  6,  where  it  is  used  in      the  Stammerer.     The  name  Tuathal  is  now  ob- 
the  same  sense:  ipcoU  cana -|  jeipi  Dumpa  puo.      solete  as  a  man's  baptismal  name,  but  is  pre- 
'  Tuathal  Balbh,  i.  e.  TulliusBalbus,  or  Tuathal      served  in  the  surname  O'Toole. 

9  c 


1482  awNaca  Rio^hachra  eiReawN.  [1543. 

lilac  jHiibne  na  rcuaf,  "i  a  mac  b|iian  Do  jabóil  lá  coblac  a  hiajica]! 
connacc  \  nim)-  mic  an  Dinjin,  -|  a  mbiifir  leó  a  Tiib]iai5Dfna)\ 

6a|-'paonca  coccaió  a\\  neiji^e  ecip  ÍTlagiiiói]!,  -|  Sliocr  coijipbealbaij^ 
niéjuióip.  Sliocc  coippóealbai^  Do  recc  hi  rri]i  conaiU  50  mbarcap  05 
poT;ail  -)  05  inj^jieim  a|i  pf]iait>  manac.  Uanaic  TnajiiiDiji  I11  ccfnn  111  Doiri- 
naill,  -)  DO  ]i6me  a  yit  -\  a  capacrjiao  ]iip  peib  do  jióine  peachc  piaiti. 

ITluipTjfp  mac  paicrin  ui  rhaoilconaipe  paoi  lé  peanciip,  -\  lé  pilibeacr 
pfp  CO  rroice  1  co  crpom  conac,  pccpibnij  fpccna  lap  ap  pjpiobaD  liubaip 
lomóa,"!  lap  a  tiDeapnaD  Diiana  "|  Dpécca, -]  lap  a  mbáccap  pccola  ace  ppioc- 
riarh  -\  ag  pojlaim,"]  no  congbaó  pocaióe  Díb  ina  n^  buóém  no  gpép,  Décc  lap 
mbpfif  buaóa  ó  Dfman  ~\  6  Dorhan. 

CéDoc  ó  maoileaclaum  DoipDneaó  ap  clomn  colmáin  ap  bélaib  Ruópaige 
\ií  niaoíleaclainn, "]  níp  bó  poinrheac  po  baccap  clann  colmáin  pe  linn  na  Deipi 
pin  in  arpéjaó  amail  po  báccap  I11  ]ié  peiólimió  ap  po  baoí  coccaó, ")  cjieac- 
lopccaó,  uacc,"|  gopca,  golrhaipcc  "]  lamcomaipr  ppi  luin  iia  dTijm  pin  ipm  ríp, 
1  po  cóccbaó  cíop,  1  cobac  na  gac  aon  aca  ap  ma^  coppóin,  -)  do  pónaD  ulca 
amble  fcoppa  gép  bo  gfpp  an  pé  puaippiocr.  InDpaicciD  aibce  Do  rabaipc 
la  Ruópai^e,  -]  la  a  bpaiqnb  pa  liiaj  jcdlinne  1  noealbna  Dia  po  loipccpfc,  -] 
Dia  po  cpeacpac  an  mag.  ITIanileaclainn  bolb  ua  maDagáin, "]  apc  móg  coc- 
l'un  nia  Ifnmain  co  ccuccpar  cacap  Dóib  i  ngailinne  Dú  in  po  mapbaó  copb- 
mac  ua  maoilfclainn  neapbpafaip  púbpaige  co  ccpib  pfpaib  Décc  do  mairib 
a  nmincipe  do  rhapbab  "]  Do  barhab  Don  ciip  pin. 

*  IiiíS-iHÍc-an-Duirn. — Tliis  is  tlie  island  now  ]\Iaiirice  made  a  beautilul  ccjpy  ol'  the  uld  Book 

called  in  English  Rutland  Island,  and  situated  of  the  Abbey  of  Fena^h,   in  tlie  county  of  Lei- 

opposito  Rosliiu,  the  residence  of  Robert  Russell,  trim,  in  the  year  1516,  for  Teige  O'Rody,  Coarb 

Esq.,  the  resident  agent  to  the  proprietor,  the  of  Fenagb.     Of  this  a  considerable  fragment  is 

Marquis  of  Conyngham.     It  belongs  to  the  pa-  still   e.xtunt,   which   contains  several  historical 

rish  of  Templecroue,   or  district  of  the  Rosses,  poems  relating  tc;  the  O'Rourkes,  O'Donnells, 

in  the  barony  of  Boylagh,   in  the  west  of  the  and  other  families,  and  several  poems  of  a  pro- 

I'ounty  of  Donegal ;  but  the  inhabitants  of  the  phetic  kind  attributed  to  St.  C.'aillin,  the  patron 

village  of  Dunglow  and  its  vicinity  still  call  it  saint  of  Fenagh,  which,  though  mere  fabrications 

Imp  riiic   n'  ÍDiiipn,   when  speaking   the   Irish  of  the  twelfth  and  thirteenth  centuries,  are  still 

language,  as  the  Editor  learned  from  the  most  very  valuable  as  throwing  light  on   the  histoi'y 

intelligent  of  the  native  Irish  of  the  district,  in  of  the  times, 

the  year  1835.  "  Compared  to,    \   narpejub,    literally,    "in 

' Manricfí,the son  fifPahiin  O'MtdcoHrii. — Tliis  comparison  of."^8ee   note  ',   under   the  year 


1543.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1483 

Mac  Sweeny  na-dtuath  and  his  son,  Brian,  were  taken  prisoners  by  a  fleet 
from  "West  Connaught,  at  Inis-mic-an-Duirn',  and  carried  into  captivity. 

Dissensions  of  war  ha\dng  broken  out  between  Maguire  and  the  descendants 
of  Turlough  Maguire,  the  descendants  of  Turlough  went  into  Tirconnell,  and 
were  harassing  and  annoying  the  people  of  Fermanagh.  Maguire  [upon  this] 
repaired  to  O'Donnell,  and  made  [a  league  of]  peace  and  friendship  with  him, 
as  he  had  done  some  time  before. 

Maurice',  the  son  of  Paidin  O'Mulconry,  a  man  learned  in  history  and  poetry, 
a  man  of  wealth  and  affluence,  a  learned  scribe,  by  whom  many  books  had  been 
transcribed,  and  by  whom  many  poems  and  lays  had  been  composed,  and  who 
had  kept  many  schools  siiperintending  and  learning,  several  of  which  he  had 
constantly  kept  in  his  own  house,  died,  after  having  gained  the  victory  over 
the  Devil  and  the  world. 

Kedagh  O'Melaghlin  was  inaugurated  Chief  of  the  Clann-Colman,  in  oppo- 
sition to  Rury  O'Melaghlin.  The  Clann-Colman  were  not  happy  during  the 
period  of  these  two,  compared  to"  what  they  had  been  during  the  time  of  Felim; 
for,  during  the  time  of  these  two,  war  and  devastation,  cold  and  famine,  weep- 
ing and  clapping  of  hands,  prevailed  in  the  country.  Rent  and  tribute  were 
levied  for  each  of  them  in  Magh-Corraiu" ;  and  tliough  their  career  was  but  of 
short  continuance,  they,  nevertheless,  wrought  innumerable  evils.  A  nocturnal 
irruption  was  made  by  Rury  and  his  kinsmen  into  the  plain  of  Gailiun",  in 
Delvin,  and  burned  and  plundered  the  plain.  Melaghlin  Balbh  O'Madden 
and  Art  Mac  Coghlan  pursued  them,  and  gave  them  battle  at  [the  church  of] 
Gailinn,  where  Cormac  O'Melaghhn,  the  brother  of  Rury,  and  thirteen  of  the 
chiefs  of  his  people,  were  slain  and  [recte  or]  drowned". 

1542,  p.  1474,  supra,  wliere  another  example  '  Gaz'/inw,  nowGillan,  a  townland  and  parish 
of  the  use  of  this  word  occurs.  containing  the  ruins  of  an  old  church,  in  the 
'^  Magh-Corrain,  a  plain  in  the  barony  of  barony  of  Garrycastle,  in  the  King's  County. — 
Clonlonan,  in  Westmeath.  The  castles  of  Clon-  See  note  ^,  under  the  year  1519,  p-  1346,  supra. 
lonan,  Farnagh,  Kilbillaghan,  Castletown,  and  "  Slain  and  drowned. — This  phrase,  oo  map- 
Newcastle,  were  in  it. — See  this  place  again  re-  Bao  -|  oo  Bacliaó,  which  occurs  throughout 
ferred  to  at  the  years  1548  and  1553.  O'Me-  these  Annals,  is  not  correct ;  &o  mapbao  no  do 
laghliri  would  appear  to  have  possessed  chiefry  báchaó  would  be  much  better.  An  English 
over  the  Mac  Coghlans,  in  the  barony  of  Gar-  writer  would  say,  "  they  perished  by  field  or 
rycastle,  in  the  King's  County.  flood." 

.    9  c2 


1484  awHa^.a  nio^hachra  eiReawN.  [1544. 

aois  CRiosr,  1544. 

Qoip  cpiopr,  mile,  ciiicc  ceo,  cffpaca  acearaip. 

ktpla  cloinne  l?iocai|iD  iiillfcc  na  ccfno,  aon  bap]i  áij  gall  connacc  Decc, 
1  bá  y'ccel  aóbal  ina  np  bubéin  eipóe.  Gapaonra  mop  oeipje  hi  ccloinn 
piocaipo  pan  cijfpnap,  -]  ITIac  uilliam  do  jaipm  Duillfcc  mac  Riocaipo  óicc, 
-]  pocaióe  1  ccíp, -|  In  ccoiccpic  do  bfic  ina  acchaiD  la  mac  meic  iiiUiom 
comap  mac  uiUicc  na  ccfno. 

Ruópai^e  6  maoíleaclainn  do  rhapbaó  hi  cclapca  la  pipDepD  Dalacún, "] 
lá  a  bpairpib  ap  amup  oiDce,  "]  ap  ap  rriair  do  ceDac  ua  maoileaclainn  Do 
pónpac  an  mapbaó  ípin. 

TTlac  Í  neill,  Niall  mac  aipc  óicc  ranaipi  ap  mo  do  pulamg  Do  óuaó  ")  Do 
Docap  coccaiD  ecip  cenel  eoccain  -\  cenél  conaill  cainic  do  pliocr  eojain 
mic  neill  poiDfeac  Diongmala  do  njfpnap  cipe  heojain  Da  léiccfí  cuicce  be, 
pfp  Ion  Diúl  "I  Dairne  ap  jac  nealaóain  Décc  ip  in  rpfncaiplén  do  jalap 
obanD. 

niac  puibne  pánac  coippoealbac  mac  puaiópi  micmaolmuipe,  pfp  bpiojac 
boipbheóóa  po  pulaing  mop  do  coccaD  i  Do  corfipuacliab  ina  rip  pein  lé 
hachaiD  có  pin  Do  rhapbaó  lá  cloinn  Domnaill  óicc  mic  puibne  a  nDiojail  a 
nofpbparap  po  mapbab  la  a  cloinn  piorii.  bóccap  lacc  anmanna  na  cloinne 
pin  Domnaill  óicc  lap  a  nDfpnaó  an  mapbaó  .1.  RuoiDpi  cappac  -]  Domnall 
^opm.  l?o  inapbaD  beóp  eóin  mac  DonnchaiD  mic  maolmuipe  apaon  la  mac 
puibne,  1  51Ó  epiDe  (.1.  eom)  ni  cfpna  uaD  jan  cpeccnúccab  50  mop  an  ci  lap 
po  mapbaD  .1.  Dorhnall  50pm.  ITlac  puibne  Do  joipm  do  puaiDpi  cnppnc  mac 
Domnaill  óicc  lap  pm. 

^  III  his  own,  literally,  "  iu  tlie  territory  aud  question  was  raised  as  to  whicli  ul'  his  sous  was 

in  the  neighbourhood."     The  Four  Masters  ge-  his  true  heir  according  to  the  laws  of  England, 

nerally  use   coiccpioc  in  the  sense  of  confine.  But  the   Ea,rl   of  Ormond   and  other  commis- 

or  neighbouring   territory.     According  to  Sir  sioners   appointed   by    the    Lord    Deputy    and 

KichardCox,Ulick,  the  first  Earl  of  Clanrickard,  Council  to  settle  this  affair,   adjudged  Grany, 

died  on  the  19th  of  October,  1545.     After  his  the  daughter  of  C Carroll,  who  was  the  mother 

death  a  great  contention  arose  between  his  sons  of  Richard,  the  Earl's  eldest  son,  to  be  his  true 

about  the  title  and  inheritance,  for  it  appears  wife ;  and  accordingly  they  placed  Richard  in 

that  tlie  Earl  Ulick  had  had  three  wives,  and  a  the  earldom  and  estate  of  his  father:  but  because 


1544.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1485 

THE  AGE  (3F  CHRIST,  1544. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  forty-jour. 

The  Earl  of  Clanrickard  (Ulick-na-gCeann),  the  most  valiant  of  the  Eng- 
lish of  Connaught,  died.  This  was  news  of  great  moment  in  his  country.  Great 
dissensions  arose  in  Clanrickard  concerning  the  lordship  ;  and  Uhck,  the  son 
of  Rickard  Oge,  was  styled  Mac  William,  although  many  in  his  own''  and  in 
the  neighbouring  territories  were  opposed  to  him,  in  favour  of  Thomas,  the'soii 
of  Mac  William,  i.  e.  Thomas,  the  son  of  Ulick-na-gCeann. 

Rory  O'Melaghlin  was  slain  at  Clartha'',  by  Richard  Daltou  and  his  kins- 
men, in  a  nocturnal  assault ;  and  it  was  for  the  interests  of  Kedagh  O'Melaghlin 
they  committed  this  slaughter. 

The  son  of  O'Neill  (NialP,  the  son  of  Art  Oge),  a  Tanist,  who  had  suliered 
most  toil  and  hardship  of  war,  between  the  Kinel-Owen  and  the  liinel-Connell, 
of  any  that  had  come  of  the  race  of  Owen,  son  of  Niall  ;  a  select  vessel  to 
l)ecome  Lord  of  Tyrone,  had  he  been  permitted  to  attain  to  it,  [and]  a  man  full 
of  skill  and  knowledge  in  every  science,  died  of  a  sudden  illness  in  the  old 
castle. 

Mac  Sweeny  Fanad  (Tvu-lough,  the  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Mulmurry),  an 
energetic,  fierce,  and  vivacious  man,  who  had  sulfered  much  from  wars  and 
disturbances  in  his  own  country  for  some  time  till  then,  was  slain  by  the  sons 
of  Donnell  Oge  Mac  Sweeny,  in  revenge  of  their  brother,  whom  his  [Turlough's] 
sons  had  slain.  These  were  the  names  of  those  sons  of  Donnell  Oge  who  com- 
mitted that  slaughter,  namely,  Rory  Carragh  and  Donnell  Gorm.  John,  the  son 
ofDonough,  son  of  Mulmurry,  was  also  slain  along  with  Mac  Sweeny;  but 
though  he  (John)  fell,  his  slayer,  i.  e.  Donnell  Gorm,  did  not  escape  without 
being  severely  wounded.  After  this  Rory  Carragh,  the  son  of  Donnell  Oge. 
was  styled  Mac  Sweeny. 

he  was  under  age,  they  made  Ulick  Burke  cap-  situated  on  a  conspicuous  hill  in  the  parish  of 

tain  of  the  country  during  his  good  behaviour,  Killare,  not  far  from  the  celebrated,  but  now 

aud  during  the  minority  of  Richard See  Cox's  poor  village  of  Ballymore  Lough  Sewdy,  in  the 

Hibernia  Anglicana,,  A.  D.  15-15.  county  of  Westmeath. 

'  C/art/ia,  now  called  in  Irish  CaipleanClópéa,  z  Niall. — Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare  in- 

and  incorrectly  anglicised  Clare  Castle.     It  is  terpolates  Conalluc,  which  is  correct. 


148(5  aNNQta  Rio^hachca  emeaNw.  [1544. 

TTlujichaD  mac  meic  puibne  na  rruar  paoi  ap  eineac,  a\\  uaifle,  -]  ap 
HeoDacc, "]  Donncan  a  ofptparaip  Décc  ina  nt>i]\ 

mai|i5pé5  injfn  meic  Dorhnaill  (.1.  injfn  aonjufa  I'lij;)  bfn  1  nomnaill 
.1.  THajijiuip  (iop  SiuBnin  irijm  1  neill)  oecc,  an.  19.  oecenibep. 

Sile  mjfn  magnupa  í  ooninaill  (bfn  pióe  uí  baoiTjill  Domnnll)  nécc  on. 
14.  pebpimpn. 

TTlac  Í  Dorhnaill,  an  calbac  Do  Del  hi  ccfnn  an  liipnp  Slia;)rana)^,  -\  caip- 
cínúSa;ranaca  Do  cabaipc  laip  In  rn'p  conaill  Do  paijiD  i  DomnaiU.  O  Dom- 
naill,  an  calViac,  -\  laDpiDe  do  DoI  co  nopDanap  -]  co  naiómib  jctbala  baile 
leó  DionnpaijiD  lecbip  Dia  jabail  pop  pliocc  aoDa  ui  gallcubaip.  Oo  paD 
iia  Dorhnaill  bpai^De  pleacra  aoDa  baoi  occa  lé  liarliaiD  .1.  Caraoip  mac 
cuarail  ~[  coippDealbac  mac  peilim  pmn  Dona  Sa;rancaib  05  Dol  gup  an 
mbaile  Dóib  Do  cop  uarbaip  -]  lomorhain  ap  luce  an  baile.  Ro  pobaippior  an 
baile  laparh.  Ro  mapbaó  aon  Dona  jallaib  po  céDÓip,  TTlapbaic  na  pa;rain 
Caraoip  mac  cuarail  mo  glapaib  a  nDiojail  an^joill.  Oo  pao  aob  mac 
íDorhnaiUi  pliocc  aoóa  an  caipléin  ap  mac  pelim  pinn,"]  ap  mac  ele  ruafail 
bailb  baccap  1  njCirhlib,"]  póccbaicc  pfin  an  rip  lap  pin.  Ro  léicc  o  Domnaill 
na  Sa;rain  uaDa  Dia  cciccli  lap  nioc  a  cruapupcail  ppu'i- 

Slóicceaó  lá  hua  noorhnaill  ap  an  piica  Dia  ]io  gabaó  laip  innpi  an  locain 
aipm  hi  paibe  caiplén  cpoinn,  1  Dainjfn  Dicojlaij^i  05  TTiac  uibibn  "|  mp 
njabrnl  an  caipléin  Id  hiia  nDorhnaill  do  paD  an  baile  Dua  carain.  r?o 
gabab  Dna  Don  cup  pin  caiplén  baile  an  laca  la  hua  noorhnaill,  1  po  jeib 
eDala  lomba  eop  apin,  -|  éirrfb  urha,  -|  lapann,  im,  -]  biúb  ip  na  bailcib  pin. 
Ro  jabab  beóp  lap  pin  imp  loca  buppann,  -\  imp  lora  Ifirinnpi  la  hua  noorh- 
naill, 1  puaip  eDala  lomba  on  mub  cceona  poppa,  -\  po  loipcceab  an  rip  co 
léip  ina  hiomracmong  laip,  -]  rainic  plan  lap  ccopccap. 

"  Dismissed  them,    literally,    "  O'Donnell  let  lough,  about  a  mile  and  a  half  to  the  south  of" 

the  English  [go]  from  him  to  their  house  after  Coleraine,   and  stUl  exhibits  traces  of  earthen 

paying  their  ■wages  to  them."  fortifications,   but   no   remains   of  stone  walls. 

''  Inis-an-lockain,  i.  e.  the  island  of  the  small  This  station  was  of  great  importance   to   Mac 

lake.    This  island  is  shewn  on  the  Down  Survey  QuilUn,  as  commanding  the  fishery  of  the  Lower 

under  the  name  of  Inishloughan.     It  is  still  so  Bann,  which  is  described  by  English  writers  as 

called  in  Irish,   but  usually  called  in  English  the  most  fertile  river  in  Europe, 
the  Loughan  Island.    It  is  situated  in  the  River  '  Baile-an-lacha,  now  Ballylough,  in  the  ba- 

Bann,  which  here  expands  into  a  kind  of  small  rony  of  Lower  Dunluce,  and  county  of  Antrim. 


1544.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1487 

MuiTougb,  the  son  of  Mac  Sweeny  na  dTuath,  a  man  distinguished  for  hos- 
pitality, nobleness,  and  vigour,  and  Donough,  his  brother,  both  died. 

Margaret,  the  daughter  of  Mac  Donnell  (Aengus  of  Ilea),  the  wife  of  O'Don- 
nell  (Manus)  after  Joan,  the  daughter  of  O'Neill,  died  on  the  19th  of  December. 

Celia,  the  daughter  of  Manus  O'Donnell,  and  wife  of  O'Boyle  (Donnell), 
died  on  the  14th  of  February. 

Calvagh,  the  son  of  O'Donnell,  went  to  the  English  Lord  Justice,  and 
brought  English  captains  with  him  into  Tirconnell  to  O'Donnell.  O'Donnell, 
Calvagh,  and  these  captains,  went  with  ordnance  and  engines  for  taking  towns 
to  [the  castle  of]  Liftbrd,  to  take  it  from  the  descendants  of  Hugh  O'Gallagher. 
As  they  were  approaching  the  castle,  (3'Donnell  gave  up  the  hostages  of  the 
sons  of  Hugh,  whom  he  had  had  for  some  time  in  his  custody  (viz.  Cahir,  the 
son  of  Tuathal,  and  Turlougli,  the  son  of  Felim),  to  the  Englishmen,  in  order 
to  strike  terror  and  alarm  into  the  minds  of  the  people  in  the  town.  They  after- 
wards attacked  the  town.  One  of  the  English  was  shortly  afterwards  killed  ; 
and  the  English,  to  avenge  him,  killed  Cahir,  the  son  of  Tuathal,  in  his  fetters. 
Hugh,  the  son  of  O'Donnell,  and  the  descendants  of  Hugh,  siuTendered  the 
castle  for  the  liberation  of  the  son  of  Felim  Finn,  and  of  the  other  son  of  Tua- 
thal Balbh,  who  were  detained  in  fetters  ;  and  they  themselves  then  left  the 
country.  O'Donnell,  having  paid  the  English  their  wages,  dismissed  thenr'  to 
their  home. 

An  army  was  led  by  O'Donnell  into  the  Route,  and  took  Inis-an-lochain'', 
whereon  Mac  Quillin  had  a  wooden  castle  and  an  impregnable  fastness.  O'Don- 
nell took  this  castle,  and  gave  it  up  to  O'Kane.  On  this  expedition  O'Donnell 
also  took  the  castle  of  Baile-an-lacha'^,  and  obtained  many  spoils,  consisting  of 
weapons,  armour,  copper,  iron,  butter,  and  provisions,  in  these  towns.  He  after- 
wards took  the  island  of  Loch-Burrann'',  and  the  island  of  Loch-Leithiimsi\ 
where  he  likewise  obtained  many  spoils.  He  burned  the  whole  country  around, 
and  then  returned  home  safe  after  victory. 

On  an  old  map  oi'  Ulster,  preserved  in  the  State  parish  of  Ballintoy,  in  the  sa>me  barony ;  but  it  is 

Papers'  Office,  London,  the  castle  of  Ballenlough  now  dried  up,  and  the  place  called  Loughaverra. 
is   shewn   to  the  south  of  Boiianiargy.     It  is  *  Loc/i-Leitk/mis)\  i.  e.  the  lake  of  the  hall- 

ubout  seven  miles  soxith  of  it.  island,  now  Lough  Lynch,  in  the  parish  of  Billy. 

"•  Loch-Burrann. — This  was    situated   in   the  in  the  same  barony. 


1488  aNNaf,a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1544. 

Coccaó  beijije  ecip  6  noomnaill,-]  ó  neiU.  O  Domnaill  ap  nool  hi  cceilcc 
hi  ccorhjap  Don  rpfncaiflen,-]  apaill  do  óaoínib  Do  rhapbaD  laip, -|  mac  riieic 
bpiain  CO  mbpai^Dib  ele  do  jaBcnl  do  Don  coipcc  pin. 

O  neill  Do  Denarii  cjieice  let  raob  na  habann  DianaD  ainm  pionn. 

Qn  calbac  ó  Doriinaill  do  Denarh  cpeice  hi  ccip  eoccam.  " 

O  Dorhnaill  Do  Denam  cpeice  ele  hi  crip  eoccain. 

ClanD  nieic  Dorhnaill  (Semup,  ~\  colla)  do  ceacc  peace  albanach  ap  cap- 
paing  meic  uiDiUn.  TTlac  uiDilin  "]  laDpfin  Do  Dol  um  imp  an  locáin,  -j  po 
jabab  leó  an  batle  ap  bápDaib  uí  cacain.  bpian  mac  DonncaiD  ui  cacctin,  -\ 
a  paibe  ap  aon  pip  1  ninnpi  an  locóin  Do  lopccaD  ecip  baoinib  ~\  eDail,  apm, "] 
éiDfo.  Cpeaca  "j  Diojbála  mópa  do  bénam  lá  ÍTlac  uiDilín  ap  ó  ccarain  an 
can  pin. 

O  cacain  Dpopoab  jallócclac  .1.  Sliocc  puaibpi  meic  puibne,  1  aon  do 
láib  Dia  ccáinicc  ITIac  uibilin  cap  banna  co  cappaib  cpeic,  O  cacain,  ~\  a 
jjallócclaij  DO  bpfic  paip  1  ccopaijeacc  50  po  bfnpacc  an  cpec  be.  T?o 
iTiapbpacc,  1  po  loicpioc  Dpong  móp  Dia  rhuincip. 

lajila  upmuitian  do  bol  hi  ccloinn  piocaipD  do  conjnarri  lá  a  bparaip 
.1.  uilbam  bíipc  mac  RiocaipD,  1  bpfpiriaibm  do  cabaipc  lá  cloinn  RiocaipD 
óicc  aip,  ~\  bapún  maic  (.1.  macóDa)  Dia  riiuincip  do  mapbab,  "j  ba  moa 
olDÓp  cfrpacha  copcpaccap  Do  pluaj  an  lapla  1  nDopap  baile  aca  na  pío^ 
Don  cup  pin. 

Caiplén  bfnDcuip  Do  aicDenarh  lá  hua  ccfpbaill  cabcc  caoc  cap  papuccab 
cloinne  colmain,  -\  píl  maDagain,  uaip  baccap  pibe  in  fppaonca  ppia  poile. 

niaoileaclamn  mac  bpfpail  uí  maDajam  (an  Dapa  cigfpna  baoí  pop  piol 
nanmchaba  1  níp  bó  pó  bo  Dia  mbaoh  lainci^eapna  ap  a  pele  "]  ap  a  oipbfpc) 
DO  riiapbab  lá  TTlaoíleaclainn  gocc  o  maoagain  a  cfncc  cpeccmuine  lap 
ccionnpjnab  bfnDcuip. 

f  Mac  Oda This  was  an  Irisli  name  assumed  1641,  but  retained  some  of  his  estates  till  1688. 

by  the  head  of  the  family  of  Archdeacon,  who  were  The  Editor's  great  grandfather,  Patrick  Mac  Oda 

seated  in  the  barony  of  Galraoy,  in  the  county  of  of  Tinahoe,  in  the  barony  of  Iverk,  and  county 

Kilkenny,  adjoining  the  Queen's  County.     It  is  of  Kilkenny,  and  his  brother,  Fulk  Archdeacon, 

now  corruptly  anglicised  Cody.    The  last  chief  of  Fiddown,  in  the  same  barony,  were  his  repre- 

of  this   family  was  Pierce  Mac  Oda,  or  Otho,  sentatives  in  the  beginning  of  the  last  century ; 

«/i'iw  Archdeacon,  popularly  called  "  Sir  Pierce,"  but  their  descendants  have  become  since  so  scat- 

of  Ercke,  who  was  implicated  in  the  rebellion  of  tered  that  the  Editor  could  not  find  any  of  then» 


1544.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1489 

A  war  arose  between  O'Donnell  and  O'Neill.  O'Donnell  went  [and  lay]  in 
ambu^áh  near  the  old  castle,  and  slew  several  persons  ;  and  he  took  the  grand- 
son of  Brian  and  others  prisoners  on  that  occasion. 

O'Neill  committed  a  depredation  along  the  river  which  is  called  Finn. 

Calvagh  O'Donnell  committed  a  depredation  in  Tyrone. 

O'Donnell  committed  another  depredation  in  Tyrone. 

The  sons  of  Mac  Donuell,  James  and  CoUa,  came  [into  the  Route]  with  a 
band  of  Scots,  at  the  instance  of  Mac  Quillin  ;  and  he  and  they  proceeded  to 
Inis-an-lochain,  and  took  that  town  from  O'Kane's  warders.  Brian,  the  son  of 
Donough  O'Kane,  and  all  that  were  with  him  on  Inis-an-lochain,  were  burned, 
and  also  all  the  property,  arms,  and  armour.  Great  depredations  and  injuries 
were  committed  by  Mac  Quillin  upon  O'Kane  on  that  occasion. 

O'Kane  hired  gallowglasses  of  the  race  of  Rory  Mac  Sweeny  ;  and  one  day 
as  Mac  Quillin  crossed  the  Bann,  and  seized  on  a  prey,  O'Kane  and  his  gallow- 
glasses pursued  and  overtook  him,  stripped  him  of  the  prey,  and  slew  and 
wounded  a  great  number  of  his  people. 

The  Earl  of  Ormond  went  into  Clanrickard  to  assist  his  kinsman,  William 
Burke,  son  of  Rickai'd  ;  but  the  sons  of.Rickard  Oge  suddenly  defeated  him  ; 
and  a  good  baron  of  his  people,  namely,  Mac  Oda*^,  was  slain  ;  and  more  than 
Ibrty  of  the  Earl's  troops  were  slain  in  the  gateway^  of  Athenry  on  that  occa- 
sion. 

The  castle  of  Banagher"  was  re-erected  by  O'Carroll  (Teige  Caech),  in 
despite  of  the  Clann-Colman  and  the  O'Maddens,  for  they  were  at  strife  with 
each  other. 

Melaghlin,  son  of  Breasal  O'Maddeu,  the  second  lord  that  had  been  in  Sil- 
Anmchadha  (and  the  entire  lordship  would  not  be  too  much  for  him',  on 
account  of  his  hospitahty  and  noble  deeds),  was  slain  by  Melaghlin  God  O'Mad- 
den,  a  week  after  the  commencement  [of  the  re-erection]  of  Banagher. 

in  this  or  the  adjoining  barony  of  Ida,  in  the  one  still  remains  in  tolerable  preservation, 

year  1 839.     For  a  curious  nQtice  of  this  family  •>  Banaijher,  a  well-known  town  on  the  east 

see  Grace's  Annals,  edited  by  the  Rev.  Richard  side  of  the  River  Shannon,   in   the  barony  of 

Butler,  p.  120,  note'.  Garrycastle,    and    King's    County. — See   note 

Í  Gateway. — There  were  two  or  three  gate-  under  the  year  1539,  supra.                       , 

ways  in  the  town  wall  of  Athenry.   The  eastern  '  Too  much  for  him,  nip  Bo  pó  do Here  pó, 

9d 


1490  aNNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [154.5. 

aOlS  CPIOSC,  1545. 
Ctoip  Cpioy^c,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  ceacpacrc,  a  cuicc. 

Niall  conallac  mac  aipr,  mic  cunin  í  neill  Decc. 

Tilac  Suibne  na  ccuar  (.1.  eoccan)  oécc  in  uriiall  iii  rhaiUe. 

Giccneacan  ó  DomnaiU  do  itiajibaó  lá  Djiuing  Do  muinrip  an  calbaij 
UÍ  DorhnaiU. 

O  concobai]!  Sliccig  raDcc  ócc  mac  caibcc,  mic  aoDa  Do  mapbab  la  Djiuin^ 
Do  maij  luipg. 

TTiaiDm  caille  na  ccuijipiccin  laf  an  ccalbac  ó  nDomnaill  ap  cloinn 
iii  borhnaill  móip  Dú  in  po  mapbab  Donnchab  caipppeac  6  Dorhnaill. 

blob  Do  ffrnpall  cpiopc  1  nac  cliac  do  bpipfo  lex  haibilcc  éiccin, "]  cumba 
cloice  Dpa^ail  ann  ina  paibe  copp  eppuicc  cona  culab  eppcoip  uime.  Oeic 
ppainne  ópba  una  beicli  mepaib, -)  caileac  aippino  ópba  ina  pfpaiti  la  caob  a 
rhiiinil,"]  ap  arhlaib  baoi  a  copp,-]  a  biol  pfin  Dc'dc  ap  na  cocailc  lé  ponpupa 
ipin  ccloic  Doap  a  cuma  pfin  1  Do  róccbab  é  a  irnmain  Dia  poile,-]  do  cuipfb 
ina  pfpam  ppip  an  alcóip  é,  "]  Do  bí  ann  map  pni  acliaib,  "|  nip  cpi'on  ~\  m  po 
lob  aon  ni  Dia  éDac,  1  bó  móp  an  comapba  naorhcacca  innpin. 

Impfpain  Déijije  erip  lapla  upmurhan,  ~\  an  lupci]"  .1.  an  Soinpilép  -]  Dol 
Dóib  Do  lacaip  an  jiij  imon  ccoinncinn  pin,  -\  cuccpac  móiD  apaon  na  ciocpab 
cap  a  aip  ace  pfp  eiccin  Dib.  Ro  piopab  an  ni  hipm  uaip  do  écc  an  riapla 
hi  Sa;caib,  1  cainic  an  lupcip  1  nepinn.  l?o  ba  D01I15  écc  an  ci  acbac  annpin 
.1.  Semiip  mac  pmpaip  puaib,  mic  Semaip,  mic  emainn  buicilep  munbab  ap 
mill  Don  ecclaip  cpe  comaiple  na  nficpiciccfb. 

•which  is  usually  prefixed  to  adjectives  as  a  con-  norlar  and  Castlefiuu,  in  the  barony  of  Kaphoe, 

significant  particle,  is  used  as  an  adjective  sig-  and  county  of  Donegal. 

nifying  excessive.  "  Cfiisel. — The  word    ponpupa   is    still  used 

I'  Niall  Cmiallagh. — He  was  so  called  because  among  the  tradesmen  of  the  south  of  Ireland  to 

he  was  fostered  in  Tirconnell.  mean  "  a  chisel."— This  passage  was  published 

^  Umhall-Ui-M/iaille,  i.e.  Owel,   or  Umallia,  in  the  Annals  of  Dublin,  in  the  Dublin  P.  Journal, 

the  country  of  O'Malley,  which  comprised  the  in  1833. 

baronies  of  Murresk  and  Burrishoole,  in  the  °  No  part  of  the  dress. — Here  it  will  be  ob- 

county  of  Mayo.  served- that  aon  ni  Dia  éoac  is  the  nominative 

""  Coill-na-gcuiridin,  i.  e.  the  wood  of  the  pars-  case  to  the  verbs  cpioTi  and  lob.     This,  how- 
nips,  now  Killygardan,  situated  between  Stra-  ever,  is  a  mere  mistake  of  the  writer,  who  should 


1545.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1491 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1545. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  forty-five. 

Niall  Conallagli",  the  son  of  Art,  son  of  Con  O'Neill,  died. 

Mac  Sweeny-na-dTuath  (Owen)  died  in  Umliall-Ui-Mhaille'. 

Egneglian  O'Donnell  was  slain  by  a  party  of  Calvagh  O'Donnell's  people. 

O'Conor  Sligo  (Teige  Oge,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Hugh)  was  slain  by  a 
party  from  Moylurg. 

The  defeat  of  Coill-na-gcuiridin"  was  given  by  Calvagh  O'Donnell  to  the 
sons  of  the  great  O'Donnell  More,  in  which  Donough  Cairbreach  O'Donnell 
was  slain. 

A  part  of  Christ's  Church  in  Dublin  was  broken  down  for  some  purpose, 
and  a  stone  coffin  was  discovered,  in  which  was  the  body  of  a  bishop,  in  his 
episcopal  dress,  with  ten  gold  rings  on  his  ten  fingers,  and  a  gold  mass-chalice 
standing  beside  his  neck.  The  body  lay  in  a  hollow,  so  cut  in  the  stone  by  a 
chisel"  as  to  fit  the  shape  of  the  body  ;  and  it  was  taken  up,  all  the  parts  ad- 
hering together,  and  placed  in  a  standing  position,  supported  against  the  altar, 
and  left  there  for  some  time.  No  part  of  the  dress°  had  faded  or  rotted,  and 
this  was  a  great  sign  of  sanctity. 

A  dispute  arose  between  the  Earl  of  Ormond  and  the  Lord  Justice,  namely, 
the  Chancellor ;  and  both  repaired  to  the  King  of  England  to  settle  that  dispute 
before  him,  both  having  sworn  that  only  one  of  them''  should  return  to  Ireland. 
And  so  it  fell  out',  for  the  Earl  died'  in  England,  and  the  Lord  Justice  returned 
to  Ireland.  The  death  of  that  individual,  i.  e.  James,  the  son  of  Pierce  Roe,  son 
of  Edmond  Butler,  would  have  been  lamented,  were  it  not  that  he  had  greatly 
injured  the  Church,  by  advice  of  the  heretics. 

have  written  it  thus  :  -\  nip  lob  -\  n!  jio  cpion  i  And  so  it  Jell  out,  literally,   "  and  this  thing 

un   copp  ná   aon   ni  Dia  éoac,   -|  bá  mop  an  was  verified." 

corhapra  nacmracca  innpin;  i.  e.  and  the  body  "■  The  Earl  died. — Sir  Richard  Cox  asserts,  in 

or  any  part  of  its  dress  had  not  rotted  or  faded,  his  Hibernia  Anglicana,  p.  280,  at  A.  D.  1545, 

and  this  was  a  great  sign  of  sanctity.  that  the  Earl  of  Ormond  and  thirty-five  of  his 

'  Only  one  of  them,  i.  e.   both  having   sworn  servants  were  poisoned  at  a  feast  at  Ely  house, 

that  only  the  one  or  the  other  of  them  should  in  Holborn,  and  that  he  and  sixteen  of  them 

return  to  Ireland.  died ;    but  this  historian  does  not  take  upon 

9  d2 


1492  awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1545. 

TTlac  rneic  uillmm  cloinne  jiiocaipD  .1.  comap  pappanca  mac  mllicc  na 
ccfnn  mic  PiocaipO,  mic  uillicc  cnuic  rua^  do  óol  ap  lonnpaicció  hi  piol  nanm- 
caóa.  lap  na  aipiuccat)  ipin  rip  la  piol  nanmcliaóa  po  IfnaD  é  co  bealac 
ripe  irain  co  po  mapbao  ipin  maijin  pin  é  lá  iTlinnnp  TTlaoileaclainnbailb, "] 
pice  DO  poij^nib  a  nriuincipe  amaille  pp'p- 

Oocmaca  mop  ipin  mbliabainpi  co  ccucccaoi  pe  pinjine  (.1.  Do  pfnaipjfcr) 
ap  an  mbaipgm  hi  cconnaccaib,  no  pe  pinginne  bona  ipm  mióe. 

CoccaD  ecip  o  puaipc  bpian  ballac  mac  eoccain,  -]  a  ófpbparaip  pfin  Do 
caoib  a  marap  .1.  caDcc  mac  carail  óicc  uí  concobaip  cijfpna  Sliccij.  Oioj- 
bala  mópa  do  óénarh  fcoppa  ap  jac  caob, -]  bá  Díbpén  roippóealbac  ó  paijiUij^ 
cliarhain  í  piiaipc  Do  mapbaó  Dupcop  do  pelép  i  nDopap  pliccij  lá  mac  carail 
óicc. 

ÍTlac  uí  bpiain  apa  (connla)  Do  rjjapbab  ina  caiplén  pCin  lá  bpaijDib  boí 
1  Imrh  aijt. 

6oin  mac  an  jiolla  Duib  mic  concobaip  mic  Donnchaió,  mic  Dorhnaill  nu 
maómann  mic  pnibne  do  mapbaD  la  concobap  mac  mnpchaió  mic  concobaip 
mic  puibne. 

Uaócc  mac  comaip  mic  pgannláin  mic  Diapmaoa  mejopmain  Do  mapbab 
50  mí^aolrhap  ló  cloinn  mhuipcfpcaij  TTlhegopmain. 

Piapup  ó  minpjfpa  maijipnip  pccol,  1  pfp  Ifijinn  coiccmn  peap  nepeann 
peap  Denma  Dfipce  -\  cpabaib  Do  écc. 

Oomnall  mac  an  oipipceil  móip  mej  conjail  Décc. 

himself  to  decide  whether  this  happened  by  ac-  "  Tire-Itkain,  now  Tirran,  a  district  iu  the 

cident  or  mistake,  or  was  done  by  design.     It  barony  of  Longford,  containing  four  quarters  of 

looks   very   strange   that    the    Irish    annalists  land. — See  Indentures  of  Compositions,  tempore 

should  have  made  no  reference  to  this  poison-  Elizabeth,    in    Hardiman's    edition    of  Eoderic 

ing.  O'Flaherty's  Chwographical  Description  of  lar- 

'  Thomas  Farranta,  i.  e.  Thomas  the  athletic  Connavght,  p.  321. 

or  puissant.  "  Oi^e  of  them,  i.  e.  one  of  the  great  injuries 

'  Cnoc  Tuagit,  now  Knockdoe.     Ulick  was  so  done  between  them, 
called  from  having  fought  a  battle  at  this  place  '  Son-in-law. — The  word  cliamain  nieans  re- 
in 1504 See  note  ",  under  that  year,   p.  1277,  lative  by  marriage. 

supra.  ^  Gateicay,    oopap The  word  is   often   ap- 

"  The  Sil-Anrnchadha,  i.  e.  the  O'Maddens  of  plied  to  the  military  gate  of  a  town,  which  is 

the  barony  of  Longford,  in  the  county  of  Gal-  otherwise  called  ppappu,  and  ppaippe  ;  but  the 

way.  word  oopap  is  now  always  used  in  the  spoken 


1545.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1493 

The  son  of  Mac  William  of  Clanrickard  (Thomas  Farranta',  the  sou  of 
Ulick-na-gCeann,  son  of  Eickard,  son  of  Ulick  of  Cnoc-Tuagh' )  went  upon  au 
excursion  into  Sil-Anmchadha.  When  he  was  observed  in  the  territory  by  the 
Sil-Anmchadha",  they  pursued  him  to  the  pass  of  Tire-Ithain",  where  he  was 
slain  by  the  people  of  Melaghlin  Balbh  [O'Madden],  together  with  twenty  of 
the  most  distinguished  of  his  people. 

•     Great  dearth  [prevailed]  in  this  year,  so  that  sixpence  of  the  old  money 
were  given  for  a  cake  of  bread  in  Connaught,  or  six  white  pence  in  Meath. 

A  war  [broke  out]  between  O'Rourke  (Brian  Ballagh,  the  son  of  Owen) 
and  his  own  brother  by  the  mother's  side,  namely,  Teige,  the  son  of  Cathal 
Oge  O'Conor,  Lord  of  Sligo.  Great  injuries  were  done  on  both  sides  between 
them;  and  one  of  them"  was  the  killing  of  Turlough  O'Reilly,  the  son-in-law"  of 
O'Rourke,  with  the  shot  of  a  ball,  in  the  gateway"  of  Sligo,  by  the  son  of  Cathal 
Oge. 

Mac-I-Brien  of  Ara  (Conla)  was  slain  in  his  own  castle  by  some  prisoners 
whom  he  had  in  captivity. 

John,  the  son  of  Gilla-Duv,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Donnell- 
na-madhmanu''  Mac  Sweeny,  was  slain  by  Conor,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son  of 
Conor  Mac  Sweeny. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Scanlan,  son  of  Dermot  Mac  Gorman,  was 
unbecomingly''  slain  by  the  sons  of  Murtough  Mac  Gorman. 

Pierce  O'Morrissy,  a  master  of  schools,  a  general  lecturer"  of  the  men  of 
Ireland,  and  a  man  of  charity  and  piety"^,  died. 

Donnell,  son  of  the  great  official,  Mag  Congail",  died. 

Irish    language    to    denote   door    or    doorway ;  Thavm.,  p.  295,  and  lectur  sen  professor  in  the 

never  gate,  or  gateway.  same  work,  p.  298  ;  and  at  ]).  299,  he  renders 

'^  Donnell-na-madhmann,  i.  e.  Donnell  of  the  áipopeap  léij^inn,  arc/iiV/iofas?iCi<«,  «citj»)Wci/iM«« 

defeats.  tkeologiw  professor.  This  Mac  Morissy  would  not 

^  Unbecomingly The  adjective   mijaolrhap  appear  to  have  been  an  ecclesiastic.     He  was 

signifies  unrelation-like,  or  unbecoming  a  kins-  evidently  a  mere  literary  teacher. 

man  ;  and  an  adjective  is  made  into  an  adverb  *  A  man  of  charity  and  piety,    peap   oeniiui 

in  Irish  by  prefixing  50,  or  co.  ofipce  -|  cpaBaio,  literally,  a  man  of  the  doing 

■^  General  lecturer,    pfp   Ifijinn,  i.  e.   man  of  of  [acts  of]  charity  and  piety, 

reading,  or  literature.     This-term  is  translated  ^  Mag  Congail,  now  Magonigle,  a  name  com- 

sckolasticus,  sett  lector  theologice,  byColgan  mTrias  mon  in  the  south  of  the  county  of  Donegal. 


1494  qNNaí,a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1,546 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1546. 
Qoip  Cjiiopr,  mile,  cúicc  céo,  cfrpaca,  aye. 

Oomnall  mac  aoDa  Duib  mic  aoba  jiuaib  í  oorhnaiU  do  mapbab  (an.  20. 
ap]iil)  a  ppiull  la  liua  njallcubai]!,  Gojan  mac  emctinn  -]  la  a  rhnaoi  onojict 
ingfr)  cuacail  bailb  ui  5allcubai|i  mp  na  rócuipfo  Dia  patjio  50  hinip  pairhép 
ap  planaib  t)é, ")  ÍTlhfic  an  baipt»  joppaib, "]  concoicpice  mic  Diapmara  mic 
caiDcc  caim  ui  clfipicc.  6á  liac  oiófb  an  ci  ropcgip  annpin,  ap  ni  baoi  pfp 
a  aopa  do  clannrhaicne  conaill  mic  néill  ap  ap  mo  paoilfcrain  pocatbe  map. 

l?o  fipjfrcap  Díbfpccaij  lomba  Do  gfpalcacaib  majaib  na  Sa;ranac  do 
biojail  a  nionnappca  ay  a  nDucbaij  poppa  .1.  Uilliam  mac  Semaip  mac  lapla 
cille  Dapa, "]  TTluipip  an  pfba  mac  Semaip  meipccij  mic  an  lapla  "]  óccbaib 
ale  amaille  ppiú.  Oo  pónab  Díojbóla  Diaipnfipi  leó.  6a  Dibpíbe  cpectca  baile 
móip  na  nupcápac  Cpeaca  para  bile,"]  a  mbaoi  ma  compocpaib.  Cpeacaoh 
-]  lopccab  r?ara  lombáin  co  puccpac  an  luce  céDna  il  mile  bo  -]  nuimip  nac 
poic  pim  no  áipfm  leó  Don  cup  pm. 

Inopaicchib  la  bua  cceallaij  In  piól  namcbaba,  "]  la  pliocc  bpfpail 
ui  maDajom  ap  TTlhaoileaclainn  goer  ó  marcaccám.  Oo  bfcpac  an  rip  ma 
nDfohaiD,  1  DO  bfpcpac  puabaipc  poppa.  Sóaicpium  ppiú  co  po  mapbpac  ni 
bd  moa  olDap  cfrpacac  Don  cópaij,  1  pob  fpbabach  an  cip  "i  upmumain  on 
caicjleo  pin. 

Qpccain  1  lopccab  cláip  cctipppe  -\  caipléin  caipppe  lap  na  Dibfpccacaib 
pémpáice, "]  lá  mac  ui  concobaip  pailje  Oonncbab  ó  concobaip.  Ua  concobaip 
pfin  bpian,  "|  ua  mopba  giollapacpaicc  Dfipje  ipm  ccoccab  mp  pm.  Ctn  can 
DO  cuala  an  lupcip  ancóin  Senclijep  m  ni  pm  camic  1  nuib  pailje.    Ro  inDip 

^Invited  him,    lap  na  rócuipfó  Dia  paijio,  plunderer  or  rebel ;  an  outlawed  person  given 

literally,  after  the  inviting  of  him  to  them  to  to  plunder  and  acts  of  revenge. 
Inis-Saimer.     tDia  f^'S'^  means  usque  ad  illos.  '  Maurice-an-fkeadha,    i.  e.   Maurice   of  the 

Inis-Saimer,  now  called  Fish  island,  is  a  small  wood. 

island  in  the  River  Erne,  under  the  cataract  of         ^Baile-mor-na-n-histasach,  i.e.\h&gTe&t  town 

Assaroe  at  Ballyshannon.  of  the  Eustaces,    now   Ballymore-Eustace,    si- 

s  Expected  by  the  multitude Majore  spe  pkbis.  tuated  on  the  River  Liifey,   in  the  barony  of 

■^  Disaffected  persons. — The  word  bibpeapjac  Newcastle,  and  county  of  Dublin, 
is  used  in  ancient  Irish  manuscripts  to  denote  a  '  Rath-bile,  i.  e.  the  fort  of  the  old  tree,  now 


1546.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  149-5 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1546. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  forty-six. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Hugh  Duv,  son  of  Hugh  Eoe  O'Donnell,  was  treache- 
rously slain,  on  the  20th  of  April,  by  O'Gallagher  (Owen,  the  son  of  Edmond) 
and  his  wife  Honora,  daughter  of  Tuathal  Balbh  O'Gallagher,  after  they  had  in- 
vited him''  to  Inis-Saimer,  under  the  protection  of  God,  of  Mac  Ward  (Godfrey), 
and  Cucogry,  the  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Teige  Cam  O'CIery.  The  death  of  this 
man  was  the  cause  of  great  sorrow,  for  of  all  the  descendants  of  Conuell,  the 
son  of  Niall,  there  was  not  one  of  his  years  from  whom  more  was  expected  by 
the  multitude^. 

Many  disaifected  persons"  of  the  Geraldines  rose  up  against  the  Saxons,  in 
revenge  of  their  expulsion  from  their  patrimony,  namely,  William,  the  son  of 
James,  the  son  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare  ;  Maurice-an-fheadha',  son  of  James 
Meirgeach,  son  of  the  Earl ;  and  many  other  youths  besides  these.  They  did 
indescribable  damages,  among  which  were  the  plundering  of  Baile-mór-na- 
n-Iustasach",  and  the  plundering  of  Eath-bile',  and  of  all  the  country  around 
them  ;  and  tlie  plundering  and  burning  of  Rath-Iomdhain°,  from  which  they 
carried  away  on  that  occasion  many  thousands  of  cows,  a  number  [in  line]  that 
could  not  be  eniunerated  or  reckoned. 

An  incursion  was  made  by  O'Kelly  and  the  descendants  of  Breasal  O'Madden 
into  Sil-anmchadha,  against  Melaghlin  God  O'Madden.  The  [inhabitants  of  the] 
country  went  in  pursuit  of  them,  and  made  an  attack  upon  them  ;  but  they 
turned  round  on  them  [their  pursuers],  and  slew  more  than  forty  of  them ;  and 
the  territory  and  ( )rmond  felt  the  loss  sustained  in  this  battle. 

The  plain  of  Cairbre"  and  Castle-Carbury  were  plundered  and  burned  by 
the  aforenamed  insiu'gents,  and  by  Donough,  the  sou  of  O'Conor  Faly.  O'Conor 
himself  (Brian)  and  O'More  (Gilla-Patrick)  afterwards  rose  up,  to  join  in  this 
insurrection.     When  the  Lord  Justice,  Anthony  St.  Leger,  had  heard  of  this, 

Rathvilly,  a  village  situated  ou  the  Eiver  Slaney,  known  town  in  the  county  of  Kildare. 
and  giving  name  to  a  barony  in  the  county  of  "  The  plain  of  Cairbre,  i.  e-  the  present  barony 

Carlow.  of  Carbury,  in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of 

■"  Ratli-Iomdhain,    now    Rathangan,    a   well  Kildare,  which  is  remarkably  level. 


1496  aHHaí,a  Rioshachca  eiReaHW.  [i546. 

1  po  loi['CC  an  cíp  co  cocap  cpuacain,  -\  aijiif  ló  Dí  oibce  innce,  i  yoa\t)  jan 
car  gan  ]iiap.  O  mópDa,  -]  niac  uí  concobaiji  Tíimpaije  Doóol  pá  baile  aca  aí, 
an  baile  -]  an  rhaini]^cni  do  lofccan  Dóib,  i  a]i  móp  do  cabaipr  leó  (ecip 
lof'ccao  -|  Tíiapbaó)  pop  Sha;cancoib  -\  Gpenncoib  Don  cup  pin. 

■  dn  lupcip  Do  rocc  apí|'  i  nuib  pailje  50  mbaí  ppi  pé  cóicc  lá  noécc  ipin 
cíp  056  liinDpeaó,  1  accá  milleaD  acc  lopccaó  rfmpall  -]  mainipcpeac  05 
DioruccaD  fra,  -\  apba.  T?o  páccaib  bapDa  ipin  mbaile  lé  ViaccaiD  uí  conco- 
baip  .1.  céD  mapcach  céD  co  ngonaóaib,  céo  co  crimsaib  1  céD  paijDiúip  cono 
nnaopccappluaj  amaille  ppiú.  í?o  póccaib  a  ppupcain  Do  biúó  -|  Da  jac 
ncnbilcc  aca,  -\  luiD  app,  -]  Do  Deachaib  co  na  móp  pocpaioe  50  laoijip,  -| 
raninicc  lapla  DfpTnunian  pluaigfó  lan  rhóp  ina  coinne  Dia  commopaD  baccap 
cóicc  ló  Décc  ele  acc  inDpaó  an  cípe  hí  pin.  ^abrap  leó  caiplén  buí  lá 
liua  mópóa  .1.  baile  aoam,  1  páccbaicr  bapDa  inn.  Ro  cuip  an  lupcip  mppm 
licpeaca  1  pccpibenna  co  mairib  ua  ppailge  Dia  paD  pn'i  cocc  Don  cíp,  -| 
o  concobaip  do  rpéccean,  1  co  cnobpaó  papDún  Dóib.  CansoDap  r]\á  -\  níp 
bó  cian  Dóib  lap  pin  an  "can  po  lompaipioc  501U  Don  cíp  50  po  peallpac  poppa, 
-]  jop  bfnpac  il  rhíle  Do  buaib  Díob.  T?o  puaccpaó  ua  concobaip,  -\  ua  niópDa 
pó  epinn, -)  Do  cóccbab  a  nDucliaij  jup  an  pij,  1  Do  caéD  ua  concobaip  hi 
connacraib  Do  cumjió  pocpaicre.  lompaíD  pipceall  -j  niageocujain  (ap 
popconjpa  an  lupcip)  ap  niuinnp  uí  concobaip  50  po  bfnpac  bú  lomba  "] 

°  Togher  of  CruacJian,   now  tlie  townland  of  the  county  of  Kildare. 

Togher,   situated   near  the   conspicuous  hill  of  "^  Bt/  burning  and  slapng,  literally,  "and  great 

Cruachan,  or  Croghan,  in  the  north  of  the  King's  slaughter  was  given  [made]  by  them  (between 

County See    note  ',    under    the    year    1385,  burning  and  slaying)  upon  the  Saxons  and  the 

p.  700,  and  note  °   under  1395,  p.  736,  svpra.  Irish  on  that  occasion." 

p  Ath-Ai,  i.  e.  the  ford  of  Ae,  the  son  of  Der-  '  Crops. — The  word  fca  is  the  genitive  case 

gabhail,  the  fosterer  of  Eochaidh  Finn  Fuathairt,  of  lor,   corn,  and  apBa  is  a  synonimous  word ; 

who  was  slain  at  this  ford  in  a  battle  which  was  but  it  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  the  style  of 

fought  here  in  the  third  century  between  Laoigh-  the  Four  Masters  is  full  of  redundancies  of  this 

seach  Ceannmhor,  the  ancestor  of  the  O'Mores,  kind. 

and  the  forces  of  Munster. — See  Book  of  Lecan,  ^  In  the  toicn. — According  to  Ware,   who  is 

fol.  105,  a.     The  place  was  afterwards  caUed  in  followed  by  Cos,  the  town  in  which  the  Lord 

Irish  6aile  aca  Cloi,  i.  e.  the  town  of  the  ford  Justice,  Sir  William  Brabazon,  left  the  garrison 

of  Ae.   The  name  is  now  anglicised  Athy,  which  on  this  occasion  was  Athy ;  but  the  Editor  is  of 

is  that  of  a  well-known  town  on  the  River  Bar-  opinion  that  the  garrison  was  on  this  occasion 

row,  in  the  barony  of  Narragh  and  Rheban.  in  in  the  fort  of  Daingean  in   Offaly  (afterwards 


1546]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1497 

he  came  into  OiFaly,  and  plundered  and  burned  the  country  as  far  as  the  Togher 
of  Cruachan°;  and  he  remained  there  two  nights,  but  he  returned  without 
[receiving]  battle  or  submission.  O'More  and  the  son  of  O'Conor  (Rury)  at- 
tacked the  town  of  Ath-Ai"",  and  burned  the  town  and  monastery,  and  destroyed 
many  persons,  both  English  and  Irish,  both  by  burning  and  slaying",  on  this 
occasion. 

The  Lord  Justice  came  a  second  time  into  OiFaly,  and  remained  fifteen  days 
in  the  country,  plundering  and  spoiling  it,  burning  churches  and  monasteries, 
and  destroying  crops''  and  corn.  He  left  a  garrison  in  the  town',  to  oppose 
O'Conor,  namely,  one  hundred  horsemen,  one  hundred  [armed]  with  guns,  one 
hundred  with  battle-axes,  and  one  hundred  soldiers,  together  with  their  common 
attendants  ;  he  left  them  a  sufficiency  of  food,  and  all  other  necessaries,  and 
then  departed,  and  proceeded  with  his  great  array  into  Leix,  whither  the  Earl  , 
of  Desmond  came  with  a  numerous  army  to  join  him.  They  remained  for 
fifteen  days  plundering  that  country  ;  and  they  took  Baile-Adam',  a  castle 
belonging  to  O'More,  and  left  warders  in  it.  After  this  the  Lord  Justice  sent 
letters  and  writings  to  the  chieftains"  of  Ofialy,  inviting  them""  to  come  into  the 
territory,  and  abandon  O'Conor,  and  that  he  would  grant  them  pardon.  They 
accordingly  did  return  ;  but  not  long  afterwards  the  English  returned  into  the 
territory,  and  acted  treacherously''  towards  them,  so  that  they  deprived  them  of 
many  thousands  of  cows.  O'Conor  and  O'More  were  proclaimed,  [traitors] 
throughout  Ireland,  and  their  territories  were  transferred''  to  the  King.  And 
O'Conor  went  into  Connaught  to  look  for  forces ;  and  the  people  of  Fircall  and 
Mageoghegan,  at  the  request  of  the  Lord  Justice,  turned  upon  O'Conor's  people, 

called  Philipstown),  which  he  built  on  this  occa-  "  Chieftains,  i.  e.  the  sub-chieftains  who  were 

sion  to  subdue  O'Conor  Faly.     The  Four  Mas-  tributary  to  O'Conor,  as  O'Dempsey,  O'Dunne, 

ters  should  have  written  it  thus  :   "  He  erected  O'Hennessy,  &c. 

a  fort  at  Daingéan  in  OiFaly,  in  which  he  left  a  "  Inviting  them,  literally,    "  telling  them   to 

garrison  to  oppose  O'Conor,  namely,  one  hun-  come  into  the  territory." 

dred  horsemen,  one  hundred  gunners,  one  huu-  '  Acted  treacherously This  treacherous  con- 

dred  axemen,  and  one  hundred  soldiers  [sagit-  duct  of  Sir  William  Brabazon  is  not  referred  to 

tarii?]  with  their  attendants."  by  Ware,   Cox,  Leland,  or  any  of  the  modern 

'  Baile-Adam,  now  Ballyadams,    a   castle   in  Irish  historians, 
ruins,  giving  name  to  a  barony  in  the  north-east  >  Transferred,  i.  e.  conliscated  or  seized  to  the 

of  the  Queen's  County.  Kind's  use. 

9  E 


1498 


anNa^a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN. 


[1546. 


bjiaijDe  lie  Díb.  Oo  pony^ac  clann  colmain  -|  inuincip  caóccáin  an  ccéora 
CLy  ing  ma  po  rfcclamaó  a  ccorhriióp  pin  oaipcccib  -\  oeoalaib  ip  na  ofiofn- 
coib  conab  amlaib  pin  po  liarcuipeaó  occiip  po  hionnapbab  ceann  ponupa  -| 
paióbpfpa  an  Ifire  ippaibe  pein  oepinn  .1.  bpian  o  concobaip,-)  po  puipiD  pibe 
111  cconriaccaib  co  noolaicc  lap  ngaipm  rpérupa  oe  la  ^allaib. 

TTlac  5iolla  parcpaicc  .1.  bpian  00  gabail  a  mic  pfin.i.cabcc  (cfnn  pfbna 
cojaibe  eippibe),  -j  a  cup  50  hoc  cliar  co  na  coiprib  pfn  pccpiobra  apaon  pip, 
1  501U  Dia  bápuccab  ap  popailfiri  a  arap. 

TDonab  nua  Do  ceacc  1  nepinn  .1.  copap,  -]  pobficcfn  Dpeapaib  epeann  a 
gabail  map  ai]iccfrc.  50  mop  -j  bd  habbal  nfpc  Sa;ranai5  1  nepinn  an  can  pa 
CO  mba  puaill  ma  baoi  aicjin  na  bpoioe  1  mbáccap  Ifc  moja  piarh  piap  an  can 
poin. 

Uabcc  Ó  cobcai^  oioe  pcol  epeann  lé  Dan  Do  jabáil  ló  ^allaib  "]  a  bfic 
póice  CO  Ifir  illairh  hi  ccaiplen  an  pi'j  cpe  na  corhmbaib  lé  ^aoibealaib  co 
po  pobpab  aoibfb,  apa  aoi  cepna  plan  pa  beóib. 

Na  Sa;rain  ace  oenarh  caipléin  an  Dainjin,  -|  cfmpall  cille  o  Duippci  do 
bpipeab  leó,  ~\  a  cop  pan  obaip,  "]  píppún  cpuacain  Do  rhilleab  Doib. 

Qn  pfipfoh  6DuapD  do  pio^aoh  op  8a;raib.  28.  lamjapt(. 


'  The  Clann-Colman,  i.  e.  the  O'Melaglilins, 
who  were  at  this  period  seated  in  the  barony  of 
Clonlonan,  in  the  county  of  Westmeath. 

'^  Muintir-Tadhgain,  i.  e.  the  Foxes,  who  were 
at  this  period  seated  in  the  barony  of  Kilcoursey, 
in  the  county  of  Westmeath. 

''  Scarcely. — Q)'  ing  is  thus  explained  by 
O'Clery:  "  Inj  .1.  éigfn.  a\  1115  j.  n\  aji 
éijjen." 

■^  Copper Ware  says,  in  his  Annals  of  Ire- 
land, under  this  year,  that  King  Henry,  to  main- 
taia  his  charges  in  Ireland  (being  in  want  of 
money,  by  reason  of  the  vast  treasure  he  had 
wasted  on  his  expeditions  into  France  and 
Scotland),  gave  directions  to  have  brass  money 
coined,  and  commanded  by  proclamation  that  it 
should  pass  for  current  and  lawful  money  in  all 
parts  of  Ireland. — See  also  Cox's  Hibernia  An- 
glicana,  p.  280.     Mr.  Lindsay,  in  his  View  of 


the  Coinage  of  Ireland,  p.  50,  states  that  these 
coins,  according  to  indenture,  were  to  be  eight 
ounces  fine,  and  four  ounces  alloy ;  but  that,  as 
Simon  and  Ruding  justly  observe,  they  were 
only  four  ounces  line  and  eight  alloy.  From 
several  of  these  coins  yet  remaining,  it  is  quite 
evident  that  they  were  mixed,  not  pure  brass, 
as  Wai-e  says,  or  pure  copper,  as  the  Four  Mas- 
ters have  it.  It  is  probable  that  neither  Ware 
uor  the  Four  Masters  ever  saw  any  one  of  these 
coins. 

<•  Eighteen  weeks,  literally,  "  a  quarter  and  a 
half" 

'  Daingean,  now  Philipstowu,  in  the  King's 
County.  The  site  of  this  Daingean,  or  I'ort  of 
Philipstown,  is  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Blacker's 
house,  situated  at  that  extremity  of  the  town 
nearest  to  TuUamore.  In  the  wall  of  this  house 
the  proprietor  pointed  out  to  the  Editor  in  1 838, 


1546]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND  1499 

and  took  many  cows  and  prisoners  from  them.  The  Clann-Colman^  and  Muin- 
tir-Tadhgain='  did  the  same  ;  and  scarcely"  had  there  been  in  modern  times 
so  much  booty  and  spoil  collected  together.  And  thus  was  he  expelled  and 
banished,  he  who  had  been  the  head  of  the  happiness  and  prosperity  of  that  half 
of  Ireland  in  which  he  lived,  namely,  Brian  O'Couor.  And  he  remained  in 
Connaught  until  [the  following]  Chiistmas,  after  having  been  proclaimed  a 
traitor  by  the  English. 

Mac  Gilla-Patrick  (Brian)  took  prisoner  his  own  son,  Teige,  a  distinguished 
captain,  and  sent  him  to  Dublin  with  [a  statement  of]  his  crimes  written  along 
with  him  ;  and  the  Enghsh  of  Dublin  put  him  to  death  at  the  request  of  his 
father. 

New  coin  Avas  introduced  into  Ireland,  i.  e.  copper';  and  the  men  of  Ireland 
were  obliged  to  use  it  as  silver. 

At  this  time  the  power  of  the  English  was  great  and  immense  in  Ireland, 
so  that  the  bondage  in  which  the  people  of  Leath-Mhogha  were  had  scarcely 
been  ever  equalled  before  that  time. 

Teige  O'Coffey,  preceptor  of  the  schools  of  Ireland  in  poetry,  was  taken 
prisoner  by  the  English,  and  confined  for  eighteen  weeks*  in  the  King's  castle 
for  his  attachment  to  the  Irish.  It  was  intended  that  he  should  be  put  to  death, 
but  he  escaped  safe  from  them  at  length. 

The  English  erected  the  castle  of  Daingean',  and  destroyed  the  church  of 
Cill  0'Duirthi^  and  used  its  materials  in  the  work  ;  and  they  ruined  the  castle 
of  Cruachan. 

Edward  VI.^  was  crowned  King  of  England  on  the  28th  of  January. 

two  stones  on  which  are  sculptured  the  royal  King's  County.     No  part  of  this  church  is  now 

arms  of  England,  and  the  date  1556.  The  Editor  standing,   nor  does  it  appear  to  have  been  ever 

is  of  opinion  that  this  was  the  place  which  was  rebuilt  after  this  period. 

garrisoned  by  the  Lord  Justice  in  this  year  to  ^Edward  VI. — The  Four  Masters  should  have 

subdue  O'Conor,  and  not  Athy,  as  is  generally  entered  this  passage  under  the  next  year.     Sir 

stated  by   Irish  historians.     If  so,   this  entry  Harris  Nicolas,    in   his   Chronology  of  History, 

should  precede  the  one  above  given,  beginning  second  edition,  p.  334,    shews  from  the  most 

p.  1497,  line  7,  supra.  authentic  sources,  that  Edward  VI.  ascended  the 

^C'dl  U'Duirthi,  i.  e.  the  church  of  the  Ui-  throne  on  the  day  of  the  death  of  his  father, 

Duirthi,  now  Killodurhy,  or  Killoderhy,  a  pa-  Henry  VIII.,  namely,  Ftiday,  the  28th  of  Ja- 

rish  comprising  the  town  of  Philipstown,  in  the  nuary,  1547. 

9  e2 


1500  aNNa?.a  TJio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1547. 

aOlS  CRIOSC,  1547. 
Qoiy  cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  cCriiacac,  a  Seacc. 

mac  ]puibrie  bajainec,  mall  ócc  00  rhopbab  an.  3.  yepcenibep  la  clomn 
u  f)ea|ib)iafaji  .1.  claim  maolniui]ie  .1.  Doifinall  ócc  1  bjiian  ócc.  bó  liann  ]io 
majibaó  p lóe  ipn  mbaobóún  nua,  -|  he  1  mbiiaijofTin)^  a  noiojail  a  nara|i  |io 
mapbaó  ló  Niall  peer  piam,  ITlaolmuipe  infipjeac  an  ofpbparaip  ele  ni  po 
cuiDij  póe  an  mapbab  if  in. 

iTlop  injfn  111  cipbaill  bfn  ofppccaijre  ofi^einij  oécc. 

CacpaoinCo  mop  popp  na  Dibfpccacaib  1  mbaile  na  rcpi  ccaiplén  let  pa;c- 
ancoib  "]  la  bpian  an  coccaió  mac  coippbealbaij  ui  cuarail  Dú  in  po  gabab 
na  mac  Semaip  mic  an  lapla  .1.  muipip  an  pfoa  -|  Vianpai  co  ccfirpe  peapaib 
Décc  Dia  muincip.  I?iiccab  co  hac  cliac  lacn  lap  pin,  -]  t)o  ponab  cfrpamiia 
Díb  uile  cenmora  ITluipip,  "|  po  cuipeab  hi  ccaiplén  an  pij  ace  lompuipec  lé 
corhaiple  cia  bap  Do  bepraoi  bo.  Ro  pccaoileab,  "]  po  pcanpab  na  pojlaba 
-]  na  Dibfpccai^  amlaib  pin  -]  jép  bó  geapp  a  pé  .1.  bliabain,  pob  abbal  a 
ppoj^ail. 

O  concobaip  1  6  mópba  00  bol  cap  j^ioiiainn,  1  ap  nool  do  bpuing  do 
ccloinn  ina  ccoinne  co  hár  cpóic,  ~\  pocaibe  mop  do  rionol  Dóib  Do  bol  do 
Diojail  a  nouirce  -]  a  ppfpoinn  aji  Sha;rancoib,  -|  a  nDol  lap  pin  illaijnib. 

■^aor  mop  Déipge  an  oince  jiia  ppéil  bpíjoe  jup  bn  puaill  mo  caimc  a 
coitimóp  Ó  jijfin  cpiopc  alle  50  po  bpip  cfmpail,  mainipcpe  -]  caipléin  -\  co 
haipibe  po  bpip  pi  an  do  uiUinn  lapfapaij;  Do  ffmpoll  cliicina  mic  nnip. 

Smacr  1  nfpr  abbal  ace  Sa;coib  co  na  Ificcfb  an  fccla  Do  neoc  biaDh  na 
caomna  Do  rabaipc  Dua  concobaip  na  Dua  mopba. 

Qn  liipcipeacc  do  biiain  Do  ancoin  Sencligep,  -|  ni]'cip  nua  Do  jabail  a 
lonaiD  .1.  eDuapD  bellijani. 

TTIuipip  an  pfDa  mac  lapla  cille  Dapa  Do  bápuccab  i  nár  cliar. 

''  Baile-na-dtri-gCaislen,  i.  e.  the  town  of  the  tion,  there  were  three  castles  at  the  place,  but 

three  castles,  now  the  Three  Castles  on  the  River  there  is  only  the  ruins  of  one  oi  them  at  pre- 

LifFey,  in  the  parish  of  Blessington,  barony  of  sent. 

Lower  Talbotstown,  and  county  of  Wicklow.  '  Brian-an-Chogaidh,  i.  e.  Brian,  or  Bernard, 

It  is  called  "  the  Town  of  the  Three  Castles"  of  the  war. 

in  the  Down  Survey,  and,  according  to  tradi-  J  Ath-Croich — This  was  the  name  of  a  ford  on 


1547.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1501 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1547. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  forty-seven. 

Mac  Sweeny  Baghaineach  (Niall  Oge)  was  slain  on  the  3rd  of  September, 
by  the  sons  of  his  own  brother,  namely,  the  sons  of  Maelmiirry,  namely,  Don- 
nell  Oge  and  Donnell  Oge.  He  was  killed  while  in  prison,  in  the  new  Badh 
Bawn,  in  revenge  of  their  father,  who  had  been  slain  some  time  before  by  Niall. 
Maelmurry  jMeirgeach,  their  other  brother,  did  not  assist  them  in  this  killing. 

More,  daughter  of  O'Carroll,  an  excellent  and  truly  hospitable  woman,  died. 

The  rebels  [Fitzgeralds]  sustained  a  great  defeat  at  Baile-na-dtri-gCaislen" 
from  the  English,  and  from  Brian-an-chob;aidh'',  the  son  of  Turlough  O'Toole, 
in  which  the  two  sons  of  James,  son  of  the  Earl,  namely,  Maurice-an-fheadha 
and  Henry,  with  fourteen  of  their  people,  were  taken  prisoners.  They  were 
afterwards  conveyed  to  Dublin,  and  all  cut  into  quarters,  excepting  Maurice, 
who  was  imprisoned  in  the  King's  castle,  until  it  should  be  determined  what 
death  he  should  receive.  Thus  were  these  plunderers  and  rebels  dispersed  and 
scared  ;  and  although  their  career  was  but  of  short  duration  (one  year  only), 
they  committed  vast  depredations. 

O'Conor  and  O'More  crossed  the  Shannon,  some  of  their  sons  having  come 
for  them  to  Ath-Croich'.  They  assembled  numerous  forces  for  the  purpose  of 
wreaking  their  vengeance  on  the  English,  who  were  in  possession  of  their  patri- 
monial lands  ;  and  they  afterwards  proceeded  into  Leinster. 

A  great  wind  arose  the  night  before  the  festival  of  St.  Bridget.  Scarcely 
had  so  c^reat  a  storm  occurred  from  the  birth  of  Christ  until  then.  It  threw 
down  chiu'ches,  monasteries,  and  castles,  and  particularly  the  two  western  Avings 
of  the  church  of  Clonmacnoise. 

The  power-  and  jurisdiction  of  the  English  prevailed  so  much,  that,  through 
terror",  no  one  dared  to  give  food  or  protection  to  O'Conoi'  or  O'More. 

The  justiceship  Avas  taken  out  of  the  hands  of  Anthony  St.  Leger  ;  and  a 
new  Justice  assumed  his  place,  namely,  Edward  Bellingham. 

Maurice-an-fheadha,  son  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  Avas  put  to  death  in  Dublin. 

tlie  .Shannon,  near  Shannon  Harbour See  Tribes      immense  jurisdiction  and  power,  so  that  fear  used 

<i«(/  Customs  ofHy-Many,  p.  5,  note  8.  to   prevent  every  person  from  giving  food  or 

"  Through  terror, '  literally,   "  the  English  had      shelter  to  O'Conor,  or  O'More." 


1502  aNNW^a  Rio^hachca  emeaNN  [1547. 

Cpeaca  inópa  (.1.  cuicc  ceo  bo)  Do.Denamh  la  TTlaeleaclainn  50D  ó  maoa- 
j^óiri  ap  uib  Domnallnin. 

Caiylen  ara  limin  do  co]iucca6  la  jallaib  .1.  lé  huilliam  bpabofón  cpe- 
pinép  an  pí^  1  ne|iinn,i  la  jallaiB,-]  gaoibealaiV)  na  mioe  (oairhóeóin  uí  ceal- 
lai^)  (oonncab  mac  eniainn)  -]  gaoióeal  cconnacc.  bacraji  ona  floij  an 
lupnp  an  can  y^ui  liillaijip  ace  Denarti  Dúncluió  ace  an  imbáóún  piajanac,  "i 
po  páccaibpioD  hapna  ann  lé  haghaió  uí  concobai])  -\  uí  mopóa. 

Cobrac  mac  TTlaoileaclainn  mic  bpfj^ail  ui  maoagáin  macaorh  a  ao|'a 
(.1.  bliabain  ap  picir)  ]iob  pfpp  Dia  cinfo  bahein  t)o  mapbaó  lá  muincip  ui  cfp- 
baill  "]  Id  muincip  maoileaclainn  bailb  ui  maoacam.  iTlupcao  piabac  mac 
ui  maoaccáin  ofpbparaip  TTlaoileaclainn  bailb  baoi  1  nsfirheal  ag  cobcac  do 
cpochab  ina  Diojail  la  bpaifpib  cobcaij  -]  la  a  muincip  conab  a  naoi'npeacr 
puccaó  Dm  nabnacal  laD. 

O  concobaip  1  caraoip  puaó  co  na  bpaifpib  Do  óénam  cCngail  50  nua  pé 
poile  1  naccliaió  gall,  uaip  po  bfnpac  501II  a  nouchaij  Di'bpbe  amail  po  bfn- 
ynr  Dua  concobaip  conaD  aipe  pin  Do  loccap  a  ccombáiD  ui  concobaip. 

InDpaicchiD  Do  cabaipc  la  hua  mópDa  -|  la  cloinn  cacaoip  ui  concobaip 
111  concae  cille  Dapa  50  po  loipcceaD  1  50  po  cpeachab  upmóp  cpice  lupcapac 
leó.  Po  anpacc  lapam  ipin  cip  50  puce  an  lupcip  poppa.  l?o  ppaoineab 
pop  na  5aoibelaib  pin,  "|  po  mapbab  do  ceD  cpoijcec  Dib  laip  Don  cup  pm. 

TTlaibm  Do  cabaipc  ap  ua  maoileaclainn  (conn  mac  aipc)  co  na  bpaifpib 
la  mall  mac  peilim  ui  maoileaclainn,  1  la  muincip  bapiiin  oealbna  ap  paifce 
ciapain  díj  in  po  mapbab  ó  maoileaclainn  conn,  -]  copbmac  a  beapbpafaip 
ranaipi  cloinne  colmám,  1  pice  no  bo  amaille  ppiú- 

O  concobaip  bpian,  "j  ó  mópoa  giolla  pacrpaicc  (lap  no  crpéccean  Do 
jaoibealaib)  Do  bol  hi  ccfnn  jail  pa  na  mbpfif  pfin  ap  comaipce  501 II  uapail 
.1.  leucenanc  -|  bo  bole  an  comaipce  hipin. 

'  From  the  G'DonneUans,  ó  uiB  oomnallain.  O'Dunnes,    in    the    barony    of  Tinahinch    and 

Here  the  uiB  is  the  dative  plural  of  O,  the  pre-  Queen's  County.    This  is  probably  Castlebrack, 

fix  of  the  surname,  not  of  the  tribe-name,  which  situated  near  Cloonaslee  in  this  barony, 

was  Clanu-Breasail.     For  the  true  descent  of  °  Faiihche-Ckiarain,  i.  e.  St.  Kieran's  green. 

this  family,  see  Tribes  and  Customs  o/Hy-Many,  The  Editor  has  not  been  able  to  find  any  place 

pp.  32,  76.  bearing  this  name  in  the  county  of  Westmeath. 

™  Badhm-Riaganach,  i.  e.  the   bawn  of  the  °  The  Lieutenant. — This  was  Francis  Brian, 

Hy-Regan  which  was   the  tribe-name  of  the  who  married  the  Countess  Dowager  of  Ormond, 


1547]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1503 

Great  preys,  i.  e.  five  hundred  cows,  were  carried  oíF  by  Melaghlin  God 
O'Madden  from  the  O'Donnellans'. 

The  castle  of  Athlone  was  repaired  by  the  English,  namely,  by  William 
Brabazon,  the  King's  Treasurer  in  Ireland,  and  the  English  and  Irish  of  Meath, 
in  despite  of  O'Kelly  (Donough,  the  son  of  Edraond)  and  the  Irish  of  Con- 
naught.  At  this  time  the  forces  of  the  Lord  Justice  were  [engaged  in]  erecting 
a  fortification  in  Leix  around  Badhun-Riaganach",  where  they  left  warriors  to 
oppose  O'Conor  and  O'More. 

Coffey,  the  son  of  Melaghlin,  son  of  Breasal  O'Madden,  the  best  youth  of 
his  age  (twenty-one  years)  of  his  tribe,  was  slain  by  the  people  of  O'Carroll 
and  of  Melaghlin  Balbh  O'Madden.  [But]  Murrough  Reagh,  the  son  of  O'Mad- 
den, the  brother  of  Melaghlin  Balbh,  who  was  in  prison  with  Coffey,  was  hanged, 
in  revenge  of  him,  by  Coffey's  kinsmen  and  people  ;  so  that  both  were  carried 
for  interment  at  the  same  time. 

O'Conor  and  Cahir  Roe,  and  their  kindred,  formed  a  new  confederacy 
against  the  English,  for  the  Enghsh  had  stripped  these  also  of  their  patrimony, 
as  well  as  O'Conor  ;  and  therefore  they  joined  in  confederacy  with  O'Conor. 

An  irruption  was  made  by  O'More  and  the  sons  of  Cahir  O'Conor  into  the 
county  of  Kildare,  and  burned  and  plundered  the  greater  part  of  the  territory 
of  the  Eustaces.  They  remained  in  that  country  until  the  Lord  Justice  over- 
took them.  These  Irish  were  defeated  on  this  occasion,  with  the  loss  of  two 
hundred  foot  soldiers. 

O'Melaghlin  (Con,  the  son  of  Art)  and  his  kinsmen  were  defeated  byNiall, 
the  son  of  Felim  O'Melaghlin,  and  the  people  of  the  Baron  of  Delviu,  at  Faithche- 
Chiarain",  where  there  were  slain  O'Melaghlia  (Con)  and  Cormac,  his  brother, 
Tanist  of  Clann-Colraan,  and  a  score  or  two  along  with  them. 

O'Conor  (Brian)  and  O'More  (Gilla-Pa trick),  having  been  abandoned  by 
the  Irish,  went  over  to  the  English,  to  make  submission  to  them  upon  their  own 
terms,  under  the  protection  of  an  English  gentleman,  i.  e.  the  Lieutenant".  This, 
however,  was  a  bad  protection. 

and  was  made  Marshal  of  Ireland,  and  governor  honour,   for   having   made  a  journey  into   the 

of  the  counties  of  Tipperary  and  Kilkenny.   He  county  of  Tipperary,  to  check  the  incursions  oi 

was  chosen  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland  on  the  27th  O'Carroll,   he  died   at  Clonmel  on  the  2nd  of 

of  December,  1549,  but  did  not  long  enjoy  this  February  following. 


1504 


aNwata  Rio^hachca  eiReawH. 


[1548. 


Cucoiccpice  mac  emainn  méj  cocláin  cfnn  a  jablám  fCn  oo  mapbab  hi 
ppiull  la  rnaoi'leaclainn  ua  maoileaclainn,  -|  la  TTIupcaó  mac  roippóealbaij. 
TTlac  mupcaóa,  Tlluipcfpcac  mac  aipc  buibe  oécc. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1548. 
.  Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceD,  cfrpaca,  a  liocc. 

lllaióm  rhóp  oo  rabaipc  la  hua  nDomnaill  ITla^nup  ap  ppac  bo  piaich  ap 
a  mac  pfin  .i.  an  calbac,  "j  ap  ó  ccarón  .i.  TTlajnup  mac  DonncliaiD  Dú  in  po 
mapbaó  ó  carain  pfippm  co  pocaióib  ele  an  peaccrhaD  la  Do  mi  pebpu. 

TTlaipe  in^fn  meic  conmióe  Do  écc,  an.  4.  appil. 


''  Mac  Murroiigh,  S^-c. — The  entries  under  this 
year  are  translated  into  Latin  in  a  manuscript 
in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin, 
F.  1.  18,  p.  287.  It  is  in  the  handwriting  of 
Daniel  Molyneux,  who  was  Ulster  King  at 
Arms,  but  the  translation  was  made  for  Sir 
James  Ware,  by  some  good  Irish  and  Latin 
scholar,  probably  Dr.  John  Lynch,  the  author 
of  Cambrensis  Eversus.  The  Editor  considers 
it  his  duty  to  lay  this  translation  before  the 
reader,  that  he  may  be  enabled  to  judge  for 
himself;  but  it  should  be  remarked  that  the 
translator  does  not  follow  the  irregularities  or 
imperfections  of  his  original : 

"  1547.  Mac  Suinius  Bagnensis,  Nellus  ju- 
venis  a  fratris  ejus  Mariani  filiis  quem  jampri- 
.dem  interemerat,  Daniele  juveni  &  Briano  ju- 
veni  vita  privatus  est  in  mandro  novo,  etiam 
turn  ad  eum  in  vinculis  haberent ;  vt  nimirum 
ultione  de  patris  nece  sumerent.  Sed  frater 
eorum  Marianus  Mergeach  illius  coedis  ne  cori- 
scius  nee  consors  fuit. 

"  Mora  filia  6  Cearvalli  proba  mulier  et  hos- 
pitalis  obiit. 

"  Angli  et  Brianus  cognomento  bellicosus 
filius  Terdelaiihi  ó  Tuathali  cum  pricscriptis  Ge- 
raldinis   in   villa   Trium    Castelloriun    pugnam 


congressi  duos  filios  Jacobi  filii  comitis  Kildaria;, 
Mauritium  et  Henricum  et  14  eorum  comites 
ceperunt,  qui  postea  Dublinium  addiicti  omnes 
in  carcerem  acti  et  in  quatuor  partes  dissecti 
sunt ;  praiter  uuum  Mauritium  qui  in  vincula 
conjectus  arci  Regi^  custodiendus  traditur,  dimi 
concilium  miretur  qua  poena  multaretur,  atque 
hoc  pacto  ea  societas  dissoluta  est,  quEe  exiguo 
unius  anni  spatio  quo  florebat,  clades  pene  innu- 
meras  edidit. 

"  O'Conchauro  et  ó  Moro  ultra  Sinneum  am- 
nem  profectis  ex  ó  Conchauri  filiis  atque  ad 
vadum  de  Croich  occurrunt,  et  copiis  quani 
maximis  comparatis  Lageniam  ingrediuntur  ad 
avitos  agros  sibi  eximi  vendicandos,  vel  injurias 
sibi  ab  Anglis  illatas  vindicandas. 

"  Pridie  f.  SanctEB  Bridgidse  venti  adeo  vehe- 
menter  extuli  sunt,  ut  post  Christum  natum 
tanta  vehementia  concitati  non  putantur  templa, 
monasteria  &  castella  solo  adiequarunt  ac  pra; 
cseteris  duo  anguli  occidentales  templi  Clonmac- 
nosiensis  evertuntur. 

"  Anglorum  potentia  eo  provecta  est  ut  nemo 
cibum  aut  quidvis  aliud  subsidium  ó  Conchauro 
ant  O'Moro  subministrare  auderet. 

"  Anthonio  St.  Legero  proregi  successit  in 
proregum  munere  obeundo  Edw.  Bellinghamus. 


1548.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1505 


Cucogry,  the  son  of  Edmond  Mac  Coglilau,  head  of  his  own  branch  of  that 
family,  was  treacherously  slain  by  Melaghlin  O'Melaghlin  and  Miirrough,  the 
son  of  Turlough. 

Mac  Murrough  (Murtough,  the  son  of  Art  Boy)  died". 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1548. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  forty-eight. 

A  great  defeat  was  given  by  O'Donnell  (Manus)  to  his  own  son,  Calvagh, 
and  O'Kane  (Manus,  the  son  of  Donough),  at  Srath-bo-Fiaich',  where  O'Jvane 
himself  and  numbers  of  others  were  slain,  on  the  7th  of  the  month  of  February. 

Mary,  the  daughter  of  Mac  Conmidhe  [Mac  Namee],  died  on  the  4th  of  April. 


"  Mauritius  an  fedha  Comitis  Kildarise  filius 
e.vtremo  supplicio  Diiblinii  afficitur. 

"  Malachias  Got  6  Maddiu  500  bourn  pra?dam 
ab  Uibh-Donellanis  retulit. 

"  Castellum  Athlonise  a  Gulielmo  Brabazono 
Hibernice  Thesauro  et  Anglis  etHibernisMidiam 
incolentibus  instauratur  invitis  etiam  O'Kellio, 
Donal  filio  Edmundi,  ac  cseteris  Hiberais  Cona- 
ciensibus.  Proregis  Exercitus  per  ea  tempera 
in  Leghsia  agens,  vallum  de  Riaganach  muro 
valido  et  prsesidio  militum  munivit,  ut  se  6  Con- 
chauri  &  ó  Mori  conatibus  opponeret. 

"  Cobtachus  filius  Malachiae  filii  Bressali 
Ó  Maddin  juvenis  21  annos  natus  contempora- 
neorum  gentis  ejus  prajstantissimus,  occisus  est 
a  clientela  ó  Carvalli  &  Malachiae  Balbi  ó  Mad- 
din;  sed  Murachus  Riabhach  Malachi»  Balbi 
frater  apud  Cobtachum  in  ^'inculis  poenam  cedis 
illixis  dedit,  suspendio  afFectus,  a  memorati  Cob- 
tachi  propinquis  et  clientibus  ita  ut  eodem  fu- 
nere  ad  .sepulturam  elati  fuerunt. 

"  Cahirus  Rufus  novo  se  armorum  societate 
Ó  Conchauro  junxit  ut  quem  etiam  Angli  non 
secus  quam.o  Conchauriim  avitis  possessionibus 
extirparunt. 

"  O'Moruni  et  Cahiri  O'Conchauri  filios  in 

9 


comitatum  KildariiB  progresses,  et  in  ee  post- 
quam  Eustachiorum  agros  devastates  diutius 
haerentes  Prerex  praelio  aggressus  fudit,  200 
peditibus  internecioni  datis. 

"  Cum  5  Meelachlino  Cono  Arturi  filio  ac 
propinquis  ejus  in  certamen  veniunt  Nellu.s 
Felemei  O'Moelachlini  filius  et  Barenis  Delvinioe 
filius  in  Ctimpo  Ciarani  his  victoriam  reportan- 
tibus  O'Moelachline,  Cormaco  fratre  Clancol- 
manorum  post  O'Moelachlinum  Dynasta,  et  aliis 
20  desideratis. 

"  O'Conchaui-us  et  O'Morus  a  suis  derelicti 
ad  nobilis  cujusdani  procenturionis  Angli  pro- 
fugiiim  se  ultro  receperunt,  quod  sibi  minime 
tutum  pestea  deprehenderunt. 

"  Cuchogrius  filius  Edmundi  Mac  Ceghlani 
in  tribu  ejus  primus  preditione  a  Malachia 
O'Moelacblin  et  Muracho  Terdelachi  filio  coesus 
est. 

"  Mac  Murchus,  Murchertacbus,  filius  Arturi 
Flavi  obiit." 

■i  Srath-bo-Fiaich,  i.  e.  the  holm  or  strath  ef 
the  cows  of  Fiach,  a  man's  name.  This  was  the 
name  of  a  very  beautiful  strath,  situated  along 
the  banks  of  the  River  Finn,  near  the  town  of 
Ballybofey,  in  the  barony  of  Raphoe,  and  county 


1506  aNNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNW.  [i548. 

O  concobaip  i  ó  mopoa  do  doI  hi  ]^a;raib  lap  an  leurenanr  pa  jpápaib 
an  pij  -|  an  pi  oo  rabaipc  a  nouirce  .1.  laoijiyp  -\  ui  pail^e  Don  leucenanc,  ■] 
Dm  bparaip,  -|  Da  cúipr  rhópo  do  óénarii  leó  pna  cipib  pin  .1.  an  campa  hil- 
laoi^ip,  1  an  Dainjfn  1  nuib  pailje,  -\  po  j;ab]'ac  ace  rabaipr  na  bpfponn  pin 
ap  Clop  DO  Sha;ranco*ib  1  DfipfnDcoib  arhail  pob  arapDa  Dilfp  Dóib  pfin  laD  lap 
narcup  "]  lap  nionnapban  a  noiópeaó  bunaó  eipnb  .1.  o  concobaip,  -\  ó  mopba 
CO  na  ccinfo  1  co  na  cclannmaicne  apcfna. 

O  maoileaclamn  .1.  cabcc  piiaó  do  fabaipc  Gmamn  apaii  -|  pocpaiDe 
lai^neac  Ifip  50  oealbna  Dia  InonDpab,  -\  ap  arhlaiD  capla  Dóib,  l?o  jabaD' 
TTIaoileaclainn  mac  aipc  ui  niaoileaclainn  la  liemann  apaii  a^i  rreacc  do 
le  heniann  pfin  Don  rip  ctp  popconjpa  coiiiaiple  ctn  pi  j,  "|  po  ciiip  pé  co  liar 
cliar  é.  Ro  gabaó  Dna  caiplén  cinn  copaD  "]  mainiprip  jailinne  láhua  maoil- 
eaclamn, 1  la  hemann.  Oo  impa  ua  maoileaclamn  po  airrhéla  gan  umla 
jan  eiDipe.  6ai  emann  apaii  05  ^abóil  Delbna  a  hucc  an  pi^  ap  bélaib 
ui  maoileaclamn  conab  aitilaiD  pm  cucc  ó  maoileaclamn  plac  laip  Dia  po 
buaileab  é  pfin  ppia,  iiaip  po  arcuip  -\  po  lonoapb  emann  a  pan  é  pfin  co  na 
cinfo  «lie  6  Delbna,  1  po  Diociiip  é  eipce  arhail  Diociiipfp  an  paire  nua  an 
pfn  paire.  i?o  jaip  pé  lapam  TTlacc  coclóin  Dope  mac  copbmaic, "]  ]io  bfn 
pé  an  cuiD  Don  cip  Do  bi  ag  copbmac  mac  an  pipDopca  De.  T?o  cpeac,  i?o 
lonnapU,"!  po  bibip  €  rap  pionainn  piap  hi  mainechaib,"]  lap  nDiocap  copbmaic 
60  po  afnuabaij  caiplén  ciUe  comainn,  ~\  Do  cuip  Ion  pleacra  pfpjail  ann,  "] 
bcipDa  naóa  pfin.  SluaicceaD  la  co]ibmac,9.maii,"|  la  maineachaib  1  noealbna, 
T?o  loipccpfc,  1  po  cpeacpac  lomcliiain  i  plainle,  1  cnoc  para  benaiti,  -\  po 

of  Donegal.     After  the  erection  of  the  towu  the  O'Fahys  are  Irish,  and  were  seated  in  the  county 

word  Baile,  "  towu"  was  substituted  for  Strath,  ofGalway;  but  the  Fays  are  Anglo-Normans, 

"  holm."  and  were  seated  in  Westmeath. — See  an  Inqui- 

■■  Campa,  now  the  town  of  Maryborough,  in  sition  taken  at  Mullingar,   on  the  1 0th  of  July, 

the  Queen's  County.  1620.     Cox  calls  him  Edmoud  Fahy,  and  sup- 

'  Daingean,  now  Philipstown,  in  the  King's  poses  that  he  was  an  Irish  rebel ! 
County.    It  should  be  here  remarked  that  what  "  Ceann-Coradh,  now  Kincora,   in  the  parish 

the  English  and    Anglo-Irish  writers  call  the  of  Wheery,   barony  of  Garrycastle,  and  King's 

fort  of  Leix,  is  called  Campa  by  the  Irish  anna-  County See   note   ^,    under    the   year    1517, 

lists;  and  that  what  the  latter  call  Daingean  in  p.  1340,  supra. 

Ui  Failghe,  the  former  call  the  "  Fort  of  Falie."  "  Galinn,    now   Gillen,    near   the  village  of 

■  A  Fail. — This  name  is  now  written  Fay,  Firbane,  in  the  King's  County, 
not   Fahy,    as   Sir   Richard   Cox   has  it.     The  '  To  strike  himself,    i.  e.  a  rod   for  his  own 


1548]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1.507 

O'Conor  and  O'More  went  to  England  with  the  Lieutenant  [Francis  Bryan], 
at  the  King's  mercy.  The  King,  however,  gave  their  patrimonial  inheritances, 
namely,  Leix  and  OfFaly,  to  the  Lieutenant  and  his  kinsman,  who  built  two 
large  courts  [mansions]  in  these  territories,  namely,  tlie  Campa'',  iiiLeix,  and 
Daingean',  in  Oifaly  ;  and  they  proceeded  to  let  these  lands  at  rents  to  the 
English  and  Irish,  as  if  they  wfere  their  own  lawful  patrimonial  inheritances, 
after  having  banished  and  expelled  their  own  rightful,  original  inheritors, 
O'Conor  and  O'More,  from  thence,  with  all  their  adherents  and  descendants. 

O'Melaghlin,  i.e.  Teige Roe, brought Edmond  aFaii'  and  the  forces  ofLeinster 
into  Delvin,  to  plunder  that  territory.  It  happened  that  Edmond  a  Fail  made 
a. prisoner  of  Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Art  O'Melaghlin,  who  had  come  along  with 
Edmond,  by  order  of  the  King's  Council,  and  sent  him  to  Dublin.  The  castle 
of  Ceann-coradh"  and  the  monastery  of  Galinn"  were  taken  on  this  occasion 
by  O'Melaghlin  and  Edmond.  O'Melaghlin  returned  [from  Delvin]  in  sorrow, 
without  [obtaining]  submissions  or  hostages  ;  and  Edmond  continued  to  con- 
(juer  Delvin  in  the  King's  name,  in  opposition  to  O'Melaghlin  ;  and  thus  had 
O'Melaghlin  brought  a  rod  into  the  country  to  strike  himself,  for  Edmond 
a  Fail  expelled  and  banished  himself  and  all  his  tribe  out  of  Delvin,  just  as  the 
young  swarm  [of  bees]  expels  the  old.  He  afterwards  styled  Art,  the  son  of 
Cormac,  the  Mac  Coghlan,  and  deprived  Cormac,  the  son  of  Ferdoragb,  of  that 
portion  of  the  country  which  he  possessed.  He  plundered  [him,  and]  expelled 
and  banished  him  westwards,  across  the  Shannon,  into  Hy-Many  ;  and  after 
thus  expelling  Cormac,  he  repaired  the  castle  of  Cill-Comainn",  and  placed  the 
provisions  of  the  descendants  of  Farrell  and  his  own  warders  in  it.  Cormac 
and  the  Hy-Many,  on  the  9  th  of  May,  made  an  incursion  into  Delvin ;  and  they 
burned  and  plundered  Lomchluain-I-Flaithile^   and  Cnoc-Ratha-Beuain",  and 

breech, — a  very  trite  proverb.  County See  extract  from  Mageoghegan's trans- 

'  CiU-Comainn,  i.e.  the  church  of  St.  Coman,  lation   of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  quoted 

now  Kilcommon,  in  the  barony  of  Clonlisk,  and  under  the  year  1285,  note  °,  p.  442,  supra.  The 

King's   County. — See  an  Inquisition  taken  at  O'Flaithilys,  or  Flatterys,  as  they  are  now  called, 

Drumkenan  on  the  15th  of  December,  1621.  are  a  branch  of  the  Dealbhna-Eathra,  said  to  be 

•  LomcMuain-I-Flaithile,   i.  e.   the  bare  lawn  senior  to  the  Mac  Coghlans.     They  are  still  nu- 

or  meadow  of  O'Flaithile  (now  Flattery).    Now  merous  enough  in  the  territory  of  Delvin,  or  the 

Lumploon,  a  townland  near  the  village  of  Clogh-  barony  of  Garrycastle. 

an,  in  the  barony  of  Garrycastle,  and  King's  "  Ciioc-Eatka-Beanain,  i.  e.  the  hill  of  Banan's 

9  f2 


1508  awNQ^.a  Rio^hachca  emeaNW.  [i548. 

mapbfar  yfipeap  Do  óaoínib,  "]  aon  mac  iii  j'-m^ail  TTluijiceapcac  pfp  a  aopa 
bá  pfpp  lé  lí'ijfp  DÓ  mbaoí  ina  coriipocpaib.  Do  pala  DóiB  laparii  50  ccomaip- 
riicc  ináj  cocláin,  an  rip,  -|  na  buanoaóa  paiieaca  ppiú  05  bél  ara  na  ccao- 
pac  pop  Dubabainn,  Ro  ppaoíneaó  pop  copbmac  co  na  pluacc,  -j  T?o  mapban 
ruillean  ap  picic  Dib  1111  TTIliaoileaclainn  moc  Sfain  in'  ceallai^  ^m  mac 
uí  pollarhain  peilim  "]  1111  niac  oubjaill  mic  neaccain,  1  ba  moa  oloáp  pice 
eac  aniaiUe  lé  hapm  -]  lé  hfmfó  lomba  po  páccaibpioc,  -|  po  báirfó  apaill 
ele  Díb.  l?o  DicfnDaic  lacc  mle  a  haén  coitiaiple  an  luan  lap  pm,  -]  piiccaó 
a  ccinn  50  baile  emainn  pan  (.1.  baile  mic  aDam  lii  ccenel  peapja  1  nele  í 
cfpbaill),  1  po  cóccbaó  pop  biopcuaillib  1  náijiDe  lacc  hi  ccomapóa  copccaip. 

poplongpopc  lá  hemaim  a  pan  a  rcimceall  caipléin  an  pfoain  ppi  pe  occ 
lá,  1  copbmac  iTiág  coclóin  t)o  bfir  ipcij  ipin  ccaiplén  50  ]io  bfnaó  bpaijoe  De, 
-|  00  póinepiorh, "]  emann  caipofp  cpiopc  ppia  poile. 

Coccao  móp  ecip  ppangcacaib,  Sa;cancoib,  -)  albancoib,  Oonncab  mac 
uí  concobaip  pailge,  1  clann  cacaoip  uí  concobaip  do  doI  i  ccuapupDal  an 
pí^,  1  a  cciip  50  pa^roib  Do  conjnarii  coccaib,  "|  Dia  noíocup  6  narapba  co 
nfip^e  amac  nióip  amaille  ppiú  Do  cficipn  coíccib  laijfn  "]  na  mióe. 

Qn  calbac  ó  cfpbaiU  no  Dol  co  hár  cliac  Dionnpaiccib  na  cínpce  móipe, 
-]  a  jabail  bi  ppiiill,  "]  a  cup  hi  ccaiplén  an  pij  lnllaiífi  1  gan  piop  a  abbaip 
nó  a  puaplaiccn  Do  cabaipr  do  neoc. 

Qn  leurenonr,  -|  emann  a  paii  Do  bol  pá  Óó  ap  pluaicc Tb  1  néle  -|  imeaccla 
rhóp  Do  jabail  iií  ceapbaill  cabcc  lupc  oepibe  50  po  eipij  coccab  fcoppa  De 
pin.  Níp  bó  cian  lap  pin  50  po  lapp  emann  a  pan  ap  móg  coclám  "|  ap  Dealbna 
Dol  laip  ap  caopai^eacc  1  néle.  l?o  Omjfcicap  pum  nna  an  ní  pm,  T?o  lon- 
naiccfn  -]  po  pfpccaiccfD  emann  rpÍD  pin  50  po  eipij  eapaonra  froppa,  -]  po 

rath.     'J'be  Editor  lias  not  been  able  to  identify  '^  Bel-atha-na-gcaeracli,  i.  o.  month  of  the  ford 

this  place.  of  the  sheep.     This  name  is   now   obsolete,  at 

''  O'SI/eil. — The  head  of  this  family  lived  at  least  the  Editor  did  not  meet  any  one   resid- 

Baile-Ui-Shiaghail,    no^V    Ballysheil,    near    the  ing  in  this  neighbourhood  that  ever  heard  of  it. 

River  Brusna,  in  the  parish  of  Gillen,  in  the  ''  Dubh-Abhainn,  i.  e.  the  Black  River,   now 

barony  of  Garrycastle,  and  King's  County.  The  the  Blackwater,  a  small  river  which   forms  for 

O'Sheils  of  this  district  were  hereditary  physi-  some  miles  the  boundary  between  the  parishes 

cians  to  the  Mac  Coghlans.     Niall  O'Sheil  and  of  Tisaran  and  Clonniacnoise,  in  the  barony  of 

Hugh  O'Sheil  were  subscribing  -witnesses  to  the  Garrycastle,  and  King's  County, 

will  of  Sir  John  Coghlan,  made  in  1590.  '  Baile-mic-Adam.  i.e.  the  town  of  Mac  Adam, 


1548]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1509 

slew  six  persons,  besides  the  only  son  of  O'Sheil"  (Murtough),  the  best  physician 
of  his  years  in  the  neighbourhood.  It  happened  afterwards  that  Mac  Coghlau, 
the  inhabitants  of  the  country,  and  the  bonaghtmen  of  the  Faiis,  met  them  at 
Bel-atha-na-gcaerach'',  a  ford  on  the  River  Dubh-Abhainn'',  where  Cormac  and 
his  army  were  defeated,  and  more  than  twenty  slain,  together  with  Melaghlin, 
the  son  of  John  O'Kelly,  the  son  of  O'Fallon  (Felim),  and  the  son  of  Dowell 
Mac  Naghtan  ;  and  they  left  behind  them  twenty  horses,  besides  weapons  and 
'armour.  Others  of  them  were  drowned.  By  common  consent  they  were  all 
beheaded  on  the  Monday  following  ;  and  their  heads  were  carried  to  the  town 
of  Edmond  a  Fail,  namely,  Baile-mic-Adam^,  in  Kiuel-Fearga^  in  Ely  O'Carroll, 
and  elevated  on  sharp  poles  as  trophies  of  victory. 

Edmond  a  Faii  pitched  his  camp  around  the  castle  of  Feadan^,  and  remained 
there  for  eight  days.  Cormac  Mac  Coghlan,  who  during  this  time  was  within 
the  castle,  was  compelled  to  give  hostages  ;  and  he  and  Edmond  formed  a 
gossipred  with  each  other. 

A  great  Avar  having  broken  out  between  the  French,  the  English,  and  the 
Scots,  Donough,  the  son  of  O'Conor  Faly,  and  the  sous  of  O'Conor  Faly,  en- 
tered the  King's  service,  and  were  sent  to  England  to  assist  in  the  war,  and 
[thus]  to  be  banished  from  their  patrimonial  inheritances.  They  were  attended 
by  a  numerous  muster  of  the  kerns  of  the  province  of  Leinster  and  Meath. 

Calvagh  O'Carroll  went  to  Dublin  to  the  gi'eat  court,  and  was  taken  by 
treachery,  and  imprisoned  in  the  King's  castle  ;  nor  was  any  one  suftered  to 
know  why  he  was  taken,  or  how  much  would  be  demanded  for  his  ransom. 

The  Lieutenant  and  Edmond  a  Faii  made  two  incursions  into  Ely,  which 
very  much  alarmed  O'Carroll  ;  and  a  war  broke  out  between  [him  and]  them 
in  consequence.  Not  long  after  this  Edmond  a  Faii  requested  Mac  Coghlan 
and  the  people  of  Delvin  to  accompany  him  on  a  predatory  excursion  into  Ely. 
This  they  refused  to  do ;  and  Edmond  became  highly  eni^ged  and  incensed  on 
accoimt  of  it,  so  that  hostilities  broke  out  between  them  ;  and  O'Carroll  and 

or  of  the  sun  ol'Adam,  now  Cadamstown,  in  the  and  territory  in  Kly  O'Carroll,   neai-ly,  it'  not 
barony  of  Ballybritt,  and  King's  County,  about  exactly,  coextensive  with  the  barony  of  Bally- 
six  miles  westwards   from   the  little    town   of  britt,  in  the  King's  County. 
Clonaslee,  in  the  Queen's  County.  s  Feadan,  now  Faddan,  in  the  parish  of  Lus- 
'  Kinel-Fearga. — This  was  the  name  of  a  tiibe  uiagh,  barony  of  Garrycastle,  and  King's  County. 


1510  aNNa?.a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [i648 

DÍOCU1]!  Ó  cfpbaiU  1  maj  cocláin  emann  uam  cpia  na  anppolcaib  i  cpe  na 
anpmacc  poppa.  Ro  gabaó  leó  caiplén  cille  comaino  -]  caiplén  cinncopab 
paip  conaó  arhloió  pin  do  bfnaó  oealbna  oe  lap  mbfif  If.r  Kliaoain  i  noaop- 
hpoio  occa. 

Saijip  ciapáin,  -|  ciU  copbmaic  r>o  lopccab, "]  Do  bpipÍD  la  Sa;cancoib  ") 
la  hua  ccipbaill. 

Sluaiccfo  lap  an  leurenonc,  i  la  gallaib  ap  cappains  émainn  a  pan  (a 
nDiojail  a  lonnapbca)  50  Delbna  50  po  loipccfó,  1  co  po  cpechaó  leó  ó  bealoc 
an  poraip  50  cocap  (.1.  cocap  cmD  niona),  "|  baile  méj  uallacóm  hillupmag, 
-|  bárcap  aDliaió  poplonjpuipr  1  mbaile  na  cloice, ")  luiDpior  ap  ccúlaib  ap 
na  riiapac  50  ccpfcaib,  "|  co  néoalaib  gán  oeabató  jan  Diubpaccaó. 

Inopao  maije  pláine  ló  bua  maoíleaclainn  coócc  puab,  1  lá  gallaib  ora 
limin,  "]  ló  coblac  an  calaió. 

Caiplén  éle,  1  caiplén  Delbna  .1.  bfnncop,  caiplén  mai^i  ipccfn  -]  clocan 
na  cceapac  do  bpipfó  ap  eccla  na  njall. 

Sluaiccfó  lap  an  ccaipuin  puaó  ap  ua  ccfpbaill  50  cappatcc  an  compaic 
1  00  paD  ua  cfpbaill  cacap  Dóib  50  po  mapbaó  DÓ  ppir  no  arpí  Dib  laip. 
Oo  pónao  pluaiccfó  pó  rpí  in  aon  paire  lap  an  ccaprín  puuDh  co  cappaicc 
an  corhpaic,  "|  ní  caerhnaccaip  ní  Don  bealac  ná  Don  caiplén,  -]  cépna  gan 
piap  lap  ppajail  mapla,  -|  lap  ppájbáil  Dpuinge  Dia  rhuincip. 

Coraoíp  piiaó  ua  concobaip  do  gabáil  lá  Riocapo  pa;rana<:  a  bupc, "]  a 
coipbepc  Do  jallaib. 

''  Saighir-Chiarain,  now  Seirkieran,  a  town-  Gari^castle,  and  King's  County. — See  the  map 

land  giving  name  to  a  parish  in  the  barony  of  to  Tribes  and  Customs  of  Hy-Many,  on  which 

Ballybritt,  and  King's  County,  about  four  miles  the  position  of  this  place  is  she^vn. 

to  the  east  of  the  town  of  Birr.    There  are  some  '  Tochar-einn-mona,  i.  e.  the  causeway  at  the 

ruins  of  the  old  church  still  to  be  seen  here,  head  of  the  bog,  now  Togher,  in  the  parish  of 

and  the  sites  of  various  buildings  are  faintly  Lemanaghan,  in  the  north  of  the  King's  County, 

traceable  around  it.  From  the  situation  of  these  two  places  it  is  quite 

'  Cill-Cormak,  i.  e.  the  church  of  St.  Cormac.  evident  that  the  annalists  intended  to  say  that 

This  place  is  now  called  Frankford,   which  is  a  the  whole  of  Mac  Coghlan's  country  was  burned 

small  town  in  the  barony  of  Ballyboy,  in  the  and  ravaged  on  this  occasion. 

King's  County. — See  the  Miscellany  of  the  Irish  "*  Baile- Mkeg-Uallachain,    i.   e.    Mac    Ualla- 

Archasological  Society  for  1846.  chain's  town,  now  Ballymacuolahan,  a  townland 

'^  Bealach-an-fhotkair,    now  Ballaghanoher,  a  situated  in  the  west  of  the  parish  of  Lusmagh, 

townland  in  the  parish  of  Reynagh,  barony  of  barony  of  Garrycastle. — See  Tribe*  and  Cmtoms 


1548]  Al^NALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1511 

Mac  Coghlan  banished  Edmond  for  his  insolence  and  tyranny  towards  them. 
They  took  the  castle  of  Kilcommon  and  the  castle  of  Kincora  from  him  ;  and 
thus  was  he  deprived  of  Delvin,  after  it  had  been  for  half  a  year  in  cruel  bon- 
dage under  him. 

Saighir-Chiarain"  and  Cill-Cormaic'  v/ere  burned  and  destroyed  by  the 
English  and  O'Carroll. 

The  Lieutenant  and  the  English  made  an  incursion  into  Delvin,  at  the 
instance  of  Edmond  a  Faii  (in  revenge  of  his  expulsion),  and  burned  and  plun- 
dered (the  coimtry)  from  Bealach-an-fhothair"  to  Tochar-cinn-mona',  and  also 
Baile  Mheg-Uallachain",  in  Lusmhagh.  They  remained  encamped  for  one  night 
at  Baile-na-Cloiche°,  and  returned  on  the  morrow  with  booty  and  spoils,  without 
receiving  battle  or  opposition. 

Magh-Slaine'  was  plundered  by  (3'Melaghlin  (Teige  Roe),  by  the  English 
of  Athlone,  and  by  the  fleet  of  Caladh''. 

The  castles  of  Ely  and  Delvin  were  demohshed  through  fear  of  the  English, 
namely,  Banagher,  tlie  castle  of  Magh-Istean',  and  Clochan-na-gceapach'. 

The  Red  Captain  made  an  army  against  O'Carroll  to  Carraig-an-Chomhraic', 
where  O'Carroll  gave  battle  to  them,  and  slew  forty  or  sixty  of  them. 

The  Red  Captain  made  three  incursions  into  Carraig-an-Chomhraic  in  one 
(quarter  of  a  year,  but  was  not  able  to  do  any  damage  to  the  pass  or  the  castle, 
and  returned  without  obtaining  submission,  having  (also)  received  insult,  and 
lost  several  of  his  people. 

Cahir  Roe  O'Conor  was  taken  prisoner  by  Richard  Saxonagh  Burke,  and 
delivered  up  to  the  English. 

of  Hy- Many,  p.  184,  and  tlie  map  to  the  same  barony  of  Garrycastle,  and  King's  County. 

work,   on  whicli   the   position  of  this  place  is  "  Galadh,  a  territory  lying  along  the  Shannon, 

marked.     Henry  Cuolahan,  Esq.  of  Cogran,   is  in  the  barony  of  Rathcline,  and  county  of  Long- 

the  present  representative  of  the  family  of  Bal-  ford. 

lymacuolahan — See  his  pedigree  traced  for  ele-  '^  Maglt-Istean,  now  Moystown,  on  the  River 

ven  generations  in  the  work  already  referred  to,  Brusna,  in  the  barony  of  Garrycastle. 

p.  183-186.                                                          _  '  Clochan-na-gCeapach,  now  Cloghan   Castle, 

"  Baile-na-doiche,  i.  e.  town  ol'  the  stone,  now  the  residence  of  Garrett  Moore,  Esq.,  who  gene-, 

Stonestown,    in    the   parish   of  Gillen,    in   the  nerally  styles  himself  the  O'Moore,  situated  on 

aforesaid  barony  of  Garrycastle.  the  banks  of  the  Little  Brosna,  about  three  miles 

'^  Mat/h-Slaine,   now   Mmgh-Shlaine,   a  well-  to  the  south  of  the  town  of  Banagher. 

known   district  in   the  parish  of  Lemanaghan,  ^Carraig-an-Ckomhraic,  i.e.  the    rock  of  the 


1512 


aHNQí-a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN. 


[1.548. 


O  cfpbaill  DO  lo)^cca6  an  aénai^  a]\  an  ccaipcín  jiuan  ecip  mainipriii  -] 
baile  o  baDbbún  amac.  l?o  loiy^cc  beop  Don  cu]i  pn  mainifriji  uaicne,  -| 
po  óiocinp  Sa;canai^  eyce  -|  Do  paD  mffcbuaiDpeaD  mó]i  po]i]ia  Dm  po  cloí 
apaill  Dia  nio|ir,  -]  Dia  ccalmacap  50  jio  póccaip  ap  a  rip  larc  cénmórá 
uachab  bapoab  baoí  ipn  aonac  .1.  hi  crop  mic  majniipa  nama. 

Caraoip  puaó  ó  concobaip  do  bapuccaó  i  nac  cliac,  1  Tílaoilfclainn 
ua  Tnaoíleaclainn  Do  repnuó  a  jfirheal  ó  jallaib. 

O  mópóa  .1.  jiollapacrpaicc  Décc  hi  Sa;caíb  50  hopann,  -]  po  ha  móp  an 
Y'^el  eippióe  rnunbab  nfpc  jall. 

Innpaó  maije  coppain  cijib,  rfmplaib  lá  hua  ccfpbaill  caócc  caoc,  -|  lá 
THag  cocláin  (apc  mac  copbmaic)  a  nDiogail  a  nanppolra  ap  óelbna, -|  pop- 
longpopc  DO  Denarh  leó  an  oióce  pin- pan  Ifcach  amaDlóin. 

SCan  mac  í  neill  do  óol  pluaj  ap  cloinn  aoóa  buióe,  "|  bpian  pa^aprac 
ó  neill  mac  neill  óicc,  mic  neill,  mic  cuinn,  mic  aoóa  buibe  pfp  agrhap  lonn- 
y^ai^ceac,  paoí  Dfplaicreac,  Deijeinij,  -)  l?éDla  polaip  i,a  clannmaicne  Dia 
mbaoí  DO  niapbab  lá  Sfan  ua  neill  Don  cup  pin. 


confluence,  or  contest,  now  Carrickachorig,  or 
Carrigahorig,  a  small  village  in  the  parish  of 
Terryglass,  barony  of  Lower  Ormond,  and 
county  of  Tipperary. 

'  Uaithne,  now  Abbington,  in  the  barony  of 
Owny,  and  county  of  Limerick. 

"  The  tower  of  Mac  Manus. — This  was  the 
name  of  the  massy  tower,  now  called  "  the 
Round"  of  Nenagh.  The  Editor  has  not  been 
able  to  discover  who  this  Mac  Manus  was,  after 
whom  this  tower  was  called. 

"  Escaped  from  the  English. — t)o  repmio  a 
jfirheal,  means,  that  he  escaped  from  confine- 
ment, or  from  his  gyves,  as  D.  F.  renders  it.  An 
English  writer  would  express  it  thus :  Melaghlin 
O'Melaghlin  effected  his  escape  from  the  King's 
Tower  in  Dublin,  where  he  had  been  confined 
by  the  English  for  his  rebellious  practices. 

'  Magh-Corrain. — This  was  the  name  of  a 
level  district  in  the  south  of  the  barony  of  Clon- 
lonan,  in  the  county  of  Westmeath. 

.'  Leacach  Amadlain,  now  evidently  Lackagh- 


more,  a  townland  in  the  parish  of  Lemanaghan, 
in  the  barony  of  Garrycastle,  and  King's  County, 
and  close  to  Magh-Corrain,  if  not  in  it. 

'  On  that  occasion. — The  entries  under  this 
year  are  translated  into  Latin  as  follows,  in 
F.  1.  18: 

"  O'Donellus  apud  Strath  bo  fiach  memo- 
rabilem  victoriam  de  filio  suo  Calbhacho  ex- 
tulit,  O'Cahano,  Magno,  filio  Donati,  qui  opem 
filio  ferebat  ac  multis  aliis  cssis  ad  7  Februarii. 

"  Maria,  filia  Mac  Conmii  obiit  4  April. 

"  O'Conchaurus  et  O'Morus  in  Angliam  a 
procenturione  illo  deducti  ad  Regis  arbitrium 
se  causamque  suam  prorsus  referunt,  spectantes 
favorem  aliquem  sibi  ab  ipso  e.xhibitum  iri ; 
sed  procenturio  et  frater  ejus  amborum  ditiones 
Leghsiam  et  Offalgiam  a  Regc  donati  in  Hiber- 
nian! ocyus  contendunt, &duo  palatiaCampanum 
in  Leghsia,  et  Daingin  in  Offalia,  extruunt,  fun- 
dos  omnes  quibuscunque  Anglis  sive  Hibernis 
praetio  locantes,  non  secus  ac  si  avitum  patri- 
monium   adiissent,    nee    solum  justos   Heredes 


1548.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1513 

O'Carroll  burned  Nenagh  upon  the  Red  Captain,  both  monastery  and  town, 
from  the  fortress  out.  On  this  occasion  he  also  burned  the  monastery  of  Uaithne', 
banished  the  Saxons  out  of  it,  and  created  great  confusion  among  them,  by 
which  he  weakened  their  power,  and  diminished  their  bravery  ;  so  that  he 
ordered  them  [all]  out  of  his  country,  except  a  few  warders  who  were  at 
Nenagh,  in  the  tower  of  Mac  Manus". 

Cahir  Roe  O'Conor  was  put  to  death  in  Dublin ;  and  Melaghlin  O'Melaghlin 
made  his  escape  from  the  English". 

O'More  (Gilla-Patrick)  died  suddenly  in  England ;  and  he  would  have  been 
a  lamentable  loss,  were  it  not  for  the  power  of  the  English. 

Magh-Corrain"  was  burned,  both  houses  and  churches,  by  O'Carroll  (Teige 
Caech)  and  Mac  Coghlan  (Art,  the  son  of  Cormac),  that  they  might  wreak 
tlieir  vengeance  upon  Delvin.  They  pitched  their  camp  for  the  night  at  Leacach 
Amadlain^ 

John,  the  son  of  O'Neill,  marched  an  army  against  the  Clann-Hugh  Boy  ; 
and  Brian  Faghartach  O'Neill,  the  son  of  Niall  Oge,  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Con, 
son  of  Hugh  Boy,  a  successful  and  warlike  man,  a  bountiful  and  truly  hospita- 
ble worthy,  the  brilliant  star  of  the  tribe  to  which  he  belonged,  was  slain  by 
John  O'Neill  on  that  occasion^. 

* 
Ó  Conchaurum  et  ó  Morum,  excluserunt,  sed      linus  flagellum  comparavit  quo  ipse  vapularetur, 

etiam  omnes  ad  eorum  familias  originem  refer-  ipsum  enim  et  gentem  ipsius  universam  Delbh- 
eutes  longe  arcuerunt,  ut  antiquum  indigenorum  ina;  finibus  expulit,  quemadmodum  examina  re- 
jus  antiquarent.  _  centia  apud  apes  vetusta  protrudunt.  Tuiu 
"  O'Moelachlinus,  Tadeus  Rufus,  Edmuudum  Mac  Coglilani  titiilo  in  Arturum  filium  Cormaci 
Faium  et  copias  Lagenise  ad  Delbhinam  expi-  collate,  Cormacum  filium  Ferdorchi  parte  agro- 
landam  sibi  adscivit,  et  Edmundus  Malacliiam  rumquampossederatetpecunia  spoliavit,ettrans 
filium  Arturi  ó  Moelachlini,  ad  banc  expeditio-  Sineum  amnem  in  Imanacliiam  fugavit;  qua  re 
iiem  ipsum  ducentem,  senatu  regie  jubente,  pacta,  Kiloommanam  reparavit,  et  commeatu 
cepit  et  Dublinio  ablegavit.  O'Moelacliliuus  et  gentis  Ferghallia;  et  suo  praisidio  instruxit;  sed 
ipse  sic  debellando  congressi  sunt  et  castellum  nono  Mail  Cormacus  infestis  Imanachiensium 
de  Kincoradh  et  Gailinniaj  monasterium  expug-  agminibus  Delbhinam  incursat,  direptionibus  et 
naverunt.  Deinde,  obside  nullo  a  suis  relata,  exustionibus  Lomchluainiam  Ui  Flaithiliam  et 
ab  Edmundo  digreditur,  paenitentiá  pene  ob-.  montem"  [rede  collem]  "  Rathbeniam  exina- 
rutus,  quod  ilium  sibi  ulla  unquam  belli  socie-  nivit,  6  hominibus  et  unico  filio  O'Sedulii 
tate  junxerat.  Porro,  Edmundus  Regis  nomine,  (Sighelii),  Murchertacho,  rei  medica;  in  eo  trac- 
nuUá  O'Moelachlini  ratione  habitá,  Delbhinam  tu  scientissimo,  interemptis.  Inde  progressa; 
sibi  obedientem  esse  cogit,  nimirum  O'Moelach-  copia  Mac   Coghlain,  incolas,    Faianos  milites 

9  G 


Iól4 


aNMaf,a  uio^hachca  eiReaNN. 


[1549. 


aOlS  CT?10SU,  1549. 
QoiY  Cpiopr,  mile,  cuícc  céo,  cfrpac,  anaói. 

O  baoijill  oorhnall  mac  neiU  mic  coi|ijióealbai5  oécc,  an.  4.  au^ujT. 

Qibilín  in;^fn  í  Domnaill  bfn  uí  baoi^ill  roijipóealbac  Décc. 

niooíleaclainn  50c  ua  mnDaccnin  canai)''!  pil  nanmcaóa  do  mapbaó  lá 
maoíleaclainn  mooapóa  iia  maoagain,  -|  lá  a  bpairiiib  a  noioccail  a  arap  ") 
a  Dfpbjiarap. 

Ueach  Dionnpaicchib  1  mbaile  an  caiplém  nuí  lá  mail  ua  maoílfclainn 
ap  ua  maoíleaclainn  cabcc  puab, "]  ap  a  bpacaip  ÍTIupcaó.  Po  loipcceaó 
an  cfj  poppa,  T?o  mapbaó,  "|  po  loiceaó  cuilleaó  ap  picic  ann,  T?o  mapbab 
naonbap  do  láraip  Dib.  Uepna  ua  maoíleaclainn  "|  a  bpacaip  mupcaó  ay, 
acc  po  jonaó  TTlupcao  Don  cnp  pin. 


immissos  ad  Os  Vadi  Ovium  in  Amne  Nigro  ob- 
vios  habuerunt,  cum  quibus  ibi  manus  conser- 
uerunt,  profligate  supra  20  eorum  desiderarunt 
qui  sub  Malacliiá,  filio  Joannis  O'Kelly,  Felimeo 
O'Falani  filio,  et  filius  Dubhgalli  mac  Naghtain 
meruerunt,  plures  etiam  quam  20  equos,  loricas 
multas,  arma  plurima  in  conflictu,  praster  alios 
amne  absorptos,  amiserunt.  Die  vero  Luua; 
pugnam  insecutá,  de  omnium  consensu  capita 
captis  amputata  ad  Edmundum  Faiura  in  villam 
suamBallimacadam  in  Kinelferga  Elias  Carolinai 
deferebantur,  ubi  in  contorum  cuspides  elata 
pro  trophaeis  visenda  exhibebantur. 

■'  Postea  Edmundus  Faius  Fadani  castellum, 
quo  se  Cormacus  receperat,  octidua  obsidione 
cinxit,  Cormaco  obsides  tradeute  et  patris 
feodus"  [Gossipred]  "cum  eo  incunte  acquievit. 

•'  Magno  bello  inter  Gallos  Anglos  et  Scotos 
exorto,  Donatus  filius  O'Concliauri  Falgii  et 
Caliiri  O'Concbauri  íilii,  militiíE  adscripti,  in 
Angliam  specie  quidem  ut  sub  Rege  stipundia 
t'acerent,  revera  ut  avitis  sedibus  amoverentur, 
abducti  sunt.magnoLageniensium  acMidensium 
militum  numero  iUos  ad  ea  arma  insecuto. 

"  Calbachus  O'Carvaill  Dublinium  ad  concilia 


profectus  arci  Regias  per  insidias  in  custodiam 
traditur,  causá  ipsius  iu  carcerem  tradendi  nec 
ipsi  nec  uUi  mortalium  indicatá"  [nec  quo  Ijtro 
liberaretur]. 

"  Procenturio  ille  supra  memoratus  et  Ed- 
mundus Faius,  copiis  in  Eliam  bis  ductis,  O'Car- 
vallum  Tadeum  Luscum  ita  terruerunt,  ut  bel- 
lum  pro  se  tueudo  suscipere  dubitaverit.  Proinde 
!Mac  Cogblanum  et  Delblnna;  incolas  Edmundus, 
ut,  se  bellum  Elise  inferente,  comitarentur,  roga- 
vit,  a  quibus  cum  repulsam  ferret,  iracundiá  sic 
exarsit  ut  ab  eorum  amicitiá  protinus  desciverit ; 
illis  etiam  in  sententiá  firmius  persistentibus 
discordia  non  mediocris  erupit ;  quaj  eo  usque 
provecta  est,  ut  viam  aperuit  O'Carvallo  et  Mac 
Coghlano  Edmundi  a  suis  finibus  pellendi.  Ejus 
enim  insolentiam  diutius  ferre  non  poterunt. 
Quare  Castella  de  Kilcomain  et  Cancoradli  ei 
ademerunt  et  hoc  facto  Delbhinam  a  domina- 
tionis  jugo,  quo  semiannum  premebatur,  libe- 
rarunt. 

"  Saighria  Keirani  et  Kilcormac  immisso  per 
Anglos  et  O'Carvallum  igne  diruta;  conflagra- 
runt. 

"  Procenturio,  aliis  sibi  Anglis  adjunctis,  in 


I 


15490 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1515 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1549. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  forty-nine. 

O'Boyle  (Donnell,  tlie  sou  of  Niall,  who  was  son  of  Tmlougli)  died  on  the 
4  th  of  August. 

Eveleen,  the  daughter  of  O'Donnell,  and  wife  of  O'Boyle  ( Tuiiough),  died. 

Melaghlin  God  O'Madden,  Tanist  of  Sil-Anmchadha,  was  slain  by  Melaghlin 
Modhardha  O'Madden  and  his  kinsmen,  in  revenge  of  his  father  and  brother. 

A  house  was  attacked  at  the  town  of  Newcastle  [in  Clonlonan,  Westmeath], 
by  Niall  O'Melaghlin,  upon  O'Melaghlin  (Teige  Roe)  and  his  kinsman,  Mur- 
rough.  The  house  was  burned  over  tlieni,  and  more  than  twenty  persons  were 
killed  and  Avounded  ;  nine  of  them  were  killed  on  tlie  spot.  O'Melaghlin  and 
his  kinsman,  ]\Iurrough,  escaped;  but  Murrough  was  wounded  on  that  occasion. 


Delbhinam  crebris  hortatibus  Edinundi  Faii, 
viudictam  ob  se  ab  incolis  ejecium  spirantis,  per- 
tractus,  agros  inter  Belachantochair  et  Tochar- 
ciimmona,  et  Bailimicuallacliain  in  Lusmagh  ra- 
pinis  et  dtíflagrationibus  procucurrerat.  Obsi- 
dione  deinde  unius  noctis  Balinacloihaí  admotá 
operam  lusit,  nam  postridie  sine  prajda,  sine 
pugna,  sine  deditione  abire  coactus  est. 

"  Maighslaniam  terra  O'Moelachlinius  et  Ath- 
lonienses  Angli,  mari  classis  de  Caladli  devasta- 
runt. 

"  Eliae  Delbbinaeque  castella  de  Banchor  de 
Maighistin  de  Clochannageapach  ab  incolis  solo 
adiequata  sunt  ne  receptacula  forent  Anglonim. 

"  Centurio  [Rufus]  versus  O'Carvallum  ad 
Rupem  altercationis  adortus,  acie  dimicans  40 
vel  60  suorum  desideravit,  nihilominus  tamen 
trium  tantum  mensiuin  spatio  restauratas  copias 
ad  Rupem  altercationis  [ter]  adusit ;  nee  aliud 
quidpiam  quam  dedecus  et  suorum  amissionem 
toties  rursus  retulit. 

"  Cahirus Rufus O'Conchaurus.  aRicardo  An- 
glico  de  Burgo  captus,  in  manus  Anglorum  tra- 
ditur. 

"  O'Carvallus  Enacbai  vicum  et  monasteriuni 

9 


igne  absumpsit,  quo  minus  autem  castellum  et 
pomoerium  ejus  ab  eádem  ruiná  prohibueruiit 
pra3sidiarii ;  ignem  etiam  o  Carvallus  Uathuia' 
monasterio  admovit,  et  ex  illo  Anglos  expulit. 
Quae  res  et  eorum  viribus  decrementum  et  po- 
tentiffi  contemptum  non  modicum  peperit;  et  ad 
eam  potestatem  ó  Carvallum  extulit,  ut  tota  di- 
tione  sua  illos  abegerit  praiter  paucos  pra;sidia- 
rios  qui  Euacha;  Mac  Magnusi  turrim  insederunt. 

"  Caiiirius  Ruius  o  Conchaurus  Dublinii 
morte  multatus,  et  Malacliias  o  Moelaclilinus 
vinculis  solutus,  in  libertatom  eductus  est. 

"  O'Morus  Gillapatricius  in  Anglia  morte 
repentiná  sublatus,  magnum  sui  desiderium  reli- 
quit,  magnus  evasui'us  nisi  Anglorum  potentia 
obstitisset. 

"  Maighcoraniam,  tigh,  templa"  [recte,  tecta 
pariterac  ecclesias]  "ó  Carvallus,  Tada;usCoecus, 
et  Mac  Coghlanus  Arturus,  Cormaci,  filius  po- 
pulati  sunt,  ut  hac  ratione  poenas  ab  incolis  ex- 
igerent  Lnjuriarum  quibus  Delbhinam  non  ita 
jjridem  aflecerant.  Noctc  vero  populationeni 
insecuta  apud  Laccach  de  Amanlain  castra  po- 
sueruut. 

"Johannes  oNelli  filius,  ducto  inClannaboiam 

G  2 


1516  awNQia  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1550. 

Ctn  lufcip  eDuapD  bellijam  do  6u1  hi  Sa;roib, ")  inlliam  bpabapon  .i.  an 
cpepnéji  ina  lonaD, -|  ciiipc  rhóp  lap  an  lupop  pn  In  luimneac.  O  cfpbaill 
DO  Dol  jup  an  ccúipc  pin  ap  comaipce  lapla  ofprnuman,  -]  mépae  luimnij,  -\ 
vnaire  jail"]  jaoibel,  baoi  ap  in  ccnijir,  -\  a  ceac'c  plan  pop  ccúlaib  maille 
le  píorcáin  Do  pfin  ~[  Da  pann  Do  jaoiDealaib  .1.  TTlac  mupcaóa,  ó  ceallaij, 
Ó  maoíleaclainn, "]  pocaióe  ele  nac  aipirhcep. 

6aile  niic  aoam  Do  buain  Demann  a  pan,  "j  pi'ol  ccfpbaill  Do  bfir  anD 
DO  piDipi,  "1  ba  mop  liiacjaipe  "j  gaipDeacup  ele  De  pin. 

OonnchaD  ua  pfpjail  canaipi  ua  ppfpjail  Do  rhapbaó  lá  a  bfpbparaip 
pfin  cpe  Ttieabail. 

O  Suillebán  Diapmaicc,  peap  cfnDaip  caipDfrhail  niacca  nairriDiDe  do 
lopccaD  la  puoap  ina  caiplén  pfin,  -)  a  Dfpbparaip  amlaoib  ó  puillebáin  do 
;^abail  a  lonaiD,  1  amlaoib  pfippin  do  mapbab  mpaih. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1550. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cúicc  céD,  caocca. 

RuDpaije  mac  DonnchaiD  mic  aoba  puaib  1  Domnaill  eppcop  ooipe,  -| 
bparaip  ap  aoi  ccoile  Decc  an.  8.  occobep,-]  a  abnacal  1  nDún  na  nsall  in 
aibi'cc,  S.  Ppoinpep. 

Qn  rabb  (.1.  fpa  puaib  eoin  a  aimnpióe)  mac  Doitinaill  piiam  í  jallcubaip 
Decc,  an.  29.  app,l. 

exercitu,  Brianum  Fagartach O'Nell,  filium  Nelli  lachi  obiit. 

Juvenis,  filii  Nelli,  filiiConi,  filii  Ilugonis  Flavi,  "  Malachias  Moddartha  ó  Maddin  cum  neces- 

virum  antea  prosperitate  et  bellicis   aggressio-  sariis  suis  Malachiam  Got  o  Maddin  o  JIaddino 

nibus  clarum,  hospitalitatis  laude,   et  suorum  in  Silanmchia  dignitate  proximum,  paterna;  & 

studio  commcndatum,  lucidam  inter  contribules  tVatcrna?  ca?dis  pa3nas  repetens  vita  privavit. 
stellam  interficit."  "  Domus  in  pagoCastelli  novi,  qua  6  Moelacli- 

"  Baile-Mic-Adam,  now  Cadamstown,   in  the  linus,   Tadeus  Rufus,  et  frater  ejus  Murachus 

barony  of  Ballybritt,  King's  County.  claudebantur,   igne  Nelli  6  Melaclilini  opera  in- 

''  Soon  afterwards. — The   entries   under  this  jecto,  conflagravit.     Inter  plures  quam  20  in  eo 

year  are   translated  into  Latin  as   follows   in  tiunultu  csesos  et  vulneratos  9  loco  viri  non  ex- 

F.  1.  18:  cesserunt.     O'Melachlinus  et  Murachus  evasc- 

"  O'Boylius,  Daniel,  tilius  Nelli,  filii  Terdela-  runt,  ille  incoluniis,  hie  vulnere  affectus. 
chi,  obiit  4  Augusti.  "  Edwardus  Bellingham  proregis  in  Angliani 

"Evelina  filia  ó  Donnell  uxor  o  Boyl  Terde-  profecti  vices  ThesaurariusBrabazonns  in  Hiber- 


15.50.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1517 

Edward  Bellingham,  the  Lord  Justice,  went  to  England  ;  and  William  Bra- 
bazon,  the  Treasurer,  [was  appointed]  in  his  place.  A  great  court  was  held 
by  this  Lord  pJustice  in  Limerick,  to  which  O'Carroll  repaired,  under  the  safe 
protection  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  the  Mayor  of  Limerick,  and  the  chiefs  of 
the  English  and  Irish  who  were  present  at  that  court ;  and  he  returned  home 
safe,  with  [terms  of]  peace  for  himself  and  his  Irish  confederates,  namely,  ]\Iac 
Murrough,  O'Kelly,  O'Melaghlin,  and  many  others  not  enumerated. 

Baile-Mic-Adam"  was  taken  from  Edmond  a  Fail,  and  the  O'Carrolls  returned 
to  it  again ;  in  consequence  of  which  there  was  great  rejoicing  and  exultation 
in  Ely. 

Donough  O'Farrell,  Tanist  of  the  O'Farrells,  was  treacherously  slain  by  his 
own  brother. 

O'Sullivan  (Dermot),  a  kind  and  friendly  man  [to  his  friends],  and  fierce 
and  inimical  [to  his  enemies],  was  burned  by  gunpowder  in  his  own  castle ;  and 
his  brother,  AuliiFe  O'Sullivan,  took  his  place  ;  and  he  also  was  killed  soon 
afterwards''. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1550. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  fifty. 

Rury,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Hugh  Roe  O'Donnell,  Bishop  of  Derry, 
and  a  friar  by  his  own  wiir,  died,  and  was  buried  in  the  monastery  of  Donegal, 
in  the  habit  of  St.  Francis. 

The  Abbot  of  Assaroe  (John,  tlie  son  of  Donnell  Roe  O'Gallagher),  died 
on  the  29  th  of  April. 

niá  obivit.   A  quo  cum  comitia  Limerici  iiidice-  "  Donatus    O'Ferrall,    O'Ferrallo    diguitate 

rentur,   ad  ea  O'Carvallus,  comitis  Desmonise,  proximus  a  fratre  suo  per  fraudem  necatur. 

pra?toris    Limericensis    ac   omnium    Anglorum  "  O'Sullevanus  Dermitius,  bello  fortis,  hosti 

Hibernorumque  qui  ad  ea  comitia  confluxerunt  formidabilis,  amicis  charus,  pulvere  tormentorio 

prajsidio  tectus,  concessit,  et  impunitate  sibi  ac  ignem  fortuito  concipiente  ambustus  in  suo  cas- 

pace  sibi  confederatis,  O'Kellio,  0'Mn?lachlino  et  tello  interiit,  ac  fratrem  suum  Amlaivum  suc- 

aliis  hie  non  recensitis,  impetrattá  domuin  inco-  cessorem  habuit,  sed  non  diuturnum  ut  qui  paulo 

lumis  rediit.  post  interemptus  fuit." 

"  Villa  de  Macadam  Edmundo  Faio  ablata  et  "  By  his  own  will,  op  aoi  coile,  i.  e.  quoad  vo- 

familia  O'Carvallorum  [restituta,  quod]  Eliam  luntatem.  The  translator  in  F.  1.  18,  understands 

in  summffi  voluptate  perfudit.  this  passage  thus  :    "  Studio  tanto  ordinis  mi- 


1518  awNQi-a  Rio^hacbca  emeawH.  [1551. 

TTlac  i^uibne  ba^aineac  coippóealBac  meipcceac  00  rhctpbrib  1  mbaile 
meic  puibne  la  cloinn  coilin  (.1.  uilliam  cabg  "|  Seaan), "]  la  cloinn  coinneic- 
cem,  8.  mnuajiii. 

I?uai6]ii  ballac  mac  eojain  Puaib  mic  puibne  Do  beir  ace  cuinjió  njeoji- 
naipcipe  bo^ame  pop  ua  nDomnaill,"]  ó  ná  puaip  Do  oeachaibjup  na  ceallaib 
bfga,  "j  po  leipinopaó  an  baile'laip, -|  po  mapbabporii  lapaiii  la  TTlaolniuipe 
mac  aeba  pia  ccino  paire  .1.  an  31.  do  ITlapca. 

TTlac  an  baipD  ripe  conaill,  peapjal  mac  t)omnaill  puaib  paoi  pipDana,  -] 
oioe  pccol,  pfp  po  ba  mop  ainm,  -]  oipbfpcup  ap  puD  epeann  ina  aimpip,  corig- 
malai^  coiccfnn  cije  naoiDfo  Décc. 

Qnroni  Sincligep  .1.  an  lupcip,  Do  bi  poirhe  i  nepinn  Do  recc  1  nepinn  ina 
lupnp,  "1  Dpon5  rhóp  do  mairib  epeann  do  óol  ina  óocum  gup  an  ccuipc  móip 
50  bar  cliar. 

lapla  DO  jaipm  Do  T^iocapD  8a;ranac  mac  uillicc  na  ccfnD. 


aOlS  CPIOSC,  1551. 
QoiS  Cr?io]^c,  mile,  ctncc  céD,  cóocca,  ahaón. 

QipDfppocc  caipil  emann  buicilep  mac  piapaip  .1.  lapla  upminnan  Décc. 

TTlupcab  mac  coippDealbaij,  mic  raibcc,  mic  coippbealbaij  ui  bpmin  mpla 
cuaDmuman  a  hucc  gall  -]  an  pij,  O  bpiain  é  Do  jnar  gaoibeal,  peap  agrhap 
lé  hionnpaicció,  comna]ic  lé  cotruccaó,  Suim,  Saibbip,  co  niolmaoinib,  ba 
liepiDe  ceD  Duine  Dia  po  gaipmfb  lapla  Do  piól  mbpiain  Do  écc,  -\  mac  a  Deap- 
bparap  Donnchab  mac  concobaip  Doiponfo  ina  lonaD 

norum  afFectus  ut  saucti  Francisci  habitu  indu-  27  Aprilis. 

tus  in  monasterio  Dungallensi  sepultus  fuerit."  "  Mac  Suiuius  Baganensis,  Terdelaclius  Mer- 

''  ]Vas  styled  Earl. — The  entries  under  this  gach,  occisus  est  in  villa  Mac  Suinnii  a  Clancolin 

year  are  translated    into    Latin   as  follows  in  Gulielmo,  Tadeo  et  Johanne,  et  Clanconnagen,  8 

i-  1-  18:  Januarii.    Cum  autem  liodericus,  filius  Eugeaii 

"  Eodericus,  lilius  Donati,  filii  Ilugonis  Rufi  Rufi  Mac  Suinnii,  diu  cum  O'Donnello  ageret,  et 

o  Donnelli,  EpiscopusDerensis,  obiit  8  Octobris,  ipse  Mac    Suinnius    Baganensis   renunciaretur 

studio  tanto  ordinis  minorum  afFectus  ut  Sancti  nee  voto  potiretur,  ira  percitus  Kilbeggam  peni- 

Francisci  habitu  indutus  in  monasterio  Dungal-  tus  diripit  quod  facinus  non  diu  multum  tulit; 

lensi  sepultus  fuerit.  nam    3    mensibus    nondum    elapsis,    31    primo 

"  Edmundus  filius  Donati,  Abbas  Asroe,  obiit  Martii,  a  Mariano  fiiio  Ilugonis  confossus,  periit. 


1551.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1519 

iVIac  Sweeny  Banagh  (Turlougli  Meirgeach)  was  slain  on  the  8tli  of  Janu- 
ary, at  Mac  Sweeny's  town,  by  the  Clann-Coilin  (William,  Teige,  and  John) 
and  the  Clann-Coinnegein. 

Rory  Ballagh,  the  son  of  Owen  Roe  Mac  Sweeny,  requested  O'Donnell  to 
give  him  the  lordship  of  Tir-Boghaine ;  and  as  he  did  not  obtain  it,  he  went  to 
Killybegs,  and  totally  plundered  that  town.  He  was  slain  three  months  after- 
wards by  Mulmurry,  the  son  of  Hugh,  on  the  31st  of  March. 

Mac  Ward  of  Tirconnell  (Farrell,  the  son  of  Donnell  Roe),  a  learned  poet, 
a  superintendent  of  schools,  and  a  man  of  great  name  and  renown  throughout 
Ireland  in  his  time,  who  kept  a  house  of  general  hospitality,  died. 

Anthony  St.  Leger,  who  had  been  sometime  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  re- 
turned to  Ireland  as  Lord  Justice  ;  and  a  great  number  of  the  Irish  chieftains 
Avent  to  meet  him  at  the  great  court  in  Dublin. 

Richard  Saxanagh,  the  son  of  Ulick-na-gceann,  was  styled  Earl"  [of  Clan- 
rickard]. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1551. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  fifty-one. 

The  Archbishop  of  Cashel,  Edmond  Butler,  the  son  of  Pierce,  Earl  of 
Ormond,  died. 

Murrovigh,  the  son  of  Turlough.  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Turlough  O'Brien, 
[styled]  Earl  of  Thomond  by  the  English  and  the  King,  but  [styled]  O'Brien, 
according  to  the  custom  of  the  Irish,  a  man  valiant  in  making  and  puissant  in 
sustaining  an  attack,  influential,  rich,  and  wealthy,  the  first  of  the  race  of  Brian 
who  was  styled  Earl,  died  ;  and  the  son  of  his  brother,  Donough,  the  son  of 
Conor,  was  inaugurated"  in  his  place. 

"  Macanbhard  Tirconellensis,  Fergallus  filius  honoratus,  in  Iliberniam  rediit,  a  quo  cum  Dub- 

Danielis  Rufi,  obiit,  qui,  ob  summam  rei  poeticae  linii  comitia  indicerentur,  multi  ex  Hibernis 

scientiam  et  plurimos  eruditionis  in  ejus  Schola  proceribus  eo  confluxerunt. 

excultos,  nominis  celebritate  per  totam  Hiber-  "  Richardus  deBurgo,  cognomento  Anglicus, 

niam  inclaruit,  nee  modicam  etiam  laudem  con-  filius   Ulechi    (a   capitibus),    comitis    dignitate 

secutus  est  quod  sedes  ejus  advenis  pauperibus  creatus." 

liospitio  escipiendis  patuerit.  ^  Inaugurated. — Charles  O'Conor  writes,  inter 

"AnthoniusSt.Legerus,denuo  proregis  titulo  lineas:   "  cnoi   Deapmao   piuin  Dom  óóic,  i.e. 


1520  aNNQf-a  Rio^hachca  eiReaNW.  [1551. 

Cacbapp  mac  ma^nupa  mic  aoba  omb  mic  ao6a  puaio,  ITlac  ui  haoijill, 
•]  TTIac  TTieic  puibne  bajainij  Do  mapbab  (50  luce  luin^e  paiDe  amaille  ppiú) 
la  halbancoib  1  rcopaij  an.  16.  do  Sepcembep. 

^painne  injfn  Tna^nupa,  mic  aoóa,  mic  ao-)a  piiam  bfn  ui  puaipc  bpian 
mac  eoccain  do  écc,  an  29.  appil. 

Qn  lupcip  anconi  Sinclijep  do  bpfic  poip,  -)  lupcip  ele  do  chup  ma  lonaó 
CO  hepinn  .1.  Semup  cpopcep. 

Sluaicceao  lap  an  lupcip  i  nuUcoib  1  ccopac  pojrhaip,-]  po  cuippioc  luce 
cf.cpe  riirap  uafaib  co  peacpainn  Do  cuinjiD  cpeacli.  baccap  clann  meic 
Dorhnaill  na  halban  ipin  oilén  ace  imóeajail  na  cpice  .1.  Semup,-]  colla  maol- 
Dub.  peacap  lomaipeacc  fcoppa  50  paoímió  pop  na  Sa;cancoib  co  no  répna 
pfp  airptpce  pgél  Díb  cénmocá  a  ccaoípeac  .).  leucenonc  po  gabaó  lap  na 
halbancoib  1  baoípióe  1  ngiallnup  aca  co  ppuaippioc  a  noeapbpacaip  app  .1. 
Sorhaiple  buiDe  mac  Domnaill  baoi  i  ngfirhel  ag  jallaib  ara  cliar  Co  bliaóna 
piap  an  can  pin,"]  puapcclaó  mop  ele  amaille  ppip. 

Cúipc  mop  1  nac  cliac  mp  niompiiD  anall  Don  lupcip,  -]  po  jabab  ó  néill 
conn  mac  cuinn  lapla  ci'pe  heoccain  on  can  pin  cpia  lonnlac  -]  fDapcopaoin 
o  rhfic  pfin  pfpDopca  .1.  an  bapún, "]  coccab  mop  Do  bénarh  Do  clomn  óicc 
Í  néill  ppi  gallaib  1  ppip  an  mbapiin  a  noiojail  jabala  a  nacap,  1  Diójbála 
lomba  DO  Denarh  fcoppa. 

Sluaicceab  la  jallaib  Dopibipi  1  nulcuib  Do  bioja.l  a  noincpibe  pop  cloinn 
mfic  Domnaill, "]  pop  cloinn  í  neill,  i  pop  mac  neill  óicc  mic  neill  mic  cuinn, 
mic  aba  buibe.  baccap  ulaib  1  albanaij  1  neplairhe  ap  a  ccionn.  l?o  pijib 
canopjnl  amnup  ainiapba  fcopjict  lap  poccain  In  ccfnn  apoile  Dóib  co  po 
meabaiD  pop  gallaib, "]  50  po  mctpbab  Drj  ceD  Do  blia;rancoib  "]  Dfipfnricoib 

there  is  a  mistake  here  in  my  opinion."  The  error  This  Donough,  on  surrendering  the  patent  to 

consists  in  using  the  word  óiponeaó,  for  Henry  King  Edward  VI.,   obtained  a  new  grant  of  the 

VIII.  had  granted  tlie  title  of  Earl  of  Thomoud  dignities  for  himself  and  the  heirs  male  of  his 

to  Murrough  O'Brien  for  life,  remainder  to  his  body  by  patent,  dated  7th  Kovember,  1552,  and 

nephew,  Donough  O'Brien,  and  the  title  of  Baron  also  possession  of  all  the  honours  and  lands  which 

of  Inohiquin  to  his  own  heirs  male.  The  reason  of  had  fallen  to  the  crown  by  the  death  of  his  uncle, 

thiskindof  succession  was  becauseConorO'Brien,  '  Tory  Is/and. — An  island  off  the  north-west 

the  elder  brother  of  Murrough,  was  the  last  chief  coast  of  Donegal — See  note  ",  under  the  year 

of  Thomond,  and  his  son,  Donough,  was  consi-  1202,  p.  132,  supra. 

dered  by  the  King  to  have  been  the  true  heir.  ^  Eeachruinn,    now  Eaghery,  or  Eathlin,    a 


1551.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1.521 

Caffer,  the  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Hugh  Duv,  son  of  Hugh  Eoe  [O'Donnell]; 
the  son  of  O'Boyle,  and  the  son  of  Mac  Sweeny  Banagh,  together  with  the  crew 
of  a  long  ship,  were  slain  by  the  Scots  on  the  16th  of  September,  on  Tory  Island'. 

Grainne,  the  daughter  of  Manus,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Hugh  Roe  [O'Don- 
nell], and  wife  of  O'liourke  (Brian,  the  son  of  Owen),  died  on  the  29th  of 
April. 

The  Lord  Justice,  Anthony  St.  Leger,  was  called  to  England ;  and  another 
was  sent  to  Ireland  in  his  stead,  namely,  James  Crofts. 

A  hosting  was  made  by  the  Lord  Justice  into  Ulster  in  the  beginning  of  Au- 
tumn; and  he  sent  the  crews  of  four  ships  to  the  island  of  Reachrainn^,  to  seek 
for  plunders.  The  sons -of  Mac  Donuell  of  Scotland,  James  and  Colla  Maelduv, 
were  upon  the  island  to  protect  the  district.  A  battle  was  fought  between 
them,  in  which  the  English  were  defeated,  so  that  not  one  of  them  escaped  to 
relate  their  story,  except  theii'  chief,  a  lieutenant",  whom  these  Scots  took  pri- 
soner, and  kept  in  custody  until  they  obtained  [in  exchange]  for  him  their  own 
brother,  Sorley  Boy,  who  had  been  imprisoned  in  Dublin  by  the  English  for 
the  space  of  a  year  before,  and  another  great  ransom  along  Avith  him. 

A  great  court  was  held  in  Dublin  after  the  arrival  of  the  Lord  Justice ;  and 
O'Neill  (Con,  the  son  of  Con),  Earl  of  Tyrone,  was  at  that  time  taken  prisoner, 
in  consequence  of  the  complaints  and  accusations  of  his  own  son,  Ferdoragh, 
the  Baron  ;  and  the  young  sons  of  O'Neill  waged  a  great  war  with  the  English 
and  the  Baron,  in  revenge  of  the  taking  of  their  father.  Many  injuries  were 
done  between  them. 

A  hosting  was  made  by  the  English  a  second  time  into  Ulster,  to  wreak 
their  vengeance  on  the  sons  of  Mac  Donnell,  the  sons  of  O'Neill,  and  the  son 
of  Niall  Oge,  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Con,  son  of  Hugh  Boy.  The  Ultonians  and 
Scots  were  prepared  to  receive  them.  On  coming  together,  a  fierce  and  furious 
battle  was  fought  between  them,  in  which  the  English  were  defeated,  and  two 

well-known   island  oil'  the  north  coast  of  thi,'  Life  of  St.  Comgall. — See  Ussher's  Priniordia, 

county  of  Antrim.    This  island  is  mentioned  by  p.  958  ;   Duboiirdieu's  Statistical  Survey  of  the 

various  ancient  writers  :  it  is  called  iiicwea  by  Comity  of  Antrim,  p.  450-454;  and  Hamilton's 

Pliny  ;  Ricina  by  Ptolemy  ;  Reckrea  by  Adam-  Letters  concerning  the  North   Coast  of  Antrim, 

nan  ;    Raclinda   by    Buchanan  ;    Rachryne   by  pp.  9,  14,  15,  39. 

Fordun  ;  and  Reachraind  by  the  author  of  the  ^  Lieutenant. — His  name  was  Bagnall. 

9  H 


1522 


awNata  Rio^hachca  eiReoNN. 


[15.52. 


Don  cup  pn,  -)  a  rcepna  ap  oib  ranjaccap  ap  ccúlaib  pó  acaip,  -j  pó  oiom- 
mbuaió  Don  Da  cupup  pin. 

Cúipr  mop  1  nac  luain,  1  TTlag  coclám  Do  Dol  jup  an  ccúipr  ípm,  i  a 
papDÚn  Dpajbóil  Dó,  -\  pacenc  a]\  a  Duchaij,  -]  Delbna  frpa  Do  Dol  pó  cíop 
Don  pij. 

O  concobaip  pailje  .i.  bpian  Do  bfir  illairh  i  8a;caib  ó  puccaó  poip  é,  "| 
lappaib  DO  rabaipc  do  pop  elÚD,  "|  bpfic  paip.  Puaippiorh  a  anam  Dopióipi,  "| 
bpai  jDfnup  pioppuibe  ap  a  haicle. 

Oorhnoll  mag  conjail  Decc. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1552. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cúícc  céD,  caocca,  aoó. 

Innpaó, "]  opccain  cluana  mic  nóip  lá  gallaib  aca  luain,  -]  na  cluicc  mópa 
Do  bpfir  ap  an  ccloiccceac,  ni  po  poccbab  pop  clocc  bfcc  no  mop,  lomaij  no 


'  From  these  two  expeditions This  should  be, 

"  returned  back  in  disgrace  having  been  unsuc- 
cessful on  these  two  hostings.  The  Latin  trans- 
lator, in  F.  1.  18,  observing  the  defect  in  the 
original,  has  improved  it  thus  : 

"  Angli  profligati,  ducentis,  tarn  Anglis  quam 
llibernis,  ex  ipsorum  exercitu  caesis,  aegerrime 
tulerunt  se  adversa  pugná,  in  duabus  illis  ex- 
peditionibus,  fusos  fuisse." 

■'  Dealb/ina  Eatkra. — This  territory  is  now 
included  in  the  barony  of  Garrycastle,  in  the 
King's  County. 

'  He  was  [^scuteiiced  to  éc]  íept. — The  words 
added  in  brackets  are  absolutely  necessary,  be- 
cause, as  will  be  seen  hereafter,  he  was  after- 
wards set  at  liberty,  at  the  mediation  of  his 
daughter,  by  Queen  Mary. 

"  Mac  Congail,  now  Mac  Gonigle.  The  entries 
under  this  year  are  translated  in  F.  1.  18,  as  fol- 
lows : 

"  Edumudus  Butler  filius  Petri  Comitis  Or- 
monia;  Archiopiscopus  Casselensis  obiit. 


"  Murachus  filius  Terdelachi,  filii  Tadei,  filii 
Terdelachi  O'Brian,  Comitis  Tuomonia;  titulu,  ab 
Anglis,  Ó  Briani  nomen  ab  Hibernis  consecutus, 
vir  in  oppugnationibus  audax,  in  propugnatio- 
nibus  fortis,  opibus  affluens,  obiit ;  Comitis 
honore,  quern  ille  primus  obtinuit,  Donato, 
suo  ex  Conchauro  fratre  nepoti  delato. 

"  Cathbarus,  filius  Magni,  filii  Hugonis  Nigri, 
filii  Hugonis  Eufi,  filius  O'Boillii,  filius  Mac 
SuinniiBaganensis,  et  tot  praterea  homines  quot 
cymba  grandior  capere  poterat ;  a  Scotis  in  Tora- 
chan  16  Septembris  mersi  sunt. 

"  Grania,  filia  Magni,  filii  Hugonis  Rufi,  uxor 
O'Ruarki  Briani  filii  Eugenii,   obiit  29  Aprilis. 

'•  Proregi  Anthonio  Senlegero  in  Angliam 
accito  suffectus  est  Jacobus  Crofts,  qui  Autumno 
ineunte,  ducto  in  ultoniam  exercitu,  A  grandioris 
form®  cymbas  in  Rachranna;  insulam  armatas 
vehi  jussit,  ut  educti  inde  boves  militibus  sup- 
peditarentur  in  vitam.  Sed  Scoti  sub  imperio 
filiorum  Mac  Donnelli,  Jacobi  et  Collai  Moel- 
dulfi,    ad   pecorum    et   insula   custodiam  con- 


1552.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1523 

hundred  of  the  EngHsh  and  Irish  [of  their  party]  were  slain ;  and  such  of  them 
as  escaped  returned  back  in  disgrace  and  discomfiture  from  these  two  expedi- 
tions'. 

A  great  court  was  held  at  Athlone  ;  and  Mac  Coghlan  repaired  to  that 
court,  and  obtained  his  pardon,  and  a  patent  for  his  territory  ;  and  Dealbhna- 
Eathra''  became  tributary  to  the  King. 

O'Conor  Faly,  i.  e.  Brian,  continued  in  prison  in  England  from  the  time  that 
he  was  taken  thither.  He  made  an  attempt  to  escape,  but  he  was  taken.  His 
life  was  spared,  but  he  was  [sentenced  to  be]  kept'  in  constant  confinement  ever 
afterwards. 

Donnell  Mac  Congail"  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1552. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  fifty-two. 

Clonmacnoise  was  plundered  and  devastated  by  the  English  of  Athlone  ; 
and  the  large  bells  were  taken  from  the  Gloigtheach".     There  was  not  left, 

stituti  non  modo  invasorum  praedae  inhiantium  cinctos  offenderunt,  qua  cum  infensis  animis  et 

impetum  prohibuerunt,  sed  omnes  ita  interne-  infestis  armis  utrinque  quam  acerrime  concur- 

cione  deleverunt,  ut  ne  nuncius  cladi  superfu-  reretur,  Angli  profligati,  ducentis  tarn  Anglis 

erit  prajter  solum  procenturionem  qui  caiteris  quam  Hibernis  ex  ipsorum  exercitu  ciesis,  seger- 

prseficiebatur  :  quem  non  ante  dimiserunt  quam  rime  tulerunt  se  adversá  pugná,  in  duabus  illis 

fratrem  juvenemSomharliumFlavumecaptione,  expeditionibus,  fusos  fuisse. 

quam  sex  menses  jam  Dublinii  sustinuerat,  in  "  Ad  comitia  per  illud  tempus  Atliloniae  ha- 

libertatem  assertum,  et  lytrum  non  mediocre  bita  Mac  Coghlanus  venit  et  delectorum  veniam 

pra'terea  reciperent.  ac  diploma  quo  suas  sibi  possessiones  habere 

"  Ab  bac  expeditione  pervenit  Dublinium,  permitteretur  impetravit.    Delbhna  Eathra  jam 

comitia  indixit,  et  6  Nellus,  Conus  filius  Coni,  obnoxia  facta  Regii  Vectigalis  persolutioni. 

captus  est,  Ferdoracho  filio  ejus,  Dunganoniae  "  O'Conchaurus  Falgise  longo  jam  tempore  in 

Barone,  de  illo  querelam  subornante,  qua  re  ju-  Anglia  custodi»  traditus  fuga  elabi  contendit, 

niores  ó  Nelli  filii  sic  commoti  sunt,  ut  Anglis  sed  interoeptus  et  in  fuga  retractus,  vivere  per- 

et  Baroni  bellum  prajterea  inferre  non  dubita-  missus  perpetuo  tamen  carceri  addictus. 

verint,  ex  quo,  altera  parte  alteram  pertinaciter  "  Daniel  Mac  Congbail  obiit." 

infestante,  multa  nocumenta  enata  sunt.  "  Cloi'jtheach,  i.  e.  the  Round  Tower  Belfry. 

"  Angli  deinde  O'Neill  et  Mac  Donelli  filios,  This  was  the  Tower  now  called  O'Rourke's. — 

necnon  etiam  filium  Nelli  juvenis,  filii  Coni,  filii  See  this  passage  already  published  in  Petrie's 

Hugonis  Flavi,  armis  impetentes  ad  pugnam  ao-  Aitcient  Eccles.  Architecture  o/  Ireland,  p.  388. 

9  h2 


1524  aNNaf,a  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [1552. 

olcóiji  ná  leabaji  nci  5émaó  piú  gloine  hi  ppuinneóicc  ó  V>alla  na  hfccailpi 
aiTiac  nac  puccaó  eipce.  6á  cpuaj  cpa  an  jniom  |'in  inO]ia6  caqicic  ciapáin 
an  naoim  eplairfi. 

r^abcc  Ó  |iuai]ic  ranaipi  bjieipne  do  cjiochaó  lá  a  rhuinri|i  péin.  Qc  bepar 
apoile  |io  baoi  cum  do  bpian  ó  puaipc  (.1.  Deajibpafaip  a  arap)  a  nDénorh 
an  piajra  ipm. 

ITlac  puibne  pánacc  pimiópt,  1  mall  a  bparaip,  -|  bpian  mac  etnaiim  Do 
mapbaó  a  bpioll  hi  mainiprip. 

marjariiain  mac  bpiain  mic  caiDcc  mic  roippDealbaij;  1  bpiain  do  rhapbaó 
l('(  inuinnp  DonnchaiD  mic  concobaip  ui  bpiain. 

ITlac  UÍ  bpiain  cunomuman  Dia]iiTiaic-  mac  mupchaib  mic  roippDealbaijij 
Decc  oiDce  péile  bpí^oe,  ■)  a  aonacal  i  mainipcip  innpi. 

Coccaó  mop  an  bbaDam  pi  ecip  jallaib  Do  leir,"]  ulaiD  (cenmocá  uachab) 
1  albanaij  Don  Ific  apaill,  "]  uilc  lomba  Do  óénam  froppa. 

Sluaicceab  lap  an  lupcip  50  hullcaib  Do  piDipi  Do  pai 516  meic  neill  oicc, 
(.i.aoD  óneill)  1  na  nalbanac.  OoDeachaib  cécup  Dpon5  Dona  Sa;rancoib  "] 
lilac  an  cpabaoípi^  pluaj  pfmpa  Diappaib  cpeac.  Oo  pala  mac  neill  óicc 
ppiu  ag  bél  pfippre.  Do  bfpc  puabaipc  poraib  50  po  muib  poppa  50  po 
mapbab  ITlac  an  cpóbaipi^  laip,  -\  Da  picir  no  a  rpi  amaille  ppip.  Qp  a  aoi 
DO  cócap  na  plóicc  ele  anonn,"]  po  jabpacc  ace  Denarfi  caipléin  1  mbél  pfippre. 
Qcc  cfna  ni  puccpacc  buaib, "]  ni  piiaippioc  bpaijDe  no  cpeaca,-]  po  maoloD 
iiiópctn  Da  mfbaip  Don  cup  pm.  Oo  raoD  lapoiti  mac  ui  neill  peapDopca  (.1. 
an  bapvin)  y^uaj  mop  Do  cabaip  an  luprip  ~\  na  ngall,  1  ni  panaicc  laip  poc- 
cain  ina  cfnn  in  aohaib  pin,  "]  po  j^ab  longpopr  ina  compocpaib.  Ro  Ifn  a 
bparaip  Sfan  Donnjaileac  ó  neill  é  co  pluacc  ele  amaille  ppip, "]  do  bfpr 
amiip  longpuipc  ipin  oibce  ap  I'lua^  an  bápi'iin,  1  po  meabaib  piaifi  poppa  co 

°  Teige  G'Rourke Charles  O'Couor  of  Bela-  name  of  the  head  of  tlie  SavaJges  of  tlie  Ards, 

nagare  interpolates  TTIac   60^0111,   i.  e.  son  of  in  the  east  of  the  county  of  Down. 

Owen,  which  is  correct.  '  Tlteir  spirits  were  greathj  damped,  literally, 

■'  In  a  monastery. — This  sentence  is  left  iin-  "  much  of  their  mirth  was  blunted." 

perfeot.     It  was  probably  intended  to  be  :   "do  ^Kinsman. — John  was  the  legitimate  son  of  Con, 

mapbuD  a  Bpioll  hi  mainipcip  Rúra  maelúin,  tirst  Earl  ofTyrone,  and  Ferdoragh, Baron  of  Dun- 

L  e.  were  treacherotisly  slain  in  the  monastery  gannon,  who  was  many  years  older  than  he,  was 

of  Eathmullan."  a  bastard,  according  to  Edmund  Campion,  Fynes 

1  Mete  an  tSabhaoisigh This  was  the   Irish  Moryson,  Camden,  and  Ware.  John  O'Neil  him- 


1552.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1525 

moreover,  a  bell,  small  or  large,  an  image,  or  an  altar,  or  a  book,  or  a  gem,  or 
even  glass  in  a  window,  from  the  wall  of  the  church  out,  which  Avas  not  carried 
off.  Lamentable  was  this  deed,  the  plundering  of  the  city  of  Kieran,  the  holy 
patron. 

Teige  O'Rourke^  Tanist  of  Breifny,  was  hanged  by  his  own  people.  Some 
assert  that  Brian  O'Rourke,  his  father's  brother,  had  a  part  in  causing  this 
execution. 

Mac  Sweeny  Fanad  (Rory),  Niall,  his  relative,  and  Brian,  the  son  of  Ed- 
mond,  were  treacherously  slain  in  a  monastery''. 

Mahon,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Turlough  O'Brien,  was  slain 
by  the  people  of  Donough,  son  of  Conor  O'Brien. 

The  son  of  O'Brien  of  Thomond  (Dermot,  the  son  of  Murrough,  who  was 
son  of  Turlough)  died  on  the  eve  of  the  festival  of  St.  Bridget,  and  was  buried 
in  the  monastery  of  Ennis. 

A  great  war  [broke  out]  in  tliis  year  between  the  English,  on  the  one  side, 
and  the  Ultonians  (a  few  only  excepted)  and  Scots,  on  the  other,  during  which 
great  injuries  were  committed  between  them. 

A  hosting  was  made  by  the  Lord  Justice  again  into  Ulster,  against  the  son 
of  Niall  Oge  (i.  e.  Hugh  O'Neill)  and  the  Scots.  A  party  of  the  English  and 
Mac  an  tSabhaoisigh''  preceded  them  with  a  force,  in  quest  of  preys  ;  but  the 
sou  of  Niall  Oge  met  these  at  Belfast,  and  he  rushed  on  and  defeated  them,  and 
slew  Mac  an  tSabhaoisigh,  together  with  forty  or  sixty  others.  The  other 
troops,  however,  went  across  [the  River  Lagan] ,  and  proceeded  to  erect  a  castle 
at  Belfast,  but  they  gained  no  victory,  and  obtained  no  hostages  or  spoils ;  and 
their  spirits  were  greatly  damped''  on  this  occasion.  The  son  of  O'Neill  (Fer- 
doragh,  i.  e.  the  Baron)  went  afterwards  with  a  great  army  to  assist  the  Lord 
Justice  and  the  English  ;  but  not  being  able  on  that  night  to  come  up  with 
them,  he  pitched  his  camp  in  their  vicinity.  His  kinsman^  Johii  Donghaileach 
O'Neill,  pursued  him  with  another  army,  and  made  a  nocturnal  attack  upon  the 
forces  of  the  Baron  in  their  camp ;  and  he  routed  them  befoi-e  him',  and  slew 

selt  undertook  to  prove  in  England  that  Ferdoragh  piarii,  evei:     This  sentence  is  improved  by  the 

was  the  son  of  p,  blacksmith  of  Dundalk.  Latin  translator,  in  F.  1.18,  as  follows  : 

'  Routed  them  before   him.  —  Riaiii    in    this  "  Sed  mora  aliquá  injecta  in  loco  nonnullum 

plirase  is  the  old  form  of  poinie,  before  him,  not  ab  Anglis  dissito  pernoctare  cogebatur;  fratrem 


1526 


aNNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNW. 


[1552. 


rojicpacraji  pocaióe  ile  laip.  Uilliam  Ppapapún  cpepinép  an  píj  i  nepinn 
lé  hacham  poDa,  -|  Do  bai  can  ina  inpcip,  -|  lop  ap  curhnaicceao  cinpc  i  nác 
luain  oécc  pop  an  plimi^eaó  pémpáice.  Puccaó  a  copp  i  nfrap  co  liar  cliar, 
1  a  cpoióe  lappin  gup  an  pí^  do  DeapbaD  a  pojnarha  -]  a  pipinne  do. 

Ua  neiU  do  bfir  lUairh  beóp,  -\  a  mac  Sfan  Donnjaileac,-]  mac  neill  ó)cc 
(aoD)  DO  bfic  ace  Dénarh  coccaiD  ap  an  mbapiin,  -]  ap  jallaib  ina  biojail. 

SluaicceaD  ele  ip  in  ppojmap  lap  an  lupcip  i  nullroib,  -]  ni  rappaiD  ni 
ace  suipc  DO  miUeaó  Dó,-|  Dpong  Dia  rhuincip  Do  mapbaDh,"]  ranaic  jan  piap 
j;an  pic. 

Coccaó  mop  ecip  ó  Rajallaijji'na  pa;ranai5,-i  cpeaca  lomDa  Do  Denam 
la  hua  paijilbj  poppa. 

O  concobaip  pail^e  Do  bfic  i  Sa;coib,  l  jan  puil  cáic  lé  cochc  ina  ppir- 
inj  DO. 

bapún  Dealbna  do  doI  hi  8a;coib,-i  a  cecc  cap  aip  ma  ppicmg  lap  ccpioc- 
nuccaD  a  ropcca  arhail  ap  Deac  pop  coemnaccaip. 

Qn  liipcip  Semup  cpapc  Do  Dol  hi  Sa;roib, "]  an  Soinpilép  comap  ciorhpócc 
.1.  ciorhpoccac  baile  cúipin  Do, bfic  na  lupcip  ina  lonacc. 


i 


ejus  Joannes,  cognomento  Dungalacli,  ea  se  nocte 
nou  junxisse  nesciens,  in  castra  ejus  noctu  pro- 
rumpit,  et  excitato  tumultu  omnia  turbavit, 
alios  ad  fugam  vertit,  miiltos  neci  dedit." 

"  A  court. — By  the  word  cúipc  the  Irish  at 
this  day  mean  any  large,  quadrangular  mansion- 
house.  The  Latin  translator  in  F.  I,  18,  renders 
this,  "  Athlonia;  Castellum." 

"  His  heart. — Ware  says  that  his  Dody  was 
interred  in  Trinity  Church,  Dublin,  but  that 
his  heart  was  sunt  to  England,  where  it  is  said 
to  have  been  interred  in  the  monument  of  his 
ancestors. 

"  Upon  them. — An  English  writer  would  say, 
"  among  them  •,"  but  the  Editor  thinks  that 
this  characteristic  Irish  idiom  should  be  pre- 
served in  the  translation.  The  Latin  translator, 
in  F.  1.  18,  renders  it,  "  ab  his  ille  plurimas 
praedas  adtulit." 

'  Baile-  Cuisin,  now  Cushinstown,  in  the  barony 


of  Skreen,  near  Tara,  in  the  county  of  Meath. 
See  Ordnance  map  of  Meath,  sheets  32,  33,  38, 
39.  The  entries  under  this  year  are  translated 
into  Latin  inF.  1.  18,  as  follows  : 

"  Clonmacnoisiam  qui  Athloniam  incolebant 
Angli  miserum  In  modum  expUarunt,  majors 
campana  ex  obeliscis  campanariis  extraxerunt, 
a  minoribus  etiam  campanis  eripiendis,  ab  ima- 
ginibus  communcendis  ct  altaribus  evertendis 
sacrilegias  manus  non  continuerunt,  libros  om- 
nes  et  fenestrarum  vitra  quaj  parietum  ipsius 
ecclesia  fenestris  non  inha;rebant,  exportarunt. 
Sic  locus  sanctissimo  Kierano  summa  omnium 
veneratione  impense  cultu  sacratus  sacrilegorum 
hominum  audaciá  fa;data  est,  magno  bonorum 
omnium  luctu. 

"  Tadeo  O'Euarko  in  Brefnia,  O'Kuarko  ipsi 
dignitate  proximo,  sui  laqueo  gulam  eliserunt, 
cujus  facti  consortem  patruum  ipsius  Brianum 
fuisse  nonulli  asserunt. 


1552.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1527 


great  numbers  of  them.  On  this  occasion,  William  Brabazon,  who  had  been 
for  a  long  time  the  King's  Treasurer  in  Ireland,  and  who  had  been  Lord  Justice 
for  some  time,  and  had  erected  a  court"  at  Athlone,  died  on  the  aforesaid  expe- 
dition. His  body  was  brought  in  a  ship  to  Dublin  ;  and  his  heart"  was  after- 
wards sent  to  the  King,  in  token  of  his  loyalty  and  truth  towards  him. 

O'Neill  still  remained  in  prison  ;  in  revenge  of  which  his  son,  John  Donn- 
ghaileach,  and  Hugh,  the  son  of  Niall  Oge  [of  Clannaboy],  continued  waging 
war  with  the  Baron  and  the  English.  • 

Another  hosting  was  made  by  the  Lord  Justice  into  Ulster,  in  Autumn,  but 
effected  nothing,  except  that  he  destroyed  corn-fields.  After  having  lost  a  great 
part  of  his  people,  he  returned  without  submission  or  peace. 

A  great  war  broke  out  between  O'Reilly  and  the  English  ;  and  O'Reilly 
committed  many  depredations  upon  them". 

O'Conor  Faly  remained  in  England,  no  one  expecting  his  return. 

The  Baron  of  Delvin  went  to  England,  and  returned  home,  after  having 
transacted  his  business  as  well  as  he  was  able. 

The  Lord  Justice,  James  Croftes,  went  to  England  ;  and  Thomas  Cusack, 
i.  e.  the  Cusack  of  Baile-Cuisin'',  the  Chancellor,  became  Lord  Justice  in  his 
stead. 


"  Mac  Suinius  Fanatensis  Rodericus,  propin- 
quus  ejus  Nellus,  et  Brianus  filius  Edmundi  per 
insidias  occisi  sunt  in  monasterio. 

"  Mahonius  filius  Briani  filii  Tadei,  filii  Ter- 
delaclii  O'Brien,  occisus  est  a  famulantibus  Do- 
nate filio  Conchauri  O'Brien. 

"  Dermitius  filius  O'Briani  Tuomonise  Mura- 
chi  filii  Terdelaclii  tnortuus  in  praevigiliis  S. 
Brigidffi  in  monasterio  de  Innis  sepultus  est. 

"  Gravissimo  bello,  Angli  ex  una  parte,  Ulto- 
nienses  omnes,  pra;ter  paucos,  et  Scoti,  ex  altera 
parte  inter  se  conimittuntur,  mviltis  nialis  ad 
Rempublicam  ex  eorum  dissidiis  redundantibus. 

"  Prorex  in  Ultoniam  contra HugonemO'Nel- 
lum,  Nelli  juvenis  filium,  et  Scotos  movit,  et 
emissarii  ex  hostico  prsedas  abducere  et  explo- 
rare  si  itinera  copiis  sint  pervia  jussi,  ad  Bel- 
t'erstium  in  Ilugonem  inciderunt,  a  quo,  pugiiá 
non  nisi  Sovasio  filio,  qui  cseteris  prasficiebatiir, 


cum  40  vel  60  aliis  occiso  dirempta,  excepti 
sunt.  Angli  tamen  vadum  transeuntes  castel- 
lum  ad  Belferstiam  moliti  sunt ;  sed  nee  victo- 
riam  nee  obsides  nee  prsedam  retulerunt,  ita  iit 
hac  expeditione  fastus  et  potestas  multum  re- 
pressa  fuerat.  Fardorchus  O'Nelli,  filius  Bare 
Dungannensis,  accessione  copiarum  quas  con- 
traxerat  maximas  proregis  et  Anglorum  vires 
augere  contendens,  ad  castra  properat,  sed  mora 
aliqua  injecta  in  loco  nonnullum  ab  Anglis  dissito 
pernoctare  cogebatur.  Frater  ejus  Joannes  cog- 
nomen to  Dungalacli,  ea  se  nocte  non  junxisse 
nesciens,  in  castra  ejus  noctu  prorumpit,  et  ex- 
citato  tumultu  omnia  turbavit,  alios  ad  fugam 
vertit,  multos  neci  dedit.  Gulielmus  Braba- 
zonus  Thesauri  munere  diu  in  Hiberniá  functus, 
qui  ssepius  etiam  proregis  vices  obivit,  et  Ath- 
lonia;  castellum  restauravit,  in  castris  vita  ex- 
cessit.    Cadaver  ejus  Dublinium  feretro"  [rertp, 


1528  aNNQi-a  Rio^hcichca  eiReawN.  [1553, 

aOlS  CRIOSC,  1553. 
Qoi]^  cjuopr,  mile,  ciiicc  cén,  caocca,  nrpi. 

©U6GN6  niQl?^  00  oiiioneaó  óp  Sa;raib,  an.  6.  lull. 

Qmma]^  oióce  00  rabaipc  U'l  a  biiaicpib  pfin  (Domnall  ~|  coijiiibealbac 
clann  concoBaiji  ui  b]i;ain)  a]i  a  nDea]ib]iarai]i  Donnchaó  mop  mac  concoboip 
(nj^ecijina  cucibrhiiman)  50  cluam  paiiipoDa,  on  baile  no  lopccaD,  "]  Dapccain 
1  Oaoitic  DO  mapbao  leó, -|  ó  bpiain  Dotmclmó  do  Dol  ipin  cop  bai  ipm  mbaile 
Dia  imbíDfn  poppa.  Q  ccúp  an  copjaip  Do  ponpaD  innpin.  5á  be  pocann  ria 
bfpaonca  pin  ecip  pi'ol  mbpiain  uaip  po  jnouij  oonncaó  on  pij  cfpc  oibpeacra 
Dm  mac  pfin  50  po  gaipfo  bapún  be  ap  bélaib  a  pinnpiop.  r?o  lonnaicceaó 
na  Deapbpairpi  De  pin  conaó  aipe  do  pónpar  on  lonnpaicciD  pempaice  "] 
oDbCpDip  opoile  nop  bo  maccnaD  lorc  Do  jniom  ma  nDeopnpacr.  l?o  éipi^ 
eapaonca  hi  ccuaDriuirhain  DepiDe,  -\  nip  bo  cion  bóccop  1  nimpeapain  ppia 
poile  uoip  po  écc  Donnchaó  móp  no  bpiain  lapla  niaDmuman  pafqpn  na  páipi 
inp   pni,  -|  po  jab  Domnall  a  lonao. 

Siubán  in^fri  ina;^nupa  ui  Domnaill  bfn  ui  concobaip  plxcig  Décc  an.  i5, 
liin. 

Donncab  mac  coippDeolboi  j  niic  mupclioiD  ui  bpioin  Decc. 

Niall  mac  peilim  ui  liiooileoclainn  cunaipi  clomne  coliiiáiri  pfp  ójmap 
lonnpai  jreac,  -]  pfp  a  aopa  bo  pfpp  Dia  maicr.e  Do  mapbaó  a  ppiull  la  hua 

navigio]    "  delatum  et  cor  cadaveri  extractum  "  O'ConchaurusFalgisein  Angliá  versebaturá, 

in  Angliam  missiim  est,  lit  eo  indicio  pateret  nee  speratuv  unquam  venturus  in  patriani. 
lidem  ilium  Kegi  priestitisse.  "  Baro    Delviniai    profectus    in    Angliam    et- 

"  O'NeUo  in  vinculis  adhuc  apud  Anglos  per-  illinc  redux  venit  in  patriam  post  [negotium] 

sistente,  filiusejus  Joannes  et  Hugo Nellijiivenis  finitum  ex  animi  sententia. 
liliiis  perstiterunt  etiam  cum  Barone  et  Anglis  "  Jacobi  Crofti  proregis  in  Angliam  proi'ecti 

bellum  gerere.  vices   obivit  Cancellarius  Thomas   Cusacus   de 

•'  Prorex  in  Autumno  armis  Ultoniae  illatis  Balecusin." 
nihil  aliud  praestitit  quam  conculcare  segetes  et  *  Queen  Mary. — This  fixes  the  accession  of 

coedem  suorum  ab  hoste  factam  pati,  hoste  nee  Mary  to  the  day  on  which  Edward  "VI.  died ; 

ad  obsidem  nee  ad  pacem  redacto.  but  Lady  Jane  Grey  usurped  the  sovereignty 

'*  Magno  bello  inter  O'liaughlie"  [O'Reilly]  for  about  thirteen  days  ;  a  fact  which  seems  to 

"  et  Anglos  exorto,  ab  his  ille  jilurimas  prsedas  have  been  unknown  to   the  Irish   annalists. — 

adtulit.  See  Chronology  of  History,  by  Sir  Harris  Nicolas, 


1553.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1529 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1553. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  fifty-thfee. 

Queen  Mar}''  was  made  Queen  in  England  on  the  6tli  of  July. 

A  nocturnal  attack  was  made  by  Donnell  and  Turlough,  sons  of  Conor 
O'Brien,  upon  their  brother,  Donough  More  Mac  Conor,  Lord  of  Thomond,  at 
Cluain-Rarahfhoda";  and  they  burned  and  plundered  the  town,  and  slew  many 
persons.  And  O'Brien  (Donough)  went  into  a  tower  which  was  in  the  town, 
to  protect  himself  against  them.  This  happened  in  the  very  beginning  of  Lent. 
The  cause  of  this  dissension  was,  that  Donough  had  obtained  from  the  King 
the  right  of  succession  for  his  son,  who  had  been  styled  Baron  in  preference  to 
his  seniors.  In  consequence  of  this  the  brothers  became  enraged,  and  made 
the  aforesaid  attack  upon  O'Brien.  Some  assert  that  it  was  no  wonder''  that 
they  should  have  acted  thus.  From  this,  disturbances  arose  in  Thomond ;  but 
they  did  not  continue  long  at  strife  with  each  other,  for  Donough  More  O'Brien, 
first  Earl  of  Thomond,  died  on  the  Passion-Saturday  ensuing  ;  and  Donnell 
took  his  place. 

Joan,  the  daughter  of  Manus  ( J'Donnell,  and  wife  of  O'Conor  Sligo,  died  on 
the  16th  of  June. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  MiuTough  O'Brien,  died. 

Niall,  son  of  Felim  O'Melaghlin,  Tanist  of  Clann-Colman,  a  successful  and 
■  warlike  man'',  and  the  best  of  his  tribe  for  his  years,  was  treacherously  slain  by 

second  edition,  p.  334.  Tlie  literal  translation,  however,  is :    "  Aliqui 

"  Cluain-Ramhfhoda,  i.  e.  the  lawn,  meadow,  dicunt  non  niirum  esse  illos  fecisse  quod  fece- 

or  insulated  holm  of  the  long  rowing Now  runt." 

Clonroad,  a  townland  on  the  River  Fergus,  in  '^  A  successful  and  warlike  man,   pfp  agihap 

the  parish  of  DrumclifF,   and  county  of  Clare,  lonnpnijreac.    The  translator,  in  F.  1.  18,  ren- 

adjoining  the  town  of  Ennis.- — See  note  ",  under  ders  this,   "  Vir  bellicosus  et  in  aggressionibus 

the  year  1408,  p.  796,  supra.  imperterritus,"  from  which  it  is  evident  that 

''  No  wonder,  nap  bo  maccnaó.     The  word  he  takes  a^itiap  to  be  an  adjective  derived  from 

maccao,  or  maccnao,  is  explained  "  lonjnaó,"  a^  .i.  car,  a  battle,   not  from  áj,  prosperity,  or 

i.  e.  a  wonder,  by  Michael  O'Clery,  in  his  Glos-  luck,  as  the  Editor  has  taken  it  throughout,  on 

sary  of  diiScult  Irish  words.     The  Latin  trans-  the  authority  of  the  printed   dictionaries  and 

lator,  in  F.  1.  18,  renders  it  loosely  :  "  Quo  jure  living  language,     lonnpaigreac  means  "  given 

merito  illos  commotos  multorum  est  sententia."  to  making  incursions,  or  warlike  expeditions." 

9i 


1530  awNa^a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1553. 

maoileaclainn  caDcc  puaD  ag  bél  an  oca  05  cfcc  ó  cuipc  an  rhuilinn  cipp. 
Inopab  maije  cojiiiain,  -\  jabáil  a  caiy^lein  .1.  cluain  lonain,"]  an  caiplén  nua, 
-\  lonnapbab  í  maoileaclainn  la  bapún  oelbna  1  la  j^allaib  aca  luain  a  noio- 
Tjail  ma|ibra  neill  mic  péilim. 

TTlamnri  no  cabaipr  ap  lilac  uilliam  búpc  .1.  Ripofpo  an  lapainnlc'i  cloinij 
comaip  bacaij  a  búpc,  1  lá  gailfngacaib  DÚ  in  po  jabaó  Ripofpo  pfin  "|  in  po 
mapbaó  céD  co  Ifir  Dia  pluacc. 

Slóicceaó  lá  hua  mbpiain  Dorhnall  billai^nib  50  noeapna  coinne  lé  ^allaib 
hillaoijip  ipin  bpopr  gup  pccap  pú  amaille  lé  piocóáin.  Rucc  ona  bpaijoe 
Ó  ua  ccfpbaill  laip  ppi  corhall  pioóa. 

Injfn  UÍ  concobaip  pail^e  TTlaipjpécc  tio  Dol  bi  paccpoib  a  bucr  a  caip- 
ofpa,  "I  a  gaoil  roip,  -]  a  bucc  a  bépla  oiappaió  a  bacap  ap  an  mbanpiojain 
queen  map)a,i  lap  nool  t)i  po  na  jpapaib  puaip  a  baraip  -\  cucc  lé  1  nepinn  é, 
-]  Do  paoaó  bpaijDe  ele  app  Don  lupcip,  -]  Don  corhaiple  .1.  RiiDpai^e  ó  con- 
cobaip pinnpeap  a  cloinne  pfin  50  mbpaijDib  ele  amaille  ppip. 

Clann  lapla  cille  Dapa  jfpóicr  ócc, "]  éDiiapD  Do  reacc  50  bepinn  lap 
mbfir  pop  lonDapbab  Dóib  ppi  pé  pé  mbliaóan  Décc  ip  m  Róirh  i]'  in  fccaill, 
-]  ip  in  bppainc,  -\  pnapacrap  aipeacc  a  nouirce,  -|  a  niaplacca  ón  mbanpío- 
^ain.  '  T~ainicc  beóp  mac  lapla  oppaije  comáp  mac  Semaip  mic  piapaip 
buicilép  ina  lapla  1  nionaó  a  acap. 

Uanaic  map  an  ccéDna  oiópe  meic  giolla  paccpaicc,  bpian  ócc  mac  bpiain 
apaon  ló  cloinn  lapla  cille  Dapa,  1  lá  biapla  oppaij^e.  5á  móp  luaf^aipe 
upmóip  Ifire  mo^a  Dia  ccoiDeacc  piDe,  "]  ní  po  paoilpior  aoínneac  ap  pliocc 
laplacca  cille  oapa  iná  ua  concobaip  Do  coibeacc  50  bpár  1  nepinn. 

Sluaicceaó  lá  bapún  Dealbna  i  nDealbna  frpa  ap  cappaing  copbmaic 
caoíc  "]  pleacca  pfp^ail  mécc  coclóin  coiccip  inDiaió  na  parhna,  "|  a  bfir  Dí 

•^  Bel-an-atlia,  i  e.  the  mouth  of  the  ford,  now  '  Moyh-Corrain,    a  plain    in    the   barony  of 

Ballina,  the  name  of  a  townland  and  bridge  in  Clonlonan,  and  county  of  Westmeath. 

the  parish   of  Mullingar,    barony  of  Moyashel  f  Cluain- Lonain,  i.  e.  the  lawn,   meadow,  or 

andMagherademon,  and  county  of  Westmeath. —  bog  island  of  Lonan,   a  man's  name,   now  Clon- 

See  the  Ordnance  map  of  this  county,   sheets  I'onan,  which  gives  name  to  the  barony. 

18,  19.    It  is  diíFereut  from  Bel-atha-glasarnach,  s  Newcastle,  in  the  parish  of  Kilcleagb,  barony 

now  Bellyglass,    in    the    same   parish,   already  of  Clonlonan,  and  county  of  AVestmeath.    Tra- 

mentioncd  at  the  year  1450,  page  i)70,  note  '',  dition  still  points  out  this  as  one  of  the  castles 

supra.  erected  by  the  O'Melaghlins.     It   appears  from 


1553.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1531 

O'Melaghlin  (Teige  Roe),  at  Bel-an-atha'',  as  he  was  retiring  from  the  court  of 
Mullingar.  In  revenge  of  this  killing  of  Niall,  son  of  Felim,  Magh-Corrain' 
was  plundered,  and  its  castles,  i.  e.  Cluain-Lonaiu'^  and  Newcastle^,  were  taken, 
and  O'Melaghlin  was  expelled  by  the  Baron  of  Delvin  and  the  English  of 
Athlone. 

A  defeat  was  given  to  Mac  AVilliam  Burke,  i.  e.  Richard-an-Iarainn,  by  the 
sons  of  Thomas  Bacagh  Burke  and  the  people  of  Gallen,  in  which  Richard 
himself  was  taken  prisoner,  and  one  hundred  and  fifty  of  his  army  were  slain. 

A  hosting  was  made  by  O'Brien  (Donnell)  into  Leinster  ;  and  he  held  a 
conference  with  the  English  at  the  fort"  in  Leix,  and  he  parted  from  them  in 
peace.     He  took  hostages  from  O'CarroU  [as  pledges]  for  keeping  the  peace. 

The  daughter  of  O'Conor  Faly,  Margaret,  went  to  England,  relying  on  the 
number  of  her  friends  and  relatives  there,  and  on  her  knowledge  of  the  English 
language,  to  request  Queen  Mary  to  restore  her  father  to  her ;  and  on  her 
appealing  to  her  mercy,  she  obtained  her  father,  and  brought  him  home  to 
Ireland ;  and  other  hostages  were  given  up  to  the  Lord  Justice  and  the  Council 
in  his  stead,  namely,  Rury  O'Conor,  the  eldest  of  his  own  sons,  and  other  host- 
ages along  with  him. 

The  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  Garrett  Oge  and  Edward,  came  to  Ireland, 
after  having  been  in  exile  for  a  period  of  sixteen  years  in  Rome,  Italy,  and 
France,  and  obtained  from  the  Queen  the  restoration  of  their  patrimonial  inhe- 
ritances, and  the  Earldom.  The  son  of  the  Earl  of  Ossory,  James,  the  son  of 
Pierce  Butler,  also  returned,  and  succeeded  as  Earl  in  the  place  of  his  father. 
The  heir  of  Mac  Gillapatrick,  Brian  Oge,  the  son  of  Brian,  came  along  with  the 
sons  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare  and  the  Earl  of  Ossory.  There  was  great  rejoicing 
throughout  the  greater  part  of  Leath-Mhogha  because  of  their  arrival ;  for  it 
was  thought  that  not  one  of  the  descendants  of  the  Earls  of  Kildare,  or  of  the 
O'Conors  Faly,  would  ever  come  to  Ireland. 

A  hosting  was  made  by  the  Baron  of  Delvin  into  Delvin  Eathra,  at  the 
instance  of  Cormac  Caech  and  the  descendants  of  Farrell^Iac  Coghlan,  a  fort- 

the  forfeitures  of  1641,  that  Newcastle  was  for-      town   of  Maryborough — See  it  called  by  this 

tified  by  "  Callogh  Mac  Loughlia,  Irish  Papist."      name  at  the  years  1580,  1597,  1598,  and  1600. 

"  The  Fort,  i.  e.  Port-Laoighise,  i.  e.  the  fort      See  it  already  mentioned  at  the  year  1548,  under 

of  Leix,  which  is  the  present  Irish  name  of  the     the  name  of  Campa.     Ware  calls  it  Campaw, 

9  l2 


1532 


awNata  Rio^hachca  eiueaNN. 


[1553. 


oibce  In  ppo]^lon5po|ic  ipin  cip  co  po  loipcceab  "]  co  po  hinopao  laip  ó  bealac 
an  pocaip  co  rocap  cinn  mora,  i  bo  haóbal  in  po  miUpior  an  pluaj  pin  cen 
CO  noeapnaó  cpeaca  no  niapbaó  oipoeapc  laip. 

Coccaó  oiojlac  do  eipje  ecip  mag  cocláin,"]  pliocc  pfpjail  ~\  ó  raaolifiuam 
lappm,  1  Diojbóla  nác  poóain5  Dpoij'nfip  do  óénam  fcoppa.  5á  pop  an 
ccoccaó  pin  do  pónaó  jnioTn  lonjnaó  hi  ccluain  nóna  .i.  baclacb  do  iriuiiiCip  an 
baile  pdn  do  óénaiti  peille  pap  bapDaib  an  baile,  -]  r]iii'iii  Dfppccaijfeac  Djb 
DO  TTiapbaó  la  ruaij  connaij,  i  bfn  Do  baoi  ipcij  do  cfngal  -|  an  caiplén  Do 
^abail  laip,  i  ba  Dana  an  gniom  aen  moj^aiD  innpin. 

O  bpiain  .1.  Dorhnall  Do  cop  lapla  clomne  piocaipD  on  mbfinn  rhóip  haoí  in 
lonipuibe  ap  Shfan  a  búpc. 


(ithcrwise  Protector,  and  Cox,  Campaum,  alias 
Protector,  both  having  misprinted  Portleix. 

'  Bealach-an-fhothair,  now  Ballaghanoher,  a 
townland  in  the  parish  of  Eeynagh,  in  the  ba- 
rony of  Garrycastle,  and  King's  County. 

''  Tochar-cinn-mona,  i.  e.  the  causeway  at  the 
head  of  the  bog,  now  Togher,  a  townland  in  the 
parish  of  Lemanaghan,  in  the  barony  of  Garry- 
castle. 

'  Or  slaiigliter,  i.  e.  although  they  acquired 
no  remarkable  booty,  or  slew  no  person  worthy 
of  note. 

""  Cluain-Nona,  now  Clouony  castle,  situated 
on  the  left  bank  of  the  River  Brosna,  near 
Moystown,  in  the  barony  of  Garrycastle,  and 
King's  County.  At  the  year  1519,  this  castle 
is  called  Cluain-damhna,  which  is  evidently  the 
true  ancient  form  of  the  name. — See  note  ', 
under  the  year  1519,  p.  1347,  supra. 

"  Toivn. — The  word  buile  here  means  castle. 

"  Beann-mor,  now  Benmore,  a  townland  in 
the  parish  of  Grange,  barony  of  Loughrea,  and 
county  of  Gahvay.  The  entries  under  this  year 
are  translated  into  Latin  in  F.  1.  18,  as  follows: 

"  Regina  Maria  Anglia>  regnum  inivit  6  Julii. 

"  Donatum  Magnum  O'Brian,  Tomonia;  domi- 
num,  ClonramhodaB  diversatum,  fratres  sui  Daniel 
et  Terdelachus  nocturne  impetu  aggrediuntur, 


oppidum  diripiunt  et  cremant  nonnullos  etian» 
occidunt.  Donatus  in  turri  abditus  eorum  se 
furori  subduxit.  Illi  autem  ad  hoc  facinus  ideo 
impulsi  sunt,  quod  filiuni  suum  Baronis  titulo 
exornatum,  ac  proinde  ad  avitam  ha?rcditatem 
post  se  fato  functum  adeuudam  designatum, 
contra  patrias  leges  et  consuetudines  longti  tem- 
porum  diuturnitate  corroboratas,  adultioribus 
protulerit,  quo  jure  merito  illos  commotos  mul- 
torum  est  sententia.  Sed  híBC  contentionis  scin- 
tilla, quio  in  belli  flammam  eruptura  videbatur, 
brevi  sopita  est,  nam  cum,  ineunte  quadragesi- 
mali  tempore,  a  Clonramhodensi  tumultu  ini- 
tium  duceret,  Donato,  Sabatho  ante  Donúnicam 
Passionis,  mortuOj  et  Daniele  illi  surrogate, 
finem  habuit. 

"  Joanna,  Magni  O'Donelli  filia,  uxor  O'Con- 
chauri  Sligoensis,  obiit  16  Junii. 

"  Donellus,  filius  Terdelachi,  filii  Miirachi, 
obiit. 

"  Nellus,  filius  Felimaei,  O^'MoelachlLni,  vir 
bellicosus  et  in  aggressionibus  impcrterritus  et 
inter  sua;  gentis  coa;vos  praestantissimus,  quum 
,é  comitiis  MulengariiB  rediret,  ab  O'Moelach- 
lino,  Tadeo  Eufo,  apud  Belanatha  {adiUtm  vadi) 
fraudulenter  vitii  spoliatur  ;  sed  fadam  hanc 
cffidciu  non  diu  impunitam  tulit,  nam  Maigh- 
coranniá  vastatíi,  oastello  Clonlonanensi  et  Castro 


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ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1.533 


night  after  Allhallowtide,  and  he  remained  for  two  nights  encamped  in  that 
country ;  and  he  burned  and  plundered  [the  territory]  from  Bealach-an-f  hothair' 
to  Tochar-cinn-mona";  and  this  army  caused  great  destruction,  though  they  com- 
mitted no  remarkable  depredations  or  slaughter". 

After  this  a  vindictive  war  arose  between  Mac  Coghlan  and  the  descen- 
dants.of  Farrell  and  O'Molloy,  during  which  injuries  not  easily  described  were 
done  between  them.  During  this  war  an  astonishing  exploit  was  performed  at 
Cluain-Nona"",  namely,  a  peasant  of  the  people  of  the  town  acted  treacherously 
towards  the  warders  of  the  town",  and  slew  three  distinguished  men  of  them 
with  a  chopping-axe,  tied  a  woman  who  was  within,  and  then  took  possession 
of  the  castle ;  and  this  Avas  a  bold  achievement  for  one  churl  ! 

O'Brien  (Donnell)  drove  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard  from  the  [castle  of]  Beann- 
mor°,  which  he  was  laying  siege  to  on  John  Burke. 


Novo  captis,  ipse  suoriim  ditione  et  finibus  pul- 
,sus  est  a  Barone  Delviniie  et  Anglis  Athlonien- 
sibus. 

"  Filii  Thomse  Claudide  Burgo  et  Galingenses, 
victoria  de  Mac  Wilielmo  Bourk,  Richardo  a 
ferro,  relatíl,  ipsum  cKperuiit  et  150  niilites  ejus 
occiderunt. 

"  O'Brianus,  Daniel,  in  Lageniam  cum  exer- 
citu  profectus,  ad  Portum  Loigbsia?  locum  ab 
Anglis  condictum  venit;  a  quibus,  post  pacem 
initam  digressus,  observandoe  pacis  obsides  ab 
O'Carvallo  retulit. 

"  Margareta  O'Conchauri  Falgiee  filia,  in  An- 
gliam  transmisit,  a  Regina  patri  reditum  impc- 
tratura,  quippe  lingua?  Anglicana;  gnara,  et  fre- 
quenti  cognationi  in  Anglia  freta  voti  se  faci- 
lius  compotem  fore  sperabat,  nee  earn  spes  fefel- 
lit;  nam  pater,  opera  ejus,  in  Hiberniam  iedire 
et  in  ea  permanere  promissus  est,  datis  proregi 
&  senatui  obsidibus,  haerede  suo  Roderico  et 
aliis,  se  in  fide  inviolabiliter  persisturum. 

"  Filii  comitis  Kildariee,  Geraldus  Juvenis  et 
Edwardus,  post  16  annos  in  exilio  per  Galliam 
et  Italian!  trausactos,  avito  honore  et  haereditate 
donati,  in  Hiberniam  revertuntur;  eodem  etiam 


venit  Thomas  Butler,  jam  comes  renunciatus 
post  patrem  Jacobuni,  filium  Petri  Butleri ;  Ossi- 
rise  Comitem ;  se  comitem  in  redditu  addit  Bria- 
nus  Juvenis  Mac  Gillepadrigi  haeres:  qui  omnes 
maxima  totius  pene  Leithmoe  gratulatione  ex- 
cepti  sunt,  spem  enim  omnes  abjecerant  fere  ut 
ullus  é  Comitum  Kildariai  prosapia  oriundus, 
aut  O'Conchaurus  Ofalgia?,  Hiberniam  unquam 
vel  oculis  usurparetur. 

"  Delvinia;  Baro,  suadente  Cormaco  Coeco  et 
stirpe  Fergalli  Mac  Coglilani,  circa  medium  No- 
vembris  Delbhinam  Ethram  ingressus  est  arma- 
tus,  et,  positis  biduo  castris,  per  agros  inter, 
Balachanothar  et  Tocharnamona  positos  vasta- 
tiones  et  incendia  late  circumtulit,  et  regioni 
multis  quidem  detrimentis,  sed  nulla  memora- 
biii  ca?de  aut  prteda  rediit.  Ha;c  tamen  expe- 
ditio  ansam  prasbuit  acerbissimo  bello,  quod 
postea  flagravit  inter  Mac  Coghlanum  et  stir- 
pem  Fergalli  ac  O'Melmuaidhum,  quo  tot  «rum- 
nffi  per  eam  regionem  dilTusa;  sunt,  ut  illae  vix 
ulla  narratione  pertexi  possint.  In  eo  bello 
uuius  agricolae  aut  robur  aut  astutia  enituit, 
qui,  conatu  nimis  audaci  sed  prosper©  tanlen, 
castellum  Cluainiiona?  preesidiariis  adimere  eo- 


1534  aNNQf.a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1554. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1554. 
Ctoiy  Cpiopc,  mile,  cúicc  céo,  caocca,  a  cfcaip. 

Caraoip  mac  aipr  mic  Diaiimaccalaimofnicc  meic  mupchaoa  paoi  ájmap 
lonnj^ai^reac,  -\  Díol  laijfn  do  rijeapna  munbaó  gabalcap  gall  Decc. 

O  cfpbaillan  calbac  (.1.  mac  Donncaió)  do  mapbaó  lá  huiUiam  oDap, "]  la 
pliocr  maolpuanaió  uí  cfpbaill,-]  ló  conall  ócc  ó  mópóa  a  noio^ail  na  peille 
Do  pinnepium  ap  caócc  caoc  piap  an  can  fin,"|  bo  maic  po  haiffo  an  míjníom 
ym  paipi'ium  uaip  Do  pocaip  pfin  "]  caócc  mac  Donnchaió  a  Deapbparaip  a 
ccionaió  an  mijnioma  pin  pia  ccionn  mbliaDna,  ~\  ó  ceapbaill  Do  gaipm  Duil- 
liam  Ó  cfpbaill  ina  lonaó. 

Sluaicceaó  lá  Domnall  iia  mbpiam  cijeapna  cuaDmiiman  50  caiplén  bum 
micil  ap  concobap  jpoibleac  mac  DonnchaiD  í  bpiain  Do  jabáil  an  baile  paip. 
lapla  nprhurhan  co  na  pluaj  Do  rocr  Do  Díocup  uí  bpiain  on  ccaiplén. 

Sluaicceaó  let  hua  mbpiain  ipin  cpeccmain  lap  pin  hi  ccloinn  RiocaipD  50 
nDeapna  cpeac  mop  ap  Dpeim  Don  cip.  Ool  ap  pin  Do  50  Dun  larpai  j,  Sliocc 
l?iocaipD  Ó1CC  "]  pliocc  maoilip  a  bupc  Do  cocc  ina  cfnD,  -\  do  jabail  oilfrhna 
-]  cuapapcail  uaó. 

TTlaióm  cinnpalac  hi  ccloic  cmnpaolaiD  do  rabaipc  ecip  cloinn  cpuibne 
na  rcuac  la  pamna  Do  ponnpab.  báccap  lacc  báccap  do  raoib  Don  lomaipfcc 
pin  TTlac  puibne  eoccctin  ócc  mac  eoccain, "]  a  Deapbparaip  roippbealbac 
cappac  -]  mall  mac  maolmuipe.  Clann  Donnchaib  mic  Suibne  Don  Ifir  ele 
.1.  aob  buibe,  Gmann,  1  concobap  1  Doitinall.  T?o  mapbab  ann  pin  mac  Smbne 
CO  na  Deapbparaip  coippbealbac  cappach  -)  mall  mac  maolmuipe,  Do  pocaip 

natus  est ;  is  pagum  iucoluit  castello  adjacen-  Bunratty,  and  county  of  Clare, 

tern,  ac  proinde  facilis  ei  jiatuit  aocessus  ;  solus  '  Fosterage,  i.  e.  they  agreed  to  foster  some  of 

ergo  cum  ingressus  sit  3  valentes  homines  securi  his  children,  and  to  fight  in  his  service  for  pay. 

mactavit,  et  castellum  expugnavit.  The  translator,  in  F.  1. 18,  renders  it  very  well, 

O'Brien  Daniel  Comitem  Clanrichardiic,  Rich-  as  follows  : 

ardum,  aBenmoria;  [Castello]  removit,  ad  quod  "Ac,  nonnullorum  obductá  pra;dá,  in  Dunla- 

comes,ut  JoannemdeBurgoadoriretur,accessit."  tracham  concessit,  quo  qui  Eichardo  Juveni  et 

''  Ample  revenue   was  taken,  literally,    "  and  Meylero  Bourk  oriundi  erant  eum  adeuntes  nu- 

well  was  that  evil  deed  revenged  upon  him."  tricationis  aut  stipendii  vinculo  ei  se  obstrinxe- 

'  Dun-Mickil,  now  Doon,  alias  Doonmulvihil,  runt." 

in  the  parish  of  Inchicronan,  barony  of  Upper  '  Ceann-salac/i,  i.  e.  dirty  head.     This  is  pro- 


1554.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1535 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1554. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  fifty-four. 

Cahir,  the  son  of  Art,  son  of  Dermot  Lávderg  Mac  Murrough,  a  successful 
and  warlike  man,  and  worthy  to  have  become  Lord  of  Leinster,  had  it  not  been 
for  the  invasion  of  the  English,  died, 

O'Carroll  (Calvagh,  i.  e.  the  son  of  Donough)  was  slain  by  William  Odhar, 
the  descendants  of  Mulrony  O'Carroll,  and  Connell  Oge  O'More,  in  requital  of 
the  treachery  which  he  had  practised  towards  Teige  Caech  some  time  before. 
For  this  treacherous  conduct  ample  revenge  was  taken''  of  O'CaiToU,  for,  before 
the  expiration  of  a  year  after  the  perpetration  of  his  treacherous  deed,  he  him- 
self and  Teige  Mac  Donough,  his  brother,  were  slain  ;  and  AVilliam  O'Carroll 
was  styled  O'Carroll  in  his  place. 

Donnell  O'Brien,  Lord  of  Thomond,  marched  with  an  army  to  the  castle  of 
Dun-Michil"  against  Conor  Groibhleach,  the  son  of  Donough  O'Brien,  to  take 
the  castle  from  him  ;  but  the  Earl  of  Ormond  arrived  with  his  force,  to  drive 
O'Brien  from  the  castle, 

A  hosting  was  made  the  week  after  this  by  O'Brien  into  Clanrickard  ;  and 
he  committed  a  great  depredation  upon  some  people  of  that  country.  From 
thence  he  proceeded  to  Dun-Lathraigh  [in  the  county  of  Galway],  to  which 
the  descendants  of  Richard  Oge  and  the  descendants  of  Meyler  Burke  repaired, 
and  received  fosterage  and  wages  from  him. 

The  battle  of  Ceann-salach',  in  Cloch-Chinnfhaelaidh',  was  fought  by  the 
Clann-Sweeny  of  the  Tuathas,  precisely  on  the  day  of  Samhain  [1st  of  Novem- 
ber]. In  this  engagement  were,  on  the  one  side,  Mac  Sweeny  (Owen Oge,  the  son 
of  Owen)  and  his  brother,  Turlough  Carragh,  and  Niall,  the  son  of  Mulmurry; 
on  the  other  side  were  the  sons  of  Donough  Mac  Sweeny,  namely,  Hugh  Boy, 
Edmond,  Conor,  and  Donnell.  On  the  one  side  were  slain  in  it,  Mac  Sweeny 
and  his  brother,  Turlough  Carragh,  and  Niall,  the  son  of  Mulmuriy  ;  on  the 

bably  the  place  now  called  Bloody  Foreland,  si-  trict  in  the  barony  of  Kilmacrenan,  and  county 

tuated  opposite  Tory  Island,  barony   of  Kilma-  of  Donegal,  comprising  the  parishes  of  Raymun- 

renan,  and  county  of  Donegal.  terdoneyand  TuUaghobegly. — See  note',  under 

' Chch-Chinnfhaelaidh,  nowCloghineely,  a  dis-  the  year  1284.  p.  440,  siipra. 


0 


1536  aNNQca  Rioghachca  eiReaNN.  [1554, 

Don  caob  apaill  Diap  00  cloinn  Donncliaib  .1.  emann  -]  concobaji  do  popcparrap 
Dna  pocaióe  Do  ófjóaoínib  froppa  aDiú  1  anall  cemnorár  piDe. 

TTióppluaicceab  lá  h'apla  cille  oapa,  la  bapún  Dealbna, ")  la  mop  poc- 
paioe  gaoiDel  i  nulcoib  ap  peilim  puab  mac  aipc  mic  aoba  í  néill  ap  cappaing 
cSfam  Donnjailij  mic  í  neill.  Oo  pónaD  cpeac  rhópleó, -|  bá  mó  oloáp  caoca 
po  mapbaó  Dia  muincip  Don  cup  pin. 

Sluaicceaó  ló  hua  neill  conn  mac  cuinn  Do  bol  pop  cloinn  aoDa  buibe,  1 
lap  nool  DO  ip  in  cip  po  rionóil  aoó  mac  néill  óicc  í  neill  ■)  clano  mic  Domnaill 
ina  mbaoí  do  plócc  aca  pop  a  cionn  ima  compainic  Dóib  co  peimiD  pop  ua  néill, 
1  50  po  lÓD  áp  a  rhuincipe  uaip  ropcpaccap  rpi  céD  Dia  pló,^aib. 

bojiaime  móp  .1.  DÓ  picir, "]  rpi  céD  bó  do  poinn,  -]  do  rogbáil  ap  óealbna 
frpa  Diapla  cille  Dapa  a  népaic  a  comalca  r?obepr  nu5enc  po  mapbaó  lá 
liapr  mac  copbmaic  méj  cocláin. 

O  concobaip  pailge  .1.  bpian  do  bfir  lUairh  aj  gallaib. 

Ctob  mac  anmcaóa  uí  maDagain  njeapna  píl  nanmchaba  Décc,  -|  Sfan 
mac  bpfpail  uí  maDaccóin  do  gabóil  a  lonaiD. 

CaDcc  mac  aoba  iií  cobcaig  ppiom  oiDe  epeann,  "|  alban  lé  DÓn  Decc. 

Copbmac  mac  pipDopca  meg  cocláin  cfnn  a  jabláin  pfin,  -]  abbap  C15- 
eapna  Dealbna  frpa  Décc  bi  ccluam  lonáin. 

^  For,  uaip. — This  gives  the  style  a  clumsy  '^  Chief  preceptor,   pfiiorinoiDe. — This  term  is 

appearance,  but  the  Editor  has  deemed  it  pro-  rendered  "  prascipuus  institutor"  by  the  trans- 

per  to  preserve  the  exact  construction  of  the  lator  in  F.  1 .  1 8. 

original.     It  could  be  better  expressed  in  fewer  »  Clonlonan. — This  was  the  principal  castle  in 

words,  thus  :  "  And  an  engagement  ensued,  in  O'Melaghlin's  country,   and  gave  name  to  the 

which  O'Neill  was  defeated,  and  three  hundred  barony  of  Clonlonan,   in  the  county  of  West- 

of  his  forces  were  slain."    The  Latin  translator,  meath.   ,  The  entries  under  this  year  are  trans- 

in  F.  1.  18,  renders  it  thus  :  lated  into  Latin  as  follows,  in  F.  1.  18  : 

"  Et  pugna  sic  incaluit,  ut  O'Nellorum  strage  "  Cahirus,  filius  Arturi,  filii  Dermitii  a  manu 

late  edita  300  desiderati  sunt."     O'Nellorum  is  rubra  Mac  Murchus,  vir  domi  militia;que  clarus, 

incorrect,  because  they  were  O'Neills  on  both  dignus  qui  Lagenise  prsefuerit  si  per  Anglorum 

sides.    It  should  be  :  "  et  pugna  sic  incaluit,  ut  potentiam  liceret,  obiit. 

O'Neill  copiarum  strage  late  edita  300  deside-  "  O'Carvallus  Calbachus,  filius  Donati,  occisi 

rati  sunt."  non  ita  pridem  Tadsei  coeci  paenas  morte  dedit, 

"■  Eric,  a  fine,  or  mulct.  This  entry  affords  opera  Gulielmi  Odhar,  stirpis  Moelruani  ó  Car- 
evidence  that  the  Brehon,  or  ancient  Irish  laws,  vaill  et  Conalli  Juvenis  óMordhi;  nimirumDeus 
were  put  in  force  by  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  so  late  vis  annum  elabi  passusest,  cum  execrandam  hanc 
as  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary.  csedem  authoris  ejus  O'Carvalli  et  sui  fratris 


1554.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1537 

other  side,  two  of  the  sons  (]f  Donough,  namely,  Edmond  and  Conor.  Num- 
bers of  other  distinguished  persons  were  also  slain  on  each  side,  besides  those 
[already  mentioned]. 

A  great  hosting  was  made  by  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  the  Baron  of  Delvin,  and 
a  great  number  of  the  Irish,  into  Ulster,  against  Felim  Roe,  the  son  of  Art,  son 
of  Hugh  O'Neill,  at  the  instance  of  John  Donghaileach,  the  son  of  O'Neill. 
They  committed  a  great  depredation,  and  lost  more  than  fifty  of  their  people 
on  that  expedition.  An  army  was  mustered  by  O'Neill  (Con,  the  son  of  Con), 
to  march  against  the  Clann-Hugh-Boy.  Upon  his  arrival  in  the  country,  Hugh, 
the  son  of  Niall  Oge  O'Neill,  and  the  sons  of  Mac  Donnell,  assembled  all  the 
forces  they  had  to  meet  him  ;  and  an  engagement  followed,  in  which  O'Neill 
was  defeated  and  his  people  slaughtered,  for"  three  hundred  of  his  forces  were 
slain. 

A  great  fine  in  cows,  namely,  three  hundred  and  forty  cows,  was  appor- 
tioned upon  and  obtained  from  Delviu-Eathra  by  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  as  an 
eric"  for  his  foster-brother,  Robert  Nugent,  who  had  been  slain  by  Art,  the  son 
of  Cormac  Mac  Coghlau. 

O'Conor  Faly  (Brian)  was  held  in  custody  by  the  English. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Anmchadh  O'Madden,  Lord  of  Sil-Anmchadha,  died;  and 
John,  the  son  of  Breasal  O'Madden,  took  his  place. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'CoiTey,  Chief  Precentor"  of  Ireland  and  Scotland 
in  poetiy,  died. 

Cormac,  the  son  of  Ferdoragh  Mac  Coghlan,  head  of  his  own  branch  [of 
that  family],  and  heir  to  the  lordship  of  Delvin-Eathra,  died  at  Clonlonan^ 

Tadei  sanguine  expiari  curavit:  post  Calbachum      Bourk  oriundi    erant    eum  adeuntes    niitrica- 
sublatum,   O'Carvalli  nomen  ac  dignitas  Guli-      tionis  aut  stipendii  vinculo  ei  se  obstriiixerunt. 
elmo  Odhar  collata  est.  "  Mac  Suinii  Tuathenses  in  duas  partes  fac- 


"  Daniel  O'Brien,  Tuomoniae  Dominus,  ab  ob-  .tionibus   discissi   ad   manus  venerunt,  alterius 

sidione   qua  Dunmlcheliam,  castellum  Cornelii  partes  causam  foverunt  Mac  Suinius  ipse,  Euge- 

Groblechi,  filii  DonatiO'Brian,  cingebat,  Comite  nius  Juvenis,  Eugenii  filius,  frater  ejus  Terdela- 

Ormonia;  ad  obsidionem  solvendam   appropin-  cliusCalvus,  etNellus,Mariani  filius  ;alteri  parti 

quante,  recessit,  et  liebdomada  proxime  sequente  adhserebant  filii  Dona ti  Mac  Suinii,  Hugo  Flavus, 

in  Clanricardiam  cum  exercitu  abscessit,  ac,  non-  Edmundus,  Conchaurus  et  Daniel,utraque  pars 

ullorum  abducta  prseda,  in  Dunlatracham  con-  ipsis  calendis  Novembris  ad  Kinsalach  de  Cloch- 

cessit,   quo   qui    Richardo   Juveni    et    Meylero  Kinfaelaidh  in  aciem  prodiit  et  iniestis  animis  et 

9  K 


1538 


awHaí^a  Rioshachca  eiReawN. 


[155.5. 


aoiS  CRIOSC,  15S5. 

Qoíp  Cpioyc,  mile,  cúicc  céo,  cctocca,  a  cúicc. 

Qoó  iTiac  neill  óicc,  mic  neill,  mic  cuinn,  mic  aoóa  buibe  mic  bpiain  bal- 
lai^  í  néill  ciccfpna  cloinne  aoóa  buióe,  pCp  cócacrac  roipBfpcach  oeaplaic- 
reac  Deijeinij,  rJigDarhna  óp  puijieacaib,  cijeapna  a|i  qién  copnaih,  pfji  ná 
cucc  urhla,  ná  upiiaiin  Daoín  neac  t)o  jaoióelciib  -j  ná  jio  léicc  géill  nn  fiDipfóa 
uaóa  ap  a  rip, "]  056  mbáccap  geill,  pfji  Do  pao  bpfpmaómanna  lonriDa  ap 
jallaib  1  ap  jaoióelaib  05  copnarh  a  ripe  ppiú  Oo  riiapbaó  lá  halbancoib 
Diipcop  peiléip. 

lupcip  nim  00  cecc  50  hepinn  .1.  romap  Supij^, "]  anconi  pencligep  .1.  an 
pean  lupcip  no  óiócup  poip.  Sluaicceaó  lap  an  lupcip  pin  pó  céDÓip  ap 
cappainj  í  neill  00  óíocup  cloinne  nieic  Gomnaill,  -)  na  nalbanac  bárcap  05 
DénaTTi  jabalraip  ij'  in  puca,  1  I11  cloinn  aoóa  buibe.  baoí  an  lupcip  co  na 
pluaj;  Ifópáice  acc  inDpab  na  nalbanac,  -\  00  póine  cpeca  lomóa  poppa.  Po 
mapbab  céo  no  óó  t)0  na  halbancoib  laip,  "|  luió  co  na  plój  pop  ccúla  jan 
piap  gan  bpaijoib. 

bpian  mac  caraoíp  puaib  uí  concobaip  pailje  t)o  mapbaó  ló  oonnchaó 
mac  uí  concobaip  (.1.  bpiaii). 


armis  acerrimé  decertavit.  Tandem  ex  ilia  fac- 
tionls  parte  tres  supra  memorati  et  ex  hac  Ed- 
inundus  et  Concliaurus  aliisque  prffistantes  viri 
prseter  plebeios  animam  proi'uderunt. 

"  Copias  immensas  Kildaria;  Comes  et  Delvi- 
nia;  Baro,  magno  Hibernorum  numero  illos  ad 
ea  arma  prosequente,  in  Uhoniam,  Hit  Felimei 
Rufi,  filii  Arturi,  filii  Hugonis  ó  Xelli  auda- 
ciam  reprimerent,  Joanne  Dungalacho  O'NeUo 
rogante,  duxerunt  quidem  prsedas  magnas  sed 
50  suorum  retulenmt. 

"  O'Nellus,  Conus  Coui  lilius,  bello  se  cum 
Clannaboiensibus  gerendo  involvit,  sed  Hugo, 
Nelli  juveuis  O'Nelli  filius,  et  Mac  Donelli  tilii, 
facto  quam  potuerunt  maximo  militum  appa- 
ratu,  ad  certamen  capessendum  aocinguntur, 
nec  mora,  ubi  acies  utraque  occurrit,  mox  con- 


currit  et  pugua  sic  incaluit,  ut  O'Nellorum 
strage  late  cdita  300  desiderati  fuerint. 

"  340  boum  mulctam  Delbhinaj  Etbraj,  irro- 
gatam  Kildarias  Comes,  ob  coUectaneum  suum 
Eobertum  Nugent,  ab  Arturo,  tilio  Cormaci  Mac 
Cogblan  cajsum,  exigit. 

"  Angli  O'Conchaurum  FalgiíE  Brianum  in 
vinculis  conjiciunt. 

"  Hugoni  Annicbadi  O'Maddini  tilio  morienti 
Joannes,  Bressali  O'Maddini  tilius,  in  dignitate 
successit. 

"  Tadeus  Hugonis  O'Cobthaigb,  prscipuus 
per  Hiberniam  et  Scotiam  poeseos  institutor 
fato  functus  est. 

"  Cormacus,  iilius  Ferdorchi  Mac  Coghlan,  qui 
familiam  in  suo  tribu  duxit,  et  Delbhinae  Ethrae 
Dominus  foret,  obiit  apud  Cluain  louain." 


1555.J  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1539 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1555. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  fifty-jive. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Niall  Oge,  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Con,  son  of  Hugh  Boy,  son 
of  Brian  Ballagh  O'Neill,  Lord  of  Clannaboy,  an  influential,  bountiful,  generous, 
and  truly  hospitable  man,  a  prince  over  chieftains,  a  mighty  lord  in  defending, 
a  man  who  had  not  yielded  submission  or  obedience  to  any  of  the  Irish,  who 
had  never  given  pledges  or  hostages  for  his  territory,  and  who  had  [received] 
hostages  himself,  a  man  who  had  given  many  defeats  to  the  English  and  Irish 
in  the  defence  of  his  territory  against  them,  was  killed  by  the  Scots,  with  the 
shot  of  a  bal?. 

A  new  Lord  Justice,  namely,  Thomas  Sussex'',  came  to  Ireland  ;  and  An- 
thony St.  Leger,  the  old  Justice,  was  banished  to  Englaud^  A  hosting  was 
immediately  made  by  this  Lord  Justice,  at  the  instance  of  O'Neill,  to  expel  the 
sons  of  Mac  Donnell  and  the  Scots,  who  were  making  conquests  in  the  Route 
and  Clannaboy.  The  Lord  Justice  remained  for  half  a  quarter  of  a  year  with 
his  army,  harassing  the  Scots  ;  and  he  committed  many  depredations  upon 
them.  He  slew  one  or  two  hundred  of  these  Scots,  and  then  returned  with 
his  army,  without  obtaining  submission  or  hostages. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Cahir  Roe  O'Conor  Faly,  was  slain  by  Donough,  the  son 
of  O'Conor  (Brian). 

2  Shot  of  a  ball. — Ware  adds,  that  after  Hugh,  committed  her  government  once  more  to  Saint- 

the  son  of  Niall,  junior,  had  been  shot  through  leger,  whom  sundry  Noblemen  pelted  and  lifted 

with  a  bullet  in  a  skirmish  with  the  Scots,  the  at,   till  they  shouldered  hini  quite   out  of  all 

Lord  Lieutenant  and  Council,   on  the  15th  of  credit.     He  to  be  counted  forward  and  plyable 

September,  divided  Clannaboy  between  Phelim  to  the  taste  of  King  Edward  the  sist  his  raigne, 

O'Neal  and  the  sons  of  Phelim  Bacagh.  rymed  against  the  Reall  Presence  for  his  pas- 

^  Thomas  Sussex. — This  is  intended  forThomas,  time,   and  let  the  papers  faU  where  Courtiers 

Earl  of  Sussex,  which  is  not  correct.    It  should  might  light  thereon,  who  greatly  magnified  the 

be  :  "  Thomas  Eadcliif,  Viscount  Fitz  Walter,  pith  and  conveyance  of  that  noble  sonnet.     But 

afterwards  Earl  of  Sussex.  the  original  of  his  own  handwriting,  had  the 

^  Banisfied  to  England,  literally,  "expelled  same  firmely  (though  contrary  to  his  own  Judge- 
eastwards."  Of  the  cause  of  the  removal  of  St.  ment)  wandering  in  so  many  hands,  that  his 
Leger,  Campion  writes  as  follows  in  his  Historie  adversary  caught,  and  tripped  it  in  his  way : 
o^/rAwrf  (Dublin  edition  of  1809,  p.  184):  the  spot  whereof  he  could  never  wipe  out.  Thus 

"  Queene  Mary  established  in  her  Crowne,  was  he  removed,  a  discreete  Gentleman,  very 

9  k2 


1.540 


aNwac-a  Rio^hachua  eiReaNN. 


[1.555. 


liipcip  na  liGpeann  do  óénam  y^loijio  Do  óol  Don  mumain.  Ua  bpmin  do 
nonol  plóij  ele  ma  ashaibpiurh,  "|  Dol  do  hi  ccoinne  an  lupcip  50  huib  piac-, 
cam.  8ÍÓ  DO  bénarh  Dóib  pe  poile,  jaoiDil  ó  BeajiBa  50  pionamn  ap  pir 
UÍ  bpiam,  1  50ill  murhan  ap  pi'r  an  mprip. 

TTlac  UÍ  DoTTinaill  .k  an  calbac  do  bol  50  halbain  50  nuaroD  Da^oaoine 
ina  caoimceacc,  -|  puaip  pocpaiDe  plóij  ó  mac  cailín  (.1.  jiolla  eppaij  Donn) 
1  maijipcip  appibél  a  rcoipijeacc  poppa.  Uanaicc  lapam  50  ppeacr  mop 
albanac  laip  do  iTiilleao  "]  do  miimipc  cipe  conuill.  6á  Don  cup  pin  Do  bfpr 
laip  5onna  Dia  ngoipn  an  gonna  cam  lap  po  bpipfb  caiplén  nua  innpi  heoccam, 
-]  caiplén  eanaij.  lap  rceacc  Do  cecupDon  ci'p,  l?o  gaboD  laip  ua  DomnaiU 
TTla^nup  a  araip  hi  ppoppaca,  ni  po  Ificc  uaba  an  peace  albanac  pm  on 
cpampuin  a  ccanjaucap  50  péil  bpénamn  ap  ccionn.  baoi  cpa  ua  DorhnaiU 
illáim  50  a  écc. 


studious  of  the  State  of  Ireland,  enriched,  stout 
enough,  -without  gall." 

Ware  adds  in  his  annals  that  he  died  in  Kent, 
where  he  was  born,  and  that  he  was  buried  on 
the  12th  of  March,  1559- 

°  Ily-Regan. — This  was  the  tribe-name  of  the 
family  of  O'Diiune  and  their  correlativeSj  who 
were  seated  in  the  present  barony  of  Tinnahinch, 
in  the  north-west  of  the  Queen's  County. 
<*  On  the  part,  literally,   "  on  the  peace." 
"  Arsibel,  now  Archibald,  or  Archbold. 
f  Gonna-Gaiii,  i.e.  the  Crooked  Gun,  or  Tor- 
inentum  Curvum,  as  the  translator,  in  F.  1.  18, 
renders  it.     This  was  a  very  odd,  if  not  contra- 
dictory, name  for  a  gun. 

8  Newcastle. — This  castle  is  still  called  Caip- 
lean  nua,  i.  e.  new  castle,  by  the  Irish-speaking 
inhabitants  of  Inishowen,  though  it  is  now  in 
ruins,  and  of  respectable  antiquity.  It  is  also 
called  Newcastle  on  Mercator's  Map  of  Ireland, 
made  in  1629,  but  now  always  in  English 
"  Greencastle."  It  is  situated  in  the  parish  of 
Moville,  on  the  western  margin  of  Lough  Foyle, 
near  its  mouth.  This  castle  was  erected  by  the 
Red  Earl  of  Ulster  (Richard  De  Burgo),  in- the 


year  1305.  The  ruins  ol'  this  castle  still  remain- 
ing shew  that  it  was  one  of  the  strongest  and 
most  important  fortresses  in  all  Ireland. — See 
note  ^  under  the  year  1305,  p.  481 ;  and  note  ', 
under  the  year  1332,  p.  551,  supra. 

^  Eanach. — This  castje  is  called  the  Tower  of 
Enagh  by  Ware  in  his  Annals  of  Ireland,  under 
this  year  ;  and  "  Arx  nobUissima;  O'Cathano- 
rum"  by  Colgan,  who  describes  it,  as  "  tertio 
tantum  milliari  versus  aquiloneni  distans  ab 
ipsa  civitate  Dorensi." — Trias  Thaiim.,  p.  450. 
— See  note  ',  under  the  year  1197,  p.  108, 
supra.  This  castle  was  situated  on  an  island 
in  Lough  Enagh  East,  in  the'  parish  of  Clon- 
dermot,  near  the  City  of  Londonderry.  This 
castle  must  have  been  afterwards  re-edified,  as 
it  is  she-vvn  on  several  maps  of  Ulster,  made  in 
the  reigns  of  Elizabeth  and  James  I.  There  are 
no  ruins  of  it  at  present. 

'  Rosracha. — This  is  probably  the  place  now 
called  Rossreagh,  which  is  a  townland  in  the 
parish  of  TullyfiS-n,  barony  of  Kilmacrenan,  and 
county  of  Donegal.  It  would  appear  from  the 
account  of  the  defeat  of  John  O'Neill,  in  the  year 
1557.  that  Calvagh  O'Donnell  then  set  his  father 


1555.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1511 


The  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland  mustered  an  army  to  march  into  Munster. 
O'Brien  mustered  another  army  to  oppose  him,  and  marched  to  Hy-Regan",  to 
meet  the  Lord  Justice.  They  [however]  made  peace  with  each  otiier  ;  the 
Irish,  from  the  Barrow  to  the  Sliannon,  on  the  part"*  of  O'Brien  ;  and  the  Eng- 
Hsh  of  Munster  on  the  part  of  the  Lord  Justice. 

The  son  of  O'Donnell,  i.  e.  Calvagh,  went  to  Scotland,  attended  by  a  few 
select  persons,  and  obtained  auxiliary  forces  from  Mac  Calin  (Gillaspick  Don), 
under  the  c;ommand  of  Master  ArsibeP.  He  afterwards  «came  back,  with  a 
great  body  of  Scots,  to  desolate  and  ravage  Tirconnell.  It  was  on  this  occasion 
that  he  brought  with  him  a  gun  called  Gonna-Cam^  by  which  Newcastle^  in 
Inishowen,  and  the  castle  of  Eanach",  were  demolished.  Upon  his  first  arrival 
in  the  country,  he  took  O'Donnell  (Manus),  his  father,  prisoner,  at  Rosracha', 
and  retained  this  body  of  Scottish  troops  from  the  Allhallowtide,  in  which  they 
axrived,  until  the  festival  of  St.  Brendan  following.  •  O'Donnell  remained  in 
captivity  until  his  death. 


at  liberty.  The  entries  under  this  year  are 
translated  into  Latin,  as  follows,  in  F.  1.  18  : 

"  Hugo,  filius  Nclli  Juvenis,  filii  Nelli,  filii 
Coni,  filii  Hugonis  Flavi,  filii  Briani  Nievosi 
O'Neill,  Dominus  Clanaboise,  vir  soliditate,  mu- 
nificentia,  gravitate  et  hospitalitate  celeberrimus, 
qui  nobilitatis  ac  tuendaj  ptrise  pra;rogativá 
palniam  aliis  prfecipere  visus  est,  qui  nemini  ex 
Hibernis  proceribus  obsequium  unquam  detulit, 
ab  aliis  obsides  saspe  retulerit,  victorias  plures 
de  Anglis  et  Hibernis  in  sua  ditione  propug- 
nanda  reportaverit  glande  a  iicotis  transfossus 
interiit. 

"  Anthonio  St.  Legero  proregis  dignitate 
moto,  Thomas  Sussexius  excepit  qui  ab  O'Nello 
rogatus  ducto  in  Ultoniam  exercitu,  filiorum 
Mac  Donelli  et  Scotorum  potentiam  Rutam  et 
Clanoiboiam  armis  sibi  vendicantium  coercere 
conatus  est,  sed  post  sesquimensem  in  ea  expe- 
ditione,  nihil  memorabile  prcestitit  prseterquam 
iiuod  Scotos  magno  pecorum  niimero  et  ex  ipsis 
100  aut  200  vita  spoliaverit  nee  eorum  obse- 
i|uiis  nee  obsedibus  relatis. 


"  Proregi  in  Momoniaiu,  ut  obviaui  conatibus 
occurreret,  castra  moventi  O'Brian  etiam  arnia- 
tus  ad  Ibhriaganum  obviam  fit,  ubi  pace  inita 
digrediuntur  et  qui  Hiberni  agros  e  Berbh» 
flumine  ad  Sinueum  amnem  extensas  incolunt, 
paois  ab  O'Brieno  impetratie  participes  esse  per- 
niissi  sunt,  et  Angali  Momonite  in  proregis  pra;- 
sidium  cesserunt. 

"  Calbachi  O'Donelli  filii  paucis  adnioduni 
comitantibus  in  Scotiam  profectus  agmina  mili- 
taria  quatíi  plurima  quibus  Mr.  Arsibellus  pra;- 
ficiebatur,  a  Mac  Callino  Gillaspico  Donno  ini- 
petrata  in  Hiberniam  duxit,  quorum  ope  i'ultus 
Tirconallia;  quietem  turbis  interrupit.  Tor- 
mento  bellico  cui  tormenti  curvi  nomen  indic- 
tum  est  turn  in  Hiberniam  importato  Castelluni 
Inisoenias  et  Castelluni  Enaghense  solo  ada?qua- 
vit.  Primum  illius  in  Hibernia  facinus  fuit  pa- 
rentem  Rosrachaj  cupere,  (juem  non  ante  passus 
est  vinculis  educi,  quam  corporis  crgastulo  anima 
solveretur.  Nee  Scotos  in  Hiberniam  ineunte 
Novembre  adductos  ante  medium  Maii  abire 
permisit." 


1542  aNwata  Rioghachca  eiReoNN.  [1556. 

aOlS  Ci^lOSU,  1556. 
Qoip  C|iio]^c,  mile,  cúicc  céo,  caocca,  aSé. 

^iolla  colaim  o  clapaicch  corhapba  pacc]iaicc  i  nuapán  maije  haoi, 
cfnD  finij,  ~[  yaiobjiiopa  comapbab  connacc,  pficfrii  coiccfnn  00  rpuajaib, "] 
Do  r]iénuib  oécc  hi  ccloinn  RiocaipD  laji  no  lonnctjibab  a  hiiapan,  -|  lap  map- 
baó  a  rnfic  (oictpmaic  puaó  o  clabaij)  la  cloino  connmaij. 

O  Tiió]i6a  conall  ócc  00  epjabáil  lap  an  lupcip. 

Caiplén  lip  cluaine  .1.  1  noealbria  t)o  cpiocnuccaó  lá  maoíleaclainn 
ó  noálacain  hi  ppéil  maca  Suipcél. 

Carpaoínfó  lá  hua  mbpiain  oomnall  pop  rabcc  mac  mupcaioh  uí  bpiam 
aj5  caiplén  an  Dípipc  DÚ  in  po  mapbaó  cpioca  oo  óaoínib  nó  ní  ap  uille. 

Donnchaó  mac  uí  copcobaip  pailje  (.1.  bpian)  do  epjabail  lap  an  lupnp 
1  TiDpuim  Vtá  mnije  ap  loncaib,  "|  ap  eineac  lapla  cille  Dapa.  T?o  cuip  an 
luprip,  1  an  ciapla  reacra  uaraib  Ifc  ap  lCt  gup  an  mbainpioj^airi  50  Sa;raib 
Diip  cpéo  a  Dépaó  Do  Dénam  lap  na  bpaijDibh  ípin  uaip  baí  6  concobaip,  1 
Donnchaó  50  mbpai^Dib  ele  illairh  ag  an  luprip  an  can  pin.  Ro  léicceaó 
ó  mópóa,  1  Donnchab  ó  concobaip  pó  óaijin  na  comaipce  baoí  aca  .1.  lapla 
cille  Dapa,  1  lapla  uprnumhan  map  náp  paoíleaó  Do  Denarh  6ó. 

O  pfpgail  bán  .1.  caocc  mac  conmaic  oécc  lap  pfnDacaió  coccaibe. 

O  maoajain  (.1.  Sfan  mac  bpfpail)  cijfpna  pil  nanmcaba  Do  rhapbab  ló 
bpfpal  Dub  ó  maDagáin  "|  DctiCijeapna  Do  jaipm  ap  píol  nanmcaba  .1.  bpfpal 
Dub, "]  maoíleaclainn  moDapba. 

Uaicne  mac  jiilliam  iií  cobraicc  paoí  Gpeann  lé  Dan  do  rhapbab  pan 
oibce  a  ppiull  1  mbaile  an  luicc  1  maijbacla, -|  ni  peap  cm  po  rhapb. 

peilim  (.1.  ua  oocapcaij)  mac  concobaip  cappaij  ui  Docapraij  Do  écc 
an.  6.  Do  Decembep. 

J  U»ran-Mai()ke-Áoi,  i.  e.  Oran  of  Moy-Aoi,  in  the  parish  of  Tisaran,  barony  of  Garrycastle, 

now  Oran,    in    the   barony  of   Ballymoe,    and  and  King's  County.     The  ruins  of  this  castle 

county  of  Roscommon See  note  ■■,  under  the  are   still  to   be   seen   in   this  townland.     The 

year  1201,  p.  130,  svpra,  where  the  ruins  now  O'Dalaghans  were   respectable   and    numerous 

to  be  seen  at  this  place  are  mentioned.  here  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth. 

^  Lis-cluaine,  i.  e.   the  fort  of  the  meadow,  '  Disert.  now   Dysart-O'Dea,   in  the  barony 

lawn,  or  bog  island,  now  Liscloony,  a  townland  of  Inchiquin,  and  county  of  Clare. 


1556.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1.543 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1556. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  fifty-six. 

Gilla-Columb  O'Clabby,  Coarb  of  St.  Patrick  at  Uaran-Maighe-Aoi',  head 
of  the  hospitality  and  affluence  of  the  Coarbs  of  Connaught,  general  entertainer 
of  the  indigent  and  the  mighty,  died  in  Clanrickard,  after  having  been  banished 
from  Uaran,  and  after  his  son,  Dermot  Roe  O'Clabby,  had  been  slain  by  the 
Clann-Conway. 

O'More  (Connell  Oge)  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  Lord  Justice. 

The  castle  of  Lis-cluaine\  in  Delvin,  was  finished  by  MelaghhnO'Dalachain, 
on  the  festival  of  St.  Matthew  the  Evangelist. 

O'Brien  (Donnell)  defeated  Teige,  the  son  of  Mvurough  O'Brien,  at  the 
castle  of  Disert',  where  thirty  persons  or  more  were  slain. 

Donough,  the  son  of  O'Conor  Faly  (Brian),  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  Lord 
Justice,  at  Druim-dá-mhaighe",  while  he  was  under  the  safe  protection  and 
guarantee  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare.  The  Lord  Justice  and  the  Earl  sent  each  a 
messenger  to  England  to  the  Queen,  to  learn  what  should  be  done  with  those 
hostages  [whom  they  had] ;  for  the  Lord  Justice  had  O'Conor  and  Donough,  as 
well  as  other  hostages,  in  his  custody.  O'More  and  Donough  O'Conor  were 
afterwards  set  at  liberty,  on  account  of  their  guarantees,  namely,  the  i]arl  of 
Kildare  and  the  Earl  of  Ormond.     This  had  not  been  expected. 

O'Farrell  Bane  (Teige,  son  of  Cormac)  died  at  a  venerable  old  age. 

O'Madden  (John,  the  son  of  Breasal),  Lord  of  Sil-Anmchadha,  was  slain  by 
Breasal  Duv  O'Madden ;  and  two  lords  were  set  up  in  Sil-Anmchadha,  namely, 
Breasal  Duv  and  Melaghlin  Modhardha. 

Owny,  the  son  of  William  O'Coifey,  the  most  learned  in  Ii'eland  in  poetry, 
was  treacherously  slain  at  night,  at  Baile-an-luig"  in  Magh-bhachla",  but  it  is  not 
known  by  whom. 

O'Doherty  (Fehm,  the  son  of  Conor  Carragh)  died  on  the  6th  of  December. 

■^  Druim-da-mkaighe,  i.  e.  the  hill  of  the  two  da-mhaighe,   i.  e.  the  district  of  the  two  plains, 

plains,  now  evidently  Drum-caw,  in  the  parish  in  the  east  of  the  King's  County, 

of  Ballynakill,  barony  of  Coolestown,   King's  "  Baile-an-htig,  i.  e.  the  town  of  the  hollow, 

County  (Ordnance  map,  sheet  19);  a  remark-  now  Ballinlig,  a  subdivision  of  Moyvoughly. 

able  hill  in  the  district  of  Tethmoy,  or  Tuath-  "  Magh-bhachla,  now  Moyvonghly,  three  miles 


1544  aNNQia  liio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1557. 

aois  crjiosc,  1557. 

Qoip  Cjiiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  caocca,  a  Seacr. 

Inopat)  ajmamaca  po  61  i  naon  rhi  lap  an  lupnp  romap  puipi^. 

mac  mupcaba  .1.  TTIiiiicaó  mac  minpip  caorhánaiccli  oobápuccat)  In  Ifir- 
^lionn  la  gallaib,  ap  bai  pibe  ace  rpiall  apoaijre,  -]  fpaonca  ppiú  co  po 
peallpac  paip  ifcij  1  ccicc  na  comaiple. 

Caiplén  an  pfoam  i  noelbna  earpa  do  jabail  la  bpajoirr  baoi  lUaim 
mo,"]  a  cabaipc  00  TTihas  cocláin,-]  pliocr  pfpgail  Oionnapbaó,  1  a  mbpaijoe 
DO  cpochab  luan  imcre  .1.  an  ceo  la  Do  rhapca. 

Caiplén  pacpa  Do  bpipfb  la  hua  maoileaclainn  -j  la  jallaibh  aca  luain, 
Coccao  oeipj^e  ecip  mng  coclám  "]  ó  maoileaclainn  laprrain. 

InDpab  ua  ppail^e,  "|  pi'ol  cconcobaip  Dionnapbab  ap  an  ci'p  Dopibipi  ~|  a 
mbpaijoe  Do  conjbail  lap  an  lupcip.  Qciac  na  bpaijDe  O  concobaip  pailje, 
1  mac  a  oeapbpacap  .i.  Ropa  mac  mupchaib  co  pocaiDib  ele  amaille  ppiú. 
T?o  bapaijicc  na  bpaijoe  pm  uile  la  jallaib  acr  ó  concobaip  namá. 

O  mópba  conall  Do  jabdil  la  jallaib,  1  a  bápuccaó  leó  hi  Ifirglinn.  6a 
rpua^  cpa  la  jaoióelaib  an  oiac  pin  do  bpfra  pop  a  paopclancaib  poice- 
nelcaib  gion^up  cuirhgfccap  ni  DÓib. 

Sluaicceaó  lap  an  lupcip  Do  óíocup  píl  concobaip  ap  TTliliucc  lap  na 

nortli  from  the  town  of  Moat,  in  the  county  of  finem  fecit  Malachias  O'Dalachan  in  festo  Sancti 

AVostmeath.     The  entries  under  this  year  are  Mathsi. 

translated  as  follows  in  F.  1.  18;  "  O'Brienus,  Daniel,  cum  Tadeo  filio  Murachi 

"  Gillacolumbius  O'Clabbaidh,    Comorbanns  O'Brien,  ad  castelluni  de  Disert  signa  contulit, 

Sancti  Patricii  in  Oran   de  iMoyhai,   Comorba-  ubi  é  Tadei  parte  30  vel  plures  ceciderunt. 

norum  Conacise  opulentiá  et  hospitalitate  Cory-  "DonatumO'ConchauriFalgÍ£e,Briani,filixmi, 

pha;us  ad  ciijus  domus  tenuioris  et  opuleutioris  prorex  in  vincula,   comite  Kildaria;  annuente, 

fortuna;   hominibus   facilis  patult  accessus,   ut  dari  jussit ;  sed  Kegiua  (juid  de   ipso  ac  ejus 

qua3  omnibus  publior  gratiutius  diversorii  in-  patre,  cseterisque  carcere  inclusis  statim  vellet 

star  erat,   in  Clanricardiá,  ubi,  sua  pulsus  sede  consultá,  ó  Morus   et   Donatus    in    libertatem 

post  filium  Dermitium  a  Clanchonmhoensibus  prnjter   omnium    expectationem    educti    sunt, 

interfectum,  exulare  coactus  est  animam  exha-  Kildaria;  et  Ormonia:  cqmitibus  in  se  accipien- 

lavit.  tibus  ipsos  in  sede  posthac  inviolata;   perman- 

"  O'Mordhus  Conallus  Juvenis,  a  prorege  in  suros. 

custodiam  tradi  jussus  est.  "  OTarrelluH  Albus  Cormaci  filius  senio  con- 

"  Castelli  Lisclonensis  in  Delvina  extruendi  fectus  obiit. 


1.5.57]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1545 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1557. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  fifty -seven. 

Arniagii  was  plundered  twice  in  one  month  by  Tliomas  Sussex. 

Mac  Murrough"  (Murrough,  tlie  son  of  Maurice  Kavanagli)  was  killed  at 
Leighlin  by  the  English,  because  he  had  begun  to  exalt  himself,  and  foment 
disturbances  against  them  ;  whereupon  they  dealt  treacherously  by  him  in  the 
house  of  the  council. 

The  castle  of  Feadan'  in  Delvin-Eathra  was  taken  by  a  prisoner  who  was 
confined  therein,  and  given  up  to  Mac  Coghlan ;  and  the  descendants  of  Farrell 
were  banished,  and  their  hostages  hanged,  on  Shrove-Monday,  being  the  first 
(lay  of  March. 

The  castle  of  Rachra'  was  demolished  by  O'Melaghlin  and  the  English  of 
Athlone ;  after  which  a  war  broke  out  between  Mac  Coghlan  and  O'Melaghlin. 

Offaly  was  ravaged,  and  the  O'Conors  were  again  banished  from  it,  by  the 
Lord  Justice,  and  their  hostages  detained.  These  were  the  hostages :  O'Conor 
Faly,  and  the  son  of  his  brother,  i.  e.  Ross,  son  of  Miu-rough,  with  many  othex-s 
along  with  them.  All  these  hostages  were  put  to  death  by  the  English,  except 
O'Conor  only. 

O'More  (Connell)  was  taken  by  the  English,  and  put  to  death  by  them  at 
Leisrhlin.  It  was  Ejrievous  to  the  Irish  that  their  free-born  noble  chieftains 
should  be  overtaken  by  such  an  evil  destiny  ;  but  they  could  not  afford  them 
any  assistance. 

A  hosting  was  made  by  tlje  Lord  Justice  to  banish  the  O'Conors  [of  Offaly] 

"  O'Maddino,  Joanne,  Bressali  filio,  per  Bres-  of  Ireland,  that  "  Maurice  Cavenagh  and  Conall 

salum  Nigrum  O'Maddin  interempto,  Silanmchia  O'Moore,"  were  sentenced  to  death  as  stubborn 

duos  dominos  Bressalum  Nigrum  et  Malachiam  rebels,   and  executed    at  Leighlin  Bridge   this 

Moddarha  puti  coactaque.  year. 

"  Uathnius,  filius  Gulielmi  ó  Cobthaigh,  poe-  i  Feadan,  now  Faddan,  in  the  parish  of  Lus- 

.seos  Hibernica;  peritissimus,  in  Baileanluicc  de  magh,  barony  of  Garrycastle,  and  King's  County. 

Maighbachla  nocturná  fraude   peremptus    est,  — See  note  ^,   under   the  year  1520,  p.  1348, 

nee  prodi  poterit  quis  caedis  fuerit  auotor.  supra.     See  other  notices  of  this  castle  at  the 

"  O'Dochartus,  Felimeus,   filius    Conchauri  years  1540  and  1548. 

Calvi,  6  Decembris  occubuit  [obiit]."  '  Rachra,    now  Raghra,    otherwise  Shannon 

'  Mac  Murrough. — Ware  states,  in  his  Annals  Bridge,   in  the  barony  of  Garrycastle,  King's 

9  L 


VAd  aNHCí6a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1557. 

cloipcin  DO  a  mbfir  ann,  -\  ^onnaóa  mójia  Dimpfóain  -j  oo  rciiipains  laip  50 
hoc  luain,  -]  aj^póe,  i  napfpaijib  50  miliucc,  -]  a  f luaj  cpé  bealac  an  pocaip 
-]  DO  lupccain  lupmai;i;e,  -]  é  pfm  ina  ppappaD.  T?o  jabab  laparh  TTIiliucc  -] 
bpfc  climin  laip,  l?o  nia|ibaó  DonnchaD  mac  colla,  -]  Dponj  ele  Don  BapDa 
aniaille  ppip.  l?o  cpoiffDh  "|  po  InnDpaD  an  cip  uile  Don  cup  pm.  Do  hionn- 
apbao  clann  maoileaclainn  bailB  ap  an  cip  gup  na  Dibeapccaib  amaiUe  ppiii. 
páccbaip  an  lupcip  conpcabla  Sa;canac  In  miliucc  .1.  TTIaijipnp  ppanpip, -] 
puce  bpaijDe  on  Da  ó  maoagain  .1.  ITlaoilfclainn  nioDapba,  -\  bpfpal,")  bpaijDe 
ele  Ó  íílaj  coclóin  i.  a  mac  -|  apaill  ele  conaó  arhlaib  pin  po  jabaó  píol 
nanmcaDa,  -\  m  hupupa  a  piorh  nac  a  aipiom  jac  ap  milleaD  Don  riipup  pm. 
Upi  pfccmaine  pia  lujijnapa  do  ponnpab  innpin. 

O  pfp  jail  ban  oomnall  Do  mapbab  la  paccna  mac  uaiDcc  ui  pip  jail  -| 
paccna  peippin  Dmnnapbab  cpiap  an  nj^niorh  pm  la  jallaib. 

Dorhnall  maclaoijpij  ui  rhópba  rijeapna  pleibe  TTlaipcce  do  cpochab  la 
?;allaib  .1.  la  mai  jipcip  pili. 

Sluaicceab  lap  an  uiprip  In  ppfpaib  ceall  Do  biocup  na  ppojlab  epce  ap 
po  cualaib  co  mbaccap  pop  coiUcib  pfp  cceall.  ^abcap  laip  cepóiD  ó  maol- 
muaib  CO  mbpai  jDib  ele.  LuiD  appiDe  50  héle  50  po  jabab  Ifim  ui  bánóin 
laip,  1  bo  he  peabo)^  a  eic  puce  ó  efpbaiU  a]>p  uaba.  Soaip  an  lupnij'  cap 
a  aip  lap  ccabaipc  mfpeebiiaibpeab  pop  jaoibelaib  na  nionab  pin.  Cfio 
lapam  hi  Sa;caib,  ~\  páccbaip  an  cpeipinép  ma  lonab.  Sluaicceab  ele  lap  an 
cpeipinep  hi  ppeapaib  ceall  Dia  Diojail  ap  ua  maolmuaiD  .1.  ape  bfic  05 
caomna  na  cfiripne   coille,  "|    na  nD\bfpccac.     í?o  hionDpaD  an  cip  ó  coill 

County,   where  a  modern  fort,  occupies  the  site  Meelick.  and  his  army  througli  Ballaghanoher, 

of  the  old  castle.  and    by  Lurgan    Lusiuhaighe,  and    he  himself 

'  '^  Conveyed  and  carried,  DiniFfbuin -|  do  rap-  along  with  them." 

painj. — These    two   verbs    are    nearly   synoni-  "    Bealach-an-fhothair,     now    Ballaghanoher, 

nioiis.  ;' ImFeaoain  .1.  ctipU'ió  no  cippainj." —  near   Banaglier,    in    the   King's    County. — See 

U'Clery.  it  already  referred  to  at  the  years  1548  and 

'  While  he  himself. — This  is  very  rudely  stated  ló5.'5. 
in  the  original,  as  will  appear  from  the  literal  ™  Lurgan-Lusmhuighe.    This  was  a  townland 

translation,  which  is  as  follows  :  "  A  hosting  by  in  the  parish  of  Lusmagh,  barony  of  Garrycastle, 

the  Justiciary  to  banish  the  Race  of  Conor  Irom  and  King's  County;  but  the  name  is  now  obso- 

Meelick,  after  it  was  heard  by  him  that  they  Icte. 

were  there;  and  great  guns  were  drawn  and  car-  =■  Breac-cMuain,  i.  e.  the  speckled  lawn,  mea- 

ried  by  him  to  Athlone,  and  thence  in  vessels  to  dow,  or  bog-island,  now  Bracklooii,  a  townland 


1557]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1547 

from  Meelick,  after  having  heard  that  they  were  there  ;  and  he  conveyed  and 
carried'  great  guns  to  Athlone,  and  from  thence  [sent  them]  in  boats  to  Mee- 
lick, w^hile  he  himself  marched  his  army  through  Bealach-an-fhothaii",  and  by 
Lurgan-Lusmhaighe".  He  afterwards  took  Meelick  and  Breac-chluain",  and 
slew  Donough,  the  son  of  Colla,  together  with  others  of  the  warders.  The 
entire  territory  was  plundered  and  ravaged  on  that  occasion.  The  sons  of  Me- 
laghlin  Balbh  were  banished  from  the  territory,  together  with  the  insurgents. 
The  Lord  Justice  left  an  English  constable  at  Meehck,  i.  e.  Master  Francis,  and 
took  hostages  from  the  two  O'Maddens,  namely,  from  Melaghlin  Modhardha 
and  Breasal,  and  other  hostages  from  Mac  Coghlan,  namely,  his  son  and  others : 
and  thus  was  Siol-Anmchadha  taken,  and  it  is  not  easy  to  state  or  enumerate 
all  that  was  destroyed  on  that  expedition.  Three  weeks  before  Lammas  that 
[expedition]  was  made. 

O'Farrell  Bane  (Donnell)  was  slain  by  Fachtna,  the  son  of  Teige  O'Farrell; 
and  Fachtna  himself  was  banished  for  this  deed  by  the  English. 

Donnell,  son  of  Laoighseach''  O'More,  Lord  of  SlialDh  Mairge',  was  hanged 
by  the  English,  namely,  by  Master  Sili. 

A  hosting  was  made  by  the  Lord  Justice  into  Fircall,  to  expel  the  plunderers 
from  it,  for  he  had  heard  that  they  were  in  the  woods  of  Fircall.  He  took 
Theobald  O'Molloy  and  others  prisoners,  and  proceeded  from  thence  into  Ely, 
where  he  took  Leim-Ui-Bhanain";  and  it  was  the  goodness  of  his  steed  [alone] 
that  enabled  O'Conor  to  escape  from  him.  The  Justice  returned  back,  after 
having  thrown  the  Irish  of  these  parts  into  confusion.  He  afterwards  went  to 
England,  and  left  the  Treasurer*"  in  his  place.  Another  hosting  was  made  by 
the  Treasurer  into  Fircall,  to  take  vengeance  upon  O'Molloy  ( Art)  for  his  pro- 
tection of  the  wood  kerns'^  and  other  insurgents.    On  this  occasion  the  whole 

in  the  parish  of  Clonfert,  barony  of  Longford,  "  Leim-  Ui-Bhanain,  now  the  Leap  Castle,  the 

and  county  of  Galway.     In  this  townland  still  seat_of  H.  Darby,  Esq.,  in  the  King's  County, 

stands  a  square  tower  said  to  have  been  built  about  five  miles  to  the  north  of  Roscrea. — See 

by  O'Madden,  Chief  of  Sil- Anamchy.  note  \    under   the   year   1514,    p.   1326;    and 

'  Laoighseach^  now  anglicised  Lewis.  note  ",  under  the  year  1516,  p.  1337,  supra. 

z  Sliaih  Mairge,   now  the  barony  of  Slew-  ^The  Treasurer. — This  was  Sir  Henry  Sidney, 

margy,  or  Slievemarague,  in  the  south-east  of  afterwards  so  celebrated  in  Irish  history. — See 

the  Queen's  County — See  note  i",   under   the  Ware's  Annals  of  Ireland,  A.  D.  1557. 
year  1398,  p.  763,  supra.  ■=  PTooal /cerns,  i.  e.  the  outlawed  kerns.   O'Fla- 

9  L  2 


1548 


awNQ^a  Rio^hachca  eiReoNN. 


[15.57. 


yoip,  T?o  loifccea6  baile  mic  abainn  -)  lanneala  cijib  rfmplaib,  i  po  mapbab 
mac  UÍ  maolmuaib  .1.  an  calbac  ncc  bel  aca  glaipi  lap  an  cpepinep  co  na 
plój  oon  cup  pin.  Uaimcpióe  Dopibipi,  -\  po  lope  an  cip,  1  po  ^fpp  a  coillce, 
-)  ni  rapD  pir  no  oppab  oua  niaolnumib  ace  a  arcop  -\  a  lonnapbab,  "i  rpé- 
rúip  00  gaipm  be,  -\  capccaib  cijfpnap  do  rfpoio  ó  maolmuaib  mp  ppágbóil 
a  itific  map  bp'ájaicc  aicce  ma  lonab  pfin. 

Coccab  abbal  ecip  jallaib  1  ina  mbaoi  amuij^  ma  naccaib  do  jaoibelaib 
.1.  Siol  cconcobaip,  Siol  mopba, -|  Siol  maoilmuaib  "]  Siol  ccfpbaill  co  nac  éiDip 
apiotti  an  lion  cpeac  mapbfa,  -|  poj^la  do  pónab  leó  ó  cá  pionainn  50  pliab 
puab,  1  ó  cá  blabma  50  cliobna, ")  n  cá  eóip  jup  an  ccbobna  cceona. 


herty  {Og^gia,  part  iii.  c.  27),  in  bis  strictiues 
on  Peter  Walsli,  acknowledges  that  the  term 
kethern,  which  was  originally  a  military  term, 
was  used  in  a  bad  sense,  even  by  the  Irish  them- 
selves, after  the  Irish  soldiery  were  reduced  by 
war,  and  forced  to  live  in  woods  in  a  barbarous 
and  uncivilized  manner. 

^  Baile-mhic-Abhainn,  now  prouounced  by  the 
few  old  people  who  speak  Irish  in  this  district, 
as  if  written  bade  ic  aBaiiin,  and  anglicised 
Ballycowan,  a  castle  in  a  barony  of  the  same 
name,  about  two  miles  to  the  west  of  TuUamore. 
It  is  stated  in  a  poem  composed  by  Ferganainm 
Mac  Keogh,  on  the  triumphs  of  Hugh  O'Byrne 
of  Glenmalur,  that  Hugh  O'Byrne  plundered 
and  burned  this  place,  the  name  of  which  he 
writes  buile  cobain,  as  it  is  now  pronouced. 
No  part  of  O'Molloy's  castle  now  remains  at  this 
place;  but  its  site  is  occupied  by  a  more  modern 
castle,  erected  in  1626,  by  Sir  Jasper  Harbert, 
as  appears  from  the  style  of  it,  and  the  follow- 
ing inscription  over  the  entrance  : 

"  This  house  was  built  by  Sir  Jasper  Harbert 
and  Mary  Dean  Finglas,  in  the  year  1626." 

'  Bel-atka-glaisi,  i.  e.  mouth  of  the  ford  of  the 
streamlet,  now  called  Bellaglash,  and  sometimes 
Glash,  a  ford  over  which  there  is  now  a  bridge, 
on  a  stream  which  rises  in  the  townland  of  Der- 
j-ybeg,  in  the  barony  of  Geshill,  and  flows  into 


Lord  Charleville's  lake. 

f  Sliabh-rvadk,  i.  e.  the  red  mountain.  There 
is  a  mountain  of  this  name,  now  anglicised 
Slieverue,  near  Blessington,  on  the  frontiers  of 
the  counties  of  Wick  low  and  Dublin;  but  the 
Three  Rock  Mountain,  and  the  whole  range  of 
hills  to  the  south  of  Dublin,  were  anciently 
called  Sliabh-ruadh,  and  they  are,  doubtlessly, 
the  range  here  referred  to. 

^  Slieoe  Bloom,  a  range  of  mountains  on  the 
boundary  between  the  King's  and  Queen's 
Counties. — See  note  ^,  under  the  year  1269. 

''  CUodhna This  is   more  frequently  called 

Conn  Chliobna,  i.  e.  the  wave  of  Cleena,  who 
is  believed  to  be  the  familiar  sprite  of  the 
south  of  Ireland,  as  Oeibhinii,  now  corruptly 
Aoibhill,  is  of  North  JIunster  ;  but,  according 
to  the  Feilire  Aenguis,  Cliodhua  of  Tonu- 
Chliodlina  was  a  saint  venerated  on  1 7th  March. 
This  locality  is  referred  to  in  a  poem  addressed 
to  Donnell  O'Donovau,  who  became  chief  of  his 
name  in  1639,  by  Muldowny  O'Morrisou,  who 
styles  him  "  Dragon  of  Cliodhna,"  from  which 
it  is  quite  clear  that  he  had  a  residence  near 
it.  This  was  the  castle  of  Eaheen  in  the  pa- 
rish of  Myross.  The  name  Tonn-Chliodhna  is 
not  yet  forgotten,  and  is  applied  to  a  loud  surge 
in  the  harbour  of  Cuan-Dor,  now  Glandore,  in 
the  south  of  the  countv  of  Cork.     Mr.  James 


1.5.5'7.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1549 


country,  from  the  Wood  [of  Coill  mor]  eastwards,  was  ravaged  ;  Baile-mhic- 
Abhainn"  and  Lynally,  both  houses  and  churches,  were  burned  ;  and  Calvagh, 
son  of  O'Molloy,  was  killed  at  Bel-atha-glaisi^  by  the  Treasurer  and  his  army, 
on  that  occasion.  He  came  a  second  time,  and  burned  the  territory,  and  cut 
down  its  woods,  and  gave  neither  peace  nor  rest  to  O'Molloy,  but  chased  and 
banished  liim,  and  pi'oclaimed  him  a  traitor,  and  gave  the  lordship  to  Theobald 
O'Molloy,  who  delivered  up  to  him  his  son  as  a  hostage  in  his  own  place. 

A  great  war  between  the  English  and  all  tliose  Irish  who  had  turned  out 
against  ihem,  namely,  the  O'Conors  [Faly],  O'Mores,  O'Molloys,  and  O'Carrolls; 
so  that  it  is  impossible  to  enumerate  the  number  of  preys,  slaughters,  and  plun- 
ders, which  were  committed  by  tliem,  from  the  Shannon  to  Sliabh-ruadh^  from 
Slieve  Bloom^  to  Cliodhna\  and  from  the  Eoir'  to  the  same  Cliodhna. 


O' Donovan,  of  Squince,  now  living  at  Graves- 
end  in  Kent,  describes  its  situation  in  a  letter 
to  the  Editor,  from  whicli  the  following  extract 
may  be  interesting,  as  the  situation  of  Tonn 
Cliliodhna  has  never  been  pointed  out: 

"  You  ask  me  if  I  have  any  recollection  of 
having  heard  the  name  Tonn  Clecna  (Cleena's 
wave)  ?  I  have  lieard  the  nariie,  and  often  enough 
the  wave,  or  the  roar  of  the  surge,  both  in  calm 
and  in  storm.  You  will  be  surprised  when  I 
say  in  calm,  but  it  is  a  day,  or  sometimes  two 
days,  before  the  wind  shifts  from  any  other  point 
to  the  north-east  that  the  noise  is  loudest  ; 
and  at  Squince,  where  it  is  heard  perhaps  loud- 
est, it  was  and  is  always  taken  as  a  certain  in- 
dication of  a  shift  of  wind  to  the  north-cast.  The 
old  people  will  have  it  that  it  emanates  from  a 
rock  which  is  oft"  the  point  of  the  western  en- 
trance of  Glandore  harbour,  connected  with  which 
there  exists  a  curious  legend  ;  but  the  truth  is, 
that  this  remarkable  roar,  even  in  a  calm,  when 
a  north-east  wind  is  approaching,  emanates  from 
the  eastern  side  of  the  harbour's  entrance.  The 
cliffs  facing  the  south  and  south-west  being  of 
stupendous  height,  and  hollowed  out  into  enor- 
mous caverns  (of  which  Dean  Swift  has  given, 
in  his  poeni  Carbericp  Rtijies.  a  vei-y  accurate. 


though  general,  description).  When  the  Avind  is 
north-east  offshore,  the  waves,  resounding  in  the 
caverns,  send  forth  a  deep,  loud,  hollow,  mono- 
tonous roar,  which  in  a  calm  night  is  peculiarly 
impressive  on  the  imagination,  producing  sensa- 
tions either  of  melancholy  or  fear." — See  Smith's 
Natural  and  Civil  Histori/  of  Cork,  vol.  i.  first 
edition,  p.  273,  where  Dean  Swift's  poem  is 
printed. 

There  is  a  Carraig-Chliodhna  on  the  coast  of 
the  townland  of  Reenogrena,  parish  of  Kilfaugh- 
nabeg,  in  the  west  division  of  the  barony  of  East 
Carbery,  and  another  rock  of  the  same  name  in 
the  parish  of  Kilshannick,  barony  of  Duhallow, 
in  the  same  county,  where  Cliodhna  is  believed 
to  have  held  her  aerial  palace.  But  Tonn- 
Cliodhna  is  evidently  the  place  alluded  to  in 
the  text. 

'  The  Eoir,  called  Feoir  by  Keating  and 
O'lleerin,  now  the  River  Nore,  which  rises  in 
the  Devil's  Bit  mountain,  banmy  of  Ikerrin, 
and  coTUity  of  Tipperary,  and  flowing,  by  a 
very  circuitous  covirse,  close  to  Borris-in-Os- 
sory,  and  through  Castletown,  Abbeyleix,  Kil- 
kenny. Thomastown,  and  Enistiogue,  unites 
with  the  Barrow  about  a  mile  below  New  Rosk, 
where  thev  form  a  very  cou?idi>rable  river,  and 


1550  aNNaí,a  Rio^hactica  eiReawN.  [1557. 

O  cfpBaill  (.1.  uiUiain  oóap)  00  gabail  caipléin  an  léime  a]i  gallaib  lap 
bpa jbáil  baojail  paip. 

Uoiji]ibealbac  mac  concobaiii  mic  coiiijibealbaij  mic  caiócc  an  comaiD 
uí  b]iiaiTi  Décc. 

Seaan  ó  neill  .1.  niac  cumn,  mic  cuinn  do  rfcclamaó,  1  00  lépcionol  Slóij 
lónrhóip  DO  60I  1  ccíp  conaill  .1.  na  Viaipjialla  mle, -|  ina  mbaoí  do  sallaib  -| 
DO  gaoiDelaib  o  cpái^  baile  mic  buain  50  pinn.  Uanjaccap  pioe  uile  ma  rionól, 
-)  ma  coiceapcal,  -]  ní  po  haipipeaó  lap  na  plojaib  ípin  50  po  gabpar  lonj- 
popc  Ifron  laocapmac  cecup  acc  an  ccappaicc  Ifir  ecip  DÓ  abainn  .1.  pionn, 
1  TTioDapn.  bá.póinrheac  po  boc  illongpopc  mic  uí  neill  ap  po  baoí  cpfic  -] 
cfnnai^ecc  infoa,  -]  píona,  -|  c.ojaD  nuupal,  -]  gac  naóailcce  apcfna  ann. 
Rána'cc  pccéla  50  mac  uí  neill  50  po  ciiippfc  cenél  cconaill  a  mbú  "|  a  mbó- 
rctince.i  nomrhpaib  "j  1  nópoibélaib  an  cípe  lap  ná  ccúlaiB,  arcbepcpom  nar 
baoí  bó  Díobpiurii  Dopuióe,  ap  cia  nó  ciopcaoíp  illaijnib  nó  1  niumain,  nó 
biabporh  ina  lupcc  conap  ciiccaD  50  piapai  jre  lacc  pn  a  riiamiip  bc'ibéin,  cor.ó 
biaó  acr  aon  pi  jj  pop  ulcaib  Do  j^pép.  Cenél  cconaill  Dna  ap  amlaiD  bácrap 
péiri  -]  ua  Domnaill  TTlajiínup  1  neapláince  -|  1  nenfipce, -]  é  illáirh  accá  rhac 
an  calbac  ppi  pé  oá  bliaoan  paime  pm,  1  an  calbac  hi  ccfnoap  na  cípe. 
6aoí  beóp  a  6f|ibparaip  aob  co  na  lucc  Ifnarhna  hi  pppicbfpc  pp'p,  "|  baoí 
pióe  hi  ppappab  Shfain,  a  bparap  an  can  pm.    O  po  cualaiD  an  calbac  Sfan 

flow  in  a  southern  direction  for  about  twelve  the  Latin  translator,  in  F.  1.  18,  well  renders 

Irish  miles  till  they  unite  with  the   Suir   at  it:  "opportunitate  quam  nactus  est  arrepta." 

Cheek  point,  near  Waterford.    The  point  where  "^  Teige-an-Chomhaid,i.  e.  Teige,  or  Timothy, 

they  meet  is  called  Comarna  d-tri  n-uisceadh  by  of  Goad,  a  townland  containing  the  ruins  of  a 

the  old  Irish  writers,  which  is  translated  "  Con-  small  church,   near  Corofin,   in  the  county  of 

fluentia  Trium  fluviorum,"  by  Colgan,  in  Trias  Clare. 

2%o.M»i.,  p.  164,  and  by  others  "the  Meeting  of  ^  His   muster  and   army — The  Irish  words 

the    three  waters." — See  Keatiug's  History  of  cionol   and  coiceapcal  are   synonymous  here, 

Ireland,  Haliday's  edition,  preface,  p.  xxx.  and  merely  introduced  for  the  sake  of  the  allite- 

''  The  castle  o/Leim,  i.  e,  of  Leim-Ui-Bhanain,  ration, 
now  the  Leap  Castle,   in  the  King's  County,  °  Carraig-liath,  i.  e.  the  grey  rock,  now  Car- 
situated  about  five  miles  to  the  north  of  the  ricklea,  a  townland  situated  between  the  Rivers 
town  of  Roscrea. — See  it  already  mentioned  at  Finn  and  Mourne,  about  one  mile  above  their 
the  years  1514,  1516.  confluence,   in  the  parish  of  Urney,   barony  of 

'  Unprotected,  literaUy,   "  after  having  found  Strabane,  and  county  of  Tyrone, 

danger  on  it ;"  by  which  strange  idiom  is  meant  ■■  To  submit  to  his  autliority,  literally,   "  until 

"  by  taking  an  advantage  of  its  warders,"  or,  as  he  would  bring  them  obedient  to  his  own  juris- 


1557]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1.5.51 

O'Carroll  (William  Odliar)  took  the  castle  of  Leim",  after  having  found  it 
unprotected'. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige-an-Chomaid"" 
O'Brien,  died. 

John  O'Neill,  i.  e.  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Con,  assembled  and  mustered  a 
very  numerous  army  to  proceed  into  Tirconnell,  namely,  all  the  people  of  Oriel, 
and  all  the  English  and  Irish  from  Tragh-Bhaile-mhic-Buain  [Dundalk]  to  the 
[River]  Fin.  All  these  came  to  join  his  muster  and  army",  and  marched  with- 
out halting  until  they  had,  in  the  first  place,  pitched  their  spacious  and  hero- 
thronged  camp  at  Carraig  Liath°,  between  the  two  rivers,  Finn  and  Mourne. 
The  time  was  spent  very  happily  in  the  camp  of  the  son  of  O'Neill,  for  they 
carried  on  the  buying  and  selling  of  mead,  wue,  rich  clothing,  and  all  other 
necessaries.  News  came  "to  the  son  of  O'Neill  that  the  Kinel-Connell  had  sent 
off  all  their  cows  and  herds  into  the  wilds  and  fastnesses  of  the  country  for 
protection ;  but  he  declared  that  not  one  cow  of  them  was  inaccessible,  for  that, 
even  though  they  should  pass  [with  their  cattle]  into  Leinster  or  Munster,  he 
would  pursue  them  until  he  should  compel  them  to  submit  to  his  authority'',  so 
that  there  should  be  but  one  king  in  Ulster  for  the  future.  As  for  the  Kiuel- 
Connell,  they  were  thus  chcumstanced  :  O'Donnell  (Manus)  was  in  bad  health 
and  infirmity,  and  had  now  been  for  two  years  incarcerated  by  his  son  Calvagh, 
who  had  assumed  the  government  of  the  country.  Moreover,  his  brother  Hugh, 
with  his  adherents,  was  in  opposition  to  him,  and  was  at  this  time  along  with 
John  [O'Neill],  his  kinsman".     When  Calvagh  heard  that  John  [(3'Neill]  and 

diction."     This  passage  is  quoted  by  Leland  in  much  more  faithfully  as  follows  : 
his  History  of  Ireland,  book  iii.  c.  8,  as  trans-  "  Ubi  nuntii  pervenerunt  Tirconallenses  ar- 

lated  for  him  hy  Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare,  menta  sua  et  greges  ad  invia  loca  et  remotissi- 

who,  in  his  zeal  to  dignify  Irish  history,  brings  mos  Tirconalliae  recessus  abegisse,  hinc  (inquit) 

all  his  translations  from  the  Irish  into  his  own  nullum  haurient  emolumcntum,   nam  si  vel  iu 

pompous  style  of  English  :  Lageniam  vel  Momoniam    pecudes  ablegarent, 

•'  Let  them  drive  our  prey  into  the  midst  of  vel  illinc  etiam  extractas   nobis  ^indicareiuus, 

Leinster,  or  let  them  hide  it  in  the  South,  cried  efficit  perfecto  posthac  ut  Ultouia  uno  pareat, 

O'Nial,    we   shall   pursue  it    to    the   remotest  nee  patiar  de  provincia  quidpiam  illins  iniperio 

((iiarter  of  the  Island.     No  power  shall  protect  surripi." 

our  enemies,  or  stop  the  progress  of  the  prince  ""  His  kinsman Charles  O'Conor  of  Belana- 

and  sovereign  of  Ulster."  gare  interpolates  "  oeapbpacaip  a  rhciénp,   i.  e. 

The  Latin  translator,   in  F.  1.  18,  renders  it  his  mother's  brother,"  which  is  correct. 


1552  aNNQ^.a  Rio^hachra  eiReawH.  [1557. 

CO  ria  plÓ5aib  Do  jjabúil  lonjpoipc  i  niiji  na  ripe  ]io  baoi  ago  pcc]iuDa6  ma 
Thfumain  Dup  ció  do  jénaó  pjiip  an  eiccfnDail  móip  jio  bai  ace  comaicfm  paip, 
-|  jio  coiiiaijiléicc  ppm  araip  Ulajnup  cia  baijiru  iinipc  Do  jénab  pop  cionn 
a  biobbaD  cecib  can  ciopcaoi)^  Don  cip.  ha  pi  comaiple  Do  poD  6  Dorhnaill  a 
afaip  DO  Ó  no  baoi  coimb'on  ploicc  la  mac  ui  neill  jan  Dol  a  naipfp  caca 
cuicce  ace  aipipiorii  ace  imóea^jail  a  muiiicipe  ceri  co  rcoippfo  Don  cip,  "] 
Dm  ccaompaD  an  can  pin  amnp  lonjpoipc  Do  cabaipc  paip  Dia  irifpccbuaiD- 
peaD.  6á  Dóij  laip  no  bépab  copccap.  Qp  paip  Dei]>iD  aca  innpin.  Oala 
Shfain  Í  néill  co  na  ploccaib  po  caipmcfinini^pioc  jan  a'pipiorh  on  ccappaicc 
léc  50  pangaccap  cap  pinn  la  caob  paca  boc  cpép  an  laccán  50  po  jabpac 
popaD  1  lonjpopc  la  caob  baile  01516  caoin  a  ccoiiipoccup  Don  cppuic  pilfp 
ap  an  copap  DianiD  ainnri  cabapcac.  Do  pónaó  bora")  bélpccalána  la  a 
plógaib  lap  pni.  Qii  calbac  imoppo,  ap  ann  baoi  pi6e  co  r.a  mac  conn  an  la 
pin  1  noipeaccap  In  mullac  bfinnin  co  nuachab  ina  pappab,  ap  ni  baoi  ace 
aon  cpi oca  mapcac,  "I  Dci  copu^aD  gallócclac  Do  cloitin  cpuibne  panacc  .1. 
Sliocc  RtiaiDpi  im  ualcap  mac  niupchaiD,"]  Sliocc  Domnaill  im  Dorhnall  50pm 
mac  puibne,"!  Od  cualaiD  an  calbac  Sfan  co  na  plocc  Do  ceacc  in  dú  pui,  Ro 
paoíó  Diap  Dia  painmuincip  do  caipccélaD  pop  na  plógaibb  -]  baccap  laD  a 
nanmanna  Donnchao  ócc  mac  DonnchaiD  pnaiD  mejuiDip,"]  TTluipip  mac  ailin. 
Do  coDap  piDe  Dill  50  mbaccap  gan  pacuccliab  1  ccpécumapcc  na  plój  uaip 

^  Protecting  his  people,  ac  imoeajail  a  riiuin-  sary  and  eveiy  luxury  is  brought  tliither  and 

cipe — The  word  imóeujail  is  explaiued  unacul,  exposed  to  sale,  as  in  a  regular  market,  yet  the 

i.e.  protection,  by  Michael  O'Clery.  state  and  magnificence  of  the  enemy  may  be 

'  They  agreed  upon  adopting  this. — Leland,  in  greater  than  his  precaution.   Attack  his  camp 

his  Il/s/orj/  of  Ireland,  book  iii.  c.  8,  dwelling  by  night ;  one  sudden  and  vigorous  effort  may 

with  particular  interest  on  this  local  war  be-  disperse  our  enemies  at  ouce." 
tween  O'Neill   and  O'Donnell,    makes   Manus  This  passage   was  furnished   to   Leland   by 

O'Donuell  speak  as  follows  on  the  authority  of  Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare,  who,  in  his  zeal 

the  Annals  of  Donegal,   which  is  the  name  by  to  magnify  evijry  thing  Irish,  has  gone  far  be- 

which  he  calls  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters  yond  his  original  in  this  instance  ;  but  as  he 

throughout  :«  was   furnishing  materials  for  history,   not  ro- 

"  Do   not,"   said  the  father,    "  attempt  with  mance,   it  was  entirely  beneath  his  dignity  to 

our  inferior  numbers  to  meet  the  enemy  in  the  swell  the  simple  words  of  the  Four  Masters  into 

field.,     O'Neill  is  advancing  ou  us,  and  in  this  such  a  flood  of  magniloquence.     The  translator 

new  situation  his  camp  bears  a  formidable  as-  in  F.  1.  18,  keeps  much  closer  to  the  original, 

peel ;   but   ^vhat   though  it   be   provided    with  as  follows  : 
Stores  of  every  kind  ;  what  thougli  every  neces-  ''  Patris  senteutia  fuit,  ne  martc  aperto  Jo- 


1557.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1.553 

his  forces  were  encamped  on  the  frontiers  of  the  territory,  he  pondered  in  his 
mind  what  he  should  do  in  this  great  danger  which  now  threatened  him  ;  and 
he  advised  with  his  father,  Manus,  upon  the  miUtary  movement  he  ought  to 
adopt  in  opposing  his  enemies,  whensoever  they  should  come  into  the  territory. 
The  advice  which  O'Donuell,  his  father,  gave  him  was,  as  he  had  not  an  army 
equal  to  that  of  the  son  of  O'Neill,  not  to  go  forth  to  meet  him  in  battle,  but  to 
remain  protecting  his  [own]  people",  until  he  [O'Neill]  should  come  into  the 
territory,  and  then,  if  he  were  able,  to  make  an  attack  upon  his  camp,  and  throw 
them  into  confusion.  He  thought  that  victory  could  thus  be  gained,  [and]  they 
agreed  upon  adopting  this*  [movement].  As  for  John  O'Neill  and  his  forces, 
they  marched  without  halting  from  Carraig-liath,  across  the  Finn,  close  to 
Raphoe,  through  the  Lagan' ;  and  they  halted,  and  encamped  alongside  of  Baile- 
aighidh-chaoin",  near  the  stream  that  flows  from  the  well  of  Cabhartach",  where 
the  army  constructed  booths  and  tents.  Calvagh  and  his  son.  Con,  were 
on  that  day  at  a  meeting  on  the  summit  of  Beinnin"  with  a  small  party,  namely, 
only  thirty  horsemen,  and  two  companys  of  gallowglasses  of  the  Mac  Sweenys 
of  Fanad,  i.  e.  of  the  descendants  of  Rory,  under  Walter,  the  son  of  Murrough, 
and  the  descendants  of  Donnell,  under  Donnell  Gorm  Mac  Sweeny.  And  when 
Calvagh  heard  that  John  had  arrived  at  that  place  with  his  army,  he  sent  two 
of  his  trusty  friends  to  reconnoitre  the  forces  ;  their  names  were  Donough  Oge, 
the  son  of  Donough  Roe  Maguire,  and  Maurice  Mac  Ailin.  These  two  pro- 
ceeded to  the  enemy's  camp,  and  mingled  with  the  troops,  without  being  noticed; 

annem  adorieretur,  sed  noctis  silentio  in  castra  at  least  not  generally  known,  as  the   Editor, 

ejus  irrumpens  mill tes  incautos,  et  de  salute  sua  who  examined  the  localities  of  Baile-aighidh- 

securos  improviso  perturbaret."  chaoin,  with  great  care,  in  1835,  could  not  meet 

'  Lagan. — This  is  the  name  of  a  well-known  any  one  that  ever  heard  of  such  a  name.     The 

district  comprising  the  parishes  of  Taughboyne,  natives  are  of  opinion  that  it  is  the  well  now 

Eyemoghy,   and  All  Saints,   in  the  barony  of  called  Tober-Slan,  i.  e.  fons  sanus,  sanans,  sen 

Raphoe,  and  county  of  Donegal.  salutifer,  a  name  of  nearly  the  same  import. 

"  Baile-aighidh-chaoin,  i.  e.  the  town  of  the  "  Beinnin — This  is  not  the  Bennin,  in  the 

beautiful  face  or  surface,    now   Balleeghan,   a  parish  of  Clonmany  in  Inishowen,   mentioned 

townland  containing  the  ruins  of  a  beautiful  old  by  Philip  O'Sullevan  Beare,  in  his  History  of  the 

church,  situated  on  an  arm  of  Lough  S willy,  in  Irish  Catholics,  fol.    170,   but  the  conspicuous 

the  parish  of  Ryemoghy,  and  barony  of  Raphoe.  hill  of  Binnion,   in  the  parish  of  Taughboyne, 

'  The  well  of  Cobhartach This  name,  which  in  the  district  called  the  Lagan,  in  the  barony 

means  helping,  or  assisting,  is  now  obsolete,  or  of  Raphoe. 

9  M 


1554  QHNa^-a  Rio^liachca  emeaNW.        •  [1557. 

baoi  no  Uonrhaiiie,  1  no  lépóacc  na  y^locch  bai  annpin  ná)i  bó  pobain^  nóib 
baoein  aicne  pop  ajioile  jéman  lá  nó  bfir  aiin  muna  rrabjmccaoíp  airne  pop 
a  tiaipfcaib  nama.  Ro  jalipac  an  map  pempaice  aj;  intreocc  6  jac  cene  50 
apoile  50  panjaccap  jup  an  crene  móip  mfóonai^  bní  1  nnopup  piiiple  mOc 
í  néill  1  Siiccpall  abbal  móp  (ba  pfittiirfp  mfóón  pip  fipine)  haoí  pop  biion 
lapaó  eaó  ón  cene  co  pfpccarc  jallócclac  jpuamóa  jnioifi  ai^théil  50  mbiailib 
aicjépaib  oilcnije  1  noipciU  a  nimfpra  aca, -]  co  pCpccac  alhanar  ainoiuiD 
ainniappaib  co  na  ccloibmib  cpoma  caoiblfrna  copcHuilleoca  ina  lámaib  ppi 
hiombualab  -\  aiinpiorh  05  popaipe  -|  05  popcoimén  liieic  í  néiU.  Qn  rpór 
cáinicc  lonam  ppomni^fe  nona  pló^aib,"]  po  bor  05  poinn  -|  aj^  poccail  poppa 
po  pijpfc  an  niap  caipcelca  po  paibpiom  a  larha  ^up  an  ponnaipe  a  ccuma 
cóic,  1  bá  pfb  no  pala  cfmnbepc  co  na  lán  mine  co  ppupcain  na  mine  mm. 
Luibpfc  pop  ccúlaib  laparh  gup  a  nionncorhapca  pin  leó  no  j-aiccm  a  mum- 
ripe,  1  bá  lap  ná  caipbenab  po  cpemeab  uaca  na  pccéla  po  aipnfibpior.  l?o 
popconjaip  an  calbac  pop  a  muincip  a  nfmfb  pó  cenóip,  no  pónan  paippiiirh 
jan  puipeac  innpin,  no  cóibpioc  nn  ná  cópiiccab  1  nen  cópuccab,  "]  conn 
o  nomnaill  nia  coip  ecip  uálcap  -|  nomnall,  1  no  pan  a  eac  nm  araip.  Lorrcip 
pfmpa  no  paijib  an  longpoipc,  1   ní  po  anpac  50  pangacrap,  gup  na  binbnib 

'^  A  laige  torch,  puccpal  aóbal  mop,  literally,  iumediis  castris  prsB  foribus  tiibeinaculi  Joaunis 

"  a  torch,  huge,  great  (it  was  thicker  than  the  O'Neill  coUocatum  accesseruut,  lucernam  paulo 

middle  of  a  man),  constantly  flaming  at  some  eminus  conspicati  e  scirpis  a  sevo  immersis  ad 

distance  from  the  fire."    Dr.  Leland,  who  had  a  earn  magnitudinem  intextis  nt  deusitate  medii 

free  translation  of  this  passage   from   Charles  homiuis  molem  ad»quaret." 

O'Conor  of  Belanagare,  condenses  the  descrip-  '  A  ceinn-bheart,  literally,  a  ceinn-bhearl,  with 

tion  of  this  huge  torch,  and  the  general's  body-  its  full  of  meal.     The  term  ceinn-bheart  denotes 

guards,   as  follows,    in  his  History  of  Ireland,  a  lielmet,  hat,  or  any   covering  for  the   head, 

book  iii.  c.  8  :  The   Latin  translator,  in  F.  1.  18,  renders  it: 

"  An  unusual  blaze  of  large  tapers  directed  •'  Cortex  arboris  in  vasculmn  efformata." 

them  to   the   general's    pavilion,    where    John  Leland,  drawing  largely  on  his  own  imagina- 

O'Nial  lay  surrounded  by  his  body-guards,  con-  tion,  manufactures  this  simple  narrative  in  such 

sisting  of  sixty  Irish  vassals,  bearing  the  battle-  a  manner  as  to  give  us  a  very  inaccurate  idea  of 

axe,  and  as  many  mercenary  Scots,  armed  with  the  kind  of  food  in  the  camp,  and  the  manner  in 

their  broad  cutting  swords  and  targets."  which  it  was  distributed.     His  words  are  : 

The  Latin  translator,  in  F.  1.  18,  keeps  much  "  And  so  little  were  the  youths   suspected, 

closer  to  the  original  words,  as  follows  :  that  when  supper  was  brought  to  these  guards 

"  Exploratores  Uli  postquam   singulis  pene  they  invited  them  to  partake  of  their  repast, 

iguibus  tantillum  astarent,  ad  majorem  ignem  To  accept  this  invitation  was  to  form  a  friend- 


1.S57.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1555 

for,  in  consequence  of  the  numbers  and  variety  of  the  ti'oops  wlio  were  there 
it  was  not  easy  for  them  to  discriminate  between  one  another,  even  if  it  were 
day,  except  by  recognising  their  chieftains  alone.  The  two  persons  aforesaid 
proceeded  from  one  fire  to  another,  until  they  came  to  the  great  central  fire, 
which  was  at  the  entrance  of  the  son  of  O'Neill's  tent ;  and  a  huge  torch",  thicker 
tlian  a  man's  body,  was  constantly  flaming  at  a  short  distance  from  the  fire,  and 
sixty  grim  and  redoubtable  gallowglasses,  with  sharp,  keen  axes,  terrible  and 
ready  for  action,  and  sixty  stern  and  terrific  Scots,  with  massive,  broad,  ^and 
heavy- striking  swords  in  their  hands,  [ready]  to  strike  and  parry,  were  watching 
and  guarding  the  son  of  O'Neill.  When  the  time  came  for  the  troops  to  dine, 
and  food  was  divided  and  distributed  among  them,  the  two  spies  whom  we  have 
mentioned  stretched  out  their  hands  to  the  distributor,  like  the  rest ;  and  that 
which  fell  to  their  share  was  a  ceinn-bheart^  filled  with  meal,  and  a  suitable 
complement  of  butter.  With  this  testimony  [of  their  adventure]  they  returned 
to  their  own  people  ;  and,  upon  the  exhibition  of  it,  their  entire  narrative  was 
believed.  Calvagh  commanded  his  people  to  arm*  directly,  which  they  did 
without  delay  ;  the  two  battalions  formed  into  one  ;  and  Con  O'Donuell  pro- 
ceeded on  foot,  between  Walter  and  DonnelP,  having  given  his  horse  to  his 
father.     They  advanced  towards  the  camp,  and  did  not  halt  until  they  had 

ship  with  these  men  not  to  be  violated,  which  Anglo-Irishmen    of  various    territories,     they 

should  prevent  them  from  giving  any  intelli-  found    no    difficulty    in    passing    for   two    of 

gence,  or,  if  discovered,  would  have  rendered  O'Neill's  soldiers.     From  the  notice  of  the  two 

their  intelligence  suspected.     They,  therefore,  getting  a  hat-full  of  meal,  and  a  sviitable  quan- 

declined  the  courtesy ;  and  flying  to  thejr  com-  tity  of  butter,  it  is  quite  evident  that  every  two 

panions,  related  what  they  had  seen  and  heard,  formed  a  mess,  and  that  they  were  allowed  to 

and  inflamed  them  with  impatience  to  surprise  sit- down  wherever  they  pleased  and  take  their 

the  enemy."  repast.     Nothing,  however,  but  confusion  and 

Now   it   is    quite    obvious    that    all  this  is  the  darkness  of  the  night,  or  chance,  could  have 

wrong,  for  there  is  no  authority  for  asserting  enabled  them  to  escape,  as  Hugh  O'Donnell,  the 

that  O'Neill's  body-guards  had  invited  the  two  brother  of  Calvagh,  was  within  the  camp  at  the 

spies  to   partake  of  their  repast,   or  that  the  time,    with   many  followers  out-  of  Tirconnell, 

latter  declined  such  an  iuT-itation.     All  this  is  -who  would  have   easily  recognised  that   these 

created  by  Leland's  historical  muse,  to  give  his  two  spies  belonged  to  Calvagh  O'Donnell's  party, 
subject  warmth  and  interest,  according  to  his  '  To  arm,  a  nfiofo,  i.e.   to  harness,  or  dress 

own  mode  of  philosophising.    The  fact  was  that  themselves  for  battle. 

the  two  spies  mingled  with  O'Neill's  tumul-  ^  Walter  and  Donnell. — These  were  two  cap- 

tunus  troops,  and  as  they  consisted  of  Irish  and  tains  of  the  Mac  Sweenys  of  Fanad. 

9m2 


1556  aNNQta  T3io55hachc;a  emeawN.  [1557- 

mfooncoib  bctrrap  ace  popcoirhéD  rheic  í  néill.  Do  bfprpacc  uaiióúpccaó 
nárhac  pop  luce  an  lonjpoipc,  -|  ]io  jabparc  pop  corhmapbab,  1  pop  commub- 
uccab,  ace  aipleac,  'i  ace  accuma,  05  cioppbab,  -\  05  coirhleaopab  a  cele 
Dia  mbmilib  bláirib  birpaobpacaib,")  Dia  ccloibrhrib  cpnaibjeapa  eupaca  50 
poippjirr  pip,  1  CO  po  leonair  laoic  lap  an  ppianlac  00  Deacaib  anopin. 
Od  cualaib  pfan  copann  an  cpomploicc,  -\  bpopccap  na  mbuibfn  bá  Deapb 
laip  bárrap  nárhairc  cánjacrap  Don  lonjpopc,  -\  ar  láipibe  cpé  laprap  o 
puiple  jan  pacuccab.  l?o  bai  an  aohaib  aj  pfpcain  a  ppop  pioppbuc, -|  a 
capapnaeh  ciúnbpaon  co  po  cuilpioc  aibne,  ■]  inbfpa  an  cipe.  i?o  ppaoineab 
pop  an  pliiaj  pni  cenél  neoccain  po  beoib  rpé  nfpc  lomgona  -|  lombimlca  co 
po  Icib  a  nofpccop.  Sfan  imoppa  ni  po  Ifn  cib  aoinneoc  Dia  muincip  é,  accmab 
aon  Diap  Do  rhuincip  aoba  niic  majnupa  1  Dorhnaill  im  bonnchao  mac  peilim 
pinn  UÍ  jallcubaip,  -]  luib  rpé  acjoipicr,  ~\  rpé  Diamaip  gaca  conaipe  50 
painicc  cap  Daoil,  cap  pinn,  1  cap  ofipce, "]  bá  pop  pnám  na  cceópa  nabann 
pin  DO  beachaib  co  na  bmp  caoirhceaccaib,  appibe  50  cfpmonn  ui  moain  50 
po  cfnDaij  eac  ó  na  moain  in  aDhaib  pin, "]  páiniec  póbeóib  lá  Dobap  poillpi 
na  niaiDne  50  liaipfccál  DÓciapócc.  Ro  aipip  an  calbac  co  na  beacc  plua^ 
(ina  mbaoi  poiriie  Don  oibce)  ipin  longpopc  mfopac  móipTÍiftiTnnac  bai  la  Sfan 
ua  neill  a  ccup  oibce,  "]  baccap  ace  eorhol  pmplfb  net  poipne  pin  pop  po 
ppaoineab  leó  co  maDain  ctp  a  bapac.  Do  paDab  eDala  lornba  a  ccaipbénab 
leó  ipm  ló  ap  eeinn  ecip  apm,  eppab,  eDeab,  -|  eocaib  conab  cfifpe  picic  eac 

■■  Kill,  destroy,  S)'c. — The  Latin  translator,  in  rentes,  omnia  prostermint." 
F.  1.18,  does  not  at  all  attempt  to  translate  tliis  This,  however,  must  be  regarded  rather  as  a 
string  of  ivords,  which  are  introduced  by  the  paraphrase  than  a  translation  of  the  Irish.  The 
Four  Masters  to  convey  a  general  idea  of  con-  style  is  too  much  improved, 
fused  and  furious  fighting.  He  condenses  the  -i  Was  rainy,  literally,  "  the  night  was  pour- 
ideas  intended  to  be  conveyed  by  the  wild  ing  down  rain  in  a  truly  wetting  shower,  and 
jumble  of  words  into  the  following  clear  sen-  in  a  mist  of  silent  drops."  But  it  is  not  cor- 
tence :  rect,  at  least  in  English,  to  make  the  night  the 

"  Itaque,  duobus  cohortibus  in   unum  con-  agent   which    produced    the   rain.     The    Latin 

tractis,  patre  Coni  equum  conscendente,  in  hos-  translator,     in    F.    1.    18,    renders    it    simply, 

tium  castra  derepente  prorumpunt,  et  ad  ignem  "magna  imbrium    copia    eii   nocte   demitteba- 

illum  lucis  et  molis  magnitudine   reliquis  emi-  tur." 

nentiorem  primo  delati  insultu  omnes  pertur-  *  The  Deel,  the  Finn,   and  the  Derg. — The.';e 

bant  incautos  et  acriter  ierrum  stringunt,   et,  are    three  well-known   rivers,    in    the   present 

per  castra  terrorem  et  stragem  effuse  circumfe-  county  of  Donegal,  and  on  O'Neill's  way  as  he 


1557]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1557 

reached  the  central  troops  that  were  guarding  the  son  of  O'Neill.  They  made 
a  furious  and  fierce  attack  upon  the  men  in  the  camp,  and  [both  parties  then] 
proceeded  to  kill,  destroy^  slaughter,  hack,  mangle,  and  mutilate  one  another 
with  their  polished  sharp  axes,  and  with  their  well-tempered,  keen-edged,  hero- 
befitting  swords  ;  so  that  men  were  wounded,  and  warriors  disabled,  by  this 
body  of  men  who  had  come  into  the  camp.  When  John  [O'Neill]  heard  the 
noise  of  the  heavy  troops,  and  the  clamour  of  the  bands,  he  was  convinced  that 
they  were  enemies  who  had  entered  the  camp,  and  he  passed  through  the  west- 
ern end  of  his  tent  unobserved.  The  night  was  rainy",  very  hefivy  showers 
being  followed  by  silent  dripping,  so  that  the  rivers  and  streams  of  the  coimtry 
were  flooded  At  last  the  army  of  tlie  Kinel-Owen  were  defeated,  with  dreadfid 
liavoc,  by  dint  of  conflict  and  fighting.  As  for  John  [O'Neill],  not  one  of  his 
own  party  followed  him,  but  two  only  of  the  people  of  Hugh,  the  son  of  Manus  ■ 
O'Donnell,  with  Donough,  the  son  of  Felim  Finn  O'Gallagher.  He  proceeded  on 
by  the  shortest  ways  and  the  most  lonesome  passages,  until  he  had  crossed  the 
Deel,  the  Finn,  and  the  Derg^;  and  it  was  by  swimming  that  he,  with  his  two 
companions,  crossed  these  three  rivers.  Thence  he  proceeded  to  Tearmonn- 
Ui-Moain^  where  he  purchased  a  horse  that  night  from  O'Moain,  and  at  length 
arrived  by  break  of  day  at  Aú'eagal-da-Chiarog^.  Calvagh  remained  with  his 
small  army  for  the  rest  of  the  night  in  the  camp  in  which  O'Neill  and  his  army 
had  passed  the  beginning  of  the  night  in  merriment  and  high  spirits;  and  they 
remained  until  morning  drinking  the  wines  of  the  party  whom  they  had  defeated. 
On  the  following  day  they  took  with  them,  and  displayed  with  pride,  many 

passed  from  Balleeghan  to  Tearmonn-Ui-Mhoain.  derg  and  Ardstraw,  near  tlie  latter  of  which  they 

The  Deel,  now  Dale-burn,  rises  in  Lough  Deel,  join  the  Shrule ;  and  the  united  waters  then  take 

in  the  north-west  of  the  barony  of  Kaphoe,  and  the  name  of  the  Mourne  River,  and  flow  nearly  in 

falls  into   the  Foyle,   a   short  distance  to  the  a  northern  direction  to  Liiford,  where,  mingling 

north  of  the  town  of  Lifford  ;  the  Finn  rises  in  with  the  River  Finn,  they  all  lose  their  names 

Lough  Finn,  and  unites  with  the  Mourne  at  and  waters  in  the  gigantic  Foyle. 
Liff'ord  Bridge  ;  the  Derg  has  its  source  in  the  '  Tearmonn-  Ui-Mhoain,    now   Tsrinonomon- 

famous  Lough  Derg,  in  the  barony  of  Tirhugh ;  gan,  an  old  parish  church  near  the  River  Derg, 

it  winds  its  course  nearly  in  a  north-east  direc-  in  the  north-west  of  the  barony  of  Omagh,  and 

tion  through  the  parish  of  Termonomongan,  in  county  of  Tyrone.    O'Moain,  now  Mongan,  was 

the  county  of  Tyrone,  where  it  joins  the  stream  the  Erenagh  of  this  church. 
called  Mournebeg,  and  botli  united  glide,  under  ^   Aireagal-Dachiarog,    i.  e.   St.   Dachiarog's 

the  name  of  Derg,  through  the  villages  of  Castle-  house,  or  habitation,    nu#   Errigal-Keeroge,    a 


1558 


awHaf-a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN. 


[15.57. 


baoi  DO  coifipainn  eoala  ag  conn  mac  an  calbaicc  cenmoca  eac  oipofipc  mic 
Í  neill  Dia  ngoipn  mac  an  lolaip.  Qp  ing  ma  po  ppic  hi  maiom  cnuic  buiób 
neipcc  po  bpipffo  U'l  Inia  nDomnaill  (Qoó  ócc  mac  ao6a  puam)  ap  im  neill 
parhail  a  ppuaippior  cenel  cconaiU  oeoalaib  oon  cup  pn. 


^vell-kno^vn  churcli  and  parisli,   in  the  barony 
of  Cloglier,  and  county  of  Tyrone. 

'■  Cnoc-Buidkbh-Derg. — See  note  ',  under  the 
year  1522,  p.  1536,  supra.  The  entries  under 
this  year  are  translated  into  Latin  as  follows  in 
F.  1.  18: 

"A  proregeThomáSussexio  Ardmacha mensis 
unius  spatio  iteratá  vastationo  infesta. 

"  Mac  Murchus,  Murachus,  filius  Mauritii 
Coemhanachi,  in  ipsis  Concilii  ajdibus,  in  ali- 
cujus  concitati'onis  novae  moliendse  suspicionem 
venisse  proditus,  Leghlinise  morte  plectitur. 

"  Fedana;  Castellum,  in  Delvinia  Ethrá,  a 
quodam  ibi  in  vinculis  posito  captum  et  Mac 
Cofrhlano  traditum  est.  Deinde  qui  ad  Fergal- 
lium  generis  originem  referunt  proscribuntur, 
et  eorum  obsides  reste  strangulati  die  Luna;  ipsis 
Martii  Calendis. 

"  Castellum  Eathcrase  ab  ó  Moelachlino  et 
Anglis  Athloniensibus  evertitur,  bellum  postea 
inter  ipsum  et  Mac  Coghlanus  exarsit. 

"  OíFalgiá  devastatá  ó  Conchaurorum  familia 
pellitur,  capto  a  prorege  praiter  alios  multos 
Ó  Conchauro  ipso,  et  Eosso,  ejus  ex  fratre  nepote  ; 
de  quibus  omnibus,  tino  ó  Conchauro  excepto, 
mortis  supplicium  sumptum  est. 

"  O'Moro  etiam  Conallo,  ab  Anglis  capto, 
Leighliniai  mors  infertur ;  non  mirum  est  Hiber- 
nian! in  luctu  versari  cum  tanta  se  ingenui  sui 
sanguinis  profusione  funestari  videret. 

"  ProreJ^  ó  ConchaurosMilika;  versari  certior 
factus,  eo  protinus  iter  arripuit,  tormentis  ma- 
joribus  Athloniam  itinere  terrestri  transferri 
prsemissis  et  inde  cymbarum  vecturá  Milikam 
adductis,  copias  per  Belachanohair  et  Lurgam 
ivUsmaghiB  viam,  ipso  prseeunte,  capessunt.  Nee 
diu  nioratus  est  cum'Milika,  Donato  Collai  filio 


cum  aliis  e  prssidiariis  cíbso,  et  Bracluana  in 
ejus  potentiam  devenérc.  lUis  deinde  finibus 
multum  concussis  [oo  cpoireab]  et  vastatis 
Malaohia;  Balbi  filii  et  proscripti  reliqui  arcen- 
tur.  Turn  Magistro  Francisco  Anglo  Milika; 
prsefecto,  et  obsidibus  cum  a  multis  aliis  turn 
pra;sertim  a  duobus  6  Maddinis,  Malaclii<á  Mod- 
dardo  et  Brassillo,  abductis,  lilio  etiam  Mac 
Coghlaui  obsidum  numerum  augente,  prorex 
eis  finibus  excessit.  Dum  autem  hac  ratioue 
Silanmchia  mense  Julii  expugnaretur,  dam- 
norum  quae  passa  est  numerus  vix  ac  ne  vix 
quideni  iniri  potest. 

"  O'Ferghallum  Album  Danielem  Fachtnaus 
filius  TadaeiO'Ferghail  trucidavit,  sed  illius  in- 
teritum  Angli  morte  Fachtnai  ulti  sunt. 

"  Danieli  O'Moro,  Loighsi  filio,  Magister  Si- 
lius  Anglus  gulam  laqueo  elisit. 

"  Prorex,  accipiens  proscriptos  in  Fercallia? 
nemoribus  latitare,  eo  profectus  armatus  Theo- 
baldum  O'Moelmuaidhum  cepit ;  in  Eliam  inde 
migrans  Lcimibhanain  sure  potestatis  fecit,  ubi 
O'Carvallum  equi  proestantia  discrimini  sub- 
duxit.  Sed,  post  multam  molestiam  illorum 
finium  Hibernis  facessitani,  Dublinii  tandem 
morara  contrahens,  in  Angliam  transmisit,  Quss- 
tore  jusso  vice  sua  proregis  officio  fungi.  Ille 
injunctum  sibi  munus  naviter  obiturus  arma  in 
Fercalliam  infert,  ut  pcenas  de  ó  Moclmuaidho, 
Arthuro,  sumeret,  quod  proscriptis  et  legum 
prfesidio  exemptis  subventione  uUa  prodesse 
ausus  fuerit.  Itaque  fines  illius  regionis  omnes, 
qui  nemori  ab  orienti  adjacent,  populatus,  Bale- 
macabaniam,  Laneliam.  et  Titampliam"  [^rectc 
seque  tecta  et  ecclesias]  "incendiis  prodidit, tilium 
Ó  Moehnuaidhi  Calbachum  ad  Belaghglassiam 
vita  spoliavit,  nee  multtun  tempus  efflu-xit  cum 


15.57.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1559 


spoils,  consisting  of  arms,  dresses,  coats  of  mail,  and  horses,  so  that  Con,  the  son 
of  Calvagh,  had  for  his  dividend  of  the  booty  eighty  horses,  besides  the  'cele- 
brated steed  of  O'Neill's  son,  called  the  Son  of  the  Eagle.  ~  Scarcely  had  so 
much  booty  been  obtained  at  the  battle  of  Cnoc-Buidhbh-Derg'',  which  was 
gained  by  O'Donnell  (Hugh  Oge,  the  son  of  Hugh  Roe)  over  Neill,  as  the 
Kinel-Connell  obtained  on  that  occasion. 


iterata  incursione  Fercalliam  perlustrans  vná 
deflagratione  universam  profligaret  et  everteret, 
silvis  penitijs  excisis,  venia  dilectorum  ó  Moel- 
muaidho  minime  facta,  imo  avitis  finibus  procul 
amotum  lEesffiMajestatisreumproniinciavit,  ejus 
dignitate  ac  dominio  in  Theobaldum  b  Moel- 
rauaidlium  collato,  filio  ejus,  ante  in  obsidem 
recepto. 

"  Angli,  Hibernis  onjnibus  a  se  proscriptis  et 
legum  beneficio  exclusis,  6  Conchaurorum  et 
o  Mororum,  6  Moelmuaidhorum,  n  Carvallorum 
familiis  grave  bellum  indi.xerunt,  quo  totus 
agri  tractus  inter  Sinneum  anmem  et  Montem 
Rufum,  inter  Montem  Blaraiam  Clioniam  et 
Feoriam  positus  confiagravit,  ut  CEedium,  incen- 
diorum  et  deprsedationum  ultra  citroqiie  t'acto- 
run]  summa  ad  calcidos  revocari  non  potuerit. 

"  O'Carvallus,  Castelli  Leimise  capessendi  op- 
portunitate  quam  nactus  est  arrepta,  illud  sibi 
vindicavit.^ 

"  Terdalachus  filius  Conchauri  iilii  Terdela- 
chi  filii  Tadei  O'Brien  de  Comaid  vita  excessit. 

"  .Joannes,  o  Nelli  filius,  TirconallÍEe  ad  suam 
ditionem  adjungendajcupiditate  flagrans,  nunie- 
rosissimum  coniiavit  exercitum,  ad  quem  Or- 
gbelliíE  omnes,  et  quicunque,  Angli  aut  Hiberni, 
agros  ab  usque  littore  de  Bale  mic  Buain  ad 
Finnum  amnein  pertingentes  incolebant,  con- 
liuxerunt.  Ha?c  armatoruni  hominum  multi- 
tudo,  castris  primum  ad  Carraigleiham  inter  duos 
ainnes  Finnum  et  Modornum  positis,  per  campos 
late  diffusa,  nee  solum  omni  apparatu  bellico  cu- 
mulate instructa,  sed  advectis  vinis,  vestibus,  et 
aliorum  genenim  mercibus  ad  voluptatem  com- 


paratis,  abundat  ad  Joanneui  in  bis  castris 
constipata.  Ubi  nuntii  pervenerunt  Tirconel- 
lenses  armenta  sua  et  greges  ad  invia  loca  et 
remotissimos  Tirconellia;  recessus  abegisse, 
'  hinc  (inquit)  nTiUum  haurient  emolumentum, 
nam,  si  vel  in  Lageniam,  vel  Momoniam,  pecudes 
ablegarent,  vel  illinc  etiam  extractas  nobis  vin- 
dicaremus,  efficit  priefecto  posthac  ut  Ultonia 
uno  pareat,  nee  patiar  de  provinciá  quidpiam 
illius  imperio  surripi.'  Per  illud  autem  tempus 
res  in  Tirconnalliá  non  adeo  pacatas  fuerunt. 
O'Donnellus  enim  propter  effoctam  aitatem  et 
insuper  quia  jam  biennio  eum  Calbhacus  filius 
in  vinculis  detinebat,  nihil  prseclari  prjestare 
potuit;  ejus  etiam  alter  filius  Hugo,  a  fratre 
privatá  simultate  alienatus,  etiam  tunc  apud 
.Joannem  O'Nellum  suis  in  castris  agebat,  ad 
quffi  clientes  suos  et  vernaculos  etiam  adduxit. 
Calbachus,  qui  Tirconalliffi  dominabatur,  hoc  re- 
rum  statu,  et,  Joannis  O'Neill  copiis  tines  suas 
jam  iugressis,  perculsus  ac  pene  consternatus, 
animo  secum  versens  quid  in  tanto  discrimine 
optimum  factum  esset,  patrem  consuluit  qua 
ratione  potissimum  suorum  et  suse  saluti  ad  tain 
arctas  angustias  redactae  prospicere  possit.  Par 
tris  sententia  fuit,  ne  marte  aperto  Joannem 
adorieretur,  sed  nootis  silentio  in  castra  ejus 
irrumpens  milites  incautos  et  de  sWute  sua  se- 
cuvos  improviso  perturbaret.  Joannes  O'Nellus, 
castris  ex  Carrigletha  motis,  ultra  Finnum  am- 
nem  non  procul  a  Rathboa  per  Laganum  pro- 
gressus,  ad  Bailecoeniam  consedit.  Porro  Cal- 
bachus cum  filio  Cono  in  verticem  montis  Beiu- 
nin   fo  die  ad  suorum  coitionem  concessit,  30 


1560 


aNNQta  Río^hachca  eiReawN. 


[1558. 


aOlS  CRIOSC,  1558. 
Qoi]^  Ciiiopc,  mile,  cúicc  céo,  caocca,  a  hocc 

IQjila  ofprhurhan  Seinup,  mac  Sfain,  mic  romaip,  mic  Semuip  mic  sfpoirc 
lapla  oécc.  6á  ooilijj  oiaoúchaij  Dir  an  ofijpiii  pin  ói)i  ní  )iiccrí  a  Ifp  eallac 
Dionnjiairne,  no  Dopup  oo  óunaó  ]ié  a  linn  ó  6ún  caoín  hi  cciappaije  co  cum- 
map  cpi  nuipcce  nimeljlap  hi  ccoiccpic  cóicceaó  eac6ac  mic  lucca,  -\  lai^fn. 
-)  a  mac  jfpoirc  DÓipDneaó  ma  lonaó. 


tantum  equitibus  et  2  peditum  cohortibus  e 
Mac  Suiniis  Fanatie  comitantibus,  quorum  qui 
Eoderico  oriundi  erant  Waltero  Murachi  filio, 
qui  ac  Daniele,  Danieli  Cseruleo  Mac  Suinio  pa- 
rebant :  qui,  cum  accepisset  Joannem  appropin- 
quásse,  2  ex  intimis  ac  vetustis  amicis  fidissimos 
Donatum  Juvenem,  filium  Donati  Rufi  Macguier, 
et  Mauriciiuii  Mac  Cailinum  in  hostilem  exerci- 
tum  exploratores  summisit ;  qui,  confertae  hos- 
tium  multitudini,  per  noctis  tenebras  protinus 
immisti  quaqua  impune  aberrabant,  quippe 
nemini  agniti.  Exploratores  illi,  postquam 
singulis  pene  ignibus  tantillum  astarent,  ad 
majorem  ignem  in  mediis  castris  prje  foribus 
tabernaculi  Joanois  O'Nelli  collocatum  accesse- 
runt,  lucernam  paulo  eminus  conspicati  e  scirpis 
a  sevo  immersis  ad  eam  magnitudinem  intcxtam 
ut  densitate  medii  hominis  molem  adsequaret, 
et  lucem  ad  longa  spatia  late  diffunderet.  Cus- 
todia,  quae  ad  tentorii  prstorii  aditum  foco 
subinde  assidens  excubias  agebat,  e  60  valentis- 
simis  hominibus  bipennes  quam  acutissimas  ges- 
tantibus  et  totidem  Scotis  singulis  latiore  ense 
accinotis,  constabat.  Quando  autem  cibariorum 
apponenddftm  tempus  advenit,  et  portitor  de- 
mensum  suum  singulis  viritim  attribueret, 
dictis  speculatoribus  cortex  arboris  in  vasculum 
efFormata  ac  farina  referta,  bytiri  massuLá  in 
obsonium  adjecta,  sorte  obvenit,  qua  escá  ideó 
non  vesci  statuerunt,  ut  ad  statum  divertendi 
locum  relata  indicio  foret,  se  a  vero  non  aliena 


narrare.  Proinde  rerum  a  se  conspectarum  se- 
riem  narrantibus  mox  fides  habita  est.  Et  Cal- 
bachus  pugnandi  ardor  accensus,  omni  abjectá 
mora,  in  hostem  alacriter  irruere  protinus  de- 
creverat.  Itaque,  duobus  cohortibus  in  unum 
contractis,  patre  Coni  equum  conscendente,  in 
hostium  castra  derepente  prorumpunt,  et  ad  ig- 
nem ilium  lucis  et  molis  magnitudine  reliquis 
eminentiorem  primo  delati  insultu  omnes  per- 
turbant  incautos,  et  acriter  ferrum  stringunt,  et 
per  castra  terrorem  et  stragem  efluse  circum- 
ferentes  omnia,  prosternunt.  Joannes  autem 
O'Nellus,  strepitum  trepidantium  et  insultan- 
.  tium  fremitus  esaudiens,  plane  perspexit  hostili 
audaciá  hos  tumultus  excitatos  fuisse.  Quare 
per  aversam  tabernaculi  portam  fugá  se  periculo 
pra;ripuit,  2  tantiim  ex  Hugonis  ó  Donelli  filii 
famulitio,  qui  sub  signis  Donati  filii  FeUmei 
Ó  Galchaur  militabant,  fugas  se  comites  ei  prae- 
bentibus.  Magna  imbrium  copia  eá  nocte  de- 
mittebatur,  et  ille,  cum  viarum  compendia  ubi- 
(jue  consectaretur,  tria  flumina,  Dwlium,  Fiu- 
num  et  Dergum  nando  trajiceret  cum  duobus 
comitibus.  Tandem  ad  Termonimuon  perve- 
niens  equum  pretio  ab  ó  Muano  comparavit, 
quo  celeriter  evectus,  elucescente  jam  die,  apud 
Hargailldachiarog  tantisper  subsistit.  Calba-. 
chus  cum  paucis  illjs  copiis  suis  reliquam  noctis 
partem  in  proiligatis  a  se  castris  egit,  vino 
et  lautiis  fugorum  esculentis  suos  largius  uti 
permittens ;  arraorum  quidem,  vestium  et  equo- 


1558.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1561 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1558. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  fifty-eight. 

The  Earl  of  Desmond,  James,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  James, 
son  of  Garrett  the  Earl,  died.  The  loss  of  this  good  man  was  woful  to  his 
country,  for  there  was  no  need  to  watch  cattle,  or  close  doors,  from  Dun-caoin', 
in  Kerry,  to  the  green-bordered  meeting  of  the  three  waters",  on  the  confines 
of  the  province  of  Eochaidli,  the  son  of  Luchta',  and  Leinster.  And  his  son, 
Garrett,  was  installed  in  his  place. 


ruDi  magna  copia  Tirconallensibus  cessit;  et 
praedcB  magnitudinem  vel  hie  assequi  quis 
posSet,  qua  in  sortione  80  equi  praeter  equum 
proprium  Joannis  ó  Nelli  {Filivm  Aqvike  dic- 
tum) ad  Conum  Calbachi  filium  devenerunt  ; 
nee  verisLmile  est  in  victoria  de  Cnucbuibhderg 
quam  Ó  Donellus  Hugo  Juvenis,  Hugonis  Eufi 
filius,  de  Ó  Nello  Cono,  reportavit,  tot  spolia 
relata  fuisse." 

'  Dun-caoin,  i.  e.  the  beautiful  dun,  or  fort, 
now  Duuquin,  or  Dunqueeu,  situated  to  the 
west  of  Ventry,  in  the  barony  of  Corcaguiny, 
and  county  of  Kerry. 

^  Meetiny  of  the  Three  Waters,  i.  e.  the  conflu- 
enc.e  of  the  Rivers  Suire,  Nore,  and  Barrow, 
opposite  Cheek  Point,  near  Waterford.  The 
Nore  and  Barrow  unite  about  twelve  miles  fur- 
ther to  the  north. 

'  The  province  of  Eochaidh,  the  son  of  Luchta. — 
According  to  Mageoghegan's  translation  of  the 
Annals  of  Clonmacnoise,  Eochy  Mac  Lughta 
was  King  of  North  Munster  at  the  period  of  the 
birth  of  Christ.  In  the  same  chronicle  the  fol- 
lowing notice  is  given  of  the  discovery  of  this 
king's  scull,  at  the  year  1 157  : 

"  A.  D.  1 157.  The  head  of  Eochie  macLushta, 
that  reigned  King  of  Munster  at  the  time  of  the 
birth  of  Christ  (as  before  is  remembered),  was 
this  year  taken  out  of  the  earth,  where  it  was 
buried  at  Fyncorey.     It  was  of  such  wonderful 

9 


bigness,  as  mine  author  sayeth,  it  was  'as  bigg 
as  any  cauldron,  the  greatest  goose  might  easily 
pass  through  the  two  holes  of  his  eyes,  and  in 
the  place,  or  hole  where  the  marrow  was  to- 
wards his  throat,  a  goose  might  enter." 

From  the  boundaries  above  given  it  appears 
that  at  this  period  the  Earl  of  Desmond  claimed 
jurisdiction  over  all  Munster,  except  that  part 
of  it  belonging  to  the  Earls  of  Ormond  and 
Thomond.  The  exact  amount  of  the  tributes 
imposed  by  the  Earls  of  Desmond  upon  Mac 
Carthy  More,  has  not  been  determined.  The 
author  of  Carbriw  Notitia,  who  wrote  in  1686, 
has  the  following  reference  to  the  tribute  which 
they  had  imposed  on  Carbery,  and  which  conti- 
nued to  be  exacted  down  to  the  time  of  the 
writer  : 

"  But  the  family  of  the  Mac  Carthys,  though 
it  were  great  and  numerous,  never  recovered 
their  former  grandeur,  notwithstanding  the  de- 
cay of  the  Cogans  and  Fitzstephens,  and  their 
heirs,  Carew  and  Courcy,  and  that  because  of  a 
branch  of  tlTe  Fitzgeralds  of  English  race,  which 
seated  themselves  in  Munster,  an(?particularly 
in  Kerry,  and,  being  elevated  with  the  title  of 
Earle  of  Desmond,  supported  by  great  alliances, 
and  having  enlarged  their  possessions  by  mar- 
riages, purchases,  and  tirrany,  and  more  espe- 
cially by  the  damned  exaction  of  Coyn  and 
livery,  did  all  they  could  to  suppress  their  com- 
N 


1.562 


aHNQta  Rio^hachca  eiReawH. 


[15.58. 


O  byiiain  cuaórhurnan  Dorhnall  mac  concobciip,  mic  roippbealbaij,  iriic 
caiócc,  TTiic  coijijioealbaij,  mic  bpmin  cara  an  aonaij  oionnapbaó  ap  a 
arapóa  lá  lupcip  na  bepeann,  -|  an  laplacc  do  buain  De  lay^  an  lupcip  ceona 
.1.  comap  picjuacep,  i  la  mac  a  bfpbpacap  concobap  mac  DonncbaiD,  mic 
concobaip  ui  bpiain.  Cluain  pampooa,  bunpaice,  -]  an  clap  mop  puipr  oipea- 
caip  na  cipe,  -\  ni  biacc  amain  ace  an  cip  uile  ecip  pay^ach  ~\  óiciucchat) 
Dpájbáil  ap  Dupn  rhfic  Donncbaió  ui  bpiain  let  jallaib  -[  a  oiponeao  map  lapla 
op  cionn  na  cpice  pm,  i  pob  é  pin  ceo  lapla  clomne  caip  lap  nanim  jion  gup 
be  lap  nóipDneaó.  Ro  pap  abuarh  l  uppccac,  jpáin, -|  jábaó  i  njaoioelaib 
jlanbanba  oon  gniom  pin  .i.  cpe  Dibipr  Domnaill  ui  bpiain,  oo  cpiornai^pioc 
beóp  clanna  cuinn  -]  cacaoip  Sbocr  eipmoin  "j  eirhip,  ip  -\  ire  oon  claocluó 
pin. 

Qn  bapun  ó  neiU,  pfpDopca  mac  cuinn  bacaij,  mic  cuinn,  mic  énpí  mic 
eoccain  Do  mapbaó  50  miojaolriiap  la  muincip  a  Deapbparap  Sian  -)  oob  é 


petitors,  and  especially  the  Mac  Cartyes,  being 
tlio  most  powerful  and  chief  of  them. 

■•  No  history  can  parallel  the  bloody,  mali- 
cious, and  tedious  contests,  that  have  been  be- 
tweeen  these  two  families,  in  which,  tho'  the 
Mac  Cartyes  behaved  themselves  briskly,  and 
slew  no  less  than  two  Lords  of  the  Fitzgeralds 
in  one  day,  viz.  the  father  and  grandfather  of 
Thomas  Nappagh,  at  Callan  in  Desmond,  anno 
1 266  ;  yet  at  length  the  more  powerful  Fitzge- 
ralds had  the  best  of  it,  and  imposed  on  Carbry 
a  most  unjust  and  slavish  tribute  called  Earl's 
Beeves,  which  tho',  as  I  conceive,  not  maintain- 
able by  Law,  is  yet  tamely  paid  by  the  Car- 
brians  to  this  day  for  want  of  unity  amongst 
themselves  to  join  in  proper  methods  to  get 
legally  discharged  of  it. 

"  However,  the  Mac  Cartyes  did  not  dwindle 
to  soe  low  a  degree,  but  that  they  continued 
seised  of  almost  siS  entire  baronyes,  viz.  Glana- 
rough,  Iveragh,  and  Dunkerron,  in  Desmond  ; 
and  Carbry,  Muskry,  and  Duhallow,  in  the 
county  of  Cork  ;  but  the  Earle  of  Desmond 
grew  so  powerfull,    that  uppoa  his  attainder 


there  were  forfeited  to  the  Crown  574,628  acres 
of  land." 

™  Earldom. — This  is  a  mistake  of  the  Four 
Masters,  for  Donnell,  tlie  son  of  Conor  O'Brien, 
was  not  Earl  of  Thomond.  He  was  prince, 
chief,  or  king  of  Thomond,  according  to  the  law 
of  tanistry. 

"  Clár-mor,  i.  e.  the  town  of  Clare,  from 
which  the  county  took  its  name. 

°  In  title This  probably  means  nothing  more 

than  that  he  was  the  first  of  the  O'Briens  who 
was  popularly  called  "  Earl ;"  for  it  may  have 
happened  that,  though  Murrough  O'Brien  was 
created  Earl  for  life  in  1543,  he  was  never  called 
Earl  by  the  people.  The  Latin  translator  un- 
derstands it  thus  :  ■'  Qui  Comitis  nomen  quidem 
sed  non  dignitatem  Dalgassiorum  ]irimus  re- 
tulit."  Leland,  quoting  the  Annals  of  Donegal, 
writes,  book  iii.  c.  8  :  "  '  He  accepted  the  title 
of  Earl,'  say  their  annalists,  '  but  gave  up  the 
dignity  of  Dalcais,  to  the  astonislmient  and  in- 
dignation of  all  the  descendants  of  Heber,  Here- 
mon,  and  Ith.' "  This,  however,  is  not  the  mean- 
ing intended  to  be  conveyed  by  the  Four  Masters, 


1558.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


L563 


O'Brien  of  Thomond  (Donnell,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of 
Teige,  son  of  Brian  Catha-an-aenaigli )  was  banished  from  his  patrimony  by  the 
Lord  Justice  of  Ireland ;  and  he  was  stripped  of  his  earldom"  by  .the  same  Lord 
Justice,  i.  e.  Thomas  Fitzwalter,  and  by  the  son  of  his  brother,  Conor,  the  son 
of  Donough,  son  of  Conor  O'Brien.  Clonroad,  Bunratty,  and  Clár-mor°,  the 
chief  towns  of  the  country,  and  not  only  these,  but  the  entire  country,  as  well 
waste  lands  as  inhabited  lands,  were  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  son  of  Donough 
O'Brien  by  the  English,  who  appointed  him  Earl  over  that  country.  He  was 
the  first  Earl  of  the  Race  of  Cas  in  title",  but  not  [the  first]  by  inauguration.  In 
consequence  of  this  deed,  i.e.  the  expulsion  of  Donnell  O'Brien,  the  Irish  of 
noble  Banba''  were  seized  with  horror,  dread,  fear,  and  apprehension  of  danger  ; 
and  the  descendants  of  Con'',  and  of  Cathaoir'',  the  descendants  of  Heremon  and 
Heber',  of  Ir'  and  Ith'',were  alarmed  at  this  change". 

.  The  Baron  O'Neill  (Ferdoragh,  the  son  of  Con  Bacagh,  son  of  Con,  son  of 
Henry,  son  of  Owen)  was  slain  (a  deed  unbecoming  in  a  kinsman)  by  the  peo- 


who  state  that  the  Irish  were  alarmed  at  the 
change  introduced  in  the  law  of  succession. 

'■  Banba,  i.  e.  one  of  the  old  names  of  Ireland. 
— See  Keating's  History  of  Ireland,  Haliday's 
edition,  p.  116. 

*■  Of  Con,  i.  e.  of  Con  of  the  Hundred  Battles. 
Monarch  of  Ireland,  A.  D.  177.  Ho  was  the 
ancestor  of  the  most  powerful  families  in  Ire- 
land, as  the  O'Neills,  O'Donnells,  O'Melaghlins, 
Mageoghegans,  Maguires,  Mac  Mahons,  O'Kellys, 
O'Conors  of  Connaught,  O'Dowdas,  O'Malleys, 
O'Flahertys,  and  their  correlatives. 

'  Cathaoir,  i.  e.  of  Cathaoir  Mor,  Monarch  of 
Ireland,  A.  D.  174.  He  was  the  ancestor  of  the 
families  of  Mac  Murrough  Kavanagh,  O'Conor 
Faly,  O'Dempsey,  O'Dunne,  Mac  Gorman, 
O'Murroughoe,  now  Murphy,  O'Toole,  O'Byrne, 
and  all  their  correlatives  in  Leinster,  except 
Mac  Gillapatrick  of  Ossory. 

*  Heremon  and  Heber,  i.  e.  of  the  two  sons  of 
Milesius.  They  were  the  ancestors  of  Con  and 
Cathaoir,  and,  therefore,  are  not  happily  intro- 
duced here.     The  Latin  translator,  in  F.  1.  18, 


omits  Con  and  Cathaoir,  which  purges  the  sen- 
tence of  a  disagreeable  redundancy. 

'■  Ir. — According  to  the  Irish  genealogies  he 
was  the  brother  of  Heber  and  Heremon,  and  the 
ancestor  of  the  old  kings  of  Ulster,  whose  de- 
scendants settled  in  various  parts  of  Ireland,  as 
the  Magennises  of  Iveagh,  the  O'Conors  of  Cor- 
comroe  and  Kerry,  the  O'Loughlins  of  Burren, 
the  O'Farrells  in  the  county  of  Longford,  and 
Mac  Eannalls  in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  and  all 
the  septs  in  Coniiaught  called  Conmaicne,  the 
O'Mores,  and  their  correlatives,  the  seven  septs 
of  Leix,  in  the  now  Queen's  County. 

"  Ith He  was  the  uncle  of  Milesius,  and  the 

ancestor  of  the  O'Driscolls,  and  their  correla- 
tives, in  the  territory  of  Corca-Luighe,  which 
was  originally  coextensive  with  the  diocese  of 
Eoss,  in  the  county  of  Cork ;  of  the  Mac  Clancys , 
of  Dartry,  in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  and  of  other 
families. 

"  Change,   claocluo. — This  word  is  still  in 
common  use,  and  synonymous  with  caomcluó. 
See  Colgan,  Trias  Thaum.,  p.  295. 
N  2 


1564 


aNHQca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN. 


[1558. 


aóbap  a  omfoa  uaip  po  pamlaijfó  aipfcup  a  arapba  pip  oamab  caopcca  do 
éccpaó  a  acaip  map. 

TTlac  UÍ  concobaip  pailgi?;  .1.  Donnchab  mac  bpiain  mic  caraoip  mic  cuinn 
mic  an  calbaicc  do  iriapbaD  la  hua  noiomapai  j  .1.  uairne  mac  aoóa  do  pacc- 
aib  an  bap  pin  bfpba  pa  bpón,  -\  pailgij  co  pann,  -]  lai^in  hi  lén,  -)  pó  péil 
pacpaicc  DO  ponnpaD  Do  pónaD  an  gniorii  pin. 

TTlaiDm  mop  la  hiapla  cloinne  piocaipD  ap  albancoib,  1  po  be  an  napla  pm 
T?iocapD  mac  iiiUicc  na  ccfnn,  mic  Riocaipo,  mic  iiillecc  cnuic  cua^,  mic  an 
uillicc  mfóonaicc  mic  uillicc  an  piona,-)  po  biao  na  halbanaij  pop  a  rniccaD 
an  maiDm  pm  Dorhnall  mac  Dubjaill  mic  giollaeppuicc  mic  ailin,  1  nubTjall 
mac  DonnchaDa  mic  jioUaeppiiicc  mic  ailin,  do  ócc  conpapal  iipparhanra 
bóccap  ace  peic  a  narhpaine  acliaiD  paDa  lé  hulroib,  "j  lé  centl  conaill  pfc 
các.  Oo  lompaiófcrap  fcoppct  pfin  lé  bopppao  beóóacca  1  lé  hiomapcpaió 
óppaccaip  na  hoipip  pm  DpagBóil,  -]   Dol  Doipófpcuccaó  a  nanmanD  ap  puD 


"  Was  appointed. — Con  O'Neill  was  created 
Earl  of  Tyrone  for  life,  remainder  to  his  son, 
Matthew,  who  was  created  Baron  of  Dungannon. 
— See  note  '.under  the  year  1-542,  p.  1476;  stf/>ra. 
Campion  gives  the  following  account  of  the 
killing  of  the  Baron  of  Dungannon,  in  his  ^2'«- 
torie  of  Ireland,  which  was  written  in  twelve 
years  after  it  had  taken  place  : 

"  Of  all  the  Irish  Princes,  though  none  was 
then  comparable  to  O'Neale  for  antiquity  and 
nobleness  of  blood,  yet  had  the  same  endured 
sundry  varieties  and  vexations,  untUl  the  divi- 
sion began  in  England  of  the  two  royaU  fami- 
lies, Yorke  and  Lancaster,  at  which  time  the 
English  Lords  of  Ireland,  either  for  zeale,  or 
for  kindred  and  affection,  transporting  their 
force  thither  to  uphold  a  side,  the  nieere  Irish 
waxed  insolent,  and  chiefly  O'Neale  incroached 
upon  the  full  possession  of  Ulster,  abiding  so 
uncontrolled  tiU  Shane"  [recte.  Con]  "  O'Neale, 
fearing  the  puissance  of  Henry  8,  exhibited  to 
him  a  voluntary  submission,  surrendered  all 
titles  of  honour,  received  at  his  hands  the  Earle- 
dome  of  Ter-Owen,  commonly  called  Tirone,  to 


be  held  of  the  King,  of  English  form  and  te- 
nui'e  :  Amies  he  gave  the  bloody  hand  a  terrible 
cognizance.  This  O'Neale  had  two  sonnes,  Mat- 
thew, a  bastard,  and  Shane,  legitimate ;  but 
because  Matthew  was  a  lusty  horseman,  welbe- 
loved,  and  a  tryed  souldiour,  Shane  but  a  Boy, 
and  not  of  much  hope,  the  father  obtained  the 
Barony  of  Donganon,  and  the  remainder  of  his 
Earledome  to  Matthew.  When  Shane  and  his 
foster  brethren"  [the  O'Donnellys]  "  grew  to 
yeares,  they  considered  of  the  injury  and  ty- 
ranny done  by  policie  of  the  base  O'Neale,  and 
^^■ith  rearing  hue  and  cry  at  the  side  of  a  Castle 
where  he  lay  that  night,  when  the  gentleman 
ran  suddainely  forth  to  answere  the  cry,  as  the 
custome  is,  they  betrayed  and  miirdered  him. 
The  father,  not  utterly  discontent  with  his  dis- 
patch, when  he  saw  the  proof  of  his  lawfull 
Sonne  and  heire,  thenceforward  fancied  Shane 
O'Neale,  put  him  in  trust  with  all,  himself  be- 
ing but  a  cripple,  notwithstanding  that  Mat- 
thew left  issue  male  which  liveth,  to  whom  the 
inheritance  appertained  ;  yet  after  his  father's 
decease,   Shane  was   reputed  for  the   rightfuU 


1558.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1565 


pie  of  his  brother,  John  ;  and  the  cause  of  his  kilUng  was  because  he  was 
appointee^  to  tlie  dignity  of  his  father,  if  his  father  should  die  before  him. 

The  son  of  O'Conor  Faly,  i.  e.  Donough,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Cahir,  son 
of  Con,  son  of  Calvagh,  was  slain  by  O'Dempsey  (Owny,  the  son  of  Hugh). 
This  death  left  the  Barrow  in  sorrow,  the  Hy-Faly  feeble,  and  Leinster  in  grief 
And  that  deed  was  perpetrated  precisely  on  the  festival  of  St.  Patrick. 

The  Earl  of  Clanrickard  gave  a  great  defeat  to  the  Scots.  This  Earl  was 
Rickard,  son  of  Ulick-na-gCeann,  son  of  Rickard,  son  of  Ulick  of  Cnoc-tuagh",  son 
of  Ulick  Meodhanach,  son  of  Ulick  of  the  Wine  ;  and  the  Scots  who  sustained 
that  defeat  were  Donnell,  the  son  of  Dowell,  son  of  Gillespick  Mac  Allen  [Cartip- 
bell],  and  Dowell,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Gillespick  Mac  Allen,  two  brave 
young  constables  of  gallowglasses,  who  had  been  a  long  time  before  hired  into 
the  service''  of  the  Ultonians,  but  more  particularly  in  the  service  of  Tirconnell. 
They  had  agreed  among  themselves,  [stimulated]  by  extraordinary  vigour  and 
bravery,  to  leave  those  districts'',  and  to  proceed  through  Connaught,  to  render 


O'Neale,  tooke  it,  kept  it,  cliallenged  superio- 
rity over  the  Irish  Lords  of  Ulster,  warred  also 
upon  the  English  part,  subdued  Oreyly,  impri- 
soned Odonil,  his  wile,  and  his  Sonne,  enriched 
himselfe  with  all  Odonils  forts,  castles,  and 
plate,  by  way  of  ransome,  detained  pledges  of 
obedience,  the  wife  (whom  he  carnally  abused), 
and  the  childe,  fortified  a  strong  Hand  in  Ty- 
rone, which  he  named  spitefully  Foogk-ni-Gall, 
that  is,  the  hate  of  Englishmen,  whom  he  so  de- 
tested, that  he  hanged  a  souldiour  for  eating 
English  bisket ;  another  by  the  feet,  mistrusted 
for  a  spy ;  another  Captaine  of  the  Gallowglasses 
he  slew  with  torture,  &c.  &c." — Dublin  edition 
0/1809,  p.  187-189. 

Ware  says  in  his  Annals  of  Ireland,  that  John 
being  examined  by  the  Lord  Justice  Sidney 
about  these  matters,  answered  that  he  was  the 
son  and  heir  of  Con  and  Alice,  his  wife,  and 
that  Matthew  was  the  son  of  a  smith  in  Dun- 
dalk,  born  after  his  father's  marriage  with  his 
mother,  Alice,  and  that  he  claimed  his  father's 
estate  justly;  that  the  surrender  which  his  fa- 


ther had  made  to  King  Henry  the  Eighth,  and 
the  restoration  which  the  King  made  to  his 
father  again  were  of  no  force  ;  inasmuch  as  his 
father  had  no  right  to  the  lands  which  he  sur- 
rendered to  the  King,  except  during  his  own 
life  ;  that  he  (John)  himself  was  O'Neill  by  the 
law  of  Tanistry,  and  by  popular  election  ;  and 
that  he  assumed  no  superiority  over  the  chief- 
tains of  the  north,  except  what  had  belonged  to 
his  ancestors. 

''  Cnoc-tuagh,  now  Knockdoe,  near  Clare-Gal- 
way. — See  note  ",  under  the  year  1504,  p.  1277, 
supra. 

'  Hii-ed  into  the  service,  ace  peic  a  narnpaine, 
i.  e.  selling  their  service.  The  Latin  translator, 
in  F.  1.  18,  renders  it  thus:  "  Tum  in  Ultonia 
aliquamdiii  pleruraque  in  Tirconalliá  stipendia 
faciebant." 

*  To  leave  those  districts,  na  lioipiii  pin  opúj- 
Báil,  i.  e.  to  leave  the  territories  of  Ulster  and 
proceed  into  Connaught  in  quest  of  adventures. 
The  word  oipip  is  translated /nes  by  Colgan — 
See  Trias  Thaum.,  p.   115.     The   Latin   trans- 


1566  aNNQ^a  Rioghachca  eineaHN.  [1558. 

CÓICC1Ó  connacc,  1  apfo  fio  jabpac  cecup  co  cjnch  caipppe  mic  neill  cjie 
locrap  ua  noilella,  do  epic  jailfng  (Bail  in  po  cobpaij  copbmac  gailfnj  mac 
caiócc,  mic  cfin,  mic  oilealla  oluim  lap  loc  eni^  a  arnp)  -]  00  rip  amaljaió 
mic  piacpac.  Cónaicc  mac  iiillmm  ina  ccoinne  annpm  .1.  Ripoeapn  an  lapainn 
mac  DauiD,  mic  emainn,  mic  uillicc,  ^  po  jjeall  a  ccoruccao  ap  tyrvj;  cpeac 
lomra  a  corhappan  "j  polmai^ce  a  eapccopacc.  On  cualaib  lapla  cloinne 
piocaipD  an  coimnonol  coiccpice  pin  oo  reacc  lé  a  raob  do  rionoil  an  lion 
aplia  po  peD  Dapmáil  éiDeaó,  1  opDonaip,  1  ní  po  aipipjupan  maijin  ambá- 
Dap  na  halbanai^  05  muaio,"]  pob  pfipDe  co  a  nionnpaicciD  uaip  00  bpip  pop 
an  ppfnain  allmapóa,  ~\  pop  na  poipnib  ppaocDuiljje  pm,  i  ni  po  cuirhnijpioc 
a  poD  0  narapna,  -|  ó  mbpairpib  bunaiD  uaip  po  pulamjpior  DO  nfpccaipDib  a 
naipleac  ap  en  laraip.  Do  mapbaó  annpin  Dnrhnall"]  Dubjall,  -]  bri  pfpp  buaiD 
a  nanacail  oloáp  buaiD  a  ngona  uaip  do  gébraoi  a  ccomrpom  do  ^ac  fpnail 
lonnmapa  epcib,  -]  Dob  éccpeimcce  albanaij  co  cfno  arhaió  oá  naimpip  Vn 
ccoicceaD  connacr  an  lonnpaicciD  pin. 

Spaonmaióm  Do  rabaipc  la  Sa;rancoib  ap  utUiam  o6ap  (.1.  ó  cfpbaiU) 
mac  pipjanainm  mic  maolpuanaÍD  mic  Sfain  ui  cfpbaiU  ap  maj  cinn  copcai^e 
Do  hrpbaij^fó  Ó1CC,  -|  Do  muóaijfó  mílió  ap  an  maj  pm,  -)  Do  páccbaó  ann 
TTIupchaD  gCnjcac  mac  emainn,  mic  mupchaib,  mic  emainn,  mic  Suibne  Do 
conpaplaib  DÓlccaip,  -|  Do  rip  bojaine  lap  noiircap,  -\  répna  ó  ceapbaill  pfin 
ap  an  ppoipéiccfn  pin. 

lator,  in  F.  1.  18,  condenses  the  language  thus:  fable  tliat  it  is  of  very  little  historical  value. 

'■  Qui  vel  propagandse  famse  gratia  vel  ne  vaca-  Up  to  this  period  the  country  of  the  Gailenga, 

tione  militiaj  juventus  torperet,    in   Conaciam  which  was  far  more  extensive  than  the  present 

profecti  sunt,  &c."  barony  of  Gallen,  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  was 

'•  The  territory  of  Carbry,  the  son  of  NiaU,  now  inhabited  by  the  Damnonii  and  Galeni,  who  were 

the  barony  of  Carbury,    in  the  north  of  the  tribes  of  the  Firbolgs ;  but  King  Cormac,  the  son 

county  of  Sligo.  of  Art,   granted  this  territory  to  Cormac  Gai- 

"^  Settled,  coBpui^.  Cormac  fled  from  Mun-  leang,  his  near  relative,  who,  in  course  of  time, 
ster,  after  having  incensed  his  father  by  kill-  either  totally  dispossessed  or  enslaved  the  Fir- 
ing the  five  sons  of  Conall,  the  son  of  Eoch-  bolgs.  The  most  distinguished  families  of  his 
aidh,  son  of  Magh  Nuadhat,  who  were  fabled  to  race  in  this  territory,  after  the  establishment  of 

have  been  transformed  into  badgers  by  Grian      surnames,  were  the  O'Haras  and  O'Garas See 

Gruadhsholuis,  a  Tuatha  de  Danann  sorceress.  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  69- 

The  legend  is  given  at  full  length  in  a  manu-  '^  Violated  the  guarantee The  legend  recites 

script  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  that  Cormac  Gaileang  had  offered  the  sons  of 

H.  .3.  18,  p.  42;   but  it  is  so  wrapped  up  in  Conall  his  father's  protection,  on  condition  that 


15.58.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1567 

their  names  famous.  They  first  passed  through  the  territory  of  Carbry,  the  son 
of  Niall",  tlirough  the  lower  part  of  Tirerrill,  by  tlie  territory  of  Gaileang  (where 
Cormac  Gaileang,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Kian,  son  of  Oilioll  Olum,  settled*^ 
after  having  violated  the  guarantee"*  of  his  father),  and  into  the  country  of 
Awley  of  Fiachra  [Tirawley].  In  this  last  mentioned  territory  Mslc  William 
(Richard-an-iarrainn',  the  son  of  Pavid,  son  of  Edmond,  soii  of  Ulick)  came  to 
meet  them  ;  and  he  promised  to  support  them  for  plundering  his  neighbour's 
and  harassing  his  enemies.  When  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard  heard  that  this 
foreign*^  host  had  arrived  in  his  neighbourhood,  he  collected  the  greatest  number 
that  he  was  able  of  mail-clad  warriors  and  ordnance,  and  did  not  halt  till  he 
arrived  at  the  place  where  those  Scots  were,  by  the  Moy.  He  was  the  better 
of  attacking  them  [there],  for  he  routed  this  foreign  band  of  fiei'cely -rapacious 
warriors,  who  did  not  consider  their  distance  from  tlieir  native  country  and 
their  kindred,  for  they  suifered  their  enemies  to  slaughter  them,  on  the  spot. 
Donnell  and  Dowell  were  slain  there ;  but  the  victory^  would  have  been  greater 
if  they  had  been  taken  prisoners,  instead  of  being  slain,  for  an  equivalent  ran- 
som in  any  kind  of  riches  would  have  been  received  for  them.  The  power  of 
the  Scots  was  enfeebled  in  Connaught  for  a  considerable  time  after  this  attack. 
A  defeat  was  given  to  O'CarroU  (William  Odhar,  the  son  of  Ferganainm, 
son  of  Mulrony,  son  of  John)  by  the  English,  on  the  plain  of  Ceann-Corcaighe", 
where  youths  were  cut  off,  and  warriors  slain,  and,  among  the  rest,  Murrough 
Geangcach,  the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  MuiTough,  son  of  Edmond  Mac  Sweeny, 
one  of  the  constables  of  Dal-gCais,  and  of  the  family  of  Tir-Boghaine'.  O'Garroll 
himself  escaped  from  that  perilous  conflict. 

they  would  come  out  of  their  stronghold ;  and  victory  of  killing  them,  for  tliere  would  have 

that  he  slew  them  with  his  father's  spear  as  soon  been  received  their  equivalent  of  each  kind  of 

as  they  came  fortli.  wealth    for    them.     And   the    Scots   were   the 

''liichard-an-iarrainn,i.e.B.ichaTd  of  the  iion.  feebler  of  this  attack  in  the  province  of  Con- 

^  Foreign  host,  coirhcionol  coiccpice, — Here  naught  for  a  period  of  their  time."' 

the  Four  Masters  use  the  word  coiccpice,  in  ^  Ceann-Corcaiyhe,  i.  e.  the  head  of  the  cor- 

the  sense  of  strange,  or  foreign,  although  they  cass,  or  marshy  laud;  not  identified, 

generally  use  this  term  to   denote  confine,   or  ^  Of  the  family  of  Tir-Boghaine,  literally,  "of 

conierraneous  boundary.  Tir-Boghaine  as  to  his  native  c(juntry,"  i.  e.  he 

8  The  victory,  literally,    "  better  would  have  was  of  the  family  of  the  Mac  Sweenys  of  Ba- 

been  the  victory  of  protecting  them  than  the  nagh,  in  the  west  of  the  county  of  Donegal. 


1.568 


aNNaí,a  TJio^hcichca  eiReriNN. 


[1559. 


QipciDeocain  cille  oálua  oécc  .1.  t»onncha6  ócc  mac  nonnchaiii,  mic  niocóil 
iií  jjpáoa,  ci^eapna  lii  cciU  "]  lii  rcuair  an  cí  cffca  annpin. 

®ueene  Gli5abech  do  oijiDneao  of  Sajraib  an.  17.  Nouembe|i. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1559. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cíncc  céo,  caocca,  anaoí. 

O  Neill  con  bacac,  mac  cuinn,  mic  enjii,  mic  eoccam  Décc  lap  ccaicfrh  a 
aoi]^!  1  aimf'i]ie  gan  oilbfim  jan  imofpccab,  1  jio  ba  D01I15  00  cenél  eóccain  a 
éccfibe  munbab  a  pfnoacaió  "]  a  y^fnopoacc,  -j  a  óíol  ooiófie  opaccbáil  ina 
loraó  .1.  Sfan. 


''  In  church  and  stale,  i.  e.  he  was  head  of  his 
tribe,  and  a  dignitary  in  the  church. 

'  Oti  ike  nth  of  November.  —  Elizabeth  as- 
cended the  throne  on  the  day  of  the  death  of  her 
half  sister,  Queen  Mary,  November  the  17th, 
1.558  ;  from  which  date  her  regnal  years  were 
accordingly  reckoned. — -See  Ckronologi/  of  His- 
iory,  by  Sir  Harris  Nicolas,  second  edition, 
p.  338.  The  entries  under  this  year  are  trans- 
lated into  Latin  as  follows,  in  F.  1.  18  : 

"  Comes  Desmonia;  Jacobus,  lilius  Joannis, 
filii  Thomas,  filii  Jacobi,  filiiGeraldi,  fatis  conce- 
dens,  magnum  sui  desiderium  apud  clientes 
reliquit;  nam,  eo  florente,  nee  Ibrtunis  asser- 
vandis  custodiam  apponere,  nee  latronibus  ex- 
cludendis  januas  occludere  necesse  fuit,  in  toto 
illo  terrarum  tractu  qui  Kerriie  Dunkinis  ad 
Trium  Aquarum  Confluentem  in  Lageni®  et 
Momoniae  coufinio  expansus  est. 

'■  O'Brienus  Tuomonia;,  Daniel,  filius  Con- 
chauri,  filii*Terdelachi,  filii  Tadei,  filii  Briani 
de  Cathauaonaigh,  possessionibus  et  dignitate 
a  prorege  Thomá  Fizwalter  exutus  est,  qui  eas 
Conchaurum,  Danielis  ex  fratre  Donato  nepo- 
tem,  -et  Túomonise  comitem  jam  renunciatum 
contulit ;  imo  Cluanramhoda,  Bunraitta  et  Clara 
Magna,  insigniora  ditionis  oppida,  necnon  etiam 


alia  quievis  loca,  seu  honiinum  frequentiá  cele- 
brata,  seu  avia  fuerunt  atit  humano  cultu  ad- 
huc  vacua,  eidem  Conchauro  concesserunt,  qui 
comitis  nomen  quidem,  sed  non  dignitatem 
Dalgassiorum,  primus  retulit.  Cujus  rei  no- 
vitas  maximam  admirationem  et  indignationem 
primipilis  Hibernis,  et  qui  generi  originem  ad 
Heberum,  Erymonem,  Irium  et  Ithium  refe- 
runt,  movit. 

"  Ferdorcho  Baroni,  Comitis  Tironia;  filio, 
vitam  nefarie  Joannis  fratris  clientes  eripuerunt, 
quod  in  avita  haereditate  obeunda  patri  successor 
designaretur. 

"Donatum,  O'ConchauriFalgise  Briani  filium, 
Uathnicus  ó  Dimosaigh  interemit  circa  fes- 
tum  Sancti  Fatricii,  quod  facinus  Bearvam  do- 
lore,  OfTalgiam  luctu,  Lageniam  sollicitudine 
affecit. 

"  Magna  Scotorum  manus,  tum  in  Ultoniá 
aliquamdiu  plerumque  in  Tirconalliá,  Daniele 
Dubhgalli  filio  GUlaspec  Mac  Callin  nepote,  et 
Dubhgallo  Donati  filio  ejus  de  Gillaspec  Mac 
Callini  filii,  ducibus,  stipendia  faciebant ;  qui,  vel 
propagandae  famse  gratia,  vel  ne  vacatione  mili- 
tia" juventus  torperet,  in  Conaciam  profecti 
sunt,  bella  gesturis  operam  locaturi,  suscepto 
itenere    per    Carberiam    inferiores    Tirconallia; 


1559.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1569 


The  Archdeacon  of  Killaloe  died,  i.  e  Donough  Oge,  the  son  of  Donough, 
son  of  Nicholas  O'Grady.     He  was  a  lord  in  Church  and  State". 

Queen  Elizabeth  was  made  sovereign  over  England  on  tlje  1 7th  of  November'. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST.  1559. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  fifty-nine. 

O'Neill  (Con  Bacagh,  the  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen)  died,  after  having 
spent  his  age  and  time  without  blemish  or  reproach.  His  death  would  have 
been  a  cause  of  great  grief  to  the  Kinel-Owen  but  for  his  great  age  and  infir- 
mity, and  that  he  left  an  heir  worthy  of  him,  i'  e.  John™. 


oras  ac  Galingam  (a  Cormaco  Galingo  filio 
Tadei,  filii  Keni,  filii  Olilli  Oluim,  cujus  ibi 
pater  vulneratus  fuit"  \recte,  qui  ibi  sedit  post- 
quam  violaverat  proteotionem  patris  suij,  "  iio- 
minatam)  ad  provinciam  pervenerunt,  ubi  Mac 
Ulielmiis  Bourk,  Richardus  a  ferro,  filius  Da- 
vidis,  filii  Edmundi,  filii  Ullechi,  eos  condiixit  ut 
finitimis  bello  petendis,  et  eis  qui  ipsis  adversa- 
rentur  prosternendis  vires  et  arma  impenderent, 
Cum  autem  ClanrickardiK  Comes,  Richardus, 
filius  Ullechi  a  capitibus,  filii  Richardi,  filiiUlle- 
chi  deCnoctuagh,  filiiUlechiMedii,  filiiUllechi  a 
vino,  advenas  in  Conatise  viscera  jam  penetrasse 
accepisset,  ne  a  proprius  accedentibus  commi- 
nus  damna  perferre  cogeretur,  exercitum  quam 
potest  maximum  conscribit,  quern  omni  bellico 
apparatu  apprime  instructum,  in  aciem  eduxit, 
tormentis  etiam  bellicis  ad  banc  expeditionem 
usus,  tanta  porro  celeritate  ac  tam  exiguo  stre- 
pitu  processit  ut  ante  pene  in  hostium  conspectu 
ad  Moam  amnem  cousedentium  pervenerit,  quam 
cum  in  armis  fuisse  cognoverint,  ut  primum 
hostem  oonspicatus  est,  in  pugnam  cum  eo  de- 
scendit,  nee  diu  in  ancipiti  victoria  stetit,  cum 
Scoti  late  sternentur,  ducibus  in  aciem  caden- 
tibus,  reliqui  profligati  internecione  delentur. 
Duces  vero  si  capti  potiua  quam  casi  fuissent, 


yel  appenso  in  trutina  ad  ipsorum  pondus  sere, 
suorum  opera  vinculis  educerentur.  Clades 
autem  sicut  Scotis  luctuosa,  sic  Conatia;  fuit 
utilis,  ut  quEe  a  Scotorvini  excursionibus  diu 
immunis  erat. 

"  O'Carvallus,  Ulielmus  Moddara,  filius  Ne- 
bemiíB,  filii  Moelruani,  filii  Joannis,  cum  Anglis 
apud  Maiglicancorcagiam  acie  decernens  late 
fugus  est,  sed  ipse  fuga  elapsus,  multis  suorum 
desideratis  ac  prascipue  Muracho  Gancach,  filius 
Edmundi,  filii  Muracbi,  filii  Edmundi  Mac 
Suinnii,  viro  admodum  strenuo,  Tirboghaniffi 
oriundo,  sub  Dalgaissiis  merere  consueto. 

"  Donatus  Juvenis,  filius  Donati,  filii  Nicholai 
q  Grada,  Archidiaconus  Laonensis,  vir  magna» 
potentiK,  tam  inter  sacri  quam  profani  ordinis 
homines,  diem,  suum  obiit. 

"  Elizabetha  Anglice  Regina  salutata  est." 

The  Latin  translation  from  the  Annals  of 
Donegal,  in  F.  1.  18,  ends  here. 

■"  John. — Charles  O'Conor  interpolates  t)on- 
j^aileac,  i.  e.  the  Donnellian,  which  is  correct, 
for  John  was  usually  so  called,  because  he  had 
been  fostered  by  O'Donelly. — See  note  S  under 
the  year  1531,  p.  1404,  supra.  He  was  also 
called  Seaan  un  ©iomaip,  i.  e.  Shane,  or  John, 
of  the  pride,  or  ambition. 
0 


1570  aNNaf,a  Rio^hachra  emeaNN.  [1559. 

Gmann  buicilép,  mac  comái)'',  mic  emainn,  mic  comaip  oécc,  cijfpna  rpfna 
cluana  meala  "]  cac|iac  Dúine  lapccaig  pop  púip,  buaball  bláic  bionnpojpac  • 
maijpe  raoHijeal  clacc  copcpa  00  rimóibe  a  rrúp  a  aoipe  -|  a  aimpipe,  "| 
Deapbparaip  a  orap  do  ^aBail  a  lonaiD  .1.  pmpup  mac  emainn. 

lapla  cuaórhuman,  concoBap  mac  Donncbaib  mic  concobaip  ui  bpiam  ap 
yuiDe  pé  hacchaió  mnpi  í  cuinn  a  mi  Km  do  ponnpaó  ap  cloinn  TTliipchaiD 
UÍ  bpiam,  1  baoi  mac  do  clomn  ITIupchaiD  ^y  m  mbaile  .1.  Donncliaó  "|  do  bai 
rabcc  mac  miipcliam  í  bpiain  1  mbior^naip  -]  a  mbuancoimicreacc  lapla 
Dfpmurtian  ó  oibipc  oorhnaill  ui  bpiain  50  nincce  pni  1  Do  eccaoin  rabcc  a 
anbpoplann  pip  an  lapla,  1  a  Diibaipc  gup  baojal  laip  a  bfir  jjan  baile  jan 
bparoip  miina  ppajbab  pupcacc  abpoccup.  Do  jab  an  ciapla  an  lomcopaoiD 
pin  caiócc,-|  DO  cuip  gaipm  ap  a  jlanpluajaib,"!  cionol  ap  a  rimraib,  jibeab 
nip  an  lé  cpumniuccab  map  ba  cóip  ace  Do  cfimnig  ap  a  cfprajbaiD  50  oéola 
Dapaccac  cpé  ppurpacaib  pionna  ppiubgloine.  Oo  cualaió  lapla  cuabmuman 
an  rionol  pm  ace  cpiall  po  na  ruaipim  Do  eipij  ó  imp  í  cuinn,  -]  Do  póccaib 
nn  poplonjpopr  polarh, ")  do  araijj  a  pi'op  capa  imá  póipióin  .1.  lapla  cloinne 
PiocaipD,  00b  pfipoe  Do  an  caiac  pin  óip  nip  an  le  a  airiappaib  ace  do 
^luaip  po  céDÓip,  -]  ni  po  aipip  gup  an  mai^in  hi  mbaoi  lapla  ciiaDmuman. 
Oala  lapla  Dfpmuman  ni  po  lianab  laip  50  nDeachaib  ap  pairce  innpi 
ui  cuinn,  ~\  ]\o  pill  rap  a  aip  50  baile  i  aille  an  oibce  céona.  Nip  bo  paDa 
Ó  paile  poj'longpuipr  na  niaplab  an  omce  pin.  Po  éipij^  lapla  Dfpmuman  a 
mocDfbail  na  maiDne  ap  nabapac,-)  rue  copuccab  cara,  1  inneall  lombualra 
ap  a  óccbaiD,  óip  bá  Dóij  laip  nac  rcfpnaipfb  gan  rpoiD  on  dó  cij^eapna  capla 

"  Edmond  Bnt/ei-.—Víis  lather,  Thomas,  was  ''  Cathair-Duine-Iascaigh,  i.  e.   the  stone  í'ort 

raised  to  the  peerage  oí' Ireland,  lOth  November,  of  the  Dun,  or  earthen  fort  of  the  Hsh,  now 

1543,  by  the  title  of  Baron  of  Caher.     Edmond  Caliir,  in  the  barony  of  Ififa  and  Offa  West,  in 

fiUGCeeded  as  second  Baron  of  Caher,  but  died  the  county  of  Tipperary.     The  site  of  the  ori- 

without  issue,   when  the  barony  expired,   and  ginal  Caher,   or  stone  fort,   is  occupied  by  the 

his  two  half  sisters  became  his  heirs.     But  the  Castle  of  Cahir,  which  stands  on  a  rock  sur- 

dignity  was  revived  6th  May,    1583,  by  a  new  rounded   by   the   River   Suir — See  this  castle 

patent  granted  to  his  first  cousin.  Sir  Theobald  described  in   the  Irish  Penny  Journal  by  Mr. 

,  Butler.                         '  Petrie. 

°  Trian-Chluana-Meala,  i.  e.    Clonmel-third.  "^  Took  /lis  place. — Pierce  took   his  place  as 

This  was  the  name  of  the  barony  of  Ifta  and  head  of  this  branch  of  the  Butlers,  according  to 

Offa  East,   in  the  south-east  of  the  county  of  the  Irish  law  of  tanistry,  not  as  Baron  of  Caher. 

Tipperary.  This  branch  of  the  Butlers  descend  from  James 


1559]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1571 

Edmond  Butler",  the  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Edniond,  Lord 
of  Trian-Chluana-Meala^,  and  of  Cathair-Duine-Iascaigh"  on  the  Suire,  died. 
This  beautiful,  sweet-sounding  trumpet,  a  whitesided,  fair,  ruddy -coloured  youth, 
was  cut  off  in  the  beginning  of  his  life  and  career  ;  and  his  father's  brother. 
Pierce,  the  son  of  Edmond,  took  his  place". 

The  Earl  of  Thomond  (Conor,  the  son  of  Douough,  son  of  Conor  O'Brien) 
sat  before  Inchiquin,  precisely  in  the  month  of  June,  to  oppose  the  sons  of 
Murrough  O'Brien.  And  Donough,  one  of  the  sons  of  Murrough,  was  in  the 
town  ;  but  Teige,  the  other  son  of  Murrough,  had  been  constantly  in  the  com- 
pany and  society  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  since  the  expulsion  of  Donnell  O'Brien 
up  to  that  period.  And  Teige  had  complained  of  his  distress  to  the  Earl,  and 
had  said  that  he  should  be  [left]  without  home  or  kinsmen,  unless  he  obtained 
speedy  assistance.  The  Earl  took  this  complaint  of  Teige  [to  heart],  and  he 
assembled  his  gallant  troops,  and  mustered  his  tribes  ;  he  did  not,  however, 
wait  to  make  a  proper  muster,  but  proceeded  at  once,  with  boldness  and  intre- 
pidity, across  the  waters  of  the  limpidly-rolling  Shannon.  When  the  Earl  of 
Thomoud  heard  that  this  army  was  marching  upon  him,  he  departed  from  Inchi- 
quin, leaving  the  camp  empty,  and  went  to  solicit"'  the  assistance  of  his  trusty 
friend,  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard.  He  was  the  better  of  this  solicitation,  for  the 
Earl  did  not  wait  to  be  asked  a  second  time,  but  set  out  immediately,  and  did 
not  halt  until  he  reached  the  place  where  the  Earl  of  Thomond  was.  As  for 
the  Earl  of  Thomond,  he  did  not  halt  till  he  arrived  on  the  green  of  Inchiquin ; 
and  he  returned  back  the'  same  night  to  Baile-Ui-Aille'.  The  camps  of  the 
Earls  were  not  far  asunder  on  that  night.  On  the  morrow,  at  day-break,  thex 
Earl  of  Desmond  arose,  and  marshalled  his  youthful  warriors  in  battle-array 
and  fighting  order,  for  he  thought  that  he  should  not  part  from  the  two  nobles 
who  were  pm'suing  him  without  fighting.     This  was  indeed  true,  for  they  pro- 

Butler,  the  natural  son  of  James,  third  Earl  of  Templemaley,  barony  of  Upper  Bunratty,  and 

Ormond.  county  of  Clare,   and  about   two  miles  and   a 

■■  To  solicit,  literally,   "  and  he  requested  his  quarter  to  the  north  of  the  town  of  Ennis.     In 

true  friend  to  his  relief,  i.  e.  the  Earl  of  Clan-  a  list  of  the  castles  of  the  county  of  Clare,  pre- 

rickard."  served  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin, 

'  Baile-Ui-Aille,    i.e.    O'Haly's    town,    now  this  castle  is  mentioned  as  belonging  to  James 

Ballyally,   a  townland  containing  a  small  por-  NeUan. — See  it  again  referred   to  at  the  year 

tion  of  the  ruins  of  a  castle,   in  the  parish  of  1601. 

9  o2 


1572  aNNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [1559. 

ago  rojiaijeacr.  6á  pío]i  on  inny^in  oip  Do  jabpar  ace  cairfifi "]  ace  cotti- 
puabaipc  a]ioile  6  áicib  a  longpojic  50  popab  mullai^  cmiic  puajicoilb.  Qp 
ann  pm  Do  coili^  an  coice,  -\  do  cfoai^  an  cinnfrhain  a  ccup  ap  aon  maijjin,  -| 
Do  arpai^  pen  cara  cloinne  caip  an  la  pin  óip  Do  be  o  nj^nariiccab  co  niiicce 
pin  maiDm  Do  jnuipib  ap  jfpalrocaib  pfrnpa  in  jac.cnlaij  a  ccacpacraoi^, 
1  gémaó  é  an  lá  pin  pfin  baoí  caDce  mac  mupchaiD  í  bpiain  05  rabaipc  ra 
cpoDa  maille  lé  jfpoiD.  Do  bfn  jeapoirc  mac  Semaip,-]  raócc  ó  bpiain  reibfó 
na  cfccmala,  ~\  coimeip^e  an  cnuic  ap  na  lnaplaóaib  iiaiple  ammfpn  do  pann- 
rui^  a  pápuccaD,  1  Do  pobaip  a  popcamluccaD  50  po  páeebacrap  a  nóecbaió' 
po  apmaib  a  nfpccapac  "]  pó  bpfif  a  mbíoDbnó.  On  póccbaD  annj^in  Donn- 
chaD  joba  mac  bpiain  m;c  roippbealbai^  mic  caiDcc  mie  marjamna,-]  po 
mapbaó  ann  Dponj  do  Dfjóaoínib  píl  aoDa,  "j  po  mapbaD  anD  apDconpapal 
cloinne  piocaipo  .1.  emann  mac  Riiaibpi  riióip,  mic  piiibne,  1  coUa  mac  mup- 
chaiD mic  puaiDpi  rhóip,  Ró  mapbaó  Dna  cpnip  mac  miipchaiD,  mic  Donncham 
mic  Domnaill  na  maDmann  mfic  puibne  .1.  concobap  (conpapal  rnaDmuriian) 
eojan,  -\  DonnclioD,  Ro  páccbab  ann  clann  emainn  mic  mupcliaib  mic  emainn, 
meie  puibne  .1.  TTlaolmuipe  buiDe,  -|  Donncbab.  Ni  biú  Da  naipfrii  ni  bup  ]'ipi 
acr  cépnóiapla  Dfpmuman  mp  mbuaib  ccopccaip,"]  ccoriimaoibme  cap  a  aip. 
Sluaieceab  efnoaip  pfbna  la  hua  ccTpbaiU  uilliam  obap  mac  pipT^anainm 
mic  maolpuanaib,  mic  pfom  Q]\  mac  ui  hpiain  apa  .1  roippbealbac  mnc  muip- 
efpcaij,  mic  Domnaill,  mic  raibcc,  mic  coippbealbaij,  mic  mupchaib  na 
pairni^e.  Do  lomab,  "|  Do  léppcpiopab  an  cip  50  rmnfpnac  la  bua  ccfpbaill 
Ó  bél  an  nra  ^o  muileann  ui  óccrrn.     Oo  niapbab  Ifip  pa  lo  eéDna  Deapbpa- 

, '  Cnoc-Fuarchoilli,   i.  e.  the  hill  of  the  cold  that  it  was  the  fact  of  Teige,   the  son  of  Mur- 

wood,  now  corrujitly  called  in  Irish  Cnoc  up-  rough  O'Brien,  being  on  the  side  of  the  Earl  of 

colli,  and  incorrectly  translated  Spancel  Hill.  Desmond,  that  prevented  the  Geraldines  from 

It  is  the  name  of  a  small  village  noted  for  its  being  scared  with  dismay  when  they  came  to  a 

horse  fairs,  situated  in  the  townland  of  Mucki-  battle  with  the  Dal-Cais  on  a  hill, 
nish,  parish  of  Clooney,  and  about  six  miles  east  "  To  oppress  him,  rede,  "them,"  or  "Teige 

of  the  town  of  Ennis,  in  the  county  of  Clare.  O'Brien."     The   style  of  the   original   is   here 

"  T/ie  will  ofdestini/,  literally,   "  it  was  there  exceedingly  faulty,  on  account  of  the  careless 

that  destiny  willed  and  fate  permitted  to  put  use  made  of  the  pronouns. 

them  on  one  place."     The  word  mriijin   always  '   Tl/eir  foes.  —  The    words    eapcccipuc   and 

denotes  place  or  locality,  and  is  explained  lonaó  biooBao  are  synonymous,  and  introduced  into 

by  O'Clery.  the  test  merely  for  the  sake  of  sound. 

"  Even  on  that  Jay. — Thig  is  an  insinuation  '  Donnell-na-madtimann.  i.  e.  Doiinel!.  or  Da- 


1559.]  ANNALS  OP^  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1573 

ceeded  to  fire  at  each  other,  and  to  skirmish  from  the  places  where  tliev  were 
encamped,  till  they  arrived  at  the  summit  of  Cnoc-Fuarchoilli',  where  it  was 
the  will  of  destiny"  and  the  decree  of  fate  to  bring  them  to  the  same  place.  The 
success  of  battle  of  the  race  of  Cas  changed  on  that  day,  for  until  then  they 
had  been  accustomed  to  drive  the  Geraldines  [panic-stricken]  befofe  their  faces 
on  every  hill  on  which  they  had  contended ;  and  even  on  that  day"  Teige,  the 
son  of  Miirrough  O'Brien,  was  fighting  along  with  Garrett.  Garrett,  the  son 
of  James,  and  Teige  O'Brien,  gained  the  onset  of  the  battle,  and  the  rising  of 
the  hill,  upon  the  two  noble  and  vigorous  Earls,  Avho  had  coveted  to  oppress 
him"  [Teige],  and  who  had  attempted  to  subdue  him  ;  but  they  [the  Earls]  lei't 
their  youths  [soldiers]  beneath  the  weapons  of  their  adversaries,  and  at  the  mercy 
of  their  foes^  Donougli  Gobha,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige, 
son  of  Mahon,  was  left  behind  ;  a  number  of  the  chieftains  of  the  Sil-Aedha 
were  slain,  as -were  also  the  Chief  Constable  of  Clanrickard,  i.  e.  Edmond,  son 
of  Rory  INI  ore  Mac  Sweeny,  and  Colla,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Rory  ]\Iore 
Mac  Sweeny;  also  three  sons  of  Murrough,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Donnell- 
na-madhmann^  Mac  Sweeny,  namely,  Conor,  Constable  of  Thomond,  Owen,  and 
Donough  ;  a^id  there  also  fell  the  sons  of  Edmond,  son  of  Murrough,  son  of 
Edmond  Mac  Sweeny,  namely,  Muhnurry  Boy  and  Edmond.  I  shall  not  enu- 
merate them  any  longer.  But  the  Earl  of  Desmond  returned  home  after  victory 
in  triumph. 

A  captain's  [fii-st]  expedition''  was  made  by  O'Carroll  (William  Odhar,  the 
son  of  Ferganainm,  son  of  Mulrony,  son  of  John),  against  Mac-I-Brien  of  Ara. 
i.  e.  Turlough,  the  son  of  Murtough,  sou  of  Donnell,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Tur- 
lough, son  of  Murrough-na-Raithnighe.  On  this  occasion  O'CaiToll  at  once 
devastated  and  totally  ravaged  the  country  from  Bel-an-atha''  to  Muilleann-Ui- 
Ogain^     ( )n  the  same  day  he  slew  Mac-I-Brien's  brother,  namely,  Murrough, 

niel,  of  the  defeats.  site  Killaloe,  in  the  barony  of  Ara,  uud  county 

^  A  captain's  expedition. — Every  Irish   chief-  of  Tipperary.    The  ruins  of  one  of  Mac-I-Brien 

tain  thought  it  his  duty  to  perform  a  predatory  Ara's  castles  are  still  to  be   seen  near  Ballina 

excursion  as  soon  after  his  inauguration  as  pos-  Bridge. 

sible,  and  this  was  called  his  "  i^vicii^eaó  cean-  =  Muilleann-Ui-Ogain,  i.  e.  O'Hogan's  mill. 

iiHij'  pea6na."  a  place    situated    near   Ardcrony,    in    the  ba- 

>>  Bel-an-atha,  i.  o.  the  mouth  of  the  ford,  now  rony  of  Lower  .Onnond.   and  county  of  Tippe- 

Ballina,  on  the  east  side  of  the  Shannon,  oppo-  rary. 


1574  aNNaí,a  uio^hachna  eiReawN.  [1559. 

caiji  iTific  uí  b]iiain  .1.  ÍTIujicliat)  imac  iiiuipcfjicai^  faoí  cinnprona  ap  lúja 
DO  bole  oóccbaió  pleacca  bjiiain  puam.  Do  cuip  mac  uí  bpiain  cpuinniuccaó 
np  a  caijiDib  ap  a  liairle  Do  Dol  Daire  a  eaponópa  ap  ua  ccfpbaill,  1  ap 
rcocc  Oct  c|iiarbiii6rnb  na  cimcell  Do  eapccna  ap  a  ajhaib,  "|  ayCn  coccmp 
uí  caijiín  DO  cpeaclonmb  Don  cuai]ic  )'U),  -|  ay  ann  )io  cinn  an  cinnfrham 
Diia  ceapbaill  bfir  ap  a  cionn  an  oibce  pin  ap  miillac  cninc  1  nuib  caipin 
acc  fipreacc  ^p]\^y  an  cíp  ina  nmceall,  "]  ap  ó  bun  an  cniiic  ap  ap  cobpai^ 
ó  cfpbaiU  Do  léicc  mac  uí  bpiam  pccaoíleao  Da  pcceimelcoib  oapccam  na 
noipfp.  Qp  nimreacc  DÓ  óccbaiD  uaóa  do  connaipc  ó  cfpbaill  cuicce  a  cc6- 
puccaó  caca, "]  i  nopDuccaó  lommbuailre.  ni  mo  cion  neac  gan  nfpc  a  pulainj 
ná  a  lomgabala  rapla  ap  a  loncoib  annpin.  Po  mapbaó  Don  cup  pin  jac  aon 
pob  inécca  Do  muincip  rhfic  uí  bpiain  do  rhapbaD  ann  a  conpapal  .1.  epemon 
inac  an  gioUa  Duib,  mic  concobaip,  inic  Donnchaió  meic  Suibne.  Do  gabaó 
ann  mac  uí  bpiain  pfm, "]  baoí  capba  pa  cfpapccain  pin  óip  níp  imcij  5an  a 
puapglab. 

UaDcc  an  rpuapóin  mac  Domnaill  mic  concobaip  uí  bpiain  Décc  hi  ppfpaib 
manac  1  nDúchaig  méjuióip,  ■]  é  acc  cup  a  cuapca  ecip  a  caipDib  coicpice 
lap  na  ionnapbaD  ap  a  arapDa  apaon  la  a  acaip  an  bliaóain  poiriie  pin,  pfp 
a  aopa  do  bpfpp  lur  "|  láncapaó  milfracc  "]  mapcacap  Do  clanDaib  copbmaic 
caip,  1  a  abnacal  in  achab  beiche. 

Qn  calbac  ó  Domnaill  Do  gabóil  lá  hua  néill  Sfan  an  14  Do  TTlaii.  6á 
harhlaib  appicc  an  jabail  ípin.  Carbapp  mac  ITlajjnupa  Do  bfir  a  pppirbfpr 
ppipp  an  ccalbac,  "|  ppia  a  mac  conn.  6á  hann  baní  lonarracc  cachbaipp 
pop  cpannóicc  loca  bfrliaij.  l?o  rionoileab  pluaj  an  cipé  im  conn  mac  an 
calbaij  CO  mbaccap  hi  ppopbaippi  imon  ccpannóicc.  bá  hann  baoí  an  calbac 
an  ran  pin  In  ccill  o  ccompaip  go'nuacbaD  pochaibe  cenmorár  mná  "]  pilfba. 

'^  Hy-Cairin,  now  the  barony  of  Ikerrin,   in  his  forces  to  plunder  the  districts.     The  word 

the  north   of  the  county  of  Tipperary.     This  oipfp  is  here  used  in  the  same  sense  as  in  the 

territory  belonged  to  O'Meagher,  who  was  ori-  name  aipeap,  or  oipeap  gaoibeal,  i.  e.  the  dis- 

ginally  tributary  to  O'Carroll.  trict  of  the  Gaels,  now  Argyle,  in  Scotland. 

^  He  saw  O'Carroll. — Do  connaipc   ó   Cfp-  f  Teiffe-an-isttasain,  i.e.  Teige,  or  Timothy,  o{ 

BaiU   cuicce  .1.  00  connaipc   pé   ó   Ceapljaill  the  long  uncombed  hair. 

[aj  ceacc]  cuije.     O'Carroll  did  not  make  his  s  Remote  friends. — The    word    coiccpice    is 

descent  from  the  hill  until  he  perceived  that  here  used  in  the  same  sense  as  that  in  which 

Mac-I-Brien  had  sent  forth  the  main  body  of  Keating  and  the   Munster  writers  employ  it. 


1559-]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1575 

the  son  of  Murtough,  a  distinguished  captain,  by  nu  means  the  worst  of  the 
youths  of  the  descendants  of  Brian  Eoe.  Mac-I-Brien  afterwards  made  a  muster 
of  his  friends,  to  go  and  avenge  tliis  dishonour  upon  O'CarroU ;  and  as  soon  as 
his  lordly  bands  had  assembled  around  him,  he  marched  forwards,  resolved  to 
ravage  the  territory  of  Hy-Cairin''  on  that  expedition.  Destiny  had  so  disposed 
[affairs]  for  O'Carroll,  that  he  was  on  the  summit  of  a  hill  in  Hy-Cairin,  listen- 
ing to  the  country  around  him  ;  and  it  was  from  the  foot  of  this  hill  on  Avhich 
O'Carroll  was  stationed  that  Mac-I-Brien  sent  forth  a  body  of  his  scouts  to 
plunder  the  districts.  When  his  youths  had  sallied  forth  from  him,  he  saw 
O'CarrolF  approaching  him  in  battle-array,  and  in  fighting  order  ;  and  not  one 
of  those  who  were  there  before  him  was  able  to  withstand  his  strength,  or 
escape  by  flight.  Every  man  of  Mac-I-Brien's  people  able  to  bear  arms  was 
slain  ;  his  constable,  Heremon,  the  son  of  Gilla-Duv,  son  of  Conor,  son  of 
Donough  Mac  Sweeny,  was  slain.  Mac-I-Brien  himself  was  taken  prisoner  ; 
and  there  was  profit  in  giving  him  quarter,  for  he  was  not  set  at  liberty  without 
a  ransom. 

Teige-an-tsuasain^  the  son  of  O'Donnell,  son  of  Conor  O'Brien,  died  in  Fer- 
managh, in  Maguire's  country,  while  on  a  visit  with  liis  more  remote  friends^, 
for  he  had  been  banished  the  preceding  year  from  his  patrimony,  together  with 
his  father.  He  was  the  most  distinguished  of  his  age  for  agility,  strength,  mar-  • 
tial  feats,  and  horsemanship,  of  the  race  of  Cormac  Cas  ;  and  he  was  interred 
at  Achadh-beithe  [Aghavea]. 

Calvagh  O'Donnell  was  taken  piisoner  by  O'Neill  (John)  on  the  14th  of 
May.  This  capture  was  effected  thus  :  Caifar,  the  son  of  Mauus,  was  at  strife 
with  Calvagh  and  his  son.  Con.  Caifar  had  his  abode  at  this  time  in  the  Crannog 
of  Loch-Beathach" ;  and  Con,  the  son  of  Calvagh,  assembled  the  forces  of  the 
country,  and  laid  siege  to  the  Crannog.  Calvagh  was  at  this  time  at  Cill- 
O'dTomhrair'  with  a  few  soldiers,  besides  women  and  poets ;  [and]  some  of  the 

Bui  coiccpic  originally  meant  confine,  and  is  note  "^,  under  the  year  1258,  p.  364,  supra,  and 

generally  iised  in  that  sense  by  the  Four  Mas-  other  references  to  this  lake  at  the  years  1524 

ters,    who    evidently  transcribed    this    passage  and  1540. 

from  Munster  annals.  '  CiU-G'dTomhrair. — This  monastery  is  now 

''  Loch-Beathach,  now  anglice   Lough  Veagh,  called  in  Irish  cill  uu  ocoriipail,  anglice  KUlo- 

a  lake  situated  in  the  parish  of  Gartan,  barony  donnell.  It  is  situated  close  to  Fort  Stewart,  near 

of  Kilmacrenan,  and  county  of  Donegal. — See  the  upper  end  of  Lough  Swilly,    in  the  barony 


1.576  awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [isgo. 

Uo  mai|inpfc  Dporij  t)o  cenel  ccoriaiU  oua  noil  an  calbac  do  bfir  pón  lonnap 
pn  fjan  popcoirhcD  gan  lomcopnarh.  Ni  po  paillicceaó  lá  hiia  neill  an  ni  pin 
Tjo  piacc  gup  an  lion  plóij  po  ba  oaca  laip  gon  pabat)  jan  paruccaó  50  po 
laópacc  imon  re^ijóaip  1  mbaoi  an  calbac  ip  m  mainipnp  co  po  ep^abpac  é 
péin  -|  a  bfn  .1.  in^fn  niec  gilleain,  -|  puccpac  leo  larc  co  cip  eóccham.  Oo 
paoaó  cimióeacc  Docpam  mcoimpcil  lapatii  la  hua  neill  non  calbac  ")  po 
aonniij  pibe  beóp  la  hin^in  TTlec  jilleaam  co  puce  cloinn  noó,  -|  munbaó  an 
uain  ppic  ap  cenel  cconaill  i>on  cup  j'Ui  ni  ba  pooalnj  ho  ^aoióealaib  bpfir  a 
pplafa  uara  an  rucr  pin. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1560. 

Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cúicc  cét),  Seapcca. 

Inj^fn  meg  capraig  .i.  aib'lin  ingfn  ooriinaill,  mic  copbmaic  labpaij  bCn 
lapla  ofpinurhan  ap  a  haoiofn  .1.  Sémup  mac  Sfain,  mic  comaip,  ~\  bfn  lapla 
ruaónuiman  luppin  .1.  concobup  mac  oonr:chair)  mic  coticobaip,  bfn  uépcac 
Daonnaccac  connail  cpáiboeac  an  coiicaoip  pin  Décc  -]  a  Imbnacal  i  noraplijije 
o  pinnpeap  .1.  1  noipbelac. 

mag  margamna  .1.  Qpu  maol  mac  Remainn,  nnc  glaipne  00  mapbab  ap 
pluag  Í  neill  ofpbaib  a  lomcoiméDa  lá  halbanchaib  ecip  oá  pfbam  hi  púca 
meic  uibilm.  Ceio  pinn  gaca  caca,  "|  coiméoaib  a  cooa  oon  cóicceab  1  nacch- 
aib  pfp  mbpfg,-]  imbe  an  ci  ropcaip  arm  pin,"|  mac  a  bfpbpafap  Doiponeao 
ina  lonab  .1.  Qob  mac  bpiain  na  moiceipge  mic  Remainn  iriic  glaipne. 

Uabcc  -]  eoccan  Da  mac  ui  puaipc  .i.  bpian  (.1.  bpian  ballac)  mac  eoccain 
UÍ  puaipc  Dimreacc  oaoibeabaib  anaibce.  6occlian  ceoamup  a|^  amne  puaip 
aoibfo,  bfir  i  mbpaigufmip  ago  bparaip  og  rabcc,  "|  ape  baile  ina  paibe  hi 
lairh  hi  liarcpuim,  -j  rapla  t>6  go  bpuaip  paill  pa  ppopcoimécc  baoí  paip, "] 

of  Kilmacrenan,  and  county  of  Donegal. — See  "  East/. — The  word  pooainj  is  the  opposite 

this  place  already  referred  to  at  the  year  1538,  of  Doóain^,  diílicult. 

and  correct  an  error  inadvertently  fallen  into  in  °  Far  the  Gaels. — The  writer  would  have  ini- 

making  this  Killymard  in  note  ",  p.  1449.  proved  this  idea  by  substituting  "  Kinel-Owen" 

''  Mar  Gilleain. — This  is  the  Irish  and  Erse  for  "  Gaels."     This  is  the  Calvagh  who  had  im- 

form  of  the  family  name  Mac  Clean.  prisoned  his  own  father  ! 

^  Advantage,  uam — This  is  still  a  living  word  °  In  her  youth,  ap  u  huoiofo. — See  note   ", 

denoting  opportunity,  advantage,  &c.  under  the  year  1541,  p.  1462,  supra. 


1.560.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1577 

Kinel-Connell  informed  O'Neill  that  Calvagh  was  thus  situated,  without  guard 
or  protection.  O'Neill  neglected  not  this  opportunity,  but  proceeded  with  the 
number  of  forces  he  had  in  readiness,  without  notice  or  forewarning,  so  that 
they  surrounded  the  apartment  of  the  monastery  in  which  Calvagh  was  ;  and' 
thus  they  made  prisoners  of  himself  and  his  wife,  the  daughter  of  ]\l^c  Gilleain", 
and  carried  them  off  into  Tyrone.  O'Neill  detained  Calvagh  in  close  and  cruel 
confinement,  and,  moreover,  cohabited  with  his  wife,  the  daughter  of  Mac  Gil- 
leain,  so  that  she  bore  children  unto  him.  Were  it  not  for  the  advantage'  taken 
of  the  Kinel-Connell  on  the  occasion,  it  would  not  have  been  an  easy™  matter 
for  the  Gaels"  to  carry  off  their  chief  from  them  at  the  time. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1560. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  sixty. 

The  daughter  of  Mac  Carthy,  i.  e.  Eveleen,  daughter  of  Donnell,  son  of 
Cormac  Ladhrach,  the  wife  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond  in  her  youth ^,  namely,  of 
James,  the  son  of  John,  who  was  son  of  Thomas,  and  afterwards  the  wife  of  the 
Earl  of  Thomond,  namely,  of  Conor,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Conor,  a  cha- 
ritable, humane,  friendly,  and  pious  Counters,  died,  and  was  interred  in  the 
burial-place  of  her  ancestors,  namely,  at  Oirbhealach''. 

Mac  Mahon,  i.  e.  Art  Mael,  the  son  of  Redmond,  son  of  Glasny,  was  slain 
in  O'Neill's  army  by  the  Scots,  from  want  of  being  guarded,  between  two  bands, 
in  the  route  [the  territory]  of  Mac  Quillin.  He  who  was  there  slain  was  the 
foremost  spear  in  every  battle,  and  the  defender  of  his  portion  of  the  province 
against  the  men  of  Bregia  and  of  Meath.  His  brother,  Hugh,  son  of  Brian-na- 
Moicheirghe,  son  of  Redmond,  son  of  Glasny,  was  installed  in  his  place. 

Teige  and  Owen,  the  two  sons  of  O'Rourke  (Brian  Ballagh,  the  sou  of  Owen), 
came  by  imtimely  deaths.  Owen  first  met  his  death  thus  :  he  was  held  in 
captivity  by  his  kinsman,  Teige,  in  the  town  of  Leitrim  ;  and  it  came  to  pass 
that,  having  got  an  opportunity  of  the  guard,  he  slew  the  person  whom  Teige 

'  Oirhkealach,  now  Irrel|igh,  or  Muckniss  Killarney,  and  within  the  denaesne  of  Muckruss, 
Abbey,  situated  near  the  rocky  shore  of  a  small  iu  the  county  of  Kerry. — See  notes  ^  ', ',  under 
bay  at   the    eastern    end  of  the  lower  lake   of      the  year  1340,  p.  566,  supra. 

9  p 


1578  aNNQi-a  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [i56o. 

po  rhapb  an  pCp  baoi  050  lomcoiméo  ó  caócc,  do  cóió  ap  bapp  an  baile,  -]  po 
puaccaip  50  paibe  an  caiplén  ap  a  cumap,  "|  nap  cópa  Don  cip  raócc  do 
caobab  jna  eippiom.  Od  ciialaiD  jiomanac  baoi  amuij  do  rrminnp  raiDcc  in 
ni  pin  do  leacc  a  jpuaiD  a-\[\  a  ^gonna,  ~\  do  amaip  eoccan  50  hinDellDipec  co 
nDecliaiD  an  pelép  rpé  na  imlmn  giip  páccaib  gan  anmain.  UaDcc  Dna  do 
báraó  lu  ppojinap  na  bliaóna  po  05  Dol  Do  coolaD  ap  cpannóicc  ípil  lapccú- 
laij  hi  muinrip  eolaip.  Oo  baó  coll  nic  narpac,-|  Dob  apccain  en  nj^iibe,  "| 
Do  baó  paicciD  Ifpra  ap  leorhan  a  nionnpaicciD  DOmao  Dfinlfic  no  imepoaip. 

UaDcc  biiiDe  mac  cfin,  mic  oilella  111  fjpa  do  rhapbaó  lé  cacal  ócc  mac 
caiócc  mic  cacail  oicc  ui  concobaip,  1  nip  cin  ó  cfin  móip  hi  cconnacraib 
Diappma  copbmaic  gailfnj,  pfp  boD  pfpp  ap  pfpacc  eic  -|  ap  aoibfbcaipe 
map. 

Corhpuabaipr  cara  1  im^eallaó  lopjaile  enp  lapla  noeapmurhan  .1.  jfpóiD 
mac  Semaip,  mic  Sfiain,  *]  lapla  upmuman  .1.  comáp  mac  Semaip  mic  piapaip 
puaiD  mic  Semaip,  mic  emainn,-)  do  be  aóbap  a  nimpfpna  pfpainn  coip  Siúipe, 
"]  eójanacc  caipil  (Díichaij  pleacca  eojam  móip,  -|  cloinne  copbmaic  caip) 
5a  poinn  pé  poile  05  na  hinplaóaib  anDurcapaca  pm,  1  ó  nop  péoaD  píoD- 
uccaD  Do  na  paopclanoaib  Do  aonuaijfcrap  Dol  1  naimpip  aipiDe  1  naipfp  cora 
pé  poile  "I  api  culac  cfgrhala  do  cojaccap  an  bórap  mop  a  ccom jap  cnóm- 
coille,  "1  cioppac  apann.  Do  cpuinm  jfccap  d  ccorhpoiccpi  gall,  "]  gaoiDeal 
Ifc  op  Ifc  Ó  bealac  conjlaip  mic  DuinnDepa  an  péinDfóa  1  niapcap  do  cuicceaó 
mínaille  mniiian  gup  an  mbfpba  mbánpccochaij,  -|  ó  loc  japman  jlaip  mic 
boma  lice  co  cuan  luimnij^  Ifiian  cubpaii^  hi   ccoiccpic   na   ppiDgfinre,  -\  na 

■i  The  castle. — The  word    buile   is   certainly  "  His  den,  literally,   "  his  bed  or  lair." 

here  used  to  denote  castle.  *  Botkar-mor,  i.  e.  the  great  road.     This  was 

■■  Navel,    imlinn — Tliis    word    is   translated  the  old  road  leading  from  Tipperary  to  Cashel. 
vmbilicum  in  Cormac's  Glossary.  '  CnamhchoiU,  now  incorrectly  cneam-cotll, 

^  Bereft  him  of  life,  literally,  "  left  him  wth-  awjlice  Cleghile,  a  townland  in   the   parish  of 

out  a  soul."  Kilshane,  barony  of  Clanwilliam,  and  county  of 

'  Crannog,   a  wooden  house.     The  houses  so  Tipperary,  abotrt  a  mile  and  a  half  to  the  east 

called  were  frequently  placed  on  artificial  islands  of  the  town  of  Tipperary.     Haliday,  in  his  edi- 

in  fresh  water  loughs.  tion  of  the  first  part  of  Keatma's  Historic  oflre- 

"  Ch-iffin,  a  fabled  animal,  said  to  be  generated  land,  p.  139,  anglicises  this  Knawhill ;  but  the 

between  the  lion  and  the  eagle.     The  word  is  Cnam-coiU,  near  Tipperary,  was  never  called 

probably  \ised  here  by  the  Four  Masters  to  de-  Knawhill  in  Englisli.   The  only  place  in  Ireland 

note  any  bird  of  prey.  so  called  in  Anglo-Irish  documents  is  Knawhill, 


1560.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1579 

had  appointed  as  his  keeper,  and  ascending  to  the  top  of  the  castle*",  cried  out 
that  the  castle  was  in  his  power,  [and]  that  the  country  had  no  more  right  to 
side  with  Teige  than  with  himself.  When  a  soldier,  one  of  the  people  of  Teige, 
who  was  outside,  heard  this,  he  laid  his  cheek  on  his  gun,  and  took  direct  aim 
at  Owen,  so  that  the  ball  entered  at  his  navel',  and  bereft  him  of  life".  Teige 
[the  other  son]  was  drowned  in  the  autumn  of  this  year,  as  he  was  going  [across 
a  lake]  to  sleep  in  a  low,  retired  crannog',  in  Muintir-Eolais.  To  attack  them, 
if  fighting  on  the  same  side,  would  have  been  as  dangerous  as  to  rob  the  nest 
of  a  serpent,  to  plunder  the  young  of  the  griffin",  or  to  attack  a  lion  in  his  den". 

Teige  Boy,  the  son  of  Kian,  son  of  Oilioll  O'Hara,  was  slain  by  Cathal  Oge, 
the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Cathal  Oge  O'Conor.  For  a  long  time  before  there 
had  not  appeared  in  Connaught,  of  the  race  of  Cormac  Gaileang,  a  man  more 
distinguished  for  horsemanship,  or  hospitality  to  strangers,  than  he. 

A  declaration  of  battle,  and  promise  of  conflict,  between  the  Earl  of  Des- 
mond (Garrett,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  John)  and  the  Earl  of  Ormond  (Thomas, 
the  son  of  James,  son  of  Pierce  Roe,  son  of  James,  son  of  Edmond).  The  cause 
of  these  hostilities  was  a  dispute  concerning  the  lands  about  the  Suire  and 
Eoghanacht  Chaisil,  the  lawful  patrimonial  inheritances  of  the  descendants  of 
Owen  More  and  Cormac  Cas,  which  those  Earls  of  foreign  extraction  were 
parcelling  out  among  themselves  ;  and  as  the  nobles  were  not  able  to  terminate 
their  dispute,  they  [themselves]  agreed  to  appoint  a  certain  time  for  deciding 
the  affair  by  a  battle  ;  and  the  place  of  battle  which  they  selected  was  Bothar- 
mor'',  adjacent  to  CnamhchoilF  and  Tipperary.  Thither  crowded  their  respec- 
tive EngUsh  and  Irish  neighbours  from  the  road  of  Conglas^  the  son  of  the 
hero,  Donn-Desa,  in  the  west  of  the  two  smooth-surfaced  and  beautiful  provinces 
of  Munster,  to  the  white-flowery-banked  River  Barrow  ;  and  from  the  lake  of 
Garman  Glas^  the  son  of  Boma-lice,  to  the  wide  foamy  harbour  of  Luimneach", 

a  townland  in  the  parish  of  Knocktemple,  ba-  c.  8.    The  Four  Masters  are  evidently  wrong  in 

rony  of  Duhallow,   and  county  of  Cork. — See  placing  this  in  the  west  of  Munster. 

Book  ó/Lismore,  fol.  230,  where  Coppóca,  now  *  T/ie  lake  of  Garman  Glas,  now  Loch  Garman, 

Corroge,  close  to  the  town  of  Tipperary,  on  the  which  is  the  Irish  name  of  the  present  town  of 

east  side,  is  mentioned  as  a  part  of  CnáriicoiU.  Wexford. 

^   The  road  of  Conglas. — Keating   says   that  ^  Luimneach. — This  is  now  the  Irish  name 

Bealach  Chonglais  was  aj  Copcuij,  "  at  Cork,"  of  the  city  of  Limerick,  but  it  appears  from  tlie 

and  is  followed  by  O'Flaherty,  Ogygia,  part  iii.  Life  of  St.  Carthach  of  Lismore,  and  various 

9  p2 


1,580  aNNQta  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [1560. 

Déip  bicce  pé  caoille  an  copnarha.  Qp  cceacc  Do  na  rponnpluaccaib  rul  i 
ccul,-|  aghaió  i  naccliam  Do  cuip  on  caon  noia  aingel  na  pioccana  Da  pai^ió 
lonnap  jup  píoóaijfó  ecip  na  pocaibibli  -\  gup  jabpacr  céiU  imon  ccaruccao 
Tjiip  pccappac  jan  Deabaio  Don  Dul  pin. 

Uoniap,  1  Semiip  DÚ  mac  muipip  DuiV>  mic  Sfain  mic  connaip  mic  an  lapla 
DO  Dol  ap  piubal  ]4iiaicch  hi  ccaipppeacliaib,  TTlac  mecc  capraicc  piabrticch 
Déipte  po  na  lifi^miB  .i.  Donnchab  mac  DomnaiU  mic  pinjm  mic  Domnaill,  -) 
capla  ina  pocaip  an  can  pin  coippbealbac  mac  maolmuipe,  mic  Donnchaib 
mic  coippbealbaij  meic  pinbne  Do  pliocc  Donnchaib  móip  a  cuaraib  copaije 
50  ccuiDeaccain  nglan  cojca  njallocclac,  -\  do  Ifnacrap  na  laocbuibne  co 
bpuac  na  bunnoan,  1  Do  bpip  Don  pfbain  eccaipceneoil  pé  hucc  na  habann 
y6  upcomaip  innpi  heojanáin  Don  caob  apaill  gac  nDipeac.  Do  mapbaD,  ~\ 
DO  bóibfb  Da  ceo  no  a  cpi  do  glanpluaj  jfpalcccc  -[  gép  biaD  caipppi^  pa 
copccpac  po  ba  mop  a  nDír  on  Deabaib  pin  oip  no  bfnab  a  cop,  -|  o  lam  do 
coippbealbac  liiac  puibne  co  nac  paibe  ace  cop  cpoinn  ajá  lompulanj  on 
uaip  pm  50  a  écc. 

lapla  cuabmurtian  Do  bol  i  niapcap  connacc  ap  mupcab  na  ccuag  mac 
caibcc  mic  mupchaib  mic  puaibpi   ui  plaicbfpcaig.     Oo  cuap  leip  po  epic 

other  ancient  Irisli  authorities,  that  it  was  ori-  rick.     The  following  passage,  in  a  very  ancient 

ginally  the  name  of  the  Lower  Shannon See  historical  tale,  preserved  in  the  Book  of  Leinster, 

Acta  SS.  of  the  Bollandists,   3rd  May,  p.  380,  fol.  105,  a,  b,  clearly  points  out  the  position  of" 

and  Life  o/St.  Senanus,  published  by  Colgau.  this  territory.     The  hero  Cuchullin  is  intro- 

■^  Hy-Fidhgeirde,  translated  Nepotes  Fidgenti,  duced   as   standing   on   the  top  of  the  hill  of 

in  the  Life  of  St.  Molua.     It  was  the  name  of  a  Knockany,  near  Bruff,  pointing  out  the  moun- 

tribe  and  territory  situated  in  the  present  county  tains  and.  other  features  of  the  country  to  his 

of  Limerick.     It  was  bounded  on  the  north  by  tutor,  Laigh  : 

the  Shannon,  on  the  south  by  Sliabh-Luachra,  "  Qpaip,  a  popa  ^.ai^,  hi  pecappu  cá  cpich 

on  the  east  by  the  River  Maigue,  and  theMorn-  inu  puilem?  Nao  pecap  pon  am.  6u  pecappa 

ing-Star  River,  and  on  the  west  by  Ciarraighe,  uiin,  ap  CuchuUainn:  Ceano  abpac  SlebiCain 

or  Kerry.     When  Brian  Borumha  was  King  of  peo  reap;    SleiBci   ©Blinni   peo  cuaió  ;  lino 

Munster,  Donovan,  the  ancestor  of  the  O'Uo-  ^,uimni^  m  li'io  polopmop  úr  ac  cbi;  Dpuim 

novan  family,  was  chief  of  all  this  territory,  but  collcuiUi  peo  i  puilem,  pip  i  napapQiniCliuch,   - 

his  descendants  were  driven  from  it  shortly  after  i   ccpic  na   t)epi   bici;  piuno  a  nOep  uca  un 

the  English  invasion. — See  note  ",  A.D.I  178.  r'-""5    '    Cliii    lllail    mic   Ujame,    i    pepuno 

^  Deis  Beag,  a  territory  lying  around  the  hill  Conpui  n.ic  Oapi." 

of  Knockany,  and  containing  Brugh-na-Deise,  "  Say,  my  Tutor  Laigh,  dost  thou  know  what 

now  the  town  of  BrulF,  in  the  county  of  Lime-  ttrritory  we  are  in  ?  I  know  not  indeed.  I  know. 


1560.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRP^LAND.  1581 

on  the  confines  of  Hy-Fidhgeinte"  and  Deis-Beag"  with  Caoill-an-Chosnamha'. 
When  [however]  these  great  hosts  had  come  front  to  front,  and  face  to  face,  the 
great  God  sent  the  angel  of  peace  to  them,  so  that  concord  was  established 
between  the  hosts,  for,  having  reilected'^  concerning  the  battle,  they  parted 
without  coming  to  any  engagement  on  that  occasion. 

Thomas  and  James,  the  two  sons  of  Maurice  Duv,  sou  of  Jolin,  son  of  Tho- 
mas, the  son  of  the  Earl,  marched  with  an  army  into  Carbery.  The  son  of 
Mac  Carthy  Reagh  (Donough,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Fineen,  son  of  Donnell) 
rose  up,  on  hearing  the  shouts,  to  oppose  them.  He  had  with  him  at  this  time 
Turlough,  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Turlough  Mac  Sweeny,  of 
the  descendants  of  Donough  More  from  Tuatha-Toraighe^,  with  a  company  of 
fine  select  gallowglasses  ;  and  they  pursued  the  warlike  bands  [of  the  Geral- 
dines]  to  the  banks  of  the  Banndan",  where,  on  the  margin  of  the  river,  directly 
opposite  Inis-Eoghanain',  they  defeated  this  band  of  adventurers.  Two  or  three 
hundred  of  the  fine  troops  of  the  Geraldines  were  slain  and  drowned";  and 
though  the  men  of  Carbery  were  victorious,  their  loss  was  great  from  that 
battle,  for  Turlough  Mac  Sweeny  lost  a  leg  and  an  arm,  so  that  he  was  sup- 
ported only  by  a  wooden  leg  from  that  time  until  his  d«ath. 

The  Earl  of  Thomond  marched  into  West  Connaught  against  Murrou£fh-na- 
dtuath',   the  son  of  Teige,   son  of  Murrough,    son  of  Rory  O'Flaherty.     He 


then,  said  Cuchullin  :    Ceanu-Abhrat   Sleiblie-  having  reflected  on  the  dreadful  consequences  of 

Cain,    this"    [mountain]    "to   the  south;    the  the  battle,  they  parted  without  a  single  blow." 

mountains  ol'  Ebhlinni,  these  to  the  north  ;   the  s  Tuathu-Toraifjlte,  i.  e.  the  district  opposite 

river  of  Luimneach  is  that  bright  river  which  Tory  Island,  off  the  north  coast  of  Donegal, 

thou  seest.;  Druim-Collchoilli  is  this  on  which  *' .Banndan,   i.e.  the   Klver   Bandon,    in  the 

we  are,  which  is  called  Aini-Cliach,  in  the  ter-  county  of  Cork. 

ritory  of  Deis  Beg  ,  to  the  south  of  us  is  the  '  Ims-Eo()liaiiain,  i.  e.  the  island  or  holm  of 

army  in  Cliu-Mail-raic-Ugaine,   in  the  land  of  Eoghanan,   a  man's  name  ;    now  Inishannon,  a 

Curoi,  son  of  Dari."  small  town  situated  at  the  head  of  the  estuary 

'  Caoill-an-Ckosnamha,  a  district  extending  of  the  Bandon  River,  four   miles  from  the  town 

from  the  mouth  of  the  River  Maigne  towards  of  Bandon. 

the  city  of  Limerick.     The  exact  boundary  be-  ''  Slain   and  drowned. — An    English    writer 

tween  it  and  the  territory  of  Deis  Beg  has  not  wovild  say,   "  were  cut  off  by  field  and  flood." 

been  yet  determined.  '  Murrough-na-dtuath,  i.  e.  Murrough,  or  Mor- 

^  For  having   reflected, — The    language  here  gan,  of  the  battle-axes.     For  some  account  of 

could    be    materially    improved    by    deviating  this  remarkable  man,  see  ChoroyraphicalDesrrip- 

slightly  from  the    original,  as   follows:   "for,  iionofWestConnaught,  Appendix,  p.  384-400. 


1582  aNNaf,a  Rio^hachca  eiReaHn.  [1560. 

Sheóac,  "|  pan  puarhaij,  1  pa  bun  an  bonnáin.  Oo  cuaDa|i  rnuincfp  baile  na 
gaillriie  Do  copnam  oca  cipe  hoiléin  aipi,  "|  Do  chuaib  raippib  do  roil,  -\  ap 
eiccin,  "I  rpé  oplc'ip  cloinne  piocaipn  a^  cocr,  i  ace  imreacc  ap  an  ccoyi 
ccéDna. 

TTlac^aiTiaiii  mac  coippóealbai^,  mic  caibcc,  mic  DonrichaiD,  mic  Dorhnaill 
mic  coippbealbaij  mfir  do  doI  1  nDfpmurhain  luce  luinj;e,  -\  apfpaij  a  liap- 
amn.  bpai^oe  do  jabail  Do  ipin  cip  tCf,  -|  arbfpar  apoile  nop  bo  maic  a 
ppajbáil  1  Slip  ab  ayi  caipipecr  canjarrap,  -j  ace  pillfb  do  cap  a  aip  lé  a 
éDalaibli  do  pap  jaipbe  pan  njaoir,  -\  puapnaD  pan  ppiopniamenc,"]  Do  dCdIod 
pé  poile  an  lonj,  -|  an  raprpac,")  ace  Dénam  Don  luing  co  na  luce  i  nupcopac 
oiDce  ap  ópainn  Do  piiaoaicceaD  a  penl  a  jlacaib  pfp  -)  pfinDfo  Diorinaib  ceD 
-)  cáclab  ina  corcannaib  corhmbloDra  hi  pppaijnb  na  piopniamenn,  -|  do 
buaileaó  an  loncc  do  éipi  pin  pa  cappaice  1  nibeol  cuain  an  pip  rhóip  1  niap- 
ca]i  connacc,  -\  po  boiofo  1  co  na  poipinn  cénmorá  margarhain,  -|  aoi'n  cpiap 
oile,  1  Do  báiDfó  cuilleaD  ap  ceD  pan  calaD  pin  Dib  im  cuaral  ua  maille 
pcnipupmann  coblai^^  paoa  bo  pTpp  ina  aimpip. 

Uabee  mac  mupcbaiD  ui  bpiain  do  ^abáil  ap  popoilfm  an  nipcip  hi  luim- 
neac  "]  a  cup  ap  pin  50  bar  cliar  Dc't  coirhéD,  ~[  aD  bfpeaD  cue  co  mbaoi  euiD 
Diapla  cuaomuman  ip  in  ngabáil  pin. 

O  jallcubaip,  eoccan  mac  emainn,  mic  eóm,  én  mac  Duine  oipecra  ap 
lu^a  DO  bole  in  ullroib  Dece. 

■"  The  country  of  the  Joyces  is  included  in  the  ^  Tir-Oikin This  place  is  so  called  in  Irish 

present  barony  of  Eoss,  in  the  north-west  of  the  at  the  present  day,   but  anglicised  Terryland. 

county  of  Gahvay. — See  Chorographical  Descrip-  It  is   a   townland  situated   near  the    town   of 

tion  of  West  Connaught,  p.  246.  Galway,  and  bounded  on  the  west  by  the  River 

"  Fuathack,  now  the  Fuagh  River,  otherwise  Gaillimh.     This  to-vviiland  contains  the  ruins  of 

OwenrifFe,  in  the  parish  of  Kilcummin,  barony  a  large  house  which  belonged  to  the  Earl  of 

of  Moycullen,    and    county   of  Galway See  Clanrickard. — See  Inquisition  taken  at  Galway 

Chorographical  Description  of  West  Connaught,  on   the   20th  of  March,   1608,  before  Geoffrey 

pp.  52,  53.  ,  .  Osbaldston,  Esq. 

°  Bon-an-Bhonnain. — This  is  the  name  of  that  "^  Turlough  Meith,  i.  e.  Turlough,  or  Terence, 

arm  of  Lough  Corrib  (in  the  county  of  Galway)  the  fat  or  corpulent.  He  was  the  ancestor  of  the 

which  receives  the  river  of  Belanabrack,   near  Clann-Teige  O'Brien  of  Aran,  for  a  curious  ac- 

the   Hen's   Castle,    in   Joyce's  country. — See  count  of  whom  the  reader  is  referred  to  the  ioir 

Chorographical  Description  of  West  Connazight,  o/Tanz'sfry  Ay  Z»»-.  O'iJr/ew,  published  in  Vallan- 

pp.  50,  51,  and  the  map  to  the  same  work.    See  cey's  Collectanea  de  Rebus  Ilibernicis,  pp.  557, 

also  note  ',  under  the  year  1235,  p.  278,  supra.  558,  559  ;  and  Hardiman's  History  of  Galway, 


156(J.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1583 

passed  into  the  country  of  the  Joyces",  by  Fuathach",  by  Bon-an-Bhonnain  . 
The  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Galway  came  to  defend  the  ford  of  Tir-Oilein'' 
against  him,  but  he  crossed  it  with  the  good-will  of  some,  and  in  despite  of 
others,  and  marched  through  the  plain  of  Clanrickard,  -both  when  going  and 
returning. 

Mahon,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  gf  Teige,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Donnell, 
son  of  Turlough  Meith''  [O'Brien],  went  into  Desmond  with  the  crew  of  a  shij) 
and  boat,  from  the  island  of  Aran.  He  took  prisoners  in  the  southern  country, 
l)ut  some  assert  that  the  taking  of  them  was  of  no  advantage,  and  that  they  only 
accompanied  him  through  friendship.  On  his  return  with  his  spoils,  the  wind 
became  rough",  and  the  sky  angry  ;  and  the  ship  and  boat  were  separated  from 
each  other  ;  and  when  the  ship  was  making  for  Aran  in  the  beginning  of  the 
night,  the  sail  was  swept  away  from  the-  hands  of  the  men  and  warriors,  and 
torn  to  rags  off  the  ropes  and  tackles,  [and  wafted]  into  the  regions  of  the  fir- 
mament ;  and  the  ship  afterwards  struck  upon  a  rock,  which  is  at  the  mouth  of 
Cuan-an-fhir-mhoir',  in  West  Connaught,  where  she  was  lost,  with  her  crew, 
except  Mahon  and  three  others.  Upwards  of  one  hundred  were  drowned  in 
that  harbour,  among  whom  was  Tuathal  O'Malley,  the  best  pilot  of  a  fleet  of 
long  ships  in  his  time. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Murrough  O'Brien,  was  taken  prisoner  at  Limerick,  by 
order  of  the  Lord  Justice,  and  sent  from  thence  to  Dublin,  to  be  imprisoned  ; 
and  all  said  that  the  Earl  of  Thomond  had  a  hand  in  this  capture. 

O'Gallagher  (Owen,  the  son  of  Edmond,  who  was  son  of  John),  by  no  means 
the  worst  son  of  a  chieftain  in  Ulster,  died. 

pp.  52,  207,  319.  the  moutR  of  the  river  which  falls  into  it  is 
'  Became  rough,  literally,  "  roughness  grew  called  Inbeap  mop.  It  should  be  also  observed 
in  the  wind,  anger  in  the  firmament.^'  that  Cuan  inbip  rhoip,  meaning  "the  harbour 
'  Ciian-an-fhir-mhoir,  now  "  the  Great  Man's  of  Invermore,"  and  Cuan  an  pip  móip,  mean- 
Harbour,"  barony  of  MoycuUen,  and  county  >ing  "  the  harbour  of  the  great  man,"  would  be  ' 
of  Galway,  opposite  the  Great  Island  of  Aran.  similarly  pronounced  in  the  west  of  Ireland, 
The  Four  Masters  have  written  this  name  in-  and  hence  the  mistake  about  this  name.  The 
correctly,  ibr  the  true  form  of  it  is  unquestion-  Editor's  attention  was  first  directed  to  this  niis- 
ably  Cuan  inBip  riióip,  i.  e.  the  harbour  of  In-  take  of  the  Four  Masters,  and  of  popular  tradi- 
vermore.  This  is  evident  from  tlie  fact,  that  it  tion,  by  the  Right  Rev.  Dr.  O'  Donnell,  R.  C.  Bi- 
is  pronounced  exactly  like  Cuan  uibip  móip,  the  shop  of  Galway,  who  is  well  acquainted  with  the 
Irish  name  for  Broad  Haven  in  Erris,  and  that  topographical  nomenclatureofthewestoflreland. 


1584  aNNQta  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [i56l. 

aois  cRiosr,  i56i. 

I 

Qoiy  Cpioy^c,  mile,  CÚ15  céD,  Sfycca,  ahaon. 

Qpc  mac  peilim  pino  ui  jallciibaip  eppcop  T?acha  boch  Decc  1  ccfnD 
ma^aip,  13.  Qujupr.     Sccél  moji  1  cn'ji  conaill  eipiDe. 

TTlaipe  injjfn  an  calbaijli,  mic  TTlajnupa,  mic  Qoóa  Duib  ui  Domnaill  bfn 
Í  neill  Shfain  opajail  báip  t)abuac,-|  ouji^pam,  do  cpuaije,"]  Dorpomnemele 
na  naoipcimióechca  Docbpaióe  no  paD  ua  néll  Don  calbach  Dia  haraip  ma 
piabnaipi. 

O  bfipn  roócc,  mac  caipppe,  mic  maoileachlamn,  pfp  fpgna,  lolDanac 
lUaiDin,  1  ingaoiDeilcc, -|  ip  an  Da  Dlijfob  .1.  ciuil  1  cánóm,  do  écc,  "|  a  mac 
ÓCC  DoipDneao  ina  lonan. 

Uairne,  mac  pipjanamm,  mic  maolpuanaiD  mic  Sfain  ui  cfpbaill  do  map- 
bab  1  mbaile  ui  cuipc  i  nupmurhain.  Nip  bo  piú  a  crópla  ina  nmceall  a  juin 
no  a  jabail,  ~\  do  bet  Díllecca  Duchaij  éle  Dia  éip  an  uaip  pin  óip  do  bfnpac 
ceill  Da  ccabaip  "|  Da  ccopnarh  ó  do  imcij  uairne. 

Neccain,  mac  an  Calbaij;,  mic  majnupa  ui  DorhnaiU  Do  mapbab  50 
DÍónaijre  Dupcop  Do  j^ae  Do  caic  pe  pfin, "]  an  gae  a5a  relcceab  cuicce  a 
ppiripi. 

CfpDiupcip  na  hGpeann.i.  comáp  pi?uacep  Do  Dol  1  ccip  eojain  a  nDiojail 
j^abala  an  calbaijh  ui  i>omnaill,  -  ap  a  polcanap  pfin  ppip  an  rip  "]  pop- 
lonccpopc  pluaig  lioiimap  Do  puiDiuccaD  Do  1  napDmcica,  "]  póca  poDoimne,  "| 
Dúnclaib  Díococchlai^i  Do  roccbail  Do  a  ccimcell  cfmpaiU  móip  QpDamacba 
po  DÓij  cp  ppuicpfó  bápDa  acca  buancoimhecr.  lap  na  piop  pin  Dua  neill 
(Sfan)  po  cuip  Dpong  Dia  painmuinnp,  "|  Dia  aopa  gpaóa  lap  on  ccalbac 
ua  nDorhnaill  Dia  lom  jabail  1  Dia  lomcoirhfcc  pop  an  luprip  ó  jac  imp  -] 
Ó  gac  oilen  50  apoile  1  nniarhpaibh,  "]   1  nopoibelaib  cipe  beo^ain  50  po  pc'icc- 

'   Ceann-Moff/iair,    now   Ceann   a   inhagbair,  cohabiting  with  Calvagh  O'Dounell's  wife,  who 

nntjlice  Kinnaweer,  in  the  north  of  the  parisli  was  the  stepmother  of  his  own  wife, 

and  barony  of  Kilmacrenan,  in  the  county  of  "'  Baile-Ui-Cfiuiir,  i.e.  O'Quirk's  town,  now 

Donegal. — See  this  place  already  referred  to  at  Ballyquirk,  a  townland  containing  the  ruins  of 

the  year  1392,  1461,  1522.  a  castle  in  good  preservation,   in  the  parish  of 

"  O^Neill. — The    crime  of  ONeill  was   ren-  Lorha,  barony  of  Lower  Ormond,  and  county  of 

dered  still  darker  and  more  loathsome  by  his  Tipperary — See  this  place  again  referred  to  at 


1561]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1.585 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1561.. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  sixty-one. 

Art,  the  son  of  Felim  Fin  O'Gallagher,  Bishop  of  Raphoe,  died  at  Ceann- 
Maghair'  (Kinaweer),  on  the  13th  of  August.  He  was  much  lamented  in  Tir- 
connell. 

Mary,  the  daughter  of  Calvagh,  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Hugh  Duv  O'Donnell, 
and  wife  of  O'Neill  (John),  died  of  horror,  loathing,  grief,  and  deep  anguish,  in 
consequence  of  the  severity  of  the  imprisonment  inHicted  on  her  father,  Calvagh, 
by  O'Neill",  in  her  presence. 

O'Beirne  (Teige,  the  son  of  Carbry,  son  of  Melaghlin),  a  learned  man,  well 
skilled  in  Latin  and  Irish,  and  in  the  two  laws,  namely,  civil  and  canon,  died  ; 
and  his  young  son  was  installed  in  his  place. 

Owny,  the  son  of  Ferganainm,  son  of  Mulrony,  son  of  John  O'Carroll,  was 
slain  at  Baile-Ui-Chuirc",  in  Ormond.  Those  who  surrounded  him  were  not 
worthy  to  have  wounded  or  taken  him.  The  territory  of  Ely  was  an  orphan 
after  him,  for  they  felt  the  loss  of  their  help  and  protection  after  the  death  of 
Owny. 

Naghtan,  son  of  Calvagh,  son  of  Manus  O'Donnell,  was  designedly  killed  by 
the  cast  of  a  javelin,  which  he  himself  had  first  thrown,  and  which  was  cast 
back  at  himself  again. 

The  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  Ireland,  Thomas  Fitz- Walter",  proceeded  into 
Tyrone,  to  avenge  the  capture  of  Calvagh  O'Donnell,  and  on  accoimt  of  his  own 
enmity  against  that  country.  He  pitched  his  camp  of  numerous  hosts  at  Armao-li ; 
and  he  erected  strong  raths  and  impregnable  ramparts  around  the  great  church 
of  Armagh,  in  order  that  he  might  leave  wardei's  constantly  guarding  that  place. 
When  O'Neill  (John)  received  intelligence  of  this,  he  sent  some  of  his  own 
faithful  friends,  and  his  servants  of  trust,  to  guard  and  keep  Calvagh  O'Don- 
nell out  of  the  way  of  the  Lord  Justice,  from  one  island''  and  islet  to  another, 
in  the  wilds  and  recesses  of  Tyrone,  until  the  Lord  Justice  should  leave,  the 

the  year  1599-  fresh  water  loughs,  on  which  O'Neill  had  crari- 

^  Fitx-  Walter. — This  is  incorrect,  for  he  was  nogs,  or  wooden  houses. — See  Account  of  the  Do- 

Earl  of  Sussex  at  this  time.  ^  minion  or  Territory  of  Forney,  by  Evelyn  Philip 

From  one  island. — These  were   islands  in  Shirley,  Esq.,  p.  90,  et  sequent. 

9q 


1586  awNaca  Rio^hachua  eiReawN.  [i56i. 

baiD  an  1u]^rif  an  cip.  Po  paoí6  cpa  an  lupci;^  on  ccampa  pin  QpDa  maca 
cuiDecca  Do  caprimb  50  mile  pfp  enp  rpoijceac  "]  mapcac  Do  benarh  cpeac 
-]  oipccne  1  noip^ialloibh,-]  puaip  ó  neill  bpar  -)  raipcélaó  ap  na  rpomplojaib 
pin  Dobol  I  noipjiallaib,"!  Do  rappaincc  co  raoi  copcabac  Dia  paigib,  "j  puaip 
larr  lap  ccpuinnuicchao  a  ccpeach.  Ro  picchfo  lomaipfcc  fccoppa  50  po 
mapbab  Dpecca  Diáipriie  Dib  Ifrh  ap  Ifc.  Ro  pnccbab  na  cpfcha  po  ofnib 
050  nDaoinib  pfin  Don  cup  pm. 

O  Nell  Do  bfir  ace  coitiloc,  1  ace  cpeachab  cpiclie  bpfgli  1  mibe  an  can 
po.  Tip  conaill  a]\  na  cfnnpuccliab  -|  ap  na  cimceallab  laip  lap  ngabail  an 
calbaij  poimhe  pin,  1  lap  tnbfir  Dua  Dorhnaill  In  ppoóaibe,  1  hi  ppipenipce, 
cona  baoi  aoinneach  ace  poUamhnucehab  plaiffpa  1  ecenel  cconaill  Don  cup 
po.  Ro  jab  ua  neill  (SCan)  nfpc  coieeib  Ulab  uile  o  Dpoicfc  ara  50  bepne, 
conap  bo  maccnab  coicefbach  op  ullroib  Do  jaipm  be  an  can  po  mutibaoh 
ppicbfpc  gall  ppip. 

Qn  Calbaeh  ua  Dorhnaill  do  léccab  a  jertiel  la  hua  neill  lap  na  puap- 
laccaDh  la  cenel  cconaill.  » 

Qn  lupcip  ccDna  do  cionol  cpoinploiccfb  bopibipi  Do  bol  1  ccip  eojain  1 
ppo jmap  na  bliabna  po  ap  cappaing  an  calbaij  ui  Domnaill.  Uanecaccap  ma 
roiclifpcal  na  cuicc  lapla  baccap  1  nepinn  in  lonbaiDb  pin  .1.  gfpóicc  mac 
jfpoicc,  mic  jfpoicc,  mic  Sémaip,  mic  Sfain,  mic  comáip  lapla  cille  oapae. 
Uomóp,  mac  Semaip,  mic  piapaip  puaib  lapla  upmuman,  ^epóicc,  mac 
Semaip,  mic  Sfain,  mic  comáip  lapla  Dfpmuman,  Concubap,  mac  Donnchaib, 
mic  concobaip,  mic  coijipbealbaij  ui  bpiain  lapla  cuabmuman,  1  RiocapD 
mac  uillicc  na  ecfnD,  mic  piocaipD,  mic  uillicc  cnuic  cuaj  lapla  cloinne 
piocaipD.  l?o  imcij  cpa  an  lupcip  ■]  na  hiaplabae  pin  co  na  pochpaicce  cip 
eojain  gan  ppfpabpa,  gan  ppicopccain  ppiú  50  panjacap  50  loch  pebail. 
dec  póab  cap  a  aip  Don  lupcip  ap  í  corhaiple  po  chinn,  pioh  Do  oenarh  le 
hua  neill  1  a  papDÚn  do  cabaipc  do,  -\  a  bapDa  do  bpfic  a  hQpD  macha. 
Qpeab  do  coib  an  lupcip  co  na  pocpaicce  lapam  1  ccip  conuill  julban  50  po 

"  O'Donneli,  i.e.   Manus,   the  father  .if  Cal-  king." — &eeKea,ÚBg^s History o/ Ireland, leign of 

vagh.  Tuathal  Teachtmhar,  and  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia, 

"  Provincial  Kiiy  of  Ulster,   coiccfóach  o\-  part  iii.  c.  56. 
uUcoib. — The  word  coiccfoach  is  always  used  •"  Loch  Feahhail,  i.  e.  the  lake  of  Feabhal,  the 

in  old  Irish  writings  to  denote  "  a  provincial  son  of  Lo3an,  one  of  the  Tuatha  De  Danann 


1.561.]  ANNALS  OF  tÍiE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1587 

country.  The  Lord  Justice  sent  out  from  the  camp  at  Armagh  a  company  of 
captains,  with  one  thousand  men,  both  horse  and  foot,  to  take  preys  and  spoils 
in  OrieL  And  O'Neill  received  information  and  notice  of  the  advance  of  these 
great  troops  into  Oriel ;  and  he  marched  silently  and  stealthily  to  meet  them, 
and  came  up  with  them,  after  they  had  collected  their  preys.  A  battle  was 
fought  between  them,  in  which  countless  numbers  were  slain  on  both  sides. 
Tlie  spoils  were  finally  left  to  their  own  rightful  owners. 

At  this  time  O'Neill  was  harassing  and  plundering  the  territories  of  Bregia 
and  Meath.  Tirconnell  was  also  subjugated  and  surrounded  by  him,  after 
having  already  made  a  prisoner  of  Calvagh,  and  O'Donnel?  being  sick  and 
infirm,  so  that  there  was  no  one  ruling  Kinel-Connell  at  this  time.  O'Neill 
(John)  then  assumed  the  sovereign  command  of  all  Ulster,  from  Drogheda  to 
the  Erne,  so  that  at  this  time  he  might  have  been  called  with  propriety  the 
provincial  King  of  Ulster" ,  were  it  not  for  the  opposition  of  the  English  to  him. 

Calvach  O'Donnell  was  released  from  his  captivity  by  O'Neill,  after  he  had 
been  ransomed  by  the  Kinel-Connell. 

The  same  Lord  Justice,  at  the  instance  of  Calvagh  O'Donnell,  assembled  a 
numerous  army,  to  march  a  second  time  into  Tyrone,  in  the  Autumn  of  this 
year.  The  five  earls  who  were  then  in  Ireland  joined  his  army,  namely,  Gar- 
rett, the  son  of  Garrett,  son  of  Garrett,  son  of  James,  son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Kildare ;  Thomas,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  Pierce  Roe,  'Earl  of  Ormond ; 
Garrett,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Desmond  ; 
Conor,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough  O'Brien,  Earl  of 
Thomond ;  and  Rickard,  the  son  of  Ulick-na-gceann,  son  of  Rickard,  son  of  Ulick 
of  Cnoc-Tuagh,  Earl  of  Clanrickard.  The  Lord  Justice  and  the  Earls  pro- 
ceeded with  their  forces  through  Tyrone,  until  they  arrived  at  Loch  Feabhail', 
without  opposition  or  battle.  When  the  Lord  Justice  was  returning,  the  reso- 
lution he  adopted  was,  to  make  peace  with  O'Neill,  and  to  grant  him  pardon, 
and  take  away  his  own  warders  from  Armagh.  He  afterwards  proceeded  with 
his  forces  into  Tir-Chonaill-Gulban",  and  left  the  command  of  the  fortresses 

colony,  now  Lough  Foyle,  situated  between  the  ''  Tir-Chonaill-Gulban,    i.  e.  the  country  of 

counties    of  Londonderry    and    Donegal. — See  Conall  Gulban,  the  son  of  the  Monarch  Niall  of 

the  Poem  on  Aileach,  printed  in  the  Ordnance  the  Nine  Hostages,   and  ancestor  of  the  O'Don- 

Memoir  of  Templemore.  nells,  O'Dohertys,  and  other  distinguished  fami- 

9  q2 


1588 


awNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNW. 


[L561. 


páccaib  cfnoup  longpojic,  -]  caiplén  cipe  conuill  ace  an  ccalbac  ua  nDorhnaiU. 
Luió  laparh  cap  éipne  i  ccpicli  coipppe  do  popbaipe  pop  caiplen  Sliccij. 
Raraiglup  an  Calbach  inDpin  coniDh  é  aipfcc  ap  painicc  a  rhfipcce  bubfin  Do 
cop  50  binclere  5up  in  mbaile,  ■]  a  noccaó  pop  caibhlib  an  ciiip  combo 
po  ófpc  Do  cac  I  ccoiconne.  l?o  accorhaipc  an  lupcip  cia  an  mbpacac  ac 
connaipc.  Ppipcapc  an  Calbac,  -)  acbepc  gup  bo  hi  a  bpacach  bubfin,  1 
gup  bo  laip  pfin,  -]  la  a  bunaó  cenél  ó  cfin  maip  an  baile  ipin,  conaó  laparh  Do 
paD  an  lupcip  eocpaóae  an  baile  Don  calbac. 

O  Nell  DO  Ó0I 1  Sacpoibh  1  ccimcell  na  parnna  DionnpaijiD  na  bainpiojhna, 


lies  of  Tirconuell.     Tins  name  is  usually  angli- 
cised Tirconnell. 

"^  To  the  Queen. — The  appearance  of  O'Neill 
in  London  is  thus  described  by  Camden  in  his 
Annals  of  the  reign  of  Elizabeth  : 

"  A.  D  1562.  Ex  Hibernia  jam  venerat 
Shanus  O'Neal,  ut  quod  ante  annum  promiserat, 
prjBstaret,  cum  securigero  Galloglassorum  satel- 
litio,  capitibus  nudis,  crispatis  cincinnis  dopen- 
dentibus,  camisiis  flavis  croco,  vel  humana  urina 
infectis,  manicis  largioribus,  tuniculis  breviori- 
V)us,  et  lacernis  villosis  :  quos  Angli  non  minori 
tunc  admiratione,  quam  hodie  Chinenses  et 
Americanos,  prosequebantur." — Edition  of  1639, 
p.  69. 

Campion  has  the  following  account  of  his 
submission,  and  conduct  on  his  return  home,  in 
his  Histoire  of  Ireland,  written  in  1570;  Dublin 
edition  of  1809,  p.  189  : 

' "  After,  this  usurpation  and  tyranny,  hee  was 
yet  perswaded  by  Melchior  Husse,  sent  unto 
him  from  Gerald,  Earle  of  Kildare,  to  reconcile 
himselfe  to  good  order,  and  to  remember  the 
honourable  estate  wherein  King  Henry  placed 
his  father,  which  monition  he  accepted,  besought 
his  protection,  and  made  a  voyage  into  England, 
where  the  Courtiers  noting  his  haughtiness  and 
barbarity,  devised  his  stile  thus ;  O'Neale  the 
great,  Cousin  to  S.  Patricke,  friend  to  the 
Queene  of  England,  enemy  to  all  the  world  be- 


sides. Thence  he.  sped  home  againe,  gratiously 
dealt  with,  used  Civility,  expelled  the  Scots  out 
of  all  Vlster,  where  they  intended  a  conquest, 
wounded  and  tooke  prisoner  Captaine  lames  Mac 
Conill,  theire  Chieftaine,  whereof  the  said  lames 
deceased :  ordered  the  North  so  properly,  that 
if  any  subject  could  approve  the  losse  oí'  money 
or  goods  within  his  precinct,  he  would  assuredly 
either  force  the  robber  to  restitution,  or  of  his 
owne  cost  redeeme  the  harme  to  the  loosers  cou- 
tentation.  Sitting  at  meate,  before  he  put  one 
morsell  into  his  mouth,  Jie  used  to  slice  a  por- 
tion above  the  dayly  almes,  and  send  it  namely 
to  some  begger  at  his  gate,  saying,  it  was  meete 
to  serve  Christ  first." 

.  Ware,  and  from  him  Cox,  says  tliat  he  made 
his  submission  in  the  presence  of  the  Ambassa- 
dors of  Sweden  and  Savoy;  that  upon  his  pro- 
mise of  amendment  the  Queen  gave  him  some 
presents,  and  Cox  adds  that  she  lent  him  two 
thousand  five  hundred  pounds. — See  Ilihernia 
Anglicana,  p.  316.  On  the  18th  of  November, 
1563,  he  bound  himself  by  articles  to  serve  the 
Queen  in  the  most  loyal  manner,  as  appears 
from  Patent  Roll  of  that  date,  of  which  the  fol- 
lowing abstract  will  give  the  reader  an  idea  of 
the  nature  of  his  submission.  The  original  is 
in  Latin  : 

"  Whereas  at  the  humble  suit  of  John  O'Nele, 
son   of  Conacius,    late   Earle  of  Tirone,    made 


1.561.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1.58y 


and  castles  of  that  country  with  Calvagh  O'Donnell.  He  then  proceeded  across 
the  Erne,  into  the  territory  of  Carbury,  to  lay  siege  to  the  castle  of  Sligo. 
Calvagh,  noticing  this,  bethought  him  of  a  stratagem  [namely],  he  sent  his  own 
standard  to  the  town,  and  displayed  it  on  the  battlements  of  the  tower,  so  that 
it  was  visible  to  all.  The  Lord  Justice  asked  whose  standard  it  was  that  he 
saw.  Calvagh  made  answer,  and  said,  that  it  was  his  own  standard  ;  and  that 
the  town  was  his  own,  and  had  belonged  to  his  ancestors  from  a  remote  period ; 
upon  which  the  Lord  Justice  delivered  up  the  keys  of  the  town  to  Calvagh. 
O'Neill  went  to  England  about  AUhallowtide,  to  the  Queen'';  and  he  re- 


known  to  the  Queen  by  Sir  Thomas  Cusake, 
Knight,  Privy  Councillor,  she  was  given  to  un- 
derstand that  he  had  submitted  himself  in  all 
things  to  her  Majesty,  as  a  good, and  faithful 
subject,  and  sincerely  repented  of  all  his  past 
actions,  committed  or  meditated  by  him  and  his 
adherents  in  disturbance  of  the  peace,  in  the 
county  of  Ulster,  by  which,  as  he  said  (and  so 
the  truth  was  "by  the  relation  of  others),  he  was 
reduced  with  the  feare  of  his  life,  by  a  conspi- 
racy of  some  wicked  persons  against  him  ;  and 
now,  that  he  might  obtain  Her  Majesty's  grace 
and  favor,  faithfully  promised  for  himself,  and 
all  her  subjects  under  his  jurisdiction,  who  ac- 
cording to  their  ancient  custom  derived  from 
their  ancestors,  had  any  way  been  subservient 
to  him,  that  he  and  they  for  the  future  would 
behave  themselves  as  the  Queen's  good  and 
faithful  subjects  against  all  persons  whatever. 
Which  humble  submission  the  Queen  graciously 
considering,  was  pleased  to  accept  him  into  her 
grace  and  favor,  and  that  her  said  favor  might 
be  the  more  conspicuous  for  his  comfort,  and  in 
order  to  retain  him  the  better  in  his  office,  Her 
Majesty  hereby  confirms  certain  articles"  [which 
follow  upon  the  Roll]  "  concluded  between  the 
said  Sir  Thomas  Cusake  and  him  executed  under 
his  hand  and  seal,  and  subscribed  by  almost  all 
the  noble  and  principal  persons  of  his  jurisdic- 
tion" [ditionis],  "  and  which  articles  the  Queen 


had  caused  to  be  annexed  to  these  Letters  Pa- 
tents under  the  great  Seal,  and  to  be  indented 
between  her  and  him,  the  contents  of  which  she 
hereby  approved  and  ratified.  Dated  at  Wynd- 
sor,  15th  January,  1563.  By  which  articles,  in 
consideration  of  his  becoming  a  faithful  subject, 
he  was  constituted  captain  or  governor  of  the 
territory  or  province  of  Tirone  in  Ulstei',  under 
her  Majesty,  in  the  same  manner  as  other  cap- 
tains of  the  said  nation,  called  O'Neles,  had 
rightfully  &  lawfully  executed  that  office  in  the 
time  of  King  Hen.  8  ;  and  moreover  should 
enjoy  and  have  the  name  and  title  of  O'Nele, 
with  the  like  authority,  jurisdiction,  and  pre- 
eminence, as  any  other  of  his  ancestors,  called 
O'Neles,  had  lawfully  enjoyed  the  same ;  witli 
the  service  and  homage  of  all  the  lords  aud  cap- 
tains, called  Urraughts,  and  other  nobles  of  the 
said  nation  of  O'Nele,  in  the  Lordship  and  Ter- 
ritory of  Tirone,  as  his  ancestors  had  rightfully 
&  lawfully  enj6yed,  or  ought  to  have  had  the 
same,  upon  condition  that  he  and  liis  said  nobles 
should  truly  and  faithfully,  from  time  to  time, 
serve  her  Majesty,  and  where  necessary,  wage 
war  against  all  her  enemies,  in  such  maimer  as 
the  Chief  Governor  or  Lord  Lieutenant  for  the 
time  being  should  direct.  Which  name  or  title 
of  O'Nele,  the  said  John  should  enjoy  and  use 
only  so  long  as  the  Letters  Patent  of  King 
Hen.  8,  for  the  county  of  Tirone,  granted  to  his 


1590  awNata  Rioshachca  eiReawN.  [i562. 

-]  puaip  onoip,  ■]  aipmircin  mop  uaire,  ~\  canmcc  cap  a  my  i  mbelcene  r\a 
bliaóna  ap  ccionn. 

Gocchan  mac  aoóa  buióe  mic  ao6a  Duib  i  DomnaiU  pfp  paopclannoa 
pniceneoil  eapccna  ilcfpoac  oécc. 

Uaócc  mac  coippóealbaij,  mic  neill,  mic  coppbealbaij  ui  baoijill  do 
rhapbaó  i  ccfpmorin  mécc  cpaic  la  mac  olaprpainn  jalloa. 

aOlS  CRIOSC,  1562. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  Sfpccac,  aoó. 

O  Riiaipc  bpian  ballac  mac  eocchain  pinnpeap  pil  ppfpccna  ~\  caraaoba 
pinn,  pfp  oap  luce  loincaip  -]  oilfrhna  cfnoaij  "]  corhab  a  mbaoi  on  ccalob  hi 
ccpic  ua  mome  co  opobaoip  ccopcapraij  cconnmaijpij  coiccpioc  cóiccib 
ollblaDhach  ulab,  -]  ó  jpanapo  rfcba  50  cpaij  eocuile  an  rpaoip  i  ccip 
ua  ppiacpac  niuaióe,  05  pin  an  ci  pa  coccaibe  Duanaipe  -|  Duapa  abmolca 
baoi  Dia  bunab  ppeirh  do  écc  do  bicin  bappcuiple  do  pala  do,  -|  a  mac  aob 
^allDa  do  oipDneab  ina  lonoD. 

lapla  cuaomuman  Do  bol  ap  cuaipc  cfnDaip  pfona  1  nDucbaij  ui  conco- 
baip,-i''Vin5lfnD  copbpaije.     TTlac  ui  loclainn  Do  mapbab  uabo  Daon  upcop 

father,  Conacius  O'.Neyle,  with  the  appointment  evidently  appear  in  the  said  Parliament  to  have 
of  the  honor  and  title  of  the  said  county  to  the  belonged  to 'him  or  his  predecessors,  O'Neles, 
barony  of  Dungannon,  by  the  name  of  the  son  should  be  assigned  to  him  by  authority  of  the 
of  his  said  father,  after  the  death  of  the  said  said  Parliament  or  her  Majesty's  Letters  Patents, 
Conacius,  should  be  viewed  and  considered  by  with  all  other  things  which  the  said  Parliament 
authority  of  the  next  Parliament  to  be  sum-  should  adjudge  to  have  belonged  to  his  said 
moned  in  Ireland,  of  what  value  and  effect  in  father,  as  O'Nele,  or  Earl  of  Tirone.  In  consi- 
law  they  were  from  the  beginning,  or  now  deration  of  which  great  favor  and  royal  cle- 
ought  to  be  ;  and  if  the  same  shall  be  adjudged  mency,  he  promised  as  a  faithful  and  true  sub- 
void  by  Parliament,  or  be  revoked  by  the  said  ject,  upon  his  corporal  oath,  to  observe  all  and 
Parliament  for  just  cause  and  annihilated,  then  singular  such  things,  which  by  right  or  custom 
he  should  forbear  to  use  the  said  title  of  O'Nele,  ought  to  have  been  observed  and  fulfilled  by 
.and  should  be  created  and  named  Earl  of  Tirone,  his  ancestors  or  captains,  called  O'Nele,  and  to 
as  his  father  was  created  and  named  before  him,  his  power  preserve  peace  and  justice,  and  to  make 
and  should  have  the  said  county  with  the  title  such  full  satisfaction  and  restitution  for  all  in- 
and  honor  of  Tirone,  to  him  and  the  heirs  males  juries,  losses,  and  offences,  which  should  be 
of  his  body  lawfully  begotten.  And,  moreover,  hereafter  committed  by  him  or  his  said  Ur- 
all  his  followers,  called  Urraughts,  who  should  raughts,  or  any  others  adherents  to  him  or  them, 


1562.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1591 


ceived  great  honour  and  respect  from  her.  He  returned  to  Ireland  in  the  May 
following. 

Owen,  the  son  of  Hugh  Boy,  son  of  Hugh  Duv  O'Donnell,  a  man  of  high 
and  noble  descent,  learned  and  skilled  in  various  arts,  died. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Tiu-lough,  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Turlough  O'Boyle,  was 
slain  at  Termon-Magrath,  by  Mac  Allister  Gallda. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1.562.^ 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  sixty-two. 

O'Rourke  (Brian  Ballagh,  son  of  Owen"),  the  senior  of  Sil-Feargna,  and  of 
the  race  of  Aedh  Finn*',  a  man  whose  supporters,  fosterers,  adherents,  and  tri- 
butaries, extended  from  Caladh"",  in  the  territory  of  Hy-Mauy,  to  the  fertile^, 
salmon-full  Drowes,  the  boundaiy  of  the  far-famed  province  of  Ulster  ;  and 
from  Granard  in  Teffia  to  the  strand  of  Eothuile\  the  Artificer,  in  Tireragh  of 
-the  Moy, — who  had  the  best  collection  of  poems,  and  who,  of  all  his  tribe,  had 
bestowed  the  greatest  number  of  presents  for  poetical  eulogies,  died  in  conse- 
quence of  a  fall ;  and  his  son,  Hugh  Gallda,  was  installed  in  his  place. 

The  Earl  of  Thomond  went  upon  a  chieftain's  expedition  into  the  territory 
of  O'Conor',  and  iiito  Gleann-Corbraighe',  on  which  occasion  there  was  slain 


upou  ai)y  of  her  Majesty's  subjects,  as  should 
be  adjudged,  upon  a  true  examination  thereof 
before  four  good  men,  two  to  be  chosen  by  the 
Chief  Governor  for  the  time  being,  and  two  by 
him  the  said  John  O'Nele,  and  this  without  any 
delay  or  fraud  of  any  party.  Dated  at  Benborbe, 
18  Nov.  1563.  Moreover,  the  Queen  should  re- 
voke all  former  confessions  contrary  to  this, 
made  by  the  said  John  O'Nele  with  her  Majesty, 
and  should  only  hold  this  confirmed  and  ratified 
(6°.  D.  R.  I.)" 

''  Owen. — Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare,  adds 
in  Irish  that  this  Owen  was  the  son  of  Tiernan, 
who  was  son  of  Teige,  the  son  of  Tiernan  More 
O'Rourke,  which  is  correct. 

'  The  race  of  Aedh  Finn These  were  the 


O'Rourkes,  O'Reillys,  and  their  correlatives  in 
the  counties  of  Leitrim  and  Cavan. 

^  Caladk,  a  marshy  meadow,  now  Callow,  in 
the  parish  and  barony  of  Kilconnell,    in    tlie 

county  of  Galway See  note  ',  under  tlie  year 

1475,  p.  1097,  supra. 

«  Fertile,  copcapcaij See  Battle  of  Magh 

Hath,  p.  104,  line  14,  where  the  compound 
pon-cupcaiprech  is  used  to  express  "  abound- 
ing in  seals." 

"  The  strand  ofEothuile,  now  Trawohelly.  near 
Ballysadare,  in  the  county  of  Sligo. 

'  The  territory  of  O'Conor,  i.  e.  of  O'Conor 
Kerry,  now  the  barony  of  Iraghticonor,  in  the 
north  of  the  county  of  Kerry. 

J  Gleann-Corbraighe,   now  Glin,  on  the  south 


1592  aNMQf.a  Rioghachca  emeaNH.  [i562. 

a  cloic  ^Ifnoa  oon  cu|i  pin  .!.  TTlaoileclainn  mac  uaifne,  mic  maoileaclainn, 
niic  Ruópaije,  niic  ana,  imc  oonncliaió  an  cúil,  mic  ana  bacaij. 

Ctn  riapla  ceona  Dobol  copppluajj  cfnoaip  pfona  pa  caénpaije  ipin  aimpip 
ceona  -)  ouB^all  mac  an  :^iolla  óiiiB  mic  cOncobaip  mic  Shuibne  t)o  mapba6 
uaba  tion  Dul  pin. 

TTlac  giolla  piabai^  t)écc  .1.  Riocapn  mac  oumn,  nuc  concoboip,  mic 
romaip,  mic  DomnaiU,  -|  aobfipn  gup  bo  he  pin  aoin  pfp  gpaba  bo  pfpp  05 
japla  cuabmuman  ina  aimpip.  Concobap  mac  concobaip  mic  Riocaipo  00 
jabail  a  lonaió. 

Domnall  mac  concobaip,  mic  roippbealbai  j,  mic  caiócc  uí  bpiain  an  ri 
baoi  ina  lapla  cuaómuman  pia  concobap  mac  Oonnchaió,  1  t)ia  njoipoi'p 
j^aoibil  Ó  bpiain  00  rocc  01a  lonnapbaó  Dia  óeopai^eacc  -]  Dm  Dibipc  a  hiil- 
coibh  cap  a  aip  Dia  arapba  pCpin, -]  bá  in  aoin  rpeaccmain  rainiccpium  -| 
cabcc  mac  miipchaió  mic  roippóealbaig  lap  neluD  a  harcliar,  -\  lap  ccocc 
Dóib  1  naoinpfcc  Oia  cnp,  cuccpac  a  nai^ce  anaoi'npecr  ap  lapla  cuaomuman. 
Po  cuip  an  riapla  poj'lonjpopc  lomba  pe  a  n^iccbaij.  Do  be  ceo  puarap 
na  ccoitimbpaifpeac  po  ap  apoile,  lonopaicchtb  oibce  Do  paopao  Da  mac 
mupchaib  UÍ  bpiain  ap  poplonjpopc  baile  meg  piagóin,  do  mapbab  Daoine  leó, 
"]  po  cpuinmgpioc  cpeaca,  -\  cainic  an  rip  ma  ccopaigeacr.  IS  anD  Do  jlan 
la  ap  na  laocbuibmb  Ifr  ap  Ifr  05  caraip  meg  gopmain  1  mfbón  ua  ppfpmaic, 
-]  1  nuacrap  Dcdccaip.     báccap  an  clann  pin  ITIupchaib  ui  bpiain  (cabcc,  "| 

side  of  the  Sliannon,   in  the  barony  of  Lower  '  Caenraighe,  now  Kenry,   a   barony  on   the 

Connello,  and  county  of  Limerick,  near  the  bor-  south  side  of  the  Eiver  Shannon,  in  the  north  of 

ders  of  Kerry See  the  year  I6OO,  under  which  the  county  of  Limerick._See  Genealogies,  Tribes, 

it  is  stated  that  Gleann  Corbraighe  is  the  glen  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  309,  note  °. 

or  valley  from  which  the  Knight  of  Glen  took  "  Lost,  literally,  "  there  was  slain  from  him." 

his  name  :    "  ^^^eann   Copbpai^e   op  hainmni-  "  Mac-Gilla-Riabhaigh — This  would  be    an- 

^eaó  Kmipe  an  jleaima."  glicised   Mac   Gilreevy.     According   to    Philip 

''  Clock- Gleanna,  i.  e.  the  rock  of  the  Glen  or  O'SuUevan  Beare,  it  is  the  name  which  was 

Valley,  latinised  Vallirupes  by  Philip  O'Sulle-  called  in  English  Creagh.     Keating,  however, 

van,  throughout  his  History  of  the  Catholics.    It  writes  the  name  of  the  famous  Archbishop  of 

was  the  name  of  the  castle  of  Glen,  the  seat  of  Armagh,  of  the  Creagh  family,  Ripoeapo  Cpao- 

the  Knight  of  Glen. — See  it  again  referred  to  at  Bac,  from  which   it  would  appear  that  he  did 

the  year  1600,  where  it  is  described  as  on  the  not  consider  it  the  same  as  ITlac  jiUa  piabui^. 

brink  of  the  Shannon  :   "  6aile  pil   pop  bpucic  According  to  the  tradition  among  the  Creaghs 

nn  Sionna."  themselves  their  name  was  originally  O'Neill, 


1562]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1593 

on  his  side,  by  one  shot  from  Cloch-Gleanna",  the  son  of  O'Loughlin,  namely, 
Mekghlin,  the  son  of  Owny,  son  of  Melaghlin,  son  of  Rury,  son  of  Ana,  who  was 
son  of  Donough-an-chuil,  son  of  Ana  Bacagh.  The  same  Earl  proceeded  with 
a  host  upon  a  chieftain's  expedition  into  Caenraighe',  about  the  same  time,  and 
on  that  occasion  lost"  Dowell,  the  son  of  Gilla-Duv,  son  of  Conor  Mac  Sweeny. 

Mac  Gilla-Riabhaigh"  died,  namely,  Rickard,  the  son  of  Donn,  son  of  Conor, 
son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Donnell.  It  was  said  that  he  was  the  best  servant  of 
trust  that  the  Earl  of  Thomond  had  had  in  his  time.  Conor,  son  of  Conor, 
who  was  son  of  Rickard,  took  his  place. 

Donnell  (the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough,  sOn  of  Teige)  O'Brien,  who 
had  been  Earl  of  Thomond"  before  Conor,  the  son  of  Donough,  and  whom  the 
Irish  used  to  style  O'Brien,  returned  from  Ulster,  to  his  own  patrimony,  after 
his  expulsion,  exile,  and  banishment ;  and  in  the  same  week  Teige,  the  son  of 
Murrough,  son  of  Turlough,  made  his  escape  from  Dublin  ;  and,  upon  their 
arrival  together  in  their  [native]  territory,  they  united  in  opposition  to  the  Earl 
of  Thomond.  The  Earl  raised  many  encampments  against  them.  The  first  con- 
tesf  between  these  kinsmen  was  a  nocturnal  assault,  made  by  the  two  sons  of 
Murrough  O'Brien,  upon  the  encampment  at  Baile-Meg-Riagain'',  on  which 
occasion  they  slew  several  persons,  and  obtained  spoils ;  but  the  inhabitants  of 
that  country  went  in  pursuit  of  them.  The  day  dawned  upon  both  these  heroic 
bands  at  Cathair-Meg-Gormain'',  in  the  centre  of  the  territory  of  Hy-Fearmaic", 
in  the  upper  part  of  Dal-Cais'.    The  two  sons  of  Murrough  O'Brien,  Teige  and 

and  they  obtained  the  cognomen  CpaoBac,  i.  e.  O'Brien  made  upon  the  encampment  of  Baile 

Ramifer,  from  one  of  their  ancestors  who  car-  Meg  Eiagain,"  &c.                                 ^ 

TÍpd  a  green  branch  in  a  battle  fought  at  Lime-  ''  Baile-Meg-Riagain,    now  Ballymacregan,  a 

rick.  townland  in   the  parish   of  Dysart,   barony  of 

"  Who  had  been  Earl  of  Thomond. — This  is  an  Inchiquin,  and  county  of  Clare, 

error  of  the  Four  Masters,  for  this  Donnell,  who  'Cathair-Meg-Gormain,  i.e.  Mac   Gorman's 

was   the  brother  of  Donough,   second  Earl  of  Caher,   or  circular   ston*  fort.     This   name  is 

Thomond,  could  not  have  succeeded  as  Earl,  still  preserved  in  Cahermagorman,  a  cottage  in 

but  he  exerted  himself  to  set  aside  the  earldom,  the  townland  of  Soheen,  parish  of  Dysart  O'Dea, 

and  succeed  as  O'Brien,  or  king  of  Thomond,  barouy  of  Inchiquin,  and  county  of  Clare, 

according  to  the  Irish  law  of  tanistry.  '  Hg-Fearmaic This  was  the  tribe-name  of 

"  Tlie  first  contest,  literally,  "  the  first  attack  the  O'Deas,  and  their  correlatives,  in  the  barony 

of  these  kinsmen  upon  each  other  was  a  noctur-  of  Inchiquin. 

nal  attack  which   the   two -sons  of  Murrough  '  The  upper  jmrl  of  Dal-Cais. — Hy-Fearmaic 

9  R 


1594  aNNQi-a  RTo^hachca  eiReoNH.  [i563. 

Donnchao)  05  lofhcap  a  nanppo]ilainri  50  haónaipeac  50  crioc  an  pccarhail 
op  cfiiD  \\ata  blarmaic.  Ro  pillpfr  ap  an  rrópaib,  -|  po  mum  do  mmncip 
an  lapla.  Oo  innpbao  Dpécca  DÓ  nD%6aoinib, -|  do  noaopccappluacc.  Ro 
jabab  raócc  ócc  mac  caiócc,  nnc  an  ?;iolla  bmb,  mic  coippbealBaij  ui  bpiam. 
Oo  jabaD  ann  ona  bpian  Dub  mac  oonnchaiD  mic  concobaip  na  ppona 
UÍ  bpiain, "]  nip  imcij  jan  an  cpelcca  opaccbail  ace  cabcc  mac  mupcliaib 
UÍ  bpiain  ina  puapclaD. 

Oonnchab  mac  conconnacc,  mic  conconnacc,  mic  bpmin,  mic  pilip  mic 
rfemaip  mejiiibip  00  écc,  pfp  a  aoipi  ap  lucca  pob  olc  cfipc  00  jaoibealaib 
on  cuaipceipc,  pfp  na  po  paoilfb  00  écc  pe  habapc  co  po  écc  an  can  po. 

Qob  mac  neill  óicc  mic  puibne  a  ci'p  boj^aine  Do  ecc  Don  jalap  bpeac. 

TTlag  cpaic  cfpmainn  ha  beocc  do  ecc. 

TTlag  macligamhna,  Ctooh  mac  bpiain  na  moiclieipje  mic  Remainn  rmc 
glaipne  do  mapbab  la  pfpaib  pfpnmaii^e. 

•  aOlS  CRlOSr,  1563. 

[Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  CÚ1CC  ceo,  peapca  a  cpi.] 

O  Doriinaill  TTlajlmap  mac  Qoba  Duib,  mic  Qooa  puaib,  mic  neill  jaipb, 
mic  coippbealbaij  an  piona,  ciccfpna  cenél  cconaill,  innpi  lieocchain,  cenél 
moain,  pfpmanach,  1  loccaip  connacc,  pfp  na  po  Ificc  a  paipbpi'j  na  a  lomap- 
cpaib  lap  na  cijeapnabaib  baccop  ina  corhappain,-]  ina  compocpaibh  cohaim- 
pip  a  pochaibe,  "|  a  eneipce,  pfp  ajjapbb,  ainmin,  ainDiiiiD  arhnap  ppi  naimDib, 
-\  biobbabaiWi  50  rcabpab  j;*)  pomamaijlice  Dia  pfip,  pfp  min,  muinrfpba, 
cfnnaip,  caipDfrtiail,  Dfplaicrec,  Dfijeinifj  do  bámaib,  Do  bfopabaib,  oficcpib, 

was  anciently  the  most  northern  portion  of  the  hill.     It  is  the  name  of  a  hill  situated  imme- 

country  of  the  Dal-Cais,  for  the  present  baronies  diately  to  the  south  of  the  old  church  of  Rath, 

of  Burren  and  Corcomroe  belonged  to  a  different  in  the  barony  of  Inchiquin. — See  the  Cait/ireim 

race,  named  the  race  of  Rudhraigh  of  Ulster.  Thoirdhealbhaigh,  at  the  year  1318,  where  this 

"  Donough. — This  Donough  is  the  ancestor  of  hill  is  called  Sjurhall  na  Rara,  exactly  as  it  is 

the  family  of  Lemeneh,  now  represented  by  Sir  now  pronounced. 

Lucius  O'Brien  of  Drumoland,  in  the  county  of  "  Rath-Bluihmaic,  i.  e.   Blathmac's  fort,  now 

Clare.  the  old  church  of  Rath,  in  the  barony  of  In- 

'  Cnoc-an-scamkail,    now   pronounced   as  if  chiquin.    The  festival  of  St.  Blathmac  was  cele- 

writtenCnoc  an  fcúriiail,  and  anglicised  Scool-  brated  here  on  the  9th  of  July,  according  to 


1.563]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1595 

Donough",  shamefully  suffered  themselves  to  be  all  along  beaten,  until  they 
reached  Cnoc-an-scamhair,  over  Rath-Blathmaic",  where  they  turned  round  on 
their  pursuers,  and  the  Earl's  people  were  defeated,  numbers  of  their  chieftains 
and  plebeians  were  slain,  and  Teige  Oge,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Gilla-Duv, 
son  of  Turlough  O'Brien,  was  taken  prisoner,  as  was  also  Brian  Duv,  son  of 
Donough,  son  of  Conor  na-Srona  O'Brien ;  and  he  [Brian]  was  not  set  at  liberty 
until  Selga*  had  been  given  to  Teige,  the  son  of  Murrough  O'Brien,  for  his 
ransom.  ' 

Donough,  the  son  of  Cuconnaught,  son  of  Cuconnaught,  son  of  Brian,  son  of 
Philip,  son  of  Thomas  'Maguire,  died  ;  a  man  by  no  means  the  least  famous  of 
the  Irish  of  his  age,  and  who  was  not  expected  to  die  as  he  did  die,  in  his  bed. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Niall  Oge  Mac  Sweeny  from  Tir-Boghaine,  died  of  the 
galar-breac^  ' 

Magrath,  of  Termon-Daveog",  died. 

Mac  Mahon  (Hugh,  son  of  Brian-na-Moicheirghe,  son  of  Redmond,  son  of 
Glasny)  was  slain  by  the  men  of  Farney. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1563. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  sixty-three. 

O'Donnell  (Manus,  the  son  of  Hugh  Duv,  son  of  Hugh  Roe,  son  of  Niall 
Garv,  son  of  Turlough  of  the  Wine),  Lord  of  Tirconnell,  Inishowen,  Kinel- 
Moen,  Fermanagh,  and  Lower  Connaught ;  a  man  who  never  suiFered  the  chiefs 
who  were  in  his  neighbourhood  and  vicinity  to  encroach  upon  any  of  his  super- 
abundant possessions,  even  to  the  time  of  his  disease  and  infirmity  ;  a  fierce, 
obdurate,  wrathful,  and  combative  man  towards  his  enemies  and  opponents,  until 
he  had  made  them  obedient  to  his  jurisdiction  ;  and  a  mild,  friendly,  benign, 
amicable,   bountiful,  and  hospitable  man  towards  the  learned,  the  destitute, 

the  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'Clerys,  and  the  Fei-  "  Selga,  now  Shallee,  in  the  barony  of  Inchiquin. 

lere  Aenguis,  in  which  it  is  pLaced  i  nuaccap  «  Galar-breac,  i.  e.  the  speckled  disease,  i.  e. 

Dail  Caif,  i.  e.  in  the  upper,  or  northern  part  the  small  pox. 

of  Dal-Cais.     Blathmac's  name  is  still  remem-  ^  Tertnon-Daveog,  now  Termon-Magrath,  in 

bered  at  the  church,  but  his  ^festival  is  no  longer  the  parish  of  Templecarn,  barony  of  Tirhugh, 

celebrated.  and  county  of  Donegal. 

9  R  2 


1596  aHNa?,a  líio^hachca  eiiíeawH.  [i564. 

-]  oollamnaib,  Du|ioaib,"|  oeccailpib  arhail  ap  peil  acc  ]"fnait)"i  acc  i'fncaióib, 
pfp  ipgna,  ilcf]iDac  co  nnbuaió  ninnclecca,"!  nairne  ap  gac  nealaóam  ap  cfna 
oo  écc,  9.  pebpiiapy  ina  lonjpopr  pfip)'in  illficbf]!  ipui  mbaile  do  ponab  laip- 
piurh  cecup  Daiitibfoin  í  neiU,  "j  cenel  eojain,'-)  a  aonacal  1  nocaplije  a  pfn 
"]  a  ]'irinp)op  i  iiDÚn  na  iijall  1  niairnpnp  .S.  Pponpép  co  nonoip,  "|  co  naiptm- 
cciri  TTióip  lap  mbpfir  buaóa  ó  óoriian,  -]  o  bfirian. 

O  Súillebán  béippe  Dorhnall,  mac  Diapmaca,  mic  DoiTinaill,  inic  oorhnaiU, 
inic  oiapniaca  bailb  do  ciuciin  le  Dpocliup]>a6  .1.  mac  5iollacuDa,  1  jep 
baDbcLo]^ac  oiapmaic  a  araip  baoí  a  biol  Doiópe  pa  Domnall  piii,"|  a  bpacaijr 
eojan  ó  pmllebain  Do  jabáil  a  lonaió. 

lTlai]i5pecc  injfn  cSemaip,  mic  Sfain,  mic  coinaip,  mic  an  lapla  bfri  íTlfic 
muipip  ciappaije  do  ecc, "]  ba  haóbap  eccaoine  ipiDhe. 

Comap  mac  muipip  Duib,  mic  Sfain,  mic  an  lapla  oécc. 

Uuaómuma  na  cuinn  coccaD, -|  na  dec  cCnnaipce;  ón  callainn  50  a  cele 
a\i  bliabainpi. 

bnile  uí  jalaij  do  jabail  -|  do  bpipeaó  ap  cloinn  ílUipchaió  uíbpiain  lap 
an  Kipla  lap  rcabaipr  opDanaip  "]  pocpaicce  ó  luimneac  laip  cuicce. 

baile  uí  cópraij  map  an  ccéccna  Do  jabail  lap  an  lapla. 

TTlac  bpuaiDfóa  ollarh  o  mbpacain  -|  o  bpfpmaic  Décc  .1.  Diapmaic,  mac 
concobaip  mic  Diapmaca,  mic  Sfain, "]  a  bpacaip  TTlaoilin  Do  jaBail  a  lonaiD. 

aOlS  CR10SU,'1564. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuícc  céD,  Sfpcca,  a  cfcoip. 

O  r?uaipc  QoD  gallba,  mac  bpiain  ballaij  mic  eo^ain  do  riiapbub 
co  mipccnech  miopunac  la  u  muincip  pfin  h^  liarDpuim  muincipe  heolaip, 

"  From  the  one  Calends,  i.  e.  from  the  Calends  of   Trinity  College,  already  often  referred  to 

of  January,   1563,  to  the  Calends  of  January,  (E.  2.  14),  so  that  it  is  probable  that  Baile-Ui- 

1564.     This  expression  is  very  common  in  an-  Ghalaigh  is  a  corruption  of  Baile-Ui-Aille,  now 

cient  Irish  writings,  as  in  the  Life  of  St,  Maidoo  Ballyally. — See  note ',  under  1559,  p.  1571,  sup. 
and  other  tracts.  ^*  Baile-  Ui-Charthaigh,   i.  e.  the  townland  of 

"  Baile-Ui-Ghalaigh. — There  is  no  castle    or  O'Carthaigh.     This  is  still  so   called  in  Irish, 

place  now  bearing  this  name  in  the  county  pf  but    is    anglicised    Ballycarhy,    and  sometimes 

Clare,  nor  mentioned  in  the  list  of  the  castles  of  shortened  to  Ballycarre.     It  is  the  name  of  a 

Clare  preserved  in  the  manuscript  in  the  Library  townlaiid  in  the  parish  of  Tomfinlough,  barony 


1564]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1597 

the  poets,  and  the  oUaves,  towards  the  [religious]  orders  and  the  church,  as  is 
evident  from  the  [accounts  of]  old  people  and  historians  ;  a  learned  man, 
skilled  in  many  arts,  gifted  with  a  profound  intellect,  and  the  knowledge  of 
every  science,  died  on  the  9th  of  February,  at  his  own  mansion-seat  at  LiiTord, 
a  castle  which  he  had  erected  in  despite  of  O'Neill  and  the,  Kinel-Owen,  and 
was  interred  in  the  burial  place  of  his  predecessors,  and  ancestors  at  Donegal, 
in  the  monastery  of  St.  Francis,  with  great  honour  and  veneration,  after  having 
vanquished  the  Devil  and  the  world. 

O' Sullivan  Beare  (Donnell,  the  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Don- 
nell,  son  of  Dermot  Balbh)  was  slain  by  a  bad  man,  namely,  Mac  Gillycuddy ; 
and  if  his  father,  Dermot,  was  a  man  of  great  renown,  this  Donnell  was  a  worthy 
heir  of  him.     His  kinsman,  Owen  O'SuUivan,  took  his  place. 

Margaret,  the  daughter  of  James,  son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas,  the  son  of 
the  Earl  [of  Desmond],  and  wife  of  Mac  Maurice,  died;  and  she  [i.  e.  her  death] 
was  a  cause  of  lamentation. 

Thomas,  the  son  of  Maurice  Duv,  son  of  John,  tlie  son  of  the  Earl,  died. 

Thomond  was  one  scene  of  warfare  and  contention,  from  the  one  Calends" 
to  the  othei',  this  year. 

Baile-Ui-Ghalaigh',  the  residence  of  the  sons  of  Murrough  O'Brien,  was 
taken  arnd  demoUshed  by  the  Earl,  who  had  brought  ordnance  and  forces  from 
Limerick  for  that  purpose. 

Baile-Ui-Charthaigh'^  was  likewise  taken  by  the  Earl. 

Mac  Brody,  Ollav  of  Hy-Bracain  and  Hy-Fearmaic%  died,  i.  e.  Dermot, 
son  of  Conor,  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  John  ;  and  his  brother,  Maoilin,  took  his 
place. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1564. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  sixty-four. 

O'Rourke  (Hugh  Gallda,  son  of  Brian  Ballagh,  son  of  Owen^)  Avas  mali- 
ciously and  malignantly  slain  by  his  own  people,  at  Leitrim,  in  Muintir-Eolais  ; 

ot'  Bunratty,  and  county  of  Clare.  Ballybrodeu,  a  townland  in  the  jiarisli  of  Dysart- 

'  IIi/-Bracaiii  and  Hy-Fearmaic,  i.  e.  the  ba-  O'Dea,  and  barony  of  luohiquin,  and  about  one 

ronies  of  Ibrickan  and  Inchiquin,  in  the  county  mile  west  of  Ballygriffy  Castle. 

f  Clare.     Mac  Brody  resided  at  Ballybrody,  or  '  Owen. — Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare  adds 


o. 


1598  awNa^a  i^ioshachca  eiReawN,  [i564 

an  rip  uile  apa  hairle  ]'in  ho  móaó  pa  bpian  mac  b|iiain  ui  puaipc  -] 
acbfipci  5U|i  ab  Do  Do  jiónaD  an  migniorh  mebla  pin  gion  50  paibVie  ciiiD 
oóparh  ina  Denarh.  dob  hume  mac  bjiiam,  mic  eojjain  ui  pimijic  a  mbparaip 
ele,  f6]>aji  aoóa  galloa,  -]  pnnpeap  bjiiain  Do  jaipm  ui  piiaipc  De  pfin  a  hucc 
UÍ  neill. 

Ua  OomnaiU  an  Calbach,i  Ua  baoigill  roi]ip6ealbac  do  duI  go  liar  cliar 
DO  poijliiD  an  lupcip  Do  Denarh  a  copcca  ppip,  1  puaip  n  Dorhnaill  onoip  1 
aipmimti  iiaóa,  -|  poaip  Ua  Dorhnaill  do  rocc  Dia  ri^  50  pamic  50  pfpaib 
manac,  1  aipipioh  ann,")  cicc  Ua  baoi  jill  Dia  baile  pfippin.  bai  conn  mac  an 
calbai^  pop  a  cionn  liipuiDe.  Nip  bo  cian  baoi  ua  baoijill  ip  in  mbaile  an 
can  po  cuinDij  conn  paip  cocr  laip  50  Dun  na  ngall  pup  an  ccafmpaD  a  jjabail 
pop  QoD,  mac  Qoóa  óicc,  mic  Qoba  puaib  bai  ann  an  can  pin.  6a  bann  baoi 
oipipiorh  an  QoDa  bipin  tpin  cop  nua,-|  po  cuip  eiccnecan  -]  conn  Da  rhac  Qoba 
buibe  mic  Qoba  Duib  clann  a  Dfpbpafap  ipin  cpfncaiplén,  -]  bócap  lODpibe 
bai  ace  caipccelab  an  baile  do  Cbonn.  Uánaic  cpa  conn  "]  Uo  baoijjill  do 
paijiD  an  baile,  -]  ba  haohaib  ann  an  can  pin.  l?o  Ificcpfc  clann  Qoba  buibe 
conn  Dia  poijib  po  cfccoip  1  do  paibpioc  na  Ificcpiccip  Ua  baoijill  co  na 
muincip  cuca  inunn.  Qcbfpcpac  muincip  ui  baoijill  na  Ificcpiccip  a  cciccfpna 
uaca  a  aénap.  Do  coib  lapccain  Ua  baoijill  50  mainipcip  na  mbpacap  Do 
Denarh  cuapca  oca.  ^eibib  conn  ua  Dorrinaill,  ~\  clann  Qoba  buibe  pop  cojail 
an  cuip  1  mbaoi  Qob  mac  Qoba  Duib.  Ni  po  pácbaijpioc  nac  ni  50  po  boipc 
ppuirlésen  plóij  lionrhaip  lanrhóip  ap  puD  an  baile,  "j  ina  lomracmonj  in  ^ac 
aipD  ba  biciobáccap  annpin  Ua  néll  Sfan,  "j  Qob  mac  majnupa  ui  Dorhnaill 
CO  na  pocpaicce,  50  Ifp  ploij  lionrtiaip  lanmoip  ina  ppappab  lap  ccluinpin 
Ui  DOTtinaill  DO  bfic  pop  plijib  Qra  cliar  -|  na  ccorhmbpacap  naile  Do  bfic  i 
nasaib  apoile.  T?o  gabab  ainnpibe  Conn  mac  an  calbaij  an  14  mag,  -]  do 
bfcacap  pipche  plóij  ui  néill  ap  puD  cipe  bójame, "]  po  mapbab  leo  mac  rhec 

in  Irish  that  this  Owen  was  the  son  of  Tiernan,  ''  To  see. — "  t)up  .1.  do  pTop,"   to  know. — 

who  was  the  son  of  Teige.  C  Clery. 

8  Brian — Charles  O'Conor  adds  that  this  was  '  Who  ivere  betraying This  is  a  striking  in- 

Brian  ua  murtha.  stance  of  the  defect  of  the  style  of  the  Four 

''  At  home. — Ip  in  mbaile,  means  at  home,  or  Masters.    They  speak  here  as  if  the  reader  were 

in  the  town.  already  in  possession  of  what  they  are  about  to 

*      '   Requested.  —  T3o    cuinoi^,    i.   e.    he    asked,  narrate.    The  style  could  be  easily  corrected  by 

begged,  or  requested.  omitting  laopibe  bai,  and  writing  bárcup  puibe 


1,564.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1599 

after  which  tlie  whole  country  closed  round  Brian^,  the  son  of  Brian  O'Houi'ke ; 
and  it  was  rumoured  that  it  was  for  him  this  treacherous  misdeed  was  com- 
mitted, though  he  had  no  [personal]  share  in  perpetrating  it.  Hugh  Boy,  tlie 
son  of  Brian,  son  of  Owen  O'Rovu'ke,  another  brother,  who  was  younger  than 
Hugh,  but  older  than  Brian,  called  himself  O'Rourke  by  the  influence  of 
O'Neill. 

O'Donnell  (Calvagh)  and  O'Boyle  (Turlough)  repaired  to  Dublin  to  the 
Lord  Justice,  to  confer  with  him.  O'Donnell  received  great  honour  and  respect 
from  him.  O'Donnell  returned  for  home,  and  came  into  Fermanagh,  where  lie 
stopped  [for  some  time] ;  and  O'Boyle  proceeded  directly  to  his  own  residence, 
where  Con,  the  son  of  Calvagh,  had  come  to  meet  him.  O'Boyle  had  not  been 
long  at  home"  when  Con  requested'  him  to  go  with  him  to  Donegal,  to  see"  if 
he  could  take  it  from  Hugh,  the  son  of  Hugh  Oge,  son  of  Hugh  Roe,  who  was 
in  it  at  that  time.  Hugh  at  that  time  held  his  residence  in  the  new  tower ;  and 
he  had  sent  Egneghan  and  Con,  the  two  sons  of  Hugh  Boy,  son  of  Hugh  Duv, 
his  brother's  sons,  into  the  old  castle ;  and  these  were  the  two  who  were  betray- 
ing' the  castle  to  Con.  Con  and  O'Boyle  came  to  the  town  by  night ;  and  the 
sons  of  Hugh  Boy  admitted  Con  at  once,  but  they  said  that  they  would  not 
permit  O'Boyle  to  come  into  them  with  his  people  ;  [and]  O'Boyle's  people 
said  that  they  would  not  suffer  their  lord  to  go  from  them  alone.  O'Boyle, 
thereupon,  went  to  the  monastery  of  the  friars  to  make  them  a  visit.  Con 
O'Donnell  and  the  sons  of  Hugh  Boy  proceeded  to  demolish  the  tower  in  which 
Hugh,  the  son  of  Hugh  Duv,  was  ;  and  they  took  no  notice,  of  anything  until 
very  numerous  hosts  had  poured  into  the  town  and  ai'ound  it  in  every  direc- 
tion. These  are  they  who  were  there  :  O'Neill  (John),  and  Hugh,  the  son  of 
Manus  O'Donnell,  with  their  forces,  which  were  very  great  and  numerous 
[who  had  come  thither],  after  having  heard  that  O'Donnell  was  on  his  way  from 
Dublin",  and  that  these  other  relatives  were  at  strife  with  each  other.  Con,  the 
son  of  Calvagh,  was  taken  prisoner  here  on  the  14th  of  May  ;  and  marauding- 
parties  of  O'Neill's  army   went  forth  through  Tir-Boghaine,  and  slew  tlie  son 

ucc  caifccelao  ;  but  the  Editor  will  leave  the  "  On  his  way  from  Dublin,   f°1i  rl^'j'^  CIra 

Four   Masters    their    own   mode   of  narrating  cliar  literally,   "  on   the  way  of  Dublin."     It 

events,  though,  indeed,  they  are  very  often  not  may  mean  either  "  going   to,"    or   "  returning 

only  inelegant,  but  even  inaccurateintheirdiction.  from  Dublin." 


1600  aNNW.a  Rio^hachca  emeaNH.  [1564. 

I^uibne  .1.  maolmuijie  mfiiicceac,  mac  maolinuipe,  mic  neill  1  nglionn  emnije, 
-]  Q06  mrijiccfch,  mac  eom  monajiba  rhec  ]^uiV)ne  50  pocamiF)  oile  amaille 
ppiu. 

Siol  mbjiiain  co  himiifpnar  jie  apotle  an  blianam  pi.  Clonn  concobaip  mic 
coi]i]i6ealbai5  ui  bpiam  ooitinall -|  caocc, -|  clann  TTlupchaib  ui  bjiiain  caócc, 
1  Donnchaó  Do  tiol  a)i  cpeich  coiy  abann  o  ccfjinai?;  i  ccloinn  cuilein.  Qp 
arm  rapla  an  nnpla  an  can  pin  pa  l?op  puan.  Oo  loipcceab  "]  no  lomaipcc- 
eao  leo  an  baile  pin  peac  jac  mbaile  00  ponnpab.  Ruccpac  an  cip  oppa 
ap  7;ac  aen  raeb  o  pleib  oibfba  an  pij  50  lucbac,  1  o  pinn  fnai^  co  pcaipb. 
pimpacappom  enm  ap  ^laplaich  an  lapla  co  po  mapbab  a  n^ap  Do  ceD 
Dib  Don  Dul  pin,"i  ni  po  lampac  a  nionnpaicchib  lap  pin  co  hoibce.  Uepnácap 
an  rpiol  mbpictin  pin  iiaccaip  ciiabmuman  gan  puiliuccab  jan  poipDfpccab 
rap  pirmlfpccaib  popccaip  co  na  ccpfcaib.  "]  co  na  ngabalaib  leo.  Oo  rap- 
painjpior  cpa  buannaba  ofpmapa  1  lucr  cuapupcal  cap  Sionainn  Do  cloinn 
cpuibne  1  DO  cloinn  cpirigh  -]  bai  piubal  na  ripe,  a  cpeaca,  -|  a  corhra  ap 
a  ccumup  co  ccaipnicc  aimpip  a  mbuannab.  Qcr  cfna  ni  po  an  Da  naipnfip 
ace  aircpeabracaib  an  cipe  luac  ap  Ificcfb  epce  lap  na  harhpaib  pin  cap 
cfnn  a  nampaine. 

Copcumpiiab  co  na  ciop,  -\  co  na  buannacc  bona,  a  polacap  pfpainn  1 
ccipib  ciiabmuman,  1   a  bfraijre  ecclaipi  amaiUe  pip  pin  do  rabaipc  do 

"  Gleann-Eidhnighe,  i.  e.  the  vale  of  the  River  near  Newmarket,   in  the  barony  of  Bunratty, 

Eany,  now  Gleneany,  a  remarkable  valley  in  the  and  county  of  Clare. 

parish    of  Inver,    barony  of  Tir-Boghaine,    or  '  Sliabh-Oidheadha-an-Riyh,    i.e.   the  moun- 

Banagh,   and  county  of  Donegal. — See  note  ',  tain  of  the  death   of  the  king,   so  called  from 

under  the  year  1502,  p.  1264,  supra.  Crimhthann  Mor  Mac  Fidhaigh,  monarch  of  Ire- 

°  Abltainn  O^gCeartiaiyh,  now  the  Kiver  Ogar-  land,  who  died  here  of  poison  which  had  been  ad- 

ney,  which  rises  near  Broadford,  in  Glenomra,  ministered  tohim  by  his  sister,Mongfinn,  the  wife 

flows  through   the  village  of  Six-mile-bridge,  of  the  Irish  monarch  EochaidhMuiglmiheadhoin, 

and  discharges  itself  into  the  Shannon  at  Bun-  in  the  latter  part  of  the  fourth  century.    This  is 

ratty.   This  river  was  originally  called  the  Raite,  now  called  the  Cratloe,  or  Glennagross  moun- 

and  derived  its  present  name  from  the  territory  taim — See    O'Flaherty's  Og^/gia,  part  iii.  c.  81 ; 

of  Ui-Cearnaigh,  through  which  it  flows.  Circuit  of  Muircheartach  Mac  Neill,  p.  47;  and 

p  Clann-Coilen. — This  was  one  of  the  tribe-  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiach- 

names  of  the  Mac  Namaras,  and  it  was  also  ap-  roch,  pp.  34,3,  344. 

plied  to  their  territory,  for  the  extent  of  which  s  Lnchat,  now  Lughid,  or  Lowhid  bridge,  in 

see  note  ',  under  the  year  1311,  p.  498,  supra.  the  townland  of  Moanreagh,  parish  of  Kilkeedy, 

^  Ros-ruadh,  i.e.  the  red  wood,  now  Rossroe,  barony  of  Inchiquin,  and  county  of  Clare.    The 


1564.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  I6OI 

of  Mac  Sweeny,  i.  e.  Mulmurry  Meirgeach,  tlie  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Niall, 
in  Gleann-Eidhniglie",  and  Hugh  Meirgeach,  the  son  of  John  Modardha  Mac 
Sweeny,  and  many  others  along  with  them. 

The  O'Briens  were  at  strife  with  one  another  in  this  year.  Donnell  and 
Teige,  the  sons  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough  O'Brien,  and  Teige  and  Donough, 
the  sons  of  Murrough,  set  out  upon  a  predatory  excursion  alongside  Abhainn 
O'gCearnaigh",  in  Clann-Coilen''.  The  Earl  happened  to  be  at  this  time  at 
Ross-ruadh"" ;  and  they  burned  and  plundered  that  town  more  that  they  did 
any  other.  The  [inhabitants  of  the]  country  from  all  quarters,  from  SUabh- 
Oidheadha-an-Righ'  to  Luchat",  and  from  Rinn-Eanaigh'  to  Scairbh",  overtook 
them.  They  took  an  advantage  of  the  soldiers  of  the  Earl,  and  slew  near  a 
hundred  of  them  on  that  occasion,  but  dared  not  approach  them  again  until 
night.  These  O'Briens  of  the  upper  part  of  Thomond  made  their  escape  across 
the  fair  fields  of  the  Fergus™  with  their  preys  and  acquisitions,  without  receiving 
a  wound  or  injury.  They  afterwards  brought  from  beyond  the  Shannon  nume- 
rous bonuaghtmen  and  mercenaries  of  the  Clann-Sweeny  and  Clann-Sheehy  ; 
and  they  had  the  ranging  of  the  country,  and  its  preys  and  property  in  their 
power,  until  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  their  bonnaght.  There  remained 
not,  however,  of  cattle''  with  the  inhabitants  of  the  country,  the  value  of  what 
was  permitted  to  be  taken  out  of  it  by  those  soldiers  for  their  services. 

Corcomroe,  with  its  rents  and  customary  services,  and  acquirements  in  land 
in  the  territories  of  Thomond,  and  its  church  livings,  were  given  to  Donnell 

ford  over  which  this  bridge  stands  is  called  ur  a  small  town  in  the  parish  of  Tomgraney,   ba- 

lucuiD,  in  a  poem  by  Cormac  Mac  Cullenan,  on  rony  of  Upper  Tullagh,   and  county  of  Clare, 

the  boundaries  of  Thomond,   and  an  old  road  and  near  that  arm  of  Lough  Deirgdherc  which 

which  ran  in  this  direction  is  called  óealac  na  contains  Iniscealltra. 

lucume  by  Keating,  in  the  reign  of  Diarmaid,  "  Forgus,    now  the  Fergus,    a   river  which 

son  of  Fearghus  Ceirbheoil.  rises  in  the  north  of  the  barony  of  Inchiquin, 

'  Rinn-Eanaigh,  i.  e.  the  point  of  the  marsh  and,  flowing  by  Ennis,  unites  with  the  Shannon 

or  morass,   now  Rinanny,   a   townland  in  the  near    the    ancient    town,    now   poor  village   of 

south  extremity  of  the  parish  of  Kilconry,  in  Cliire. 

the  barony  of  Lower  Bunratty,  and  county  of  "  Of  cattle This   is  a  roundabout  mode  of 

Clare.  It  forms  a  rinn,  or  point  of  land,  ex-  saying  that  these  O'Briens  gave  the  hired  sol- 
tending  into  the  River  Shannon,  a  short  distance  diers  for  their  stipends  more  of  the  cattle  of  the 
to  the  east  of  the  mouth  of  the  River  Fergus.  country  than  what  remained  to  the  inhabitants 

"  Scairbh,  i.  e.  the  shallow  ford,  now  ScarrilF'  aftei  their  departure. 

9s 


1602  aNNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReaww.  [1565. 

óorhnctll  ua  binain  do  corhaió  a  nccfpnap  ruabmuman,  "|  cap  crnn  fioba  i 
nsfirhpeaó  na  bliaohna  fo. 

TTlui]iip  Dub  mac  Sfain  mic  an  lapla  do  Dnl  a|i  cpfic  i  iTiiipccpai;c;e.  Clann 
raiDcc,  mic  copbrnaic  óicc,  mic  cojibinaic,  niic  caiDcc  Tneg  caprai^  do  bpfich 
paip  .1.  Diapmaic, -]  copbnnac,  TTluipip  do  óícfnDaD  leo,  -|  ba  pfpp  capba  a 
rfpaipccci  inap  ap  buaóai^fó  Dia  bop.  TTlip  cpuaba  gfpalcac  ap  jiipc  jabaib, 
aipcccfóip  a  ea)^capac, -|  bópaijcfóip  a  biobbab  an  ri  copcaip  ano  pin. 

aOlS  CR108C,  1565. 
Ctoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cúicc  céo,  Sfpcca,  a  cúicc. 

Siuban  injfn  cSemaip,  mic  TTluipip,  mic  comaip  Decc.  T?o  ba  Do  itiop 
pccelaib  Ifice  moja  ipibe  ilfir  ppi  Dfipc  -|  Daonnachc. 

Cuaipr  Da  nDeachaib  lapla  Dfpmuman  .1.  gfpoirc  mac  Semaip  mic  Sfain 
1  noéipib  murhan,  do  cuip  ciccfpna  Dfipeacli  .i.  TTluipip  mac  ^eapailc  mic  Sfain 
mic  ^fpoicc  cappainj  ceilcce  ap  ia]ila  iipmurhan  .1.  romap  mac  Semaip,  mic 
piapaip  puaib,  in  oipcill  lapla  Dfpmuman.  Unnaicc  ona  an  napla  Don  cip,  1 
ni  puaip  pababgo  hiabaD  uime  ap  gac  caob  pan  inaijin  Dianib  ainm  ar  mfb- 
ftin.  Ro  luib  lomaD  anppoplainn  paip  50  po  jabab  -\  50  po  5onab  é.  l?o 
jabab  1  po  mapbab  Dponj  mop  Dia  muincip  ina  pocaip.  bácrap  pubac 
poirhfnmnac  buicilépaij  cpia  lomar  a  mbpaijDfb  1   a  néoala  an  la  pin.   6á 

'  The  hrdship  of  Thomoud. — Donnell  O'Brien  battle  are  preserved  iu  the  neighbourhood  of 

would  have  succeeded  to  the  lordship  of  Tho-  Cappoquin,  in  the  county  of  Waterford.     The 

mond,  according  to  the   Irish  law  of  tanistic  place  is  still  called  Ctc  riieáoain,  anglice  Afifane. 

succession ;  and  the  English,  to  pacify  him,  gave  It  is  now  the  name  of  a  townland  and  parish,  in 

him  O'Conor  Corcomroe's  country,  and  some  of  the  bai'ony  of  Decies  without  Drum,  but  the 

the  forfeited  church  lands,  and  also  such  lands  locality  originally  so  called  was  a  ford  on  the 

as  descended  to  himself  by  gavelkind,   or  such  liiver  Nemh,  now  the  Blackwater,  and  situated 

as  he  ha4  acquu-ed  in  any  other  way.     From  about  two  miles  to  the  south  of  Cappoquin.  The 

thisDonnell,  Christopher  O'Brien  of  Ennistimon,  Life  of  St.  Carthach  of  Lismore  gives  the  exact 

living  in  1713,  was  the  fifth  in  descent.  situation  and  a  curious  description  of  this  ford, 

"  Mmkerry. — This  territory  is  now  comprised  under  the  name  of  Atk-medlwin,  which  is  trans- 

in  the  baronies  of  East  and  West  Muskerry,  iu  lated  Vadiim  alvei.    For  a  fuller  account  of  this 

the  county  of  Cork.  rencounter  between  the  Earls  of  Desmond  and 

*  Ath-meadhain The  situation  of  this  ford  Ormond  at  Affane,   the   reader  is  referred  to 

is  still  well  known,  and  vivid  traditions  of  this  Philip  O'Sullevan  Beare's  Hhtory  of  the  Irish 


1565.1  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1G03 

O'Brien,  as  a  compensation  for  the  lordship  of  Thomond',  and  for' his  obser- 
vance of  peace  in  the  winter  of  this  year. 

Maurice  Duv,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  the  Earl  [of  Desmond],  went  upon  a 
predatory  excursion  into  Muskerry''.  The  sons  ofTeige,  son  ofCorraacOge, 
son  of  Cormac,  son  of  Teige  Mac  Carthy,  namely,  Dermot  and  Cormac,  over- 
took him,  and  beheaded  him,  though  the  profit  of  sparing  him  would  have  been 
better  than  the  victory  gained  by  his  death.  He  who  was  there  slain  was  the 
firm  steel  of  the  Geraldines  in  the  field  of  danger,  the  plunderer  of  his  enemies, 
and  the  destroyer  of  his  opponents 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1565. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  sixty-jive. 

Joan,  the  daughter  of  James,  son  of  Maurice,  son  of  Maurice,  died.  Her 
death  was  among  the  sorrowful  news  of  Leath-Mhogha,  on  account  of  her  cha- 
rity and  humanity. 

On  one  occasion  as  the  Earl  of  Desmond  (Garrettj  the  son  of  James,  son  of 
John)  went  on  a  visitation  into  the  Desies  of  Munster,  the  Lord  of  the  Desies 
(Maurice  Fitzgerald,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Garrett)  treacherously  drew  the 
Earl  of  Ormond  (Thomas,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  Pierce  Roe)  into  the  country, 
unknown  to  the  Earl  of  Desmond.  The  Earl  [of  Desmond]  arrived  in  the 
country,  and  received  no  notice  [of  their  designs]  until  he  was  surrounded  on 
every  side,  at  a  place  called  Ath-meadhain",  where  he  was  overpowered  by 
numbers,  so  that  he  was  wounded  and  taken  prisoner,  and  many  of  his  people 
were  slain  and  taken  prisoners  along  with  him.  The  Butlers  were  elated''  and 
in  high  spirits  on  that  day,  by  reason  of  the  great  number  of  their  prisoners 

Catholics,  torn.  ii.  lib.  4,  c.  8,  and  Initium,  S,c.  had  the  spirit   to  reply:  'Where,   but  in   his 

Giraldinorum,  c.  14  ;  "Ware's  Annals  of  Ireland,  proper   place  ?    still   upon    the    necks   of  the 

A.  D.  1364  ;  Cos's  Hibernia  Anglicana  ;  and  the  Butlers.'  "    This  anecdote,    however,    is   from 

Abbe  Ma-geoghegan's  .ffisioM-e  rf'/r/awi/e,  torn.  iii.  romantic  writers,  and  not  worthy  the  serious 

c.  21,  p.  396.    Leland,  book  iv.  c.  1,  adds  :  notice  of  the  historian. 

"  As  the  Ormondians   conveyed  him"   [Des-  *■  Elated,   báccap  puBac  poiiiifnmnac.     The 

mond]  "from  the  field,  stretched  on  a  bier,  his  older  writers  would  say,   báccap  puBaij  poi- 

supporters  exclaimed,  with,a  natural  triumph,  liifnmnaij. — See  the  Editor's  Irish  Grammar, 

'  Where  is  now  the  great  lord  of  Desmond !'  He  part  iii.  c.  1 .  p.  352. 

9  s2 


1604  aNNaí,a  Rio^hachca  eiReanN.  [isfó. 

hé  cpíoc  na  gabala  pin  an  DÓ  lapla  do  óol  co  paproib  pó  cojaipm  na  bain- 
fiiojan,  -|  a  mbfir  achaib  hi  lonDainn,  i  ceacc  Dóib  ra|i  anaip  pó  jné  pioóa 
-]  caipDiíie. 

lílacjarham,  mac  roippbealbaij  rhannraij  mic  íjonncham,  niic  Dorhnaill, 
mic  roippóealbaij  mfic  do  mapbaD  hi  ppiull  Dia  luce  coimireacca,")  comjjaoil 
ina  baile  pfin  pan  aijicin  m  ópainn.  Oo  cualaccap  maire  na  jaillme  in  ní  pin 
Do  cuaccap  Daire  a  mígniom  pop  luce  na  peille  50  po  pupailpioc  poppa 
ceicheaó  ó  a  ccijib  co  nDeacarcap  i  naprpac  pop  muip  "]  l>a  liann  po  jabpac 
calaó  I11  ccuan  puip  lii  ccpic  copca  baipcinD  laprapaije.  lap  na  cluinpin  pm 
DO  Domnall  mac  concobaip  uí  bpiain,  do  cóibpiDe  Dia  paijió  arhail  ap  Déine 
conpónaicc,  1  po  jabab  laip  a  nuprhóp,  -]  do  bfpc  laip  1  nDaoípcfnjal  laD  co 
maj  jlae  1  nuacrap  copcumbpuaó  po  Daij  gomab  móioe  a  maoír,  1  a  croippi 
pabcipc  an  lonaib  ina  n&eapnpar  an  mígniorh  pin  Dpaicpin.  Ro  cpocliab  Dponj 
Diblaip,  -|  po  loipcceab  apaill  peib  po  ruill  a  míbépa  bóib. 

íTlaiDm  mnp  lá  hua  neill  (Sfan,  mac  cunin  mic  cuinn  mic  enpi)  ap  cloinn 
mec  Domnadl  na  lialban  .1.  Semup,  Ctongup,  -]  Sorhaiple.  Vío  majibab  ann 
aonjup,  r?o  jabab  "]  po  jonab  Semu)",  -]  rainic  o  báp  a  ccionn  bliabna  do 
jaib  cpo  na  jona  liípin.  T?o  babbal  an  cécc  oioheab  an  uapail  Do  cfp  Don 
cup  pin  paoíap  eineac  -]  aT[\  fngnamli  pfp  caicrheac,  congaipeac,  cioblaicceac, 
roipbfpcac.  Ní  baoí  do  clomn  nDomnaill  1  nepinn  nác  1  nalbain  a  lonnparhail 
an  ran  pin, "]  ní  bá  pó  lá  a  naoínib  pfin  a  coriirpom  Dóp  do  cabaipc  ap  DÓ 

■^  Under  the  appearance — The  pbrase  po  jné  village  of  Killeaiiy.     The  outer  wall  facing  the 

literally  means  "  sub  specie.''^  sea  is  nearly  perfect,  but  the  other  walls  have 

^  Aircin,  in  Aran — The  chiefs  of  the  O'Briens  disappeared,  with  the  exception  of  a  small  tower 

of  Aran,  the  head  of  whom  was  commonly  called  and   some   fragments   of  walls,    against  which 

Mac    Teige    O'Brien,    held    their    residence   at  some  fishermen's  cabins  now  stand.     This  sept 

Aircin,   anfflice  Arkin,  on  the  great  island  of  of  the  O'Briens  had  also  a  castle  of  considerable 

Aran.     They  were  soon  after  expelled  by  the  strength  on  Inis  Oirthir,  now  Inisheer,  or  south 

O'Flahertys,  who,  in  their  turn,  were  dispos-  island  of  Aran,  the  ruins  of  which  still  remain 

sessed  by  Queen  Elizabeth,  by  whom  the  castle  in  good  preservation. 

of  Arkin  was  erected  on  the  site  of  O'Brien's  "  Chief  men  o/Galway These  were  the  mer- 

residence.  —  See    Ckoroyraphical   Description,   nf  chants  of  Galway,   who  paid   the  head  of  this 

West  Connaught,  pp.  78,  82.     This  castle  was  sept  of  the  O'Briens  a  certain  tribute  in  consi- 

pulled  down  in  Cromwell's  time,  and  a  strong  deration  of  their  protection  and   expenses  in 

fort  erected  in  its  place,  of  which  some  ruins  guarding  the  bay  and  harbour  of  Galway  against 

are  still  visible  on  the  edge  of  a  low  cliíT  at  the  pirates  and  coast  plunderers. — See  llurdiman's 


1565.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1605 

and  spoils.  The  result  of  this  capture  was,  that  the  two  Earls  went  (i.  e.  were 
obliged  to  go)  to  England,  at  the  summons  of  the  Queen ;  and  having  remained 
for  some  time  in  London,  they  returned,  under  the  appearance*"  of  peace  and 
friendship. 

Mahon,  the  son  of  Turlough  Mantagh,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Dounell,  son 
of  Turlougli  Meith,  was  treacherously  slain  in  his  own  town  of  Aircin,  in  Aran'', 
by  his  own  associates  and  relations.  When  the  chief  men  of  Galway^  heard  of 
this,  they  set  out  to  revenge  this  misdeed  upon  the  treacherous  perpetrators,  so 
that  they  compelled  them  to  fly  from  their  houses  ;  and  they  [the  fugitives] 
went  into  a  boat,  and  put  to  sea  ;  and  where  they  landed  was  in  the  harboiu- 
of  Ross^  in  West  Corca-Bhaiscinn^.  Donnell,  the  son  of  Conor  O'Brien,  having 
heard  of  this,  he  hastened  to  meet  them  with  all  the  speed  that  he  could  exert ; 
and  he  made  prisoners  of  the  greater  number  of  them,  and  carried  them  in  close 
fetters  to  Magh  Glae",  in  the  upper  part  of  Corcomroe,  in  order  that  their  sor- 
row and  anguish  might  be  the  greater  for  being  in  view  of  the  place  where  they 
had  perpetrated  the  crime  ;  he  hanged  some  of  them,  and  burned  others,  accord- 
ing as  their  evil  practices  deserved. 

A  great  defeat  was  given  by  O'Neill  (John,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Con,  son 
of  Henry)  to  the  sons  of  Mac  Donnell  of  Scotland,  namely,  James,  Aengus, 
and  Sorley'.  Aengus  was  slain,  and  James  was  wounded  and  taken  prisoner, 
and  he  died  of  the  virulence  of  his  wounds  at  the  end  of  a  year.  The  death  of 
this  gentleman  was  generally  bewailed  ;  he  was  a  paragon  of  hospitality  and 
prowess,  a  festive  man  of  many  troops,  and  a  bountiful  and  munificent  man. 
And  his  peer  was  not  [to  be  found]  at  that  time  among  the  Clann-Donnell  in 
Ireland  or  in  Scotland ;  and  his  own  people  would  not  have  deemed  it  too  much 

Hiitort/  ofGahmy,  p.  52,  note  "*.  comroe.  From  this  district  Tadlig  Glae  O'Brien, 
f  Harbour  of  Ross,  cuan  Ruip,  now  Ross  bay,  the  ancestor  of  the  Clann-Teige  of  Aran,  re- 
situated  a  short  distance  to  the  north  of  Loop-  ceived  his  cognomen,  and  not  from  gle.,  neat, 
head,  in  the  barony  of  Moyarta,  in  the  south-  or  fair,  as  Dr.  O'Brien  incorrectly  states  in  his 
west  of  the  county  of  Clare.  Law  of  Tanistry  Illustrated,  published  in  Val- 
s  West  Corca-Bhaiscinn,  now  the  barouy  of  lancey's  Collectanea  de  Rebus  Ilibernkis.  vol.  i. 
Moyarta,  in  the  west  of  the  county  of  Clare.  p.  558. 

'■  Alayh  Glae,   now  commonly  called  Tuath-  '  Aengus  and  Sorlei/. —  Charles    O'Conor  of 

Clae,  a  district  situated  within  sight  of  the  Aran  Belanagare  adds,  in  Irish,  that  they  were  "the 

Islands,  in  the  upper  or  northern  part  of  Cor-  sons  of  Alexander,  the  sou  of  .John  Cahanagh." 


1606  aNNa?,a  Rio^hachca  eiReoNN.  [1566. 

ííiaó  puapcclaó  óó.  Copcpatcap  rpa  pocaióe  ele  r)ác  óipirhceap  pan  niaiDm 
pin  jlinne  caipi. 

ITIupcliaó  mac  DdiTinaiU  inic  r?uai6pi  ui  plairbfpcai^  t>o  bacaó. 

O  cleipi^  cabcc  cam  mac  cimrail  ollarh  ui  bomnaill  lé  Sfncup  paoi  In 
ppilibeacc,  l  hi  ccpoinic,  popr  consmala  cije  naoibib  oo  óárhaib,  i  do  beo- 
paóaib,  ")  .t)o  pealmacctib  pojlama  na  ccpioc  báccap  corhpoccup  t>ó  do  écc 
(.1.  an  2o.  la  Docrobep)  lap  pfnDacaiD  rojaibe  mp  mbpfir  buaba  o  DÍman  -| 
Ó  borhan,  ■}  a  abnacal  i  mainipnp  .8.  Pponpeip  i  noun  na  njall  co  naipmicm, 
"]  CO  nonoip  nóbbal. 

aOlS  C1?10SU,  1566. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  Sfpcca,  aSe. 

O  Dorhnaill  an  calbac  mac  TTIajnupa,  mic  aoba  Duib,  mic  aoba  puaib, 
mic  neill  jaipb  TTlic  coippbealbaig  an  piona  Do  ruicim  Dia  eoch  .i.  hi  crup 
an  jfirhpeab  .i.  26.  Nouembep,  ap  an  cconaip  ccoircinn  enp  baile  ajaib- 
caoin,"|  rfmpall  páca  1  nfiDipmfbon  a  mapcpluag  gan  anpocpacc  gan  oilbfim 
j^an  p5fmm  jan  Sccar  lap  ccocc  do  ó  Shacpoib  an  bliabain  pin  péin.  Ui^eapna 
ap  ceill  "I  ap  cpur  an  calbac  pin  géppac  ap  jail,  -|  ap  gaipcceab  nfrhraip 
niaca  ppi  nairhoib  connalbac  caipDeamail  ppi  caipDibh,  5an  maccnob,  gan 
móipiongnab  hi  mair  do  haibble  Da  noinjenab,  neac  na  po  paoileab  écc  an 
lonnapp  pin  acr  co  poipcceab  laip  Diojail  gpeipi  a  ceneóil.  Q  beapbparaip, 
aob  mac  majnapa  ui  Dorhnaill  do  óipDneab  ina  lonab. 

TTlaipe  injfn  mhajnaj'a  mic  aoba  Duib  mic  aoba  puaib  ui  bomnaill  hfn 
TTlécc  aenjay^a  oécc  an  8.  Doccobep. 

^  Gleann-taisi According  to    the    tradition  in^lioiin  cuipi  la  hua  neill,"  &c. 

in  the  country,  the  place  where  John  O'Neill  '  Baile-oghaidh-chaoin,  now  Balleeghan,  near 

defeated  the  Scots,  on  this  occasion,    is  Glen-  Lough   Swilly,   in  the  barony  of  Eaphoe,   and 

flesk,  a  remarkable  valley  near  Ballycastle,  in      county  of  Donegal See  note  ",  under  the  year 

the  north  of  the  county  of  Antrim.     There  is  a  1557,  p.  1553,  supra. 

place  called  Glentask,  in  the  parish  of  Dunluce,  "^The  church  ofliaih The  ruins  of  this  church 

in  the  same  county;  but  there  is  no  glen  there,  are  still  to  be  seen  near  Manor  Cunningham,  in 

nor  does  there  exist  a  tradition  of  a  battle  con-  the  parish  of  Eathmoaghy,  now  corruptly  Rj'e- 

nected  with  the  place.     This  name  should  have  moghy,  in  the  barony  of  Eaphoe,  Donegal, 

been  introduced  earlier  into  this  entry  by  the  ■"    "  That  same  year. — Philip  O'SuUevan  Beare 

Four  Masters,  thus  :  "tTltiiDni  mop  do  rabaipc  says,  in  his  History  of  the  Irish  Catholics,  'that 


15G6.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1607 

to  give  his  weight  in  gold  for  his  ransom,  if  he  coxild  have  been  ransomed, 
^lany  others  not  enumerated  virere  slain  in  this  defeat  of  Gleann-taisi". 

Murrough,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Rory  O'Flaherty,  was  drowned. 

O'Clery  (Teige  Cam,  the  son  of  Tuathal),  OUav  to  O'Donnell  in  history, — 
a  man  learned  in  poetry  and  chronology,  a  prop  (i.  e.  a  supporter),  who  kept  a 
house  of  hospitality  for  the  learned,  the  exiled,  and  the  literary  men  of  the 
neighbouring  territories,  died,  on  the  20th  of  October,  at  a  venerable  old  age, 
after  having  gained  the  victory  over  the  Devil  and  the  world;  and  was  buried 
with  great  respect  and  honour  in  the  monastery  of  St.  Francis,  at  Donegal. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1566. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  sixty-sia:. 

O'Donnell  (Calvagh,  the  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Hugh  Duv,  son  of  Hugh  Roe, 
son  of  Niall  Garv,  son  of  Turlough  of  the  Wine)  fell  [dead]  from  his  horse,  in 
the  beginning  of  Winter,  i.  e.  on  the  26th  of  October,  on  the  public  road,  be- 
tween Baile-aghaidh-chaoin'  and  the  church  of  Rath*",  in  the  midst  of  his  cavalry, 
without  the  slightest  starting,  stumbling,  shying,  or  prancing  of  his  horse,  after 
his  return  from  England,  where  he  had  been  that  same  year".  This  Calvagh 
was  a  lord  in  understanding  and  personal  shape,  a  hero  in  valour  and  prowess, 
stern  and  fierce  towards  his  enemies,  kind  and  benign  towards  his  friends  ;  he 
was  so  celebrated  for  his  goodness,  that  any  good  act  of  his,  be  it  ever  so  great, 
was  never  a  matter  of  wonder  or  surprise  ;  a  man  who  was  not  expected  to 
meet  his  death  in  this  manner,  but  who  was  expected  to  live  until  he  should 
have  avenged  the  wrongs  of  his  tribe.  His  brother,  Hugh,  the  son  of  Manus 
O'Donnell,  was  inaugurated  in  his  place. 

Mary,  the  daughter  of  Manus,  son  of  Hugh  Duv,  son  of  Hugh  Roe  O'Don- 
nell, and  wife  of  Magennis,  died  on  the  8th  of  October. 

O'Donnell  had  richly  deserved  this  fate  tor  hav-  que  deletis  his  Anglis  cum  magnum  clientium 

ing  brought  the  English,  a  short  time  before,  to  suorum  exercitum  in   Onellum  duceret,  et  in 

profane  the  monastery  of  Derry.    His  words  are:  medio  ejus  serena  die  tetus  et  viribiis  validus 

"  Odonellus  quoque  qui  Catholicus  in  oppi-  incederet  subito   malo    pressus  exanimis    equo 

dum  sanctum  Hoereticos  induxit  sacra  contami-  corruit.     Illi  siiccessit  Hugo  Odonellus  frater," 

uantes  haud  sero  dignas  poenas  pependit.    Nam-  &c.  fol.  84. 


1608  awwata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1566. 

T?óip  in^fn  rhéguióiji  cuconnacc  .1.  an  comajiba  bfn  Qo6a  buióe  mic  Qeba 
nuib  Decc  an  22.  lúl. 

majumip  Sfan  mac  conconnacc,  mic  conconnacc,  mic  bjimin,  mic  pilib 
mic  coinaip  mejumiii  oécc  .1.  29  Sepcembep,  ap  plimj  an  iiipcip  'op  ná 
lonnapbaó  Dua  néill  np  a  ci|i.  Uijeajina  ciiiccpeac  cjifioeac  cioblaicreac 
eipbe.  Ni  Ha  pupail  Do  plairfp  DO  rhéD  oá  bpuí;5bea6  ap  lomac  a  baih,  -|  a 
óeojiab,  ap  cpoma  a  tiuay,  -\  a  beajcoipBeapc,  -|  a  bpafaip  Doiponeao  ina 
lonab  .1.  cuconnacc. 

O  Puoipc  aob  bnibe  mac  bpiain  ballai  j  t)o  mapbaó  1  mbaile  an  rócaip 
10  conallcoib  po  0015  50  mab  la  mac  injine  TTlagniipa  ui  Domnaill  (.1.  bpian 
mac  bpiain  mic  eoccain)  cijeapnap  na  bpeipne. 

TTlag  capraij  piabac  oécc  .1.  pinjin,  mac  DorhnaiU,  mic  pinjin,  mic  00m- 
naill  Duine  nap  cuip  j'uim  ipin  paojal, "]  la  na  baoi  eolap  ap  a  cpuinmuccab 
no  ap  a  coiccill. 

O  maoajóin  .1.  maoileaclamn  moDapba  mac  maoileacluinn  iinc  bpeapail 
oécc,  léjróip  laiDne,  1  jaoibilcce  ap  liija  bá  liolc  ouaiplib  epeann  ina  pé, 
copnarhac  a  pfpainn,  "|  a  cpice  ap  corhappanaib,  uaicne  lomacaip  ban  ~[  bocc 
"]  aopa  anppann  anappaccrt,  -]  Domnall  mac  Sfain  ui  macajain  l)0  jabail  a 
lonaib. 

Piapup  buicilep  mac  emainn  cijeapna  rpfna  cluana  meala  oécc  neac 
puaip  inme  ")  oiDpeacc  a  buicce  jan  car  jan  coccaó  Duine  nap  pealbaib  "] 
nap  polaraip  en  pinjmn  Do  cuiD  fglaipi  Dé  le  cfpc  papa  no  ppioniipa,"]  a  mac 
cepóiD  ina  lonaó. 

Cior  eipcc  ap  na  pfprain  hi  cuip  conaill  an  bliaóain  pi. 

"  The  vastness,  literally,  the  weight.  "  There  were  with  me   that   descended   of 

'  Baile-an-tochair,   now  Balliutogher,    a  vil-  English  race,  Sir  Maurice  Fitzgarrold,  brother 

lage  in  the  parish  of  Killerry,  barony  of  Tirer-  to  the  Viscounte  Decies  ;   Sir  Thibald   Butler, 

rill,  and  county  of  Sligo.  whose  uncle  and  cozen  germaine  were  Baronnes 

"i  Trian-CMuana-Meala,    i.e.   Clonmel-third,  of  the  Cay  re  [Cahir],  whose  lands  he  lawfuUye 

now  the  barony  of  IfFa  and  OiFa  East,  in   the  and  justlye  enjoyete,  and  better  deservcth  that 

county  of  Tipperary.  title  of  honor  than  any  of  theim  ever  did  ;  for 

"    Theobald.  —  He    received    the    honour    of  whome  I.  intende  more  speciallye  to  write,  for 

knighthood   in   1567,    from   the    Lord   Deputy  truly e,  for  his  deserte,   he  is  worthie  any  com- 

isir  Henry  Sidney,   who  mentions  him  in  a  let-  mendation." 

ter  to  the  Lords  of  the  Council,  dated  Lime-  '  A  shower  offish The  pipe  or  vacuum  of  a 

rick, '27th  February,  1577,  as  follows:  water-spout  often  opens  upon  a  shoal  of  herrings, 


1566.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1609 

Rose,  the  daughter  of  Maguire  (Cuconnaught,  the  Coarb),  and  wife  of  Hugh 
Boy,  the  son  of  Hugh  Duv,  died  on  the  22nd  of  July. 

Maguire  (John,  the  son  of  Cuconnaught,  son  of  Cuconnaught,  son  of  Brian, 
son  of  PhiHp,  son  of  Thomas)  died  on  the  29th  of  September,  in  the  army  of 
the  Lord  Justice,  after  having  been  banished  from  his  country  by  O'Neill.  He 
was  an  intelligent,  virtuous,  and  bounteous  lord  ;  he  was  worthy  of  any  chief- 
tainship he  could  obtain,  by  reason  of  the  great  number  of  learned  men  and 
exiles  supported  by  him,  and  the  vastness°  of  his  premiums  and  goodly  gifts. 
His  brother,  Cuconnaught,  was  inaugurated  in  his  place. 

O'Rourke  (Hugh  Boy,  the  son  of  Brian  Ballagh)  was  slain  by  the  Kinel- 
Connell,  at  Baile-an-tochair'',  in  order  that  the  son  of  the  daughter  of  Manus 
O'Donnell,  namely,  Brian,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Owen  (O'Rourke),  might 
enjoy  the  lordship  of  Breifny. 

Mac  Carthy  Reagh  (Fineen,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Fineen,  son  of  Don- 
nell')  died.  He  was  a  man  who  had  not  placed  his  affections  on  this  world,  and 
who  had  no  knowledge  of  his  possessions,  or  how  much  he  had  laid  up. 

O'Madden  (MelaghlinModardha,  the  son  of  Melaghlin,  son  of  Breasal)  died. 
He  was,  as  a  reader  of  Latin  and  Irish,  by  no  means  the  least  distinguished  of 
the  gentlemen  of  Ireland  in  his  time.  He  was  the  defender  of  his  lands  and  his 
territory  against  his  neighbours,  a  supporting  pillar  of  women,  of  the  poor,  and 
of  the  weak  and  un  warlike  ;  and  Donnell,  the  son  of  John  O'Madden,  took  his 
place. 

Pierce  Butler,  the  son  of  Edmond,  Lord  of  Trian-Chluana-Meala'',  died. 
He  was  a  person  who  had  obtained  the  wealth  and  inheritance  of  his  territory 
without  battle  or  war,  a  man  who  did  not  possess  or  procure  [the  value  of]  a 
single  penny  of  the  property  of  the  Church  of  God  by  right  of  Pope  or  prince. 
And  his  son,  Theobald",  [succeeded]  in  his  place. 

A  shower  of  fish'  in  Tirconnell  this  year. 

when  they  are  sucked  up  into  the  cloud  which  coasts  of  Ireland,  a  shower  offish.    A  shower  of 

ig  over  the  column  of  water.    Such  spouts  are  this  description  fell  some'  twenty  years  since, 

often  driven  from  the  sea  to  a  considerable  dis-  near  Slievemore,  on  Achill  Island,  in  the  county 

tance  over  land,  where  they  at  length  break  and  of  Mayo,  where  the  natives,  who  preserve  a  dis- 

deluge  the  plain  with  water  and  live  herrings,  tinct  recollection  of  it,  state  the  herrings  re- 

This  is  what  is   now   called,   6n   the  western  mained  putrid  on  the  fields  for  weeks  afterwards. 

9  T 


1610  QNNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1567. 

Slóiccheaó  lá  hua  noorhnaíll  ao6  mac  rTia^nu]pa  hi   criji   eoccain  ipn 
njfiTTipfó  Oo  i^onnpaó,  "|  Do  pónaó  cpeaca  lomoa  Iwy,  -]  cainij  plan  Dia  rij. 


aOlS  CRIOSU,  1567. 
Ctoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  Sfpcca,  aSeacc. 

Sluaicceaó  Id  hua   noorhnaiU  aob  if  in  eappac  do   ponnpaó.     IpeaD  Do 

DeachaiD  cap  loc  peabail  50  paimcc  jup  an  pliab  ccapbarac  50  po  lomaip- 

'ccfó  1  CO  po  lépmDpaó  laip  ina  mbaoi  ina  corhpocpaib, "]  poaip  plan  Dia  fi 5. 

Slóicceaó  lánrhóp  lépnonoilce  lá  hua  neill  (Sfan  mac  cuinn,  niic  ciíinn 
iimc  enpi,  mic  eoccam)  Do  óol  hi  ccenel  cconaill  pop  ua  TiDomnaill  (QoD  mac 
ma^nupa,  mic  aoDa  óicc,  mic  aoóa  puaió)  Do  lonopaó  1  do  opccain  na  n'pe 
peib  Do  pónaó  laip  peacr  piam  ció  an  can  ná  caomnaccaip  ua  Domnaill 
(TTlajnup)  pollamuccaó  nó  píp  imbeajail  a  placa  nóc  a  cípe  ap  a  einfipce, 
-]  a  eapláince,  "|  cpia  ppirbeapr  -\  compuaccam  a  clomne  buóém  ppia  poile. 
6á  hann  Do  pala  Dua  Domnaill  (aoó)  a  bfic  50  nuachab  pocpaice  im  aoó 
mac  aoóa  óicc  mic  aoba  puaib  co  na  compuilibib  ag  apD  an  jáipe  alia  cuaib 
Don  inbfp  Dianib  ainm  Síuleac,"]  lap  ná  cloipceocc  Dó  50  po  DÓil  ó  neill  co  na 
plnjaib  Don  cíp  po  paoíb  ceacca  do  cocuipeab  in  po  bo  corhpoccup  dó  Dia 
aipeacaib  -]  baí  pfipin  ajó  nepnaibe  an  Dú  pni,  ap  a  aoí  ní  cangacuap  pom 
ineallma  pó  a  cojaipm.  Q  nibaccap  ann  mparh  1  nupcopac  laoí  ní  po  póchaij- 
pioc  ní  conuppacaccap  Cb  a  pabaipc  uaca  Don  caob  apaill  Dpeappaic  púilibi 
bale  plan  Do  plóccaib  ace  Dianapccnam  ina  noocum  ina  nDponjaib  1  ina 
nDi'opmaib,  ni  po  anpac  Dia  pfimim  co  panjaccap  gan  anab  jan  aipipiom  cap 
an  ppfppaic  ap  bd  haicbe  ann  an  can  pin.  Qp  na  aipiuccab  pin  Dua  Dorhnaill 
po  ciiip  a  bpoDlom  bfce  ploicch  i  ninneall,  1   1  nopDuccab  po  céDóip,  1  po  la 

•  Sliabk  gCarbatach,  now  Slieve  Carbadagli,  that  this  Hugh  Ogc  was  otherwise  called  Qoo 

near  Strabane,  in  the  county  of  Tyrone.  buB,  i.  e.  Black  Hugh,  which  is  coxrect. 

"  Very  numerous,  literally,  "  a  full-great  en-  i  Ard-an-ghaire,  i.  e.   height  or  hill   of  the 

tire-assembled  hosting  by  O'Neill."  sbotiting  or  laughter,  now  Ardingary,  a  place 

™  O'Donnell Charles  O'Couor  of  Belanagare  near  the  town  of  Letterkeuny,   on  the  north 

adds,  mac  a  oeapb  peacpa,  i.  e.  "  his  sister's  side  of  the  River  Swilly,  in  the  parish  of  Augh- 

son,"  which  is  correct.  inuushin,  barony  of  Kilmacrenan,  and  county 

^  Httgh  Oge. — Charles  O'Conor  interpolates  of  Donegal. 


15670  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1611 

A  hosting  was  made  by  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Manus)  into  Tyrone, 
in  the  winter  of  this  year;  and  he  committed  many  depredations.  He  returned 
safe  to  his  house. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1567. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  sixty-seven. 

A  hosting  was  made  by  O'Donnell  (Hugh)  precisely  in  the  spring  of  this 
year  ;  and,  having  crossed  Lough  Foyle,  he  proceeded  to  Sliabh  gCarbatach', 
and  plundered  and  totally  ravaged  the  whole  neighboiu-hood,  and  he  retiurned 
in  safety  to  his  house. 

O'Neill  (John,  son  of  Con,  who  was  son  of  Henry,  who  was  son  of  Owen) 
mustered  a  very  numerous"  army,  to  march  into  Tirconnell  against  O'Donnell* 
(Hugh,  the  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Hugh  Oge,  son  of  Hugh  Roe),  to  plunder  and 
ravage  the  country,  as  he  had  done  some  time  before,  when  O'Donnell  (Manus) 
was  not  able  to  govern  or  defend  his  principahty  or  covmtry,  in  consequence  of 
his'own  infirmity  and  ill  health,  and  the  strife  and  contention  of  his  sons.  The 
place  where  O'Donnell  happened  to  be  with  a  few  forces  at  this  time,  with 
Hugh  Oge",  the  son  of  Hugh  Roe,  [and]  with  others  of  his  relations,  was  Ard- 
an-ghaire",  on  the  north  side  of  the  estuary  which  is  called  Suileach  ;  and, 
hearing  that  O'Neill  had  arrived  with  his  forces  in  the  country,  he  dispatched 
messengers  to  summon  such  of  his  chieftains  as  were  in  his  neighboui'hood,  and 
he  himself  awaited  them  there  [at  Ard-an-ghaire] ;  they  did  not,  however,  come 
fully  assembled  at  his  summons.  As  they  were  here  waiting,  they  received  no 
notice  of  any  thing^,  until,  at  break  of  day,  they  perceived,  just  within  sight,  on 
the  other  side  of  Fearsad-Suilighe^  a  powerful  body  of  forces  rapidly  advancing 
towards  them,  in  hosts  and  squadrons  ;  [and]  they  stopped  not  in  their  course, 
without  halting  or  delaying,  until,  without  halting  or  delaying*",  they  had  crossed 
the  Fearsad,  for  the  tide  was  out  at  the  time.  When  O'Donnell  perceived  this, 

'  They  received  no  notice  of  any  thing,  i.  e.  they  the  east  of  the  town  of  Letterkenny,  and  oppo- 

remained  ignorant   of  the   proceedings  of  the  site  Ardingary.    It  can  be  now  easily  crossed  at 

enemy.  low  water. 

"  Fearsad- Suiligke,  i.  e.  the  trajectus,  or  pas-  ''  Without  halting  or  delaying. — The  language 

sage  of  the  Swilly.     This  trajectus  is  now  called  is  here  childishly  redundant,  but  it  would  be 

Farsetmore,  and  is  situated  about  two  miles  to  wrong  to  leave  a  single  word  untranslated. 

9x2 


1612  awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [1567- 

oiopina  mopcj^lóicch  im  mac  ui  Domnaill  .i.  aCb  mac  afoa  t>o  beabaiD  pjn 
copac  an  cplóij  ap  oóij  Co  croippfo  a  rpoijreacha  lomlán  laip  capp  na  peó 
iTiai^ib  1  rcappapaip  é  50  hionao  innill  no  caoitiparaip  a  bioóbaba  a  rim- 
ceallab,  nác  n  racmancc.  Ima  companaicc  enp  mapcpluacc  ui  borhnaiU  "| 
upcopac  mapcplóij  ui  néill  Do  pocoip  mall  mac  oonnchaiD  coipbpij^  mic  aoóa 
Ó1CC,  mic  aoóa  puaió,  1  nomnall  ullcac  mac  an  Doccuipa  ollorh  ui  Domnaill 
lélfijfp,  1  Tílngpabapcaij  a-^á  mbaoí  lomcoiméD  caraije  colaim  cille,  lá 
plua^  uí  neill.  Qcc  cTna  aobeapao  apaile  jup  ab  ló  a  mnincip  buóéin  Do 
cfp  mail  ó  Dorhnaill.  Oo  pocaip  beóp  ó  cfnél  neoccain  TTlac  mécc  mar^amna 
co  nDpoing  oile  cenmo  ró  pom.  O  Ro  pioip  mac  ui  Domnaill  (.i.  aeb  mac 
aoóa)  an  poplíon  baoí  ina  accliaib,  1  a  rijeapna  Do  poccain  ap  Dainsfn,  Ro 
Ifnpam  hé  conup  cappaib  acc  aipipiumh  ppi  poipibin  a  muincipe  Dobpfir  paip. 
Ní  cian  cpa  baoípiumh  in  uDmaille  moiji  mfnman  conup  paca  Dpécra  Dia 
painmuincip  ina  óócum  bá  po  lír  laipiurh  a  poccain  cuicce.  Cdnaic  ann 
cerup  mac  puibne  na  rcuaf,  TTlupcab  mail  mac  eoccain  óicc  mic  eoccair, 
clann  mec  puibne  panacc,  roi]ipbealbac  ócc  "i  aoD  buibe,  -\  mac  puibne 
hó^aineac,  TTIaolmuipe  mac  aoóa,  mic  neill,  1  lap  poccain  50  haon  maijjin 
i)óib  iiip  bó  haóbal  a  pocpaiDe  np  ní  pabaDap  cenmorú  ceirpi  céD  noma.  T?o 
acaoín  ua  Dorhnaill  a  imnfo  "]  a  eccualang  ppip  na  maifib  pin, -|  acbfpc  ppiú 
j^up  bó  lainne  1  jup  bó  maipi  loip  a  écc, "]  a  oicceaó  do  mai^in,  piapiú  no 
poDaimpíbh  an  no  paoj^ar  cenel  eoccain  do  róp  -\  do  rapcapal  paip  buofin, 
pop  a  ófpbpine,  -]  pop  a  corhpuiliDib  orhail  na  po  pulaiuj;  "|  na  po  pobaim  a 
bunab  cenel  piarh  poirhe,-]  50  ponnpabac  an  oimiab  "]  an  Dirhiccin  po  imippfc 
paip  Don  cup  pin  .1.  a  arcup  1  a  lonnapbab  co  poipeicneac  ap  a  longpopc.  T?o 
aonruijpioc  na  maice  pin  uile  ppi  hairfpcc  an  apDplara,  1  acbeaprpar  jup  bo 
piop  na  popcanca  -]  na  pui^le  po  can  conab  paip  Dfipib  oca  ua  neill  co  na 
plócc  Dionnpaiccib.  bo  Dana  Docoipcc,  ainDiuiD,  ecceillij  an  corhoiple  Do 
pónab  ann  pin  .1.  paiccib  an  mop  ^abaib  ~\  an  riióp  j:;uapacca  po  baoi  pop  cionn 

*  The  eyiemt/,  literally,   "  the  army."  l)y  whom  it  has  been  deposited  in  the  Museum 

■^  Ultagli,  now  Donlevy.  of  the  Royal  Irish  Academy.— See  note  '',  un- 

■■  The  Cathach This  is  a  curious  box   con-  der  the  year  1497,  p.  1232,  supra.    See  also  the 

taiuing  a  copy  of  the  Psalter,  supposed  to  be  in  year  1499,  p-  1252. 

the  handwriting  of  St.  Columbkille.     It  is  the  ^  To  faU  and  to  die — The  language  is  here 

property  of  Sir  Richard  O'Donnell  of  Newport,  remarkably  redundant.     The  literal  translation 


1567.]  ,  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1613 

he  instantly  drew  up  his  little  army  in  order  and  array,  and  dispatched  a  tioop 
of  cavalry,  under  the  command  of  the  son  of  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of 
Hugh),  to  engage  the  van  of  the  enemy*",  in  order  that  he  might  bring  all  his 
infantry  across  the  level  fields  into  a  secure  position,  where  his  enemies  could 
not  encompass  or  surround  them.  In  the  engagement  which  followed  between 
(^'Donncll's  cavalry  and  the  van  of  the  cavalry  of  O'Neill,  fell,  by  O'Neill's  army, 
Niall,  the  son  of  Donough  Cairbreach,  son  of  Hugh  Oge,  son  of  Hngh  Roe 
[O'Donnell];  Donnell  Ultagh",  son  of  the  Doctor,  OUav  to  O'Doimell  in  physic  ; 
and  Magroarty,  who  had  the  custody  of  the  Cathach""  of  St.  Columbkille.  Some, 
however,  assert  that  Niall  O'Donnell  was  slain  by  his  own  people.  On  the  side 
of  the  Kinel-Owen  fell  the  son  of  Mac  Mahon,  and  many  others.  When  the 
son  of  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Hugh)  perceived  the  numbers  who  Avere 
opposed  to  him,  and  that  his  lord  had  retired  to  a  place  of  security,  he  followed 
him,  in  order  to  await  the  arrival  of  relief  from  his  people.  Nor  was  he  long 
in  a  depressed  state  of  mind,  when  he  perceived  numbers  of  his  faithfid  people 
advancing  towards  him,  and  rejoiced  was  he  at  their  arrival.  Thither  came,  in' 
the  first  place,  Mac  Sweeny-na-dTuath  (Murrough  Mall,  the  son  of  Owen  Oge, 
son  of  Owen);  the  sons  of  Mac  Sweeny  Fanad,  Turlough  Oge  and  Hugh  Boy; 
and  Mac  Sweeny  Banagh  (Mulmurry,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Niall).  And 
when  all  had  ai'rived  at  one  place,,  they  formed  no  very  great  force,  for  they 
were  only  four  hundred  in  number.  To  these  chiefs  O'Donnell  complained  of 
his  distress  and  injuries ;  and  he  protested  to  them  that  he  would  deem  it  more 
pleasing  and  becoming  to  fall  and  to  die*^  in  the  field,  than  to  endure  the  con- 
tempt and  dishonour  with  which  he  himself,  his  tribe,  and  his  relations,  had 
been  treated  by  the  Kinel-Owen,  such  as  his  ancestors  had  never  suifered  or 
endured  before  ;  but  more  especially  the  insult  and  indignity  they  had  offered 
him  on  this  occasion,  by  violently  expelling  and  banishing  him  from  his  fortress. 
All  the  chieftains  assented  to  the  speech  of  their  prince,  and  said  that  all  the 
remarks  and  sentiments  he  had  expressed  were  true,  so  that  they  resolved  to 
attack  O'Neill  and  his  army.  The  resolution  here  adopted,  of  facing  the  great 
danger  and  peril  which  awaited  them,  was  bold,  daring,  obdurate,  and  irrational; 

is  :  "  and  he  said  to  them  that  it  would  be  more  sooner  than  brook  wliat  oí  insult  and  indig- 
pleasing  and  becoming  witlrhim  that  his  death  nity  tlie  Kinel-Owen  had  offered  to  himself,  his 
and    destruction    should   take   place    by    field,      tribe,  and  his  relations,"  &c. 


1614  aNNW.a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [i567. 

Dóib.  Q)i  a  aoi  bá  mó  po  popcarhluij,  jpaó  a  neinij,  "|  a  narajioa  ma  ccpióe 
oloáip  5paó  a  ccopp, -|  a  ccaomaTimann.  l?o  apccnáccap  laparh  co  haoin 
mfriTTinac  pop  ccúla  ina  ninneall  cpóbfcc  bobba,  i  ina  naonbpnin  nafapba  pop 
amup  lonjpoipr  ui  néill.  Qrhail  ao  connaipc  ó  neill  ina  bocom  gac  noipeac 
lac,  po  cfip  a  rheanma  co  mop  oppci  co  nebipc,  QS  maccnab,  "j  ap  lonjnab 
abbal  Ifm  ap  pé  nap  bupa  Don  luce  ÚD  ap  noijpiap  ■)  ap  mbpfca  opulang, 
mop  cocr  Dia  naipleac  -|  Dia  mubuccab  po  céoóip  oiap  paijib.  Oia  mbaoi 
popp  na  hiompcncib  pin  po  bóipcpior  oarhpaib  cenel  cconaill  50  Diojóip 
DÓpaccac  hi  ccfnn  plóij  ui  néill,  nip  bo  peic  opca  la  lian]iabaib  í  néiU  an  ní 
pin  uaip  báccap  ago  nfiofb  arhail  ap  oéine  conpanjaccap  ó  00  puaccacap 
pom  eat)  a  ppaipccpiona  Doib.  6á  píocba  popgpanna  an  peccab  popniaca 
popjpuamna  Do  bfpc  cac  pop  apoile  Díb  Dionnaib  a  pope  pinnpabapcac,  Do 
bCpcpac  a  ngaijie  cara  op  aipo  5up  bo  lop  Dpupail  cime  1  ceicme  pop  piallac 
anbpann  anappacca  an  comgáipiuccab  Do  pónpau  ag  pocrain  hi  cciVm  apoile 
Dóib.  l?o  gabpac  pop  cuap^ain  -]  pop  cpénarcuma  pop  maccab  ~\  pop  mub- 
uccab apoile  ppi  pe  poDa  co  po  papccbab  pip  hi  paoinlije  -\  cupaib  cpecr- 
nai^re, "]  oicc  arjaoice, "]  laoic  IfiDmeaca  ap  na  ppiaplfopab  pan  aprhac  ap 
ccpioll.  Qcc  cfna  po  rheabaib  pop  cenel  neojain  rpé  nfpc  lomjona  "|  10m- 
bualca  gup  bo  hficcfnn  Dóib  a  lacaip  caca  Dpolmuccab,  "|  paijib  jup  an 
cconaip  popp  a  ccubcaccap  ^lon  gup  bo  pobaing  Dóib  a  poccain  an  ran  pin 
ap  po  lion  an  muip  ipin  ppfppaic  capp  a  crangarcap  a  ccúp  laot,  co  nap  bo 
pobula  caippi  iDip,  munbab  cinnepnaiji  na  cogpama,  neolachr  "]  ofiipe  na 
Dpuinje  báccap  ina  nDiuiD  ace  aice  a  nDi'miaba,  a  nanppalab,  -]  a  naincpibe 
05  popconjpa  poppa  a  hionnpaiccib.  Nip  bo  hailpfbac  po  cinjpior  gup  an 
pianrhuip  ap  ni  aipipfb  neac  Dib  ppia  commbparaip,  net  ppio  coifipuilibe  gion 
gup  bo  cépnub  a  gábab  no  a  guapacc  Dóib  Roccam  gup  an  inibeap  oiccen 
Dub  Domain  baoi  pop  a  ccionn.  Nip  bo  paigib  cfpa  lap  ppuacr,  na  anacail 
lap  nficcfn  an  lonnpaiccib  pin,  ap  ]io  bcnbeab  lion  oipime  pop  an  lionnmuip  Ian 
nDomain  DiiJ  gép  bó  lainn  lá  các  uabaib  (anoapleó)  a  legab  oia  paigiD.    l?o 

^  Tke  love  of  their  protegees,  5pa6  a  neini^,  uses  coparapóa   to    express    "terrific,"   from 

i.  e.  the  love  of  their  wives  and  children,  and  of  roparaip,  a  monster, 
all  others  who  looked  to  them  for  protection.  '  To  susfain  their  onset,   literally,   "  this  was 

''    Venomous,    acapba,    literally,    "  serpent-  not    an   onset  of  refusal  with   the   soldiers  of 

like."     The  writer  of  the  Battle  of  M(xgh  Rath  O'Neill."     The  verb  obaó,  which  is  sometimes 


1567]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1615 

but  the  love  of  their  protegees^  and  inheritances  prevailed  in  their  hearts  over 
the  love  of  body  and  life,  and  they  marched  back  with  nnanimous  conrage,  in 
a  regularly  arrayed  small  body,  and  in  a  venomous"  phalanx,  towards  the  camp 
of  O'Neill.  When  O'Neill  perceived  them  [moving]  directly  towards  him,  he 
became  disturbed  in  spirit,  and  he  said :  "  It  is  very  wonderful  and  amazing  to 
me  that  those  people  shoiúd  not  find  it  easier  to  make  full  concessions  to  us, 
and  submit  to  our  awards,  than  thus  come  forward  to  us  to  be  immediately 
slaughtered  and  destroyed."  While  he  was  saying  these  words  the  troops  of 
the  Kinel-Connell  rushed  vehemently  and  boldly  upon  the  army  of  O'Neill  ; 
nor  did  O'Neill's  soldiers  refuse  to  sustain  their  onset',  for  when  they  [the 
Kinel-Connell]  had  come  within  sight"  of  them,  they  began  to  accoutre  them- 
selves with  all  possible  speed.  Fierce  and  desperate  were  the  grim  and  terrible 
looks  that  each  cast  at  the  other  from  their  starlike  eyes ;  they  raised  the  battle 
cry  aloud,  and  their  united  shouting,  when  rushing  together,  was  sufficient  to 
strike  with  dismay  and  turn  to  flight  the  feeble  and  the  unwarlike.  They  pro- 
ceeded [and  continued]  to  strike,  mangle,  slaughter,  and  cut  down  one  another 
for  a  long  time,  so  that  men  were  soon  laid  low,  heroes  wounded,  youths  slain, 
and  robust  heroes  mangled  in  the  slaughter.  But,  however,  the  Kinel-Owen 
were  at  length  defeated  by  dint  of  slaughtering  and  fighting,  and  forced  to 
abandon  the  field  of  battle,  and  retreat  by  the  same  road  they  had  come  by, 
though  it  was  not  easy  for  them  to  pass  it  at  this  time,  for  the  sea  [the  tide] 
had  flowed  into  the  Fearsad,  which  they  had  crossed  in  the  morning,  so  that  to 
cross  it  would  have  been  impracticable,  were  it  not  that  the  vehemence  of  the 
pursuit,  the  fierceness,  bravery,  and  resoluteness  of  the  people  who  were  in 
pursuit  of  them,  to  be  revenged  on  them  for  their  [previous]  insults,  enmity, 
and  animosity,  compelled  them  to  face  it.  They  eagerly  plunged  into  the 
swollen  sea,  and  no  one  would  wait  for  a  brother  or  a  relation,  although  it  was 
no  escape  from  danger  or  peril  for  them  to  have  reached  the  dark,  deep  ocean 
estuary  which  was  before  them.  This  was  not  an  approach  to  warmth  after 
cold,  or  to  protection  after  violence,  for  a  countless  number  of  thein  was 
drowned  in  the  deep  full  tide,  though  it  would  be  happy  ior  them  all.  as  they 

written    opao,    means    "  to  shun,    or  refuse,"      ppuipccpionu,  .1.  peao  a  paóaipce,  i.  e.  distance 

obao  caca,  the  refusal  of  battle.  of  their  sight.  This  is  the  ancient  Irish  mode  of 

^Wilkin  sight,  6  do  puaccacap  poiii  eao  a      saying   "within  view.''      In   the  modern  Ian- 


1616  aNHW.a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1.567. 

paccbaicc  pocaióe  lomba  ecip  rhapbao-]  baóaO  Do  pluaj  ui  neill  ipin  mnijm 
pin.  bóccap  lao  ba  liaipf^óa  oibpme  bpmn  mac  enpi  mic  Sfain  1  neill  co 
na  oeapbpafaip,  TTlac  Dorhnaill  gallocclac  conpapal  í  neill  co  nDpuing  moip 

00  cloinn  nr)oriinaill  amaille  ppip,  an  oiiVialrac  ua  Donnjaile  Deapbcoriialca 
Í  néiU  (aoin  pfp  bri  oile  -]  ba  coca  laip  ipin  mbir)  co  pocaioe  moip  t>ia  cineaó, 

1  opécca  Deapmapa  do  muincip  coinne, "]  do  muincip  again.  Qcc  cfna  apfo 
a  cuniaip,  po  niapbaó,  ^  po  báiófó  rpi  ceD  Decc  do  pluacc  í  neill  ipin  ccaic- 
;^leó  pin,  Qrbeapac  apaile  liubaip  gup  bo  rpi  mile  pfp  co  ccuilleaD  eapbaib 
ploij  Í  neill  ipin  IÓ  pin.  Oóla  1  néill  cpa  cépna  pióe  a]'  an  maióm  ípin,  -| 
bfi  peapp  laip  nóc  cépnapfn  óip  po  paobab  a  ciall,  -\  a  cécparia  Dia  éip. 
Qclaí  gohinclfire  gan  aipiuccab  Do  neoc  la  caob  na  habann  piiap  50  paimcc 
rap  or  raippi  hi  ccompocpaib  Don  Sgaipb  polaip  la  lieolap  Dpuinge  do  muin- 
cip gallcubaip  (ooipeacc  -\  Dpiop  muincip  ui  Dorhnaill  pfipm)  1  ni  po  hanab 
laip  50  puacc  upé  cliorap  oiarhaip  gaca  conaipe  50  cip  eogam,  Nip  bo 
hiomba  Dna  cfg  no  cfjbaip  gan  Damna  Dép  ~\  poca  píopcaoíneab  ó  caiplinn 
go  pinn  -|  go  peabail.  ba  hanbal,  1  ba  Dipirh  an  po  pctccbab  Deoalaib  ecip 
eacbaiB,  apm,  "|  eDfb  ag  cenel  cconaill  Don  cup  pin.  Qn  coccmab  la  Do  rhi 
mall  DO  i'onnpab  Do  ppaoineab  an  maibm  ipin. 

lap nDolDua  neill  1  ccip  neoccain  arhail  pemebepcmap  nÍDeapnabpocpacc, 
no  pabaile  laip,  1  ni  po  cuil  a  puancaram  go  po  cuip  cogaipm  "]  cappaing 
ap  cloinn  cSemaip  mic  alapcpaincc  mic  eoin  cacanaig  rheic  meic  Domnaill  go 
halbain.  ba  cuap  cimDibi  paogail  -|  ba  liabbap  oibfba  Dóporh  innpin  .1.  clann 
an  pip  Do  fuic  laip  peace  piarh  00  cócuipeab  cuicce.  Cangaccap  piDe  co 
cinneapnac  coblac  mop  muipibe  go  po  gabpac  pope  ag  bun  abann  Duine  1 

guage  it  would  be  expressed,  "  ó  pánjaoappan  but  the  ford  is  known  and  lies  between  Sgairbh- 

1  n-a  paóapc'"  sholais  and  the   town   of  Letterkenny,   in  the 

'  Duhhaltach. — This  name  is  sometimes  angli-  county  of  Donegal, 

cised  Dwaltagh,  and  sometimes  Dudley.  ^  Sgairbh-sholais,  i.  e.  the  shallow  ford  of  the 

■"    Muinlir-Coiniie,     i.    e.    of  the   family    of  light,  now  ScarrLfFhollis,  a  ford  which  was  de- 

O'Coinne.     This   is  to  be  distinguished  from  fended  by  a  castle,   on  the  Eiver  Swilly,  about 

O'Quin,  Idbernice  O'Cuinn.  'two  miles   west  of  the   town  of  Letterkenny. 

"  Muintir-Again,  i.  e.  the  family  of  O'Hagan.  The  site  of  the  cactle  is  still  pointed  out  on  the 

"  Upwards  here  means  towards  the  source  of  south  side  of  the  river ;  but  its  walls  were  nearly 

the  River  Swilly.   He  therefore  proceeded  west-  level  with  the  earth  in  1835,  when  the  Editor 

wards.  visited  this  locality. 

^  Ath-thairsi. — This   name   is   now   obsolete,  '  By  retired  and  solitary  ways,  literally,  "  by 


1.567]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  I617 

thought,  to  be  permitted  to  approach  it.  Great  numbers  of  O'Neill's  army  were 
lost  here,  both  by  slaying  and  drowning;  the  most  distinguished  of  whom  were: 
Brian,  the  son  of  Henry,  son  of  John  O'Neill,  and  his  brother  ;  Mac  Donnell 
Galloglagh,  constable  of  O'Neill,  with  many  of  the  Clann-Donnell  besides  • 
Dubhaltach'  O'Donnelly,  O'Neill's  own  foster-brother,  and  the  person  most 
faithful  and  dear  to  him  in  existence,  with  a  great  number  of  his  tribe  ;  also 
great  numbers  of  Muintir-Coinne"^  and  Muintir- Again".  In  short,  the  total 
number  of  O'Neill's  army  that  were  slain  and  drowned  in  that  battle  was  thir- 
teen hundred ;  some  books  [however]  state  that  O'Neill's  loss  in  this  battle 
was  upwards  of  three  thousand  men.  As  for  O'Neill,  he  escaped  from  this' 
battle  ;  but  he  would  rather  that  he  had  not,  for  his  reasdh  and  senses  became 
deranged  after  it.  He  passed  privately,  unperceived  by  any  one  [of  his  ene- 
mies] upwards"  along  the  river  side  towards  its  source,  until  he  crossed  Ath- 
thairsi",  a  ford  which  is  in  the  vicinity  of  Sgairbh-sholais'',  under  the  guidance 
of  a  party  of  the  O'Gallaghers,  some  of  O'Donnell's  own  subjects  and  people  ; 
and  he  travelled  on  by  retired  and  solitary  ways''  until  he  aiTÍved  in  Tyrone. 
There  were  not  many  houses  or  families,  from  Cairlinn'  to  the  River  Finn  and 
totheFoyle,  who  had  not  reason  for  weeping,  and  cause  for  lamentation.  Great 
and  innumerable  were  the  spoils,  comprising  horses,  arms,  and  armour,  that 
were  left  behind  to  the  Kinel-Connell  on  this  occasion.  This  defeat  of  Fersad 
Swilly  was  given  on  the  8th  day  of  May. 

Aftef  O'Neill  had  arrived  in  Tyrone,  as  we  have  already  stated,  lie  did  not 
take  ease,  nor  did  he  enjoy  sleep,  until  he  had  sent  messengers  to  Scotland,  to 
invite  James,  the  son  of  Alexander,  son  of  John  Cahanagh  Mac  Donnell  [to 
come  to  his  assistance].  It  was  an  omen  of, destruction  of  hfe,  and  the  cause 
of  his  death,  that  he  should  invite  to  his  assistance  the  sons  of  the  man  who 
had  fallen  by  himself  some  time  before.  They  came  hastily  with  a  great  marine 
fleet,  and  landed  at  Bun-abhann-Duine',  in  Ulster^  where  they  pitched  their 

the  solitary  shelter  of  each  passage."  preserved  in  the  State  Papers'  Office,  London, 

=  Cairlinn,  now  Carlingford  bay,  in  the  county  and  also  on  Norden's  map,  the  place  at  which 

of  Louth.  Shane  O'Neill  was  murdered  is  called  Bunon- 

'  Bun-ahhann  Ditine,  i.  e.  the  mouth  of  the  dune,   which   is  shown  in  the  parallel  of  the 

River  Dun,  now  Cushendun,   in  the  barony  of  present  Cushendun,  and  at  it  is  written  on  the 

Glenarm,  and  county  of  Antrim.     On  an  old  face  of  the  map :  "  Here  Shane  O'Neale  was 

map  of  Ulster,  mjide  in  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  slaine." 

9u 


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awNaca  Rioshachca  eiReawN. 


[1567. 


ruillcctib.  T?o  jHiiói^fó  lonjpopc  paiolnp  ]-'paiolionrna]i  leó  annpn.  Oo 
cualaiD  Ó  neill  an  cjioni  oárii  pin  oo  rocc  pó  a  cuai|iim  ni  po  pec  om  fpccaip- 
ofp  ppiu  jan  Dol  ap  loncliaib  na  DUirhe  Doppóa  DiojijalcaiTje  ipin  jan  cop  jan 
comaipce  ap  Dcnj  a  cíincpióe  "|  a  ain  inne  do  Diojail  -\  oaire  pop  cenél  ccon- 
ailL,i  bo  he  piaóuccaó  puaip  uaca  lap  mbfic  acbaib  ma  ppocaip  (lap  rcubaó 
Dóibpiurh  a  neccpainp  "j  a  nanppolaiD  ppif )  a  Ifopaó  50  lánaclam  -\  a  cloiD- 
rhfó  jan  cotccill  50  ppapccaibpioc  mapb  gan  anmain. 


"  ffis  enmity  towards  them — An  English  writer 
would  say  :  "  Forgetting  the  cavise  of  enmity 
that  subsisted  between  them  and  himself,  he 
intrusted  himself  to  their  protection  without 
guard  or  guarantee." 

'"  The  reception The  word  piaóuccaó  is  used 

in  these  Annals  in  the  sense  of  "  salutation  or 
reception." — See  it  again  used  at  the  years  1587 
and  1600. 

"  Bereave  him  of  life,  literally,  "  so  that  they 
left  him  dead  without  a  soul."  Camden  de- 
scribes this  murder  much  better  than  the  Four 
Masters,  as  follows : 

"  Ad  hos  prsemisso  eorum  fratre  Surleio  Baio 
.i.  Surleis  Flaro,  quem  captivum  diu  detinuerat, 
ad  gratiam  redintegrandam,  accessit,  cum  rapta 
O'Donelli"  [mortui]  "  conjuge"  [nunc  conci- 
liata]. 

"  lUi  in  vindictam  fratrum,  et  cognatorum 
quos  occiderat,  ex  ardentes,  simulata  comitate 
exceperunt,  et  mo.x  in  tentorium  admissum  inter 
pocula  ad  jurgia  prolapsi  de  probrosis  Shani  iu 
eorum  matrem  verbis,  strictis  machseris  aggre- 
diuntur,  ipsumque  et  é  comitibus  plerosque 
contrucidarunt.  Hunc  cruentum  vitas  exitum 
habuit  medio  lunio  ShanUs,  qui  patrem  domi- 
natu,  fratrem  nothum  vita  spoliaverat,  homi- 
cidiis  et  adulteriis  contaminatissimus,  helluo 
maximus,  ebrietate  adeo  insigni,  ut  ad  corpus, 
vino  et  aqua  vitK  immodice  hausta  inHamma- 
tum,  refrigerandum,  szepius  mento  tenus  terra 
conderetur.  Liberos  ex  uxore  reliquit  Henri- 
cura  et  Shanum,  ex  O'Donelli  uxore  et  concu- 


biuis  plures.  Possessione  et  bonis  Parlamen- 
taria  regni  Hiberniaj  authoritate  in  fiscum  re- 
dactis,  Turloghus  Lenigh  ex  0-Neali  familia 
potentissimus  vir  sedato  ingenio,  Eegina  volente 
popular!  electione  O'Neal  salutatur.  Hugo  ta- 
men  Baro  Dunganoni  vulgo  dictus  Shani  ex 
Matthajo  fratre  notho  nepos,  juveni  tunc  des- 
pectus,  qui  postea  patriae  turbo,  imo  pestis, 
Eegina;  in  gratiam  recipitur  ut  haberet  quem 
Turloghs  opponeret,  si  forte  ab  officio  recederet." 
— Iterum  Anglicarum  et  Hibernicantm  Annates 
regnante  Elizabetha,  edition  of  1639,  A.  D.  1567, 
pp.  127-130.  See  also  Carve,  A.  D.  1567; 
Ware's  Annals  of  Ireland,  A.  D.  1567;  Hooker, 
p.  113;  Cox,  A.  D.  1567;  Leland's  History  of 
Ireland,  book  iv.  c.  1 ;  and  Stuart's  Memoirs  of 
the  City  of  Armagh,  pp.  258-261. 

The  celebrated  Jesuit,  Edmund  Campion, 
who  was  in  Ireland  at  the  time,  describes  the 
particulars  of  his  murder,  aud  the  causes  that 
led  to  it,  as  follows  : 

"  But  the  Lords  of  Vlster,  and  elsewhere, 
whom  he  yoked  and  spoiled  at  pleasure,  abhor- 
ring his  pride  and  extortion,  craved  assistance 
of  the  Deputy  for  redresse  thereof:  O'Neale 
advertised,  increaseth  his  rage,  disturbeth  and 
driveth  out  Mac  Gwire,  the  plaintiffe,  burneth 
the  ]\Ietropolitaue  Church  of  Ardmagh,  be- 
cause" [recte,  in  order  that]  "  no  English  army 
might  lodge  therein,  for  which  sacriledge  the 
Primate  accursed  him,  besiegeth  Dundalke, 
practiseth  to  call  strangers  into  the  land  for 
ayde,  as  appeareth  by  those  letters  which  Sir 


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ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


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rich,  many-tented  camp.  As  soon  as  O'Neill  heard  of  the  arrival  of  that  great 
host,  he  did  not  consider  his  enmity  towards  them" ;  he  went  under  the  protec- 
tion of  that  fierce  and  vindictive  host  without  surety  or  security,  in  order  that 
[by  their  assistance]  he  might  be  able  to  wreak  his  vengeance  upon  the  Kinel- 
Connell.  And  the  reception"  he  got  from  them,  after  having  been  for  some 
time  in  their  company  (after  having  shewn  [the  causes  of]  their  enmity  and 
animosity  towards  him),  was  to  mangle  him  nimbly,  and  put  liim  unsparingly 
to  the  sword,  and  bereave  him  of  life".     Grievous  to  the  race  of  Owen,  son  of 


Henry  Sidney,  Lord  Deputy,  intercepted,  occu- 
pieth  all  the  North  of  Ireland,  being  100  myles 
broad,  120  long.  Then  addressed  he  plausible 
letters  to  the  Potentates  of  Mounster,  exhorting 
them  to  rebell,  that  the  force  of  England  at 
once  might  be  dismembered.  This  message 
the  Deputy  prevented,  stayed  the  Countrey, 
abridged  him  of  that  hope,  and  then  proclaimed 
him  Traytor.  An  Irish  tester  standing  by, 
and  hearing  O'Neale  denounced  with  addition 
of  a  new  name,  traytor :  Except  (quoth  he) 
traytor  be  a  more  honoiirable  title  than  O'Neale, 
he  shall  never  take  it  upon  by  my  consent. 

"  While  the  Deputy  was  absent  in  England, 
the  towne  of  Droghedagh  was  in  hazard  to  be 
taken  by  the  Rebels,  which  to  preserve,  at  the 
motion  of  the  Lady  Sidney,  then  abiding  in 
Droghedagh,  came  Master  Sarsfield,  then  Major 
of  Divelin,  with  a  chosen  band  of  goodly  young 
men  citizens,  and  brake  the  rage  of  the  enemies. 
The  Deputy  returning  made  him  knight,  and 
finding  it  now  high  time  utterly  to  weede  and 
roote  out  the  Traytor,  he  furnished  a  substan- 
tial! army,  and  with  the  readiness  thereof  has- 
tened the  Irish  whome  O'Neale  had  impove- 
rished, cut  off  his  adherents,  and  all  aocesse  of 
succour,  chased  him  and  his  into  corners,  spent 
him,  cast  him  into  such  despaire,  that  he  con- 
sulted with  Secretary  Neale  Mac  Connor  to 
present  himself  unknowne  and  disguised  to  the 
Deputy,  with  an  halter  about  his  neck,  begging 
his  pardon.  Ere  you  doe  so  (quoth  his  Clarke), 

9 


let  us  prove  an  extreame  shift,  and  there  he 
perswaded  him  to  joyne  with  the  Scots,  whom 
he  had  lately  banished  :  of  whom,  should  he  be 
refused  or  finde  inconvenience,  at  any  time, 
submission  to  the  Deputy  might  then  be  used 
when  all  faileth.  Shane  knew  himselfe  odious 
to  the  Scots,  especially  to  them  whom  he  thought 
to  linck  with  the  brother  and  kindred  of  lames 
Mac  Conill"  [Mac  Donnell],  "  yet  in  those  hard 
oddes  hee  devised  rather  to  assay  their  friend- 
ship then  to  grate  upon  mercy,  which  so  oft  and 
so  intollerably  he  had  abused. 

"  Mac  Conill,  whom  Shane  overthrew,  left 
two  brethren  and  a  Sister,  whereof  one  Suarly 
Torwy  remained  with  O'Neale,  entertayned" 
[as  a  prisoner]  "  after  his  brother's  death.  The 
other  was  Alexander  Oge,  who  with  600  Scots 
incamped  now  in  Claneboy.  The  woman  was 
Agnes  Ilye,  whose  husband  Shane  slew  in  the 
said  discomfiture.  Agnes  had  a  sonne,  Mac 
Gillye  Aspucke,  who  betrayed  O'Neale  to  avenge 
his  father's  and  vncle's  quarreU.  At  the  first 
meeting  (for  thither  he  came  accompanied  with 
Torwy"  [Sorley  Boy],  "  and  his  Secretary,  and 
50  horsemen)  the  Captaines  made  great  cheere, 
and  fell  to  quafling,  but  Aspucke,  minding  to 
enter  into  his  purpose,  there  openly  challenged 
his  Secretary  as  the  Author  of  a  dishonourable 
report,  that  Mac  Conil's  wife  did  offer  to  forsake 
her  country  and  friends,  and  to  marry  with 
Shane  O'Neale  her  husband's  destruction ;  Mary 
(quoth  the  Secretary),  if  thine  Aunt  wereQueen 

u2 


1620 


aNNa?,a  Rioshachca  eiueaNN. 


[1567. 


ba  D01I15  00  cenel  eoccain  ttiic  neill  oidTd  an  n  copcaiji  ann  pn,  ap  bc'i 
he  a  cconcoba]!  aji  coiccfoacap,  a  lu^  larhpaoa  a)i  laocoacc,  -]  a  njpfio  5016 
1  ^aij'cceaó  an  ciia  neill  fw  .1.  Sfan  conab  Dpojiairmfc  a  oiofóa  do  jiaiófó. 

Secc  mbliaona  Sfpccacc  cúicc  cér>, 
mile  blioóain  ip  ní  bpécc, 
CO  bá]"  rpfain  rnic  mic  cuinn 
Ó  roióecc  cpiopc  hi  ccolamn. 


>)f  Scotland,  it  might  beseeme  her  full  well,  to 
seeke  such  a  marriage.  To  this  brawle  O'Neale 
gave  eare,  upheld  his  man,  advaunced  his  own 
degree.  The  comparison  bred  a  fray  betweene 
theire  souldiours  ;  Out  sprang  Aspucke,  and 
beat  O'Neale's  man,  and  then  suddainly  brought 
his  band  upon  them  in  the  tent,  where  the  soul- 
diours, with  their  slaughter-knives,  killed  the 
Secretary  and  Shane  O'Neale,  mangled  him 
cruelly,  lapped  him  ;n  an  old  Irish  Shirte,  and 
tumbled  him  into  a  pit,  within  an  old  Chappell 
liard  by :  whose  head  four  dayes  after  Captuine 
Pierce  cut  oil'  and  met  therewith  the  Deputy, 
who  sent  it  before  him  staked  on  a  pole  to  the 
castle  of  Divelin,  where  it  now  staudeth.  It  is 
thought  that  Tirlagh,  who  now  usurpeth  the 
name  of  O'Neale,  practised  this  devise  with 
Agnes,  Alexander,  and  Torwy,  when  he  per- 
ceived Shane  discouraged,  and  not  able  to  hold 
out.  Thus  the  wretched  man  ended,  who  might 
have  lived  like  a  prince  had  he  not  quenched 
the  sparks  of  grace  that  appeared  in  him,  with 
arrogaucy  and  contempt  against  his  prince." — 
Historie  oj' Ireland,  reprinted  edition  of  1809, 
pp.  189-192. 

Ware  adds  that  Captain  Pierce  received  a 
thousand  marks,  which  was  the  reward  promised 
by  proclamation  to  him  who  shoidd  bring  up 
his  head. 

The  Captain  Pierce  here  referred  to  was  Wil- 
liam Piers,  Esq.,  from  whom  Sir  John  Piers,  of 
Tristernagh  Abbey,  in  the  county  of  Westmeath, 
is  the  ninth  in  descent.     His  son,  Henry  Piers, 


Esq.,  of  Tristernagh,  conformed  to  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church,  and  prevailed  upon  his  sons  to 
embrace  the  same  faith,  of  whom  Thomas,  his 
third  son,  became  a  Franciscan  friar.  His  great 
grandson,  Sir  Henry  Piers  of  Tristernagh,  was 
the  author  of  A  Ckorogrnpliical  Description  of  the 
County  of  Westmeath,  a  work  of  great  merit  for 
the  age  which  produced  it.  It  was  published  in 
1770,  in  the  first  volume  of  Vallancey's  Collec- 
taneade Rebus Hibernicis.  The  family  residence  at 
Tristernagh  is  now  in  a  frightful  state  of  dilapi- 
dation, and  the  family  estates  much  incumbered. 

The  Editor's  late  friend,  Matthew  O'Conor, 
Esq.,  of  Mount  Druid,  has,  in  his  Recollections  of 
Switzerland,  instituted  a  comparison  between 
this  remarkable  Irishman  and  Arminius.  His 
words  are : 

"Woe  to  the  reputation  of  a  people  whose  fame 
and  character  are  at  the  mercy  of  conquerors. 
The  Irish  were  subdued ;  the  Germans  ultimately 
triumphed.  The  Eomans  conquered  Carthage, 
and  Livy  their  historian  has  decried  Annibal, 
the  greatest  general,  statesman,  and  patriot  of 
antiquity.  The  character  of  Shane  O'Neal  has 
been  discoloured  by  the  national  prejudices  of 
Camden.  The  noble  mind  of  Tacitus  disdained 
falsehood,  and  in  his  admiration  of  heroism,  even 
in  a  foe,  has  erected  a  monument  to  Arminius, 
which  will  last  longer  than  any  which  poetry, 
painting,  far  statuary  could  have  raised.  Shane 
O'Neal  is  represented  as  a  glutton,  a  drunkard, 
an  adulterer,  and  a  murderer;  yet  this  barba- 
rian, by  the  natural  vigour  of  his  mind,  raised 


1567.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1621 


Niall,  was  the  death  of  hiin  who  was  there  slain,  for  that  O'Neill,  i.  e.  Juhn,  had 
been  their  Conchobhar''  in  provincial  dignity,  their  Lugh  Longhanded^'-in  hero- 
ism, and  their  champion-''  in  [time  of]  danger  and  prowess.  The  following 
[quatrain]  was  composed  to  commemorate"  his  death  : 

Seven  years,  seventy,  five  hundred, 
And  a  thousand  years,  it  is  no  falsehood, 
To  the  death  of  John,  grandson  of  Con, 
From  the  coming  of  Christ  into  a  body. 


armies,  erected  forts,  besieged  Ibrtiiied  towns, 
defeated  regular  troops  led  on  by  experienced 
generals,  and  made  a  resolute  stand  against  the 
first  nation  tlien  in  the  world  in  riches,  in  arts, 
and  in  arms.  He  was  often  victorious  and  never 
vanquished.  A  generous  historian  would  have 
beheld  in  him  a  second  Arminius,  the  champion 
of  the  freedom  of  his  native  country :  both  were 
unconquered  in  war,  both  were  opponents  to 
mighty  powers,  both  were  treacherously  slain 
by  their  own  relatives,  both  \vere  long  famed 
among  their  respective  nations,  and  their  praises 
were  transmitted  to  many  successive  genera- 
tions in  the  songs  of  bards  and  shanchies  ;  both^ 
were  unknown  to  the  polished  nations  of  their 
ages,  and  both  were  deserving  of  the  notice  of 
posterity.  Shane  O'Neal  slumbers  in  oblivion ; 
Arminius  will  live  for  ever  in  the  immortal 
pages  of  Tacitus." — jip.  46,  47. 

Doctor  Stuart,  in  his  Historical  Memoirs  of  the 
City  of  Armagh,  p.  261,  shews,  from  the  public 
records,  that  the  war  with  this  O'Neill  cost  the 
Queen  of  England  the  sum.  of  one  hundred  and 
forty-seven  thousand  four  hundred  and  seven 
pounds  three  shillings  and  nine  pence,  indepen- 
dent of  the  cesses  laid  on  the  country  for  its 
support,  and  of  the  great  damages  sustained  by 
her  subjects  ;  and  that  of  her  soldiers,  three 
thousand  five  hundred  were  slain  by  Shane  and 
his  troops.  Shane  was  attainted  by  Act  of  Par- 
liament, passed  on  the  23rd  of  February,  156y, 


by  which  also  the  name  O'Neill,  with  the  cere-  , 
monies  iised  at  its  inauguration,  was  abolished, 
and  heavy  penalties  were  enacted  against  any 
person  who  should  assume  that  title ;  and  Shane's 
lands  were  vested  in  the  Crown  for  ever.  It  was, 
however,  enacted  that  a  portion  of  the  country 
might  be  held  by  English  tenure  by  Turlough 
Luineach  O'Neill  and  l|is  adherents.  There  are 
curious  intercepted  letters  and  other  original 
materials  for  a  life  of  this  remarkable  man  in 
the  Libraries  of  Lambeth  and  the  British  Mu- 
seum, which,  it  is  hoped,  some  one  of  our  antir 
quaries  will  collect  and  give  to  the  public. 

"  Conchobhar,  i.  e.  lie  was  another  Conchobhar 
Mac  Nessa  in  maintaining  the  rights  and  dig- 
nity of  the  province  of  Ulster.  For  some  ac- 
count of  Conchobhar  and  his  heroes  of  the  Bed 
Branch  in  Ulster,  see  Keating's  H'lslory  of  Ire- 
land, Haliday's  edition,  pp.  370-405,  and  O'Fla- 
herty's  Ogi/gia,  part  iii.  c.  47,  48. 

'  Liigh  Longhanded. — He  was  a  King  of  the 
Tuatha  De  Dananns,  A.  M.  2764,  and  is  much 
celebrated  in  ancient  Irish  historical  tales. — 
See  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  13. 

"  Champion The  word  gpeiD  is  also  written 

5peic,  which  is  e.xplained  saii^cuohac  by 
Michael  OClery:  "  jpeic  .i.  jjaipseaDhdc,  ha 
5peiD  ^áió  .1.  ba  jaipjeaohac  u  njabuó,  i.  e.  he 
was  a  champion  in  [time  of]  danger." 

''  To  commemorate. — "  popuirtnccm  .i.  cuirii- 
nmjciD." — celery. 


1622 


awNaca  líio^hachca  eiReaNH. 


[1567 


O  neill  DO  jaipm  do  coippóealbac  luineac  mac  neill  conallmj  lap  map- 
baD  Shibin. 

lapla  Dfi'murhnn  Do  jabail  lap  an  iiipciy  In  ccill  moceallócc  -|  a  bpfic 
laip  50  liiiinneac,  appióe  50  jaiUirh  50  liar  limin  -[  co  liac  cliac  laparh  lap 
ppeil  paccpaicc  do  pónaó  in  jabáil  pin,  1  Do  cuaiD  a  bpofaip  Sfan  mac 
Semaippo  parhain  apccionrrhi  ccfnn  gall  Dpi oppuccab  an  lapla, -|  po  jabaD 
é  pó  céDóip.     Ro  cuipeaó  apaon  50  pa;caib  laD  laparh. 

TTlag  piapaip  Decc  .1.  emann  mac  Semaip  nnc  emamn,  peap  einij  coircinn, 
"I  nje  naoiDfo,  pfp  pojlamca  In  rcfngroib  -]  1  mbeaplaib  eipioe,  -\  a  mac 
Semup  DoipDneao  ina  lonaD. 

Sfan  abiipc,  mac  Sfain,  mic  Sfain  na  bpiacal,  mic  uillicc  puaió  Do  mapbaó 
lá  hanDaoinib,"]  ló  mojabaib  mipccneaca  Do  muincip  lapla  cloinne  piócaipD. 

TTlac  UÍ  bpiain  cuabmuman  .1.  cabcc,  mac  Donncbaib,  mic  concobaip,  mic 
roippbealbaij.  TTlac  lapla  upmurhan  .1.  Semap  ócc  mac  Semaip,  mic  piapaip 


'  Turlough  Luineack.^-*-'H.e  was  so  called  from 
having  been  fostered  bj^  O'Luinigh  of  Muintir- 
Luinigh  in  Tyrone. 

''  The  Earl  of  Desmond  was  taken  prisoner  at 
KUmallock — The  Lord  Deputy  soon  after  this 
capture  went  over  to  England,  taking  with  him 
the  Earl  of  Desmond,  the  Baron  of  Dungannon, 
O'Conor  Sligo,  and  others.  The  Earl  of  Des- 
mond and  O'Conor  Sligo  were  confined  in  tho 
Tower  of  London  ;  but  O'Conor,  by  indentvire, 
made  his  submission  to  the  Queen,  and  was, 
therefore,  set  at  liberty.  The  Earl  made  his 
submission  on  the  12th  of  July,  1568,  when  he 
was  likewise  enlarged.  The  Queen  wrote  the 
following  letter  in  favour  of  O'Conor  Sligo,  in 
pursuance  of  which  he  afterwards  received  a 
patent  for  his  estates,  bearing  date  the  22nd  of 
December,  1584 : 

''Rot.  Pat.  anno  10°  Elk.  Dorso. 
"  Eliz.  E.  By  the  Queene. 

"  Trustie  &c.  Whereas  Sir  Donald  O'Conor 
Sligo,  Knyght,  of  the  partes  of  Conagh,  cum- 
myng  with  our  right  trustie  Sir  Henry  Sydney, 


Knyght,  our  Deputie  of  that  our  realme,  hitlier  to 
our  Courte,  to  [acjknowledge  his  loyall  dutie  to 
us  his  soveraigne  Lady,  hayth  very  humbly  and 
voluntaryly  submytted  himselfe  to  our  grace, 
and  freelie  surrendered  to  \is  all  his  possessions; 
whereupon  wee  have  receyved  hym  into  our 
protection,  and  have  farther  accorded  to  make 
unto  hym  and  theyres  males  of  his  father,  cer- 
tayne  Estates  of  Inheritaunce,  as  more  at  lardge 
may  appeare  by  oiir  letters  patents,  which  he 
will  showe  youe :  Wee  have  thought  mete  to 
recommend  hym  unto  youe,  as  one  whom  wee 
certaynly  trust  will  prove  and  continiie  a  fayth- 
.full  subject :  and,  therfor,  wee  will  and  chardge 
you  readily  to  here  souch  complaynts  as  he 
hayth  to  make  unto  you,  for  the  deteyning  cer- 
tain his  castells  from  him,  as  he  sayth,  that  is 
to  say,  the  castells  of  Bondrowys  by  O'Donnell, 
and  Bayleintochair  [Ballintogher]  by  O'Warch 
[O'Rourke],  &  Ardnariach  [Ardnarca]  by 
Olyver  Burghe's  sons,  &  that  you  cause  the 
s"*  parties  to  appeare  and  make  aunswer  before 
yourselfes  or  souch  other  as  youe  shall  thinke 
mete,  to  hear  the  complaynts  of  the  said  O'Conor 


1567.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1623 


After  the  murder  of  John,  Turlough  Luineach',  the  son  of  Niall  Conallagh, 
was  styled  O'Neill. 

The  Earl  of  Desmond^  was  taken  prisoner  at  Kilmallock,  by  the  Lord  Jus- 
tice, who  conveyed  him  from  thence  to  Limerick,  and  from  thence  to  Galway, 
to  Athlone,  and  afterwards  to  Dublin.  This  capture  was  made  a  short  time 
after  the  festival  of  St.  Patrick.  And  his  kinsman,  John,  the  son  of  James, 
went  to  the  English  to  visit  the  Earl  the  ensuing  Allhallowtide,  and  he  was 
immediately  taken  prisoner.     Both  were  afterwards  sent  to  England. 

Mac  Pierce'  died,  i.  e.  Edmond,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  Edmond.  He  was 
a  man  of  general  hospitality,  who  kept  a  free  house  of  guests,  a  man  learned 
in  tongues  and  languages  ;  and  his  sou,  James,  was  elected  in  his  place. ' 

John  Burke,  son  of  John,  who  was  son  of  John-na-bhfiacaF,  son  of  Ulick 
Roe,  was  killed  by  [some]  peasants  and  spiteful  labourers  belonging  to  the 
Earl  of  Clanrickard. 

The  son  of  O'Brien  of  Thomond,  i.  e.  Teige,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of 
Conor,  son  of  Turlough  ;  the  son  of  the  Earl  of  Ormond,  i.  e.  James  Oge,  the 


Slego,  and  to  give  direction  for  restitution  to 
the  said  Sir  Donald  O'Conor,  of  that  which  shall 

be  found  due  to  hym  by  order  of  justice And 

furthermore  wee  will,  that  yf  there  hath  bene 
any  spoyles  made  of  any  his  goods  during  his 
absence,  in  commyng  hither  &  retourne  thither, 
that  upon  his  complaynt,  order  be  gyven  for 
the  triall  thereof,  and  restitution  to  be  made  to 
hym  as  the  case  shall  requyre  :  Lastly,  wee  let 
youe  to  understande  that  upon  his  humble  and 
reasonable  request,  wee  are  well  contented  that 
the  howse  of  the  Fryerie  of  Slego,  whearin,  he 
sayth  the  sepulture  of  his  Auncestors  hayth 
bene,  shalbe  so  preserved,  as  the  Friars  thear 
being  converted  to  secular  prestes,  the  same 
Howse  may  remayne  &  contynue  as  well  for  the 
sepulture  of  his  posteritie,  as  for  the  maynte- 
nance  of  prayer  and  service  of  God.  And  yf  in 
any  outher  reasonable  thinge  the  said  Sir  Donald 
O'Conor  Slego  shall  for  the  mayntenance  of  hym- 
self,  his  tenants  and  possessions  in  our  Peax,  as 


shall  belong  to  a^good  and  faythfull  subject, 
requyre  your  aide,  wee  will  and  chardge  you 
to  ayde  &  assist  hym,  in  our  name,  to  the  best 
of  your  power,  for  so  wee  are  disposed  to  shewe 
all  favor  to  so  good  a  servant  &  subject  as  wee 
take  him  to  be  ;  and  by  the  experience,  wee 
have  sene  of  his  behavior  here,  wee  thinke  as- 
suredly he  will  contynue  :  And  where  he  hayth 
required  that  he  myght  have  the  true  copie  of 
this  our  letter,  wee  are  contented  tliat  youe  shall 
delyver  unto  him  a  copie  of  the  same,  in  souche 
sort  as  in  lyke  cases  youe  are  accustomed,  under 
our  seale  theare. — Yeven  under  our  signet  at 
our'  Palais  of  Westminster,  the  xxv""  daie  of 
January,  1567,  the  tenth  year  of  our  reign. 

"  To  our  trustie,  the  Justices  of  our  realm 
of  Ireland." 

*  Mac  Pierce — He  was  the  head  of  a  branch 
of  the  Butlers. — See  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's 
Antiquities,  chap.  viii.  sect.  3,  p.  59. 

*'  John-na-hhfiacal,  i.  e.  John  of  the  teeth. 


1624  '  aHNW-a  líio^hachca  eipeawN.  [1568. 

puaioli,  1  niac  meg  capraij,  eojan  mac  cojibmaic  óicc,  mic  cojibmaic,  mic 
rnibcc  Do  écc  an  bliaóain  fi. 

lTla;c;Tiup  mac  emainn,  mic  moj;nupa  mic  finj  oo  mapban  la  mac  muipip 
ciappaij^e  .1.  le  comap  mac  emainn  mic  romaip,  1  ni  baoi  peop  a  aopa  nia 
cineaf)  brt  pfpji  fngnarh  "]  eineac  ináp. 

DjioicCc  ara  luain  Do  6énarh  ló  lupcip  na  hejieann  .1.  Sip  lienpii  pDnefl. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,   1568. 
Qoip.  Cpiopc,  mile,  ciiicc  ceo,  SCpcca,  a  hocc. 

Concaoip  cloinne  piocaipo  .1.  ITIaipjpecc  injfn  DonncliaiD  mic  concobaip 
mic  roippóealbai^,  aon  lánbeóil  pfp  nepeann,  bfn  corai^ce  a  capac,  1  a  com- 
^aoil  Decc. 

TTlac  marjamna  cijeapna  copcabaipcinn  aipceapaije  .1.  bpian  ócc  mac 
bpiain  mic  coippóealbaij  mic  caiócc  Decc,-]  raócc  mac  mupchaib  mic  caibcc 
puaiD  mic  coippbealbaij  mic  caiócc  Do  jabail  a  lonaiD. 

lilac  piiibne  panac  Dorhnallgopm  mac  Domnaill  óicc  Do  rhapbaó  hi  ppiull 
10  Dpfim  Dia  miiinnpi  pfin  .1.  muinrip  ppuiréin. 

Caicilín  inj^fn  méguiDip  (cúconnacc)  bfn  uí  baoijill  (coippóealbac  mac 
neill  mic  coippóealbaij)  an  aoin  bfn  roipig  bá  pfpp  1  nullraib  Decc  an.  5. 
lanu£ípí. 

Sluaicceaó  la  Samup  mac  muipip  mic  Sfain  mic  an  lapla  (im  liijnapaó 
DO  ponnpaó)  ap  mac  muipip  ciappai  je  .1.  comap  mac  emainn.  5á  he  an 
Semup  pin  poba  coDnac  ap  geapalcacaib  a  nionaD  cloinne  Semaip  1111c  Sfam 
bóoí  hillaim  hillonoainn  le  bliaoain  poiriie  pin.  Oo  hionDpab  ~\  Do  haipcceaD,  Do 
loipcceaD  1  Do  loimcpeachaD  an  rip  50  cinnfpnac  le  pemup  co  na  plóccaib. 
r?o  reicpioc  uprhóp  an  cipe,  -\  pucpac  an  po  péDparc  Dia  ninnilib  leó  50  lie 
pnama.    baoi  Diomacc  1  Do  lionrhaipe  ploij  Semaip  50  po  puiDi^eaD  do  lonj- 

s  Sir  Henry  Sidriei/. — Charles  O'Conor  inter-  Clare, 

polates   .1.   henpi   mop   na  beopac,    "i.e.  Big  '^  This  James. — O'Daly  states,  in  his /A'itory  0/" 

Henry  of  the  Beer."  the  Gei-a/dines,  c.  xvii.,  that  the  Earl  of  Desmond 

*■  East  Corca-Bhaiscinn. — This  territory  is  in-  and  his  brother  privately  intimated  to  this  James 

eluded  in  the  present  barony  of  Moyferta,  or  *  their  anxious  desire  that  he  would  take  upon 

Moyarta,  in  the  south-west  of  the  county  of  himself  the  leadership  of  the  Geraldines,  while 


1568.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  -KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1625 

son  of  James,  son  of  Pierce  Roe  ;  and  the  son  of  Mac  Carthy,  i.  e.  Owen,  son 
of  Cormac  Oge,  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  Teige,  died  in  this  year. 

Manus,  the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Manus  Mac  Sheehy,  was  slain  by  Mac 
Maurice  (Fitzmaurice)  of  Kerry,  i.  e.  by  Thomas,  the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of 
Thomas.  And  there  was  not  of  his  tribe  a  man  of  his  years  more  distinguished 
for  prowess  and  hospitality  than  he. 

The  bridge  of  Athlone  was  built  by  the  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  i.  e.  Sir 
Henry  Sidney^. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1568. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  sixty -eight. 

The  Countess  of  Clanrickard,  i.  e.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Donough,  son  of 
Conor,  son  of  Turlough,  the  most  famous  woman  in  Ireland,  and  the  supporter 
of  her  friends  and  relations,  died. 

Mac  Mahon,  Lord  of  East  Corca-Bhaiscinn",  i.  e.  Brian  Oge,  the  son  of  Brian, 
son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige,  died  ;  and  Teige,  thp  son  of  Murrough,  son  of 
Teige  Roe,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige,  took  his  place. 

Mac  Sweeny  Fanad  (Donnell  Gorm,  the  son  of  Donnell  Oge)  was  treach- 
erously slain  by  a  party  of  his  own  people,  i.  e.  by  Muintir-Sruithen. 

Catherine,  the  daughter  of  Maguire  (Cuconnaught),  and  wife  of  O'Boyle 
(Turlough,  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Turlovigh),  the  best  chieftain's  wife  in  Ulster, 
died  on  the  5th  of  January. 

A  hosting  was  made  by  James,  the  son  of  Maurice,  son  of  John,  son  of  the 
Earl,  about  Lammas,  against  Mac  Maurice  of  Kerry,  i.  e.  against  Thomas,  the 
son  of  Edmond.  This  James'  was  commander  of  the  Geraldines  in  the  stead 
of  the  sons  of  James,  son  of  John,  who  had  been  kept  in  captivity  in  London 
for  a  year  previous  to  that  time.  The  country  was  soon  plundered,  devastated, 
burned,  and  totally  ravaged  by  James  and  his  forces.  The  greater  part  of  the 
[inhabitants  of  the]  country  fled,  carrying  with  them  to  Lec-Snamha'  as  much 

they  should  be  detained  in  captivity.  of  Clanmaurioe,  and  county  of  Kerry.    Close  to 

J  Lec-Snamka,    i.  e.    the   flag-stone   of  the  the  village  are  to  be  seen  the  ruins  of  an  old 

swimming,  now  Lixnaw,  a  village  on  the  River  church,  and.  the  extensive  remains  of  the  castel- 

Brick,  which  is  one  of  the  tributaries  of  the  lated  mansion  of  the  Fitzmaurices,  the  Earls  of 

Casan  Ciarraighe,  or  Cashen  river,  in  the  barony  .  Kerry,  and  a  momiment  to  the  third  Earl  of  Kerry. 

9  X  .  ' 


1626  awNaca  Rio^haclica  emeaNH.  [i568. 

pope  lionmapa  lánaibble  laiy^  a]i  gac  raob  Don  baile.  Ro  cuip  ó  concobaip 
ciappaije,  "|  clann  cpírlnj^  co  na  ccóijnjnb, "]  ii]i]ianTi  nimiplib  "|  rini|ieacaib 
an  cplói^  amaille  ppiii  oon  caob  roip  Don  baile.  Oo  cliuaiD  pfin  jup  an  luce 
bo  mfnTTiajic  laip  do  bfir  ma  pocaip  Don  caob  ciaji  Don  baile,  i  baoi  mac 
muipip  CO  na  muinmp  hi  ccfnnca  rhóip  fcnppa.  l?o  baoi  beóp  po  bpuc  aeoip 
rfp,  -]  ciopmac  aDbal  arhail  po  ba  Dii  ip  in  aimpip  pin  jnp  bo  héijfn  oá 
nDaoíníb, ")  Dei  naipnfip  mfppciile  na  habann  Dól  lé  cpuime  an  capca  -]  la 
pobapra  a  po  loran.  Qp  é  bá  conpapal  do  mac  muipip  an  can  pin  emann 
mac  an  jiolla  biiib,  mic  concobaip,  mic  Donncliaib  iinc  Doiiinaill  na  maDmann 
mec  puibne,-]  ni  capla  ina  pocaip  ace  bice  buiófn  gallócclac  Da  luce  Ifnamna 
CO  nap  bo  puaill  50  mbaoi  ina  pappaó  ^énmoca  aon  caoccae  pfp  namá  ap 
ccaicfrh  aimpipe  a  narhpaine.  Qp  a  aoi  nip  bo  miaD  leó  imceacc  ó  mac 
inuipip  lap  mbpfict)on  poipficcfn  pin  paip,  Do  baoi  beóp  ipm  mbaile  pin  Sfan 
na  SeoleaD  mac  Domnaill  ui  rfiaille  luce  luinge  pciiDe  Do  caipDib  coblai^ 
TTIheic  muipip  eanic  do  caDall  cuapea  ina  cfnD  gan  cop  5an  cfnnac,"|  nip  bo 
mai)'i  a  pagbcnl  Don  cup  pin.  Oo  cuaiD  mac  muipip  DÚ  coriiaiplniccaD  ppip 
na  mainb  pm  Dia  piop  cpéD  do  jénab.  Ppipcapcpae  Do,  -|  acbepcpac  ppip 
Daicfpcc  aoinpip  gup  bo  canaipi  Dia  mbáp  a  mbfca  arhail  pobaceap,  -|  noca 
cabaip  DO  jébam  Do  óeóin  an  locc  a  cóiD  map  nacchaió  pilfc  1  niompuiDe 
poipn,  1  Ó  nác  mfnmapc  lacpa  jiallaD  Do  mac  muipip  mic  an  lapla  apÍD  ctp 
t)énca  Duic  Do  pen  ~\  Do  pobapcan  Do  cop  1  nucc  an  coice  "]  an  conáijj  ipin  ló 
po  aniú,  1  gab  cugacc  map  cuiD  Dfipinn  50  hoiDce  ina  mbia  po  bonnaib  Do 
bioóbaó,  "I  lonnpaijfm  clann  cpiebij  uaip  ip  ppiú  ap  mo  ap  ppfpcc  -]  ap  ppola. 
lap  ccmnfD  ap  an  ccomaiple  pin  Dóib  Do  pónpac  eipje  aelamb  aoin  pip,  ~\ 
cucc  mac  muipip  inneall  1  opDuccaD  caccc  ap  an  mogoll  do  cpunnpluaj 
caipDfrhail  capla  ina  pappab,  1  cuccaDh  copac  lé  biombualaD  do  clomn 
cpuibne.      Ni  baoi  inrhe   no    apDplaicfp  (an   Dap  leó)    pob  pfpp   lé   clomn 

^  Cattle. — "  Innile,  .i.  aijinéip." — G'Clery.  lied  inuumeraljle  trophies;  and  tliat(^uc;en  Eli- 

■■  JanxtiS O'Daly,  in  his  History  of  the  Ge-  zabeth,   dreading  his  growing  power,   sent  him 

raldiues,  does  not  describe  the  particular  acts  an  embassy  to  bring  about  a  peace, 
of  this  James  while  he  was  leader  of  the  Geral-  "  John-na-Seoltadh.,  i.  e.  Joannes  velorum,  John 

dines ;  but  he  remarks,   in  general  terms,   that  of  the  sails.    He  was  so  called  from  the  number 

during  the  five  years  that  he  held  this  office,  of  sails  which  he  had  manufactured,  and  per- 

and  carried  on  the  war  by  permission  of  the  haps  from  his  skill  in  sailing.  The  O'Malleys  are 

•Pope,  he  won  many  a  glorious  victory,  and  car-  celebrated  by  the  Irish  poets,  as  the  most  ex- 


1568.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1627 

of  their  cattle"  as  they  were  able.  James'  had  so  numerous  an,  army  that  he 
pitched  two  very  extensive  camps  on  both  sides  of  this  town.  He  placed 
O'Conor  Kerry  and  the  Clann-Sheehy,  with  their  battalions,  and  a  proportion- 
ate number  of  the  gentlemen  and  chiefs  of  the  army  along  with  them,  at  the 
eastern  side  of  the  town  ;  and  he  himself  went,  with  that  portion  of  the  army 
which  he  wished  to  accompany  him,  to  the  west  side  of  the  town,  so  that  Mac 
Maurice  and  his  people  were  in  great  jeopardy  between  them.  Intense  heat  of 
the  air,  sultriness  and  parching  drought,  also  prevailed  (as  was  natural  at  that 
season),  so  that  their  people  and  cattle  were  obliged  to  drink  the  brackish 
water  of  the  river,  in  consequence  of  the  intensity  of  their  drought  and  the 
oppressiveness  of  their  thirst.  Edmond,  the  son  of  Grilla-Duv,  son  of  Conor, 
son  of  Donough,  son  of  Donnell-na-madhman  Mac  Sweeny,  was  constable  to 
Mac  Maurice  at  this  time  ;  and  he  had  with  him  only  a  small  party  of  gallow- 
glasses  of  his  followers,  scarcely  fifty  men,  the  time  of  their  service  being  ex- 
pired. However,  they  did  not  think  it  honourable  to  depart  from  Mac  Maurice, 
as  this  danger  had  overtaken  him.  There  happened  also  to  be  in  the  town  at 
this  time  one  John-na-Seoltadh",  son  of  Donnell  O'Malley,  with  the  crew  of  a 
long  ship,  who,  being  friends  to  the  fleet  of  Mac  Maurice,  had  come  to  visit  him 
without  visitation  or  engagement,  and  did  not  think  it  becoming  to  desert  him 
on  that  occasion.  Mac  Maurice  consulted  with  those  chieftains,  to  know 
what  he  should  do.  They  answered  and  said  unto  him  with  one  accord :  "  In 
our  present  situation  our  life  is  next  to  death,  and  it  is  not  relief  we  shall 
receive  by  the  consent  of  those  who  are  opposed  to  us,  and  who  are  be- 
sieging us ;  and,  as  it  is  not  thy  wish  to  give  hostages  to  the  son  of  Maurice, 
the  son  of  the  Earl,  what  thou  shouldst  do  is,  to  resign  thy  luck  and  pros- 
perity to  fate  and  fortune"  this  day,  and  take  for  thy  portion  of  Ireland  till 
night  what  shall  be  under  the  feet  of  thine  enemies,  and  let  us  attack  the 
Clann-Sheehy,  for  against  them  our  enmity  and  indignation  are  greatest."  This 
resolution  being  agreed  to,  they  rose  up  quickly  with  one  accoixl,  and  Mac 
Maurice  placed  in  order  and  array  of  battle  the  small  body  of  friendly  forces 
that  he  had  with  him,  and  the  Clann-Sweeny  were  placed  in  the  van  to  make 

pert  mariners  in  all  Ireland.  1559,  note  ',  where  the  word  is  used  in  the  same 

"  To/ate  and  fortune The  word   roice  cer-      sense  thus  :   "  Ci]'  ami  pin  oo  roilij  an  coice  -\ 

tainly  means  fate  or  destiny  here See  the  year      do  cfbai  j  an  cinnfniatn  a  ccup  ap  aon  riiaijin, 

9x2 


1628  aNNQ^a  Rio^nachca  eiReawH.  [15G8. 

rpicliij  1  lé  a  ccojila  ina  ccimceall  iná  a  ppaicpin  Dm  nionnpaicció  ciji  an 
ojiDuccao  pin  iiaiji  pob  pfpp  leó  a  ccopcc  oiob  ap  en  lacaip  map  bfir  ag  ice 
Spain  glaipp  oépaicc,  -|  ace  iBe  puap  iiipcce  pé  a  naccaib  arhail  ]io  baccap. 
Imcupa  mfic  muipip  "]  a  muincipe  ni  po  jabpacc  cop  Don  conaip  coiccinn  50 
panjarcap  hi  ccfno  cloinne  picij,  50  po  pécaó  leó  pulanj  a  ppaobaip  plfj, 
fCt)  a  parhrac,  coinjeall  a  ccloibfrh,  1  cpuaiD  a  ccacbapp,  \Ct  ap  Ifr,  -|  lap 
ccairfmli  pee  aitnpipe  Dóib  ace  an  ccorhciiapccain  pin  po  ppaoíneaó  Don  jlan 
pluag -jfpalcac -)  cuccpac  acchaiD  ap  imceacc,  ■]  cúl  pé  compopuccaD  a 
ccarlairpeac.  Ro  Diancinnfpnaijfó  ina  nofDhaij  la  muincip  meic  muipi]' 
ciajipaii^e,  -\  po  jaBpac  050  ppaoijlCo  "|  acca  piopaipleac  co  r>á\\  bu|ia|'a 
piorti  no  oipfrii  50c  aji  paccbaD  Do  jfpalcacaib,  "|  Do  cloinn  cpichij  ipm 
ppaoineaD  hi  pin.  Ro  mapbaó  écr  íinóp  ann  pin  .1.  ó  concobaip  ciappai^e,  con- 
cobap  mac  concobaip,  6á  Do  móip  éccaib  cloinne  Ruópaije  an  ran  pin  an  n 
ropcaip  ann  pin,  aoibeal  beo  a  cmeaD,  ■)  a  clannmaicne,  popap  Dia  painicc 
oplarhap  a  arapDa  ap  bélaib  pinnpeap,  uaicne  pulaing  Darii,  "|  Deópaob,  "j 
Dfg  aopa  gaca  Dana,  pope  coraijre  coccaiD, "]  cfnnaippce  ppi  coifiapj^anaib 
-|  coiccpiochaib.  Ro  páccbaó  ann  Dna,  emann  ócc  nnac  emainn  nnic  pirhi5 
apD  conpapal  gfpalcac,  pfp  coicceac  rpomconaij  50  Ian  ainm  láiitie  -\  ci^e 
aoiofo,"!  TTIupchaD  balb  mac  ma jnupa,  mic  pi'chij,  UaDcc  puaD  o  ceallacain, 
TTlac  111  DuibiDip,  TTlac  an  pioipe  pinn,  pálrac  Duine  maoilin,  -\  Sfon  mac 
TjeapóiD  mic  jeapailc  oiDpe  leice  bébionn.  RojabaDh  ann  puaiDpi  mac  maj- 
iiupa  mic  ['ichij,  Ro  mapbaó  1  po  jabaD  pocaiDe  ele  cetimorár  pióe  Don 
cup  pin. 

i.  e.  it  was  there  that  late,  will,  and  destiny  per-  forth  so  soon  to  the  engagement,  for  they  felt 

mitted  to  bring  them  to  one  place."  confident  that  so  small  a  number  could  be  easily 

'^Subdue  them. — The  style  here  is  clumsy,  or,  subdued." 
at  least,   very  artless.     It  eould  be  easily  im-  °  The  strength. — "  Seao  .1.  lúioip  no  lúioip- 

proved  by  altering  the  construction  and  puri-  eacr." — QfClery. 

fying  the  language,  but  this  would  not  be  fair  ?  Clanna-Rury,  i.  e.  the  descendants  of  Rudh- 
in  any  translator.  The  whole  story  could  be  raighe  Mor,  King  of  Ulster,  A.  M.  3845,  accord- 
better  told  in  fewer  words  thus  :"  The  Clann-  ing  to  O' Flaherty's  Chronology.  Duald  Mac 
Sheehy,  whose  only  food  since  they  had  en-  Firbis  states,  in  his  pedigrees  of  the  Clanna- 
camped  at  Lixnaw  was  the  green  grain  from  the  Kudhraighe,  that  O'Conor  Kerry  is  the  most 
blade  of  corn,  and  whose  only  drink  was  the  Olustrious  chieftain  he  finds  among  them.  He 
brackish  water  of  the  River  Brick,  rejoiced  ex-  gives  the  pedigree  of  two  branches  of  this  fa- 
ceedingly  at  seeing  Fitz  Maurice's  party  come  mily,  namely,  of  John,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of 


1568.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1029 

the  onset.  No  wealth  or  principality  was,  they  thought,  more  agreeable  to  the 
Clann-Sheehy,  and  all  those  who  were  about  them,  than  to  see  them  approach 
in  this  order,  for  they  had  rather  subdue  them"  on  the  spot  [as  they  thought 
they  could],  than  to  remain  awaiting  them  [any  longer],  eating,  as  they  had 
been,  the  green  grain  from  the  blade  of  corn,  and  drinking  cold  water.  As 
for  Mac  Maiu-ice  and  his  people,  they  deviated  not  from  the  common  road 
until  they  came  up  with  the  Clann-Sheehy ;  and  then  it  was  that  both  parties 
made  trial  of  the  temper  of  their  sharp  spears,  the  strength"  of  their  battle-axes, 
the  keenness  of  their  swords,  and  the  hardness  of  their  helmets;  and  after 
having  thus  fought  for  some  time,  the  fine  army  of  the  Geraldines  were  worsted, 
and  took  to  flight,  and  turned  their  backs  from  maintaining  the  field  of  battle. 
They  were  vehemently  and  swiftly  pursued  by  the  people  of  Mac  Maurice  of 
Kerry,  who  proceeded  to  womid  and  slaughter  them  ;  so  that  it  would  not  be 
easy  to  reckon  or  enumerate  all  of  the  Geraldines  and  of  the  Clann-Sheehy 
that  fell  in  this  defeat.  There  was  one  in  particular  slain  there  whose  fall  was 
a  cause  of  great  grief,  namely,  O'Conor  Kerry  (Conor,  the  son  of  Conor) ;  his 
death  was  one  of  the  mournful  losses  of  the  Clanna-Rury''  at  this  time  ;  the  lively 
brand  of  his  tribe  and  race ;  a  junior,  to  whom  devolved  the  chieftainship  of 
his  native  territory,  in  preference  to  his  seniors;  a  sustaining  prop  of  the  learned, 
the  distressed,  and  the  professors  of  the  arts  ;  a  pillar  of  support  in  war  and 
contest  against  his  neighbours  and  against  foreigners.  There  also  fell  Edmond 
Oge,  the  son  of  Edmond  Mac  Sheehy,  chief  constable  to  the  Geraldines,  a 
wealthy  and  aiBuent  man,  famed  for  his  dexterity  of  hand  and  house  of  hospi- 
tality ;  also  Murrough  Balbh,  the  son  of  Manus  Mac  Sheehy  ;  Teige  Roe 
(3'Callaghan  ;  the  son  of  O'Dwyer ;  the  son  of  the  White  Knight ;  Faltach  of 
Dun-Maoilin" ;  and  John,  the  son  of  Garrett  Fitzgerald,  heir  to  Lec-Beibhionn'. 
There  Rory,  son  of  Manus  Mac  Sheehy,  was'  taken  prisoner  ;  and  many  others 
besides  these  wiire  slain  or  taken  prisoners. 

Conor,  sou  of  Conor,  son  of  Jolin,  son  of  Conor,  fifth  in  descent  from  the  same  KuJhraighe. 
son    of  Conor,    son   of  Conor,    son   of  Dermot  "  Dun-maoilin,  i.  e.  Maoilin's  fort,  now  Dun- 

O'Conor  Kerry,  who  was  the  fifty-eighth  in  de-  moylin,  near  the  village  of  Ardagh,   in  the  ba- 

scent  from  Rudhraighe,  and  of  an  older  branch,  rony  of  Lower  Conillo,  and  county  of  Limerick, 
who  would  appear  to  have  been  extinct  in  the  '  Lec-Beibhioim,  now  Lickbevune  castle,  built 

writer's  time,   namely,  of  Conor,   son  of  John,  on  a  cliff  over  the  sea,  in  the  parish  of  Kilconly, 

son  of  Conor,  son  of  Dermot,  who  was  the  fifty-  barony  of  Iraghticonor,  and  county  of  Kerry. 


1630  aNNQta  Rioj^hachca  eiReanN.  [i569. 

aOlS  CRIOSC,  1569. 
Ctoip  Cpioy^c,  mile,  ciiicc  ceo,  Sfpcca,  anaoi. 

6ppocc  ciUe  DO  lua  .1.  coippoealbac  mac  marjarhna  mic  coippóealbnij^ 
UÍ  bpiain  Decc. 

O  Sfclinapaicch  .1.  an  jiolla  Dub  mac  Diajimarca,  mic  uilliam,  mic  Sfain 
buibe  culac  roijilfnja  Do  jallaib  ~\  Do  jaoióelaib  Doneoc  nccfó  Dia  paij^ib 
bib,  pfp  gan  bfic  eólac  In  laiDin  no  In  mbépla  poba  mo  cion  "|  coil  In  ppiaó- 
naipi  jail  an  pfp  í  pin,  -]  a  écc  Q  mac  Sfan  Do  jaboil  a  lonaioh. 

Sláine  insfn  TTlupchaiD  mic  coippóealbaij,  mic  caibcc,  mic  coippbealbai^ 
UÍ  bpiain  Decc. 

mop  pécctc  injfn  bpiain,  mic  caibcc,  mic  coippbealbaig,  mic  bpiain  cara 
an  aonaig  111  bpiain  bfn  ui  peacnapaicc  .1.  DiapmaiD  mac  uilliam  mic  Sfam 
buibe  bfn  Deappccaijce  ap  Deilb "]  ap  Deaplaccab  ipibe  Do  écc. 

Semup  mac  muipij>  mic  an  lapla  Do  bfir  na  bume  cocccac  conjctipfc 
an  bliabain  pi  50  po  cfnjailpior  501II  -]  gaoibil  na  muitian  ó  beapba  co  capn 
UÍ  nfiD  Daon  pann  -]  Daon  noain^fn  ppip  1  najaib  comaiple  an  pij.  lapla 
uprhurhan  do  bfir  1  Sa;icoib  .1.  comap  mac  Semaip  mic  piapaip  mic  Semaip, 
mic  emainn,  -]  a  biap  Deapbparap  .i.  emann  an  calab  "i  éDuapo  do  DoI  in  en 
pann  lé  Semup  mac  muipip,  do  cóccap  an  Diap  mac  pm  an  lapla  la  peile 
muipe  mop  pa  aonac  innpi  copp,  1  bá  Dipiifi  Doaipnéip  ap  glacpar  Deachaib, 
1  Sr^'S^^'  ^^V^  1  baipccfcr, "]  Deuppabaib  allmapba  ap  an  aonac  pin.  Qn 
ciapla  Dna  do  ceacc  in  epinn  an  bliabain  ceDna  1  piobucchab  Dia  bpaicpib 
ppip  an  Scára. 

» Bishop  ofKillahe. — Harris  states,  in  his  edi-  Sir  Dermot,  who  was  knighted  by  King  Henry 

tion  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  595,  that  this  Tur-  VIH.  in  1533.— See  Genealogies,    Tribes,   and 

lough,  or,  as  he  calls  him,  Terence,  obtained  Customs  (f  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  376. 

the  bishopric  of  Killaloe  in  the  reign  of  Queen  "  More  Phecagh,   i.  e.  More,    or  Martha,  the 

Jlary,  and   governed  it  until   the  end  of  the  gaudy,  or  showy. 

year  1566;  but  adds,  that  he  had  not  been  able  "  Son  of  the  Eurl,  i.  e.  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond, 

to  discover  how  long  after.     This  entry  settles  '"  Was  a  rcarlike,    i,-c — An  English  writer 

this  point.  would  say,  "  broke  out  into  open  rebellion  this 

^Gilla-Duv,i.e.juvenisniger.     His  real  name  year."     O'Daly  says  that  when  this  James  was 

was  Ruaidhri,  Eory,  or  Roger,  and  usually  called  elevated  to  the  place  vacated  by  the  imprison- 

Sir  Roger  O'Shaughnessy.     He  was  the  son  of  ment  of  the  Earl,  he  sent  a  herald  to  Pope  Gre- 


1569]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1631 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  15G9. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  sixty-nine. 

The  Bishop  of  Killaloe',  i.  e.  Turlough,  the  sou  of  Mahoii,  son  of  Turloixgh 
O'Brien,  died. 

O'Shaughnessy  (Gilla-Duv'),  the  son  of  Derniot,  sou  of  Wilham,  sou  of 
John  Boy,  the  alighting  hill  to  all  the  English  and  Irish  who  came  to  him ;  a 
man  who,  though  not  skilled  in  Latin  or  English,  was  held  in  much  respect 
and  esteem  by  the  English,  died.     His  son,  John,  took  his  place. 

-  Slaine,  the,  daughter  of  Murrough,  son  of  Teige,  sou  of  Teige,  son  of  Tur- 
lough O'Brien,  died. 

More  Phecagh",  daughter  of  Brian,  the  sou  of  Teige,  sou  of  Turlough,  son 
of  Brian  Catha-an-aeuaigh  O'Brien,  and  wife  of  O'Shaughnessy,  i.  e.  Derraot, 
the  son  of  William,  son  of  John  Boy,  a  woman  distinguished  for  her  beauty 
and  mmiificence,  died. 

James,  the  son  of  Maurice,  son  orthe  Ear?,  was  a  warlike"  man  of  many 
troops  this  year ;  and  the  English  and  Irish  of  Munster,  from  the  Barrow  to 
Carn-Ui-Neid",  entered  into  a  unanimous  and  firm  confederacy  with  him  against 
the  Queen's  Parliament.  The  Earl  of  Ormond,  i.  e.  Thomas,  the  son  of  James, 
son  of  Pierce,  son  of  James,  son  of  Edmond,  being  [at  this  time]  in  England, 
his  two  brothers,  Edmond  of  Caladh  and  Edward,  had  confederated  with  James, 
the  sou  of  Maurice.  These  two  sons  of  the  Earl  went  to  the  fair  of  Inis-corr" 
on  Great  Lady-Day  ;  and  it  would  be  difficult  to  enumerate  or  describe  all  the 
steeds,  horses,  gold,  silver,  and  foieign  wares,  they  seized  upon  at  that  fair. 
The  Earl  returned  to  Ireland  the  same  year,  and  his  brothers  were  reconciled 
to  the  State'. 

gory  XIII.  to  pray  his  blessing  on  the  success  of  of  Clann-Deirgthine. 

the  war,  and  that  his  Holiness  animated  this  '   Innis-corr Cox    makes   this    Iniscorthy 

chieftain  to  the  glorious  work. — c.  xvii.  (now  Enniscorthy),  on  the  River  Slaney,  in  the 

"  Cam-  Ui-Neid,  i.  e.  the  earn  of  the  grand-  county  of  Wexford,  Hibernia  Angiicana,  A.  D. 

son  of  Neid,   one  of  the  Tuatha-De-Dananns.  1568,  which  is  probably  correct;  and  if  so»  the 

This  earn  was  near  Mizen-head,  in  the  south-  Four  Masters  should   have  written  this  name 

west  of  the  county  of  Cork See  this   place  Imp  cópraó,   as  they  have  it  at  the  year  1460. 

again  referred  to  at  the  year  1580,  where  it  is  — See  note',  under  that  year,  p.  1009,  supra. 

described  as  in  the  south-west  of  the  province  '  Reconciled  to  the  State. — Cox  says  that  they 


1632  aNwata  Rio^hachca  eiReaNW.  [I56d- 

SUiaicceaD  tíi6[i  ló  lupciy  na  hGiieann  5ip  lianpp  Smnr  hi  ppojrtiap  na 
bliabna  po  Do  bol  ap  Tnuirhneocaib  a  noiai6  na  pio6a  i  an  Dainjnijre  do  pón- 
pac,  1  apfó  DO  jab  cpe  loi^jniH  piapDeap,  i  ni  po  aipip  50  painicc  50  huib 
maccaille  pa  murhain,  -|  po  puiDijfD  longpopc  pocpaiD  pluaijbfóóa  laip  hi 
ccimceall  baile  no  mapcpa, -|  bai  pfccmain  lé  hacchaió  an  baile,  -]  bóccap 
muirhmj  05  bajap  gac  laoi  Don  cpeaccmain  pin  lomaipeacc  Do  rabaipr  Don 
iiipcip  CO  na  plua^,"!  nipo  comaillpioc  in  ni  pm.  RojabaD  an  baile  pa  DeóiD 
lap  an  lupcip,  1  po  paccaib  bapDa  a  hucc  na  banpiojna  inn.  Do  cuaiD  ap 
pin  rpé  Durhaij  an  bappai j,  1  cpe  jlfnn  majaip  Do  óol  50  copcaij.  báccap 
cipj^e  amac  muirhneac  ann  pin  ap  a  cionn  in  oipcill  lommbuailce  ppip.  Qp 
a  aoi  Do  léicceaó  an  conaip  Don  luprip.  5aoi  an  lupcip  lé  hachaiD  hi  ccop- 
caij,  "I  a  pannca  coccaiD  ag  DeiliuccaD  lé  Semap  an  aipfc  pin  occ  reacr  ap 
ppoue;c  "]  ap  papDÍin.  Oanaic  an  lupcip  ap  pin  50  luiiTineac,"]  po  bpipfó  blaD 
Do  bailcib  na  murhan  laip  erip  copcaiji  luimneac.  Ro  gabaD  cluain  Dubáin 
-j  baile  Í  bfcá  n  hi  ccnaDmuitiain  Don  coipcc  pin  lap  an  lUpcip,  "]  D6  coiD 
laparn  50  ga.llimh.  6ai  p.De  ppi  hfb  ip  in  mbaile  pin  05  cfnnpuccaD  Dálcca;p 
1  cloinne  hmlliam,  -]  lapraip  connacc, "]  lap  ppaccbc'til  na  jaillrhe  Do  po 
jjabab  laip  Dun  mop  rhec  peopaip,  -|  Ropcomain,  l?o  paccaib  PpepiDenp  1 
inbaile  ara  luain  op  cfnn  cóicciD  connacc  uile  ó  Dpobaoíp  50  luimneac  ajó 
ppollamrmccaD  "]  ajá  ppípcrnnpuccaó.  há  hepiDe  ceD  ppepiDenc  na  cípe 
pm  piarh,  Sip  eDuapo  picun  a  ainm.     T?o  puí  an  lupcip  cap  a  aip  hi  ppine 

were  pardoned  for  the  sake  of  the  Earl,  and  tiful    glen    with    a    small    village,    abojit   four 

perhaps  by  special  orders  from  the  Queeu,  who  miles  to  the  north  of  the  city  of  Cork — See 

by  the  mother  was  related  to  this  noble  family,  Smith's  Natural  and  Civil  Histoiy  of  Cork,  vol.  i. 

and  used  to  boast  of  the  untainted  loyalty  of  p.  167. 

the  house  of  Ormond. — See  also  Camden's  An-  '^  Cluain-Dubhain,    i.  e.   Duane's  lawn,  mea- 

nals  of  Ihe  Reign  of  Elizabeth,   A.  D.  1569,  edi-  dow,  or  bog  island,  now  Cloonoan,  a  castle  in 

t,ionofl639,  p.  173.  ruins,  near  Eockvale,    the  residence   of  James 

*  Ui-Maccaille,  now  the  barony  of  Imokilly,  Darcy,  Esq.,  in  the  parish  of  Kilkeedy,  barony 

in  the  county  of  Cork.  of  Inchiquin,  and  county  of  Clare. 

*>  Baile-Tia-martra,  now  Castlemartyr,  in  the  ^    Baile-  Ui-Bheachain,     i.    e.    the   town   of 

barony  of  Imokilly,  and  county  of  Cork.  O'Beaghan.     This  name  is  now  anglicised  Bal- 

"  This  threat,  literally,  "  this  thing."  lyvaughan,  and  applied  to  a  small  village  in  the 

''  Barry's  country,  now  the  barony  of  Barry-  parish  of  Drumcreehy,   barony  of  Burren,  and 

more,  in  the  county  of  Cork.  county  of  Clare.  The  castle  of  this  place  stood 

'   Gleann-Maghair,    now  Glanmire,   a  beau-  on  the  brink  of  the  bay  close  to  the  village,  but 


1.569  ]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1633 

A  great  hosting  was  made  by  the  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  Sir  Henry  Sidney, 
in  the  autumn  of  this  year,  to  proceed  against  the  Munstermen,  after  the  peace 
and  league  which  they  had  made  ;  and  the  route  he  took  was  south-Avest, 
through  Leinster  ;  and  he  did  not  halt  until  he  arrived  in  Ui-Mac  Caile^,  in 
Munster,  and  there  he  pitched  a  commodious  camp  of  vigorous  hosts  around 
Baile-na-martra",  and  he  remained  for  a  week  besieging  the  town,  the  Mun- 
stermen threatening  every  day  of  that  week  to  give  battle  to  the  Lord  Justice 
and  his  army,  but  they  did  not  put  this  threat'  into  execution.  The  town 
was  finally  taken  by  the  Lord  Justice,  and  he  left  warders  in  it  to  guard  it  for 
the  Queen.  He  passed  from  thence  through  Barry's  country'^,  and  through 
Gleann-Maghair^  to  proceed  to  Cork.  Here  there  was  a  rising  out  of  Mun- 
stermen in  readiness  to  give  him  battle ;  but  the  pass  was  nevertheless  ceded 
to  the  Lord  Justice.  The  Lord  Justice  abode  some  time  in  Cork,  during 
which  time  his  miUtary  confederates  were  separating  from  James,  and  coming 
in  under  protection  and  pardon.  From  thence  the  Lord  Justice  went  on  to 
Limerick,  and  he  demoHshed  some  of  the  towns  of  Munster  between  Cork  and 
Limerick.  On  this  expedition  Cluain-Dubhain'^  and  Baile-Ui-Bheachain^  in 
Thomond,  were  taken  by  the  Lord  Justice,  and  he  afterwards  proceeded  to 
Galway.  In  that  town  he  remained  some  time,  reducing  the  Dal-Cais,  the 
Clann- William,  and  [the  inhabitants  of]  West  Connaught,  to  subjection.  On 
his  departure  from  Galway  he  took  Dunmore-Mic-Feorais"  and  Roscommon, 
(and)  he  left  a  president  in  Athlone  to  govern  and  reduce  to  obedience  all  the 
province  of  Connaught  from  Drobhaois  to  Limerick'.  This  was  the  first  pre- 
sident ever  [appointed]  in  that  country :  his  name  was  Sir  Edward  Phitun''. 
The  Lord  Justice  returned  at  the  close  of  that  autumn  into  Fine-Ghall'  and 


only  a  few  scattered  fragments  of  the  walls  are  Sligo  and  the  county  of  Leitrim,  to  the  city  of 

now  to  be  seen.  Limerick.     The  county   of  Clare  was  made  a 

•  *■  Dumnore-Mic-Feorais,  i.  e.  Mac  Feorais's  or  part  of  the  province  of  Connaught  in  this  reign. 

Bermingham's    great    fort,    now    Dunmore,    a  ^  Sir  Edward  Phitun — Leland  calls  him  Sir 

small  town  in  a  barony  of  the  same  name,  about  Edward    Fitton. — See   his   History  of  Ireland, 

eight  miles  to  the  north  of  Tuam,  in  the  county  book  iv.  c.  2. 

of  Galway.  '  Fine-  Gliall. — This  is  the  Irish  name  for  what 

'  From  Drobhaois  to  Limerick,  i.  e.  from   the  English  and  Anglo-Irish  writers  call  the  "  Eng- 

River  Drowes,   which  forms   the  boundary  be-  lish  Pale."   On  the  fifth  of  the  Calends  of  March 

tween  the  barony  of  Carbury,  in  the  county  of  this  year  the  Pope  excommunicated  Queen  Eli- 

9  Y 


1634 


awHata  Rio^hachca  eiReawH. 


[1.569. 


jail,-]  50  hác  cliar  mp  mbimm  ccopccaip  1  nDfi]ieaó  an  pojitiaip  pn  buóéin, 
1  ní  Deapna  peap  lonaiD  an  pij  1  nepinn  inam  la  lioipfc  an  cplói^  jio  baoi- 
piorii  eacrpa  pob  aireaj-aije  map  an  piubal  pin  00  pónao  laippium. 


zabeth,  by  his  Bulla  Declaratoria,  a  copy  of  wliioh 
was  posted  by  niglit,  in  the  year  1570,  on  the 
iloor  of  the  Episcopal  Palace  in  London. — See 
Camden's  Annals,  at  the  year  1570,  where  this 
Bull  is  printed,  and  Philip  O'Sullivau's  Histonj 
of  the  Catholics,  fol.  237- 

On  the  3rd  day  of  November,  1569)  the  Lord 
Deputy  and  Council  issued  an  order  in  favour  of 
Mac-I-Brien,  Chief  of  Arra,  or  Doohan-a,  in  the 
north-west  of  the  county  of  Tipperary,  in  pur- 
suance of  the  Queen's  letter,  dated  the  last  day 
of  February,  1567.  As  the  Four  Masters  have 
given  no  notice  of  Mac-I-Brien's  submission,  the 
Editor  deems  it  his  duty  to  give  the  Queen's 
letter  and  the  subsequent  order  of  the  Council 
in  this  place,  as  these  documents  have  never  been 
printed  : 

"  Rot.  Pat.  de  Anno  12  Elia.  Dorso. 
"  For  Mac  I  Brene  Arra. 
•■  Elizabeth,  E.  •'  By  the  Queene. 

"  Right  trustie  &  welbeloved,  wee  greete  youe 
well.  Wlieras  M"  I  Brene  Araa,  our  faythfuU 
&  lovinge  subjecte,  hayth  humbly  submytted 
hymself  to  our  trustie  &  welbeloved  Sir  Henry 
Sydney,  Knyght  of  our  order  of  the  Garter  & 
Deputy  of  [our]  Realme  of  Ireland,  recognysing 
hymselfe  as  a  faithfuU  subjecte  to  us  and  to  our 
Crowne,  offring  to  surrender  his  Estate  from  hym 
&  his  sequele,  and  to  receyve  from  us  an  Estate 
according  to  our  Pleasure,  &  haith  sent  his  son 
Donagh  to  make  in  our  Presence  the  said  sub- 
myssyon  &  offers,  who  hayth  very  lowlie  &  ex- 
preslie  done  the  same.  Wee,  thearfor,  in  consi- 
deration of  the  said  humble  submyssion  &  offers, 
are  pleased  to  accept  &  allowe  the  said  M'  I 
Brene  Araa,  &  Donagh  his  son,  as  our  Liege 
men  &  leafuU  subjectes,  and  are  pleased  that 
they  shall  receyve  from  us  thies  Graces  &  spe- 


ciall  Favors  in  manner  and  forme  following. 
_  "  Furst.  That  the  said  M'.  I  Brene  Araa 
delyver  unto  youe,  our  said  Deputie,  a  full  & 
pleyne  particular  Note  &  Extent  of  all  the  Ma- 
nors, Castells,  Lordshippes,  Landes,  Tenementes, 
Seignories,  Eules,  Rentes,  Dutyes,  Customes,  & 
Comodities,  whearof  he  is  by  any  maner  of 
meane  seysed  at  this  present,  &  alter  wee  wyll 
&  order  that  our  Chauncellor  shall  accepte  & 
receyve  of  the  said  M'.  I  Brene  Araa,  by  Deed, 
to  be  enrolled  in  our  Courte  of  Chancery  within 
that  our  Realme  of  Ireland,  the  submyssion  of 
the  said  M°.  I  Brene  Araa,  &  surrender  &  resig- 
nation of  his  Name  of  M''  I  Brene  Araa,  &  of 
all  the  said  Manors,  Castells,  Lordshippes,  Seig- 
nories, Rules,  Hereditaments,  Comodities,  it  Pro- 
fits, with  all  and  singular  their  Appurtenances. 
After  which  submyssion  &  surrender  so  made, 
our  pleasure  is,  that  youe,  our  Deputie,  cause  our 
Letters  Patentes,  under  the  greate  seale  of  that 
our  Realme,  to  be  made  to  the  said  M°.  I  Brene 
Araa,  &  theyres  males  of  his  body  leafuUy  be- 
gotten &  to  be  begotten,  of  all  the  said  Castells, 
Manors,  Landes,  Tenements,  &  Hereditaments, 
to  hold  of  usv  our  Heires,  &  Successors,  in  Capite 
by  Knyght's  Fees,  &  yealding,  payeng,  contri- 
buting, &  doyng,  to  us,  our  Heires,  &  Succes- 
sours,  aU  souch  Rentes,  Services,  &  Attendance, 
as  nowe  by  any  Lawe,  Composition,  use,  or  cus- 
tome  he  is  bound,  or  oughte  to  doe,  with  souche 
farther  Reservations,  as  to  you,  our  Deputie, 
by  Assent  of  the  said  M'.  I  Brene  Araa,  shalbe 
thought  convenyent.  Neverthelesse,  jí  it  shall 
seame  necessarie  to  youe,  our  Deputie,  to  alter 
or  change  the  said  Rentes,  Duties,  &  Attendance, 
which  M''.  I  Brene  Araa  is  presentlie  holden  to 
doe,  into  outher  kyndes,  meeter  for  our  service, 
wee  authorise  you  so  to  doe. 


1569.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1635 


to  Dublin,  after  victory  and  triumph ;  and  no  deputy  of  the  King  of  Ireland 
had  ever  before  made  a  more  successful  expedition,  with  a  like  number  of 
forces,  than  that  journey  performed  by  him. 


"  Item.  Our  Pleasure  is,  in  Consideration 
that  all  manner  of  obedycnce  is  by  the  said 
M'  I  Brene  Araa,  for  hym  &  his,  offred  to  us, 
that  is  due  for  a  good  and  faythfull  subjecte, 
that  ther  be  added  in  the  said  Letters  Patents  a 
speciall  Proviso  &  Condition,  that  the  said 
M'.  I  Brene  Araa,  &  his  said  Heires  males  of  his 
body,  their  issues,  offspringe,  Posteritie,  Sequele, 
Servants,  Tenants,  &  Folowers,  shall,  to  the  ut- 
termost of  their  Powers,  contynue  for  ever  true 
&  faythfull  &  loyall  subjectes  to  us,  our  Heires, 
and  Successours,  as  outlier  our  Subjectes  of  that 
Realme  are  bound  by  their  Allegyance  to  doe, 
and  in  lyke  manner  shall  accepte,  obey,  and 
effectually  accomplyshe  &  fulfyll  the  Lawes, 
Statutes,  Writtes,  Processes,  &  ordinances  of  us, 
our  Heires  &  Successours.  And  yf  youe,  our 
said  Deputie  and  Counsayll  there,  thinke  neces- 
sarie  to  deale  with  the  said  M'.  I  Brene  Araa, 
more  particularlie,  wee  are  pleased  that  youe 
shall  &  may  adde  to  the  said  Letters  Patentes,  so 
to  hym  to  be  made,  souche  further  Articles  & 
Covenaunts,  on  his  parte,  to  be  observed  by 
hym,  his  said  Heires,  Sequele,  &  Folowers  for 
theirr  better  Instruction  howe  to  behave  theym- 
selves  towardes  us,  our  Heires,  &  Successors,  & 
to  all  outher  our  loving  Subjectes,  &  to  free  & 
exempt  from  the  Exactions,  Servitude,  &  op- 
pression of  all  outher,  contrary  to  our  Lawes, 
demanding  eny  thinge  of  hym  or  theym,  yeoven 
under  our  Signett  at  our  Pallais  of  Westmin- 
ster the  last  day  of  February  1567  and  in  the 
tenth  yere  of  our  Reigne." 

"  To   our  trustie  &  welbeloved  our 

Deputie   &   Chauncellor   of  our 

Realme  of  Ireland,  for  the  tyme 

'  being,  or  to  the  Justices  of  our 

said  Realme." 

9  Y 


"  Order  of  Councill  for  M'.  I  Brene  Arra. 

"  By  the  Ld.  Deputie  and 
"  H.  Sydney.  Counsayll. 

"  Wlieare  Tirelagh  M'.  I  Brene  Arra,  Chief 
of  his  nation,  in  the  Contrie  of  Arra,  and  Loid 
of  the  said  Countrie,  have  made  his  humble 
submyssion  unto  the  Queene's  moost  excellent 
Majestic,  requiring  her  Highnes  to  accepte  of 
hym  the  surrender  of  his  Name  of  M'.  I  Brene 
Arra,  &  of  the  said  Contrie  of  Arra,  and  all 
outher  his  Castells,  Lands,  Tenements,  &  Here- 
dit'.  with  all  &  singular  their  Appurtenances  ; 
and  further  that  it  might  please  herMajestie  to 
graunt  the  same  to  him  &  the  Heires  males  of 
his  body  lawfully  begotten  &  to  be  begotten,  to 
hold  of  her  Highnes  :  Whearunto  she  moost 
graciouslie  have  condiscended,  as  more  amply 
by  her  Majestie's  said  Letters,  dated  the  last 
dale  of  February,  1567,  in  the  tenth  yere  of  her 
Raigne,  &  signed  with  her  Majestie's  most  gra- 
cious Hande,  enrolled  in  the  Rolles  of  her  Ma- 
jestie's Court  of  Chauncery,  doth  appere.  For- 
asmuch as  souch  Circumstances  &  Ceremonies 
as  necessarilie  doth  appertaine  to  be  executed 
for  the  Perfection  of  the  Premises  cannot,  for 
many  occasions,  be  presentlie  accomplyshed  in 
due  forme  as  becometh.  We,  the  Lord  Deputy 
&  Counsaill,  whose  Names  are  hereunto  sub- 
scribed, consideringe  neverthelesse  the  gracious 
and  princelie  meaninge  of  her  most  excellent 
Majestie  towards  the  said  M°.  I  Brene  Arra,  ex- 
pressed in  the  said  Letters,  which  for  our  parts 
we  will  see  inviolably  observed  to  the  said 
M".  I  Brene  Arra  &  his  said  Heires  males  of  his 
body.  Therfore  we  will  and  require  all  her 
Majestie's  officers,  Mynisters  and  other  her 
faithfuU  subjects,  to  permitt  and  suffir  the  said 

2 


1636  aNNQí-a  Rioshachca  eiReaNN.  [1570. 

aois  CRlOSr,  1570. 
Qoif'  C]iiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceD,  Sfcrtnojar. 

TTlac  y^uibne  pánar  .1.  coipiióealbac  ócc,  mac  coi|i|it)eaU)ai5,  mic  maol- 
imiipe,  -]  a  bpafaiji  aot>  binóe  puaD,  -]  ÍTlac  puibne  tia  cruar,  T1í1u|ic1kió  mail 
mac  eoccain  óicc  oo  majibao  i  noún  na  long  In  ppnill  In  ppiabnaipi  í  neill 
(coippóealbac  Uiineac)  lá  cloinn  nDorhnaill  jallocclac  -\  pob  oilbfim  aóbal 
ofineac  1  Dfnsnam,  Do  rpeóip,-]  Do  caippngre  Do  copnam,  i  do  coruccaó 
cuaipceipr  epeann  ruicim  an  cpíp  ípin,  1  pob  ecc  móp  pfp  Dib  pm  gép  bó 
maic  an  Diap  naile  .1.  TTlupchaD  mall  cníi  op  cpobaing,  jpipbeó  gan  báóab,  epp 
T^oipccib  jaoibei,  pnin  lomapbaja  peap  nulab  1  naccbaib  peap  nepeann,  iiairne 
bpipre  bepne  baojail,  pobailceac  péD  -\  paop  maoíneaó  pil  puibiie  an  miip- 
cliab  pin.  Q  bparaip  eoccan  ócc  Do  gabail  a  lonaib,  -)  a  bparaip  Dorhnall 
DóipDneab  1  nionaob  TTlbeic  puibne  pánac. 

6iccneacan  mac  aoDa  buibe  uí  bomnaill  do  rhapbaó  bi  ppuill  aj  rionncuó 
n  pluaj  uí  Domnaill  lá  pfpDopca  mac  uí  jijallcubaip  cO  na  riuimci]i  "|  lú  Dpuing 
ele  Do  pliocc  Donncbaib  uí  gallcubaip. 

TTlac  conmapa,  Sfan,  mac  píoDa,  mic  meiccon,  mic  Síona,  mic  ca\ncc  mic 
loclainn  cijeapna  an  caoibe  rolp  do  clomn  coiléín  Do  écc  Duine  miabac  móp- 

Tirrelagh  M'.  I  Brene  Arra,  &  his  Heires  males  "'  Ditit-iia-loni/,  i.  e.  the  fort  of  the  ships,  now 

of  his  body  begotten  and  to  be  gotten,  to  have  Dunualong,  on  the  Foyle,  in  the  north-west  of 

and  enjoy  the  full  benefit  of  her  Majestie's  said  the  barony  of  Strabane,  in  the  county  of  Ty- 

gracious  Letters,  according  the  tenor  of  the  said  roue,  and  about  five  miles  to  the  south  of  Lon- 

Letters,  as  yf  the  same  were  duely  &  formally  donderry. 

done  &  executed  by  Letters  Patentes  under  the  "  Withota extinction.— TheFouTMasters should 

great  Seall.     All  whicho  is  fully  mente  to  be  to  have  written  :  "  A  champion  who  was  a  glowing 

hym  past  by  Letters  Patentes  with  all  conve-  furnace  in  military  ardour,  till  he  was  extin- 

nyent  spede.     Hereof  we  eftsones  will  &  com-  guished  by  the  Clann-Donnell  on  this  occasion." 

maunde  you  not  to  faile,  as  you  will  aunswer  to  °  Chainpioyi.—'^  Gapp  no  epp  .1.  jaipjeaoh- 

the  contrarie.     Yeoven  at  Dublin  the  third  dale  wc." — O'Cleri/. 

of  November  1569.  "  i-**  *'«''  of  conflict. — The  Irish  word  pinn 

"  Robert  Weston,  Cane.        P.  Carewe.  ^^6'"^^«  ^  ""^^'^  ''"'^  "^1^°  ^^'^  P°"'*  °*"  ^  ^^'^''P''"- 

T.  Armachan.  H.  Draycourt.  l^itl'^r  meanmg  could  be  figuratively  applied  to 

Adam  Dublin.  Frances  Agard.  ^»  distinguished  warrior. 

John  Chaloner."  ''  Pass  of  danger,    literally,   "  the  pillar  of 

[^Rot.  Pal.  de  Anno  12°  Eliz.  rf.]  breaking  the  gap  of  danger."     The  word  cu- 


1570.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1637 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1570. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  seventij.  - 

Mac  Sweeny  Fanad  (Turlough  Oge,  the  sou  of  Turlougli,  son  of  Mul- 
murry),  the  brother  of  Hugh  Boy  Roe  and  Mac  Sweeny-na-dtuath  (Murrougli 
Mall,  the  sou  of  Owen  Oge)  were  treacherously  slain  at  Dun-na-long""  in  the 
presence  of  O'Neill  (Turlough  Luineach),  by  the  Clann-Donnell  Galloglagh. 
The  fall  of  these  three  was  a  great  blow  to  the  hospitality  and  prowess,  to  the 
power  and  pomp,  to  the  protection  and  support  of  the  north  of  Ireland,  but 
[the  death  of]  one  of  them  was  more  particularly  a  cause  of  great  lamentation, 
though  the  other  two  were  truly  good,  namely,  Murrough  Mall,  who  was 
renowned  above  heroes,  a  burning  brand  without  extinction",  the  champion" 
of  the  valour  of  the  Gaels,  the  star  of  the  conflict''  of  the  men  of  Ulster  against 
the  men  of  Ireland,  a  mighty  champion  at  ibrcing  his  way  through  the  Pass  of 
Danger"",  the  distributor  of  the  jewels  and  noble  wea^lth  of  the  Clann-Sweeny. 
His  kinsman",  Owen  Oge,  took  his  [Murrough's]  place ;  and  his  kinsman, 
Donnell,  was  elected  in  the  place  of  Mac  Sweeny  Fanad. 

Egneghan,  the  son  of  Hugh  Boy  O'Donnell,  was  treacherously  slain,  on  his 
return  from  O'Donuell's  army,  by  Ferdoragh,  the  son  of  O'Gallagher,  and  his 
people,  and  by  othei's  of  the  descendants  of  Donough  O'Gallagher. 

Mac  Namará  (John,  the  son  of  Sida,  son  of  Maccon,  son  of  Sida'.  sou  of 
Teige,  son  of  Loughlin),  Lord  of  the  eastern  part  of  Clann-Coilen',  died.     He 

aipjne  would  be  better  here  than  uaicne.  The  '  Sida — This  name  is  still  common  amongst 
beupna  bao^ail,  i.  e.  gap  of  danger,  was  a  peril-  the  family  of  Mac  Namara,  and  usually  angli- 
ous  pass,  where  the  chief  usually  placed  guards  cised  Sheedy,  but  .sometimes  translated  Silk, 
to  prevent  his  enemies  from  making  an  irruption  '  Clann-Coilen. — According  to  a  Description 
into  his  territory.  For  a  beautiful  description  of  the  County  of  Clare,  preserved  in  the  Library 
of  a  pass  of  this  kind  the  reader  is  referred  to  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  the  territory  of  the 
Sir  Walter  Scott's  Waverley,  vol.  i.  c.  15.  eastern  Mac  Namara,  who  was  otherwise  called 
'  His  kinsman. — The  construction  of  the  ori-  Mac  Namara  Finn,  comprised  the  following  pa- 
ginal is  here  very  careless.  It  should  run  thus :  rishes  in  the  east  of  the  county  of  Clare,  viz., 
"  Mac  Sweeny-na-dtuath  was  succeeded  by  his  Killaloe,  Aglish,  Killurin,  Kilkedy,  Kilroony, 
kinsman,  Owen  Oge  Mac  Sweeny,  and  Mac  Tullagh,  Moynoe,  Kilnoe,  Killokeunedy,  Kilti- 
Sweeny  Fanad  was  succeeded  by  his  relative,  nanelea,  Feakle,  Kiltinaglity,  and  Inishcaltragh. 
Donnell  Mac  Sweeny."  According  to  this  list,  the  O'Gradys,  who  were 


1638  aNNQca  Rioshachca  eiReaHN.  [1570. 

balac  leanDan  ban,"]  irijfn  ap  puapca,-|  ap  y^ibfnpao,  ")  onmnall  pmbac  mac 
conmfóa,  mic  DonncViaió  do  jaBail  a  lonoib. 

pójpa  cúipce  hi  mainipcip  innpi  hi  cruabmumain  do  cop  la  ppepiDenp 
CÓICC1Ó  connacc  50  yiol  mbpiain,  -]  50  huaccap  connacc,  raócc  mac  mup- 
chaió  UÍ  bpiain  ape  bá  pipptam  ip  in  ci'p  an  can  pm,-]  pob  epióe  céD  pippiam 
cuaómurhan.  Oo  pónab  laipióe  upgnaifi  bíó,  ■]  biocaille  pó  corhaip  an  Ppe- 
piDenp  hi  mainipnp  innpi.  Uicc  laparn  on  Ppepioenp  Don  baile  a  ccimcell 
na  péle  bpijDe  Do  ponnpaD.  bá  hann  baoi  lapla  cuaómiirhan  concobap  mac 
DonchaiD  mic  concobaip  iii  bpmin  ip  in  clap  in  can  pin.  Vio  cuip  an  ppepiDenp 
ipin  cp  fp  la  gaipm  paip,"|  Do  loDap  opong  do  jápDa  an  ppepiDenp  do  maicib 
a  muincipe  -|  a  mapcpluaij  do  cócuipeaó  an  lapla.  5á  in  aon  uaip  do  ló  do 
cóDap  pióe  50  Dopup  an  baile  ~\  Dorhnall  mac  concobaip  ui  bpiain  ace  code 
cuicce  map  an  ccéona,  6á  hi  comaiple  po  cinneaD  lap  an  lapla,  Dorhnall  -| 
a  paibe  ó  plabpaD  na  coihlaó  apceac  Do  jabóil,"]  Dpong  Da  paibe  amuij  Di'b 
Do  rhccpbab.  Ro  imcij  an  cuio  ele  Dib  60  ropaD  pfca  -\  pionnliiaip  a  neac  hi 
ccfnn  an  ppepiDenp  johinip.  l?o  imng  an  ppepiDenp  ap  na  mapac,  1  clann 
mupchaiD  mic  coippbealbaij  .1.  cabcc  -|  Donnchab  do  cpeopuccab  ap  in  cip, 
7  ace  Denarii  eolaip  do  c]ie  capcpaib  cumsaib,"]  cpé  Dpoibélaib  Diampa  Doi- 
eólaip.  baoi  an  ciapla  a^á  ccopaijecc, "]  05  cabaipc  amaip  poppa  50  pan- 
jaccap  jopc  innpi  guaipe  in  aDhaij  pin.  lap  poccain  na  pccél  pin  gup  an 
lupcip  po  jctb  pfpcc  -|  lonnup  é,"]  apfb  po  cinn  pTin,  i  an  comaiple  apopconjpa 
ap  lapla  iipmuman,  Uomap  mac  Semaip  mic  piapaip  puaib  a  hucc  na  ban- 
piojna  cocc  Do  cCnnpuccab  lapla  cuabmurhan  ip  in  njniorh  anuaibpeac  Do 
pinne  iiaip  bá  jap  a  ngaol  -|  a  mbparaippi  Dia  poile.  Uainicc  lapla  upmu- 
rhan  co  na  pló^  hi  ccuabmurhain  p6  céoóip,  do  piacc  an  ciapla  concobap  in 
nic  lomaccallrna  ppip,  "|   do  jeall  50  noiongnab  a  coil  piumh  -]   coil  na  com- 

seated  at  Tomgraney,  Scarrifif,  andMoynoe,  were  ''  Narrow  passes. — The  word  cnpcaip,  -which 

tributary  to  this  chief  of  the  Mac  Namaras.  makes  cape  pa  iB  in  the  dative  or  ablative  case 

"  Upper  Connaught,  i.  e.  the  southern  part  of  plural,  is  still  understood  in  the  county  of  Clare 

Connaught.  as  denoting  a  steep,  narrow  pass — See  Carcair- 

'■"Donnelh  the  son  0/ Conor. —He  was  the  Earl's  na-gc'leireach  at  the  years  1599  and  1600. 

uncle,  i.  e.  his  father's  brother.  ^  Gort-innsi-  Guaire,    i.  e.    the    held    of  the 

^  The  rest  of  them. — The  style  here  is  remark-  island  or  holm  of  Guaire,  now  the  town  of 
ably  imperfect,  as  appears  from  the  words  en-  Gort,  in  the  south-west  of  the  county  of  Gal- 
closed  in  brackets.  way.    Some  will  have  it  that  this  place  took  its 


1570.]     '  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1639 

was  a  noble  and  majestic  man,  the  favoiirite  of  women  and  damsels,  on  account 
of  his  mirtl;fulness  and  pleasantry.  And  Donnell  Reagh,  the  son  of  Cumeadha, 
son  of  Donough,  took  his  place. 

A  proclamation  for  holding  a  court  in  the  monastery  of  Ennis,  in  Thomond, 
was  issued  by  the  President  of  the  province  of  Connaught,  to  the  O'Briens  and 
[the  inhabitants  of]  Upper  Connaught".  Teige,  the  son  of  Murrough  O'Brien, 
who  was  at  this  time  sheriff  in  the  territory  (and  he  was  the  first  sheriff  of 
Thomond),  placed  a  quantity  of  food  and  liquors  in  the  monastery  of  Ennis 
for  the  use  of  the  President  The  President  arrived  in  the  town  about  the 
festival  of  St.  Bridget.  The  Earl  of  Thomond  (Conor,  the  son  of  Donough, 
son  of  Conor  O'Brien)  was  at  this  time  at  Clare,  [and]  the  President  on  the 
third  day  dispatched  a  party  of  his  guards,  [consisting]  of  the  chiefs  of  his 
people  and  his  cavalry,  to  summon  the  Earl.  It  wa,s  at  the  same  hour  of  the 
day  that  these  and  Donnell,  the  son  of  Conor"  O'Brien,  who  was  also  coming 
to  the  Earl,  arrived  at  the  gate  of  .the  town.  The  Earl  came  to  the  reso- 
lution of  making  prisoners  of  Donnell  and  all  those  who  were  withinside  the  ■ 
chain  of  the  gate,  and  killing  some  of  those  who  were  outside.  [This  he  did]. 
The  rest  of  them"  [perceiving  his  intention]  escaped,  by  swiftness  of  foot  and 
the  fleetness  of  their  horses,  to  the  President,  to  Ennis.  On  the  following  day 
the  President  departed,  and  the  sons  of  Murrough,  son  of  Turlough  [O'Brien], 
i.  e.  Teige  and  Donough,  conducted  him  out  of  the  ccmitry,  and  guided  him 
through  the  narrow  passes"  and  the  wild  and  intricate  ways.  The  Earl  fol- 
lowed in  pursuit  of  them,  and  continued  skirmishing  with  them  until  they 
arrived  at  Gort-innsi-Guaire^  on  that  night.  When  this  news  reached  the  Lord 
Justice,  he  was  filled  with  wrath  afld  indignation  ;  and  he  and  the  Council 
agreed  to  order  the  Earl  of  Ormond  ( Thomas,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  Pierce 
Roe),  in  the  Queen's  name,  to  go  to  chastise  the  Earl  of  Thomond  for  that  very 
arrogant  deed  which  he  had  committed,  for  there  was  a  close  relationship  and 
friendship  between  them.  The  Earl  of  Ormond  [accordingly]  immediately 
proceeded  into  Thomond  with  his  forces  ;  [and]  the  Earl,  Conor  [O'Brien], 
came  to  a  conference  with  him,  and  promised  that  he  would  do  his  bidding 

namn  from  a  Guaire  O'Shaughnessy,  but  the  who  flourished  in  the  seventh  century. — See 
general  opinion  is,  that  it  was  called  after  the  Genealogies,  Tribes,  ami  Customs  of  Hy-Fiackrach, 
celebrated  Guaire  Aidhne,  King  of  Connaught,      pp.  35,  61,  376. 


1640  aNNatcr  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1570. 

aiple.  Oo  pao  a  bailee  pop  láim  mpla  uprhurhan  .1.  cluain  parhpaDa  an  clap 
mop,  -)  bunpaice,  1  po  léicceaó  Domnall  6  bpmin,  -|  maire  bpai^D.fó  cuabtnu- 
rnan  báccap  liillaim  ag  an  laplo  amac,-]  bpaijoe  an  ppepiDenp  map  cceona. 
r?o  j;ab  lapam  aicpeacup,-|  accuippi  an  ciapla  pa  nabailcib,"]  pa  na  bpai^- 
Dib  00  rabaipc  uaba,  uaip  ni  paibe  do  longpopraib  aicce  ace  ma^  ó  mbpa- 
cáin  amain,  -\  po  páccaib  bapoaóa  buancaipipi  ann,  -|  api  corhaiple  Do  pinne 
jan  ool  po  objfD  no  po  jpápaib  corhaiple  na  hepeann  coióce,  -|  puce  do 
poj^ain  jnp  bo  pfji]!  laip  bfir  ap  paoinoeal  -]  ap  pojpa,  -\  cúl  oo  cup  pé  a 
DÚchaij  1  pé  a  ófjorapóa  inóp  Dol  Dm  paijiD.  baoi  laparh  lé  hachaiD  50 
hincirice  hi  ccloinn  TTlliuipip,-!  Do  cuaiD  ap  pm  a  cciniceall  na  pele  Góin  Don 
ppainc,-|  bói  pé  lifó  ann  pin,")  cicc  laparh  50  8a;coibli,-]  puaip  spapa,  papDÚn, 
-|  onoip  Ó  banpiojain  cpa;can,  -\  Do  paD  licipea'ca  laip  DionnpaijiD  corhaiple 
na  liGpeann  Dia  airne  Diob  an  ciapla  DonopuccaD  "]  cainicc  1  nsfimpeaD  na 
bliaDna  céDna  cap  a  aip  50  hépinn. 

Qn  ppepioenc  ceDna,  1  lapla  cloinne  piocaipo  .1.  Piocapc  mac  uiUicc  na 
ccfnn  line  piocaipD  mic  uillicc  cnuic  cuaj  Do  puiDe  lé  hacchaió  Spurpa  hi 
painpaó  na  bliaDna  po.  báccap  pop  an  pluaijeaD  pin  hi  ppocaip  an  ppepiDenp 
popj;la  coipeac,  1  cpénrhileaó  lárgaile  -|  gaipccib  uaccaip  connacc  ó  ma^ 
aoi  50  heccje, -]  o  jaillim  50  hacluain.  bóccap  pop  hi  ppoplongpopc  an 
ppepiDenp  Dpong  rtióp  do  caipcinib  co  na  paijDiuipib  amaille  ppiú,  1  Da  cóp- 
uccab  no  a  cpi  do  jíománcoib  gaoibealcoib.  baoi  ann  beóp  an  calbac  mac 
coippbealbai^,  mic  eóin  cappai^,  mic  mec  Dorhnaill  co  na  biap  mac,  -\  co  na 

^  Clar-mor,  i.  e.  the  town  of  Clare,  from  which  the   Fitzgeralds,   who    took  the    name  of  Mac 

the  county  of  Clare  took  its  name.  Maurice,  or  Fitz  Maurice. 

*"  Magli  0-tnBracain,  i.e.  the  plain  of  Ibrickan,  '  Sruthair,  now  Shrule,  a  well-known  village 

now  Moyniore,  in  the  parish  of  Kilfarboy,  ba-  situated   on   the    boundary  of  the  counties   of 

rony  of  Ibrickan,  and  county  of  Clare,  and  about  Mayo  and  Galway. — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and 

three  miles  to  the  north  of  Milltown  Malbay.  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  497,  and  the  map 

Small  portions  of  the  north  and  south  walls  of  to  the  same  work, 

this  castle  still  remain.  6  Upper  Connaiight,   i.  e.  the  southern  part  of 

"  A  wanderer,  literally,  "wandering  and  pro-  Connaught. 

claimed."  ''  Magh-Aoi,  a  plain  in  the.  county  of  Ros- 

^  Among  ihem,   literally,   "  to  them,"  "  usque  common,  already  often  referred  to. 

ad  eos."  '  Echtge,  now  Sliabh  Eachtaighe,  anglice  Slieve 

•■   Ckmmaurice,    a  barony   in   the  county  of  Aughty;  and  incorrectly  Slicbaughta,  on  Beau- 

Kcrrv,  belonging  at  this  period  to  a  branch  of  fort's  Ecclesiastical  map  of  Ireland,  a  mountain 


1570]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1641 

and  the  bidding  of  the  Council.  He  gave  up  his  towns,  namely,  Clonroad, 
Clar-mor%  and  Bunratty,  into  the  hands  of  the  Earl  of  Ormond  ;  and  Donnell 
O'Brien  and  the  other  chieftains  of  Thomond,  whom  the  Earl  had  as  prisoners, 
were  set  at  liberty,  and  likewise  the  President's  prisoners.  The  Earl  was  after- 
wards seized  with  sorrow  and  regret  for  having  given  up  his  towns  and  pri- 
soners, for  he  now  retained  only  one  of  all  his  fortresses,  namely,  Magh 
O-mBracain";  and  in  this  he  left  ever  faithful  warders  ;  and. he  resolved  that 
he  never  would  submit  himself  to  the  law,  or  the  mercy  of  the  Council  of  Ire- 
land, choosing  rather  to  be  a  wanderer*^  and  an  outlaw,  and  even  to  abandon 
his  estates  and  goodly  patrimony,  than  to  go  among  them"*.  He  afterwards 
remained  for  some  time  concealed  in  Clanmaurice',  from  whence  he  passed, 
about  the  festival  of  St.  John,  into  France,  where  he  stopped  for  some  time. 
He  afterwards  went  to  England,  and  I'eceived  favour,  pardon,  and  honour,  from 
the  Queen  of  England,  who  sent  by  him  letters  to  the  Council  of  Ireland,  com- 
manding them  to  honour  the  Earl  ;  and  he  returned  to  Ireland  in  the  winter 
of  the  same  year. 

The  same  President  and  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard  (Rickard,  son  of  Ulick-na- 
gCeann,  son  of  Rickard,  son  of  UUck  of  Cnoc-Tuagh )  kid  siege  to  Sruthair' 
in  the  summer  of  this  year  [21st  June].  On  this  expedition,  along  with  the 
President,  were  most  of  the  chieftains  and  mighty  champions  of  valour  and 
prowess  of  Upper  Connaught^,  from  Magh-Aoi"  to  Echtge',  and  from  Galway 
to  Athlone.  There  were  also  in  the  President's  camp  a  great  number  of  cap- 
tains, with  their  soldiers  along  with  them,  and  two  or  three  battalions  of  Irish 
hireUng  .soldiers.  There  were  in  it  also  Calvagh,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  of 
John  Carragh,  son  of  Mac  DonnelP,  and  his  two  sons,  with  their  forces  ;  also 

on   the   confines  of  the   counties  of  Clare  and  The  pedigree  of  this  branch  of  the  Mac  Donells 

Gahvay. — See  it  before  referred  to  at  the  year  is  given  by  O'FarreU,  in  his  Linea  Aiitiqua,  and 

1263.  by  Duald  Mac  Firbis,  in  his  genealogical  work, 

J  Calvagh,  the  son  of  Tiirlotigh,  ^-c He  was  under  the  name  of  Clann  t)omnaiU  Caijean, 

chief  of  one  of  the  septs  of  the  Mac  Donnells  plioccUoipóealBaij  óij,  i.e.  theClann-Donnell 

of  Leinster.     He  was   seated  at  Tinnakill,   in  of  Leinster,  the  posterity  of  Turlough  Oge.   They 

the  parish  of  Coolbanagher,    barony  of  Port-  descend  from  that  most  powerful  of  all  the  clans 

nahinch,  and  Queen's  County,   where  he  pos-  of  the  Highlands  of  Scotland,  the  Lords  of  the 

sessed  a  considerable  territory,  as  appears  from  Isles,  and  through  Marcus,  according  to  these 

various  authorities,  and  where  the  keep  of  his  writers,  a  younger  son  of  Aengus  Oge,  the  hero 

castle  still  remains  in   tolerable  preservation,  of  Sir  Walter  Scott's  Lord  of  the  Isles  (see  note  F 

9  z 


1642 


aNNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReawH. 


[1570. 


pocpaiDe,  -)  oprm  Oo  pliocc  Dorhnaill,  mic  eóin,  mic  eoccain  na  lacaije,  mic 
^niibne   i.  aoh  mac  eoccain  mic  Dorhnaill  nice,  "|   Ciomnall  mac  mupchaió  mic 


to  tliat  poem),  who  had  married  a  daughter  of 
O'Kane.  The  eldest  brother  of  this  Marcus  was 
John,  who  died  in  1387,  who,  by  a  first  alliance, 
is  ancestor  of  the  chieftains  of  Clanu-Raghnaill, 
or  Clanronald,  and  Glengarry ;  and  by  his  subse- 
quent marriage  with  the  princess  Margaret  of 
■Scotland,  daughter  of  King  Robert  IL,  had  issue, 
1st,  Dounell,  or  Donald,  Lord  of  the  Isles,  who, 
in  1411,  at  the  head  of  ten  thousand  vassals, 
convulsed  the  kingdom  of  Scotland,  and  fought 
the  famous  battle  of  Harlaw,  in  defence  of  his 
right  to  the  Earldom  of  Ross,  the  heiress  of 
which  he  had  married  ;  2nd,  John  More,  who 
espoused  the  heiress  of  Bissett,  or  Mac  Eoiu 
Bissett  of  the  Glinns  of  Antrim,  and  became 
ancestor  of  the  powerful  family,  which,  in  right 
of  that  marriage,  on  the  partial  subjugation  of 
the  Highland  clans  in  the  time  of  James  IV. 
and  V.  of  Scotland,  settled  in  the  north  of  the 
county  of  Antrim,  in  the  sixteenth  century,  and 
founded  the  Earldom  of  Antrim  ;  3rd,  Alex- 
ander, said  to  be  the  ancestor  of  Keppoch. 

Marcus,  the  ancestor  of  the  Leinster  branch, 
was  slain,  according  to  the  Annals  of  Ulster,  in 
the  year  1397.  The  death  of  his  son,  Turlough, 
is  recorded  in  the  same  aimals  at  the  year  1435. 
This  Turlough  had  a  son,  Turlough  Oge,  in 
whose  time  the  famdy  appear  to  have  settled  in 
Leinster.  The  annals  of  Dudley  Firbisse  state 
that,  in  1466,  "  John,  son  to  Mac  Donell,  the 
best  captaine  of  the  English,"  was  slain  in  a 
skirmish  in  Ofaly ;  and  the  Annals  of  Kilrouan 
record  that  a  son  of  Turlough  Oge  Mac  Donnell 
was  slain  in  Leix  [in  the  Queen's  County]  in 
1504.  About  this  period  the  Mac  Donnells  of 
Leinster  formed  three  septs,  of  whom  two  were 
seated  in  the  now  Queen's  County,  and  the  third 
in  the  present  barony  of  Talbotstown,  in  the 
county  of  Wicklow,  where   their  possessions, 


stretched  along  the  loot  of  the  mountain  range, 
upon  the  marches  of  the  Pale,  bore  the  name  of 
"  the  Clandonnell's  countrie,"  as  late  at  least  as 
1641  :  seeMSS.  Depositions,  Kildare  and  Wick- 
low, in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin, 
F.  2.  4.  and  6.  As  early  as  1524,  "Alexander, 
filius  Terentii,  iilii  Meilmore  Mac  Donnell  de 
Balliranau,  Generosus,"  granted  five  townlands 
in  this  district  to  Gerald,  Earl  of  Kildare, 
with  an  annual  rent  of  three  marks  for  ever. 
— (Inquisition,  RoUs'  Office.)  His  son,  Tirlagh, 
or  Turlough  Oge  mac  Alexander,  appears  as 
chieftain  of  one  of  "  the  three  septs  of  Gal- 
lowglasses  of  the  Clandonnells,"  whose  curious 
indenture  of  composition  with  the  Lord  Deputy 
Sidney,  dated  7th  May,  1578  (which  see  under 
that  year),  is  inroUed  in  the  record  branch  of  the 
Office  of  Paymaster  of  Civil  Services,  Dublin. 
The  two  other  chiefs  at  that  time  were  Mul- 
murry  mac  Edmond  and  Hugh  Boy  mac  Callogh 
[or  Calvagh],  the  former  of  Rahin,  and  the 
latter  of  Tenekille,  in  the  Queen's  County. 

It  appears  from  a  memorial  presented  to  the 
Earl  of  Essex  in  1599,  by  the  Irish  Council, 
and  printed  by  Fynes  Moryson,  that  the  then 
chief  of  the  Wicklow  sept  was  in  arnis  with  the 
O'Byrnes  and  O'Tooles  in  the  mountains  of  the 
county  of  Dublin,  and  that  the  head  of  the 
Queen's  County  branch  was  in  rebellion  with 
the  O'Mores. 

On  the  26th  of  December,  1 606,  their  chiefs 
had  each  a  grant  of  sixteen  shillings,  Irish,  per 
diem  for  life (SeeErck'sRepert.  Chan.  Enroll.) 

Several  Inquisitionsin  the  Rolls  and  Chief 
Remembrancer's  Offices  ascertain  the  estates  and 
succession  of  the  line  given  by  the  Irish  genea- 
logists, with  which,  as  well  as  with  the  notices 
in  these  Annals,  they  perfectly  accord.  The  In- 
(iviaitio  post  mortem  of  the  Calvagh  Mac  Donnell, 


1570.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1643 


a  party  of  the  descendants  .of  Donnell,  the   son  of  John,  son  of  Owen-na- 
Lathaighe''  Mac  Sweeny,  namely,  Hugh,  the  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Donnell  Oge ; 


mentioned  above  in  the  text,  finds  him  possessed 
of  the  town  and  castle  of  Tenekill,  &o.,  and 
bound,  among  other  services,  "  to  keepe  and 
niainteyne  twelve  able  galloglas,  on  said  castel 
and  lands,  sufficiently  armed  for  the  better  in- 
habiting and  preserving  of  the  premises  ;"  upon 
siifficient  warning  to  attend  upon  the  Governor 
of  Ireland,  or  his  deputy,  and  "to  go  upon  any 
Irishman  bordering  upon  the  foresaid  countie" 
[of  Leix].  The  jurors  find  that  his  death  took 
place  on  the  18th  of  June,  1570,  which  accords 
with  the  notice  in  the  text.  He  left  two  sons, 
Hugh  Boy  and  Alexander ;  the  former  was  then 
of  age,  being  born  in  1546,  and  succeeded  to 
the  estate ;  the  latter  was  slain  in  the  year 
1577,  q.  V.  infra.  Hugh  Boy  died  on  the  31st 
of  August,  1618,  lord  of  the  manor  of  Tene- 
kill and  Ballycrassel,  &c.,  and  was  succeeded 
by  his  son  and  heir,  Fergus,  born  1575.  Fergus 
died  in  1637,  lord  of  the  manor  of  Tenekill, 
and  was  succeeded  by  his  son  and  heir,  James, 
born  1617,  and  then  aged  twenty  years  and  mar- 
ried. This  James  made  a  conspicuous  figure  in 
the  Queen's  County  in  1641,  when,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-four,  he  was  a  colonel  of  the  confederate 
Catholics.  On  the  8th  of  February  in  that  year 
the  Lords  Justices  proclaimed  a  reward  of  four 
hundred  pounds,  and  a  free  pardon,  for  his  head. 
His  possessions  were  then  confiscated.  It  ap- 
pears by  an  Inquisition  taken  in  1679,  that  his 
widow  was  allowed  dower,  but  the  estate  was 
never  restored.  This  James  had  a  cousin,  James, 
son  of  Edmond  Mac  Donnell,  who  also  lived  at 
Tinnakill,  and  was  a  captain  of  the  confederate 
Catholics  in  1641. 

The  Mac  Donnells  made  a  considerable  figure 
in  Wicklow  also  during  the  wars  of  1641,  and 
some  of  them  are  distinguished  by  the  Parlia- 
mentarians, as  "  notorious  commanders  of  Ee- 

9 


bells." — See  MSS.  Depositions  in  the  Library  of 
Trin.  Coll.  Dub.  Of  these  was  Alexander  Mac 
Donnell  of  "Wicklow,  gentleman,  called  in  these 
Depositions,  "  the  constable  of  Wicklow,"  by 
which  is  meant,  according  to  the  usage  of  the 
Irish  at  this  period,  the  commander  of  the  gal- 
lowglasses. 

At  the  Eevolution  many  of  the  Mac  Donnells 
of  Leinster  enrolled  themselves  under  the  banner 
of  James  II.  In  a  roll  of  his  officers,  in  1690, 
preserved  in  MS.  in  the  Library  of  Trin.  Coll. 
Dublin,  several  o^the  name  are  mentioned  as  be- 
longing to  the  regiments  levied  in  that  province. 
In  that  of  Colonel  John  Grace  of  Moyelly,  occurs 
the  name  of  Lieutenant  Francis  Mac  Donnell,  who 
was  evidently  of  this  family,  and  probably  the 
same -who  afterwards  captured  Marshal  Villeroy, 
and  shed  such  a  light  upon  Irish  honour,  at  tlie 

memorable  storming  of  Cremona  in  1702 See 

Memoirs  of  the  Life  and  Writings  of  Charles 
O' Conor  of  Belanagare,  p.  138- J  40;  and  Mili- 
tary Memoirs  of  the  Irish  Nation,  p.  248.  At 
the  same  period  Charles  Mac  Donnell,  likewise 
evidently  of  this  race,  was  lieutenant  in  Sir 
Gregory  Byrna's  company  in  King  James's  foot 
guards  ;  and  in  Colonel  Francis  Toole's  regi- 
ment of  foot,  in  the  same  service,  was  Lieute- 
nant Brian  Mac  Donnell,  fourth  in  descent  from 
whom  is  Alexander  Mac  DonneU,  Esq.,  J.  P.,  of 
Bonabrougha,  in  the  county  of  Wicklow,  who 
married  Marcella,  heiress  of  Charles  O'Hanlon, 
Esq.  of  Ballynorran,  in  the  same  county,  one  of 
the  lineal  representatives  of  the  ancient  chiefs 
or  Keguli  of  Orior,  hereditary  royal  standard 
bearers  north  of  the  Boyne,  whose  territory 
now  forms  two  baronies  in  the  county  of  Ar- 
magh, and  was  forfeited,  for  the  most  part,  in  the 
reign  of  James  I.  By  her  he  has  issue  :  Charles 
P.  O'Hanlon  Mac  DonneU,  M.  R.  I.  A. ;  2nd, 

z2 


1544  awNaca  uio^hachca  eiReawH.  [1570. 

Rimibiii  riióip  50  ccóipijnb  slan  ro^ra  jallocclac  amaille  pjiiu.-i  cópujab 
Sallojlac  ele  Do  cloinn  nDnbjaiU,  opoanap  -\  eip^e  amac  on  nj^aillirii.  baoi 
ann  beop  jappao  Do  mapcplua  j  mfiiDa  cpi  ccn  a  lion  pen  50  lúipeachaib,  1 
50  nfiDfoaib  pine. 

Od  cualaib  mac  uillmm  búpc  Sfan  mac  oiluepaip,  mic  Sfain,  an  roicfp- 
cail  plóij  lán  rhóip  pin  do  bfir  ace  an  ppepiDenc  -|  aj  an  lapla  a  ccimcell 
ppurpa  bá  cpao  cpoióe,  -]  bá  mfpccaó  mfnman  laip  an  ni  pin,  -\  po  cionoil 
cuicce  po  céoóip  bíipcai^  loccapaca,"]  pliocc  maoilip  a  búpc,  clann  noomnaill 
jallócclach  1  TTlupcliaD  na  ccua^  mac  caiDcc  mic  mupcliaió,  mic  puaibpi 
UÍ  plairbfpcaij.  Tangacrap  pióe  Dna  jup  an  lion  ap  lia  po  péopar  opajbail 
leó  Dalbancoib,  1  Deipfnncoib  Dampnib  1  Dócclacaib,  1  ni  po  hanaó  leó  50 
puaccacrap  ap  cnoc  baoi  a  ppoccap  Dolonspopc  an  ppepioenc  -|  an  lapla, 
-\  barcap  accá  comaipliuccab  fcoppa  bunéin  cionnup  do  bepoaoip  Dluije 
no  DianpccaoileaD  ap  na  Dfjpliiaccaib  Diocoipcce  baccap  aj  poppán  poppa 
ima  ccip  1  imá  nDÚcliaij.  r?o  cinoeao  leo  cécup  cpoigri^  Do  Dénarh  DÓ 
mapcpluaj, "]  Do  cóibpioc  laparh  i  ninneall  -|  i  nopDiiccan,  -)  po  fingeallpac 
Dia  poile  jan  pccaoileab  no  pccainDpeab  ap  an  innell  pin  Dia  mab  poppa  no 
pfmpa  ba  paen.  Po  heppuagpab  leo  beop  Dia  mapbra  mac  no  bpacaip  neic  biob 
ap  a  belaib  gan  anmuin  occa  acr  Dol  caipip  po  céDóip  arhail  ba  nama  anair- 
niD,  1  po  cinccpioc  pón  cóicim  pin  Do  paijib  na  plój  naile.  Oála  an  ppepiDenp 
-]  an  lapla  po  pmbi^pioc  a  nopDatiap,  a  paii^Diuipi,  "j  a  luce  halabapD,  -]  a 
luce  éiDeab  placa  Dia  ccoip  ap  na  bfpnabaib  bélcumsaib  in  po  ba  DÓ15  leo 
an  luce  ele  Dia  paijib,  1  po  cuippioc  la  a  ccaoib  pibe  clann  cpuibne,  clann 
noomnaill,  clann  nDub^aill,  1  coipijre  an  rplói^  apcfna.  Do  cóoap  pfin  -| 
an  rhfp  ^appab  mapcplói^  capla  ina  ppappab  hi  Ifruppain  na  rpooa  Don 

John  O'Hanlon  Mac  Donnell ;  3rd,  Alexander  nell,  or  Mao  Daniel,  in  the  Queen's  County,  and 

James  O'Hanlon  Mac  Donnell,  an  officer  of  the  other  parts  of  Leinster,  many  of  whom  "are,  no 

fifth  (Lichtenstein)  Chevaux  Legers,  in  the  Im-  doubt,  of  the  race  of  Turlough  Oge  ;  but  the 

perial  Service,  and  several  other  children.     The  Editor  has  not  been  able  to  discover  any  others 

Eev.  J.  Mac  Daniel,  of  the  Queen's  County,  is  who  have  not  fallen  into   obscurity,    and  the 

■  thought   to   be  descended  from   the   house  of  Wicklow  family  above  mentioned  appear  to  be 

Rahine  ;  but  the  Editor  is  not  aware  whether  the  chief  representatives  of  that  warlike  race, 
there  is  any  proof  of  this  further  than  his  hav-  JJ  Owen-na-Lathaighe,  i.  e.  Owen,  or  Eugene, 

ing  been  born  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Rahine.  of  the  slough  or  quagmire. 
Thereare  various  persons  of  the  name  Mac  Don-  ^  Clann- DoieeU,  called  by  the  Scotch  Clann- 


1570.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  '     ^    1G45 

and  Donnell,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Rory  More,  with  five  chosen  batta- 
hons  of  gallowglasses,  and  also  a  battalion  of  gallowglasses  of  the  Clann-Dowell"; 
the  ordnance  and  forces  of  Galway.  There  were  also  a  troop  of  vigorous  cavalry, 
to  the  number  of  three  hundred,  in  armour  and  coats  of  mail. 

When  Mac  WiUiam  Burke  (John,  the  son  of  Oliver,  son  of  John)  heard 
that  the  President  and  the  Earl  had  this  great  army  assembled  around  Sruthair, 
it  grieved  his  heart'  and  disturbed  his  mind  ;  and  he  called  forthwith  to  his 
assistance  the  Lower  Burkes"  and  the  descendants  of  Meyler  Burke,  also  the 
Clann-Donnell  Galloglagh,  and  Murrough  of  the  Battle-axes,  the  son  of  Teige, 
son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Rory  OTlaherty.  These  came,  attended  by  as  many 
as  they  had  been  able  to  procure  of  Scots  and  Irish,  hired  soldiers  and  youths  ; 
and  they  never  halted  until  they  reached  a  hill  which  was  nigh  to  the  camp  of 
the  President  and  the  Earl ;  and  here  they  held  consultation,  to  consider  in 
what  way  they  could  disperse  or  scatter  those  choice  and  irresistible  forces, 
who  had  invaded  them  for  their  territory  and  patrimony.  They  resolved  first 
to  convert  their  cavalry  into  infantry,  and  [having  done  so]  they  formed  into 
order  and  array  ;  and  they  promised  one  another  that  they  would  not  disperse 
or  depart  from  that  order,  whether  they  should  route  the  enemy"  or  be  routed 
by  them.  They  all  resolved  that  if  the  son  or  kinsman  of  one  of  them  should 
be  slain  in  his  [the  survivor's]  presence,  they  would  not  stop  with  him,  but 
pass  over  him  at  once,  as  though  they  were  enemies  and  strangers".  In  such 
state  they  advanced  towards  the  other  army.  As  for  the  President  and  the 
Earl,  they  placed  their  ordnance,  their  soldiers'"  [gunners],  their  halberdiers, 
and  their  men  in  armour  on  foot,  in  the  perilous  narrow  defiles  through  which 
they  supposed  that  the  other  party  would  advance  upon  them,  and  placed  by 
their  side  the  Clann-Sweeny,  the  Clann-Donnell,  the  Clann-Dowell,  and  all  the 
other  infantry  of  their  army ;  while  they  themselves,  and  the  body  of  vigorous 
cavalry  they  had  with  them,  stood  on  one  side  in  reserve,  to  support  the  fight 

Dugald.  routing  should  be  upon  them,  or  before  them," 

'  It  grieved  his  heart,  literally,  "that  thing  was  which  is  an  idiom  of  common  occurrence  in  old 

vexation  of  heart  and  confusion  of  mind  to  him."  Irish  writings. 

'^  The  Lower  Burkes,  i.  e.  the  northern  Burkes  °  Enemies  and  strangers,  literally,  uukuown 

seated  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  of  whom  he  him-  enemies,  i.  e.  enemies  with  whom  they  had  no 

self  was  the  chief.  personal  acquaintance. 

"  Rout  the  enemy,    literally,    "  whether    the  ••  Soldiers,  or  sagittarii,  archers. 


1646  aNNaf.a  Rio^hcichca  eiReaNN.  [1570. 

raoib  ele.  Ro  bci  oóil  lé  Docaip,  1  Dob  ajliaib  ap  eccualang-Doccbam 
miicai]!  -]  locraiji  connacc  co]i  oocuTn  na  conaipe  conjóipii^e  ym.  Qpa  aoi  |io 
opccnapac  pop  a  naghain,  ■]  nip  bo  cmn  do  cóoap  an  can  puapaccap  a 
ccaoib  DO  rollab,  1  a  ccuipp  Do  cpéccnuccab  lap  an  ceD  PP'^T  ^^  léicceaD 
póca  a  jjonnabaib  gpón  aoíbleaca  1  a  boDabaib  blair  pi^ne,  ni  pgfinm  no 
pccac,  ni  mepcfn  no  mioblacup  po  j^abpac  porii  piap  na  cpécrDiubpaicrib  pm 
ace  Dol  5an  coiccill  pop  a  ccfpracchaib  50  po  pécpac  pirpulonj  a  parhfac 
cpuapa  ccloibfrh,")  cpoma  a  ccuajh  up  cloignib, -]  ap  cfnmnullaijiba  ccelean 
comlanin.  Nip  bo  paoa  po  pmlngfr»  na  pfbmonna  pin  lap  an  ppoipinn  capla 
pop  a  ccionn  an  can  po  bpúccbpi]'  Dianrháibm  DÓpaccac  Dib  pop  cculaib  ^o 
pobfn  on  cpénbuibfn  cainicc  Dia  paijib  lomlaoiD  lonoio  1  malaipc  dice  Díob. 
l?o  gabpac  pibe  lapaiti  05  Di'oclaicpiuccab  na  Dpninje  capla  pfmpo  05  Ifn- 
rhain  an  luafinabma  ag  cfnDab  na  copaijeacca,  a^  Dpucc  1  05  Dinge 
1  nofghaib  na  nDpongbumfn  ap  pfo  DO  mile  on  ppoplon5popc.  IRo  pleaccab, 
"]  po  ppaoijleab  pocaibe  Díob  leó  an  aipfo  pin.  lap  nDol  Do  thuincip  ineic 
iiilbam  búpc  cap  an  mapcpluaj  baoi  Dia  Ifccaob,  cuccpac  na  Diopmanna 
mapcpluag  amup  pop  beipeab  na  nóccbaib  piap  a  mbaoi  an  boipbbpipeab  co 
po  Dícaijic  Dpécca  Dia  nDponsbuibnib  leó,  -|  po  tnubaijpe  ni  ba  mo  munbab 
Dliiice  1  Daingne  a  n  innill  ■]  a  n  opoai^ce  cuccpac  poppa  a  ccúp  an  laoi.  Oo 
beacacap  laparh  pop  cculaib  lap  mbuaib  ccopccaip  1  ccorhmaoibme  -]  lap 
ppaoineab  pop  a  mbiobbaDhaib,  ace  amain  bci  yCb  a  noeapnpac  Do  Deapmac 
conganca  (o  po  polrhaijfb  an  caclacaip  leó,  lap  mbpipeab  pop  a  mbiobbab- 
aib)  gan  anmain  ipin  ppoplongpopc  in  oibce  pin,  uc(ip  Da  nanDoip  ni  biab 
ppfpabpa  ppiú  im  ainm  "|  im  oipbeapcup  an  mabma  do  bfic  poppa.  Dála 
an  ppepiDenc,  1  lapla  cloinne  piocaipD  do  anpcic  piDe,-]  pliocc  Domnaill  mec 
puibne  (na  po  pajaibaiD  a  mbonn  Da  mbiobbabaib  an  la  pin)  -|  Dponj  Dia 
paijDuiipib  ip  in  ppoplongpopc  in  oiDce  pin.  bóccap  laparh  05  aicne,  -]  aj 
abnacal  a  ccaom  -|  a  ccapac,  -|  aj  paobab  na  pp fp  njonca  peacnón  an 
áprhai^.  Oo  pónab  écc  móp  ann  pin  ó  jallaib  .1.  paccpaiccin  ciumpócc,  l?o 
mapbaD  ann  beóp  an  calbac  mac  coippbealBaij  mic  eoin  cappaij,  -]  pocaibe 

■"  VoUet/,  Fpcir- — This  is  a  very  old  Irish  word  of  them  were  cut  down  and  scourged  by  tliem." 

denoting  "  a  shower,"  and  ppapac,  an  adjective  The  verb  pleaccaó  is  applied  in  the  early  por- 

formed  from  it,  denotes  "  showery."  tion  of  these  Annals,  and  the  best  Irish  manu- 

^  They  cut  down,  literally,  ' '  great  numbers  scripts,  to  the  feULng  or  cutting  down  of  woods 


1570]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1C47 

[at  the  proper -time].  It  was  grappling  with  difSculty,  and  facing  impossibihty, 
for  the  youths  of  "West  and  Lower  Connaught  to  attack  this  well-defended  posi- 
tion ;  nevertheless,  they  inarched  onward,  but  they  had  not  advanced  far  before 
their  sides  were  pierced,  and  their  bodies  wounded,  by  the  hrst  volley*"  of  fiery 
shot  discharged  at  them  from  the  guns,  and  [of  arrows]  from  the  beautiful 
elastic  bows.  It  was  not,  however,  terrpr  or  fear,  cowardliness  or  dastardliness, 
that  these  wounding  volleys  produced  in  them,  but  [a  magnanimous  determina- 
tion] to  advance  directly  forward  ;  so  that  they  tried  the  force  of  their  lances, 
the  temper  of  their  swords,  and  the  heaviness  of  their  battle-axes,  on  tlie  skulls 
and  crests  of  their  antagonists.  Their  opponents  did  not  long  withstand  these 
vigorous  onslaughts,  before  a  numerous  body  of  them  gave  way,  and  retreated 
precipitately  ;  upon  which  the  powerful  party  who  came  up  took  their  places 
and  position,  and  then  proceeded  to  exterminate  those  who  stood  before  them, 
and,  following  up  the  route,  they  pressed  closely  and  vehemently  after  tlie 
flying  troops  for  the  distance  of  two  miles  from  the  camp,  during  which  pursuit 
they  cut  down'  and  lacerated  great  numbers.  When  the  people  of  Mac  Wil- 
liam Burke,  in  following  up  the  pursmt,  had  passed  by  the,  cavalry,  they  were 
attacked  in  the  rear  by  that  numerous  body  which  had  been  kept  on  one  side 
[in  reserve],  and  numbers  of  their  troops  were  slain  by  them  ;  and  a  gi-eater 
number  would  have  Ijeen  cut  off,  but  for  the  closeness  and  firmness  of  the 
battle-array  and  order  which  they  had  formed  that  morning.  They  afterwards 
returned  home  in  triumph,  after  having  defeated  their  enemies.  They  had, 
however,  committed  one  great  mistake  :  when  they  had  cleared  the  field  of 
battle,  by  putting  their  enemies  to  flight,  not  to  have  remained  that  night  in 
the  camp  ;  for,  had  they  done  so,  there  could  not  have  been  any  dispute  as  to 
their  having  the  name  and  renown  of  having  gained  the  victory.  As  for  the 
President  and  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard,  they  and  the  descendants  of  Donnell 
Mac  Sweeny  (who  had  not  fled  from  their  enemies  on  that  day),  Arith  a  party 
of  their  soldiers,  remained  in  the  camp  that  night.  They  afterwards  stopped 
to  search  for  and  inter  their  slain  relatives  and  friends,  and  to  relieve  the 
wounded  throughout  the  field  of  slaughter.  Little  Patrick  Cusack  was  sliiin  in 
this  battle  on  the  side  of  the  English,  and  his  deatli  was  generally  lamented  * 

or    forests.     The    noun   fpaoijil    signifies    ".  a      noun  formed  fioni  it,  denotes,  to  flog,  scourge, 
scourge,"    and  ppaoi^leuó.  which  is  a  verbal      or  beat  severely. 


1(>18  aNNaí,a  Rio^hachra  eiReawH.  [1570. 

ele  riac  aipirhcui.  Ro  páccbaó  ann  Don  Ific  ele  uócep  mac  Sfain  mic  maoilip 
a  bupc  Dia  njoipri  cluap  le  ooininn,-]  Pajnallmac  meic  Dorhnaill  jallócclai^, 
"]  Da  mac  eóm  Gipeannaij  do  conpapal  do  clomn  nDorhnaill  na  halban.  Oo 
póccbaD  arm  lion  Dípíme  amaiUe  piú  pin  Depenncliaib  nalbancoib,  do  clomn 
noomnaill,  Do  clom  cpuibne,  -|  do  luce  Ifnamna  búpcac.  Qn  Dap  lop  an  plój 
píop  lap  po  ppaoineab  ma  mbaoi  pfmpa, -]  ppip  nap  coraicceaó  an  caclaraip 
ap  aca  pfm  baoi  buaiD  na  cfccmala,  -]  Dap  lap  na  cij;eapna6aib  po  an  ip  in 
ppoplonjpopc  in  oi6ce  pin  ap  poppa  péin  po  ba  Dip  clú  an  maóma  Do  beir. 

SloicceaD  la  hiapla  iiprhuman  hi  ppojmap  na  bliabna  po.i.  la  comap  mac 
Semaip  mic  piapaip  pimib  cap  piúip  piap  Do  cliú  mail  mic  ucchjaine  1  nuib 
conaill  jabpa,  1  Do  ciappaise  liiacpa,  ni  po  aipip  jup  jab  1  gup  bpip  Dún 
lóic  óp  Ifrhain  1  nDfipcceapc  cóicciD  conpaí  mic  DÓipe.  puaip  bpaijDe  ■) 
éDala  lomóa  Don  cupup  pin,  "|  Do  pill  hi  ppirinj  na  conaipe  céDna  jan  cpoiD 
gan  cacap,  1  bo  pfo  po  Deapa  Dóporfi  pin,  clann  lapla  Deaprhurhan  do  bfir 
hilláim  hillonnoain,  -|  Semup  mac  muipip  ina  aon  Dpine  1  nacchaiD  gall  -| 
geapolcac,  ")  an  ci'p  uile  aj  cup  ma  agham,  -|  par  ele  ap  nac  ppuaip  an 
riapla  cfccmáil  ap  baoi  conjnam  plóij  na  banpiojna  aicce  ap  an  cupup  pin. 

^  Cluas-le-doininn,  i.  e.  ear  to  the  tempest.  Bealach  Chonglais,  close  to  Cork,  to  Luimneach, 

'  Cliu-Mail-mkic-Ugaine,  i.  e.  tlie  division  of  and  to  the  western  coast  of  Ireland. — See  Hali- 

Mal,  son  of  Ugaine  More,  Monarch  of  Ireland,  day's  edition  of  Keating's  History  of  Ireland, 

A.  M.  3619.— See  Ogi/gia,  iii.  c.  38.     This  was  p.  135.                       " 

the  name  of  a  district  in  the  barony  of  Coshlea,  '  In  this  year  the  following  Irish  chieftains 

and  county  of  Limerick,  and  situated  between  made  their  submissions  by  indenture,  namely, 

the  hill  of  Knockany  and  the  mountain  of  Slieve  Brian,  sou  of  Cahir,  son  of  Art  Kavauagh  of 

Keagh. — See  note  on  Beal-atha-na-nDeise,  under  Ballyanne,    in   the   county   of  Wexford  ;    Mac 

the  year  1579,  where  it  is  shewn  that  the  ford  Vaddock  of  the  same  county,  who  was  head  of 

of  Athneasy,  on  the  Morning  Star  River,  near  a  sept   of  the  Mac  Murroughs  ;  Mac  Edmond 

the  village  of  Elton,  in  the  barony  of  Coshlea,  DuíF,  of  the  same  county ;  Mac  Damore,  or  Mac 

is  in  the  very  centre  of  this  river.     See  also  David  More,  of  the  same  county,  head  of  ano- 

note  "*,  under  the  year  1560,  p.  1580,  supra.  ther  sept  of  the  Mac  Murroughs,  seated  in  the 

"  Dun-Loick,    now  Dunlow   Castle,    on   the  barony    of   Gorey  ;    and    O'Farrell    Bane    and 

River  Leamhain,  near  Killarney,  in  the  county  O'Farrell  Boy,  of  the  county  of  Longford.    The 

of  Kerry See  note  ■',   under  the  year   1215,  following   documents,   never,  before  published, 

p.  188,  supra,  and  the  Ordnance  map  of  Kerry,  will  shew  the  nature  of  their  submission  : 

sheets  65.  "  This  Indenture,  made  the  15"  day  of  Marche, 

'  The  province  of  Curoi,  the  son  of  Daire 1570,  betwyxt  the  Right  Honorable  Sir  Henrie 

This  was  a  name  for  Desmond,  or  South  Mun-  Sidney,  Knt.  lord  Deputie  of  Ireland,  for  and 

star,    extending,    according    to  Keating,    from  on  behalfe  of  the  Queene's  most  excellent  Ma'" 


1570.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1649 

and  also  Calvagh,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  John  Carragh,  and  many  others 
not  enumerated.  On  the  'side  of  tlie  Irish  were  slain  Walter,  the  son  of  John, 
son  of  Meyler  Biu-ke,  who  was  called  Cluas-le-doininn^  and  Eandal,  the  son  of 
Mac  Donnell  Galloglagh  ;  also  the  two  sons  of  John  Ereanagh,  two  constables 
of  the  Clann-Donnell  of  Scotland.  There  were  also  left  [slain]  here  countless 
numbers  of  Irish  and  Scots  of  the  Clann-Donnell,  the  Clann-Sweeny,  and  of 
the  adherents  of  the  Burkes.  The  Lower  [northern]  army,  who  had  routed 
such  of  the  forces  as  had  given  way,  but  who  had  not  maintained  the  field, 
believed  that  in  this  rencounter  the  victory  was  theirs  ;  while  those  lords  who 
remained  during  the  night  in  the  camp  considered  that  they  alone  were  entitled 
to  the  fame  of  that  victory. 

A  hosting  was  made  in  the  autumn  of  this  year  by  the  Earl  of  Ormond, 
i.  e.  Thomas,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  Pierce  Roe,  [and  he  marched]  westwards 
across  the  Suir,  by  Cliu-Máil-mhic-Ugaine',  into  Hy-Connell-Gaura,  and  to  Kerry 
Luachra;  (and)  he  never  halted  until  he  took  and  demolished  Dun-Loich",  on 
the  River  Leamhain,  in  the  south  of  the  province  of  Curoi,  the  son  of  Daire*. 
On  this  expedition  he  obtained  hostages  and  spoils  ;  and  he  returned  home  by 
the  same  road  without  receiving  battle  or  opposition.  The  reason  that  he 
received  none  was,  that  the  sous  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond  were  [then]  in  prison 
In  London  ;  and  James  Mac  Maurice,  the  only  person  of  his  tribe  who  was 
opposed  to  the  English  and  to  the  Geraldines,  was  [himself]  opposed  by  the 
whole  country.  Another  reason  why  the  Earl  met  no  resistance  was,  that  he 
had  the  assistance  of  the  Queen's  army  on  this  expedition". 

of  thone  parte,    and  Bryane   M"  Cahir  M'Art  CourteofChauncerie  of  Ireland,  all  such  manors, 

Kavanagh  of  Ballyan,  in  the  county  of  Wexford,  castells,  lands,  tenements,  rents,  revercons,  and 

gent,  cheife  of  his  name  and  cept  called  Slaght  all  other  hereditaments  that  they  and  everie  of 

Dirmod  Lawdarage,  for  and  on  behalfe  of  him-  them  have  within  the  said  countric,  the  same 

selfe  and  all  the  rest  of  the  gent,  and  freeholders  to  be  given  back  by  letters  patents  to  be  held 

of  the    said  Baronies  of  Ballyan,  S'  Molinge,  by  them  and  their  heires  for  ever,  at  the  yearly 

and  in  Clan  Harricke,  and  Ffassagh  Slew  boye,  rent  to  be  reserved  in  the  said  patents,  but  to 

in  the  countie  aforesaid,  and  in  the  countie  of  be  free  from   the  bonaghte  accustomed  to  be 

Catherlaghe,  of  the  other  partie.— Witnesseth  paid  to  the  Queen's  Galloglasses  in  discharge  of 

that  the  said  Bryane  M'  Cahir,    and  the   rest  which  they  are  to  pay  52  markes  yearly." 
above  named,  do  covenant,  agree,  and  condescend  "  (Inrolled  in  the  Record  branch  of  the  OflSce 

to  and  with  the  said  lord  Deputie,  to  surrender  of  Paymaster  of  Civil  Services,  Dublin.)" 
and  give  up   in  the  Queen's  most  Honorable  "  This  Indenture,  made  the  26""  day  of  June, 

10  a 


1650 


QNHaí-a  Rioshachca  eiReaNN. 


[1571. 


aOlS  CR108U,  1571. 
Qoíp  Cpio)"c,  mile,  cúicc  céo,  Secrmojar,  ahaon. 

TTlacConmapa  raócc  vnnc  conmeaDa,  mic  conmajia,  mic  Sfain,  póó  a  painn 
-|  a  cajiao  Do  cocuccaó,  "|  a  narhaD  Dpolrhuccaó  ~\  Dpáj'uccaó  Décc,  i  a  mac 
(Sfan)  DO  jabáil  o  lonaiD. 


1570,  betwyxt  the  Right  Honorable  Sir  Henry 
Sidny,  Knt.  lord  Deputie  of  Ireland,  for  and  on 
behalfe  of  the  Queene's  most  excellent  Ma''%  of 
thone  parte ;  and  Theobald  M°  Morish  M°Vadick 
of  Ballinecoill,  in  the  countrey  called  Kensele, 
in  the  county  of  Wexford;  Gerold  M'  Theobald 
M'Vadick,  of  Bally  Carrowell;  Gillepatrick  Oge 
M°  Donyll  Moile  of  the  Cowill  IshiJl  ;  Edmond 
M°  Donill  Moile  of  Monynecrosse  ;  Tirreloghe 
M'  Morighe  of  Ballinemone  ;  Moriertagh  buy 
M"  Fheilim  of  the  Mengane ;  Shane  Sharvey  of 
the  Cowill  Ishill ;  Cahire  M'  Morish  of  Bally- 
nemolle ;  Donyll  Eowe  M"  Gerrald  buy  of  Koss- 
nenocke ;  Ffargananym  M^Vadick  of  Bally byne 
Donyll  W  Gillepatrick  of  Ballaghedoroghe 
Morighe  M'  Gillepatrick  of  Ballagheclare 
Thomas  Eiree  of  Ballehedick  ;  Owingarive  of 
Clouglieilleke  ;  Edmond  BP  Donyll  Moill ;  Ca- 
hire M°  Geralde  buy  ;  Teige  Ewillane  ;  James 
M"  Donogh  Eonoe ;  Morish  W  Ffallen ;  Donogh 
Riough;  Cahire  M" Teige  Oge;  Owen  M" Shane; 
Moriertagh  M"  Hughe ;  Cahire  Row  M°  Edmond ; 
Henry  Begge  and  Donogh  Morighe,  of  the  other 
parte.-;-Witnesseth  that  the  said  Theobald,  and 
the  rest  above  named,  do  covenant,  agree  and 
condescend  to  and  with  the  said  locde  Deputy, 
to  surrender  and  give  up  in  the  Queen's  most 
Honorable  Courte  of  Chauncerie  of  Ireland,  all 
such  manors,  castells,  lands,  tenements,  rents, 
revercons,  &  all  other  hereditaments  that  they 
and  everie  of  them  have  within  the  said  countrie 
called  Kensele.  The  same  to  be  given  back  by 
letters  patents,  to  be  held  at  and  under  the 
yearly  rent  of  40  markes  payable  to  her  Ma"", 


heires  and  successors." 

"  (Inrolled  in  the  Record  branch  of  the  Office 
of  Paymaster  of  Civil  Services,  Dublin.)" 

"  This  Indenture,  made  the  26th  day  of  June, 
1570,  betwyxte  Sir  Henrie  Sidney,  Knt.  lorde 
Deputy  of  Ireland,  for  and  in  the  belialfe  of  the 
Queene's  most  excellent  Ma'"',  of  thone  parte  ; 
and  Dermot  M'  Edmund  DuiF  of  the  Newtowne, 
in  the  countrey  called  Keusell,  in  the  cotmty  of 
Wexford,  and  other  the  freeholders  of  the  said 
contrey,  of  the  other  part.  Witnesseth  that  the 
said  Dermot  M"  Edmund,  and  the  rest  above 
named,  do  covenant,  agree,  and  condescend  to 
and  with  the  said  lorde  Deputy,  to  surrender  and 
give  up  in  the  Queene's  most  Honorable  Courte 
of  Chauncerie  of  Ireland,  all  such  manors,  cas- 
tells, lands,  tenements,  ients,  revercons,  and  all 
other  hereditaments  that  they  and  everie  of 
them  have  vsdthin  the  said  countrie.  And  the 
said  lorde  Deputy  doe  promise  and  graunte  that 
the  same  shall  be  by  letters  patents  given  back, 
to  be  held  at  and  under  the  yearly  rent  of  six 
score  markes,  payable  to  her  Ma^S  her  heires 
and  successors." 

"  (Inrolled  in  the  Record  branch  of  the  office 
of  Paymaster  of  civil  Services,  Dublin.)" 

"  This  Indenture,  made  the  26th  day  of  June,  ' 
1570,  betwyxt  the  Right  Honorable  Sir  Henrie 
Sidney,  Knt.  lord  Deputie  of  Ireland,  for  and 
on  behalfe  of  the  Queene's  most  excellent  Ma'* 
of  thone  parte,  and  Phelim  M°  Damore  of  Mol- 
liallesterne,  in  the  country  called  Kinseele,  in 
the  county  of  Wexford  ;  Cahire  Madden  of 
Killegrine  ;  Morighaiie  Piperre  of  the  Parke  ; 


1571] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


16.51 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1571. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  tJwusand  five  hundred  neomty-om. 

Mac  Namara  (Teige,  the  son  of  Cumeadha,  son  of  Cumara,  who  was  son  of 
John),  supporter  of  his  adherents  and  friends,  and  exterminator  and  destroyer 
of  his  enemies,  died  ;  and  his  son,  John,  took  his  place. 


Donyll  O'Dorane  of  Ballygerale  ;  Kick  fitz 
Symons  of  Ballydufif ;  Thorn  More  of  Ko^se  ; 
Moriertaghe  Meirregagh  of  Ballenskertane ;  Mo- 
riertagh  Duff  ftPCahireof  Collineculbu;  Donyll 
duff  M°  Teige  rioughe  of  Bellynegame  ;  Mur- 
rough  buy  of  Ballyedane ;  Melaghlyn  M°.  Tirre- 
lagli  of  Kilbride;  Edmond  Kiough  oftbeO'Mok- 
laghe  ;  Conoghor  M'  Walter  of  Monencle  ;  Red- 
mond M°  Lucas  of  Killone  ;  Manus  M'  Davyd 
of  Ballyvadage ;  Caher  M'  Art  of  Ballycam- 
cloiie ;  AnthonyPeppard  of  Ballinomenge ;  Caliire 
O  Doran  of  Monanecholane  ;  Edm.  M"  Donel 
moyle  of  the  Gurtine  ;  Teige  Kiough  of  Ballye- 
nacgerode  ;  M°  Dallow  of  Ballycahill  ;  Hugh 
M"  Art  of  Carranebrede,  and  Edm  M"  Shane  of 
Cloneredmounde,  ffreehoulders,  of  the  other 
partie. — Witnesseth  that  the  said  Phelini  M' 
Damore,  and  the  rest  above  named,  do  covenant, 
agree,  and  condescend  to  and  with  the  said  lorde 
Deputie  to  surrender  and  give  up  in  the  Queen's 
most  Honorable  Courte  of  Chauncerie  of  Ireland, 
all  such  manors,  castles,  lands,  tenements,  rents, 
revercons,  and  all  other  hereditaments  that  they 
and  everie  of  them  have  within  the  said  countrie 
called  Kinseele.  The  same  to  be  given  back  by 
letters  patents,  to  be  held  at  and  under  the 
yearly  rent  of  40  markes,  payable  to  her  Ma"", 
her  heires  and  successors." 

■'  (InroUed  in  the  Record  branch  of  the  office 
of  Paymaster  of  Civil  Services,  Dublin.)" 

"  This  Indenture,  made  the  1 1th  day  of  Feb. 
1570,  betwyxt  the  Right  Honorable  Sir  Henrie 
Sidney,  Knt.  lord  Deputie  of  Ireland,  for  and 
on  behalfe  of  the  Queene's  most  excellent  Ma"°, 

10 


of  thone  part ;  and  .  Ffaghnie  O'Ferrall,  other- 
wise called  O'Ferrall  bane  of  Tullie,  in  the 
county  of  Longford,  somtyme  called  the  coun- 
trye  of  theAnnellie;  William  fEtzDonell  O'Fer- 
rall of  the  Molt;  John  O'Fferrall  of  the  Glane, 
Captayne  of  WilUame's  sept;  Donell  O'Fferrall 
of  the  Reene,  now  M°  Moroghe  in  tliewe ;  Moy- 
laghlin  O'Fferrall  of  Molenlegau,  called  M=  Hy 
og  of  Moythra ;  FfeUym  boy  O'Qwyne  of  the 
Brewne,  called  O'Coyne;  Donill  O'Fferrall  of 
Kilgref,  capten  of  Gillernewes  sept,  in  the  said 
countie,  gent,  of  the  other  partie. — Witnesseth 
that  the  saidFaghnie,  and  the  rest  above  named, 
do  covenant,  agree,  and  condescend  to  and  with 
the  said  lorde  Deputy,  to  surrender  and  give  up 
in  the  Queen's  most  Honorable  Courte  of  Chaun- 
cerie of  Ireland,  all  such  manors,  castells,  lands, 
tenements,  rents,  revercons,  and  all  other  here- 
ditaments that  they  and  everie  of  them  have 
within  the  said  countrie  called  Annalie.  The 
same  to  be  given  back  by  letters  patents  free  of 
bonnaght,  to  be  held  at  and  under  the  yearly 
rent  of  200  markes,  payable  to  her  Ma"'',  her 
heires  and  successors.  And  for  lacke  of  money 
the  same  to  be  paid  in  Kyne,  as  the  same  Kyne 
shall  be  worth  and  sold  in  the  markets  of  Ath- 
boy  and  Navan." 

"  (Inrolled  in  the  Record  branch  of  the  Office 
of  Paymaster  of  Civil  Services,  Dublin.)" 

"  This  Indenture,  made  the  10th  day  of  Feb., 
1570,  betwyxt  the  Right  Honorable  Sir  Henrie 
Sidney,  Knt.  lord  Deputye  of  Ireland,  for  and 
on  behalfe  of  the  Queene's  most  excellent  Ma"'', 
of  thone  parte  ;  and  Faghnie  O'Ferrall,   other- 

a2 


1652  awNQta  Rioghachca  eiReawN.  [1571. 

Qn  ciomy'occac  Comap  mac  Sfain  cfno  corh'aiple  jail  Gpeann  peaji  ]io 
V)aoi  po  r|ii  ina  piop  lonam  pi;^  1  nGpinn  Decc. 

ÍTIa^  jopmain  Tílaoíleaclainn  mac  comáip  mic  maoileaclaitm  ouib  cój^- 
bálai  j  rpó^,  -]  ciTje  naoíóeaó  oécc. 

Semnp  mac  ITluipip  00  ^abail  ciUe  moceallócc,"]  ní  oáil^fp  a  li'onnmaip, 
no  a  liiolmaoine  ^ép  Bóhiolapba  a  heoála  acr  pó  bír  bá  bionab  oipeaccai[', 
1  ba  rulac  cupleime  do  jallaib  •]  do  jfpalcacaib  lé  haccbaiD  Sbemaip  00 
jjpép.  Do  patioD  uapDíipccaó  náriiac  pop  an  lucr  báccap  50  ['óinrheac  punn 
coDalrac  in  upropac  oiDce  lá  mfpTjappab  cloinne  Suibne  -[  clomne  p'rhijj 
bácrap  bi  ccaoímreacr  Semaip  mic  muipip  pia  nuaip  cfipce  ap  a  bapac  50 
mbácrap  aj  poinn  óip,  aip5ic  -\  lolrhaoíne, "]  péD  pomaoíneac,  ná  haiDémaó 
an  cacaiji  Dia  eiópe,  nó  an  rharaip  Dia  hmjin  an  la  piam.  í?o  báp  Dna  leó 
ppi  bfb  cpí  lá~\  ceopa  noibce  05  cop  jac  eapnaile  lonrrhupa  ~\  uapail  eappab, 
cuac,i  copn  ccuriiDaijre  pop  jpfjaib,  1  eocaib  pócoiUcib"]  pó  pfbaib  eafnp- 
lac,  "]  opaill  ele  50  hincleire  00  paiccbib  a  ccapar,  ■)  a  ccoiccele.  Oo 
bfprpar  lapam  cpoimnéll  ceineao  "]  Dlúrbpac  oobapba  nuibciac  oapp  an 
mbaile  laparh  lap  mbpipfb  "|   lap  mblainpébab  a  cumDai^fb  cloc  -\  clapab 

wise  called  O'Ferrall  oí'thePallice,  in  the  county  iiycke  O'Ferrall  of  Corilaghaa;  Rowry  W  Ger- 

o(  Longford,  some  time  called  the  country  of  rott  O'Ferrall  of  Clonfowre;  Teige  duf  O'Ferrall 

the  Annalie;  Kedagh  O'Fferrall  of  Eaharewy;  of  the  «same;    Conall   M' Shane    O'Fferrall   of 

Fargus  O'Ferrall  of  the  Bawne ;  Edmoud  O'Fer-  Dromed  ;    Gillarnew    M'  Ffaughnie    O  Ferrall 

rail  of  CriedufF;  Iriel  O'Ferrall,  sou  to  the  said  of  Raolyne  ;    Cowle  M'  llebbard  O  Fferrall  of 

O'Ferrall  of  the  Mornyne;  Teige  Duffe  M' Cor-  Belalyene  ;     Ffelem    M"  Donell    O'Fferrall   of 

mucke  of  theKillincriebote;  Cormock  M°Rory  Keraunkeyll  ;    Concor  M' Rosse   O  Fen-all  of 

O'Ferrall    of  the    Camace ;     Bryan    M' Rurye  Cassellbage;    Hibbard    M' Rosse    O  Fferrall   of 

O'Ferrall    of   Drunivinge  ;    Shane    M'  Gerrote  Ffurbeill ;  Teige  M'  Moriartye  O'Ferrall  of  Car- 

O'Ferrall  of  the  Cargin;  Tirrelage  O'Bardan  of  ryll;   Jeflfery  oge  O'Ferrall  of  Cerownagerake ; 

Dromhishen ;  William   O'Bardan  of  the  same ;  Moriaughtaughe  M"  Edmoud  O'Fl'errall  of  Ly- 

Rory  j\r  Rosse  O'Ferrall  of  Killmacshane  ;   Ge-  nery;  Howe  M'Dontay  O'Fferrall  of  Carigwyn; 

rold  M'Owen  O'Ferrall  of  Durey  ;   Teige  boy  Shane  IP  Donell  O'Fferrall  of  the  Corey ;  Felim 

O'Ferrall    of    Tirlyken  ;     Irriell    iM' William  OwynoftheBrewn;  BreynQueynol'Acwranake; 

O'Ferrall    of  Ballerohau  ;    Brian    M"  llebbard  Jeflery  Qwyn  of  Ileasdowiie  ;  William  M'Dun- 

O'Ferrall  of  Killacomoge;   Murrough  M"  Don-  kaye  O'Fferrall   of  Uermore;    Donell   M°  CalJe 

nell  O'Ferrall  of  Athey-donell ;  Rosse  M' Don-  of  Croilaght  in  said  county  gent,  of  the  other 

nell  O'Ferrall  of  Bally wringham  ;  Murroughe  partie. — Witnesseththat  the  said FaghnieO'Fer- 

M."  Teige   O'Ferrall  Bealclare,    called  i\t  Heb-  rail,  and  the  rest  above  named,  do  covenant, 

bard  O'Ferrall  of  Dwelyne  ;  Miirugh  M°  Con-  agree  and  condescend  to  aud  witli  the  said  lorde 


1571]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1653 

Cusack"  (Thomas,  sou  of  John),  head  of  the  counsel  of  the  English  of  Ire- 
laud,  who  had  been  thrice  Viceroy  of  Ireland,  died. 

Mac  Gorman  (Melaghlin,  the  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Melaghliu  Duv),  sup- 
porter of  the  indigent  and  of  a  house  of  hospitality,  died. 

James  Mac  Maurice"  took  Kilmallock^  not  from  a  desire  of  [obtaining]  its 
riches  and  various  treasures,  though  its  riches  were  immense,  but  because  it 
had  always  been  the  rendezvous  and  sally-port  of  the  English  and  Geraldines 
[in  their  contests]  against  him".  Before  sunrise"  in  the  morning  those  who  had 
gone  to  sleep  happily  and  comfortably  were  aroused  froni  their  slumber  by  a 
fiu-ious  attack  made  by  the  warlike  troops  of  the  Clann- Sweeny  and  Clann- 
Sheehy,  who  were  along  with  James  Mac  Maurice  ;  and  they  proceeded  to 
divide  among  themselves  its  gold,  silver,  various  riches,  and  valuable  jewels, 
which  the  father  would  not  have  acknowledged  to  his  heir,  or  the  mother  to 
her  daughter,  on  the  day  before.  They  were  engaged  for  the  space  of  three 
days  and  nights  in  carrying  away  the  several  kinds  of  riches  and  precious  goods, 
as  cups  and  ornamented  goblets,  upon  their  horses  and  steeds,  to  the  woods 
and  forests  of  Etharlach^  and  sending  others  of  them  privately  to  their  friends 
and  companions.  Tliey  then  set  fire  to  the  town,  and  raised  a  dense,  heavy 
cloud,  and  a  black,  thick,  and  gloomy  shroud  of  smoke  about  it,  after  they  had 
torn  down  and  demolished  its  houses  of  stone  and  wood  ;  so  that  Kilniallock 

Deputy  to  surrender  and  give  up  iu  the  Queene's  of  Ireland  by  some  enth'usiastic,  but  ignorant 
most  Honorable  Courte  of  Chauncerie  of  Ireland  or  dishonest,  popular  writers;  but  the  remains 
all  such  manors,  castells,  lands,  tenements,  rents,  of  the  castles,  houses,  walls,  &c.,  shew  that  there"" 
revercons,  and  all  other  hereditaments  that  they  is  no  building  there  older  than   the  thirteenth 
and  everie  of  them  have  within  the  said  countrie  century  (many  of  them  still  more  modern),  ex- 
called  the  Annalie.    The  same  to  be  given  back  cept,  perhaps,  a  part  of  one  round  tower,  which 
by  letters  patents  to  be  held  at  and  under  the  may  be  as  old.  as  the  eleventh  century, 
yearly  rent  of  200  markes  payable  to  her  Ma'",  "  Him — In  the  original  it  is  "James,"  which 
her  lieires  and  successors,  but  to  be  free  of  bon-  is  cumbersome'  and  not  to  be  imitated, 
naght."  *'  Before  sunrise,  pici  nuaip  ceipce — Th»^  word 

"(InroUed  in  the  Record  branch  of  thcOiKce   '  ceipc  is  explained  "sunrise"  by  O'Keilly;  and 

of  Payiuaster  of  Civil  Services,  Dublin.)"  in  Cormac's  Glossary    it   is    explained  ■'  tertia 

"  Cusack. — See  note  '',  under  the  year  1-552,  Imra.'''' 
p.  1526,  supra.  '^  Etharlach,   nuw   Aharlagh,    or  Aiiariuw,  a 

'  Mac  Maurice,  angliee  Fitzmaurice.  beautiful  valley  situated  between  Slievenamuck 

'  Kilmalloek See  note  ',  under  the  year  1412,  and  the  Galty  mountains,  and  about  lour  miles 

p.  80y,  supra.     This  town  is  called  the  Balbec  to  the  south  uf  the  town  of  Tipperary. 


1654  awNaca  Rio^hachca  emeaHN.  [1571. 

jup  bo  liairce  -j  gup  bo  haoba  do  connib  ollca  cill  moceallócc  lap  gac 
náinfp  baoí  innce  50  pin. 

Ppepioenc  Sa;canac  do  reacc  op  cfnD  Da  cóicceaó  murhan  i  neappac  na 
bliaóna  po,  Sip  Seon  pappoic  a  cnnm.  6ácrap  laip  lomac  lonj-j  laoiDfrig,  ceo, 
-]  caipcínfó.  l?o  jabpar  uppaóa,-]  uapal  coónac,  cijfpna, -]  coipeac  an  cipe 
po  céDóip  laip,  5eibirc  Dna  arhaip  -]  eapuppoDa  lucr  cuillrhe,  -]  cuapupDail 
an  cipe  la  Semap  ^lon  50  mbaoi  Dia  Dun  apapaib  aicce  ace  caiplen  na  mainje 
noma.  T?o  póccaip  an  PpepiDenr  pop  peapaib  murhan  ceacc  50  lionmap  lep- 
rionoilce  ma  Dócum  co  na  lóirícib  pfm  leó  lé  liajaiD  caipléin  na  mainge  im 
pell  eóin  ap  ccionn.  Oo  pónaó  paippiom  pin,  -]  po  gabpac  aj  lompuibe  an 
baile  Ó  pell  eóin  50  mfbon  pojarhaip,  1  ni  po  rapmnaij  ni  Dóib  ap  ni  po  jab- 
pac  an  baile  an  bliaóain  pin.  Uéir  an  PpepiDenc  co  copcaij,  -|  po  pgaoilpioc 
pip  murhan  Dia  ccijib. 

r?o  pójpaó  cúipc  ppi  bfo  ocr  la  noecc  Ic'i  Ppej^iDenc  cúicció  connacr 
Sip  cDuapDpbirun  bi  maitiiprip  innpi  do  cfpcuccaD,"]  do  cfnopuccaD  Dcdccaip, 
1  uaccaip  connacr  po  péil  Pacpaicc  na  bliabna  po.  Uánaicc  cpá  an  Ppepi- 
Denc 50  mapcpluaj  mfpba  -|  50  paijDiuipib  poinearhlaib,  uaip  po  ba  cuimneac 
laip  an  eiccfnDail  1  mbaoi  la  DÓl  ccaip  an  bliaóain  poirhe,  1  baoi  ^ac  laoi  pe 
bfD  na  node  la  nDécc  perhpctire  05  coiccfpc  pecn  1  piajla,  -]  aj;  lonnapHan 
éccopa  1  inoliccbib.  Do  beapc  lupla  ruabmurhan  concobap  mac  DonncbaiD 
uibpiain  a  Durbaij  "]  a  cijeapnapDonPpepiDenc  1  nic  an  inoliccbib  do  póine 
paip  peace  piamb  "]  ó  na  baoi  occa  ap  a  comup  Dia  bailcib  ace  an  ma^ 
Ó  mbpfcáin  Do  paD  do  é  beóp  50  mbaoi  an  ma^,  bunpaice,  an  clap  mop  -\ 
cluain  parhaoa  ap  láirh  an  pbpepiDenc  05  págbáil  an  cipe  bo, "]  puce  bpai  joe 
jaca  buppaib  oá  mbaoi  bi  ccuabrhurham  laip  50  bar  luain.  Niop  bo  bupupa 

*  Wolves,  literally    "  wild   dogs,   or  dogs   of  year  a  Cormac  O'Neill  is  said  by  tradition  to 

the  wood."     Wolves  were  very  numerous  in  have  shot  the  last  of  the  wolves  of  Glenshane, 

Ireland  at  this  period,  and  for  more  than  a  cen-  in  the  townland  of  Sheskinnamaddy,  parish  of 

tury  later.     Philip  O'Sullevan  mentions,  in  his  Dungiven,  and  county  of  Londonderry.     The 

Hiitory  of  the  Irish  Catholics,    that,    after   the  last  native  wolf  of  Ireland  was  seen  in  the  moun- 

battle  of  Kinsale,    the   liungry   wolves   sallied  tains  of  Kerry,  in  the  year  1 720 — See  Memoirs 

from  the  woods  to  attack  the  men  who   were  of  the  Life  and  Writings  of  Charles  0' Conor  of 

weak  with  hunger.     There  was  a  native  Irish  Belanagare,  p.  450. 

wolf  killed  at  Waringstown,  in  the  county  of         ^  James He  was  the  son  of  Maurice  Duv,  son 

Down,  in  the  year  1700;  and  about  the  same  of  John,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  the  Earl  of  Des- 


1571]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  16.55 

became  the  receptacle  and  abode  of  -wolves",  in  addition  to  all  the  other  misfor- 
tunes up  to  that  time. 

In  the  spring  of  this  year  an  English  President,  Sir  John  Perrott,  was  ap- 
pointed over  the  two  provinces  of  Munster.  He  had  many  ships  and  barques,  com- 
panies and  captains.  The  chiefs,  noble  rulers,  lords,  and  dynasts  of  the  country 
joined  him  at  once  ;  but  the  soldiers,  insurgents,  the  mercenaries  and  retained 
troops  of  the  country  sided  with  James',  though,  of  (all)  his  fortified  residences, 
he  retained  Caislen-na-Mainge*^  only.  The  President  commanded  the  men  of 
Munster  to  muster  all  their  forces,  and,  providing  their  own  provisions,  to  come 
to  him  on  tlie  ensuing  festival  of  St.  John,  for  the  pm-pose  of  besieging  Caisleu- 
na-Mainge.  They  did  so  at  his  command,  and  contmued  besieging  the  castle 
from  the  festival  of  St.  John  to  the  middle  of  autumn  ;  but  their  efforts  proved 
fruitless,  for  they  did  not  take  the  castle  that  year.  The  President  (upon  this) 
went  to  Cork,  and  the  men  of  Munster  departed  for  their  respective  homes. 

On  the  festival  of  St.  Patrick  in  this  year,  the  President  of  the  province  of 
Connaught,  Sir  Edward  Phiton,  issued  a  proclamation  for  holding  a  court 
during  eighteen  days  in  the  monastery  of  Ennis^,  [to  devise  measures]  to  set 
to  rights  and  reduce  the  Dal-Cais  and  [the  inhabitants  of  J  Upper  Connaught". 
The  President,  mindful  of  the  perilous  position  in  which  he  had  been  placed 
in  the  preceding  year  by  the  Dal-Cais,  went  attended  by  a  strong  body  of 
cavalry  and  stout  soldiers  ;  and  he  was  occupied  for  the  eighteen  days  before 
mentioned  in  establishing  laws  and  regulations,  and  abolishing  injustice  and 
lawlessness.  The  Earl  of  Thoraond  (Conor,  the  son  of  Donough  O'Brien)  gave 
up  his  country  and  his  lordship  to  the  President,  as  an  atonement  for  the  law- 
less act  which  he  had  formerly  committed  against  him,  and  gave  up  to  him 
Magh  O'mBreacain',  the  only  one  of  his  (former)  towns  then  in  his  possession; 
so  that  the  towns  of  Magh  [O'mBreacain],  Bunratty,  Claremore,  and  Clonroad, 
were  in  the  possession  of  the  President,  on  his  leaving  the  territory  ;  and  he 
carried  hostages  from  every  chieftain  in  Thomoud  along  with  him  to  Athlone. 

niond,  and  was  at  this  period  the  chief  leader  of  the  English  made  at  this  period  a  part  of  the 

the  disaffected  Geraldines  of  Desmond.  province  of  Connaught. 

CaÍ3len-na-Mamge,i.e.  the  casue  of  theRiver  ^  Uppei- Connaiujht,    i.e.    South    Connaught, 

Mang,  now  Castlemaine,  in  the  county  of  Kerry.  i.  e.  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard  and  his  adherents. 

8  Ennis,  a  town  in  the  county  of  Clare,  which  'Magh  O'mBreacain,  i.e.  tlie  plain  of  Ibrickan, 


1656  aNNaf'.a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1572. 

a  jn'orh  an  bo  pctoao  00  no  céoaib  bó  ó  ruahrhurhain  pé  hfo  an  Da  bbaban 
hnoi  na  PjiepiDenr  occa. 

Sfon  mac  an  giolla  óiiib  mic  tMojimaTja  baoi  na  ua  i^eacnapai  j  o  bap  a 
araji  gup  an  luLliaóain  pi,  Ro  bfnaó  an  rainni  pin  1  sojic  innpi  5iiai|ie  oe  la 
Deajibparap  a  arap  .^.  Diapmaio  piabacb  mac  niapmana  ap  hrt  hepibe  bá 
pinnpeap  ann  lap  ppip. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1572. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  cét),  Seaccmojacc,  aoó. 

Qipoeppcop  ruama  Gpioproip  boioicin  Décc,  -|  a  aólacaó  1  nsaillirh. 

6ppucc  cille  pionnabpac,  Sfan  ócc  mac  Sfain  mic  amlaoib  ui  niallain 
pip  poipcfcail  bpfirpe  oé  oécc,  ■]  a  aónacal  hi  ccill  pionnabpac  buoein. 

rriaipjpej  injfn  concobaip  mic  coippbealbai j  mic  caiDcc  ui  bpiain  bfn 
Ian  Dpéle  Dionnpacup,  Do  connla,  do  cpabaD,  Do  ^loine,  -]  DO  ^rnmnai^ecr 
Décc. 

Tl^i^eapna  Déipeac  .1.  TTluipip  mac  jeapailc,  mic  Sfain  mic  jeapoic  mic 
Semuip  m!c  jeapóio  lapla  Decc,  "j  a  bparaip  .1.  Semiip  Doiponecm  ina  lonaD. 

Sfan  mac  coinaip  mic  RiocaipD  oicc,  mic  uillicc  puaiD,  mic  uillicc  an 
pinna  DO  baDc(6  ipin  puca. 

henpi  Ó  cpaióen  cfnDaije  paiobip  poconaig  Dioccap  connacc  nég. 

Gojan  puaó  mac  peapjail  mic  DoitinaiU  puaiD  mic  an  baipD,  TTluipip 
ballac  mac  concoiccpice  mic  Diapmaoa  in'  clcipij,  1  TTlac  ui  TTIlioipin  no 
cpocbaD  la  hiapla  cuaomuman  concobap  mac  DonnchaiD,  -]  poboap  paoice 
hi  pfncup,  -]  I  nDÓn  an  muipip  -]  an  reojan  pempaice,  -|  po  ba  nariina  aoipe, 
-]  eapccaoine  Don  lapla  an  peiU^niom  ipin. 

Goin  mac  colla,  mic  DomnaiU,  mic  eoccain  mic  Domnaill  Decc. 

póccpa  cuipce  Do  rabaipr  la  PpepiDenc  cúicciD  connacr  Sip  éouapD 
Phicun  im  pel  pacpaicc  1  ngailliiti  do  paibe  po  curiiaccaib  na  bampiojna 

now  Moigli,  or  Moymore,  a  townland  situated  /01726.5,  <J-c.  of  Hy-Fiaclirach.,  pp.  377,  378. 
iiearMilltownMalbay,  in  thebaroiiy  of  Ibrickan,  '  Gort-Iiisi-Guaire,  i.  e.  the  field  or  enclosure 

and  county  of  Clare.  of  Guaire's  holm,   or  island,  now  the  town  of 

^  John,  son  of  Gilla-Duv He  was  John,  the  Gort,  in  the  barony  of  Kiltartan,   and  county 

son  of  Sir  Roger  O'Shaughnessy. — See  Genea-  of  Gahvay. 


1572.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  '  1657 

It  would  not  be  easy  to  enumerate  all  the  hundreds  of  kine  that  were  given  to 
the  President  during  the  two  years  that  he  remained  in  Thomond. 

John,  son  of  Gilla-Duv\  son  of  Dermot,  who  had  been  the  O'Shaughnessy 
from  [the  time  of]  the  death  of  his  father  to  this  year,  Avas  deprived  of  that 
title,  and  also  of  Gort-Insi-Guaire',  by  his  father's  brother,  Dermot  Reagh,  the 
sou  of  Dermot,  for  he  was  the  senior  in  reality. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1572. 

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

The  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  Christopher  Bodkin,  died,  and  was  interred  at 
Galway. 

The  Bishop  of  Kilfenora  (John  Oge,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  AulifFe  O'Nial- 
lain"),  teacher  of  the  Word  of  God,  died,  and  was  interred  in  Kilfenora  itself 

Margaret,  daughter  of  Conor,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige  O'Brien,  a 
woman  full  of  hospitality,  integrity,  piety,  purity,  and  chastity,  died. 

The  Lord  Desies,  i.  e.  Maurice,  son  of  Gerald,  son  of  John,  who  was  son  of 
Garrett,  who  was  son  of  James,  who  was  son  of  Garrett  the  Earl",  died  ;  and 
his  brother,  James,  was  appointed  to  his  place. 

John,  the  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Richard  Oge,  son  of  Ulick  Roe,  son  of 
Ulick  of  the  Wine,  was  drowned  in  tlie  [River]  Suck. 

Henry  0'Craidhen°,  a  rich  and  affluent  merchant  of  Lower  Connaught,  died. 

Owen  Roe,  the  son  of  Farrell,  son  of  Donnell  Roe  Mac  Ward  ;  Mamice 
Ballagh,  the  son  of  Cucogry,  son  of  Dermot  O'Clery  ;  and  the  son  of  O'Moirin, 
were  hanged  by  the  Earl  of  Thomond  (Conor,  the  son  of  Donough).  The 
Maurice  and  Owen  aforesaid  were  learned  in  history  and  poetry  ;  and  this 
treacherous  act  was  the  cause  of  satire  and  malediction  to  the  Earl. 

John,  the  son  of  Colla,  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Owen  Mac  Donnell,  died. 

A  proclamation  was  issued  by  the  President  of  the  province  of  Connaught, 
Sir  Edward  Phiton,  about» the  festival  of  St.  Patrick,  respecting  a  court  to  be 

"  C  Nialldin,  now  anglice  Nealan,  or  Neylan.      Crean  Lynch,  Esq.,  of  the  county  of  Mayo,  is  the 
"  The  Earl,  i.e.  of  Desmond.  present  head  of  this  family.    His  paternal  name 

°  O'Craidhen,    now  anglice  Crean.     Andrew      is  Crean,  not  Lynch. 

10  b 


1658  aNNUí,a  Rioshachca  eiReawN.  [1572. 

ó  luimneac  50  f ligeac.  Uanjacca]!  pon  ro^ai]iiu  pin  lapla  cloinne  Riocai|io  co 
iia  cloinn  .1.  uiUeacc  -\  Sfan  50  mainb  a  muiDcipe  1  Sliocc  í?iocai]iD  ótcc 
a  l)ú|ic,  -|  TTlac  mlliam  locraiji  .1.  Sfan  abupc  mac  oiluepaij'  niic  Sfain  50 
mbúpcacaib  loccapacaib  lii  niaille  ppif  1  Dalccaip  co  na  ccoimcionol.     lap 
ccocc  Dóib  1  ccfno  an  ppe|'iDenc  50  gaillirh,   ao  cualaccap  DÓ  mac  lapla 
cloinne  T?iocaipo  uillCcc  "|  Sfan  popccaó  pcceóill  eiccin  rpep  po  orhnui^pioc 
an  PpepiDenc  1  po  élaiópCc  co  hinclfre  ap  an  mbaile.      Qrhail  ar  cualaib 
an  PpepiDenp  an  ní  pin  po  jabab  maice  cloinne  piocaipo  laip, "]  po  paccaib 
illairh  ipin  mhaile  laD,  1  luih  pfin  -|  an  ciapla  (afaip  na  cloinne  pm)  po  pepc 
laip  50  hárluain,  -|  ap  pióe  50  liar  cliac,  1  po  pctccaib  an  riapla  ann.  -]  poaip 
pein  DO  pióipi  50  liarluain.     Oo  cualacrap  clann  an  lapla  an  ní  pin  cuccar- 
cap  eppuaccpa  Dampaib  ~\  Daop  cuapapDail  na  coiccpíoc  ccoriipoccap  rocc 
gan  caipoe  ina  noocum.  Po  ppegpaó  50  nfimlfpcc  ló  cloinn  cpuibne  iiacraip 
-]  loccaip  connacc  -]  la  cloinn  nDorhnaill  jallócclac  (50  nil  cénaib  albanac 
apaon  pui)  an  cojaipm  ípin  l?ia  piú  páinicc  leópióe  cionol  50  haon  rhaijin. 
T?ucc  an  Ppepioenc  a  óiopma  plói^  "]  paijDiúipióe  loip  50  gaillim,  "j  pucc 
opoanáp  1  eipje  amac  na  ^aillme  laip  50  liachab  na  niubap  .1.  baile  cloinne 
DorhnaiU  uí  plairbfpcaij, "]  bá  lie  ITIupchat)  na  ccuaj  mac  caibcc  uí  plair- 
bfpcaij  baoí  agá  rappaing  ap  an   cupiip  pin.   l?o  páccbab  oiap  do  pliocc 
t)omTiaill  uí  plaicbfpcai  j  1  crimceall  an  baile,  l?o  Ific  bpipfD  1  po  lán  jaboó 
an  baile  lap  an  pRepiDenc  lap   pin,  1   po  págaib  an  méiD  baoí  plan  De  ap 
Iftim  lílupcliaió  na  rrua^  uí  plairbfpcai^.     Do  piU  an  PpepiDenc  cpa  50 
jaillirh  cpé  cloinn  RiocaipD,  1  cpe  uib  maine  jan  cpoiD  jan  cacap  50  painicc 
co  hár  luain. 

lap  ccionol  na  pocpaiDe  pémpaice  Do  paijiD  cloinne  an  lapla  ap  gac  aipD 
po  cfnjailpiou,  1  po  Daingni^pioc  pém, "]  TTlac  uilliam  búpc  pe  poile  .1.  Sfan 
mac  oiluepaip,"!  bá  hé  cén  ní  r>o  pónpar  lap  pin  a  bfir  acc  bpipfn  rop  rraob- 

"  Of  all  those. — An  English  writEi-  would  say  dL^r  the  ppwer."    The  meaning  is,  all  who  were 

it  thus  :    "  The  President  of  Connaught,    Sir  obedient  to  the  laws  of  the  Queen. 
Edward  Fitton,  issued  a  proclamation  about  the  '  The  Lower  Burkes,  i.  e.  the  northern  Burkes, 

■  festival  of  St.  Patrick,   commanding  all  those  seated  in  the  county  of  Mayo, 
who  were  submissive  to  the  Queen,  in   the  re-  '  Achadh-na-n-iubhar,    i.  e.   the   lield   of  the 

gion  extending  from  Limerick  to  Sligo,  to  attend  yews,  now  Aughnanure,  a  townland  containing 

a  court  a,t  Galway."  the  ruins  of  a  castle,   in  the  parish  of  Kilcum- 

1  Who  luere  under  the  authorifi/,  literally,  "un-  min,  barony  of  Moycullen,  and  county  of  Gal- 


1572.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND     ■  1659 

held  at  Galway  of  all  those''  who  were  under  the  authority''  of  the  Queen,  from 
Limerick  to  Sligo.  At  this  summons  came  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard  and  his 
sons,  Ulick  and  John,  with  the  chiefs  of  their  people  ;  the  descendants  of 
Richard  Oge  Burke  ;  the  Lower  Mac  William,  i.  e.  John  Burke,  the  son  of 
Oliver,  son  of  John,  together  with  the  Lower  Burkes";  and  the  Dal-Cais,  with 
their  adherents.  Upon  their  arrival  before  the  President  in  Galway,  the  two 
sons  of  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard,  Ulick  and  John,  heard  some  rumour,  on  ac- 
count of  which  they  dreaded  the  President,  and  privily  fled  from  the  town. 
When  the  President  heard  of  this  fact,  he  made  prisoners  of  the  chieftains  of 
Clanrickard,  and  left  them  in  durance  in  the  town  ;  and  he  himself,  with  the 
Earl  (the  father  of  the  two  already  referred  to,  whom  he  had  arrested),  pro- 
ceeded to  Athlone,  and  from  thence  to  Dublin,  where  he  left  the  Earl,  and 
(then)  he  himself  returned  again  to  Athlone.  As  soon  as  the  sons  of  the  Earl 
heard  of  that  affair,  they  ordered  the  soldiers  and  mercenaries  of  the  neigh- 
bouring territories  to  repair  to  them  without  delay.  That  summons  was  promptly 
responded  to  by  the  Clann-Sweeny  of  Upper  and  Lower  Connaught,  and  by 
the  Claun-Donnell  Galloglagh  (who  had  many  hundreds  of  Scots  along  with 
them).  Before  [however]  they  had  time  to  assemble  together,  the  President 
took,  his  forces  and  soldiers  with  him  to  Galway,  and  carried  with  him  the 
ordnance  and  rising-out  of  that  town  lo  Achadh-na-n-iubhar',  the  castle  of  the 
sons  of  Donnell  O'Flaherty ;  and  it  was  Murrough-na-dtuagh,  the  son  of  Teige 
O'Flaherty,  that  induced  him  to  go  on  this  expedition.  Two  of  the  sons  of 
Donnell  O'Flaherty  were  left  about  [i.  e.  in  care  of]  the  castle.  The  President, 
after  having  half  destroyed  the  castle,  took  complete  possession  of  it,  and  left 
such  part  of  it  as  remained  undestroyed  to  Murrough-na-dtuagh  O'Flahert}-. 
He  then  returned  to  Galway,  and  passed  through  Clanrickard  and  Hy-Many  to 
Athlone,  without  receiving  battle  or  opposition. 

After  the  aforesaid  forces  had  gathered  from  all  quarters  to  the  sons  of  the 
Earl,  they  and  Mac  William  Burke  (John,  the  sou  of  Oliver)  entered  into  and 
confirmed  a  league  with  each  other ;  and  the  first  thing  that  they  did  after  that 
was  to  set  about  demoUshing  the  white-sided  towers  and  the  strong  castles  of 

way.  For  an  interesting  description  of  this  cal  Deicription  of  West  Connaught,  by  Roderic 
castle  by  Mr.  Petrie,  see  the  Irish  P.  Journal,  O'Flaherty,  edited  by  Mr.  Hardiman,  page  54, 
Dublin,   1841,  page  1;    see   also  Chorographi-      notes. 

10  b  2 


1660  aNNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNW.  [1572. 

^eal,  1  caii^'lén  ccomDaingfri  cloinne  piocai]iD  j^o  po  bjiipD  bailee  an  ci]ie 
Ó  ponainn  50  boijunn  leó  jenmoca  uachab.  Ro  hai]iccea6  leó  ia]i  fin  enp 
Shuca  -|  Sionann"!  na  pfóa,  "|  jac  aon  agc't  mbaoi  boib  no  ]iann  lé  jullaib  50 
?jopup  aca  luain.  Qpeao  Do  óeacacraji  laparh  lairiióf]'  pé  ponainn  poip  jac 
nbijieac  50  pliab  bajna  na  ccuac,"]  anonn  Do  calab  na  hanjaile  50  jio  loipcc- 
poc  ác  liacc.  Ro  jabpac  aj  Dóó  ~\  ace  Díoláirpiuccab  aj  lonopaD,  "|  ace 
opccain  jaca  baile  50  pansarcaji  1  niapcap  miDe.  l?oba  Diobpióe  an  TiluilfnD 
cfpp  1  ap  pióe  50  Dopup  aca  luain  50  po  loipccpioc  n  mbaoi  ó  ópoicfc  anonn 
Don  baile.  Qppeaó  loccap  laparh  Don  caob  rail  50  Dealbna  mejcocláin,-]  cap 
a  naip  50  piol  nanmchaba,  1  nt  po  pctccaibpioc  coipeac  cnaire  ó  eaccje  50 
Dpobaoip  nap  cuippioc  a  naon  pann  coccaib  ppiú  Don  cup  pin.  r?o  bpipeableo 
ballaba  baile  aca  an  pioj,"]  a  cije  cloc,-]  a  caipciall "]  ]io  riiuppac  an  baile 
CO  nap  bo  luipiipa  a  aicbénarh  50  haimpip  imcfin  Dm  nfip.  Oo  cuap  leó  pó 
bí  1  niapcap  connacc  Daimbeóin  miuncipe  na  jaillnie,  1  na  SaijDiuipibe  8a;r- 
anac  po  páccaib  an  Ppepioenc  aj  conjnarh  bapDacra  an  baile,  "]  po  mapbab 
leó  caipcin  na  j'aijDiúip  pa;ranac  pin  ag  an  Dopap  laprapac  Don  baile,  -|  bá 
Dairhbeoin  muincipe  plairbfpcaij  beop  Do  beacaccap  an  do  iiaip  pin  Don  cip. 
-|  ni  baoi  conaip  aca  ace  Dol  •]  ag  ceacc  ace  cpé  ác  cípe  boiléin  namá,  -|  do 
pónpac  cpeaca  1  oipccne  aibble  ap  ITlupchab  ó  plaicbeapcaig  jac  iiaip  aca 
pin.  bc'íccap  cpa  clann  on  lapla  arhlaib  pin  ó  beipeab  eappaij  50  nifbon 
pojamaip  05  corhlor  na  ccfnDabac,  -\  ajmilleab  jac  nfic  po  péopac  im  jall- 
aib,  1  imo  panncoib  jall  -|  jaoibeal  apcfna.  Qpeab  po  cinnpior  comaiple  ara 
cliac,  1  maire  gall  an  ciapla  do  léccab  amac  pó  píb, ")  caipDine  óp  cionn  a 
cpice  1  a  pfpcnnn,  -|  do  cfnDpuccab  a  cloinDe,  -|  cáinicc  Dna  Dia  ctp  hi  ppoj- 
Tíiap  na  bliabna  po  po  cfnDpaij  a  clanD,"]  po  léiccpioc  pcaoíleab  Da  narhpaib 
ap  níc  a  ccinllrhe  -]  a  ccuapapcail  ppiíi.  baí  Din  Semup  mac  niuipip  mic 
an  lapla  mópaon  lé  cloinn  mpla  cloinne  piocaipo  cip  na  liimfeaccaifi  pm  ajcj 

'  Towns,  i.  e.  castles.  in  the  east  of  the  county  of  Roscommon.— See 

"    The   Feadha,    i.   e.    Feadha    Atha    luain,  Tribes  and  Cnstomi  of  Hy- Many,  p.  90,  note  ""j 

O'Naghtan's  territory,   in  the  barony  of  Ath-  and  the  map  to  tlie  same  work  on  which  the 

lone,   and   county  of  Roscommon,   containing  position  of  the  mountain  is  shewn. 

thirty  quarters  of  land. — See  note  °,  under  the  "  Caladh  na  h-Anghaile,  i.e.  Callow  of  Annaly, 

year  1536,  p.  1435,  supra.  a  well-known  district  in  tlie  barony  of  Ratli- 

'  Eastwards,  recte,  north-eastwards.  cline,  and  county  of  Longford — See  it  already 

*  Slicéh-Baghna-na-dTuath,  now  SlieveBaun,  mentioned  at  the  years  141 1  and  1486. 


1572]      .  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1661 

Clanrickard;  so  that  they  destroyed  the  towns'  of  the  territory,  from  tlie  Shan- 
non to  Burren,  except  a  few.  Next,  they  plundered  [the  district  lying]  between 
the  Elvers  Suck  and  Shannon,  and  also  the  Feadha";  and  pillaged  every  person 
Avho  was  on  friendly  terms,  or  in  league  with  the  English,  as  far  as  the  gates 
of  Athlone.  They  afterwards  proceeded  eastwards",  keeping  the  Shannon  on 
the  right,  directly  to  Sliabh-Baghna-na-dTuath",  crossed  over  to  Caladh-na- 
h-Anghaile",  and  burned  Athliag'.  They  proceeded  to  bvu'n,  lay  waste,  plvinder, 
and  ravage  every  town,  until  they  came  to  Westmeath.  Among  those  was  Mul- 
lingar,  from  whence  they  proceeded  to  the  gate  of  Athlone,  and  burned  that 
part  of  the  town  from  the  bridge  outwards.  Thence  they  proceedecl  to  the 
other  side  [of  the  Shannon],  into  Delvin-Mac-Coghlan,  and  back  to  Sil-Anm- 
chadha  ;  and  there  was  no  chieftain  of  any  district,  from  Slieve  Echtge  to 
.  Drobhaois,  whom  they  did  not  induce  to  become  their  confederate  of  war. 
They  destroyed  the  walls  of  the  town  of  Athenry,  and  also  its  stone  houses 
and  its  castle  ;  and  they  so  damaged  the  town  that  it  was  not  easy  to  repair  it 
for  a  long  time  after  them.  They  passed  twice  into  West  Counaught,  in  de- 
spite of  the  people  of  Galway,  and  of  the  English  soldiers  left  there  by  the 
President  to  assist  in  defending  the  town.  And  they  slew  the  captain  of  these 
soldiers  at  the  west  gate  of  the  town.  And  it  was  also  against  the  will  of  the 
O'Flahei'tys  that  they  went  on  these  two  occasions  into  the  territory  ;  and 
they  had  no  road  to  pass  through,  when  going  or  returning,  excepting  Ath- 
Tire-oilein^ ;  and  on  each  occasion  they  committed  great  plunders  and  depreda- 
tions upon  Murrough  O'Flaherty.  Tlie  sons  of  the  Earl  continued  from  the 
end  of  spring  to  the  middle  of  autumn  thus  injuring  the  merchants,  and  destroy- 
ing whatever  they  were  able  upon  the  English,  and  upon  all  their  English  and 
Irish  adherents.  The  Council  of  Dublin  and  the  chiefs  of  the  English  at  last 
resolved  to  set  the  Earl  at  liberty,  on  terms  of  peace  and  friendliness,  over  his 
territory  and  lands,  [on  condition]  that  he  should  pacify  his  sons.  The  Earl 
accordingly  returned  to  his  country  in  the  autumn  of  this  year,  and  pacified  his 
sons,  who  dismissed  their  hired  soldiers,  after  having  paid  them  their  stipend 
and  wages.     Diuing  these,  enterprises,  James,  the  son  of  Maurice,  son  of  the 

1'  Athliay,  now   Baile-Atha-liag,   the  westeni      on  the  river  GailJimli,   near  the   town  of  Gal- 

or  Connaught  portion  of  Lanesborough.  way See  note  ■■,  under  the  year  1560,  p.  1582, 

'  Ath-Tire-Oilein,  i.  e.   the  ford  of  Terry  land,      mpra. 


1662  QNNW.a  Rio^hachca  emeaNH.  [1573. 

lompuipeac  lé  halbancaib  do  bpfjc  Imp  1  ngeapalracaib, -|  ap  Dimpnfib  a 
ppuaip  an  Sémup  pin  do  jgaibnb  1  do  ^épguapaccaib  Deapbam  bÍD  1  cooalca 
ap  iiacban  pluaij  -\  ap  hCf^  mhuiDne  6  gallaib  -|  ó  ^arnnealaib  Drx  cuicciD 
niuman  an  bliaóam  pi. 

PpepiDenc  Da  cóicció  muman  Do  puiDe  lé  bajhaiD  caipléin  na  mainse 
ipin  pampaó  do  ponnpab,  1  ploij  Da  cóicció  muman  ecip  gallaib  "]  jaoibeal- 
aib,  "]  bailcib  mópaib,  co  na  nopDanap,  co  na  bpúDap,  1  co  na  luaiDe.  5ác- 
rap  cpa  cionól  pleacca  eojain  rhóip  uile  ipin  ppoplonjpopr  pin.  ba^  ann 
mac  mulpip  ciappaije  .1.  romap  mac  emainn,  bacrap  ann  Dna  bappaijj  -| 
póipDig,  baoí  an  cpocpaioe  pin  uile  pé  hfó  páire  In  ppopbaip  imon  mbaile, -| 
po  ^abaó  leo  he  po  beóiD  Do  Dír  bib, "]  nip  bo  Deapbaib  copanra  irip,-|  bá  ap 
DÓij  póipicne  albanac  Do  bpfir  gup  an  mbaile  bai  Semup  hi  ppocaip  clomne 
an  lapla  arhail  peiriebeprmap. 

TDopclab  mop  ap  baoinib  -|  ap  cffpaib  an  bliabam  pi. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1573. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  Seccmojar,  a  cpi. 

Dorhnap  inicce,-]  pel  bpi^De  pop  aon  lo  an  bliabam  pi,  Sanaip  lap  ccóipcc 
1  Deapgabail  in  eappa"c,  -\  bá  ITlaccnab  mop  la  cóc  inn  pin. 

íTlac  ailin  .1.  giolla  eppcoip  mac  jiolla  eppcoip  an  caon  mac  gaoibil  ap 
1u  ja  DO  bole  1  nalbain  Décc. 

mag  cpair  uilliam  mac  aenjaip  ollam  Dal  ccaip  lé  DÓn  paoí  j'uabamail 
1  nealabain,  -\  hi  mbpujacup  Décc. 

Oonnchab  piabac  mac  caibcc  ui  ceallaij  Do  écc. 

lapla  pa;ranac  Do  ceacc  op  cfnD  cóiccib  ulab  hi  ppojmap  na  blioDna 
po  .1.  laplaop  epe;r  a  comamm,  "|  a  bol  Do  comnaibe  50  cappaicc  peapgupa,  -] 

'  Caislen-na-Maimje,  i.  e.  Castlemaine,  on  the  O'Donolioes,  &c.  &c. 

River  Maine,  or  Mang,  in  the  county  of  Kerry.  "^  The  festival  of  St.  Bridget,  i.  e.  the  1st  day  of 

''  Race  ofEoghan  Mor,  i.  e.  the  race  of  Eoghan  February. 

Mor,   the  eldest  son  of  OilioU  Oltun,   King  of  "^  Mac  Allen,  i.  e.  the  head  of  the  Campbells, 

Munster  in  the  second  century.    The  chief  of  who  is  still  called  Mac  Allen  More  by  the  High- 

these  were  the  Mac  Carthys,  O'Sullivans,  O'Cal-  landers, 

laghans,   O'Keeffes,    O'Mahonys,    O'Donovans,  '  The  Earl  of  Essex.  He  was  Walter  Devereux 


1573.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1663 

Earl  [of  Desmond],  was  along  with  the  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard,  awaiting 
to  bring  the  Scots  with  him  into  the  territory  of  the  Geraldines  ;  and  it  is 
impossible  to  relate  all  the  perils  and  great  dangers,  for  want  of  food  and 
sleep,  wliich  this  James  encountered  (he  having  but  few  troops  and  forces), 
from  the  English  and  Irish  of  the  two  provinces  of  Munster  in  this  year. 

The  President  of  the  two  provinces  of  Munster  laid  siege  to  Caislen-na- 
Mainge^  in  the  summer  of  this  year,  having  with  him  the  forces  of  the  two 
provinces  of  Munster,  both  English  and  Irish,  and  of  the  large  towns,  with  their 
powder  and  lead.  In  this  encampment  were  the  muster  of  all  the  race  of 
Eoghan-Mor",  also  Mac  Maurice  of  Kerry,  i.  e.  Thomas,  the  son  of  Edmond  ; 
also  the  Barrys  and  the  Roches.  This  whole  army  continued  besieging  the 
castle  for  the  space  of  three  months,  and  finally  took  it,  through  the  want  of 
provisions,  not  at  all  for  want  of  defence  ;  and  it  was  for  the  piirpose  of  bring- 
ing Scottish  auxiliaries  to  relieve  the  town  that  James  was  along  with  the  sons 
of  the  Earl  [of  Clanrickard],  as  we  have  before  stated. 

There  was  a  great  mortahty  of  men  and  cattle  in  this  year. 


-     THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1573 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  seventtj -three. 

Shrove-Sunday  and  the  festival  of  St.  Bridget'  fell  on  the  same  day  in  this 
year.  The  day  of  the  Annunciation  occurred  after  Easter,  and  Ascension-day 
in  the  spring,  which  was  a  great  wonder  to  all. 

Mac  Allen"  ( Gilla-Easpuig,  the  son  of  Gilla-Easpuig),  by  no  means  the  least 
distinguished  of  the  Gaels  of  Scotland,  died. 

Magrath  (William,  the  son  of  Aengus),011av  of  Dal-Cais  in  poetry,  a  learned 
man,  distinguished  for  his  knowledge  of  the  sciences  and  agriculture,  died. 

Donough  Reagh,  the  son  of  Teige  O'Kelly,  died.' 

An  English  Earl,  the  Earl  of  Essex'  by  name,  came  [to  Ireland]  as  President 
over  the  province  of  Ulster  in  the  autumn  of  this  year,  and  went  to  reside  in 

who  had  been  uot  long  before  made  Earl  of  Essex.  the  seigniories  of  Clannaboy,  Ferney,  &c.,  in  as 
On  the  9th  of  July  this  year  the  queen  granted  unlimited  a  manner  as  if  the  O'Neills  or  Mac 
him,  ".si  rebelles  submoveret,"  the  moiety   of      Mahons  had  no  claim  to  these  territories. 


1664  aNNQi-a  Rio^hachca  eiiieanN.  [1573. 

50  cloinn  aooa  buibe.  bjimn  mac  peibm  bacaij  í  neill  ria  cognac  ap  cpian 
conjail,  -]  ap  cloinn  aooa  buióe  an  can  pin.  Cpeaca,  -j  coin^lfca  lomóa  Dn 
ffccmail  eciji  bpian  -\  an  napla  50  peil  paccpaicc  ap  ccioncr. 

rriiipchab  mac  DiapmaDa  mic  TTlupcliaiD  ui  bpiain  do  rhapBab  la  huillecc 
a  biipc  mac  Riocaipo  mic  uillic  na  ccfno, "]  la  hua  peacnapaij  .t.  tnapmaiD 
piabhach  mac  Diapmaoa  mic  uillmm,  mic  Sfain  buibe,"[  bo  he  ua  peacnapai^ 
po  imip  lama  pc(ip.  ^opc  innpi  guaipe  do  biiain  t)ua  peacnapaicc  la  Sfan 
a  bupc  a  noiojail  rhapbca  a  beapbpacap. 

Semup  mac  muipip  do  bfic  ace  coccab  "]  a5  com^leic  ppi  jallaib  an 
bliábain  pi  co  po  pnabmab  pib  ecip  eppiuiti  -\  PpejMDenc  Da  cúiccib  muman 
pan  eappac  Do  ponnpab,  ■]  cónaic  Do  mipbiiilib  oé,  -]  Dobinn  ri^maip,  lapla 
orpmuman  (jeapoiD  mac  Semaip  mic  Sfain,-|  a  bparap  .1.  Sfan  bóccap  illaim 
I  lonnDain  lé  pé  bliabna  poime  pm)  Do  léiccfn  amac  Do  cTd  coitiaiple  8ha;ran, 
1  a  ceacc  hi  cciian  aca  cliar.  T?o  gabab  an  ciapla  lapam  q  po  congbab  po 
piapc  ipin  mbaile  he,  -j  po  léicceab  Sfan  Dpécain  pópaijh  pionnmuman,  ~\ 
Dpiop  a  arapba,  -]  na  méiDe  do  rhaip  do  luce  Ifnamna. 

PpepiDenr  Da  cuiccib  muman  co  bol  co  pa^raib  hi  rróp  in  pojmaip  ap 
ccino  lop  ccecrab,  1  lap  ccfnDjabail  an  ci'pe,  -)  lap  bpctgbáil  mao]i,  corh- 
aipleac,  -|  caipcineab  uaba  pfin  op  cfnD  a  pciúpra  "j  a  ppollamnai^re  arhail 
po  ba  mian  lé  a  mfnmain  babém.  T?ocaoíneab  an  ceileabpab  pm  an  Ppepi- 
Denr ace  boccaib  aj  baincpeabcachaib, "]  aj  aop  anppanD  anappacra  an 
ci'pe. 

puaip  lapqrh  lapla  Deapmuman  elang  ap  elub  im  péil  mapcain  lap  pin 
Do  nfmroil  na  corhaiple  gan  piop  jan  aipiuccab  Dóib  50  painicc  Do  piubal  rpi 
noibce  ó  ar  cliar  (50  nuachab  ina  pocaip)  50  jlémfbon  jfpalcac.  Ro  póil- 
cicceab  ppip  an  ccopcap  placa  cánaic  ann  pin.  Qp  gap  uaip  gup  bo  céoac 
conjaipeac  an  ri  cánaic  ina  uarhab  Don  cip  an  can  pin.     i?o  hionnapbab 

f  Trian-Choiigail. — This  was  the  old  name  of  small   town   in    the  barony   of  Kiltartan,  and 

Clannaboy,    and,    therefore,   it   is   incorrect  to  county  of  Gahvay. 

connect  the  two  names  by  an  a5up.  It  should  '  Preciseli/. — This  word  is  unnecessarily  em- 
be  no,  or.  ployed  here.  "  At  two  o'clock  precisely"  is  cor- 

s  Who  laid  hands  upon  him,    i.  e.   who  gave  rect  language,  but   "  precisL4y    in  the  spring" 

him  his  death-blow.  borders  on  the  ludicrous.     "  Sometime  in  the 

''  Gort-innsi-Gruaire,  i.  e.  the  holm,  strath,  or  spring  of  this  year"  is  what  is  intended  to  be 

island  of  Guaire,  a  man's  name,  now  Gort,  a  expressed. 


1573]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1665 

Carrickfergus  aud  in  Clannaboy.  At  this  time  Brian,  the  son  of  Felim  Bacagh 
O'Neill,  was  chief  of  Trian-Chongail'^  and  Clannaboy  ;  and  many  plundering 
attacks  and  conflicts  took  place  between  Brian  and  the  Earl  [from  this  time] 
to  the  festival  of  St.  Patrick  following 

Murrough,  the  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  MiUTough  O'Brien,  was  slain  by  Ulick 
Burke,  the  son  of  Rickard,  who  was  son  of  Ulick-na-gCeann,  and  O'Shaughnessy, 
i.  e.  Dermot  Reagh,  the  son  of  Dermot,  who  was  son  of  William,  son  of  John  Boy. 
O'Shaughnessy  was  the  man  who  laid  hands  on  him^.  Jphn  Burke  deprived 
O'Shaughnessy  of  Gort-insi-Guaire",  in  revenge  of  the  killing  of  his  kinsman. 

James  Mac  Maurice  continued  warring  and  contending  with  the  English  in 
this  year  ;  but  a  peace  was  at  last  confirmed  between  him  and  the  President 
of  the  province  of  Munster,  precisely'  in  the  spring ;  and  it  happened,  through 
the  miracles  of  God  and  the  exertions  of  James,  that  the  Earl  of  Desmond 
(Garrett,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  John)  and  his  brother,  John\  who  had  been 
in  captivity  in  London  for  six  years,  were  set  at  liberty  by  consent  of  the 
English  Council ;  and  they  arrived  in  the  harbour  of  Dublin.  The  Earl  was 
taken,  and  put  under  arrest  in  the  town  ;  and  John  was  permitted  to  visit  the 
wilds  of  fair  Munster,  and  to  visit  his  patrimony  and  the  surviving  remnant  of 
his  followers. 

The  President  of  the  two  provinces  of  Munster  went  to  England  in  the 
commencement  of  the  following  autumn,  after  having  reconciled  and  subdued 
the  country,  and  having  left  such  superintendents,  counsellors,  and  captains  of 
his  own  people  to  direct  and  govern  it,  as  were  pleasing  to  his  own  mind.  The 
departure  of  the  President  was  lamented  by  the  poor,  the  widows,  the  feeble, 
and  the  unwarlike  of  the  country. 

The  Earl  of  Desmond  found  an  opportunity  of  making  his  pscape  on  the 
festival  of  St.  Patrick  following,  against  the  will  of  the  Council,  and  -without 
their  knowledge  or  notice  ;  and  he  arrived,  by  three  nights'  walking  (accom- 
panied by  a  few),  in  the  very  midst  of  theGeraldines.  The  distinguished  chief 
who  had  there  arrived  was  made  welcome ;  and  he,  who  had  arrived  in  the 
territory  with  only  a  few  attendants,  was  soon  surrounded  by  hundreds  of  troops. 

J  John — In  this  year  Mr.  John  Tremain  was  what  is  intended  to  be  done  with  Desmond  and 
sent  over  to  the  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland,  tomake  his  brother  John,  and  how  their  creditors  in  Eng- 
several  inqxiiries,  and,  among  others,  "  To  know      land  shall  be  paid." — See  Cox's  Hib.  Anglicana. 

10  c 


1666  aHNaí,a  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1573. 

laip  pó  cfnD  aon  rriio]^a  mparh  buannaóa,  -[  bapDaóa  Sa;t'anaca  bácca]i  1 
TiDÚincibíi  ■]  I  noojbailnV)  pfp  muriian  uaip  bá  05  an  PjiepiDenc  co  na  ya^:- 
ancoib  baoí  caonpaije  co  na  ccaiplénaiV),  baile  na  tnajicjia,  -\  caiflén  na 
niainge.  Ro  gabaó  laopuiDe  co  na  mbapoaib  lap  an  lapla  co  nop  pá^aib  uppa 
airijce  aonbaile  pfpainn  ó  ciimap  rpi  nuipcce  co  bealac  conjlaip,"!  ó  bealac 
conjlaip  CO  luimneac  náp  cfnnpai^,  -|  náp  cuip  pó  bpfir  a  buannab, "]  a  rhaop 
pó  cfno  na  haon  miopa  périipaire.  Ro  pócaip  a  ccabap  péin  Deacclaip  -\ 
oealabain,  1  po  cuip  na  huipo  ina  nionabaib  pfin  00  pfip  olicceab  an  papa 
arhail  po  ba  nip. 

Coccab  ecip  Dal  ccaip  babém.  6a  biao  báccap  Do  raob  Don  coccab  j'in 
.1.  Dornnall  mac  concobaip  uí  bpiain,-]  cabcc  mac  mupchaió  uí  bpiain.  Clann 
Donnchaió  uí  bpiain  Don  leir  ele  .1.  an  rmpla  -]  coippbealbac  acc  ní  baoí  an 
napla  pfin  ipm  cíp  Don  cup  pin.  Ro  pop  impfpam  ecip  raocc  mac  concobaip, 
-|  cabcc  mac  mupchaib  baoi  1  naon  pann  50  y^in  aj  congnamh  la  Dornnall  mac 
concobaip  1  nacchaiD  cloinne  Donricliaib  50  po  pjappar  ppia  poile, ")  ba  ppi 
cabcc  mac  concobaip  Do  ponab  pora  na  bimpfpna,"|  do  coib  1  pann  a  eapcca- 
pacc  .1.  clann  Donnchaib  ui  bpiain  1  naghaib  a  Deapbparap  borhnaill  mic  con- 
cobaip,"] caibcc  mic  mupchaib,"]  uaccaip  cuabmurhan.  Ro  cionóileab  laparh 
la  caDcc  mac  concobaip  (a  nDiojail  a  biomba  pop  cabcc  mac  mupchaib) 
ampa  ~\  DÍbeapccaij  Do  jallócclacaib  jfpalcac  cap  pionamn,  1  Do  bfpc  laip 
laD  DO  conjnam  la  cloinn  Donncaib  ui  bpiain  50  mbaccap  pocaibe  lomba  ina 
bpocaip  Do  buicilepchaib,-)  Do  cloinn  cpuibne  an  cipe  pfin  .1.  pliocc  Domnaill 
mic  eóin  meic  puibne  50  pocpaiDe  an  lapla  amaille  le  a  bipbparaip  lé  coipp- 
óealbac  mac  Donncaib.     Qp  ann  can^accap  an  cpocpaiDe  pin  uile.  hi  cfnn 

''  Caenraighe,   i.  e.   Kenry,    a  barony   in  the  return  at  noon  and  night ;   which,  after  having 

north  of  the  county  of  Limerick.  kept  for  about  a  fortnight,  one  day  he  told  the 

'  Baile-na-martra,  now  Castlemartyr,  in  the  Mayor  that  he  desired  to  divert  himself  by  hunt- 
county  of  Cork.  ing,  and  that  he  would  see  him  at  night ;  but 

"^  As  was  right See  the  History  of  the  Geral-  that  as  soon  as  the  Earl  had  got  as  far  as  Grange- 
dines  by  O'Daly,  cc.  16,  17,  18.  Ware  says,  in  Gorman,  he  changed  his  course,  and  so  escaped, 
his  Annals  of  Ireland,  that  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  and  retired  to  his  own  territories  ;  that  he  was 
having  promised  upon  his  oath  to  be  faithful  to  thereupon  proclaimed  a  traitor,  with  a  promise 
Her  Majesty,  was  by  the  Lord  Deputy  put  into  of  one  thousand  pounds,  sterling,  and  forty 
the  hands  of  the  then  Mayor  of  Dublin,  with  pounds  pension,  to  any  one  who  should  bring 
orders  to  provide  him  good  accommodation,  and  him  in  alive,  and  live  hundred  pounds,  sterling, 
to  permit  him  to  go  abroad,  upon  his  parole  to  and  twenty  pounds  pension,  to  him  that  should 


1573.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1667 

In  the  course  of  one  month  afterwards  he  expelled  the  English  hirelings  and 
warders  who  had  been  [stationed]  in  the  fortresses  and  towns  of  the  men  of 
Munster,  for  the  President  and  his  Englishmen  had  possession  of  Caenraighe", 
with  its  castles,  Baile-na-Martra',  and  Caislen-na-Mainge  [Castlemaine].  These 
castles,  with  their  warders,  were  taken  by  the  Earl,  so  that  by  the  end  of  the 
month  he  had  not  left  ai,  proprietor  of  a  single  townland,  from  the  Meeting  of 
the  Three  Waters  to  Bealach-Chonglais,  and  from  Bealach-Chonglais  to  Lime- 
rick, whom  he  did  not  subdue  and  bring  under  the  control  of  his  bonaghtmen 
and  stewards.  He  ordained  that  the  Church  and  the  men  of  science  should 
be  restored  to  the  possession  of  their  privileges  ;  and  he  re-established  the 
[religious]  orders  in  their  own  respective  places,  according  to  the  law  of  the 
Pope,  as  was  right". 

A  war  [broke  out]  among  the  Dalcassians  themselves.  On  the  one  side,  in 
this  war,  were  Donnell,  the  son  of  Conor  O'Brien,  and  Teige,  the  son  of  Mur- 
rough  O'Brien  ;  on  the  other  were  the  sons  of  Donough  O'Brien,  i.  e.  the  Earl 
and  Turlough  ;  but  the  Earl  himself  was  not  in  the  country  on  that  occasion. 
A  contention  arose  between  Teige,  the  son  of  Conor,  and  Teige,  the  son  of 
Murrough,  who  had  been  till  then  united  in  assisting  Donnell,  the  son  of  Conor, 
against  the  sons  of  Donough,  so  that  they  separated  ;  and  Teige,  the  son  of 
Conor,  who  had  given  occasion  to  this  quarrel,  went  over  to  the  side  of  his 
enemies,  namely,  the  sons  of  Donough  O'Brien,  in  opposition  to  his  own  brother, 
Donnell,  the  son  of  Conor ;  Teige,  the  son  of  MiuTough  ;  and  [the  inhabitants 
of]  the  upper  part  of  Thomond.  After  this,  Teige,  the  son  of  Conor  (to  wreak 
his  vengeance  upon  Teige,  the  son  of  Murrough),  gathered  the  soldiers  and 
disaffected  gallowglasses  of  the  Geraldines,  and  brought  them  with  him  across 
the  Shannon,  to  assist  the  sons  of  Donough  O'Brien ;  and  these  were  joined  by 
niunbers  of  the  Butlers  and  of  the  Mac  Sweenys  of  the  territory,  namely, 
the  descendants  of  Donnell,  the  son  of  John  Mac  Sweeny,  and  by  the  forces  of 
the  Earl,  with  his  brother,  Turlough,  the  son  of  Donough.     All  these  forces 

bring  in  his  head.     O'Daly,  in  his  History  of  the  that  thereupon  the  Earl  sent  word  to  John  and 

Geraldines,  c.  18,  asserts,  that  the  Earl  of  Des-  James,  cautioning  them  on  no  terms  to  leave 

mond,  on  his  arrival  in  the  city  of  Dublin,  was  their  territories  ;  and  that,  having  despatched 

informed  by  a  member  of  the  CouncU,  that  a  this  message,  he  himself  soon  after  escaped  from 

plot  was  laid  for  the  ruin  of  the  Greraldines,  and  Dublin. 

10  c  2 


1668 


aNNaí,a  Rio^hachca  eiReawH. 


[1573. 


apoile  acc  apD  na  ccabócc  bail  a  ccfiD  pop^u]^  i)>in  inui)i.  l?o  ^luaipeaDap 
laparh  Do  biojail  a  nanppolaó  poji  uaccap  ruabrhuman  rpe  oipreap  ó  ccop- 
maic,  -]  T:j\é  imlib  ó  ppfpmaic.  bá  lié  plan  -\  pípeijfm  -)  lacrab  na  nanppann 
boí  05  cup  pctbaó  peampa  in  ^ac  niaijin  in  po  jabpac.  Loccap  laparh  rpé 
cloc  pÓD  copciD  pinne,  "]  lá  Dopiip  inripi  í  cuinn,  "|  do  bórap  na  mac  píoj,  1 
puccpac  Dpon5  Dia  noaoirub  paiób  "|  éoala  a  cill  inline  baoír,-|  níp  bó  haippbe 
biiaoa  nó  copccaip  do  nálccaip  papuccaD  na  barmaoirhe.  Qpeab  Do  cuaccap 
laparh  pmp  cruaió  cpé  coiccpic  copcampuaó  1  bóipne.  T?o  léiccpiorr  pcceirh- 
elca  pccaoílce  ap  piiD  an  cípe  uara  50  po  ceacclamaD  leó  cpeaca  an  cípe 
uile  pia  naoliaiD  50  haon  rhaijin.  Ro  jabpac  longpopc  lapam,  -]  nip  bó 
hionaó  cuifipanca  eppme  lá  hiaccab  "|  la  hfijmib  ban,  "|  bctinrpeabrac  05 
accaoíne  a  nimneab  a  nDeaohai^  a  noíojbala.  Od  cualaiD  Dorhnall  mac 
concobaip  uí  bpiain,  ~\  cancc  mctc  mupchaib  an  rpom  phiaj  pin  do  rocr  raip- 
pib  po  ffcclairiipioc  an  lion  ap  lia  po  peopao  Do  plua^  po  ceDóip,  1  panjarcap 
a  ccorhbáil  apaile  co  capn   niic  cml.      QciaD  barcap   ina   ppocaip  ann  pin 


^  Ard-na-gcabog,  i.  e.  the  heiglit  ur  hill  ol'  thi; 
clowns.  This  name  is  not  on  the  Ordnance  Map, 
but  the  Editor  has  been  informed,  that  it  was 
and  is  still  the  name  of  a  hill  in  the  parish  of 
Clare-Abbey,  on  the  west  side  of  the  River 
Fergus,  where  it  expands  itself  into  a  wid(' 
estuary. 

"  Forgas,  now  the  Fergus,  which  mingles 
with  the  Lower  Shannon  near  the  town  of  Clare. 
The  River  Shannon  is  very  wide  here,  which  in- 
duced the  writer  of  this  article  to  call  it  the  sea. 

^  Ily-Cormaic. — According  to  the  tradition 
in  the  country,  this  territory,  which  was  the 
patrimony  of  the  O'Hehirs,  is  coextensive  with 
the  parish  of  Kilmaley,  in  the  barony  of  Islands, 
and  county  of  Clare.  The  name  is  still  applied 
to  this  parish,  but  it  can  be  proved  from  various 
authorities,  that  the  adjoining  parish  ol"  Drum- 
cliff  is  also  a  part  of  it,  and  that  it  originally 
comprised  the  entire  of  the  barony  of  Islands,  ex- 
cept the  parish  of  Clondagad,  which  was  a  part 
of  East  Corco-Vaskin.  It  extended  from  the 
mountain  of  Sliabh  Callain  to  the  estuary  of  the 


River  Fergus,  and  was  bounded  on  the  north  by 
the  territory  of  Kinel-Fearmaic,  on  theeast  by  the 
River  Fergus,  which  divided  it  from  Hy-Caisin 
and  Tradry,  on  the  south  and  west  by  East 
Corca-Vaskin,  and  on  the  north-west  by  Kinel- 
Fearmaic,  which  it  meets  at  the  mountain  of 
.Sliabh  Callain.  O'Hehir,  the  chief  of  this  ter- 
ritory was  not  of  the  Dal-Cais,  but  of  the  race 
of  Daire  Cearba,  the  ancestor  of  the  Hy-Figeinte, 
Avho  were  seated  at  the  other  side  of  the  Shan- 
non, but  no  account  has  been  discovered  of  when 
or  by  what  means  his  ancestor  settled  here. 

■■  Hy-Fearniaic,  otherwise  Kinel-Fearmaic. — 
This  was  the  tribe  name  of  the  O'Deas,  and  it 
also  became  the  name  of  their  territory,  which 
is  now  included  in  the  barony  of  Inchiquin,  in 
the  county  of  Clare.  This  territory  is  often 
called  the  Upper  Triocha  Ced,  or  Cantred  of 
Dal-Cais,  and  the  inhabitants,  Aes-iar-Forgas, 
i.  e.  the  people  west  of  the  Fergus. 

'  Coradh-Finne,  i.  e.  the  weir  of  Fiunia,  a 
woman's  name,  now  Corofin,  a  small  town  in 
the  barony  of  Inchiquin,  and  county  of  Clare, 


1573.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1669 

met  together  at  a  place  called  Ard-na-gcabog",  where  the  River  Forgas'  mingles 
with  the  sea.  From  thence  they  marched,  to  wreak  their  vengeance  upon  [the 
inhabitants  of]  the  upper  pajt  of  Thomond,  through  the  eastern  part  of  the 
territory  of  Hy-Cormaic'',  and  the  confines  of  Hy-Fearmaic'' ;  and  the  cries  and 
shrieks  of  the  unfortunate  people  whom  they  plundered  gave  warning  of  their 
march  in  every  place  through  which  they  passed.  They  proceeded  onwards 
over  the  stone  road  of  Coradh  Finne'',  by  the  gate  [of  the  castle]  of  Inchicjuin, 
[and]  by  Bothar-na-mac-Riogh' ;  and  some  of  their  people  carried  utensils  and 
spoils  out  of  the  church  of  Cill-inghine-Baoith';  but  this  profanation  of  the 
church  of  that  saint  boded  no  triumph  or  success  to  the  Dal-Cais.  They  then 
proceeded  north-west,  by  the  confines  of  Corcomroe  and  Burren,  and  dispatched 
through  the  country  marauding  parties,  who  collected  to  one  place  all  the 
spoils  of  the  country  before  night.  They  afterwards  pitched  a  camp,  but  it  was 
not  a  place  [adapted]  for  rest,  on  account  of  the  crying  and  wailings  of  women 
and  widows,  [who,  were]  bewailing  their  wrongs,  after  being  plundered.  When 
Donnell,  the  son  of  Conor  O'Brien,  and  Teicje,  the  son  of  Murrou2;h,  heard  of 
the  coming  of  this  great  army  to  oppose  them,  they  immediately  mustered  all 
tlie  forces  they  could,  and  met  together  at  Carn-mic-TaiT.     These  were  they 

seven  miles  to  the  uorth-west  of  Eunis.  of  a  round  tower,  near  Corofin,  in  the  baronj' 
*  Bothar-na-riiac-riogh,  i.  e.  the  road  of  the  of  Inchiquin,  and  county  of  Clare.  The  pa- 
kings'  sons.  This  name  is  still  preserved,  and  troness  of  this  church  is  still  held  in  great  vene- 
is  applied  to  the  road  leading  from  Corofin  to  ration  in  the  counties  of  Clare  and  Limerick, 
Kilnaboy,  meeting  the  gateway  of  Inchiquin  where  there  are  several  churches  and  holy  wells 
about  midway  between  them.  The  following  dedicated  to  her.  Her  name  is  now  corrupted 
i-eference  to  this  road  in  the  Caithreim  Thoir-  to  Innywee  in  the  country.  Her  father,  Boeth, 
dhealbhaiijh,  at  the  j'ear  1.317,  will  shew  its  was  of  the  royal  line  of  CormacCas.  the  ancestor 
exact  position  :  of  the  Dal-Cais. 

"  Dermot   O'Brien   set  out   with   his  forces  "  Carn-mhic-Tail,  i.  e.  the  earn  or  sepulchral 

from  Ruadhan"  [Ruane]  "  to  march  into  Bur-  heap  of  Mactalius,  the  son  of  Broc,  the  eleventh 

ren,  and  he  passed  through  Bearna-an-chaillin,  in  descent  from  Modhruadh,  the  progenitor  of 

by  Leacht-inghine-Ui-Lochlainn,  leaving  Tully  the  O'Conors   of  Corcomroe,  and   their  corre- 

O'Uea  on  the  left,  by  Loch  Beasgnatan,   over  latives.     This   is  undoubtedly   the  great   earn 

Caradh-mhic-Boirinn,  to  the  opening  of  Bothar-  now  called  Carn-Connachtach,    situated  in  the 

na-mac-riogh,  and  over  Mullach-Gaoidheal."  townland  of  Ballygeely,   parish   of  Kilshauny, 
'  CiU-Inyhine-Baoith,  i.  e.  the  church  of  the  ^  barony  of  Corcomroe,  and  county  of  Clare.     It 

daughter  of  Baeth,  or  Boethius,  now  Killinaboy,  is    of  a    conical    shape,    measuring     one    huu- 

or  Kilnaboy,  an  'old  church  at  which  is  a  part  dred  paces   in  diameter  at   the  base,   and  about 


1670  aNNata  Rio^hachca  emeawN.  [1573. 

clann  emainn  niic  yin^  50  rijlari  rhojal  sallócclác  cánaic  rjiihoiDce  piap  an 
ran  pin  cap  ponainn,  1  óccbaió  pleacca  an  jiolla  óuib  mic  concobaip  mic 
DonnchaiD  mic  Domnaill  na  mabmann  nnc  puibne.  bai  ann  uilleacc  mic 
Piocaipo  Shairanaijj  mic  uillicc  mic  RiocaipD  a  búpc  cánaic  an  ló  poime  pin 
DpioppiiccaD  a  bpárap,  Caócc  mac  mupchaiD  ui  bpiain.  Ro  cinnpior  ann  pin 
a  haon  corhaiple  an  plój  no  Ifnmain,  "]  po  jab  Dorhnall  mac  concobaip  iii 
bpiain  occa  ngpfpacr  im  calma  do  benam,  -j  apbfpr  ppiú,  a  bf  jmuincip  ap  pé  po 
cualabupa  la  pfnaib  "]  la  pfncabaib  nác  lé  lion  pluaj  no  pochaibe  bfpap  buaib, 
-]  nóc  bpuil  bpfirfrh  ap  pipe  [ap  piop  pe]  carpae,  Oopónpacanlucc  úo  paip- 
bpicc,  -\  lomapcpab  poipn  .1.  ap  nionnpaiccib  jop  ccpic  nt)ilip  babfm  50  po 
cpeacpac,  1  jopooipccpfcop  niuinceapa.  Ni  puilipinlucc  110510  lionrhap  bóib 
ace  cumapccac  plóij  a  lnonaoaib  eccpamlaib, -]  ni  bci  lamne  leó  caip)j>iom 
oloáp  ceiceam  Diamab  Oeirhin  leo  poccain  a  nanmann  ap  an  maijin  hi  ccoin- 
Dpecpam.  Ho  gab  speim  rpa  an  5peapacc  pm  Do  bepc  Domnall  pop  a  muin- 
cip,  ~\  po  cin^eallpac  do  gomab  báib  bparaippi  no  biab  aca  uile  1  naghaib  a 
namar,"|  po  cinnpioclucc  bpara  1  caipccelab  do  cop  uafa  pop  an  ppoplonj- 
popc  an  oibce  pin.  baoi  rabcc  mac  concobaip  ui  bpiain,  "|  coippbealbac  mac 
Donnchaib  í  bpiain  co  na  pocpaioe  50  peicmeac  piiipeacaip  la  caob  a  lonj- 
puipc  an  oibce  pin  co  polup  cpac  eipje  Do  ló  ap  no  bapac.  Ro  apccnaccap 
pfnipa  la  bfipje  na  jpéine  do  pliab  na  njpoijfb, "]  láim  clé  lé  bél  ara  an 
^obann, "]  báccap  plói^  an  cípe  ag  maillceimniuccab  ló  a  ccaob  Do  reacc- 
mail  ppiíi,  "1  po  nocrpac  a  mfipjeaba  ficeaca  eppleabpa  Iff  ap  Iff,  ap  a  aoi 
po  cinripioc  50  céim  Diojainn  opeappaic  cille  maincin  Do  paigib  beóil  an  cip 
jac  noipeac.  Ro  gab  cabcc  mac  mupchaib,  1  an  pluaj  apcfna  05  gpip 
imbfpccab  oomnaill  í  bpmin  ap  a  poD  leo  bórcap  jan  lonnpaijib  an  cplóig 

twenty-five  feet  in  perpendicular  height.  It  the  horses,  now  Anglice  Slievenagry,  in  the  pa- 
was  probably  the  place  where  the  Chief  of  Cor-  rish  of  Kilfenora,  barony  of  Corcomroe,  and 
comroe  was  inaugurated  before  Burren  was  county  of  Clare.  There  is  a  small  bridge  of  two 
separated  from  Corcomroe,  and  while  the  entire  arches  on  the  boundary  between  the  parishes  of 
diocese  of  Kilfenora  was  under  the  jurisdiction  Kilmoon  and  Kilshanny,  calledOpoicea&Sleibe 
of  the  head  of  this  tribe.  na  njpoi  jeaó,  from  its  contiguity  to  this  moun- 

'  Stand  or  fly,  literally,   "and  not  more  de-  tain, 

sirable  to  them  is  staying  than  flying,  if  they  '  Bd-atha-an-Ghobhann,    i.  e.   the  mouth   of 

were  sure  to  bring  their  lives  from  the  place  the    smith's  ford.     This   place   is  called  Baile 

where  we  shall  meet."  Eoin  Gabhann,  i.  e.  the  town  of  John  the  Smith, 

^  Sliabh-na-ngroigheadh,  L  e.  the  mountain  of  by  the  Four  Masters  at  the 'year  1600.     It  is 


1573.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1671 

who  were  along  with  them  there  :  the  sons  of  Edmond  Mac  Sheehy,  with  a 
select  body  of  gallowglasses,  who  had,  three  nights  before,  come  across  the 
Shannon  ;  and  also  youtlis  of  the  descendants  of  Gilla-Duv,  the  son  of  Conor, 
son  of  Donough,  son  of  Donnell-na-Madhmann  Mac  Sweeny.     There  also  was 
Ulick,  the  son  of  Richard  Saxonagh,  son  of  Ulick,  son  of  Richard  Burke.  Avho 
had  come  the  day  before  to  visit  his  kinsman,  Teige,  the  son  of  Murrough 
O'Brien.     These  then  resolved  with  one  accord  to  pursue  the  army  [of  the 
enemy] ;  and  Donnell,  the  son  of  Conor  O'Brien,  began  to  excite   them  to 
valour;  and  he  spoke  as  follows  :  "  Good  people,"  said  he,  ''I  have  Jieard  from 
the  old  and  the  historians  that  it  is  not  by  the  multitude  of  men  or  forces  that 
a  victory  is  gained,  and  that  no  person  is  a  judge  [of  the  issue  of]  a  iield 
of  battle.     These  people  have  been  guilty  of  wrongs  and  excesses  towards  us, 
for  they  have  made  an  irruption  into  our  own  lawful  territory,  and  plundered 
and  pillaged  our  people.     Their  army  [however],  though  numerous,  is  only  a 
medley  of  different  people  from  different  places,  who  care  not  whether  they 
stand  or  fly",  so  they  can  but  escape  with  their  lives  from  the  field  whereon  we 
shall  meet."  This  exhortation  from  Donuell  to  his  people  produced  its  intended 
effect ;   and  they  promised  that  they  would  all  unite  in  brotherly  affection 
against  their  enemies  ;  and  thereupon  they  resolved  to  send  out  people  to  spy 
and  reconnoitre  the  camp  that  night.     Teige,  the  son  of  Conor  O'Brien;  and 
Turlough,  the  son  of  Donough  O'Brien,  and  their  forces,  remained  all  that 
night,  until  daybreak  the  next  morning,  stationed  by  the  side  of  their  camp, 
vigilantly  and  warily.  At  sunrise  they  marched  forwards  by  Sliabh-na-ngroigh- 
eadh",  keeping  Bel-atha-an-Ghobhann''  on  the  left  hand  ;  and  the  ibrces  of  the 
country  were  marching  slowly  along  side  of  them,  to  come  to  an  engagement ; 
and  they  displayed  on  both  sides  their  winged  and  broad-tailed  standards,  but 
marched  with  steady  step  by  the  Pass  of  Cill-Mainchin^,  directly  towards  Bel- 
an-chip".     Teige,  the  son  of  Murrough,  and  the  army  in  general,  began  to 
reproach  Donnell  O'Brien  for  the  length  of  time  they  were  without  engagmg 

now  called  Ballygowan,  otherwise  Smithstown,  county  of  Clare. 

and  is  situated  in  the  parish  of  Kilshanny,  ba-  "  Bd-an-chip  :  mouth  of  the  ford  of  the  stock 

rony  of  Corcomroe,  and  county  of  Clare.  or  trunk  of  a  tree,  now  Cnoc-a-chip,  on  the  sea 

'  Cill-Mainchin,  i.  e.  St.  Munchin's  church,  shore,  in  the  parish  of  Kilmanaheen.  two  miles 

now  Kilmanaheen,  an  old  church  giving  name  to  the  west  of  Lahinch,   in  the  barony  of  Cor- 

to  a  parish   in   the   barony  of  Corcomroe,  and  comroe,  and  county  of  Clare. 


1672  aNMa<',a  Rio^hachca  eipeaNN.  [1573. 

naile  uaip  bóccaii  ace  coirhimreacc  fqiD  i  naipo  ppia  jioile  ó  baile  ora  an 
jijobann  50  y>in.  Rdinicc  caDcc  mac  concobaip  -\  coi]iji6ealbac  ua  bpiain  co 
na  pocpnioe  a\\  mullac  cnuic  beoil  an  cip  ina  ninneall  lombimlca  arhail  jio 
ba  lainn  leó  baoéin.  6ácra]i  an  pluaj^  naile  -|  lucr  na  ripe  ajá  rcojpaim 
1  nacchaib  na  leapgan  aipoe  agja  pbe  bai  Dia  paijió  amail  ap  oeine  conpan- 
Tjaccap,  -|  pia  nool  eab  Duibpaicre  Dóib  po  gab  pgeinm  -]  pccár  éccpoma  -\ 
aepóacc,  claonaó, -|  coppaibe  conpapail  caiDcc  -|  roippnealbaij  jop  ^abpar 
puoccaó  pó  céDÓip  cuca.  l?o  gabab  aja  naipleac,  -|  ago  nafciimn.  aja 
pleaccab  ")  accá  plaibe  na  ppiccib,  "|  na  crpioccaib  na  nofipib,  "|  na  rcpiap- 
aib  appin  co  bfinn  popmala.  Nip  bo  haon  conaip  po  gabpac  na  buibne  put 
uaip  DO  gabpac  an  nmpcplua^  láirh  bfp  le  paippcce  j'lap  -]  na  coipi^re  poip- 
beap  jac  noipeac.  Qp  a  aoi  po  Ifnab  50  Ian  uplaTÍi  jac  Dponj  bib.  Ro  laccpar 
an  mapcplua^  a  napabna  01a  neachaib  amail  ap  oéine  po  péopac,  1  00 
bechaib  coippbealbac  ó  bpiain  ap  do  niapcac  oécc  oia  lucr  irnarhna  iio 
copab  a  nfipiorTiail,-|  no  luap  a  neach  50  cafaip  puip.  Do  jjabab  -|  00  ^jonab 
r>ponj;ele  Da  ifiuincip.  l?o  jabab  ann  Dna  rabcc  mac  concbaip  ui  bpiam, -^ 
a  mac  coippbealbac  uaip  Do  anpac  j'lbe  pop  an  ccnoc  I'pm  uaip  ba  Dóij  leó 
50  ppoji^ai  jpeab  cóc  ma  ppappab.  Ro  gabab  r]ia  Dpong  nap  paoileab  Dana- 
cal  Dpiop  muincip  an  lapla,  -\  po  mapbab  Dponga  lomba  ele.  Ro  ba  glópac 
babba,  1  bpameóin, "]  earaiDiDe  aép,  "|  paolcoin  na  pioobaibi  pop  pfrnachaib 
paopclann  po  bóij  imaipcc  in  aon  laoi  pin.  5á  pfipDe  uaccap  cuabmuman 
750  cfnn  achaib  Dm  eipran  po  pc'tccbab  Do  bpaiji^Dib  Deacaib,  -|  Dcinfo  Dapni, 
DopDanap,  -|  beóp  D;a  ccfrpaib,  -\  Dia  ninnil'b  pfm  aca  an  la  pin. 

*>  T/ie  hill  of  BeU-an-chip Now  called  Cuoc-  Formaoile. 

a-chip.  B  Cathdir  Riiis,   i.  e.   the  stone   fort    of  Kos, 

"^  Within  shot,  literally,   within  shot-distance.  now  Caherush,  a  townland  containing  the  ruins 

''  Trepidation,  horror,  ^x. — This  is  the  eloquent  of  a  castle  in  the  west  of  the  parish  of  Kilmurry, 

Irish  mode  of  e-xpressing  that  they  were  seized  barony  of  Ibrickan,  and  county  of  Clare — See 

with  a  sudden  j^anic  at  the  sight  of  the  enemy.  the  Ordnance  Map  of  that  county,  sheet  30. 

'    Beann-Fornuda,    now    Binn-Formaoile,    a  *■  Who,  it  ivas  thoiiffht. — This   intimates  that 

mountain  situated  about  a  mile  and  a  half  to  the  their  lives  were  spared. 

south-west  of  the  Roman   Catholic    chapel   of  '  Ravenous  birds,  earaiDioe  uep. — See  note  ', 

Inagh,  in  the  barony  of  Inchiquiu,  and  county  under  the  year  1462,  p.  1022,  supm. 
of  Clare.     It  is  about  six  miles  to  the  south-  '^ Slain  in  the  battle  on  that  day,  literally,   "on 

east  of  Bel-an-chip,  whence  they  iled.  account  of  the  battle  of  that  one  day."     The 

'  South-east,  i.  e.  in   the   direction  of  Beann  style  could  be  easily  improved  by  omitting  the 


1573.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1673 

the  otl*r  army ;  and  the  two  armies  had  been  moving  opposite  each  other  from 
1  Baile-atha-an-Ghobhann  to  that  place.    Teige,  the  son  of  Conor,  and  Turlough 
O'Brien  arrived  with  their  forces  on  the  summit  of  the  hill  of  Bel-an-Chip'', 
[and  formed  themselves]  into  such  array  for  fighting  as  they  themselves  consi- 
dered proper.  The  other  army  and  the  inhabitants  of  the  country  were  pursuing 
them  up  the  steep  and  rugged  side  of  the  hill  on  which  they  were  ;  but  before 
they  QDuld  come  within  shot''  of  them,  the  constables  of  Teige  and  Turlough 
were  seized  with  trepidation,  horror",  light-headedness,  giddiness,  and  unsteadi- 
ness, so  that  they  immediately  took  to  flight.     The  others  proceeded  to  muti- 
late, hack,  and  slaughter  them  by  twenties  and  tliirties,  by  twos  and  threes, 
[in  the  route],  from  thence  to  Beann-Formala'.     It  was  not  in  the  same  direc- 
tion these  [defeated]  troops  passed,  for  the  cavalry  moved  westwards,  keeping 
the  sea  on  their  right,  and  their  infantry  passed  on  directly  south-east^     Both 
parties,  however,  were  expertly  pursued.  They  gave  loose  reins  to  their  horses, 
[and  ran]  with  all  the  speed  they  could  exert ;  and  Turlough  O'Brien  and 
twelve  horsemen  of  his  followers  made  their  way,  by  force  of  bravery  and  the 
swiftness  of  their  steeds,  to  Cathair-Ruis^.    Others  of  his  people  were  wounded 
and  taken  prisoners  ;    and  among  the  rest  were  Teige,  the    son   of  Conor 
O'Brien,  and  his  son,  Turlough,  for  these  had  remained  on  the  hill,  expecting 
that  the  rest  would  remain  along  with  them.     Some  of  the  Earl's  faithful  peo- 
ple were  (also)  taken  prisoners,  who,  it  was  though t^  would  get  no  quarter  ; 
and  many  others  of  them  were  slain.  Noisy  were  the  ravens  and  carrion-crows, 
and  [other]  ravenous  birds'  of  the  air,  and  the  wolves  of  the  forest,  over  the 
bodies  of  the  nobles  slain  in  the  battle  on  that  day".     The  upper  part  of  Tho- 
mond'  was  the  better  for  some  time  afterwards  of  all  the  prisoners,  horses, 
armour,  and  ordnance,  and  also  of  the  number  of  their  own  herds  and  flocks, 
left  to  them  on  that  day. 

words  pooaij  and  aon,  thus:   Roboap  jlopaic  down  to  Limerick  (ptof  50  6uimneac).     This 

baoBa,  bpaineoin  -|  eaéaioeaóa  aile  aieoip,  -\  arises  from   the  belief  that    the  land  inclines 

Faolcoin    nn    pioóbuiói    pop  pfinacaiB   paop-  from  Burren  and  Slieve  Aughty  to  the  Lower 

clunn  po  mapBaó  1  n-imaipeacc  in  laoi  ptn.  Shannon.    In  Connaught  and  Ulster,  up  means 

'  The  upper  part  of  Thomond. — It  should  be  to  the  north,  and  down  to  the  south.     And  so 

here  remarked,  that   upper,   in  the  county  of  much  does  this  custom  prevail  in  Connaught, 

Clare,  means  northern,    and,   lower,   southern,  that   to  go   down  the  Shannon  means  to   go 

They  say  up  to  Barren  (puap  30  6oipinn),  and  against  its  current !" 

10  D  • 


1674  awwaca  Rioghachca  eiReanw.  [1574 

niuipip  mac  an  pollapiabaij  (.i.  ó  cléipij)  uí  cléipij,  paoí  hi  Sfrcaf,  i 
Vii  Ifi^ionn  pfp  poimm  poconóij  oécc  hi  muinrip  eolaip,  -]  a  aónacal  i  ppioDnac 
inaije  pém  i  necclaip  caillín. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1574. 
Qoíp  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  Seaccmoccac,  a  cfcaip. 

Conn  mac  an  calbaij,  mic  TTIa^nupa  uí  óomnaiU  Do  gabail  lii  piull  la 
hiapla  óu  eyt^  hi  ppoplonjpopc  an  lapla  baoéin,  ")  a  cop  laparh  co  har 
cliar. 

lapla  Dfpmuman  t>o  bfic  ag  pojail, i  05  in^pfim  a  Cpccapacc  1  nfppac  na 
blmóna  po,  -)  bpipeab  oó  ap  mág  capcaij  móp  .1.  oomnall,  mac  copbmaic 
laópaij  -)  ITlac  pinjin  (DonncViaó  mac  ooitinaill  mic  pingm)  Do  mapbaó  lcr 
mumcip  an  mpla,  1  po  ba  oarhna  Dobpóin,  i  nDfpmumain  eipibe.  Po  mapbaó 
leó  ona  ócc  conpapal  Duaiplib  cloinne  puibne  .1.  clann  oonncbaió  bacai^  mic 
maolmuipe  mic  Donnchaib  mic  coippóealbaij^,  mic  eoccain,  mic  ÍTlaolmuipe, 
mic  Donnchaió  50  pochamib  do  Dajóaoínib  oile  jenmorac.  ' 

Cóppaib  cpa  mac  lapla  Dfpmuman  (Sfan  mac  Semaip)  eicim  ngabala  ap 
óajbaile  Dainjfn  00  cpian  cluana  meala  Diap  bó  hainm  Doipe  an  lóip,  -]  po 
cuip  bópoa  caipipi  Dia  muinnp  oiomcoiméD  an  baile  hípin.  Od  cualaib 
liipcip  na  liGpeann  (Sip  uilliam  pic?uill)am)i  lapla  upmuman  (comap  mac 
Semaip  mic  piapaip  Ruaib)  an  ní  pin  po  acnuabaij  5abail  an  baile  pm  a 
nua  pola,  1  a  pfn  pola  pe  clomn  lapla  Dfpmuman,-)  po  pógaippfc  opfpaib 
mibe,  1  bpfj,  do  buiclépacaib,  1  Dpine  jall  apcfna  oul  Do  bianmiUeab  lCce 
moba,  1  ní  po  hanab  leó  jup  po  paibir  a  bpuiple  -\  a  bpailliúin  i  rcimceall 
Doipe  an  Imp  co  po  gabab  é  leó  po  beóib,  1  po  DÍcfnDaic  an  bapDa  uile  lap 

'°  Fenagh See  note  ',  under  the  year  1244,  third,  and   county   (lí'  Waterford.     This  castle 

p.  310,  supra.     The  original  manuscript  from  stood  on  level  ground,   about   three  hundred 

which  the  copy  of  the  MS.  referred  to  in  that  paces  to  the  south  of  the  River  Suir.     It  was  a 

note  was  made,  is  now  preserved  in  the  Library  quadrangular  fabric,  measuring  forty-eight  feet 

of  the  British  Museum,  Vesp.  E.  11.  Cotton,  1 15.  from  east  to  west,  and  thirty  feet  from  north  to 

"  Doire-an-lair,  i.  e.  the  middle  or  central  oak  south,  and  had  a  round  tower  at  each  corner.  Of 

wood,  now  Derrinlare,  a  townland  containing  these  towers  three  are  still  traceable,  but  that 

the  ruins  of  a  very  strong  castle,  in  the  parish  which  stood  at  the  south-west  corner  has  totally 

of  Killaloan,  barony  of  Uachtar-tire,  or  Upper-  disappeared.     About  one-half  of  the  north-east 


1574.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1675 

Maftrice,  the  son  of  Gilla-Riagh  O'Clery  (i.  e.  the  O'Clery),  a  man  learned 
in  history  and  literature,  and  a  man  of  esteem  and  affluence,  died  in  Miointir- 
Eolais,  and  was  interred  in  Fenagh"  of  Moy-Rein,  in  the  church  of  St.  Caillin. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1574. 

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

Con,  the  son  of  Calvagh,  son  of  Manus  O'Donnell,  was  treacherously  taken 
prisoner  by  the  Earl  of  Essex,  in  the  Earl's  own  camp,  and  sent  to  Dublin. 

The  Earl  of  Desmond  was  plundering  and  harassing  his  enemies  in  the 
spring  of  this  year.  He  defeated  Mac  Carthy  More  (Donnell,  the  son  of  Don- 
nell,  son  of  Corraac  Ladhrach).  Mac  Fineen  (Donough,  son  of  Donnell,  son 
of  Fineen)  was  slain  by  the  Earl's  people  ;  and  his  death  was  a  cause  of  great 
grief  in  Desmond.  A  young  constable  of  the  gentlemen  of  Clann-Sweeny, 
namely,  one  of  the  sons  of  Donough  Bacagh,  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Donough, 
son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Mulmurry,  sou  of  Donough,  and  many 
other  distinguished  persons  besides,  were  slain  by  them. 

The  son  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond  (John,  the  son  of  James)  took  by  sur- 
prise a  good  and  strong  castle,  called  Doire-an-lair",  and  placed  in  it  trustworthy- 
warders  of  his  own  people  to  guard  it.  When  the  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland  (Sir 
William  Fitzwilliam)  and  the  Earl  of  Ormond  (Thomas,  the  son  of  James,  son 
of  Pierce  Roe)  had  heard  of  this  castle,  it  renewed  their  recent  and  old  animo- 
sity against  the  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond  ;  and  they  summoned  the  men  of 
Meath  and  Bregia,  the  Butlers,  and  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  English  Pale,  to 
proceed  to  devastate  Leath-Mhodha.  [The  summons  was  obeyed],  and  they 
marched,  without  halting,  until  they  had  pitched  their  tents  and  pavilions  around 
Doire-au-lair,  which  they  finally  took  ;  and  the  Lord  Justice  beheaded  all  the 

tower  remains,  to  the  height  of  about  sixty  feet,  tion  ascribes  the  erection  of  this  fortress  to  the 

but  the  south-east  one  only  to  the  height  of  ten  Butlers. — See  it  mentioned,  under  the  name  of 

feet.     These  tow.ers  were  eighteen  feet  in  dia-  Dorenlare,  in  the  Pacata  Hibernia,  vol.  i.  p.  78, 

meter  on  the  inside,  and  their  walls,  which  were  in  a  letter  from  James  Galdie  Butler   to  the 

well  grouted,  are  eleven  feet  in  thickness.     The  Lord  President,  in  which  he  complains  that  his 

side  walls  of  the  square  are  also  grouted,  and  "  eldest  brother's  castle  of  Dorenlare"  had  been 

are  eight  feet  four  inches  in  thickness.     Tradi-  bestowed  upon  Kichard  Power. 

10  D  2 


1676 


aNwata  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN. 


[1574. 


an  lufciy^.  6aca|i  a  óaoíne,  -|  a  luce  conjanca  aj  cpéccaó  lapla  Df|^inurhan 
an  oipfc  ym  gup  bo  hi  comaiple  po  cinn  cocr  hi  ccfno  an  lupcip,  -[  a  bfir  oia 
ói^péip,"!  pobficcfn  Do  caiplén  na  mainge,  oun  gapbáin, -]  caonpaije  Do  cab- 
aipc  DO, -|  mairfrh  ap  jac  ni  po  milleaó  eacoppa  ap  gac  raob  50  pin. 

Sioh  coDoc  1  capaDpab  do  coirhcfngal  eicip  Bpian  mac  peilim  bacaig 
UÍ  neill  1  lapla  óu  epe;r,  -|  cupccnarh  plfibe  Do  óénam  lapcrain  la  bpian  1 
an  lupcip  CO  mainb  a  rhumcipe  do  rocuipeab  Dm  paiccib,  -|  pobrap  pubac 
poimfnmnac  ppi  pé  ceópa  noibce  co  na  Iriib  1  ppappab  apoile.  Qn  can  bci 
háine  oóib  occ  ól  -]  occ  aoíbnfp,  hi  ccfnn  na  pee  hi  pin  Ro  jabao  bpian  co 
na  bpacaip  -|  co  na  mnaoi  lap  an  lapla,"]  po  cloiDtheaD  jan  coicciU  a  muincip 
uile,  piopa,  mná  maca,  "|  injfna  ina  piaónaipi  baóéin.  Ro  cuipeaó  bpian  lap-- 
ccain,  a  bfn, "]  a  bpacaip  50  hoc  cliac,  "|  Do  pónaó  cfcparhna  compouince 
Díob  ann  conaó  amlaiD  pin  do  cuaib  cpi'oc  a  ccuipeab  bóib.  Ro  ba  l6p  opora 
abuaca,  "]  upgpáme  Depenncoib  an  oiDheab  anabaib,  "]  an  iiiíDiac  malapca, 
-|  miimbepca  pin  cuccab  pop  fijfpna  cloinne   aoba  buibe  ui  néill,  uaccapár, 


"  Dungarvan,  tDún  ^apbóin,  i  e.  Garvau's 
dun,  or  fort,  now  Dungarvan,  a  seaport  town 
in  the  south  of  the  county  of  Waterford.  It  is 
situated  oil  a  point  of  land  formed  by  the  estu- 
aries of  the  Rivers  Bricky  and  Calligan.  There 
are  considerable  remains  of  the  walls  of  this 
town  still  remaining,  as  also  of  the  principal 
castle,  which  is  situated  in  the  centre  of  the 
town,  and  is  still  occupied  as  a  military  post. 

■■  Kenry,  Caonpaije This  is  the  name  of  a 

barony  in  the  north  of  the  county  of  Limerick, 
the  principal  castle  of  which  is  now  called 
pailijp  Caonpai^e,  Arylice  Palliskenry.  It 
stands  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Shannon,  about 
nine  miles  west  of  the  city  of  Limerick. 

^  Were  seized  upon. — Camden  mentions  this 
capture  of  Brian  O'Neill,  in  liis  Annals  of  the 
reign  of  Elizabeth,  A.  D.  1574,  but  makes  no 
allusion  to  the  treachery,  and  is  followed  by  Cox. 
Camden  says  that,  as  soon  as  Essex  landed  at 
Carrickfcrgus,  Brian  Mac  Pheliniy  waited  on 
him,  and  in  the  most  submissive  manner  ten- 
dered his  duty  to  the  Queen  and  his  service  to 


Essex,  but  that  he  soon  after  became  disaffected, 
and  joined  Turlough  Luineach  in  the  rebellion. 
It  is  but  fair  here  to  remark,  that  when  Essex 
landed,  Brian  thought  that  he  had  come  over 
simply  as  Marshal  of  Ireland ;  but  that  when  he 
discovered  that  the  Earl  had  come  over  to  seize 
upon  all  Clannaboy  to  his  own  and  the  Queen's 
use,  it  was  reasonable  to  expect  that  Brian 
should  oppose  him  and  the  Queen  also.  Camden 
asserts  that  Brian  usurped  Clannaboy  •,  but  this, 
which  is  a  mere  fiction  of  the  English  law,  is  not 
true,  for  his  ancestors  had  possession  of  it  for  at 
least  two  centuries,  and  Brian  was  the  true  heir. 
Dr.  Loland,  who  was  a  far  more  candid  in- 
vestigator than  either  Camden  or  Cox,  though 
sufficiently  primed  with  prejudices  against  the 
Irish,  so  as  not  to  be  carried  away  by  any  na- 
tional predilections,  has  tlie  following  note  un 
the  proceedings  of  the  Earl  of  Essex,  who  had 
obtained  a  grant  of  the  seigniories  of  Clanna- 
boy, Farney,  ic,  in  order  to  oust  the  Irish, 
and  settle  English  colonies  therein  : 

"  The  Irish  manuscript  annals  of  this  reigu 


1574.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1677 

warders.  His  people  and  auxiliaries  were  so  much  abandoning  the  Earl  of 
Desmond,  that  he  resolved  upon  repairing  to  the  Lord  Justice,  and  making 
unconditional  submission  to  him  :  [this  he  did],  and  he  was  obliged  to  deliver 
up  to  the  Lord  Justice  Castlemain,  Dungarvan",  and  Kenry" ;  and  [thereupon] 
whatever  wrongs  had  been  committed  on  either  side  up  to  that  time  should  be 
forgiven. 

Peace,  sociality,  and  friendship,  were  established  betweenBrian,  the  son  of 
Felim  Bacagh  O'Neill,  and  the  Earl  of  Essex ;  and  a  feast  was  afterwards  prepared 
by  Brian,  to  which  the  Lord  Justice  and 'the  chiefs  of  his  people  were  invited; 
and  they  passed  three  niglits  and  days  together  pleasantly  and  cheerfully.  At 
the  expiration  of  this  time,  however,  as  they  were  agreeably  drinking  and 
making  merry,  Brian,  his  brother,  and  his  wife,  were  seized  upon"  by  the  Earl, 
and  all  his  people  put  unsparingly  to  the  s^^ord",  men,  women,  youths,  and 
maidens,  in  Brian's  own  presence.  Brian  was  afterwards  sent  to  Dublin,  toge- 
ther with  his  wife  and  brother,  where  they  were  cut  in  quarters.  Such  was 
the  end  of  their  feast.  This  unexpected  massacre,  this  wicked'  and  treacherous 
murder  of  the  lord  of  the  race  of  Hugh  Boy  O'Neiir,  the  head  and  the  senior 

mention  a  very  dishonorable  transaction  of  this  when  they  arrived  at  tlie  place  of  conference, 

lord  on  his  return  to  Ulster.     It  is  here  given  they  were  instantly  surrounded  by  troops,  and 

in  a   literal  translation   from   the   Irish,   with  all  butchered  on  the  spot.    Such  relations  would 

which  the  author  was  favored  by  Mr.  O'Conor.  be  more  suspicious  if  these  annals  in  general 

A71110  1574:  '  A  solemn  peace  and  concord  was  expressed  great  virulence  against  the  English 

made  between   the   Earl  of  Essex    and   Felim  and  their  government.     But  they  do  not  appear 

O'Nial.     However,  at  a  feast  wherein  the  Earl  to  differ  essentially  from  the  printed  histories, 

entertained    that   chieftain'    [recte,    at   a    feast  except  in  the  minuteness  with  which  they  re- 

wherein   the  chieftain  entertained  that  Earl],  cord  the  local  transactions  and  adventures  of  the 

'  and  at  the  end  of  their  good  cheer,  O'Nial  with  Irish  ;  and  sometimes  they  expressly  condemn 

his  wife  were  seized ;  their  friends  who  attended  their  countrymen  for  their   rebellions   against 

were  put  to  the  sword  before  tlielr  faces.  Felim,  their  prince." — Book  iv.  c.  2. 

together  yfiih  his  wife  and  brother,  were  con-  '  To  the  sword. — Camden,  in  his  annals,  A.  D. 

veyed  to  Dublin,   where  they   were  cut  up  in  1574,  states  that  Essex  slew  two  hundred  of  the 

quarters.     This  execution   gave  universal  dis-  Irish,   and  took  Brian,   Rory  Oge,   his  brother, 

content  and  horrour.'  and  Brian's  wife. 

"  In  like  manner  these  annals  assure  us  that  '  Wicked,  mulapca. — See  note  •\  under  the 

a  few  years  after  the   Irish   chieftains   of  tlie  year  1186,  p.  70,  tujira. 

King's  and  Queen's  County  were   invited  by  '  Lord  of  the  race  of  Hugh  Boy  O'Neill,  i.  e. 

the  English  to  a  treaty  of  accommodation.    But  Chief  of  Clannaboy.     Camden  states,  in  his  An- 


1678 


aHNQca  Rioghachca  eiReaHN. 


[1574. 


■]  pmnj^eap  y^lecca  eojain  mic  neill  naoí^iallat^  "]  ^aoióeal  epeann  Dupmop 
cén  mo  ta  uarab. 

Clann  lapla  cloinne  Riocaipo  .i.  uilliam,  "|  Sfan  do  bpipfó  bpficpe,  -| 
bpairpeapa  pop  apoile,  -]  arhpa  mop  Dolbanchaib  ")  oeipennchaib  Do  popDab 
la  Sfan  a  búpc.  puaip  lapla  upmurhan  lápom  ppoce;rion  dó,-|  do  pao  bpai  joe 
pé  corhall  Don  bainpiojain  ap  laim  an  lapla. 

Cior  cloicpnfcca  Do  ppeapcain  hi  callainn  TTlaii  na  bliabna  po,  bo  hejcarhail 
lonjnar  peapram  an  cfra  ipin,  uaip  bácap  Dponja  i  nepinn  na  po  maCrnaiD  é 
ace  amail  nac  cior  naile,  bacap  Dponj:;  naile  ó  po  cógbaic  cije  cpebap 
Daingne,  ■]  o  po  báióir  cfcpa, "]  innile.  Na  guipr  jfrhaip  po  baoi  ap  na  piolab 
páice  no  Ificbliabain  piap  an  can  pin  po  póccaib  an  cioc  pin  ma  Ifpjaib  Igma 
jan  loc  gan  peóp  laD.  T?o  pagbaiD  an  cior  céDna  beóp  cuDpoma  jac  cloice 
Drt  ccuipeaó  Do  rfiioll  maor^upm  pop  na  luipjnib  ppip  a  mbfnab. 


nals  of  tlie  reign  of  Elizabeth,  that  "  this  Brian 
possessed  thirty  thousand  cows,  besides  sheep 
and  hogs."  To  give  Essex  possession  of  these, 
and  of  the  lands  which  supported  them,  by  a 
proscriptive  grant  from  the  Queen,  was  nearly 
as  arbitrary  as  the  Pope  granting  the  kingdom 
of  Ireland,  forfeited  by  the  heresy  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  to  his  faithful  son  in  Christ,  Philip  II. 
This  Brian  is  the  ancestor  of  the  present  Vis- 
count O'Neill  of  Shanescastle,  and  of  Mr.  Hugh 
O'Neill  of  Ballymoney,  in  the  county  of  Down, 
a  respectable  farmer  on  the  Marquis  of  Down- 
shire's  estate.  'The  pedigree  of  this  family,  as 
printed  by  Burke  in  his  Peerage,  is  very  incor- 
rect ;  and  the  Editor  thinks  it  his  duty  to  lay 
before  the  reader,  in  this  place,  the  true  line  of 
descent,  as  proved  from  original  documents,  as 
he  was  led  astray,  by  relying  on  Mr.  Burke's 
authority,  in  giving  it  in  the  Circuit  of  Muir- 
cheartach,  p.  63  : 

1.  Brian  mac  Felim  O'Neill,  chief  of  Clanna- 
boy,  and  senior  of  the  Kinel-Owen.  He  mar- 
ried, first,  a  daughter  of  Sir  Arthur  Magennis, 
Viscount  Iveagh ;  and  secondly,  Anne,  daugh- 
ter of  Brian  Carragh  O'Neill  ;  and  was  suc- 
■    ceeded  by  his  eldest  son, 


II.  John,  who  died  in  1619,  leaving  five  sons, 
namely,  1,  Sir  Henry,  who  married  Martha 
Stafford,  by  whom  he  had  five  daughters,  of 
whom  four  were  idiots,  and  Rose,  who  was 
compos,  and  married  to  Randal,  Marquis  of 
Antrim  ;  2,  Arthur,  who  married  Grace 
O'Hara,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  Cormac 
an^i  John,  who  were  both  Colonels  in  the  ser- 
vice of  Charles  II.,  and  died  without  issue;  3, 
Felim  Duv,  the  ancestor  of  the  present  Vis- 
count O'Neill,  of  whom  presently ;  4,  Hugh ; 
and  5,  John  Oge,  the  ancestor  of  Mr.  Hugh 
O'NeiU,   of  Ballymoney,  a  farmer. 

III.  Felim  Duv.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  ser- 
vice of  Charles  II.,  and  died  in  1677.  He 
married  Sheela  O'Hara,  who  died  in  1 690,  by 
whom  he  had, 

IV.  Brian.  He  married  Eleanor  Magennis,  who 
died  in  1705,  by  whom  he  who  had  two  sons: 
1,  John,  commonly  called  French  John,  a 
card-maker  in  Paris,  who  succeeded  to  the 
family  estates  on  the  death  of  his  relative, 
Colonel  Charles  O'Nell,  in  1736  ;  2,  Henry, 
ob.  s.  p. 

V.  John.  He  had  three  sons,  Henry,  who  died 
without  issue  ;  Charles,  of  whom  presently ; 


1574.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1679 


of  tlie  race  of  Eoghan,  son  of  Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages,  and  of  all  the  Gaels, 
a  few  only  excepted,  was  a  sufficient  cause  of  hatred  and  disgust  [of  the  English] 
to  the  Irish. 

The  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard,  namely,  William  and  John,  violated 
their  [pledged]  word  and  brotherly  friendship ;  and  John  Burke  took  many 
Scotch  and  Irish  mercenaries  into  his  service.  The  Earl  of  Ormond  afterwards 
obtained  protection  for  him  ;  and  he  delivered  up  hostages  into  the  hands  of 
the  Earl,  to  be  kept  for  the  Queen. 

On  the  calends  of  May  this  year  a  shower  of  hail  fell,  after  a  strange  and 
wonderful  manner,  for  some  saw  nothing  in  it  but  what  belonged  to  such 
showers  in  general ;  while  there  were  others  whose  good  strong  houses  it  swept 
away,  and  whose  flocks  and  herds  it  smothered.  The  fields  of  green  corn;  which 
had  been  sown  a  quarter  or  half  a  year  before,  were  left  by  this  shower  bare 
and  barren  plains,  without  corn  or  blade.  The  same  shower  left  upon  the  shins 
of  those  on  whom  it  fell  lumps  the  exact  size  of  one  of  the  hail-stones. 


and  Clotworthy,  who  died  without  issue. 

VI.  Charles.  He  marrried,  in  1736,  Alice, 
daughter  of  the  Right  Honourable  Sir  John 
Broderic  of  Middleton,  by  whom  he  had  two 
sons,  John,  of  whom  presently,  and  St.  John, 
who  died  without  issue.  He  died  in  1769, 
and  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son. 

VII.  John.  He  represented  the  county  of  An- 
trim for  several  years  in  Parliament,  and  was 
elevated  to  the  Peerage  of  Ireland  on  the  30th 
of  November,  1793,  as  Baron  O'Neill,  of 
Shanescastle,.  and  advanced  to  the  dignity  of 
Viscount  O'Neill  on  the6th  of  October,  1795. 
He  married,  on  the  15th  of  October,  1777, 
Henrietta,  only  child  of  Charles  (Boyle)  Lord 
Dungarvan,  and  grand-daughter  of  Charles, 
fifth  Earl  of  Cork  and  Orrery,  by  whom  he 
had  issue :  1,  Charles  Henry  St.  John,  who  was 
born  in  1779,  and  was  created  Earl  O'Neill 
in  1800,  and  died  without  issue  in  1841 ;  and, 
2,  John  Bruce,  the  present  Viscount  O'Neill, 
who  was  born  December  30,  1780,  and  who 
is  still  unmarried.     Let  us  now  return  to 


III.  John  Oge,  the  youngest  son  of  John,  the 
son  of  Brian.     He  had  one  son, 

IV.  Henky,  who  had  two  sons,  John,  No.  V., 
and  Donnell,  of  whose  descendants  (if  he  had 
such)  no  account  is  preserved. 

V.  John.  He  had  three  sons :  1,  Ambrose, 
who  had  five  daughters,  the  third  of  whom, 
Henrietta,  married  Daniel  O'Rourke  of  Uro- 
mahaire,  in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  by  whom 
she  had  a  son,  Ambrose,  who  was  the  father 
of  Daniel,  who  was  father  of  Ambrose 
O'Rourke,  Esq.,  J.  P.,  of  BaUybollen,  in  the 
county  of  Antrim  ;  2,  Henry,  who  died  with- 
out issue;  and,  3,  Daniel,  No.  VI. 

VI.  Daniel. 

VII.  John  of  Ballymoney. 

VIII.  Arthur. 

IX.  John. 

X.  Hugh  O'Neill  of  Ballymoney,  in  the  county 
of  Down,  a  farmer,  who,  if  he  survive  the 
Viscount  O'Neill,  will  be  the  senior  represen- 
tative of  Brian  Mac  Felim,  and  of  all  the 
Kinel-Owen. 


1680     '  aNNQi-a  Riojhachca  eiueaNN.  [1575. 

TTlac  raibcc  mic  caibcc  ui  Ruaipc  Do  rhapBab  la  cum  do  luce  Ifnamna 
na  bpeipne  ap  paicce  opoma  Da  eriap. 


aOlS  CRIOSU,   1575. 
Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceD,  Sfccrhojacc,  a  cuicc. 

RuDbpctije  mac  Qoba  (.i.  ua  Domnaill),  mic  TTlagnupa,  nuc  Qoba  Duib 
ui  Domnaill  Do  mapbob  i  nfojaipe  1  nuún  na  rijall  la  Cacaoip,  mac  6óin,  mic 
ruarail  ui  jallcubaip,  1  nocap  lainD  laippiumh  inDpin. 

Robapca  po  cfpbaij,  1  eallpcor  ainciopmaij  1  pariipab  na  bliabna  po  co 
na  ppi'cVi  Co  aon  uaipe  do  la  no  ooibce  Do  pleocliab  ó  bealraine  co  lu^napab. 
Ro  pap  fpláince  upjpanna  -|  cfibm  cupbpóib  oon  cfpbac  hipin  .1.  an  pláij. 
6aoí  rpa  an  cfibm  pin  co  hanppóill  pop  Shajcancaib, ")  pop  éipeanoachaib  i 
mbaile  aca  cliac  inD  nap  laijfn,  i  mbaile  ara  pipbiab,  ipin  TTluilfnn  cfpp,-| 
1  mbaile  ara  buibe.  Rob  lomba  Dna  fcoppa  pibe,  caiplén  jan  coiméD,  innile 
jan  aojaipe,  1  uapal  copp  gan  abnacal  cpia  birin  an  cfbma  ipin. 

lupcip  nua  Do  rocc  1  nepinn  .1.  Sip  hénpi  SiDnei,  ipin  ppojrhap  Do  ponn- 
pab,  1  hi  ccóicceaD  ulab  po  jab  pope  cecup,  1  bá  harhlaib  baoi  épe  pop  a 
cioncc  na  hen  cuinn  coccaib  ~\  cfnDaippce,  1  po  noibm  pib,  capaDpab,  "] 
capranacc  enp  cenel  cconaill  -\  eoccain,  ■]  coicceab  ulab  apcfna  po  bit  bá 
haca  ráinicc  hi  cci'p  hi  rcopac,  ~\  po  biocuip  an  luprip  pin  co  pa;raib  an 
ciapla  lé  a  nDeapnaD  an  jabalcap  pop  ulcoib,  "|  po  peall  pop  conn  mac  an 
calbaij,  -]  pop  bpian  mac  peilim  bacaij  .1.  lapla  ou  epep:.  Conn  mac  an 
calbaig  ui  Domnaill  Dna,  -|  conn  mac  néill  óicc  uí  néill  bárcap  illáirh  in  ác 
cliar  Do  elúD  pé  linn  an  lupcip  Do  cocc  in  nGpinn,  -|  Conn  ua  pomnaill  Do 
bfir  hr  poirpib -]  hi  pápaijib  a  búirce  babéin  jup  cuip  an  lupcip  a  papDún 

"From  Becdtaine  to  Lammas,  i.e.  from  the  &c. — See  Camden's  Annals  of  the  reign  of  Queen 

1st  of  May  to  the  1st  of  August.  Elizabeth,  and  Cox's  Hibemia  Anglicana,  A.  D. 

"  Invaded  Ulster. — The  Four  Masters  do  not  1 573.  Camden's  words  are  as  follows  : 
appear  to  have  known  the  exact  nature  of  this  "  In  Ultonia  Brianus  Mac  Phelimus,  qui  mag- 
invasion,  because  the  Earl  was  not  a  mere  adven-  nam  partem  regionis  Clandeboioe-  usurpaverat, 
turer,  but  was  bound  by  indenture  to  go  thi-  oppidum  Knockfergus,  i.  e.  Fergusii  Rupem, 
ther  before  Michaelmas,  1573;  for  on  the  9th  incendit;  et  alii  eo  tractu  tumultuari  coeperunt. 
of  July,  that  year,  the  Queen  had  granted  him  Contra  hos  WalterusDevereux(quemElizabetha 
the  moiety  of  the  seigniory  of  Clannaboy,Farney,  nuper  Essexias  Comitem  crearat)  expeditionem 


1575.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1681 

« 

The  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Teige  O'Rourke,  was  slain  by  some  of  the  inha- 
bitants of  Breifny,  on  the  Green  of  Dromahaire. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1575. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  severity -jioe. 

Rury,  the  son  of  Hugh  (i.e.  the  O'Donnell),  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Hugh 
Duv  O'Donnell,  was,  while  quelling  a  riot  at  Donegal,  [unintentionally]  slain 
by  Cahir,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Tuathal  O'Gallagher,  a  thing  which  he  wished 
not  to  do. 

Intense  heat  and  extreme  drought  [prevailed]  in  the  summer  of  this  year  ; 
there  was  no  rain  for  one  hour,  by  night  or  day,  from  Bealtaine  to  Lammas". 
A  loathsome  disease  and  a  dreadful  malady  arose  from  this  heat,  namely,  the 
plague.  This  malady  raged  virulently  among  the  Irish  and  English  in  Dublip, 
in  Naas  of  Leinster,  Ardee,  Mullingar,  and  Athboy.  Between  those  places 
many  a  castle  was  left  without  a  guard,  many  a  flock  without  a  shepherd,  and 
many  a  noble  corpse  without  burial,  in  consequence  of  this  distemper. 

In  the  autumn  of  this  year  a  new  Lord  Justice  arrived  in  Ireland,  namely, 
Sir  Henry  Sidney.  He  landed  in  Ulster,  and  fovmd  Ireland  one  scene  of  war- 
fare and  intestine  commotion.  He  (however)  established  peace,  friendship,  and 
charity  between  the  Kinel-Connell  and  the  Kinel-Owen,  and  throughout  every 
part  of  Ulster,  tlie  province  in  which  he  first  landed  ;  and  this  Lord  Justice 
banished  to  England  the  Earl  of  Essex,  who  had  invaded  Ulster",  and  acted 
treacherously  towards  Con,  the  son  of  Calvagh  [O'Donnell],  and  Brian,  the  son 
of  Felim  Bacagh  [O'Neill].  About  the  time  that  this  Lord  Justice  arrived  in 
Ireland,  Con.  the  son  of  Calvagh  O'Donnell,  and  Con,  the  son  of  Niall  Oge 
O'Neill,  who  had  been  in  prison  in  Dublin,  made  their  escape ;  and  Con  O'Don- 
nell remained  concealed  in  the  forests  and  wilds  of  his  native  territory,  until 
the  Lord  Justice  sent  him  his  pardon.     In  the  beffinnins;  of  winter  the  Lord 

postulat;  illis  usus  consultoribus  qui  eum  Ion-  imbuerat,  propositi  teimx  cum  licginii  transigit, 
gius  abesse,  et  in  pericula,  specie  honoris,  pra:;-  ut,  quibusdam  cautionibus  pars  altera  Clande- 
ripitare  primis  votis  habuerunt.  Quod  ilium  boije,  si  rebelks  subnioveret,  sibi  et  suis  commi- 
Laudquaquam  latuit.  Verum  vir  impiger,  ct  litionibus  cederet:  adquam  tuendam  equites  cc, 
qui   animum   ab  ineunte  aetate  bellicis  studii^      pedites  cccc,  suis  suniptibvis  aleret:  et  in  btlli 

10   E 


1082  awNata  Rioghachca  emeaNN.  [1576. 

t 

CUICC6.     Ctn  luprif  mpom  t)o  óul  hi  rcopac  an  jfimpeao  peacnon  rhmje 

bpeaj  •]  mioe,  aippióe  hi  popruaraib  Caijean,  50  po  pioohaij  501U  1  jaoióil 
aijinp  Tniiman  "]  mióe,  -|  piol  Roppa  pailji,  -]  clanna  conaill  cfpnaicch  ppi 
apoile.  Cuió  lapccain  piapófp  506  tiDípeac  50  popcloaipse,  co  heocoill,  -\ 
CO  copcai5  im  noclaicc.  bá  Dípím  in  po  muohaij  Do  rheipleachaib,  -\  in  po 
Oicfno  t»o  Dpocóaoínib  ip  na  ripib  pin  rpiap  a  rcuóchaió  50  pin. 

Coccaó  eircip  piol  mbpiain  an  bliabam  pi.  Clann  concobaip  ui  bpmin  -\ 
clann  mupcham  ui  bpiain  Do  Ifc  Don  coccaD  pin.  Clann  Donnchaib  Don  Ifir 
oile  .1.  an  napla  1  coippbealbac.  Ro  cpeachaó  1  po  corhloipcceab  (Dpojail 
aon  oiDce)  cuac  ua  mbuilc"]  cuac  na  pfpna  eicip  inDibb,  apbap,")  poipjnearh 
eicip  cuair  "|  reapmann  uile  lop  an  lapla. 

Semiip  mac  muipip  mic  Sfain  mic  an  lapla  co  na  rhnaoi  -]  co  na  cloinn  do 
Dul  ofgla  gall  Don  ppainc  ip  in  eappac  do  ponnpaó,  lap  nDenarh  pioccana 
Don  lapla  -|  do  Shfan  la  jallaib. 

Qooh  mac  baocjalai^  meg  plannchaóa  oiDe  poipcfcail  hi  ppfineacup  "] 
hi  pilióeacc,  cfnnaije  piona  ap  luccha  Dob  olc  Do  bpfirfmnaib  ciiaire  in 
epmn  Decc. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1576. 
Ctoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cúicc  ccd,  Seaccmosarr,  ape. 

TTlaj  capcaij  piabac,  Donnchab  mac  Dorhnaill  mic  pinjin  Do  éec  aóbap 
éccaoíne  Doipeachaib,  -|  cóippi  Do  rpeabcachaib,  i  bpoin  Do  bpujabaib  á 
biiirce  baóéin,  pfp  do  Dfppccaij  Da  pinnpeap  1  Da  nap  ofppccaij  a  poipfp, " 
a  abnacal  1  noraplije  a  acap  1  a  pfnacap  1  rij  TTlolasa,  "|  a  bpacaip  eogan 
mag  capcaij  Do  oipDnfo  ina  lonab. 

Uairne  mac  aoDa  ui  Diomapaij  do  mapbao  1  piull  inabaile  pfin  1  ccluain 
na  njarhan. 

apparatum  decern  iiiilliii  librarum  monet;v  An-  prised   the  Glen  of  Imaile,    Glendalough,   and 

glicie  a  Regina,  prediis  in  Essexia  oppigneratis,  other  parts  of  the  county  of  Wicklow. 

niutuo  sumit."  '  Jiace  of  Eossa  Failylie,  i.  e.  the  O'Conors  of 

"  Magh  Breagh,  i.  e.  the  plain  of  Bregia,  a  Offaly,  and  tlieir  correlatives, 
part  ot'  East  Meath  containing  five  cantreds,  or  *  Tnath-  Ua-mBuilc,  i.  e.  the  territory  of  the 

baronies,  and  lying  principally  between  Dublin  Ui-Builc,   or  O'Bolgs,  a  district  in  the  barony 

and  Drogheda.  of  Islands,  in  the  county  of  Clare.     The  castle 

^  Foiiuatha  of  Leinster This  territory  com-  of  Dangau-Moybuilk,   corru])tly  Dangan   Moy- 


1576.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1683 

Justice  proceeded  through  Magh  Breagli"  and  Meath,  and  from  thence  through 
the  Fortuatha  of  Leinster",  and  reconciled  with  each  other  the  Encrhsh  and 
Irish  of  East  Munster  and  Meath,  as  also  the  race  of  Rossa  Failghe^  and  the 
descendants  of  Conall  Cearnach.  He  afterwards,  about  Christmas,  proceeded 
in  a  so^th-westerly  direction,  respectively  visiting  Waterford,  Youghal,  and 
Cork,  and  suppressed  countless  numbers  of  rebels,  and  beheaded  great  numbers 
of  bad  men  in  these  districts,  as  he  passed  along. 

A  war  [broke  out]  among  the  O'Briens  in  this  year.  On  one  side  were  the 
sons  of  Conor  O'Brien,  and  the  sons  of  Murrough  O'Brien  ;  on  the  other  were 
the  sons  of  Donough,  namely,  the  Earl  and  Turlough  ;  and  Tuath-Ua-mBuilc° 
and  Tuath-na-Fearna",  including  cattle,  corn,  and  buildings,  and  both  temporal 
and  spiritual  possessions,  were  burned  (in  one  night's  marauding)  by  the  Earl. 

In  the  spring  of  this  year  James,  the  son  of  Maurice,  son  of  John,  son  of 
the  Earl,  went  to  France,  with  his  wife  and  children,  through  fear  of  the  Eng- 
lish, with  whom  the  Earl  [of  Desmond]  and  John  had  made  peace. 

Hugh,  son  of  Boethius  Mac  Clancy,  Professor  of  the  Feineachas'  and  of 
poetry,  and  a  purchaser  of  wine,  by  no  means  the  least  distinguished  of  the  lay 
Brehons  of  Ireland,  died. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1576. 

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

Mac  Carthy  Reagh  (Donough,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Fineen)  died,  a 
cause  of  lamentation  to  the  chiefs,  of  sadness  to  the  husbandmen,  and  of  sorrow 
to  the  farmers  of  his  own  territory  ;  a  man  who  outshone  his  seniors,  and  who 
was  not  excelled  by  his  juniors.  He  was  interred  in  tlie  burial-place  of  liis 
father  and  grandfather,  at  Tinioleague'' ;  and  his  brother,  Owen  Mac  Carthj', 
was  inaugurated  as  his  successor. 

Owny,  the  son  of  Hugh  O'Dempsey,  was  treacherously  slain  in  his  own 
residence  of  Cluain-na-nGamhan^ 

burke,  was  in  it.  <=  Feineaclias,  i.e.  the  Brclion  law. 

•>  Tuath-na-Fearna,    i.  e.  the  district  of  the  <•  Timolmgue.—See  note   ",   under   tlie  j-car 

alder  trees.     This  name  is  still  wellknown,  and  1240,  p.  301,  supra. 

is  applied  to  a  district  in  the  barony  of  Islands,  '  Cluain-na-nGamhan,  i.  e.  the  lawn,  meadow, 

and  county  of  Clare.  or  pasturage  of  the  calves,  now  Cloneygowan,  a 

10  E  2 


1684  aNwaf.a  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [1576. 

Colla,  mac  an  jiolla  óuib,  mic  concoBaip,  mic  Donnchaió,  mic  Dorhnaill 
na  maómann,  mic  eojain,  mic  eoin  na  lacliaije  meic  puibne,  pfp  50  yen 
rpoDo  "]  cocaip,  ~\  rije  naoióeab  conpapal  Dal  ccaip  Do  écc. 

baocjqlac  ócc,  mac  baocjalaij,  mic  muipceapcai^  rhej  plannchaóa 
ollam  Dal  ccaip  lé  bpficfmnap,  -)  pfp  cije  naoiofo  coiccinn  do  écc' 

Uilliam  ÓCC  mac  an  baipo,  mac  copbmaic  ollam  ui  Dorhnaill  lé  DÓn,  oiDe 
pccol,  paoi  Deappccaijre  hi  ppojlaim  "|  1  nairne,  pope  conjbala  -]  cofai^re 
Daop  pojlama  "|  ppiocnarha  Do  écc  í  nDpuim  mop  an.  22.  pebpuapi. 

Uoippóealbac  mac  cuarail  bailb  ui  jallcubaip  paoi  Duine  oipfcca  Do 
rhapbaD  la  connaccaib  an.  16.  Do  nouembep. 

INjfn  ui  baoijill,  Siuban  occ,  in^fn  coippbealbaij,  mic  néill  Do  bóraó  la 
.S.  Sém  05  pojlaim  pnama  ap  abainn  an  cppara  buiDe. 

Goin  moDapóa  mac  meic  Suibne  bójainij  do  écc  lá  cápcc  macaomh  ócc 
«oióeaDac  po  ba  mó  do  p5el  Dia  cineaó  pfin  an  ran  pin. 

Concobap  ócc  mac  DonncbaiD  mejuiDip,  ~[  Dponj  Duaiplib  peap  luipcc  Do 
mapbaó  ipm  rpiucba. 

Dorhnall,  mac  DiapmaDa,  mic  maoíleaclainn  Tiié  gopmain  Décc  ipin  fppac 
éinpfp  jpaba  po  bpfpp  cfipr,  ~\  ruapapccbáil  láirhe  "]  einij  baoí  Dia  cineaó  ina 
coriiaimpip. 

TTlainiprip  móp  an  cabáin,-|  an  cabón  pfm  uile  ón  caiplén  móp  anuap  50 
habainn  do  lopccaii  lé  hinpn  comóip,  mic  an  bapúin  cpe  éD,  "|  nip  milleaó  in 
én  baile  eiDip  jaoiDealaib  oipfo  in  po  millfo  ipin  mbaile  pin. 

Cpeaca  mópa  Do  Dénam  lá  bpian  ua  Puaipc  ipin  an^aile  an  bbanain  pi. 

Qn  lupcip  pérhpaice  Sip  henpi  SiDnei,  RiDipe  ap  ainm,  ap  uaiple  ap  ^niom, 
np  jaipcceaó  an  lupcip  hípin,  cocc  Dó  im  pél  bpíjDe  ó  copcaij  co  luimnfc  -| 

small  village  near  Portarlington,  in  the  King's  ^  Fir-Zuirg,  i.  e.  the  men  or  inhabitants  ol' 

County.  Lurg,  a  barony  in  the  north  of  Fermanagh. 

f  Dniim-mor,  i.  e.  dorsum  magnum.    There  are  '  Triucha,    i.  e.  the   barony  of  Trough,    the 

ten  places  of  this  name  in  Donegal,  but  the  place  country  of  the  Mac  Kennas,  in  the  north  of  the 

referred  to  in  the  text  is  probably  the  townland  county  of  Monaghan. 

ofDromore,  in  the  parish  of  Drumhome,   and  ^  Mac  Gorman. — lie  was  seated  in  the  barony 

barony  of  Tirhugh See  the  Ordnance  Map  of  of  Ibrickan,  in  the  west  of  the  county  of  Clare. 

the  county  of  Donegal,  sheet  103.    '  The  chief  of  this  family  was  hereditary  marshal 

8  Srath-buidlie,  i.  e.  the  yellow  strath  or  holm,      of  O'Brien's  forces See  Genealogie.'i,  I'ribeS,  and 

now  Straboj',  a  townland  in  the  parish  of  Inis-  Customs  of  Uy-Fiachrach,  p.  432. 

keel,  baron)'  of  Boylagh,  Donegal.  '  The  great  cattle,  i.  e.  the  castle  of  Tullymoii- 


1576.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  K1NGU0:\I  OF  IRELAND.  1685 

CoUa,  .son  of  Gilla-Duv,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Donnell-na- 
Madhmann,  sou  of  Owen,  son  of  John  na  Lathaigbe  Mac  Sweeny,  a  man  who 
had  been  successful  in  battle  and  conflict,  who  kept  a  house  of  hospitality,  and 
who  had  been  Constable  to  the  Dal-Cais,  died. 

Boethius  Oge,  the  son  of  Boethius,  son  of  Murtough  Mac  Clancy,  Ollav  of 
Dal-Cais  in  judicature,  and  a  man  who  kept  a  house  of  general  hospitality,  died. 

William  Oge  Mac  Ward,  son  of  Cormac,  Ollav  to  O'Donnell  in  poetry,  a 
president  of  schools,  illustrious  for  his  learning  and  knowledge,  a  patron  anci 
supporter  of  the  learned  and  the  teachers,  died  at  Driiim -mor^  on  the  22nd  of 
February. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Tuathal  Balbh  O'Gallagher,  an  illustrious  head  of  a 
clan,  was  slain  by  the  Connacians,  on  the  16  th  of  November. 

The  daughter  of  O'Boyle,  Joan  Oge,  daughter  of  Turlough,  who  was  son 
of  Niall,  was  drowned  on  St.  James's  day,  as  she  was  learning  to  swiui,  in  the 
river  of  Srath-buidhe^. 

John  Modhardha,  son  of  Mac  Sweeny  Banagh,  died  on  Easter-Day.  He 
was  a  hospitable  youth,  and  the  most  regretted  of  his  tribe  at  that  time. 

Conor  Oge,  son  of  Douougli  Maguire,  and  some  of  tlie  gentlemen  of  Fir- 
Luirg",  were  slain  in  Triucha'. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Melaghlin  Mac  Gorman",  died  in  the 
spring.  He  was  a  servant  of  trust,  who,  of  all  his  tribe  in  his  time,  bore  the 
best  name  and  character  for  dexterity  of  hand  and  hospitality. 

The  great  monastery  of  Cavan,  and  [the  town  of]  Cavan  itself,  from  tlie 
great  castle'  downwards  to  the  river,  were  burned  by  the  daughter  of  Thomas", 
son  of  the  Baron,  through  jealousy.  There  was  not  so  much  destroyed  in  any 
one  town  among  the  Irish  as  had  been  in  that  town. 

Great  depredations  were  committed  by  Brian  O'Rourke  this  year  in  Annaly. 

The  Lord  Justice  already  named,  Sir  Henry  Sidney,  a  knight  by  title,  noble- 
ness", deed,  and  valour,  proceeded,  about  the  festival  of  St.  Bridget,  from  Cork 

gan.    The  River  of  Cavan  is  now  a  very  incon-  House  of  O'Reilly,    compiled  by  the  ChovalitT 

siderable  stream.  O'Gorman,  for  the  Count  O'Reilly,  she  was  tin- 

""  The  daughter  of  Thomas. — She  was  Mary,  second  wife  of  Hugh  Conallagh  O'Reilly,  and 

daughter  of  iSir  Thomas  Nugent  of  Carlanstown,  the  mother  of  his  son,  Maelmora,  or  Myles. 

the  second  son  of  Rii;hard  Nugent,  second  Baron  "  Nohkiims. — The    Irish    appeared    to   have 

of  Delviii.     According  to  the  Genealogy  of  tlie  formed  a  high  idea  of  Sidney's  character.    Even 


168()  aNHQ^a  Rio^hachca  eiReanN.  [1576. 

inaice  inurhan  eicip  jallaib,  -\  jaoibealaib,  -|  DÓl  ccaip  Don  Ifir  oile  Do  cocc 
lai]^  ina  coimcionol.  Sib  Da  cóicceaó  miitrian  Do  Denarii  60  Don  cup  pn,  Speir 
coinnihfD,  "j  cficfiina.  buannaba  buna  -\  baipp  do  copcc,"|  Do  cop  ap  ccul  laip. 
Ceileabpaib  Doiriuiriineachaibiaporii,"]  puce  piol  mbpmin  ina  caoiriireacclaip 
j^o  jaillnn.  Uanjaccap  uacrap  connacc  ma  báil.i.  lapla  cloinne  RiocaipD  co 
na  Diap  mac,  uillfc  -]  Sfan, -|  TTlac  uilliam  loccaip,  Sfan  mac  oiluepaip  mic 
Sfain,  1  TTlupcliab  na  cruacc  mac  caibcc,  mic  mupchaib,  mic  Ruaibpi  ui  plaic- 
bfpraij  1  piol  cceallai j;  co  na  ccoiriinonol.  5ó  he  cpioc  na  combala  pin  na 
TjaiUme,  Dal  ccaip  Do  congmail  1  njioll  pé  coriiall  1  pé  liaipecc  do  rabaipc 
uara  Don  luce  baoi  occa  najpa,  génmora  Doriinall  ó  bpiain  namó  po  roj  an 
lupcip  hi  pepbip  DO  pfin  op  cionn  conncaé  an  cláip  bá  cfnnpuccab  "|  do  pijne 
oomnall  inDpm,  ap  po  cpochab  mfiplij  míbépaca,  -]  Dpoc  baoine,-]  Dibeapcc- 
aijj  laip.  Ni  pangap  alfp  eallac  Dionnpairne,  no  Dopap  Do  bpuiD  an  ccfin 
baoi  Doiiinall  in  oipicc.  Do  com  an  lupcip  lap  piobuccab  cáij  peacnoin  epeann 
(do  neoc  ^up  a  painicc)  co  hór  cliac,  l  puce  clann  lapla  cloinne  Riocaipo 
laip  1  njioll  lép  riullpfr  6  muincip  na  bainpiojna  ag  lapmópacc  a  narap  piap 
an  can  pin.  lap  nDol  50  hoc  cliar  Don  lupcip  gup  na  bpaijDib  pm  laip 
cainicc  caom  conDailbe  ina  cpibe  50  po  cÍDai^  Do*na  bpaijDib  pm  Ifc  ap  Ifc 
.1.  piol  mbpiain,"!  biipeaijh  (Deccpomucchab  do  naiccfncoib)  Dul  Dpioppuccab 
a  ccapacc  ip  na  eoriipocpaib,  ache  namó  na  caiDhleDip  cap  cópainn  ina 
rripib  hunaib  bubéin  co  po  cfDaijfb  porii  bóib  Dopibipi  a  caball  nac  can  naile. 
l?o  T^eallpac  Do  an  ni  pm, -]  lap  ccocc  co  hop  a  ccpice  Do  cloinn  lapla  cloinne 
PiocaipD,  ni  po  coriiaill pfc  a  ngeallab,  uaip  do  beacacap  Dia  nDÚchaij,  "| 
acbeapacc  poipfnn  jup  bo  Do  cfo  a  nacap  cangaccap.  60  jap  uaip  lapoiri 
jup  bo  haicpeac  Dia  cip  an  cupup  pin  óip  cainicc  an  lupcip  po  cTnn  cúicc 

O'Daly,  in  his  History  of  the  Geraldines,  c.  xvi.,  the  province  of  Connaught  in  this  reign, 
says  that  he  was  a  man  of  consummate  craft  ■■  Coigny,  coinnriieao — See  Spenser's  View  of 
and  splendid  accomplishments.  Sir  Richard  Cox  the  State  of  Ireland,  Dublin,  reprint  of  1809.  p.52. 
says  that  he  "  cursed,  hated,  and  detested  Ire-  '  Kernetty This  was  a  tax  on  every  plough- 
land  above  all  other  countries  ;  not  that  he  had  land  for  the  maintenance  of  the  Lord's  kerne, 
any  dislike  of  the  country,  but  that  it  was  most  ^ Bonaght-hun,  i.  e.  the  fundamental  or  original 
ilitficult  to  do  any  service  there,  where  a  man  Bonaght. 

must  struggle  with  famine  and  fastnesses,  inac-  '  Bonarjht-bar. — This   is   the  tax   called   by 

cessible  bogs,  and  light-footed  tories."  English  writers  Bonaght-bur,  which  is  defined 

°  The  Dal-Caif,  i.  e.  the   O'Briens  and  their  as  free  quarter  at  discretion,  or  in  specie. — See 

correlatives,   whose  country  was  made  a  part  of  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's.  Antiquities,  chap.  xii. 


1576]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1687 

to  Limerick  ;  and  the  chiefs  of  Munster,  both  English  and  Irish,  and  also  the 
Dal-Cais",  went  along  with  him  in  his  train.  On  this  occasion  he  established 
peace  in  the  two  provinces  of  Munster,  and  abolished  the  taxes  of  Coigny''. 
Kernetty'',  Bonaght-bvm^  and  Bonaght-bar'.  He  then  took  his  leave  of  tlie 
Munstermen,  and  took  the  O'Briens  along  with  him  to  Galway.  Here  the  in- 
liabitants  of  Upper  Connaught  came  to  meet  him,  namely,  the  Earl  of  Clan- 
rickard,  with  his  two  sons,  Ulick  and  John  ;  IMac  William  lochtair  (John,  tlic- 
son  of  Oliver,  son  of  John);  Murrough  of  the  Battle-axes,  the  son  of  Teige," 
son  of  Mnrrough,  son  of  Rory  O'Flaherty ;  and  the  O'Kellys,  with  their  retinue. 
The  result  of  this  meeting  at  Galway  was,  that  the  Dal-Cais  were  detained  as 
hostages  for  the  keeping  of  their  agreements,  and  making  restitution  to  those 
who  had  sued  them,  except  only  DonnelJ  O'Brien,  whom  the  Lord  Justice 
selected  for  his  own  service,  [and  placed]  over  the  county  of  Clare,  for  the 
purpose  of  keeping  it  in  subjection  ;  and  this  Donnell  did,  for  he  hanged  refrac- 
tory rebels,  bad  men,  and  plunderers.  While  Donnell  continued  in  office  it 
was  not  found  necessary  to  place  watchmen  over  cattle,  or  even  to  close  doors. 
The  Lord  Justice,  after  having  established  peace  among  all  persons  throughout 
every  part  of  Ireland  through  which  he  had  passed,  proceeded  to  Dublin,  taking 
the  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard  with  him,  as  pledges  for  [the  reparation  of] 
all  the  destruction  they  had  previously  effected  upon  the  Queen's  people,  while 
endeavouring  to  rescue  their  father.  When  the  Lord  Justice,  however,  arrived 
in  Dublin  witli  these  hostages,  his  heart  was  suddenly  melted  into  kindness,  so 
that  he  permitted  these  hostages  respectively,  namely,  the  O'Briens  and  Burkes, 
as  an  alleviation  to  their  minds,  to  2fO  and  visit  their  friends  in  the  neighbour- 
ing  territories,  but  [upon  the  condition]  that  they  should  not  pass  over  the 
boundary  into  their  own  native  territories  until  he  should  give  them  liberty  to 
do  so,  at  some  future  time.  They -promised  to  observe  this  condition',  but  when 
the  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard  had  reached  the  confines  of  their  territory, 
they  did  not  keep  their  promise,  for  they  passed  into  their  native  territoiy  ; 
and  some  say  that  they  did  so  by  the  connivance  of  their  father.  In  a  very 
short  time,  however,  this  journey  was  a  cause  of  sorrow  to  his  country,  for  in 

p.  74.    There  is  a  curious  account  of  these  taxes      No.  Gil,  p.  139. 

and  exactions   in   a   manuscript   at    Lambeth,  '  To  observe  this  cundiliijn.    literally,    "  they 

Carew  Collection,    No.   617.    p.  212  :    and    in      promised  bini  this  thing." 


1(388  aHNQ^a  Rioshachca  emeaHW.  [1576. 

nnibce  ina  niapiiioipeacc  co  hac  liiain,-]  pob  eigfri  hm  naraip  .1.  lapla  cloinne 
l?iocaijio  batle  loca  piac,-|  a  Durhaij  uile  eirip  ponn  -|  pfpomi,  cloic,  -|  caiplén 
00  raipbfpr  Don  lupcip, "]  épfin  Dpogpa  map  bpójaió  Don  bainpm jam.  T?uccaó 
an  napla  lap  pin  co  har  cliar,  -|  po  cuipeab  In  ccapca'p  curnanj  Dia  10m 
coiTíiéD  é  bail  na  cluinfó  compab  capao  na  coiccéle.  Ro  pá^aib  an  lupcip 
Dpong  DO  caipcinib  hi  ccloinn  PiocaipD,  -|  po  gabpnc  pibe  -[  clann  an  lapla 
occ  lor,  "I  occ  láinifiiUeaD  an  cipe  fcoppa  co  inbaoi  an  ci'p  iiile  ina  céiDe 
cpeac  -|  corhpuafaip  Don  cup  pin.  6á  Dípirh  Dna  in  po  muDaiDfó  do  jallaib 
-]  DO  jaióelaib, "]  in  po  malapcnaijeaD  Dalrhaib,  DeiDib,  1  Dinnilib  fcoppa  1 
ppo^map,  1  hi  ngfiitiiieaD  na  bbabna  po.  Oiarhpa,  1  Dpoibeóil,  -\  Slebre 
coppacae  cfncjapba,")  cnoccoillce  corhairhpéiDe  bá  pfo  cuiD  cloinne  an  lapla 
Dm  noúrhaij  an  can  pin.  CJpDpuipc  oipeacaip  an  cipe,-]  colca  caobjlana 
caicnfrhaca  na  cpice  baDap  lao  501II  po  ba  coDnaig  Dóib.  Oo  DeacaiD  beóp 
emann  mac  uilliam  abiipc  ó  caiplén  an  bappaij  hi  pann  cloinne  an  lapla,  -\ 
ba  pfr')  DO  pala  Dn  apa  lopp,  an  lupcip  Do  jabóil  caipleinan  bappaij  paip,"] 
épfin  DO  lonnapbaó  co  na  liinaoi, "]  co  na  cloinn  hi  ccloincc  piocaipD. 

lapla  ou  epe;r  Dococc  op  cfnn  cóicció  ulaó  an  bliabain  pi  lap  na  lonnapbab 
lop  an  lupcip  Sip  henpi  SiDnei  an  bliabain  poirhe,-]  a  co^c  hi  ccip  inóc  cliac, 
-|  bo  mapb  pia  ccionn  coiccibipi  é  Do  cfiom  galaip  obainD  1  po  cuipeab  a 
léne,  -|  a  cpibe  50  a  caipDib  in  inncomapra  a  oiDheaba. 

PpepiDenp  nua  Do  cocc  op  cfnD  Da  cóicceaD  muman  an  bliabain  pi  Uil- 
liam Opupi  a  ainm,-|  cuabrfiurha  Do  Deabail  pé  cóicceab  connacc"]  a  cup 
lap  an  murhain.  Qn  PpcpiDenp  cétma  Do  bfic  aj  piubal  ap  bailcib  mópa 
na  muman  Do  blúcu jab  peacca  1  Piajla  Do  milleab  mfipleac  -\  mbirbeanac, 
-]  po  bápaijeab  an  bápoiDeac  laip,  -|  do  occ  conpabal  uaiple  uppamanca  Do 
pliocc  TTIhaolmuipe  mic  Donnchaib  mic  coippbealbaij  .1.  mac  no  mnpchab 

"  nn(h  and  flnrhv  of  cattle,  Oalrhaib,   Geioib,  note  *.  under  tlie  year  1186,   p.  70,  fiipra,   and 

T  (jinnilib The.  language  is  here  redundant  in  also  a  passage  under  the  year  1542,  p.  1471. 

tlie  original,    for  the   three  words   are  nearly  "  Maxter.s.  coonai j  — The  word  coóncic  is  of 

svnon3-mous.  "  6d,  no  éiD  .i.  uipnéip  no  pppéió;  frequent  occurrence  in  old  Irish  writings  in  the 

iniiile  .1.  aipnéip." — 0''Cler>/.    The  o  prefixed  to  sense  of  "  lord,  master,  or  superintendent." 
these  words  is  for  the  preposition  De  or  Do,  of.  '  Castlehar.  Caiplen  cm  Bappaij,  i.  e.  Barry's 

""  Destroi/ed,  malapcnai^fo,  i.e.  maliciously  Castle See  note  ",  under  the  year  1412. 

destroyed    liy    the    one    party    to   prevent    tlie  ^  Sudden  Jit  of  sickness He  died  on  the  22iid 

others  from  ti-.iiic:  thoni  as  food  or  stock. — See  of  September  this  year.     I)r.   Ltliind   remarks 


1576.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1689 

five  nights  afterwards  the  Lord  Justice  came  in  pursuit  of  them  to  Athlone  ; 
and  their  father,  the  Earl  of  Claurickard,  was  obliged  to  give  up  to  him  tlie 
town  of  Loughrea,  and  all  his  territory,  both  lands  and  tenements,  stone-houses 
and  castles,  and  he  himself  was  [arrested,  and]  declared  the  Queen's  prisoner. 
The  Earl  was  then  conveyed  to  Dublin,  and  confined  in  a  close  prison,  where 
he  heard  not  the  voice  of  friend  or  companion.  The  Lord  Justice  left  a  number 
of  captains  in  Clanrickard,  and  these  and  the  sons  of  the  Earl  [who  opposed 
them]  proceeded  to  plunder  and  totally  ravage  the  country  between  them,  so 
that  the  whole  territory  was  one  scene  of  pillagings  and  conflicts.  Countless 
were  the  numbers  of  both  English  and  Irish  who  were  slain,  and  of  herds  and 
flocks  of  cattle"  that  were  destroyed",  during  their  contests  in  the  autumn  and 
winter  of  this  year.  The  wilds,  the  recesses,  the  rugged  and  rough-topped 
mountains,  the  hilly  and  intricate  woods  of  their  native  territory,  were  the  only 
parts  of  it  possessed  by  the  sons  of  the  Earl  at  this  time  ;  while  the  English 
were  masters"  of  its  chief  fortresses,  and  its  green-sided  and  delightful  hills. 
Edmond  Mac  William  Burke,  of  Castlebar',  joined  the  sons  of  the  Earl ;  and 
the  consequence  to  him  was,  that  the  Lord  Justice  took  Castlebar  from  him, 
and  banished  himself,  with  his  wife  and  children,  into  Clanrickard. 

The  Earl  of  Essex,  who  had  beerl  expelled  the  year  before  by  the  Lord 
Justice,  Sir  Henry  Sidney,  came  [to  Ireland,  as  Governor]  over  the  province  of 
Ulster  this  year.  He  landed  in  Dublin,  but  died  before  the  end  of  a  fortnight, 
of  a  sudden  fit  of  sickness".  His  shirt  and  his  heart  were  sent  to  his  friends,  as 
tokens  of  his  death. 

A  new  President,  William  Drury  by  name,  was  appointed  over  the  two 
provinces  of  Munster  this  year ;  and  Thomond  was  separated  from  Connaught, 
and  joined  to  Munster.  The  same  President  made  a  circuit  of  the  great  towns 
of  Munster,  to  establish  laws  and  regulations  for  the  extirpation  of  thieves  and 
rebels,  and  put  the  Barrott"  to  death,  and  also  two  noble  and  valiant  young 
constables  of  the  descendants  of  Mulmurry,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Tur- 
lough  [Mac  Sweeny],  namely,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Mulmurry,  and  the 

tliat  vexation  and  disappointment  soon  put  an  hastily  marrying  tlie  Countess  of  Essex." — Book 
end  to  his  life,  which  involved  Leicester  in  the      iv.  c.  2. 

suspicion  of  having  caused  him  to  be  poisoned;  *  The  Bnrrott,  i.  e.   tlie  head  nl'  the  Biirrntts 

"  a  suspicion   which   he  himself  encreased  by      of  the  county  of  Cork. 

10  F 


1690 


aHwata  Rio^hachca  eiReanN. 


[1577. 


mac  TTlaoliTiunie, -]  mac  Do  óomnall,  mac  maolmuipe.  Oo  cóió  aipióe  co 
luimneac,  ■)  po  cpochaó  laiy"  opong  Duaiplib,  -]  Danuaiplib  yil  mbpiain  co 
I'ochaiDilJ  oile  cen  mochác. 

Semup  mac  muipn"-  oo  bfir  ipn  pppainc  an  blmóain  po. 

Rubpaije  ÓCC  mac  Ruópaije  mic  coninll  ui  mopoa,-)  concobap  mac  copb- 
maic,  mfic  bpiain  ui  concobaip  Do  bfic  hi  ccfirfpnup  coilleaó  ap  jallaib  an 
can  po,  -)  an  po  baoi  beó  Do  pliocc  l?oppa  pailccij  -\  conaill  ceapnaij  Do 
jabail  leó.  bá  gap  laparh  gup  bo  céoac  conjaipeac  an  luce  hipin.  l?o 
loipcceab"!  po  léippcpiopaó  leó  Dpécca  Dfprhapa  do  laijnib  Don  itiiDe -) 
Dpine  ^all. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1577. 

Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  céD,  Seaccmoccac,  aSecc. 

Conn  mac  bpiain  mic  eoccain  pfp  pob  ócc  naoipi,  -)  po  ba  poippe  i  neineac, 
"]  1  neangnam  Do  écc. 


'  Mac  Maurice,  i.  e.  Fitz  Maurice. 

J  Jiace  of  liossa  Failghe,  i.  e.,  the  O'Coiiors 
Faly,  and  tlieir  correlatives. 

^  Conall  Cearnach. — He  was  the  most  distin- 
guished of  tlie  heroes  of  the  Red  Branch  in 
Ulster,  in  the  beginning  of  the  first  century, 
and  the  ancestor  of  the  O'Mores,  and  the  seven 
s^pts  of  Leix,  in  the  Queen's  County. 

'  Fingall,  pmejall,  i.  e.  the  tribe  of  the 
foreigners.  ■  This  is  now  the  name  of  a  district 
extending  about  fifteen  miles  northwards  from 
the  city  of  Dublin.  Keating  and  even  thciFour 
Masters  employ  this  term  to  express  the  Eng- 
lish Pale,  but  it  is  evident  from  Stanihurst,  and 
other  Anglo-Irisli  writers,  that  at  this  period 
the  territory  called  Fingall  was  not  coextensive 
with  the  English  Pale.  The  Fine  Ghall,  or 
foreign  tribe,  who  gave  name  to  this  small  ter- 
ritory, were  evidently  the  Danes  of  Dublin,  for 
the  name  seems  older  than  the  period  of  tlie 
English  Invasion. 

On  the  8th  of  March  this  year,  O'Carroll, 
Chief  of  Ely  O'Carroll,  made  his  submission  to 


Queen  Elizabeth,  as  appears  from  the  following 
indenture,  enrolled  on  the  record  branch  of  the 
Office  of  Paymaster  of  Civil  Services  : 

"  This  Indenture,  made  the  S""  day  of  Marche, 
Anno  Domini  1576,  betwyxte  Sir  Henry  Sidney, 
Knt.  lorde  Deputy  of  Ireland,  for  and  in  the 
bchalfe  of  the  Queenes  most  excellent  Ma'",  of 
thone  parte;  and  Sir  William  O'Kerroll  of  Lem- 
yvanan,  in  the  countrie  called  Elye  O  Kerroll, 
and  now  to  be  made  parcell  of  the  King's 
Countie  ;  Nicholl  M=  GilfoU  ;  Owen  M'  Gilfoil; 
William  O  Dowyn  ;  Rory  M'  Oney  O'Kerroll ; 
Kory  M'  CaUogh  O'KerroU  ;  Gaven  O'Rewr- 
dane  ;  Dermott  M"  Gillanenewe  ;  Donogh  M" 
Teig  ;  William  O'Banane  ;  Teige  M'  Shane 
O'Kerroll ;  Dermott  O  Towgher  ;  Callough  M' 
Donogh  O'Kerroll  ;  Cusell  M'  Shane  Oge;  Do- 
nogh M'  Hugh  ;  Donoghy  O'Dolloghaue  ;  Do- 
nogh M°  Corcrane  ;  Shane  O'Langane  ;  Teige 
M°  Donell  ;  Donogh  O  Trehie  ;  Teige  O'lleg- 
gane;  Gillernew  M'Heggane;  Tirlogh  M'Rorie; 
Teige  liaghe;  Donough  OgeO'Dowlye;  Donogh 
M'Korie;  Shane  M' Donogh;   Teige  O'Conell; 


1577.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1691 


son  of  Donough,  son  of  Tui'lough.  From  thence  [i.  e.  from  Barrott's  country] 
he  proceeded  to  Limerick,  where  he  hanged  several  of  the  gentlemen  and  com- 
mon people  of  the  O'Briens,  and  many  others  besides  these. 

James  Mac  Maurice"  was  in  France  this  year. 

At  this  time  Rury  Oge,  the  son  of  Ruiy,  son  of  Connell  O'More,  and  Conor, 
the  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  Brian  O'Conor,  opposed  the  English  with  their  wood- 
kerns  ;  and  they  were  joined  by  all  that  were  living  of  the  race  of  Rossa 
Failghe',  and  of  Conall  Cearnach".  Shortly  afterwards  these  people  formed 
troops  of  many  hundreds.  They  burned  and  desolated  large  portions  of  Lein- 
ster,  Meath,  and  Fingall'.- 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1577. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  seventy-seven. 

Con,  the  son  of  Brien,  son  of  Owen'  [O'Rourke],  a  man  young  in  years,  but 
perfect  in  hospitality  and  prowess,  died. 


William  M°  Teige  ;  Eory  M'  Greamon ;  Teige 
W  Redmond  ;  Gilpatrike  M'  Morogh  ;  Caher 
O'Langane  ;  Donell  M"  Redmond  ;  Shane  M" 
Donell;  Shane  O'Scolle;  Tirloghe  ODoyne;  in 
the  said  countrie,  freeholders,  of  the  other  part : 
Witnesseth,  that  the  said  Sir  William,  and  the 
rest  above  named,  do  covenant,  agree,  and  con- 
descend to  and  with  the  said  lorde  Deputy,  to 
surrender  and  give  up  in  the  Queenes  most 
Honorable  Courte  of  Chaun  eerie  of  Ireland,  all 
such  manors,  castells,  lands,  tenements,  rents, 
revercons,  and  all  other  hereditaments  that  they 
and  everie  of  them  have  within  the  said  countrie 
called  Elye  O'KarreLi.  And  the  said  lorde 
Deputy  doe  promise  and  graunte  that  the  same 
shall  be  by  letters  pattents,  given  back  to  the 
said  Sir  William,  and  theires  males  of  his  bodi, 
lawfuUie  begotten  and  to  be  begotten  ;  and  for 
lacke  of  suche  issue  to  John  O'Kerroll,  his  eldest 
base  son,  and  the  heires  males  of  his  bodie  law- 
fullie  begotten  or  to  be  begotten  ;  and  for  lacke 
of  such  issue  to  Teige  O  Kerroll,  another  base 

10 


son  of  said  Sir  William,  and  theires  males  of  his 
bodi  lawfully  begotten  and  to  be  begotten ;  and 
for  lacke  of  such  issue  to  Calloghe  O'Kerroll,  a 
third  base  son  of  said  Sir  William,  and  theires 
males  of  his  bodi,  lawfullie  begotten  and  to  be 
begotten ;  and  for  lacke  of  such  issue  to  Donoghe 
O'Kerroll,  a  further  base  son  of  said  Sir  Wil- 
liam, and  the  heires  males  of  his  bodie,  lawfullie 
begotten  and  to  be  begotten  ;  and  for  want  of 
such  issue  to  Donoghe  Reoghe  O'Kerroll,  bro- 
ther to  said  Sir  William,  and  the  heires  males 
of  his  bodie,  lawfullie  bogotten  and  to  be  be- 
gotten. To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  countrie 
called  Elyie  O'Karrell,  by  two  knights'  fees  in 
chiefe.  And  the  said  Sir  William,  and  the  rest 
above  named,  to  be  wholie  discharged  from  the 
Bonaght  accustomed  to  be  payed  out  of  the  said 
country,  and  all  other  cesses  and  ymposicons, 
other  than  the  rents  hereafter  specified. 

"  [Signed],  S'  William  O'Karrell." 
f  Son  of  Oiven. — Charles  O'Conor  adds  that 

f2 


1692  aHNQca  i^ioshachca  eiReawH.  [1577. 

O  cafáin  t)o  bacab  ipin  mbanna  .1.  aibne  mac  conmuije  mic  l?uaió]ii  cm 
yifica  1  í?uaió]ii  mac  rna5nu]''a,  mic  Donnchain  00  oiponean  ina  lonaó. 

ITleaob  injfn  aoba  jiuaio  ui  óomnaill,  bfn  baoi  ó  rup  05  lilac  giUe  eoam 
1  nalbain,  -|  05  oorhnall  clépeac  ó  coram  ay  a  haifle,  bfn  puaip  an  paojal 
50  pona  pénarhail  poconai^,  1  poba  mop  amm  -\  fpofpciip  clú  emij,  1  pipbép, 
-\  po  cair  aimpip  potia  aj  Dénam  cpaBaió  i  noun  na  njall  co  bpuaip  bap  lap 
ccaoínjníomaib  1  ccfnD  Sfcc  mblmóan  ap  cOcpe  picrib. 

Qn  Giibalcac  mac  néill  óicc  mic  Suibne  do  clomn  cSuibne  cipe  bójaine 
DO  rhapbaD  occ  an  mbaóún  maol  la  Domnall  ócc  mac  TTlaolmuipe  peap 
Deappjaijfe  DeijDelbóa  po  ba  mair  lam  ~\  omeac  an  Dubalcac  ipn. 

Oomnall  mac  Somaiple  bui6e  mic  ala;ranDaip,  mic  eóin  caranaij  mic 
mec  Domnaill  Do  rhapbaD  la  Tina  néill. 

Onopa  injfn  cpémaip  mic  muipip,  mic  cómaip,  mic  an  mpla,  bfn  pmpaip 
buicilep  mac  Semaip  mic  emainn  mecc  piapaip  Do-ecc. 

TTloc  bpiain  cappai5  mic  copbmaic  Do  rhapbaD  la  pluaj  ui  néill. 

UoippDealbac  mac  an  abaiD  ui  buibiDip  pfp  cpéióeac  cuiccpeac,  peel 
mop  ina  Durhaij  pfm  Do  écc. 

17105  jopmáin  comáp  ócc  mac  comáip  mic  maoílfclomn  Duib  do  tec,  -|  a 
bparaip  Seóinín  DoipDneaD  ina  lonaD. 

Qlapcpann,  mac  an  calbaicc,  mic  coippbealbaij,  mic  com  cappaij;,  do 
itiapbaD  bi  ccorhpac  la  mac  reabóiru  buibe  rhcj  Seóinin  1  nDopap  na  jaiUrhe, 
"]  níp  bó  hiomoa  mac  gallójlaij  1  népinn  in  can  pin  po  ba  mó  pajalcap, "]  po 
ba  cioólaiccije  coipbfpnaije  map. 

tliis  Owen  was  son  of  Tiernan,  who  was  son  of  It  is  most  probably  the  place  referred  to  in  the 

Tcige,  son  of  Tiernan  More  O'Rourke.  text.     There  is  a  place  called  6aóún,  Angtice 

*  Aibhne,  now  Amjline  Evenew.  Bawan,in  the  parish  of  KUcar,  in  Tir-Boghaine, 

'■  Cumhaighe,  now  Anglice  Cooey,  or  Quiiitin.  or  barony  of  Banagh,  in  the  west  of  the  county 

'  Mac  GiUa-Eoain,  now  Mac  Lean.  of  Donegal,  but  this  does  not  appear  to  be  the 

''  Dubhaltach,  variously  anglicised  Dwaltagh,  place  referred  to. 

IJuald,   Dudley,  &c.  "  Of  good  hand,  i.  e.  expert  at  arms. 

'  BadhuH-mad. — There  is  a  ruined  castle  of  "  The  son  of  Brian  Carragh. — He  was  John 

this  name  in  the  townland  of  Carrowbricken,  Boy,  the  son  of  Brian  Carragh,  son  of  Cormac, 

parish  of  Skreen,   and  county  of  Sligo,  where  son  of  John  Duv,  son  of  Donnell  Don,  who  was 

dwelt  a  family  of  that  sept  of  the  Mac  Sweenys  the  progenitor  of  that  sept  of  the  O'Neills  called 

called  Mac  Sweeny  Connaughtagh,  who  were  of  the  Clann-Donnell  Don  of  the  Bann. 

the  same  race  as  the  family  of  Tir-Boghaine.  "  Great  lamentation,  fcél  mop This  phrase 


1577]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1693 

• 

O'Kane  (Aibhne^,  the  son  of  Cumhaiglie",  son  of  Eory  of  the  Route)  was 
drowned  in  the  Bann  ;  and  Rory,  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Donough,  was  inaugu- 
rated in  his  place. 

Meave,  the  daughter  of  Hugh  Roe  O'Donnell,  a  woman  Avho  was  first  mar- 
ried to  Mac  Gilla-Eoain'  of  Scotland,  and  afterwai'ds  to  Donnell  Cleireach 
O'Kane  ;  a  woman  who  had  spent  her  life  happily,  prosperously,  and  affluently ; 
who  had  obtained  a  great  name,  renown,  and  character,  for  her  hospitality  and 
demeanour  ;  and  who  had  passed  a  long  time  in  piety  at  Donegal,  died  there 
in  the  eighty-seventh  year  of  her  age,  after  having  performed  many  good  actions. 

Dubhaltach'',  the  son  of  Niall  Oge  Mac  Sweeny,  one  of  the  Cknn-Sweeny 
of  Tir-Boghaine,  was  slain  at  the  Badhún-mael',  by  Donnell  Oge,  the  son  of 
Mulmurry.  This  Dubhaltach  was  a  distinguished  comely  man,  of  good  hand" 
and  hospitality. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Sorley  Boy,  son  of  Alexander,  son  of  John  Cahanagh 
Mac  Donnell,  was  slain  by  O'Neill. 

Honora,  daughter  of  James,  the  son  of  Maurice,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  the 
Earl  [of  Desmond],  and  wife  of  Pierce  Butler,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  Edmond, 
son  of  Pierce,  died. 

The  son  of  Brian  Carragh",  son  of  Cormac  [O'Neill],  was  slain  by  the  army 
of  O'Neill. 

Tm-lough,  son  of  the  Abbot  O'Dwyer,  a  virtuous  and  intelligent  man,  died; 
and  (his  death)  was  the  cause  of  great  lamentation"  in  his  own  territory"". 

Mac  Gorman'  (Xhomas  Oge,  the  sou  of  Thomas,  son  of  Melaghlin  Duv) 
died  ;  and  his  kinsman,  Seoinin,  was  installed  in  his  place. 

Alexander,  son  of  Calvagh,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  John  Carragh  [Mac 
Donnell],  was  slain  in  a  combat  by  Theobald  Boy  Mac  Seoinin"',  in  the  gateway 
of  Gal  way;  and  there  were  not  many  sons  of  gallowglasses  in  Ireland  at  that  time 
who  were  more  wealthy^  or  who  were  more  bountiful  and  munificent  than  he. 

is  still  in  common  use,  and  is  supposed  to  mean  the  barony  of  Kilnamannagli,  in  the  west  of  the 

literally,  "  great  story,"   but  it  is  evidently  a  county  of  Tipperary. 

corruption    of  the   old   word    pceile,    "pity,"  '*  Mac  Gorman. — He  was  Chief  of  Ibrickan,  iri 

which  is  explained  by  O'Clery,  thus:  "Sceile  the  county  of  Clare. 
.1.  cpuaije.     6a    mop    pceile   .i.   ba  mop  an  '  Mac  Seuinin,  now  Anglice  Jennings, 

cpuaije."  s  Wealthy. — He  was  the  son  of  Mac  Donnell 

■"  His  own  territory,  i.  e.  Coill-na-manach,  now  of  TinnakUl,    in  the   parish  of  Coolbanagher, 


1694 


aNNQta  Rioshachca  eiReoNN. 


[1577. 


Uabcc  mac  TTlupchaió,  mic  roippóealbaij,  mic  raibcc  ui  bpiain  Do  écc 
cén  50  \\o  y'aofleao  a  écc  pé  liaóapc  ariilam  pin  ap  a  mence  baoi  i  noeabraib 
Duilje,  1  1  mbeapnaóaib  baojail  séappaoap  jaipcceaó,  bfinp  ap  beóbacr  "j 
op  lotinjaipcce  an  laoicrhilió  pin. 

Uilliam  mac  Donnchaib  piabai^  mic  caiócc  óuib  uí  ceallaij  t>o  écc  1  nóc 
cliar  hi  ccaoírhreacc  caipcín  TTlaulbi,  -|  ní  rainic  1  ccíp  maine  po  ba  ííió  do 
pccél  ináp. 

O  ceallacám  .1.  Oonnchaó  mac  caibcc  puaib  mic  uairne  mic  cacaoíp  do 
écc  "]  o  ceallacám  Do  jaipm  Do  ceallacán  mac  concobaip  mic  Donnchaió. 

peall  upjpanna  aóuacmap  Do  bénam  lá  gallaib  laijean  -|  TTIiDe  ap  an 
mfiD  baoí  ina  pann  pfin,  -\  po  an  pop  a  nioncbaib  Do  uíb  pailje  -]  Do  laoijip. 
há  liarhlaió  Do  pónaó  inopin.  Ro  cojaipmeab  laD  uile  Dia  ccaipbénao  jup 
an  lion  ap  lia  no  caorhpaDaoíp  do  rabaipc  leó  50  póic  rhóip  rhullaij  rhaipcean 
-|  lap  pocrain  Dóib  jup  an  maijin  pin,  l?o  hiaDaó  cfirpi  ppfca  ina  nuipcim- 


near  the  Great  Heath  of  Maryborough,  in  the 
Queen's  County. — See  note  ',  under  the  year 
1570,  supra. 

'  O'Callaghati. — He  was  chief  of  a  territory 
called  Pobul-Ui-Cheallachain,  in  the  county  of 
Cork,  extending  from  Mallow  westwards  on  both 
sides  of  the  River  Blackwater. — See  O'Brien's 
Irish  Dictionary,  in  voce,  Pobul  I  Cheallachain  ; 
and  Inquisition  taken  at  Mallow  on  the  25th  of 
October,  1594;  and  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's 
Antiquities,  c.  xi.  p.  69. 

"  3iultach-3IaisteaH,  now  MuUamast,  a  con- 
spicuous hilJ  in  the  parish  of  Naraghmore,  about 
live  miles  to  the  east  of  the  town  of  Athy,  in 
the  county  of  Kildare.  The  fort  on  this  hill, 
called  Kathmore  in  the  text,  is  about  two  hun- 
dred feet  in  internal  diameter.  The  exact  nature 
of  this  massacre  has  been  very  much  disguised 
by  modern  writers.  The  oldest  Irish  authority 
in  which  it  is  recorded  are  the  Annals  of  Ireland, 
by  Thady  Dowliug,  Chancellor  of  Leighlin,  who 
was  living  at  the  time.     His  words  are  : 

"  Moris  mac  Lasy  mic  Conyll"  [O'More] 
"  dominus  de  Merggi  (ut  ille  asseruit)  et  ba- 


ronis  de  Omergi  successor,  cum  40  hominibus 
de  sua  familia  post  confederationem  suam  cum 
Rory  O'JMoardha,  et  super  quadam  protectione, 
interfectus  fuit  apud  Molaghmastyn  in  Comitatn 
Kildarie,  ad  eundem  locum  ob  id  propositum 
per  Magistrum  Cosby,  et  Robertum  Harpoll,  sub 
umbra  servitii  accersitus  collusorie.  Ilarpoll 
excused  it  that  Moris  had  geven  viUanous  wordes 
to  the  breach  of  his  protection." 

This  is  the  true  account  of  this  massacre, 
written  by  a  learned  ecclesiastic.  The  English 
words  printed  in  Italics  are  not  Dowling's,  but 
were  interpolated  by  a  later  writer,  who,  as  ap- 
pears from  various  remarks  of  his  throughout 
Dowling's  Annals,  was  a  zealous  Protestant, 
and  most  loyal  to  the  English  government. 

Dr.  Curry  quotes,  or  seems  to  quote,  Fynes 
Moryson,  as  recording  this  massacre,  but  the 
following  words,  seemingly  a  part  of  the  quota- 
tion, are  Dr.  Curry's  own,  not  Moryson's  : 

"  Yet,  in  that  same  year,  an  horrible  massacre 
was  committed  by  the  English  at  MuUaghmas- 
tan,  on  some  hundreds  of  the  most  peaceable  of 
the  Irish  gentry,  invited  thither  on  the  public 


1577.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1695 


Teige,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige  O'Brien,  died, 
though  it  was  not  supposed  that  he  would  have  died  in  his  bed,  on  account  of 
the  many  dangerous  battles  and  perilous  passes  in  which  he  had  been.  This 
heroic  soldier  was  a  champion  in  valour,  and  a  bear  in  vigour  and  fierceness. 

William,  the  son  of  Donough  Reagh,  son  of  Teige  Duv  O'Kelly,  died  in 
Dublin,  while  in  company  with  Captain  Maulby  ;  and  there  came  not  into  Hy- 
Many  any  one  who  was  more  lamented. 

O'Callaghan'  (Donough,  the  son  of  Teige  Roe,  who  was  son  of  Owny,  son 
of  Cahir)  died  ;  and  Callaghan,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Donough,  was  styled 
O'Callaghan. 

A  horrible  and  abominable  act  of  treachery  was  committed  by  the  English 
of  Leinster  and  Meath  upon  that  part  of  the  people  of  OfFally  and  Leix  that 
remained  in  confederacy  with  them,  and  under  their  protection.  It  was  effected 
thus  :  they  were  all  summoned  to  shew  themselves,  with  the  greatest  number 
they  could  be  able  to  bring  with  them,  at  the  great  rath  of  Mullach-Maistean" ; 


faith,  and  under  the  protection  of  government." 
— Civil  Wars,  c.  3. 

The  next  Irish  writer  in  order  of  antiquity 
who  mentions  this  massacre  is  Philip O'Sullevan 
Beare,  who  gives  the  following  account  of  it  in 
his  History  of  the  Irish  Catholics,  fol.  86  : 

"  Pacatis  motibus  tyrannis  semper  crescebat. 
Franciscus  Cosbius  Lisia  prtefectus,  et  ejus 
filius  Alexander  in  omne  genus  Catholicorum 
immane  bacchantur.  Is  provinciales  ad  Maisum 
cast'rum  causa  conventuum  habendorum  deque 
rerum  administratione  agendi  convocat.  Con- 
vocatos  Cohortibus  armatis  improvise  circum- 
venit,  et  ex  Oraorrie  familia  centum  octaginta 
viros  inopinantes  et  nihil  adversi  timentes  uno 
niomento  temporis  jugulat." 

The  following  traditional  account  of  this  mas- 
sacre is  printed,  verbatim,  from  a  copy  made  by 
tiie  late  Lawrence  Byrne  of  Fallybeg,  near  Luga- 
curren,  in  the  Queen's  County,  and  in  a  small 
quarto  parchment  book.  He  stated  that  he 
made  it  from  an  old  manuscript  sheet  of  paper 
which  he  had   borrowed  for   that   purpose   in 


1792,  from  the  Eev.  James  O'Neill,  P.  P.  of 
Maryborough,  who  had,  at  the  sale  of  the  books 
of  the  Rev.  John  Whelan,  P.P.  ofPortarlington, 
who  died  a  very  old  man  in  1775,  found  the 
original  loose  sheet  of  manuscript  in  one  of  the 
volumes,  and  preserved  it : 

"  An  account  of  the  murder  at  MuUamast. 
In  the  year  1705  there  was  an  old  gentleman 
of  the  name  of  Cullen,  in  the  county  of  Kildare, 
who  often  discoursed  with  one  Dwyer  and  one 
Dowling,  actually  living  at  MuUamast  when 
this  horrid  murder  w^as  committed,  which  was 
about  the  sixteenth  year"  [recte,  nineteentli] 
"  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  reign,  and  the  account 
he  gives  of  it  is,  that  those  who  were  chiefly 
concerned  in  this  horrid  murder  were  the  Dea- 
vils,  the  Grehams,  the  Cosbys,  the  Piggotts,  the 
Bowens,  the  Ilartpoles,  the  Hovendons,  tlie 
Dempsys,  and  the  Fitzgeralds.  The  five  last  of 
tliem  were,  at  that  time,  Roman  Catholics  :  by 
whom  the  poor  people  murdered  at  MuUamast 
were  chiefly  invited  there,  in  pretence  that  said 
people  should  enter  into   an  alliance  offeosive 


im 


aNNQta  Rioghacbca  eineaNN. 


[1577. 


ceall  ima  ccumpc  t)o  paijDiúipióib  i  do  itiajicpluag,  i  po  jaBcib  occá  nOiuB- 
jioccaó  jan  biceall,  occa  mimiiccab  "]  occct  mop  ifiapbab  co  ná  cépna  pceol- 
01150,  ná  elaiceac  app  a  mbrchaio  Di'ob. 

Sfan  mac  8emaip,  mic  Sfam,  mic  an  lapla  Do  jabail  lop  an  PpepiDenp 
.}.  uilliam  Dpiipi  111  ccopcaij,  ~\  a  cop  co  hat  cliar  Dm  coirheo  aipm  a  mbaoi 
RiocapD  a  búpc  lapla  cloinne  ííiocaipD,  -]  ní  po  liaipneibeab  cpéo  po  ba  coip 
66.  Clann  an  lapla  pin  cloinne  RiocaipD  Dobficpíoóac  pe^allaib, -)  eippioó- 
ach  pé  riiaórhiimhain. 

Ctn  PpepiDenp  pémpaire  Do  cocc  1  cruaóriiuttiain  coicriDip  pia  ppeil  eóin 
50  pocpaiDe  rhóip  Do  jallaib,  ~\  jomairib  Da  cóicceaó  muman, -j  a  bfir  occ  la 
1  ninip  occ  conjmcnl  ciiipce, "]  lap  na  pfimóeab  do  Dal  ccaip  Dul  po  ci'op  Da 
ppionnpa,  T?o  póccaib  mapapccál  co  bpfóain  meapDo  mioruiccpij  occa  min- 


and  defensive  -witli  them.  But  their  reception 
was  to  put  them  all  to  death,  except  one 
O'More,  who  was  the  only  person"  [that] 
"  escaped.  Notwithstanding  what  is  said  that 
one  O'More  only  had  escaped  the  massacre,  yet 
the  common  tradition  of  the  country  is,  that 
many  more  had  escaped  through  the  means  of 
one  Harry  Lalor,  who,  remarking  that  none  of 
those  returned  who  had  entered  the  fort  before 
him,  desired  his  companions  to  make  oiF  as  fast 
as  they  could  in  case  they  did  not  see  him  come 
back.  Said  Lalor,  as  he  was  entering  the  fort, 
saw  the  carcasses  of  his  slaughtered  companions; 
then  drew  his  sword,  and  fought  his  way  back 
to  those  that  survived,  along  with  whom  he 
made  his  escape  to  Dysart,  icithout  seeing  the 
Barron:  Those  murdered  at  MuUamast  were 
some  of  the  seven  septs  of  Leix,  and  some  gen- 
tlemen of  the  Kcatings.  The  seven  septs  of 
l^eix  are,  the  O'Mores,  the  O'Kellys,  the  O'La- 
lors,  the  Devoys,  the  Macaboys,  the  O'Dorans, 
and  the  O'Dowlings." 

Every  syllable  of  the  foregoing  account  is 
worthy  of  being  preserved,  as  it  throws  such  a 
curious  light  on  the  nature  of  the  massacre  in 
illustration  of  Cowling's  account  of  it.  That  a 
massacre  took  place  in  the  great  rath  on  the 


hill  of  Mullamast  is  beyond  dispute,  but  it  is 
also  incontrovertible  that  the  most  powerful 
families  on  both'  sides  were  Roman  Catholics. 
The  O'Dempseys  were  deeply  implicated  in  this 
massacre,  and  the  inhabitants  of  the  district 
now  believe  that  a  curse  has  followed  this  great 
Irish  family  ever  since,  the  last  great  man  of  the 
name  being  Cahir  na  g-Capull,  or  Charles  the 
Horse-stealer,  who  was  the  last  gentleman  of 
this  noble  family ;  and  at  this  day  the  Dempseys 
of  Clanmalier  are  the  most  plebeian  and  illite- 
rate of  all  the  families  of  the  Jlilesian  race. 
Tradition  does  not  attach  any  blame  to  the 
Fitzgeralds,  much  less  to  the  Pigotts  or  Har- 
pools,  as  they  were  of  English  descent,  but 
it  brands  the  O'Dempseys  with  infamy.  The 
eccentric  Irish  historian,  Taaft'e,  refers  this 
massacre  to  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary,  his  ob- 
ject having  been  to  shew  that  religion  had 
nothing  to  do  with  it  (in  which  he  was  right)  ; 
but  he  is  entirely  unworthy  of  serious  notice. 
Dr.  Curry,  in  his  lUiitory  of  the  Civil  Wars  of 
Ireland,  gives,  in  his  Appendix,  a  memorial, 
addressed  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  which  is  printed 
in  the  Desiderata  Curiosa  Hibernica,  vol.  ii.  p.  9 1 , 
by  Captain  Thomas  Lee,  an  officer  under  the 
Government,  iu  the  year  1594.     This  tract  is 


1577.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1697 


and  on  their  arrival  at  that  place  they  were  surrounded  on  every  side  by  four 
lines  of  soldiers  and  cavalry,  who  proceeded  to  shoot  and  slaughter  them  with- 
out mercy,  so  that  not  a  single  individual  escaped,  by  flight"  or  force. 

John,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  John,  son  of  the  Earl  [of  Desmond],  was 
taken  prisoner  at  Cork  by  the  President,  "William  Drury,  and  sent  to  Dublin  to 
be  imprisoned,  where  Richard  Burke,  Earl  of  Clanrickard,  was  [also  imprisoned]. 
What  his  crime  was  never  was  stated.  The  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard 
were  at  peace  with  the  English,  but  at  strife  with  Thomond. 

The  President  before  named  went  to  Thomond  a  fortnight  before  the  festi- 
val of  St.  John,  with  a  great  multitude  of  the  English,  and  the  chiefs  of  the 
two  provinces  of  Munster  ;  and  he  held  a  court  for  eight  days  at  Ennis.  The 
Dal-Cais  having  refused  to  become  tributary  to  their  sovereign,  he  left  a  mar- 


entitled,  "  A  Brief  Declaration  of  the  Govern- 
ment of  Ireland,  opening  many  corruptions  in 
the  same,  discovering  the  discontentments  of  the 
Irishry,  and  the  causes  moving  those  expected 
troubles."  In  this  tract  Captain  Lee  mentions, 
among  other  acts  of  oppression,  cruelty,  rapine, 
and  injustice,  the  massacre  at  Mullamast  in  the 
following  words  : 

"  They  have  drawn  unto  them  by  protection 
three  or  four  hundred  of  those  country  jseople, 
under  colour  to  do  your  Majesty  servace,  and 
brought  them  to  a  place  of  meeting,  where  your 
garrison  soldiers  were  appointed  to  be,  who  have 
there  most  dishonourably  put  them  all  to  the 
sword  ;  and  this  hath  been  by  the  consent  and 
practise  of  the  Lord  Deputy  for  the  time  being. 
If  this  be  a  good  course  to  draw  these  savage 
people  to  the  state,  to  do  your  Majesty's  service, 
and  not  rather  to  enforce  them  to  stand  upon 
their  guard,  I  humbly  leave  to  your  Majesty."    . 

The  fact  of  a  massacre  having  taken  place 
here  is,  therefore,  not  to  be  doubted.  It  should 
be  here  remarked  that  the  O'Dempseys  had  not 
forfeited  their  property,  and  that  they  were,  in 
all  probability,  on  the  best  terms  with  the  go- 
vernment.    The  following  document  may  throw 

10 


some  light  upon  the  presence  of  the  Cosbys  on 
this  occasion,  who  appear  to  have  been  there  as 
garrison  soldiers: 

"Where  Robert  Fay  lately  had  the  leading  of 
twenty  of  the  Kerne  in  Ireland,  with  the  pay  of 
12''  sterling,  a  day,  for  himself,  and  3''  sterling 
a  day,  for  each  of  the  Kerne  :  And  Brien  M'Caier 
M"  Connor  had  the  leading  of  6  other  Kerne,  at 
16''  a  day  for  himself,  &  3''  each  Kerne  :  And 
Edmond  O'Dempsey  six  more  at  the  same  pay. 
The  stipend  of  which  3  captains  amounting  to 
3^  S""  &  the  said  Kerne,  in  number  32,  at  said 
wages,  was  appointed  by  the  L.  D.  Sussex  to 
Francis  Cosby,  Gent.,  &  for  the  better  service 
of  the  Crown,  constituted  him  to  be  General  of 
all  the  Kerne  retained  in  pay  in  Ireland,  in 
which  he  was  confirmed  by  patent,  under  the 
name  of  General  of  all  the  Kerne  in  Ireland, 
during  life,  Avith  the  aforesaid  Fee  of  3'  8''  a  day, 
&  the  said  32  Kerne  at  3''  each,  for  his  better 
maintenance.  Sept'  10'"  1558.— Rot.  Pat.  5° 
&  6°  Ph.  &  Mar.  P'p.  f.  R.  12." 

The  above  is  extracted  from  the  Patent  Roll, 
fifth  and  sixth  years  of  Philip  and  Mary,  Rolls' 
Office,  Dublin. 

"^Flight,  pceólonja, — This  word,  which  is  often 

G 


1698  aNNQta  Rioghachca  eiReaHw.  [1577. 

lu^aó.  Soaiy'  an  Pjiepoenp  cap  a  aip  co  luimneac  ia|inTTi,  -\  Oo  j^ab  05 
oicfnoab  upjiaó  1  eaj^uppao  na  ccfnocap  ccoriipoccup  00  luimneac.  T?o  ba 
Díbpióe  ÍTliijichaó  mac  mmjicfiiraij,  mic  marjarhna,  mic  oontichaió,  mic 
bpiain  Dujb  UÍ  bjiiain,  aoinpeap  bd  peapp  ainm  -|  uaiple  Doi^peóaib  caippje 
6  ccoinnell  -]  fraplac. 

lQT?la  ruaómurhan  (ConcoBap  mac  oonchaió,  mic  concobaip  ui  bpiain) 
bo  hul  111  Sa;roib  Deccaoine  a  imnij  -]  a  anppoplainn  pjiip  an  inbainpioj^ain, -| 
piiaip  paicenc  ap  a  buchaij,  -]  ap  a  bailcib,  -|  ap  bfchaióib  iipmóip  ruaó- 
inurhai),  ■]  beóp  papDún  coiccfno  Dia  óaoínib,"]  cicc  laporh  cap  aip  im  noclaicc 
J50  rionóip  "]  co  naipmiDin  móip  Dpajbail  ona  ppionnpa,  "|  anoaplfip  pcin- 
puaip  a  óuchaij  paop  ap  ainbpfcliib  oippicceac  o  pin  amac.  Qp  a  aoi  po  lá 
an  mapupccál  Daoípe  óícumainj  poppapom  pé  piú  cóinic  an  ciapla  gup  bó 
hnjfn  Oóib  Dul  pá  pinginn  Dnn  ppionnpa  .1.  o.eic  bponnca  ip  in  mbapíincacc, 
-]  bá  hipin.céo  pinginn  cloinne  caip. 

Coccaó  eiccip  lapla  DfpmiiTrion  (jeapóio  mac  Semaip  mic  Sfain)  -\  ÍTlac 
nuiipip  ciappaije  .1.  comap  mac  emainn  mic  comaip,  baile  niic  an  caim  r»o 
^abóil  Id  pan  lapla  pop  ITIac  muipip.  Qn  cabb  ócc  ó  ocópna  oo  611I 1  pann 
an  lapla,-]  a  mapbaó  1  nDopup  leice  pnáma  Diipcap  piléip  lap  nDul  Don  lapla 
imón  mbaile,-]  miina  t»eapncaoí  t)ulc  fcoppa,  acc  oióeaó  an  abbaió  ípin  po  bab 
lóp  a  méD  Deapbaió.  l?o  mapbab  ona,  ~\  po  bdicheaó  pocliaióe  00  miiincip 
mic  muipip  ipin  ló  céona.     bácap  achaió  arhlaib  pin  hi  ccoccaó  ppi  apoile 

writteufciulangjisusedin  thebest  Irishmanu-  demesne  of  Tervue,   in  the  barony  uf  Pobble- 

scripts  in  the  sense  of  "  fugitive,  or  deserter."  brien,  and  county  of  Limerick;  bufthe  present 

'^Merciless,   miocuiccpi^,    literally,    "  incon-  ruins  are  so  shattered  that  it  is  ditficult  to  ascer- 

siderate."    The  word  cuijpeanac  is  used  at  the  tain  the  original  plan  of  the  building.     It  was 

present  day  to  denote  "  considerate."       *  taken  and  blown  up  in  1691,  by  order  of  General 

"  Carraiij  O-gCoinnell,   i.  e.  the  rock   of  the  De  Ginkle,  who  was  then  besieging  Limerick. 
O'Coinnells ;  but  this  family  is  to  be  distinguised  '  Eatharlach,  now  Aherlagh,  a  beautiful  glen, 

from  the  O'Conghails  of  Kerry,  now  O'Connells,  situated  between  Slieveuamuck  and  the  Galty 
and  from  the  O'Conaings  of  Castleconaing,  or  .  mountains,   in  the  barony   of  Clanwilliam  and 

Castleconnel'l,  now  Gunnings.  The  name  is  now  county  of  Tipperary. — See  note  ",   uudi-r  the 

usually  anglicised  Carrigogunnell.     This  castle,  year  1471,  p.  1070,  supra. 
which  was  once  a  great  fortress  of  a  respectable  "  The  first  tribute,  lit(;rally,  the  "  first  penny," 

brand)  of  the  O'Briens,  is  situated  on  the  sum-  i.  e.  the  first  tribute  ever  paid  by  them.    Before 

mit  of  a  lofty  rock  rising  boldly  from  a  plain  the  English  invasion  they  were  by  law  free  from 

which  reaches  to  the  Shannon,  and  near  the  tribute,  and  they  had  resisted  the  payment  of 


1577]       ■  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  16.99 

shal,  with  a  vigorous  and  merciless"  body  of  soldiers,  to  reduce  them.  The 
President  then  returned  to  Limerick,  and  proceeded  to  behead  the  chieftains 
and  rebels  of  the  districts  adjacent  to  Limerick.  Among  these  was  Murrough, 
the  son  of  Murtough,  son  of  Mahon,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Brian  Duv  O'Brien, 
the  most  renowned  and  noble  of  the  heirs  of  Carraig  O  gCoinnelP  and  Eather- 
lach^ 

The  Earl  of  Thomond  (Conor,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Conor  O'Brien) 
went  to  England,  to  complaili  to  the  Queen  of  his  distresses  and  oppression  ; 
and  he  obtained  a  charter  of  his  territory  and  towns,  and  nearly  all  the  [Church] 
livings  of  Thomond,  and  also  a  general  pardon  for  his  people ;  and  he  returned 
about  Christmas,  after  having  received  great  honour  and  respect  from  his  sove- 
reign ;  and  he  thought  that  thenceforward  his  territory  would  be  free  from 
the  unjust  jurisdiction  of  officers.  But  before  the  arrival  of  the  Earl,  the  mar- 
shal had  imposed  a  severe  biirden  on  his  people,  so  that  they  were  obliged  to 
become  tributary  to  the  sovereign,  namely,  [to  pay]  ten  pounds  for  every  barony. 
This  was  the  first  tribute"  paid  b}'  the  Dalcassians. 

A  war  broke  out  between  the  Earl  of  Desmond  (GaiTett,  the  son  of  James, 
son  of  John)  and  Mac  Maurice''  of  Kerry  (Thomas,  the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of 
Thomas)  ;  and  the  Earl  took  Baile-mhic-an-Chaim"  from  Mac  Maurice.  The 
young  Abbot  of  Odorney''  went  over  to  the  side  of  the  Earl,  and  was  slain  by 
the  shot  of  a  ball  in  the  doorway  of  [the  castle  of]  Lixnaw,  which  the  Earl 
had  besieged.  Had  no  more  mischief  been  done  between  them  than  the  killing 
of  this  abbot,  it  would  have  been  great  enough  ;  but,  besides  him,  numbers  of 
Mac  Maurice's  people  were  killed  and  drowned'  on  the  same  day.  They  con- 
tinued for  some  time  thus  at  war  with  each  other,  until  at  last  they  made  peace ; 

pennies  to  the  Englisli  up  to  this  year.  nifcip  ó  D-Cópna,   i.  e.  the  monastery  of  the 

"  Mac  Maurice,  anglice  Fitzmaurice.  O'Dorneys,  or  Torneys,  now  Abbey-Odorney,  in 

'^  Baile-mhic-an-Cham,  i.e.  Villa  Jilii  Curvi,  the  baronyofClanmaurice,  and  county  of  Kerry. 

now  Ballymacqueem,  a  townland  in  the  parish  The  ruins  of  the  church  of  this  abbey  are  still 

of  Killahan,  barony  of  Iraghticonor,  and  county  in  tolerable  preservation,  but  the  other  build- 

of  Kerry.     There  was  a  castle  of  considerable  ings  are  nearly  all  destroyed. — See  this  abbey 

strength  here,    of  which    the  north  and  west  again  mentioned  at  the  year  1582. 

walls  still  remain  in  good  preservation,  but  the  '  Killed  and  drowned. — An   English   writer 

others  are  nearly  destroyed.  would  say,  "  were  cut  off  by  the  sword,  or  by 

*  Odorney. — This  is  more  usually  called  ITlai-  drowning,  or  by  field  and  flood." 

10  G  2 


1700  aNNQi-a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1578. 

CO  riDeapn^ac  y^í6  po  óeóió,  -|  |io  haipcceab  baile  mic  an  cwvn,  "]  a  bpaijDe 
DO  moc  TTiui|iip,  -)  riuimip  oipime  Do  bo  cáincib  1  jjioijib. 

QoD  ÓCC  mac  QoDa  niic  Sfain  buibe  méj  niarjarhna  do  óol  ap  puibal 
ap  riiuincip  ÍTlhéj  mar^arnna,  1  ITlag  margarhna  pfin  do  bpfic  paip  .1.  Qpc 
mac  bpiain  na  muiceipje,  mic  Remainn,  mic  slaipne  ■)  Ctob  Do  mapbaó  lá 
TTIás  iTiargamna, "]  lá  a  rhuincip,  1  ctp  puaill  ma  po  baoi  dq  clanDaib  na 
ccollan  ina  pfirhfp  a  corhmóp  do  écc  ap  a  inrhe  pfin  -)  nip  bo  cuopoma  a 
amm  "|  a  lompaó,  "|  ainm  an  ci  lap  a  rcopcaip. 

r?ella  lonjnár  do  apcpu^aD  1  noipDfp  ipin  céiDrhí  Do  jfimpeaó,  "]  cpom 
I'Ciia^  upcponi  lonbo^a  eipce  arhail  paijnén  polupca,  no  poiUpijfó  a  DealpaD 
an  calarh  ina  buiprimceall,  1  an  pipmamenc  ecipbuap,  occup  accfp  an 
pélla  hípin  in  jac  lonaD  i  niapcap  eoppa  jup  po  lonjanraijpfc  các  hi  ccoicc- 
inne  1. 

Sémup  mac  muipip  no  bfir  ipin  pppainc  beóp  an  Bliaóain  pi. 

aOlS  CRlOSr,  1578. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  mile,  cúicc  cérc,  Sfchrrhoccac,  ahocc. 

TTIac  UÍ  néill  .1.  enpi  mac  roippDealbaij  luini^  mic  neill  conallaij,  mic 
aipc  mic  cuinn  do  óul  pluaccli  In  ccip  conaill  ap  mac  iii  jallcubaip  .1.  TTlaol- 
caba  mac  cafaoip  mic  ccoipDealbhaij  015.  lap  nimrecc  do  plócc  uaóa  do 
cpuinniiiccaó  cpeac,  "|  do  apccain  an  baile  do  pala  mac  iii  ^allcubaip  alia 
imuij  Don  baile  an  can  pin,"]  po  lonnpaij  an  cócc  macaerh  lap  na  pajbail  in 
uachaD  plua^,  1  ni  capo  anacal  nDó,  ace  a  cloiDmeaogan  coicciU,  "|  a  aip- 
leac  ap  an  lacaip  pin.     6á  pfpp  Deojanchaib  no  ciajDaoip  an  cupup  pin. 

TTIácc  plannchaiD  Dapcpaije  Décc  .1.  cacal  Dub  mac  pfpaDbaij,  -\  a  mac 
cacal  ócc  do  jabail  a  lonaiDh, 

'  N^ot  to  be  compared,  i.  e.  he  was  superior  in  ^  Mttdcava. — This  name  is  more  usually  writ- 
fame  and  renown  to  his  slayer.  ten  Maelcobha.. — The  O'Gallaghers,  who  are  the 

^  James,  the  son  of  Maurice,   i.e.  James  the  senioraudmost  royal  family  of  the  KinelConnell, 

son  of  Maurice   Duv  Fitzgerald,   of  Desmond.  had  this  name  from  their  great  ancestor,  Mael- 

For  a  fuller  account  of  his  proceedings  on  the  cobha,    jMonarch  of  Ireland.     Galchobhar,   the 

Continent  the  reader  is   referred   to   O'Daly's  ancestor  from  whom  they  have  derived   their 

Initium,  Incrementum  et  Exitiis  Familioe  Giraldi-  surname,  was  the  son  of  Ruarcan,  who  was_  son 

norwn,  cc.  19,  20,  21,  22.  ofRuaidhri,  son  of  Donnchadh,  son  of  Domhnall, 


1578.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1701 

and  Baile-mhic-an-Chaim  was  restxDred  to  Mac  Maurice,  as  were  also  his  hos- 
tages, and  a  countless  number  of  herds  of  kine  and  horses. 

Hugh  Oge,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  John  Boy  Mac  Mahon,  made  a  preda- 
tory aggression  upon  the  people  of  Mac  Mahon  ;  and  Mac  Mahon  (Art,  son  of 
Brian  na  Moicheirghe,  son  of  Redmond,  son  of  Glasny)  overtook  him  ;  and 
Hugh  was  slain  by  Mac  Mahon  and  his  people.  Scarcely  was  there  another  of 
the  race  of  the  Collas  who  was  so  great  a  cause  of  lamentation  on  account  of 
his  own  wealth  ;  and  his  name  and  renown  were  not  to  be  compared'^  with  those 
of  the  man  by  whom  he  was  slain. 

A  wonderful  star  appeared  in  the  south-east  in  the  first  morfth  of  winter  ; 
it  had  a  curved  bow-hke  tail,  resembling  bright  lightning,  the  brilliancy  of 
which  illuminated  the  earth  around,  and  the  firmament  above.  This  star  was 
seen  in  every  part  of  the  west  of  Europe,  and  it  was  wondered  at  by  all  univer- 
sally. 

James,  the  son  of  Maurice^,  remained  in  France  this  year  also. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1578. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  seventi/-ei(/ht. 

The  son  of  O'Neill,  i.  e.  Henry,  son  of  Turlough  Luineach,  son  of  Niall 
Conallagh,  son  of  Art,  son  of  Con,  marched  an  army  into  Tirconnell  against 
the  spn  of  O'Gallagher  (Maelcava^  son  of  Cahir,  son  of  Turlough  Oge).  After 
his  forces  had  gone  forth  to  collect  spoils,  and  to  plunder  the  town  [land],  the 
son  of  O'Gallagher,  happening  at  that  time  to  be  outside  the  town,  attacked 
that  youth,  after  being  left  with  only  a  few  of  his  forces,  and  did  not  spare  him, 
but  put  him  to  the  sword  without  mercy,  and  slaughtered  him  on  the  spot.  It 
would  have  been  better  for  the  Kinel-Owen  that  they  had  not  gone  on  this 
expedition. 

Mac  Clancy  of  Dartry  (Cathal  Duv,  the  son  of  Feradhach)  died  ;  and  his 
son,  Cathal  Oge,  assumed  his  place. 

son  of  Ceallach,.  who  was  Monarch  of  Ireland  572  to  599,  who  was  son  ol  Ainiiiire,  Monarch 

from  642  to  654,  who  was  son  of  Maelcabha,  or  of  Ireland  from  568  to  571,  the  fourth  in  de- 

Maelcobha,  Monarch  of  Ireland  from  612  to  615,  scent  from  Niall  of  the   Nine   Hostages. — See 

who  was  son  of  Aedh,  Monarch  of  Ireland  from  Battle  of  Magh  Rath.  p.  ,336. 


1702 


aNHaí,a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN. 


[1578. 


O  6]ioin(Uaócc  ócc)  Décc  lap  pfnoarctiD,"!  o  bpoin  oo  Tjaijim  do  búnlanj 
mac  emainn  uí  bjioin. 


'  Teige  Oge. — According  to  the  pedigree  of 
the  O'Byrnes,  given  by  Duald  Mac  Firbis,  this 
Teige  Oge  had  eight  sons,  namely,  Brian,  Do- 
nough  Carragh,  Gerald  Ower,  Murrough,  Ed- 
niond,  Dunlang,  Calvagh,  and  Cahir.  The 
Leabhar  Branach,  preserved  in  the  Library  of 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  continues  the  pedigree 
for  three  generations  longer,  through  Donough 
Carragh,  the  second  of  these  sons,  who  had  a 
son,  John,  the  father  of  Donough  Oge,  who  had 
two  sons,  Murrough  and  Gerald  Ower,  who 
must  have  lived  down  to  the  wars  of  the  Revo- 
lution. 

From  this  period  forward  this  branch  of  the 
O'Byrnes  was  eclipsed  by  the  superior  power, 
fame,  and  importancee,  of  the  head  of  theGaval- 
Rannall  of  Ballinacor;  but  they  still  retained 
considerable  power  and  possessions  in  their  own 
territory,  which  comprised  the  entire '  of  the 
barony  of  Newcastle,  with  that  portion  of  the 
barony  of  Arklow  lying  north  of  Inbher  Daoile, 
or  Ennareilly,  which  tract  was  usually  called 
"  O'Byrne's  country"  in  Anglo-Irish  records, 
and  "  Crioch  Branach"  in  Irish  documents,  a 
name  which  is  corruptly  printed  Orywrymaghe 
[for  Crywrannaghe]  in  the  second  volume  of  the 
State  Papers  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  p.  2. 
This  senior  sept  of  the  O'Byrnes  also  possessed 
the  district  of  Cosha,  Cois-abha,  which  was 
bounded  on  the  north  by  the  River  Ow,  and 
its  continuation,  the  River,  Aughrim,  which  di- 
vided it  from  the  country  of  the  Gaval-Rannall, 
anglice  Ranelagh. 

During  the  civil  wars  of  1641,  the  most  pro- 
minent members  of  this  senior  branch  of  the 
O'Byrnes  were :  Teige  Oge  Byrne  of  Ballinvally, 
Esq.  ;  Walter  Boy  Byrne  of  Newragh,  now 
Newrath,  or  Newry,  which  was  the  name  of  the 
seat  of  the  head  O'Byrne  fur  several  centuries, 
called,  in  Irish,  an  luBpac,  i.e.  the  yew-land; 


he  was  also  called  Walter  Boy  of  Garrygolan, 
and  also  of  IMilltown,  and  was,  most  probably,  if 
not  certainly,  the  eldest  descendant  of  Teige  Oge, 
the  chief  who  died  in  1578,  and  obviously  his 
great  grandson.  A  distinguished  branch  of  this 
elder  sept  of  the  O'Byrnes  was  seated  at  Coill 
t-Siomoin,  anglice  Kiltimon,  where  the  ruins  of 
their  castle  still  remain ;  and  of  this  line  a  family 
were  seated  at  Killoughter,  in  the  immediate 
neighbourhood  of  Newragh,  who  retaiped  to  our 
own  times  a  respectable  property,  which  has  re- 
cently devolved  tp  Henry  Thompson  Redmond, 
Esq.,  and  Matthew  Esmond  White,  Esq.,  who 
married  the  co-heiresses  of  the  last  proprietor. 
In  1 64 1  this  family  was  represented  by  Edmond, 
son  of  Loughlin  Byrne,  and  in  1688,  by  Red- 
mond Byrne,  whose  son,  Charles,  an  officer  in 
the  ser-idce  of  James  II.,  went  into  foreign  ser- 
vice, and  was  outlawed  by  King  William  the 
Third's  government. 

A  branch  of  this   elder  sept  of  the  O'Byrnes 
was  also  seated  at  Kilnamanagh,  the  most  dis-' 
tinguished  member  of  which,  in  1641,  was  Brian 
Byrne,  who   was  a   colonel  of  the  confederate 
Catholics. 

In  1 690,  a  leading  branch  of  this  senior  sept 
was  seated  at  Ballygannon,  and  was  then  repre- 
sented by  Thady  Byrne,  Esq.,  whose  son,  John, 
went  into  the  French  service,  and  attained  the 
rank  of  major.  •  From  this  John,  according  to 
tradition,  the  estate  of  Ballygannon  passed,  by 
a  bill  of  discovery,  into  the  family  of  Scott,  in 
which  it  still  remains.  The  Rev.  John  Byrne,  P.  P. 
of  Newbridge,  is  a  descendant  of  that  Major 
Byrne. 

In  Burke's  Dictionary  of  the  Landed  Gentry, 
the  descent  of  the  Lord  de  Tabley,  and  of  the 
Byrnes  of  Cabinteely,  is  deduced  from  Charles, 
or  Cahir  Oge,  asserted  there  to  have  been  the 
head  of  the  family  in  the  time  of  Cromwell,  a 


1578.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1703 


O'Byrne  (Teige  Oge')  died  at  an  advanced  age  ;  and  Dunlang,  tlie  son  of 
Edmond  O'Byrne,  was  styled  O'Byrne. 


statement  which  does  not  seem  quite  accordant 
with  the  pedigrees  in  the  Leabliar  Branach,  and 
is  in  some  degree  at  variance  also  with  the  re- 
spectable tradition  preserved  in  the  manuscript 
of  Garrett  Byrne  of  Fallybeg,  who  was  born  in 
17 IG,  who  must  have  known  the  name  of  the 
father  of  Daniel  the  merchant,  his  own  near  re- 
lative, and  whose  statement  is  singularly  corro- 
borated by  fragmentary  evidences  among  the 
public  legal  records.  After  giving  a  long  ac- 
count of  O' Kelly  of  Luggacurren,  and  of  his 
estate  of  Timogue,  in  the  Queen's  County,  and 
also  of  the  Fitzgeralds,  who  usurped  it,  he  states 
that  it  was  finally  purchased  by  Daniel  Byrne, 
a  merchant  tailor,  of  whose  descent  and  history 
he  gives  the  following  curious  account : 

"  Having  given  the  best  account  I  have  heard 
of  the  Fitzgeralds,  since  the  Earl  of  KUdare's 
iirst  coming  to  visit  O'Kelly,  I  now  return  to 
give  the  same  of  Daniel  Byrne,  who  piirchased 
O'Kelly's  estate  from  his  lordship. 

"  This  Daniel  was  second  son"  [the  writer's 
ancestor  being  the  first  son]  "  of  a  gentleman  of 
fortune,  whose  estate  was  [situated]  by  the  sea 
side,  at  a  place  called  Ballintlea,  near  Eedcross, 
in  the  county  of  WickloW,  and,  not  being  the 
heir,  was  bred  up  to  the  business  of  a  clothier, 
and  afterwards  carried  on  the  trade  of  a  tailor, 
and  kept  forty  men  constantly  working  at  that 
business.'  He  used  to  buy  all  the  white  cloth 
in  Dublin,  get  it  coloured  red,  and  clothe  forty 
thousand  men  with  the  same  for  General  Crom- 
well, and  never  call  for  money  until!  all  was 
finished,  and  then  received  drafts  from  Cromwell 
on  the  Treasury,  where  he  got  cash,  for  which 
lie  purchased  estates.  He  bought,  besides  this 
of  O'Kelly's,  another  estate  at  the  Great  Heath 
of  Maryborough,  known  by  the  name  of  the 
Lordship  of  Shean,  from  a  young  Squire  Whit- 
ney, who,  being  greatly  indebted  to  him,  and  re- 


quired by  him  to  marry  his  daughter,  and  that 
he  would  not  only  forgive  him  the  debt,  but  re- 
deem his  Estate  from  all  other  incumbrances, 
Whitney  said  he  could  not  think  of  smothering 
his  blood  by  marrying  a  Taylor's  daughter; 
whereupon  Mr.  Byrne  told  him  he  had  better 
think  of  paying  him  his  money,  as  he  v^anted  it 
to  fortune  her ;  but,  not  being  able  to  raise 
money  by  any  other  means  than  selling  his 
Estate,  he  came  and  told  Byrne  he  had  thought 
better  of  the  matter,  and  that  he  was  now  wil- 
ling to  accept  of  the  proposal  he  had  made  him. 
Mr.  Byrne  said,- if  he  could  find  a  young  squire 
buying  an  Estate,  it  is  with  him  he  would  be 
willing  to  match  his  daughter;  but  where  he 
found  such  selling  his,  he  could  not  think  of 
giving  her  to  him ;  so  he  compelled  Squire 
Whitney  to  sell  the  Estate,  and  himself  became 
the  purchaser,  and  left  Squire  Whitney  living 
in  the  Castle  of  Shean.  Soon  after  Whitney 
invited  Byrne  to  dine  with  him  there,  and  con- 
trived that  Byrne  got  neither  knife  nor  fork, 
and  bemg  entreated  by  him  (being  master  of 
the  feast)  to  help  himself,  said  he  had  plenty  of 
meat,  but  nothing  to  cut  it.  Whereupon  Whit- 
ney answered  :  '  Why  dont  yo\i  draw  out  your 
scissars  and  clip  it.  Sir.'  '  I  drew  it  time  enough 
to  clip  the  Lordship  of  Shean  from  your  back- 
side. Sir.'  And  for  this  affront  he  ordered  him 
to  quit  the  Castle  next  morning,  and  so  turned 
him  out.  Besi<les  Byrne  being  deemed  a  wise 
man,  he  was  both  jocund  and  plesant,  and  very 
ready  in  his  answers,  and  bore  with  the  slurs 
thrown  on  his  trade  very  well,  as  may  be  known 
by  his  repartees.  A  predecessor  to  the  now  Earl 
of  Portarlington,  then  Squire  Dawson,  and  of 
the  posterity  of  millers,  said  to'  Mr.  Byrne,  in 
pressing  him  to  a  dram  of  a  morning  going  tcj 
hunt :  '  Take  it  off,  Daniel,  it  is  but  a  thiinble- 
tiill.'     He  immediately  drank  it,   and  jovially 


1704 


awNata  Rio^hachca  emeawN. 


[1578. 


O  Duib^fnnrtin  cille  jionain  (oolb  mac  Dubrctij)  ollam  ua  noilealla  paoi 
pfnchaiD  pfp  ri^e  ooibfó  coiccinn  con^aipi^e,  pfp  puilbip,  foinsre  foasallrha 
oécc,  1  a  mac  maolmiiijie  Do  jabail  a  lonaib. 


answered :  '  Yes,  Willy,  I  would  take  it  if  it 
was  a  hopperfull,'  to  let  him  know,  if  there 
was  a  fault  in  being  a  Taylor,  there  was  the 
same  in  being  a  Miller. 

"  He  gave  his  son,  Gregory,  Temple  educa- 
tion, and  bought  the  title  of  Baronet  of  Eng- 
land for  him  and  his  male  Heirs  for  ever,  the 
creation  whereof  bears  date  in  the  year  of  our 
Lord  1 660,  and  the  like  of  Ireland,  the  creation 
bearing  date  the  17th  day  of  May,  1671.  And 
in  some  time  after, .«being  walking  together  in 
Dublin,  Sir  Gregory  said:  '  Father,  you  ought 
to  walk  to  the  left  of  me,  I  being  a  Knight, 
and  you  but  a  Mechanic'  He  answered  :  "  No, 
you  puppy,  I  have  the  precedency  in  three  ways : 
first,  because  I  am  an  older  man;  secondly,  be- 
cause I  am  your  father;  and  thirdly,  because 
I  am  the  son  of  a  Gentleman,  and  you  are  but 
the  son  of  a  poor,  1 — s — y  taylor.'  Sir  Gregory 
married,  in  March,  166!),  an  English  lady  named 
Margeret  Copley,  by  whom  he  had  issue.  Sir 
Daniel,  the  heir ;  Lady  O'Neill ;  and  Mrs.  Eitz- 
Gerald  of  Morett.  And  then,  on  this  lady  dic- 
ing, and  being  buried  at  St.  Audeon's  on  the 
23rd  July,  1685,  he  marriet  Margeret  Flemming, 
daughter  to  Baron  Slane,  by  whom  he  had  many 
children.  He  bought  the  Lordship  of  Kilmacar, 
in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  for  Charles,  the 
oldest,  who  was  married  to  a  daughter  of  Dud ly 
Colclough  of  Mucurry,  in  the  County  of  Wex- 
ford. Sir  Daniel,  the  son  and  heir  to  Sir  Gre- 
gory, was  married  to  Anna  Dorothea,  daughter 
of  Edward  Warren,  Esq",  of  Pointon,  in  the 
County  of  Chester,  and  Kingdom  of  England. 
He  gave  her  liberty  of  having  all  the  children 
baptized  by  a  Minister,  and  bred  up  in  the  Pro- 
distant  religion ;  and  she  nursed  them  herself 
and  sent   the  two   lioys,  John  and   Daniel,   to 


England  when  nursed,  and  remained  mostly 
there  after.  The  Heir,  Sir  John,  made  a  visit 
to  Ireland  in  the  year  1740,  and  made  John 
Bowen  a  lease  of  Fallybeg,  for  three  lives,  which 
is  not  yet  expired.  He  could  make  but  a  short 
stay,  as  he  received  intelligence  that  his  lady 
(the  only  child  of  one  Leicester,  by  whom  he 
had  two  sons)  was  then  sick  of  a  fever,  and  was 
dead  before  he  got  home  ;  he  then  took  the 
fever,  and  died  shortly  after,  and  was  succeeded 
in  title  and  Estates  by  his  eldest  son.  Sir  Peter 
Byrne,  then  a  minor,  being  born  in  December, 
1732.  Old  Leicester,  the  fatjier-in-law  to  Sir 
John,  soon  after  dicing,  made  a  will,  and  be- 
queathed his  entire  fortune.  Estates,  Plate,  and 
an  immepse  sum  of  money  to  his  grandchild, 
Sir  Peter,  on  condition  that  he  would  change 
his  name  from  Byrne  to  Leicester  immediately, 
and  afterwards  to  sell  all  his  Estates  in  Ireland, 
and  make  purchases  for  them  in  England  before 
he  would  be  twenty-five  years  of  age,  otherwise 
all  of  said  fortune  was  to  support  the  College  of 
Oxford ;  but  the  conditions  were  complyed  with, 
and  the  minor  was  called  Sir  Peter  Leicester 
for  the  future,  yet  he  forbore  selling  the  Estates 
imtill  the  very  last  year  of  his  limitation,  which 
Avas  in  the  year  1 756. 

"  The  Lordship  of  Timogue,  commonly  called 
O'Kelly's  ground,  being  then  all  out  of  Lease, 
except  Fallybeg,  by  reason  of  Sir  John  dicing 
long  before,  and  Sir  Peter  not  being  of  age  to 
make  leases,  so  as  there  was  no  proper  Rental, 
it  was  requisite  for  both  purchaser  and  seller  to 
have  the  ground  valued  accordingly.  Sir  Peter 
treating  with  the  Earl  of  Shelburn  in  England, 
they  agreed  to  send  Valuators  to  view  the  Es- 
tates, and  were  sold  to  him  for  one  hundred  and 
twenty-two  thousand  pounds  of  English  money. 


1578.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1705 


O'Duigennan  of  Kilronan  (Dolbh,  son  of  Duffy),  Ollav  of  Tirerrill,  a  learned 
historian,  who  kept  a  thronged'  house  of  general  hospitality  ;  a  cheerful,  elo- 
quent\  and  affable  man,  died  ;  and  his  son,  Mulmurry,  took  his  place. 


"  This  Shelburn  never  let  an  acre  to  the 
tenant  in  being,  nor  to  a  Leinsterman,  except 
Tully,  to  parson  Hunt,  but  all  to  Munstermen. 
He  had  a  great  leaning  to  them,  his  mother 
being  a  County  Kerry  woman  of  the  name  of 
Fitz  Maurice.  Timogue  he  let  to  Counseller 
Spring  ;  Ballycoolin,  to  Moore ;  Ballinteskin 
and  Cuileen  to  Wall ;  Logacurren  and  Coor- 
glass,  to  Henry  Hunt  ;  and  Eaheenabowl, 
Knockaconna,  and  Coolrush,  to  his  brother, 
John  Hunt,  the  Attorney,  so  that  the  whole 
Estate  of  O'Kelly's  ground  was  disposed  of  to 
Munstermen,  except  Tully  and  Fallybeg,  and 
has  remained  in  their  hands  ever  since. 

"  Lands  were  greatly  risen  in  those  days ;  the 
highest  price  never  exceeded  six  shilling  an 
acre  before  this  time.  I  took  forty  acres  about 
the  mantion  house  of  Logacurren,  where  I  was 
born,  from  Sir  John  Byrne,  in  the  year  1740, 
but  not  having  a  lease,  the  agent  (Thady  Dunne) 
after  Sir  John  Byrne's  death,  soon  found  means 
to  deprive  me  of  it. 

"  The  Mangans  held  Logacurren,  Courglass, 
and  Fallybeg,  from  Sir  Daniel  Byrne,  for 
twenty-two  pence  an  acre,  tho'  Henry  Hunt 
has  part  of  it  now  let  for  forty-two  shillings 
and  six  pence  by  the  acre." 

Garrett  Byrne  then  gives  his  own  pedigree 
from  maoileaciainn  tDuB  0'6poin  of  6aile  an 
r-pléiBe  (who  appears  from  the  public  records 
to  have  been  loyal  to  his  sovereign),  as  follows  : 

"  From  Denis  Byrne,  son  to  Loughlin,  nick- 
named Black,  the  Heir  that  possessed  the  Estate 
and  Castle  of  Ballintlea,  near  Eedcross,  in  the 
County  ofWicklow,  was  descended GeraldByrne, 
who  was  married  to  a  woman  surnamed  Kilmar- 
tin.  He  fought  in  King  Charles  the  First's  army, 
against  General  Cromwell,  and  was  wounded  in 

10 


said  war  by  twenty-one  stabs  of  a  pike,  of  which 
he  was  afterwards  cured ;  but  as,  after  a  subse- 
quent battle,  he  lay  weak  amongst  the  slain,  a 
woman,  who  was  plundering  the  dead,  gave  him 
a  stroke  of  a  reaping-hook  in  the  ear,  which  came 
to  a  mortification,  of  which  he  died.  His  children 
were  also  killed  in  the  war,  except  Garrett  and 
Hugh.  Garrett  was  married  to  Catharine,  daugh- 
ter to  William  Lalor,  son  to  Daniel,  nicknamed 
Ballaugh,  the  son  of  Denis,  and  Grandson  of 
Henry  Lalor,  who  made  his  escape  from"  [the 
massacre  at]  "  Mullamast.  Denis  was  the  last 
Heir  of  the  Lalors  possessed  of  the  Estate  of 
Dysart,  near  Maryborough,  in  the  Queen's 
County.  This  Garrett  Byrne  died  in  Logacur- 
ren, on  the  loth  of  March,  1722,  at  the  age 
of  ninety-six  years,  and  had  eight  sons,  to  wit, 
Gerald,  Laurence,  Hugh,  Daniel,  John,  Edmond, 
William,  and  Andrew.  Gerald  was  parish  priest 
of  Stradbally,  Timahoe,  Ballyadams,  Doonane, 
and  the  districts  belonging  to  them,  for  fifteen 
years,  and  died  in  Logacurren  on  the  24th  day 
of  July,  1724,  at  the  age  of  57  years.  He  served 
as  a  dragoon  under  King  James,  and  fought  in 
all  the  memorable  battles  against  King  AVilliam, 
until  discharged  at  Limerick,  and  was  the  first 
priest  ordained  in  Ireland  after  the  conditions 
thereof.  William  was  also  a  priest,  and  died  in 
Paris  about  the  age  of  thirty  years  ;  none  hav- 
ing issue  but  Laurence,  who  was  married  to 
Catharine,  daughter  to  Walter  Byrne  of  Tim- 
ogue, and  died  in  Logacurren  on  the  sixth  day 
of  February,  1 744,  aged  73  years.  He  had  three 
sons,  viz.  Garrett,  the  oldest ;  William,  born  the 
4th  of  July,  1718,  who  was  parish  priest  of  the 
parishes  of  Stradbally  and  Timahoe  for  nineteen 
years,  and  died  in  Timogue  on  the  1 1th  of  Fe- 
bruary, 1775.     Daniel,  the  youngest,  was  born 

hi 

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1706  ciNNaf-a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1579. 

Ruópaije  ÓCC  mac  Ruópaije  caoíc,  mic  conaill  ui  rhojiba  do  ruinm  la 
bjiian  Ó5  mac  bpiain  meic  5)nllapacc]iaicc.  6á  he  an  juibiiaiTje  pn  cfno 
po^laD,  1  Dibfjiccac  pfp  nGpeann  ina  ]ifirhfp,  -|  nip  bo  mfiimapc  la  near  aén 
epcop  Do  cairfm  1  naccaiD  na  copona  50  cfnn  achaiD  Dia  éip. 

Piapup  buicilép  mac  Semaip  mic  emainn  méc  piapaip  Decc.  bá  do  reann- 
maiciB  gall  muman  eipibe.  ' 

O  ceallacóm  do  bachaó  in  abainn  móip  .1.  ceallacán  mac  concobaip,  mic 
Oonncliaib  mic  caiDcc  puaió,  "|  bo  Dainim  a  baire  po  imrijj  piapiú  po  cairb 
bliabain  lomlán  i  naipeacap  a  arapba  ecip  bap  a  pfnarap  -\  a  bárab  pfin; 
lilac  an  Ppiopa  ui  ceallacáin  noipDneaó  ina  lonaó  .1.  concobap  na  caippcce, 
mac  Diapniaca  mic  caibcc  puaib,  mic  uairne  mic  cacaoip. 

Slc'nne  ingean  coippbealbaij,  mic  caibcc,  mic  coippbealbaijj,  mic  bpiain 
caca  an  aonaijDécc.  bfn  pibe  bpiain  mic  Donnchaib  bacaij,  mic  miipchain 
caoic  mic  bpiain  méc  macj^amna,  bfn  no  ca;r  a  haimpip  gan  imoeapccab  50 
hpuaip  bap  lap  pfnoacaib. 

SioDa  mac  meccon,  mic  Siooa,  mic  meccon,  mic  SioDa,  ranaipce  an  caoibe 
roi]i  DO  cloinn  cuiléin  Do  mapbab  ap  pbab  eacc^e  ace  copaijecc  ap  puaDon 
cpeice  ap  cfinpn  cloinne  RiocaipD. 

O  hfibin  i?uaibpi  an  Doipe  mac  ploinn,  mic  concobaip,  mic  ploinn  do  écc, 
pfp  CO  mbuaib  neinij  -|  nfnjnaiiia  ó  ruipoin  50  a  rojaipm,  ITlac  a  beapbparap 
DoipDneab  ma  lonab  .1.  Go'^an  manncac  mac  Gmanin. 

TTlaoilip  mac  uaceip,  mic  Sfain,  mic  maoilip  a  biipc,  Sippiam  conncae 
maije  eó  do  mapbab  1  ccaiplén  na  belle  ap  lonDpaijib  aibce  lé  na  bparaip 

in  the  year  1722,  and  died  on  tlie  26th  of  De-  1780;  and  she  died  at  Heatli  Lodge  on  the  1st  ol' 

cember,    1780,   at  Clondoula,   on   the  lands  of  February,  1801,  aged  eighty-eight.  Tl^ir  issue, 

Ballycoolin  ;    he   was  first   married   to  Elenor  Laurence,  born  Thursday,  the  nineteenth  day  of 

Hanbury,  ia  the  year  1751,  and,  after  lier  death,  December,  1751,  old  style,  in  the  mansion-house 

to  Honor  Brenau,  and  had  many  children  by  of  Fallybeg  ;  who  married  Anne,  daughter   to 

both.     Garrett  Byrne,  oldest  son  to  the  atbre-  James  Byrne   of  Bolybeg,   on  the  24th  day  of 

said  Laurence,  was  born  in  Logacurren  on  the  June,  1793." 

28th  day  of  December,   1716  ;  married  Mary,  This  Laurence  was   a    man    of  considerable 

daughter  to  Daniel  Duigan  of  Balliuagale,  near  learning,    and   was    the    last   native   of  Magh 

Arless,  on  the  1 3th  day  of  February,  1751."  Druchtain  that  read  and  spoke  the  Irish  lan- 

The  following  words  have  been  added  by  Lau-  guage  fluently.    He  died  in  January,  1840,  aged 

rence  Byrne,  the  son  of  the  aforesaid  Garrett :  89.     He  had  several  sons  who  are  still  living, 

_    "He died  in  Fossey  on  the  18th  day  of  June,  and  who,  though  reduced  to  poor  farmers,  are. 


1579  ]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1707 

Riiry  Oge,  the  son  of  Rury  Caech,  son  of  Connell  O'More,  fell  by  the  hand 
of  Brian  Oge,  son  of  Brian  Mac  Gillapatrick.  This  Rury  was  the  head  of  the 
plunderers  and  insurgents  of  the  men  of  Ireland  in  his  time  ;  and  for  a  long 
time  after  his  death  no  one  was  desirous  to  discharge  one  shot  against  the 
[soldiers  of  the]  Crown. 

Pierce  Butler,  son  of  James,  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Pierce,  died.  He  was 
one  of  the  powerful  chiefs  of  the  English  of  Munster. 

O'Callaghan,  i.  e.  Callaghan,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Teige 
Roe,  was  drowned  in  the  River  Avonmore' ;  and  it  was  from  a  blemish  of  his 
revenge  that  he  departed,  before  he  had  passed  an  entire  year  in  the  enjoyment 
of  his  patrimony,  between  the  death  of  his  grandfather  and  his  [own  death  by] 
drowning.  The  son  of  the  Prior  O'Callaghan,  i.e.  Conor  of  the  Rock,  the  son  of 
Dermot,  son  of  Teige  Roe,  son  of  Owny,  son  of  Cahir,  was  installed  in  his  place. 

Slaine,  the  daughter  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of 
Brian  Chatha-an-Aenaigh,  and  the  wife  of  Brian,  son  of  Donough  Bacagh,  son 
of  Murrough  Caech,  son  of  Brian  Mac  Mahon,  died.  She  was  a  woman  who 
had  spent  her  life  without  blemish  vuitil  she  died,  at  an  advanced  age. 

Sida,  the  son  of  Maccon,  son  of  Sida,  son  of  Maccon,  Tauist  of  the  eastern 
part  of  Clann-Coilen,  was  slain  on  [the  mountain  of]  Sliabh  Echtghe,  as  he  was 
pursuing  a  prey  which  the  kerns  of  Clanrickard  were  carrying  off. 

O'Heyne  (Rory  of  the  Derry,  son  of  Flan,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Plan)  died. 
From  the  beginning  of  his  career  until  his  death  he  was  a  man  distinguished 
for  hospitality  and  prowess.  His  brother's  son,  Owen  Mantagh,  son  of  Edmond, 
was  installed  in  his  place. 

Meyler,  the  son  of  Walter,  sou  of  John,  son  of  Meyler  Burke,  sheriff  of  the 
coimty  of  Mayo,  was  slain  at  Caislen-na  h-EUe",  in  a  nocturnal  aggression,  by 

if  any  faith  be  due  to  tradition  so  respectable,  ^  Avo7imore,  abainn  liióp,  i.e.  the  great  river, 

the  senior  branch  of  this  family. — See  Irish  P.  now  the  Blackwater,   which  rises  in  Pobble- 

.Journal,  June  19th,  1841,  p.  405.  O'Keeffe,  in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of 

'  Thronfjed,  conjc'iiptje — The  word  conjáip  Cork,  and  flows  through  O'Callaghan's  country, 

denotes  "  a  company,"  and  conjáipeac,  "  hav-  in  the  barony  of  Duhallow,   and,  after  a  long 

ing  companies,   troops,  or  followers.  and  circuitous  course,  discharges  itself  into  the 

^  Eloquent,  "^om-^ie^. — This  word  is  sometimes  sea  at  Youghal.     According  to  the  Life  of  St. 

used  as  an  adjective  to  denote  "  eloquent,"  and  Carthach  of  Lismore,   this  river  was  anciently 

sometimes,   as  a  noun  substantive,   to  denote  a  called  Nemh. — See  Ussher's  Primordia,  p.  943. 

Brehon,  or  judge.  '"Caislen-na  h-Elle,  now  the  Neale,  a  small 

10  H  2 


1708  aNNa?,a  Rio^hachca  eipeaNN.  [1579. 

.1.  lé  hemaim,  mac  comaiy^  an  macaijie,  ttiic  maoilip  rpe  lompopmar  pocail 
oipeacraip  oo  pala  fcoppa  an  la  piap  an  aohaió  pin. 

LmfDpuim  ifiuincipe  lieolaip  ho  jaBoil  lé  caiprin  Sa;ranac  do  rhuincip 
niciilaip  maulbi  ctp  iia  puaipc  i  neappac  na  bliaóna  po,  -j  opuim  oa  eriap  Do 
bpipeao  la  lum  puaipc,  bpian,  mac  bpiain,  mic  eojain.  LiarDpuim  lapom 
Dpáccbáil  la  5allaib  aj  cloinn  caiócc  uí  puaipc,  i  an  baile  ceona  do  ^abáil 
lá  biia  puaipc  gap  bfcc  lap  pin  do  cfo  jalli  do  nfirhcfc  cloinne  camj;. 

QpDuipcip  na  h6peann  .1.  Sip  hanpii  Sionei  do  doI  50  Sa;:oib  .1.  po  pam- 
ain,  1  caipcin  maulbi  do  doI  laip, "]  uilliam  Dpupiie  ina  lonaD  .i.  an  Ppepi- 
Denc  baoi  op  cfnD  do  coícceaó  muman.  r?ucc  cpó  an  lupnp  lapla  cloinne 
r?iocaipcc  laip  .1.  l?iocapD  mac  uillicc,  mic  Riocaipo  mic  uillicc,  -\  a  mac 
uilliam  búpc  Dia  ccabaipc  ap  cumap  comaiple  Sa^an. 

lapla  cille  Dapa,  jeapoiD,  mac  geapoiD  (bai  hi  pa;roib  ppi  pé  aoó  no  a  rpi 
DO  bliaonaib  poirhe  pin  po  pepc)  do  rfcr  in  épmn  pó  noolaicc  mop. 

Uomap,  mac  paccpaicc,  mic  oiliuéip  pioingcéD  ci^eapna  luccmaigh  Do 
rhapbaó  ló  TTlaj  marj^arhna  1.  ki  hapc  mac  bpiain  na  moicéipTje  mic  T?emainn, 
mic  jlaipne. 

Seineapccal  na  conncae  piabca  ap  nDénam  coinne  ceilcce  lé  piaclia 
mac  Qoóa,  mic  Remainn,  mic  Sfain,  o  j^lfnn  maoilujpa.     T?o  pfp  la  piacha 

« 

village  and  demesne,    with   an  old  dilapidated  day,  are  curious,   as  shewing  the  greatness  ol' 

residence  of  the  Lords  Kilmaine,  in  the  barony  this  chief  of  the  Gavel-Rannall,  or  O'Byrues  of 

of  Kilmaine,   and  county  of  Mayo,  and  about  of  Ranelagh,  at  this  period  : 

'three  miles  south  from  the  town  of  Ballinrobe.  "  But  touching  your  demand  of  this  Feaghe's 

°  The  day  before,  literally,   "  the  day  before  right  unto  that  countrey  which  he  claimes,  or 

that  day,"  which  is  redundant.  tlie  seigniory  therein,  it  is  most  vaine  and  arro- 

°  Coiiiae  RiMiach,  i.e.  the  county  of  Wexford.  gant.     For  this  you  cannot  be  ignorant,  that  it 

''  Fiagh,  the  son  of  Hugh.  —  Spenser,   after  was  part  of  that  which  was  given  in  inheritance 

guessing  that  the  O'Byrnes  and  O'Tooles  were  by  Dermot  Mac  Murrougij,  King  of  Leinster, 

Welsh  families,  goes  to  shew  that  this  Fiagh,  unto  Strongbowe  with  his  daughter,  and  which 

who  was  a  very  powerful  chieftain  in  his  time,  Strongbowe  gave  over  unto  the  King,  and  his 

was  "  a  base  varlet  growne  out  of  the  dunghill,"  heires,  so  as  the  right  is  absolutely  now  in  her 

\yho  had  no  right  to  his  lands,  because  they  had  Majesty,  and  if  it  were  not,  yet  could  it  not  be 

been  granted   by   Dermot   Mac   Murrough    to  in  this  Feagh,  but  in  O'Brin,  which  is  the  an- 

Strongbow,  and  by  him  to  the  Crown  of  Eng-  -cientLordof  all  that  countrey ;  for  he  and  h'is  an- 

land,  and  thus  in  the  course  of  law  descended  cestours  were  but  followers  unto  O'Brin ;  and  his 

to   Queen   Elizabeth.      His  words,   which    are  grandfather,  Shane  Mac  Terlagh"  \_recte,  Shane 

fashioned  to  the  barbaric  law  fictions  of  his  Mac  Redmond],  "  was  a  man  of  meanest  regard 


1579]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1709 

his  kinsman,  Edmond,  the  son  of  Thomas  of  the  Plain,  son  of  Meyler,  in  con- 
sequence of  an  angry  word  which  occurred  between  them  at  a  meeting  the  day 
before". 

In  the  spring  of  this  year  Leitrim  of  Muintir-Eolais  was  taken  from  O'Rourke 
by  an  Englisli  captain,  [one]  of  the  people  of  Nicholas  Malby  ;  and  O'Rourke 
(Brian,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Owen)  demolished  Dromahaire.  Leitrim  was 
afterwards  left  to  the  sons  of  Teige  O'Rourke  by  the  English  ;  but  in  a  short 
time  afterwards  the  same  town  was  taken  by  O'Rourke,  with  the  permission  of 
the  English,  but  against  the  will  of  the  sons  of  Teige. 

The  Chief  Justice  of  Ireland,  Sir  Henry  Sidney,  went  to  England  about 
AUhallowtide,  accompanied  by  Captain  Malby;  and  William  Drury,  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  two  provinces  of  Munster,  took  his  place.  The  Lord  Justice  took 
with  him  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard  (Rickard,  the  son  of  Ulick,  son  of  Rickard, 
son  of  Ulick)  and  his  son,  William  Burke,  that  he  might  deliver  them  up  to 
the  English  Council. 

The  Earl  of  Kildare,  Garrett,  son  of  Garrett  (who  had  been  under  arrest  in 
England  for  two  or  three  years  before),  returned  to  Ireland  at  Christmas. 

Thomas,  the  son  of  Patrick,  son  of  Oliver  Plunkett,  Lord  of  Louth,  was 
slain  by  Mac  Mahon,  namely.  Art,  son  of  Brian-na-Moicheirghe,  son  of  Redmond, 
son  of  Glasny. 

The  Seneschal  of  the  Contae  Riabhach"  invited  Fiagh"',  the  son  of  Hugh, 
son  of  Redmond,  son  of  John''  [O'Byrne]  of  Glenmalure',  to  a  treacherous 

amongst  them,  neither  having  wealth  nor  power.  nion  of  his  greatness,  insomuch  that  now  he  is 

But  his  son,  Hugh  Mac  Shane,  the  father  of  become  a  dangerous  enemy  to  deale  withall." — 

this  Feagh,  first  began  to  lift  up  his  head,   and  Vieio  of  the  State  of  Ireland,  Dublin,  reprint  of 

through  the  strength  and  great  fastnes  of  Glan  1809,  pp-  185,  186.    See  note  S  under  tlie  year 

Malor,  which  adjoyneth  unto  his  house  of  Bal-  1579,  p.  1712,  infra. 

linecor,  drew  unto  him  many  theeves  and  out-  "^  Hugh,  son  of  Redmond,  son  of  John. — This 

lawes,   which    fled    unto    the   succour   of  that  should  be  "  Hugh,   son  of  John,   son  of  Red- 

glynne,   as  to  a  sanctuary,  and  brought  unto  mond,"  according  to  Duald  Mac  Firbis  and  the 

him   part  of  the    spoyle   of  all   the   countrey,  Leabhar  Branach. —  See  the  pedigree  given  cor- 

through  which  he  grew  strong,   and   in  short  rectly   by   the   Four  Masters    under  the   year 

space  got  unto  himselfe  a  great  name  thereby  1579,    where    they    record   the    death    of  this 

amongst  the  Irishe,  in  whose  footing   this  his  Hugh. 

Sonne  continueing,  hath,  through  many  unhappy  '  Glenmalure,  now  pronounced  Glenmalur.    It 

occasions,  increased  his  said  name,  and  the  opi-  is  a  romantic  valley,   situated  to   the   south  ot 


1710  QNNW.a  Rio^hachca  eiReaNW.  [1579. 

iiT\op]io  511)1  ab  00  cum  celcce  ]io  intiill  an  Seinfpccal  an  coinne  I'pin,  -|  po 
innill  piurh  celcc  ele  ina  upcornaip  piurh  50  ]io  mapbaó  céo  00  ^illib  ócca  -\ 
nuppaóaiV)  na  conncae  piabca  lú  piacha  Don  cup  pin  cénmorá  oaopccap 
pluacch. 

bpian  mac  caraoíp  caorhánaiccli,  mic  aipc,  mic  Diapmarra  lairhoepcc  Do 
écc.  , 

Sfan  mac  DorhnaiU,  mic  comaip,  mic  raiócc  mécc  plannchaba  ollarh  lapla 
DÍpmuman  lé  bpfirfmnup  Decc.  Ní  baoí  Dna  mac  bpCirfman  ruaire  i  nepinn 
an  can  pin  pob  pfpp  cpeabaipe  ■)  n  jfoap  ináp. 

lCtRla  cloinne  RiocaipD  illaim  beóp  illonDainti. 

aOlS  CRIOSC,  1579 
Qoíp  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  cecc,  Seclicmojacc,  anaoi. 

Oomnall  mac  concobaip  mic  coippóealbaij,  mic  caiócc,  mic  roippóeal- 
bai^,  mic  bpiain  caca  an  aonai^  uí  bpiain  oécc  lap  ccairfm  cóicc  mbliaóan 
pfpccacr  Dia  aoíp  lap  pfpccacc  Dia  aoíp  lap  peipccli^i  poDa,  lap  nairpi^e 
lonmolca,  lap  mbuaió  ó  óoman  ~[  ó  óaoínib,  1  a  aónacal  co  nonóip  -|  co  naip- 
iniDin  1  mainipcip  innpi  "j  a  mac  coippbealbac  DooipDneab  ina  iona6.  Conaó 
Dpopairmfc  a  báip  arpubpaoli 

TTlíle  cíiicc  ceD  ciallba  an  poaip, 

peace  noeic,  occ  mbliaóna,  ip  bliabain 
ó  bcip  Doitinaill  nap  Dam  locc, 
gup  roipling  mac  oé  1  nDaonnachc. 

Glendalough,  in  the  barony  of  Ballinacor,  and  of  tlie  three  septes  of  Clandonills,   her  Ma'"'" 

county  oi'  Wicklow.  galloglas,  for  every  of  them  and  theire  said  three 

*  On  the  8th  of  May  this  year,  the  following  septes,  of  the  other  partie. — AVitnesseth,  that 

indenture  was  made  between  the  Lord  Deputy  wheare  Jier  Ma""  pleasure  is  to  convert  into  a 

and  the  captains  of  the  three  septs  of  the  Clann-  certaine  and  yearlie  revenue  unto  her  Ma"%  her 

Donnell   of  Leinster,  for  a  further  account  of  heirs  and  successors,  the  Bonaghtes  and  Sorrens 

i\-liom  see  note  J,  under  the  year  1570  :  which  upon  the  Irishe  Captaynes  and  Couutres 

"  This  Indenture,  made  betwyxte  the  Eight  were  heretofore  due,  to  and  for  the  Enterteyn- 

Honourable  Sir  Henry  Sydney,  Knt.,  Lord  De-  ment  of  her  Ma"''  said  Galloglas.     And  in  re- 

putieofIrelande,&c.,  of  the  one  partie;  and  Mull-  spect  of  the  auncient  and  contynuall  fydelytie, 

murry  Mac  Edmond,  Hugh  boy  Mac  Callogh,  loyalty,  and  true  service  of  the  Captaynes,  gent, 

and  Tirlagh  oge  Mac  Alexander,  cheefe  captaines  and  septs  of  the  sad  Clandonilles,  alwayes  borne 


1579]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  I7II 

copfereuce  ;  but  Fiagh  having  received  intelligence  that  the  Seneschal  had 
appointed  this  conference  for  a  treacherous  purpose,  he  laid  another  snare  for 
him,  and  slew  one  hundred  of  the  youths  and  chieftains  of  the  Contae  Riabhach 
on  that  occasion,  besides  several  of  the  common  sort  of  people. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Cahir  Kavanagh,  son  of  Art,  son  of  Dermot  Lávderg,  died. 

John,  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Teige  Mac  Clancy,  Chief  Brehon 
to  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  died.  There  was  no  son  of  a  lay  brehon  in  Ireland 
in  his  time  who  had  better  tillage  or  a  better  house  than  he. 

The  Earl  of  Clanrickard  still  continued  in  custody  in  London'. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1579. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  five  hundred  seventy-nine. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige,  sou  of  Turlough, 
son  of  Brian  Chatha-an-Aenaigh  O'Brien,  died,  in  the  sixty -fifth  year  of  his  age, 
after  a  lingering  consumption,  after  laudable  penance,  and  after  having  gained 
the  victory  over  the  world  and  men,  and  was  interred  with  honoiu-  and  reve- 
rence in  the  monastery  of  Ennis  ;  and  his  son,  Turlough,  was  installed  in  his 
place.     In  commemoration  of  his  death  these  lines  were  composed  : 

One  thousand  five  hvuidred,  acciu'ate  the  account. 

Seven  times  ten,  eight  years  and  one, 

From'the  death  of  Donnell,  free  from  fault, 

To  [the  time]  that  the  Son  of  God  assumed  humanity. 

ami  done  towards  her  Ma'"  and  her  most  wor-  to  receive.     Provyded  that  hencefortlie  none  ot 

thy  progenitors,  and  hencf'orth  to  be  contynued,  the  said  Captaynes,  gent,  nor  officers  of  the  said 

doth  covenaunt  and  graunte  that  there  shalbe  three   septes,  in  any  warlike  jorney,  or  feat  ol' 

henceforth  payd  yerely  out  of  her  Ma''*'  Ex-  warr,  shall  tise  Armor  or  weapon  in   servinge 

chequer,  a  yearly  pencone  of  three  hundredth  of  any  other  then  the  Queene's  Ma"',  her  heires 

pounds,  unto  thandes  of  the  said  three  chiefe  or  successours  :  provided  also  that  henceforth, 

captaynes,   viz.,    unto   everie  of  them  a  third  as  heretofore  of  auncyent  use  and  custome  hath 

porcon  of  tlie  same  for  hym   and  the  rest  of  his  bene  due,  the  said  captaines,  officers,  and  gal- 

septe,  the  same  to  be  receyved  and  enjoyed  dur-  lowglas,  shall  supply,  execute,  and  doe,  as  well 

ing  the  good  pleasure  of  her  Ma"",  her  heires  in  and  for  the  marche  of  lier  Ma""'  army,  and 

and  successours,   in  lieu  and  recompense  of  all  approches,    and  assaltes,    and  prepuracones  of 

dead  payes,  blackemen  (mail?),  and  such  other  Approches  and  assaltes  of  castells  and  ftortresses, 

like  advantage  as  they  or  any  of  them  were  wont  all  such  officers  and  sapires  as  by  her  Ma"''  gal- 


1712  anNa^a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1579. 

Onópa  injfn  Donncbam,  mic  coricobaip,  mic  cnippóealbai 5,  mic  caibcc 
111  bjiiain  oécc.    Sccél  móp  lUfir  moja  ipioe. 

Si]i  eDuapo  piiirun  cpepenep  oécc. 

Rolonc  upcap  mac  comaip,  mic  RipofipD  oécc. 

Q0Ó,  mac  Sfain,  m;c  l?émainn,  mic  Sfain,  mic  aoba,  mic  Dorhnaill  jlaip 
nécc.  6á  hepióe  pinnpeap  jaitle  Rajnaill,  -\  ciT^eapna  jlinnemaoilu^pa 
cojfóip  1  cpeacróip  a  corhappan  jail,  i  gaoibel. 

O  SfcnnpaiT;  tiapmairc  piabac,  mac  Oinpmacca,  mic  iiilliam,  mic  Sfain 
huióe  1  ITlac  a  oeapbparap,  uilliani,  mac  an  giolla  DuiB,  mic  oiapmaca  do 
comriiicim  pe  poile  1  cceilcc  oo  ponab  la  hua  peacnapaij  pop  cionn  uilliam 
hi  ccorhpocpaiV)  ápoa  maoloubain.  Do  pocaip  uiUiam  pó  céoóip.  ^ib  é 
ó  peacnapaíj  po  cpéccnaicceab  epibe,  -\  po  écc  ■^a]\  naip  lap  pin. 

O  peacnapaij  Do  gaipm  lapom  do  Sfan  mac  an  jiolla  biiiB. 

Uoippbealboc  ria  coippi  cpoinri,  mac  maolmuipe,  mic  Donnchaib,  mic  coipp- 
bealbai^,  mic  l?uaibpi  mec  piiibne,  Do  ruicim  ló  bpiari  ballac,  mac  maolmuipe, 
mic  Donncbaib,  mic  bpiam  rhec  piiibne  1  nDopap  copcaige. 

Caprín  malbí  00  roibeacc  i  népinn  maille  lé  noblaiccib  mópa  ón 
hppionnpa. 

bpian  na  mbappócc,  mac  maolmuipe,  mic  Donnchaib  mec  puibne  tteapbpa- 
raip  Don  coippbealbac  ]iémpáice  Décc. 

Semup,  mac  miiipip  Duib,  mic  Sfain,  mic  comaip,  mic  an  lapla  Do  reacc 
ap  m  pppainc,  -\  aDbeprí  a  focc  loingfp  ba  líonrhaipe  iná  map  ráinic.  6á  hann 

lowglas  ought  to  be  supplied,  executed,  and  celebrated  Fiagli  O'Bjrne  of  Glanmalur,  cele- 
done.  In  Wittnes  whereof,  unto  three  of  these  brated  by  Spenser,  who  says  that  he  was  of  mean 
Indentures  quadripartit,  rem'  severall  with  origin,  and  of  Welsh  descent,  and,  strange  to 
every  of  the  said  three  Captaynes,  the  said  Lord  say,  this  silly  conjecture  has  received  the  assent 
Deputy,  and  the  rest  of  her  Jla"'"  privie  Coun-  and  corroboration  of  the  honest  Sir  James  Ware, 
sell,  aforesaid,  have  signed  and  sealed  for  and  who  was  neither  a  poet  nor  a  fabricator;  but 
on  her  Ma"'"  behaulfe  ;  and  unto  the  iiii"'  of  the  fancies  and  fictions  of  the  Divine  Spenser 
these  Indentures  quadripartit,  remaining  with  can  no  longer  stand  the  test  of  historical  truth, 
the  said  Lord  Deputie  and  Counsell,  the  said  for  we  know  that  the  O'Byrnes  and  their  neigh- 
three  Captaines,  for  them  and  their  septe  afore-  hours  theO'Tooles,  whose  names  he  derives  from 
said,  have  putt  theire  scales  and  signes  manuell.  Welsh  words  signifying  "woody"  and  "hilly," 
Dated  the  vii""  of  May,  1578."  are  not  so  derived,  and  that  the  two  families,  who 

Inrolled  in  the  Record  branch  of  the  OiEce  were  two  of  the  most  noble  in  Leinster,  were 

of  the  Paymaster  of  Civil  Services,  Dublin.  before  the  English  Invasion,  situated,  not  in  the 

'  Warlike  opponent He  was  the  father  of  the  mountains  of  Wicklow,  but  in  the  most  level 


1579]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1713 

Honora,  the  daughter  of  Donough,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of 
Teige  O'Brien,  died.     She  was  much  lamented  in  Leath  Mhogha. 

Sir  Edward  Phitun,  the  Treasurer,  died. 

Roland  Eustace,  the  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Richard,  died. 

Hugh,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Redmond,  son  of  John,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Don- 
nell  Glas  [O'Byrne],  died.  He  was  the  senior  of  Gaval-Ranall,  and  lord  of  Glen- 
malure,  the  warlike  opponent'  and  plunderer  of  his  English  and  Irish  neighbours. 

O'Shaughnessy  (Derraot  Reagh,  the  son  of  Derraot,  son  of  William,  son  of 
John  Boy)  and  his  brother's  son,  William,  the  son  of  Gilla-Duv",  son  of  Der- 
mot,  were  slain  by  each  other  on  a  certain  occasion,  when  O'Shaughnessy  had 
laid  a  snare  for  William  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Ard-Maeldubhain".  William 
was  first  slain  ;  and  O'Shaughnessy,  though  he  survived  him,  was  so  severely 
wounded  that  he  died  in  less  than  an  hour  afterwards.  John,  the  son  of  Gilla- 
Duv,  was  then  styled  O'Shaughnessy. 

Turlough  of  the  Wooden  Leg,  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Donough,  son  of 
Turlough,  son  of  Rory  Mac  Sweeny,  was  slain  by  Brian  Ballagh,  the  son  of 
Mulmm-ry,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Brian  Mac  Sweeny,  in  the  gateway  of  [the 
city  of]  Cork. 

Captain  Malby  returned  to  Ireland  with  great  presents  from  the  sovereign. 

Brian-na-mBarrog,  the  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Donough  Mac  Sweeny,  and 
brother  of  the  afcfrenamed  Turlough,  died. 

James,  the  son  of  Maurice  Duv,  son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  the  Earl 
[of  Desmond],  returned  from  France";  and  it  was  rumoured  that  he  had  come 

plains  in  all  Ireland, — the  O'Byrnes,  in  Moy-  nearlj'  as  far  as  the  Eiver  Shannon. 
Liffey,  and  the  O'Tooles  in  Moy-Alvy,  both  in-  "  Gilla-Duv,  i.  e.  juvenis  niger. — His  real  name 

eluded  in  the  present  county  of  Kildare.     The  was  Koger,  and  he  was  usually  called  Sir  Roger. 
Editor  is,  therefore,  led  to  hope  that  no  grave  ^ Ai-d-Maeldubhain,  i.  e.  Maeldubhain's  height 

writer  will  ever  again  mention  these  Spenserian  or  hill,   still  so  called  in  Irish,   but  anglicised 

fictions  as  history.     There  is  a  curious  poem  Ardmealuane,  a  townland  containing  the  ruins 

describing  the  triumphs  and   martial  achieve-  of  a  castle,    in  the  barony  of  Kiltartan,    and 

ments  of  this   chieftain   of  Gaval-Ranall,   pre-  county  of  Gahvay. — See  map  to  Tribes  and  Cns- 

served  in  the  Leabhar  Branach,  or  Book  of  the  toms  ofHy-Many,  on  which  the  position  of  this 

Byrnes,  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dub-  castle  is  shewn.     See  also    Genealorjies,   Tribes, 

lin,  H.  I.  14,  from  which  it  appears  that  he  as-  and  Customs  ofHy-Fiachrach,  p.  .377. 
saulted  and  plundered  the  castles  of  the  county  "  Returned  from  France. — It  is  curious  to  ob- 

of  Kildare,  and  devastated  the  whole  country,  serve  that  neither  Camden,  the  Four  Masters, 

10  I 


1714  awNa^a  Rioghachca  eiReoNN.  [1579. 

po^ab  pope  ]  noilén  in  oiji  Iri  raob  Dainjiti  í  cíii]->  i  ccmppoije.  bai  lapla 
Tifprhurhan  1  ppoplonjpopc  1  ccuillfrin  o  ccuanac  ace  cionnpccnacr  cmpléin  oo 
óénarii,  ~\  Do  cóió  po  cuapupccbáil  an  coblaij  pin  Do  cualaib  Do  rocc  i  cciapp- 
aije.  Uáinicc  beóp  1  ccoitibail  an  coblaij  ceDna  apo  mapupccál  DÓ  cóicceaó 
murhan,  Qpcúp  caprep  a  comainm,-!  maijipcip  dóuid,  -]  a  mbaoi  Do  rhuincip 
na  banpiojna  uile  ipin  nnurhain.  Canjacap  ann  Dna  bpaifpe  an  lapla  Dfp- 
murhan  .1.  Da  rhac  ócca  Shétnuip,  mic  Sfain,  mic  romáip  .1.  Sfan,  -|  Séniup 
ÓCC,  "]  po  bai  cuiD  DóibpiDe  a  ccappaing  Sliemaip  niic  muipip,  1  ciiccpac 
lonnpaicchiD  oibce  ap  an  mapupccál,  1  ap  rhaijipnp  oauiD  1  crpaij^li, -|  po 
Dícfnnaicc  leó  lacc  ap  a  ccodcib  cooalca,"]  ap  a  Ifpcoib  lije.  Uiiccpac  lapoiti 
Semup  1  rci'p  1  Do  cóoap  Diblínib  po  coillcib  na  claonglaipi,  ~\  na  coilleaD 
móipe.  LuiD  Semup  pop  a  céD  eaccpa  lap  cceacc  1  ccip  ap  na  coillcib  pin 
50  lion  a  riiapcac"!  a  ciroijceac  Dupláp  ó  cconaill  jabpa,"]  cpé  cloinn  uilliam, 
-]  po  ji;abpacr  ace  opccam  gac  lonaiD  gup  a  pangacrap.  l?o  jjabpac  an  cip 
ace  cfcclamaDb,  1  ace  cionol  ina  niaprhóipeacc.  Ccnnic  ann  ceDup  clann 
uiliiam  búpe,  mic  emainn  .1.  Uepóirc  "|  uiUece,  ~\  po  cuip  cepoirc  ceacca  1 
rcuaic  aépa  gpéine  DÓ  poccpa  Do  rhae  ui  bpiain  apa,  ceacc  Do  ropanD  an 

nor  Ware,  had  any  knowledge  of  the  agreement  gives   a   full  account  of  Stukely's  proceedings 

between    James    Fitz    Maurice,     and    Stukely.      from  the  Letters  of  Sir  Henry  Sidney See  his 

O'Daly,  who  was  better  acquainted  with   the  IJistory  of  Ireland,  book  iv.  c.  2. 

ecclesiastical  negotiations  of  those  times  than  '  Than  ivas  realhj  the  case This  language  is 

any  of  those  writers,  says,  in  his  History  of  the  not  correct.  The  report  was  that  he  had  arrived 

Geraldines,  cc.  20,  21,  that  James,  in  his  last  with  a  certain  number  of  ships,  and  that  num- 

interview  with  Pope  Gregory  XIII,  besought  _  ber  was  afterwards  found  to  have  been  exagge- 

his  Holiness  to  appoint  a  certain  Englishman,  rated.     According  to  Camden's  and  Ware's  An- 

named  Stukely,  to  the  command  of  the  vessels  nals  he  had  only  three  ships,  which  is  evidently 

destined  to  convey  men  and  arms  to  Ireland;  the  truth. 

but  that  Stukely  shaped  his  course  for  Portugal,  ^  Daingean-  Ui-Chuii<,  i.  e.  the  fortress  or  fast- 

and  sailed  into  the  harbour  of  Lisbon  at  the  ness  of  O'Cuis,  the  ancient  Irish  proprietor  of 

very  moment  that  King  Sebastian  was  preparing  the  place  before  the  English  invasion,  not  of  the 

an  expedition  against  the  Moors  in  Africa;  that  Husseys,  as  asserted  by  Dr.  Smith  and  others; 

Stukely  joined  this  expedition  in  violation  of  now  anglice  Dingle-I-Couch,  or  Dingle,  a  town 

his  promise  to  the  Pope,  and  the  oath  he  had  in  the  barony  of  Corcaguiny,  in  the  west  of  the 

sworn  to  James  Fitz-Mauride,  and  that,  shortly  county  of  Kerry.     This  was  formerly  a  town 

after  they  had  lauded  in  Africa,  a  terrible  battle  ■  of  great  importance.                                   ' 

was  fought,  in  which  three  Kings,  namely,  Se-  '^  Cidlleann-O'gCuanacK  now  Culleu,  a  village 

bastian;  his  ally,  Mahomet;  and  Muley  Moloc,  which  originally,  as  its  name  indicates,  belonged 

were  slain,  as  was  also  Stukely.     Dr.   Leland  to  the   territory  of  Coonagh,  in  the  county  of 


1579]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OP  IRELAND.  1715 

with  a  greater  number  of  ships  than  was  really  the  case^  He  .landed  at  Oilen- 
an-Oir,  contiguous  to  Daingean-Ui-Chuis^,  in  Kerr}-.  At  this  time  the  Earl  of 
Desmond  was  encamped  at  Cuilleann-O'gCuanach^  where  he  had  beo-un  to 
erect  a  castle  ;  and,  having  heard  of  the  arrival  of  the  fleet  in  Kerry,  he  went 
to  see  it.  The  chief  marshal  of  the  two  provinces  of  Munster,  Arthur  Carter 
by  name,  Master  David^  and  all  the  Queen's  people  in  Munster,  set  out  to  meet 
the  same  fleet,  as  did  also  the  kinsmen  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  namely,  the  two 
young  sons  of  James,  son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas,  namely,  John  and  James  Oge. 
These  were  in  confederacy  with  James,  son  of  Maurice;  and  they  made  an  attack 
by  night  upon  the  Marshal  and  Master  David,  at  Tralee,  where  they  beheaded 
thenf  while  asleep  in  their  beds  and  couches.  They  then  brought  James  on  shore, 
and  both  repaired  to  the  woods  of  Claenglaise''  and  Coill-mhor''.  James  went 
forth  from  these  woods  on  his  first  expeditio^  after  landing,  with  all  his  cavalry 
and  infantry,  through  the  middle  of  Hy-Connell-Gaura  and  Clann- William'' : 
and  they  proceeded  to  plunder  the  country  as  they  passed  along^.  The  [inha- 
bitants of  the]  country  began  to  assemble  to  oppose  them ;  and,  first  of  all,  the 
sons  of  William  Burke,  son  of  Edmond,  namely,  Theobald  and  Ulick  ;  and 
Theobald  dispatched  messengers  to  Tuath-Aesa-Greine",  summoning  Mac-I- 

Limerick,  but  is  now  in  the  barony  of  Clan-  kerry.     O'Sullivan   calls  it  '■'■facinus  dignura,'''' 

William,  in  the  county  of  Tipperary.    The  name  fol.  95 ;  and  Camden  asserts  that  Sanders  lauded 

CuUleann  denotes  holly,  or  a  place  abounding  it  as  "  suave  Deo  sacrijicium  f     Dr.  Smith,  in 

in  holly;  but  this  place  is  fabled  to  have  taken  his  History  of  the  County  of  Kerry,  p.  163,  says 

its   name  from   Cuilleann,    the  son  of  Morna,  that  "  the  pretence  was  Henry  Danvers  holding 

who  was  slain  here  by  Finn  Mac  Cumhaill,  in  session  of  gaol  delivery  in  Desmond  palatinate." 

the  third  century.  ^  Claenghlaise,  now  Clonlish,  in  the  south-west 

''  Master  David. — His  real  name  was  Henry  of  the  county  of  Limerick. 

Davells.      Philip   O'Sullevan    Beare   calls  hini  ^Coill-mhor,  i.  e.  the  great  wood.    This  wood 

"  Daversius," — see  his  Hist.  Cathol.  fol.  95, —  was  situated  in  the  north  of  the  barony  of  Coill- 

and  O'Daly  styles  him  Danversius.  mor,  now  Kilmore,  in  the  north  of  the  county  oi' 

■^  Beheaded  them O'Daly  says,  in  his  History  Cork. 

of  the  Geraldines,  c.  22,  that  this  fact  has  been  f  Hy-Conndl  Gaura  and  Clann-William,  now 

often  stigmatised,  and  described  as  derogatory  the  baronies  of  Conillo  and  Clannwilliam,  in  the 

to  the  honour  of  [Sir]  John  of  Desmond  ;  yet,  county  of  Limerick. 

he  thouglit,  unjustly,  as  John  killed  an  avowed  e  As  they  j'assed  along,  literally,  "  they  pro- 
enemy,  who  not  only  sought  to  crush  the  cause  ceeded  to  plunder  (i\(ivy  place  to  which  they 
of  liberty,  but  who  had  done  signal  injury  to  came." 
John  himself  in  the  house  of  the  Lord  of  Mus-  "  Tuath-Aesa-Greine,  a  district  in  the  county 

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1716  aHNQf-a  liio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1579. 

cpérupa  ap  cm  cip,"]  po  cuip  mac  ui  Bpiain  huiófn  jallócclac,")  jíomanac  50 
rfpóicc.  r?olfnpac  ictparh  lopcc  na  laocbuióne  conuj^cáppacrap  Sému]^  lap 
Tnbfic  na  corhnaibe  pop  a  ccionn  1  ccoiU  cliorctip  Diamaip.  Ro  pij^fo  lomcn- 
peacc  ecip  iia  cunnapcc  buiDnib  ípn,  1  po  liaimpfD  pemu)'  50  lunoell  oipeac 
oupcop  DO  peilép  hi  ppoppolarh  a  cleib  "|  a  compaip  jiip  bó  oariina  oibeabci 
óó.  Qp  a  aoí  po  ppaoíneaó  laip  ap  cpmcbuibnib  nu  copaijeacca.  Oo 
pónaó  ecr  Tnóp  ann  pni  uaip  po  mapbaó  cepoicc  abúpc,  1  baoí  pair  lapla 
Doiópe  pan  óiccmibó  pin,  ap  cpoóacc,  ap  cfnoap  pfóna  ap  po^laim  bépla 
1  bépccna.  Ní  cian  ón  carlaraip  Do  cuaiD  Semap  mac  muipij'  an  cpar 
camicc  anppaintie  écca  do  lonnpaijib,  1  00  póine  a  riomna  lé  bfgán  bpiarap, 
-]  po  aicin  Dia  painmuinci]i  a  DícfriDab  ap  na  pajbairci]^  <(  eapccaipDe  lé  a 
airne,  nó  pé  a  oipleac  é. 

5á  hann  baoí  apDiupnp  na  hGpeami  Sip  uilliam  Dpupne  111  lonBaio  piin 
ccopcaij  ífióip  murhan.  lopla  cilfe  Dapa, ")  Sip  niculap  maulbi  co  na  poc- 
paice  ina  pappab  ann  pm.  Cucjyic  pibe  oghaib  ap  comicae  luimnicch  co  po 
^abpac  longpopc  1  ccorhpocpaib  cille  mo  ceallócc.  'Cánaic  lapla  Dfpmurhan 
ina  ccfnn  annpin,  -)  baoí  acca  cop  bi  cceilLco  nú  baoí  cuiD  Dó  péivi  a  rcapp- 
ídncc  Sémaip  mic  muipip,  »ia  beóp  a  míjníom  Dá  riDeapnpacc  a  bpairpe,  -\  do 
paD  a  aon  mac  oibpeacca  Don  lupcip  a  njioll  lé  caipipeacc  1  lé  comall  do 
copóin  cpa;can.  l?o  cinjellab  Don  lapla  gan  a  rip  Do  milleab  ní  baó  mó,  1 
T^é  po  jeallab  ní  po  comaillfb,  óip  do  Díolairpiccheab  a  Daoíne  -\  a  nmile. 
T?o  loipcceaD  a  apBap  1  a  poipccnfiii. 

of  Limerick,  comprising  Castleconiiell  aud  Siug-  that  James  Fitz  Maurice,  after  being  luortally 

land.     Dr.   O'Brien    asserts,   in  his  Irish  Die-  wounded  in  the  breast  with  a  ball,  dashed  into 

tionary,  that   Aos-Greine  is  the  baroii}'  called  the  midst  of  his  enemies,  like  another  Achilles, 

the  Small  County  of  Limerick ;  but  this  cannot  foremost  in   battle  front,    striking   about  him 

be  true,  as  we  kuow  from  O'Heerin,  that  Cas-  with   sword  and   lauce,    until  he  made  a  lane 

tleconnell  and  Siugland  were  in  it,  and  that  the  for   himself  to  where   Theobald   Burke   stood, 

barony  called  the  Small  County  comprised  the  and  with  a  single  blow  cleft  his  scull  in  twain, 

territory  of  Deis  Beag.  and    with    another  stroke   killed    his  brother, 

'  Mac-I-Brien-Ara — His  territory   bordered  William.     He  makes  no  allusion  to  his  having 

on  Tuath-Aesa-Greine. — See  the  Queen's  letter  requested  that  his  head  should  be  cut  oft'  after 

in    his   favour  above    prhited,  under   the  year  his  death  ;    but  he    states  that  his  kinsman, 

1569,  p.  1634,  supra.  Maurice  Fitz  John,  ordered  his  head  to  be  cut 

''  Military  skill,    literally,  captainship,  gene-  off,  and  that,  as  he  could  not  give  his  body  such, 

ralship  or  skill  in  leading  a  military  force.  honourable  sepulture  as  it  was  entitled  to,  he 

'  To  cut  off  his  head. — O'Daly   says,    c.   22,  left  it  concealed  under  an  aged  tree,  where,  not 


1579]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1717 

Brien  Ara',  to  come  and  banish  the  traitoi"  from  the  country.  Mac-I-Brieii  sent 
a  body  of  gallowglasses  and  soldiers  to  Theobald.  These  then  went  in  pursuit 
of  those  lieroic  bands,  and  overtook  James,  who  had  halted  in  a  dense  and  soli- 
tary wood  to  await  their  approach.  A  battle  was  fought  between  both  forces, 
in  which  James  was  shot  with  a  ball  in  the  hollow  of  the  chest,  which  [after- 
wards] caused  his  death.  Notwithstanding  this,  however,  he  defeated  his  lordly 
pursuers.  In  this  conflict  a  lamentable  death  took-  place,  namely,  that  of  Theo- 
bald Burke,  a  young  warrior,  who  was  a  worthy  heir  to  an  earldom  for  his 
valour  and  military  skill'',  and  his  knowledge  of  the  English  language  and  the 
law.  James,  the  son  of  Mam'ice,  had  not  passed  far  from  the  scene  of  this 
battle  when  the  languor  of  death  came  over  him ;  upon  which,  in  a  few  words, 
he  made  his  will,  and  ordered  his  trusty  friends  to  cut  ofi'  his  head'  [after  his 
death],  in  order  that  his  enemies  might  not  discover  him,  so  as  to  recognise  or 
mangle  him. 

The  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  Sir  William  Drury,  was  at  this  time  at  Cork, 
in  Munster ;  and  the  Earl  of  Kildare  and  Sir  N.icholas  Malby  were  there  along 
with  him.  These  set  out  towards  the  county  of  Limerick,  and  pitched  their 
camp  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Kilmallock.  Hither  the  Earl  of  Desmond  came 
to  meet  them  ;  and  he  endeavoured  to  impress  it  on  their  minds  that  he  himself 
had  no  part  in  bringing  over  James,  the  son  of  Maurice,  or  in  any  of  the  crimes 
committed  by  his  relatives  ;  and  he  delivered  up  to  the  Lord  Justice  his  only' 
son  and  heir,  as  a  hostage,  to  ensure  his  loyalty  and  tidelity  to  the  erown  of 
England.  A  promise  was  thereupon  given  to  the  Earl  that  his  territory  should 
not  be  plundered  in  future  ;  but,  although  this  promise  was  given,  it  was  not 
kept,  for  his  people  and  cattle  were  destroyed,  and  his  corn  and  edifices  binned. 

long   after,    being  i'uund   by   a   liunter,   it   was  plerisque  suorum  cecidit.     Cadaveri  caput  luii- 

brought  to  Kilmallock,  fixed  upon  the  gallows  putatum,  corpus  membratim  dissectum  :  nieni- 

tree,  and  -shattered  by  the  musket  fire  of  the  bra  palis  suffiguntur  ad  portas  Kilmaloci.  ubi 

heretics.    Camden,  however,  seems  to  have  un-  priiis  fidem  Principi  in  Ecclesia  coram  Perotto, 

derstood  that  his  head  was  cut  oif  by  his  ene-  ut    diximus    magnis    obtestationibus    astri.x- 

niies :  erat.'' 

"  Pugnatum  est  aliquamdiu.     Theobaldus,  et  Ware  says,  that  Sir  William  Burke,  the  father 

alter  e  fratribus  cuhi   nonnuUis  suoruin  occu-  of  Theobald  and  William,  was  created  Baron  of 

buerunt,  simulque  Fitz-Moris  ipse  hasta  trans-  Castleconnell,  and  had  an  annual  pension  of  a 

iixus,  et  caput  plumbea  glande  transfossus,  cum  hundred  marks  ;  and  Camden  remarks  that  he 


1718  ciNwata  Rioshachca  eiReawN.  [1579. 

l?o  paofo  lajiom  an  lúpnp  on  ccampa  fin  cille  mo  ceallócc,  a  c]ii  no  a 
cfraiji  00  capciniV)  co  ccfirpib  céoaiB  do  j^ai^oiuipib  jalloa  1  jaoioelca  Do 
cuapniccaó  net  coilliD  moipe  Duy  an  ppuijlncnp  Djionj  éiccin  Dia  fpccaipDibh. 
Oo  jiala  fcojipa  "|  clcmn  ócc  lapla  Dfpmurhan  .1.  Sfctn  -|  Semup  ócc,  aj  jopc 
na  ciobjiacr,  -]  ]io  pijib  lopjal  ainccpeannDa  fcojipa  co  po  ppaoíneaó  pop 
itiuinnp  an  lupny,  "|  co  po  mapban  cpiúp  Dm  ccaipcinib  .1.  capcin  hoipibfpr, 
capnn  úpcap,  1  capcin  pppip  50  ccpi'b  ceoaibh  amaille  ppiu,  -|  répnacrap 
pcceólanja  imca  ^up  an  ccampa.  Rucc  an  lupcip  a  campa  laparh  50  bél 
ara  na  nDéipe  i  ccfipcmfóón  cliú  mail  mic  ujaine,  -j  jio  ^ab  galop  a  écca  an 
iiipcip,"]  po  pc'tccaibeapcin  maulbi  le  haccaiD  coccaiD  geapalcac, -|  puccab  an 
lupcip  1  ccappacc  co  popclaipje  co  ppuaip  bap  ann  pin,  -]  bo  he  lupcip  Do 
coccab  iria  lonac  1  ccúipc  ara  cliar  Duine  uny^al  do  muincip  na  bainpi'ojna 
cainic  anoip  ipin  cpeaccrhain  pin  pém  .1.  Sip  uilliam  pellham  do  coirheD 
cpice  bpf^  1  miDe  i  pine  j;all  ctp  clanDaib  nell  -|  ap  jaoibealaib  Ifice  cuinn, 
-j  laijfn  an  ccfm  no  biaó  an  lupcip  pin  po  écc,  ■]  capcin  maulbi  ace  míniuccaó 
muimneac.  Uanaic  cpa  lapla  upmuman  1  nGpinn  ipin  cpeccmam  ceDna,  lap 
mbfic  cpi  bliabna  coip  piap  an  can  pin. 

lomcupa  capcin  maulbi,  canicc  co  luimneac  lap  nécc  an  lupcip  Dar- 
nuabuccaD  a  apmala,  "]  opajail  bib  Dia  buannoDhaib,  1  Do  cóió  apibe  50 
hfpjebcene,  -]  bá  he  an  lóípin  canjoccap  clann  ócc  lapla  Deapmurhan  Diap- 
paiD  jona  no  gabala  1  cconncae  luimnij, "]  capla  lacc  "]  an  capcin  cul  1  ccul 
56  po  péDpac  a  peacna,  1  a  lomjabail.  i?o  pijeab  ocainofp  cpoba  fcoppa. 
l?o  ppfpclaD, -]  a  lomjabail.     l?o  pigeab  pcamofp  cpoba  fcoppa.     l?o  ppfpc- 

soon  after  died  of  joy  :   "  unde  senex  inopino  Lord   Muskerry,    in  the   parish  of  Killaghole- 

gaudio  pcrfusus  haud  multo  post  expiravit."  haue,  in  the  soutli  of  the  county  of  Limerick. 

■"  Coill-mhor,  i.  e.  the  great  wood,  in  the  ba-  °  Captain  Spris. — His  real  name  was  Price, 

rony  of  Coill-mor,  or  Kilmore,  in  the  county  of  according  to  Camden  and  Ware,  who  make  no 

Cork,  and  adjoining  the  county  of  Limerick. —  mention  of  Captain  Eustace,  who  was  probably 

See  note  ^,  p.  1715,  supra.  an  Irishman  : 

•  "  Gort-na-tiobrad,  i.  e.   field   of  the  spring,  "  loannes  Desmouius  Comitis  frater  qui  in 

translated  ager  fontis  by  P.  O'Sullevan,  in  his  Fitz-Moris  locum   inter   rebelles  suffectus,   ex 

History  of  the  Irish  Catholics,  fol.  97-     It  is  now  insidiis  Herbert  et  Prisium  Anglos  cum  cohor- 

generally  known  by  the  name  of  Springfield,  tibus  quas  duxerunt  intercepit,  et  occidit,  ipse 

but  the  natives  always  called  it  Gort-na-tiobrad,  in  facie  sauciatus.     Numeros  vero  sexcenti  mi- 

when  speaking  Irish.    It  is  a  townland  contain-  lites  e   Devonia  supplerunt,   Perottusque  cum 

ing  the  ruins  of  a  square  castle  and  the  seat  of  sex  bellicis  navibus  ad  oram  tuendam  ex  Anglia 


1579.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1719 

The  Lord  Justice  afterwards  set  out  from  the  camp  of  Kilmallock,  accom- 
panied by  three  or  four  captains  and  four  hundred  English  and  Irish  soldiers 
to  search  [the  wood  of]  Coill-mhor",  and  try  whether  they  could  discover  any 
of  their  enemies.  They  fell  in  with  the  young  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond, 
namely,  John  and  James  Oge,  at  Gort-na-Tiobrad°;  and  here  a  furious  engage- 
ment was  fought  between  them,  in  which  the  people  of  the  Lord  Justice  were 
defeated,  and  three  of  their  captains  slain,  namely.  Captain  Herbert,  Captain 
Eustace,  and  Captain  Spris'',  together  with  three  hundred  of  their  men.  Several 
made  their  escape  to  the  camp  by  flight. 

The  Lord  Justice  then  removed  his  camp  to  Bel-atha-na  n-Deise",  which  is 
situated  in  the  very  centre  of  Clui-Mail-mhic-Ughaine",  and  here  he  took  his 
death-sickness.  Pie  left  Captain  Malby  to  oppose, the  Geraldines  ;  and  he  him- 
self was  conveyed  in  a  chariot  to  Waterford,  where  he  died  ;  and  the  Lord 
Justice  selected  by  the  Council'  of  Dublin  was  Sir  William  Pelham,  a  gentleman 
of  the  Queen's  people,  who  had  come  from  England  that  very  week  to  protect 
the  territory  of  Bregia,  Meath,  and  Fingal,  against  the  Ily-Niall  and  the  Irish 
of  Leath-Chuinn  and  Leinster,  while  the  Lord  Justice  who  died  and  Captain 
Malby  should  be  engaged  in  reducing  the  Munstermen.  In  the  same  week  the 
Earl  of  Ormond'  returned  to  Ireland,  having  been  three  years  in  England. 

As  for  Captain  Malby,  he,  after  the  death  of  the  Lord  Justice,  proceeded 
to  Limerick  to  recruit  his  army,  and  to  procure  provisions  for  his  soldiers  ; 
and  from  thence  he  marched  to  Askeaton  ;  and  it  was  on  the  same  dav  that 
the  young  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond  came  to  look  for  fight  or  prey  in  the 
county  of  Limerick,  when  they  and  the  Captain  met  face  to  face,  although  tliey 
could  have  shunned  and  avoided  him.     A  battle  was  bravely  fought  between 

missus." — Camden^  A.  U.  1579-  Council  in  Dublin,  "donee  prorex  crearetur," 

'Bel-atha-na  ii-Deise,  i.e.  the  mouth  of  the  and  was  sworn  on  the  11th  of  October  in  Christ's 

ford  of  Deis,  now  Athneasy,  a  ford  on  the  Morn-  Church,  DubUn. — See  the  annals  of  the  reign 

ing-star  river,  in  the  parish  of  Ath-na-n-Dei-  of  Elizabeth,  by  Camden,  and  Ware's  .4 «««/íí  o/ 

seach,  now  anglice  Athneasy,  barony  of  Coshlea,  Ireland,  A.  D.  1579- 

and  county  of  Limerick,  and  about  four  miles  *  The  Earl  of  Ormortd. — Ware  adds,  that  the 

to  the  east  of  Kilmallock.  Irish  Council,  on  the  same  day  that  they  chose 

1  Cliu-Mail-mhic- Ughaine,   a  district  in  the  Sir  William  Pelham  Lord   Justice,  ordered  a 

barony  of  Coshlea. — See  note  ',  under  1570.  patent   to  make  the  Earl  of  Ormond  Governor 

'Council,    literally,    "court."      Sir  William  of  Munster,  and  Sir  Warham  St.  Leger  Provost 

Pelham  was  elected  Lord  Justice  by  the  Privy  Marshal  thereof. 


1720  aNNW.a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1579 

lab,  1  po  pjiiocóileab  an  i-liiaj  gaoiDecilac  la  nuiincip  an  caprin  50  po  ppaoin- 
ea6  poppa  po  beóió  50  po  mapbaDh  romap,  mac  Sfain  óicc,  mic  Sfain,  mic 
romaip,  ttdc  an  lapla,  -]  eoccon  mac  emainn  óicc  mic  emainn,  mic  coippóeal- 
baig  niec  pirij  50  nopuing  móip  Do  conpaplaib  cloinne  piri^,  1  co  pocaiDe  Do 
itiuinnp  cloinne  an  lapla  a  maille  ppiú-  T?o  paccbab  éoala  aibble  aipm,  -] 
eoeab  05  muincip  an  caprin  Don  cup  pin.  5á  ace  an  aonac  mbfcc.fio  piccfó 
nn  lopgal  I'pin.  baoi  an  caprin  lapam  a  ngap  Do  peaccmain  in  eap  jebcine, 
1  jeapalcaiT^  ap  jac  laé  aj  jeallan  buailce  Do  rabaipc  do,  1  ni  po  corhaiU- 
pior  inopin.  l?o  bpipeab  mainipcip  an  baile  lap  on  ccapcin,  -)  cfiD  ap  pin 
CO  hoc  oapa,  -|  baoi  annpaibe  ace  cfnnpuccab  na  ccomappan  co  ccónaic  an 
lupnp  nua  uilliampellbam,-]  lapla  cille  Dapa,  ■]  lapla  upmuman  Dia  nfpcab, 
-|  po  jabpar  iiile  lonjpopr  1  cconallcoib.  Ni  ráinicc  lapla  Dfpmiirhan  ina 
ccfnrc  Don  cup  pin,  uaip  po  Dianmilleab  a  buchaij,  -]  po  babbailpccpiopab  a 
haicrpeaba  lap  na  rinT^eallab  Do  peme  pin  gan  a  milleab  loip.  O  do  Deacaib 
an  riapla  1  mbctib  a  bpáifpeac  api  comaiple  po  cinnpioc  501II  a  mbapDaba 
npagbáil  ina  bailcib  .1.  loc  gaip  an  par  mop,  Caiplén  muipipin,  Qr  Dapa,  -| 
cill  mo  ceallócc,  -|  lacr  pfin  do  bol  Dm  ccijib  lapom.  Qp  a  aoi  pin  cpa  nip 
bo  póínrheac  Don  cip  uile  o  ráluacaip  Deaobaib  co  piuip,"|  o  cfno  peabpacc 
co  pionamn,  uaip  gac  pope,  gac  baile,  jac  apbap  jac  aiciuccab  gup  a  pan- 

'/ri>/i«rm,»/,an  pluajjaoióealac.  This  should  the  English  and  Irish  accounts  of  this  battle 

be  an  pluu  j  jeapulcac,  or  the  Geraldine  army.  before  him,  gives  the  following  account  of  it,  as 

^' Aenach-beag,  now  Mannisteranena,  a  magni-  what  appeared  to  him  to  have  been  the  truth, 
ficent  alibey  in  ruins,  in  a  parish  of  the  same  in  his  Ilistorij  of  Ireland,  book  iv.  c.  2  : 
name,  in  the  barony  of  Pobblebrien,  and  county  "  The  army  (for  so  it  was  called)  consisted  of 
of  Limerick,  and  about  five  miles  to  the  north-  nine  hundred  foot  and  fifty  horse.  Of  these 
west  of  Bruff.  Ware,  Cox,  and  Leland,  call  three  hundred  infantry  and  fifty  horse  were  left 
this  place  Monaster-Neva,  but  this  is  a  mere  in  garrison  at  KUmallock  :  and  on  intelligence 
misprint  for  Monaster-Ncna.  O'Daly,  in  his  received  that  Sir  John  Desmond  lay  a  few  miles 
History  of  the  Geraldines,  c.  23,  asserts  that  the  distant  from  Limerick,  with  a  considerable  body, 
English  were  defeated  at  Enaghbeg  on  this  oc-  Malby  marched  to  attack  him  with  the  residue 
casion,  and  that  their  great  guns  and  standards  of  his  forces.  In  a  plain  adjoining  to  an  old 
fell  into  John  of  Desmond's  hands ;  but  Cam-  abbey,  called  Monaster-Neva"  l_recie,  Monaster- 
den,  and  from  him  Ware,  Cox,  and  Leland,  Nenaj,  "  he  found  the  rebels  in  array,  to  the 
assert  that  Sir  John  of  Desmond  was  defeated  number  of  about  two  thousand,  and  prepared  to 
with  the  loss  of  two  hundred  and  sixty  of  his  give  him  battle.  The  Papal  standard  was  dis- 
array, together  with  the  famous  Dr.  Allen,  who  played  ;  and  Allen,  the  Irish  Jesuit,  went  busily 
was  left  dead  on  the  field.     Leland,  who  had  all  through  the  ranks,  distributing  his  benedictions, 


1579]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1721 

them,  in  which  the  Irish  army'  were  so  resolutely  encountered  and  pressed  by 
the  Captain's  forces,  that  they  were  finally  routed,  with  the  loss  of  Thomas^  the 
son  of  John  Oge,,son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  the  Earl  [of  Desmond] ; 
and  Owen,  the  son  of  Edmond  Oge,  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Turlough  Mac 
Sheehy  ;  and  a  great  number  of  the  constables  of  the  Clann-Sheehy,  with  a 
great  many  of  the  people  of  the  sons  of  the  Earl.  Great  spoils,  consisting  of 
weapons  and  military  attire,  were  left  on  this  occasion  to  the  Captain's  people. 
This  battle  was  fought  at  Aenach-beag".  The  Captain  after  this  remained 
nearly  a  week  at  Askeaton,  the  Geraldines  threatening  every  day  to  give  him 
battle,  though  they  did  not  do  so.  The  Captain  destroyed  the  monastery  of 
that  town,  and  then  proceeded  to  Adare,  where  he  remained,  subjugating  the 
people  of  that  neighbourhood,  until  the  new  Lord  Justice, William  Pellham,  the 
Earl  of  Kildare,  and  the  Earl  of  Ormond,  came  to  join  him";  and  they  all  en- 
camped together  in  Hy-Conillo.  The  Earl  of  Desmond  did  not  come  to  meet 
them  on  this  occasion,  because  his  territory  had  been  ravaged  and  his  people 
destroyed,  although  it  had  been  promised  to  him  that  these  should  not  be 
molested.  When  the  Earl  had  joined  his  relatives,  the  resolution  which  the 
English  adopted  was,  to  station  their  warders  in  his  castles,  viz.  in  Loch  Gair'', 
Rath-mor",  Caislen  Muirisin^,  Adare,  and  Kilmallock,  and  depart  themselves 
for  their  homes.  However,  the  whole  country  from  Luachair-Deaghaidh"  to  the 
Suir,  and  from  Ceann-Feabhrad"  to  the  Shannon,  was  in  a  state  of  disturbance. 

and  assuring  them  of  victory.     Their  disposi-  the  county  of  Limerick See  note  ■",  under  the 

tions  were  made,  by  direction  of  the  Spanish  year  1516,  p.  1335,  supra. 
officers,  with  an  address  and  regularity  unusual  ''  Rath-mor,  now  anglice  Eamore,  or  Eathmore, 

to  the  Irish,  and  their  attack  was  so  vigorous,  a  very  lofty  castle,  in  ruins,  in  the  parish  of 

and  so  obstinately  maintained,  that  the  fortune  Mannisteranena,  barony  of  Small  County,  and 

of  the  day  seemed  doubtful.     The  valour  of  the  county  of  Limerick,  and  about  four  miles  to  the 

English   at  length  prevailed  ;  the  rebels  were  north  of  the  town  of  Bruff. 
routed,  and  pursued,  with  considerable  slaugh-  '  Caislen-Muirisin,    now   Castlemorrison,    in 

ter;  and  among  the  slain  was  found  the  body  of  the  barony  of  Conillo,  and  county  of  Limerick. 
Allen,  who,  not  content  with  exhortation,  had  "  Liiachair-Deayhaidh,  now  Sliabh  Luachra, 

drawn  the  sword  in  the  cause  of  Rome."  anglice  Slievelogher,  a  mountainous  district  near 

O'Daly  mentions  the  loss  of  Thomas  Geral-  Castleisland,  in  the  barony  of  Troughanacmy, 

dine,  John's  son,  and  Thomas  Brown,   Knight,  and  county  of  Kerry. 

but  has  not  a  word  about  Allen.  "  Ceann-Feabhrad. — This  is  the  part  of  the 

'To  join  him,  literally,  "to  strengthen  him."  mountain  of  Slieve-Reagh,  lying  to  tke  left  of 

"  Loch  Gair,  now  Lough  Gur,  near  Bruff,  in  the  road  as  you  go  from  KilmaUock  to  Cork. — 

10  k 


1722  awNa^a  Kio^liachca  eiReaNW.  [1579. 

5acrap  clann  an  mpla  fcoppa  fin  po  jabpoc  5a  mblobaoli  5a  mbpiy^fo,  jn 
nDób,-|  5a  roianlopccaó  aji  uaman  gall  Dia  naic]ieV)aib,  jac  cfj,  jac  cf^oaip, 
gac  i"iocc  jac  ]xaca  gup  a  jiarisaDap  501U  Do  |iao|'ar  an  miDiac  ceDna  poppa 
ap  ulca  le  geapalcacoib.  Ro  páccbaó  an  cip  fcoppa  De  pióe  ina  haon  clap 
coirhpfiD,  jan  10c,  gan  poipccnfrh.  Oo  caoD  mpam  lapla  Dfpnnuman  co  na 
bpaicpib,  1  jup  an  lion  ap  lia  po  péopar  Do  cpeaclopccab  Róipceac  -|  bappac 
in  uib  liacáin,  1  in  ufB  maccaille.  Xio  pumiccheaD  longpopc  leó  lé  haccliaió 
Gocoille  CO  po  jabab  an  baile  leó  pó  beóib.  Rob  lombct  cpa  eDala  -|  lolitiaoine 
an  baile  ipin.  Ro  cpoicheab  la  jeapalcachaib  ina  ppuaippioc  do  rhairfp  ann 
jenmoca  an  po  cuippioc  cfnDai^ce  -\  buipjfipij  an  baile  Dia  nop  -|  Dia  naipjfD 
in  aprpaijib  uara  pia  njabáil  an  baile.  Rob  lomba  bocr  Dinnirii  DÍpoil  do 
cóidIi  1  porhaoín  -\  1  )  aibbpfp  la  héDÓilan  baile  I'pin.  Oo  paDaoli  múp  cap 
5pian  an  baile  Id  geapalracaib,  "|  po  bpipic  a  cúipre,  ~\  a  caipceóil,  a  curh- 
Daijre  doc  -|  clápab,  co  nap  bo  Inonaiccpeaba  é  50  cfnD  pee  lap  pin.  60 
im  noDlaicc  mop  do  ponnpab  i)o  ponab  inopo. 

Sluaicceab  cfnDoip  pibna  Ici  hiajila  upmuriian  ipin  rpeacrmain  ceDna  i 
nseapalcacaib,  "1  páinicc  gup  an  ccaiplén  nua  co  puce  laip  jac  ni  ap  a  puce 
Dinnilib  1  Daipnéip  an  ripe,-|  poaip  capa  aip  gan  cpoiD  jan  cacap,  uaip  baoi 
an  ciapla  co  na  bpairpib  1  cciappaije  an  can  pin. 

Conall  buibe  mac  jioUapacrpaicc  mic  piapaip  ui  mopba  do  rhapbaDh 
I  mbioppa  1  nDÚchai;5;  ele,  -|  Dob  pepDe  a  mapliab,  uaip  ap  Dopccain  an  baile 
DO  beacaib. 

See  the  Tripatiite  Life  of  St.  Patrick,  lib.  iii.  c.4B ;  firmed  to  William  de  Barry,  the  son  and  lieir  of 

the  Book  of  Lecan,  fol.  133,  a,  6,  and  fol.  237,  «,  this  Philip,   "  the  three  cantreds  of  Olethan, 

ii ;    and  Book  of  Lismore,  p.  207,  where  the  fea-  Muscherie,  Donegan,  and  Killede."    The  extent 

tures  of  this  mountain  are  described.  of  Hy-Liathaiu    appears   from  various  ancient 

'  Hy-Liathain. — This  was  the  name  of  a  tribe  Irish  and  Anglo-Irish  authorities,  for  the  pre- 

and  territory  in  the  county  of  Cork.    It  derived  sent  village  of  Castle-Lyons,    or   Caislean-Ui- 

its  name  from  Eochaidh  Liathanach,  tlie  second  Liathain,   and   the  island  of  Oilean-Mor-Arda- 

son  of  Daire  Cearba See  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  81.  Neimhedh,  now  the  Great  Island,  near  Cork,  are 

After  the  establishment  of  surnames,  O'Liathain  mentioned  as  in  it.     Harris  asserts,  in  his  edi- 

and  O'h-Anmchadha  were  the  chief  families  of  tion  of  Ware's   Antiquities,    p.  50,   that   Hy- 

this  tribe,  and  shortly  after  the  English  inva-  Liathain  is  a  territory  in  the  south  of  the  county 

sion  their  territory  was  granted  to  Eobert  Fitz  of  Waterford,  in  the  barony  of  Decies,   on  the 

Stephen,  who  granted  it  to  Philip  de  Barry,  as  sea  coast,  opposite  Youghal ;  but  this  is  totally 

appears  from  the  confirmation  charter  of  King  false,    for  we   know  from   the  best  authorities 

John,  who,  in  the  eighth  year  of  his  reign,  con-  that   Hy-Liathaiu  did   not  extend  beyond  the 


1579.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1723 

The  sons  of  the  Earl  proceeded  to  destroy,  demolish,  burn,  and  completely 
consume  every  fortress,  town,  corn-field,  and  habitation  between  those  places 
to  which  they  came,  lest  the  English  might  [get  possession  of  them,  and]  dwell 
m  them  ;  and  [on  the  other  hand],  the  English  consigned  to  a  like  destruction 
every  house  and  habitation,  and  every  rick  and  stack  of  corn,  to  which  they 
came,  to  injure  the  Geraldines,  so  that  between  them  the  country  was  left  one 
levelled  plain,  without  corn  or  edifices.  The  Earl  of  Desmond  then,  accompa- 
nied by  his  relatives  and  the  greatest  number  of  forces  they  were  able  to  muster, 
proceeded  to  plunder  and  burn  the  [possessions  of  the]  Roches  and  Barry, 
in  the  territories  of  Hy-Liathain"  and  Hy-Macaille".  They  encamped  before 
Youghal,  and  finally  took  that  town,  which  at  that  time  was  full  of  riches  and 
goods.  The  Geraldines  seized  upon  all  the  riches  they  found  in  this  town, 
excepting"  such  gold  and  silver  as  the  merchants  and  burgesses  had  sent  away 
in  ships  before  the  town  was  taken.  Many  a  poor,  indigent  person  became  rich 
and  affluent  by  the  spoils  of  this  town.  The  Geraldines  levelled  the  wall  of  the 
town,  and  broke  down  its  courts  and  castles,  and  its  buildings  of  stone  and 
wood,  so  that  it  was  not  habitable  for  some  time  afterwards.  This  was  done 
at  Christmas. 

AVjhieftain's  first  expedition  was  made  in  the  same  week  by  the  Earl  of 
Ormond,  into  the  territory  of  the  Geraldines,  and  proceeded  as  far  as  the  New- 
castle^  whence  he  carried  oiF  all  the  flocks  and  herds  of  the  country  that  he 
could  seize  upon  ;  and  he  returned  back  without  [receiving]  battle  or  conflict, 
because  at  that  time  the  Earl  [of  Desmond]  and  his  relatives  were  in  Kerry. 

Connell  Boy,  the  son  of  Gilla-Patrick,  son  of  Pierce  O'More,  was  slain  at 
Birr,  in  the  territory  of  Ely ;  and  it  was  better^  that  he  was  killed,  for  it  was 
to  plunder  the  town  that  he  had  come. 

River  Blackwater ;  and  Harris,  who  had  access  ''  Hy-Macaille,  now  the  barony  of  Imokilly, 

to    the   Anglo-Irish    authorities,    should   have  in  the  county  of  Cork. 

known  that  Olethan,  which  belonged  first,  after  «  Exceptiiuj. — The  construction  is  here  faulty. 

the    English   invasion,    to   Fitz    Stephen,    and  It  could  be  corrected' by  omitting  ma  ppuaip- 

passed  from  him  to  Barry,  was  not  on  the  east  pioc  and  ann,  when  it  would  read  as  follows  : 

side  of  the  river  of  Youghal,  but  on  the  west;  "  The  Geraldines  seized  upon  all  the  riches  of 

for  in  the   Charter  of  Henry  II.  to  Robert  Fitz  ^his  town,  except,  &e." 

Stephen  and  Milo  de  Cogan,  he  grants  them  the  '  Newcastle,  a  well-known  town  in  the  barony 

lands  "  as  far  as  the  water  near  Lismore,  which  of  Upper  Connello,  and  county  of  Li,merick. 

runs  between  Lismore  and  Cork."  s  It  was  better,  oob  pfpoe  a  mapBao.     This 

10  k  2 


1724  aNNQca  Rioghachca  eiReawN.  [i580. 

Oiluépuf  puaD,  mac  Sfain  na  bfinne  mic  Sfain  |iuai6,  mic  Sfain  na  ppiacal 
í)écc. 

lapla  cloinne  Riocaipo  beoy^  hi  8a;)coib  an  bliaoainp. 

UOIS  CR10SC,  1580. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  ocrmojÉiarr. 

Concobap,  mac  Donnchaió,  mic  concobaip,  mic  coippóearbai^  uí  bpiain, 

lapla  cuabmurhan  pob  eipióe  céo  mac  do  piol  copbmaic  caip  do  pui6  i  náic 

a  arap  op  cuiD  pléacca  lui  jbec  mino  Don  murhain,  popap  do  fappainjj,  ~\  do 

rpeópaij  oplamup  a  arapba  a  larhaib  pinnpeap  do  péip  piajla  -\  pecca  "] 

opDaijre  Ppionnp  Sajran,  do  écc  in  inmfóon  a  aoipi  lap  ccaicfrh  Ifirbliaóna, 

-]  cóicc  mbliaóan  cfrpacarc  ó  a  j^fin  j^o  a  écc,  DÓ  bliaDam  ap  picir  50  Ifir 

Dibpibe  in  aipDcfnoup  a  pine  ~\  hi  ccoonacup  a  clannmaicne   aifiail  beapbap 

an  pann 

pice  bliabain  Do  bi  po 

ip  cúicc  Ifir  bliabna  lána 

ina  lapla  ap  ponn  abap 

Spianja  map  conn  concobap.  "' 

Qn  concobap  ipin  oabnacal  1  mainipnp  innpi,"|  a  mac  Donnchab  DoiponeaD 
ina  lonab. 

TTlac  uiUiam  búpc  Sfain,  mac  oiluepaip,  mic  Sfain,  pfp  coipbfpcac  cpom 
conóijláp  an  ppeapp  pir  inci  pococcab,")  n(')  conccnab  Do  gnár  lap  an  bppionnpa 
Do  écc  -|RipDeapDan  lapainn,  mac  emainn,  mic  uillicc  Dia  oipDneab  pfin  gan 
cencc  Don  Ppionnpa  in  lonaD  Sfain. 

TTlac  UÍ  bomnaill  carbapp,  mac  ITIajniipa,  mic  aoba  Duib,  mic  noba  putJiD 
ranaipi  cenél  cconaiU,  paoi  Deaplaicreac  Diiapmóp  Deijeinij,  IfnDÓn  Deópab, 

is  a  bad  phrase,   and  the  Four  Masters  would  "Son  o/Turlovyh Charles  O'Conor  of  Bela- 

have  sustained  their  dignity  better  if  they  had  nagare  adds,  that  tliis  Turlough  was  "  the  son 

written   it   thus  :    Conatl,  &c.   do   inapBuo   i  of  Teige,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Brian  Chatha 

móioppa  I  noucaij  Bile,  arhail  puiU  a  ópoic-  an  Aenaigh." 

jniorii,   uuip   ip  o'opjain  an  Baile  oo  cáini^,  '  Descendants  of  Luyhaidh  iJeann,  i.  e.   Dal- 

i.  e.  Connell,  &c.  was  killed  at  Birr,  in  the  ter-  Cais. — See  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  82. 

ritory  of  Ely,  as  his  evil  deed  deserved,  for  it  ^  Junior. — He  was  a  junior  according  to  the 

was  to  plunder  the  town  he  came.  Irish  law  of  tanistic  succession. 


1580]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1725 

Oliver  Roe,  the  son  of  John  na  Beinne,  son  of  John  Roe,  who  was  son  of 
John-na-bhfiacal  [Burke]  died. 

The  Earl  of  Clanrickard  remained  in  England  this  year  also. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1580. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  eighty. 

Conor,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough"  O'Brien,  Earl  of 
Thomond,  the  first  man  of  the  descendants  of  Cormac  Cas  who  had  sat  in  his 
father's  place  over  that  portion  of  Munster  possessed  by  the  descendants  of 
Lughaidh  Meann',  a  junior"  branch  [of  his  family],  who  had  wrested  the  govern- 
ment of  his  principality  from  the  hands  of  his  seniors,  according  to  the  laws, 
regulations,  and  ordinances  of  the  sovereign  of  England,  died  in  the  very  prime 
of  his  life,  having  spent  forty-five  and  a  half  years  from  [the  time  of  his]  birth 
to  his  death,  and  twenty-two  and  a  half  of  these  in  [the  enjoyment  of]  the 
chieftainship  of  his  tribe  and  the  command  of  his  people,  as  this  verse  proves : 

Twenty  years  was  he 
And  five  half  years  complete 
Earl  over  the  land  of  Adhar', 
Conor,  like  Conn,  the  sunbright. 

This  Conor  was  interred  in  the  monastery  of  Ennis ;  and  his  son,  Donough, 
was  installed""  in  his  place. 

Mac  William  Burke  (John,  son  of  Oliver,  son  of  John),  a  munificent  and 
very  afiluent  man,  who  preferred  peace  to  the  most  successful  war,  and  who 
always  aided  the  sovereign,  died  ;  and  Richard-an-Iarainn,  the  son  of  UUck, 
installed  himself  in  John's  place,  without  the  permission  of  the  sovereign. 

The  son  of  O'Donnell  (Caffar,  the  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Hugh  Duv,  son  of 
Hugh  Roe),  Tanist  of  Tirconnell,  (a  man)  of  a  bounteous,  munificent,  and  truly 
hospitable  character,  and  the  favourite  of  the  distressed  and  the  learned  of  the 

'  The  land  of  Adhar,    i.  e.  of  Magh  Adhar,  Mac  Neill,  p.  47- 

which  is  here  put  for  Thomond  by  a  poetical  ■"  TFos  instaUed,    ooipDneaó — This  word  is 

license,  as  the  mound  on  which  the  O'Briens  incorrect,    because  his  son  succeeded   without 

were  inaugurated   is  situated   in   the  plain  of  any  inaugural  ceremony  according  to  the  law  of 

Magh   Adhair. — See    Circuit   nf  Muircheartach  England. 


1726  aNNQi-a  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [1580. 

-]  oámpccol  cuaiyceipc  6]ieann  oécc  ina  baile  pfin  .1.  an  pjapbh  folap  an 
15  nocrobep,  1  a  abnacal  1  noiin  na  njall. 

O  bepn  caócc  ócc,  mac  caiócc,  mic  caipppi,  mic  maoileaclainn,  mac 
Ifi^incc  Irtn  oipbeapc  a  ciuil  1  i  ccanóin  do  écc, -|  a  abuacal  1  noilpinn, -j  a 
Deapbparaiji  caipppe  do  j^abail  a  lonaió. 

ITlac  rhec  Donnchaió  cípe  hoilella  .i.TTlaolpuanaib,  mac  cacail,  mic  eojain 
piaóai^e  puileac  popbpaoileac,  niaco  lé  narhair,  connalbai^  lé  capair  Do 

écc. 

Uaócc  piabac,  mac  eojccin,  mic  concobaip,  mic  caiócc  uí  ouboa  do  ccc. 

Oomnall,  mac  raibcc,  mic  concobaip,  ui  bpiain  Décc,  1  a  aónacal  1  main- 
ipcip  innpi. 

Gojan  mac  ruarail  bailb  ui  jallcnbaip  Dfccanac  páca  bor  Do  écc  an.  22. 
la  00  mi  occobep. 

TTlac  meg  eocaccain  T?oppa,  mac  conla,  mic  concobaip,  mic  laijne  Do 
mapbab  50  miojaolmap  la  a  Deapbparaip  .1.  la  bpian.  Rob  longnaó  lai^fcc 
cenenil  piachacb  Dpinfcap, -|  nác  paibe  l?oppa  ace  na  uapal,"]  uprhóp  pfp 
nGpeann  accá  eccaoíne.  l?o  jabaD  Dna  acoip  na  cloinne  pin  lap  an  lupcip 
po  óáij  acbfipri  co  mbaoi  cuirr  Dópom  ipin  ppingail  pin  a  cloinne. 

Semup  ÓCC,  mac  Semaip,  mic  Sfam,  mic  romaip  lapla  Do  Dol  do  npuim  a 
Dibfipcce  DiappaiD  cpfice  i  mupccpaije,  -\  copbmac,  mac  ramcc,  mic  copb- 
maic  óicc  mic  copbmaic,  mic  caibcc  meg  capraij  (njeapna  an  cipe)  r.o  bfic 
CO  lion  a  pocpaiDe  i  raon  maijin  ap  a  cionn  an  aDliaib  pin.  Ro  haipnfibeab 
DO  pibe  Semup  do  bol  caipip  ipin  rip.  Do  coib  lapam  copbmac  in  lonab 
epbalca  in  \\o  ha  DÓ15  laip  Semup  cia  paijib,  1   po  geib  Semup  co  cpeic 

°  jS'3'cií'WwAote,  now  ScarrifiFliollis,  on  the  south  respect  by  the  Duke,  that  he  is  said  to  have 

bank  of  the  River  Swilly,  and  about  two  miles  boasted,  on  returning  among  his  sept,  that  "  he 

to  the  west  of  the  town  of  Letterkenny,  in  the  had  given  peace  to  the  King's  Lieutenant." — 

county  of  Donegal.     This  place  is  well  known  See   Leland's  History  of  Ireland,  vol.  ii.  p.  35. 

in  modern   Irish  history,  in  consequence  of  a  Campion,  however,  who  wrote  in  1571,  informs 

battle    fought    here    in    1650,     in    which    the  us,  that  Mageoghegan  was  then  "  but  a  meane 

Irish  were  defeated,  and  cut  oiF  with  dreadful  Captaine,  yeelding  his  winnings  to  the  stronger." 

slaughter.  — Historie  of  Ireland,   Dublin  reprint  of  1809, 

°  Hoio  small. — Mageoghegan  was  so  powerful  p.  148. 
in  the  year  1449,  that  when  he  was  summoned  ■'  Cormac,  the  son  ofTeige. — This  Cormac,  who 

by  Richard  Plantagenet,  Duke  of  York,  to  make  was  then  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Cork,  proved 

his  submission,  he  was  treated  with  so  much  so   loyal   to   the   English   cause   that  he  was 


1580.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1727 

north  of  Ireland,  died  in  his  own  mansion  seat  of  Sgarbhsholas",  on  the  15th 
of  October,  and  was  buried  at  Donegal. 

O'Beirne  (Teige  Oge,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Carbry,  son  of  Melaghlin), 
a  learned  student,  very  celebrated  for  his  knowledge  of  the  civil  and  the  canon 
law,  died,  and  was  buried  at  Elphin  ;  and  his  brother,  Carbry,  took  his  place. 

The  son  of  Mac  Donough  of  Tirerrill  (Mulrony,  the  son  of  Cathal,  son  of 
Owen),  a  sanguine  and  convivial  huntsman,  fierce  to  an  enemy,  [and]  kind  to 
a  friend,  died. 

Teige  Reagh,  the  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Teige  O'Dowda,  died. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Conor  O'Brien,  died,  and  was  buried  in 
the  monastery  of  Ennis. 

Owen,  the  sou  of  Tuathal  Balbli  O'Gallaghei',  Deacon  of  Raphoe,  died  on 
the  22  nd  of  October. 

The  son  of  Mageoghegan  (Rossa,  the  son  of  Conla,  son  of  Conor,  son  of 
Laighne)  was  uniraternally  killed  by  his  brother  Brian.  It  was  wonderful  how 
small"  the  inheritance  of  the  Kinel-Fiagha  was  at  this  time,  for  Rossa  was  only 
a  [private]  gentleman  ;  he  was,  nevertheless,  lamented  by  the  greater  number 
of  the  men  of  Ireland.  The  father  of  these  sons  was  taken  prisoner  by  the 
Lord  Justice,  because  it  was  reported  that  he  had  participated  in  this  fratricide. 

James  Oge,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas  the  Earl  [of 
Desmond],  set  out  in  rebellion  to  seek  a  prey  in  Muskerry  ;  but  Cormac,  the 
son  of  Teige"",  son  of  Cormac  Oge,  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  Teige  Mac  Carthy, 
Lord  of  the  country,  had  all  his  forces  assembled  to  oppose  him.  Cormac, 
being  informed  that  James  had  passed  by  him,  proceeded  to  a  certain  place, 
through  which  he  knew  James  would  pass  ;  and  he  soon  perceived  James 

knighted  by  the  Lord  Deputy,  Sir  Henry  Sidney,  royam  regiiiiiouhini   Cormaci   Mac  Teg  (quem 

who  was  so  well  pleased  with  him  that,   in  a  .Jvisticiarius  ea  lege  dimiserat,  ut  de  patria  con- 

letter  of  his  sent  to  England,   he  stated  that,  tra  rebelles  bene  mereretur)  de  pra;datiis  incidit 

"  for  his  loyalty  and  civil  disposition,  Sir  Cor-  in    Douellum    Cormaci  fratreni,    qui   prsedam, 

mack  Mac  Teige,  of  Miiscry  was  the  rarest  man  pluribus  csesis,  recuperavit,   .Jacobura  \Tilnere 

that  ever  was  born  of  the  Irishry."     Cainden  lethali  sauciatum  cepit,  Warhamoque  S.  Legero 

says,  in  his  Annals  of  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  Marescallo  Moinoniae,  et  Waltero  Ralegho  (qui 

that  it  was  Daniel  Mac  Teige,  the  brother  of  nunc   primum  ordines  du.xit)  Illi  in  judicium 

Cormac,  that  defeated  and  took  James  of  Des-  vocarunt,  et  Majestatis  reuui  peractum  usitato 

mond.     His  words  are  as  follows  :  proditorum  supplicio  affecerunt,  capite  Corcagii 

"  Jacobus  Desmonius  Comitis  frater  Muske-  porta-  in  spectaculum  prelixo." 


1728  aNHQta  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1580. 

cuicce  1  ]io  lonnpai^  é  co  po  mayibab  1  co  |io  muóaijeaó  uprhóp  a  muincipe. 
-|  ]\o  gabab  Semuf  buóéin, -|  po  ciiipeab  illairh  50  copccn^.  6ai  a  njap  Do 
rhi  ij'in  mbaile  pin,  "|  iillmuccaó  báip  jctc  aen  la  pip  an  pé  pin  aicce  050 
óéncirh  aip  péin,-]  é  aj  oenarii  airpije  ina  peaccoib,-]  ace  mppaió  mairme  ina 
mijniorriaib.  Uainicc  pccpibfnD  1  cciViD  na  pee  pm  on  lupcip  1  on  ccomaiple 
Ó  ar  clmr  co  copcaij  Dia  popconjpa  pop  an  mepa  an  paép  rhacaerh  t)o 
malaprnuccab,"]  cfcpamna  corhpomnre  do  Dénarh  De,i  a  poDail  1  molpaipcib. 

00  pónaó  laporh  inopin. 

Semup,  mac  Sfam  óicc,  mic  Sfain,  nnc  comaip  lapla  do  mapbaó  pan 
ccoccaó  ccéDna  lá  rijfpna  popail  bpiain,-|  caippcce  ó  ccoinnell  .1.  bpian  Dub 
mac  marjamna  mic  DonnchaiD,  mic  bpiam  Duib  ui  bpiain,  -\  po  baoi  Díol  a 
arapDa  DoiDpe  ipin  Semup  pin. 

Semup,  mac  muipip,  mic  geapoicc,  mic  comaip  lapla  do  mapbab  ap  an 
ccoccab  cceona  Depcop  Do  peilep  1  nDopup  Gócaille. 

6mann,  mctc  maolmuipe,  mic  DonnchaiD,  mic  roippbealbaij^,  mec  puibne 
a  cuacaibh  ropaije  Do  Dol  do  benarh  cpeice  pop  Dpuing  do  na  Dibfpccacaib 
50  glfnD  plfipcci.  O  Oonnchaba  ~\  mac  Deapbparap  Don  emann  pin  .1.  jopppaib 
cappac  macDonnchaibbacaij  Dobpfirpop  emann,"]  a  rhapbab  co  mipccneac 
miojaolmap, -]  ni  baoi  1  nGpinn  an  aDbaiD  pin  aon  mac  gallócclai^  ap  mo  do 
cfnDaig  Dpt'on,  "]  Deiccpi  ma  an  cémann  pin. 

r?olonc,  mac  Remainn,  mic  uiUicc  cnuicc  cuaj  eppcop  cluana  pfpca  Decc, 

1  pob  oDbap  eccaoine  ina  rip  pfipin  Dir  an  Dfijpip  pin. 

O  SuiUebain  mop  Decc  .1.  Domnall  mac  DomnaiU,  1  a  mac  (eoccan)  DoipD- 
neab  ma  lonab. 

Oonnchab,  mac  maoileaclainn  mec  gopmain  mic  maoileaclamn  Duib  Do 
écc. 

Qn  lupcip  Sip  uiUiam  pellham  do  cop  pccpibeann  i  pap^oib  lap  noolaicc 
móip  na  bliabna  po  DiappaiD  an  Ctmbpael  1  coblaij  na  bainpiojan  50  niom- 
pulancc  loin  "|  opoanaip  moip  do  cop  co  hGpinn  po  Daij  jabala  ina  mbaoi  do 
mbailnb  pfin  aj  ^fpalcacoib.  bácrap  lacc  pibe  eap  geibnne,  baile  ui  jeilea- 

''  The  maynr. — This  should  be  Warham  St.  f  Pohhle-Brien,   now  the  barony   of  Pobble- 

Leger,  Marshal  of  Munster,  to  whom  a  commis-  brien,    in  the  county   of  Limerick,    the   chief 

siou  of  martial  law  had  been  sent  on  the  1 1  th  castle  of  which  was  Carrigogunnell. 

of  February,  1579.  '  Tuatha  Toraighe,  i.e.  the  districts  opposite 


1580.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1729 

coming  towards  him  with  a  prey,  and  he  attacked  him,  and  slew  and  destroyed 
the  greater  number  of  his  people.  James  himself  was  taken,  and  sent  to  Cork 
to  be  imprisoned.  He  was  [confined]  nearly  a  month  in  this  town,  daily  pre- 
paring himself  for  death,  doing  penance  for  his  sins,  and  asking  forgiveness  for 
his  misdeeds.  At  the  end  of  that  time  a  writ  arrived  from  Dublin  from  the 
Lord  Justice  and  the  Council,  ordering  the  mayor""  to  put  that  noble  youth  to 
death,  and  cut  him  in  quarters  and  little  pieces.     This  was  accordingly  done. 

James,  the  son  of  John  Oge,  son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas  the  Earl  [of  Des- 
mond], was  slain  in  the  course  of  the  same  war  by  the  Lord  of  Pobble-Brien' 
and  Carigogimnell,  namely,  by  Brian  Duv,  the  son  of  Mahon,  son  of  Donough, 
son  of  Brian  Duv  O'Brien.  This  James  was  worthy  to  have  inherited  the  prin- 
cipality of  his  ancestors. 

James,  the  son  of  Maurice,  son  of  Garrett,  son  of  Thomas  the  Eail,  was 
killed  in  the  same  war  by  the  shot  of  a  ball  in  the  gateway  of  Youghal. 

Edraond,  the  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Turlough  Mac 
Sweeny,  of  Tuatha  Toraighe",  went  \o  Glenflesk'  to  take  a  prey  from  some  of 
the  insurgents ;  [but]  O'Donohoe  and  a  brother's  son  of  Edmond  himself,  namely, 
Godfrey  Carragh,  the  son  of  Donough  Bacagh,  overtook  Edmond,  and  killed 
him,  spitefully  and  unbecomingly  ;  and  there  was  not  at  that  time  in  Ireland 
any  son  of  a  gallowglass  [chieftain]  who  had  purchased  more  wine  or  poetry 
than  this  Edmond. 

Eoland,  the  son  of  Redmond,  son  of  Ulick  [Burke]  of  Knocktua,  Bishop  of 
Clonfert,  died  ;  and  the  loss  of  this  good  man  was  the  cause  of  great  lamenta- 
tion in  his  own  country.  ■;♦ 

O'Sullivan  More,  i.  e.  Donnell,  son  of  Donnell,  died  ;  and  his  son,  Owen, 
was  installed  in  his  place. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Melaghlin,  son  of  Melaghlin  Duv  Mac  Gorman,  died. 

The  Lord  Justice,  Sir  William  Pellham,  wrote  to  England  after  Christmas 
ill  this  year,  requesting  that  an  admiral  and  the  Queen's  fleet,  with  a  sufficient 
quaiitity  of  provisions  and  a  great  ordnance,  should  go  to  Ireland,  for  tlie  pur- 
pose of  taking  from  the  Geraldines  all  the  towns  in  their  possession.     These 

Tory  Island,  in  the  barony  of  Kilmacrenan,  and  in  the  barony  of  Magunihy,  and  county  of  Kerry, 
county  of  Donegal.  — See  note  ^  under  the  year  1524,    p.  1374, 

'  Glenflesk,  i.  e.  the  rale  of  the  River  Flesk,      supra.  ' 

10  L 


1730  awNata  Rioshachca  eiReawN.  [i580. 

cain,  "1  cappacc  on  puill.  T?o  rionóilfn  mó|ifluaicceoó  pfp  mióe,  pine  jail, 
"1  laijTn,  "I  beóp  inci  mbaoi  pó  olicclieao  ó  boinn  co  comap  cpi  nuipcce  lap  an 
lupcip,"]  Ic'i  liiapla  upmuman  do  6ol  i  ngfiialracotb  ^m  péil  bpijoe  do  ponnpaó. 
bá  haóbal  an  cpocpaicce  plóij  cónaic  lapla  upmuman  ipin  roicfpral  pin,"] 
ni  po  haipipeaó  laipibe  co  pamic  co  copcaij.  LiiiD  an  luprip  co  lion  a  cionoil 
CO  luimneac  i  jep  bo  pion  aóuaip,  fppcaióe  ann  an  can  y^in,  ni  po  aipip  cen- 
mocá  aom  cpeaccmain  ace  acnuabuccao  ainnala  *]  bib  Dia  paijoiuipib  ipin 
maijin  pin.  CuiD  appibe  piap  Deap  Don  ofip  bicc,  -\  Don  máij  maijpi j  50  po 
jab  longpopc  1  cconallcoib.  Ro  léicc  pcceirhelcca  pccaoilre  uaDa  gup  an 
ccoill  móip  50  coillcib  claonjlaipi,  1  co  Dpoibelaib  Delcce.  Ni  po  Dechaib 
rpocaipe  Do  cpen  no  do  cpuaji;  gup  a  panjup  ann  pin.  Nip  bo  maccab  jac 
aon  ba  inécra  do  mapbab,  ace  po  mapbab  ano  Doill, "]  Daoine  Dfpoile,  l?o 
mapbab  ann  mná,  meic,  Scceo  injfna  aopgalaip,  eccuinn,"]  aop  appam.  l?iic- 
cab  a  ccpob  "]  a  ccpfca  gup  an  ccampa  Do  paiccliib  an  lupcip-  r?o  páccbab 
Dponga  Deapmapa  Do  Sha^rcmcoibli  la  luce  na  ccpeac  ]^in  ma  niapriióipecc. 
Gpeab  po  cinn  an  lupcip  Dol  1  cciappaije,"]  po  apccna  co  rfitiaip  luacpa, -] 
luib  laporh  co  cpaijli,  -|  Do  muincin  plebe  mip  injine  muipfba  mic  cciipfba. 
Uánaic  lapla  upmuman  6  copcaij  co  ciappai je  1    ccombáil  an  luprip.     5á 

"  Baile-Ui-Gheileachain,    i.  e.   O'Geilaghan's  in  the  county  of  Limerick. — See  note '',  under 

town.     Camden  calls  this  castle  Ballyloghuni,  the  year  1560,  p.  1580,  stipra. 
and  Cox,  Ballyloghane.     It  is  the  place   now  '  The  salmon-ftdl  Maigue. — The  Eiver  Maigue, 

called  Ballinloughaue,  situated  in  the  parish  of  called  in  Irish  an  ITlhaij,  rises  in  the  barony  of 

Dunmoylan,  barony  of  Shanid  (anciently  Lower  Upper  Connello,  in  the  county  of  Limerick,  and, 

Connellaj^   and  county  of  Limerick,  and  about  flowing   through  Cruree,    Croom,   and  Adare, 

three  miles  from  Askeaton.  pays  its  tribute  to  the  Shannon  nearly  opposite 

"  Carraic-an-phuill,  i.  e.  the  rock  of  the  hole,  Bunratty   in   the  county  of  Clare,    and  about 

now  anglice  Carrigafoyle,  an  island  in  the  Shan-  nine  miles  to  the  west  of  the  city  of  Limerick, 

lion,  about  two  miles  to  the  west  of  Ballylong-  This    river   was    the    boundary   between    Ara- 

tbrd,  in  the  barony  of  Iraghticonor,  and  county  Cliach  and  Hy-Figeinte,and  traverses  the  richest 

of  Kerry.     Near  the  shore  are  some  remains  of  plain  in  all  Ireland.  It  is  called  an  ITlhaij  liiall, 

Carrigafoyle   Castle,     the    chief  stronghold    of  i.  e.    the   sluggish   Maigue,   by   O'Heerin,   and 

O'Conor  Kerry,  who  was  chief  of  Iraghticonor,  TDaij  na  majic,  i.  e.  the  Maigue  of  the  beeves, 

butat  this  period  subject  to  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  by  John  O'Tuama,  the  local  bard  of  the  last 

^Meeting  of  the  Three  Waters. — See  note'',  century.    The  epithet  itiaijpeac,  i.  e.  "abound- 
under  the  year  1558,  p.  1561,  sivpra.  ing  in  salmon,"  is  also  applicable  to  it. 

1  Deis-beag,  a  territory  lying  round  the  hiU  ^CoiU-mhor,  now  Kilmore,  in  the  north  of  the 

of  Knockany,  and  containing  the  town  of  BrufF,  barony  of  Orbhraighe  and  Coill-mhor,   anglii 


ice 


1580.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1731 

were  Askeaton,  Baile-Ui-Ghejleachain",  and  Carraic-an  phuill".  A  great  muster 
was  made  of  the  men  of  Meatli,  Fingal,  and  Leinster,  and  of  all  those  who  were 
subject  to  the  laws  [of  England],  from  the  Boyne  to  the  Meeting  of  the  Three 
Waters",  by  the  Lord  Justice  and  the  Earl  of  Ormond,  about  the  festival  of 
St.  Bridget,  for  the  purpose  of  marching  into  the  territory  of  the  Geraldines. 
The  Earl  of  Ormond  joined  this  muster  with  an  immense  host.  He  made  no 
delay,  but  marched  on  to  Cork.  The  Lord  Justice  proceeded  with  all  his  forces 
to  Limerick ;  and  although  it  was  at  that  time  cold  Spring  weather,  he  delayed 
in  that  town  only  a  week,  to  furnish  his  soldiers  with  arms  and  provisions  there. 
Thence  he  proceeded  south-west,  by  Deis-beag^  and  along  the  salmon -full 
Maigue\  and  pitched  his  camp  in  Hy-Connello.  He  sent  forth  loose  marauding- 
parties  into  Coill-mor\  into  the  woods  of  Claenglaise,  and  into  the  wilds  of 
Delge".  These,  wheresoever  they  passed,  shewed  mercy  neither  to  the  strong 
nor  the  weak.  It  was  not  wonderful  that  they  should  kill  men  fit  for  action, 
but  they  killed  blind  and  feeble  men,  women,  boys,  and  girls,  sick  persons, 
idiots,  and  old  people.  They  carried  their  cattle  and  other  property  to  the 
Lord  Justice's  camp;  but  great  numbers  of  the  English  were  slain  by  the  plun- 
dered parties,  who  followed  in  pursuit  of  the  preys.  The  Lord  Justice  then 
resolved  upon  passing  into  Kerry  ;  and  he  proceeded  to  Teamhair-Lllachra^ 
thence  to  Tralee,  and  along  the  base  of  the  mountain  of  Mis",  the  daughter  of 
Muireadha,  the  son  of  Caireadh.  The  Earl  of  Ormond  [also]  marched  from 
Cork  to  Kerry,  to  join  the  Lord  Justice.    On  this  occasion  they  lost  a  countless 

Orrery  and  Kilmore,  in  the  north  of  the  county  was  originally  far  more  extensive  than  the  dis- 

of  Cork.    The  Down  Survey  shews  a  large  wood  trict  now  called  Sliabh  Luaohra,  for  we  have 

in  the  north  of  this  barony — See  note  under  the  authority  of  the  Life  of  St.  Ida,  published 

the  year  1582.  by  Colgan,  at  15th  January,  that  the  church  of 

^  Delge,  nowDelliga,  iu  the  parish  of  Kilbolane,  Cill-Ida,  now  Killeedy,  in  the  barony  of  Upper 

barony  of  Orrery  and  Kilmore,  in  the  county  Connello,  in  the  south  of  the  county  of  Limerick, 

of  Cork,  adyoining  Limerick.  was  at  the  foot  of  Sliabh  Luachra.     It  also  ap- 

"^  Teamlmir-Luackra. — This  name  is  now  ob-  pears  from  several  old  maps  of  Ireland  in  the  State 
solete,  but  its  situation  is  still  pointed  out  by  Papers'  Office,  London,  that  Slewlogher  extended 
Beal-Atha-na-Teamhrach,  a  ford  in  the  parish  into  the  counties  of  Kerry  and  Limerick, 
of  Dysart,  near  the  little  town  of  Castle-Island,  <*  The  mountain  of  Mis,  now  Slievemish,  a 
in  the  county  of  Kerry.  This  whole  district  mountain  in  the  barony  of  Troughanacmy,  and 
was  originally  called  Sliabh  Luachra  and  Lua-  county  of  Kerry.  Cox  says  that  the  Lord  Jus- 
chair  Deagliaidh  ;  but  it  should  be  remarked,  tice  "having  marched  as  far  as  Slewemiss,  be- 
that  Luachair  Deaghaidh,   or  Sliabh  Luachra,  yond  Traley,  and  not  being  able  to  pass  farther, 

10  L  2 


1732  aNNQi-a  Ri05hachca  eiueaNN.  [i580. 

t)ipimh  an  po  páccbaó  Deacaib,  ■)  t»o  óaoínib  gan  puiliuccaó,  jan  popófpccaD 
lá  met)  a  napraip  i  a  ninnceccn, -]  la  cfiiice  bib  Oon  cup  pin. 

6á  he  pin  lonam  cansaccap  cohlac  na  bainpiojna  ap  cópcaóaib  na 
liepeann,  1  ni  po  galipacc  pop  50  pangaccap  co  cuan  pionna  ppiobsloine,"]  po 
IficcpCcc  a  nanjcaipe  amac  pop  an  aiccen  po  upcomaip  caippce  an  puill  gac 
noipeac.  Uánaic  an  lupcip  "]  lapla  iipmuman  pop  cip  Do  paijIiiD  an  baile 
ceDna  co  po  puióisÍD  Da  campa  do  muip  -j  Do  cip  ma  nmcell.  Oo  cóió  Dm 
Sip  niclap  malbi  co  mainb  cóicciD  connacc,  ~\  co  nopuinj  oipime  Do  Sha;can- 
coib  1  ccuaómuriiain  pó  Daij  ná  léiccpeaó  anppoplann  mapa  no  ripe  no 
paijiD  an  liipcip  an  ccfin  no  biab  lé  haghaió  glan  bailcfo  geapalrac.  Dala 
an  lupcip  po  popconjaip  pióe  an  copDanap  mop  pm  cainicc  cuicce  do  rap- 
paing  1  ccip  -|  po  puiDijfó  cóicc  gonnq  mopa  po  corhaip  na  caipje  Dia  caiceam 
jan  coiccill.  Qrbfipri  jup  bo  Ifrcanóin  an  gonna  ba  lucca  Dibh.  Ro  gab- 
]'acc  ace  Diubpaccab  an  baile  laporh.  Ni  bai  cpa  ó  capn  bpfippi  mic  ealaran 
mic  nfiD  I  niaprap  Dfipceipc  cóicció  cloinne  Deipcccine,  50  cnoc  mfópiúil  1 
cconnaccaib,  Diarhaip,  na  Dpoibel,  pan,  no  poiripjleanc  nac  clop  puaim,  1 
porpam  an  opDanaip  anaicniD  lonjnair  pin.  T?o  líccaó  Dna  po  óeóió  an  Ifr 
piap  DO  cappaicc  an  puill  ó  lap  50  Ion  mullac,  -\  po  ba  corhmbpúD  "|  comcui- 
cim  Don  bapoa  -j  Don  baile  na  ccfnD  poppa.  i?o  jabaó  an  baile  lap  an  lupcip, 
"]  po  an  ppi  pé  cóicc  noióce  ipin  ccappaicc  lap  na  gabáil.  Qpeao  Do  óeacliaiD 
a  ccionn  na  pee  pin  50  hfpjebcme.     Or  cualaccap  bapDa  baile  í  jeilfcain, 

resolved  to  besiege  Carrigifoyle,  which  was  Des-  theu  garrisoned  with  nineteen  Spaniards  and 

inond's  chief  strength."  fifty  Irish,  under  one  Julio,  an  Italian  engineer. 

'  Two  camps. — This  language  is  not  correct,  Cox  adds,   that  the   Lord   Justice,    coming  to 

because  a  camp  of  ships  is  a  solecism.    It  should  view  it,   had  like  to  have  been  killed  with  a 

be  also  remarked,   that  none  of  the  English  or  musket-shot ;   that  he  nevertheless  persevered 

Anglo-Irish  writers  make  mention  of  Her  Ma-  in  his  resolution,  and  caused  the  castle  to  be 

jesty's  fleet  having   put   into  the   Shannon   to  battered  with  three  cannon,   a  culverin,  and  a 

storm  the  Castle  of  Carrigafoyle,  on  this  occa-  demi-culverin,  till  a  breach  was  made,  at  which 

sion.     Winter,  Vice- Admiral  of  England,  came  Captain  Mackworth  entered  and  took  the  castle, 

about  this  period  to  cruise  about  the  coast,  and  putting  fifty  to  the  sword,  and  taking  six  whom 

prevent   the    Spaniards  from   landing    if  they  he  executed  in  the  camp.     He  also  adds,  that 

should    come.      He   put   into    the   harbour    of  "  Captain   Julio   was   preserved    two  or  three 

Ventry,  but,  growing  impatient,  he  returned  to  days  for  certain  considerations,"  and  that  "  then, 

England  about   the    21st  of  September. — See  not  complying  with  the  Lord  Justice's  expec- 

Camden's  Annals,   A.  D.  1580.     According  to  tations,  he  was  hanged." 

Ware's  Annals,  the  castle  of  Carrigafoyle  was  '  The  Rock This  was  a  name  given  to  the 


1580.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1733 

number  of  men  and  horses,  without  bloodshed  or  slaughter,  by  the  length  of 
their  march  and  journey,  and  a  scarcity  of  provisions. 

It  was  at  this  time  that  the  Queen's  fleet  reached  the  coast  of  Ireland  ;  and 
they  made  no  delay  until  they  entered  the  harbour  of  the  glassy-waved  Shannon, 
and  cast  anchor  in  the  sea,  directly  opposite  Carraig-an-Phuill.  The  Lord  Jus- 
tice and  the  Earl  of  Ormond  marched  to  the  same  castle  by  land,  so  that  they 
pitched  two  camps^,  by  sea  and  land,  around  it.  Sir  Nicholas  Malby,  with  the 
chiefs  of  the  province  of  Connaught,  and  a  countless  number  of  Englishmen, 
then  set  out  for  Thomond,  that  they  might  prevent  any  attack,  either  by  sea 
or  land,  which  it  might  be  in  contemplation  to  make  on  the  Lord  Justice,  while 
storming  the  towns  of  the  Geraldines.  As  for  the  Lord  Justice,  he  ordered  the 
great  ordnance  sent  to  him  to  be  landed  ;  and  he  placed  five  great  guns  oppo- 
site the  Rock^  to  play  upon  it  without  mercy.  It  was  said  that  the  least  of 
these  guns  was  a  demi-cannon^.  He  then  began  to  storm  the  castle  ;  and  there 
was  not  a  solitude  or  wilderness,  a  declivity  or  woody  vale,  from  the  Carn  of 
Breas",  the  son  of  Ealathan,  son  of  Neid,  in  the  south-west  of  the  province  of 
Clann-Deirgthine',  to  Cnoc-Meadha-Siuil''  in  Connaught,  in  which  the  sound 
and  roar  of  these  vinknown'  and  wonderful  cannon  were  not  heard.  The  western 
side  of  Carraic-an-phiull  was  at  length  broken  from  the  top  to  the  foundations; 
and  the  warders  were  crushed  to  death  by  its  fall.  The  Lord  Justice  then  took 
the  castle,  and  remained  in  it  five  days  after  he  had  taken  it ;  and  at  the  end 
of  that  time  he  went  to  Askeaton.  When  the  warders  of  Baile-Ui-Gheileachain 

castle  itself  from  its  firmness,  not  of  any  natural  miles  to  the  sout-west  of  Tuani.     It  is  believed 

rock  near  it.     The  rock  of  the  hole,  Cuppaig  a  by  the  peasantry  of  this  part  of  Connaught, 

poill,  means  the  castle  near  the  hole,  from  a  that  this  hill  is  the  principal  residence  of  the 

deep  hole  in  the  Shannon  near  it.  fairies  of  Connaught,  who  are  commanded  by  a 

"  Demi-cannon. — A  demi-cannon  of  the  great-  chief  called  Finvarra See  O'Flahcrty's  Ogyyia, 

est  size  is  a  gun  six  inches  and  six-eighth  parts  part  iii.  c.  1,  where  it  is  stated  that  a  earn  on 

diameter  in  the  bore,  twelve  feet  long.     It  car-  this  hill  is  stated  to  be  the  Carn  Ceasrach  of  the 

ries  a  ball  of  six  inches  five-eighths  diameter,  ancient  Irish  writers, 
and  thirty-six  pounds  weight.  '  Unknown,  unairni»,  i.  e.  hitherto  unknown 

''   Carn  of  Breas,    i.   e.   Carn-Ui-Neid. — See  to  the  Irish.     This  hyperbolical  description  of 

note  under  the  year  1569.  the  storming  of  Carrigafoyle   shews   that   the 

■  The  province  of  Clann-Deirgthine,  i.  e.  Des-  writer  had  but  little  acquaintance  with  the  laws 

mond.  of  sound.     It  looks  very  strange  that  any  man, 

''  Cnoc-Meadha-Siuil,  now  Knockmaa,  barony  be  his  imagination  ever  so  wild,  that  had  ever 

of  Clare,  and  county  of  Galway,  and  about  five  heard  the  tremendous  peals  of  the  artillery  of 


1734  aNNQca  Rioghachca  eiiieawN.  [i580. 

-]  fi'i'ajeibcine  all  goca  aouarmapa  an  opoanai)'  anairnib  nac  clo]'^  leó  a 
^Hxmail  jimiti  5Ú  ]^in,  ]io  jabpac  pop  bpipfo  a  mbailcfb,  "|  ]iainicc  leó  bjiipfb 
haile  Í  jeileacain,"!  ni  po  cumamgpioc  rppgeibcine  Do  bpipfo  ")  ó  nc'tp  péopac 
ní  t>ó  appfó  00  ponpar  ooippi  an  baile  Dpaccbóil  obéla  oplaicce  póupcorhaip 
an  lupnp.  Oo  póccpaó  an  baile  pin  a  mbicDilpi  Don  bainpíojain.  Oo  cóiD 
inporh  on  uipcip  lap  pin  co  Immneac,  -|  baoí  dó  picfc  la  annpaióe  acc  cup  a 
pccípi,  "]  a  infipcin  be,  bcicrap  a  gille  "]  a  eich  pop  coinnrnfo  pfcnón  riiaó- 
murhan  in  apfcr  pin.  Soaip  capa  aip  co  hfpgebcene  un  cniccibip  ap  ccmD  co 
po  cair  peal  Don  cparnpaó  ipin  mbaile  pin,  -]  ní  anao  Do  jpép,  acc  acc 
injpfim  1  ag  abbalpccpiop  geapalrac  do  ló,  -\  DoiDce.  t)á  Don  cup  pin  po 
bápaiccfó  laip  pálcac  Dúna  maoilin  .1.  uillfcc,  mac  uillicc,  niic  uiUicc  mac 
Dall  pi6e  ó  a  gfin  50  a  bap  an  ran  pin.  l?o  mapbaó  laip  beóp  Supélac  cille 
mocua  .1.  Sfan,  "|  nip  bo  hionmapbra  pibe  iDip  ge  po  baoi  cuilleab  ap  ceo 
bliabain  Daoip.  bá  Dípim,  -]  bá  do  aipnfip  an  po  loicpeac  501II  -]  jfpalcaij 
imo  poile  poile  ip  an  can  pa.  Do  cóib  an  lupcip  co  na  plua^  i  cciappai^e,  1 
ni  po  aipip  CO  pamicc  Dainsfn  ícúip.  l?o  lomaó  1  po  Ifip  pccpiopab  laip  blab 
mop  Do  jeapalcachaib  ~\  Do  ciappaije  Don  cup  pin.  U15  appaibe  piaprappna 
na  ccpioc  50  copcaij, "]  rap  a  aip  co  hfpgeibcine,  "|  co  luimneac.  6arcap 
maice  muimneac  (cen  mo  rac  jeapalcaij)  1  njiallnup  occa  Don  cup  pin  .1.  an 
bappac  mop,  bfn  "]  mac  meg  capraij  móip,  Diap  mac  mfic  muipip  ciappai^^e, 
O  Suilleabain  beippe,  TTIac  Donncliaba, "]  mac  meg  capcaij  piabaij. 

Oo  cuippioc  corhaiple  Sha;ran  lupnp  niia  1  nepinn  ipin  ccfiD  mi  Dpogmap 
.1.  lopD  span  (.1.  apcup).  Ro  ba  mo  eippiDe  r)ainm  1  Donoip  ma  Sip  uilliam 
pellliam,  op  a  aoi  ni  rainic  1  nepinn  piam  ap  oipfc  aimpipe  ppip  aon  mac 

heaven  in  Donegal  or   Kerry,  should  have  been  were  the  next  day  taken  and  possessed  by  the 

so  lost  in  amazement  at  the  report  of  a  demi-  English. 

culverin.  "Pi-operíy 6icDilfi  is  the  ancient  Irish  word 

■"  Not  able  to  detstroy. — Ware  says,  in  his  An-  for  what  English  lawyers  called  "  fee-simple." 
nals  of  Ireland,  A.  D.  1580,  that  the  garrison  It  signifies  "  constant  property." 
of  Askeaton,  fearing  to  be  used  as  those  of  Car-  °  (Quartered,  or  billeted, 
rigafoyle  were,  saved  the  army  a  labour,  for  ■■  Faltach  of  Dim-Maoilin,  i.  e.  Wall,  of  Dun- 
that,  taking  advantage  of  the  darkness  of  the  moylan,  in  the  county  of  Limerick,  about  six 
night   following,    they  stole  out  of  the  castle,  miles  north-west  of  the  town  of  Newcastle, 
leaving  a   train   of  gunpowder,   which,  taking  "^  Blind  from  hii  hirth,  literally,   "blind  from 
fire,  burned  some  buildings  in  the  castle,  but  his  birth  to  his  death." 
withoiit  injuring  the  principal   towers,   which  ■■  Ci'íí-J/ocAíía,  now  Kilmacow,  in  the  parish  of 


1580.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1735 

and  Askeaton  heard  the  tremendous  and  terror-waking  roars  of  those  unknown 
guns,  the  hke  of  which  they  had  never  heard  before,  they  proceeded  to  demo- 
lish their  castles,  and  succeeded  in  destroying  Baile-Ui-Gheileachain  ;  but  as 
they  were  not  able  to  destroy"  Askeaton,  they  left  its  gates  wide  open  for  the 
Lord  Justice  ;  upon  which  the  castle  was  proclaimed  the  Queen's  property". 
The  Lord  Justice  then  proceeded  to  Limerick,  where  he  remained  forty  days, 
to  recover  from  his  fatigues  and  recruit  himself ;  and  his  servants  and  horses 
were  during  this  time  quartered"  throughout  Thomond.  About  the  Whitsun- 
tide following  he  returned  to  Askeaton,  and  he  spent  a  considerable  part  of 
the  summer  in  that  town  ;  and  he  never  ceased  by  day  or  night  from  persecu- 
ting and  extirpating  the  Gcraldines.  It  was  on  this  occasion  that  he  put  to 
death  Faltach  of  Dun-Maoilin'',  i.  e.  Ulick,  the  son  of  Ulick,  son  of  Ulick,  a  man 
who  had  been  blind  from  his  birth'.  He  also  killed  Supple  of  Cill-Mochua', 
i.  6.  John,  a  man  whom  it  was  not  becoming  to  have  killed,  for  he  was  upwards 
of  one  hundred  years  of  age.  Countless  and  indescribable  were  the  injuries 
mutually  done  upon  each  other  by  the  English  and  the  Gcraldines  during  this 
time.  The  Lord  Justice  proceeded  with  his  army  to  Kerry,  making  no  delay, 
until  he  arrived  at  Daingean-Ui-Chuis^  on  which  occasion  he  devastated  and 
ravaged  a  great  part  of  the  territory  of  the  Geraldines  and  of  Kerry.  He  then 
passed  by  a  transverse  course,  through  the  intervening  territories,  to  Cork,  and 
bactto  Askeaton  and  to  Limerick.  He  had  [in  his  custody]  the  chiefs  of 
Munster  (the  Geraldines  only  excepted),  as  hostages  on  this  occasion,  namely, 
Barry  More,  the  wife  and  son  of  Mac  Carthy  More,  the  two  sons  of  Mac  Mau- 
rice of  Kerry,  0' Sullivan  Beare,  Mac  Donough',  and  the  son  of  Mac  Carthy 
Reagh. 

The  Council  of  England,  in  the  first  month  of  autumn,  sent  a  new  Lord 
Justice  to  Ireland,  namely,  Arthur  Lord  Gray.  He  was  of  a  higher  title"  and 
honours  than  Sir  William  Pellham,  though  there  had  never  come  to  Ireland  an 

Ballingan-y,    barony    of  Upper  Conuello,    and  of  Wilton,  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  Lord  Ue- 

county  of  Limerick.  puty  of  Ireland.     He  landed  in  Dublin  on  the 

'  Daingean-Ui- Chilis,    i.  e.   Dingle-LCouch,  12th  of  August,  1580,  while  the  Lord  Justice, 

now  the  town  of  Dingle.  Sir  William  Pelham,  was  at  Limerick.     On  the 

'  Mac  Donough,  i.  e.  Mac  Donough  Mac  Car-  6th  of  September,  the   Lord   Justice  óame  to 

thy,  Chief  of  Duhallow,  in  the  county  of  Cork.  Dublin,  and  surrendered  the  sword  to  the  Loifd 

'^Higher  title — Arthur  Lord  Grey  was  Earon  Deputy,  and  then  fet  sail  for  Eiiirlarid. 


173Í)  aNNQi^a  Rioshachca  eiReawN.  [158(). 

Sa;:ariai5  ba  luoimmje  loin  an^rrpije,  -[  ha  huaifle  airfpai^e,  -|  ap  mo  lép 
éipi^  oo  pen  pQibip  ma  an  Sip  inlliam  pin  Do  cuaió  fibe  50  liar  cliac  po 
riiaipim  an  uipcip  pin  rainicc  a  Sa;roib,-|  cucc  an  cloibfm  pop  a  tumap, -]  po 
iinri^  pfin  poip  lap  mbpfir  buaóa  tiia  bioóbaóaib. 

Semup  uprap,  mac  Rolonc,  mic  comaipoo  bpipeaó  a  bailceaó  ap  njóbail 
laip  an  ccpficcfm  ccacolica,  1  ap  noiúlcaó  Da  Ppionnpa,  co  po  eipig  coccao 
1  cfnoaippci  le  linn  an  lupcip  (Qpcliup  lopD  5paii)  do  reacc  i  népinn.  Uan- 
jjnccap  caorhanaij,  •]  cfnnpelai j,  bpanai j,  -\  cuaralai j,  gabal  pajnaill  "|  an 
TnfiD  no  po  Díobaic  Diappma  6  ppailge,  -)  do  laoijip  i  ccobaip  ~\  i  ccommbaiD 
Slieniaip  lupCap,  gup  bo  haen  clap  impfpna  -]  fpaonca  ó  Shláine  co  pionainn, 
-|  o  boinn  CO  comap  cpi  niipcce.  Oo  pónaDh  poplongpopc  lap  na  pojlaóaib 
pémebeprmap  in  lompocpoib  an  cplebe  puaió  "]  jlinne  maoilu^pa. 

Shiaicceab  lap  an  lupcip  -]  la  capcin  maulbi  Do  óol  Do  pccaoileaD  1 
nfippriófó  r\a  ppojlaD  ppoipniocca  pin.  Oo  cualaccap  na  Dibfpccaij  DÓil  a 
nanppoplainn  Dia  nionnpaiochiD,  po  pccaoilpior  ap  a  mjaingnijcib  po  jiiaiUib 
japb  coppa  jlinne  itiaoil  ujpa.  Po  roj  an  lupcip  an  Dponj  ap  mionca  po 
pécchaó  1  po  pporhab  Do  caipcinib  an  cploij,  -]  Do  cuip  leo  a  hocc,  no  anaoi 
DO  banDooib  paijDiúipióe  do  ci'ip  -|  do  raipcelab  jlinne  maoilujpa.  pua- 
paccap  a  pppfccpa  jan  piiipeac  la  poipnib  pop  coirhécca  an  jleanna,  co  nac 
mop  rfpna  cap  o  naip  Don  pfóam  pin,  5an  muDiiccao,  gan  mópaipleac  lap 
an  ngappaiD  ngaoiDelac.     Ro"  mapbab  an  cappúnac  .1.  piociip  cappun,  1 

More  nobly  triuiaphant. — This  character  of  the  panegyrics  of  the  Irish  bards. 
Sir  AVilliam  Pelham    does  not  'exactly   accord  ^  Lord  Justice. — Lord    Gray   was  appointed 

with  his  deeds,  as  described  by  the  Four  Mas-  Lord  Deputy,  but  the  Four  Masters  did  not 

ters  themselves,   such  as  his  having   slain  the  know  those  nice  distinctions,  for  they  designate 

blind,  the  infirm,  the  feeble,  the  women,  chil-  them  all  by  the  term  lupcip,  or  peap  lonao  pij. 
dren,    idiots,   &c.,    in  the  wilds  of  Claenglais,  '  Gaval-EannaU. — They  were  a  branch  of  the 

Coill-mor,  and  Dolliga,  and  his  having  put  to  O'Byrnes,  who  were  seated  in  the  district  called 

death  two  old  gentlemen  of  ancient  respectabi-  the  Ranelagh,  in  the  now  county  of  Wicklow. 
lity,    namely.    Wall,   of  Dunmoylan,   who   was  'iSZiweroc— This  is  unquestionably  theSlieve- 

blind  from  his  birth,  and  Supple,  of  Kihnacow,  rue,  near  Blessington,  in  the  west  of  the  county 

Avho  was  upwards  of  a  hvmdred  years  of  age.  of  Wicklow,   not  the  range  of  the  county  of 

The  praises  betowed  on  cruelty  by  the  Four  Dublin  hills,  which  was  also  called  Sliabh  Ruadh 

Masters,  even  in  their  enemies,  when  successful,  by  the  ancient  Irish. 

shews  a  low  state  of  moral  feeling  or  cultiva-  "  Most   trustworthi/,    literally,    "  the  oftenest 

tion,  and  proves  that  they  wished  to  flatter  the  tried." 
powers  that  were,  which  is  the  crying  sin  of  all  ''  Peter  Carew. — He  was  the  elder  brother  of 


1.580.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OP  IRELAND.  1737 

Englishman  who,  during  the  time  he  remained,  was  more  energetic  iu  his  expe- 
ditions, more  nobly  triumphant",  or  who  had  been  more  successful  in  his  services, 
than  this  William.  He  [Sir  William  Pellham]  went  to  meet  the  new  Lord 
Justice,  who  had  arrived  from  England,  and  gave  up  the  sword  to  Mm  ;  and 
he  then  set  sail  for  England,  having  been  victorious  over  his  enemies. 

James  Eustace,  the  son  of  Roland,  son  of  Thomas,  broke  down  his  castles, 
after  having  embraced  the  Catholic  faith  and  renounced  his  sovereign ;  so  that 
war  and  distiurbance  arose  on  the  ai^rival  of  Arthiu:  Dord  Gray  in  Ireland  as 
Lord  Justice".  The  Kavanaghs,  Kiusellaghs,  Byrnes,  Tooles,  Gaval-RannalF, 
and  the  surviving  part  of  the  inhabitants  of  Oifaly  and  Leix,  flocked  to  the 
assistance  of  James  Eustace  ;  so  that  [the  entire  extent  of  country]  from  the 
Slany  to  the  Shannon,  and  from  the  Boyne  to  the  meeting  of  the  Three  Waters, 
became  one  scene  of  strife  and  dissension.  These  plunderers  pitched  a  camp 
on  the  confines  of  Slieveroe''  and  Glenmalure. 

A  hosting  was  made  by  the  Lord  Justice  and  Captain  Malby,  to  scatter  and 
disperse  these  warlike  plunderers.  When  the  insurgents  had  heard  of  the 
approach  of  such  an  overwhelming  force,  they  retreated  into  their  fastnesses  in 
the  rough  and  rugged  recesses  of  Glenmalure.  The  Lord  Justice  then  selected 
the  most  trustworthy"  and  best  tried  captains  of  his  army,  and  despatched  them, 
at  the  head  of  eight  or  nine  companies  of  soldiers,  to  search  and  explore  Glen- 
malure ;  but  they  were  responded  to  without  delay  by  the  parties  that  guarded 
the  valley,  so  that  very  few  of  these  returned  without  being  cut  off  and  dread- 
fully slaughtered  by  the  Irish  party.     On  this  occasion  were  slain  Peter  Carew", 

Sir  George  Carew,  who  remained  with  the  Lord  that  the  claim  of  Thomas  de  Carew,  asserting 

Deputy  on  the  mountain.     In  the  reign  of  Ed-  that  he  and  his  ancestors  were  heirs  to  Fitz- 

ward  III.  Thomas  de  Carew  set  up  a  claim,  as  Stephen,  could  not  be  true,   because  the  said 

heir  to  Fitz- Stephen,  to  all  his  ancient  estates  in  Fitz-Stephen  was  a  Bastard,  and  died  without 

Cork.     But  by  an  Inquisition  taken  at  Cork,  heir  of  his  body." 

before  Sir  Anthony  Lucy,  Lord  Justice  of  Ire-  Notwithstanding   this  Inquisition,   the   title 

land,  on  the  31st  of  August,  in  the  fifth  year  of  was  again  set  up  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Eliza- 

the  reign  of  Edward  III.,   it   was  found  that  beth,   A.  D.  1568,    by  Sir  Peter  Carew,  who, 

"  Robert  Fitz-Stephen  died  seized  of  the  moiety  "  inveniens  rotulam  evidentiarum,"  brought  his 

of  the  estate  granted  by  Henry  II.  to  him  and  cause  before  the  Lords  of  the  Council,  and  came 

Milo  de  Cogan,   and  that  the  said  Fitz-Stephen  to  Ireland  fully  resolved  to  prosecute  the  reco- 

was  a  Bastard"  [not  legitimated  by  Act  of  Par-  very  of  this  ancient  estate.    Sir  Peter  laid  claim 

liament],  '-and  died  without  issue  of  his  body;  to  the  barony  of  Idrone,  in  the  county  of  Carlow, 

10  M 


1738 


awwaca  líio^hacbca  eiReaNw. 


[1580. 


TTIaijifcip  muap  .1.  Seon,  1  TTlaijifciii  ppany^.  l?o  mayibao  ann  ono  ojionj 
DO  Daoinib  iioiple  cainic  anoiii  1  nsápoa  an  lupcip  pin.  T?o  púccaib  an  lufci]' 
a  poplonjpojic  myi  poccain  na  pccel  pin  Dia  paijió. 

Uánaic  coblac  eaoaiUeac  do  rhuinnp  an  papa  1  mi  mfóoin  an  pojrhaip 
1  cciappaije.  Ro  ba  mo  a  nainm  na  a  ccócacr  uaip  baoi  Dia  naipofipce 
ceccup  Diamab  illuinwieach  no  1  nsaillim,  no  i  ccopcaij  ciapraip  co  ppinc- 
piDe  na  hapobailce  pin  obela  oplaicce  pop  a  ccionn.  5a  hann  po  jabpar 
pope  occ  an  oilén  po  cionnpccain  Semiip  nmc  muipip  do  curiiDac  an  bliaoam 
poirhe  .1.  Dim  an  óip.  ba  pfó  poDeapa  Don  coblac  í  pin  cocc  1  nepinn  do  conj- 


tlien  in  possession  of  the   Kavanaglis,   and  to 
oue-lmlf  of  the  kingdom  of  Cork  [a  kingdom  that 
never  existed],   which,   according  to  a  forged 
roll  which  was  received  as  evidence,  contained 
the   following    territories,    namely :    Imokilly, 
Tyrbarry,  Muskerry,  Tyrcourcy,  Carbery,  Ki- 
nelmeaky,  Collymore,  Collybeg,  Ivahagh,  Son- 
nagh   O'Douovan    [Castle-Donovan],    Bantry, 
Beare,  Muntervary,  Clandonough,  Cloighboigh, 
Iveragh,  Kerricurrihy,  Clanmorris,  Iraghticonor, 
Duhallow,  and  Coshbride  ;  and  the  corrupt  go- 
vernment of  the    day  allowed    this    ludicrous 
claim,  with  a  view  to  frighten  the  Earl  of  Des- 
mond and  his  followers.     The  allowance  of  this 
claim  by  the  Irish  Council  so  alarmed  the  acute 
and  accomplished  Sir  Cormac  Mac  Teige  Mac 
Carthy,    Lord    of  Muskerry,    who   was    High 
Sheriff  of  Cork,  and  other  Irish  and  Anglo- Irish 
chieftains,  that  they  offered  to  pay  Sir  Peter 
Carew  a  reasonable  annual  rent,   if  he  would 
live  among  them ;  upon  which  Sir  Peter's  agent, 
Hooker  (the  well-known  writer  of  a  History  of 
Ireland   from   1546  to   1586),   took   for  him   a 
house  at  Cork  and  another  at  Kinsale.    But  Sir 
Peter  died  at  Newross,  in  the  county  of  Wex- 
ford, on  the  27th  of  November,  1575,  appointing 
as  his  next  heir  by  his  will,  Peter  Carew,  junior, 
who  is  the  person  mentioned  in  the  text  as  slain 
by  the  Irish ;  and  in  default  of  issue  in  him,  he 
mentions  as  his  next  heir  George  Carew  (after- 
wards Sir  George  Carew,  President  of  Munster), 


and  fifteen  others  in  England,  whom  he  appoints 
in  remainder.  But  the  unceasing  energy  of  the 
Kavanaghs  of  Idrone,  and  the  untainted  loyalty 
and  efficient  services  of  Sir  Cormac  Mac  Carthy, 
who  fought  vigorously  against  the  rival  race  of 
the  Fitzgeralds  of  Desmond,  as  well  as  the  ridi- 
culous nature  of  the  claim  of  the  Carew  family 
(who  were  a  collateral  branch  claiming  to  be 
heirs  to  a  bastard),  caused  the  prosecution  of  the 
suit  to  end  in  nothing — See  Cox's  Hihernia 
Anglicana,  A.  D.  1575  ;  Smith's  Natural  and 
Civil  History  of  Cork,  vol.  i.  p.  51,  and  vol.  ii. 
p.  45  ;  and  the  Annals  of  Ireland  by  Thady 
Dowling,  A.  D.  1366,  1575. 

There  are  very  curious  documents  connected 
with  Sir  Peter  Carew's  claim,  preserved  in  the 
Library  at  Lambeth  Palace  (Sir  George  Carew's 
Collection,  No.  606),  and,  among  others,  the 
answer  of  Morogh  Mac  Gerald  Kavanagh  to  Sir 
Peter  Carew's  petition,  which  is  an  interesting 
and  valuable  document. 

°  Master  Moor. — He  was  Colonel  John  Moor. 
*  Manter Frans This  should  be  Master  Fran- 
cis Cosby.  He  came  to  Ireland  in  the  reign  of 
Queen  Mary,  and  was  by  patent,  dated  10th 
September,  1558,  appointed  General  of  the 
Kerne  of  Leix,  then  recently  made  into  shire- 
ground  under  the  name  of  the  Queen's  County, 
where  he  obtained  a  grant  of  the  possessions  of 
the  suppressed  abbey  of  Stradbally,  and  many 
other  lands.     Master  Francis  was  upwards  of 


1580.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1739 


MasterMoor'  (John),  and  Master  Trans'*,  with  many  other  gentlemen  who  had 
come  from  England  in  the  retinue  of  the  Lord  Justice.  When  this  news 
reached  the  Lord  Justice,  he  left  his  camp'. 

An  Italian  Heet  of  the  Pope's  people  landed  in  Kerry  in  the  September  of 
this  year.  Their  name  was  greater  than  their  importance,  for  their  fame  was 
at  first  so  great  that,  had  they  come  to  Limerick,  Galway,  or  Cork,  these  great 
towns  would  have  been  left  wide  open  to  them.  The  place  where  they  landed 
was  an  island  which  James,  the  son  of  Maurice,  had  attempted  to  fortify  the 
year  before,  namely,  Dun-an-oir^     This  fleet  was  induced  to  come  to  Ireland 


seventy  years  of  age  when  he  was  slain  on  the 
occasion  mentioned  in  the  text,  as  we  learn 
from  Camden,  in  his  Annals  of  the  reign  of 
Elizabeth,  where  he  writes  : 

"  Cosbeius  Hibernicorum  peditum  expedito- 
rum  (quos  Kernes  vocant)  Ductor,  qui  penitus 
loca  novit,  monuit  reliquos  quanti  periouli  esset 
vallem  illani  insidiis  opportunam  ingredi ;  au- 
dendum  tamenvirili  animo  suadet,  ipseque  sejj- 
tuagenario  major  prseit,  caeteri  subsequuntur. 
Simul  ac  in  vallem  descendisset,  ex  arbustis, 
glandium  quasi  grandine  a  rebellibus  circum- 
quaque  dispositis,  quos  ne  viderunt  quidem, 
obruuntur.  Pars  longe  maxima  cecidit,  cajteri 
per  crepidines  impeditissimis  viis  eluctati,  a;gre 
ad  Proregem  evaserunt,  eventum  in  coUe  expec- 
tantem  cum  Comite  Kildariaj,  Jacobo  Wing- 
feldio  machinarum  praefecto,  qui  non  ignarus 
periculi,  Georgium  Carew  alteram  nepotem 
apud  se  detinuit  invitum,  ad  majores  lionores 
reservatum.  Desiderati  fuerunt  Petrus  Carew 
junior,  Georgius  Morus,  Audleius,  et  ipse  Cos- 
beius viri  militari  laude  florentes." 

This  Francis  left  three  sons,  Henry,  who  died 
in  England;  Arnold,  who  was  executed  in  1590, 
for  having  killed  the  Lord  Bourke  of  Castlecon- 
nell ;  and  Alexander,  who  succeeded  his  father. 
This  Alexander  married  Dorcas  Sidney,  a  rela- 
tion of  Sir  Henry  Sidney,  Lord  Deputy  of  Ire- 
land, and  had  by  her  Francis  and  Richard. 
Francis  married  Helena  Harpole  of  Shrule,  by 

10 


whom  he  had  a  son,  William,  who  died  young, 
when  Richard  succeeded  to  the  estate,  and  be- 
came leader  of  the  kernes — See  Hardiman's 
Irish  Minstrelsy,  vol.  ii.  p.  164. 

'  Left  his  camp Ware  says  that  Lord  Grey 

remained  with  the  horse  on  the  mountain;  btit 
he  does  say  that  he  had  constructed  a  camp. 
The  Four  Masters,  to  complete  their  descrip- 
tion, should  have  stated  that  the  Lord  Gray 
had  pitched  a  camp  on  the  mountain  before  he 
dispatched  the  foot  soldiers  into  the  valley. 

f  Dun-an-oir,  i.  e.  the  fort  of  the  gold,  called 
Fort  del  or  by  the  Spaniards.  This  fort,  which 
is  situated  on  an  island  connected  with  the 
south  shore  of  Smerwick  harbour,  is  of  a  cir- 
cular form,  and  measures  about  two  chains  in 
diameter.  The  island,  which  is  a  solid  rock, 
about  fifty  feet  in  height,  has  perpendicular 
sides,  and  is  surrounded  by  the  sea,  except  in 
one  narrow  neck  or  passage,  which  connects  it 
with  the  main  land.  On  the  margin  of  the  shore, 
in  the  soutli-east  corner  of  Smerwick  townland, 
is  a  green  round  hill  called  Cnoc-na-gceann,  i.  e. 
hill  of  the  heads,  whereon,  according  to  tradi- 
tion, the  English  were  encamped  when  they 
stormed  this  fort.  Philip  0'Si.illevan  Beare  thus 
describes  the  situation  of  Dun-an-oir  : 

"  Est  in  eo  portu  (Arnacantum,  qui  Anglis 

Smeruic  vocatur  juxta   Danguinam    oppidum) 

scopulus  (Aureum  JMunimentum  vocant  accolie) 

natura  satis  munitus,  partim  marinis  fluctibus 

M  2 


1740 


aHNQca  Rio^hachca  emeawN. 


[1580. 


nam  la  jeapnlcachaib  mp  na  cluinpin  Dóib  a  mbfic  i  nficcfn  anBail  ace  copnarh 
nn  c|ieiDiTii  cacolicae.  Oo  pónaó  cecclamaó  flóij  ló  hiapla  iipmuirian  .1. 
comap  mac  Semaip,  mic  piapaip  ]uiai6  ap  a  bai  j  pfin,  -\  ap  bai^  o  ppionnpa 

00  60I  DO  paijió  Dúin  an  óip,  -|  na  nfoailleac,  -\  ní  ]io  lianaó  laip  co  painicc 
CO  ciappaije.  barrap  jlan  pluaj  geapalcac  pop  a  cionn  ann  pin, -]  ní  capo 
cfccapnae  aca  amup  pop  apoile.  Qpa  aoi  cfna  po  Ificceaó  an  conaip  oon 
lapla  co  nDeachaió  pop  an  ccnoc  op  cfnn  an  Dúin,  -]  po  óéc  uaóa  na  paca  po 
tioirhne, "]  na  Dúnclaib  Dirojlaiji  po  cóccaibpiorc  na  hfcráilbj  1  rnmceall 
an  oiléin,"!  po  pjpúo  ina  rhfnmain  nóp  bó  capba  bó  rocap  ppiú  ipin  lomcurhanj 

1  inbácap.  Soaip  ina  ppiring  i  pppirpéc  na  conaipe  ceona,"]  po  jeib  an  luprip 
ina  coinne  m  uib  conuill  jabpa,  -]  ni  po  gab  coipiiif]'cc  on  lapla  jan  Dol 
rtpécain  Dúm  an  óip.  Cuib  peirhe  ina  uiófóaib  imreacca  t>o  cloinn  muipip  1 
00  ciappaije  co  páinic  1  ccorhpoccup  an  oiléin.  Qp  a  aoi  ní  pucc  a  campa 
ina  joipe,  no  cfijfó  DponjbunSfn  ofjpluaig  jac  laoí  Dpécain  an  oiléin  uaóoib. 
r?o  claeclaiófD  aicipcc  lomba  fcopjia  a  Diú  -|  anall  "|  po  geallaó  raipipeacr 
ppiíi.     r^anjaccap  a  ccaipcini  I11  ccfno  an  lupcip  ariiail  baDíp  pioohai^  VVT- 


allutus,  partim  rupibus  altis  prajscissus,  cum 
continente  sublicio  ponte  conjunctus." 

8  The  passage  was  left  open. — There  is  a  defect 
in  the  narrative  of  the  Four  Masters  Iierc,  which 
Camden  admirably  supplies  as  follows  : 

"  Illi  locum  munitionibus  firmant,  et  Fort 
del  Or  nominant.  Sed  simul  ac  Ormondiuni 
Momonia;  praifectum  accedere  nuntiatum,  Hi- 
bernicorum  suasu,  muuimentum  reliquerunt, 
et  in  Glannigelliam"  [_i-ecte,  Gleann-na-ngealt, 
i.  e.  vallem  stultorum  seu  cerritorum]  "  vallem 
prseruptis  montibus  et  sylvis  conclusam  se  rece- 
perunt.  Nonnullos  Priefectus  intercepit,  qui 
interrogati  de  numero  et  suscepto  consilio,  fassi 
sunt  septingentos  advenisse,  arma  vero  quai 
ijuinque  millibus  sufficerent  attulisse,  pluresque 
et  Hispania  indies  expectari;  Pontiiicem  et  His- 
pauum  statuisse  Anglos  ex  Hibernia  exturbare: 
ad  earn  rem  grandem  pecuniam  misisse,  quam 
Sandero  Pontificis  Nuntio,  Comiti  Desmonise,  et 
Joanni  ejus  fratri  in  manus  tradiderant.  Eadem 
nocte  Itali  et  Hispani,  quo  se  verterent  ignari 


cum  lustris  latitare  nescirent,  per  tenebras  ad 
munimentum  repedarunt,  juxtaque  castrame- 
tatus  est  Ormondius.  Sed  a  machinis,  et  ca;teris 
ad  oppugnationem  necessariis,  destitutus,  Pro- 
regis  adventum  expectat.  Ille  brevi  advenit 
comitatus  Zouchajo,  Ralegho,  Denio,  Mac-Wor- 
tho,  Achino  et  aliis  militum  ductoribus,  eodem- 
que  tempore  Winterus  cum  bellicis  navibus  ex 
Anglia  non  inculpatus  redierat. 

"  Prorex  tubicinem  ad  munimentum  misit 
percunctatum  quinam  essent,  quid  rei  illis  in 
Hibernia,  quis  miserat,  cur  munimentum  in 
ElizabetliEB  regno  possuerant?  simulque  impe- 
raret,  ut  quam  primum  abscederent.  Illi  respon- 
derunt,  alios  a  sanctissimo  Patre  P.  Romano, 
alios  ab  Hispano  Eege  Catholico  missos  esse,  cui 
Pontifex  Romanus  Hiberniam  donaverat,  quan- 
doquidem  jure  in  Hiberniam  Elizabetha  ob  híE- 
resim  juste  exciderat.  Itaque  se  velle  parta  tueri, 
necnon  plura  si  potuerint  quairere.  Cum  de 
ratione  obsidionis  inter  Proregem  et  Wiuterum 
consulatum  esset  classiarii  Colubrina  (iua>dam 


1580.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1741 

to  assiát  the  Geraldines  when  they  had  heard  that  the  Geraldines  were  reduced 
to  great  extremities  in  defending  the  Catholic  faith.  The  Earl  of  Ormond, 
i.  e.  Tliomas,  tlie  son  of  James,  son  of  Pierce  Eoe,  mustered  an  army  in  behalf 
of  himself  and  of  his  sovereign,  to  proceed  to  Dun-an-oir  against  the  Italians  ; 
and  he  did  not  halt  until  he  arrived  in  Kerry.  The  fine  army  of  the  Geraldines 
were  there  to  meet  him,  but  neither  party  made  any  attack  upon  the  other  ; 
however,  the  passage  was  left  open^  for  the 'Earl  until  he  arrived  on  the  hill 
over  the  fort,  from  which,  having  reconnoitred  the  deep  trenches  and  impreg- 
nable ramparts  which  the  Italians  had  constructed  around  the  island",  he  con- 
sidered in  his  mind  that  it  would  be  useless  for  him  to  offer  them  battle  in  their 
present  fortified  position.  He,  therefore,  returned  by  the  same  route,  and  in 
Hy-Connell-Gaura  met  the  Lord  Justice,  Avho  would  not  be  dissuaded  by  the 
Earl  from  proceeding  to  see  Dun-an-oir.  He  proceeded  by  regular  marches 
through  Clanmaurice  and  Kerry,  vmtil  he  arrived  in  the  vicinity  of  the  island. 
He  did  not,  however,  bring  his  camp  near  it.  Chosen  parties  of  his  army  went 
daily  to  reconnoitre  the  island.  Many  communications'  mutually  took  place 
on  both  sides  ;  and  a  promise  of  protection  was  made  to  them.  The  Italian 
captains"  came  to  the  Loi'd  Justice  as  if  they  would  be  at  peace  Avith  him  ; 

a  navibus  uoctc  silente  educuut,  aggereque  ju.xta  English  kept  up  a  continual  lire  on  the  Ibrt  for 

littus  perfosso  compendio  pertrahunt,  et  dispo-  four  days,  but  O'Daly  extends  the  time  to  forty 

nunt.  Milites  itidem  ex  altera  parte  muralia  tor-  days  !  The  former  says  that  on  tlie  fifth  day  the 

nienta  librant,   simulque  infesta  pulsatione  in  Spaniards  and  Italians,  being  terrified  by  the 

niunimentum  quatuor  continuis  diebus  effulmi-  furious  fire  from  the  English  batteries,  sought  a 

nant.     Hispani  semel  atque  iterum  suo  damno  parley,  Candida  sublato  vexillo;  but  that  this  was 

erumpunt,  ex  Anglis  vero  ue  uuus  quidem  pe-  denied  them.     The  latter  says  that  the  English 

riit,  praeter  Joannem  Checum  juvenem  specio-  were  the  first  to  send  the  Spaniards  a  flag  of 

sum  et  animosum  Joannis  Checi  Equitis  erudi-  truce  to  demand  a  parley,  and  that,  this  being 

tissimi  filium."  granted,  they  were  received  with  the  greatest 

''  Around  the  island. — The  Italians  may  have  blandness  and  courtesy  by  Grey,  who  promised 

fortified  the  island  itself  and  the  main  land  op-  the  Spanish  commandant  the  most  honourable 

posite  it,  but  they  could  not  have  sunk  any  deep  terms,  if  he  would  surrender  the  fortress  ! 
trenches  around  it,   because  it  is  nearly  sur-  ^  The  Italian  captains.^-Th.esft  were  Stephen 

rounded  by  the  sea.      O'Daly  says,  in  his  In-  San  Josepho,   Hercules  Pisano,   and  the  Duke 

rrcmenturn.  Sec,  Giraldiaorum,  c.  23,  that  in  the  of  Biscay.    Camden  calls  San  Josepho   "homo 

opinion  of  every  one  this  fort  was  impregnable.  imbellis."     Muratori  applies  to  him  words  to 

'  Many  communications.^The  accounts  given  the  same  effect ;  and  O'Daly  goes  so  far  as  to 

of  tliese  communications  by  Camden  and  O'Daly  call  him  a  traitor.     And  it  looks  very  likely 

are  very   conflicting.     Camden    says   that    the  that  Hercules  Pisano  and  the  Duke  of  Biscay 


1742 


awNata  Rio^hach-a  eiReawN. 


[1.580. 


00  coDa)!  inuincip  an  uiy^cip  rcn]ipib  Don  oilén,  -|  ]io  jabj^ac  poji  mapbab, 
-|  pop  muóuccaó  na  nfoaiUeac  co  nú  ceapna  elaireac  oo  na  peace  ccéo 
eoaiUeac  jan  aipleac  ap  an  laraip  pin.     Uappaio  eim  an  lupcip  lomarc  óip, 

1  lonnriiaip,  -\  jac  fpnaile  ele  baoi  lap  na  lieaDailleacaib.  Ro  mupao,-]  po 
mópclaibeaó  an  coilén  mp  pin  Inp  an  lupcip  po  óáij  no  baó  cappacc  coc- 
aijre,  ■)  no  biió  inneoin  popaip  t)o  Dibfpccac  é  ní  buó  pípi.  Q  mí  nouembep  Do 
ponaó  inopin.    Soaip  an  lupcip  rap  a  aip  co  luimneac  -]  appibe  hi  ppinejall. 

O  puaipc  bpian,  mac  bpiain,  mic  eoccain  Do  bfic  fpumal  Do  gallaib  a 
ppojmap  na  bliaóna  po,  "|  pluaicceab  Do  óenarh  lá  Sip  niclop  nnaulbi  cap 
pionainn  poip  Do  óol  iia  puaipc.  Cuipip  ua  puaipc  a  mná, -|  a  rhuinceapa  cap 
rnuincinn  plebe  an  laipn,  i  po  bpip  liacDpuinn  ap  cionn  Sip  niclaup.  T?o  bac 
cumDaijeaó  an  baile  DopiDipi  la  Sip  niclaup, -]  po  cuip  biaoh  -[  bapoa  inD  ap 
a  hairle,  i  piUip  pfin  cap  a  aip  jan  cpeic  gan  écc  ba  lonaiprtie  Do  óénarh  DÓ. 
r?o  gab  ua  puaipc  acc  lompuióe  imón  nibaile  co  náp  léicc  aoín  neac  Don 
bcipoa  cap  Doippib  an  baile  amac  iná  ipceac  gup  bó  hficcfn  Do  Ship  niclaiip 
cfcc  Dia  ppoipióin  50  pucc  laip  lacc. 

Sluaicceah  lá  hiia  puaipc  a   mí  nouembep  ecip  Suca  -]    Sionann  co  po 


gave  this  character  of  him  on  his  return  home  ; 
but  what  his  final  fate  was  the  Editor  has  not 
been  able  to  learn. 

'  Proceeded  to  Ml  and  destroy Bluratori,  in 

his  Annul  d^Italia,  says  that  the  commander  of 
this  garrison  shamelessly  surrendered  this  strong- 
hold, and  all  the  Catholic  Irish  writers  assert 
that  seven  hundred  men  were  butchered  in  cold 
blood,  after  Lord  Grey  had  guaranteed  their 
lives  and  liberties.  Spenser,  however,  who  was 
secretary  to  the  Lord  Grey,  and,  as  he  himself 
assures  us,  near  the  scene  of  this  horrid  action, 
positively  denies  that* any  promises  or  hopes 
Were  given,  or  any  conditions  granted  to  them. 
He  asserts  that  the  Deputy,  who  was  a  most 
just,  sincere,  godly,  and  right  noble  man,  told 
them  plainly  that  they  were  to  expect  no  ad- 
vantage from  the  laws  of  war  or  the  laws  of 
nations,  as  they  could  shew  no  regular  commis- 
sion either  from  the  King  of  Spain  or  the  Pope. 
But  this  is  a  mere  fiction  of  Spenser's,  on  which 


to  found  a  specious  argument  in  defence  of  his 
master,  Lord  Grey,  whose  character  was,  at  this 
period,  branded  with  infamy  all  over  Europe. — 
See  Vieiv  of  the  State  of  Ireland,  Dub.  reprint  of 
180[),  p.  171.  Spenser,  however,  is  not  a  suffi- 
cient witness  on  this  subject,  inasmuch  as  Queen 
Elizabeth  was  not  satisfied  that  the  Lord  Deputy 
had  acted  honourably  "  in  this  useful  act  of  seve- 
rity," for  she  knew  well  that  San  Josepho  had 
a  commission  from  her  bitterest  enemies,  the 
Pope  and  the  King  of  Spain,  who  had  furnished 
him  with  money,  arms,  and  ammunition,  for  five 
thousand  men.-See  Camden's  Annals  of  the  reign 
of  Queen  Elizabeth,  where  the  author  writes  : 

"  Brevi  tempore  interjecto,  appulerunt  ad 
Smerwicum  in  Kerria  sub  imperio  San  Josephi 
Itali  septengenti  plus  minus,  Itali  et  Hispani  a 
Pontifice  Romano  et"  [rege]  "  Hispano  sub- 
missi,  specie  Eomanas  religionis  restituendse, 
revera  ut  Elizabetha  vires  diducerent,  et  ani- 
mum  a  rebus  Beleicis  retraherent." 


1580.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1743 

[but]  the  people  of  the  Lord  Justice  went  over  to  the  island,  and  proceeded 
to  kill  and  destroy'  the  Italians ;  so  that  of  the  seven  hundred  Italians,  not  one 
individual  escaped,  but  all  were  slaughtered  on  the  spot.  The  Lord  Justice 
also  seized  upon  much  gold,  wealth,  and  other  things,  which  the  Italians  had 
along  with  them  ;  and  he  destroyed  the  fortifications  of  the  island,  in  order  that 
it  should  not  be  a  supporting  rock  or  a  strong  retreat  for  any  ingurgent  any 
longer.  This  was  done  in  the  month  of  November.  The  Lord  Justice 
returned  to  Limerick,  and  thence  to  Fingal. 

O'Rourke  (Brian,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Owen)  was  disobedient  to  the 
English  in  the  autumn  of  this  year  ;  and  Sir  Nicholas  Malby  mustered  an  army, 
and  proceeded  across  the  Shannon  to  oppose  him.  O'Rourke  sent  his  women 
and  people  away  over  the  summit  of  Sliabh-an-Iarainn,  and  demolished  Leitrim, 
before  the  arrival  of  Sir  Nicholas.  The  castle  was  rebuilt  by  Sir  Nicholas,  who, 
having  placed  provisions  and  warders  in  it,  returned  without  committing  any 
depredation,  or  performing  any  exploit  worthy  of  note.  O'Rourke  laid  siege 
to  the  castle,  and  did  not  suffer  one  of  the  warders  to  go  in  or  out  by  the  gates; 
so  that  Sir  Nicholas  was  obliged  to  come  to  their  relief,  and  take  them  away. 

An  incm'sion  was  made  by  O'Rourke,  in  the  month  of  November,  into  the 
district  between  the  Rivers  Suck  and  Shannon  ;  and  he  burned  and  plundered 

Cox,  who  abomiuated  the  Papists,  asserts  that  against  traitors,    and    disdained    to  grant  any 

this  garrison  yielded  at  mercy,  which  was  too  terms  to  them,  or  to  their  abettors.     Several 

sparingly  extended  to   them,   every  one  being  attempts  were  made  to  gain  any  conditions,  not 

put  to   death   except    the    commanders,   which  totally  desperate.     Grey   was  inexorable,   and 

very  much  displeased  the  Queen.     Dr.  Leland  has  the  garrison,  in  their  distress  and  terror,  fatally 

been  carried  away  by  the  solemn  assertion  of  surrendered  at  discretion. 

Spenser,  that  San  Josepho  could  shew  no  com-  "  That  mercy  for  which  they  sued  was  ligidly 

mission  from  any  sovereign  ;  but  the  Queen  of  denied  them.     Wingfield  was  commissioned  to 

England  did  not  believe  this,  no  more  than  did  disarm  them,  and  when  this  service  was  per- 

the  partisans  of  Rome,  who  knew  the  exact  na-  formed,  an  English  company  was  sent  into  the 

ture  of  the  commisMon.     Leland,  however,  feels  tort.   The  Irish  rebels  found  they  were  reserved 

ashamed  of  the  whole  transaction,  and  writes  as  for  execution  by  martial  law.     The  Italian  Ge- 

follows :  neral  and  some  of  the  officers  were  made  pri- 

"  The  Commander  of  the  fort,  an  Italian  called  sonersofwar;  but  the  garrison  was  butchered 

San  Josepo,  was  terrified  ;  and,  in  a  few  days,  in  cold  blood  ;  nor  is  it  without  pain  that  we 

contrary  to  the  opinion  of  his   officers,  deter-  find  a  service  so  horrid  and  detestable  com- 

niined  to  capitulate.     But  Grey   now  replied,  initted  to  Sir  Walter  Raleigh." 

with  haughtiness  and  austerity,  that  he  served  It  should  be  added  that  Mr.  Moore  states  in 


1744  awNa^a  RTOshachca  eiReaHN.  [i580. 

loifcceaó  -]  CO  po  1iai]iccfó  laip  na  pfoa,  -]  blab  mop  ouib  inctinc.  Sluaijean 
laip  DopiDipi  in  uiV)  maine  a  mi  oecembep  co  po  léppccpiopaó  an  ci'p  co  cin- 
neapnac  laip,  i  co  po  mapbaó  Ifr  banoa  paijoeoipióe  laip  oo  muincip  Sip 
niclaip  maulbi  ace  liop  Da  Ion.  Opong  Do  piol  cconcobaip  Do  bfic  i  ppocaip 
in'  puaipc  ip,n  ccomnibáiD  pin. 

Clann  lapla  cloinrie  l?iocai]iD  (UiUfcc  "i  Sfan)  Dobfic  eippioóac  pé  apoile 
"]  mD  apaon  pioDac  ppi  jallaib.  óárcap  Dpong  do  Dfjjbaoinib  cloinne  pioc- 
ai|iD  1  mbpai^Dfiiu]^  uocpac  i  noplairh  conpcábla  baile  loca  pinch  maijipnp 
peonp  a  ainmpióe,  pfp  pin  acca  mbaoi  oplattiap  bapoacca  an  baile  o  jabail 
an  lapla  gup  an  can  pin.  6á  galap  mop  mfnman  la  Sfan  a  búpc  a  baile  -] 
n  bpaijDe  Do  óol  i  puDpacup  illáirh  gall,  50  po  cinn  ina  mCnmain  amup  oióce 
DO  cabaipc  ap  baile  loca  piac.  Oo  pónaD  laippium  inDpin.  Ro  gabaó  an 
haile  laip, -|  po  mapbaó  jac  cien  pob  inecca  Dia  mbaoi  ann  ceninoró  an  con- 
pcópla  Diet  ccapDpam  mairfm  nanacail,  -]  po  pccaoil  Dia  bpaijDib  lapam 
IQl?  no  Denarh  pin  let  Sfan  po  cuip  a  ollamain, -|  a  aép  caipipi  Daccallaimli 
a  bparap  uillfcc  Dia  cuinjiD  paip  501II  do  rpéccean,  -|  co  nDionjnaDporh  a 
oi;^péip  arhail  po  ba  Dip  Do  popap  oi^pfip  a  pinnpip  Do  Denamh  ")  po  cinjectll 
Do  a  mac  baoi  illaimh  aicce  do  léccaó  Dia  paijiD.  l?o  jeall  Do  ppippin  liar- 
Dpuim,  oilén  baile  an  loca,"|  baile  loca  piac  a  ccomapDct  pinnpipeacca.  l?o 
^ab  uilleacc  na  liapccaóa  pin.  Oo  cniD  pfin  ~\  a  bpafaip  Daon  aonca  in 
acchaiD  gall, "]  ba  he  céD  ní  Do  pónpac  caipléin  coiitijeala  cloinne  piocaipD 
DO  pébab,  1  DO  pobpipfb.  í?o  bpipfb  leó  cécup  baile  loca  pictc  apDpopr 
oipfcaip  an  cipe,"]  ap  puaill  ma  po  paccbab  leó  baile  jan  bpipfb  ó  cluain 
pfpca  bpénainn  1  noipreap  ó  nanmchaba  co  cill  meic  Duaic  1  rcuaipcepr 
cenél  aoba  na  heacrje, -|  6  uapán  co  cluain  Dc't  bam.  Oo  cóib  cpa  Donn- 
chab,  mac  mupchaib,  mic  coippbectlbaij,  mic  caibcc  ui  bpiain,i  margamain, 

the  text  of  Ms  HisíOT-?/ q/" /remand,  vol.  iv.  p.  93,  country,    iu   the   barony   of  Athlone,    in    the 

that  the  garrison  were  all  inhumanly  put  to  the  county  of  Roscommon — Sea  note  °,  itnder  the 

sword ;  but  in  a  note  he,  or,  perhaps,  his  English  year  1536,  p.  1435,  stipr-a.    ^ 

assistant,  indicates  a  belief,  that  no  reliance  can  "  Lis-da-lon,  i.  e.  ihe  fort  of  the  two  black 

be  placed  on  the  truth  of  this  fact, — a  scepti-  birds,  a  townland  in   the  parish  of  Killinvoy, 

cism,  whether  real  or  affected,  not  to  be  won-  barony  of  Athlone,  and  county  of  Eoscommon. 

dered  at  in  a  historian   who   passes   over  the  This  was  the  seat  of  Hugh  O'Kelly,  the  last 

massacre  of  Mullaghmast  in  silence.  chief  of  Hy-Many  in  1585. — See  Tribes  and  Cus- 

"  The  Feadha,   i.e.   Les  Faes,  O'Naghtan's  toms  of  Hy-AIany,  pp.  112,  187. 


1580.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1745 

the  Feadha™,  and  a  great  part  of  Hy-Many.  He  made  another  incursion  int(j 
Hy-Many  in  the  month  of  December,  and  expeditiously  devastated  the  country; 
and  he  slew  half  a  company  of  the  soldiers  of  the  people  of  Sir  Nicholas  Malby  at 
Lis-da-lon".  On  this  expedition  O'Rourkewas  assisted  by  a  party  of  the  O'Conors. 
The  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Claurickard  (UHck  and  John)  were  at  strife  with 
each  other ;  and  both  were  at  peace  with  the  English.  A  party  of  the  respecta- 
ble inhabitants  of  Clanrickard  were  placed  in  severe  confinement  by  the  con- 
stable of  Loughrea,  Master  Jones  by  name,  who  had  had  the  command  of  the 
warders  of  the  town  since  the  capture  of  4he  Earl  till  that  time.  It  was  a  great 
sickness  of  mind  to  John  Burke  that  his  town  and  hostages  should  remain  thus 
lono-  in  the  hands  of  the  Entilish  ;  and  he  resolved  in  his  mind  to  make  a  noc- 
turnal  attack  upon  the  town  of  Loughrea.  This  he  did,  and  took  the  town, 
killing  every  one  able  to  bear  arms  within  it,  except  the  constable,  to  whom  he 
gave  pardon  and  protection  ;  and  he  then  released  the  prisoners.  After  John 
had  accomplished  this,  he  seat  his  Ollavs  and  faithful  people  to  confer  with  his 
brother,  Ulick,  and  to  request  him  to  abandon  the  English  cause,  and  [to  state] 
that  he  himself  would  be  obedient  to  him,  as  a  junior  should  be  to  a  senior  ; 
and  he  promised  that  he  would  permit  his  [Ulick's]  son,  whom  he  had  in  his 
custody,  to  go  home  to  him  ;  and  he  also  promised  to  give  up  to  him,  as  an 
acknowledgment  of  seniority,  Leitrira",  the  Island  of  Baile-an-locha'',  and  the 
town  of  Loughrea.  Ulick  accepted  of  these  grants  ;  and  he  and  his  brother 
with  one  accord  rose  out  against  the  English.  The  first  thing  they  did  was  to 
desti'oy  the  white  castles  of  Clanrickard.  They  first  demolished  the  castle  of 
Ijoughrea,  the  principal  fortress  of  the  territory;  and  they  scarcely  left  a  castle 
from  Clonfert-Brendan,  in  the  east  of  the  territory  of  Sil-Anmchadha,  to  Kil- 
macduagh,  in  the  north  of  Cinel-Aedha-na-hEchtge'',  and  from  Uaran'  to  Cluain- 
da-damh',  which  they  did  not  demohsh.     Donough,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son 

"  Leitrin. — This  was  the  name  of  the  castle  Kiltartan,  and  county  of  Galway. 

from  which  the  barony  of  Leitrim,  in  the  south  ■■  Uaran,  i.  e.  Orau,  near  Ballintober,  in  the 

of  the  county  of  Galway,  has  taken  its  name.  county  of  Roscommon. 

'  Baile-an-locha,  i.  e.   the  town   of  the  lake,  '  Cluain-da-damh,  i.  e.  the  lawn  or  pasturage 

now   Ballinlough,  in  the  parish  of  Ballynakill,  of  the  two  oxen,    now   anglice  Cloondagaw,   a 

liarony  of  Leitrim,  and  county  of  Galway.  townland  containing  the  ruins  of  a  castle,  in 

"^  Cinel-Aedha-na-hEchtge. — This  was  the  name  the  parish  of  Ballynakill,   barony  of  Leitrim, 

of  O'Shaughnessy's  country,   in  the  barony  of  and  county  of  Galway. 

10  N 


1746 


awNaca  Rioghachca  emeaNH. 


[1580. 


mac  roippóealbaij,  mic  tnacjamna,  mic  an  fppuicc  ui  l))iiain  i  ccorhbam 
coccaiD  cloinne  an  lapla,  -\  ha  he  mar^amain  po  ba  ruj'cca  Do  eijuj  ip  in 
ccoccaó  ipin,  -|  ap  eipióe  po  rojaipm  aép  Díbfipcce  na  ccpioc  ccorhpoccup, -| 
po  ^eall  Ó  boipmcc  50  luimneac  t)o  loc  1  t)o  léppccpiop.  Qcc  cfna  po 
éipjfccap  upmóp  i  mboi  1  ccóicceaó  connacc  uile  ipin  ccoccaó  pm  cenmoca 
lapla  cuabmuman  .1.  t»onnchaó  mac  concobaip,  mic  Donncliaió,-)  roippbealbac 
mac  Domnaill,  mic  concobaip  ui  bpiain,  1  ba  hepibe  bai  na  Shippiam  1  cconn- 
cae  an  claip  an  lonbaib  pin. 

O  bpoin  Décc  .1.  Oúnlang  mac  emainn.     baccap  a  cinfó  a  noibfipcc  -\ 


'  Dunlang,  the  son  ofEdmond. — This  Dunlang, 
who  was  the  last  inaugurated  O'Byrne,  was  pro- 
bably the  nephew  of  Teige  Oge,  the  O'Byrne 
who  died  in  1578.  After  the  death  of  Dun- 
lang, the  last  inaugurated  O'Byrne,  Fiagh,  the 
son  of  Hugh  O'Byrne  of  Ballinacor,  became  the 
principal  leader  of  this  clan,  and  one  of  the 
most  formidable  of  the  Irish  chieftains  to  Queen 
Elizabeth's  government  in  Ireland,  which  drew 
from  the  poet,  Spenser,  the  most  bitter  reflec- 
tions on  the  meanness  of  his  pedigree  ;  but  Spen- 
ser's animadversions  are  mere  political  slander, 
as  will  appear  from  the  fact  that  Fiagh's  father, 
Hugh,  who  died  in  1579,  was  far  more  powerful 
than  the  O'Byrne  (Teige  Oge),  and  possessed 
that  vast  ti-act  of  territory  now  called  Eanelagh. 
Spenser,  however,  argues  that  he  had  no  right 
to  these  lands,  because  all  Leinster  had  been 
granted  by  Dermot  Mao  Murrough  to  the  Earl 
Strongbow,  from  whom  it  descended  to  the 
Crown  of  England.  This,  however,  is  mere 
English  law  fiction,  inasmuch  as  the  ancestors 
of  Fiagh  had  possession  of  this  tract  of  country 
time  beyond  the  memory  of  man,  which  was  a 
sufficient  title.  By  a  similar  kind  of  argument 
the  Pope  proved  that  Queen  Elizabeth  forfeited 
the  kingdom  of  Ireland.  He  found  her  guilty  of 
that  kind  of  high  treason  called  heresy,  and  there- 
fore, as  "  Ireland,  and  all  other  islands  where 
Christ  is  known,  and  the  Christian  religion  re- 
ceived, do  most  undoubtedly  appertain  and  be- 


long to  the  right  of  St.  Peter,  and  the  Church  of 
Rome,"  he  granted  the  island  of  Hibernia,  for- 
feited by  her,  to  his  faithful  and  loyal  son  in  Christ, 
Philip  II.,  King  of  Spain.  If  Fiagh  O'Byrne 
had  no  claim  to  these  lands,  why  were  his  an- 
cestors permitted  to  enjoy  them  for  so  many 
centuries?  The  answer  is  obvious:  either  be- 
cause the  government  had  not  the  power  to  re- 
move them,  or  considered  that  they  were  the 
rightful  heu's.  Dermot  ISIac  Murrough  was  de- 
posed by  his  subjects,  and  even  if  he  were  not, 
it  was  not  in  his  power  to  transfer  the  lands 
of  Leinster  to  his  daughter,  or  to  "her  husband 
Strongbow,  by  any  form  of  conveyance.  But 
without  alluding  to  the  fiction  about  Gurmun- 
dus,  it  may  be  remarked,  that  a  higher  claim  had 
been  set  up  before  the  Reformation,  namely,  that 
Ireland  had  been  granted  to  Henry  II.  by  Pope 
Adrian  IV.;  and  this  was  a  sufficient  title,  as 
long  as  the  Irish  believed  that  the  Pope  had  the 
power  to  make  this  grant.  But  Fiagh  O'Byrne, 
and  his  adherents,  had  every  reason  to  believe 
that  this  title  was  forfeited  by  Elizabeth,  as 
soon  as  she  was  excommunicated  by  what  they 
considered  the  highest  authority  then  in  the 
world.  But  as  the  Pope  and  the  King  of  Spain 
were  defeated  by  the  Protestant  Queen  Eliza- 
beth, the  Crown  of  England  won  Ireland  by  the 
sword  ;  and  this  is  the  title  that  should  be  in- 
sisted upon,  and  not  law  fictions  of  any  kind. 
As  to  Fiagh  O'Byrne,  he  enjoyed  his  lands  as  a 


1580.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1747 


of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige  O'Brien  ;  and  Mahon,  the  son  of  Turlougli,  son  of 
Mahon,  son  of  the  Bishop  O'Brien,  joined  in  this  war  of  the  sons  of  the  Earl  ; 
and  it  was  Mahon  that  first  rose  up  in  this  war,  and  that  assembled  all  the  insur- 
gents of  the  neighbouring  territories,  and  proceeded  to  harass  and  devastate 
[the  country]  i'rom  Biu-ren  to  Limerick.  In  short,  the  greater  part  of  the  people 
of  Connaught  joined  in  this  war,  excepting  the  Earl  of  Thomond  (Donough, 
the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Donough),  and  Turlough,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of 
Conor  O'Brien,  who  was  at  this  time  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Clare. 

O'Byrne  died,  i.  e.  Dunlang,  the  son  of  Edmond'.     His  tribe  were  in  insur- 


descendant  of  Cahir  More,  Monarch  of  Ireland, 
having  as  much  title  to  his  own  territory  as  the 
head  O'Byrne,  or  Mac  Murrough,  had  to  their's ; 
and  to  call  him  an  upstart  that  Tose  from  the 
dunghill  is  vile  political  slander,  unworthy  of 
the  divine  Spenser.  According  to"  the  Irish  ge- 
nealogists, the  O'Broins,  or  O'Byrns,  are  de- 
scended from  Bran,  the  son  of  Maelmora,  son  of 
Murrough,  son  of  Faelan,  son  of  Muireadhach, 
King  of  Leinster,  who  was  slain  in  970;  son  of 
Finn,  Lord  of  Airther-LifTey,  and  presumptive 
heir  to  the  throne  of  Leinster,  si.  921 ;  son  of 
Maelmora,  Lord  of  Airther-LifFey,  si.  915;  son 
of  Muirigen,  Lord  of  Naas  and  Airther-Liffey, 
si.  861 ;  son  of  Dermot,  Lord  of  Airther-Lift'ey, 
d.  830;  son  of  Ruadhrach,  King  of  Leinster, 
d.  780;  sou  of  Faelan,  from  whom  the  O'Byrns 
and  their  correlatives  bore  the  tribe-name  of 
Hy-Faelain,  who  was  the  son  of  Murchadh, 
King  of  Leinster,  d.  721 ;  son  of  Bran  Mut, 
King  of  Leinster,  d.  687;  son  of  ConaU;  son  of 
Faelan,  d.  642 ;  son  of  Colman ;  son  of  Cairbre 
Duv;  son  of  Cormac;  son  of  OilioU;  son  of 
■Dunlang,  King  of  Leinster,  A.D.  241;  son  of 
Enna  Nia ;  son  of  Bresal  Belach ;  son  of  Fiacha 
Baiceadh,  youngest  and  most  celebrated  of  the 
sons  of  Cahir  Mori,  Monarch  of  Ireland  in  the 
second  century.  The  relationship  between  Fiagh 
O'Byrne  and  the  representative  of  Teige  Oge, 
the  second  last  O'Byrne,  who  died  in  1578,  will 
ap])ear  from  the  following  genealogical  table  : 

10 


1.  Bran. 

I 

2.  Donough,  of  the  yellow  hound. 

3.  Donnell,  of  the  shields. 

I  * 

4.  Donough  More. 

I 

5.  Dunlang  of  Duvcluain. 

I 


6.  Ugaire.  6.  OilioU,  of  the  wood. 

I  1  , 

7.  Teige,  of  the  ravens.  7- Murrough   More,   of 

Dun-Kevoge. 
I 
an?  Finn.  8.  Donough. 

9.  Rannall,  a  quo  Gaval- 
Rannall. 

10.  Philip. 
I 

1 1 .  Lorcan. 
I 

12.  Eannalhofthebattle- 


8.  Dun 


9.  Donough. 


10.  Gerald. 

I 

11.  Murrough. 

12.  Philip. 


axe. 
1.3.  Conor. 

14.  Donnell  Glas. 

15.  Hugh. 


16.  John. 
I 


13.  Bran  Roe. 

I 

14.  Donough. 

I 

15.  Teige   More,    uf 

Newragh. 

16.  Gerald. 

17.  TeigeOge.d.  1578,  17.  Redmond. 

the    second    last 
O'Byrne. 

18.  Donough  Caragh.   18.  John. 

19.  John.  19.  Hugh,  d.  1579. 

I  I 

20.  Donough  Oge.        20.  Fiagh. 

Spenser  concludes,  that  as  the  word  Brin,  in 
the  British   language,    signifieth    woody,    and 

n2 


1748  aNwata  nioshachca  eiReawH.  [i58o. 

ace  po^nil  po]i  jallailj,  "]  a  crip  "j  a  noúchaij  05  jallaib  heoy  co  na  po 
hoipDnfo  neac  ina  lonao. 

Sfan  mac  lapla  ofpmurhan  t)o  bfir  na  pojlaib  aipcrpeac  fppaóal  an  ran 
pa  -|  gep  1)6  hoipDeapc  Sfan  mac  cuinn  í  neill,  -)  Semiip,  mac  muipip,  mic  on 
lopla  ap  aoi  a  ccoccab ")  a  ccompimchab  ppi  pa;coib  po  baoi  a  noiol  T)0]ópe 
pan  Sfan  po  an  can  pin.  Qon  Oo  ló  tna  noeachaió  an  Sfan  perhpaice  pop 
coillcib  fraplac  a  mi  lul  do  ponnpaó  1  nuachaó  pochaióe  leip  nap  nolca  1 
nimcfin  uaip  pobab  luja  met  ceo  pcciac  comaipfm  a  rpoijceac,-]  cpi  ma]icaij; 
bécc.  Qppfo  Do  luib  Deóblaoí  lairii  lé  pionainn  ppiobhjloin,  peac  rhaij  ailbe, 
-|  DO  pome  cpeic  i  nouib  pec  ua  lui^beac  ip  in  maoain  nunc  ap  na  ifiapac,  -] 
luib  CO  na  cpeic  laip  poip  jach  nDipeac  do  copca  ceneab,  1  co  liuib  caipin. 
T?o  cionoilpioc  cóicfpDal  an  cipe  jac  aipm  in  po  jab  a  ccopaijeacc  paip 
.1.  él&'vii  pojapcai  j,  iii  lui  jbec,  popail  Dpoma,  popail  puippelac.  l?o  baD 
D615  lap  na  hoipeaccaib  pin  jup  bo  conac  mop  Doib  Sfan  Dpajbáil  in  uachaD 
ploij  arhlaib  pin,  ~\  po  lonnpaijpioc  é  co  Dana  Dapaccac.  Qcc  cfna  po 
ppaoineab  pop  luce  na  copai  jeacca  co  po  mapbab  occ  ppip  Décc  Dia  nuaiplib 
Do  cfnDaib  popail"!  bailee  ip  in  mbpfipini  pin.  T?ucc  Sfan  a  c)iec  laip  ap 
coillcib  cliocaip  Diarhpaib  bealai j  móip  maije  Dala  lap  mbuaib  "]  copccap. 

Toole,  hilly,  the  O'Byrnes  and  O'Tooles  were  the  real  names  aud  history  of  those  two  families, 
of  Welsh  origin,  and  derived  their  names  from  aud  that  his  assertion  with  re.spect  to  the  mean- 
time woods  and  hills  of  the  present  county  of  ness  ofFiagh's  pedigree  is  a  mere  political  slan- 
Wicklow.     But  this  conjecture  is  not  even  in-  der.     His  words  are  : 

genious,  because  Irish  family  names  arc  not  '•  Eudoxus.  Surely  I  can  recommend  him, 
derived  from  localities  ;  and  even  supposing  that,  being  of  himself  of  so  mcane  condition, 
they  were,  it  would  not  hold  good  in  the  two  hath,  through  his  owne  hardiness^  lifted  himself 
instances  under  consideration,  because  the  up  to  the  height  that  he  dare  now  front  princes, 
O'Byrnes  aud  O'Tooles  were  not  originally  and  make  tearmes  with  great  potentates ;  to 
seated  among  the  woods  and  liiUs  of  the  now  whicli,  as  it -is  to  him  honourable,  so  it  is  to 
county  of  Wicklow,  but  in  the  plains  of  the  them  most  disgraceful!  to  be  bearded  of  such  a 
now  county  of  Kildare;  and  their  real  names  base  varlet,  that  being  but  of  late  growne  out  of 
are  not  Brin  and  Toole,  as  Spenser  thought,  the  dunghill,  beginneth  now  to  overcrow  so 
but  the  one  is  properly  O'Brain,  i.  e.  descendant  high  mountaines,  and  make  himself  great  pro- 
of Bran,  a  man's  name,  signifying  "a  raven,"  tector  of  all  outlawes  and  rebells  that  will 
and  the  other  O'Tuathail,  i.e.  descendant  of  repaire  unto  him." — p.  187- 
Tuathal,  a  man's  name,  signifying  "  princely  or  "  Tlieir  countri/.— The  country  of  this  senior 
lordly."  Hence  it  is  quite  evident  that  this  branch  of  the  O'Byrnes  extended  along  the  sea, 
etymological  conjecture  arose  from  ignorance  of  in  the  present  county  of  Wicklow. — See  note  ', 


1580.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1741) 

* 
rection,  plundering  the  English  ;  and  their  country"  and  inheritance  were  in 

the  possession  of  the  English,  so  that  no  person  was  installed  in  his  place. 

John,  the  son  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  was  at  this  time  a  rovino-  and  wan- 
dering plunderer  ;  and  though  John,  the  son  of  Con  O'Neill,  and  James,  the 
son  of  Maurice,  son  of  the  Earl  [of  Desmond],  were  illustrious  for  their  wars 
and  conflicts  with  the  English,  this  John  was  at  this  time  a  worthy  heir  [to 
either  of]  them.  One  day  in  the  month  of  July,  this  John  went  to  the  woods 
of  Aharlagh",  attended  by  so  small  a  body  of  troops  as  it  was  imprudent  to  <^o 
forth  on  a  long  journey,  for  the  number  of  his  foot  soldiers  was  less  than  one 
hundred  shields,  and  he  had  only  thirteen  horsemen.  He  marched  in  the 
evening  by  the  limpid- waved  Shannon,  and  by  Magh-Ailbhe'' ;  and  early  next 
morning  he  seized  on  a  prey  in  Duibli  Feth  Ua-Luighdheach'',  and  proceeded 
with  his  prey  directly  eastwards,  through  Corca-Thene"  and  Ikerrin.  The  forces 
of  each  territory  through  which  he  passed  assembled  to  pursue  him,  namely,  of 
Eile-Ui-FhogartaiglA  of  Hy-Luighdheach,  of  Pobal-Droma^  [and]  of  Pobal- 
Puirsealach'*.  These  tribes,  thiuldng  it  very  fortunate  for  them  to  find  John 
thus  attended  by  only  a  few  troops,  attacked  him  boldly  and  fiercely  ;  but  the 
l)ursuers  were  defeated,  and  eighteen  of  their  gentlemen,  heads  of  tribes  and 
towns,  were  slain  in  the  conflict ;  [and]  John,  after  his  victory,  carried  off  his 
prey  in  triumph  to  the  fast  and  solitary  woods  of  Bealach-mor-Muighe-dala^ 

under  the  year  1578,  p.  1702,  aupra.  part  iii.  c.  81  ;  and  D.  Mac  Firbis's  Genealogical 

^  Aliarkyh,  now  generally  called  Aharlow,  a  Work  (Marquis  of  Drogbeda's  copy),  p.  307. 

romantic  valley  in  the  barony  of  Clanwilliani,  ^  Covca-Thene,  now  the  parish  of  Templeniore, 

about  four  miles  to  the  south  of  the  town  of  in  the  county  of  Tipperary,  as  appears  from  an 

Tipperary.  inquisition  taken  in  the  reign  of  Charles  I.,  in 

*  Magh-Ailhhe,  now  Moyalifl",  a  parish  in  the  which  this  parish  is  called  Corckehenny. 

baronyof Kilnamanagh, and countyof Tipperary.  "'  Eile-Ui-Fhogartaigh,    now    the   barony   of 

'■  Duibh-Feili-  Ua-Lxiighdheacli,  now  Dovea,  a  Eliogarty,  in  the  county  of  Tipperary. 

townland  in  the  parish  of  Inch,  barony  of  Ileagh,  '  Pobal-Droma,  now  the  parish  of  Drum,  in 

and  county  of  Tipperary.   The  barony  of  Ileagh,  the  barony  of  Eliogarty. 

or  Ui-Luighdheach,  is  now  considered  a  part  of  '^  Pobal-Puirsealach,     anr/licc    Pobblepurcell. 

the  barony  of  Eliogarty,  but   it  is   sliewn  on  This  territory  is  now  included  in  the  parishes 

Beaufort's   Ecclesiastical  Map   of  Ireland  as  a  of  East  and  West  Loughma,  in  the  said  barony 

distinct  barony,   of  which   Borrisoleigh   is  the  of  Eliogarty.  The  ruins  of  Purcell's  magnificent 

head  town  or  village.    The  memory  of  St.  Culan  mansion  are  to  be  seen  close  to  the  villaae  of 

of  Glenkeen,   in  this  territory,  is  still  held  in  Loughma. 

great  veneration  there.  See  O'Flaherty's  Ogygia,  "^  Bealach-mor-Muighe-dida,  i.  e.  the  great  road 


1750  awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1580. 

Uainicc  ina  cfnn  annpin  clann  niec  giollnjktcrpaicc,  -|  mac  iii  cQibaiU  co 
nopuinj  nióip  oaoy^  oeiima  uilc  -\  aiDiTiiUre,  -|  Ro  ayccnaccaji  Diblinib  co 
l^lmb  blaóma.  Uónaic  om  faijib  annyin  an  jiob  lonaiprhe  oiii'b  pailje  -\  Do 
laijip.  6á  lunpip  F°5^^  ^"  lonnap  F^Pf  "i^aoi  Sfan  mac  Semaip  Sfcnóm  an 
cplebe  pin,  uaip  ni  coolab,  acr  pop  cfpcaillib  cloc  no  cpiaó,  hi  ibfo  ace  puaip 
ppeba  piopjlana  a  blfibfbaib  bap  no  bpócc.  RobDap  larc  a  aijin  upgnariia 
placa  paoa  na  pioobaiói  ace  lompuine  peolmaij  a  eappccapacr.  Ro  ^ab 
ace  buaiópean  builcépac,  "|  ace  apccain  oppaipje  ap  an  nrifnnacr  pin.  Oo 
CÓ1Ó  lapccam  illai^ip  po  loipcc  -|  po  lomaipcc  mainipcip  laijipi  ap  mac  lapla 
upiTiuiTian  .1.  pmpup,  mac  Semaip,  mic  piapaip  puaib.  Ro  haipcceab  laip 
beop  pope  laoijipi  lap  mapbab  Dpuinse  do  luce  lomcoirheDa  on  baile.  Rucc 
paibb,  eioeab,  eac,  aipm,"]  lolmaoinib  uara.  CiD  pil  ann  rpa  ace  Do  haipcceab 
peace  mbaile  lUaoijip  laip  ip  w  aén  ló  pin.  Ro  apccnó  lapom  on  ccpic  50 
a  cele  50  ^IfnD  TTlaoilujpa  aipm  1  mbaoi  Sémup  upeap, -|  clann  aoba  mic 
Sfain.  Ro  piabaijheab  pom  ó  na  peapaib  ipin.  Uanjaerap  ina  Docom  ann  pin 
Caomanaij  cennpealai j,  bpanaij,  euaralaij,  -|  luce  pojla  na  cpice  aceoic- 
cinne.  Ro  baó  eirhilc  a  aipnfip  an  po  rhillpioc, "]  an  po  loicpioe  im  jallaib 
laijfn  1  miDe.  Oo  cóió  Sfan  1  Semup  uprap  im  peil  micil  lap  pin  po  éuaipim 
na  nfcailleac  eánaic  Dia  éip  Dopa  epe  uaip  bá  Dóij  laip  co  ccaippeao  cobaip 
1  corhpupcacc  uara,"|  nip  bo  harhlaió  Do  pala  Dóib  ace  a  mapbab, "]  a  mub- 
ucelmb  lap  an  lupcip  ap  enlaéaip  (amail  peiriebepcmap)  piapiú  painic  pium 
Dia  paicchib. 

of  the  plain  of  the  meeting.    This  was  the  name  Ormond." 

of  the  ancient  road  leading  from  Tara  to  the  s  PoH-Laoighise,  i.  e.  Port-Leix,  i.  e.  the  fort 
south-west  of  Ireland  ;  and  Keating  informs  of  Leix.  This  is  still  the  Irish  name  for  the 
us  that  it  was  otherwise  called  Bealach-mor-  town  of  Maryborough  throughout  Leinster.. 
Osraighe. — See  Keating's  History  of  Ireland,  ^  James  Eustace. — He  was  the  son  of  Roland, 
Haliday's  edition,  p.  304,  and  the  unpublished  son  of  Thomas,  and  was  Viscount  Baltinglass, — 
part  in  the  reign  of  Cormac  Mac  Art.  The  place  a  fact  with  which  the  Four  Masters  do  not  ap- 
is still  called  Ballaghmore,  and  is  a  townland  pear  to  have  bee.n  acquainted. — See  p.  1737, 
containing  the  ruins  of  a  castle,  close  to  which  supra.  He  wrote  this  year  a  letter  to  the  Earl 
the  present  high  road  from  Mountrath  to  Roscrea  of  Ormond,  of  which  Cox  gives  the  following 
passes.  account  in  his  Hibernia  Anglicaua,  edition  of 

f  Upoji. — This  use  of  the  preposition  ?//>f)7i  is  1689,  p.  367: 

according  to  the  idiom  of  the  Irish.  An  English  "  About  the  same  time"  [July,  1580],  "  the 

writer  would  say:  "  He  plundered  Abbey-Leix,  Lord  Baltinglass  wrote  an  answer  to  the  Earl  of 

then  in  the  possession  of  the  son  of  the  Earl  of  Ormond,  assuring  his  Lordship  that  he  had  V)nt 


1580]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1751 

There  he  was  joined  by  the  sons  of  Mac  Gillapatrick,  the  son  of  O'Carroll,  and 
a  great  number  of  evil-doers  and  plunderers  ;  and  they  all  set  out  for  Slieve 
Bloom,  and  thither  all  the  men  of  OiTaly  and  Leix,  who  were  able  to  bear  arms, 
came  to  join  them.  The  manner  in  which  John,  the  son  of  James,  lived  on  this 
mountain,  was  worthy  of  a  true  plunderer  ;  for  he  slept  but  upon  couches  of 
stone  or  earth  ;  he  drank  but  of  the  pure,  cold  streams,  [and  that]  from  the 
palms  of  his  hands  or  his  shoes  ;  and  his  only  cooking  utensils  were  the  long 
twigs  of  the  forest,  for  dressing  the  flesh-meat  carried  away  from  his  enemies. 
From  this  abode  [Slieve  Bloom]  he  proceeded  to  plunder  the  Butlers  and 
Ossory.  He  afterwards  went  to  Leix,  and  burned  and  plundered  Abbey-Leix, 
upon*^  the  son  of  the  Earl  of  Ormond,  namely,  upon  Pierce,  the  son  of  James, 
son  of  Pierce  Roe.  He  also  plundered  Port-Laoighise^,  after  having  slain  some 
of  the  guards  of  the  town.  He  carried  away  from  them  accoutrements,  armour, 
horses,  weapons,  and  various  wealth.  In  short,  he  plundered  seven  castles  in 
Leix  in  [the  course  of]  that  day.  He  then  proceeded  from  one  territory  to 
another,  until  he  reached  Glenmalure,  where  James  Eustace  and  the  sons  of 
Hugh,  son  of  John  [O'Byrne],  were  [stationed],  where  he  was  welcomed  by 
these  men  ;  and  here  the  Kavanaghs,  Kinsellaghs,  Byrnes,  and  Tooles,  and  the 
plunderers  of  the  country  in  general,  came  to  join  him.  It  would  be  tedious  to 
mention  all  [the  property]  they  destroyed  and  injured  upon  the  English  oi 
Leinster  andMeath.  John  [son  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond],  and  James  Eustace", 
set  out  about  Michaelmas  in  the  expectation  of  meeting  the  Italians,  who  had 
arrived  in  his  [John's]  country,  for  he  expected  to  obtain  relief  and  assistance 
from  them.  But  it  did  npt  so  happen'  to  them,  for  they  had  all  been  cut  off 
and  destroyed  by  the  Lord  Justice  '  upon  the  one  spot,  as  we  have  already 
related,  before  he  could  reach  them". 

two  Councellors,  one  that   said  Fear  not  those  Viscount  Baltinglass. 

that  can  hill  the  body  only,  &c.,  and  the  other  bids  '  It  did  not  so  happen,  i.  e.  they  were  not  able 

us  obey  the  higher  power,  for  he  that  resisteth  to  afford  the  relief  or  assistance  they  intended, 
it,  resisteth  God  ;  Seeing  then  the  highest  power  ^  Before  he  cmdd  reach  them — Leland  says 

upon  earth  commands  lis  to  take  the  sword,  and  that  one  of  the  strongest  excuses  made  by  Grey 

to  fight  and  defend  ourselves  against  Traytors  for  putting  the  Spaniards  and  Italians  to  the 

and  Eebells,  which  do  seek  only  the  murdering  sword  in  cold  blood,  at  Dun-an-oir,  was,  that 

of  our  souls,  he  is  no  Christian  that  will  not  the  Irish  were  approaching  in  a  body  of  one 

obey."     The  Parliament,  which  was  convened  thousand  five  hundred  men — See  his  Hiitory  of 

in  Dublin  in  1583,  passed  an  Act  to  attaint  this  Ireland,  book  iv.  c.  2. 


1752  aNNQta  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [issi. 

aOlS  CRIOSC,  1581. 
Qoip  Cpiopr,  TTlile,  cuicc  ceo,  occmojac,  a  baoii. 

ConipóeaUiac  inac  oonnchaió,  mic  concobaip,  niic  coipiujecilbaij,  niic 
caibcc  UÍ  bpiain  baoi  cuilleab  ap  blmoam  illairh  ag  jallaib  t>o  cpochctb  an. 
26.  DO  mi  man. 

TlTac  lapla  cloinne  piocaipD  .1.  uiUiam  búpc,  mac  piocaipo  pa;ranaii5  mic 
uillicc  na  ccfnc,  mic  piocaipD,  mic  uillicc  cnuic  ruaj  do  cpochaó  1  njaiUim 
an  cpfp  la  lap  ccpocaD  coippóealbai^  uí  bpiain  .1.  coippóeolbac  Dia  DapDaoín 
1  uilliam  Dm  paraipn.  Clp  arhlaib  Do  pala  Duilliani  a  bAr  1  ccombaij  coccaiD 
lc(  a  bpaicpib  an  ran  po  bpippioc  a  mbailce  amail  perhebepcmap,  bá  liaic- 
peac  laip  inDpin,  1  Do  cóió  ap  ppoce;r  hi  ccfnn  gall  50  gaillim  on  mi  pia  na 
bápuccaó  1  po  Dolbab  pccél  eiccin  cuicce  co  po  jabab  "|  co  po  cpocliab.  l?o 
cpocab  beóp  ina  nDeachaib  Dia  lucr  Ifnarfina  ap  an  bppocepon  pn. 

Cuiccfp  -]  DO  picfc  Do  cpochab  1  nar  cliar  1  ccoiprib  cpeciipacca. 

Qn  bappac  mop,  Semup  mac  Ripoeipo,  mic  comaip,  mic  emainn  bai  illaiiii 
I  nar  cliac  do  écc.  Dpíp  ppéim  jfinectlaij  bappac  puao  Don  cpémiip  pin,  pfp 
DO  pulaing  mop  nimnib  "]  nanaoibe  ap  a  copac,  -|  05  na  baoi  a  púil  no  a  paoi- 
leaccain  pip  an  ainm  ap  (Ruab  pTm)  Da  poccain.  Qcc  apa  aoi  po  Deaplaic 
Dia  pfin  Dópom  cfnDup  bappac  maol  -]  puab  Diblinib, "]  ni  hCo  amain  ace  po 
boijiDnfbop  cfnD  bappac  mop  ictp  nDiljCno  na  nDQ^baoine  Dap  bual  an  Durcap 
pm  Dpollarhnuccab  co  pin.  Qn  bappac  do  ^aipm  Da  mac  lap  pin(.i.  Do  Daiiib 
Do  bappa)  la  hiapla  Dfpmuman,i  mac  ele  Do  Dobfic  po  bliccfb  na  ci^eapna 
ap  bappachaib  puaba. 

TTlac  giolla  parcpaicc,  bpian  ócc   mac  bpiain,  mic  Sfain,  mic  pin5in,  inic  ' 
pinjin,  mic  pinjin,  mic  Dorhnaill  baoi  illaim  inac  cliar  map   an  cceDna  Do 
écc,  life  eippibe  ciiccab  puap  1  Saproib  ap  a  óicce,"]  baoi  pojlamra  1  ccaiDpeab 

'  Twlough,  son  ofDonough. — He  was  a  younger  "  Bari-y  Mad,  i.  e.  Barry  the  Bald.     He  was 

son  of  Donough,  second  Earl  of  Thomond,  and  seated  near  Barry  Eoe,  in  the  district  of  Ibawii, 

the  brother  of  Conor,  the  third  Earl.  in  the  south  of  the  county  of  Cork. 

""^ai-ry  ifoe,  i.e.  Barry  the  Red,  i.  e.  the  chief  "  Barry  Mores,  i.e.  the  great  Barry  s.     This 

of  that  sept  of  the  Barrys  who  were  seated  in  sept  of  the  Barrys  gave  name  to  the  barony  of 

and  gave  name  to  the  barony  of  Barryroe,  in  Barrymorc,  in  the  county  of  Cork. — See  Smith's 
the  county  of  Cork. — See  Smith's  Natural  and    '  Natural  and  Civil  History  ofCoi-k,  book  ii.  c.  2. 

Civil  Hilary  of  Cork,  book  ii.  c.  3.  p  Whose   hereditary  right   it   ivas,    &c.— This 


1531.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.     .  1753 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1581. 

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

Turlough,  the  son  of  Donough',  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough,  sou  of  Teige 
O'Brien,  who  had  been  kept  in  prison  by  the  English  for  more  than  a  year,  was 
hanged  on  the  26th  of  May. 

The  son  of  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard,  i  e.  William  Burke,  son  of  Richard 
Saxonagh,  son  of  Ulick-na-gCeann,  son  of  Richard,  son  of  Ulick  of  Cnoc-Tuagh, 
was  hanged  at  Galway,  the  third  day  after  the  execution  of  Turlough  O'Brien ; 
that  is,  Turlough  was  hanged  on  Thursday,  and  Wilham  on  Saturday.  It  hap- 
pened that  William  was  joined  with  his  relatives  in  the  war  when  they  demo- 
lished their  castles,  as  we  have  already  mentioned  ;  that  he  grew  sorry  for 
this,  and  went  to  Galway,  under  the  protection  of  the  English,  the  month  before 
his  execution  ;  [but]  some  tale  was  fabricated  against  him,  for  which  he  was 
taken  and  hanged.  Such  of  his  followers  as  went  in  under  this  protection  were 
also  hancjed. 

Forty-five  persons  were  hanged  in  Dublin  for  crimes  of  treason. 

Barry  More  (James,  the  son  of  Richard,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Edmond), 
who  was  in  captivity  in  Dublin,  died.  This  James  was  of  the  true  stock  of  the 
Barry  Roes.  He  was  a  man  who  had  suffered  much  affliction  and  misfortune 
in  the  beginning  [of  his  career],  and  who  had  [at  first]  no  hope  or  expectation 
of  obtaining  even  the  title  of  Barry  Roe".  But,  however,  God  bestowed  upon 
him  the  chieftainship  both  of  Barry  Mael"  and  Barry  Roe  ;  and  this  was  not 
all,  but  he  was  elected  chief  over  the  Barry  Mores",  after  the  extinction  of  those 
chieftains  whose  hereditary  right  it  was''  to  rule  over  that  seigniory  till  that 
period.  His  son,  David  Barry,  was  afterwards  called  the  Barry  by  the  Earl  of 
Desmond  ;  and  his  second  son  was  by  law'  lord  over  the  Barry  Roes. 

Mac  Gillapatrick  (Brian  Oge,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  John,  son  of  Fineen, 
son  of  Fineen,  son  of  Fineen,  son  of  Donnell),  who  was  likewise  imprisoned  in 
Dublin,  died.  He  was  a  man  who  had  been  brought  up  in  England  in  his  youtli, 

could  be  expressed  better,  in  fewer  words,  thus :  "i  By  law. — When  the  first  son  was  raised  to 

"  Nay  more,  he  was  elected  chief  over  the  sept  the  dignity  of  Barry  More,  the  second  son  was 

of  Barry  More,  the  true  heirs  of  that  chieftain-  made  Barry  Roe,  not  in  accordance  with  the  law 

ship  having  become  extinct."  of  England,  but  with  the  customs  which  time 

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1754  aNwaca  Rioshachca  eiReawN.  [i58l. 

■]  1  ccorhaonra  na  cúi]ice  gup  bo  lnonjnab  la  liéiiifnDcoib  uile  a  conjmail  i 
ngfirhel  50  po  écc, -|  a  Deapbiiaraip  pinjin  DoipDneat)  ina  lonao,  uaip  ni  baoi 
clann  aiccepiuiii  accmaó  aon  injfn.  Omp  Dea|ibpara]i  oon  bpian  6cc  pin  .1. 
Da  mac  ócca  injine  ui  concobaip  pailje  (le  mac  giollapacpaicc  .1.  lé  bpian 
mac  Sfain)  do  rhapbaó  lá  Dorhnall,  mac  cepoicc  ui  maoílmuaió  ap  a  loncaib 
péin. 

O  cfpbaill  .1.  uilliam  oDap  mac  pipjanainm  mic  maolpnanaib,  mic  Sfain, 
baoi  beóp  illairh  inar  cliar  do  pfióiuccaó  lé  ^allaib,"]  leip  an  lupcip,"]  rpiall 
DO  cap  aip  Dia  arapDa.  Oo  pala  do  pop  an  cconaip  Dpon5  DÓccbaiD  pleacca 
ui  concobaip  pailje.  Po  cappac  pioe  a  cloiDmeaD  gan  coiccill,-]  po  puach- 
aijpioc  a  puapcclaD  -j  a  anacal  ace  a  ttiapbao  50  po  paccaibpioc  a  copp 
po  cpobaib  piac,  -]  paolcon.  O  cfpbaill  Do  jaipm  Dia  rhac  .1.  do  Slifan  an 
pápaij  mac  uilliam  uiDip. 

Uiccfpna  Dfipeac  Semup,  mac  jeapailc,  mic  Sfain,  mic  jeapóirr  liióip  na 
iiDfipi  mic  Semaip,  mic  ^eapoicc  lapla  Decc. 

mag  DonnchaiD  eojan  mac  DonnchaiD  an  boraip,  mic  DonnchaiD  méj 
Donncaió  Décc  1  luimneac  1  mbpaijDfnap  ag  jallaib. 

Oorhnall  na  conncae  mac  caiDj,  mic  copbmaic  óicc,  mic  copmaic,  mic 
caiDcc  mécc  capraij  canaipre  mupccpaije, "]  a  ccuaipccniD  cara  Decc. 

^oill  1  geapalcaij  In  ccoccaD  1  1  ccoimfpaonca  ppi  apoile,  co  na  baoi 
oppnD  aon  oiDce  no  caipDine  aén  liiiopa  fcoppa  ó  copac  a  ccoccaiD  jup  an 
can  po, -j  ni  poic  jiiom,  áipfrh,  no  aipnfip  ina  nDeapnpac  Dulcdib  pé  poile. 

SluaicceaÓ  ló  Sfan,  mac  Semaip,  mic  Sfam  a  mi  mag  cap  piúip  poip  co 
po  léppcpiopaó  bailee  oipip  na  pniipe  laip  .1.  QpD  máille,  -|  mainipcip  aca 
an  cuipil,  -]  Do  coiD  cap  puiip  piap  co  lion  ccpeac  -|    njabala,  -|  puj;  róip 

had  confirmed  among  the  Anglo-Irish  in  Muu-  of  Duhallow,  and  county  of  Cork. 

ster.  "  Donotigh-aii-Bhothair,  i.e.  Donough  or  Denis 

■■  William  Odhar,   i.  e.  Willian  tlie  Wan  or  of  the  road.    This  personage  is  much  celebrated 

Pale.     This  epithet   is  anglicised   Ower,    Our,  in  the  traditions  of  the  barony  of  Duhallow, 

and  Ure.  and  in  the  neighbouring  districts. 

'  John-an-Fhasaigh,  i.  e.  John  of  the  Wilder-  "  Donnell  of  the  county. — He  was  the  brother 

ness.    He  was  the  eldest  bastard  son  of  Sir  Wil-  of  Sir  Cormac  Mac  Teige  Mac  Carthy,  who  was 

liamO'Carroll — See  the  Indenture  above  printed  High  Slieriff  of  the  county  of  Cork.     He  was 

under  the  year  1576,  p.  1690.  very  loyal  to  the  English  government,  and  the 

'  Mac  Donough. — He  was  chief  of  a  sept  of  powerful  opposer  and  exterminator  of  the  rival 

the  Mac  Carthy^  who  were  seated  in  the  barony  family  of  the  Fitzgeralds. 


1.581.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  175.5 

and  who  was  acquainted  with  the  manners  and  customs  of  the  Court,  so  that  it 
was  a  wonder  to  the  Irish  that  he  should  have  been  detained  in  bondage  until 
his  death.  His  brother,  Fineen,  was  elected  in  his  place,  for  he  had  left  no 
issue,  excepting  one  daughter.  Two  brothers  of  this  Brian  Oge,  namely,  the 
two  young  sons  of  the  daughter  of  O'Conor  Faly  by  Fitzpatrick,  i.  e.  by  Brian, 
the  son  of  John,  were  slain  by  Donnell,  the  son  of  Theobald  O'MoUoy,  [while 
they  were]  under  his  own  protection. 

O'Carroll,  i.  e.  William  Odhar',  the  son  of  Ferganainm,  son  of  Mulrony,  son 
of  John,  who  was  likewise  confined  in  Dublin,  was  set  at  hberty  by  the  English 
and  the  Lord  Justice  ;  and  he  set  out  for  his  native  territory.  But  on  his  way 
he  was  met  by  some  of  the  young  men  of  the  descendants  of  O'Conor  Faly  ; 
and  they  were  rejoiced  (to  be  able)  to  put  him  unsparingly  to  the  sword,  and 
detested  (the  thought  of)  shewing  liirn  quarter  or  mercy.  They  slew  him,  and 
left  his  body  under  the  talons  of  ravens  and  the  claws  of  wolves.  His  son, 
John-an-Fhasaigh',  was  then  styled  O'Carroll. 

The  Lord  of  Desies,  James,  the  son  of  Gerald,  son  of  John,  son  of  Garrett 
More  of  Desies,  son  of  James,  son  of  Garrett  the  Earl  [of  Desmond],  died. 

Mac  Donough',  Owen,  the  son  of  Donough-an-Bhothair",  son  of  Donough 
Mac  Donough,  died  in  Limerick,  where  he  had  been  imprisoned  by  the  English. 

Donnell  of  the  County",  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Cormac  Oge,  son-of  Cormac, 
son  of  Teige  Mac  Carthy,  Tanist  of  Muskerry,  and  its  leader  in  battle,  died. 

The  English  and  the  Geraldines  were  at  war  and  strife  with  each  other  ; 
nor  was  there  a  truce  of  one  night,  or  a  friendship  of  one  month,  between  them, 
from  the  commencement  of  the  war  to  this,  time!  No  .account,  enumeration,  or 
description  of  the  injuries  done  between  them  can  be  attempted. 

A  hosting  was  made  by  John,  son  of  James,  son  of  John  [Fitzgerald  of 
Desmond],  in  the  month  of  May,  eastwards  across  the  Suir  ;  and  he  totally 
destroyed  [some  of  the]  towns  lying  on  the  brink''  of  the  Suir,  namely,  Ard 
Made"  and  the  monastery  of  AthasseP.     And  he  proceeded  westwards  across 

•  On  the  brink,  literally,   "  in  the  district  of  this  abbey,  which  was  erected  by  William  Fitz- 

the  Suir."  Adelm  de  Burgo,    about    the   year   1200,    are 

'  Ard  Maile,  i.  e.  Malley's  height,  now  Ard-  situated  on  the  west  side  of  the  River  Suir,  a 

mayle,  a  village  near  the  River  Suir,  about  three  stream  from  which  was  artificially  carried  round 

miles  and  a  half  to  the  north  of  Cashel.  the  building  for  the  purpose  of  dfefence. — See 

'  Athassd,  uc  cuipil The  extensive  ruins  of  note  *■,  under  the  year  1248,  p.  331,  supra. 

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1750  aNNata  Rioshachca  ej^eawN.  [1581. 

rpem,  -\  ioma)icpa6  anppoplainn  ap  an  áippib,  l?o  gab  porn  aga  nionico]i  50 
neimpniorhac  an  ccfin  po|icaorhnacai]i,  "]  po  puió  p]iiu  ap  a  hairle,  -]  po  ba 
nió  ina  rpi  ceo  an  po  mapbaó  -[  in  po  baiófó  laip  oiob.  Rucc  Sfan  an  ccpeic 
laip  lap  ccopccap  jup  na  popbaipib  pfóa  ina  ccleaccap  cumpanaó  ap  an 
cclaonjlaip  -\   ap  an  ccoill  móip. 

Sluaicceaó  ele  la  Sfan  mac  Semaip  1  mi  lún  ap  maj  cápraij  mop,  1  baoi 
ppi  pé  DO  la,  no  a  cpi  05  cpeachaó  ■]  05  cuapcuccaó  na  cpice  ó  mupccpaiT^e 
50  liuib  pc'trac,  -|  ncc  cap  a  aip  co  naipcccib  "]  co  néoalaib  lomóa  50  ina^ 
ccoincinne.  QcbepDip  luce  a  ppaipccpiona  nac  ppacacap  an  oipfr  pi.n  00 
cpob  cpeac  piam  an  aon  maijin. 

lapla  Dfpmurhan  oobfiri  ppoplongpopc  in  achab  oa  eó,-]  bá  ipin  ran  pin 
no  hopoaicchfb  capcm  pa;ranac  (.1.  capcin  Siuicpe)  on  mbainpiojain,  i  on 
lupnp  op  cfno  Dfpmuitian  1  ciappaije  Dia  niomcoirrieD.  T?o  jluaip  an  cnpcin 
pin  (do  piubal  láoi  1  oióce)  co  mbuibin  mapcpluaj  amaille  ppip  do  rabaipc 
(unaip  ap  poplonjpopc  lapla  Dfpinurhan  -|  ba  hann  painic  laip  Dol  pon  ppop- 
lon^popc  ap  maoain  Dia  Dorimaij.  baoi  an  ciapla  gup  an  lion  do  pala  ina 
pocaip  an  can  pin  ina  ccoipcim  puain  "]  piop  coDalca  lap  ppaiccfp -|  lap 
ppopcoiméD  na  hoibce  50  pin.  Qppfo  Do  póine  an  capcin  ma  ppuaip  na 
pfpam  ap  na  ppáioib  do  juin  50  jpoDuplam,  -|  do  mapbab  jan  Diceall,  -|  ni 
po  ai]iii'  ppi  hiomaipeacc  na  oeabaiD  co  painicc  caiplén  na  mainge.  60  Don 
Dpuing  DO  paopclanoaib  copcaip  lap  an  ccapcin  in  achab  Da  eó  an  la  pin 
.1.  en  mac  comaip  mic  muipip  Duib  mic  an  lapla  .1.  comap  occ,  TTlaolmuipe 
mac  Donnchaib  tacaij  mic  maolniuipe  imc  Donnchaib  mec  puibne,  1  cabcc 
mac  Diapmaca  mic  copbmaic  6  mai^  laicirh. 

Sluaicceab  la  hiapla  ofpmurhan  1  noeipeab  imp  Sepcembep  jup  na  maijijib 
1  moipcimceall  caipil  rhurhan,  1  50  caipeal  pfipin.  l?uccpac  na  plóij  pin  ile 
DO  jac  maicfp,  eiccip  uma,"|  lapann,  eDac, -]  upab,  cpob,"]  cfrpa  50  po  inDip- 
pfc  na  cipe  pin  co  léip.  Rucc  o]ipa  im  na  hoipccnib  pin  Dpong  buibne  Deap- 
mapa  a  cpian  cluana  meala  1   ap  an  cpian  mfbonac.     Ruccpac  oppa  Dna 

^  Ui-Eathach,  now  Iveragh,  a  barouy  in  the  '  Achadh-da-eo,  i.  e.  the  field  of  the  two  yews, 

south-west  of  the  county  of  Kerry,   anciently  now  Aghadoe,  an  old  church,   near  which  are 

belonging  to  the  family  of  O'Shea.  the  remains  ol'  a  round  tower,   situated  about 

'■  Magh-gCuincliinne,  now  the  barony  of  Ma-  two  miles   to  the  north   of  Killarney,   in   the 

gunihy,  in  the  county  of  Kerry.—  See  note  ^,  county  of  Kerry, 

under  the  year  1495,  p.  1220,  supra.  '^  Captain Siaitse This  is  an  attempt  at  writ- 


1581.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1757 

the  Suir  with  great  preys  and  spoils  ;  but  though  this  hero  was  overtaken  by 
a  very  strong  and  overwhelming  body  of  forces,  he  continued  boldly  carrying 
off  the  spoils  as  long  as  he  was  able ;  but  [at  last]  he  came  to  an  engagement, 
in  which  more  than  three  hundred  of  them  were  drowned  and  slain.  John 
[then]  carried  off  the  prey  in  triumph  to  his  encampments  in  the  woods  of 
Claenglaise  and  Coill-Mor,  where  he  was  wont  to  abide. 

Another  hosting  was  made  by  John,  the  son  of  James,  in  the  month  of  June, 
against  Mac  Carthy  More  ;  and  he  remained  two  or  three  days  plundering  and 
ti'aversing  his  territory,  from  Muskerry  to  Ui-Rathach" ;  and  he  (then)  returned 
with  preys  and  spoils  to  Magh-gCoinchinne".  Those  who  beheld  them  declared 
that  they  had  never  before  seen  such  a  great  prey  of  cattle  in  one  place. 

The  Earl  of  Desmond  was  encamped  at  Achadh-da-eo" ;  and  at  that  time  an 
English  captain,  namely.  Captain  Siuitse",  was  appointed  by  the  Queen  and  the 
Lord  Justice  to  preside  over  Desmohd  and  Kerry.  This  captain  marched  day 
and  night  with  a  party  of  cavalry  to  make  an  attack  on  the  camp  of  the  Earl  of 
Desmond  ;  and  it  was  on  a  Sunday  morning  that  he  arrived  at  the  camp.  The 
Earl  and  all  those  who  were  with  him  were  at  this  time  buried  in  deep  sleep 
and  profound  slumber,  for  they  had  remained  vigilant  and  on  the  watch  all  the 
night,  [and]  until  that  time.  The  captain  immediately  and  alertly  .attacked  all 
those  whom  he  found  standing  in  the  streets,  and  slew  them  without  mercy  ; 
nor  did  he  wait  for  battle  or  engagement,  [but  proceeded  directly]  till  he  reached 
Castlemain.  The  following  were  amongst  the  freeborn  persons  slain  by  the 
captain  at  Achadh-da-eo  on  that  day,  i.  e.  Thomas  Oge,  the  only  son  of  Thomas; 
the  son  of  Maurice  Duv,  son  of  the  Earl ;  Mulmurry,  the  son  of  Donough  Ba- 
cagh,  sou  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Donough  Mac  Sweeny  ;  and  Teige,  the  sou  uf 
Dermot,  son  of  Cormac  of  Magh-Laithimh". 

A  hosting  was  made  by  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  at  the  end  of  the  month  of 
September,  into  the  plains,  lying  far  and  wide  around  Cashel,  in  Munster,  and 
into  Cashel'  itself.  His  forces  seized  upon  great  quantities  of  all  sorts  of  pro- 
perty, such  as  copper,  iron,  clothing,  apparel,  and  great  and  small  cattle  ;  so 
tliat  they  plundered  all  those  territories.  As  they  were  carrying  off  these  spoils 

iiig,  ill  Irish  letters,  Captain  Zouch.—See  Cox's  ""  Marjh-Laithimh,    i.  e.    Lahiff's    plain,    now 

Hihernia  Awjlicana,  A.  D.  1580,  1.581,  edition  Molahiff,  a  townland  in  which  stood  a  castle 
of  1689,  pp.  367,  .368,  et  sequent.  belonging  tf)  a  respectable  sept  of  the  Mac  Car- 


1758  aNNQi^a  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [i58l. 

ploicch  a  coiTipocpoib  fiúipe,  i  ó  óún  mpccai^  50  mai^  Qilbe.  Ro  poyiconj- 
ai]i  an  cia|ila  foapnaij  inclfire  do  págbail  pop  an  cconaip  1  noipcill  na  nócc 
bácrap  ina  niapnióipeacc, "]  po  pill  péin  ppiú  lap  poccam  Don  róip  cap  an 
cceilcc.  r?o  gabab  laporh  occa  noióeaó  -]  occá  naipleac  DÓ  jac  ler  peampa 
1  ina  nouno  gup  bó  moo  olccárc  cfirpe  céD  a  nfpbaió  ón  lomapjail  pin.  Uicc 
lapla  Deapmurfian  lop  mbuaiD  ccopccaip,  1  ccoThmooióme  co  neachaib, "]  co 
nénalaib  lomoaib  laip  cop  a  aip  in  fcaplac. 

peace  an  catigaccap  Dponsbuiófn  óána  Diconipcil  Do  poijDiuipib  ara 
Dapa  lap  na  poinn  1  nDó  .1.  opong  ap  ppuc  ")  Dpong  ap  cíp  Do  cuapcuccaó 
caonpaijei  lá  caob  ITláije  oiappaió  gona  nó  jabala  pop  Dpeim  eiccin  tio  na 
po^laóaib.  IQT?  nool  Don  DÓ  Dpoin5  pin  1  ccfnD  apoile  1  nionipocpaib  baile 
uí  corláin,  ap  an  Do  pala  cuca  Dauió  ócc,  mac  Dauió  an  loca,  mic  comaip, 
mic  Sfain,  mic  comáip,  mic  pibp,  mic  an  piDipe  co  na  pocpaiDe  Dia  paijió,  1 
Do  cóidIi  púrciib  co  po  gab  agá  ccpfjDctD  1  acca  rcimceallab,  co  ppapccaib 
lacc  ina  mriófóaib  maoílDfpcca  1  ina  ccamnaib  caoib^fppra,  conac  móp 
ceapna  gan  aipleac  ap  an  laraip  pin  lá  Damn  co  na  rhmncip.  lap  poccain 
na  pccél  pin  co  hoc  Dapa,  ciiipip  capon  ara  Dapa  cionol  ap  paijDiuipib  cille 
moceallócc,  "]  do  Dec(c1iaió  50  ppfoain  nifpDa  mioruicpicch  Do  cop  cuapca  1 
ccaonpaije,  Dup  an  ppinjbeaD  Duine,  no  Daoine  ap  a  noijélab  ap  niapbaó 
DO  rhuincip.  Róinicc  co  baile  ui  cacláin,  baile  pibe  do  bailcib  an  puippélai^ 
baí  05  conjnarh  piam  lap  an  ccopóin  ó  céD  coccaó  gall  ~\  jfpalcac  gup  an 
ran  pin.  Oo  mapbaD  lap  an  ccapcin  Dficnebap  "|  peace  picic  do  mnáib,  Do 
iriibaib,-|  Da  gac  poipinn  Da  ppuaip  ipcij, ")  amuij  ipin  mbaile  pm.   Qn  Dc'iuib 

thys,  situated  uear  the  village  of  Castlemaine,  woman's  name,  now  Moyaliff,  about  five  miles 

in   the   barony  of  Magunihy,    and    county   of  west  of  Thurles,  in  the  barony  of  Kilnamanagh. 

Kerry.  — See  note  ',  under  the  year  1580,  p.  1749,  siip. 

'  Trian-Chlnana-meala,    i.  e.    Clonmel- third,  '  Baile- Ui-Chathlain,  i.  e.  O'Catlilain's  town, 

now  the  barony  of  Iffa  and  Oflfa  East,  in  the  so  called  in  Irish  at  the  present,  but  anglicised 

south-east  of  the  county  of  Tipperary.  Ballycalhane.     It  is  the   name  of  a  townland 

8  Dim-Iasgaiijh. — This  is  more  usually  called  containing  the  ruins  of  a  castle,  in  the  parish  of 
in  Irish,  Cathair-Duna-Iasgaigh,  and  the  name  "Kildimo,  barony  of  Kenry,  and  county  of  Lime- 
is  now  anglicised  simply  Cahir,  which  is  that  of  rick, 
a  well-known  town  on  the  Kiver  Suir,  in  the  "^  Son  of  the  Knight — He  was  the  ancestor  of 

barony  of  Iffa  and  Ofifa  West See  note  ^  under  all  the  families  of  the  Purcells. — See  pedigree  by 

the  year  1559,  p.  1570,  supra.  Duald  Mac  Firbis. 

''  Magh-Ailbhe,   i.  e.  the  plain  of  Ailbhe,   a  '  So  that  not  many. — The  style  is  here  very 


1581.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOxM  OF  IRELAND.  1759 

they  were  overtaken  by  a  strong  body  of  troops  from  Trian-Chluana-meala^  and 
from  Middlethird  ;  and  also  by  a  force  from  the  borders  of  the  Suir,  and  of  the 
region  extending  from  Dun-Iasgaigh^  to  Magh-Ailbhe".  The  Earl  ordered  that 
an  ambuscade  should  be  formed  on  the  pass  for  the  forces  who  were  in  piu'suit 
of  them ;  but  the  pursuers  having  escaped  the  ambush,  the  Earl  himself  turned 
round  upon  them.  They  [the  Earl's  army]  then  proceeded  to  kill  and  slaughter 
them  on  every  side,  in  the  van  and  in  the  rear  ;  so  that  their  loss  was  upwards 
of  four  hundred  men  in  that  engagement.  The  Earl  of  Desmond  returned  to 
Eatharlach  in  triumph  and  exultation,  with  many  steeds  and  other  spoils. 

Upon  one  occasion  a  bold  and  merciless  body  of  the  soldiers  of  Adare, 
having  been  divided  into  two  parties,  went  forth,  one  by  water,  the  other  by 
land,  to  traverse  Kenry  and  [the  lands  lying]  along  the  side  of  the  Mangue,  to 
seek  for  fight  or  booty  from  some  of  the  plunderers.  These  two  parties,  having 
met  together  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Baile-Ui  Chathlain',  were  encountered 
by  David  Oge,  the  son  of  David  of  the  Lake,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  John,  son 
of  Thomas,  son  of  Philip,  son  of  the  Knight",  and  his  forces,  who  charged  them, 
and  proceeded  to  pierce  and  surround  them,  so  that  he  left  them  [but  a  heap 
of]  bloody  trunks  and  mangled  carcasses  ;  so  that  not  many'  of  them  escaped 
without  being  slaughtered  on  that  spot  by  David  and  his  people.  When  the 
news  of  this  reached  Adare,  the  captain  of  that  town"  assembled  the  soldiers  of 
Kilmallock,  and  set  out  at  the  head  of  a  vigorous  and  merciless  body  [of  troops] 
to  traverse  Kenry,  in  order  to  see  whether  he  could  find  man  or  men  upon 
whom  to  wreak  his  vengeance  for  the  slaughter  of  his  people.  He  arrived  at 
Baile-Ui-Chathlain,  one  of  the  castles  of  Purcell,  who  had  assisted-the  Crown 
from  tlie  very  commencement  of  the  war  between  the  English  and  the  Geral- 
dines  tothat  time.  The  captain  slew  one  hundred  and  fifty  women  and  children, 
and  of  every  sort  of  persons  that  he  met  with  inside  and  outside  of  that  castle. 

The  David  already  named,  who  had  slain  the  captain's  people,  was  a  man 

lame.     It   could  be  very   easily    improved   by  left  them  but  a  heap  of  bloody  trunks,    aud 

transposing  some  words,  as  follows  :  hacked  and  mutilated  carcasses.     A  few,  how- 

"  These  two  parties  met  together  near  the  ever,  escaped  by  flight,  who  carried  the  news 

castle  of  Ballycahlane.    They  were  encountered  of  the  slaughter  of  their  companions  to  Adare," 

by  David  Oge  Purcell  and  his  people,  who  fell  &c. 

upon  them  with  such  fury,  and  surrounded  and  ■"    The   captain   of  that  toivn. — According  to 

charged  them  with  such  liravery,   that  he  soon  Ware's  Annals  his  name  was  Achin. 


1760  awNata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1531. 

pérhpaire  lap  |io  mniibaó  muinri|i  an  capcin,  pfp  epióe  do  pulainj^  ouab  "| 
oocaji  1  ccoccaójeapalcac  ap  jallaiB.  peacr  Diap  luió  p6e  1  mi  oecembep 
CO  ft  pfpaib  Decc  6  ciompaib  caonpaije  i  ccoice  caol  curhanj  50  po  imiiipfc 
r]ie  cuan  p^onn  pia|icuai6  jach  noifieac.  Po  jab  ai]ii)'rrii  05  mipcoraij,  i 
paoíóif  innce  an  aohaió  I'in.  O  po  clop  la  coippóealbac  mac  raiócc,  mic 
niupcliaiD,  mic  caiócc  puaió,  mic  coippoelbaicc  (TTlac  rhec  macsarhna  a  epic 
copca  baipcino  aipreapaij^)  Daiiió  Do  bol  raipip,  po  cuiji  aprpac  (in  upropac 
oiDce)  ap  an  pionainn  ppiubuame, -]  do  cóió  ann  gup  an  lion  capla  ma  pappab, 
1  ni  po  aipip  CO  painicc  imp  caraij  co  po  gab  pope  1  ppeopainn  na  pinninnpi 
Uánaic  lapom  gup  an  rfg  1  mbaoi  Dauió,  ~\  po  cuippioc  cene  ip  in  rfj  Dia 
lopccaó  50  lánuplarh.  Uicc  Dauib  Dipccip  Diaipni  co  net  riiuincip  amac  ap 
loncaib  meic  mic  inacjarhna,-]  po  gabab  é  co  na  muincip  laip  po  ceoóip.  Oo 
raoD  mac  rhec  mafgamna  co  na  bpaijDib  co  baile  rhec  colmc'tin  cap  a  aip  an 
aDliaib  pin.  Oocpochab  muincip  Dc'tuiD  ppip  na  cpannoib  bá  corhpoicpi  oóib 
ap  no  rhapac,  "]  Do  cuipeab  an  laoc  rtiilio  50  luimneac  aipm  ina  ppuaip  a 
oibeab  gan  puipeac. 

Ceall  piacal  Do  jabail  la  pfan  mac  an  lapla  an  cfrparhab  la  Don  noDlaij, 
-  gac  a  ppuaip  ina  hinmfbón  Durha, -]  Diapann,  DeDac,  Dionnmap,-]  Dapbap  do 
cop  eipce  50  hfraplaij  ppi  pé  Da  la,"]  bpipip  an  baile  laporn. 

T?epibep  jfpalcac  .1.  niclaup,  mac  uilliam,  mic  niclaiy^  Do  mapbab  la 
I'aijDiiiipib  aúa  oapa. 

Qn  Docrúip  ]'anDuip  Decc  ap  coillcib  na  claonglaipi,  pope  conjrhala  Don 

°  North-westerly. — Tins  is  incorrect,  for  the  ^  Baile-mhic-Cohnain,    now   Colmanstown,   a 

Shannon  runs  rather  south-west  from  the  bor-  townland  containing  the  ruins  of  a  castle,  in  tlie 

ders  of  Kenry  to    Inis-Cathaigh,    or  Scattery  parish  of  Killofinn,  barony  of  Clonderalaw,  and 

Island,  as  it  is  now  called.     By  Cuan-Sionna  is  county  of  Clare. —  See  the  Ordnance  Survey  of 

meant  the  lower  or  wide  portion  of  the  Shannon,  that  county,  sheet  68. 

°  East  Corca-Bliaiscinn,   now  the  barony  of  '  Kilfeakle,  near  the  town  of  Tipperary — See 

Clonderalaw,  in  the  county  of  Clare.  note  ',  under  the  year  1192,  p.  94,  supra. 

^  The  strand. — The  word  Feopainn,  or  peoi-  *  The  Receiver,  i.  e.  the  agent  or  treasurer, 

pinn,  is  still  in  use  in  the  west  of  Ireland  to  '  Dr.  Saunders — The  death  of  Dr.  Saunders 

denote  a  smooth  sandy  shore.     The  features  of  is    mentioned    in    Ware's    Annals    of   Ireland, 

this  island,  and  the  ruins  existing    thereon  in  under  the  year  1582,  and  in  Camden's  Annals 

1839,  are  carefully  described  in  a  letter  written  of  the  reign    of  Elizabeth    under    1583;    but 

by  the  Editor  on  the  9th  of  December  that  year,  liishton  statqa  that  he  died  in  1581,   which  ap- 

and  at  present  preserved  at  the  Ordnance  Survey  pears  to  be  the  true  date.     Camden  draws  his 

Office,  Phccnix  Park.  character  in  the  blackest  colours  ;  and  Cox,  who 


1581.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  I76I 

who  had  gone  through  much  toil  and  trouble  in  the  war  of  the  Geraldines  with 
the  English.  On  one  occasion  he  set  out  with  sixteen  men  in  the  montli  of 
December  from  the  borders  of  Kenry,  in  a  small,  narrow  cot.  They  rowed  in 
a  north-westerly"  direction  through  the  Shannon  Harbour,  and  put  in  at  Inis- 
Cathaigh,  where  they  stopped  for  that  night.  When  Turlough,  the  son  of 
Teige,  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Teige  Roe,  son  of  Turlough  (the  son  of  Mac 
Mahon,  from  East  Corca-Bhaiscinn"),  heard  that  David  had  passed  by  him,  he 
launched  a  boat  upon  the  blue-streamed  Shannon  in  the  early  part  of  the  night, 
and  entering  it  with  the  number  of  men  he  liad  along  with  him,  he  made  no 
delay  until  he  reached  Inis-Cathaigh,  and  landed  on  the  strand''  of  the  fair 
island.  They  then  went  to  the  house  in  which  David  was,  and  immediately 
set  fire  to  it.  David,  with  his  people,  quickly  came  out,  unarmed,  casting  him- 
self on  the  mercy  of  the  son  of  Mac  Mahon,  who  instantly  took  him  and  his 
people  prisoners.  The  son  of  Mac  Mahon  retiu-ned  on  that  night  to  Baile-mhic- 
Colmain'',  taking  his  prisoners  with  him.  On  the  following  day  David's  people 
were  hanged  on  the  nearest  trees  they  met ;  and  the  heroic  soldier  himself  was 
sent  to  Limerick,  where  he  was  immediately  put  to  death. 

Kilfeakle'  was  taken  by  John,  son  of  the  Earl  [of  Desmond],  on  the  fourth 
day  after  Christmas  ;  and  he  removed  in  the  course  of  two  days  to  Eatharlach 
all  the  copper,  iron,  clothes,  treasure,  and  corn,  that  he  found  within  it,  and 
then  demolished  the  castle.  ' 

The  Receiver'  of  the  Geraldines,  namely,  Nicholas,  son  of  William,  son  of 
Nicholas,  was  slain  by  the  soldiers  of  Adare. 

Doctor  Saunders'  died  in  the  woods  of  Claenglaise.   He  was  the  supporting 

held  the  Roman  Catholics  in  abomination,  says  ings  of  authors  whose  minds  are  jaundiced  with 

that   "  Saunders  died  miserably  of  a  flux  and  national  and  religious  prejudices.     Mageoghe- 

famine  in  the  woods  of  Clenlish,   whereby  the  gan  speaks  of  him  thus  in  his  Hist,  crirlande  : 
kingdom  was  rid  of  a  malicious,  cunning,  and  "  On  rapporte  a  ce  temps  la  mort  du  Docteur 

indefatigable  traytor."     P.    O'Sullevan    Beare  Sanders  autrement  Sanderus,  Anglois  de  nation 

also  states  that  he  died  of  dysentery See  his  et  Légat  Apostolique  en   Irlande ;  c'etoit  un 

Hist.    Cathol.  Iber.,    fol.   100.     The  Abbe    Ma-  homme  d'une  vie  exemplaire  et  tres  zélé  pour 

geoghegan,  who  appears  to  have  carefully  read  la  cause  catholique.     II  est  peint  sous  d'autres 

the  works  of  Camden  and  Cox,  has  drawn  the  couleurs  par  les  Auteurs   Protestants,   qui  le 

character  of  Dr.  Saunders  in  different  colours  qualifient  de  traitre  et  d'archi-rébelle  :  ce  saint 

from  those  used  by  Camden,  which  shews  how  homme,   épuisé  par  la  fatigue  et  par  la  chagrin 

difficult  it  is  to  elicit  the  truth  from  the  writ-  de  voir  triompher  I'lmpiete,  mourut  d'un  llux 

IOp 


1762 


aNNW.a  Rio^hachca  emeaNN. 


[1581. 


cyiOnfrh  caroilci,  "|  cfiiD  órcorhaipc  j^eaiialcoc  ly^in  ccoccaó  i  mbaraji  epóe. 
Ní]i  bó  maccnaó  on  a)i  ay  \á  yemuy,  mac  niui|ii|-'  cúinic  i  né]iinn. 

TTlac  iií  SuilleaBáin  béijipe  (oorhnall,  mac  oorhnaiU,  mic  Diapmaca,  mic 
Doriinaill  mic  Dorhnaill  mic  Dicqimaca  bailb)  oo  cabaipc  b]ii]^ce  ap  cai]ib]ieac- 
aib  a  mí  Decembe|i  oo  j>onn|ia6.  6á  liarhlaib  oo  |iónaó  inn]^in,  Capcin  biuirj'i 
Do  bol  o  copcai^  cpé  caijibjieacoib  co  inaiiiipci|i  bfnnciiaije.  Pocuip  clanii 
roi|i]ióeaIbai^  niic  maolniuijie,  mic  nonnchaió  mec  piiibne,i  mac  uí  óonnabáin 
1  Dporig  oo  cfnoaib  popal  i  oo  óaoínib  uaiple  caijibjieac  uaba  uo  cenam 
cpeac  ap  rhac  uí  puillebáin,  puaippioc  na  pfónaca  po  cuip  an  capcin  uaba 
cpeaca  aibble  i  lomao  éoala.  Rob  abnap  lá  Domnall  a  oipccne  Do  leccaD 
uaba  1  é  pfin  ina  bfchaió, "]  po  lonnpaij  an  ^appnó  ^aoibelac  rapla  ]  rriiu- 
cell  na  ccpeac-,  l  do  neapbb  an  lá  pin  nnc  lé  líon  pluaij  bpipceap  car  uaip 
copcpaccap  le  Dorhnoll  a  ppoccup  do  rpí  céD  Do  ccnpbpeacaib,  "|  ap  bfg  le 
Ific  cécc  pfp  pfDma  í.aoípiom  do  pocpaioe  ace  cabaipc  an  cocaip  pn\ 


de  sang  dans  iin  bois,  ou  il  manquoit  de  tcnit 
secours,  excepté  le  spiritiiel  qui  lui  fut  ftdiiii- 
nistré  par  Corneille  Eveque  Killalow,  qui  ne 
le  quitta  qu'á  la  mort." — Tom.  iii.  p.  448. 

Dr.  Saunders  was  for  some  time  professor  of 
law  at  Oxford,  but,  after  the  death  of  Cjueen 
Mary,  he  was  obliged  to  quit  Oxford,  and  go 
to  Rome,  where  he  received  the  order  of  priest- 
hood, and  the  degree  of  doctor  of  divinity,  about 
the  year  1560.  He  afterwards  taught  divinity 
at  Louvain.  In  1571  he  published  bis  work, 
entitled,  De  visihili  moiiarchiá  Eccleske.  He 
was  soon  after  appointed  Nuncio  in  Sjiain,  where 
he  wrote  his  History  of  the  Rise  and  Progress  of 
the  English  Reformation  ;  but  when  he  was  about 
to  publish  it,  he  was  ordered  by  Pojie  Gregory 
XHI.  to  proceed  to  Ireland,  to  instruct  the  Irish 
Catholics. 

^  Captain  Siuitsi. — This  is  an  attempt  at  writ- 
ing Captain  Zouch,  in  Irish  letters.  He  was 
appointed  governor-general  and  general  at  arms 
in  Munster  by  the  Lord  Deputy  Grey  this  year. 

'  The  son  of  0' Donovan The   O'Donovan 

at  this  time  was  Donnell  mac  Teige  mac  Dermot, 
who  is  still  vividly  remembered  in  the  traditions 


of  the  mountains  of  Carbery  under  the  ajjpella- 
tion  of  Oorinnall  na  gCpoicennn,  i.  e.  Daniel 
pellinm.  P.  O'Sullevan  Beare  says  {^Hist.  Cathol., 
c.  16),  that  the  son  of  O'Donovan,  who  was  slain 
on  this  occasion,  was  named  Dermysius. 

"  Daniel  OsuUevanus  adolescens,  qui  postea 
BearrK  princeps  factus  pro  Hispanorum  salute 
cum  Anglis  bellum  gessit :  ad  Beantria;  monas- 
terium  Anglorum  cohortem  lapidibus  obrutam 
delevit,  et  Dermysium  Odouuobhanum  Anglo- 
rum  jussu  Bearram  depra;dantem  ad  Lutum 
Bourn  (Lathach  na  ndaibh)  occidit." 

John  Collins  of  Myross,  in  his  pedigree  of  the 
late  General  O'Donovan,  supposes  that  this 
Dermot  was  chief  of  the  O'Douovans,  and  as- 
serts that  he  was  the  grandfather  of  Domhnall 
na  g-Croiceann  [who  died  in  1584!];  and  the 
same  absurd  opinion  is  gravely  repeated  as  a  his- 
torical fact  by  the  late  Timothy  O'Donovan,  of 
O'Donovau's  Cove,  Esq.,  in  a  letter  to  the  Editor, 
dated  August  4,  1841,  in  which  he  writes  : 

"  Dermot  O'Donovan,  of  Castle  Donovan, 
though  set  down  by  Mr.  Powell  as  fifth  sou  of 
Daniel  of  1629,  was  chief  of  Castle  Donovan,  and 
made  an  inroad  into  Berehaven,  to  bear  away  cat- 


1581.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1763 


pillar  of  the  Catholic  faith,  iind  the  chief  counsell'or  of  the  Geraldines  during 
the  war.  It  was  not  wonderful,  for  it  was  with  James,  the  son  of  Maurice,  he 
had  come  to  Ireland. 

The  son  of  O'SuUivau  Beare  (Donuell,  tlie  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Dermot, 
son  of  DoMuell,  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Dermot  Balbh)  gave  a  defeat  to  the 
people  of  Carbery  in  the  month  of  December.  It  was  thus  effected  :  Captain 
Siuitsi"  set  out  from.  Cork,  through  Carbery,  for  the  monastery  of  Ban  try.  He 
sent  the  sons  of  Turlough,  sou  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Donough  Mac  Sweeny, 
[Dermot],  son  of  O'Donovan"  [Donuell,  the  son  ofTeige,  son  of  Dermot],  and 
some  others  of  the  heads  of  tribes  and  gentlemen  of  Carbery,  to  plunder  the 
son  of  0' Sullivan.  These  parties  sent  by  the  Captain  seized  great  preys  and 
nuich  booty.  Donnell  thought  it  shameful  to  suffer  his  property  to  be  carried 
away,  he  himself  being  alive™;  and  he  attacked  the  Irish  bands  around  the  booty, 
and  proved  on  that  day  that  it  is  not  by  the  numbers  of  men  that  a  battle  is 
gained,  for  Donnell  slew  nearly  three  hundred  of  the  Carbery-men,  though  his 
own  forces  in  that  engagement  scarcely  exceeded  fifty  men  able  to  bear  arms. 


tie,  where  he  was  overtaken  with  his  plunder  by 
Donal  O'Sullevan  Coum,  defeated,  and  hanged 
tVom  an  oak,  the  root  of  which  is  still  to  be  seen, 
and  goes  by  the  name  'Daroc-adran-Dermody.'" 
This,  however,  is  a  great  error,  for  we  know 
from  a  Chancery  record,  dated  12th  February, 
1 592,  that  DoneU  mac  Teige  mac  Dermot  U'Do- 
novan  was  chief  of  Clancahill  in  1581,  and  till 
the  year  1584,  when  he  died,  and  was  succeeded 
liy  his  eldest  legitimate  son,  Donell.  From  this 
document  it  also  appears  to  a  certainty  that  the 
Dermot  slain  by  Donnell  O'Sullevan  Beare  on 
this  occasion,  was  not  chief  of  CaStle  Donovan, 
but  (according  to  the  laws  of  England)  a  Bas- 
tard Eigne  of  Donuellmac  Teige O' Donovan;  for 
it  was  jjroved  in  Dublin,  before  the  Lfird  Chan- 
cellor, Adam  Loftus,  in  February,  1592,  that 
Donell  mac  Teige  O'Douovan  had  but  two  legi- 
timate sons  by  his  wife,  Ellen  Ny-Leary,  namely, 
Donuell,  who  was  nominated  chief  of  his  name  by 
his  father-in-law.  Sir  Owen  MacCarthy  lieagh, 
in  1584  ;  and  Teige,  who  was  under  twenty-one 


years  in  1592.  But  it  is  distinctly  stated  that 
Donell  mac  Teige  had  other  sons,  elder  than  Don- 
nell, the  chieftain,  by  the  said  Ellen  Ny-Leary, 
■  but  born  before  their  marriage.  The  conclusion 
is  therefore  inevitable,  that  this  Dermot  men- 
tioned by  O'Sullevan,  as  slain  by  Donnell  O'Sul- 
levan, was  one  of  these  elder  sons  of  Donnell  mac 
Teige.  According  to  the  tradition  in  the  country, 
which  is  referred  to  the  wrong  person  and  period 
by  Collins,  this  Dermot  mac  Donnell  na  g-croi- 
ceann  was  slain  in  the  territory  of  Clann-Law- 
rence  bj^  Donnell  Cam  O'Sullevan  Beare,  who 
buried  his  body  under  an  oak  tree,  which  has  ever 
since  borne  the  appellation  of  tDupójOiapmciDu, 
or,  according  toCollins,  Dairiheen-Diarmada, and 
of  which  the  roots  still  remain,  from  which  a  num- 
ber of  young  stems  are  still  shooting  forth.  It  is 
situated  in  the  townland  of  Kosmacoan,  parish  of 
Kilconenagh,  adjoining  that  of  Kilcaskin,  in  the 
barony  of  Beare,  and  county  of  Cork See  Gene- 
alogies, Tribes,  ^-c,  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  447,  note  ■=. 
"  He  himself  being  alive — The  Four  Masters 


10  p  2 


1764  aNNQca  Rioghachca  eiReaHH.  [i58l. 

Pacpiccin-|  emann  do  mac  rhec  muipip  ciapjiaiTje  (.i.  comap  mac  emainn, 
T111C  comóip,  mic  emainn)  oo  éluó  a  cúipr  an  ]iít;  a  luirnneacli  laji  na  cinnfó 
t)on  corhaiple  n  ccop  do  cum  báip.  Qcr  cfna  ni  bai  an  coimóe  ipin  ccorhaiple 
pin.  báccap  rpáan  clann  pin  pealap  coillcib  cloinne  cuilém  acca  ccaorhnn, 
1  DO  apccnaccap  lap  pui  50  clomn  iTliiipip,  -|  bc'i  gap  uaip  gup  bo  ceDac 
cfirfpnac  an  cuiDeacca  pin  rainicc  in  uachaó  buibne  ap  ppiopún  luimni^ 
Gcr  pcTcaici'ioc  ma  mbaoi  pfmpa  Don  bliabain  piii  ppi  pojail  -|  ppi  Díheipj;. 

Comapbo  pfnain  Decc  .1.  an  calbac  mac  pmcaip,  1111c  Siacapa  mec  carám. 

SCan  ÓCC  "]  Conn,  Da  mac  Sfain,  mic  ciiinn  bacaij,  mic  cumn,  mic  enpi,  mic 
eojain  iii  neill  Do  Dol  plua^  1  mbpeipne  ni  pai^iUij.  Ro  lomaó  "]  po  lép- 
aipccCo  leo  jac  lonaD  in  po  gabpac  Don  bpeipne.  Rucc  mnc  111  pai^illij 
.1.  pilip  mac  QoDa  conallaij,  mic  maolmópóa,  mic  Sfain  1  cupcompac  cpom- 
j'lóij  an  ci'pe  1  ccopaijeacc  im  tia  haipgnb  pin  oppa.  Nip  bo  pfipDe  eoj^anaiil; 
CO  cfnD  ilbbaDan  amap  an  aenlaoi  pin,  uaip  puccpac  pa^allaij  a  ccjieic  -]  a 
ccopccap.  l?o  jabaD  leo  conn  mac  Sfain  ni  neill, -]  ciD  an  can  nnp  Dam  Sfan 
ÓCC  a  gabáil  lap  na  laocbuiDnib  puaip  a  aipleac  gan  aipipiorh,  1  a  oiófó  co 
lieccobpaiD.  6á  Doilijij  an  Diac  pin  cuccaD  ap  an  oeiccpfp  óip  ni  baoi  aoin 
pfp  Do  macaib  mi'leab  no  baoi  a  biol  DoiDpe  ipin  cpfan  ipin. 

Sluaicceaó  lá  hua  neill  roippoealbac  luineac  Do  rocc  Do  Dioj^ail  an  piiarap 
pin  ap  Pajailleacaib.  T?o  ponab  poplongpopc  laocba  Ifran  apmac  la  biia  neill 
in  fiDipmfbon  bpeipne  ui  pai^iUij^,  1  po  ^ob  acca  móipmilleab  enp  innilib, 
apbap  1  áiruiccab.  Oo  peine  lapom  o  rJai^illi?;  pm  ppip,  ■]  poléicceab  conn 
omac  gan  puaplaccab, "]  bpfirfifinap  Dua  neill  a  mapbab  Sfam  ■]  a  muincipe. 

Gapaonca  anbpóill  do  eipje  enp  ua  noomnaill  (Qob  mac  majnupa  mic 
aoba  Ó1CC  mic  aoba  puaib)  1  mac  a  Deapbparap  Conn  mac  an  calbaij^,  mic 
ma^jniipa,  mic  aona  óicc,  -|  conn  do  bol  1  panD  1  neill  roippoealbac  luineac 

could  have  improved  this  observation  by  adding:  tain  that  a  famil}-  of  the  O'Cahans,  or  O'Kanes, 

"  and  able  to  recover  it,  or  take  revenge  of  the  descended  from  Cumhaighe  na  nGall  U'Kane, 

jilunders."  Chief  of  Keenaght  and  Firnacreeva,   settled  in 

^  Padraigin,  i.  e.  Little  Patrick.  Thomond  at  an  early  period,  it  does  not  appear 

1  Clann- Cuilein,  i.  e.  Mac  Namara's  country,  in  that  the  coarbs  of  St.  Senan  were  of  that  family. 

the  county  of  Clare.  In  the  description  of  the  County  of  Clare  pre- 

'  Clann- Maurice,  in  the  county  of  Kerry.  served  in   the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  this 

*  Mac  Cahan. — This  name   is  to  be  distin-  Calvagh  Mac  Cahan  is  called  Charles  Cahane, 

suished  from  O'Cahan;  for  although  it  be  cer-  of  the  Castle  of  Inislikathy,  and  it  adds;   "This 


1581.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OP  IRELAND.  1765 

Padraigin''  and  Edmond,  the  two  sons  of  Mac  Maurice  of  Kerry  (Thomas, 
the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Edmond),  made  tlieir  escape  from 
the  King's  Court  in  Limerick,  the  Council  having  resolved  to  put  them  to  death. 
God,  however,  was  not  at  that  Council.  These  sons  were  for  some  time  shel- 
tering themselves  in  the  woods  of  Clann-Cuilein^  and  from  thence  they  pro- 
ceeded to  Clann-Maurice" ;  and  those  two,  who  had  come  out  of  the  prison  of 
Limerick  with  but  a  small  company,  soon  found  themselves  supported  by  hun- 
dreds of  kerns.  They  spent  the  remainder  of  the  year  in  acts  of  pillage  and 
insurrection. 

The  Coarb  of  St.  Senan,  i.  e.  Calvagh,  the  son  of  Siacus,  son  of  Siacus  Mac 
Cahan",  died. 

John  Oge  and  Con,  two  sons  of  John,  son  of  Con  Bacagh,  sou  of  Con,  sou 
t)f  Henry,  son  of  Owen  O'Neill,  proceeded  with  an  army  into  Breifny  O'Reilly, 
and  plundered  and  totally  devastated  every  part  of  Breifny  through  which  they 
passed.  The  son  of  O'Reilly,  i.  e.  Philip,  the  son  of  Ilvxgh  Conallagh,  son  of 
Maelmora,  son  of  John,  and  a  large  muster  of  the  forces  of  the  country,  who 
had  come  in  pursuit  of  the  spoils,  overtook  them.  The  Kinel-Owen  were,  not 
the  better  of  that  day's  attack  for  many  years,  for  the  Reillys  recovered  the 
booty,  and  defeated  them.  Con,  the  son  of  John  O'Neill,  was  taken  prisoner  ; 
and,  as  John  Oge  wovdd  not  yield  himself  a  prisoner  to  the  heroic  bands,  he 
was  speedily  slaughtered,  and  unsparingly  slain.  The  fate  of  this  good  man 
was  afflicting,  for  there  was  not  one  man  of  the  race  of  Milesius  to  whom  this 
John  was  not  worthy  to  have  succeeded  as  heir.' 

A  hosting  was  made  by  O'Neill  (Turlough  Luineach),  to  take  vengeance 
on  the  Reillys  for  this  battle.  He  pitched  a  warlike,  extensive,  well-fortified 
camp  in  the  very  centre  of  Breifny  O'Reilly,  and  then  proceeded  to  destroy  the 
country,  including  cattle,  corn,  and  mansions.  O'Reilly  then  made  peace  with 
him,  and  set  Con  at  liberty  without  a  ransom,  and  agreed  to  settle  by  adjudica- 
tion the  reparation  to  be  made  for  the  death  of  John  and  his  people. 

Great  dissensions"  arose  between  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Manus,  son 
of  Hugh  Oge,  son  of  Hugh  Roe)  and  the  son  of  his  brother  (Con,  the  son  of 
Calvagh,  son  of  IVIanus,  son  of  Hugh  Oge),  upon  which  Con  went  over  to  the 

mun  by  inheritance  is  calleil  a  Courboe."     His      prietor  of  Ballykette,  in  West  Corca-Vaskin. 
relative,  James  Cahane,  is  set  down  as  the  pro-  "   Ch-eal   dissensions. — These    dissensions    be- 


1766  aNNQf^a  Rioghachca  eiReawM.  [1581. 

mac  neill  conallaiTi;,  ttiic  aijir,  oo  coccao  rqi  a  b|iafai]i,  i  Do  jicjine  lonolcic  i 
rDaiicof-aoiD  na  ]^fn5orh  Do  pala  pfcc  nailL  eri|i  cenel  cconaill  "]  eoccain  50 
]io  po|icon5ai|i  pop  ua  tieill  cionol  flói^  Innrhoiji  do  cocc  pop  iia  nooninaill 
tio  congnarh  Icti]'.  5aoi  conn  pé  picic  niapcac  co  ccpiV)  cóipignb  gallócclac 
DO  pliocc  r?uampi  DO  cloinn  cpuibne  pinac  iin  roippoealbac  mac  mupchain 
mic  eoin  puaiD,  im  mall,  mac  eimip,  -|  mi  bpian  mac  eirhip  mec  puibne, -]  co 
nalbancoib  lomóaiF), "]  ua  neill  gup  an  lion  ap  lia  popcaemnnccaip.  •]  ni  po 
haipipfo  lap  an  luce  ipin  50  po  gabpac  poplbnjpopc  oc  cill  ruafaii  la  ruob 
paca  boc  .1.  baile  eipme  in  po  bfnoai  j  colaim  cille  "j  Qoarhnan  laparh.  O  po 
clop  la  Inia  nDorhnaill  innpin  po  nonó  I  pine  1  ccéccóip  in  po  caémnaccaip  Do 
pocpaiDe  je  po  baoi  50  hanppúipijjre  aineplarh  iiaip  bai  pibe  porhámai^fe  Do 
bampiojain  cpa;ran,  -|  poboap  caipDi  a  [n-]eccpairce  pp' pp  J5"  T'"  ^°  ""  '^*^'"'  ^^' 
poimoin  coccaD,no  compuacliab.  Clp  a  aoi  bá  poppcni  laip  pluaj  encraip- 
ceneóil  Do  cocc  Dia  n'p  gan  ppirbfpc  ppiú  Dia  maD  Drmiin  laip  a  oióeaó  po 
ceDÓip. 

Conn  ua  Dorhnaill  cpa  baoi  rio  meD  a  rhfnman,  "]  oaipne  a  aiccnib  pibe 
j^e  nobficua  neill  (coippDealbac), -]  ua  DoitinaiU  (Qob)  Dooinlficjo  ccocaip- 
pfb  ppiú,  Conab  a  mfin  ba  poplann  pom  -\  ua  neill  Daén  aonca.  r?o  raipm- 
ceimni  ■^  ua  Dorhnaill  co  na  pocpaioe  do  paij^ib  poplonjpuipc  ui  neill  50  dío  jaip 
DOpaccac  gan  anab  gan  oipipiom  ppi  lunDell  no  ppi  hopouccab  icip.  T?o 
gab  ua  neill  occa  miberhain  pia  piú  panjaccap  ma  cfnD,")  po  accomaipc  Don 
cloinn  cpuibne  (.1.  do  foippoelbac  mac  Ruaibpi  do  ponnpab)  baoi  ina  pappab, 
-|  do  conn  cia  ceDpab  baoi  leó  Do  eicipjleób  an  lai  ipm.  P|iipcapc  aon  Dib 
pibe  (.1.  coippDelbac  mac  puaiDpi)  co  noebaipc  r>ia  ccealccac  an  luce  úd  a 
nanala,  -\  Dia  neaborc  uipcce,  -|  oia  nDeacacc  in  irinell,  "j  m  npDuccab  ap 
D  "irhin  50  ppaoinpic  poipn  Dia  no  bemip  lion  ba  lia  hipuibe.  mabfD  ciapac 
?^an  inneall  jan  oipipiorh,  gan  aipbibaD  a  niocon  bib  prrhaopa  "]  póinrie  itiuib- 
piup.     6á  imne  canjaccap  la  bopppab  bpije,  -]  lap  an  mbpi^  mbicc  Do  pon- 

tween  the  race  of  Hugh    and  Calvagh   burst  to  the  Irish  Calendar  of  the  O'Clcrys,  these  two 

forthwith  redoubled  fury  iu  the  next  genera-  saints,  of  the  race  of  Conall  Gulban,  were  patrons 

tion,  and  finally  led  to  the  conquest  of  Ulster.  uf  Eaphoé.     St.  Adamnan,  Abbot  of  lona,  died 

"^  Cill-Tuathail,  i.  e.  St.  Tuathal's  church,  now  at  lona  in  703,  and  his  relics  were  translated  to 

Kiltole,  a  townland  in  the  parish  and  barony  of  Ireland,  and  distributed  among  his  churches  of 

Kaphoe,  and  county  of  Donegal.  Raphoe    and    Drumhome    in     Tirconnell,    and 

''  St.Columbkille  and  Si.Adamnan According  Skreen,  in  Tireragh,  in  the  now  county  of  Sligo. 


1581.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1767 

side  of  O'Neill  (Turlough  Luineach,  the  son  of  Niall  Conallagh,  son  of  Art),  to 
wage  war  against  his  kinsman.  He  complained  of  grievances,  and  reminded 
him  of  the  old  feuds  that  had  existed  some  time  before  between  the  Kinel- 
Connell  and  the  Kinel-Owen,  so  that  he  prevailed  upon  O'Neill  to  muster  a 
numerous  force  to  come  to  his  aid  aarainst  O'Donnell.  Con  had  one  hundred 
and  twenty  horsemen,  and  three  companies  of  gallowglasses  of  the  descendants 
of  Rory  of  the  Clann-Sweeny  Fanad,  under  the  conduct  of  Turlough,  the  son 
of  Murrough,  son  of  John  Roe  ;  of  Niall,  the  son  of  Ever  ;  and  of  Brian,  the 
son  of  Ever  Mac  Sweeny  ;  together  with  many  Scots,  and  O'Neill,  with  the 
largest  number  he  was  able  to  muster.  These  forces  made  no  delay  until  they 
had  encamped  at  Cill-Tuatliai?,  alongside  of  Raphoe,  a  town  which  St.  Columb- 
kille,  and  afterwards  St.  Adamnan",  had  blessed.  When  O'Donnell  was  apprized 
of  tliis,  he  immediately  assembled  all  the  forces  that  he  could,  although  he  was 
ill-prepared  and  disorganized,  for  he  was  subject  to  the  Queen  of  England,  and 
his  friends  were  till  then  at  strife  with  him,  so  that  he  was  not  prepared  for 
war  or  hostilities.  He  could  not,  however,  brook  that  an  extern  array  should 
come  into  his  territory  without  opposing  them,  even  though  he  were  certain  of 
meeting  immediate  death. 

The  courage  and  high-spiritedness  of  Con  O'Donnell  were  such,  that  if 
O'Neill  (Turlough)  and  O'Donnell  (Hugh)  were  on  one  side,  he  would  engage 
with  them  ;  but  now  that  he  and  O'Neill  were  on  the  same  side,  he  was  more 
than  a-  match  [for  O'Donnell].  O'Donnell  advanced  with  his  forces  vehemently 
and  boldly  towards  the  camp  of  O'Neill,  without  waiting  or  delaying  to  draw 
up  his  men  into  any  regular  order  or  array.  O'Neill  proceeded  to  reconnoitre 
them  before  they  came  up  to  him  ;  and  he  inquired  of  the  Clann-Sweeny,  who 
were  along  with  him  (and  especially  of  Turlough,  the  son  of  Rory),  and  of 
Con  O'Donnell,  what  their  opinion  was  as  to  [the  probable  result  of]  that  day's 
engagement.  One  of  them,  namely,  Turlough,  the  son  of  Rory,  made  answer, 
and  said  :  "  If  these  people  draw  breath  (i.  e,  take  time),  drink  water,  and  form 
in  regular  order  and  array,  it  is  certain  that  they  will  defeat  us,  [and  would] 
were  we  even  more  numerous  than  we  are;  but  if  they  come  on  without  order, 
and  without  taking  time  to  slake  their  thirst,  thou  and  we  shall  defeat  them'". 

He  is  still  remembered  and  venerated  at  Raphoe  "■  Shall  defeat   them,    literally,    "  before  thee 

under  the  strange  name  of  St.  Eunan.  and  before  us  the  rout  shall  be." 


1768  awNata  Rioghachca  eiReaNW.  [i58l. 

far  no  ctnel  eó^ain  ap  bci  jpepac  la  cenel  cconnill  coj-nnm  a  ccójm  pjnú  in 
jijac  aipm  i  ccoimpeccaip  50  pin.  ba  pfo  no  pala  nóiV)  an  can  poin  lap  poccain 
oóib  1  ccfno  a  poile  50  po  pij;ir)  fp^ail  arhnup  aniiapniapcac  Icoppa  a  niú  "] 
onall,  1  po  Ocapbab  an  oeapbapupcc  a.pOeapc  Don  cup  ya  (.1.  beoba  gac 
bparaip  ppi  apoile).  T?o  ppaoineab  pop  ua  nDoitinaill  co  na  pocpaiDe, "]  po 
mapbab  nponj  rhiíp  nm  mmnci)i.  l?o  bab  Dibpibe  ITlac  puibne  ba^aineac 
TTlaoliTmi|ie  mac  aoba  co  na  cloinn  .1.  TTlupchab,  J)  coippnealbac  mfipcceacli. 
"]  mall  monapba  mac  neill  óicc,  mec  puibne.  Qcccfna  ropcparap  cincc  pip 
bécc  no  cloinn  cpuibne  ci'pe  bo^aine,  ■]  npon5  mop  no  na  cuaraib  npánaicc,  -| 
DO  baoijjellcoib.  Dpong  rhop  beop  no  rhuincip  jallcubaip  im  pipjal  mac 
coippbealbai^  mic  ruacail  bailb,  "|  co  nnpuing  cen  mo  race.  Ro  jaban  nna 
mac  puibne  pánacc  ipin  ccaicgleo  ipin.  ]?o  bob  rpia  eapccaine  an  eppcoip 
UÍ  pip?;il  po  ppaoineab  an  mamm  pin  uaip  po  pápai;5^pioc  nponj  Do  cenel 
cconaill  cill  mic  nenóin  an  let  piap  an  maiom  "]  po  ^uib  an  ceppcop  Dóib  co 
nap  bn  póinmeach  a  ccupap  iccip.  Qn  4  no  mi  lul  no  ppaoineab  an  maibm 
pin. 

Qn  calbac  mac  nomnaiU,  mic  caibcc,  mic  cafail  óicc,  mic  nomnaiU,  mic 
eo^ain,  mic  nomnaiU,  mec  muipcfpcaij  ui  concobaip,  aon  mac  ui  concobaip 
plicci'i;  nécc.  l?o  bab  cpomaine  a  roippi  ap  na  cipib  nac  paibe  ace  an  lán- 
ariiain  poicfineoil  op  píolai^  an  paop  cariian  piiil  na  paoileaccain  lé  haoín 
?;fin  cloinne  npajbail  nia  éipi.  6aoí  ó  rhaij^  ccfmne  co  cfip  copamn, -]  ó  riniaib 
CO  copainn  bpeipne  ago  lobnaibe  pium  naon  oibpe  "|  naen  corhapba  do  mapob 
lap  nécc  a  acap. 

Caral  ócc  mac  caibcc,  mic  cacail  óiccuí  concobaip,  1  TTlaolmopba  mac 
maolmuipe,  mic  eoccain  1  pCpjanf^la  a  bparaip  50  nnpuinj  moip  no  mairib 
na  ripe  mapaon  pú  no  ciiicim  1  niocrap  connate  la  halhancbaib  no  pala  oc 
imcecc  an  cipe  a  liucc  Sip  nioclap  TTlaulbi,  -|  ap  é  po  bab  conpabal  no  na 
halbanchaib,  Qlaprpann  mac  nomnaiU  ballai  j,  mic  mec  boifinaill,  -|  ni  baoi 

'  Bishnp  CFreel. — There  is  no  mention  of  this  ^  Magh  (jCeidne.,  a  plain  situated  between  the 

bishop  in  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  Kivers  Erne  and  Drciwes,  in  the  south-west  ex- 

from  which  it  would  appear  that  Donat  Mago-  tremity  of  the  county  of  Donegal, 

nail  was  Bishop  of  Eaphoe  in  this  year,  and  till  ''  Ceis-Corainn,    now  Keshcorran,   a  remark- 

1589,  when   he  died.     It  is  probable  that  the  able  and  celebrated  hill  in  the  barony  of  Corran, 

O'Freel  mentioned  in  the  text  was  only  coarb  and  county  of  Sligo.     At  this  period  O'Conor 

'  or  abbot  of  Kilmacrenan.  Sligo  claimed  chiefry  over  O'Dowda,  the  two 


1581.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1769 

They  now  came  on  with  boisterous  vigour,  regarding  the  Kinel-Owen  as  of 
little  account ;  for  the  Kinel-Connell  had  been  accustomed  to  defend  their 
rights  [successfully]  against  them  in  every  place  they  contended  until  then. 
But  it  happened  that,  when  they  met  together  on  this  occasion,  a  furious  and 
desperate  battle  was  fought  between  them  ;  and  the  celebrated  proverb  was 
verified  on  this  occasion,  i.  e.  lively  is  each  kinsman  [when  fighting]  against 
the  other.  O'Donnell  and  his  forces  were  at  length  defeated,  and  a  great  many 
of  his  people  were  slain.  Among  these  were  Mac  Sweeny  Banagh  (Mulmuxry, 
the  son  of  liugh),  with  his  sons,  namely,  Murrough  and  Turlough  Meirgeach  ; 
and  Niall  IModardha,  the  son  of  Niall  Oge  Mac  Sweeny ;  in  short,  fifteen  of  the 
Mac  Sweenys  of  Tir-Boghaine  were  slain,  and  a  great  number  of  the  people  of 
Fanad,  and  of  the  O'Boyles  ;  also  a  great  number  of  the  O'Gallaghers,  under 
the  conduct  of  Farrell,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Tuathal  Balbh,  and  many  others 
besides  these.  Mac  Sweeny  Fanad  was  taken  prisoner  in  this  battle.  It  was 
in  consequence  of  the  curse  of  Bishop  O'Freel'^  that  they  suifered  this  defeat ; 
for  a  party  of  the  Kinel-Connell  had  plundered  Kilmacrenan  the  day  before 
the  battle,  and  the  Bishop  had  prayed  that  their  expedition  might  not  be  Suc- 
cessful.    This  defeat  was  given  on  the  4th  of  July. 

Calvagh,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Cathal  Oge,  son  of  Donnell, 
son  of  Owen,  son  of  Donnell,  sou  of  Murtough  O'Conor,  the  only  son  of  O'Conor 
Sligo,  died.  He  was  the  more  lamented  in  the  territories,  because  the  noble 
couple  from  whom  this  free-born  shoot  sprang  had  no  hope  or  expectation  of 
any  other  child  after  him.  That  tract  of  territory  from  Magh  gCeidne^  to  Ceis- 
Corainn",  and  from  the  [River]  Moy  to  the  boundary  of  Breifny,  Avas  awaiting 
him  as  its  only  inheritor  and  coarb',  if  he  should  survive  his  father. 

Cathal  Oge,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Cathal  Oge  O'Conor  ;  Maelmora,  the 
son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Owen" ;  and  Fearganeagla',  his  kinsman,  with  a  great 
number  of  the  chief  men  of  the  territory,  were  slain  in  Lower  Connaught  by 
some  Scots  who  happened  to  be  traversing  the  country,  at  the  instance  of  Nicho- 
las Malby.     And  the  constable  of  these  Scots  was  Alexander,  the  son  of  Don- 

O'Haras,   and    O'Gara,  while  he 'himself  was  "  ,Son  o/Oiwe?!.— Charles  O'Conor  interpolates 

subject  to  O'Donnell.  iTlec  SuiBne,  i.  e.  Mac  Sweeny,  which  is  correct. 

'  Coarb,  i.  e.  heir.      Here  the  word  coarb  is  J  Fearganeagla  :  "  man  without  fear,  or  fear- , 

applied  to  a  lay,  not  ecclesiastical  heir.  less  man." 

10  Q 


1770  awNata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1582. 

1  népinn  gan  poccain  hi  poinme  DÓib  Diay^  po  ba  oppoeapca  ainm  Duine  uapail 
1  conpabml  ina  caral  occ  i  ITlaolmopba.  T?o  gabaoli  mac  ui  concobaip 
Duinn  beóp  an  la  pin  la  halbancliaib  .i.  aoó  mac  oiapmara  mic  caipppe,  -| 
po  éimijpfc  a  rabaipr  Don  caiprin, ")  do  cóiópfc  laip  lapom  i  pann  ui  Ruaipc. 
Oo  pfibeab  ona  ó  Rnaipc  Qoó  ó  na  halbanachaib  50  mbui  ua  Ruaipc, -]  Qoó 
Daon  pann  ap  a  haicle.  Qn  calaprpann  pempaice  Dpajbml  ui  puaipc  i 
ppojmap  na  bliaóna  po,  1  a  óol  Do  paijiD  Sip  niclaup,  "i  po  jabpibe  cuicce 
he  CO  ppcdlre  moip  co  mbaoi  pop  coinnmfó  po  parhain  Do  ponnpaó  peacnoin 
ua  ppiacpac  muaiDe.  lap  ppiop  pccél  Dua  cconcobaip  pliccij  .1.  Dorhnall, 
mac  caiDcc,  mic  carail  oicc, -]  Do  rhuinrip  Sip  niclaup  co  mbaccap  arhlaib  pin 
po  lonnpaijpion  lar  pop  a  leapcoib  luije,"]  pop  a  nDépjaóaib  cooalca  co  po 
mapbaó  Qlaprpann  co  nDpuing  Dípime  Dia  muinrip  amaille  ppip  -\  po  dIij 
ua  concobaip  an  mapbaó  I'pn  in  Diojail  rhapbca  a  oeapbparap  carail  oicc. 

Clann  lapla  cloinne  piocaipo  Do  piobuccaó  lé  8a;cancoib  1  parhpab  na 
bliabna  po  lap  mbpipfb  a  mbailcfb,  1  lap  ccpocab  a  mbpacap,  -|  bo  hamlaib 
po  piobaijpiocc  gan  ppfir,  gan  gfppab,  gan  Daoippi,  jan  Dolab  do  cop  ap  a 
nDurhaij,  no  ap  a  pann  coccaib  an  ccfin  do  bfioip  piobach,  acr  ciop  na  bain- 
piojna  DO  biol  pa  bo  pan  mbliabain.  TTIafjarhain  ó  bpiain  do  bfic  ap  pi) 
cloinne  an  lapla.  Oá  banna  do  patjDiuipib  Do  bfic  ap  ópoa  1  ccuabmurhain 
05  capcin  Diping  6  Shamuin  50  péil  páccpaicc. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1582. 
Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  céD,  ocrmojac,  a  do. 

TTlaipjpés  injfn  aoba  Duib,  mic  aoDa  puaib,  mic  neill  jaipb,  mic  coip]i- 
Delbaij  an  piona  ui  borhnaill,  bfn  ui  paijillig  (ITlaolniópba  mac  Sfain,  mic 
carail)  Décc  1  nfppac  na  bliabna  po,  -]  ap  mj  ma  po  baoi  beó  1  népinn  an  can 

"  The  son  of  0' Conor  Don — Charles  O'Conor  '  And  the  people  of  Sir  Nicholas There  must 

has  written  the  following  observations  in  the  be  some  error  here,  as  Alexander  and  his  people 

margin  of  the  autograph:  Ni  léip  Ifm  bunaóup  were  in  the  service  of  Sir  Nicholas  Malby  on 

an  pjéd  fo,  ■]  caoi  an  ciompaó  po  pfcpúnac  this  occasion.     It  should   evidently  be:    "  lup 

map  cicfp  óampa,  i.  e.  "  I  do  not  see  the  origin  FF'°r  Vccél  dug  cconcobaip  plicci;^,  &c.,  mum- 

'of  this  story,  and  the  narrative  is  inaccurate,  in  cip  Sip  Niclaup  do  Beic  amlaió  pin,"  i.  e.  when 

my  opinion."  O'Conor  Sligo  had  received  intelligence  that  the 


1582.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1771 

nell  Ballagh,  the  son  of  Mac  Donnell ;  and  there  were  no  two  in  Ireland  [among 
those]  that  had  not  attained  to  their  estates,  who  were  more  renowned  in  name, 
the  one  as  gentleman  and  the  other  as  a  constable,  than  Cathal  Oge  and  Mael- 
mora.  The  son  of  O'Conor  Don",  i.  e.  Hugh,  the  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Carbry, 
was  taken  prisoner  by  the  Scots  on  that  day ;  and  they  refused  to  give  him  up 
to  the  captain,  but  proceeded  with  him  to  join  O'Eoiu-ke  ;  and  O'Rourke  ran- 
somed Hugh  from  the  Scots,  so  that  O'Rourke  and  Hugh  afterwards  became 
confederated  on  the  one  side.  The  Alexander  already  mentioned  left  O'Eourke 
in  the  autumn  of  this  year,  and  went  to  Sir  Nicholas  [Malby],  Avho  received 
him  with  great  welcome  ;  and  he  was  billeted  [with  his  followers],  about  All- 
hallowtide,  throughout  Hy-Fiachrach  of  the  Moy.  When  O'Conor  Shgo  (Don- 
nell, the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Cathal  Oge)  and  the  people  of  Sir  Nicholas',  had 
received  intelligence  that  they  were  thus  situated,  they  attacked  them  while 
sleeping  in  their  beds  and  couches,  and  slew  Alexander,  and  a  great  number  of 
his  people  along  with  him.  O'Conor  committed  this  slaughter  in  just  revenge"" 
of  the  death  of  his  brother,  Cathal  Oge. 

The  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard  were  reconciled  to  the  English  in  the 
summer  of  this  year,  after  the  demolition  of  their  towns  and  the  execution  of 
their  kinsmen.  They  agreed  to  this  peace  on  condition  that  there  should  be 
no  taxes,  fines,  bondage,  or  other  impression  imposed  on  their  country,  or  on 
their  allies  in  war,  so  long  as  they  remained  peaceable,  they  paying  only  the 
Queen's  rent  twice  in  the  year.  Mahon  O'Brien  was  included  in  the  peace  of 
the  sons  of  the  Earl.  Two  companies  of  soldiers  were  billeted  in  Thomond 
by  Captain  Diring  [Deering],  from  AUhallowtide  to  the  festival  of  St.  Patrick. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1582. 
Tlie  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  eighty-two. 

Margaret,  daughter  of  Hugh  Duv,  son  of  Hugh  Roe,  son  of  Niall  Garv,  son 
of  Turlough  of  the  Wine  O'Donnell,  and  wife  of  O'Reilly  (Maelmora,  the  son 
of  John,  son  of  Cathal),  died  in  the  spring  of  this  year.     There  was  scarcely 

people  of  Sir  Nicholas  were  thus  situated,  &c.      due  to  O'Conor,  in  revenge  of  the  killing  of  his 
™  In  just  revenge,  literally,  "  This  killing  was      brother,  Cathal  Oge." 

10  Q  2 


1772  aNHQca  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [i582. 

ym  t>o  Bctinfliocc  jaoióil  jlaip  aoi'n  Bfn  ay  mo  iio  ofplaic  ina  on  maip^jie^ 

lapla  cloinne  Piocaijio,  Riocajit)  Sa;ranac  mac  uillicc  na  ccfnD,  mic  T?io- 
caipD,  mic  uillicc  cnuic  cuag,  mic  uillicc  mfborlaij,  mic  uillicc  an  piona  an  ci 
?)0  jabaó  lap  an  iiipcip  8i|i  hanini  Sioneii  an  bliaóain  Daoíp  cpiopr  1576,1 
baoí  bliaóain  lUáirii  lap  na  gaBail  1  nc'tr  cliar,"]  an  yeal  ele  illairh  illonnoain 
giip  an  mbboóain  p.  l?o  gab  peipccli^^e  piopjalaip  é  1  yariipao  na  bliabna 
fo.  Cfcbepcpac  a  pipigfóa  "]  a  Ifja  jomab  Doca  a  bul  oécc  ina  cépnub  oíi 
cfibm  pin,  -]  Dia  mbfir  in  aijneab  óó  a  plóince  Dpajbail  50  mab  ó  péj^ab  a 
arapba,  -\  o  péjaó  aeoip  a  ripe  no  jébaó.  Ro  léicceaó  an  ciapla  1  nepinn 
pó  binn  a  eaplóince  Do  cfo  an  ppionnpa  "]  na  comaiple,  ■]  rucc  papoún  00 
paigió  a  cloinne,  -]  maicfm  ap  ap  millpfc.  bá  hann  po  jab  pope  cécup  1  naf 
cliar,  appióe  bó  lapoiti  co  hacluam,  "|  co  baile  na  gaillTfie.  T?ob  abbal  méo 
na  poppáilci  piiaip  ipin  mbaile  ípin.  6aí  ann  aj  cup  a  pccíp  1  a  mfpcin  t>e, 
1  cangaoap  a  caipoe  -]  a  corhpuilibe,  a  pannra  jall  -]  gaoioeal  Dia  pioppuc- 
cab.  Qn  can  pob  óil  laip  Dol  1  mfpcc  a  rhuinnpe,  a  cpice,  -\  a  cloinne,  ay 
onn  X)o  popcpomaij  a  rpeablaio,  ~\  a  eaplaince  paip  co  po  écc  pó  beóib  1  mí 
augupc  DO  ponnpaD.  1?o  pfpab  a  cluice  caoínceac  ló  caipoib  cfnDaijib  ip  in 
mbaile  pin,  "|  puccab  a  copp  Dia  abnacal  co  honopac  1  mbaile  loca  piac. 
Oála  a  cloinoe  poboap  píobaij  pe  apoile  50  pin.  Oo  cÓDappibe  Do  ppeap- 
abpa  1  Do  cop  1  najaiD  apoile  1  ccfnD  Sip  niclap  maulbi  baí  ina  ^obe]inóip  1 
ccóijeab  connacc.  Oo  cÓDap  Diblínib  co  bár  cliar  hi  ccionn  no  hopDcoitioiple 
50  po  píoboigbeob  fcoppo  Don  cup  pin  arhloib  po  .1.  uillfcc  ina  njeopna  -j  ino 
lopla  in  lonaD  o  ocap, -]  bopúncacc  liacopoma  do  rabaipc  do  Shfan.  Ro 
pannob  Ccoppa  ó  poin  omac  o  ppfpoinn,  a  mboilce,  1  o  mbíroi^re  eccloipi 
Tjo  mbóccap  pioboc  óp  aipD,  "|  eippíobac  6  mfnmoin. 

Cabcc,  moc  concoboip,  mic  roippbeolboiji;,  mic  roiDcc,  mic  bpiaiii  com 
on  oonoij  uí  bpiain  Décc  1  mi  ougupc  map  an  cceDno  in  ooín  cpeoccmani  pij' 

"  Breathing  the  air Literally,  "  and  if  it  were  settlement  as  follows,  under  the  year  1581 ; 

in  his  intention  to  get  his  health,  that  it  should  "  About  this  time  a  contention  arose  between 

be  from  seeing  his  fatherland,  and  from  seeing  the  Mac  an  Earlas,  Ulick  and  John  Burk,  on 

the  air  of  his  territory,  he  would  get  it."  the  death  of  their  father,  but  it  was  refer'd  to 

°  The  barony  of  Lcitrim,  i.  c.  the  barony  of  Commissioners,  who  ordered  that  Ulick  should  • 

Leitrim,  in  the  south-east  of  the  county  of  Gal-  have  Loghrea  and  the  Earldom  of  Clanrickard, 

way.    Sir  Richard  Cox  gives  the  account  of  this  and  that  John  should  have  Leitrim  ;  and  that 


1582.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1773 

another  of  the  female  descendants  of  Gaedhal  Glas  then  living  in  Ireland  who 
gave  away  more  presents  than  this  Margaret. 

The  Earl  of  Clanrickard  (Rickard  Saxonagh,  the  son  of  Ulick-na-gCeaun, 
son  of  Rickard,  son  of  Ulick  of  Knocktua,  son  pi  Ulick  Meadhonach,  son  of 
Ulick  of  the  Wine),  he  who  had  been  taken  prisoner  by  the  Lord  Justice,  Sir 
Henry  Sidney,  in  the  year  of  the  age  of  Ciirist  1576,  and  who,  after  being  taken, 
had  been  imprisoned  for  a  year  in  Dublin,  and  for  all  the  rest  of  the  time  to 
this  year  in  London,  fell  into  a  lingering  consumption  in  the  summer  of  this 
year.  His  physicians  and  doctors  said  that  it  was  more  probable  that  lie  would 
die  than  recover  from  this  disease,  and  that,  if  he  wished  to  recover  his  healtli, 
he  could  recover  it  only  by  visiting  his  patrimonial  inheritance,  and  breathing 
the  air"  of  his  native  countiy.  In  consideration  of  liis  ill  health  the  Earl  was 
permitted  to  proceed  to  Ireland,  the  Sovereign  and  the  Council  consenthig  ; 
and  he  brought  his  sons  a  pardon  and  forgiveness  for  all  the  injuries  they  had 
done.  He  landed  first  at  Dublin,  from  whence  he  set  out  for  Athlone,  and  from 
thence  he  went  to  the  town  of  Galway,  and  in  that  town  he  was  received  witli 
enthusiastic  welcome.  There  he  remained  to  rest  and  recruit  himself  after  the 
fatigues  of  his  voyage;  and  he  was  visited  by  his  friends  and  relatives,  and  by  his 
English  and  Irish  alhes.  When  [however]  he  was  desirous  to  go  home  to  his 
people,  territory,  and  children,  his  sickness  and  disease  increased,  so  that  at  last 
lie  died,  in  the  month  of  August.  His  funeral  ceremony  was  performed  in  that 
town  by  his  merchant  friends  ;  and  liis  body  was  conveyed  to  be  honourably 
interred  in  the  town  of  Loughrea.  As  to  his  sons,  they  had  been  till  then  at 
peace  with  each  other  ;  [but  now]  they  repaired  to  impugn  and  oppose  eacli 
other  before  Sir  Nicholas  Malby,  who  was  Governor  of  tlie  province  of  Con- 
naught.  Both  went  to  Dublin  to  the  Chief  Council ;  and  peace  was  established 
on  that  occasion  between  them,  on  these  conditions,  to  wit,  Ulick  to  be  Lord 
and  Earl,  in  the  place  of  his  father,  and  the  barony  of  Leitrim"  to  be  given  to 
John.  Their  other  lands,  towns,  and  church  livings,  were  accordingly  divided 
between  tliem,  so  that  they  were  publicly  at  peace,  but  privately  at  strife. 

Teige,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Brian  Chatha- 
an-Aenaigh  O'Brien,  also  died  in  the  month  of  August,  in  the  same  week  witli 

tlic  Commissioners  should  intc.TctiJe  to  Lave  him       agreed,  that  if  either  proved   a  Traytor  to  the 
created  Baron   of  Leitrim  ;   and   both   of  them      Queen,  the  other  should  have  all." 


1774  aNNQLa  Rioghachca  eiReaNN.  [1582. 

an  ia]ila  Cii]iar)  a\\  calrnacr,  milear)  ap  ifiilfcacr  an  ci  rff  oa  annpin.  6aoi 
póe  acliaió  i  rcanaipceacr  ruaóiiiuman  50  jiohionnapbaó  aji  aon  la  a  Deap- 
bparaip  la  Dorhnall.  Oo  com  lapom  Don  ppánin,  non  ppamc,  1  eifcib  piDe  i 
Sa;coib  50  ppuaip  a  papDiin,  -]  a  cuiD  ripe,  ace  cánaipceacc  namá  co  po  écc 
in  lomlúine  a  aoipi,  -]  po  haónaicfó  1  mainipcip  innpi. 

Oonnchaó,  mac  mupcham,  nrnc  roippoealbaij,  mic  caibcc,  mic  coip]i6eal- 
bai^,  mic  bpiain  cara  an  aonaij  iii  bpiam  do  bnpuccaó  Doirjfb  anuapail.i.  a 
cpochaó  1  ccuaómuTTiain  lá  capcin  mopuanc  baí  ina  mapapccal  ipin  cip,  -]  lap 
an  Sipiam  Sip  Seoippi  mac  comaip  ciurhpocc,  lap  nDol  do  an  bliaóain  poirhe 
pin  1  ccapaopaó  cloinne  lapla  cloinne  piocaipo, -|  po  pill  cap  a  aip  maille  le 
hairpeacap  ap  ppoce;cion,  puaprcap  pi6e  elanj  -]  uipeapbaiD  ap  an  bppo- 
ce;rion  co  po  jabaó  DonnchaD  leó,  -]  co  po  cpochaD  ainail  pérhepepcmap  an 
29  Sepcembep  1  nDopup  luimnij  Dia  haoine  Do  ponnpaó.  RuccaD  a  copp  co 
a  Domjnap  Durcapa  50  po  haDnaicfo  é  1  ninip. 

Oonncliaómac  coippDealbai^,  mic  muipceapcaij  mac  mfic  ui  bpiain  apa 
(lop  mbfic  Daimpfip  o  arap  le  hachaió  paDa,  -|  piapac  le  hiapla  DÍpmurhan) 
DO  ceacc  ap  ppoce;cion,  "|  a  Deapbparaip  pfin  .1.  coippbealbac  cappac  Dia 
lonnpaicciD  50  hfpccaipDearhail  50  po  mapbaó  bonnchaó  laip. 

O  cfpbaill  Sfan  an  bealai^  mac  uiUiam  uióip,  mic  pipjanainm,  mic  maol- 
puanaiD  mic  Sfam  do  mapbao  1  ppioU  abuarmaip  éccapbaiD  ló  iTlaoIpuanaio, 
mac  caiDcc  caoic,  mic  pipganainm,-]  nip  bo  cianpaojlac  do  cuaiD  an  mapboD 
pin  DoTTlaolpuanaio  uaip  copcaip  pfin  po  cCnn  páice  lap  pin  Doiófó  pionjaile 
lap  an  ccalbac  mac  uilliam  uiDip,  -]  an  calbac  pfipm  DÓiponeaD  in  lonaiD  a 
beapbparap. 

Cfrpap  mac  an  TJóipcij  .1.  clann  DauiD,  mic  miiipip,  mic  DauiD,  mic  muipip 
DO  mapbaó  lá  cpéacuipib  i  mi  appil,-]  ciD  aoi'n  Dpfm  po  cuip  a  ccopccap,  ni  in 
aon  IÓ  po  hfpbaijic,  uaip  copcaip  Pemann,  -|  cfpoicc,  -\  Dpong  mop  Do  mairib 
a  muincipe,  -\  Da  ccfnDaib  conpapal  1  rcopai^eacc  cpeice  (an  cinn  Don  cip 
ina  ccaplaccap  ap  tpéacuipib)  lé  penepcal  hiia  maccaille, -|   16  jiollapac- 

■"  Turlough This  Turlough  Mac-I-Brien  Ara  ''  Calvagh — He  was  the  third  of  the  illegiti- 

was  a  faithM  subject  of  the  Queen  of  Enghmd;  mate  sons    of  Sir  William  O'Carroll,  chief  of 

see  the  Queen's  letter  in  his  favour  printed  above,  Ely  O'Carroll,  in  the  King's  County — See  the 

under  the  year  1569,  p.  1634.     His  son  Muir-  Indenture  made  between  this  Sir  William  and 

cheartach,  or  Maurice,  was  appointed  Bishop  of  Sir  Henry  Sidney,  above  printed  under  the  year 

Killaloeby  Queen  Elizabeth.  1576,  pp.  1690,   I69I,  from  which  it  will  ap- 


1582.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  177-5 

the  Earl  [of  Clanrickard].  The  deceased  was  a  hero  in  prowess,  and  a  soldier 
in  valour.  He  had  been  for  some  time  Tanist  of  Thomond,  [and  continued 
such]  until  he  was  expelled,  together  with  his  brother,  by  Donnell.  lie  after- 
wards went  to  Spain,  and  to  France,  and  thence  to  England,  where  he  obtained 
his  pardon,  and  his  entire  share  of  the  territory,  except  the  tanistry  alone.  He 
died  at  a  good  old  age,  and  was  interred  in  the  monastery  of  Ennis. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Muxrough,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Tur- 
lough,  who  was  son  of  Brian  Chatha-an-Aenaigh  O'Brien,  was  put  to  death  in 
an  ignoble  manner,  that  is,  he  was  hanged  in  Thomond  by  Captain  Mortant,  who 
was  Marshal  in  the  country,  and  by  the  Sheriif,  Sir  George,  the  son  of  Thomas 
Cusack.  The  year  before  he  had  formed  a  league  with  the  sons  of  the  Earl  of 
Clanrickard,  but,  having  repented,  he  returned  back  under  protection.  The 
others  detected  a  flaw  and  a  defect  in  [the  form  of]  the  protection,  so  that  they 
seized  on  Donough,  and  hanged  him,  as  we  have  before  stated,  in  the  gateway 
of  Limerick,  on  the  29th  of  September,  which  fell  on  Friday.  His  body  was 
conveyed  to  his  native  territory,  and  interred  at  Ennis. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Turlough",  son  of  Murtough,  son  of  Mac-I-Brien  of  Ara, 
having  been  a  long  time  disobedient  to  his  father,  and  obedient  to  the  Earl  of 
Desmond,  came  in  under  protection;  but  his  own  brother,  Turlough,  revenge- 
fully followed  him,  and  slew  him. 

O'Carroll  (John-an-Bhealaigh,  the  son  of  William  Odliar,  sonof  Ferganamni, 
son  of  Mulrony,  son  of  John),  was  slain  by  abominable  and  unprofitable  trea- 
chery, by  Mulrony,  the  son  of  Teige  Caech,  son  of  Ferganainm  ;  and  this  murder 
did  not  turn  out  to  prolong  the  life  of  Mulrony,  for  he  himself  was  slain  by  his 
kinsman,  Calvagh'',  the  son  of  William  Odhar,  upon  wliich  Calvagh  was  ap- 
pointed in  his  brother's  place. 

The  four  sons  of  Roche,  namely,  the  sons  of  David,  son  of  Maurice,  son  of 
David,  son  of  Maurice,  were  slain  by  traitors,  in  the  month  of  April ;  but 
although  they  were  cut  off  by  the  one  party,  it  was  not  on  the  one  day  that  they 
were  killed  ;  for  Redmond  and  Theobald,  with  a  great  number  of  the  chiefs  of 
their  people  and  of  their  chief  constables,  were  slain,  while  in  pursuit  of  the 
spoils  of  that  part  of  the  country  where  they  had  met  those  traitors,  by  the 

pear  that  Sir  William  0"Carroll's  bastard  sons  according  to  the  English  law,  as  if  they  were 
are  allowed  by  the  Government  to  succeed  him,      legitimate. 


1770  awNata  uio^hachca  eiiíeaNN.  [i582. 

rpaicc  connDiiti.  Qp  í  bá  bfn  oo  rrpoic  an  can  pin  .1.  gjiámiie  inii^fn  coipp- 
bealViaij,  mic  niuiiiceapcaij,  injfn  mfic  ibiiiain  apa  "]  an  ran  an  connai]ic  a 
pQi  ina  coccoib  cnarhjioinnce,  -]  ma  ai^foaib  ancomfa  i.ia  pai;i;ió,  |io  lacc  co 
liainp f]icc  aiceap  50  \\o  écc  in  aohaió  pin  In  ppocai]i  a  pip  cele  conió  1  naoín- 
pecc  ]io  haónaicic. 

bpipeaó  cpoDa  no  rabaipc  lap  an  mbappoc  .1.  oauit)  ap  an  mac  bá  pine  aj; 
an  r?óippceac  .1.  TTluipi]',  "|  lTlui|iip  00  reajinub  on  cpoio  p,n  lap  mbnain  eac 
"]  oaoine  lOiriDa  oé. 

Qn  Sfinepccal  jiempaice,-]  pacpiccm  conDUn  Do  recr  im  parhain  ap  ccinD 
ip  HI  ccfnD  nap  Do  epic  Róipcij.  Dá  nnac  ócca  an  poipcij  .1.  Sfan, "]  uilleacc, 
1  an  rip  inle  Déipge  pó  na  heijitiib,"!  an  ceo  cuniapcc  do  cIod  ap  iia  cpecuipib. 
r?o  5abaD  pop  a  pipirnrham  cap  có]iainn  na  ci'pe  amac  a  ppocciip  Dia  nDamj- 
nignb  pfóa,  1  coillfn,  po  pill  na  poj^laiDe  ap  do  mac  an  Róipci^  co  po  mapban 
lao  pfin,  1  a  ccápla  ina  ccimceall,  -|  56  nác  gnár  óp  gan  élóióreac  ní  mop 
reapna  DÓ  ccáinicc  ipin  copai^eacc,  iiaip  po  mapbaó  aipeacr,  "]  aicpeabaij;, 
cinn  popal,  ■]  aep  pojnarha  "]  pfóma  an  cípe.  Po  inapbao  ann  beóp  cony^a- 
pail  cloinne  j'uibne  co  nac  mó  ina  cfirpi  pip  Décc  Do  maip  lé  hiomcap  aipm  Do 
luce  an  cipe  lapp  an  cacap  pin  gup  bó  haicrpeabaij  eaccaip  ceneóil  booí 
an  Pnipceac  -|  nniipip  do  rappoinj  Dátciuccab  na  cipe  Dia  éip. 

""  The  Seneschal  of  Imohilly. — He  was  the  head  present  barony  of  Fermoy,  in  the  north  of  the 

of  a  branch  of  the  Fitzgeralds,  descended  from  county  of  Cork. 

James  Earl  of  Desmond,  who  was  constituted  "  l^raitors It  appears  strange  enough  that  the 

Seneschal  of  Imokilly,  in  the  county  of  Cork,  in  Four  Masters  should  style  these  men  traitors; 

1420.    He  held  his  residence  at  Ballymartyr.    It  for    P.   O'Sullevan    Beare   and  O'Daly  regard 

looks  very  extraordinary  that  the  Four  Masters  them  as  patriots,  fighting  against  traitors  and 

should  have  called  this  personage  a  traitor!   Cox  heretics  for  the  cause  of  their  country  and  reli- 

says  that  he  surprised,  in  1582,  Youghall,  and  gion.     It  should  be  here  remarked  that  if  the 

entered  one  end  of  the  town,  but  that  he  was  so  Four  Masters  had  been  writing  on  the  Conti- 

warmly  received  by  Lieutenant  Calverleigh,  and  nent,  the  term  traitor  would  have  been  applied 

forty  shot  he  had  with  him,  that  he  was  forced  to  by  them  to  Roche  and  his  people,  who  were  on 

retreat  and  leave  fifty  of  his  men  dead  behind  the  side  of  the  excommunicated  Queen,  and  not 

hini.  to  the  Fitzgeralds,  who  fovight  for  the  Pope  and 

^  Horses. — It  looks  very  odd  that  the  horses  his  beloved  son  in  Christ,  the  King  of  Spain, 

should  be  mentioned   before   the   men.      The  But   these  Annals  were  compiled   for  Farrell 

loss  of  human  beings  was  accounted  as  oTvery  O'Gara,  who  was  loyal  to  his  Protestant  sove- 

little  moment  at  this  period.  reign,   Charles  I.;  audit  is  quite  evident  that 

'  Roche's  country — This  is  comprised  in  the  the  Four  Masters  adopted  their  language  to  his. 


1.582.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1777 

Seneschal  of  Imokilly'  and  Gilla-Patrick  Condon.  The  wife  of  Theobald  at 
this  time  was  Grainne,  daughter  of  Turlough,  the  son  of  Murtough,  i.  e.  the 
daughter  of  Mac-I-Brien  Ara  ;  and  when  she  saw  her  husband,  mangled  and 
mutilated,  and  disfigured,  carried  towards  her,  she  shrieked  extremely  and 
dreadfully,  so  that  she  died  on  that  night,  alongside  the  body  of  her  husband  ; 
and  both  were  buried  together. 

The  Barry,  i.  e.  David,  defeated  Maurice,  the  eldest  son  of  Roche,  in  a  con- 
flict ;  and  Maurice  escaped  from  the  fight,  after  having  lost  many  horses'  and 
men. 

The  Seneschal  before  mentioned  and  Padraigin  Condon  came,  about  the 
ensuing  Allhallowtide,  into  the  western  part  of  Roche's  country'.  The  two 
young  sons  of  Roche,  namely,  John  and  Ulick,  and  all  [the  inhabitants  of]  the 
country,  rose  up  at  their  shouts,  and  gained  the  first  battle  over  the  traitors". 
They  proceeded  to  pursue  them,  beyond  the  boundary  of  the  territory,  into  the 
vicinity  of  their  fastnesses  in  the  woods  and  forests ;  but  the  plunderers  turned 
upon  the  two  sons  of  Roche,  and  slew  them,  and  all  those  who  were  about 
them  ;  and  though  a  slaughter  does  not  usually  take  place  without  some  person 
escaping'',  a  very  small  number  only  of  those  who  had  come  in  this  pursuit 
escaped,  for  [whole]  tribes,  families,  heads  of  districts,  servitors,  and  soldiers  of 
the  territory,  were  slain.  The  constables  of  the  Clann-Sweeny  were  also  slain : 
in  short,  not  more  than  fourteen  men  of  the  people  of  tlie  territory  who  bore 
arms  outlived  this  engagement ;  so  that  Roche  and  Maurice  had  afterwards  to 
bring  strangers  from  other  territories  to  inhabit  the  territory. 

not  to  their  own  notions  on  this  subject.  this  success,  that  they  pursued  the  enemy  out- 
'  Escaping. — The  proverb  "  nl  jnóc  áp  gan  side  the  boundary  of  Roche's  country,  and  to 
eloióreac,"  is  not  happily  cited  here,  because  the  very  verge  of  the  woods  and  forests  where 
what  immediately  follows  does  not  afford  a  con-  the  plunderers  had  their  haunts  ;  but  the 
tradiction  to  the  proverb  which  the  writer  in-  plunderers,  observing  that  they  were  likely  to 
tended.  The  proverb  should  not  be  intro-  be  followed  into  their  fastnesses,  and  there 
duced  at  all.  The  language  should  be  thus  slaughtered,  took  fresh  courage,  wheeled  round 
shaped;  ,  upon  their  pursuers,  and  fought  with  such 
"The  two  young  sons  of  Roche,  John  and  bravery  and  desperation  that  they  killed  the  two 
Ulick,  and  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  territory,  young  leaders,  and  nearly  exterminated  the  in- 
rose  up  at  their  shouts,  and  a  battle  ensued,  in  habitants  of  Koche's  coimtry;  for  after  this  en- 
which  the  traitors  were  routed.  The  young  gagement  there  were  found  but  fourteen  men 
Roches  and  all  their  people  were  so  animated  at  fit  to  bear  arms  iu  the  whole  territory,"  &c. 

10  k 


1778  awNa^a  Rio^hachca  emeaHN.  [1582. 

Tilac  UÍ  rhaoílrhuaió  .1.  Domnall  mac  repóiD  Do  rhapbaó,  1  po  ba  Uij;aiDe 
jio  heccaoíneaó  a  oibeaó  50  po  cionnfccain  fé  Dol  ap  bélaiV)  a  ac«p,  ■]  a 
lonnapbab,  ■]  é  pfin  Do  puióe  ma  lonaó. 

TTlac  lapla  ofprnuman  .1.  Sfan,  mac  Sfmaip,  mic  Sfain,  mic  comaip  lapla 
DO  cuicim  maipcciD  la  a  eapccaipDib,  1  apeaD  po  a  pip  arhail  do  pala  Do,  Sfan 
DO  Dol  cfcpap  mapcac  do  coillcibh  ffaplac  Daccallairh  an  bappaij  móip  baí 
I  ccombóiD  po^la  ppip-  Ool  Do  cap  abainn  rhóip  bó  ttC]""  1  minmfóón  laoí 
Dobapba  bmbciac.  Oo  pala  pom  1  capcin  pnncpi  co  na  cóipi^nbli  cul  1  ccul 
1  ajhaiD  in  ajliaiD,  1  gan  aén  aca  ace  lappaiD  apoile.  Via  gonab  ")  po  gabao 
Sfan  ap  an  lacaip  pin,  -|  ni  beachaib  tab  aén  mile  Dpeapann  an  can  po  écc  po 
ceDóip,  -]  po  bab  paoínbél  porappna  po  hiomcpab  ap  a  eoc  é  ap  pibe  co 
copcaij,  1  ap  poccain  do  Don  baile  do  pónab  cfrpamna  corhpoinnce  De.  Ro 
cuipeab  a  cfno  a  ccomapba  copccaip  50  hoc  cliar,  1  muna  bfir  giipab  i  najh- 
aib  cop(Sna  8a;iran  baoi  po  bab  doiIit^  díc  an  Deijpip  pin  ap  a  biicca  ppi  coip- 
bepc  SeóD,  1  lolmaoinib, -|  ap  a  anjbaijeacc  in  lonab  pfbma.  Semup  mac 
Sfain,  mic  jfpóic  mic  comóip  lapla  do  jabail  in  aoinpfcc  lé  Sfan  mac  an  lapla, 
1  a  cpochab  peal  bfg  cap  a  éipi,  -|  a  bá  mac  do  cpochab  ap  pon  pip. 

Caicilin,  injfn  caibj,  mic  Domnaill,  mic  copbmaic  labpaij;  meg  tapraig, 
bean  mec  muipip  ciappaige  Decc,"]  ap  ann  cangacap  a  ciu^laire  ap  loc  léin 
li'n  piaclaig,  "1  í  agá  hiomloccab  on  oilén  co  poile  ap  uarhan  na  ppo^^lab,  •]  a 
habnacab  1  mainipcip  aipbealai^. 

^aoc  mop  pippleochaib,  Spaibcine  pion,  "j  ireapcan  oeaprhaip  ipin  do 
bliabain  ]'i  Diab  in  DiaDli. 

"  Siuitii,  i.  e.  Zoucli.  ward  oflf  the  blow,  tor  that  the  latter  was  de- 

^  In  search  of  ike  other — This  does  not  appear  sirous  to  seize  the  Geraldine  alive.     He  adds, 

to  have  been  the  case.     O'Daly,   who  tells  the  that  his  head  was  then  cut  off  and  sent  to  Dublin, 

story  much  fuller   and  better,    asserts  that  a  and  spiked  in  the  front  of  the  castle  ;  and  that 

traitor  nained  John    conveyed  information   to  his  body  was  conveyed  to  Cork,  and  hung  in 

Zouch  ;  and  Hooker  and  Cox  state  confidently  chains  at  one  of  the  city  gates,  where  it  remained 

that  Captain  Zouch  having  received  information  nearly  three  years,  till  on  a  tempestuous  night 

from  an  Irish  spy  where  Sir  John  of  Desmond      it  was  blown  into  the  sea See  also  P.  O'Sul- 

was,  went  out  in  search  of  him.  levan  Beare,  Hist.  Cathol.  Iher.,  fol.  99- 

'  Wounded. — O'Daly  asserts,  c.  23,  that  a  vil-  ^  The  Croion  of  England This  was  written 

lain  named  Thomas  Fleming,  who  is  said  to  have  for  Farrell  O'Gara,  and  the  loyalists  of  the  reign 

been  once  a  servant  to  Sir  John  of  Desmond,  of  Charles  I. 

plunged  a  spear  into  his  throat  ere  Zouch  could  "  Along  with. — O'Daly  says  that  he  was  sub- 


1582.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1779 

The  son  of  O'Molloy,  i.  e.  Donnell,  the  son  of  Theobald,  was  slain.  His 
death  was  the  less  lamented  because  he  had  commenced  to  depose  his  father, 
and  to  expel  him,  and  to  set  himself  up  in  his  place. 

The  son  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  i.  e.  John,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  John, 
son  of  Thomas  the  Earl,  fell  by  his  enemies,  unrevenged.  The  following  is  the 
true  account  of  the  manner  in  which  he  came  by  his  death.  John  set  out, 
accompanied  by  four  horsemen,  for  the  woods  of  Eatharlach,  to  hold  a  confe- 
rence with  Barry  More,  with  whom  he  had  entered  into  a  plundering  confede- 
racy. He  proceeded  southwards  across  the  River  Avonmore,  in  the  middle  of 
a  dark  and  misty  day,  and  happened  to  be  met,  front  to  front  and  face  to  face, 
by  Captain  Siuitsi",  with  his  forces,  though  neither  of  them  was  in  search  of 
the  other''.  John  was  [mottally]  wounded''  on  the  spot,  and  had  not  advanced 
the  space  of  a  mile  beyond  that  place  when  he  died.  He  was  carried  crosswise 
on  his  own  steed,  with  his  face  downwards,  from  thence  to  Cork  ;  and  when 
brought  to  that  town  he  was  cut  in  quarters,  and  his  head  was  sent  to  Dublin 
as  a  token  of  victory.  Were  it  not  that  he  was  opposed  to  the  crown  of  Eng- 
land'', the  loss  of  this  good  man  would  have  been  lamentable,  on  account  of  his 
liberality  in  bestowing  jewels  and  riches,  and  his  valour  in  the  field  of  conflict. 
James,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Garrett,  son  of  Thomas  the  Earl,  was  taken, 
along  with"  John,  son  of  the  Earl,  and  hanged  a  short  time  afterwards,  together 
with  his  two  sons. 

Catherine,  the  daughter  of  Teige,  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Cormac  Ladhrach 
Mac  Carthy,  and  wife  of  Mac  Maurice''  of  Kerry,  died.  She  passed  her  last 
days  upon  the  lake  of  L^an  Linf  hiaclaigh"",  moving  from  one  island  to  another, 
through  fear  of  the  plunderers  ;  and  she  was  inter:i;ed  in  the  monastery  of 
Airbheallach". 

Great  wind,  constant  rain,  lightuing^  and  much  tempestuous  weather,  pre- 
vailed successively  in  these  two  years.    , 

gequently  taken  prisoner,  sent  to  Cork,  and,  as  of  the  white  Teeth,  the  artificer  of  Sidh  Bugha, 

some  had  asserted,  put  to  death.  who  had  his  forge  at  this  lake. 

"  Mac  Maurice,  aw^fee  Fitzmaurice.  ^  Airhheallach,  otherwise 'called  the  monastery 

"  Lake  of  Lean  Linfhiaclaigh,  i.  e.  of  Lean  of  of  Oirbhealach,  and  now  Muckruss — See  notes 

the  white  Teeth.  This  was  the  name  of  the, lake  f,  ^  ',  ",  under  the  year  1340,  p.  5G6,  supra. 

of  Killarney,  which  is  derived,  according  to  the  '  Lightning,    ppaibcine  p!on — According  to 

Dinnsenchus  {Lib.  Lee,  fol.  239,  a.  a.),  from  Lean  the  Irish  work  called  Coir  Anmann,  as  pre- 

10  E  2 


1780  awNata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [i582. 

Cnóirhrp  mop  ipn  mbliaóain  pi  beop. 

banoa  paijDuiip,  -]  Ifr  bcinna  nnapcpluaij  Do  liiuincip  capcin  piuicpi  do 
bfir  1  napo  pfpra  ó  rúp  pojmaip  na  bliaóna  peacmaca  50  mi  mfóom  pojmaip 
na  bliaónci  ppeacnaipce, "]  56  po  baoi  lomacc  bíó  "|  pcópuip  aca  on  bpponnpa 
nip  anpar  acr  ace  cnam,  -[  ag  caicfrh  na  cipe  ina  ccimceall,  1  pob  eiccfn 
moc  gac  cmn  popail  oá  poibe  ipin  cip  do  cop  illaim  cuca. 

Pacpicin,  emann,"!  T^obfpD,  clann  TTlbeic  muipipDfinlfirléjeapnlracbaib 
1  ccoccab  a  Do  pcigbacrap  bpaijDfnup  luimni^  50  pin.  Qon  Domcibb  Dia 
nDeacpac  50  bapD  pfpca,-]  po  jlacpac  cpeaca  an  baile  apa  bapac  op  maDain. 
T?o  éipigb  capcin  an  mapcpluaij  50  hobann  Dia  pai^iD  .1.  capcin  haicpim, 
-|  ni  po  puipi 5  la  a  paijDiuipib,  1  puaip  a  ppeaccpa  50  po  ullarh,  1  cup  Dia 
coip  Don  ccD  cumapcc,  1  a  cloiómeaó  jan  coiccill.  l?o  pillpfc  clann  TTlec 
muipi]'  CO  na  ccpeic  50  po  jabpar  poplongpopc  imon  mbaile  pop  na  paij^niiiipib. 
Onine  uapal  no  cloinn  cpíchi^  baoi  1  ppocaip  cloinne  ÍTleic  mnipip  an  can  po 
.1.  ITluipcfpcac  mac  emainn,  mic  majnupa,  mic  emain,  mec  picbij  do  mapbaó 
1  nDopap  mainipcpe  ó  ccópna  lá  cloinn  an  eappuicc  ciappaiji  baí  aj  consnam 
lá  miiincip  na  bainpíojna  Don  cup  poin.  ÍTlac  mulpip  pfin, "]  upmóp  a  óuirce 
Do  bfir  pó  ólicceaD  50  pin.  Qn  can  acconnaipc  pine  a  cíp  ajó  cpomloc,  -] 
ÓD  cualaiD  an  capcin  do  rhapbaó  let  a  cloinn  po  bpip  po  céoóip  Ifc  pnáma, 
liop  cuacail,  biaille,  "|  baile  an  buinDénai  j.  Oo  cóib  1  ccfnD  a  cloinne  laporh. 
Ni  Deacaib  laip  ipin  miimipc  pin  luce  baile  rhec  an  caim,  na  baile  ui  cao- 
laiji  no  clann  piapaip.  Do  coccaib  TTlac  muipip  a  clann  on  mbaile,  1  do 
cóiDpioc  Diblínib  pop  culaib  a  ccoillcib,  "i  ni  mo  na  imceacc  Do  puacc  leó  an 

served  in  the  Book  of  Lecan,  fol.  221,  tlie  word  maurice,    aud  county  of  Kerry. — See   note   '', 

ppaibcine  signifies  "  a  thunder-storm."     Thus,  under  the  year  1577,  p.  1680,  supra. 
in  explaining  fpaiBcine,  the  cognomen  of  Fiacha  ^  Bishop  of  Kerry,  i.  e.  of  Ardfert.     This  was 

Sraibhtine,  Monarch  of  Ireland,  it   states  that  James  Fitzmaurioe,  Bishop  of  Ardfert.    In  Har- 

he  was  so  called   "do  na  ppapa  ceneó  cicrip  i  ris's  edition  of  Wai-e's  Bishops,  p.  523,  it  is  stated 

na  pé,  from  the  showers  of  fire  which  occurred  that  James  Fitzmaurice  was  bishop  of  this  see 

in  his  reign."     The  word  beapcan  is  glossed  in  in  1551  and  1576,  but  no  account  is  given  of 

the  Book  of  Lecan,  fol.  164,  by  anpaó,  a  storm.  when  he  was  consecrated  or  when  he  died. 

f  Into  their  hands,  i.e.  to  be  delivered  up  to  i"  Leacsnaviha,  now  Lixnaw. — See  it  already 

them  as  hostages.  mentioned  under  the  years  1568  and  1577. 

s  Patrickin,  i.  e.  Little  Patrick.  '  Lis-Tuathail,  i.  e.  Tuathal's  fort,  now  Lis- 

^  The  monastery  of  Odorney,  now  Abbeydor-  towel,  a  well-known  town  in  the  barony  of  Clan- 

ney,  or  Abbey-Odorney,  in  the  barony  of  Clan-  maurice,  and  county  of  Kerry,  in  which  are  the 


1582.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND,  1781 

Tliere  was  a  great  abundance  of  nuts  also  in  this  year. 

A  company  of  [foot]  soldiers,  and  half  a  company  of  cavalry,  of  the  people 
of  Captain  Siuitsi,  were  [quartered]  at  Ardfert  [in  Kerry]  from  the  beginning 
of  the  autunm  of  the  past  year  to  the  September  of  the  present  year  ;  and 
though  they  had  received  a  great  quantity  of  provisions  and  stores  from  the 
Sovereign, they  never  ceased  consuming  and  spending  the  country  around  them; 
and  they  compelled  the  son  of  every  head  of  a  tribe  in  the  country  to  be  deli- 
vered up  into  their  hands^  * 

Patrickin^,  Edmond,  and  Robert,  the  sons  of  Mac  Maurice,  had  sided  with 
the  Geraldines  in  the  war  from  the  time  of  their  escape  from  Limerick  till  then. 
One  night  thfey  went  to  Ardfert,  and  on  the  next  morning  they  seized  upon 
the  spoils  of  the  town.  The  captain  of  the  cavalry,  i.  e.  Captain  Hatsim,  rose 
up  suddenly  to  meet  them,  without  waiting  for  his  soldiers ;  but  he  was  actively 
responded  to,  dismounted,  and  put  to  the  sword  in  the  first  onset.  The  sons 
of  Mac  Maurice  [then]  returned  with  their  prey,  and  [afterwards]  encamped 
around  the  town,  to  besiege  the  soldiers.  A  gentleman  of  the  Clann-Sheehy, 
i.  e.  Murtough,  the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Edmond  Mac  Sheeliy, 
who  was  along  with  the  sons  of  Mac  Maurice  at  this  time,  was  slain  in  the 
doorway  of  the  monastery  of  Odorney\  by  the  sons  of  the  Bishop  of  Kerry", 
■who  were  aiding  the  Queen's  people  on  that  occasion.  Mac  Maurice  himself, 
and  the  greater  niimber  in  his  country,  had  been  hitherto  obedient  to  the  law ; 
but  when  he  saw  his  territory  plundered,  and  when  he  heard  that  the  captain 
liad  been  slain  by  his  sons,  he  at  once  destroyed  Leacsnamha*",  Lis-Tuathail', 
Biaille™,  and  Baile-an-Bhuinneanaigh".  He  afterwards  went  to  join  his  sous. 
He  was  not  joined  in  this  evil  career  by  the  inhabitants  of  Baile-mhic-an-Chaini°, 
or  of  Baile-Ui-Chaeluighe'',  or  the  Clann-Pierce.  Mac  Maurice  took  his  sons 
away  from  the  town  [of  Ardfert],  and  they  all  went  back  to  the  woods  ;  and 

ruins  of  a  celebrated  castle  built  by  Fitzmaurice.  from  the  cross-roads  of  Lisseltiii,  in  the  barony 

""  Biaille,  now  Beale,  a  ruined  castle  lying  on  of  Iraghticonor. 
the  Kerry  side  of  the  Shannon,  about  four  miles  °  Baile-mhic-an-Chaiin,  now  Ballymacqueem. 

to  the  west  of  Ballylongford,  in  the  barony  of  — See  note  ",  under  the  year  1577,  p.  1689,  sup. 
Iraghticonor,  and  county  of  Kerry.  ' Baile-  Ui-Cliaeluighe,  now  Ballykealy,  a  town- 

"  Baile-an-Bhuiiuieanaigh,  i.  e.  Bunnion's,  or  land,  containing  the   ruins  of  a  castle,  in   the 

Bunyan's   town,    now   Ballybunniofi,    a    small  parish  of  Kilmoyly,  barony  of  Clanmaurice,  and 

bathing  village,    about  four  miles   and  a  half  county  of  Kerry. 


1782  aNNQta  Rioshachca  eiReawH.  [1582. 

can  cainicc  capon  piuicpi  oon  ci|i  pó  rapcc  mapbra  capnm  haci'im,-)  bpup- 
cacc  a  muincijie,  ■]  o  na  puce  po|ipaponi  i  ccimceall  an  baile  po  cpochaó 
laip  bpai^oe  baoi'c  Ifnb  baoi  ap  laim  a  mutncipe  on  cip.  Uucc  cuaipc  ap  na 
coillcib  DiappaiD  meic  niuipip  -\  a  cloinne,  puaip  aipccne,  éoala,  -|  mapbra 
lomoa  pé  a  noenaiii.  Uo  cuipeaó  laip  a  ouccapaig  péin  (baí  i  ppocaip  an 
caipcin  ap  an  eapaonca  pin)  lUfic  bebionn  lap  na  páccbáil  polam  oo  mac 
TTiinpip  1  00  rhuincip.  Uaippngip  mac  miiipip  mpla  tieapmuman  oon  cip  i 
ccionn  aimpipe  mp  pin,-]  cuccj^acc  cpoicc  do  muincip  apoa  pfpca,-]  oo  map- 
ba6  leo  a  ccapcin,  a  leucenanc  a  ppfp  bpacai^e,  i  opong  rhóp  ele  a  maille 
ppiii.  Ro  bfn  a  cuiD  oon  coccaó  pin  lé  mac  iTluipip  peac  cóc,  6ip  oo  oiol- 
aicpicceaó  a  oaoine  oo  miUeaó  a  loc,  a  poipgnfrh,"]  a  aiccpeaba.  Nip  óion 
oia  caiy^cceaoaib,  cuapa  cpann,  na  cappacc,  na  cuinigre  caiman,  net  ppemo 
pi6  ace  arhail  bu  lacc  a  nfpccaipoe  no  puicpeaó  ip  na  liionacaib  epbalca 
pin  lac. 

Capcin  piuicpi  00  óol  hi  Sa;roib  i  mi  augupc  na  bliaóna  po  -|  capcin  ele 
opaccbail  OÓ  ina  j^obepnóip  op  cfno  rhuimneac,  -|  an  capcin  pin  oo  bpfic  na 
mflOe  po  itiaip  oo  paijóiuipib  ápoa  peapca  lé  a  coipgo  copcai^.  Ni  baoi  on 
naip  pin  banoa,  no  Ifc  bannoa  oo  paijoiúipib  ace  piubal  a  cci'pe,  no  aj  curh- 
5uccaD  ap  geapalcacaib  50  cpiocnuccaO  na  bliaóna  po. 

Capcin  piuicpi  00  rhapbao  1  ceompac  I11  Sa;raib  puil  painie  laip  reacc 
cap  a,  aip  1  nepinn. 

lapla  ofpmurhan  00  bfir  o  mi  mfooin  pojmaip  na  bliaóna  pfmainn  50 
oepeaO  na  bliaóna  po  ecip  opuim  pingin,  earaplac,  ■]  coill  an  cuicem  -\  ^an 
00  buain,  no  00  bpanap  ap  a  uíó  no  ap  aipe  ace  a  bfir  ag  buain  biiilcépac 
00  ló,-]  ooióce  1  noiojail  ina  noeapnaiapla  upmuman  50  pin  apgeapalcacoib. 

'  Leac-Beibhionn,   now  Lackbevune,   in   the  lost  an  able  officer,  and  the  Irish  were  rid  of  au 

north-west  of  the  barony  of  Iraghticonor,  and  in  indefatigable  enemy." 

thecountyof  Kerry.  This  castle,  as  well  as  all  the  '■  Driiim-Finghin,  i.e.  Fineen's  ridge.  This 
others  in  the  barony  of  Iraghticonor,  belonged  name,  which  is  locally  pronounced  Droumfineen, 
by  right  to  O'Conor  Kerry,  but  had  been  all  is  applied  to  a  long  ridge  of  high  ground,  ex- 
seized  upon,  with  the  exception  of  Carrigafoyle.  tending  from  near  Castle-Lyons,  in  the  county 
by  Fitzmaurice,  during  the  rebellion  of  Desmond,  of  Cork,  to  Kingoguanagh,  on  the  south  side  of 

'  His  treasures,  a  raif  ceaóa,  i.  e.  his  money,  the  bay  of  Dungarvan,  in  the  county  of  Water- 
plate,  cups,  and  other  valuable  property.  ford. — See  O'Brien's  Irish  Dictionary,  in  voce 

*  Before  he  could  return. — An  English  writer  Drom.     This  Drum,  dorsum,  or  ridge,  divides 

would  be  apt  to  say  :   "  And  thus  the  Queen  the  barony  of  Decies  within  Drum  from  that  of 


1582.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1783 

they  were  scarcely  gone  when  Captain  Siuitsi  came  into  the  country,  on  report 
of  the  killing  of  Captain  Ilatsim,  and  to  relieve  his  people  ;  and  as  he  had  not 
overtaken  them  [the  Mac  Maurices]  about  the  town,  he  hanged  the  hostages  of 
the  country,  mere  children,  who  were  in  the  custody  of  his  people.  He  traversed 
the  woods  in  search  of  Mac  Maurice  and  his  sons,  and  took  many  preys  and 
spoils,  and  slew  many  persons.  He  reinstated  its  lawful  inhabitants,  who  were 
along  with  him  dming  this  disturbance,  in  Leac-Beibhionn'',  it  having  been  left 
desolate  by  Mac  Maurice  and  his  people.  Shortly  afterwards  Mac  ISIaurice 
prevailed  on  the  Earl  of  Desmond  to  come  into  the  country  ;  and  they  both 
gave  battle  to  the  people  of  Ardfert,  and  slew  their  captain,  their  lieutenant, 
their-  ensign,  and  a  great  number  of  others  along  with  them.  Mac  Maurice 
experienced  the  effects  of  this  war  beyond  all  others,  for  his  people  were  cut 
off,  his  corn  was  destroyed,  and  his  mansions  and  edifices  were  demolished. 
His  treasures'  were  not  secured  [though  he  secreted  them]  in  the  hollows  of 
trees  or  of  rocks,  or  in  subterranean  caverns,  or  under  the  roots  of  trees,  but 
[he  lost  them  all]  just  as  though  they  had  been  deposited  in  these  respective 
places  by  his  enemies. 

Captain  Siuitsi  went  to  England  in  the  month  of  August  in  this  year,  after 
having  left  another  captain  as  governor  over  the  Munstermen.  This  captain 
took  all  the  surviving  soldiers  of  Ardfert  with  him  to  Cork,  so  that  there  was 
not  at  that  time,  or  until  the  end  of  this  year,  a  company  or  half  a  company  of 
soldiers  to  be  seen  traversing  the  country  of  the  Geraldines,  or  encroaching 
upon  their  territory. 

Captain  Siuitsi  was  slain  in  a  conflict  in  England,  before  he  could  return* 
to  Ireland. 

The  Earl  of  Desmond  remained  from  the  middle  month  of  the  autumn  of 
the  preceding  year  to  the  end  of  this  year  between  Druim-Finghin',  Eatharlach", 
and  Coill-an-Choigidh",  heeding  or  caring  for  neither  tillage  nor  reaping,  ex- 
cepting the  reaping  [i.  e.  cutting  down]  of  the  Butlers  by  day  and  night,  in 
revenge  of  the  injuries  which  the  Earl  of  Orraond  had  up  to  that  time  committed 

Decies  without  Drum,  in  the  latter  county.  '"  Coill-an-Choigidh,  i.e.  the  wood  of  the  pro- 

"  Eatharlach,    now  Aharlagh,    or   Aharlow,  vinoe.     This  wood   is   shewn  on  old   maps   of 

a  remarkable  glen,  about  four  miles  to  the  south  Munster,  as  "  Kilquegg,"   a  short  distance  to 

of  the  town  of  Tipperary.    Ware  and  Cox  call  the  south  of  Kjlmallock,  in  the  county  of  Lime- 

this  incorrectly  Harlow.  rick. 


1784  aNwaca  Riojhachca  eiReanw.  [i582. 

l?ob  upaioe  buicilepaij  Do  baojluuccaD  laplu  iijiiniiiimn  oo  bCiu  i  pciccpoiV) 
on  bliaóain  y]  50  |io  bfn  a  Djioc  lapmaipc  Don  Dúrhaij  óip  ní  mó)i  nac  páccbab 
na  hén  cuinn  pmcaile  1  pápaij  o  pojic  laipcce  co  lofpa,  -\  o  cnárhcoiU  co 
conncaé  cille  cainni^.  Níp  bo  macrnaó  jép  bó  pópac  na  puinn  pin  cip  a  rhfmce 
Do  aipcc  an  rmpla  an  DÓ  upniurhain,  Duchai^  apa,  uí  caipin,  éle  ófipcepc,  co 
na  popruacaib,  an  cpian  ínfóónac,  -\  rpmn  cluana  meala,  1  ap  jac  raoíb  Do 
piúip  50  Dopap  puipclaipcce.  Ní  hfiDip  a  innipin,  nó,  a  aipnfip  Ifr  no  cpian 
aj\  lomcaippioc  geapalcaijDo  óeabraib  Doilgib  Do  comjlfcaib  cpuaióe,  -)  Dionn- 
paijcib  éccuailngeacaib  an  can  pin,  ■]  bá  ipin  oimpip  pm  aDbfpraoi  nac  móp 
CO  nibaoí  jfini  bó  no  juc  oipfrhan  o  óúncaoín  co  caipiol  murhan. 

lQl?la  Dfpmurhan  do  óol  i  pampaó  na  bbabna  po  pa  oipreap  miiman  "|  pa 
iapca]i  buinlepac.  Capla  in  can  pin  1  ppioDapD  ap  a  cioncc  t>á  inac  occa 
lapla  uprnuman  .1.  emann  an  calan,  -j  eoiiapo,  clann  cpemaip  uiic  piapaip 
puaib,  mic  Sfmaip,  nriic  emainn,  Da  Deapb]iacai]i  laDpióe  Don  lapla  upmurhan 
baoi  an  can  pin  .i.  cómap,  -|  bá  hiOD  po  paccaib  an  ciapla  óp  cfnD  na  cpice 
ná  coirhéD  acc  Dol  Dó  pfin  hi  Sa;roib.  Uapla  ina  ccimceall  porh  ip  in  mbaile 
an  can  pm  mfp  gappaó  mapcac  -|  coipijre  jlan  cojca  gallocclac,"]  gíomanac. 
Ro  eipjfccap  pme  pó  na  hfimjib  50  bupmaipneac  co  noeacaccap  ap  aon 
jopc  ]iip  an  mpla.  bacap  acc  coiinéc  pop  a  cele  gan  cíccap  aca  Dionnpaicció 
apoile  ó  pioóapD  50  cnoc  jpapann,  Qp  annpin  po  pill  an  ciapla  ap  na  baip- 
pfoaib,  "1  DO  bpip  pop  buicilepeacaib.  Ro  páccbaccap  oponj  rhóp  Dia  itiapc- 
pluaj,  -]  a  ccoipijce  uile  pó  tocc  a  nfpccapacc,  ■]  po  bpfic  a  nibiobbaD  jup 
bó  bpeac  ó  coppaib  oaoíne  an  culac  pop  ap  racpaccap  ó  jeapalcacaib  ip  in 
njliaiD  pin.  Do  pónaó  écc  móp  ip  in  maijin  pin  .1.  apDconpapal  buicilépac 
Do  mapbab  .1.  Colla  mac  nmolmuipe  mic  DoTnnaiU  óicc   nriec  puibne.     Níp 

^'  Lothra,  now  Lorha,  a  small  village  in  the  "  Fidh-ard,  i.  c.  high  wood,  now  Fethard,  a 

barony  of  Lower  Ormond,  county  of  Tipperary.  well-known  town,  in  the  barony  of  Middlethird, 

— See  note  ",  under  the  year  11 79,  p.  50,  supra,  and  county  of  Tipperary.     This  town  is  of  con- 

1  Cnamhchoill,   now   Cneanihchoill,    near  the  siderable  antiquity,   as  appears   from  the  Au- 

town  of  Tipperary — -See  note  ',  under  the  year  gustinian  monastery  founded  there  shortly  after 

1560,  p.  1578,  supra.  the  English  invasion,  and  from  the  grant  made 

■'   Irresistible. — "  Gccuuluinj    .1.  oiopuluin;;;  to  the  corporation   by  Edward  III.,  to  enclose 

no  DOFulaing." — O'Ckry.  the   town  with   a  wall.      Of  the  fortifications 

"  Dun-Caoin,  now  Dunqueen,  the  most  west-  there  still  remain  some  of  the  town  wall  and 

ern  part  of  Kerry — See  note  ',  under  the  year  three  of  the  gateway  towers.    In  1650  this  town 

1558,  p.  1561,  supra.  was  besieged  by  Cromwell,  to  whom,  after  a 


1582.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1785 

against  the  Geraldines.  It  was  the  easier  to  oppress  the  Butlers,  because  the 
Earl  of  Ormond  was  this  year  in  England  ;  and  his  territory  experienced  the 
iU  effects  of  it  [his  absence],  for  almost  the  whole  tract  of  country  from  Water- 
ford  to  Lothra'',  and  from  CnamhchoilF  to  the  county  of  Kilkenny,  was  suffered 
to  remain  one  surface  of  weeds  and  waste.  Nor  was  it  wonderful  that  these 
lands  should  be  left  thus  waste,  on  account  of  the  many  times  the  Earl  had 
plundered  the  two  Ormonds,  Duharra,  Ikerrin,  South-Ely,  and  the  Fortuathas, 
Middle-third  and  Clonmel-third,  and  [the  districts  lying]  on  both  sides  of  the 
Suir,  as  far  as  the  gate  of  Waterford.  The  one-half  or  one-third  of  the  despe- 
rate battles,  the  hard  conflicts,  and  the  irresistible^  irruptions  of  the  Geraldines, 
at  this  time,  cannot  be  enumerated  or  described.  At  this  period  it  was  com- 
monly said,  that  the  lowing  of  a  cow,  or  the  voice  of  the  ploughman,  could 
scarcely  be  heard  from  Dun-Caoin"  to  Cashel  in  Munster. 

In  the  summer  of  this  year  the  Earl  of  Desmond  proceeded  to  the  east  of 
Munster,  and  the  western  part  of  the  country  of  the  Butlers.  He  was  met  on 
this  occasion  at  Fidh-ard"  by  the  two  young  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Ormond,  namely, 
Edmond  an-Chaladh  and  Edward  ;  the  two  sons  of  James,  son  of  Pierce  Roe, 
son  of  James,  son  of  Edmond,  and  brothers  of  the  Earl  of  Ormond  that  then 
was,  namely,  of  Thomas  ;  and  these  were  they  whom  the  Earl  had  left  over 
the  country,  to  protect  his  country,  on  his  departure  for  England.  They  had 
with  them  in  that  town  (Fethard)  a  vigorous  body  of  cavalry,  and  select  bodies 
of  gallowglasses  and  Giomanachs  [horseboys].  Those  courageously  rose  up  at 
the  shouts^  and  entered  the  same  field  with  the  Earl.  They  marched  on  from 
Fethai'd  to  Knockgraffon,  being  on  their  guard  of  each  other,  and  without  coming 
to  any  engagement.  At  the  latter  place  (however)  the  Earl  turned  round  upon 
these  warriors,  and  defeated  the  Butlers,  who  left  a  great  part  of  their  cavalry,  and 
all  their  foot  soldiers,  at  the  mercy  of  their  enemies,  and  the  discretion  of  their 
foes,  so  that  the  hill  on  which  they  fought  was  speckled  with  the  bodies  of  men 
slain  by  the  Geraldines  in  that  engagement.  In  this  battle  was  slain  [on  the 
side  of  the  Butlers]  one  whose  death  was  the  cause  of  great  lamentation,  namely, 
Colla,  the  son  of  Mulmurry^  son  of  Donnell  Oge  ISIac  Sweeny,  chief  constable 
of  the  Butlers.    There  was  slain  on  the  other  side  only  Gerald,  the  son  of  John 

spirited  resistance,  it  capitulated  on  honourable  "=  Bose  up  at  the  shouts — See  O'Daly's  Initium, 

terms.  ^c,  Giraldinorum,  c.  24. 

10  s 


1786 


aHNQi-a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN. 


[1582. 


majibaó  Don  raoíB  ficqi  ace  mab  seapalc  mac  ^fain  óicc,  mic  Sfam,  mic 
romaip  lapla  "]  pob  aóbap  éccaoíne  epióe  ma  cip  baoéin. 

Cuaipr  Da  noeachaiD  lapla  Dfpmuirian  i  cciappaije  i  ppojmap  na  bliaóna 
po,  -\  baoi  I  ppoccup  Do  peaccmain  i  ppoplonjpopc  i  mbaipp  cloinne  muipip. 
Uiajaic  cpoi jnj  an  lapla  on  maijin  pin  Do  jlacaó  cpeice  i  popal  ui  caoirh. 
Rucc  oppa  Ó  caoirii,  -\  na  compocpaib  baccap  corhpoiccpi  Dóib.  báccap  pé 
hfó  an  laoí  pin  rpé  leapccaib  liiacpa  DeaDhaió  acc  Ifnmain  na  pfóna  co  pan- 
garrap  j  ccorhpocciip  Dpoplonjpnpc  an  lapla.  Oo  cualaió  an  ciapla  caip- 
mfpca  na  ccfinpn,  -\  pogapropann  a  nopDanáip,  T?o  eipi^  co  hobann  co  p'o 
ppaoíneaó  ipin  plijiD  ccéona  pop  ua  ccaoírh,"]  ní  móp  rónaicc  pan  copai jeacc 
ná  copcpaccap  uile.  T?o  gabaó  ann  ó  caoítfi  pfin  .1.  Qpc  itiac  DorhnaiU  mic 
aipr.  T?o  jabaó  beóp  a  rhac  .1.  Qpc  ócc  "]  Do  mapbab  mac  ele  Dm  cloinn 
.1.  QoD.  r?o  jabaD  ann  mac  an  biocapa  iií  pccolaije, -|  do  cpocbab  é  ap  a 
aicle. 

Oauib  an  corhpaic  mac  píam  óicc.mic  Sfain  njeapna  na  coille  móipe  Décc. 

Sémup  -]  gfpalc,  clann  an  eappincc  ciappaije  .1.  clann  rpemuip  mic  T?ip- 
Dfipo  Do  mapbab  lé  cloinn  emainn  mec  pichij  i  noio^ail  a  nDfpbparap  .1. 
rnuipcfprac  po  mapbpar  clann  ann  eappuicc  pfcc  piam.. 

Uomap,  jeapalc,  -\  Sfan  ócc  clann  cpfain  mic  emainn,  nuc  romaip  ón 
claonjlaip  Dimreacc  do  pinn "]  Déccaib  naDÚpra  an  bliabain  pi. 


"*-  Pobcd-Ui-Chaoimk,  now  Pobble-O'Keeiie, 
situated  on  the  confines  of  the  counties  of  Cork, 
Limerick,  and  Kerry,  about  ten  miles  distant 
from  Castle-Island  op  the  west,  and  from  New- 
Market  and  Kanturk  on  the  east.  This  tract 
oí'  land  extends  about  seven  miles  iu  length 
from  north  to  south,  parallel  with  the  Black- 
water  (by  which  it  is  in  a  great  part  bounded 
on  the  west),  and  about  two  miles  and  a  quarter 
in  breadth  from  west  to  east,  on  which  side  it 
is  bounded  by  the  Owuaglyn,  a  mountain  stream 
flowing  into  the  Blackwater.  This  territory, 
which  lay  waste  since  the  time  of  James  II., 
when  the  last  O'KeeiFe,  a  boy  of  sixteen,  went 
into  the  French  service  at  the  head  of  his  father's 
company  of  foot,  was  appropriated  to  the  Cro^\Ti, 
in  the  reign  of  William  III.,  and  a  small  town 


built  thereon,  under  the  name  of  WUliamstown, 
and  the  lands  let  to  farmers  directly  under  tlie 
Crown. 

'  Luachair-Deaghaidh,  now  Sliabh  Luachra, 
in  the  county  of  Kerry,  adjoining  Pobble- 
O'Keeffe,  in  the  county  of  Cork. — See  note  ", 
under  the  year  1579,  p.  1721,  supra. 

'Almost  all,  literally,  "not^many  came  in 
the  pursuit  who  were  not  all  slain." 

^  David-an-Chomhraic,  i.  e.  David  of  the  com- 
bat, or  duel.  He  was  the  head  of  a  sept  of  the 
Fitzgibbons,  who  possessed  the  half  barony  of 
Coill-mor,  anglice  Kilmore,  near  Charleville,  in 

the  north  of  the  county  of  Cork See  Smith's 

Natural  and  Civil  History  of  Cork,  book  ii.  c.  6. 
According  to  a  pedigree  of  the  Fitzgeralds  in 
an  interpolated  manuscript  copy  of  Keating's 


1582]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1787 

Oge,  son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas  the  Earl,  whose  death  was  a  cause  of  lamen- 
tation in  his  own  country. 

In  the  autumn  of  this  year  the  Earl  of  Desmond  made  an  incursion  into 
Kerry,  and  remained  nearly  a  Aveek  encamped  in  the  upper  part  of  Clann- 
Maiu-ice.  His  foot-soldiers  went  forth  to  collect  spoils  in  Pobal-Ui-Chaoimh". 
O'KeeiFe  and  the  neighbours  of  that  vicinity  pursued  them,  and  continued  dur- 
ing the  course  of  the  day  to  follow  them  through  the  sloping  fields  of  Luachair- 
Deaghaidh^,  until  they  had  come  near  the  Earl's  camp.  When  the  Earl  heard 
the  bustling  of  the  kerns,  and  the  report  of  their  ordnance,  he  rose  up  suddenly, 
rushed  upon  O'Keeife,  and  routed  him  back  the  same  passage  by  which  he  had 
come  ;  and  almost  all*^  the  pursuers  were  slain.  O'Keeife  himself,  i.  e.  Art,  the 
son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Ait,  and  liis  son,  Art  Oge,  were  taken  prisoners  ;  and 
Hugh,  another  of  his  sons,  was  slain.  The  son  of  the  Vicar  O'Scoly  was  also 
taken  prisoner  on  this  occasion,  and  was  afterwards  hanged. 

David-an-Chomliraic^,  the  son  of  John  Oge,  son  of  John  [Fitz-Gibbon],  Lord 
of  Coill-mor,  died. 

James  and  Gerald,  the  sons  of  the  .Bishop  of  Kerry,  i.  e.  the  sons  of  James, 
son  of  Richard  [Fitzmaurice],  were  slain  by  the  sons  of  Edmond  Mac  Sheehy, 
in  revenge  of  their  brother,  Murtough,  whom  the  sons  of  the  Bishop  liad  slain 
some  time  before. 

Thomas,  Gerald,  and  John  Oge,  the  sons  of  John,  son  of  Edmond,  son  of 
Thomas  [Fitzgerald]  of  Claenglais,  died  this  year,  by  the  sword"  or  by  a  natural 
death. 

iTwtor^  o/ZT-eZawcZ,  in  the  possession  of  the  Editor,  Maurice,   son  of  Gerald,   son  of  John  na  Sur- 

the  Lord  of  Coill-mor  descended  from  Gibbon,  sainne,    natural    son  of  John   of  Callan),   who 

the  natural  son  of  the  celebrated  John  of  Callan  went  to  France  in  November,  1G91-     It  should 

Fitzgerald,  by  the  wife  of  O'Coinnin  ;  and  the  be  here  remarked,  that  the  Down  Survey  shews 

same  Gibbon  is  the  ancestor  of  the  Ridire  Fionn,  a  large  wood  in  the  north  of  this  half  barony 

or  White  Knight,  Chief  of  Clann-Gibbon,  as  well  of  CoUl-mhor  (Kilmore),  and  that  this  is  the 

as  of  Fitz-Gibbon  of  Ard-sciath.  From  John  Mor  Coill-mhor  mentioned  in  these  Annals,  in  con- 

na  Sursainne,  i.e.  of  the  girdle,  another  illegiti-  nexion  with  Delge,  at  the  year  1580. 
mate  son  of  John  of  Callan,  by  the  wife  of  O'Coil-  ^  By  the  sword,  do  pinn,  i.  e.  by  the  point  or 

leain,  was   descended  the  Lord  of  Claenglais,  edge  of  any  weapon.    The  language  is  very  uu- 

(mentioned  in  the  next  entry),  in  the  county  of  satisfactory  in  the  original.     It  should  be  : 
Limerick,    the  last  chief  of  which  family  was  "  In  this  year  died  Thomas,  Gerald,  and  John 

Sir  John  Fitzgerald  (the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Oge,  the  sons  of  John  fitz  Edmond  fitz  Thomas 

Thomas,  son  of  Maurice,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  of  Claenglais.     Thomas  and  Gerald  having  been 

10  s  2 


1788  aNNata  Rio^hachca  eiReaww.  [i582. 

Gogan  mac  maolmuijie,  mic  oonnchaio,  mic  roiiipóealBaij  imec  puibne 
conpapal  t)f|'nnuirian,  pfji  cniin  cfnDpaijfi  i  noilcij  -\  i  noipeaccap,  Dup  oan- 
apóa  oocoipcc  i  noeabciió  i  i  nionab  pfonna  Do  ecc. 

TIJoippóealBac  ócc  mac  coippóealbaij,  mic  maolmuipe,  mic  oonnchaib,  mic 
co'ppóealBai^  mec  puiBne  oecc.  Nip  cin  a  comaopa  Dm  cinfó  in  aon  aimpip 
ppip  ap  op  lucca  épa  aon  nnuine  map. 

Sip  n;clap  maulbi  do  doI  i  pa;i:oib  in  bbaDain  pi,  -]  a  nlleab  rap  a  aip  i 
njfirhpeab  na  bliabna  ap  ccinD,  -]  capcin  bpabupcun  i  ngoibfjinópacr  cóiccib 
connacr  an  aipfr  pin,  i  an  caprin  pin  do  bol  i  rcip  amaljaib  i  nfppac  na 
bliabna  po.  Qn  cip  uile  do  loc  ~\  do  léippccpiop  do  on  cúil  50  a  cele,  unip 
baoi  ace  piiibal  on  poplonjpopc  50  apoile  fcoppo.  Nip  bion  a]\  an  ccapnn  j^in, 
no  pop  a  muinrip,  nfiriifb  naoiifi  na  pilfD,  pi'ob,  na  poiripjlfnD,  na  baile,  na 
babbún  no  gup  cojlab  an  cip  uile  laip. 

TTiac  puibne  bajainec,  TTlaolmuipe  óc,  mac  maolmuipe,  mic  aooa,  mic 
neiU,  mec  puibne,  -|  Domnall  mac  mupchaib,  mic  l?uaiDpi  móip,  mic  Domnaill 
na  mabmann,  mec  puibne  do  itiapbab  an  4  la  Do  mi  lun  ap  bpú  loca  peabail, 
1  lao  ace  lomluab  ainpcc  ~\  coinne  ecip  ó  nell  "|  ó  Dorhnaill  báccap  1  nDíb 
poplongpopcaib  Ifrnaib  li'onmapaib  imon  loc.  bá  hamlaib  Do  pónab  na 
móipécra  pin  .1.  Dpong  Dalbancoib  anaicfnra  Do  rocc  a  poplonjpopc  ui  neill 
1  naprpac  baoi  le  bacchaib  lomloccab  ap  caol  loca  pebail, "]  Do  paoileab 
jup  ab  la  coipcc  eiccin  ele  do  beacacap  gopojabparc  cpacc  im  upcopac  in 
aprpaij  1  mbacrap  na  conpapail  poicenelca  1  nuachab  buibne  co  lianpuipijre 
ace  lompuipeac  le  cpiocnuccbab  a  ccoinne  co  po  claibmibpioc  lacr  jan 
coiccill,  1  CO  nDfcpacc  pfin  ap  jan  puiliu  jab  jan  poipbeapccab  poppa. 

O  Docapcaij  Sfan  mac  peilim,  mic  concobaip  cappaij  cijeapna  innj'i  beoj- 
am  Decc,  26  man  -]  pobab  bpaije  51II  ap  a  ppuigbice  eic  -\  aipjfba  (oia  mab 

slain  in  battle,  and  John  having  died  a  natural  his  hospitality,   not  his   courage,   as  might  be 

death,  or  Thomas  having  fallen  in  battle,  and  supposed.     The  phrase  peap  nop  epa  neac  urn 

Gerald  and  John  having  died  a  natural  death."  ni,    "  a  man   who   never  refused  any  one   any 

'  The  meeting.— TheO\\\eacza^,  anglicelmghts,  thing,"  is  always  used  to  express  "a  man  of 

was  a  meeting,  or  conference,  held  by  the  Irish  unbounded  bounty  and  hospitality." 

on  hills  for  the  purpose  of  deliberating  about  '  Saiictiiarij,     nfiriifb See    Petrie's   Inquiry 

their  public  affairs,  and  which  frequently  ended  into  the  Origin  and  Uses  of  the  Round  Toicers  of 

in  a  fight.  Ireland,  p.  59,  where  this  passage  is  quoted. 

''  Less  refiised,  ap  lucca  epa. — This  refers  to  '"Arable,  poicenelca,  literally,  "of  good  tribe 


1.582.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDO.M  OF  IRELAND.  1789 

Owen,  the  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Turlough  Mac  Sweeny, 
Constable  of  Desmond,  a  sedate  and  tranquil  man  in  tlie  drinking-house  and 
at  the  meeting',  but  obstinate,  furious,  and  irresistible  in  battle  and  in  the  iield 
of  contest,  died. 

Turlough  Oge,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  ofDonough,  son 
of  Turlough  Mac  Sweeny,  died.  There  had  not  been  of  his  tribe,  of  his  years, 
in  his  time,  any  who  had  less  refused"  any  man  than  he. 

Sir  Nicholas  Malby  went  to  England  this  year,  and  returned  in  the  winter 
of  the  year  following ;  and  Captain  Brabazon  had  the  government  of  Connaught 
during  this  period.  This  captain  went  to  Tirawley  in  the  spring  of  this  year, 
and  plundered  and  devastated  the  whole  territory,  from  one  extremity  to  tlie 
other,  for  he  [continually]  moved  from  one  camp  to  another  among  them. 
Neither  the  sanctuary'  of  the  saint  nor  the  poet,  the  wood  nor  the  forest-valley, 
the  tower  nor  the  bawn,  was  a  shelter  from  this  captain  and  his  people,  until  the 
whole  territory  was  destroyed  by  him. 

Mac  Sweeny  Banagh  (Mulmurry  Oge,  the  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Hugh, 
son  of  Niall  Mac  Sweeny)  and  Donnell,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Rory  More, 
son  of  Donnell-na-Madhmann  Mac  Sweeny,  were  slain  on  the  fourth  day  of  the 
month  of  June,  on  the  margin  of  Lough  Foyle,  whither  they  had  gone  to  attend 
a  meeting  and  conference  between  O'Neill  and  O'Donnell,  who  had  two  exten- 
sive  and  populous  camps  on  the  borders  of  the  lake.  These  lamentable  deaths 
happened  thus  :  a  party  of  strange  Scots  from  O'Neill's  camp  went  into  the 
boat  which  was  used  for  ferrying  [passengers]  across  the  straits  of  Lough  Foyle; 
and  it  being  supposed  that  they  had  cor&e  on  some  other  embassy,  they  were 
permitted  to  land  near  the  prow  of  the  boat,  where  those  noble"  constables 
were,  attended  only  by  a  small  party,  and  unprepared"  [for  hostilities],  awaiting 
the  termination  of  the  conference.  They  [the  Scots]  unsparingly  put  them  to 
the  sword,  and  then  escaped  themselves,  without  receiving  a  wound,  or  losing 
a  single  drop  of  blood. 

O'Doherty  (John,  the  son  of  Felim,  son  of  Conor  Carragh),  Lord  of  Lush- 
owen,  died  on  the  26th  of  May.     He  was  a  person  for  whose  ransom  (if  he 

or  family."  liave  been  mentioned  whether  the  Scots  had  been 

°  Unj)repared,  \.  a.  nihil  advent  timerUes.    This      in  O'Neill's  service,  or  whether  thoy  had  received 

anecdote  is  very  unsatisfactorily  told.   It  should      instructions  from  him  to  attack  the  .MacSweenys. 


lYiK)  aNNQLa  Rio^hachca  eiReaNW.  [i582. 

puaycclao  no  bfic  pcoji)  an  «i  cfpoa   ann  pin, -|  a  mac  Sfan  ócc   ooiponeab 
inaionaoap  bclaib  Charaoip  ui  bocapcaij.  'Cainic  Depibe  ancip  do  rpomloc,. 
ecip  lof,  apba]i,  áiciucchaó, "]  inDilib. 

TTlaipe  injfn  cuinn  í  neill,  bCn  cpomaiple  buióe  mec  Domnaill  oecc. 

Meaccain  mac  cuinn,  mic  an  calbaij  do  mapBaó  an.  5.  Sepcembep. 
'      TTlag  plannchaiD  oapcpaije  (.1.  coral  occ)  do  mapbaD  lei  a  bparaip  pfin 
cabcc  ÓCC. 

Clann  uaréip  paDa,  mic  DauiD,  mic  emainn,  mice  uillicc  a  búpc  .1.  cfpóirc, 
1  íílaoilip  DO  óol  DiappaiD  gabala  1  rcíp  amaljam  a  bucc  mfic  uilliam  Dfp- 
bparaip  a  narap  .1.  RipDfpD  an  lapainn  50  po  ^abpac  bú.  RicapD  a  búpc 
mac  emainn,  mic  uillicc  ó  caiplén  an  bappaij  Déipge  pó  na  hfijmib  co  puce 
pop  na  buibnib, -|  po  pfppac  jliaió  géap  amnaip  pé  apoile  co  po  mapbab 
RiocaipD  -]  popccla  a  ccapla  ina  cimceall  pa  cpoiD  pin.  T?uccpac  clann 
uciceip  paDa  a  ccpeich,  -|  a  ccopccap. 

TTlac  mec  uilliam  búpc  .1.  RiocapD  puab  mac  Sfain  mic  oiluepaip  mic  Sfain 
DO  mapbab  i  n^fimpeab  na  bliabna  po  la  comap  uuiDeop  Duine  uapal  do 
liiDincip  na  bainpiojna,  -|  acbfipfo  các  nop  bo  mair  ppi'c  an  mapbab  pin. 

Ctn  ofccanac  ó  jpáoa  Décc  .1.  Donnchab  ócc  mac  Donnchaib  mic  Donn- 
chaib  mic  nicoil,  pfp  curhacca  móip  i  ccill -|  ccuaic  eipibe. 

TTlac  bpuaiDfoa  ollam  ui  bpiain  lé  pfncap  .1.  TTlaoilin  mac  concobaip  mic 
Diapmacra,  mic  Sfain  oecc,-)  a  bpacaip  jiolla  bpijDe  DoipDneab  ma  lonab. 

Diapmaicc  ullcac  mac  Sfain  oecc. 

TTla  Conmibe  bpian  Dopca  nécc,  13  lunii. 

The  issue  of  the  conference  should  also  have  that  that  killing  was  not  well  procured,"  that 

been  mentioned.  is,  that  it  was  accomplished  by  unfair  or  trea- 

"  Both,  literally,  "  between  crops,  corn,  dwel-  cherous  means, 

lings,  and  cattle."  '  Ultach,  i.  e.  Mac  Donlevy. 

''  Dartry,  now  the  barony  of  Rossclogher,  in  '  Mic  Conmidhe,  now  Mac  Namee. 

the  county  of  Leitrim,  where  the  Mac  Clancys,  "  Under  this  year  Cox  has  the  following  no- 

or  Maglauchys,  as  they  are  locally  called,  are  tice  of  the  removal  of  the  Lord  Deputy  Grey, 

still  very  numerous,  but  all  reduced  to  farmers  of  which  the  Four  Masters  have  no  notice: 

or  cottiers See  note  ',  under  the  year  1228,  "  But  this  good  Deputy,  by  the  contrivance 

p.  218,  supra.  of  the  rebels,  was  represented  at  the  court  of 

'  Walter  Facia,  i.  e.  Walterm  longvs,  Walter  England  as  a  bloody  man,  that  regarded  not  the 

the  long  or  tall.  lives  of  the  subjects  any  more  than  the  lives  of 

f  Fairly  slain,  literally,  "  and  all  used  to  say  dogs,  but  has  tyrannized  with  that  barbarity 


1582.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  179I 

could  have  been  ransomed)  many  horses  and  herds  would  have  been  given.  His 
son,  John  Oge,  was  elected  in  his  place,  in  preference  to  Cahir  O'Doherty  ;  in 
consequence  of  which  the  country  was  ravaged,  both°  crops,  corn,  dwellings, 
and  cattle. 

Mary,  the  daughter  of  Con  O'Neill,  and  wife  of  Sorley  Boy  Mac  Donnell, 
died. 

Naghtan,  sou  of  Con,  who  was  son  of  Calvagh  [O'Donnell],  was  slain  on 
the  5th  of  September. 

Mac  Clancy  of  Dartry''  (Cathal  Oge)  was  slain  by  his  own  kinsman,  Teige 
Oge. 

The  sons  of  Walter  Fada"",  son  of  David,  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  UUck  Burke, 
namely,  Theobald  and  Meyler,  went  to  Tirawley  in  search  of  booty,  at  the  in- 
stance of  Mac  William,  their  father's  brother,  i.  e.  Richard-an-Iarainn ;  and  they 
seized  some  cows.  Richard  Burke,  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Ulick  of  Castlebar, 
rose  up  at  the  shouts,  and  overtook  them ;  and  they  fought  a  sharp  and  fierce 
battle,  in  wTiich  Rickard  and  the  greater  number  of  those  around  him  were 
slain.     The  sons  of  Walter  Fada  carried  oiFthe  prey  in  triumph. 

The  son  of  Mac  William  Burke,  namely,  Rickard  Roe,  the  son  of  John,  son 
of  Oliver,  son  of  John  Oge,  was  slain  in  the  winter  of  this  year  by  Thomas 
Wideos,  a  gentleman  of  the  Queen's  people  ;  and  all  said  that  he  was  not  fairly 
slain^ 

The  Dean  O'Grady,  i.  e.  Donough  Oge,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Donough, 
son  of  Nicholas,  a  man  of  great  power  in  Church  and  State,  died. 

Mac  Brody  (Maoilin,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  John),  Ollav 
to  O'Brien  in  history,  died  ;  and  his  kinsman,  Gilla-Brighde,  was  elected  in  his 
place. 

Dermot  Ultach^  son  of  John,  died. 

Mac  Conmidhe'  (Brian,  the  son  of  Donough)  died  on  the  13th  of  June". 

tliat  there  was  little  left  for  the  Queen  to  reign  Loftus,  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  Lord  Cliancellor, 

over  but  carcasses  and  ashes.     And  this  false  Sir  Henry  Wallop,  Treasurer  at  Wars,  Lords 

story  being  believed  in  England,  a  general  par-  Justices,  two  men  very  unfit  to  be  yoak'd  toge- 

don  was  sent  over  to  such  of  the  rebels  as  would  ther,  the  difference  between  them  being  no  less 

accept  thereof,   and  the  Lord  Deputy,   in   the  in  their  minds  and  affectipns  than  it  was  in  their 

midst  of  his  victories,  was  recalled.     So  that  in  bodies  and  professions." — Hib.  Anglicana,  vol.  i. 

August  he  left  Ireland  to  the  care  of  Adam  A.  D.  1582. 


1792  aNNQi'.a  Rioghachca  eiReanN.  [i583. 


• 


aOlS  CRIOSU,  1583. 
Qoip  Cpioj^c,  mile,  CÚ1CC  cécc,  occmojacr,  a  cpi. 

ConD  mac  an  calbaicch,  mic  TTlajnupa,  mic  aoba  Duib,  mic  ao6a  puaioh 
UÍ  oomnaill  do  écc,  13.  do  mapca.  Saoi  Dfppccaijre,  oeijeinij,  pfji  poinm 
l^oajallrha,  popr  congrhala  Do>cliapaiB,i  do  cfireapnaiB,  pfp  cfnDaijre  Diian, 
-|  Dpécc  abmolca  ap  a  lolmaoinib  pfipin,  pfp  ap  lucca  pob  olc  clii  -|  cérpaiD 
DO  clanoaib  neill  naoijiallaij  gup  bo  parhail  Do  cpuic  jan  cfip,  Do  luinj  jan 
luarhaipe,"]  Do  gopc  caob  le  collaipbe  arhail  po  barcap  cenel  [jconaill]  Don 
cup  pin  lap  nécc  cuinD. 

tapla  upmurhan  .1.  comap  mac  Semaip,  niic  piapaip  puaió  do  bficli  no 
gobepnoip  ap  DO  cóicceab  mnrhan  an  bliaoain  pi,"]  lapla  Dfpmurhan  aj  Damj- 
niuccaD  ina  rpécúipeacr,  "|  ma  Dibeipcc,  co  po  jab  pop  aiomilleao  na  cipe 
ina  corhpocpaib  1  njeimpeab  1  1  neappac  na  bliaóna  po  pfrhainn,  ap  a  aoi 
baoi  Dabuar, "]  Duipeaccla  accá  Daoínibh  piap  an  obccheaD,  1  pia  bppionnpa 
8a;ran  50  po  jabpar  aj  Deiliuccaó  ppip  ecip  mnaoi  popca,  cloinn,  "|  caipDib, 
CO  na  baoi  ace  aoncfrpap  nama[Dia  péip,C.  O'C]  ónccuapcaippcce,nó  cponm 
5Ó  apoile  peacnón  DÓ  cóicceaó  murhan  1  pampaó  1  1  ppojrhap  na  bliabna  po. 
lap  nibpfic  DO  céD  ropac  an  jeirhpiD  1  Don  oiDce  paDa  paip  po  cpiallpacc 
eappiippaóa, -]  mfiplig  murhan  lanaD  ina  uipcimceall,  1  aDuD  do  cop  1  ccoicciU 
an  coccaiD  jup  bo  michiD  la  Dia  pccup  cpioc  -|  poipcfnD  do  cup  pop  coccab 
gfpcdrqc,  1  bá  harhlaib  po  popcaomnaccaip  .1.  Dponj  Duib  muipcfpcai^  buipD 
TTlhainge  do  pliocc  aoDa  bfnDÓin  Do  pajbáil  foapbaojail  ap  lapla  Dfpmurhan 

'  Kinell  Connell. — The  word  jConaill,  which  cécaib  mci  ;   "a  name  for  the  heavy  string,  or 

was  omitted  by  the  original  scribe,   is  supplied  the  ceis  in  the  harp,  is  what  supports  the  leitfi- 

by  Charles  O'Conor  of  Belanagare.    Tir-Conncll  riim  and  tlie  strings." 
would  be  more  appropriately  used  here.  "  Without  shelter. — The  word  collaipbe  is  ex- 

^  The  harp  without  ccis This  phrase  has  been  plained  barrenness,  nakedness,  exposure,  want 

borrowed  by  the  Four  Masters  from  the  Amhra  of  clothing,  cover,  or  shelter,  by  Peter  Connell, 

Choluim  Cille.   The  glossographers,  however,  3o  in  his  Irish  Dictionary,  MS.  in  the  British  Mu- 

by  no  means  agree  on  the  exact  meaning  oi  ceis;  seum,   Egerton  84,  85. 

but  the  Four  Masters  seem  to  have  taken  it  for  '   Treason.  —  This    was    written    for    Farrell 

the  base  string.     Jn  Lealhar  na  h-Uidhri  it  is  O'Gara  and  the  loyalists  of  the  reign  of  Charles  I. 

glossed:  "  ainm  oon  cpom  ceo,  no  ip  f  in  céip  O'Daly  would  have  pronounced  the  Four  Mas- 

ip   in  cpuic  in  n!  conjBap  in  leiépino  co  nu  ters  rank  heretics  had  he  known  that  they  had 


1583.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1793 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1583. 

The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundi-ed  eighti/-three. 

Con,  the  son  of  Calvagh,  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Hugh  Duv,  son  of  Hugh  Roe 
O'Donnell,  died  on  the  13th  of  March.  He  was  an  accompHshed  and  truly 
hospitable  man,  a  sedate  and  affable  man,  the  supporting  pillar  of  the  literati 
and  the  kerns ;  a  man  who  had  spent  much  of  his  wealth  in  the  purchase  of 
poems  and  panegyrics ;  a  man  by  no  means  the  least  illustrious  in  name  and 
character  of  the  descendants  of  Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages  ;  so  that  after  his 
death  Kinel-Conne?  might  have  been  likened  to  a  harp  without  the  Ceis^",  to  a 
ship  without  a  pilot,  or  to  a  field  without  shelter". 

The  Earl  of  Ormond,  i.  e.  Thomas,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  Pierce  Roe,  was 
Governor  of  the  two  provinces  of  Munster  in  this  year  ;  and  the  Earl  of  Des- 
mond became  confirmed  in  his  treason"  and  insurrection  ;  and  he  proceeded  to 
ravage  the  coimtry  in  his  neighbourhood  during  the  winter,  and  the  spring  of 
the  following  year.  His  people,  however,  were  so  much  in  dread  and  awe  of 
the  law  and  the  Sovereign  of  England  that  they  began  to  separate  from  him, 
even  his  own  married  wife,  children,  and  friends,  so  that  he  had  but  four  per- 
sons to  accompany  him  [in  his  movements]  from  one  cavern  of  a  rock  or  hollow 
of  a  tree  to  another,  throughout  the  two  provinces  of  Munster,  in  the  summer 
and  autumn  of  this  year.  When  [however]  the  beginning  of  winter  and  the 
long  nights  had  set  in,  the  insurgents  and  robbers  of  Munster  began  to  collect 
about  him,  and  prepared  to  rekindle  the  torch  of  war.  But  God  thought  it 
time  to  suppress,  close,  and  finish  this  war  of  the  Geraldines,  which  was  done 
in  the  following  way :  a  party  of  the  O'IMoriartys  of  the  Mang's  side,  [a  family] 
of  the  race  of  Aedh-Beannan^,  took  an  advantage"  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond, 

written  of  his  favourite  hero  in  this  strain.  Masters,  though  the  tradition  in  the  country 

'  Aedh  Beannan. — He  was  King  of  Munster,  ascribes  the  murder  of  the  last  Earl  of  Desmond 

and  died,  according  to  the  Annals  of  Innisfallen,  to  Kelly  O'Moriarty.     This  tradition  is  written 

in  the  year  619.     He  had  a  son,  Maelduin,  who  in  a  manuscript  in  the  Library  of  the  Koyal 

fought  at  the  battle  of  Magh  Kath  in  the  year  Irish  Academy,  appended  to -a  poem  addressed 

637,  who  had  a  son,  Congal,  King  of  Desmond,  to  the  Earl  of  Desmond  by  Donnell  Mac  Brody. 

who  was  slain  in  639,  from  whom  the  O'Mori-  But  the  subject  has  not  been  fairly  examined;  for, 

artys  are  descended.  though  the  O'Moriartys  were  certainly  the  party 

^"  Advantage — This  is  not  fair  of  the  Four  who  pursued  the  Earl,  the  person  who  laid  vio- 

10  T 


1794 


aNNQi-a  Rioghachca  eiReaHN. 


[1583. 


laji  inbfic  Do  1  ppianboir  polaccae  i  ccuaj'  caiiijiji  i  njlinn  an  jinnci^.  baccaji 
un  Djionj  ipn  ag  caipccelaó, "]  aj  cimceaUab  na  réjóaipi  i  iiibaoi  an  ciajila 
Ó  upcopac  oiDce  co  haDhmaDain,  co  po  lingpioc  an  puapboc  paip  i  ccpepiip- 
cal  na  maiDne  muice  Dia  maipc  ap  aoi  laice  peccmuine,  la  pele  niapcam  t>o 
ponDpab.  i?o  ^onaó"]  po  jabaó  an  ciapla  leó,  uaip  ni  baci  luce  cpocca  no 
cacaip  ma  pappab  ace  aon  bfn,  "|  Diap  Buacall,  nip  bo  cian  on  coill  do  Deac- 
accap  an  ran  po  DícfnDparc  an  cmpla  gan  puipeac, -|  muna  bfir  pibe  pop 
pojail,  -]  pop  Dibfipcc  (arhail  po  bai)  pobaD  Do  móippgélaib  epeann  Don  lapla 
Dfpmurhan  pin  .i.  geapóiD  mac  Semaip,  mic  Sfain,  mic  comaip  Dpoicic  aca,  inic 


lent  hands  on  him  was  a  soldier  of  the  garrison 
of  Castlemaine,  named  Kelly,  or  O' Kelly,  a  na- 
tive Irishman,  who  had  been  bred  by  the  Eng- 
lish. O'Daly,  the  historian  of  the  Geraldines, 
though  he  calls  Owen  Mac  Daniel  an  inhuman 
villain,  still  seems  to  think  that  the  Earl's 
party  had  acted  barbarously.  He  writes  that 
it  unfortunately  happened  that  those  who  were 
sent  by  the  Earl  to  seize  the  prey,  barbarousl}' 
robbed  a  noble  matron,  whom  they  left  naked 
in  the  field ;  that  when  this  fact  came  to  the 
knowledge  of  her  kindred,  they  collected  a 
party  of  men,  and,  led  by  a  foster-brother  of  the 
Earl"  [Owen  O'Moriarty],  "  approached  his 
hiding  place  ;  that  a  soldier,  whose  name  was 
Daniel  O' Kelly,  smashed  the  Earl's  right  arm 
with  a  stroke  of  his  sword,  and  by  a  second 
blow  cut  off  one  of  his  ears,  then  dragged  him 
out,  and,  being  apprehensive  lest  any  one  might 
come  to  the  rescue,  brutally  separated  the  head 
from  the  body." — Incrementum,  ^-c,  Giraldino- 
rum,  c.  24.  See  also  Hooker;  and  Cox's  Hiber- 
nia  Anglicana,  A.  D.  1583,  where  it  is  stated 
that  Owen  O'Moriarta,  who  was  otherwise 
called  Droghhearla  [i.  e.  an  opoicBéapla,  of  the 
had  EnglisK\,  had'  obtained  seven  musketeers 
and  twelve  kerne  from  the  Governor  of  Castle- 
maine before  he  went  in  pursuit  of  the  prey  taken 
from  his  sister,  whom  he  calls  "  a  poor  woman 
of  the  Moriartas."  It  may  be  here  remarked, 
that  it  is  not  certain  that  Owen  O'Moriarty  knew 


who  the  party  were  that  had  plundered  his  sis- 
ter, and  that  it  is  very  likely  that  the  soldier 
Kollie,  Kelly,  or  O'Kelly,  had  the  Earl  killed 
before  O'Moriarty  discovered  who  was  in  the  hut. 

Cox  states  that  KoUy  struck  the  old  Earl 
with  his  sword,  not  knowing  who  he  was,  and 
almost  cut  off  his  arm  ;  that  the  old  man  then 
cried  out  that  he  was  the  Earl  of  Desmond, 
and  that  Kolly  would  have  spared  him,  were  it 
not  that  he  bled  so  fast  that  he  could  not  live  ; 
that,  therefore,  he  immediately  cut  off  his  head, 
which  was  afterwards  sent  to  England,  and 
placed  on  a  pole  on  London  Bridge  ;  and  he 
adds,  that  "  for  this  exploit  the  family  of  the 
Moriartas  are  in  disgrace  amongst  the  Irish  to 
this  day." 

P.  O'Sullevan  Beare  does  not  mention  tlu- 
name  of  O'Moriarty  in  connexion  with  this  mur- 
der, but  he  seems  to  think  that  the  person  who 
led  the  soldiers  to  the  place  did  not  know  that  it 
was  the  Earl  of  Desmond  that  was  there.  He 
seems  to  think,  however,  that  the  Daniel  who 
slew  the  Earl  was  the  brother  of  Owen.  His 
words  are  : 

"  Inde  Giraldus  sylvam  deusissimam  sua;  di- 
tionis  quEe  Sylva  Cunei  vocatur  petit,  cum  qua- 
tuor  aut  quinque  comitibus  in  qua  latitans. 
circuraventu's  capite  truncatur.  In  rei  memo- 
riam  locus  qui  tunc  ejus  sanguine  perfusus 
adhuc  sanguineo  colore  fertur  esse  affectus.  In- 
veniendi    cum    duces    fuerint    duo    fratres    sui 


1583.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1795 


whom  they  found'  in  an  unprotected  position :  he  was  concealed  in  a  hut,  in 
the  cavern  of  a  rock,  in"  Gleann-an-Ghinntigh''.  This  party  remained  on  the 
watch  around  this  habitation  of  the  Earl  from  the  beginning  of  the  night  to  the 
dawning  of  day  ;  and  then,  in  the  morning  twilight,  they  rushed  into  the  cold 
hut.  This  was  on  Tuesday,  which  was  St.  Martin's  festival.  They  wounded  the 
Earl,  and  took  him  prisoner,  for  he  had  not  along  with  him  any  people  able  to 
make  fight  or  battle,  excepting  one  woman  and  two  men  servants.  They  had 
not  proceeded  far  from  the  wood  when  they  suddenly  beheaded  the  Earl.  Were 
it  not  that  he  was  given  to  plunder  and  insurrection,  as  he  [really]  was,  this 
fate  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond'^  would  have  been  one  of  the  mournful  stories  of 
Ireland,  namely,  Garrett,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  John^  son  of  Thomas  of 


familiares  et  in  quos  soepe  beneficia  dicitur  con- 
tulisse,  Eugenius  et  Daniel,  qui  aliud  forsan 
quserentes  in  eum  incidervmt  reginse  ministris 
comitati,  sed  tamen  misere  obierunt  .suspensi 
alter  in  Angliá  nescio  quod  ob  crimen,  alter  in 
Ibernia  a  Mac  Morise  Lacsnase  Barone  ob  foedi- 
tatem  sceleris  liujus  in  bello  maximo  quod  in- 
ferius  sum  scripturus." 

'  Gkann-an-Ghinntigh,  now  Glanageenty,  a 
townland  situated  in  the  east  of  the  parish  of 
Ballymacelligot,  barony  of  Troughanacmy,  and 
county  of  Kerry,  and  about  five  miles  to  the 
east  of  Tralee.  The  spot  where  the  Earl  was 
killad  is  still  pointed  out  by  the  natives  by  the 
name  of  Bothar-an-Iarla,  and  the  trunk  of  an 
old  tree,  under  which  his  body  was  thrown,  still 
remains.  They  als9  shew  what  they  call  his 
grave,  but  this  must  have  been  only  the  place 
where  the  body  was  for  some  time  concealed,  as 
it  seems  certain  that  his  body  was  finally  in- 
terred in  a  small  chapel  at  Kilnamanagh,  near 
Castle-Island. 

"=  The  Earl  of  Desmond. — Mr.  Moore,  in  the 
fourth  volume  oi  his  History  of  Ireland,  which 
he  has  suffered  to  issue  from  the  press  in  a 
wofhlly  imperfect  state,  ventures  to  draw  the 
following  character  of  this  Earl  of  Desmond,  in 
despite  of  all  O'Daly's  encomiums  : 

10 


"  Among  those  champions  of  the  cause  of 
Ireland  whom  the  long  struggle  of  her  people 
for  freedom  has  raised  into  eminence,  the  Earl 
of  Desmond,  although  in  many  respects  the 
most  showy  and  popular,  must,  in  all  that  lends 
dignity  or  moral  strength  to  so  high  a  vocation, 
take  rank  on  the  very  lowest  level.  It  was, 
however,  far  more  in  weakness  of  understanding 
and  violence  of  temper,  than  in  any  natural  de- 
pravity, that  the  reckless  excesses  and  headlong 
arrogance  of  this  lordly  demagogue  had  their 
source  ;  and  a  great  statesman  of  that  period, — 
one  whose  opportunities  of  studying  the  cha- 
racter of  this  lord  were  many  and  searching, — 
has  left  on  record  his  opinion,  that  Desmond's 
'  light  and  loose  dealings  proceeded  rather  from 
imperfection  of  judgment  than  from  malicious 
intent.'  To  the  same  cause, — a  helpless  want  of 
common  sense, — may  fairly  be  attributed  most 
of  the  anomalies  and  inconsistencies  of  his 
strange  career.  Hence  was  it  that,  though  born 
to  a  rank  almost  princely,  he  herded  cWfefly 
with  his  lowest  dependants  ;  inheriting  estates 
that  spread  through  nearly  four  counties,  he 
was  yet  distressed  for  the  means  of  daily  sub- 
sistence ;  and  though  circled  wherever  he  went 
by  crowds,  of  followers,  could  not  boast  one 
single  friend." — Vol.  iv.  p.  95. 
T  2 


1796 


aHNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReawN. 


[1583. 


Se.TTiaif,  mic  jeapóio  an  oana,  niic  muipip  (.1.  an  cfio  lapla  Dfpmiirhan)  mic 
comaip  na  napab,  inic  Seon  caille,  mic  comaip  (ajá  ccorhjiaicic  jeajialcaij 
cille  oojia,  1  Dfpmurhan  ]ié  apoile)  mic  muipip  (.1.  an  byiaraiji  miniip)  mic 
^eapailc,  mic  muijiip,  mic  jeaiiailc. 

Nip  bionjnab  Diojalcap  oé  no  DiljCnn  jeapalcac  pó  óm^  copa  1  nashaiD  a 
bppionnpa  Dia  ccaprarap  Dia  pinnpeapoib  map  rip  Dufcupa  6  6ún  caoín  1 
cciappai^e  50  comap  cpi  nuipcce,  ")  ó  oilen  móip  apoa  neimió  1  nuíb  liarain, 
CO  luimneac. 


'^  Thomas  of  Drogheda. — See  note  »,  under  the 
year  1468,  p.  1051,  supra. 

'  Jj}hn  Caille This  is  a  mistake  for  John  of 

Callainn See  note   ",    under  the  year   1261, 

p.  382,  Bupra. 

'  The  Friar  Minor He  died  in  the  monastery 

of  Youghal,  in  the  habit  of  St.  Francis,  on  tlie 
20th  of  May,  1257. — See  note  °,  under  the  year 
1224,  p.  217,  supra. 

8  The  vengeance  of  God — What  a  pity  it  is 
that  O'Daly  had  not  seen  this  observation  of  the 
Four  Masters,  that  he  might  brand  them,  and 
their  Trinity-College-educated  patron,  Farrell 
O'Gara,  with  eternal  infamy!  This  historian  of 
the  Geraldines,  in  his  strictures  on  Dr.  O'Meara, 
calls  him  impious  for  his  lavish  encomium  on 
the  Earl  of  Ormond  !  After  quoting  a  few  lines 
of  O'Meara's  overcoloured  verse  in  praise  of 
Ormond,  O'Daly  asks  : 

"  Now,  is  not  this  a  glaring  proof  of  O'Meara's 
impiety?  He,  forsooth,  in  every  other  respect 
a  Catliolic,  dares  to  call  the  Geraldines,  who 
were  the  strenuous  supporters  of  their  religion 
and  country,  the  destroyers  of  both  !  Here  is 
the  man  who  does  not  hesitate  to  extol  the 
Butlers,  by  whose  supineness  this  land  of  Ire- 
lan9  was  trodden  down  by  England.  Aye,  truly 
was  it  ruined  by  Ormond  ;  for  had  he  leagued 
himself  with  his  uncle  Desmond,  for  altars  and 
for  hearths,  this  land  would  never  have  fallen 
by  fraud  or  force  of  arms." — c.  24. 

'■  Dun-caoin,  now  Dunqueen,  the  most  western 
point  of  tlie  county  of  Kerry. — See'this  already 


mentioned  under  the  years  1558  and  1582. 

^  Great  Island  of  Ard-Nemidh,  i.e.  the  great 
island  of  Nemhidh's  hill,  now  the  Great  Island 

near  the  city  of  Cork See  Keating's  Histori/  of 

Ireland,  Haliday's  edition,  p.  178,  where  it  is 
stated  that  this  island  is  called  after  Neimhidli, 
the  leader  of  the  second  colony  into  Ireland 
after  the  flood,  and  that  it  is  situated  i  Jjcpic 
liarain,  in  the  territory  of  Ui-Liathain,  and 
otherwise  called  Oilean  mop  an  óhappaij,  i.  e. 

Barry's   Great  Island See  also   O'Flaherty's 

Ogygia,  part  iii.  c.  6.  From  these  bounds  it  is 
evident  that  the  Earl  of  Desmond  claimed  all 
Munster,  except  the  portions  of  that  province 
belonging  to  the  Earls  of  Ormond  and  Tho- 
mond.  In  1583  a  special  Act  of  Attainder  was 
passed  against  Gerald  Earl  of  Desmond,  and 
his  confederates  in  the  rebellion,  and  it  was, 
ibund  that  574,G28  acres  were  forfeited  to  the 
Crown ;  but  the  territory  over  which  the  Earl  of 
Desmond  claimed  jurisdiction  comprised  more 
than  double  this  number  of  acres. — See  Cox's 
Ilibernia  Anglicana,  edition  of  1689,  p.  384. 
For  an  account  of  the  individuals  settled  on 
these  lands  under  the  name  of  undertakers  and 
planters,  the  reader  is  referred  to  Fynes  Mory- 
son's  History  of  Ireland,  edition  of  1735,  vol.  i. 
pp.  9,  10  ;  Smith's  Histories  of  the  Counties  of 
Kerry  and  Cork  ;  and  Fitzgerald's  Limerick,  ^-c. 
There  is  still  extant  a  poem  addressed  to  this 
Earl  by  Donnell  Mac  Brody,  in  which  he  intro- 
duces St.  Fachtna  of  Eos-Ailither,  as  prophesy- 
ing to  St.  Finchu  that  a  famous  Grecian  family 


1.583.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1797 


Drogheda"*,  son  of  James,  son  of  Garrett  of  the  Poetry,  son  of  Maurice  (the 
first  Earl  of  Desmond),  son  of  Thomas  of  the  Apes,  son  of  John  of  Caille^,  son 
of  Thomas  (in  whom  the  Fitzgeralds  of  Kildare  and  those  of  Desmond  meet 
each  other),  son  of  Maurice  (i.  e.  the  Friar  Minor*^),  son  of  Gerald,  son  of 
Maurice  Fitzgerald. 

It  was  no  wonder  that  the  vengeance  of  God^  should  exterminate  the 
Geraldines  for  their  opposition  to  their  Sovereign,  whose  predecessors  had 
granted  to  their  ancestors  as  patrimonial  lands  [that  tract  of  country  extending] 
from  Dun-caoin"  in  Kerry  to  the  Meeting  of  the  Three  Waters,  and  from  the 
Great  Island  of  Ard-Nemidh'  in  Hy-Liathain  to  Limerick. 


would  come  to  Ireland,  who  would  conquer  the 
race  of  Eoghan  [the  son  of  Oilioll  Olum],  and 
drive  the  Dal-Cais  across  the  river  of  Luimneach 
[the  Lower  Shannon]  ;  that  afterwards  another 
race  of  foreigners  would  arrive,  who  would 
subdue  the  former  by  treachery;  but  that  the 
Fionn  Galls  and  the  Gaels  would  again  recover 
their  power.  Mac  Brody  then  tells  the  Earl 
that  he  was  the  person  who  would  fight  the 
battle  of  Saingiol  [Singland,  near  Limerick] 
predicted  by  this  saint,  because  he  was  half 
Leinstermau,  and  the  knight  who  was  first  be- 
trayed by  the  Londoners,  which  accorded  with 
the  prophecy  ;  that  he  was  the  glowing  brand 
who  would  inflame  the  Gaels  to  battle;  that  he 
would  become  Monarch  of  Ireland,  and  banish 
the  new  Saxons  and  the  Londoners  from  his 
kingdom.  The  prophecy  here  attributed  to  St. 
Fachtna,  which  was  evidently  forged  about  the 
period  of  the  first  outbreak  of  this  rebellion, 
was  very  famous  in  Munster  and  throughout 
Ireland  in  the  middle  of  the  next  century,  as 
appears  from  the  Depositions  concerning  mur- 
ders and  robberies  committed  in  the  county  of 
Fermanagh,  preserved  in  the  manuscript  Library 
of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  E.  3.  6,  in  which  is 
preserved  the  following  Deposition  by  Riekard 
]5ourke  of  Enniskillen,  Bachelor  in  Divinity, 
who,  being  sworn  and  examined,  "  Saith  that 
one  of  the  O'Briens  of  Thomond  did   read  and 


relate  in  this  Deponent's  hearing  several!  pro- 
phecyes  of  St.  Patrick  and  of  CoUumkill,  the 
Sainct  of  Derry,  of  Berricanus,  another  of  their 
Saincts,  and  of  Ffeon  Mack  Woill,  an  ould  Irish 
Champion  :  and  the  Deponent  saw  an  English 
booke  printed  in  the  Low  Countries  importing 
another  prophecy  of  St.  Patrick  (in  the  handes 
of  one  of  the  Eebells).  All  which  prophecies 
the  Eebells  did  conceive  to  import  the  extirpa- 
tion of  the  English,  and  the  settling  of  the  whole 
kingdom  in  the  Irish.  And  theise  prophecyes 
are  very  commonly,  confidently,  and  vehemently 
urged  and  justified  by  their  preists  for  un- 
doubted verities  :  and  amongst  the  rest  there  is 
one  prophecie  to  the  effect :  Do  berhar  each 
Downashia,  curfear  Balladiach  er  goole,  murjie 
lerla  Thraly  fear  inid  Hie  an  Aa-ue;  which  is 
thiis  in  English  : 

"  Att  Downeskia  a  fight  shalbe. 
And  Dublin  citty  shalbe  ta'ne  ; 
The  King  his  Viceroy  at  Acrue  [úr  tpi'i] 
By  the  Erie  of  Traly  shall  be  slaine. 
"  The  Eebells  speake  much  of  a  dismall  and 
fatall  blow  which  the  English  shall  receive,  say 
they,  in  a  battaile  at  Cas-Saingel,  which  they 
understand  to  be  Singland  at  the  south  gate  of 
Limerick  :  saying  that  shalbe  a  finall  end  of  the 
warr.     And  thenceforth   the  Irish  alone  shall 
enjoy  the  kingdome  of  Ireland  to  thend  of  the 
world.     And  that  there  is  a  prophecy  amongst 


1798  aNNQi-a  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [1.583. 

ílliilicaó  bacac,  mac  emctinn,  niic  mn^nupn,  mec  fichi^j  nécc  1  napD  peapca 
Tjap  lap  mbr'ip  lapla  ofiTniHTian,-]  aobepac  apoile  jup  ab  oia  ciimhaiD  arbar. 

^oppaió  cappac,  mac  Donnchaió  bacai^,  mic  maolmuipe,  inic  oonncliam, 
nuc  coippóealbaij  mec  puibne  do  mapbaó  la  cfirfpnaib  innpi  caoin  do  ránaip- 
reacc  ó  ccaipppe  pfccrhain  pia  mbóp  lapla  Dfpmurhan,  ~\  arbfipn  j^up  bo 
pobaó  pia  mbáp  Don  lapla  mapbaó  joppaóa. 

Sfan  ócc  mac  pfam,  mic  romaip  lapla  Decc  lap  ccian  aoip,  -]  é  illaim 
illuimneac  a  ccionaiD  c(  cloinne  Do  bfir  i  ppappaD  lapla  Drpmuman. 

Qn  Róipceac  .1.  Dauió  mac  muipip,  mic  dohiD,  mic  miiipip,  -|  a  bfn  oilén 
injfii  cpemaip,  mic  emainn  meg  piapaip  Decc  in  aoin  mi  1  nfppac  na  bliab- 
na  po,  -|  ni  bai  Dpionnjallaib  epeann  ap  rpiocac  ceo  do  óúraijj  lónamain  poH 
oipDeapca  ináicpibe. 

O  maoilmuaiD  .1.  uepoicc  Decc. 

Copbmac  mac  raiDcc,  mic  copbmaic  óicc  meg  capfaij  cijeapna  múpcpaije 
pfp  DfijDealbDa  Dpeacpolaip  agap  lia  poipccnfma  pionnaolca,  -\  caiplfin 
curiiDacrjlana, "]  caraoipe  comopbaip  Do  clannaibh  eojain  rhóip  Decc.  Qn 
rip  DO  bfir  impfpnac  pé  apoile  lap  nég  copbmaic.  Opong  Dib  05  cup  lé  ceal- 
lacan  mac  caiDcc  po  pobaip  Dol  1  peilb  na  cipe  po  DÓij  a  pmpipecca.  Opong 

them  of  the  destruction  of  Kilkenny,  to  this  The  prophecy  relating  to  Singland  is  still 

effect,  that  0"Callaghan's  horseboy  (taking  the  current  among  the  peasantry  in  tlie  county  of 

bridle  off  his  horse  in  the  Cathedrall  place  of  Limerick,  where  it  is  believed  that  the  brfttle 

Kilkenny),    shall    there    ask,    where    was    the  remains  yet  to  be  fought.     A  man  with  three 

church  of  Kilkenny?    There  is  another  prophecy  thumbs  will  hold  the  general's  horse,  and  a  mill 

amongst  them  that  Ross  shall  be  destroyed,  and  in   the   neighbourhood  will   be   turned  by  the 

left  without  either  stick  or  stake.     And  this  blood  of  the  slain.     After  this  battle  the  power 

Deponent  further  saith,  that  he  credibly  heard  of  the  new  English  will  be  for  ever  sujDpressed, 

from   severall,  and  belleveth,    that  one  of  the  and  the  Gaels  and  ould  English  will  be  restored 

Kennedyes,  a  bloudy  Rebell,  and  his  companie,  to  their  forme?  power  and  possessions, 
murthered  at  the  Silver  Mines,  in  the  countie  of  ^  Godfrey.  —  He  is  called  Goron  Mac  Swiny 

Tipperary,  twenty-four  Englishmen,  after  they  by  Cox,  who  says  of  him  that,  having  taken  a 

were   turned    to    mass.     And    afterwards    he  great   prey  in    Carbry,    three    Irishmen    (who 

drowned  himself,   because  he  was  not  suffered  owned  some  of  the  cattle)  followed  them  at  some 

to  go  on  and  exercise  the  like  cruelty  against  distance,  expecting  an  opportunity  at  night  to 

the  other  English,  as  this  Deponent  hath  also  steal  back  their  own  cattle,  or  an  equivalent ; 

credibly  heard.     Jurat  xii.  Julii,  1643.  and  that  to  that  end  they  hid  themselves  within 

"[Signed]      E.  Bourke.  musket  shot  of Goron's  camp  or  lodgment;  that 

"  [Signed]     John  Watson.  it  so  happened  that  Goron  and  a  servant,  both 

Will.  Aldrich."  unarmed,  walked  that  way,  and  came  near  the 


1583.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1799 

Murrough  Bacagb,  the  sou  of  Edinond,  son  9!'  Magnus  Mac  Sheehy,  died  at 
Ardfert,  a  short  time  after  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  and  some  say  that  it  was  of 
grief  for  him  [the  Earl]  he  died. 

Godfrey  Carragh",  the  son  of  Donough  Bacagh,  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of 
Donough,  son  of  Turlough  Mac  Sweeny,  was  slain  by  the  kernes  of  Inis-caoin", 
in  the  tanist's  portion,  a  week  before  the  death  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond.  It  was 
remarked  that  the  death  of  Godfrey  was  an  omen  of  that  of  the  Earl. 

John  Oge,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas,  the  Earl,  died  at  an  advanced 
age  in  captivity  in  Limerick  [having  been  confined  there],  because  his  sons 
had  joined  the  Earl  of  Desmond. 

Roche  ( David,  the  son  of  Maurice,  son  of  David,  son  of  Maurice)  and  his 
wife,  Ellen,  the  daughter  of  James,  son  of  Edmond  Mac  Pierce,  died  in  the  one 
mouth  in  the  Spring  of  this  year.  There  did  not  exist,  of  all  the  old  English 
in  Ireland,  a  couple,  possessing  only  a  barony,  of  more  renown  than  they. 

O'Molloy  (Theobald)  died. 

Cormac,  the  son  of  Teige",  son  of  Cormac  Oge  Mac  Carthy,  Lord  of  Mus- 
kerry,  a  comely-shaped,  bright-countenanced  man,  who  possessed  most  white- 
washed edifices,  fine-built  castles,  and  hereditary  seats"  of  any  of  the  descendants 
of  Eoghan  More,  died.  The  [people  of  the]  country  were  at  strife  with  eacli 
other  after  the  deatli  of  Cormac  ;  for  some  of  them  supported  Callaghan,  the  son 
of  Teige,  who  sought  to  get  possession  of  the  territory  on  account  of  his  seniority; 

place  where  the  three  men  were  hid  ;  and  that  civil  disposition  he  was  the  rarest  man  that  ever 

as  soon  as  they  perceived  'that   Goron  and  his  was  born  of  the  Irishry." 

servant  were  unarmed,  they  surprised  them  and  "Hereditary   seats,    caraoipe    coiiiopbaip. — 

rut  off  their  heads.  The  word  coiiiopBap  often  signifies  succession  to 

'  Inis-caoin,  nowEnniskean,  or  Inniskeen,   a  a  lay  title  or  dignity.    In  a  paper  MS.,  formerly 

village  situated  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Bandon  in  the  collection  of  Edward  O'Reilly,  No.  146 

Uiver,    in    the   barony   of  East    Carbery,    and  of  the  Sale  Catalogue  of  his  manuscripts,  the 

county  of  Cork.     The  author  of  Carhrice  Notitia  word  coiiiopbci  is  explained  as  follows  : 
asserts  that  this  place  is  named  from  Kean  Mac  "  CoiiiopBa   .1.    coiihcijfpnu   no   coriioi^pe 

Moylemo,   ancestor   of  the   O'Mahonys,   which  tit  in  libro  Connaciae  comopbn  Cuinn  Ceo  ca- 

does  not  accord  with  the  spelling  given  in  the  chai^    uocatur   Coipoeulbac   mop    ó    Concu- 

te.xt  liy  the  Four  Masters.  Baip.    Vide  Uóacc  mhopamn,  i.  e.  Comhorbha, 

™  Cormac,   the  son  of  Teige. — He  is   the   Sir  i.  e.  a  lord  or  heir,  as  in  the  Book  of  Connaught, 

Cormack  Mac  Teige  of  Muscry,   who  was  high  in  which  Turlough  More  O'Conor  is  called  the 

sheriff  of  the  county  of  Cork,  and  of  whom  Sir  Comhorbha   [heir]   of  Conn  of  the  Hundred 

Henry  Sidney  said,   that  "  for  his  loyalty  and  Battles.    Vide  Udharht  Mhoraitm." 


1800  aNNaí,a  líioj^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1583. 

ele  05  cup  lá  copbmac  mac  Diapmaccct  tuic  raiócc  baí  05  lappam  cfnnaip 
an  cípe  a  hucc  pacenc  a  arap,  "|  an  cpff  opong  05  cup  lé  cloinn  óicc  an 
copbmaic  ]'in,  mic  caibcc,  niic  copbmaic  óicc,  miccopbmaic,  rnic  caincc  inej 
capcaij,  1  lá  na  iharaip  .1.  Siuban  injfn  piapaip  na  buile  mic  ]^eniaip,  mic 
emainn  méj  piapaip.  Uap  a  cfno  pin  uile  ap  le  copbmac  mac  caiócc,  mic 
oiapmacca  00  buaóaijfó. 

Qn  ceppcop  ciappaijeac  oécc  .1.  Semup  mac  pii^ofipD,  mic  Sfain  poibeac 
Ifin  Deccna  an  ceppcop  pin.  Oocloinn  piapaip  a  bunaóup  .1.  Sliocc  Pémainn, 
mic  uilliam  niic  geapailc,  -j  oeapbpafaip  t)on  riuiipip  rainicc  ap  an  ccéo 
5abalcapó  ppionnpa  pa;can  i  nepinnoo  conjnarh  lá  Diapmaic  (nac  mupchaba 
(la  píj  laijean)  an  cuiUiam  pin  mac  geapailc  00  páiDpiom,  "|  ap  Dia  pliocc 
upmóp  geapalcac  cloinne  muipip. 

O  caoim  .1.  Qpc  mac  oomnaill,  mic  aipc,  mic  eojain,  paoí  Diune  eipióe 
DO  rhapbab,  1  a  rhac  .1.  Qpc  ócc  Doiponeaó  ina  lonaó. 

TTIac  rhec  aitilaoib  .1.  Donnchaó  bán,  mac  mooileaclainn,  mic  Diapmaca, 
nnc  maoileaclainn,  ■]  mac  a  oeapbpacap  raócc,  mac  concobaip,  do  comcuinm 
pe  apoile. 

Sfan  cappac  mac  uilliam,  mic  cfpoicc  a  búpc  oibpe  coipi  piúipe  baí  1  crpé- 
cuipeacc  jup  an  ran  pa  Do  reacc  ipceac  ap  ppoce;rion.  Ool  do  lap  mbrip 
lapla  ofprnurhan  DiappaiD  puaDÓin  1  njeapalcacaib.  Ni  poaipipcb  har  Dapa, 

°  Pierce-na-Buile,  i.  e.  Pierce  of  the  madness,  mirabili   solicitudine    nocte    tota    circumeundo 

or  mad  Pierce.  gyronagus,  claniosus,  errabundus  excubare  so- 

P  Raymond. — He  was  the  celebrated  Raymond-  lebat.     Felix  in  hoc   et   fortunatus,    quod  vel 

le-Gros,  or  the  corpulent,  the  ancestor  of  Fitz-  nunquam,   vel  rarissime,   cui  prseerat,   mauus, 

Maurice  of  Kerry.     The  character  of  this  Eay-  aut  temerariis  ausibus,  aut  per  incuriam  ober- 

mond  is  given  as  follows  by  Giraldus  Cambrensis  rauerit.   Vir  modestus  et  prouidus,  nee  cibo  nee 

in  his  Hihernia  E.rpugnata,  lib.  ii.  c.  9  :  veste  delicatus :   Caloris  ei  algorisque  paticntia 

"  Erat  itaque  Reymundus  vir  amplse  quanti-  par  :  vir  patiens  irne,  patiensque  laboris.  Quibus 

tatis,  staturaque  paulo  plus  quam  mediocris :  prsesidebat,  prodesse  magis  quam  prseesse,  poti- 

capillis  flauis,   et    subcrispis,     oculis    grossis,  usque  minister  quam  magister  videri  volens. 

glaucis,    et   rotundis,    naso   mediocriter    elato,  Vt  autem  viri   virtutes,  mores  et  i^odos  sub 

vultu  colorato,  hilari  ac  serene,   et  quanquam  brevitate  coneludam  :  vir  erat  liberalis  et  lenis, 

carnosa  superfluitate  ventre  turgescens,  natura-  prouidus  et  prudens.     Et  quanquam  animosus 

lem   tamen  corporis   grauitatem   innata  cordis  plurimum,   et  armis  instructus  :  prudentia  ta- 

redimens  viuacitate  carnis  vitium  animi  virtute  men  rebus  in  Martiis  et  prouidentia  prsecellebat. 

levabat.     Super  exercitus  cura  noctes  ducebat  Vir   in   vtroque   laudabilis  :    muLtum    quidem 

insomnes,  et  tanquam  excubiarum   excubator,  militis  habens,  plus  quam  Duels." 


1583.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1801 

others  joined  Cormac,  the  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Teige,  who  sought  the  chief- 
tainship of  the  territory  by  virtue  of  his  father's  patent ;  and  a  third  party  sided 
with  the  young  sons  of  [the  deceased]  Cormac,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  ofCorraac 
Oge,  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  Teige  Mac  Carthy,  and  with  their  mother,  Joan, 
the  daughter  of  Pierce-na-Buile°,  the  son  of  James,  son  of  Edmond  Mac  Pierce. 
Notwithstanding  all  this  [contention],  Cormac,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Dermot, 
gained  the  victory. 

The  Bishop  of  Kerry  died,  namely,  James,  the  son  of  Richard,  son  of  John. 
This  bishop  was  a  vessel  full  of  wisdom.  He  was  of  the  stock  of  the  Clann- 
Pierce,  i.  e.  of  the  race  of  Raymond'',  the  son  of  William  Fitzgerald.  This 
William  was  brother  of  the  Maurice"",  who  came  from  the  King  of  England,  at 
the  time  of  the  first  invasion  of  Ireland,  to  assist  Dermot  Mac  Murrough, 
King  of  Leinster,  and  from  him  most  of  the  Geraldines  of  Clanu-Maurice  are 
descended. 

O'Keeife  (Art  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Art,  son  of  Owen),  an  eminent 
man,  was  slain ;  and  his  son,  Art  Oge,  was  installed  in  his  place. 

The  son  of  Mac  Auliife  (Donough  Bane,  the  son  of  Melaghlin,  son  of 
Dermot,  son  of  Melaghlin)  and  his  brother's  son,  Teige,  the  son  of  Conor, 
mutually  slew  each  other. 

John  Carragh,  the  son  of  William,  son  of  Theobald  Burke,  heir  to  Cois- 
Siuire",  who  had  been  hitherto  in  treason  [i.  e.  in  rebellion],  came  in  under  pro- 
tection.    After  the  death  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond  he  went  into  the  country  of 

""    Maurice,    i.  e.   Maurice   Fitzgerald. — See  Anglia  in  Iberniam  trajecisse :  atque  posteros 

note  °,  under  the  year  1224,  p.  216,  rap-a.    Ac-  ejus  vocari   turn  Garaldos  turn   Garaldinos,  et 

cording  to  these  Annals,  and  other  accounts  writ-  Giraldinos  :  ab  his  familias  duas  esse  in  Iliber- 

ten  in  the  Irish  language,  the  Geraldines  were  of  niá  procreatas  :  earum   principes  institutos  ab 

Greek  origin,  but  O'Sullevan  and  O'Daly  assert  Anglis   Eegibus    duos    comites,    alterum    Des- 

that  they  derived  their  origin  from  the  ancient  monice,   vel  Desia;  in   Momoniis ;  alterum  Kil- 

Trojans.     O'SuUevan's  words  are  as  follows  :  dari»   in  Lageniá   et  inde  illos  Momonios  hos 

"  IbernisE  Giraldini  suum  genus  ad  Hetruscos  Lagenios  Giraldinos  nuncupari." — Hist.  Cathol. 

inde  Troianos  usque  referunt.     Qua  de  re  quia  Iher.,  fol.  77 :  see  also  fol.  87,  88. 

Clironicis  Ibernise  non  memoratur,  nos  pro  certo  '  Cois-Siuire,  a  district  belonging  to  a  family 

nihil  possumus  confirmare,  nee  ad  praesens  in-  of  the  Burkes,  and  lying  on  the  west  side  of  the 

stitutum  attinet.     Satis  est  compertum  Mauri-  River  Suir,  in  the  barony  of  Clanwilliam  and 

tium  Garaldum  virum  nobUem  atque  magnani-  county  of  Tipperary.  This  name  is  formed  simi- 

muni  a  Dermysio  Lagenia?  principe  accitum  ex  larly  to  Cosbma,  Coshbride,  Coshmore, — Coip 

10  u 


1802  aNna^a  Rioshachca  eiReaNw.  [i583. 

-]  |io  cionóileaó  buaji  an  Baile  Imp.  Gip^irc  bapoa  an  baile  po  na  hfijmib. 
piUip  Sfan  CO  na  bfcc  buióin  inapcac  a|i  in  inbápoa,-)  po  haimpfó  eippióe  50 
peóilDipeac  Dupcop  Do  peilép  cpé  na  cloccaicc  ina  cfncc  50  po  leaccab  é 
oia  eoc,  -]  puccpacc  a  rhuincip  an  ccpeic,  -|  po  páccaibpioc  Sfan.  Ruccaó 
laporh  eipióe  co  luimneac  co  po  cpochaó  annpióe  lié  le  comfppieopaib  luimni^. 

rílaj  ramcc  upmuman  .1.  concobap  an  cuain  mac  caibcc  mic  mic  maf- 
jamna  Dinnn  uí  cfinnicci^  Décc,  pfp  peólca  pfpccap,"]  cijfóapac  gan  rnraoíp 
ó  a  cuipnifó  jup  an  can  pin,-|  ÍTlas  caiócc  Do  jaipm  Do  pilip  mac  Diapmaca 
na  popalai^  uí  cfinnéicnj. 

ÍTlac  méjcoclám,  jeapoirc  mac  Sfain,  mic  aipc,  mic  copbmaic  TTlacaerh 
céDpabac  ap  ccécrjabáil  jaipcció  Do  rhapbaó  lá  mac  uí  cfinneiccij  pinn 
.1.  ló  TTliipchaD  mac  bpiain,  mic  Dorhnaill. 

Qn  conncaoíp  do  póipci  .1.  aibilin  injean  ITIuipip,  mic  Dauic  Do  po)  re  bfn 
lapla  cuaómuman  (Donnchaó  mac  concobaip  uí  bpiain)  Décc  1  parhpab  na 
bbaóna  po  1  ccluam  parhpoDa,  -|  a  haónacal  i  mamipnp  innpi. 

Onopa  injfn  DomnaiU,  mic  concobaip,  mic  coippDealbaij  uí  bpiam  an  bfn 
baíajiiacconcobaip  ciappaije  .1.  concobap  Décc,  -\  a  liabnacal  1  ninip  cacaij. 

Sluaicceab  lánrhop  lá  muincip  8ip  niclap  maulbi,i  lá  cloinn  lapla  cloinne- 
T?iocaipD  .1.  uiUeacc,  -]  Sfan  i  nioccap  rípe,  "|  1  numall  uí  rháille,  -]  bó  Dípim 
an  po  cpuinni^pioc  do  cpoD  cpeac  ap  an  pluaicceaó  pin.     Ro  loipcceaó"]  po 
léppccpiopaD  leó  caraip  na  mapc  Don  cup  pm. 

rriac  lapla  cloinne  piocaipD  Sfan  abúpc  mac  r?iocaipr  pa;xranai5  mic 
uillicc  na  ccfnD,  mic  piocaipD,  mic  uilbcc  cnuic  cuaj  do  rhapbaD  50  miojaol- 
map  lá  a  Deapbparaip  (uiUeacc  abúpc)  ap  lonnpaijió  oiDce.  TTlonuap  cpa 

ITlái  je,  Coip  6pí^C)e,  Coip  Qba  moipe, — which  Countess  of  Thomond."     The  Irish  usually  call 

are  still  names  of  baronies  in   the  counties  of  women  after  their  fathers'  names. 

Limerick  and  Waterford.  ""  Inis- Cathy,   now  Scattery  Island,    situated 

*  Mao  Teige. — This  was  a  name  assumed  by  a  in  the  Lower  Shannon,  opposite  the  town  of 

branch  of  the  O'Kennedys,  seated  in  the  barony      Kilrush See  note  °,  under  the  year  1188. 

of  Lower  Ormond,  in  the  north  of  the  county  =•  lochtar-Tire,  i.e.  the  lower  part  of  the  ter- 

of  Tipperary.           /  ritory.     This  was  a  name  for  the  northern  part 

'  Ropalach,   now  Raplagh,   a  townland  in  the  of  the  barony  of  Carra,  in  the  county  of  Mayo. — 

parish  of  Kilruane,  barony  of  Lower  Ormond.  See    Genealogies,    Ti-ibes,    and   Customs   of  Hy- 

See  the  Ordnance  Map  of  the  county  of  Tip-  Fiachrach,  p.  205,  note  ''. 

perary,   sheets   15  and  21.  ^  Umhall-Ui-Mhaille,  i.  e.  Umallia  O'Malley's 

^  The  Countess  Roche — This  should  be:  "the  country,    comprising   the   present   baronies  of 


1583.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1803 

the  Geraldines  in  search  of  a  prey,  and  made  no  delay  until  lie  arrived  at 
Adare,  where  he  seized  on  all  the  cattle  of  the  town.  The  wardens  of  the 
town  rose  out  at  the  shouts  and  pursued  him.  John,  with  his  small  body  of 
horsemen,  turned  round  upon  the  warders,  but  he  was  shot  with  a  straight  aim 
in  the  head  with  a  ball,  which  pierced  his  helmet,  so  that  he  was  thrown  from 
his  horse.  His  people  [however]  carried  off  the  prey,  but  left  John  behind. 
He  was  afterwards  taken  to  Limerick,  where  he  was  hanged  by  the  Commis- 
sioners of  Limerick. 

Mac  Teige'  of  Ormond,  i.  e.  Conor  of  the  Harbour,  the  son  of  Teige,  grand- 
son of  Mahon  Don  O'Kennedy,  died.  He  was  a  ready,  tranquil,  and  domestic 
man,  without  reproach  from  his  birth.  PhiUp,  the  son  of  Dermot  O'Kennedy  of 
Kopalach',  was  then  styled  Mac  Teige. 

The  son  of  Mac  Coghlan  (Garret,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Art,  son  of 
Cormac),  an  intellectual  youth,  was,  on  his  first  assumption  of  chivalry,  slain 
by  the  son  of  O'Kennedy  Fin,  namely,  by  Murrough,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of 
Donnell. 

The  Countess  Roche",  namely,  Eveleen,  tlje  daughter  of  Maurice,  son  of 
David  Eoche,  and  wife  of  the  Earl  of  Thomond  (Dohough,  the  son  of  Conor 
O'Brien),  died  in  the  Summer  of  this  year  at  Clonroad,  and  was  buried  in  the 
Monastery  of  Ennis. 

Honora,  the  daughter  of  Donnell,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough  O'Brien, 
and  wife  of  O'Cono^jKerry  (Conor),  died,  and  was  interred  in  Inis-Cathy". 

A  great  army  was  led  by  the  people  of  Sir  Nicholas  Malby,  and  the  sons  of 
the  Earl  of  Clanrickard,  Ulick  and  John,  into  lochtar-Tire''  and  Umhall-Ui- 
Mhaille^  and  took  a  countless  number  of  cattle  spoils  on  that  occasion,  and 
also  bvirned  and  totally  destroyed  Cathair-na-Mart^ 

The  son  of  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard,  namely,  John  Burke,  the  son  of 
Rickard  Saxonagh,  son  of  Ulick-na-gCeann,  son  of  Richard,  son  of  Ulick  of 
Cnoc-tuagh,  was  unfraternally  slain  in  an  assault  at  night,  by  his  brother  Ulick 

Burrishoole   and   Murresk,   in   tlie   county  of  port.     The  town  of  Westport  is  still   always 

Mayo.  called  Caraip  na  mapc  in  Irish  by  the  people 

^  Gathair-na-Mart,  i.  e.  the  stone  fort  of  the  of  Connaught  and  Munster.     The  stones  of  the 

beeves.     This  was  the  name  of  an  ancient  stone  ancient  Caruip  were  removed  some  years  since, 

fort  of  a  circular  form,  and  also  of  a  castle  built  but  its  site  is  still  pointed  out  by  the  natives 

by  O'Malley  on  the  margin  of  the  bay  of  West-  within  the  Marquis  of  Sligo's  demesne. 

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aHNQta  Rio^hachca  eiReaww. 


[1583. 


]io  ba  maipcc  Daepbparaip  t)o  óurpaccaip  Duinemapbao  a  ófpbpanip  naile 
im  compoinn  cpice  ap  ip  bic  caic  ap  uaip  an  bir  po.  ba  ooilij  mop  no  po 
pccpucc  uillfcc  ina  innrinn  gup  bo  maol  guala  jan  bparaip,  -|  mc  pluacc 
neac  ma  aonap.  Ni  hfo  pin  do  bfpc  Dia  uioh  ace  a  copp  oo  cnfpcollah,  i  a 
raob  DO  cpfjoaD  50  bpapccaibpioc  mapb  jan  anmain  é,  -j  ap  ap  éiccin  puaip 
lucr  a  lOTticaip  50  baile  ara  an  pi'oj  aipm  in  po  haónaiceaó  an  criippij.  60 
cpóó  cpióe  lá  a  rip  baóéin  oiDeaó  an  pip  hípin,  ap  pfpap  a  ceille,  a  cpofa, 
1  a  cenenil,  a  einij,  a  uaiple  1  a  oipbP|icae. 

TTlac  uilliam  búpc  .1.  Ripofpo  an  lapainn,  mac  Dauib,  mic  emainn,  mic 
uillicc  pfp  cpeacac  conjalac,  aipopfc  fppáóal,  no  bpipfó  bfipn  mbaojail  ap 
a  biobbabaib,  -|  pop  a  mbpipci  co  minic  do  écc,-|  pipDeapD  mac  oiluepaip,  mic 
Sfain  DoipDneab  ina  lonab. 

O  Pajaillij  aob  conallac  mac  maoílmópóa,  mic  Sfain,  m^c  cafail  neac 
DO  cair  a  Pé  jan  ppCpabpa,  1  a  rpfimpi  gan  cupbpor),-]  po  conjaib  an  bpfipne 
jan  baojluccaó  cap  laihaib  a  corhappan  jail,-]  gaoiDel  an  ccéin  Do  rhaip  do 
écc,  1  a  aonacal  1  maifiipcip  an  cabain,  ■]   a  bfn  ipibél  bfpnauól  Décc  in  aon 


^  Wished,  ourpaccaip. — Tkis  ancient  verb, 
which  occurs  but  once  in  these  Annals,  is  used 
iu  the  Leabliar  Breac  to  ti'anslate  the  Latin 
utinam;  thus:  "  tDurpaciippa,  a  óé,  compclp 
Dipje  mo  péca,  utinam  adirigatitur  vice  mecc,  ^■c.'''' 
tbl.  18,  b.  a. 

^  John  Roe,  i.  e.  Johannes  Ritfus. — In  a  pedi- 
gree of  O'Reilly,  preserved  in  the  Library  of  the 
British  Museum,  Harleian  Manuscripts,  1425, 
fol.  186,  he  is  called  "  Sir  Shane  O'Realie." 
According  to  the  pedigree  of  the  Count  O'Reilly, 
compiled  by  the  Chevalier  O'Gorman,  this  John 
Roe  was  the  son  of  Hugh  Conallagh  O'Reilly,  by 
the  daughter  of  Betagh  of  Moynalty.  This  John, 
finding  his  party  too  weak,  repaired  to  England 
to  solicit  Queen  Elizabeth's  interest,  and  was 
kindly  received  at  Court,  and  invested  with  the 
order  of  knighthood;  whereupon  he  returned 
home  with  letters  from  the  Queen  to  the  Lord 
Deputy  and  Council  of  Ireland,  instructing  them 
to  support  him  in  his  claim.  It  appears  that  he 
complained  of  the  division  of  the  territory  then 


recently  made,  and  on  the  1st  of  April,  1585,  her 
Majesty's  Commissioners  at  Cavan  proposed  to 
him  several  queries  (see  note ',  under  1292,  p. 
1191,  supra),  as  to  the  limits  of  his  territories; 
the  rents,  duties,  and  customs  due  to  O'Reilly 
in  the  five  baronie%of  the  Breny  (Brefny); 
and  as  to  the  cause  of  his  complaints  against  his 
relatives  and  neighbours,  to  which  he  replied 
at  some  length.  After  defining  the  limits  of  the 
baronies  of  Cavan,  TuUagligarvy,  Tolloconho, 
Tolloha,  and  Claiimahon,  he  proceeds  as  fol- 
lows : 

"  It  may  please  your  Lordship  to  caule  for 
Mulmore  Mac  Prior  Oreley"  [i.  e.  Maelmora, 
son  of  Philip  the  Prior,  son  of  Owen,  who  was 
the  uncle  of  Sir  John  O'Reilly. — Ed.]  "  of 
Clanmahon,  who  hath  threatened  the  tenants 
of  the  said  Sir  John,  which  dwelled  in  the  towne 
of  Doweld-donell,  and  hath  put  them  in  such 
fear  to  lose  their  lives  and  goods,  as  divers  of 
them  have  departed  from  the  said  lands,  and 
the    rest    will    presently    depart  ;    by    meanes 


1.583]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1805 

Burke.  Alas !  woe  to  that  brother  who  wished"  to  slay  his  other  brother 
about  the  partition  of  a  territory,  for  this  world  is  the  world  of  every  one  in 
turn.  It  was  a  great  pity  that  Ulick  did  not  ponder  within  his  mind  that 
"shoulders  are  bare  without  a  brother,"  and  that  "one  makes  not  an  army"; 
instead  of  this,  he  perforated  his  body,  and  pierced  his  side,  so  that  he  left  him 
stretched  out  lifeless ;  and  it  was  with  difficulty  that  his  body  was  obtained  by 
those  who  carried  him  to  Athenry,  where  the  hero  was  buried.  The  death  of 
this  good  man  weighed  upon  the  hearts  of  the  people  of  his  territory,  on  account 
of  his  good  sense,  his  personal  form,  his  noble  birth,  his  hospitahty,his  nobleness, 
and  his  renowned  achievements. 

]>Iac  William  Burke,  i.  e.  Eichard-an-Iarainn,  the  son  of  David,  son  of  Ed- 
mond,  sou  of  Ulick,  a  plundering,  warlike,  unquiet,  and  rebellious  man,  who 
had  often  forced  the  gap  of  danger  upon  his  enemies,  and  upon  whom  it  was 
frequently  forced,  died ;  and  Richard,  the  son  of  Oliver,  son  of  John,  was  in- 
stalled in  his  place. 

O'Reilly  (Hugh  Conallagh,  the  son  of  Maelmora,  son  of  John,  son  of  Cathal), 
a  man  who  had  passed  his  time  without  contests  or  trouble,  and  who  had  pre- 
served Breifny  from  the  invasions  of  his  English  and  Irish  enemies  as  long  as 
he  lived,  died,  and  was  buried  in  the  monastery  of  Cavan.  His  wife,  Isabella 
Barnewall,  died  about  the  same  time.  The  son  of  this  O'Reilly,  namely,  John 
Roe",  then  exerted  himself  to  acquire  the  chieftainship  of  the  territory,  through 

whereof  the  said  lands  are  waste,  to  the  greate  tymes  was  twise  or  thrise  a  yeare,   and  every 

hinderance  and  disinheritance    of  the   said  Sir  time  xlv.  lib.  to  his  owne  use,  besides  the  charge 

John  and  his  heires,  if  your  Lordship  take  not  of  the  cess. 

some  order  to  the  contrary  by  surety  of  feare  "  Item,  he  had  lykewise  by  the  said  custome 

or  good  avering  against  the  said  Mulmore,  which  and  usadge  all  manner  of  chargis  that  either  his 

it  may  please  you  to  do.  son  or  any  other  of  his  men  or  followers  weare 

"  The  Dewties  and  Customs,  &c.  put  into  by  reson  of  their  beinge  in  pledge,  or 

"  Orely  by  auncicnt  custom  and  usadge  of  attendinge  by  commandment  of  the  Lord  De- 

the  country  had  alwayes  out  of  the  baronies  of  puty  in  Dublin,  or  otherwhere,  for  matter  of  the 

the  Cavan  and  TuUaghgarvy,  and  out  of  every  said  Oreley. 

of  the  other  three  baronies,  which  he  hath  lost  "  Item,   by   the  said  custom   Oreley  had  all 

by  the"  [late]  "  division,  yearely  out  of  every  manner  of  fees  and  pensions  and  recompencis 

barrony  xlv.  libr.  as  often  as  he  had  any  cause  given  by  the  said  Oreley  to  any  learned  counsell 

to   cesse    the    said   barronies,    either   for   the  or  other  solicitor  or  agent,  for  the  causes  of  the 

Queene's  rents  and  dewties,  or  for  any  charge  contry,  borne  and  payed  by  the  said  contry. 
towards   Onele,   or  other  matter,   which   some-  "  Item,  by  the  said  custom  Oreley  had  yearely. 


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aNNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReawN. 


[1583. 


aimi-'ip  pip  pfin.     TTlac  on  ui  Paij^allcn^  pin  .i.  Sfan  puaó  Do  bfic  ag  Dol  i 
ccfnDup  an  cipe  a  hughoappap  gaU  ap  belaib  Gmainn  mic  maoílinopóa  baí 


over  and  beside  all  other  dewties  and  customes, 
towards  his  chargis  in  going  to  Dublin,  out  of 
every  pole,  xvi*"  Starling. 

"  Item,  by  the  said  custom  he  had  yearley  out 
of  every  \i'ú.  pooles  of  lande  through  the  whole 
fyve  barronies  one  fatt  beefe  for  the  spendinge 
of  his  house. 

"  Item,  by  the  said  custom,  he  had  one  horse 
for  hiraselfe,  one  horse  for  his  wife,  and  one 
horse  for  his  son  and  heir,  with  one  boye  at- 
tendinge  uppon  every  horse,  kept  through  the 
whole  fyve  barronies  yearely. 

"  Item,  by  the  said  custom  it  was  lawful!  for 
Orely  to  cess  uppon  the  Mac  Bradies,  the  Mac 
Enroes,  the  Gones,  and  the  Jordans,  by  the 
spare  of  iii.  quarters  of  a  yeare  yearely,  one  fote- 
man  uppou  every  poole  which  the  said  sirnames 
had,  to  kepe  his  cattell,  to  rape  and  bynd  his 
corne,  to  thrashe,  hedge,  and  diche,  and  do  other 
husbandry  and  mersanary  work  for  the  said 
Oreley. 

"  Item,  by  the  said  custom  the  said  Oreley 
had  upon  the  Bradies,  the  Gones,  the  Mac  Enroes, 
and  the  Jordans,  out  of  every  poole  of  land 
yearely,  thre  quarters  of  a  fatt  beefe,  and  out  of 
every  two  pooles  one  fatt  porke,  and  also  the 
cessinge  of  strangers,  their  men  and  horses,  as 
often  as  any  did  come  in  friendship  to  the 
country. 

"Item,  by  the  said  custom  the  said  Oreley 
had  by  dewty  all  manner  of  chardgis  both  for 
workmen,  stofe,  and  labourers,  and  victualls, 
for  the  buildinge  and  maintaininge  of  his  castell 
of  the  Cavan,  and  all  other  necessary  romes 
and  offices  about. the  same,  borne  and  payed 
by  the  gentill  and  others  of  the  barony  of  the 
Cavan. 

"  The  dewties  of  the  towne  of  the  Cavan  also 
by  the  said  custom,  as  renis,  drink,  and  other 
dewties,  now  taken  and  not  denied. 


"  Item,  Sir  Hugh  Oreley,  father  unto  the  said 
Sir  John,  had  in  morgadge  from  divers  of  the 
gentill  of  Clanmahon,  xlviii.  pooles  in  pawne  of 
1.  mylche  kyne,  which  morgage  discended  upon 
Sir  John,  and  he  was  seised  of  the  said  xlviii. 
pooles  untill  the  division,  which  he  desireth  to 
continue  possession  of,  or  els  that  he  may  bo 
payed  the  said  1.  milche  kyna" — Careiv  MSS. 
at  Lambeth  palace.  No.  614,  p.  162. 

■^  Edmond,  the  son  of  Maehnora. — He  is  usually 
called  Edmond  of  Kilnacrott.  In  a  pedigree  of 
O'Reilly,  preserved  in  the  State  Papers'  Office, 
London,  vol.  for  1610  of  the  Irish  Correspon- 
dence, Paper  No.  73,  this  Edmond  is  called  a 
bastard ;  but  be  is  set  down  as  a  legitimate  bro- 
ther of  Hugh,  the  father  of  Sir  Shane  in  the 
Harleian  MS.  above  referred  to.  The  pedigree 
in  the  State  Papers'  Office,  which  was  probably 
furnished  by  Sir  John  O'Eeilly,  stands  as  follows : 

Jolin  O'Reilly. 


I 

Cayer,  a  bastard. 


Molmore  =  daughter  of        Farrell, 
O'Eeilly.  I  O'Donnell.         d.  s.  p. 


Hugh  O'Reilly,  =  Jennet,  daughter  of 
I  Betagh  of  Moynaltie. 


Edmond  the  Tanist, 

a  bastard,  and 

four  others. 


I      i      r     I  II 

John.  Philip.  Owen.  Annabel,  Rose,       Joane,        Onor, 

m.  Hugh      m.  Connor  m.  Mac  m.Plunkett. 
Mae  Gennis.  Mac  Guire.  FeroU      of  Clone- 
O'Rcyly.    brene. 

This  Edmond,  who  would  h^ve  succeeded  his 
brother,  Hugh  Conallagh,  in  the  government  of 
East  Breifny,  according  to  the  Irish  law  of 
tanistry,  was  set  aside  by  the  government,  and 
Sir  John  set  up  in  his  place  ;  but  Sir  John 
having  joined  Tyrone  in  the  rebellion,  the  au- 
thority of  the  English  became  weak  in  Breifny, 
and  Edmond,  the  tanist,  was  finally  elected 
chief,  to  wit,  in  1598,  when  he  was  a  very  old 
man.  So  earlj'  as  the  year  1358,  he  and  his 
brother,  Hugh,  who  was  then  the  O'Keilly, 
made   the   following   covenant  with   the  Lord 


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ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1807 


the  power  of  the  English,  in  opposition  to  Edniond,  the  son  of  Maelmora', 
who  was  the  senior  according  to  the  usage  of  the  Irish.     In  consequence  of 


Deputy  : 

"  Ordo  Domiui  Deputati  Concilii  Capitaneo 
Domino  O'Reilly  apud  Kilmacnois  xxv.  Mail, 
anno  1558. 

"Primo,  quod  ipse  arbitramento  et  ordina- 
tioni  Commissariorum  per  nos  jam  assignatorum 
stabit  circa  restitutionem  et  debitam  satisfac- 
tionem  per  quoscunque  sub  ejus  gubernatione 
tiendam  in  iis  quae  contra  confines  Anglicanos 
commiserint,  et  pro  complemento  et  observatione 
liujus  rei  corporale  se  juramento  astringet,  quod 
illos  obsides  in  manus  baronis  de  Slane  Magistri 
Mareschalli  deliverabit  infra  octavum  diem  j  unii 
proxime  futurum  qui  juxta  nostram  conclusio- 
nem  fuerint  assignati,  similiter  et  idem  Dominus 
de  Slane  aut  Mareschallus  in  manus  suas  susci- 
piet  eos  ex  confinibus  Anglicanis  versus  quos 
dictus  O'Reilly  aliquam  hujusmodi  querelam 
seu  occasionem  habet,  et  sic  penes  se  detinebit 
quousque  debita  per  illos  fiat  restitutio  secun- 
dum quod  adjudioabitur,  diesque  restitionis  hu- 
jusmodi hinc  inde  certus  prefigetur  ac  emitabi- 
tur  [sic]  in  quandocunque  constitutum  terminum 
prjetergredi  seu  violare  contigerit,  pccnam  dupli 
incursurum,  seu  foris  fracturum ;  quod  si  pars 
delinquens  eandem  poenam  sin  forisfractum  una 
cum  adjudicata  restitutione  non  persolverit  infra 
decern  dies  proxime  turn  sequentes,  quod  tunc 
dictus  Dominus  de  Slane  aut  Mareschallus  pignus 
sufficiens  capiet  pro  solutione  ejusdem  tam  res- 
titutionis  quam  poense,  quo  satisfacto  pignus 
homini  iterum  dimmittet.  Item  quod  contra 
hujusmodi  bona  qucE  per  filium  suum  Eugenium 
capta  fuerant  post  ultimam  ordinationom  habi- 
tam  apud  Kenles  plene  in  integrum  restituen- 
tur,  et  dictus  Eugenius  prseterea  quod  more 
guerino  seu  bellico  invasit  partes  Anglicanas, 
ipse  infra  decern  dies  post  datum  prajsentium 
ad  Dominum  Dep\itatum  accedet  ad  perdona- 
tionem  suam  pro  tali  crimine  humiliter  postu- 


landum,  et  insuper  pro  redemptione  seu  fine 
trangressionis  suce  dabit  centum  vaccas  Domina; 
Reginse. 

"  Item  quod  dictus  O'Reilly  obligabitur  ad 
respondendum  pro  omnibus  suis  filiis  et  aliis 
quibuscunque  personis  sub  ejus  jurisdictione 
existentibus,  quatenus  ipse  et  quilibet  eorum 
sese  erga  suas  magestates  bene  et  fideliter  ges- 
serint  et  pro  pace  observanda  versus  omnes 
suarum  magestatiun  subditos  Anglicanos,  et  si 
aliquis  ex  patria  sua  in  hoc  deliquerit  quod  ipse 
delinquentem  in  manus  Domini  Deputati  tradet, 
aut  pignus  sufficiens  pro  restitutione  damni 
commissi. 

"  Item  quod  ipse  sine  speciali  licentia  Domini 
Deputati  non  conducet,  nee  in  patria  sua  rema- 
nere  permittet  quoquomodo  aliquos  Scotos  aut 
alios  extranese  nationis  quoscunque. 

"  Item  in  sua  patria  remanere  non  permittet 
absque  licentia  Domini  Deputati  aliquos  ex 
stirpe  O'More  sive  O'Chonor,  aut  uUum  ex 
eorum  sequacibus,  nee  aliquos  alios  cujuscumque 
generis  qui  rel^lles  exstiteriijt  contra  suas  ma- 
gestates, quin  eos  omnes  pro  virili  et  piosse  sua, 
quantum  in  illo  fuerit  apprchendere  conabitur 
et  apprehensos  ad  manus  Domini  Deputati  per- 
ducet,  et  si  contingat  aliquos  hujusmodi  male- 
factores  seu  rebelles  ad  patriam  Domini  O'Reilly, 
illo  ignorante,  subterfugere,  et  habita  inde  no- 
ticia,  dictus  Dominus  Deputatus  ad  ilium  scrip- 
scrit  pro  apprehensione  hujusmodi  malefacto- 
rum,  quod  tunc  proefatus  O'Reilly,  summam  di- 
ligentiam  et  operam  suam  pra;stabit,  ut  illos 
capere  posset,  captosque  ad  Dominum  Deputa- 
tum  perducet,  aut  cuicunque  ipse  assignaverit, 
ac  etiam  quod  omnes  latrones  et  hujusmodi 
prsedones  qui  furtim  aliquod  .seu  vapinam  com- 
misserint  in  partibus  Anglicanis,  et  illud  intra 
patriam  illius  subduxerint,  apprehendi  faciet  et 
apprehensos   ad   vicecomitcm    illius    comitatús 


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aHNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN. 


[1583. 


ina  pinnprp  t)0  iifiji  jnaruijce  gaoióeal,  i  cdnicc  oe  jióe  an  ciji,  i  an  cijeap- 
nap  Do  poinn  ecip  pliocc  rhaoilmópóa. 

TTlac  UÍ  concobnip  plicci^  Caraoip  niac  caibcc  óicc,  mic  raiDcc,  mic  aeóa 
DO  rhapbab  i  ppiull  la  opuinj  do  rhuinnp  aipr. 


propinquioris  transinittet,  et  rei  sublatifi,  quod 
melius  poterit,  restitutionem  faciet. 

"  Eadem  et  similis  ordinatio  erga  ilium  ob- 
servetur,  si  in  partes  Anglicanas  quidquam 
fuerit  ab  illius  jurisdictione  ita  surreptum  et 
quod  iieque  ille  ullos  exules  in  patriam  Angli- 
canam  in  patria  sua  demorari,  permittet,  neque 
ullum  ex  patria  sua  Anglicana  aliquem  exulem 
in  patria  sua  in  partibus  Anglicanis  demorare 
permittet. 

"  Item  quod  dictus  O'Reilly  portabit  omnia 
onera  et  servitia  regins  magestati  deb;ta,  tarn  in 
promovendo  exercitu  equitum,  et  turbariorum 
quoties  opes  fuerit  quam  in  solvendo  solito 
numrao  Scoticorum  quemadmodum  debet,  aut 
tcmporibus  elapsis  solvere  consueverit. 

"  Item  quod  ipse  per  totam  jurisdictionem 
monetam  regiam  debito  suo  valore,  recepi  fi|ciat, 
sicuti  per  partes  Anglicanas  passim  et  ubique 
currit.  • 

"  Et  pro  omni  premissarum  perfecta  observa- 
tione  suscepit  corporale  juramentum,  ac  si  deli- 
querit  in  aliquo  premisscfrum  solvet  Dominse 
Regina;  mille  martas  [mile  niapc]  :  ac  etiam 
concordationem  istam  proclamari  faciet  in  patria 
sua  et  Sigillum  suum  et  sigilla  filiorum  suorum 
et  omnium  liberorum,  tenentium  patrise  sua;  his 
scriptis  apponi  faciet,  et  nobis  illam  mittet  ad 
perpetuam  rei  memoriam." 

On  the  2.5th  of  Nov.  1567,  this  Edmond  and 
his  brother  Hugh  signed  the  following  Indenture 
in  the  Lord  Justices'  camp  at  Lough  Sheelin: 

"  Hajc  indentura  facta  inter  honorabileni  vi- 
rum  Dominum  Henericum  Sydney  ordinis  gar- 
terii  militem,  presidentem  Concilii  Walli»  et 
deputatum  in  Hibernia  generalem,  una  cum 
concLlio  quorum  nomina  subscribuntur  ex  una 


parte,  et  Hugonem  O'Reilly  suo  nationis  Capi- 
taneum,  et  Edmundum  O'Reilly,  fratrem  suum, 
tanistam  patriie  de  Brefney  ex  altera  parte. 

"  Testatur  quod  prsedictus  O'Reilly  obligat  se 
tenere  et  adimplere  tenorem  et  formam  arti- 
culorum  sebsequentium,  primum,  promittitur 
quod  ad  posse  suum  prosequetur  fratres  suos 
Cahier  O'Reilly,  Owen  O'Reilly,  et  Thomam 
O'Reilly,  nunc  rebelles  Serenissimse  Reginse  ma- 
gestati, et  eos  et  secutores  eorum  ferro  et  flamma 
puniet,  nee  patietur  eos  terras  et  tenementa  sua 
possidere,  tenere,  vel  arare  vel  colere,  sed  eos 
omnes  ut  inimicos  suos  castigabit,  cum  fuerint 
per  proedictum  Dominum  Deputatum  ad judicati 
rebelles  et  inobedientes. 

"  Item  promititur  quod  quicquid  Commissarii 
dicti  Domini  Deputati  nominati  vel  nominandi 
per  ipsum  Dominum  Deputatum  adjudicaverint 
pro  inimicis  finiendis  et  bonis  restituendis  inter 
Anglicanas  partes  et  habitantes  in  de"  [the] 
"  Brefney,  quod  ipse  O'Reilly  articulas  et  judicia 
perimplebit  et  observabit. 

"  Item  permittitur  quod  ubi  lis  est  inter  ho- 
norabilem  virum  barouem  de  Delvin  et  prsedic- 
tum  O'Reilly  pro  titulis  et  demandis  inter  ipsos 
et  patrias  suas  quod  ipse  O'Reilly  observabit 
omnia  decreta  et  judicia  quEe  in  iuturum  adju- 
dicabuntur  per  Commissaries  Domini  Deputati, 
secundum  mores  et  observationes  patriarum 
suarum  et  priEscriptiones  temporis  praeteriti. 

"  Item  similiter  observabit  et  perimplebit 
omnia  judicia  quae  infuturum  commissarii  prje- 
dicti  Domini  Deputati  decreverint  inter  habi- 
tantes patria;  de  Anualy  et  patria  de  Brefney 
pro  finibus  tani  futuris  quam  preeteritis. 

"  Item  ubi  praidictus  O'Reilly  obligatus  est 
solvere  honorabili  viro  comiti  Sussexio  milie  et 


1583.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1809 


this,  the  country  and  the  lordship  were  divided  between  the  descendants  of 
Maehnora". 

The  son  of  O'Conor  Sligo  (Cahir,  the  son  of  Teige  Oge,  son  of  Teige,  son 
of  Hugh)  was  treacherously  slain  by  a  party  of  Muintir-Airt  [the  O'Harts]. 


centum  martas  quorum  magna  pars  non  est  liac- 
tenus  data  ad  usum  prajdicti  comitis,  pra;dictus 
O'Eeilly  dabit  et  deliverabit  numerum  prajdic- 
tum  vel  reliquum  sive  martas  non  adhuc  solutas 
ante  fastum  sancti  Johannis  Baptistce  proxLmum 
futurum  ad  manus  Domini  Deputati. 

"  Item  ubi  filius  dicti  O'Eeilly,  videlicet 
Johannes,  accepit  praídam'  rebellicam  usque  ad 
numerum  trecentarum  vaccarum,  prsdictus 
O'Eeilly  promittitur  quod  infra  quindecim  dies 
jam  proximum  futuros  dabit  dicto  Domino  De- 
putato  praedictas  trecentas  martas  vel  suo  certo 
attornato  in  villa  de  Kells  incomitatu  Mediae  vel 
prsedictum  filium  suum  Joliannem  mittet  Do- 
mino Deputato  custodiendum  donee  de  martis 
prsedictis  solutionem  fecerit. 

"  Item  ubi  Dominus  Deputatus  in  manus 
suas  ad  usum  Eegia;  magestatis  accepit  castrum 
de  Tully vin,  nuper  in  possessione  Owen  O'Eeilly, 
et  jam  commisit  hoc  castrum  Edmundo  O'Eeilly 
ad  usum  Begins,  prasdictus  O'EeiUy  observabit 
et  curabit  quod  prajdictus  Edmundus  non  nu- 
triet  vel  sustinebit  pra;dictum  Owenum  vel 
aliquem  alium  Eebellem  sive  bona  eorum  in 
castra  praidicta  certo  vel  alibi  (ulterius  hac  lege) 
Edmundum  in  possessione  patria;  praedicta;. 

"  Item  praidictus  O'Eeilly  promittet  habitare 
in  patri»  sua;  confinibus  et  Anglicarum  ad  pla- 
citum  Domini  Deputati  durante  bello  et  rebel- 
lione  fratrum  suorum  et  Johannis  O'Neil  ut 
inde  eveniat  securitas  bonorum  Anglicarum 
partium,  protectionem  suam  contra  rebelles  pra;- 
dictos,  et  pro  his  omnibus  articulis  Observandis 
dabit  praidictus  O'Eeilly  in  manus  praídicti 
Domini  Deputati  intra  quindecim  dies  proximo 
sequentes  obsidem  quem  in  secreto  inter  ipsos 
demandatum  est  dari   et  deliberari,  et  iterum 


obsides  in  custodia  Patricii  Cusack  remanebunt, 
tam  pro  his  quam  pro  omnibus  aliis  articulis 
finiendis.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  tam  praedic- 
tus  Dominus  Deputatus  et  consilium  quam  prs- 
dictus  O'Eeilly  alternatim  his  indenturis  scrip- 
serunt. 

"  Datum  in  campo  apud  Loghshelen,  25°  No- 
vembris  anno  nono  Elizabeth. 

"  O'Eeilly. 
Edmond  O'Eeilly." 

"*  Were  divided  between  the  descendants  ofMael- 
mora — The  territory  of  Breifny  O'Eeilly  was 
divided  among  four  principal  men  of  the  descen- 
dants of  Maelmora,  the  father  of  Hugh  Conal- 
lagh,  on  this  occasion,  namely,  1,  Sir  John,  the 
son  of  Hugh  Conallagh,  son  of  Maelmora ;  2, 
his  uncle,  Edmond,  of  Kilnacrott,  son  of  Mael- 
mora, and  who  was  at  this  time  tanist  of 
Breifny,  and  became  chief  in  1598  ;  3,  PhOip 
O'Eeilly,  second  son  of  Hugh  Conallagh,  who 
was  made  chief  of  Breifny  by  O'Neill  in  1596  ; 
4,  Maelmora,  the  bastard  son  of  Philip  the  Prior, 
the  son  of  Owen,  who  was  the  fifth  son  of  Mael- 
mora, the  stirpes  of  this  head  branch  of  the 
O'Eeillys.  The  following  note  on  the  division 
of  East  Breifny  between  the  descendants  of 
Maelmora  is  given  in  a  manuscript  at  Lambeth, 
Carew  Collection,  No.  635,  fol.  19: 

"  The  Breny,  now  called  the  county  of  Cavan, 
hath  bene  tyme  out  of  mynde  whoLLie  in  the 
jurisdiction  of  him  that  for  the  tyme  was 
Oreillye,  that  is  to  say,  Lord  of  the  Countrye, 
but  when  partition  of  the  same  was  made  by 
Sir  Henry  Sidney,  then  Lord  Deputie  of  Ireland, 
the  baronies  within  the  countie  of  Cavan  afore- 
said were  divided  amongst  the  principal  gentle- 
men of  the  Oreillys,  as  ensueth,  viz. : 


10  s 


1810  QNNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNW.  [i583. 

ITlac  UÍ  concobai)!  Doinn  .1.  Toippoealbac  mac  oio|imaDa,  mic  caipbpe, 
T111C  eoccain  caoic  mic  peilim  jfnjcaij  do  écc. 

Uaócc  ócc  mac  caiócc  uí  puaipc  do  écc  1  mbpaigofnai^  aj  ua  puaipc  .1. 
bpian  mac  bpiain  mic  eoccain. 

Oilén  na  rcuac  (.1.  pope  an  oiléin)  do  jalJail  In  TTlac  puibne  na  ccnar 
.1.  Gocchan  ócc  mac  eoccain  óicc,  mic  eoccain,  mic  DorhnaiU  ap  clomn  Dorh- 
naiU  mic  DonnchaiD,")  clanrc  DomnaiU  Do  mapbaD  ano. 

baile  UÍ  neill  (.1.  roippóealbac  luinec)  .1.  an  y\\at  ban  do  lopccaD  la 
Ima  nDorhnaill  (QoDh  mac  majnapa)  1  Diojbóla  mópa  Do  Dénam  Dim  neill, 
la  raob  oipccne  an  baile  oip  ba  Don  cup  pin  do  mapbaD  la  hUa  nDorhnaill 
Ua  coinne,  1  TTlac  mec  aoDa  50  nDpuins  móip  ele  cen  mo  roc. 

OonnchaD  mac  an  calbaij  ui  Domnqill  Do  rhapbaó  lá  cablac  albatiac. 

bpian  mac  DonncViaiD,  mic  conconnacr,  mic  conconnacc  mejuiDip  peap 
50  nofjainm  uaiple  -\  eini^  Do  écc. 

CT?eaca  mópa  Do  Denarh  ap  Shorhaiple  mbuióe  mac  mec  Domnaill  la 
haoD  mac  peilim  bacaij  ui  neill,  la  TTlac  uióilín, "]  lá  8a;rancoib.  Sorhaiple 
buiDe  CO  na  bpaitpib  do  doI  1  ccópaijeacr  na  ccpeac,  -[  bpipfDli  Dóib  pop  a 
mbaoi  peampa,-]  na  cpeaca  do  biin  Díob,-|  aéó  mac  peilim  bacaij  do  mapbaó 
Don  cup  pm,  1  banna  no  66  do  na  Sa;cancoib, -]  an  cuiD  ele  Dib  Dimreacc  jan 
cpeic  gan  copccap. 

Uoippbealbac,  mac  Domnaill  ui  bpiain,  -]  Sfan  puaD,  mac  aoDa  conallaij, 
mic  maoilmópóa  ui  paijillij  Do  óol  1  Sa;coib,  -\  1  noipDneaD  1  njpáóaib  piDipe 
1  naon  ló  1  parhpab  na  bliaóna  po  Do  lacaip  an  Ppionnpa  Gbpabech. 

OonnchaD  mac  ui  baoijill  (.1.  roippDealbac)  Do  mapbaD  la  muinrip  maille 
1  ninip  caoi'l. 

"  To  Sir  Johu  Oreillye,  and  bis  heires,   the  lougiug   to  the  parisli  of  Cloiidahorky,  in  the 

baronies  of  Cavau,  Toilaghgarvy,  ToUoghconho,  barony  of  Kilmacrenan,  and  county  of  Donegal, 

and  ToUoha.  Mac  Sweeny  Doe  had  a  castle  on  this  island, 

"To  Edmond  Oreillye  and  his  heires,  the  ba-  which  gives  name  to  a  manor  in  the  parish  of 

ronie  of  Castleraliin.  Clondahorky. 

"  To  Philip  Oreillye,  and  his  heires,   the  ba-  f  Srath-han,    i.  e.  the  white  srath,    inch,  or 

ronie  t)f  Inniskine"  [now  Clankee].  holm,  now  Strabaue,  a  well-known  town,  in  the 

"  To  Moylemore  mac  an  Prior,  and  his  bro-  north-west  of  the  county  of  Tyrone, 

thers,  the  barony  of  Rathenarome,"  [now  Clan-  «  Rerwwned,  literally,  "  of  good  name." 

mahonl.  ^  Turloufjh This  is  the  celebrated  Sir  Tur- 

'■  Port-an-Oilen,  now  Portilan,  an  island  be-  lough  O'Brien,  the  ancestor  of  the  O'Briens  of 


1583.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1811 

The  son  of  O'Conor  Don,  i.  e.  Turlough,  the  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Carbry, 
son  of  Owen  Caech,  son  of  Felim  Geangcach,  died. 

Teige  Oge,  the  son  of  Teige  O'Eourke,  died  in  captivity  with  [i.  e.  in  the 
custody  of]  O'Eourke,  i.  e.  Brian,  the  son  of  Brian,  who  Avas  son  of  Owen. 

Oilen-na-dTuath  (i.  e.  Port-an-Oilen°)  was  taken  by  Mac  Sweeny-na-dTuath 
(Owen  Oge,  the  son  of  Owen  Oge,  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Donnell)  from  the  sons 
of  Donn^ell,  the  son  of  Donough,  who  were  slain  on  the  occasion. 

The  town  of  O'Neill  (Turlough  Luineach),  namely,  Srath-ban^  was  burned 

by  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Manus);  and  great  injuries  were  done  to 

.  O'Neill,  besides  the  plundering  of  the  town ;  for  it  was  on  this  occasion  that 

O'Coinne,  the  son  of  Mac  Hugh,  and  many  others  besides  them,  were  slain  by 

O'Donnell. 

Donough,  the  son  of  Calvagh  O'Donnell,  was  slain  by  a  Scottish  fleet. 

Brian,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Cuconnaught,  son  of  Cuconnaught  Ma- 
guire,  a  man  renowned^  for  nobleness  and  hospitality,  died. 

Great  depredations  were  committed  on  Sorley  Boy,  the  son  of  Mac  Donnell, 
by  Hugh,  the  son  of  Felim  Bacagh  O'Neill,  by  Mac  Quillin,  and  the  English. 
Sorley  Boy  and  his  kinsmen  went  in  pursuit  of  the  preys,  defeated  those  who 
were  before  them,  deprived  them  of  the  preys,  and  slew  Hugh,  the  son  of  Felim 
Bacagh,  and  a  company  or  two  of  the  English.  The  remamder  went  away 
without  prey  or  victory. 

Turlough",  son  of  Donnell  O'Brien,  and  John  Eoe",  the  son  of  Hugh  Conal- 
lagh,  son  of  Maelmora  O'Eeilly,  went  to  England,  and  were  invested  with  the 
order  of  knighthood  on  the  one  day,  in  the  summer  of  this  year,  in  presence  of 
the  Sovereign,  Elizabeth. 

Donough,  the  son  of  O'Boyle  (Turlough),  was  slain  on  Inis-Caoil",  by  the 
O'Malleys. 

Enuistimon,  in  the  west  of  the  county  of  Clare,  to  this  Sir  John:  "  Sir  Shane  O'Eealie,  by  order 
'  John  Roe,  ^c.  O'Reilly — See  note  "=,  mipra.  out  of  England,  anno  1587,  was  made  Capten  of 
It  was  probably  on  this  occasion  that  Sir  John  the  Countrie  of  Breny  O'Eealie,  now  called 
O'Reilly  furnished  the  pedigree  of  his  family,  County  Cavan,  and  his  uncle,  Edmoad,  was  con- 
preserved  in  the  State  Papers'  Office,  London.  firmed  Tanist." 

In  a  pedigree  of  O'Eeilly,  preserved  in  the  Li-  *  Inis-Caoil,   now  Inishkeel,   an  island  near 

brary  of  the  British  Bluseum,  Harleian  MSS.  the  mouth  of  Gweebara  bay,  belonging  to  the 

1425,  fol.  186,  occurs  the  following  note  relating  barony  of  Boylagh,  and  county  of  Donegal. 

10x2 


1812  QHNaca  líioshuchca  eiReaNN.  [15B3. 

pfppfóa,  mac  coippóealbaij  mfi]i5i5,  mec  pinbne  oécc  i  mbaile  rhec  puibrie 
bójainij. 

Ua  Néill  coippbealbac  lumeac  do  bfir  pop  an  pparli  mbrin  co  nopuirig 
móip  DO  Sha;ranacaib  ina  pappab,  -\  bácap  occ  báij,  -j  ace  baccap  Dul  Do 
inDpaD  ripe  conaill  i  tioiojail  loipccre  an  cSpaca  bain  piap  an  can  pin.  Or 
cuala  Ua  DornnaiU  Qoó  niac  majnupa  an  ni  pin,  Uo  cionoileab  co  nnnepnac 
o  pocpaicce  Dia  paigiD,  -|  Do  cóiD  gan  puipeac  50  opuim  lijfn  50  po  j^ab  lonj- 
jjopc  liipuiDe  1  mi  lun  Do  ponnpao.  No  cicceao  Diopma  do  mapcpluag  ui  neill 
DO  pai5io  ujpa  1  lompuaccca  pop  mapcpluaj  ui  Dorhnaill.  Nip  bo  peich  opra 
la  muincip  Ui  borhnaill  inopm  50  mbácap  Daoíne  occá  nDiciujaó  fcoppa  jach 
laoí.  peace  ann  ranjacap  an  po  baó  Deach  do  mapcplua^  ui  néill  50  mbjii^, 
-]  50  mbopppaó  50  reap,  -\  50  rcapcapal  pop  cenel  cconaiU,  -|  ni  po  anpar 
Dia  pfimim  50  pangacap  cap  pino,  "i  cpia  pope  na  ccpí  namac,-|  co  liionipoc- 
paib  longpuipc  uí  Dorhnaill.  Tíopcap  ainfplama  mumreap  uí  Dorhnaillan  can 
pin,  ap  a  aoi  po  jabpac  a  nDiopma  po  céDÓip  -|  po  lingpfc  poppa,  pfcaip 
lomaipecc,  -|  lompuaccaó  aingiD  éccpocap  fcoppa  ppí  pé  poDa.  Uo  ppaoíneaó 
po  DfóiD  pop  rhapcpluaj  ui  néill  gup  in  ppino  capp  a  cruócacap,  -|  po  báp 
occa  ppoipDinje  ina  nDiúió  gan  Dicell,  occá  ccacmang,  -|  occa  ccimceUaD  co 
ná  caomnaccaccap  paijib  ctca  iDip  gup  bu  hficcfn  Dóib  an  abann  pop  a  nion- 
caib  Dionnpaijió  aipm  in  po  óóipcpfc  Dia  paijiD.  l?o  báióic,  1  po  inapbaic 
pocaiDe  Do  muincip  uínéillim  Ua  ngoipmplCjaij  Copbmac,  1  im  mac  Qoóa, 
-|  im^íTlaolmuipe  mac  Diapmaca  mic  macsarfina,  mic  cuacail  in'  cleipij,  aon 
bpdije  51II  Uí  neill  -]  cenél  eójain  Don  cliup  pin,  uaip  pob  lonann  macaip  Dia 
acaippiuiii, -|  Dua  néill  pfipin,  -)  bá  pop  a  cumap  buí  lolriiaoine  ui  neill  ap 
aba  a  pialupa  ppip,!  nip  bó  pó  laip  a  cfópa  cuDpoma  Da  jac  fpnail  ionnmu]xi 


1 


The  town  of,   i.e.  the  castle  or  residence  of  '  .should  be:   "Until  they  crossed  Port-na-dtri- 

Mac  Sweeny  Banagh,  at  Bawan,  in  the  parish  of  iiamhad    and   the  Eiver  Finn."     Port-na-dtri- 

Kilcar,  in  the  barony  of  Banagh,  and  county  of  namhad  was  the  name  of  a  castle  on  the  Tyrone 

Donegal.  side  of  the  River  Finn,  close  to  Lifford — See 

">  Druim-lighean,  now  Drumleen,   a  townland  note  ',  under  the  year  1522,  p.  135;  and  note  *>, 

in  the  parish  of  Clonleigh,  barony  of  Raphoe,  under  the  year  1526,  p.  1384,  supra. 

and  county  of  Donegal ^See  note  ^  under  the  p  Rushed  upoti  it They  had  not  time  to  look 

year  1522,  p.  1356,  supra.  for  the  fords,  but  were  obliged  to  plunge  into 

n  Precisely. This   word   is   redundant,    and  that  part  of  the  river  to  which  they  first  arrived, 

might  be  omitted  in  the  English.  and  attempt  to  cross  it  by  swimming. 

"  TIte  Finn  and  Port-na-dtri-namhad. — This  ''  The  same  mother — The  Editor  has  nut  been 


1.583.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1813 

Fearfeadha,  the  son  of  Turlougli  Meirgeacli  Mac  Sweeny,  died  in  the  town 
of  Mac  Sweeny  Banagh'. 

O'Neill  (Turlough  Luineach)  was  stationed  at  Strabane,  having  a  «ireat 
party  of  Englishmen  along  with  him ;  and  they  were  menacing  and  threatening 
to  go  to  plunder  Tirconnell,  in  revenge  of  the  burning  of  Strabane  some  time 
before,  ^hen  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Manus)  heard  of  this,  he  expedi- 
tiously assembled  his  forces  to  meet  them,  and  proceeded  without  delay  to 
Druim-Lighean",  where  he  encamped,  precisely"  in  the  month  of  June.  A  troop 
of  O'NeiU's  cavalry  occasionally  went  to  offer  skirmish  and  battle  to  O'Donnell's 
cavalry  ;  and  as  O'Donnell's  people  would  not  refuse  their  challenge,  great 
numbers  were  slain  between  them  each  day.  On  one  occasion  the  choicest  part 
of  O'Neill's  cavalry  set  out  with  vigour,  fury,  contempt,  and  arrogance,  against 
the  Kinel-Connell,  and  never  halted  in  their  course  until  tUfey  crossed  the  Finn 
and  Port-na-dtri-namhad",  and  advanced  to  the  borders  of  O'Donnell's  camp. 
O'Donnell's  people  were  unprepared  at  that  time  [for  an  engagement] ;  never- 
theless, they  immediately  sent  out  their  squadron  [of  cavalry]  to  attack  them. 
An  obstinate  and  merciless  contest  and  conflict  ensued  between  them,  which 
lasted  for  a  long  time.  In  the  end  the  cavalry  of  O'Neill  were  routed  as  far  as 
the  River  Finn,  over  which  they  had  come  ;  and  they  were  hotly,  and  without 
intermission,  pressed  in  the  pursuit,  and  so  surrounded  and  environed,  that  they 
were  not  able  to  make  their  way  to  any  ford,  so  that  they  were  forced  to  face 
the  river  at  the  point  where  they,  torrent-like,  rushed  upon  it".  On  this  occa- 
sion numbers  of  O'Neill's  people  were  both  drowned  and  slain,  among  whom 
were  O'Gormly  (Cormac),  and  Mac  Hugh,  and  Mulmurry,  the  son  of  Dermot,  son 
of  Mahon,  son  of  Tuathal  O'Clery,  the  only  hostage  of  O'Neill  and  the  Kinel- 
Owen,  for  his  father  and  O'Neill  himself  were  born  of  the  same  mother'';  and 
he  had  O'Neill's  various  treasures  under  his  control,  on  account  of  his  relation- 
ship to  liim  ;  and  O'Neill  would  have  given  three  times  the  ordinary  quantity 

able  to  discover  the  name  of  the  mother  of  Tur-  till  he  was  fifteen  years  old.     The  probability 

lough  Luiueach  O'Neill.    It  looks  very  odd  that,  is,  that  after  the  death  of  Dermot  O'Clery,  leav- 

lie  and  O'Clery  should  have  been  born  of  the  ing  a  son,  Mulmurry,  Niall  Conallagh  O'Neill 

same  mother,  as  we  have  no  authority  for  as-  married  his  widow,   for   her  beauty,  and  had 

suining  that  Turlough  Luineach  O'Neill  was  a  by  her  Turlough  Luineach.     This  Niall  Conal- 

bastard,  like  Mathew,  Baron  of  Dunganon,  who  lagh  must  have  had  at  the  time  of  his  marriage 

was  the  reputed  son  of  a  blacksmith  of  Dundalk  very  small  hopes  of  ever  attaining  to  the  rank 


1814 


aNNQ^a  Rio^hacnca  eiiieawH. 


[1584. 


DO  rabaipc  app,  oia  mao  puapcclao  oó.  T?o  guinfoh  -]  jio  bcnofo  eipioe  la 
muincip  Ui  Domnaill,  "]  po  baó  j'lán  a  mfntna,  "]  popcap  buióij  Dia  cujcim 
leo. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1584. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  CÚICC  cere,  occrhoccarc,  a  cfcaip. 

mac  oibpeacra  lapla  cille  Dapa  .i.  jeapoicc  oécc  i  SacpoiB. 

Sip  niclap  maulbi  gobepnóip  cóicoó  connacr  oécc  in  ác  luain  pá  mice,  pfp 
poglamra  i  mbéplaib  "]  i  crfngcoib  oilén  lapraip  eoppa  epibe,  peap  cpoDa 
carbucióac  peacnon  epeann,  alban,  "|  na  ppainjce  ccg  pojnctiii  oia  ppionnpci,  -| 
po  baó  pfipbíp  CO  porhaoín  Dópoifi  inljpin,  iictip  puaip  a  bionjrhcda  oo  ófgruap- 
apoal  on  mbampiojiain  .^.  Conprablacc  baile  aca  luain,  gobepnopacr  cóicció 
connacc  ppi  pé  peace  mbliaóan  pia  na  bap,  piopuibeacc  Roppa  comáin  "| 
beóil  aca  na  pluaiccfó  do  pfin  i  do  oiDpfohaib,  ina  ófbaij  ace  arháin  gup  ab 
Ó  cloinn  lapla  clomne  T?iocaipD  po  ceo  polacaip  pé  bél  ara  na   pluaicceab. 


of  Prince  of  Ulster. — See  Genealogies,  Tribes, 
and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  81. 

■■  Under  this  year  Hooker  describes  a  remark- 
able combat  in  appeal  of  treason,  fought  in 
Dublin  before  the  Lords  Justices,  of  whom 
Adam  Loftus,  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  was  one, 
by  two  Irishmen  of  the  family  of  O'Conor  Faly. 
This  combat  is  also  noticed  by  Philip  O'Sullevan 
Beare,  in  his  Hist.  Cathol.  Iher.,  fol.  108,  who 
exclaims  against  this  barbarous  mode  of  trial 
called  wager  of  battle,  which  was  of  English 
introduction  ;  and  also  by  Sir  Richard  Cork, 
and  Walter  Harris,  who  gives  the  substance  of 
it  as  follows : 

"In  the  year  1583,  Conor  mac  Cormac  O'Conor 
appealed  Teige  mac  Gillapatrick  O'Conor  be- 
fore the  Lords  Justices  and  Council,  for  killing 
his  men  under  protection.  Teige,  the  Defendant, 
pleaded  that  the  Appellant's  men  had,  since 
they  had  taken  protection,  confederated  with 
the  Rebel  Calial  O'Conor,  and,  therefore,  were 
also  Rebels,  and  that  he  was  ready  to  maintain 


his  plea  by  Combat.  The  Challenge  being  ac- 
cepted by  the  Appellant,  aU  things  were  pre- 
pared to  trie  the  issue,  and  time  and  place 
appointed,  according  to  precedents  drawn  from 
the  Laws  of  England  in  such  cases.  The  weapons, 
being  sword  and  target,  were  chosen  by  the 
Defendant,  and  the  day  following  appointed 
for  combat.  The  Lords  Justices,  the  Judges, 
and  Counsellors,  attended  in  places  appointed 
for  them,  every  man  according  to  his  rank,  and 
most  of  the  military  oiBcers,  for  the  greater 
solemnity  of  the  trial,  were  present.  The  com- 
batants were  seated  on  two  stools,  one  at  each 
end  of  the  inner  court  of  the  Castle.  The  Court 
being  called,  the  Appellant  was  led  forward  into 
the  lists,  stripped  in  his  shirt,  and  searched  by 
the  Secretary  of  State,  having  no  arms  but  his 
sword  and  target,  and,  taking  a  corporal  oath 
that  his  quarrel  was  just,  he  made  his  reverence 
to  the  Lords  Justices,  and  the  Court,  and. then 
was  led  back  to  his  stool.  The  same  ceremony 
was  observed,  as  to  the  Defendant.     Then  the 


1584.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1815 

of  every  sort  of  property  for  his  ransom,  if  he  could  have  been  ransomed  ;  but 
he  was  first  mortally  wounded,  and  afterwards  drowned  by  O'Donnell's  people, 
who  were  in  high  spirits,  and  wlio  rejoiced  at  his  falling  by  them'. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1584. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  eighty-four. 

The  son  and  heir  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  i.  e.  Garrett,  died  in  England. 

Sir  Nicholas  Mai  by,  Governor  of  the  province  of  Connaught,  died  at  Athlone, 
about  Shrovetide.  He  was  a  man  learned  in  the  languages  and  tongues  of  tlie 
islands  of  the  West  of  Europe,  a  brave  and  victorious  man  in  battles  [fought] 
throughout  Ireland,  Scotland,  and  France,  in  the  service  o^is  sovereign  ;  and 
this  was  a  lucrative  service  to  him, for  he  received  a  suitable  remuneration'  from 
the  Queen,  namely,  the  constableship  of  the  town  of  Athlone,  and  th"^  governor- 
ship of  the  province  of  Connaught,  [which  he  enjoyed]  for  seven  years  before  his 
death,  and  a  grant  in  perpetuity  of  the  towns  of  Roscommon  and  Ballinasloe\ 
for  himself  and  his  heirs  ;  but  he  himself  had  previously  acquired"  Ballinasloe 
from  the  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard.     Captain  Brabazon  held  the  place  of 

pleadings  were  openly  read,  and  the  Appellant  Kilkenny,  pp.  95,  96. 

was  demanded  whether  he  would  aver  his  Ap-  '   Remuneration,    literally,     "  good   pay,    or 

peal  ?  to  which  he  answering  in  the  affirmative,  wages." 

the  Defendant  was  also  asked  whether  he  would  'Ballinasloe,    bel   ura    na    pUiai^euo,    the 

confess   the   action   or    abide    the  trial  of  the  mouth  of  the  ford  of  the  hosts  ;  but  the  true 

same?    He  also  answered  that  he  would  aver  his  name  is  Bel  aca  NaDpluaij,  i.  e.  the  mouth  of 

plea  by  the  sword.  The  signal  being  then  given  the  ford  of  Nadsluagh,  so  called  from  Nadsluagh, 

T)y  sound  of  Trumpet,  they  began  the  combat  the  son  of  Feradhach,  and  brother  of  Cairbre 

with  great  resolution.     The  Appellant  received  Crom,  Chief  of  Hy-Many.     This  was  the  name 

two  wounds  in  his  leg,  and  one  in  his  thigh,  of  a  ford  on  the  River  Suck,  in  the  county  of 

and  thereupon  attempted  to  close  the  Defendant,  Galway,  from  which  the  town  of  Ballinasloe  has 

who,  being  two  strong  for  him,  he  pummelled  taken  its  name. — See  Tribes  and  Cmtoni.^  <'/  Hy- 

him  till  he  loosened  his  murrion,  and  then  with  Many,    p.    165,    note   ".     The   fort  and  castle 

his  own  sword  cut  off  his  head,  and  on  the  point  which    gave  origin   to  this    town   were  called 

thereof  presented  it  to  the  Lords  Justices,  and  Dun-Leodha  by  the  ancient  Irish — See  note  f, 

so  his  acquittal  was  recorded." — See  Hooker,  under  the  year  1 1 89,  p.  87,  mpra. 

p.  445 ;  Harris's  edition  of  Ware's  Antiquities,  "  Acquired,   i.  e.   by  conquest,   purchase,   or 

c.  six.  pp.  153,  154;  and  Hardiman's  Statute  of  agreement;  but  we  are  not  told  which. 


1816  awNQ^a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [i584. 

lonaó  Si|i  niocláp  05  capcin  b]iabupúri  50  ceacr  Si|i  jiipoeiio  bingam  1  neinnri 
ino  á]iD  conief  poi]iecc  cóiccid  connacc  1  mi  lun  an  rparhpniD  cqi  ccino. 

Uoi]i]ióealbac  mac  uairne  mic  maoileaclamn  ui  loclainn  Do  gabail  i 
cro|^ach  mi'p  mapca  na  bbabna  ]^o  1  muiciniy',  le  coijipóealbac  mac  Domnaill 
UÍ  bpiain, "]  a  baj^uccaó  lap  pn  U't  capcin  bpabupún  ap  Sey^y^ion  an  rparhpaió 
ap  ccinrc  1  mmf. 

TTlac  mec  conmapa  an  caoibe  riayi  Do  clomn  cuiléin  oécc  .1.  Donncab  mac 
caiDcc  mic  conrnfoa  mic  conmapa  mic  Sfain,  pfp  pep  mo  eaccla  a  eapcca- 
pacr  1  nionab  pfoma  Da  mbaoi  do  clomn  cuilém  uile  epióe. 

Ruaibpi  cappac  mac  maolmuipe  mic  oonnchaiD,  mic  coippbealbai^  mec 
puibne  DO  bápuccaó  1  ccopcaicch. 

Siccóin  comcoiccfnn  do  poccpa  pó  epinn  uile,  1  pó  do  coicceab  muman 
DO  ponnpab  lap  nDÍcfnDab  lapla  Dfprhiiman  ariiail  a  Dubpamap.  Uánaicc  do 
bicin  na  poccpa  pin,  co  po  lingpioc  aicrpeabaij  na  ccfnnrap  ccompoccu]' 
Daiciuccab  conallac,  ciappai^e  -]  conncae  luimnij.  Ni  baoi  pfp  lomcaip 
aipm  Dopliocr  ITIuipip  meic  geapailr  in  epinn  Do  neoc  baoi  pop  pojail  no  pop 
Dibfipcc  nác  ccáinicc  pó  ólicceab,  ace  mab  muipip  mac  Sfain  óicc,  mic  Sfain, 
mic  comaip  lapla  nama,  1  51b  eppibe  cánaicc  pó  pir  ap  pocal  lapla  upmuman, 
-|  po  pccap  pibe  ppi  a  baoínib  mp  pm  uaip  po  éla  a]\  cuipe  cúiccip  rap  pion- 
ainn  ppiobglaip  ba  cuaib  cpe  uuaomumain,  -]  o  gac  cpic  50  apoile  50  páinicc 
Rúca  mec  uibilín  1  ccfnn  Sorhaiple  buibe  mec  mec  DomnaiU,  appaibe  50 
halbam,  1  Don  Spmn  lapom  50  bpuaip  báp  innre  lap  crpioll. 

lupcip  niia  DO  ceacr  m  6pinn  .1.  Sip  lohn  pappoc  an  21  lun  -   cainicc 

'  Muic-inis,  i.  e.  hog-island,  now  Muckinish,  townland  of  Muckinish  East,  on  tlie  margin  of 

in  the  parish  of  Drumcreeliy,  barony  of  Burren,  Pouldoody  Bay;  but  only  one  side  wall  of  it 

and   county    of   Clare.     There  are  two  castles  is   now  standing.     The    senior  branch    of  the 

at  this  place,  one  called  Shan-Muckinish,  or  Old  O'Loughlins  of  this  place  is  the  family  of  the 

Muckinish,    alias  Ballynascregga,   which  is   in  late  Mr.  Charles  O'Loughhn,  of  Newtown  Castle, 

excellent  preservation,  and  has  been  lately  re-  in  the  parish  of  Druracreery,  who  was  locally 

paired  and  beautifully  furnished  by  its  present  called  "  R15  6óipne,  i.  e.  Kinff  ofBui-ren." 
proprietor.  Captain  Kir  wan.   The  last  O'Lough-  '' Western  2)a7-t  of  Clann-Cuilein — According 

lin,  who  lived  in  this  castle,  according  to  tradi-  to  a  description   of  the  county  of  Clare,    pre- 

tion,  was  Uaithne  Mor  O'Lochlainn,  who  ilou-  served   iri  the  Manuscript   Library  of  Trinity 

rished  about    one  hundred  and    twenty  years  College,   Dublin,  E.  2.  14,  the  country  of  the 

since.     The  other  castle  is  called  Muckinish-  Western   Mac   Namara,    which  was  called  the 

Noe,  or  New  Muckinish,  and  is  situated  in  the  barony  of  Dangan  when   this   description  was 


1584.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1817 

Sir  Nicholas  until  the  arrival  of  Sir  Bichard  Bingham  in  Ireland  as  Chief  Com- 
missioner of  the  province  of  Connaught,  in  the  month  of  June  the  following 
summer. 

Turlough,  the  son  of  Owny,  son  of  Melaghlin  O'Loughlin  [of  Burren],  was, 
in  the  beginning  of  the  month  of  March  in  this  year,  taken  prisoner  on  Muic- 
inis",  by  Turlough,  the  son  of  Donnell  O'Brien,  and  put  to  death  at  Ennis,  by 
Captain  Brabazon,  at  the  ensuing  summer  sessions. 

The  son  of  Macnamara,  of  the  western  part  of  Clann-Cuilein",  died,  Donough, 
son  of  Teige,  son  of  Cumeadha",  son  of  Cumara,  son  of  John ;  a  man,  of  all  the 
Clann-Cuilein,  the  most  dreaded  by  his  enemies  in  the  field  of  battle. 

Rory  Carragh,  the  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Turlough  Mac 
Sweeny,  was  executed  at  Cork. 

A  general  peace  was  proclaimed  throughout  all  Ireland,  and  the  two 
provinces  of  Munster  in  particular,  after  the  decapitation  of  the  Earl  of  Des- 
mond,, of  which  we  have  already  made  mention.  In  consequence  of  this  pro- 
clamation, the  inhabitants  of  the  neighbouring  cantreds  crowded  in  to  inhabit 
Hy-Connello,  Kerry,  and  the  county  of  Limerick.  There  was  not  a  single  indi- 
vidual of  the  race  of  Maurice  Fitzgerald  able  to  bear  arms  in  Ireland,  even  of 
all  those  who  had  been  engaged  in  acts  of  plunder  and  insurrection,  who  did 
not  become  obedient'  to  the  law,  excepting  only  Maurice,  the  son  of  John  Oge, 
son  of  John,  son  of  Thomas  the  Earl  [of  Desmond] ;  and  even  he  came  in  under 
peace,  on  the  word  of  the  Earl  of  Ormond  ;  but  he  afterwards  separated  from 
his  people,  and  fled  with  a  company  of  five  persons  across  the  green-streamed 
Shannon,  northwards,  through  Thomond,  and  from  one  territory  to  another, 
until  he  came  to  Sorley  Boy,  the  son  of  Mac  Donnell,  in  Route  [the  territory 
of]  Mac  Quillin,  from  whence  he  proceeded  to  Scotland,  and  afterwards  to 
Spain,  where  he  died  after  some  time. 

A  new  Lord  Justice,  namely.  Sir  John  Perrott^  arrived  in  Ireland  on  the 

written  (1585),  contains  the  following  parishes,  belonged  to  this  territory. 

viz.  :   Quin,    Toomfinlough,    Kilraghtis,    Bun-  '  Curiieadha — This  name  is  locally  anglicised 

ratty,    Feenagh,   Kilcorney,   Kilfintanan,   Kil-  Cuvey,  or  Covey. 

quan,  Cloney,  Dowry,  Templemaley,  Drumline,  '  Obedierit,  literally,  "  who  did  not  come  under 

Cloaloghan,     Kilmaleery,    and    Killeely.     The  law." 

whole  of  the  ancient  district  of  Tradry,   now  '  Sir  John  Perrott. — Sir  John  Perrott,  who  was 

almost  all  included  in  the  barony  of  Bunratty,  stxpposedtobeanaturalsonof  King  Henry  VIII., 

10  Y 


1818  aNHQca  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN.  [1534. 

iinaiUe  |ii]>  Sip  lohn  nopip  ina  ppepioenc  op  cfno  oá  cóicceaó  mmrian,  -|  Sip 
PipDepD  biongom  ina  sobejinoi)!  op  cfno  cóicció  connacc.  Ni  po  cair  an 
luprip  mi  CO  hiomlán  1  nac  cliac  na  comnaibe  an  can  cainic  co  harUmin,  "| 
appióe  50  jaiUirh.  Uanjarcaji  maice  C(3icci6  connacc  ina  comóail  gup  an 
mbaile  pin  Oia  páilciuccaó,  "|  Dia  aDrháilmap  pollarfinaijceóip  -\  map  cobnac 
op  a  ccionn  on  bppionnpa.  lap  mbfir  peal  Don  lupcip  i  njaillim  po  rpiall  00 
Ó0I  CO  liiimneacli,  baoi  an  ceo  aoliam  lap  ppáccbáil  na  jaillmlie  1  ccill  mec 
uuac.  Came  an  oapa  hoióce  50  cuinnce  1  ccloinn  cuiléin.  baccap  maire 
conncaé  an  cláip  ap  a  cionn  annpin  Doneoch  DÍb  ná  Deachaió  ina  cfno  50 
jaillirii.  (jai  beóp  Sippiam  na  conncae  .1.  an  cpiiipeac,  capla  illáirh  a^^  an 
cpippiom  an  can  pin,  Oonnchob  beacc,  mac  caiócc,  mic  Donnchaió  uí  bpiain 
apDcpécuip,  1  uaccapán  locca  aibmillce  cóicció  connacc  pia  pin.  Ro  bfn 
a  opoc  óiac  66  oip  piiaip  a  pigfo  a]i  capp,  ~\  cnaimpebeab  coimmbpipce  00 
óénamh  Dia  cnamaib  la  ciil  cuaije  cpuime  ciujpopmnaióe,  ■]  po  cuipeao  a 
copp  Irbnbpipce  Ifnfiapb  cfngailce  ppi  caólaóaib  cpuaiD  pi'^nib  cnáibe  i 
mbaipp  cloccaip  cuinnce  po  copaib  en, "]  icaiDe  an  aieoip  up  DÓi^  jomao 
lonncomapca  1  eippiomláip  00  luce  oenrha  Dpoicjniom  a  paicpin  arhlaió  pm. 
Oo  caor»  c«n  lupcip  ap  na  riiapac  co  luimneac, "]  po  cinn  aicce  Dpotig  mop 
00  óaoínib  uaiple  ap  gac  Ifc  l)0  luimneac  no  milleab  ")  oo  miocopuccab  co 
puccpacc  pccéla  paip  illup  coblac  albanac  00  cocc  oon  Ific  ba  cuuic  oepinn 
po  cojaipm  Somaiple  buioe  mic  mec  oomnaill,  1  co  mbáccap  ag  lonOpab  "j 
ace  opccam  na  cipe  ina  ccimceall,-i  bo  fCt>  pocano  ima  ccangaccap  Somaiple 
buibe  (050  mbaoi  an  piica  pé  pé  oeic  mbliaban  picfc  poiriie  pin)  00  cloipcin 
gup  cuip  comaiple  Saran  oeacc  "|  opopcongpa  ap  an  lupcip  nua  pm  an  piica 
00  rabaipc  t)á  ponDúipib  Diple  baoein,  1  Somaiple  nionnapbab  50  a  acapba 
bunaib  50  halbain,  1  ni  lifb  amain  ace  gan  gabalcap  eaccapcenelaig  ap  bir 

and  had  mucli  of  his  towering  spirit  in  him,  Parliament  with  her  Majesty's  privity;  to  con- 
was  sworn  Lord  Deputy  on  the  26tli  of  June,  fer  all  olfices,  except  Chancellor,  Treasurer, 
1584.  His  commission  was,  as  usual,  during  three  Chief  Judges,  and  Masters  of  the  Rolls  ; 
pleasure,  to  make  'war  and  peace,  and  to  punish  and  to  collate  and  confer  all  spiritual  promo- 
ofFences  or  pardon  them  (treason  against  the  tions,  except  archbishops  and  bishops;  to  do 
Queen's  person,  or  counterfeiting  money,  only  all  things  relating  to  justice  and  government 
excepted),  to  make  orders  and  proclamations,  that  the  Queen  could  do  if  present. — See  Cox's 
to  impose  fines,  and  dispose  of  rebels' estates,  //í'Jírni'a^íjii/Zi'ca/ia,  A.  D.  1584,  edition  of  1689, 
to  exercise  martial  law,  and  to   assemble  the  p.  368. 


1584.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1819 

21st  of  June  ;  and  there  came  along  with  him  Sir  John  Norris,  as  President 
over  the  two  provinces  of  Munster,  and  Sir  Richard  Bingham,  as  Governor  over 
the  province  of  Connaught.  The  Lord  Justice  had  not  passed  an  entire  month" 
in  Dublin  before  he  proceeded  to  Athlone,  and  from  thence  to  Galway.  To 
this  town  the  chiefs  of  the  province  of  Connaught  repaired,  to  meet  and  wel- 
come him,  and  to  acknowledge  him  as  their  ruler,  and  as  the  chief  placed  over 
them  by  the  Sovereign.  The  Lord  Justice,  having  spent  some  time  in  Galway, 
set  out  for  Limerick,  and  remained  the  first  night,  after  leaving.  Galway,  at 
Kilmacdviagh ;  on  the  second  night  he  reached  Cuinche",  in  Clann-Cuilein,  where 
he  was  met  by  those  chiefs  of  the  county  of  Clare  who  had  not  met  him  at 
Galway.  The  sheriff  of  the  county,  namely.  Cruise,  also  waited  on  him  ;  and 
the  sheriff  had  at  that  time  in  his  custody  Donough  Beg,  the  son  of  Teige,  son 
of  Donough  O'Brien,  before  then  the  arch-traitor  and  demagogue  of  the  plun- 
derers of  the  province  of  Connaught.  His  evil  destiny  awaited  him,  for  he  was 
hanged  from  a  car,  and  his  bones  were  broken  and  smashed  with  the  back  of  a 
large  and  heavy  axe ;  and  his  body,  [thus]  mangled  and  half-dead,  was  placed, 
fastened  with  hard  and  tough  h'empen  ropes,  to  the  top  of  the  Cloccas  of 
Cuinnche",  under  the  talons  of  the  birds  and  fowls  of  the  air",  to  the  end  that  the 
sight  of  him  in  that  state  might  serve  as  a  warning  and  an  example  to  evildoers. 
The  Lord  Justice  went  the  next  day  to  Limerick,  and  was  resolved  to  de- 
stroy and  reduce  a  great  number  of  gentlemen  on  each  side  of  Limerick,  until 
news  overtook  him  that  a  Scotch  fleet  arrived  in  the  north  side  of  Ireland,  at 
the  invitation  of  Sorley  Boy,  the  son  of  Mac  Donnell,  and  that  they  were  plun- 
dering and  ravaging  the  country  around  them.  The  cause  of  their  coming  was: 
Sorley  Boy,  who  had  had  the  possession  of  the  Route  for  thirty  years  before, 
having  heard  that  the  English  Council  had  issued  an  order  and  command  to 
the  new  Lord  Justice  to  restore  the  Route  to  its  rightful  inheritors,  and  to 
banish  Sorley  to  his  own  original  patrimony  in  Scotland  ;  and  not  only  this, 

■*  An  entire  month — He  was  sworn  on  the  26th  Qvtln.    The  word  clojóp  is  usually  applied  to  a 

of  June,  and  began  his  progress  on  the  15  th  of  round  tower  belfry  detached  from  the  church, 

July — See  Cox's  Hilernut  Anglicana.  but  is  here  evidently  applied  to  the  square  tower 

■■  Cuinche,  now  Quin,  in  the  barony  of  Bun-  of  the  great  abbey  of  Quiii  still  remaining, 

ratty — See  note  ",  undtr  the  year  1278,  p.  429,  ■*  The  birds  and  fowls  of  the  «;>.— This  is  a  re- 

and  note  ',  under  1402,  p.  775,  supra.  dundance  of  words  in  the  original  for  the  sake 

"  The  Cloccas  of  Cuinnche,  i.  e.  the  Belfry  of  of  alliteration. 

10  Y  2 


1820  awNaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawH.  [i584. 

i)o  Icccarj  i  itejiinn  an  ccfin  no  biaó  umal  Don  pjiionnfa.  Ocla  an  tupcip  ]io 
páccaib  luimneac  ina  luoirpéim,  "]  ^lo  póccaip  no  paibe  Dpeapaib  inpfoma 
(')  bóinn  CO  béippe  a  mbfir  ina  coinne  i  ccfnn  cfir]ie  la  picfc  on  la  pin  i 
iiDpoiceac  óra.  í?o  ppfccpaó  na  póccapra  pin  lá  peapaib  muriian,  mi6e,  -] 
laijean,  uaip  ronjarcap  co  lionmop,  léprionóilce  gup  an  niaigin  pin.  Uuccpar 
laporh  uile  asliaib  ap  ullroib.  Oo  cimlaiD  Sorhaiple  Dail  pfp  nepeann  Dia 
pai^ió  po  pagaib  an  púca, "]  puce  a  caopaijeacc,  a  rhna, -]  a  muinccapa  50 
jleann  concaóan  co  nap  p iccaib  ae^aipeacc  no  lomcoirhéo  ap  an  cip,  nr't  brip- 
oacc  ap  baile  ip  in  púca,  ace  ap  óúnlip  arháir,  -]  51Ó  é  pá  Diginn  nainjiii  Don 
cúicceaó  po  jaBab  é  lap  an  lupcip  pó  cfno  oa  lá  co  na  noiócib  lap  puióe  ma 
nmceal,  1  po  cuip  bapoa  na  bainpíojna  ino.  lap  mbfir  Dfic  lá  con  nipcip 
ipin  púca,  T?o  págaib  rpi  banna  oécc  ap  ópDa  i  niillcoib  lé  ha^aió  Somaiple 
x>o  cfnnpuccaó,  1  cicc  péin  cap  a  aip  co  bar  cliar, "]  ]io  ]'ccaoílpior  pip 
epeann  Dia  rnjibh. 

Gappaonca  ofipje  1  niaprap  connacc  ecip  pliocc  eojain  uí  plairbfprai^, 
1  pliocc  mupchaiónnic  bpiam  na  noinpeac  uí  plaicbeapcaij.  r?ob  éa  áóbap 
]'in  Sliocr  eojain  .1.  ó  plairbfpcaij  caóg  mác  caiój  na  buile  mic  inu]ichai6, 
mic  eojam, "]  clann  Dorhnaill  an  coccaió  mac  an  jiolla  óuib  mic  iTUipcbaió 
inic  eojain  Do  gabóil  oiléin  baile  ria  liinnpi  ap  caócc,  mac  nnipchaiD  na  crua^ 
luic  caiócc,  mic  mupcbaió  uí  plairbfiicaij,  uaip  bácrap  pliocc  eojain  ajct 
paóa  gup  bó  leó  pfin  ó  cfpr  an  coilén  pin,"]  5«p  ab  rap  a  pápuccaó  baí  caócc 
agá  fójbáil,  1  050  cumDac,  -]  cecib  cpur  a  mbaí  a  píp  Do  com  raócc  poppa 

*  It,  i.  e.  Ireland  ;   that  is,  not  to  allow  any  But  this  name  was  originally  applied  to  a  terri- 

strangers,  Scottish,  or  English,  to  come  to  colo-  tory  comprising  the  parishes  of  Ballynascreen, 

nise  Ireland,  so  long  as  the  native  Irish  remained  Kilcronaghan,  and  Desertmartin,  in  the  barony 

obedient  to  the  Sovereign.  of  Loughinsholin. 

''  Frojn  the  Boijne  to  Beare,  i.  e.  from  the  River  ''  Dun-Us,  now  Dunluce,  an  old  castle  in  ruins, 
Boyne,  which  falls  into  the  sea  near  Drogheda,  about  two  miles  and  a  quarter  west  from  Bush- 
to  Bearehaven,  in  the  south-west  of  the  county  mills,  in  the  north  of  the  county  of  Antrim, 
uf  Cork.  These  ruins  are  situated  on  a  rock  which   is 

8  Gleann-Concadhain,    now  anglice  Gleucon-  separated  from   the   mainland  by  a  chasm  ol' 

keine,  i  a  name  applied  to  a  romantic  valley  si-  about  thirty  feet  iu  width,   and  which,  on  the 

tuated  between  Slieve  Gallion  and  the  Banagher  opposite  side,   rises  about  a  hundred  feet  per- 

mountains,  in  the  parish  of  Ballynascreen,   in  pendicularly  from  the  sea.     This  castle  is  said 

the  south-west  of  the  county  of  Londonderry —  to  have  been  originally  erected  by  Mac  Quillin, 

See  note'',  under  the  year  1526,  p.  \'i^-\,  sujim.  chief  of  the  Route,  and  afterwards  greatly  en- 


1584.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  18"21 

but  not  to  suffer  any  strangers  to  settle  in  Ireland  so  long  as  it"  remained  obe- 
dient to  the  sovereign.  As  for  the  Lord  Justice,  he  set  out  from  Limerick  on 
his  rapid  progress,  and  issued  orders  that  all  the  men  fit  for  service  from  the 
Boyne  to  Beare*^  should  meet  him  at  Drogheda,  at  the  expiration  of  twenty-four 
days  from  that  day.  The  men  of  Munster,  Meath,  and  Leinster,  obeyed  this 
proclamation,  for  they  came  numerously  and  fully-assembled  to  that  place.  They 
all  then  set  out  for  Ulster.  When  Sorley  heard  of  the  march  of  the  men  of 
Ireland  towards  him,  he  left  the  Route,  taking  with  him  his  creaghts,  his 
women,  and  his  people,  to  Gleann-Concadhain^,  and  leaving  neither  shepherds 
nor  guards  in  the  country,  nor  warders  in  any  castle  in  the  Route,  except  only 
Dun-lis" ;  and  although  this  was  the  strongest  fortress  in  the  province,  it  was, 
nevertheless,  taken  by  the  Lord  Justice,  after  he  had  besieged  it  for  two  days 
and  nights  ;  and  he  placed  the  Queen's  warders  in  it.  The  Lord  Justice, 
havmg  tarried  ten  days  in  the  Route,  left  thirteen  companies  of  soldiers  billeted 
in  Ulster,  for  the  pvirpose  of  reducing  Sorley  Boy,  and  he  himself  then  retiu-ued 
to  Dublin,  and  the  men  of  Ireland  dispersed  for  their  several  homes. 

Dissentions  arose  in  AVest  Connaught  between  the  descendants  of  Owen 
(3'Flaherty  and  the  descendants  of  Murrough,  the  son  of  Brian-na-nOinseach' 
O'Flaherty.  They  originated  in  this  manner  :  the  descendants  of  (3wen  O'Fla- 
herty,  namely,  Teige,  the  son  of  Teige-na-Buile,  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Uwen, 
and  the  sons  of  Donnell-an-Chogaidh,  son  of  Gilladuv,  son  of  Murrough,  son 
of  Owen,  took  the  island  of  Baile-na-hinnse''  from  Teige,  the  son  of  Murrough 
of  the  Battle-axes,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Mvirrough  O'Flaherty  ;  for  the  descen- 
dants of  Owen  had  been  wont  to  say  that  that  island  was  their's  by  right,  and 
that  Teia;e  had  seized  and  held  it  in  violation  of  their  riiiht.     Be  the  truth  as 

larged  by  the  Mac  Douuells.    Th&  name  Dun-lis,  by  Mr.  Hardiiuan   for  the  Irish  Archaeological 

denoting  strong  dnn  or  fort,  shews  that  the  site  Society,  p.  387,  et  sequent. 

had  been  occupied  at  a  remote  period  by  a  pri-  ''  Baile-na-hinnse,  i.  e.  the  town  or  castle  of 

mitive   Irish   dun,   or  fort,  either  of  earth,   or  the   island,    now  Ballinahinch,    a   small  islinid 

Cyclopean    stone  architecture,   like  Dun-Aen-  towards  the  western  side  of  Ballinahinch  lake,  in 

gusa,  on  the  great  Island  of  Aran,  in  the  bay  of  the  barony  of  Ballinahinch,  aliius  Connanuira,  in 

Galway.  the  county  of  Galway. — See  Chorogruphical  iJe- 

'  Brian-na-nOinseach,  i.e.  Brianus  stultarum.  scription  of  lar-Cotmavghi,  pp.  106,403.  On  this 

For  a   fuller  account  of  these  dissentions  the  island  are  still  to  be  seen  the  ruins  of  a  smair 

reader  is  referred  to  Chorogruphical  Description  square  castle,  about  thirty  feet  in  length  and 

of  lar- Connaught,  by  Roderic  O'Flaherty,  edited  twenty-five  in  breadth,  which  was  built,  accord- 


1822  awHa'.a  Rio^hachua  eiReawH.  [1584. 

]^orh  a  noiaib  na  gabala  co  nap  poccaib  mil  ninnile  ^u]^  a  pmnicc  ap  a  ccuio 
nocip  gan  a  mapbaó  no  jan  a  ccabaipc  Iwy.  Do  pónaó  oio^^bola  mopa  leó- 
l^orii  DO  cciócc  gion  jiip  bionann  curhanj  baoi  oca. 

peace  oá  noeachaiC)  an  caócc  pin  mac  mupcliaio  lucu  aprpaij  ap  lonn- 
paijiD  oióce  1  mi  lún  i  noeaDliaib  pleacca  eoj^ain  ui  plaifbfpcaij  jo  hcipamn, 
r?ucc  rabcc  poppa  ipin  anmaoam  co  hanullam,  ecip  coolaó  "j  Dúpccaó  ap 
7;ac  caob  Do  cuipp  roppai  j  na  luinje,  -]  bá  hfpccáipDfmail  an  caipbénab  cucc 
pé  Dóib  a]\  an  cpacc  pin,  "|  nip  ppiú  an  coilén  a  noeapnaó  an  la  pin  amain  ma 
cimceall,  uaip  po  mapbaó  annpin  ííhipchab  mac  emainn  óicc  niic  emainn 
me.j5  aeoa  pfp  Ificpeac  mealláin  Do  cóiD  i  ccommbáió  pleacca  eoccain  ui 
plairbfpcaij.  Ro  mapbaó  ann  Dna  mac  penepcc'iil  cloinne  muipip  bai  ina 
ppocaip  ap  in  ppotail  ceDna,  ~\  mac  ui  plairbfpcaij  (.i.  caoj)  pin  pfin  .i. 
TTIupcliaó  palac.  Ro  mapbaó  beóp  Dpong  rhóp  Do  muincip  pleacc  eojain 
ui  plairbfpcaij  cen  mo  cácc  na  huaiple  pin.  báccap  arhlaiD  pin  ace  coccah 
ppi  apoile  CO  po  pioóaijpior  501II  fcoppa  ipm  ppojrhap  ap  ccinD,  1  Do  paDaó 
an  coilén  Do  pliocc  eojain  ui  plairbfpcaij. 

ITIuipceapcac  gapb  mac  bpiam  mic  caiDcc  ui  bpiain  Décc  ipin  ceomi  Dpoj- 
map  1  ccpaicc  copcpciin.  ITlacaerh  ceillióe  corhpoppaió  nac  ppuaip  caraoip 
na  roibfim,  ail,  no  acaip  ó  a  bpCir,  50  a  bop,  -]  a  abnacal  1  mainipcip  innpi. 

Ctn  copnamac  mac  concoiccpice,  mic  Diapmaoa,  mic  caibcc  caim  ui  clfipij 
pfp  puim  poconáij  co  ppebup  nje  naoibeao  peal  1  rcuaómumain,-]  peal  oile 
hi  ccip  conaill  50  po  écc  ap  an  ppuapcopaij  1  rcip  conaill  1  ccopjap  na 
bliaóna  po,  1  a  abnacal  po  bicfn  De,  "|  San  bfpnapcc  occ  na  mancoib  1  mai- 
nipcip eapa  puaib. 

ing  to  Eoderic  O'Flaherty,  of  the  stones  of  the  belonging  to  the  barony  of  Moycullen,  in  the 

adjoining  abbey  of  Tombeola.  west    of  the  county  of  Galway,    opposite  the 

'  Descendants   of  Owen    0'' Flaherti/ These  Great  Island  of  Aran. 

were  the  western  O'Flahertys,  who  were  an  older  °  Clann^Maurice These  were  not  the  Clann- 

branch  of  the  family  than  Murrough  na  dTuagh,  Maurice  of  Brees,  in  the  now  county  of  Mayo, 

who  was  set  up  by  Queen  Elizabeth See  Cho-  but  the  Clann-JMaurice  of  Kerry,  who  were  in 

rographical Description  of  lar-Connauglit,  p.  362.  constant  communication  with  the  O'Flahertys 

"  The  island. — The  island  about  which  they  and  O'Malleys. — See  the  notice  of  the  siege  of 

were  fighting  was  not  the  island  of  Aranmore,  Lixnaw  under  the  year  1568,  p.  1627. 

•but  the  insignificant  islet  of  Ballinahinch,   in  p   Craig- Corcrain. — This  name   is    now  cor- 

Ballinahinch  lake,  in  Connamara.  rupted  to    Cahercorcrane,   which  is  that  of  a 

"  Leiiir-Meallain,  now  Lettermellan,  an  island  townland  containing  the  ruins  of  a  castle  in  the 


1584.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1823 

it  might,  Teige,  after  their  capture  of  it,  made  an  irruption  upon  them,  and  left 
not  a  single  head  of  cattle  on  their  portion  of  the  territory  which  he  did  not 
either  kill  or  carry  oil'  with  him.  They,  in  return,  committed  great  injuries 
against  Teige,  although  they  had  not  equal  power  [with  him]. 

On  one  occasion,  in  the  month  of  June,  as  this  Teige,  the  son  of  Murrough, 
went  with  the  crew  of  a  boat  to  the  island  of  Aran,  in  pursuit  of  the  descendants 
of  Owen  O'Flaherty',  he  overtook  them  at  the  break  of  day,  [and  found  them] 
unprepared,  in  a  state  between  waking  and  sleeping,  at  both  sides  of  the  fore- 
castle of  their  boat.  He  set  them  a  very  hostile  example  on  this  strand  ;  and 
[indeed]  the  island™  was  not  worth  all  that  was  done  about  it  on  that  day,  for 
Murrough,  the  son  of  Edmond  Oge,  son  of  Edmond  Mac  Hugh  of  Leitir-Meallain", 
who- had  joined  the  descendants  of  Owen  O'Flaherty,  also  the  son  of  the  Senes- 
chal of  Clann-Maurice°,  who  was  with  them  on  this  predatory  excui'sion,  and 
Murrough  Salach,  the  son  of  O'Flaherty  (Teige),  were  slain.  Many  of  the 
descendants  of  Owen  O'Flaherty  were  also  slain,  besides  these  gentlemen.  Thus 
did  they  remain  at  war  with  each  other,  until  they  were  mutually  reconciled 
by  the  English  in  the  ensuing  autumn,  when  the  island  [of  Baile-na-hinnsi]  was 
given  to  the  descendants  of  Owen  O'Flaherty. 

Murtough  Garv,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Teige  O'Brian,  died  at  Craig- 
Corcrain"  in  the  first  month  of  autumn  [i.  e.  August].  He  was  a  sensible, 
sedate  youth,  who  never  received  blame  or  reproach,  disrespect  or  insult,  from 
his  birth  to  his  death.     He  was  buried  in  the  monastery  of  Ennis. 

Cosnamhach,  son  of  Cucogry,  son  of  Dermot,  son  of  Teige  Cam  O'Clery,  a 
respectable  and  affluent  man,  who  at  one  time  had  kept  a  house  of  hospitality 
in  Thomond,  and  at  another  time  in  Tirconnell,  died  at  Fuar-Chosach'',  in  Tir- 
connell,  in  the  Lent  of  this  year,  and  was  buried  under  the  asylum  of  God  and 
St.  Bernard,  in  the  monastery  of  Assaroe^ 

parish  of  Rath,  barony  of  Inchiquiu,  mid  county  of  other  persons  mentioned  tlierein,  it  is  evident 

of  Clare,  and  near  the  old  church  of  Rath-Blatli-  that  this  tract,  which  has  been  often  quoted  in 

niaic.     In  the  Description  of  the  County  of  Clare  the  notes  to  these  Ainials,  was  written  early  in 

iir  Thomond,  [jreserved  in  the  Manuscript  Li-  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth. 

brary  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  F.  2.  14,  this  i  Fuar-Chosach— This  is  still  the  name  of  a 

castle  is  set  down  as  belonging  to  Moriertagh  tract  of  land  in  tlie  parish  of  Kilbarron,  barony 

Caragh  O'Brien,  who  is  the  very  individual  men-  of  Tirhugh,  and  county  of  Donegal. 

tioned  in  the  text.     From  this,  and  the  names  r  Assaroe.—T\\c  ruins  of  tliis  monastery,  to 


1824  awNaca  Rioshactica  eiReawN.  [1585. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1585 
Ctoi]^  Ciiiopc,  mile,  cuicc  ceo,  occ[rho5ac]  a  cúicc. 

lajila  ciUi  uopa  dccc  i  pc(;raib  .1.  jfpóiD  mac  ^ecqioio,  mic  jfpóio  mic 
romaip,  mic  Sfain  cctim.  6ai  an  ciapla  pin  cfiicc  bliaóna  1  mob  pepra  050 
congmáil  ó  na  rip  Duchaiji  co  ppuaip^bap  an  can  pin.  Menpii  a  riiac  DoipD- 
neab  ina  lonan  la  comaiple  Sa;):an, -|  a  léccab  anoip  00  paijió  a  arapba. 

.  irinc  uilliam  bupc,  RipoepD  mac  oiluepaip  mic  Sfain  oécc,  ~\  ni  po  hoipo- 
neab  ina  lonab  ace  an  rab  caoc  (oaplaip  pein)  go  beir  ir.a  lonao  Daimoeoin 
?;all. 

^opmlaió  ingfn  ui  Ruaipc  .1.  injfn  bpiain  mic  eojain  bfn  00  cair  a 
iiaimpip  ago  Diol  Dpeapaib  popoa,  bfn  pénamail  pocpaib  nap  cuill  jpiopab 
na  gniiip  imbfpccab  00  raoib  fcclaipe  na  ealaban,  na  caraoip  ele  beóp  do 
raoib  a  hoinij  na  o  hanma  oo  écc. 

bpian  mac  raibcc,  mic  bpiain  mic  eojain  ui  puaipc  Go  Dol  ap  piubal 
pluai^  in  Daprpaije  me^  plannchaib  1  ppiopfopac  mip  lanuapii,-]  po  pccaoil- 
pioc  a  pcceimelra  po  Dainjnib  Daprpaije  do  cpuinniuccab  cpeac,-)  puaippioc 
enala  aibble.  1?U5  maj  planncaib  róip  rpom  oalbancoib  -|  oeipennchaib  aip, 
-]  po  jab  bpian  accá  niomcap  -|  báccap  ag  cairfrh  1  ag^  corhpuabaipc  a  céle 
7:0  panjaccap  aipo  a  náipD  ppi  poile  ace  bfnoaib  bo  pan  mbpeipne.  Oo 
cualacap  pip  bpeipne,  -]  mumcip  ui  puaipc  bpian  do  bol  1  noaprpaije  po 
cpuinnij^pioc  pop  a  cionn  1  nfnac  lomcumanj  epbalca  in  po  bab  tmj;  leó  a 
pajbail  Dm  pai^ib.  puapacrap  eippium  cuca  50  maillcfimneach  mópualac, 
ace  lomcap  eccualainj  a  eqpccapacc,-]  gép  bó  he  a  cobaip  po  ba  oleacc  DO 

which  is  attached  an  extensive  burial  ground,  is  litre  the  genitive  singular  of  a  h-niiim,  her 

are  stiU  to  be  seen  about  one  mile  -to  the  west  name. 

of  the  town  of  Ballyshannon,  in  the  south-west  ^  Beanna-bo,  i.  e.  the  peaks  of  the  cows,  now 

of  the  county  of  Donegal See  note  ',  under  the  Benbo,  a  remarkable  mountain  near  the  parish 

year  1 184,  p.  64,'  supra.  of  Drumleas,  barony  of  Dromahaire,  and  county 

'  To  go  westwards,  i.  e.  to  return  to  Ireland.  of  Leitrim,  extending  from  near  Manor  Hamil- 

'  Son  of  Owen. — Charles  O'Conor  of  Belana-  ton,  in  the  direction  of  Sligo,  for  about  three 

gare  adds,  that  she  was  the  daughter  of  Brian  miles.    According  to  the  tradition  in  the  coun- 

Ballagh,  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Tiernan,  son  of  try  this  mountain  is  pregnant  with  gold  mines, 

Teige  O'Rourke.  which  gave  rise   to   the  saying,  "  If  puioBpe 

"  iVanie,  i. e.  her  fame  for  goodness.  Q  hatimu  6eanna  bo  nú  Gipe  p aoi  óó,  i.  e.  Tota  Hiber- 


1585.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1825 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1585. 

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

The  Earl  of  Kildare  died  in  England,  namely,  Garrett,  the  son  of  Garrett, 
son  of  Garrett,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  John  Cam.  This  Earl  had  been  five 
years  under  arrest,  kept  from  his  patrimonial  inheritance,  until  he  died  at  this 
time.  Henry,  his  son,  Avas  appointed  his  successor  by  the  English  Council. 
Henry  was  then  permitted  to  go  westwards',  to  his  patrimonial  inheritance. 

Mac  William  Burke  (Richard,  the  son  of  Oliver,  son  of  John)  died  ;  and  no 
person  was  elected  his  successor  ;  but  the  Blind  Abbot  held  his  place,  as  he 
thought,  in  despite  of  the  English, 

Gormly,  the  daughter  of  O'Rourke,  i.  e.  of  Brian,  son  of  Owen',  a  woman' 
who  had  spent  her  life  with  husbands  worthy  of  her,  a  prosperous  and  serene 
woman,  who  had  never  rnerited  blame  or  censiu-e  from  the  Church  or  the  lite- 
rati, or  any  reproach  on  account  of  her  hospitality  or  name",  died. 

Brian,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Owen  O'Rourke,  made  an  incursion 
into  Dartry  Mac  Clancy  in  the  very  beginning  of  the  month  of  January,  and  dis- 
patched marauding  squadrons  through  the  fastnesses  of  Dartry  to  collect  preys; 
and  they  obtained  great  spoils.  Mac  Clancy,  with  a  numerous  body  of  Scots 
and  Irishmen,  pursued  and  overtook  him.  Brian  proceeded  to  resist  thera  ; 
and  they  continued  fighting  and  skirmishing  with  each  other  as  they  moved 
along,  until  they  came  face  to  face  at  Beanna-bo™,  in  Breifny.  When  the  men 
of  Breifny  and  O'Rourke's  people  heard  that  Brian  had  gone  to  Dartry,  they 
assembled  together,  to  meet  him  at  a  certain  narrow  pass,  by  which  they  thought" 
he  would  come  on  to  thera.  They  perceived  him  approaching  at  a  slow  pace, 
and  with  great  haughtiness,  sustaining  the  attacks  of  his  enemies;  and  although 
[they  as]  his  own  true  followers''  should  have  succoured  him  [on  such  an  emer- 

nia  bis  ditior  Ben  bo." — See  it  again  mentioned  why  his  own  followers  should  have  acted  thus; 

iutheseAnnalsattheyearsl583,  I585,andl586.  but  we  may  conjecture   that  they  did  so  by 

''  They  thought — yhis  should  be,  "theyknew."  order  of  O'Eourke,  who,  having  submitted  to 

' His  own  true  follcfivers,  i.e.  these  vrere  his  own  the  government  this   year,   did  not  wish  that 

followers  who  posted  themselves  in  the  narrow  Brian  should  thus  violate  the  law. — See  Choro- 

pass  to  intercept  his  retreat.     It  looks  strange  graphical  Description  of  lar-Connaught,  edited 

that  the  Four  Masters  should  not  have  told  us  by  Mr.  Hardiman,  p.  346. 

10  z 


1826  aNHQca  Rioghachca  eiReaNN.  [i585. 

piop  lucr  Ifnarhna,  ni  hamlaiD  pin  Do  pónparc  ace  a  la  bája  oo  rabaipc  la 
a  biobbaóaib  50  po  linjeao  an  laocrhilió  Dia  Díb  Ifinb.  T?o  jáipfó  poirhe  -| 
ma  óiaió  Don  Dfijpfp.  Ro  hiaóaó  oá  jac  aen  caéb  ma  uipcimceall  co  ná  po 
cumams  cfim  pop  a  culaib  ma  pop  a  ajhaib.  Po  mapbaó  oaoíne  lomóa  ma 
nmceall  ipm  lomaipeacc  pm.  l?o  DioraijeaD  ann  copnccaó  jallócclac  do 
clomn  rf'irij  Diappma  -\  opuijell  óip  5allócclac  ngeapalcac  barcap  1  ppappaD 
bpiam  an  la  pm,  "|  05  pfic  o  narhpame  ó  cíp  Do  trip  lap  noiorlaifpiuccoD  na 
noajDaomeaD  ajá  mbácrap  peace  piam,  ~\  ni'op  bo  lam  pop  aipióe  a  nionn- 
paijiD  muna  luijeaó  lion  larh  1  lomapcpaiD  anppoplamn  poppa.  Oo  bepcpar 
pip  bpeipne  1  mumcip  ui  l?uaipc  anacal  Do  bpian  ip  m  mbfipn  baojail  ym  -\ 
Ruccpac  leo  he  pop  a  nionchaib  Dia  lomcoiriiéD,  -]  ap  í  corhaiple  a]\  ap  cmn- 
pior  a  ccionn  an  rpeap  laoi  a  rhapbaó  50  mipccneac  miopúnac  lap  mbfir  Do 
popaniocc  -]  pop  a  nemeac.  Uuccao  Dpoc  cuic  DuaRuaipc  Don  migriiorii  pin. 

Gmann  Dopca  mac  Dorhnaill,  mic  mupcliaiD,  mic  Í?iiai6pi  rhóip,  -]  Uoipp- 
bealbac^  mac  emamn  óicc,  mic  emamn,  mic  coippDealbaij  mec  pinj  do 
bapucchaó  ina  nDip  in  at  cliac. 

lomarc  pleachaD  ip  in  mbliabain  pi  co  po  milleab  upmóp  apba  Gpeann. 

Oiapmaicr,  mac  Domnaill  meg  consail  Decc  an  14  lunii. 

Poccpa  paplimenci  do  rabaipc  Dpfpaib  Gpeann  Dia  popcongpa  pop  a 
maicib  a  bfir  1  mbelcaine  do  ponnpab  1  nar  cliac  uaip  bacrap  uprhóp  peap 
nepfnn  urhal  Dia  bppionnpa  co  ccanjacrap  iiile  gnúip  Do  jnuip  lap  an  ppop- 
congpa  ipin  50  har  cliar. 

Uanjaccap  ann  maire  cenel  cconaill  1  eojain  .1.  Ua  neill  Uoippbealbac 
lumeac  mac  neill  conallaij,  mic  aipc,  tmc  cuinn,  mic  enpi,  imc  eo^ain,  1 

'  Their  day's  support,  a  la  bájuoo  rabaipc J  Precisely  on  May-day. — This  Parliament  as- 

This  is  a  common  Irish  phrase — See  Battk  of  sembled  at  Dublin  ou  the  26th  of  April,  1585, 

Magh  Rath,  p.  284,  line  23.  according  to  the  original  record  of  it,  preserved 

"  Was  accused,  literally,  "  a  bad  share  of  this  in  the  Rolls'  Office,  Dublin. — See  Appendix  to 

evil  deed  was  ascribed  to  O'Rourke."  the  Statuie  of  Kilkenny,  p.  139. 

'' J/ai/- Coíif/aí'Z,  «ow  an^Zice  Magonigle,  a  name  ^  Kincl-Conrudl — It  looks  very  strange  that 

still  common  in  the   south  of  the  county  of  the  Four  Masters  should  mention  Kinel-ConneU 

Donegal.  first  in  order,   as  O'Donnell  was  not  acknow- 

^-  Parliament. — For  some   curious   notices   of     ledged  as  a  member  of  this  Parliament See 

the  Parliaments  held  in  Elizabeth's  reign  the  list  of  the   "  Lords   spirituall   and   temporall, 

reader  is  referred  to  Hardiman's  edition  of  the  SiC.  &c.  as  were  summoned  unto  the  Parlyament 

Statute  of  Kilkenny,  Iiitroductiiiu,  p.  xiii.  etseq.  holden  before  the   right   honorable   Sir  John 


1585]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OP  IRELAND.  1827 

gency],  it  was  not  so  that  they  acted,  but  they  gave  their  day's  support''  iu  battle 
to  his  enemies,  so  that  the  heroic  soldier  was  attacked  on  both  sides;  he  was  met 
by  shouts  before  and  behind  ;  [and]  he -was  so  surrounded  on  every  side,  that 
he  could  not  move  backwards  or  forwards.  In  this  conflict  many  men  were 
slain  around  him ;  and  [among  the  rest]  was  cut  oif  a  company  of  gallowglasses 
of  the  Mac  Sheehys,  who  were  the  surviving  remnant  and  remains  of  the 
slaughter  of  the  gallowglasses  of  the  Geraldines,  who  were  along  with  Brian 
on  that  day,  and  who  had  gone  about  from  territory  to  territory,  offering  them- 
selves for  hire,  after  the  extermination  of  the  noblemen  by  whom  they  had 
been  employed  previously  ;  and  they  would  not  have  been  thus  cut  off,  had 
they  not  been  attacked  hf  too  many  hands,  and  overwhelmed  by  numbers. 
The  men  of  Breifny  and  O'Rourke's  people  gave  protection  to  Brian  in  this 
perilous  situation,  and  carried  him  off  under  their  protection,  to  be  guarded. 
On  the  third  day  afterward^  [however],  they  came  to  the  resolution  of  malevo- 
lently and  maliciously  putting  him  to  death,  he  being  under  their  clemency  and 
their  protection.  O'Kourke  was  accused^  of  participating  in  this  unbecoming  deed. 

Edmond  Dorcha  [the  Dark],  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Murrough,  son  of 
Rory  More,  and  Turlough,  the  son  of  Edmond  Oge,  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Tur- 
lough  Mac  Sheehy,  were  both  executed  at  Dublin. 

There  was  much  rain  in  this  year,  so  that  the  greater  part  of  the  corn  of 
Ireland  was  destroyed. 

Dermot,  the  son  of  Donnell  Mag  CongaiP  (Mac  Goingle),  died  on  the  14th 
of  Jime. 

A  proclamation  of  Parliament"  was  issued  to  the  men  of  Ireland,  command- 
ing their  chiefs  to  assemble  in  Dublin  precisely  on  May-day**,  for  the  greater 
part  of  the  people  of  Ireland  were  at  this  time  obedient  to  their  sovereign ;  and, 
accordingly,  they  all  at  that  summons  did  meet  in  Dublin  face  to  face. 

Thither  came  the  chiefs  of  Kinel-Conneir  and  Kinel-Owen,  namely,  O'Neill 
(Turlough  Luineach'',  the  son  of  Niall  Conallagh,  son  of  Art,  son  of  Con,  son 

Perrot,  Knyght,  Lord  Deputie  Generall  of  the  attend  this  Parliament,  but  it  does  not  appear 

realme  of  Ireland,  xxvi°  die  Aprilis,  anno  regni  that  he  took  his  seat,  as  his  name  is  not  in  the 

Regine   nostre    Elizabeth    idcesimo    septimo,"  official  list.    It  appears  by  patent,  20  Elizabeth, 

printed  in  the  third  Appendix  to  Hardiman's  that  the  Queen  intended  to  create  him  Earl  of 

edition  of  the  Statute  of  Kilkennij,  p.  139.  Clan  O'Neill  and  Baron  of  Clogher,   but  the 

'  Turlough  Luineach — He  came  to  Dublin  to  patent  was  never  perfected.     His  rival,  Hugh, 

10  z  2 


1828 


awHa^a  Rio^hachca  emeaHR 


[1585. 


CtoD  mac  an  pipóo]ica,  mic  cuinn  bacai5,  mic  cuinn,  mic  enpi  mic  eojain  i. 
an  bajiun  occ  o  neill  Dia  po  5ai]ifD  lapla  cipe  heo^am  ap  an  bpapli- 
menc  pn,  -\  Ua  Dorhnaill  aeb  mac  ma^nupa,  mic  aoóa  ouib,  mic  aeóa 
puaib  mic  neill  gaipb,  mic  roippóealbai^  an  piona.  mag^ióip,  cúconnacc 
mac  conconnacc,  mic  conconnacc  mic  bpiam,  mic  pilip,  miccomaip,  O  Docap- 
caij  Sfan  occ,  mac  Sfam  mic  peilim  mic  concobaip  cappaij,  O  baoijiU 
coippbealbac  mac  neill  mic  coppbealbaij  óicc,  mic  co^ppóealbaig  iti''.1]i, -) 
O  gallcubaip  6oin  mac  cuacail,  mic  Sfain,  mic  Ruampi  mic  aona. 

Oo  CÓ1Ó  ipin  coimeip^e  pin,  TTlaj  macjamna  .1.  Poppa  mac  aipc,  mic 
bpiain  na  moiceipje,  mic  Remamn  mic  jlaipne,  O  caráin  .1.  RuaiDpi  mac 
niajnupa,  mic  oonncliaió  an  eini^,  mic  Sfain,  mic  aibne,  Conn  mac  neill  óicc, 


son  of  Ferdoragb,  is  entered  twice  in  this  list, 
once  as  Lord  of  Dunganyne,  and  again  as  Earl  of 
Tyrone.  This  latter  title  was  evidently  inter- 
lined after  his  claim  had  been  allowed  by  this 
Parliament.  The  first  title  should  have  been 
cancelled  after  the  interlining  of  the  higher  title. 
Turlough  Ltiineach  is  supposed  by  our  historians 
tx)  have  sat  in  this  Parliament,  but  they  have 
not  told  us  in  what  capacity.  It  is  stated  in 
Perrott's  Life  that  it  was  the  pride  of  Perrott 
that  he  could  prevail  on  the  old  Irish  leaders, 
not  only  to  exchange  their  savage  state  for  the 
condition  of  English  subjects,  but  to  appear 
publicly  in  the  English  garb,  and  to  make  some 
efforts  to  accommodate  themselves  to  the  man- 
ners of  his  court  ;  but  that  it  was  not  without 
the  utmost, reluctance  and  confusion  that  they 
thus  appeared  to  resign  their  ancient  manners. 
That  Turlough  Luineach,  in  his  old  age,  encum- 
bered with  his  fashionable  habiliments,  expres- 
sed his  discontent  with  a  good-humoured  sim- 
plicity :  "  Prithee,  my  Lord,"  said  he,  "  let  my 
chaplain  attend  me  in  his  Irish  mantle  :  thus 
shall  your  English  rabble  be  diverted  from  my 
uncouth  figure,  and  laugh  at  him."  Sir  Richard 
Cox,  who  embraced  every  opportunity  of  tra- 
ducing the  Irish,  asserts,  that  "  the  Irish  Lords 
were  obliged  to  wear  robes,  and  the  better  to 


induce  them  to  it  the  Deputy  bestowed  robes  on 
Turlough  Lynogh,  and  other  principal"  men  of 
the  Irish,  -t^ich  they  embraced  like  fetters." 
The  representatives  of  these  chieftains,  Turlough 
and  Hugh,  are  now  unknown  ;  but  there  are 
various  persons  of  the  name  Mac  Baron,  now  in 
humble  circumstances,  in  the  county  of  Tyrone, 
who  claim  descent  from  Cormac  mac  Baron, 
the  brother  of  Hugh,  Earl  of  Tyrone. 

8  Hugh  Roe,  the  son  of  Manns He  became 

Chief  of  Tirconnell  on  the  death  of  his  elder 
brother,  Calvagh,  in  156G.  The  race  of  this 
Hugh  have  been  long  extinct.  The  O'Dunnells 
of  Castlebar  in  Ireland,  and  the  more  illustrious 
O'Donnells  of  Austria  and  Spain,  are  descended 
from  his  eldest  brother,  Calvagh,  as  the  Editor 
shall  shew  under  the  year  160S. 

''  Maguire. — The  Chieftain  of  Fermanagh  did 
not  attend  as  a  member  of  this  Parliament.  This 
Cuconnaught  was  the  ancestor  of  the  late  Con- 

stantine  Maguire,  Esq.,  of  Tempo See  note  ', 

under  the  year  1498,  p.  1242,  stipva. 

'  O'Doherty,  Chief  of  Inishowen,  did  not  at- 
tend as  a  member  of  this  Parliament.  .  There 
are  various  respectalJe  branches  of  this  family 
in  Inishowen,  but  the  eldest  branch  is  not  de- 
termined. The  most  distinguished  man  of  the 
name  in  Ireland  is  the  Honourable  Chief  Justice 


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ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


182y 


of  Henry,  son  of  Owen),  and  Hugh,  the  son  of  Ferdoragh,  son  of  Con  Bacagh, 
son  of  Con,  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen,  i.  e.  the  young  Baron  O'Neill,  who 
obtained  the  title  of  Earl  of  Tyrone  at  this  Parliament ;  and  O'Donnell  (Hugh 
Roe,  the  son  of  Manus^,  son  of  Hugh  Duv,  son  of  Hugh  Roe,  son  of  Niall  Garv, 
son  of  Turlough  of  the  Wine);  Maguire"  (Cuconnaught,  the  son  of  Cucon- 
naught,  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Phihp,  son  of  Thomas);  O'Doherty'  (John  Oge, 
the  son  of  John,  son  of  Felim,  son  of  Conor  Carragh);  O'Boyle"  (Turlough,  the 
son  of  Niall,  son  of  Turlough  Oge,  son  of  Turlough  More);  and  O'Gallagher' 
(Owen,  the  son  of  Tuathal,  son  of  John,  sou  of  Rory,  son  of  Hugh). 

To  this  assembly  also  repaired  MacMahon"  (Ross,  the  son  of  Art,  son  of 
Brian  of  the  Early  Rising,  son  of  Redmond,  son  of  Glasny);  O'Kane"  (Rory, 
the  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Donough  the  Hospitable,  son  of  John,  son  of  Aibhne; 
Con,  the  son  of  Niall  Oge,  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Con,  son  of  Hugh  Boy  O'Neill, 


Uoherty ;  and  Mr.  Thomas  Doherty  of  Muff,  so 
remarkable  for  his  gigantic  stature,  has,  by  ho- 
nest industry,  realized  a  larger  property  than 
the  chieftains  of  Inishowen  had  ever  enjoyed. 

■^  O'Boyle,  Chief  of  Boylagh,  in  the  west  of 
the  county  of  Donegal,  did  not  attend  as  a 
member  of  this  Parliament.  This  family  are 
dwindled  into  petty  farmers  and  cottiers. 

'  0^  Gallagher,  O'Donnell's  marshal,  who  had 
a  small  tract  of  land  in  the  barony  of  Tirhugh, 
(lid  not  attend  as  a  member  of  this  Parliament. 
Though  the  family  is  one  of  the  most  regal  of  the 
Milesian  race,  there  are  none  of  the  name  at-pre- 
sent  above  the  rank  of  farmers  in  the  original 
country  of  Tirhugh,  and  very  few  in  any  part 
of  Ireland.  Captain  Gallagher,  of  Kill  of  Grange, 
near  Dublin,  and  Henry  Gallagher,  Esq.,  Bal- 
doyle,  Kaheny,  form  the  aristocracy  oi'this  name 
at  present. 

"  Mac  Million,  Chief  of  Oriel,  did  not  attend 
tills  Parliament  as  a  member.  The  ])resent  re- 
j)resentative  of  this  family  is  unknown  to  the 
Editor.  The  Baron  Hartland  of  Strokestown, 
in  the  county  Roscommon,  and  Sir  Ross  Mahon 
uf  Castlegar,  in  the  county  of  Galway,  are  said 
to  be  of  this  race,   but  their  pedigrees  are  un- 


known. Sir  Beresford  Mac  Mahon,  the  son  of 
the  late  Sir  Williaui  Mac  Mahon,  Master  of  the 
Rolls  in  Ireland,  is  of  a  very  obscure  branch  of 
the  Mac  Mahons  of  the  county  of  Claj-e,  his 
grandfather  having  been  a  gentleman's  servant, 
and  his  pedigree  unknown. 

"  O'Kane,  Chief  of  Oireacht-Ui-Chathain,  did 
not  attend  as  a  member.  The  present  repre- 
sentative of  this  family  is  unknown.  The  only 
person  of  the  name  in  the  county  of  London- 
derry, whose  pedigree  was  confidently  traced  tu 
Donnell  Cleireach  (J'Kane  of  Dungiveu,  when 
the  Editor  examined  the  county  of  London- 
derry in  1834,  was  George  U'Kaue,  who  was 
gardener  to  Francis  Bruce  of  Downhill.  Sir 
Richard  Cane  [O'Cathaiu]  of  the  county  of 
Waterford,  and  Sir  Robert  Kane  <<i  Dublin, 
the  distinguished  chemist,  wlio  has  reflected  su 
much  honour  on  his  name  and  country  in  the 
nineteenth  century,  are  undoubtedly  of  this 
race,  but  their  pedigrees  are  not  satisfactorily 
made  out.  There  are  several  of  the  name  in 
Boston,  and  other  parts  ot'  America,  some  of 
whom  are  related  to  Sir  Robert  Kane  of  Dublin, 
who  are  distinguished  for  scientific  and  literary 
attainments. 


1830 


QMNata  Rioghachca  eiReanN. 


[1585. 


inic  neiU,  mic  cuinn,  mic  aoha  bui6e  do  clannaib  neill  cloinne  aeóa  buióe. 
^T\aj;  aenjupa,  aeó,  mac  oortinaill  óicc,  mic  norhnaill  cfip. 

Do  cóiópor  ann  5ai|ibcpiann  connacc  .1.  O  Ruaijic  bpinn,  mac  bpiair, 
mic  eoccairi  ui  Ruaipc,  O  Raijilli^  .1.  Sian  puab  mac  aoóa  coriallaij,  mic 
maoílmopóa  mic  Sfain,  niic  carail,  -j  oeapbpacaip  a  arap  .1.  6mann  mac 
maoílrhópóa  1  lacc  apaon  05  caicfTh  1  najjaiD  apoile  im  njeapnap  na  ci'pe, 
-\  bibp  pi'ol  ppfp^ail  DO  oib  Ififib  .1.  Ó  pfpjail  ban  uilliam  mac  Domnaill,  mic 
Conmaic,  O  pfp^ail  buiDe  paccna  mac  bpiain  mic  Rubpai  je,  mic  carail. 

Oo  oeacacraji  ann  piol  muipfohaii^  co  na  ppopriiachaib  .1.  TTlac  ui  con- 
cobaip  Dumn  Q06,  mac  Diapmacra,  mic  caipppe,  mic  eojam  caoic  mic  peilim 
gfngcai 5,  O  concobaip  puab,  UaDcc  occ  mac  caiDj  buióe  mic  carail  puaiD, 
O  concobaip  pliccij  Dorhnall,  mac  raiDcc,  mic  cafail  óicc  mic  DorhnaiU,  mic 
eo7;ain,  mic  Domnaill  mic  muipcfpcaij^,  -j    pfp  lonair  mec  Diapmc(rra  rhaije 


°  O'Neills   of  Clannaboy Con,    the   son   of 

Niall  Oge,  did  not  attend  this  Parliament  as  a 
member ;  but  his  nephew,  Shane  mac  Brian,  the 
ancestor  of  the  present  Viscount  O'Neill,  is 
marked  in  the  official  list  as  one  of  the  knights 
for  the  county  of  Antrim. 

''  Mafjennis. — Sir  Hugh  Magennis,  Chief  of 
Iveagh,  was  elected  one  of  the  knights  of  Par- 
liament for  the  cdunty  of  Down  this  year,  his  col- 
league being  Sir  Nicholas  Bagnell.  Captain  Ma- 
gennis, the  nephew  of  the  late  Lord  Enniskillen, 
represents  a  respectable  branch  of  this  family. 

■i  O'Eourke. — He  did  not  attend  this  Parlia- 
ment as  a  member.  There  is  a  Prince  O'Eourke 
in  Russia,  whose  immediate  ancestors,  as  Counts 
O'Rourke,  attained  high  distinction  in  that  em- 
pire. He  is  said  to  be  the  chief  of  his  name. 
Ambrose  O'Eourke,  Esq.,  J.  P.,  of  Bally bollen, 
county  Antrim,  descends  from  the  house  of  Dro- 
mahaire. 

'  John  Roe. — The  oiEcial  list  of  the  members 
of  this  Parliament  gives  Philip  O'Eeyly  as  the 
colleague  of  Edmond.  He  was  the  brother  of 
.John  Eoe. 

'  Edmond,  the  son  of  Maelmoru. — He  was  Ta- 
nist  of  East  Breifny,  and  was  elected  one  of  the 


knights  of  Parliament  for  the  county  of  Cavan. 
The  present  representative  of  this  Edmond  is 
Myles  John  O'Eeilly,  Esq.,  late  of  the  Heath 
House,  and  now  living  in  France. — See  year  1601. 

'  O'FarreU  Bane. — William  O'Fferrall  was 
duly  elected  one  of  the  knights  of  Parliament 
for  the  county  of  Longford.  Mr.  O'Farrell  of 
l)ublin,  the  tax  gatherer,  is  the  representative 
of  this  family,  according  to  Dr.  George  Petrie  ; 
but  the  Editor  is  not  acquainted  with  the  evi- 
dences which  prove  his  descent. 

"  CPan-ell  Boy. — Ffaghny  O'Fferrall  was 
duly  elected  one  of  the  knights  of  Parliament 
for  the  county  of  Longford,  and  his  name  ap- 
pears in  the  official  list.  The  editor  does  not 
know  who  the  present  representative  of  this 
Fachtna,  or  of  the  O'Farrell  Boy,  is. 

"  O'Cvnor  Don. — He  was  not  a  member  of 
this  Parliament.  This  family  is  now  represented 
by  the  member  for  Eoscommon,  Denis,  the  son 
of  Owen,  son  of  Denis,  son  of  Charles  the  His- 
torian, son  of  Donough  Liath,  son  of  Cathal, 
son  of  Cathal,  son  of  Hugh  O'Conor  Don  of 
Ballintober,  who  is  the  person  mentioned  in  the 
text.  The  only  other  surviving  members  of  this 
family  are  Denis  O'Conor  of  Mountdruid,  Arthur 


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ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1831 


as  representative  of  the  O'Neills  of  Clannaboy'';  and  Magennis"  (Hugh,  the  son 
of  Donnell  Oge,  son  of  Donnell  Duv). 

Thither  came  also  the  chiefs  of  the  Rough  Thii'd  of  Connaught;  namely, 
O'Rourke''  (Brian,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Owen);  O'Reilly  (John  Roe',  the 
son  of  Hugh  Conallagh,  son  of  Maelmora,  son  of  John,  son  of  Cathal),  and  his 
uncle,  Edmond,  son  of  Maelmora',  both  of  whom  were  then  at  strife  with  each 
other  concerning  the  lordship  of  their  country  ;  also  both  the  O'Farrells,  viz. 
O'Farrell  Bane"  (William,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Cormac),  and  O'Farrell 
Boy"  (Fachtna,  the  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Cathal). 

Thither  also  repaired  the  Sil-Murray,  with  their  dependents:  namely,  the 
son  of  O'Conor  Don"  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Dermot,  sou  ofCarbry,  son  of  Owen 
Caech,  son  of  Felim  Geanncach)  ;  O'Conor  Roe''  (Teige  Oge,  the  son  of 
Teige  Boy,  son  of  Cathal  Roe);  O'Conor  Sligo'  (Donnell,  the  son  of  Teige, 
son  of  Cathal  Oge,  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Miu"- 


O'Conor  ot'Elphiii,  and  Matthew  O'Conor,  Esqrs., 
sons  of  Matthew,  son  of  Denis,  son  of  Charles 
O'Conor  of  Belanagare,  the  historian. 

"  O'Conor  Roe. — He  did  not  attend  as  a  mem- 
ber of  this  Parliament.  The  knights  elected 
for  the  county  of  Roscommon  were  Sir  Richard 
Byngham  and  Thomas  Dillon.  The  late  Peter 
O'Conor  Roe,  of  Tomona,  in  the  county  of  Ros- 
common, who  left  one  illegitimate  son,  Thomas,  of 
Ballintober,  was  the  last  recognised  head  of  this 
family.  There  is  another  family  of  the  O'Conors 
Roe,  living  in  the  village  of  Lanesborough,  who 
retain  a  small  property  in  Slieve  Baune  ;  and 
there  are  others  of  undoubted  legitimate  descent 
living  in  and  near  the  town  of  Roscommon,  but 
they  are  reduced  to  utter  poverty. 

*  0^ Conor  Sligo Sir  Donald  O'Conor  Sly- 

gagh  was  not  a  member  of  this  Parliament.  The 
knights  elected  for  the  county  of  Slygagh  were 
Sir  Valantyn  Browne,  Ja.  Crofton,  and  Jo.  Mar- 
bury.  The  last  chief  of  the  O'Conor  Sligo  fa- 
mily was  Daniel  O'Conner  Sligoe,  who  was  a 
lieutenant-general  in  the  Austrian  service  :  he 
died  at  Brussels  on  the  7th  of  Februry,  1756, 
and  was  buried  in  the  church  of  St.  Gudule, 


where  the  last  female  of  the  house  of  Hapsburg 
erected  a  monument  to  him,  which  exhibits  the 
following  inscription  : 

U.  O.  M. 

mc  JACBT 

ILLUSTRISSIMUS  D.  D.  DANIEL  O CONNER  SLIUOE 

IN  EXERCITU  AUSTRIACO  LOCUM  TENEN3  GENERALIS 

ET  ANTIQDISSIJIiE  APUD  HIBERNOS  GENTIS  CAPUT 

QUI  MOX  APUD  sues  CENTURIO,  SUB  JACOBO  II. 

IN  GALLIS  SUB  LUDOVICO  XIV., 

DEIN  SUB  LEOPOLDO  LOTHARINGI.E  DUCE, 

AC  DEMUM  SUB  INVICTA  AUSTRIACORUM  AQUILA 

ANNIS  XLVni. 

STIPENDIA  EMERITUS 

FIDE  UBIQUE,  ET  VIRTUTE  P.ITRIA 

SUO  APUD  OMNES  DESIDERIO  RELICTO. 

UECESSIT  PLANE  UT  VIXERAT 

CHRISTIANI   MILITIS    EXEMPLUM 

t>BIIT  BRUXELLIS  VII.  FEBRUAHII  JIDCCLVI 

.«TATXS  XCII. 

R.  I.  P. 

Some  of  the  collateral  branches  of  this  family 
who  remained  in  Ireland  are  still  respectable  ; 
but  the  present  senior  representative  of  tiie 
name  is  a  struggling  farmer,  as  the  late  Mat- 
thew O'Conor,  of  Mountdruid,  who  knew  him 
intimately,  often  told  the  Editor. 


1832 


QHMata  Rio^hachca  eii^eaHH. 


[1585. 


luipcc  .1.  bpian  mac  Tíuaiópi,  mic  caiócc  mic  l?imm]ii  óicc,  óip  baí  mac  oiap- 
inacca  pfin  .i.  Uabcc  mac  eoccain  ina  j'fnoip  cianaopua.  O  bei]in  caiphpe 
mac  caibcc  mic  caipppe  mic  maoileaclainn. 

Do  CÓ1Ó  arm  raocc  mac  uiUiam  mic  caibcc  oiiib  ui  ceallaij,  O  TllaDajain 
.1.  r.orhnall  mac  Sfain,  mic  bpfpail. 

Oo  cóib  ano  cpa  lapla  cloinne  Riocaipc  uillecc  mac  l?iocaipD  n  jc  uillicc 
na  ccfnrr,  ~\  Diop  mac  an  j^iolla  buiB  ui  ]"'eacriapai  j  Sfari,  -]  Diapmaic. 

Ni  beachaiD  arm  aon  ban  lonaiprhe  ó  rpian  laprapac  cóicció  connacc  acr 
mupchab  na  cniaj  mac  caibcc  mic  mupchair>  mic  Ruaibpi  ui  plairbeapcaij^. 

Oo  cóib  ann  cpa  lapla  cuabmurhan  .i.  Oonnchab  mac  concobaip  mic 
oonnchaib  mic  concobaip  mic  coippbealbaij  mic  caibcc  ui  bpiain,"]  Sip  coipp- 
bealbac  mac  Doibnaill  mic  concobaip  mic  coippbealbaij  mic  caibcc  ui  bpictin 
lap  na  coja  map  piDipe  paplimenci  a  cconncae  an  clriip. 


^  Mac  Dermot  of  Moylurg. — His  deputy  did 
not  attend  as  a  member  of  this  Parliament.  This 
family  is  now  represented  by  Charles  Mac  Der- 
mot of  Coolavin,  Esq.,  who  ridiculously  styles 
himseli'  "  Prince  of  Coolavin,"  a  small  barony 
to  which  his  ancestors  had  no  claim. 

^  O'Bárne. — He  was  Chief  of  Tir-Briuin-na- 
Sinna,  a  beautiful  district  lying  between  Elphin 
and  Jamestown,  in  the  east  of  the  county  of 
Koscommon.  Mr.  O'Beirne,  of  Dangan-I-Beirne, 
alias  Dangan  Bonacuillinn,  in  the  parish  of  Kil- 
more,  near  the  Shannon,  in  this  territory,  is  the 
undoubted  head  of  this  family.  He  still  pos- 
sesses a  small  remnant  of  Tir-Briuin.  Q'Beirne 
did  not  attend  this  Parliament  as  a  member. 

"  TeiV/e,  sore  of  William,  (J-c.  OKelly He  was 

the  head  of  the  branch  of  the  O'Kellys,  seated 
at  Mullaghmore,  in  the  county  of  Galway.  -This 
Teige  was  not  chief  of  his  name,  nor  did  he  at- 
tend  this  Parliament  as  a  member.  The  race  of 
this  Teige  are  now  extinct,  but  the  families  of 
Screen  and  Gallagh  are  still  extant,  and  highly 
respectable. — See  Tribes  and  Cttstonis  of  11//- 
Mani/,  p.  121.  The  knights  of  Parliament 
elected  for  the  county  of  Galway  were  Thomas 
le  Straunge  and   Frauncis  Shane   [who  was  a 


disguised  O'Fferall]. 

"^  O'Madden. — He  did  not  attend  as  a  member. 
The  present  representative  of  this  Donuell,  the 
son  of  John  O'Madden,  is  Ambrose  Madden  of 
Streamstown,  Esq.,  who  is  the  son  of  Breasal, 
son  of  Ambrose,  son  of  Breasal,  son  of  Daniel, 
son  of  John,  son  of  Anmhadh,  son  of  the  Don- 
nell  mentioned  in  the  text.  See  Tribes  and 
CtLstoms  of  Hy- Many,  p.  152. 

^  The  Earl  of  Clanrickard. — In  the  list  of  the 
"  Temporal  Lordes"  of  this  Parliament,  printed 
by  Mr.  Hardiman,  "  the  Earle  of  Clanricard"  is 
given  as  the  fourth  in  order.  He  is  now  repre- 
sented by  the  Marquis  of  Clauricarde. 

"=  G'Shaiujhnessy. — Neither  of  these  sons  of 
O'Shaughnessy  was  a  member  of  this  Pprlia- 
ment. — See  Genealogies,  Tribes,  SfC.,  of  Hy-Fiach- 
rach,  pp.  378, 386,  388.  The  present  head  of  this 
family  is  Mr.Bartholomew  O'Shaughnessy  of  Gal- 
way. The  very  Eev.  and  Ven.  Terence  O'Shaugh- 
nessy, R.  C.  Dean  of  Killaloe,  Dr.  Wm.  O'Shaugh- 
nessy of  Calcutla,  F.R.S.,  and  all  the  O'Shaugh- 
uessys  of  the  county  of  Clare,  are  not  of  the  se- 
nior branch  of  this  family,  but  descended  from 
Roger,  the  third  son  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Wil- 
liam O'Shaughnessy,  who  was  made  free  of  the 


1585.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1833 


tough);  and  a  deputy  from  Mac  Dermot  of  Moylurg^  namely,  Brian,  son  of  Rory, 
son  of  Teige,  son  of  Rory  Oge,  for  Mac  Dermot  himself  (i.  e.  Teige,  the  son  of 
Owen)  was  a  very  old  man  ;  and  O'Beirn"  (Carbry,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of 
Carbry,  son  of  Melaghlin). 

Thither  went  also  Teige,  the  son  of  William,  son  of  Teige  Duv  O'Kelly"; 
and  O'Madden"  (Donnell,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Breasal). 

Thither  likewise  went  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard"  ( Uhck,  the  son  of  Rickard, 
son  of  Ulick-ua-gCeann) ;  and  the  two  sons  of  Gilla-Duv  O'Shaughnessy',  i.  e. 
John  and  Dermot. 

None  worthy  of  note  went  thither  from  West  Connaught,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  Murrough  of  the  Battle-axes,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Murrough,  son  of 
Rory  O'Flaherty^ 

Thither,  in  like  manner,  went  the  Earl  of  Thomond^  (Donough,  the  son  of 
Conor,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Tmiough,  son  of  Teige  O'Brien); 
and  Sir  Tiurlough",  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of 
Teige  O'Brien,  who  had  been  elected  a  Knight  of  Parliament  for  the  covmty  of 
Clare. 


Corporation  of  Gahvay  in  1648,  and  who  was 
the  son  of  Sir  Dermot  II.,  who  died  in  1606, 
who  was  the  son  of  Sir  Roger  I.,  who  was  the 
son  of  Sir  Dermot  O'Shaughnessy,  who  was 
knighted  by  King  Henry  VIII.  A.  D.  1533.  A 
branch  of  this  family  have  changed  their  name 
to  Sandys :  and  Mr.  Levey,  the  well-known  musi- 
cian of  the  Royal  Dublin  Theatie,  who  is  one  of 
the  descendants  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  William 
O'Shaughnessy  of  1648,  has  suppressed  his  fa- 
ther's name  and  retained  that  of  his  mother, 
contrary  to  the  usage  of  most  nations. 

'  OTlahertij Sir  Murrough  na  doe  O'Ffla- 

hertie  was  not  a  member  of  this  Parliament.  This 
chieftain  is  now  represented  by  Thomas  Henry 
OFflahertie  of  Lemonfield,  in  the  county  of 
Galway,  Esq.,  who  is  the  son  of  Sir  John  O'Ffla- 
hertie,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Brian  Oge, 
son  of  Brian  Oge  na  Samhthach,  son  of  Teige, 
who  was  son  of  Murrough  na  dTuagh,  or  Mur- 
rough of  the  Battle-axes,  who  was  appointed 

11 


"chief  of  all  the  O'Fflaherties"  by  Queen  Eliza- 
beth.— See  Genealogical  Table  in  Chorographicod 
Description  of  lar-ConnaugM,  edited  by  Mr. 
Hardiman,  p.  362. 

e  The  Earl  of  Thomond. — In  the  official  list 
printed  by  Mr.  Hardiman,  the  "  Earle  of 
Tomond"  is  given  as  fifth  in  order  among  the 
"  Temporal  Lordes."  The  race  of  this  Donough, 
son  of  Connor,  is  extinct.  The  present  Marquis 
of  Thomond  descends  from  Dermot,  who  was  the 
son  of  Murrough,  first  Earl  of  Thomond,  from 
whose  second  son,  Donough,  the  family  of  Dro- 
inoland  are  descended. 

■■  Sir  Turlough. — He  was  duly  elected  one  of 
the  knights  of  Parliament  for  the  county  of 
Clare.  According  to  a  pedigree  of  the  O'Briens, 
preserved  in  a  paper  manuscript,  in  the  Library 
of  the  Royal  Irish  Academy,  No.  23,  p.  61,  this 
Sir  Turlough  had  a  son,  Donnell,  who  married 
Ellen,  the  daughter  of  Edmond  Fitzgerald, 
knight  of  Glinn,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  1 , 

A 


1834 


awNaca  Rioghachca  eiReawH. 


[i.5a5. 


Oo  cuaiD  ann  coijiiiDealbac  mac  caibcc  mic  concobaip  ui  bjiiain,  -]  rij- 
eajina  an  caoiBe  riap  do  cloinn  cuiléin  .1.  TTlac  conmojia  Sfan  mac  caiócc, 
-|  baocjalach  mac  aoóa  mic  baor^alaij  mej  plannchaóa  an  Da)ia  Rioipe 
Paplimenn  ap  an  cconncae  ceona. 

Oo  caor  ann  mac  ui  lochlaino  boipne  .1.  l?oppa  mac  uairne,  mic  maoil- 
eaclamn  mic  Ruóiiaije  mic  ana.  TTiac  ui  bpiain  apa  .1.  TTIuipceapcac 
(.1.  eppocc  ciUe  oalua),  mac  coippbealbaij  mic  muipceapcaij  mic  Domnaill 
mic  caiócc.  O  cfpbaill  .1.  an  calbac  mac  uilliam  uibi^i  mic  pip^anamm  mic 
maolpimnaió  mic  Siain.  ÍTla5  cocláin  .1.  Sfan  mac  aipc  mic  copbmaic, 
O  Duibióip  coille  na  manac  .1.  pilip  mac  uairne. 

Oo  CÓ1Ó  ann  mac  bpiain  ó  ccuanac  .1.  ITluipceaprac  mac  coippóealbaij, 


Teige,  the  grandfather  of  Christopher  O'Brien, 
Esq.  [of  Ennistimon],  who  was  living  in  1713, 
when  this  pedigree  was  compiled  ;  and,  2,  Mur- 
tough,  who  married  Slaine,  daughter  of  John 
Mac  Namara  of  Moyreask,  by  whom  he  had 
a  son,  Donnell,  usually  called  OoninaU  Spái- 
neac,  i.  e.  Donnell,  or  Daniel  the  Spaniard, 
who  married  the  daughter  of  Major  Donough 
Roe  Mac  Namara,  by  whom  he  had  issue  living 
in  1713;  but  the  compiler  of  this  pedigree 
does  not  name  the  issue  of  Donnell  Spainneach. 
According  to  the  tradition  in  the  country, 
Terence  O'Brien,  Esq.,  of  Glencolumbkille,  is 
the  great  grandson  of  a  Donnell  Spaineach,  son  of 
Colonel Murtough  O'Brien ;  but  Terence  O'Brien 
himself  asserts  that  he  descends  from  a  Donnell 
Spaineach,  who  was  the  son  of  a  General  Mur- 
tough O'Brien,  who  was  the  son  of  Dermot,  fifth 
Baron  of  Inchiquin ;  but  the  Editor  has  not  been 
able  to  find  any  evidence  to  prove  that  Dermot, 
the  fifth  Baron  of  Inchiquin,  had  a  son  Mur- 
tough. 

'  Turlough,  the  son  of  Teige,  (^c.  O'Brien. — He 
did  not  attend  as  a  member  of  this  Parliament. 
The  Lord  of  Inchiquin  sat  in  this  Parliament 
among  the  peers,  though  the  Four  Masters  take 
no  notice  of  him. 

*  Mac  Namara — He  did  not  attend  as  a  mem- 


ber of  this  Parliament.  The  race  of  this  John  is 
e'xtinct.  Major  Mac  Namara,  M.P.,  is  descended 
from  a  junior  branch  of  the  eastern  Mac  Namara 
family,  but  his  pedigree  is  not  satisfactorily 
made  out.  Major  Daniel  Mac  Namara  Bourchier 
descends  by  the  mother's  side  from  the  senior 
branch  of  the  western  Mac  Namaras. 

'  Boethius  Mac  Clancy. — "  Boetius  Clanchy," 
who  was  the  Brehon  of  Thomond,  and  a  good 
scholar,  was  duly  elected  one  of  the  two  knights 
to  represent  the  county  of  Clare  in  this  Parlia- 
ment. He  was  afterwards  appointed  High  Sheriff 
of  the  county  of  Clare,  an  office  for  which  lie  was 
very  well  qualified,  and,  according  to  the  tradi- 
tion in  the  country,  murdered  some  Spaniards 
belonging  to  the  great  Armada,  who  were  driven 
on  the  coast  of  Clare  in  1588. 

■"  O'Loughlin  of  Burren. — He  did  not  attend 
as  a  member  of  this  Parliament.  Mr.  O'Lough- 
lin of  Newtown  is  the  present  senior  represen- 
tative of  this  family.  Sir  Colman  O'Loughlin 
represents  a  junior  branch. 

"  Mac-I-Brien  Ara This  bishop  was  the  son 

of  Turlough  Mac-I-Brien  Ara,  who  made  his 

submission  to  Queen  Elizabeth  in  1567 See 

note  ',  under  the  year  1569,  p.  1634,  supra.  On 
the  death  of  his  elder  brother,  Donough,  Mur- 
tough, or  Maurice,  Bishop  of  Killaloe,  became 


1585.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1835 


Thither  went  Turlough,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Conor  O'Brien';  and  also  the 
Lord  of  the  Western  part  of  Clann-Coilein,  namely,  Mac  Namara''  (John,  the 
sou  of  Teige);  and  Boethius,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Boethius  Mac  Clancy', 
the  second  Knight  of  Parliament  elected  to  represent  the  county  of  Clare. 

Thither  repaired  the  son  of  O'Loughlinof  Burren"  (Rossa,  the  son  of  Owny, 
son  of  Melaghlin,  son  of  Eury,  son  of  Ana);  Mac-I-Brien  Ara",  Bishop  of  Kil- 
laloe,  namely,  Murtough,  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Murtough,  son  of  Donnell, 
son  of  Teige;  O'Carroir  (Calvagh,  the  son  of  William  Odhar,  son  of  Ferga- 
nainm,  son  of  Mulrony,  son  of  John);  Mac  Coghlan"  (John,  the  son  of  Art,  son 
of  Cormac);  and  O'Dwyer"  of  Coill-na-manach  (Philip,  son  of  Owny). 

Thither  went  Mac-Brien  of  Hy-Cuanagh',  namely,  Murtough,  the  son  of 


the  head  of  this  family.  Murtough  O'Brien 
Ara  was  appointed  Bishop  of  Killaloe  by  Queen 
Elizabeth,  by  letters  patent,  dated  the  15th  of 
May,  1570,  and  had  his  writ  of  restitution  to 
the  temopralities  the  same  day.  He  received 
the  profits  of  this  see  six  years  before  his  conse- 
cration ;  but  being  at  last  consecrated  he  sat 
about  thirty-six  years  after.  He  died  on  the 
last  day  of  April,  1613,  having  voluntarily  re- 
signed a  year  before  his  death. — See  Harris's 
edition  of  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  595,  where  Harris 
states,  that  the  Arra  from  whence  this  bishop's 
family,  for  the  sake  of  distinction,  were  called 
O'Brien- Arra,  is  a  barony  in  the  county  of 
Limerick.  But  this  is  an  error  of  Harris,  who 
ought  to  have  known  that  Mac-I-Brien  was 
seated  on  the  east  side  of  Lough  Derg,  in  the 
barony  of  Ara,  or  Duharra,  in  the  county  of 
Tipperary.  The  castle  of  Ballina,  near  the 
bridge  of  Killaloe,  and  the  castles  of  Castletown 
and  Knoc-an-Ein-fhinn,  now  Birdhill,  in  this  ba- 
rony, belonged  to  this  family.  It  should  be  here 
remarked,  that  the  "Busshopp  of  KUlalowe" 
appears  in  the  list  of  the  spiritual  lords  of  this 
Parliament.  The  race  of  this  bishop  has  be- 
come extinct ;  but  some  of  the  line  of  Don- 
nell Connaughtagh  Mac-I-Brien  Ara  are  still 
possessed  of  some  property  in  the  territory. 
Mr.  O'Brien,  of  Kincora  Lodge,  Killaloe,  is  of 


this  race. — See  pedigree  of  Mac-I-Brien  Ara, 
preserved  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College, 
Dublin,  H.  1.  7. 

°  0'' Carroll. — He  did  not  attend  this  Parlia- 
ment as  a  member  of  it.  This  Calvagh  was  the 
third  illegitimate  son  of  Sir  William  O'CarroU, 
Chief  of  Ely  O'CarroU,  comprising  at  this  period 
the  baronies  of  Clonlisk  and  Ballybritt,  in  the 
south  of  the  King's  County. — See  note  *,  under 
the  year  1577,  p.  1691,  supra.  The  present  chief 
of  this  family  is  unknown.  The  grandfather  of 
the  Marchioness  Wellesley,  who  died  in  Ame- 
rica, was  its  undoubted  representative. 

p  Mac  Coghlan. — He  did  not  attend  this  Par- 
liament as  a  member  of  it.  The  last  chief  of 
this  family  died  some  forty  years  since,  with- 
out issue,  and  his  estates  passed  to  the  Dalys 
and  Armstrongs.  General  Coghlan  is  of  an  ob- 
scure branch  of  this  family. 

"i  O'Dwyer. — He  was  not  a  member  of  this 
Parliament.  Coill-na-manach  is  the  present  ba- 
rony of  Kilnamanagh,  in  the  county  of  Tippe- 
rary. The  present  chief  of  this  name  is  unknown 
to  the  Editor.  There  is  a  Colonel  Dwyer,  of 
Ballyquirk  Castle,  in  the  parish  of  Lorha,  ba- 
rony of  Lower  Ormond,  and  county  of  Tippe- 
rary ;  but  the  Editor  does  not  know  his  de- 
scent. 

f  Mac-Brian  of  Hy-Ouanagh. — He  was  not  a 


11  a2 


1836 


aHNQf-a  TJio^hachca  eiReawN. 


[1585. 


mic  muijiceapcru^,  ri^ec(|ina  caippcce  ó  ccoinnell,  -\  pcipai^li  luimni^  .1.  bjiian 
Dub,  mac  Donnchaió,mic  marjarhna,  mic  Donnchaió,  mic  bpiain  DuiV)  ui  bpinin. 
Concobap  na  moinje,  mac  uilliam  cooic,  mic  Diapmara  ui  maoilpiam  n  jfpna 
uaicne  uimaoilpiain  ci^fpna  uaicne  ui  máoilpiáin. 

Oo  CÓ1Ó  Don  paplimenc  fin  opong  Do  rhairib  pleacra  eojain  móip  co  na 
ppopfuaraib.  TTlaj  capraij  mop  Domnall  mac  Dorhnaill,  mic  copbmaic 
laDpaij,  TTlag  caprai^  caipbpeac  eo^^an  moc  DomnaiU  mic  pinjijin,  nnc 
nomnaill  mic  oiapmaoa  an  Dúnaió,  "]  clann  a  óéipe  oeapbparap  Oorhnall 
mac  copbmaic  na  haine,  ~\  pinjm  mac  Donncam. 

Oo  cuaiD  ann  beóp  an  Diap  bai  1  ccfnoaippci  pe  poile  im  njeapnap  óuirce 
ealla  .1.  Oiapmaic  mac  eoccain  mic  Donnchaió  an  bóraip  mic  eójam  meg 
Donncliaib,  1  Donncaoli  mac  copbmaic  óicc,  mic  copbmaic  meg  DonnchaiD. 

Oo  cuaiD  ann  Dna  6  puillebmn  beppe,  6occan  mac  Diapmacca,  mic  Dom- 
naill,  mic  DonncViaió  meic  Diapmacra  bailb,  O  Suilleban  mop  .1.  eoccan  mac 
Dorhnaill,  mic  Domnaill  na  pccpfoaije.     O  marjarhna  an  puinn  lapcapaij 


member  of  this  Parliament.  The  two  knights 
elected  for  the  county  of  Limerick  were  Thomas 
Norris  and  Richard  Bourke.  Mac  Brian  Cuanach 
was  seated  in  the  barony  of  Coonagh  in  the 
county  of  Limerick,  where  the  ruins  of  his 
splendid  mansion  are  still  to  be  seen  in  the 
townland  and  parish  of  Castletown.  The  pre- 
sent representative  of  this  family  is  unknown 
to  the  Editor. 

^  The  Lord  of  CamgotjunneU. — He  was  not  a 
member  of  this  Parliament.  The  present  repre- 
sentative of  this  family  is  unknown  to  the  Editor. 

'  Fasagh  Luimnighe,  i.  e.  the  forest  or  wilder- 
ness of  Limerick.  This  was  a  name  for  a  part 
of  the  territory  of  Pobblebrien  near  the  city  of 
Limerick. 

"  G' Mulryan.—CAuei  of  the  two  Ownys,  one 
a  barony  or  half  barony,  as  it  was  till  recently 
called,  in  the  county  of  Limerick,  and  the  other 
a  barony  in  the  county  of  Tipperary.  He  was 
not  a  member  of  this  Parliament.  The  Ryans 
of  Ballymakeogh,  near  Newport,  in  Tipperary, 
now  extinct,  were  the  senior  branch  of  this  fa- 


mily. Edmond  O'Kyau,  Esq.,  of  Bausha  House, 
near  the  town  of  Tipperary,  and  George  Ryan, 
Esq.,  of  Inch  House,  were  considered  the  chief 
representatives  of  this  family  in  1840,  when  the 
Editor  examined  the  county  of  Tipperary  for  the 
Ordnance  Survey. 

"  Eoghan  More,  i.  e.  the  son  of  OilioU  Ulum, 
king  of  Munster,  in  the  third  century,  and  an- 
cestor of  the  dominant  families  of  Munster. 

"  Mac  Carthy  More. — He  is  entered  in  the 
list  next  after  "  The  Earle  of  Tomond,"  as 
"  The  Earle  of  Clancare,"  that  being  an  angli- 
cised abbreviation  of  Clann  Caprai  j,  and  not 
Glencare,  the  vale  of  the  River  Carthach,  in  the 
county  of  Kerry,  as  ignorantly  assumed  by  most 
Anglo-Irish  writers.  The  race  of  this  Earl  is 
extinct. 

''  Mac  Carthy  Cairbreach. — He  was  Sir  Owen 
Mac  Carthy  Reagh,  chief  of  Carbery,  in  the 
county  of  Cork.  He  was  not  a  member  of  this 
Parliament.  The  present  representative  of  this 
famUy  is  said  to  be  the  Count  Mac  Carthy  of 
France,  whose  pedigree  has  been  published  by 


1585.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1837 


Turlough,  son  of  Murtough  ;  the  Lord  of  Carrigogunnell'  aud  of  Fasach-Luini- 
nighe',  namely,  Brian  Duv,  the  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Mahon,  son  of  Donough, 
son  of  Brian  Duv  O'Brien  ;  and  Conor-na-Moinge  [of  the  Long  Hair],  son  of 
William  Caech,  son  of  Dermot  O'Mulryan",  Lord  of  Uaithne-Ui-Mhaoilriain. 

To  this  Parliament  repaired  some  of  the  chiefs  of  the  descendants  of  Eoghaii 
More",  with  their  dependents,  namely,  Mac  Carthy  More''  (Donnell,  the  son  of 
Donnell,  son  of  Cormac  Ladhrach);  Mac  Carthy  Cairbreach''  (Owen,  son  of 
Donnell,  son  of  Fineen,  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Dermot-an-Duna),  and  the  sons 
of  his  two  brothers,  namely,  Donnell,  son  of  Cormac-na-h  Aine,  and  Fineen,  the 
son  of  Donough. 

Thither  also  went  the  two  chiefs  who  were  at  strife  with  each  other  con- 
cerning .the  lordship  of  Duhallow%  namely,  Dermot,  the  son  of  Owen,  son  of 
Donough  an-Bhothair,  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Donough ;  and  Donough,  the  son  of 
Corraac  Oge,  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  Donough. 

Thither  likewise  went  O'Sullivan  Beare"  (Owen,  son  of  Dermot,  son  of 
Donnell,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Dermot  Balbh);  O'Sullivan  More""  (Owen,  the 
son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Donnell-na-Sgreadaighe);  O'Mahony'  the 


Monsieur  Laiue,  who  was  genealogist  to  Chas.  X. 

"  Duhalloiv. — Neither  of  these  chiefs  was  mem- 
ber of  this  Parliament.  The  knights  elected  to 
represent  the  county  of  Cork  in  this  Parliament 
were  John  Norries,  Lord  President,  William 
Cogan,  and  John  Fitz  Edmond.  The  Editor 
does  not  know  the  present  chief  of  this  family. 

^  0''Sullivan  Beare,  was  not  a  member  of 
this  Parliament.  The  present  representative  of 
this  family  is  unknown.  There  are  several  re- 
spectable gentlemen  of  the  race  in  the  baronies 
of  Beare  and  Bantry,  but  the  Editor  has  not 
been  able  to  ascertain  their  pedigrees.  The  Edi- 
tor is  not  aware  how  the  Baron  O'Sullivan  de 
Grass,  the  present  Ambassador  of  Belgium  at 
the  Court  of  Vienna,  descends ;  the  family  claim 
to  be  the  representatives  of  the  O'SulIivans.  It 
is  probable  that  they  descend  either  directly 
or  collaterally  with  the  O'Sullivan  who  was  one 
of  the  faithful  companions  of  Prince  Charles 
Edward,  in  his  perilous  wanderings  after   the 


defeat  of  Culloden.  One  of  the  Baron's  brothers 
is  married  to  the  sister  of  the  present  Sir  Roger 
Palmer,  Bart. 

'■  O'Sullivan  More ^He  was  not  a  niember  of 

this  Parliament.  The  two  knights  elected  to  re- 
present the  county  of  Kerry  in  this  Parliament 
were  John  Fitzgerald  and  Thomas  Spring.  The 
representative  of  O'Sullivan  More  in  the  last 
century  was  O'Sullivan  of  Tomies,  near  Killar- 
ney.  Timothy  O'Sullivan,  Esq.,  of  Prospect, 
near  Kenmare,  represents  O'Sullivan  of  Cappa- 
nacush,  from  which  hoiise  the  O'Sullivan  More 
was  elected,  in  case  of  failure  of  issue  in  the 
senior  branch.  Mac  Gillicuddy  of  the  Reeks, 
near  Killarney,  whose  pedigree  is  very  well 
known,  represents  another  branch  of  this  family 
of  O'Sullivan  More  ;  and  Sir  Charles  Sullivan, 
of  Thames  Ditton,  county  Surrey,  is  said,  ui 
Burke's  Peerage,  to  be  of  this  family. 

■=  O'Mahony,  i.  e.  O'Mahony,  of  Fonn  lartha- 
rach,  or  Ivahagh.  in  the  south-west  of  Carbvry, 


1838 


aHwaca  Rioghachca  eiReawH. 


[158.5. 


ConcnlJaji  mac  concobaiji  •pinn  óicc,  mic  concobaip  pino  mic  concobaip  ui 
rharhgaTtina,  i  ó  hfioippcceóil  moji  pín^in  mac  concobai|i  mic  pin^in  mic 
concobaip. 

Do  cuaió  oin  TTIac  jiolla  paccpaicc  oypaije  pin jin  mac  bpiain  mic  pinjin, 
mag  eocagán  Connla,  mac  Concobaip,  mic  lai^ne  O  maolmuaió  .i.  Conall 
mac  cacaoip. 

Ni  háipimreap  cton  Do  bol  gup  an  bpaplimenr  pin  bob  lonaiprhe  do  pliocr 
laoijpij  Ifnorhoip  mic  conaill  cfpnaij,  Do  pliocr  r?oppa  pailgi j,  mic  cacaoip 
rhóip  Ó  uíb  pailge,  ná  beóp  Do  píol  Daipe  bappaij^  mic  caraoíp  móip  Do 
caomancoíb,  bpariaij,  Uuacalaij,  uí  óuinn,  uí  óíomapáij  ap  an  ccop  ccéDna 


in  the  couiity  of  Cork.  He  was  uot  a  member 
of  this  Parliament.  The  present  representative 
of  this  family  is  supposed  to  be  O'Mahony  of 
Dunlow,  near  Killarney.  There  is  a  Count 
O'Mahony  of  France,  who  resides,  or  recently 
resided,  at  Fribourg  in  Switzerland,  and  who, 
no  doubt,  descends  from  "  le  fameux  Mahony,''^ 
of  the  early  days  of  the  Irish  Brigade. 

■*  O'Driscoll  More He  was  Chief  of  Colly- 
more,  a  territory  of  which  Baltimore  was  the 
chief  town,  in  the  county  of  Cork.  Sir  Fineen, 
or  Florence,  O'Driscoll  More  was  not  a  member 
of  this  Parliament.  Con  O'Driscoll,  called  the 
Admiral,  was  the  last  known  chief  of  this  family. 
Alexander  O'Driscoll,  Esq.,  J.  P.,  of  the  county 
of  Cork,  comes  from  a  junior  branch. 

^  Mac  Gillapatrick. — The  Lord  of  Upper  Os- 
sory  sat  in  this  Parliament  among  the  "  Tem- 
porall  Lordes."  The  late  Earl  of  Ossory  was 
the  chief  of  this  name.  He  left  one  illegitimate 
son,  who  inherits  his  estates,  and  who  claims 
legitimacy,  as  his  mother  bad  been  privately 
married  to  the  Earl,  his  father,  by  a  Roman  Ca- 
tholic priest. 

f  Mageoghegan. — He  was  chief  of  Kineleaghe, 
a  territory  now  included  in  the  barony  of  Moy- 
cashel,  in  the  county  of  Westmeath.  He  was 
not  a  member  of  this  Parliament.  The  two 
knights  elected  to  represent  the  county  of  West- 
meath in  this  Parliament  were  "  Ed.  Nugent  de 


Disert,"  and  "  Ed.  Nugent  de  Morton."  The 
present  chief  of  the  Mageoghegans  is  John 
Augustus  O'Neill  [Mageoghegan],  Esq.  of  Bun- 
owen  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Galway,  the  grand- 
son of  Eichard  Geoghegan,  so  remarkable  in 
Ireland  for  his  learning  and  knowledge  of  the 
fine  arts.  Sir  Richard  Nagle,  of  Jamestown  and 
Donore  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Westmeath,  is 
maternally  descended  from  the  senior  brancli  of 
this  family,  but  he  cannot  be  considered  the 
chief  of  the  Mageoghegans,  as  he  is  not  of  the 
name  by  paternal  descent. 

£  O'Molloy He  was  chief  of  a  territory  com- 
prising the  baronies  of  Fircall,  Ballycowan,  and 
Ballyboy,  in  the  present  King's  County ;  but  he 
did  not  attend  as  a  member  of  this  Parliament. 
This  Connell  was  the  father  of  the  illustrious 
Cahir  or  Carolus  O'MoUoy,  whose  hospitality 
the  Rev.  P.  Fr.  Francis  O'MoUoy  thus  lauds,  in 
an  incidental  remark  in  his  Irish  Prosody,  pub- 
lished at  Rome  in  the  year  1677,  p.  180  : 

"  Difficile  quidem  factu  apparet  hoc  metri 
genus,  verum  difficilius  creditu  quod  superius 
allatum  naol  cceD,  &c.  refert ;  verissimum  ta- 
men,  cuius  ipse  occulares  vidi  et  audiui  testes 
fide  dignissimos  :  nempe  quod  Carolus  Conalli 
filius  Molloyorum  Princeps,  Avus  Illustrissimi 
nunc  viuentis,  vastato  Hiberni»  Regno  fame, 
flamma  ferro,  sub  Elizabetha  Regina  in  smnmis 
Annonse  penurijs,  inuitatos  a  se  pro  Christo  Na- 


1585.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1839 


Western,  namely,  Conor,  the  sou  of  Conor  Fin  Oge,  son  of  Conor  Fin,  son  of 
Conor  O'Mahouy  ;  and  O'DriscoU  More"  (Fineen,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of 
Fineen,  son  of  Conor). 

Thither  likewise  repaired  Mac  Gillapatrick''  of  Ossory  (Fineen,  the  son  of 
Brian,  son  of  Fineen) ;  Mageoghegan^  (Conla,  the  son  of  Conor,  son  of  Leyny); 
and  O'Molloy^  (Connell,  the  son  of  Cahir). 

None  worthy  of  note  are  said  to  have  gone  to  that  Parliament  of  the  race  of 
Laoighseach  Leannmor^  son  of  Conall  Cearnach  ;  or  of  the  race  of  Eossa 
Failghe',  the  son  of  Cahir  More,  from  OiFaly ;  or  of  the  descendants  of  Daire 
BarachJ,  the  son  of  Cahir  More ;    or   of  the   Kavanaghs",  Byrnes,   Tooles', 


talitijs  per  dies  duodecim  tractauerit,  noiigentos 
sexaginta  homines  in  domo  propria." 

There  are  several  respectable  gentlemen  of 
the  JloUoys  of  this  race.  Daniel  Molloy,  Esq.,  of 
Clonbela,  near  Birr;  in  the  King's  County,  is 
the  present  head  of  the  family,  according  to  the 
tradition  in  the  country ;  but  the  Editor  does  not 
know  his  pedigree. 

''  Race  of  Laoighseach  Leannmor,  i.  e.  Laoigh- 
seach or  Lewis  of  the  large  mantle.  He  is  other- 
wise called  Laoighseach  Ceannmhor,  i.  e.  of  the 
large  head,  and  Laoighseach  Lannmhor,  i.  e.  of  the 
large  sword.  He  is  the  ancestor  of  the  O'Mores 
and  their  correlatives,  the  seven  septs  of  Leix. 
The  present  representative  of  the  O'Mores  is  un- 
known. R.  More  O'Farrell,  M.  P.  descends  from 
the  senior  branch  of  them  by  the  mother's  side  ; 
and  Garrett  Moore,  Esq.,  of  Cloghan  Castle,  calls 
himself  the  O'Moore,  though  he  does  not  know 
his  pedigree  beyond  the  year  16n,  and  there  is 
strong  evidence  to  shew  that  he  is  an  offset  oi' 
the  English  family  of  the  Moors  of  Drogheda. 

'  Race  of  Rossa  Failghe,  i.  e.  the  O'Conors 
Faly,  who  had  but  little  property  in  Ireland  at 
this  period.    The  present  chief  is  unknown. 

i  Daire  Barach. — The  principal  family  of  his 
race,  extafit  at  this  period,  was  Mac  Gorman, 
who  was  then  seated  in  the  barony  of  Ibrickan, 
and  county  of  Clare.  There  are  several  respect- 
able gentlemen  of  this    family   who    now   call 


themselves  O'Gorman. 

^  Kavanaghs The  family  of  Borris-Idrone 

are  the  senior  branch  of  this  family.  There  are 
several  highly  respectable  families  of  the  name 
living  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Vienna.  These 
are  supposed  to  be  descended  from  the  celebrated 
Brian-na-Stroice  of  Drummin,  son  of  Morgan, 
son  of  Dowling  Kavanagh  of  Ballyleigh,  in  the 
county  of  Carlow,  who  distingviished  himself 
by  his  valour  at  the  battles  of  the  Boyne  and 
Aughrim.  His  son,  John  Baptista  Kavanagh, 
left  Ireland  after  the  capitulation  of  Limerick, 
and  became  Baron  Gniditz  in  Bohemia,  and  died 
in  1774.  His  father,  Brian  na  Stroice,  who  is 
said  to  have  been  the  largest  officer  in  .James's 
service,  remained  in  Ireland,  and  lived  at  Drum- 
min till  February,  1735,  when  he  died,  in  the 
seventy-fourth  year  of  his  age,  and  was  buried 
at  St.  Mullin's,  .where  there  is  a  curious  monu- 
ment to  his  memory. — See  Ryan's  Hiitory  and 
Antiquities  of  the  County  of  Carlow,  p.  350.  From 
Maurice,  the  elder  brother  of  Brian- ««-ÓVrozce,  is 
lineally  descended  John  Kavanagh  (son  of  Dow- 
ling, son  of  Morgan,  son  of  Maurice,  son  of  Mor- 
gan, son  of  Dowling  of  Ballyleigh,  son  of  Dermot, 
son  of  Murrough,  brother  of  Cahir  Baron  of 
Ballyanne)  of  Bauck,  near  St.  Mullins,  in  the 
county  of  Carlow,  who  possesses  a  small  estate 
in  fee.  From  Rose,  the  daughter  of  Dowling 
Kavanagh  of  Ballyleigh,  who  was  married  in 


1840 


awNaca  uio^hachca  eiKeaNW 


[1585. 


Qcc  cfna  caiiiiccj»)'  an  bpajilimeric  pin  pirmpta]!  ^aiUle  pa^naill  Piachaib 
mac  Qeóa,  niic  Sfain  mic  Domnaill  jjlaip  ó  jlionn  iriaoiluis|ia. 

lap  rnonól  na  nuapol  pin  uile  co  liac  cliar,  -]  lap  mbfir  pé  hachaió 
(mn  rií  po  cuipeaó  cpioc  pop  an  bpaplimenc  an  blmoain  pi,  i  po  pccaoilpioc 
mporh  oia  ccijib. 

Canaicc  gobepnoip  cóicció  connacc  co  ntipuinj  <)o  óaoínib  onopca, "]  do 
comaiple  baile  ara  cliac  i  ccóicció  connacc,  canjaccap  cécup  oo  conjmail 
Seippion  I  mainipcip  innpi  i  cconnccte  an  cláip.  Oo  pónaó  opoaigre  lons^nara 
aca  ann  pin  .1.  oeic  psiUmsi  DopouccaD  Don  bainpiojain  in  jac  otn  cfrparhain 
cille  -|   cuaire  Da  mbaoi  ipin  cip  cénmo  fa  libepn   oo  aoncaijpior  pfin  do 


the  year  1670,  to  Cornelius  O'Donovan  of  Bally- 
iiiouiitaiu,  in  the  barony  of  Igrine,  and  county 
nf  Kilkenny,  the  Editor  is  the  fourth  in  de- 
scent. 

'  Tooles The  head  of  this  family  in  the  last 

century  was  Laurence  O'Toole,  Esq.,  of  Bux- 
tr)wn,  alias  Fairfield,  in  the  county  of  Wexford. 
For  some  account  of  his  descendants  see  note 
under  the  year  1590. 

""  G'Dunnes,  0' Dcmpscys. — The  present  head 
of  the  O'Dunnes  is  Lieutenant-Colonel  Francis 
Dunne  of  Brittas,  in  the  Queen's  County,  who 
is  the  son  of  the  late  General  Edward  Dunne, 
son  of  Francis,  son  of  Edward,  son  of  Te- 
rence, son  of  Charles,  son  of  Barnaby,  patentee, 
15  Car.  L,  son  of  Brian,  son  of  Teige,  son  of 
Teige,  son  of  Leyny,  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Donough, 
son  of  Amhalgaidh.  See  note  under  the  year 
1448,  p.  968, supra.  The  O'Dempseys  have  dwin- 
dled into  plebeians,  and  Mr.  Dempsey,  of  Liver- 
pool, merchant,  is  now  the  most  distinguished 
man  of  the  name. — See  page  1690,  supra. 

"  Fiayh,  the  son  of  Hugh — He  was  not  a  mem- 
ber of  this  Parliament,  though  Plowden  asserts 
that  Fiagh  Mac  Hugh  "  took  his  seat"  as  repre- 
sentative foi  Glenmalure.  The  late  Garrett 
Byrne,  Esq.,  of  Ballymanus,  in  the  county  of 
Wicklow,  who  was  expatriated  in  1798,  was 
probably  the  head  of  the  race  of  Hugh  Duv 
O'Byrne,  whose  descendants  were  rivals  of  the 


tamily  of  Fiagh  Mac  Hugh. — See  History  of  the 
Rebellion  of  1798,  by  P.  O'Kelly,  Esq.,  p.  185. 
The  Lord  De  Tabley  descends  from  Melaghlin 
Duff  O'Byrne  of  Ballintlea,  in  "Wicklow,  who 
was  of  the  senior  or  chieftain  branch  of  the 
O'Byrnes,  not  of^the  Gaval-Rannall. 

"  The  Parliament  ivas  not  finished. — This  Par- 
liament was  prorogued  on  the  29th  of  May, 
having  passed  the  two  Acts  following  : 

1 .  An  Act  to  attaint  James  Eustace  Viscount 
Baltinglas  and  others,  which  is  commonly  called 
the  Statute  of  Baltinglass,  and  makes  estates 
tail  forfeitable  for  treason,  and  provides  against 
the  fraudulent  conveyances  of  the  attainted. 

2.  An  Act  for  the    restitution   in  blood   of 
Laurence   Delahide,   whose  ancestor  had  been  - 
attainted  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII. 

The  Lord  Deputy  intended  to  suspend  Poyn- 
ing's  Act,  that  he  might  the  more  speedily  pass 
such  laws  as  he  thought  necessary  ;  but  some  of 
the  Anglo-Irish  members,  who  were  by  no  means 
disposed  to  intrust  the  Lord  Deputy  with  the 
power  of  assenting  to  any  laws  which  might  be 
procured  in  Parliament,  overthrew  the  biU  at 
the  third  reading.  The  second  session  of  this 
Parliament  was  on  the  28th  of  April,  1586, 
when  it  passed  tíie  celebrated  Act,  "  That  all 
conveyances  made,  or  pretended  to  be  made, 
by  any  person  attainted  within  thirteen  years 
before  the  Act,  shall  be  entered  on  record  in 


1585.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1841 


O'Dunnes,  or  O'Dempsys".  To  this  Parliament,  however,  went  the  senior  of 
Gaval-Rannall,  namely,  Fiagh",  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  John,  son  of  Donnell 
Glas  of  Glenmalure. 

All  these  nobles  assembled  in  Dublin,  and  remained  there  for  some  time  ; 
but  the  business  of  the  Parliament  was  not  finished"  this  year.  They  then 
departed  for  their  respective  homes. 

The  Governor  of  the  province  of  Connaught,  with  a  number  of  other  men 
of  distinction,  and  of  the  Council  of  Dublin,  went  to  the  province  of  Connaught, 
to  hold,  in  the  first  place,  a  session  in  the  monastery  of  Ennis,  in  the  county  of 
Clai'e.  Here  they  enacteji  unusual  ordinances,  namely :  that  ten  shillings  should 
be  paid  to  the  Queen  for  every  quarter  of  land  in  the  country,  as  well  ecclesi- 
astical as  lay  lands,  excepting  the  liberties''  which  they  themselves  consented 


the  Exchequer  within  a  year,  or  be  void." — See 
Spenser's  View  of  the  State  of  Ireland,  Dublin 
reprint  of  1809,  p.  41.  This  Parliament  was 
dissolved  on  the  14th  of  May,  1586. 

On  the  15th  of  July,  1585,  Perrott  issued  a 
commission,  directed  to  Sir  Richard  Bingham, 
Governor  of  Connaught,  the  Earls  of  Thomond 
and  Clanrickard,  the  Baron  of  Athenry,  Sir 
Turlough  O'Brien,  Sir  Richard  Bourke  Mac 
William  Eighter,  Sir  Donald  O'Conor  Sligo, 
Sir  Brian  O'Rourke,  Sir  Murrough-na-Doe 
O'Flahertie,  and  others :  reciting,  "  Where  our 
province  of  Connaught  and  Thomond,  through 
the  contynuall  dissention  of  the  Lords  and  Chief- 
tains, challenging  authorities,  cuttings,  and  cess- 
ings,  under  pretexte  of  defending  the  people 
under  their  several  rules,  have  run  to  all  errors ; 
and  understanding  the  good  inclination  of  these 
our  subjects,  through  the  good  mynysterie  of 
our  truly  and  well  beloved  Sir  John  Perrott, 
our  Deputy,  &c.,  to  embrace  all  good  wayes  and 
means  that  may  be  devised,  to  conserve  them  in 
our  obedience,  and  their  rights  and  titles  re- 
duced from  the  uncertaintye  wherein  it  stood, 
to  continue  certain  for  ever  hereafter." 

The  following  proposals  were  made  by  these 
commissioners  :  "  The  Chieftains   of  countries, 

11 


Gentlemen  and  Freeholders  of  the  province  of 
Connaught,  to  pass  unto  the  Queen's  Majestie, 
her  Heirs  and  Successors,  a  grant  of  ten  Shil- 
lings English,  or  a  marke  Irish,  upon  every 
quarter  of  land  containing  1 20  acres,  manured 
or  to  be  manured,  that  bears  either  home  or 
corne,  in  lieu  and  consideration  to  be  discharged 
from  other  cess,  taxation  or  challenge,  except- 
ing the  rising  out  of  Horse  and  Foote,  for  the 
service  of  the  prince  and  State,  such  as  should 
be  particularly  agreed  upon,  aild  some  certaine 
dayes  labour  for  building  and  fortifaction  for 
the  safety  of  the  people  and  kingdome." — 
Government  of  Ireland  under  Sir  John  Perrott, 
Knight,  4to.  London,  1626,  p.  80. 

The  Commissioners  commenced  with  the 
county  of  Clare  or  Thomond.  Then  followed 
the  districts  comprehended  within  the  newly 
created  county  of  Galway.  '•  Indentures  of 
Composition"  were  entered  into  for  these  terri- 
tories, which  were  printed  for  the  first  time  in  the 
Appendix  to  Ilardiman's  edition  of  O'Flaherty's 
Chorographical  Description  of  lar-  Connaught, 
pp.  309-362. — See  also  Cox's  Hibernia  Anglicana, 
A.  D. 1585. 

■■  Liberties. — Queen  Elizabeth,  in  her  letter  to 
the  Deputy,   Sir  Henry,   dated   7th    October, 

B 


1842  awNa^a  Rioghachca  eiReawN.  [i586. 

rabaipc  do  baoiniV)  maire  an  ripe,  "]  cúicc  pcillinji  ace  cijeajina  cuab- 
murhan  i  lu|icc  ciopa  na  bainpiojna  in  506  aén  cfrpamain  cuaire  opeajiann 
cpaép  1  baop  Dia  mbaoi  ipin  cip  uile,  acr  amain  libepci  "]  peapainn  fjlaipi. 
l?o  Deilijpiocona  rpioca  ceo  ceneoil  ppfprhaic  pé  njeapna  cuaómuman,  po 
baoi  ina  pfpann  ciopa  ago  pmnpeapaib  piam  50  pin,  •]  rucpac  ci^eapnap  an 
rpiocaic  ceo  pm  do  bapún  innpi  í  cuinn  Do  riiupcao  mac  mupcliaóo  mic  Diap- 
moDa  UÍ  bpiain.  Ro  hopoaiccheab, "]  po  haonraij^eab  map  an  ccéona  cíop 
-)  cúipc  copcumpuao  do  roippbealbac  mac  DomnaiU  mic  concobaip  ui  bpiain 
ap  lupcc  a  acap  Dia  rcuccab  an  rip  pm  ó  rúp  (a  cijeapnap  ruabmurhan)  la 
hiapla  ruabmurhan  .1.  concobap  mac  Donnchaib  ui  bpiain.  Ro  beilijpior  a 
ci'op  -|  a  uaiple  pé  gac  cfnD  popail,i  pe  jac  cijeapna  cpiocaic  cere  baoi  ipin 
cip  Ó  pin  amac  cenmocá  Sfan  mac  conmapa  njeapna  an  caoibe  nap  do  cloinn 
cuilem  na  po  cuip  a  lam  ap  an  compopipion  pin  do  pónparc.  Oo  pónpacc  an 
compopipion  ceDna  1  cconnraé  na  jaillrhe,  1  cconncae  poppa  comain,  1  cconcae 
maije  eo,  -)  1  cconnrae  pliccij. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1586. 
•    Ctoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  céD,  occmojar,  a  Sé. 

Seippion  Do  conjmáil  lá  Sip  Ripoepo  hionjjam,  1  la  corhaiple  cuiccib 
connacc  1  ngaillim  1  mi  lanuapii  Seaccmojarc  Do  mnaibh,  1  Dpeapaib  Do 

1577,  says  that  the  Earl  of  Thomond  pretended  use  the  terui  with  reference  to  the  English  law, 

an    ancient    freedom    in   the    whole  barony  of  as  received  in  Thomond   since  the  creation  of 

Ibreckan,   and  desired  the  like  in  the  other  ba-  the  Earldom,   they  must   have   taken   peapann 

ronies. — See  lar-Connauriht,  p.  359.  paép  to  denote  lands  held  in  frank-tenement, 

'^  Free  and  unfree. — It  is  not  easy  to  deter-  or  knight's  service,    which  was   esteemed    the 

mine  what  the  Four  Masters   intend  here  by  most  honourable  species  of  tenure  among  the 

pfpann  paep  i  oaop,  that  is  to  say,  whether  they  English  ;  and  peapann  oaep,  land  held  in  pure 

spoke  in  reference  to  English  or  Irish  tenure.  villenage. 

'  The  Editor,  therefore,  has  translated  the  words  '  Kind-Fearmaic. — In  the  description  of  the 
literally  leaving  the  reader  to  form  his  own  county  of  Clare,  written  about  this  period,  and 
opinion,  peapunri  paép,  according  to  the  Irish  now  preserved  in  the  Jlanuscript  Library  of 
notion,  meant  land  held  by  the  chief's  relatives  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  E.  2.  1 4,  this  territory 
free  of  rent,  and  peapunn  oaep  was  land  held  is  called  Troghkeyd  Kynel  Veroge,  or  the  ba- 
by strangers  (or  natives  who  had  forfeited  their  rony  of  Tullagh-I-Dea.  It  comprised  the  fol- 
priviieges  by  crime  or  otherwise),  at  high  rents,  lowing  parishes,  viz. :  Rath,  Kilnamona,  Kil- 
and  for  services  of  an  ignoble  nature.     If  they  linaboy,    Kilvodain,    Kilvilly,    Dysart,    Kuane, 


1586.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1843 

to  grant  to  the  gentlemen  of  the. country ;  and  that,  over  and  above  the  Queen's 
rent,  five  shilUngs  should  be  paid  to  the  Lord  of  Thomond  for  every  quarter 
of  land  free  and  unfree"  in  the  whole'  country,  except  the  liberties  and  chiu-ch 
knd.  They  took  from  the  Earl  of  Thomond  the  district  of  Kinel-Fearmaic', 
which  had  been  theretofore  under  tribute  to  his  ancestors,  and  gave  the  lordship 
of  it  to  the  Baron  of  Inchiquin',  Murrough,  the  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Dermot 
O'Brien.  It  was  also  ordained  and  agreed  that  Turlough,  the  son  of  Donnell, 
son  of  Conor  O'Brien,  should  have  the  rents  and  court  of  Corcomroe  [the  castle 
of  Dumhach]  in  succession  to  his  father,  to  whom  it  had  been  first  given  out 
of  the  lordship  of  Thomond  by  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  namely,  Conor,  the  son 
of  Donough  O'Brien.  They  deprived  of  title  and  tribute  every  head  or  chief 
of  a  sept,  and  every  other  lord  of  a  triocha-ched  throughout  the  whole  country 
(with  the  exception  of  John  Mac  Namara,  Lord  of  the  western  part  of  the  dis- 
trict of  Clann-Coilein),  who  did  not  subscribe  his  signature  to  this  ordinance 
of  their's.  They  acted  a  like  ordinance  in  the  counties  of  Galway,  Roscommon, 
Mayo,  and  Sligo'. 

THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1586. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  eighty-six. 

A  session  was  held  by  Sir  Richard  Bingham  and  the  Council  of  Connaught 
in  Galway,  in  the  month  of  January.     Seventy  men  and  women  were  put  to 

Kilnoe,  Kilkeedy,  Inishcronan.  From  this  list  it  bability  is  that  they  mistook  him  for  Turlough, 

is  clear  that  the  whole  of  the  cantred  of  Kinel-  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Conor  O'Brien,  a  per- 

Ferwaic  is  included  in  the  present  barony  of  sonage  who  appears  to  have  been   called  into 

Inchiquin,  except  the  parish  of  Inishcronan ;  historical  existence  by  an  error  of  transcription. 
and  we  have  sufficient  evidence  to  prove  that  '  Charles  O'Conor,  of  Belanagare,  adds  the 

this  parish  did  not  originally  belong  to  Kinel-  obituary  of  his  ancestor,  Dermot,  as  follows  : 
Fermaic,  although  attached  to  it  at  this  period,  "  O'Concabaip  Donn,  oiaptnuiD,  ITlac  caip- 

for  it  was  anciently  a  portion  of  Hy-Caisin,  or  bpe,  rilicGojain  caoich,Doécc  i  inbaile  cobaip 

]\Iac  Namara's  original  territory,  and  was  a  part  bpi  jicce  icip  jcian  aoip  i6  Sepcembep,  ]  a  ai>- 

ofthe  deanery  of  Ogashin,  according  to  the -Le'ier  nacal  i  norapbje  a  hpinpeap  i  Rop  Comain. 

Regalis  Visitation^.  O'Conor  Don  (Dermot,  the  son  of  Carbry,  son 

'  The  Baron  of  Inchiquin. — This   Murrough,  of  Owen  Caech)  died  at  Ballintober,  at  an  ad- 

who  was  the  fourth   Baron   of  Inchiquin,   at-  vanced  age,  on  the  I6th  of  September,  and  was 

tended  the   Parliament   of  1585,   though   the  interred  in  the  burial-place  of  his  ancestors  at 

Four  Masters  take  no  notice  of  him.     The  pro-  Roscommon." 

11  b2 


1844 


aHNQ^a  Rio^hachca  eiReaNN. 


[1586. 


bnpuccabap  an  y^eipion  fin.  Vfo  bab  oibpbe  r)oiTinoll  mac  muijiceapcaij  ^aipb 
inic  bpiain  mic  caibcc  ui  bpiain, -|  mac  ui  r?;pa  Buibe  .1.  bpian  mac  céin  mic 
oilealla  ó  ^ailfnjaib  connacc  co  nopums  Duaipbb  cenmocac. 

Qn  jobepnoip  céona  Sip  RipDepD  Do  p uiDe  pe  haghaió  cluana  Dubain  an 
ceo  la  DO  rhapra.  6á  he  baoi  ipin  mbaile  ipn  TTlarj^arhnin,  moc  coippóeal- 
baij  mic  marjarhna,  mic  coippóealbai^,  inic  TTIarjamna  ui  bpiain  o  nabaprap 
Sliocr  marjamna.  r?o  páccbaó  nuirhip  éccinnce  do  itiuincip  an  gobepnopa 
ppi  pe  cpi  pfccmuine  bárcap  ace  lompuiDe  an  baile.     Ip  an  oapa  la  picfr 


"  Murtough  Garv. — In  the  Description  of 
Clare,  preserved  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin, 
E.  2.  14,  he  is  called  Moriertagh  Garagh  of  the 
castles  of  Cahircorkrane  and  Rahe. — See  his 
death  entered  under  the  year  1585,  supra. 

"  Gailenga  of  Counauyht. — The  Gailenga  of 
Connaught,  who  received  their  name  frotn  Cor- 
mac  Gaileng,  son  of  Tadhg,  son  of  Cian,  son  of 
OilioU  Olum,  King  of  Munster,  originally  pos- 
sessed the  whole  of  the  diocese  of  Achonry,  but 
at  the  period  of  which  we  are  now  treating,  their 
territory  was  very  narrow.  O'Hara  Boy  pos- 
sessed about  the  eastern  half  of  the  barony^of 
Leyny,  in  the  county  of  Sligo. 

"  Cluain-Duhlmin,  now  Cloon-oan  Castle,  in 
the  parish  of  Kilkeedy,  about  six  miles  to  the 
north-east  of  Corofin,   in  the  barony  of  Inchi- 

quin,  and  county  of  Clare See  note  '',  under 

t6e  year  1569,  p.  1632,  supra.  Only  one  side 
of  this  castle  now  remains  perfect.  It  is  twenty- 
nine  feet  in  length  and  about  sixty  feet  in 
height.  All  its  outworks  are  entirely  destroyed, 
and  no  idea  can  be  formed  of  their  extent  or 
character.  It  is  highly  probable  that  this  castle 
was  re-edified  since  the  year  1586,  as  the  pre- 
sent walls  could  not  have  belonged  to  so  strong 
a  castle  as  this  is  said  to  have  been  when 
stormed  by  Bingham.  Sir  Henry  Docwra,  in 
his  Relation  of  Services  done  hj  Sir  Richard  Bi/ng- 
ham  in  Ireland,  gives  the  following  account  of 
the  taking  of  this  Castle  of  Cluain-Dubhain,  and 
of  Castle  Nacally,  or  Hag's   Castle,  a  circular 


fortress  of  great  strength,  situated  on  an  artifi- 
cial island  in  Lough  Jlask,  near  Ballinrobe,  in 
the  county  of  Mayo. — See  note  *■,  under  the 
year  1195,  p.  102,  and  note  "^,  luider  1233, 
p.  268,  supra  : 

"  Aboute  this  tyme  Sir  Richard  Byngham 
laye  at  the  seidge  of  Clan  Owen  in  Thowmond,  a 
strong  Pyle  manned  and  kept  against  her  Ma- 
jestic, by  Mahowne  O'Bryan,  a  most  dangerous 
enemye  to  the  state  ;  a  cheifFe  champion  of  the 
Pope's,  and  a  great  practyzer  with  fforraigne 
Powers  íFor  the  Invasion  of  this  Realm  of  Ireland. 
At  this  seidge  Sir  Richard  Byngham  had  but 
one  hundred  English  souldiers  and  some  ffewe 
kearne  of  the  countrye,  by  reason  whereof  he 
was  dryven  to  noe  small  payne  in  skyrmisheing, 
watchinge,  and  wardinge,  with  soe  fiewe  men  ; 
neverthelesse,  within  seaven  dayes  he  wanne  the 
castell,  and  slew  the  said  Mahowne  O'Bryan, 
and  the  warde  within,  and  razed  the  said  castell, 
without  the*  flTurtheraunce  of  any  great  ordy- 
naunce. 

"  After  that  Sir  Richard  marched  IFrom  this 
castell  to  Castell-ne-callye,  within  the  which 
the  traytors  were,  and  enclosed  themselves.  Att 
his  ftirst  comeing  thether  he  parlyed  with  them, 
advyceing  them  to  remember  the  obedyence 
which  they  owed  to  hir  Majestic,  and  to  yeilde 
themselves  to  hir  Majestie's  mercye,  assureing 
them  that  in  soe  doeing  they  shoulde  ffinde  that 
íFavoure  in  all  respects,  thaf\)ther  hir  Highnes 
subjects  did ;  but  they  myndeinge  nothing  lesse 


1586.] 


ANNALS  OF   rWE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1845 


death  on  this  occasion,  aniung  whom  were  Donnell,  son  of  Murtough  Garv", 
son  of  Brian,  son  of  Teige  O'Brien ;  and  the  son  of  O'Hara  Boy,  namely,  Brian, 
the  sou  of  Kian,  son  of  Oilioll  of  the  Gailenga  of  Connaught" ;  and  many  other 
gentlemen  besides. 

The  same  Governor,  Sir  Richard,  on  the  first  of  March,  laid  siege  to  Cluain- 
Dubhain",  then  in  possession  of  Mahon,  the  son  of  Turlough,  son  of  Mahon,  son 
of  Turlough,  son  of  Mahon  O'Brien,  from  whom  the  Sliocht-Mahon  are  named. 
An  indefinite  number  of  the  Governor's  people  were  left  there,  besieged  the  castle 
for  three  weeks,  and  on  the  twenty-second  day  of  the  same  month  they  made 


then  to  submitt  themselves  on  any  suche  con- 
ditions, saide  they  woulde  not  doe  any  hurte, 
but  keep  themselves  there  in  safletye,  ffor  that 
they  were  íFearíFull  to  trust  any  Englishman, 
alleadgeinge  manye  ffrivelous  and  impertynent 
cawses,  moveing  them  to  stande  vppon  their 
guarde.  Herevppon  Sir  Rychard  proceeded  to 
beseige  them  in  the  said  castell,  which  was  a 
strongeroundefFortresse  errected  fFarr  within  the 
Loghe,  vppon  a  smalle  compasse  of  grounde  see 
scanted  by  the  wall  that  scarce  a  standinge  place 
was  left  vnto  it.  The  seidge  was  all  by  water 
in  boats,  and  coulde  not  otherwyse  bee  attemjJted, 
insoemuohe  as  Sir  Richard  goinge  aboute  to 
bourne  a  boate  or  two  of  theires  that  they  had 
docked  and  layde  vpp  vnder  the  castell  wall,  to 
the  ende  they  might  not  escape  awaye,  and  that 
alsoe  he  might  watche  and  warde  them  with 
íFewe  men  (haveing  but  a  small  companye  there, 
and  those  alsoe  soore  wearyied,  bruised  with 
stones,  and  galled  with  shott  at  the  seidge  of 
Clanowen),  was  fforced  by  the  suddayne  ryseinge 
of  contrarye  weather,  which  muche  fFavoured 
tRe  enemye,  to  leave  the  attempt  with  the  loss 
of  one  of  his  boats  and  two  or  three  of  his  soul- 
diers;  himself  and  others  being  in  the  said  boate 
hardlye  escaped  by  the  healpe  of  other  boates, 
which  other  boates  came  not  in  tyme  to  his  suc- 
coure,  thoroughe  the  negligence  of  such  as  he 
had  put  in  truste  with  them,  and  appoynted  to 
come  and  joyne  with  him.     The  boat  which  he 


soe  lost  the  enemyes  gatt,  in  which  and  in  ano- 
ther boate  of  theire  owne,  before  Sir  Richard 
coulde  retourne  to  chardge  them  vnth  a  fíreshe 
supplye  from  his  camp  lyeing  on  the  shoare, 
they  shipped  themselves,  and  with  greate  scele- 
ritye  escaped  into  the  woodes,  ffearing  that  at 
the  next  chardge  Sir  Richard  would  haue  wonne 
the  castell. 

"  Captain  Mordante  and  others  had  the  chase 
of  them  by  water.  Theise  traytors  beinge  thus 
escaped  to  the  woodes  and  mountaines  oute  of 
Castell-ne-callye,  their  accomplishes  alsoe  fledd 
out  of  the  other  castell,  both  which,  and  one 
stronge  pyle  of  ffarroghe  McDonnell's,  Sir  Rich- 
ard razed  to  the  ground,  ffor  that  they  were  not 
fitt  or  stood  serviceable  to  be  kept  to  the  Eng- 
lish, and  were  very  daungerous  to  be  in  the  pos- 
session of  the  Irisherye.  Riccard  Bourke,  alias 
the  Pall  of  Ireland,  a  man  of  no  small  accompte 
amonge  his  septe,  and  all  the  ill  affected  Irishe- 
rye, repayred  to  Sir  Rychard  at  his  first  comeing 
to  Castell-ne-callye,  beinge  indeede  the  cheiffe  of 
theire  conffederaoye.  This  man,  vnder  cuUor  of 
dutyefuU  subiecti,on,  intended  to  haue  betrayed 
Sir  Richard  and  all  his  companye  (but  intelli- 
gence herof  beinge  given,  and  manye  appa- 
raunte  prooffes  had  of  his  trayterous  intentions 
and  devyces),  this  Pall  of  Irelande  was  soone 
executed  by  Martiall  Lawe.  This  was  assuredlye 
the  most  daungerous  member  in  all  the  countye 
of  Mayo,  especiallye  ffor   the   draweing   in   ol' 


1846  aNwaca  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1586. 

Don  mi  céDna  po  gaby^ac  co  Díociia  DoippCpcail  05  cup  00  cum  an  baile  do 
^abctil.  6ai  ITlarsarhain  pop  caiblib  an  caipléin  ace  oiubpaccaó  cloc  -]  cap- 
pac  pop  an  lucr  báccap  imó  bun  ag  cup  pap,  1  pailjfo  ppip,  1  00  pala  60  50 
po  haimpfo  50  hinnelloipeac  Dupcop  do  peilép  é  jup  bó  mapb  jan  anmain. 
Uuccparc  an  bapDa  an  baile  lapom  lap  mapbaoVi  marjamna,  -|  ge  maó 
lamn  leó  anacal  Dpajbail  noca  npuaippioc  iDip.  Ro  Ifgaó  an  Ifc  piap  Don 
baile  Ó  rhullac  50  calmain.  T?ob  oipófpcuccaó  anma  -|  onopa  do  Sip  RipDepo 
biongjam  rtn  coipcc  pin,  uaip  ni  baoi  pop  cip  cipim  1  nepinn  baile  baó  Dainjne 
-]  ba  Díco?;lai^i  ma  cluam  Dubáin. 

Do  chuaió  an  jobepnoip  laparh  pe  haccaiD  caipléin  na  caiUiji  pop  loc 
mfpcca,  -j  pob  é  an  baile  pin  Dijfnn  Daingin  cóicció  connachc.  bácrap  larc 
baoi  accá  bapoacc  an  ran  pin  l?ipoepD  a  búpc  (Dia  njoipn  Dfrhan  an  cop- 
]iain)  mac  T?iocaipD,  mic  RipoepD,  mic  uilliam,  mic  emainn,  mic  Riocaiprr 
UÍ  cuaippcci,  1  uácep,  mac  emainn,  mic  uillicc,  mic  emainn  mic  Riocaiprc 
UÍ  cuaippcci.  Do  cuarcap  do  peacna  Seppion,  -|  do  caomna  a  ccopp  ip  in 
ccaiplén  pin.  i?o  gab  an  5obepnoip  ace  lompuióe  an  baile,  -)  Do  cuip  luce  a 
cfraip,  no  a  cúicc  Dcjprpaijib  Do  poijnib  a  paibe  ap  in  ccampa  1  mfóon  laí  Do 
lonnpaijiD  an  baile,  -]  nip  bo  copba  Dóib  uaip  po  mapbab  Dpong  Da  nDaoinib, 
1  r°  pagaibpioc  apcpac  do  naprpaijib,  1  Do  cóiópioc  an  luce  ele  po  10m- 
bácab  gup  an  ccampa.  lap  nimrecc  Doibpióe  appfó  po  cinnpioD  na  búpcai^ 
pin  gan  bfir  le  bapDacc  baile  ap  bir  1  najhaiD  ppionnpa  8a,ran.  Do  cóiópioc 
luce  Da  aprpac  co  na  mnaib,  1  co  net  leanbaib  Don  Ific  ele  Don  loc  op  coifiaip 
an  campa.  Do  bpip  an  gobepnoip  an  baile  Dia  nfip  laparh,-]  ba  ipin  ccampa 
pin  DO  cpochab  leip  mac  rhec  uilliam  bijpc  .1.  l?ioeapD  occ  (ap  a  ccabaprai 
pal  pa  epinn)  mac  RicaipD  mic  Sfain  an  reapniainn  lap  mapbaó  a  Deapbparctp 
ele  peme  pin  .1.  romap  pua6  agápaige  caiplén  na  nenuije  ap  pionnloc  cfpa  1 

Scotts,  a  thing  which  Sir  Richard  ever  doubted,  '^  Deamhan-an-Chorrain,    i.e.    the  demon  of 

and  which  the  Buurkes  vndoubtedly  entended."  the  reapiug-hook. 

''  Was  razed  to  the  ground,   literally,    "  the  "  To  avoid,  ^-c. — An  English  writer  would 

west  side  of  the  town  was  knocked  down  to  the  say,  "that  they  might  not  be  obliged  to  attend 

ground."  the  sessions." 

'  Imprefjnahle,     Dico^laiji This  might  be  '^  Their  efforts  loere  fruitless,  literally,  "  and  it 

translated  :   "  There  was  not  upon  dry  land  in  was  not  profit  to  them." 

Ireland  a  castle  more  firm,  or  more  difficult  to  '^  In  damjer  of  being  drowned,  po  lombácab, 

be  razed  than  Cluain-Uubhain."  literally,   "  under  drowning."     A  storm  arose 


1586.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1847 

vigorous  and  irresistible  exertions  to  take  the  castle.  Mahon  was  on  the  battle- 
ments of  the  castle,  casting  down  stones  and  rocks  upon  those  who  were  at  the 
base  applying  engines  and  apparatuses  to  it  to  demoUsh  it ;  and  it  happened  to 
him  that  he  was  aimed  straight  in  the  head  with  the  shot  of  a  bullet,  which 
killed  him  on  the  spot.  The  warders,  on  Mahon's  death,  surrendered  the  castle; 
but  though  they  expected  quarter,  they  did  not  at  all  receive  it.  The  western 
side  of  the  castle  was  razed  to  the  ground^  This  achievement  exalted  the  name 
and  character  of  Sir  Richard  Bingham,  for  there  was  not  upon  dry  land  in  Ire- 
land a  stronger  or  more  impregnable^  fortress  than  Cluain-Dubhain. 

The  Governor  ai'terwards  proceeded  to  attack  Caislen-na-Caillighe  [the  Hag's 
Castle], in  Lough  Mask,  which  was  the  stronghold  of  the  province  of  Connaught. 
These  were  they  who  guarded  it  at  the  time  :  Richard  Burke,  who  was  called 
Deamhau-an-Chorrain",  the  son  of  Rickard,  son  of  Rickard,  son  of  Edmond,  son 
of  Edmond,  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Rickard  O'Cuairsci ;  and  Walter,  the  son  of 
Edmond,  son  of  Ulick,son  of  Edmond,son  of  Rickard  O'Cuairsci.  They  had  gone 
to  this  castle  to  avoid''  the  session,  and  to  protect  their  persons.  The  Governor 
proceeded  to  lay  siege  to  the  castle ;  and  he  sent  the  crews  of  four  or  five  boats, 
of  the  flower  of  the  choicest  men  in  the  camp,  to  attack  the  castle  in  the  middle 
of  the  day.  But  their  efforts  were  fruitless^  for  a  number  of  their  men  was 
slain  ;  they  left  behind  one  of  their  boats,  and  the  rest  returned,  in  danger  of 
being  drowned",  for  the  camp.  After  their  departure  the  Burkes  resolved  that . 
they  would  not  [in  future]  defend  any  castle  against  the  Sovereign  of  England ; 
and  they  went  in  two  boats,  with  their  wives  and  children,  to  the  other  side  of 
the  lake,  opposite  the  camp.  The  Governor  destroyed  the  castle  after  their 
departure.  It  was  in  this  camp  that  he  hanged  the  son  of  Mac  William  Burke, 
namely,  Rickard  Oge,  usually  styled  Fal-fo-Eirinn%  the  son  of  Rickard,  son  of 
John  of  the  Termon^  after  his  other  brother  had  been  killed,  namely,  Thomas 
Roe,  the  claimant  of  Caislen-na-nenuighe^'  on  Finnloch-Ceara  in  Connaught. 

(in  the  lake,  which  rendered  it  very  dangerous  "^  Fal-fo-Eirinn,    i.  e.  the  hedge  or  fence  of 

to  approach  the  castle.     When  the  Editor  exa-  Ireland.  Docwra  calls  him  the  "Pall  of  Irelande." 
mined  the  ruins  of  this  castlAn  1838,  he  found  f  Of  the  Termon,   i.  e.  of  the  Termon  of  Balla, 

it  exceeding  difficult   to  land  on  the  artificial  in   the  barony  of  Clonmorris,    and   county  of 

island  on  which  the  castle  stands,  in  consequence  Mayo.— See  Genealogies,   Trihes,  and  Ciif'i'nnx  <•/ 

of  a  brisk  breeze  on  tTie  lake,  which  raised  re-  Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  197,  note  ". 
markable  billows  near  the  castle.  s  Caislen-na-nenvighe,  i.  e.  the  castle  of  An- 


1848  aNwata  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [i586. 

cconnacraib.  Pob  éiccfn  an  baile  yin  do  rabaipc  Don  ^obepnoip  lap  mbá- 
pucchaóRiocaiiio  ~\  cómaip^jo  po  bpipean  lap  é  aitiail  poI)]npea6  na  bailee 
pin  ele.  bo  ipin  can  céona  po  cpocan  lap  an  njobeapnoip  oiap  mac  iiaréip 
paoa  mic  oauib  mic  emainn  mic  uillicc  a  biipc,  Ueboic  "]  Hlaoilip  a  nanmanna. 
Oponj  rhóp  do  cóicceaó  connacr  Do  gabail  lap  na  búpcacaib  pin,  -j  a  nool 
ma  ccoíTiTTibáió  cpécuipeacca  lap  ppéil  eóin  na  bliaona  po.  Robab  Dibpióe 
clann  nDorhnaiU  gallocclac,  -]  Seóaij  lapraip  connacc.  Do  cuippioc  a  niniip- 
jfóa,  a  mná,  "|  a  mumreapa  i  nDainjnib,  ~\  i  noirpeabaib  an  ci'pe.  Uánaicc 
an  gobepnoip  pe  a  na^aib  50  baile  an  pooba,  1  poleicc  a  peace  no  a  hocc  Do 
banDabaib  po  laprap  connacc  i  noiaio  na  noibfpccac,"]  ó  na  puaippiocc  gpeiin 
pop  na  pojlaóaib  po  aipccpioc  iTiuincip  nnupcbaiD  na  ccuaj,-]  muincip  plecca 
eoccain  ui  plaicbeapcqij  po  bui  (an  Dap  leó  pein)  po  Dliccheab  an  ran  pm. 
r?o  mapbab  Dna  leo  pióe  mná, "]  mionDaoíne,  aiccpeboij  "]  aep  anppann.  Ro 
cpocpac  cebóicc  ó  cuacail  pfp  cojbala  cpój^  1  congniala  cij^e  naoiófo.  Oo 
jabaD  leo  beóp  eojan,  mac  DorhnaiU  an  coccaiD,  mic  an  jiolla  Duib,  mic  mup- 
cliaiD  mic  eojain  ui  plairbfpcai^, "]  po  bapaijpioc  é  lap  na  ^abail.  pillicc 
cap  anaip  laparh  1  ccfnn  an  jobepnopa  50  ccpeacaib  -\  co  neoalaib  lomoaib. 
Coblac  albanac  Do  reacc  1  ccip  1  ninip  eoccain  1  nouchaig  ui  óocapcai^ 
ip  in  emg  coip  cuaiD  Do  cip  conaill.  l?obcap  lac  bá  buaiple  "|  bá  cinn  conpapal 
ap  in  ccoblac  pin  Da  mac  Shemaip  mic  alapcpamn,  mic  eóin  caranaij  rhec 
mec  Dorhnaill  .1.  Domnall  50pm, -|  cdapcpann, -]  jiollci  eppuicc  mac  Dubjaill 
mic  Donchaió  caim  mic  giolla  eppuicc  mécailín  co  nDpuing  ele  Duaiplib  cen- 
tno  các.  6á  moa  a  namm  "]  a  noipoeapcup  map  amailcansaccap.  Oo  pónaó 

nies,  situated  opposite  Caislen-na-Caillighe,  on  nells  of  Mayo,  who  were  hereditary  leaders  of 

Hag-islaud,  in  Finlough  Carra,  near  Ballinrobe.  Gallowglasses. 

There  was  also  a  small  nunnery  at  this  place,  '  The  Joyces  of  West  Connaught These  were 

which,   according  to   Downing,   "  was  founded  a  family  of  Welsh  descent,  seated  in  the  barony 

and  given  by  Thomas  Burke,  chief  of  the  Burkes  of  Koss,  in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of  Gal- 

of  Mayo,  to  the  abbot  of  Cong,  upon  condition  way. — See    ChorograpMcal   Description   of  Jar- 

that,  if  any  woman  of  his  posterity  would  vow  Connmtght,   edited  by  Mr.    Hardiman,    pp.  44, 

chastity,  the  abbot  of  Cong  should  maintain  her  248,  249,  382. 

during  her  life,  as  appears  by  the  several  Inqui-  ^  The  descendaMs  of  Owen  G' Flaherty These 

sitions   after   the   dissolution    of  Cong." — See  were  the  O'Flaherties  of  Connemara. — See  Ge- 

Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  CiistoDis  of  Hy-Fiachrach,  nealogical  Table  in  the  ChorograpMcal  Descrip- 

p.  203,  note  "=.  tion   of  lar-Connaught,  p.  362,  where  all  the 

^  Clann-Donndl  Galloglach,  i.  e.  the  Mac  Don-  descendants  of  Owen  O'Flaherty  are  given  by 


1586]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1849 

This  [last-mentioned]  castle  had  to  be  given  up  to  the  Governor  after  the  exe- 
cution of  Rickard  and  Thomas  ;  and  it  was  demolished  by  him,  as  the  other 
castles  had  been.  It  was  about  the  same  time  that  the  Governor  hantred  the 
two  sons  of  Walter  Fada,  son  of  David,  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Ulick  Burke, 
•  whose  names  were  Theobald  and  Meyler.  A  great  portion  [of  the  people]  of 
Connaught,  about  the  festival  of  St.  John  this  year,  joined  these  Burkes  in  their 
treason.  Among  these  were  the  Clann-Donnell  Galloglach"  and  the  Joyces  of 
West  Connaught".  They  sent  away  their  moveables  and  their  women  into  the 
fastnesses  and  wilds  of  the  country.  The  Governor  went  to  Ballinrobe  to 
oppose  them,  and  dispatched  seven  or  eight  companies  of  soldiers  through  West 
Connaught  in  search  of  the  insurgents ;  and  these  [soldiers],  not  having  caught 
.the  robbers,  plundered  the  people  of  Murrough-na-dTuagh  and  the  descendants 
of  Owen  O'Flaherty",  who  were,  as  they  thought  themselves,  under  [the  protec- 
tion of]  the  law  at  that  time.  They  killed  women,  boys,  peasants,  and  decrepit 
persons.  They  hanged  Theobald  O'Toole',  the  supporter  of  the  destitute,  and 
the  keeper  of  a  house  of  hospitality.  They,  moreover,  took  prisoner  Owen,  the 
son  of  Donnell-an-Chogaidh",  son  of  Gilla-Duv,  son  of  Murrough,  son  of  Owen 
•O'Flaherty,  and  put  him  to" death  after  taking  him.  They  then  returned  to  the 
Governor  with  many  preys  and  spoils. 

A  Scotch  fleet  landed  in  Inishowen,  O'Doherty's  country,  in  the  north-eastern 
angle  of  Tirconnell.  These  were  the  gentlemen  and  chief  constables  of  that 
fleet :  Donnell  Gorm  and  Alexander,  the  two  sons  of  James,  son  of  Alexander, 
son  of  John  Cahanagh,  son  of  Mac  Donnell ;  and  Gillespick,  the  son  of  Dowell, 
son  of  Donough  Cam,  son  of  Gillespick  Mac  Ailin  [Campbell];  with  many  other 
gentlemen  besides.   Their  name"  and  fame  were  greater  than  their  appearance. 

name,  and  their  relationship  to  Murrough-na-  of  Dermot  Sugagh,  i.  e.  the  Merry,  son  of  Dun- 

dTuagh  shewn.  chuan,  son  of  Tuathal,  son  of  Dunlang,  son  of 

'  Theobald  O'Toole He  lived  iu  the  island  Gilla- Kevin  of  the  Green,  son^of  Walter,  son  of 

of  Omey  in  lar-Connaught,  where  his  ancestor,  Gilla- Kevin,  son  of  Gilla-Comhggaill,  in  whom 

who  was  of  the  O'Tooles  of  Leinster,   settled  at  the  Connamara  branch  meets  the  chieftains  of 

an  early  period.   The  pedigree  of  this  Theobald,  Imaile  and   Feara    Cualan. — See   Mac    Pirbis's 

who  had  a  son,  Edmond  O'Toole,  of  Omey  or  genealogical  work,  and  also  Chorographical  De- 

Imagia,  in  Conmaicne-mara,  is  given  as  follows  scription  of  lar-Connmight,  pp.  280,  281. 
by  Duald  Mac  Firbis  :  Theobald,  son  of  Faelan  '"  Bonnell-an-chogaidh,  i.  e.  Donnell  of  the  war. 

[or  Felim],  son  of  Tuathal,  son  of  Tuathal,  son  °  Their  name,  ^c,  i.  e.  the  forces  they  took 

of  Hugh,  son  of  Awley,  son  of  Dermot  Oge,  son  with  them,  and  their  military  preparations  on 

11  C 


1850  aNHQca  Riojhachca  eiReanw.  [i586. 

poplonjpojica  peóil  lomba  le6  lyin  cip  i  ccuócarcap,  "]  báccap  aép  pfij^ 
po|iuallac,-i  lucr  pujiáilme  peiljnioTíiji  miciiioijre  maicfpa  na  cc|iioc  ccorh- 
poccup  acc  cncr  t)ia  paijhió  an  oú  pm  co  náp  pájaibpioc  arrhaoín  Dia  nfip 
1  ninip  eóccain  Dapbap  nó  oaipneip  Do  cup  pin.  Loccap  lapom  láim  lé  pinn 
1  lé  TTloóaipn  oo  cfpniann  Tnéjcpaic,  Do  cuaic  luipcc,  i  t>o  rhiobbulcc  50  ■ 
panjaccap  50  huip  imlibh  éipne.  Or  cualaccap  na  bíipcaig  bácap  pop  pan 
ppojail, -|  popp  an  DÍbfipcc  pémpnice  .1.  TíipDfpD  a  búpc  mac  Dfrhani  an  cop- 
pain,  1  clann  emainn  abúpc,"]  dance  nDomnaillgallocclac  pccela  na  nalbanac 
po  cuippiorc  ceacra  co  cinneapnac  ma  ccojaipm  cuca, -|  po  paibpioc  co 
ppui  jbiccip  éoala  lomba,  ■]  a  noiongrhala  Do  Duchaij  1  ccóijeab  connacr  Dia 
cn'opab  óiob  pfin  a  copnam  ppi  niuincip  an  ppionnpa.  Locap  na  halbanai^ 
cap  éipne  lap  na  haicfpccaib  pin,  "|  panjaccap  an  céona  huióe  ecip  óaib,  "|, 
bpobaoíp  CO  po  jabpac  05  milleab  Dapcpaij;e,  "|  caipppe,  cónaicc  Ripofpo  1 
clann  emainn  ina  ccfno  annpm.  Oo  caeD  an  gobfpnoip  pé  a  naccliaiD  50 
plicceac.  páccbam  na  halbanaij  an  coipfp  pin,-)  po  jabpac  boofp  Do  oap- 
cpaije,  -]  la  caob  bfnna  bo  ipin  mbpeipne  bá7:x:a]\  ceópa  lioibce  1  nDpuim  Da 
enap.  l?o  apccnáccap  ap  pin  Do  bpaiDpliab,  -|  ni  po  aipipfcap  co  cillpónam, 

this  occasion,  did  uot  sustain  the  martial  cha-  to  them." 

racter  which  fame  had  reported  of  them.  '  The  first  march,  céonu  hmoe  .1.  an  ceo  dip 

"  TTie  haughty  robbers The  Irish  word  pel?;,  cip,  i.  e.  the  first  day's  march. 

which  is  explained  ^ép,  sharp,  by  O'Clery,  and  "  The  Governor. — This  was  Sir  Richard  Bing- 

bloody,  by  O'Reilly,  really  means  acer,  airox  ;  ham,  whose  brother,  George  Bingham,  is  the 

poyiuallac  means,  indignant,  proud,  or  haughty,  ancestor  of  the  Lords   Lucan  and  Clanmorris, 

^  The  perpetrators  of  treacherous  deeds,    luce  and  of  the  late  Major  Bingham  of  Erris,  in  the 

pupáilriie  peiljniorn. — In  this  phra^  pupáilme  county  of  Mayo.   Richard  Bingham  (afterwards 

is  the  genitive  singular  of  pupúilearii,  to  oiFer,  Sir  Richard  Bingham)  makes  his  first  appear- 

incite,  provoke  ;  peil^niorii  .1.  jniorh  peiUe,  a  ance  in  Irish  history  as  one  of  the  bloody  actors 

deed  of  treachery.  at  Dun-an-oir,  near  Smerwick  in  Kerry  in  1580. 

'  The  opponents  of  goodness,  cuioiu^ao   mai-  There   is   preserved   in    the    British   Museum, 

rfpa  means,  to  help  to  do  good;  and  miocui-  Titus  B.  xii.   p.   115,  an   original   letter  from 

Diu  jao  mairfpa,  as  in  the  text,  means  the  very  him  to  the  Earl  of  Leicester,  dated  Smerwick 

opposite.  Road,  3rd  November,  1580,  conveying  intelli- 

■■  Miodhbholg,  a  district  on  the  margin  of  the  gence  of  the  arrival  of  a  ship  with  men,  pressed. 

Lower  Lough  Erne,  in  the  barony  of  Lurg,  and  And,  p.  116,  another  letter,  dated  1 1th  Novem- 

county  of  Fermanagh.    The  name  is  locally  pro-  ber,  1580,  from  Smerwick,  same  to  same.     His 

nounced  Meeluck See  note  ',  under  the  year  cenotaph  in  Westminster  Abbey,  which  begins, 

1432,  p.  882,  supra.  "  To  the  glory  of  the  Lord  of  Hosts,"  states  that 

^  To  their  assistance,  literiuly,  "  to  invite  them  he  served  at  Smerwick  in  Ireland.    It  is  curious 


1.586.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1851 

They  pitched  camps  in  [that  part  of]  the  country  where  they  landed,  where 
they  had  much  flesh  meat.  The  haughty  robbers",  the  plunderers,  the  perpetra- 
tors of  treacherous  deeds'',  and  the  opponents  of  goodness"",  of  the  neighbouring 
territories,  flocked  to  join  them  there  ;  so  that  there  was  nothing  of  value  in 
Inishowen,  whether  corn  or  cattle,  which  they  did  not  carry  off'  on  this  occasion. 
They  afterwards  passed  along  by  the  River  Finn  and  the  Mourne  to  Termon- 
Magrath,  to  the  territory  o£  Lurg,  and  to  Miodhbholg',  until  they  arrived  at  the 
borders  of  the  Erne.  When  the  Burkes,  who  weije  engaged  in  plundering  and 
insiu-i'ection,  as  before  stated,  namely,  Richard  Burke,  the  son  of  Deamhan-an- 
Chorrain,  the  sons  of  Edmond  Burke,  and  the  Clann-Donnell-Galloglagh,  had 
heard  the  news  of  [the  arrival  of]  these  Scots,  they  expeditiously  sent  messen- 
gers, inviting  them  to  their  assistance^,  and  stating  that  they  would  obtain  many 
spoils  and  a  territory  worthy  of  them  in  the  province  of  Connaught,  should 
they  themselves  succeed  in  defending  it  against  the  people  of  the  Sovereign. 
The  Scots,  upon  receipt  of  these  messages,  proceeded  across  the  Erne  by  the 
first  march',  imtil  they  arrived  [in  the  district  lying]  between  the  Rivers  Duff" 
and  Drowis  ;  and  they  proceeded  to  plunder  Dartry  and  Carbury,  where  they 
were  met  by  Richard  and  the  sons  of  Edmond  [Bui'ke].  The  Governor"  pro- 
ceeded to  Sligo  to  oppose  them,  upon  which  the  Scots  departed  from  that  dis- 
trict", and  passed  southwards  through  Dartry,  and  by  the  side  of  Beanna-bo"  in 
Breifny.  They  remained  three  nights  in  Dromahaire,  from  whence  they  pro- 
ceeded to  Braid-Shliabh" ;  and  they  never  halted  until  they  arrived  at  Kilronan", 

to  remark  how  treacherous  all  his  attacks  have  MaHor-Hamilton,  in  the  county  of  Leitrim. 

been.     Sir  Henry  Docwra,  who  was  himself  a  '  Braid-shliahh,    now    locally  pronounced  in 

fierce  soldier,  draws  Sir  Richard's  character  in  Irish  ópáió-pliaB,  and  anglicised  Braalieve,  or 

colours    rather   agreeable.      But    courage   and  Braulieve,  a  mountain  situated  about  four  miles 

cruelty  were  admired  in  this  age,  even  by  the  to  the  south  of  the  town  of  Dromahaire,  ou 

Four  Masters  themselves.     Cos  hides  the  exact  the  southern  \^oundary  of  the  parish  of  Killa- 

nature  of  this  attack  on  the  Scots  in  his  Hibeiiiia  nummery,  where  the  county  of  Leitrim  adjoins 

Anglicana,  A.  D.  1586.  that  of  Roscommon.     The  lie  or  direction  of  its 

"  District,  oipeap This  word  is  otherwise  ridge  is  nearly  south-east  and  north-west.     It 

written   aiiiecip,    which    occurs    frequently   in  is  to  be  distinguished  from  the  neighbouring 

these  Annals  in  the  sense  of  territory,   district,  mountain  of  Breic-shliabh,  or  Brecslieve. — See 

or  region See  the  year  1558,  where  oapccam  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-Fiachrach, 

na  n-oipeap  is  used  in  the  sense  of  "  to  plunder  pp.  480,  481. 

the  districts."  ' Kilronan. — See  note",  under  the  year  1339, 

*  Beanna-bo ,    now   Benbo,    a   mountain   at  p.  564,  supra. 

11  c  2 


1852  aNNdr,a  Rio^hachda  eiReawN.  [i586. 

T?o  ^aby^acc  an  DÚ  pn  i  ccoiccpic  na  bpeipne,  maije  luijicc,  -]  ua  noilellxi. 
Uánaicc  an  gobepnoip  Don  caob  ciap  co  bél  an  áta  paoa  i  ccip  oilella. 
bácrnp  oihlínib  co  cfno  coiccióip  if  na  bionaoaiB  pn  jan  neaccap  r»ioV> 
Dionnpaijió  apoile.  l?o  jabpac  na  halbanai^  lorn  pop  imrecc  copac  oibce 
pbcre  piopóoipce,  "|  po  jabpar  pmp  cuaió  Do  rip  oilella  Do  óol  cap  Dpoicfc 
cula  maoile.  bárca]i  cpí  banna  Do  rhiiincip  an  jobepnopa  a^  coiméD  an 
Dpoicic  in  oióce  pin.  Do  pala  na  halbanaij  ina  ccfnD  50  po  pfpaó  jliaió  njaipb 
fcoppa,  1  pob  eiccfn  Do  na  halbanchaib  lomjabail  an  Dpoicir,  "]  ^abáil  cap 
an  ac  alia  nap  De.  Do  cóiópioc  an  oiDce  pin  50  pliab  sarh, "]  ap  net  rhapac 
j^o  bapD  na  pmj.  Do  DeacbaiD  an  jobepnop  uabaib  a  bel  an  ara  paoa  ap  na- 
inapac  amail  na  biab  a  aipe  ppi  a  niapttinipeacc  icip,-]  bai  pop  puD  connacc 
CO  cfno  CÓ15  la  nDécc  ace  cionol  pocpaiDe  arhail  popcaerhnacaip,  -\  bai  beóp 
bpar  "I  caipcélab  uaóa  ap  na  halbancoib  in  aipfcc  pin.  O  pob  eplarii  laip 
an  lion  póinicc  alfp,  luiD  o  rhainipcip  bCnnpooa  1  luijnib  connacc  copac  oióce 
piop  Doipce  pojmaip,  1  ni  po  aipip  Do  ló  no  Doibce  co  póinicc  1  mfóón  laoi  ap 
na  rhapac  50  hapD  na  piaj  jan  pabab,  gan  parucchab  Do  na  balbancoib.  Qp 
amne  baccap  pibe  pop  a  cionn  ina  ccoDailcijib  jan  paiccfp  jan  puipfcpup, 
ace  amdil  biD  leó  pfin  gan  ppicbeapc  an  cip  eaccaipceneoil  ina  ccan^accap. 
bá  pé  céiD  ní  lép  bfojaccap  a\'  a  mbuan  coippcim  gaip  a  njiollanpaibe  ajá 
nguin  05  muincip  an  jobepnopa  pecnón  an  baile.  l?o  éipjeaoap  na  balbanai^ 
apahairle  co  haclarh,  ■]  Do  cóibpioc  i  ninnell -]  1  noDcuccaó  arhail  ap  Deacb 

'  Ballinafad,  bél   an  ára  paou,  i.  e.  moutli  ''  The   requisite   number. — William   Hawkins, 

of  the  long  ford,  a  small  village  in  the  barony  Esq.,   Ulster  King  of  Arms,  states,  in  his  podi- 

of  Tirerrill,   at  the  base  of  the  CurUeu  hills,  gree  of  the  Count  Lally  Tolendal,  that  Dermod 

and  about  four  miles  to  the  north  of  Boyle.  O'Maollalla,   second  Baron  of  TuUy-Mullally, 

"   Cul-Maoile,    now   Collooney,    a   small  but  went  to  Ballinrobe  on  this  occasion  to  join  Sir 

well-known  town  at  the  junction  of  the  Owen-  Eichard  Bingham,  at  the  head  of  his  vassals,  as 

more  and  Oweubeg  rivers,    in  .  the  barony   of  O'Kelly,  Bermingham,  and  others  ;  but  this  is 

Tirerrill,  and  county  of  Sligo.  a  mere  fabrication See  Tribes  and  Customs  of 

"^  To  abandon  the  bridge,  \om-gJ.ha\l  an  oyiowit,  Hy-Manij,  p.  180,  note  i*  ;  and  Cox^ s  Hibernia 

i.  e.  to  relinquish  their  design  of  crossing  the  Anglicana,  vol.  i.  p.  394.    Sir  Richard  Bingham 

bridge  in  despite  of  the  Governor's  soldiers.  was  met  on  this  occasion  by  the  Earl  of  Clan- 

'^  Sliabh-Gamh,  now  Slieve  Gamph,  and  some-  rickard  and  O'Kelly,  as  also  by  Bermingham  at 

times  incorrectly  translated  the  Ox  Mountains,  the  head  of  his  vassals,  among  whom,  no  doubt, 

See  note'',  under  the  year  1285,  p.  442,  «/;)m.  was  O'Mullally,   the  ancestor  of  Count  Lally 

See  also  Genealogies,  Tribes,  and  Customs  of  Hy-  Tolendal. 

Fiachrach,  p.  497,  and  the  map  to  the  same  work.  '  Bannadtx,  a  village  in  the  parish  of  Kilinac- 


1586.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1853 

where  they  stopped,  in  the  vicinity  of  Breifny,  Moylurg,  and  Tirerrill.  The 
Governor  went  from  the  west  to  Ballinafad"  in  Tirerrill ;  and  both  parties 
remained  in  those  places  without  coming  in  contact  with  each  other.  The  Scots 
[at  length]  began  to  move  from  that  place  in  the  beginning  of  a  wet  and  very 
dark  night ;  and  they  proceeded  north-westwards  through  Tirerrill,  with  the 
intention  of  crossing  the  bridge  of  Cul-Maoile'';  [but]  three  companies  of  the 
Governor's  people  were  guarding  the  bridge  on  that  night.  The  Scots  advanced 
to  them,  and  a  fierce  conflict  was  fought  between  them.  The  Scots  were 
obliged  to  abandon  the  bridge',  and  to  cross  the  ford  on  the  west  side  of  it. 
After  this  they  went  on  the  same  night  as  far  as  Sliabh-Gamh",  and  on  the  fol- 
lowing day  to  Ardnarea.  The  Governor  departed  from  Ballinafad  on  the  fol- 
lowing day,  as  though  he  had  no  intention  of  pursuing  thgm  ;  and  he  went 
through  Connaught  for  fifteen  days,  collecting  forces  as  he  could ;  and 
during  that  time  he  had  [people  employed]  to  spy  and  reconnoitre  the  Scots. 
When  he  had  the  requisite  number'  ready,  he  marched  from  the  monastery  of 
Bannada'  in  Leyny  of  Connaught,  in  the  beginning  of  a  very  dark  night  in 
autumn,  and  stopped  neither  day  nor  night  until  he  arrived  at  Ardnarea,  about 
the  noon  of  the  day  following,  without  giving  any  warning  to  the  Scots.  The 
way^  the  Scots  were  on  his  arrival  was,  sleeping  on  their  couches,  without  fear 
or  guard,  just  as  thovigh  that  strange  country  into  which  they  had  come  was 
their  own  without  opposition.  They  were  first  aroused  from  their  profound 
slumbers  by  the  shrieks  of  their  military  attendants",  whom  the  Governor's 
people  were  slaughtering  throughout  the  town.  The  Scots  then  arose  expertly, 
and  placed  themselves  as  well  as  they  were  able  in  order  and  battle-array,  to 

teige,  barony  of  Leyny,  and  county  of  Sligo.   lu  towards  Belclare,  seven  myles  from  the  abbeye, 

Sir  Henry  Docwra's  Account  of  Services  done  in  the  highwaye  towards  the  enemy.     Here  one 

in  Connaught  by  Sir  Richard  Bingham,  a  very  of  the  espyalls  came  in  bringinge  news  that  the 

curious  description    of   Bingham's   movements  Scots  lay  still   encamped  at  Ardnarye,  which 

are  given,  but  the  Editor  does  not  deem  it  ne-  was  twelve  myles  from  the  foresaid  abbeye  of 

cessary  to  give  the  entire  of  it,   as  it  agrees  in  Banneda,   and  eight  miles  from  the  abbeye  of 

substance  with  the  narrative  of  the  Four  Mas-  Belclare." 

ters.     He  describes  the  situation  of  the  places  «  TAe  intí^,  up  amne  .1.  ipumluio — This  Irish 

thus  :  idiom  translates  very  awkwardly  into  English. 

"  When  the  moone  gave  light  Richard  Bing-  "  Military  attendants. — The   jioUunjiuióe   of 

ham"  [being  at  the  abbey  of  Bennada]   "  arose,  the  Irish  were  the  same,  or  nearly  the  same,  as 

and  addressing  himself  and  companye,  marched  the  calones  of  the  classical  writers. 


1854  aNNQi^a  Rioghachca  enjeaNN.  [1386. 

\\o  péo\''ar  Do  rocap  pjii  iiiiiinnp  an  jobepnopa.  Nip  bo  copba  Dóib  innpin 
uaip  ni  mo  no  an  céona  paire  Dia  pai  jDib  po  tiiubpaicpioc  an  can  po  ppaoin- 
eao  poppn  ^o  oian  DÓpaccac  oo  paijiD  na  liobann  rapla  pop  a  ccionn  .1.  an 
muai;^  maijjpeac  rhfpjlópac.  l?o  páccbain  pip  j  ppaenlije  uabaib  cfin  bctcrap 
05  lonnpaijió  na  habann, "]  lap  poccain  Doib  Dia  paijio  ni  haipipiorh  ppi  a 
hucc  DO  ponpac,  ace  Dol  ma  lnomóorhain  jan  anaDli  uaip  po  baó  pfpp  leó  a 
mbóraó  ináp  a  niapbab  Do  rhuincip  an  jobepnópa.  Qcc  cfna  appeaó  a  cumaip 
po  mapbaó  a  njap  Do  Da  rhile  Dib  an  can  pm.  Ni  pabaccap  clann  emainn 
a  búpc  ipin  mbpfipim  pin  óip  do  cóiópec  co  ccpib  ceDaib  pfp  an  la  ]iiap  an 
maiDm  pin  Diappaib  cpeac  5up  na  halbanchaib,"]  lap  ccloipceacc  na  peel  pin 
Dóib  po  pcaoflpioc  Ó  poile,  1  po  anpac  clann  emainn  a  búpc  1  nDainjnijcib  a 
nDuicce  péin.  T?o  cpiallpac  ma  mbaoi  Dulcacaib  ~\  Dalbanchaib  ina  ppocaip 
aghaib  do  cabaipc  ap  óol  a  nullcoib,  "j  516  laDpibe  puapaccap  a  ccpochab 
-|  a  mapbab  Duprhóp  in  jac  cip  cpép  a  ccubcaccap  pia  piú  cangaDap  cap 
Gipne.  Qraip  na  cloinne  pérhpáici  .1.  Gmann  mac  iiillicc  mic  emainn,  mic 
T?iocaipD  ui  cuaippcce  Do  cpochab  lap  an  njobepnoip  lapp  an  maibm  pin.  6a 
harhlaib  boi  pibe,  "|  pé  appaib  apac  liacli  gan  lúc  jan  láncapab  gup  bo 
héiccfn  a  lomcap  1  nápac  ago  bpeic  gup  an  ccpoicch. 

Qob  mac  eoccainn,  mic  Domnaill,  mic  eoccain,  mic  DOTtmaill  na  mabmancc 
apDconpapal  cloinne  piocaipD  Do  écc,  mílib  ap  itiéD,  "|  cupab  ap  calmacap 
an  CÍ  cfpDa  annpin  pin.  ^ 

CtlapDpann  mac  porhaiple  buibe,  mic  Qlapcpainn,  mic  coin  cacánaij  mac 
mec  Domnaill  na  halban  Do  mapbab  le  caipcin  meppman,  1  le  hQob  mac  an 
Deccánaij  ui  jallcubbaip  a  mi  mag  Do  ponnpaoh. 

Seppion  Do  congitiáil  1  njaillirh  1  mi  Decembep  na  bliabna  po  in  po  báp- 
aicclieab  lomacc  ban  "]  pfp,  -\  po  bápaijeab  ann  emann  ócc  mac  emainn  mic 
majnupa  mec  pichij, -]  ochcapDiolmaineac  do  geapalcachaib  ma  pocaip  lap 
ppagail  a  peapa  poppa  50  mbaccap  ap  aon  lap  na  halbancoib  pin  po  mapbab 
J  napD  na  piaj. 

Conn  mac  aipc  óicc,  mic  neill,  mic  aipc,  mic  cuinn,  mic  enpi,  mic  eojam 

'  Salmon-full,  maijpeuc — See  the  reference  Bibl.  Ilarl.  No.  357,  foil.  235,  b.)  says  that  this 
to  maij  maijpeac,  i.  e.  the  Eiver  Maigue  Edmond  Burke,  though  very  old,  was  hanged 
abounding  in  salmon,  under  the  year  1580,  for  abetting  his  sons  to  persevere  in  their  rebel- 
note  ^,  p.  1730,  supra.  lious  practices,   and   that,  though  Sir  Eichard 

''  Was  hanged.  —  Sir   Henry   Doeiora   (MS.  Bingham  might  have  executed  him  by  martial 


1586]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1855 

engage  the  Governor's  people.  But  this  was  of  no  avail  to  them,  lor  they  had 
scarcely  discharged  the  first  shower  of  darts  before  they  were  routed  by  the 
Governor's  people,  [and  driven]  towards  the  river  which  confronted  them, 
namely,  the  loud-sounding,  salmon-full'  Moy.  On  their  way  towards  the  river 
many  were  laid  low  ;  and  when  they  arrived  at  the  river  they  did  not  stop  at 
its  banks,  but  plunged  without  delay  into  its  depths,  for  they  chose  rather  to  be 
drowned  than  be  killed  by  the  Governor's  people.  In  short,  near  two  thousand 
of  them  were  slain  on  this  occasion.  The  sons  of  Edmond  Burke  were  not 
[present]  at  this  onslaught,  for  on  the  day  before  that  defeat  they  had  gone 
forth  with  three  hundred  men,  in  quest  of  booty  for  the  Scots  ;  but,  hearing 
the  news  [of  this  disaster  of  the  Scots],  they  kept  aloof  from  them,  and  remained 
in  the  fastnesses  of  their  own  country.  Such  of  the  Scots  and  Ulstermen  as 
were  with  them  [i.  e.  with  the  sons  of  Edmond  Burke]  attempted  to  effect  their 
passage  into  Ulster ;  but  they  were  almost  all  hanged  or  slain  in  the  several 
territories  through  which  they  passed,  before  they  could  cross  the  Erne.  The 
father  of  the  sons  already  mentioned,  namely,  Edmond,  the  son  of  Ulick,  son  of 
Edmond,  son  of  Richard  O'Cuairsci,  was  hanged*'  by  the  Governor  after  this 
defeat.  He  was  a  withered,  grey,  old  man,  without  strength  or  vigour,  and  they 
were  obliged  to  carry  him  to  the  gallows  upon  a  bier  ! 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Owen,  son  of  Donnell-na- 
Madhmann  [Mac  Sweeny],  Chief  Constable  of  Clanrickard,  died  ;  and  the  per- 
son who  then  departed  was  a  soldier  in  stature,  and  a  hero  in  valour. 

Alexander',  the  son  of  Sorley  Boy,  son  of  Alexander,  son  of  John  Caha- 
nagh,  son  of  Mac  Donnell  of  Scotland,  was  slain  by  Captain  Merryman  and 
Hugh,  the  son  of  the  Dean  O'Gallagher,  in  the  month  of  May. 

A  session  was  held  at  Galway  in  the  month  of  December  of  this  year,  and 
many  women  and  men  were  put  to  death  at  it ;  and  Edmond  Oge,  the  son  of 
Edmond,  son  of  Manus  Mac  Sheehy,  and  eight  soldiers  of  the  Geraldines  along 
with  him,  were  put  to  death,  information  having  been  given  against  them  that 
they  had  been  along  with  those  Scots  who  were  slain  at  Ardnarea. 

Con,  the  son  of  Art  Oge,  son  ofNiall,  son  of  Art,  son  of  Con,  son  of  Henry, 

law,  he  preferred  Jjaving  him  put  on  his  trial  by  '  Alexander. — Charles  U'Conor  of  Belanagare 

the  common  law  that  his  estates  might  be  con-      adds,  inter  lineas,  in  Ixish,  "  that  he  was  the 
tiscated  to  Her  Majesty.  kinsman  of  Ineenduv,  the  wife  of  O'Donnell,  and 


1856  aNNQta  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [isse. 

00  Dol  ap  pubal  cpeice  i  nouchaij  mejuiDip  o  loc  (.1.  loc  eipne)  poip.  ITIac 
ineguibip  J.  aoó  mac  conconnacc  mic  conconnacc  do  bpfir  50  mbuiDin  mbicc 
TTiopcplua^  pop  conn  co  po  pi^fb  pcccnnneap  cpóDa  fcoppa  1  mbeól  ára  pain- 
pfoaij,  -j  conn  do  raapbaD  la  mac  mésuiDip  50  nupmóp  a  muinnpe  am  aille 
pip,  1  an  cpfc  DO  poóaD  cap  aip  gup  no  muincfpaib  ó  puccaicc. 

Peilnii  Dub  mac  aipc  mic  cninn  ui  neill  Duine  Deappccai^re  do  Dúchaij 
pleacca  aipc,  1  a  mac  do  mapbab  la  haob  mac  méjniDip. 

mac  puibne  bcijameac  bpian  ócc  mac  maolmuipe  do  mapbaD  18  man 
Ta  mall  mfipjeac  mac  maolmuipe  mic  aoohci. 

Qitnpfp  pliuc,  apbap  eccoipreac,  -]  loinac  cnói  mfpa  an  bliabain  pi. 

Paplimenc  ara  cliac  Do  cpiocnuccliab  an  bliabain  pi,  "|  cap  gac  ni  do 
noeapnab  ano  Do  cfnglab  oibpeacc  lapla  cille  oapa  lé  copoin  cSa;ran. 

Gojan  ullcac  (mac  Donnchaib  .1.  an  Doccúip)  "|  po  ba  Doccúip  ap  aoi 
ppojlama  an  ceojan  ipm,  uaip  po  Deappccnaij  pibe  do  Doccuipib  leigip  na 
hepeann  ipin  aimpip  pin  1  mbaoi  Do  écc. 

Qn  copied  mag  congail  .1.  eojan  ballac  Décc  lá  péle  bpijDe  Do  ponnpab. 

Copbmac  mac  Domnaill  meg  congail  Decc  17  Do  rhapca. 

CÚ1CC  céD  eipfnDac  do  doI  a  liepinn  Do  congnam  la  bainpiogain  Slia;ran 

1  ccoccab  plonDpaip,  -]  gé  po  Diocaigic  a  nupmóp  ipin  cip  pin  do  beachaib.  a 
nainm  -)  a  noipDeapcup  pón  eópaip  ap  aoi  ngeipaicceacca  -|  ngaipccib. 

the  mother  of  Hugh  Roc,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  all  his  lands  to  feoflfees,  in  hope  toiave  cut  off  Her 

Manus."  Majesty  from  the  escheate  of  his  lands,  and  this 

"  At  the  entrance  of  a  certain  ford,  áia  pain-  Parliament  therefore  passed  an  Act, "  that  all  con- 

pebaij,  i.  e.  ad  as  vadi  cujiisdam.     The  adjec-  veyances,  made,  or  pretended  to  be  made,  by  any 

tives  painpeoac  and  epoalca,  are  nearly  syno-  person  attainted  within   thirteen  years  before 

nymous,  and  mean  "  certain,  particular."  the  Act,   shall  be  entered  on  record  in  the  Ex- 

"  Was  finished,  i.  e.  closed  its  session.     The  chequer,  within  a  year,  or  be  void."   Sir  Richard 

second  session  of  this  Parliament  was  on  the  Cox  remarks,   that  this  Act  did  not  pass  the 

28th  of  April,  1586,  and   it  was  dissolved  on  houses  without  great  difficulty,  and  perhaps  had 

the  14th  of  May  following.  not  passed  at  all,  if  John  Fitz  Edmond  Fitzge- 

"  The  Earl  of  Kildare — This  should  be  "The  raid,  to  prevent  the  Earl  of  Desmond's,  forfei- 

^Earl  of  Desmond,"  for  this  Parliament  had  no-  ture,  had  not  produced  a  feoffment  made  by  that 

thing  whatever  to  decide  concernig  the  Earldom  Earl  before  he  entered  into  rebellion,  which  had 

of  Kildare  ;  but  in  relation  to  the  estates  be-  taken  effect  and  baffled  the  expectations  of  the 

longing  to  the  Earldom  of  Desmond,  it  found  undertakers,  if  Sir  Henry  Wallop  had  not  gotten 

that  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  before  his  breaking  a  document  which  proved  that  the  Earl  had  en- 

forth  into  open  rebellion,  had  secretly  conveyed  tered  into  a  confederacy  of  rebellion  with  the 


1586.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1857 

son  of  Owen,  went  upon  a  predatory  excursion  into  IMaguire's  territory,  east  of 
the  Lough  (i.  e.  Lough  Erne).  The  son  of  Maguire,  namely,  Hugh,  the  son  of 
Cuconnaught,  son  of  Cuconnaught,  with  a  small  party  of  cavalry,  came  up  with 
Con,  and  a  fierce  conflict  was  fought  between  them  at  the  entrance  of  a  certain 
ford",  in  which  Con  was  slain,  together  with  the  greater  part  of  his  people,  by 
the  son  of  Maguire.  The  prey  was  restored  to  the  respective  persons  from 
whom  it  had  been  taken. 

Felim  Duv,  the  son  of  Art,  son  of  Con  O'Neill,  an  accomplished  man,  from 
the  country  of  the  descendants  of  Art,  and  his  son,  were  slain  by  Hugh,  the  son 
of  Maguire. 

IVIac  Sweeny  Banagh  (Brian  Oge,  the  son  of  Mulmurry)  was  slain  on  the 
18th  of  May,  by  Niall  Meirgeach,  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Hugh  [Mac  Sweeny]. 

There  was  [much]  wet  weather  and  unproductive  corn,  but  a  great  supply 
of  nuts,  in  this  year. 

The  Parliament  of  Dublin  was  finished"  this  year ;  and  the  most  remarkable 
Act  passed  in  it,  [was  one  by  which]  the  inheritance  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare" 
[rede  Desmond]  was  annexed  to  the  Crown  of  England. 

Owen  Ultach"  (the  son  of  Donough),  i.  e.  the  Doctor,  died  ;  and  this  Owen 
was  a  doctor  in  regard  of  learning,  for  he  excelled  the  medical  doctors  of  Ire- 
land in  the  time  in  which  he  lived. 

The  official  Mac  Conghail,  i.  e.'  Owen  Ballagh,  died  on  the  festival  'of 
St.  Bridget. 

Cormac,  the  son  of  Donnell  Mac  Conghail,  died  on  the  17th  of  March. 

Five  hundred""  Irishmen  left  Ireland,  in  order  to  assist  the  Queen  of  Eng- 
land in  the  Flemish  war  ;  and  though  the  greater  part  of  them  were  cut  off, 
their  name  and  renown  for  heroism  and  bravery  spread  throughout  Europe. 

very  persons  to  whom  he  conveyed  the  estates  (of         p  Oiven  Ultach. — His  real  name  was  Donlevy, 

whom  John  Fitz  Edmond  was  one),  two  months  or  Mac  Donlevy.     He  was  physician  to  O'Don- 

before  the  conveyance  ;  but  that  upon  the  pro-  nell.     The  exact  nature  of  the  construction  of 

ducing  of  the  document,  and  the  discovering  of  the  original  Irish  will  appear  from  the  following 

the  fraud  and  subtlety,  the  honest  part  of  the  literal  Latin  version  : 

house  were  ashamed  to  abet  so  ill  a  cause,  and  "  Eugenius  Ultoniensis   lilius  Dionysii  (i.  e. 

that  accordingly  the  Act  was  made  to  prevent  Doctoris),  et  erat  doctor  quoad  eruditionem  hie 

the  like  contrivances. — HiberniaAnglicana,\o\.  i.  Eugenius,  nam  prajcelluit  ille  Doctoribus  medi- 

p.  384 ;  and  Moryson's  Histunj  of  Ireland,  edition  cinse  Hibernite  tempore  quo  floruit,  obiit." 
of  1753,  vol.  i.  pp.  8,  9.  q  Five  hundred.— Cox  states  that  Sir  William 

11  D 


18.58 


QHNar.a  Rio^bachca  eiReawN. 


[1587 


aOlS  CRIOSU,  1587. 
Qoip  C|HO|"r,  mile,  ciucc  ceo,  occmojacc,  a  Seacr. 

TTIac  UÍ  óorhnaill  aoó  puaó  mac  aoba  mic  ma^nupa  Do  ^abail  la  jallaibli. 
bá  harhlaiD  )^o  cecup  ]io  nonnpccnao  an  ep^abóil  hi]Mn.  l?o  gabpac  501II 
imon  niprip  Sip  lolin  pappoc,  1  imon  ccorhaiple  ap  cCna  mioroirhoin  móip 
oon  lapla  ua  neill  ao6  mac  an  pipóopca  (jep  bo  piapac  pp)ti  é)  rpia  lonnlac 
-)  fccapcopaoio  ui  néill  coippóealbac  lumeac  mac  neill  conallaij  bai  In 
ppicbeapc  no  ?5pep  ppip,  "j  ap  DÓi^  Siobaine  injine  ui  Doriinaill  .1.  ao6  mac 
majnupa  po  baó  commaim  do  lapla  ripe  heojain.     Qpaill  ele  beop  po  Ifr 


Stanly  and  a  thousand  men  were  sent  from  Ire- 
land into  Holland  in  1587,  "'  where  Stanly 
turned  Papist  and  Traytor." 

'  Moreover,  apuiU  ele,  i.  e.  another  thing 
too,  or  in  addition  to  this.  The  English  were 
anxious  to  secure  this  youth  for  three  strong 
reasons  ;  first,  because  his  sister  was  married 
to  Hugh  Earl  of  Tyrone,  whose  loyalty  they 
suspected  on  account  of  the  accusations  of  his 
rival,  Turlough  Luiueach,  and  the  sons  of 
John  an-Diomais  O'Neill ;  secondly,  because  his 
promising  warlike  characteristics  had  caused 
the  people  to  look  up  to  him  as  the  Oonn 
oiqóa,  said  to  have  been  foretold  by  St.  Co- 
lumbkille,  as  the  great  man  who  would  reign 
for  ten  years,  and  liberate  the  Irish  from 
the  yoke  of  the  foreigners,  which  was  a  belief 
then  very  dangerous  to  the  English  govern- 
ment, as  the  inhabitants  of  Tirconnell  relied 
as  much  on  prophecies  of  this  nature  as  upon 
their  mountain  fastnesses  ;  and,  thirdly,  because 
they  felt  assured  that  O'Donnell,  his  father,  who 
had  recently  bidden  defiance  to  the  English  go- 
vernment, and  absolutely  refused  to  admit  a 
sheriff  into  his  territory,  might  be  kept  to  his 
allegiance  as  long  as  they  held  so  prized  a  son 
of  his  as  a  hostage.  For  the  English  account  of 
this  capture  of  Hugh  Roe  O'Donnell,  which 
was  so  disgraceful  to  the  Irish  council,  and  so 


unworthy  of  the  towering  spirit  of  Sir  John 
Perrott,  the  reader  is  referred  to  the  Life  of 
Sir  John  Perrott,  8vo.  London,  1728.  At  the 
very  period  that  Perrott  was  guilty  of  this  weak 
stroke  of  policy,  he  was  neglected  in  England, 
and  denied  the  support  necessary  for  his  govern- 
ment ;  mortified  in  various  instances  by  his 
relative  the  Queen,  traduced  by  the  unceasing 
malice  of  his  enemies,  and  insulted  by  his  in- 
feriors at  the  Council  board.  In  Ware's  AiinaU 
of  Ireland,  edition  of  1707,  the  following  ac- 
count of  a  scene,  which  would  do  honour  to 
two  of  the  Milesian  Irish  chieftains,  whicli 
took  place  between  him  and  Marshal  Bagnal, 
at  the  Council  board  in  Dublin,  is  printed  trom 
the  Council  Book,  fol.  261  : 

"  The  15th  of  May,  very  angry  words  passed 
between  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Sir  Nicholas" 
Bagnal,  Marshall,  in  the  presence  of  the  Chief 
Justice,  the  Master  of  the  Rolls,  and  the  Secre- 
tary of  State,  upon  occasion  that  one  Patrick 
CuUan  (who  used  to  go  into  England,  in  the 
name  of  O'Neal,  with  complaints  to  her  Majesty 
against  the  Lord  Deputy)  was  ordered  to  be 
examin'd  before  the  Council.  The  Marshal  re- 
quired that  the  Lord  Deputy  should  not  be 
present  at  the  examination  ;  upon  which  the 
Lord  Deputy,  taking  it  ill  to  be  directed  by 
him,  told  him  :   '  That  though  he  would  not  be 


1-587.] 


ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND. 


1859 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1587. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  jive  hundred  eighty-seven. 

The  son  of  O'Donnell  (Hugh  Roe,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Manus)  was  taken 
by  the  English.  His  capture  was  first  effected  thus  :  the  Enghsh,  with  the 
Justice  and  the  Council  in  general,  had  contracted  a  great  dislike  to  the  Earl 
O'Neill,  Hugh,  the  son  of  Ferdoragh  (although  he  was  obedient  to  them),  in 
consequence  of  the  accusations  and  complaints  of  Turlough  Luineach,  the  sou 
of  Niall  Conallagh  O'Neill,  who  was  always  in  opposition  to  him  ;  and  because 
Joan,  the  daughter  of  O'Donnell,  i.  e.  of  Hugh,  the  son  of  Manus,  was  married 
to  the  Earl  of  Tyrone.     Moreover",  the  name  and  renown  of  the  above-named 


present  at  it,  yet  he  jvould  do  what  lie  thought 
fit.'  The  Marshal  reply'd  :  '  He  mistrusted 
false  measures  wou'd  be  used.'  The  Deputy 
said  :  '  He  defyed  him,  or  any  man  who  shou'd 
think  any  false  measure  should  come  by  him.' 
The -Marshal  told  him:  'He  defyed  him  also.' 
Hereupon  the  Deputy,  with  the  flat  of  his  hand, 
touch'd  his  cheek  once  or  twice,  and  laying  his 
other  hand  on  his  right  shoulder,  said  :  '  Well, 
well,  Marshal,  if  you  defyed  a  man  in  my  place 
in  another  country,  he  would  have  hanged  you.' 
The  Marshal  hereat  held  up  his  staff,  as  if  he 
would  have  struck  the  Deputy ;  but  Mr.  Fenton, 
the  Secretary,  and  Sir  Nicholas  White,  Master 
of  the  Eolls,  interposing  themselves,  the  Mar- 
shal fell  back,  and  rising  up  said :  '  It  will  be 
proved  you  have  done  ill  in  this  matter.'  The 
Lord  Deputy  answcr'd  :  '  You  lye^if  you  say  I 
have  done  ill  in  this  matter.'  Said  the  Marshal : 
'  You  lye  ;'  and,  correcting  himself :  '  If  you 
were  not  Lord  Deputy,  I  would  say,  you  lye  ; 
but  I  care  not  for  Sir  John  Perrott.'  The  De- 
puty said  :  '  If  I  were  but  Sir  John  Perrott,  I 
would  teach  you  to  use  me  thus ;  and  if  you 
did  not  dote  I  would  commit  you  to  prison.' 
'  If  you  do,'  answer'd  the  Marshal,  '  I  wou'd 
come  out  whether  you  wou'd  or  no.'  The  Lord 
Deputy  said  :  '  Get  you  hence,  for  tis  no  reason 

11 


to  talk  with  you  ;  for  a  man  would  think  you 
are  drunk.'  '  You  are  drunk,'  replyed  the  Mar- 
shal. What  was  the  end  of  this  discourse  is 
not  known,  nor  the  cause  of  it,  only  tis  believed 
that  the  Marshal  was  a  great  friend  to  Cullan." 

The  cause  of  this  will  be  yet  elicited  from 
the  State  Papers.  Tlie  truth  is,  that  Perrott, 
notwithstanding  his  treacherous  capture  of  the 
young  O'Donnell,  was  one  of  the  best  friends 
to  the  old  Irish  race  that  was  ever  appointed 
Chief  Governor  of  Ireland,  and  a  great  lover  of 
fair  play ;  while  the  JMarshal  was  a  base  and  slan- 
derous defamer,  who  wished  to  remove  Perrott, 
that  he  himself  might  be  enabled  to  ruin  Tur- 
lough Luineach  and  the  Earl  of  Tyrone. 

Perrott,  finding  himself  beset  with  base  ene- 
mies, who  forged  letters  against  him  in  O'Neill's 
name,  grew  impatient  to  be  recalled,  and  ear- 
nestly petitioned  Elizabeth  to  relieve  him  from  a 
burden,  which  the  perverseness  of  her  subjects 
in  Ireland  of  the  Englwh  race  had  rendered  in- 
tolerable, and  whom  he  had  provoked  beyond 
all  possibility  of  reconciliation  by  restraining 
their  oppressions  of  the  ancient  Irish  natives. 
"  I  can  please  your  Majesty's  Irish  subjects," 
said  he,  "  better  than  the  English,  who,  I  fear, 
will  shortly  learn  the  Irish  customs,  sooner 
than  the  Jews  did  those  of  the  Heathens.  My 
d2 


1860  aHNaf,a  Rio^hachca  emeaNH.  [1587. 

ainm  -|  epoeapcup  an  macaoirh  iiempaice  ao6  puab  mac  aoba  pó  cóicc  cóicc- 
fóaib  epeann  ciD  pia  piú  jiainicc  co  haoíp  pfpóaca  a]i  aoí  njaoipi,"!  njliocaip, 
inpaip,  -|  oijibeapcaip.  QcbejiDíp  Dna  cóc  1  ccoiccinne  jup  bó  raijipnjfiicac 
iDip  é,  1  maó  Dia  lécccí  co  haoíp  inpfóma  cco  cciocpaó  biiamjieaó  innpi 
epeonn  uile  cpemic,  1  cpia  lapla  rípe  lieógain  Diamaó  Daoínleic  nó  imep- 
Daoíp,  1  nó  bépoaoíp  a  mbáipe  o  pobcap  capaopaó  ppi  apoile  arhail  perhe- 
beprmap.  ConiD  ap  na  pocaib  pin  po  cpúióeaó  a  ccorhaiple  lap  an  lupcip  "| 
lá  jallaib  Duiblmne  cipi  haipnriimbipr  do  jénoaip  imon  ní  pin  po  orhnaijpior, 
conib  paip  neipió  leó  lonj^xo  na  poipmn  co  bpión"]  co  ccopniaiTin  do  eplinTiab 
oca  in  at  cliar  Duibbnne,  -|  a  paoíbeaó  lairh  cle  ppi  liepinn  poipniaib,  arhail 
bib  ppi  cfnoaijecr  Do  beachab  50  po  jabab  calab  1  ccuan  éiccin  do  oipeap- 
aib  ripe  conaill.  Rainicc  laporh  an  luinj  la  nnpfo  na  gaoire  aniap  jan 
anab  gan  oipipfrh  50  po  jabh  popp  bi  pfncuan  púibji  po  epcoriiaip  Rara 
maoláin,  baile  pin  conpooacr  pop  up  an  mapa  la  mac  puibne  panac  pecc 
piarn,  aon  eipibe  do  ruaipcnib  cara  cijeapna  ó  cconaill  ó  cfin  rhaip.  lap  mbfif 
Don  baipc  pin  pop  a  bangcuipib  lompopDai^  in  Díi  pin  cangacrap  Dpong  Don 
poipinn  in  ffapbárc  biiicc  i  ccip  inéccopcc  cfnDaijeab  po  jné  píoba  1  caon- 
corhpaic,-|  gabaicc  pop  bpar  "]  caipccélab  pop  cpeic,-]  connpab  ppip  an  cede 
DO  cuipfcnap  pop  a  cciono,  i  po  aipnfiDpioc  co  mbui  pion  -\  copmaim  leó  ina 
luinj.  Od  cuala  mac  puibne  co  na  rhuincip  an  ni  pin  po  jabpar  05  cfnoac 
1  comól  an  piona  combcap  mfpcca.  lap  ppiop  peel  na  luinje  bipin  Do  lucr 
na  cpice  ina  compoccup  bárcap  ace  cionol  ap  jac  aipD  Dia  pai^ib.  bá  hanD 
DO  pala  Don  aob  puab  pémpaice  a  bfic  (pop  a  baorpéim  baoípi, ")  pop  a  cuaipr 
macDacca  -\  peabpaib)  ina   narpoccup  in  lonbaib  pin,  -]   po  pupailpioc  an 

soul  is  a  witness  to  my  Saviour,  Jesus,  this  is  ject,  fighting  against  the  Earl  of  Desmond.  The 

truth  which   your    true    and   faithful    subject  Four  blasters   should  have   written   the  above 

speaketh.     I  am  weary  of  my  place,  but  never  sentence  thus  : 

to  serve  your  Highness." — SeeWare's  A)inals  of  "And  the  English  feared  that  if  he  should 

Ireland,  A.  U.  1588.  arrive  at  the  age  of  maturity,  and  be  elected  the 

*  As  theij  were  allied  to  each  other — This  was  chief  of  his  race,  that  he  and  the  Earl  of  Tyrone, 

evidently  written  after  the  result  of  the  united  whose  loyalty  they  had  strong  reasons  to  sus- 

eíForts  of  Hugh  Roe  O'Dounell  and  Hugh  Earl  pect,  should  they  unite  in  rebellion,  a  contin- 

of  Tyrone  had  been  witnessed  ;  for  it  is  quite  gency  which  appeared  highly  probable,  from  the 

impossible    that    it   could   have  been    foreseen  alliance  subsisting  between  them   (as  we  have 

while  Hugh  Roe  O'Donnell  was  a  lad,  and  while  already  mentioned),  they  might  shake  the  Eng- 

Hugh  Earl  of  Tyrone  was  a  loyal  English  sub-  lish  government  in  Ireland,  till  it  should  totter 


1587]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1861 

youth,  Hugh  Roe,  the  son  of  Hugh,  had  spread  throughout  the  five  provinces 
of  Ireland,  even  before  he  had  arrived  at  the  age  of  manhood,  for  his  -wisdom, 
sagacity,  goodly  growth,  and  noble  deeds ;  and  the  people  in  general  were  used 
to  say  that  he  was  really  the  prophesied  one  ;  and  [the  English  feared]  that  if 
he  should  be  permitted  to  arrive  at  the  age  of  maturity,  that  the  disturbance  of 
all  the  island  of  Ireland  would  result  through  him  and  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  ; 
and  that,  should  they  unite  in  their  exertions,  they  would  win  the  goal,  as  they 
were  allied'  to  each  other,  as  we  have  before  mentioned.  To  deliberate  on 
premises,  a  council  was  held  by  the  Lord  Justice  and  the  English  of  Dublin, 
[and  to  consider]  what  manocuvTe  they  might  adopt  to  prevent  this  thing  which 
they  feared  ;  and  the  resolution  which  they  came  to  was,  to  prepare  a  ship  at 
Dublin,  and  send  it,  with  its  crew',  laden  with  wine  and  beer,  north-eastwards, 
keeping  Ireland  to  the  left,  until  it  should  put  into  some  harbour  of  the  har- 
bours of  Tirconnell,  as  if  it  had  gone  for  the  purpose  of  traffic.  The  vessel 
[sailed  northward  to  Benmore  in  the  Route  and  then]  turned  westwards, 
with  a  favourable  breeze  of  wind,  without  stopping  or  delaying,  until  it 
put  in  at  the  old  harbour  of  Swilly,  opposite  Rathmullan,  a  castle  erected 
on  the  margin  of  the  sea,  some  time  before,  by  Mac  Sweeny  Fanad,  [a  family 
the  chief  of  which]  had  been  one  of  the  generals"  of  the  lords  of  Tirconnell 
from  a  remote  period.  The  ship  being  there  stationed  at  anchor,  a  party 
of  the  crew  came  on  shore  in  a  small  boat,  under  the  guise  of  merchants,  in 
the  semblance  of  peace  and  friendship;  and  they  began  to  spy  and  explore  [the 
country},  and  to  sell  and  bargain  with  those  who  came  to  them ;  and  they  told 
them  that  they  had  wine  and  ale  in  their  ship.  When  Mac  Sweeny  and  liis 
people  heard  of  this,  they  began  to  buy  the  wine,  and  [continued]  to  drink  of 
it  until  they  were  intoxicated.  When  the  inhabitants  of  the  neighbouring  dis- 
trict heard  the  news  of  the  arrival  of  this  ship,  they  flocked  to  it  from  every 
quarter.     The  Hugh  Roe  before  mentioned  happened  at  this  time  to  be  in  the 

to  the  very  foundation,  and  shew  to  the  world  ^c,  c.  24  ;  Pet.  Lombard  de  Regno  Hiber.  C'om- 

an  instance  of  Irishmen  conquering  in  their  own  meni.  c.  24  ;  Ware's  Annals  of  Ireland,  ad  ann. 

cause."  1588 ;  and  the  Abbe  Ma-Geoghegan"s  Histoire 

'  With  its  creiv. — The  commander  of  this  vessel  dUrelande,  tom.  iii.  p.  4G5. 
was  a  Dublin  merchant,  named  John  Berming-  "  Generals,  i.  e.  one  of  the  leaders  of  his  gal- 
ham,  and  the  crew  consisted  of  fifty  armed  men.  lowglasses.    This  family,  though  an  oflest  of  the 
— See  p.  O'Sullevan  Beare's  Hist.  Cathol.  Iher.,  great  family  of  O'Neill  of  Tyrone,  came  first  into 


1862  aHNQi-a  Rio^hachca  fciReawH.  [i587 

raof  péigli  popuallac  baoi  ina  pa]i|ia6  paip  cocc  iD  DÚ  pin.  bo  pooamj  on 
a  có^aofaó  pom  in  lonbaió  pin  viaip  nip  bo  corhlán  a  cóicc  blmóno  oécc  Dó 
m  can  pin,  i  ní  baoí  aon  Dia  Dfjcoriiaiplijib  Dia  oiofoaib,  na  Dia  oUarhnaib 
ina  caoirhreacc  Dia  peimiomuup  ná  t>o  péDuccaó  cornaiple  óó.  Qn  ran  po 
clop  la  lucc  an  raipcélaió  eipiorh  Do  rocc  oon  baile  impoac  pop  cula  ap  po 
céDóip  oo  cum  a  luinje.  T?o  piaóaijfó  pom  la  mac  puibne,  -]  lop  na  mairib 
ap  cfna,-]  paiDic  oailfmain  i  Deojmaipfóa  uara  5up  an  luinj  Do  cumjió  pióna 
tion  aoióiD  Diip  painicc.  Qcbepcpar  na  cfnocd^re  na  bc(oi  led  Dia  ppion  ni 
ba  mo  am  oloáp  Diol  na  paipne,  -|  na  leiccpicnp  uaóaib  pop  cip  Do  poijiD 
nac  aoin,  ace  namá  Dia  cciopaó  uaraó  Da^oaoíne  ina  nD()cum  D.a  luing  po 
jébcaoíp  ma  mbaoi  do  pion  "]  copmaim  ina  cciirhang.  Opo  baipnfiDeab  an 
cairfpcc  DO  TTlac  puibne  bo  haónáip  laip  inopin,  comb  í  comaiple  appicc  laip 
aoD  Do  cócuipeab  laip  ipm  luinj,  "i  lap  ccinoeab  pop  an  ccomaiple  pin  Dóib 
DO  cóiópioc  in  fcap  bfcc  baoi  pop  up  na  cpaga,  ■]  impaipfc  é  co  nDeacarap 
inunn  ipin  luing.  i?o  póilrijeab  ppiú,  "|  Do  bpica  hi  cubacail  iniocrapai^  in 
inmfóón  na  luinge  ic(D  jan  puipeac  jan  fppnabab, ")  po  boc  occa  ppplpcal  ~\ 
occa  pppiorailecfm  combccip  pubaij  poirhfnmnaaj.  Qn  can  ba  liainem  Dóib 
ipuibe  po  VnabaD  corhla  an  haipce  cap  anéip,  i  po  jccca  a  naipm  poppa,"] 
po  jabaD  an  cocc  mac  aob  puab  Don  cup  pin.  Oo  DeacaiD  pccéla  an  gabala 
pin  pon  ccpic  i  ccoiccinne,  i  po  cionoilpfc  ap  jac  aipm  do  paijiD  an  calaD 
puipc,  Dup  an  ccaoTíipaccaoíp  fccapbaojal  éiccin  pop  aop  na  ceilcce.  Ni 
baoi  ba  DO  poDain,  ap  po  báccap  i  niomóomain  an  cuain  lap  ppfngrappaing 
an  anjcaipe  cuca,n  ni  pabaccap  lonsa  náic  laoiófnja  aca  Dia  rcogpaim  nac 
Dia  ccappaccain.  'Cánaicc  ÍTIctc  puibne  na  ccuar  a  ccuma  cáij  jup  an 
ccalaD,  1  ba  home  piDe  Don  CtoD  hipin,  -]  baoi  piDe  occ  fpail  jiall  i  aiccipe 
oile  Dapa  a  éipe.  Nip  bo  copba  Doporh  on  ap  ni  baoi  i  ccóicceaó  ulaó  jiall 
no  jebcaip  app.  Dala  na  liiinge  "|  na  poipne  bai  innce  ó  Do  bfpcpac  in  po 
bob  coipjiDeleóDoaicipibh  an  cipe,  locap  la  cpfran  an  rppora  50  pangacap 
an  muip, ")  ppiorpopc   na  conaipe  pemeoeocacap  50  po  jabpar  cuan  an  ac 

Tirconndl  from  Scotland.    Christopher  Irwin,  wine,  and  to  see  a  Spanish  ship, 

ill  his  Historice  Scotke  Nomenclatura,  Edinbiiriji,  '^  At  the  circumstance,  i.  e.  he  felt  ashamed  at 

1697,  states,    that   their   first  habitation    was  not  being  able  to  entertain  his  guest  as  he  had 

"  M'Suan  Castle,  in  Knapdale,   a  countrey  be-  expected. 

longing  to  Argile."  '  Until  they  were  jolly  and  cheerful,  combcap 

"■  To  fjo  to  the  place,  i.  e.  to  have  a  drink  of  yubuij  pouiifnmnaij^.  Here  it  will  be  observed 


1587]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1863 

neighbourhood  on  an  excursion  of  thoughtless  recreation,  and  youthful  play 
and  sports ;  and  the  vehement  and  fool-hardy  people  who  were  along  with  him 
requested  of  him  to  go  to  the  place".  It  was  easy  for  them  to  prevail  on  him 
to  do  so,  for  at  this  time  he  was  not  quite  fifteen  years  of  age ;  and  there  were 
none  of  his  advisers,  tutors,  or  oUavs,  along  with  him,  to  direct  him  or  give  him 
counsel.  When  the  spies  heard  of  his  arrival  in  the  town,  they  immediately 
went  back  to  the  ship.  He  was  welcomed  by  Mac  Sweeny  and  the  other  chief- 
tains ;  and  they  sent  their  waiters  and  cupbearers  to  the  ship  for  wine  for  the 
guest  who  had  arrived.  The  merchants  said  that  they  had  no  more  wine 
[remaining  vmsold],  excepting  what  the  crew  required  for  their  own  use,  and 
that  they  were  unwilling  to  give  any  more  of  it  out  for  any  one ;  but  they  added, 
that  if  a  small  party  of  gentlemen  would  come  to  them  into  the  ship,  they  should 
get  all  the  wine  and  ale  that  was  in  their  possession.  When  Mac  Sweeny 
received  this  message,  he  felt  ashamed  at  the  circumstance",  and  accordingly 
he  decided  upon  inviting  Hugh  to  the  ship.  This  being  agreed  upon,  they  went 
into  a  small  boat  which  was  on  the  margin  of  the  strand,  and  rowed  it  over 
to  the  ship.  They  were  welcomed,  and  conducted  without  delay  or  loitering 
into  an  apartment  in  the  lower  centre  of  the  ship  ;  and  they  were  waited  on, 
and  attentively  served,  until  they  were  jolly  and  cheerfuP.  When  they  were 
here  making  merry,  the  door  of  the  hatch  was  closed  after  them,  and  their  arms 
were  stolen  from  them  ;  and  thus  was  the  yoiuig  son,  Hugh  Roe,  taken.  The 
rumour  of  this  capture  spread  throughout  the  country  in  general ;  and  the 
inhabitants  flocked  from  all  quarters  to  the  harbour,  to  see  if  they  could  bring 
any  danger  upon  the  machinators  of  the  treachery.  This  was  of  no  avail,  for 
they  were  in  the  depth  of  the  harbour,  after  having  hauled  in  their  anchor ;  and 
they  [the  natives]  had  no  ships  or  boats  to  pursue  or  take  revenge  of  them. 
Mac  Sweeny-na-dTuath,  who  was  the  foster-father  of  that  Hugh,  came,  among 
the  rest,  to  the  harbour,  and  offered  hostages  and  other  pledges  for  him  ;  but 
this  was  of  no  avail  to  him,  because  there  was  not  in  the  province  of  Ulster  a 
hostage  that  they  would  accept  in  his  stead.  As  for  the  ship,  and  the  crew  which 
were  in  it,  having  seciu:-ed  the  most  desirable  of  the  hostages  of  the  territory, 
they  sailed  with  the  current  of  the  tide  until  they  reached  the  sea,  and  retraced 

that  the  adjectives  have  a  plural  tcnnination,  Irish  language,  in  which  we  would  say,  jo  puB- 
which  is  contrary  to  the  idiom  of  the  modern  .   uDap  pabcfc  poimfcinmiKu'. 


1864  aNNQta  Ri05hachca  eiReanw.  [i588. 

clmc.  Qc  clop  po  ceDóip  ipin  ccarpaij  uile  a  coibecc  porn  parhlaió,  i  bá 
paoílió  lap  an  lupcip,  -]  lap  an  ccorhaiple  apoccain  cuca  gen  jup  bo  pop 
o  pfipc  icnp  -]  po  popconjaippioc  a  rabaipc  Dm  pai^i6.  Oo  parraó  eiccm 
combárcap  acca  accallarh  -\  ace  árcoriiapc  pcél  nt)ó  occá  míóerhain,  ~\  occa 
incpeacliaó  Do  caipccélaó  pop  a  aipóib  ppi  pé  poDa.  pó  beóib  cpa  po  pop- 
congaippioc  a  cop  i  ccaipciall  combainsfn  clocóa  baoí  ipin  ccacpaij  aipiri  i 
iTibácrap  Dponja  oeapmapa  do  paopclanoaib  mac  míleaó  i  ccuimpeac  -]  hi 
ccimióecc, "]  apaill  Dpionnjallaib.  6a  pfo  pob  amíp  "]  pob  aipecc  cuile  Doib 
Do  lo -]  Dabai^  aj  eccaoíne  a  neccualcnnj  -|  a  nimm^  ppi  apoile,  ■]  aj  coic- 
pechc  ppip  na  hainbpfraib  nó  binnbfpra  pop  paopclanDaib  pocenélcha  epeanri 
ap  cCna. 

niac  riieic  Conmapa  an  caoíbe  riap  oo  cloinn  cuiléin  .1.  curhfDa  mac 
Sfain,  mic  caiój,  mic  conmfóa,  mic  conmapa,  mic  Sfain  oécc.  6fn  an  conmfoa 
pin  in^ean  emamn  mic  Semaip  mec  piapaip  Décc. 

aOlS  CRIOSU,  1588. 
Qoip  Cpiopc,  mile,  cuicc  céo,  occrhojacr,  a  hocc. 

ÍTlac  puibne  bajaineac  Niall  mfipcceac  mac  maolmuipe,  mic  aoba  mic 
neill  Do  rhapbaó  lá  Donnchaó  mac  maolmuipe  mfipccij,  mic  maolmuipe,  mic 
neiU  1  nooipinip  im  pel  bpi  jDe  Do  ponpaó.  6á  harhlaió  do  pónaó  mDpin  lap 
mapbaó  bpiain  óicc  arfiail  péitiebepcmap  Id  mail  mOpjeac,  Ro  hionnapbab 
Donncbaó  co  na  lucc  Ifnamna  i  cconnaccaib  ló  mail  beóp,  -]  po  baoí  peal  i 
ppappab  ^all,  -\  acliaib  oile  ap  aon  lá  hua  neill,  ~\  Do  póine  lonDpaijib  poDa 
imcian  pop  mail  mfipcceac  amail  ná  po  paoíl  mail,  uaip  bá  DÓ15  laip  ná 
nocpab  Donnchab  Don  rip  an  ccfin  no  rhapab  pom  innce.    lap  mbfic  do  óonn- 

z  Endoivmenis. — The   word  aipóe  signifies  a  in  the  Castle  of  Dublin. — See  an  account  of 

mark,  sign,  token,  or  characteristic.    What  the  this  treacherous  capture  of  the  young  Hugh  Roe 

annalists  say  is,   that   the   Lord   Deputy  and  O'Donnell,  in  Dr.  O'Conor's  suppressed  work, 

Council  felt  curious  to  sound  the  depth  of  the  Memoirs   of  the  Life    and  Writings  of  Charles 

intellectual  powers  of  a  youth,  whose  promising  0'  Connr  of  Belanagare,  p.  105,  where  the  writer 

and  aspiring  abilities  induced  the  people  to  be-  draws  largely  on  his  own  imagination  for  parti- 

lieve  that  he  was  the  person  predicted  by  St.  culars.  The  most  trust  worthy  account  of  this  cap- 

Columbkille  as  their  deliverer.  ture  is  perhaps  that  given  by  the  Four  Masters, 

^  Stone  castle This  is  the  Bermingham  Tower  which  is  abstracted  from  the  Life  of  Hugh  Roe 


1588.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1865 

their  former  course  back  again,  until  they  landed  in  the  harbour  of  Dublin.  It 
was  soon  heard  all  over  the  city  that  he  had  thus  arrived ;  and  the  Lord  Justice 
and  the  Council  were  rejoiced  at  the  arrival  of  Hvigh,  though  indeed  not  for 
love  of  him  ;  and  tliey  ordered  him  to  be  brought  before  them,  and  he  was 
brought  accordingly ;  and  they  continued  for  a  long  time  to  converse  with  him, 
and  to  ask  questions  of  him,  to  examine  and  criticise  him,  that  they  might  ex- 
plore his  [natural]  endowments^.  At  last,  however,  they  ordered  him  to  be 
put  into  a  strong  stone  castle"  which  was  in  the  city,  where  a  great  number  of 
Milesian  nobles  were  in  chains  and  captivity,  and  also  some  of  the  old  English. 
The  only  amusement  and  conversation  by  which  these  beguiled  the  time  by  day 
and  night  was,  lamenting  to  each  other  their  sufferings  and  troubles,  and  listen- 
ing to  the  cruel  sentences  passed  on  the  highborn  nobles  of  Ireland  in  general. 
The  son  of  Mac  Namara  of  the  western  part  of  Clann-Cuilein,  namely, 
Cumeadha,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Cumeadha,  son  of  Cumara, 
son  of  John,  died.  The  wife  of  that  Cumeadha,  [who  was  the]  daughter  of 
Edmond,  the  son  of  James  Mac  Pierce,  died. 


THE  AGE  OF  CHRIST,  1588. 
The  Age  of  Christ,  one  thousand  Jive  hundred  eighty-eight. 

Mac  Sweeny  Banagh  (Niall  Meirgeach,  the  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Hugh, 
son  of  Niall)  was  slain  on  Doirinis",  on  St.  Bridget's  Day,  by  Donough,  the  son 
of  ^lulmurry  Meirgeach,  son  of  Niall.  That  event  happened  thus  :  after  Brian 
Oge  had  been  slain  by  Niall  Meirgeach,  as  we  have  already  stated,  Donough, 
with  his  followers,  were,  moreover,  banished  into  Connaught  by  Niall,  and  he 
remained  for  some  time  with  the  English,  and  for  some  time  after  that  along 
with  O'Neill.  [At  last]  he  made  an  incursion  from  a  far  distance  against  Niall, 
what  Niall  did  not  expect,  for  he  thought  that  Donough  would  not  come  into 
the  country  while  he  [Niall]  should  live  in  it.     Donough,  after  liaving  passed 

O'Donnell,   written  by  Cucogry   or  Peregrine  Writers,  p.  190. 

O'Clery,  of  which  there  is  a  copy,  in  the  hand-  f"  Doirinis,  now  Derryness,  an  island  oif  the 

writing  of  the  late  Edward  O'Reilly,  preserved  coast  of  the  parish  oflnishkeel,  in  the  barony  of 

in  the  Library  of  the  Royal  Irish  Academy Boylagh,  and  county  of  Donegal.    See  the  Ord- 

See   O'Reilly's    Descriptive    Catalogue  of  Irish  nance  Map  of  the  county  of  Donegal,  sheet  73. 

11  E 


1866  aHNQi-a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1588. 

chaó  ceopa  hoióce  1  nDiarhpaib  -]  1  nopoibélaib  an  ci]ie,  puai^i  a  piop  co 
mbaoi  mac  puibne  1  ccpian  loccaiji  baoijellac,  -|  po  cuip  luce  bpara  do 
caipcélaó  paip,"]  puccpac  pccéla  do  paiccib  DonnchaiD  50  cciocpab  porn  cap 
cpaij  aniop  apabapac.  baoi  piorh  co  lion  a  cumain^  eplarh  Do  cfjiriail  ppip 
coniD  ann  conpanjaccap  ace  an  ccoipinip  [recte  nooipinip]  pémpáice  50  po 
pijib  pccamnfp  cpoóa  fcoppa  50  po  mapUaó  TTlac  puibne  annpin  co  nopuing 
rhóip  Dia  luce  Ifnanina,  1  do  cloinn  cpuibne  na  muman.  Ro  Dicfnoab  mac 
puibne  Dna,  ■]  po  cuipean  a  cfno  50  hár  cliaf.  ITlac  puibne  do  jaipm  do 
DonnchaD  laporh. 

6oin  mooapba  mac  aoóa,  mic  neill  óicc  mec  puibne  do  tiiapbaD  la  Dpuuij 
DO  luce  Ifnamna  mec  puibne  DonDchaD. 

QoD  mac  néill  mic  coippDealBai^  bfpnai^  ui  baoigill  (ranaipre  baoi^eal- 
lac)  Décc. 

Oorhnall  mac  néill  puaió  mic  neill  ui  baoi^ill  co  na  mac  do  rhapbaó  lá 
cabcc  ÓCC  mac  caiDcc,  mic  coippóealbaij  ui  baoi^iU  ap  cpaij  painpfóat j 
l^an  cpian  loccaip  ipin  upojrnap  do  ponpao. 

Qn  calbac  ócc  mac  cuinn  mic  an  calbaij^  ui  Dorhnaill  do  itiapbao  la 
Dpuinj  do  muincip  Dorhnaill  (.i.  la  TTlajnup  05  ó  ppaicén),  mic  aeóa  mic 
majnupa  i  Dorhnaill  1  ccoip  pinne. 

TTlaolmuipe  mac  emainn,  mic  maolmuipe,  mic  DonncViaib  mec  puibne  do 
ihapbab  la  mall  gapb  mac  cuinri  mic  an  calbaij  ui  Dorhnaill. 

lapla  cipe  heojain,  aob  mac  pipDopca,  mic  cuinn  bacaij;  mic  cuinri  00 
cionol  plóij  lánmóip  do  cocr  pop  ua  neill  roippoealbac  luineac.  Ni  po  banoD 
lap  an  lapla  50  piacc  co  na  plóg  cap  mobrnpn  cap  Deipcc  50  po  jab  aipipfrh 
ag  an  ccctppaicc  léc.  l?o  bail  ua  Dorhnaill  aob  mac  majnupa  1  ccoitibdil  an 
lapla  a  clfiiina  50  lion  a  pocpaiDe  ace  cfna  ni  rainicc  ineallrha.  O  neill 
coippbealbac  baoi  pibe  co  pocpaiDe  rhóip  Daon  pancc  "]  Daon  aonca  in  ajhaiD 
an  lapla  -\  u\  Domnaill.  l?obcap  laD  baoi  i  ppappab  ui  neill  .1.  Qpc  ócc  a 
mac  CO  mbuanoabaib  lomba  (.1.  capem)  Uilliam  muppefn  mac  pbibfipD  50 
mbanna  pai^Diuipibe,-]  Dponj  Do  cloinn  epuibne  na  murhan  im  TTlupcliab  no 

'  Lower  Third  of  Boylagh,  i.  e.  that  part  of  "*  Certain  strand,  cpai^  ixiinpfoaij Seenote™ 

tlie  barony  of  Boylagh  now  called  the  Rosses,  on  aé  painpeóai^,  under  the  year  158G,p.  1856, 

and  situated  between  the  north  island  of  Aran  supra. 

and  the  River  Gweedore.  '  Loiter  Tliird.^—See  note  %  ■iupra. 


1588.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1867 

three  nights  in  the  wilds  and  recesses  of  the  country,  received  inteUigence  that 
Mac  Sweeny  was  in  the  Lower  Third  of  Boylagh'' ;  and  he  sent  spies  to  recon- 
noitre him  ;  and  the  spies  brought  news  to  Donough  that  he  would  come  up 
[i.  e.,  southwards]  across  the  strand  on  the  day  following  :  he  [Donough]  was 
prepared  with  all  his  forces  to  oppose  him.,  They  met  at  Doirinis,  before 
mentioned,  where  a  fierce  battle  was  fought  between  them,  in  which  Mac 
Sweeny  was  slain,  together  with  a  great  number  of  his  followers,  and  of  the 
Clann-Sweeny  of  Munster.  Mac  Sweeny  was  beheaded,  and  his  head  was  sent 
to  Dublin.     Donough  was  then  styled  Mac  Sweeny. 

John  Modardha,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Niall  Oge  Mac  Sweeny,  was  slain 
by  the  followers  of  Mac  Sweeny  (Donough). 

Hugh,  the  son  of  Niall,  son  of  Turlough  Bearnach  O'Boyle,  Tanist  of  Boy- 
lagh,  died. 

Donnell,  the  son  of  Niall  Roe,  son  of  Niall  O'Boyle,  and  his  son,  were  slam 
by  Teige  Oge,  the  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Turlough  O'Boyle,  on  a  certain  strand" 
in  the  Lower  Third',  in  the  autumn  of  this  year. 

Calvagh  Oge,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Calvagh  O'Donnell,  was  slain  near  the 
Eiver  Finn,  by  Manus  Oge  O'Sraithein*^,  one  of  the  followers  of  Donnell,  the 
son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Manus. 

Mulmurry,  the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Donough  Mac 
Sweeny;  was  slain  by  Niall  Garv,  the  son  of  Con,  son  of  Calvagh  O'Donnell. 

The  Earl  of  Tyrone  ( Hugh,  the  son  of  Ferdorcha,  son  of  Con  Bacagh,  son 
of  Con)  mustered  a  very  great  army  to  march  against  O'Neill  ( Turlough  Lui- 
neach).  The  Earl  never  halted  until  he  had  crossed  the  Mourne  and  the  Derg, 
and  encamped  at  Carraic-liath^.  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Manus)  came 
to  join  the  Earl,  his  son-in-law,  with  a  number  of  his  forces,  but,  however,  he 
did  not  come  with  all  of  them.  O'Neill  (Tiuiough)  had  [on  the  other  hand] 
a  great  army  of  vina>nimously  combined  forces  to  oppose  the  Earl  and  O'Donnell. 
These  were  they  who  were  with  O'Neill  on  this  occasion  :  Art  Oge,  his  son, 
with  a  great  number  of  Connaughtmen,  [namely]  Captain  William  Mostin,  the 
son  of  Robert,  with  a  company  of  soldiers  a  party  of  the  Mac  Sweenys  of  Munster, 

f  G' Sraithein,  now  anglice  Strohane.  Mourne,  in  the  parish  of  Urney,  barony  of  Stra- 

e  Carraic'-liath,  now  Carricklea,  or  Carrioklee,      bane,  and  county  of  Tyrone. — See  note  ",  under 
a  townland  situated  between  the  rivers  Finn  and      the  year  1557,  p.  1550,  f,upra. 

11   E  2 


1886  aNNaí.a  Rio^hachca  eiReaww.  [isss. 

maiir  mac  maolmuipe  mic  Donncliaió  co  pocaióe  ele  cermorac.  Niall  ^ajib, 
1  Cto6  mac  an  of^anaij  uí  gallcubaip  (Dia  ngoipri  an  can  pn  QoDh  mac  an 
calbaij  uí  oomnaill)  t)o  bfir  50  y^liocc  an  calbai 5  uile,  -]  co  na  lucr  Ifnarhna 
Daon  pann,  -|  oaon  aonca  lá  hua  néill,  -\  há  hann  bacrap  pióe  1  ccaiplén  na 
pmne.  bóccap  nponj  oia  muincip  05  aplac  aoba  im  lonnpaijjió  oioce  do 
rabaipc  op  an  iap1a  unip  baoí  an  ciapla  aj  cpeachaó  1  acc  opcfcain  na  npe 
ecip  na  haibnib  pn  .1.  pionn,  -|  ÍTloóapn.  Níp  bó  miaó  laipyiorh  innpm  lá 
huaill  -|  lonnoccbáil, "]  acbepc  ná  hionnpai  jpean  lapla  1  noopca  oibce  icip, 
acc  po  bat)  i  poillpi  laoí  lánpolaip  nó  peappab  lomaipfg  nujpa  ppip.  l?o 
corhaiUpiorh  inopin  uaip  po  lonnpaijj  an  ciapla  ap  a  bapac,-|  po  meabain  piarh, 
1  po  págaib  an  ciapla  oaoíne  lomna  immaille  pé  heacliaib,  1  pé  beoalaib 
lolapóa  ap  cfna,  an  ceo  lá  TTlap  innpin 

mág  eocagóin  cijeapna  cenélpiachac.i.Connla  macconcobaip  mtc  laijne 
mic  connla  niic  aoóa  oécc,  "|  ní  baoí  ó  cfm  máip  inall  00  cenél  piacac  mic 
néill  pfp  po  baó  mó  oaDbap  eccaoíne  inap,  -|  a  mac  bpian,  -|  mail  mac  popa 
DO  bfir  ino  fpaonca  ppi  apoile  im  ojeapnap  an  cípe. 

Gojan  manncac  mac  emainn,  mic  ploinn,  mic  concobaip  uí  ebin  cijeapna 
ua  ppiacpac  aióne  Décc, "]  a  mac  aob  buibeoo  oiponeabina  lonan.  Uanaipoe 
an  cípe  céona  no  écc  .1.  coippbealbac  mac  puaibpi  an  Doipe  uí  eibm. 

Coblac  mnp  .1.  occ  ppicirlon^  do  rocc  ó  píj  na  ppóinne  pop  paippje  ipin 
mbliabain  po, -)  aobepaD  a  poile  gup  bó  hfb  po  ba  mfnmapc  leo  cuan  "|  calab 

'■  Murrough-na-mart,  i.  e.  Murrough,  or  Mor-  Heet,  states  that  tliis  mighty  armament,  which 

gan,  of  the  Beeves.   -  was  styled   "  Classis   iuvincibilis,"  consisted  of 

'  Maffnanimiti/.—^^  )onnóccbáí\  .1.  méio  riifn-  130  ships,  in  which  were  19,290  soldiers,  8,350 

man." — O'Clery.  sailors,  and  2,630  great  guns.    Cox  has  the  fol- 

^  Owen  Manntagh,  i.  e.   Owen  the  Toothless.  lowing  notice  of  this  fleet,  in  connexion  with 

He  succeeded  his  uncle,  liory  of  the  Wood,  as  the  Deputy,  Sir  William  Fitz  William  : 

Chief  of  Coin  O'bh-Fiachrach,  in  the  barony  of  "  Sir  AVilliam  Fitz  William,  Lord  Deputy, 

Kiltartan,  and  county  of  Galway,  in  the  year  was  sworn  on  the  30th  of  June,  1588.     He  had 

1578.     For  a  curious  order  of  the  Council  of  formerly  been  a  very  good  Governour  in  Ireland, 

Connaught  in  his  favour,  see  Genealogies,  ^c.  of  but  being   answered   at  Whitehall   (when  he 

Hy-Fiachrach,  p.  404.  sought  some  reward  for  his  services),  that  the 

'  A  great  Jleet. — This  fleet  is  usually  referred  Government  of  Ireland  was  a  preferment,  and 

to  by  historians  as  the  Invincible  Armada.    Cam-  not  a  service,  he  ever  after  endeavoured  to  make 

den,  in  his  Annals  of  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  his  profit  of  that  office. 

in  which  he  gives  a  most  interesting  account  of  "  It  was  not  long  after  his  coming  before  the 

the  battles  between  the  Armada  and  the  Queen's  Invincible  Armado  was  forced  to  coast  about 


1.588]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1869 

with  Murrough-na-mart"  [O'Flaherty],  the  son  of  Mulmurry,  son  of  Donough; 
with  many  others  besides  them.  Niall  Garv  [O'Donnell],  Hugh,  the  son  of  the 
Dean  O' Gallagher  (wlio  was  then  usually  styledTIugh,  the  son  ofCalvagh  O'Don- 
nell), with  all  the  descendants  of  Calvagh,  and  their  followers,  joined  O'Neill 
with  one  accord  on  this  occasion.  These  were  then  in  Castlefinn.  Some  of  liis 
people  were  requesting  of  Hugh  [O'Gallagher]  to  make  a  nocturnal  attack  upon 
the  Earl,  who  was  then  preying  and  plundering  the  country  between  the  Rivers 
Finn  and  Mourne ;  but,  through  pride  and  magnanimity',  he  did  not  deem  this 
honourable,  and  said  that  he  would  not  at  all  attack  an  Earl  in  the  darkness  of 
the  night,  but  that  he  would  give  him  a  fierce  battle  in  the  broad  light  of  day. 
This  he  performed,  for  on  the  following  day  he  attacked  the  Earl,  and  defeated 
him.  The  Earl  left  behind  great  numbers  of  men,  horses,  and  spoils,  on  this 
occasion.    This  was  on  the  first  of  May. 

Mageoghegan,  Lord  of  Kinel-Fiachach,  namely,  Connla,  son  of  Conor,  son 
of  Laighne,  son  of  Connla,  son  of  Hugh,  died  ;  and  there  had  not  been  a  long- 
time before  any  one  of  the  descendants  of  Fiacha,  the  son  of  Niall,  who  was 
more  generally  lamented  ;  and  his  son,  Brian,  and  Niall,  the  son  of  Ross,  were 
in  contention  with  each  other  for  the  lordship  of  the  territory. 

Owen  Manntagh",  the  son  of  Edmond,  son  of  Flann,  son  of  Conor  O'Heyne, 
Lord  of  Hy-Fiachrach-Aidhne,  died ;  and  his  son,  Hugh  Boy,  was  elected  in  his 
place.  Turlough,  son  of  Rory-an-Doire  O'Heyne,  Tanist  of  tlie  same  territory, 
died. 

A  great  fleet',  consisting  of  eight  score  ships,  came  from  the  King  of\Spaiu 
upon  the  sea  in  this  year.     Some  say  that  their  intention  was  to  have  taken 

Scotland,  so  that  many  of  them  became  ship-  whereupon  he  grew  so  enraged  that  lie  impri- 

wreck'd  on  the  northern  shears  of  Ireland,  to  soned   Sir   Owen  O'Toole"   [rede,   Sir  Eoin  or 

the  number  of  17  ships  and  5394  men"  [the  JohnmacTooleO'Gallagher],  "andO'Dogherty, 

exact  number  given  by  Thady  Dowling].    "  By  who  were  the  best  affected  to  the  statq  of  all 

this  shipwreck  much  treasure  (which  belonged  the  Irish  ;  and  the  former  he  kept  during  his 

to  the  Queen  by  her  prerogative)  fell  into  the  time,  and  the  other  he  detained  two  years,  until 

hands  of  the  natives.     The  Deputy  issued  out  he  was  forced  to  purchase  his  discharge." — Jli- 

a  Commission  to  make  enquiry  after  it ;  but  hernia  Anglicana,  vol.  i.  p.  397. 

that  proving  ineffectual,  and  he  being  desirous  It  is  added,   in  Ware's  Annals  of  Ireland,  ad 

to  have!  a  finger  in  the  pie,  went  personally  to  ann.  1589,  that   "  this  hard  iisage  of  two  such 

Ulster  in  November,  to  the  great  charge  of  the  persons  caused  a  general  dissatisfaction  among 

Queen  and  countrey,  hut  to  very  little  purpose;  the  gentlemen  in  Ulster." 


1870  awNQi-a  Rio^hachca  emeaNN.  [i588 

no  jabctil  hi  ccpiochaib  Sapcan  Dia  ccoorh]-'acaoif  fcaiibao^ul  Dpojbml  puippe. 
Nip  bo  harhlaiD  do  pala  Dóib,  uaiji  do  eccaim  coblac  na  bainpio^na  ppiú  pop 
an  ppaippje, -|  po  jaBpar  cfirpi  lonja  Dib,  -|  po  p^aoil  -]  po  fippfiD  an  cuiD 
ele  Don  coblac  po  aipfpaib  na  ccpioc  ccompoccup.i.  Don  caob  foip  do  pn;caib, 
-|  Don  caob  coipcuaiD  Do  Qlbain,  i  Don  caoib  napruaiD  Deipinn.  Ro  bóiófó 
Dponja  mópa  do  na  ppainneacaib  ip  na  lioipfpaib  pin  lap  láinbpipfb  a  lonj, 
1  cepnct  an  cmo  po  ba  lu^a  Dib  rap  anaip  Don  ppáinn,  -\  acbepac  a  poile 
50  po  páccbaó  naoí  mile  Díb  Don  cup  pin. 

QpD  lupcip  na  hepeann  .1.  Sip  lohn  pappoc  Do  doI  1  Sacpoib,  1  Sip  uil- 
liam  pir^iuiilliam  do  recn  1  nepinn  ina  lupnp  ina  lonaD. 

O  Deaóaó  TTlarjamain  mac  loclainn,  mic  Puaibpi,  mic  muipeoDhaij  mic 
marjarhna  biiiDe  ci^eapna  ceneóil  ppfpmaic  Décc. 

Uilliam  mac  Domnaill  (.1.  an  Doccuip)  mic  amlaoib  mic  uonnchaiD  ui  nial- 
lam  Do  mapbab  1  nDopiip  mamipcpe  mnpi  kicloinn  ui  jpi'obra  .1.  clann  cpfain 
mic  Sfain,  mic  caibcc,  mic  loclainn. 

Sloicceab  mop  Ic'i  uipcip  na  liépeann  Sip  uilliam  pic5uuilliam,  1  la  gobep- 
nóip  cóiccib  connacc  Sip  RipDeapD  biongjam,  -]  le  PpepiDenc  Da  cóicceb  mu- 
rhan  .1.  Sip  comap  nopip, ")  la  popjla  pfp  nepeann  cenmoca  cóicceab  ulab  Do 
bolpop  ua  Puaipc,  -\  pop  TTlac  puibne  na  rcuQr  Do  pome  coDac  -|  comaonra 
la  cuiD  Don  coblac  ppóinneac  pin  po  pémpáibpioni.     í?o  millpior  na  plói^  pin 

™  0)1  the  coasts,  literally  "  injinibv^  Angliic.''  the  Shannon,  two  shipps,  600  men  ;  in  Tralie, 

"   JNiiie   thousand. — This    was    probably    the  one  shipp,   24  men  ;  in  Dingle,  one  shipp,  500 

number  reported  ;  but  it  appears  from  a  docu-  men  ;  in  Desmond,  one  shipp,  300  men  ;  in  Irris, 

ment  in  the  State  Papers'  Office,  London,  signed  two  shipps,   none  lost,  because   the  men   were 

by  Geoffrey  Fenton,  that  the  total  number  of  taken  into  other  vessels,  but  the  vessels  and  or- 

ships  lost  by  the  Spaniards  on  this  occasion  was  denance  remained  •,  in  Shannan,  one  burnt,  none 

eighteen,  and  The  total  number  of  men,  6 1  !)4.  lost,  because  the  men  were  likewise  embarked 

This  document  runs  as  follows  ;  in  other  shipps  ;  in  Gallway  Haven,  one  shipp, 

"  Shipp?  and  men   sunke,    drowned,   killed,  which  escaped  and  left  prisoners  70  ;  drowned 

and  taken  upon    this  coast  of  Ireland  in   the  and  sunk  in  the  N.  W.  sea  of  Scotland,  as  ap- 

month  of  September,    1588,    as  foUoweth  :   In  peareth  by  the  confession  of  the  Spanish  pri- 

Lough   Foyle,   in  Tirconnell,  one  shipp,   1100  soners  (but  in  truth  they  were  lost  in  Ireland), 

•  men  ;  in  Sligo,  three  great  shipps,   1500  men  ;  one  shipp,  called  St.  Mathew,  500  tonnes,  men 

in  Tyraughlie,   one  shipp,  400  men  ;  in  Clear  450  ;    one  of   Byshey  of  St.   Sebastian's,    400 

Island,    one    shipp,    300   men;    in    Fynglasse,  tonnes,  men  350  :  total  of  shipps  18;  total  of 

O'Male's   country,    one   shipp,    400   men ;    in  men  6194. 
O'Fflaertie's  country,  one  shipp,  200  men;  in  "(Signed),         Geff.  Fenton." 


1588.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1871 

harbour,  and  landed  on  the  coasts  of  England",  if  they  could  get  an  opportunity. 
But  this  did  not  happen  to  them,  for  they  were  met  on  the  sea  by  the  Queen's 
fleet,  which  captured  four  ships  ;  and  the  rest  of  the  fleet  were  scattered  and 
dispersed  along  the  coasts  of  the  neighbouring  countries,  namely,  to  the  east  of 
England,  to  the  north-east  of  Scotland,  and  the  north-west  of  Ireland.  Great 
numbers  of  the  Spaniards  were  drowned,  and  their  ships  were  totally  wrecked 
in  those  places.  The  smaller  part  of  them  (i.  e.  the  remainder)  returned  to 
Spain  ;  and  some  say  that  nine  thousand"  of  them  were  lost  on  this  occasion. 

Sir  John  Perrott,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  Ireland,  went  to  England  ;  and  Sir 
William  Fitzwilliiim°  came  to  Ireland  as  Justice  in  his  stead. 

O'Dea  (Mali on'',  the  son  of  Loughlin,  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Muireadhach,  son 
of  Mahon  Boy),  Lord  of  Kinel-Fearmaic,  died. 

William,  the  son  of  Donnell  (i.e.  the  Doctor),  son  of  AulifTe,  sun  of  Donough 
O'Neillan,  was  slain  in  the  doorway  of  the  monastery  of  Ennis,  by  the  sons  of 
CGreefa*",  namely,  the  sons  of  John,  sou  of  John,  son  of  Teige,  son  of  Loughlin. 

A  great  army  was  mustered  by  the  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  Sir  William 
Fitzwilliam  ;  Sir  Richard  Bingham,  Governor  of  the  province  of  Connaught ; 
and  Sir  Thomas  Norris,  Governor  of  the  two  provinces  of  Munster  ;  together 
with  the  most  of  the  men  of  Ireland,  the  people  of  Ulster  excepted,  to  march 
against  O'Rourke  and  Mac  Sweeny-na-dTuath,  who  had  formed  friendship  and 
alliance  with  some  of  the  Spanish  fleef  which  we  have  before  mentioned. 

The  Annals  of  Ireland,  by  Thady  Uowling,  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  E.  2.  14,   this  Mahoii 

give  a  list  which  agrees  with  the  foregoing,  with  is  mentioned  as  the  proprietor  of  the  castles  of 

the  exception  of  the  number  drowned  and  sunk  Beallnelyke  and  Moghowny,   in  the  barony  of 
in  the  north-west  sea  of  Scotland,  of  which  it  •  Tullag-I-Dea  (now  Inchiquin). 
takes  no  notice;  but  it  adds,  that  700  men  were  "  O'Oef/a. — In    the  manuscript   account  of 

lost  in  "  Gallaway  Bay." — See  the  Icon  Antis-  the  county  of  Clare  just  referred  to,  he  is  called 

titis,  where  there  is  a  curious  account  of  the  O'Griffee,  and  set  down  as  the  proprietor  of  the 

shipwrecked  Spaniards  who  were  cast  on  the  castle  of  Ballygriffee,  in  the  barony  of  Tullagh- 

coast  of  Galway.  I-Dea.     This  name  is  now  usually   anglicised 

»  Sir  William  Fitzwilliam,  Lord  Chief  Justice.  Griffin,    though  always    called   O'^piolica   in 

He  was  sworn   Lord   Deputy   on  the  30th  of  Irish.     The  Griffins  of  Corgrick,   near  Foynes 

.lune,  1588.     This  entry  should  have  been  in-  Island,  in    the   county   of  Limer-ick,    and    Dr. 

serted  by  the  Four  Masters  before  their  account  Griffin,  of  Limerick,  are  of  this  family, 
of  the  great  Spanish  ileet.  ■■  Some  of  the  Spanish  fiui. — Philip  O'SulIevan 

'  Mahon.-^lTi  the  manuscript  account  of  the  Beare   informs    us,    in    his  IfiM.   C'athol.  Iber., 

county  of  Clare,  preserved  in   the  Library  of  fol.  121,    that  one  thousand  Spaniards,    under 


1872  aHNW.a  Rio^hachca  eiReawN.  [1588 

gac  ni  guy  a  pansaccap  od  mbaoi  pfinpa  ó  rhuincip  ria  bainfiiojna  oca  yuca 
50  Dpobaoip,  -|  Ó  DjiobaoiY  co  pinn,  ap  a  aoi  ni  ]io  ^abpac  Jiifirn  no  jabáil 
oua  l?uai)ic  nr't  t)o  mac  puibne  non  cu]!  pin.  6á  oon  cuatpc  pin  cpú  00  jabao 
Ó  oocapcaij  Sfan  ócc  mac  Sfain,  mic  peilim,  mic  concobaip  cappaig,-]  ó  jall- 
ciibaip  Sip  eóin  mac  cuacail  bailb,  -]  Do  cuaió  an  lupcip  50  bar  cliar,  -]  ]io 
pccaoilpioc  pip  epeann  Dia  ccijib. 

QoD  mac  an  ofccánaij  uí  jallcubaip  (oia  ngoipri  aoó  mac  an  calbai^ 
UÍ  Domnaill)  00  itiapbaó  lap  an  insin  ouib  ingTn  cpemaip  mec  oomnaill  bfn 
UÍ  Domnaill  aoD  mac  majnupa.  6a  liamlaió  po  appicc  lé  an  mapbaó  pin  do 
^niorh.  QoD  do  bfic  do  ^pép  1  pann  pleacca  Dilip  an  calbaij  ui  DomnaiU,  -] 
o  mbfic  uile  Dooin  Ific  ip  pann  ui  neiU  roippóealbaij  luinij  baoi  aj  coccaó 
Do  5pép  pé  bua  nDomnaill  -|  pé  a  cliamain  an  riapla  ó  neill  .1.  aoD  mac  an 
pipDopca.  Qpaill  ele  beóp  po  mapbab  a  bpdcaip  Dil  Deapbcaipip  alaprpann 
la  haob  mac  an  Dfccanaij  amail  perhebepcmap.  Ro  barap  beóp  pora  ile 
eccpaiccip  aice  ppip  cen  mocar  pióe.  bet  jalap  cpiDe  1  bo  cocpaó  mfnman 
1é  j^an  Dio;^ail  a  uabaip  "]  a  Dinmapa  paip.  Ro  eccaoin  a  bimneaD, "]  a  lié- 
crualanj  ppif  an  arhpaib  albanaij  baoi  pop  a  ccmllrhe  -|  pop  a  ccuapupcal 
Do  jpép,  1  ina  comairecc  in  gac  maijin  50  po  cinjeallpac  pióe  ppia  jomDip 
ellma  pop  a  pop  conjpaippi  Daire  a  neccpaircip  pop  a  mbíoóbaib  cecib  can 
DO  cocpaD  ciica.  Oo  pala  Din  Don  aob  hipin  cocc  (la  bopppab  bpi'je  1  la 
hionnoccbóil  mfnmon  cfn  popainnfc  a  palab  no  a  eccpaiccip)  50  haipm  1 
mbaoi  pi  i  maj  gaiblin.  lap  ccocc  Dopom  Don  baile  po  aiccill  pi  a  pain- 
muincip  .1.  na  halbanaigh,  ■]  jio  pcnb  ppiú  1  po  aplaij  laD  im  comallab  in  po 
jjeallpac,  Oo  pónoD  puippepi  j^in,  uaip  po  lonnpqijpioc  an  caipeccal  i 
mbaoi  aob,  1  po  jabpac  ajá  Duibpacab  do  paijDib  -|  do  peilépaib  50  ppap- 
ccaibpioc  mapb  jan  anmain,  -]  po  mapbab  beóp  amaille  ppip  an  po  bab 
raipipi  laip  Dia  painmuincip. 

TTlac  mec    conmapa    an    caoibe   coip   do  cloinn    cuilein  .1.  cabcc  mac 

Antonio  de  Leva,  were  relieved  and  protected  ^  Sir  John,  the  son  of  Tuathal. — In  Ware's  An- 
by  O'Rourke  and  Mac  Sweeny  Tuethius  on  tliis  nals  of  Ireland  he  is  called  Sir  Owen  Mac  Toole, 
occasion,  who  saved  them  from  the  fury  of  the  which  is  not  very  incorrect ;  but  in  Cox's  Hi- 
Queen's  officers  and  conducted  them  in  safety  hernia  Anglicana,  vol.  i.  p.  397,  he  is  called 
to  their  ship;  but  that,  unfortunately,  the  ship  "  Sir  Owen  O'Toole,"  which  is  ridiculously  in- 
foundered  and  they  were  all  drowned  in  sight  correct, 
of  the  harbour.  '  Pride  and  arrogance. — The  reader  will  bear 


1.588.]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1873 

These  forces  spoiled  every  thing  to  which  they  caftie  in  their  course,  not  belong- 
ing to  the  Queen's  people,  from  the  Suck  to  the  Drowes,  and  from  the  Drowes 
to  the  Finn ;  yet  they  were  not  able  to  overtake  or  apprehend  O'Rourke  or  Mac 
Sweeny  on  this  occasion.  It  was  on  this  expeditiofi  that  O'Doherty  (John  Oge, 
the  son  of  John,  son  of  Felim,  son  of  Conor  Carragh),  and  O'Gallagher  ( Sir  John, 
the  son  of  TuathaP  Balbh),  were  taken  prisoners.  The  Lord  Justice  (then) 
went  to  Dublin,  and  the  men  of  Ireland  dispersed  for  their  [respective]  homes. 

Hugh,  son  of  the  Dean  O'Gallagher  (who  was  usually  called  Hugh,  son  of 
Calvagh  O'Donnell),  was  killed  by  Ineenduv,  the  daughter  of  James  Mac  Don- 
nell,  and  wife  of  O'Donnell  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Manus).  It  was  thus  she  was 
enabled  to  effect  this  killing :  Hugh  had  constantly  sided  with  the  descendants 
of  Calvagh  O'Donnell,  who  were  all  conjointly  leagued  with  O'Neill  (Turlough 
Luineach),  who  was  always  at  war  with  O'Donnell  and  his  son-in-law,  the  Earl 
O'Neill  (Hugh,  son  of  Ferdorcha).  Moreover,  her  dearly  beloved  brother, 
Alexander,  had  been,  as  we  have  before  stated,  slain  by  Hugh,  son  of  the  Dean, 
and  besides  these  she  had  many  other  causes  of  enmity  towards  him  ;  and  it 
was  sickness  of  heart  and  anguish  of  mind  to  her  that  revenge  was  not  taken 
of  him  for  his  pride  and  arrogance*.  She  complained  of  her  troubles  and  inju- 
ries to  the  Scottish  auxiliaries,  who  were  constantly  in  her  service  and  pay,  and 
who  were  in  attendance  on  her  in  every  place  ;  and  they  promised  that  they 
would  be  ready  at  her  command,  to  wreak  vengeance  upon  their  enemies,  when- 
ever they  should  meet  with  them.  Hugh  [one  time]  happened  to  be  coming 
up,  in  pride,  vigour,  and  high  spirits  (without  remembering  the  spite  or  the 
enmity  against  him)  towards  the  place  where  she  was,  at  Magh-gaibhlin".  When 
he  had  come  to  the  town,  she  addressed  her  faithful  people,  i.  e.  the  Scots ;  and 
begged  and  requested"^  of  them  to  fulfil  their  promise.  This  was  accordingly 
done  for  her,  for  they  rushed  to  the  place  where  Hugh  was,  and  proceeded  to 
shoot  at  him  with  darts  and  bullets,  until  they  left  him  lifeless ;  and  there  were 
also  slain  along  with  him  the  dearest  to  him  of  his  faithful  people. 

The  son  of  Mac  Namara,  of  the  eastern  part  of  Clann-Cuilein  (Teige,  the 

in  mind  the  O'Gallaghers  are  the  senior   and      and  county  of  Donegal.     Ordn.  map,  sheet  63. 
most  royal  family  of  all  the  Kinel-Connell.  "  Begged  and  requested:  literally,   "  and  she 

"  Magh-gaibhli/i,  now  Mongavlin,  a  townland      told  them,  and  requested  of  them  to  perform 
in  the  parish  of  Taughboyne,  barony  of  Kaphoe,      what  they  had  promised." 

11  F  * 


1874  aNNQca  Rio^hachca  eiReaww.  [i588. 

norhnaill  iiiabaij  mic  conmrDa,  mic  oonnchaio,  mic  Ruaiópi  do  cpochaó  i 
ngaillim. 

TTlac  UÍ  concobaip  puaió  .i.  mac  C^aiocc  óicc  mic  caiócc  buióe,  mic  ccirail 
puai6  DO  cpochaó  i  njaillirh  beóf. 

O  cfinnéicci^  pionn  .1.  bpian  mac  DomnaiU  mic  Donncham  Décc,  iiairne 
muc  DonnchaiD  óicc  mic  ao6a,  mic  amlaoib, "]  an  jiolla  oub  mac  DiapmuDa 
mic  aoDa  mic  puaiópi  uíceinneiDij  1  neapaoncab  "|  1  nimpfpain  pé  poile  imon 
ci^eapnap  gup  ab  arhlaiD  do  i->ioDaiT^pior  an  n^eapnap  do  poinn  froppa  rip 
DO,  an  rainm  ap  uairne. 

'  The  manner  in  which The  Irish  idiom,  gup  from  the  construction  of  the  Irish.     The  above 

ab  ariilaió,  i.  e.  so  that  it  was  the  way,  is  of  entry  should  be  thus  made  English  :  "O'Ken- 

very  frequent  occurrence,  and  it  is  impossible  nedy  Finn  (Brian,  &c.)  died  ;    upon  which  a 

to  translate  sentences  so  constructed  into  any-  contention   arose   between   Owny,   the   son   of 

thing  like  readable  English,  without  deviating  DonoughOge,  and  Gilla-Duv,  theson  of  Dermot, 


1588]  ANNALS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  IRELAND.  1875 

son  of  Donnell  Reagh,  son  of  Cumeadha,  son  of  Donough,  son  of  Rory),  was 
hanged  at  Galway. 

The  son  of  O'Conor  Roe,  i.  e.  the  son  of  Teige  Oge,  son  of  Teige  Boy,  son 
of  Cathal  Roe,  was  also  hanged  at  Galway. 

O'Kennedy  Finn  (Brian,  the  son  of  Donnell,  son  of  Donough)  died  ;  [upon 
which]  Owny,  the  son  of  Donough  Oge,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  AulifTe,  and  Gilla- 
Duv,  the  son  of  Derraot,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Rory  O'Kennedy,  were  at  strife 
and  contention  with  each  other  concerning  the  lordship  ;  so  that  the  manner 
in  which"  they  made  peace  was  by  dividing  the  territory  in  two  between  them, 
and  the  name  was  conferred  on  Owny. 

concerning  the  chieftainship.     At  length,  how-      the  name  of  O'Kennedy  Finn  iiiion  O  wny,  who 
ever,  they  agreed  to  settle  their  ditferences  by      was  adjudged  to  be  the  senior." 
dividing  the  territory  equally,   and  conferring 


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