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ANNALS 



OF 



THE KINGDOM OF lEELAND, 

BY THE FOUR MASTERS, 



FROM 



THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE YEAR 1616. 

EDITED FROM MSS. IN THE LIBRAET OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY AND OE TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, WITH 

A TRANSLATION, AND COPIOUS NOTES, 

BY JOHN O'DONOYAN, LLD., M.RI.A., 

BARRISTER AT LAW. 



"Olim Eegibus parebant, nunc per Principes factionibus et studiis trahimtur: nee aliud adversus validissimas gentes 
pro nobis utilius, quam quod in commune non consulunt. Earus duabus tribusve civitatibus ad propulsandum commune 
periculum conventus : ita dum singuli pugnant universi vincuntur." — Tacitus, Agricola, c. 12. 



SECOND EDITION. 

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1856. 



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aNMoLo Rio^hachca eiReanw. 



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aNTiaLa Ri05hc(chca eiReaNM. 



aOlS CRlOSr, 1589. 
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceo, ocrmojar, anaoi. 

I I iG^UlDniP cuconnacc mac conconnacr (.1. an comapba), mic concon- 
nacc, mic bpiain, mic pilip mic comaip 00 ecc 17 lun njfpna ap noDnacal 
oeaccailpb, ■] Dollarhnaib Dampaib,"] oanpabaib faof po^lamra ppiocnamac 
illaiDin 1 1 n5aoi6eilcc eipiDe. lap necc mejuibip cuconnacr po ba6 0615 Id 
concobap puab mac concobaip mejuibip ^omaD laip n^eapnap cfpe ap aoi' 
pinnpipeacra. 6d pfo do puimenpac an luce naile gomab e mac meguiDip 
(aob)pobar) cij^eapna nfip a arap,combdcap 1 pppirbeapr ppi a poile arhlaib 
pin. l?o paoiD ao6 rfcra Dionnpai^ib a bparap oorhnall mac aoba mic TTIa^- 
nupa uf borhnaill (56 Da ]iala fcoppa pia pin) Dia ciiinjib paip ceacc Dia 
pupcacr "I Dia poipinn amail bd gpepac Id a pmnpfpaib congnarh Id pliocr 
pilip mic comaip meguiDip. Ni bai do cenel cconaill an can pin nee ap ap 
mo a paoileccain Dia cabaip indp an Dorhnall hi' pin uaip bd han^lonn -] ba 
cuaipccni^ cara eipiurh, -| nf clop a Dpuim ppi a eccpaircib lurip. Nfp bo 
bfiplfbac po ppeccpaD pui^le na cceaccab pm Id Dorhnall uaip po rionoil 

' Servants. — The Irish anpaoa is the same as hathe his horse and his two boyes and two 

the Latin calones. They were the attendants hackeneys, or one hackeney and two chiefFe 

on the gallowglasses. Sir Anthony Sentleger horse at the leste." — See Battle of Magh- Rath, 

writes in 1543 : p. 350. 

" Ther ys no horseman of this lande, but he ' General in battle. — This means nothing more 



AMALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND, 



THE AGE OF CHRIST, 1589. 
The Age of Christ, one thousand Jive hundred eighty-nine. 

iVlAGUIRE (Cuconnaught, the son of Cuconnaiight, namely, tlie Coarb, son 
of Cuconnaught, son of Brian, son of Philip, son of Thomas), died on the 17th 
of June. He was [truly] a lord in his munificence towards churches, ollaves, 
soldiers, and servants^'; and a learned and studious adept in Latin and Irish. 
After the death of Maguire (Cuconnaught), Conor Roe, the son of Conor 
Maguire, thought that the lordship of the country should be his, by reason of 
his seniority ; while the other party thought that Hugh, son of [the deceased] 
Maguire, should be lord after his father ; so that they were thus in opposition 
to each other. Hugh sent messengers to his relative, Donnell, the son of Hugh, 
son of Manus O'Donnell (although they had previously quarrelled), to request 
of him to come to his aid and assistance, as it had been usual with his ancestors 
to aid the descendants of Philip, the son of Thomas Maguire. There was not 
at this time any one of the Kinel-Connell from whom he [Hugh] expected more 
assistance than from this Donnell, for he was a mighty champion, and a general 
in battle''; and it was never heard that he had at any time" turned his back on 
his enemies. The words of the messengers were treated with indifference by 
Donnell, for he immediately mustered all the forces under his command, and 

than that he was wont to lead his father's forces. signifies " indeed," and sometimes " at all," as 
* At any time. — The word ircip sometimes in this instance. 

II F 2 



1876 awNaca Rio^hachua eiReawN. [1589. 

fi6e ma nibaof ina ciirhanj poceDoip,"] po paofb a reacca Do |nt)ip 50 liao6 
01a pa6 ppil' bfic po]i a ccionn 05 pceic ^aBpa an cpainpib arhail ap Deine 
conicpab. Cumpiunn jan eappnabaD gan eppuipeac rpia ruair luipcc Id hop 
loca hepne 50 painic gup an niaijin perhpdice. 'Cainic concobap pua6 co 
maicibh uacraip pfpmanac an Id piam gup an lonaD cceona, "] po pdccaib a 
lonncorhapDa .1. Ifrapp in oii pin po 6di^ anma ngeapna Do gaipm De ap a 
bapach. Do piacc ao6 gup an lonab epDalca hipin,-] puaip Dorhnall 6 Dorrinaill 
ap a cionn. lap ppiop pccel do Dorhnall gup bo he Concobap po pdccaib an 
coiriapDa perhebeprmap acbepc nd biaD bd De['iDe, "] go maD e aoD no biab 
1 nionaD a arap conaD ann pin po gaipeaD a gaipm plaua p6 ceDoip Daob 
maguiDip Id Dorhnall ua noorhnaiU, "] Id maitib a rfpe. 

mdg margarhna Roppa mac aipu, mic bpiain na moiceipge, mic Remainn 
mic glaipne Decc. bpian mac aoDa oicc, mic aoDa, mic Sfain buibe ngeapna 
Dapupaige oipgiall,"] eirhfp mac conulaD cigeapna pfpnmaige,"] Deapbparaip 

*• Precisely, an cpampib. This phrase occurs Four Masters should have told us nothing about 

very frequently in the sense of precisely, exactly, the fate of Hugh Roe Mac Mahon, who was the 

punctually. — See note "", under the year 1586, brother and heir of the Rossa mentioned in the 

p. 1856, and note'', under 1588, p. 1866, supra, text, and of whom local tradition remembers so 

" Sciath-Ghahhra. — This place is shewn on an much. Camden, ad ann. 1590, Fynes Moryson, 

old map in the State Papers' Office, London, and Cox, have given very im^oartial accounts of 

under the name of Skea Castle, situated near the abominable treatment which this Hugh re- 

the east side of the Upper Lough Erne, to the ceived from the Lord Deputy, Sir William Fitz- 

south-east of Enniskillen. The site of this William. The Editor is tempted to lay before 

castle is still pointed out at the little town of the reader the following account of this horrid 

Lisnaskea, in the barony of Magherastephena, in transaction, — Avhich was the main cause of the 

Fermanagh, and about nine miles to the south- frightful war which ensued, — as written by 

east of Enniskillen. Fynes Moryson, Avho fairly translates Camden, 

'^ One slipper, lear-app, i. e. one of a pair of adding a little of his own feelings, which are 
slippers: " Upa .i. bpoja." — O'Clery. When admirable, considering the murderous age in 
lear, which literally means half, is thus pre- which he lived, and the virulent anti-Irish feel- 
fixed, it signifies " one of two," such as one ear, ings of the class to which he belonged : 
one eye, one leg, one hand, one foot, one cheek, " About this time Mac Mahown, chieftain of 
one horn, one shoe. Monaghan, died, who in his life-time had sur- 

" Profit — " 6u .1. mair." — O'Clery. rendered this his country, held by tanistry the 

' Dartry-Oriel, i. e. the barony of Dartry, in Irish law, into her Majesty's hands, and received 

the west of the county of Monaghan. It is more a re-grant thereof iinder the broad seal of Eng- 

usually called Dartry-Coininnsi, from the town- land, to him and his heirs males, and for default 

land of Coninish, now divided into several sub- of such, to his brother, Hugh Roe Mac Mahown, 

denominations. It looks very strange that the with other remainders. And this man dying 



1589.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1877 

sent back his messengers to Hugh, to desire him to meet him precisely'' at 
Sciath-Ghabhra*" with all possible expedition. He then proceeded, without 
dallying or delaying, through the territory of Lurg, and along the margin of 
Lough Erne, until he arrived at the aforesaid place. Conor Roe and the chiefs 
of the upper part of Fermanagh had gone on the day before to the same place, 
and there left a token (namely, one slipper**) that the name of lord should be 
conferred on hiii;i on the day following. Hugh arrived at that particular place 
[appointed], and found Donnell O'Donnell there before him. When Donnell 
received intelligence that it was Conor that had left the token which we have 
before mentioned, he said that it should not profit^ him, for that Hugh should 
be [installed] in the place of his father ; upon which Hugh was immediately 
nominated chief by Donnell O'Donnell and the chieftains of his country. 

Mac INIahon (Rossa, the son of Art, son of Brian of the Early Rising, son of 
Redmond, son of Glasny) died ; upon which Brian, the son of Hugh Oge, son 
of Hugh, son of John Boy, Lord of Dartry-Oriel^ and Ever, son of Cu-Uladh, 

without heirs males, his said brother came up to gp and come at pleasure, but the others, being 

to the state that he might be settled in his in- Irish kerne, were kept straight, and starved till 

heritance, hoping to be countenanced and che- they found him guilty. The treason for which 

rished as Her Majesty's Patentee ; but he found he was condemned was because, some two years 

(as the Irish say) that he could not be admitted before, he, pretending a rent due unto him out 

till he had promised to give about six hundred of the Ferney, upon that pretence levied forces, 

cows (for such and no other are the Irish bribes). and so marching into the Ferney in a warlike 

After[wards] he was imprisoned (the Irish say manner, made a distress for the same (which by 

for failing in part of this payment) and within the English law may perhaps be treason, but 

a few days again inlarged ; with promise that in that country, never before subject to law, it 

the Lord Deputy himself would go settle him was thought no rare thing nor great oifence). 

in his country of Monaghan, whither his Lord- The greater part of the country was divided be- 

ship took his jorney shortly after, with him in tween four gentlemen of that name, under a 

his company. At tbeir first arrival, the gen- yearly rent to the Queen, and (as they said) not 

tleman was clapt in bolts, and within two days without payment of a good fine underhand. The 

after, indicted, arraigned, and executed at his Marshal, Sir Henry Bagnol, had part of the 

own house ; all done (as the Irish said) by such country ; Captain Henslowe was made seneschal 

officers as the Lord Deputy carried with him of the country, and had the gentleman's chief 

for that purpose. The Irish said he was found house, with a portion of land ; and to divers 

guilty by a jury of soldiers" ['gregariorum mi- others smaller portions of land were assigned ; 

litum viliumque homiuum judicio subjecit.' — and the Irish spared not to say, that these men 

C'amcZe/i], "but no gentlemen or freeholders; and were all the contrivers of his" [Mac Mahon's] 

that of them four English soldiers were sviffered " death, and that every one paid something" [to 



1878 QMNaca Rio^hachca eiReoHH. [issa 



• 



an cf ym rfpDa .1. aob pua6 t)0 bfir ace impffain |ie poile pa ngeapnap na 
ripe. 

Glinopa iTi^fn lapla ofpmurhan .1. Semup mac Sfain, mic coinaip, mic 
Seminp mic gfpoirc bfn uf puaipc, •] bfn mfic lapla upmurhan .1. eonapo mac 
Semuip mic piapaip puaib mic Semaip, mic emainn do ecc. 

Conraofpconncae an cldip una in^fn coippoealbai^ mic mnipceapcai^ mic 
Dorhnaill mic caiDcc, mic coippDealBaig, mic mupchaib na pairnigCjbfn lapla 
ruabmurhan .1. Concobap mac oonnchaib, mic concobaip, mic coippbealbaij 
mic caiDcc uf bpiain t)o ecc pan ccldp mop. 

Ooriinall ma^ congail eppcop pdra boc oecc 29 Seprembep. 

Uoippbealbac mac caibcc, mic eoncobaip mic roippbealbai^ mic caiDcc 
uf bpiain 6 bel ara an corhpaic Decc. Ro ba6 Damna eccaofne an rf cfptDa 
annpin. 

UaDcc an Dunaib mac oonncbaiD mic muipceapuai^, mic oonnchaib, mic 
muipceapcai^, mic an ballai^ pinnpeap cuaire na peapna (.1. copca baipcmt)), 
1 pleacca an ballaig Decc, nfp cin 1 ccopp ina coirhpe a corficalma ina com- 
pocpaib. 

the Lord Deputy] "for his share. Hereupon ney, p. 88, 91, 92, 98), that in his correspon- 
the Irish of that name, besides the former allega- dence with Burghley he expresses his anxiety 
tions, exclaimed that their kinsman was treache- for a speedy resolution of Mac Mahon's case, 
rously executed to entitle the Queen to his land, " That either the olde Mac Mahon maie be par- 
and to extinguish the name of Mac Mahown, and doned and sett at libertie, or a new one made, 
that his substance was divided between the Lord or that title extinguished and the territory de- 
Deputy and the Marshal; yea, that a pardon vided." The reader will at once perceive the 
was oficred to one of the jury for his son, being wickedness of Fitz- William's proposal to make 
in danger of the law, upon condition that he a new Mac Mahon, when he considers that Hugh 
would consent to find this his kinsman guilty. Hoe was his brother's heir, according to the 

" Great part of these exclamations were con- law of England, and that large bribes had been 
tained in a complaint exhibited against the Lord offered to the corrupt Chief- Governor to raise 
Deputy, after his return into England, to the " one Brien Mac Hugh Oge" to the chieftain- 
Lords of her Majesty's Council, about the end ship. On the 2nd of March, 1589, Fitz-Wil- 
of the year 1595, in the name of JMac Guire liam wrote to Burghley and the Lords of the 
and Ever Mac Cooly (one of the Mac Mahowns, Council a long letter in which he mentions this 
and chief over the Irish in the Ferney)" — Edi- fact as folloAVs: " Some indedc attempted me for 
tion of 1735, vol. i. pp. 24, 25. him" [Brien Mac Hugh Oge] "with large 

The guilt of Fitz-William is rendered still offers ; but as I never benefitted myself by the 

darker V>y tlic fact lately published from the admission of him that is now in durance, so did 

State Papers by Mr. Shirley {Account of Far- I meane to convert his fall wholie to the proffit 



1589] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1879 

Lord of Farney, and the brother of the deceased, i. e. Hugh Roe, were con- 
tending^ with each other about the lordship of the territory. 

Elenora, the daughter of the Earl of Desmond (i. e. of James, the son of 
John, son of Thomas, son of James, gon of Garrett), who had been the wife of 
O'Rourke, and [afterwards] of the son of the Earl of Desmond (i. e. of Edward, 
the son of James, son of Pierce Roe, son of James, son of Edmond), died. 

The Countess of the county of Clare, Una, the daughter of Turlough, son 
of Murtough, son of Donnell, son of Teige, son of Turlough, son of Murrough 
na-Raithnighe, and wife of the Earl of Thomond, i. e. of Conor, son of Donough, 
son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of Teige O'Brien, died at Clare-more^. 

Donnell Mag Congai?, Bishop of Raphoe, died on the 29th of September. 

Turlough, the son of Teige, son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of Teige 
O'Brien of Bel-atha-an-chomraic', died ; and his death was the cause of great 
lamentation. 

Teige-an-Duna, the son of Donough, son of Mvirtough, son of Donough, son of 
Murtough, son of Ballagh, the senior [of the Mac Mahons] of Tuath-na-Fearna'' 
(i. e. of Corca-Bhaiscinn'), and of Sliocht-an-Bhallaigh, died. There lived not 
in his neisfhbourhood in his time so brave a man. 

o 

of her Majestie and good of this state, nothing ^ Tuath-na-fearna, i. e. the district of the 

regarding mine oione privat: I speak it in the alder, a district coextensive with the parish of 

pi-esence of God by whom I hope tobesaved!" — Kildysart, in the barony of Clonderalaw, and 

Account of Farney, p. 89- county of Clare. The Rev. Dr. Kenny, of Kil- 

s Clare-more, i. e. the town of Clare (near rush, in a letter to the Editor, dated 6th April, 

Ennis), from which the county was named. 1847, states that " the residents never call the 

^ Donnell Mag Congail. — He assisted at the parish of Kildysart, in the vernacular, by any 

Council of Trent in 156.3, and died at Cealla other name than papaipce ruair na peupnu." — 

Beaga, now Killybegs, in the west of the coxinty See note '', under the year 1575, p. 1683, -nqjia, 

of Donegal, in this year See Harris's edition where the Editor has described Tuath-na-fearna 

of Ware's Bishops, p. 275. The name Mag as in the barony of Islands, by mere oversight. 

.Congail is now common in the cqunty of Done- ' Corca-Bhaiscinn. — This should be " of East 

gal, and anglicised Magonigle. Corca-Bhaiscinn." In the Description of the 

' Bel-atha-an-chomhraic, i. e. mouth of the County of Clare, preserved in the Library of 

ford of the confluence, now Ballycorick, a town- Trinity College, Dublin, E. 2. 14, this Teige 

land situated on the confines of the baronies of is mentioned as chief of the " Baronie of Cloyne- 

Clonderalaw and Islands, in the county of Clare, deralawe, conteyning East Carkewasken," and 

—See the Ordnance map of that county, sheet proprietor of the castles of " Dangen-Myburke" 

50. There is a family of the O'Briens still liv- [i. e. Dainjean moije 6nilc, now Dangan, a 

ing at this place who inherit a small estate. very large castle in ruins, in a townland of the 



1880 



QHwa^a T^io^hachca eii^eaww. 



[1589. 



Cojibmac mac rcnbcc mic oia|iTinaDa, mic copbmaic o maiglaicim oecc. 

ITIajnup mac cumn mic an calbaig, mic ma^nuya mic aoba Duib uf Dorh- 
naill oo mapbaO laim le pinn 20 Sepcembep le pfan mac TTIagnupa 615 mic 
ma^nupa, mic aoba t>uib uf oomnaill. 

Oomnall mac eojain an loca mec puibne conpapal mupcpaige Decc peap 
po bab maic cpeabaipe, ■] cfg naoibfo, "] pob lonrholra 1 ppiabnaipi ^all "j 
?;aoibeal an ri cfpoa ann pin. 

biipcai^ ioccapaca 6 r(p arhalgaib piap 00 ool ap a ccoirheo lap noiulrab 
bfic pd bpuran jobepnopa .1. Sip Ripoepo bion^gam. TTIaijiprip bpun 00 bol 
a hucc an jobepnopa co nopiiin^ moip Do pai^oiuipib galloa -| gaoibelca do 
paiT^ib na mbiipcac pin cap bealac on Diorpuibe piap. bupcai^ op ccaBaijiu 
amaipp poppaporh, ~\ a rupdr na cpoDa do rfnDab do mai^ipcip bpun po 
ppaofneab Dia pai^Diuipib "] po DicfnDab e pfin, "] Domnall o Dalai^ Duine 
iinpal eip,be agd mbaof cfnDup coDa Do na paijDiuipiB pin, -] Pemann occ 
mac T?emainrc mic Sfain a biipc na bfinne,"] pocliaibe mop Do na pai^Diuipib 
a maille ppiu. T?o ba moiDe bpij -| bopppab na mbupcac an bpfipim pin, ~\ 
po ^abpac pop abannab ina nDi'bepcc ap a hairle. Oo coib cpa pliocc 
oiluepaip mic Sfain a bupc 6 np amal5aib ina ccorfimbdib, "] miiincip DubDa 
o np piacpac muaibe, clann nDomnaill gallocclac uile, TTlupcaDli na rcua^^ 
mac paibcc, mic mupcbaib uf plaicbeapcai^,-] muinnp plairbfpcai^"] Seobaij 
ina pocaip j'lum, co ndp pan aon po ba ion aipme 6 pinn laprapac loppaip co 
cpai^ eoruile co macaipe lui^ne, co copann, "] co macaipe connacc ^an Dol 
in aon pann 1 na^haiD an jobepnopa. Po ^abpau na Dibfpccai^ pin ace 



same name, in the parish of Kilclirist, or district 
of Tuath-ua-mBuilc, in the barony of Clonde- 
ralaw, and adjoining the barony of Islands] ; 
" Cloynetheralla" [noAv Clonderalaw] ; "Caher- 
con; Ballamacollman"[nowColmansto\vn]; "and 
Derecrossan" [Derrycrossan :] " all in the ter- 
ritory of East Corca-Vaskin. Contemporary with 
this Teige-an-Duna was Turlough Mac Mahon, 
chief of the territory of West Corca-Vaskin, 
and proprietor of the castles of Carighowly" 
[now Carrigaholt], " Moyartha, Dunliqky, and 
Dunsumayne.'' 

•^ Marjh-LaUJdmh, now MolahifF, near Castle- 



maine, in Kerry — See note ^, under 1581, 
p. 1757, supra. 

° Went on their defence, i. e, took up«arms to 
defend themselves. 

° Bealach-an-Diothrinhhe, i. e. the road or pass 
of the wilderness. This was undoubtedly the 
name of the ancient road leading from the 
abbey of Ballintober to Croaghj)atrick, in the 
county 'of Mayo, for the position of which see 
map to Genealogies, Tribes, ^c. of Hij-Fiachrach. 

P Came to a close fight, literally, " at the time 
of the pressing of the fight by Master Brown." 

'' John Burke of Ben, i. e. of Benraore Castle, 



15890 ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1881 

Corinac, the son of Teige, son of Dermot, son of Cormac [Mac Carthy] of 
Magh-Laithimh"", died. 

Manus, the son of Con, son of Calvagh, son of Manus, son of Hugh Duv 
O'Donnell, was slain near the River Finn, on the 20th of September, by John, 
the son of Manus Oge, son of Manus, son of Hugh Duv O'Donnell. 

Donnell, son of Owen of the Lake Mac Sweeny, Constable of Muskerry, 
died. The deceased was a man who had good tillage, and kept a house of hos- 
pitality, and was praiseworthy in the eyes of the English and Irish. 

The Lower Burkes from Tirawly westwards, after having refused to remain 
under the jurisdiction of the Governor, Sir Richard Bingham, went on their 
defence". Master Brown proceeded, by order of the Governor, at the head of 
a large party of English and Irish soldiers, westwards over Bealach-an-Dioth- 
ruibh" against these Burkes. The Burkes made an attack upon them ; and at 
the time that Master Brown came to a close fight'', his soldiers were routed, and 
himself, beheaded, as were also Donnell O'Daly, a gentleman who had the com- 
mand of a party of the soldiers ; and Redmond Oge, son of Redmond, son of 
John Burke of Ben'', together with a great number of the soldiers. The vigour 
and fury of the Burkes were increased by this defeat ; and they became more 
violent in their insurrection after it. The descendants of Oliver, the son of 
John Burke of Tirawley, went in alliance Avith them, as did the O'Dowdas of 
Tireragh of the Moy ; all the Clann-Donnell Galloglagh ; Murrough of the 
Battle-axes', the son of Teige, son of Murrough O'Flaherty, together with [all] 
the O'Flahertys and the Joyces ; so that there was not one man worthy of note, 
from the western point of Erris to Traigh-Eothuile', to Machaire-Luighne', to 
Corran, and to Machaire-Chonnacht", who did not unite [on this occasion] 

in the parish of Grange, barony of Loughrea, See also Chorographical Description of lar-Con- 

and county of Galway. — See note °, under the naught, p. 394, et sequent. 

year 1553, p. 1532, 6wp-a. This Eedmond Burke '^ Traigh-Eothuile, a great strand at Ballysa- 

was one of the Earl of Clanrickard's followers, dare, in the county of Sligo. — See it already 

■who assisted Bingham on this occasion. mentioned at the years 1249, 1282, 1367, 1562. 

"^ Murrough of the Battle-axes, ^c, 0'' Flaherty. — ' Machaire-Luighne, i. e. the plain of Leyny, 

He is called Sir Morogh ne Doe by the Eng- a barony in the county of Sligo. 

lish writers. He was very faithful to the Queen " Machaire-Chonnacht, i. e. Campus Connacia?^ 

till 1586, when a party of the Governor's sol- agreat plain in the county of Koscommon already 

diers plundered his people — See p. 1849, supra, often referred to. 

11 G 



1882 QHwaca Rio^hachca eiReawN. [1589. 

aibmilleab coiccib connctcc do 16 "j oaohaiD ppi |ie an eappai j. bet ipin uan 
y^in DO cuaiD Diap mac mupchaiD na rcuacc ui plairBfjicai^ .1. caDcc ~| upun, 
1 mac Dea|ibpara|i Do mii]icha6 .1. Dorhnall mac l?uaiD]n ui plaicbfpcai^ ap 
lOTiDpai^iD pa leirimel conmaicne, "] an iriacaipe piabai^ oiDce capcc Do 
ponpab. bacuap a Do no a rpf Do ceDaibh Diolminneac ap an cupup pm. l?o 
^abpac a^ Denarh oipccne -j eDala lomDa peacnon an cfpe copac laof DorhnaiT^ 
ca]^cc. Uanaic an ri'p ap gac caob ma cropai jeacr, bd ipin oiDce peirhe 
pin canjaDap banna no 66 do paij^Diuipib ^an piop ^an aipiuccab DiomcmrheD 
an cfpe, ~\ 6d cualaccap allj^ur an opDanaip, -\ caipmfpca na ccolcc buiDfn 
ap nd TTiapac do corcap i neanac lomcumang ndp bo Tiiipapa Diongabail no Do 
pfcna 1 noipcill an rpl6i5 gaoibealaig. puapac capuabcc 6 plairbeaprai^ Dia 
pai^ib 1 ccopac an cploi^, -| arhumcip ma ccipe corhbluca ma cimcell. Ro 
leiccpiorc na pai^ouiipibe ppappa pelep p6 ropac an cploi^ gaoibealai^ 50 
cropcaip rabcc ua plaicbfpcai^ Don copamn pm, "] iipun ua plairbfprai^, -j 
cabcc 6cc mac caibcc uf plaicbeapcai^ co nDpum^ moip Dia luce Ifnarhna ma 
cnmcell do mainb cpice peobac "] clomni Donnchaib, "] an mfiD na po mapbab 
Don ceD ppaip Don rpl6i5 ^aoiDelac po imri^pfc ^an pccfmm ^an pccar, "] ni 
]io Ifnab larr peaca pm. Ro cpochab Dna eman mac TTlupchaib na ccuacc 
111 plaicbeapraij baoi illairh 1 n^aiUim -po cfnD rpi Id lap mapbab caibcc, "| 
muna cuinnp an clann pin mapchaib na rcua^ ii( plaicbfpuai^ pop po^ail -] 
pop Dibfipcc in acchaib ppionnpa8a;can pobabpccelm6p a noibeabarhlaibpin. 
Diapmaic 6cc mac Diapmaca, mic Denip, mic Diapmaca, mic concobaip 
(.1. eppucc liiimniT^), mic mupchaib an Dana ui bfDhab Decc, 1 a abnacal 1 
nDipfpc rola ina baile pfin 1 crpiocar ceD ceneoil ppfpmaic m iiaccap Dal 
ccaip. 

* Conmaicne^ i. e. Conmaicnc-Cuile-Toladli, Loch Cime. — See Genealogical Table in Hardi- 
now the barony of Kilmaine, in the south of man's edition of O'Flaherty's ChorofjrajyhicaL 
the county of Mayo. Machaire-riabhach is a Description of lar-Connavght, p. 362. 

plain in the adjoining barony of Clare, in the ' Conor, Bishop of Limerick He succeeded 

county of Galway. — See note % under the year in the year 1400, resigned the see in 1426, arid 

1469, p. 1064, supra. died in 1434. — See Harris's edition of Ware's 

* Precisely, Do ponnpao. — This phrase might Bishops, p. 509, where this bishop is mentioned 
well be omitted. under the name of " Cornelius O'Dest." 

' Clann-Donough These were a branch of '^ Disert-Tola, i. e. St. Tola's desert, or wil- 

the O'Flaherties, descended from Donough dernoss, now Dysart O'Dea, in the barony of 
AluPnn O'Flaherty, the brother of Rory of Inchiqiiin, and coiinty of Clare, where there is 



1589] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1883 

against the Governor. These plunderers continued to ravage the province of 
Connaught, by day and night, duiing the spring. It was at this time that two 
sons of Murrough of the Battle-axes O'Flaherty, Teige and Urun, and the son 
of Murrough's brother, i. e. Donnell, the son of Eory O'Flaherty, went upon a 
predatory excursion along the borders of Conmaicne" and Machaire-Riabhach, 
precisely'' on Easter night. They had two or three hundred horse-boys on this 
excursion. They proceeded to take miich booty and spoils throughout the 
country early in the morning of Easter Sunday. The [people of the] country 
came from every quarter in pursuit of them. On the night before a company 
or tAvo of soldiers had come, privately and unperceived, to protect the country ; 
and these, upon hearing the loud report of the ordnance, and the clamour of 
the armed troops on the following day, retired to a narrow pass, which could 
not be easily shunned or avoided, and there lay in ambush for the Irish host. 
They saw Teige O'Flaherty approaching in front of the host, and his people in 
close ranks about him. The soldiers discharged showers of balls at the van of 
the Irish host, and slew by this volley Teige O'Flaherty, Urun O'Flaherty, and 
Teige Oge, the son of Teige O'Flaherty, together with a great number of their 
followers who were about them, of the chiefs of Joyce's country, and the Clann- 
Donough^. Such of the Irish host as were not killed by the first volley went 
away without panic or fear, and were not further pursued. Three days after 
the killing of Teige, Edmond, [another] son of Murrough of the Battle-axes 
O'Flaherty, who was in prison in Galway, was hanged ; and, were it not that 
these sons of Murrough of the Battle-axes O'Flaherty fell in the act of plunder 
and insiurrection against the Sovereign of England, their death after this manner 
would have been a great cause of lamentation. 

Dermot Oge, the son of Dermot, son of Denis, son of Dermot, son of Conor, 
Bishop of Limerick^ son of Murrough-an-Dana O'Dea, died, and was buried in 
his own town of Disert-Tola^ in the cantred of Kinel-Fearmaic, in the upper 
part of Dal-Cais. 

a church of considerable antiquity and archi- of Westmeath. Lanigan, in his Ecclesiastical 

tectural beauty, dedicated to St. Tola, who died History of Ireland, vol. iii. p. 171, not knowing 

in the year 732, and near it a beautiful round that O'Dea's seat in Thomond was called Disert- 

tower — See Colgan's Acta SS., p. 793. There Tola, has come to the conclusion that there was 

was another church of this name in the parish but one church of the name in Ireland, and at- 

of Kill-Uailleach, barony of Delvin, and county tempts to reconcile authorities by placing Disert 

II g2 



1884 



QHwaca Rio^hachca eiReawH. 



[1590. 



aOlS CPIOSU, 1590. 
Ctoij^ Cpioj^r, mile, cincc ceo, nocac. 

bupcai^ locrajiaca, -| claim nDoninaill gallocclac do coirhnonol -| do 
cpuinniucchaD an ]io peopar Do baofnib (arhail pemebepcniap) hi ppojrfiap 
-| 1 nsfirhpeab na bliabna pfriiainn co na baof aon pob lonaipirh o copppliab 
na pf^pct CO cfno lapcapac loppaip,"] urhaill jan Dol leo ipin commbdij pin. 

Sluaicclieab lap an ngobepnoip Sip RipDfpD bins^am, -| let hiapla ruab- 
niUTTian DonnchaD mac concoBaip, mic DonnchaiD iii Bpiain co lion a croicfp- 
cail an ceo mi Don bliabain pi .i. mi lanuapii do 6ol ap bupcacliaib co po 
]'iiiDi5fD campa con^aipeac crirfpnlionitiap hi ccunja leo,"] bdrcap bupcni^ 
hi ppoplon^popc ap a ccomaip Don raoib nap, -| coinne ^ac laof fuoppa 50 
cfnD coicciDipi CO nd po peoab a pfo6ncca6 in aipfD pin. UpiallaiD an ^obep- 
noip, 1 an napla hi ccfno na pee pin a Dfic no a Do Decc do banDaib do DoI 
cap beilgib ipceac Do cop cuapca 1 ccfp arhal^aio, "] 1 moppup. Do Deac- 
accap bupcai^ Id a ccaob, "i bdrap ace polmaipe a bpobapra ace beapnai^ 
na ^aoice, ap a aof ni Deipgenpac, -| po leiccfo an conaip Don ^obepnoip, 1 
oon lapla 6d Don cup pin Do bfnab a rpoi^ on ale amac do rnac uilliam 
bupc. Ro pill an ^obepnoip uap a aip 50 conga, "] po piobaij pfin, biipcai^, 
") clann nDomnaill pe poile 50 po cuippioc a mbpaiT^oe ap lairh an gobepnopa. 
Do coiD an jobepnoip 50 baile ara liiain, 1 po pccaoilpiou pip connacc oia 
rcigib. 

Sluaiccheao Idnmop lap an ngobepnoip hi mfp majica do 60I ap ua jiuaipc. 
baof DO lionmaipe an rploij pin co po leicc an gobepnoip Dponga Dipirhe od 
caipcfnib 1 Dd coipignb co pliab caipppe hi ccfriD muinnpe heolaip,"] Dpong 



Tola ill the barony of Garrycastle, in the King's 
County, on the frontiers of Dal-Cais and Meath ; 
but his conclusion is totally erroneous, because 
the two names still exist, and the memory of 
St. Tola is still venerated at both, though even 
the grave-yard of Disert Tola, in Delvin, has 
been effaced by the progress of cultivation, 
(J'Dea's Castle stands in ruins a short distance 
to the north-west of St. Tola's church. This 
castle is mentioned in the Description of the 



County, of Clare, written in 1585, and now jd re- 
served in the Manuscript Library of Trinity 
College, Dublin, E. 2.-14, as the residence of 
" Donell Moel O'Dea." 

^ Bearna-na-gaoithe, i. e. gap of the wind, 
now Windy-gap, a remarkable gap on the south- 
east boundary of the parish of Addergoole, ba- 
rony of Tirawley, and county of ]\Iayo. — See 
Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs oflly-Fiachrach, 
p. 480, and the map to the same work. 



3590. ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1885 

. THE AGE OF CHRIST, 1590. 

The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred ninety. 

The Lower Bupkes and the Clann-Donnell Galloglagh mustered and col- 
lected all the forces they were able [to command] in the summer and winter of 
the preceding year, as we have stated before ; so that there was no one worthy 
of note, from the Curlieu mountains to the most western point of Erris and 
Umhall, who did not join them in that confederacy. • 

A hosting was made by the Governor, Sir Richard Bingham, and the Earl 
of Thomond, Donough, the son of Conor, son of Donough O'Brien ; and they 
marched with all their forces against the Burkes in the first month of this year, 
i. e. January ; and they pitched a camp of many troops of kerns at Cong ; and 
the Burkes were encamped on the west side, opposite to them ; and there were 
daily conferences held between them for a fortnight, but they could not agree 
on terms of peace during that time. At the expiration of this period, the 
Governor and the Earl proceeded, with ten or twelve companies, to go through 
the passes into Tirawley and Erris. The Burkes marched in a parallel line with 
them, and intended to attack them at Bearna-na-Gaoithe" ; but, however, they 
did not do so, but the pass was ceded to the Governor and the Earl. On this 
occasion the son of Mac William Burke lost his foot from the ankle out. The 
Governor returned to Cong, and he, the Burkes, and the Clann-Donnell, were 
reconciled to each other ; and they delivered their hostages into the hands of 
the Governor. The Governor then went to Athlone, and the men of Connaught 
dispersed for their [respective] homes. 

In the month of March a very great army was mustered by the Governor 
against O'Rourke. This army was no numerous, that he sent a vast number 
of his captains and battalions to Sliabh-Cairbre*^ to oppose [the inhabitants of] 

" Sliabh-Cairbre, i. e. Cairbre's mountain, now of Ireland in St. Patrick's time; and tradition 
Slieve-Carbry, otherwise called the Carn Moun- adds that the mountain was cursed by St. Pa- 
tains, comprised principally in the parish of trick, because, when he came to preach the 
Killoe, barony of Granard, and county of Long- Gospel to a place there called Aghnagon, he was 
ford. According to the tradition in the country, presented with a hound served up in a dish for 
with which the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick ac- his dinner. According to the ancient Irish to- 
cords, this mountainous district received its name pographical work called Dinnsenchus (Book of 
froraCairbre, the brother of Laeghaire, Monarch Lecan, fol. 2.31), the conspicuous earns on this 



1886 aNNQca Rio^hachca eiReaNW. , [I590. 

ele Duaiplib a floij 50 Dpoicfc SI15151 Don caoib ciap i)o paigiD na bjieipne 
50 ]io ^abpau na ploi j pin ace lopccab *] ace lei|i|>cc]np,*a5 nnapba6, "] 05 
mubucchaD ina iribaoi pop a ceionn ip in ccpic 50 eoiucfno 50 poccam 1 ccfno 
apoile oon uploj. l?o oibpfo ua Ruaipc Don puarap pm co nd puaip a 6fon 
no a bfofn co painicc 00 na ruarhaib 1 ccfno mec pnibne na cruar .1. Go^an 
oec mac eogain oice, mie eogain, inic Dorhnaill, ~\ baoi ina pocaip 50 cpioc- 
nuecao na bliaona po, ~\ gac aon nac oeaeham ap lonnapbao od Daofnib can- 
^arrap apceac ap raipipeacu 1 ccfno in ^obepnopa. 6af oorhnall iriac caibg 
TYiic bpiain iif puaipc, -] ao6 occ mac aoba jalltia ag congnarh Id ^allaib 
ua puaipc oarcup "] oionnapbab. Po bai an ufp euip papac -] aiuiuccab ap 
eumap an gobepnopa co peil micil ap ccino co ccainicc cigeapnan ban mae 
bpiain mic eo^ain ui Ruaipc, -| bpian (.1. bpian occ) na parhrac (ITIae an 
1 Ruaipc pin 00 hionnapbao) Don cip 1 rcimcell na pele micil. Oo coibpioc 
pfin "I pineaoliaba na bpeipne "] rhuinnpe heolaip, ~\ na puapcac baf pfmpa 
ipin rfp 1 na^haib an gobepnopa, "] bdcrap a^ milleab gac nfir ^up a pan- 
^arcap im jallaib 50 cpiocnuccab na bbabna po. 

Oain^fn mop nac Dfpnab a lonnparhail 16 hacliaib imcfin 00 Denam lap 
an ngobepnoip e rip loc ee 1 loc apbacli. 

TTlac uf neill .1. Qob ^firhleac, mac Sfain bonnjaili^ mic cuinn bacaij 
mic cuinn, mic enpi, mie eo^ain 00 cpoehab Id hiapla cipe heogain .1. aob mac 

mountain were anciently called Carn Furbuidhe erected near Lough Foyle, and has long since 

and Cam Maine. been levelled. The inhabitants of Boyle shew 

^ Such of his people, literally, " every one of the remains of an English fort close to that town, 

his people that did not go into banishment." which they think is the one erected by Bing- 

^ Who ifemained, literally, " who were before ham ; but the Editor thinks that the authority 

them," i. e. those families of the O'Rourkes who of the annalists and of a contemporaneous map 

submitted to the authority of Sir Richard Bing- is sufficient to prove its exact position, 

ham, and were permitted to retain their lands. ^ Hurjh Geimhleach, i. e. Hugh of the Fetters. 

^ A great fort On an old map of the county He was one of the illegitimate sons of John 

of Roscommon, made by L. Browne shortly O'Neill, surnamed " an diomais," i. e. of the 
after this period, this fort is shewn as situated pride, or ambition. Fynes Moryson states that 
centrally between Lough Key and Lough Arrow, the Earl of Tyrone, the son of Matthew O'Kelly, 
which are about one Irish mile asunder. The who was the son of a blacksmith of Dundalk, 
Editor could not find any trace of this fort in hanged this youth, " hardly finding any, in re- 
the position shewn on L. Browne's map. It con- gard of the general reverence borne to the blood 
sisted evidently of earthen ramparts, like the fort of the O'Neyls, who would do the office of hang- 
erected soon after at the Black water, and those man ;" and Camden, who was living at the time. 



15:X).] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1887 

Muintir-Eolais ; and another party of the chiefs of his army to the west of the 
Bridge of Shgo, to invade Breifuy ; and these troops proceeded to burn and 
devastate, kill and destroy, all before them in the country, until both met toixe- 
ther again. By this excursion O'Rourke was banished from his ^territory ; and 
he received neither shelter nor protection until he arrived in the Tuatha, to 
Mac Sweeny-na-dTuath (Owen Oge, the son of Owen, son of Owen Oge, son 
of Owen, son of Donnell); and with him he remained until the expiration of 
this year ; and such of his people"* as did not go into exile came in and sub- 
mitted to the Governor. Donnell, the son of Teige, son of Brian O'Eourke, 
and Hugh Oge, the son of Hugh Gallda, assisted the English in expelling and 
banishing O'Rourke. The [whole] territory, both waste and inhabited, was 
under the power of the Governor until the ensuing Michaelmas, when Tiernan 
Bane, the son of Brian, son of Owen O'E-ourke, and Brian-na-Samhthach, i. e. 
Brian Oge (the son of that O'Rourke who had been expelled), came into the 
territory. These and the tribes of Breifny, and of Muintir-Eolais, and of the 
other O'Rourkes who remained^ in the country, opposed the Governor, and 
continued spoiling every thing belonging to the English, to which they came, 
until the end of this year. 

A great fort'', the like of which had not been erected for a long time before, 
was made by the Governor between Lough Key and Lough Arrow. 

The son of O'Neill, i. e. Hugh Geimhleach^, son of John Donnghaileach, son 
of Con Bacagh, son of Con, son of Henry, son of Owen, was hanged by the 

states, that it was said that the Earl hanged him tur testes productiirum conlirmat. Die consti- 
with his own hand; but P. Q' Sullivan Beare tuta, qua testes producantur, Tironus, datis 
says that he procured a Meathman who per- vadibus dimissus Compeditum inquirendo de- 
formed the office of hangman. P. O'Sullivan prehendet, et custodise mandat, iussusque a 
states, that Hugh Geimhleach offered to prove Prorege Dubhlinnam mittere, imperio non obe- 
by single combat that what he had charged diens laqua suspendat Midhiensi homine tortor : 
against the Earl was true. His words are : nam pietate et amore in Onellam familiam et 
" Prorex et consilium Ibernise in Sradbaliam loannem principem nullus tota Tirona potuit 
Vltonias oppidum Dubhlinna profecti Tironum varibus vllis deduci ut Compedito mortem in- 
in ius vocant qui crimen obiectum incunctanter ferret." — Hist. Cathol. Iber., fol. 124. 
negat, subdens Compedito" [Qod ^eimleach] Camden gives the following account of the 
" inimico suo non esse fidem habendam, Compe- hanging of this Hugh, and of the after conduct 
ditus, se singular! certamine crimen probaturiim of the Earl, in his Annals of the Reign of Queen 
asserit: Sed ipse et Tironus ingredi prohiben- Elizabeth, A. D. 1590: 



1888 awna^a Rio^hachca eii^eaNN.- ' [1590. 

pi|ioo]Ka, TTiic cuinn bacai^. Nf baf pCp a aepa le hachaiD oo cenel eo^am 
mic neill po ba6 mo eccaoine inct an cao6 fin. 

TTIac uf DOTTinaill .1. oorhnall mac ao6a mic ma^nuya, mic ao6a ouib, mic 
aot)a |uiai6 mic neiU jaipb mic coippDealbai^ an piona do bfir aj Dol a]i 

" In Hibernia anno superior! Hugo Gaveloc" tutis adumbrata signa pra3 se ferens. Corpus la- 

[^eimleac] " ita dictus quia in compedibus diu borum, vigilise, itinediaepatiens, industria magna, 

detentus, filius naturalis Shani 0-Neal, Hugo- animus ingens maximisque par negotiis, militias 

nem Comitem Tir-Oenias accusaverat occultos multa scientia, ad simulandum animi altitude 

sermones conseruisse cum Hispanis quibusdam profunda, adeo ut nonnulli eum vel maximo Hi- 

naufragio mdlxxxviii. in Hiberniam ejectis. berniae bono, vel malo natum tunc praedixerint." 

Comes accusationenj prsevertens ilium ex insi- Whether this Earl, Hugh, was an O'Neill or 

diis interceptum strangulari jussit ; cumque ex not, — and the Editor feels satisfied that Shane- 

quadam observantia erga familiam 0-Neali im- an-diomais proved in England that he was not, — 

manes proedones vim afi'erre recusarent, ipse he was the cleverest man that ever bore that 

resti ad gulam frangendam manum admovisse name. The O'Kellys of Bregia, of whom this 

perhibetur. Hinc in Angliam jam vocatus, cri- Hugh must have been (if he Avere not of the 

men supplex apud Reginam deprecatus, veniam bloodoftheO'Neills), were descended from Hugh 

impetravit, coramque ipsa ad Regiam Green- Slaine, Monarch of Ireland from 599 till 605, and 

wichi honorem, ut nobiles solent, potestatus, consequently of as royal lineage as the O'Neills 

sanctissime in se recepit, pacem cum Turlogho themselves, if not more so, though brought low 

Leiuigh vicinisque singulis observaturum, datis by the English at an early period, Connell 

eo nomine obsidibus : nee 0-Neali titulum, nee Mageoghegan says that "there reigned of King 

authoritatem in nobiles vicinos assumpturum ; Hugh Slaine's race, as monarchs of this king- 

regionem Tir-Oeniam in formam Comitatus re- dom, nine kings," and that " there were many 

dacturum, a populo subdito pensitationes Hiber- other princes of Moy-Brey, besides the said 

nicas (Bonaghty vocant) non exacturum, nemi- kings of the family of O'Kelly of Brey." We 

nem nisi ex lege morte jam inde mulctaturum, may, therefore, well believe that the blood of 

annonam prgesidiariis Anglis ad Aquam Nigram, Hugh Slaine, which was brought so low in 

sive fluvius Mo7-e non interclusurum, Monachos? the grandfather,- found its level in the military 

Fratres, Moniales, et rebelles in territorium non genius and towering ambition of Hugh, Earl of 

admissurum, incolas Tir-Oenias ad humaniorem Tyrone. Mr. Moore, who has formed so low an 

cultum quantum posset, adducturum ; & id estimate of the character of the Anglo-Irish 

genus alia ; ea tamen conditione interposita ut Earl of Desmond, writes of this Milesian Earl of 

Turlogus Leinigh & finitimi Dynastas itidem royal lineage as follows: 

fidem ad pacem cum ipso coleudam obstringe- "• But a new claimant of political distinction 

rent, ue ipse quietus turbulentorum injuriis had now begun to attract attention ; one who 

exponeretur. In Hiberniam remissus, haec eadem was destined not only to rally round him the 

se facturum coram Guil. Fitz- Williams Prorege hearts of his fellow countrymen, but to shew 

& Regni Consiliariis, asseveranter confirmavit, & for once to the world an instance of Irishmen 

sane aliquandiu nihil omisit, quod ab obsequcn- conquering in their own cause, 

tissimo subdito cxpectari poterat, pleraque vir- " This remarkable man, Hugh O'Neill, was 



1590.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND; 1889 

Earl of Tyrone, Hugh, son of Ferdorcha, son of Con Bacagh. There had not 
been for a long time among the race of Eoghan, the son of Niall, a man more 
generally lamented than this Hugh. 

The son of O'Donnell, i. e. Donnell, the son of Hugh^ son of Manus, son of 
Hugh Duv, son of Hugh Roe, son of Niall Garv, son of Turlough of the Wine 

the son of the late Matthew, Baron of Dungan- tical character, it naturally fostered in him 
non, and being, by the law of English descent, those habits of evasion and duplicity, which 
the immediate successor of his father, was notwithstanding his great public merits,brought 
thereby entitled to the earldom of Tyrone. In much discredit on his after career, 
the late wars against Desmond, he had com- " The rank and title of the earldom of Tyrone 
manded a troop of horse in the queen's service; were, without much difficulty, conceded to him; 
and having distinguished himself highly as a sol- but the possessions, he was told, must depend 
dier, was, at the time we have reached, petition- on the pleasure of the Crown. He, therefore, 
ing the Irish parliament to be allowed to assume resolved to appeal to the Queen ; and repairino- 
the title, and take the possessions of the earldom immediately to the English court, succeeded, 
of Tyrone. by his address, frank manner, and well-disguised 
"While thus affecting to look to a peerage, subtlety, in obtaining the object of his petition. 
as the sole object of his ambition, he was already The princely inheritance of his ancient family 
contemplating purposes of a far higher aim, nor was restored to him, without any reservation of 
yet had made up his mind as to which of the rent; and, among the conditions required of him, 
two paths, now opening before him, he should the only one that savoured at all of distrust was 
commit himself: whether, as a peer, he should that which stipulated that he should claim no 
still court distinction only through English authority over the lords bordering on his coun- 
channels; or whether, placing himself at the try." — History of Ireland, vol. iv. pp.99, 100. 
head of his powerful sept, he should renounce It appears from Eot. Can. H. A. 29 Eliz. 
the hollow loyalty he had hitherto professed, that it was provided in the grant to this Earl, 
and assume openly the national title of The that the bounds of Tyrone should be distinctly 
O'Neill. Meanwhile the position he held be- marked and defined ; that two hundred and 
tween the two rival parties was such as to forty acres should be reserved, adjoining to the 
enable him, without much apparent duplicity, Eiver Blackwater, for the use of a fort to be 
to turn to account the credit and influence he there erected ; that the new Earl should chal- 
had acquired with both. The English autho- lenge no authority over the neighbouring lords ; 
titles were proud to claim, as attached to their that the sons of John [the Proud], and Tur- 
service, an officer known to stand so high with lough [Luineach], should be provided for; and 
his own fellow countrymen ; and the chieftains that Turlough should be continued Chieftain of 
of Ulster, then the stronghold of Irish patriot- Tyrone, with a right of superiority over Ma- 
ism, forgave willingly his seeming adhesion to guire and O'Kane, two siibordinate Lords or 
the cause of the enemy, as long as they saw Urriaghs to the O'Neill. This power, ceded to 
reason to believe that his heart was wholly Turlough Luineach, and afterwards to the Earl 
their's. But, however favourable to 'his ambi- Hugh, cleared the way for the confiscation of 
tious views was this double aspect of his poli- Ulster. 

11 H 



1890 • awNa^a i^io^hachca eiReanw. [1590. 

belaib a arap (lap nool 06 1 neneipce -| in innlaicce,"] lap mbfir Dia rhac ele 
illairh in at cliar) 50 rcajiarc Dorhnall ina mbaoi oSliliaB anoip i ccfp conaill 
p6 a nfpc 1 p6 a cumaccmb .1. 6 beapnap 50 opobaoip, baoi^eallaig ~\ baj- 
aimj beop. 5d paor mop -| ba ^alap mfnman Id Inngin cpemmp mic DOTTinaiU, 
Domnall Do Bfir pop an abaipr pin ap orhan le a poccain 1 ccfnoup cenel 
cconaill ap belaib a mfic ao6 pua6 baf illaini in ar cliar cecib ran no 
Deonai^paD Dia 06 rocc a cuimpeac conab aipe pm po cionoileab le a mbaoi 
porhdrnai jre Dia piop oo cenel cconaill .1. O oocapcai^ co na rionol, TTIac 
puibne na rcuac eo^an occ co na pocpaice, TTIac puibne panac co na pocpaiDe 
50 pochaiDe moip Dalbanchaib a niaille ppiu. lap ppiop pccel do Dorhnall 
ua Dorhnaill an coicfpral pin Do bfir a^d Denarh cuicce, Po cionoil pibe pop 
a ccionn. bdccap lac po eip^fccap laip TTIac puibne bd^aineac Donnchab 
mac maolmuipe, "] Dpong do cloinn cpuibne na miirhan im cpiap mac eo^ain 
mic maolmuipe mic DonnchaiD mic roippbealbai^ co na pocpaiDe,-] 6 baoi^ill 
raDcc occ mac caiDcc mic uoippDealbai;^ co Ifon a cionoil. 5d Tiann Do pala 
DO mac uf DomnaiU bfir in epp cfpe bo^aine alia map Do j;lfnn colaim cille, 
f^uy na mairib pin ma pocaip. Ni' po TianaD Idp an luce naile 50 panjarcap 
an Du pm Dia paighiD, 1 po pi^Cb pccainnfp cpoDa fcoppa'aDiu 1 anall, ~\ 
raplaicpfc na balbanai'i; paire pai^fcc a piobbacaib pobapcaca co po ^onaD 
~\ CO po cpeccnai^beaD (an .14. Seprembep) Dpon^a Dipirhe led, "] po baD 
Dib piDe TTIac ui Domnaill poDein co nd baf ina curhang fn^narh no uppclaiDi Do 
Denarh co po mapbab an Du pin a^ an Doipe Ifran Id raob cuain ceibonrc. 
5a hanDarh piarh piap an ran pin a buaib a5d biobbabaib cen jup bo biob- 
baba iccip in luce lap a ccopcaip (conDup pala fcoppa Don cup pin) ~| gion 
^up bo he an Domnall pin oiope a arapba lap ppfop nip bo Dirhiab do np 

" Bearnas, i. e. the Bariiismore mountain, in the county of Donegal. The place is described 

the barony of Tirhugh, — See note % under the as follows, in O'Donnell's Life of St. Colunib- 

year 1522, p. 1355, supra. kille, as translated by Colgan, Trias Thaum., 

' Boylagh and Tii'-Boghaine, i. e. the inhabi- p. 391 : 
tants of the baronies of Boylagh and Banagh, in " Locus is est Tirconallensis patriae, Occident! 

the west of the county of Donegal. These were proximus, in Oceanum procul excurrens, in 

the O'Boyles and the Mac Sweenys of Banagh. arduos incultosque montes assurgens, in horrida 

" Gleann Choluim Cille, i. e. St. Columbkillc's demum promontoria desinens, Columbas, a cujus 

glen, or valley, now Glencolumbkille, the name asceterio Celebris habetur jamdudum sacer." — 

of a parish and remarkable valley in the west lib. i. c. 15. 
of the barony of Tir-Boghaine, or Banagh, in ' Doire-leathan, i. e. the broad derry, or oak 



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attempted to depose his father, after he had grown weak and feeble [from age], 
and after his other son had been imprisoned in Dublin; so that Donnell brouo-ht 
under his power and jurisdiction that part of Tirconnell from the mountain 
westwards, i. e, from Bearnas*^ to [the River] Drowes ; and also the people of 
Boylagh and Tir-Boghaine'. It was [a cause of] great anguish and sickness 
of mind to Ineenduv, the daughter of James Mac Donnell, that Donnell should 
make such an attempt, lest he might attain the chieftainship of Tirconnell in 
preference to her son, Hugh Roe, who was confined in Dublin, [and who she 
hoped would become chief], whatever time God might permit him to return 
from his captivity ; and she, therefore, assembled all the Kinel-Connell who 
were obedient to her husband, namely, O'Doherty, with his forces ; Mac Sweeny- 
na-dTuath (Owen Oge), with his forces ; and Mac Sweeny Fanad, with his 
forces ; with a great number of Scots along with them. After Donnell O'Don- 
nell had received intelligence that this muster had been made to oppose him, 
he assembled [his forces] to meet them. These were they who rose up to assist 
him on this occasion : Mac Sweeny Banagh (Donough, the son of Mulmurry); 
a ,party of the Clann-Sweeny of Munster, under the conduct of the three sons 
of Owen, the son of Mulmurry, son of Donough, son of Tmiough, and their 
forces ; and O'Boyle (Teige Oge, the son of Teige, son of Turlough), with all 
his forces, assembled. The place where the son of O'Donnell happened to be 
stationed along with these chieftains was [Doire-leathan] at the extremity of 
Tir-Boghaine, to the west of Gleann Choluim Cille''. The other party did not 
halt until they came to them to that place ; and a battle ensued between them, 
which was fiercely fought on both sides. The Scots discharged a shower of 
arrows from their elastic bows, by which they pierced and wounded great num- 
bers, and, among the rest, the son of O'Donnell himself, who, being unable to 
• display prowess or defend himself, was slain at Doire-leathan', on one side of 
the harbour of Telinn, on the 14th of September. Seldom before that time had 
his enemies triumphed over him ; and the party by whom he was slain had not 
been by any means his enemies until they encountered on this occasion ; and 
although this Donnell was not the rightful heir of his father", it would have 

wood, now anglice Derrylahan, a townland in south by Teelin harbour. 

the parish of Glencolumbkille, barony of Ba- "^ Of his father, literally, "to his patrimony 

nagh, and county of Donegal, bounded on the or his father's territorial possessions." 

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1892 awwa^a Rio^hachca eiReaww. [1590. 

conaill a oiponeab puippe Dia leiccri 01a f^ai^hib f. Uoyicpacca]! t)on cair- 
lopsail fin 1 ppa]i]ia6 Domnaill an cjiiap inac pin eo^ain imic Tnaolinuipe mic 
DonnchaiD 50 nofb ceoaib a maille ppiu 1 rcimcell t»omnaill. 

Uarep ciocac a bupc mac pfain mic oiluepaip do ecc lap piobucchao 06 

le jallaib. 

XUas cocldin .1. Sfan mac aipc mic copbnnaic do ecc, 1 nf baof pfp a 
nuirce do pliocc copbmaic caip po baD peolca pfpccaipe cuipce,-| caipreoil, 
-] popcaDa pabaile map, 1 a mac Sfan occ Do oipDneaD ina lonaD. 

TTlaolpuanaiD mac an calbai^ mic DonnchaiD mic Sfain ui cfpbaill Do ecc. 

TTlac muipipciappai^e .1. comap mac emainn mic comaip, mic emainn Do 
ecc cfnDai^e pi'ona, eac, -j ealaDan pob pfpp Dpiop a inrhe -] a arapba pern 
baof illfir moja Dupmop an can pin, -\ pacpaiccin a oibpe do bfir illaim in 
ar cliac an can pm. 

O (.oclainn uaicne mac maoileaclainn, mic RuDpai^e mic ana Decc, -] a 
mac .1. l?opa, -] mac a meic .1. uaicne do bfic impfpnac pe a pbile imo lonaD. 

Somaiple buiDe, mac alapcpainn, mic eom cacanai^ rfiec Domnaill Do ecc. 

" Of his property, i. e. a man of the same ex- Glynns, and afterwards in the Route, in the 

tent of territory, i. e. a lord of a single barony. present county of Antrim. Lodge traces his 

Mac Coghlan, Chief of Dealbhna-Eathra, was of ancestry imperfectly; and, besides, in the ac- 

the race of Cormac Cas, the ancestor of the count he gives of his descendants, has commited 

O'Briens of Thomond. — See O'Flaherty's Of/ygrea, some mistakes, the chief of which consists in 

part iii. c. 82. The castles of Streamstown, makingSir James the seconc?, instead of the e/c?e5^ 

Kincora, Garrycastle, Faddan, Clononey, Esker, of his^sons. It may be here mentioned that there 

and Coole, were in his territory. — See note *', are several lines of the Mac Donnells of Scotland 

under the year 1519, p. 1346, supra. and Ireland given in the MS. Book of Bally- 

" Thomas, the son of Edmond. — See Lodge's mote (compiled about 1380); and many curious 

Peerage by Archdall for a curious notice of this genealogical poems in manuscript, in the Irish 

Thomas. language, from the sixteenth century down- 

^ Sorleij Boy. — He was the first of the Mac wards, tracing the filiations, and commemorat- * 

Donnells that totally vanquished Mac Quillin, ing the privileges and achievements, of this 

chief of the Route, in the county of Antrim, warlike race. 

and became, the founder of the Earldom of An- I. Somhairle, Thane of Airer-Gaidheal, or 

trim. — See note J, under the year 1570, pp. 1641, Argyle [slain A.D. 1 165, see Scotockronicon, and 

1642, stij)ra. As this chieftain makes so con- Chalmers' Caledonia'], the common ancestor of 

spicuous a figure in the Irish annals, the Editor Mac Dubhgaill [Mac Dougall], Mac Donnell, 

is tempted to give in this place a brief outline and Mac Rory. He married a daughter of the 

of the history of his ancestors, and of the man- King of Man [Sce Chron. Man.'], and had 
ner and period of their first settlement in the II. Randal, fl. 1213, q- v. He had a son, 



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been no disgrace to Tirconnell to have elected him as its chief, had he been 
permitted to attain to that dignity. In this conflict were slain along with Don- 
nell the three sons of Owen, son of Miilmiirry, son of Donough [above men- 
tioned], together with two hundred others, around Donnell. 

Walter Kittagh Burke, the son of John, son of Oliver, died, after having 
concluded a peace with the English. 

Mac Coghlan (John, the son of Art, son of Cormac) died. There was not 
a man of his property", of the race of Cormac Cas, who had better furnished 
or more commodious courts, castles, and comfortable seats, than this John. 
His son, John Oge, was appointed in his place. 

Mulrony, the son of Calvagh, son of Donough, son of John O'Carroll, died. 

Mac Maurice of Kerry, i. e. Thomas, the son of Edmond", son of Thomas, 
son of Edmond, died. He was the best purchaser of wine, horses, and literary 
works, of any of his wealth and patrimony, in the greater part of Leath-Mogha 
at that time ; and Patrickin, his heir, was at this time in captivity in Dublin. 

O'Loughlin (Owny, the son of Melaghlin, son of Rury, son of Ana) died ; 
and his son, Rossa, and his grandson, Owny, were contending with each other 
for his place. 

Sorley Boy'', the son of Alexander, son of John Cahanagh, died. 

III. Domhnall, or Donnell, the ancestor from the ancestor of the Mac Donnells of Leinster — 
whom the Mac Donnells have derived their sur- See note ad an. 1570, pp. 1691, ct seq. 

name. He had a son, VI. John of Islay, or Eoin na h-Ile. In 1 337 

IV. Aengus, or Angus More. He is men- there is a safe conduct on the public records for 
tioned in Patent Roll, 40th of Hen. HI. A. D. him under the name of Johannes delnsulis; and 
1256, under the name of Aengus, filius Dove- there are letters patent appointing the Earl of 
naldi. It is doubtful whether he or his son be Salisbury Royal Ambassador to him ; and a letter 
the " Angus of Hay and Kintyre" of Barbour's of King Edward, beginning " Rex, nobili et po- 
almost contemporaneous poem on the wars and tentiviroJohanni delnsulis amicosuocharissimo 
adventures of King Robert Bruce. &c." He died in 1 387, according to these An- 

V. Aengus Oge. He was probably the Mac nals, and this date is corroborated by a letter in 
Donnell, Lord of Arygyle, slain at Dundalk Rymer's i^(£f/era, ad an. 1388, empowering the 
in 1318, q. v. He married Agnes, daughter of Bishop of Sodor to make a treaty, "Cumstrenuo 
Cumhaighe O'Cahan. There is on the Chancery viro Godefredo filio Johannis de Yle, nuper 
Rolls, A. D. 1338, a safe conduct for Agnes, Domini Insularum cum Donaldo filio Johahni 
mother of John, Lord of the Isles, to go from de Yle nuper Domini Insularum cum Johanne 
and return to Ireland ad libitum. He had two fratre ejusdem Donaldi." By the daughter of 
sons, 1, John, Lord of the Isles, and 2, Marcus, Rory Mac Dougall, Chief of Lome, he had, 1, 



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[1590. 



Gojan mac an ofganai^ do ecc. 

dot) Rua6 UQ Dorhnaill oo bfir hi ccuimpeac in dr cliar ppi pe rfoyia 
mbliaban, -] reopa m\y. 5a coc]id6 m6]i mfniman laif a bfir arhlai6 fin i 



Ronald, ancestor of the cliieftains of Claim 
Ronald and Glengarry ; 2, Godfrey ; 3, Aengus. 
By his subsequent marriage with Margaret, 
daughter of Robert II. King of Scotland, he had, 
I, Domhnall, or Donnell na h-Ile, ancestor of 
the Earls of Ross and Lords of the Isles ; 2, 
John Mor, ancestor of the Antrim -family ;, 3, 
Alexander, the ancestor of the house of Keppoch. 

VII. John Mor. He married Mary Bissett, [rec- 
/m57{e Margery?] the daughter [and heir] of Mac 
Eoin Bissett, according to Duald Mac Firbis [Lib. 
Geneal. 341], who states that the Bissetts are of 
Greek blood, and came in with William the Con- 
queror [_qiKEie, "William the Lion?], and that it 
was by her the seven tuaths of the Glinns, to 
which belonged the island of Rachlainn, came to 
the Mac Donnells. Mac Firbis goes on to say 
that the Mac Donnells owned the Glinns for two 
hundred and thirty-seven years previous to the 
year 1 649, in which he compiled their pedigree. 
On the Rolls of Scotland in 1 400, there is a safe 
conduct " pro nobili viro Johanni de Insulis 
Domino de Dunwage et de Gli/nns, et pro Do- 
naldo fratre ejus." See State Papers, Sir Henry 
Sidney, vol. i. pp. 76-79- He had a son, 

VIII. Donnell Ballagh, he is mentioned on 
Patent Roll, 3rd of Edward IV., and he was 
one of the contracting parties to the celebrated 
treaty of Ardtornish, printed in full in Rymer's 
Fcedera. After an unsuccessful insurrection 
in Scotland, he fled to the Glinns in Antrim, 
Avhere he was killed, and his head was sent to 
the King of Scotland. He married Johanna, 
daughter of O'Donnell, by whom he had 

IX. John of Islay, who is mentioned on Patent 
Roll of 3 Edw. IV. He married Sabina, daugh- 
ter of Felimy, son of O'Neill. His death is 
recorded, together with that of his son, and 



others his relatives, in the following words, in 
the Annals of Ulster, at the year 1499 : 

" Eoin Mor Mac Donnell, King of the Isles, and 
John Cahanagh, his son, and Randal Roe, and 
Donnell Ballagh [Oge], were hanged together." 
This fact is mentioned in a Gaelic manuscript, 
the date of which is late in the seventeenth cen- 
tury, quoted by Sir Walter Scott, in his notes 
to the " Lord of the Isles," as follows : 

" There happened great feuds between these 
families" [the Mac Ceans and Mac Donalds], 
"while Donald Du" [obiit at Drogheda, 1545, 
see State Papers'] " was in prison ; insomuch 
that Mac Cean of Ardnamurchan [^recte TDac 
Goin of Qpb na mupchon] destroyed the 
greatest part of the posterity of John Mor of 
the Isles and Cantyre. For John Cathanach, 
son of John, son of Donald Ballach, son of John 
Mor, son of John, son of Angus Oge" [the chief 
of the descendants of John Mor], " and John 
Mor, son of John Cathanach, and young John, 
son of John Cathanach, and young Donald Bal- 
lagh, son of John Cathanach, were treacherously 
taken by Mac Cean, in the Island of Finlagan, 
in Isla, and carried to Edinburgh, where he got 
them hanged at the Burrow Muir, and their 
bodies were buried in the church of St. Anthony, 
called the New Church. There were none left 
alive at that time, of the children of John Ca- 
thanach, except Alexander, son of John Catha- 
nach and Agnes Flach" [Ilech], " who concealed 
themselves in the Gleyis of Ireland. Mac Cean, 
hearing of their hiding places, went to cut down 
the woods of those glens in order to destroy 
Alexander, and extirpate the whole race. At 
length Mac Cean and Alexander met, were re- 
conciled, and a marriage alliance took place ; 
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Owen Mac-an-Deaganaigh" died. 

Hugh Roe (3'Donnell had [now] been in captivity in Dublin for the space 
of three years and three months. It was [a cause of] great distress of mind to 

( 

she brought him good children." which no King of Scottes hath been seen to doo 

X. John Cahanagh, son of John of Islay. Ac- befor. He hath also this yere twice sent for 
cording to the Annals of Ulster, he slew, in Alexander Carragh, Capteyne of the Scottes of 
1494, Alexander Mac Gilespick Mac Donnell, this lande, who hath goon thider, and by his 
the head of the Mac Donn ells. He married Celia, retorne it is perceyvid what busynes he had 
daughter of Savadge, Lord of the Ardes, and ther; but oonlie it appereth he was well enter- 
had by her a son, teyned in the Courte of Scotland, though of 

XI. Alexander Carragh. It appears from trowthe ther was no amitie but mortalitie be- 
various documents among the printed State twixt them ; the Kinge of Scottes and anteces- 
Papers, temp. Hen. VIII., that from about the sours having killed and put to death the said 
year 1520, the Mac Donnells of the Isles began Alexander's fader, grandfader, and gretegrand- 
to form permanent settlements in the north- fader, and exiled him owte of the Isles, whereby 
east of the present county of Antrim. In the he was compelled to inhabite here. But I sus- 
list of the chieftains of Ulster in 1515, in the pecte playnelie that if any busyness slialbe the 
third part of the State Papers, p. 7, there is no said King hath interteyned this man havinge 
mention of any Mac Donnell; but Fytz John both knowlege and power with him in this 
Byssede, of the Glynnes, is mentioned as one land to be a chieftayne for this purpoos." 

of the " greate Englyshe rebelles of Wolster." He married Catherina, daughter of Mac Eoin, 

In 1533, however, they were numerous in the Chief of Ardnamurchon, in Scotland, and had 

Glinns, as appears from a report of the Irish issiie : 1, James ; 2, Alexander Oge, who slew 

Council to Cromwell, in which the following Shane an Diomais O'Neill ; 3, Gillaspick ; 4, 

statement occurs : Donnell Ballagh ; 5, Angus Uaibhreach, i. e. the 

" The Scotts also inhabith now buyselly a haughty ; 6, Colla Duv-na-gCapull, i. e. Black 

great part of Ulster, which is the Kinge's inhe- Colla of the Horses ; 7, Sorley Boy ; and, ac- 

ritaunce ; and it is greatly to be fearid, oonles cording to Duald Mac Firbis, 8, Donnell Gorm. 

that in short tyme they be dryven from the James, who was his eldest son, as appears from 

same, that they bringing yn more nombre daily, the State Papers most clearly, was elected Lord 

woll, by lyttle and lyttle, soo far encroche in of the Isles. on the death, at Drogheda, in 1545, of 

acquyring and wynnyng the possessions there, Donnell Duv, the last descendant of the last Lord 

with thaidis of the Kingis disobeysant Irishe of the Isles recognised by the King of Scotland, 

rebelles, whoo doo nowe aide theym therein after - This James married the Lady Agnes Campbell, 

suche maner that at leyngth they will put and daughter of the fourth Earl of Argyle. He died 

expell the King from his hole seignory theire." of his wounds received in the battle of Glen- 

— State Papers, Ireland, vol. ii. p. 172. shesk, from Shane O'Neill, in 1566 ; leaving 

And in a report of Alan to Cromwell in 1539, issue: 1, Angus, who succeeded his father in 

same vol. p. 136, he says : Scotland, and is called in some Irish MSS. )Tlac 

"I moch suspect the King of Scottes, that OomnaiU na h-Qlban, i.e. Mac Donnell of Scot- 

so moch tendereth the amitie of theis men, land. He was of Duneveg, and forfeited by insur- 



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[1590. 



noaoji bpoicr, "i nfp bo p6 a Dai^ bubein ace ap 6di^ na oaofpcimibeacca i 
mbdrrap a rfp, ^ a ralom, a caipoe,-] a coirhpialup in gach niaijin pecrcnon 
Gpeann. IRo baof occa pccpuoab ina Tnfnmain oo ^pep came an ceappup 
elu6rf p6 jebaD. Nip bo pobains bopom an ni pm, dp oop puccca i cubacail 
poipiaca ip in caiplen gac noi6ce oia lonncoimeo conoup piccfo cepc ap a 
bapac. 6d imne baof an caiplen liipm "] Ifranclaip Idnoorhain lionn- 
uipcce ina uipnmceall, "] cldpOpoicfc comDluca puippe p6 rpcorhaip bopaip 
an ouine, "] ^appab gpuamameac na njall annui^ -] hipcij imon Dopup oia 
bupcoirhecc co nd oiccpeab aon cdippib inunn ndc amac ^an accomapc. Qp a 
aoi nf bf ppioraipe ap nac ppajrap paill pd De6i6. 6ui Qo6 co nopiiin^ oia 



rection the lands of Kin tire, which were granted 
to the Earl of Argyle, when a commission issued 
to 'the Earl of Huntly to extirpate " the barba- 
rous people of the Isles within a year." This 
Aucus was father of Sir James Mac Donnell of 
Knockinsay, whose estates descended to two 
daughters, co-heiresses. 2, Donnell Gorm, who, 
on Sept. 18, 1584, by articles, between Sir John 
Perrott and the rest of the Council there, and this 
Donnell Gorm called of the Glynnes in Ulster, 
" was to hold so much of the Glynnes as were 
the lauds of Mysset, alius By sset, he undertaking 
not to serve any foreign prince or potentate, 
nor " kepe any Scottes but such as be natives 
of Irelande without lycense." Always to serve 
" against Severlie Bwoy" [Sorley Boy, his own 
uncle], " and any other forraine Scot." This 
Donnell Gorm was slain by Sir Richard Bing- 
ham, at Ardnarea, in Connaught, A. D. 1586. 
James had also Donnell and Alexander, who 
were slain at Ardnarea, and two other sons who 
were slain by Captain Merriman in 1585. This 
James was also father of Ineenduv, the wife of 
Sir Hugh O'Donnell, and mother of the great 
Hugh Roe O'Donnell, of Rory, the first Earl of 
Tirconnell, and of Caffar O'Donnell 

Xn. Sorley Boy, whom all accounts mention 
as the youngest son of Alexander Carragh, ob- 
tained a patent of denization of Ireland on the 
14th of April, 1573, when he acknowledged the 



Queen's right to Ulster and the Crown of Ire- 
land, professed obedience and swore to be a 
true subject, in consideration of which he was 
thenceforward to be considered a free denizen, 
" not as mere Itish, Scottish-Irish, or a stran- 
ger." — EolL There are various original letters 
and papers relating to his affairs, and those of 
his brothers, preserved in the Cotton Library, 
Vespasian, F. 12, and Titus, B. 13, which de- 
serve examination. The last of these is his In- 
denture of Submission, dated 18th June, 1586. 
He married Mary, the daughter of Con O'Neill, 
first Earl of Tyrone, and had by her, according 
to Duald Mac Firbis, four sons, viz., 1, Sir 
James ; 2, Sir Randal, created Viscount Dun- 
luce and first of the Earls of Antrim (whose 
genealogy may be seen in Lodge's Peerage), by 
James I. ; 3, Donnell ; 4, Aengus. Lodge adds, 
and correctly, another son, Alexander, who was 
slain by Captain Merriman in 1585. 

XIII. Sir James was Lord of the Route and 
Glynnes. He had several children by Mary, 
daughter of Hugh mac Felim O'Neill of Clan- 
•naboy. But whether he was lawfully married 
to her was a matter of dispute after his death. 
His son, Alexander, who was afterwards created 
a baronet, rose in arms about 1614, alleging as 
the cause of his insurrection that he was the 
right heir to the lands of the Route, and not 
Sir Randal, his uncle. — MS, Trin. Coll. Dub- 



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him to be thus imprisoned ; yet it was not for his own sake [that he grieved], 
but for the sake of his country, his land, his friends, and kinsmen, who were in 
l)ondage throughout Ireland. He was constantly revolving in his mind the 
manner in which he might make his escape. This was not an easy matter for 
him, for he was confined in a closely-secured apartment every night in the castle 
until sunrise' the next day. This castle was surrounded by a wide and very 
deep ditch, full of water, across which was a wooden bridge, directly opposite 
the door of the fortress ; and within and without the door were stationed a 
stern party of Englishmen, closely guarding it, so that none might pass in or out 
Avithout examination. There is, however, no guard* whose vigilance may not 

lin. It is most likely that Sir James, hav- died without issue, and who, as well as his fatjjer 

ing died during the minority of his children, (who was killed in a duel, A. D. 1677), died in 

their inheritance was usurped, under the colour the life-time of Sir James, the second baronet, 

of Tanistry, by their uncle, Sir Randal, who ob- XVI. The second son of Sir James was 

tained a grant of it from King James I. in 1603 ; Captain Randal, who became third baronet. He 

and that this insurrection took place when Sir commanded a ship of war in the service of 

James's heir was of age to assert his claims. Charles II., accompanied James II. to Ireland, 

The grant to his uncle from the Crown, of and followed his fortunes abroad. He died about 

course, would suiEciently account for his failure, the year 1720, leaving, besides his eldest son 

Much curious evidence could be adduced in sup- James (who would have been fourth baronet but 

port of this conjecture; but it would extend this for the attainder, and who died unmarried, and 

note beyond all reasonable limits to adduce it. was buried in the churchyard of St. James, 

XIV. This Sir Alexander, who was of Moyane, Dublin, 24th May, 1728), a second son, Ran- 
in the county of Antrim, in 1 634 had married dall, who was commonly called Sir Randall, of 
Evelin, daughter of Sir Arthur Magennis, first Cross, county of Antrim, who commanded a regi- 
Viscount Iveagh, and had, . ment of the Irish Brigade in France, and died 

XV. Sir James of Ballybanagh, in the county therein 1740 without issue, leaving his third 
of Antrim, second Baronet, who married Mary, brother, 

daughter of Donough O'Brien, of the county of XVII. John-Richard, who then succeeded to 

Clare. He was attainted in 1691. He had: the family property. 

1, Colonel Sir Alexander Mac Donnell, who is '^ Mac an Deaganaigh, i. e. sou of the Dean, 
mistaken by Lodge for Colla Kittagh, who was This name is still common in Tyrone, and angli- 
also a Sir Alexander Mac Donnell, having been cised Mac Digany by some, and Deane by others, 
knighted by Montrose on the field, and who was "■ Until sunrise, conbup pjccfo repc .i. 50 
slain in the battle of Knocknanos, Cnoc na n-op, Drigeao cm Tnaibin, no eipijio jpeine. The 
i. e.. Hill of the Fawns, in the county of Cork, word cepc is explained " tertia Jtora" in Cor- 
by Inchiquin, in 1647. Colonel Alexander, the mac's Glossary, and " sunrise" by O'Reilly, in 
son of Sir James, married Lady Elizabeth How- his Irish Dictionary. 

ard, daughter of Henry Earl of Surrey, Arundel, ' No guard, literally, " however, there is no 

and Norfolk, and had issue, by her Randal, who guarding of which an advantage is not got at 

11 I 



1898 aNNQ^a Rio^hachua eii^eawH. [I590. 

aop cumca ina pa]i]ia6 1 nneipiuD ^eirhjiiD t)o ponn|ia6 1 nupcopac oi6ce pe 
y^u 00 para ip na cubaclaiB poipiara i mbfcfp gac noi6ce. Do bepcpac ceo 
pepeaD po pooa leo jiip an ppenepcep baof pop a moncliaib, "| Diip pel^fo 
pi'op ppip na puainfrhnaib 50 rajiblaingpfc popp an upopocac baof alia mm^ 
DO oopup an t)iinai6. 5uf i6 impfrhap lapnai^e ap an ccorhlaD ppi a rappain^ 
cucca amac 00 neoc an can ba6 ablaic. Do pacporh bale Idn plaice t)o 
cponn corhbam^fn cpep an i6 ap na ciopDa Dia cco^paim co cinnfpnac ap an 
DiiTiaib. l?o baof occlac 00 painiiiumcip an ao6a 1 ppoicill a neluba, "i t)o 
pala pibe 661b lap ccoibeacc amac "] od lanncloibfrh Idncooac laip p6 a 
coim, "] 00 bfpc illairii an aoba. Do pace cloi6frh t)ibpi6e Dia poile laoc 
ampa 00 lai^nib, Qpc caorhanac aca corhnaic, 6a hdippig lop^aile ~\ bd 
caofpeac lom^ona eipibe. 

• C16 lac na popcoirfieDaije cpa m po pdrai^pfc ineallrha an celub,"] ci6 
an can cucpac Dia nufb e, Do cfnjac po ceOoip do j'ai^iD Dopaip an caipceoil 
arhail ap Deme conpan5accap uaip po baD t)6i^ led co ccdippiccfp lacc 1 
ccpaice. lap poccain Doib ^iip an Dopup popperhiD poppa a epplojab conDup 
capopacc ppi a ccogaipm cuca an luce Do pala ip na cigib bacap po]i 
lonchaib an Dopaip Don caob apaill Don cppaicc. Qn can can^accap pme 

length." The word ppioraipe is explained vi- [puainearh] with them, and they let themselves 

fjilia in Cormac's Glossary, and " paiyie no down by the i^ope through the privy-house." — 

popcoimeD," by O'Clery. O^Reillys Copy, p. 5, but it is used in the Battle 

^ Before^hey loere put — This Irish idiom, of Magh Rath, in this sense of loop. — See p. 284, 

which the Irish peasantry have introduced into line 25. 

their English, is not strictly correct. It could y Closed it, literally, for one to pull it [i. e. 

be easily corrected thus : pepiu painic an uaip the door] out to him when he desired it. This 

a pacaoi lao jpna cuBaclaib popiaca 1 mbicip idiom translates very clumsily into English. 

jgac noioce, i. e. "before the hour arrived at It should be : " there was a strong iron chain 

which they used to be put into the close cells attached to this door, by which the door was 

in which they used to be every night." fastened on the outside when occasion required." 

^, Of the rope — This word is not in the pul)- '■ Awaiting their escape Fynes Moryson and 

lished dictionaries ; but in the Life of Hugh Sir Richard Cox seem to believe that a certain 
Roe O'Donnell, by Cucogry O'Clery, it is used great man [the Lord Deputy William Fitz- 
to denote a rope. Thus, in describing the es- William, who endeavoured to make profit of his 
cape of which Ave are now treating, it is used office] was privy to the escape of these pri- 
thus: " Qc pa^ac lapccain jgup an ppiailcfch -) soners ; and Leland, a far more honest histo- 
puQineam piocpooa leo, -] Do pelcc fc piop laip rian than either, is of the same opinion. Le- 
an puaineam cpep an ppelcij," " They after- land says that they first attempted to bribe 
wards went to the privy, bavincr a long rope their keeper, who disclosed their offer to the 



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some time or other be baffled. At the very end of winter, as Hugh and a party 
of his companions were together, in the beginning of the night, before they 
were put' into the close cells in which they used to be every night, they took 
with them a very long rope to a window which was near them, and by means of 
the rope'' they let themselves down, and alighted upon the bridge that was 
outside the door of the fortress. There was a thick iron chain fastened to this 
door, by which one closed it^ when required ; through this chain they drove a 
strong handful of a piece of timber, [and thus fastened the door on the outside], 
so that they could not be immediately pursued from the fortress. There was 
,a youth of Hugh's faithful people [outside] awaiting their escape'', and he met 
them on coming out, with two well-tempered swords concealed under his gar- 
ments ; these he gave into the hand of Hugh, who presented one of them to a 
certain renowned warrior of Leinster, Art Kavanagh by name^, who was a 
champion in battle, and a commander in conflict. 

As for the guards, they did not perceive the escape for some time ; but when 
they took notice of it they advanced immediately to the door of the castle, for 
they thought that they should instantly'' catch them. Upon coming to the gate, 
they could not open it ; whereupon they called over to them those who hap- 
pened to be in the houses on the other side of the street, opposite the door [of 
the castle]. When these came at the call, and took the piece of timber out of 
the chain, and threw open the door for the people in the castle, who [then] set 
out, with a great number of the citizens, in pursuit of the youths who had 

Lord Deputy, that this keeper was instantly ara coriiainm." — H. 3, 18, p. 529, T. C. D — 

displaced by the Lord Deputy, who substituted This personage is unsatisfactorily introduced 

one of his own servants in his room ; "a cir- here. In the Life of Hugh Eoe O'Donnell, by 

cumstance which gave rise to a suspicion that Cucogry O'Clery, in the Library of the Royal 

Fitz-Williamhimself was not unacquainted with Irish Academy, it is stated that this Art Kava- 

their design, nor averse to favouring it." It is, nagh remained behind the fugitives, in the 

however, quite evident from this, and the ac- streets of the city, to cover the retreat : " Do 

count of the escape of Hugh O'Donnell, written pac lapam pciac pop lop^ do na hojaib cpe 

by Cucogry O'Clery, that the Irish did not be- ppdiccib-] plijrib an baile." — p. 4. 

lieve that the Lord Deputy was privy to the ^Instantly, i ccpaice. " Upaio .i. luar, no 

escape. It was evidently concerted between obann." — QPClery. " CpoiD .i. obano no lu- 

Fitz- William and Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, Avho ac i, unde dicitur, cicpa a cpaioe .i. co luac." 

buried the secret in " altitudine profunda — Cormac's Glossary. See the Editor's Irish 

animi." Caammm\ part ii. c. vi. p. 265, Formation of 

* Art Kavanagh by name, " ac coriinaic, .i. Adverbs. 

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19;}0 aHNQf.a Rjogbachca emeaHN, [1590. 

pon coga^pin po ^aofac an cpanD baof rpep an 16 eij^ce, 1 do lecfc an com- 
la6 puap 00 luce an caipceo;!!, do Deocaca]i co nripuni^ moiji Do luce ra 
cnrpac illfnrhain na nocc ac pularcap uaohaib. Nf baoi bd Do poDani uaip 
bdcop porn alia mui^ Do mupaib an baile, []na] piu po parai^icr ap pobrrap 
fj-.ploicre obela Doippi na pfo^cafpac an lonbaiD pin pop a cciov:n, "] Pan- 
^aucap pop pe:D an cplebe baoi pfmpa .1. an pliab RuaiD ■] nf po leicc an orhan 
Doib pibe apcndrh ^y^n conaip coiccinn icip. Nf ]io anpac Dia peimim 50 
pangacuap lap yciy apuaip 1 nnrecca rapp an puaiDpliab pernpaice. O pob- 
T;ap pcichi^ uuipi^i^cia^aicc ^upan ccoileaD cliorajibluiupopcaorhnacaip po]i 
a ccii^D, "] aipipic ii^nce CO maDain. Do beapcpacc lappuiDe lairh pop iniDecc 
ap nip bo hnmill leo anifiain ipin ppioDbab ap ornan a ccopaijeacca, ap a 
aoi' rifp bo cualam^ aoD ap apccndrfi let a ofp cumra, uaip po cpe^DgD a 
rpoigre co.nn^eala canai^e Id haiccfn an rpleibe ap po bejccepDeligicc 
n jiappa ppiii lap pccaoileaD 1 nuaniann Idp an ppleacliaD nd pua.ppeaD 56 pin. 
6d paer mop Id a aop cumra nd po peDpar leo e ni' bdD pi'pm, "] ciomnair" 
celeabpaD 66,1 pdgbaicc bfnDaccoin occa. l?o pc(oi'6 pium a pfp muinnpe 50 , 
apoile Duine uapal Do j'aopcIanDaib coiccib lai^;fn Do pala hi ccaipciall ina 
corhpocpaib Dup an ppoi^beaD a lompnaDaD n(3 a imDiDfn occa. pelim 
o ruarail a plonDaD, 1 bd capa do aeDb pia ponn (an Daplaip) uaip Do com 

'^ Had been wide open, i.e. happened to be Gilla-Comhghaill, who was son of Duncuau, tion 

open, i. e. the hour tor closing them had not uf Gilla-Keviu, son of Gilla-Comhgliaill, son' of 

arrived. Duncuan, son of Dunlang, who died in 1013, 

^ Sliubh Jiiiadh, — See note ™, under the year (whose brother Ugaire, king of Leinster, was 

1535, p. 1420; and note \ under the year 1557, slain at Bithlann, now Belin, near Athy, in Xil- 

p. 1548, swpra. dare, in the battle fought against the Danes, A. D. 

^ To know. — " Oup .1. oa piop." — O'Clery. 976), son of Tuathal, king of Leinster, who died 

^ Felim 0''Toole. — He was O'Toole of Feara in 956, and from whom the surname of O'Tua- 

Cualann, and lived at Powerscourt. He was the thail, or O'Toole, has been derived, who was the 

son of Turlough, who was son of Art, who flou- son of Ugaire, king of Leinster, who was slain by 

risbed chief in 1497, sonof Edmond, slain 1488, the Danes, under the command of Sitric Mac 

son of Theobald, sonof Dermot, slain 1445, a) tat. Ivor, at the battle of Cinn fuaidh, A.D. 915, who 

80, sou of Hugh, Lord of Imaile, slain 1376, son was the son of Oilloll, son of Dunlang, son of 

of David, hanged at Dublin, 1328, son ol' Faelan, Muireadhach, son of Bran, king of Leinster, who 

or Felim, Lord of Hy-Murray, d. 1260, son of died in 790, who was the son of Murchadh, son of 

Gilla- Kevin, son of Walter, son of Gilla-Kevin, Muii'eadhach, from whom the tribe name of 

(whose brother, Muircheartach, chief of Hy- U'Muireadhuigh was derived, who was the son of 

Muireadhaigh, was father of St. Lorcan, or Lau- Murchadh Mor, who died in 721, son of Bran 

rence O'Toole, who died in 1180, q. v.), son of Mut, king of Leinster, died 687, sonof Conall, son 



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escaped from them ; but this was fruitless, for they [the fugitives] had passed 
beyond the walls of the city before they were missed, for the gates of the regal 
city had been wide open'' at the time ; and they pursued their way across the 
face of the mountain which lay before them, namely, Sliabh Ruadh'*, being afraid 
to venture at all upon the public road, and never halted in their course until 
after a fatiguing, journey and travelling, until they had crossed the Red moun- 
tain aforesaid. When, weary and fatigued, they entered a thick wood which 
lay in their way, where they remained until morning. They then attempted 
to depart, for they did not deem it safe to remain in the wood, from fear of being 
l)ursued ; but Hugh was not able to keep pace with his companions, for his 
white-skinned [and] thin feet had been pierced by the fur^e of the mountain, 
for his shoes had fallen off, their seams having been loosened by the wet, which 
they did not till then receive. It was great grief to his companions that they 
could not bring him any further ; and so they bade him farewell, and left him 
tlieir blessing. 

He sent his servant to a certain gentleman of the noble tribes of the province 
of Leinster, who lived in a castle in the neighbourhood, to know^ whether he 
could afford them shelter or protection. His name was Fehm O'Toole'^, and he 
was previously a friend to Hugh, as he thought, for he had gone to visit him 

ofFaelan, died 665, sou of Colman, son of Carbry, O'Tooles, in a manuscript in the Royal Irish 
' son of Cormac, king of Leinster, died 536, son Academy, tliis Felim had a son, Garrett, who 
• of Oilioll, king of Leinster, who was baptized had a son, Turlough. The Editor has not been 
by St. Patrick at Naas (whose elder brother able to trace the descendants of this Felim, to a 
lUanu, was king of Leinster, and died in 506,« later period. Another distinguished branch of 
and had also been baptized by St. Patrick), who the family resided at Castlekeviu, in the dis-. 
was the son of Dunlang (See Tripartite Life of trict of Fir- Tire, the head of which, Art Oge 
St. Patrick, apud Colgan, in Trias Thaum., lib. O'Toole, the son of Art, son of Edmond, slain 
iii. c. xvi., pp. 151, 152), who was son of Enna 1488, &c. received a grant of the manor of Cas- 
Nia, son of Breasal Belach, the common ancestor tlekevin, and the territory of the Fertyr, from 
of the O'Tooles, O'Byrnes, and Mac Murroughs. Henry VIII. He had a son, Luke, who died 
It appears from Patent Roll, 1 Jac. I., that seised of the manor of Castlekevin in 1565, leav- 
this Felim and Brian O'Toole forfeited the ing a son, Barnaby, or Bernard, of Castlekevin, 
whole territory of " Fercuolen," five miles in Avho rebelled with his brother-in-law, Feagh 
length and four in breadth, which was granted mac Hugh O'Byrne, in 1596. He died on the 
on the 27th of October, 160.3, to Richard Wing- 17th of January, 1596, leaving a son and heir, 
Held Knight, Marshal of the King's forces. — Luke, alias Pheagh, aged eight[een] years. 
See Erck's Repertory of the Chancery Enrolments, King James granted his estate to John Wake- 
Dublin, 1846. According to a pedigree of the man, Esq., who, with others, by deed dated 5th 



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aNNQ^a Rio^hachca eiReawN. 



[1590. 



Dia pioppu^ao f orh pecc naile ipin ccuimjieac i mbaof in dr cliar co po naibm- 
pfc a ccajiarcpab oiblfnib ppi a ]ioile. Lui6 an ceacca co haipm i nnbaof 
pelim, -] aupec 06 an coipcc ima ucdinicc. bet paoili^ piurh piarh, -\ po 
ringeall 50 noeijijenaD gac mair 01a ccaorhpab Oo ao6. Q|i a aof cpd nf po 
po6aimpfo a caipoe nac a compuili^e 66 a bfclfir ap uarhan pmacr cana 



December, 1609, enfeoffed Luke, alias Feagh 
O' Toole, of all the said territory of Fertry, as 
fully as he possessed same ; and said Luke was 
in possession thereof for eleven years previous 
to 21st April, 1636. — See Inquisition taken at 
Wicklow at that date. This Feagh, or Luke 
O' Toole, was J. P. in the county of Wicklow in 
1G30, and a Colonel of the Confederate Catho- 
lics in 1641. In May, 1650, he received the 
following commission from the Catholic Bishops, 
of which there is a copy authenticated by his 
own oath and signature in the manuscript De- 
positions, preserved in the Library of Trinity 
College, Dublin, 3555, Wicklow, vol. F. 2. 1 4 : 

"To Colonel Luke, alias Pheagh O'Tohill, 
greeting, in our Lord God everlasting. 

" Sir, — The pressing calamitie of this king- 
dom, wherewith the holy Catholique, Aposto- 
lique, and Roman religion, his sacred Majesties 
Right, and the just liberties of us his loyall 
subjects, are like to be trode under foote by a 
company of prophane and mechanical Rebells 
(made instruments of God's wrath to punish our 
sinnes), together with the confidence wee have 
in your zeal, Avorth, and wisdom, to redeem 
those soe deare pleadges, invites us to call to 
your assistance, Giving you hereby full power 
and authoritie to levie, leade, and command a 
Regiment of foot, and a troope of horse, praying 
you to containe the said Regiment and troope 
as much as may be from incurring God's just 
anger, especially from oppressing the poore, 
swering, and stealing ; Giving you to under- 
stand wee are hereunto authorized by his Ex- 
cellency the Lord Livetenant, Marquess of 
r)rmond, as appeareth by his letter, dated at 



Loughriagh the first of last April. Wee also 
pray you, with the consent of the gentry there, 
to chose among yourselves, in those partes, a 
commander in cheefe, and that each Colonel may 
choose his own Officers. We will not cease to 
pray his divine Majestie to encouradg you to 
fight in his quarrell, and bless your designs. 
Farewell. Given at Cavan, the second of May, 
1650. 



" H. Ardmach. 

EUG. KiLMOREN. 

Fr. Thomas Dublin. 
Fr. Edmundus Lagh- 
linensis. 



Fr. Antonius Clun- 

macnosensis. 
Walter B. Clonfert. 
James Dempsie, Vic 

Appo. of Kildare."- 



" This is a true copie of the originall remayn- 

ing with me. 

" Luc. Toolle. 

"The 7th September, 1652." 

This celebrated man was imprisoned in Dub- 
lin in 1652, in his seventy-fifth year, as ap- 
.pears from the Depositions just referred to. He 
left at least four sons, namely : 1 , Barnaby, who 
was living at Harold's Grange, near Rathfarn- 
ham, in 1641, and who is named in the list of 
Wicklow Rebels in the manviscript Depositions ; 
2, Donough, a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Confe- 
derate Catholics ; 3, Christopher, a Major in 
the same service ; and, 4, Turlough. 

The Editor has not been able to trace his 
descendants to a later period. Two families of 
the O'Tooles settled in the county of Wexford, 
where they still inherit property. The head of 
the more distinguished of these families, in the 
last century, was Laurence O' Toole, Esq., of 
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on one occasion in his prison in Dublin, when they formed a mutual friendship 
with each other. The messenger proceeded to the place where Felim was, and 
stated to him the embassy on which he came. Felim was glad at his arrival, 
and promised that he would do all the good he could for Hugh ; but his friends 
and kindred did not allow him to conceal him, from fear of the English govern- 



Wexford. This Laurence, who was born in 
1722, served in the Irish Brigade in France, 
and died in 1794, and was buried at Killilly, 
near Castle-Talbot, county of Wexford. He 
married, 1, a Margaret Masterson, of Castletown 
and Monaseed, in the county of Wexford, and 
had by her Colonel Count John O'Toole, of the 
French service, who was considered the hand- 
somest man in Paris before the first revolution. 
He died at Ballinafad, near Gorey, about twenty- 
live years ago. This Count John O'Toole mar- 
ried Lady Catherine Annesley, daughter of the 
last Earl of Anglesea, and had by her Laurenzo 
O'Toole, Esq., whomarrieda Miss Hall, of Holly- 
bush, Derbyshire, an heiress of very large for- 
tune, by whom he had a son, Lorenzo O'Toole, 
who succeeded to his mother's property, which 
is worth about £20,000 per annum, and changed 
his name to Hall. 

By his first mariiage he had, 2. Luke, who 
was in the French service, and was guillotined 
at the Revolution, leaving one daughter, whose 
fate is unknown to the family; 3, Laurence, who 
settled in the Isle de Bourbon, where he mar- 
ried the daughter of the Governor, and died 
there, leaving a son now (1847) living in the 
island of Maida ; 4, Edward, who served with 
Lord Eodney, but no account of him has reached 
his family for the last sixty years. He had also 
three daughters, who married, and have left 
issue, the third of whom, Mary, married Wil- 
liam Talbot, Esq., of Castle Talbot, who died in 
1 796, by whom she had issue five sons, Matthew, 
William, Roger, and Laurence, and three daugh- 
ters ; 1 , Maria Theresa, who married John, now 
Earl of Shrewsbury •, 2, Juliana, who married 



Major Bishopp; and 3, Margaret, who married 
Colonel Bryan, of Jenkinstown. 

Laurence O'Toole, Esq., the father of Count 
John, married, secondly, Eliza, second daughter 
of William Talbot, Esq., of BaUynamona, in 
the county of AVexford, and had by her; 1, 
William, who was in the Irish Brigade in 
France, and died, unmarried, in 1798; 2, Mat- 
thew, who was in the French service, Avhich he 
left at the Revolution, and afterwards, in 1 798, 
in Baron Hompesch's [Hessian] Hussars, and 
died about 1 8O6 ; leaving by his wife, Frances 
Tighe of Warfield; 1, Matthew, Captain of 82nd 
regiment, now (1847) aged about forty-five; 2, 
Edward, now in India ; and three daughters^ 

The third son of Laurence O'Toole, by his se- 
cond marriage, Avas Brian O'Toole, who was a 
Lieutenant-Colonel in the British service, Com- 
mander of the Bath, Grand Cross of the Tower 
and Sword (Portugal), Cross of Merit (England), 
Cross of St. Louis and St. Lazare (France), Colo- 
nel of Portuguese Ca^adores in the Peninsular 
war. He died at Fairfield, in the county of Wex- 
ford, sine prole, in February, 1825, and was inter- 
red at Piercestown, inthebarony of Forth, where 
a monument was erected to his memory by his 
relative, John Hyacinth Talbot, Esq. of Talbot 
Hall, late M. P. for New Ross. 4, Andrew 
O'Toole, who served in- tlie Armee des Princes, 
and died of fatigue, sine prole. Lawrence had 
also several daughters, two of whom, unmarried, 
are still living at Fairfield, near Wexford. 

The late William Toole, Esq. of Edermine, 
near Enniscorthy, was the head of the second 
branch of the Wexford O'Tooles. He mar- 
ried a Miss Hatchell, and had issue : 1, Laurence 



1(_)04 aNHa<.a Rio^hachca eiueanH. s [1591. 

V 

na ngall. ]?o pr]'ia]iorh poppa a bfiriMurh ipin coilleab arhail arpubpamap, -| 
po cuap led pop a lapaip .1. lap an lucu accualai^ a bfir ipin ppioobab, 1 00 
leiccicr CO na luipcc pop a poilleacc. O T?ob epoalra Id peilim a pa^bail,ap 
1 coiTiaiple ho 00 pome piurn -] a bpdirpi lao babem t)ia fp^ijabdil -] a bpfir Do 
cum an rpfnab ^up an ccarpai j pop cculaib liopfbipi. Do ^nfr paTYilaib. O 
]iainiccpi6e CO haccliar, Robrap pubai^e an corhaiple Dia poccain cuca, -jho 
ponpac neppnf ~\ h]\}^ mbicc oon uile ^lall "] airnpi oile po elaiDpfc uabaib. 
l?o cnipean ipm ccapcaip ceona Do piDipi e ■] Do bpfra Ti^fimel ^laipiapainn 
poa peib apcninrige conpangacrap, "] po bor occd ppiraipe -| occd popcoirheD 
arhail ap Deac po peDpac. Ro clop 50 coircionn po epic ncjieann a elunpom 
parhlaib, "] a fpgabdil Dopi6.pi,l po la ['occ mop pop jaoiOealaib De proe. 

aois CRiosr, 1591. 

Qqip Cpiopr, mile, cuicc ceo, nocaur, a haon. 

O Puaipc bpian (.1. bpian na miipfa) mac bpsain mic eoccam do lonnap- 
baD (aitiail Do pcpiobaD cuap) 1 urip conuill ^iip na ruaraib, "] baof uuilleaD 
ap bliabaui 1 ppocaip TTlbec puibne eogan occ. Do c6i6 lap pin co balbam 
ap Dciig caomna no compupcacra Dpa^bail 6 ]\i-^ alban. Rujy^ac Dpon^ Do 
rhuinnp na bainpiojna ]^aip, "] Do beapac leo 650 Sa;rain 1 co lonnoain, "] baf 
le bacbaiD illairh ann pin 50 repma na pamna ap ccionn. Ro cuipeab 

Toole, Esq. of Edermine, who sold Edermine to " O'Donnell was again shut up in the Castle 

Sir John Power, Bart, of Eoebuck, and died of Dublin, where he Avas loaded with irons ; and 

tiim prole; 2, William Toole, Captain of the 40th his escape and the manner of his recommittal 

Kegiment, J. P., county of Wexford, now living, convulsed the minds of his exasperated coun- 

He possesses a small estate in the barony of Shel- trymen with the alternate agitations of grief, 

maliere. . indignation, and despair." — Memoirs, ^c, p. 107. 

8 The English Government, literally, " the It may be here observed that it was the after 

control of the law of the English." Doctor pelebrity of Hugh Roe that caused this over- 

O'Conor, in his suppressed work, Memoirs of drawn account of the sympathy of the Irish 

Charles 0' Conor of Belana(/are, Y>- 107, says that people with him to be written; because the 

O'Toole assured him 'of his protection, recom- senior sept of Con O'Donnell, and their adhe- 

mending to him, however, to lie quiet in the rents, would have rejoiced at seeing him cut 

wood, as hisgiving him public protection, so near off. 
Dublin, would give umbrage to Governiiunl. ' Brian na Murtha, son of Brian.-r-Ch&vles 

^ Great f/looni, pocc mop. — Dr. O'Connr ex- O'Conor of Belanagare adds, inter lineas, that 

presses it thus : Brian na Murtha was the son of Brian Ballagh; 



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ment^. These leai'ned that he was in the wood, as we have said, and they 
(i. e. the people who had heard that he was in the wood) went in search of 
him, and dispersed with their troops to track him. When it was clear to Felim 
that he [Hugh] would be discovered, he and his kinsmen resolved to seize upon 
him themselves, and bring him back to the Council in the city. This was 
accordingly done. When he [Hugh] arrived in Dublin, the Council were 
rejoiced at his return to them ; for they made nothing or light of all the other 
prisoners and hostages that had escaped from them. - He was again put into 
the same prison, and iron fetters were put upon him as tightly as possible ; and 
they watched and guarded him as well as they could. His escape, thus attempted, 
and his recapture, became known throughout the land of Ireland, at which 
[tidings] a great gloom" came over the Irish people. 



THE AGE OF CHRIST, 1591. 

The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred ninety-one. 

CRourke, i. e. Brian-na-Murtha, the son of Brian', son of Owen, was ba- 
nished, as stated before, into the Tuatha in Tirconnell, where he remained 
upwards of a year with Mac Sweeny (Owen Oge). After that he passed into 
Scotland, in hopes of obtaining protection or assistance from the King of Scot- 
land. A party of the Queen's people, [however], took him prisoner, and carried 
him into England and into London, where he remained for some time'' in prison, 
[i. e.] until the ensuing November Term. The law was urged against him', and 

and that Owen, the father of Brian Ballagh, was " Bryan O'Rourke, the Irish potentate, being 

the son of Tiernan, son of Teige, son of Tiernan thus, by the King of Scotts, sent into England, 

More. was arraigned in Westminsterhall : his indict- 

^ For some time, le hachaio This phrase ments were, that he had stirred Alexander Mac 

is redundant, and should be left out, i. e. it is Connell, and others ; had scornfully dragged 

an error of construction, not an idiomatic re- the Queen's picture att a horse- taile and dis- 

dundance of the language. gracefully cut the same in pieces ; giving the 

' The law was urged against him. — An English Spaniards entertainment, against a proclama- 

writer would say, he was tried according to the tion ; fier'd many houses, &c. This being told 

English law. The following account of his trial him by an interpreter (for he understood noe 

and death is given in a manuscript History of English), he said he would not submit himself 

Ireland, preserved in the Library of the Royal to a tryall of twelve men, nor make answer, 

Irish Academy, p. 452 : except the Queen satt in person to judge him. 

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awNaca Rioghachca eiReawH. 



[1591. 



Dlicceao paip 50 po oaojiaD Do cum baip. l?o cyiochaD po DicfnDao *] Do 
]i6na6 cfrparhna be layiarh. Ro ba6 do rhoippjelaib ^aoiDel oi6ea6 an bpiain 
lifpin, uaip nf rainicc Dia Bunab ppeiifi 6 cfin rhdi]i neac noDeappccai^pfD De 
De Qfi DeaplaccaD ap Dfi^eineac ap Duapaib Duanrholca ap cairfrh ap con^aip 
ap aobbacc ap poi peine ap coruccab carlairpi^e aj imbfcfn a acapba ap 
ainppine eaccpanD c6 a oiDheab Don cup pin. 

Tllupchab mac concobaip mic roippDealbai^, mic raibcc, mic roippbeal- 
bai j, mic bpiain caca an aonai^ uf bpiain Decc 1 ccacaip niiondm 25 pe- 
bpuapii, -] a abnacal hi ccill pionnabpac. 

imaip5pe5 in^ean Dorhnaill mic concobaip, mic coippbealbai^, mic raiDcc, 
mic coippbealbai^ mic bpiain cara an aonai^ ui bpiain, bfn coippbealbai^ 
mic bpiain mic Donnchaib rhec mar^aitina Do ecc hi ccill rhec Dubain, -] a 
habnacal i ninip cachai^ -] a Dfipbpiup ele .1. aine bfn roippbealbai j; puaib 
mic caibcc mic mupchaib mic raibcc puaib mec rhacsamna do ecc. 

Oonnchab mac mupchaib puaib, mic bpiain, mic raibcc, mic coippbeal- 
bai^, mic bpiam caca an aonai^ Do ecc .8. pebpuapii. 



The lord chief Justice made answer againe, by 
an interpreter, that whether he would submitt 
himself or not to a tryall by a jury of twelve, 
he should be judged by law, according to the 
particulars alledjed against him. Whereto he 
replied nothing, but ' if it must be soe, let it be 
soe.' Being condemned to die, he was shortly 
after carried unto Tyburne, to be executed as a 
traitor, whereat he seemed to be nothing moved, 
scorning the archbishop of Caishill (Miler Ma- 
grath), who was there to counsill him for his 
soule's health, because he had broken his vow, 
from a Franciscan turning Protestant." 

Lord Bacon says in his Essays, that O'Rourke 
" gravely petitioned the Queen, that he might 
be hanged with a gad, or withe, after his own 
country fashion, which doubtless was readily 
granted him." And P. O'SuUevan Beare, Hist. 
Cciihol. Iber., fol. 122, says that, being asked, 
why he did not bow his knee to the Queen ? 
he answered, that he was not used to bow. 
" How 1 not to images," says an English Lord. 



" Aye," says O'Rourke ; " but there is a great 
difference between your Queen and the images 
of the saints." Walker, in his Irish Bards, gives 
an account of an extraordinary interview be- 
tween O'Rourke and Queen Elizabeth, the truth 
of which Mr. Hardiman attempts to corroborate 
in his Irish Minstrels^/, vol. ii. p. 427; but it 
seems totally groundless, or, at least, to rest on 
no solid evidence. Dr. O'Conor, who was the 
ninth in descent from this Brian O'Rourke, has 
the following note on his execution in the Me- 
moirs of the Life and Writiyigs of Charles O'Conor 
of Belanagare, p. 1 p2 : 

" The only crime which O'Rourke could be 
accused of was, his having received under his 
roof some shipwrecked Spaniards ; men whom 
the most hardened barbarity would scarcely 
consider as enemies. A little before his execu- 
tion Miler Magrath, appointed Archbishop of 
Cashel, was sent to him, to prevail on him to 
conform. ' No,' said O'Rorke, ' but do you re- 
member the dignity from which you have fallen : 



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he was condemned to death. He was afterwards hanged, beheaded, and quar- 
tered. The death of this Brian was one of the mournful stories of the Irish, 
for there had not been for a long time any one of his tribe who excelled him 
in bounty, in hospitality, in giving rewards for panegyrical poems, in sumptu- 
ousness, in [numerous] troops, in comeliness", in firmness, in maintaining the 
field of battle to defend his patrimony against foreign adventurers, [for all which 
he was celebrated], until his death on this occasian. 

Murrough, the son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of Teige, son of Turlough, 
son of Brian Chatha-an-Aenaigh O'Brien, died at Cathair-Mionain", on the 25th 
of February, and was interred at Kilfenora. 

Margaret, the daughter of Donnell, son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of 
Teige, son of Turlough, son of Brian Chatha-an-Aenaigh O'Brien, and wife of 
Turlough, the son of Brian, son of Donough Mac Mahon, died at Cill-Mic- 
Dubhain°, and was interred in Inis-Catha ; and her sister, Aine, the wife of 
Turlough Roe, son of Teige, son of Murrough, son of Teige Roe Mac Mahon, 
died. 

Donough, the son of Murrough Roe, son of Brian, son of Teige, son of Tur- 
lough, son of Brian Chatha-an-Aenaigh, died on the 8th of February. 

return into the bosom of the ancient Church, and Hardiman, in his, 7mA Minstrelsy, vol. ii. 

and learn from my fortitude that lesson, which p. 427, assert that Queen Elizabeth was struck 

you ought to have been the last on earth to with the noble deportment and manly beauty of 

disavow.' " See also Lombard, de Hih. Comment, O'Rourke, had apartments assigned to him in 

p. 344 ; and the Abbe Mageoghegan's Histoire her palace, and intimated to her Council, that 

d'lreiande, tom. iii. p. 480. she wished herself, privately, to examine him 

The family of O'Rourke seems to have been as to the affairs of Ireland ; but the Editor has 

the proudest and most inflexible of all the Irish not been able to find any authority for this asser- 

race. On the 15th of June, 1576, Sir Brian tion. 

O'Rourke, chief of the Western Breifny, and ° Cathair-Mionain, now Caherminane, a town- 
other Irish chiefs, waited, at Dublin, upon the land in the parish of Killelagh, barony of Cor- 
Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney, who says of comroe, and county of Clare. In the Descrip- 
O'Rourke : " And first of Owrycke^ I found tion of the County of Clare, preserved in the 
hym the proudest man that ever I dealt with Library of Trinity College, Dublin, E. 2. 14, 
in Ireland." — See Letters of Sir Henry Sidney, " Cahirmenayn Castle" is mentioned as the pos- 
vol. i. p. 114. It is curious to see how this session of Teige Mac Murrough [O'Brien], and 
fallen Irish family has found its proud level in placed in the " Baronie of Tuogh-Morey- Conor, 
the present Prince O'Rourke of Russia. or Corkemroe." 

"> Comeliness. — Walker, in his Irish Bards, ° Cill-Mic-Duhhain, i. e. the church of Mac 

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1908 aNNQ^a Rio^hachca eiReawH. [1592. 

* 

UiUiam bupc mac Sfain, mic oiluejicnp, rfnc Sfain do TTia]iba6 le Dume 
uapal Da luce Ifnarhna pfin .1. le halapcjiann mac aoDa biiiDe xiiec DorhnaiU. 

TTlac mec uilliam bdpc .1. uacep na mbuillfD mac RiocaipD mic Sfain an 
cfprnamn, mic maoilip do rhapbab ap lonnj^ai^iD oiDce let Dpuin^ Dia corfi- 
mbpairpib ^aoil 1 ^finealai^ pfin, "1 la cniD Do cloinn nDorhnaill. 

O baoijill roippDealbac puaD mac neill, mic roippbelbai^, aenbaDeapp- 
ccai^re camic Dia bunab ppfirfi 6 cfin mdip pope con^rhala Dam 1 DeopaD 
pfp meDai^re nfirhfD eccailpi 1 ealaoan, ^^cJip^ ct ceneoil ap pele -] emeac, 
Cojbalai^ rpoj "] annppann Do ecc ina longpopc pfin p6 peil bpf^De, -\ a 
aohnacal co nonoip 1 nDun na njall 1 noraiplijhe a pinnpiop. 



aOIS CRIOSC, 1592. 
Qoip Cpiopr, mile, cuicc ceD, nocar, a Do. 

O concobaip pua6 cabcc occ mac caiDcc buiDe, mic cacail piiaiD Do 
cpochaD ap Seppion Ropa comain 1 mi lanuapii cpia cionraib a cloinne 
baccap pop po^ail ~\ pop Dibfipcc 1 naccbaiD copona papcan, "| apamlaiD babf- 
piorh an can pin appaiD anppanD, Dfpabaipc ^e do puaip a oiDheab amlaib 
pin. 

TTlac DiapmaDa mai^e luipcc bpian mac Ruaibpi mic caibcc mic Diap- 
maDa Decc 1 mf nouembep, "] po ba moiDe Dabbap eccaoine ecc an pip pin 
^an a copmail fp Do bfic Do cloinn TTlaolpuanaib Do ^ebab cfnDup Dia eipi. 

TTlac conmapa piabac ci^eapna an caoibe coip do cloinn cuilein.i.Dorhnall 

Dubhaiu, now Maguane. The name is now an- in the bai'ony of Carra, and county of Mayo. — 
glicised Kilmacaduane, Avhich is that of a church See Genealogies, Tribes, ^-c, of Hy-Fiachrach, 



o 



and parish in the barony of Moyarta, and county pp. 157, 197- 

of Clare. This church is mentioned in the Life "* Guaire. — Guaire Aidhne was King of Con- 

of St.Senan (published by Colgan, at 1st March, naught for thirteen years, and died in the year 

c. 44), as subject to the monastery of Inis Ca- 662. He became the personification of genero- 

thaigh, now Scattery Island, in the Shannon, sity among the Irish poets.^See Genealogies, 

near the town of Kilrush. Of the old church Tribes, ^-c. of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 391- 

called Cill Mic Dubhain, the east gable and '' His own fortress. — Besides the seats which 

twenty-five feet of the length of the side walls O'Boyle had in his oAvn territory of Boylagh, 

still remain. he had a castle called Baile Ui Bhaoighill, now 

" Of the TermoH, i. e. of the Termon of Balla, Ballyweel, on the north side of the River Esk, 



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William Burke, the son of John, son of Oliver, son of John, was slain by a 
gentleman of his own followers, namely, by Alexander, the son of Hugh Boy 

Mac Donnell. 

The son of Mac William Burke, namely, Walter of the Blows, the son of 
Rickard, son of John of the Termon", son of Myler, was slain, in an assault at 
night, by a party of his own tribe and kinsmen, and some of the Clann-Don- 

nell. 

O'Boyle (Turlough Roe, the son of Niall, son of Turlough), the most dis- 
tinguished man that had come of his tribe for a long time, a sustaining pillar 
of the learned and the destitute, an exalter of sanctuaries, churches, and science, 
the Guaire*^ of his tribe iri generosity and hospitality, [and] the supporter of 
the poor and the feeble, died at his own fortress"", about the festival of St. Bridget, 
and was interred with honour at Donegal, in the burial-place of his ancestors. 

THE AGE OF CHRIST, 1592. 

The Age of Chiist, one thousand jive hundred ninety-two. 

O'Conor Roe (Teige Oge, son of Teige Boy, son of Cathal Roe) was hanged 
at the session of Roscommon, in the month of January, for the crimes of his 
sons, who were [engaged] in plunder and insufrection against the crown of 
England ; and he was at this time aged, feeble, and blind, though he suffered 
death' in this manner. 

Mac Dermot of Moylurg (Brian, the son of Rory, son of Teige, son of Der- 
mot) died in the month of November; and the death of this man was the more 
to be lamented, because there was no other like him of the Clann-Mulrony^ to 
succeed him in the chieftainship. 

Mac Namara Reagh, Lord of the western part of Clann-Cuilein, i. e. Donnell 

near its inoutli, opposite the monastery of Done- death in that manner." 

gal. On a map of the coasts of Mayo, Sligo, and ' The Clann-Mulromj. — This was the tribe- 
Donegal, preserved in the State Papers' Office, name of the Mac Dermotts of Moylurg, in the 
London, this castle is shewn in the above situa- county of Eoscommon. The Mulrony from whom 
tion under the name of " Ba. O Boile," which is they descend was an O'Connor, and as the Mac 
intended for Bally O'Boil, or O'Boyle's town. Dermots asserted, the senior of all the Qlann- 
^ Suffered death, literally, " found or got his Conor. 



1910 QHwaca Rio^hachca eiReaww. [I592. 

piabac nific conrmfDa, mie oonncham, mic Puaibyii, mic meccon cTnnrhoiii Decc 
1 1 peb]iua|iii pecqi ccnrrheac con^aijieac, oeaplmcrec, oaonnacrac eiy^ibe. 

Ouine uapal t)o j-^iol aoba oecc ipin m\ ceona .1. Sfan r.a ngfirhleac mac 
coninapa mic mar^arhna, mic aoba. 

TTlop in^Tn Gonncham, mic Sfain, mic maolpuanaib na pepoicce mic caibcc 
HI cfjibaill, bfn rfific ui byiiain ajia 00 ecc, bfn yio cair a haimfiyi co mair, "| 
r>o paccaib an paoTi;;al ^an araip ^an imbeayiccab. 

Cainlin in^fn oorhnaill, mic pin^in, mic Oiapmaoa an Diinaib mej caprai^ 
bfn caibcc mic copbmaic oicc, mic copbmaic, mic raibcc meg caprai^, bfn 
ceilli^, cpaiboeac oepcac, oeigeini^ t)o ecc lap mbuaib 6 bfrhan, 6 boriian, 1 
6 oaoinib. 

rOac uf meacaip Sfan an ^ijlfnoa mac romaip Oecc. 

bupcai^ Ramn mec uilliam uile co na liicu Ifnarhna 00 bol ap a ccoimecr 
-] lap ppiop pccel Don ^obepnoip Sip Ripoepo bingam 00 coib 1 cconncae 
mai^e eo 50 mbaccap bailee an cipe plan "] bpipue ap a cumap .1. Dun na 

" Maccon Ceannmhor, i. e, Maccon of the Big Crossfield, in the county of Leitrim, on the 4th 

Head. of February, 1696, in the eightieth year of his 

^ Warlike. — The adjective conjaipeac denotes age. He had two daughters, Finola, who was 

" having troops or companies." See the year married to Teige O'Rody, of Fenagh, in the 

1598, where conjuip, the substantive from county of Leitrim, and Mary, who married 

which this adjective is formed, is used in the Murtough, son of Donnell, son of Turlough 

sense of " troop or company of men." O'Brien ; and three sons : 1, John, his heir, who 

y Son of Hugh. — In a manuscript, transcribed died in the county of Clare, on the 23rd of 

by Maurice Newby in 1715, now in the posses- September, 169-1. 2, Donough, a most accom- 

sion of Myles John O'Reilly, Esq., the pedigree plished linguist, musician, and poet, who died at 

of this Hugh is given as follows : Moyreask, in the county of Clare, on the l6th 

'• Hugh, son of Philip, son of Cumara, son of of July, 1692, in the thirty-fifth year of his age. 

Loughlin, son of Maccon, son of Loughlin, son 3, Mahou, who had a daughter, Mary, who lived 

of Cumeadha M'or, the stirpes of all the Sil- with her aunt, Finola, the wife of Teige O'Eody 

Aedha, son of John, son of Maccon, son of of Crossfield, from the year 1692, when she was 

Loughlin, son of Cumeadha, son of Niall, son of eight years old, till 1 701, when she was married, 

Cumara, son of Donnell, son of Cumara, the in her seventeenth year, to Calvagh, the son of 

progenitor from whom the Mac Namaras have Turlough, son of Niall Oge, son of Niall O'Mel- 

derived their surname. The John na nGeimh- aghlin. There is a curious poem, in English, on 

leach in the text was the ancestor of the Mac the death of Donough, the second son of Do- 

Namaras of Moyreask, in the county of Clare. nough above mentioned, by-Teige O'Rody, in 

He had a son, John Eeagh, who had a son which he gives the date of his death in the fol- 

Donough, who died at Achadh-na-Croise, or lowing quatrain : 



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1911 



Reagh, the son of Cumeadha, son of Donough, son of Rory, son of Maccon 
Ceannmhor", died on the 11th of February. He was a sumptuous, warlike"", 
bountiful, and humane man. 

In the same month a gentleman of the Sil-Aedha died, i.e. John-na-nGeimh- 
leach, son of Cumara, son of Mahon, son of Hugh^ [Mac Namara]. 

More, the daughter of Donough, son of John, son of Mulrony-na-Feasoige, 
son of Teige O' Carroll, and wife of Mac-I-Brien Ara, died. She had spent a 
good life, and departed this world without disgrace or reproach. 

Catherine, the daughter of Donnell, son of Fineen, son of Dermot-an-Duna 
Mac Carthy, and wife of Teige, the son of Cormac Oge, son of Cormac, son of 
Teige Mac Carthy, a sensible, pious, charitable, and truly hospitable woman, 
died, after having gained the victory over the world, the Devil, and the people. 

The son of O'Meagher (John of the Glen, the son of Thomas) died. 

All the Burkes, of Mac William's country, with their followers, went on 
their defence ; and when the Governor, Sir Richard Bingham, had received 
intelligence of this, he proceeded into the county of Mayo, and all the castles of 
the country, both perfect and broken, were in his power, namely, Dun-na-mona"", 



" Thy living Vaticau, poor Ireland ! now is dead, 
Thy records sleep in their eternal bed ; 
One thousand years, six hundred, ninety-two, 
June the sixteenth most latall was to you." 

He also composed the following epitaph for 
him, which was probably inscribed on his tomb ; 
but it is not now in the abbey of Quin : 

" Donatus junior, Donati Mara Joannis, 
Conditur hoc busto, pro dolor! exiguo. 
Hie tenuit quicquid claris ab origine Mundi, 
Mandarat fastis tristis lerna suis. 
Hispanus, Gallus, Graecus, pr^clarus Hi- 

bernus, 
Anglus et Hebraius conditur hoc tumulo, 
Musicus atque sophus logus hac Theo con- 
ditur urna, 
Scrutator Thomaj, Scoti, et Aristotellis." 

To this Maurice Newby, who seems to have 
been acquainted with Donatus junior, appends 
the following memorandum : 



"■ This said gentleman died at Mureske, in 
the county of Clare, on Thursday, June 16°, 
1 692 ; was buried in Quinn Abbey ; was bred with 
Mr. Thady Roddy from a Virgilian ; acquii'ed 
all the above languages by his indefatigable- 
studies and profound witt ; spoke French and 
Spanish ; read Greek and Hebrew ; was most per- 
fect in Latin, and compleat master of the Irish." 

The last of this branch of the Mac Namaras 
was John Mac Namara, of Moyreask, Esq., who 
died about twenty years since. He had mar- 
ried a Miss De Burgh, by whom he had an only 
daughter, who married Daniel O'Brien, of Crat- 
loe, Esq. His brother, Francis Mac Namara, 
died, s. p. in 1813. 

^ Dun-na-inona, now Dunamona, a townland 
containing the ruins of a castle, situated near 
the boundary of the j^arishes of Rosslee and 
Drum, in the barony of Carra. This castle 
belonged to a branch of the O'Kellys, who 
removed from Hy-Many and settled here un- 



1912 . QMNaca Rioshachca eiKeaHH. , [1592. 

mona, cuil na ccaipol, an jaoifi'cceac, ■] an cUiainin. Uuccpac bupcaij 
lonny^aigiD a]i an nsobeyinoip co cuil na ccaipiol, -] ]io bob oio^balaigi laD 
pfm 05 pilleab Doib ind an jobepnoip. Po cuip an ^obepnoiji laji ym pfonaca 
cpoma DO buanaoaib galloa "| gaoibealca oiappaio na mbupcac pin baccap 
pop oibfipcc "I pop po^ail p6 cfnoaib cnoc cfnDjapb, "] coillcib noopac noluir- 
airhpeiD. Nip bo cian po bdcrap pop an lappaib pin an ran po puiopiou gup 
an ngobepnoip 50 Ifon cpeac 1 gabdl, 50 imbpai^Dib ban "] pfp, co mbuaib, -] 
CO ccaipbb lomoaib. Uangacap bupcaig lap pin po bpfic an gobepnopa acu 
mac t)frhain an coppain .1. ]?ipDepo mac Riocai]iD. Po pealbaij an gobepnoip 
bailee an ci'pe 60 pfin a liugoappapan ppionnpa, "] po paccaib Seon binggam, 
1 banoaba uaba pfin agd niomcoirhecc. 

Clob puab mac aoba, mic magnupa iif boitinaill baf pibe i ccapcaip, -| 
1 cciiimpeac in dr cliar lapp an cceona helub 50 geimpfb na bbabna po. 
Q mbdccap ann 1 nupropac oibce (eippiurh ~[ a aep cumca .1. clann uf neill 
.1. Sfan enpi 1 apu) puapaccap ell popp na coimeoaijib piapiu 00 paca tpin 
bppoinnci^ 50 po bfnpacc a ngfirhle bfob. Do corcap laporh gup an ppiail- 
ceac, -] ceo pepfb pforpoDa led co po leicciu [fop lap na puainfmnaib rpiap 
an ppiailcig co piaccarcap an cclapaij comoorhain baf 1 ccimcell an caip- 

der the Lower Mac William. According to Burke, in Carra, and who made the road called 

Duald Mac Firbis's genealogical work (Lord Bothar-na-faine. According to the tradition in 

Roden's copy), p. 324, this castle was built by the country, the O'Kellys of Dun-na-mona re- , 

Henry Reagh O' Kelly, (the son of Edmond, son moved to Tiranare, in the barony of Burrishoole, 

of David, son of John, Airchinneach, or Erenagh where they still remain. The following inscrip- 

of Tuam, son of Melaghlin, son of William, son tion is to be seen on the tombstone of this fa- 

of Hugh, son of Donnell, son of Loughlin, son mily, in the abbey of Burrishoole : 
of Donnell More, son of Teige Tailltenn), head " Orate pro anima Davidis Oge Kelly, 

of that sept of the O'Kelly's called Clann-an- qui me fieri fecit sibi et heredibus suis, et 

Airchinnigh, who settled in Carra in the time of uxoRis Mabla Barret. A. D. 1623." 
Edmond-na-Feasoige Mac William Burke ; and From AValter, the last inheritor of Dun-ua- 

it remained in the possession of the family for mona, the late Rev. Walter Kelly, 0. S. A., of the 

four generations, that is, from the time of convent of Ballyhaunis, in the county of Mayo, 

Henry Reagh, the first erector, down to Walter was the fifth in descent. David Oge, mentioned 

(sonof David, son of Myler, son of Henry Reagh), in the above inscription, was the son of David, 

who was the last inheritor. Henry Reagh, the and brother of Walter. He had a son, Walter 

builder of the castle of Dun-na-mona, had a Grana. Avho had a son, Patrick, Avho had a son, 

nephew, William (son of David, son of Edmond), Weaker, a priest ; a daughter, Sarah, the grand- 

who also lived under the Lower Mac William motherof the Rev. Walter Kelly, who was pater- 



1592.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1913 

Cuil-na-gCaisiol, Gaoisideach-\ and Cluainin''. The Burkes made an attack 
upon the Governor at Cuil-na-gCaisiol*'; but they were more harmed on their 
return than the Governor. After this the Governor dispatched heavy troops 
of EngUsh and Irish soldiers to search for the Burkes, who were in rebellion 
and [engaged in] plundering, on the rugged mountain-tops, and in the bushy 
dense and intricate woods. They [the soldiers] had not been long in this search, 
when they returned to the Governor with many preys and spoils, with prisoners, 
[both] women and men, and with many cows and horses. After this, [all] the 
Burkes, except the son of Deamhan-an-Chorrain, namely, Richard, the son of 
Rickard**, came and submitted to the award of the Governor ; upon which the 
Governor, by authority of the Sovereign, took the castles of the country into 
his own possession, and left John Bingham and companies of his own' [soldiers] 
to guard them. 

Hugh Roe, the son of Hugh, son of Manus O'Donnell, remained in Dublin, 
in prison and in chains, after his first escape, to the winter of this year. One 
evening he and his companions, Henry and Art, the sons of O'Neill (John), 
before they had been brought^ into the refection house, took an advantage of 
tlie keepers, and knocked off their fetters. They afterwards went to the privy- 
house, having with them a very long rope, by the loops of which they let them- 
selves down through the privy-house, until they reached the deep trench that 

nally descended from Walter, the last inheritor townland in the parish of Ballinrobe, barony of 

of the castle of Dun-na-mona. Thus : Walter, Kilmaine, and county of Mayo. According to 

son of John, son of Patrick, son of Walter, son the tradition in the country, Sir Richard Bing- 

of David, son of Walter, the last proprietor of ham murdered sixteen women of the Burke 

Dun-na-mona, son of David, son of Myler, son family in thjs castle, 
of Henry Reagh, the founder of this castle. •* Richard. — Sir Henry Docwra calls him, 

* Gaoisideach, now Gweeshadan, a castle in " Riccard Bourke, alias the Divell's Hook's 

ruins in the parish of Drum, in the barony of sonne." Dockwra says, that "these men uppon 

Carra. — Hij-Fiachrach, p, 491. their submission were so pyned awaye IFor wante 

'' Cluainin, i. e. the little lawn or meadow, of ffoode, and soe ghasted with feare, within 

now Clooneen, a townland containing the ruins seven or eight weeks, by reason they were so 

of a castle in the parish of Kilmore, in the said roundlye ftollowed without any interim of rest, 

barony of Carra. that they looked rayther like to ghosts then 

"= Cuil-na-gCaisiol This name is translated men." — Relation of Services, SfC. by Sir Bingham, 

angulum murorum by P. O'Sullevan Beare. It Mus. Brit. Harl., No. 357, fol. 235. 
is now corruptly written Cloonagashel, and ^ Before they had been brought, recte, ''hetove the 

sometimes Cloona Castle, which is applied to a hour for going to dinner or supper had arrived." 

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1914 QHwaca Rio^hachua eiReawn. [1592. 

ceoil. Ro Dpinjpfc laparii ppif an Tnb]iuac allcajiac 50 nnbdcra]i pop up na 
clapac. baof giolla caipipi 05 cauai^ibe ciica 1 uaDaib,"] po Ificcpoc a ]iun 

pyiip, 1 00 pala cuca an can pin e co mbaof aj Denarh eolaip Doib. Corcap 

^ Until. — This construction is redundant. The gare, says that one of their keepers assisted them 

probability is that they were hauled up, by in this escape ; but his account of the manner of 

iiieans of the rope, from the trench by the trusty their escape is drawn almost wholly from his own 

servant sent to conduct them. Cox had no imagination. The following account of it is 

knowledge of the recommittal of the son of given by P. O'Sullevan Beare, Avho also appears 

O'Donnell. He writes that in December, 1590, to have invented a few incidents, to give interest 

" four considerable prisoners escaped out of the to the narrative ; but it is quite evident that 

castle of Dublin, not without the privity of a neither the O'Clerys, nor O'Sullevan, nor Hugh 

great man, well bribed, as was supposed, viz. : Roe himself, knew the secret practices of Hugh, 

the two sons of Shane O'Neal, O'Donell's son, Earl of Tyrone, who bribed the corrupt Lord 

and Philip O'Reilly; but the weather being Deputy Fitz- William, to get these prisoners into 

very bad, and the journey tedious, Art O'Neal, his own hands: 

one of the prisoners, dyed by the way, but the " Paucis post diebus ex Vltoniorum obsidibus 

rest escaped to Ulster, where the two sons of Hugo Odonellus Ruber, Daniel Macsuinnius 

Shane O'Neal fell into the power and possession Coeruleus, & Huon Ogallachur, de quibus supe- 

of the Earl of Tyrone, an7io 1594, who kept rius locuti sumus, ex arce Dubhlinnensi fugiunt, 

them prisoners, and would by no means enlarge Cfeterum Ruber in Felmium Otuehilem equi- 

them, or deliver them to the Deputy." — Hib. tern Ibernum, & Reginaj ministros incidit. Fel- 

Angl., vol. i. p. 400. mius statuit eum inuitis regijs ministris dimit- 

8 Visiting them, literally, " was frequenting tere, haud dubius se fortunarum iacturam fac- 
to them and from them," i. e. he was used to turum, & in discrimen venturum. Quod malum 
bring messages to them, and to bear messages timens Rosa Nituehil Felmij soror, & Fiachi Ob- 
from them to their friends. According to the ruinis vxor, fratri persuasit, vt suae, atque Rubri 
Life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, by Cucogry simul saluti consuleret : idque ilium facturum, 
O'Clery, this youth was named Turlough Roe si eanocte Rubrum apud se retineret in Kehino 
(J'Hogan, i. e. O'Hagan. He was Tyrone's ser- Castello (caislean Kehin, ?'ec^e Caiplean Caoim- 
vant of trust, employed on this occasion to bribe jin) donee a marito suo Fiacho cum armatis 
the Lord Deputy, Fitz- William, for allowing veniente, quasi inuito Felmio in libertatem as- 
the prisoners to escape. Tyrone's object in seratur, nam magis fratri cauendum censuit, 
procuring the liberation of these prisoners was quam marito qui iam solitus erat rebellare, vi- 
twofold ; first, to obtain the assistance of his tamque contra Protestantes, & pro eorum hos- 
promising brother-in-law, Hugh Roe O'Donnell, tibus vouere. Quo consilio probato, Fiachus 
and to get Shane O'Neill's legitimate sons into cum armata manu Rubro opitulatum contendit. 
his own hands, that it might not be in the Prorex quoque Dubhlinna; certior factus cohor- 
power of the Government to set them up as his tem mittit, qua; Rubrum vinctum trahat. Ea 
rivals in his premeditated rebellion. Doctor nocte tarn copiose pluit, vt aqua ripas inteiecti 
O'Conor, in his suppressed work, Memoirs of the fluminis egrediente, circumiectosque campos 
Life and Writings of Charles 0' Conor of Belana- inundante nullo modo potuerit Fiachus vada 



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was around the castle. They cHmbed the outer side, until they were*^ on the 
margin of the trench. A certain faithful youth, who was in the habit of visiting 
them^, and to whom they had communicated their secret, came to them at this 



traijcere. Interim Angli, qui flumine non pror 
hibebantur, Kubrum Dubhlinnam deferunt. 
Vbi in eadem arce diligentiori custodis manda- 
tur, in vincula quoque coniectus. Iterum die- 
bus [recte, mensibus] aliquot transactis cum 
Henrico, & Arto Onellis loliannis principis filijs, 
qui eodem carcere tenebantur agit, quemadmo- 
dum sese in libertatem vindicent. Quod etiam 
consilium cum Eduardo Eustatio puero amico 
suo, & cum acerrimo Protestantium hoste Fiacbo 
communicat. Eduardus puer se illi ad fug am 
daturum quatuor equos pollicetur. Fiachus 
itineris ducem, qui ilium domum suam ad Mu- 
luriam syluam ducat, & inde in Vltoniam a se 
incolumem mittendum promittit. Ad constitu- 
tam noctem Euber limam comparauit, qua vin- 
culorum clauos sibi, Henrico & Arto scidit, & 
sericam telam longissimam, qiia se dimitterent 
ex arcis celsse fastigio. Intempesta nocte supe- 
riore telae extremitate ad latrinam ligata, Hen- 
ricus primus capta tela manibus, & inter crura 
per latrinam descendit, nee socios spectans in 
Vltoniam itinere arrepto incolumis euasit. Se- 
quitur Ruber, qui Artum spectauit. Artus, 
dum prjeceps per telam fertur, lapide ex cloaca 
forte cadente, male vexatur, vixque se susti- 
nendo est aptus. Eduardus puer, qui equos 
promiserat, quatuor velocissimos ephippijs in- 
structos per tres proximos ante dies in stabulo 
habebat, sed illo die eo inscio peregre ablati 
sunt ab amico. Itineris dux a Fiacho missus 
prope arcem praestolabatur, qui ea nocte, dieque 
sequente Rubrum, & Artum per avia, vastaque 
loca duxit, ne interciperentur. Tempus erat 
hybernum paucis diebus ante Dominici natalis 
festum, & loca alta niue obruta. Ob id -Ruber, 
qui longo itinere, velocique cursu calceos con- 
sumpsit pedibus iam nudis niuis rigorem, loco- 

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rumque asperitatem superans, vngues vtriusque 
poUicis pedum amisit niue combiistos, & auulsos. 
Artus, etsi calceos firmiores habebat, lapidis 
tamen casu grauiter afflictus longum, & asperum 
iter asgre metiens Rubrum tardabat. Satis fessi 
ad noctem perueniunt in subterraneum specum 
non multis milibus passuum ab sedibus Fiachi. 
Ibique relictis, vt constitutum erat, dux rem 
nunciatum ad Fiachum tetendit. Duo iuuenes, 
qui toto die currentes nihil cibi caeperant, fame 
cruciabantur, tamen itinere lassi alto somno 
sopiti noctem transegerunt. lamque die secundo 
sol praicipitabat, & nullus a Fiacho remissus est. 
Tertio die inedia premente, Arte, inquit Ruber, 
en animantia bruta herba, & fronde pascuntur^ 
Igitur nos etiam, qui quamuis rationis participes 
simus, tamen animalia quoque sumus, eadem 
breuem inediam toleremu^ donee a fido Fiacho 
cibus suppeditetur. Itaque proximae arboris 
frondes mandit, i& deuorat, sed oblatas renuit 
Artus. Interim Fiachus nullum lapidem non 
mouebat, vt illis cibum subministraret, diu pro- 
hibitus ab illis, qui eius suspecti hominis vel 
leuissimos gestus, & motus notabant. Denique 
ad tertiam noctem, per milites quatuor cibum 
misit. Artus lapidis casu, longaque inedia con- 
fectus nee in os impouere cibum, nee impositum 
a Rubro, & militibus mandere poterat, Ruber, 
qui validior erat, et frondibus linquentes vires 
non nihil retinuit, socio efflante animam coram 
prce moerore comedere recusabat : tamen Arto 
e conspectu remote se cibo reficere a militibus 
cogitur. Postquam perturbatio,' & tumultus 
eorum, qui Rubrum inquirebant, sedatum est, 
Arto inhumato Ruber pedibus seger in Fiachi 
domum delatus clam curatur, curatumque Fia- 
chus per Vaterum Giraldinum Fuscum in Vlto- 
niam ad Comitem Tironiuu, Tironus ad Macgui- 

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1916 aNNQca Rio^hachua eiReawN. [1592. 

lajiarh C]ie |']mit)ib na caqiac 1 rrjiecuTnafc cdic,"| nf ca|iD neach Dia ui6 lao 
ace arhail ^ac naon aile uai]i ni po anpar luce an baile Do rarai^m an can 
fin, 1 jioprap oBela oplaicre Doipp na carpac. Rangaucap laparh cpe ^ac 
niombopaio -\ rpe ^ac nairhpeiD 50 puaccaccap pop pfi6 an puaiD pleibe 
cpiap a nneachaiD ao6 ipin ceo elu6. Ro foapy^ccap Dopcaca na hoibce -] 
rinofniip an T:eicVn6(ap iiarhan a cco^pania) an ri bet pine ofob ppiii .i. Giipi 
o neill, Q06 ba poarh ofob ap aof naoipi ^lon gup bo he ap aof noipbfpcaip. 
Nip bo paoilij laoporh rpe foappccapab enpi ppiii, ap a aoi po ^abpac a^ 
apccnarh pfnipa, -| a ppfp miiinnpe ace oenarh eolaip Doib. bai an aoliaiTJ; 
aj; pniDe pneacra ^u ndp bo ponain^ Doibpiurh a piubaliiaip bdoap ^an eoac 
^an popbpuca lap ppdgbdil a niiaccaipeappaiD ipm ppiailci^ cpep a rran- 
^arcap. 5d moa po infipcni«^ea6 apu ppip an oianapcap iria ao6, iiaip bd 
cian pooa 6 po cuimpigeanh eppibe, "] do c6i6 1 crpoma anboill cpe poo a 
corhnaibe ipin ccapcaip 1 mbaof. Mip bo harnlaib pin oao6, nf.]iamicc cap 
aofp macDQCca, -j nf po anapcaip opdp no DionpopUaipc an lonbaib pm, 1 bd 
huccmall epccaib a cfnimn>"i a mnreacc. O po aipij^ pium Qpc a^d enip- 
rniccbab "] aiolfipcce "| lonmoille a ceime po pupail paip a lamb 00 cop pop 
a ^iialainn baoem,"j an lam aile pop ^uaUnrm an ^ille. Uia^aiD app aiiilaib 
pm 50 pan^accap cap an pliab puab. Poboap i^cfri^ coippig laparh, "] nf po 
peopac ape led ni ba pia, -] 6 na po ciimain^y^ior a bpfir led 00 ponpar 
aipipfm 1 corhnaibe 1 ppopcab allbpuaic lomapn baoi pop a ccionn. lap 
nanmain 061b annpaibe ]io cuippioc an ^lolla uabaib Id pgelaib 50 ^IfnO 
ihaoilu^pa aijim 1 paibe piacha mac aoba baof 1 neccjiqccap ppi gallaibh. 
Jl^H'f^^ tjain^fn oioro;^laiTifi 6pme,i no j^ndfai^joip opon^j mop Do ^lallaib aca 

rem, & Macguier ad ipsiiis patreiii Hugonein tlit! luinds ot' his enemy, Hugli, Earl ot' Tyrone, 

Odonellum Tirconella? principem mittit." — His- who wonld neither enlarge him, nor deliver 

lorice Catholicce IhernicK Compendium, 'J'om. 3, liim ii)) to the Lord' Deputy. 

lib. 2, c. iv. fol. 125. " They locre <jrieved, literally, "not joyous 

This account of the escape of the Ulster hos- were they at the separation of Henry from 

tages is curious, but it does not appear perfectly them." P. O'Sullevan Beare states that Ileniy 

accurate. First, FellmO'Toole was not of Castle- made his Avay into Ulster; and he might have 

kevin, and Fiagh did not leave Hugh Ri:ic O'Don- added, that he was there thrown into a worse 

nell and Art O'Neill Jbr three days without food. prison than that from which he had escaped, liy 

Bvit it is perfectly true that Henry O'Neill, of the Earl of Tyrone, who feared that the English 

whom the Four Masters lose sight altogether, would set him up as a rival to him in his me- 

made his escape into Ulster, where he fell into dituted rebellion. It appears from a letter writ- 

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time, and guided them. They then proceeded through the streets of the city, 
mixing with the people ; and no one took more notice of them than of any one 
else, for they did not delay at that time to become acquainted with the people 
of the town ; and the gates of the city were wide open. They afterwards pro- 
ceeded by every intricate and difficult place, until they arrived upon the surface 
of tlie Red Mountain over which Hugh had passed in his former escape. The 
darkness of the night, and the hurry of their flight (from dread of pursuit)* 
separated the eldest of them from the rest, namely, Henry O'Neill. Hugh was 
the greenest of them with respect to years, but not with respect to prowess. 
They were grieved" at the separati(m of Henry from them ; but, however, they 
proceeded onwards, their servant guiding them along. That night was snowing, 
so that it was not easy for them to walk, for they were without [sufficient] 
clothes or coverings, having left their outer garments behind them in the privy- 
house, through which they had escaped. Art was more exhausted by this rapid 
journey than Hugh, for he had been a long time in captivity, and had become 
very corpulent from long confinement in the prison'. It w^as not so with Hugh ; 
he had not yet passed the age of boyhood, and had not [yet] done growing and 
increashig at this period, and his pace and motion were quick and rapid. When 
he perceived Art had become feeljle, and that his step was beconung inactive 
and slow, he requested him to place one arm upon his own shoulder, and the 
other upon that of the servant. In this manner they proceeded on their way, 
until they had crossed the Red ^Mountain, after which they were weary and 
fatigued, and unable to help Art on any further ; and as they were not able to 
take him with them, they stopped to rest under the shelter of a high rocky 
precipice which lay before them. On halting here, they sent the servant t(3 
bring the news to Glenmalur, where dwelt Fiagh, the son of Hugh [O'Byrne], 
who was then at war with the English. This is a secure and impregnable 



ten on the l!^th August, 1602, by the LordDe-^ 
jiuty Mountjoy, to Cecil, that Henry O'Neal, 
the eldest son of Shane O'Neal, had then broken 
out of prison, and that his brother had done the 
like long before. And his Lordship adds: " But 
as things stand now, I do not see any great use 
to be made qf them ; and I fear 1 shall be more 
troubled with them than if they were still where 



tliey were. To-morrow (by the grace of God), 
1 am again going into the held, as near as 1 can, 
utterly to waste the Country of Tyrone, &c." — 
See Morysori's History of Ireland, edition of 
1735, vol. iii. p. 190. 

' In the prison, literally, '* in the prison in 
which he was," which is redundant even 'in 
Irish. P. O'Sullevun Beare states, that Art was 



1918 QNHaca Rio^hachca eiReanw. [1592. 

cliar an can t)o elaicrip aff ool gup an nglfno fpin aji bd hinnill leo bfir 
armpame ceo ccia^oaif t>ia ccip. O Rainic an giolla ^iip an mai^in i mbaof 
piaca acpeD a pcela bo,-] arhail ]\o pdccaib na hocca po ela ap an ccarpai^, 
-] n«c bepraoi i mbfcbaiD poppa muna ciopca Dia ccobaip accpaicce. T?o 
popconjaip piaca p6 ceooip pop opuin^ Dia aop ^paba (ooneoc poboap raipipi 
laip Dib) ool Dia pai^ib, "] pfp p6 biu6 i peap aile p6 bonn i copmaim leo. 
Do ponab paippiurh inopin,"] pan5aucap bail i mbaucap na piopa. TTlonuap 
nfp bo poinrheac pabal bdccapporh pop a ccionn, uaip apiao poboap eD^aba 
oia ccoppaib aineacraip colBaba cmrhaip^eala cloicpneacca ace peob t)d 
^ac Ifr rnnpa, ~\ ace lOTriuaim a nionap nuipeccpoin, "] a ppeabannleincib 
pndrcaol ppi a ccnfpaib,-] a nappan inileabap,"] a niallacpann ppi a noipcnib, 
1 rpoi^cib 5iip bo parhalca lap na piopa Dup painie ndp bo oaoine icip lac 
lap net niompolac ipin pneacra uaip ni puaippior bfogab ina mballaib ace 
arhail bacfp maipb. Ro rogbab leo lat) ap a lije, -] po piipailpiou poppa nf 
Don bmb "i t)on lionn Do rocairfni, ~\ nf ppiu uabaib iDip uaip ^ac Deoc no 
eaboaip no rel5Dip gan puipeac, conab ann pin arbac ape po beoib, ~\ po 
liabnacc an Dii pin. Odla Qoba po congaib pibe lap pin an copmaim,'] po 
barrap a bpfoja pop popbaipc lap nd bol ace a bi coip namd, uaip ap am- 
laib baceaippiDe ina mballaib mapba ^an moruccab lap nac "] lonbolgab 
pip an pfob "] pip an pneacca. Ro cuippioc na pip pop lomcap eippium gup 
an nglionn aopubpamap, -| bai i ucig ofippic i nDiarhaip an Dluirpfba agd 
leigfp 50 ccdinicc ceacca 50 Dicelca Dia piop peel 6 a cliamain an napla 
6 Nfill. Ro cpiallporh imceacc lappin lap mbpfir Don reacca paip. bd 
Doili^ Doporh Dol ipm rupap pin uaip nf po peDab l^^fp Dia cpoigrib gup bd 

severely hurt by a stone, which had fallen acci- ceived him with shouts of exultation, mingled 

dentally upon him in his descent from the privy. with expressions of the most implacable animo- 

j Instantly, i cqiairce. — See note ' under the sity to the English name : one kissed his feet, 

year 1590, p. 1899, sujjra. another clasped his hands, and the peasantry 

•^ In a sequestered house — He was placed in crowded into the castle to salute with their 

this house from fear of pursuit. Dr. O'Conor usual expressions of respect and veneration the 

ornaments the simple style of the annalists, in young representative of the house of O'Donnel. 

his account of the second escape of Hugh Roe Feasts were immediately prepared ; the harpers 

O'Donnell, asfollows, in his Jll/e?«om<f, ^-c. p. 108: swept the history of his illustrious family on 

" O'Donnel was carried on men's backs to the the strings of their musical instruments, accom- 

defile of Glyn Malura. Here the O'Beirnes" panied with rhapsodies of their own invention. 

[O'ByrnesJ "came out to meet him, and re- Messengers were dispatched to the old Earl of 



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1919 



valley ; and many prisoners who escaped from Dublin were wont to resort to 
that valley, for they considered themselves secure there, until they could return 
to their own country. When the servant came into the presence of Fiaa,h, he 
delivered his message, and how he had left the youths who had escaped from 
the city, and [stated] that they would not be overtaken alive unless he sent 
them relief instantly\ Fiagh immediately ordered some of his servants of trust 
(those in w^hom he had most confidence) to go to them, taking with them a 
man to carry food, and another to carry ale and beer. This was accordingly 
done, and they arrived at the place where the men were. Alas ! , unhappy and 
miserable was their condition on their arrival. Their bodies were covered aver 
with white-bordered shrouds of hail-stones freezing around them on every 
side, and their light clothes and line-threaded shirts too adhered to their skin ; 
and their large shoes and leather though to their shins and feet ; so that, 
covered as they were with the snow% it did not appear to the men who had 
arrived that they were human beings at all, for they found no life in their 
members, but just as if they were dead. They were raised by them from their 
bed, and they requested of them to take some of the meat and drink ; but this 
they were not able to avail themselves of, for every drink they took they rejected 
again on tlie instant ; so that Art at length died, and was buried in that place. 
As to Hugh, after some time, he retained the beer ; and, after drinking it, his 
energies were restored, except the use of his two feet, for they were dead mem- 
bers, without feeling, swollen and blistered by the frost and snow. The men 
carried him to the valley which we have mentioned, and he was placed in a 
sequestered house", in a solitary part of a dense wood, where he remained under 
cure until a messenger came privately from his brother-in-law, the Earl O'Neill, 
to inquire after him. When the messenger arrived, he [Hugh] prepared to 
depart. It was difficult for him to undertake that journey, for his feet could 



Tyrone, and soon after young O'Donnel set out 
for his own country. 

" Mean time the Lord Deputy posted guards 
on all the fords of the LifFey, to prevent his 
escape ; but Fiagh, escorted by a party of horse, 
galloped forward with him towards Dublin, 
foreseeing that the fords near the capital Avould 
not be so well guarded, since government could 



not suspect that he would hazard so close an 
approach. Here O'Donnel and he embraced 
each other with tears, and then, attended only 
by eight horsemen, he took his Avay through 
Meath, Stradbally, Sliabh Fuad, Armagh, Dun- 
gannon, to the shore of Logh Earne, where, after 
escaping a variety of dangers, he was joyfully 
received by the brave Hugh Maguire, and con- 



1920 aNNQca Rio^hachca eiReaww. [1592. 

hfi^fn 06 neoc ele a rup^bail po]i a eoc, -] a ^abail eriji a nib larhaib Do 
|ii6ipi an ran no rajiblainjfD. Ro cui]i piacha rn'pim mapcac ipin abai^ laip 
50 painic rap abamn lipe oia imof^ail pop na celccaib bacap p6 a epcoriiaip, 
iiaip no cualarcap ^oill aua cliar 50 paibe Q06 1 n^lionn rhaoflu^pa, cona6 
aipe pin po cuippioc luce coimeoa pop draib eDoimne na babann co na 
pa^^QD C(o6, 1 na bpai^oe po ela amaille ppip raippib 1 ccoicceaD ula6. 6a 
bficcTn no na boccaib bdrap 1 ppappaD ao6a ^abail a bpocciip 00 carpai^ 
niiiblinne rap ar noopam nionnnorhain bai" pop abamn lipe co pangaoap j^an 
popcloipceacr Do na gallaib co mbdcrap po)i pairce an Diiine. l?o baf 
an liicx lap po rpecceaD porn peacr piarh (lapp an cceDna heluD .1. pdim 
o ruafail co na bparaip) 1 crpecumapcc an Dfopnna a^d rpeopnccab ^up an 
nil pin,-] po cfngailpioc a ccoDac "| a ccaipDfp ]ie a poile. 'Ciomnaiu celeab- 
pa6 60, 1 pdccbaiD bOlDacrain occa, 1 pgapaic ppip annpin. 

Dala Qo6a ui oorhnaill nf baf ina pocaip acr an caon occlaoc Do Deoch- 
aiD pop a lapaip ipin njlionn oipDeapc do Thuircip Qoba uf neill, -| no labpaD 
rfnj^a na ruuar nfcrpann,") no bioD Do ^pep 1 ppocaip an lapla (.1. ao6 o neill) 
an ran no cfigfD 1 mfpcc ^all ^up bo heolac,"] gup bo Dana in gac conaip baof 
pop a cionn. Cocap lapaiti pop a nDib neacaib dna uDmalla pop poDaib 
paofn nDip^e na mi6e co pangaccap pop bpu na boinne pia maDain fb goipiD 
o opoicfc aca piap, "] pobcap orhnaig im jabail gup an ccarpaig fpin conaD 
e nf no ponpac gabdil Id hup na habann 50 bai]iin 1 mbfoD lapccaipe Di'nnirh 
Deapoil, 1 aprpac bfcc occa pe biomloccaD. Do coiD Qob ipin ccupac co po 
pdccaib an ciomapcopraig e popp an mbpuac allcapac lap rrabaipc a Idn 
loige DO. Uicc pfji muinnuipe aoDa ina ppiring,-] gabaiDlap na be'ocha rpep 
an ccarpaig, -] no bepc 50 haob lan Don raob apaill Don abainn. Uiagair 
pop a neacaib,"] locrap co nibdnap bd rhfle on abainn. Qd cian Doipe nopac 
nio^amn pop a ccionn an conaip po gabpac, "| niinclab nfrhop ina nmcell 
aiTiail bib Uibgopc po.piaca. Ro baf Dunapup aipbipc Id hocclac naipfgba 

liuctcd by water to his father's castle of Bally- servant of trust being afraid to bring Hugh 

shannon. O'Donnell publicly through the streets of 

' Theii were afraid This artless style could Drogheda, rode with him along the south bank 

be easily improved ; but the Editor Avill allow of the Boyne, to where he knew there was a 
the Four Masters their own mode of telling ferry, kept by a poor man, who earned his live- 
stories. It should be stated thus : " Tyrone's lihood partly by fishing and partly by ferrying 



1592] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1921 

not have been healed [within the time], so that another person had to raise him 
^on his horse, and to hft him from his horse, whenever he wished to aUght. 
Fiagh dispatched a troop of horse with him, [who accompanied him] until he 
crossed the River Liffey, to protect him against the snares which were laid for 
him ; for the English of Dublin had heard that Hugh was at Glenmalure, and 
had therefore posted guards on the shallow fords of the river, to prevent him 
and the prisoners who had escaped along with him from passing into Ulster. 
The youths who were along with Hugh were obliged to cross a difficult deep 
ford on the River Liifey, near the city of Dublin ; and they proceeded on their 
way until they came to the green of the fortress, unperceived by the English. 
The people by whom he had been abandoned some time before, after his firs-t 
escape, namely, Felim O'Toole and his brother, were amongst the troop who 
escorted him to this place ; and they made friendship and amity with each 
other. They bade him farewell, and having given him their blessing, departed 
from him. 

As for Hugh O'Donnell, he had [now] no one along with him but the one 
young man who had been sent for him to the famous Glen [Glenmalure] ; he 
was of the people of Hugh O'Neill, and spoke the language of foreign countries, 
and had always accompanied the Earl (i. e. Hugh O'Neill) when he Avent among 
the English ; so that he was acquainted with and confident in every road by 
which they had to pass. They proceeded forwards on their noble, swift steeds, 
by the straight-lined roads of Meath, until they arrived before morning on the 
brink of the Boyne, a short distance to the west of Drogheda ; and they were 
afraid' of going to that town, so that what they did was this, to proceed along 
the brink of the river to a place where a poor little fisherman used to wait with 
a little boat, for ferrying [people across the river]. Hugh went into this little 
bostt, and the ferryman conveyed him to the other bank, having received a full 
remuneration ; and his servant returned with the horses through the city [town], 
and brought them to Hugh on the other side of the river. They then mounted 
their steeds, and proceeded onwards until they were two miles from the river, 
when they observed a dense bushy grove, surrounded with a rampart, looking 
like an enclosed garden, at some distance on the way before them. On one side 

people across the river. Here he conveyed Avith the horses through the town of Drogheda, 
Hugh across the river, and then went round - where he was well known as Tyrone's servant." 

11 M 



1922 aHNQ^.a Rio^hachua eiReaww. [I592. 

DO na gallaib let raob an t)oi|ie, 1 bd oeajibcapa Dao6 6 neill eipibe. lap rrocc 
061b 5Uf an oiinclao pcuipicc a neic, 1 cia^airc ipreac ipin ooipe baof ipni 
oiinclaO uaip po bab pfpeolac caofrficeccaio ao6a ipm mai^in pin. lap ppag- 
bail ao6a bipuibe lui6 pium ipin Dunab, 1 p6 ^eib a piabuccab, puaip piurh 
aipfccal ofippic oaoo 6 borhnaill, 1 00 bepc laip e 50 po ppfpclab "] co po 
ppiordileab arhail bd lainn Ifip. Ro anpac hipuibe co ap a bapac Dabai^h 
l?o ^abab a neic Doib 1 nupropac oibce,"] locap cap pbab bpfj, 1 rpe macaipe 
conaill CO pangacrap co cpaigbaile niic buain pia niaDain. O Roboap epp- 
laicre ooippi an baile ipm maoain muic apf fb po cinnpfc 5abail rperhir 50 
pan^acap ina pfinmm pop a neacaib 50 piacuacap Don caob apaill. Robcap 
pubaij popppaoilig ap aba a ccepnufb cap gac mbao^al Da mbaof pfmpa 
56 pin. Ctppfb Do coccap laparh ^iip an ppiob aipm 1 mbaof coippbealbac, 
mac enpi, niic pelim piiaib i neill, Do leiccfn a pcci'pi- t)d hinnill Doib ann - 
paibe uaip bd capa 1 bd coiccele Doporii an ci coippbealbac, "] ba bionann 
inaraip Dopibe, 1 Don lapla d neill. Qipippic anDpaibe co ap a bapac. Do 
beacarcap laparh cpe pliab puaicc co pangaccap 50 bapDniaca, anair ann 
CO Dicealucc in aDbai^ pin. Uia^air ap a bapac co Dvin n^fnamn aipm 1 mbctof 
an ciapla aob 6 neill. bd paoilij eippiurh Dia ccoibeacc, "] ]iuccab laD 1 
naipeccdl uoi^neac gan ,piop Dd gac aon ace mab uachab Dia aop caijiipi 

"" A fine mansion-house. — According to the it was afterwards applied to the town. — See it 

Life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell this mansion was already mentioned at the years 1392, 1399, 142<J, 

at mainipop mop, or abbey of MeUifont. 1430, 1434, 1483, 1492, 1557. 

° Conveyed hhn. — The reader must bear in '' The Fiodh, i. e. the wood. This is still the 

mind that Hugh O'Donnell could not walk at Irish name of the Fews, in tlie south of the , 

this time, as his toes had been bitten by the county of Armagh, 

frost, near Glenmalure. f Turlovgh, the son of Henry The name of 

° Sliahh Breagh, now anglice Slieve Brey, a this Turlough mac Henry O'Neill is marked on 

chain of hills, extending from Clogher head, in an old map in the State Papers' Office, London, 

the east of the county of Louth, to Rathkenny, as chieftain of the Fews, in the soiith of the 

in the county of Meath. The part of this chain county of Armagh. According to a pedigree of 

of hills lying in the county of Meath is often O'Donnell, in the possession of Count O'Donnell, 

called Sliabh na gCearc. This mountain is called of Austria, this Turlough had a daughter, 

Mons Bregarum, in theLives of St. Fanchea and Margaret, who married Hugh, son of Calvagh 

St. Columbkille, and it was so called as being Roe, son of Manus, son of Con [the brother of 

the only mountain in the territory of Breagh. Sir Niall Garv] O'Donnell; and she had for him 

P Tragh-Bhaile-mhic- Buain This was origi- a son, Carolus, or Calvagh Duv, the ancestor of 

nally the name of the strand at Dundalk, but the O'Donnells of Castlebar, and of the Counts 



1592.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. . 1923 

of this grove stood a fine mansion-house"^, belonging to a distinguished EngUsh 
youth, who was a particular friend of Hugh O'Neill. On reaching the enclo- 
sure, they unharnessed their steeds, and entered the grove which was inside 
the rampart, for Hugh's companion was well acquainted with the place. Having 
left Hugh there [in the grove], he went into the fortress, where he was kindly 
received. He procured a private apartment for Hugh O'Donnell, and conveyed 
him" thither, where he was attended and entertained to his satisfaction. Here 
they remained until the evening of the following day ; their horses were got 
ready for them in the beginning of the night, and they proceeded across Sliabh 
Breagh°, and through the territory of Machaire-Chonaill ; and before morning 
they had arrived at Tragh-Bhaile-mhic-Buain''. As the gates of the town were 
opened in the morning early, they resolved to pass through it on their horses. 
[This they did, and advanced] until they were at the other side ; and they were 
cheerful and rejoiced for having escaped every danger .which lay before them 
thus far. They then proceeded to the Fodh*^, where dwelt Turlough, the son 
of Henry^ son of Felim Roe O'Neill, to recruit themselves. They were here 
secure, for Turlough was his friend and companion, and he and the Earl O'Neill 
had [been born of] the one mother. They remained here until the next day, 
and then proceeded across Sliabh Fuaid^ and arrived at Armagh, where they 
remained in disguise for that night. On the following day they proceeded to 
Dungannon, where the Earl, Hugh O'Neill, was. He was rejoiced at their arri- 
val, and they' were conducted [i^ecte, Hugh was conducted] into a private apart- 
ment, without the knowledge of any, except a few of his faithful people who 

O'Donnell of Spain and Austria. This Turlough placed between Lough Muckno [at Castle-Blay- 

mac Henry O'Neill, usually called Sir Tirlagh, ney] and Armagh. This name is still preserved 

was transplanted from the Fews to Oldcastle, in and applied to the highest of theFews mountains, 

the county of Mayo, where he got a grant of a It should be here remarked that Fews, the name 

considerable estate, which was forfeited in 1641. of the territory, was formed, not from Sliab 

^ Sliabh Fuaid, i.e. the mountsiin ofFuad, son Puaio, the name of this mountain, but from 

of Breogan, one of the chieftains who came over pioo, or pea6, i. e. wood, which was applied to the 

with the sons of Milesius, so early as A. M. 2934, territory before the two baronies Avere formed. 

according to O'Flaherty's Ogijgia, part iii. c. 16. ^ They This is faulty. It should be: "Hugh 

See also Keating's History of Ireland, Haliday's Avas shewn to a private apartment," because 

edition, pp. 300, 382'. This mountain is shewn on there existed no necessity for concealing the 

an old map of Ulster in the State Papers' Office, Earl's servant, who had accompanied Hugh 

London, under the name of Slew Bodeh, and O'Donnell from Glenmalure to Dungannon. 

11 M 2 



1924 awNa^a Rio^hachca eiReaww. [1592. 

bacap ocd pppirailerh, "] baof ao6 an t)u pin pe cereopa noi6ce 05 cup pcfpi 
a aipcrip "| a imni^ be. Do bfpc mporhldrh pop imreacc,"] ceileabpaip Don 
lapla lap ccop oipime mapcac laip 50 painicc .co haipfp loca hepne. 

ba cctpa Doporh cpiac an cfpe, -] bd bpacaip appamn a marap .1. dob 
TTlaguibip uaip bd In' nuala in^fn TTla^Yiupa ui oorhnaill a rharaip. Po ba 
paoili^ TTidguiDip perhepiurh. Uucca6 laparh frap Dia pai^ib "j rfio imi. 
Impaippfc ap lappooain co pan^acap ^iip an ccaol cciinnan^ baof popp an 
loc CO po ^abpac popr an t)U pin. Do coccap opon^ Oia pain mumcip ina 
corhbail annpin, 1 Do bfpcpac leo e co caiplen aca pfnai^ aipm 1 mbdccap 
bapDa uf DorhnaiU a arapporh. 6ai anDpaiDe co ccangarcap a mbaoi ma 
ccorhpocpaiB ipin cfp Dia pai^iD Dia piaDucchaD. Pobcap paoili^ a pain 
muincip ppi Darhna na plara Diip painicc, ~\ 56 poDli^pfc pampfpc 66 ap aoi a 
ceneoil Ro baof Darhna ndp Bo lucca acca Dia ppopBdilce ppip, iiaip ap arhlam 
baof an cfp ma cfioe cpeac ecip ^allaib, "] ^aoiDelaib 56 pin. Ro baccap 
rpa Dd caipcfn aipbfipce .1. capcm uulip "] capcin conaill 50 nDfb ceDaib laoc 
aniaiUe ppiu (rangaccap achaiD piap an ran pa a coicceaD connacc) ace 
lonnpaD "| ace opccam an cfpe co coicceann co mbaof 6 pliab anoipi ccfpconuill 
ap a ccumap cenmoca caipciall aca pfnai^, 1 caipnallDiiin na n^all aipm 1 
mbaof 6 Dorhnaill 50 nuacliaD Daome ina pocaip. Qp a aof nf po peDpac nf 
66, "I nf baof curhani^ occa ^aBail ppiii im ai6rhillea6 na cpice. ba liann po 
jabparc na 501II fpm lonacacc 1 aiucpeb 1 mami] ci|i na mbparap 1 TiDiin na 
n^all lap nDol Dia hupD -\ Dia macaib eccailpi po 6iaTripaib, "] po Dpoibelaib 
an n'pe ap a niorh^abail piurh Diiarhan a mubai^re -] a mfimbfpra. lap 
inbfir achaiD ipin mainipcip Doib ^up an uarhaD pluai^ aupubpamaji, Do 

" Thei/ rowed him, i. e. the men sent by Ma- lower] Lough Erne, where the River Erne 

guire to convey him to Ballyshannon. INIaguire escapes from it : j^o pan^accip jup an ccael 

himself did not accompany him, as we learn from ccuapcuriicmj baoi pop an loc pemepepcmop, 

the Life of Hugh Roc O'Donncll : "i do raoo bail hi coec ap an ob a&bclopac laic-ioinoa 

in 1 pacbaio bfnnaccain aj Dlajuibip : He PP'P' paicep 6ipne. 

went into the boat and left his blessing with ^ Ballyshannon. — It is stated in the Life of 

Maguire." , Hugh Roe O'Donnell that this castle Avas bixilt 

"' The narrow neck. — This is that narrow part by Niall, the son of Turlough-an-Fhiona O'Don- 

of the Lower Lough Erne, near Belleek, called nell, in the year 1423. 

Caol na h-Eirne. It is stated in the Life of ^ Willis. — Captain Willis was made sheriif of 

Hugh Roe O'Donnell, by Peregrine O'Clery, Fermanagh, despite of Maguire, who had given 

that Cael na h-6ipne is that part of [the the Lord Deputy three hundred cows to free 



1592.] ' ANNALS OP^ THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1925 

attended him ; and here Hugh remained for the space of four nights, to shake 
off the fatigue of his journey and anxiety. He then prepared to depart, and 
took his leave of the Earl, who sent a troop of horse with him till he arrived 
at Lough Erne. 

The lord of this country, namely, Hugh Maguire, was his friend and kins- 
man, by the mother's side ; for Nuala, daughter of Manus O'Donnell, was 
Maguire's mother. Maguire was rejoiced at his arrival. A boat was afterwards 
provided for liim [Hugh], into which he entered ; and they rowed him" thence 
until they arrived at the narrow neck" of the lake, where they landed. Here 
a party of his faithful friends came to meet him, and they conveyed him to the 
castle of Ballyshannon", where the warders of O'Donnell, his father, were [sta- 
tioned]. He remained here until all those in the neighbourhood came to him, 
to welcome him ; and his faithful people were rejoiced at the return of the heir 
to the chieftainship ; and though they owed him real affection on account of 
his family, they had an additional cause of joy at this period ; [for, until his 
return] the country had been one scene of devastation between the English and 
the Irish. There were two famous captains, namely. Captain Willis^ and Cap- 
tain Conwell, with two hundred soldiers (who had some time before come 
thither from the province of Connaught), who were plundering and ravaging 
the country in general, so that they had [reduced] in subjection to them the 
entire of Tirconnell from the mountain westwards, excepting the castle of 
Ballyshannon, and the castle of Donegal, in which (3'Donnell was [stationed] 
with a few men. The English, however, were not able"^ to do him any injury ; 
nor was he [on the other hand] able to prevent them from plundering the 
country. The place where the English had taken up their abode and quarters 
was the monastery of Donegal, the friars and ecclesiastics having fled into t]ie 
wilds and recesses of the territory to avoid them, from fear of being destroyed 
or persecuted. After having resided in the monastery for some time, with the 

his country from a sheriiF. Fynes Moryson them all to the swoi'd, if the Earl of Tyrone had 

states that Captain Willis had for his guard not interposed his authority." — Vol. i. p. 28. 

one hundred men, and " lead about some one See also P. O'Sullevan Beare's Hist. Ccithol. Ihet: 

hundred women and boys, all which lived on Compendium, fol. 126. 

the spoil of the country." Hence that Maguire, ^ Were not able, literally, " Non potuerunt 

" taking his advantage, set upon them and drove isti nocere illi" [O'Donnello] "nee erat potestas 

tliem into a church, where he would have put illi prohibere istos a diripiendo territorium." 



1926 awNQ^a i^io^hachua eiReawH. [1592. 

6eacaccap Dpong Oi'ob co heocaip imlib an cuain t)t rhile cfimenn 6 6un na 
nj^all piap 50 baile uf baoigiU oip bcthiiinill leo bfir ipiiibe 6 po bctrrap 
bpai^De na cpice pop a cciinia['. No cfi^Dip ina noeipib -!\ ina crpiapaib co 
mbfipofp cp66 1 cfrpa, lonnmapa 1 eoala in po ba coiTipoc]iaib 061b oon cip 
t)ia pcti^ib oon baile fpm. barrap t)o -^]\&\' ace cocuipfo puilliD ploi^ "] 
■ pocbai6e cuca t)0 60I cap bfpnap mop omgpeim -] Dapccam na n'pe oon caob 
roip 00 pliab arhail oo ponpar aipm imbarrap. 

Imriipa Qo6a uf oorhnaill lap urojaipni a npe cucca, nf po an ppiu 50 
leicc (6 po cuala an rhopbpoio 1 nnbarcap cenel cconaill, milleao ~\ mfoiac 
na mainiprpec) ace appfo 00 poine coioecc 50 oiin na n^all emeac 1 nioncaib 
ppip na ^allaib. Nf rapopar an rfp eippiorh i ppaill gan cocr po a rojaipm 
ma neipib"] ma mbuionib amaiL ap ofme conpan^acrap oonfoc ]io cappac be 
Idpobam po lapom a ueacca ap amup na n^all oia pd6a piii gan lompuipeac 
nn eapnaobaO ipm f^laip oia baiomilleao nf bd pfpe,"| nac croipmfpccpab 
impa cecc an conaip bab lamn leo, acr namd co po pdccbaioip oia nfip ma 
mbaof 00 bpoio, "] 00 cpo6 na cpice leo. Ro Vaoi ouarhan "] omieaccla poppa 
] orh CO noeapnpacr inopm arhail po popcongpaio poppa, ~| poboap buiOi^ do 
pocram a nanmann leo, "] loucap pop a cculaib oopiOipi 1 ccoicceao connacr. 
Uan^accap na bpaifpi lapam Don mamipcip. 

Oo cuaiD aoD 6 Dorhnaill 50 hdr pfnai^ 1 pppirippi, °] 00 bfpu Ifja do 
1 fi j^fp a cop, ■] nf po peopac Ifi^fp Do co po Deili^pioc a 6f opoam ppip, 1 nfp 
bo ho^pldn 50 D1U16 mbliabna. baof piurh arhlaiD pm m ocaipli^e a cop 
d pel bpi^oe 50 mf appil. O 00 oeachaiD abuaipe na haimy^ijie fppchaibe 
pop ccula bd pooa laip po bof ma oraipli^e -] po cuip*capcclama6 "] nonol 
pop a mbaof nrhal Dia ataip alia roip Don cpliab oipoeapc .1. bfpnap mop cfpe 
bao6a, 1 po nonoil cuicce a mbaof alia nap Don cpliab ceona .i. d baoi jill, -] 

* Baile- Ui-Bhaoiyhill, i. e. the town or resi- River Eske, near its mouth, 

dence of O'Boyle, now Bally weel. — See note "', '' Two and three, literally, "in twos and threes." 

under the year 1440, p. 920, supra. On an old '^ Such of them as loved him. — The reader must 

map of parts of the coasts of Mayo, Sligo, bear in mind that the sons of Calvagh O'Donnell, 

Leitrim, and Donegal, preserved in the State and their followers, the O'Gallaghers, O'Do- 

Piipers' Office, London, " Ba. O'Boile" is shewn hertys, and som^ of the Mac Sweenys, were op- 

as a castle on the north side of the " Baie of posed to the election of Hugh Eoe as chief of 

Donegale," opposite the " Monasterie of Done- Tirconnell. 

galle" which is sliewn on the south §ide of the <* Bands "eip .i. buibean." — CClenj. 



1592.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1927 

small number of forces which we have mentioned, a party of them went to 
Baile-Ui-BhaoighilP, [a castle] on the borders of the harbour, about two thou- 
sand paces west of Donegal, for they considered themselves secure there, as 
they had the hostages of the country in their power. These were wont to go 
forth, in companies of two and three", and carry off the flocks and herds, goods 
and treasures, of the neighbourhood with them into this castle. They were 
constantly inviting additional hosts and forces to proceed across Barnesmore, to 
persecute and plunder the country on the east side of the mountain, as they had 
already treated the western portion. 

As for Hugh O'Dpnnell, after having summoned the country to him, he did 
not long wait for them (when he heard of the great oppression in which the 
Kinel-Connell were, and of the spoiling and profanation of the monastery), but 
proceeded to Donegal to meet the English face to face. The [people of the] 
country, such of them as loved him^ did not neglect to come at his summons ; 
they followed him in bands'* and in companies as expeditiously as they were 
able ; he, thereupon, sent his messengers to the English, to tell them not to 
I'emain or abide any longer in the monastery destroying it ; and, [adding] that 
he would not prevent them to depart in any direction they pleased, provided 
only they would leave behind all the prisoners and cattle of the territory they 
had with them^ They were so terrified and dismayed that they did as they 
were ordered ; and, being thankful that they escaped with their lives, they went 
back again into the province of Connaught. The friars then returned to the 
monastery. 

Hugh O'Donnell returned to Ballyshannon, and sent for physicians to cure 
his feet ; but they were not able to effect a cure until they had cut off both his 
gi-eat toes*^; and he was not perfectly well till the end of a year [afterwards]. 
He remained thus confined under cure of his feet from the festival of St. Bridget 
to April. When the cold of the spring season was over, he thought it too long 
he had been confined as an invalid ; and he sent [persons] to assemble and 
muster all those who were obedient to his father to the east side of the cele- 
brated mountain, i. e. Barnesmore, in Tirhugh ; and he collected [also] all those 

* With them, i. e. in their hands, or in their a coipe. In Irish the same word is used to ex- 
possession, press finger and toe; they are distinguished by 
f Both his great toes : u of opDum .1. ou opooij adding laiiiie and coipe. 



1928 QMHaca i^io^hachca eiReaNW. [1592. 

TTIac ]"'uibne rijie bo^aine. Uanaic beop Dia corhmopao 6 ooitinaill a araip 
.1. ao6 mac TDajnupa, mic aoDa ouib co na commaini arnaille ppip .i. in^fn 
c|^emai|' mec Domnaill a Tnaraijiporh. 5d f e lonab ejiDalca in jio 6al]^ac 
na TTiaire pin pe a poile hi ccill mic nendin,"] bd hano no lioipDni^re iia Dorii- 
naill DO ^pep i rn^eajinap pop cenel cconaill. l?ainicc piurh ^up an b'on 
cceona an ou pin. Udnaic ino aipfp ao6a uf ooriinaiU gup an maigin pin, 
niac puibne pdnac ooTYinall mac coippDealbaig, nnic Puaibpi, "] TTIac puibne 
na cciiar eogan 6cc mac eogain oicc iriic eogain. 6dcrap t)pon5a oeaprhapa 
rio cenel cconaill nd rdnaicc ipm ccombail pin. l?oba i>ibpi6e ao6 mac aoDct 
ouib mic ao6a puaiD f bomnaill,-] pliocc an calbaig mic ITIagnupa mic aoDa 
Miib, ua Docapuaij Sfan occ mac Sfain, mic peilim niic concobaip cappaij; 
rofpeac rpiocaic cecc innpi heoccain, "| opong Do cloinn cpnibne Do Deach- 
ai6 ap a ccip, coniD anD po aiccpeabpau pop up loca peabail,"] ap laD pobcap 
roipi^ lomgona Don calbac ua Dorhnaill,"] Dia piol ina Dfoliaij;. bdcrap beop 
Dpong mop Don muinnp gallcubaip gan rfcc ann pin upia miopcaip "] cpia 
rhfopun arhail an luce naile. 

Do coib laparh ua Doitinaill QoD mac magnupa -\ na maire pin cangctcap 
Dia paigiD DO cpuD a ccomaiple, ~\ bd pfD po cinnfD Id hua nDomnaill (6 po 
aipigfpraip a enipce ~\ aiDble a aofpe) a cigfpnap Do rabaipr Dia mac, "] 
6 Dorhnaill do gaipm De. l?o rholpar cdc i ccoiccinne an corhaiple ipm, -] 
po gnire parhlaiD, uaip do paoab 6 pipgil on caipcinDeac Dia paijiD, "i po 
oipDnfpraippine Qod puab i ccfnDup na cpice Id popcongpa, "] Id bfnDacc a 
arap,"| Do poire opD an anma peib poba cecra,"| po ^aip ua Domnaill De an 
.3. Id DO mail. 

Ni po leicc 6 Dorhnaill ao6 puaD pccaoileaD Don uacliaD pocpaiDe pin Do 
pala ma pappa6 co paimcc ecip rpoigrec "] mapcac ipin ccoiccpic 1 ccenel 
eoTjain mic neill. Mf DeacViaiD upa paibre, nd pfirhpiop Dia paigiD, ap nf po 
paoilpioc a eipge piurh ineallrha ap in lije ina mbaof, 1 ni' moa Do paDpar 

•^ Kilmacrenan It is stated in the Life of the only district over which the O'Donnells had 

Hugh Roe O'Donnell that CiU mic Nenain, the sway until they dispossessed the O'Muldorys 

church in which St. Columbkillc was educated, and O'Canannans. 

and where the O'Donnells were inaugurated, ^ Tricha-ched, i. e. hundred, or barony, con- 
was situated on the north side of the river Le- taining one hundred and twenty quarters of land, 
anainn, in the very centre of the Triacha ched, ' Like the others, recte, " great numbers of the 
or cantreds of Cinel-Luighdheoch. This had been O'Gallaghers also abstained from coming to this 



1592] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1929 

to the west of the same mountain, namely, O'Boyle, and Mac Sweeny of Tir- 
Boghaine. There came also to join him, his father, O'Donnell, i. e. Hugh, the 
son of Manus, son of Hugh Duv, with his wife, the daughter of James Mac 
Donnell, his [Hugh Roe's] mother. The place of meeting appointed by these 
chieftains was Kilmacrenan^, where the O'Donnell was usually inaugurated Lord 
of the Kinel-Connell. He arrived with the same number at that place. To 
Hugh O'Donnell's levy on this occasion came also Mac Sweeny Fanad (Donnell, 
the son of Turlough, son of Rory), and Mac Sweeny-na-dTuath (Owen, Oge, 
the son of Owen Oge, son of Owen). There were many parties of the Kinel- 
Connell who did not come to this assembly. Of these was Hugh, the son of 
Hugh Duv, son of Hugh Roe O'Donnell ; and the descendants of Calvagh, the 
son of Manus, son of Hugh Duv ; O'Doherty ; John Oge, the son of John, son 
of Felim, son of Conor Carragh, Chieftain of the Tricha-ched" of Inishowen ; 
and a party of the Clann- Sweeny, who had gone away from their [own] terri- 
tory, and were dwelling at that time on the margin of Lough Foyle, and who 
had been leaders in battle to Calvagh O'Donnell, and his descendants after him. 
There was also a great number of the O'Gallaghers who did not come hither, 
through spite and malice, like the others'. 

O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of Manus) and these chiefs who came to meet 
him, then held a consultation ; and the resolution which O'Donnell came to (as 
he felt his own feebleness and great age) was, to resign his lordship to his son, 
and to style him O'Donnell. This resolution was universally applauded by all, 
and accordingly adopted, for O'Firghil the Erenagh was sent for ; and he inau- 
gurated Hugh Roe chief of the country, by order and with the blessing of his 
father ; and the ceremony of conferring the name was legally -performed, and 
he styled him O'Donnell on the third day of May. 

O'Donnell (Hugh Roe) did not permit those few troops he had then with 
him to disperse, but marched them, both horse and foot, into the neighbouring 
parts of [the territory of] the race of Eoghan, the son of Niall. No notice or 
forewarning [of this movement] had reached the others, for they did not think 
that he had perfectly recovered from his confinement ; yet they did not intend 

meeting, being, like the others, actuated by the cited her Scottish attendants to murder Hugh, 
malice and animosity which they bore to Hugh son of the Dean O'Gallagher, as has been already 
Roe, and his mother, Ineenduv, who had in- at full length set forth." 

11 N 



i 

1930 awNaca Rio^hachca eiReaww. [1592. 

01a nufo cficfrh pia ccenel cconaill 6 cfin rhaip. Ro cpeac loipcceaO in po 
ba coirhnfpa Doib Do cenel eo^ain lap an uarhab ploi^ pin goncap aipligreap 
^ac aon pob inecca ap a piiccpac. Uapracap an plua^ eoala lomba enp 
cCcpaib 1 inDilib, "] poaic pop cculaib Dia ccpic bubein. 

6d hanuc baof Ounapup uf neill coippoelbaij luinij ap an ppac mbdn m 
lonbaib pm, "] nfop bo gndu aipipiorh uf neill piarh hipui6e gup an ccoippbeal- 
bac fpin. 6d mop a rhiopolca porn ppi cenel cconaill,"] ppi cliarhain uf oorh- 
naill .1. an ciapla 6 neill. Ro uappaing ua neill opong t)o gallaib Duiblmne 
oia nfpcab i naccaib cenel cconaill -\ an lapla uf neill .i. capcin uulap, "] 
capnn pulapu 50 nt)ib ceoaib laoc amaille ppiu. ba galap mCnnian Id 
hua nDorhnaill 6cc 501II Duiblmne do rocc 1 nop a cpice Do raipcelaD a 
arap6a, "] an cuicciD ap cfna conaD aipe Do poine SloicceaD laip a ccionn 
cpeacrmuine i rcfp eogain. Po reicpioc lucr an cfpe an Dala peace piarh 
50 pangacrap ciannacca glmne gfiTTiin. Qr cuap Doporh co mbuf 6 neill "j na 
goill perhpdice co Ifon a pocpaiDe ina corhpocpaib, pop popcongapc 6 Dorhnaill 
pop a pocpaiDe a monnpaiccliiD aipm 1 mbdccap. Oo ponaD paippiurh inDpin. 
Oo bfpc puabaipc bioDbaD "| amup arhnap poppa hi mmmfDon laof. Od 
conncarappaiDe cenel cconaill cuca nf po anpar ppiu ace ciajaic pop a 
niom^abdil co caiplen baf pop bpu na habann DiamD aintn l?oa. ba Daingean 
Diroglaige an caipciall fpin, 1 bd Dun apap Dua cardin eipiDe. Ro gab 
ua Dorhnaill ace lompuiDe imon mbaile. T?o paoiD ua cardin a reacra Do 
paijiD uf Dorhnaill, ~\ pccpibfnD laip cuicce, bd hCt) baof ipin lirip gup bo 
Dalca Doporh 6 Dorhnaill, ~] co po epnaibm a capaDpaD pfp 6 cein, "] po ba cecca 
Do po Ddig an capacrpaD (pin an ccpeic cdmicc pop a lonchaib "] pop a 

^ Second occasion. — Qn oala peace piarh .1. in ruins over a deep glen, through which the 

an oapa peacr poirhe. They did not fly before Roe flows. 
him on his first irruption. ™ He loas informed. — " Cuap, no ao cuap .\. 

' Cianachta-Glinne-Geimhin, now the barony 00 hinipeaoh." — O'Chry. 

of Keenaght, in the county of Londonderry. — " On the margin of the River Roa This was 

See note °, under the year 1197, p. 107, supra, probably the castle of Limavaddy, which was 

The River Roa, or, as it is now anglicised, Roe, situated on the margin of the River Roe, in the 

flows throvigh this barony, dividing it into two barony of Keenaght — See note ', under the 

almost equal parts. The vale of this river was year 1542, p. 1472, supra. O'Kane had ano- 

called Gleann-Geimhin by the Irish ; and the ther castle at Dungiven, on the same river, 
name is still partly preserved in that of Dun ° What was stated. — The style is here very 

Geimhin, anglice Dungiven, a church standing clumsy and totally devoid of art. The language 



1592.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1931 

to fly before the Kinel-Connell [neither, indeed, had it been their i^ont to do so] 
from a remote period. By this small army of the Kinel-Connell the neigh- 
bouring parts of Kinel-Owen were plundered and burned ; every one fit to bear 
arms whom they caught was put to the sword and slaughtered. The army also 
seized upon many spoils, both herds and flocks, and [then] returned back to 
their own territory. 

At this time the residence of O'Neill (Turlough Luineach) was at Strabane, 
where, before the time of this Turlough, the O'Neill had not usually held his 
residence. Great was his animosity to the Kinel-Connell, and to O'Donnell's 
brother-in-law, namely, the Earl O'Neill. O'Neill drew a party of the English 
of Dublin to strengthen him against the Kinel-Connell and the Earl O'Neill, 
namely. Captain Willis and Captain Fullart ; and they had two hundred soldiers 
along with them. It was anguish of mind to the young O'Donnell that the 
English of Dublin should have €ome to the confines of his territory to spy his 
patrimony, and the province in general ; wherefore, in a week's time he made 
a hosting into Tyrone. The people of the country fled on this second occasion" 
before him, until they reached Cianachta-Glinne-Geimhin'. He [O'Donnell] 
was informed" that O'Neill and the English before mentioned were [assembled] 
with all their forces in the neighbourhood ; and he ordered his troops to ad- 
vance to the place where they were. This was accordingly done. He marched 
resolutely and fiercely against them in mid-day. When they perceived the Kinel- 
Connell approaching them, they did not wait for them, but fled, to avoid them, 
to a castle which was [situated] on the margin of a river called Roa". This was 
a strong, impregnable castle, and the mansion-seat of O'Kane. O'Donnell pro- 
ceeded to lay siege to the castle. O'Kane sent a messenger with a letter to him. 
What Avas stated'' in this letter was, that O'Donnell was his foster-son ; that he 
[O'Kane] had ratified a friendship with him long since ; that by reason of this 
friendship, it was now lawful for him [O'Donnell] to leave to him the property 

should be constructed thus: " O'Kane sent a their cattle, and placed themselves under his asy- 

messenger with a letter to O'Donnell, remind- lum ; that he had solemnly promised to protect 

ing him that he was his fosterfather, and that he them before he knew that it was from his own 

had been at all times on terms of friendship with fosterson, O'Donnell, they were flying ; that if 

his father, O'Donnell, and him ; that, in conse- O'Donnell would spare these on this occasion, he 

quence of this friendship, O'Donnell should now would never again admit under the shelter of his 

spare those O'Neills who had fled to his castle with fortilace any enemies to his fosterson, O'Donnell. 

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1932 QHwaca T^io^liacbca eiReawH. [1592. 

comaipce Do»iecca6 66 an ran j^n,-] ndc leiccpeao cuicce oo]ii6iyM t)ia mbfic- 
]^iurh ma 6iai6. Do pao 6 oorhnaill an aifccib fin Do,-] fomy ina ppirin^, -| 
po aipip CO cfnD ceopa noibce co na laiB ip m ccpic ap a ntjeacaccap na 
cpeaca Dia ccapo connaipce aja loc -] accd Idinmilleab. Soaip cap a aip 
Dia rfp peipin,"] nf po aipip co painicc Dim na ngall,-] baf annpaiDe ppi pe Da 
mfop aca Ifi^fp. 

l?o ba paDa laippmrh baof 6 neill "| a ^oill gan pobaipr ppip an pe pin, 
-] po cuip cionol pop a plojaib locap app laporh cap bfpnap mop, cap pmn 
cap moDaipn Do Dol gup an ppar niban aipm 1 mbaoi 6 neiU co na gallaib, "] 
nf po anpac 50 pangaccap eneac in lonchaib ppiii. O neill cpa ni po paccaib 
piDe ndiD a 501II Damgfn an DunaiD Dia ppobaipc pioifi, o na piiapaccap porn 
a pppeaccpa im cainopgail, bdppfD Do ponpac cfinnce 1 cfnDala DabannaD 
1 ccfceopa apDa an baile, -] ni po pcappac ppip co pop loipcpioc 1 nnbaof do 
cigib ppi TTiupaib peaccaip, "j 6 na puapaccap na 501II amac Do cappaccain 
na hoipccne Do coccap Dia ccigib lap ccopccap. 

Imcupa an lapla 1 neill 6 po piDip piDe aincpiDe a ceneoil baDein Dua 
Dorhnaill (ao6 puab) appfb Do pome Dol Do paigiD an mpcip .1. uilliam pic?- 
uilliann, 1 ppoce;cion Dpaj^bdil Dua Dorhnaill Id cocc do lacaip, "| Dia accal- 
lairh CO cpaij^baile mic buain. puaipjiurh iDip inbpm "] do c6i6 ap cfnD 1 Dorh- 
naill 50 Dun na n^all, -] puc laip e co cpai^ baile. Do coccap Diblfnib Do 
pai^iD an lupcip, "] bd paodij piurh ppm, "1 po rhaif an celim Dua Dorhnaill, -] 
po naiDmpioc a pic 1 a ccapaccpaD ppi poile arhail ip Deac po peDpac, -] 
ceilebpaic na maice pin ppip an lupcip, "] pdccbaic bfnDacrain occa, -] poaic 
Ifc ap Ifc Dia ccijib. 

Od cualaccap an Dpong Do cenel conaill bdcap 1 pppicbfpc ppi hua nDorh- 
naill pioDuccab do ppip an lupcip cangaccap pibe uile po C(5pa ~\ po pic Dia 
pai^ib. l?obcap laD bd liaijiQijDa cdinicc annpin Qob mac aoba Duib mic 

'' To avenge. — " CappacTram .1. oio^ail." — request tbunds a strong argument in favour of 

0' Clery. the suspicion of Fynes Moryson, who says that 

'^ To obtain a protection. — This was a wise Fitz- William was privy to the escape of Hugh 

stroke of policy in the Earl O'Neill, in order to Roe O'Donnell. 

intimidate the race of Calvagh O'Donnell and '^ Peace. — Copa .1. p lochchuin — O'^Clenj. 

their adherents, who were opposed to his'brother- ^ Hugh, the .9on of Hugh Duv. — It is stated in 

in-^aw, Hugh Roe O'Donnell. The facility with the Life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, that this Hugh 

■which the Chief Governor complied with this Duv was the senior of all the race of Dalach, the 



1592] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1933 

wliich had come under his asylum and protection ; and that he. would never 
again admit such, should he [O'Donnell] be in pursuit of it. O'Donnell ^ranted 
him this request, but, returning back, remained three days and nights in the 
territory whence the spoils to which he had given protection had been removed, 
plundering and totally devastating it. He then went back to his own country, 
and never halted until he had reached Donegal, where he remained two months 
under cure. * 

By this time he thought it too long that O'Neill and his English were left 
unattacked ; wherefore, having assembled his forces, they proceeded through 
[the gap of] Barnesmore, and across the [Kivers] Finn and Mourne, on his way 
to Strabane, where O'Neill and his English were [stationed]; and they never 
halted until they came before them face to face. But O'Neill and his Englisli 
did not come outside the donjon of the fortress to engage them ; and when 
they were not responded to in battle, they set fires and flames to the four oppo- 
site quarters of the town, and did not depart until tliey had burned all the 
liouses outside the walls ; and when they could not excite the English to come 
forth to avenge'' the destruction, they returned home in triumph. 

As for the Earl O'Neill, when he perceived the enmity that his own tribe 
bore to O'Donnell (Hugh Roe), what he did was, to proceed to the Lord Jus- 
tice, William Fitzwilliam, to obtain a protection'' for O'Donnell to come before 
him, and confer with him, at Tragh-Bhaile-mic-Buain [Dundalk]. This he ob- 
tained at once, and went to Donegal to O'Donnell, and took him to Tragh-Bhaile- 
mhic-Buain, where both appeared before the Lord Justice, who was gracious 
to them, and he forgave ()'Donnell the escape. They confirmed friendship and 
amity with each other as strongly as possible, and, having bid the Lord Justice 
farewell, and left him their blessing, they all returned to their respective homes. 

When that party of the Kinel-Connell who were in opposition to O'Donnell 
heard that he had made peace with the Lord Justice, they all came to him 
in peace' and amity. The most distinguished of these who came there were 
Hugh, the son of Hugh Duv', son of Hugh Roe ; Niall Garv', the son of Con, 

son of Muircheartach, next after Hugh, the son yoiith Hugh Roe, who was a man of greater elo- 

of Manus, whom he expected to succeed in the quence, wiser counsel, loftier mind, and of greater 

government of Tirconnell. He is described as the force of character to command and enforce obe- 

Achilles of the Irish race, but it is added, that it dience.. 
was no disgrace to him to have submitted to the ^ Nial Garv — This is the Nial Garv who 



1934 awNaca Rioshachca eiReawH. [1593. 

aoba [uiaib. Niall jajib niac cuinn, mic an calbai^, nrnc TTla^nuy^a nnic ao6a 
t)uib CO na bjiaiqiib, 1 6 Docoprai^ Sfan 6cc mac Sfain, mic peilim mic con- 
cobai]i cappai^ lap na gabail laiy^fiurh. 



aOlS CPIOSU, 1593. 
Qoip Cpiopr, mile, cuicc ceo, nocau, a rjii. 

O Domnaill Qo6 jiuab Oo bfir i mi lanuajiii na bliabna po ina io]^ua6 
aijieacaip babem illfirbfp po]i loncaib a namac .1. coipjibealbac luineac mac 
neill conallai^. l?o ^ab aj imipc a eccpaicci -] a aincpme paip Dia lonnapbaD 
apa n^eapnap,-] Dia enipciucchab ap odi^ ao6a uf neill 06ipDnea6 ina lonab. 
6d pfipDe DopaiTi an peimDeiccpi t)0 poine uaip painicc ciccfpnap bo paiccm 
aoba u( neill, 1 bo pace coippbelbac luineac aonca "] UTTila bo imon ainm bo 
T^aipm be. l?o jaipeabg-japarh o neill baoT) o neill (.1. an ciapla), -| leiccip 
roippbealbac luineac na 501II po baccap laip uaba lap piobuccab 66 ppi hua 
neill 1 ppi hua nborhnaill. 1 mi ITlaii bo ponpab bo ponab inbpin. Po baoi 
T)na coicceab concobaip mic nfpa po pmacccctin pfoba bon biap fpin, "] po 
baoap 1 ngeill, -] a naicipe pop ccumup ^ombrap pomamaigre boib, 

Qn clann uilliam pin a bubpamap bo rocc ipreac i ccfnb an ^obepnopa 
p6 peil mfcil na bliabna pfmainn po boccaibpioc na 501II lacr, co ndp pa^aib- 
pior a bf5 bia maofn no bia mop maicfp aca pia mbelcaine na bliabna po -] 
an rhfib na po bfolairpiccheab bia nbaoinib, ~\ nd po bdpaiccheab po gabpac 
pop pccaoileab "] pop eippfbeb pecnoin epeann biappaib a mbfrbab. 

Gappaenca coccaib ap nfip^e ecip Sip Seoippi binjam 6 baile an rtioca -] 
6pian na pamrac (.1. bpiaTi occ) mac bpiain mic bpiam, mic eo^ain uf puaipc 
pa belcaine na bliabna po. ba be abbap an impfpna cuib bo ciop na bain- 
piojna nac ppic on mbpfipne ap in bpeil pin. bpian 6 Puaipc bia paba jac 
ciop bd mbaoi gan biol gup ab ap an ppfpann baf ina pdy^ac po baof, -] ndp 

afterwards betrayed the cause of Hugh Roe to the Life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell that O'Doherty 

the English. It is stated in the Life of Hugh and he came to meet each other with a party of 

Roe O'Donnell, that this Niall Garv, who was a twelve horse on either side ; that Hugh Roe, 

fierce and valiant champion, was the foster-brother indignant at the idea that O'Doherty alone should 

and brother-in-law of Hugh Roe, but still that he oppose him, tbok him prisoner, and kept him in 

-ubmitted to him, not through love but fear. irons until he rendered hostages for his future 

" After having taken with him It is stated in obedience. 



1593] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1935 

son of Calvagh, son of Manus, son of Hugh Duv, with his kinsmen ; and O'Do- 
herty, namely, John Oge, the son of John, son of Fehm, son of Conor Carragh, 
after having been taken prisoner by him" [Hugh Roe]. 

THE AGE OF CHRIST, 1593. 

The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred ninety-three. 

O'Donnell (Hugh Roe) was during the month of January of this year at 
Liiford, his own lordly residence, confronting his enemy, Turlough Luineach, 
the son of Niall Conallagh. He proceeded to wreak his enmity and vengeance 
upon him, to expel him from his lordship, and weaken his power, in order that 
Hugh O'Neill might be inaugurated in his stead. He was the better of this 
precaution which he took, for the lordship came to Hugh O'Neill, and Turlough 
Luineach gave consent, and made his submission to him, in order that the dig- 
nity might be conferred on him. Hugh O'Neill, namely, the Earl, was then 
styled the O'Neill ; and Turlough Luineach, after having made peace with 
O'Neill and O'Donnell, sent away the English whom he had with him. This 
was done in the month of May. The province of Conor Mac Nessa'' was then 
under the peaceable government of these two ; and they had the hostages and 
pledges of the inhabitants in their power, so that they were subject to them. 

The Clann-William, whom we mentioned as having submitted to the Gover- 
nor at the Michaelmas of the preceding year, were so impoverished by the 
English, that before the May of this year they left them not the smallest portion 
of their former wealth or great riches ; and such of their people as had not 
been executed or (otherwise) destroyed were scattered and dispersed through- 
out Ireland, to seek for a livelihood. 

A warlike dissension arose in the month of May in this year between Sir 
George Bingham of Ballymote and Brian-na-Samhthach, i. e. Brian Oge, the son 
of Brian, son of Brian, son of Owen O'Rourke. The cause of this dissension 
was, that a part of the Queen's rent had not been received out of Breifny on 
that festival, Brian O'Rourke asserting that all the rents not paid were those 
demanded for lands that were waste, and that he [Bingham] ought not to 

* The province of Conor Mac Nessa, i. e. the Nessa, who was its king in the early part of the 
province of Ulster, so called from Conor Mac first centviry. 



1936 awNa^a i^io^hachca eiReanN. [1593. 

6li5 piuiii ci'o]^ Dia|i]iai6 a papac 50 mbfir a puioiucchab. Sip Seoip]"'] t)o cup 
pai^Diuipibe ip in mbpeipne Do Denaiii cpeice i n^ioll an ciopa, "] ^F ^ jeall 
rapla cuca bleaccac bpiam uf puaiiK; babem. Oo c6i6 bpian t)iappai6 a 
naipicc, "] noca npiiaip iDip. 'Cainic piurn laporh Oia rip,~| po cuip cionol pop 
arhpoib 1 pop aop cuapaprail 1 rr\]\ eogam, 1 ccenel cconaill,"] 1 ppfpaib ma- 
Tiac. lap pocuain 061b Dm pai^ib nf Deapna aipipfrh Do 16 no Doibce co painicc 
CO baile an rhocaijij. CXn can baof 1 ccompoccup an baile po leicc pccaofleaD 
Da pcceirhelcoib pa Da rpioca cloinne DonnchaiD .1. an copann, -] rfp oilella. 
Mi'p bo mop Don cfp pin na po aipcc Don aon puarap pm. Ro loipcceaD laip 
beop an Id pin cp( baile 6ecc ap ^ac caofb Do baile an mocai^, -] po leip- 
cpeachaD baile an rhouai^ pfin laip peac ^ac mbaile. Nfp bo hionaipirh a 
necca cenmora mac cobtai^ puaiD mecc parhpa6din po mapbao 6 bpian, ~\ 
^lUibfpr 5panne Duine uapal Do rhuinnp Sip pfoippi do rhapbaD on Ifir naile. 
Cicc mac uf puaipc cap a aip co naipcccib, "] co neDalaib lomDa laip Dia np. 
Qn ceD rhf Do parhpaD do ponab innpm. 

Sluaicceab Id md^uibip aob mac conconnacr Diomcniic pip in ploig pin 
bpmin uf Ruaipc Qpfb po ^ab cecup cpe Depcepc na bpepne laim cle le 
Toe aillmne, Duacrap ua noilealla, ~\ Don copann Do Dpoicfc mainipcpeac na 
buille 50 macaipe connacc. l?o leicc pccaofleab Dd pcceirhelcoib in upcopac 
laof pon ci'p iria cimcell. IS anD capla Don ^obepnoip .1. Sip RipDepD bin^aii* 
bfir ap cnoc 1 nDopup cuillpcci 1 irtbdpuncacc Roppa commain in oibce pm 
rij; coirheipceacc ppip an ciji ma cimceall,"] do pala Dpong do rhapci'loi^ an 
j^obepnopa ag cuapcuccab na ccnoc ap gac caofb Don culai^ 1 mbaoi pium, 
~] nf po pdcai^pioc nf Id Dallciac na maiDne muice 50 ccapla laD pfin, -] 
ma^uib^p CO na mapcpluai^ a^haib m aghaib. Oo paDpac mapcpluaj nn 
T^obepnopa ciil Doib, -] po Ifnab laD gan C0151II Id ma^uibip co na muincip, -] 
po bdp ajd ppaoi^lfb, "] agd pfopbualab co poccain Doib ^up an ccopccab ~\ 
5up an ccomnapc aipm 1 mbaof an jobepnoip. Ro pilleab DopiDipi ap TTlaguibip 
1 pppirinj na conaipe ceDna, -] po bdp a^d Ifnmain 50 Dol Do 1 nfiDipmfbon a 
coipi^rfb. Oc connaipc ah gobepnoip co na baoi coirhlfon Daoine ppiu po pill 

^ Mo7'e than, literally, " and Ballymote itself evident from the context. See the Editor's Irish 

was totally plundered by him beyond every Grammar, part ii. chap. vii. p. 318. 

bally." The Irish preposition peac means extra, ' Gilbert Graijne Sir Henry Docwra calls 

1. e. beyond, or more than, in this clause, as is him " Captain Grenn Omoley," in his Account 



1593.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1937 

demand rent for waste lands until they should be inhabited. Sir George sent 
soldiers into Breifny to take a prey in lieu of the rent ; and the soldiers seized 
on O'Rourkes own milch cows. Brian went to demand a restoration of them, 
but this he did not at all receive. He then returned home, and sent for merce- 
naries and hireling troops to Tyrone, Tirconnell, and Fermanagh ; and after 
they had come to him, [he set out, and] he made no delay by day or by night 
until he arrived at Ballymote. On his arrival in the neighbourhood of the town, 
he dispersed marauding parties through the two cantreds of theMac'Donoughs, 
namely, Corann and Tirerrill ; and there was not much of that country which 
he did not plunder on the excursion. He also burned on that day thirteen 
villages on every side of Ballymote ; and he ravaged Ballymote itself more than'' 
[he did] any other town. Their losses were of little account, except the son 
of Coffey Roe Magauran, on the side of Brian ; Gilbert Grayne^, a gentleman 
of Sir George's people, who was slain on the other side. The son of O'Rourke 
then returned back to his own territory loaded with great preys and spoils. 
This was done in the .first month of summer. 

A hosting was made by Maguire (Hugh, the son of Cuconnaught), to emu- 
late that excursion of Brian O'Rourke. He proceeded first through the eastern 
part of Breifny, keeping Lough Allen to the left ; then through the upper part 
of Tirerrill,' through Corran, and across the bridge at the monastery of Boyle, 
into Machaire Connacht. Early in the day he dispatched marauding parties 
through the country around. This night the Governor, Sir Richard Bingham, 
happened to be on a hill near the gate of Tulsk, in the barony of Roscommon, 
watching the surrounding country ; and a party of his cavalry went forth to 
scour the hills around the hill on which he was [stationed] ; but they noticed 
nothing, in consequence of a thick fog of the early morning, until they and 
Maguire's cavalry met face to face. The Governor's cavalry turned their backs 
to them, and they were hotly pursued by Maguire and his people, who continued 
to lash and strike them until they arrived at the camp'' and fortification where 
the Governor was. They again turned upon Maguire, and pursued him back 
by the same road, until he had reached the middle of his forces. When the 
Governor saw that he had not an equal number of men with them, he returned 

of Services done by Sir Richard Bingham, ''' Camp. — Copcao .i. cai apcab — Old Glos., 

already referred to. i. e. a temporary dwelling, a camp. 

II 



1938 QHwaca Rio^hachua eiReawH. [1593. 

cap a ai]\"] re]ina pfm co na mbaoi ina pappab on ppoi|ieiccfn yin ^enmora 
iiilliani clipapu (ouine uapal Deappccai^re) 50 ccuicceap ikS pfipeap mnpcac 
amaille ppip 00 rhapbab Don cup pin. l?o nnapbab oon raob oile Gnriann 
ma^ pampaDam ppiorhaib apoa maca (do pala co cfccriiaipeac 1 ppocaip 
TTie^uiDip) 1 an cab ma^iiiDip .1. caual mac an abbaD, ~| TTlacc capppai^ 
peilim, "I TTIac a Dfpbparap. Qn 3 let do nnf lul po mapbaicc laopfin, ap aoi 
cpa nf po IfnaD TTldguiDip 6 pin co hoiDce, -] puce cpeaca, -\ cpomaipcre an 
cipe, 1 DO cdiD on poplon^popc 50 a cele 50 cobpaib cfim pi^in co peapaib 
manac. ' - 

baof mctguiDip, 1 an bpian 6 Ruaipc perhpdice ppi pe an cpaiiipaiD 1 
ccaoinaonca coccaiD "| aiDrhillce pop ^allaib. baof beop bpian mac ao6a 
oicc mic ao6a, mic Sfain buiDe me^ macgamna 6 Dapcpai^e oip^iall, 1 clann 
eimip mic conulab 6 pfpnmai^ 1 RipDfpD mac uilbcc a bupc .i. mac ofrhain 
an coppain map an cceDna pop po^ail "] pop Dibfipcc in acchaiD ^all. Uucc- 

*" AcrAdentally Camden thought that the tore vehitur, haben* ad Ibernos Regis HispanijE 

titular Primate, Mac Gauran, accompanied Ma- mandata, vt Protestantibus pro Fide Catholica 
guire on this excursion designedly, to encourage bellum indicant, & ab ipso quam celerrime aux- 
him to fight against the heretics. His words ilium mittendum esse, intelligant: &.ad Mac- 
are as follows : guierem, qui iara bellum gerebat, profectus, 

" Ille [Mac Guyrus vir ingenii et pugnacis- cupidum bellandi virum Catholici Regis verbis 

simi] praedabundus in vicinos agros irruit, & auxilij spe in incojpto facile confirmauit. Cum 

Conacthiam ingreditur concomitante Gaurano Primate MacguierBrethniaOrruarkiPrincipatu 

sacrifico, qui a Papa Primas Hibernite designa- transmissa rursus Connachtam exiguis viribus 

tus, jussit ut Deo fretus fortunam experiretur, ingreditur. Ea de re certior factus Richardus 

certam victoriam poUicitus. Secus tamen acci- Binghamus Anglus eques auratus Connachtse 

dit, Mac Guiro fortitudine Rich. Binghami fu- prajfectus in ilium mittit Gulielmum Guelfer- 

gato, & Primate cum pluribus occiso. Mox Mac tum Anglum cum paruis copijs. Ad locum cui 

Guyrus in apertam rebellionem prorumpit, scuto miraculorum [_Skieth na hhfeart] antiqui- 

quem Tir- Genius Officii prosequutus, vulnus tas nomen iudidit, occurritur. Vtriusque partis 

cum magna fortitudinis & fidei accipit." — An- equitatus peditum agmina prasibat, tacitis cor- 

nales Reg. Elis., A. D, 1593. nibus procedens. Dies erat densissima nebula 

The account of this irruption of Maguire into perquam obscura. Quare prius fere vtrique 

Connaught, and of Archbishop Magauran's death, alteros offenderunt, quam viderunt. Signo tuba 

is given as follows by Philip O'Sullevan Beare, subito dato vtrinque in pugnam proruitur. 

Hist. Cathol. Iber., torn. iii. 1. ii, c. 6 : Macguier, quo erat prsesentissimo semper animo, 

" Sub hoc tempus Edmundus Macgabhranus Guelfertum hasta transfodit, & interimit, eiusque 

Ibernise Primas, Archiepiscopus Ardmacha; ex equitatum fundit, & fugat. Macguierem non 

Hispania u laimo Flamingo Pontanensi merca- procul ante pedestre agmen sequebatur Primas 



1593.J ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. I939 

back, he himself and all his people having escaped scathless from that conflict, 
except only WilHam Clifford, a distinguished gentleman, and five or six horse- 
men, who were slain on that occasion. On the other side were slain, Edmond 
Magauran, Primate of Armagh, who happened accidentally" to be along with 
Maguire on this occasion; the Abbot Maguire, (Cathal, son of the Abbot); 
Mac Caffry (Felim), and his brother's son. These were slain on the third day 
of July. Maguire was not pursued any more on that day*" ; and^ having carried 
away the preys and great spoils of that country, he proceeded steadily and 
slowly, from one encampment to another, to Fermanagh. 

The Maguire and the Brian O'Rourke before mentioned confederated during 
the summer to war against and plunder the English. Brian, the son of Hugh 
Oge**, son of Hugh, son of John Boy Mac Mahon, from Dartry-Oriel ; the sons 
of Ever Mac Cooley^ from Farney ; and Eichard, son of Ulick Burke, i. e. the 
son of Deamhon-an-Charrain, were also in insurrection and rebellion against 

Equo vectus et duobus tantum equitibus Felmio ruarkus, & Macguier prseda potiuntur." — Fol. 
Maccaphrio, & Cathalo Macguiere comitatus : 127, 128. 

in quern, dum Macguier dum Guelferto dimicat, The reader will also find a somewhat similar 

altera regij equitatus turma incidit. Primas account of these events in Lombard, De Hih. 

fugiens equo corruit, & stratus humi interimitur Com., p. 345 ; and Stuart's Historical Memoirs 

vna cum Felmio pugnante. Ex agmine Catho- of the City of Armagh, pp. 269, 270. 
lico pedites, qui Primatis vocem cognouerunt, & '^ On that day, literally, " Maguire was not 

si ilium non videbant, nebula oculorum vsum followed from that till night," which is not cor- 

intercipiente, accurrunt, & Cathalum stricto rect, becavise he was not followed then either, 
ferro pro Primate prseliantem existimantes esse ^ Brian, the son of Hugh Oge. — See his pedi- 

ex Protestantibus multis vulneribus conficiuut, gree given in the Accotint of the Territory or 

& Protestantes equorum pernicitate illsesos di- Dominion of Farney, by E. P. Shirley, Esq., 

mittunt. Interfecto Primate Macguier magis p. 150. 

msestus, quam obtenta victoria, & prseda Isetus ^ Ever Mac Cooley — He is called Farmer of 

domum redit. Rursus Orruarkus, & Macguier the Fernie by Fynes Moryson. His pedigree is 

statuentes non modo Protestantibus Anglis, sed given by Mr. Shirley, ubi supra, and long ex- 

etiam ijs Catholicis Ibernis, qui illis auxiliaban- tracts from his petitions to the Queen, and to 

tur, esse officiendum in Midhia Inaliam Ophe- the Lord Treasurer, are given in pp. 97-100. 

ralis ditionem depraedantur. Cum quibus de In. a letter of recommendation of this Ever Mac 

pr^da caspit equestri proelio experiri Guliemus Cooley, by the Lord Deputy and Council, 5th 

Opheral, sed in ipso equitum primo congressu January, 1592-3, he is styled " a principall gen- 

Macguier pugnae finem fecit, qua erat felicitate, tleman of the county of Monochan, attending 

& virtute, Gulielmum hasta traijciendo. Quo the Court in England, his children civilly 

occiso caeteri nihil amplius institerunt, & Or- brought up, and have the English language." 

♦ 11 2 



1940 



QHHaca i^io^hachca eiReaww. 



[1593. 



yar na haiji^ialla p amu]'' pop banna pai^t>iui]i baoi i muineacdn 50 ]io 
7na]iba6 leo a nnprhop conab oe pin cainicc ppoclaniacion do cop in ^ac baile 
mop Da mbaoi in epinn Dia poccpa na oponja pin a Diibpamap (co na ccorh- 
aonraib) Do beir ina ccpecuipib. 

Ro poccaip an lupnp lappin ipm ppo^map ap ccinn do rhoppliiai^eaD na 
nriiDe laijfn 1 Ifice mo^a Dol 1 nuUroib. T?o poccaip map an cceDna gobep- 
noip coicciD connacc ploicceab 6 pionainn 50 Dpobaoip Do Dol ma ccomne 50 
bepne Dala an lupcip Do paDpaiDe a lonaD pfin ap an ploicceaD pin Do 
mapapccal an lubaip "] Diapla cipe heo^ain .1. ao6 mac pipDopca, mic cumn 
bacaij. Ro imci^pioc na ploi^ Ifonmapa Idnmopa pin Don caob roip Do loc 
ejine o capn mop plebe bfra 50 hfp piiaiD. Mfp bo lamD la biapla ripe 
heojain cocr pop an rploicceaD pin, apa aoi po baoi Duarhan na ngall paip 
j^iip bo bficcfn Do a piap do ^nforh. 

Od cuala Q06 rhdjuiDip roicfpcal an rploig Idnmoip pin Dia paij^iiD po 
cuip a cpoD "] a cfrpa ecip bu "] innili 1 ccenel cconaill pop a momgabail. 
baof pfin 5up an uachaD ploi^ cappiipcaip ma pappaD Dia r(p pfin ") Dariipaib 
a cfpib ele Don caoib nap Do loc ace imp ceflionn pop cionn na n^all co nd 
leicceaD caipip lacc an Dii pin,"] po ^abpac laparh laim cli ppip an loc 
(amail pemebepririap) 50 pangaccap at oipDfipc pil pop an eipne .1. ar 
culiiam. Qn ccfin bdurappom ncc corr an Du pin po buf TTla^uiDip co na 
pocpaicue a^ coimimreacu ppiu Don raofb nap do loc 50 painicc gup on ar 
ceDna Don caoib apaill. Po lonnpai^pioc laparh an ploj gall an each, -\ po 
baoi TTIaguiDip agd copnarri ppiu peib a curhamg. Qp a aof cpa po pfojiaD 
an pfnpocal .1. luigiD lolnp ap uaraD uaip pob ficcfn an udr Do Ificcfn do na 
gallaib, -| po ppaofneaD pop rhaguiDip, "] po mapbaD pochaiDe Dm mninrip. 
Ro gonaD lapla cfpe beogain Don cup pin. 



f Carn-mor, now Carnmore, a townland in that 
part of the parish of Clones, which extends into 

the county of Fermanagh See Ordnance map, 

sheet 35. It is a part of the range of Slieve 
Beagh, or Slieve Baha, and contains a large earn 
from which it has derived its name, and which 
is a very conspicuous object, of which a good 
view can be obtained from the top of the moat 
at Clones. For the situation of Sliabh Beatha, 



anglice Slieve Beagh, see note ", under the year 
1501, p. 1260, supra. 

8 To avoid them, i. e. away from them. 

'' Ath-Culuain. — P. O'Sullevan Beare calls 
this " Beal au Cluoen, os vadi prati ;" and it is 
" Bel atha cul uain," in these Annals, at the year 
1597. It is still the name of a ford on the Kiver 
Erne, about half a mile to the west of Belleek — 
See note ", under the year 1247, p. 341, supra. 



1593.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. ly41 

the English. These people of Oriel made an attack upon a company of soldiers 
who were [stationed] at Monaghan, and slew the greater part of them ; M-here- 
fore a proclamation was issued to every town in Ireland, declaring the aforesaid 
persons and their confederates to be traitors. 

In the autumn foUowino;, the Lord Chief Justice commanded a OTeat hostinsr 
of [the men of] Meath, Leinster, and Leath-Mogha, to proceed into Ulster ; and 
the Governor of the province of Connaught ordered a hosting [of all those dwell- 
ing in the region extending] from the Shannon to the Drowes, to meet them 
at Lough Erne. As for the Lord Justice, he gave his own place on this hosting 
to the Marshal of Newry and the Earl of Tyrone (Hugh, the son of Feardorcha). 
These numerous and very great forces marched from Carn-mor'^ of Sliabh- 
Beatha to Easroe, [keeping] on the east side of Lough Erne. It was not pleasing 
to the Earl of Tyrone to go on this expedition ; however, he had so much dread 
of the English that he was obliged to obey them. 

When Hugh Maguire heard that this great hosting was approaching him, 
he sent all his property, both cows and flocks, into Tirconnell, to avoid them^, 
while he himself remained at the west side of the lake, at Enniskillen, with a 
small army of the inhabitants of his own territory, and hired soldiers from other 
territories, to oppose the English, and to prevent them passing that place. The 
others marched with their left to the lake, as we have before stated, until they 
arrived at a celebrated ford on the Erne, namely, Ath-Culuain''. While they 
were advancing to that place, Maguire and his forces kept pace with them at 
the other side of the lake, so that he arrived at the same ford on the opposite 
side. The English army then proceeded to cross the ford ; and Maguire at- 
tempted to defend it as well as he was able. But the proverb, " the many shall 
overcome the few," was verified in this instance, for Maguire was obliged to let 
the English pass the ford, and was defeated, with the loss of a considerable 
-number of his people. The Earl of Tyrone' was wounded on this occasion. 

' The Earl of Tyrone — This is the last action innocence in single combat with his adversary. — 

in which Tyrone fought on the side of the Eng- See Captain Lee's Letter to Queen Elizabeth, 

lish. The Marshal Bagnal, whose sister had m the. Desiderata Cm-iosaHibernica, vol. ii. ^.^\, 

been carried off by Tyrone, who married her, et sequent. ; and Leland's History of Ireland, 

impeached him of divers treasons, to which he book iv. c. 4. The following account of this 

replied, offering even to appear in England and attack upon Maguire, and the cause of Tyrone's 

there to defend his cause, or to maintain his disaffection, is siven in P. O'Sullevan Beare's 



1942 



QNHcii'.a Rio^hachca en^eawH. 



[1593. 



Uanaicc gobepnoip coiccit) connacc, ~\ lapla ruabmuriian bonnchab mac 
coricoBaip roic Doimcliaib f bjiiain ina ccoinne Don caofb ele Don epne, "] m 



Hist. Cathol. Iber. Compend., torn. iii. lib. ii. 
CO. 7, 10 : 

" Hsec dum agcbantur, exercitus duo, quos in 
Macgiiierem conscribi Regina iusserat, compa- 
rati sunt. Alteri prseerat Henricus Bagnal eques 
Auratus Ibernia; Castrametator, et Vltonige prse- 
tectus, qui minime speruendas copias ex Ibernis, 
(t Anglis praesidiarijs, Ibernisque nuper delectis 
ducebat. Equites habebat septingentos quorum 
partem maiorem, et peditum non paruam per- 
duxit Comes Tironus, qui iussus Reginse im- 
perio non gerere morem, minime sibi intfegrum 
putabat. Macguier impendente periculo per- 
culsus Odonellum, vt sibi presidium ferat, 
rogat. Ex quo acccptis paucis Ibernis bipen- 
niferis, '& Scotis sagittarijs, & aliquot obeeratis 
suis armatis louge exiguiores copias, quam 
bostis, habebat, quorum erant equites fere cen- 
tum. Bagnal cis Ernium flumen cum copijs 
omnibus constitit, inde traiecturus fluminis va- 
dum, quod Prati nuncupatur, Macguierisque 
obsratos, qui eo fugerant, prsedaturus. Ab 
altera parte Macguier consederat. Vitro, ci- 
troque missilibus prtelium inchoatur, Regij nu- 
mero militum, armorum genere, natura loci 
prestabant. Nam, & peditatus multitudine su- 
periores erant, equites septingentos contra cen- 
tum habebant, & bombardarios contra sagitta- 
rio3 : neque enim sagittam tarn longe iaculatur 
arcu&,.quam bombarda plumbeam pilam. Pree- 
terea bombardarij ex sylua, quse ad fluminis 
ripam pertinebat, Catholicos in planicic stantes, 
inipune feriebant : et sagittarij in regios arbo- 
rum densitate protectos minime poterant sagittas 
collineare. Ita cum pugnaretur magno Catho- 
licorum detriment©, Comes Tironus, qui regie 
equitatui prajerat, calcaribus additis cum omni 
equitatu vadum penetrat, & in Catholicos im- 
pressiouem fuciens omnes fundit, fusosque in- 
sequitur non tamen longe. nam ab Iberno pedite 



per femur telo transfixus est, & Macguier cum 
equitatu suo peditibus fert subsidium. Ea 
pugna desiderati sunt Catholici minus ducenti, 
ex regij s per quam pauci. Inter Tironum, qui 
qui fuit graui vulnere afFectus, & Bagnalem ex 
hac quoque victoria vetus inimicitia augetur, 
dum vterque sibi gloriam arrogat : Bagnal, 
quod ipse esset exercitus imperator, & Vltonia? 
pr^efectus cseteros imperio regens ; Tironus, 
quod ipse magna equitatus partem ductitauerit, 
vadum cum equitibus transmiserit, Macguieri- 
anos in fugam verterit, periculum adierit, &: 
vulnus acceperit. Ob id a Bagnale rogatus, \t 
litteris Reginam, & Proregem de ipsius virtute 
faceret certiorem, se illis coram verum dicturum 
respondit. Odonellus, qui cum vberiore equi- 
tatu, bombardarij s, & hastatis Macguieri sup- 
petias ibat, ad noctem post pugnam factam per- 
uenit, hostemque inuaderet, nisi per internun- 
cios a Tirono clam rogaretur, vt ipsius salutis 
rationem haberet, Protestantes non circumue- 
niens, dum in eorum castris ipse esset, qua? cito 
foret deserturus, vt deseruit : nam timens, ne a 
Bagnale vinculis mandaretur, & ad Proregem 
vinctus traheretur (vt iussum fuisse credebatur) 
ea nocte e castris saucius fugit in Dunganinnam 
municipium suiim, vbi medicamentis adhibitis 
breui curatur. Eodem tempore Richardus Bing- 
hamus Conuachtfe praefectuslniskellinnam magis 
intestina proditione, quam vi capit. Ea insula 
est non magna Ernio lacu cincta, in qua Mac- 
guier arcem duplici vallo cincta tenebat. In 
hanc Binghamus copijs in Connachta conscriptis 
ex Anglis aliquot, sed Ibernis pluribtis Catho- 
licis signa militaria pedestria qnindecim, & 
equestria quatuor per Brethniam Orruarki di- 
tionem tunc temporis vastam, atque direptam 
perduxit, vectusque pontonibus, & phasellis 
arcem diebus aliquot frustra oppugnat, militibus 
octoginta magna virtute propugnantibus : haud 



1593.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1943 

The Governor of the province of Connaiight and the Earl of Thoniond 
(Donough, the son of Conor, son of Donoiigh O'Brien) came to meet them at 

dubius in cassuni se vires diffundere, dato signo, ditur. Principio ob victoriam apud vadum 

propugnatores ad colloquium prouocat. Ad eum Prati de Macguiere obtentam gratise a Regina 

in castra prodit vnus non satis genere notus, Bagnali relatge sunt, Tirono vero ne actse qui- 

sed cui propugnatores maxime suam salutem, & dem, 9,ut liabitag, quo nihil hie impatientius 

arcem credebant, quod apud Macguierem fami- ferebat : neque tam cruciabatur, se digno proemio 

liaritate plurimum valebat, ab eoque donis orna- fuisse fraudatum, quam eo Bagnalem ornatuni, 

batur. Filius porcse, vel scrophse cognomina- loetantem, atque triumphantem : quippe vtei'que 

batur, nee incongrue : nam prteterquam, quod alterum inexpiabili odio persequebatur multis 

statura erat inelegante, & facie difFormi, illi de causis. Bagnal Vltonise prajfectus Tirono vi- 

etiam duo ColumellareS dentes ore prominebant debatur in proxiincialium bona facere impetum, 

similes suis, vel apri fulminibus. A Biughamo & prohibebatvir. Tironus Bagnalis sororem i'se- 

promissionibus, atque donis corruptus, & victus, minam forma conspicuam speciei pulchritudine 

postquam cum eo statuit, quemadmodum sit ar- captus rapuerat, matrimonio sibi coniunxerat, & 

cem proditurus, ad suos, tamquam arcem ad in- ex Protestante conuerti ad fidem Catholicam 

ternecionem defensurus, rediuit. Binghamus fecerat : pactam sibi dotem a Bagnale retineri 

induciarum spacio transacto more solito arcem querebatur. Bagnal saepe dixerat non tam cla- 

oppugnat. Propugnatores suam quisque par- ritate mariti sororem suam, & familiam esse 

tem tutantur. Filius scrophse, quasi sortiter, & decoratam, quam Papistas rebellione, & perfidia 

animose dimicaturus sese in exteriore vallo hos- esse breui fojdandam, & illi esse priuignos, qui- 

tibus ostentat. Hi ilium magno agmine aggredi- bus, et non sororis suaj liberis, si qnos progig- 

untur. lUe ex composito fugiens locum defen- neret, esset hgereditas amplissima deferenda. Ob 

sore nudum deserit, & tamquam sese recipiens, in has, & alias causas vterque alterum in singulars 

secundum vallum celeriter confert : quo etiam certamen Dubhlinnae prouocauerat, congressu- 

sequentibus hostibus aditum permittit, arcis rique videbantur, nisi ab amicis anteuerteren- 

portam subiens, quam iugresso, miles qui ad tur. Hinc Bagnal nullam incommodandi Tirono, 

portam in stationibus erat, venientibus hostibus & in eum accendendi Reginge inuidiam occasio- 

portam claudere, & obserare festinat : sed ilium nem prsetermittebat. Insuper Tirono occurrebat 

Filius Scrophaj stricto ferro percutiendo humi Macmagaunus crudeli supplicio nuper aifectus, 

sternens patefactis foribus hostes inducit, qui & eius nomen Parlamenti decreto extinctum ; 

propugnatores omnes prseter proditorem intere- alijque principes Iberni deleti in mentemvenie- 

merunt: et senes pueros, atque fseminas, qui in bant. Sed Catholico viro Gatholicse Religionis 

arcem confugerant ex sublicio ponte, quo insiila libertas praacipue ante oculos obuersabatur. 

cum continente coniungebatur, prascipites dede- Quibus & alia? suspiciones noue accesserunt. 

runt. Locato in arce presidio Binghamus, & Johannes Onellus Tironae princeps cum fuisset 

Bagnal celeriter reuertuntur cum Tirono iam a Scotis militibus suis per perfidiam extinctus 

(liffidentes, tum Odonellum, & Macguierem ma- (vt superius tradidimus) eius quoque posses- 

joribus copijs refectum timentes." — Cap. vii. siones Angliae Reginge fuerunt addicts?, & si 

" Haec dum aguntur, & Odonellus Iniskellinna? frustra, nam sunt retent« a Terentio Onello. 

obsidionem producit, Tironus Comes magis in- Inter has Farnia Iberi Macmaganni municipium, 

dies Protestantibus infensus, & suspectus red- regina? etiam fnit adiudicata eo nomine,' quod ad 



194t 



awNa^.a Rio^hachua eiReaww. 



[1593. 



nejigeriiac nac ni lOiji ace an ^obepnoiji 50 nfip^e amac c6icci6 connacr 00 
poaD 50 niaini)T:i]i na buille "] a bfir pe hachaio annpin ag cpeacliaD muin- 
ripe lieolaip ~\ lapraip pfpmanac. Ro pccaoilpior pip connacr t)ia rn^ib ap 
a hairle. Oo DeacliaiD lapla ripe heo^ain 1 an mapapccal 01a rri^ib lap 
inillea6 mopain 1 ppfpaib manac. Ro paccaibpior banocdje ipin ri'p a^ cong- 
narh la concobap occ mac concobaip puai6 megumip baof in eccpairrfp pe 
mdguiDi]!. bd Tifrhpoinrhec fpaonca6ac po bdp 6 clocap mac noairhene 1 rrip 
eoccain 50 pair cpuacain 1 cconnacraib "| 6 rpdi^ eoruile gobpeipne uf pai^^- 
illi^ an ran pin. 

rndg caprai^ piabac .1. Gojan mac oorhnaill mic pin^in ngeapna caip- 
ppeac DO ecc, pfp ceilli^ cpaibbec po ba mairenec,"] oipbfpc epi6e,i t)omnall 
mac copbmaic na haofne 00 ^abail a ionai6. 

TTIaipe m^^ean copbmaic oicc mic copbmaic, mic raiocc me^ capraij bfn 
uf p'uillebdin moip 00 ecc. 

lTliii]K fpcac mac concobaip, mic roippbealbai^ uf bpiain 6 6puim lai^fn 



loliaimem pertinebat, &aIleginaComiti Essexice 
Anglo dono data. Sed tunc temporis neque 
adiudicatio neque donatio execution! mandata 
est Ibero possessiones suas obtinente. Postea 
Comitis huius iam mortui filius Farniam cuidam 
lohanni Talboto Angloiberno locauit, Talbot- 
usque in Farniaj castellum, & possessionem a 
Keorinae iudicibus mittitur, frustra a Catholicis 
obiurgatus, quod minime iuste Iberi Catliolici 
viri possessiones ab Ilffiretico, qui in eas iniusta 
actione agebat, conduxerit. Iberi vero filij earn 
opportunam occasionem rati, qua gerebat Odo- 
nellus arma, amicorum manu coacta Farniam 
castellum noc-tu inuadunt. Foribus improuiso 
ignem admouent. Castelli inquilinus Talbotus 
sufFocante fumo expergefactus subxicula tantum 
indutus lecto exsilit, foresque patefacit ; pone 
ianuam absconditus, vbi Iberi liberi cum agmine 
suo irruperunt, nudus egressus pedibus salu- 
tem petit, quem sua familia sequitur eiecta, & 
direpta. Cuius rei culpam Angli in Tironum 
transferebant, asserentes hoc inuito, nihil illos 
ausuros. Sub idem tempus Angli, qui Ard- 



macham Primatis Iberni sedem praesidio tene- 
bant, templum ingredi constituunt, resisten- 
temque jedituum, & alios sacerdotes in vin- 
cula conijcere. Ad rixam accurrens Bernardus 
Onellus, qui tunc forte in oppido erat, sacerdotes 
in libertatem asserit. Duodecim Anglos milites 
patibulo suspendi iubet. Eeliqui praesidiarij 
fugiunt, cuius rei authorem fuisse Tironum 
Protestantes pro re certa, indubitataque confir- 
mabant." — Cap. x. 

Captain Thomas Lee, who wrote his memorial 
addressed to Queen Elizabeth in 1594, and who 
had commanded some troops in various posts on 
the frontiers of Ulster, during Fitz- William's 
administration, and who was well acquainted 
with the machinations of Bagnal, who had 
been planted at Newry, to effect the ruin of 
the O'Neills, thus writes of the trial by combat 
with which O'Neill offered to clear himself of 
Bagnal's accusations of treason : 

" And then, I am persuaded, he will simply 
acknowledge to your Majesty how far he hath 
offended you ; and besides, notwithstanding his 



1593.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1945 

the other side of the Erne. They effected nothing [worthy of note], except that 
the Governor returned with the rising-out of Connaught to the Abbey of Boyle, 
where he remained for some time, plundering Muintir-Eolais and the west of 
Fermanagh. The men of Connaught then dispersed for their homes. The Earl 
of Tyrone and the Marshal [also] returned to their houses, after destroying 
much in Fermanagh. They left companies of soldiers in the country to assist 
Conor Oge, the son of Conor Roe Maguire, who was at strife with the Maguire. 
Unhappy and disturbed was the state of [the entire extent of country] from 
Clogher Mac Daimhene in Tyrone to Rath-Croghan in Connaught, and from 
Traigh-Eothuile to Breifny O'Reilly, at this time. 

Mac Carthy Reagh (Owen'', the son of Donnell, son of Fineen), Lord of Car- 
bery, died. He was a sensible, pious, truly hospitable, and noble-deeded man. 
Donnell, the son of Cormac-na-h-Aoine, took his place. 

Mary, the daughter of Cormac Oge, son of Cormac, son of Teige Mac Car- 
thy, and wife of 0' Sullivan More, died. 

Murtough, son of Conor, son of Turlough O'Brien, of Druim-Laighean', died, 

protection, he will, if it so stand with your Ma- titled to be " Mac Cartie Reough, whereunto he 
jesty's pleasure, offer himself to the Marshal had right by her Highnes' Patents." The Don- 
(who hath been the chiefest instrument against nell mentioned in this Chancery Record is the 
him), to prove with his sword that he hath most very person referred to in the text as the sue- 
wrongfully accused him ; and because it is no cessor of Owen, the son of Donnell. Accord- 
conquest for him to overthrow a man ever held ing to the manuscript, entitled Carbrice Notitia, 
in the world to be of most cowardly behaviour, already often quoted, this Donijell was usually, 
he will in defence of his innocency allow his ad- called Donnell-ni-pipy [Dorhnall na bpiopaioe] 
versary to come armed against him naked, to from some pipes of wine which were washed 
encourage him the rather to accept of his chal- ashore during his time, which was considered 
lenge. I am bold to say thus much for the an omen of good success. He married Margaret, 
Earl, because I know his valour, and am per- the daughter of the Earl of Desmond, and had 
suaded he will perform it." by her a son, Cormac, who married Eleanor, 

^ Owen He was Sir Owen Mac Carthy Reagh, daughter of the White Knight, and had by her 

Chief of Carbery, a district in the county of a son, Daniel, who married Helen, daughter of 

Cork, now divided into four baronies See the Lord Roche, and had by her a son, Charles, 

Genealogies, Tribes, ^c. of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 447, who married Eleanor, daughter of Lord Mus- 

in which is quoted a Chancery Record, from kerry, and had by her a son, Daniel Mac Carthy 

which it appears that Teige O'Donovan, in his Reagh, who was living in the time of the writer 

replication to his brother, Donnell O'Donovan, oi Carbrice Notitia [1686], and married to Mary, 

asserts that this Sir Owen Mac Carthy was an daughter of Col. Townshend. 
intruder, and that Donnell Mac Carthy was en- ' Druim-Laighean, now Dromline, in a parish 

11 P 



1946 



awwaf^a i^io^hachca eiReaww. 



[1594. 



oecc,i a aohnacal ina baile pfin .1. 1 nDjiuim lai 5 fn, -] a mac concobap do 
^abdil a ionai6. 

TTIuipcf|icac mac Dorhnaill, mic concobaiji ui bpiain 6 rulca oecc. 

Uabcc mac uilliam mic camcc 6111b uf ceallai^ on calaD 1 ccpic ua maine 
oecc, -] ]io ba 00 moippccelaib 6 maine an ci cfpoa ann pin. 

O Diiibibip coille na manac .1. pilip mac uairne Oecc,"] a mac Diapmaic 
00 ^abail a lonaio. 

Tinai]i5]iecc ingfn ui baoi^iU (roi]i]i6ec(lbac) Oecc. 

aOlS CRIOSU, 1594. 
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceo, nocac, acfraip. 

TTlac mar^arhna .1. ci^eapna cope baipcino aiprfpaiji oecc .1. Uaocc mac 
miipchaiO, mic raiocc puai6, mic roippoealbai^, mic caiocc,"] a mac .1. coipp- 
oelbac puaO 00 jabdil a lonaio. 

O Suillebain beippe Gocchan, mac oiapmacq, mic oorhnaill 00 ecc. Qp 
a aoi ni bo 6 Suillebain beippe e an can pin gep bo bfo piam, 0615 po bfn 
mac a oeapbpauap an bliaOam pia na ecc oun baof, "j beippe oe .1. oomnall 
mac oorhnaill mic oiapmaca lap mbpfir comaiple 8a;ran ") comaiple na 
liepeann, 1 po jaipfo 6 Siiillebdm beippe 00 oomnall pfippin. 

O oiiboa cipe piacpac .1. oarbf, mac raiOcc piabai^ mic eo^ain Oo rhap- 
bao Id paijoiuip 00 muincip na bainpio^na 1 mbaile oia bailrib peipin 1 rcip 
piacpac muaioe. 

O hfioin CtoD buibe mac eojain manncai^, mic emainn, mic ploinn Oo -ecc. 



of the same name, in the barony of Buiiratty, 
and county of Clare. In the Description of the 
County of Clare, in the Library of Trin. Col. 
Dublin, E. 2. 14, this castle is placed in "West 
Mac Namara's country," and the proprietor 
of it is set down as '' Muriertagh O'Brien," 
who is the very person mentioned above in the 
text.- 

•" Tulach There were two castles of this 

name in the county of Clare, according to the 
description <if that county just referred to, 



namely, TuUagh, \^hich gave name to the ba- 
rony of Tulla, in the east of the county, and 
which belonged, in 1585, to " Donell Reagh Mac 
Nemara ;" and Tullagh, in the barony of " Cor- 
kemroe," in the west of the same county, which 
then belonged to Sir Donell [son of Conor] 
O'Brien, who was the father of the Murtough 
above mentioned in the text. We may, there- 
fore, safely conclude that the Tulach of the text 
is the castle of Tullagh, in the barony of Cor- 
comroe. 



1954.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1947 

and was interred in his own town of Druim-Laighean ; and his son, Conor, took 

his place. 

• Murtough, the son of Donnell, son of Conor O'Brien of Tulach"", died. 

Teige, the son of William, son of Teige Duv O'Kelly of Caladh", in Hy- 
Many, died ; and his death was among the mournful news of Hy-Many. 

O'Dwyer of Coill-na-manach° (Philip, son of Anthony) died ; and his son, 
Dermott, took his place. 

Margaret, daughter of O'Boyle (Turlough), died. 

THE AGE OF CHRIST, 1594. 

The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred ninety-four. 

Mac Mahon, Lord of East Corca-Bhaiscinn^ died, namely, Teige, the son 
of Murrough, son of Teige Roe, son of Turlough, son of Teige ; and his son, 
Turlough Roe, took his place. 

O'Sullivan Beare (Owen, the son of Dermot, son of Donnell) died. He was 
not, however, the O'Sullivan Beare at that time, though he had once been ; for 
in the year previous to his death, his brother's son, Donnell, the son of Donnell, 
son of Dermot, had, by the decision of the Council of England and the Council 
of Ireland, deprived him of Dunbaoi [the castle of Dunboy] and Beare ; and 
Donnell himself was nominated the O'Sullivan Beare. 

O'Dowda of Tireragh (Dathi, the son of Teige Reagh, son of Owen) was 
slain by one of the Queen's soldiers, in one of his own castles in Tireragh on 
the Moy. 

O'Heyne" (Hugh Boy, the son of Owen Mantagh, son of Edmond, son of 
Flan) died. 

" Caladh, now Callow, in the barony of Kil- conteyns East Corkewasken, and Tege Mac 

connell, and county of Galway. — See note *, Malione was chiefe in the same." This 'J^ege 

under the year 1475, p. 1097, supra. Mac Mahon was the father of the Mvirrough 

° Coill-na-manach^ i. e. the wood of the monks, mentioned in the text, 
now the barony of Kilnamanagh, in the county "^ G'Heym. — Upon the surrender of his pro- 
of Tipperary, which was O'Dwyer's country. perty to the Crown, he received a re-grant of an 

P East Corca-Bhaiscinn. — According to the extensive estate in the original territory, in the 

Description of the County of Clare just referred thirtieth year of Elizabe^th. — See Genealogies, 

to, "theBaronieof Cloynetherala[Clonderalaw] ^-c. of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 404. This is the last 

11 p 2 



1948 awHaca Rio^hachca eiReawN. [1594. 

Injfn rhfic uf bjiiain ctjia .1. onoyia in^fn coiiipbealbaij, mic TTluipcfpcai^, 
TTiic oorhnaill nnic uaibcc bfn piapai]"' mic emainn an calai6 mic piapaip jiuai6 
buicilep Decc. 

SloicceaD imop 00 rionoL lap an lupcip, 1 pctinicc jan pctuuccab cap na 
cpiochaib popcap corhpoiccpi do ^an nac niompuipeac 50 piacc 50 liimp cfic- 
lionn, ■] baoi 1 ppopbaipi, ■] 1 niompuibe innon ounaiD, "] ^eibiuc an pliia^; pop 
co^ail an liiiiip lap na liaibniib ba hablaicc leo, -] nfp pccapparr pip 50 po 
^abpac po 6e6i6, 1 pdccbaiD an mpnp bapoa ipin mbaile, "] 00 cuai6 01a 
ri^ laparh. 

TTIaguibip cpa 6d cuala pibe an lupui]' 00 poa6 pop cculaib po rionoil 
pibe an Ifon ap lia conpanaccaip co mbaoi occ lompuibe an baile ceDna, "] 
po pafb ceacra Do pai^ib uf Dorhnaill Ctob puaD Dia cuin^ib paip cecc Dia 
poipibin Nip bo lifiplfbac po ppeacpab inDpin laippnirfi oip Do coib Dia paijib 
CO na' pocpaiDe,"] po gabpac ace popbaipi pop an Dun 6 roppac lun 50 mfbon 
au^upc. T?o cpoirheab,"! po cpeachloipcceab lap an pocpaicre pin 1 nibaof 

notice of the O'Heyne family in these Annals. establishment, continnuance, and succession of 
Duald Mac Firbis continues the pedigree of the myn inheritance and living in myn owne kin- 
family of Leydican for two generations more, dred and familly, and the better ensuring and 
which brings the line down to 1666, when he suportation of the same from ingerous chal- 
wrote. The Hugh Boy above mentioned in the lenges, suits, and vexations therevnto to be at 
text, had a son Hugh Boy, who had a son Owen, any time pretended, Avherein the impotencie of 
who seems to have been considered the head age, and state and declining yeeres, disabling me 
of the family in Mac Firbis's time. In 1612 to imploy the mindfull paines and travells 
O'Heyne of Leydican was Conor Crone O'Heyne, therevnto behoofefuU, the defence and vphold- 
who had a son, Brian. On the 20th of Febru- ing of my said Inheritance in nature and right 
ary, 1612, he enfeoffed his son, Bryan O'Heyne, belonging vnto my said sonne, Bryan Oheyn, 
of and in his estates. This feoffment, the origi- haue given, graunted, enffeoffed, and confirmed, 
nal of which is now before the Editor, runs as like as be these presents, I doe give, grauut, 
follows : enfeoffe, and confirme, vnto the said Bryan 
" To all Chresten people to whome these pre- Ohein, the third parte of a cartron of Gorten- 
sents shall come, Connor Crone Oheyn of the shine, the fourth parte of a cartron in the tear- 
Ledigan, in the county of Galwey, gent, send mon, commonly knowen by the name of Bally- 
greeting in our Lord God Euerlasting. Knowe mollfargie and Pollantlynte and haulfe a cartron 
yee that I, the said Connor, for sundry good & in Corroboye, being of my proper inheritance, 
lawfull considerations me moving, and in espe- with all and singuler the meadowes, moores, 
ciali for and in the regard and consideration pastures, bogges, woods, vnderwoods, waters, 
both of my ffatherly care and affection, as well watercourses, fishings, heats, montaines, com- 
toward my sonne, Bryan Olieyn, as toward the mones, gardens, houses, land arable and land 



1594.] 



ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 



1949 



The daughter of Mac-I-Brien Ara, Honora, daughter of Turlough, son of 
Murtough, son of Donnell, son of Teige, and wife of Pierce, son of Edmond 
an-Chaladh, son of Pierce Roe Butler, died. 

A great hosting was made by the Lord Justice ; and he proceeded unper- 
ceived through the adjacent territories without any delay, until he arrived at 
Enniskillen ; and he encamped around, and laid siege to the fortress ; and the 
army proceeded to destroy its wall with the proper engines, and they never 
ceased until they finally took it. And the Lord Justice left warders in the 
castle, and then returned to his house. 

When Maguire heard that the Lord Justice had returned back, he assem- 
bled the greatest number of forces that he was able, and beleaguered the same 
castle, and dispatched messengers to O'Donnell (Hugh Roe), requesting him 
to come to his assistance. This request was promptly responded to by him 
[O'Donnell], for he went to join him with his forces ; and they laid siege to 
the fortress Trom the beginning of June to the middle of August. [During this 
time] these forces plundered and laid waste all that was under the jurisdiction 



pasture, vnto them or any of them belonging, or 
in anywise appertaining; to hane and to hould, 
occupie, enioy, and possess, all and euery the 
premisses, with their appurtenances, vnto the 
said Bryan Oheyn, his heires and Assignes, to 
his and their proper vse and vses for euer. And 
further knowe yee that I, the said Connor crone 
Oheyn, haue couenaunted and agreed that my 
said Sonne, Bryan shall pay vnto me some rea- 
sonable rent yeerlie, during myn owne lyffe, ovit 
of the before-mentioned parcells, and after my 
dicease to be to the vse of him, the said Bryan, 
his heires and assigns, as aforesaid, for euer. And 
further knowe yee that I, the said Connor crone 
Oheyn, haue constituted, and appointed my 
welbeloued Teig Enurgish of the Rahine, my 
true and lawfull Attourney, for me and in my 
name, to enter into all and euery the premisses, 
or into any one parte thereof in name of the 
whole, and thereof to take full and whole pos- 
session and seizen. And for me and in my 
name to deliver acctuall seizen and possession 



vnto the said Bryan Oheyn, according the effect 
of this present Deede. In Avitness whereof, I, 
the said Conor Crone Oheyn, have hereunto 
put my hand and seale, the 20 of February, 
1612. 

" Connor Crone Oheyne, 
is marke & seale. . 

" Being present when the within named Con- 
nor crone Ohein signed, sealed, and delivered 
this deede vnto the within named Bryen mac 
Connor Ohein, and as Avell to the within named 
attourney, Teig knurgish, those whose names 
doe follow : 

" John Burke, 

is marke testis. 
Thomas Burke, 

is marke testis. 
Thomas Connoghin, 
testis." 

" Being present when the within named Teig 
Enurgish," &c. &c. 



1950 awNaca i^io^hachca eiReawN. [1594. 

po prnacc ^all 1 cc]iic oipjiall "] 1 mbpfipne uf pai^illi^ co ccajiopar a mhii 
-] a mnnile a Ion ploi^ t)ia narhpoib. 

baof 6 oorhnaill ^ ppoplongpopc ace popbaipi pop imp ceirlenn 6 ropac 
lun CO mi Qu^upc arhail acpuBpamap 50 uraipnic a Ion Do cairfrh 00 bapoa 
an baile ace ma6 bfcc. Rangaccap reacca oo pai^ib uf DoirinaiU 6 na 
lialbancliaib po rocuip pium cuicce pia pm oia haipnfip 06 co rcan5aucap 
CO Doipe, ~\ pobuap larc uarigaccap an ou pin oorhnall 50pm mac Dorhnaill 
"] mac leoiD na liapa. Oo raoo laparh ua Dorhnaill Dia niompopccab co 
nuachaD Dia plo^ amaille ppip, "] po pdccaiB Dpon^ mop ele diB aj TTldguiDip 
DO congnarh laip, 1 po pupail poppa aipipiorh ace lompume an Baile. 

lap ppiop peel Don lupcip (.1. Sip uilliam pic?uilliam) co mbaoap bapoa 
innpi ceirlenn inD eapbaiD loin ~\ bib po popcon^aip ap Dpoing rhoip Dpeapaib 
miDe, 1 ap uaiplib pa^ailleac ~\ bion^amac C01CC15 eonnacr (.1. im pfoippi oec 
mbionjam) code DobpOic loin 50 hinip cerlenn. Oo cocap na maice pin laparh 
a ccfnD a cele a ccoinne an loin co cabdn baile 111 pai^illi^, "] po gabab leo 
lairh tiCf le loc Gipne cpe pfpaib manac 50 pan^arcap po riiaipim efirpe 
mile Don baile. 

Od ciialaib rHa^uibip 006 Dail an cploi^ pin Do bCir gup an mbaile (lap 
na loincib pempaire) do coibpiDe co na pocpaiDe bubein, ~\ gup an pocpaiDe 
po paccaib o Dorhnaill laip, -] im copbmac mac an bapuin .i. Deapbpauaip an 
lapla uf neill 50 po gabpac aipipfrh 1 nfnac epbalra lomcumang in po ba Doig 
leo a pocrain pium Dia paigib. Po ba ropba an fDapnaige fpin, uaip pan- 
gaccap gan pdcuccab Doib babein 1 ccfnD muinuipe meguibip ag bel ara 
pampfDhaigb. Po pigfb lopgal aigribe amcrpennDa, 1 ['ccainDfp epoba corh- 
napc fcoppa acciu ~\ anall, co po ppaoineab po Deoib cpia nfpc lombualca 
Id TTlaguibip co na pocpaiDe pop an luce naile co po pdecbab dp cfnD laip, "| 
po bor oce Ifnrhain an mabma co cian ap an maigfn pin. 5d Dfpirh a ecop- 
cpaeap do paopclanDaib "] Daopclantiaib ip in lomaipeace pin. Po pdecbab 
eic, apm, 1 eDala lomba an Du pin Id caob na neac -) na ccapall bduap po 
a neipebaib loin Do poccain co binip cerlenn. Uepnaeap pceolanga uaire 



&' 



'' Ara, now Arran, an island lying to the east writes the name across the Isle of Skye, Glenelg, 

of Cantire in Scotland. General Stewart in his and other places. 

curious map of the antient Highland districts, * At the mouth of a certain ford, aj bel aca 

in his Sketches, &c., of the Highlanders of Scot- painpfoaij. — See note '", under the year 1586, 

land, does not place Mac Leod on this island, but p. 1856; and note "*, under the year 1588, 



1594.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1951 

of the En^ylisli in the territory of Oriel, and in Breifny O'Reilly ; and they gave 
their cows and flocks as provision stores to their soldiers. 

O'Donnell, as we have stated, was encamped, laying siege to Enniskillen, 
from the middle of June to the month of August, until the warders of the 
castle had consumed almost all their provisions. Messengers came to O'Don- 
nell from the Scots, whom he had before invited over, to inform him that they 
had arrived at Derry. And those who had come thither were Donnell Gorm 
Mac Donnell, and Mac Leod of Ara'. O'Donnell then set out with a small 
number of his forces to hire them ; and he left another large party of them with 
Maguire to assist him, and he ordered them to remain blockading the castle. 

When the Lord Justice, Sir William Fitzwilliam, had received intelhgence 
that the warders of Enniskillen were in want of stores and provisions, he 
ordered a great number of the men of Meath, and of the gentlemen of the Reillys 
and the Binghams of Connaught, under the conduct of George Oge Bingham, to 
convey provisions to Enniskillen. These chieftains, having afterwards met 
together, went to Cavan, O'Reilly's town, for provisions ; and they proceeded 
through Fermanagh, keeping Lough Erne on the right, until they arrived within 
about four miles of the town. 

When Maguire (Hugh) received intelligence that these forces were marching 
towards the town with the aforesaid provisions, he set out with his own forces 
and the forces left him by O'Donnell, together with Cormac, the son of the 
Baron, i. e. the brother of the Earl O'Neill ; and they halted at a certain narrow 
pass, to which they thought they [the enemy] would come to them. The am- 
buscade was successful, for they came on, without noticing any thing, until they 
fell in with Maguire's people at the mouth of a certain ford^ A fierce and 
vehement conflict, and a spirited and hard-contested battle, was fought between 
both parties, till at length Maguire and his forces routed the others by dint of 
fighting, and a strages of heads was left to him ; and the rout was followed 
up a great way from that place. A countless number of nobles and plebeians 
fell in this conflict. Many steeds, weapons, and other spoils, were left behind 
in that place [by the defeated], besides the steeds and horses that were loaded 
with provisions, on their way to Enniskillen. A few fugitives of Meath and of 

p. 1866, supra. It was first written bel ara nu are cancelled, and painpfoaij interlined in the 
mCipleac do ponpab ; bnt the four last words handwriting of Michael O'Clery. 



1952 



awwa^LQ i^io^hachca eiReawH. 



[1594. 



opeapaib mibe i do yia^ailleacaib ay an ccairiop^ail pn, ~\ ni ]io hanab leo 
piDe 50 panjaucap 50 bpeipne iif Rai^iUi^. 5a pi conaip do beachaiD Seoippi 
occ bion^aiTi ^up an uauhaD ac pula laip ap an laraip pin cpia Ifpccain 
cloinne cobrai^ me^ parhpabdm, cpia bpeipne iif puaipc, "] appiDe 50 pliccec. 
T?o claocla(6f6 ainm pop an ar agd rcuccaD an mop maiDnn pin .1. bel ar na 
mbpiopccaD do ^aipm De p6 bdij an po pacctar) do b^piopccaib, 1 do bfcc 
baipT^fnaib oca an Id pin. 

Or cualarcap ao]"coirheDa an Baile ppao"'nea6 pop, an ploi^ do beaprpar 
an caiplen do TTlajniDip, "] do beapc porn mairfrh nanacail Doib. 



t Reilli/s.— The chief of theReillys, or O'Reil- 
lys, at this time was Sir John, the son of Hugh 
Conallagh O'Reilly. He died on the first of 
June, 1596, when his brother, Philip O'Reilly, 
was set up by O'Neill as the O'Reilly, though 
not without strong opposition from Maelmora 
Breagh, the son and heir of Sir John, who was 
supported by the English. 

" The Largan, a district in the barony of 

Tullyhaw, and county of Cavan See Choi^o- 

graphical Description oflar-Connaught, p. 347. 

"■ Bel-atha-na-mBriosgadh, i. e. Mouth of the 
Ford of the Biscuits. It is translated : Os vadi 
hiscoctorum panum, by P. O'Sullevan Beare. — 
Hist. CaihoL, fol. 135. The site of this battle is 
still traditionally remembered, but the name is 
obsolete. The ford is on the River Arney, in 
the barony of Clanawley, under Drumane bridge, 
about five miles to the south of Enniskillen. 

^ Defeat. — Cox says that news was brought 
to Dublin on the 11 th of August, 1594, " that 
Cormock Mac Baron (Tyrone's brother), who 
besieged Iniskelling, had defeated the English, 
being 46 horse and 600 foot, under the conduct 
of Sir Edward Herbert and Sir Henry Duke." 
Philip O'Sullevan Beare gives the following 
circumstantial account of this rencounter in his 
Hist. Cathol. Iber. Compend., torn. 3, lib. 2, 
c. xi. fol. 133, 134, 135: 

" In hoc rerum statu Iniskellinna; arcis prae- 
sidium ab Odonello circumsessum fame preme- 



batur. Ac filius quidem scrophse arcis proditor, 
qui in ea ab Anglis erat relictus, sus vorax 
esuriente ventre afilictus cum commilitonibus 
quinque noctu per lacum lintre missus, quod 
regionum, et itinerum expertus erat, nuncia- 
tum, quanto in discrimine versaretur arx, & a 
Catholicis interceptus vna cum socijs multis 
vulneribus interficitur. Nihilominus Angli an- 
gustiarum arcis minime nescij suppetias ire 
festinant. Carnes salsse, caseus, magna copia 
biscocti panis parantur. Prajsidiarij milites 
euocantur : Ibernorum delectus habetur ; ex 
omnibus nuper conscriptis Ibernis, & Anglis 
prffisidiarijs duo millia, & quingenti coguntur, 
quorum erant equites quadringenti. His im- 
perator prajficitur Henricus Dukus Anglus 
eques auratus IphaliaJ principatus prsefectus, & 
castrametator Fool etiam Anglus, de quorum 
consilio certior factus Odonellus, legates ad 
Tironum mittit, Protestantes luiskellinnse sub- 
sidio venire : id se vsque ad internecionem pro- 
hibiturum : quanto in periculo res sit sita, ma- 
nifestum esse, & ita Tironum a se pro hoste 
habendum nisi ipsi in tanto discrimine posito 
ferat auxilium. Qua legatione audita diuersis 
curis anxius Tironus distrahebatur, cum animo 
suo reputans Odonellum incerta spe Hispani 
auxilij gerere bellum, antequam Hispana signa 
in Ibornia videat ac ita rem Catholicorum in 
summo discrimine esse sitam, etiam si ipse ferat 
opem ; sin minus Catholicis opituletur, Protes- 



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the Reillys' escaped from this conflict, and never stopped until they arrived in 
Breifny O'Reilly. The route taken by George Oge Bingham and the few who 
escaped with him from the field was through the Largan", [the territory] of the 
Clann-Coffey Magauran, through Breifny O'Rourke, and from thence to Sligo. 
The name of the ford at Avhich this great victory was gained was changed to 
Bel-atha-na-mBriosgadh"', from the number of biscuits and small cakes left there 
to the victors on that day. 

When the warders of the castle heard of the defeat'' of the army, they sur- 
rendered the castle to Maguire ; and he gave them pardon and protection^. 

tantibus tamen se esse suspectum, & ita vtrisque non longius bombardse iactu a Farnio vado venit. 

fore hostem iudicatiim. Aduentante vero Ee- Vbi equites ad pedes descendere iubet, quod 

ginse exercitu Cormakus Onellus Tironi frater erat locus equestri prjelio minus idoneus. Hie 

cvim equitibus centum, & bombardariis velitibus Macguier, et Cormakus cum peditibus mille totis 

trecentis ed Odonellum in castra venit, missusne viribus dimicant. Eorum bombardarij agmini 

a Tirono, an sue ductu, minime satis omnibus primo fortius reluctantur, & vltimo non modo 

constabat. Macguier, & Cormakus cum pedi- bombardarij, sed etiam hastati insistunt. Csete- 

tibus mille ex Odonelli castris hosti obuiam rum primum agmen ferro viam aperiens, & liinc 

eunt, vt ilium incursionibus prohibeant, som- inde Catliolicos arcens vadum aggreditur. Inte- 

noque, & quiete priuent, quominus strenue cum rioi Catliolici bombardarij, qui vltimum agmen 

Odonello post?&, prjelietur. Interim Dukus non impugnabant, Protestantium scloperariorvim alas 

longius tribus milibus passuum sub vesperum in agmen compellunt, illudque plumbeis glan- 

consistit a Farnij fluminis vado. Vbi tenebris dibus continenter carpendo faciunt trepidare : 

primis a Macguiere, & Cormako missis Sclopistis ordinibusque iam laxatis incompositum Catho- 

densissima plumbearum pilularum vi improuiso lici liastati irruendo penitus disturbant, & cum 

obruitur : quos contra Dukus quoque bombar- altera parte impedimentorum primum confun- 

darios suos mittit. Ita vtraque parte per noc- dunt : deinde ad medium agmen compellunt. 

t.;m totam e minus prailiante, regij periculo, & Hie medium agmen duplex certamen inibat, 

bombardarum sonitu somno priuantur. Postero alterum componendo vltimum agmen, alteram 

die post lucis exortum Dukus ex vniverso exer- Catholicis resistendo : sed vtrumque Catliolici 

citu agmina tria instruens equitum, & sclopera- vrgendo confundunt, & per alteram partem im- 

riorum alis munita, quod impedimenta magna pedimentorum pellentes agmini primo miscent. 

habebat, iumentorum quae commeatum baiula- Ita totus exercitus turbato, coufusoque tumultu 

bant, asinariorum, calonum, atque meretricum, penetrat vadum, relicto commeatu, & omni im- 

ea in duas partes diuidit, alteram inter primam, pedimento, equis tantum seruatus, qui prsecipuEe 

& secundam aciem, & inter banc, & vltimam alte- cur^B equitibus erant. Mox quid agendum sit, 

ram collocat. Quomodo instructus milites pr«- Dukus consultat. Georgius Binghamus lunior 

teritae noctisvigilia semisomnese castris mouens redeundum esse censet, ne post amissum com- 

a Catholicis continue tela iacientibus gressum meatum omnes inedia vincantur pari fato cum 

comprimere s«pe compellitur, eosdem vicissim Iniskellinnse propugnatoribus, quibus opitulari 

longius remouens. Ad horam diei \ndecimara non poterant. Contra castrametator Fool, quod 

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aNNa6a i^io^hachca eii^eaNH. 



[1595. 



Uancncc iiipcip rua i nGpinn i mi lul na bliaonct po. Sip uilliani Puppel 
a ainm pein. Qpi^eab ]io cinnfo Imp ^ac baile od mbaof ippeilb na bainpiojna 
1 nepinn Ion -| Ian pcopup oo co]i inD oaimbeoin i mbaof ina a^haiD. Po 
poccpao laip Dppeaail) nnme, lai^fn, inurhan, "] connacr coiDecc 50 lioniTiap 
leprionoilre ina bocom co baile dra luam an peipea6 Id oecc 00 rnf Sep- 
rembeji. In ecmaing na pee pm cdnaicc an luprfp arhail po rin^eall 50 
hdc luain, -| po apccna appai6e co pop comdm. 



aOlS CRIOSU, 1595. 
Qoip Cpiopc, TTiile, cuicc cet), nocac, a cuicc. 

Qpt) iiipcip na hepenn .1. Sip uilliam Ruppel 00 rocc pop cappam^ 
opuinge 00 corhappanaib, "[ do coibnfpaib piachac nriic aoba, pop piachaib 



nomen stultum signiticat, stulte reclamat, & ob- 
testatur, vt arci ReginiE succurrant. Locus, in 
quo Protestans constiterat, hvimiditate impedi- 
tus erat, vbi equi in vliginem hausti vsui esse 
non poterant. Ideo a Catholicis magis impune 
missilibus sauciatur. (3b hoc Fool alam sclope- 
rariorum contra Catholicos producit, vt eos re- 
nioueat, dum rursus exercitus per ordines com- 
ponatur. Cseterum cite capto destitit tragula 
traiectus, & occisus. Quo totus Protestantiuni 
exercitus consternatiis desertis etiam equis vllo 
sine ordine, & iniperio ad vadum quod ante 
paulo traiecerat, reuertitur. Quo prohibetur a 
Catholicis fulminatoribus, qui partim impedi- 
menta diripiebant, partim vadum obsidebant. 
Vnde dubius, quid potissimum consilij caperet, 
ad aliud angustibus vadum, quod supra in tlu- 
mine intra sagittas missum conspicatur, conci- 
tato cursu sese confert, & in illud pra;cipitat 
prius, quam fuit a Catholicis occupatum. Qua 
vero celeritate, & trepidatione penetrabat, & 
vadum erat altitudine, centum circiter milites 
subruuntur, quorum super corpora caeteri tran- 
seunt. Protestantem exibernis pauci sequuntur, 
quorum ille paucitatem spernens consistit pa- 
rumper, dum Dukus Anglici exercitus impe- 



rator cum alijs cohortium ducibus armis, & 
vestibus preeter subuculam exuitur. Quibus 
tamen exutis non satis leuatus, nee aptus cur- 
rendo inter quatuor Ibernos milites ex suis 
trahitur. Fugientes & pauidos Catholici ex 
manibus dinliserunt, diripiendis*impedimentis 
animum intendentes. Nam pauci qui vltra va- 
dum fueruut secuti, statim rediueruut. Ob 
i|uod ex Protestantibus Anglis, & Catholicis 
Ibernis, qui cum illis stipendium merebant, 
pauci supra quadringentos fliimine, ferroque 
perierunt. Equi, magna strues armorum, com- 
meatus, & omnia impedimenta capta sunt. Inter 
i^ua; vis biscoctoriun panum ingeus in ipso vado 
strata loco nouum nomen indidit. Exercitus re- 
gij fusi, i»i fugati diuulgato nuncio Iniskellinna 
arx ab Odonello circumsessa in deditionem venit, 
propugnatoribus ex pacto dimissis, & Macguier 
(}st in integrum restitutus. 

" Macsuinnius Tuethius vnus ex authoribus 
belli, qui obsidioni interfuit, breui post receptam 
arcem natura; cedens ti'iste sui desiderium Ca- 
tholicis reliquit : in cuius locum sufFectus est 
Melmurius Macsuinnius Mauri Lenti filius an- 
tecessori constantia minima par, vt inferius 
apparebit. Obsidione soluta Odonellus memor 



1595] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. I955 

A new Lord Justice came to Ireland in the month of July of this year. Sir 
William RusselP was his name. He formed a resolution that provisions and 
stores should be put into every town in the Queen's possession in Ireland, in 
despite of all those who were opposed to him. He issued a proclamation to 
the inhabitants of Meath, Leinster, Munster, and Connaught, ordering them to 
meet him at Athlone, with all their forces assembled, on the 16th of September. 
The Lord Justice accordingly went to Athlone at that time, and proceeded 
from thence to Roscommon. 

THE AGE OF CHRIST, 1595. 

The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred ninety-jive. 

The Chief Justiciary of Ireland, Sir William Russell, marched to Baile-na- 
Cuirre* in the month of January, against Fiagh, the son of Hugh [O'Byrne], at 

trviculentiae, qua fceminas, senes, & infantes ex committed the most afflicting outrages in all 

Iniskellinnse ponte Angli prsecipitauerant, cum the well-afFected quarters ; besieged the English 

omnibus copiis Connachtam, quam Eichardus fort of Belleek ; cut off a detachment sent to its 

Binghamus hseretica tyrranide oppressam tene- relief ; and practised their usual barbarity on 

bat, inuadit : incursionibus longe, lateque factis the garrison, when famine had compelled them 

Anglos colonos, & inquilinos diripit, fugat, oc- to surrender. To complete his triumph, O'Don- 

cidit, viro nulli a decimo quinto anno vsque ad nel was enabled to establish one of the degene- 

sexagesimum nato, qui Ibernice loqui nesciebat, rate De Burghos, his associate, chieftain of the 

parcens. In Inalia Lomphortum pagum, quern district, by the name of the Mac William : while 

opherali ademptum Brunus Anglus Hsereti- Bingham, the Queen's Lord President of Con- 

cus possidebat, accendit. Protestantium prasda naught, was totally destitute of such a military 

Onustus in Tirconellam redit. Ea inuasione in force as might enable him to exert his usual 

Connachta nuUus agricola, nullus inquilinus, vi^or against such outrages." — Book iv. c. 4. 

nullus omnino Anglus mansit prater eos, qiii ^ Sir William Russell. — He was the youngest 

arcium, & munitorum oppidorum niEenibus de- son of Francis, Earl of Bedford. He landed at 

fendebantur. Nam qui igne, & ferro consumpti Howth on the 31st of January, 1594, and went 

non sunt, bonis spoliati in Angliam secesserunt, the next day to Dublin, but refused to accept 

illos, per quos in Iberniam deducti sunt, diris of the sword till the Council had first given 

obsecrationibus prosequentes." — Cap. xi. him in writing, under their hand, an account of 

y Pardon and protection O'Sullevan" seems the disturbed state of the kingdom ; which 

to have been misinformed on this subject. On being done, he was sworn on Sunday, the 1 1th 

his authority Leland asserts that the garrison of August, with great solemnity. — See Cox's 

were butchered by the Irish ; and he adds : Hibernia Anglicana, vol. i. p. 403. 

"In all the barbarous triumph of incensed '^ Baile-na-Cuh^re, now Ballinacor, in Glen- 
conquerors they pierced into Connaught, and malure, in the barony of South Ballinacor, and 

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1956 awNaca Rio^hachca eiReaNw. [1595. 

bu6ein co baile na cuippehi mf lanuapn oo I'onpab. lap nt)ol o6ib i ccomh- 
poccup Don baile pia piu painicc leo doI cap Dopup an DunclaiD baof ma 
cimcell po clop co ceccrhaipeac puaini opoma 6 na pai^Diinpib ace ool do 
paicciD an baile. bCoccaip piacha co na muinrip, "| at: pa^ar co hobann, i 
po cuip oponj Dia rnuincip Diomcopnarh an oopaip co po cuip a rhuincip uile 
pfpaib, macaib, mndib cpe C)oippib elaiD an baile amac, i t)o 6eacbai6 pfin 
ina Ifnrham co puce laip ma momldme lacr po bianipaib, "| po 6poibelaib pa 
mai^m pop mmll laip. 

lap mbeir Dpiacbaib pop a lomjabdil camic ma cfno uarep piabac mac 
^eapailc mic comaip t)o ^eapalcacaib cille oapa. Odla an iiipcip baf pi6e co 
cfnODeicldi mbaile na cuippe lap nd pdccbdil Dpiacbaib, "i popa^aib banna 
no 66 Do pai^Dmipib agd lomcoirhecr i cicc pfm rap a aip co bdu cliar. 

Do coib ona uarep piabac -] apaill t>o clomn piacliac mic ao6a ap lonn- 
paijib oibce (m lonam cooalra) po cfno coicc Id noecc lap pmco cpuimjlmn 
1 noopap ara cliacli. l?o loipcceab "i po leippccpiopab an baile pin leo, i 
puccpac ina nibaof ina ccuman^ Diomcap t)on cfno luaibe boi pop cCmpall 
an baile, i ^ep bo poilleip popaipccpiona luipne ~| lappaca an baile ajd 
lopccab oo ppdioib dra cliar oo coib iiacep ap ^an puiliuccab jan poip- 
bfpccab paip. 

Q ccionn mip lap pin cucc uacep amrnap po]i baile ouine uapail t)ia 
fpccaipDib haf ma corhpocpaib,"] 51b e an t)uine iiapal baof pibe co pfirrheac 
piiipeacaip 1 ppoicill a lonopai^re Dia eapccaipDib. Qn can do cuaib udcep 
CO na muincip pon mbaile po lonnpai^ an Dume uapal co cpoba cailcc nfirh- 
neac 1 ccoinne uaceip co po cuaipccpioc a cele co bainrhin fpccaipofrhail 
co po cpeccnaijCb uacep ina coip Don cup pin. Ruccpac a rhuincip leo he 
?5up an pliab bd coirfmrpa Doib, 1 po cuippioc Dia lii^fp e hi ppocoll caiman 
ap ndp beolac aon cpiap iDip. N(p pdccaibpioc ina pocaip ace aon buacaill 
IC^a Dia piop canupib bubein no cfi^fb pibe ^ac pe Id Do cionol luibfnD po 
na coillcib bd coimnfpa 66. Oo pala lomacallarh op fpiol ecip e -| Dpon^ 
DfpccaipDib uaceip 50 po naibmpioc pe poile,"] po cappaing p. be Ifon cfngail 

county of Wicklow. In the Leahhar Branach, the weir or dam. 

or Book of the O' Byrnes, in the Library of Tri- ^ Through the postern-doors, literally, "the 

nity College, Dublin, 11. 1. 15, the name is escaping doors." 

written bade nu coppu, which means, town of « Cruimghlinn, i. e. the crooked glen or valley. 



1595.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. I957 

the instance of Fiagh's neighbours and acquaintances. Upon their arrival in 
the neighbom^hood of the castle, but before they had passed through the gate 
of the rampart that surrounded it, the sound of a drum was accidentally heard 
from the soldiers who were going to the castle. Fiagh, with his people, took 
the alarm ; and he rose up suddenly, and sent a party of his people to defend 
the gate ; and he sent all his people, men, boys, and women, out through 
the postern-doors^ of the castle, and he himself followed them, and conveyed 
them all in safety to the wilds and recesses, where he considered them 
secure. 

While Fiagh was [thus] avoiding [his enemies], Walter Reagh, the son of 
Gerald, son of Thomas, one of the Geraldines of Kildare, came to join him. As 
for the Lord Justice, he remained for ten days at Ballinacor, after it had been 
deserted by Fiagh ; and, having left one or two companies of soldiers to defend 
it, he himself returned to Dublin. 

Fifteen days after this, Walter Reagh and some of the sons of Fiagh, the son 
of Hugh, set out upon a nocturnal excursion (in sleeping time) to Cruimghlinn", 
near the gate of Dublin. They burned and totally plundered that town [bally], 
and took away as much as they were able to carry of the leaden roof of the 
church of the town ; and though the blaze and flames of the burning town Avere 
plainly visible in the streets of Dublin, Walter escaped without wound or' 
bloodshed. 

In a month after this, Walter made an attack on a neighbouring castle, 
belonging to a gentleman of his enemies. But the gentleman was wary and 
vigilant, in readiness against any attack of his enemies. When Walter and his 
people attacked the castle, the gentleman came to a bold and fi.erce combat with 
Walter ; and they struck at each other furiously and inimically, and Walter 
was wounded in the leg. His people carried him off to the nearest mountain, 
and they placed him under cure in a subterranean cave, with the situation of 
which no three persons were acquainted. They left with him only one young 
physician of his own faithful people, who was wont to go every second day to 
the nearest woods to gather herbs. A conversation privately occurred between 
this man and a party of Walter's enemies ; and he, having leagued with them, 

now Crumlin, or Cromlin, near Dolphin's Barn. Gate, which was then the outermost of the gates 
It is at least two Irish miles from St. James's of Dublin. 



l9oS QHwa^^.a Rio^hachcci eiReaww. [1595. 

imcfip ma cfno. T^u^ao uacep laparh ^o har cliar, po cpochab rpa, "] oo 
ponaD cfrparhria ne. 

CoicceaD ulciD uile Deip^e in aon pann, -j in aon aonca in a^haib ^all an 
bliabain ]'^i. 

SloicceaD Id clanoaib neill hi nrif pebpa i noiiuhai^ bapum y^ldine co ndp 
pd^baccap arrhaofn Dia nfip ly na ripib pin oapbap no odiuiuccab oinDilib 
no Ddipnfip. 

Sluaicceab ele Id clanoaib neill co cfnanoup co po iXiiUeab, "] co po niop- 
aipccfo an cip ma nuiprinncell leo. 

Sloicceab Id nidgiiiDip ao6 mac conconnacc mic conconnacu -} Id TTIaj- 
TTiargaiTina bpian mac ao6a dice, mic ao6a, mic pfain bin6e co bpeipne 
uf Raigillij. l?o hmopao, ~\ po haipccfo an rip co cinneapnac leo, -] ona 
beop ni po pdccaibpior bor nac i noionpaibe oiap no cpiup oon caban uile ^an 
poplopccab cenmoca mamipcip an cabdin ina mboccap 501II an ran pm. 

^ Hanged and quartered. — The following ac- paucos vulneribus afficit, omnes in fugam vertit. 

count of tlie adventures and fate of this Walter Hinc Fuscus, & cum filijs Fiachus hostes indi- 

is given by P. O'Sullevan Beare, in his Hist, cati diligenter, & acriter ab Anglis impetuntur. 

CathoL Ihern. Compend., torn. 3, lib. 2, c. ix. Fviscus in municipio suo Glorane a Protestan- 

fol. 131: tibus, & Ibernis auxiliaribvis, raaxime Buttleris 

" Rursus Lageniorum parui tumultus reno- improuiso circumdatus sese cum paucis armatis 

uantur, quibus ansam prsebuit Petrus Giral- in paruum munim en tum, quod repentinos casus 

dinus Ha^reticus. Is ob inhumanam crudelita- timens, vallo, fossaque obduxerat, recepit. Istud 

tern iustitiaEJ minister ab Anglis creatus non hostes oppugnant ; ille propugnare conatur. 

modo viros, sed etiam fjeminas, & infantes (ea Hostium multitudine vndiq : aggrediente Fusci 

erat truculentia) morte plectebat. Praecipua frater Giraldus fortissime prselians plumbea 

quadam libidine Vateri Giraldini Fusci sangui- glande confoditur : Cajteri plerumque vulneribus 

nem appetebat. Eius pagum Gloranem cum afficiuntvir. Fuscus, quod, & munimentum diu- 

sicariorum manipulo repente inuasit, sed frustra, tius tueri nequiuit, & commeatu carebat, per 

)iam tum Fuscus aberat, & eius vxor, quje in- medios confertissimos hostes erumpens cum 

tererat, fuga salutem petiuit. Haud diu post paucis euasit. Tempore minime longo transacto 

Fuscus cum Terentio, Felmio, & Raymundo cum vespertino crepusculo per pagos milites 

Obruinibus Fiachi filijs affinibus suis, equitibus distribueret, ipse cum comitibus duobus domum 

duodecim, & peditibus fere centum Petri castel- a caiteris dissitam ingressus hostium milites 

lum improuiso aggreditur. Foribus primum, sexdecim oflfendit. Strictis vtrinque gladijs regij 

inde reliquo castello igne iniecto ilium cum fa- quinque grauiter vulnerantur ; alter ex duobus 

milia comburit. Interim Angli accolse cum Fusci militibus occiditxir : ipse mallei ictu fracto 

equitum turma, & peditibus aliquot Fuscum pene femore sternitur. Ducem humi iacentem 

circumueniunt, in quos ille faciens impetum alter comes, qui Georgius Omorra vocabatur 



1595.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1959 

[betrayed Walter], and led a party to where he was, who bound him. Walter 
was afterwards taken to Dublin, where he was hanged and quartered'*. 

The entire province of Ulster rose up in one alliance and one union against 
the English this year. 

An army was led by the O'Neills, in the month of February in this year, 
into the country of the Baron of Slane, and left no property after them in those 
districts, of corn, dwellings, flocks, or herds. 

Another army was led by the O'Neills to K^lls, and they spoiled and totally 
ravaged the whole country around. 

An army was led by Maguire (Hugh, the son of Cuconnaught, son of Cu- 
connaught, son of Cuconnaught), and by Mac Mahon (Brian, the son of Hugh 
Oo-e, son of John Boy), into Breifny O'Reilly, and they quickly plundered and 
ravaged that country ; and they left not a cabin in which two or three might 
be sheltered in all Cavan which they did not burn, except the monastery of 
Cavan, in which English [soldiers] were^ at that time. 

toUens, humeris inipositus hostium manibiim cia decepta, incertum. Ergo Terentio depre- 

eripere molitur fugiendo ad comilitones qui in henso, quia paternus, inquit Fiachus, amor me 

proximo pago diuersabantur. Quoties insec- non sinit digna paina perfidiam tuam vlcisci, 

tantium cursu superabatur, toties Fuscum humi his te tradam, quibus tu me eras proditurtis, vt 

relinquens stricto ferro cum quatuor, aut quin- sicut paternam pietatem es expertus, ita hostilis 

que certabat, quibus in fugam versis, ilium ite- humanitatis facias periculum. Terentius Dubh- 

rum sublatum, quam concitatissimo poterat linnam vinctus delatus non modo se falso crimine 

cursu portabat, donee socij auxilio accurrerint, purgauit, sed totam familiam longe honorilicen- 

A quibus Fuscus absconditus cum curaretur, a tissima morte cohonestauit : nam sspe ab Anglis 

custode suo ab Anglis deprehenso capitis timore rogatus, & prfemijs inuitatus, vt regise secta? 

proditur, & Dubhlinnam delatus ferreo veru subscriberet, maluit Catholicam Cliristi lesu 

longo, & acutissimo infixus perimitur. Post legem confitens acerbo supplicio mori, quam 

Fusci necem Fiachus cum regijs copijs quater negans viuere, patri prascipue triste sui deside- 

signa prospere contulisse. Sub quam victoria- rium relinquens, qui breui quoque quodam, 

rum prosperitatem fortuna minime diu Catho- quem fidissimum habebat, prodente, & hostes 

licis secunda vertit alteram paginam, Terentius ducente cum paucis familiaribus regiorum mul- 

Obruin trium filiorum, Fiachi natu simul, & titudine circumuentus capite truncatur. Nee 

virtute maximus, quod Anglis patrem prodere ob id tamen eius filij 'Felmius, & Raymundus 

constituerit, insimulatur. Fiachus id eo faciliiis arma a mora omiserunt." 

credidit, quod monitus fertur a Rosa Nituehile ^ In ivMch English tvere. — Ina mbaccap 501U. 

vxore sua Terentij nouerca qua; Dubhlinnas ab This should be: ma mbaccap bapoa o jallaiB, 

Anglis custodia tenebatur, nimium ne mariti " in which an English garrison was then sta- 

vitse timente, an Protestantium arte, & falla- tioned." 



I960 aNHa6a Rio^hachca eiReaNH. [1595. 

TTIaccon mac concoiccpiche imc oiapmara rmc caibj caiinm ui cleijii^h 
ollamh ui Dormlinaill hi ^pfncliap, Saof poipccrhe, fp^na, ealabanua hi yCn- 
chap,-] 1 noan, poeplcibjiaib I'oingre co mbuaib rminpgni, riaicfifs ") nfplabpa, 
pfp cpaiboeach caonDucpachcach DiaDa oepfpcac Do ecc 1 Ificip maolain 1 
ccnaomurhain. 

Sip Seon nopaip jenepal coccaib riabainpiogna 00 cecr 1 nGpinn occ cceo 
Decc paijoiuip 1 noeipeab mi pebpu 00 copcc coccab ullrac, ■] connaccac. 

Sloicceab Id hua noorhnaill Qob puab do bol 1 cconnaccoib. Qppfb do 
luib cerup rap eipne (an rpfp la Don mapca Do ]ponpab) lairh beap ppf loc 
melje mic cobraij, 50 bealac uf michibein, -| aipipip hipiiibe in abai^ pin 
rpepan mbpeipne gobpaiDpliab, -| Dopoine corhnaibe an aDhai^ pin annpaibe. 
Nfp bo pobaing Doporh ell no baogal Dpaccbdil pop coicceab olneccmacc an 
lonbaib pin, ap po baccap 501II inD lonaruacc, ~\ in aircpebaib ipin ccpic co 
coiccionn,"] 50 ponpabac ma popcaib aipfcaip,-j ma Dunapupaib Dioco^lai^ib. 
baf cecup Sip RipDepD bin^am gobepnoip coiccib connacc 1 Popp coindin, 
Dpon^ mop ele Do jallaib 1 mainipuip manac pil pop bpu buille, Dpon^ ele 
hi rcuillpcce m eiccipmfbon mai^e hai ppi pair cpuachan ano;p ucuair. 
Opon^ ipm bpopc nua (Dun po claibpiou ria 501II babein) ecip loc ce, -] loc 
napbac. Opong 1 mbaile an mocaig, -\ Dpon^ mop ele hi plicceach. Rdmicc 
piop Sccel 5up an n^obepnoip co pop comdin 50 mbaof 6 Domnaill ace rpiall 
Don ufp, "I ni po hanab laippibe co piacc 50 mamipnp na buille, -] po poji- 
con^pab laip pop a mbaof do ^allaib ip na bailcib perhpaice ueacr Dia 
I'^aiccib an Du pin, uaip bd Doi^ laip comb fpin conaip no cmjpeab 6 Dorhnaill 
CO na ploTijaib. 

Qcc Dol Dua Dorhnaill 50 coillnb concobaip po popdil pop a pocpaiDe 
aipipfrh ppi a nmneall "] ppi a ccaipbenab. Do ponab paip pium pin, ~\ nip 
bo habbal an Kon baf hipuibe uaip noca paibe acr cficpe ceD nama ppi 

^ Erudite. — '' }^o\[\^r\ .1. ceajaipsre."— year 1455, p. 994, ^//»m. This lake is said to 

0' Clery. have derived its name from Melge Molbhthach, 

s Leitir-Maelain, now Lettermoylan^ a subdi- the son of Cobhthach, Monarch of Ireland, A. M. 

vision of the townland of Glangee, in the parish 3696. — See O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part iii. c. 39. 
of Dysart-O'Dea, barony of Inchiquin, and ' Ballarjhmeehin. — This is the name of a Roman 

county of Clare. Catholic parish forming the eastern portion of 

^ The lake of Melge, the son of Cobhthach, now the parish of Rossinver, barony of Rossclogher, 

Anglice Lough Melvin. — See note ^, under the and county of Lei trim. — See this place already 



1595.] ANNALS OF THE. KINGDOM OF IRELAND. , I96I 

Maccon, the son of Cucogry, son of Dermot, son of Teige Cam O'Clery, 
Ollav to O'Donnell in history, an erudite*' and ingenious man, professed in 
history and poetry ; a fluent orator, with the gift of elocution, address, and 
eloquence ; a pious, devout, religious, and charitable man, died atLeitir-Maelain^, 
in Thomond. 

At the end of the month of February Sir John Norris, the Queen's general, 
came to Ireland with a force of eighteen hundred soldiers, to suppress the war 
in Ulster and Connaught. 

A hosting w^as made by O'Donnell (Hugh Roe), to march into Connaught. 
He first crossed the Erne, on the third day of March, and moved on, keeping 
the lake of Melge, the son of Cobhthach", on his right, until he arrived at 
Ballaghmeehin', where he stopped that night. He then proceeded on through 
Breifny, until he came to Braid- Shliabh", where he stopped for one night. It 
was difficult for him at that time to get an ajjvantage of or surprise the province 
of Olnegmacht', because the English held their abode and residence throughout 
the country in general, and especially in its chief towns and impregnable for- 
tresses. In the first place, Sir Kichard Bingham, the Governor of the province 
of Connaught, was [stationed] at Roscommon ; another large party of the 
English [was stationed] in a monastery which is [situated] on the bank of the 
Boyle ; another in Tulsk, in the very centre of Moy-Ai, to the north-east of 
Rathcroghan ; another in the fort, a fortress erected by the English themselves 
between Lough Key and Lough Arrow ; another at Ballymote ; and a great 
party at Sl.igo. News having reached the Governor at Roscommon, that O'Don- 
nell was on his march into the country, he made no delay until he arrived at 
the monastery of Boyle, and ordered all the English of the towns above men- 
tioned to come to him at that place, for he thought that it should be by that 
way that O'Donnell would pass with his forces. 

O'Donnell, on his way to Coillte-Chonchobhair'", ordered his troops to halt, 
to be drawn out in array, and reviewed. This they accordingly did, and the 
number he had there was not great, being only four hvmdred men fit for valour 

referred to at the years 1439 and 1480. of the province of Connaught, and the Nagnata3 

^ Braid- Shliabh, noAV Braulieve. — See note ^ of Ptolemy is probably an attempt at writing it. 

under the year 1586, p. 1581, supra. ™ CoUlte-Chonchohhair, a woody district in the 

' Olnegmackt — This is the most ancient name north-east of the barony of Boyle, ^nd county 

11 R 



1962 awNaca Rio^hachpa eiReawN. [1595. 

hfn^narh "| p|ii hujipclai^i Dpij^ ni oeacacaji floi^ ele ma coicCpral an 
can pin inje cenel cconaill, acrmab \iacha6 do c6iccea6 olnecmacc barap 
^acc caipcelab, ~\ ace peDiicca6 conaipe 06, im concobap occ mac DiapmaDa, 
"I im conn mac an oubalrai^, mic cuarail 111 concobaip. Uia^aic an plo^ 
laparh lap na craipbenaoh ^o panjarcap Don Buill, -] uia^aic raippi ace 
npoicfc cnuic an biocapa 1 nupropac oi6ce, appaibe 061b cpe moi^ liiipce, "] 
rpe moi^ naof co piaccacuap Id oobappoillpi na maiDne co pdic cpuacan. 
l?o leicceaD pccaofleab "] pceanpaD od pccemelcacaib amail po rrccaipee 
jMumh Doib pe rcocc an Du pin. 6d paippin^ poiplfran po Ifrpar na laoc 
biiibne 6 paile, ap Do cuai6 Dponj ofob t)o Ducbai^ 111 concobaip puaib "] 
uf ainli^i, cuiD ele 50 Dpoicec beoil ara mo6a pop puca, ~| opeam ele beop 
cap an ccaiplen piabac piap. l?o ba6 lop Do Diclfic an cploij; (pin an Dluirh- 
ceo Diab 1 Dfchaige po Ifc o na poploipcccib in ^ac aipm po ^abpac an 
]46cch Dd gac lee 1 nuipcimceall para cpuacan. Uanjacap an luce Do 6616 
j^o hat moba, ") an poipfnD ele Do cuaib 50 haipceac ~| 50 elomn cficeapnai^ 
pia mibmfbon laoi 50 pdir cpuacan, ^ep bo Dfcurhain^ Doibh coibeacc inellma 
Id haioble a ccpeac, -] a neDala, -] po ^ebDafp nf bab mo Dia mbfic ina 
ccuman5 a n^luapacc no a niomdin lucip. Oo coib lapam 6 Dorhnaill, 1 an 
luce pm CO na ccpeachaib 50 bailpinD, n bai achaib annpaibe ace pupnaibe 
an pccerhelca Do cuaib uaba 50 Duchaig ui concobaip puaib "] uf ainlij^i. 
r?o apcend laparh a hailpmD lairhbfp le Viae plipfn co hufb bpium. Qipipip 
nnn an aDhai^ pin co po eionoilpioe a mumcip uile ma bocom co na ccpeacaib 
leo. Nf po cionoileab Id haofnneac do ^aoibealaib pe pe cian Daimpip 
['arhail ina mbaof do cpob (Daipeccib aen laof) an du pin. 

l?o popcongaip ua Domnaill ap a bapac ap a muineip a cepeaca Do cop 
cap pionamn, "] po paoib a ^laplaie,"] ^ac aon ndp bo cualain^ apm Dimbipe 

of Roscommon See note •*, under the year Mogha, now anglice Ballimoe, the name of a 

1471, p- 1071, supra. ford, bridge, and village on the River Suck, ou 

" Cnoc-an-Bhiocara, i. e. hill of the vicar, now the borders of the counties of Roscommon and 

Knockvicar Bridge, on the River Boyle, about Galway. 

tive miles to the north-east of the town of Boyle, '' Caislen-riabhach, now Castlerea, a small 

in the parish of Ardcarne, barony of Boyle, and town in the west of the county of Roscommon, 

county of Roscommon — See the Ordnance map — See note °, under the year 1489, p. 1168, 

of that county, sheet 6. supra. 

<> Bel-atha- Mogha, i, e. mouth of the ford of ^ Airteach This is still' the name of a dis- 



1.595.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1963 

and action ; for no other forces joined his muster besides the Kinel-Connell, 
except B^ few from the province of Olnegmacht, who acted as spies and guides 
in pointing out the way to him, under the conduct of Conor Oge Mac Dermot, 
and Con, the son of Dubhaltach, son of Tuathal 0' Conor. This host, after 
ha^dng been reviewed, marched on until they arrived at the River Boyle, and 
crossed it at the bridge of Cnoc-an-Bhiocara° early in the evening. From thence 
' they proceeded through Moylurg and Moy-Nai, and next morning, by break of 
day, arrived at Rathcroghan. Here, as he [O'Donnell] had instructed them 
before they arrived at that place, marauding parties were detached and sent 
forth ; far and wide did these heroic bands disperse from each other, for one 
party of tliem proceeded to the country of O'Conor Roe and O'Hanly, another 
to the bridge of Bel-atha-Mogha°, on the River Suck, and a third party west- 
wards, beyond Caislen-riabhach^. The dense cloud of vapour and smoke which 
spread in every place where these forces passed, all around Rathcroghan, was 
enough to conceal their numbers. The party that had gone to Ath-Mogha 
[Ballimoe], and those who had gone to Airteach'* and Clann-Keherny"', returned 
to Rathcroghan before mid-day, though it was difficult for them to return in 
regular order, by reason of the immensity of their preys and spoils ; and they 
could have procured more, if they Jiad been but able to carry or drive them. 
O'Donnell and these went on with their preys to Elphin, and remained there 
for some time, awaiting the party who had gone to the country of O'Conor Roe 
and O'Hanly. He afterwards proceeded on from Elphin, keeping Ath-slisean' 
on the right, until he arrived in Hy-Briuin, where he remained that night, 
until all his people had come to him with their spoils. None of the Irish had 
lor a long time before collected (by one day's plundering) so much booty as he 
had there. 

. On the next day O'Donnell ordered his people to convey their preys across 
the Shannon ; and he sent his recruits, and all those unfit to wield arms, with 

trict in the modern barony of Frenchpark, in O' Flaherty's Ogygia, part iii. c. 46. It is chiefly 

the county of Roscommon. — See its exact limits comprised in the parish of Kilkeevin. 

pointed out in note', under the year 1297, « ^^A-^fcea/j, now Bellaslishen Bridge, on the 

pp. 468, 469, supra. road leading from Elphin to Strokestown, in 

r Clann-Keherny This is still the name of the county of Roscommon, and about a mile to 

a district in the modern barony of Castlerea, in the south of the former. — See note ', under the 

the west of the county of Roscommon. — See year 1288, p. 446, supra. 

11 r2 



1964 ^ QMNa^a Rio^hachca eiReaHW. [1595. 

lap na cpeacaiB "] lap na heoalaib co muinnp eolaip. Qn can bducaji 
Dei|iea6 an rploi^ ace cecr rap an au ceona ap ano t)o piacraccap jlapldir 
"1 aop Diubpaicri na n^all,"] oo bfpacr t)eabai6 oia poile co po cpecrnai^irc 
1 go po gonairc Dponga fcoppa. Qp a aof Do oeacaccap cenel cconaill 
rapp an abainn,"] Do corcap Dia ccigib co na neDalaib lap mbuaiD "] copgap. 

SloiccheaD ele let hua nDorhnaill (ao6 puab) i cconnacraib an coccmaD 
Id Decc Dorhi appil. bappfo a cceDna huiDe cap eipne larfi Dfp 16 loc melje 
CO mbaccap in aDhaig pin i Rop inbip. Uiagaic ap a bapac co ciU peapga,-] 
aipipicc annpaiDe ppi DeipeaD a ploig Do bpfic poppa, -| lap poccam Doib 
locap laparh cpep an mbpeipne co bpampliab appaiDe co macaipe connacc, 
-] a nDeacbaiD uaD ^an cpeachaD ap an pluaicceaD poirhe po cfcclamaD a 
ccpeaca ciiicce 50 haon maijin Don cup pin. Do com laparh gup na baipcc- 
fibb 1 gup na beDalaib pm laip 50 liarDpuim mumcipe beolaip an aDai^ 
pin. 

Qn can bd D615 Id a eapccaipDib eipiorh Do poaD cap a aip 1 nulcaib ni 
bfD pin DO poine icip, ace po paiD ceacca 50 binclfire do paijiD meguiDip 
Qoba CO cciopaD ina Doconi Don angaile, -| po Id luce caipcelca poirhe pop 
an ccpic, 1 po popcongaip poppa co ccmpcaip ina Docom 1 nionaD epDalca. 
Ro appccna pfipj^in laparh co caof cdicfnac co painicc co na plogaib an Dd 
ftn^aile ipin moicoeaDoil (Duchaig an Dd ua pfpgail inDpin ciD pia piu po 
bdcap joill ace popcarhluccaD poppa) "] po baof aon do na gallaib pabfin hi 
bpopc aipfcaip uf pfp^ail .1. cpiopcoip bpim a corhainni. Rangaccap pi]ice 
]'dppluai5 uf Dorhnaill -] nneguiDip 6 pliab caipppe co lificne co po cuippioc 
gac ni gup a pangaccap do na cfpib pin po cpoinnnell ceineaD, "] po pmuic 
ceo DobapDa Duibciac. Ro gabab led an longpopc, uaip po cuippioc cene 
gaca plfpa i gaca haipcinn De gup ab Id ceicc pepfb cuccpac cpiopcoip 
bpun CO na cliarhain, -\ co na mnaib apaon amac. Ro loipcceaD Dna cuicc pip 
t)ecc DO bpaigDib an cfpe (bdccap illairh ace an ccpiopcoip peiiipaice) nd po 
cuimgrD Danacal no do cfpapceam la cpfcan, -] Id cfnDdlDacc na ceineaD. 

' l{os-inhhh\ now Rossinver, a townland and haire, and county of Leitrim. 

])arish in the barony of Dartry, and county of ^^ Sliabh-Cairbre, nov/ angliceSlieveCarhvy, a 

Leitrim. mountainous district in the ancient territory of 

" Cill-Fhearga, i. e. the church of St. Fearga, Cairbre Gabhra, now the barony of Granard, in 

now Killarga, a parish in the barony of Droma- the nortli of the county of Longford. — See note '^, 



1595.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1905 

the preys and spoils, into Muintir-Eolais . When the rear of the army was 
crossing the ford, they were overtaken by the recruits and musketeers of the 
English ; and a battle ensued, in which many were hurt and mortally wounded 
on both sides. The Kinel-Connell, however, crossed the river, and carried off 
their spoils, after triumph. 

Another hosting was made by O'Donnell (Hugh Roe) into Connaught, on 
the eighteenth day of the month of April. He first crossed the Erne, and 
marched on, keeping Lough Melvin on the right, until he arrived at Ros-inbhir\ 
where he stopped for that night. From thence he went to Cill-Fhearga", where 
he waited for the coming up of the rear of his army. Upon their arrival they 
proceeded through Breifny to Braid-Shliabh, and from thence into Machaire- 
Chonnacht ; and such part of it as had escaped being pUmdered on the former 
expedition was plundered now ; and they collected the preys together to him. 
After this he proceeded onward with these preys and spoils, and arrived the 
same night in Leitrim in Muintir-Eolais. 

Now his enemies thought that he would return into Ulster ; this, however, 
he did not do, but privately dispatched messengers to Maguire (Hugh), [re- 
questing] that he would come to him in Annaly ; and he sent spies before him 
through the country, and ordered them to meet him at a certain place. He 
himself then marched onwards, secretly and expeditiously, and arrived with 
his troops at the dawn of day in the two Annalys (these were the countries of 
the two O'Farrells, though the English had some time before obtained sway 
over them) ; and one of the English, Christopher Browne by name, was then 
[dwelling] in the chief mansion-seat of O'Farrell. The brave troops of O'Don- 
nell and Maguire marched from Sliabh-Cairbre* to the River Inny, and set every 
place to which they came in these districts in a blaze of fire, and [wrapped it] 
in a black, heavy cloud of smoke. They took the Longford"", for they had set 
fire to every side and corner of it, so that it was [only] by the help of a rope 
that they conveyed Christopher Browne and his brother-in-law, and both their 
wives, out of it. Fifteen men of the hostages of that country (who had been in 
the custody of the aforesaid Christopher Browne) were burned [to death], 
who could not be saved, in consequence of the fury and violence that prevailed. 

under the year 1590, p. 1885, supra. more usually called Longphort-Ui-Fhearghail, 

^ The Longford, i. e. the fortress. This is i. e. O'Farrell's fortress, and from it the town 



1966 ' awHaca Rioshachca eiReaww. [1595. 

Ro 5abairc beop ceojia cai|cialla ele la liua noorhnaill ipn 16 ceona. 
Ro mapbairr, "1 ]io muohaigic oaoine lomba Don cup fin,"] po ba6 oia paop 
clanoaib bobfpo, inac peapjuya, mic bpmin po Tinapba6 Id TTla5ui6ip cpe lom- 
]iairne. Ro hep jaba6 mac an pynopa ui paijillig Id t)|iuin5 naile Don cploi^. 
Ro leipceacclamab, "] po Idinnonoileab in po ba lainn leo do cpo6 na cpice 
ap ^ac aipo oia ]^aicchi6. Coccap laparh co na ccpeacbaib i co na net)dlaib 
CO po ^abpar longpopr i cceallac Diinchaba in aobai^ pin. Ro Ificcicc 
pcceimealua uara ap nd bapac co maimpcip an cabdin oup an bpni^biccfp 
baojal pop na ^allaib bdccap i ppopbaipi ano, i o nd puaijipioc i ppeccmaip 
an boile lauc t)0 beapcpau leo gac nf ^up a pangacca]! Dia neoalaib. Uan- 
jarrap lapaiii an aohaij; pin co celiac eacbac alia riap do bel aca conaill. 
Ticcicu laparn Dia rcijib lap inbuam neccpa Don cup pin. 

O po ba Dfpb Idgallaib an napla 6 neill Do eip^e i ccornmbdiDh ui Dorh- 
naill ip in ccoccaD po cuip an luprip"] an comaiple ofic cceD laoc 50 hiobap 
cmn cpa^a do popbaipi pop cenel neo^am, "] po ^eall an lupcip co na plogaib 
rocc ina Ifnrhain Dopccctin "] do irnlleab an cfpe. 

Ro paiD iia neill a ceacca hi ccfnD uf Dorhnaill Dia cuin^iD paip ceacr 
Dia corhpupuacc in aghaiD an anppoplainn po Dail Dia pai^iD. Nip bo bfip- 
Ifoac po lifipcfD pin la bua nDomnaill uaip po cionoileaD a plo^a laip, 1 
pdinicc cpe rfp eoccain 50 liaipm i mbaoi 6 neill, -| Do cocuap ap aon co 
pocapD muiprrirhne hi inf TTlaii do ponpaD. Od cualaiD an lupcip a mbfir 
ina oipcill Diblfnib an Du pin po aipip in au cliar Don cup pin. 

Seoippi 6cc bingam baof 1 plicceac 6 jobepnoip coicciD connacr Sip Rip- 
oepD binjam Do cuaiD an Seoippi hipin lon^ co na poipinn Wrh ofp ppi bepinn 

of Longford has taken its name. — See note \ very common in this Annals, sounds awkwardly 

under the year 1448, p. 957, supra. enough in English. The phrase "which they 

'' The son of the Prior. — He was Maelmora, or could finger," so often used by Cox, would be 

Myles, the illegitimate son of Philip O'Reilly, better English. 

who was commonly called the Prior, though he *" Teallach-Eachdhach, now anglice Tullaghagh, 

was not an ecclesiastic. — See note ■*, under the or TuUyhaw, a barony forming the north-west 

year 1583, p. 1809, supra. portion of the county of Cavan See note ^ 

" Teallach-Dunchadha, now the barony of under the year 1258, p. 371, supra. 

TuUyhunco, in the west of the county of Ca- "^ Bel-atha-Chonaill, now anglice Ballyconnell, 

van. — See note', under the year 1282, p. 437, a small town in the barony of Tullyhaw. See 

supra. it already mentioned under the years 1470, 

* To which iheij came. — This phrase, which is 1475. 



1595.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1967 

Three other castles were also taken by O'Donnell on the same day ; and on 
those occasions many persons were slain and destroyed, of whom one of the 
freeborn was Hubert, the son of Fergus, son of Brian [O'Farrell], who was acci- 
dentally slain by Maguire. The son of the Prior'' O'Reilly was taken prisoner 
by others of the army. As much of the property of the country as they wished 
to have was collected and gathered, [and brought] to them from every quarter. 
They then proceeded with their preys and spoils, and pitched their camp that 
night in Teallach-Dunchadha^ . On the next day they sent marauding parties 
to the monastery of Cavan, to see whether they could get an advantage of the 
English who were quartered in it ; but as they did not find any of the English 
about the town, they carried off every thing of value belonging to them to 
which they came"*. They marched that night to Teallach-Eachdhach'', west of 
Bel-atha-ChonailP; and from thence they returned home, after the victory of 
expedition on that occasion. 

When the English felt satisfied that the Earl O'Neill had risen up in alliance 
with O'Donnell in the war, the Lord Justice and Council sent a thousand war- 
riors to lubhar-Chinn-tragha'*, to make war on the Kinel-Owen ; and the Lord 
Justice promised to follow them, and plunder and ravage the country. 

O'Neill sent his messengers to O'Donnell, requesting him to come to his 
assistance against the overwhelming forces that had come to oppose him. 
O'Donnell did not listen inattentively to them, for he assembled his forces, and 
proceeded through Tyrone, to the place where O'Neill was ; upon which both 
went to Fochard-Muirtheimhne^. This was in the month of May. ' When the 
Lord Justice heard that they were both in readiness there to meet him, he 
remained in Dublin for that time. 

George Oge Bingham, who was [stationed] at Sligo under Sir Richard Bing- 
ham, the Governor of Connaught, went*^ with a ship and its creAV north-eastwards, 

'^ luhhar-Chinn-tragha, i. e. the yew of the in Irish history as being the birth-place of St. 

head of the strand, now Newry. — See it already Bridget, and the site of the battle in which 

mentioned at the years 1526, 1593. Edward Bruce was slain in 1318 — See Colgan's 

^ Fochard-Muirtheimhne, now Faughard, a Tn«^ T/im^??*., p. 566, note 13 ; Ussher's Pnwor- 

celebrated hill, on which stand the ruins of a dia, pp. 627, 705, 706, 884 ; and note \ under 

church, about two miles to the north of Dun- the year 1318, p. 520, supra. 

dalk, in the, plain of Muirtheimhne, now the ' Went. An English writer would say 

county of Louth. This place is much celebrated " sailed." 



1968 aNNQca Rio^hachca eiReaNW. [1595. 

f oi]icciiai6 00 oenarh po^la hi ccenel cconaill, co po gabj^arc lii ccuan na 
I'uili^e. piiapaurayi paill pojip an ci'p an ran pin, co po innippfc nnainipcip 
muipe baof pop up na cpa^a, 1 puccpac a cculabaca oippinn "] a caiUpi leo 
CO neoalaib oile. QppaiDe 00 beacaccap laparh co copai^ (oilen in po bfn- 
DQC colum cille an naoi'TTieplarh eipi6e). Ro cpeacpac -| po oipccpior 1 
mbaof ipin oilen, "] pangaccap laparh cap a naip co plijeac. 

Qd cuap Dua Dorhnaill, aibrhilleab a cpice tjia eip (la heacrpanncoib) 
riccpioe a cfp eogain Dia cappaccain, "] nip bo cian an epnaioe 66 1 cri'p 
conaill an can pangaccap ceacca uf neill oia pai^ib, Dia aipnfip do an lupcfp 
CO na plo^ DO cocc 1 ccfp eojam. Soaip ma ppiring DopiDipi co jidinic aipm 
1 mbaof 6 neill. 5a paoiliD piurh ppip. 5a liaDbal an cpocpaiDe canaicc an 
iiipcip .1. Sip uilliam puppell, uaip boi ^enepal coccaiD na bainpio^na 1 nepinn 
a maille ppip .i.SipSeon Nopuip,"] lapla ciiaDnnurhan Donnchab mac concobaip 
111' bpiam laDpaibe uile co na pocpaiDe. Nf po hanaD leo pibe co pangaccap 
CO hiubap cinncpa^a, appaibe co bapD inaca. 5a hCx) po cinnpioc hipuibe 
j^an aipipioih 50 poccain Doib 50 liabainn liioip hi ccfipcmfbon cipe heoccain. 
Gcc apccnarh i peib bip^e na conai]ie Doib ecip apDmaca ~] abann rhop ac 
conncacap an lon^popc Idn noain^fn, "] an cipe comnapc caca 1 mbdcap 
cenel cconaill ~\ eo^ain imon lapla ua neill "| inn na nDorhnaill, ") lap nd 
nipiuccab pin Don cplua^ ^all aipipcc ipin mai^in pin co ap a bapac. Do 
coccap laparii cap anaip co hapDmaca. Do beacaccap na ^aoibil ina Ifn- 
TTiairi CO po ^abpac lon^popc m acpoccup Doib. 5dccap ppf pe coicc Id nDecc 
rt^haiD in ajhaib aitilaib pin ^an y'ai^ib Do neaccap aca pop apoile, uaip po 
baoi an lupcip co na plog 1 nbaingni^cib apDamaca ace coccbdil cop -| ace 
Dontiniuccab Dfocc 1 ccimceall an baile. Ro paccaib an iiipcip a ccionn na 
]iee pin cpi banna pai^Diuip a^ lonicoirhecc apDamaca, "] cfiD pfin cap a aip 
Don uibap, ■] bdccap 5aoiDil ina Ifnmain co Dopiip an uibaip. Do caoD an 

6 Mary''s Ahhey. — This was the Carmelite 0''Clery. 
abbey of Rathmiillan. — See note °, under the '' The Ahhainn-Mhor, i. e. the great river, 

year 15 IG, p. 1334, supra. now the Eiver Black water, which flows for 

^ Toradt,, now Tory Island, off the north coast several miles between the counties of Tyrone 

of the barony of Kilmacrenan, and county of and Armagh — See note ^, under the year 1483, 

Donegal — Sec note ^, under the year 1202, p. \\2o, supra. By Cip Bojain the Four Mas- 

p. 1 32, supra. ters, at this period, meant the entire territory 

' Revencje. — '• Cappaccain .i. oiojail." — possessed by the O'Neills, and the other fami- 



1595.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1969 

r 

to commit depredations in Tirconnell ; [and they sailed round], keeping Ireland 
to the right, until they put into the harbour of Swilly. They obtained an 
advantage of the country at this time, so that they plundered Mary's Abbey^, 
which was [situated] on the brink of the Strand, and carried off the Mass vest- 
ments, chalices, and other valuable articles. They then sailed to Torach" (an 
island consecrated by St. Columbkille, the holy patron), and preyed and plun- 
dered every thing they found on the island, and then returned back to Sligo. 

O'Donnell having been informed of the spoliation of his territory, in his ab- 
sence, by strangers, he returned from Tyrone to revenge"' it ; but his stay had not 
been long in Tirconnell when O'Neill's messengers came to him to inform him that 
the Lord Justice had arrived with an army in Tyrone. He, thereupon, went back 
to the place where O'Neill was, who rejoiced at his arrival. The army brought by 
the Lord Justice (i. e. Sir William Russell) was very immense, for he had with 
him Sir John Norris, the Queen's general in Ireland, and the Earl of Thomond 
(Donough, son of Conor O'Brien), with all their forces. These never halted 
until they arrived at Newry, from whence they proceeded to Armagh. Llere 
they resolved not to delay, until they should reach the Abhainn-mhor'', in the 
very middle of Tyrone. On their march over the direct road from Armagh 
to this river, they beheld the fortified camp, and the strong battle-array of the 
Kinel-Owen and Kinel-Connell, under the Earl O'Neill and O'Donnell ; and 
when the English army perceived this, they remained where they were' until 
the next morning, when they returned back to Armagh. The Irish went in 
pursuit of them, and pitched their camp near them. They remained thus face 
to face for the space of fifteen days, without any attack from either side"; for 
the Lord Justice and his army were within the fortifications of Armagh, [en- 
gaged in] erecting towers, and deepening the trenches around the town. At 
the expiration of this time the Lord Justice left three companies of soldiers to 
defend Armagh, and he himself returned to Newry ; and the Irish went in 
pursuit to the gate of Newry. In a week afterwards the Lord Justice set out 

lies of the race of Eoghan. At an earlier period magh and Monaghan, and, more recently, those 

the River Abhainn-mhor, which was originally of Louth and Fermanagh. 

called the Dabhall, would be described, not as • }Vhere they icere, literally, "in that place," 

in the middle of Tir-Eoghain, but as flowing which is rather clumsy. 

between Tir-Eoghain and Oirghialla; for the "^ From either side, literally, " Avithout either 

latter territory comprised the counties of Ar- of them attacking the other." 

11 S 



1970 awNaca i^io^hachca eiReawH. [1595. 

lufcip po cfno pecumame lapccain 16 Ion 50 TTluineacan. Do 6616 appibe 
CO na plo^ CO hat cliar. 

Ml po larhpac 501U aon rploicceab t>o bpfiu co huUcoib 50 cfno achai6 
lap pin, ace aon cpluaiccea6 arhain 00 ponab let Sip peon nopaip, "| Id Sip 
coTTiap opip a beapbpafaip .1. ppepioenp Da cuiccib murhan, 50 nfipje amac 
muirhneac -\ mibeac t)0 60I in ullroib. Oo cuap leo co hiubap cinn rpa^a, 
-| po cpiallpar appibe co hapomaca. lap nool 1 n^ap 00 Ifc na conaipe 
061b ip ann do palacap na ^aoiDil pop a ccionn, "] po ^abpac accd ccailcc, "] 
accd ccairfrh accd crollaD, "j accd rrpfsDab co ndp Ificcpoc coDlaDh no 
longab pocpacc no pabaile Doib ppi pe cfireopa niiaip ppicfr. Ni po leicceab 
Dna aon cpoicch peaca pin ap a na^liaib larr, "] pobrap buibi^ a nnaire Do 
poccain a nanmann leo cap a naip ^up an lubap, lap ppaccbdil Daofne, eac, 
aipm, ") eDala co hiolapba Doib. l?o ^onab an ^enepal Sip Seon nopip, -\ Sip 
comap a bfpbpauaip Don cup pin. Nfp bo bfpn bao^ail Doibpibe Dol ipm 
ccoicceab lap pin. 

lap poab Don cpeoippi perhpaice co plicceac lap nopccam maim pcpe 

° Towai'ds Armagh. — This should evidently erat Anglis commodius transeundum. Illiid 
be " towards Monaghan ;" for we are informed vadum Onellus obsidet ; adire tentat Norris ; 
by P. O'Sullevan Beare, who seems to have had eum remouere Onellus conatur, Equestris simul 
the account of the rencounter between the Earl pugna, & bombardariorum velitatio circum va- 
of Tyrone and Segrave from living witnesses, dum incipit. Equites regij armorum munimine, 
that this conflict took place at Cluain-tibrat, Iberni hominum dexteritate prgestabant. Iberni 
near Monaghan. The following is O'Sullevan's fulminatores collineandi scientia longe antecede- 
axjcount of this conflict, but it rests on his tes- bant. Quod commodum sajpius commune par- 
timony alone, for no older or contemporaneous tis vtriusque erat : nam in regio exercitu ssepe 
writer has handed down any account of it, and plures erant Iberni, quam Angli. Regij bom- 
all subsequent writers have merely copied him : bardarij bis a Catholicis confutati sunt, recla- 

" Norris dux tan tug cum exercitu suo Auri- mante Norrise, qui vltimus omnium pugna ex- 

liam Macmagannorum ditionem ingrcssus non cedebat. Ac sub eo quidem equus plumbea 

procul a Munichano in campum, qui Pratum glande confossus cadit. Omnes partis vtriusque 

Fontis dicitur, peruenit : vbi copias suas hosti equites Macguieri non iuiuria primas concesse- 

spectandas prajbet. Onellus imperator nihil im- runt. Cum Norris segrius ferret suos bis reiectos 

peritior, sed viribus longe impar occurrit. Ibi locum non sustinuisse, laimus Sedgreius eques 

duarum bellicosisimarum insularum duo longe Ibernus Midhiensis corporis, & animi robore 

clarissimi duces primum signa conferunt. Erat excellens ipsum, & Bagnalem ita alloquitur. 

ille loctis planicies aperta, & patens sed humidi- Mittite raecum equitum turmam, & ego polliceor 

tate parum impedita. Ex circumiectis vliginibus vobis, Onellum esse mihi ex ephippijs saltern 

aqua; conilnentes vadum faciebant, per quod detrahendum. Consistebat Onellus ab altera 



1595] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. I97I 

with provisions, to [victual] Monaghan, and from thence he proceeded with his 
army to DubUn. 

For some time after this the English did not dare to bring any army into 
Ulster, except one hosting which was made by Sir John Norris and his brother, 
Sir Thomas Norris, the President of the two provinces of Munster, with the 
forces of Munster and Meath, to proceed into Ulster. They inarched to NeWry, 
and passed from thence towards Armagh". "When they had proceeded near 
halfway, they were met by the Irish, who proceeded to annoy, shoot, pierce, and 
spear them, so that they did not suffer them either to sleep or rest quietly for 
the space of twenty-four hours. They were not permitted to advance forward 
one foot further ; and their chiefs were glad to escape with their lives to Newry, 
leaving behind them many men, horses, arms, and valuable things. The General, 
Sir John Norris, and his brother. Sir Thomas, were wounded on this occasion. 
It was no [ordinary] gap of danger for them to go into the province after this. 

The aforesaid George [Bingham] returned to Shgo, after having plundered 

parte vadi quadragiuta eqnitibus, & bombarda- & nitrato puluere non satis abundantem Onellus 

rijs paucis stipatus, inde prselium contemplans, secutus ad viam Finnuis infestius occurrit : vbi 

& imperia dans. Tertio equites, & boinbardarij Ohanlonus summus exercitus regij signifer 
pugnam redintegrant. Et Sedgreius quidem • crure vulneratur, & alij glandibvis plumbeis 

comitatus turma electissimorum equitum Iber- confossi cadunt. Munichanum arcem, quam 

norum, et Anglorum vadvim aggreditur. In ipso tribus peditum cohortibus, & equitum turma 

>vado pauci equites cadunt a scloperarijs corporis Hinchus Anglus tenebat, inedia coactus dedidit, 

Onelli custodibus icti. Nihilominus Sedgreius ipse ex pacto incolumis dimittitur."— //^25^ 

in Onellum irruit : vterque in alterius lorica Catliol. Iber., torn. 3, lib. 3, c. ii. 

hastam frangit. Mox Sedgreius Onellum collo The name here written Sedgreiiis by O'Sul- 

deprehensum ex equo deturbat ; Onellus inui- levan, is written Segrave by the Abbe Ma- 

cem Sedgreium ex equo detrahit : ambo in cer- Geoghegan. The descendants of this gigantic 

tamen validfe luctaj manus conserunt : Onellus warrior are still extant in the county of Wick- 

prosternitur, qui tamen animo tanto fuit, vt low, and the present head of the family is six 

iacens Sedgreium sub lorica inter femina per feet eight inches in height. Lombard states, in 

genitalia stricto pugione confossum interfecerit. his Commentaries, p. 345, that Sir John Norris 

Circum Sedgreium octodecim equites splendidi bore high testimony to the valour, discipline, 

regij succumbunt, & signum capitur : ceeteri and military skill of O'Neill and his native Irish 

fuga salutem petunt : vna quoque omnes regime soldiers on this occasion, and that he expressed 

copife pedem referre coguntur, septingentis plus a Avish that he had had their assistance in his 

minus desideratis Catholici pauci sunt vulne- services abroad. 

ribus affecti : eorum nullus memorabilis nume- " N'o gap of danger. — This should be Oip la 

rus occisus. Postero die redeuntem Norrisem, beapn bao jail, &c. 

11 s2 



1972 



awNaca Rio^hacnca eiReawN. 



[1595. 



Yiaorh nnui|ie bi |idic rhaolam, n eccailp colaim cille i rco]iai5, nip bo pooa 
an ]ie po leicc Dia 66 gan a naire pai]i, iiai]i boi Duine uapal Do Bupcacaib 
ina caofrhreacc co noiB laocaib oecc i maille p]iip .i. uillecc a bupc mac 
peTYiainn na pccuab. Do paoaD Dimiccm "] capcaipne Dopibe peer nan Id 
Sfoippi 1 lap na ^allaib ap cfna. Ro ba peapcc -| po ba lonOup laippiorh 
inopin, 1 po baof ina rhfnmam aire a 6iTnia6a ap Sheoippi Dia ccaorhpao "] 
rocc laporh i niuinceapup ui Dorhnaill ap bd oeapb laip ^up bo liinnill o6 bfiu 
ina pocaip. puaip piorh laparh baoj;al an upeoippi perhpaice Id naen Dia 
iTibaof 1 naip fecal i nuarhaD pochaibe Rdinic piorh oia paiccib, i po cuip ina 
accaib a ainblicclieaD "] a eccoip paip, -j nf ppuaip ppeajpa ba lainn laip 
o nd puaip raippn^iO a cloioeam, "] impip paip eo po bfn a cfnD Dia cuil 
rhfioe. 5^^^^^ ^^ baile laparh, 1 po pai6 a reacra eo hdr pfnai^ bail i 
nibdccap nnuincip ui Dorhnaill. CuipiDpiDe ceacca eo cfp eojain aipm i 
mbaoi 6 Dorhnaill peippin. Qc piaDac a pcela 66, -] ac cuai6 piurh Don lapla 
na neill'iapccain, Robrap pailiD Diblinib Don rhapbao iym. Celebpai6 
ua Dorhnaill Don lapla ap a bapac, -] ni po aipip ace a noi6cib co na plua^ 
laip 50 pdinicc co plicceac p6 jeib pdilce "] Do pace uillfec a biipc an baile 
66, -| bd pdirh laip a rhfnma. 1 mi lun Do p6na6 inDpin. 

Qn can ac cualaucap 1 mbdrcqp pop Dibfipec Do coiccea6 conDacc 
(.1. bupcai^ loccapac, clann nDorhnaill, Siol econcobaip, Ruapcai^, -) clann 
maolpuanaiD, 1 nf liiaD arhdin ace a mbdccap ap poccpa 1 ap paoinnel lap 
nd naucup 1 lap nd monnapba6 Id biongamacaib 1 nullcoib "[ 1 nionoDaib ele) 



p Rath-Maelain, nowEatlimullan. — See note s, 
p. 1968, supra. 

'' Bedmond-na-Scuab, i. e. Redmond of the 
Sweeping Excursions. The word |"cuab, which 
is cognate with the Latin scojicc, literally denotes 
a broom or besom. 

^ Was offered iusuU. — P. O'SuUevan Beare 
states, that Ulick Burke was vexed because the 
Irish soldiers, who had accompanied George 
Bingham into Tirconnell, had not received a 
fair dividend of the booty cai'ricd off from that 
country : 

" In Connachta Georgius Binghamus lunior 
Sligacham arcem cum peditibus ducentis, quo- 



rum pars erant Iberni, tenebat. In qua prsesidij 
causa relicto Vlligo Burko Raymundi lilio nobili 
Iberno cum parte militum, ipse cum casteris in 
Vltoniam duobus phasellis vectus Rathmelanem 
municipium Macsuinnij Fanidi, qui tunc abe- 
rat, inuadens monasterium Carmelitarum diripit, 
religiosis in arcem fugatis. Onustus praeda Sli- 
gacham reuertitur. Cum divideretur praida, 
milites Iberni iure suo fraudati Vlligo videntur: 
qui cum iisdem agit, quemadmodum Binghami 
& Anglorum iniurias vlciscantur. Diem qua 
castellum illis adimat, constituit. Ea cum ve- 
nisset, Iberni Anglos aggrediuntur. Binghamus 
ab Vlligo pugione confossus, & casteri, vel occisi, 



1595.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1973 

the monastery of the Blessed Virgin at Rath-Maelain", and the church of 
St. Columbkille on Torach ; but God did not permit him to remain for a long- 
time without revenging them upon him, for there was in his company a gentle- 
man of the Burkes, who had twelve warriors along with him, namely, Ulick 
Burke, the son of Redmond-na-Scuab''. Upon one occasion he was offered 
insulf and indignity by George and the Enghsh in general, at which he felt 
hurt and angry ; and he resolved in his mind to revenge the insult on George, 
if he could, and afterwards to get into the friendship of O'Donnell, for he 
felt certain of being secure with him. He afterwards got an advantage of 
the aforesaid George, one day as he was in an apartment with few attendants ; 
he went up to him, and upbraided him with his lawlessness and injustice 
towards him, and as he did not receive a satisfactory answer, he drew his sword, 
and struck at him till he severed his head from his neck. He then took the 
castle, and sent messengers to Ballyshannon, where O'Donnell's people then 
were ; and these dispatched messengers to Tyrone, where O'Donnell himself 
was. They relate the news to him, and he then went to the Earl O'Neill; and 
both were much rejoiced at that killing. On the following day O'Donnell bade 
the Earl farewell, and, setting out with his army, did not halt, except by night, 
until he arrived at Sligo. He was welcomed ; and Ulick Burke delivered up 
the town to him, which made him very happy in his mind. This happened in 
the month of June. 

When intelligence of the death of George Bingham, and the taking of Sligo, 
came to the hearing of those of the province of Connaught who were in insur- 
rection, namely, the Lower Burkes, the Clann-Donnell, the Sil-Conor", the 
Rourkes, and the Clann-Mulrony', and not these alone, but also those who had 
been proclaimed, and roving after having been expelled and banished into Ulster 

vel fuga salutem petentes deuastatas religiosae Sligo. The O'Conors of Machaire-Chonnacht, in 

domus Carmelitarum poenas sacrilegi luerunt. tlie county of Roscommon, were, at this period, 

Arx Odonello traditur, qui in ea Vlligum prs- loyal to the English sovereign. — See Memoirs 

sidio prsefecit. Sub idem quoque tempus Bale- of the Life and Writings of Charles 0'' Conor of 

anmotam castellum Georgio Binghamo Maiori Belanagare, p. 112. 

Tumultachus, & Cathalus Macdonachaj eri- ^ The Clann-Mulrony — This was the tribe- 

piunt." — Hist. Cathol. Iher. Compend., torn. 3, name of the Mac Dermots of Moylurg, in the 

lib. 3, c. iii. fol. 139. county of Roscommon, and of the Mac Donoughs 

^ Sil- Conor. — These were the O'Conors of of Tirerrill and Corran, in the county of Sligo. 



1974 



awwaca Rio^hachca eiReaww. 



[1595. 



mapbaD Seoippi, -] ^aBail f I1CC15 can^arcap 00 l-aijm uf Domnaill 50 pliccec, 
1 DO c6i6 ^ac aon aca laparii do pai^iD a arapba Dilfi baDeni, 1 ^ac aicc- 
peabcai 5 Dap ciiippic 501U ina ppfpanDaib (ma aipfc barcap pfin ap poccpa) 
po gabpac leo map luce Ifnarhna on uaip pin amac. bdcrap laparh eprhop 
a paibe o pmn lapcapaicc loppaip, -] urhaill co Dpobaofp Daon pann, 1 Daon 
aonra Id Inia nDorhnaill p6 cfnD aon rhiopa. Ni'p bo hiomba caiplen no com- 
Dai-n^fn ip na rfpib pin ndc baoi plan no bp'ipce pop a cumap ppip an pe 

ceDna. 

Uanaicc 6 Dorhnaill laparh co Dun na njall, "| baf i bipuiDe 50 meaDon 
au^upc. l?o baipnfiDeaD do piDe capccap albanac do reacc 1 ccip illoc 
pebail .1. TTlac leoiD na hapa, Do caeD piDe cuca Dia ppopcaD. Se ceD pob- 
Dap laD a Ifon, 1 lap mbfic achaiD ipin cfp lap Ificcfn a pcipi, -] a mfipnn, -] 
lap na ppopcaD laip, po cfcclaniaic a plo^a co na arhpaib laip, ") locap rap 
eipne, cap Dpobaofp, cap Duib capp an pliccicch, cap Cy nDapa, cap pliab 
ni^arh, 50 Inline appaiDe co pdimcc 50 goipoealbacliaib. 6ai lonaccacc •] 
aiccpeabaD ag ^allaib hi ccaiplen riiop rhec ^oipDealbai^ an can pin, 1 po ^ab 
iia DOTTinaill co na plo^aib ace lompuiDe an baile ^up bo hficcfn Don bapDa 
an baile do cabaipc uaca po DeoiD. Oo caoD laparn 50 pdimcc Dun mop 
mec peopaip. Po pccaoflpioc a pcceimelca 50 conmaicne, 50 muincip mup- 
chaDa, 50 Ificimel an macaipe piabai^, "] 50 cuaim Dd ^ualann. Po gabaD 
led cuplac mocdin,"] pochaiDe rfiop Do maichib an cfpe im PipDepD mac mec 
peopaip. Po cpeachaD "| po lepinDpeaD an cfp ma nuipcimceall led co pucc- 
pac a cpot), 1 a cfrpa a hionnmapa, "] a heDala Doneoc ^up a pangaccap, -] 
poaic pop cculaib. 

Oc cualaiD ^obepnoip coicciD connacc .1. Sip PipDepD binsam 6 DOTnnaill 
DO Dol caipip piap hi cconnaccaib po cionoil pi6e coicc banna Decc do pai;j;- 



" The Sligeach, i. e. the river of Sligo, now 
called the Gity. 

" Castlemore-Mac-Costello^ i. e. Mac Costello's 
great castle. — See note % under the year 1284, 
p. 441, supr^a. 

'■* Dunmore-Mic-Feorais, i. e. the great dun or 
fort of Mac Feorais, or Bermingham, now Dun- 
more, eight miles to the north of Tuam-da- 
ghualann, or Tuam, in the county of Gal way 



See note ', under the year 1 284, p. 44 1 , supra. 

y Conmaicne. — The barony of Kilmaine, in 
the county of Mayo, Avas called Conmaicne Guile 
Toladh, and the barony of Dunmore, in the 
county of Galway, was called Conmaicne Cineil 
Dubhain. — See map to Tribes and Customs of 
H7/-Many. 

^ Mtmitir-Murckadha, a district comprising at 
this period about the northern half of the ba- 



1595] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. I975 

and other places, by the Binghams, they came to O'Donnell to Sligo ; and each 
of them went afterwards to his own patrimonial inheritance ; and every inha- 
bitant whom the English had established in their lands during the period of 
their proscription adhered to them as followers from that hour forth. In the 
course of one month the greater part of the inhabitants of the district, from the 
western point of Erris and Umhall to the Drowes, had unanimously confede- 
rated with O'Donnell ; and there were not many castles or fortresses in those 
places, whether injured or perfect, that were not under his control. 

O'Donnell then went to Donegal, and remained there till the middle of 
August. He was informed that a number of Scots had landed at Lough Foyle, 
with their chief, Mac Leod of Ara ; he went thither to hire them. They were 
six hundred in number. After being hired by him, and after remaining some 
time to rest and recruit themselves, he assembled his forces and hirelings, and 
they marched across the Erne, the Drowes, the Duff, the Sligeach", and Eas- 
dara, across SliabhrGamh, into Leyny, and from thence into Costello. The 
English held at that time abode and residence in Castlemore-Mac-Costello". 
O'Donnell with his forces laid siege to this castle ; and the warders were finally 
obliged to surrender it. He then proceeded to Dunmore-Mic-Feorais'', and 
dispatched marauding parties into Conmaicne^, Muintir-Murchadha'', to the bor- 
ders of Machaire-Riabhach'', and to Tuam-da-ghualann. They took Turlach- 
Mochain'', and a great number of the chiefs of the country, together with 
Richard, the son of Mac Feorais. They plundered and totally ravaged the 
country all around them, and carried off its flocks and herds, its wealth and 
riches, from all those they had met on their route, and [then] returned back. 

When the Governor of the province of Connaught, namely, Sir Richard 
Bingham, heard that O'Donnell had passed by him westwards into Connaught, 
he assembled fifteen companies of soldiers, both horse and foot, and marched 

rony of Clare, and county of Gal way. It appears year 1469, p. 1064, aapra. 
from an Inquisition taken at^ Athenry in 1584, ^ Turlach-Mochain, i.e. Mochan's dried lough, 
that the Earl of Clanrickard had a chief rent of now Turlough-vohan, near Tuam, barony of Dun- 
twenty marks per annum, out of the territory more, and county of Galway. In the Life ot 
or cantred called Moyntermoroghow, in which Hugh Eoe O'Donnell, Turlach Mochain is called 
the abbey of Rosserill is situated — See Choro- a castle in the country of Mac Feorais : " Cup- 
graphical Description of lar-Conncmght, p. 368. lac mocan caipciall pi6e pil 1 noucaig rheic 
" Machaire-Riabhach. — See note *=, under the Feopaip." 



1976 awwaca Rio^hachca eiReawH. [1595. 

t)iuipib ecip majicaca "] ciioi^reaca co jiaimcc 50 muincincr coippj^leibe a\\ 
6(315 ammaip t)o rabaijic pop ua noorhnaiU ace nonncuD Dia eaccpa. lap 
na pop pin oua oorhnaill po pillpi6e rap a aip biucc co na aipccnb "| co na 
eoalaib on ccampa 50 cele 50 goipoealbchaib, 50 lui^Tie Dioccap 6 nailella 
cpep na rpib opoicfoaib .1. opoicfr cuile maoile, opoicfr baile fpa oapa, 
1 opoicfc pli^i^e. bdccaji cpa 501II acca laprhoipecc arhail ap Deine con- 
pangacuap ip na conaipib pin. Ro fiDipbeilijfpcaip ua oorhnaill Dipinn 
nnapcpluai^, -| po popconjaip poppa aipipfrh i nofipea6 a ploij; ap nac pag- 
bairnp upuopac an cploi^ ^all jiollanpaD, no aop t)iaipm t)ia rhuinnp piurh 
7 mbao^al. Rainicc piurh laparii co na cbpeachaib laip ^an nac ppioropccam 
CO piacc 1 ccorhpocpaib ^leanoa oalldin. Udnaicc an ^obepnoip pop a lopcc 
CO po ^ab longpopc i maimpcip plicci^ Dpopbaipi pop bapoaib ui Dorhnaill 
bdrcap ipin ccaiplen. Ro paf6 ua norhnaill ap a bapac buiofn nnapcploi^ 00 
raipcelab popp na jallaib, 1 Opiop pccel an ounaiD "] na nocc bdrcap ano 
co pangarrap 50 bimeal bopt) na habann ^up an ccnoc Oia n^apap l?dic Da 
bpiococc, "] ar ciaD na 501II pdncdn ppacnon an bmle. 

"Ro baf occlaoc uallac bopppa6ac i ppappab Sip RipoepD an can pin po 
ha mac pffap v>6 bubbfm capcm mapcin a ainm. Ctp eppi6e bd cofpeac 
mapcploi^ t)6. N( po pulaing pihe t>eccpan a namacc i ccornpoccup do gan 
a ppuabaipc, 1 cainicc co na 6io]ima cap Dpoicfc plisi^i anall. Od ciaD 
TTiuincip uf Dorhnaill laD Dia paigiD poaic pop ccula (o nac pabaccap coirhlion 
ppiu) arhail ap Deine conpangacrap. Uia^aic na 501II ma nDiuiD, 1 nfp cdp- 
paccap iDip poaic laparh pop ccula. Ro aipnfiDpioc muincip uf Donnnaill a 
peel a, 1 arhail po bdp occa cco^paim, "| arhail Do epnaipioc Id luap a nfc. 
lap ccloipcecc an pcceoil pin Id hua nDorhnaill bd pe aipfcc ap painicc laip 
celcc DO inDell pop cionD na ncjllnnuipeac ipin cconaip cceDna. Ro cf5laiTn 

« Toj). — "fnuincinn .1. uacrap." — O^Clery, in was the bridge, stood on the south side of the 

Leahhar Gabhala, p. 3. River ©wenmore, close to Avhere it receives a 

^ Cnl-maoile. — This was the old name of the stream from Loughdargan. This is the exact 

place now called Cul-Mhuine, anglice Colooney. situation of the present village of Colooney, 

According to the tradition in the country the which is certainly the Cul-Maoile referred to 

castle of Cul-Maoile was some distance from the above in the text by the Four Masters, 

present village of Colooney ; but if we can rely * Gleann-Dallain, a remarkable valley, situ- 

on the maps of Connaught made about this pe- ated partly in the county of Sligo, and partly in 

riod, the castle of Collounie, opposite which Leitrim. The church of Cill-Osnata, now Kil- 



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to the top*" of the Coirrshliabh [Curlieu hills], with the intention of making an 
attack upon O'Donnell, on his return from his expedition. When O'Donnell 
received intelhgence of this, he soon returned back, with his preys and spoils, 
from one encampmeut to the other, through Costello, Leyny, the lower part 
of Tirerrill, and over the three bridges, namely, the bridge of Cul-maoile*^, the 
bridge of Ballysadere, and the bridge of Sligo. Through these passages the 
English went in pursuit of him as quickly as they could. O'Donnell detached 
a troop of cavalry, and ordered them to fall to the rear of his army, to prevent 
the van of the EngHsh larmy from coming into collision with the attendants or 
unarmed portion of his people. He afterwards moved on with his preys, till 
he reached the neighbourhood of Gleann-Dallain^ without any opposition. 

The Governor followed in his track, and took up his quarters in the monas- 
tery of Sligo, to besiege O'Donnell's warders who were in the castle. On the 
next day O'Donnell sent a party of cavalry to reconnoitre the English, and learn 
the state of the fortress, and of the men'' who were in it ; and they advanced 
to the banks of the river, to the hill which is called Rath-Dabhritog^, from which 
they espied the English moving up and down" throughout the town. 

There was at this time along with Sir Richard his own sister's son, a proud 
and haughty youth, Captain Martin by name, who was the commander of his 
cavalry. He could not bear to see his enemies so near him without attacking 
them, and proceeded with his squadron across the bridge of Sligo. When 
O'Donnell's people perceived them advancing, they returned back as speedily 
as they were able, as they were not equal to them in number. The English 
pursued them ;vbut not overtaking them, they returned back. O'Donnell's 
people then related how they had been pursued, and how they had escaped by 
means of the swiftness of their horses When O'Donnell heard this story, the 
resolution he came to was, to lay a snare for the foreigners on the same passage. 

asnet, in the barony of Dartry, or Rossclogher, 21st July, 1687, this townland is called Raghta- 

in the county of Leitrim, is in it. — See Colgan's bretoke, Eathavritoge, alias Rath. The fort on 

Acta Sanctorum, p. 337. this hill commands the entire town of Sligo. It 

f Of the me%- literally, " of the youths." is a square fort, evidently constructed from the 

s Eath-Dabhritog, i. e. Dabhritog's rath, or fort, materials of the original one during the civil 

now Rath hill, in the townland of Rath quarter, wars of 1641, or 1688. 

in the parish of Calry, barony of Carbury, Sligo. ^ Up and down — " Sancdn .i. anonn -\ anall." 

In the deed of partition of the Sligo estate, dated — O'Clery. 

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1978 QHwa^a Rio^hachca eiReawN. [1595. 

ia|iaTTi an ceD inapcac po ba t>eac t)ia plua^ co ccjiib ceoaib cjioijceac co 
na ccpealrhaib DiuBjiaicri .1. pmbaca co na pai^fc bolccaib. l?o pojicon^aiii 
poppa celcc t>o inneall pd riiile do plicceac, "] ofpiim bfcc mapcpluai^ Dpaoio- 
eao uara co biinel bopo na habanD do bpeccab an rploi^ jail,"] Dia crfopca 
ina Ifnmam ^an aipipiorh p]ii biomaipfcc co poccain Doib cap an niaigin in po 
hinoleaD an celcc. Do ponaD paippium pin uile. Oc connaipc capcin mapcin 
an ruarhaD mapcploi^ poji up na liabann do c6i6 co nDipim moip mapcploi^ 
a maille ppip Dia rueccappacram locap porn pfmpa co liionmall ainepccaiD 
an cceDna peacr, nip bo cian Do na hoccaib laparh ^up bo heiccfn Doib 
bfir ace eaclopccaD a neac Id a bfine -] Id a Dio^aipe po bdccap 501II ina 
noeaDhaiD. T?o cnipeaD DeipeaD poji aon DiobpiDe .1. peilim piabac mac 
DaueiD, Dia airhbeoin Id liionmaille.a eic co ndp bo cualamg ppfpcal a muin- 
cipe, "1 50 mbo bficcfn do aipipiorh ppi a nairiiDib, "| ceacc cap popcongpa a 
ci^eapna .1. cocap do ppip na gallaib. O pob epbalca laip a ifiapbaD p6 
ceDoip. Soaip a ^baiD ppip an cf bd nfparh 66 Don luce bacap ina irnmain,"] 
pob epiDe capcin maprin, "] ace coqcbdil a Idirhe DopiDe in oipcill a aipm 
Diimpc pop an cf do pala in eccorhlann pop a cionn do paD peilim a rheup hi 
puainfrh an poga bai occa 1 neplaiiiie Dia DiubpaccaD co po amaip capcm 
niapnn 1 nDeipc a occpaille cec nDipeac gup cpe^Dapcaip a cpiDe ma cliab. 
bd hfiDigci piuih cpa cenniocd an cionaD pin rpiap po gaocua. lompaiD na 
501II pop ccula ia]i nguin a ccpfinpip ~\ a ccoipig lomjona,"] do bepaD leo he 
pop lomcap paon potappna 1 ppannraipib ecca co pangaccap an baile, -] 
puaip bdp m aDhaig pin. Od connaipc 6 Dorhnaill na 501II Do poaD pop 

' Bank of the river. — P. O'Sullevan Beare says cum mille, & sexcentis militibus auxilia venire 

that Rotbericus, the brother of O'Donnell, and festinat. Apud Duraranem in hostis conspectu 

Felimy Mac Davet, crossed the river ; but his tentoria pandit. Duobus primis diebus interla- 

account of this transaction seems anything but bens flumen vtriusque partis equitatus adequi- 

correct. His words are as follows : tans iaculis leuiter vltrocitroque velitatur. 

" Sequente autumno, sub quod tempus Norris Tertio die Rothericus Odonelli frater cum Fel- 

cum Onello minus prospero marte contendit, mio Macdaveto, & alio equite fluuium traiectus 

Richardus Binghamus ad Sligacham recuperan- castra contemplatur. In ilium Martin Anglus, 

dam, & occisi consanguinei pcenas de Vlligo qui in Binghami exercitu praastantissimus eques 

sumendas facit expeditionem. Vlligum Sliga- habebatur, procurrit, turma sua, cuius dux 

cha3 obsidione cinctum oppugn at. VUigus cum orat, stipatus. Rothericus admisso equo ad suos 

propugnatoribus egrcssus pro munitionibus adcurrit. Martin seqixens suorum primus va- 

. quotidie certat. Odonellus obsidionem soLuturus dum traijiciebat. Quem Felmius conuersus 



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He then selected one hundred of the best horsemen of his army, and three hun- 
dred infantry with their shooting implements, namely, bows with their arrow- 
quivers ; he ordered them to lie in ambush within a mile of Sligo, and to send 
a small squadron of horse to the banks of the river, to decoy the English army; 
and should they [the foreigners] piursue them, not to WEiit for an engagement, 
until they should have come beyond the place where the ambuscade was laid. 
This was accordingly done. When Captain Martin perceived the small squadron 
of cavalry on the bank of the river"', he advanced directly with a numerous 
body of cavalry, to wreak his vengeance upon them. The others at first moved 
slowly and leisurely before them, but these young heroes were soon obliged to 
incite their horses forward, the English having pursued them with such speed 
and vehemence. One of them, namely, Felim Reagh Mac Devit*", was [how- 
ever] compelled to remain behind, in consequence of the slowness of his horse; 
and, being unable to accompany his own people, he was obliged to disobey the 
orders of his lord, that is, to fight the English [before he had passed the ambus- 
cade]. As he was certain of being immediately slain, he turned his face to the 
nearest of his pursuers, who was Captain Martin ; and, as he [Captain Martin] 
raised his arm to strike his antagonist with his weapon, Felim placed his finger 
on the string of the javelin, which he had in readiness to discharge, so that he 
struck Captain Martin directly in the arm-pit, and pierced his heart in his breast. 
He was covered with mail, except in the spot where he was wounded. The 
English, seeing their champion and commander mortally wounded, returned 
l)ack, carrying him, in his weakly condition, and in the agonies of death, in a 
recumbent posture, to the town, where he died on that night. When O'Donnell 
saw that the English had retreated, he was enraged, until the decoying party 

hasta traiectum, & interfectiim in ipso flumine the head of the Mac Devits of Inishowen, who 

equo deturbat, & ipse cvim Rotherico, & alio are, according to Cucogry O'Clery, a branch of 

commilitone incolumis euasit. Postero die ob- the O'Dohertys, and the very man who after- 

sidionis quarto, Binghamus, obsidio relicto do- wards burned the town of Derry, from which 

mum redit, quem Odonellus secutus missilibus circumstance the Mac Devits are even to this 

carpit." — Hist Cathol. Iber. Compend., tom. 3, day called " Burnderrys" by their Presbyterian 

lib. 3, c. iii. fol. 140. neighbours. They are at present a very nume- 

^ Fdim Reagh Mac Devit. — He is still vividly rous sept in the neighbourhood of Londonderry, 

remembered in the traditions of the barony of and throughout the barony of Inishowen, in the 

Inishowen, in the county of Donegal. He was county of Donegal. 

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1980 awNa^a Rio^hachua eiReaww. [1595. 

cculaiB po lonnai^ea6 eipfiDe co jio rom^pioc lucr na pd]ppuaba]iua cap 
cfno pelim co nd baof nf oia iniDea^ail gan a riiapBab Id caprin Tnapuin 
ace vnab an raen popccom ym. Po ularai^epcaip a rhfnnia laparh 6 pan- 
^accap pcela ciiicce ap a bapac co po ecc an capcm. 

Oala an ^obepnopa po Ifon pibe opfipcc -\ Do lonnap lap mapbab a bpauap, 
"1 po popcongaip pop a plo^ aibme co^ld an caipceoil t)o benarh led oup an 
ccaerhpaiccfp a epjabail pop rhuinnp 111' oorhnaill bdcap ann. Do ponab 
led porii inDpin 00 cpanncaingel 1 00 cubaclaib na cceileb noe, -] od ^ac 
aibme pan^arap a Ifp baf ipin mainipcip. Do paoca laparh pficfba bd-j Darn 
pop na haibmib pin Dm neaccaip. Ro puccra beop poraba paof Dia pog- 
luapacr ^iip an Dimaib. l?o Ifonra laparh do laocpaib, "] Do Idraib ^aile, 1 
Do paopaib 1 ppoiTTiDm ro^la an baile. l?o cpencaippngfb leo an luireac 
pin Id Dopcacca uproppaij; na lioibce co po puibi^ce he ppi buillinn an caip- 
ceoil, 1 gabaic pop pcaoileab an rhuip lapccdin bdccap Dinib paoip ipin 
mbaile, 1 po ^abpac ace blobab an balla po a nfpcomaip do DiubpaccaD a 

' Bore testimony, po coinjpioc — In the Life O'Donnell's ambuscade from cutting off the 

of Hugh Roe O'Donnell the reading is : English pursuers. The apology should be thus 

" t)up piccfc pianlac na pappuabapca hi worded: " And they all bore testimony, in behalf 

ppeacnapcup na placa (^ep ba doili^ boib icip of Felini, that his horse was lame, and that he 

ap aioble a puapna) -\ arc piaoac ariiail oo could not by any exertion have prevented him- 

pala 66ib, -| po coin^pfc uile Dap cfnD an self from being overtaken by the enemy in the 

cupaiD po jon capcin mapcin na bul ni nom manner in which he was, and they shewed that 

bepao app niuna capbao an caon popj^omh this was demonstrated by the imminent danger 

pin genmoca curiiacca an coiriibeab. The to which he was brought, for that no human 

soldiers of the ambuscade came in the presence calculation could have anticipated that he alone 

of the chief (though it was difficult for them to could have killed a warrior cased in armed mail, 

do so, on account of the intensity of his anger), at the head of a fierce troop of cavalry, or even, 

and they related how it happened with them ; if he could, that this would have caused so select 

and they all testified, in behalf of the champion a body of cavalry to run away from a single Irish 

who had" [mortally] "wounded Captain Martin, horseman, Ifeaving their captain's mortal wound 

that nothing could have saved him except that unrevenged. O'Donnell, on considering that 

one thrust, except the power of the Lord." the laming of Mac Devit's horse was accidental. 

Here it will be observed that the language and that it could not have been prevented by 

of the apology for Mac Devit is defective ; for any precaution, suppressed his anger ; and his 

the cause of O'Donnell's anger was, not be- mind was much consoled on hearing of the death 

cause Felim Reagh had saved himself by killing of the haughty young Englishman." 
Captain Martin, but because he had remained "" Crannchaingel, i. e. the latticed partition di- 

behind the decoying party, and thus prevented viding the chancel from the nave, in the abbey 



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bore testimony' in behalf of Felim, [that his horse was lame, which prevented 
him from keeping up with his party, and] that there was nothing to have saved 
him from being slain by Captain Martin, excepting the one [chance] thrust ; 
but his anger afterwards subsided when news reached him on the next day 
that the Captain had died. 

As for the Governor, he was filled with anger and fury after the killing of 
his kinsman ; and he ordered his army to construct engines for demolishing the 
castle, to see whether they could take it from O'Donnell's people who were in 
it. This they constructed of the crannchaingel"", and of the bed-chambers of 
the Culdees", and of other implements which they found befitting for the pur- 
pose in the monastery. They covered these engines on the outside with the 
hides of cows and oxen, and wheels were put under them to remove them to 
the fortress. They were afterwards filled with heroes, warriors, and artisans, 
for the purpose of razing the castle. This mighty train° was drawn by them in 
the beginning of the night to the corner of the castle ; and they immediately 
proceeded to destroy the wall. At this time some artisans who were within 
the castle began to pull down the opposite wall, in order that the youths within 

church. " Cpanncamjel .1, cpanncliac icip Connactse delectum habet : Midhienses praesi- 

laecaib 1 cleipcib." — Cormac's Glossary. ■ ^ diarios, et eqiiites Angloibernos recipit. Cum. 

° Culdees — Here the term cede oe is used to signis militaribus viginti quatuor Sligacham 

denote monks, or friars. obsidione vallatam oppugnat. Vlligus Burkus 

° Mighty train. — The engines constructed by cum propugnatoribus egressus cum munition- 

Bingham on this occasion were called sows. Sir ibus acriter dimicat. Tandem ab oppugnatorum 

George Carew, in his Pacata Hihernia, vol. i. multitudine in arcem compulsus, ex turribus, 

p. 124 (Dub. ed.), thus speaks of one of them : pinnis, fenestris, et reliquis munitionibus mis- 

" The castle, therefore, they besiege, and silia iaculando hostes arcet. Eegij muclmm bel- 

placed an Engine, well known in this country, licuni'^ [muc cojaio] " machinamentum militi- 

called a sow, to the walls thereof, to supp the bus subter agentibus arcis muro admouent, 

same. Bvit the Defendants did so well acquit murumque forare, & subruere incipivnt, Vlligus 

themselves in a sally, as they tare the sow in magnee molis trabe funibus ligata ex arcis fas- 

peeces, made her caste her pigs, and slew twenty- tigio nunc dimissa, nunc in altum sublata mu- 

seven of them dead in the place.' ' chum, & milites, qui sub eo latebant, conterit. 

P. O'Sullevan Beare calls this machine, " mu- Odonellus obsessis auxilio veniens appropinquat. 
chum Bellicum," and describes this siege of the Binghamus fugit. In oppugnatione regij sex- 
castle of Sligo briefly, but clearly and elegantly, centi milites obierunt. Arcem vero quod erat 
in the following words : tam laboriosum, defendere, Odonellus demoli- 

" Neque Binghamus quidem dormit. Tomo- tur." — Hist. Cathol. Iber. Compend., tom. 3, lib. 3, 

nias, & Clanrickarda; Comites Ibernos euocat : c. iv. fol, 140, 141. 



1982 aNHQ^a Rio^hachua eiReawN. ' [1595. 

mbiobbab Do na lioccaiB bcicrap ifui^. Do c6t)ap apaill ele Don BapDa pop 
raiblib an DunaiD, "] po jabpac pop realccab rdirleac ruvum^^e, "| cappacc 
ccfnDjapb poppa anuap sombcap nrnona nnonbpuire ^ac nf ppip a ccom- 
]iaicci)\ Uia jaio rpa opon^ ele Do luce an baile pop penepupibh -\ pop 
poplepaib an caipceoil, -] ^abar pop Oiubpaccaob a nubaill mealluaiDe, i 
a ccpom caop rceinnnbe poppa ^o po poipp^irc an piallac bai ip na curiiDaij- 
rib clapai^ Don cloicfpeap, ■] Don Dian nDiiibpaccaD pm. Nf po puilngic lap 
na ^allaib a ccpeccnuccaD ni baD ni6, "] 6 na po peDpac nf Don DunaDh po 
pagaibpfc a rcfjDaipi co^alua miiip, -| poair ma pppirin^ op lac beojonca, 
1 pobcap buiDi^ DO poccain a nannnanru leo. bet cpaD cpiDe lap an njobep- 
noip Sip PipD.epD bin^am nd caerhnaccaip a aincpiDe Dimipu pop bapDaib an 
DiinaiD, nd pop nac naon Do niuincip f Dorhnaill, -| impbfDip pop a aip rap 
copppliab, cap ma^ naoi co painicc T^oppcoiriTnam. Do DeacaiDh 6 Dorhnaill 
laparh cap eipne, i ]io leicc a albanai^ uana lap crabaipc a ruuapupcail 
Doib. UeiD cap a aip co plicceac co po bpipfD laip an caiplen Diiaman jail 
nia aiccpeabaD. 

Uepoiru a bupc mac uareip cioraij;, mic pfain, mic oiluepaip mic Sfain 
DO jabdil popbaipi pop bel leice, baile pin i nnbapiinracc rfpe barhalgaiD hi 
cconnrae rnaijeo, ~\ bd ViiaD bapDa an ^obepnopa bdcrap ano. lap poccain 
na peel pin gup an ngobepniip, po popail pop a Deapbpacaip .i. capcin lohn 
bingam, ap capcin poal, ap capcin imennpi ~\ ap a mac uilliam buibe diuid 
CO nopuing moip Do Daoinib uaiple ele a maille ppiu Dol Dpupcacc an baile 
co Ion "I CO napmdil Dia paigiD, "| piapiu pdinicc led an bapDa DpoipiDin 
puaip cepoicc a bupc an baile. "CiagaiDpiurh cap a naip pd aicmela, -] po 
j;ab cepdicc acca ccopai^eacc, accd ccpf^DaD, ~\ acca ccimceallab agd 
mbuaibpeaD, ~\ accd mbdpuccaD cap an caorhlaof co po pdccaibpioc Daofne, 
apm,"| eiDeaD lomba. Ro mapbab laip an Id pin capcin poal, capcm mennpi, 
"] mac oibpeacca uilliam DiuiD, -] pocaibe ele do paopclanDaib, ~| do baop- 

P It preyed, literally, " It was anguish of heart of Kilmore-Moy, barony of Tirawley, and county 

to the Governor." of Mayo See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of 

^ Bel-leice, i. e. Mouth of the Ford of the Flag, Hy-Fiachrach, p. 480, and the map to the same 

translated os rupis, by P. O'Sullevan Beare in work. In an old majD of parts of the coasts of 

Hist. Cathol. Iber., ^c, fol. 136, now Belleek, a Mayo, Sligo, and Donegal, preserved in the 

rocky ford on the River Moy, about a mile to State Papers' Office, Lcrtidon, tliis castle is shewn 

the north of the town of Ballina, in the parish under the name of "Ca: Bellecke," as on the 



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misrht hurl tlie stones doAvn on their enemies. Some of the warders also 
ascended to the battlements of the castle, and proceeded to cast down massy 
flao-s and ponderous, rough rocks, which broke and shattered to pieces every 
thino- on which they fell. Others within the castle went to the windows and 
loopholes, and commenced discharging leaden bullets and showers of fire upon 
them ; so that the soldiers who were in the wooden engines' were bruised by 
that dropping of the stones, and by the incessant firing. The English did not 
remain to be wounded further ; and, finding that they could efiect nothing 
against the castle, they abandoned their wall-destroying domicile, and returned 
home, severely wounded, and glad to escape with their lives. It preyed'' upon 
the heart of the Governor, Sir Richard Bingham, that he was not able to wreak 
his vengeance upon the warders of the fortress, or on any of O'Donnell's people. 
He returned' back [homeward] across the Curlieus, and over Moy-Nai, [never 
halting] until he arrived at Roscommon ; and O'Donnell [also] returned [home- 
ward] across the Erne, and discharged the Scots, having paid them their wages. 
He went back to Sligo,* and demolished the castle, lest the English should 
inhabit it. 

Theobald Burke, the son of Walter Kittagh, son of John, son of Oliver, son 
of John, laid siege to Bel-leice'', a castle in the barony of Tirawley, in the county 
of Mayo; and it was then defended by the Governor's warders. When the 
Governor received intelligence of this, he ordered his brother, Captain John 
Bingham, Captain Foar, Captain Mensi, the son of William Boy Tuite, with 
many other gentlemen, to go to the relief of the castle with provisions and arms ; 
but, before they could relieve the warders, Theobald had obtained possession 
of the castle. They then returned home in sorrow ; and Theobald went in 
pursuit of them, piercing, surrounding, disturbing, and slaying them throughout 
that fair day, so that they lost many men, [and much] arms and armour. On 
this day he slew Captain Foal, Captain Mensi, and the son and heir of William 
Tuite, with many others, both of the gentlemen and common people, not enu- 

west side of tlie Eiver Moy , a short distance to Dud.us, i. e. Tuite, an Anglo-Irishman ; by Hugh 

the north of the point where it receives the and William Mosten, the sons of an Englishman, 

River Brosnagh. by an Irish mother; George Bingham, junior, 

"^ Foal. — P. O'Sullevan Beare calls him Fool- and Minche, who were Englishmen. — See Hist. 

lurtus, and states that he was accompanied by Cathol. Iber. Compend., torn. 3, lib. 2, c. xii. 



1984 awNaca Rio^hachua eiReawN. [3,595. 

clanDaib ndc ai|nrh^ea|i. 6a do rojiab fn^narha, eiy^pomail, ~\ aireapiiai^; 
eolaip ]\o imri^ ^ac a noeachaiD ay D(b an Id pin. 

O Neill coippbealbac Inireac mac neill conallai^, mic aipc, niic cuinn 
niic enjif, mic eojain oo ecc. 5d hepi6e aen ay mo poDeajilaic oionnmay^aib 
"] Deoalaib oeiccpib, "| oollamnaib, "| do lucr cuin^fba neich oo ci^eayinabaib 
6|ieann ina coim]ie, uaip po heppuaccpao uaiDpibe co mime po epinn od 
^ac aen baf la hiappaib nfiu roiDeacr ina Docom i ppeilib geme an coim6e 
DO ponnpaD, ~\ lap na rcappaccam nf ufi^fb aen po Diomba uaba ^an piap ; 
ci^fpna agd mbfDip pocaiDe ile pop a cuillme -\ pop a ruapupcol, cijfpna 
po ba pocondi^ ppi piD, "| po ba corhnapc ppi coccaD conDup pala aofp, "] 
enipce Do, "] po bopDai^fb oiDpe ma lonab Deic mbliabna pia na bdp ap an 
bpaplimenr po con^maD in dr cliau i namm na bainpioj;na ebpaberh .i. QoD 
mac an pipDopca (.i. an bapun), mic cuinn mic cuinn, mic enpi, mic eo^am 
Dia po gaipfb lapla ap an bpapliminc pm. 5d banD acbar ua nell ipin ppar 
mbdn, "I a aDnacot in apD ppara. 

TTlaj aengupa ao6 mac aoDa, mic Dorhnaill oicc pfp a arapDa po baD mo 
ainm "] epDeapciip i ppiabnaipi ^all -] gaoiDel epeann Decc 50 peacrnac. 

UoippDealbac mac bpiain mic DonncbaiD, mic DonncbaiD bacai^ ci^eapna 
copca baipcinn lapcapfai^e, pfp po ba mop cfipr "| cuapupccbdil ap puD 
epeann do peip a arapDa (uaip nf bai occa ace cpiuca ceD namd) bo ecc "] 
a mac cabcc caoc do ^abail a lonaiD. 

l?emann na y^ccuab mac inllicc na ccfnD, mic PiocaipD mic uillicc cniiic 
rua^ DO ecc. 

* Superior knowledge, aireappaij eolaip of rent ; but it was provided that the sons of 

The word aiceappac, which is spelled airiopac the late Shane O'Neill should have sufficient 

in O'Reilly's Dictionary, signifies craft, science, provisions allotted to them, and that Turlough 

or skill. [Luineach] should be continued Irish chieftain 

' An heir This is not exactly correct, for of Tyrone, with a right of superiority over Ma- 

the Parliament held at Dublin in 1585 only guire and O'Cahan. It appears from a patent, 

conceded to his rival, Hugh, the rank and title 20th Elizabeth, that the Queen had intended to 

of the Earldom of Tyrone, leaving the posses- create Turlough Luineach Earl of Clanoneill and 

sions to be annexed thereunto, to the pleasure Baron of Clogher ; but it is quite clear that this 

of her Majesty. In 1587 the Queen granted to patent was never perfected, as his son, Arthur, 

Hugh, by letters patent, under the great seal of who makes so conspicuous a figure in the great 

England, the Earldom of Tyrone, and the inhe- rebellion, was simply knight. There are still 

ritance annexed to it, without any reservation extant several Irish poems, addressed to Tur- 



1595] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1985 

nierated ; and all who escaped did so by virtue of their prowess, valour, and 
superior knowledge'. 

O'Neill (Turlough Luineach, the son of Niall Conallagh, son of Art, son of 
Con, son of Henry, son of Owen) died. He had bestowed most wealth and 
riches upon the learned, the Ollavs, and all those who sought gifts of [any of] 
the lords of Ireland in his time ; for he had often issued a proclamation through- 
out Ireland to all those who sought gifts, [inviting them] to come to him on 
the festivals of the nativity of our Lord ; and when they came, not one departed 
dissatisfied, or without being supplied. He was a lord who had many soldiers 
in his service for pay and wages, — a lord prosperous in peace, and powerful in 
war, until age and infirmity came upon him ; and an heir^ had been appointed 
in his place, ten years before his death, at the parliament held in Dublin in the 
7iame of Queen Elizabeth, namely, Hugh (the son of Ferdorcha the Baron, son 
of Con, son of Con, son of Henry, son of Owen), who had been styled Earl at 
this parliament. O'Neill died at Strabane, and was interred at Ardstraw. 

Magennis (Hugh, the son of Hugh, son of Donnell Oge), a man, of his 
patrimony", of greatest name and renown among the English and Irish of Ire- 
land, died penitently. 

Turlough, the son of Brian, son of Donough, son of Donough Bacagh [Mac 
Mahon], Lord of West Corca-Bhaiscinn", a man of great fame and character 
throughout Ireland, considering his patrimony, for he had but one cantred'', 
died ; and his son, Teige Caech, took his place. 

Redmond-na-Scuab, son of Ulick-na-gCeann, son of Rickard, son of Ulick 
[Burke] of Cnoc-Tuagh, died. 

lough Luineach, inciting him to shake off the dient to the Queen of England. 

English yoke, and become monarch of Ireland " Of his patrimony, i. e. a man who was more 

like his ancestors, Niall Frasach, Niall of the famed and renowned than any other chieftain of 

Nine Hostages, Con of the Hundred Battles, and equal territorial possessions in Ireland. This 

Tuathal Teachtmhar, whose lineal heir he is_ Irish idiom translates very awkwardly into 

stated to be, and whose example he is encou- English. 

raged to follow. But he was so old when he "^ West Corca-Bhaiscinn, now the barony of 

was made O'Neill, that he seems to have then Moyarta, forming the south-west portion of the 

retained little military ardour to tread in the county of Clare. 

wake of his ancestors; and he was so much in ^ Caiitred, cpioca ceo signifies a cantred, 

dread of the sons of Shane the Proud and of hundred, or barony, containing one hundred 

Hugh Earl of Tyrone, that he continued obe- and twenty quarters of land. 

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O ^cfl^^cubaip Si]i Goin mac rimrml, pCp po ba6 mop ainm -| oi|it)fpcup 
05 jallaib, "] 05 ^aoibelmb an ranfin Do ecc .25. Qppil. 

TTlaiTiipcip rhuineacdin 1 noip^iallaib Do bfir a^ Jallaib an bliabampi, "] 
banna fai^Diiiip a^a InomcoirheD Do ^nar. Painic pgela uara co bar cliar 
CO mbdrrap 1 crfipce loin, lap nd cloipcecr pin Don lupcip Sip uilliam 
Puppel, 1 Do Sip peon nopip po pupailpfc pe banna picfc pai^DiinpiDe do 
Sha;)cancoib "] Dfipenncoib co nDaofnib uaiple lomDa a maille ppiu Do cop Id 
Ion "] Id sac naiDilcce pan^aruap alfp 50 minneacan, -] pangaccap pompa 
^an pdruccaD ^an ppirbeapc ^up an mbaile, 1 lap mbfirin aDhai^ pin 1 muin- 
eacan Doib po rpiallpar imreacc ap a bapac Do Dol Don lubap. Qn can 
cpa pangarcap fD bfcc 6 muineacan poip do pala mmnnp 111 neill Doib pop 
a ccionn. 6d hainmfn fpccaipDfrhail an piaDuccaD pu^ippior annpin uaip po 
gabao aga ccairearh 1 asd ccorhpuabaipu agd mapbaD, "] ajd muDucchaD 
on ccereopa huaip pia mfDon lai co puinfo nell nona co ndp bo hiipupa pforfi 
no dipfrh in p6 pdccbaD Do rhiiincip an lupcip erip paop "| Daop,-] in po pdcc- 
baDbeop Deacaib,"] DeiDfb Dainnaib, "| Diolpaobpaib, DeappaD, 1 DeDac uapal, 
DO caiplib, -] DO cliabaib loin in gac conaip po imci^pioc an Id pin. l?o 
gabaD poplon^popc leo in lompocpaib an lubaip, -\ ran^acap banDai ina 
ccoinne on lubap ap maiDin op nd rhapac, -] pob fpbabac iiipbfpnac po baccap 
ace Dol 5up an mbaile pin, -] n( po paoflpfe 05 pdgbail ara cliac 50 ppiiig- 
beDi'p a hionnarhail pin Diomap^oil in uUroib. Q mi man do ponpaD Do 
pfpaD an rpfpcomapp pin. 

Caprin pelli Duine uapal Do rhuincip nabainpio^na agd mboi uplamup "] 
lomcoimeD a peapann onn^obepnoip do mapbaD 1 ccaiplen in aipcin 1 ppiullla 
a muincip pfin. 

O DorhnaiU do rionol a ploi^ 1 mf Decembep Do Dol 1 ccoicceaD connacr. 
Qp 1 conaip Do luiD Do plicceac 50 cpdi^ neocuile, co cfp piacpach, "] capp 



'' Sir John. — In Ware's Annals of Ireland, and 
in Moryson's History of Ireland, he is called 
Sir Owen Mac Toole, which is tolerable ; but 
Cox calls him Sir Owen O' Toole, which is totally 
incorrect, though copied by all modern compi- 
lers. He was detained in prison for some years 
by the bribe-accepting SirWilliam Fitz- William, 
Lord Deputy of Ireland. 



■^- A message, literally, " news or tidings." 
'^ For Newry. — P. O'Sullevan Beare gives -a 
brief account of an engagement which took 
place about this period (but he does not give 
the exact date), at the church of Kilclooney, 
eight miles from Newry, where six hundred of 
the English party, and two hundred of the Irish, 
were slain. 



1595.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1987 

O'Gallagher (Sir John^, the son of Tuathal), a man of great name and 
renown among the English and Irish of this time, died on the 25th of April. 

The monastery of Monaghan in Oriel was this year in the possession of the 
English, and a company of soldiers constantly guarding it. A message^ from 
them reached Dublin that they were in want of provisions. When the Lord 
Justice, Sir William Russell, and Sir John Norris, heard this, they ordered that 
twenty-six bands of English and Irish soldiers, together with many gentlemen, 
should be sent with provisions and all other necessaries to Monaghan. And 
these marched onward to the town without being noticed or opposed ; and, 
having remained that night in Monaghan, they prepared the next morning to 
set out for Newry''. When, however, they had gone a short distance from 
Monaghan eastward, they were met by O'Neill's people ; and ungentle and un- 
friendly was the salute they received there, for they [O'Neill's people] proceeded 
to shoot, strike, kill, and destroy them, [and the engagement lasted] from the 
fourth hour before noon until the dusk of the evening ; so that it would not be 
easy to reckon or enumerate all those of the people of the Lord Justice, both 
gentle and plebeian, who were lost, or the number of steeds, of coats of mail, 
of arms, of various weapons, of wares, of rich raiment, of horses, and hampers 
of provisions, that were left on every road over which they passed on that day. 
They [i. e.- the survivors] pitched a camp near Newry, and companies [of sol- 
diers] came for them the next morning ; and deficient and broken" were they 
in going to that town. Little had they thought, when leaving Dublin, that 
they should receive such an attack in Ulster. This conflict took place in the 
month of May. 

Captain Felli, a gentleman of the Queen's people, who had the superinten- 
dence and care of the lands of the Governor [of Connaught], was treacherously 
slain in the castle of Aircin*^ by his own people. 

In the month of December O'Donnell mustered an army to march into Con- 
naught. The route he took was to Sligo, Traigh-Eothuile, Tireragh, and across 

•> Deficient and broken were they, pob Tpbabac then eiFected, all the patents of West Connaught 

uipbfpnac po baccap. This should be, " de- were granted to be held as of "the Queen's 

iicient and broken were the companies." manor, or Castle of Arkyne." In Cromwell's 

^ Aircin — This castle stood at the village of time it was pulled down, and a large fort 

Killeany, on the Great Island of Aran, in the erected on its site See Choi-ographical De- 

bay of Gal way. In 1585, on the composition scription of lar- Connaught, p. 78. 

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[1595. 



an muaiD co c(]i narfialja^a. bacap clann uillmm bupc i pp]iirbea]ic ppi a 
jioile im rijeajinap an cfpe, uaiji an Dap Id gac pfp oiB bd r>6 bdbein po ba6 
Dfp. Uan^arrap porn uile po ro^aijim ui t)orhnaill lap ccoibecc 06 t>on uip 
po baoi piorh a^d pccpunab ppi a corhaiplfchaib cm biobpaiDe Dia ngoippeaD 
ciccfpna. Conab paip 00 cinnpioc pa 6e6i6 cigeapna Do ^aipm 00 repoicr 
f( bupc mac uaceip ciorai j, niic Sfain mic oiluepaip, ap 6015 ap e 00 6eacliai6 
cuicce pium cecup lap nd lonnapbaD Do ^allaib ap a Ducbaij, "] po uin^eall 
poTTi Do CO nDionjnaD a cobaip Dia ccaornpaD, "] po baoi beop 1 rrmle a aoipe 
ppi poiifiDin imnig 1 ecmalain^ an coccaiD 1 mbaof piurh. l?o ^aipeab laparh 
a gaipm plara De 1 ppiaDnaipi na plo^ a ccoircinne 56 po barrap apaill Dia 
cenel po ba pine, "| ba moa ap aof n^apma indp. Oo paDaD ^eill 1 airnpe 
6 na bupcacaib oile baoi 1 ppirbea|ir: ppip pop lairh repoiuc lap na oipDneaD. 
Ro aipip 6 DOTTinaill bi pann mec uilliani po noDlaicc mop na bliabna po 1 
mbapuncacr cille mfDom, "] ip na bpigib bi cclomn muipip. 

5ai apD lupcip na bepeanD .1. Sip uilliam Ruppel 1 n^aillirh in lonbaiD pm. 
l?o luaiDfD piorcdin 50 cfnD Dd rfifop ^an uppaDa ^an dpac ecip ua nDorhnaill 
,-] connacrai^ Do Ifir, 1 an lupcfp Don Ifiu ele ace pdccbdil na ^aillrhe Do. 
Ni baoi' aon conncae bi cconnaccaib cenmord connrae an cldip namd nd 
bdrap uile no nponga Dipirhe ap gac connrae Dib Daon pann ~\ oaon Ifiu Id 
biia nDorhnaill Don cup pin 6 Dpobaoi'p co conmaicne mapa, -| 6 miiaiD co 
l^ionainn. baccap ann Dna pfol cceallai^ cenmocd concobap mac DonncbaiD 
piabaij, mic caiDcc Diiib ui ceallaij uaip po gabaD laip piDe an calaD ap 
pfpDop^a mac ceallai^ mic Dorhnaill, mic aeba na ccailleac ui ceallaig. Oo 
coiD rpa peapDopca jup an lion bafbi ccfnD uf Dorhnaill, *] poga^p 6 Dorhnaill 
cijeapnaDe. l?o eipjfccap pfol maDagain ipin ccoccaD cceDna ace 6 maDa- 
^dm amdin .1. Domnall mac peaain, "| a rhac QnmcaD. (^orcap clann ]?emainn 



"^ He In the original the verb is in the third 

person plural, which destroys the unity of the 
sentence. 

^ Walter Kittagh, i. e. Walter the left-handed. 

^ Cill Meadhoin, i. e. the middle church, now 
the barony of Kilmaine, in the south of the 
county of Mayo. 

s Brees, a castle in the parish of Mayo, in the 
barony of Clanmaiirice. — ^qq Genealogies, Tribes, 



and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 482. 

'^ Conmaicne-mara, now Connamara. 

' The Callow, a castle in the barony of Kil- 
connell, and county of Galway. 

^ Hugh na gCailleach, i. e. Hugh of the nuns, 
or hags. 

' Except the C Madden. — It would appear from 
the Journal of Sir William Russell, Lord Deputy 
of Ireland, preserved in the British Museum, 



1595.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. ly89 

the Moy into Tirawley. The Clann-William Burke were at variance with each 
other concerning the lordship of the territory, each man of them [i. e. of the 
candidates] thinking that he himself was entitled to it. They all came at the 
summons of O'Donnell, on his arrival in the country ; and he consulted with 
his advisers as to which of them he would nominate lord ; he'* finally decided 
upon nominating as lord Theobald Burke, son of Walter Kittagh^, son of John, 
son of Oliver, because he had been the first to come over to him after his ex- 
pulsion from his country by the English ; and he [O'Donnell] had promised to 
assist him, if in his power. Moreover, this Walter was in the bloom of youth, 
and able to endure the hardships and toils of the war in which they were 
engaged. His title of chief was conferred on him in the presence of the forces 
in general, although there were others of his tribe older and greater in point 
t)f dignity than he. Hostages and pledges were delivered into the hands of 
Theobald by the other Burkes who were in opposition, after his election. O'Don- 
nell remained with Mac William in the barony of Gill Meadhoin'', and at Brees^ 
in Clanmaurice, during the Christmas of this year. 

At this time Sir William Russell, the Chief Justiciary of Ireland, was at 
Galway ; and, on his leaving Galway, a peace of two months was proclaimed, 
but without pledges or hostages, between O'Donnell and the Connacians, on the 
one side, and the Lord Justice, on the other. There was not at this time any 
county in Connaught, excepting the county of Clare only, in which the inhabi- 
tants, or great numbers of them, had not joined and united with O'Donnell, from 
the Drowes to Conmaicne-mara*', and from the Moy to the Shannon. Among 
them were the O'Kellys, excepting Conor, the son of Donough Reagh, son of 
Teige Duv O'Kelly; for he had (forcibly) taken the Callow' from Ferdorcha, 
the son of Kellagh, son of Donnell, son of Hugh na gCailleach" O'Kelly ; upon 
which Ferdorcha, with all his number [followers], went over to O'Donnell, who 
appointed him lord [of Hy-Many]. The O'Maddens rose up in the same war, 
except the O'Madden' alone, namely, Donnell, the son of John, and his son, 

manuscript add. 4728, tbl. 6\, b, that the Lord as they perceaved my Loi'd to approach neare, 

Deputy believed that O'Maddeu himself had they sett three of their houses on fire, which 

joined this rebellion, for his secretary writes : were adjoyninge to the Castle, and made shott 

" O'Madden himself being gone out in action at vs out of the Castle, which hurt two of our 

of Rebellion, and had left a ward of his principle souldiers and a boye. And being sent to by my 

men in his castle" [of Cloghan], whoe assoone Lord to yeild vpp the Castle to the Queene, 



1990 aNNQ^a Rio^hachca eiReawH. [1595. 

na y^cuap mic iiiUicc a bupc, 1 an liicu aO|iuB]iamap 50 po ^abao 1 co |io 
b|iipf6, nnilnic ui maDaccdin, Ufp arain,"] u|irho]i bailcfo na ci'pe leo cenmoca 
an lon^popc. Po lomao"] po leippcpiopab cluain peapca bpenamn"] pogabab 
eppucc an baile leo. 5ai annpi6e eogan Dub mac maoileaclainn bailb 
HI maDagam 6 ruair lupmai^i In ccuma cdic. Oo cuap leo laparh cap pionainn 
1 noealbna 1 ppfpaib ceall, "] ace p6a6 Doib cap a naip co bpii pionna t)o 
raippn^eab t)d banna paiT^Diuipibe baf ap 6pt)a ipin mi6e ina niaprhoipeacc, "j 
ni piacc pabaD no pacuccaD pfmpa 50 piaccaoap gan piop ^an aipiiicca6 co 
po labpac innon mbaile 1 nribctccap na po^laoa co po mapbab opon^a Dibpibe 
im anmcbaib mac maofleaclainn moDapba mic maoileaclainn mic bpfpail, "| 
im cobcac occ mac cobrai^ ui maoagain. Uepnacap clann Remainn a biipc 
on mbpfipim pin co nupmop a mumcipe amaille ppiii. 

T?o bpipeab Id hua noomnaill Oon cuaipc ['in rpi caiplein Decc do caiple- 
naib connacc. lap rcocc Dim Domnaill cap inuaib cocfp piacpac po ^aippibe 
ua DubDa DO rabcc mac caibcc piabaicch mic eojain, -] 6 bf^pa piabac il- 
lui^ne. * * * -] TTlac Donnchaib cipe hoilella Do ITlhiiip^fp caoc mac caibcc 
an cpiubaip, 1 mac Donnchaib an copainn Do Rubpaige mac aeba, -] mac 
DiapmaDa mai je luipcc Do concobap mac caiDcc mic DiapniaDa. Do bfpc 
laip laparh bpai^De ^ac ci'pe gup a paimcc 1 ngioll le corhall, "] poaip cap a 
aip 50 pdinic cap eipne lap ccpiocnuccab a cupaip. 

bpaiT^De connacc uile (Duprhop) bacap illdim 1 ngaillirh on ngobepnoip 
Sip r?ipDepD bionjam. peace anD Dia mbdccap mfpgca mfpaigce lap nol 

their answere was to Capten Thomas Lea, that ford, and county of Galway. — See it already 

if all that came in his Lordship's companie were mentioned at the years 1479 and 1557. 

Deputies, they would not yeild, but said they ° Tir-athain, now anglice Tiran, a district in 

would trust to the strenght of their castle, and the parish of Killimor-BuUoge, in the barony 

hoped by to-morrowe that time that the Deputy of Longford. The district so called is now di- 

and his companie should stand in as great ieare vided into several townlands. 

as they then Avere in; expecting, as it should - ° Longphoi% now Longford, a castle of consi- 

seeme, some aid to relieve them." — See this derable strength lying in ruins in the parish of 

famous reply of O'Madden's people referred to Tirinescragh, in the barony of Longford, to 

in Brewer's Beauties of Ireland, vol. ii. p. 152 ; Avhich it has given name. This was O'Madden's 

and Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, pp. 149, chief castle See Tribes and Cmtoms of Hy- 

189; where the whole account of the siege is Many, p. 151. 

printed from Sir William Russell's Journal. p The bishop.— The bishop of Clonfert at this 

■" Meehck- 1- Madden, now Meelick, on the period was Stephen Kerovan, a native of the 

brink of the Shannon, in the barony of Long- town of Galway. He succeeded in 1582, and 



1595.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1991 

Anmchadh. The sons of Redmond na-Scuab, son of Ulick Burke, and those we 
have mentioned, went and took and destroyed Meelick-I-Madden"', Tir-athain°, 
and all the ca,stles of the country, except Longphort°. They plundered and 
totally devastated Clonfert-Brendan, and took the bishop'' of that town prisoner. 
Among the rest, on this occasion, was Owen Duv, the son of Melaghlin Balbh 
O'Madden, from the district of Lusmagh'^. They afterwards proceeded across 
the Shannon, into Delvin and Fircall ; and, upon their retiu-n to the banks of 
the Shannon, two companies of soldiers, who had been billeted in Meath, were 
drawn in pursuit of them"". These soldiers advanced unnoticed, until they had 
surrounded the castle [of Cloghan], in which the plunderers were, when they 
slew many of them, and, among the rest, Anmchadh", son of Melaghlin Moder, 
son of Melaghlin, son of Breasal [O'Madden] ; and Coffagh' Oge, the son of 
Cofiagh O'Madden. The sons of Redmond Burke, with the greater part of 
their people along with them, escaped from conflict. 

On this occasion thirteen of the castles of Conn aught were broken down 
by O'Donnell. After crossing the Moy into Tireragh, he conferred the title of 
O'Dowda upon Teige, the son of Teige Reagh, son of Owen, the O'Dowda ; in 
Leyny he nominated * * * the O'Hara Reagh ; and he appointed Maurice Caech, 
the son of Teige-an-Triubhais", the Mac Donough of Tirerrill; Rory, the son of 
Hugh, the Mac Donough of Corran ; and Conor, the son of Teige, the Mac 
Dermot of Moylurg. He took away hostages from every territory into which 
he had come, as a security for their fealty ; and he [then] returned home across 
the Erne, having terminated his expedition. 

The hostages of the greater part of the province of Connaught, who had 
been imprisoned in Galway by the Governor, Sir Richard Bingham, being in- 
died in 1602. — See Harris's edition of Ware's * Anmchadh. — In Sir William Eussell's Jour- 
Bishops, p. 642. nal he is called " Ambrose Mac Molaghline 

•> Lusmagh, now.Lusma, a parish in the south Mottere O'Madden, of Clare-Madden, Gentle- 
of the King's County, adjoining the county of man," 

Tipperary, and bounded on the west by the ^ Coffagh In Sir William Eussell's Journal 

River Shannon. This was a part of O'Madden's he is called " Coheghe O'Madden of Clare- 
country of Sil-Anamchy, and still belongs to Madden," For a list of the chief men who were 
the diocese of Clonfert. slain or taken on this occasion, see Tribes and 

^ Drawn in pursuit of them These were in- Customs of Hy-Many, pp. 150, 151. 

duced to come into Fircall by some of Teige " Teige-an-Triubhais, i. e. Thaddgeus or Tirao- 

O'Molloy's people who were aiding the English. thy of the Trowse, or pantaloons. 



1992 



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[1596. 



piona ipn cceC) mi Dpo^rhap na bliabna po co po lompdibfioc fcoppa pfin 
elu^b ap m bppiopun i pabarap, "] imueacc odip no Deiccean. lap ccinDeaD 
na corhaiple pm ooib do cuippior a n^laip -| a n^firhle ofob, "] barap ooippi 
an baile epplaicre an can pin, i bd Inonam ppomni^ue do cac i ccoiccinne 
iiaip bd biipropac oibce ann Do coibpioc capp an Dopup piap Don baile. l?o 
^aba6 an Dpoicfc poppa 5up bo hficcfn Doib an abann a55apb DionnpaicciD 
po a nupcorhaip, 1 bd anaoinpfcc bacrap paiDe ag pdgbdil na liabann -\ aop 
occbaiD an baile lap nDol uap Dpoicfc an baile ina ccorhaippcip. l?o mapbaD 
cuio DO lacaip, "| po hionripaiDf6 an ciiiD ele Diob gup an bppiopun op imri j;- 
foap. lap nDol do na pcelaib pin giip an ngobepnoip, l?o cuip pi6e pgpibenn 
j^o jaillirh Dia popcongpa gac aon po aoncai^ eluD Don cup pin a cpocbaD 
T^an puipeac. Ro cpochab ap pupailfrh an gobepnopa Iliac mec uilliam biipc 
.1. Ginann mac RipDfipD aniapainn, DTlac uf concobaip puaiD * * * rnic caiDcc 
oicc micraibcc bui6e, nnic carail puaiD TTlac ifiec DauiD bobfpD mac hoibfpD 
buibe, mic uilliam, mic comaip ITlupchaD ccc mac mupchaiD na rcuag mic 
raiDcc uf plairbfpcaig Oomnall mac l?uai6pi mic caiDcc uf plairbfpcai^, -] 
maoilip mac cfpoiu, mic udueip paoa. 



aois CRiosr, 1596. 

Qoip cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceD, nocar, a pe. 

niag capcaij mop Decc .1. Oomnall, mac Domnaill, mic copbmaic laDpai^ 
mic caiDcc,"] jep bo TTldg capraig mop do gaipci De po boipDnfDb co bonopac 
inri lapla piap an ran pin be ap popcongpa ppionnpa pa;can. Nf baof oibpe 



" Created Earl. — He was created Earl of Clau- 
care [Clann Cctpcai^], and Baron of Valencia, 
on the 4th of June, 1565. — See Cox's Hihernia 
Anrjlicana, vol. i. p. 320. Hooker says that 
■when John or Shane O'Neill [Prince of Ulster, 
as he styled himself] heard that Mac Carthy 
More had surrendered himself and his posses- 
sions to the Queen of England, that he had been 
graciously received, his lands restored to him, 
to be held of English tenure, and that he him- 
self was created a lord of Parliament by the 
name of thg Earl of Clancare, he said to some 



English commissioners sent to treat with him : 
" I keep a lacquay as noble as he. But let 
him enjoy his honour ; it is not worthy of 
O'Neale. I have indeed made peace with the 
Queen at her desire ; but I have not forgotten 
the royal dignity of my ancestors. Ulster was 
theirs, and shall be mine. With the sword they 
won it ; with the sword I will maintain it." 

It should be remarked, however, that Hooker 
is not to be depended upon in his report of 
what Shane O'Neill said on this occasion ; for 
it appears from Shane's evidence in England 



1596.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. I993 

toxicated and excited after drinking wine, plotted together in the month of 
August in this year to make their escape from the prison in which they were, 
by stratagem or force. This resolution being adopted by them, they knocked 
off their chains and fetters. This was in the early part of the night, while the 
gates of the town were still open ; and it was the time at which all in general 
were dining, for it was the beginning of the night, when they passed out through 
the gate of the town westward. The bridge was gained upon them, so that 
they were obliged to face the rough river which lay before them ; but, at the 
same time that they were leaving the river, the soldiers of the town, who had 
crossed the bridge, were ready to meet them. Some of them were slain on 
the spot, and others were turned back to the prison from which they had fled. 
When the news of this reached the Governor, he sent a writ to Galway, order- 
ing that all those who had consented to escape on this occasion should be 
hanged without delay ; and there were hanged by order of the Governor, 
namely, the son of Mac William Burke (Edmond, the son of Richard-an-Iarainn); 
the son of O'Conor Roe, i. e. * * * ; the son of Teige Oge, son of Teige Boy, 
son of Cathal Roe ; the son of Mac David (Hubert, the son of Hubert Boy, 
son of William, son of Thomas); Murrough Oge, the son of Murrough of the 
Battle-axes, son of Teige O'Flaherty ; Donnell, the son of Rory, son of Teige 
O'Flaherty; and Myler, the son of Theobald, son of Walter Fada [Burke]. 

THE AGE OF CHRIST, 1596. 

TJte Age of Christ, one thousand Jive hundred ninety-six. 

Mac Carthy More died, namely, Donnell, the son of Donnell, son of Cormac 
Ladhrach, son of Teige ; and although he was usually styled Mac Carthy More, 
he had been honourably created Earr by order of the Sovereign of England. 

that he was a man of astute mind ; and it is whom they had rendered the most servile tri- 

quite certain that he would not, when in boasting butes in EarPs beeves, and in "the damn'd 

mood, have condescended to compare himself to exaction of coyn and liverie." There is a very 

the Earl of Clancare, who had but a few years pre- curious list of the rents and services rendered 

viously emerged from slavery, for it was not till to the Earls (of Desmond) by the Mac Carthys 

the year 1565, that he was emancipated from and others, preserved in the Carew Collection of 

the yoke of the Earls of Desmond, whose vassals Manuscripts at Lambeth Palace, No. 6 1 7, p. 2 1 2. 

his ancestors had been for many centuries, to That this Earl of Clancare possessed but little of 

llx 



1994 awNa^a Rio^hachca eiReawH. [1596. 

pf]i6a t)ia eip no hoipnpme ina iona6 cenmora aen in^fn t)o jiala na mnaof 
05 mac meg caprai^ piabai^ .1. ace pingin, -] po ba 0615 let cac ^up bo Vifpibe 
po ba6 oiDpe ap an mag capcai^ pn arbau .1. Dorhnall. 

TTIac puibne na uuuar eo^an occ mac eoccain oicc mic eoccain mic Dom- 
naill pfp coracrac coipbfpcac, na po ruill cdmpiurh, no rapcaipne op o ^ab 

the liefoism of his ancestor is quite evident from " By this pedigree it appears that Mac Car thy 
all that we know of his history ; and one can Reagh, in the person of O Donnell Gud, became 
hardly avoid concluding that he was a craven a separate branch of this noble family in the 
coward, from his submission to Sir Henry Sid- time of Donnell More in Curragh, who probably 
ney, beginning, " The most humble submission gave them Carbry for their portion and inheri- 
of the unworthy and most unnatural Earl of tance ; and that Mac Donough did the like some 
Clancahir, otherwise called Mac Carthy More, time after and received their Estate in Duhal- 
unto the Right Honourable Sir Henry Sidney, low, from their father, Cormock Fune ; and that 
Knight," preserved on Patent Roll, 13 Eliza- the Lords of Muskry more lately, in the person 
beth, and printed by Mr. Hardiman in his An- of Dermond More Muskry, became a distinct 
cient Irish Deeds {Transactions R. I. A.^ vol, xv. branch of this family, and were seated in Muskry 
Antiquities, pp. 73, 74). But it should be borne by their father, Cormock mac Donell Oge. 
in mind that since the death of the Red Earl of " It is likewise manifest that Donell, Earle of 
Ulster, in 1333, O'Neill's ancestors were not Clancar, dying without issue male, his daughter 
only free from all Anglo-Irish exactions, but and heir was married to Florence Mac Donough 
that they compelled the English of the Pale to Mac Carthy Reagh, whose pedigree shall follow 
pay them " black rent." The comparison be- more at large. By virtue of which marriage 
tween O'Neill and Mac Carthy is, therefore, a Florence claimed the name and title of Mac 
mere stupid joke of Hooker. It is, however, Carthy more, Avhich Donell, naturall son of the 
repeated by Leland, who has given many An- deceased Earle of Clancar, had usurp'd; and by 
glo-Irish fables as true history. the help of Tyrone, who was then come into 
" Who could be installed. — Donnell, Earl of Munster, he was establisht in that name and 
Clancare, had one natural son, Donnell, who dignity, and his grandson and heir, Charles, is 
usurped the name and title of Mac Carthy More ; at this day ownd and stild Mac Carthymore. 
but Fineen, or Florence, the youngest son of Nevertheless the followers of these great men 
Donough Mac Carthy Reagh, Avho was married doe often dispute which branch of this family is 
to Ellen, the only daughter of the Earl of the principall, or chief of the Clancarthyes. 
Clann-Cartha, claimed the name and title of Mac Carthymore alleages that he, having the 
Mac Carthy More, and by the influence of the title and name, and being likewise, by his grand- 
Earl of Tyrone he was established in that dig- mother, heir to the last Earle of Clancar, ought 
nity. The writer of Carbrice Notitia, already often to be acknowledged chief without dispute, 
referred to, after giving the pedigree of Mac " To this the others An s were, that by the 
Carthy More, has the following remarks upon father's side (which is chiefly regarded in Ire- 
the disputes between the different families of the land), he is younger son of Mac Carty Reagh, 
Mac Carthys, about their respective rights to the and ought not to exalt himselfe above the Chief 
headship in 1686, when this writer flourished : of his house. That an Irish title and name must 



1596] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1995 

There was no male heir who could be mstalled'' in his place, [or any heir], 
except one daughter [Ellen], who was the wife of the son of Mac Carthy Reagh, 
i. e. Fineen ; and all thought that he was the heir of the deceased Mac Carthy, 
i. e. Donnell. 

Mac Sweeny-na-dTuath (Owen Oge, the son of Owen Oge, son of Owen, 
son of Donnell), an influential and generous man, who had never incurred 

be governe'd by the Irish Law of Tanistry, heirs male to Cormock Mac Daniell Oge, Prince 

which, like the royal Law Salique in France, of Desmond, and to all his ancestors, even to 

will not admit women to inherit estates and Donell More in Curragh, from Avhom Mac Carty 

principalities, — suitable to the Law of Entailes Reagh descends ; and they deny any difference 

in England, which excludes this very Mac Car- in their degrees of kindred to the said Donell 

tymore from being Earle of Clancar, tho' he be More ; and if there were it matters not, since a 

his heire at Common Lawe ; neither had Tyrone man's grandson and heir ought to be preferred 

any legall power in Munster to conferr the title before his second son. As for the antiquity of 

of Mac Cartymore on any body that had not Carbry, it prooves nothing in this dispute; and 

just right to it, as for the relation between Mac Cartymore and 

" Mac Carty Eeagh alleages that he is the Mac Carty Eeagh, whatsoever it may argue 

eldest branch of this noble family, which, by amongst themselves, tis nothing to a third per- 

the Law of Tanistry, ought to be preferred ; son ; and, therefore, they conclude the Crown of 

that he is a degree nearer of kin to the com- England has done them justice in giving, or ra- 

mon ancestor, Donell More in Curragh, King of th?r restoring, to them the stile and title of 

Cork" [rede, Desmond] " than any of the pre- Earle of Clancarthy. 

tenders ; that Carbry is an antienter princi- " But, be this as it will, my province leads me 

pality than either Muskry or Duhallow ; and to the particular pedigree of Mac Carty Reagh, 

that Mac Cartymoreis a younger brother of his who were lords of this great territory of Carbry, 

house. and had the greatest chief reijts out of it that 

■•' But the lords of Muskry say that because was paid out of any seigniory in Ireland, insoe 
Mac Carty Reagh is the Eldest branch of this much that the Mac Cartyes have been stiled 
family, that is, the first that separated from the Princes of Carbry, as well in many antient his- 
common stock, he is therefore excluded from torys and records, as in his severall letters Pat- 
the inheritance till all the later branches are tents from the Kings of England. I begin with 
lopt of by death ; for the Tanistry respects the Donnell Gud, because I have already shewn his 
age and meritt, yet designs only impotent age ; pedigree upward to Calahane of Cashell, King 
and, therefore, a man's vncle thatt be Tanist, of Munster." He then gives Mac Carthy Reagh's 
but not his great grand vncle if alive; and soe pedigree down to his own time, 1686. 
by the Law of England, a brother shall be pre- There is a very curious tract, on the subject 
ferred before an unckle, and an unckle before a of this dispute between the Mac Carthys, pre- 
great unckle ; soe that by both Laws the nearest served in the Carew Collection of Manuscripts 
of kin to him that was last seizd shall be his at Lambeth, No. 601, p. 241, entitled: " Flo- 
heir, and the Lords of Muskry are the undoubted rence Mac Cartie's Reasons to prove that the 

11 X 2 



1996 awNaca Rio^hachra eiReawN. [1596. 

ceanDuy^ a c]iice co 16 a eirpocca pfp cairrheac con^aipeac Dea]ilaicreac 
Daonnaccac corhnapc p|ii cofiicca6 a^mup ppi hionny'aijib co mbuaiD cceille 
1 ccorhaiple ppi pi6, "] ppi pococcab t)o ecc 26. lanuapn,-] mac a bfpbparap 
.1. rriaolmuipe mac mupchaib maill 00 ^abail a lonaiD. 

O Rai^illi^ .1. Sfan pua6 mac ao6a conallai^ mic maoflmopba mic Sfain 

00 ecc, "] 56 DO liopoai^fD maille 16 compopfipion a hucc na bainpfo^an 
arbaib piap an can pm ciccfpnap a buicce pfm do bfir a^ ^ac aon do pliocc 
TTiaoilmopDa iif Paijilli^ po ^aip ua neill ao6 mac pipDopca o paijilli^ Do 
pilip mac ao6a conallaij; pop an mbpeipne mle, "] niop bo cianpao§;lac pom 
lap ngaipm n^eapna De uaip po mapbaD pia ccionn Ifr paire 50 cfjrhaipeac 
la mmncip ui neill (lap po lioipDneaD eipiiim)-] po ^aipeaD 6 pai^illi^ Demann 
mac maoflrhopDa pinnpeap an Da cijeapna pfrfipdiue. 

TTlac lapla Dfpmuman Decc .1. uomap mac Semaip, mic Sfain mic romdip 
t)poicir ara. 

Uepoir macpiapaipmic emamnbuirelep n^eapna carpac Duiniapccai^, 

1 cpfna cliiana meala Do ecc. pCp Deaplaicceach Duap mop po ba mo Diian- 
aipe Dpionn^allaib epeann Dupmop eipibe 1 a rfiac romap do T^abdil a lonaiD. 

TTlaj eocaccdin .1. mall mac Poppa mic connla Decc. 

Pemann mac ^eapailc ui^eapna cuaice bporaill do bdpuccaD i ccopcai^ 
rpe cioncaib a Dibeipcce in aghaiD jail. 

Qn can cpa po piDiji an lupuip, ~| comaiple na hGpeann calmacc "] com- 
nape na n^aoiDeal ina naghaiD, "] gac aen Do paDpacc 50 pomamai^ce Doib 
babein piap an can pin aj; Dol Daofn Ific ppip na ^aoiDelaib pempaice ina 
na^haiD, bd pf comaiple appicc led cecca Do cop do pai^iD ui neill,"] uf Dorh- 
naill DO cumjiD pioDa 1 caoncorhpaic poppa. 6d piaD po co^aD ppi biom- 

Earl of Clancare's land ought to descend to "^ Ccitliah'-Duna-Iascaigh, now Cahir, a Avell- 

Ellen, his [Florence's] wife." known town in the cojinty of Tipperary. — See 

'' John Roe. — This was Sir John O'Reilly. — note'', under the year 1559, p- 1570, supra. 

See note '', under the year 1583, p. 1804, SM^jra. '^ Trian-Chlumia-meala, i. e. Clonmel-third. 

' Descendants of Maelmora. — See note "*, under This was the name of the barony of Iffa and 

the year 1583, p. 1809, supra. Offa East, in the south-east of the county of 

" Echnond, the son of Maelmora. — See note ", Tipperary — See note °, vmder the year 1559, 

under the year 1583, p. 1806. p. 1570, SMpm. 

^ Thomas of Drogheda, i. e. who was executed ^ Tuath-Brothaill, i. e. the district of Broghill. 

at Drogheda — See note ^, under the year 1 468, This is still the name of a manor, with a castle, 

p. 1050, snpra. near Charleville, in the jiorth of the county of 



1596.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. I997 

reproach or censure from the time that he assumed the chieftainship of his ter- 
ritory to the day of his death ; a sumptuous, warhke, humane, and bounteous 
man ; puissant to sustain, and brave to make the attack ; with the gift of good 
sense and counsel in peace and war ; died on the 26th of January ; and his 
brother's son, Mulmurry, the son of Murrough Mall, took his place. 

O'Reilly, i. e. John Roe^, the son of Hugh Conallagh, son of Maelmora, son 
■ of John, died. And though, by a composition made some time anterior to this 
period, by the Queen's authority, it was ordained that each of the descendants 
of Maelmora^ O'Reilly should [exclusively] possess the lordship of his own 
territory, yet O'Neill (Hugh, the son of Ferdorcha) nominated Philip, son of 
Hugh, the O'Reilly over all Breifny ; but he did not live long after being styled 
Lord, for he was accidentally slain by O'Neill's people (by whom he had been 
inaugurated); and [then] Edmond, the son of Maelmora"*, who was senior to 
the other two lords, was styled the O'Reilly. 

The son of the Earl of Desmond died, namely, Thomas, the son of James, 
son of John, son of Thomas of Drogheda". 

Theobald, the son of Pierce, son of Edmond Butler, Lord of Cathair-Duna- 
Liscaigh'' and Trian-Chluana-meala'', died. He was a liberal and bounteous 
man, and had the largest collection of poetical compositions of almost all the 
old English of Ireland ; and his son, Thomas, took his place. 

Mageoghegan, i. e. Niall, the son of Rossa, son of Conla, died. 

Redmond Fitzgerald, Lord of Tuath-BrothailP, was executed at Cork, for 
liis crimes of insurrection against the English. 

When the Lord Justice and the Council of Ireland saw the bravery and 
power of the Irish against them, and that all those who had previously been 
obedient to themselves were now joining the aforesaid Irish against them, they 
came to the resolution of sending ambassadors to O'Neill and O'Donnell, to 
request* peace and tranquillity from them. The persons selected for negociating 

Cork. — See Smith's Natural and Civil History arms in this country, was well pleased at any 

of Cork, book ii. c. 6. Roger Boyle, the third prospect of composing the vexatioiis broils of 

son of Richard, Earl of Cork, took the title of Ireland."' And he adds that O'Neill, "having 

Baron from this place. — 3 Car. I. discovered the real weakness of his enemy, de- 

^ To request, — Leland says, book iv. c. 4, that termined to recommence hostilities without the 

" the Queen, now principally attentive to the slightest regard to promises or treaties, which 

affairs of France, and the progress of tlie Spanish he considered as mere temporary expedients." 



1998 awwaca Rio^hachca ei^eaNH. [1596. 

Iua6 nairifcc (bojipa .i. comap buicilep lapla upmiirhan,"] aipoeappocc caipil 
maoliniiipe nna^cpair. l?ainicc layila uyimurhan 50 rpcn^ baile, "] aipipf 
annpfin,-] po pafb a reacca 50 hua neill Dia aipnfip do na copcca imct ccdimcc. 
PaiDiD ua neill na pccela ceona Dionnpai^ib uf Dorhnaill. Do 6616 ua Dorhnaill 
Oi'pinn mapcploi^ 50 haipm 1 nnbaoi ua neill, cia^ar ofblmib co pocaipo muip- 
remne. Udnajc an ciapla, ~\ an uaipoeppocc oia pai^iD. Qu pecpac t)0 na 
plainb in coipcc ima ccan^arcap .1. gup ab do cumgiD pfoba Do beacaccap, 
"] ac peupac na corhaoa po nngeall an lupcip .1. Dil['iucchab coiccib concobaip 
Doibpiorh genmoca an mbloib cipe pil 6 Dun Deal^an co boinn in po aicu- 
peabpac 501II 6 cfin rhdip piap an can pin,"] po jeallpau ppip pin nd ciopcaip 
501II poppa rap copamn cenmocdc na 501II bctccap hi ccappaicc pfpgupa hi 
ccdiplinD, -] 1 niubap cinnupaga do leicceb ppi cpeic ~\ conpaDh do pfop, -j nd 
leiccpibe maoip no luce cobaig cfopa no cana Dia paiccib ace an cfop Do 
parca pop a pinnpeapaib (peace piarh) do lobnacal Doibpiurh co hdr cliar, 
-] nd cuinjibpe geill no eiccipe oppa ace mab pin, "| do bepea an cceDna Do 
na gaoibelaib aecpace hi ccommbdib uf Dorhnaill hi ccoicceaD connace. Oo 
coib epa 6 neill, 1 6 Dorhnaill, ~] 1 nibaeap ina ppappab Do rhaieib an coicciD 
DO pccpuDab a ccorhaiple im na haiefpccaib pin Do bpfca cuca, -] lap mbfie 
achaib poDa DoibpiDe "] Do na mairib apcfna ace popairrhfc an po eogaera 
Id gallaib 6 Do piacearap epinn Id bpecccingealleoib nd po corhailleab Doib 
iDip, 1 an Ifon do beacaeap Doibfbaib anaipce Dia naipeacaib Dia nuaiplib, 
"] DO paopclanDaib poicenelcoib cen ndc ruccaic icip, ace do gaicc a nar- 
apba popaib, l?o iniecclaigpioc co mop co nd corhaillpe ppiu an po cingeallab 

8 Mulmurry Marjrath. — He wrote his own Dundalk, in the county of Louth. — See note ^, 

name "Milerus Magrath." He was of the Ma- under the year 1595, p. 1967, supra. 

graths of Termon-Magrath, on the borders of ' To request a peace " A mean solicitation on 

the counties of Donegal and Fermanagh. He the part of government to Tyrone." — Leland. 
was a Franciscan friar, and had been appointed ^ The province of Cotichobhar, i. e. of Ulster, 

Bishop of Down by Pope Pius V. ; but after- which in Conchobhar Mac Nessa's time extended 

wards, embracing the Protestant religibn, he to the Boyne. 
was, in 1570, promoted to the bishopric of ^Stewards, i. e. sheriffs. 

Clogher, and soon afterwards elevated to the ^ They feared. — This fear on the part of the 

archbishopric of Cashel, which he governed for Irish arose from the practises of the Marshal 

forty-two years. — See Harris's edition of Ware's Bagnal, who was doing all in his power to ruin 

Bishops, pp. 206, 483. O'Neill and the Irish chieftains of Ulster. When 

'' Faugh ard-Mui7-themne, now Faughard, near O'Neill saAV that it was impossible to remove 



1596.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 1999 

between them were Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormoiid, and Mulmurry Magrath^, 
Archbishop of Cashel. The Earl of Ormond repaired to Traigh-Bhaile [Duu- 
dalk], and there halted ; and he sent his messengers to O'Neill, to inform him 
of the purport of his coming ; upon whicli O'Neill sent the same intelligence to 
O'Donnell ; and O'Donnell came to the place where O'Neill was, with a body of 
cavalry, [and] both set out for Faughard-Muirtheimne^ Here the Earl and the 
Archbishop came to meet them. They stated to the chiefs the object of their 
embassy, namely, to request a peace' ; and they stated the rewards promised by 
the Lord Justice, namely, the appropriation to them of the province of Concho- 
bhar", except the tract of country extending from Dundalk to the River Boyne, 
in which the English had dwelt long before that time. They promised, more- 
over, that the English should not encroach upon them beyond the boundary, 
excepting those who were in Carrickfergus, Carlingford, and Newry, who were 
at all times permitted to deal and traffic ; that no stewards' or collectors of 
rents or tributes should be sent among them, but that the rents which had been 
some time before upon their ancestors should be forwarded by them to Dublin ; 
that beyond this no hostages or pledges would be required ; and that the Irish 
in the province of Connaught, who had risen up in alliance with O'Donnell, 
should have privileges similar to these. O'Neill, O'Donnell, and all the chiefs 
of the province who were then along with them, went into council upon those 
conditions which were brought to them ; and, having reflected for a long time 
.upon the many that had been ruined by the English, since their arrival in Ire- 
land, by specious promises, which they had not performed, and the numbers of 
the Irish high-born princes, gentlemen, and chieftains, who came to premature 
deaths without any reason at all, except to rob them of their patrimonies, they 
feared" very much that what was [then] promised would not be fulfilled to them; 

the Marshal, or to enjoy peace, or do any ser- Lord General were ever just and honorable, but 
vice by which he could distingviish himself had been fatally counteracted by the Deputy : 
whilst Bagnal was Marshal of Ulster, he refused and as Sir John Norris was speedily to be re- 
to meet her Majesty's Commissioners, stating by moved from his command, and the grievances of 
letter, that " he could not attend the Commis- the Northerns to be stibmitted to a new Chief 
sioners with safety or with honour ; that he had Governor, whose principles and character were 
little hope of any performance of articles, as he entirely unknown, he had the less reason to ex- 
had been already deceived by confiding in the pect an equitable conclusion." — Leland's History 
Queen's officers; that the intentions of the of Ireland, book iv. c. 4. 



2(XX) aNNQ^a i^ioshachca eiReawN. [1596. 

t)6ib coniD paip oeipb leo p6 beoib an rpfb t)0 eim^fo. l?o aipnfibpor lajiarh 
in airfpcc oon lapla, "] do c6i6 pi6e co hdc cliac t)o pai^iD an luprfp "] na 
corhaijile, -] ac peu Doib a 6iiilca6 imon pfr, "] a ppfccpa 6 na gaoibelaib. Ro 
cuip an iiipci]' -] an corhaiple ceacca 50 SapcaiB do pai^i6 na bainpiogan 
Daipnfip a peel DipiDe coniD ano po cfpD pi lolap noaofne 50 hepinn co na 
naiDmib cecca leo co ndp bo lu^a olodcr pice rnfle a Ifon oaop cuapupcail, 
-] oaiTipoib po barrap in u]ipaicill coccaib Do ^aoibealaib. IRo rfcclanriaD 
lapaiTi ploicceaD Idn rhop la jenepal coccaiD na bainpio^an m Gpinn .1. Sip 
lohii nopip DO Dol 1 ccoicceaD connacr ap Dai^ in po eipi^h 1 cconibaiDb 
coccaiD na n^aoiDel Diob do cfnnpucchaD. Uainicc lapla cloinne piocaipD 
,1. Uillecc mac PiocaipD Sliaccpanai^, nnic uillicc na ccenn co lion a poc- 
paicce ina ccionol. Udnaicc cpa lapla cuabniurhan .1. DonnchaD mac con- 
cobaip, inic Donnchaib uf bpiain co na pocpaicce on moDh cceDna. Uan^a- 
rcap cpa Dpon^a Dipirhe nach aipirhceap cenmoracpaibe. Qcccfna acbepar 
apoile na po cionoileab ppi pe cian Dannpip in epinn pop peilb an ppionnpa 
parhail Don cplnai^eab ipin ap lionmaipe a lepnonoil, ap allmupbacc 1 ap 
lon^^naire a ninmll, "] a neccoipcc. lap ccoppaccain Doib pein uile 50 haon 
baile .1. 50 bar luain do pai^ib an ^enepala loccap laparh co Ropcomdin, 1 
f ccorhpocpaib mainipcpe na buille lapccain") o na puaippior connacrai^ pop 
a ccionn ann pin arhail po paoilpioc, lompaiD cap a naip piap bi pann TTlheic 
uilliam 50 cionnlaca, 1 50 mai^in 50 po ^abpar cannpa compaipping la raob 
abann Robba, 

Qn ran po bacap an rpocpairce Ian rhop ace roTYiairfrh cocc an Dii pm, 
l?o pafb TTlac uilliam bupc cepoirc, arecca 50 bUa nDoitinaill Dia cuin^iDh 
paip coibecc Dia poipirin, nip bo paillijcecb po ppeccpab inDpin la hua nDorh- 
naill uaip pob eplarh eipibe Do cecc 1 ccoicceab mfbba piapiu pangaccap na 
reacra Dia pai^ib. Scpiobcap licpe, -| pcpibfnna uaba 50 gaoibelaib coiccid 
olneccmacc Dia popconjpa poppa roibecc ina boconi 50 bionao epDdlca baf 
popp an cconaip Do pai^ib longpopc an jenepala Sip lohn nopip,-) do beacbaib 
biiofin bi ccfnn cpfDa co na ploj laip rap eipne, cap Sliccec, larh t>fy ppi 

" His having been refused the peace. — An Eng- ° Ceann-lacha, i. e. the Head of the Lake, now 

lish writer would say : " he informed the Lord Kinlough, a townland in the parish of Shrule, 

Deputy and the Council of the answer given by in the barony of Kilmaine, and county of Mayo, 

the Irish, and how they had rejected his pro- It is so called from its situation at the head or 

posals for a peace." extremity 'of Lough Corrib. 



1596.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2001 

so that they finally resolved upon rejecting the peace. They communicated 
their decision to the Earl, who proceeded to Dublin to the Lord Justice and 
the Council, and related to them his having been refused the peace", and the 
answer he had received from the Irish. The Lord Justice and Council sent 
messengers to England to the Queen, to tell her the news ; so that she then 
sent a great number of men to Ireland, with the necessary arms. Their number 
was no less than twenty thousand ; and they were composed of mercenaries 
and [native] soldiers. A great hosting was mustered by the Queen's general 
of war in Ireland, namely, Sir John Norris, to proceed into the province of 
Connaught, in order to reduce all those who had risen up in the confederation 
of the Irish in the war. The Earl of Clanrickard, i. e. Ulick, the son of Rickard 
Saxonagh, son of Ulick na gCeann, came to join his levy with all his forces. 
The Earl of Thomond, i. e. Donough, the son of Conor, son of Donough O'Brien, 
came likewise with his forces ; and also many others besides them, not enume- 
rated, came to join him. In short, some say that no army like this had for a 
long time before been mustered in that part of Ireland possessed by the Sove- 
reign [of England], in the numbers of the muster, the exotic and strange cha- 
racter of their equipment and appearance. When all these had come together 
at Athlone to meet the General, they then proceeded to Roscommon, and after- 
wards to the vicinity of the monastery of Boyle ; but, not finding the Conna- 
cians there before them, as they had expected, they returned back, and marched 
towards the territory of Mac William, to Ceaun-lacha^ and to Maighin^, and 
pitched a spacious camp on the brink of the River Robe. 

When this great army was threatening to come to this place, Mac William 
Burke (Theobald) sent his messengers to O'Donnell, requesting of him to come 
to his relief. Not negligently did O'Donnell respond to this [request], for he 
had been prepared to proceed into the province of Meave [Connaught] before 
the messengers arrived. He sent letters and writings to the Irish of the pro- 
vince of Olnegmacht [Connaught], to request of them to meet him at a certain 
place on the road, leading to the camp of the General, Sir John Norris ; and he 
himself set out on his journey with his army across the Erne and the Shgo, 

^ Maighin, now Moyne, a townland containing Mayo. — See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of 
the ruins of a church and castle, in the parish Hi/-FiacJirach, p. 494, and the map to the same 
of Shrule, barony of Kilmaine, and county of Avork. 

11 Y 



2002 aNwaca Rioghachca eiReawN. [1596. 

y^puib pleibe ^arri rpe lui^ne,"] rpe cpich jailfn^. Uan^arap cpa jaoibil an 
C01CC16 jan lompuipeac pon uojaipm ipn. Uanaicc ann cerup bpian 6cc 
(.1. o puaipc) mac bpiain mic bpiain mic Gogain uf puaipc. Udnaic ann 6 con- 
cobaip puab, 6 ceallai^]!, TTlac oiapmaca maije luipcc. Uan^acap ann an od 
ifiac Donnchaib, an odUa fghpa, "| ua ouboa. lap croppaccain na ngaoibeal 
ym CO hdir naen baile, nf po hanaD leo 50 po sabpac longpopc pop lonchaib 
Sip lohn nopip Don caob apaill Don l?o6ba ceona. 

Ro bai lomaici^ioh froppa anonn "] anall arhail bi6 ppi pioh 1 ppi caip- 
Oine, 1 nfp bo lifo on lap ppip, ace bd 00 bpau *] caipcelab ~\ do cabaipr 
bpeicce imo poile Dia ccaorhparcaip. CCipipirc achaiD arhlaiD pin a^haiD 1 
naghaiD co rcaipnic a loinre Do na gallaib conaD e nf po cbinnpioc Deip^e an 
puipr 1 mbdccap 6 nd po cnrhainjpior nf do na jaoiDealaib. Oo ^nfacu 
paifilaiD -] Do coiD an ^enepal 50 jaillirh, appiDe 50 baile dra luam, -{ po 
pdccaib pai^Diuipi Jii ccun^a, "j map an cceDna 1 ngaillim, 1 mbaile ach an 
pioj, ipin mullach mop ua maine, hi ccill conaill 1 mbel aca na pluaij;ea6 i 
Ropp comdin, bi ccuillpgi, -] 1 mainipcip na buille. 

Ua concobaip pliji^ do recc in epinn co njallaib lomba laip hi ppo^map 
na bliaDna po. 

Oo cuipfb Sip PipDepD bionjam co na bpaicpib a curhaccaib coicciD con- 

nacc, 1 puccab laDpibe co hac cliar, -] Do cuipir appaibe 50 Sa;roib "| po 

cuipeab neach ele ba pTpp map ina lonaD 1 ngobepnopacc coicciD connacc 

.1. Sip Conepp clipopc a comainm. 6d pfp ciobnaicre peD ~\ maofne do ^al- 

laib 1 DO ^aoibelaib eipiDe, 1 nf rainicc do ^allaib 1 nGpinn ip na Dfibfncoib 

nech ba pfpp mdp. lap rcocc Do co hac cliac po baf a^ corhcpuinniuccab 

Daofne "] ace uipcpiall apmdla do bul hi cconnaccaib. Oo coib laparh co 

Ifon ploi^, "] pocaibe co baile ara luain, "| Do pccaoil a banDaba 1 ccampa ~\ 

hi ppoplongpopu ap bailcib 6 maine, ~\ cloinne PiocaipD .1. gaiUirh, baile dra 

an pio^, an mullac mop, con^a, -| an Ifirinnpi. Oo corcap Dpong mop Do 

rhairib coiccib connacc do pai^ib an gobepnopa, "] Do ^abpau laip po Daij; a 

allab "I a dpD cuapupccbala. l?o ba Dibpibe 6 concobaip puab .1. Qob mac 

roippbealbai^ puaib,"] mac Diapmara .1. concobap,-] po naiDmpioc a ccaparr- 

pab ppip. 

' Brian Oge Charles O' Conor adds in the •■ Mullaghmore-Hy-Many, now Mullaghmore, 

margin that this Brian Oge was the son of near Mount-Bellew. This castle is now a heap 
Brian-na-Murtha. of ruins. — See Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, 



1596.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2003 

keeping the stream of Sliabh-Gamh on the right, through Leyny and the terri- 
tory of Gaileanga. The Irish of the province came at the summons to meet 
him ; and, first of all, O'Rourke (Brian Oge'', the son of Brian, son of Brian, son 
of Owen) ; thither came O'Conor Roe, O'Kelly, Mac Dermot of Moylurg ; thither 
came the two Mac Donoughs, the two O'Haras, and O'Dowda. When these 
Irish came together at one place, they made no delay until they pitched their 
camp, confronting Sir John Norris, on the opposite side of the same River Robe. 

There was a communication between them on both sides, as if through 
peace and friendship ; but this, in truth, was not so, but to spy, circumvent, and 
decoy each other, if they could. Thus they remained, face to face, until the 
English had exhausted their provisions ; and the resolution they came to was, 
to leave the camp in which they were, as they could not do any service upon 
the Irish. They [accordingly] did so ; and the General proceeded to Galway, 
and from thence to Athlone ; having left soldiers in Cong, Galway, Athenry, 
Mullaghmore-Hy-Many'', Kilconnell, Ballinasloe, Roscommon, Tulsk, and the 
monastery of Boyle. 

In the autumn of this year O'Conor Sligo returned to Ireland with a great 
number of Englishmen. 

Sir Richard Bingham and his relatives were deprived of their power in the 
province of Connaught ; and they were brought to Dublin, and sent off from 
thence to England ; and a far better man than he was appointed in his place to 
the governorship of Connaught, by name Sir Conyers Clifford. He was a dis- 
tributor of wealth and jewels upon the English and Irish ; and there came not 
of the English into Ireland, in latter times, a better man than he. On his arrival 
in Dublin, he proceeded to muster men and arms, to proceed into Connaught. 
He afterwards marched, with the entire of his troops and forces, to Athlone, and 
distributed his companies in camps and fortresses among the towns of Hy-Many 
and Clanrickard, namely, Galway, Athenry, Mullaghmore, Cong, and Lehinch'. 
A great number of the chiefs of the province of Connaught repaired to the 
Governor, and adhered to him, on account of his fame and high renown. Among 
these were O'Conor Roe, i. e. Hugh, the son of Turlough Roe, and Mac Dermot, 
i. e. Conor, who formed a league of friendship with him. 

note'', p. 18. mon, barony of Kilmaine, and county of Mayo 

^ Lehinch, a castle in the parish of Kilcom- See note '\ under the year 1412, p. 811, sujyra. 

11 Y 2 



2004 QHMa^a Rio^hachca eiReaww. [1596. 

• 

O concobaip Sligi^ cpa mp rrocc Do a Sa;coilj co liGpinn jio ^aibfi6e ct^ 
cfnOf ucca6 Connacr aniail ay ofch po pfo a hucc ^all, "] ]io ^abpac clann 
nOonnchaiD cuile TYiuine laip. baf beop baile an rtiocai^ ap a cumay. T?o 
^abfac map an cceona muincip Qipc laip, uaip ba hiaiopiDe popcap caipip 
opiop a lonaiD do ^pep,"] poprap paoili^ Dia pocrain Dia paijiD,"] polionpar 
Duaill, 1 Do Diomap, -] po ^abparr ace bai^ -] ace bajap ap cenel cconaill. 

O DomnaiU Dna or cualai^ pi6e popecaD an pcceoil pm, ■] a nDolporh 
1 ccombdiD ^all ma a^aiD, ni po aipip ppi recclamaD ploi^; cenmora arhpai^ 
"] aep ruapupcail -| do caeD lapaifi cap Slicceach piap 50 l?opp oipcc an 
popcap raipipi la bUa cconcobaip in gach Du 1 mbarrap 1 nDiarhpaib,"! i 
nDpoibelaib Damgne an npe co nd po paccaib mil ninnile leo, -| ni po cpeach 
ace laDpoTTi namct, je po coiccill Doib co mime pfime^ ap a nDinnime 1 ap a 
nDfpoile 50 pop bpopr a mbpiarpa Diumpaca, "] a naincpibe na po peDpac do 
Dicleir Ua Domnaill Dia nop^ain an can pin. 

Concobap, mac caib^, mic concobaip ui bpiain o bel ara an comhpaic Do 
Dol pop Dibfipcc -] pop pojail, uaip bafpiDhe, -] Dpong Do cloinD cpichi^h 
amaille ppip ap lonnapbaDh o na nacapDa apaon la ^aoiDealaib an cuaip- 
ceipc, 1 cainic ma mfnmam poccam Dia ccip, "] appeaD loccap Do cloinn l?io- 
caipD, DO Shleb ecr^e, "] Diocrap elomne cuilein. T?o bdp ma Ifnmam o jach 
cfp DO np CO po 5aba6 Concobap pa DeoiDh ap m ccoill moip, "| piiccaD e hi 
ccrhD an ppepiDenp ipm cceD mi Dpojmap do ponnpaD, "] po bctpai^eab he 
1 ccopcai^ ap cepma na Samna. 

UaDcc, mac coippbealbai^, mic DonnchaiD, mic concobaip uf hpiain (lap 
mbfir pe poDa pop po^ail) Do ^abail 1 mbuicilepachaib, -] a bapuccab cpe 
comaiple lapla uprhurhan. 

' Cul-muine. — This is the present Irish name See note ', under the year 1589, p. 1879, supra. 

of CoUooney, in the barony of Tirerrill, and ^ Sliabh-Echtghe, now Slieve Aughty, a large 

county of Sligo ; but it is more usually called mountainous district on the confines of the 

Cul-Maoile, or Cuil-Maoile, in these Annals, — counties of Clare and Galway. See it already 

See the years 1291, 1526, 1586, I60I. mentioned at the years 1263, 1570, 1572, 1578. 

" The O'Harts — These were seated in the ^ The lower part.—Thh phraseology of the 

north of the barony of Carbury, in the county Four Masters is different from the present local 

of Sligo, between Grange and Bunduff, and op- use of the word icecap, lower, which means 

posite the island of Inishmurry. that part of the county next the Lower Shannon. 

" Bel-atha-an-chomhraic, nowBallycorick, near ^ Coill-mhor. — There are several places of this 

the town of Clare, in the county of Clare.— name in Munster ; but as Conor O'Brien was 



1596.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND, ' 2005 

O'Conor Sligo, after his return from England, proceeded, on behalf of the 
Enf^lish, to reduce Connaught ; and he was joined by the Clann-Donough of 
Cul-muine\ and he had also Ballymote in his power. The O'Harts" also ad- 
hered to him, for they had always been faithful to the man who held his place ; 
and they rejoiced at his arrival, and were filled with pride and arrogance, and 
began to defy and threaten the Kinel-Connell. 

When O'Donnell heard this fact rumoured, and that these people had joined 
the English against him, he did not wait to muster an army, except his soldiers 
and mercenaries, and proceeded westward across the [River] Sligo, and plun- 
dered all those who paid obedience to O'Conor, wherever they were, [even 
those] in the wilds and fast recesses of the country ; so that he did not leave a 
single head of cattle among them. He plundered but these only ; and though 
he had often spared them on former occasions, on account of their littleness and 
insignificance, yet their own haughty words and animosity, which they were 
unable to repress, provoked O'Donnell to plunder them on this occasion. 

Conor, the son of Teige, son of Conor O'Brien, of Bel-atha-an-chomhraic", 
went into insurrection, and began to plunder; for he, together with a party of 
the Clann-Sheehy, having been expelled from their patrimonies, were along 
with the Irish of the north. It came into their minds to return to their own 
territory ; and they passed through Clanrickard, by Sliabh-Echtghe" and the 
lower part'' of Clann-Cuilein. They were pursued from territory to territory, 
until Conor was at last taken in the Wood of Coill-mhor^ and brought before 
the President in the first month of autumn ; and he was hanged at Cork in the 
[ensuing] November^ Term. 

Teige, the son of Turlough'', son of Donough", son of Conor O'Brien, after 
having been a long time engaged in plundering, was taken in the country of the 
Butlers, and executed by advice of the Earl of Ormond. 

executed at Cork, it looks very likely that he O'Brien, third Earl of Thomond, and was 

was taken at Coill-mhor, a celebrated haunt of hanged in 1581. 

insurgents, near Charleville, in the north of the '' Donough. — He was the second Earl of Tho- 

county of Cork.-^See it already mentioned at mond. This Earl Donough left three sons, 

the years 1579, 1580, 1581, 1582. viz., Conor, his successor; Turlough, who was 

^November Term, i.e. Michaelmas Term, as it hanged in 1581; and Teige, who, according to 

is called by the lawyers. Duald Mac Firbis, had three celebrated sons, 

^ Turlough. — He was the brother of Conor viz., 1, Col. Dermot, surnamed the good; 2, 



2006 aHNQca Rio^hachca eiReaww. [I597. 

Uaicne, mac Pubpai^e oicc, mic PuDpaije caofc, rmc conuill uf niopba do 
bfich ina Duine uafol hi ccfpoaib coccai6 an can y^a, -] laoigip t)o lfi|ipcc|iiop 
laiy^ ecip lor, apbap, -\ aiciuccao co nd baof ennf ifin cfp o ^lap gfca no 
bdouin amac nach baof pop a cuniap. l?o mapbab Dna laip t)uine uapal t)o 
S}ia;cancoib bai hi ppdobaile laoigipi aga paibe blab iriop Don cfp a huj- 
Dappdp an ppionnpa j. Copbi mac mai^ifcip ppauup a amm. 

Clann emainn an calaiD, mic Semaip, mic piapaip puaiD mic Semuip, mic 
emainn mic RipDfipD buinlep Do Dol pop po^ail beop cpe lomrnuc le hiapla 
iipmuman, 1 a nacaip emann an calaiD do ^abail cpe na ccionuaibpiDe. 

Gmann, mac RipDfipD, mic piapaip puaiD Do ^abail map an cceDna. 

piacha mac Qoba, mic Sfam o ^lionn maoflujpa do bfic aj milleab laijfn 
"] mi6e an can pa. 

aOlS CRIOSU, 1597. 
Goip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceD, nochac, a peachc. 

Ua Dorhnaill CtoD piiaD, mac Qoba, mic TTla^napa do bfic 1 ppoplonjpopc 
1 mbpeipne connacc ppi pliab Da en anoip on can po hoipccfb painmuincip 

Turlough, who attended the Parliament held at was refused. On the 19th of May, Cosby, hear- 

Dublin in 1585 ; and 3, Col. Murtough O'Brien, ing that the O'Mores were on the march, headed 

who was living in 1664. The Editor is of opi- his kerne, and proceeded to defend the bridge, 

nion that this Col. Murtough was the father of taking with him his eldest son, Francis, who 

Donnell Spaineach, the ancestor of Terence was married a year before to Helena Harpole, of 

O'Brien of Glencolumbkille, notwithstanding Shrule, by whom he had a son, WilKam, born 

the evidence of the manuscript pedigree already but nine weeks before this fatal battle of the 

quoted at p. 1834, A. D. 1585. bridge. Dorcas Sydney (for she would never 

"^ A gentleman of the English. — This was Alex- allow herself to be called Cosby), and her 

ander, third son of Francis Cosby. Francis, daughter-in-law, placed themselves at a window 

Alexander's eldest son, was also slain on this of the abbey, to see the fight, and for some time 

occasion. — See note ^ under the year 1580, beheld their husbands bravely maintaining their 

p. 1739, supra. Mr. Hardiman has given the ground. At length Alexander Cosby, as he was 

following account of the conflict betAveenOweny pressing forward, was shot, and dropped down 

O'More and the Cosbies, from an original MS. dead. Upon this his kerne, with melancholy 

which belonged to the late Admiral Cosby : and mournful outcries, began to give way ; and 

" In the year 1 596, Owny Mac Rory O'More," Francis Cosby, the son, apprehensive of being 

[ex •] " Chieftain of Leix, demanded a passage for abandoned, endeavoured to save himself by leap- 

his men over Stradbally bridge, and the request, ing over the bridge, but the moment he cleared 

being considered as a formal challenge to fight, the battlements he was also shot, and fell dead 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2007 

Owny, son of Rury Oge, son of Rury Caech, son of Connell O'More, was at 
this time a gentleman [skilled] in the arts of war ; and Leix was totally ravaged 
by him, both its crops, corn, and dwellings, so that there was nothing in the 
territory outside the lock of a gate or a bawn which was not in his power. He 
slew a gentleman of the English^ who was [seated] at Stradbally-Leix, who 
possessed a large portion** of the territory by authority of the Sovereign, namely, 
[Alexander] Cosby, the son of Master Frauus^ 

The sons of Edmond of Caladh, son of James, son of Pierce Roe, son of 
James, son of Edmond, son of Richard Butler, also turned out to plunder, in 
consequence of their animosity towards the Earl of Ormond ; and their father, 
Edmond of Caladh, was taken prisoner for their crimes. 

Edmond, the son of Richard, son of Pierce Roe [Butler], was also taken 
prisoner. 

At this time Fiagh, the son of Hugh, son of John [O'Byrne], from Glen- 
malure, was plundering Leinster and Meath^. 

THE AGE OF CHRIST, 1597. 

The Age of Christ, one thousand five hundred ninety-seven. 

O'Donnell (Hugh Roe, the son of Hugh, son of Manus) encamped in Breifny 
of Connaught^, to the east of Sliabh-da-en, after having plundered, as we have 

into the river, &c. &c. The feuds between the Cosby family in its possessions." — Irish Min- 

O'Mores and Cosbies still raged with violence, strelsy, vol. ii. p. 165. 

The infant" [William] " having died, Kichard ^ A large portion The Cosby Manuscript, 

Cosby succeeded to the estate, and became leader quoted by Mr. Hardiman, states that the Cosbys 

of the kerne. Eager to revenge the deaths of at one time possessed half the Queen's County, 

his father and brother, he challenged the O'Mores and a township over. 

to fight a pitched battle. They met in 1606, in * Master Frauus, TTlaijipcip Ppauj, — This is 

the glen of Aghnahely, under the rock of Duna- a mere error of transcription, for " Hlaisipcip 

niase, and the engagement was the most bloody ppancip." 

ever fought between these rivals. After a long ^ Meath. — P. O'Sullevan Beare gives an ac- 

and doubtful conflict, fortune declared in favour count of several engagements which took place 

of Cosby. The O'Mores were defeated, with about this period between O'Neill and the Eng- 

considerable loss, and seventeen of the principal lish, in the neighbourhood of Armagh, but 

of the clan lay dead on the field. The revolu- without any minute chronology. 

tions of the seventeenth century completed the ^ Breifny of Connaught, i.e. Breifny O'Rourke, 

destruction of the O'Mores, but confirmed the or the present county of Leitrim, so called to 



2008 QMNa^a Rio^bachca eiReawN. [1597- 

HI concobaip laip aiiiail |iemebe|irma]i. Ro baipoe 05 epnai^e a jwiiaicce, 
-] a roicliei^ral do bjifir paip ap gac aijini 1 mbdcuap -] lap ccecclamab Doib 
Dm i^aijiD 1 nDfipeaDlanua]ii} apfeab lorcap 1 rcpioca ceD ua noilella,ap]^aiDe 
Don conann, c]ie rhacaipe connacc, hi ccloinn comnai^h hi ccpicli niaine. lap 
rcocc 00 1 iifiDijimfDon Ua maine po Ificc pcceirheira yxpiobluara uaD pa 
riiair an calaiD, 1 pa uaccap na ripe,-) Do bepcpac bo rainre loniDa, -| cpfca 
coiiiaiDble leo In ccoinne 111 DoiiinaiU 50 baile dca an pio^,-] ^e po pobaippioc 
an bapoa an baile Do bapoacc nip bo copba Doib an nnnpcc fecal uaip po 
cuippioc mumnp ui boriinaill reinnre 1 rfnDala ppi Doippib Daingfn noiinra 
an baile, 1 niccpac DpfiniipfDa Diorhopa Dia paicciD, "] po cmppioc ppip na 
mupaib lao 50 nufclipac pop caiblib an liniip. Ro bn^i^ioc lapaiii do na 
caiblib 50 mbarap pop ppaiDibli an baile,-] po epplaicpioc na Doippi Don luce 
bacap imui^. Jabaicr lapaiti pop rojail na ccijCb ccaipccfba, -] na cce^Dap 
ppoipiara co piiccpac eiprib ina mbaoi inDib Dionnmapaib, ~\ DeDalaib. 
Qipipic in aDhaij pm ij^in mbaile hi pin. Nip bo y^oDaing pioiii no aipfrh ina 
piiccaD Durha, "] Diapann DeDach -| DupaDh ap in inbaile pm ap na mapach. 6a 
hap an mbaile ceDna pin po Ificc pccfiiiiealra ua6 Dapccain cloinne piocaipD 
ap 5ach raob Dabainn. Po leipcpeachab, 1 po laininDpeaD lap na pceitiel- 
roibh ]^in o Ifrhpdir 50 mat; pfncomlab. Ro loipcceab, "] po lomaipcceao lap 
an ccuiD eile Di'b 6 baile [ara] an piojij -| 6 pair ^oippgi'n piap 50 pinn mil, 50 
mfbpaibe, -\ 50 Dopup na ^aiUrhe. Ro loipcceab leo rf^h bpighoe 1 nDopiip 
ppa^ppi na jaillriie. Do ponab popab, "] pdplonjpopc la hiia nDomnaill co 
na plojaib in aDhai^ pm eriji uapdn mop ~\ ^aiUirh a^ cloich an linpijh ^o 

tlistinguisli it from Breifny O'Reilly, or the ' Rath-Goiri'gin, i. e. tlie Eath of Goirrgiu, 
present county of Cavan, which was at this pe- one of the chiefs of the Firbolgs, who flourished 
riod a part of Ulster. here in the first century. It was anciently 
^ Caladh, now Callow, a district comprised called Aileach Goirrgin. The name Rath Goirr- 
principally in the barony of Kilconnell, in the ginn is still retained, and is anglicised Rath- 
county of Galway. — See map to Tribes aiid Cus- gorgon, which is applied to a townland in the 
toms ofll^-Mani/. parish of Kilconerin, barony of Athenry, arid 
' Leathrath, now Laragh, a townland contain- county of Galway. It contains a moat, which 
ing the ruins of a castle in the parish of Kilimor- was originally surrounded with a fosse, and the 
Daly, and about six miles north-east of the ruins of a castle of considerable extent, 
town of Athenry, in the county of Galway. ™ Binn-Mil, i. e. the point or promontory of 
^ Magh-Sca)ichomhladh, i. e. the Plain of the Mil, one of the Firbolgic tribe called Clann- 
old Gate. This name is now obsolete, Uathmoir. The name is now pronounced in 



15971 ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2009 

said before, the faithful people of O'Conor. He was awaiting [the arrival of] 
his forces and muster from every quarter where they were ; and when they 
had all assembled, which was at the end of the month of January, they marched 
into the territory of Tirerrill, from thence into Corran, through Machaire-Chon- 
nacht, and into Clann-Conway and Hy-Many. Having reached the very centre 
of Hy-Many, he sent forth swift-moving marauding parties through the district 
of Caladh'', and the upper part of the territory ; and they carried off many herds 
of cows and other preys to O'Donnell, to the town of Athenry ; and though the 
warders of the town attempted to defend it, the effort was of no avail to them, 
for O'Donnell's people applied fires and flames to the strongly-closed gates of 
the town, and carried to them great ladders, and, placing them against the 
walls, they [recte, some of them] ascended to the parapets of the wall. They 
then leaped from the parapets, and gained the streets of the town, and opened 
the gates for those who were outside. They [all] then proceeded to demolish 
the storehouses and the strong habitations ; and they carried away all the goods 
and valuables that were in them. They remained that night in the town. It 
was not easy to enumerate or reckon the quantities of copper, iron, clothes, 
and habiliments, which they carried away from the town on the following day. 
From the same town he sent forth marauding parties to plunder Clanrickard, 
on both sides of the river ; and these marauders totally plundered and ravaged 
[the tract of country] from Leathrath' to Magh-Seanchomhladh". The remaining 
part of his army burned and ravaged [the territory], from the town of Athenry 
and Rath-Goirrgin' westwards to Rinn-Mil"* and Meadhraige", and to the gates 
of Galway, and burned Teagh-Brighde°, at the military gate of Galway. 
O'Donnell pitched his camp for that night between Uaran-mor" and Galway, 

Irish Rinn mil, and anglicised Rinvile. It is a p. 42. 

townland in the parish of Oranmore, not far from ° Teagh-Brighde, i.e. St. Bridget's house. This, 

the town of Galway; and there is a castle in which was otherwise called St. Bridget's Hos- 

ruins in the western part of this townland, said pital, was situated on the east side of the town 

to have belonged to the family of Athy. of Galway. It was built by the Corporation in 

" Meadhraighe, now anglice Maaree, a penin- 1542. — See Chorographical Description of lar- 

sula extending about five miles into the bay of Connaught, p. 40. 

Galway, to the south of the town. It is exactly p Uaran-mor, i.e. the great well, or cold 

coextensive with the parish of Ballynacourty. — spring, now Oranmore, a considerable village, 

See map to Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, and situated at the head of one of the arms into 

Chorographical Description of lar- Connaught, which the upper end of the bay of Galway 

IIz 



2010 awwa^a Rio^hachca eiReaww. [1597. 

y'onnpa6. Do rafo 6 Dorhnaill ap na rhapach 50 mainipcip an cnuic 1 noopup 
na gaillnie, "] po bai lomairijiD ua6 50 luce an baile a^ cuingiD cpfice "| 
cfnnaijhecca a neppa6 neccparhail, 1 a neD^ao nuapal pop apaill Do na 
cpfchaib. QppeaD po chinn laparh y6t> cap a aip, -] miinbab rpoma na 
ccionol cpeacli, lomau na naipccneab, "] aioble na heoala po bab 0015 na 
hanpab Don pfim pin 50 ^opc innpi guaipe hi ccenel aoba na becrge. Cuib 
ua Dorhnaill co na plo^aib "] co na ccpeacaib leo rpe cCpclap coiccib connacc 
hi pppicinj na conaipe ceDna, "] nf po aipip 50 po ^ab lon^popc hi ccalpaije 
ppi Slicceach anoip, -] po paoib a ^lollanpaib, ~[ a aep Dfaipin Id apaill Dia 
cpeachaib cap Saniaoip bab cuaib. 

Oala ui concobaip plicci^ (Donnchab mac cacailoicc) po cfcclamab plo^ 
Idn liiop laip Do ^allaib "| do ^aoibelaib ^ap bfcc lap ppeil bpi^De do cocc 
50 Slicceach. 

O Dorhnaill cpa bafpi6e hi ccalpaije (arhail pemebepcmap) hi ppoicill 
poppa 1 DO bfpc amnriup pop ploj uf concobaip pia piu pan^acap 50 Slicceach. 
Ni po hanab ppippibe iDip, accnnab uacab cappcap do beipeab an cploi^ 
a^ cpai^ neocuile, joncap, bdiccfp laDpaibe. l?o mapbab ann mac rheic 
uilliam bupc .i. mac T^ipDfipD mac oiluepaip, mic Sfain, -| Dpong oile nac 
aipirhrfp cenmoraporh. Oo cafo ua concobaip pop ccula, "] nip bo plan laip 
a mCnma im coibecc an cupap pm. Udnaic cpd Ua Dorhnaill Dia ci^h, "| po 
Ificc pccaoileab Dia ploijaibh do leccab a pccipi Daicle a naipcip imchfin. 
1 po paccaib a arhpa ^ a aep cuapupcail 1 ccoicceab connachc 1 nuppaicill 
coccaib uf concobaip 1 na njall baccap laip, "i mall ^apb mac cuinn, mic an 
calbaiT^ uf Dorhnaill 1 ccoipi^ecc poppa. l?o i^abpac pein pop inDpeab -] 
aibrhilleab na ngaoibelcuac po fipgCccap i ccommbaib uf concobaip "] na 
n^all 50 ccapDpac pop ccula Do pibipi Dpon^ rhop bib im TTlhac Diapmaca 
Concobap coipech mai^e luipcc, 1 puccab eipibe do pai^ib uf Domhnaill 50 
nDfpna a rhuincfpup ppip an Dapa pecc,i co ccapac a piap Do. Oo ponpar 

branches. On the shore of the bay are the ruius the Hill, or Knock Abbey, 

of Oranmore castle, erected by the Earls of Clan- ^ Gort-insi-Guaire, i.e. the town of Gort, in 

rickard, now attached to the residence of Mr. the territory of Kinelea-of-Slieve Aughtee, or 

Blake. O'Shaughnessy's country See it already men- 

■^ Cloch-an-Lincjsigh, i. e. Lynch's stone, or tioned at the years 1571, 1573. 

stone house, or castle. This name is now obsolete. ' Calry, a parish in the barony of Carbury, 

^ Mainistir-an-chnuic, i. e. the Monastery of lying between Glencar and Lough Gill, to the 



1597.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2011 

precisely at Cloch-an-Lingsigh". On the following day O'Donnell proceeded 
to Mainistir-an-chnuic", at the gate of Gal way, and communicated with the inha- 
bitants of the town, requesting traffic and sale of their various wares and rich 
raiment for some of the preys. He then resolved upon returning back; and were 
it not for the burden of the collected preys, the multiplicity of the plunders, and 
the vastness of the spoil, it is certain that he would have not stopped on that route 
until he had gone to Gortinnsi-Guaire* in Kinel-Aedha-na-hEchtge. O'Donnell, 
with his forces and their preys, returned by the same road, through the very mid- 
dle of the province of Connaught, and never halted until he pitched his camp in 
Calry\ to the east of Sligo; and he sent his calones and the unarmed part of his 
people to convey some of the preys northward, across the Eiver Samhaoir", 

As for O'Conor Sligo (Donough, the son of Cathal Oge), he mustered a 
numerous army of English and Irish troops, a short time after the festival of 
St. Bridget, to march to Sligo. 

O'Donnell, as we have already mentioned, was in Calry, in readiness to meet 
them ; and he made an attack upon the army of O'Conor before they could 
reach Sligo. None of O'Conor's army waited to resist him, excepting a few in 
the rear, who were overtaken at Traigh-Eothaile. These were wounded or 
drowned ; and the son of Mac Wilham Burke, namely, the son of Eichard, son 
of Oliver, son of John, and many others not enumerated, were slain. O'Conor 
returned back ; and he was not happy in his mind for having gone on that 
expedition. O'Donnell also returned home, and dismissed his tribes, that they 
might rest themselves after their long expedition ; and he left his soldiers and 
hirelings in Connaught, under the command of Niall Garv, the son of Con, son 
of Calvagh O'Donnell, to carry on war against O'Conor and the English people 
who were along with him. These proceeded to plunder and destroy the Irish 
tribes who had risen up in confederacy with O'Conor and the English ; so that 
they won over a great number of them [to the Irish side] again, and, among 
others, Mac Dermot (Conor), Chief of Moylurg, who was brought before 
O'Donnell, and formed a league of friendship with him a second time, and gave 

east of the tOAvn of Sligo, This district was See Keating's Hist, of Ireland, Haliday's edition, 

anciently called Calraighe Laithlm See map p. 168 ; and O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part iii. c. 3. 

to Genealogies, Tribes, ^c, of Hy-Fiachraclu "^ The festival of St. Bridget.— This falls on the 

" Samhaoir^ an old name of the Kiver Erne. — 1 st of February. 

11 z2 



2012 aHNQ^a i^io^hachca eiReawN. [1597. 

co{p5 na rcuar bdoap pjii coiyipi'liab a ruaib an cceona, -\ Do paccfac a 
ngeill, 1 a naircipe oUa oorhnaiU. 

Ceirpe baipille, i pechr ppicic baipille puDaip Do cecc on mbainpiogain 

50 bar cliac bi mi mapra do paijiD a muinnripe. lap ccop an piiDaip bi 

rcfp po raippngfo e co ppdio an pfona co mbaof uile in aen lonaDb ap jac 

caeb Don rppaiD, "j Do DeacbaiD aoibel cfinfD ipin bpuDap. Ni pfp cpa an 

DO nirh, pd a calmain rainjc an Splangc bfpin, ace cfna po rheabaiD na baipil- 

leDa ina naen bpeo lappac -] luarhainrfinfD an 13 Do rhdpra do ponnpaD, co 

po coccbab cuipce doc,'"] curnDai^ue cpoinn na ppdicce Da pporaib piilain^, 

1 Da bpopDaDbaib con^mala ip in aep foapbuap co mbfoD an rpail pforpoDa, 

"] an cloc cian uuini^re, "] an Duine ina eccopcc coppapDa pop poUiamain 

ipin aep op cfnD an baile la cuinnpiurh an rpen puDaip conac eiDi]i piorh, 

aipfrh, no aipnfip an po milleab Do Daoinib onopca, Daep gacba cfipDe, Do 

mnaib, do rhaijDfnaib, do clannaib Daoi'ne uapalciccfb ap gacb aipD Deipinn 

DO Denam pojlama Don cacpaij;. Nip bo Darhna eccaoine an po inilleaD 

Dop, no Daipgfcc, no do porhaoine pao^alca in aiupeccbab in po inilleab -] m 

po miibai^beab Do Daoinib lap an copainnclfp pm. Nip bo bf an cppdiD pin 

arhain po Dioraiccbeab Don cup pin, ace an cfrpaime pa nfpa Di Don caqiaigb 

ceDna. 

Ua concobaip Oonncbab mac carail oicc do cfngal caipDf|"a, -| capacc- 
pab ecip a cliaifiain (mac inec uilliam bupc) .1. repoicc na long mac l?ip- 
DfipD an lapainn, mic oduiD, mic Gmamn, 1 gobepnoip coiccib connacc .1. Sip 
Conepp clipopc. lap nDenam a ccoDai^ pe poile Doib do cappaing cepoiru 
an gobepnoip 1 bannaba coiccib connacc 1 crfp amal^aba, ~\ bi pann rheic 
iiilliam 50 po barcuipfDb, -] 50 po bionnapbab leo TTlac uilliam (cepoirr mac 
uaceip ciocai^ mic Sfain, mic oiliiepaip) app a arapba bi ccfnD 111 borhnaill. 
Ro lomab -| po IfippccpiopaD leo ^ac aen ppip a mbaoi a pann "] a capaucpab 
ipin cfp Dia eip. l?o ^ab an rip Don cup pin la cepoicr na long"] lap an 

'' Wine-street, now Winetavern- street. Harris the city." — History of the City of Dublin, p. 321. 

notices the ignition of this powder, tinder the ^ Placed on both sides of the street, literally, 

year 1596, thus : " After the putting of the powder to land, it 

" A. D. 1596. A great quantity of gunpowder was drawn to the street of the wine, so that it 

being landed at the Wood-quay, to be conveyed was all in one place on both sides of the street." 

to the Castle of Dublin, by accident took fire on ' To G'Donnell This is a strange idiom. The 

the 11th of March, and did great damage to meaning is that they expelled him from his ter- 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2013 

him due submission. The chiefs of the territories bordering on the Curlieu 
Mountains did the same, and delivered up their hostages and securities to 
O'Donnell. 

One hundred and forty-four barrels of powder were sent by the Queen tu 
Dublin, to her people, in the month of March. When the powder was landed, 
it was drawn to Wine-street'', and placed on both sides of the street^, and a spark 
of fire got into the powder ; but from whence that spark proceeded, whether 
from the heavens or from the earth beneath, is not known ; howbeit, the barrels 
burst into one blazing flame and rapid conflagration (on the 13th of March), 
Avhich raised into the air, from their solid foundations and supporting posts, the 
stone mansions and wooden houses of the street, so that the long beam, the 
enormous stone, and the man in his corporal shape, were sent whirling into the 
air over the town by the explosion of this powerful powder ; and it is impos- 
sible to enumerate, reckon, or describe the number of honourable persons, of 
tradesmen of every class, of women and maidens, and of the sons of gentlemen, 
who had come from all parts of Ireland to be educated in the city, that were 
destroyed. The quantity of gold, silver, or worldly property, that was destroyed, 
was no cause of lamentation, compared to the number of people who were in- 
jured and killed by that explosion. It was not Wine-street alone that was 
destroyed on this occasion, but the next quarter of the town to it. 

O'Conor (Donough, the son of Cathal Oge) estabhshed friendship and con- 
cord between his brother-in-law (the son of Mac WilHam Burke), i. e. Theobald- 
na-Long, the son of Richard-an-Iarainn, son of David, son of Edmond, and the 
Governor of the province of Connaught, i. e. Sir Conyers Clifibrd. After their 
reconciliation Theobald drew the Governor and the companies of the province 
of Connaught into Tirawley, and into Mac William's country, and expelled and 
banished Mac William (Theobald, the son of Walter Kittagh, son of John, son 
of Oliver) from his patrimony, to O'DonnelP ; they despoiled and totally plun- 
dered all those who remained in confederation and friendship with him in the 
territory. The country [generally], on this occasion, adhered to^ Theobald-na- 

ritory, leaving it optional with him to go wher- '"^Adhered to. — Ro jab an cip, &c., la cepoicc, 

ever he wished ; but that he fled to his friend literally, " the country on this occasion took 

O'Donnell, as the person most likely to shelter with Theobald of the Ships, and with the Go- 

him, and assist him to recover his patrimony. vernor." This idiom is still in common use. as : 



2014 awNaca Rio^hachca eiReaww. [1597. 

njobeiinoip. lompaif an jobepnoiji lap pin 50 baile ara luain, -\ \\o pccaoil- 
pioc na banoai^i ap a ngaipipionaib. 6a ooaipnfip a puccpac oaipccmB i 
oeDalaib a pann rheic uilliam an can pin. 

Dala rheic iiilliam lap ccocc Doporh co haipm i mboi 6 DorhnaiU oacaoine 
a imnib ppip po aipip ma pocliaip co mi mfooin parhpai6. Do ^nf O noninaill 
laparn pl6iccea6 hi ccoicceab connacc oo con^narh la TTIac uilliam, -\ painic 
cap muaio iia naifialgaDa gan nac noo^pam^. Ni curhjacap (no caerhnac- 
cacap) an cfp ppicbeapc ppip 50 po ^ab a n5ialla,-] a naiccipe, "] 00 beapc 
porn na bpai^De ipin t)o TTIhac uilliam, "] pdccbaip an cpioc pa urhla Do. 
"1 poppdccaib T^uOpai^e Ua DOTYinaill a bfpbpacaip bubfipm canaipi ceneoil 
cconaill ina pappab t)ia nfpca6 1 na^aiD a narnacc 50 plo^ mop Dia milf6aib 
cpoi^ceac, 1 Oia ampoib amaille ppipp. lompaiDip Ua oomnaill ina ppirin^ 
Dia cip. 

l?o cionoil Ua concobaip "] cepoicc na lon^ plo^ mop t)o ^allaib, "] t)o 
7jaoi6elaib lap ppaccbail na cfpe t)Ua DOTTinaill Do Dio^ail a naincpiDe pop 
miiac uilliam "] po lonnapbpac TTIac uilliam an Dapa peace, "] RuDpai^e Don 
cup pin ap m cfp ap ni pabacappiDe coirhlion Daoine ppiu. 6d pi coitiaiple 
appicc la T^uDpai^e "] la TTIac uilliam ma mbaoi ma ccompocpaib Do cpoD "| 
Dinnile an cipe co na naiccpeabcachaib, "] co na muinncfpaib Do cop pfmpa 
cap muaiD ua namalgaDa, "| cpe cfp piacpac rhuaibe Do cocc po mdrhup 
uf Dorhnaill 50 pan^accap pliab 5am pia naDhai^, "] gabaicc ace apccnarh 
rpiap an pliabh poD na lioiDhche. 

Imcupa an ^oibepnopa 6 po cuip piurh ua concobaip,"] cfpoicc na lon^ co 
na plojaib Do Diocup meic uilliam ap an cfp, T?o cf^laimpiDe lion a poc- 
paicce pop cmD TTIeic uilliam "] T^ubpaije ipin conaip na po cumamgpioc Do 
peachna no Diom^abail. Ropcap laD bacap do paopclanDaib 1 ppappab an 
^oibepnopa an can pin .1. Uillfcc mac T?iocaipD Shaccpanai^, mic uillicc na 
ccfnD, lapla cloinne T^iocaipD co na mac RiocapD bapun Dume coillfn eipiDe, 
OonnchaD mac concobaip, mic DonnchaiD ui bpiain lapla cuaDmuman, ~\ 
TTlupchaD mac TTlupchaiD mic Diapmaca uf bpiain bapun innpi ui cuinn 50 

"cuip uaic 00 Ifnan -\ jab le d' ceao mnaoi: ^ Eqtial to their^s, i. e. Mac William and Eury 

Put away thy concubine, and take with thy O'Donnell had not forces sufficient to contend 

first wife." — See the Editor's Irish Grammar, with those of Theobald of the Ships and the 

part ii. c. viii. p. 310. Governor. 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2015 

Long and the Governor. The Governor then returned to Athlone, and the 
companies of soldiers were distributed among the garrisons. The preys and 
spoils taken from Mac William's people on this occasion were indescribable. 

As for Mac William, when he went to O'Donnell to complain to him of his 
sufferings, he remained with him until the middle month of summer. O'Don- 
nell then made a hosting into the province of Connaught to assist Mac William, 
and he crossed the Moy into Tirawley without meeting any danger ; and the 
country was not able to oppose him, so that he seized their hostages and pledges; 
and he delivered up these hostages, and left the country in obedience to him ; 
and he left Rury O'Donnell, his own brother, Tanist of Tirconnell, with him, 
to strengthen him against his enemies, a great number of foot-soldiers, and other 
troops. O'Donnell [then] returned back to his own country. 

When O'Donnell left the country, O'Conor and Theobald-na-Long mustered 
a great army of English and Irish, in order to wreak their vengeance on Mac 
William ; and they banished him a second time, and Rury along with him, on 
that occasion, from the territory, for they had not a number of men equal to 
their's". The resolution then adopted by Rury and Mac William was to send 
all the property and cattle of the territory in their vicinity, together with the 
inhabitants and families, before them, across the Moy of Tirawley, and through 
Tireragh of the Moy, to come under the jurisdiction of O'Donnell. [This they 
did], and they arrived before nightfall at Sliabh-Gamh, and during the whole 
night they continued crossing the mountain. 

As for the Governor, as soon as he had sent O'Conor and Theobald-na- 
Long to banish Mac William from the territory, he mustered all his forces, to 
meet Mac William and Rury on a road which they could not shun or avoid. 
The noblemen who attended the Governor on this expedition were these : 
Ulick, the son of Rickard Saxonagh, son of Ulick-na-gCeann, Earl of Clan- 
rickard, with his son, Rickard, Baron of Dun-Coillin*"; Donough, the son of 
Conor, son of Donough O'Brien, Earl of Thomond ; Murrough, the son of 
Murrough, son of Dermot, Baron of Inchiquin ; and many other distinguished 

•= Dun-Coillin, now DunkeUin, in the parish or chair, called Clanrickard's chair, which is 

of Killeely, which gave name to the barony of believed to be the place where the Mac William 

Dunkellin, in the county of Galway. Not far Oughter was inaugurated, before he became 

from this castle is a hill with a ru.de stone seat. Earl of Clanrickard. 



2016 



awHaca nio^hachca eiReawH. 



[1597. 



pocliai6]b oile t)o bajDaoinib cenmordr. ba hann oo jiala t)on ^oibepnoip 
bfic an aobai j; pn hi ccaif leu cuile maofle pil pop abainn moip ppi pliab garh 
aniap [rede anoip], "] ppi pbab od en anoip [recte aniap] co ccoicc ceo t)ecc 
laoc t)o gleipe ^aipccfoach ina pocaip ann. 6a conaip coiccfnn nap bo po6- 
amj DO peachna an rhai^fn i mbaoi piurh. Qc cuap oo Pubpai^e ua Dorhnaill 
"j Do mac uilliam an ^obepnoip Da bfir pfmpa pop an cconoip na po peDpar 
DO pecna. Qp paip po cbinnpior 6 pan^acap pia maiDm i n^appoccup Don 
caiplen, a ccfrpa, a ninnile, a ngiollanpaiD, ~\ a naepDiaipm Do le^ab uara i 
plij^iD ba binnille indp an conaip in po baD nafnmapc leo bubfin do T^abail, Ob 
imcbian on caiplen, -] laD buDfipin do Diil cap an abainn ^an pacuccaD hi 
ccorhpocpaib an caipceoill 6 nac pabpac coirhlion ploi^ ppi a mbioDbabaib. 
Do coDap porn upa jan aipiuccab jan popcloipcecc cap an abamn 50 mba- 
cap Don caob apaill. QnDap leo porn cfna do pi^enpac anacal 1 imDf^ail 
Dia ccfcbpaib 1 Dia n^iollanpaiD, Nip bo barrilaiD capla DoibpiDe icip uaip 
po clop buipeaD beiceaD na mbo cainceaD, "| na nanmann neicciallaiD, "| 
po^upnuall aopa a niomdna ipin nriuicDeDoil. Oo Ificcfc mapcploig an 501b- 
epnopa ina nDpon^aib -] ina nDi'opmaib po corh^dip na ccfcpa Dup an ccaip- 
picnp laD. Puccpacc Din pop moilib lomDaib, ~\ do beacbaib in ]io baD moo 
uaDaib Diob. l?o mapbaD Dpong rfiop Do na gillib ~\ Daop na hiomdna. ba 
Don cup pin DO mapbaD TTlaolmuipe mac ConuIaD meic an baipD paof pipDana 
po bai ap rhaicib a ceneoil buDfin. Nf po peDpac a miiinncip buDfipin anacal 
Do cabaipc DoibpiDe la hiomac an cploij do pala pop a nioncaib. 5a mela 
mop lap an ngobepnoip a nDol peaca pepiu cappaiD 5pfim poppa. Uia^aic 
na jaoiDil app arhlaiD co panjacap capp an eipne buD cuaiD. Soaip an jobep- 
noip ina ppicinj, -] ni'p bo pldn laip a rhfnma 6 Do fpndipfc a nairiiDe uaba lap 
na ppa^bail in uacbaD arhlaiD pin. 

piacha mac Qoba mic Sfain o jlfnD TTlliaoilugpa Do cuicim lap ccap- 



•^ Abhainn-mhor, i. e. the Great River, now 
angliceAyomnoxQ, a river which rises in Temple- 
house lake, and joins the Coolany river between 
Collooney and Ballysadare. 

* Sliabh Gamh and Sliabh-da-en. — These are 
mountains in the county of Sligo. The gap be- 
tween them, in which the little town of Col- 
looney stands, was anciently called Bearnas-mor 



Tire hOilella, i. e. tlie great gap of Tirerrill — 
See map to Genealogies, ^c, of Hy-Fiachrach. 

^ This was not the case, literally, " Not thus 
it happened to them indeed." 

8 Of the irrational animals, na nanmann neic- 
ciallaib. This would be written na n-amrhi6e 
n-ejcialloa, according to the modern system of 
orthography. The prefix i, when negative. 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2017 

men besides them. The Governor lay on the first night in the castle of Cul- 
Maoile [Collooney], which is situated on the Abhainn-mhor'*, to the east of 
SKabh Gamh^ and to the west of Sliabh dd-en, having fifteen hundred select 
warriors alono- with him there. This place where he remained was a general 
passage, and it was not easy to avoid it. Rury O'Donnell and Mac William 
were informed that the Governor was before them upon a road by which they 
could not avoid [passing]. And when before morning they had arrived at a 
place very near the castle, they resolved on sending off" their herds and flocks, 
their calones, and the unarmed portion of their forces, by a way at a great dis- 
tance from the castle, and more secure than that by which they themselves 
intended to proceed, whilst they themselves should cross the river without 
being noticed, at a short distance from the castle, as they had not a force equal 
to that of the enemy. They crossed the river [accordingly] unnoticed and 
unheard, and landed in safety at the other side ; and they thought that they 
had ensured the safety and protection of their cattle and attendants ; but this 
was not the case^ for the loud lowing of the herds of kine and irrational 
animals^, and the shouts of their drivers, were heard early in the morning from 
the castle ; and the Governor's cavalry set out in troops and squadrons in the 
direction of the lowing of the cattle, to see if they could take them. They 
seized upon a great number of cattle, but the greater part of them escaped 
from them. A great number of the servants and drivers were killed. It was 
on this occasion also that Mulmurry, the son of Cu-Uladh Mac Ward, a learned 
poet, and one of the most distinguished men of his own tribe, was killed. Their 
own people were not able to protect them, in consequence of the great numbers 
that were opposed to them. It was great annoyance to the Governor that they 
should have passed him by before he could lay hold of them. The Irish thus 
made their way northwards across the Erne. The Governor returned back ; 
and he was much dejected because his enemies had thus escaped from him. 
Fiagh, son of Hugh", son of John [O'Byrne] from Glenmalure, was slain 

eclispes the consonant to which it is prefixed, warlike and powerful man of his name since the 

^ Fiagh, son of Hugh He was chief of that death of Dunlang, the son of Edmond, who was 

sept of the O'Byrnes called Gaval-Rannall, and the last inaugurated O'Byrne — See note ', under 

had his residence at Ballinacor, in Glenmalure, the year 1580, p. 1746, supra. There are several 

in the county of Wicklow. Though not the poems on his battles and victories preserved in 

chief of the O'Byrnes he was by far the most the Leabhar Branach, or Book of the O'Byrnes, 

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awHaca Rio^hachca eiReawH. 



[1597 



]iair)5 ceilcce oa comb|iarai|i paiji ayi pupdilfrh apD nipcfp na liepeann Sip 
uilliam Ruppel ipin cfiD mi no parhpab na blia6na po. 



preserved in the Library of Trinity College, 
Dublin, H. 1. 14, from one of which it would 
appear that all the O'Byrnes acknowledged him 
as their leader, if not chief ; but it is quite evi- 
dent that some of the senior branches of the 
O'Byrnes were very jealous of his greatness, and 
that this led to his betrayal and death is but 
too evident from these poems, and all contempo- 
raneous authorities. P. O'Sullevan Beare briefly 
alludes to his betrayal in his Hist. Cathol. Iber., 
tom. 3, lib. 3, c. x. fol. 145 : 

" lam me Lageniorum res vocant, qui tametsi 
paruis viribus, magna tamen constantia, & vir- 
tute pro Catholica religione manum conserue- 
runt. Postquam Fiachus Obruin vir strenuus, 
& Hsereticorum hostis acerrimus fuit per prodi- 
tionem extinctus, eius filij Felmius, & Raymun- 
dus arma a patre mota non omiserunt. Dum 
Raymundus in Lagenia tumultus in HEcreticum 
excitatos ducit, Felmius in Vltoniam adOnellum 
conteudit auxilium petitum." 

There is a curious poem in the Leabhar Bra- 
nach, fol. 110, p. a., on the death of Fiagh, in 
which the writer states that he saw his body 
t|uartered and his head spiked on a tower in 
Dublin, — a sight which pierced his heart with 
anguish. 

I. Fiagh O'Byrne left three sons, namely: 1, 
Felim, who was M. P. for the county of Wicklow 
in 1613, and who was living in 1629. 2, Red- 
mond, or Raymond, of Killaveny, J. P. in the 
county of Wicklow in 1625, the ruins of Avhose 
castle are still to be seen, and are shewn on the 
Ordnance map as " Raymond's Castle." This 
Redmond had three sons : Felim of Killaveny ; 
Feagh of Kilcloghran, proclaimed a rebel, and 
a price set on his head, 8th February, 1641 ; 
and John. 3, Turlough. And one daughter, 
who was married to Walter Rcagh Fitzgerald, 



of whose fate some account is given under the 
year 1595. 

II. Felim, son of Fiagh. He married Una, or 
Winifred Ni Toole. He was living in 1629, a 
prisoner in Dublin Castle. In his complaint to 
the Privy Council of his unjust trial and con- 
demnation at Wicklow in 1628, he says that his 
wife, the mother of his five sons, who was in 
previous good health, died within two days after 
his condemnation : " her hart stringes broke." — 
MS., F. 3. 17, T. C. D. He had eight sons : 1, 
Brian, who, with his brother Turlough, was 
committed to Dublin Castle in 1625, and was 
living in 1629 ; 2, Hugh, Lieutenant- Colonel 
of the Confederate Catholics in 1641, and who 
was proclaimed a rebel by Parsons and Borlase, 
Lords Justices, 8th February, 1641; 3, Gerald, 
living in 1 604, and seems to have died young, at 
least before 1628 ; 4, James, living in 1603 ; 5, 
Turlough, living in 1628 ; 6, Feagh, a/j'as Luke; 
7, Cahir, living in 1629 ; 8, CoUa ; and a daugh- 
ter, who married John Wolverton, Esq. J. P. of 
the county of Wicklow in 1625. Seven of these 
sons are named in the above order in the re- 
mainders of Phelim mac Pheagh's grant of lands 
from King James L, dated 28th March, 1604. 
Colla, who was born after that period, is men- 
tioned in Phelim mac Pheagh's suit in 1628-9, 
when he was a close prisoner in Dublin Castle 
with his five sons. Duald Mac Firbis mentions 
only three of his sons, namely, Hugh, Colla, 
and Brian. Cahir, his seventh sou, had a son, 
Hugh, who had a son, Cahir, the last generation 
of this family given in the Leabhar Branach. 

III. Brian, the son of Felim. He had a son, 
Shane mac Brian mac Phelim of Ballinacor, who 
was Colonel of the Confederate Catholics in 1641, 
after which period this family of Ballinacor dis- 
appear from history. The accusations against 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2019 

in the first month of summer in this year, having been treacherously betrayed 
by his relative, 'at the bidding of the Chief Justiciary of Ireland, Sir William 
Russell. 

these sons of Felim, on which their estates were son in law, John Wolverston, for stealing cows, 

confiscated, affords an appalling picture of hu- and was executed for that fact. Gerald himself 

man depravity and perfidy in those murderous was committed for suspicion of felony by Phelim, 

times ; but as the substance of them, and the man- but acquitted. 

ner in which the whole trial was conducted, has " This Garret's brother in law, Shane Bane 

beenalready given by the late Matthew O' Conor, mac Teige mac Hugh, being in rebellion, was 

Esq. of Mount Druid, in his History of the Irish taken by Hugh mac Phelim, and brought to 

Catholics, the Editor shall rest content with Wicklow by the Lord Chief Justice, where he 

laying before the reader the following extracts was executed, which said Garret bore in mynde 

from Felim's complaint to the Privy Council, of to revenge it when he could, 

his unjust trial and condemnation at Wicklow " Shane O'Toole, Patricke O'Toole," [were] 

in 1628, as preserved in a manuscript in the " prisoners in the castle of Dublin about 1621. 

Library of Trinity College, Dublin, F. 3. 17: Shane O'Toole was executed by martial law, 

" Lord Esdmond tried to induce Owen Byrne, and at his death left betweene him and God, 

a prisoner in Dublin Castle, to accuse Bryan that he was executed for not agreeing with said 

and Tirlagh (Phelim's sons), and racked him in Garret mac Ferdoragh, and his confederates, in 

vain for that purpose. Then Lord Esmond sent accusing Brian mac Felim, Tirlagh mac Phelim, 

Cahir mac Hugh Duffe, a neare cousin of said and Cahir mac Phelim. 

Owen, and Morogh mac Hugh mac Owen, bro- "Patrick O'Toole was pardoned for his accu- 

ther in law to said Owen, to use their influence sations. 

to make him depose against Tirlagh and Phelim. " Art O'Neale and Brian More, son in lawe 

" This Cahir mac Hugh Duffe, and the said to Art O'Neale, being in company with Donagh 

Morogh, are doeing, theise 29 years at least, mac Shane, committing of a robbery, were taken 

what they could against Phelim and his sonnes, by one of Phelim's sons, and the robbery found 

both in helping to take theire landes from them in their hands, Avere sent here to his Majestie's 

and inventing many false matters against them castle of Dublin, and seeing no other means to 

to procure their death, as is well known ; for save their lives but to accuse others, as they 

said Cahir mac Hugh Duffe and the aforesaid were demanded, the said Arte O'Neale and 

Morogh, and his son, Morrish, came to the Lord Bryan More offered to make an escape at once 

Chichester, then Deputy, and informed his with Dermot O'Toole, and to rob the porter's 

Lordship that Phelim and Bryan releeved one coffer. 

Torlogh O'Toole, which his Lordship well knew " Shane Duffe mac Teige Moyle and Mortagh 

was but meere malice, mac Teige Moyle, several times sollicited to 

" Garrald mac Ferdoragh being a prisoner for accuse Phelim and his sons, and when they did 
some criminal fact, which he acknwledged had not, they were two or three dayes bound, ready 
no means to save his life but by accusing men, to be executed by martial lawe. 
was procured by William Gra?me and others, to " Lord Esmond had, in his prison at Lime- 
accuse Phelim and his sonnes. This Garret's rick" [near Gorey, county of Wexford], " one 
father was committed to Wicklow by Phelim's Laughlin More mac Teige, which Laughlin his 

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2020 aNwaca rjio^hachca eiReawH. [1597. 

lupcip nua t)o rocc 1 nepinn 1 rcoy^ac mfp lun co rapmail 1 co fai^Diuijiib 
lombaib Imp .1. Copt) bupoiigh, comdp a corhainm. lap njlacab an cloiDirh 
ooipibe on lupcip baf ann ppi pe cpf mblia6an 50 pin .1. Sip uilliann Puppel, 
l?o bfnao laip an oippicc do bf ag Sip lohn nopuip 6 na ppionnpa 6e .1. gene- 
palcacr an coccai6, 1 po ^ab pfin an oippicc pin ppi a aip. Uucc laparh 
poccpa Dpfpaib lai^fn,-] nnibe, 1 oon rhfio baf urhal Don bainpio^ain o comap 
cpi nuipcce 50 Dun Dealgan uocc ina Docom (co Ifonrhap lep nonoilce an 
picfrrhaD la Do mi lul) 50 Dpoicfc aua. Ro ppfccpaD na poccapca pm la 
biapla cille Dapa, la gallaib mibe, -| lai^fn. Udnaicc upa an lupcip ^up an 
lion ap lia po peD ^up an mai^in cceDna, 1 lap poccain 1 ccfnn a poile Do na 
plojaib DO apccnacap 50 cfp eo^ain co pan^accap ^an coipmfpcc gan caipi- 
piurh 50 habainn TTi6ip,"| an ni Dob annam la hUa neill ppir paill lomcoirhfcca 

Lordship knows to be one that hated Felim and " Finally, said Brien and Turlogh are most 

his sonnes. He was a foster-brother of Shane miserably kept in close restraint here in his 

Bane mac Teige, which Hugh mac Phelim Majestie's Castle of Dublin, without getting 

brought to Wicklow to execution. their dyett from his Majestie, or leave for any 

" Phelim mac Pheagh took two of those that of their e friends to come to them with their 

were concerned in Pont's murder. * owne meanes to releeve them in presence of the 

" The Sheriff that impanelled the grand jury constable and his son. Their accusers, on the 

which found several bills against Phelim and contrary^ are kept at his Majesties charges, and 

his sonnes, is married to Lord Esmond's niece, besides, Bryan and Turlogh have irons upon 

and tenant to Sir William Parsons, and the Lord them, and the most part of their condemned 

Esmond procured this, his nephew, to be made accusers are without irons. 
SherifFe of sett purpose to conclude his owne, " (Signed), Bryne Byrne. 

and the. rest of said Phelim's adversaries, their Tirlagh Bearne. 

pretended and long-continued unjust hosting, " Copia vera. ' 

and therefore said Sheriff elected Sir James The Editor has not been able to trace the 

Fitz Pierce to be forman of the grand jurie, a history of this family to a later period, and be- 

known open enemy to Phelim and his sons; lieves that therace of Fiaghmac Hugh O'Byrne, 

first, because he sett upon said Phelim at his chief of Gaval-Rannall, have long since become 

going to Rathcuile, to the late Earl of Ormond ; extinct. According to the tradition in the 

secondly, because Phelim was at the killing of country, the late Garrett Byrne, Esq. of Ballyma- 

said Sir James, his father; and thirdly, because nus, was not of his descendants, but of a branch 

the said Sir James did, for proofe of his con- of the Gaval-Rannall who became spies and in- 

tinuall malice, prefer a peticion to the Lord formers to ruin the great O'Byrnes of Ballinacor, 

Grandison, alledging the said Phelim and his a tradition which clearly points to Cahir mac 

predecessors to be all bastards for ten or eleven Hugh Duffe and his confederates above referred 

degrees. Moreover, said Sir James had no free- to, who were for twenty-nine years inventing 

hold in the county of Wicklow. many false matters against Phelim and his sons. 



1597.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2021 

A new Lord Justice, Lord Borough', Thomas by name, arrived in Ireland 
in the beo^inning of the month of June, with much arms and many soldiers. 
After receiving the sword from Sir William Russell, who had been Lord Jus- 
tice for three years before, he deprived Sir John Norris of the office which he 
held from his Sovereign, namely, the generalship of the war, and took that 
office to himself. After this he issued a proclamation to the men of Leinster 
and Meath, and to all those who were obedient to the Queen, from the Meeting 
of the threeWaters to Dundalk, to meet him with all their forces, fully mustered, 
at Drogheda, on the twentieth day of the month of July. These orders were 
responded to by the Earl of Kildare, and by the English of Meath and Leinster. 
The Lord Justice came to the same place with as many men as he had been able 
to muster. After these forces had met together, they marched to Tyrone, and 
arrived at Abhainn-mhor w^ithout opposition or delay ; and, what was seldom - 

See note ^, under the year 1585, p. 1840, supra. son, and committed to prison, with Sir Adam 

The Ballymanus family, too, are either extinct Loftus and others. His descendants became 

or reduced to poverty and obscurity. extinct in the male line in 1764. The present 

The Lord Esmond who ruined the illustrious Earl of Ross, so illustrious for his scientific at- 

family of Ballinacor, was Sir Laurence Esmond, tainments, descends from his brother, Laurence 

the son of William Esmond, Esq., of Little Li- Parsons. 

merick, near Gorey, in the county of Wexford. ' Lord Borough — Thomas Baron Borough, a 
He married a Miss Ellice Butler, by whom he man almost wholly ignorant of the art military, 
had no issue, and the peerage ceased at his was appointed Lord Depvity, and arrived in Dub- 
death; but it appears that he had a natural son, lin on the 15th of May, and received the sword 
Thomas Esmond, by a Miss O'Flaherty, to whom in St. Patrick's Church on Sunday, the 22nd of 
his estates passed by will. This Thomas Es- the same month. He had supreme authority in 
laond, who was educated a Roman Catholic by martial as well as civil causes, and immediately 
his mother, is the ancestor of the present Sir ordered to his presidency of Munster General 
Thomas Esmond of Ballynatrasna, in the county Norris, who is described by Camden as"Vir 
of Wexford, who inherits none of the wicked- sane magnus, & inter maximos nostra* gentis 
ness or treachery of the Lord Esmond his proge- hoc sevo duces celebrandus ; which affront (to- 
nitor. gether with the disappointment of the chief 
William Parsons was a very poor man, in government, which he knew he merited, and 
humble station, who came to Ireland towards earnestly expected), and the many baffles Tyrone 
the close of the reign of Elizabeth. He proved had put upon him, broke his heart." — See Cox's 
a very useful discoverer of forfeited estates in Hihernia Anglicana, vol. i. p. 413. P. O'Sullevan 
the capacity of Surveyor-General. He was ap- Beare states that it was believed that Norris had 
pointed Lord Justice, with Sir John Borlase, in sold himself to the devil, who carried him off 
1640, and continued in the Government till unexpectedly ; and he gravely eonchides from 
1643, when he was removed, charged with trea- this, that O'Neill had often defeated, not only 



2022 awNQ^a Rio^hachca eiReawN. [1597. 

paip CO jiainicc an luy^ci]^ za\\ an abainn gan cacayi, jan coipmfpcc 50 mbaf 
Don caob apaill Di. l?o mu]ia6 "| ]io mopclaibfo lap an lupuip an popr 10m- 
coirhfrca baf ace ua neill po]i up na habainn, ~\ po coccaib pfin popr nua 06 
bubfin ipin mbpiiac allcapac Don abainn ceona. "] je po ppir an uain pin 
ap Ua neill upe eolup "] t:\\c rioncopcc roippDelbai^, mic Gnpi, nmc peilim 
puaiob uf neill ni po larh an lupcip, na aen oia plojaib Dol f6 aen mile raipip 
pin 1 rcip eo^ain, i nf mo po Ificceab puan no pabaile, cot)la6, no curhpanab 
001b ace DeabaiD "] Diubpaccab poppa 6 rhuinnnp U( neill t)o 16 "| Doibce, 6d 
Dipfrh Doaipnfip an po mapbab, "] in po niubai^eab 00 Daoinib an lupcip, ■] 
an po bfnab Deacaib, "| oeoalaib Diob. 

Oo beachaib an liipcip in apoile lo pop cnoc bai 1 ccorhpocpaib oon 
campa 00 rhmrrhain -] 00 rhoipbecain an cipe ma mprimcell, "| ba pfpp Do 
na ciopab iDip, uaip do mapbab Dpon^ rhop Dia Df^Daoimb la hUa neill co 

General Norris, " peritissimum Anglorum im- lUi copiosus erat exercitus, qui an tea sub Ru- 

peratorum omni pugnandi apparatu superiorem, sello, & Norrise meruerant, & noue ex Anglia 

sed ipsum etiam diabolum, qui illi ex pacto fuisse missi ; quibus cum in Vltoniam proficiscitur. 

opitulatus creditur vicerit." — Hist. Cathol. Iher. Sequuntur Midhienses Angloiberni cum iustis 

Compend., tom. iii. 1.3, c. x. copijs duce BarnabaleBalisimiledEe Barone. Quo 

J An advantage was got. — An English writer procedente Balarriecbam peruenerat Richardus 

would say: " And O'Neill having, contrary to Tirellus cum quadringentis peditibus ab Onello 

his wont, neglected to guard the pass, the Lord missus, vt motus, vel in Lagenia augeret, vel in 

Justice crossed the river without any difficulty." Midhia moueret. Is Tirellus Angloibernus erat, 

^ Further: literally, " beyond that." sed Catholicus, sicut cjeteri, & iniurijs Anglo- 

' A hill. — P. O'SuUevan Beare calls this hill rum prouocatus e carcere ad Onellum fugerat. 

Droum Jliuca, which, he trsinslsites Collis madidns, Ei cum tam exiguas vires esse Barnabal com- 

in his Hist. Cathol. Ihem. Conipend., tom. iii. 1. 3, perisset, in ilium mittit filium suum peditibus 

c. xi. where he gives the following curious ac- mille stipatum, haud dubius, quin adolescens 

count of this conflict : dignum aliquod facinus faceret, quo Proregem 

" Annus ab ortu Domini millesimus quin- magno merito sibi deuinciret, Tirellus miles ve- 

gentesimus nonagesimus septimus cum verte- teranus prajlio expertus Midhienses fundit, & 

retur, Thomas Burughi Baro vir animo elatus, fugat, atque multis occisis Barnabalis filium 

manu largus, belli prgeceptis imbutus, comitate captum ad Onellum defert, a quo fuit postea 

gratus in Iberniam Prorex missus aduentu pretio commutatus. 

primo suo, qua erat vrbanitate, & aiFabilitate, " Burughus Ardmacham, & Portmorem, quas 

aliquot Lageniorum, & aliorum Ibernorum ani- Onellus deseruit, occupat. Progredi frustra 

mos in se conuertit. Cum Onello, Odonello, tentat ab Onello prohibitus, qui duobus castris 

& alijs vnum mensem inducias componit. Per vias occludit : in alteris erant Macmagaunus, & 

quas cum de pacis conditionibus minime conue- fratres Onelli Cormakus, & Artus in Colle ma- 

nisset, maiorem belli molem in Onellum vertit. dido castrametati intra duos iactus bombardaj 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2023 

the case with O'Neill, an advantage was got' of his, vigilance, having, contrary 
to his wont, neglected to guard the pass, and the Lord Justice crossed the river 
without [receiving] battle or opposition, and landed [safely] at the other side 
of it. He then razed and demolished a watching-fort which O'Neill had on the 
bank of the river, and erected a new fort for himself on the opposite bank of 
the same river. But though this advantage was taken of O'Neill, through the 
guidance and instruction of Turlough, the son of Henry, son of Felim Roe 
O'Neill, neither the Lord Justice nor any of his forces dared to advance the 
distance of one mile further" into Tyrone ; for they were not allowed rest or 
ease, sleep or quiet, but a succession of skirmishes and firing was kept up on 
them, both by day and night. It would be impossible to calculate or describe 
the number of the Lord Justice's men who were killed and disabled, and the 
number of horses and [other] spoils that were taken from them, on this occasion. 
On a certain day the Justice went upon a hill' which was near the camp, 
to reconnoitre and survey the country around ; but it would have been better 
for him that he had not gone thither, for a great number of his chief men 

ad hostem, in via, quae ducit ad Pinnam super- militibus procedens, postquam itineris maxi- 

bam : in alteris Onellus ipse cum laimo Mac- mam difficultatem super auit, nuncio allato Ca- 

donello Glinniae principe tentoria pandit ad tholici occurrentes prgelium committunt : quo 

Fontem Masanum. Prorex itinere prohibitus sunt occisi sexaginta equites regij, & inter eos 

Norrisium munimentum, quod Onellus dirue- Turner exercitus regij Tesserarius Maximus, 

rat, resedificare coepit, Onellus opus impedire: Franciscus Waghan Proregis leuir, Thomas 

interdiu, & noctu ab equitibus, & peditibus VValenus Angli. Comes Killdarius hastarum 

maxime iaculatoribus cominus, & eminus leuia ictibus equo turbatus, rursus in equum imposi- 

prjelia committuntur. Onello venit auxilio Odo- tus a duobus fratribus Ohikijs Ibernis suae nu- 

nellus, cuius equitatus, cum hostis equitibus, & tricis filijs male concussus, & vulneratus fugit, 

Terentio Onello Henrici filio Onelli fratre vte- & paucis etiam post diebus moritur. Ohikij dum 

rino, qui Reginse partes sequebatur egregie ma- herum in equum imponunt, ipsi circumuenti 

num conseruit. Nocte, qua Catbolici in regiorum interficiuntur. Multi regij fuerunt vulneribus 

castra impetum fecerunt, fama tenet, Prorogem aiFecti : quotquot eo in loco a castris aberant, 

tuisse vulneratum, qua verane sit, ad me peri- fusi, & fugati in castra compulsi sunt. Cito 

culum non recipio. Constat ilium ex castris regius exercitus domum redit, postquam inter 

reuersum Killdario comiti imperium relinquen- Portmorem, & Pinnam suberbam a fine veris per 

tem intra paucos dies e vita discessisse. menses circiter quatuor cum Catliolico dimica- 

" Kildarius imperio laetus, & glorians, quod uit, & prsesidio Portmore sub Thoma Villiamse 

Prorex efficere non potuit, praestare conatur, Anglo, & Ardmachjs relicto. Mox quoque Iberni, 

vlterius progredi. Per syluam, & vias occultas quos Burughus Reginae consiliauerat, rebella- 

cum nobilioribus equitibus & magis strenuis runt. 



2024 awKiaca rjio^hachca eiReawH. [1597. 

na mu)nnnp. l?o ba6 oiByioe Deajibjiafaiyi mna an luprfp,"] aporhaop a ir^luai^ 
CO ]pocaiDe moip do caipumili "] 00 oaoiniB uaiy^le cenmoudc. l?o mapbab 
ann t)in ctjiaill Do muinnrip lapla cille Dapa, 1 munbub ^oipe an campa Don 
luyrif ni pagViaD app an lonnaipfcc pin an lion Do epna Dfob. Do pala Diapla 
cille Dapa (.1. henpg rnac ^fpoirr cpe binn gona, no piabpapa cecib Diob) 
^up bo lificcfn Do rpiall rap a aip do pai^iD a arapDa, "j lap poccain Do 50 
r)poicfc dra puaip bap ipin inbaile pm. RuccaD a copp 50 cill Dapa -] po 
liaDnaicfob co nonoip -\ co naipuiiccm 1 noraiplije a pinnpeap he. l?o boipD- 
neaD a bfpbpacaip .1. Uilliam ina lonaD. 

lap ccpiochnuccaD an piiipr nui pin lap an lupnp ap bpu abann moipe,"] 
lap ccabaipc Da uiD a 610c Daome,-) nd poleicceaD Do Dol caipip pin ipreacb 
ipin n'p Do cuip biaD -| bdpDa ipin mbaile, -\ po cpiall pfin cocc cap a aip. 
Oo coiD cerup Don lubap, ~\ appaibe co hat cliar, "] po pccaoilpioc a plua^ 
Dia cri^ibh. 

Qn can cpa po cpiall an lupcip ^up an ploi^fD ceDna 1 ccfp eo^am, Ro 
cuip p5pibfnn 50 ^obepnoip coicciD connacc Dm popcon^pa paip Dol jup an 
lion pliiai^h ap lia no biab ina cuman^ ipin ccfnD nap do coicceab ulab pop 
Ua nDomnaill an ccfin no biab porn 1 ccfp eojain. Nip bo bfiplipeac po 
ppeccpab an popcongpa pin lap in n^obepnoip, uaip po cuip co^aipm pop lapla 
cuabmurhan Donnchab mac concobaip, "] pop bapun innpi ui cbuinn TTlupcab 
mac TTlupcbaib, pop lapla cloinne piocaipD uillecc mac RiocaipD Sha;canai5, 
'] pop a mac RiocapD mac uillicc bapun Duine coillin. l?o cuip bfop cojaipm 
"] cionol pop uaiplib conncae maije eo, "| l?oppa commain co na pocpaice. 
Oo popail pop na mainb uile cocc ma bocom 50 mainipcip na buille an 
cfcpamab Id picfc Do mi'lul do ponpab, ") 50 mbiab pfin co na banDabaib pop 
a ccinD an Du pin. Uangacctp pibe uile ^up in maigin pempaice ipin 16 
cfccna. ba he lion a ccionoil lap poccain 1 ccenn apoile Doib Da bpacaij; 
ap picic Do rpoi^cecaib, "i Deic mbpacaca mapcploi^. Ro apccnacap aipibe 
50 Slicceac, -] laparh 50 heipne 50 po jabpac lonjpopc lionrhap lamrhfnmnac 

"" The brother. — This was Sir Francis Vaughan. for this victory, but that they were called froin 

Sir Richard Cox, who passes over this battle prayers to arms upon the appearance of the 

very lightly, says, " that after the Lord Deputy Irish forces, with whom they skirmished suc- 

had taken the fort of Blackwater, and garri- cessfully ; yet so as that the Deputy's brother-in- 

soned it with English, returned thanks to God law (Vaughan) and several others were slain, 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2025 

were slain by O'Neill and his people. Among these were the brother"^ of the 
Lord Justice's wife, and the chief officer of his armv, toc^ether with a great 
number of captains and other gentlemen besides. Some of the Earl of Kil dare's 
people were also slain there ; and had not the camp of the Lord Justice been 
so near at hand, the number that escaped would have survived this engage- 
ment. The Earl of Kildare (Henry, the son of Garret), in consequence either 
of a wound or a fever, was obliged to set out on his return home; but when 
he had gone as far as Drogheda he died in that town. His body was carried 
to Kildare, and interred with great honour and reverence in the burial-place 
of his ancestors. His brother, William, was installed in his place. 

The Lord Justice, after having finished the new fort" on the bank of the 
Abhainn-mhor, and having observed his loss of men, and that he was not per- 
mitted to penetrate further into the country, he placed provisions and warders 
in this fort, and then set out to return back. He went first to Newry, and from 
thence to Dublin, and his army dispersed for their [several] homes. 

At the time that the Lord Justice was engaged in the foregoing expedition, 
he sent a written dispatch to the Governor of Connaught, ordering him to 
proceed, with all the forces he could possibly muster, to the western extremity 
of Ulster, against O'Donnell, while he himself should remain in Tyrone. This 
order was promptly" responded to by the Governor ; for he sent for the Earl of 
Thomond (Donough, the son of Conor), for the Baron of Inchiquin (Murrough, 
the son of Murrough), for the Earl of Clanrickard (Ulick, the son of Rickard 
Saxonagh), and his son, Rickard, Baron ofDunkellin ; and also dispatched orders 
to the gentlemen of the counties of Mayo and Roscommon, requiring them to 
collect and muster their forces. He ordered all the chieftains to meet him at 
the monastery of Boyle, on the twenty-fourth day of the month of July, precisely 
when he himself, with all his bands [of soldiers], would be at that place. They 
all [accordingly] came on that day to the aforesaid place. When assembled, 
they amounted to twenty-two standards of foot, and ten standards of cavalry. 
They marched from thence to Shgo, and from thence to the Erne, and pitched 

and particularly two foster-brothers of Henry, lish fort " was only a deep trench or wall of 

Earl of Kildare, for grief whereof the Earl soon earth, to lodge some one hundred soldiers in." 

after dyed." — Hibernia Anglicana^ vol. i. p. 413. — Vol. i. p. 58. 

n The new fort — Moryson says that this Eng- ° Promptly: literally, "not negligently." 

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awwaca i^io^hachca eiReaNH. 



[159' 



pop up Sarhaoipe ppiob^laip. l?o baf oo rhfnrTmai^e an cploi^ hipin anoap 
leo CO na bai' cumanj i pppeapcail no a pppiorolma i ccoicceaD ulab uile. 

Oo eip^fccap plo^ an ^obepnopa ipm Tnuichbeboil ap a bapac do biil rap 
an abamn. bai Din lomcoirheD o ua nDorhnaiU pop ^ac ndu pop an eipne. 
Qcr cfna piiapacap pom bao^al pop ar niomDopaiD bui puippe .i. drb ciiil 
uain, 1 po chm^pioc 50 Diocpa DupcpoiDheach Do pai^iD an ara hfpm. 1?o 
^abpac na popcoirheDaije occa nDiubpaccab ^an Dichell, 1 ace lomcopnam 
an dra ppiu artiail ap Deac po peDpac. Qcc cbfna nf po chuuiaingpior a 
ciancopnam ppip in lion ploiji; ~\ pocaiDe bacap ina najhaib 50 piacc an gobep- 
noip CO na plo^aib caipip co mbaccap Don uaeb apaill. Qp a aof cpa do 
ponao ecu abbal an Id pin .1. TTiiipchaD mac lHupchaDa mic Diapmaua, mic 
UlupchaDa ui bpiain bapun innpi ui chumn. 6ai pi6e allamui^ do na pai^- 
Diuipib pop a eoc froppa, "j a niomDorhain occa nimDfjail pop bacab, 1 acca 
mbpopcab caipip. ba fCt> po chfoai^ an cVnnnfmbam do a amup co binnell- 
Dipeac la haon do rhuincip uf Domnaill Dupco]i pilep 1 pcaoileab a eiDeb 
placa 1 nDfipc a occpaille co nDecbaib rperhirc ipin Dfipc apaill. Ni po 
cuim^fD a anacal 50 po foappccap ppi a eocb 1 pubomam an uppora 50 po 
baiDfb e po ceDoip. ba hecc mop eiDip ^allaib, 1 gaoibelaibh an cf copcaip 
annpin, ap aipDe a inrhe, "| ap uaiple a pola ^ep bo bocc ap aoi naoipi eipibe, 
~1 jemab coccbail a ciiipp -\ a abnacal co bonopac po Dlecc Do oenam, ni po 
banab ppipibe lap an plo^ acr pocrain ^an oipipium j;o niaimpriji eappa 
puaib. Qn 31 do mf lul Do piaccaccap an Du pin,-] Dia Safaipn ap aoi laife 
peccmaine. Ro ^abpau lon^popc ap gac caob Don rhainipcip 1 mui^, ~\ ipri^. 
bacap bipuibe on nan can^acap rap eipne pia mfoon laf T)ia Saraipn co 
maDain Dia luain. 6a ipm Dorhnacb pin bacap ipin mainipcip cangacap an 
1 oinjCp po ^eall ina nDiaib o ^aillim 1 mbaof a nopDanap, -| a n^onnaDa mopa 
CO na puopupapcfna ap oaij a nioinpulain^an ccfm no beicip ipin ccoiccpicb. 



'' Samhaoir: i. e, the River Erne. 

"^ Ath Cul-Uain See this ford already men- 
tioned at the years 1247 and 1593. 

■" And he fell: literally, "he could not be pro- 
tected until he was separated from his horse in 
the depth of the stream," which would sound 
very strangely in English. 

P. O'Sullevan Beare observes that the Baron 



of luchiquin and O'Conor Sligo vied with each 
other in valour in crossing the ford on this oc- 
casion : 

" In ipso vado, vt alias, Oconchur, & Maurus 
Baro de virtute certabant, & dum vterque alte- 
rum prajcedere conatur, Maurum suvis equus in 
alveum lapsus discutit, & Maurus arniorum poh- 
dere grauis in iraura flumen haustus amplius 



1597.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2027 

their extensive camp on the banks of the Hmpid Samhaoir^. The high spirit 
of this army was such, that they thought that all Ulster would be incapable of 
coping with them in battle. 

On the following morning, by break of day, the Governor's army rose up 
to cross the river ; [but] O'Donnell had posted guards upon all the fords of 
the Erne. However, they got an advantage at one difficult ford, namely, Ath- 
Cul-Uain'', and to this they vigorously and resolutely advanced. The guards 
of the ford proceeded to shoot at them without mercy, and to defend the ford 
against them as well as they were able ; but they were not able to defend it 
long against the numerous force and army opposed to them; so that the 
Governor and his army crossed it, and gained the other side. On this day, 
however, a lamentable death took place, namely, [that of] Murrough, the son 
of Murrough, son of Dermot, son of Murrough O'Brien, Baron of Inchiquin, 
as he was on horseback, in the depth of the river, outside the soldiers, saving 
them from drowning, and encouraging them to get across past him. But 
destiny permitted that he was aimed at by one of O'Donnell's people with a 
ball exactly in the arm-pit, in an opening of his plate armour, so that it passed 
through him, and out at the opposite arm-pit. No assistance could be given 
him ; and he fell"" from his horse into the depth of the current, in which he 
was immediately drowned. The person who there perished was much lamented 
by the English and Irish, on account of the greatness of his wealth, and the 
nobility of his blood, though young as to age ; and although it would have 
been meet that his body should have been taken up, and honourably interred, 
the army did not stop to do so, but proceeded directly to the monastery of 
Assaroe', which they reached the 3 1st of July, the day of the week being 
Saturday. They encamped around the monastery, and also within it, and thus 
remained from the forenoon of Saturday, when they crossed the Erne, until 
Monday morning. On the Sunday on which they were in the monastery the 
ships arrived which were promised to be sent after them from Galway, with 
ordnance and great guns, and other stores for their support, whilst they should 

non extitit. Cliffordus vadum trajectus frustra are still to be seen about a mile to the west of 

repiignantibus paucis ab Odonello dispositis Ballyshannon, and its burial ground is very 

arcem quatuor tormentis oppugnat." — Fol. 161. extensive, and contains some interesting tomb- 

* Assaroe — Some of the walls of this abbey stones. — See note', under 1184, p. 64, supra. 

12 B 2 



2028 



awHaca Rio^hachca eiReawN. 



[1597. 



l?o jabpac an loin^fp pn cuan ace imp Sairfiep i nucr eappa ]iuai6, "] ]io 
cuippoc a pcopuf ipn imp 50 lion a lonicoimfrra nnaille ppif. Oo paccab 
Dna an copoanap 1 ccfp Dialuain, -] po puiDi^fb e po epcorhaip caiplein beoil 
aca pCnai^. Ruccpar a j^lo^ on maimpcip 50 mullac Sire Qo6a ap aghaiD 
an Diinaib, 1 1 rnmceall an opoandip. Ro ^abpac t)ia luain, Dia maipr, "] 
oiQ ceoaoin ace Diubpaccat) an baile 00 caepaib cpomaib, copannrhopaib 
cemnriDi, a ^onnaDaib ^urdpoaiB ^panoibleacaiB an opoanaip lomcpuim 
aobail rhoip hipn po puioi^pioc pop loncaib an DunaiD, 50 cclop a ppuamanna 
1 a ppo^apropnridn 1 ecleinb aeoip, a ppoo, 1 in imcfin uaoaib. Po lapar 
Ojion^a Diorhopa Do poi^mb a laoc po bun an baile eo cpealmaib uo^alca 
mup leo, CO nfiDfo nimpfmap niomDainjfn niapnai^e imd ccoppaib, eo cear- 
bappaib caerhpolupcaib ima efnDaib eo leibfnO lainofpDa 00 cpuinnpcciaraib 
coirhlfcna cpuaiD lapainn ma nuipuiniceall Dia nimof^ail pop oiubpaicnb a 
namac. Nip bo copba r30ibpiui'h on an oa^puabaipc Do bfpcpac pop an 
DunaiD, 1 ba pfpp Doib na ciapcaip an cupap Do Deacacap Dia pai^^iD, uaip 
po Ddilce ap an ccaiplen poppa ppoippcfra caep craiDli^ creinnuiDe a ^onn- 
aoaib popaiT^re pfpDip^e, -| a mupccaeDib mopcopcaip, -| apaile Do caipp^ib 
cfnn^apbaib "| Do rpomclocaib cuini^ce, Do pail^ib, Do ponnaib baf pop 
caiblib an Duna^D po epcorhaip a nDiiibpaiere, co nap bo Dion no Dain^fn do 
lucr na co^la na cuniDai^re baccap poppa 50 po miiDai^fD Dpon^a Drprhdpa 
DibpiDe, "I CO po pccioraijijfD apaill bdcrap bfo^onca eo nap anpar pe a 
naipleach ni baD pfpi, ~| do bepcpar a nDpomanna ppi a nainiDib eo paeirheaD 
poppa gup an ecampa. bacap luce an DunaiD acea noiubpaceaD ina noeaDh- 
ai6 eo po mapbab einncec ap eceinnrec Diob. 



' Inis-Samiher, now called in Irish Imp Sarii- 
aoip, and sometimes Fish Island, from a fish- 
house which was built on it by the late Dr. 
Sheil of Ballyshannon. It is situated imme- 
diately under the great cataract at Ballyshan- 
non. 

" The ordnance. — P. O'Sullevan Beare states 
that they planted four cannon against the castle 
of Ballyshannon, which was then defended by 
Hugh Craphurd [Crawford], a Scotchman, with 
eighty soldiers, of whom some were Spaniards 
and the rest Irish. They left three of these 



cannon behind — Hist. Cathol. Iber., torn 3, lib. 5, 
c. viii. fol. 160, .161. 

"" The castle of Ballyshannon. — The site of this 
castle is pointed out in a field on the east side 
of the town of Ballyshannon, called the Castle 
Park, but the walls are level with the ground 
and scarcely traceable. 

* Mullach-Sithe-Aedha : i. e. the hill or sum- 
mit of Aedh's tumulus, so called from Aedh 
Ruadh mac Badhairn, king of Ireland, who was 
drowned in the River Erne or Samhaoir, A. M. 
3603, according to O'Flaherty's Chronology, 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2029 

remain in this strange territory. Tliis fleet put in at Inis-Saimer', close to Assaroe, 
and landed their stores on the island, leaving a suflicient number to guard them. 
On Monday the ordnance" were landed and planted against the castle of Bally- 
shannon". The troops were then removed from the monastery to Mullach-Sithe- 
Aedha'', opposite the fortress, and about the ordnance. On Monday, Tuesday, 
and Wednesday, they continued to fire on the castle^ with heavy balls, emitted 
with loud report and flashing flames from the loud-sounding, red, shot-vomiting 
guns of that heavy and immense ordnance which they had planted opposite 
the fortress, so that their reports and loud thundering in the regions of the air 
were heard far and distant from them. They sent large parties of their choicest 
soldiers to the base of the castle with wall-razing engines, and with thick and 
strong iron armour about their bodies, and bright-shining helmets on their 
heads, and with a bricrht testudo of round, broad, hard iron shields around 
them, to protect them from the shots of their enemies. The resolute attack 
they made upon the fortress, however, was of no avail to them ; and it had 
been better for them that they had not come upon this journey against it; for 
from the castle were poured down upon them showers of brilliant fire from 
well-planted, straight [aimed] guns, and from costly muskets, and some rough- 
headed rocks and massive solid stones, and beams and blocks of timber, which 
were [kept] on the battlements of the fortress, in readiness to be hurled down 
[when occasion required] ; so that the coverings of the razing party were of 
no shelter or protection to them, and great numbers of them were destroyed, 
and others who were severely wounded became so exhausted that they delayed 
not to be further slaughtered, and, turning their backs to their enemies, they 
were routed to the camp. The people of the fortress kept up a constant fire 
on them, and killed an unascertained number of them. 

and buried at this place. — See note ", under the ^ They continued to fire on the castle. — The ori- 

year 1194, p. 99, supra. This hill is now called ginal could not bear to be literally translated 

Mullaghnashee, and the parish church of Bally- into English. The closest that could be under- 

shannon stands upon it. According to the tra- stood is the following : " They proceeded on 

dition at Ballyshannon, an ancient earthen fort, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, shooting at 

and the mound of Aedh Ruadh, or Red Hugh, the bally with heavy, loud-sounding, fiery balls 

were destroyed in 1798, to form a modern Eng- from the loud-roaring, shot-vomiting guns of 

lish star- fort which now crowns the summit of that heavy and immensely great ordnance which 

Mullaghnashee. they planted opposite the fortress." The word 



2030 aNNQf^a Rio^hachca eii^eawH. [1597. 

Do bfpcpar t)pon5 00 maiicj^loi^ Ui oorhnail,l paij^in io"m|iiiaicci pop mapc- 
floi^ na ngall, 1 nip ca 1 ppopairmfr no 1 ccuirhne in po gonaD fuoppa cen- 
moca Ua concobaip SI1515 oonncbciD mac carail 015 po gafrca eipibe Don cup 
pin,uaip baf piDe -] o concobaip puaD Q06 mac coippDealbaig puai6 "] cepoirr 
na lon^ co lion a pocpaicre i ppappab an ^obepnopa an ran pin. 

O Dorhnaill ona baipi6e 1 ccfipce ploi j, -) in uacbab pocaibe an Sarapn 
canaicc an ^obepnoip ^iip an crpombairh pin Don cip. Ro barap a Daofne 
"J a pocpairce ace cfcclaim 1 ace rionol ap ^ac aipD ma Docom, 50 piacca- 
rap a nuprhop pia mibrnfoon Dia luam. Uctnaic t)in ITIdguiDip Q06 mac con 
connacc mic eonconnacc "] o Ruaipc bp^an occ, mac bpiain, mic bpiain 
ballai^ CO na rcionol ina 6ocom, ~\ lap poccain do na mairib pm i ccfnn a 
poile, nfp bo puaimnfc paDal po Ificepior Don gobepnoip co na plojaib, uaip 
po bai DeabaiD, "] Diubpaccab, lomaipecc 1 lombualao, "] lompuaccao uara 
pop an ccampa gac laof ppi pe na cpi la po Bacap pom a^ buancairfm ctn 
baile. No cuipDip plo^ u\ Dorhnaill ciorhpa ctn campct connacrai^ ina cfipr- 
mf6on, "I a lap ina Ifirimel co nd leiccDip in^elupaD Dia nfchaib no Dia 
naipnfip cap colba an campa amacb 1 nf mo po Ificcpioc pep, no apbap Dia 
paijiD anonn. Ro bai rpa an gobepnoip co na plo^ 1 cufnnca -| in lomcurhga 
moip Depibe, uaiji ^emaD poaD po bao lainn leo n( bai ina ccumang aen at 
coircfnn pop an Gipne Do paigiD 6 caoluipcce co bar pfnai^. Nfp bo plan 
lap nd mairib a mfnma (gepbo biolapDa a pocpairce) ap a ccfccmail 1 
nfoapbao^al arhlaib pin a^a naimDib. Qn can imoppo do bfpc an gobepnoip, 
na biaplaba, i na maice apcfna Dia nuf6 an ^iiappacc po mop ippabacap 
po jabpac aj cpiiD a ccomaiple o cup oiDcbe Dia ceDaoin 50 Dopbpolup na 
maiDne Dia DapDafn .1. an 15 DQugupc. ConiD paip DfipiD leo po DfoiD ipin 
moicDeoDoil cfimniuccab ap a ccfpca^baiD on mai^in 1 mbaccap bi Si'cb 
QoDa gup an Ific ainmfn, aggaipb, puapppocbaig, puDomain op up eappa 

caop, or cuep, means a mass of iron, a fire- from the lake. 

brand, a thunderbolt, but is here applied to a ^ Atk-Seannigh, i. e. Seanach's Ford. This was 

cannon ball. It will be observed that Opounaip the name of a ford on the River Erne at the 

is in the genitive case singular, governed by town of Ballyshannon, which has taken its name 

j^onnabaiB, from which it is clear that they from it. 

took ordnance to be a generic term. *' Rocky ford, lC\c. — The word leic is the ob- 

^ Gael- Uisge, i. e. narrow water, now Cael-na- lique form of leac, a flag-stone, or flat surface, 

h-Eirne, where the Lower Kiver Erne escapes such as exists in many places at the bottom of 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2031 

A party of O'Donnell's cavalry made a routing attack upon the English 
cavalry ; and there is no record or remembrance of the numbers that were 
[mortally] wounded between them ; but, among the rest, O'Conor Sligo (Do- 
nough, the son of Cathal Oge) was severely wounded, for he and O'Conor Roe 
(Hugh, son of Turlough Roe) and Theobald-na-Long, with all their forces, were 
along with the Lord Justice at this time. 

O'Donnell, however, had been in want of forces, and had only a small num- 
ber on the Saturday on which the Lord Justice came into the country with 
this powerful force ; but his people and forces were assembling and flocking to 
him from every direction, so that the most of them had reached him before the 
noon of Monday. On this occasion Maguire (Hugh, the son of Cuconnaught, son 
of Cuconnaught) and O'Rourke (Brian Oge, the son of Brian, son of Brian Bai- 
lagh) came to join him, with their forces ; and after these chiefs had assembled 
together, they allowed the Lord Justice and his army neither ease nor rest, for 
they carried on skirmishing and firing, conflict, assault, and onslaught, on the 
camp, every day during the three days that they continued battering the castle. 
O'DonneU's army frequently drove those v/ho were on the outskirts of the 
Connaught camp into the very centre of it, and those who were in the centre 
to the outskirts ; and they did not permit their horses or other cattle to go 
forth outside the boundary camp to graze, nor did they permit hay or corn 
[to be carried] in to them. The Governor and his army were thus reduced to 
great distress and extremities ; for, though they should wish to depart, they 
could not approach any common ford on the Erne from Cael-Uisge'' to Ath- 
Seanaigh''. The chiefs, though numerous were their forces, were much dispi- 
rited on finding themselves placed in such peril by their enemies. When, 
therefore, the Governor, the Earls, and the chiefs in general, had perceived the 
great danger in which they were, they held- a consultation from the beginning 
of night on Tuesday, to the morning twilight of Wednesday, the 15th of 
August ; and the resolution they finally came to at the day-break was, to ad- 
vance forward at once from the place where they were at Sith-Aedha to the 
rough, turbulent, cold-streamed, rocky ford" over the brink of Assaroe. called 

the River Erne. In the Life of Hugh Roe an pli^e n-ujaipB n-uinmeinic pn, -] po baoi 

O'Donnell the reading is as follows : bo rpeipi -\ oo cpennfpc hi ppuc nu pfnuBann 

"Do bepcpar lapom a n-uccBpuinne pop (amail po ba bepoi),T oainfcapgnioe na opuim 



2032 QMNa^a i^io^hachca eiReawN [1597. 

puaiD DianiD ainm cappan na ccupa6, 50 po cin^pfc gan aipniccaD ^an pop- 
cloipcecr t)0 plua^h Uf borhnaill ina nOpon^aiB, "] ina noiopmaib ^up an 
cconaip nanairnib nainminic pin. Po baf Do cpfipi an cppora -] ofimpre 
npuinse Don cplo^h "] a nfchpaib lap n^abdil a mbi6 poppa, 50 noeachaib 
lion Dfpirhe oa mnaib Da ppfpaib, Da naep anbpann andppacca, Da nfchaib, 
Da ccaiplib, 1 Da jac nfpnail baf leo apcfna la ppur fppa piiaiD piap 
CO muip. Po pdccaibpioc a nopDanap, -| a ccongaib bf6 ~\ Di je ap cumap 
conallac Don chup pm. Qp a ai cfna do Dfcauap aipij, 1 uaiple an cploi^h, 
1 an po ba corhnapr Diob rap eipne lap njdbaiD "| lap nguapacu mop. Po 
barap bapDa an baile acca nDiubpaccaD arhail ap Deine conpan^acap, 1 po 
T^abpar acca maprhopacc 50 hup na habann ap 6015 bdpai^ue a mbioDbaD,"] 
pccel DO poccain 50 hua nDorhnaill co na plo^. Oc cualaiD o Dorhnaill po^^up 
an Diubpaicce acpdchr co na plo^ po cercoip, najair ina ccpealmaib rpoDa 
50 cmneapnac, "] po cfimni^pioc ^up an abainn ariiail ap Dfine po peDpac. 
lap n^lanab Do ploj an ^obepnopa op up na habann Do coiDpioc 1 ninnell, 1 
1 nopDuccab. Po cuippiou a mna, a ngiollanpaiD, -] a naep Dfaipm, a ppip 
Ti;onca, "| ina mbaf led Do caiplib capaipre fcoppa "] muip. Po cuippior a 
nanpaiD, ~\ a naep iippclai^i ina nDiuiD, "] Don caob apaill a Ifir ppi cfp ap 
ba Dfpb leo po ^ebDaip a ucogpainn o na plojaib baccap ina mapmopachr. 
Corap muincip uf Dorhnaill ina Ifnmain rap an abamn ^an Dircioll, "] ni po 
anpac a nfpinop ppi a neDjaD nac ppi a ppopbpuca ap a rinnepnai^e leo 
cdppaccain an cploi j locap pop elu6 uara. Po ^abpar a^a rcimcellaD "] 
05 cai^epab rpoDa ppiu co inbaccap a^ cairfni "] a^ coifipuabaipc a cele 
d 6pne co ma^h cceDne hi ccoipppe Dpoma cliab. pfpuap glep pleachab 
ann an ran pm 50 mbo hion^^nar a meD, co ndp cuitiain^pior na ploig; aDiii 

leice Duibpleirhne map conaip coiccinj||Do passage of the great host, and moreover from 

rpomploj, -| Dan b'enepcne i do aolaije na the feebleness of the English, from the want of 

njall oTpbaiD aipbeapca bio gup po bdibic their proper ration of food, many of their men, 

lie Dia ppfpaib, t>ia mnaib, oia neacaib, -| oia women, steeds, and horses, were drowned and 

ccaiplib, 50 puce cpfcanan cppora i puborhain carried by the impetuosity of the stream into 

eappa puaio lacc." the gulph of Assaroe." 

" They afterwards gave their breasts to the "^ Casan-na-gCuradh, i. e. the path of the 

rough, unfrequented passage ; but from the heroes, translated Semita Heroum by P. O'Sul- 

strength and vehemence of the stream (as was levan Beare : 

usual with it), from the difficulty of the black " Kegij maiores Catholicorum vires timentes, 

and slippery surface of the flag, as the common ab Odonello acrius indies pugnis quassi, & de- 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2033 

Casan-na-gCuradh", and they advanced to that [to them] unknown and seldom- 
crossed trajectus, in troops and squadrons, without being noticed or heard by 
O'Donnell. In consequence of the strength of the current, and the debihty of 
some of the army and the horses, from having been deprived of food, a count- 
less number of their women, and men of their inferior, unwarlike people, of 
their steeds and horses, and of other things they had with them, were swept 
out westwards into the sea by the current of Assaroe. They left their ord- 
nance and their vessels of meat and drink in the power of the Kinel-Connell 
on this occasion. The chiefs and gentlemen of the army, however, and such 
of them as were strong, crossed the Erne after great danger and peril. The 
warders of the castle continued firing on them as rapidly as they were able, 
and pursued them to the brink of the river, in order to exterminate their 
enemies; and intelligence [of their movements] reached O'Donnell and his 
army. When O'Donnell heard the report of the firing, he immediately rose 
up with his forces, and, having quickly accoutred themselves in their fighting 
habiliments, they advanced to the river as speedily as they could. When the 
Governor's army had cleared the opposite bank of the river they went into 
order and battle array. They placed their women, their calones, their unarmed 
people, their wounded men, and such of their horses of burden as they had, 
between them and the sea. They placed their warriors and fighting men be- 
hind them, and on the other side towards the country, for they were certain 
of receiving an attack by those forces who had pursued them. O'Donnell's 
people went in pursuit of them across the river without delay ; and they were 
so eager to wreak their vengeance on the army that fled from them that they 
did not wait to put on their armour or outer garments. They began to sur- 
round them and sharpen the conflict against them, and both parties continued 
shooting and attacking each other from the Erne to Magh-gCedne in Carbury- 
Drumclifl"'^. At this time there fell a shower of rain in such torrents that the 

fessi, obsidione soluta, tribus tormentis relictis, eo die regij trecenti perierunt." — Fol. 16L 

quartoque vix in nauim, qua fuit vectum, im- The name is still remembered, and the ford 

posito, summo mane flumen per quod venerant, pointed out, immediately above the great cata- 

traijcientes, in vadum cui nomen est Semita ract of Assaroe. 

Heroum, sese tarn incomposite prsecipitant vt ^ Magh-gCedne, ^-c. — This should be :" From 

nonnuUi obruantur. Fugientes sequitur Odon- the Erne through Magh-gCedne, and until they 

ellus interimens nonnullos. Flumine & ferro arrived in Carbury of Drumcliff." 

12 c 



2034 



awHa^a T^io^hachca eiReaww. 



[1597- 



nac anall a naipm DioniluaD, no Dimipu, 50 po pliuchab a bp6coiDe puoaip, 
-| ^lepa a nglan ^onnab. Ctcc ba moa ]io Id pop TYiumcip Uf Dorhnaill na 
ppoppa pfprana hipin, indp pop plog an ^obepnopa ap po paccaibpior a 
ppopbpnca arhail perhebepcmap. Nip bo parhlai6 cpa oon luce naile banap 
emigre laopuiDe op cfnn a neppao t)ia necraip. 

Oo com an ^obepnoip co na plo^aib 50 Sliced in aohai^ pin, ap na niapacli 
50 nnainiprip na buille, -| an cpeap Id 50 cuaic dra liacc. Po pccaoilpior 
maire connacu t)ia ccipib "] oia cn^ib, "] an ^obepnoip 50 baile ara luain. 

Ropcap pubai^ poirhfnnmaij; ^aoibil coiccib ula6 lap poaD an lupn'p a cip 
eo^ain ^an urhla, ^an aicriDin,"| an gobepnopa a cfp conaill in aen mf arhail 
po pccpiobamap. 

lap ppaccbail cipe heogain t)on lupn'p arhail po perhpdibpiomap, ~\ lap 
ppaccbdil bi6, "| bdpoa ipin bpopc nua pm do roccaib pe pfin ap bpu abann 
inoipe t)6 6echai6 50 bar cliar. Dala Ui neill co na muincip ni anab pi6e co 
Ificc 00 16 1 DoiDche, jan bfic do gpep ace ceccappaccain bao^ail ^abdla, no 
^ona pop an bpopr pin, no pop an mbdpDa bdcrap ann. In apoile laire po 
lonnpai^ piurh an baile hipin, 1 po mapbab Dficlinebup ap picic Dia Daoinib, "j 
ni po curhaing n( Don baile. O po piDip an lupcip a bdpDa do bfir aj a 
mfpccbuaibpeaD arhlaiD pin, 1 a mbfic i ccfipcce loin po rionoil plog Idnrhop 
DO code DO cop biD -| ^ac nabailcce apcfna ipm mbaile. Qp erode Don lupefp 
CO na plo^ CO bapDmacha po ^luaippiDe co mapcploij an epluaiji; ina uipeim- 
cell ipin cconaip ccoiedinn Cd pia na pai^Diuipib ~\ pia na coipi^eib ap oai^ 50 
ppuicchbeaD Dpong eiccfn Do mumeip Ui neill 1 nfDapbao^al. Qn can painicc 
1 ccorhpodpaib abann moipe ap ann Do pala mo^al mapcplof^^, -] ppuielegaD 
l^ai^Diuipibe Do rhuinrip ui neill Do. l?o pfpaD lomaipecc arhnap "] lompua- 
ccab eapccaipDfrhail feoppa. l?o mapbab Daorne "] po pdccbab eid on lupeip 
ipin ngleo epoiD pin. O pangaeap a pai^Diuipi do paij^ib an lupcip do doib 



* The apparatus of their fine guns, jlepu u 
njlan jonnaD. — These were matcli-locks. 

f Thirty of his men were slain — From the no- 
tices of this fort given in the Life of Hugh Roc 
O'Donnell, it would appear that this fort was 
one of very considerable strength. P. O'Sullevan 
Beare gives the following account of O'Neill's 
attempt at taking it in his Hist. Cathol. Iher. 



Compend., toni. 3, lib. 4, c. iii. : 

" O'Nellus quandoquidem frustra conatus est 
Ardmachfe prsesidium commeatu intercludere, 
Portmorem saltern munimentum cibi inopia in 
suam potestatem redigere molitur. Quod obsi- 
denti Odonellus, qui venit auxilio, persuasit, vt 
expugnare tentaret, Eius altitudinem coniec- 
tura dimensi, scalas, quse qxiinos homines ampli- 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2035 

forces on either side could not use or wield their arms, so drenched with wet 
were their powder-pouches and the apparatus of their fine guns^ These showers 
of rain did more injury to O'Donnell's people than to the Governor's army; for 
they [the former] had left their outer garments behind, as we have said before ; 
but not so the others, they wore coverings over their battle dresses. 

The Governor proceeded with his forces to Sligo that night ; from thence 
on the next day to the abbey of Boyle, and on the third day to the district of 
Athleague. The chiefs of Connaught, then dispersed from their territories and 
houses, and the Governor went to Athlone. 

The Irish of the province of Ulster were joyful and in high spirits after the 
Lord Justice had returned from Tyrone without receiving submission or 
respect, and the Governor [of Connaught] from Tirconnell, in the same month, 
as we have just mentioned. 

When the Lord Justice had left Tyrone, as we have before stated, after 
having placed provisions and warders in the new fort, which he himself had 
erected on the bank of the River Abhainn-Mhor, he went to Dublin. As for 
O'Neill and his people, he rested neither day nor night, but watched every 
opportunity of taking this fort by stratagem or assault, or wreaking his ven- 
geance on the garrison. On a certain day he attacked the fort ; but thirty of 
his men were slain*^, and he effected nothing against the fort. When the Lord 
Justice received intelligence that his warders were harassed in this manner, and 
that they were in want of provisions, he mustered a numerous army to place 
provisions and all other necessaries in the fort. When the Lord Justice, with 
his army, had arrived at Armagh, he went with the cavalry of the army about 
him along the public road, some distance before his foot-soldiers and companies, 
with the expectation of meeting some of O'Neill's people in an unprotected 
position. When he came near the Abhainn-Mor he fell in with a troop of horse 
and a body of infantry of O'Neill's people. A fierce conflict and spiteful engage- 
ment ensued between them, [and] many men and horses were lost by the Lord 
Justice in that sharp battle. When the foot soldiers had come up with the 
Lord Justice, he advanced to the fort, and some say that he was never well 

tudine capiebant, faciunt, perfectasque muni- tinant, & appropiiiquantes bombardicis pilulis 
mento incipiunt admouere. Eos propugnatores impugnant, ab iis vicissim impugnati. Arci scalse 
primum crebris tormentorum ictibus arcere fes- applicantur. Caeterum propuguatores qui didi- 

12 c 2 



2036 awNQ^a Rio^hachca eiReaww. [1597. 

t)on pupc,i arbfpac apoile naji bo plan porn on 16 pin alle. Po paccaibpioc 
biab, 1 bdpoa ipin mbaile ap na Tnapac. l?o upiallpar cocc rap anaip, -] ni 
beacacap cap Qpnmaca in aohai^ pin. l?o ba6 1 ccappac, no m apach po 
lOTTicaippioc a nnuinrip (no a raipipi^ -j a aep jpaba) an luprip jan piop 
Duprhop a pioi^ an Id pin. Ro bai cairfrh,-] coirnoeabaib ap campa an lupcip 
6 Ua neill an aohai^ pin 01a po mapba6 dpD rhaop an cpluai^ -] pocaibe ele 
cennfiocaporh. l?o apccndcap appein co hiubap cinncpa^a. puaip an lupcip 
bap ipin mbaile pin po birin na ngon oo paDao paip ace cocc a hQpDnriaca 
gup an bpopr nua. Uuccab coirhfcc clomirii an pigh t)on cponpilep, -\ do 
lupcip beinnpi an pijh .1. SipRobfpc gapoinep 50 cocc do lupcip nua oSa;roib. 
O Dorhnaill Dna ba Doili^ laippiDe an gobepnoip "] na biaplaba Do cepnub 
arhail do epnacap, -| ap a af ni po lonnpaig cfccap nae Diob apoile 50 diu6 
po^niaip. ba poDa la hUa nDoirinaill bdccap 501II connacc jan annniup 
poppa, 1 popp an luce po eipi^ ina cconibai^, -\ Do poine a muinceapup ppip- 
piurh peccpiarh. 5a Dibpibe 6 concobaip puaD Q06 mac coippDealbai^ 
puaiDh, 5ai pium aga pccpuDab cionnap no cpeacpaD a cpioc. 6a DoDainj 
Dopomli on inopin, ap ba binnill airhpfiD an cionaD 1 mbaof, -] ba poccup do 
an cionaD ina ccuippeaD a innili -] a rhaofne apcfna ap lom^abdil a biobbab 
muna ciopca gan pacuccab paip. T?o geall o Ruaipc Doporh nac Ificcpeab 
6 Dorhnaill gan piop Dia paigib gan pabab do cop cuicce. Ro nonoil O Dorh- 
naill a plo^, 1 DO coib 1 cconnaccaib 50 po aipip ppi glfnn Dalldin a mapbfp, 
gabaip longpopc hipuiDe. lap ppiop pccel Do co mbai an capacpab pin ecip 
Ua puaipc 1 6 concobaip, ba pi cealcc do paD im ua puaipc, a cecca Do cop 
Dia pai^ib Dia cocuipeaD gup an longpopc 1 mboi pium. Ro T^eall Ua puaipc 
[ceacc] cuccae ap a bapach,"| nf po paoil 50 ppuicpfbUa Domnaill an longpopc 
7^0 cciopab porh ina Docom Nip bo hfb pin 00 poine Ua Dorhnaill, ace lap 
ccop a cecca 50 hUa puaipc po pdccaib a longpopc lap mfbon laf, -[ po Ificc 
Dap Sliccech bubbfp, "| nf po aipip co painic 50 coipppliab. Do jnf lompui- 
jieac bfcc ann pin co po rocairpioc a rhuincip nf Dia loincib, 1 co po Ificcpioc 

cerant, scalas in se aedificari, fossam, qua; muni- natoribus frustra prseliantur. Qus vero seals 

mentum circumdabat, excauando profundiorem ad arcis summitatem pertinebant, tarn paucje 

efFecerant, Ob quod scalae plera?que ad cacu- fuerunt, vt facile primi ascensores occisi sint, 

men arcis non pertingebant. Ita qui ad summos antequam a commilitonibus fuerint adiuti. Cen- 

scalarum gradus peruenerant, altius ascendere tumvigintiCatholici interierunt,&c." — Fol.149. 

non valeutes, deficientibus scalis, cum propug- ^ 77^^ Chancellor He was Adam Loftus, 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2037 

from that day forth. On the next day they left provisions and warders in the 
fort, and then prepared to return back, but went no further than Armagh that 
night. It was in a carriage or in a litter that his people (or his faithful friends 
and servants of trust) carried the Lord Justice on that day, without the know- 
ledge of the greater part of his army. O'Neill kept up a constant fire and attack 
upon the Lord Justice's camp during the night, by which the chief leader of 
the army and several others besides were slain. From thence they proceeded 
to Newry, and he died of the wounds which he had received between Armagh 
and the new fort. The keeping of the sword of state was then intrusted to the 
Chancellor^ and the [Chief] Justice of the King's [Queen's] Bench, Sir Robert 
Gardiner, until a new Lord Justice should come from England. 

O'Donnell was greatly chagrined that the Governor and the Earls should 
have escaped as they did. There was, however, no attack" from either side 
until the end of Autumn. O'Donnell thought it too long that he had left un- 
attacked the English of Connaught and those Irish w4io had risen in alliance 
with them, and who had previously made friendship with himself. Among 
these was O'ConorRoe (Hugh, the son of TurloughRoe) ; and he [O'Donnell] 
was meditating hoAV he could plunder his territory. This w^as very difficult 
for him to do ; because the position he occupied was secure and intricate, and 
he had near him a fastness into which he could send his cattle and other pos- 
sessions, beyond the reach of his enemies, unless they should come upon him 
unawares ; [and] O'Rourke had promised him that he would not permit O'Don- 
nell to march towards him without sending him notice. O'Donnell assembled 
his forces, and proceeding into Connaught, halted south-west of Gleann-Dallain', 
where he pitched his camp. When he received intelligence that a friendship 
subsisted between O'Rourke and 0' Conor, he deceived O'Rourke by sending 
messengers to him to invite him, to his camp where he was. O'Rourke pro- 
mised to go to him on the following day ; for he thought that O'Donnell would 
not leave the camp until he should arrive there ; but O'Donnell did not act so; 
for, after he had sent his messengers to O'Rourke, he left the camp at noon, 
and, proceeding southwards across the Sligo, never stopped until he arrived 
at the Curlieu Mountain. Here he made a short stay, while his troops were 

Archbishop of Dublin. them attack the other till the end of Autumn." 

^ No attack: literally, " liowbeit neither of ' Gleann-Dallain, now Glencar, near Sligo. 



2038 awHaca Rio^hachca eiReaww. [1597. 

a yciy, "] Dna nip bo hdil laipp Dol cap pliab buboff la poillpi an lai lOip. 
lap ccocr upropai^ na hoiohce Dia pai^ib looap rap an fliab bubbfp, 1 uap 
buill 50 pangacap cpia maj luipcc an oajDa, ~\ upia Tnuinchinn macliaipe 
connacr pia niaoain. l?o Ificcpor a pccfiTTielca uara 1 nupcopac laf po 
Diarhpaib "] po birpebaib na cpice ina nuiprimcell co na po pdccaibpioc mfol 
ninnili o dch Slipfn co bao^na,"] po cpfchloipcceab leo ina mbaoi froppa pibe. 
lompaibic laparh ina pppicin^ co na mboraincib,"] co neoalaib lomba led 6a 
habndp la hUa puaipc an cip Do cpeachab gan aipiuccab 06, nip bo lu^a ba 
mela lap an ngobepnoip Sip conepp clipopr cpeachlopccab an cipe baf po a 
rhdmup, "] po a curhaccaib. 

Sloicceab la TTldguibip Qob, mac conconnachr, nrnc conconnacc, ~\ Id 
copbmac mac pipDopca, mic cuinn bacaig nf neill (ap cappainj pil ppfp^ail) 
50 muilfnn cfpp na mibe 50 po cpfclipar an rip ina rnmcell, -] po Ifip 
pcpiopab led an TTluilfno cfpp pfin, co ndp paccaibpioc arrhaofn Dop, nd 
Daipgfr, Duma, na Diapann, DCDeb na ofppabaib allmupba, nd oaofn nf bub 
eiDip Diomcap no Do riomdin ipin mbaile gan a rabaipr leo, "| ace rocc Doib 
rap a naip Do cuippioc an baile rpe Doijip Donnpuaib bfpcclappac, -| cia^aic 
laparh pldn Dia cci^ibh. 

Oilen buicilep in^fn lapla upmuman .1. piapup puab, mac Semaip, mic 
emainn, mic RipDfipD bfn an Dapa hiapla Do hoipDneab ap uuabmurhain .1. 
Donnchab, mac concobaip mic coippbealbaig uf bpiain Decc. 

TTluipcfpcac ullcac mac Sfain Decc 1 nDpuim na loipre 10 peb. lapp an 
norhaD bliabain ochcmojac a aoipi. 

Sip lohn nopuip baf na ^enepal ap coccab na bainpio^an ipin pppaingc, "| 
1 nepinn do bol Don murhain lap mbuain a oippici be lap an lupcfp nua po 
cainicc 1 nepinn po beoib. baf pibe In ppappab a bfpbparap Sip comap 
nopuip baf na ppepiDenp uabaporh i]"in mumain ppi pe Da bliaban Decc 
poime pin. l?o ^ab ^alap Sip lohn 50 po ecc in oibne 1 ppogmap na bliabna 

J Magh-Luirg-an-Daghda, i. e. the plain of the River Uair, near Elphin. — See it already men- 
tracts of Daghda, who was king of the Tuatha tioned at the years 1288, 1309, 1342, 1595. 
De Dananns, angltce Moylurg, now the plains of ™ Baghna, now Slieve Baune, a well-known 
Boyle, in the county of Roscommon. mountain in the east of the county Roscommon. 

•^ Upper part. — mumcinn .i. uaccap, O'Clery ° Second Earl of Thomond, literally, " the 

in Leahhar Gabhala, p. 3. second Earl who was inaugurated over Tho- 

' Ath-Slisean, now Beal Atha-Slisean, on the mond," is not correct phraseology, according to 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2039 

taking some refreshments and resting themselves, because he did not at all 
wish to pass southwards over the mountain by daylight. When the beginning 
of night came on them they proceeded southwards over the mountain and 
across the River Boyle ; and before morning they had passed through Magh- 
Luirg-an-Daghda^ and the upper part" of Machaire-Chonnacht. Early in the 
day they sent marauding parties into the wilds and recesses of the country in 
every direction ; and these left not a single head of cattle from Ath-Slisean' to 
Baghna"", and they plundered and burned all that lay between these limits. 
They then returned back with their herds of kine and many other spoils. 
O'Rourke was ashamed that the country should have been plundered without 
his knowledge ; and the Governor, Sir Conyers Clifford, was not less grieved 
that a country, which was under his rule and jurisdiction, should have been 
[thus] plundered and burned. 

An army was led by Maguire (Hugh, the son of Cuconnaught, son of 
Cuconnaught), and Cormac, the son of Ferdorcha, son of Con Bacagh O'Neill, 
at the instance of the O'Farrells, to Mullingar, in Meath, and they preyed the 
country around them, and totally pillaged Mullingar itself, in which they did 
not leave in the town any property of gold, silver, copper, iron armour, or 
foreign wares, or any other thing that could be carried or driven from the 
town, which they did not take away with them. Upon their return back they 
set the town in a dark, red blaze and conflagration; and they afterwards 
returned safe to their homes. 

Ellen Butler, the daughter of the Earl of Ormond (Pierce Roe, the son of 
James, son of Edmond, son of Richard), and wife of the second Earl of 
Thomond" (Donough, the son of Conor, son of Turlough O'Brien), died. 

Murtough Ultach [Donlevy], the son of John, died at Druim-na-loiste°, on 
the 10th of February, after [having passed] the eighty-ninth year of his age. 

Sir John Norris, who had been the General of the Queen's army in France 
and Ireland, was deprived of his office by the new Lord Justice, who had last 
arrived in Ireland, and went to Munster, where he remained with his brother, 
Sir Thomas Norris, who had been previously President under him of Munster 
for the period of twelve years. John was seized with a disease and died sud- 

the English law of succession. land in the parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, 

° Druim-na-loiste., now Drumnalust, a town- and county of Donegal. 



2040 awwaca rjio^hachca eiReawH. [1597. 

po. 1 ba he Sip romap |iob oiohpe ap a ]porhaoinib. Qn Sip romap' pm Do 
T^noujab na hoippici ceona pin baf aicce pfin poirhe pin .i. bfir na ppeipmenr 
lap necc a bfpbparap; 

Gmann, mac uillicc na ccfno, mic Riocaipo, mic uiUicc cnuic rua^ o baile 
liili^i oecc hi SaiTipab na blioDna po. 

Qn Dubcilrac mac cuarail ui concobaip Decc. 

Conn, 1 Diapmairr oa mac an oubaluai^ pin, i mac mec Diapmara 
mai^e luipcc .i. TTIaolpuanaiD, mac bpiain, mic l?uai6pi, mic raib^ t)o bol pa 
baile TTIhec oduio .i. ^linnpcci 50 po ^abpac jabala. Qcc piUeab ooib co na 
ccpeic on mbaile puce mac meic Dauib oppa 1 liiib na Sucae 50 pafimeaD 
poppa, mapbrap laip conn o concobaip m aen Idrh rhapcai^ ap luga pob 
olc 1 cconnaccaib, "] an TTlaolpuanaib pin mac mec Diapmaca, -| Dpon^ mop 
Do baoinib iiaiple cenmordc. Do raeo mac TTIheic Daum 01a uijh lap 
mbiiaib ccopccaip ; 

ITlac uilliam do rocc Dia cfp po parhain na bliaDna po .1. repoicc mac 
udreip ciorai^h, -] a bfirh arhaiD 1 nDqm^niguib a buiuhce DairnDfoin a eap- 
ccapar. Na humaill do cpeachaD laip an can pm,"] a bfpbparaip Uomdp 
DO rhapbaD i cclomn rhuipip na mbpi^ Don cup ceDna. 

Sfan occ mac RiocaipD mic Sfain an cfpmainn do rhapbaD ap lonnpai^iD 
oibce la cuiD Do cloinn nDomnaill ap oilen na nenui^fD ap pionnloc cfpae. 

lap ppdccbail bapuin innpi ui chuinn i ccfp conaill arhail a Dubpamap, 
capla peapann ina peilb an can pin, 1 1 peilb a pinnpeap pfime ap bpu na 
Sionna Don caoib call, pope cpoipi a corhamm. Gn can ac cualacap bup- 
cai^hbpuaicch na Sionna,"] clann uilliam aepcpi maijji bdp an bapuin, appeaD 
po chinnpioc a hujDappdp pfncaipce a pinnpeap coipmfpcc Do cop ap poi- 

P Died suddenly. — P. O'Sullevan Beare tells a ^ Mac David. — He was the head of a sept of 

strange story about Sir John Norris and the the Burkes who were seated at Glinske, near 

Devil, which would do credit to the writer of the River Suck, in the east of the county of 

the Life of Dr. Faustus. — See it already referred Galway. 

to at p. 2021, supra. ^ The Owles, i. e. the baronies of Murresk 

'* Edmond of Baile- Hilighi, i. e. Edmond Burke and Burrishoole, in the west of the county of 

of Balleely, in the barony of Loughrea, and Mayo, 

county of Galway. " Clann- Muiris-na-mBrigh., i. e. Clanmaurice 

■■ Died. — Charles O'Conor adds that he died of Brees, now the barony of Clanmorris, in the 

at Breaccluin, now Bracklon, near Strokestown, county of Mayo. The ruins of the Castle of 

in the county of Roscommon. Brees, from which this territory received the 



1597 ] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2041 

denly'' in the autumn of this year ; and Sir Thomas was the heir to his pro- 
perty. Sir Thomas continued in the same office after the death of his brother. 

Edmond (the son of Ulick-na-gCeann, son of Richard, son of UUck of 
Cnoc-Tuagh), of Baile-Hilighi'', died in the summer of this year. 

Dubhaltach, the son of Tuathal O'Conor, died'. 

Con and Dermot, the two sons of this Dubhaltach, and the son of Mac 
Dermot of Moylurg (Mulrony, the son of Brian, was son of Rory, son of 
Teige), made an irruption into Glinske, the castle of Mac David', and took 
preys. On their return from the castle with their booty, the son of Mac 
David came up with them at a sinuous winding of the Suck, and defeated 
them, and slew Con O'Conor, by no means one of the least expert horsemen 
in Connaught, Mulrony Mac Dermot, already named, and many other gentle- 
men. The son of Mac David then returned home in triumph. 

Mac William (Theobald, the son of Walter Kittagh) returned to his terri- 
tory at Allhallowtide this year, and remained in the fastnesses of his country 
in despite of his enemies. During this time he plundered the Owles'. His 
brother, Thomas, was slain in Clann-Muiris-na-mBrigh", on the same occasion. 

John Oge, the son of Rickard, son of John of the Termon, was slain in a 
nocturnal assault by a party of the Clann-Donnell, on an island of Annies" in 
Finnloch-Ceara''. 

At the time when the Baron of Inchiquin was lost in Tirconnell, as we 
have stated, he had in his possession, as his ancestors had before him, lands on 
the farther brink of the Shannon, called Port-croisi^. When the Burkes of the 
Shannon side, the Clann- William of Aes-tri-Maighe^,had heard of the death of 
the Baron, they resolved, on the authority of an old charter of their ancestors, 

distinguished adjunct of na-mBrigh, are still note ^, under the year 1506, p. 1287, supra. 
to be seen in the parish of Mayo in this barony. ^ Aes-tri Maighe: i. e. the people of the three 

" Annies, in the parish of Eobeen, barony plains, now the barony of Clanwilliam, in the 

of Kilmaine, county of Mayo — See Genealogies, north-east of the county of Limerick. Accord- 

Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, -p. 4:90. ing to O'Heerin's topographical poem, this 

" i^?w?ifocA-Cear«, now Lough Carra, near Bal- territory had belonged to the Irish family of 

linrobe, in the county of Mayo. — See Genealogies, O'Conaing. They were dispossessed, shortly 

^c, of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 491. after the English Invasion, by the Clann- William 

y Poii, Croisi, now Portcrush, a townland on Burke, who fixed their chief residence at Cais- 

the south side of the Shannon, in the parish of lean-Ui-Chonaing, i. e. O'Conaing's Castle, now 

Castleconnell, and county of Limerick. See corruptly anglicised Castleconnell. 

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2042 awwa^a Rioshachca eiReaww. [1597. 

gniorhaib Tnuinncipe an ba]iuin,i a marap (.1. Tnaip5]iecc in^fn romaip ciopocc) 
ipn ppfponn pin. Do cooaji npong do cenel pfyimaic (.1. Durai^ an bapuin) 
1 ccionn miiaipspeige 00 con^narh, "] Do cuiDiuccaD ppia. Do cuai6 Dna 
TTIaipgpej, -\ an lucr pin DionnpaijiD a mfirle -\ a muinnnpe co popr cpoipi. 
O l?o piDippioc na biipcaigh pempaicce an ni pin .1. T^oniap, mac repoicc, 
niic iiilliam, mic emainn, 1 uillfcc mac uilliam, mic emainn po cionoilpioc an 
lion ap lia po peDpac "] po lonnpai^pior TTlaipjpecc -] muinncip an Bapum. 
peacap pccainnfp cp66a froppa -] jep bo huacbab Do muinnnp an Bapiiin po 
j^abpac 50 cpoDa agd nimDf^ail buDfin. Ro mapbaD Da^Daofne fcoppa ap 
gach caeb. Ro pdccbaD do Ifich bupcach uillecc mac Uilliam bupc, mic 
Gmainn, 1 cpiup no cfrpap do Da^baoinib ele. Uopcaip Dna bfop Don raeb 
apaill Q06 o hoccdin, an raen mac Dinne oipecra ap luja pob olc maic, ~\ 
inrhe baf 1 cconnrae an cldip, "| Da^Diiine ele .1. TTlupchaD, mac DonnchaiD, 
mic mupchaib puaiD, mic bpiain,"] mac an cpuipijh .1. comap mac Cpiopcopa. 

Capcin cipial, Capcin nunjenu, caemdnai^, Sfol cconcobaip pailj;!^ Sfol 
mopba, "I jabal pa^naill Do bfic, ace Denarh coccaiD, po^la, ■] Dibfipje moipe 
lUai^nib, -| 1 mbuiuilepcoib 6 pel TTIuipe 50 noDlaicc moip na bliabna po,"| ap 
eimilc a pccpiobab an po loirpior, "| in po millpioc ip na cipib pin ppip an 
pe pin. l?o mapbab leo Dna Da banna puipc laoi^ipi an peccmab la Do 
Decembep. 

^obepnoip caippge pfp^upa "] cpf banna paijDiuip amaille ppip do rhap- 

'^ Their motJier — Murrougb O'Brien, fourth of reapers^^'' which is unquestionably the mean- 
Baron of Inchiquin, who was drowned in the ing of the word in the text, for the baron was 
River Erne in 1597, was married to Margaret, drowned in July, and this rencounter between 
the daughter of Sir Thomas Cusack, Lord Chan- the Burkes of Castleconnell and his wife Marga- 
cellor of Ireland, and had by her Dermot, fifth ret took place soon after. The word merel is 
Baron of Inchiquin, and other children. The explained in Cormac's Glossary thus : 
baron's own mother was Mable, eldest daughter "ITIecel, quasi mecal, ab eo quod est meto." 
of Christopher Nugent, Baron of Delvin. '^ Gavall-Rannall. — This was the tribe name 

^ Kinet-Fearmaic. — This was originally the of the O'Byrnes of Ranelagh, in the present 

tribe name of the O'Deas, but it was at this county of Wicklow, of whom Felim, the son of 

period applied to a territory co-extensive with Fiagh O'Byrue, was chief at this period, 
the present barony of Inchiquin, in the county ^ To Christmas: literally " from the festival of 

of Clare. Mary to the Big Christmas of this year." 

'^Reapers The word rheirel, which makes ^ Port-Leix. — This is still the Irish name of the 

meicle in the genitive singular, is still used in town of Maryborough, in the Queen's County. 
the south-east of Munster to denote ''^ a party ^ The Governor of Carrickfergus. — He was Sir 



15970 ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2043 

to prevent the Baron's family and their mother* (i. e. Margaret, the daughter of 
Thomas Cusack) from working on those lands. A party of the people of 
Kinel-Fearmaic'', the Baron's territory, went to aid and assist Margaret, and 
she set out with them to her reapers*" and people to Port-croisi. When the 
aforesaid Buxkes, namely, Thomas, the son of Theobald, son of William, son of 
Edmond, and Ulick, the son of Wilham, son of Edmond, had learned this, they 
assembled as large a number as they were able, and attacked Margaret and 
the Baron's people. A fierce battle was fought between them ; and though 
the Baron's people were few in number, they proceeded valiantly to defend 
themselves. Several gentlemen were slain between them on both sides. On 
the side of the Burkes fell Ulick, the son of William, son of Edmond Burke, 
and three or four other gentlemen. On the other side also there fell Hugh 
O'Hogan, by no means the least distinguished son of a chieftain, for goodness 
and wealth, in the county of Clare, with another gentleman, namely, Murrough, 
the son of Donough, the son of Murrough Roe, son of Brian [O'Brien], and 
the son of Cruise, namely, Thomas, the son of Christopher. 

Captain Tyrrell, Captain Nugent, the Kavanaghs, the O'Conors Faly, the 
O'Mores, and the Gavall-Ranall'*, were making great war, plunder, and insur- 
rection in Leinster, and in the country of the Butlers, from the festival of the 
Virgin Mary to the Christmas^ this year ; and it would be tedious to write of 
all they plundered and destroyed in these territories during this period. On 
the 7 th day of December they slew two bands of soldiers that were stationed 
in Port-Leix^ 

About AUhallowtide this year the Governor of Carrickfergus^ and three 

John Chichester, the brother of Sir Arthur, the darij bombardarios aggrediuntur : a Catholicis 
founder of the Donegal family. P. O'Sullevan regij propulsantur. Johannes cum equitatu veni- 
Beare gives the following account of this ren- ens auxilio bombardarios suos restituit in pug- 
counter, in his Hist. Cathol. Ibern. ^-c, tom 3, nam,&Catholicos recederecogit. laimus quoque 
lib. 4, c. ii. fol. 149. equitatum in pugnam ducens bombardarijs suis 
" Hyeme sequente loannes Chichester An- confirmatis in lohannem proruit, & tribus hastae 
glus eques Auratus, qui Rupem Fargusiam arcem ictibus percussus, lorica tamen defenditur. lo- 
firmo praisidio tenebat, cum peditibus quingentis, hannes occisus equo labat, cuiius etiam equita- 
& equitum turma prsedatum egreditur. Cui fit tus, & peditatus terga vertit. Sequitur laimus 
obuius ad Alfracham tumulum, & vadum laimus per tria circiter millia vsque ad arcem, per quod 
Macdonellus Glinnia^ princeps peditibus quadrin- interuallum, regijs, vt quisque a Catholicis cursu 
gentis, & equitibus sexaginta stipatus. Eombar- superabatur, occisis, vix cladis nuncij efFuge- 

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2044 . QNHaca T^io^hachca eiReawN. [1597. 

V)a6 la Semujp mac Sorhaijile bui6e mec t)orhnaill hi ccloinn Cfoba buioe po 
Shamham na bliabna po. 

Clann cpiri^h .1. TTIu|ic1ia6 baclarhac mac mupcham bailb, mic ma^nupa 
mec pichij co na 6fpbparai]i l?uai6pi, "] Gmann, mac mupchai6 bacai j, mic 
Gmamn mic ma^nupa mec picijh 00 bapuccab la ^allaiB a lop a ccoccaiD, 1 
a noibfipcce. 

lap Tiecc an lupnp .i. Uomap lopD bu]iou5h ipm iiibap t)o bicin a ^on,"] lap 
rcabaipc coimeoa cloibim an pi^ 1 nGpinn t)on cpoinpilep, -] t)o Sip Robfpo 
gapoinep liipcip bfinnpi an pi^ arhail 00 pai6fmap, ba he neach Dia po hop- 
t>aiccea6 ^enepalacc coccaiD, ~\ piorcana na hGpenn Diapla upmurhan .1. 
romap, mac Semup, mic piapiiip puaib, conib aipe pm do ^abaD oppao erip 
an lapla pin -| maire coiccib ulab. Nip bo cian lap pm 50 noeachaib an 
jenepal .1. an ciapla upmurhan pin, "| lapla cuabmurhan .1. Donnchab mac 
concobaip 1 ccoicceab ulab 1 mi Decembep ^ap pia noolaic, 1 po baccap pfin, 
O neill, 1 O oomnaill ppi pe cfopa noibce m aen maij;in "] lomluab pioba 
ecip na hiaplabaib pin a hucc na bampio^an ppi ^aoibelaib Ifire cuinn,"| pob 
e cpiochnuccab a ntiala, pic 00 benam ecip galloib ~j gaoibelaib pa moiD na 
niaplab pin 50 belcaine ap ccinD. 'Cecca 1 pccpibenna na njaoibel pem- 
paicce, piop na naipcfccal "| na ccoin^ell ap a n^eboaip pic Doib pfin, ~\ oa 
ccorhpann coccaib in ^ach aipm 1 mbaccap 00 cop 00 pai^ib na bainpio^na 
50 Sa;coib la hiapla cuabmurhan, ") ^ibe pccela t)o nucpab anoip 1 mbelcaine 
imipc a bup Dia pfip. 

O concobaip plicci^ oonnchab mac cacail oicc, tdo bol 1 8a;coib Ct> hCcc 
pia noolaic na bliabna po. 

runt. Barnabal Baro cum Midhiensibus copijs that conuects itself with this Lord's uame is the 

Angloibernis, & aliquot Anglis cohortibus Au- doubt that exists as to the manner of spelling 

riliam deuastans <i Macmagauno Aurilise prin- it ; some writing Burke, while Camden makes 

cipe funditur, & fugatur." it Borough, and the owner of the name himself 

Lodge, however, says that Mac Donnell had wrote Bourgh." 

laid an ambuscade for Chichester. Camden calls him "Thomas Baro Borough, vir 

^ Murrough Baclcmhacli: i. e. Murrough or acer, et animi plenus, sed nullis fere castrorum 

Morgan of the Lame Hand. rudimentis." — Ann. Reg. Elis., A. D. 1597- 

' The Lord Borough — Mr. Moore, in his His- ^ And therefore. — This should be: "and the re- 

tonj of Ireland, vol. iv. p. 108, has the following suit of this appointment of Ormond was, that a 

remark on the chief Governor: cessation [' Cessationem armorum vocant Hiber- 

" The only circumstance at all memorable, nici.' — Ca/nrf.] of two months took place between 



1597] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2045 

companies of soldiers were slain in Clannaboy by James, the son of Sorley Boy 
Mac Donnell. 

The Mac Sheehys, namely, Murrough Baclamhach", the son of Murrough 
Balbh, son of Manus Mac Sheehy, with his brother, Rory, and Edmond, the 
son of Murrough Bacagh, son of Edmond, son of Manus Mac Sheehy, were 
executed by the English for their war and insurrection. 

After the Lord Justice, Thomas Lord Borough', had died of the effects of his 
wounds at Newry, and the keeping of the regal sword had been given to the 
Lord Chancellor and to Sir Robert Gardiner, Justice of the King's [Queen's] 
Bench, as we have stated, the person who was appointed to the generalship of 
war and peace in Ireland was the Earl of Ormond (Thomas, the son of James, 
son of Pierce Roe), and therefore" an armistice was concluded between this 
Earl and the chiefs of the province of Ulster. Not long after this [namely], 
in the month of December, and shortly before Christmas, this Earl of Ormond 
and the Earl of Thomond (Donough, the son of Conor), went into the province 
o'f Ulster, where they and O'Neill and O'Donnell passed three nights together 
at one place ; and a treaty concerning a peace was carried on by those Earls, on 
behalf of the Queen, with the Irish of Leath-Chuinn ; and the issue of their 
meeting was, that a peace was made between the English and the Irish, on the 
oath of these Earls, until the May following. The proposals and writings of 
the Irish aforesaid, and an account of the articles and conditions on which they 
would accept of peace for themselves and their confederates in the war, in 
every place where they were seated, were dispatched to the Queen to England 
by the Earl of Thomond' ; and whatever news'" should arrive from England in 
May should be acted upon here. 

O'Conor Sligo (Donough, the son of Cathal Oge) went to England a short 
time before the Christmas of this year. 

him and the chiefs of Ulster." — See Carte's Or- mun," i. e. by the Earl of Ormond. 
nond, Introd., p. 59- Fynes Moryson says that •" News, Scela. — This is a bad word, and 

this conference took place at Dundalk, on the the Four Masters could have found technical 

22nd of December, 1597. — See folio edition, words in abundance in their own language to 

p. 22 ; Dublin edition of 1735, vol. i. pp. 51, express this idea more distinctly. The word 

52, 53; and Cox, vol. i. p. 414. ppeagpao would be better, if they did not wish 

' By the Earl of Thomond. — This may be an to introduce the technicalties of the old Irish 

error of the transcriber for "la hiapla upmu- laws. An English writer would say : "And both 



2046 aNHQca Rjo^hachca eiReaww. [1593. 

Qn bapuTi inpe u\ cuinn rap a crangainap, l?o guineaD,"] po bdi6ea6 ag cocr 
Don jobrpnoip, -] Do na hiaplaDhaiB peTn]iaire co na plo^aib uap eipne, Ro 
roccbab a copp Id copbmac ua ccleipi^ TTlanac Do manchaib ITIaiTiipcpec 
Cfa puaiD, ■] po habnaiceaD an copp co nonoip amail po ba cecca laip ipn 
mameprip. l?o eipi^ fpaonca 1 impeapain eiccip bpairpib Duin na n^all "j 
na manaij Depibe, "] po pui^illpic na bpaicpe ^iip bo ina mainipuip pein po 
Dleacr an copp Do aDnacal, ap bd 1 mainepnp S. Ppoinpeip ina cfp babein 
no haDnaicn pinnpip an bapuin ppi pe poDa piap an ran pm. l?o bdrcap na 
nianaig accd poprcaD aca baDein co nDeacpar na bpairpi -] na manai^ do 
Idraip m Dorhnaill, "] na Deipi eppcop bdccap ipm cfp Remann o gallcubaip 
eppcop Doipe, -] mall o baoigill eppcop Parabor ^up po bpfirbai^pior na 
iTiaire pm an bapun TTliipchaD, mac mupcliaiD, uf bpiain Do aDnacal i TTlai- 
nepcip S. ppoinpeip i nDun na ngall. Do ponab arhlaib pin, ap po coccbab an 
copp 1 ccfn pdice lap na abnacal i mainipnp fppa Ruaib gup po abnaicpfu 
na bpairpe aca baDein e co nonoip -] 50 naiprhirnn arhail po ba Dfop. 

O concobaip Donn CtoDli mac Diapmacca mic caipppe baof illdirh 05 
Ua nDomnaill ppi pe poDa do legab (an 4 do Decembep) a jfirhel la hua 
nDomnaill lap ccabaipu a oijpepe bo, "] po naibm dpdcb "] pdcha paip bub 
ofin im pfip uf DomnaiU do benarh cpia bire po planaib, "] po rhionnaib De 1 
na lieccailpi,"! Do pace ppippin bpaigliDe Do ppi corhall .1. a biap mac bu- 
Dfin, TTIac oibpechua uf bfipn, ceD mac uf Qmlibe, "] oiDbpe uf ploinn -]ca. 

aOlS CPIOSU, 1598. 
Qoip Cpiopr, mile, cuicc ceD, nocar, a hocbr. 

Qn cab caoch .1. Uilliam, mac DduiD, mic Gmainn, mic uillicc a bupc Dia 
po ^aip pfm TTlac uilliam lap necc an TTlhfic uilliam baf na cijeapna poime 
.1. PipoepD mac oiluepaip, mic Sfain. Nip bo pommec puaippiurh an gaipm 

parties agreed that such decision as should be Mountgomery held the sees of Derry and Raphoe, 

sent from England should be adhered to in Ire- in conjunction with that of Clogher, by letters 

land." patent, dated the 13th of June, 1595, but it 

" Already spoken. — See p. 2027, supra. would appear that he never exercised any epis- 

° Redmond G' Gallagher, c,-c. — These were the copal jurisdiction in these northern dioceses, in 

Roman Catholic bishops of these dioceses. George which the Reformation had at this time made so 



1598.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2047 

As for the Baron of Inchiquin, of whom we have already spoken" as having 
been wounded and drowned when the Governor and the aforesaid Earls were 
crossing the Erne with their forces, his body was taken up by Cormac O'Clery, 
one of the monks of the monastery of Assaroe, and the body was buried by 
him, with due honour, in the monastery. In consequence of this a dispute and 
contention arose between the friars of Donegal and the monks of Assaroe ; 
the friars maintaining that the body should be of right buried in their own 
monastery, because the ancestors of the Baron had been for a long period be- 
fore that time buried in the Franciscan monastery in his own country, and the 
monks insisting that it should remain with themselves ; so that the friars and 
the monks went before O'Donnell, and the two Bishops who were then in the 
country, namely, Redmond 0'Gallagher°, Bishop of Derry, and Niall O'Boyle, 
Bishop of Raphoe, and these chiefs, decided upon having the Baron, Murrough, 
the son of Murrough O'Brien, buried in the monastery of St. Francis at Donegal. 
This was accordingly done, for the body was taken up at the end of three 
months after its interment in the monastery of Assaroe, and the friars reburied 
it in their own monastery** with reverence and honour, as was meet. 

O'Conor Don (Hugh, the son of Dermot, son of Carbry), who had been for 
a long time imprisoned by O'Donnell, was set at liberty by him on the 4th of 
December, after he [O'Conor] had given him his full demand ; and he solemnly 
bound himself to be for ever obedient to O'Donnell, by guarantees and oaths 
of God and the Church ; and he also delivered up to him, as hostages for the 
fulfilment of this, namely, his own two sons, the heir of O'Beirne, the eldest 
son of O'Hanly, and the heir of O'Flynn, &c. 

THE AGE OF CHRIST, 1598. 
Tlie Age of Christ, one thousand Jive hundred ninety-eight. 

The Blind Abbot (i. e. William, the son of David, son of Edmond, son of 
Ulick Burke), who had styled himself Mac William after the death of the last 
lord, namely, Richard, the son of Oliver, son of John, did not happily enjoy his 

little progress. See Harris's edition of Ware's themselves," which would not be well iinder- 

Bisliops, p. 275. stood in English. It is strange that the Cister- 

P In their own monastery : literally, " with cian monks of Assaroe, and the Franciscans of 



2048 aNwa^a Rio^hachua eiReawN. [1598. 

ri^fpria f\n uaip ]io hionnapbab e ap a ara]i6a la Sip PipDepo bin^am 50 
mbaf ina lonnapprach 6 np Do cfp 50 po ecc hi ccloinn cuilein hi mi pep- 
rembep, 1 po habnaicfoh e hi ccuinnche ippoirh abnacail pil ao6a. Qp e 
ITIac ullicim bai ann an pin cepoicc mac uareip ciocai^, ttiic Sfain, mic 
Oiliiepaip t)ia po ^aip 6 t)orhnaill ITIac uilliam arhail po pccpiobamap pe- 
rhamn. 

O carain l?uai6pi, mac majnupa, mic DonnchaiD, mic Sfam, mic aibne 
t)ecc an cfupamab la Decc Do mi appil,"] a mac Dorhnall ballac ooipDneab 
ina lonao. 

l?iocapo, mac Sfain, mic comaip, mic Piocaipo oicc a bupc 6 boipe mic 
lacuna Decc hi mi Qiigupc. 

Siuban cam ingfn lapla Dfpmuman .1. Semup, mac Sfavn, mic romaip 
Dpoicir dra Decc 1 ngfimpeaD na bliabna po, lap ccairfm mop mbliaban 1 
mbamrpebracap lap nDfr a Dfipbpme ~| na nDfi^pfp nDion^mala lap po 
hfpnaiDmeaD f DiaiDh inDiaDh. 

niac DonnchaiD cipe hoilellae .1. TTluip^fp caoc mac raibcc an upiubaip 
DO rhapbaD 1 mbpeipne uf puaipc 1 cuimcell puaDcnn cpfiche,"] TTIac DonnchaiD 
Do ^aipm DO concobap occ mac maoileclainn 6 baile an Duin. 

Ocean, mac Sfam, mic [ITlaoileaclainn Ui] occdin 6 apD cpome Decc in 
eappac na bliabna po. 

Donegal, should have thus contended for the Sligo. See it already mentioned at the years 1352 

body of a Protestant baron. and 1468. The family of Mac Donough, who are 

^Sil-Aodha: "i. e. semen, progenies seu, genus an offset of the Mac Dermots of Moylurg, re- 

Aidi, seu Hugonis." This Avas one of the tribe tained some property in the county of Sligo till 

names of the Mac Namaras of Thomond, who very recently. In 1688, Terence Mac Donough, 

were otherwise called Ui-Caisin and Clann- Esq., of Creevagh, was M. P. for the town of 

Coileain. — See note y, under the year 1592, Sligo; he died in 1713. — ^eo. Memoir of O Conor, 

p. 1910, supra. p. 141. He was the only Catholic counsel that 

^ Doire-mic-Lachtna: i.e. Eoboretumfilii Lacht- was admitted to the Irish bar after the viola- 

nai, now Derrymaclaughny, a townland contain- tion of the Conditions of Limerick. This Ter- 

ing the ruins of a castle, situated a short distance ence, who is traditionally called in the country, 

to the north-east of the hill of Cnoc-tuagh, or " the great Counsellor Mac Donough," was the 

Knockdoe, in the barony of Clare, and county of lawyer who saved to Donough Liath O'Conor, 

Galway — See map to Tribes, ^c. of Hy-Mant/, of Belanagare, a small tract of property from 

on which the situation of this castle is shewn. confiscation. A bill of discovery had been filed 

* Baile-an-duin, now Ballindoon, near Balli- against this Donough by Mr. French, of French 

nafad, in the barony of Tirerrill, and county of Park, under the Statute 1 Anne, chap. 32, but 



1598.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 2049 

title of lord, for he was expelled from his patrimony by Sir Richard Bingham ; 
after which he went about wandering as an exile from territory to territory, 
until he died in Clann-Cuilein [in Thomond], in the month of September; and 
he was buried in the abbey of Quin, in the burial-place of the Sii-Aedha**. The 
Mac William who was lord at that time was Theobald (the son of Walter Kit- 
tagh, son of John, son of Oliver), whom O'Donnell had nominated Mac William, 
as we have written before. 

O'Kane (Rory, the son of Manus, son of Donough, son of John, son of Aibhne) 
died on the fourteenth day of the month of April; and his son, Donnell Ballagh, 
was installed in his place. 

Rickard, the son of John, son of Thomas, son of Rickard Oge Burke, from 
Doire-mic-Lachtna'', died in the month of August. 

Joan Cam, the daughter of the Earl of Desmond, namely, of James, the son 
of John, son of Thomas of Drogheda, died in the winter of this year, having 
spent many years in [a state of] widowhood, after the destruction of her tribe, 
and of the worthy men to whom she had been successively espoused. 

Mac Donough of Tirerrill (Maurice Caech, the son of Teige-an-Triubhis) 
was slain in Breifny-O'Rourke, as he was carrying off a prey from thence ; upon 
which Conor Oge, son of Melaghlin, from Baile-an-duin^ was appointed the 
Mac Donough. 

Ogan', the son of John, son of [Melaghlin 0'h-]Ogain of Ard-Croine, died 
in the spring of this year. 

Mac Donough managed the reply so ^bly, and words in brackets, whicli are supplied from 

being supported by the interests of Lord Kings- Duald Mac Firbis. The O'Hogans were seated 

land and Lord TaafFe, finally succeeded in re- at Ardcrony, four miles to the north of the 

storing Donough O'Conor to about seven hun- town of Nenagh, in the county of Tipperary. 

dred acres of land, which descended to his son, The Ogan mentioned in the text had four 

Charles O'Conor, of Belanagare, the historian. brothers: Conor, of Ardcrony; John, Prior of 

The family of Mac Donough have now scarcely Lorha ; Gillapatrick, Erenagh of Lorha ; and 

any property remaining, and the race have lat- William. Their line of pedigree is given by 

terly fallen into obscurity. Duald Mac Firbis as follows, p. 403 : — Ogan, 

It will be seen, from reference to the state- son of John, son of Melaghlin, son of John, 

ment under the year 1468 {ante, p. 1053), that son of Thomas, son of Siacus, son of Conor