5] the kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 7th of the
6]
moon; the age of the Lord two hundred and five years,
7]
and a thousand.
William Burk, destroyer of all Erinn, of
8]
nobility and chieftainship, mortuus
est.
Lochlainn, son
9]
of Domhnall, son of Ferghal O'Ruairc, was slain by
10]
Muinter-Pheodhacháin.
Great frost and snow from the
11]
kalends of January to the festival of Patrick in this
year.
Gillachrist O'Maelmhiadhaigh,
12]
chieftain of Muinter-Eolais,
13]
was slain by the Connachtmen.
A fleet was
14]
brought by John de Curci from Innsi-Gall, to contest
15]
Uladh with the sons of Hugo de Laci and the Foreigners of
16]
Midhe. No good resulted from this expedition, however;
17]
but the country was destroyed and plundered; and they
18]
afterwards departed without obtaining power.
John
19]
made his covenant and amity with O'Neill and the
20]
Cenel-Eoghain.
21] The kalends of January on Sunday, the l8th of the
22]
moon; the age of the Lord two hundred and six years,
23]
and a thousand. Ab Incarnatione Domini nostri Jesu
24]
Christi, secundum Dionysium, m.cc.vi; secundum autem
25]
Bedam, m.c.xcix: ab Incarnatione secundum Ebraeos,
26]
m.cccc.lix; ab initio mundi secundum Ebraeos, v.cccc.x;
27]
ab initio mundi secundum lxx. Interpretes,
v.dc.luii.
28] Muirghes O'hEnna, archbishop of Mumha, and legate of
29]
the comarb of Peter during a long time, quievit. Murchadh
30]
O'hAedha, bishop of Corcach, quievit.
Domhnall, son
2] Andiles Mac Finnbhairr mortuus
est.
Donat Ua Becdha,
3]
bishop of Uí-Amhalghadha, quievit.
Maelpetair O'Calmáin,
4]
comarb of Cainnech, pillar of the piety and
5]
honour of the North of Erinn, in pace
quievit.
A great
6]
destruction of men and cattle in this year.
The comarb
7]
of Patrick went to the house of the king of the Saxons,
8]
on behalf of the churches of Erinn, and to complain of
9]
the Foreigners.
10] The kalends of January on Monday, the 3rd feria, the
11]
20th of the moon; the age of the Lord two hundred and
12]
seven years, and a thousand.
Tomaltach of the Rock, son
13]
of Conchobhar, son of Diarmaid, son of Tadhg O'Maelruanaidh,
14]
king of Magh-Luirg, mortuus est.
Ruaidhri
15]
O'Gadhra, king of Sliabh-Lugha, mortuus
est.
Cathal,
16]
son of Diarmaid, son of Tadhg O'Maelruanaidh, assumed
17]
the sovereignty of Magh-Luirg in this year.
A depredation
18]
was commited by Eignechán O'Domhnaill in Feara-Manach;
19]
but the Feara-Manach, in greater force than
20]
they were, overtook them, and O'Domhnaill, king of
Tír-Conaill,
21]
till then the tower of valour, and honour, and
22]
strength of the North of Erinn, was slain there; and a
23]
number of his own chieftains fell along with him, viz.:
24]
the Gilla-riabhach, son of Ceallach O'Baighill; Mathghamhain,
25]
son of Domhnall Midhech O'Conchobhair;
26]
Donnchadh Conallach, son of Conchobhar Maenmhaighe
27]
O'Conchobhair; et alii multi nobiles et ignobiles
cum
28]
eis occisi sunt.
The son of Mac Mathghamhna and the
29]
Feara-Manach, and the Airghialla, victores
fuerunt.
30] Amhlaibh O'Ferghail, king-chieftain of Muinter-Anghaile,
31]
quievit.
The castle of Ath-an-urchair was captured by
32]
Walter de Laci and his brother, i.e. Hugo de
Laci.
1] The kalends of January on Tuesday, the 10th of the
2]
moon; the age of the Lord two hundred and eight years,
3]
and a thousand.
Cathal, son of Diarmaid, son of Tadhg
4]
O'Maelruanaidh, king of Magh-Luirg, was taken prisoner
5]
by Cathal Crobhderg, in violation of the bishops who
6]
were guarantees between them, viz.:Ardghal O'Conchobhair,
7]
and Muireadhach O'Dubhthaigh, and Clement
8]
O'Sniadhaigh. He was released after some time, through
9]
the guarantee of those bishops, without pledge or hostage.
10]
He departed out of the district afterwards, and took a
11]
great prey, which he carried with him until he reached
12]
Loch-mic-Nén. At the end of a week he came again on a
13]
predatory expedition to Tir-Oiliolla, and he carried the
14]
prey into the Corr-sliabh, and over Corr-sliabh into Magh-Luirg.
15]
A great force overtook him there, viz.:Diarmaid,
16]
son of Maghnus, son of Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair;
17]
and Maghnus, son of Muirchertach, son of Toirdhelbhach
18]
O'Conchobhair; and Cormac, son of Tomaltach of
19]
the Rock; and Muiredhach, son of Tomaltach of the
20]
Rock; and Donnsleibhe, son of Ruaidhri O'Gadhra,
21]
king of Sliabh-Lugha; and Flaithbhertach O'Flannacain,
22]
chief of Clann-Cathail; and Gilla na-nech O'Mannachain,
23]
king of Uí-Briuin-na-Sinna. When the Breifnian mercenaries
24]
perceived that they had been overtaken by this
25]
immense force, as soon as they had passed over Lec-Damhaighe
26]
they fled. When only his own people, therefore,
27]
were with Mac Diarmada, he was rushed upon, and
28]
his son, i.e. Muirghes, was slain; and other men of his
29]
people were slain, and he himself was ultimately
captured.
30] After the dispersion of this great force the counsel which
31]
the sons of Tomaltach of the Rock adopted was to blind
32]
Mac Diarmada.
He was blinded by them, truly, and his
33]
people were routed.
A great war between the Foreigners
34]
of Erinn this year, i.e. between the sons of Hugo de Laci,
35]
and Meyler, and Geoffroi Mareis.
A great predatory
A battle was gained by the
10]
son of Raghnall, son of Somhairle, over the men of Sciadh,
11]
in which a countless multitude were slain.
12] The kalends of January on Wednesday, the 21st of the
13]
moon; the age of the Lord nine years, and two hundred,
14]
and a thousand.
The king of the Saxons came to Erinn,
15]
accompanied by an immense fleet.
Gillachrist O'Cernaigh,
16]
comarb of Condere, in bona poenitentia
quievit.
17] David, bishop of Loch-Garman, was killed by O'Faelan
18]
of the Deisi-Mumhan.
A battle between the Cenel-Conaill
19]
and the Cenel-Eoghain, ubi
interfecti sunt multi de
20]
utroque exercitu.
Finghin, son of Diarmaid, son of Cormac
21]
Mac Carthaigh, king of Des-Mumha, interfectus est
a suis.
22] Ualgharg O'Ruairc was dethroned, and Art, son of Domhnall,
23]
son of Ferghal O'Ruairc, was made king in his
place.
24] The kalends of January on Thursday, the 2nd of the
25]
moon; the age of the Lord ten years, and two hundred,
26]
and a thousand.
Art, son of Domhnall, son of Ferghal
27]
O'Ruairc, king of Breifne, was slain through treachery by
28]
Cormac, son of Art O'Maelsechlainn.
Céle O'Dubhthaigh,
29]
bishop of Magh-hEó, quievit.
Flaithbhertach O'Floinn,
30]
comarb of Dachonna of Es-mic-Eirc, in Christo
quievit.
31] Johannes, grandson of the Empress, king of the Saxons,
After
2]
arriving he commanded a great hosting of the men of
3]
Erinn to Ulidia, to apprehend Hugo de Laci, or to expel
4]
him from Erinn, and to capture Carraic-Fergusa.
Hugo
5]
left Erinn, and the persons who were defending the
6]
Carraic abandoned it, and came to the king; and the
7]
king put men of his own company into it.
He afterwards
8]
sent a fleet of his people to Manainn, and they
9]
plundered it, and killed its people.
10] Cathal Crobhderg O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht, and
11]
the Connachtmen were on this
hosting.
On their return
12]
from the north the king of the Saxons told the king of
13]
Connacht to come to meet him at the end of a
fortnight.
He
14]
promised that he would, and that he would bring his son
15]
with him, i.e. Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg; (and it
16]
was not the king who requested this). Bring him,
17]
said the king, that he may receive a charter for the
18]
third part of Connacht.
When O'Conchobhair arrived
19]
at his own place, the counsel which he, and his wife, and
20]
his people adopted was, not to take the son to the king,
21]
although this was the worst counsel. However, when
22]
O'Conchobhair went to the king of the Saxons, and did
23]
not take his son with him, Diarmaid, son of Conchobhar
24]
Mac Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg, and Conchobhar
25]
O'hEghra, king of Luighne of Connacht, and Find
26]
O'Carmacan, a man of trust to O'Conchobhair, and
27]
Toirberd, son of a Gall-Gaeidhel, one of O'Conchobhair's
28]
stewards, were apprehended by the king of the Saxons.
29] The king of the Saxons went across afterwards, and took
30]
these chieftains with him to Saxon-land. He left the
31]
government of Erinn with the Foreign Bishop, and ordered
The Foreign Bishop
2]
commanded a hosting towards Connacht, viz.:himself
3]
and the forces of Midhe and Laighen, as far as Ath-Luain,
4]
when a bridge was constructed by him across Ath-Luain,
5]
and a castle instead of O'Conchobhair's castle.
6] Donnchadh Cairbrech O'Briain, with his army, and
7]
Geoffroi Mareis, with his army of the Foreigners of
8]
Mumha, and Aedh, son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, and
9]
the son of O'Flaithbhertaigh along with them, proceeded
10]
into Connacht, until they reached Tuaim-da-ghualann, and
11]
committed great depredations from thence to Loch-na-nairne,
12]
in Ciarraighe, where they committed great depredations;
13]
and they were a fortnight, or nearly twenty
14]
nights, in Ciarraighe, and the Connachtmen before
them.
15] They made peace afterwards, i.e. O'Conchobhair, and
16]
Donnchadh Cairbrech, and Geoffroi Mareis.
The conditions
17]
were, i.e. that they should be allowed a passage to
18]
Ath-Luain, to meet the Foreign Bishop, and should make
19]
peace between O'Conchobhair and the Foreign Bishop.
20] They made peace between them; and the conditions
21]
were that Toirdhelbhach, son of Cathal Crobhderg, and
22]
the son of another noble, should be delivered into the
23]
hand of the Foreign Bishop.
24] The kalends of January on Saturday, the
13th of the
25]
moon; the age of the Lord eleven years, and two hundred,
26]
and a thousand.
Toirdhelbhach, son of Ruaidhri, took
27]
a prey in Magh-Luirg, and carried it into the Seghais,
28]
to Diarmaid, i.e. his brother; and Aedh, son of Cathal,
29]
pursued him until he Toirdhelbhach went
into the
30]
North, to escape from him.
O'Dobhailen, bishop of Cenannus,
30]
quievit.
Galo Mac Manchain, chief sage of all
32]
Erinn, occisus est.
Richard de Tuit was killed by a stone
The hostages of Connacht arrived in
2]
Erinn, viz.:Diarmaid, son of Conchobhar Mac Diarmada,
3]
king of Magh-Luirg, and Conchobhar O'hEghra,
4]
king of Luighne, and Find O'Carmacan, and Toirbherd
5]
son of a Gall-Gaeidhel.
Airechtach Mac Duinncathaigh
6]
occisus est.
Thomas Mac Uchtraigh and the sons of
7]
Raghnall, son of Somhairle, came to Doire-Choluim-Chille
8]
with seventy-seven ships, and the town was
9]
greatly injured by them.
O'Domhnaill and they went
10]
together to Inis Eoghain, and they completely destroyed
11]
the country.
12] The kalends of January on Sunday; the age of the
13]
Lord twelve years, and two hundred, and a thousand.
A
14]
hosting by the Connachtmen, at the command of the
15]
Foreign Bishop and Gillibert Mac Goisdelbh, to Es-Ruaidh,
16]
when the castle of Cael-uisce was erected by
17]
them.
Another hosting by the Foreigners of Erinn and
18]
the same Foreign Bishop, to take possession of the
19]
North of Erinn, when they erected the castle of Cluain-Eois;
20]
and the Feara-Manach, and the son of Mac Mathghamhna,
21]
inflicted a great slaughter on them on the
22]
northern side of Cluain-Eois.
A great victory was
23]
gained over John de Grey, i.e. the Justice of Erinn, by
24]
the son of Art O'Maelsechlainn,in which he lost all his
25]
treasure.
Imhar O'Ferghail, dux of Muinter-Anghaile,
26]
occisus est a fratre suo.
Gillachrist Mac Diarmada was
27]
slain by Murchadh Carrach O'Ferghail.
A depredation
28]
was committed by the Gilla-fiaclach O'Baighill and a
29]
party of the Cenel-Conaill, on the Cenel-Eoghain, who
30]
were under the guarantee of O'Tairchert.
O'Tairchert
31]
overtook them, and fought a battle against them.
32] The Gilla-riabhach O'Tairchert, i.e. the king-chieftain of
2] Druim-chaein, with its
3]
churches, was burned by the Cenel-Eoghain, without
4]
licence from O'Neill.
Ferghal O'Cathain, i.e. king of
5]
Cianachta and Feara-na-Craeibhe, was killed by the
Foreigners.
6] Domhnall O'Daimhin was slain by the son of
7]
Mac Lachlainn in the doorway of
Recles-Choluim-Chille.
8] The kalends of January on Tuesday, the 5th of the
9]
moon; the age of the Lord thirteen years, and two
10]
hundred, and a thousand.
The castle of Cluain-Eois was
11]
destroyed by O'Neill.
Gillibert Mac Goisdelbh was
12]
killed in the castle of Cael-uisce, and the castle itself was
13]
burned.
Donnchadh O'hEidhin was blinded by Aedh,
14]
son of Cathal Crobhderg.
The victory of Coill-na-gcrann
15]
was gained by Cormac, son of Art
O'Maelsechlainn, over
16]
the Foreigners, in which a great multitude of the Foreigners
17]
were slain, along with Perris Messat and Walter Dunel.
18] Domhnall, son of Domnhnall Bregach O'Maelsechlainn,
19]
was slain by the Foreigners.
Thomas Mac Uchtraigh and
20]
Ruaidhri Mac Raghnaill plundered Doire-Choluim-Chille,
21]
and carried off the precious things of the community of
22]
Doire, and of the North of Erinn besides, from the middle
23]
of the great church of the Recles.
O'Cathain and Feara-na-Craeibhe
24]
came to Doire, to capture a house against
25]
the sons of Mac Lachlainn, when they killed the
26]
great butler of the Recles of Doire between them.
God
27]
and Colum-Cille, however, performed a great miracle there,
28]
viz.:the man who had assembled this muster, Mathghamhain
29]
Mac Aithne, was killed in vindication of Colum-Cille,
30]
in the very doorway of the Dubh-Recles of Colum-Cille.
31] The castle of Cul-rathain was erected by Thomas
The king of Alba died, i.e. William Garm.
5] Aedh O'Neill inflicted a defeat on the Foreigners, and committed
6]
a great slaughter of the Foreigners there; and the
7]
Carlongphort (Carlingford) was burned on the
same day, both people
8]
and cattle.
9] The kalends of January on Wednesday, the l6th of
10]
the moon.
The castle of Cluain-mic-Nois and the castle
11]
of Durmhagh were built by Foreigners.
Expulsion of
12]
the son of Art from Delbhna, by the Foreigners and
13]
Gaeidhel of all Erinn.
Cormac, son of Art, went into
14]
Delbhna again, and his people carried off a prey of cows
15]
from the castle of Cluain, and defeated the Foreigners of
16]
the castle.
Imhar Mac Garghamhna was killed by
17]
Meiler's Foreigners.
The son of Art went to the castle of
18]
Ath-buidhe in Feara-Ceall, and burned its bawn, and slew
19]
eight of its inhabitants, and carried off a great number of
20]
cattle.
Ualgharg O'Ruairc, king of Breifne, went on a
21]
predatory incursion into the territory of Philip Mac
22]
Goisdelbh, and brought away a great number of cows, and
23]
returned safely.
Cormac, son of Art, came again into
24]
Delbhna, and committed a retaliatory depredation on
25]
Maelsechlainn Bec O'Maelsechlainn, and plundered him,
26]
and expelled him from Delbhna, and killed the son of
27]
William Muilinn: and Maelsechlainn the younger
28]
escaped by virtue of his running. Cormac, son of Art,
29]
went to the castle of Birr, and burned its bawn, and
30]
burned the entire church, and took all its food out of it,
31]
in order that the Foreigners of the castle should not get
Gilla-na-naemh O'Ruadhan, bishop of Luighne,
2]
in Christo quievit.
O'Muircen, bishop of Cluain-mic-Nois,
3]
in Christo
quievit.
Muirchertach, son of Brian,
4]
was slain by Foreigners.
In this year, moreover, appeared
5]
the false Aedh, who was called 'the Aider'.
A depredation
6]
was committed by Aedh, son of Maelsechlainn Mac
7]
Lachlainn, on the comarb of Colum-Cille; and Aedh himself
8]
was slain by the Foreigners in the same year, through a
9]
miracle of Colum-Cille.
Benmhidhe, daughter of O'hEighnigh,
10]
i.e. the wife of Aedh O'Neill, i.e. king of Oilech,
11]
in bona poenitentia quievit.
A hosting by Aedh O'Neill
12]
into Ulidia, and he inflicted a great defeat on the
Foreigners.
Alexander, son of William Garm, was made
13]
king over Alba.
14] The kalends of January on Thursday, the 27th of the
15]
moon; the age of the Lord fifteen years, and two hundred,
16]
and a thousand;
the last year of the Nineteen; and it
17]
was a contrary year.
Ardghal O'Conchobhair, bishop of
18]
Síl-Muiredhaigh, in pace
quievit.
The bishop O'Cellaigh
19]
of Rathan in Christo quievit.
A congress of the
20]
bishops of Christendom at Rome, in the time of Pope
21]
Innocent the Third.
This is the number of the bishops
22]
that were there, viz.:cccc.xv., inter quos
fuerunt tam
23]
primates quam archiepiscopi lxxi; numerus abbatum et
24]
priorum d.ccc. On the festival of Martin, in particular,
25]
the congress met.
Fifteen
26]
giurneisi on each side of
27]
Muir-Torrian became dry in this year.
Cathal, son of
28]
Diarmaid, son of Tadhg O'Maelruanaidh, king of Magh-Luirg,
29]
in Christo quievit.
Trad O'Maelfhabhuill, chieftain
Donnchadh O'Duibhdirma,
4]
chieftain of the Bredach, died in the Dubh-recles of Colum-Cille,
5]
in Doire.
Murchadh Mac Cathmhail, king-chieftain
6]
of Cenel-Feradhaigh, died through a miracle of
Colum-Cille.
7] Ruaidhri O'Floinn, king of Durlus, died.
8] The kalends of January on Friday, and the 9th of the
9]
moon; the first year of the Nineteen, and a bissextile year;
10]
the age of the Lord sixteen years, and two hundred, and
11]
a thousand.
Gillachrist O'Mannachain died in Rome this
12]
year.
A synod of the clerics of the whole world in
13]
Rome this year, at the Lateran, with the Pope Innocentius;
14]
and soon after this synod Innocentius papa quievit
15]
in Christo.
16] John, king of the Saxons, was deposed by the
17]
Saxons in this year; and he died of a fit.
The son of the
18]
king of France assumed the sovereignty of the Saxons,
19]
and obtained their pledges.
Gilla-Croichefraich Mac Carghamhna
20]
died, and the priest O'Celli mortuus est;
after
21]
they had both crossed themselves, and determined to go
22]
to the river.
The abbot O'Lotan, a paragon of piety and
23]
learning, in pace quievit.
Gregory, son of Gilla-na-naingel,
24]
abbot of the monks of Erinn, in pace
quievit, in the
25]
eastern world, after having been expelled by the monks
26]
of Droiched-atha, through envy and jealousy.
The primate
27]
of Erinn, i.e. Mac Gillauidhir, died in Rome, after holding
28]
a synod of the clerics of Erinn; and manifest miracles are
29]
performed through him in Rome.
The archbishop
30]
O'Ruanadha was cruelly and violently taken prisoner by
31]
the Connachtmen and Maelisa O'Conchobhair, and put in
32]
chains; a thing that we never heard of before, viz.:an
33]
archbishop being manacled.
Annadh O'Muiredhaigh,
Patricius, bishop of Cnoc-Muaidhe,
2]
quievit.
Mathghamhain O'Laithbhertaigh, king
3]
of Clann-Domhnaill, died.
4] The kalends of January on Sunday, the 20th of the
5]
moon; a bissextile year; the age of the Lord seventeen
6]
years, and two hundred, and a thousand.
Oissin, abbot
7]
of the canons of Mainister-derg, quievit.
All the fishermen
8]
of Erinn from Port-Lairge, from the south, and from
9]
Loch-Carman northwards to Doire-Choluim-Chille, went
10]
to Manainn to fish. They committed violence in it, and
11]
were all slain in punishment for their violence in
Manainn.
12] All the abbots of Erinn went across eastwards, to the
13]
general chapter, in this year; and their attendants were
14]
dispersed, and the choice of them were slain, by Saxons;
15]
and the abbot of Droichet-atha was deprived of his
16]
abbacy in this chapter.
Every tree the nature of which
17]
it was to bear fruit had its full crop in this year.
A predatory
18]
host of the Foreigners of Uladh went to Ard-Macha,
19]
which was all plundered by them; and O'Fothuelan
20]
was the person who guided them; for he had
promised
21]
to the community of Ard-Macha that the Foreigners
22]
would not plunder them whilst he would be with
23]
the Foreigners.
At the end of a week afterwards
24]
O'Neill Ruadh and the son of Mac Mathghamhna came
25]
and took a great prey from the Foreigners, viz.:one
26]
thousand and two hundred cows. The Foreigners and
27]
O'Fothuelan went after them.
The Eoghanachs turned
28]
against them, and killed fourteen Foreigners who
29]
were clad in coats of mail, including the constable of
30]
Dealgan; and O'Fothuelan was slain in revenge of
31]
Patrick.
Gilla-Tighernaigh Mac Gilla-Ronain, bishop of
32]
Airghiall, and head of the canons of Erinn, in
bona
33]
poenitentia quievit.
1] The kalends of January on Monday, the 1st of the
2]
moon; the second year after a bissextile; the age of the
3]
Lord eighteen years, and two hundred, and a thousand.
4] Gilla-Ernain O'Martain, chief poet of Erinn,
and professor
5]
of many arts, after spending his life with the monks, in
6]
pace quievit.
The Ferdana O'Maelrioc, the chief professor
7]
of his own art from the O'Dalaighs down, mortuus
8]
est.
Tadhg O'Ferghail, dux of Muinter-Anghaile, was
9]
killed by Murchadh Carrach O'Ferghail.
Diarmaid, son
10]
of Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg, died
11]
in this year; and Cormac, son of Tomaltach of the
Rock,
12]
son of Conchobhar, assumed sovereignty after Diarmaid.
13] Donnchadh O'Maelbhrenuinn died in hoc
anno.
Mor,
14]
daughter of Domhnall O'Briain, wife of Cathal Crobhderg
15]
O'Conchobhair, queen of Connacht, died this year.
The
16]
town of Ath-Luain was burned on the Midhe side.
17] O'Nioc, abbot of Cill-Becan, died after the triumph of
18]
diligence and devotion.
Domhnall O'Gadhra mortuus
19]
est.
Muirchertach O'Floinn, king of Uí-Tuirtre, was slain
20]
by the Foreigners.
Conghalach O'Cuinn, torch of valour
21]
and bravery of the North of Erinn, king-chieftain of Magh-Lughach
22]
and all Síl-Chathusaigh, was slain on the same
23]
day.
Maelisa O'Daighri, airchinnech of
Doire-Choluim-Chille,
24]
in bono fine quievit in
pace.
25] The kalends of January on Tuesday, the l2th of the
26]
moon; and the third year after a bissextile; erat
pluvia
27]
per totum annum paucis diebus exceptis.
The age of the
28]
Lord nineteen years, and two hundred, and a thousand.
29] The comarb of Feichin of Fobhar mortuus
est.
Murchadh
Cluain-Coirpthe
6]
was burned, with its houses, and with its church,
7]
in this year; and Droichet-atha was carried away by the
8]
flood.
9] Clemens, bishop of Luighne, in Christo
quievit.
10] Fonachdan O'Brónan, comarb of Colum-Cille, in pace
11]
quievit.
Flann O'Brolchan was ordained in his place.
12] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the 23rd
13]
of the moon; and it was a bissextile year, and the fifth
14]
year of the Nineteen; and the Seventy are earlier than
15]
the age of the Lord twenty years, and two hundred, and a
thousand.
Dubhdara, son of Muiredhach O'Maille, was
16]
killed in a dispute by Cathal Crobhderg, in his own camp,
17]
in violation of all Connacht; and this was a grievous act,
18]
although it was his own misdeeds that recoiled on him.
19] Consecration of the church of the monastery of Buill, in
20]
Connacht, in this year.
Aedh O'Maeleoin, bishop of Cluain,
21]
was drowned.
Maelsechlainn, son of Conchobhar Maenmhaighe,
22]
mortuus est.
Gillachrist Mac Gormain, great
23]
priest of Tech-Sinche, the senior of greatest charity, and
24]
devotion, and knowledge of reading and writing; and the
25]
promoter of everything necessary to men and books in
26]
the church, after the triumph of devotion and pilgrimage, in
27]
the sanctuary of Inis-Clothrann quievit in
Christo.
Walter
28]
de Laci came to Erinn, and performed a great hosting to
29]
the crannog of O'Raighilligh. He went upon
it, and
A great depredation
2]
was committed by Murchad Carrach O'Ferghail
3]
on Muinter-Geradhain, and Tadhg O'Conaith was slain;
4]
and Maghnus, son of Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair, and
5]
John Maissin led a predatory force afterwards against
6]
Murchadh.
Maelmichil O'Tomaidh, high airchinnech of
7]
Tech-Sinche, and Gilla-in-Choimdedh Mac Ferdomhuin,
8]
quieverunt in Christo.
Lucas de Letreville came to Erinn,
9]
and brought with him the primacy of all Erinn; and he
10]
was the first Foreigner who obtained the primacy of
11]
Erinn.
12] The kalends of January on Friday, and the fourth of
13]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-one years, and two
14]
hundred, and a thousand.
The Cairnech Riabhach Mac
15]
Flannchaidh was slain by Aedh, son of Domhnall, son of
16]
Ferghail O'Ruairc.
Gilla-na-naemh Mac Conmedha, dux of
17]
Muinter-Laodhacháin, was killed with one cast of an arrow
18]
by the sons of O'Flannagan of Eastern Teffa, whilst coming
19]
from the Caislén-núa.
Maelsechlainn O'Maelsechlainn,
20]
the younger, was drowned, and Mac Conmedha, i.e. the
21]
son of Ugholoid Mac Conmedha.
The castle of Ath-Liag
22]
was attempted to be made by Walter de Laci and all the
23]
forces of Midhe.
When the Connachtmen heard this,
24]
however, they came across from the west, and proceeded
25]
through the middle of Muinter-Anghaile, and
26]
into Magh-Breghmhuidhe, when they burned
Daingen-Uí-Chuinn,
27]
and went through it westwards into the
28]
Caladh; and the castle was abandoned to them, through
29]
force, and on conditions of peace.
30] Jacobus Penciail came to Erinn as Legate from Rome,
31]
to settle and arrange ecclesiastical affairs; and he collected
Diarmaid, son of Ruaidhri, son of Toirdhelbhach
4]
Mór O'Conchobhair, was slain by Thomas Mac Uchtraigh
5]
as he was coming from Insi-Gall, whilst collecting a
6]
fleet for the purpose of acquiring the sovereignty of
7]
Connacht; and this was a great pity, viz.:the materies
8]
of a king of Erinn to fall so before his time.
Maelruanaidh
9]
O'Dubhda, king of Uí-Amhalghaidh, was
10]
drowned whilst assembling the same fleet.
Diarmaid
11]
O'Culechain, a professor of history and writing, died in
12]
this year, i.e. a man who had more writings and knowledge
13]
than any one that came in his own time; and it was
14]
he that wrote the Mass book of Cnoc, and another Mass
15]
book the equal of it for Diarmaid Mac Oirechtaigh, his
16]
tutor, andfor Gillapatraic, his foster-brotherthe comarbs
17]
of Achadh-Fabhair in succession.
The son of Hugo de
18]
Laci came to Erinn without the consent of the king
19]
of the Saxons, and proceeded to Aedh O'Neill; and
20]
they both went against the Foreigners of Erinn, and
21]
committed great injuries in Midhe, and in Laighen, and
22]
in Ulidia, and demolished the castle of Cul-rathain;
23]
and the Foreigners of Erinn collected twenty-four battalions
24]
to Delgan; but Aedh O'Neill and the son of
25]
Hugo de Laci came with four battalions against them,
26]
and the Foreigners gave his own award to O'Neill
27]
there.
28] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the 15th
29]
of the moon; M.cc.xxii.
The abbot Mac Suala in
30]
pace quievit.
Gillamochoinne O'Cathail, king of Cenel-Aedha
31]
east and west, was slain by Sechnasach, son
32]
of Gilla-na-naemh O'Sechnasaigh, after having been
33]
betrayed by his own people.
Great wind, through which
34]
structures, and buildings, and ships were destroyed in
35]
this year.
Mor, daughter of O'Baighill, wife of Amhlaibh
36]
O'Beollain, mortua est.
Niall O'Neill profaned Doire
Tadhg O'Baighill, the
4]
happiness and opulence of the North of Erinn, the distributor
5]
of jewels and riches to men of every profession,
6]
mortuus est.
7] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the 26th of
8]
the moon; M.cc.xxiii.
Alpin O'Maelmhuaidh, bishop of
9]
Ferna, in Christo quievit.
The bishop Mac Gelain, bishop
10]
of Cill-dara, eodem anno quievit.
Cluain-mic-Nois was
11]
burned, and many jewels, together with two churches,
12]
in this year.
William de Laci came to Erinn, and constructed
13]
the crannog of Inis-Laodhachain; and the
Connachtmen
14]
entered forcibly upon it, and let out on parole
15]
the people who were in it.
Twenty-six feet in height was
16]
added to the church of Tech-Sinche, by the priest of the
17]
place, i.e. Mael Mac Gormain.
Great wind on the day
18]
after the festival of Matthew, which injured all the oats
19]
of Erinn that it found standing.
Murchadh Carrach
20]
O'Ferghail was killed by the discharge of an arrow, whilst
21]
making an attack on Aedh, son of Amhlaibh O'Ferghail.
22] Sechnasach, son of Gilla-na-naemh O'Sechnasaigh, was
23]
slain by the Clann-Cuilein, and the great bachal of Mac
24]
Duach was profaned regarding him, and its cleric was
25]
slain.
Maelisa, son of Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
26]
died in Inis-medhóin.
Dubhthach O'Dubhthaigh, abbot of
27]
Cunga, quievit in hoc
anno.
24] Finn O'Carmacain, agent
25]
and great landholder to the king of Connacht, moritur.
1] The kalends of January on Monday, and the 7th of
2]
the moon; M.cc.xxiiii.
A shower fell in places in Connacht,
3]
viz.:in Tir-Maine, and in Soghan, and in
Uí-Diarmada,
4]
and in Clann-Taidhg, from which grew a great
5]
distemper among cows after eating grass and foliage;
6]
and their milk and flesh produced various diseases in the
7]
persons who partook of them.
Cathal Crobhderg O'Conchobhair,
8]
king of Connacht, and king of the Gaeidhel of
9]
Erinn according to merit, died in the monastery of Cnoc-Muaidhe
10]
on the 5th of the kalends of June; the best
11]
Gaeidhel for nobility and honour that came from the
12]
time of Brian Borumha down; the battle-prosperous, puissant
13]
upholder of the people; the rich, excellent maintainer
14]
of peace; (for it was in his time that tithes were first received
15]
in the land of Erinn); the meek, devout pillar of faith
16]
and Christianity; the corrector of the culprits and
transgressors;
17]
the destroyer of the robbers and evil-doers; the general
18]
battle-victorious defender of the royal law, to whom God
19]
gave good honour on earth, and the heavenly kingdom beyond,
20]
after dying in the habit of a monk, after triumphing
21]
over the world and the devil.
Aedh O'Conchobhair,
22]
his own son, assumed the government of Connacht, with
23]
his luck and happiness, after him; for he was a king in
24]
dignity near his father previously, and the hostages of
25]
Connacht were at his command; and it was God who
26]
granted the sovereignty to him thus, for no crime was
27]
committed in Connacht through the speedy assumption of
28]
sovereignty by him, but one act of plunder on the road
29]
to Cruach, and his hands and feet were cut off the
30]
person who committed it; and one woman was violated
30]
by the son of O'Mannachain, who was blinded for his
Muirghes Cananach, son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair,
2]
the most expert man that ever came of the
3]
Gaeidhel in reading, and in psalm-singing, and in versemaking,
4]
died in this year, and was interred in Cunga-Feichin,
5]
after the triumph of unction and penitence.
6] Domhnall O'Cellaigh, king of Uí-Maine, died in hoc anno.
7] Cucennainn O'Concennainn died in this year.
Mathghamhain
8]
O'Ceirín, king of Ciarraighe-Locha-na-nairne,
9]
died.
Maelisu, son of the bishop O'Maelfhaghmhair, parson
10]
of Uí-Fiachrach and Uí-Amhalghaidh, and materies of
a
11]
bishop, was killed by the son of Donnchadh O'Dubhda,
12]
after enjoying his food and his fire in his own house.
13] Aedh, son of Conchobhar Maenmhaighe, died while
14]
coming from the river, and from Jerusalem, this year.
15] The son of Hugo came to Erinn against the will of the
16]
king of the Saxons, and causes of war and contention
17]
grew up between him and the Foreigners of Erinn, until
18]
the Foreigners of Erinn rose up against him, and he was
19]
banished to Aedh O'Neill, king of Ailech; and the Foreigners
20]
and Gaeidhel of Erinn, viz.:Aedh, son of Cathal
21]
Crobhderg, king of Connacht, and Donnchadh Cairbrech
22]
O'Briain, king of Mumha, and Diarmaid Cluasach Mac
23]
Carthaigh, king of Des-Mumha, and the chieftains of
24]
Erinn besides, excepting the Cenel-Conaill and Cenel-Eoghain,
25]
assembled to proceed against them, until they
26]
reached Muirthemhne and Dun-Delgan; and from thence
27]
they demanded pledges and hostages from the sons of Hugo,
28]
and from Aedh O'Neill. It was then that O'Neill came
29]
with his Foreigners and Gaeidhel, whom he distributed
30]
on the passes of Sliabh-Fuaid and the doors of Emhain,
31]
and on Fidh-Conaille, when he challenged the Foreigners to
32]
attack him in those places. However, when the Foreigners
33]
of Erinn saw that this protection was assured to them,
6] A great hosting by Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg,
7]
to the castle of Ard-abhla in the territory of Breifne,
8]
when they entered the castle, and burned it, and killed
9]
every one whom they found in it, both Foreigners
10]
and Gaeidhel.
Duarcan O'hEghra, king of Luighne,
11]
mortuus est.
A great hosting to Connacht was performed
12]
by Aedh O'Neill, with the sons of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair,
13]
and at the request of all the Síl-Muiredhaigh,
14]
excepting only Mac Diarmada, i.e. Cormac, son of Tomaltach;
15]
and he Aedh O'Neill proceeded along
Connacht,
16]
southwards, to Fedha-Atha-Luain, and remained two
17]
nights at Muille-Uarrach, and pillaged Loch-Nen, and
18]
carried off thence the treasures of O'Conchobhair. He
19]
came afterwards to Carn-Fraich, where he plundered Toirdhelbhach,
20]
son of Ruaidhri; and he proceeded at a quick
21]
pace to his house on hearing that a large army of Foreigners
22]
and Momonians, under Donnchadh Cairbrech O'Briain
23]
and Geoffroi Mareis, was coming against him, led by
24]
Aedh O'Conchobhair and Mac Diarmada. And as they
25]
did not overtake O'Neill they pursued the sons of Ruaidhri,
26]
whom they banished again to O'Neill.
The Momonians
27]
killed Echmarcach Mac Branain, king of Corca-Achlann,
28]
at Cill-Cellaigh, on this expedition, after driving the sons
29]
of Ruaidhri out of Connacht.
The Foreigners and Momonians
30]
attacked Termann-Caelfhinn; and a slaughter of
31]
the Foreigners was committed through the miracles of
32]
Caelfhinn.
A great mortality of people this year.
The
3] Tadhg O'hEghra died this year.