Kalends of Jan. on Monday 4th of the moon, A.D. 1487.
Mac Aedhagain of the Anghaile, namely, Tadhg, son of Gilla-na-naem Mac Aedhagain, was slain by the sons of Uaithne, son of Irial Ua Ferghail, that is, by Tadhg, son of Uaithne and another son.
Ruaidhri the Green and Donn junior, two sons of Donn, son of Philip Mag Uidhir of the battle-axe, died this year after Christmas.
Tadhg the Black, son of Finghin Mac Gilla-Padraig, tanist of Ossory, died.
Niall, son of John the Tawny, son of Eogan Ua Neill, was taken by Niall, son of Toirdelbach the Red, son of Henry, son of Eogan Ua Neill, on his being found leaving the town of Ua Neill, namely, of Conn, son of Henry Ua Neill, at the end of a month of Spring.
Great wind this year, on the 6th of the Kalends of March Feb. 24, whereby many houses and churches were unroofed and whereby were broken trees and cots and gardens and so on.
Brian Ua Ruairc the Red, namely, son of Tighernan, son of Tadhg, son of Tighernan Ua Ruairc-to wit, the most courageous leader that was in Lower northern Connacht at that time—was wounded with an arrow, on the 6th of the Ides 10th of March, and died of it. And by Eogan, son of Ua Ruairc, namely, son of Feidhlimidh, son of Donchadh, son of Tighernan junior, was done that slaying. Ua Domnaill, namely, Aedh the Red, went, because of that slaying, against the castle of Ua Ruairc (namely, Feidhlimidh) and it was taken by him and three of the people
A skirmish between the sons of Mag Uidhir, namely, the sons of Edmund, son of Thomas Mag Uidhir junior—that is, Aedh and Art and Brian—and the sons of Thomas Mag Uidhir junior, that is, Thomas and Concobur. And Feradhach, son of Edmund junior, son of Edmund Mag Uidhir, was slain in it and Aedh, son of Donn, son of Edmund and seven others with him were slain in it and five, or six, others of his people were taken in it.
Ailbhe, daughter of the black Gillie Mag Uidhir (namely, the Mag Uidhir), that is, wife of Concobur Mac Maghnusa, died. (And Conchobar Mac Maghnusa himself died this year.)
Great raids were made this year by Ua Cathain, namely, by John, son of Aibhne Ua Cathain, in Coill-ichtarach and two, or three, and twenty persons were slain there by him. And Brian Carrach, son of Aedh, son of Brian Mag Uidhir, was slain there on that expedition.
Ua Ruairc, namely, Feidhlimidh, son of Donchadh, son of Tigernan Ua Ruairc junior, was expelled from his country by Ua Domnaill, namely, by Aedh the Red, son of Niall the Rough, and driven into Fir-Manach this year.
Cathal the Black, son of Domnall, son of Eogan Ua Conchobuir, was slain this year by the Gailenga, when himself and the sons of Toirdelbach Carrach Ua Concobuir were gone on a raid on them.
A great fleet of Saxons came to Ireland this year to meet the son of the Duke of York, who was exiled at that time and living with the Earl of Kildare, namely, Gerald, son of Earl Thomas. And there lived not of the race of the blood royal that time but that son of the Duke and he was proclaimed king on the Sunday of the
Great raids were made by Cu-Uladh of Fews, son of Aedh Ua Neill and by his kinsmen and by the sons of Redmund Mag Mathgamna this year on Ua hAnluain, namely, on Edmund Ua hAnluain the Red.
Great inclemency of rain in the Summer of this year, like a Winter of inclemency, so that much of the crops of Ireland was destroyed thereby.
Tighernan the Black, son of Donchadh, son of Tighernan Ua Ruairc junior, was slain by Ua Domnaill, namely, by Aedh the Red, this year.
Tighernan Carrach, son of Tighernan, son of Tadhg, son of Tighernan Ua Ruairc, was slain in Muinter-Eoluis by the sons of Ruaidhri Mac Diarmada and by the son of Mac Diarmada the Red. And Feradhach, son of Toirdelbach Mag Uidhir senior, was slain there and Domnall, son of Donn, son of Domnall, son of Art Mag Uidhir, was slain there the same day and Domnall Gapped-tooth Mag Samradhain was taken there also and so on.
Ua Ruairc, namely, Feidhlimidh, went into his own country and peace was made by him with Ua Domnaill, namely, with Aedh the Red.
Philip the Poor, son of Conn Ua Uiginn the Scarred, died this year: to wit, a Friar Minor of Stricter Observance; one that was the most copious and the best versifier of devotion in the late time.
Ua Raighilligh, namely, Toirdelbach, son of John, son of Eogan Ua Raighilligh, died of a fit in his own castle, in Tulach-Mongain, the 1st day of the month of September of this year. And his son, namely, John Ua Raighilligh, was made Ua Raighilligh in his stead, the 13th day of that same month.
Brian, son of Brian the Freckled, son of Aedh, son of
The vicar of Claen-inis, namely, Brian, grandson of the bishop Ua Corcrain, died this year.
Thomas Mag Uidhir, namely, son of Thomas junior, son of another Thomas (namely, the black Gillie), was taken in Achadh-beithi by Mag Uidhir junior, namely, by John, son of Philip, son of Thomas Mag Uidhir and eight of his people were taken with him there and eight horses were wrested from them—and on the 9th of the Kalends of October Sep. 23 that was done—and the stone church of Achadh-beithi was burned against the will of Mag Uidhir that day.
Edmund, son of Cathal Mac Maghnusa junior, was drowned in the port of Tamnach-riada and buried in the monastery of Lis-gabail, on the 8th of the Kalends of August July 25.
Battle was given between the two kings that were in Saxon-land this time—that is, the king that was a Welshman and the young man whom we mentioned before, who was called king in the town of Ath-cliath—and the battle went against that young man. And it was impossible to reckon, or to estimate, how many thousands were slain then. And the greater part of what went east of the Irish were slain there, around Thomas, son of the Earl of Kildare and many other noble Foreign youths. And about the feast of Holy Cross was fought that battle and so on.
Ua Mail-Conaire, namely, Sigraidh, son of John Ua Mail-Conaire the Red, that is, the ollam of Ua Concobuir of Connacht in history, died.
Ua Domnaill, namely, Aedh the Red, went with a host into Magh-Luirg and houses and crops were burned by him there. And some of Magh-Luirg itself, namely, Ruaidhri of the Oak-wood, son of Muirghis, son of Aedh Mac Diarmada, profaned the church of Braigh
The same Ua Domnaill went into Magh-Luirg another time in the Harvest of this year and many houses and crops were burned by him, and the church of Druim-Conaille was burned there by Ferghal Carrach, son of Domnall, son of Tadhg Ua Ruairc. And, as Ua Domnaill did not catch Ferghal Carrach himself, to deliver him up for that deed, the son of Mag Tighernain of the river Buannaid was delivered to the clergy of the church in pledge for reparation of that burning and so on.
Mac William of Clann-Ricaird, namely, Ulick, son of Ulick, went with a host, at the instigation of Ua Concobuir the Brown (namely, Aedh, son of Aedh, son of Toirdelbach the Brown), into the Cluainte against Feidhlimidh the Fair, son of Tadhg, son of Toirdelbach the Red. And the town of Feidhlimidh the Fair was burned by them and his son, namely, Ros, son of Feidhlimidh the Fair, was slain and the whole territory was burned by them and they burned and destroyed the extent that was the portion of Feidhlimidh the Fair and of the grandsons of Feidhlimidh in Corco-Achlann and in Tir-Briuin and in the Leath-tuath. And the sons of Feidhlimidh the Fair, namely, Art and Toirdelbach and Conn, went in pursuit of the host and the son of Domnall, son of Toirdelbach the Blind, son of Toirdelbach Ua Concobuir the Brown, was slain by them at Ros-Comain.
Ua Cellaigh, namely, William, son of Aedh, son of Brian Ua Cellaigh, was taken in the beginning of the Harvest of this year by his own kinsmen, namely, by Mail-Shechlainn and by Concobur and by Ceallach and by Edmund.
Aedh, son of Donchadh Ua Cellaigh, was slain by the sons of Ua Cellaigh, namely, by the sons of William, son of Aedh.
Ua Mail-Shechlainn, namely, Laighnech, son of Corc Ua Mail-Shechlainn, was slain this
Feidhlimidh, son of Mac Maghnusa Mag Uidhir, namely, son of Cathal junior, son of Cathal Mac Maghnusa Mor, died this year on the day of St. Luke the Apostle, on Thursday. And a hearty, spirited, humane, charitable man was that Feidhlimidh.
The daughter of Mathgamain Ua Briain, namely, wife of Ua Lochlainn, eloped with Edmund, son of Ricard de Burgh, in the beginning of the Harvest of this year.
A raid was made by the son of Ua Domnaill, namely, by Conn, son of Aedh Ua Domnaill the Red, on St. Francis' day Oct. 4 on James, son of Philip Mag Uidhir, in Cuil-Meg-Tighernain, after truce being accepted between the Fir-Manach and the Tir-Conallians that time. And five, or six of the people of the son of Ua Domnaill were slain by the people of James; but James did not overtake them himself.
Ua Neill, namely, Conn, son of Henry Ua Neill, liberated Niall, son of John Ua Neill the Tawny, from Niall, son of Toirdelbach Ua Neill the Red and took him with him to the castle of the sons of John the Tawny, in hope that he would obtain the castle by him. And, as he did not obtain it, a leaguer was made by Ua Neill and by his own kinsmen and by his gallowglasses around the castle from the feast of Holy Cross to the first feast of Mary of Harvest. And a form of peace was concerted between them, whereby Ua Neill would obtain the castle and the form went asunder again. And the sons of John the Tawny and the horse-host of the sons of Mag Mathgamna, namely, of Glaisne and of Brian, made a raid in the land of the sons of Toirdelbach Ua Neill Of the Beeves, on which they took two, or three, hundred cows with them and slew persons.
Toirdelbach, son of Feradhach, son of Donn, son of Cu-Connacht Mag Uidhir
Denis Mac Gilla-Coisgle, namely, herenagh and vicar of Airech-brosca, died this year.
Tadhg, son of Brian Mac Amlaim Mag Uidhir, one that was parson in Botha at first and vicar in Cell-Lasair afterwards and Mary, daughter of Rughraidhe, son of Ardgal Mag Mathgamna, one that was the wife of Brian, son of Philip Mag Uidhir and Una, daughter of Domnall Ua Raighilligh the Fair, wife of Toirdelbach, son of Philip Mag Uidhir and Ferghal Ua Mael-Padraig and Maghnus the Tawny, son of Maghnus, son of Cairbre the Tawny and Maghnus the Tawny, son of Cathal the Swarthy, son of Donn Cathanach and Cathal, son of Ruaidhri Blind-eye Mag Uidhir—all rested this year.
John, son of Concobur Mag Aedhagain, ollam in jurisprudence of Mac William of Clann-Ricaird, died.
The fortress of Loch-Uachtar was taken this year by the sons of Domnall Ua Raighilligh the Fair, namely, Ferghal and Edmund. And Ferghal himself died this year, the Saturday before Christmas and was buried in Druimlethan.
Ua Neill, namely, Conn, went on a raid into Oirghialla on Glaisne, son of Redmund Mag Mathgamna, the feast day of St. Stephen and the prey was carried off by him and Art, son of Niall, son of John Ua Neill the Tawny, was slain by him there, and some of the gallowglasses of Ua Neill were slain there, around the son of Eimer Mac Somairle the Freckled, and another son of Eimer the Freckled, namely, Jenkin, was taken there and the son of Mac-an-girr, namely, Art, was slain there.
Aedh, son of Brian, son of Ferghal Ua Uiginn the Red, died this year in the Harvest.
The Earl of Desmond,
Ua Cellaigh, namely, William. son of Aedh, son of Brian Ua Cellaigh, died in his captivity and two Ua Cellaighs were made against each other in Ui-Maine, to wit, Mail-Shechlainn, son of Aedh, son of Brian Ua Cellaigh and Donchadh, son of Bresal, son of Donchadh Ua Cellaigh.
Mac Goisdelbh, namely, John, died this year.
The Dalton, namely, Edmund, son of Piers Dalton, died this year.
(Garret, son of Edmund Snub-nose Mac Herbert, was slain by John, son of James, son of Meyler Mac Herbert, in revenge of his father and by two sons of Mac Herbert, namely, Meyler and Edmund, that is, two sons of Ferdorcha, son of Meyler Mac Herbert).