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The Annals of Ulster (Author: [unknown])
Year U1534
U1534.0
Kalends of Jan. on Thurs., 13th of moon, A.D.
1534.
U1534.1
The bishop of Clochar, namely, Patrick Culin, died this year.
U1534.2
Mac Domnaill, namely, Rughraidhe, died this year: one eminent in
hospitality and prowess was that man. And his brother,
namely, Gilla-espuic, was made Mac Domnaill.
U1534.3
The vicar of Claen-inis, namely, Redmond, son of archdeacon Mag Uidhir,
died this year.
U1534.4
John, son of Uaithne O'Raighilligh, lord of Clann-Mathgamna, was slain in
treachery this year by the sons of O'Raghalligh, namely, Toirdelbach and
Brian, sons of Ferghal.
U1534.5
O'Gallchabair, namely, Edmond, son of John, son of Tuathal, died this
year.
U1534.6
Ruaidhri Carrach, son of Cormac, son of Aodh Mag Uidhir, a good, noble,
enterprising person, died this year.
U1534.7
The Earl of Kildare, namely, Gerald, received a summons of the king of
the Saxons this year. And this was the cause of that summons: namely, many
accusations were made lit. put by the Foreigners of
Ireland against lit. upon him through
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excess of his illegality and his injustice on them, so that this was the
counsel the king and nobles of the Saxons adopted,—to put the Earl
into the tower of London in anticipation of his ruin. As to the son and heir
of the Earl, namely, Thomas, son of Gerald: after hearing that, this is the
counsel himself and his kinsmen and his friends of the Foreigners and
Gaidhil decided on,—to make alliance of war against the king. After
that counsel was heard of by the archbishop of the town of Ath-cliath and by
the prior of Cell-Maighnenn, by the bishops of Meath and by many others who
are not reckoned here, who had a part in putting the Earl in the place of
his ruin, excessively great fear seized them, so that they left their
lordship and their courts and their castles and every other wealth they had
without custody, so that they fled from Ireland very quickly, cowardly,
irresolutely, to go to Saxon-land, for fear and for great dread of the son
of the Earl putting them to death in revenge of his father. As to the
archbishop of the town of Ath-cliath, it is publicly related he went forth
by a night journey to leave Ireland, with but a few of his people with him.
And on his going into the ship at Benn-Edair, the people of the son of the
Earl overtook him and he was taken by them, without respect to his privilege
or to his reverence, and excessive hardship was put on him and they carried
him with them to Ard-aidhin Artane, in proximity to
Cluain-tarbh Clontarf. When the son of the Earl heard
that thing, it pleased him: he made not rest, or stay, until he reached the
place where the bishop was and he put on his people to do a prodigious,
unprecedented, unmerciful deed, through which were
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destroyed fruit and crops and sea-product, peace and seasons and fair
weather at that time,—to wit, to make equal, fairly-lopped quarters of
the archbishop. So that that was the cause of the war we
mentioned.
U1534.8
An untimely, hurtful deed was done in Fir-Manach Martinmas night Nov. 11 precisely: to wit, Maghnus Ua Duibhgennain the
Tawny, an eminent historian, was strangled and smothered and concealed in
his own house by his own wife and by Brian, son of Toirdelbach Mag Uidhir.
Tidings of that murder went through the territory and Brian fled into
Oirghialla. And Flaithbertach, son of Philip, son of Toirdelbach, arrested
that woman and arrested two other culprits who were implicated in that murder and gave them up to Mag Uidhir
and Mag Uidhir burned those two in one day. And the woman, who was pregnant
by her own husband, was put in prison until she brought forth that birth and
was hung at the end. Two brothers of that Brian pursued him into Oirghialla
and he was killed by them in treachery. And woe is the one who does murder,
or deceit, to doom, after that murder and the excellence wherewith it was
punished through miracles of God and Martin.