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1] The kalends of January on
Friday, the 26th of the
2]
moon, the 15th; the age of the Lord, at that time,
3]
fourteen years and a thousand.
A hosting by the son of
4]
Amhlaibh, and by Maelmordha, and the Foreigners and
5]
Lagenians, into Midhe and Bregha, and afterwards to
6]
Termann-Feichin; and they carried off innumerable cows,
7]
and a great number of captives.
The festival of Gregory
8]
before shrovetide in this year, and Little Easter in
9]
summer, which had not been noticed from a remote time.
10] A great assemblage of the men of Mumha, and
Midhe,
11]
and the South of Connacht, by Brian Boromha, son of
12]
Cenneidigh, i.e. the King of Erinn, against the Foreigners
13]
of Ath-cliath, and against the Lagenians, to bring them
14]
under his obedience, as he had previously brought them;
15]
for a mutually aggressive war kindled and arose, at that
16]
time, between Brian and the Foreigners of Ath-cliath and
17]
the Lagenians. Brian took up a position in Cluain-tarbh
18]
in old Magh-Ealta, to the north of Ath-cliath. To attack
19]
Ath-cliath on this occasion was not to attack a 'neglected
20]
breach.' It was like putting a hand into a griffin's nest
21]
to assail it. It woulld not be evading conflict, but seeking
22]
great battles and contests, to advance against the multitude
23]
that had then arrived there; for the choicest brave
29] Great,indeed, was the multitude and assemblage that
30]
came thither. Warlike and haughty was the uprising they
8] Brian, however, assembled neither host nor multitude
9]
against this great army of the west of the world, and of
10]
Foreigners, but the men of Mumha alone, and Maelshechlainn
11]
with the men of Midhe; for there came not to him the
12]
Ulidians, nor the Airghialla; nor the Cenel-Eoghain,
13]
nor the Cenel-Conaill; nor the men of Connacht, save the
Hi-Maine,
14]
and Hi-Fiachrach, and Cenel-Oedha; for goodwill
15]
existed not then between Brian and Tadhg-an-eichghil,
16]
son of Cathal, son of Conchobhar, king of Connacht;
17]
and hence it was that Tadhg refused to go with Brian to
18]
that battle of Cluain-tarbh.
19] Moreover, Indeirghe, son of Uradhan, i.e. Brian's
orderly-servant,
20]
saw in a vision, the night before the battle, a
21]
synod of many clerics, as he thought, coming towards the
22]
camp, singing psalms and reading aloud; and Indeirghe
23]
asked who the clerics were. ‘That is Senan, son of
Gerrchinn’,
24]
said the clerics. ‘What has brought him hither
25]
from his own church?’ asked Indeirghe. ‘Debts that are
26]
due to him from Brian’, replied the cleric, ‘and it is to
8] Diarmaid Ua Corcrain, i.e. the orderly-man of Domhnall,
9]
son of Diarmaid, and who had been at the killing
10]
of the Foreigners in Inis-Cathaigh, saw the same vision,
11]
on the night of Easter Friday, for Brian; and
12]
thirty-seven years before that Friday night in which Brian was
slain
13]
this vision was seen.
14] Oebhinn, daughter of Donn-Oilen, came a short time
15]
before nocturns on that night, from the Sidh of Craigliath,
16]
to converse with Brian, and told him that he
17]
would fall on the morrow. Brian enquired of her which
18]
of his sons would be king after him, and how many of them
19]
would be slain in the battle along with himself.
20]
‘The first son whom thou shalt see
shall be king after
21]
thee,’ said she. Wherefore it was that Brian sent for
22]
Murchadh, in order that he might come to speak with him
23]
before all, ere the multitude would arrive. Murchadh
24]
came not until he put on his garment. Then it was that
25]
Donnchadh heard the voice of Brian, conversing with his
26]
Ordlerly-servant, and he waited not to put on all his
27]
clothes, but came quickly and placed his hand on the post
28]
of the bed in which Brian was, in his tent, and asked
29]
Brian what he should do, whether he should go on the
8] When Murchadh, also, came and was conversing with
9]
Brian, Brian said to him: ‘go to thy bed’, said he, ‘until
10]
the day comes, and that which I should wish, God has not
11]
permitted to thee.’ All evil omens were thus crowding
12]
upon them until the morning of the day came with its full
13]
brightness, i.e. Easter Friday. It was then that a brave,
14]
noble battle was fought between them on both sides,
15]
for which no equal was found in Erinn. The Foreigners
16]
and Lagenians were first defeated and entirely routed, in
17]
quo bello cecidit ex adversa caterva Gallorum, Maelmordha,
18]
son of Murchadh, chief king of Laighen, and
19]
Domhnall, son of Ferghal, king of the Fortuatha, and
20]
Brogarbhan, son of Conchobhar, king of Uí-Failghe.
21]
Cecidit vero a Gallis, Dubhgall, son of
Amhlaibh, and
22]
Sighrud, son of Lothar, Jarl of Insi-hOrc, and Gillaciarain,
23]
son of Gluniarainn, royal heir of the Foreigners; Uithir
24]
the Black, and Suairtghair, and Donnchadh, grandson of
25]
hErulbh, and Grisine, and Luimne, and Amhlaibh, son of
26]
Lagmann, and Brodar, i.e. the captain of the
Lochlann
27]
fleet, who slew Brian; and six thousand, either by killing
28]
or drowning. There fell there, also, in the mutual
29]
wounding of that battle, of the Gaeidhel, Brian, son of
30]
Cenneidigh, son of Lorcan, supreme king of the Gaeidhel
31]
of Erinn, and of the Foreigners of Britain, and the
32]
Augustus of the whole north-west of Europe, and his son,
15] The supreme king, i.e. Brian, son of Cenneidigh, and
16]
Conaing, son of Donncuan, were behind the battalions,
17]
chaunting their psalms, and performing prayers, when
18]
a vehement, furious, Danmarkian escaped from the battle,
19]
avoiding death, until he came to the place where the king
20]
was. As soon as the Danmarkian perceived the king
21]
unguarded, he unsheathed his sword, and beheaded
22]
the supreme king of Erinn, and he beheaded Conaing likewise;
23]
and he himself fell in the mutual wounding of that
24]
fight.
25] Maelmuire, son of Eochaidh, i.e. the comarb of Patrick,
26]
came, truly, with seniors and, relics to Sord-Choluim-Chille,
27]
and bore from thence the bodies of Brian and his
28]
son Murchadh, and the head of Conaing, and the head of
29]
Mothla, which he buried at Ard-Macha, in a new grave.
30]
Two nights, moreover, was he, with the congregation of Patrick,
31]
waking the bodies, propter honorem regis
positi.
32] Dunlaing, son of Tuathal, King of Laighen, died.
33] A battle between Cian, son of Maelmhuaidh,
and Domhnall,
34]
son of Dubhdabhoirenn, in which Cian, and Cathal, and
Cathal, son of
3]
Domhnall, king of Uí-Echach, was slain by Donnchadh,
4]
son of Brian.
A victory by Tadhg, son of Brian, over
5]
Donnchadh, son of Brian, in which Ruaidhri, son of
6]
Donnagan, king of Aradh, was killed.
A hosting by
7]
Ua Maeldoraidh and Ua Ruairc into Magh-Aei, and
8]
they slew Domhnall, son of Cathal, and devastated the
9]
plain, and carried off the pledges of Connacht, licet non in
10]
eadem vice.
A victory over the Dal-Araidhe by the
11]
Ultonians, ubi multi occisi sunt.
Flaithbhertach, son of
12]
Domhnall, comarb of Ciaran and Finnen; and
Ronan,
13]
comarb of Fechin; and Conn Ua Digraidh, in Christo
14]
dormierunt.
Numerous are the events of this year.
Annal LC1015.
15] The kalends of January on the 7th feria,
the 4th of the
16]
moon; the age of the Lord fifteen years over a thousand.
17] Domhnall, son of Dubhdabhoirenn, was slain in a battle by
18]
Donnchadh, son of Brian.
Flaithbhertach Ua Neill came
19]
into Midhe, to assist Maelsechlainn. Maelsechlainn went
20]
afterwards on a hosting into Laighen, and he plundered
21]
Laighen and carried off a borumha, and the
pledges
22]
of Laighen.
Niall, son of Ferghal, son of Connach, a suo
23]
genere occisus est, i.e. by the
Uí-Tuirtre.
Muirchertach
24]
Ua Lorcain, airchinnech of Lothra, died
Aedh Ua
25]
Ruairc, king of Breifne, was slain, dolose,
by Tadbg-an-eich-ghil,
26]
son of Cathal, king of Connacht, viz.:—at Loch
27]
Neill in Magh-Aei, against the protection of the Bachal-Isa;
28]
wherefore it was that kingship was taken from his
29]
children, except Aedh alone.
Annal LC1016.
1] The kalends of January on the lst feria, the
l8th of
2]
the moon; the age of the Lord sixteen years and a
3]
thousand.
Mac Liag, chief poet of Erinn, mortuus est.
A
4]
battle between the Ulidians and the Dal-Araidhe, and the
5]
Dal-Araidhe were defeated; in which fell Domhnall Ua
6]
Loingsigh, king of Dal-Araidhe, and Niall, son of Dubhthuinne,
7]
and Conchobhar Ua Domhnallain, king of
Uí-Tuirtre.
8] Niall, son of Eochaidh, and Coscrach, son of
9]
Muiredhach, son of Flann, king of Feara-Maighe-Itha,
10]
a suis occisi sunt.
Donncuan, son of Dunlaing, king of
11]
Laighen, and Tadhg Ua Riain, king of Uí-Drona, were killed
12]
by Donnchadh, son of Gillapatraic, in the middle of
Leithghlinn.
13] Dun-leth-glaise was entirely burned.
Cluainferta
14]
and Cenannus were burned.
Airbhertach, son of Cosdobhran,
15]
airchinnech of Ros-ailitrech,
died.
Peace in Erinn.
Annal LC1017.
16] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 28th of the
17]
moon; the age of the Lord seventeen years and a
thousand.
18] Aenghus, son of Carre Calma, royal heir of Temhair,
19]
mortuus est.
Ferghal, son of Domhnall, son of Conchobhar,
20]
royal heir of Ailech, was slain by the Cenel-Eoghain
21]
themselves.
Flann Ua Beice, king of Uí-Méith, a suis
22]
occisus est.
Cormac Ua Lorcain, king of Uí-Echach,
23]
was slain by the Uí-Trena.
Donnchadh, son of Donnchadh
24]
Ua Conghalaigh, royal heir of Erinn, a suis
occisus est.
25] Muiredhach Ua Duibheoin, king of Uí-mic-Uais-Bregh,
26]
was slain by Flaithbhertach Ua Neill.
A slaughter of the
27]
Foreigners and Lagenians, near Odhbha, by
Maclsechlainn.
28] Oengus, son of Flann, airchinnech of
Lann-leire; Cormac
29]
Ua Maelmidhe, airchinnech of Druim-raithe,
mortui sunt.
30] Gillacoluim, son of Muiredhach Ua Maeltrea, and Oedh
31]
Ua hEradháin, King of Ui-mBresail-Macha,
mortui sunt.
32] Gillachrist Ua Lorcain, lord of Caille-Follamhain, was
33]
killed in Cenannus.
Annal LC1018.
1] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 10th
2]
of the moon; the age of the Lord eighteen years and a
3]
thousand.
Braen, son of Maelmordha, king of Laighen,
4]
was blinded in Ath-cliath by Sitric, son of Amhlaibh.
5] Maelan, son of Eicnech Ua Lorcain, king of Gailenga
6]
and all Tuath-Luighne, was slain by the Saithne.
A
7]
hosting by the Cenel-Eoghain to Cill-Fabhrich, when
8]
they killed a great number, and lost Gillachrist, son of
9]
Conaing, son of Conghalach, steward of Clann-Sinnaigh.
10] Domhnall Ua Caindelbhain, king of Laeghaire, and
11]
Caismidhe, i.e. Maelsechlainn's lawgiver, were slain by
12]
the Feara-Ceall and Ele, whilst taking a
prey.
The hairy
13]
star was seen in this year, during the space of a fortnight,
14]
in harvest time.
Annal LC1019.
15] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 2lst
16]
of the moon; the age of the Lord nineteen years and
17]
a thousand.
Ailén, son of Oissén, king of Mughorna,
18]
and Oissen Ua Cathusaigh, lord of Saithne, were killed
19]
by the Gailenga.
Cill-dara was all burned by lightning.
20] Domhnall, son of Maelsechlainn, comarb of
Finnen and
21]
Mocholmog, in Christo quievit.
Ardghar and Archú
22]
sons of Maelsechlainn, son of Maelruanaidh—two royal
23]
heirs of Oilech, —a suis occisi
sunt.
Mathghamhain, son
24]
of Conaing, son of Donncuan, royal heir of Mumha,
died.
25] Flaithbhertach Ua Neill went into Tir-Conaill, and he
26]
destroyed Tir-Enna and Tir-Lughdech.
Ruaidhri Ua
27]
hAillelain, king of Uí-Echach, was slain by the men of
28]
Fernmhagh. The two sons of Cennedigh, viz.:—Conghalach
29]
and Gillamuire, were likewise slain, immediately
30]
after, in revenge of him.
An attack was made on
31]
Donnchadh, son of Brian, by the Uí-Caisin, and his right
32]
hand was cut off.
The stone-church of Dermhagh was
33]
broken open by Muirchertach, grandson of Carrach, against
Annal LC1020.
3] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 2nd of
4]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty years and a
thousand.
5] Cill-dara, with its oratories, was burned.
Glenn-da-locha,
6]
with its oratories, was burned.
Cluain-Iraird, and
7]
Cluain-mic-Nois, and Sord-Choluim-Chille, tertia
parte
8]
crematae sunt.
Flaithbhertach, grandson of Eochaidh,
9]
was blinded by Niall, son of Eochaidh.
Gillaciarain, son
10]
of Oisen, king of Mughdhorna during the space of one
11]
day, was slain by the Uí-mic-Uais-Bregh.
Ard-Macha
12]
was altogether burned, viz.:—the great stone-church
13]
with its roof of lead, and the belfry with its bells, and
14]
the Sabhall, and the Toai, and Carbad-na-nAbadh,
15]
and the old preaching chair, on the 3rd of the kalends
16]
of June, the Monday before Whitsuntide.
Maelmuire,
17]
son of Eochaidh, comarb of Patrick, head
of the
18]
clerics of the entire West of Europe, in the 20th year
19]
of his government, on the 3rd of the nones of June,
20]
on Friday before Whitsuntide, in Christo
quievit.
21] Amhalghaidh placed in the comarbship of
Patrick,
22]
with the consent of laity and clergy.
Finnlaech, son of
23]
Ruaidhri, king of Alba, a suis occisus
est.
Oedh Ua hInnrechtaigh,
24]
king of Uí-Meth, was slain by the
Uí-Niallain.
Annal LC1021.
25] The kalends of January on the lst feria, the l3th
26]
of the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-one years
27]
and a thousand.
A victory by Ughaire, son of Dunlaing,
28]
king of Laighen, over Sitric, son of Amhlaibh, king of
29]
Ath-cliath, at Deilgne-Moghorog.
A shower of wheat
30]
was shed in Osraighe in hoc anno.
A predatory excursion
31]
by the son of Oedh Ua Neill through Uí-Dortain; they
32]
were in Magh-atechta, and they killed the Lethderg
Brannacan Ua Maeluidhir, a chief of
11]
Midhe, was slain on May-day in Loch-Ainninn.
Aedh,
12]
son of Flann, son of Maelsechlainn, royal heir of Temhair,
13]
and Domhnall, grandson of Murchadh, occisi
sunt.
Annal LC1022.
14] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 24th
15]
of the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-two years
16]
and a thousand.
The son of Cerbhall, king of Eile, and
17]
Domhnall Ua Ceallaigh, king of Fotharta, and Sitric, son
18]
of Imhar, king of Port-Lairge, occisi
sunt.
Macleighinn,
19]
son of Cairell, king of Oirghiall, and Flann Ua Tadhgain,
20]
airchinnech of Derrinhagh, and Lachtnan,
comarb of Iniscain-Degha,
21]
in Christo dormierunt; in Ard-Macha he
22]
died.
Maelsechlainn the Great, son of Domhnall, supreme
23]
king of Erinn, pillar of the dignity and nobility of the
24]
west of the world, died in the 43rd year of his reign, in
25]
the 73rd year of his age, on the 4th of the nones of September,
26]
viz.:—on Sunday, the 2nd of the moon.
27] A naval battle on the sea, between the foreigners of
28]
Ath-cliath and Niall, son of Eochaidh, king of Uladh; and
29]
the foreigners were defeated, and slaughtered; and some of
Muirchertach, grandson of
2]
Carra, royal heir of Temhair, was slain by the Guth, i.e.
3]
by Maelsechlainn.
A victory was gained at Sliabh-Fuaid,
4]
over the Airghialla, by Niall, son of Eochaidh; and a
5]
terrible slaughter of the Airghialla was committed there.
6]
Mathghamhain, son of Laighnén, king of Fermhagh, was
7]
slain by Cathal Ua Crichain, in the middle of
Cluain-Eois.
Annal LC1023.
8] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 2nd of the
9]
moon; the age of the Lord twenty-three years and
10]
a thousand. An eclipse on the l4th of the January
11]
moon, the 4th of the ides of January, on Thursday. An
12]
eclipse of the sun, also, on the 27th of the same moon, on
13]
Thursday, at the end of a fortnight, on the ninth of the
14]
kalends of February.
Domhnall, son of Oedh Bec Ua
15]
Maelsechlainn, was slain by the son of Senan Ua
16]
Leochain.
Donnchadh Ua Duinn, king of Bregha,
17]
was apprehended by the Foreigners, in their own assembly,
18]
and taken beyond the sea.
Lochlainn, son
19]
of Maelsechlainn, was slain a
suis.
Tadhg, son of
20]
Brian, was slain by the Eile.
Conchobhar, grandson
21]
of Carra, was killed by the Guths.
Leobhailin,
22]
king of Britain, died.
Oenric, king of the world, died
23]
in pace; after him Cuana assumed the
sovereignty
24]
of the world.
Domhnall Ua hEghra, king of Luighne
25]
of Connacht, was slain by Ua Conchobhair, i.e. the king of
26]
Connacht.
Annal LC1024.
27] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the l6th
28]
of the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-four years
29]
and a thousand.
Ugaire, son of Dunlaing, king of
30]
Laighen, and Maelmordha, son of Lorcan, king of
Uí-Ceinnsealaigh,
31]
had a house captured against them, at
32]
Dubhloch, by Donnsleibhe, son of Maelmordha, king of
33]
Uí-Faelain, and they fell there.
Donnsleibhe was himself
34]
slain, soon afterwards, by the Uí-Muiredhaigh.
The battle of
35]
Ath-na-croisi, in Corann, between Ua Maeldoraidh, i.e.
36]
king of Cenel-Conaill, and Ua Ruairc; when Ua Ruairc was
Cuan
3]
Ua Lochain, i.e. the chief poet of Erinn,
was slain by the men
4]
of Tethfa. God performed a ‘poet's miracle,’
manifestly,
5]
on the party that killed him, for they died an evil death,
6]
and their bodies were not buried until wolves and birds
7]
preyed upon them.
Domhnall,son of Aedh, royal heir of
8]
Oilech, was slain by Gillamughra, son of Ogan.
Maelduin
9]
Ua Conchaille, king of Uí-Niallain,was killed by the
Ui-Dorthainn.
10] Maelruanaidh Ua Ciardha, i.e. king of
11]
Cairpre, a suis occisus est.
A predatory expedition by
12]
the son of Ua Neill, so that he ravaged Uí-Meth and
13]
Uí-Dorthainn.
Annal LC1025.
14] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 2nd
15]
of the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-five years
16]
and a thousand.
Muiredhach, son of Mughron, comarb
17]
of Ciaran; Maeleoin Ua Torain, comarb of
Doire,
18]
dormierunt.
Niall Ua Conchobbair, royal heir of
19]
Connacht; Geirgaela, king of Bregha, occisi
sunt.
Maelsechlainn
20]
Got, king of Midhe, died.
A hosting by
21]
Flaithbhertach Ua Neill into Bregha and to the Foreigners,
22]
and he took the hostages of the Gaeidhel from the
Foreigners.
23] A predatory expedition by Cathalan, king of
24]
Fernmhagh, against the Feara-Manach.
A predatory
25]
expedition by the Feara-Manach, immediately after, to
26]
Loch-nUaithne, which they burned, and they slew
27]
seventeen men on the margin of the lake.
Termon-Feichin
28]
was plundered by Cathalan Ua Crichain.
Annal LC1026.
29] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 16th of
30]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-six years and
31]
a thousand.
A hosting by the son of Brian into Midhe
32]
and Bregha, and to the Foreigners and Lagenians, and
A hosting by
2]
Flaithbhertach Ua Neill into Midhe, whose pledges he
3]
took; and he went over the ice into Inis-Mochta, so that
4]
he plundered the island.
A hosting by the son of
5]
Eochaidh, at the same time, to the Foreigners; and he
6]
burned their territory and carried off from
them a great
7]
spoil, and countless jewels.
Maelruanaidh Ua Maeldoraidh
8]
went on his pilgrimage.
Aimhergin Ua Mordha,
9]
king of Laighis, interfectus est.
Muiredhach Ua Céle
10]
was betrayed by Domhnall Ua Ceallaigh, who slew him
11]
in his own assembly.
Annal LC1027.
12] The kalends of January on the lst feria, the 20th of
13]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-seven
years
14]
and a thousand.
Ruaidhri, sort of Fogartach, king of the
15]
South of Bregha, died in pilgrimage.
Tadhg Mac Gillapatraic
16]
was blinded by the king of Osraighe, i.e.
17]
Donnchadh Mac Gillapatraic.
A hosting by the son of
18]
Brian into Osraighe, when the Osraighe committed a
19]
slaughter of his people, including Doghra, son of
20]
Dunchadh, and Domhnall, son of Senchan, and a great
21]
multitude besides.
Cathalan Ua Crichain, king of
22]
Fermhagh, and Culocha Ua Gairbheith, king of Uí-Meith,
23]
fell by each other in a conflict.
A predatory
24]
expedition by the Cenel-Eoghain into Ulidia, and they
25]
brought with them a great prey of cows.
Dún-Cuillind,
26]
in Alba, was altogether burned in hoc
anno.
Annal LC1028.
27] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the first of
28]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-eight years and
29]
a thousand.
Tadhg, son of Eochaidh, airchinnech of Cill-Dalua,
30]
died. Brian Ua Conchobhair, and
Cornán Ua Ruairc,
31]
and Flaithbhertach Ua hEradhain, and Conchobhar, son
32]
of Eochaidh, occisi sunt.
Maelmochta, king of Feara-Ross,
33]
was slain by the Conaille.
Plundering of Daimhliag
34]
by the Feara-Manach.
The son of Cu-Cuailgne, king of
35]
Uí-Echach, died.
Sitric, son of Amhlaibh, king of the
36]
Foreigners, and Flannagan Ua Ceallaigh, king of Bregha,
A preying expedition by the Cenel-Eoghain
2]
into Tir Conaill, where they carried off great
3]
spoils.
Annal LC1029.
4] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 12th
5]
of the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-nine years
6]
and a thousand.
Donnsleibhe Ua Brogarbhain, king of
7]
Uí-Failghe, a suis occisus
est.
Donnchadh Ua Donnacain,
8]
king of Fernmhagh, and the son of Ua Geirrche, king of
9]
Conaille, fell by each other at Cill-sleibhe.
Brian Ua Conchobhair,
10]
royal heir of Connacht, a suis occisus
est.
11] Oedh Ua Ruairc, and Oengus Ua hAenghusa, and the
12]
airchinnech of Druim-cliabh, and sixty
other persons
13]
along with them, were burned in Inis-na-lainne.
Muirchertach
14]
Ua Canannain, or Ua Maeldoraidh, was slain
15]
by the Uí-Canannain.
Amhlaibh, son of Sitric, king of
16]
the Foreigners, was taken prisoner by Mathghamhain Ua
17]
Riagain, king of Bregha, until he Amhlaibh
gave twelve
18]
hundred cows, and six score British horses, and three
19]
score ounces of gold, and the sword of Carlus, and the
20]
hostages of the Gaeidhel, both of Laighen and Leth-Chuinn;
21]
and three scores ounces of white silver, as his
22]
fetter ounce.
Maelcoluim, son of Maelbrighde, son of
23]
Ruaidhri, and Maelbrighde Ua Brolchain, chief artificer
24]
of Erinn in his time, mortui
sunt.
Annal LC1030.
25] The kalends of Jauuary on the 5th feria, the 23rd
26]
of the moon; the age of the Lord thirty years and a
27]
thousand.
Flaithbhertach came from Rome.
Ard-Breacain
28]
was burned and plundered by the Foreigners of
29]
Ath-cliath, and two hundred men were burned in the
30]
stone-church, and two hundred more carried off in
captivity.
31] Cill-dara was burned through the negligence
32]
of a woman.
A hosting by the son of Eochaidh to
Eochaidh Ua Cethenén,
2]
comarb of Tighernach, chief sage of Erinn
in wisdom,
3]
in Ard-Macha quievit.
Tadhg-an-eich-ghil, son of Cathal,
4]
son of Conchobhar, i.e. chief king of
Connacht, and the Got,
5]
king of Midhe, occisi sunt.
Ruaidhri Ua Canannain was
6]
slain by Oedh Ua Neill.
Tadhg Ua Lorcain, king of Uí-Ceinnsealaigh,
7]
died on his pilgrimage at Glenn-da-locha.
8] Cumhara, son of Mac-Liag, chief poet of Erinn,
died.
Annal LC1031.
9] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 4th of
10]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-one years and a
11]
thousand.
Oedh Ua Neill went with a large army eastwards,
12]
around the son of Eochaidh, when he carried off
13]
three thousand cows, and one thousand and two hundred
14]
captives.
A hosting by the son of Eochaidh into Uí-Echach,
15]
when they burned Cill-Combair with its oratory,
16]
and killed forty clerics, and carried off thirty
captives.
17] A hosting by the son of Brian into Osraighe, when
18]
a slaughter of his people was committed, including
19]
Maelcoluim Caenraighech, et alii
multi.
Cathusach,
20]
comarb of Caeimhghen, was blinded by
Domhnall, son
21]
of Dunlaing.
'The prey of the snow' by Aedh Ua
22]
Neill, in Tir-Conaill, when he killed Ua Canannain, king
23]
of Cenel-Conaill.
O'Donnagain, king of Aradh-thire, was
24]
slain by Ua Briain, i.e.
Toirdhealbhach.
Annal LC1032.
25] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the l5th of
26]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-two years and
27]
a thousand.
Mathghamhain Ua Riagain, king of Bregha,
28]
was slain by Domhnall Ua Ceallaigh, per
dolum.
Gillacomghain,
29]
son of Maelbrighde, great steward of Murebhe,
30]
was burned; together with fifty persons.
Domhnall Ua
31]
Maeldoraidh, king of Cenel-Conaill, died in this year.
32] The son of Mathghamhain, son of Muiredhach, king of
33]
Ciarraighe, and Donnghal, son of Donncothaigh, king of
Edru Ua Conaing, royal heir of
2]
Mumha, occisus est by the community of
Imlech.
The
3]
victory of Druim-Bennchair was gained over
the Ulidians,
4]
by the Airghialla.
The victory of Inbher-Boinne was
5]
gained by Sitric, son of Amhlaibh, over the Conaille,
6]
and the Uí-Dorthainn, and the Uí-Meith, in which
they
7]
were put to slaughter.
Maeltuile, bishop of Ard-Macha,
8]
in Christo quievit.
Aedh Ua Furreidh assumed the
9]
bishoprick afterwards.
Annal LC1033.
10] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 26th
11]
of the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-three years
12]
and a thousand.
A victory by Murchadh Ua Maelsechlainn
13]
over Conchobhar Ua Maelsechlainn, in which
14]
Maelruanaidh, grandson of Carrach Calma, and Lorcan
15]
Ua Caindelbhain, king of Laeghaire, et alii
multi,
16]
were slain.
Conchobhar Ua Muiredhaigh, king of Ciarraighe,
17]
occisus est.
The fair of Carman was celebrated
18]
by Donnchadh Mac Gillapatraic, after he had assumed
19]
the kingship of Laighen.
Aimhergin Ua Cerbhaill, king
20]
of Eile, and Cu-Mumhan, son of Ruaidhri Ua
Cedfadha,
21]
mortui sunt.
A victory was gained by the Eile, in which
22]
Braen Ua Clerigh, and Muiredhach, son of Mac Gillapatraic,
23]
et alii multi, were slain.
The shrine of Peter
24]
and Paul dropped blood on the altar of Patrick, in
25]
Ard-Macha, coram omnibus
videntibus.
Aedh, son of
26]
Flaithbhertach Ua Neill, king of Oilech, and royal heir
27]
of Erinn, post poenitentiam mortuus est, on
the night of
28]
Andrew's festival.
Aedh Ua Neill mortuus est.
29] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 7th of
30]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-four years and a
31]
thousand.
Maelcoluim, son of Cinaeth, king of Alba,
Amhlaibh, son of Sitric, was slain by Saxons,
2]
in going to Rome.
Gillasechlainn, son of Gillamochonna,
3]
occisus est.
Dubhdaingen, king of Connacht, a suis occisus
4]
est.
Donnchadh, son of Brian, plundered Osraighe entirely.
5] Cathal Martyr, airchinnech of Corcach, and
Conn,
6]
son of Maelpatraic, airchinnech of
Mungairit, in Christo
7]
dormierunt.
Macnia Ua hUchtain, lector of Cenannus,
8]
was drowned while coming from Alba; and the cuilebhadh
9]
of Colum-Cille, and three reliquaries of the reliquaries of
10]
Patrick, and thirty men along with them, were
also
11]
drowned.
Suibhne, son of Cinaeth, king of the Gall-Gaeidhel,
12]
mortuus
est.
Annal LC1035.
13] The kalends of January on the 4th feria,
the l8th of
14]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-five years and a
15]
thousand.
Cnut, son of Sain, king of the Saxons, died.
16] Cathal, son of Amhalghaidh, king of the
West of Laighen,
17]
and his wife, i.e. the daughter of the son of Gillacaeimghin,
18]
son of Cineath, and his dog, were slain together by the son of
19]
Cellach, son of Dunchadh.
Flaithbhertach Ua Murchadha,
20]
king of Cenel-mBoghuine, cum multis occisus
est.
21] Iarnan Ua Flannchadha, i.e. he who was
called Cú na
22]
naem ocus na bhfiren, went on a predatory excursion into
23]
Delbhna; but a small number of the men of
Delbhna
24]
overtook his band, and gave him battle, and committed a
25]
slaughter of his people; and he was slain through the
26]
power of the saints.
Raghnall, grandson of lmhar, king of
27]
Port-Lairge, was killed in Ath-cliath, by Sitric, son of
28]
Amhlaibh.
Ard-Breacain was plundered by Sitric, son
Annal LC1036.
4] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 28th of
5]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-six years and a
6]
thousand.
Domhnall O'hUamharain, king of Feara-Lí,
7]
occisus est by the Dal-Araidhe.
Sgolóc O'Flannagain,
8]
king of Feara-Tethfa, a suis occisus est.
Domhnall, son
9]
of Flann, royal heir of Temhair, was slain by the men of
10]
Breifne.
Murchadh Ua Anchapaill, and Niall son of
11]
Muirghes, two royal heirs of the West of Connacht omnes
12]
occisi sunt.
Cuchiche, son of Eignechan, king of Cenel-Enna,
13]
obiit.
Donnchadh, son of Dunlaing, king of
14]
Laighen, was blinded by Donnchadh Mac Gillapatraic,
15]
and he died thereof.
Flaithbhertach In-trostain Ua
16]
Neill, chief king of Oilech, post poenitentiam
optimam in
17]
Christo quievit.
Ruaidhri, san of Tadhg, son of Lorcan,
18]
was blinded by the son of Mael-na-mbó.
Annal LC1037.
19] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 10th
20]
of the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-seven years
21]
and a thousand.
Cathal, son of Ruaidhri, king of the
22]
West of Connacht, went on his pilgrimage to Ard-Macha.
23] Flann Ua Maelsechlainn was blinded by Conchobhar Ua
24]
Maelsechlainn.
Archú Ua Celechain, king of Uí-mBresail,
25]
and Ruaidhri Ua Lorcain, king of Uí-Niallain, occisi sunt
26]
at Craebh-chaille by Muiredhach O'Ruadhachain, and by
27]
the Uí-Echach.
Cúinmhain Ua Robhann, king of Port-Lairge,
28]
a suis occisus sunt.
Three of the family of Ua-Maeldoraidh
29]
were slain.
Prodigious tempests and great
30]
moisture in this year.
Annal LC1038.
31] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 2lst of
32]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-eight years and a
33]
thousand.
Colman Cam Ua Conghaile, comarb of
34]
Molaise, in Christo quievit.
Gillachrist, son of Cathbharr
3] A battle between Cuana, king of the Saxons, and Ota,
4]
king of the Franks, in which a thousand men were slain
5]
along with Ota.
Orcallaid O'Ruadhachain, king of
6]
Uí-Echach, was slain by Clann-Sionaigh in Ard-Macha,
7]
on the festival of Ultan, in revenge for the killing of
8]
Eochaidh Mac-an-Abaidh, and for the profanation
9]
of Ard-Macha.
A victory gained over the Uí-Maine by the
10]
Dealbhna, in the middle of Cluain-mic-Nois, on the
11]
Friday of Ciaran's festival, in quo multi occisi
sunt.
12] Cúdhuiligh, grandson of Donnchadh, royal heir of Caisel,
13]
was slain by the Uí-Faelain.
Annal LC1039.
14] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 2nd of
15]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-nine years and a
16]
thousand.
Iaco, king of Britain, a suis; Domhnall,
17]
son of Donnchadh, king of Uí-Faelain, by Domhnall Ua
18]
Ferghaile; Donnchadh Derg Ua Ruairc, by Ua
19]
Conchobhair; Ruaidhri, king of Fernmhagh, a
suis; Oedh
20]
Ua Flannagain, king of Lurg and Uí-Fiachrach, omnes
21]
occisi sunt.
Donnchadh Mac Gillapatraic, chief king of
22]
Laighen and Osraighe, died.
Muiredhach, son of Flaithbhertach
23]
Ua Neill, was slain by the Leithrenna.
Cerbhall,
24]
son of Faelan, was slain by Foreigners.
Annal LC1040.
25] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 13th of
26]
the moon; the age of the Lord forty years and a
27]
thousand. Hic est annus millesimus et
quadragesimus annus ab
28]
Incarnatione Domini.
Corcran Cleirech, the head of
29]
Europe as regards piety and wisdom, in Christo
pausavit.
30] Donnchadh, son of Crínán, king of Alba, a
25]
suis occisus est.
31] Aralt, king of the Saxons, givas
moritur.
Cill-dara was
Cenannus
2]
was burned. Dún-da-leth-ghlas was burned, and many
3]
churches besides.
Annal LC1041.
4] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 24th of the moon;
5]
the age of the Lord forty-one years and
6]
a thousand.
Numerous, truly, are the events in this year,
7]
between slayings and plunderings, and battles. No one
8]
could relate them all, but only a few of many of them are
9]
related, on account of the dignity of the people mentioned
10]
in them.
Mac Bethaidh, son of Bethadh, son of Ainmire,
11]
chief poet of Ard-Macha, and likewise of Erinn, died.
12] Domhnall Remhar, son of Mael-na-mbó, was slain by the
13]
Lagenians.
14] Muirchertach Mac Gillapatraic was slain by
14]
the Uí-Caelluidhe, in treachery.
A preying expedition
15]
by the Airghialla into Conaille, but the Conaille overtook
16]
them, and they were defeated in Magh-dha-chuinnech.
17] A preying expedition by the Uí-Neill into
Uí-Echach-Uladh,
18]
and they carried off a great prey.
Gillacomghaill,
19]
son of Donncuan, son of Dunlaing, was forcibly taken
20]
from Cill-dara, and afterwards killed.
Annal LC1042.
21] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 5th of
22]
the moon; the age of the Lord forty-two years and a
23]
thousand./p[gt ]
Ferna-mór-Maedhóig was burned by Donnchadh,
24]
son of Brian.
Glenn-Uissen was burned by the
25]
son of Mael-na-mbó, and the oratory broken, and one
26]
hundred persons were slain, and four hundred taken out
27]
of it, in retaliation for Ferna-mór.
Murchadh, son of
28]
Dunlaing, king of Laighen, and Domhnall, son of Aedh,
29]
king of Ui-Bairche, fell by Gillapatraic,
son of Donnchadh,
30]
king of Osraighe, and by Macraith, grandson of
31]
Donnchadh, king of Eoghanachta.
Flann, son of
32]
Maelsechlainn, royal heir of Erinn, was slain through
33]
treachery.
Annal LC1043.
34] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the l6th
35]
of the moon; the age of the Lord forty-three years and a
36]
thousand.
Cathal, son of Ruaidhri, king of the West of
Domhnall
2]
Ua Ferghaile, king of Fortuatha-Laighen, was slain by
3]
his own people.
Flann Ua hAnbhfheth, king of Uí-Meth,
4]
was slain by the Uí-Cerbhaill, i.e.
by the king of
5]
Fernmhagh. Oedh Ua Confhiacla, king of
6]
Tethfa, was killed by Muirchertach O'Maelsechlainn.
Cennedigh O'Cuirc,
7]
king of Muscraidhe, occisus est.
Gillamochonna
8]
O'Duibhdhiorma in pace dormivit.
The victory of Maelcaenmhaigh,
9]
on the brink of the Siuir, was gained over
10]
the men of Osraighe and Er-Mumha, by Carthach, son of
11]
Saerbrethach; in which Ua Donnagáin, king of Aradh,
12]
was slain.
A victory was gained over the Cenel-Conaill,
13]
by the Cenel-Eoghain, at
Termon-Dábheóg.
Annal LC1044.
14] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 27th of
15]
the moon; the age of the Lord forty-four years and
16]
a thousand.
Cumuscach Ua hAillelain, king of Uí-Echach,
17]
was slain by the Uí-Carracain.
Niall Ua Celecháin,
18]
king of Uí-Breasail, and his brother, i.e. Trénfer,
19]
were blinded by the sons of Matadhan, through
treachery.
20] Domhnall Ua Cuirc, king of Muscraidhe, was slain by
21]
Ua Fladhlén, and Ua
Oisin.
A preying expedition by
22]
Niall, son of Maelsechlainn, i.e., who was
at that time
23]
king of Oilech, against the Uí-Meth and Cuailgne, when
24]
he carried off 1,200 cows, and a multitude of captives, in
25]
revenge for the profanation of Clog-an-edachta.
26] Another preying expedition, moreover, by Muirchertach Ua Neill,
27]
against the Mughdhorna; and he carried off a prey
28]
of cattle, and captives, in revenge for the profanation of
29]
the same bell.
The Cleirech Ua Conchobhair was slain.
Annal LC1045.
30] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 9th
31]
of the moon; the age of the Lord forty-five years and
32]
a thousand.
Conghalach Ua Lochlainn, king of
A predatory expedition by Muirchertach
6]
Ua Neill into Feara-Breagh; but Gairbheith Ua
7]
Cathusaigh, king of Breagha, overtook him at Cassán-Linne,
8]
when the sea was full in before him, and Muirchertach
9]
and many others were slain there.
Carthach
10]
son of Saerbhrethach king of Eoghanacht-Caisil, was
11]
burned in a house on fire, by the grandson of Longhargan,
12]
son of Donncuan, cum multis nobilibus
ustis.
A
13]
battle between the men of Alba, among themselves, in
14]
which Cronan, abbot of Dun-Cuillend, was slain.
Annal LC1046.
15] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 20th of
16]
the moon; the age of the Lord forty-six years and a
17]
thousand.
Muiredhach, son of Flaithbhertach Ua Neill,
18]
royal heir of Oilech, and Aitedh Ua hAitedh, king of
19]
Uí-Echach, were burned in a house on fire, by Cu-Uladh,
20]
son of Conghalach, king of Uachtar-thire.
Art Uallach
21]
O'Ruairc was slain by the Cenel-Conaill.
Ferghal Ua
22]
Ciardha, king of Cairpre, was slain by Ua Flannagain,
23]
king of Tethfa.
Annal LC1047.
24] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 1st of
25]
the moon; the age of the Lord forty-seven years and a
26]
thousand.
Great snow in this year from the festiva1 of
27]
Mary to the festival of Patrick, for which no equal was found,
28]
so that it caused a destruction of people, and cattle,
29]
and the wild animals of the sea, and of birds.
Muirchertach,
30]
grandson of Madadhan, king of Uí-Bresail,
31]
was killed in Ard-Macha, by Madadhan Ua Celechain, per
32]
dolum.
Niall Ua Ruairc was slain by Ua Conchobhair.
33] A predatory hosting by Niall, son of Maelsechlainn, into
34]
Bregha, when he slew Ua hIfferrain.
Annal LC1048.
35] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the l2th
36]
of the moon; the age of the Lord forty-eight years
Ferghal Ua Maelmhuaidh, king of
2]
Feara-Ceall; Gillacoluim Ua hEighnigh, chief king of
3]
Oirghiall; Cendfaeladh O'Cuill, chief poet of Mumha;
4]
Maelfabhaill Ua hEidhin, king of Uí-Fiachrach-Aidhne,
5]
mortui sunt.
The comarb of Peter, i.e. the Pope,
6]
and twelve of his men of grade along with him, died after
7]
drinking poison which the comarb who had
previously
8]
been expelled thence i.e. from the Papacy
gave to them.
Annal LC1049.
9] The kalends of January on the lst feria, the 23rd of
10]
the moon; the age of the Lord forty-nine years and a
11]
thousand.
Maelcainnigh Ua Taichligh, comarb of Daimhinis,
12]
died.
Muirchertach, son of Maelsechlainn, was slain
13]
by Conchobhar Ua Maelsechlainn, to the profanation of
14]
God and of men.
Conchobhar Ua Cinnfhaeladh, king of
15]
Uí-Conaill-Gabhra, and Imhar Ua Béice, king of
Uí-Méth,
16]
occisi sunt.
Annal LC1050.
17] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 4th of the
18]
moon; the age of the Lord fifty years and a thousand.
19] Maelruanaidh, grandson of Cucoirne, king of
20]
Eile, and Donnchadh, son of Gillafhaelain, king of
Uí-Failghe,
21]
occisi sunt.
Cill-dara, with its stone-church,
22]
was burned.
Cleirchen Ua Muineóc, tower of the piety of
23]
Erinn, quievit in
Christo.
A conflict between the men
24]
of Magh-Itha and the Oirghialla, in which Eochaidh Ua
25]
hOssene was slain.
Annal LC1051.
26] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the l5th of
27]
the moon; the age of the Lord fifty-one years and a
28]
thousand.
Muirchertach, son of Brec, king of the Deisi,
29]
was burned by the Uí-Faelain.
Mac Buatan, son of Brec,
30]
was slain in the stone-church of Lis-mór, by
Maelsechlainn,
31]
grandson of Brec.
Amhalghaidh, son of Cathal, king of
32]
the West of Connacht, was blinded by Aedh Ua
Conchobhair.
33] Laighnén, son of Maelan, king of Gailenga, cum
34]
sua regina, i.e., the daughter of the
Gut, went on their
Mac Liachlainn was
2]
expelled from the sovereignty of Tealach-óg, and Aedh,
3]
grandson of Ferghal, was made king in his place.
Annal LC1052.
4] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 27th of
5]
the moon; the age of the Lord fifty-two years and a
6]
thousand.
Domhnall Bán Ua Briain was slain by the
7]
men of Connacht.
Braen, son of Maelmordha, king of
8]
Laighen, died in Colainea.
Macraith, grandson of
9]
Donnchadh, king of Eoghanacht-Chaisil, died.
Annal LC1053.
10] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 7th of
11]
the moon; the age of the Lord fifty-three years and a
12]
thousand.
Mac-na-hoidhche Ua Ruairc, royal heir of
13]
Connacht, was slain by Diarmaid Ua Cuinn on an island of
14]
Loch-hArbhech.
Flaithbhertach Ua Maelfhabhaill, king
15]
of Carraig-Brachaide, and Murchadh Ua
Beollain, airchinnech
16]
of Druim-cliabh, omnes in pace
dormierunt.
A
17]
preying expedition by Mac Lachlainn and the men of
18]
Magh-Itha, against the Cenel-Binnigh of Loch-Drochait,
19]
when they carried off three hundred cows, and killed
20]
Duibhemhna, son Cinaeth, viz.:—the vice-abbot of
Cluain-Fiachna,
21]
and Cúmacha, son of Clairchen, steward of
Dal-Cais.
22] Maelcrón, son of Cathal, king of Bregh, was slain
23]
by Ua Riacain.
Donnchadh Ua Cellachain, royal heir of
24]
Caisel, was slain by the Osraighe.
Niall Ua hEighnich,
25]
king of Feara-Manach, was slain by the
Feara-Luirg.
26] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the l8th of
27]
the moon; the age of the Lord fifty-four years and
28]
a thousand.
Imhar, son of Aralt, king of the Foreigners,
29]
died.
Aedh, grandson of Ferghal, king of Tealach-óg, and
30]
the son of Archu Ua Celechain, king of Uí-Bresail, were
31]
slain by the men of Fernmhagh.
The victory of Finnmhagh
32]
was gained over the Uí-Meith and the
men of
33]
Uachtar-thire, by the Uí-Echach, in which fell the
34]
Croibhdherg, royal heir of Uachtar-thire.
Aedh, son of
A battle
3]
between the men of Alba and the Saxons, in which fell
4]
three thousand of the men of Alba, and one thousand
5]
and a half of the Saxons, together with Dolfinn, son
6]
of Finntar.
Loch-suidhe-Odhrain, in Sliabh-guaire, stole
7]
away in the end of the night of the festival of Michael,
8]
and went into the Fabhall, quod non auditum est ab
9]
antiquis.
Annal LC1055.
10] The kalends of January, on the 1st feria, the 29th of
11]
the moon; the age of the Lord fifty-five years and a
12]
thousand.
Domhnall Ruadh O'Briain was slain by Ua
13]
hEidhin.
Gillapatraic, king of Osraighe, died.
A
14]
victory was gained by Toirdhelbhach Ua Briain over
15]
Murchadh Ua Briain, in which four hundred were slain,
16]
together with fourteen chieftains.
The battle of the
17]
relic-house was gained by Dubh-da-leithe,
comarb of
18]
Patrick, over the son of Loingsech Ua Maelsechlainn,
19]
i.e. the comarb of Finnén and of
Colum Cille, in which
20]
many were slain.
Annal LC1056.
21] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 10th of
22]
the moon; the age of the Lord fifty-six years and a
23]
thousand.
Cathusach, son of Gerrgarbhan, comarb of
24]
Cainech in Cianachta, and Cetfadh, head of
the clerics
25]
of Mumha, quieverunt.
A predatory expedition
26]
by Niall, son of Maelsechlainn, against the Dál-Araidhe,
when
27]
he carried off two thousand cows, and three score
28]
men as prisoners.
Flann Mainistrech, chief poet, and
29]
chief lector, and professor of the history of Erin, in vita
30]
aeterna requievit.
Lightning came and killed three
Eochaidh Ua Flaithemh went on a preying
3]
expedition into Magh-Itha, on the night of great Christmas,
4]
and he brought five hundred cows to the water, i.e,
5]
to the river of Magh-Uatha; and they left the cows in
6]
the river, and forty-eight of them were drowned, along
7]
with Cuilend, son of Dergan.
Annal LC1057.
8] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 21st of
9]
the moon; the age of the Lord fifty-seven years and
10]
a thousand.
Niall Ua hEgnechain, king of Cenel-Enna,
11]
a suis occisus est.
Dunghal Ua Donnchadha, king of
12]
Eoghanacht-Caisil, fell by Murchadh Ua Briain.
13] Finnghuine, grandson of Finnghuine, royal heir of Mumha,
14]
fell by Maelsechlainn, son of Brec.
Maelruanaidh Ua Fogartaigh,
15]
king of the South of Eile, fell by Donnchadh,
16]
son of Brian.
Dubhdhaleithe Ua Cinaetha, airchinnech
17]
of Corcach, and Robhartach, son of Ferdomhnach, comarb
18]
of Colum Cille, in Domino
dormierunt.
Domhnall
19]
Ua Ruairc was slain by Domhnall, son of Maelruanaidh,
20]
king of Feara-Manach.
Annal LC1058.
[lt ]
LB n="21"[gt ]The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 2nd of
22]
the moon; the age of the Lord fifty-eight years and a
23]
thousand.
Imlech-Ibhair was entirely burned, both stone
24]
church and steeple.
Lulach, son of Gillacomghain, chief
25]
king of Alba, was slain by Maelcoluim, son of Donnchadh,
26]
in battle.
The victory of Sliabh-Crot was gained
27]
by Diarmaid, son of Mael-na-mbó, over Donnchadh, son
28]
of Brian, in which, fell Cairpre Ua Lighdha, airchinnech
29]
of Imlech-Ibhair, and Ribhardan, son of Cucoirne, king
30]
of Eile, et alii multi.
Mac Bethad, son of Finnlaech,
Annal LC1059.
3] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 13th
4]
of the moon; the age of the Lord fifty-nine years
5]
and a thousand.
A preying expedition by Maelsechlainn
6]
Ua Madadhain into Airthera, when he carried off
7]
three hundred cows, vel paulo plus, and
killed Gillamuire
8]
Mac Airechtaigh, steward of Clann-Sionaigh.
9] Maelsechlainn Ua Bric was smothered in a cave by
10]
Maelsechlainn Ua Faelain.
Aedh Ua Dubhda, king of
11]
Uí-Amhalghadha, a suis occisus
est.
A preying expedition
12]
by Ardghar Mac Lachlainn, with the Cenel-Eoghain,
13]
into Dal-Araidhe, when they carried off a great cattle
14]
spoil, and killed or captured two hundred persons.
Cathal,
15]
son of Tighernan, king of the West of Connacht; Conghalach
16]
Ua Riagain, royal heir of Temhair; Duarcan Ua
17]
hEghra, king of Luighne; Gillacaeimhghin, son of Gillacomghaill,
18]
royal heir of Laighen, occisi
sunt.
Tomaltach
19]
Ua Maelbhrenuinn, steward of Síl-Muiredhaigh, mortuus
20]
est.
Annal LC1060.
21] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 24th of
22]
the moon; the age of the Lord sixty years and a
23]
thousand; millesimo ac sexagesimo anno Dominicae
24]
Incarnationis.
A great war in Ard-Macha, between Cumuscach
25]
Ua nEradhain and Dubhdhaleithe, comarb of
26]
Patrick, regarding the abbacy.
Cenannus was altogether
27]
burned, together with its stone church.
Leithghlenn was
28]
completely burned, with the exception of the dertech.
29] Domhnall Deissech, chief anmchara of
Erinn, and Conn-na-mbocht
Flannagan Ua Cellaigh, king of Bregh, died on
3]
his pilgrimage.
Annal LC1061.
4] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 5th
5]
of the moon; the age of the Lord sixty-one years and
6]
a thousand.
Muiredhach, grandson of Maelcoluim, airchinnech
7]
of Doire, died.
Domhnall Ua Maeldoraidh
8]
was slain by Ruaidhri Ua Canannain, in a battle.
Cu-uladh,
9]
son of Conghalach, king of Uachtar-thire, in
poenitentia
10]
mortuus est.
Niall, son of Maelsechlainn, mortuus
11]
est.
A hosting by Aedh Ua Conchobhair to Cenn-coradh,
12]
when he demolished the fortress, and filled up the
well.
13] Glenn-da-locha was completely burned.
Annal LC1062.
14] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the l6th
15]
of the moon; the age of the Lord sixty-two years and
16]
a thousand.
Ruaidhri Ua Flaithbhertaigh, king of the
17]
West of Connacht.
Domhnall Ua Maeldoraidh was slain
18]
by Aedh Ua Conchobhair, in battle.
Gillachrist Ua
19]
Maeldoraidh, comarb of Colum Cille both in
Erinn and
20]
Alba, quievit.
A predatory expedition by Ardghar
21]
Mac Lachlainn into Connacht, when they carried off
22]
six thousand cows, and a thousand persons.
Ruaidhri, son
23]
of Cu-cairrge, royal heir of Fernmhagh, was killed by the
24]
son of Niall Ua Ruairc.
Annal LC1063.
25] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 27th
26]
of the moon; the age of the Lord sixty-three years
27]
and a thousand.
Cathal Ua Donnchadha, king of Uí-Echach-Mumhan,
28]
was slain.
Cudhuiligh Ua Taidhg,
29]
king of Feara-Li; Maelsechlainn Ua Madadhain, royal heir
2] A great coigne by Mac Lachlainn from
Glenn-Suiligh
3]
westwards to the west of Luighne, and to Muaidh
4]
of Uí-Amhalghadha, when the chieftains of Connacht
5]
came into his house, with Aedh Ua Conchobhair, and
6]
with Aedh, the son of Niall Ua Ruairc, and with the son of
7]
Art Ua Ruairc.
The cave of Alla, in Cera, was captured
8]
by the Connachtmen, against the people of Aedh
9]
Ua Conchobhair, in which one hundred and sixty persons
10]
were suffocated.
Niall, son of Eochaidh, chief king of
11]
Uladh, died on the ides of November, on a Thursday, and
12]
on the 18th of the moon.
Annal LC1064.
13] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 9th of
14]
the moon; the age of the Lord sixty-four years and
15]
a thousand.
Doilghen Ua Sona, airchinnech of Ard-Sratha;
16]
the blind Ua Lonain, chief poet of the men of
17]
Mumha; Eochaidh Ua Doreidh, airchinnech of
Domhnach-mór
18]
of Magh-Itha, in Domino
dormierunt.
Muirchertach
19]
Ua Neill, king of Tealach-óg, was slain; by
20]
the Uí-Cremthainn occisus
est.
Donnchadh, son of Brian
21]
Boromha, chief king of Mumha, died in Rome, on his
22]
pilgrimage.
Diarmaid Ua Lorcain, royal heir of Laighen
23]
was slain by the Cenel-Eoghain, in Uladh.
Ardghal
24]
Mac Lachlainn, king of Oilech, died at Tealach-óg, et
25]
sepultus est in Ard-Macha, in mausoleo
regum.
Leobhelin,
26]
king of Britain, was slain by the son of Iacop.
Echmarcach,
27]
king of the foreigners, died.
Annal LC1065.
28] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 20th of
29]
the moon; the age of the Lord sixty-five years and
30]
a thousand.
Dubhthach Albanach, chief anmchara of
31]
Erinn and Alba, quievit in
Ard-Macha.
Donnchadh Ua
32]
Mathghamhna, king of Uladh, was slain at Bennchair a
Aedh, grandson of Ualgharg, assumed the kingship
2]
of Cenel-Eoghain.
The son of Tadhg Ua Ceallaigh, king
3]
of Uí-Maine, and Flaithbhertach Ua Flaithbhertaigh,
4]
king of the West of Connacht, occisi sunt by
Aedh
5]
Ua Conchobhair.
Domhnall Ua Loingsigh, king of
6]
Dal-Araidhe, and Muirchertach Ua Maelfabhaill, king
7]
of Carraig-Brachaighe, were slain by the
Uí-Méth.
8] Leogan, son of Laighnen, king of Luighne, was slain
9]
by Conchobhar Ua Maelsechlainn.
Echmhilidh Ua
10]
hAitheidh, king of Uí-Echach, was slain by the
11]
Cenel-Eoghain.
Annal LC1066.
12] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 1st of
13]
the moon; the age of the Lord sixty-six years and a
14]
thousand.
Aedh Ua Ruairc, king of Uí-Briuin, mortuus
15]
est, immediately after the plundering of the shrine of
16]
Patrick.
Gillabraide, moreover, king of Uí-Briuin, and
17]
the son of Senan, king of Gailenga, occisi
sunt.
A great
18]
nut crop in all Erinn, ut rebellat
fluminibus.
Annal LC1067.
19] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 23rd of
20]
the moon the age of the Lord sixty-seven years and
21]
a thousand.
A hosting by Toirdhelbhach Ua Briain
22]
to Loch Cime, on which hosting Ua Conchobhair, king of
23]
Ciarraighe-Luachra, was slain.
Cill-dara, with its churches,
24]
was entirely burned.
Aedh 'of the gapped spear', son
25]
of Tadhg 'of the white steed', son of Cathal, i.e. the
26]
high-king of the province of Connacht, and the helmsman
27]
of the valour of the Gaeidhel, was slain in the battle of
28]
Turlach-Aghna by Aedh, son of Art Uallach Ua Ruairc;
29]
and Aedh Ua Concenainn, king of Uí-Diarmada, et alii
30]
multi.
Annal LC1068.
1] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 23rd of
2]
the moon; the age of the Lord sixty-eight years and a
3]
thousand.
A memorable defeat was inflicted by Aedh
4]
Ua Maelsechlainn on his own brother, viz.:—Domhnall,
5]
son of Niall, son of Maelsechlainn, king of Oilech, in
6]
which Domhnall himself was slain; and this Domhnall,
7]
moreover, was usually called Domhnall na
mbocht.
Murchadh
8]
Ua Briain, royal heir of Mumha, was slain by the
9]
men of Teffa. Flaithbhertach, grandson of Ferghal, king
10]
of Tealach-óg, was mortally wounded
by the Cenel-Binnigh.
Annal LC1069.
11] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 4th of
12]
the moon; the age of the Lord sixty-nine years and a
13]
thousand.
Dún-da-lethglas, and Ard-Sratha, and Lusca,
14]
and Sord-Choluim-Chille, ab igne dissipatae
sunt.
Ua
15]
Aedha, king of Uí-Fiachrach of Ard-Sratha, mortuus est.
Annal LC1070.
16] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the l5th of
17]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy years and a
18]
thousand.
Ua Flaithri, king of Uladh, was dethroned
19]
by Ua Maelruanaidh and the Ulidians; but this Ua Maelruanaidh
20]
was slain in battle immediately after, by Donnsleibhe
21]
Ua hEochadha.
Murchadh, son of Diarmaid,
22]
king of Laighen and of the Foreigners, mortuus est, et
23]
sepultus est in Ath-cliath.
The abbot of Hi, i.e. the
24]
grandson of Baethan, was slain by Mac-in-abaid Ua
Maeldoraidh.
25] Termonn-Dabheog was plundered by Ruaidhri
26]
O'Canannain, et vindicavit Deus et Dabheog
ante plenum
27]
annum.
Annal LC1071.
28] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 26th of
29]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-one years and a
30]
thousand.
Cill-dara, and Glenn-da-locha, and Cluain-Dolcain
31]
crematae sunt.
Annal LC1072.
32] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 7th of
33]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-two years and a
Diarmaid, son of Mael-na-mbó, king of Laighen
2]
and of the Foreigners, fell in a battle by Conchobhar Ua
3]
Maelsechlainn, i.e. king of Temhair, and a slaughter of the
4]
Foreigners and Lagenians was committed about
him. It
5]
was the 7th day of February, and Tuesday the day of
6]
the week, on which this battle was fought.
Ua Fogarta,
7]
king of Eile, was slain by Ua Briain.
Ruaidhri O'Canannain,
8]
king of Cenel-Conaill, was slain by Ua Maeldoraidh,
9]
i.e. Aenghus.
The French went into Alba, and carried
10]
off with them the son of the king of Alba as a
hostage.
Annal LC1073.
11] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 18th
12]
of the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-three years
13]
and a thousand.
Conchobhar Ua Maelsechlainn, king of
14]
Temhair, was slain by the son of Flann, son of Maelsechlainn,
15]
in profanation of the Bachall-Iosa, baculo
praesente.
16] A hosting by Toirdhealbhach into Leth-Chuinn, when
17]
he comitted countless depredations in Gailenga, and
18]
when he slew Maelmordha Ua Cathusaigh, king of Bregh.
Sitrec, son of Amhlaibh,
19]
was slain in Manainn.
20] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 29th of
21]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-four years and a
22]
thousand.
Ard-Macha was burned on the Tuesday after
23]
May-day; with all its churches and bells, both Rath and
24]
Trian.
Raghnall Ua Madadhain, royal heir of Oilech,
25]
occisus est a suis.
Annal LC1075.
26] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 10th of
27]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-five years and
28]
a thousand.
Goffraidh, son of Raghnall, king of Ath-cliath,
29]
and Cinaeth Ua Conbhethaidh, i.e. chieftain
of
A hosting by Toirdhealbhach
2]
and Leth-Mogha into Leth-Chuinn, until they
3]
reached Ath-Fhirdheagha, when the Airghialla gained the
4]
victory of Ard-Monainn over Muirchertach Ua Briain, in
5]
which many were slain.
Donnchadh O'Canannain, king
6]
of Cenel-Conaill, occisus est.
Domhnall Mac Murchadha,
7]
king of Ath-cliath, died of three nights'
disease.
Annal LC1076.
8] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 22nd of
9]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-six years and a
10]
thousand.
Gillachrist O'Duibhdara, king of Feara-Manach,
11]
occisus est, in Daimhinis, by the
Feara-Manach.
Domhnall
12]
Ua Crichain, king of Uí-Fiachrach of Ard-Sratha,
13]
was slain, with a havoc about him, by the
Uí-Tuirtre
14]
and the Cenel-Binnigh of the valley.
Murchadh, son of
15]
Flann Ua Maelsechlainn, king of Temhair during the
16]
space of three nights, was slain in the cloicteach of
17]
Cenannus by the son of Maelan, king of Gailenga.
A
18]
hosting by Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain to Connacht, when
19]
the king of Connacht came into his house, viz.:—Ruaidhri
20]
Ua Conchobhair.
The victory of Belat was gained by
21]
Aedh Ua Maelsechlainn,
and by the men of Magh-Itha,
22]
over the Cianachta, who were put to slaughter.
Gormlaith,
23]
daughter of Ua Fogartaigh, wife of Toirdhealbhach
24]
Ua Briain, died.
Annal LC1077.
25] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 2nd of the
26]
moon; the age of the Lord seventy-seven years and
27]
a thousand.
A hosting by Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain
28]
into Uí-Cennselaigh, and he put the son of Domhnall
29]
Remhar, king of Uí-Cennselaigh, in chains.
The grandson
30]
of Maelan, i.e. the king of Gailenga, was slain by
31]
Maelsechlainn, king of Temhair.
27] Murchadh O'Maelsechlainn
32]
was slain by the men of Teffa.
The victory of the
Annal LC1078.
3] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 13th of
4]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-eight years and
5]
a thousand.
Lorcan Ua Briain died.
Lethlobhar Ua
6]
Laighnén, i.e. chief king of Oirghiall, was slain by
7]
Ruaidhri Ua Ruadhachan.
Conchobhar, grandson of
8]
Brian, king of Telach-óg, and royal heir of Erinn, was
9]
slain by the Cenel-Binnigh of the valley.
Domhnall,
10]
grandson of Tighernan, king of Conmaicne, was slain.
11]
Cathal, son of Domhnall, king of Cenel-Enna, was killed
12]
by the Cenel-Eoghain of the Island.
Annal LC1079.
13] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 24th of
14]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-nine years and
15]
a thousand.
Ceallach O'Ruanadha, chief poet of Erin,
16]
died.
Cumhidhe, grandson of Lorcan, king of Fernmhagh,
17]
died.
Annal LC1080.
18] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 5th of the
19]
moon; the age of the Lord eighty years and a thousand.
20] Donn Ua Lethlobhair, king of Fernmhagh, was slain
21]
by the Uí-Laithen on Sliabh-Fuaid.
The victory of
22]
Ath-Ergail, by the side of Clochar; was gained over the
23]
Feara-Manach by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, and by the
24]
men of Magh-Itha, wherein Sitric Ua Caenxhain and the
25]
son of Niall Ua Serraigh, et alii multi,
were slain.
Annal LC1081.
26] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 16th of
27]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighty-one years and a
28]
thousand.
Ua Mathghamhna, king of Uladh, was slain
29]
by Donnsleibhe Ua hEochadha, in Dun-da-lethghlas.
30] Corcach, with its churches, and Cill-Dalua, ab
igne
31]
dissipatae sunt.
Annal LC1082.
32] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 27th of
33]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighty-two
years and a
34]
thousand.
Gillachrist Ua Maelfhabhaill, king of Carraig-Brachaidhe,
35]
died.
Domhnall, son of Conchobhar Ua
36]
Briain, mortuus est.
Cathal, son of Aedh Ua Conchobhair
Flaithbhertach Ua Maelduin, king of Lurg,
2]
died.
Annal LC1083.
3] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 9th of the
4]
moon; the age of the Lord eighty-three years
and a
5]
thousand.
Domhnall Ua Canannain, king of Cenel
6]
Conaill, a suis occisus est.
Aedh Ua Maelsechlainn, king
8]
of Oilech, died.
Muirchertach Ua Cairill, airchinnech of
9]
Dún, professor of jurisprudence and history, mortuus est.
8] Domhnall Ua Lochlainn assumed the sovereignty of Cenel-Eoghain,
10]
and made a royal predatory expedition into
11]
Conaille-Muirtheimhne, whence he carried off a great
12]
spoil of cattle; and liberal pay was given to the men of
13]
Fernmhagh on this expedition.
Annal LC1084.
14] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 20th of
15]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighty-four
years and a
16]
thousand.
Donnchadh Ua Maelruanaidh, persecutor
17]
ecclesiarum, was slain by the Feara-Luirg.
15] Glenn-da-locha,
18]
cum suis templis, was burned.
A hosting by
19]
Donnsleibhe, king of Uladh, as far as Droichet-atha; and
20]
he gave pay to the son of the Caillech Ua Ruairc.
A
21]
predatory expedition by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, in his
22]
Donnsleibhe's absence, into Ulidia, and he
carried off a
23]
great spoil of cattle.
A hosting by the men of Mumha
24]
into Midhe; and it was on that expedition
Conchobhar
25]
Ua Cedfadha died. And the Conmaicne went into Tuadh-Mumha
26]
in their absence, when they burned forts and
27]
churches, and carried off great spoils.
The victory of
28]
Moin-Cruinnoige by Leth-Mogha, over Donnchadh
29]
O'Ruairc; in which fell Ua Ruairc, and
Cennedigh
25]
O'Briain, et alii plurimi.
Domhnall Ua Gairmleghaigh
31]
was slain by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn.
Annal LC1085.
1] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 1st of the
2]
moon; the age of the Lord eighty-five years and a
3]
thousand.
Murchadh Ua Maeldoraidh, king of Cenel-Conaill,
4]
pillar of dignity, nobility, and
hospitality, died
5]
in this year.
Domhnall, son of Maelcoluim, king of Alba,
6]
mortuus est.
Ualgharg O'Ruairc, royal heir of Connacht,
7]
died.
Annal LC1086.
8] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the l2th of
9]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighty-six years and
10]
a thousand.
Maelisa Ua Brolchain, the sage of Erinn
11]
in wisdom and in piety, and in the poetry of either language,
12]
suum spiritum emisit.
Toirdhealbhach O'Briain,
13]
king of Erinn, died at Cenn-coradh, after great suffering,
14]
and after long penance, and after receiving the body of
15]
Christ and His Blood, on the day before the
ides of July,
16]
in the 77th year of his age.
Tadhg Ua Briain, his son, died
17]
before the end of a month afterwards.
The victory of the
18]
Crionach was gained over Maelsechlainn, by the Lagenians
19]
and by the Foreigners, in which fell Maelciarain Ua
20]
Cathusaigh, king of Bregh, et alii
multi.
A victory by
21]
the Airthera over the Uí-Echach, in which Domhnall Ua
22]
hAitheidh was slain.
Annal LC1087.
23] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 23rd of
24]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighty-seven years
25]
and a thousand.
Domhnall Mac Gillapatraic, king of
26]
Osraighe, died.
Maelsechlainn, son of Conchobhar, king
27]
of Temhair, was slain by the men of Tethfa, in
treachery.
28] Domhnall Ua Laithen was slain by Domhnall Mac
Lachlainn.
29] The battle of Conachail, in the territory of Corann,
30]
was gained by Ruaidhri 'of the yellow
hound,' son of
31]
Aedh 'of the gapped spear,' over Aedh, son of Art
32]
Uallach Ua Ruairc, king of Connacht and Conmaicne.
33]
Moreover, Aedh, son of Art Ua Ruairc, was slain; and the
Natus
2]
est hoc anno Toirdhealbhach Ua
Conchobhair.
Annal LC1088.
3] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 4th of
4]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighty-eight years and a
5]
thousand.
A hosting by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, i.e.
6]
the king of Uladh, into Connacht; and Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair
7]
came to meet him; and they both went to
8]
Mumha, when they burned Cenn-coradh, and Luimnech,
9]
and the Machaire as far as Dun-Aiched; and they brought
10]
with them the head of the son of Cailech Ua Ruairc.
A
11]
great slaughter was inflicted on the
Foreigners of Ath-cliath,
12]
and Port-Lairge, and Loch Carman, by the Uí-Echach-Mumhan,
13]
on the day on which they resolved to plunder
14]
Corcach.
Maelisa Ua Maelgeric, poet of Erinn, died.
Annal LC1089.
15] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 15th of
16]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighty-nine years and a
17]
thousand.
Lusca was burned, and nine score persons were
18]
burned in its stone-church, by the men of Mumha.
Cilldara
19]
was burned in hoc anno.
Donnchadh, son of
20]
Domhnall Remhar, king of Laighen, a suis occisus
est.
21] Donnchadh Mac Gillapatraic, king of Osraighe, occisus est.
Annal LC1090.
22] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 26th of
23]
the moon; the age of the Lord ninety years and a
thousand.
24] A convention between Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, and
25]
Muirchertach O'Briain, king of Caisel, and the son of
26]
Flann Ua Maelsechlainn, king of Temhair; and they
27]
delivered all their hostages and pledges to the king of
28]
Oilech, i.e. Domhnall Mac Lachlainn.
Annal LC1091.
29] The kalends of Jannary on the 4th feria, the 7th of the
30]
moon; the age of the Lord ninety-one years and a
thousand.
31] Murchadh, son of Domhnall Remhar, was slain in
32]
treachery by Enna, son of Diarmaid.
The southern half
Donnsleibhe
2]
Ua hEochadha was slain by the son of Mac Lachlainn,
3]
i.e. the king of Oilech, at Bél-ghuirt-an-iobhair, in
battle.
4] Maelisa comarb of Patrick, on the 5th of
the kalends of
5]
January, in poenitentia quievit.
The son of Aedh, son
6]
of Ruaidhri, king of the West of Connacht, mortuus
est.
7] A sappy, plentiful year, of good weather, was this
year.
Annal LC1092.
8] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 18th of
9]
the moon; the age of the Lord ninety-two years and a
10]
thousand.
Cluain-mic-Nois was devastated by the men of
11]
Mumha.
Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair, chief king of Connacht,
12]
was blinded in treachery by Ua Flaithbhertaigh,
13]
king of the West of Connacht.
Muiredhach Mac Carthaigh,
14]
king of Eoghanacht-Caisil, mortuus
est.
The Rath of
15]
Ard-Macha together with its churches, was burned on the
16]
kalends of September, and a row of Trian-mor, and a
17]
row of Trian-Saxan.
The Devotee Ua Fallamhain was
18]
drowned in Loch Cairgin, through the malediction of
19]
Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair.
Ab Incarnatione Domini to
20]
the blinding of Ruaidhri fluxerunt anni m.xcii; ab
initio
21]
mundi, ui millia, cc.xc.i.
Annal LC1093.
22] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 29th of
23]
the moon; the age of the Lord ninety-three years and a
24]
thousand.
Aedh O'Baighellain, king of Fernmhagh, died.
25] Aedh, son of Cathal Ua Conchobhair, royal heir of Connacht,
26]
omnes occisi sunt.
The Síl-Muireghaigh were
27]
expelled from Connacht by Muirchertach O'Briain.
Aedh
28]
Ua Canannain, king of Cenel-Conaill, was blinded by
29]
Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, king of Oilech.
Maelcoluim,
30]
son of Donnchadh, chief king of Alba, and Edward his
His queen, moreover, i.e. Margareta, died of
3]
grief for him before the end of a nomaid.
The Síl-Muireghaigh
4]
appeared again in Connacht, without
permission.
5] Great fruit in hoc anno.
6] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 10th of the
7]
moon; the age of the Lord ninety-four years and a
thousand.
8] Flaithbhertach Ua hAitheidh, king of Uí-Echach,
9]
was blinded by Donnchadh Ua hEochadha, king of Uladh.
10] A hosting by Muirchertach O'Briain to Ath-cliath, when
11]
he expelled Goffraigh Meranach from the kingship of the
12]
Foreigners, and killed Domhnall O'Maelsechlainn, king of
13]
Temhair.
A slaughter of the good men of the Airthera
14]
was committed by the Ultonians.
Ruaidhri O'Donnacain,
15]
king of Aradh, mortuus est.
Conchobhar O'Conchobhair,
16]
king of Cianachta, in poenitentia mortuus
est.
A
17]
victory by the Síl-Muireghaigh over the men of
Tuadh-Mumha,
18]
in which three hundred were slain, vel paulo
19]
plus.
Donnchadh, son of Maelcoluim, king of Alba, was
20]
slain by his own brothers, per dolum
viz.:—by Domhnall
21]
and by Edmond.
Great inclemency of the weather in all
22]
Erinn, from which grew scarcity.
Annal LC1095.
23] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 21st of
24]
the moon; the age of the Lord ninety-five years and a
25]
thousand.
Great snow fell on the Wednesday after
26]
the kalends of January, which killed a multitude of
27]
men, cattle, and birds.
Cenannus with its churches, and
28]
Dermhagh with its books, and Ard-Sratha with its church,
29]
and many other churches besides, crematae
sunt. Ua
30]
hEighnigh, king of Feara-Manach, was slain a
suis.
The
31]
victory of Ard-achadh was gained by the
Dal-Araidhe
32]
over the Ulidians, in which Gillacomghaill O'Cairill was
33]
slain.
A great pestilence in Erinn, which killed a large
34]
multitude of people, from the kalends of August to the
35]
May following, viz.:—it was called a 'mortal
year'.
1] Muirchertach Ua Cairre, steward of Cenel-Aenghusa, and
2]
royal heir of Oilech, died.
Goffraigh Meranach, king of
3]
the Foreigners, mortuus est.
The battle of Fidhnacha,
4]
in quo ceciderunt multi of the West of
Connacht, and of
5]
Corcumruaidh, was gained by Tadhg, son of
Ruaidhri
6]
Ua Conchobhair.
Annal LC1096.
7] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 2nd of
8]
the moon; the age of the Lord ninety-six years and a
9]
thousand.
Flann Ua hAnbfheth, king of the South of
10]
Oirghiall, died in this year.
Mathghamhain Ua Seghdha,
11]
king of Corca-Dhuibhne, died.
Conchobhar Ua hAiniaraidh,
12]
king of Cianachta, and Ua Cein, king of Uí-mic-Cairthinn,
13]
fell by each other in combat.
Great
14]
terror over the men of all Erinn before the festival of
15]
John of this year; but God and Patrick saved them
16]
through the fastings of the comarb of
Patrick and the
17]
clerics of Erinn besides.
15] Muirchertach Ua Dubhda,
18]
king of Uí-Amhalghaidh, was slain a
suis.
Madadhan
19]
O'Madadhain, king of Síl-Anmchadha, mortuus
est.
Cu-uladh
20]
Ua Celechain, royal heir of Oirghiall, was slain by
21]
the Ulidians. Eoghan Ua Cernaigh, airchinnech of
22]
Doire, on the 19th of the kalends of January, quievit.
23] Flaithbhertach Ua Flaithbhertaigh, king of the West of
24]
Connacht, was slain by Madadhan O'Cuanna and the
25]
Síl-Muireghaigh, in revenge for their lord's
eyes.
Domhnall
26]
Ua hEnna, archbishop of Caisel, quievit.
Annal LC1097.
27] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 13th of
28]
the moon; the age of the Lord ninety-seven years and a
29]
thousand.
Tadhg,son of Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair, royal
30]
heir of Connacht, died.
A hosting by Muirchertach
31]
Ua Briain and by Leth-Mogha, to Magh-Muirtheimhne.
32] A hosting by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn from the north of
33]
Erinn to Fidh-Conaille, to give them battle; but the
Lochlainn Ua Duibhdhara, king of
3]
Fernmhagh, was slain by the Uí-Briuin-Breifne.
A great
4]
nut crop in this year, viz.: the year of the white nuts;
5]
thirty years from this nut crop to the nut crop before
us.
Annal LC1098.
6] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 24th of
7]
the moon; the age of the Lord ninety-eight years and a
8]
thousand.
Three ships of the ships of the Foreigners of
9]
the Islands were plundered by the Ultonians, and their
10]
crews slain, viz:—one hundred and twenty men, vel paulo
11]
plus.
Diarmaid, son of Enna, son of Diarmaid, king of
12]
Laighen, was killed by the sons of Murchadh, son of
13]
Diarmaid.
Domhnall Ua Robhartaigh, comarb of Colum
14]
Cille during a long period, in pace
dormivit.
The victory
15]
of Fersad-Suilidhe was gained over the
Cenel-Conaill by
16]
the Cenel-Eoghain, in which fell Ecertach Ua Tairchert,
17]
et alii multi.
Annal LC1099.
18] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 5th of
19]
the moon; the age of the Lord ninety-nine years and a
20]
thousand.
Great famine throughout all Erinn in this
21]
year.
Cenannus ab igne dissipata est.
Cill-dara dimidia
22]
parte cremata est.
A hosting by Muirchertach Ua Brian,
23]
and by Leth-Mogha, to Sliabh-Fuaid; but Domhnall,
24]
comarb of Patrick, made a year's peace
between them and
25]
the men of the North of Erinn.
A hosting by Domhnall
26]
Mac Lachlainn and the men of the North of
Erinn, into Ulidia.
27]
The Ulidians, however, were before them at Craebh-thelcha,
28]
in a camp. Their two cavalry hosts engage. The
29]
cavalry host of Ulidia is defeated, and Ua hAmhrain is slain
30]
there. The Ulidians afterwards abandon the camp, and
31]
the Cenel-Eoghain burn it, and cut down Craebh-thelcha.
32]
Two hostages are subsequently given to them, and the
33]
comarb of Comhghall as security for two
other hostages.
1] The stone-church of Ard-Sratha was burned by the men
2]
of Craebh, against the Uí-Fiachrach.
Annal LC1100.
3] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 16th of the
4]
moon; the age of the Lord one hundred years and a
thousand.
5] Donnchadh Ua hEochadha, king of Uladh, and a
6]
number of the chieftains of Uladh along with him, were
7]
taken prisoners by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, king of
8]
Oilech, on the fifth of the kalends of June.
A hosting by
9]
Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, so that he destroyed Feara-Breagh
10]
and Fine-Gall.
A hosting by Muirchertach Ua
11]
Briain to Eas-Ruaidh.
The fleet of Ath-cliath went to
12]
Inis-Eoghain, where they were cut off both by drowning
13]
and killing.
The grandson of Gilla-Choluim Ua Domhnaill,
14]
king of Cenel-Luighdech, a suis occisus
est.
Assidh Ua
15]
hAmhradhain, steward of Dal-Fiatach, died.
Gillabrighde
16]
Ua Cuirc, king of Muscraidhe-Breoghain, mortuus
est.
17] Gilla-na-naemh Ua hEighin, king of Uí-Fiachrach-Aighne,
18]
mortuus est.
Echri Ua Maelmuire, king of Cianachta,
19]
was slain by Ua Conchobhair of Cianachta.
Annal LC1101.
20] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 27th of the
21]
moon; the age of the Lord one hundred and one years, and
22]
a thousand.
Donnchadh, son of Aedh Ua Ruairc, was slain
23]
by the Feara-Manach.
A hosting by Muirchertach Ua
24]
Briain, and by Leth-Mogha, into Connacht, and across Eas-Ruaidh
25]
into Tir-Conaill, and from thence into Tir-Eoghain;
26]
and they demolished Oilech, and burned and profaned
27]
many churches, including Fathan-mor-Mura and Ard-Sratha.
28]
They proceeded thence across Fersat-Camsa,
29]
and they burned Cúil-Rathain, and committed a massacre
30]
there. They took the hostages of Uladh afterwards, and he
31]
Muirchertach proceeded by
Slighe-Midhluachra to his
32]
house, after the triumph of that
hosting.
A predatory incursion
33]
by Donnchadh Ua Maelsechlainn into Fernmhagh,
Donnchadh Ua
hEochadha,
3]
king of Uladh, was released from bondage by Domhnall
4]
Mac Lachlainn, king of Oilech in exchange for his son
5]
and his foster-brother, viz.:—in the stone-church of
Ard-Macha
6]
he was released, through the intercession of
the
7]
comarb of Patrick, and the congregation of
Patrick
8]
likewise—after mutually swearing by the Bachall-Isa, and
9]
by other principal relics—on the 11th of the kalends of
10]
January.
Annal LC1102.
11] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 9th of
12]
the moon; the age of the Lord two years, and a hundred,
13]
and a thousand.
Sord-Choluim-Chille was burned.
14]
Donnchadh, son of Echri Ua hAitheidh, royal heir of
Uí-Echach,
15]
was slain by the Ulidians, in the fifth month
16]
after he had profaned the community of Patrick.
17] Domhnall, son of Tighernan Ua Ruairc, was slain by the
18]
Conmaicne; and this Domhnall was king over the Conmaicne
19]
and an arbitrator over the Connachtmen.
Flaithbhertach,
20]
son of Fothadh, king of Uí-Fiachrach of Ard-Sratha,
21]
was slain by the Feara-Luirg.
A hosting by the
22]
Cenel-Eoghain to Magh-Cobha.
The Ulidians proceeded
23]
on that night to the camp, and slew Sitrec Ua Maelfhabhuill,
24]
king of Carraig-Brachaidhe and
Sitrec, son of
25]
Conrach, son of Eoghan, et alii.
Maghnus, king of Lochlann,
26]
came with a large fleet to Manainn, and made a
27]
year's peace with the men of Erinn.
The hostages of the
28]
men of Erinn in the hands of Domhnall, comarb of Patrick,
29]
for a year's peace between O'Briain, i.e. Muirchertach,
30]
and Mac Lachlainn, i.e. Domhnall.
Ros-Oilitri was plundered
31]
i.e. cum patre suo by the Uí-Echach
in revenge for
32]
the killing of Ua Donnchadha.
Caisel was burned by the
33]
Eile.
Annal LC1103.
34] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 20th of
35]
the moon; the age of the Lord three years, and a hundred,
36]
and a thousand.
A severe, fierce conflict between the
Ua Canannain, i.e. the King of Cenel-Conaill,
3]
was expelled from his sovereignty by Domhnall Mac
Lachlainn.
4] A great war between the Cenel-Eoghain and the
5]
Ulidians, when Muirchertach O'Briain came with the men
6]
of Mumha, and Laighen, and Osraighe, and with the nobles
7]
of Connacht, and with the men of Midhe, together with
8]
their kings, to Magh-Cobha, to assist the Ulidians. They
9]
all went, respectively, to Machaire-Aird-Macha, i.e. to
10]
Cill-na-Cornaire, where they were a week laying siege to
11]
Ard-Macha. Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, with the men
of
12]
the North of Erinn, was during the time in
Uí-Bresail-Macha,
13]
confronting them. When, however, the men of
14]
Mumha were weary, Muirchertach proceeded to Aenach-Macha,
15]
and to Emhain-Macha, and round to Ard-Macha,
16]
when he left eight ounces of gold upon the altar, and promised
17]
eight score cows; and he turned back to Magh-Cobha,
18]
and left there the Lagenians, and a multitude of
19]
the men of Mumha; and he himself went, moreover, on a
20]
predatory expedition into Dal-Araidhe, where he lost
21]
Donnchadh, son of Toirdhealbhach, and the son of Ua
22]
Conchobhair, king of Ciarraighe, and Ua Beóain, et alii
23]
optimi. Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, accompanied by the
24]
chieftans of Cenel-Conaill and Cenel-Eoghain, and of the
25]
whole North, went to Magh-Cobha, to attack the Lagenians.
26]
The Lagenians, however, and the Osraighe, and the men
27]
of Mumha, and the Foreigners, such as they were, came
28]
to meet him and a battle was fought: viz., on the nones
29]
of August, and on Wednesday, as regards the day of the
30]
week, and on the 29th of the moon, and on the eighth
31]
day after coming to Macha, this battle was fought. The
32]
men of Leth-Mogha were defeated, and a slaughter of
33]
them was committed, and a slaughter of the Lagenians, with
34]
Muirchertach Mac Gillacholmog, and with two Ua Lorcains,
35]
and with Muirchertach, son of Mac Gormain, et
alii;
36]
and a slaughter of the Uí-Ceinnsealaigh, with two sons of
12] The Cenel-Eoghain, and the nobles of Cenel-Conaill
13]
and of the North likewise, returned with great
14]
spoils, and with numerous treasures, including the royal
15]
pavilion, and the standard and many precious things
16]
besides.
Maghnus, King of Lochlann, was slain on a
17]
predatory expedition in Ulidia.
Annal LC1104.
18] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 1st of the
19]
moon; the age of the Lord four years, and a hundred,
20]
and a thousand.
O'Conchobhair of Corcumruaidh, i.e.
21]
Conchobhar, son of Maelsechlainn, mortuus
est.
Mac-na-hoidhche
22]
Ua Ruairc a suis fratribus occisus
est.
A hosting
23]
by Muirchertach Ua Briain to Magh-Muirthemhne, and he
24]
totally destroyed the tillage of the plain; and it was on this
25]
hosting that Cu-Uladh O
Caindelbhain, King of Laeghaire,
26]
was thrown from his horse, of which he
died.
A hosting
27]
by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn to Magh-Cobha, when he
28]
obtained the hostages of Ulidia; and he proceeded to Temhair,
29]
and burned a large part of Uí-Laeghaire, but gave
30]
protection to some of them
however.
Donnchadh Ua Conchobhair,
31]
King of Cianachta, was slain by his own people.
Annal LC1105.
32] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 12th of
33]
the moon; the age of the Lord five years, and a hundred,
Conchobhar, son of Maelsechlainn, royal
2]
heir of Temhair, occisus est.
Domhnall, comarb of
3]
Patrick, came to Ath-cliath, to make peace between Muirchertach
4]
O'Briain and Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, where
5]
sickness seized him, and he was carried in his sickness
6]
to Domhnach-oirther-Emhna, where he was anointed;
7]
and he was afterwards carried to Daimhliag, where he
8]
died; and his body was taken to Ard-Macha.
Ceallach,
9]
son of Aedh, son of Maelisa, was ordained in his place, in
10]
the comarbship of Patrick, by the choice of the men of
11]
Erinn; and he received orders on the day of Adhamnan's
12]
festival.
A hosting by Muirchertach O'Briain, when he
13]
expelled Donnchadh Ua Maelsechlainn from the sovereignty
14]
of the West of Midhe.
Annal LC1106.
15] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 23rd of
16]
the moon, the age of the Lord six years, and a hundred,
17]
and a thousand.
A predatory hosting by Domhnall Mac
18]
Lachlainn, to assist Donnchadh Ua Maelsechlainn, when
19]
they injured the west of Midhe; and Donnchadh himself
20]
was met there on a scouting party, and slain.
Ceallach,
21]
comarb of Patrick, went on the visitation
of Cenel-Eoghain,
22]
for the first time, and he obtained his full demand,
23]
viz.:—a cow for every six persons, or an in-calf heifer
24]
for every three, or half an ounce for every four, in addition
25]
to many offerings besides.
Cathbharr O'Domhnaill,
26]
pillar of the defence and warfare, of the glory and hospitality
27]
of the Cenel-Luighdech, died.
Ceallach went on a
28]
visitation of Mumha, the first time also; and he obtained
29]
his full tribute, viz.:—seven cows, and seven sheep, and
30]
half an ounce for every triocha-ced in
Mumha, in addition
Annal LC1107.
4] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 4th of the
5]
moon; the age of the Lord seven years, and a hundred,
6]
and a thousand.
Snow fell for a day and night, the Wednesday
7]
before the festival of Patrick, which caused a great
8]
destruction of the cattle of Erinn.
Cenn-coradh was
9]
burned between the two Easters, with sixty puncheons
10]
of mead and beer.
Conchobhar, grandson of Donnsleibhe,
11]
royal heir of Uladh, was slain by the men of
12]
Fernmhagh.
A victory by the Uí-Bresail over the Uí-Meth,
13]
in which they were slaughtered, together with
14]
their king, i.e. Aedh Ua hInnreachtaigh.
Very wet
15]
weather in this year, which destroyed all the corn
crops.
16] A year's peace was made by Ceallach, comarb of Patrick,
17]
between Muirchertach Ua Briain and Domhnall Mac
18]
Lachlainn.
Annal LC1108.
19] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the l5th of the
20]
moon; the age of the Lord eight years, and a hundred,
21]
and a thousand.
Luimnnech was burned.
Domhnall Ua
22]
Ruairc, king of Uí-Briuin, occisus
est.
Ceallach, comarb
23]
of Patrick, proceeded on a visitation of
Connacht
24]
for the first time, and obtained his full
demand.
A house
25]
was taken by Ua Mathghamhna and Ua Maelruanaidh
26]
over Goll Garbraighe, i.e. the king of Uladh, i.e. Eochaidh,
27]
son of Donnsleibhe Ua hEochadha, and he was beheaded
A great crop of oak fruit throughout all Erinn.
2] A sappy year, with good weather, and with much corn
3]
and produce, was this
year.
Annal LC1109.
4] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 26th of
5]
the moon; the age of the Lord nine years, and a hundred,
6]
and a thousand.
Easter on the 7th of the kalends of
7]
May, and Little Easter on the second day of summer.
A
8]
hosting by Muirchertach Ua Briain, to aid Murchadh Ua
9]
Maelsechlainn, and he plundered a section of the
Uí-Briuin.
10] A hosting by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn accompanied by the
11]
men of the North of Erinn, to Sliabh-Fuaid; but Ceallach,
12]
comarb of Patrick, made a year's peace
between O'Briain
13]
and Mac Lachlainn; and the men of the North
of Erinn,
14]
together with the Cenel-Conaill and Cenel-Eoghain, went
15]
afterwards to Magh-Uí-Bresail, to attack the Ulidians
16]
who were in Magh-Cobha but the Ulidians gave them
17]
the three hostages whom they themselves selected.
Aedh
18]
Ua Ruairc came twice into the camp of Murchadh Ua
19]
Maelsechlainn, and committed a slaughter. through the
20]
curse of the congregation of Patrick.
Mac Gillapatraic,
21]
king of Osraighe, i.e. Domhnall Ruadh, was
killed by
22]
another youth whilst playing a game.
Annal LC1110.
23] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 7th of the
24]
moon; the age of the Lord ten years, and a hundred, and
25]
a thousand.
Gillacoluim O'Maelmhuaidh, king of Feara-Ceall
26]
jugulatus est.
Murchadh, son of Tadhg Ua Briain,
27]
royal heir of Mumha, mortuus est.
Bébhinn, daughter of
28]
Cenneidigh Ua Briain, wife of Domhnall Mae Lachlainn,
29]
king of Oilech, died.
A predatory expedition by Domhnall
30]
Mac Lachlainn into Connacht, whence he carried off a
31]
thousand prisoners, and several thousand cattle.
Ceallach,
32]
comarb of Patrick, went
for the/ first time on a visitation
33]
of Midhe, and carried off from it his full demand.
A
34]
victory by the Conmaicne over the Síl-Muireghaigh, i.e.
A victory by the Síl-Muireghaigh
2]
over the Conmaicne, viz.:—the victory of
3]
the Ros, opposite Cruachan, in which fell three Ua
4]
Ferghails, and many other nobles besides.
Annal LC1111.
5] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 18th of the
6]
moon; the age of the Lord eleven years, and a hundred,
7]
and a thousand.
Port-Lairge was burned.
Cenannus was
8]
burned.
A hosting by the Ulidians to Telach-óg, when
9]
they cut down its sacred trees.
A predatory excursion by
10]
Niall Mac Lachlainn, who carried off three thousand cows
11]
in revenge for them.
Dun-da-lethghlas was burned by
12]
lightning, both Rath and Trian.
A synod of clerics
13]
at Fiadh-mic-Aenghusa, in Uisnech, including Cellach,
14]
comarb of Patrick, and including Maelmuire
Ua Dunain,
15]
i.e. the noble senior of Erinn, with fifty bishops, vel paulo
16]
plus, with three hundred priests, and with three thousand
17]
students, together with Muirchertach Ua Briain, attended
18]
by the nobles of Leth-Mogha, to impose rules and good customs
19]
on all, both laity and clergy.
Donnchadh Ua hAnluain,
20]
king of Uí-Niallain, was slain by his brothers, in
treachery.
21] These brothers were slain by the Uí-Niallain, in revenge
22]
for him, before the end of twenty nights thereafter.
A
23]
convention between Domhnall Mac Lachlainn and Donnchadh
24]
Ua hEochadha, when they made a full peace; and
25]
the Ulidians gave hostages to Domhnall, for the
payment
26]
of his own demand.
Annal LC1112.
27] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 29th of
28]
the moon; the age of the Lord twelve years, and a hundred,
29]
and a thousand.
The Rath of Ard-Macha, with its church,
30]
was burned on the 10th of the kalends of April, and two
31]
rows of Trian-Massan, and the third row of
Trian-mór.
32] A predatory expedition by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn across
33]
Fine-Gall, and he carried off an immense number of captives,
34]
and a great spoil cattle.
Annal LC1113.
1] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the l0th of
2]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirteen years, and
3]
a hundred, and a thousand.
A thunderbolt fell on Cruachan-Aighle,
4]
on the night of the festival of Patrick, which
5]
destroyed thirty of the fasting people.
Maelsechlainn
6]
O'Conchobhair, king of Corcumruaidh, died.
Donn
7]
O'Tairchert, chieftain of Clann-Sneidhghile, was slain
8]
by Niall Mac Lachlainn.
A hosting by Domhnall Mac
9]
Lachlainn, with the nobles of Cenel-Conaill and Cenel-Eoghain,
10]
and the Airghialla, to Glenn-Righe; and they
11]
expelled Donnchadh from the sovereignty of Uladh, and
12]
divided Uladh between Ua Mathghamhna and the sons of
13]
Donnsleibhe; but Dal-Araidhe and Uí-Echach were retained
14]
by himself.
A hosting by Muirchertach Ua Briain,
15]
with the men of Mumha, and the Lagenians and Connachtmen,
16]
to Magh-Cobha, to aid Donnchadh.
Another hosting
17]
by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, with the men of Cenel-Conall
18]
and of Cenel-Eoghain, and the Airghialla,
to Magh-Cobha
19]
likewise, to aid the Ulidians; and there was a danger of
20]
battle between them, until the comarb of
Patrick separated
21]
them under the semblance of peace.
Donnchadh
22]
Ua hEochadha was blinded by Eochaidh Ua Mathghamhna
23]
and the Ulidians.
A hosting by Muirchertach Ua Briain
24]
and the people of Leth Mogha both laics and
clerics, to
25]
Grenog.
Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, with the nobles of the
26]
North of Erinn, viz.:—of the Cenel-Conaill and
Cenel-Eoghain,
27]
and Airghialla, proceeded to Cluain-caein,
in
28]
Feara-Rois; and they were during the space of a month
29]
confronting one another, until Ceallach, comarb of
30]
Patrick, with the Bachall-Isa, made a
year's peace between
31]
them.
A fierce conflict between the men of Fernmhagh
32]
themselves, in which two royal heirs of Fernmhagh,
33]
viz. Ua Crichain and Ua Donnagain, were slain.
34] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 21st of
A great fit of sickness seized
3]
Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of Erinn, and removed
4]
him from his sovereignty.
Diarmaid Ua Briain, moreover,
5]
assumed the sovereignty of Mumha, in his presence, without
6]
permission.
A hosting by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn to
7]
Rath-Cennaigh, when Eochaidh Ua Mathghamhna, with
8]
the Ulidians, came into his house, and Donnchadh Ua
9]
Loingsigh, with the Dal-Araidhe, and Aedh Ua Ruairc,
10]
with the men of Breifne, and Murchadh Ua Maelsechlainn,
11]
with the men of Midhe. They all proceeded across Ath-Luain
12]
to Dun-Leodha, where Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair,
13]
with the Connachtmen, aud Niall, son of Domhnall
14]
Mac Lachlainn, with the chieftains of Clann-Conaill, came
15]
into his assembly.
They all went thence, afterwards, to
16]
Telach-Uí-Deghaidh, in Dal-Cais, where they and the men
17]
of Mumha made a year's peace; and Domhnall Mac
18]
Lachlainn went through Connacht, and from thence to his
19]
house.
Aedh, son of Donnchadh Ua hEochadha, royal
20]
heir of Uladh, mortuus est.
Ruaidhri Ua Canannain,
21]
royal heir of Cenel-Conaill, was slain by the
Cenel-Eoghain.
22] Muirchertach Mac Lachlainn, royal heir of Oilech, injuste
23]
interfectus est.
Annal LC1115.
24] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 2nd of the
25]
moon; the age of the Lord fifteen years, and a hundred,
26]
and a thousand
Very severe weather, with frost and
27]
snow, from the l5th of the kalends of January to the l5th
28]
of the kalends of March, vel paulo plus,
which made great
29]
havoc of birds, and cattle, and people; and from which
30]
arose great scarcity and want throughout all Erinn, and in
31]
Laighen especially.
Diarmaid O'Briain, king of Mumha,
A murderous
2]
attack was made by the grandsons of Aedh, son of
3]
Ruaidhri, on Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, king of
4]
Connacht, and he was wounded so that he was in extreme
5]
agony.
A victory by Domhnall Ua Briain and the Foreigners
6]
of Ath-cliath, over the Lagenians, in which Donnchadh,
7]
grandson of Mael-na-mbo, king of Uí-Ceinnsealaigh,
8]
and Conchobhar Ua Conchobhair, king of Uí-Failghe,
9]
with his sons, and a multitude besides, were slain.
Domhnall,
10]
son of Tadhg Ua Briain, royal heir of Mumha, was
11]
slain by the Connachtmen.
Muirchertach Ua Briain
12]
assumed his own sovereignty again, and went on a hosting
13]
into Laighen and Bregh.
The stone-church of Ard Brecain,
14]
with its full of people, was burned by the men of
15]
Mumha, and many churches besides in Feara-Bregh.
A
16]
great predatory excursion by Toirdhealbhach O Conchobhair
17]
and the Connachtmen, and they plundered Tuadh-Mumhan
18]
as far as Luimnech, and carried off countless cattle
19]
spoils and numerous prisoners.
Maelsechlainn Ua
20]
Maelsechlainn, royal heir of Temhair, occisus
est.
Annal LC1116.
21] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 13th of
22]
the moon; the age of the Lord sixteen years, and a hundred,
23]
and a thousand.
Cellach, comarb of Patrick, went on a
24]
visitation of Connacht, for the second time, and obtained
25]
his full tribute.
Cill-Dalua, with its church, was burned.
26] Corcach-mor of Mumhan, and Imlech-Ibhair, and the oratory
27]
of Maelisa Ua Brolchain, and a part of Lis-mór; were
burned
28]
in the same year.
Achadh-bo-Chainnigh was burned.
29] Cluain-Iraird cremata est.
The Abbot's great house of
30]
Ard-Macha, with twenty houses about it, was burned in the
31]
beginning of the Lent of this year.
Ladhmann, son of
32]
Domhnall, king of Alba, was slain by the men of Moray.
33] Derbhail, daughter of Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain, mortua est.
Annal LC1117.
1] The kalends of January ou the 2nd feria, the 24th of
2]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventeen years and a
3]
hundred, and a thousand.
Conchobhar Ua Cairellain was
4]
slain by the Feara-Manach.
The battle of Lecain was
5]
given by Brian, son of Murchadh, and by the sons of
6]
Cathal Ua Conchobhair, having the Connachtmen along
7]
with them, to Toirdhealbhach son of Diarmaid, and
8]
to the Dál-Cais; and the Dál-Cais were defeated and
9]
put to slaughter.
A victory over the Cenel-Eoghain of
10]
the Island, by the Cenel-Conail, when they were put to
11]
slaughter, and many of their chieftains slain.
Annal LC1118.
12] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the
5th of
13]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighteen years and a
14]
hundred, and a thousand.
Laidhgnén Ua Duibhdhara,
15]
king of Feara-Manach, was slain by the Uí-Fiachrach,
16]
and by the men of the Craebh.
Diarmaid Ua Briain,
17]
king of Mumha, and of all Leth-Mogha, died at Corcach-mór
18]
of Mumha, after unction and penitence.
The value of
19]
one hundred ounces of the offering and mass cloths of Cellach,
20]
comarb of Patrick, were submerged in the
Dabhall;
21]
and he himself was endangered.
Paschalis, comarb of
22]
Peter, servus religiosus cum dilectione Dei et
proximi
23]
ad Christum migravit.
Maria, daughter of Maelcoluim,
24]
i.e. daughter of the king of Alba, wife of the king of the
25]
Saxons, mortua est.
A hosting by Toirdhealbhach Ua
26]
Conchobhair, king of Connacht, and by Murchadh O Maelsechlainn,
27]
king of Temhair, along with him, and by Aed
28]
O'Ruairc, into Mumha, as far as Glenn-Maghair; and he
29]
gave Des-Mumha to Mac Carthaigh, and Tuadh-Mumha
Another hosting by him to Ath-cliath,
3]
when he carried away the son of the king of Temhair,
4]
who was in the hands of the Foreigners, and the hostages
5]
of the Foreigners themselves, and the hostages of Laighen
6]
and Osraighe.
A wonderful story in this year, viz: a
7]
very great earthquake in Sliabh-Elpa, which extinguished
8]
many cities, and a multitude of people in them.
Another
9]
wonderful story also in Erinn, viz.:—a mermaid was
10]
caught by the fishermen of Lis-Airglinn, in Osraighe, and
11]
another at Port-Lairge.
Domhnall, son of Ruaidhri Ua
12]
Conchobhair, mortuus est.
Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, king
13]
of Connacht for a long time, died in pilgrimage in the
14]
thirty-sixth year after he was blinded—in
clericatu vitam
15]
feliciter finivit at Cluain-mic-Nois.
Annal LC1119.
16] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 16th of
17]
the moon; the age of the Lord nineteen years and a
18]
hundred, and a thousand.
Cenn-coradh was demolished
19]
by the Connachtmen.
Muirchertach O'Briain, king of
20]
Erinn, prop of the glory and magnificence of the West of
21]
Europe, after the triumph of sovereignty and penance, on
22]
the festival of Mochaemhóg, on the 6th of the ides of
March,
23]
in bono fine vitam finivit.
Cúchollchaille O'Baighelláin,
24]
chief ollamh of Erinn in poetry, and a man
distinguished
25]
for charity and hospitality, and for universal benevolence
26]
towards the needy and the powerful, was slain by the Feara-Luirg
27]
and Tuath-ratha, cum sua uxore et duobus filiis
28]
suis bonis, et cum xxxv. aliis, consisting both of his
family
29]
and guests, in the same house, the Saturday before Little
30]
Easter, on the festival of Becan, son of Cula.
Ruaidhri
31]
O'Tormair, airchinnech of Fathan-mor, quievit.
Conchobhar
32]
O'Gairmleghaigh, chief of Cenel-Moain, was slain
2] Niall, son of Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, royal heir of
3]
Oilech and Erinn, and the paragon of Erinn for figure
4]
and sense, for honour and learning, fell by the Cenel-Moain,
5]
in the 28th year of his age, on Monday as
regards
6]
the day of the week, on the tenth of the moon's age, the
7]
festival of the 'Three Innocent Sons,' in decimo
octavo
8]
kalendas Januarii.
Annal LC1120.
9] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the
27th
10]
of the moon; the age of the Lord twenty years, and a
11]
hundred, and a thousand.
A hosting by Domhnall Mac
12]
Lachlainn to Ath-Luain, to assist Murchadh Ua Maelsechlainn
13]
against Connacht, and Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair
14]
made a false peace with them.
The victory of the
15]
plain of Cill-mór in Uí-Niallain was gained by Raghnall,
16]
son of Mac Riabhaigh, over the Uí-Echach, who were put
17]
to slaughter.
Cellach, comarb of Patrick,
went on a visitation
18]
of Mumha, when he obtained his full demand, and
19]
left a blessing.
Branan, son of Gillachrist, chief of Corca-Achlann,
20]
died.
Echmarcach Mac Uidhrén, chief of Cenel-Feraghaigh,
21]
was slain by the Feara-Manach.
The bridge
22]
of Ath-Luain was made.
Annal LC1121.
22] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 9th of the
23]
moon; the age of the Lord twenty-one years, and a hundred,
25]
and a thousand.
Domhnall, son of Ardghar Mac
26]
Lachlainn, the most distinguished of the Gaeidhel of
27]
Erinn for figure, for family, for sense and prowess, for
28]
prosperity and for constancy, for the bestowing of jewels
29]
and food, died in Doire-Choluim-Chille in the 38th year
30]
of his reign, and in the 73rd year of his age, on the night
31]
of Wednesday particularly, and on the 4th of the ides of
32]
February, the festival of Mochuarog 'the Wise'.
A
33]
hosting by Toirdhelbhach Ua Conchobhair, accompanied
34]
by the men of Connacht, to Des-Mumha, and they plundered
35]
from Magh-Feimhin to Traigh-Lí, both church and
36]
territory, viz.:—seventy churches, vel paulo
plus.
1] A predatory hosting by Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair again
2]
into Des-Mumha, until he reached the termon of Lis-mór;
3]
and he obtained countless cattle spoils, and lost Muiredhach
4]
O'Flaithbhertaigh, king of the west of Connacht,
5]
and Aedh Ua hEidhin, king of
Uí-Fiachrach-Eighne.
6] The steeple of Telach-nImmuinne, in Osraighe, was cleft
7]
by a thunderbolt, and a stone flew from it, which killed
8]
a student in the church.
Cellach, comarb of Patrick,
9]
assumed the bishopric of Ath-cliath by the choice of
10]
Foreigners and Gaeidhel.
A gale of wind occurred on
11]
the nones of December, which knocked off the conical cap
12]
of the steeple of Ard-Macha, and caused a great destruction
13]
of trees throughout all Erinn.
Annal LC1122.
14] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 20th of
15]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-two years, and a
16]
hundred, and a thousand.
Aedh Ua Ruaire, king of Conmaicne,
17]
fell by the men of Midhe, whilst taking a prey
18]
from them.
The shrine of Colman, son of Luachan, was
19]
found in the tomb of Lann, a man's cubit in the earth,
20]
on Spy Wednesday.
A hosting by Toirdhelbhach Ua
21]
Conchobhair to Loch-Sailech in Midhe, when Mac Murchadha,
22]
king of Laighen and the Foreigners, came into
23]
his house.
Mor, daughter of Domhnall Mac Lachlainn,
24]
wife of Toirdhelbhach Ua Conchobhair, died.
A great
25]
predatory expedition by Conchobhar Mac Lachlainn and
26]
the Cenel-Eoghain, until they arrived at Cill-ruaidh in
27]
Ulidia, and they carried off countless cattle spoils.
Aedh
28]
Ua Duibhdhirma, chief of the Bredach, and head of the
29]
hospitality of the North, and Domhnall his brother,
30]
mortui sunt.
Annal LC1123.
31] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 1st of the
32]
moon; the age of the Lord twenty-three years, and a hundred,
33]
and a thousand.
The Gailenga captured a house at
34]
Daimhliag-Cianain, against Maelsechlainn Ua Maelsechlainn,
An unprecedented attack was
6]
made on the comarb of Ailbhe, i.e.
Maelmordha, grandson
7]
of Clothna, viz.:—a house was captured against him in the
8]
middle of his own Imlech, and against the son of Cerbhall
9]
Ua Ciarmhaic, king of Ane; and seven persons were
10]
killed there. The good men escaped therefrom, however,
11]
through the grace of Ailbhe and the Church; but the
12]
Bernan-Ailbhe was, indeed, burned there. The person
13]
who captured this house, viz.:—the Gilla-caech Ua
14]
Ciarmhaic, (and he was by title a deacon), was slain
15]
before the end of a month afterwards and his head was
16]
cut off, for the profanation of God and Ailbhe.
Donnsleibhe
17]
Mac Cathalain, the prosperity and happiness of all
18]
Uladh, mortuus est.
Donnchadh Mac Gillapatraic
19]
Ruadh, king of Osraighe, a suis occisus
est.
Conghalach
20]
Ua Laithbhertaigh royal heir of Oilech,
occisus est.
Annal LC1124.
21] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 12th of
22]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-four years and a
23]
hundred, and a thousand.
Toirfhinn Mac Turcuill, principal
24]
young lord of the Foreigners of Erinn, subita
morte
25]
periit.
Tadhg, son of Mac Carthaigh, king of Des-Mumha,
26]
died.
A great alarm was given to the king of Temhair
27]
on Easter Sunday, viz.:—his Easter house fell on him
28]
and on his household.
Luimnech was all burned, except
29]
a little.
Alexander, son of Maelcoluim, king of Alba, in
30]
bona poenitentia mortuus est.
The hostages of Des-Mumha
Ardghar, grandson of
5]
Aedh Ua Maelsechlainn, was slain by the people of Doire,
6]
in revenge for Colum-Cille.
Annal LC1125.
7] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 23rd of
8]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-five years, and a
9]
hundred, and a thousand.
The fifth of the ides of January,
10]
moreover, was on Friday, the first of the
moon, and
11]
on it the protecting ridge was raised over the great stone-church
12]
of Ard-Macha, after it had been fully covered
13]
with shingling by Cellach, comarb of Patrick, in the one
14]
hundred and thirtieth year since it had a complete shingle
15]
roof before.
Gillabraide Ua Ruairc was drowned in
16]
Loch-Ailinne.
A hosting by Toirdhelbach O'Conchobhair
17]
into Midhe, when he expelled Murchadh Ua
18]
Maelsechlainn from his sovereignty, and placed three
19]
kings over the men of Midhe. Domhnall, son of Murchadh,
20]
however, killed the third king, viz.:—Maelsechlainn,
21]
son of Donnchadh, before the end of a 'nomaidh'.
22] A hosting by Muirchertach O'Cerbhaill, king of the South
23]
of Fernmagh, to the men of Bregh; but Diarmait Ua
24]
Maelsechlainn, with the men of Midhe and the men of
25]
Bregh, met him, and Muirchertach was slain there, and
26]
a slaughter of his host was committedabout
him.
Annal LC1126.
27] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 4th of
28]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-six years, and a
29]
hundred, and a thousand.
Enná son of Murchadh, king of Leinster, mortuus est.
A hosting by Toirdhelbhach
30]
O'Conchobhair to the Lagenians, and he received their
31]
pledges.
Ua Maelruanaigh, king of Feara-Manach, a suis
32]
occisus est.
Maelísa Ua Conne, the most learned of the
33]
Gaeidhel of Erinn in jurisprudence, and in the Ord-Patraic,
Corcach-mor
2]
of Mumha, with its churches, was burned.
Domhnall Ua
3]
Dúbdha was drowned after committing a depredation in
4]
Tir-Conaill.
Royal journey of Toirdhelbhach Ua Conchobhair
5]
to Ath-cliath and Laigen to his son, i.e. to
Conchobhar.
6] Great war in Erinn, so that the comarb of Patrick was
7]
obliged to be a month and a year absent from Ard-Macha,
8]
pacifying the men of Erinn, and imposing rules and good
9]
customs on all, both laity and clergy.
A treacherous depredation
10]
by Ruaidhri Ua Tuachair, in Airthera; but the men
11]
of Airthera overtook, and committed a slaughter of, the
12]
army of Ruaidhri; and he himself was there beheaded.
13]
A hosting by Toirdhelbhach Ua Conchobhair until he
14]
reached Glenn-Maghair, in
Des-Mumha, and he carried
15]
off countless cattle spoils.
Annal LC1127.
16] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 15th of
17]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-seven years, and a
18]
hundred, and a thousand.
A hosting by Toirdhelbhach
19]
O'Conchobhair into Des-Mumha, until he reached Corcach-mor
20]
of Mumha, and he carried off the hostages of
21]
all Mumha.
The men of Airthera captured the house of
22]
Flann, son of Sinach, in Trian-Saxan, in Ard-Macha,
23]
against Raghnall, son of Mac Riabhaigh, on the night of
24]
the Monday of Shrovetide, and he was beheaded by them.
25] A battle between the Ulidians themselves, when two
26]
kings of Ulidia, viz.:—Niall, son of Donnsleibhe (and a
27]
slaughter of the Ulidians about him), and Eochaidh Ua
28]
Mathghamhna, were slain in the mutual wounding of
29]
the battle.
Gillachrist Ua hEighnigh, king of Feara-Manach,
30]
and chief king of Oirghiall, died in Clochar-Uí-nDaimhin,
31]
after choice penance.
The men of Mumha
Cerbhall, grandson of
6]
Faelan, (and a slaughter of the Uí-Faelain about
7]
him), fell by the Uí-Failghe in the middle of Cill-dara,
8]
defending the comarbship of Brigid.
Taillti, daughter
9]
of Murchadh Ua Maelsechlainn, wife of Toirdhelbhach
10]
Ua Conchobhair, died.
Gillabrighde Ua Forannain,
11]
airchinnech of Ard-Sratha, mortuus est.
Annal LC1128.
12] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 26th of
13]
the moon; the age of the Lord, twenty-eight years, and a
hundred, and a thousand.
Bissextus et embolismus
14]
annus.
The men of Magh-hItha, i.e. with Domhnall Ua
15]
Gairmleghaigh, captured a house against the king of
16]
Feara-Manach, i.e. against Faelan Ua Duibhdhara, who
17]
fell by them, and many of the nobles of Feara-Manach
along with him.
A victory was gained by the cavalry
18]
of the son of Mac Lachlainn, i.e. Conchobhar son of Mac
19]
Lachlainn, over the cavalry of Tighernan Ua Ruairc, in
20]
which were slain Ua Ciardha, king of Cairbre, and Cathal
21]
Ua Raighilligh, and Sitric Ua Maelbrighde, and the son
22]
of Aedh Ua Dubhda, king of Uí-Amhalghadha, et alii multi.
An ugly, ruthless, unprecedented deed, which
23]
earned the malediction of the men of Erinn, both lay and
24]
clerical—for which no equal was found previously in
25]
Erinn—was committed by Tighernan Ua Ruairc, and by
26]
the Uí-Briuin, viz.:—the comarb of Patrick was
openly
27]
profaned in his own presence, and his retinue were
28]
plundered, and a number of them slain; and a young
29]
cleric of his own people, who was under a cuilebadh,
30]
was killed there. The evil consequence, moreover, that
A predatory hosting
8]
by Toirdhelbhach Ua Conchobhair into Laighen, until
9]
he reached Loch-Carman; from thence round Laighen to
10]
Ath-cliath, (and he committed a great destruction of cows
11]
along that route); and from Ath-cliath to his home
again.
12] The infamy of this hosting, moreover, rested on Tighernan
13]
O'Ruairc, with his people.
A depredation by the men of
14]
Fernmhagh in the territory of the Uí-Briuin, and they
15]
carried off great spoils; but Tighernan Ua
Ruairc, with
16]
the Uí-Briuin, and with another large army, overtook
17]
them at Ath-Fhirdheghaidh. A battle was fought
18]
between them on both sides. Tighernan and the Uí-Briuin
19]
were defeated, however, and four hundred of them
20]
were slain in the beginning, in
vindication of the
21]
honour of Patrick's people.
A hosting by Conchobhar
22]
Ua Lochlainn and the Cenel-Eoghain, and the Dal-Araidhe
23]
and Airghialla, into Magh-Cobha, when they
24]
carried off the hostages of the Uí-Echach. They afterwards
25]
turned to the left, into Feara-Bregh; and they lost
26]
a number of their people there, and committed a great outrage
27]
before God and men, viz.:—the burning of Ath-truim
28]
with its churches; and a great number of
persons suffered
29]
martyrdom in them.
Non impetrata pace Dei uel hominum
30]
retro ambulaverunt.
A peace of one year and a
31]
half, vel paulo plus, was made by the comarb
of Patrick
32]
between the Connachtmen arnd the men of Mumha.
Annal LC1129.
1] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 7th of the
2]
moon; the age of the Lord twenty-nine years, and a hundred,
3]
and a thousand.
Cellach, comarb of Patrick, i.e.
4]
the chief bishop of the West of Europe; a pure, illustrious
5]
virgin; the only head whom Foreigners and Gaeidhel,
6]
both laics and clerics, obeyed; after
having, moreover,
7]
ordained bishops and priests, and persous of every degree
8]
besides; and after having consecrated very many churches
9]
and cemeteries; after having bestowed jewels and wealth;
10]
and after having imposed faith and good manners on all,
11]
both laity and clergy; and after a life of mass-celebration,
12]
fasting, and praying, and after unction and
choice penance,
13]
resigned his soul into the bosom of angels and archangels,
14]
in Ard-Patraic, in Mumha, on the kalends of April,
15]
the 2nd feria, in the twenty-fourth year of
his abbotship,
16]
and in the fiftieth year of his age. His body was conveyed,
17]
truly, on the 3rd of the nones of April, to
Lis-mór-Mochuda,
18]
according to his own will; and it was waked
19]
with psalms, and hymns, and canticles, and was honourably
20]
interred in the tomb of the bishops, on, the day before
21]
the nones of April, on the 5th feria.
Muirchertarch,
20]
son of Domhnall, was ordained in the comarbship of
21]
Patrick, on the nones of April.
The house of Colum-Cille,
22]
in Cill-mic-Nenain, was captured by Tairchert
23]
against Aedh, son of Cathbhar Ua Domhnaill; and it
24]
was burned by him.
The castle of Ath-Luain was built
25]
by Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair.
Gillachrist, son of
26]
Mac Uidhrin, chief of Cenel-Feradhaigh, was burned in
27]
the house of his fosterer, in Tir-Manach, in
treachery.
28] Niall Ua Crichain, king of Uí-Fiachrach of Ard-sratha,
29]
was slain by the Uí-Ceinneidigh.
Annal LC1130.
30] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the l8th of
31]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty years, and a hundred,
Sord-Choluim-Chille, with its
2]
churches and relics, was burned.
Cúaibhne Ua Conchobhair,
3]
king of Uí-Failghe, died.
A battle between
4]
the men of Alba and the men of Muiriebh, in which
5]
4,000 of the men of Muiriebh, with their king, i.e.
6]
Aenghus, son of Lulach's daughter, and 1,000 of the men
7]
of Alba, fell in the mutual wounding.
A hosting by
8]
Mac Lachlainn and the men of the North of
Erinn, into
9]
Ulidia, and the Ulidians assembled to give them battle;
10]
but the Ulidians were defeated and slaughtered, together
11]
with Aedh Ua Loingsigh, king of Dal-Araidhe, and with
12]
Gillapatraic Mac Serridh, king of Dal-Buinne, and with
13]
Dubhrailbhe Mac Cartain, and many besides. They
14]
plundered the country, moreover, as far as the east of the
15]
Ard, both territory and church, and carried off a thousand
16]
captives, vel paulo plus, and many thousands
of cows and
17]
horses.
18] The chief men of Ulidia, however, came afterwards,
19]
with their king, to Ard Macha, to meet Conchobhar,
20]
and they made peace and took mutual oaths, and
21]
they the Ulidians left hostages.
A great crop of every
22]
kind of produce generally in Erinn this year.
Annal LC1131.
23] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the twenty-ninth
24]
of the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-one years,
25]
and a hundred, and a thousand.
A predatory hosting by
26]
Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair and the men of
the province
27]
of Connacht, into Mumha, when they plundered
Uí-Conaill-Gabhra.
A hosting by Conchobhar Ua Briain,
28]
and by the men of Mumha, into Laighen, and they took
29]
their hostages; and they proceeded from
thence into
30]
Midhe, and plundered the island of Loch-Seimhdidhe.
31] Their cavalry and the cavalry of Connacht met there,
32]
and the cavalry of Connacht were defeated, and the son
3] A hosting by Conchobhar Mac Lachlainn and the Ulidians,
4]
the men of the North of Erinn being with
them,
5]
into Connacht; but the Connachtmen made an attack on
6]
the rear of the army, in the vicinity of the Seghais, in
7]
which Conn Ua Maelgaeithi, and the Garbhanach Ua
8]
Baeighill, and a great many more, were slain. Notwithstanding
9]
this, however, they met together on the morrow
10]
at Loch-Cé, and made a year's peace.
A depredation
11]
by Tighernan Ua Ruairc and the men of Breifne, after
12]
the army had left, in Cuailgne, and they plundered
13]
Uí-Meith.
On their return, however, i.e. the return of
14]
the Ulidians and the men of the South of Airghiall),
15]
across Ath-Luain, to their houses, they met with the
16]
other depredators in Magh-Conaille.
A battle was fought,
17]
in which Raghnall Ua hEochadha, king of Uladh, and
18]
Cumhidhe Ua Crichain, king of Fernmhagh, and his son,
19]
and Donnsleible Ua hInnrechtaigh, king of Uí-Meith, et
20]
alii multi, were slain.
Maelisa Ua Foghladha, bishop of
21]
Caisel, in bona senectute
quievit.
Annal LC1132.
22] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 10th of
23]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-two years, and a
24]
hundred, and a thousand.
The abbot's house of Cill-dara
25]
was captured by the Uí-Ceinnselaigh against the comarb
26]
of Brighid, and burned, and a large part of the church
27]
was burned, and a great many were slain
there; and the
28]
nun herself was carried off a prisoner, and put into a man's
29]
bed.
An engagement was fought by the people of Scrín-Choluim-Chille
30]
and Lochlainn Ua Baeighellain, in which
31]
the airchinnech of the Scrín, i.e.
Macraith Ua Niallain, and
32]
Lochlainn himself, were killed.
A hosting by Conchobhar
33]
Mac Lachlainn to Ath-Fhirdheghaidh, when Tighernan
34]
Ua Ruairc came into his house, and gave him
hostages.
Annal LC1133.
35] The kalends of January on the lst feria, the 21st of
36]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-three years, and a
A hosting by Cormac Mac
2]
Carthaigh and Conchobhar Ua Briain, into Connacht,
3]
when they killed Cathal, son of Cathal Ua Conchobhair,
4]
royal heir of Connacht, and demolished Dun-Mughorn
5]
and Dun-mór, and plundered a great part of the
country.
6] A predatory hosting by Donnchadh Ua Cerbhaill and the
7]
men of Fernmhagh into Fine-Gall; but Torcaill overtook
8]
them at Finnabhair, and they fought a battle, in
9]
which Raghnall, son of Pol, was slain, and a great number
10]
of Foreigners along with him; and as regards the
11]
men of Fernmhagh themselves, they were subjected to
12]
great danger.
Conchobhar, son of Murchadh Ua Maelsechlainn,
13]
royal heir of Temhair, was wounded by the
14]
Lagenians, and afterwards slain by Foreigners.
Donnchadh
15]
Mac Gillacholmóg, royal heir of Laighen, was
16]
slain by the men of Midhe.
Fine-Gall was again burned
17]
by the men of Midhe.
Lusca, with its church full of
18]
people and treasures, was burned by the same party.
A
19]
great cow mortality occurred throughout all Erinn, for
20]
which no likeness was found since the great cow mortality
21]
came before that in the time of Flaithbhertach, son
22]
of Loingsech; and 432 years elapsed between
them.
23] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 2nd of
24]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-four years, and a
hundred, and a thousand.
The same cow mortality again
25]
devastating Erinn, so that numbers of people were quite
26]
impoverished in every locality in Erinn.
Archu Ua Flaithbhertaigh,
27]
royal heir of Oilech, fell by the Cenel-Conaill
28]
in a battle-breach.
Donnchadh Ua Conchobhair, king
29]
of Uí-Failgne, and Maelsechlainn, his father's son,
engaged
30]
in conflict, and fell by each other.
A hosting by Mac
31]
Murchadha and the Lagenians, into Osraighe; but the
32]
Osraighe encountered then and committed a slaughter of
A slaughter of the Osraighe, and
3]
of the Foreigners of Port-Lairge, was committed by Mac
4]
Murchadha and the Lagenians, in revenge for the aforesaid
5]
slaughter.
Imhar Ua hAedhagain, the man by
6]
whom the Regles of Paul and Peter at Ard-Macha was
7]
erected, died on his pilgrimage at Rome.
Donnchadh,
8]
son of Murchadh Ua Briain, was slain, together with his
9]
son, by the people of Des-Mumha.
A great murrain in
10]
hoc anno.
Annal LC1135.
11] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 13th of
12]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-five years, and a
13]
hundred, and a thousand.
Maelmordha Ua Conchobhair,
14]
king of Uí-Failghe, was killed by his own
brother.
Echri
15]
Ua Taidhg, king of Feara-Lí, with his brother, and with
16]
his wife, was smothered in a cave by the
Uí-Tuirtre.
17] Ruaidhri O'Canannain, king of Cenel-Conaill, a war-like,
18]
defensive man, of charity and humanity, was
19]
slain by the men of Magh-Itha, viz., by Maelruanaidh
20]
O'Cairellan, and by Clann-Diarmada.
Doire-Choluim-Chille,
21]
with its churches, was burned on the 3rd of the
22]
kalends of April.
Cluain-Iraird, and Rath-Luraigh, and
23]
Cenannus, and many other churches, ab igne
24]
dissipatae sunt.
A great number of the men of Des-Mumha fell by
25]
those of Tuadh-Mumha, on the causeway of
Cluain-caein-Modhimog,
26]
where Finghuine Ua Caeimh, king of Glennanmach,
27]
and Mathghamhain Ua Donnchadha, king of
28]
Cenel-Laeghaire, and Aedh Ua Conchobhair, king of Corcumruaidh,
29]
and Maelgorm Ua Rinn, and the son of Lochlainn
30]
Ua Cinaedha of the Uí-Maccaille, et alii
plurimi,
31]
were slain.
Cumara, moreover, the son of Cumara, son of
32]
Domhnall, king of Uí-Caisin, fell in the mutual
wounding.
33] Hanrico, son of William, king of the French, Saxons,
34]
and Britons, died.
Consecration of Cormac's church.
1] Aedh Ua Cellaigh, king of Uí-Maine,
mortuus est.
Aedh
2]
Mac Coghlan mortuus est.
Annal LC1136.
3] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 24th of
4]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-six years, and a hundred,
5]
and a thousand; bissextilis annus, et embolismus
6]
annus; positus hujus anni non frequenter accidit,
viz.:—
7]
Shrove Sunday fell on the 9th day of spring;
Easter
8]
Sunday on the 11th of the kalends of April; Ascension
9]
Thursday on the day before May-day, and Whit
Sunday
10]
on the tenth day of summer.
Robhartach Ua Cellaigh,
11]
airchinnech of Fathan-mór, in poenitentia mortuus est.
12] Domhnall, son of Muirchertach Ua Briain, died in pilgrimage
13]
at Lis-mór.
Conchobhar, son of Domhnall Mac
14]
Lachlainn, king of Oilech, and royal heir of Erinn, was
15]
slain by the men of Magh-Itha, in treachery, at an
16]
assembly, on Monday, the 8th of the kalends of June.
17] Aedh, son of Toirdhelbhach Ua Conchobhair, was
18]
blinded by his own brother.
The victory of Finnabhair
19]
was gained over Aedh, son of Domhnall Ua
Conchobhair,
20]
and over Tadhg Ua Cellaigh, and over the Uí-Maine,
21]
ubi cecidit Conchobhar Ua Cellaigh, father
of Tadhg,
22]
et alii multi.
Conchobhar, son of Toirdhelbhach, and the
23]
Síl-Muiredhaigh victores
fuerunt.
Annal LC1137.
24] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 5th of the
25]
moon; the age of the Lord thirty-seven years, and a hundred,
and a thousand.
A tremendous storm of wind on
26]
the day before the festival of the Sprinkling of Water,
27]
which prostrated many forests and churches in Erinn.
28] Domhnall Ua Conaing,
29]
chief bishop of Leth-Mogha, pillar of piety,
30]
and wisdom, and prayer, and of the presentation
31]
of food and treasures to the poor and mighty,
in bona senectute dormivit.
A great colic disease in
32]
Erinn generally, which killed many.
A hosting by the
A predatory
3]
hosting by Síl-Briain to the Ciarraighe, and they plundered
4]
territories and churches.
Domhnall Ua Maelsechlainn,
5]
royal heir of Erinn, a suis occisus
est.
Mór,
6]
daughter of Muirchertach Ua Briain, wife of Murchadh
7]
Ua Maelsechlainn, chief queen of Erinn, in
poenitentia
8]
mortua est.
A great scarcity in the province of Connacht,
9]
et multi mortui sunt ab ea.
Aedh, son of
10]
Domhnall Ua Conchobhair, occisus
est.
Domhnall Ua
11]
Dubhthaigh, bishop of Elphin, and comarb of Ciaran of
12]
Cluain-mic-Nois, apud Cluain-ferta-Brenainn quievit in
13]
Christo.
Annal LC1138.
14] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the l6th of
15]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-eight years, and a
16]
hundred, and a thousand.
Mathghamhain O'Conchobhair,
17]
king of Ciarraighe, pillar of the dignity and glory of
18]
Leth-Mogha in presenting jewels and valuables, dormivit.
19] Lis-mór, and Cill-dara, and Tech-Moling, and
Sord-Choluim-Chille,
20]
were burned.
Maelruanaidh Ua Cairellain,
21]
kindling lamp of the north of Erinn as regards
22]
figure, understanding, and valour, was slain by the
Cenel-Moain.
23] Plundering of the North of Saxan by the men
24]
of Alba, who carried off countless captives, and numerous
25]
spoils.
Cormac, son of Mac Carthaigh, chief king of Des-Mumha,
26]
and bishop-king of Erinn in his time as regards
27]
piety, and the presentation of jewels and valuables to
28]
clerics and churches, and ecclesiastical riches, in books and
29]
utensils, to God, and [...] fell in treachery
Annal LC1170.
3] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 10th of
4]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy years,
and a
5]
hundred, and a thousand.
Conchobhar, son of Muirchertach
6]
Mac Lachlainn, king of Cenel-Eoghain, and royal
7]
heir of all Erinn, was slain by Aedh Bec Mac Cana, and by
8]
the Uí-Carragain, on Easter Saturday, in the middle of
9]
Trian-mór, at Ard-Macha.
Donnchadh Cennsealach
10]
O'Ceallaigh was slain by Lagenians.
Ath-cliath was spoiled by Diarmaid Mac Murchadha, and by pirates
11]
whom he brought with him from the east, to spoil Erinn,
12]
in retaliation for his expulsion beyond the sea from his
13]
own territory, and for his son having been slain.
They
14]
inflicted a slaughter, moreover, on the Foreigners of Ath-cliath
15]
and Port-Lairge, aad a countless slaughter was, however,
16]
inflicted on them.
Laighen, indeed, and Feara-Midhe
17]
were wasted by them, both churches and territories; and
18]
they occupied Ath-cliath and Port-Lairge on that
occasion.
19] A great, ungenerous deed was committed by the
20]
monk, son of the comarb of Finnen of Magh-bile, and
21]
by Maghnus, son of Donnsleibhe, king of Uladh, with the
22]
chieftains of Uladh, and the Ulidians besides—except
23]
Bishop Maelisa, and Gilladomhaingairt, son of Cormac,
On Tuesday, soon after,
24]
he was himself slain by his brother, in
Dún.
Diarmaid
25]
O'hAinfheth, king of Uí-Meith, and leader of the
26]
cavalry of the king of Oilech, was killed by the
men of a
27]
fleet which came from Innsi-hOrc, in the island which
28]
had been constructed by themselves in Loch-Ruidhe, i.e.
29]
Inis-Lachain.
Earl Stronghow came into Erinn with
30]
Diarmaid Mac Murchadha, to avenge his expulsion by
31]
Ruaidhri, son of Toirdhealbhach O'Conchobhair; and
32]
Diarmaid gave him his own daughter, and a part of his patrimony;
33]
and Saxon Foreigners have been in Erinn since
then.
Annal LC1171.
1] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 22nd of
2]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-one years, and a
3]
hundred, and a thousand.
Diarmaid Mac Murchadha, king
4]
of the province of Laighen, after spoiling numerous churches
5]
and territories, died at Ferna—without the body of Christ,
6]
without penitence, without making a
will—through the
7]
merits of Colum-Cille, and Finnen, and the other saints
8]
whose churches he had spoiled.
Axall Mac Torcaill, king
9]
of Ath-cliath, and hEoin from Innsi-hOrc, were slain by
10]
the same Foreigners.
Sadhbh, daughter of Gluniarainn
11]
Mac Murchadha, comarb of Brigid, died in penitence.
A victory was gained over Tighernan O'Ruairc, and the men
12]
of Midhe, and the men of Fernmhagh together, (viz.:—the
13]
'victory of the ashes' secundum quosdam), on
the green of
14]
Ath-cliath, by Milo de Cogan with his people, in which a
15]
great number were slain along with Aedh O'Ruairc, i.e. the
16]
king of Uí-Briuin, and Machaire-Gaileng, and
Conmaicne.
17] There were also slain there five chieftains of the men of
18]
Fernmhagh, viz.:—Maelmochta Mac Confeabhla, and
19]
Conchobhar, his brother, two chieftains of the
Cenel-Feradhaigh.
Feindidh O'Conghaile, lamp of valour and
20]
bravery of Oirghiall, mortuus
est.
21] Venit in Hiberniam Henricus potentissimus rex
Angliae,
22]
et idem dux Normanniae et Aquitaniae, et comes
23]
Andegaviae, et aliarum multarum terrarum dominus, cum
24]
ducentis .XL. navibus; and he came on shore at Port-Lairge,
25]
and took the hostages of Mumha; and he came
26]
afterwards to Ath-cliath, and took the hostages of Laighen,
27]
and of the men of Midhe, and the Uí-Briuin, and
Oirghialla,
28]
and Uladh.
Petrus, bishop of the Uí-Maine of Connacht,
29]
a pious monk, and a man of authority, was drowned
30]
in the Sinuinn on the 6th of the kalends of January.
A
Annal LC1172.
18] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 2nd of
19]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-two years, and a
20]
hundred, and a thousand.
The king of the Saxons departed
21]
from Erinn on Easter Sunday, after the celebration
22]
of mass.
Tighernan O'Ruairc, king of Breifne and Conmaicne,
23]
and a man of great power for a long time, was
24]
slain by Saxons, truly; and Domhnall, son of Annad
25]
of his Tighernan's own tribe, was along with them.
He
26]
was also beheaded by them, and his head and body were
27]
ignominiously carried to Ath-cliath. The head was placed
28]
over the door of the fortress, as a miserable spectacle for the
29]
Gaeidhel; the body was suspended, moreover with his feet
30]
upwards.
A victory was gained over the Cenel-Eoghain,
31]
by O'Maeldoraidh and the Cenel-Conaill, and
a great
32]
slaughter was inflicted on them. This event was, indeed,
33]
as a miracle on the part of the saints of the Lord, viz.:—
The full visitation of the
3]
province of Connacht was brought, for the
fourth time,
4]
by Gillamoliag, comarb of Patrick, i.e. the primate of
5]
Erinn, to Ard-Macha.
Domhnall O'Ferghail, chief of
6]
Conmaicne, was slain by the people of the king of the
7]
Saxons.
Gilla-Aedha, bishop of Corcach, a man full of
8]
the grace of God, in bona senectute quievit.
Annal LC1173.
9] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the l3th of
10]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-three years, and a
11]
hundred, and a thousand.
Muiredhach O'Cobhthaigh,
12]
bishop of Doire and Rath-both, and of all the north of
13]
Erinn; the son of chastity, and the precious stone, and the
14]
bright gem, and the brilliant star, and a treasury of
15]
wisdom, and a fruitful branch of the canon; after having
16]
bestowed food and clothes upon the poor; after having
17]
distributed numerous gifts to poets; after the triumph
18]
of devotion, and pilgrimage, and penitence—resigned his
19]
spirit to heaven in the Dubh-regles of Colum-Cille in
20]
Doire, on the 4th of the ides of February, in
sexta feria.
21] Great miracles were wrought in the night on which he
22]
died, viz.:—the night was illumined from nocturns until
23]
cock-crow, and the ground was all in flames; and a large
24]
mass of fire ascended over the town, and proceeded
25]
towards the south-east; and all persons arose from their
26]
beds, imagining that it was day; and it was thus as far
27]
as the horizon, they thought.
A great depredation was
28]
committed by Aedh Mac Aenghusa and the Clann-Aedha,
29]
and they plundered Trian-mór; and this man was killed
30]
before the end of three months after he had plundered
31]
Ard-Macha;.
Annal LC1174.
1] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 24th of
2]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-four years, and
3]
a hundred, and a thousand.
Flann O'Gormain, chief lector
4]
of Ard-Macha, and of all Erinn, a learned, observant man
5]
in the Divine and worldly wisdom- after having been
6]
twenty-one years learning in France and in Saxon-land,
7]
and twenty years governing the schools of Erinn- died
8]
peacefully on the 13th of the kalends of
April, the Wednesday
9]
before Easter, .lxx aetatis suae
anno..
Maelpatraic
10]
O'Banáin, bishop of Condere and Dal-Araidhe, a venerable
11]
man full of sanctity, and of meekness, and of purity of
12]
heart, died full happily in Hi-Coluim-Cille, after a
13]
choice old age.
Gillamoliag, son of Ruaidhri, comarb
14]
of Patrick, archbishop and primate of Ard-Macha, and of
15]
all Erinn, a son of chastity, full of purity of heart, and of
16]
meekness, died happily on the 6th of the kalends of April,
17]
the Wednesday after Easter, in the 87th year of his age,
18]
and after having been thirty-seven years in the archiepiscopate;
19]
and this same illustrious man bad been sixteen
20]
years very honourably in the abbacy of Coluim-Cille, at
21]
Doire, before he obtained the comarbship of
Patrick.
22] Gillamochaibheo, abbot of the monastery of Peter and
23]
Paul at Ard-Macha, a diligent, faithful servant of the
24]
Lord, died on the 2nd of the kalends of April, in the 70th
25]
year aetatis
suae.
Annal LC1175.
26] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 5th of the
27]
moon; the age of the Lord seventy-five years, and a hundred,
28]
and a thousand.
Flaithbhertach O'Brolchain,
29]
comarb of Colum-Cille, tower of wisdom and honour;
30]
a man to whom the clerics of Erinn gave a bishop's
31]
chair for his wisdom and goodness, and to whom the
32]
comarbsbip of Hi had been presented, died happily, after
2] Gillamoliac O'Branain was ordained in his place, in the
3]
comarbship of Colum-Cille.
A victory was gained over the
4]
Cenel-Enna, by Echmarcach O'Cathain and Niall O'Gairmledhaigh,
5]
and a great slaughter was inflicted on them.
Annal LC1176.
6] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the l6th of
7]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-six years, and a
8]
hundred, and a thousand.
The Saxons were expelled
9]
from Luimnech by Domhnall O'Briain, by laying siege to
10]
them.
The daughter of the king of Oirghiall, i.e. Benmidhe,
11]
daughter of Donnchadh O'Cerbhaill, wife of
12]
Cumhuighe O' Floinn, queen of
Uí-Tuirtre and Feara-Lí,
13]
died.
The daughter of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, i.e.
14]
the wife of Flaithbhertach O'Maeldoraidh, was killed by
15]
the sons of O'Cairellain.
Fabhar and Cenannus were
16]
wasted by the foreigners, and by the Uí-Briuin.
Lughmhagh
17]
was wasted by the Saxons.
The castles of Gall
18]
and Cenannus in process of construction.
The Saxon
19]
Earl died in Ath-cliath of an ulcer which attacked his
20]
foot, through the miracles of Brighid and Colum-Cille, and
21]
the other saints whose churches he had spoiled.
The
22]
castle of Slane, in which was Richard Fleming with his
23]
forces, from which they were ravaging Oirghiall, and
24]
Uí-Briuin, and Feara-Midhe, was spoiled by Maelsechlainn,
25]
son of Mac Lachlainn, king of Cenel-Eoghain, and by the
26]
Oirghialla; on which occasion a hundred, or more, of the
27]
Foreigners were slain, besides the women, and children,
28]
and horses of the castle; so that no man escaped alive from
29]
the castle; and three castles in Midhe were deserted on
30]
the morrow, through fear of the Cenel-Eoghain, viz.:—
31]
the castle of Cenannus, and the castle of Calatruim, and
29]
the castle of Daire-Patraic.
Cumhuighe O'Floinn, king
Annal LC1177.
3] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 27th of
4]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-seven years, and
5]
a hundred, and a thousand.
Dun-da-lethghlais was
6]
spoiled by John de Curci and the knights who came
7]
along with him; and they built a castle there, from which
8]
they gained a victory twice over the Ulidians, and a
9]
victory over the Cenel-Eoghain and over the Oirghialla,
10]
in which Conchobhar O'Cairellain, i.e. the chief of
Clann-Diarmada,
11]
was slain; and in which many other nobles
12]
were slain.
Conchobhar O'Cairellain, indeed, gained a victory
13]
over O'Maeldoraidh and the Cenel-Conaill, in which
14]
a great number of the Cenel-Enna were slain, along with
15]
the son of O'Serrigh, and many other chieftains
likewise.
16] Milo de Cogan, with his knights, was brought by Muirchertach,
17]
son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, to Ros-Comain,
18]
to spoil Connacht, through hatred towards his father.
19]
Connacht, truly, was thereupon burned.
Tuam, moreover,
20]
and the churches of the country, were destroyed,
21]
through hatred towards the Foreigners; and they, i.e.
22]
Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair and the men of Connacht along
23]
with him, gained a victory over the Foreigners, and
24]
drove them by force out of the country.
Ruaidhi O'Conchobhair,
25]
moreover, blinded his son afterwards, in revenge
26]
for this expedition.
Aedh O'Neill, i.e. king of Cenel-Eoghain
27]
for a time, and royal heir of all Erinn, was slain
28]
by Maelsechlainn Mac Lachlainn, and by Ardghal Mac
29]
Lachlainn.
Ardghal himself, also, was slain by O'Neill
30]
when he O Neill was being killed
there.
The Timpanach
A hosting by John de Curci and the knights,
4]
into Dal-Araidhe, on which occasion they slew Domhnall,
5]
grandson of Cathusach, king of Dal-Araidhe. John went
6]
also, on the same expedition, into Uí-Tuirtre and
Feara-Lí;
7]
but Cumhuighe O'Floinn burned Airther-maighe before
8]
him; and he burned Cul-rathain, and many other
churches.
Annal LC1178.
9] The kalends of January on the lst feria, the 9th of the
10]
moon; the age of the Lord seventy-eight years, and a hundred,
11]
and a thousand; the first year of nineteen.
12] Great crimes were committed by the Cenel-Moain in this
13]
year, viz.:—the people of Domhnall O'Gairmleghaigh killed
14]
Conchobhar, son of Conallach O'Luinigh, in the middle
15]
of Domhnall O'Gairmleghaigh's own house, in treachery,
16]
though he was under the protection of the
airchinnech of
17]
the Ernaidhe.
Domhnall O'Gairmleghaigh was deposed
18]
from being chief, and the Cenel-Moain gave the chieftainship
19]
to Ruaidhri O'Flaithbhertaigh.
Domhnall, son of Domhnall
20]
O'Gairmleghaigh was slain, in treachery, by the sons of
21]
O'Flaithbhertaigh and the other sons of Domhnall; and
22]
Tighernan, son of Raghnall, son of Domhnall, and eight full
23]
biatachs of the Cenel-Moain, were slain, along with them.
24] Very great wind came in this year, which prostrated large
25]
tracts of woods and forests, and huge trees; and it moreover
26]
prostrated six score large trees, vel paulo
plus, in
27]
Doire-Choluim-Chille.
28] It was in this year, also, that John
29]
de Curci, with his knights, came to Dún, on a preying
expedition
30]
to Machaire-Conaille, when they plundered several
2] Murchadh O'Cerbhaill, king of Oirghiall, and Mac Duinnsleibhe,
3]
i.e. the king of Uladh, came to them, however, on
4]
that night, and gave him battle.
The Foreigners were
5]
defeated, and put to great slaughter.
The same John went
6]
also on a preying expedition into Dal-Araidhe, and into
7]
Uí-Tuirtre.
But Cumhuighe O'Floinn, king of Uí-Tuirtre
8]
and Feara-Lí, attacked them.
This battle was, moreover,
9]
gained over the Foreigners, and they were put to
10]
slaughter.
Annal LC1179.
11] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 20th of
12]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventy-nine years, and a
13]
hundred, and a thousand, viz.:—the 2nd year of nineteen;
14]
the third year after a bissextile.
Peace was made by
15]
Donnchadh O'Cairellain, and by all the Clann-Diarmada,
16]
with the Cenel-Moain, and with O'Gairmleghaigh, i.e.
17]
with Amhlaibh, grandson of Maen, i.e. the brother of the
18]
wife of Donnchadh O'Cairellain, in the middle of the
19]
church of Ard-sratha, before the reliquaries of
Domhnach-mór
20]
and the Ernaidhe, and Ard-sratha.
O'Gairmleghaigh,
21]
moreover, came on the day following to the
22]
house of Donnchadh O'Cairellain, to obtain additional
23]
guarantees.
A wicked treachery was committed in the
24]
middle of the meeting, in the doorway of the house of
25]
O'Cairellain, in the presence of his own sister, i.e. the
26]
wife of Donnchadh, viz.:—he himself and three of his
27]
people along with him, were
slain.
Ard-Macha was
28]
burned ex majore parte, i.e. all the
regleses, and all the
29]
churches, except Regles-Brighde and Tempul-na-ferta.
30] The churches of Tir-Eoghain, from the mountain southwards,
31]
were evacuated this year through war and distress.
1] Gilladomhnaigh O'Forannain, airchinnech of
Ard-sratha,
2]
and Maelmuire, son of Gillacomain, vice-abbot of the same
3]
place, in Christo quieverunt.
Cluana, and Ard-sratha, and
4]
Domhnach-mór, and the Ernaidhe were emptied by the
5]
men of Magh-Itha.
Annal LC1180.
6] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the first of
7]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighty years, and a hundred,
8]
and a thousand.
Gilla-an-Choimdédh O'Carán,
9]
comarb of Patrick, died.
Raghnall O'Cairellain was
10]
slain by the Cenel-Moain, in defence of Colum-Cille, in
11]
the middle of Doire.
Macraith O'Daighri, airchinnech
12]
of Doire, died.
Donnchadh O'Cairellain was killed
13]
by the Cenel-Conaill, in revenge of his treachery towards
14]
O'Gairmleghaigh, and in defence of Colum-Cille.
The
15]
battle of the Conchobars, in Connacht, in which Conchobhar
16]
Maenmaighe killed Conchobhar O'Ceallaigh, i.e.
17]
the king of Uí-Maine, and his son Tadhg, and Diarmaid
18]
O'Ceallaigh, and all the nobles of Uí-Maine; at
Maghsruibhe-gealain,
19]
at the head of Daire-na-capall, this battle
20]
was fought.
Muirghes O'hEidhin was slain.
Domhnall
21]
O'Cennedigh, king of Ur-Mumha, mortuus
est.
Annal LC1181.
22] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 12th of
23]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighty-one years, and a
24]
hundred, and a thousand.
The battle of Magh-Diughbha
25]
was gained over the sons of Toirdhelbhach
Mór O'Conchobhair,
26]
by Flaithbbertach O'Maeldoraidh, king of
27]
Cenel-Conaill, (and of it is said 'the battle of the royal
28]
heirs'); in which were slain Brian Luighnech, and
29]
Maghnus; and the three sons of Aedh, son of Toirdhelbhach
30]
O'Conchobhair,viz.:—Maelsechlainn, and Muiredhach,
31]
and Muirchertach; and Aedh, grandson of Aedh,
(Donnchadh, son of Domhnall
4]
Midhech O'Conchobhair, it was that brought
Flaithbhertach
5]
O'Maeldoraidh, to defend the territory of Cairpre for
6]
himself.) And the bodies of those nobles were conveyed,
7]
after their deaths, to Cluain-mic-Nois, and
interred in
8]
the sepulchre of the nobles of their ancestors.
Dunlaing
9]
O'Caellaighe, bishop of Leithghlinn, quievit.
Alexander
10]
papa quievit in Christo.
Tadhg O'Dalaigh, chief poet
11]
of Erinn and Alba, in Christo
quievit.
Sitric O'Cuinn,
12]
chieftain of Muinter-Gillcán, was slain by the son of Aedh
13]
O'Ferghail.
Donnsleibhe O'Gadhra mortuus est.
A
14]
hosting by Domhnall, son of Aedh Mac Lachlainn, and
15]
by the Cenel-Eoghan of Telach-óg, into Ulidia; and they
16]
gained a battle over the Ulidians, and over the
Uí-Tuirtre,
17]
and the Feara-Lí together with Ruaidhri Mac Duinnsleibhe
18]
and Cumhuighe O'Floinn.
Tomaltach O'Conchobhair
19]
assumed the comarbship of Patrick, and made
20]
a visitation of Cenel-Eoghain, and gave a
blessing.
Annal LC1182.
21] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 23rd of the
22]
moon; the age of the Lord eighty-two years, and a hundred,
23]
and a thousand.
A hosting by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn to
24]
Dún-bó in Dal-Riada, and they gave battle there to
the
25]
Foreigners; and the Cenel-Eoghain were defeated, and
26]
Raghnall O'Breslen was slain, and Gillachrist O'Cathain,
27]
et alii multi; and the Gospel of Martin was
carried off
28]
by the Foreigners.
Aedh O Caellaighe, bishop of Oirghiall,
29]
and head of canons, quievit.
Gilla-an-Choimdedh, son of
30]
Inlestar O'hAinlighe, chieftain of Cenel-Doffa, mortuus
31]
est.
Domhnall O'hUallachan, chief bishop of Mumha;
32]
Augustin O'Sealbhaigh, bishop of Port-Lairge; and
33]
O'hAedha, bishop of Corcach, mortui
sunt.
Milo de Cogan,
34]
after assuming the kingship of Corcach and Des-Mumha;
A victory was gained by Ruaidhri O' Conchobhair,
8]
and by Conchobhar Maenmhaighe, over Donnchadh,
9]
son of Domhnall Midhech, and over O'Maeldoraidh,
10]
ubi multi ceciderunt.
Annal LC1183.
11] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 4th of the
12]
moon; the age of the Lord eighty-three years, and a hundred,
13]
and a thousand.
Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, king
14]
of Erinn, went on a pilgrimage to Cunga-Feichin, and left
15]
his sovereignty to his son, i.e. to Conchobhar
Maenmhaighe.
16] Henry, son of the Empress, king of the Saxons, mortuus
17]
est.
Joseph O'hAedha, bishop of Uí-Ceinnsealaigh,
18]
quievit.
Domhnall, son of Gilla-Enain, dux of
Ciann-Flaithemhail,
19]
occisus est.
A conflict between the Gilla-riabhach
20]
O'Flaithbhertaigh and the son of O'Gairmleghaigh;
21]
and O'Flaithbhertaigh was slain there, and
22]
a number of the Cenel-Moain were slain there.
Becc
23]
O'hEghra mortuus est.
Annal LC1184.
24] The kalends of January on the lst feria, the l5th of the
25]
moon; the age of the Lord eighty-four years, and a hundred
Art O'Maelsechlainn, king of
2]
Midhe, was slain by Diarmaid O'Briain, at a meeting
3]
at Druim-Chuilinn, after having come from the midst
4]
of his own assembly to speak apart with the son of
5]
O'Briain, and the son of O'Briain deceived him.
Amhlaibh,
6]
son of Ferghal O'Ruairc, king of Breifne, interfectus
7]
est.
Thirty houses of the principal persons of the community
8]
of Ard-Macha were plundered by the Foreigners
9]
of Midhe.
Maelisa O'Cerbhaill assumed the comarbship
10]
of Patrick, after it had been resigned by Tomaltach
11]
O'Conchobhair.
Maelsechlainn Bec O'Maelsechlainn
12]
assumed the kingship of Midhe after the death of Art.
A
13]
castle was erected by the Foreigners at
Cill-Fáir.
Another
14]
castle was destroyed there by Maelsechlainn and Conchobhar
15]
Maenmhaighe O'Conchobhair, and a great multitude
16]
of Foreigners along with them.
The great church of
17]
Tuaim-da-ghualann fell in one day, both roof and
stone.
18] The Rock of Loch-Cé was burned by lightning, i.e. the
19]
very magnificent, kingly residence of Muinter-Maelruanaidh,
20]
where neither goods nor people of all that were
21]
there found protection; where six score, or seven score, of
22]
distinguished persons were destroyed, along with fifteen
23]
men of the race of kings and chieftains, with the wife of
24]
Mac Diarmada, i.e. the daughter of O'hEidhin, and his
25]
son's wife, i.e. the daughter of Domhnall O'Conchobhair,
26]
and the daughter of O'Dubhda, and the son of Donnchadh
On
11]
the Friday after Shrovetide this event
occurred.
12] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 26th of
13]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighty-five years, and a
14]
hundred, and a thousand.
Great fruit in this year.
15] Philip Unsessra, accompanied by the Foreigners of Erinn,
16]
remained at Ard-Macha during six days and
six nights,
17]
in the very middle of Lent.
Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair,
18]
king of Erinn, came from his pilgrimage; and he took with
19]
him the Foreigners, and the men of Mumha, i.e. Domhnall
20]
O'Briain and his party; and they destroyed
the West of
21]
Connacht, both church and territory. Peace was afterwards
22]
made by himself and his son, and Connacht was divided
23]
between them.
Cill-Dalua was plundered and burned by
24]
Cathal Carrach, son of Conchobhar Maenmhaighe, and the
25]
men of Connacht, after the men of Mumha, in retaliation
26]
for their churches which the men of Mumha had burned;
27]
and for the slaughter of their clerics and
women who were
28]
slain and burned in their churches, and in their houses;
29]
and for carrying off their books, and utensils, and
30]
precious things.
Maelisa O'Dalaigh, chief poet of Erinn
31]
and Alba, and principal dux of Corca-Raidhe,
and the
32]
single choice of Erinn as regards grace, form, and goodness,
33]
died at Cluain-Iraird on his pilgrimage. Amhlaibh
2] John, son of the king of the Saxons, came to
assume
3]
the sovereignty of Erinn, with a fleet of three score
4]
ships, (besides what there were of Saxon Foreigners in
5]
Erinn before them); and they took possession of Ath-cliath
6]
and the province of Laighen, and erected castles at
7]
Tipraid-Fachtna and Ard-Finain.
A victory was gained
8]
by Domhnall O'Briain over the people of the son of the
9]
king of the Saxons, in which very many Foreigners were
10]
slain, along with the foster-brother of the son of the
11]
king of the Saxons.
Ruaidhri O'Gradha and Ruaidhri
12]
O'Conaing were slain by Foreigners in the slaughter of the
13]
castle of Tipraid-Fachtna.
The son of the king of the
14]
Saxons went across afterwards to complain of Hugo de
15]
Laci to his father; for it was Hugo de Laci that was king of
16]
Erinn when the son of the king of the Saxons came, and he
17]
permitted not the men of Erinn to give
tribute or hostages
18]
to him.
Donnchadh, son of Domhnall Midhech, occisus est.
19] Gilla-Isa O'Maeilin, bisbop of Magh-Eó, quievit.
Brian
20]
Breifnech, son of Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair, mortuus
21]
est.
Flann O'Finnechta, dux of Clann-Murchadha, mortuus
22]
est.
The son of Cormac, son of Mac Carthaigh,
23]
king of Mumha, was slain by the Foreigners of Corcach.
24] Domhnall O'Gillapatraic, king of Osraighe, mortuus
25]
est.
Maelsechlainn, son of Mac Lachlainn, king of
26]
Cenel-Eoghain, interfectus est, through
treachery, by
27]
Saxons.
Diarmaid, son of Toirdhelbhach O'Briain,
28]
was blinded by his own brother, viz.:—by
Domhnall.
29] Mathghamhain, son of Conchobhar Maenmhaighe, was
30]
taken prisoner by Murchadh, son of Tadhg O'Cellaigh,
The sovereignty
2]
of Connacht was assumed by Conchobar
Maenmhaighe.
Annal LC1186.
3] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 7th of the
4]
moon; the age of the Lord eighty-six years, and a hundred,
5]
and a thousand.
Great contentions in the North of
6]
Erinn this year.
Dethronement of Domhnall, son of
7]
Aedh Mac Lachlainn, and installation as king of Ruaidhri
8]
O'Laithbhertaigh, by a section of the Cenel-Eoghain of
9]
Telach-óg.
Conchobhar O'Flaithbhertaigh was slain by
10]
Ruaidhri O'Flaithbhertaigh, his own brother, in Ara.
11] Derbhorcaill, daughter of Murchadh O'Maelsechlainn,
12]
went to Droiched-atha, on a pilgrimage.
Rúaidhri O'Conchobhair
13]
was expelled by his own son, i.e. by Conchobhar
14]
Maenmhaighe.
Donnchadh, son of Tadhg O'Cellaigh,
15]
mortuus est.
Maelcalainn O'Cleirchen, bishop of Glenn-da-locha,
16]
in Christo quievit.
Celechair O'Airmhedhaigh,
17]
bishop of Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, quievit.
Conchobhar
18]
Maenmhaighe came to Mucart, and Aedh O'Ruairc
19]
went into his house, and gave hostages to Conchobhar,
20]
and gave Tir-Thuathail to the Connachtmen.
21] Hugo de Laci went to
Durmhagh-Choluim-Cille, to build
22]
a castle in it, having a countless number of Foreigners along
23]
with him; for he was king of Midhe, and Breifne, and
24]
Airghiall, and it was to him the tribute of Connacht was
25]
paid; and he it was that won all Erinn for the
Foreigners.
26] Midhe, from the Sinainn to the sea, was full of castles
27]
and of Foreigners. After the completion by him of this
28]
work, i.e. the erection of the castle of Durmhagh, he came
29]
out to look at the castle, having three Foreigners
There came towards him then a youth
2]
of the men of Midhe, having his axe concealed, viz.:—
3]
Gilla-gan-inathair O'Miadhaigh, the foster son of the
4]
Sinnach himself; and he gave him one blow, so that he
5]
cut off his head, and he fell, both head and body, into
6]
the ditch of the castle.
Christian O'Connorchi, bishop
7]
of Lis-mór, and legate of the comarb of Peter, in Christo
8]
quievit.
Diarmaid Mac Carghamhna occisus est.
Murchadh
9]
O'Cellaigh, king of Uí-Maine, occisus
est.
Gillaberaigh
10]
O'Cillin, vice-abbot of Síl-Muiredhaigh, mortuus
11]
est..
Amhlaibh O'Muiredhaigh, bishop of Ard-Macha and
12]
Cenel-Feradhaigh, a brilliant lamp that used to enlighten
13]
laity and clergy, in Christo quievit, in
Dun-Cruithne;
14]
and he was honourably brought to Doire-Choluim-Cille,
15]
and interred in the side of the church, at his father's feet.
16]
Fogartach O'Cerbhallain was ordained in his place.
17] Gillachrist Mac Cathmhail, king-chieftain of Cenel Feradhaigh
18]
and the Clanns, (viz.:—Clann-Aenghusa, and
19]
Clann-Duibhinrecht, and Clann-Foghartaigh; and Uí-Cendfada
20]
and Clann-Colla, of the Feara-Manach), and
21]
head of counsel of the North of Erinn, was slain by
22]
O'hEighnigh and Muinter-Caemhain; and they carried
23]
off his head, which was obtained from them at the end of
24]
a month afterwards.
Maelsechlainn, son of Muirchertach
25]
Mac Lachlainn, was slain by Foreigners.
Conn
26]
O'Breislén, chieftain of Fanad, quievit.
Annal LC1187.
27] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the l8th of
28]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighty-seven years, and
29]
a hundred, and a thousand.
Ruaidhri O'Laithbhertaigh,
30]
king of Cenel-Eoghain, was slain while on a predatory
31]
excursion in Tir-Conaill.
Druim-cliabh was plundered by
12] The Rock of Loch-Cé was burned at mid-day,
13]
where a great many people were drowned and burned,
14]
along with the daughter of O'hEidhin, i.e. Duibhessa,
15]
daughter of Ruaidhri O'hEidhin, wife of Conchobhar
16]
Mac Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg.
Annal LC1188.
17] The kalends of Jannary on the 6th feria, the 29th of
18]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighty-eight years, and a
19]
hundred, and a thousand.
Ruaidhri O'Canannáin, king
20]
of Cenel-Conaill for a time, and also royal heir of Erinn,
21]
was slain by Flaithbhertach O'Maeldoraidh,
through
22]
treachery, at the bridge of Sligech, i.e. after being enticed
23]
out from the middle of Druim-cliabh; and a brother of
24]
his was slain along with him, and a number of his
people.
25] O'Gairbh, chieftain of Feara-Droma, it was that laid
26]
hands on O'Canannáin; and he was himself slain by
27]
the people of Echmarcach O'Dochartaigh, in revenge of
28]
O'Canannáin.
Domhnall O'Canannáin wounded his foot
29]
with his own axe, at Doire, while cutting a piece of
30]
wood; and he died thereof through the curse of the community
31]
of Colum-Cille.
Martin O'Brolaigh, chief sage
2] Amhlaibh O'Daighri went to Hi on a pilgrimage, and
3]
he died in Hi after select penance.
The Foreigners of
4]
the castle of Magh-Cobha, and a party of the
Uí-Echach-Uladh,
5]
went on a preying excursion into Tir-Eoghain,
6]
until they arrived at Leim-Neill, where they seized cows.
7]
Domhnall Mac Lachlainn went after them, and overtook
8]
them at Cabhán-na-crann-ard, and gave them battle; and
9]
the Foreigners were defeated and put to great slaughter;
10]
and a thrust of a foreign spear was given to the king
11]
alone, who fell there in the heat of the battle, viz.:—
12]
Domhnall, son of Aedh Mac Lachlainn, king of Oilech,
13]
and royal heir of Erinn as regards figure, intelligence,
14]
hospitality, and wisdom; and his body was
conveyed on
15]
the same day to Ard-Macha, and honourably interred.
16] A hosting into Connacht by John de Curci and the Foreigners
17]
of all Erinn, accompanied by Conchobhar O'Diarmada
18]
and the son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair. The king
19]
of Connacht, i.e. Conchobhar Maenmhaighe, assembles the
20]
chieftains of all Connacht, and Domhnall O'Briain, with
21]
a number of the men of Mumha, comes in the host of
22]
the king of Connacht. The Foreigners burned some of
23]
the churches of Connacht, and the Gaeidhel did not
24]
allow them to effect the demolition of some
others.
25]
The Foreigners, moreover, turned back from the West of
26]
Connacht, until they reached Es-dara, to go into Tir-Conaill.
27]
O'Maeldoraidh, i.e. Flaithbhertach, assembles
Murchadh, son of Ferghal
7]
O'Maelruanaidh and Maelsechlainn O' Matadhain, fell
8]
there also et alii multi cum eis.
Gillachrist son of Congalach
9]
O'Muiredhaigh mortuus est, and the Foreigners
10]
left the country without injuring much of it on this
11]
occasion.
Etain, daughter of O'Cuinn, queen of Mumha,
12]
who was on a pilgrimage at Doire, died, after triumphing
13]
over the world and the devil.
Muirchertach, son of
14]
Uada O'Concennain, king of Uí-Diarmada, mortuus est.
15] Domhnall, son of Lochlainn O'Maelruanaidh, and Ferghal
16]
O'Taidhg-in-Teghlaigh, and Flaithbhertach, son of Sitric
17]
O'Finnachta occisi sunt.
Muirchertach O' Brain, king
18]
of Breghmhaighe, occisus est.
Taithlech, son of Conchobhar,
19]
son of Diarmaid, son of Tadhg O Maelruanaidh,
20]
occisus est.
Annal LC1189.
21] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 10th of
22]
the moon, the age of the Lord eighty-nine years, and a
23]
hundred, and a thousand.
Domhnall, son of Muirchertach
24]
Mac Lachlainn, was slain by the Foreigners
of Dal Araidhe
25]
whilst staying with themselves.
Murchadh
26]
O'Cerbhaill, chief king of Oirghiall, died in the great
27]
monastery, after choice penance.
Ard-Macha was burned
28]
from Crossa-Brighde to Recles-Brighde, including Rath
29]
and Trian, and churches.
Echmilidh, son of Mac Cana, the
30]
happiness and prosperity of all Tir-Eoghain, died.
Mac-na-hoidhche
31]
O'Maelruanaidh, king of Feara-Manach, was
Conchobhar Maenmhaighe,
5]
son of Ruaidhri, chief king of Connacht, and royal heir of
6]
all Erinn, was killed by his own favorites,
viz.:—Muirchertach,
7]
son of Cathal, son of Diarmaid, and O'Finnachta,
8]
i.e. the Crosach Donn O'Finnachta, and the Mendtach
9]
O'Cimlidhcain, through the instigation of his own brother,
10]
viz.:—Conchobhar O'Diarmada. In the entrance of
11]
Tochar-Gibhsi he was slain.
Conchobhar O'Diarmada,
12]
son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, royal heir of Connacht,
13]
was killed by Cathal Carrach, son of Conchobhar Maenmhaighe,
14]
in revenge of his father.
Ard-Macha was
15]
plundered by John de Curci and the Foreigners.
The son
16]
of the Empress, king of the Saxons, died.
Maelcainnigh
17]
O'Fercomhais, lector of Doire, was drowned between
18]
Ard and Inis-Eoghain.
Diarmaid, son of Toirdhelbhach
19]
O'Conchobhair, occisus est.
Donnchadh O'Fallamhain,
20]
noble priest, and illustrious senior of Clann-Uadach,
21]
quievit.
Murchadh O'Flannagain, dux of Clann-Cathail, mortuus est..
Annal LC1190.
23] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 2lst of
24]
the moon; ninety years, and a
hundred, and a thousand
25]
ab Incarnatione Domini nostri Jesu Christi, et
secundus
26]
annus praeparationis bissexti, ac xiiii. annus cycli
27]
decennovenalis, atque cxxuii. annus undecimi cycli magni
28]
paschalis ab initio mundi.
The ship of Cathal Crobhderg
29]
O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht, was drowned in Loch-Ribh,
30]
and thirty-six men were drowned, including
31]
Airechtach O'Radhuibh, dux of
Clann-Tomaltaigh, and
Duibhessa, daughter of Diarmaid,
5]
son of Tadhg, wife of the Cosnamhach O'Dubhda,
6]
mortua est.
Mor, daughter of Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
7]
mortua est.
Diarmaid O'Rabhartaigh, abbot
8]
of Durmhagh-Choluim-Chille, quievit.
Aillenn, daughter
9]
of Riacan O'Maelruanaidh, i.e. wife of Airechtach
10]
O'Radhuibh, mortua est.
Maelsechlainn O'Nechtain and
11]
Gillaberaigh O'Sluaighedhaigh were slain by Toirdhelbhach,
12]
son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair.
Simon Puer.
Annal LC1191.
13] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 2nd of the
14]
moon; the age of the Lord ninety-one years, and a hundred,
15]
and a thousand.
Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair left
16]
Connacht and went into Cenel-Conaill.
Domhnall, son
17]
of Maelisa Mac-ind-abaid, moritur.
The Gaillimh became
18]
dry this year, and an axe was found in it measuring
19]
a hand from one point of it to the other; and a spear was
20]
found in it, and the breadth of the blade of this spear was
21]
three hands and three fingers; and its length was a hand
22]
from the shoulder.
Echthighern, son of Maelciarain,
23]
chief senior of Erinn, of Cluain-Iraird, moritur.
24] The castle of Rath-cuanartaigh was built.
Great wind
25]
in this year.
Annal LC1192.
26] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 13th of
27]
the moon; the age of the Lord ninety-two years, and a
28]
hundred, and a thousand.
The two sons of Mac Carghamhna,
29]
and two sons of Tadhg Mac Ualairg, and
Taithlech O'Dubhda,
4]
king of Uí-Amhalghaidh and Uí-Fiachrach-Muaidhe, was
5]
killed by the two sons of his own son.
A victory was
6]
gained at Carraidh-echaraidh, over the Foreigners, by
7]
Muinter-Maelsinna.
The Giurnassaigh were slain in
8]
Mumha, and a great slaughter along with them.
The
9]
castle of Ath-in-urchair, and the castle of Cill-Bixsighe,
10]
were erected in this year.
Aedh O'Floinn, dux of Síl-Maelruain,
11]
mortuus est.
Eochaidh O'Baeighill was slain
12]
by the Uí-Fiachrach of Ard-sratha.
Annal LC1193.
13] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 24th of
14]
the moon; the age of the Lord ninety-three years, and a
15]
hundred, and a thousand.
Domhnall O'Biain, brilliant
16]
lamp of peace and war, and kindling star of the honour
17]
of Leth-Modha and the men of Mumha, died.
The
18]
Foreigners went upon Inis-Uí-Finntain, and were driven
19]
therefrom by force.
Cumhidhe O'Floinn was slain by the
20]
Foreigners.
Great snow between the two Easters in
21]
this year.
Diarmaid, son of Cubrogha O'Dimusaigh, dux
22]
of Clann-Maelughra, and king of Uí-Failghe for a long
23]
time, mortuus est.
Cathal Odhar, son of Mac Carthaigh,
24]
occisus est.
Derbhorcaill, daughter of Murchadh
25]
O'Maelsechlainn, mortua est in pilgrimage,
in the monastery
26]
of Droichet-atha.
Muirchertach, son of Murchadh
27]
Mac Murchadha, king of Uí-Ceinnsealaigh, moritur.
Aedh
28]
O'Maelbhrenainn, dux of Clann-Conchobhair,
occisus est.
29] Macbethaidh O'Dobhailen, airchinnech of
Camach mortuus
30]
est in pilgrimage, in Inis-Clothrann.
Gillachrist
31]
O'Muccaran, bishop of Airghiall, quievit.
The castle of
32]
Domhnach-Maighen was erected in this year.
Maelsechlainn,
Inis-Clothrann
2]
was plundered by Gilbert Mac Goisdealbh,
3]
with his Foreigners, and by the sons of Gillachrist Mac
4]
Carghamhna, viz.:—Gilla-Croichefraich and Amhlaibh,
5]
having Muinter-Maelsinna along with them.
Muirchertach
6]
O'Cerbhaill was blinded.
Aenghus, son of Gorman
7]
O'Ailghiusa, quievit in
Christo on his pilgrimage in
8]
Inis-Clothrann. v.ccc.xcviii.
Annal LC1194.
9] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 5th of the
10]
moon; the age of the Lord ninety-four years, and a hundred,
11]
and a thousand.
Echmarcach O'Cathain died in Recles-Poil.
12] The great priest of Hi died.
Sitric O'Gairmleghaigh
13]
was slain by Mac Duinnsleibhe. Ab initio mundi
14]
juxta lxx. Interpretes, vi.dc.xlvi; juxta vero Ebraeos,
15]
v.ccc.xcviii. Ab Incarnatione autem juxta Ebraeos,
16]
m.ccc.xlvii; secundum Dionysium, m.c.xciiii; juxta vero
17]
Bedam, ab Incarnatione m.c.lxxxvii. Solaris quidem cycli,
18]
i.e. cycli xxviii. annorum, xix. annus; cycli indictionis xii.
19]
annus. Secundus annus praeparationis bissexti, cxxxi.
20]
annus undecimi cycli magni paschalis ab initio
mundi.
21] The son of Conchobhar, son of Domhnall Gerrlamhach
22]
O'Briain, was blinded and emasculated by Foreigners.
23] The son of Maghnus Mac Duinnsleibhe was slain by
24]
O'hAnluain.
A hosting by Gilbert Mac Goisdealbh to
25]
Es-Ruaidh; and he returned from Es-Ruaidh without
26]
having obtained much profit on this
hosting.
Constantine
27]
O'Briain, bishop of Cill-Dalua, died.
v.ccc.xcix.
Annal LC1195.
1] The kalends of January on the lst feria, the l6th of
2]
the moon; the age of the Lord ninety-five years, and a
3]
hundred, and a thousand, secundum Dionysium. Ab
4]
initio mundi, juxta lxx. Interpretes, vi.dc.xlvii; juxta
5]
Ebraeos, v.ccc.xcix. Ab Incarnatione juxta Ebraeos,
6]
m.cccc.xlviii; secundum Dionysium, m.c.xcv; secundum
7]
Bedam, m.c.lxxxviii; solaris cycli xx. annus; tertius
8]
annus praeparationis bissexti; cxxxii annus undecimi
9]
cycli magni paschalis ab initio mundi.
Florence, grandson
10]
of Riacan O'Maelruanaidh, bishop of Oilfinn, in
11]
Christo quievit.
Ath-cliath from the bridge northwards
12]
was burned.
A hosting by John de Curci and the son
13]
of Hugo de Laci, to assume power over the Foreigners of
14]
Laighen and Mumha.
Mac Goisdealbh was apprehended [...]
15]
Cathal Crobhderg O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht
16]
with the army of Connacht, went into Mumha;
17]
and they destroyed many castles and towns therein, and
18]
committed great depredations; and they returned
safely.
19] The Gilla-sron-mhael O'Dochartaigh, and the Cenel-Conaill
20]
likewise, turned against O'Maeldoraidh.
Cathal
21]
Crobhderg O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht, sent the men
22]
of the North of Connacht to assist him, and a battalion of
23]
mercenaries along with them.
A great gathering of the men
24]
of Connacht by Cathal Crobhderg, to Ath-Luain, where
25]
there were twelve hundred men, vel amplius;
and John de
26]
Curci, and the son of Hugo de Laci, and the nobles of the
27]
Foreigners, came to meet him, when they made their
peace.
28] Cathal, son of Diarmaid, son of Tadhg O'Maelruanaidh,
29]
was expelled from Connacht into Mumha; and he came
30]
again in the same year, through the strength of his hands,
31]
into Connacht, until be reached Caislen-na-Caillighe; and
32]
he killed many persons on his way from the south as far as
Domhnall O'Finn,
3]
comarb of Brenainn at Cluain-ferta, quievit.
vcccc.
The
4]
Recles of Paul and Peter, with its churches, and a part of
5]
the Raths, was burned.
A hosting by Ruaidhri Mac
6]
Duinnsleibhe, with the Foreigners, and with the sons of
7]
the king of Connacht, to the Cenel-Eoghain and
Airthera.
8] The Cenel-Eoghain of Telach-óg and the Airthera came,
9]
however, to the plain of Ard-Macha, and gave them
10]
battle, when a great multitude of their people were
11]
slain; and a number of the sons of the king of Connacht
12]
were killed in this defeat.
Muirchertach, son of
13]
Muirchertach Mac Lachlainn, king of Cenel-Eoghain, and
14]
royal heir of all Erinn, tower of the valour and bravery
15]
of Leth-Chuinn, destroyer of Foreigners and of castles,
16]
founder of churches and sanctuaries, was slain by
17]
Donnchadh, son of Bloscadh O'Cathain, by the advice
18]
of all the Cenel-Eoghain, viz.:—after having previously
19]
sworn to him by the three shrines, and the Canoin-Patraic,
20]
in the northern church of Ard-Macha; and his
21]
body was conveyed to Doire-Choluim-Chille, and there
22]
honourably interred.
The son of Bloscadh O'Cuirrin
23]
plundered Termonn-Dabheóg, and he himself was killed
24]
on account thereof, with a dreadful slaughter of his
25]
people, before the end of a month, through the miracles of
26]
Dabheóg.
In this year, moreover, Domhnall, son of Diarmaid
27]
Mac Carthaigh, gained a victory over the Foreigners
28]
of Mumha and Luimnech, in which a great multitude of
Annal LC1196.
4] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 27th of
5]
the moon; ninety-six years, and a hundred, and a thousand
6]
ab Incarnatione Domini secundum Dionysium. Secundum
7]
Bedam ab Incarnatione Domini, m.c.lxxxix. Ab
8]
Incarnatione juxta Ebraeos, m.cccc.xlix. Ab initio mundi
9]
juxta lxx. Interpretes, vi.dc.xlvii. Ab initio mundi juxta
10]
Ebraeos v.cccc. Solaris cycli xxi. annus; cycli Indictionis
11]
xiiii. annus; cycli luraris xvi. annus, atque bissextilis
12]
annus; cxxxiii. annus ndecimi cycli magni
paschalis
13]
ab initio mundi.
[...]aigh O'Catharnaigh,
14]
great priest of Cluain-mic-Nois, quievit in
the monastery
15]
of Cill-Becain, in the noviciate of a monk.
The
16]
great abbess, daughter of O'Maelsechlainn, died.
A
17]
predatory hosting by the Foreigners of Midhe, into the
18]
territory of Uí-Briuin; but O'Ruairc, with his people,
19]
encountered them, and the Foreigners were defeated, and
20]
a countless number of them slain.
Ruaidhri O'Flaithbhertaigh,
21]
king of the West of Connacht, went on the
22]
sea, to escape from Cathal Crobhderg, and from the men
23]
of Connacht also, and went to O'Briain.
O'Conchobhair
24]
again expelled him from O'Briain, and he was
25]
driven to sea as before.
Great depredations were committed
26]
by him O'Flaithbhertaigh in Conmaicne-mara,
27]
and in Umhall.
Cathal O'Flaithbhertaigh was killed.
28] Ruaidhri Mac Duinnsleibhe conducted a large army
29]
from Connacht, including the son of Maelisa O'Conchobhair,
30]
and the son of Mac Murchadha, grandson of
31]
Mael-na-mbó, and Brian Buidhe O'Flaithbhertaigh; but
32]
the Airghialla, and O'hAnluain, and the chief men of
33]
the Cenel-Eoghain assembled to meet them, viz.:—two
34]
large battalions; and they gave one another battle, when
7] Ruaidhri O'Flaithbhertaigh went into Tir-Conaill, and
8]
came from thence, along with the comarb of Patrick, into
9]
the house of O'Conchobhair, and made peace with him;
10]
and his territory was given to him.
The Gilla-ruadh,
11]
son of Mac Ragnaill, chieftain of Muinter-Eolais, was
12]
killed by Diarmaid, son of Maghnus O'Conchobhair, at
13]
the instigation of the son of Cathal O'Ruairc, by
whom
14]
the Muinter-Eolais had previously been slain.
Aedh
15]
O'Ferghail, dux of Muinter-Anghaile, was
slain by the
16]
sons of Sitric O'Cuinn.
Mathghamhain, son of Conchobhar
17]
Maenmhaighe, was slain by a mercenary of the
18]
people of Domhnall O'Mordha.
Domhnall O'Mordha fell
19]
himself at the same time by the hand of Cathal Carrach,
20]
son of Conchobhar Maenmhaighe, in revenge of his
21]
brother, i.e. Mathghamhain.
A hosting by John de
22]
Curci, with the Foreigners of Ulidia, as far as Es-craeibhe,
23]
when they erected the castle of Cill-Santail; and the
24]
cantred of Cianachta was wasted by them from this
It was in this castle Rustel Pitun was left, together
2]
with a large force.
Rustel Pitun came, moreover, on a
3]
preying expedition to the harbour of Doire, and he plundered
4]
Cluain-Hí, and Enach, and Derg-bruach.
But Flaithbhertach
5]
O'Maeldoraidh, i.e. the king of Cenel-Conaill and
6]
Cenel-Eoghain,with a small number of the
Cenel-Conaill
7]
and Cenel-Eoghain, overtook them, and
defeated them on
8]
the strand of the Nua-congmhail, where they were
9]
slaughtered, along with the son of Ardghal Mac Lachlainn,
10]
through the miracles of Colum-Cille, and of Cainnech,
11]
and of Brecan, whom they had plundered there.
Mac
12]
Gilla-Eidigh of Cianachta robbed the altar of the great
13]
church of Doire-Choluim-Chille, and took therefrom the
14]
four best goblets that were in Erinn, viz:—Mac-riabhach,
15]
and Mac-solus, and the goblet of O'Maeldoraidh,
16]
and the Cam-coruinn, i.e. the goblet of O'Dochartaigh; and
17]
he broke them, and took off their precious things. These
18]
articles were found on the third day after being stolen;
19]
and the person who stole them was discovered, and he
20]
was hanged at Cros-na-riagh in revenge of Colum-Cille,
21]
whose altar had been profaned.
Conchobhar O'Cathain
22]
died.
Flaithbhertach O'Maeldoraidh, king of Cenel-Conaill,
23]
and Cenel-Eoghain, and Airghiall, the
defender
24]
of Temhair, and royal heir of all Erinn—viz.:—a
Conall
25]
in heroism, a Cuchullain in valour, and a Guaire in
hospitality—
26]
died after great suffering, in Inis-Saimer, on the
27]
fourth of the nones of February, in the thirtieth year
28]
of his reign, and the nine and fiftieth year of his age;
They went afterwards to
9]
Cnoc-Nascain, to transport themselves across it.
The
10]
Cenel-Conaill, however, with Echmarcach O'Dochartaigh,
11]
came towards them, and gave them battle, when
12]
two hundred of them the Cenel-Conail were
slain,
13]
together with their king, i.e. Echmarcach O'Dochartaigh,
14]
and Donnchadh O'Tairchert, king-chieftain of
15]
Clann-Sneidhghile, and Gillabrighde O'Dochartaigh, and
16]
Mac Dubhán, and Mac Ferghail, and the sons of
17]
O'Baighill, et aliis nobilibus; and they
the Foreigners
18]
plundered Inis-Eoghain, and carried off therefrom a great
19]
cattle-spoil.
Annal LC1197.
20] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 9th of
21]
the moon; ninety-seven years, and a hundred, and a
22]
thousand ab Incarnatione secundum Dionysium. Ab
23]
Incarnatione secundum Bedam, m.c.lxxxx. Ab Incarnatione
24]
juxta Ebraeos, m.cccc.i. Ab initio mundi juxta
25]
Ebraeos, v.cccc.i. Ab initio mundi secundum lxx. Interpretes,
26]
vi.dc.xlix. Solaris cycli xxii. annus; cycli Indictionis
27]
xu. annus; cycli lunaris xvii. annus; primus
28]
annus praeparationis bissexti; cxxxiiii. annus cycli
29]
magni paschalis undecimi ab initio mundi.
Ruaidhri
30]
O'Flaithbhertaigh, king of the West of Connacht, was
31]
apprehended by Cathal Crobhderg O'Conchobhair,
32]
king of Connacht.
The bishop O'Maelciarain, i.e.
33]
bishop of Airghiall, and a monk for a long time,
34]
and abbot of Droiched-átha, mortuus
est.
Domhnall,
35]
son of Mac Raghnaill, dux of Muinter-Eolais,
was
36]
slain.
Conchobhar, son of Diarmaid, son of Tadhg
Gillamoliac
3]
O'Branan resigned his comarbship; and Gillachrist
4]
O'Cernaigh was ordained in his place, by the election
5]
of the laity and clergy of the North of
Erinn, in the
6]
abbacy of Colum-Cille. v.cccc.ii.
Annal LC1198.
7] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 20th of
8]
the moon; Ab Incarnatione Domini secundum
Dionysium,
9]
ninety-eight years, and a hundred, and a thousand, the
10]
age of the Lord. Ab Incarnatione secundum Bedam,
11]
m.c.lxxxxi. Ab Incarnatione secundum Ebraeos, m.cccc.li.
12]
Ab initio mundi juxta Ebraeos, v.cccc.ii; ab initio mundi
13]
juxta lxx. Interpretes, vi.dc.l. Solaris cycli xxiii. annus;
14]
cycli Indictionis primus annus; cycli lunaris xviii.
15]
annus; secundus annus praeparationis bissexti; cxxxv.
16]
annus undecimi cycli magni paschalis ab initio
mundi.
17]
Goffraidh, son of Goffraidh O'Raighilligh, was slain by
18]
O'Donnchadha, in treachery.
Ruaidhri, son of Toirdhealbhach
19]
Mór O'Conchobhair, i.e. the king of all Erinn,
20]
both of Foreigners and Gaeidhel, without dispute, died
21]
at Cunga-Feichin, after triumphing over the world
22]
and the devil.
Aedh, son of Brian Breifnech, son of
23]
Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair, was slain by Cathal
24]
Carrach O'Conchobhair.
A great nut crop in this year,
A hosting by John de Curci among the
3]
churches of Ulidia, i.e. Ard-sratha and Rath-bhoth, and
4]
they were destroyed by him until he reached Doire,
5]
where he remained two nights over a week, devastating
6]
Inis-Eoghain and the country besides; and he departed
7]
not for a long time, until Aedh O'Neill went with five
8]
ships to Cill [...] in Latharna, and burned a
part of
9]
the town, and killed thirty-eight persons there. At this
10]
time the Foreigners of Magh-line and Dal-Araidhe, to the
11]
number of three hundred, both in iron and without iron,
12]
were before them, and they observed nothing until the
13]
Foreigners poured in upon them; and they delivered
14]
battle in the middle of the town, when the Foreigners
15]
were defeated; and they the Irish inflicted
five defeats on
16]
them in addition, and went to their ships in spite of them;
17]
and only five of the people of O'Neill were lost. John
18]
departed when he heard this, postea.
Annal LC1199.
19] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 1st of
20]
the moon. Ab Incarnatione secundum Dionysium,
m.c.xcix;
21]
ab Incarnatione secundum Bedam, m.c.xcii;
22]
ab Incarnatione secundum Ebraos,
m.cccc.lii; ab initio
23]
mundi secundum Ebraos, u.cccc.iii; ab
initio secundum
24]
lxx. Interpretes, ui.dc.li; cycli solaris xxiiii. annus; cycli
25]
Indictionis ii. annus; cycli lunaris xix. annus; tertius
26]
annus praeparationis bissexti; cxxxui. annus undecimi
27]
cycli magni paschalis ab initio mundi.
Peace was
28]
made by Cathal Crobhderg and Cathal Carrach; and
29]
Cathal Carrach was brought into the country, and land
Ruaidhri O'Flaithbhertaigh was set
2]
free.
A depredation was comitted on the Foreigners by
3]
Cathal Crobhderg, who burned the bódhún of Ath, and
4]
killed many persons; and they carried with them many
5]
cows to their homes.
Gormghal O'Cuinn, dux of Muinter-Gillcan,
6]
was taken prisoner by the Foreigners; and his
7]
people were reduced to great distress from want of food
8]
and clothing, after being plundered by the Foreigners.
The
9]
castle of Granard was built in this year.
Aedh O'Cuinn,
10]
and the son of Aedh-na-namus, and some more of the
11]
Conmaicne were slain by the mercenaries of Connacht.
12] The Foreigners performed three great hostings to Tir-Eoghain
13]
this year, and on the third hosting which they
14]
performed they encamped at Domhnach-mor of Magh-Imchlair,
15]
and they sent out a great army to devastate the
16]
country. Aedh O'Neill came to meet this army, and he
17]
encountered the Foreigners, and inflicted on them a countless
18]
slaughter; and the remainder of the Foreigners escaped
19]
in the night, and went across Tuaim.
Sanctus Mauricius
20]
O'Baedan in Hi-Choluim-Chille in pace
quievit.
A hosting
21]
by Ruaidhri O'Duinnsleibhe, with some of the Foreigners
22]
of Midhe; and they plundered the monastery of Paul
23]
and Peter, so that they left only one cow in it.
Domhnall
24]
O'Dochartaigh, king of Cenel-Enna and Ard-Midhair, in
25]
pace quievit.
Roland Mac Uchtraigh, king of Gall-Gaeidhel,
26]
quievit.
Annal LC1200.
27] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 12th of
28]
the moon; the age of the Lord two hundred years, and a
29]
thousand.
Donnchadh, son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair,
A great depredation by
3]
Cathal Crobhderg and the Connachtmen, in the West of
4]
Midhe; and they carried off an enormous spoil of cows
5]
and horses, and pigs, and sheep; and they came safely
6]
past the Bruighin hither, without a blow being struck
7]
against them, saving that three or four of them were
8]
killed on scouting parties. The Foreigners turned back
9]
from them then, except a few men whom they left watching
10]
them. When the Connachtmen, however, saw the Foreigners
11]
turning back from them, each one of them went
12]
off with his prey, except O'Conchobhair, and O'Flaithbhertaigh,
13]
and Mac Goisdealbh, who remained after them
14]
with a very small company. When the watching band
15]
left by the Foreigners saw this, they went back after the
16]
Foreigners, and informed them that the host had departed
17]
with their preys, except a very small company that remained
18]
in their track. The Foreigners pursued the host,
19]
and overtook them immediately, and routed the Gaeidhel before
them;
20]
and Ruaidhri O'Flaithbhertaigh, king of
21]
the West of Connacht, was slain there; and Amhlaibh
22]
O'Cuinn, of the Muinter-Gillcán, was the
person that slew
23]
him. Cathal O'Concennuinn, king of Uí-Diarmada, was
24]
slain there, et alii multi cum istis interfecti
sunt, of the
25]
sons of warriors, and attendants; sed tamen non
multi
26]
sed pauci interfecti sunt ibi, si verum est ut nunciatum est
27]
nobis. O'Conchobhair was left without a man in his company,
28]
except Muirchertach Mac Merain, i.e. his doorkeeper,
A hosting by Cathal Crobhderg
6]
until he reached Tir-Fiachrach-Aighne, as if he went
7]
to protect his own land. It was not so in reality; but
8]
it was a treacherous and malicious hosting, of which
9]
came the destruction of Connacht, and his own destruction,
10]
viz.:—to attack Cathal Carrach, son of Conchobhair
11]
Maenmhaighe O'Conchobhair, to expel him from
12]
Connacht, or to capture him, or to kill him. When
13]
Cathal Carrach heard this he sent his people into the
14]
woods, and he was himself behind them with all his
15]
army. Cathal Crobhderg advanced towards him from the west, from
16]
Tir-Fiachrach; and when he reached the
17]
middle of the territory of Cathal Carrach, he sent a
18]
large army in pursuit of him, with Toirdhelbhach son
19]
of Ruaidhri, and other sons of Ruaidhri; and with
20]
Maelchulaird O'Flaithbhertaigh, king of the West
21]
of Connacht; and with the grandsons of Tadhg O'Cellaigh;
22]
and with the knight O'Maelsechlainn, and with
23]
the Midhe band. And when they arrived in the
24]
wood they were opposed, and battle was given to them,
25]
and the people of Cathal Crobhderg were defeated;
26]
and Maelchulaird O'Flaithbhertaigh, and the knight
27]
O'Maelsechlainn, and Iughuláid Mac Conmedha, and
28]
Domhnall, son of the Gilla-dubh O'Laedhóc, were
29]
slain there. Cathal Carrach afterwards sent messengers
30]
to Luimnnech, to William Burk, and they delivered the
31]
son of Cathal Carrach into his hands as a pledge for
32]
the pay of the Foreigners. William Burk subsequently
33]
assembled a large host from Ath-cliath, and from Laighen,
34]
and the Foreigners of Luimnech and Mumha besides,
35]
and the two O'Briains, viz.:—Muirchertach and
36]
Conchobhar Ruadh, with their armies, to the assistance
Faelan O'Donnchadha was slain by
28]
the Dartraighe.
A cold, foodless year, the equal of which
29]
no man witnessed in that age.
A predatory hosting
30]
by the Connachtmen into Mumha, and they burned
31]
the bodhún of Luimnech, and
Caislen-Uí-Conaing, and
Cúcocriche
4]
Mac Eochagain was slain by the Uí-Failghe.
An act of
5]
treachery was committed by the Foreigners of Uladh
6]
against the Airthera, who were nearly all slain.
Another
7]
hosting by Cathal Carrach and the Foreigners of Mumha,
8]
into Connacht, when they burned nearly all the churches
9]
of Connacht, and devastated all Connacht.
Annal LC1201.
10] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 23rd of
11]
the moon; the age of the Lord one year, and two hundred,
and a thousand.
12] Ruaidhri Mac Duinnsleibhe, king
13]
of Uladh, i.e. the lamp of valour and prowess of all the
14]
Gaeidhel, was slain by the Foreigners of John de Curci,
15]
after they had met him alone, undefended, through
16]
the miracles of Paul and Peter, and of Patrick, whom he
17]
profaned.
A predatory expedition by Cathal Crobhderg
18]
O'Conchobhair, accompanied by O'Neill, and by
19]
O'hEighnigh, king of Feara-Manach, with a small army;
20]
and they plundered Cuil-cnamha, i.e. the people of
21]
Diarmaid, son of Conchobhar, son of Tadhg
O'Maelruanaidh.
22] Another predatory expedition by Cathal
23]
Crobhderg, with all his own army, into Tir-Aililla, when
24]
he plundered many persons of the people of Tomaltach,
25]
son of Conchobhar, son of Diarmaid, son of Tadhg O'Maelruanaidh,
26]
king of Magh-Luirg.
Cadhla O'Dubhthaigh,
27]
archbishop of the province of Connacht, in Christo
28]
quievit.
Cathal Crobhderg O'Conchobhair, with all
29]
his army; and O'Neill, with all his army; and the
30]
Cenel-Eoghain; and a multitude of the Cenel-Conaill;
31]
and O'hEighnigh, king of Feara-Manach, with all
32]
his forces, went into Connacht until they
reached
Tomaltach,
2]
son of Aedh, son of Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair, comarb
3]
of Patrick, and primate of Erinn, and bishop of
Síl-Muiredhaigh,
4]
in Christo quievit. In
Magh-Mura-na-hechloisce
5]
vitam finivit, whilst going to
Ard-Macha.
6] Aedh, son of Taichlech O'Dubhda, king of Uí-Amhalghaidh,
7]
occisus est.
8] A great hosting to Connacht by John de Curci and
9]
Hugo the younger, son of Hugo de Laci, accompanied by a
10]
great number of the Foreigners of Midhe, together with
11]
Cathal Crobhderg, to contest the sovereignty with Cathal
12]
Carrach; and the way they went was to
Es-Ruaidh, and
13]
into Cairpre-Droma-cliabh, into Corann, into
Corrsliabh-na-Seghsa,
14]
into Magh-Luirg-in-Daghda, into Magh-Nai,
15]
into Maighe-Finna, to Dun-Leodha, into Maenmhagh, into
16]
Tir-Fiachrach-Aighne, until they reached Cill-Mic-Duach.
17]
And the reason they proceeded so far southwards was in
18]
pursuit of the cows and people of the Connachtmen, and
19]
of Cathal Carrach, which had been carried off by Cathal
20]
Carrach to Tuadh-Mumha and to Cenel-Aedha of Echtghe,
21]
both men and cattle; and he himself was behind his
22]
people, with all his forces. These hosts were informed
23]
of the wood in which was the camp of Cathal Carrach
24]
and the men of Connacht; and the resolution
they
25]
adopted was to move towards the camp. And when
26]
they reached the wood they cut it down, and made a
27]
great road before them until they arrived at the camp,
28]
which they found empty, after having been abandoned
Conchobhar-na-Glaisfheine, son of
10]
Cathal O'Ruairc, was drowned.
The Foreigners released
11]
Cathal Crobhderg.
Conchobhar Bec Mac Lachlainn was
12]
slain by the Cenel-Conaill.
Aedh O'Neill was dethroned
13]
by the Cenel-Eoghain in this year.
Niall
14]
O'Floinn was slain by the Foreigners, in treachery.
15] Maghnus, son of Diarmaid Mac Lachlainn, was killed
16]
by Muirchertach O'Neill. Muirchertach O'Neill was
17]
himself slain there.
Annal LC1202.
18] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 4th of
19]
the moon; the age of the Lord two years, and two
20]
hundred, and a thousand.
Felix O'Dubhláin, bishop of
21]
Osraighe, mortuus est.
The bishop O'Mellaigh mortuus
22]
est.
Cathal Crobhderg went into Mumha, to William
13]
Burk, after being released from his bonds.
Johannes,
24]
Presbyter Cardinalis de Monte Celio, qui et legatus
25]
Apostolicae sedis erat, in Hiberniam venit.
A hosting by
20] A synod of the clerics of Erinn,
21]
both Foreigners and Gaeidhel, in Ath-cliath, with the
22]
Cardinal, i.e. Johannes Presbyter de Monte Celio.
A
23]
synod of Connacht, both laics and clerics, at Ath-Luain,
24]
with the same Cardinal, at the end of a fortnight.
25] Tadhg O'Brain, king of Luighne, died.
Toirdhelbhach,
26]
son of Ruaidhri, son of Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
27]
was taken prisoner by Cathal Crobhderg; and they who
29]
arrested him were these, viz.:—Donnchadh O'Dubhda,
30]
king of Uí-Amhalghaidh, and Conchobhar Got O'hEghra,
31]
king of Luighne of Connacht, and Diarmaid, son of Ruaidhri
Maelfinnein Mac Colmain, a high, choice senior,
4]
in pace quievit.
Domhnall Carrach O'Dochartaigh, king-chieftain
5]
of Ard-Midhair, was slain by Muinter-Buighill,
6]
after plundering many churches and territories.
Domhnall
7]
O'Brolchán, a prior, and an illustrious, choice senior for
8]
figure, for sense, for gentleness, for dignity, for wisdom,
9]
and for great piety, post magnam tribulationem et
10]
optimam poenitentiam, in quinta kalendas Maii quievit.
Annal LC1203.
11] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 15th of
12]
the moon; the age of the Lord two hundred and three
13]
years, and a thousand.
A hosting by William Burk,
14]
accompanied by the Foreigners of Mumha and Midhe,
15]
into Connacht, when he erected a castle at Mílec, in
Síl-Anmchadha;
16]
and the place where the castle was erected
17]
was round the great church of the place, which was lined
18]
round with earth and stones to the pinnacles; and they
19]
devastated the West of Connacht, both church and
territory.
20] Great famine in all Erinn generally in this year, so
21]
that the clergy used to eat meat in Lent.
Cluain-ferta-Brenuinn,
22]
and Mílec, and Cluain-mic-Nois were plundered
23]
by William Burk.
Conchobhar RuadhO'Briain was
24]
slain by his own brother, i.e. Muirchertach, son of
25]
Domhnall, son of Toirdhelbhach O'Briain.
Toirdhelbhach,
26]
son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, escaped from his
27]
bonds; and Cathal Crobhderg made peace with him, and
28]
gave him land.
A hosting by the Justice, i.e. by Meiler,
Toirdhelbhach, son of Ruaidhri, was
15]
banished from Connacht by Cathal Crobhderg, and sent
16]
into Midhe; and peace was immediately made with him
17]
through the intercession of the Foreigners, viz.:— Meiler
18]
and Walter.
A hosting by the sons of Goisdelbh and by
19]
young Meiler, together with Domhnall Carrach O'Maeldoraidh,
20]
to Tir-Conaill, to recover the sovereignty for
21]
Domhnall Carrach; and Domhnall Carrach himself was
22]
slain by the Cenel-Conaill on this expedition.
Tuaim-dha-ghualann
23]
was emptied, and Cunga-Feichín was rased, so
24]
that it was without a house or church, and the churches
25]
of nearly all Connacht were emptied.
Doire-Choluim-Chille
26]
was burned, from Relic-Martain to Tiprait-Adhomnain.
27] Diarmaid, son of Muirchertach Mac Lachlainn,
28]
accompanied by the Foreigners, went on a predatory
29]
expedition to Tir-Eoghain; and they plundered
30]
Scrin-Choluim-Chille; but a number of the Cenel-Eoghain
31]
came up with them, and the Foreigners were defeated, and
32]
Diarmaid Mac Lachlainn was slain, through the miracles
A hosting by the son of Hugo de Laci,
2]
with the Foreigners of Midhe, to Ulidia; and they banished
3]
John de Curci from Ulidia.
Annal LC1204.
4] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 26th of
5]
the moon; the age of the Lord two hundred and four
6]
years, and a thousand; and the eighteenth year of the
7]
Nineteen.
Easter on the seventh of the kalends of May
8]
in this year, and Little Easter in summer.
Tighernan
9]
Mac-an-abaidh died at Sruthair-Bracain, on his pilgrimage
10]
with his monks.
Muirchertach Tephtach, son of Conchobhar
11]
Maenmhaighe, son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, was
12]
slain by Diarmaid, son of Ruaidhri, and by Aedh, son of
13]
Ruaidhri, his father's two brothers.
A victory by
14]
Domhnall, son of Mac Carthaigh, and the men
of Des-Mumha,
15]
over the Foreigners, ubi ceciderunt clx. uiri, vel
16]
amplius.
The Glasfhian were slain by Cathal Crobhderg
17]
and the Connachtmen and the king of the Glasfhian,
18]
i.e. Mant-na-mulchán O'Ruairc, was captured by them,
19]
and blinded.
A woman was brought to him whilst he
20]
lay suffering from the operation, and shared his company;
21]
and he died soon after.
Echmhilidh, son of the
22]
comarb of Finnen, bishop of Uladh, died.
Treachery
23]
was practised by the Connachtmen against the son of
24]
O'Ruairc and the sons of O'Maelmhiadhaigh, who were
25]
slain.
A battle between young Hugo, son of Hugo de Laci,
26]
with the Foreigners of Midhe, and John de Curci with the
27]
Foreigners of Uladh.
John de Curci was taken prisoner,
2] Two sons of Donnsleibhe were slain by the Uí-Echach,
3]
in treachery.
Sitric O'Sroithen, airchinnech of
4]
the Congbhail, quievit.
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.
Annal LC1206.
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.
Annal LC1207.
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.
Annal LC1208.
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.
Annal LC1209.
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.
Annal LC1210.
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.
Annal LC1211.
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.
Annal LC1212.
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.
Annal LC1213.
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.
Annal LC1214.
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.
Annal LC1215.
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.
Annal LC1216.
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.
Annal LC1217.
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.
Annal LC1218.
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.
Annal LC1219.
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.
Annal LC1220.
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.
Annal LC1221.
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-brother—the 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.
Annal LC1222.
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.
Annal LC1223.
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.
Annal LC1224.
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.
4] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, and
the age
5]
of the Lord twenty-five years, and two hundred, and a
6]
thousand.
Felim O'Conchobhair captured a house against
7]
Domhnall O'Flaithbhertaigh, and killed, and burned
8]
himself and his brother.
Aedh, son of O'Flaithbhertaigh,
9]
was apprehended by Aedh O'Conchobhair, and delivered
10]
into the hands of the Foreigners.
Tighernan, son of
11]
Cathal O'Conchobhair, was killed by Donnchadh
O'Dubhda.
12] The castle of Cill-mór was broken down by Cathal
O'Raighilligh.
13] Muirghes Mac Diarmada was slain.
Amhlaibh
14]
O'Beollain, airchinnech of Druim-cliabh,
principal upholder
15]
of the hospitality and guest-houses of Erinn, died in
16]
this year.
O'Maelbhrenuinn, abbot of the monastery of
17]
Buill, died of the opening of a
vein.
A commotion of
18]
war was raised in this year by Toirdhelbhach, son of
19]
Ruaidhri, son of Toirdhelbhach Mór, and by Aedh, son of
20]
Ruaidhri, king of Connacht, and by Aedh
O'Neill, to
21]
contest the province of Connacht with Aedh, son of Cathal
22]
Crobhderg, through the solicitation of Donn Og Mac
23]
Oirechtaigh, king-chieftain of Síl-Muiredhaigh, in
retaliation
24]
for having been deprived of his land and patrimony;
25]
and when he rebelled the Connachtmen rebelled, viz.:—
26]
the Síl-Muiredhaigh, and the men of
the West of
27]
Connacht, with Aedh O'Flaithbhertaigh, king of the West of
28]
Connacht. However, Aedh O'Neill came with them to
29]
the middle of Síl-Muiredhaigh; and they then made
30]
Toirdhelbhach, son of Ruaidhri, king; and Aedh O'Neill
31]
went home, because the sons of Ruaidhri preferred their
32]
own assemblies, which had been summoned by them respectively,
33]
with the exception of Cormac, son of Tomaltach
34]
Mac Diarmada of the Rock, and David O'Floinn, and
35]
other men of trust.
As regards Aedh, son of Cathal
36]
Crobhderg, moreover; he repaired to the Foreigners,
The sons
14]
of Ruaidhri proceeded to
Cill-Cellaigh, accompanied only
15]
by a small band and a few royal heirs, to protect their
16]
cows and people.
Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg, with
17]
his Foreigners, advanced towards Toirdhelbhach, son
18]
of Ruaidhri, where he was
with his chieftains; and there
19]
were hardly any others than horse-boys and a rabble
20]
along with him, for Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, and the son
21]
of Muirchertach, and Domhnall O'Flaithbhertaigh, and
22]
Tighernan, son of Cathal, and the sons of Toirdhelbhach
23]
son of Ruaidhri, went to protect the cows and people of
24]
Ferghal O'Taidhg, who had pledged a mutual oath with
25]
them. And it so happened that he was the first Connachtman
26]
who violated his mutual oath with the sons
27]
of Ruaidhri; and he brought the son of Cathal, with his
28]
Foreigners, to protect his cows and people, in opposition
29]
to them. It was then that the Foreigners encountered
30]
Toirdhelbhach, son of Ruaidhri. He and his chieftains
31]
arose, and they placed their rabble before them, and
32]
retreated excellently without any of their men being
33]
slain; for Donn Og Mac Airechtaigh, and Flaithbhertach
34]
O'Flannagain, and a small number of the Eoghanach band
Of those that went into the Bac,
22]
all who were not drowned were plundered and killed.
23]
Pity, alas! every one who went towards Dubh-Cunga
24]
was drowned; and so the fishing weirs were found
25]
with their baskets full of children, after being drowned
26]
in them.
Of all the droves of Clann-Tomaltaigh that
27]
had escaped from the Foreigners, and that had not been
28]
drowned, a number went into Tir-Amhalghaidh; and
29]
O'Dubhda attacked them, and left not a single cow
30]
with them.
As regards the sons of Ruaidhri, moreover;
31]
the resolution they adopted at Loch-mic-Airedhaigh
32]
was, to disperse until his Foreigners should separate
33]
from the son of Cathal Crobhderg, viz.:—the two sons
34]
of Ruaidhri—Toirdhelbhach and Aedh—and the son
35]
of Maghnus, and Donn Og, were to go to meet
36]
O'Flaithbhertaigh, their mutual ally; and the sons of
5] As regards the southern half of Connacht, also, it was
6]
not more quiet, for the Foreigners of Laighen, and Donnchadh
7]
(or Muirchertach) O'Briain, came against them.
8]
The Foreigners of Des-Mumha and the sheriff of Corcach
9]
came also against them. They plundered and killed
10]
every one whom they caught.
Aedh, son of Cathal
11]
Crobhderg disliked their coming into the district, for it
12]
was not he who invited them; but when they heard of all
13]
the spoils the Justiciary with his Foreigners had obtained,
14]
envy and jealousy seized them.
Grievous, indeed, was the
15]
misfortune God permitted to fall on the
best province
16]
in Erinn, east or west, south or north; for the young man
17]
would not spare his companion, in preying or in plundering,
18]
provided that he was the stronger. Women and children,
19]
and young lords, and the mighty and the weak, were
20]
exposed to cold and famine through this war.
As to
21]
Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg, however; he advanced
22]
to Magh-nEó, and the sons of Muirchertach went into his
23]
house, under conditions and guarantees, for the sake of
24]
their cows and people. He went on the morrow to Cill-medhoin,
25]
and the three armies of Foreigners met there;
26]
and the entire cantred was nearly filled with these three
27]
armies of Foreigners and Gaeidhel.
It was then that Aedh
28]
O'Flaithbhertaigh came, on the covenants and guarantees
29]
of the nobles of the Foreigners, and of Donnchadh
30]
Cairbrech O'Briain, his gossip, into the house of the son
31]
of Cathal Crobhderg and the Justiciary, made peace with
32]
him for the sake of his cows and people, and engaged
The son of
2]
Cathal Crobhderg went with his Foreigners to Tuaim-da-ghualann,
3]
and permitted the Foreigners of Laighen
4]
and Des-Mumha to depart from him; and it was his own
5]
duty to escort the Justiciary across Ath-Luain. He adopted
6]
another resolution then, viz.:—to turn back towards
7]
O'Flaithbhertaigh; for he liked not the way in which he
8]
left him, as the sons of Ruaidhri were at the west side of the
9]
lake with him, and his own son-in-law, i.e. Donn Og, along
10]
with them.
Then the sons of Maghnus separated from
11]
the sons of Ruaidhri, and went into Tir-Amhalghaidh in
12]
quest of their cows and people, and found them there,
13]
happily, without being plundered or molested; and they
14]
carried them with them under the protection of O'Ruairc;
15]
and they committed a great depredation on Philip Mac
16]
Goisdelbh.
Donnchadh Cairbrech, moreover, sent the
17]
nobles of his people, and his men of trust, on before him
18]
with great spoils.
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Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, and Eoghan
19]
O'hEidhin intercepted them with a small band; and
20]
the Momonians awaited not the attack of the son of the
21]
chief king; but he went after them and captured the men
22]
of trust of Donnchadh Cairbrech; and heavy were the
23]
spoils left with Aedh, son of Ruaidhri.
Then Donnchadh
24]
Cairbrech went home, and made peace and 'drowning
25]
of candles' with Aedh, son of Ruaidhri; and he promised
26]
that he would not again go against the son of Ruaidhri,
27]
in return for the release of his men of trust; but he kept
28]
not this, for he came immediately on the next hosting
29]
against the son of Ruaidhri.
It was then, moreover, that the
30]
son of Cathal Crobhderg and the Justiciary came to the
31]
port of Inis-cremha, after the Foreigners of Laighen and
32]
Mumha had departed; and O'Flaithbhertaigh was obliged
33]
to give Inis-cremha, and Oilen-na-circe, and also the boats
34]
of the lake, for the sake of his cows and people.
Aedh,
10] It was then that O'Flaithbhertaigh and the sons of
11]
Muirchertach, and the other royal heirs, went again to the
12]
son of Ruaidhri, after the Foreigners had departed from
13]
Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg; and Aedh despatched
14]
messengers and writings to the Foreigners, announcing
15]
the revolt, and requesting additional forces. He was
16]
cheerfully responded to; for these expeditions were
17]
profitable to the Foreigners, who used to obtain spoils,
18]
and used not to encounter danger or conflict. The Foreigners
19]
of Laighen and Des-Mumha were furnished to
20]
him on this occasion, in great force, under William Cras
21]
and the sons of Griffin; and when they came towards the
22]
son of Cathal Crobhderg, he came from the east across
23]
Tochar, and proceeded on southwards to where he heard
24]
the sons of Ruaidhri were, (viz.:—in Uí-Diarmada),
25]
without an army, without allies having arrived to
them.
26] Then Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg, sent his brother Felim
27]
and the chiefs of his people,with Foreign mercenaries,
28]
to plunder Eoghan O'hEidhin in Uí-Fiachrach-Aidhne;
29]
and they were in a house-camp at Ard-rathain, with a
30]
view to committing the depredation early on the
morrow.
31] O'Flaithbhertaigh and the sons of Muirchertach, as they
Bravely, indeed, was the town then entered.
13] The Gaeidhel who offered to go with Tuathal was
14]
Taichlech, son of Aedh O'Dubhda. And when they went
15]
boldly into the town the Foreigners fled eastwards and
16]
westwards out of the town; and the Foreigners were
17]
driven in rout eastwards. The Foreigners who fled
18]
westwards out of the town inflicted a defeat on those
19]
of the Gaeidhel who were in the rear of the town. There
20]
were no Gaeidhel more vigorous than the company on
21]
whom this defeat westwards was inflicted; but God did
22]
not grant that good fortune should attend them.
Tuathal
23]
and Taichlech O'Dubhda pursued the party that went
24]
eastwards; and Tuathal first wounded the constable of
25]
the Foreigners, who fell by Taichlech. It was very fortunate
26]
for the sons of Ruaidhri that they were not in this
27]
defeat.
It was in this defeat westwards that Mathghamhain,
28]
son of Aedh, son of Conchobhar Maenmhaighe, and the
29]
son of Gillachrist Mac Diarmada, and the grandson of
30]
Amhlaibh Mac Airechtaigh, and Niall, son of Ferghal
31]
O'Taidhg, were slain; and the person who slew him was
32]
killed, viz.:—the brother of Culen O'Dimusaigh.
33] As regards the sons of Ruaidhri: they met on the
It was then Aedh, son of Cathal
5]
Crobhderg, with his Foreigners, went in pursuit of
them.
6] The resolution they adopted was—each of them to go
7]
towards his cows and his people, and to abandon the sons
8]
of Ruaidhri.
The sons of Ruaidhri went out of the district,
9]
as they had no Foreigners or forces in readiness, and Donn
10]
went again under the protection of Aedh O'Neill; and
11]
there resulted nothing to them from this hosting but that
12]
the best territory in Erinn was injured and destroyed
13]
through them.
Regarding Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg,
14]
however; he went to O'Flaithbhertaigh, and brought
15]
pledges and hostages from him on this occasion. He proceeded
16]
downwards to Cill-medhoin, and to Magh-Eo, in
17]
pursuit of the sons of Muirchertach, and of Tighernan;
18]
and they made peace for the sake of their cows and people,
19]
and went into the house of Aedh, son of Cathal
20]
Crobhderg, under the guarantee of Donnchadh Cairbrech
21]
and the chiefs of the Foreigners. This was a necessary
22]
tranquility, for there was not a church or territory in
23]
Connacht on that day without being destroyed.
24] After plunderings; and after killing the cows
25]
and people of the country, and exposing every one to
26]
cold and famine, a great plague prevailed in the whole
27]
district, viz.:—a species of fever, by which the towns
28]
used to be emptied, without a living man being left
29]
in them; and some would recover from this plague,
30]
but they were few.
Flann, son of Amhlaibh O'Fallamhain,
31]
chieftain of Clann-Uatach, was slain by Felim,
32]
son of Cathal Crobhderg, in that war.
Amhlaibh, son
33]
of Ferchar O'Fallamhain, the best chieftain of his nation
34]
that had come for a long time, died; and his son was
35]
slain in the same month, viz.:—the aforesaid
Flann.
36] Tadhg O'Finnachta, a man of trust to Aedh, son of
Muiredhach
3]
O'Finnachta, chieftain of Clann-Finnachta (or Clann-Murchadha),
4]
died in a vessel on Loch-Oirbsen; and he was
5]
quite well when going into it.
Maelbrighde O'Maicin, abbot
6]
of Tobur-Patraic, in Christo quievit. He was a virgin and
7]
sage; and it was by him the church of Tobur-Patraic was
8]
begun, and its sanctuary and crosses were diligently finished,
9]
in honour of Patrick, and Mary, and the Apostle
John.
Annal LC1226.
10] M.cc.xxvi. The kalends of January on Thursday, and
11]
the 29th of the moon.
Domhnall, son of Ruaidhri O'Flaithbhertaigh,
12]
was slain by the sons of Muirchertach
13]
O'Flaithbhertaigh, after capturing a house against
him.
14] Pity, alas! the deed that was there committed —the
15]
killing of a future king of the West of Connacht,
16]
without obtaining land or patrimony thereby.
Tighernan,
17]
son of Conchobhar, son of Cathal Migaran O'Conchobhair,
18]
the royal heir of greatest honour and bravery that came
19]
of the sons of Conchobhar, and who performed the most
20]
renowned, successful exploits, was killed by Donnchadh
21]
O'Dubhda and his sons.
Ferghal O'Taidhg, dux of
22]
the household of Cathal Crobhderg, and of that of his
23]
son after him—a man of great prosperity, and by whom
24]
his enemies fell in greatest numbers—was slain by
Donnsleibhe
25]
O'Gadhra.
Aedh, son of Donnsleibhe O'Sochlachain,
26]
airchinnech of Cunga, a professor of
singing, and
27]
of harp-making—who made, besides, an instrument for
28]
himself, the like of which had never been made before,
29]
and who was distinguished in every art, both in poetry
30]
and engraving, and writing, and in every science that a
31]
man could exercise—died in this year.
Nualadh, daughter
32]
of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, queen of Uladh, died at
33]
Cunga-Feichin, and was interred in the Canons' church of
Aedh O'Flaithbhertaigh was taken prisoner by
2]
Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg, and delivered into the
3]
hands of the Foreigners.
Muirghes Mac Diarmada was
4]
slain.
The castle of Cill-mor was broken down by Cathal
5]
O'Raighilligh.
Annal LC1227.
6] M.cc.xxvii. The kalends of January on Friday, and the
7]
l0th of the moon.
A court was established by the Foreigners
8]
of Ath-cliath and Erinn at Ath-cliath; and Aedh,
9]
son of Cathal Crobhderg, was summoned before it; and
10]
he was betrayed in that court until William Mareschal,
11]
his own friend, came with his forces into the midst of
12]
the court; and they carried him out of it by force, and
13]
conveyed him safely to his own country.
As regards
14]
Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg; he appointed a meeting
15]
immediately after at Lathach-caech-tuaithbhil, with
16]
Wiliam Mareis, son of Geoffroi; and he went across the
17]
Lathach with only a very few, viz.:—Cormac, son of
18]
Tomaltach Mac Diarmada of the Rock, and Diarmaid,
19]
son of Maghnus, and Maghnus, son of Muirchertach
20]
O'Conchobhair, and Tadhg, son of Mathghamhain O'Ceirin,
21]
and Ruaidhri O'Maelbhrenainn. And William Mareis
22]
came to the place with eight horsemen. And the son of
23]
Cathal Crobhderg remembered the deception and treachery
24]
practised against him in Ath-cliath, and he advanced
25]
before the Foreigners dismounted, and laid a hand on
26]
William Mareis. And he was seconded actively and bravely
27]
by his people; for William Mareis, and Master Sleimhne,
28]
and Hugo Arden were taken prisoners, and the Constable
29]
of Ath-Luain was slain; and he Aedh sent
the Foreigners
30]
in captivity southwards across Lathach; and he
31]
and all the Connachtmen who were with him went and
32]
plundered the market, and burned the town. And this
33]
was a felicitous act for all the Connachtmen, for they
3] Donnsleibhe O'Gadhra, king of Sliabh-Lugha, was slain by
4]
the Gillaruadh, his own brother's son; and he was killed
5]
therefore through the device
of the son of Cathal Crobhderg.
6] Loghais, king of the Franks, died.
A great famine in
7]
this year; and people died of it, and of various diseases
8]
besides.
A great hosting into Connacht by the son of
9]
William, and by Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, son of Toirdhelbhach
10]
Mór; and they burned Inis-medhoin, and
11]
plundered the entire country, and took hostages.
A
12]
hosting by Geoffroi Mareis, and by Toirdhelbhach, son of
13]
Ruaidhri, into Magh-Nai, when they erected a castle at
14]
Rinn-dúin, and took the hostages of
Síl-Muiredhaigh.
15] Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg, went into Tir-Conaill, to
16]
O'Domhnaill.
He returned from the north, and brought
17]
his wife with him.
The sons of Toirdhelbhach met
18]
him, and took from him his horses and his wife, as he
19]
was coming into the Seghais; and the wife was surrendered
20]
to the Foreigners.
A hosting was performed by
21]
Toirdhelbhach, son of Ruaidhri, and by the Foreigners of
22]
Midhe, into the West of Connacht, and they committed
23]
a great depredation on Aedh, son of Ruaidhri
O'Flaithbhertaigh.
24] They went from thence into Cera, and took
25]
the hostages of the sons of Muirchertach Muimhnech,
26]
and brought a number of beeves from each cantred.
A
27]
depredation was committed in Sligech by the Justiciary,
28]
and by Brian, son of Toirdhelbhach, when they took many
29]
women prisoners.
Annal LC1228.
30] M.cc.xxviii. The kalends of January on Saturday, and
31]
the 21st of the moon.
Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg
32]
O'Conchobhair, was slain by the Foreigners in an ugly
2] The Justiciaryship of Erinn was assumed by the son of
3]
William Burk.
Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, assumed the
4]
sovereignty of Connacht, and his brothers along with
5]
him; and the territories and churches of Connacht were
6]
plundered by them, and the clerics and men of science of
7]
the land were banished to remote, foreign countries.
8] Ferghal, son of Sitrec O'Ruairc, was killed by the sons
9]
of Niall, son of Conghalach O'Ruairc.
Niall, son of Conghalach
10]
O'Ruairc, was killed by Art, son of Art
O'Ruairc.
Annal LC1229.
11] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the 2nd of the
12]
moon; M.cc.xxix.
Gilla-in-Choimdhedh O'Duilendain,
13]
comarb of Feichin, died this year.
The plundering of
14]
Rinn-dúin was effected by Felim O'Conchobhair; and
15]
Conchobhar Buidhe, son of Toirdhelbhach, and Tadhg, son
16]
of Cormac, were slain; and the Justiciary came to
Termann-Caeluinn,
17]
and the town was burned, and the church of
18]
Imlech-Urchadha was burned.
Felim gained the victory
19]
of Cluain-acha over the sons of Ruaidhri, and over Conchobhar,
20]
son of Cormac.
Annal LC1230.
21] The kalends of January on Tuesday; a bissextile year,
22]
and the l3th of the moon; M.cc.xxx.
Aedh, son of
23]
Ruaidhri, and the Connachtmen also, turned against the
24]
son of William, i.e. Richard Burk, and against the Foreigners,
25]
through the persuasion of Donn Og, son of
26]
Donncathaigh Mac Airechtaigh, and of Cormac, son of
27]
Tomaltach Mac Diarmada of the Rock, and his favourites;
28]
for they had pledged their word that they would not
29]
belong to any king who would bring them into the
30]
house of the Foreigners.
They committed, moreover,
31]
great depredations on the Foreigners, viz.:—Aedh, son of
32]
Ruaidhri, and the men of the west of
Connacht plundered
33]
the young son of William, and Adam Dubh; Donn Og,
3] The son of William, however, assembled the greater part
4]
of the Foreigners of Erinn, and many Gaeidhel, and came
5]
into Connacht, accompanied by Felim, son of Cathal
6]
Crobhderg, to give him the sovereignty of Connacht, and
7]
to expel Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, and every Connachtman
8]
who had turned against him. They proceeded at first to
9]
the castle of Bun-Gaillmhe, to Aedh O'Flaithbhertaigh.
10]
Then Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, went to assist Aedh
11]
O'Flaithbhertaigh; the Connachtmen accompanying him,
12]
under the sons of Muirchertach O'Conchobhair; and the
13]
Connachtmen were on the west side of Gaillimh, and the
14]
Foreigners on the east side; and great conflicts occurred
15]
between them every day.
The Foreigners were in this
16]
wise, and they obtained neither peace, nor pledge, nor
17]
hostage from the Connachtmen.
The resolution the
18]
Foreigners adopted was to go after the cows and the
19]
people that had fled to the hills and fastnesses of the
20]
country, and into the islands of the sea; and they went
21]
that night from the castle of Bun-Gaillmhe to
Droiched-inghine-Goillin,
22]
where it was morning with them.
Then
23]
the son of William asked ‘is there a passage between us
24]
and the lake, by which some of the Connachtmen could
25]
come down?’ The guides answered him: ‘there is,’
26]
said they. He disposed a party of horse to the west
27]
towards Cunga, and towards Cill-or
Inis-medhoin. It
28]
happened then that a countless number of Connachtmen
29]
were coming from Cunga early on the morrow, having
30]
been unwisely, and unwarily, transported across the lake
31]
the night before, in parties of two and three; and a
32]
few good men were slain together with the men of
33]
trust of Muirchertach, son of Maghnus O'Conchobhair,
3] As regards the Foreigners: they went after this success
4]
to Magh-Eo of the Saxons. They proceeded on the
5]
morrow to Tobur-Patraic, where the canons and devout
6]
people of the place came to the son of William, and
7]
requested the son of William, for charity, not to remain
8]
with them that night. This request was granted to them;
9]
and the Foreigners proceeded down to Muine-Maicin.
10]
The Foreigners were loth, indeed, to go from Magh-Eo
11]
thither; but they had not obtained either hostages or
12]
pledges from Maghnus, son of Muirchertach Muimhnech.
13]
As they had not obtained hostages they went on the morrow
14]
to Achadh-Fabhair, and encamped in the town, to the
15]
west of the church, viz.:—at Margenana, on the brink
16]
of Loch-Críchan. Maghnus, son of Muirchertach, went
17]
into their house, and gave them pledges. As to the
18]
Foreigners, moreover; they came again on the morrow to
19]
Muine-Maicin, and remained a night there. They proceeded
20]
the next day to Magh-Sine, and from thence,
21]
by marches, through Luighne to Ceis-Corainn. They
22]
went from thence into the Corr-sliabh, and the guides
23]
abandoned the usual path; and they crossed the entire
24]
mountain without being met.
With reference to Aedh,
25]
son of Ruaidhri, and to Tomaltach of the Rock, son of
26]
Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, and Donn Og Mac Airechtaigh,
27]
and the Síl-Muiredhaigh, who were in the wood—
28]
the resolution they adopted was not to bestow attention
29]
or regard on the Foreigners, since their cows, and
30]
their people with them, had reached the fastnesses of
31]
Muinter-Eolais and of Sliabh-an-iarainn.
Donn Og said
29]
that he would not observe this resolution. The course he
30]
decided on was to go to the west side of the Foreigners
31]
until he reached Finn-charn, accompanied by his own
32]
brother, and the young men of Síl-Muiredhaigh, and by
33]
his own Foreigners, and by the son of Domhnall Bregach
Then the Foreigners
6]
sent a countless host of mercenaries and cavalry around
7]
the carn, and they Donn's party observed
them not
8]
until they passed from the west around the carn; and
9]
Donn was left alone there, with the exception of a few
10]
of his kinsmen, and of Brian, son of Toirdhelbhach; and
11]
only for a short time were they allowed to remain
12]
thus in one spot. Donn Og, being then alone, was
13]
proclaimed and recognised; and many soldiers took aim,
14]
and five arrows were lodged in him; and one horseman
15]
came up with him afterwards; and though he
16]
Donn had no weapon but an axe, he did not
allow
17]
the horseman to close with him; and the horseman
18]
would drive his lance into him occasionally. The other
19]
soldiers surrounded him from the east and west, and he
20]
fell by the superior power that overtook him there.
21] Regarding Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, moreover; he was on
22]
the east side of the Foreigners, awaiting them; and he did
23]
not give them battle, and it was not with his consent
24]
that Donn had done so. And the rout extended eastwards
25]
towards him; and he knew not then that Donn had been
26]
slain; but Aedh escaped uninjured through the strength
27]
of his hand; and he turned upon one man of them who
28]
was taking aim at him, and cast the lance which
29]
was in his hand at him, so that the shaft went
30]
through him; and he was afterwards allowed to depart.
31]
However, as success attended the Foreigners, and as Donn
32]
Og was slain, the Foreigners sent out great predatory
33]
bands as far as Sliabh-an-iarainn, and subjected multitudes
34]
to cold and hunger on this occasion. And women
35]
and children were killed; and all that were not killed
36]
were stripped; and they carried off great, fruitful preys
The Foreigners departed
2]
after this, on the morrow, and left the sovereignty with
3]
Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg; and Aedh, son of
4]
Ruaidhri, was banished to Aedh O'Neill.
Aedh O'Neill
5]
died in this year—the king of Cenel-Eoghain through
6]
fame aud goodness; a king who gave neither pledge nor
7]
hostage to Foreigner or Gaeidhel; a king who inflicted
8]
great defeats and killings on Foreigners; a king who was
9]
a protector to every one of the Gaeidhel who might be
10]
an exile or wanderer; who was the most generous king,
11]
and the very best man, that had come of the men of
12]
Erinn for a long time.
Gilla-Isa O'Clerigh, bishop of
13]
Luighne, quievit in Christo.
Joseph Mac Teichedhain,
14]
bishop of Conmaicne, quievit in
Christo.
Gilla-Carthaigh
15]
O'hEilghisan, a canon and anchorite, quievit.
Donnsleibhe
16]
O'hInmhainén, a holy monk, andchief master of
17]
the carpenters of the monastery of Buill, mortuus
est.
18] Maelmuire O'Maeleoin, comarb of Ciaran of Cluain-mic-Nois,
19]
quievit.
O'Cerbhallain, bishop of Cenel-Eoghain,
20]
quievit in Christo.
Rool Petit, bishop of Midhe, vir
21]
religiosus et caritativus, et Dei famulus, in Christo
22]
quievit.
Maelsechlainn Mac Firedinn, a noble priest and
23]
master of reading, in Christo quievit in his
monastic
24]
noviciate in the monastery of Buill.
Art, son of Art
25]
O'Ruairc, was slain by Raghnall O'Finn, per
dolum.
26] Macraith Mac Seirigh, bishop of Conmaicne, quievit
in
27]
Christo.
Maelsechlainn O'Mannachain was killed by his
28]
own brethren.
Duibhessa, daughter of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair,
29]
wife of Cathal Mac Diarmada, died a black nun.
1] Muiredhach O'Gormshuiligh, prior of the Regles of Inis-Mic-Neirin,
2]
the most learned and devout man that was
3]
in the province of Connacht, in Christo
quievit.
Diarmaid
4]
Mac Carthaigh, king of Des-Mumha, quievit in
Christo.
Annal LC1231.
5] M.cc.xxx. primo. The kalends of January on Wednesday,
6]
and the twenty-fourth of the moon; and it was
7]
the sixteenth year of the Decennovenalian cycle, and
8]
the nineteenth of the solar cycle, and the fourth year
9]
of the Indiction.
Fethfailghe, daughter of Conchobhar
10]
Mac Diarmada, wife of Muirchertach Muimhnech, son of
11]
Toirdhelbhach Mor O'Conchobhair, died in this year, viz.:
12]
the greatest, and most beautiful, and most generous, and
13]
most virtuous, and most famous woman that came of
14]
Leth-Chuinn; and she was the mother of Maghnus, son
15]
of Muirchertach Muimhnech, and of Conchobhar Ruadh,
16]
and of Tuathal, and of the priest Toirdhelbhach, i.e. the
17]
prior of the Regles of Peter and Paul.
Dubhchabhlaigh,
18]
daughter of Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, died in the
19]
monastery of Buill in hoc anno.
Duinnin O'Maelconaire,
20]
chief poet of the race of Muiredhach
Muillethan son of
21]
Fergus, died in hoc anno.
Flann O'Connachtaigh, bishop
22]
of Uí-Briuin, quievit.
Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg,
23]
was apprehended by the son of William Burk, at Milic,
24]
in violation of the guarantee of the principal Foreigners
25]
of Erinn.
23] Flaithbhertach O'Flannagain, dux of the descendants
26]
of Cathal son of Muiredhach Muillethan, died
27]
in pilgrimage in the monastery of Buill, after having
28]
been crossed.
A great hosting-assemblage was led by
29]
Domhnall O'Domhnaill, king of Tir-Conaill, and by
30]
Aenghus Mac Gillafhinnéin, against Cathal O'Raighilligh;
31]
and they brought vessels with them upon Loch-Uachtair,
32]
and plundered Eo-inis, and killed the best white steed
Dionysius O'Mordha, bishop of Oilfinn,
5]
after resigning the bishopric with a view to ending his life
6]
in Trinity Island on Loch-Cé, through love for God, and
7]
for Clarus Mac Mailin, archdeacon of Oilfinn, and for
8]
the order of Canons of the same place, xviii. kalendas
9]
Januarii in eadem insula quievit in Christo.
Dubhthemhrach,
10]
daughter of O'Cuinn, wife of Flaithbhertach
11]
O'Flannagain, mortua est.
Conchobar Got O'hEghra,
12]
king of Luighne, mortuus est.
The erection of a market
13]
town at Port-na-Cairge was commenced by Cormac, son
14]
of Tomaltach.
The son of Niall O'Gairmleghaigh, dux of
15]
Cenel-Moain, mortuus est.
Donnchadh O'Conchobhair
16]
assumed the bishopric of Oilfinn after Dionysius
O'Mordha.
17] Gilla-Isa Mac Shamhradhain, dux of
Tellach-Echach,
18]
quievit.
Ualgharg O'Ruairc, king of Breifne, died in
19]
pilgrimage on the way to the river.
Annal LC1232.
20] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the fifth of
21]
the moon; and it was the seventeenth of the Decennovenalian
22]
cycle, and the twentieth year of the solar cycle, and
23]
the fifth year of the Indiction. Anno Domini
M.cc.xxxii.
24] Aedh, son of Amhlaibh, son of Domhnall, son of Murchadh,
25]
son of Gilla-na-naemh, son of Brian, son of Senlaech, son
26]
of Eochaidh, son of Ferghal (from whom the O'Ferghails
27]
are named), was burned on the island of Loch-Cuile by
28]
the sons of Aedh Ciabhach, son of Murchadh, son of Gilla-na-naemh
29]
O'Ferghail, after having spent nine years in
30]
the chieftainship of the Anghaile, in succession to Murchadh
31]
Carrach O'Ferghail.
Gilla-na-naemh O'Dalaigh, a
32]
distinguished professor of poetry, and keeper of a house
The sovereignty was
3]
again given to Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, who made peace
4]
with the son of William Burk, after he had apprehended
5]
Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg.
The castle of Bun-Gaillmhe
6]
was erected by Richard de Burgh, and the
7]
castle of Dun-Imdhain was begun by Adam Staunton.
8] Conchobhar, son of Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, escaped from
9]
the Foreigners, and assembled the sons of the king of
10]
Connacht about him; and he went into the Tuatha on an
11]
incursion, when he and Gillacellaigh O'hEidhin, and Gillachrist,
12]
son of Donnchadh Mac Diarmada, and a great
13]
multitude along with them, were slain by the Tuatha.
14]
And it was on that day the men of the
Tuatha
15]
whitened all their axe-handles, when it was said that a man with a
16]
white axe-handle had slain the son of Aedh.
Donnchadh,
17]
son of Tomaltach Mac Diarmada, mortuus
est.
Maghnus,
18]
son of Amhlaibh, son of Tadhg Mac Maelruanaidh, torch
19]
of honour, and bravery, and piety, in Christo
quievit.
20] Fachtna O'hAllghaith, comarb of Druim-mucadha, and
21]
official of Uí-Fiachrach; keeper of a house of hospitality
22]
for guests and invalids; and the promoter of learning
23]
and improver of country and land, in hoc anno
quievit.
24] Maeleoin Bodhar O'Maelconaire took possession of Cluain-Bolcain
25]
in hoc anno.
The three sons of Donn O'Mannachain
26]
were slain by Donnchadh, son of Muirchertach,
27]
at Termon-Caelain, in hoc anno.
Consecration of the
28]
church of Cill-mor, in Tir-Briuin-na-Sinna, by Donnchadh
29]
O'Conchobhair, bishop of Oilfinn; and Canons were
30]
established in the same town by Conn O'Flannagain,
Fedhlim, son of Cathal
2]
Crobhderg, was set at large by the Foreigners in
hoc
3]
anno.
Annal LC1233.
4] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the 16th of
5]
the moon; the eighteenth year of the Decennovenalian
6]
cycle; xx. primoanno cycli solaris; sexto anno
Indictionis;
7]
anno Domini M.cc.xxx. tertio.
A hosting into
8]
Connacht by Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg, when
9]
Cormac, sort of Tomaltach, king of Magh-Luirg, came
10]
to meet him, and took him with him into Magh-Luirg;
11]
and they established a camp at Druim-Gregraidhe,
12]
viz.:—O'Conchobhair, and Cormac, and his son Conchobhar,
and
13]
the three Tuatha, and the two sons of Muirchertach
14]
Mac Diarmada, i.e. Donnchadh and Muirchertach.
15]
And the resolution they respectively adopted
16]
was to go in pursuit of Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, king
17]
of Connacht, and the other sons of Ruaidhri, whom
18]
they totally defeated and dispersed; and the sons of
19]
Ruaidhri, son of Toirdhelbhach, were deprived of the
20]
sovereignty and supremacy of Connacht on that day,
21]
for Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, king of Connacht, and Aedh
22]
Muimhnech, son of Ruaidhri, and his son, and Donnchadh,
23]
son of Diarmaid, son of Ruaidhri, were slain
24]
there, and many other persons along with them who
25]
are not enumerated here. After the profanation and
26]
pillaging of Tech-Baeithin by Aedh Muimhnach, son of
27]
Ruaidhri; and after many other churches and ecclesiastical
28]
establishments had been plundered by them, they
29]
fell themselves in revenge for having profaned the
30]
churches and saints of Connacht.
Raghallach O'Flannagain
31]
was slain on the same day; and Thomas Biris,
32]
constable of Erinn, and his brother John, and John
33]
Squier, and many other Foreigners also, were slain
34]
there, after they had been cursed, and after their
35]
candles had been extinguished, by the clerics of Connacht
36]
before that.
Five years, moreover, was Aedh,
- 3] Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, of the quick onset
4] Was five years over the province,
5] Until fell, a loss to every feast,
6] This man by Fedhlimidh.
7] This was the termination of the sovereignty of the
8]
descendants of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, king of Erinn: for
9]
the Pope had offered right over Erinn to himself and his
10]
seed after him for ever, and six married wives, provided that
11]
he desisted from the sin of the women from thenceforth;
12]
but Ruaidhri did not accept this. And as he did not accept,
13]
God took kingship and sovereignity from his seed for ever,
14]
in punishment of the sin of the women.
Fedhlim, son of
15]
Cathal Crobhderg, immediately assumed sovereignty
16]
and government over the Connachtmen; and the castles
17]
that had been erected through the power of the sons of
18]
Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair and the son of William Burk
19]
were demolished by Fedhlim, viz.:—the castle of
Bun-Gaillmhe,
20]
and Caislen-na-circe, and Caislen-na-caillighe,
21]
and the castle of Dun-Imdhain.
Peace, and correction
22]
over kernes and sons of malediction, grew
up immediately
23]
in the tixne of this young king, in this year, so
24]
that the districts were orderly during his reign.
A
25]
hosting by William de Laci, (i.e. the son of Hugo and
26]
the daughter of Ruaidhri, son of Toirdhelbhach Mor
27]
O'Conchobhair), and by the Foreigners of Midhe along
28]
with him; when they went in great force into the Breifne,
29]
to Cathal O'Raighilligh, and to his brother Cuconnacht,
A party of the
2]
people of O'Raighilligh, however, encountered William de
3]
Laci and the chieftains of the host, who were behind the
4]
preys; and they gave each other battle, and William
5]
Brit was slain there, and other good Foreigners along
6]
with him; and William de Laci was wounded there, and
7]
Charles, son of Cathal Gall, and many more along with
8]
them; and they the Foreigners afterwards
returned
9]
from the district, without pledges or hostages; and
10]
William de Laci; and Charles, son of Cathal Gall O'Conchobhair;
11]
and Feorus Finn, son of the Foreign Queen;
12]
and Diarmaid Bernach O'Maelsechlainn, died in their own
13]
houses immediately after from the wounds inflicted on
14]
them at Mona-crand-chain.
Donncathaigh, i.e. airchinnech
15]
of Achadh-Fabhair, xviii. kalendas Januarii in
Christo
16]
quievit: a man held in high repute for sense and figure, in
17]
country and church; the best and most generous man of
18]
his contemporaries regarding cattle and food; the protector
19]
of the poor and mighty; the object of esteem of
20]
the country and land; the guide and settler of every
21]
affair between his own people and all in general.
Maelisa
22]
O'Maenaigh, i.e. a noble priest who was wont to recite his
23]
psalter every day excepting Sunday alone, in
Christo
24]
quievit.
Ferghal Mac Cormaic mortuus est.
Annal LC1234.
25] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the 27th of
26]
the moon. It was the last year of the Nineteen; xx.ii.
27]
anno cycli solaris; septimo anno Indictionis; anno Domini
28]
M.cc.xxx. quarto.
Aedh O'hEghra, king of Luighne,
29]
was killed by Donnchadh, son of Duarcan O'hEghra—(a
30]
house was burned over him, and he was killed in the
31]
door of the house, after coming out of it)—in revenge for
32]
his having first killed his brother and the five sons of
Richard, son of William Maréchal, raised a war
3]
against the king of the Saxons, in
Saxon-land, and
4]
came across from the east, and went into Laighen; and
5]
the Foreigners of Erinn assembled against him on behalf
6]
of the king of the Saxons, viz.:—Mac Maurice, Justiciary
7]
of Erinn at that time, and the Earl of Uladh, i.e. Hugo
8]
de Laci, and Walter de Laci, i.e. the Lord of Midhe. And
9]
all these proceeded to Cuirrech-Liffe in Laighen, and
10]
fought a fierce, obstinate battle against the Maréchal;
and
11]
Richard, son of William Maréchal, was slain there, and
12]
Geoffroi Maréchal taken prisoner. And there was no one
13]
fighting this battle towards the end but himself alone,
14]
after he had been abandoned by his own people. And
15]
this deed was one of the greatest deeds committed in
16]
that time.
Aenghus O'Maelaghmhair, bishop of Uí-Amhalghaidh,
17]
quievit in Christo.
Great snow between
18]
the two Christmasses, and frost afterwards, so that men,
19]
and horses under burthens, would pass over the principal
20]
lakes and rivers of Erinn.
Aenghus Mac Gillafinnen,
21]
king of Loch-Erne, went to commit a depredation on
22]
Domhnall O'Domhnaill, king of Tir-Conaill; and O'Domhnaill
23]
caught him, and he was slain on this journey.
24] Gilla-na-naemh, son of Art O'Brain, airchinnech of Ros-Comain,
25]
in Christo quievit.
Maelpetair O'Cormacán,
26]
master of Ros-Comain, in Christo
quievit.
Diarmaid
27]
O'Cuinn, dux of Muinter-Gilgan, mortuus est.
Maelisa,
28]
son of Daniel O'Gormshuiligh, prior of Inis-Mic-Neirin
Gilla-Isa O'Gibillain, a monk,
2]
anacorita insulae Sanctae Trinitatis, in Christo
quievit.
3] Domhnall, son of Aedh O'Neill, king of Cenel-Eoghain,
4]
and the good material of a king of Erinn, was slain by
5]
Mac Lachlainn and the Cenel-Eoghain themselves.
Annal LC1235.
6] The kalends of January on Monday, and the eighth of
7]
the moon; primus annus cycli Decennovenalis; xxiii.
8]
anno cycli solaris; viii. anno Indictionis; anno Domini
9]
M.cc.xxx. quinto.
Madadhan O'Madadhain, king of Síl-Anmchadha,
10]
mortuus est.
Isaac O'Maelaghmhair,
11]
airchinnech of Cill-Alaidh, died in hoc anno.
Lochlainn,
12]
grandson of Echtighern O'Cellaigh, was slain by the sons
13]
of the Gilla-riabhach O'Baighill in hoc
anno.
Taichlech,
14]
son of Aedh O'Dubhda, king of Uí-Amhalghaidh and
Uí-Fiachrach,
15]
was killed by the discharge of an arrow, whilst
16]
interfering to quell a dispute in the camp
of Fedhlim, son
17]
of Cathal Crobhderg, king of Connacht.
A great hosting by
18]
the Foreigners of Erinn, who were assembled by Richard,
19]
son of William Burk; and they went across Ath-Luain to
20]
Ros-Comain, when Ros-Comain was burned by them; and
21]
they went from thence to Oilfinn, and
burned the great
22]
church of Oilfinn; and they proceeded from thence to the
23]
monastery of Ath-da-laarc on the Buill. And the persons
24]
who were the principal chieftains and the boldest on this
25]
hosting were Mac Maurice, i.e. the Justiciary of Erinn, and
26]
Hugo de Laci, Earl of Uladh, and Richard, son of William
27]
Burk, and Walter Ritabhard, high baron of Laighen, with
28]
whom were the Foreigners of Laighen; and the routs
29]
of all Erinn were along with them; and John Gocan,
30]
having the Foreigners of Mumha along with him. And
31]
they went on the night of Trinity Sunday to the monastery
The Foreigners then adopted an extraordinary
12]
resolution, (which no Conacian or Momonian contemplated
13]
that they would adopt), at the request of Eoghan
14]
O'hEighin, who wished to revenge his injuries on the
15]
Momonians, and on Donnchadh Cairbrech O'Briain, viz.:—
16]
to go back in the same path into Tir-Maine, and into
17]
Maen-magh; and they went from thence to
Tuadh-Mumha,
18]
without being noticed or observed; and the
19]
Momonians were found without having escaped or made
20]
preparations; and they then committed great and countless
21]
depredations on them.
As regards the Conacians
22]
and Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg, however, they
23]
followed the Foreigners, after they had stolen away, to
24]
keep their engagement with the Momonians, and to
25]
afford them succour; and vehement, great contests
26]
were fought between them each day.
On the last
27]
day, moreover, the Conacians and Momonians went to
28]
the contest, and fought it actively, strenuously, manfully,
29]
and fiercely. Nevertheless, too many mail-clad
30]
Foreigners and a great multitude of cavalry pressed
31]
upon them, and a large number of the men of Mumha
32]
were slain there through indiscretion of counsel on
33]
the part of Donnchadh Cairbrech O'Briain. But the
34]
Conacians came out of it with the credit of bravery and
35]
glory, without any notable man of them having been
36]
slain.
31] The resolution O'Briain adopted, on the morrow,
5] With regard to the Foreigners, moreover, they proceeded
6]
on towards Connacht, and advanced first against Aedh
7]
O'Flaithbhertaigh, who made peace with the Foreigners
8]
for the sake of his cows and people, for the sake of his
9]
country and land.
As to Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg,
10]
however, the resolution he adopted was to take
11]
with him towards O'Domhnaill all the cows that he
12]
found in Conmaicne-Mara, and in Conmaicne-na-Cúile, and
13]
those belonging to all who had obeyed his counsel—and
14]
the son of Maghnus, and Conchobhar Ruadh, son of
15]
Muirchertach Muimhnech—and to leave the country
16]
wasted for the Foreigners.
After this, truly, the Foreigners
17]
came to Dun-Modhord1, and sent messengers to
18]
Maghnus, son of Muirchertach Muimhnech, to demand
19]
peace and hostages from him; and Maghnus gave them
20]
neither peace nor hostages.
The Foreigners then sent great
21]
predatory bands from Dun-Mughdhord, under the sons
22]
of Ruaidhri, with innumerable mercenaries; and these
23]
plundered Eccuill, and brought
great herds with them to
24]
Druimne, to meet the Foreigners.
As regards Aedh
25]
O'Flaithbhertaigh and Eoghan O'hEidhin, however, they
26]
went round with a large army, and with boats which
27]
had been brought to Linan-Chinn-mhara. The boats
28]
came with their forces, the Justiciary having gone to meet
29]
them to Druimne, to the callow of Inis-aenaigh. Maghnus
30]
was at this time, with his vessels, on the sound of
31]
the island; and great contests and conflicts were waged
32]
by them in turn.
The Foreigners were at this time
33]
fatigued, and the resolution they adopted was to occupy
34]
a camp, and to withdraw their boats to a corner of the
On Friday,
26]
moreover, the day following, they went upon the islands
27]
of the North of Umhall, and the masters of the mercenaries,
28]
in honour of the Passion, imposed a restriction that no
29]
man should be killed.
When the Foreigners had succeeded
30]
in robbing and plundering Umhall, by sea and
31]
land, they proceeded with their cows and preys to
5] The Foreigners proceeded from thence to Corrsliabh-na-Seghsa,
6]
and went to the callow of Port-na-Cairge on Loch-Cé,
7]
to take it from the people of Cormac, son of Tomaltach,
8]
and from some of the people of Fedhlim O'Conchobhair,
9]
who were guarding it.
The Foreigners of
10]
Erinn, however, and the Justiciary afforded a general protection
11]
and friendly shelter to Clarus Mac Mailin, archdeacon
12]
of Oilfinn, and to the Canons of the Trinity on
13]
the Island; and the Justiciary himself, and the chiefs of
14]
the Foreigners, went to see that place, and to pray
15]
there, and to show respect to it, in honour of the Holy
16]
Trinity. A fleet came then, also, with implements and
17]
engines to the lake, and an engine was raised by them on
18]
a small earthen wall, and many stones were projected,
19]
truly, from this engine into the Rock. And as they were
20]
not able to accomplish anything against it in this way,
21]
the Foreigners made several boats of the houses of Ard-carna,
22]
and brought with them the ignitible materials of
23]
the district that a flame might be enkindled by them;
24]
and they tied empty tuns round this ram to keep it afloat
25]
on the water; and they sailed a large vessel surmounted
26]
by a house of boards, to tow this ram to the Rock, to
27]
burn it by this means. The people who were in it were
28]
seized with fear at these stratagems, and they came out
29]
of it on parole and conditions; and the Justiciary put
30]
therein a garrison of armed, mail-clad Foreigners, and
As regards Fedhlim,
9]
however, he made peace with the Justiciary, and obtained
10]
the king's five cantreds, out of which he was to receive
11]
rent and customs; and Cormac, son of Tomaltach Mac
12]
Diarmada, came with him.
As to the warders of the
13]
Rock, moreover, they were twenty nights in it, from one
14]
Thursday to another, when the constable of the Rock went
15]
outside the door, and one of his own people, i.e. O'Hoist,
16]
who remained inside the door after them, closed the door
17]
on them; and the Foreigners fled to Trinity Island, to
18]
place themselves under the protection of Clarus Mac
19]
Mailin, who subsequently conveyed them away. After
20]
the occupation of the Rock by Cormac, moreover, the resolution
21]
that he adopted was to raze and demolish the
22]
Rock, so that the Foreigners should not again occupy
it.
23] The two sons of Muiredhach O'Maille, viz.
Domhnall
24]
and Muirchertach, were slain by Domhnall, son of Maghnus,
25]
son of Muirchertach O'Conchobhair, and by Niall
26]
Ruadh, son of Cathal O'Conchobhair, in Cliara, where
27]
they were interred also.
Tuathal, son of Muirchertach
28]
O'Conchobhair, was killed by Conchobhar Buidhe, son of
29]
Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair, and by Conchobhar, son
30]
of Aedh Muimhnech, in hoc anno.
The mercenaries and
31]
kernes who were on Finn-loch of Cera,
acting oppressively
32]
on the part of the son of Ruaidhri, were slain by Maghnus,
33]
son of Muirchertach O'Conchobhair, in hoc
anno.
Mattheus,
34]
prior Insulae Trinitatis, quievit in Christo.
Gilla-Coimdedh
1]
O'Cuilin, praepositus de Insula Mic-Nerin, pater
Clari
2]
Elfinensis archidiaconi, feliciter in Christo quievit, et in
3]
Insula Sanctae Trinitatis est sepultus die Sancti Finniani;
4]
cujus anima requiescat in pace.
Donnchadh, son of
5]
Muirchertach, gave battle to the Uí-Briuin-na-Sinna,
6]
when the principal men of the Uí-Briuin were
slain.
The
7]
great priest O'hAnain died in Cill-mor.
The castle of
8]
Milic was broken down by Fedhlim O'Conchobhair.
The
9]
church of Druimne-Atha-Liag was burned, and the inclosures
10]
and offices.
Annal LC1236.
11] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the nineteenth
12]
of the moon; xx. quarto cycli solaris; nono anno
Indictionis;
13]
anno Domini M.cc.xxx. sexto.
Maelechlainn
14]
O'Maille was killed on Oilen-Dacrunde by Domhnall, son
15]
of Maghnus, son of Muirchertach Muimhnech O'Conchobhair,
16]
in hoc anno.
Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg, was
17]
banished by the Justiciary, i.e. Mac Maurice, his gossip,
18]
after the departure of Mac William to Saxon-land; and with
19]
difficulty he escaped from them, with his cavalry, after having
20]
received forewarning; and they committed great depredations
21]
on his people after his Fedhlim's own
departure.
22] He went off afterwards to seek the protection of O'Domhnaill;
23]
and the castle of Muille-Uanach was erected on
24]
this occasion against Connacht. The way in which this
25]
treachery was practised was thus, viz.:—O'Conchobhair
26]
was summoned to a deceitful meeting at Bel-Atha-Feoruinne;
27]
and the Foreigners of Erinn were assembled by
28]
the Justiciary to this meeting; and they pursued Fedhlim
The
6]
Foreigners came, moreover, with their spoils and captives,
7]
to Druim-Gregraidhe in Magh-Luirg; for it was
8]
there the Justiciary himself was awaiting them.
The
9]
Justiciary and the Foreignersafterwards departed, and left
10]
the guardianship and government of the country with
11]
Brian, son of Toirdhelbhach.
Great depredations were
12]
committed by Brian, and by the soldiers of the Justiciary,
13]
on the sons of Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg, and on
14]
several others of Fedhlim's people.
Great depredations,
15]
and numerous outrages, were committed by the sons of
16]
Aedh on the Foreigners, and on their Gaeidhelic enemies,
17]
so that the country, and the land, were injured and destroyed
18]
between them respectively.
Conchobhar, son of
19]
Aedh Muimhnech, was killed by Maghnus, son of Muirchertach
20]
O'Conchobhair, in hoc anno.
Maelmuire
21]
O'Lachtnain, the elect of Tuaim, went to
Saxon-land,
22]
and was consecrated by virtue of the letters of the comarb
23]
of Peter, and the consent of the king of the Saxons.
24] Mac William returned from Saxon-land; and little of
25]
Erinn's benefit did he effect by his journey.
As regards
26]
Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg, moreover; he came
27]
again into Connacht, at the invitation of some of the Connachtmen
28]
themselves, including O'Cellaigh and O'Floinn,
29]
and including the sons of Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg,
30]
and the son of Art O'Maelsechlainn –who numbered
31]
altogether four large battalions. And they advanced to
32]
Rinn-duin, and went boldly, bravely, hostilely, vigorously,
33]
and furiously across the bádhun,
and over the ditch of
Lamentable, alas! was the deed
5]
committed then, viz.:—they abandoned their lord, their
6]
honour, and their reputation, for the preys which they met
7]
there, as became them not; for they left their king and lord
8]
alone, so that there were along with him only four horsemen
9]
out of the four battalions that had accompanied him; and
10]
the chief king's voice was strained stopping and detaining
11]
them.
With regard, however, to Eoghan O'hEidhin, and
12]
to Brian, son of Toirdhelbhach, and Conchobhar Buidhe,
13]
son of Toirdhelbhach, and Mac Goisdelbh –when they
14]
observed the host unwisely, weakly, unwarily scattering
15]
and dispersing from each other with preys, they arose
16]
quickly, actively, courageously, having a small number
17]
of cavalry and many foot soldiers along with them,
18]
and went to where they saw O'Conchobhair attended
19]
only by a very small band and company.
Then
20]
it happened that Conchobhar, son of Toirdhelbhach,
21]
came behind the son of Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg, and
22]
went towards him quickly, heedlessly, taking him for
23]
one of a party of his own people; and he fell there
24]
by Ruaidhri, son of Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg.
A multitude of the host —of cursed, candle-extinguished
25]
people —were slain in the island, and outside
26]
the island, in this defeat, excepting only Tadhg,
27]
son of Cormac, son of Tomaltach Mac Diarmada.
When
28]
Mac William heard, moreover, that this defeat had
29]
been inflicted on all of his people who had turned
30]
against him, he joined with O'Conchobhair, and came
Diarmaid, son of Maghnus
2]
O'Conchobhair, went under the protection of the son of
3]
Muirchertach O'Conchobhair.
Then it was that Mac
4]
William proceeded, without notice, without being observed,
5]
to Tuaim-dá-ghualann, and from thence to Magh-Eó
6]
of the Saxons; and not a stack of seed or corn of all that
7]
was in the great relig of Magh-Eó,
or in the relig of the
8]
church of Michael the Archangel, was left without being
9]
taken away together; and three score, or four score
10]
baskets were brought out of these churches, besides every
11]
other injury and disorder committed after them; but this
12]
was of little consequence.
And they went from thence
13]
to Turloch, on which the same punishment was inflicted.
14]
And they sent out great predatory bands against the
15]
people of the son of Maghnus, who met the people of
16]
Conchobhar Ruadh and of Turlagh, and plundered them
17]
all indiscriminately.
Maghnus, indeed, was obliged to
18]
send away from him such of the people of the son of
19]
Maghnus O'Conchobhair as had come to him, or else the
20]
same treatment would have been inflicted on him as had
21]
been inflicted on his brother.
As to Conchobhar Ruadh,
22]
moreover, he went on the morrow into the house of Mac
23]
William, and made peace there; and his preys of the cows
24]
of which he had been plundered were restored to him; and
25]
what the people of the church found alive of their stock
26]
was given to them.
Regarding the son of Maghnus, also,
27]
he went into the house of the Foreigners for the sake of
28]
his cows and people, i.e. of all that had been left to him of
Then Mac William went to Balla, where
2]
he remained two nights, and proceeded from thence
3]
to Tuaim-da-ghualann; and he left Connacht afterwards
4]
without food or clothing in church or territory, without
5]
peace, or quiet, or prosperity, but each man attacking
6]
his fellow, excepting the supremacy which the sons of
7]
Muirchertach conceded to him.
It was on this occasion
8]
the people of Brian, son of Toirdhelbhach, burned the
9]
church of Imlech-Brochadha against the people of
10]
O'Floinn, and its full of women, children, and black
11]
nuns, and three priests, in it. And Termann-Caeluinn
12]
was also burned by the Justiciary.
Aedh O'Flaithbhertaigh,
13]
king of the West of Connacht, died in hoc
14]
anno; the greatest and most excellent man that had
15]
ever come of the West of Connacht; a man to whom
16]
everybody had recourse the most frequently, whilst
17]
he had recourse to no man.
Great rain, and bad
18]
weather, and war in this year; famine, and scarcity
19]
of food and clothing; and kernes and sons
of malediction,
20]
who had been candle-extinguished by the hands
21]
of bishops, without respect for church or sanctuary;
22]
and superior dignitaries of the Catholic church were
23]
neither day nor night without suffering from fear
24]
or terror.
Numerous retreats and frequent headlong
25]
routs to the churches took place, before
Foreigners
26]
and Gaeidhel, and lodging-houses were made of churches
27]
and the residences of saints, in this year; and during
28]
the period of twelve years down from the war of
29]
O'Neill were the Foreigners and Gaeidhel plundering in
30]
turn, without sovereignty or supremacy being possessed
31]
by one beyond another, but the Foreigners able to
32]
destroy it Connacht every time they came
into it; the
33]
king and royal heirs of Connacht pillaging and profaning
34]
territories and churches after them.
Diarmaid, son of
35]
Niall O'Ruairc, was blinded by Cuconnacht
O'Raighilligh.
36] Cathal Riabhach, son of Gillabroide O'Ruairc, king of
Macraith Mac Mailin, sacerdos of
2]
Cill-mic-Trena, mortuus est.
Aedh O'Gibellan, sacerdos of
3]
Cill-Rodan, and subsequently a canon in Trinity Island,
4]
mortuus est on Christmas Friday; and he was
waked
5]
in the choir that night, and until mass on the morrow,
6]
and was honourably interred afterwards.
The defeat
7]
of Cluain-catha was inflicted by Fedhlim O'Conchobhair
8]
on the sons of Ruaidhri, and on Conchobhar, son of
9]
Cormac Mac Diarmada.
Annal LC1237.
10] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the 30th
11]
of the moon; xx. quinto anno cycli solaris;
tertius annus
12]
cycli Decennovenalis; x. anno Indictionis.
M.cc. tricesimo
13]
septimo.
A hosting into Connacht by Fedhlim,
14]
son of Cathal Crobhderg, accompanied by Cuconnacht
15]
O'Raighilligh and all the Uí-Briuin, and by Cathal
16]
Mac Raghnaill and the Conmaicne, and by the three
17]
sons of Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg, to attack the
18]
descendants of Ruaidhri where they were, viz.:—
19]
Brian, son of Toirdhelbhach, and Muirchertach and
20]
Domhnall, sons of Diarmaid, son of Ruaidhri, and Conchobhar,
21]
son of Cormac, son of Diarmaid; and they went
22]
northwards across Corrsliabh-na-Seghsa in pursuit of
23]
them, until they arrived at Druim-raithe. And the
24]
descendants of Ruaidhri sent the mercenaries of the
25]
Justiciary, who were along with them, to give battle to
26]
Fedhlim. Fedhlim ordered his men not to
shoot at
27]
them, but to stoop the heads and rush fiercely, furiously
28]
at them. The mercenaries did not sustain this, but were
29]
driven in rout towards their people; and many mercenaries
30]
of them were slain in this onset, including Mac
31]
Mibhric. When the descendants of Ruaidhri perceived
Donat O'Fidhubhra, comarb
13]
of Patrick, quievit.
Peace was made by the Justiciary
14]
with Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg; and the five
15]
cantreds of the king were given to him, free from cattle-tribute
16]
or rent.
The barons of Erinn came into Connacht,
17]
and commenced to build castles in it.
First
18]
synod of Maelmuire O'Lachtnain, i.e. archbishop of
19]
Tuaim, at Ath-Luain, after the coming of his pallium
20]
to him from Rome.
Maghnus, son of Diarmaid, son of
21]
Maghnus, was killed by Domnhnall, son of Diarmaid, son
22]
of Ruadhri O'Conchobhair, in hoc
anno.
Muirchertach,
23]
son of Diarmaid, son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, was killed
24]
by the sons of Maghnus, son of Muirchertach Muimhnech
25]
O'Conchobhair, in this year.
The erection of a monastery
26]
for canons was commenced by Clarus Mac Mailin,
27]
in Trinity Island on Loch-Uachtair, through the gift of
28]
Cathal O'Raighilligh, in hoc
anno.
Thomas O'Ruadhain,
29]
bishop of Luighne, in Christo
quievit.
Gilla-Isa,
Gilla-na-nech O'Mannachain died in the
3]
monastery of the Buill in hoc
anno.
A depredation was
4]
committed by Conchobhar, son of Cormac, on Ruaidhri
5]
O'Gadhra, whose brother he killed.
The hostages of
6]
Conchobhar, son of Cormac were slain by Fedhlim, son
7]
of Cathal Crobhderg, in this year.
Drumann-iarthar,
8]
and from Lathach-Cille-Braein to the lake, both wood
9]
and bog, and plain, was given by Donnchadh, son of
10]
Muirchertach, to the community of the Trinity on
11]
Loch-Cé, and to Clarus Mac Mailin, in the time of his
12]
reign and sovereignty; but nevertheless, the duration of
13]
his reign was not long, for he was only a month in the
14]
lordship, and Conchobhar himself assumed the sovereignty
15]
again.
Annal LC1238.
16] The kalends of January on Friday, and the eleventh
17]
of the moon; xx. sexto anno cycli solaris; quartus
annus
18]
Decennovenalis cycli; xi. anno Indictionis;
anno ab
19]
Incarnatione Domini, M.cc. xxx. octavo.
Donnchadh
20]
Uaithnech, son of Aedh, son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair,
21]
was killed by Tadhg, son of Aedh, son of Cathal
22]
Crobhderg, in hoc anno.
Donnchadh, son of Duarcan
23]
O h'Eghra, king of Luighne, was taken prisoner by
24]
Tadhg, son of Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg; and when
25]
he was taken away to be confined his own kinsmen, i.e.
26]
the sons of Aedh O'hEghra, slew him on the way in
Tir-Briuin-na-Sinna.
27] Donnchadh, son of Muirchertach, went
28]
into the Breifne to O'Raighilligh, when they sent a great
29]
predatory band into Connacht, who plundered the community
30]
of Cluain-Coirpthe; and the principal men of Muinter-Eolais,
31]
and several of the Tuatha, were slain in pursuit of
Maelruanaidh, son of Donnchadh
2]
O'Dubhda, was slain by Maelsechlainn, son of Conchobar
3]
Ruadh, son of Muirchertach Muimhnech O'Conchobhair,
4]
and by the son of Tighernan, son of Cathal Migaran
5]
O'Conchobhair.
Castles were erected in Muinter-Murchada,
6]
and in Conmaicne-Cúile, and in Cera, by the
7]
aforesaid barons.
Ruaidhri, son of Aedh O'Flaithbhertaigh,
8]
was taken prisoner by the Foreigners.
The
9]
cloicthech of Enach-dúin was
erected.
A hosting by
10]
Mac Maurice, i.e. the Justiciary of Erinn, and by Hugo de
11]
Laci, earl of Uladh, into Cenel-Eoghain and Cenel-Conaill,
12]
when they dethroned Mac Lachlainn and expelled him
13]
from his own land, and gave the sovereignty to the son
14]
of O'Neill; and they themselves obtained the hostages of
15]
the Cenel-Conaill and Cenel-Eoghain.
Felix O'Ruanadha,
16]
archbishop of Tuaim, after resigning the archiepiscopate
17]
through love of God, and after assuming a monastic
18]
habit, died in Cill-Muire in Ath-cliath.
Cathal
19]
Mac Riabhaigh, chieftain of Feara-Scene, mortuus
est.
20] Flaithbhertach Mac Cathmhail, high chieftain of Cenel Feradhaigh,
21]
and high chieftain also of Clann-Conghaile,
22]
and of Uí-Cendfhoda in Tir-Manach, head of the valour
23]
and honour of Tir-Eoghain, was slain by Donnchadh Mac
24]
Cathmhail, his own brother, in treachery.
Annal LC1239.
25] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the twenty-second
26]
of the moon; xx.vii. anno cycli solaris; quinto
27]
anno cycli Decennovenalis; xii. anno Indictionis; M.cc.
28]
tricesimo nono.
Muirchertach, son of Domhnall O'Briain,
29]
died in hoc anno.
Toirdhelbhach, son of Ruaidhri
30]
O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht, died.
The battle of
31]
Carn-tShiadhail was given by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn,
32]
in which were slain Domhnall Tamhnaighe O'Neill,
Ferghal, son of Cuconnacht O'Raighilligh,
8]
king of Dartraighe and Clann-Fernmhaighe, (and king
9]
of the Breifne from the mountain eastwards, according
10]
to another book), was slain by Maelruanaidh, son of
11]
Ferghal, and by Conchobhar, son of Cormac, after he
12]
had gone on a predatory expedition against the sons of
13]
Niall, son of Conghalach, when he plundered them, and
14]
captured a house about them; and Muirchertach son of
15]
Niall, came out of the house on parole, and was made
16]
prisoner and killed by them, after the son of O'Raighilligh
17]
had been slain.
18] A great depredation was committed
19]
on O'Domhnaill by the Foreigners of Erinn,
20]
who plundered Cairbre; and the Justiciary himself was at
21]
Es-dara, awaiting them, his scouts having gone as far as
22]
Druim-cliabh.
Lassairfhina, daughter of Cathal Crobhderg,
23]
uxor of O'Domhnaill, gave a half-bally of
her marriage
24]
portion, i.e. the half-bally of Ros-Birn, to Clarus
25]
Mac Mailin and the community of Canons of Trinity
26]
Island on Loch-Cé, in honour of the Trinity and Lady
27]
Mary, in hoc anno.
Cormac, son of Art O'Maelsechlain,
28]
mortuus est.
Annal LC1240.
24] The kalends of January on Sunday, the third of the
A great
3]
depredation was committed by Cuconnacht
O'Raighilligh
4]
on Cormac Mac Diarmada, when he plundered the entire
5]
country to Ard-carna, and killed several people, in revenge
6]
for his son.
Fedhlim O'Conchobhair went to the house
7]
of the king of the Saxons, to complain to him of the
8]
Foreigners and Gaeidhel of Erinn; and he received great
9]
honour from the king on this occasion, and came home
10]
safely, joyfully, contentedly.
Aedh, son of Gilla-na-naemh
11]
Crom O'Sechnusaigh, was killed by Conchobar, son of
12]
Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg, and by Fiachra
O'Floinn.
13] Sadhbh, daughter of O'Cennedigh, i.e. the wife of Donnchadh
14]
Cairbrech O'Briain, mortua est.
Gilla-na-naemh
15]
O'Dreain, airchinnech of Ard-carna, died
in hoc anno.
Annal LC1241.
16] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the l4th of
17]
the moon; primus annus cycli solaris; septimo anno
18]
Decennovenalis cycli; xiiii. cycli Indictionis; m.cc.xl.
19]
primo.
Gregorius nonus, papa, quievit in Christo.
A
20]
great depredation was committed in Magh-Noi by the
21]
Justiciary, i.e. Maurice Fitz-Gerald, when he plundered
22]
Fiachra O'Floinn and Donnchadh Mac Diarmada; but a
23]
few of the people of O'Conchobhair overtook them, and
24]
Nár Mac Gillacellaigh was slain by them, et
alii multi.
25] The comarb of Patrick, i.e. the Almanach, came to
26]
Erinn, having privileges from the Pope over the churches
27]
of Patrick in Erinn.
Domhnall Mór O'Domhnaill, i.e.
28]
the son of Egnechan O'Domhnaill, king of Tir-Conaill,
29]
and of the Feara-Manach, and of the lower part of
30]
Connacht as far as Corr-sliabh, and of Oirghiall from the
31]
plain downwards—a man like Conn Ced-chathach for
9] Maelsechlainn, i.e. his own son, assumed the sovereignty
10]
in the place of his father.
O'Neill came to him, after he
11]
had been expelled from his sovereignty by Mac
Lachlainn.
12] Maelsechlainn O'Domhnaill joined
Brian O'Neill, and they
13]
both went again into Cenel-Eoghain, and then gave
14]
battle to Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, viz.:—the battle of
15]
Camerghe, where Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, king of
16]
Cenel-Eoghain, was slain, and ten of his kinsmen along
17]
with him. And all the chieftains of the Cenel-Eoghain
18]
were slain there; and the sovereignty of Cenel-Eoghain
19]
was afterwards assumed by Brian O'Neill. And Siadhail
20]
was killed, in the battle, and many more good men.
Sitric Mac
21]
Oirechtaigh, chief of Clann-Tomaltaigh, died
22]
in this year.
Walter de Laci, lord of Midhe, and head of
23]
counsel of the Foreigners of Erinn, died in Saxon-land in
24]
hoc anno.
Consecration of the church of the Friars
25]
Minor in Ath-Luain, by the comarb of Patrick.
Mac
26]
Maurice Fitz-Gerald, Justiciary of Erinn, went with a
27]
great army to Ath-lethan in Luighne, and made peace
28]
there with Tadhg O'Conchobhair, and afterwards
returned.
29] Tadhg O'Conchobhair plundered Dartraighe and Clann
Fernmhaighe.
30] Peace was made by the comarb of
31]
Patrick with the archbishop of Connacht, and with the
Diarmaid, son of Maghnus, son of Toirdhelbhach
3]
Mor O'Conchobhair, a man distinguished for hospitality
4]
and valour,mortuus est.
Aenghus Magraith, Cormac
5]
Mac Diarmada's priest, ante Natale Domini mortuus
est.
6] Maghnus, son of Ferghal, post Natale Domini mortuus
est.
7]
The Bishop O'Flaithbhertaigh, i.e. bishop of Enach-dúin,
8]
quievit in Christo.
Tadhg, son of Ruaidhri O'Gadhra, died
9]
in hoc anno.
Stephen, papa, quievit in Christo.
Annal LC1242.
10] The kalends of January on Wednesday, the twenty-fifth
11]
of the moon; secundus annus cycli solaris; octavo
12]
anno Decennovenalis cycli; xv. anno Indictionis cycli;
13]
M.cc.xl. secundo.
Donnchadh Cairbrech O'Briain, king of
14]
Tuadh-Mumha, and his son, i.e. Toirdhelbhach, son of
15]
Donnchadh Cairbrech, mortui sunt; and this
Donnchadh
16]
O'Briain was the maintainer of the faith and renown
17]
of Leth-Modha, and the pillar of the dignity and
18]
nobility of the south of Erinn.
Mór, daughter of Donnchadh
19]
O'Ferghail, quievit in Christo.
Aedh O'Conchobhair,
20]
i.e. the ex-cleric, son of Aedh, son of Ruaidhri
21]
O'Conchobhair, was killed by Toirdhelbhach, son of
22]
Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg.
Conchobhar O'Briain
23]
assumed the sovereignty of Tuadh-Mumha.
Brian, son
24]
of Donnchadh O'Dubhda, king of Uí-Fiachrach,
Uí-Amhalghaidh,
25]
and Irrus, was killed on the way, as he
26]
was going on a pilgrimage to the abbey of the Buill.
A
27]
great chapter was held at Lughmhagh by the
Primate of
28]
Ard-Macha and the abbots of the Canons of all Erinn, to
29]
advance their Order; on which occasion many of the
30]
relics which Mochta had collected from Rome were taken
31]
up.
A great hosting to Cenel-Conaill by the Justiciary,
32]
and by the Foreigners of Erinn likewise, and by Fedhlim,
33]
son of Cathal Crobhderg O'Conchobhair, in revenge of
The hospital of Sligech
4]
was presented by the Justiciary to Clarus Mac Mailin,
5]
in honour of the Trinity.
Tadhg O'Conchobhair was apprehended
6]
by Cuconnacht O'Raighilligh at the instigation of
7]
Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg, in this year.
Maghnus
8]
O'Muiredhaigh was slain by Thomas Mac Murchadha.
Niall, son of Domhnall Múr,
9]
son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair,
10]
was burned, together with three O'Sechnasaighs, in a
11]
house in Magh-Eó of the Saxons, by Loghbhais of the
12]
people of Mac Maurice.
Aedh O'Mannachain died in
13]
the habit of a canon, in Cill-mór.
Domhnall Mac Airten
14]
died in hoc anno.
The sons of Aedh O'Conchobhair went
15]
upon the castle of Mac Goisdelbh in the
Breifne.
Annal LC1243.
16] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the sixth
17]
of the moon; tertius annus cycli solaris; nonus
annus
18]
Decennovenalis cycli; primus annus
Indictionis;
19]
M.cc.xl.tertio.
Tadhg, son of Aedh, son of Cathal
20]
Crobhderg, after having been released by O'Raighilligh,
21]
came to the monastery of the Buill, and brought a force
22]
with him to the house of Mac Diarmada, i.e. Cormac, son
23]
of Tomaltach; and he took Mac Diarmada prisoner there,
24]
and afterwards carried off his own mother, (i.e. Etain,
25]
daughter of Mac Carthaigh, i.e. daughter of Finghin Mór
26]
Mac Carthaigh, wife of Mac Diarmada), whom he gave to
27]
Cuconnacht O'Raighilligh as his wife, for his own
28]
release.
Tadhg went again about the festival of Martin,
29]
with a few men, to meet O'Raighilligh, who apprehended
30]
Tadhg, in treachery and deceit, a second time, and
31]
killed his people; and he himself was kept in confinement
30]
until the festival of Berach in the following Spring.
A
Richard, son of William Burk,
4]
went to him on this expedition, and died in the east.
5] Hugo de Laci, earl of Uladh, mortuus est.
6]
(He was not the first Hugo, whom Gilla-gan-inathair killed at
Durmhagh-Choluim-Chille,
7]
but the last Hugo).
Petrus Mac Craith,
8]
after spending his life with the canons of Trinity Island
9]
on Loch-Cé, mortuus est, et sepultus est in
die Sancti
10]
Martini.
Maeleoin O'Crechain, archdeacon of Tuaim,
11]
after coming across as a master, died in Ath-cliath.
12] Finnachta O'Lughadha, comarb of Benen, and great
13]
dean of Tuaim, died about the festival of Martin.
14] Cathasach O'Snedhiusa, dean of Muinter-Maelruanaidh,
15]
died at Ard-carna about the festival of Laurence.
16] Cathal, son of Aedh O'Conchobhair, the foster-son of
17]
Muinter-Raighilligh, turned against them, and committed
18]
a depredation on Muirchertach Mac Gillashuiligh, in
19]
Magh-Nisse, and apprehended Muirchertach himself,
20]
whom he killed while in bonds at Cill-tSeisin. He committed
21]
another great depredation, inmediately after, on
22]
Clann-Fernmaighe and the Dartraighe. Magh-Rein
23]
was also plundered by Cathal, son of Aedh, when a war
24]
broke out between the race of Conchobhar and
O'Raighilligh.
25] The church of Ard-carna was enlarged by Clarus
26]
Mac Mailin in hoc anno.
Annal LC1244.
27] The kalends of January on Friday, and the 17th of
28]
the moon; iiii. anno cycli solaris; x. anno
Decennovenalis
Tadhg, son of
2]
Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg, was blinded and emasculated
3]
by Cuconnacht O'Raighilligh, about the festival of Berach,
4]
in Inis-na-conaire on Loch-Aillinne, after
5]
having been in confinement from the festival of Martin until
then.
6] Ruaidhri, son of Aedh O'Conchobhair, his brother, was
7]
drowned on the Cuirrin-Connachtach at Ath-Liag-na-Sinna,
8]
in vii. idus Martii, and most honorably
interred
9]
in the monastery of Cluain-tuaiscert.
Conchobhar, son
10]
of Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg, died before the end of
11]
a month of the same Spring.
A very great hosting by
12]
Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg, eastwards into the
13]
Breifne, to O'Raighilligh, to inflict punishment on him
14]
for his foster-son and kinsman, i.e. Tadhg O'Conchobhair,
15]
when they encamped for a night in Fidhnacha of Magh-Rein.
16]
And there was no roof on the church of Fidhnacha
17]
at that time; and the comarb was not in the place that
18]
night; and as he was not, the routs of the army burned
19]
the booths and huts that were inside in the church,
20]
without the permission of the chieftains; and the
21]
comarb's spiritual foster-son was suffocated there. And
22]
the comarb himself came to them on the morrow, in great
23]
fury and rage on account of his foster-son, and demanded
24]
the eric of his foster-son from O'Conchobhair. And
25]
O'Conchobhair said that he would give him his own
26]
award. ‘My award,’ said the comarb, ‘is that the best
27]
man amongst you shall be burned by you, as the eric of
28]
the son of God. ‘Maghnus, son of Muirchertach
Donnchadh, son of Finghin,
28]
son of Maelsechlainn, son of Aedh, son of Toirdhelbhach
29]
O'Conchobhair, i.e. the bishop of Oilfinn, died in Inis-Clothrann
30]
on Loch-Ribh, una septimana ante Kalendas
Maii,
31]
and was interred in the monastery of the Buill.
Donnchadh
32]
Mór O'Dalaigh, an eminent man who was never surpassed,
33]
and never will be surpassed, in poetry, died,
Tuaim-da-ghualann
2]
was burned, including four churches, and the
3]
houses of the whole town along with them.
The archdeacon
4]
of Tuaim was drowned in Glaislinn-Chluana.
5] Ferghal Mac Tadhgadhain was killed by Conchobhar Mac
6]
Tighernain, in treachery, in Inis-Fraich on Loch-Gile.
A
7]
great contention and dispute grew up in the choir of
8]
Oilfinn after the death of Donnchadh
O'Conchobhair,
9]
bishop of Síl-Muiredhaigh, on the subject of making an
10]
election; for a number of them elected Thomas
11]
O'Cuinn, i.e. a Friar Minor, who was from his conduct a
12]
choice bright vessel; but this election was objected to
13]
by Clarus Mac Mailin and John, the two archdeacons of
14]
Oilfinn, et Malachias decanus, et sacrista
Oilfinensis,
15]
volentes unum de choro eligere sicut jus fuit; quod
16]
audientes juniores canonici elegerunt sibi Comarb
17]
Comman O'Conchobhair; majores vero praedicti elegerunt
18]
sibi Johannem archidiaconum in plena synodo
19]
apud Ath-Luain, per Clarum archidiaconum
20]
Elfinensem, quia nunquam voluit errori aliorum
consentire.
21] Cormac, son of Tomaltach of the Rock, son of Conchobhar
22]
Mac Diarmada, i.e. the king of all Clann-Maelruanaidh,
23]
after spending twenty-six years and a part of
24]
another year in maintaining valour and
hospitality, and
25]
defending the province of Connacht against the Foreigners
26]
and Gaeidhel who were opposed to him, died in the habit
27]
of a grey monk in the monastery of the Buill, in the harvest
28]
time, after triumphing over the devil and the
world.
29] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the 28th of
30]
the moon; quinto anno cycli solaris; xi. anno
Decennovenalis
Conchobhar
2]
Ruadh, son of Muirchertach Muimhnech, son
3]
of Toirdhelbhach Mor O'Conchobhair, was killed by
4]
O'Timaith, his own steward, with a stab of a knife,
5]
in a dispute which occurred between them at Port-na-leice;
6]
and Gilla-Christ, son of Imhar O'Birn, killed
7]
the steward afterwards; and Conchobhar Ruadh was
8]
conveyed to the monastery of the Buill, and died in
9]
it of this wound, and was buried in it also, after the
10]
victory of unction and penitence towards God.
The
11]
castle of Sligech was built by Mac Maurice Fitz-Gerald,
12]
Justiciary of Erinn, and by the Síl-Muiredhaigh; for
13]
Fedhlim was told to erect it at his own expense, and
14]
to convey thereto the stones and lime of the hospital-house
15]
of the Trinity, after this place had been previously
16]
given by the Justiciary, i.e. Maurice Fitzgerald, to Clarus
17]
Mac Mailin, in honour of the holy Trinity.
Domhnall
18]
O'Flannagain, abbot of Cunga, mortuus
est.
A great army
19]
was led by the king of the Saxons into Britain, when
20]
they established a great camp at the castle of Engannoc;
21]
and letters and ambassadors were sent by them to
22]
Erinn, to the Foreigners of Erinn, and to Fedhlim, son
23]
of Cathal Crobhderg, desiring them to go to meet the
24]
king in Britain, to subdue Britain.
The Justiciary, therefore,
25]
accompanied by the Foreigners of Erinn, went to
26]
the king; and Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg O'Conchobhair,
27]
accompanied by a great army of Gaeidhel, went
28]
to the assistance of the king in Britain; and they completely
29]
destroyed the country, but obtained neither
30]
pledges nor hostages from the Britons on this occasion.
31]
And Fedhlim was treated with honour by the king on
32]
this journey; and Fedhlim was thankful coming westwards
33]
from the king.
The castle of Ath-an-chip, on the
34]
border of Magh-Nisse, was built by Milidh Mac
Goisdelbh.
35] Fiachra, son of David O'Floinn, lord of Síl-Maelruain,
36]
mortuus est in die
Natalis Domini.
Cerbhall Buidhe, son
The castle of Suicín was built in this year.
Poisonous
3]
snow fell on the night of the festival of Saint Nicholas,
4]
which took off the heels and toes of those who walked
5]
in it; and this snow did not disappear until Christmas
6]
arrived.
Muirchertach, son of Muirghius, son of
7]
Cathal Mac Diarmada, was slain by the men of
8]
Breifne.
Magister vero Johannes, electus in Elfinensem
9]
episcopum per Clarum archidiaconum ejusdem sedis, et
10]
per Malachiam decanum cathedralem, et per Gelasium
11]
sacristam, perrexit ad dominum papam usque ad Liuns-sur-Rhona
12]
ubi fuit in exilio a sede Romana, dejectus per
13]
Romanorum imperatorem; et tantam gratiam habuit
14]
in oculis domini papae et curiae Romanae quod cassata
15]
electione facta de Comarb Coman per juniores Elfinensis
16]
chori canonicos, electio de ipso facta per majores licet
17]
pauciores reverenter obtinuit, et quod dominus Papa misit
18]
literas suas cum ipso ad Tuamensem
19]
archiepiscopum, ut in episcopum consecretur; in nomine Domini
Jesu
20]
Christi consecratus est respondentibus Christi fidelibus,
21]
et veritatem servare cupientibus die consecrationis ejus,
22]
Deo gratias.
Raghnall O'Maelmhiadhaigh was slain by
23]
the Connachtmen in hoc anno.
Muirchertach, son of
24]
Cathal, son of Diarmaid, son of Tadhg O'Maelruanaidh,
25]
assumed the sovereignty of the Rock after Cormac, son
26]
of Tomaltach, and was fully twenty-one years in the
27]
sovereignty afterwards.
Annal LC1246.
28] The kalends of January on Monday, the 9th of the
A whale came
3]
ashore at Cuil-irra in Cairpre of Druim-cliabh, which
4]
brought great prosperity and joy to the entire country.
5] The bishop of Oilfinn, i.e. John O'hUghroin, i.e. the son
6]
of the comarb of Mochua, died at Rath-Aedha-mic-Bric
7]
in this year.
Druim-lethan was burned in hoc anno.
8] Maelsechlainn, son of Conchobhar Ruadh, son of Muirchertach
9]
Muimhnech O'Conchobhair, was killed by Muirchertach
10]
O'Dubhda in this year. Muirchertach O'Dubhda
11]
was banished over sea after this killing.
Jean Fitz-Geoffroi,
12]
came as Justiciary to Erinn, and Maurice
Fitz-Gerald
13]
was deposed.
Toirdhelbhach, son of Aedh O'Conchobhair,
14]
escaped from the crannog of Loch-Leisi in
the
15]
autumn, and drowned his keepers—viz.Cormac Mac
16]
Muiredhaigh and two O'Ainmirechs; and he himself went
17]
away afterwards.
A great depredation was committed
18]
by Maurice Fitz-Gerald in Tir-Conaill; and he
gave the
19]
half of Tir-Conaill to Cormac, son of Diarmaid, son of
20]
Ruaidhri, and received the hostages of O'Domhnaill for
21]
the other half; and he left the hostages in the castle of
22]
Sligech. O'Domhnaill, and the nobles of the Cenel-Conaill
23]
along with him, went on Samhain-day to Sligech; and
24]
the bawn of the town was burned by them,
although
25]
they did not enter the castle; and the warders hanged
26]
O'Domhnaill's hostages, in his presence, on the top of the
27]
castle, viz.:—O'Mianain, the tutor of O'Domhnaill, and his
28]
foster-brother.
Aedh, son of Aedh O'Conchobhair, was
29]
taken prisoner, and plundered.
Toirdhelbhach, son of Aedh
Tomaltach O'Conchobhair was elected to the
5]
bishopric of Oilfinn.
Murchadh O'hAnluain, king of
6]
Oirthera, was slain at the instigation of Brian
O'Neill.
Annal LC1247.
7] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the twentieth
8]
of the moon; septimo anno cycli solaris; xiii, anno
9]
cycli Decennovenalis; quinto anno Indictionis;
M.cc.xlvii.
10] The grade of bishop of Oilfinn was assumed by Tomaltach,
11]
son of Toirdhelbhach, son of Maelsechlainn O'Conchobhair,
12]
on the Sunday before Septuagesima, in
Tuaim-dá-ghualann.
13] Benedictus Mac Oirechtaigh, airchinnech of
14]
Achadh-Fabhair of Umhall, was killed on the festival of the
15]
Cross, the third day of summer, by the son of Conchobhar
16]
Ruadh, son of Muirchertach Muimhnech, and by the son of
17]
Maghnus, son of Muirchertach Muimhnech O'Conchobhair,
18]
in treachery and deceit.
Toirdhelbhach escaped from the
19]
castle of Ath-Luain.
Milidh Mac Goisdelbh took possession
20]
of Fedha-Conmaicne, out of which he expelled Cathal
21]
Mac Raghnaill; and he took possession of the crannog of
22]
Claen-loch, and left a garrison of his own people in it.
23]
Cathal and Toirdhelbhach, the two sons of Aedh O'Conchobhair,
24]
joined with Mac Raghnaill to expel Mac Goisdelbh
25]
from Fidh-Conmaicne; and they took possession of
26]
the crannog and lake, and demolished the
castle of Lec-derg,
27]
on the Saturday before Whitsunday.
And Toirdhelbhach
28]
went upon Trinity Island to meet Clarus Mac Mailin,
29]
the archdeacon; for the Foreigners had refused to come out
30]
of the castle until they could go with the archdeacon across
31]
the Sinainn westwards to Tuaim-mna; and they went
A great hosting by Maurice Fitz-Gerald, and the
3]
Foreigners along with him, until they reached Sligech in
4]
the first instance, and from thence to Es-Ruaidh-mic-Badhuirn,
5]
on the Wednesday after the festival of Paul and
6]
Peter; and Cormac, son of Diarmaid, son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair,
7]
went there in his host and muster.
O'Domhnaill
8]
assembled the Cenel-Conaill and Cenel-Eoghain to
9]
meet him at Bel-atha-Senaigh, so that they allowed
10]
neither Foreigners nor Gaeidhel to cross the ford during
11]
the space of a whole week; when they determined
12]
that Cormac O'Conchobhair should go, with a large force
13]
of cavalry, eastwards along the plain, and then turn upwards
14]
through the plain by the margin of the bog; and
15]
he then proceeded eastwards along the river until he
16]
reached Ath-Chuil-uaine on the Erne. And the Cenel-Conaill
17]
observed nothing until they saw them approaching
18]
on their own side of the river. And when the Foreigners
19]
perceived the Cenel-Conaill watching the cavalry in their
20]
rear, they themselves rushed across the ford, so that
21]
the Cenel-Conaill were placed between both
divisions.
22] O'Domhnall was defeated, with his army; and Maelsechlainn
23]
O'Domhnaill, king of Cenel-Conaill, was slain there;
24]
and the Gilla-muinélach O'Baoidhill, and Mac Somhairle,
25]
king of Airer-Gaeidhel, and the nobles of the Cenel-Conaill
26]
besides, were slain. And many of
Fitz-Gerald's
27]
army were drowned going northwards across the Finn;
28]
and many of the same army were slain at Termann-Dabheog,
29]
in pursuit of the preys, including William Brit,
30]
i.e. the sheriff of Connacht, and a young armed knight
31]
who was his brother. However, the entire country was
A great war was waged
4]
by Toirdhelbhach, son of Aedh O'Conchobhair, and by
5]
Donnchadh, son of Anmchadh, son of Donnchadh Mac
6]
Gillapatraic of Osraighe, against the Foreigners of Connacht;
7]
and Toirdhelbhach assembled the sons of the
8]
kings of Connacht, until they reached Fidh-Uí-Diarmada
9]
and Muinter-Fathaidh, where they killed many persons.
10]
And they proceeded thence to the castle of Bun-Gaillimhe,
11]
and burned the town and castle; and many persons were
12]
killed and plundered there. And Mac Elget, i.e. the
13]
seneschal of Connacht, was killed by the son of Anmchadh
14]
O'Gillapatraic of Osraighe. And the Foreigners followed
15]
them and gave them battle, when a number of the
16]
Foreigners were slain; and they went away from them,
17]
in spite of them, and went afterwards into Cera. Jordan
18]
de Exeter, and Clann-Adam, and the Foreigners of Cera
19]
assembled and proceeded against Toirdhelbhach; and
20]
Toirdhelbhach left the country to them, as he had not
21]
forces enough to meet them.
Burgheis-chinn-trachta
22]
was burned by Tadhg, son of Conchobhar Ruadh, and by
23]
Tadhg, son of Tuathal, son of Muirchertach Muimhnech.
24] Nor this alone; but the Foreigners of Connacht had not
25]
experienced for a long time previously a war equal to
26]
that waged against them by these sons of kings in this
27]
year; for they left neither district nor cantred of the
28]
territory of Connacht belonging to the Foreigners without
29]
pillaging.
Finnghuala, daughter of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair,
30]
died in Cunga-Feichin in hoc
anno.
Ros-Comain
31]
and Ard-carna were burned by the Foreigners in
32]
hoc anno.
O'Dubhda and O'Baighill came with a great
Conchobhar O'Muiredhaigh, bishop
4]
of Uí-Fiachrach-Aighne, died in Bristol.
Tadhg, son of
5]
Conchobhar Ruadh, burned Inis-mór of Claen-locha, in
6]
which eight and twenty Foreigners were consumed.
Annal LC1248.
7] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the first
8]
of the moon; octavo anno cycli solaris; xiiii.
cycli Decennovenalis;
9]
vi. anno Indictionis; M.cc.xlviii.
Diarmaid
10]
O'Cuanna, great priest of Oilfinn, died, and was interred
11]
in Cill-mór.
The son of O'Sechnasaigh was slain by the
12]
Foreigners.
Opecin Guér was slain by Gillamochoinne
13]
O'Cathail in hoc anno.
The sons of Maghnus, and the
14]
sons of Conchobhar Ruadh, joined together, and turned
15]
against the Foreigners, and the castle of Mac Henry was
16]
burned by them, and its constable taken prisoner; and
17]
the preys of the north of Umhall were taken by them to
18]
Innsi-Modh.
Jordan de Exeter, however, and John
19]
Butler, and Robin Lawless, and several persons along
20]
with them, assembled and went to Baile-tobair-Patraic,
21]
and from thence to Achadh-Fabhair; and they plundered
22]
all Umhall, north and south, on the morrow.
Mac
23]
Henry came also, with a large army, into Umhall, (for
24]
it belonged to himself, and he was residing in it). Mac
25]
Henry then made peace with Domhnall, son of Maghnus,
26]
for the sake of his territory; and Domhnall promised that
27]
he would furnish forces and boats to attack
his brother.
As regards
28]
the sons of Conchobhar, moreover; they were
29]
on Innsi-Modh, and it was reported to them that a party
30]
had gone from Mac Henry to Domhnall, for boats. They
31]
advanced against this party, and killed O'hUain, the son
Tadhg,
7]
son of Conchobhar Ruadh, was killed by the Foreigners
8]
in this year. Great, truly, was the fear and terror of this
9]
youth entertained by the Foreigners and
Gaeidhel who
10]
were opposed to him, until he received his death
ultimately.
11] A hosting by Maurice Fitz-Gerald into Tir-Conaill.
12]
Great depredations and plunders were committed
13]
by him therein; and O'Canannan was expelled
14]
from the country to O'Neill and the Cenel-Eoghain, and
15]
the sovereignty of Cenel-Conaill was left to Goffraigh,
16]
son of Domhnall Mór O'Domhnaill.
A hosting by the
17]
Cenel-Eoghain, and by O'Canannain, again into Tir-Conaill,
18]
when they gave battle to each other, and
19]
O'Canannain, and a great many nobles along with him,
20]
were slain by the Cenel-Conaill, and by Goffraigh, son
21]
of Domhnall O'Domhnaill, who afterwards assumed the
22]
sovereignty of Tir-Conaill.
Another hosting by the
23]
Justiciary of Erinn to Cenel-Eoghain, to O'Neill; and the
24]
resolution adopted by the Cenel-Eoghain was, since the
25]
power of the Foreigners was over the Gaeidhel of Erinn,
26]
to give hostages to the Foreigners, and to make peace
27]
with them, for the sake of their country. Conmaicne-Mara
28]
was all plundered by the Foreigners. The Foreigners
29]
went on a hosting to O'Flaithbhertaigh, who
30]
defeated them, and killed a great number of them.
31] Muirchertach O'Dubhda, i.e. the ex-cleric, was killed
32]
by the son of Fedlhlim O'Conchobhair. William Burk
33]
died in Saxon-land, and his body was brought to Erinn,
The King of France went to
2]
Jerusalem, to defend Christendom, in this year.
The
3]
comarb of Patrick, i.e. the poenitentiarius
of the Pope,
4]
came to Erinn.
John Tirrel was killed by Gilla-na-naemh
5]
O'Ferghail.
Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg,
6]
gave Rath-na-Romanach to the canons of Cill-mór, and
7]
a cantarcapath of silk on the same day, at
the persuasion
8]
and request of Tadhg O'Mannachain, in honour of Mary
9]
and Augustin, in presence of several of the nobles of
10]
Connacht.
Amhlaibh, son of Cathal Riabhach O'Ruairc,
11]
was killed by Conchobhar Carrach Mac Donnchadha, per
12]
dolum.
Foghartach O'Dobhailen, king of the Corann,
13]
quievit.
Master Gilbert O'Cerbhaill quievit in Christo.
Annal LC1249.
14] The kalends of January on Friday, and the twelfth of
15]
the moon; nono anno cycli solaris; xv. anno
Decennovenalis
16]
cycli; vii. anno Indictionis. M.cc.xl.nono.
A great
17]
hosting by the Justiciary of Erinn into Laighen, to attack
18]
the sons of kings who were injuring and totally destroying
19]
the Foreigners; and the Lagenian sons of kings
20]
sided not with the Justiciary on this occasion; and as
21]
they did not, he invaded the country, which was entirely
22]
wasted by him.
A great war was waged, and numerous
23]
injuries were committed, by Finghin Mac Carthaigh
24]
against the Foreigners of Des-Mumha, in hoc
anno.
Adam Minatur
25]
was slain by the son of Gillamochoinne
26]
O'Cathail, and many more along with him.
Piers Poer,
27]
i.e. the son of Henry, and David Treu, accompanied by a
28]
mounted party of young men, proceeded before Mac
29]
Feorais into Connacht, to the castle of Sligech. And this
30]
was reported to the son of Fedhlim O'Conchobhair; and
31]
when he heard it he laid an ambuscade for them,
32]
and Piers Poer, and David Treu, and five young men along
As regards the
3]
son of Fedhlim, he proceeded afterwards to Tir-Fiachrach,
4]
and through the country of Mac Feorais, which he
5]
entirely plundered from the Muaidh eastwards to Traigh-Eothuile.
6]
And Geroitin Mac Feorais followed them
7]
and overtook Donnchadh, son of Maghnus, who was
8]
wounded by him, and taken prisoner after having been
9]
wounded; and he subsequently took him with him to
10]
Dun-Contreat.
The son of Fedhlim pursued them afterwards,
11]
and rescued the son of Maghnus from them; and
12]
Geroitin was killed per dolum; and
Donnchadh, son
13]
of Maghnus, died of this wound; and great was the
14]
loss to both Foreigners and Gaeidhel.
Mac Maurice
15]
thereupon mustered, and proceeded into Connacht, and
16]
deprived the son of Fedhlim of as much of these preys as
17]
he found with him.
When Fedhlim, son of Cathal
18]
Crobhderg; heard that the Foreigners were assembled in
19]
his neighbourhood, after his son had inflicted such great
20]
injuries on them, he adopted the resolution of sending his
21]
moveables across the Sinainn eastwards, into the Breifne,
22]
and to the North of Erinn.
The Justiciary assembled
23]
the Foreigners of Midhe and Laighen, and advanced with
24]
a great army across Ath-Luain, and from thence into
25]
Sil-Muiredhaigh; and Mac Maurice advanced on the other
26]
side, accompanied by the Foreigners of Mumha and
27]
Connacht. And these two armies went to Oilfinn, after
28]
destroying Síl-Muiredhaigh before them so far; and
29]
they invited to them Toirdhelbhach, son of Aedh, son of
30]
Cathal Crobhderg, and made him king in the place of
31]
Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg. And they afterwards
32]
plundered the territory of Breifne, and committed numerous
33]
injuries in it in every direction, and subsequently
34]
brought their preys with them. And they were fully
35]
twenty nights in Síl-Muiredhaigh, devastating it; and
36]
they plundered Loch-Cé, together with its islands, and
The Justiciary moreover,
2]
went afterwards into Midhe, and Mac Maurice went to
3]
Sligech; and they left Toirdhelbhach, son of Aedh,
4]
guarding Síl-Muiredhaigh.
Another hosting by the sons
5]
of the kings of Connacht, on the festival of Mary in mid-autumn,
6]
to Ath-na-righ, to burn and plunder it.
Another
7]
great army under Toirdhelbhach, son of Aedh, and Aedh
8]
Og, son of Aedh. And the sheriff of Connacht was in
9]
the town before them, accompanied by many Foreigners;
10]
and the Foreigners requested a truce for that day in
11]
honour of Mary, whose festival it was. And the kings'
12]
sons did not grant this truce in honour of Mary or the
13]
Holy Cross; but they attacked the town furiously, against
14]
the will of Toirdhelbhach.
When Jordan and the Foreigners
15]
observed this, they came out of the town against
16]
these kings' sons; and Mary performed manifest miracles
17]
there; for when the kings' sons, with their people,
18]
saw the terrible mail-clad cavalry coming towards
19]
them out of the town, prodigious fear and terror seized
20]
them at the sight, and they were routed; and Aedh,
21]
son of Aedh O'Conchobhair, was slain there, and Diarmaid
22]
Ruadh, son of Cormac O'Maelsechlainn; and two sons of
23]
O'Cellaigh; and Brian-in-doire, son of Maghnus; and
24]
Carrach-ind-shibhail, son of Niall O'Conchobhair; and
25]
Baethghalach Mac Aedhagain; and the son of Diarmaid
26]
Bachlach O'Conchobhair, i.e. Mathghamhain, grandson
27]
of Tadhg; and the two sons of Lochlainn O'Conchobhair;
28]
and Domhnall, son of Cormac Mac Diarmada; and the
29]
Finnanach Mac Branain; and Cumumhan Mac Casarlaigh;
30]
and many other persons along with them.
Donnchadh
31]
son of Anmchadh, son of Donnchadh O'Gillapatraic, i.e.
32]
the captain of greatest honour and prowess that had
- 13] He is wont to be a carpenter; is wont to be a turner;
14] My nursling is wont to be a bookman;
15] He is wont to be selling wine and hides,
16] Where he sees the gathering, &c.
17] Tadhg O'Mannachain, king of Uí-Briuin-na-Sinna, died
18]
in octavo idus Junii, and was subsequently
interred in
19]
Cill-mor-na-Sinna.
Conn O'Flannagain, prior of Cill-mor-na-Sinna,
20]
died in septimo kalendas Maii.
Maelmuire
21]
O'Lachtnain, a master in canon law, and a palmer of the
22]
river Jordan, and archbishop of Tuaim-dá-ghualann
23]
and of all Connacht, died in the winter, and a short time
24]
before Christmas.
Andrias Mac Gillegheir, comarb of
25]
Feichin mortuus est.
Maelciarain O'Lenachain, noble
26]
chief priest of Tuaim-mná; a man who maintained clerics
27]
and men of grade in his own house, and a man who kept a
5] Mor, daughter of Donnchadh O'Dubhda, wife of the
6]
Gilla-muinelach O'Baighill, mortua est.
Dún-mór was
7]
burned by the kings' sons in hoc anno. Twelve
years
8]
and seven hundred years since Colum-Cille went to Hi
9]
until this year.
Annal LC1250.
10] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the twenty-third of
11]
the moon; x. anno cycli solaris; xvi. anno
Decennovenalis
12]
cycli; viii. anno Indictionis; M.cc.l..
13] Fedhlim O'Conchobhair came from the North, with a
14]
large army from Cenel-Eoghain, and marched into the
15]
Breifne, and from thence into the Tuatha, accompanied
16]
by Conchobhar, son of Tighernan; and they
went from
17]
thence into Tir-Maine, and expelled Toirdhelbhach out of
18]
Connacht, who again went over to the Foreigners. And
19]
Fedhlim collected the herds of Connacht, which he
took with
20]
him down across Sliabh-Seghsa; but the Foreigners sent
21]
messengers after him, and made peace with
him, and his
22]
own kingdom was again restored to him. The hostages of
23]
Connacht were blinded in Ath-Luain by the Foreigners,
24]
and by Toirdhelbhach, son of Aedh. A great depredation
25]
was committed by Fedhlim on Cathal O'Conchobhair,
26]
who was driven in exile out of Connacht by him.
The
27]
bishop of Imlech-Ibhair died in hoc
anno.
Thomas
28]
O'Meallaigh, bishop of Enach-dúin, quievit
in Christo.
29] Cairbre O'Maelsechlainn was slain in treachery by David
30]
Roche.
Toirdhelbhach, son of Muirchertach Muimhnech
2] Diarmaid O'hEghra, king of Luighne, died while imprisoned
3]
by Fitz-Gerald.
A great hosting by Maurice
4]
Fitz-Gerald, and by Cathal O'Raighilligh, and by Cuconnacht
5]
O'Raighilligh, accompained by all the chieftains of
6]
Uí-Briuin, into Cenel-Eoghain, when they were three
7]
nights at Tulach-óg; and they received many injuries,
8]
but obtained no hostages or pledges from O'Neill, on this
9]
occasion.
After turning back into Cenel-Conaill, O'Canannain,
10]
king of Cenel-Conaill, was taken prisoner by
11]
Maurice Fitz-Gerald, whilst under the protection of the
12]
Bishop O'Cerbhallain; and he was subsequently killed
13]
by them whilst endeavouring to escape forcibly from
14]
them.
White Canons of the Premonstre Order were
15]
taken by Clarus Mac Mailin, a short time before Christmas,
16]
from Trinity Island in Loch-Cé, to Trinity Island
17]
in Loch-Uachtair, in the Breifne; and he established the
18]
canons of the order there through the permission of
19]
Cathal O'Raighilligh, who granted it Trinity
Island in
20]
puram et perpetuam elemosinam in honore Sanctae
21]
Trinitatis; et idcirco Clarus hoc fecit in Domino, quia
22]
Premonstratenses gaudeant consimili privilegio cum
23]
monachis, ita quod ad ullam aliam religionem postea
24]
transire possent.
Conghalach Mac Idhneoil, bishop of
25]
the Breifne, quievit in Christo.
Florence Mac Floinn
26]
was elected to the bishopric of Tuaim-dá-ghualann, and
27]
was consecrated on Christmas Day in Tuaim; and he
28]
was fit for it, on account of the extent of his learning,
29]
and his knowledge of law.
Annal LC1251.
30] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the fourth of
31]
the moon; xi. anno cycli solaris; xvii. anno
Decennovenalis
32]
cycli; ix. anno Indictionis. M.cc.l. primo.
Clarus
15] Gillamochoinne, son of Gillamochoinne O'Cathail was slain
16]
by Conchobhar, son of Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg.
17] Tadhg, son of Tuathal, son of Muirchertach Muimhnech
18]
O'Conchobhair, was killed by Foreigners in this year.
19] Gillachrist O'Lachtnain, abbot of the Trinity in Tuaim, was
20]
drowned in the sea of Erinn.
Conchobhar, son of Cormac,
21]
son of Tomaltach, the most bountiful and valiant man of
22]
his time, in Christo quievit.
Gerald Sugach mortuus est.
23] Flaithbhertach O'Cerbhaill, chieftain of Callraighe, was
24]
slain by Art, son of Art O'Ruairc.
Muiredhach O'Taidhg
25]
mortuus est.
Thunder and lightning came in the summer
26]
of this year, by which many men and cattle were killed in
27]
Erinn.
A great shower fell on the festival day of Paul
28]
and Peter, so that a boat sailed all round the town at
Tuimmilin Carden
5]
was blinded; and his tongue was cut out.
Great frost
6]
in the early winter, so that the lakes, and the bogs, and
7]
the waters were all frozen.
A great synod was held by
8]
the clergy of Erinn at Tuaim.
Ardghal O' Laithbhertaigh,
9]
royal heir of Oilech, lamp of valour and honor of the
10]
North of Erinn, mortuus est.
Gillachrist O'Breislen,
11]
chieftain of Fánad, and a brother of his, were killed by
12]
Ceallach Balbh O'Baighill.
Donnchadh Mac Cathmhail,
13]
chieftain of Cenel-Feradhaigh, was killed by the
Oirghialla.
Annal LC1252.
14] The kalends of January on Monday, and the fifteenth
15]
of the moon; xii. anno cycli solaris; xviii. anno
Decennovenalis
16]
cycli; x. anno Indictionis; M.cc.lii.
New money
17]
was ordered by the king of the Saxons to be coined in
18]
Erinn; and the money previously in use was abandoned
19]
for it.
Great wind came on the octave of the Epiphany,
20]
which prostrated several houses and churches throughout
21]
Erinn.
The castle of Cael-uisce was erected by Mac
22]
Maurice.
The castle of Magh-Cobha was erected by him
23]
also.
Maelmaedhoc O'Beollain; comarb of Colum-Cille in
24]
Druim-cliabh, i.e. the man of greatest prosperity, wealth,
25]
and esteem; of greatest charity, hospitality, and honor in
26]
his own time in Erinn, died after the triumph of devotion
27]
and penitence.
Cuconnacht Mac Consnamha, chieftain
28]
of Muinter-Cinaith, mortuus est.
Gilla-Isa O'Cerbhaill,
29]
chieftain of Callraighe of Druim-cliabh, mortuus
est.
30] Maghnus Mac Gilladhuibh, chieftain of Tellach-Gairbhith,
31]
quievit.
Great heat and drought in the summer of this
32]
year, so that people used to cross the Sinuinn without
1] wetting their feet; and the wheat was reaped twenty
2]
nights before Lammas, and all the corn was reaped at
3]
that time; and the trees were burning from the sun.
A
4]
great hosting by the Foreigners of Erinn to Ulidia, on
5]
which occasion a camp fight took place between the
6]
Meathian rout and the Momonian rout, when a great
7]
number of the Momonian rout were slain at Dun-Dealgan.
8] Murchadh O'Fallamhain, a high constable of the Connachtmen,
9]
was killed by the men of Breifne, per dolum,
10]
at Fidhnacha of Magh-Rein.
Orlaith, daughter of Taichlech
11]
Mac Diarmada, mortua est.
Conchobhar Mac
12]
Cathmhail, king-chieftain of Cenel-Feradhaigh and many
13]
other territories, peacemaker of the Cenel-Conaill, Cenel-Eoghain,
14]
and Oirghialla, was slain by the routs of Brian
15]
O'Neill, whilst defending his guarantee against them, he
16]
himself being under the protection of O'Gairmleghaigh
17]
and O'Cathain.
Conchobhar O'Dochartaigh, king-chieftain
18]
of Ard-Midhair, and the third king-chieftain of Erinn,
19]
pillar of the hospitality and bravery of the North, died
20]
this year.
Annal LC1253.
21] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the twenty-sixth
22]
of the moon; xiii. anno cycli solaris; xix. anno
23]
Decennovenalis cycli; xi. anno Indictionis; M.cc.l.
tertio.
24] A great hosting by the Foreigners of Erinn, under Mac
25]
Maurice, to Cenel-Eoghain, to attack O'Neill; and they
26]
obtained neither pledges nor hostages in Cenel-Eoghain
27]
on this occasion; and a countless slaughter was inflicted
28]
on them.
David, son of Ceallach O'Gillapatraic, archbishop
29]
of Cluain-mic-Nois, quievit.
Eoghan O'hEdhin,
30]
king of Uí-Fiachrach, mortuus
est.
Gilla-Ceallaigh
31]
O'Ruaidhin, bishop of Uí-Fiachrach, mortuus
est.
Macraith,
32]
son of Gillachalma O'Connachtaigh, was slain by
33]
the son of O'Galonn.
The daughter of the Ultonian Earl
A monastery was erected,
3]
and a cemetery consecrated, for the Friars Preachers at
4]
Sligech.
Another monastery was founded for the Friars
5]
at Ath-lethan, in Luighne. A great war was waged by
6]
Brian O'Neill, king of Cenel-Eoghain, against the Foreigners;
7]
and he demolished several castles; and street-towns
8]
were burned, and Machaire-Uladh was entirely
9]
desolated by him.
The bishopric of Cill-hAlaidh was
10]
assumed by John O'Laidigh, i.e. a Friar Preacher; and
11]
his degree of bishop was conferred at Tuaim-dhá-ghualann,
12]
the second Sunday of Lent.
The bishopric of
13]
Cluain-mic-Nois was assumed by Thomas O'Cuirin, i.e. a
14]
Friar Minor; and his degree was conferred at the Pope's
15]
court.
A hosting was performed by Domhnall O'Raighilligh,
16]
and by the Caech O'Raighilligh, and by Cathal
17]
O'Conchobhair, and by Gilla-na-naemh O'Ferghail, to
18]
Muinter-Eolais, to attack Cathal Mac Raghnail, when
19]
they plundered the whole country; and they were two
20]
nights encamped at Tulach-alainn, and the third night
21]
at Enach-dubh, where Gilla-na-naemh O'Ferghail separated
22]
from them; and Muinter-Raighilligh and Cathal
23]
O'Conchobhair went to Cluain-Conmaicne, where they
24]
were encamped for one night. When Aedh, son of
25]
Fedhlim, heard this thing, he suddenly assembled his
26]
forces, and followed Muinter-Raighilligh and Cathal
27]
O'Conchobhair to Cluain-Conmaicne, and inflicted a
28]
signal defeat on them, where Donnchadh, son of Gilla-Isa,
29]
son of Donnchadh O'Raighilligh, and Mac Gilla-Taedóg,
30]
and O'Bibhsaigh, et alii multi, were
slain.
This
31]
was the best year that had ever come for nuts, and the
32]
produce of the earth, and of cattle, and of trees and
33]
herbs.
Ailin O'Suillebháin, bishop of Lis-mór, quievit.
1] A mansion was erected by Tomaltach O'Conchobhair,
2]
bishop of Oilfinn, at Cill-tSheisin, in hoc
anno.
Annal LC1254.
3] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the seventh
4]
of the moon; xiiii. annus cycli solaris; primus
annus
5]
Decennovenalis cycli; xii. annus Indictionis;
M.cc.l.quarto.
6] Piers Pramister, lord of Conmaicne of Dún-mór,
7]
mortuus est.
Murchadh O'Maelsechlainn was slain by
8]
Domhnall, son of the Sinnach O'Catharnaigh, in this
9]
year.
The Justiciary of Erinn went to Saxon-land.
10] The monastery of the Friars Preachers at Ath-lethan,
11]
in Luighne, was all burned.
Piers Ristubhard, lord of
12]
Síl-Maelruain, and a noble baron, was killed by Murchadh
13]
O'Maelsechlainn on Loch-Ribh.
Sitric Mac Shenlaich
14]
was taken prisoner by Fedhlim, son of Cathal
15]
Crobhderg, and the Sen-shuilech Mac Shenlaich was
16]
unnecessarily blinded by him; i.e. it was reported to
17]
him that they had acted treacherously towards him.
18] The king of the Saxons went to Spain on a hosting
19]
in hoc anno.
Maelbrighde, son of the Bishop
20]
O'Mailfhaghmhair, mortuus est
Maelfinnen O'Beollain,
21]
comarb of Druim-cliabh, mortuus
est.
Donnchadh, son
22]
of Donnchadh, son of Tomaltach, and Amhlaibh O'Bibhsaigh,
23]
were slain in Cluain-Conmaicne by the Connachtmen.
24] Maghnus O'Gadhra was slain without cause by the
25]
people of Fedhlim O'Conchobhair.
The king of France
26]
returned from Jerusalem to France, after concluding
27]
a three years' peace between the Christians and the
28]
Saracens.
This year was an excellent year, with abundance
29]
of oak-fruit, and with abundance of milk, and of
30]
all other good things besides.
A great slaughter
Annal LC1255.
4] The kalends of January on Friday, and the eighteenth
5]
of the moon; xv. annus cycli solaris; secundus
annus
6]
Decennovenalis cycli; xiii. annus Indictionis; M.cc.l.
7]
quinto.
Innocentius papa quievit in Christo.
Thomas
8]
Mac Diarmada, airchidiaconus of Olefinn, in Christo quievit.
9] Aedh, son of Fedhlim O'Conchobhair, went into Tir-Eoghain,
10]
and made peace between his own father and the
11]
North of Erinn, and brought with him from the North
12]
all the Connachtmen who were in the North of Erinn in
13]
discord with his father, together with their chattels,
14]
through the midst of his mortal enemies, viz.:—the sons
15]
of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair and the Foreigners; and these
16]
enemies dared no more than look at the host, and the
17]
chattels by their side.
The archbishopric of Caisel-Mumhan
18]
was assumed by Mac Cerbhaill.
The ambassadors of
19]
Fedhlim O'Conchobhair went to the king of the Saxons.
20] Mathghamhain O'Mannachain was slain at Buimlinn.
21] The archbishop of Tuaim, i.e. Florence Mac Floinn, went
22]
across to the East, to converse with the king of the
23]
Saxons.
Maurice Fitz-Gerald went across to meet the
24]
king of the Saxons.
Diarmaid O'Cuinn, and Amhlaibh
25]
his son, and the nobles of Muinter-Gillgan along with
26]
them, were slain at Faradhan-Muighe-Tregha by Gilla-na-naemh
27]
O'Ferghail, per dolum; and he afterwards
28]
plundered them i.e.
Muinter-Gillgan.
The archbishop
29]
of Tuaim came to Erinn from the king, having obtained
30]
everything that he asked.
The ambassadors of Fedhlim
31]
came to Erinn from the king, in like manner.
The archdeacon
32]
of Enach-dúin, i.e. O'Laidigh, quievit in
Christo.
33] A great depredation was committed by the Foreigners
34]
on O'Floinn.
A great meeting was held between O'Conchobhair
35]
and Mac William Burk, at
Tochar-mona-Coinnedha;
36]
and they concluded a peace there, and all
2] Juliana, daughter of the comarb of Caillin, and Gilla-na-naemh,
3]
son of the comarb, mortui sunt.
Brian O'Neill
4]
and the men of the North of Erinn came on a
great hosting
5]
against Cathal O'Raighilligh, and against Cuconnacht
6]
O'Raighilligh; and they turned back again without
7]
obtaining power or hostages.
Raghnailt, daughter of
8]
O'Ferghail, died in a bath in hoc
anno.
Annal LC1256.
9] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the twenty-ninth
10]
of the moon; xvi. anno cycli solaris; tertius
annus
11]
Decennovenalis cycli; xiiii. anno Indictionis; M.cc.l.
sexto.
12] Flann Mac Floinn, archbishop of Tuaim, died in
Bristol.
13] The archbishop of Baile-Atha-cliath died the same
14]
year.
Ruaidhri O'Gadhra, king of Sliabh-Lugha, was
15]
slain by his own gossip, i.e. David, son of Richard
16]
Cuisin, in treachery and deceit; and his castle was
17]
broken down by him at the same time.
A prodigious
18]
hosting was made by Walter, son of Richard, son of
19]
William Burk, against Fedhlim,
son of Cathal Crobhderg,
20]
and against his son, i.e. Aedh son of Fedhlim, and to the
21]
sons of Tighernan O'Ruairc; and it was a very long time
22]
before since a host so numerous as this was assembled in
23]
Erinn, for it was reckoned that there were in it twenty
24]
thousand to a man. And these great hosts marched to
25]
Magh-Eó of the Saxons, and from thence to Balla, and
26]
from thence throughout Luighne; and they plundered
27]
Luighne on all sides about them. And they came
28]
to Achadh-Conaire, and despatched messengers from thence
29]
to Muinter-Raighilligh, and requested them to come to
30]
meet them to Cros-Doire-chaein, at the eastern end of
31]
Brat-sliabh in Tir-Tuathail. And Muinter-Raighilligh
32]
came to Clachan-mucadha on Sliabh-an-iarainn, and then
16] Another great hosting, after this battle, by Fedhlim
17]
O'Conchobhair and his son, i.e. Aedh-na-nGall, accompanied
18]
by the Connachtmen, and by Conn, son of
19]
Tighernan, with the men of Breifne; and these two hosts
20]
came, moreover, to Loch-an-trein, and attacked the
21]
churches of Breifne except Fidhnacha alone, and turned
22]
back to their houses, taking with them the hostages of
23]
the men of Breifne, viz.:— of Mac Fiachrach, and Mac
24]
Tighernain, and Mac Shamhradhain, and the son of Art
25]
O'Ruairc; and these hostages, i.e. the sons of these chieftains,
26]
were delivered into the hands of O'Ruairc; and
27]
Mac Shamhradhain and the son of Art O'Ruairc delivered
28]
their own hostages to Aedh-na-nGall. A small force of
29]
cavalry, and a few footmen and mercenaries of O'Ruairc's
30]
people, went to patrol the territory of Muinter-Maelmordha,
31]
for it had been reported to O'Ruairc that emissaries
32]
of O'Raighilligh's people had collected to one place
33]
all the force that they found of Foreign and Gaeidhelic
A Justiciary came to Erinn from the king of
30]
the Saxons, to adjust the lands of Erinn between the
A great depredation was
12]
committed by Mac William Burk on Ruaidhri
O'Flaithbhertaigh,
13]
when he plundered Gno-mór and Gno-beg;
14]
and he afterwards took possession of all Loch-Oirbsen.
15]
A great meeting was held by Aedh O'Conchobhair and
16]
John de Verdun, at Ath-Liag-na-Sinna, in hoc
anno.
17]
Sitric Mac Shenlaich escaped, and went to the monastery
18]
of the Buill, to seek the protection of the Order.
Donncathaigh
19]
Mac Shenlaich died in the monastery of the Buill
20]
in hoc anno.
Ath-Luain and Dun-Daighre were burned
21]
on the same day in this year.
Gilla-an-Choimdedh
22]
O'Cennfhaeladh, i.e. abbot of Enach-dúin, quievit.
The
23]
abbot of the Trinity in Tuaim, i.e. O'Gillaráin, quievit.
24] A great war arose between Aedh O'Conchobhair and
25]
Conn, son of Tighernan O'Ruairc, though their friendship
26]
was good until then.
O'Ruairc went to meet the
27]
Foreigners, and concluded a separate peace for himself,
28]
without the permission of Fedhlim O'Conchobhair, or of
29]
his son. A great depredation was committed by Aedh
30]
O'Conchobhair on O'Ruairc, the Wednesday before Great
31]
Christmas; and they made peace afterwards.
Annal LC1257.
32] The kalends of January on Monday, and the tenth of
33]
the moon; xvii. anno cycli solaris; quarto anno
Decennovenalis
34]
cycli; xv. Indictionis; M.cc.lvii.
Conn, son of
Cathal Cuircech, son of Aedh, son
7]
of Cathal Crobhderg, and Aedh, son of Conchobhar, son of
8]
Aedh, son of Cathal Crobhderg, were blinded by Aedh,
9]
son of Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg, in treachery,
10]
through envy and jealousy, in violation of the laics, and
11]
clerics, and reliquaries of Connacht, in hoc
anno.
Conn,
12]
son of Cathal O'Raighilligh, chieftain of Muinter-Maelmordha,
13]
died.
Cloch-Innsi-na-torc, on Loch-Finnmhuighe,
14]
was burned by O'Ruairc, and its garrison was let out of it
15]
by him on parole.
Sitric, son of Ualgharg O'Ruairc, was
16]
made king by Aedh O'Conchobhair, in opposition to Conchobhar,
17]
son of Tighernan O'Ruairc; and Sitric, son of
18]
Ualgharg, was slain by Domhnall, son of Conchobhar,
19]
son of Tighernan O'Ruairc, soon after his
inauguration.
20] Maurice Fitz-Gerald mortuus est in hoc
anno.
A meeting
21]
was held at Ath-Luain by Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg,
22]
with the Justiciaryof Erinn, and with Mac William
23]
Burk and the other nobles of Erinn; and they made
24]
peace respectively.
A great depredation was committed
25]
by Aedh O'Conchobhair on O'Ruairc, about Easter. Maelpatraic
26]
Mac hEli, airchinnech of Cill-Alaidh, was
slain.
27]
The castle of Cael-uisce was razed by Goffraidh O'Domhnaill
28]
and the Cenel-Conaill, and its garrison was slain.
29]
O'Domhnaill and the Cenel-Conaill proceeded to Sligech,
30]
and a great number of the Foreigners of the town were
31]
killed by them, and the street-town was burned by them;
32]
and they carried off great preys into Cairbre. And the
The monastery
8]
of Mary, in Ros-Comain, was consecrated by Tomaltach
9]
O'Conchobhair for the Friars Preachers.
A charter was
10]
given by the king of the Saxons to Fedhlim O'Conchobhair
11]
for the king's five cantreds.
A great war between
12]
Conchobhar O'Briain and the Foreigners of Mumha; and
13]
a great slaughter was inflicted by O'Briain on the
14]
Foreigners; and a great depredation was committed on
15]
them by Tadhg O'Briain in addition. The son of Domhnall
16]
Connachtach O'Briain was, moreover, killed by the
17]
Foreigners. A great slaughter was inflicted on the
18]
Foreigners of Uladh by Mac Duinnslebhe.
Conchobhar,
19]
son of Tighernan O'Ruairc, king of Breifne, was killed
20]
at Ath-na-Failmhe, in treachery, by Gillaberaigh O'Lamhdhuibh,
21]
a young man of his own people, and by the
22]
people of Matthew O'Raighilligh.
Cathal O'Mannachain
23]
mortuus est on the 6th of the kalends of
December.
24] Fidhnacha was profaned by Aedh, son of Fedhlim O'Conchobhair,
25]
regarding its stock, viz.:—one hundred cows.
26] Muiredhach, son of Maelbrighde O'Fairchellaigh, comarb
27]
of Maedhóg, quievit.
A great depredation was committed
28]
on Mac Shamhradhain by the people of Aedh, son
29]
of Fedhlim O'Conchobhair.
Thomas O'Maelchiarain, the
30]
sage of Erinn, quievit.
Raghnailt, daughter of O'Ferghail,
31]
quievit.
Gillapatraic Mac Fiachrach was blinded by
32]
Matthew O'Raighilligh in hoc
anno.
Annal LC1258.
1] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the twenty-first
2]
of the moon; xviii. anno
cycli solaris; quinto
3]
anno Decennovenalis cycli; primus annus Indictionis;
4]
M.cc.l. octavo.
Walter de Salerna, i.e. archbishop of Tuaim,
5]
and great dean of London, died in Saxon-land in this
6]
year; and the year before that he had been chosen by
7]
the king of the Saxons.
Tomaltach O'Conchobhair, i.e.
8]
bishop of Oilfinn, was elected archbishop of Tuaim in
9]
hoc anno.
Goffraidh O'Domhnaill, king of Tir-Conaill,
10]
i.e. who was the kindling torch of honour and valour, of
11]
warfare and defence of the entire province, died of the
12]
wounds which he had received in the battle
of Credrán;
13]
and it was not death after cowardice, but death after
14]
triumphing over his enemies. Domhnall O'Domhnaill
15]
was made king in his place, and all the Cenel-Conaill
16]
gave him hostages and sovereignty.
Domhnall, son of
17]
Conchobhar, son of Tighernan O'Ruairc, who was in
18]
captivity, for his father's sake, with Fedhlim O'Conchobhair
19]
and his son, was liberated by them; and the
20]
sovereignty of the Breifne was given to him in the place
21]
of his father.
A great fleet came from Innsi-Gall with
22]
Mac Somhairle; and they passed round Erinn westwards
23]
to Conmaicne-Mara, where they robbed a merchant-vessel
24]
of all its goods, both wine and clothing, and copper and
25]
iron. The sheriff of Connacht, i.e. Jordan de Exeter, went
26]
on the sea, with a large fleet of Foreigners, after Mac
27]
Somhairle and the fleet that had robbed the merchant-vessel.
28]
Mac Somhairle was at this time on an island of
29]
the sea, having his vessels ashore; and when they saw
30]
the sheriff's fleet approaching them, Mac Somhairle put
31]
on his armour, and his dress of battle and combat; and
32]
his people then put on their armour along with him. As
33]
regards the sheriff, moreover, when he reached the island,
34]
he landed promptly, accompanied by all the Foreigners
The fleet of the Foreigners
6]
subsequently turned back, after their best men had been
7]
slain; and Mac Somhairle went afterwards exultingly,
8]
enriched with spoils, with the triumph of victory, to his
9]
own country.
A great meeting was held at Cael-uisce
10]
by Aedh O'Conchobhair, i.e. the son of Fedhlim, son of
11]
Cathal Crobhderg, accompanied by Tadhg O'Briain, with
12]
Brian O'Neill, when they made peace with one another;
13]
and the sovereignty over the Gaeidhel of Erinn was given
14]
to Brian O'Neill; and the son of Fedhlim gave hostages
15]
to Brian O'Neill; and the hostages of Muinter-Raighilligh
16]
and all the Uí-Briuin, from Cenannus to Druim-cliabh,
17]
were then given to Aedh O'Conchobhair.
Matthew,
18]
son of Gilla-ruadh O'Radhuibh, i.e. 'the Master', died in
19]
this year.
Macraith Mac Tighernain, dux of Tellach-Dunchadha,
20]
was killed by Domhnall, son of Conchobhar,
21]
son of Tighernan O'Ruairc. It was then that the men
22]
of Breifne and all the Connachtmen took his sovereignty
23]
from this Domhnall, son of Conchobhar, and the
men of
24]
Tellach-Dunchadha killed his brother, i.e. Cathal, son of
25]
Conchobhar, son of Tighernan O'Ruairc; and the men of
26]
Breifne and Connacht gave the sovereignty of Uí-Briuin
27]
to Art, son of Cathal Riabhach O'Ruairc.
The monk
28]
O'Cuirnín, i.e. a most eminent devotee, quievit.
Brian
29]
Mac Shamhradhain, dux of Tellach-Echach, was
killed by
30]
the Connachtmen.
A great war between the Foreigners
31]
and Conchobhar O'Briain, when Ard-rathain and Cill-Colgan,
32]
and many street-towns, and much corn, were
33]
burned on every side.
Thomas O'Birn mortuus est.
A
34]
great meeting took place between the Foreigners and
35]
Gaeidhel of Erinn, in the absence of Fedhlim O'Conchobhair,
36]
at Mullach-Laighide, when peace was concluded
Gilla-Christ O'Carmacan, dean of Oilfinn,
2]
quievit.
Ardghal O'Conchobhair, i.e. the son of Comarb
3]
Comain, quievit.
The bishop's palace at Oilfinn, and
4]
the palace of Cill-Seisin, were demolished by Aedh
5]
O'Conchobhair in hoc anno.
Amhlaibh, son of Art
6]
O'Ruairc, i.e. the king of Breifne from the mountain
7]
westwards, died in hoc
anno.
Annal LC1259.
8] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the second
9]
of the moon; xix. anno cycli
solaris; vi. anno Decennovenalis
10]
cycli; secundo anno Indictionis; M.cc.lix.
Tomaltach,
11]
son of Toirdhelbhach, son of Maelsechlainn O'Conchobhair,
12]
came from Rome in this year, after the degree of
13]
bishop had been conferred on him at the Pope's court; and
14]
he brought with him a pallium for himself,
and great
15]
benefits for the church also.
Cormac O'Luimlin, bishop of
16]
Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, and chief sage of Erinn, and a holy
17]
senior, quievit.
Aedh O'Conchobhair gave the place of
18]
Amhlaibh to Art Beg, son of Art O'Ruairc. Art, son of
19]
Cathal Riabhach O'Ruairc, was taken prisoner by Aedh
20]
O'Conchobhair. Aedh O'Conchobhair went to Doire-Choluim-Chille
21]
to espouse the daughter of Dubhgall
22]
Mac Somhairle; and he brought home eight
score young
23]
men with her, together with Ailin Mac Somhairle. Cathal
24]
Mac Conshnamha, chieftain of Muinter-Cinaith, was
25]
blinded by Aedh O'Conchobhair; and the hostages of
26]
Domhnall O'Ruairc, viz.:—Niall, son of Donnchadh, and
27]
Brian, son of Niall, were blinded by him in the same
28]
year. A conference took place between Aedh O'Conchobhair
29]
and Brian O'Neill, at Daimhinis on Loch
30]
Erne, when peace was made with Domhnall O'Ruairc
31]
by Aedh O'Conchobhair, and the sovereignty of the
32]
Breifne was given to him.
Taichlech Mac Diarmada
33]
mortuus est.
Milidh Mac Goisdelbh mortuus est.
Gilbert
Flann Ruadh
5]
O'Floinn, chieftain of Síl-Maelruain, and Donnchadh
6]
O'Floinn were taken prisoners by Aedh O'Conchobhair;
7]
and Síl-Maelruain was all plundered by him.
Sighradh
8]
O'Baighill, i.e. the chieftain of the Three Tuatha, a
9]
vigorous, most hospitable man, was killed by his own
10]
brethren in treachery, in hoc
anno.
Tadhg O'Briain, i,e.
11]
one fit to be king of Mumha, mortuus
est.
The Gillacam
12]
Mac
Gillacharain, a distinguished professor of poetry
13]
and literature, in Christo
quievit.
Annal LC1260.
14] The kalends of January on Thursday, the thirteenth of
15]
the moon; xx. anno cycli solaris; vii. anno
Decennovenalis
16]
cycli; iii. anno Indictionis; M.cc.lx.
Aedh O'Conchobhair
17]
went into the North, to Brian O'Neill, accompanied by a
18]
great many of the nobles of Connacht. O'Neill, and the
19]
Cenel-Eoghain, and Aedh O'Conchobhair went together
20]
to Dun-da-lethghlas against the Foreigners. A terrible
21]
defeat was inflicted on them by the Foreigners of Dún,
22]
and Brian O'Neill, i.e. the king of the Gaeidhel of Erinn,
23]
was killed in the battle of Druim-derg at Dun-da-lethglas.
24]
Domhnall O'Cairre, and Diarmaid Mac Lachlainn,
25]
and Maghnus O'Cathain, and Cian O'hIneirghe, and Donnsleibhe
26]
Mac Cana, and Aedh O'Cathain, and Muirchertach
27]
O'Cathain, and Conchobhar Dubhdhirma, and his son
28]
Aedh O'Dubhdhirma, and Amhlaimh O'Gairmleghaigh, and
29]
Cu-Uladh O'hAnluain, and Niall O'hAnluain were slain
30]
there. In fact, fifteen of the principal men of Muinter-Cathain
31]
were slain in that field. There were also slain
32]
on the part of the Connachtmen in the same battlefield,
33]
Gilla-Christ, son of Conchobhar, son of Cormac, son of
34]
Tomaltach Mac Diarmada, and Cathal, son of Tighernan
35]
O'Conchobhair; and Maelruanaidh Mac Donnchadha; and
36]
Cathal, son of Donnchadh, son of Muirchertach; and
A hosting by Mac William Burk
8]
against Fedhlim O'Conchobhair, when he went to Ros-Comain;
9]
and he sent a predatory band into Crumhthonn,
10]
who plundered Clann-Aedhagain; and he sent another
11]
predatory band into Tir-Maine, who plundered several of
12]
the Bishop's people, for they were at that time at
13]
Port-Airenach. They plundered Ros-Comain, and destroyed
14]
its corn, but they dared not go northwards past
15]
Ros-Comain on this occasion, for Fedhlim O'Conchobhair
16]
and his son, i.e. Aedh na-nGall, were in the Tuatha, and
17]
the cows of Connacht were behind them in the wilderness.
18]
And the resolution both parties adopted was to
19]
make peace with one another; and Mac William afterwards
20]
returned home.
A great hosting by Mac Maurice
21]
into Tuadh-Mumha, against Conchobhar O'Briain, when
22]
O'Briain met them at Coill-Berrain, and the people of
23]
Tuadh-Mumha opposed them on every side in the wood;
24]
and the Foreigners were then routed, and David Prendergast,
25]
i.e. a most noble knight, was slain there; and the
26]
Failgech, and the Parson of Ard-rathain, and Thomas
27]
Barrett, et alii multi, were
slain.
Alexander papa
28]
quievit in Christo.
Abraham O'Conalláin, bishop of
29]
Ard-Macha, quievit.
Robin Laighleis died on Easter-Sunday
30]
in this year.
Maghnus Mac Oirechtaigh was
31]
slain by Domhnall O'Flaithimh in hoc
anno.
Lochlainn,
32]
son of Amhlaibh, son of Art O'Ruairc, and his brother
A great depredation was committed by Mac
17]
Maurice on O'Domhnaill; but a party of O'Domhnaill's
18]
people overtook them at Bendan-Brechmuighe, where
19]
some of them were burned, and some more slain. The
20]
residence of Conchobhar O'Ceallaigh was burned by a
21]
party of Aedh O'Conchobhair's people.
Cinaeth O'Birn,
22]
i.e. the prior of Cill-mór, quievit.
A great depredation
23]
was committed by O'Domhnaill on Mac Maurice, when
24]
he plundered all Cairpre.
The degree of bishop was
25]
conferred by the comarb of Patrick on Maelsechlainn
26]
O'Conchobhair, at Dun-Dealgan.
Sitric Mac Shenlaich
27]
was killed at Ath-Luain, by Donncatha Mac Oirechtaigh
28]
and Tomaltach Mac Oirechtaigh.
John de Verdun came
29]
to Erinn in hoc anno.
Maelfinnen O'Mithigén quievit.
Annal LC1261.
30] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the twenty-fourth
31]
of the moon; anno Domini m.cc.lx. primo; xx.i.
32]
anno cycli solaris; octavo anno cycli lunaris; quarto anno
33]
Indictionis.
Sixteen of the most distinguished of the
34]
clerics of Cenel-Conaill, together with Conchobhar
Conchobhar
3]
O'Neill was immediately slain through the miracles of
4]
Colum-Cille, by Domhnall O'Breisléin, chief of
Fánad.
5] Aedh, son of Maelsechlainn O'Conchobhair, was killed by
6]
Maelfhabhaill O'hEidhin.
A great war was waged, and
7]
numerous injuries were committed, by Finghin, son of
8]
Domhnall Mac Carthaigh, and his brothers, against
9]
Foreigners in this year.
A great hosting by the Clann-Gerald
10]
into Des-Mumha, to attack Mac Carthaigh; and
11]
Mac Carthaigh attacked them, and defeated them, and
12]
Fitz-Thomas (John proprium nomen), and his
son,
13]
and fifteen knights and eight noble barons along with
14]
them, were slain there, besides several young men, and
15]
soldiers innumerable. And the Barrach Mór was also
16]
killed there. Finghin Mac Carthaigh was subsequently
17]
slain by the Foreigners, and the sovereignty of Des-Mumha
18]
was assumed after him by his brother, i.e. the
19]
Aithchleirech Mac Carthaigh.
Art, son of Cathal
20]
Riabhach O'Ruairc, escaped from Aedh O'Conchobhair;
21]
and the chieftains of the Breifne and Conmaicne gave
22]
him the sovereignty of the Breifne.
Mac Fheorais profaned
23]
the great church of Feichin in Es-dara, where he
24]
killed five of the Luighne, together with Cathal
25]
O'hEghra. A depredation was committed by
Domhnall
26]
O'hEghra on Clann-Fheorais in retaliation for this, when
27]
he killed Sefin Mac Fheorais, and what he had on his
28]
head when he was killed was the bell cover which he
29]
had taken from the church of Es-dara.
Brian Ruadh
30]
O'Briain burned and demolished Caislen-Uí-Chonaing,
A castle was
2]
built by John de Verdun in Magh-dumha in Muinter-Ghilgan
3]
in hoc anno.
The fortress of Aedh O'Conchobhair
4]
at Snamh-in-redaigh was burned by the people of
5]
the Breifne.
Burning of Cluain-Suilinn, i.e. the fortress
6]
of Fedhlim O'Conchobhair.
The son of Aedh O'Conchobhair
7]
was given in fosterage to Art O'Ruairc.
A
8]
great depredation was committed by Aedh
O'Conchobhair
9]
in the Breifne, until he reached Druim-lethan, when a
10]
portion of his routs were defeated, and a great number of
11]
them were slain who were not distinguished.
Gilla-Christ,
12]
son of Edna O'Maelchiarain, chieftain of Muinter-Maelchiarain
13]
and Tellach-Chonghusa, mortuus
est.
14] Aedh Buidhe O'Neill expulsus est, and Niall
Culanach
15]
O'Neill was made king in his place.
Niall O'Gairmleghaigh;
16]
chieftain of Cenel-Moain, mortuus
est.
Annal LC1262.
17] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the fifth of
18]
the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxii; xx.ii. anno cycli
19]
solaris; nono anno cycli lunaris; v. anno
Indictionis.
20] Maelsechlainn, son of Tadhg O'Conchobhair, bishop of
21]
Síl-Muiredhaigh, mortuus
est.
A prodigious hosting by
22]
the Foreigners of Erinn against Fedhlim, son of Cathal
23]
Crobhderg and against his son, i.e. Aedh-na-nGall, when
24]
O'Conchobhair sent the greater number of the cows of
25]
Connacht to Tir-Conaill, away from the Foreigners, and
26]
he himself remained in Inis-Saimer, in defence of his
27]
cows and people. As regards the Foreigners, however,
28]
Mac William Burk, accompanied
by a great army, came
29]
from the west across Tochar-Mona-Coinnedha, to Oilfinn,
30]
and the Justiciary of Erinn and John de Verdun went
31]
westwards across Ath-Luain, to Ros-Comain; and they
32]
despatched great predatory bands intoCenel-Dobhtha-mic-Aenghusa,
33]
who on that occasion plundered all that
13] Domhnall O'Mannachain was killed by the sons of
14]
Ruaidhri and Tadhg O'Conchobhair.
As to the Foreigners,
15]
however, they despatched messagers to O'Conchobhair
16]
and his son, to offer them peace. Aedh O'Conchobhair,
17]
moreover, came subsequently to Ath-dhoire-Chuirc, to
18]
meet the Foreigners; and they concluded peace; and he
19]
went that night afterwards into the house of the Foreigners,
20]
without giving pledge or hostage; and he was
21]
on that night in the same place, and in the same bed
22]
with Mac William Burk, cheerfully, contentedly. And
23]
the Foreigners departed on the morrow, after they had
24]
concluded this peace.
A great depredation was committed
25]
by the Foreigners of Midhe on Gilla-na-naemh O'Ferghail,
26]
chieftain of the Anghaile; and his own tribe forsook him,
27]
and went over to the Foreigners; and he was deposed
28]
by them, and the son of Murchadh Carrach O'Ferghail
29]
was made chieftain in opposition to him. Numerous
30]
injuries in the shape of depredations,
aggressions,
31]
spoliations, plunderings and killings, were committed
32]
by Gilla-na-naemh O'Ferghail on the Foreigners this
33]
year; and he forcibly asserted his own chieftainship and
34]
sovereignty, and expelled the son of Murchadh Carrach
35]
O'Ferghail out of the district.
A hosting by Mac
33]
William Burk and the Foreigners of Erinn to Des-Mumha,
The comarb of Patrick
9]
came to Erinn in hoc anno.
Annal LC1263.
10] The kalends of January on Monday, and the sixteenth
11]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxiii; xx.iii. anno
cycli
12]
solaris; x. anno cycli lunaris; vi. anno cycli
Indictionis.
13] Donn O'Breisléin was killed by Domhnall O'Domnhnaill
14]
in the bishop's court at Rath-Bhoth, in treachery.
A
15]
hosting by Mac William Burk against Fedhlim O'Conchobhair,
16]
and against his son, as far as Ros-Comain; and
17]
the Síl-Muiredhaigh fled before them to the North of
18]
Connacht, and the Foreigners obtained neither preys nor
19]
spoils on this occasion. Donnchadh O'Floinn and his
20]
son Tadhg attacked a division of this army, and one
21]
hundred of them were slain, both good and bad, including
22]
Aitin Russel and his son, and the five sons of Cuconnacht
23]
O'Conchobhair, et alii multi; and the army
afterwards
24]
returned to their homes in disgrace.
Thomas O'Cellaigh,
25]
bishop of Cluain-ferta-Brenainn quievit in
Christo.
26] Ebhdhonn, king of Lochlann, died in
Innsi-Orc, on the
27]
way whilst coming to Erinn.
David O'Finn, abbot of
28]
the monastery of the Buill, quievit.
Diarmaid Clerech,
29]
son of Cormac Mac Diarmada, mortuus
est.
Andiles Mac
30]
Finnbharr, dux of Muinter-Geradhain, obiit.
Gilla-Patraic,
Maelfabhaill
3]
O'hEidhin was slain by Foreigners.
Maelchiarain
4]
O'Maeleoin, abbot of Cluain-mic-Nois, quievit.
A great
5]
war between the comarb of Patrick and the bishop of
6]
Midhe in hoc anno.
A castle was erected by Mac William
7]
Burk at Ath-in-gail in the Corann.
Meachair O'Ruadhain
8]
was killed by Foreigners, in treachery, in the door of the
9]
church of Cill-Seiscnen, in hoc
anno.
Etain, daughter of
10]
O'Flannagain, mortua est.
A very hot summer in this year.
Annal LC1264.
11] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the twenty-seventh
12]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lx. quarto;
13]
xxiiii. anno cycli solaris; xi. anno cycli lunaiis; vii. anno
14]
cycli Indictionis.
A great war was waged by Art
15]
O'Maelsechlainn against the Foreigners of Midhe; and
16]
he inflicted a great slaughter on them about the Brosnach;
17]
and such of them as were not slain were drowned. Muirchertach,
18]
son of Domhnall O'hAirt, was killed, and his
19]
people were burned, by Donn Mac Uidhir in hoc
anno.
20] A great war arose between the king of the Saxons and
21]
the king of Britain, and the Saxon earls opposed Edward
22]
and his son; and a battle was fought between them, in
23]
which Edward, king of the Saxons, and his son were
24]
taken prisoners, and John de Verdun, and a great slaughter
25]
besides was committed between them.
Aenghus O'Clumhain,
26]
bishop of Luighne, died in the monastery of the
27]
Buill, after having resigned his bishopric a long time
28]
before that.
A great depredation was committed by the
29]
Dealbhna on Síl-Anmchadha, and five sons of O'Madadhain
30]
were slain there moreover.
A great meeting between
31]
the Foreigners of Erinn, (including the Justiciary of
32]
Erinn, and including the Earl of Ulster, and Fitz-Gerald,
A great war arose between Mac William
9]
Burk, i.e. the Earl of Ulster, and Fitz-Gerald, in this
10]
year, so that the major part of Erinn was destroyed
11]
between them; and the Earl seized all the castles Fitz-Gerald
12]
had in Connacht, and burned all his manors, and
13]
plundered all his people, during this war. Art O'Maelsechlainn
14]
burned all the castles and street-towns in
15]
Dealbhna, and in Breghmhuine, and in Calraighe, and
16]
expelled the Foreigners out of them all, and afterwards
17]
took the hostages of the chieftains of the entire district;
18]
and Loch-Luatha was also burned by him. The Justiciary
19]
of Erinn, and John Gogan, and Tibbot Butler were
20]
taken prisoners by Fitz-Gerald in a consecrated church.
21]
The castle of Loch-Mesca, and the castle of Ard-rathain,
22]
were seized by Mac William Burk into his own hand in
23]
hoc anno. Domhnall O'hEghra, king of Luighne, was
24]
slain by Foreigners.
Cumhuighe O'Cathain, king of
25]
Cianachta, captus est per Aedh
Buidhe.
Friars Minor
26]
were brought to Ard-Macha by the archbishop, i.e. Maelpatraic
27]
O'Scannail; and the same man, i.e. Maelpatraic,
28]
made a trench round Ard-Macha in this year.
29] The kalends of January on Thursday, the eighth of the
30]
moon; xxv. anno cycli solaris; xii. anno cycli
lunaris;
31]
viii. anno Indictionis; M.cc.lx. quinto.
Thomas, son of
Thomas O'Maicin, bishop of Luighne, quievit.
3] The castle of Sligech was demolished by Aedh O'Conchobhair;
4]
and the castle of Benn-fhada and the castle of
5]
Rath-aird-craibhe were burned and demolished by him
6]
also.
The monastery of Tobar-Patraic was burned in
7]
this year.
Tadhg Mac Fhinnbhair was killed by Conchobhar
8]
Mac Raghnaill, and by the son of Domhnall
9]
O'Ferghail, in hoc anno.
Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg
10]
O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht—the protector and
11]
supporter of his own province, and the protector of his
12]
friends on every side; the plunderer and extirpator of
13]
his enemies wherever they might be; a man full of
14]
bounty and prowess; a man full of distinction and honor
15]
in Erinn and Saxon-land—died after the triumph of
16]
unction and penitence, and was interred in the monastery
17]
of the Friars Preachers in Ros-Comain, which he had
18]
previously granted to God and the Order. Aedh O'Conchobhair,
19]
i.e. his own son, assumed the sovereignty of
20]
Connacht after his father, and executed his royal depredation
21]
on the Uí-Failghe, where he committed many
22]
burnings and killings; and, on his return to Ath-Luain,
23]
he blinded Cathal, son of Tadhg O'Conchobhair, who
24]
died after having been blinded.
Muirchertach, son of
25]
Cathal, son of Diarmaid, son of Tadhg O'Maelruanaidh,
26]
king of Magh-Luirg, died in this year. Gilla-na-naemh
27]
O'Cuinn, chieftain of Muinter-Gillgan, mortuus
est.
Cathal
28]
Mac Raghnaill, chieftain of Muinter-Eolais, mortuus est.
29] Muiredhach O'Cerbhaill, chieftain of Calraidhe, mortuus
30]
est.
Maelbrighde O'Grugan, airchinnech of Oilfinn, mortuus
31]
est.
Maurice, son of Niall O'Conchobhair, was
32]
elected to the bishopric of Oilfinn in hoc
anno.
A
33]
conference was held by Tomaltach O'Conchobhair, archbishop
34]
of Connacht, with David Prendergast and the
35]
Mac Murchadhas; and a great number of the archbishop's
36]
people were slain by them on that day at
Derbhorgaill, daughter of O'Dubhda, i.e.
2]
the mother of Tomaltach O'Conchobhair, archbishop of
3]
Connacht, died after the victory of penitence.
A great
4]
war between the king of the Saxons and Simon Mufford.
5] Murchadh Mac Suibhne was apprehended by Domhnall,
6]
son of Maghnus, and surrendered into the hands of the
7]
Earl; and he died in the prison.
Annal LC1266.
8] The kalends of January on Friday, and the nineteenth
9]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxvi; xxvi. anno
cycli
10]
solaris; xiii. anno cycli lunaris; ix. anno cycli
Indictionis..
11] Mathghamhain, son of Ceithernach O'Cerin, king of Ciarraighe,
12]
was slain by the Foreigners of D&úacute;n-mór in hoc
13]
anno.
Mathghamhain O'Cuilén, king of the Claen-ghlais,
14]
was killed by his own wife, with one thrust of a knife,
15]
through jealousy, this year.
The castle of Tech-Dachoinne
16]
was broken down and laid waste in this year; and all
17]
Conmaicne was laid waste.
Domhnall, O'hEghra, king of
18]
Luighne, occisus est whilst burning
Ard-na-riadh against
19]
the Foreigners, in hoc anno.
Toirdhelbhach, son of Aedh,
20]
son of Cathal Crobhderg, died in the monastery of Cnoc-Muaidhe
21]
in this year.
Diarmaid Ruadh, son of Conchobhar,
22]
son of Cormac Mac Diarmada, and Donncatha,
23]
son of Donn Og Mac Oireghtaigh, were blinded by Aedh
24]
O'Conchobhair.
Sadhbh, daughter of Cathal Crobhderg,
25]
mortua est.
Maelisa O'hAnainn, prior of Ros-Comáin
26]
and Ath-Liag, quievit in Christo.
The borough of
27]
Bel-an-táchair was burned by Flann Ruadh O'Floinn;
28]
and many of the Foreigners of the town were slain by
29]
him. Several castles and corn-fields were also burned
Thomas
2]
O'Maelchonaire, archdeacon of Tuaim, quievit in
Christo.
3] Aedh O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht, went into the
4]
Breifne to depose Art, son of Cathal Riabhach O'Ruairc;
5]
and he gave the sovereignty to Conchobhar Buidhe, son
6]
of Amhlaibh, son of Art O'Ruairc, and took the hostages
7]
of all the chieftains of the Breifne.
The bishopric of
8]
Luighne was assumed by Thomas O'Miadhachán, and
9]
the degrees of these two bishops were conferred on the
10]
same day.
Hugo Mac Goisdelbh mortuus est.
Aedh
11]
O'Muiredhaigh was killed in hoc
anno.
An army was
12]
led by William Burk against O'Maelsechlainn; and a
13]
great number of them, were drowned in Ath-crochdha,
14]
and the rest turned back without obtaining sway or hostages
15]
on this occasion.
A bishop-elect came from Rome
16]
to Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, and his episcopal degree was
17]
conferred on him at Ath-na-righ the Sunday before
18]
Christmas.
A great slaughter was committed by a party
19]
of O'Conchobhair's people, viz:—by Lochlainn, son of
20]
Diarmaid, son of Muirchertach, and by Mac Ceithernaigh
21]
and the son of Domhnall Dubh O'hEghra, on the
22]
Britons and Lagenians of the West of Connacht, thirty-one
23]
of whose heads were presented to O'Conchobhair by
24]
them.
Cormac, son of Gilla-Christ Mac Diarmada, was
25]
wounded, and died of the wound.
The degree of bishop
26]
was conferred in Ard-Macha on a Friar Preacher, i.e.
27]
O'Scoba, appointed bishop of Rath-Both of
Tir-Conaill.
28] Maeleoin Bodhar O'Maelchonaire mortuus
est.
Annal LC1267.
29] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the thirtieth
30]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxvii; xxvii. anno
cycli
2] Maelsechlainn, son of Conchobhar, son of Aedh,
3]
and his father Conchobhar himself, and his brother Aedh,
4]
died in one quarter.
Murchadh Mac Suibhne was apprehended
5]
by Domhnall, son of Maghnus O'Conchobhair, in
6]
Umhall, and was surrendered to Walter Burk, i.e. Earl of
7]
Ulster; and he died in the Earl's prison afterwards.
Brian,
8]
son of Toirdhelbhach, son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, died
9]
in the monastery of Cnoc-Muaidhe in this year.
Druim-cliabh
10]
was all burned, with its houses and
churches.
A
11]
great depredation was committed by the Foreigners of the
12]
West of Connacht on the inhabitants of
Cairpre-Droma-cliabh;
13]
and they plundered Es-dara.
Another great
14]
depredation was committed by Mac William Burk on
15]
O'Conchobhair, when he plundered Tir-Maine and
Clann-Uadach.
16] The bishop of Cluain-ferta, i.e. a Roman, went
17]
across to the Pope.
Donnchadh, son of Ruaidhri, son of
18]
Aedh O'Conchobhair, was killed by Foreigners in
hoc
19]
anno.
A great illness seized Aedh O'Conchobhair, so
20]
that the report thereof spread throughout all Erinn; but he
21]
recovered safely from it.
Alice, daughter of Mac Carghamhna,
22]
mortua est.
A great war in Saxon-land between
23]
the king of the Saxons and Simon Suforn.
Annal LC1268.
24] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the eleventh
25]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxviii; xxviii. anno
cycli
26]
solaris; xv. anno cycli lunaris; xi. anno
Indictionis.
Conchobhar
27]
O'Briain, king of Tuadh-Mumha, was killed by
28]
Diarmaid, son of Muirchertach O'Brian; and his son, i.e.
29]
Seonin, and his daughter, and his daughter's son, i.e. the
30]
son of Ruaidhri O'Grada, and Dubhlochlainn O'Lochlainn,
31]
and Thomas O'Beollain, and many more women and men,
32]
who are not enumerated here, were slain along with them;
Maghnus Mac Oirechtaigh, dux of
4]
Clann-Tomaltaigh, quievit.
Raghnailt, daughter of
5]
O'Conchobhair, wife of Cathal O'Madadhain, quievit.
6] Maurice Ruadh Fitz-Gerald was drowned in the sea of
7]
Erinn, with a ship's crew, whilst coming to Erinn from the
8]
king of the Saxons.
The Roman Emperor Carolus
9]
was slain by the Saracens whilst defending Christendom.
10] Aedh, son of Conchobhar O'Flaithbhertaigh, official of
11]
Enach-dúin, mortuus est.
Toirdhelbhach Og, son of Aedh,
12]
son of Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg, foster-son of
13]
the Uí-Briuin, quievit.
Aedh O'Conchobhair was summoned
14]
by the Foreigners of Erinn to a conference at
15]
Ath-Luain. O'Conchobhair, moreover, mustered his
16]
forces to meet them there, and inflicted a great defeat on
17]
them in Fedha-Atha-Luain, where a great number of
18]
them were slain.
Domhnall, son of Tadhg O'Mannachain,
19]
was slain, viz.: by Tadhg O'Flannagain and Gilla-Christ
20]
O'Birn, on the 7th of the kalends of January; and
21]
his people ran away from him.
Ferghal O'Maelmhuaidh,
22]
king of Feara-Ceall, was killed by Foreigners.
Maelsechlainn
23]
Mac Cochlain was killed by Foreigners.
24] Dubhgall Mac Ruaidhri, king of Innsi-Gall and Airer-Gaeidhel,
25]
quievit.
Domhnall O'Grada, dux of Cenel-Dunghaile,
26]
mortuus est.
Lochlainn, son of Diarmaid
27]
O'Conchobhair, was killed by David Aulb, and by the
28]
Uí-Cinaetha; and they were themselves immediately
29]
slain in return.
Diarmaid, son of the Aithcleirech
30]
O'Briain, died. Mathghamhain O'Briain was taken
31]
prisoner, and mutilated, by Briain Ruadh O'Briain, in
Conchobhar O'Cellaigh, king of
2]
Uí-Maine, mortuus est.
Aenghus O'Dalaigh i.e. an
3]
eminent professor of poetry, and keeper of a
house of
4]
hospitality, quievit.
Annal LC1269.
5] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the twenty-second
6]
of the moon; anno Domini Mcc.lxix; primus
7]
annus cycli solaris; xvi. annus cycli lunaris; xii.
8]
annus cycli Indictionis.
Imhar O'Birn, servant and
9]
confidential man to Aedh O'Conchobhair, withdrew from
10]
the world, from the midst of his children and affluence,
11]
after resolving to pass his life in Ros-Comain, in the
12]
monastery of the Friars Preachers.
A new Justiciary
13]
came to Erinn from the king of the Saxons, i.e. Robert
14]
Sufforn, to settle and pacify Erinn. He afterwards proceeded
15]
into Connacht, accompanied by the Foreigners
16]
of Erinn; and a castle was erected in Ros-Comáin
17]
by them. And the reason it was erected was that
18]
Aedh O'Conchobhair was at that time in sickness and
19]
ill-health.
Tadhg, son of Niall, son of Muiredhach
20]
O'Conchobhair, was most unfortunately slain by a soldier
21]
of his own brother's people, at Oilfinn in hoc
anno; and
22]
the soldier was himself immediately killed in retaliation
23]
for it.
Brian, son of Domhnall Dubh O'hEghra, was
24]
killed in Sligech, by Foreigners, in hoc
anno.
Benmhidhe,
25]
daughter of Toirdhelbhach, son of Ruaidhri, i.e. the wife
26]
of Maelmuire Mac Suibhne, quievit.
Seffraidh, son of
27]
Domhnall Clannach Mac Gillapatraic, king of Sliabh-Bladhma,
28]
died in hoc anno.
Patricius O'Scannail, comarb
29]
of Patrick in Ard-Macha, died; in Christo
quievit.
30] Christina, daughter of O'Neachtain, wife of Diarmaid
Aedh O'Finn,
5]
the most eminent professor of music and minstrelsy in
6]
Erinn, mortuus est.
The castle of Sligech was erected
7]
by Mac Maurice Fitz-Gerald in this year.
Echmhilidh
8]
Mac Cairtén was slain by O'hAnluain.
Domhnall
9]
O'Ferghail, and his son, Aedh O'Ferghail, were slain by
10]
Gilla-na-naemh O'Ferghail and the Foreigners, in
hoc
11]
anno.
Annal LC1270.
12] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the third
13]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxx; secundus annus
14]
cycli solaris; xvii. annus cycli lunaris; xiii. annus
15]
Indictionis..
Sligech was burned by O'Domhnaill and
16]
the Cenel-Conaill, and the son of Breallach-an-chairn
17]
O'Maelbhrenainn was killed on this expedition.
A
18]
great war and dissension arose between O'Conchobhair,
19]
i.e. Aedh, the son of Fedhlim, and Walter Burk, i.e.
20]
the Earl of Ulster; and neither the Foreigners nor
21]
the Gaeidhel could reconcile them. The Earl assembled
22]
the Foreigners of Erinn, together with the Justiciary,
23]
when they all went on a great hosting into Connacht,
24]
and proceeded to Ros-Comain the first night, and from
25]
thence to Oilfinn the second night, and from thence to
26]
Port-leice; and they rested and encamped that night
27]
at Port-leice. And on the morrow they held a council,
28]
and the resolution they adopted was; viz., that the
29]
Earl and the chiefs of the Foreigners of Erinn should
30]
then go eastwards across the Sionainn at Ath-caradh-Conaill.
31]
As regards the king of Connacht, however,
32]
i.e. Aedh, son of Fedhlim O'Conchobhair, he was
Thomas O'Raighilligh was slain by the
23]
Foreigners of the Ober.
The son of Murchadh Carrach
24]
O'Ferghail was slain by Foreigners.
The comarb of
25]
Patrick quievit.
Great famine and scarcity in all Erinn
26]
in hoc anno.
Cathal, son of the Liathanach O'Conchobhair,
27]
abbot of the Trinity in Loch-Cé, natus est
in
28]
hoc anno.
Lewis, i.e. the king of France, died this year.
29] Edward, son of the king of the Saxons, went to the Holy
In this year it was, moreover, that
2]
an end and termination was put to the ollaveship of the
3]
Dubh-súilech O'Maelchonaire, and of Dunlang O'Maelchonaire;
4]
and Tanaidhe Mór, son of Donnin, son of
5]
Nedhe, son of Conang Buidhe O'Maelchonaire, was established
6]
in the ollave's chair of the province of Connacht,
7]
ut poeta dixit:—
- 8] The guiding Tanaidhe,
9] Son of Donnin, a learned ollamh,
10] Spent forty happy years
11] In the middle of Lis-Leirthoile.
Annal LC1271.
12] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the fourteenth
13]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxx. primo;
14]
tertius annus cycli solaris; xviii. annus cycli lunaris;
15]
xiiii. annus Indictionis.
Walter Burk, Earl of Ulster, and
16]
lord of the Foreigners of Connacht, died in the castle of
17]
the Gaillimh, of a week's illness, after the victory of
18]
penitence.
Thomas Mac Maurice died in Baile-Locha-Mesca.
19] Imhar O'Birn, a prime confidant of Aedh O'Conchobhair,
20]
king of Connacht, died in this year at Ros-Comain,
21]
after the victory of penitence; and he was
22]
interred therein on the fourth of the kalends of
February.
23] Aedh, son of Comarb-Comain O'Conchobhair, was slain
24]
by Thomas Butler at Muine-inghine-Crechain.
Domhnall
25]
O'Floinn was killed by the son of Robin Laighleis
26]
on the same day, at the upper end of Sruthair.
Mathghamhain
27]
O'Conchobhair was killed by the Foreigners
28]
of Dún-mór.
Nicholas, son of John Verdun, lord of
29]
Oirghiall, was slain by Jeffrey O'Ferghail, and by the people
30]
of the Anghaile besides.
Conchobhar, son of Tighernan
31]
O'Conchobhair, was slain by Maelsechlainn, son of Art
The castle of Tech-Templa,
2]
the castle of Sligech, and the castle of Ath-Liag,
3]
were broken down by Aedh O'Conchobhair in hoc
anno.
Annal LC1272.
4] The kalends of January on Friday, and the twenty-fifth
5]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxx. secundo.
It
6]
was the last Decennovenalian year; quartus annus
cycli
7]
solaris; xv. annus Indictionis.
Henry Butler, lord of
8]
Umhall, and Hoitse Mebhric were slain by Cathal, son of
9]
Conchobhar Ruadh, and by the sons of kings of Connacht,
10]
in hoc anno.
The castle of Ros-Comáin was broken
11]
down by Aedh O'Conchobhair.
Tadhg Dall, son of Aedh,
12]
son of Cathal Crobhderg, i.e. the fittest person in his
13]
own province to be a king, until he was blinded by
Muinter-Raighilligh,
14]
died in hoc anno.
James Dodalaigh, i.e.
15]
the Justiciary of Erinn, was slain by O'Brain, and by a
16]
multitude of Connachtmen.
Muirghes, son of Donnchadh,
17]
son of Tomaltach O'Maelruanaigh, the most eminent for
18]
hospitality and prowess in Erinn, died in Murbhach.
19] Midhe was burned as far as Granard by Aedh
O'Conchobhair.
20] Ath-Luain was burned, and the bridge broken
21]
down.
Donnchadh, son of Gilla-na-naemh Mac Shamhradhain,
22]
was killed by Thomas Mac Shamhradhain, i.e.
23]
his own brother.
Richard Tuit, the noblest baron in
24]
Erinn, quievit.
A large fleet by Aedh O'Conchobhair on
25]
Loch-Ribh; and he committed great burnings, and many
26]
other injuries.
Annal LC1273.
27] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the sixth of
28]
the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxx .tertio; primus
annus
29]
Decennovenalis cycli; quinto anno cycli solaris; primus
30]
annus cycli Indictionis.
Conchobhar Buidhe, son of
31]
Amhlaibh, son of Art O'Ruairc, king of Breifne, was
32]
killed by the sons of Conchobhar, son of Tighernan
Eochaidh Mac
3]
Mathghamhna, king of Oirghiall, and many more along
4]
with him who are not specified, were killed by O'hAnluain
5]
and the Cenel-Eoghain in hoc anno.
A depredation
6]
was committed in the Corann by Jordan de Exeter,
7]
when a few of the sons of kings of Connacht overtook
8]
them; but they adopted an imprudent resolution at the
9]
suggestion of their people, so that Domhnall, son of
10]
Donnchadh, son of Maghnus, and Maghnus, son of Art,
11]
and Oirechtach Mac Aedhagain, and Aedh O'Birn, et
alii
12]
multi, were slain.
A great hosting by the son of Maurice
13]
Fitz-Gerald into Tuadh-Mumha, when he took hostages,
14]
and obtained sway over O'Briain.
Cormac, son of Diarmaid,
15]
son of Ruaidhri, mortuus est.
Geoffroi Geneville
16]
came to Erinn, as Justiciary from the king of the Saxons,
17]
in hoc anno.
Domhnall Irruis, son of Maghnus, son of
18]
Muirchertach Muimhnech, was expelled by the Foreigners
19]
from Umhall, and from Irrus, in hoc
anno.
Ruaidhri
20]
O'Flaithbhertaigh was expelled from the west of Connacht,
21]
by the Foreigners, in like manner.
Annal LC1274.
22] The kalends of January on Monday, the seventeenth
23]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxx. quarto; secundo
24]
anno Decennovenalis cycli; vi. anno cycli solaris; secundus
25]
annus Indictionis.
Aedh, son of Fedhlim, son of
26]
Cathal Crobhderg, king of Connacht during the space of
27]
nine years, died on the fifth of the nones of May in this
28]
year, on a Thursday as regards the day of the week, id
29]
est Inventio Sanctae Crucis: a king who emptied and
30]
wasted Connacht against the Foreigners and Gaeidhel who
31]
were opposed to him; a king who inflicted frequent great
32]
defeats on Foreigners and Gaeidhel, and a king who
33]
demolished their courts and castles; a king who took
- 6] Nine years was the valiant Aedh
7] Defending the tribe of Temhair;
8] Not weak was the man to be found
9] Against Foreigners and Gaeidhel.
10] Eoghan, son of Ruaidhri, son of Aedh, son of Cathal
11]
Crobhderg, was made king in his place by the Connachtmen;
12]
but this sovereignty which was conferred on him
13]
was not of long duration, for he was only one quarter
14]
in the supremacy of the province of Connacht when his
15]
own kinsman, i.e. Ruaidhri, son of Toirdhelbhach, son of
16]
Aedh O'Conchobhair, killed him in the Friars' church of
17]
Ros-Comain, ut dixit poeta:—
- 18] The son of Ruaidhri, who was king for a quarter,
19] Was not a lasting fibre of a beauteous branch;
20] The host of Oilech, without slaughter, inflicted
21] The tragic death which Eoghan received.
22] Aedh, son of Cathal Dall, son of Aedh, son of Cathal
23]
Crobhderg, was made king by the Connachtmen, after
24]
Eoghan, son of Ruaidhri; but his sovereignty was not
25]
of longer duration, for he was only one fortnight in the
26]
sovereignty when he was slain by Mac Oirechtaigh, (i.e.
27]
Tomaltach), and by O'Birn, ut dixit
poeta:—
- 28] Aedh, son of Cathal—valiant the sway—
29] Defended the province of Connacht;
30] A fortnight was the descendant of Creidhe thus
31] As a husband to Cruachan.
1] Tadhg, son of Toirdhelbhach, son of Aedh, son of Cathal
2]
Crobhderg, was made king after Aedh, son of Cathal, in
3]
the same year. No trifling loss was it in one year, indeed,
4]
three kings of the kings of Connacht to have fallen in it,
5]
viz., Aedh son of Fedhlim, and Eoghan son of Ruaidhri, and
6]
Aedh, son of Cathal Dall, ut supra
diximus.
Tighernan,
7]
son of Aedh O'Ruairc, king of Breifne, mortuus
est.
8] Domhnall, son of Maghnus, son of Muirchertach Muimhnech
9]
O'Conchobhair, the most eminent of all Erinn
10]
for hospitality and prowess, mortuus
est.
Tadhg, son
11]
of Cerbhall Buidhe O'Dalaigh, chief poet of Aedh
12]
O'Conchobhair, died in hoc anno.
Gilla-na-naemh, son
13]
of Aedh, son of Amhlaibh O'Ferghail, the choicest of
14]
all the chieftains of Erinn in his own time, died after
15]
the victory of penitence, after having been thirty years
16]
in the chieftainship of the descendants of Conmac,
17]
son of Fergus, defending the Anghaile against the
18]
Foreigners, and against the Gaeidhel besides: and Cathal,
19]
son of Gilla-na-naemh, assumed the chieftainship afterwards,
20]
and enjoyed it nine years.
Cathal Mac Flannchaidh,
21]
chieftain of Dartraighe, mortuus
est.
Maelsechlainn,
22]
son of Amhlaibh, son of Art O'Ruairc, king
23]
of Dartraighe and Clann-Fermhaighe, was slain at Cill-Forga
24]
by Conchobhar, son of Domhnall, son of Niall
25]
O'Ruairc, who was himself made king afterwards.
26] Domhnall Og, son of Amhlaibh, son of Art O'Ruairc,
27]
mortuus est.
Annal LC1275.
28] The kalends of January on Tuesday, the twenty-eighth
29]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxx. quinto; iii.
anno
30]
Decennovenalis cycli; iii. anno Indictionis; vii. anno cycli
31]
solaris.
Ruaidhri, son of Toirdbelbhach O'Conchobhair,
32]
was taken prisoner by his own brother, i.e. by Tadhg, son
33]
of Toirdhelbhach; and Tadhg, son of Cathal Mac Diarmada,
34]
was completely plundered by him. And the same
35]
Ruaidhri escaped from this confinement, viz. Conchobhar
36]
O'hAinlighe took him with him; and they were pursued,
Conchobhar,
2]
son of Ferghal, son of Donnchadh, son of Muirchertach, was
3]
killed by his own brethren.
Art, son of Cathal Riabhach
4]
O'Ruairc, king of Breifne, was slain by Mac Finnbhair
5]
and Muinter-Geradhain, accompanied by Foreigners, at
6]
Granard; and a slaughter of his people was committed.
7] Cairbre O'Scoba, bishop of Rath-Both, in Christo
quievit.
8] O'Laidhigh, i.e. bishop of Cill-Alaidh, quievit in
Christo.
9] Thomas Mac Shamhradhain was slain by the
Cenel-Duachain.
10] The son of Cuconnacht O'Raighilligh was
11]
slain by the Clann-Cathail, per
dolum.
A great victory
12]
was gained over the Foreigners in Uladh, so that two
13]
hundred of their heads, and two hundred horses, were
14]
counted, cum multis aliis.
Annal LC1276.
15] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the ninth
16]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxx.sexto; quarto
anno
17]
cycli lunaris; quarto anno Indictionis;
viii. anno cycli
18]
solaris.
Aedh Muimhnech, son of Fedlimh, son of Cathal
19]
Crobhderg, came out of Mumha, and went to seek O'Domhnaill's
20]
protection; and O'Domhnaill mustered his army;
21]
and they both came to Echanach, where O'Domhnaill
22]
turned back; and the son of Fedhlim went from thence
23]
amongst the Connachtmen, where he remained.
The sons
24]
of Toirdhelbhach, however, came afterwards into the district,
25]
and committed great burnings; but they obtained
26]
no power in the district except this alone.
Diarmaid,
27]
son of Gillamuire O'Morna, king of Uladh, mortuus
28]
est.
A depredation was committed by the sons of
29]
Toirdhelbhach on the son of Fedhlim and the sons of
A depredation was committed
3]
by the son ofFedhlim on the Clann-Muirchertaigh;
4]
and the Clann-Muirchertaigh killed Gilla-na-naingel
5]
O'Conroi, whilst in pursuit of this prey, and several others
6]
of the son of Fedhlim's people.
Ruaidhri, son of Toirdhelbhach,
7]
committed another great depredation on Muinter-Nechtain;
8]
but Muinter-Nechtain defeated him and took
9]
the prey from him; and Domhnall, son of Niall, son
10]
of Conghalach O'Ruairc—who was usually called Gilla-an-imme
11]
—was slain, and many other persons of Ruaidhri's
12]
people along with him. Gilla-Christ O'Nechtain and
13]
William O'Nechtain were afterwards slain by Ruaidhri,
14]
son of Toirdhelbhach.
Annal LC1277.
15] The kalends of January on Friday, and the twentieth
16]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxxvii; quinto anno
cycli
17]
lunaris; ix. anno cycli solaris; quinto anno
Indictionis.
18] Brian Ruadh O'Briain, king of Mumha, was apprehended,
19]
in treachery, by the son of the Earl of Clare, after they
20]
had poured their blood into the same vessel, and after
21]
they had formed gossipred, and after they had exchanged
22]
mutual vows by the relics, bells, and croziers of Mumha;
23]
and he was afterwards drawn between steeds by the
24]
Earl's son.
Gilla-Christ O'Birn, a favourite of Aedh O'Conchobhair,
25]
was most cruelly slain by the Gilla-ruadh, son
26]
of Lochlainn O'Conchobhair.
Braen O'Maelmocheirghe,
27]
abbot of Cenannus, in Christo
quievit.
The castle of
28]
Ros-Comainn was thrown down by the son of Fedhlim,
29]
and by Domhnall O'Domhnaill, and by the Connachtmen
30]
along with him.
A great depredation was committed
31]
by the Tellach-Echach on the Cenel-Duachain, in
Annal LC1278.
3] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the first of
4]
the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxx. octavo; x. anno
cycli
5]
solaris; sexto anno cycli lunaris; vi. anno
Indictionis.
6] Tadhg, son of Toirdhelbhach, son of Aedh, son of Cathal
7]
Crobhderg, was slain by the sons of Cathal Mac Diarmada,
8]
after having been three years in the government of Connacht,
9]
ut poeta dixit, i.e. Donn Losg
O'Maelchonaire:—
- 10] O'Conchobhair of Cluain-ca,
11] The son of Toirdhelbhach, was king three years;
12] All, during his reign, were obedient to Tadhg:
13] The hostages of the country he collected;
Ruaidhri, son of Toirdhelbhach,
16]
royal heir of Connacht, was slain by Gilla-Christ Mac
17]
Flannchaidh, and by the Dartraighe likewise, on the borders
18]
of Druim-cliabh; and the Swarthy Parson, son of Tighernan
19]
O'Conchobhair, and many other persons not enumerated
20]
here, were slain.
Donnchadh and Ferghal, and Gilla-Christ
21]
—three sons of Muirghis, son of Donnchadh, son of
22]
Tomaltach—were slain by Tadhg, son of Domhnall
Irruis.
23] Flaithbhertach O'Doimhín, king of Feara-Manach, was
24]
slain in this year.
The defeat of Cuinnche was inflicted
25]
by Donnchadh, son of Brian Ruadh O'Briain, and by
26]
O'Briain's other sons, on the son of the Earl of Clare,
27]
when they burned the church of Cuinnche over the heads
28]
of his people; and persons innumerable were burned and
29]
slain there, but, alas! the Earl's son escaped safely
30]
from them.
Thomas O'Cuinn, bishop of Cluain-mic-Nois,
31]
quievit.
Tomaltach Mac Oirechtaigh, king-chieftain of
32]
Síl-Muiredhaigh, was slain by the Tuatha in
hoc anno.
Annal LC1279.
1] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the twelfth of
2]
the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxxix; xi. anno cycli
3]
solaris; vii. anno cycli lunaris et Indictionis.
Tomaltach,
4]
son of Toirdhelbhach, son of Maelsechlainn O'Conchobhair,
5]
archbishop of Tuaim, the most eminent man in all
6]
Erinn for wisdom and knowledge, for hospitality and
7]
nobility, for munificence, and for distributing jewels
8]
and valuables to all in general, died after the triumph
9]
of penitence in hoc anno.
Maelsechlainn, son of Toirdhelbhach,
10]
was slain in hoc anno.
Conchobhar, son of
11]
Diarmaid, son of Maghnus O'Conchobhair, occisus
est.
12] Gilla-an-Choimdedh O'Cerbhalláin, bishop of Cenel-Eoghain,
13]
quievit.
Murchadh O'Nechtain was killed by
14]
Domhnall O'Nechtain; and Domhnall was challenged to
15]
fight by Robert O'Nechtain, (i.e. Murchadh's brother),
16]
and Robert was also killed in this fight.
Domhnall, son of Gilla-Christ
17]
O'Nechtain, was killed by Aedh O'Conchennain
18]
in hoc anno.
Annal LC1280.
19] The kalends of January on Monday, and the twenty-third
20]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxxx; xii. anno
21]
cycli solaris; viii. anno cycli
Decennovenalis et Indictionis.
22] A contention arose between Aedh Muimhnech,
23]
son of Fedhlim, son of Cathal Crobhderg, king of
24]
Connacht, and the descendants of Muirchertach Muimhnech
25]
O'Conchobhair, in hoc anno; and Aedh Muimhnech
26]
was killed by them in Coill-an-daingin; and
27]
Maelsechlainn, son of Maghnus, was taken prisoner by
28]
them on the same day, but was ransomed from them
29]
by O'Domhnaill for four hundred cows and twenty
30]
horses. And Cathal, son of Conchobhar Ruadh, son
31]
of Muirchertach Muimhnech, son of Toirdhelbhach
32]
Mór O'Conchobhair, was afterwards made king by the
33]
Connachtmen.
John O'Laidigh, bishop of Cill-Alaidh, in
Matthew, son of Maghnus O'Conchobhair,
2]
abbot of the Buill, quievit.
Annal LC1281.
3] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the fourth
4]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxxx. primo; xiii.
anno
5]
cycli solaris; ix. anno cycli lunaris et
Indictionis.
Tadhg,
6]
son of Cathal, son of Conchobhar, son of Diarmaid (from
7]
whom the Mac Diarmadas are named), king of Magh-Luirg,
8]
the most eminent man in Erinn for hospitality,
9]
prowess, and nobility, mortuus
est.
The battle of Disert-dá-chrich
10]
between the Cenel-Conaill and Cenel-Eoghain,
11]
in which fell Domhnall Og O'Domhnaill, king of
12]
the North—i.e. a man to whom submitted the Feara-Manach,
13]
and the Oirghialla, and nearly the majority of
14]
the Gaeidhel of Connacht and Uladh, and also the men
15]
of Breifne; the best Gaeidhel for hospitality and dignity;
16]
the general guardian of the west of Europe, and the
17]
knitting needle of the arch-sovereignty, and the
18]
rivetting hammer of every good law; the parallel of
19]
Conaire, son of Edirscel, in purity when assuming sovereignty;
20]
the top nut of the Gaeidhel in valour; the equal
21]
of Cathal Crobhderg in battle and attack: and he
22]
was honourably interred in the monastery of the Friars
23]
in Doire-Choluim-Chille, after obtaining the palm of
24]
every goodness. And these were the best who were
25]
slain along with him in that battle, viz. Maelruanaidh
26]
O'Baighill, chieftain of the Three Tuatha; and Eoghan,
27]
son of Maelsechlainn, son of Domhnall Mór O'Domhnaill;
28]
and Ceallach O'Baighill, i.e. the son of Gilla-Brighde—the
29]
chieftain who, of all his contemporaries, was the best
30]
for hospitality and generosity, and who distributed
31]
various gifts in largest measure to learned men, and who
32]
was the best for munificence and nobility; and Andiles
33]
O'Baighill, and his son Dubhgall; and Mac Flannchaidh,
34]
chieftain of Dartraighe; and Domhnall Mac Gilla-fhinnén,
35]
chieftain of Muinter Pheodacháin; and Enna
O'Gairmleghaigh,
36]
high chieftain of Cenel-Móain; and Cormac,
Another battle in hoc anno between
11]
the Barretts and the Cusack; and the Barretts were
12]
defeated, and William Barrett, and Adam Fleming, and
13]
many other persons, were slain; and two of the Gaeidhel
14]
were present on the Cusack's side, who excelled all
15]
there in vigour, agility, and dexterity, viz.:—Taichlech
16]
O'Dubhda and Taichlech O'Baighill were these
two.
Annal LC1282.
17] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the fifteenth
18]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxxxii; xiiii. anno
19]
cycli solaris; x. anno cycli lunaris et
Indictionis.
Muirchertach
20]
Mac Murchadha, king of Laighen, and Art Mac
21]
Murchadha, his brother, were slain by Foreigners in hoc
22]
anno.
Taichlech, son of Maelruanaidh O'Dubhda, king
23]
of Uí-Fiachrach-Muaidhe, i.e. the best man for hospitality
24]
and prowess, and who had most conflicts and contentions
25]
with Foreigners and Danars regarding his country, whilst
26]
protecting it, was killed by Adam Cusack on
Traigh-Eothaile.
27] Lassairfhiona, daughter of Cathal Crobhderg
28]
O'Conchobhair, wife of Domhnall Og O'Domhnaill, i.e. the
29]
most noble, and hospitable, and beautiful woman that was
30]
in Erinn in her own time, quievit in
Christo.
Matthew
31]
O'Raighilligh, dux of Muinter-Maelmordha,
died in hoc
Gilla-Isa Mac Tighernáin, dux of
Teallach-Dunchadha,
2]
quievit.
Cathal, son of Gilla-na-naemh O'Ferghail,
3]
chieftain of the Anghaile during nine years, died on Inis-Cuan
4]
on the river of Cluain-lis of Bec Mac Connla, i.e.
5]
king of Tethbha; and it is from this that the 'long ridge'
6]
was understood; for the prophet told Cathal that he
7]
would die on the 'long ridge', wherefore it was that Cathal
8]
used always to avoid visiting the 'long ridge'.
Jeffrey,
9]
son of Gilla-na-naemh, assumed the chieftaincy
afterwards.
10] Very great snow from Christmas to the festival of
11]
Brighid in this year.
Annal LC1283.
12] The kalends of January on Friday, and the twenty-sixth
13]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxxx. tertio; xv.
14]
anno cycli solaris; xi. anno cycli lunaris et
Indictionis.
15] Aedh Buidhe O'Neill, king of Cenel-Eoghain, and also
16]
royal heir of all Erinn; head of the hospitality and valour
17]
of the Gaeidhel, and the most distinguished of the North
18]
for bestowing jewels, and cattle, and horses; and the most
19]
formidable and victorious man of the Cenel-Eoghain in his
20]
own time, was slain by Brian Mac Mathghamhna, king of
21]
Oirghiall, and by the Oirghialla likewise, and by Gilla-Isa
22]
Ruadh, son of Domhnall O'Raighilligh, in hoc
anno.
Tadhg,
23]
son of Domhnall Irruis O'Conchobhair, was wounded by
24]
the Luighne, and taken prisoner, delivered to Cathal
25]
O'Conchobhair, when he died of his wound, in hoc
anno.
26] Athcliath and Christ's Church were burned in hoc
anno.
Annal LC1284.
27] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the seventh
28]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxxx.quarto; vi.
anno
29]
cycli solaris; xii. anno cycli lunaris et
Indictionis.
Simon
30]
de Exeter was slain by Brian O'Floinn and the two sons
A
2]
great war and dissension arose in Connacht through
3]
this, and great depredations were committed round Corrsliabh
4]
by the Foreigners; but full restitution was given
5]
by these Foreigners to the community of the Trinity,
6]
and to the monks of the Buill.
Dún-mór was burned
7]
by Fiachra O'Floinn.
Maurice O'Conchobhair, bishop of
8]
Oilfinn, in Christo quievit.
Donnchadh O'Briain, king
9]
of Tuadh-Mumha, was slain by Toirdhelbhach O'Briain.
10] Gilla-Isa Mac Tighernáin, high chieftain of
Cenel-Brenainn,
11]
quievit.
Amhlaibh O'Tomaltaigh, the confirmed
12]
elect of the bishopric of Oilfinn, in Christo
quievit.
Gilla-Isa,
13]
son of the Liathanach O'Conchobhair, abbot of Trinity
14]
Island on Loch-Cé, of the Premonstre order, was afterwards
15]
elected to the bishopric of Oilfinn.
Dubhgall, son
16]
of Maghnus O'Baighill, chieftain of Cloch-Chinnfhaeladh,
17]
was slain by O'Maelghaithe's people.
Mac-na-hoidhche
18]
Mac Dorchaidh, chieftain of Cenel-Luachain, died in hoc
19]
anno.
20] The kalends of January on Monday, and the eighteenth
21]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxxx. quinto; xvii.
anno
22]
cycli solaris; xiii. anno cycli lunaris et
Indictionis.
23] Simon O'Ruairc, bishop of the Breifne, in Christo
quievit.
24] A great defeat was inflicted by Maghnus O'Conchobhair
25]
on Adam Cusack and the Foreigners of the West of
26]
Connacht, at Lec-Essa-dara, where a great many persons
27]
were slain, and where Colin Cusack, i.e. his Adam's
28]
brother, was taken into captivity after his people had
29]
been slain, in consideration of being allowed himself to
30]
depart. A defeat was inflicted by Philip Mac Goisdelbh
31]
upon Maghnus O'Conchobhair's people, on Sliabh-Gamh,
32]
where a great many recruits and inferior persons were
Alice, daughter of Cormac, mortua est.
Ruaidhri
2]
O'Gadhra, king of Sliabh-Lugha, was killed by Mac
3]
Feorais on his own lake.
Henry Mac Gillafhinnén
4]
mortuus est.
Annal LC1286.
5] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the twenty-ninth
6]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxxxvi; xviii.
7]
cycli solaris; xiiii. cycli lunaris et
Indictionis.
A great
8]
hosting by the Earl of Ulster into Connacht, when
9]
he destroyed many of the monasteries and churches
10]
of Connacht; and he obtained sway, nevertheless, in
11]
every place through which he passed, and received the
12]
hostages of all Connacht; and he afterwards took with
13]
him the army of Connacht, and obtained the hostages of
14]
Cenel-Conaill and Cenel-Eoghain; and he deposed Domhnall,
15]
son of Brian O'Neill, and gave the sovereignty to
16]
Niall Culanach O'Neill, on this occasion.
The spring of
17]
the cow-mortality in hoc anno.
Maurice Mael Fitz-Gerald
18]
mortuus est in hoc anno.
Domhnall O'hAinlighe,
19]
dux of Cenel-Doffa, quievit
viii. kalendas Aprilis.
Annal LC1287.
20] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the tenth
21]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxxxvii; xix. anno
22]
cycli solaris; xv. anno cycli lunaris et
Indictionis..
Diarmaid
23]
Midhech, son of Diarmaid, son of Muirghes, son
24]
of Cathal Mac Diarmada, king of Muinter-Maelruanaidh,
25]
i.e. the oldest and noblest man of his kindred, died in
26]
hoc anno.
Florence O'Gibellan, archdeacon of Oilfinn, a
27]
philosopher in wisdom, learning, intellect, and clerkship,
28]
quievit in Christo.
Gilla-na-nech O'Mannachain, king
29]
of the Three-Tuatha, mortuus est vii. idus
Septembris.
30] Maelsechlainn, son of Tomaltach Mac Oirechtaigh,
31]
was killed by Toirdhelbhach, son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair,
32]
in revenge for the abandonment of his father
Ruaidhri
2]
Sinnach quievit.
Annal LC1288.
3] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the twenty-first
4]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxxxviii; xx. anno
5]
cycli solaris; xvi. anno cycli lunaris.
Cathal, son of
6]
Tadhg, son of Cathal Mac Diarmada, assumed the sovereignty
7]
of Magh-Luirg in hoc anno.
Maghnus O'Conchobhair,
8]
accompanied by those of the Connachtmen,
9]
Uí-Briuin, and Conmaicne, whom he got to join him,
10]
came to take the sovereignty of Connacht for himself
11]
and to depose his brother, i.e. Cathal, son of Conchobhar
12]
Ruadh; and they proceeded to Ath-Slision, where Cathal
13]
was with his army; and they gave battle to one another on
14]
both sides, when Cathal was taken prisoner, and his
15]
people were routed; and he himself was deposed; and the
16]
greater part of Connacht was plundered on this occasion.
17]
And Maghnus then forcibly assumed the sovereignty
18]
himself, in the face of his elder brother, who had been
19]
seven years and a-half in the sovereignty, as the author
20]
said:—
- 21] The son of the royal Conchobhar Ruadh
22] Was king of Connacht, north and south;
23] Half a year and seven lasted
24] The sovereignty of Cathal in Cruachan.
25] Donnchadh Riabhach, son of Maghnus, son of Muirchertach
26]
Muimhnech, quievit.
A house was captured in the
27]
Ros-mór, in this same winter, against Maghnus
O'Conchobhair,
28]
by Toirdhelbhach, son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair,
29]
and by Maelsechlainn O'Flannagain along with
30]
him; and by the advice of Fiachra O'Floinn this attack
9] A hosting to Connacht by the Red Earl, i.e.
10]
Richard, son of Walter, son of Richard, son of William
11]
the Conqueror of the Occupation; and he went to
Ros-Comá,in,
12]
to attack Maghnus, son of Conchobhar Ruadh,
13]
at that time king of Connacht, and to attack Fitz-Gerald
14]
and the king's people. And they all assembled before
15]
him, and challenged the Earl to pass beyond that place,
16]
so that the resolution which the Earl then adopted was,
17]
to go out of the territory, and subsequently disperse
18]
his army.
Stephen, archbishop of Tuaim-dá-ghualann,
19]
and Justiciary of Erinn, quievit. William
Mac Feorais
20]
was afterwards elected to the archbishopric of
Tuaim.
Annal LC1289.
21] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the second
22]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.lxxxix; xxi. anno
cycli
23]
solaris; xvii. anno cycli lunaris; secundus annus
Indictionis.
24] Tadhg O'Flannagain, chieftain of Clann-Cathail,
25]
quievit.
Matthew O'Sgingin, ollamh of Cenel-Conaill,
26]
mortuus est.
The bishop of Conmaicne, i.e. the foreign
27]
bishop, whose name was Miles, quievit.
Simon O'Finnachta,
28]
archdeacon of Elphin, in Christo
quievit.
A
29]
hosting by Maghnus O'Conchobhair, and by Richard
30]
Tuit, with whom were the Foreigners of Midhe, to
31]
O'Maelsechlainn and all the Feara-Midhe; and a great
32]
defeat was then inflicted on them, in which Richard
Fiachra O'Floinn, dux
5]
of Síl-Maelruain, the most clement, truthful, protecting,
6]
hospitable, and valorous man of all the chieftains of
7]
Connacht, went to contract a marriage alliance with the
8]
Foreigners, when the son of Richard Finn, son of William
9]
Burk, and Mac Feorais, slew him in treachery.
A great
10]
hosting by Mac Maurice and Mac Feorais, against the
11]
Calbhach Mór O'Conchobhair and the other Lagenian
12]
princes; and a great defeat was inflicted on them, in which
13]
Meyler de Exeter and many more Foreigners were slain;
14]
and numerous horses were moreover taken from
them.
Annal LC1290.
15] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the thirteenth
16]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.xc; xxii. anno cycli
solaris;
17]
xviii. anno cycli lunaris; tertius annus
Indictionis.
Cairbre
18]
O'Maelsechlainn, king of Midhe, was slain by Mac Cochlainn
19]
and the Delbhna, in treachery.
Conghalach Mac
20]
Eochagain, dux of the race of Fiacha, son of
Niall of the
21]
Nine Hostages, mortuus est.
William Mac Feorais assumed
22]
the archbishopric of Tuaim.
The Bishop O'Setachain, i.e.
23]
bishop of Cill-Mic-Duach, quievit.
A hosting by Domhnall,
24]
son of Brian O'Neill, to Cenel-Eoghain, out of
25]
which he forcibly expelled Niall O'Neill; and he assumed
26]
the sovereignty himself by means of his power.
27] Aedh O'Domhnaill was deposed by his own brother, i.e.
28]
Toirdhelbhach O'Domhnaill, who assumed the sovereignty
29]
himself through the power of his mother's kindred, i.e. the
30]
Clann-Domhnaill, and several other Gall-oglaechs.
Annal LC1291.
1] The kalends of January on Monday, and the twenty-fourth
2]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.xc. primo. It
3]
was the last Decennovenalian year; xx. tertio anno
cycli
4]
solaris; quartus annus Indictionis.
Toirdhelbhach, son
5]
of Eoghan O'Conchobhair, the greatest, handsomest, most
6]
hospitable and valorous man, and the best fitted to be a
7]
king, was slain by Niall Gelbhuidhe O'Conchobhair.
A
8]
great hosting by the Earl of Ulster to Tir-Eoghain, when
9]
he deposed Domhnall, son of Brian O'Neill, and when
10]
Niall Culanach O'Neill was made king by him; and just
11]
as the Earl left the district, Niall Culanach O'Neill was
12]
slain by Domhnall O'Neill. The Earl came again, and
13]
the son of Aedh Buidhe, i.e. Niall, was made king by
him.
14] Domhnall O'Neill was expelled out of the country through
15]
the power of the Earl.
Another hosting by the same Earl
16]
to Tir-Conaill, against Toirdhelbhach O'Domhnaill, when
17]
he plundered the entire country, both church and territory,
18]
so that they neither left a cloth upon an altar, nor a mass-book,
19]
nor a mass-chalice, in the churches of Cenel-Conaill:
20]
and he carried this spoil into Connacht. And he went
21]
subsequently to Oilfinn; and the Connachtmen then gave
22]
him deceptive hostages, after which he departed.
23] Conchobhar O'Dubhda, king of Uí-Fiachrach, was drowned in
24]
the Sinuinn, whilst coming with the Connachtmen to meet
25]
the same Earl.
A war was conjointly raised by Cathal
26]
O'Conchobhair, and by Niall Gelbhuidhe O'Conchobhair,
27]
and all the Foreigners and Gaeidhel who adhered to them,
28]
to depose Maghnus O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht;
29]
and they gave battle to each other at Caraidh-Culmhaile;
30]
and Cathal was wounded there; and Murchadh, son of
31]
Tadhg, son of Andrias O'Conchobhair, was slain there by
32]
Niall Gelbhuidhe O'Conchobhair; and other persons were
As regards
8]
Maghnus O'Conchobhair, moreover, when the Síl-Muiredhaigh,
9]
and his own favourites, and the Foreigners of Ros-Comain,
10]
had come to his assistance after this defeat, he
11]
proceeded on the morrow to meet those depredators, and
12]
came up with them at Srath-in-fherain, and about the
13]
Aenach; and their preys were taken from them. And
14]
Niall himself escaped by force from this defeat; and
15]
Thomas Mac Goisdelbh was slain there, and his brother,
16]
i.e. David Mac Goisdelbh, was taken prisoner, and was
17]
afterwards slain in that captivity. And a great many of
18]
the host, both Foreigners and Gaeidhel, were slain. And
19]
Niall subsequently came on terms of peace to the district,
20]
and all his own land was given to him. Enmity and
21]
mutual complaints occurred between Maghnus and Niall, for it was
22]
reported to Maghnus that Niall had acted
23]
treacherously by him; and Niall afterwards tried to
24]
leave the district. Great depredations were committed on
25]
Niall by Maghnus, and Niall's pride was very much
26]
humbled by these depredations.
Aedh O'Fallamhain,
27]
chieftain of Clann-Uadach, died in this year.
Diarmaid
28]
O'Floinn, chieftain of Síl-Maelruain, mortuus est.
Aedh
29]
O'Domhnaill assumed his own sovereignty again, and
30]
Toirdhelbhach O'Domhnaill was expelled.
Lucas Mac
31]
Gilla-ruaidh, archdeacon of Oilfinn, quievit.
Edrúth Mac
32]
Craith, abbot of Loch-Cé, mortuus
est.
Annal LC1292.
33] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the fifth of
3] A hosting by the Earl against Maghnus O'Conchobhair,
4]
when he went to Ros-Comain and he departed without
5]
taking pledges or hostages. Maghnus O'Conchobhair followed
6]
him to Milic, in violation of Connacht, and went into
7]
his house, and obtained all that he desired from the Earl
8]
on this occasion.
Another hosting by the same Earl to
9]
Luighne, when he plundered the greater part of the district;
10]
but, nevertheless, Domhnall O'hEghra went not into his
11]
house, and gave him neither pledges nor hostages on this
12]
occasion.
Niall Gelbhuidhe O'Conchobhair, son of Muiredhach,
13]
son of Aedh Dall,son of Toirdhelbhach Mór (i.e. king
14]
of Connacht), was slain by Tadhg, son of Andrias, son of
15]
Brian Luighnech O'Conchobhair, and by Tuathal, son of
16]
Muirchertach.
Mac Cochlain, i.e. the king of Delbhna, was
17]
killed in his own country by Sifin Mac Feorais, at the
18]
instigation of the Earl, in hoc
anno.
Donnchadh, son
19]
of Eoghan O'Conchobhair, died in hoc
anno.
Somhairle
20]
O'Gairmleghaigh was slain by O'Neill.
Andiles O'Dochartaigh,
21]
chieftain of Ard-Midhair, quievit.
Annal LC1293.
22] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the sixteenth
23]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.xciii; xxv. anno
cycli
24]
solaris; secundus annus cycli lunaris; vi. annus
Indictionis.
25] Maghnus, son of Conchobhar Ruadh, son of Muirchertach
26]
Muimhnech, son of Toirdhelbhach Mór, i.e. king of Connacht
27]
during five years and a half, as the poet explains:—
- 28] O'Conchobhair of the fair skin,
29] The grandson of Muirchertach Muimhnech:
30] Five years and a half, to be mentioned,
31] Was Maghnus of the cavalry hosts a king—
Murchadh O'Maelsechlainn, king of Midhe,
15]
died in this year.
Ferghal O'Raighilligh, chieftain of
16]
Muinter-Maelmórdha during the space of twelve years,
17]
was killed in the middle of his own residence by the
18]
Tellach-Dunchadha, in hoc anno.
It was revealed to
19]
Nicholas Mac Maelisa, comarb of Patrick, that the relics
20]
of Patrick, and Colum-Cille, and Brighid were in Sabhall-Patraic;
21]
and they were disinterred by him; and great
22]
virtues and miracles were performed by them after they
23]
had been disinterred by him; and he subsequently made
24]
an honourably covered shrine for them.
Mor, daughter of
25]
Felim O'Conchobhair, mortua est.
Florence O'Cerbhalláin,
26]
bishop of Cenel-Eoghain,quievit in
Christo.
Muirchertach
27]
O'Flannagain, dux of the descendants of
Cathal
28]
son of Muiredhach, mortuus est.
Two chieftains of
29]
Tellach-Dunchadha died in hoc
anno.
Tuathal, son of
30]
Muirchertach O'Conchobhair, occisus
est.
Cathal Mac Diarmada,
31]
king of Muinter-Maelruanaidh, was treacherously
Annal LC1294.
10] The kalends of January on Friday, which was the
11]
twenty-seventh of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.xc.
12]
quarto; xxvi. anno cycli solaris; iii. annus cycli lunaris;
13]
vii. anno Indictionis.
Muirchertach, son of Maghnus
14]
O'Conchobhair, the best qualified of the Connachtmen to
15]
be a king, was killed by Tadhg, son of Andrias O'Conchobhair,
16]
and by Domhnall, the son of Tadhg; and a few
17]
of his people were slain there along with him.
Aedh,
18]
son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair, committed depredations
19]
on the Clann-Muirchertaigh.
Domhnall O'hEghra, king
20]
of Luighne, died in hoc anno.
Maelsechlainn O'Flannagain,
21]
chieftain of Clann-Cathail, was slain by Cathal,
22]
son of Tadhg Mac Diarmada, on the street of Sligech, in
23]
this year.
Donnchadh Mac Consnamha, chieftain of
24]
Muinter-Cinaith, mortuus est.
Carrach-in-chairn Mac
25]
Tighernáin, chieftain of Tellach-Dunchadha, mortuus est.
26] Cathal, son of Tadhg Mac Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg,
27]
the best man for bounty and prowess, mortuus est.
28] Derbhail, daughter of Tadhg, son of Cathal Mac Diarmada,
29]
mortua est.
The castle of Sligech was thrown down by
30]
Aedh O'Conchobhair.
Maelruanaidh, son of Gilla-Christ,
31]
assumed the sovereignty of Magh-Luirg.
The Earl was
32]
taken prisoner by Fitz-Gerald, in consequence of which
33]
all Erinn was thrown into a state of disturbance. A
34]
great, treacherous depredation was committed by Fitz-Gerald
Diarmaid, son of the Liathanach O'Conchobhair,
6]
occisus est, et sepultus est in Trinity Island on
7]
Loch-Cé.
David Mac Gilla-Erraith was slain by the sons
8]
of Domhnall Dubh O'hEghra.
Annal LC1295.
9] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the eighth of
10]
the moon; anno Domini M.cc.xc.quinto; xxvii. anno
11]
cycli solaris; quartus annus cycli lunaris; viii. anno
Indictionis.
12] The same Earl was set at liberty by Fitz-Gerald,
13]
through the power of the king of the Saxons,
14]
good hostages of his own family having been obtained from
15]
him by Fitz-Gerald.
Brian, son of Aedh Buidhe, son of
16]
Domhnall Og, son of Aedh Meth, king of Cenel-Eoghain,
17]
was slain by Domhnall, the son of Brian O'Neill; and a
18]
great slaughter of the Foreigners and Gaeidhel along with
19]
him.
Domhnall O'Cellaigh, king of Uí-Maine, died in the
20]
habit of a gray monk, in the monastery of Cnoc-Muaidhe, in
21]
hoc anno.
Conn Mac Branan, chieftain of Corc-Achlann,
22]
was slain by the sons of O'Cellaigh, whilst seeking for his
23]
horses after they had been stolen. Tomaltach Mac Branan
24]
afterwards assumed the chieftainship in his place, and was
25]
slain by the sons of Cu-alladh, in revenge of their father
26]
who had been previously killed by Tomaltach.
The
27]
castle of Magh-dumha, and the castle of Baile-núadh, and
A great war between the king
3]
of France and the king of the Saxons.
A great war
4]
in Tir-Conaill in hoc anno.
The hostages of Brian Mac
5]
Shamhradhain, and of Gilla-Isa Mac Dorchaidh, were
6]
taken by Gilla-Isa O'Raighilligh in hoc anno.
Annal LC1296.
7] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the nineteenth
8]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.xcvi; xxviii. anno cycli
9]
solaris; quinto anno cycli lunaris; ix. anno Indictionis.
10] Aedh, son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair, was deposed by his
11]
own sept, and the Clann-Muirchertaigh were brought
12]
into the district in his place, and the sovereignty of the
13]
district, and its hostages, were given to Conchobhar
14]
Ruadh, son of Cathal Ruadh O'Conchobhair; and the
15]
entire district was destroyed, both church and territory,
16]
through this deposition having been effected by them.
17]
The territory of Cairpre was all burned and destroyed
18]
by Clann-Muirchertaigh; and they attacked the churches
19]
of the district; but God, and Colum-Cille, and Mary,
20]
whose churches were then profaned, avenged these deeds
21]
on them afterwards.
As regards Aedh O'Conchobhair,
22]
however, he assembled a great army of Foreigners and
23]
Gaeidhel, including William Burk and Theobald Burk,
24]
who proceeded to the monastery of the Buill, in which
25]
they remained four nights; and they destroyed much
26]
corn and property throughout the entire district. And
27]
the chieftains of the district went then into his house;
28]
and they took them with them to the Earl's house, to
29]
make peace with Aedh O'Conchobhair. And though
30]
they promised, they did not observe this peace; for on
31]
going home they again sided with the Clann-Muirchertaigh.
32]
As to Aedh O'Conchobhair, he went after this
33]
into the Tuatha, and brought with him O'Ferghail
34]
and Mac Raghnaill, together with the forces of
35]
the Conmaicne; and he dispatched messengers to Mac
36]
Diarmada and O'Flannagain, who returned into the
Gilla-Isa Mac-an-Liathanaigh,
15]
bishop of Oilfinn, in Christo quievit in Ros-Comain,
16]
twenty nights before May-day, and was interred in
17]
the monastery of the Buill.
Derbhorgaill, daughter
18]
of O'Floinn of Es, mortua est, et sepulta est in monasterio
19]
canonicorum Fontis Patricii.
A great hosting
20]
by the king of the Saxons, accompanied by the
21]
chiefs of the Foreigners of Erinn, viz.:—Richard Burk,
22]
Earl of Ulster, and Fitz-Gerald, and John Fitz-Thomas;
23]
and they all went to Alba, and obtained great sway in
24]
it on that occasion. However, they destroyed numerous
25]
territories and termons, oirechts and churches, in
26]
it; and, in particular, razed a monastery of Friars
27]
Preachers, so that they left not one stone of it on
28]
another; and they also killed many ecclesiastics and
29]
women there.
Annal LC1297.
1] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the thirtieth
2]
of the moon; anno Domini M.xx.xc. septimo; primus
3]
annus solaris cycli; vi. anno cycli lunaris; x. anno
4]
Indictionis.
Conchobhar, son of Taichlech, son of Diarmaid,
5]
son of Conchobhar, son of Diarmaid, son of Tadhg,
6]
i.e. the king of Magh-Luirg and Airtech, the eldest of his
7]
brothers, and lord of Slicht-Maelruanaidh, the best man
8]
of his own time for covenant and guarantee, valour and
9]
prowess, battle and conflict, attack and restraint, protection
10]
and good asylum, veracity and government, died in
11]
this year, after triumphing over the world and the
12]
devil, and was interred in the monastery of the Buill,
13]
in the grave of his ancestors and elders.
Henry Mac
14]
Oirechtaigh, bishop of Condere, and a gray monk of the
15]
order of the Desert, quievit.
Maghnus O'hAinlighe,
16]
chieftain of Cenel-Doffa, was slain by his kinsman's son,
17]
i.e. the son of his father's brother, and by Muinter-Eolais
18]
per dolum, at Enach-dubh.
William O'Dubhthaigh,
19]
bishop of Cluain, was killed by a concussion, after falling
20]
off his horse.
A great expedition was led into France
21]
by Edward, i.e. the king of the Saxons, with cheerfulness
22]
and great spirits; but he came out of it, nevertheless,
23]
without obtaining sway or power on that occasion.
24] Maelsechlainn Mac Briain, i.e. the abbot of the Buill,
25]
assumed the bishopric of Oilfinn; and Marian O'Donnabhair
26]
was elected previously, and went to Rome to contest
27]
the bishopric, and died on that journey.
Cu-Uladh
28]
O'hAnluain, and his brother, and Aenghus Mac Mathghamhna,
29]
and a great many more of the nobles of their
30]
people along with them, were killed by the Foreigners
31]
of Dun-Delgan whilst they were returning from the
32]
Earl in the same year.
Annal LC1298.
33] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the
Thomas Fitz-Maurice, a great, noble
4]
baron of the Clann-Gerailt, who was called the Crooked
5]
Heir, mortuus est in hoc anno.
Thomas O'hOirechtaigh,
6]
abbot of Es-Ruaidh, quievit in Christo.
Sadhbh, daughter
7]
of Aedh Buidhe O'Neill, wife of Tadhg, son of Andrias
8]
O'Conchobhair, died in the beginning of spring in hoc
9]
anno.
Brian Bregach Mac Shamhradhain, chieftain of
10]
Tellach-Echach, the most bountiful and puissant man
11]
that was in his own time, was slain by Aedh Breifnech
12]
O'Conchobhair and the Clann-Muirchertaigh, in his own
13]
house at Cuil-O'Guaire, on the third day of summer.
14] Donnchadh, son of Domhnall O'hEghra, one fit to be
15]
king of Luighne, and the most bountiful and renowned
16]
prince in his own country, was slain in treachery by
17]
his own brother, i.e. Brian Carrach O'hEghra.
Domhnall
18]
Ruadh Mac Carthaigh, king of Des-Mumha, quievit.
19] Ferghal O'Ferghail, bishop of Tir-Conaill, quievit in
20]
Christo.
The bishopric of Cluain was assumed by the
21]
abbot of Cill-Bécain, i.e. William O'Finnén, in this
22]
year.
Annal LC1299.
23] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the twenty-second
24]
of the moon; anno Domini M.cc.xcix; tertio anno
25]
cycli solaris; viii. anno cycli lunaris; xii. annus Indictionis.
26] Alexander Mac Domhnaill, the best man for hospitality
27]
and nobility both in Erinn and Alba, was slain
28]
by Alexander Mac Dubhghaill, together with a countless
29]
slaughter of his people along with him.
Maurice O'hOgain,
30]
bishop of Cill-Dalua, quievit.
John Alamara, the
31]
most active, powerful, and bountiful knight in Midhe,
32]
was slain by Jeffrey O'Ferghail, in pursuit of a prey.
A
Annal LC1300.
9] The kalends of January on Friday, and the third of
10]
the moon, A.D. m.ccc; quarto anno cycli solaris; ix. anno
11]
cycli lunaris; xiii. anno Indictionis.
Tibbot Butler, a
12]
great, noble baron, mortuus est.
John Prendergast was
13]
slain by the son of Fiachra O'Floinn in hoc anno.
The
14]
castle of Ath-cliath-in-Chorainn was commenced by the
15]
Red Earl in this year.
Seoinin Og Mac Maurice was
16]
slain, and many other persons along with him, by Conchobhar,
17]
son of Fiachra O'Floinn.
Fedhlimidh Mac
18]
Carthaigh, who was qualified to be king of Des-Mumha,
19]
mortuus est.
Conghalach O'Lochlainn, bishop of Corcumruaidh,
20]
in Christo quievit.
Eochaidh, son of Domhnall
21]
O'hAirt, chieftain of Clann-Cellaigh, was slain by
22]
Foreigners in hoc anno.
A general invitation came from
23]
Rome in the time of Pope Boniface VIII., throughout all
24]
Christendom; and in each hundredth year this invitation
25]
was wont to be issued, and it was usually called a 'year
26]
of grace'; and a countless multitude from all the countries
27]
in Christendom were wont to go in pilgrimage to Rome at
28]
this invitation; and they would obtain forgiveness of all
29]
sins there through this grace.
Adam Staunton, lord of
30]
Cera, mortuus est.
William Mac Flannchadha, chieftain of
31]
Dartraighe, was slain by Ualgharg O'Ruairc in hoc anno.
Annal LC1301.
1] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the fourteenth
2]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc. primo; quinto anno
3]
cycli solaris; x. anno cycli lunaris; xiiii. anno Indictionis.
4] Finnghuala, daughter of Fedhlim O'Conchobhair,
5]
i.e. the abbess of Cill-Craebhnat, in Christo quievit.
6] Cormac, son of Cormac O'Maelsechlainn, was slain by
7]
the son of Art O'Maelsechlainn, i.e. the son of his own
8]
father's brother.
Gilla-Isa Mac Firbisigh ollamh of Uí-Fiachrach-Muaidhe,
9]
a most eminent professor of history,
10]
story-telling, poetry and computation, and of many
11]
other sciences, died in hoc anno.
A great depredation
12]
was committed by Aedh, the son of Cathal O'Conchobhair,
13]
and by the Clann-Muirchertaigh also, on Tadhg, son
14]
of Andrias, in Magh-Ceidne.
Matthew Mac Craith,
15]
great priest of Ard-Carna, a most charitable and humane
16]
man, quievit in Christo.
Cathal O'Maelduin, of the Uí-Fiachrach-Muaidhe,
17]
i.e., the chief steward of the king of
18]
Connacht, died in hoc anno.
Muirchertach Mac Conshnamha,
19]
one fit to be chieftain of Muinter-Cinaith,
20]
was killed by the Clann-Muirchertaigh in hoc anno.
A
21]
hosting to Alba by the king of the Saxons, accompanied
22]
by Fitz-Gerald, and Mac Feorais, and the chiefs of the
23]
Foreigners of Connacht, excepting the Earl of Ulster,
24]
which lasted from a fortnight before Lammas until All-hallowtide;
25]
but they obtained not complete sway in it.
Annal LC1302.
26] The kalends of January on Monday, and the twenty-fifth
27]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc. secundo; sexto
28]
anno cycli solaris; xi. anno cycli lunaris; xv. anno
29]
Indictionis.
Domhnall Ruadh Mac Carthaigh, king of
30]
Des-Mumha, i.e. the oldest and noblest, the most bountiful
31]
and valiant, and the most formidable and triumphant
32]
Gaeidhel, in battles and conflicts, of all the Gaeidhel
33]
of Erinn, died after the victory of penitence in this
34]
year.
Miles, bishop of Luimnech, who was the grandson
The bishop of
2]
Corcach, i.e. Mac Donnchadha, (and he was a gray monk),
3]
quievit in Christo.
Ruaidhri, son of Domhnall O'hEghra,
4]
one fit to be king of Luighne, died in hoc anno.
Great
5]
depredations were committed by Aedh, son of Cathal
6]
O'Conchobhair, on Tadhg, son of Andrias O'Conchobhair,
7]
and on Sitrec, son of the Cairnech Mac Flannchaidh, in
8]
Magh-Ceidne, in the same year.
A great destruction of
9]
cows, and mortality amongst all cattle, in this year.
10] Master Stephen O'Bragan, archbishop of Caisel, quievit.
11] Donn Mac Uidhir, king of Feara-Manach, the most eminent
12]
man in all Erinn for charity, and humanity, and
13]
prowess, quievit.
William O'Finnén, abbot of Cill-Bécan,
14]
and afterwards bishop of Cluain-mic-Nois, in Christo
15]
quievit..
Cathal, son of Domhnall Mac Raghnaill, heir
16]
to the chieftaincy of Muinter-Eolais, was slain by Ferghal
17]
Mac Raghnaill, i.e. the son of his own father's
18]
brother.
Annal LC1303.
19] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the sixth of
20]
the moon; anno Domini M.ccc. tertio; septimo anno cycli
21]
solaris; xii. anno cycli lunaris; primus annus Indictionis.
22] Nicholas Mac Maelisa, archbishop of Ard-Macha, the most
23]
godly and generous cleric that was in Erinn in his own
24]
time, in Christo quievit.
Maelsechlainn Mac Briain, bishop
25]
of Oilfinn, died in hoc anno.
Donnchadh O'Flannagain,
26]
abbot of the Buill, assumed the bishopric of Oilfinn afterwards.
27] Diarmaid O'Flannagain, chieftain of Tuath-Ratha,
28]
and his two sons, and many superior men of his
29]
own people along with them, were slain by the people of
30]
Domhnall, son of Andrias O'Conchobhair, after they had
Toirdhelbhach,
2]
son of Domhnall Og O'Domhnaill, who was usually called
3]
'Toirdhelbhach of Cnoc-in-mhadhma', i.e. the king of
4]
Tir-Conaill during twelve years, both in it and out of it—
5]
a warlike, active man, and the Cuchullainn of theClann-Dalaigh
6]
in valour—was slain by Aedh, the son of
7]
Domhnall Og, i.e. his own brother, after a long war, and
8]
after much destruction had been committed on all sides
9]
throughout the country, and a prodigious slaughter along
10]
with him of the Cenel-Eoghain, and the chiefs of the
11]
Foreigners of the North, and of the Cenel-Conaill themselves
12]
likewise, and Muirchertach Mac Fhlannchaidh,
13]
chieftain of Dartraighe. Donn O'Cathain, king of Feara-Craibhe
14]
and Cianachta, was slain there, and Donnchadh
15]
Mac Menmain and Aedh Mac Menmain—the two grandsons
16]
of the Fer leighinn O'Domhnaill; and Niall, son of
17]
Niall O'Baighill, the good material of a chieftain of the
18]
Three-Tuatha; Mac Ughossa and his son, and his brother,
19]
and Adam Sandal, and numerous Foreigners and Gaeidhel
20]
besides. And Aedh O'Domhnaill resumed his own
21]
sovereignty after this great triumph, so that after a while
22]
his government was like a sea growing calm, a tide ebbing,
23]
and a high wind subsiding.
A great hosting by the
24]
King of the Saxons to Alba, when they took several
25]
cities; and the Red Earl, i.e. Richard Burk, and a great
26]
many Foreigners and Gaeidhel, went from Erinn with a
27]
large fleet, and obtained sway in Alba on this occasion.
28] Tibbot Burk, i.e. the Earl's brother, died at Carraig-Fergusa
29]
on Christmas night, after returning from this
Domhnall Og Mac Carthaigh, King of Des-Mumha,
2]
mortuus est.
Maghnus Mac Shamhradhain, dux
3]
of Tellach-Echach, occisus est.
Niall Mac Gillafhinnen
4]
mortuus est.
Maurice, son of William Galldha Mac
5]
Eochagain, quievit on the fourth of the nones of June
Annal LC1304.
6] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the seventeenth
7]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc. quarto; octavus
8]
annus cycli solaris; xiii. annus cycli lunaris; secundo
9]
Indictionis.
Matthew, son of Gilla-Isa O'Raighilligh,
10]
king of Breifne, was slain by the Tellach-Dunchadha on
11]
Achadh-na-corra, and his gallowglasses were slain there
12]
along with him. Mac Shamhradhain and Mac Dorchaidh
13]
were wounded there, moreover, along with them.
The
14]
Countess, i.e. the wife of Richard Burk, i.e. the Earl of
15]
Ulster, mortua est.
Walter Burk, the same Earl's heir,
16]
died in this year.
Conchobhar, son of Aedh O'Conchobhair,
17]
was killed by Toirbert O'Flaithbhertaigh, after he
18]
had committed wrong and treachery against Donnchadh
19]
O'Flaithbhertaigh; and this Toirbert fell on the very
20]
same spot.
William Og, son of William Galldha Mac
21]
Eochagain, quievit the day before the ides of October in
22]
hoc anno.
23] The kalends of January on Friday, and the twenty-eighth
24]
of the moon; A.D. M.ccc. quinto; ix. anno cycli
25]
solaris; xiiii. anno cycli lunaris; tertio anno Indictionis.
26] Muirchertach O'Conchobhair Failghe, and his
27]
other brother Maelmordha, i.e. the Calbhach O'Conchobhair,
28]
and twenty-nine of their people along with
29]
them, were slain by Sir Piers Mac Feorais, in abominable
30]
treachery, in Mac Feorais's castle.
A defeat was inflicted
31]
by Aedh, son of Cathal O'Conchobhair, and by
32]
the Clann-Muirchertaigh also, on Muinter-Raighilligh, in
33]
which Philip O'Raighilligh, and the heir of Clann-Suibhne,
Donnchadh O'Flaithbhertaigh, bishop
4]
of Cill-Alaidh, i.e. the most chaste and devout bishop of
5]
his time, quievit.
Toirdhelbhach, son of Brian Ruadh
6]
O'Briain, mortuus est.
Matthew Og O'Raighilligh was
7]
killed by the Tellach-Dunchadha.
Aedh Og O'Ferghail
8]
died in this same year.
The New Castle of Inis-Eoghain
9]
was erected by the Red Earl in this year.
Annal LC1306.
10] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the twenty-ninth
11]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.sexto; x. annus
12]
cycli solaris; xv. annus cycli lunaris; quarto anno
13]
Indictionis.
Toirdhelbhach O'Briain, king of Tuadh-Mumha,
14]
the most illustrious, valiant, and puissant man
15]
of his own time, mortuus est.
Donnchadh O'Briain, his
16]
own son, was made king in his place.
Ferghal Mac
17]
Raghnaill, chieftain of Muinter-Eolais, was killed by
18]
Mathghamhain Mac Raghnaill, i.e. his own brother, and
19]
by a party of his own tribe, per dolum.
A great war
20]
between Aedh, son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair, king of
21]
Connacht, (with whom were the chiefs of the Síl-Muiredhaigh),
22]
and Aedh, son of Cathal O'Conchobhair, with
23]
whom were many sons of kings and chieftains of Connacht,
24]
together with the chieftains and tribes of the men
25]
of Breifne also; and it was waged on both sides of the
26]
Sinuinn during the space of three or four months, when
27]
a number of the sons of kings attached to Aedh son of
28]
Cathal encamped with large forces in the Tuatha, and
29]
captured great preys, and countless spoils; but a great
30]
number of pursuers overtook them. Flann, son of Fiachra
31]
O'Floinn, heir to the chieftaincy of Síl-Maelruain, and
32]
Brian, son of Donnchadh Riabhach O'Conchobhair,
Master
16]
Thomas O'Naan, archdeacon of Rath-Bhoth, and also
17]
bishop-elect of the same church, in Christo quievit.
18] Robert Bruce, great steward of Carraig, assumed the
19]
sovereignty of Alba by force, in opposition to the king
20]
of the Saxons.
Domhnall Tuirtrech O'Neill was slain
21]
by accident, by the household of O'Neill in hoc anno.
22] Sir William Prendergast, the most famous and illustrious
23]
knight in his own time in Erinn, mortuus est.
A great
24]
depredation was committed by the Clann-Muirchertaigh
25]
in the territory of Cairbre, when David O'Caemhain,
26]
a rich, affluent farmer, and Donnchadh Mac Buidhechain,
27]
and many more persons along with them, were slain.
28] Brian Carrach O'hEghra was killed by Cormac O'Flannagain.
29] Nicholas O'Donnchadha, (i.e. who was a priest and
Annal LC1307.
6] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the twentieth
7]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.vii; xi. anno cycli solaris;
8]
xvi. anno cycli lunaris; quinto anno Indictionis.
Donnchadh
9]
Muimhnech O'Cellaigh, king of Uí-Maine, the
10]
most generous of all the men of Erinn respecting food and
11]
clothing, gold and silver, and cattle, died after obtaining
12]
victory over the world and the devil; and Tadhg O'Cellaigh,
13]
i.e. his son, died afterwards.
Laurence O'Lachtnain,
14]
abbot of Es-Ruaidh, and for a time abbot of the
15]
Buill, and afterwards abbot of Cnoc-Muaidhe, and ultimately
16]
bishop of Cill-Mic-Duach, in Christo quievit.
17] Conchobhar, son of Fiachra O'Floinn, the best young man
18]
in all Connacht in his own time for making war and
19]
depredations on Foreigners and Gaeidhel, died; and he
20]
was nobly and honourably interred in the monastery of
21]
the Buill, along with his brother.
Echdruim-Uí-Maine was
22]
burned by a number of the princes of Uí-Maine themselves.
23] The Foreigners of Ros-Comain were all slain by Donnchadh
24]
Muimhnech O'Cellaigh, a short time before his
25]
death, in Ath-escrach-Cuan, to wit, where Philip Munter,
26]
and John Munter, and Matthew Drew fell along with
27]
seventy others who were either slain or taken prisoners;
28]
where the sheriff of Ros-Comain, and Diarmaid Gall Mac
29]
Diarmada, and Cormac Mac Ceithernaigh were taken
30]
prisoners; but their forces were still allowed to depart;
31]
and they themselves were let go after a while; and they
32]
afterwards made peace for the burning of the town by
Edward the Great, king of the Saxons,
2]
and of Britain, and of Alba, and duke of Gascony, and
3]
lord of Erinn, quievit in Christo in the thirty-fifth year
4]
of his reign, and in the sixty-sixth year of his age. The
5]
crown of the king of the Saxons, and of Britain, and
6]
Erinn, and Alba, was afterwards given to young Edward,
7]
the son of Edward.
Donnchadh O'Flannagain, abbot of
8]
the Buill during the space of five years, and Bishop of
9]
Oilfinn during the space of three years and a half—the
10]
devout, cordial, general protector of all the west of
11]
Europe; a man who never refused guest or stranger,
12]
and who never offended any one regarding food or property;
13]
head of guarantee and respect of the province
14]
in general; a man full of wisdom and skill, and who
15]
defended every affair which he took in hand; a charitable,
16]
good-hearted man; a quiet, amiable man; a courteous,
17]
sweet-worded, mild, childlike, honest man—quievit in
18]
Christo, after the triumph of unction and penitence,
19]
having been suffering during a period of five months: in
20]
x. kalendas Julii quievit.
Domhnall, son of Tadhg, son
21]
of Brian, son of Andrias, son of Brian Luighnech, son
22]
of Toirdhelbhach Mor O'Conchobhair, tanist of all Connacht,
23]
and the royal heir of greatest property and wealth,
24]
of greatest hospitality and prowess, of greatest sovereignty
25]
and possessions that was in Connacht, (for the
26]
extent of his land was from Corr-sliabh-na-Seghsa to
27]
Cael-uisce), was slain in an encounter with Aedh Breifnech,
28]
son of Cathal Ruadh O'Conchobhair. And the
29]
person who wounded him was Diarmaid, son of Simon-na-tragha.
30]
And God was merciful to him, for he lived
31]
that night, and until he saw the priest, and received the
32]
Body of Christ and unction, on the morrow; after
33]
which he died. And his body was then taken to Corr-sliabh,
34]
and there was not taken with a dead body in
Tadhg, son of Maelsechlainn, son of Donnchadh,
6]
son of Domhnall, son of Maghnus, son of Toirdhelbhach
7]
Mor O'Conchobhair, was killed by Cathal, son of Domhnall,
8]
son of Tadhg O'Conchobhair.
Cartholus, son of the
9]
Liathanach O'Conchobhair, i.e. the abbot of the Trinity
10]
in Loch Cé, was elected to the bishopric of Oilfinn on the
11]
one part, and his degree was conferred in the choir of Ard Macha;
12]
and he was three years and a half enjoying the
13]
profits of the bishopric, when Master Malachi Mac Caedha
14]
was, however, chosen on the other part, through the
15]
power of William Mac Feorais, at that time archbishop
16]
of Connacht. He went to Rome, and remained there
17]
during the space of three years, and came back afterwards
18]
as bishop. William Mac Feorais, archbishop of
19]
Connacht, went to Rome in hoc anno.
Maelsechlainn
20]
O'Gairmleghaigh, high-chieftain of Cenel-Moain, mortuus
21]
est.
Maghnus Mac Oirechtaigh quievit.
Diarmaid, son
22]
of Donnchadh Riabhach, was killed by Maelruanaidh
23]
Mac Diarmada.
Cathal, son of Maghnus, was killed by
24]
Cathal, son of Domhnall, son of Tadhg O'Conchobhair.
25] Tadhg, son of Brian, son of Andrias, son of Brian Luighnech,
26]
son of Toirdhelbhach Mor, went on a pilgrimage
27]
to the monastery of the Buill, in which he assumed the
28]
habit of a gray monk; and he died of one day's illness,
2] Ailbhe, daughter of Tadhg O'Conchobhair, mortua est.
3] The Clann-Muirchertaigh went into Magh-Ceidne, and
4]
the corn crops of the district of Cairbre, and a great part
5]
of the corn of Tir-Oililla, were burned by them; and
6]
the corn crops of the Corann also were destroyed and
7]
burnt by them; and it was on this expedition that Tadhg,
8]
son of Maghnus, was slain.
Amhlaibh, son of Art, son of
9]
Cathal O'Ruairc, was killed by the son of Ferghal Garbh
10]
Mac Shamhradhain in hoc anno.
Annal LC1308.
11] The kalends of January on Monday, and the first
12]
of the moon; A.D. M.ccc.viii; xii. anno cycli solaris;
13]
xvii. anno cycli lunaris; sexto anno Indictionis.
A
14]
great depredation was committed by Maelruanaidh
15]
Mac Diarmada on the sons of Domhnall O'Conchobhair,
16]
in the territory of Cairbre.
Another great depredation
17]
was committed by Brian O'Dubhda, and the
18]
Foreigners of Luighne, and the Uí-Fiachrach, on
19]
the same sons of Domhnall O'Conchobhair.
Another
20]
depredation was committed by the Clann-Muirchertaigh
21]
on these sons of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, after they
22]
had previously made peace with them, and given them
23]
hostages. And the sons of Domhnall proceeded after
24]
this to Sliabh-dha-en, and took with them only their
25]
horses, accoutrements, and steeds; and when the Foreigners
26]
of Luighne and the Uí-Fiachrach heard this, they
27]
mustered and followed to Sliabh-dha-en. The sons of
28]
Domhnall O'Conchobhair, however, and Mac Donnchadha
29]
turned upon them, and the Foreigners suffered a defeat,
30]
and fled before them, and were routed; and the sons of
31]
Domhnall pursued them to Lec-Esa-dara; and Thomas
32]
Mac Walter, constable of Bun-finne, and his brother
33]
along with him, and many other persons, were slain by
A great retaliatory depredation was committed
2]
by Aedh, son of Cathal, on Ruaidhri son of Cathal, his
3]
own brother; and Maghnus, son of Maghnus, was slain
4]
there by him, and other persons not enumerated here.
5] Domhnall, son of Comarb-Comain O'Conchobhair, archdeacon
6]
of Oilfinn, quievit.
Simon O'Finnachta quievit
7]
in Christo.
Imhar Mac Gebhennaigh mortuus est.
Piers
8]
Gaveston, a very noble knight, and prime favourite of
9]
the king of the Saxons, came to Erinn; and O'Diumasaigh
10]
was slain by him in the same year.
Lightning fell
11]
down from heaven on the monastery of Ros-Comain,
12]
which broke down the monastery, on the night of the
13]
festival of Stephen after Great Christmas.
Easter in the
14]
month of March in hoc anno; and there was destruction
15]
of people and cattle in it, and also great inclemency of
16]
weather in it.
Annal LC1309.
17] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the twelfth
18]
of the moon; A.D. M.ccc.ix; xiii. anno cycli solaris; xviii.
19]
anno cycli lunaris; vii. anno Indictionis.
Aedh, son of
20]
Eoghan, son of Ruaidhri, son of Aedh, son of Cathal
21]
Crobhderg, king of Connacht—and one fit to be king of
22]
Erinn and other lands for nobility, and bounty, and
23]
prowess, for figure and comeliness—was slain by Aedh
24]
Breifnech, son of Cathal Ruadh O'Conchobhair, in Coill-in-chlachain
25]
in the territory of Breifne; and many more
26]
of the nobles of Connacht were slain along with him,
27]
viz., Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, and Diarmaid Ruadh,
28]
son of Tadhg, son of Andrias O'Conchobhair; and Diarmaid,
29]
son of Cathal Carrach Mac Diarmada; and Aedh,
30]
son of Muirchertach, son of Tadhg, son of Maelruanaidh;
12] As regards Maelruanaidh Mac Diarmada, king of
13]
Magh-Luirg, he came, surrounded by his household
14]
troops and heavy muster, into the very middle of Síl-Muiredhaigh,
15]
to defend the sovereignty and supremacy
16]
for his foster-son, i.e., for Fedhlim O'Conchobhair, and
17]
sent messengers to his friends on every side, both
18]
Foreigners and Gaeidhel, and unto William Burk and his
19]
brothers, who came quickly on receiving the message.
20]
And he Maelruanaidh encamped strongly, ever powerfully,
21]
on the plain of Magh-Ai, before Rath-Cruachan,
22]
amidst the inhabitants of the country, to conciliate them,
23]
for fear and terror lest these tribes should unite with Aedh
24]
Breifnech, son of Cathal O'Conchobhair; and he himself
25]
received the government of the chieftains, and the
26]
submission of the sub-chieftains. And he exacted his
27]
rents, and his stipulations, and his tributes; and he exacted,
28]
moreover, the family and princely jewels of the
29]
king of Connacht, with all his dues both small and great.
30]
And the Síl-Muiredhaigh all pledged their engagement
4] As to Aedh, son of Cathal, however, he
5]
went to meet the Earl in Midhe, and the Tuatha at once
6]
turned against him when he had left. After Aedh Breifnech
7]
came out of Midhe, he encamped in Uachtar-thire,
8]
and subsequently took a great prey from Aedh O'Flannagain,
9]
and consumed this prey in Uachtar-thire.
Conchobhar,
10]
son of Donnchadh O'Briain, was wickedly slain
11]
by Foreigners, in treachery.
Cathal, son of the Liathanach
12]
O'Conchobhair, i.e. the abbot of the Trinity, was
13]
elected to the bishopric of Oilfinn.
Ruaidhri, son of
14]
Cathal, and O'Floinn went upon the Machaire; and the
15]
son of Mac Feorais was slain by them on that occasion.
16] A meeting was proclaimed between the son of Cathal and
17]
William Burk, at Ath-Slissen; and a rupture took place
18]
between them, and the son of Cathal was defeated, and a
19]
great number of his people were slain there.
William
20]
Burk went subsequently to the monastery of the Buill, and
21]
much corn was destroyed and burned in it.
Mac William
22]
went down beyond the mountain, and the son of Cathal
23]
was expelled from his fortress by him; and Donnchadh
24]
O'Finnachta was slain by the captain of Mac William's
25]
army; and many other persons not enumerated here were
26]
also slain. A depredation was committed by Mac William
27]
on the Clann-Fermaighe; and another predatory expedition
Annal LC1310.
3] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the twenty-third
4]
of the moon; A.D. M.ccc.x; xiiii. anno cycli solaris;
5]
xix. anni cycli lunaris; octavo anno Indictionis.
Tanaidhe
6]
Mór O'Maelchonaire, chief professor of Síl-Muiredhaigh-Muillethain
7]
in poetry and history, died in the
8]
beginning of this year, in the hard spring. A great
9]
depredation, which was usually called Crech-in-tóiten,
10]
was committed by Aedh Breifnech, son of Cathal O'Conchobhair,
11]
on Maelruanaidh Mac Diarmada, in Clochar-Uí-Muirghile;
12]
and Donnchadh, son of Donnchadh Mac
13]
Diarmada, was taken prisoner there, and his wife, i.e.
14]
the daughter of O'Flannagain, was killed there; and
15]
several other women, children, and men, were killed and
16]
burned there; and they the depredators established
17]
themselves in Uachtar-thire, to watch Mac Diarmada.
18]
When William Burk heard this thing he encamped at
19]
Cill-Lommad, in front of Aedh, son of Cathal. Then
20]
it was that Aedh, son of Cathal, secretly sent messengers
21]
to his brother, i.e. Ruaidhri son of Cathal, desiring
22]
him to proceed with a band and go to the castle of
23]
Bun-finne, which William Burk had left. As regards
24]
Ruaidhri son of Cathal, moreover, and Aedh, son of
25]
Maghnus, and Aedh Breifnech's people, they all mustered,
26]
and plundered and burned the Castle of Bun-finne,
27]
with all its contents. As to Aedh, son of Cathal, he
28]
had at that time by him some buannadha belonging
29]
to a defensive band who were protecting him; and
15] Cormac O'Flannagain, chieftain of Tuath-Ratha, was
16]
slain by Henry Mac Gillafinnén, chieftain of Muinter-Pheodachain,
17]
in treachery.
The castle of Sligech was
18]
erected by the Earl in hoc anno.
Twenty tuns of
19]
wine were sent ashore in Magh-Cetne.
Finnghuala,
20]
daughter of Maghnus O'Conchobhair, quievit in Christo.
21] Macraith Mac Uidhir, royal heir of Feara-Manach, and
22]
Donn Mac-Gillamichil, dux of Clann-Conghaile, were
23]
destroyed and burned by Roalbh Mac Mathghamhna.
24] Ferghal Mac Dorchaidh died in hoc anno.
Una,
25]
daughter of Aedh, son of Fedhlim, mortua est in hoc
26]
anno.
Siubhán, daughter of O'Conchobhair Failghe,
27]
uxor of Muirchertach Mór Mac Eochagain, chieftain of
28]
Cenel-Fiachaidh, mortua est.
Ferghal, son of Muirchertach
29]
Mór Mac Eochagain, was slain in the Anghaile, and
30]
this was the first cause of enmity between the people
A hosting by
2]
Seffraigh O'Ferghail to Dun-Uabhair, where Domhnall,
3]
the son of Aedh Og O'Ferghail, and Aedh, son of Mael-Isa,
4]
and Goffraigh, son of Muirchertach, were slain.
5] Conchobhar O'Briain, the best son of a king in his time,
6]
was slain by the Black Foreigners, in treachery.
Annal LC1311.
7] The kalends of January on Friday, and the fourth of
8]
the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xi; xv. anno cycli solaris;
9]
primus annus cycli lunaris; ix. annus Indictionis.
Muirchertach
10]
Mór, son of Conghalach Mac Eochagain, dux of
11]
the descendants of Fiachadh, son of Niall-nai-ghiallach,
12]
occisus est by the Foreigners.
A great retaliatory depredation
13]
was committed in Connacht by the Clann-Muirchertaigh-Muimhnigh,
14]
when Gilla-Christ, son of Muirghes,
15]
son of Donnchadh Mac Diarmada, and Aedh, son of
16]
Cormac, and William Mac Gilla-Erraith, and Donnchadh,
17]
son of Tomaltach, together with many other
18]
good men, were slain by them.
Two of William Liath
19]
Burk's sons were slain by the Lagenian princes.
Jordan
20]
de Exeter came on a predatory expedition into Magh
21]
Luirg, and Tadhg O'hAinlidhe, chieftain of Cenel-Doffa,
22]
was slain in pursuit of this predatory band.
Domhnall
23]
O'Birn, dux of Tir-Briuin, mortuus est.
Mael-Isa O'Dalaigh,
24]
a most eminent man in poetry and hospitality, died
25]
in hoc anno.
Domhnall, son of Amhlaibh, son of Art
26]
O'Ruairc, king of Breifne, died in hoc anno.
A great
27]
hosting by William Burk into Mumha, against the Clarach;
28]
and they gave battle to each other, and the Clarach
29]
was worsted, and a great defeat was inflicted on him
30]
there. William Burk was himself taken prisoner in the
31]
rere of his people, whilst he was following up the rout;
A great war in Tuadh-Mumha
3]
in this year, and Donnchadh Mac Conmara and
4]
his own tribe, viz., the people of the cantred of Uí-Caisín,
5]
fought a battle against O'Briain and the men of
6]
all Mumha; and Donnchadh Mac Conmara and all the
7]
chief men of his tribe were slain there; and Domhnall
8]
O'Grada, chieftain of Cenel-Dunghaile, was slain there;
9]
and a countless slaughter was committed between them on
10]
both sides.
Donnchadh O'Briain, king of Tuadh-Mumha,
11]
and the good material of a king of Erinn, was slain in
12]
treachery by Murchadh, son of Mathghamhain O'Briain.
13] Lochlainn Riabhach O'Deghaidh was slain by Mathghamhain
14]
O'Briain, son of Domhnall Connachtach O'Briain.
Seonac
15]
Mac Uighilin killed the Gruélach in Baile-tobair-Brighde,
16]
and was himself immediately slain in return; and it was
17]
with the short-handled axe with which he slew Aedh
18]
Breifnech, son of Cathal Ruadh O'Conchobhair, that he
19]
himself was slain; and a blessing attend the person who
20]
killed him.
A great depredation was committed by
21]
Feidhlim O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht, on the
22]
Clann-Muirchertaigh, on the border of Magh-Cetne,
23]
and Maelechlainn, son of Conchobhar Ruadh, who
24]
was usually called 'Cenn-an-meidhil', was slain there,
25]
and several other persons also along with him.
Diarmaid
26]
Clerech O'Briain, king of Mumha, was deposed, and
27]
Muirchertach O'Briain was afterwards made king in
28]
his place.
Brian Mac Mathghamhna, king of Oirghiall,
29]
mortuus est.
Annal LC1312.
30] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the fifteenth
31]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xii; secundus annus
William Mac Feorais, archbishop
2]
of Tuaim, quievit.
Benedict O'Bracain, bishop of
3]
Luighne, quievit.
Malachi Mac Aedha was elected to
4]
the archbishopric of Tuaim from the bishopric of Oilfinn.
5] Petrus Capusdún occisus est.
Easter in the month of
6]
March in hoc anno.
Derbhail, daughter of Maghnus
7]
O'Conchobhair, mortua est.
The Holy Cross was raised
8]
in the monastery of the Buill in hoc anno.
Annal LC1313.
9] The kalends of January on Monday, and the twenty-sixth
10]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xiii; tertius annus
11]
cycli lunaris; xi. annus Indictionis.
Clemens papa in
12]
Christo quievit.
Diarmaid Clerech O'Briain, king of
13]
Tuadh-Mumha, mortuus est.
Robert Bruce, king of Alba,
14]
came on the coast of Erinn.
The king of France died in
15]
hoc anno.
Gilla-Isa Mac Dorchaidh, chieftain of Cenel-Luachain,
16]
was slain by Conchobhar Carrach, son of
17]
Domhnall Mac Diarmada.
Cathal, son of Murchadh
18]
Carrach O'Ferghail, mortuus est.
Tighernan, son of
19]
Niall O Ruairc, occisus est.
Tadhg, son of Andrias, son
20]
of Brian Luighnech, son of Toirdhelbhach Mor O'Conchobhair,
21]
died in hoc anno, after having been a long time
22]
in the habit of a gray monk, after triumphing over the
23]
world and the devil, and was nobly and honourably
24]
interred in the monastery of the Buill.
Annal LC1314.
25] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the seventh
26]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xiv; quartus annus
27]
cycli lunaris; xii. annus Indictionis.
Niall, son of
28]
Brian O'Neill, i.e., the noblest, and most honourable, and
29]
most bountiful prince of the Cenel-Eoghain in his own
30]
time, died this year.
Niall O'Domhnaill occisus est.
1] A defeat was inflicted by Ruaidhri, son of Cathal O'Conchobhair,
2]
on Muinter-Raighilligh, at Druim-lethan.
Maghnus,
3]
son of Domhnall O'hEghra, was slain by Maghnus
4]
son of William O'hEghra, per dolum.
A battle at Srubhleith
5]
in Alba, where the chief men of the Saxon Foreigners
6]
fell by Robert Bruce, i.e., the king of Alba, who
7]
was defending Alba by force; where a great many earls
8]
and knights fell, and persons innumerable besides, together
9]
with the Earl of Gloucester, who was the man of
10]
greatest inheritance, and nobility, and honour in all Saxon-land.
11] Gilla-in-Choimdedh, son of Cinaeth O'Gormshuiligh,
12]
airchinnech of Oilfinn, and Gormlaith, daughter
13]
of Mac Branain, (i.e. his wedded wife), mortui sunt.
14] Roalbh Mac Mathghamhna was slain by his own brethren.
15] Matthew Mac Dhuibhne, bishop of the Breifne, quievit in
16]
Christo.
Matthew Mac Tighernain, dux of Tellach-Dunchadha,
17]
was slain by Cathal, son of Domhnall O'Ruairc,
18]
i.e. his foster-son, in the middle of his own house, per
19]
dolum.
Mathghamhain Mac-in-chaeich, chieftain of Fidhna-Saithne,
20]
mortuus est.
Annal LC1315.
21] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the
22]
eighteenth of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xv; v.
23]
annus cycli lunaris; xiii. Indictionis.
Edward, son of the
24]
Earl of Alba, (i.e. this Edward was the son of Robert
25]
Bruce, and Earl of Carrick), came to Erinn, on the coast
26]
of Uladh in the north, with a fleet of 300 ships, and his
27]
valorous and warlike fame confounded and terrified the
28]
people of all Erinn in general, both Foreigners and Gaeidhel.
29]
And he plundered, moreover, the principal part of Uladh,
3] In fine, he obtained the hostages and
4]
sovereignty of all the province of Uladh without opposition,
5]
and consented to be proclaimed as king of Erinn. And
6]
the Gaeidhel of Erinn agreed to give him their sovereignty,
7]
and proclaimed him king of Erinn.
When Richard Burk,
8]
i.e. the Earl of Ulster, heard that Edward was advancing
9]
towards him, he assembled large armies from every direction
10]
to meet him at Ros-Comain, in the first place; and he
11]
proceeded from thence to Ath-Luain, and along Midhe and
12]
Magh-Bregh. And Fedhlim O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht,
13]
was along with him on this hosting. And the number
14]
of his army was about twenty battalions. However, the
15]
Foreigners on this expedition spared neither saint nor
16]
asylum, however sacred, nor territory, nor termon, without
17]
wasting and completely destroying, throughout the extent
18]
of Erinn from the Sinainn in the south to Cul-Rathain in
19]
the north, and to Inis-Eoghain. And when this great multitudinous
20]
army came together into Bregh, they saw Edmond
21]
Butler, i.e. the Justiciary of Erinn, coming to join them,
22]
having on the occasion thirty battalions well united and
23]
counted.
Nevertheless, the Earl prevented him from
24]
going in his own procession or assemblage, for he considered
25]
that he himself, together with his army, could expel
26]
Edward and the men of Alba from Erinn. The Earl was
27]
that night at Ath-Fhirdiadh, by the side of Sliabh-Bregh,
28]
and Edward Bruce, with his Ulidians and men of Alba, at
29]
Inis-Cain-mic-Deghaidh. The Earl went on the morrow in
30]
pursuit of them, and occupied a place of rest and encampment
31]
at Lugh-mhagh; and William Burk went, moreover,
32]
to obtain an advantage over Edward Bruce and the men of
33]
Alba, and a few persons were slain between them in
34]
an encounter.
As regards Edward and his forces, however,
35]
he advanced, through the persuasion of O'Neill and
36]
the other Ulidians, and proceeded on the morrow, by
12] When Edward Bruce heard of the excellence of Fedhlim
13]
O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht, he sent secret messages
14]
to him, offering him undivided power over Connacht,
15]
if he would steal away from the Earl to defend his own
16]
province. Fedhlim listened patiently to these words,
17]
and agreed with Edward on that occasion. With regard
18]
to Ruaidhri, son of Cathal Ruadh O'Conchobhair, when
19]
he perceived that Connacht had been evacuated he proceeded,
20]
accompanied by a few, eastwards through the
21]
middle of Cenel-Conaill to Cul-Rathain to converse with
22]
Edward; and he promised Edward that he would expel
23]
the Foreigners from the government of Connacht; and
24]
Edward subsequently consented that he might make war
25]
on the Foreigners, but that he should not commit spoliation
26]
or robbery on Fedhlim, or go into his land.
This was
27]
not what Ruaidhri did, however; but he assembled the men
28]
of Connacht and Breifne, and numerous gallowglasses along
29]
with them, and proceeded right into the middle of Síl-Muiredhaigh,
30]
and of Connacht likewise, and immediately
31]
burned the street-town of Sligech, and Ath-cliath-in-Chorainn,
32]
and the great castle of Cill-Comain, and Baile-tobair-Brighde,
33]
and Dun-Iomdhain with its castles, and
34]
Ros-Comain, and Rinn-duin, and the town of Ath-Luain,
35]
together with all the houses that were in every route
36]
through which he passed. And he afterwards claimed
As to Fedhlim
10]
O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht, when he heard that
11]
Ruaidhri was on his way back to Connacht, to contest
12]
the sovereignty for himself, and understood how it
13]
fared with him on his journey, he told the Earl that
14]
Ruaidhri would make war in his land in his absence;
15]
and he earnestly besought the Earl to return with him
16]
to Connacht, to defend it.
Nevertheless, he did not
17]
find the ways before him quiet, for not a day passed
18]
without a depredation or battle, in his passage through
19]
Uladh and Oirghiall, until he came to Granard, and to
20]
Coill-na-namus, to the people of John O'Ferghail, i.e.. his
21]
mother's brother, where his men were reduced in number.
22]
After their spoils had been taken away from them
23]
by the army, he permitted his chieftains and princes who
24]
were along with him on this northern expedition to go
25]
to their own homes, and submit themselves to the sovereignty
26]
of Ruaidhri, rather than they should be wanderers
27]
with him, ‘for if I am again powerful,’ said
he, ‘you
28]
shall be with me. Nevertheless, as my guardian and
29]
Ruaidhri cannot be reconciled with each other on this
30]
occasion, we shall both act together during the period of
31]
our war.’
1] With regard to the Earl and William Burk, and the
2]
other Foreigners, when they saw Fedhlim not assisting
3]
them, and their own army dispersed, they turned back
4]
from Cul-Rathain to the castle of Condere. As soon as
5]
the Ultonians and men of Alba observed this, they
6]
quickly followed the Earl to Condere; and on their
7]
meeting to give battle to one another, William Burk
8]
with his knights, and the two sons of Mac-an-mhilidh,
9]
were taken prisoners there, and the Earl himself fled
10]
without delay, by regular marches, from thence until he
11]
arrived in Connacht. His Foreign friends on every side
12]
approached the Earl on his arrival, in the hope that the
13]
Earl would relieve or help them from oppression; and
14]
his Gaeidhelic friends came then together into his house
15]
in like manner. And these were the best who came
16]
there, viz., Fedhlim O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht,
17]
and Muirchertach O'Briain, king of Tuadh-Mumha, and
18]
Maelruanaidh Mac Diarmada, king of Muinter-Maelruanaidh,
19]
and Gilbert O'Cellaigh, king of Uí-Maine—all
20]
of whom had been expelled from the entire district. And
21]
when Maelruanaidh Mac Diarmada observed the great
22]
number of deposed and expelled persons assembled in
23]
the same house, he was seized with shame, and he vowed
24]
that he would not again be reckoned in any house as one
25]
deposed or expelled, but that he would go by his own efforts
26]
into his country as opportunity should offer. And he went
27]
into the presence of Tadhg O'Cellaigh; and Tadhg concluded
28]
a semblance of peace on his part with Ruaidhri,
29]
for his inheritance, on condition that he should
30]
give hostages to Ruaidhri, son of Cathal. Aedh Ballach, son of
31]
Maghnus, son of Conchobhar Ruadh son of Muirchertach
32]
Muimhnech, was slain in treachery by Cathal, son of
33]
Domhnall O'Conchobhair; and Aedh son of Art, and Diarmaid,
34]
son of Simon-na-tr[acute ]gha, were also slain by them in
2] Great depredations were committed by the sons of Domhnall
3]
on Clann-Muirchertaigh on the morrow, and Maghnus
4]
son of Maghnus, and Domhnall, son of Maghnus, were slain
5]
by the sons of Domhnall whilst pursuing this prey; and
6]
Tomaltach Mac Donnchadha was furthermore taken
7]
prisoner by the same band, who went under the protection
8]
of the Foreigners after having committed these deeds.
9]
As soon as Fedhlim O'Conchobhair heard of these great
10]
exploits, he went with a few of his own confidants to
11]
where the sons of Domhnall O'Conchobhair were, viz.,
12]
Ruaidhri and Maghnus, Cathal and Muirchertach,
13]
Donnchadh and John, viz. the sons of Domhnall, son
14]
of Tadhg O'Conchobhair, together with their other
15]
brethren. When Fedhlim succeeded in joining them, subsequently,
16]
he immediately committed a great depredation
17]
on Brian O'Dubhda; and he committed a great depredation,
18]
in Airtech, on Diarmaid Gall Mac Diarmada, and
19]
killed a great number of his people, and burned his corn
20]
fields and many houses; and he committed another great
21]
depredation on the sons of Cathal O'Flannagain. The
22]
place whither this prey was conducted was to Coraidh-Chúla-Cuirc;
23]
and it could not be driven owing to the
24]
softness of the bog, the extent of the prey, and the
25]
strength and heavy number of the pursuing band; for
26]
the majority of the recruits of the Tuatha, and the forces
27]
of the sons of Cathal O'Flannagain, and Mathghamhain
28]
Mag Raghnaill, chieftain of Muinter-Eolais, with his
29]
kinsmen and muster, overtook it.
When Mac Diarmada,
30]
however, heard the noise and clamour of the prey going
31]
towards the weir, he followed the track of the prey to
32]
Culbháthar; and when he observed the prey divided
33]
and detained, (for they liked not that it should not be
28]
It was then that Diarmaid Gall went upon Cruachan,
29]
and was proclaimed king. Tadhg O'Cellaigh came then,
30]
moreover, to the assistance of Ruaidhri, son of Cathal, and
31]
to enforce his guarantee on Mac Diarmada, who had
It was reported to
28]
Fedhlim O'Conchobhair, and to his guardian, however,
29]
that there were cows in Magh-Luirg after this depredation,
30]
and they proceeded to seek for them a second time,
31]
and left neither horse nor cow in a place of security,
32]
or hiding-place, in it. And they sought for Diarmaid
The town of Dún-moacute;r was burned by
10]
Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair in hoc anno.
Echdruim-Uí-Maine
11]
was burned, and its castle thrown down.
The cantred of
12]
Maenmagh was plundered and burned by Tadhg O'Cellaigh.
13] Fedhlim O'Conchobhair, and Mac Diarmada, and
14]
Tomaltach Mac Donnchadha, and the sons of Domhnall
15]
O'Conchobhair joined the Foreigners of the West of Connacht;
16]
and Tir-Enna, and Tir-Nechtain, and Muinter-Creacháin,
17]
and Conmaicne-Dúna-móir were destroyed,
18]
both wilfully and unwilfully.
Richard Burk, i.e. the Earl
19]
of Ulster, was a wanderer throughout Erinn, without
20]
sway or power, during this year.
Numerous wonderful
21]
diseases throughout all Erinn this year, viz., a destruction
22]
of people in great number occurred in it, and famine, and
23]
various distempers. Slayings of people, and intolerable,
24]
destructive bad weather also happened in it.
25] Aedh O'Domhnaill, king of Tir-Conaill, came into Cairbre, and
26]
all the territory of Cairbre was destroyed by him through
27]
the counsel of his wife, i.e. the daughter of Maghnus
28]
O'Conchobhair; and she herself, together with all she found
29]
of the gallowglasses and the Clann-Muirchertaigh, attacked
30]
the churches of Druim-cliabh, where several of the clerics
31]
and comarbs of Druim-cliabh were plundered by her,
32]
in hoc anno.
The castle of Sligech was thrown down
33]
by O'Domhnaill on this expedition; and great spoils
34]
were found there by them.
Tadhg O'hUiginn, a man
Domhnall Mac Tighernain,dux of Tellach-Dunchadha,
3]
who was usually called 'the Saithnech', was
4]
slain by Cathal-na-taisech O'Ruairc.
Amhlaibh O'Ferghail
5]
mortuus est.
Annal LC1316.
6] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the twenty-ninth
7]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xvi; sexto anno
8]
cycli lunaris; xiiii. Indictionis; xx. anno cycli solaris.
9] Aedh O'Domhnaill and all the Cenel-Conaill mustered a
10]
large army; and they came again into Cairbre, and went
11]
to Caislen-Conchobhair on this occasion; and Ruaidhri,
12]
son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, separated from his own
13]
brothers, and made peace with O'Domhnaill, and gave
14]
him the lordship of Cairbre. And Derbhorgaill, daughter
15]
of Maghnus O'Conchobhair, retained a band of gallowglasses,
16]
and gave them a reward for the killing of Ruaidhri,
17]
son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, who was subsequently
18]
slain by them in violation of the relics of Tir-Conaill,
19]
which had previously been pledged to him; and great
20]
depredations were committed by the Cenel-Conaill on
21]
the inhabitants of the district of Cairbre.
A depredation
22]
by Fedhlim O'Conchobhair on the sons of the Failghech,
23]
when Richard himself was taken prisoner, and a slaughter
24]
of his people was committed. Fedhlim afterwards assembled
25]
a great army of Foreigners and Gaeidhel, including
26]
Mac Feorais, and Maelruanaidh Mac Diarmada, and the
27]
sons of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, to contest the sovereignty
28]
with Ruaidhri, son of Cathal; and they advanced
29]
together towards Síl-Muiredhaigh. This was reported to
30]
Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht, who was
31]
then encamped on Mullach-Fidhig in Clann-Conmhaigh,
32] Fedhlim afterwards plundered the favorites of Ruaidhri
33]
O'Conchobhair, and then assumed himself the sovereignty
- Many of the men of Erin all, around the great plain—
Many sons of kings, whom I name not, were slain in the great defeat:
Sorrowful to my heart is the conflict of the host of Midhe and Mumha.
Ruaidhri-na-fedh,
18]
son of Donnchadh, son of Eoghan, son of Ruaidhri
19]
O'Conchobhair, was afterwards made king.
A prodigious
20]
hosting by William Burk afterwards into Síl-Muiredhaigh,
21]
and O'Conchobhair and all the Síl-Muiredhaigh
22]
made peace with him, except Mac Diarmada alone.
23]
He afterwards went into Magh-Luirg, and brought great
24]
preys with him from Ath-in-chip and from Uachtar-tire;
25]
and the entire country was burned and destroyed by
26]
them; and they went away without battle or conditions.
27]
Ruaidhri, son of Donnchadh, was subsequently deposed
28]
from the sovereignty by Mac Diarmada, after having been
29]
a quarter and a half in it.
Derbhorgaill, daughter of
30]
Maghnus O'Conchobhair, wife of Aedh O'Domhnaill, mortua
31]
est.
Matthew Mac Cormaic mortuus est.
Ruaidhri-na-fedh,
32]
son of Donnchadh, son of Eoghan, king of Connacht,
33]
was slain in treachery by Cathal, son of Aedh, son
Annal LC1317.
5] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the tenth
6]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xvii; septimo anno
7]
cycli lunaris; xv. Indictionis; xx. primo anno cycli
8]
solaris.
Toirdhelbhach, son of Aedh, son of Eoghan,
9]
was made king by the Connachtmen in hoc
anno.
Robert
10]
Bruce, i.e. the king of Alba, came to Erinn with a great
11]
number of gallowglasses, in aid of his
brother, i.e. Edward
12]
Bruce, and to expel the Foreigners from Erinn.
13] Meiler de Exeter, lord of Ath-lethan, was slain by Cathal,
14]
son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, and by Domhnall, son
15]
of Tadhg, son of Domhnall Irruis O'Conchobhair, on the
16]
border of the Methenach of Druim-cliabh, and fourteen
17]
other men along with him.
The castle of Ath-cliath-in-Chorainn
18]
was broken down in hoc anno.
Donnchadh
19]
O'Briain, king of Mumha, occisus
est.
Maelechlainn
20]
Carrach Mac Diarmada, one qualified to be king of
21]
Magh-Luirg, and Maghnus O'Flannagain, who was
22]
qualified to be chieftain of Clann-Cathail, were slain by
23]
Gilbert Mac Goisdelbh; and Conchobhar, son of Comarb-Comain
24]
O'Conchobair, et alii multi, were slain.
The victory
25]
of Cill-mor over the son of Ruaidhri and the men of
26]
Breifne; and seven score gallowglasses
of the son of
27]
Ruaidhri's people were slain there; and Aedh Breifnech
28]
O'Conchobhair's two sons were taken prisoners
29]
there; and Donnchadh, son of Niall O'Ruairc, and Conchobhar
30]
Buidhe Mac Tighernain, chieftain of Tellach-Dunchadha,
31]
were slain there, and Mathghamhain Mac
32]
Tighernain, and the Gilla-ruadh, son of the Airchinnech
Maelisa Ruadh
3]
Mac Aedhagain, the most eminent man in Erinn in the
4]
Brehonship of Fenechas, mortuus est.
Raghnall Mac
5]
Raghnaill, chieftain of Muinter-Eolais, was taken prisoner
6]
by his own tribe, in treachery; and Jeffrey Mac Raghnaill
7]
was afterwards made chieftain.
Very great famine in this
8]
year in all Erinn.
Domhnall Riabhach Mac Murchadha,
9]
illustrious king of Laighen, mortuus
est.
Annal LC1318.
10] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the twenty-first
11]
of the moon; anno Domini M. ccc. xviii; octavo
anno
12]
cycli lunaris, primo anno Indictionis; xxii. anno cycli
13]
solaris.
A great defeat was inflicted in Eile, by O'Cerbhaill,
14]
on the Foreigners, where Adam Mares was slain, and
15]
many other Foreigners along with him.
A great army
16]
was assembled by Maelruanaidh Mac Diarmada, king of
17]
Magh-Luirg, and the noblest who were in this army
18]
were Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht,
19]
and Ualgharg O'Ruairc, king of Breifne, and Conchobhar
20]
O'Cellaigh, king of Uí-Maine, and Tomaltach Mac
21]
Donnchaidh, lord of Tir-Oilella. And they all proceeded
22]
to attack Cathal, son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, to
23]
Fása-choillidh. And Cathal offered them liberal terms,
24]
on condition that they would not go to him; but they
25]
did not accept them from him. And these nobles advanced
26]
to the very middle of his fortress; but this occurred
27]
not through flight or timidity on his part. And Cathal
28]
advanced furiously, bravely, against them from out of the
29]
houses and they encountered each other. However,
30]
Conchobhar O'Cellaigh, king of Uí-Maine, was slain in
The same Cathal attacked Connacht afterwards,
6]
and committed great depredations on Mac Diarmada;
7]
and he assumed himself the sovereignty of Connacht, and
8]
Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair was deposed by him. And
9]
he Toirdhelbhach subsequently sought the
protection of
10]
William Burk and all the Foreigners of Connacht.
Gilla-an-Choimdedh,
11]
son of Cinaeth O'Gormghaile, i.e. the
12]
airchinnech of Oilfinn, and Gormlaith,
daughter of Mac
13]
Branan, his wife, died about this time.
John, the son
14]
of O'Neill, i.e. the son of Domhnall O'Neill, was slain
15]
by Aedh O'Domhnaill in Doire-Choluim-Cille; and
16]
Mac Domhnaill and many other persons were drowned
17]
and slain the same day.
Richard de Clare mortuus est.
18] Edward Bruce, the destroyer of all Erinn in general,
19]
both Foreigners and Gaeidhel, was slain by the Foreigners
20]
of Erinn, through the power of battle and bravery, at
21]
Dun-Delgan; and Mac Ruaidhri, king of Insi-Gall, and
22]
Mac Domhnaill, king of Airer-Gaeidhel, together with
23]
the men of Alba, were slain there along with him; and
24]
no better deed for the men of all Erinn was performed
25]
since the beginning of the world, since the Fomorian
26]
race was expelled from Erinn, than this deed; for theft,
27]
and famine, and destruction of men occurred throughout
28]
Erinn during his time, for the space of three years and
29]
a half; and people used to eat one another, without doubt,
John O'Ferghail was killed with one
2]
shot of an arrow by his own son.
Jeffrey O'Ferghail,
3]
i.e. the son of Gilla-na-naemh O'Ferghail, chieftain of
4]
Muinter-Anghaile, died after completing thirty-six years
5]
in his government.
Snow, the like of which was
6]
not observed for a long time, fell in hoc
anno.
Cathal,
7]
son of Gilla-Christ Dall Mac Raghnaill, occisus est.
Annal LC1319.
8] The kalends of January on Monday, and the second
9]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xix; ix. anno cycli
10]
lunaris; ii. anno Indictionis; xxiii. anno cycli solaris.
11] The bishop of Rath-both, i.e. Henry Mac-an-Crosain, in
12]
Christo quievit.
Thomas, son of Cormac O'Domhnaill,
13]
abbot of Es-Ruaidh, was elected to the bishopric of
14]
Rath-both.
The bishop of Doire, and O'Banan, bishop
15]
of Clochar, and the bishop of Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, in
16]
Christo quieverunt.
Aine, daughter of Mac Diarmada,
17]
wife of Mac Consnamha, mortua est.
Echmarcach Mac
18]
Branan, dux of Corca-Achlann, slew Tomaltach O'Maelbhrenainn;
19]
and Echmarcach himself died of his wounds
20]
the third day after that.
Domhnall O'Neill, king of
21]
Tir-Eoghain, was expelled from his sovereignty and lordship
22]
through the power of the Foreigners, and of Clann-Aedha-Buidhe;
23]
and great depredations were committed
24]
on him, in treachery, by the Feara-Manach. His own
25]
sovereignty was again assumed by him.
Brian, son of
26]
Domhnall O'Neill, was slain by the
Clann-Aedha-Buidhe.
Annal LC1320.
27] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the thirteenth
28]
of the moon; M.ccc. xx; iii. anno Indictionis; xxiiii.
1] A great meeting between Cathal
2]
O'Conchobhair and Maelruanaigh Mac Diarmada, when
3]
they made a prudent, friendly peace; and Mac Diarmada
4]
afterwards came into the country. Treachery was
5]
practised by the same Cathal against Mac Diarmada on
6]
Mullach-Toramhnach, and he was taken prisoner there;
7]
and Grainne, Mac Maghnusa's daughter, Mac Diarmada's
8]
wife, was taken prisoner at Port-na-Cairgi; and the
9]
country was completely plundered afterwards; and Mael-Isa
10]
Donn Mac Aedhagain, and his son, and Tomaltach
11]
Mac Donnchaidh, lord of Tir-Oilella, were also taken
12]
prisoners there.
Aedh, son of Tadhg O'Conchobhair,
13]
one well qualified to be king of Connacht as regards
14]
form, and figure, and nobility, and generosity, was
15]
slain by Mac Martin, who was himself slain in retaliation.
16] Mathghamhain, son of Domhnall Connachtach
17]
O'Briain, tanist of Mumha, was killed by the Clann-Cuilen
18]
in hoc anno.
Mor, daughter of O'Baighill, wife
19]
of O'Ferghail, mortua est.
Annal LC1321.
20] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the twenty-fourth
21]
of the moon; xi. anno cycli lunaris; quarto anno
22]
Indictionis; xxv. anno cycli solaris.
Grainne, daughter
23]
of Mac Maghnusa, wife of Maelruanaidh Mac Diarmada,
24]
mortua est.
Ruaidhri-na-fedh, son of Donnchadh, son
25]
of Eoghan O'Conchobhair, was slain by Cathal, son of
26]
Aedh, son of Eoghan, per dolum.
The Rock of Loch-Cé
27]
was demolished by Cathal, son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair,
28]
king of Connacht.
A great cow-destruction
29]
throughout all Erinn, the like of which was not
30]
known before.
Maghnus O'hAnluain, king of Oirthera,
31]
was blinded and emasculated by his own brother, i.e.
2] Niall O'hAnluain, king of Oirthera, was
3]
slain by the Foreigners of Dun-Delgan, in treachery.
4] A great defeat was inflicted by Andriu Mac Feorais, and
5]
by the Foreigners of Midhe, on the sons of kings of
6]
Uí-Failghe.
Annal LC1322.
7] The kalends of January on Friday, and the fifth of
8]
the moon; M.ccc.xxii; xii. anno cycli lunaris; v. anno
9]
Indictionis; xxvi. anno cycli solaris.
A great war
10]
between the king of the Saxons and his own Earls.
11] Matthew O'hEothaigh, bishop of Ard-achadh, quievit.
12] Murchadh, son of Gilla-na-naemh O'Ferghail, chieftain
13]
of the Anghaile during the space of three years, was
14]
slain, per dolum, in Cluain-lis-Bece, by his own brother's
15]
son, i.e. Seóinin O'Ferghail.
Muirchertach, son of Amhlaibh
16]
O'Ferghail, was slain the same day by his own brothers,
17]
viz., by Lochlainn and Robert, per dolum.
Lochlainn, son
18]
of Amhlaibh O'Ferghail, was afterwards slain by Seoinin
19]
O'Ferghail.
Donnchadh, son of Donnchadh Mac Diarmada,
20]
mortuus est.
Henry Mac Gillafinnen, chieftain
21]
of Muinter-Pheodachain, was slain by the sons of Amhlaibh
22]
Mac Uidhir in hoc anno.
Gilbert O'Cellaigh, king
23]
of Uí-Maine, died in hoc anno.
Maelruanaidh Mac
24]
Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg, was taken prisoner and
25]
plundered by Conchobhar, son of Tadhg O'Conchobhair,
26]
and by the household of Cathal O'Conchobhair,
27]
in Cluain-Cummaisc.
Richard Mac Feorais, lord of
28]
Ath-na-righ, mortuus est.
William Liath, son of William
29]
Mor, mortuus est.
A great defeat was inflicted
30]
by Brian O'Briain on Foreigners.
Andrias Mac Mailin,
31]
high master of new laws and old laws, in Lex and
32]
in Canon, quievit.
Gilla-na-naemh, son of Jeffrey, son
33]
of Gilla-na-naemh, assumed the chieftainship of the
Maelruanaidh, son of Gilla-Christ,
2]
son of Conchobhar, son of Cormac, son of Tomaltach
3]
of the Rock, king of Magh-Luirg, mortuus est.
Annal LC1323.
4] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the seventeenth
5]
of the moon; M.ccc.xxiii; xiii. anno cycli lunaris;
6]
sexto anno Indictionis; xxvii. anno cycli solaris.
7] Cairbre-in-screcain, son of Cormac O'Maelechlainn, king
8]
of Midhe, occisus est by the Feara-Cell.
Maelmordha Mac
9]
Eochagain quievit.
Seoinin O'Ferghail was slain by the
10]
sons of John O'Ferghail in hoc anno.
O'hEghra was
11]
slain by O'Connmachan in hoc anno.
Annal LC1324.
12] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the twenty-seventh
13]
of the moon, xiiii. lunaris cycli; vii. anno
14]
Indictionis; xx. octavo solaris cycli.
William Burk
15]
Mac William mortuus est.
Cathal, the son of Domhnall,
16]
son of Tadhg, son of Brian, son of Andrias, son
17]
of Brian Luighnech, son of Toirdhelbhach Mor O'Conchobhair,
18]
king of Connacht, i.e. the most active and
19]
vigorous Gaeidhel of his time, occisus est by Toirdhelbhach,
20]
son of Aedh, son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair,
21]
in Tir-Briuin-na-Sinna, in hoc anno, (and Maelechlainn,
22]
son of Toirdhelbhach O'Domhnaill, and Gilla-Christ Og
23]
Mac Donnchadha, et alii multi, were slain along with
24]
him), on the eighth of the kalends of September, after
25]
having been six years and a half in the sovereignty
26]
of Connacht in spite of Foreigners and Gaeidhel; and
27]
Toirdhelbhach was afterwards made king by all the
28]
Connachtmen.
The same cow-destruction in all Erinn
29]
in hoc anno; and it was it that was usually called the
30]
Maeldomhnaigh.
Gilla-Christ O'Birn mortuus est.
1] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the eighth
2]
of the moon; M.ccc.xxv; xv. cycli lunaris; octavo
3]
anno Indictionis; primo anno cycli solaris.
Domhnall, son of
4]
Brian O'Neill, king of Uladh, mortuus est.
Diarmaid
5]
O'Maelbhrenainn, king-chieftain of Clann-Conchobhair,
6]
mortuus est.
Cu-Uladh O'Neill mortuus est; i.e. this
7]
Cu-Uladh was the son of Domhnall, son of Brian O'Neill;
8]
and the sons of Niall, son of Brian O'Neill, viz., the sons
9]
of his own father's brother, killed him.
Gilla-Christ Cleirech
10]
Mac Diarmada mortuus est.
Brian O'Gadhra mortuus
11]
est.
The cow-destruction still throughout Erinn.
Annal LC1326.
12] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the nineteenth
13]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xxvi; xvi. anno
14]
cycli lunaris; ix. anno Indictionis; secundo anno cycli
15]
solaris.
Richard Burk, i.e. the Red Earl, lord of Uladh
16]
and Connacht, and the choicest of all the Foreigners of
17]
Erinn, died in this year, ante festum Petri ad
Vincula.
18] A great war between the king of France and the king
19]
of the Saxons in hoc anno.
Laurence O'Lachtnain, bishop
20]
of Oilfinn, in Christo quievit.
Metra John O'Finnaghta
21]
was afterwards elected to the same bishopric.
Imhar
22]
Mac Raghnaill, chieftain of Muinter-Eolais, occisus est by
23]
his own kinsmen.
Nicholas O'hEdhin mortuus est.
Annal LC1327.
24] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the thirtieth
25]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xxvii; xvii.
26]
lunaris cycli; x. anno Indictionis; tertio anno cycli
27]
solaris.
A great war between the king of the Saxons
28]
and his own wife, i.e. the daughter of the king of France;
29]
and the king of the Saxons was dethroned through this
30]
war; and his own son was made king by her in opposition
31]
to his father, and a king's crown was given to him
32]
through the counsel of all the Saxons.
Gormlaith, Mac
33]
Diarmada's daughter, for a while the wife of Maghnus,
34]
son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, tanist of
Connacht, and
Edward, king of the Saxons,
6]
after his sovereignty had been taken from him, quievit.
7] A great epidemic of the galar-brec throughout all
8]
Erinn widely, which brought destruction on people small
9]
and great, in this year. Maelechlainn Riabhach, son of
10]
Domhnall, son of Tadhg O'Conchobhair, died of this
11]
disease.
Ferghal, son of Ualgharg O'Ruairc, mortuus est.
12] Culén O'Dimusaigh mortuus est.
Sadhbh, daughter of
13]
Mac Aedhagain, mortua est.
Annal LC1328.
14] The kalends of January on Friday, and the eleventh of
15]
the moon; M.ccc.xx.viii; xviii. cycli lunaris; xi. anno
16]
Indictionis; quarto anno cycli solaris.
Maelechlainn
17]
O'Raighilligh, lord of Muinter-Maelmordha, was apprehended
18]
and wounded by the Foreigners of Midhe; and
19]
he was released on giving hostages, but afterwards died
20]
of his wounds in his own house.
Terrible thunder and
21]
lightning in this year, so that much of the fruit and
22]
produce of all Erinn was destroyed, and corn grew
23]
whitish and empty.
An epidemic disease generally
24]
throughout all Erinn, wich was called slaedan,
25]
and lasted during the space of three or four days
26]
with every person whom it attacked, so that it was
27]
next to death to him.
The Brown Earl, i.e. William
28]
Burk, son of Sir John, son of the Red Earl, came to
29]
Erinn in hoc anno.
Donnchadh Ruadh, O'Gadhra, and
30]
five of his own kindred along with him, occisi sunt.
31] Conchobhar Mac Branan, heir to the chieftainship of
32]
Corca-Achlann, was slain by the people of Anghaile.
33] David Mac Gilla-Comghaill, gallowglass, and fourteen
34]
men of his people along with him, were slain by
35]
Donnchadh Gall; son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair;
36]
and Donnchadh himself was also greatly wounded there.
37] Dubhesa, daughter of O'hElidhe, wife of Domhnall,
Great, intolerable wind in
4]
the summer, and scarcity of food, and much drought.
5] A great depredation by Walter Burk on the Connachtmen,
6]
when a great number of the favourites of Toirdhelbhach
7]
O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht, were plundered
8]
by him.
Sir John Mac Feorais, Earl of Lughmhagh,
9]
i.e. the most active, vigorous, hospitable and liberal
10]
baron that was in Erinn, was killed in treachery by his
11]
own people, viz. by the Foreigners of Oirghiall; and a
12]
great number of noble Foreigners and Gaeidhel were
13]
slain along with him; and the king of minstrelsy, i.e.
14]
Maelruanaidh Mac Cerbhaill, i.e. the Gilla-caech, and
15]
another brother of his, were slain along with him; and
16]
it is not known that there came, or will ever come, so
17]
good a harper.
Maurice O'Gibillan, high master of Erinn
18]
in new laws and old laws, in Canon and Lex; a
19]
philosopher in wisdom and true knowledge; an eminent
20]
professor of poetry, and of Ogham writing, and many
21]
other arts; a canon chorister in Tuaim-da-ghualann, and
22]
in Oilfinn, and in Achadh-Conaire, and in Cill-Alaidh,
23]
and in Enach-dúin, and in Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, and the
24]
official and general judge of all the archbishopric, in
25]
Christo quievit.
Thomas O'Mellain, bishop of Enach-dúin,
26]
died at the Pope's court in hoc anno.
Brian, son
27]
of Tomaltach Mac Donnchaidh, was slain by Brian, son
28]
of Tadhg Mac Donnchaidh.
William Earl of Ulster
29]
assembled a great army, including Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
30]
king of Connacht, and Muirchertach O'Briain,
31]
king of Tuadh-Mumha, and of Mumha besides, against
A great meeting near Ath-cind-Locha-Techet
6]
between Walter, son of William Burk, and
7]
Gilbert Mac Goisdelbh, on the one part, and Maelruanaidh
8]
Mac Diarmada, and his son Tomaltach, and Tomaltach
9]
Mac Donnchaidh, and the Clann-Maelruanaidh besides,
10]
on the other part.
A defeat was inflicted on Mac William,
11]
on which occasion Brian, son of Tadhg Mac Donnchaidh,
12]
was slain by his own kinsman, in revenge of
13]
Brian, the son of Tomaltach Mac Donnchaidh, whom he
14]
had previously slain.
Donnchadh Gall, son of Domhnall
15]
O'Conchobhair, was killed by Aedh, the son of
16]
Tadhg, son of Maelechlainn, son of Maghnus.
Annal LC1329.
17] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the twenty-second
18]
of the moon; M.ccc.xx.ix; xix. cycli lunaris;
19]
xii. anno Indictionis; v. anno solaris cycli.
Tadhg, son
20]
of Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair, was slain by Diarmaid
21]
O'Gadhra, in treachery.
Cathal, son of Domhnall
22]
O'Ruairc, the good material of a king of Breifne,
23]
was killed by the sons of John O'Ferghail, and by the
24]
Foreigners of Midhe, per dolum, and a number of his
25]
people along with him.
Muirchertach, son of Domhnall
26]
O'Conchobhair, lord of Cairbre, and the good material
27]
of a king of Connacht, mortuus est.
Cathal, son of
28]
Aedh, son of Eoghain O'Conchobhair, was forcibly expelled
29]
from the Fedha, and from Tir-Maine, by the
30]
order of Walter Burk to the Clann-Cellaigh and the
31]
Uí-Maine.
A great war between Toirdhelbhach
A depredation by Tomaltach Mac Diarmada on
4]
Diarmaid O'Flannagain, chieftain of Clann-Cathail.
Aine,
5]
daughter of Ferghal O'Raighilligh, the wife of Tomaltach
6]
Mac Diarmada, mortua est the third day before Great
7]
Christmas.
Daboc Donn Mac William Burk, a very
8]
wealthy knight, mortuus est.
Annal LC1330.
9] The kalends of January on Monday, and the third of
10]
the moon; M.ccc.xxx; primus annus lunaris cycli; xiii.
11]
anno Indictionis; sexto anno solaris cycli.
Maghnus,
12]
son of Aedh Breifnech O'Conchobhair, was killed by
13]
Cathal, son of Aedh, son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair, in
14]
Ferann-na-darach; and Simon Mac-ind-Fhailgigh was
15]
slain along with him.
A camp attack was made by
16]
Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair on Walter Mac William
17]
Burk, in Lecmagh in Magh-Luirg, whom he drove from
18]
thence to Cairthi-liag-fada. And Gilbert Mac Goisdelbh,
19]
lord of Sliabh-Lugha, came with a large force to the assistance
20]
of Mac William Burk, and Tomaltach Mac Donnchaidh
21]
came with another force to the assistance of Mac William;
22]
and both these armies turned against O'Conchobhair
23]
until they reached Ath-Disert-Nuadan; and a few of
24]
O'Conchobhair's people were slain about the ford, viz.:—
25]
Donnchadh, son of Domhnall Mac Mathghamhna, and Mac
26]
Gilla-Comghain, and other persons also who are not enumerated
27]
here. O'Conchobhair went afterwards actively,
28]
proudly, into the Tuatha; and Mac William fixed his camp
29]
that night at Cill-Lomad, in presence of O'Conchobhair.
30] The armies of all Connacht, both Foreigners and Gaeidhel,
31]
were subsequently mustered by Mac William, with the
A hosting by O'Ruairc to
4]
Fidh-an-atha, when the people of the town opposed them,
5]
and O'Ruairc was defeated, and Art O'Ruairc, who was
6]
qualified to be king of Breifne, was killed there, and a great
7]
many more, both good and bad.
Gilla-Isa Ruadh O'Raighilligh,
8]
king of Muinter-Maelmordha and all the Breifne
9]
for a long time previously, died a prosperous, wealthy
10]
senior, after obtaining victory over the devil and the
11]
world.
Benedict O'Flannagain, prior of Cill-mor-na-Sinna,
12]
quievit in Christo.
Maelechlainn Mac Carmaic,
13]
a wealthy brughaidh cédach, died in hoc anno.
Mael-Isa
14]
Donn Mac Aedhagain mortuus est.
A great victory by
15]
Conchobhar, son of Tadhg, son of Brian, son of Andrias,
16]
son of Brian Luighnech, son of Toirdhelbhach Mór
17]
O'Conchobhair, over the Dartraighe, when a great,
18]
number of them were slain by him.
Toirdhelbhach
19]
O'Conchobhair was slain by the people of Walter
20]
Mac William Burk, whilst coming from the Earl's
21]
house.
Annal LC1331.
22] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the fourteenth
23]
of the moon; M.ccc.xxx. primo; secundo anno
24]
cycli lunaris; xiiii. anno Indictionis; septimo anno cycli
25]
solaris.
Maelruanaidh Mac Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg,
26]
resigned his kingdom and sovereignty, and assumed the
27]
habit of a gray monk in the monastery of the Buill in
28]
hoc anno, and died afterwards; and his own son Tomaltach
29]
assumed the same sovereignty the sixth day
30]
after May-day.
Ferghal, son of Maelechlainn Carrach
31]
Mac Diarmada, was killed by Tadhg, son of Cathal, son
32]
of Domhnall O'Conchobhair.
A great hosting by Walter
33]
Mac William Burk into Magh-Luirg, when the entire
34]
country was burned by him, except the churches alone, to
35]
which he gave good respect and protection. Nevertheless,
36]
Tomaltach and his own army did not permit them to remain
Meiler
7]
Mac Eochagain quievit in tertia kalendas
Januarii.
Annal LC1332.
8] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the twenty-fifth
9]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xxx. secundo;
10]
tertio anno cycli lunaris; xv. anno Indictionis; viii.
11]
anno cycli solaris.
Walter, son of Sir William Burk,
12]
was taken prisoner by the Brown Earl, who afterwards
13]
took him with him to the New Castle of Inis-Eoghain;
14]
and he died of hunger in the prison of that castle.
The
15]
nobles of Alba were slain by the Baliol in the same
16]
year.
The victory of Berna-in-mil was gained over
17]
Tomaltach Mac Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg, and over
18]
Mac William Burk, by the Earl's son and Tomaltach
19]
Mac Donnchaidh, in which a great number of Mac William
20]
Burk's people were slain.
William Gallda, the son
21]
of Muirchertach Mór Mac Eochagain, dux of Cenel-Fiachaidh,
22]
mortuus est in the month of November.
Annal LC1333.
23] The kalends of January on Friday, and the sixth of
24]
the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xxxiii; quarto anno
25]
cycli lunaris; primo anno Indictionis; ix. anno cycli
26]
solaris.
William Burk, i.e. the Earl of Ulster, was slain
27]
by the Foreigners of Ulster; and all these Foreigners
28]
fell in return, having been either hanged, slain, or torn
29]
asunder, by the king of the Saxons' people.
Aedh
30]
O'Domhnaill, king of Tir-Conaill and Feara-Manach,
31]
and who took the hostages of the two districts of
32]
Cairbre, and of the Breifne; one qualified to be king of
33]
the entire province of Uladh, and the prop of all Erinn as
Tomaltach Mac
13]
Donnchaidh, lord of Tir-Oilella, a most eminent man for
14]
bounty and prowess, and the best of his contemporaries for
15]
guarantee, honour, and truth, mortuus est.
Fedhlimidh
16]
O'Domhnaill, the king's son who was the most noble, the
17]
most comely, and most illustrious, and from whom the multitudes,
18]
and the men of all Erinn, expected most, died in
19]
this year.
Gilbert Mac Goisdelbh was slain in the middle
20]
of his own house by Cathal Mac Diarmada Gall, per
21]
dolum.
Aedh Mac Consnamha, chieftain of Muinter-Cinaith,
22]
quievit.
Mac-na-hoidchi Mac Flannchaidh was
23]
slain by Connachtmen.
Donnchadh, son of Aedh O'Cellaigh,
24]
was taken prisoner by Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
25]
king of Connacht.
Peace was proclaimed at Rath-Secher,
26]
to the sons of William Burk, on the part of the king of
27]
the Saxons.
Conchobhar Mac Branan, chieftain of Corca-Achlann,
28]
mortuus est vi. idus Januarii.
Annal LC1334.
29] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the seventeenth
30]
of the moon; M.ccc.xxx.iiii; quinto anno cycli
31]
lunaris; primo anno Indictionis; x. anno solaris cycli.
32] A great hosting by all the Connachtmen, both Foreigners
33]
and Gaeidhel, into Mumha, to Mac Conmara, from whom
Ten of the people of Donnchadh
6]
Riabhach, son of Maelechlainn Carrach Mac Diarmada,
7]
were drowned in Loch-Teched. Tadhg, son of Cathal,
8]
son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, mortuus est.
Seonac,
9]
son of Muirchertach Mór Mac Eochagain, dux of Cenel-Fiachaidh,
10]
mortuus est in xiiii. kalendas Januarii.
Donnchadh
11]
Mac Consnamha, chieftain of Muinter-Cinaith,
12]
mortuus est.
Annal LC1335.
13] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the twenty-eighth
14]
of the moon; M.ccc.xxxv; vi. anno cycli lunaris;
15]
tertio anno Indictionis; xi. anno cycli solaris.
Finnghuala,
16]
daughter of O'Briain, wife of Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
17]
mortua est.
John, son of Art O'hEghra, was taken
18]
prisoner by the Earl's son; and the principal part of his
19]
people were plundered by him.
A depredation was committed
20]
by the sons of Domhnall O'Conchobhair on the
21]
descendants of Maurice Sugach Fitz-Gerald, on which
22]
occasion the son of Mac Maurice was killed. A retaliatory
23]
depredation was afterwards committed by the Clann-Maurice
24]
on the same sons of Domhnall.
The West of
25]
Connacht was all destroyed by Edmond Burk; a great
26]
many persons were slain; and innumerable depredations,
27]
and burnings, and injuries were also committed by him
28]
on the Earl's son, and on the Clan-Rickard Burk, in
29]
the same year; but they afterwards made peace with one
30]
another.
Great snow in the spring, which destroyed the
31]
greater number of the small birds of all Erinn.
Annal LC1336.
32] The kalends of January on Monday, and the ninth of
33]
the moon; M.ccc.xxx. vi. vii. anno cycli lunaris; quarto
34]
anno Indictionis; xii. anno cycli solaris.
Tomaltach Mac
35]
Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg, the most formidable and
36]
triumphant man against his enemies, and the man of
7] Tibbot Burk, i.e. the Mac William, mortuus est.
Meiler
8]
Mac Jordan de Exeter mortuus est.
A victory by
9]
Eoghan O'Madadhain over the Clann-Rickard Burk,
10]
in which three score and six were slain, both good
11]
and bad.
A great depredation by the sons of Diarmaid
12]
Gall, and by Fedhlimidh O'Conchobhair, on the Clann-Goisdelbh;
13]
and Maidiuc Mac Waltrin was slain in pursuit
14]
of the prey.
A great depredation by Edmond Mac
15]
William Burk upon the Clann-Cathail, on which occasion
16]
Conchobhar O'Flannagain was plundered, and many
17]
other persons along with him; and Maelechlainn O'Flannagain
18]
was slain whilst in pursuit of this prey; and they
19]
took Mac-in-mhilidh's brother prisoner in pursuit of this
20]
prey.
Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg, and
21]
Aedh, the son of Fedhlimidh, son of Aedh, son of Eoghan
22]
O'Conchobhair, together with O'Conchobhair's household
23]
band, and the Clann-Donnchadha, and the young soldiers
24]
of the territory of Cairbre, including Cormac the son
25]
of Ruaidhri, went on a predatory expedition into Tir-Fiachrach
26]
until they reached Mullach-Ratha; but the
27]
cows of the district fled before them.
Many inanimate
28]
spoils, and several horses, and a few steeds, and a great
29]
quantity of small cattle were brought away by them; and
30]
people were slain by them; and they came home safely.
31] Diarmaid O'Flannagain, dux of Clann-Cathail, mortuus
32]
est.
Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht,
33]
mustered the moveable forces of the Tuatha, of Clann-Cathail,
5] Trinnoit O'Naan, high master in many sciences, in Lex
6]
and Canon, quievit in Christo.
Domhnall, son of John,
7]
son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, mortuus est.
Niall, the
8]
son of Conchobhar Mac Taidhg, occisus est by a shot
9]
of an arrow.
Annal LC1337.
10] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the twentieth
11]
of the moon; M.ccc.xxx.vii. viii. anno cycli
12]
lunaris; quinto anno Indictionis; xiii. anno cycli solaris.
13] Peace was made by William, son of the Red Earl, and
14]
Brian Bán O'Briain; and all the lands that he O'Briain
15]
had wasted against the Earl's son were given to him, on
16]
condition of his own rent being paid for them.
Peace
17]
was concluded by Aedh Remhar O'Neill with the Oirghialla
18]
and the Feara-Manach.
A fortified camp was
19]
formed by Toirdhelbach O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht,
20]
at Ath-Liag, against Edmond Burk.
John O'Fallamhain,
21]
dux of Clann-Uadach, mortuus est.
Tadhg
22]
Mac Flannchaidh, dux of Dartraighe, was slain by Cormac,
23]
son of Ruaidhri, son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair,
24]
together with many more, in revenge of John, son of
25]
Domhnall; and great depredations were committed upon
26]
the Dartraighe; and the son of Maurice Mac Flannchaidh
27]
was slain the same day.
Tadhg and Maelechlainn,
28]
two sons of Imhar Mac Raghnaill, were taken prisoners
29]
by Cathal Mac Raghnaill, and Cathal Mac Raghnaill
30]
was killed in the pursuit by the sons of Imhar—
31]
(viz., these sons of Imhar were Conchobhar and Tomaltach)
32]
—and by William Mac Mathghamhna, and by the
33]
young men of the country along with them; and
34]
Maghnus, son of Ferghal, was killed by them on the
Domhnall Ruadh O'Maille
3]
and Cormac O'Maille were slain by the Clann-Mebhric,
4]
and by other Foreigners along with them, on the night of
5]
Stephen's festival.
The Master O'Rothlan quievit in
6]
Christo.
Matthew O'hUiginn, a man eminent for poetry
7]
and humanity, quievit.
Henry Hac Martin was killed
8]
in hoc anno.
A great victory over Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
9]
king of Connacht, by Clann-Cellaigh; and Toirdhelbhach
10]
himself was wounded there, and taken prisoner;
11]
and his horse and clothes were left there by him, together
12]
with a great slaughter of people.
Lughaidh O'Dálaigh,
13]
bishop of Cluain-mic-Nois, in Christo quievit.
Thomas,
14]
son of Cormac O'Domhnaill, bishop of Tir-Conaill, i.e. a
15]
man eminent for wisdom, piety, charity, and humanity,
16]
in Christo quievit.
Donnchadh, son of Muirchertach Mór
17]
Mac Eochagain, dux of Cenel-Fiachaidh, occisus est by
18]
the Uí-Failghe.
Annal LC1338.
19] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the first of
20]
the moon; M.ccc.xxx. octavo; ix. anno cycli lunaris;
21]
sexto anno Indictionis; xiiii. anno cycli solaris.
Donnchadh,
22]
son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, occisus est in hoc
23]
anno.
Ruaidhri Mac Uidhir, king of Feara-Manach and
24]
Loch-Erne, the man who, in his own time, presented most of
25]
money, of cattle, and of clothing to the learned men and
26]
chief poets of Erinn, mortuus est.
Edmond Burk, i.e.
27]
the son of the Earl of Ulster, was taken prisoner by
28]
Edmond Burk; and a stone was tied round his neck,
29]
and he was afterwards thrown into Loch-Mesca; and the
30]
destruction of the Foreigners of Connacht, and of his
31]
own family, occurred through this. And Toirdhelbhach
32]
O'Conchobhair assumed the sway of Connacht after that,
Luighne and the
6]
Corann were depopulated and wasted, and the sovereignty
7]
was assumed by their own hereditary Gaeidhel,
8]
after the expulsion of their Foreigners out of them.
9] Tadhg, son of Ruaidhri, son of Cathal Ruadh O'Conchobhair,
10]
usually called the 'Bratach righin', was taken
11]
prisoner by Thomas Mac Samhradhain; and many of his
12]
people were slain. Mac Samhradhain went afterwards
13]
to O'Conchobhair's house, and on his return from O'Conchobhair's
14]
house the Clann-Muirchertaigh and Muinter-Eolais
15]
assembled before him; and Mac Samhradhain was
16]
taken prisoner by them, and several of his people were
17]
slain.
Derbhail, daughter of Cathal Mac Murchadha,
18]
wife of Donnchadh, son of Aedh Og, quievit.
The sheep
19]
of Erinn died in hoc anno, excepting a few.
A great
20]
war between the king of France and the king of the
21]
Saxons in hoc anno.
Annal LC1339.
22] The kalends of January on Friday, and the twelfth of
23]
the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xxx.ix; x. anno cycli
24]
lunaris; vii. anno Indictionis; xv. cycli solaris.
Ruaidhri
25]
O'Cellaigh, king of Uí-Maine, was slain by Cathal, son
26]
of Aedh, son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair, whilst going
27]
from O'Conchobhair's house to his own house, in hoc
28]
anno.
Thomas Mac Samhradhain, who was detained a
29]
prisoner by the Clann-Muirchertaigh, was set at liberty.
30] A great plague from frost and snow on the cattle and
31]
green cornfields of Erinn, from a fortnight of winter to a
32]
part of the spring.
A great hosting by Aedh Remhar
33]
O'Neill to Tir-Conaill, on which occasion the son of John
Edmond Mac William Burk was driven
3]
to Uladh, together with his fleet.
The wife of the
4]
Earl of Ulster's son, i.e. the daughter of Toirdhelbhach
5]
O'Briain, was taken to wife by Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
6]
king of Connacht, and Derbhail, daughter of
7]
Aedh O'Domhnaill, was abandoned by him, in this year.
8] A great war throughout Midhe, between Foreigners and
9]
Gaeidhel.
The corn crops of Erinn were destroyed, and great
10]
famine ensued in it.
The church of Cill-Ronain was built
11]
by Ferghal Muimhnech O'Duibhgennain in hoc anno.
Annal LC1340.
12] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the twenty-third
13]
of the moon; M.ccc.xl; xi. anno cycli lunaris; viii.
14]
anno Indictionis; xvi. cycli solaris.
A great war arose
15]
amongst the Uí-Maine, i.e. between Tadhg, son of Tadhg
16]
O'Cellaigh, to whom Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair had
17]
given the government of Uí-Maine, and William, son of
18]
Donnchadh Muimhnech O'Cellaigh; and William, son of
19]
Donnchadh Muimhnech, was sent out of the district; and
20]
they all pursued him, but William turned upon them,
21]
when Donnchadh, son of Aedh O'Cellaigh, was slain, and
22]
Tadhg O'Cellaigh was taken prisoner and wounded; and
23]
he died afterwards of his wound.
Maelsechlainn O'Gairmleghaig,
24]
chieftain of Cenel-Moain, mortuus est.
The sons
25]
of Ualgharg O'Ruairc, viz., Domhnall, and Aedh, and
26]
Gilla-Christ, and Ruaidhri, went on a predatory expedition
27]
to Cathal, son of Aedh Breifnech; and they committed
28]
a very great depredation; and Conchobhar, the
29]
son of Donnchadh Riabhach, son of Maghnus, son of
30]
Muirchertach Muimhnech, was on that day slain by
31]
them, and many more along with him: (and this was
32]
the first rupture between Muinter-Ruairc and the descendants
33]
of Muirchertach Muimhnech, son of Toirdhelbhach
34]
Mór). And Cathal, son of Aedh Breifnech, made
35]
a valorous pursuit afterwards, when a great part of the
36]
prey was detained, and Domhnall O'Ruairc, the choicest
7] Aedh, son of Fedhlimidh O'Conchobhair, was taken prisoner
8]
by Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht,
9]
i.e. his father's brother, and placed in confinement in the
10]
castle of Ros-Comain. A great war and terrible dissension
11]
arose between O'Conchobhair and Mac Diarmada
12]
through this capture, so that much property was destroyed
13]
between them both. O'Conchobhair was put in great
14]
jeopardy by Mac Diarmada in the Corann, when he was
15]
unwillingly driven into Baile-in-mhuta; and they immediately
16]
afterwards made peace with each other.
17] Jordan Ruadh Mac Goisdelbh was killed by Cathal Mac
18]
Diarmada Gall in hoc anno.
Cathal Mac Diarmada Gall,
19]
the choicest of the princes of Connacht for prowess,
20]
valour, might and vigour, was slain by Donnchadh
21]
Riabhach, son of Maelechlainn Carrach Mac Diarmada,
22]
per dolum, at Lis-Selbhaigh in Clann-Conchobhair.
22] Maghnus, son of Cathal, son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair,
23]
was slain by Cathal, son of Aedh Breifnech O'Conchobhair.
24] Brian Og Mac Samhradhain was killed by the
25]
Tellach-Dunchadha.
Eoghan O'hEdhin, king of Uí-Fiachrach-Aidhne,
27]
occisus est a suis.
Eoghan, son of
28]
Jeffrey Mac Raghnaill, and Aedh O'Maelmhiadhaigh
29]
killed one another.
Adam Mac Techedhan quievit in
30]
Christo.
Philip O'Duibhgennain, ollamh of Conmaicne,
31]
mortuus est.
Imag, daughter of Mac Goisdelbh, wife
32]
of Eoghan Mac Finghin, quievit.
William Mac Goisdelbh,
33]
son of Gilbert, was slain in a conflict in the
34]
Breifne, by the Tellach-Echach.
Ruaidhri, son of
Matthew, son of
2]
Annadh O'Raighilligh, was slain by Andrias, son of
3]
Brian O'Raighilligh, who afterwards committed great
4]
depredations in the Bolcan.
The church of Cill-Ronain
5]
was burned in hoc anno.
Niall O'hUiginn, an eminent
6]
poet, was drowned.
Conchobhar O'Domhnaill went into
7]
Connacht, with his muster.
Annal LC1341.
8] The kalends of January on Monday, and the seventh
9]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xl. primo; xii. anno
10]
cycli lunaris; ix. anno indictionis; xvii. cycli solaris.
11] A great defeat was inflicted by Mac William Burk on
12]
the Clann-Maurice, on which occasion Thomas Mac
13]
Maurice, and Maurice, son of Seonac Ruadh, and seven
14]
score persons along with them, were slain.
Domhnall Mac
15]
Dorchaidh, dux of Cenel-Luachain, mortuus est.
Donnchadh,
16]
son of Mac-na-hoidhchi Mac Flannchaidh, was
17]
killed by Aedh, son of Tadhg Mac Flannchaidh, in hoc
18]
anno.
O'Gairmleghaigh, dux of Cenel-Moan, mortuus
19]
est.
Brian O'Floinn, chieftain of Tellach-Curnain,
20]
mortuus est.
Cathal Mac Cethernaigh was killed by
21]
a fall.
The castle of Ros-Comain was captured by
22]
Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair; and it was Aedh, son of
23]
Fedhlimidh O'Conchobhair, who was imprisoned in the
24]
castle, that betrayed it to O'Conchobhair.
Seonac Mac
25]
Mathghamhna was expelled from Oirghiall.
Cuchonnacht
26]
O'Cuinn, dux of Muinter-Gillagan, mortuus est.
Diarmaid
27]
Ruadh, son of Cormac Og Mac Diarmada, mortuus est.
Annal LC1342.
28] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the 17th
29]
of the moon; anno Domini M. ccc. xl. secundo; xiii.
30]
anno cycli lunaris; x. anno Indictionis; xviii. cycli
31]
solaris.
The Gilla-dubh Mac Uidhir was drowned on
32]
Loch-Erne, in the rear of a predatory party.
A great
11] A general war, and great enmity, grew in all Connacht
12]
at that time, and the Clann-Muirchertaigh, with Aedh
13]
son of Aedh Breifnech, and with Cathal son of Aedh
14]
Breifnech, and with Tadhg son of Ruaidhri, sided with
15]
all those at first; and a great quantity of the corn
16]
of the country was destroyed by them.
An ugly act
17]
of treachery was committed on the Clann-William-Burk,
18]
at the instigation of O'Conchobhair, when Thomas
19]
Burk was slain by the Clann-Maurice whilst in their
20]
own assembly; and Seonin Burk was slain in the
21]
same way by the Clann-Rickard. Cathal, son of Gilla-Christ
22]
Mac Diarmada, was slain by Ferghal O'Taidhg in
23]
the same war. Ferghal, son of Gilla-Christ Finn Mac
24]
Cormaic was slain in the same war. A fierce overthrow
25]
was given by Mac Diarmada and his princes to O'Conchobhair,
26]
at Bel-atha-Slisen, where the ford was passed
27]
in spite of him, and where Diarmaid, the son of Brian
28]
O'Ferghail—i.e. the best man of all the Conmaicne of his
29]
own age—and the son of Hubert Burk, and Conchobhar,
30]
son of Donnchadh Dubh O'hElidhe, were slain.
John
31]
Mac Mathghamhna, a man eminent for bounty and
32]
prowess, king of Oirghiall, went on a predatory expedition
33]
against Roalbh Mac Mathghamhna, and was
Cormac,
3]
son of Ruaidhri, son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, was
4]
taken prisoner by Conchobhar, the son of Tadhg, and
5]
by Ruaidhri, son of Cathal O'Conchobhair, in the same
6]
year; and Conchobhar was taken prisoner by Brian,
7]
the son of Ruaidhri, and delivered into the hands of
8]
Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, who afterwards placed him
9]
in the Rock to be imprisoned.
Domhnall O'Dochartaigh,
10]
chieftain of Ard-Midhair, a man eminent for bounty,
11]
prowess, charity, and humanity, died in his own house
12]
in hoc anno, and John O'Dochartaigh assumed his place
13]
after him.
The Síl-Muiredhaigh all, both willing and
14]
unwilling, renounced the king of Connacht, i.e. Toirdhelbhach,
15]
son of Aedh, son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair;
16]
and the most distinguished who then opposed him
17]
were Edmond Mac William Burk, and Conchobhar Mac
18]
Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg, with his brothers and
19]
with all his people; and Aedh, son of Aedh Breifnech,
20]
son of Cathal Ruadh O'Conchobhair; and Tadhg, son
21]
of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair; and Cathal, son of Aedh
22]
Breifnech, son of Cathal Ruadh; and the armies of
23]
Breifne and Conmaicne; and Aedh, the son of Fedhlimidh,
24]
son of Aedh, son of Eoghan: and Toirdhelbhach
25]
was sent out of the country by them all, which was
26]
not surprising.
And the advice which his friends gave
27]
him afterwards was to go at night to Mac Diarmada's
28]
house. And the Clann-Muirchertaigh received intelligence
29]
of this advice, and assembled before him on
30]
the roads, and in the dangerous passes of the fortress;
31]
but he went past all these in the dark night,
32]
with two or three horsemen; and he was opposed on
33]
the causeway of the fortress, but he passed through
34]
them by the force of his strong hand, and wounded
35]
Cathal, son of Aedh Breifnech. And Mac Diarmada
Conchobhar
10]
Ruadh Mac Eochagain, dux of Cenel-Fiachaidh,
11]
was slain by Foreigners.
Thomas O'Cinga mortuus
12]
est.
Maurice Mac Eochagain quievit.
Simon, son of
13]
Conchobhar, son of Simon Mac Gilla-Arraith, one of the
14]
chieftains of Luighne, mortuus est.
Murchadh, son of
15]
Tomaltach O'Flannagain, i.e. the third best man that was
16]
of the Clann-Cathail, was slain by the gallowglasses of
17]
Cathal's son.
Aedh, the son of Aedh Breifnech, son of
18]
Cathal Ruadh O'Conchobhair, was made king by the
19]
Connachtmen and Mac William Burk, the first Monday
20]
of the winter; and the tanistship of Connacht was given
21]
to Aedh, the son of Fedhlimidh O'Conchobhair; and
22]
Tir-Oilella was given to Ferghal Mac Diarmada, and
23]
Tadhg, son of Tomaltach, son of Maurice Mac Donnchadha,
24]
was expelled from his own country by Conchobhar Mac
25]
Diarmada, and by his brethren; and Mac Donnchadha
26]
joined Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair.
27] Conchobhar O'Domhnaill; king of Tir-Conaill, and one
28]
worthy to rule all Erinn, if God had willed it, by reason
29]
of his nobility, eminence, and the excellence of his
30]
bounty and prowess, was slain by Niall O'Domhnaill, i.e.
31]
his own father's son: (the house of Finn-ros was burned
32]
over him, and O'Domhnaill went out of the house,
33]
and fell afterwards in the doorway of his own house),
Flann Og O'Domhnallain, O'Conchobhair's
6]
chief poet, quievit.
Domhnall O'Cuindlis, an eminent
7]
historian, occisus est by the Uí-Diarmada.
Thomas Mac
8]
Gilla-Coisglidh, a man eminent for bounty, in Christo
9]
quievit.
Matthew Mac Maghnusa, brughaidh of Loch-Erne,
10]
quievit in Christo.
Annal LC1343.
11] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the twenty-eighth
12]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xl.iii; xiiii.
13]
cycli lunaris; xi. anno Indictionis; xix. cycli solaris.
14] Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair assumed his own sovereignty
15]
again, and peace was made with him by Mac
16]
Diarmada.
Slaine O'Briain's daughter, Toirdhelbhach
17]
O'Conchobhair's wife, and previously the wife of the
18]
Earl of Ulster's son, mortua est.
Derbhail, daughter of
19]
Aedh O'Domhnaill, came on a visit to Inis-Doighre, to
20]
Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, where her death sickness
21]
seized her; and she was afterwards interred in the
22]
monastery of the Buill.
Dubhchabhlaigh, daughter of
23]
Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, wife of O'Birn, quievit.
24] Thomas Mac Samhradhain, dux of Tellach-Echach,
25]
quievit.
Muirchertach O'Briain, king of Tuadh-Mumha,
26]
mortuus est, and Diarmaid O'Briain was made king in
27]
his place; and he was expelled by Brian O'Briain, to
28]
whom the chieftains of Tuadh-Mumha afterwards submitted.
29] Ulick, son of Richard, son of William Liath, the
30]
greatest of all the foreign youths of Erinn in bounty
31]
and prowess, quievit.
Cathal O'Madadhain, the most
32]
eminent man in Erinn, was killed by the Clann-Rickard.
1] Donnchadh Clerech O'Maelbhrenainn, a canon chorister
2]
at Oilfinn, was killed with a shot of an arrow by the
3]
people of Hubert, son of David Donn Mac William.
4] Cathal Mac-an-Liathanaigh, abbot of the Trinity on
5]
Loch-Cé, and bishop-elect of Oilfinn, in Christo quievit.
6] A great victory by the Clann-Feorais and Clann-Rickard
7]
over the Uí-Maine, in which eleven princes of the Clann-Cellaigh
8]
were slain, along with Conchobhar Cerbhach
9]
O'Cellaigh.
Niall O'Domhnaill was deposed by Aengus
10]
O'Domhnaill, and by Domhnall Dubh O'Baighill, and
11]
by O'Dochartaigh, and by the power of Aedh Remhar
12]
O'Neill, and by the Clann-Suibhne; and Aengus was made
13]
king by them all. Niall went again into the country;
14]
and the Clann-Muirchertaigh were expelled out of the
15]
Breifne by Ualgharg O'Ruairc, Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
16]
and Tadhg Mac Raghnaill; and they went
17]
into Tir-Aedha, and Aengus O'Domhnaill gave them
18]
Tir-Aedha, both grass and corn, and with all its other
19]
benefits. And a battle was afterwards fought by Aengus
20]
O'Domhnaill and the Clann-Muirchertaigh against Niall
21]
O'Domhnaill, when Niall was defeated by them; on
22]
which occasion Andiles O'Baighill, i.e. the chieftain of Tir-Ainmirech,
23]
and his son, and Eoghan, the son of Art
24]
O'Domhnaill, et alii multi, were slain.
The church of
25]
Cill-Ronain was built.
Johannes O'Flaithimh, bishop of
26]
Cill-Alaidh, quievit.
John Mac Eoaidh, bishop of Conmaicne,
27]
quievit.
Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, king of
28]
Magh-Luirg, and fountain of the dignity and nobility of the
29]
descendants of Maelruanaidh Mór, son of Tadhg, son of
30]
Cathal, son of Conchobhar, died in his own house a week
31]
before Allhallowtide, on a Saturday as regards the day
32]
of the week, after having overcome the devil and the
33]
world, and was interred in the monastery of the Buill;
34]
and Ferghal Mac Diarmada, his own brother, was made
35]
king in his place.
Annal LC1344.
1] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the ninth
2]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xl. quarto; xv. cycli
3]
lunaris; xii. anno Indictionis; xx. anno cycli solaris.
4] Thomas, son of Cathal Riabhach O'Ruairc, was slain by
5]
the Clann-Muirchertaigh in hoc anno.
Aedh, grandson
6]
of Roalbh Mac Mathghamhna, i.e. the king of Oirghiall,
7]
mortuus est; and Murchadh Og, son of Murchadh Mór,
8]
son of Brian-na-coiligh-aifrinn, was made king in his
9]
place, and died in the course of a week. Maghnus, son
10]
of Eochaidh, son of Roalbh, assumed the sovereignty of
11]
Oirghiall afterwards.
Art Mór, son of Cormac O'Maelechlainn,
12]
king of Midhe, was slain by Cormac Ballach
13]
O'Maelechlainn, who afterwards assumed the sovereignty
14]
of Midhe for himself.
William, son of Mathghamhain
15]
Mac Raghnaill, was slain by the sons of Cathal Mac
16]
Raghnaill.
Matthew, son of Gilla-Christ Clerech Mac Diarmada,
17]
was slain by Muinter-Elidhe on the Corr-sliabh.
18] The bishop of Luighne in Christo quievit.
Murchadh,
19]
son of Maelmhuaidh O'hEghra, abbot of the Buill, and
20]
intended bishop of Luighne, quievit.
21] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the twentieth
22]
of the moon; M.ccc.xl. quinto; xvi. cycli lunaris; xiii.
23]
anno Indictionis; xxi. cycli solaris.
Toirdhelbhach,
24]
son of Aedh, son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair, king of
25]
Connacht during a period of twenty-one years, and
26]
one well fitted to be king of Erinn, if God had vouchsafed
27]
it to him, was killed by a shot of an arrow in
28]
Fidh-Dorudha in Muinter-Eolais, after he had gone as
29]
far as Loch-Airinn to assist Tadhg Mac Raghnaill
30]
against the descendants of Muirchertach Muimhnech
31]
O'Conchobhair; and the descendants of Muirchertach
32]
Muimhnech, and the other section of the Muinter-Eolais,
Brian O'Ferghail, who was well qualified to be
9]
chieftain of the Anghaile, mortuus est.
Annal LC1346.
10] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the first of
11]
the moon; M.ccc.xl. sexto; xvii. cycli lunaris; xiiii. anno
12]
Indictionis; xxii. cycli solaris.
A terrible war arose
13]
between Ualgharg O'Ruairc and Ruaidhri, son of Cathal
14]
O'Conchobhair; and they gave battle to each other in
15]
Calraidhe-Locha-Gile; and O'Ruairc was there defeated,
16]
and all his gallowglasses were slain there, viz., Mac
17]
Burci, and the son of Niall Cam, and mostly all their
18]
people along with them; and O'Ruairc himself was pursued,
19]
and was slain by Maelruanaidh Mac Donnchaidh
20]
on that day.
The four sons of Cathal Mac-in-caich
21]
Mac Raghnaill were taken prisoners on Loch-an-Scuir by
22]
Conchobhar Mac Raghnaill, and Tomaltach Mac Raghnaill
23]
took them with him to Caisel-Cosgraigh, where
24]
they were afterwards killed by him.
The comarb of
25]
Patrick, i.e. David Mac Oirechtaigh, in Christo quievit.
26] Cu-Uladh Mac Cathmhail, dux of Cenel-Feradhaigh, was
27]
slain by Domhnall Mac Cathmhail.
A victory over the
28]
Foreigners by Brian Mac Mathghamhna, so that three
29]
hundred heads were counted in one place.
Niall
A great war between Mac Diarmada and
9]
Maghnus Mac Diarmada Gall in hoc anno; and treachery
10]
was practised by the sons of Waldrin Mac Goisdelbh
11]
on Maghnus Mac Diarmada Gall in his own house,
12]
and he was slain there; and Cormac Caech Mac Finghin
13]
was also slain there.
O'Cerbhaill was slain by the
14]
Osraighe.
Conchobhar O'Birn occisus est viii. kalendas
15]
Martii.
Annal LC1347.
16] The kalends of January on Monday, and the twelfth
17]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xl.vii; xviii. cycli lunaris;
18]
xv. Indictionis; xxiii. cycli solaris.
Gilla-na-naemh, son of Jeffrey,
19]
son of Gilla-na-naemh O'Ferghail, chieftain
20]
of the Anghaile, died in Cluain-Lis-Bece, after having
21]
spent twenty-six years in the chief government of the
22]
Anghaile, after overcoming the devil and the world;
23]
and Cathal, the son of Murchadh, son of Gilla-na-naemh
24]
O'Ferghail, assumed the chieftaincy after him.
Maurice
25]
Mac Diarmada was slain by John Ruadh Mac David
26]
Burk.
Tadhg Mac Raghnaill, dux of Muinter-Eolais,
27]
was taken prisoner by the Clann-Muirchertaigh. in hoc
28]
anno. O'Ruairc's gallowglasses were slain or captured
29]
by the Clann-Muirchertaigh, after having been
30]
found in Muinter-Eolais.
William Mac David Milis
31]
was slain by Tadhg Ruadh Mac Diarmada Gall, in Baile-in-tobair.
32] Henry, son of Aedh Buidhe O'Neill, mortuus
33]
est.
Thomas Mac Airten, king of Uí-Echach-Uladh,
Eoghan O'Madadhain, king
2]
of Síl-Anmchadha, mortuus est, and Murchadh O'Madadhain,
3]
his own son, was subsequently made king.
4] Finnghuala, daughter of Eoghan Mac Finghin, uxor of
5]
Ferghal Muimhnech O'Duibhgennain, airchinnech of
6]
Cill-Ronain, quievit.
The Gilla-dubh Mac Gillamochua
7]
quievit.
Ferghal Mac Cormaic was slain; and it is not
8]
known who slew him.
Annal LC1348.
9] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the twenty-third
10]
of the moon; M.ccc.xl.octavo; xix. cycli lunaris;
11]
primus annus Indictionis; xx. quarto cycli solaris.
Cathal
12]
O'Ferghail, dux of Muinter-Anghaile during the space of
13]
half a year, mortuus est.
Niall Garbh O'Domhnaill
14]
was slain by Maghnus Meabhlach O'Domhnaill, per
15]
dolum.
Maelechlainn Mac Oirechtaigh, dux of Muinter-Raduibh,
16]
mortuus est.
Donnchadh Mac Bradaigh, dux
17]
of Cuil-Brighdin, quievit in Christo.
A great war arose
18]
between Ferghal Mac Diarmada and Ruaidhri, son of
19]
Cathal, son of Domhnall; and Mac Diarmada's fortress
20]
was burned by the son of Cathal. Mac Diarmada
21]
assembled his friends of the Connachtmen, and they
22]
pursued the son of Cathal to Baile-in-mhuta, and the
23]
town was burned by them, both stone and wood; and
24]
no one dared to oppose them until they arrived at their
25]
homes; and they brought with them all the captives that
26]
were in the town, including O'Ruairc's son, and came
27]
home safely afterwards.