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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.