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