1] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the eighth
2]
of the moon; M.ccc.xxv; xv. cycli lunaris; octavo
3]
anno Indictionis; primo anno cycli solaris.
Domhnall, son of
4]
Brian O'Neill, king of Uladh, mortuus est.
Diarmaid
5]
O'Maelbhrenainn, king-chieftain of Clann-Conchobhair,
6]
mortuus est.
Cu-Uladh O'Neill mortuus est; i.e. this
7]
Cu-Uladh was the son of Domhnall, son of Brian O'Neill;
8]
and the sons of Niall, son of Brian O'Neill, viz., the sons
9]
of his own father's brother, killed him.
Gilla-Christ Cleirech
10]
Mac Diarmada mortuus est.
Brian O'Gadhra mortuus
11]
est.
The cow-destruction still throughout Erinn.
12] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the nineteenth
13]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xxvi; xvi. anno
14]
cycli lunaris; ix. anno Indictionis; secundo anno cycli
15]
solaris.
Richard Burk, i.e. the Red Earl, lord of Uladh
16]
and Connacht, and the choicest of all the Foreigners of
17]
Erinn, died in this year, ante festum Petri ad
Vincula.
18] A great war between the king of France and the king
19]
of the Saxons in hoc anno.
Laurence O'Lachtnain, bishop
20]
of Oilfinn, in Christo quievit.
Metra John O'Finnaghta
21]
was afterwards elected to the same bishopric.
Imhar
22]
Mac Raghnaill, chieftain of Muinter-Eolais, occisus est by
23]
his own kinsmen.
Nicholas O'hEdhin mortuus est.
24] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the thirtieth
25]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xxvii; xvii.
26]
lunaris cycli; x. anno Indictionis; tertio anno cycli
27]
solaris.
A great war between the king of the Saxons
28]
and his own wife, i.e. the daughter of the king of France;
29]
and the king of the Saxons was dethroned through this
30]
war; and his own son was made king by her in opposition
31]
to his father, and a king's crown was given to him
32]
through the counsel of all the Saxons.
Gormlaith, Mac
33]
Diarmada's daughter, for a while the wife of Maghnus,
34]
son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, tanist of
Connacht, and
Edward, king of the Saxons,
6]
after his sovereignty had been taken from him, quievit.
7] A great epidemic of the galar-brec throughout all
8]
Erinn widely, which brought destruction on people small
9]
and great, in this year. Maelechlainn Riabhach, son of
10]
Domhnall, son of Tadhg O'Conchobhair, died of this
11]
disease.
Ferghal, son of Ualgharg O'Ruairc, mortuus est.
12] Culén O'Dimusaigh mortuus est.
Sadhbh, daughter of
13]
Mac Aedhagain, mortua est.
14] The kalends of January on Friday, and the eleventh of
15]
the moon; M.ccc.xx.viii; xviii. cycli lunaris; xi. anno
16]
Indictionis; quarto anno cycli solaris.
Maelechlainn
17]
O'Raighilligh, lord of Muinter-Maelmordha, was apprehended
18]
and wounded by the Foreigners of Midhe; and
19]
he was released on giving hostages, but afterwards died
20]
of his wounds in his own house.
Terrible thunder and
21]
lightning in this year, so that much of the fruit and
22]
produce of all Erinn was destroyed, and corn grew
23]
whitish and empty.
An epidemic disease generally
24]
throughout all Erinn, wich was called slaedan,
25]
and lasted during the space of three or four days
26]
with every person whom it attacked, so that it was
27]
next to death to him.
The Brown Earl, i.e. William
28]
Burk, son of Sir John, son of the Red Earl, came to
29]
Erinn in hoc anno.
Donnchadh Ruadh, O'Gadhra, and
30]
five of his own kindred along with him, occisi sunt.
31] Conchobhar Mac Branan, heir to the chieftainship of
32]
Corca-Achlann, was slain by the people of Anghaile.
33] David Mac Gilla-Comghaill, gallowglass, and fourteen
34]
men of his people along with him, were slain by
35]
Donnchadh Gall; son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair;
36]
and Donnchadh himself was also greatly wounded there.
37] Dubhesa, daughter of O'hElidhe, wife of Domhnall,
Great, intolerable wind in
4]
the summer, and scarcity of food, and much drought.
5] A great depredation by Walter Burk on the Connachtmen,
6]
when a great number of the favourites of Toirdhelbhach
7]
O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht, were plundered
8]
by him.
Sir John Mac Feorais, Earl of Lughmhagh,
9]
i.e. the most active, vigorous, hospitable and liberal
10]
baron that was in Erinn, was killed in treachery by his
11]
own people, viz. by the Foreigners of Oirghiall; and a
12]
great number of noble Foreigners and Gaeidhel were
13]
slain along with him; and the king of minstrelsy, i.e.
14]
Maelruanaidh Mac Cerbhaill, i.e. the Gilla-caech, and
15]
another brother of his, were slain along with him; and
16]
it is not known that there came, or will ever come, so
17]
good a harper.
Maurice O'Gibillan, high master of Erinn
18]
in new laws and old laws, in Canon and Lex; a
19]
philosopher in wisdom and true knowledge; an eminent
20]
professor of poetry, and of Ogham writing, and many
21]
other arts; a canon chorister in Tuaim-da-ghualann, and
22]
in Oilfinn, and in Achadh-Conaire, and in Cill-Alaidh,
23]
and in Enach-dúin, and in Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, and the
24]
official and general judge of all the archbishopric, in
25]
Christo quievit.
Thomas O'Mellain, bishop of Enach-dúin,
26]
died at the Pope's court in hoc anno.
Brian, son
27]
of Tomaltach Mac Donnchaidh, was slain by Brian, son
28]
of Tadhg Mac Donnchaidh.
William Earl of Ulster
29]
assembled a great army, including Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
30]
king of Connacht, and Muirchertach O'Briain,
31]
king of Tuadh-Mumha, and of Mumha besides, against
A great meeting near Ath-cind-Locha-Techet
6]
between Walter, son of William Burk, and
7]
Gilbert Mac Goisdelbh, on the one part, and Maelruanaidh
8]
Mac Diarmada, and his son Tomaltach, and Tomaltach
9]
Mac Donnchaidh, and the Clann-Maelruanaidh besides,
10]
on the other part.
A defeat was inflicted on Mac William,
11]
on which occasion Brian, son of Tadhg Mac Donnchaidh,
12]
was slain by his own kinsman, in revenge of
13]
Brian, the son of Tomaltach Mac Donnchaidh, whom he
14]
had previously slain.
Donnchadh Gall, son of Domhnall
15]
O'Conchobhair, was killed by Aedh, the son of
16]
Tadhg, son of Maelechlainn, son of Maghnus.
17] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the twenty-second
18]
of the moon; M.ccc.xx.ix; xix. cycli lunaris;
19]
xii. anno Indictionis; v. anno solaris cycli.
Tadhg, son
20]
of Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair, was slain by Diarmaid
21]
O'Gadhra, in treachery.
Cathal, son of Domhnall
22]
O'Ruairc, the good material of a king of Breifne,
23]
was killed by the sons of John O'Ferghail, and by the
24]
Foreigners of Midhe, per dolum, and a number of his
25]
people along with him.
Muirchertach, son of Domhnall
26]
O'Conchobhair, lord of Cairbre, and the good material
27]
of a king of Connacht, mortuus est.
Cathal, son of
28]
Aedh, son of Eoghain O'Conchobhair, was forcibly expelled
29]
from the Fedha, and from Tir-Maine, by the
30]
order of Walter Burk to the Clann-Cellaigh and the
31]
Uí-Maine.
A great war between Toirdhelbhach
A depredation by Tomaltach Mac Diarmada on
4]
Diarmaid O'Flannagain, chieftain of Clann-Cathail.
Aine,
5]
daughter of Ferghal O'Raighilligh, the wife of Tomaltach
6]
Mac Diarmada, mortua est the third day before Great
7]
Christmas.
Daboc Donn Mac William Burk, a very
8]
wealthy knight, mortuus est.
9] The kalends of January on Monday, and the third of
10]
the moon; M.ccc.xxx; primus annus lunaris cycli; xiii.
11]
anno Indictionis; sexto anno solaris cycli.
Maghnus,
12]
son of Aedh Breifnech O'Conchobhair, was killed by
13]
Cathal, son of Aedh, son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair, in
14]
Ferann-na-darach; and Simon Mac-ind-Fhailgigh was
15]
slain along with him.
A camp attack was made by
16]
Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair on Walter Mac William
17]
Burk, in Lecmagh in Magh-Luirg, whom he drove from
18]
thence to Cairthi-liag-fada. And Gilbert Mac Goisdelbh,
19]
lord of Sliabh-Lugha, came with a large force to the assistance
20]
of Mac William Burk, and Tomaltach Mac Donnchaidh
21]
came with another force to the assistance of Mac William;
22]
and both these armies turned against O'Conchobhair
23]
until they reached Ath-Disert-Nuadan; and a few of
24]
O'Conchobhair's people were slain about the ford, viz.:—
25]
Donnchadh, son of Domhnall Mac Mathghamhna, and Mac
26]
Gilla-Comghain, and other persons also who are not enumerated
27]
here. O'Conchobhair went afterwards actively,
28]
proudly, into the Tuatha; and Mac William fixed his camp
29]
that night at Cill-Lomad, in presence of O'Conchobhair.
30] The armies of all Connacht, both Foreigners and Gaeidhel,
31]
were subsequently mustered by Mac William, with the
A hosting by O'Ruairc to
4]
Fidh-an-atha, when the people of the town opposed them,
5]
and O'Ruairc was defeated, and Art O'Ruairc, who was
6]
qualified to be king of Breifne, was killed there, and a great
7]
many more, both good and bad.
Gilla-Isa Ruadh O'Raighilligh,
8]
king of Muinter-Maelmordha and all the Breifne
9]
for a long time previously, died a prosperous, wealthy
10]
senior, after obtaining victory over the devil and the
11]
world.
Benedict O'Flannagain, prior of Cill-mor-na-Sinna,
12]
quievit in Christo.
Maelechlainn Mac Carmaic,
13]
a wealthy brughaidh cédach, died in hoc anno.
Mael-Isa
14]
Donn Mac Aedhagain mortuus est.
A great victory by
15]
Conchobhar, son of Tadhg, son of Brian, son of Andrias,
16]
son of Brian Luighnech, son of Toirdhelbhach Mór
17]
O'Conchobhair, over the Dartraighe, when a great,
18]
number of them were slain by him.
Toirdhelbhach
19]
O'Conchobhair was slain by the people of Walter
20]
Mac William Burk, whilst coming from the Earl's
21]
house.
22] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the fourteenth
23]
of the moon; M.ccc.xxx. primo; secundo anno
24]
cycli lunaris; xiiii. anno Indictionis; septimo anno cycli
25]
solaris.
Maelruanaidh Mac Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg,
26]
resigned his kingdom and sovereignty, and assumed the
27]
habit of a gray monk in the monastery of the Buill in
28]
hoc anno, and died afterwards; and his own son Tomaltach
29]
assumed the same sovereignty the sixth day
30]
after May-day.
Ferghal, son of Maelechlainn Carrach
31]
Mac Diarmada, was killed by Tadhg, son of Cathal, son
32]
of Domhnall O'Conchobhair.
A great hosting by Walter
33]
Mac William Burk into Magh-Luirg, when the entire
34]
country was burned by him, except the churches alone, to
35]
which he gave good respect and protection. Nevertheless,
36]
Tomaltach and his own army did not permit them to remain
Meiler
7]
Mac Eochagain quievit in tertia kalendas
Januarii.
8] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the twenty-fifth
9]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xxx. secundo;
10]
tertio anno cycli lunaris; xv. anno Indictionis; viii.
11]
anno cycli solaris.
Walter, son of Sir William Burk,
12]
was taken prisoner by the Brown Earl, who afterwards
13]
took him with him to the New Castle of Inis-Eoghain;
14]
and he died of hunger in the prison of that castle.
The
15]
nobles of Alba were slain by the Baliol in the same
16]
year.
The victory of Berna-in-mil was gained over
17]
Tomaltach Mac Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg, and over
18]
Mac William Burk, by the Earl's son and Tomaltach
19]
Mac Donnchaidh, in which a great number of Mac William
20]
Burk's people were slain.
William Gallda, the son
21]
of Muirchertach Mór Mac Eochagain, dux of Cenel-Fiachaidh,
22]
mortuus est in the month of November.
23] The kalends of January on Friday, and the sixth of
24]
the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xxxiii; quarto anno
25]
cycli lunaris; primo anno Indictionis; ix. anno cycli
26]
solaris.
William Burk, i.e. the Earl of Ulster, was slain
27]
by the Foreigners of Ulster; and all these Foreigners
28]
fell in return, having been either hanged, slain, or torn
29]
asunder, by the king of the Saxons' people.
Aedh
30]
O'Domhnaill, king of Tir-Conaill and Feara-Manach,
31]
and who took the hostages of the two districts of
32]
Cairbre, and of the Breifne; one qualified to be king of
33]
the entire province of Uladh, and the prop of all Erinn as
Tomaltach Mac
13]
Donnchaidh, lord of Tir-Oilella, a most eminent man for
14]
bounty and prowess, and the best of his contemporaries for
15]
guarantee, honour, and truth, mortuus est.
Fedhlimidh
16]
O'Domhnaill, the king's son who was the most noble, the
17]
most comely, and most illustrious, and from whom the multitudes,
18]
and the men of all Erinn, expected most, died in
19]
this year.
Gilbert Mac Goisdelbh was slain in the middle
20]
of his own house by Cathal Mac Diarmada Gall, per
21]
dolum.
Aedh Mac Consnamha, chieftain of Muinter-Cinaith,
22]
quievit.
Mac-na-hoidchi Mac Flannchaidh was
23]
slain by Connachtmen.
Donnchadh, son of Aedh O'Cellaigh,
24]
was taken prisoner by Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
25]
king of Connacht.
Peace was proclaimed at Rath-Secher,
26]
to the sons of William Burk, on the part of the king of
27]
the Saxons.
Conchobhar Mac Branan, chieftain of Corca-Achlann,
28]
mortuus est vi. idus Januarii.
29] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the seventeenth
30]
of the moon; M.ccc.xxx.iiii; quinto anno cycli
31]
lunaris; primo anno Indictionis; x. anno solaris cycli.
32] A great hosting by all the Connachtmen, both Foreigners
33]
and Gaeidhel, into Mumha, to Mac Conmara, from whom
Ten of the people of Donnchadh
6]
Riabhach, son of Maelechlainn Carrach Mac Diarmada,
7]
were drowned in Loch-Teched. Tadhg, son of Cathal,
8]
son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, mortuus est.
Seonac,
9]
son of Muirchertach Mór Mac Eochagain, dux of Cenel-Fiachaidh,
10]
mortuus est in xiiii. kalendas Januarii.
Donnchadh
11]
Mac Consnamha, chieftain of Muinter-Cinaith,
12]
mortuus est.
13] The kalends of January on Sunday, and the twenty-eighth
14]
of the moon; M.ccc.xxxv; vi. anno cycli lunaris;
15]
tertio anno Indictionis; xi. anno cycli solaris.
Finnghuala,
16]
daughter of O'Briain, wife of Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
17]
mortua est.
John, son of Art O'hEghra, was taken
18]
prisoner by the Earl's son; and the principal part of his
19]
people were plundered by him.
A depredation was committed
20]
by the sons of Domhnall O'Conchobhair on the
21]
descendants of Maurice Sugach Fitz-Gerald, on which
22]
occasion the son of Mac Maurice was killed. A retaliatory
23]
depredation was afterwards committed by the Clann-Maurice
24]
on the same sons of Domhnall.
The West of
25]
Connacht was all destroyed by Edmond Burk; a great
26]
many persons were slain; and innumerable depredations,
27]
and burnings, and injuries were also committed by him
28]
on the Earl's son, and on the Clan-Rickard Burk, in
29]
the same year; but they afterwards made peace with one
30]
another.
Great snow in the spring, which destroyed the
31]
greater number of the small birds of all Erinn.
32] The kalends of January on Monday, and the ninth of
33]
the moon; M.ccc.xxx. vi. vii. anno cycli lunaris; quarto
34]
anno Indictionis; xii. anno cycli solaris.
Tomaltach Mac
35]
Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg, the most formidable and
36]
triumphant man against his enemies, and the man of
7] Tibbot Burk, i.e. the Mac William, mortuus est.
Meiler
8]
Mac Jordan de Exeter mortuus est.
A victory by
9]
Eoghan O'Madadhain over the Clann-Rickard Burk,
10]
in which three score and six were slain, both good
11]
and bad.
A great depredation by the sons of Diarmaid
12]
Gall, and by Fedhlimidh O'Conchobhair, on the Clann-Goisdelbh;
13]
and Maidiuc Mac Waltrin was slain in pursuit
14]
of the prey.
A great depredation by Edmond Mac
15]
William Burk upon the Clann-Cathail, on which occasion
16]
Conchobhar O'Flannagain was plundered, and many
17]
other persons along with him; and Maelechlainn O'Flannagain
18]
was slain whilst in pursuit of this prey; and they
19]
took Mac-in-mhilidh's brother prisoner in pursuit of this
20]
prey.
Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg, and
21]
Aedh, the son of Fedhlimidh, son of Aedh, son of Eoghan
22]
O'Conchobhair, together with O'Conchobhair's household
23]
band, and the Clann-Donnchadha, and the young soldiers
24]
of the territory of Cairbre, including Cormac the son
25]
of Ruaidhri, went on a predatory expedition into Tir-Fiachrach
26]
until they reached Mullach-Ratha; but the
27]
cows of the district fled before them.
Many inanimate
28]
spoils, and several horses, and a few steeds, and a great
29]
quantity of small cattle were brought away by them; and
30]
people were slain by them; and they came home safely.
31] Diarmaid O'Flannagain, dux of Clann-Cathail, mortuus
32]
est.
Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht,
33]
mustered the moveable forces of the Tuatha, of Clann-Cathail,
5] Trinnoit O'Naan, high master in many sciences, in Lex
6]
and Canon, quievit in Christo.
Domhnall, son of John,
7]
son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, mortuus est.
Niall, the
8]
son of Conchobhar Mac Taidhg, occisus est by a shot
9]
of an arrow.
10] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the twentieth
11]
of the moon; M.ccc.xxx.vii. viii. anno cycli
12]
lunaris; quinto anno Indictionis; xiii. anno cycli solaris.
13] Peace was made by William, son of the Red Earl, and
14]
Brian Bán O'Briain; and all the lands that he O'Briain
15]
had wasted against the Earl's son were given to him, on
16]
condition of his own rent being paid for them.
Peace
17]
was concluded by Aedh Remhar O'Neill with the Oirghialla
18]
and the Feara-Manach.
A fortified camp was
19]
formed by Toirdhelbach O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht,
20]
at Ath-Liag, against Edmond Burk.
John O'Fallamhain,
21]
dux of Clann-Uadach, mortuus est.
Tadhg
22]
Mac Flannchaidh, dux of Dartraighe, was slain by Cormac,
23]
son of Ruaidhri, son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair,
24]
together with many more, in revenge of John, son of
25]
Domhnall; and great depredations were committed upon
26]
the Dartraighe; and the son of Maurice Mac Flannchaidh
27]
was slain the same day.
Tadhg and Maelechlainn,
28]
two sons of Imhar Mac Raghnaill, were taken prisoners
29]
by Cathal Mac Raghnaill, and Cathal Mac Raghnaill
30]
was killed in the pursuit by the sons of Imhar—
31]
(viz., these sons of Imhar were Conchobhar and Tomaltach)
32]
—and by William Mac Mathghamhna, and by the
33]
young men of the country along with them; and
34]
Maghnus, son of Ferghal, was killed by them on the
Domhnall Ruadh O'Maille
3]
and Cormac O'Maille were slain by the Clann-Mebhric,
4]
and by other Foreigners along with them, on the night of
5]
Stephen's festival.
The Master O'Rothlan quievit in
6]
Christo.
Matthew O'hUiginn, a man eminent for poetry
7]
and humanity, quievit.
Henry Hac Martin was killed
8]
in hoc anno.
A great victory over Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
9]
king of Connacht, by Clann-Cellaigh; and Toirdhelbhach
10]
himself was wounded there, and taken prisoner;
11]
and his horse and clothes were left there by him, together
12]
with a great slaughter of people.
Lughaidh O'Dálaigh,
13]
bishop of Cluain-mic-Nois, in Christo quievit.
Thomas,
14]
son of Cormac O'Domhnaill, bishop of Tir-Conaill, i.e. a
15]
man eminent for wisdom, piety, charity, and humanity,
16]
in Christo quievit.
Donnchadh, son of Muirchertach Mór
17]
Mac Eochagain, dux of Cenel-Fiachaidh, occisus est by
18]
the Uí-Failghe.
19] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the first of
20]
the moon; M.ccc.xxx. octavo; ix. anno cycli lunaris;
21]
sexto anno Indictionis; xiiii. anno cycli solaris.
Donnchadh,
22]
son of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, occisus est in hoc
23]
anno.
Ruaidhri Mac Uidhir, king of Feara-Manach and
24]
Loch-Erne, the man who, in his own time, presented most of
25]
money, of cattle, and of clothing to the learned men and
26]
chief poets of Erinn, mortuus est.
Edmond Burk, i.e.
27]
the son of the Earl of Ulster, was taken prisoner by
28]
Edmond Burk; and a stone was tied round his neck,
29]
and he was afterwards thrown into Loch-Mesca; and the
30]
destruction of the Foreigners of Connacht, and of his
31]
own family, occurred through this. And Toirdhelbhach
32]
O'Conchobhair assumed the sway of Connacht after that,
Luighne and the
6]
Corann were depopulated and wasted, and the sovereignty
7]
was assumed by their own hereditary Gaeidhel,
8]
after the expulsion of their Foreigners out of them.
9] Tadhg, son of Ruaidhri, son of Cathal Ruadh O'Conchobhair,
10]
usually called the 'Bratach righin', was taken
11]
prisoner by Thomas Mac Samhradhain; and many of his
12]
people were slain. Mac Samhradhain went afterwards
13]
to O'Conchobhair's house, and on his return from O'Conchobhair's
14]
house the Clann-Muirchertaigh and Muinter-Eolais
15]
assembled before him; and Mac Samhradhain was
16]
taken prisoner by them, and several of his people were
17]
slain.
Derbhail, daughter of Cathal Mac Murchadha,
18]
wife of Donnchadh, son of Aedh Og, quievit.
The sheep
19]
of Erinn died in hoc anno, excepting a few.
A great
20]
war between the king of France and the king of the
21]
Saxons in hoc anno.
22] The kalends of January on Friday, and the twelfth of
23]
the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xxx.ix; x. anno cycli
24]
lunaris; vii. anno Indictionis; xv. cycli solaris.
Ruaidhri
25]
O'Cellaigh, king of Uí-Maine, was slain by Cathal, son
26]
of Aedh, son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair, whilst going
27]
from O'Conchobhair's house to his own house, in hoc
28]
anno.
Thomas Mac Samhradhain, who was detained a
29]
prisoner by the Clann-Muirchertaigh, was set at liberty.
30] A great plague from frost and snow on the cattle and
31]
green cornfields of Erinn, from a fortnight of winter to a
32]
part of the spring.
A great hosting by Aedh Remhar
33]
O'Neill to Tir-Conaill, on which occasion the son of John
Edmond Mac William Burk was driven
3]
to Uladh, together with his fleet.
The wife of the
4]
Earl of Ulster's son, i.e. the daughter of Toirdhelbhach
5]
O'Briain, was taken to wife by Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
6]
king of Connacht, and Derbhail, daughter of
7]
Aedh O'Domhnaill, was abandoned by him, in this year.
8] A great war throughout Midhe, between Foreigners and
9]
Gaeidhel.
The corn crops of Erinn were destroyed, and great
10]
famine ensued in it.
The church of Cill-Ronain was built
11]
by Ferghal Muimhnech O'Duibhgennain in hoc anno.
12] The kalends of January on Saturday, and the twenty-third
13]
of the moon; M.ccc.xl; xi. anno cycli lunaris; viii.
14]
anno Indictionis; xvi. cycli solaris.
A great war arose
15]
amongst the Uí-Maine, i.e. between Tadhg, son of Tadhg
16]
O'Cellaigh, to whom Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair had
17]
given the government of Uí-Maine, and William, son of
18]
Donnchadh Muimhnech O'Cellaigh; and William, son of
19]
Donnchadh Muimhnech, was sent out of the district; and
20]
they all pursued him, but William turned upon them,
21]
when Donnchadh, son of Aedh O'Cellaigh, was slain, and
22]
Tadhg O'Cellaigh was taken prisoner and wounded; and
23]
he died afterwards of his wound.
Maelsechlainn O'Gairmleghaig,
24]
chieftain of Cenel-Moain, mortuus est.
The sons
25]
of Ualgharg O'Ruairc, viz., Domhnall, and Aedh, and
26]
Gilla-Christ, and Ruaidhri, went on a predatory expedition
27]
to Cathal, son of Aedh Breifnech; and they committed
28]
a very great depredation; and Conchobhar, the
29]
son of Donnchadh Riabhach, son of Maghnus, son of
30]
Muirchertach Muimhnech, was on that day slain by
31]
them, and many more along with him: (and this was
32]
the first rupture between Muinter-Ruairc and the descendants
33]
of Muirchertach Muimhnech, son of Toirdhelbhach
34]
Mór). And Cathal, son of Aedh Breifnech, made
35]
a valorous pursuit afterwards, when a great part of the
36]
prey was detained, and Domhnall O'Ruairc, the choicest
7] Aedh, son of Fedhlimidh O'Conchobhair, was taken prisoner
8]
by Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair, king of Connacht,
9]
i.e. his father's brother, and placed in confinement in the
10]
castle of Ros-Comain. A great war and terrible dissension
11]
arose between O'Conchobhair and Mac Diarmada
12]
through this capture, so that much property was destroyed
13]
between them both. O'Conchobhair was put in great
14]
jeopardy by Mac Diarmada in the Corann, when he was
15]
unwillingly driven into Baile-in-mhuta; and they immediately
16]
afterwards made peace with each other.
17] Jordan Ruadh Mac Goisdelbh was killed by Cathal Mac
18]
Diarmada Gall in hoc anno.
Cathal Mac Diarmada Gall,
19]
the choicest of the princes of Connacht for prowess,
20]
valour, might and vigour, was slain by Donnchadh
21]
Riabhach, son of Maelechlainn Carrach Mac Diarmada,
22]
per dolum, at Lis-Selbhaigh in Clann-Conchobhair.
22] Maghnus, son of Cathal, son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair,
23]
was slain by Cathal, son of Aedh Breifnech O'Conchobhair.
24] Brian Og Mac Samhradhain was killed by the
25]
Tellach-Dunchadha.
Eoghan O'hEdhin, king of Uí-Fiachrach-Aidhne,
27]
occisus est a suis.
Eoghan, son of
28]
Jeffrey Mac Raghnaill, and Aedh O'Maelmhiadhaigh
29]
killed one another.
Adam Mac Techedhan quievit in
30]
Christo.
Philip O'Duibhgennain, ollamh of Conmaicne,
31]
mortuus est.
Imag, daughter of Mac Goisdelbh, wife
32]
of Eoghan Mac Finghin, quievit.
William Mac Goisdelbh,
33]
son of Gilbert, was slain in a conflict in the
34]
Breifne, by the Tellach-Echach.
Ruaidhri, son of
Matthew, son of
2]
Annadh O'Raighilligh, was slain by Andrias, son of
3]
Brian O'Raighilligh, who afterwards committed great
4]
depredations in the Bolcan.
The church of Cill-Ronain
5]
was burned in hoc anno.
Niall O'hUiginn, an eminent
6]
poet, was drowned.
Conchobhar O'Domhnaill went into
7]
Connacht, with his muster.
8] The kalends of January on Monday, and the seventh
9]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xl. primo; xii. anno
10]
cycli lunaris; ix. anno indictionis; xvii. cycli solaris.
11] A great defeat was inflicted by Mac William Burk on
12]
the Clann-Maurice, on which occasion Thomas Mac
13]
Maurice, and Maurice, son of Seonac Ruadh, and seven
14]
score persons along with them, were slain.
Domhnall Mac
15]
Dorchaidh, dux of Cenel-Luachain, mortuus est.
Donnchadh,
16]
son of Mac-na-hoidhchi Mac Flannchaidh, was
17]
killed by Aedh, son of Tadhg Mac Flannchaidh, in hoc
18]
anno.
O'Gairmleghaigh, dux of Cenel-Moan, mortuus
19]
est.
Brian O'Floinn, chieftain of Tellach-Curnain,
20]
mortuus est.
Cathal Mac Cethernaigh was killed by
21]
a fall.
The castle of Ros-Comain was captured by
22]
Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair; and it was Aedh, son of
23]
Fedhlimidh O'Conchobhair, who was imprisoned in the
24]
castle, that betrayed it to O'Conchobhair.
Seonac Mac
25]
Mathghamhna was expelled from Oirghiall.
Cuchonnacht
26]
O'Cuinn, dux of Muinter-Gillagan, mortuus est.
Diarmaid
27]
Ruadh, son of Cormac Og Mac Diarmada, mortuus est.
28] The kalends of January on Tuesday, and the 17th
29]
of the moon; anno Domini M. ccc. xl. secundo; xiii.
30]
anno cycli lunaris; x. anno Indictionis; xviii. cycli
31]
solaris.
The Gilla-dubh Mac Uidhir was drowned on
32]
Loch-Erne, in the rear of a predatory party.
A great
11] A general war, and great enmity, grew in all Connacht
12]
at that time, and the Clann-Muirchertaigh, with Aedh
13]
son of Aedh Breifnech, and with Cathal son of Aedh
14]
Breifnech, and with Tadhg son of Ruaidhri, sided with
15]
all those at first; and a great quantity of the corn
16]
of the country was destroyed by them.
An ugly act
17]
of treachery was committed on the Clann-William-Burk,
18]
at the instigation of O'Conchobhair, when Thomas
19]
Burk was slain by the Clann-Maurice whilst in their
20]
own assembly; and Seonin Burk was slain in the
21]
same way by the Clann-Rickard. Cathal, son of Gilla-Christ
22]
Mac Diarmada, was slain by Ferghal O'Taidhg in
23]
the same war. Ferghal, son of Gilla-Christ Finn Mac
24]
Cormaic was slain in the same war. A fierce overthrow
25]
was given by Mac Diarmada and his princes to O'Conchobhair,
26]
at Bel-atha-Slisen, where the ford was passed
27]
in spite of him, and where Diarmaid, the son of Brian
28]
O'Ferghail—i.e. the best man of all the Conmaicne of his
29]
own age—and the son of Hubert Burk, and Conchobhar,
30]
son of Donnchadh Dubh O'hElidhe, were slain.
John
31]
Mac Mathghamhna, a man eminent for bounty and
32]
prowess, king of Oirghiall, went on a predatory expedition
33]
against Roalbh Mac Mathghamhna, and was
Cormac,
3]
son of Ruaidhri, son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, was
4]
taken prisoner by Conchobhar, the son of Tadhg, and
5]
by Ruaidhri, son of Cathal O'Conchobhair, in the same
6]
year; and Conchobhar was taken prisoner by Brian,
7]
the son of Ruaidhri, and delivered into the hands of
8]
Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, who afterwards placed him
9]
in the Rock to be imprisoned.
Domhnall O'Dochartaigh,
10]
chieftain of Ard-Midhair, a man eminent for bounty,
11]
prowess, charity, and humanity, died in his own house
12]
in hoc anno, and John O'Dochartaigh assumed his place
13]
after him.
The Síl-Muiredhaigh all, both willing and
14]
unwilling, renounced the king of Connacht, i.e. Toirdhelbhach,
15]
son of Aedh, son of Eoghan O'Conchobhair;
16]
and the most distinguished who then opposed him
17]
were Edmond Mac William Burk, and Conchobhar Mac
18]
Diarmada, king of Magh-Luirg, with his brothers and
19]
with all his people; and Aedh, son of Aedh Breifnech,
20]
son of Cathal Ruadh O'Conchobhair; and Tadhg, son
21]
of Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair; and Cathal, son of Aedh
22]
Breifnech, son of Cathal Ruadh; and the armies of
23]
Breifne and Conmaicne; and Aedh, the son of Fedhlimidh,
24]
son of Aedh, son of Eoghan: and Toirdhelbhach
25]
was sent out of the country by them all, which was
26]
not surprising.
And the advice which his friends gave
27]
him afterwards was to go at night to Mac Diarmada's
28]
house. And the Clann-Muirchertaigh received intelligence
29]
of this advice, and assembled before him on
30]
the roads, and in the dangerous passes of the fortress;
31]
but he went past all these in the dark night,
32]
with two or three horsemen; and he was opposed on
33]
the causeway of the fortress, but he passed through
34]
them by the force of his strong hand, and wounded
35]
Cathal, son of Aedh Breifnech. And Mac Diarmada
Conchobhar
10]
Ruadh Mac Eochagain, dux of Cenel-Fiachaidh,
11]
was slain by Foreigners.
Thomas O'Cinga mortuus
12]
est.
Maurice Mac Eochagain quievit.
Simon, son of
13]
Conchobhar, son of Simon Mac Gilla-Arraith, one of the
14]
chieftains of Luighne, mortuus est.
Murchadh, son of
15]
Tomaltach O'Flannagain, i.e. the third best man that was
16]
of the Clann-Cathail, was slain by the gallowglasses of
17]
Cathal's son.
Aedh, the son of Aedh Breifnech, son of
18]
Cathal Ruadh O'Conchobhair, was made king by the
19]
Connachtmen and Mac William Burk, the first Monday
20]
of the winter; and the tanistship of Connacht was given
21]
to Aedh, the son of Fedhlimidh O'Conchobhair; and
22]
Tir-Oilella was given to Ferghal Mac Diarmada, and
23]
Tadhg, son of Tomaltach, son of Maurice Mac Donnchadha,
24]
was expelled from his own country by Conchobhar Mac
25]
Diarmada, and by his brethren; and Mac Donnchadha
26]
joined Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair.
27] Conchobhar O'Domhnaill; king of Tir-Conaill, and one
28]
worthy to rule all Erinn, if God had willed it, by reason
29]
of his nobility, eminence, and the excellence of his
30]
bounty and prowess, was slain by Niall O'Domhnaill, i.e.
31]
his own father's son: (the house of Finn-ros was burned
32]
over him, and O'Domhnaill went out of the house,
33]
and fell afterwards in the doorway of his own house),
Flann Og O'Domhnallain, O'Conchobhair's
6]
chief poet, quievit.
Domhnall O'Cuindlis, an eminent
7]
historian, occisus est by the Uí-Diarmada.
Thomas Mac
8]
Gilla-Coisglidh, a man eminent for bounty, in Christo
9]
quievit.
Matthew Mac Maghnusa, brughaidh of Loch-Erne,
10]
quievit in Christo.
11] The kalends of January on Wednesday, and the twenty-eighth
12]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xl.iii; xiiii.
13]
cycli lunaris; xi. anno Indictionis; xix. cycli solaris.
14] Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair assumed his own sovereignty
15]
again, and peace was made with him by Mac
16]
Diarmada.
Slaine O'Briain's daughter, Toirdhelbhach
17]
O'Conchobhair's wife, and previously the wife of the
18]
Earl of Ulster's son, mortua est.
Derbhail, daughter of
19]
Aedh O'Domhnaill, came on a visit to Inis-Doighre, to
20]
Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, where her death sickness
21]
seized her; and she was afterwards interred in the
22]
monastery of the Buill.
Dubhchabhlaigh, daughter of
23]
Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, wife of O'Birn, quievit.
24] Thomas Mac Samhradhain, dux of Tellach-Echach,
25]
quievit.
Muirchertach O'Briain, king of Tuadh-Mumha,
26]
mortuus est, and Diarmaid O'Briain was made king in
27]
his place; and he was expelled by Brian O'Briain, to
28]
whom the chieftains of Tuadh-Mumha afterwards submitted.
29] Ulick, son of Richard, son of William Liath, the
30]
greatest of all the foreign youths of Erinn in bounty
31]
and prowess, quievit.
Cathal O'Madadhain, the most
32]
eminent man in Erinn, was killed by the Clann-Rickard.
1] Donnchadh Clerech O'Maelbhrenainn, a canon chorister
2]
at Oilfinn, was killed with a shot of an arrow by the
3]
people of Hubert, son of David Donn Mac William.
4] Cathal Mac-an-Liathanaigh, abbot of the Trinity on
5]
Loch-Cé, and bishop-elect of Oilfinn, in Christo quievit.
6] A great victory by the Clann-Feorais and Clann-Rickard
7]
over the Uí-Maine, in which eleven princes of the Clann-Cellaigh
8]
were slain, along with Conchobhar Cerbhach
9]
O'Cellaigh.
Niall O'Domhnaill was deposed by Aengus
10]
O'Domhnaill, and by Domhnall Dubh O'Baighill, and
11]
by O'Dochartaigh, and by the power of Aedh Remhar
12]
O'Neill, and by the Clann-Suibhne; and Aengus was made
13]
king by them all. Niall went again into the country;
14]
and the Clann-Muirchertaigh were expelled out of the
15]
Breifne by Ualgharg O'Ruairc, Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair,
16]
and Tadhg Mac Raghnaill; and they went
17]
into Tir-Aedha, and Aengus O'Domhnaill gave them
18]
Tir-Aedha, both grass and corn, and with all its other
19]
benefits. And a battle was afterwards fought by Aengus
20]
O'Domhnaill and the Clann-Muirchertaigh against Niall
21]
O'Domhnaill, when Niall was defeated by them; on
22]
which occasion Andiles O'Baighill, i.e. the chieftain of Tir-Ainmirech,
23]
and his son, and Eoghan, the son of Art
24]
O'Domhnaill, et alii multi, were slain.
The church of
25]
Cill-Ronain was built.
Johannes O'Flaithimh, bishop of
26]
Cill-Alaidh, quievit.
John Mac Eoaidh, bishop of Conmaicne,
27]
quievit.
Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, king of
28]
Magh-Luirg, and fountain of the dignity and nobility of the
29]
descendants of Maelruanaidh Mór, son of Tadhg, son of
30]
Cathal, son of Conchobhar, died in his own house a week
31]
before Allhallowtide, on a Saturday as regards the day
32]
of the week, after having overcome the devil and the
33]
world, and was interred in the monastery of the Buill;
34]
and Ferghal Mac Diarmada, his own brother, was made
35]
king in his place.
1] The kalends of January on Thursday, and the ninth
2]
of the moon; anno Domini M.ccc.xl. quarto; xv. cycli
3]
lunaris; xii. anno Indictionis; xx. anno cycli solaris.
4] Thomas, son of Cathal Riabhach O'Ruairc, was slain by
5]
the Clann-Muirchertaigh in hoc anno.
Aedh, grandson
6]
of Roalbh Mac Mathghamhna, i.e. the king of Oirghiall,
7]
mortuus est; and Murchadh Og, son of Murchadh Mór,
8]
son of Brian-na-coiligh-aifrinn, was made king in his
9]
place, and died in the course of a week. Maghnus, son
10]
of Eochaidh, son of Roalbh, assumed the sovereignty of
11]
Oirghiall afterwards.
Art Mór, son of Cormac O'Maelechlainn,
12]
king of Midhe, was slain by Cormac Ballach
13]
O'Maelechlainn, who afterwards assumed the sovereignty
14]
of Midhe for himself.
William, son of Mathghamhain
15]
Mac Raghnaill, was slain by the sons of Cathal Mac
16]
Raghnaill.
Matthew, son of Gilla-Christ Clerech Mac Diarmada,
17]
was slain by Muinter-Elidhe on the Corr-sliabh.
18] The bishop of Luighne in Christo quievit.
Murchadh,
19]
son of Maelmhuaidh O'hEghra, abbot of the Buill, and
20]
intended bishop of Luighne, quievit.