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"RAINBOW FARMS" HARNESS HORSES - STANDARDBREDS - PACERS - TROTTERS The Hunter Valley - New South Wales - Australia.
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Irish Heritage Standardbred Yearlings 2003 - 2012 Minis Sweetwaters "Egyptian Kings Smokey (Imp) Shazzally Shazam (Aust) *Mini Weanlings |
1211 AD - 1220 AD 1211 AD The Augustinian Friary of St. John the Evangelist was founded in Co. Kilkenny - Ossory in the south - west of the Leinster Provnce.
The
Anglo - Norman - English began the construction at
Athenry in
Co. Galway
in Southern Connacht of walls and
gates to keep the Irish Septs
out of
the city.
1212 AD
John
the King of England
killed
28 of the sons of the
Welsh
Chiefs who he was holding as hostages because of the
Welsh Uprising.
The Anglo - Norman
Barons
in England were
continuing to give the
John the English
King trouble and he needed
the support of the
27 Anglo -Norman
Barons in
Ireland so he made up with
William Marshall who
in return was given a free hand in
Ireland and
John who had been
excommunicated by the Pope finally made
reparation with Pope
Innocent
III on his advice.
Hugh de Lacy
the Anglo - Norman Baron built a
Castle at
Narrow Water in
Co. Down
in the south - east of the Ulster Province to ward of the
Irish Septs. 1213 AD February: Pope Innocent III forced John the English King to admit he held both Ireland and England as a Fief of the Holy See. The Anglo - Norman Barons supported John the English King against the King of France and protested when the Pope proposed to free all John's subjects from their allegiance to him. Walter de Lacy and the tenants in Meath and Ulster Province were restored although involved in the rebellion with only Hugh de Lacy left in exile and prisoners were released and hostages restored. Later William Marshall was to promote himself and his friends in Ireland under the regency of Henry 111 and Hubert de Burgh headed the government in England and promoted the de Burgh - Burke interests in Ireland and attempted to further expand into the Connacht Province where he was met with Anglo - Norman opposition under Richard Marshall when he came to Ireland
The successor to
John de Comyn who was the
Anglo - Norman 2nd Archbishop of
Dublin changed St. Patrick's
Church in
Dublin
into a Cathedral.
1214 AD
The
Heremonian Ui Briuin
O Maegans who were the
lawyers and keepers of the
Irish Brehon Law, which had been collected for over
700 years were situated
at
Dun Doighre
- Duniry in
Co. Galway
in Southern Connacht.
Sir John de Gray
now the English Lord Justicar
in Ireland built
Rindown Castle on
Loch Ree east of
Lecarrow in
Co. Roscommon
in Eastern Connacht
and adjoining
also a Castle at
Clonmacnoise in
Co. Offaly
in mid - western Leinster.
King John's Castle
at Shannon Bridge in
Co. Offaly
in mid - western Leinster was also built
by the English against the
Irish Septs. 1215 AD William de Burgho the Anglo - Norman Baron was granted the Connacht Province in fee by, John the English King and he was to pass the English Lordship onto his son, Aed de Burgh and was involved in many disputes in the Connacht Province with their traditional enemies who were backing the Heremonian Ui Briuin O Connor's challenge to their rule there.
Walter
de Lacy
the
Anglo - Norman Baron
became the English Earl of
Meath, again, when he was given back
Co. Meath
but his brother
Hugh de Lacy was not to be
restored as the English appointed Earl
in Ulster.
The construction on the Dublin
Castle (The
Devil's 1/2 Acre) which was to become the home of
England's oppression in
Ireland for
750 years to come, was finally
finished in
Dublin in the mid -
east of the Leinster Province.
St Audeon's Arch, which
was a part of St. Audoen's
Church was named after the Patron
Saint of Rouen in
France, and was built further down
the hill from the church
and is the only surviving gate in the
City of
Dublin's walls.
William de Valance the
Anglo - Norman Baron
built a Castle at
Ferns in
Co. Wexford
in the south - east,
which was the former capital town in the
Leinster
Province, on the
dun - fort - of the
Kings of
Leinster, which had been destroyed previously by
112.Rory O Connor
and
110.Tiernan O
Rourke from the Ui Briuin
Septs while fighting against
113.Dermott Mac Murrough na Gall
- of the Foreigners from the
Ui Cheinnselaig
Sept.
Geoffrey de Marisco
an Anglo - Norman Baron
founded the Church of the Knight
Hospitallers at Hospital
in Co.
Limerick, the
Poul na
Raha Priory of the Austin
Canons on the Celtic monastery
sight of Kill Agha - Church of the
Field - in
Co. Kerry
and the
Austin Cannon
Priory at Kilcolman Colman
Abbey in
Co. Kerry
in the south - west of the Munster
Province were the
ruins are still there.
O Sullivan
"Mor"
the
Heberian Eoghanacht
Irish Chief
built
Dunloe - Fort
of the Lo - Castle near
Beaufort as a mountain stronghold
in
Co. Kerry in the south - west
of the
Munster Province.
Maurice Fitz Gerald
the Anglo - Norman English
appointed Earl
of Desmond built
Castel Magne
Castle on the River Maine
in Co.
Kerry in the south -
west of the Munster Province, which
separated the Anglo - Norman
Fitz Geralds from the
Heberian Eoghanacht Irish Chiefs, the
Mac Carthys.
1216 AD
111.Donough
"Cairbreach"
O Brian
in Co. Clare
in the north - west of the Munster Province the
King of Thomond - North Munster who was now the
English appointed
Lord of Thomond moved his
stronghold to Ennis were he
was constructing the Ennis Abbey as
although the
O Brians
had always had their stronghold fortress at
Killaloe he had allowed the
English to build one there also,
and his father before him had also relied on the
City of
Limerick instead.
He was now disconnected from his
heritage and feeling the pressure from the
English advances and
their new stone castles.
112.Cathal
"Crobderg" - of the Wine Red Hand
-
O
Connor
the
Ui Briuin
58th King of Connacht
founded St. Patrick's
Abbey at
Ballintober -
Baile Tobair Phadraig - Town of the Well
of Patrick - in
Co. Mayo in the mid - west
of the
Connacht Province, for the
Canons Regular of St. Augustine.
Work was to later begin on its reconstruction in
1963 and it is situated next to a
previous church founded there by
St. Patrick and is seven miles south of
Castlebar and they were to
continuously celebrate the Catholic
Mass there for the
750 years during the
English oppression and it is
now restored.
October 18th:
John
the King of England,
died of dysentery, and
on October 28th
his
9 year old son became
Henry
III
in England with
William
Marshall
as the Regency Governor.
1217 AD William Marshall the Elder the Anglo - Norman Baron granted a charter to the town of Callan in Co. Kilkenny - Ossory in the south - west of the Leinster Province.
September 12th:
William Marshall
now the Regent of England
ordered that no
Irishmen
but only Englishmen
were to be appointed to any high religious positions.
The leading Anglo - Norman
Families at this time were the
de Barrys,
de Burghos aka
Burkes,
de Cogans,
Fitz Geralds, Powers,
de Roistres
aka
Roches,
Wogans with
Gerald Fitz Maurice
Fitz Gerald the 3rd
English Earl of Desmond sometimes acting as
Governor of Ireland.
1219
AD William Marshall the Anglo - Norman English Seneschal,
died this year as did
John de Courcy
the previous Anglo - Norman English
Earl of Ulster, who was to die in
France.
1220 AD
Walter de Lacy the Anglo - Norman
English Earl of Meath founded an
Abbey for the
Benedictine monks from
Evereux in
Normandy at
Fore in
Co. Westmeath
in the north - west of the
Leinster Province
and
from this period at
Finnia
in
Co. Westmeath there is the ruined
Castle of
Ross on the
south shore of Loch Sheelin,
which is were
Co.
Cavan,
Co. Meath and
Co. Westmeath
come together.
Richard de Burgo aka Burke
the
Anglo - Norman Baron crossed from
Boyle over
the Curlieu Mountains to
Ballinafad to reach
Co. Sligo
in the north - west of the Connacht
Province were he was to
build a fortress against the Irish Septs.
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