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                                                                                    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. The Ui Briuin O Connor Kings also built a Castle at Ballintober - Baile an Tobair - Town of the Well - in Co. Roscommon in Eastern Connacht as their chief seat of power and it is still there as a ruin.

      The de Lacys had also been in trouble with John the English King and Hugh de Lacy and other Anglo - Norman Barons who stood the siege at Carrickfergus had then given in and fled to exile and John had taken over as the English Earl of Ulster and Meath and built Castles at Down, Coleraine, Carlingford, and Carrickfergus, which became an English Town.    

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. - An English Council was held in Dublin and only English Law and customs were to be implemented in Ireland.

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.

                                                                      +On to 1221 AD - 1230 AD

 

                                                                          

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