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                                                                                     1271 AD - 1280 AD 

1272 AD Henri Buitleir was the Chief of the Umall - The Owles in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province.

     The Cistercian Order founded Hore Abbey on the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province with monks from Mellifont in Co. Louth who would speak only Irish, after the Benedictines who had a school building there were expelled by the Archbishop.

      Edward 1st the English King, the son of Henry 111, began reform in Ireland and put in strong governors beginning with Geoffrey de Geneville who married the de Lacy heiress and finished with John Wogan - Ugan - Gwgan - Welsh - frown.

1273 AD Eochy - Eochaidh was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn 3 Colla King of Orghialla - Airghialla - Oriel in Co. Monaghan & Co. Armagh in the Ulster Province.

      Conor - Conchobair "Buide" - of the Yellow Hair O Rourke was the Heremonian Ui Briuin King of Breifne in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht.

     The de Mandevilles - de Moinbhiol - and the other Anglo - Norman Barons in the Ulster Province had used the Northern Ui Niaill O Nialls to create havoc when William Fitz Warrine the English Seneschall, who they hated, tried to collect levies for the English King, Edward 1st.

      Although the Irish Septs where regaining some of their territories back the new generation of leaders where frustrated by the failure of their fathers to gain a permanent hold over their lands.

1274 AD Tiernan - Tigernan O Rourke was the Heremonian Ui Briuin King of Breifne in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht.

      Rathfran Abbey in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province was founded by the Dominicans this year and was to be rebuilt in the 15th and 16th Centuries AD and the remains are still there to be seen. 

1275 AD Maurice Fitzgerald the Norman English, grandson of the original Anglo - Norman who had landed in 1169 AD, built a Castle and a Dominican Friary in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province

1276 AD Diarmait O Morna was the Dal Fiatach King of Ulaid in Co. Antrim & Co. Down in the north - east of the Ulster Province.

     Edward 1st the King of England now attempted once again to impose English Law in Ireland against the Irish Brehon Law and the Irish where allowed no recourse at all under English Law and many Irish anglicized their names and he granted Thomond - North Munster to Thomas de Clare who was a younger brother to the English Earl of Gloucester and a friend of the King. English Planters were put into the Leinster Province, Meath and the  Munster Province, into Erris in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province and Dingle in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province.  

       The English Bellews, Plunkets, de Peppards, Nugents and de Bathes now settled in Co. Meath in the north - east of the Leinster Province and 11 of the Irish Chiefs now only held their territories courtesy of Walter de Burgho the English Earl of Ulster for which in return they were to provide 355 Fighting Men - Bonnacht each, who were to later on take part in Edward 1st's Scottish Campaign.    

1277 AD Thomas de Clare the English Norman Baron rebuilt the Bunratty Castle and invited Brian "Roe - Ruadh" - of Red Complexion O Brian the King of Thomond - Northern Munster there after making a religious oath to do him no harm, but instead he put him in prison and tortured him then pulled him apart with two horses. The great wars in Thomond then occurred with one of the sons of Brian "Ruadh O Brian sticking with Thomas de Clare and these conflicts were to continue until 1318 AD until Thomas de Clare and his son were to killed by the Heberian Dal gCais O Deas.

1278 AD Donough O Brian, a son of Brian "Roe" O Brian the newly defunct King of Thomond - Northern Munster now ruled in West Thomond - West Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province.

       St. Finghin's Church was constructed at Quin in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province near the castle built by the English Baron, Thomas de Clare and it is still there in ruins near Quin Abbey, which was built on the castle ruins.    

      Felim - Phelim O Connor the Heremonian Ui Briuin Ai King of Connacht built a Dominican Friary and was buried there.  

      Galway City in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht was now a walled town to keep the Irish out and was governed by the Anglo - Norman English and the 14 "foreign" families commonly known as the 14 Tribes of Galway, included the Athys, Blakes, Bodkins, Brownes, D' Arcys, Deanes - Le Den, Ffronts, Ffrenchs - French, Joyces, Kirwans, Lynchs, Martins, Morris and the Skerrets.

1278 AD - 1306 AD Turlough O Brian was now to be the King of Thomond - Northern Munster and decided to drive the English out, except for a few in Bunratty Castle - The Mouth of the River Raite, which is still in existence today and held in trust by the Irish Government, and the Dal gCais Septs then burnt St. Finghin's Church at Quin in Co. Clare as the English tried to hide there. Turlough O Brian then built the first Irish stone castle near Ennis, which was to be totally destroyed 300 years later on and he improved the Abbey at Clonroad in the town of Ennis. 

      Maurice Fitz Gibbon Fitz Gerald the Norman English Baron known now as the White Knight constructed a Dominican Friary.

1280 AD The Heberian Cianacht O Carrolls - Ua Cerbaill at Keenaught in the north - east of the Ulster Province gave up the struggle to retain their territories there and migrated to the Heremonian Northern Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill O Donnell - Ua Domnaill territory of Tir Chonaill - Co. Donegal in the west of the Ulster Province who were also against their kinsmen the Northern Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain of Tir Eoghan - Tyrone. They are now known as Mac Nulty - Mac an Ultaigh - Descended from a son of the Ulsterman - and they became physicians there. This was similar to what happened to the The O Clery - Ua Cleirigh Sept descended from the Heremonian Ui Fiachrach Aidne Kings in Southern Connacht who had also found shelter with the O Donnells where they had become their historians and genealogists.

    Thomas de Clare the English Norman Baron built a castle at Quin in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, which was to be used later on as the base of the Quin Abbey in Quin eventually by Sioda "Cam" Mac Namara the Lord Marshall for the O Brians in Thomond - North Munster.  

       The Abbey of St. Wolftan was founded by Adam Fitz Hereford at Leixlip in Co. Kildare in Central Leinster, and Liscarroll Castle was built by the Anglo - Normans on the River Blackwater in Co. Cork in Southern Munster composed of a massive Keep and two square and four round Towers of great strength to protect from the Irish.

                                                                         +On to 1281 AD - 1290 AD

 

                                                                          

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                                                                                   John & Sue Markham  

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