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"RAINBOW FARMS" HARNESS HORSES - STANDARDBREDS - PACERS - TROTTERS The Hunter Valley - New South Wales - Australia.
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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
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