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                                                                                   1316 AD - 1320 AD 

1316 AD This year, Art was the Heberian Cianacht Luigni King who had his territory at Leyney in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province. Uallgarg O Rourke was the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin King of Breifne who had his territory n Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht. Diarmait "Gall" was the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin King of Mag Luirc who had his territory at Moylurg in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province. O Mael Sechnaill was the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Southern" Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain King of Mide / Meath in Northern Leinster. Donough 3rd / Donnchad O Brian was the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain King of Thomond - Northern Munster.  Teague 1st / Tadhg was the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Maine King who had his territory in the east of Co. Galway and nearby Athlone in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province. 

In May: Robert The Bruce's brother, Edward Bruce crowned himself the King of Ireland on a hill at Knocknemelan at Faughart near Dundalk in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster and besieged the Palace of the Archbishop of Swords in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster and destroyed it. He then held a Parliament on the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province and the Irish Chiefs were able to take back their English confiscated territories.  

In December - Winter: Robert the Bruce came across from Scotland to assist his brother, Edward Bruce in Ireland with another Scottish army and controlled the territory west of the River Shannon and the River Bann and to the north of the Ulster Province border and they then joined forces and marched south burning as they went and kept on besieging Dublin itself in "The English Pale" stronghold. Then the English landed in Ireland with their army and the Bruces and their Irish allies were defeated and driven back to the north and the Irish Chiefs were now divided over the conflict as once again the Ui mBriain O Brians of Thomond / Northern Munster were totally hostile to any chance of the Bruces taking over in Ireland.

    Phelim O Connor along with Mac Feorais / de Bermingham the Anglo - Norman Baron, and the English forces from the west of the Connacht Province put together a large army and went to the causeway at Moin Coinneadha and Rory O Conor the Ui Briuin Ai King of Connacht went up against them and his forces were defeated and he was killed along with his kinsman, Diarmait "Gall" Mac Dermot the King of Magh Luirg in Connacht, and Cormac Mac Ceitherrnaigh the King of the Heberian Eoghanacht Cianacht Ciarraige and many of the Highland Scottish galloglasses / mercenaries. Due to the death of Rory O Connor, Phelim O Connor became the new Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai King of Connacht and the Princes of the kingdoms of the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain of Thomond / Northern Munster, the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Southern" Ui Niaill of Co. Meath / Northern Leinster, Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin of Breifne and Conmaicne in Connacht, fought against the English Norman Barons, William de Burgo / Burke and Richard de Bermingham / Mac Feorais at Athenry in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht where Phelim O Connor and many of the Irish Princes were killed.  Richard de Bermingham as the appointed English Earl of Athenry Knighted John Hussey for his gallantry in the victory of the Irish forces. 

      Edward 111 the Norman English King, took the Limerick Castle built previously by his ancestor John the Anglo - Norman English King on the River Shannon there in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province and held a court their for a few months. An Augustine Friary was also founded there at Adare in Co. Limerick while "Irishtown," which was south of the River Abbey was eventually enclosed by walls as was "Englishtown" situated on the island.

    Edward 111 appointed Roger Mortimer the English Earl of March in England the English Viceroy in Ireland and John Fitz Thomas Fitz Gerald who had his manor at Sligo in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province was made the 1st English Earl of Kildare as the Geraldines had assisted in the conquest of the Connacht Province.

      An attack was made on Scotland by the English forces of Edward 111 and Robert the Bruce had to return there leaving his brother, Edward Bruce to sustain the fight in the north of Ireland.

1317 AD Roger Mortimer the newly appointed English Justiciar in Ireland arrived with 15,000 men, at Youghal in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, which was under the control of the Fitz Geralds, where he immediately created 2 new English Knights in preparation to attack the Bruce forces and their Irish allies. Together with the Norman English nobles he held a council in Kilkenny City in Co. Kilkenny / Ossory in the south - west of Southern Leinster deciding how best to oppose Edward Bruce and his Irish forces where he assembled a total army of 30,000 men. 6 new English Knights were also created in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of Munster, along with John de Bermingham and John Mortimer and a few more Knights while he was in Dublin. The English Earldom in Co. Kilkenny / Ossory was to be eventually partitioned among 3 of Gilbert de Clare's absentee sisters.

     Edward Bruce captured Gowran, which had been an early seat of the Kings of Ossory in the south - west of Southern Leinster.

    This year, Donough / Donnchad O Brian was still the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain King of Thomond / Northern Munster and Mael Sechnaill "Carrach" was the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin King of Mag Luirc who had his territory at Moylurg in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province. The Irish Chiefs under the leadership of Donnell O Niall the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Ui Niaill King of Tir Eogain / Tyrone in the Ulster Province complained to Pope John XXII at Avignon in France about the English cruelties and injustices and wrongs to the Irish Catholic Church, especially against the violation of the previous English Pope, Adrian’s right, to have originally granted Henry 11 the See of Ireland. The Pope intervened especially in regards to the exclusion of the priests attending to either the Norman English or the Irish but nothing else changed except the Pope's profile in Ireland had increased. 

     The "Anglo - Irish" / Old English were now known by the English as the "Middle Nation."

1317 AD - 1350 AD Brian "Bawn" O Brian was to be the Prince of Thomond / Tanaiste under his kinsman, Murtough O Brian the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain King of Thomond / Northern Munster.

1318 AD Richard Le Drede who was a Norman English Franciscan became Bishop of Ossory / Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster until 1360 AD.

     Conor 3rd / Conchobar was to be the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Maine King who had his territory in the east of Co. Galway and nearby Athlone in Co Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province and Tomaltach was to be the King of Tir nAililla / The Land of 87.Ailill in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province.

 On May 13th: The Heberian Dal gCais Cenel Cuallachta O Deas / Ui Deadhaigh Chief in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province was finally able to defeat the Anglo - Normans Barons there and kill their leader the troublemaker, Thomas de Clare together with his son, Robert de Clare, in a furious battle near the Dysert O Dea Abbey and his body was hacked to pieces. His widow then burned down the Bunratty Castle and fled back to England with as many valuables as she could carry, and this single act of defiance by the Heberian Dal gCais Irish was to break the English dominance in Co. Clare for nearly 200 years in to the future. His Irish followers at this time the descendants of Brian "Ruadh / Roe" / of Red Complexion O Brian fled back across the River Shannon to Ara in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province where his descendants have remained as the O Brians of Ara. Brian "Bawn" O Brian the Prince of Thomond and his kinsman, Mahon O Brian of Inchiquin, had retired to the east of Thomond while Murtough O Brian reigned as the King of Thomond in Co. Clare.  

October: The Norman English had also built walled defences around Castledermot in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster and Edward Bruce attacked them with his forces and was defeated and eventually killed in battle on the hill at Faughart in Co. Louth in the north - east of Southern Leinster where his head was cut off and sent over to England and his headless body was buried in the King's Grave in the old churchyard under a large stone on the slope of the hill. As Robert the Bruce had already gone back to Scotland prior to this the rest of the Highland Scots followed him leaving Co. Down in the south - east of the Ulster Province in ruins and Donnell O Niall the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Ui Niaill King of Tir Eogain / Tyrone was now driven back to Co. Tyrone in Central Southern Ulster. Pope John XX111 condemned all the supporters of the Bruces, and Donnell O Niall the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King replied, " That he could cede his kingdom to whoever he wanted to," and condemned the English for not dealing justly with the Irish. Donnell O Niall whose territory was in Co. Tyrone, which was still very wild country in the Ulster Province was the least effected by the oppressive English rule. New English Earldoms were to be created in Ireland to try and further stabilise the English hold over Ireland after the Bruce campaign.

1319 AD The Butlers / Le Buitleir Norman English Barons now also acquired the English Earldom of the Cantred of Iverk in the southern part of the territory in Co. Kilkenny / Ossory in the south - west of Southern Leinster. John de Bermingham the Norman English Baron was now appointed the English Earl of Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster.

1320 AD The Church of St. Nicholas Collegiate was founded in Lombard Street in the town of Galway in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht and Christopher Columbus would hear Mass there on the way to America and it too later on was to be taken over by the Ascendancy Church of Ireland / England during the Confiscation of the Catholic Church Institutions and lands by Henry V111 and is still used by them. St. Nicholas of Myra was born there in Lynch's Castle in Abbeygate Street.

                                                                                       +On to 1321 AD - 1330 AD

 

                                                                          

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