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                                                                                 1381 AD - 1390 AD

1381 AD Philip O Kennedy the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Turlough King of Ormond and his wife, Aine, the daughter of Mac Namara, died this year.

     Minot the Archbishop of Dublin built the 147' High Tower on to St. Patrick's  Church in Dublin in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster. 

      Irish prelates and clergy protested to the English King, Richard 11, that they should not be bound by Statutes made in an English Parliament in which they were not represented.

  1381 AD - 1447 AD St. Collette founded a branch of the Poor Clares - Collettines.

       Mortimer, died, after lending Richard 11 the Norman Plantagenet English King 1,000 pounds towards his own  costs and James Butler the 2nd English Earl of Ormonde / Ossory and Gerald Fitz Gerald the 3rd English Earl of Desmond in Southern Munster refused to head a new Norman English Government in Ireland with the financial burden on them, and heavy subsidies continued.

1382 AD James Butler the 2nd English Earl of Ormonde / Ossory, died, at Knocktopher Castle in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern  Leinster and his son, another James Butler became the 3rd English Earl of Ormonde until 1405 AD. (The Butlers were always reared in England for an English purpose).

1383 AD Mac Gilla Patrick (Fitz Patrick) the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Connla King of Ossory in the south - west of Southern Leinster, died of the Plague this year.

1384 AD Niall O Niall the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King legitimized his overall Gaelic claim in the Ulster Province by holding a great Feast there at Emain Macha / Armagh in the south - east as the term Ulster Province now covered the whole of the north, as the previous eastern kingdom of Ulaid / Ulidia there had by now been basically extinguished.

     Uallgarg O Rourke was the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin King of Breifne in Co. Leitrim in Northern Leinster and Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster.

1385 AD Murrough / Murdoch O Connor the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb Ui Failghe King defeated the English forces from Meath, in Co. Offaly in the Battle of Cruachan Bri Eile in the mid - west of Southern Leinster.

      The  O Kanes / Ui Cahan from the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain built an altar tomb in the Augustinian monastery in Dungiven in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province.

     Richard 11’s the Norman English King's, favourite Robert de Vere was made the English Marquis of Dublin and was granted Ireland for life and supplied with grants to maintain 500 men at arms and 1,000 archers for 2 years to conquer Ireland and return the English King 5,000 marks a year, but the whole colonization thing deteriorated further and his soldiers deserted as the money run out. The Norman English Parliament in Ireland begged Richard 11 the English King to bring an English army to Ireland and save them from the Irish.

1386 AD Mac Murrough the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig King of Leinster attacked the English in Ossory - Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of the Leinster Province and many were killed.

1387 AD Richard de Northalis an Anglo - Norman, became the Bishop of Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in south - west Leinster until 1395 AD.

      The English Barons in Ireland were now created by letter.

      Niall O Niall the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Cenel nEogain King of Ulster to further entrench his Gaelic Milesian claim built a house at Emain Macha, the ancient Navan Fort in Co. Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province, and celebrated the ancient Irian Red Branch of Knights of the past who had originally guarded the north from all danger.

1388 AD Cormac was the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn King of Tir nAilila in Co. Sligo in the north - east of the Connacht Province.  - Sean "Ruadh" of Red Complexion O Toole / Ua Tuathail was the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb Ui Dunlainge Ui Muiredaig King in Co. Wicklow in the south - east of Southern Leinster.

December: Irish fosterage was forbidden by the English authorities in Ireland, but despite this Gerald Fitz Gerald the Norman Irish 3rd Earl of Desmond sent his son to O Brian the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough Ui mBriain King of Thomond / Northern Munster to be reared.

1389 AD Gerald Fitz Gerald the Norman Irish 3rd Earl of Desmond from Askeaton in Co. Limerick founded the Franciscan Friary there in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province and James Fitz Gerald, who was to be the future 15th Earl of Desmond, was to live there later on. 

1390 AD Fergal was the Heberian Cianacht Luigni King at Leyney in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province.

    The Mac Firbis Sept, who were descended from 88.Dathi / Nathi the last Pagan Celtic 127th King of Tara / Ireland, who were poets and historians from the Lecan Castle in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province compiled the Yellow Book of Lecan, which is now in Trinity College in Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster and they also wrote the Great Book of Lecan, which is now in the Royal Irish Academy also in Dublin. The Speckled Book / Leabhar Breac was also written around this time and is still to be seen in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.

                                                                      +On to 1391 AD - 1398 AD

 

                                                                          

 Situated on the western bank of the Hunter River, midway between Muswellbrook and Denman the doorway to the Heart of Australia's "Horse Capital" in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales., Australia.  

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