1531 AD - 1536 AD
1532
AD
Thomas Butler, the son of Pierce "Roe" Butler the 8th English Earl of Ormonde was
killed by
Dermot
Mac Gilla Patrick, the Heremonian Connla heir to the
Kingship of Ossory - Co. Kilkenny
in south - west
Leinster who in a sign of even worse things to come was handed over to the
Earl by his own brother, "The Mac Gilla Patrick."
Garrett "Oge" Fitz Gerald
the 9th English Earl of Kildare was re - installed as the
English appointed Lord
Deputy in Ireland as
Henry V111 had come to realise that it was
too expensive to have English officials and an English
army in Ireland to control the Irish Septs.
1533 AD Diarmait
Mac Dermot
became the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin King of Mag Luirc in
their territory
at
Moylurg in
Co. Roscommon in Eastern
Connacht.
1534
AD Henry
VIII
the
King of England
totally forbid the
Irish Septs to continue to
practise their
Irish Brehon Laws
but they along with many of the Anglo - Irish
ignored this
edict and also the
English
Law.
February
:
Henry VIII
the King of England for 20 years before this
period in time
had carried out a secret agenda of his own to secure more and more land in Ireland for
himself and
was also not too happy now with Garrett
"Oge" Fitz Gerald
the 9th Anglo - Irish Earl of Kildare
and his appointed
English Lord Deputy in Ireland as he too was once again too
close to the Irish
people and he called
him to London
were he was imprisoned in the
Tower. Garrett "Oge" had
left
behind his 20 year old son,
"Silken"
Thomas
- Lord Offaly, who was also
related to
Anne Boleyn,
in charge in Ireland who was then given a
forged letter stating that his father had already
been executed
there to upset him and this achieved its purpose as he revolted against the
government of Henry V111 in Ireland
who then put in
English Lord Deputies supported by
English troops to control Ireland.
June:
"Silken"
Thomas Fitz Gerald in a
bind of what to do proclaimed a
declaration of Rebellion
against Henry V111 in
St. May's
Cistercian Abbey and
sacked The English Pale around
Dublin
and was to keep up his particular revolt until
1540 AD when he was to be defeated
and escape into
Co. Clare in north - west
Munster for
6 months from where he
was to
surrender himself up under an
Amnesty
granted to him by
Lord
Grey, which was later reneged on by
Henry
VIII
who was to have him hung on
Tyburn Hill in
Dublin. His
father,
Garret "Oge"
Fitz Gerald
the 9th Anglo - Irish Earl of Kildare,
actually did die in the Tower of London
and 300
years later a
Parchment relating to
32 of the
Geraldines - Fitz Geralds was found there with
1/2 of their names having
either "Beheaded"
or "Attained"
against them as every effort was now made to do away with them
and their influence in Ireland.
Henry
VIII
was to send over Lord Skeffington with an English army
who was to eventually bring to an end the "Silken Thomas" revolt
and
send him off to the
Tower of London were he and
also 5
of his Uncles were to be executed. His
12 year old son was
to remain
in Co. Clare under the
protection of
Conor
O Brian the Heberian
Dal gCais King of Thomond - Northern Munster
and these events
were to finally bring about the further decline of the Geraldines in
Ireland. One
of the interesting Fitz Gerald women was Catherine
the Anglo - Irish Countess of Desmond
- Southern Munster,
who
was
from Dromna in
Co. Waterford
in south - east
Munster,
who had married the
12th Earl of Desmond and who
was able to somehow survive the reign of
9
English Kings
and had
previously danced with Richard
111.
Henry
VIII
now in full swing gave All Hallows
Abbey to his English Government
Dublin Corporation in Ireland, who
were set up in
Dublin
Castle
(The Devil's 1/2 acre), and
Jerpoint Abbey in
Co. Kilkenny
- Ossory in south - west
Leinster together with 6,500
acres to Pierce
Butler
the 8th English Earl of Ormonde
along with
Dingle - Daingean Ui Cuis - The Fortress of Cush - the ancient lands of the
O Cush Sept in Co. Kerry in south - west
Munster, previously taken over by the
Anglo - Norman Husseys
under the
Fitz Geralds, who had then sold it
to Fitz Gerald the Knight of Kerry.
1535 AD
The population of
Ireland
was now at
1,000,000 and The
English
Pale
had been
reduced to Dublin
Castle
(The Devil's 1/2 acre) and
there were still
60 Irish
Kings and
30 Anglo - Irish
Lords
among the
90
Chieftains who were still surviving at this
time.
1536 -
1537
AD
Henry
VIII
made arrangements for the
English dominated Anglo - Irish Parliament
to
acknowledge him as the Head of the Catholic
Church
of
England, which from now on would be controlled only by him and his appointed
Bishops making it an Episcopalian institution
and to confiscate all of the Irish Catholic
Institutions and their lands. The Irish
Septs were now to be forced to accept the
English Law, and were not to maintain any Irish forces without his consent and
surrender their Irish lands to
him subject to his personal re - grant under the feudal system to only serve him
and his intended purposes and to obtain all of this he had to have his proclamation transcribed into
Gaelic for the
Peers in the Anglo - Irish Parliament to
be able to understand it. He
also sent his
English
Deputy, Lord Grey with
cannons towards
Co. Clare
in north - west Munster
to submit the
Heberian Dal gCais O Brians
and when he
arrived at
Limerick he captured
their Carrigoguinnell Castle and the
Irish Septs there in order to
survive the onslaught began also to defect to the
English side.
Conor
O Brian
the Dalcassian
King of Thomond -
Northern Munster met him at
Limerick and agreed to
chastise his brother,
Murrough
the Tannist
(heir - apparent)
O Brian of
Inchiquin Castle near
Corofin in
Co. Clare for putting up a resistance as he was supported by the
Ui Caisin
Mac Namaras and the
Dalcassian Septs.
The English Deputy Lord
Grey then marched through
the west of Co. Clare and took
Murrough’s
Castle
where
there was hardly any opposition, and then pushed north into
Co. Galway
in Southern Connacht. Henry
VIII then confiscated the
Anglo - Irish Earl of Kildare's lands, which was
the main part of
the
Leinster
Province and had an
English Act
passed to take back all the
Irish Land granted previously by the English
Kings to
those who had supported them to survive and that had found their way back into the hands of
the Irish Septs. He dissolved the small
monasteries including
Graiguena Managh - Duiske Abbey
in Co. Kilkenny
in south - west Leinster
and the Creevelea Franciscan Friary was
burnt down in
Co. Leitrim
in Northern Connacht,
while the
Holy Cross Abbey
in Co. Tipperary
in north - east Munster was also
suppressed and given
over to
Fitz Gerald the
Earl of
Desmond. Killorglin
Castle in
Co. Kerry
was taken from the
Knight Templars and also given back to
the
Fitz Geralds in Desmond but they were to lose it again in the
future during their own Desmond Rebellions when
they too also could no longer take the repressions imposed in Ireland. Later on it would be given to
Jenkin Conway who renamed the town and the castle,
Castle Conway, then it was to be
passed on to
the
Blennerhassets, an English family originally from Cumberland who were to settle
in Co. Kerry. The
English Lord Deputy,
Lord Grey, also
destroyed O Briens Bridge,
which
crossed the
River Shannon
in the north - east of
Co. Clare
and
set himself up in the
Earl of Kildare's Maynooth
Castle
in Co. Kildare in Central Leinster
until it was to be restored to the
Fitz Geralds later on in 1552
AD.
Mellifont Abbey
in Co. Louth
in north - east Leinster belonging
to the Cistercian Order
together with its land was also confiscated and granted to
Edward Moore and then was passed on to his descendant the
English Marquis of Drogheda, then to the
English Balfours of
Townley Hall but it is now back in the hands of the
Cistercian Order.
- The Carmelite Friary on
Loch Rea in
Co Galway in Southern
Connacht together with its land was given to
Mac William Burke - de Burgho the
Anglo - Irish
Earl of Clan Rickarde and this is where the Turoe Stone, which is a Celtic
La Tene Sculpture is
situated 4 mile north of there.
The
actual
Protestant Dissidents who were really against the
hierarchy of the Catholic Church and there imposed teachings,
outside of
England,
at this time were only composed of two groups - the
Calvinists in France and the Lutherians in Germany, emanating from 2 previous Catholic monks,
John
Calvin & Martin Luther who both initially only wanted to bring about reform
in the Catholic Church hierarchy.
+On to 1537 AD - 1540 AD