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1571 AD Sir John Perrot, the appointed English Lord Deputy in Ireland, attacked the Irish Septs near Kilmallock in Co. Limerick in the north - west of the Munster Province and they fled across the bog to escape his fury, and after discarding his heavy gear he was to eventually catch up to them and kill 50 of them. He then cut off all of their heads and took them back and put them in the marketplace for all to see, and because of the manner in which they had tried to escape the Mere Irish then became known to the English as "Bog Trotters."

Conor O Brien had previously been appointed the English 3rd Earl of Thomond prior to his revolt against the personal indignity of the Assizes being held against the Irish Septs in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province by Sir Edward Fitton the English appointed President in the Connacht Province and he had then retaliated and fled the scene. He was now reinstated to his position this year, after he had personally went to see Elizabeth 1st the Welsh English Queen in England. When Sir Edward Fitton was to come down once again a year later into Co. Clare, Conor O Brien's attitude to English domination was quite different to before.

Myler Magrath, now also became the notorious Church of England / Ireland Archbishop of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, where he added further to his accumulating wealth, as he now held onto 4 positions as an Episcopalian Bishop at the one time, and was also receiving the accumulated imposed Tithes to the Church of England / Ireland from 77 livings. - Edmund Campion (1669 - 1571) became a Jesuit who was initially of Norman French origins, whose family originally settled in the Midlands / Meath in the 17th Century AD. In 1580 AD he would be arrested and sent to England were he would be executed and later canonized by the Catholic Church as St. Edmund.

Teige Mac Namara "Fionn" the son of Cuvea Mac Namara the son of Cumara Mac Mac Namara the son of John Mac Namara, died this year and his son John Mac Namara took up his place.

1572 AD Elizabeth 1st the Welsh English Queen, now also laid claim to the English Mortimers and their Estates, and called herself the Countess of Ulster, and had Sir Thomas Smith colonize the Ards Peninsula and all the land in the north - east of the Ulster Province from Coleraine to Belfast, which she wanted to share with her favourite, Sir Walter Devereux the English 1st Earl of Essex. Sir Henry Sidney, her appointed Lord Deputy in Ireland, did not agree with her decision and Essex was also not welcome in the Ulster Province where he was to carry out terrible atrocities. Sir Walter Devereux the Earl of Essex, was to come up against the Mac Donnells and the O Nialls of Clannaboy there, and eventually had to give up any chance of taking over any of the territory in that region, so she eventually granted him the Barony of Farney in Co. Monaghan in Southern Ulster instead, and at Carrickmacross / Carraig Mhachaire Rois (The Rock of the Plain of Ross) in Co. Monaghan he was to build a castle against the Irish Septs there.

This year, the town of Ballymore Eustace, which was an old "English Pale" town held by the Fitz Eustace’s on the Liffey River in Co. Kildare was burnt down by the Irish Septs in Southern Leinster.

1573 AD Sir Walter Devereux / Dearbhrus / de Evreux the English 1st Earl of Essex and English appointed Earl Marshall in Ireland following on from Elizabeth 1st's instructions continued to use her "Scorched Earth" policy with treachery and slaughter on the Irish Septs in the Ulster Province.

In Thomond / Northern Munster a state of constant internal turmoil had broken out between the leading Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough Ui mBriain O Brian Septs, over who had the real authority there, as they scrambled to see who was the real Irish Chieftain left among them, and Dalcassian was now forced into conflict with Dalcassian in Co. Clare, which only further suited an English purpose.

1574 AD Elizabeth 1st the Welsh English Queen of England now also tried to shire the Ulster Province, and to this end English Sheriffs were appointed and the Irish and Anglo - Irish there were once again put under further English pressure to resist the continuing takeover of their territories there also.

"Black" Hugh O Niall, the son of Ferdoragh O Niall, became the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Gaelic leader in the Ulster Province, and all of the "Northern Irish Chiefs" west of Loch Neagh combined their efforts, with the only Passes there into Ulster being through the Gap of the North situated in the north - east beyond Dundalk, and the fords of the River Erne at Enniskillen and Ballyshannon in Co. Fermanagh in the south - west. Hugh Mac Guire "The Maguire" the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Colla da Crioch Chief of Fermanagh was able to defeat the English forces at the Ford of Biscuits near Enniskillen - Sir Walter Devereux the English 1st Earl of Essex built a fort at Blackwaterton in Co. Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province in opposition to Hugh O Niall's fort at Dungannon.

1575 AD Sir Walter Devereux the 1st Earl of Essex, had attacked Sorley "Boy / Buidhe " Mac Donnell in the Glens of Antrim in Co. Antrim in the Ulster Province, and Sorley "Boy" had sent all of the women and children and his valuables for safe keeping over onto Rathlin Island off the coast of Co. Antrim. Sir Walter Devereux the 1st Earl of Essex then sent 3 English frigates there, with one under the command of Sir Francis Drake, and at first they killed the 200 people who came out of the castle, and then began hunting down and killing the rest of the people there on the island, involving some 300 to 400 innocent people, including those hiding in the caves and on the cliffs by the sea. Elizabeth 1st expressed her gratitude to Sir Henry Sidney, her appointed Lord Deputy in Ireland, for a job well done, and Sir Walter Devereux the 1st Earl of Essex was recalled after the massacre, but reinstated and was later poisoned in Dublin. (His his son would later be sent to subdue "Black" Hugh O Niall). (Sorley "Boy" Mac Donnell had been frantic and tormented by it all, as he had to stand by and view the horrific scene from the coastline of Co. Antrim where he could do nothing to stop it.) All of this further widespread "Scorched Earth" oppression continually carried out under the rule of Elizabeth 1st was leading on to further Rebellions occurring in Ireland. Brian Mac Phelim O Niall of Clannaboy and his wife together with others were also taken to Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre) in Dublin where they were executed, and the Ulster Province was made into English Shire Land. Now seeing no other alternative in view Sir James Fitzmaurice Fitz Gerald in the Munster Province went to France to arrange for French support to stop the endless slaughter in Ireland and the English then appointed his cousin Fitz Gerald the Earl of Desmond to govern Munster for them, who instead soon found himself at the head of this particular Irish Rebellion instead, were he was defeated by the English forces, who then also turned on the Connacht Province. - This year, Elizabeth 1st the Welsh English Queen granted the Leix Abbey in Co. Laois in the mid - west of Southern Leinster to Thomas Butler the English appointed 10th Earl of Ormonde.

Grace O Malley, the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Pirate Queen, went to England this year where she met with Elizabeth 1st and had the affront to treat her as her equal, and told her straight to her face that she did nothing physical herself to accomplish any of her edicts in Ireland. On her way back to the Connacht Province, she called in at Howth Castle on the coast in Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster, were the gates were closed, so she abducted the young English Lord of Howth and took him to her fort at Carrigahooly Castle on Clare Island near Newport in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of Connacht and only returned him when they agreed to keep their gates open at dinner time.

1576 AD Sir Henry Sidney the appointed English Lord Deputy in Ireland, abolished the ancient Irish Celtic customs in the Munster Province, and made Donnell O Brien who was previously the nominated Dalcassian Prince of Thomond / Tannist, who now resided at Ennistymon in the north - west of Co. Clare, the English Governor of Co. Clare. Proving to be a real "survivor" he began to hang his own Dalcassian people who were now the "Irish Rebels," and he had the English separate Co. Clare officially from the Connacht Province under English Law, and joined to the Munster Province. To further try an end any further chance of Irish Uprisings by the Dalcassians against the ongoing English oppression, Sir William Dury who was now the English appointed President of Munster, hung several of the O Brians and held an Assizes for 8 days, where he compelled the inhabitants of Munster to pay 10 pounds for each English Barony in Ireland to Elizabeth 1st the Welsh English Queen, who then conveyed all of the Catholic Church lands in Co. Clare and livings to her new found friend and ally Sir Donnell O Brien after he journeyed to see her in England.

This year, the Anglo - Irish Fitz Geralds / Geraldines and Thomas Butler the English Royalist Earl of Ormonde came into personal conflict and fought a battle at Affane in Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province.

At this time out of the 205 previous Irish Catholic parishes in Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster, the English Episcopalian Ascendancy had taken over 105, but not one of them had a resident clergyman.

Grace O Malley, the Ui Briuin Pirate Queen also held Kildownet Castle on Achill Island in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province, and she was to go to Galway City this year to see the English Governor there and offer her services to him together with 3 Galleys and 200 men and she now also began to harass the other Irish Septs.

This year, Hugh Dowdell, the Episcopalian Archbishop of Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province, advocated the expulsion of all of the Scottish settlers in the Ulster Province, who had been previously brought in there by the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Colla Uais Mac Donnells / Mac Donalds in the north - east of Co. Antrim.

Kilcolman Abbey in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province, was suppressed by the English Militia of Elizabeth 1st the Welsh English Queen, and given over to Captain Spring, who was newly arrived from England, and the Poulnaraha Priory in Co. Kerry, founded by the Anglo - Norman Baron, Geoffrey de Marisco in 1215 AD on the original site of the Celtic monastery of Killagla / Cill Acaro (The Church of the Field) was also suppressed, and the land there was also given over to Captain Spring, with no Irish allowed to buy or rent. Later on in the middle of the 17th Century AD it was to be taken over by Oliver Cromwell the English Protector, during his particular Invasion, and given to the Godfreys who are still there today.

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