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1601 AD Sir George Carew, the appointed English commander in Ireland, advised Elizabeth Tudor 1st, the Welsh English Queen, that rebellion was rife in Ossory / Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster, which was the territory held by James Butler the English 12th Earl of Ormonde and that it would remain so, as long as he lived. Blount / Lord Mountjoy, the newly appointed English Lord Deputy in Ireland, went on the attack in Southern Leinster, against the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Cu Corb Ui Dunlaing O Byrnes at Ballincor in Glenmalure in Co. Wicklow in the south - east, which bought to an end their particular Irish resistance at this time, but Phelim O Byrne their Chief, was able to escape being captured.

James Fitz Thomas Fitzgerald, the 16th Sugan Anglo - Irish Catholic Earl of Desmond, who with 8,000 Irish men had tried in vain to defend the onslaught in the Munster Province being carried out by the English forces, and he had since gone into hiding in the Mitchelstown Caves in Co. Cork in Southern Munster. He was to be betrayed by his kinsman, Edmond Fitz Gerald / Fitz Gibbon who was to be the last White Knight of Desmond, who was from from Killmallock in Co. Limerick in the north - west of Munster, for which he was given a reward of 1000 pounds from Elizabeth 1st, and the 16th Earl of Desmond was to be sent to the Tower of London were he was to meet his end.

July 12th: Pope Clement V111, hoping to stimulate some hope in Ireland, made a proclamation that anyone who visited St. Gobnat’s Church at Ballyvourney in Co. Cork in the Sullane Valley in Southern Munster on her feast day, and prayed for peace in Ireland, and the expulsion of heresy obtained a special indulgence.

(Autumn) The Spanish fleet sent by Phillip 111, the King of Spain, to assist the Irish resistance set out for Ireland, from Cadiz, with 4,000 men on board, but ran into a great storm and were split into individual 2 groups.

September: The larger of the 2 forces of the Spanish Fleet was under Don Juan de Aguila and they arrived into the Brandon Estuary at Kinsale in Co. Cork in Southern Munster with 3,800 men to assist the Irish Septs there in the Munster Province. They fortified the town and occupied the 2 castles near the entrance, at Kincurren and Castlepark, at the southern end of the harbour, where they immediately came under heavy attack from the English Military Forces. Donnell "Cam" O Sullivan the Heberian leader, who was the Eoghanacht Chief of "Beare and Bantry," in the west of Co. Cork, offered to supply him with a further 2,000 Irish men, to also assist him further, but he declined his offer.

The O Sullivan Sept, who were also descended from 85.Eoghan "Mor," had their original territory in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, where they then controlled the territory from Clonmel to Knoch Graffan, overlooking the River Suir, but had then been driven further south by the Anglo - Normans, into the west of Co. Cork and Co. Kerry, were they had finally settled in the area from Bantry Bay to Dingle Bay. Once settled there, they divided into two main Septs, who were top be known as "The O Sullivan Mor" and "The O Sullivan Beare," where their new territories took in the south of the River Kenmare and the Bear Haven Peninsula, along with Dursey Island and Bantry. Sir Owen "Oge" - the Younger O Sullivan, who was a cousin of Donnell "Cam" O Sullivan, always had his eye on regaining the position of "The O Sullivan Beare" for himself, which had been previously held by his father, whjen Donnell "Cam“ was considered too young to take up the position. The Irish Septs were then removed from the region, and English Episcopalian Planters had then been installed along the Co. Cork coast, to further bolster the English hold over that particular region in Southern Munster.

November 2nd: Previously, Hugh "Roe" O Donnell (The O Donnell) had been engaged in trying to restrain his kinsmen, Niall “Garbh” - the Rough O Donnell, who was also his cousin and brother - in - law, who had now gone over to the English side due to his jealousy of the growing popularity of Hugh "Dubh" O Niall (The O Niall) and the esteemed position he now held among all of the Heremonian "Northern" Ui Niaill Septs. Hugh "Roe" O Donnell on this day, decided to take his "Northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill forces, and his other Irish allies, from Ballymote in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province, and head south down to Kinsale in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, to try and relieve the Spanish forces there, and this involved a forced march over 12 weeks, after first crossing over the frozen Slieve Felim Mountains on his way down.

December 1st: The other smaller part of the Spanish Fleet under Don Pedro de Zuibar, who had since returned to Cadiz, had set out again with 6 ships, and had by now reached Castlehaven, nearly 30 miles west of Kinsale, just as Hugh "Dubh" O Niall and his Heremonian "Northern" Ui Niaill forces also were reaching Kinsale, where many of the Munster Irish Chiefs also joined in with him. "The O Driscoll" who was the Ithian Chieftain there, handed over his castle at Castlehaven to the Spanish commander, and Sir Fineen O Driscoll another Ithian Chieftain, who was also a Royalist, handed over his two castles also, which covered the entrance to parts of Baltimore with Donnell "Cam" O Sullivan also handing over his Dunboy Castle to the Spanish commander.

December 20th: Donnell "Cam" O Sullivan, assisted Don Pedro de Zuibar, to drive off the English forces from Castlehaven, and had another of his uncles the aged, Dermot O Sullivan, escort the Spanish Captain Saavedra, to his Dunboy Castle with 60 soldiers and 6 cannons to protect the harbour at Beare, which meant that there was by then 140 men defending his Dunboy Castle all up.

December 23rd: Donnell "Cam" O Sullivan, took 1,000 of his Irish forces to the final Battle at Kinsale, after sending off a letter to Philip 111 the King of Spain, committing his all to the Irish cause, which would be captured by the English to be used against him later on.

December 24th: The English Military Forces were full on attacking the Spanish at Kinsale in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, and Hugh "Dubh" O Niall and Hugh "Roe" O Donnell, who had both made separate forced marches with their individual "Northern" Ui Niaill forces from the Ulster Province, had crossed the ford at Shannon Bridge and joined up together, just outside of Kinsale. (The Irish wore their hair with a fringe at the front known as a glib, which hid their eyes and made them hard to recognize, which infuriated the English.) The combined Irish forces then went directly into the battle against the English forces, who were under the command of Blount / Mountjoy the English appointed Lord Deputy in Ireland, who had a total of 17,000 troops at his disposal. Brian "Oge" Mac Mahon, a son of Hugh Mac Mahon, had previously informed the English commander about the approaching Irish Septs from the north, while involved in consuming a bottle of whiskey with him, and the English had then turned around to take on the oncoming Irish. Although the battle was to continue on until Christmas Eve the Spanish, who were now in the rear of it all, would not come out and join in the fight, and this led to devastating results with 1,200 Irish killed and only 12 English. During the final night of the battle, Hugh "Dubh" O Niall was able to escape, and lead his remaining Irish forces back to the north to Co. Tyrone in Central Southern Ulster, to try and regroup there to fight another day, and in another place. (Before he left the scene, he installed Donnell "Cam" O Sullivan as the commander of the Irish forces in the Munster Province.) Hugh "Roe" O Donnell also, handed over his command to his younger brother, Rory O Donnell to also take them back to Co. Donegal in the north - west of the Ulster Province, to regroup, and then set out personally for Spain, to try and obtain further assistance from King Philip 111, who was to promise him another fleet of ships to try and free Ulster, but it was never to eventuate, as he now had problems of his own with the Dutch.

The Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain O Kane / O Cahan / Ui Cathain territory, near Coleraine in the north - east of the Ulster Province, was also still under heavy attack from the English Military Forces there, and the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Mac Dermots, who had their territory in the Curlieu Mountains in Northern Connacht, were also now forced to submit, due to the devastating tactics of "Slash and Burn" carried out by Blount / Mountjoy the English appointed Lord Deputy in Ireland. The Mac Dermot's original territory of 30,000 acres, was also Confiscated, and the remaining members of his Heremonian Ui Briuin Ui Diarmada Sept, were then driven out of Loch Key, so they went to Coolavin, to try and hide out in the forest there. Jordan's Castle, at Ard Glass in Co. Down in the south - east of the Ulster Province, which was previously under siege by the Heremonian "Northern" Ui Niaill was now relieved by the English Military Forces, and owing to the damage done to it on this occasion, and due to its prominence, it would later be restored. Hugh "Dubh" O Niall, had also previously held onto Jonesborough, situated nearby on the Co. Louth border in the north - east of Northern Leinster, for nearly 6 years, but this too was lost to the Irish Septs. He and Hugh "Roe" O Donnell’s brother, Rory O Donnell, were to be eventually defeated in his own territory in Co. Tyrone in Central Southern Ulster, after they had been driven back into Ulster to the forest of Glenconkein also by the English Military Forces, under Blount / Lord Mountjoy. Those among the captured Irish leaders, were eventually taken to the English stronghold of Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre), which would see the final end of the Irish Celtic Families, and the imposition of more forced religious oppression and land Confiscation being carried out on the remaining Irish Septs.

Francis Bacon, a confidant of Elizabeth 1st, in England, appealed for the Irish people to be treated as if one nation, but they were portrayed there in England as, "Beasts and Vermin, who were nevertheless still loyal to England, as there were only a few unnatural and barbarous "Pagan Rebels" there, who needed to be got rid of."

+On to 1602 AD

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