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1607 AD The Catholic Cathedral at Emly / Imleach (The Lake Border ) in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, previously taken over during the previous Confiscation of the Irish Catholic Church Institutions by Henry V111 was ruined during the fighting. It had special significance to the Irish Septs as it was the site of an ancient church that had been founded there originally by St. Ailbhe the initial Bishop of Emly who had been a contemporary of St. Patrick. He had personally converted the whole area there to the Catholic faith in 528 A.D, and when he died he had been interred there. and his personal cell is also still there to see.

August: Although Hugh / Aed "Dubh" O Niall ("The O Niall") had submitted to James 1st the new French Stuart English King he was still not satisfied, as he wanted the last vestiges of the Irish Chiefs gone from Ireland, and to this end those who were the leaders of the Irish Septs were from now on subjected to further bouts of ongoing aggressive English officials until he was finally able to instigate a charge of Conspiracy, against them. Hugh / Aed "Dubh" O Niall ("The O Niall") was then summoned to London to answer these propped up charges and while he was absent from Ireland, James 1st had arranged for the "survivors," Sir Cahir O Doherty of Lifford and Sir Henry "Oge" O Neill to be in charge of the Juries in Ulster who were to ensure that those at Lifford and Strabane, under their directions, brought in an indictment for Treason and Conspiracy against the Irish Earls with no chance of any defence. This then also involved with an Attainder, (Off with their Heads) and further Confiscation of their Ui Niaill territories to the English Crown. Sir Arthur Chichester, his agent in Ulster, only wanted to give one 1/2 of these further Confiscated lands back to the Mere Irish Catholics who lived there, as he had already previously proposed that the Irish Catholics should be driven out and that English Episcopalian Plantations should then be carried out in their respective territories. From now on under James 1st's direction, he once more began further Confiscations of the Ui Niaill territories in Ulster, in Co. Armagh, Co. Cavan, Coleraine in Co. Derry, Co. Donegal, Co. Fermanagh and Co. Tyrone and all of this extra staged persecution was to bring about the desired result with the forthcoming "Flight of the Earls." With the Donegal Castle blown up the Cathach of 91.St. Columbcille was also to be taken by the "Northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill Chieftains with them from out of Ireland into exile.

September 14th: 12 a.m. The "Flight of the Earls" occurred when Hugh / Aed "Dubh" O Niall ("The O Niall") and Rory O Donnell ("The O Donnell") and his one year old son, along with his brother, Caffar O Donnell, together with "The Maguire" the Cola da Crioch Chieftain, who were all to be the last titled Gaelic Milesian independent Irish Chieftains, descended from 87.Niall of the Nine Hostages the 126th King of Tara / Ireland, in the Ulster Province. Together with 95 other Ulster Irish leaders and members of their Families, who for good reason were by now all in fear of their lives, they boarded their ships and left Ireland forever to go into exile from Rathmullan on Loch Swilly (The Lake of Shadows) in Co. Donegal in the north - west of Ulster. Although they were initially intending to set sail directly for Spain, due to the storms they encountered along the way, they first ended up in Norway and then finished up later in the Spanish Netherlands. Among them was Dermott O Sullivan of Dursey who was 70 year old who was to live out the rest of his life in Spain and was to survive until he was 100 years of age and he is buried at Corunna there. He was the illegitimate eldest son of Dermott O Sullivan of Beare Haven in Co. Cork in Southern Munster who had been previously killed in 1549 AD by a gunpowder explosion. His legitimate son, Donnell O Sullivan, who had previously succeeded him in Beare, had been the father of Donnell "Cam" O Sullivan.

The Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Ui Niall territories in the Ulster Province belonging to the various Septs in Co. Donegal and Co. Tyrone were now Confiscated outright by the English and the Irish Septs there were driven out above the 600' level to starve to death as Co. Armagh, Coleraine, Co. Fermanagh, Tyre and Co. Cavan were to be also closer settled by Episcopalian English Planters with "No Irish tenants allowed." Ulster Province was cut up into 1000, 1500 and 2000 acre lots with 3,000 acres to go to the English Superiors who would bear arms and build individual defences against the Irish Septs there. Despite all of the English Laws that were constantly imposed against the Irish, to ensure their total obliteration in Ireland, the Irish Septs eventually came back to work their own land but for a greater rent as tenants, as the Planters had no one else capable of doing the work on the vast amount of Irish territory they had by then taken over. 80 % of Co. Derry in the north - east of Ulster was also given over to the Church of England and the Scottish Presbyterian Planters, with Coleraine given to the City of London merchants, and Inishowen to the English appointed Lord Deputy, with the English Planters and the lowland Scottish Planters situated next to the rivers and the Old English / Anglo - Irish further out. Under new English Laws the English Undertakers and non - Catholic Planters were now all forbidden to use Irish tenants, while another 5 % of the Irish land there was given to former English soldiers, who were allowed to make use of Irish tenants, with the 15 % balance of the land there to go to the Mere Irish tenants who were then forced to pay double rent.

The Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Colla Uais Mac Donnells / Mac Donalds who were originally Irish Scottish galloglasses / mercenaries descended from the Lord of the Isles in Scotland and personally connected to James 1st the Stuart English King received the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Ui Niaill lands in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province.

England under James 1st the French Stuart English King had finally gained complete control over the Irish population with the final Irish leaders gone, and with half of the Irish population done away with, by one means or another, and those Mere Irish and Anglo - Irish who had survived so far had lost either, their Family land, members of their Families, their right to practice their Catholic faith and all of their democratic rights under the Irish Brehon Law. Those who were left behind were now under a total foreign - system of serfdom, which was completely opposite to theirs, which also gave them no recognition as actually legally existing in their own Country of Ireland under English Common Law now right up to 1869 AD and this should have meant, as it was intended, the final end of the Irish Nation altogether. By not existing legally under English Common Law they had no rights as to reclaiming their land or their property. For the previous 4 Centuries up until this period in time those in authority in England had been originally about either ethnic cleansing, or ethnic and religious cleansing later on. Their overall goal had been the total annihilation of the Irish population as an individual Celtic people, but despite the fact that they now had them under their physical and economic control their Irish and Anglo - Irish Minds were still free. Men such as Donnell Kavanagh ("The Spaniard") from Co. Carlow in Southern Leinster still continued to gather together their Irish horsemen and foot soldiers / kerns from among their individual Septs and maintain guerrilla type activities against the English forces in their own particular individual Tuath / Family regions.

The mandates originally given to the anti - Catholic protagonists, Sir Arthur Chichester and Sir John Davies by James 1st the French Stuart English King to harass the Catholic Irish and the Anglo - Irish by fines and imprisonment had by now served their intended purpose were to now be abandoned, for the present, by the English authorities, as there was now fear among them of having gone too far and creating further revolts in Ireland.

Moore Abbey was built this year by the English Planters in Drogheda in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster on the site of the old monastery at Monasterevin, which today as fate would have it is an Irish Catholic convent.

1608 AD April: Hugh / Aed "Dubh" O Niall ("The O Niall") and the other Irish Ulster Province leaders who had fled from Loch Swilly in Co. Donegal in the north - west of Ulster in fear of their lives had finally arrived in Rome were they came under the protection of Pope Paul V.

April 18th: Sir Cahir O Doherty the "survivor" who had turned Episcopalian to hold on to part of the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill territory at Inishowen in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province was by now also made subject to the same aggressive personal treatment when he was insulted by the English Governor in Derry and he decided to besiege Culmore Fort on nearby Loch Foyle. On the following day he also laid siege to the town of Derry itself, which had been previously captured by the English in 1600 AD, which he destroyed. July: Sir Cahir O Doherty was now also charged with Treason and then executed in Co. Donegal and all his followers and family were then hunted down over a six week period until they were all to be finally killed by September and this meant that there was then more Irish territory available to Confiscate in Ulster.

All up James 1st the French Stuart English King confiscated 3 and 3/4 Million acres of Irish land in the Ulster Province, which included nearly all of Co. Donegal, Coleraine in Co. Derry, Co. Tyrone, Co. Fermanagh, Co. Cavan and Co. Armagh and he set up an English Commission to then survey 6 of the 9 Ulster Counties for further non - Catholic Plantation beginning with Co. Derry.

Powerscourt at Bray of 26,000 acres in Co. Wicklow in the south - east of Southern Leinster was originally taken from the Irish Septs there by the Anglo - Norman Baron, de la Poer / Power under Strongbow after the original Anglo - Norman Invasion. It had then been recaptured by the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Cu Corb O Byrnes, O Tooles and Kavanaghs during Henry VIII's reign until it was then later retaken by the English and given to the Anglo - Norman, Talbots. It was now also given over by James 1st the French Stuart English King to Sir Richard Wingfield the English Earl of Rosse / Lord Powerscourt.

Rory / Ruaidhri O Donnell the last of the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Chiefs ("The O Donnells") from the "Northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill Sept, died, this year and was buried in the Church of San Pietro di Montorio in Rome. He had been a younger brother to Hugh / Aed "Roe / Red" O Donnell ("The O Donnell") before him and to Fionnuala the wife of Niall “Garbh” - the Rough O Donnell, and their father had been Hugh / Aed “Dubh” O Donnell previously also ("The O Donnell") who had died in 1600 AD and another brother, Manus O Donnell was to be killed in 1691 AD by another Niall “Garbh” O Donnell.

Richard Boyle the 1st English Earl of Cork founded the City of Bandon in Co. Cork in Southern Munster and Irish Catholics were to be banned from the City for the next 100 years. James 1st the French Stuart English King also declared Kilkenny and Irishtown there (Kilkenny City) free boroughs and Ossory / Co. Kilkenny became a County in its own right in the south - west of Southern Leinster.

1609 AD May: The Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain O Cahans / O Kanes in the north - east of the Ulster Province were now to be removed also and their territory in Co. Derry and Coleraine and the surrounding areas were given over to the Common Council of London merchants with 60 out of every 1000 acres also going to the Episcopalian Church of England. They called themselves the Irish Society and put in 26 members to run it for them, but kept Derry and Coleraine for themselves giving the rest to the merchants in 12 London Companies and walls were built around Derry to fortify it against the "Irish Rebels.

500,000 acres now under the control of Sir Arthur Chichester and the English Militia in the Ulster Province were to be put aside for Lowland Scottish Presbyterian Planters, while the English Episcopalian Church of England Planters were placed inland where they were made the Undertakers and the lower class Scots were given land on less favourable terms then the English. Co. Antrim, Co. Down and Co. Monaghan were not in the Plantation area, as Elizabeth 1st the previous Welsh Norman Queen of England had previously given Co. Monaghan to 7 of the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn 3 Colla Mac Mahons and a Mac Kenna who were "survivors" and had conformed to suite while the Anglo - Irish Russells, Savages and Whites, (originally bought over by the Anglo - Norman Baron, Hugh de Courcy,) held on to Co. Down.

At this time, St. Antony of Padua was at Louvain College / Freres de Charite (The Brothers of Charity) in France were he was able to maintain a register of Irish History and traditions for future Irish historians and many of the O Nialls, the O Dohertys, the O Donnells, the Lynches, the Murphys and other exiled Irish Families are buried there also, including Father O Mulloy the Poet and Bonaventura O hEoghana who was an Irish Lady Poet.

This year, Alan Cooke founded Cookestown in the Confiscated territories, 3 mile south in the Rath of Tullyhogue in Co. Tyrone in Central Southern Ulster and James 1st the French Stuart English King also granted John Brownlow territory at Lurgan in Co. Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province. The Kilkenny borough in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster was raised to City status by a charter of James 1st and Richard Deane became the Episcopalian Church of England Bishop of Ossory in Co. Kilkenny. - Mac Donough Mac Carthy the English appointed 1st Earl of Duhallow commenced work on the Old Court Castle at Kanturk / Ceam Toire in Co. Cork in Southern Munster.

At this time also in Ireland there was still 10,000 or so mercenaries in the pay of the various Lords and other "Landed Gentlemen" of means who used them as their own private armies, which was always a constant worry to James 1st the French Stuart English King and the English Government.

1610 AD English Plantations in Ireland continued on with the Ulster Province non - Catholic Plantations in the hands of James 1st's English Undertakers there using English names for the Irish regions with some of these also occurring in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster, which had also been Confiscated. This particular Confiscation of Irish territories was based on a long ago surrender of land way back to Richard 11 in the 14th Century AD, as was also carried out in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht and Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster the previous territory of Heberian Cianacht Chieftain, O Carroll of Ely. There was also some attempts at Plantation by the Old English / Anglo - Irish in the east of Co. Galway in Southern Connacht and also in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province. The French Stuart English King, James 1st was desperate also to remove the Irish Septs completely out of the Connacht Province altogether and was even to use fraud to accomplish this just as his future unfortunate greedy son, Charles 1st would also do later on through the insatiable efforts of his faithful and also unfortunate servant, William "Black Tom" Wentworth.

This Year, Sir Thomas Phillips built the town of Limavady in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province and Nicholas Ward built Castle Ward in Co. Down in the south - east of Ulster, against the Irish Septs there, which is now only a ruin. Sir Basil Brooke built onto the Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill O Donnell's castle in Donegal town in Co. Donegal in the north - west of Ulster, which became a ruin also, and is now being restored by the Irish Government. James 1st the French Stuart English King also gave Birr Castle in Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster to Sir Lawrence Parsons whose family were to be later created the English Earls of Rosse.

The Heberian Dal gCais Ui Casein Mac Namaras built the Cratloe Castle on the Limerick - Bunratty Castle Road in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, which is also still there to see although in ruins, and was to be only one of the 42 castles they were to build all up in Co. Clare.

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