CELT document G100019

Short Annals of Tirconaill

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Edited by Pól Breathnach

Oiris oirdhearca Tire Conaill. Dublin, Trinity College MS H. i. 19, f. 140

SAT1241
     SAT1241.1

    Domhnall Mór .i. O Domhnaill d'fagh´il bh´is. 1

SAT1423
     SAT1423.1

    Torrdhealbhach an Fhíona .i. O Domhnall d'fagh´il bh´is i n-aibid mhanaigh a mainistir Easa Ruaidh.

SAT1434
     SAT1434.1

    Niall Garbh mac Torrdhelbhaigh an Fhíona d'fagh´il bh´is a Manainn.

SAT1452
     SAT1452.1

    Neachtain O Domhnaill do mharbhadh i n-Durún oidhche féile Bréanuinn .i. ceannlitir sithe & cogaidh an Tuaisgirt an fear amh´in cairt & dinntiúr do Chenéal n-Eoghan ar Chenéal Moghain ar Inis Eoghan ar Thuatha R´th & Tuath Luirg & do chuir cíos ar Iochtar Connacht ar g-caitheamh 18 mbliadhan dég i d-tighearnus.

SAT1454
     SAT1454.1

    Rughraidh mac Neachtain do mharbhadh le Domhnall mac Néill Ghairbh a n-Inis.

SAT1456
     SAT1456.1

    Domhnall mac Néill Ghairbh .i. Domhnall Tighe Baoithin do mharbhadh le cloinn ele Neachtain & le p´irt do mharcshluagh Uí Néill & Aodh Ruadh mac Néill Ghairbh do ghabh´il an l´ sin & tighearna do dhéanamh do Thorrdhealbhach.

     SAT1456.2

    Aodh Ruadh do bheith i l´imh i n-Inis Scelinn ceithre bliadhna.

SAT1497
     SAT1497.1

    O Domhnaill .i. Conn Bhéal Atha Doire do mharbhadh le O Néill & ní raibh an Conn sin 'na thighearna acht ó mhart cingeisi go ló fhéile Michél & do rínne creach mac Eoghain na n-Gleandadh & mac Cathaoir Mhóir a n-aen ló ar faithe Dún na n-Gall & do bhí an tír aige a bh-fad roimhe sin.

SAT1505
     SAT1505.1

    An t-Aodh Ruadh céadna d'fagh´il bh´is i n-Dún na n-Gall .i. an t-é as mó do chuir a neart ar choigeríochuibh dó Chloinn n-D´laigh.

SAT1540
     SAT1540.1

    Muidhm Coilleadh na g-Cuiridin anno domini 1540. 2

SAT1551
     SAT1551.1

    Cathbharr mac Aodha Duibh do mharbhadh i n-Dún na n-Gall. 3

SAT1558
     SAT1558.1

    Maoidhm na Cobharthaigh.. 4

     SAT1558.2

    Maoidhm Gleanna Seisg an cédna.. 5

SAT1563
     SAT1563.1

    O Domhnaill .i. Maghnus d'fagh´il bh´is.

SAT1564
     SAT1564.1

    Conn mac an Chalbhaigh do ghabh´il le Séan O Néill a nDun na nGall. 6

SAT1566
     SAT1566.1

    O Domhnaill .i. an Calbhach a d'fagh´il bh´is 1566: tug an Calbhach sin ceithre maidhmanna ar She´n O Néill .i. maoidhm Baile Mic Grobhartaigh ós Doire & maoidhm Béal Atha Croithlionn ag an allt ós cionn Tearmoinn Mic Guire & maoidhm ag Greanaigh Mocoill & maoidhm na Cobharthaigh.

SAT1570
     SAT1570.1

    Maoidhm na Feirste. 7

SAT1572
     SAT1572.1

    Maoidhm Baile Mic Grobhartaigh. 8

SAT1575
     SAT1575.1

    Marbhadh na Mac Suibhne. 9

     SAT1575.2

    Conn do ghabh´il le h-Iarla of Eisig .i. giuistís na h-Eireann . 10

     SAT1575.3

    Rughraidh mac Aodha mic Maghnuis do mharbhadh i n-Dún na n-Gall 11

SAT1580
     SAT1580.1

    Cathbharr mac Maghnuis d'fagh´il bh´is. 12

SAT1581
     SAT1581.1

    Maoidhm Chile Tuathail. 13

SAT1583
     SAT1583.1

    An t-Aodh Ruadh céadna [cf. entry 1602.1] do ghabh´il roimhe sin a g-cuan na Suile & a bhreith go Duibhlinn & a bheith ceithre bliadhna ann & a éalódh & O Domhanaill do ghairm dhe. 14

     SAT1.1583.2

    Conn d'fagh´il bh´il a Leifer 13 l´ do Mh´rta. 15

     SAT1583.3

    Conn do chreachadh Iochtair Connachta & do losgadh Sligigh ó chaisléan amach & gan tighearna Conallach do bheith leis.

SAT1586
     SAT1586.1

    Maghnus Og O Domhnall & Alasdair mac Somhairle. 16

     SAT11586.2

    Maoidhm na Muaidhne an cédna. 17

SAT1587
     SAT1587.1

    Maoidhm na Cairrge Léithe & b´s Néill Mhergigh Mic Suibhne. 18

     SAT1587.2

    B´s Aodha mic an Deaganaigh is Chathaoir Ui Dhochartaigh idem. 19

SAT1588
     SAT1588.1

    B´thadh na Sp´inneach. 20

SAT1589
     SAT1589.1

    Maghnus mac Cuinn mic an Chalbhaigh do mharbhadh i g-Cois Finne. 21

SAT1590
     SAT1590.1

    Losgadh Dhúin Droing. 22

SAT1592
     SAT1592.1

    Maoidhm Béal Atha na m-Briosgadh. 23

SAT1593
     SAT1593.1

    Maoidhm Béal Atha Cluana. 24

SAT1596
     SAT1596.1

    Eoghan mac Suibhne. 25

SAT1597
     SAT1597.1

    Maoidhm Cas´n na g-Curadh. 26

SAT1598
     SAT1598.1

    Maoidhm Béal an Atha Buidhe. 27

SAT1600
     SAT1600.1

    Teacht Saxanach go Doire & Niall Garbh do dhul na g-cionn. 28

     SAT1600.2

    B´s Aodha mic Maghnus idem. 29

     SAT1600.3

    B´s Cathbharra mic Maghnus idem. 30

SAT1601
     SAT1601.1

    B´s Sheauin Oig Uí Dhochartaigh. 31

     SAT1601.2

    Imeacht Aodha Ruaidh don Sp´in. 32

SAT1602
     SAT1602.1

    Imeacht Aodha Ruaidh go Cionn t-S´ile & a dhul as Eirinn don turas sin & Dia Sathairn do ghluais 29 do October & 29 m-bliadhna bob aois dó an Satharn sin. 33

SAT1603
     SAT1603.1

    Aodh Ruadh mac Aodha mic Maghnuis d'fagh´il bh´is sa Sp´in an dara l´ déag do September. 34

     SAT1603.2

    Iarla do ghairm do Rughraidh O Dhomhnaill. 35

SAT1607
     SAT1607.1

    B´s Henraoi mic Uí Neill & an Deaganaigh. 36

     SAT1607.2

    Calbhach mac Cuinn mic an Chalbhaigh do maharbhadh i g-Cois Finne 1507 forte 1607. 37

     SAT1607.3

    Imeacht na n-Iarladh as Eirinn.

SAT1608
     SAT1608.1

    Losgadh Doire. 38

     SAT1608.2

    Niall do ghabh´il le Saxanach a a Rathbhoth. 39

     SAT1608.3

    B´s an Iarla Ui Dhomhnall Mic Uidhir & Cathbharr a n-aen mhidh san Róimh.

SAT1612
     SAT1612.1

    An samhradh te.

SAT1613
     SAT1613.1

    An sneachta mór.

SAT1618
     SAT1618.1

    Aodh mac Aodha Duibh d'fagh´il bh´is. 40

SAT1626
     SAT1626.1

    B´s Néill Ghairbh iar mbeith i l´imh ag Righ Séamus ocht m-bliadhna déag. Aois Néill féin an t-am sin 57. 41

SAT1641
     SAT1641.1

    Teacht an chogaidh a n-Eirinn.

SAT1642
     SAT1642.1

    Maoidhm Ghleanna mic Cuinn. 42

SAT1646
     SAT1646.1

    Muidhm na Binne Buirbe. Agus b´s Maghnuis Ui Dhomhnaill. 43

SAT1650
     SAT1650.1

    Maoidhm na Sgairbhe Soillse.

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  • Dublin, Trinity College MS H. i. 19, f. 140. for further details see T.K. Abbott and E.J. Gwynn (eds.), Catalogue of the Irish manuscripts in the library of Trinity College, Dublin (Dublin, 1921), 1293.

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  • Pól Breathnach, Short Annals Of Tirconaill, Irish Book Lover 22 (Dublin 1934) 104–9.

Secondary Literature

  1. [Rev.] George Hill, An historical account of the Macdonnells of Antrim including notices of some other septs, Belfast 1873.
  2. Eugene O'Curry, Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history (Dublin 1861; repr. Dublin, 1878 and 1995).
  3. Paul Walsh, 'The dating of Irish annals', Irish Historical Studies 2 (1941) 355–75.
  4. Gearóid Mac Niocaill, The medieval Irish annals (Dublin: DIAS, 1975).
  5. Daniel P. Mc Carthy, The Irish Annals: their genesis, evolution and history (Dublin 2008).

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  1. For a portion of another copy of these short annals, see Robin Flower (ed.), Catalogue of the Irish manuscripts in the British Library [formerly the British Museum] (London, 1926), 253. There appears to be a third, unlocated one in the Royal Irish Academy. The frequent divergences from accuracy in the dates in the Trinity manuscript may in great part be ascribed to the vagaries of the writer, Hugh O'Daly, who penned these short annals in 1747. The entries up to AD 1505 add little to the information in Ireland's major annalistic collections and may have been copied from the reverse page of a leaf from the scribe's sources. 🢀

  2. Coill na gCuiridin, between Stranorlar and Castlefinn, FM 1545. 🢀

  3. This is correct, but the Four Masters give the name wrongly as Cathbharr mac Maghnusa mic Aodha Dhuibh. 🢀

  4. Cobharthach, the name of a well, now obsolete, ibid. 1557. 🢀

  5. Annals of Loch Cé, 1565. FM have Gleann Taise. See Hill: Macdonnells of Antrim, 132-40. 🢀

  6. The date was May 14, FM 1564. 🢀

  7. Fearsad Suilighe, two miles east of Letterkenny, FM 1567. 🢀

  8. Ballymagrorty near Derry. 🢀

  9. FM 1570, where the translation of the entry should run: 'MacSweeny Fanad (Turlough Og, son of Turlough, son of Rory, son of Mulmurry), his brother Hugh Boy Roe, and Mac Sweeny na dTuath (Murrough Mall, son of Owen Og) were treacherously slain at Dun na Long'. 🢀

  10. On the arrival of Sir Henry Sidney as Deputy in the autumn of 1575 Conn O Donnell was a prisoner in Dublin Castle, FM. The arrest really occurred in 1574. 🢀

  11. Aodh, son of Maghnus, d. 1600, had two sons named Rudhraighe. This is the elder. The other was son of An Inghean Dubh, and died in 1608. In the old Irish families it was quite common to have sons similarly named. 🢀

  12. The entry intended there is probably the death of Maghnus, son of Aodh, son of Maghnus—brother of Aodh Ruadh. 🢀

  13. Kiltole in the parish of Raphoe. 🢀

  14. To be precise, O'Donnell was captured at Michaelmas 1587; escaped for the first time on the Eve pf the Epiphany 1591; for the second time a year afterwards; and was inaugurated in the Summer of 1592. See Ir. Eccl. Record, January, 1930, p. 69. 🢀

  15. As in FM, with the addition of the place. 🢀

  16. Maghnus Og O Domhnaill, evidently son of Maghnus the chief, who died in 1563. O'Donovan FM, p. 2378, cites an English MS which states that one of the four wives of Maghnus was 'daughter to McGuire by whom he had issue one son Maghnus Oge'. For Alasdair Mac Domhnaill, son of Somhairle Buidhe, see FM 1586, State Papers 39, and best of all Hill: Macdonnells of Antrim, 186-7: 'Alexander m'Sorlie, who commanded the Scotts, challenged Merriman to a combat; and a lusty gallowglasse being by, said he was the captaine, and so to the duell they go: the gallowglasse stunned the Scotte at the first blow, but he recovering himselfe killed the gallowglasse; and thereupon Merriman stepped out and fought Alexander a good while with sword and target, and so wounded him in the leg that he was forced to retreat. Thereupon his army being discouraged was totally routed; and Alexander being hid under turf in a cabin was discovered, and his head was cut off and set on a pole in Dublin' (quotation from Cox). 🢀

  17. A great victory was won by Sir Richard Bingham at Ardnarea on the Moy, FM 1586. Despatches of Bingham on the affair are in State Papers 164-6. An Irish poem commencing 'Do loisceadh mise san Muaidh', commemorating the deaths of several Macdonnells there is in the MS A.34, in the Irish Franciscan Collection. 🢀

  18. Both events FM 1588. See Calendar of State Papers 516. 🢀

  19. Aodh mac an Deaganaigh, alias Hugh son of Calvagh O Donnell, slain by Inghean Dubh FM 1588: 'O Donnell's wife hath of late caused Hugh mac a Callye to be murdered: this is he that was with your Honours in England, and meant to be O Donnell after this man's death'. State Papers, May 1588, p. 518. 🢀

  20. Spanish Armada 🢀

  21. Conn O Domhnall, father of Niall Garbh, was married to Rose, daughter of Seaan O Neill, d. 1585. O'Donovan FM vi, 2384, enumerates his nine sons, five of whom, including Maghnus, met violent deaths. 🢀

  22. Dun Droing, in Inishowen, see Onomasticon. 🢀

  23. FM 1594; State Papers, August 1594, p. 262. 'The late defeat given to Sir Henry Duke and Sir Edward Herbert, with the loss of all the provisions of victualls in theat convoy'. ibid. 267. 🢀

  24. The battle of the ford of Golune is extensively noticed in the State Papers of October 1593. Maguire suffered a great defeat therein at the hands of Sir Henry Bagenal and the Earl of Tyrone, Hugh O Neill. 'Atha Cooloyne', Calendar 167-68; 'a ford near to Beleek called Cooloyne', 170; Ath Chuile Uain, Life of Aodh Ruadh 64; Ath Cuil Uain, ibid. 142; Ath Chul Uain, FM vi 1940; Philip O Sullevan Beare, like our text, connects the name with the word 'cluain' pratum, meadow🢀

  25. Death of Eoghan Og Mac Suibhne na dTuath, 1596 FM🢀

  26. FM 1597, 'The name is still remembered, and the ford pointed out, immediately above the great cataract of Assaroe'. 🢀

  27. Referred to by the English as the battle of the Blackwater. 🢀

  28. 'On the 22nd of May 1600 wee put the Army in order to march & leauing Captain Launcellott Atford at Culmore with 600 men to make up the workes, we went to the Derry 4 myles of vpon the River side'; 'on the third of October came in Neale Garve O Donnell with 40 horse & 60 Foote, a man I was also directed by the state to winne to the Queene's seruice' (Dowcra's narrative, 238, 244. 🢀

  29. Deposed from the chieftainship in May, 1592; died December 7, 1600, FM who pronounce a remarkable eulogy on him. 🢀

  30. This is an error, as FM chronicle the death of Cathbharr, son of Maghnus 'tanist of Tirconaill' in 1580, in his own mansion seat of Scarriffhollis, see entry 1580. 🢀

  31. 'Within two days ... I had noticed Sir John O'Dogherty's death', Feb. 12, 1601, Calendar of State Papers 188. 🢀

  32. Should be 1602, if the New Style is intended. The date was January, FM🢀

  33. Translate as follows: 'The setting out of Aodh Ruadh for Kinsale (and he departed from Ireland as a consequence of that journey); and on Saturday, October 29 he set out; and twenty-nine years of age he was on that Saturday, 1602'. The year figure should of course be 1601. O Donnell was close on 15 years of age when he was captured, and close on thirty when he died. This entry is important as showing the time of the year in which Aodh Ruadh was born. 🢀

  34. The year date should be 1602. 🢀

  35. The inauguration of Rury O Donnell as Earl of Tyrconnell took place on September 29, 1603, Carew Papers, 1618, p. 383. 🢀

  36. The first part of this obit is certainly wrong. A letter of date September 27, 1610, reports the recent death of this son of O Neill, see Calendar of State Papers 503. This report I wrongly rejected in The Will and Family of Hugh O'Neill, 31. This was shown in an able paper in The Irish Ecclesiastical Record for September, 1932, by Father Felim O'Brien O.F.M., on Robert Chamberlain, the friend of Henry O Neill. Father Chamberlain's will dated February 7, 1611, refers to him as deceased, loc cit. 276. Again, a short treatise on the history of the Irish Franciscan Province quoted by Father O Brien shows that when O Neill died in 1616 he left an only son (that is, John), and that Henry, as well as Hugh, died prematurely. In passing it may be suggested that the entry in the necrology of the church of San Pietro in Montorio, which Father Meehan cites as recording the death of Henry O Hagan, really chronicles the interment of Henry O Neill in 1610. Henry O Hagan certainly survived the Earl of Tyrone. The second portion of the obit is also erroneous. There can scarcely be a doubt than an Deaganach refers to the Dean of Raphoe, Eoghan mac Tuathail Bhailbh I Ghallchubhair, who died in 1580. Hence the entry must refer to a son of his and we should therefore insert after '&' the word 'mic'. A treatise on the O Gallaghers in 23 D2, p. 1 ff, states that the Dean never received priest's Orders, and that his sons were Eoghan, Tuathal, Felim, etc. Eoghan had a son Eoghan Og according to the same authority. Here they are following in the records of the Plantation of Ulster under date 1615: 'grant to Owen Oge McOwen and Owen McOwen, Edegany,' Hill, 330. Further, 'Owen Oge mc Owen mc Adegaine O Galchor, Owen mc Owen O Galchor', Patent Rolls of James I, July 26, 1608, p. 150, col. 2. The date 1607 is wrong every way. 🢀

  37. This Calbhach (there were two), son of Conn, was slain in 1603, FM🢀

  38. In Sir Cahir O Dogherty's rising. 🢀

  39. He was arrested on an information given by An Inghean Dubh. 🢀

  40. Aodh, son of Aodh Dubh, was also known as Aodh Og, and Aodh Dubh. He was brother of Maghnus O Domhnaill the chief, d. 1563, and must have been of great age at his death. His father died in 1537. Advanced to the chieftainship in preference to him were (a) Calbhach, his brother; (b) Aodh, his nephew; and (c) Aodh Ruadh, his grandnephew. Lughaidh O Cleirigh is quite apologetic for his rejection in 1592. A poem was made on this disappointment entitled, Elegy on Aodh, son of Aodh Dubh, which Fearghal Og Mac an Bhaird made while the aforesaid was still living, 24. P. 27, 147; 23. C. 33, 222. 🢀

  41. The elegy on Niall Garbh in Gleanings from Irish Manuscripts (2nd ed.) 27, puts his death at the same date. It is strange there is no mention of it in the contemporary English authorities. O Donovan cites an unnumbered manuscript in the R.I. Academy, which appears to have a copy of our entry. 🢀

  42. 'The next Boute the Irish and British had in Ulster was at a place called Glommaquin [Glenmaquin] near Raphoe'. The Warr of Ireland 23: June 9, Diary of O Mellan. Often referred to as the battle of the Lagan. 🢀

  43. Colonel Maghnus O Domhnaill mac Neill Ghairbh, O Mellan, June 1, 1646; killed at Benburb. 🢀

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