The history of Ireland ... to the year 1245, with notices of the barony of Boyle, Volume 21845 |
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Abbey Abbot afterwards alluded amongst ancient Annalists Annals of Boyle Annals of Inisfallen Annals of Ulster Archbishop Armagh army Athlone barony battle belfries Bishop Brefny Brian burned Cashel castle Cathal Crovdearg century chief Christian church clergy Clonmacnois Conor Cormac County Roscommon Danes death Dermot devastated died Donald Donogh Dublin Earl ecclesiastical Elphin erected Felim fell forces founded Four Masters record friary Galway Gilla granted Henry holy hostages Hugh de Lacy Hugh O'Conor Irish island John Kildare King of Connaught King of Ireland King of Leinster land Leinster Limerick Lough Lough Ree Mac Carthy Mac Murrough Maolsechnall mentioned Milesian monarch monastery Munster native Niall notice O'Duffy O'Ferral O'Flaherty O'Kelly O'Melaghlin O'Neill O'Toole Parliament Patrick plundered prince province reign Richard Roderic O'Conor Roscommon Round Towers royal sept slain slew styled successor synod Tara Teigue territory Tiernan O'Ruarc Tigernach tion town Tuam Turlough O'Brien Turlough O'Conor Ulster victory William
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Page 175 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 8 - Gospel, count up as an hour each, the first age from Adam to Noah; the second, from Noah to Abraham; the third, from Abraham to David; the fourth, from David to the...
Page 4 - They use to place him that shall be their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill. In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot...
Page 4 - ... inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him...
Page 161 - ... of Elizabeth, had indeed surrendered their estates to the crown, but had generally neglected to enrol their surrenders, and to take out their letters patent. This defect was supplied by king James, who, in his thirteenth year, issued a commission to receive surrenders of their estates; which he re-conveyed by new patents, to them and their heirs, to be holden of the crown, by knight's service, as of the castle of Atlilone, Their surrenders were made, their patents received the great seal, but,...
Page 80 - ... most of his brethren, and saw the absolute necessity of the whole nation uniting as one man for their defence ; for which reason he laboured so hard with this congregation of the clergy, that he .got them at last to enter into a superficial union, for burying all that was past in oblivion, to declare that no security for life, fortune, or religion, could be expected from Cromwell, to express their detestation of all animosities between the old Irish, English, or Scots royalists, and their resolution...
Page 129 - Insula dives opum, gemmarum, vestis et auri, Commoda corporibus, aere, sole, solo ; Melle fluit, pulchris et lacteis Scotia campis, Vestibus atque armis, frugibus, arte, viris. Ursorum rabies nulla est ibi seeva, leonum Semina nee unquam Scotica terra tulit.
Page 58 - Nial," says a learned writer, " did he venture to invade the coasts of Gaul, but, allured by the prospect of plunder, which the state of the province, then falling fast into dismemberment, held forth, forced his way to the foot of the Alps, and was there killed, it is said, by a flash of lightning; leaving the throne of Ireland to be filled henceforth by a line of Christian kings.
Page 68 - Leinster against King Leogaire, in which he was taken prisoner, but then released, on his swearing by the sun and a friary of the order of the Holy Trinity for the redemption of Christian captives. In the time of Edward the Second, Adare was incorporated, and various murage charters, with rights of toll, were granted to the town, at which time Lord Offaley, the ancestor of the Dukes of Leinster, appears to have founded the Augustinian Friary. In...
Page 380 - Niall Sionnagh O'Carnaigh," add the Four Masters, " Lord of the men of Teffia, also died of the wounds he received in this battle, in his own house, after making his will, and receiving Extreme Unction." In reference to testamentary dispositions at the time, it may be remarked, that in this year the King gave license to Luke, Archbishop of Dublin, at any time before his death, to make a will, and freely to dispose of all his property, moveable or immoveable, even the crops growing on his lands. —...