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Tulla and Lissofin estates case
Tulla · town · Clare
O'Gorman brought an estates case regarding Tulla and Lissofin.
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,, on lands paid to chief Triumphs of Turlough by Rory Magrath Tulla and Lissofin, estates case by O 'Gorman Turgesius, leader of the Norsemen
,, his government in Ireland .
Internet Archive storyofirishsept00macn, Chapter 149
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Tulla is a town in Clare. An O'Gorman brought an estates case concerning Tulla and Lissofin. The record sits in a book about an Irish sept and their struggle to hold their lands in Clare.
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The typical Irish lass of the Burren district
Burren · townland · Clare
The author observes that residents of the Burren and the agricultural district of Clare commonly encounter the typical Irish lass, describing her winsome face, thick nut-brown hair, and other distinctive features. This is presented as a characteristic cultural observation of the district's people.
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There are few amongst us who have resided in Burren, or in the agricultural distnct of Clare, who have not met with the typical Irish lass with her winsome face, thick nut-brown hair twisted up round her
Z^T, T lhT Tnderful kughing bbu^y <*<*- sl>aded with ong dark lashes, high cheek-bones and finely moulded chin, with sweet firm hps and a captivating voice, her ankles and feet bare, and of perfect form-a wonderful thmg .s this Celtic foot. It may be we meet her saun enng along beside her young lover, a lad of seventeen, a crelture with large grey eyes set in a brown face, with fine cutfeatures, a pleashw voice and manner; in truth, being an almost idyllically picture
Internet Archive storyofirishsept00macn, Chapter 113
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Mahon Macnamara's family possessed property in Tulla
Tulla · town · Clare
Mahon, son of Lochlain Mac-con Macnamara, was an ecclesiastic, and his family subsequently came to possess property in Tulla, County Clare.
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§ Was an ecclesiastic of some kind, and whose family we shall subsequently find possessed of property in Tulla. || " O'Brien Memoirs," p. 135.
1T Hon. R. O'Brien : note to " Dineley's Tour " ("Journal of the Archaeological Society, vol. vi. 1867, p. 88).
Internet Archive storyofirishsept00macn, Chapter 71
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Sioda Macnamara killed in Limerick
Limerick · city · Limerick · 1369–1378
Sioda, son of Lochlain Mac-con Macnamara, was killed in Limerick in 1369. His brother Tiege was killed by his half-brother Hugh in 1378.
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t Sioda was killed in Limerick, a.d. 1369.
£ Tiege, killed by his half-brother Hugh, a.d. 1378 (see Annals of Ulster and also of Clonmacnois).
Internet Archive storyofirishsept00macn, Chapter 71
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Macnamaras take possession of Bunratty after Anglo-Norman expulsion
near Bunratty · parish · Clare · 1353
The Macnamaras took possession of Bunratty after the Anglo-Normans were expelled from the castle. In 1353, two members of the Macnamara sept who denied the doctrine of the Holy Trinity and the authority of the Holy See were burnt to death at Bunratty by order of the bishop.
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The Macnamaras had taken possession of Bunratty after the departure or rather expulsion of the Anglo-Normans from the castle, and in the year 1353 one of the few cases of " ecclesiastical discipline" recorded in the history of Clare overtook two members of the Macnamara sept. It seems these two men denied the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, and of the Incarnation, and rejected the authority of the Holy See. Rather than renounce their error they were burnt to death at Bunratty, by order of the bishop.1l
The opinion of the best informed Irishmen as to the social and political position of their countrymen during the early part of the fourteenth century is to be found in a document which they drew up and forwarded to King Edward the Third of England. In this document the leading Celtic chiefs of Ireland urged the king to adopt one of two courses : either to govern Ireland by English law, which to them appeared what should be done ; or else to leave the country to govern itself according to her own laws and customs. King Edward referred this petition to his advisers in Dublin, and they came to the conclusion that no action should be taken in the matter. Sir John Davies, Attorney-General for Ireland in the time of James the First, in his able work on the "True Cause why Ireland was never entirely subdued," refers to this appeal of the Irish chiefs. He observes : " I note a great defect in the policy of England ; in that for the space of many years after the so-called conquest of Ireland, the English laws were not communicated to the Irish, nor the benefit and protection thereof allowed unto them, though they earnestly desired and sought the same." Sir
Internet Archive storyofirishsept00macn, Chapter 71
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Quin Abbey reopened as a college under Confederate Government
Quin · town · Clare · 1646
After the Confederate Government granted freedom of religious worship, the clergy reopened their college at Quin Abbey. An eyewitness who studied there in 1646 reported it was soon crowded with scholars.
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the second half of the sixteenth century, states : " Without eitheijl precepts or observation of congruity, they speak Latin like a vulgaiji language, learned in their common schools oiLeechcraft and Law, whereat I they begin as children, and hold on sixteen or twenty years, conning; Groate, the 'Aphorisms of Hypocrates,' and the Civil Institutions, and m few other parings of those two faculties."* Champion continues : " I have I seen, them where they kept schoole, ten in some one chamber, uponfl couches of straw, their books at their noses, themselves lying flattej prostrate, and so chaunte out their lessons by peecemeale, being for the! most part lustie young fellows." Such were the students of medicine and law in the West of Ireland in the year 1571. A system of| secular education had existed there from the earliest times ; beyond this up to the period of the Reformation the clergy had excellent schools all over the country, and we have noticed (p. 200) that no sooner had the Confederate Government granted them freedom of religious worship, than they reopened their college at Quin Abbey, which we are told by* one who studied there in a.d. 1646, was soon crowded with scholars.
Internet Archive storyofirishsept00macn, Chapter 112
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Two Macnamaras burnt at Bunratty for heresy
near Bunratty · parish · Clare · 1353
In 1353, two members of the Macnamara sept who denied the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, the Incarnation, and the authority of the Holy See were burnt to death at Bunratty by order of the bishop, one of the few cases of ecclesiastical discipline recorded in the history of Clare.
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The Macnamaras had taken possession of Bunratty after the departure or rather expulsion of the Anglo-Normans from the castle, and in the year 1353 one of the few cases of " ecclesiastical discipline" recorded in the history of Clare overtook two members of the Macnamara sept. It seems these two men denied the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, and of the Incarnation, and rejected the authority of the Holy See. Rather than renounce their error they were burnt to death at Bunratty, by order of the bishop.1l
The opinion of the best informed Irishmen as to the social and political position of their countrymen during the early part of the fourteenth century is to be found in a document which they drew up and forwarded to King Edward the Third of England. In this document the leading Celtic chiefs of Ireland urged the king to adopt one of two courses : either to govern Ireland by English law, which to them appeared what should be done ; or else to leave the country to govern itself according to her own laws and customs. King Edward referred this petition to his advisers in Dublin, and they came to the conclusion that no action should be taken in the matter. Sir John Davies, Attorney-General for Ireland in the time of James the First, in his able work on the "True Cause why Ireland was never entirely subdued," refers to this appeal of the Irish chiefs. He observes : " I note a great defect in the policy of England ; in that for the space of many years after the so-called conquest of Ireland, the English laws were not communicated to the Irish, nor the benefit and protection thereof allowed unto them, though they earnestly desired and sought the same." Sir
Internet Archive storyofirishsept00macn, Chapter 71
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