Overview

In a section of Leabhar na nGenealach

Leabhar na nGenealach

Leabhar na nGenealach is a massive genealogical collection written mainly in the years 1649 to 1650, at the college-house of St. Nicholas's church, Galway, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh. He continued to add material until at least 1666, five years before he was murdered in 1671...

, Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh

Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh

Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, also known as Dubhaltach Óg mac Giolla Íosa Mór mac Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, Duald Mac Firbis, Dudly Ferbisie, and Dualdus Firbissius was an Irish scribe, translator, historian and genealogist...

 writes of the fate of the hereditary proprietors

Ownership

Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be an object, land/real estate or intellectual property. Ownership involves multiple rights, collectively referred to as title, which may be separated and held by different parties. The concept of ownership has...

 of Ui Fiachrach

Uí Fiachrach

The Uí Fiachrach were a dynasty who originated in, and whose descendants later ruled, the coicead or fifth of Connacht at different times from the mid-first millennium onwards. They claimed descent from Fiachrae, an older half-brother of Niall Noigiallach or Niall of the Nine Hostages...

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"The English banished these chieftains from their native places (which we have enumerated) until Sein-Bhrian s. Taithleach of the Moy Ó Dubhda captured the country (especially Tireragh) from the English. Although he did capture it, I think that many of the same chieftains did not get hold of much of their native territories since then, for the family, grandsons, and great-grandsons of Sein-Bhrian divided the land among themselves, though they do not possess it today and only a very small portion of the aforesaid chieftains still survive."

This is confirmed in the Annals of the Four Masters

Annals of the Four Masters

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland or the Annals of the Four Masters are a chronicle of medieval Irish history...

, sub anno 1338, which states "Leyny and Corran were laid waste and wrested from the English, and the chieftainship of them assumed by the hereditary Irish chieftains, after the expulsion of the English."

The Annals of the Four Masters

Annals of the Four Masters

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland or the Annals of the Four Masters are a chronicle of medieval Irish history...

 record his presence at the Second Battle of Athenry

Second Battle of Athenry

The Second Battle of Athenry took place at Athenry in Ireland on 10 August 1316 during the Bruce campaign in Ireland.-Overview:The collective number of both armies are unknown, and can only be estimated. Martyn believes the royal army to have been as much as or more than a thousand, while that of...

 (Brian O'Dowda, Lord of Hy-Fiachrach). He survived, though the dead included Melaghlin Carragh O'Dowda, Conor Oge O'Dowda, Murtough, son of Conor O'Dowda.

Araile do fhlathaibh Ua nDubhda says of him:

• King of Ui Fiachrach and Ui Amhalghaid, died in his own house having been 84 years in lordship.