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| 1369–1439 |
"[T]he Primate of Armagh, Archbishop Sweetman granted to Simon, Bishop of Derry, a lease of the Manor of Kilrea, at a rent of forty shillings together with sixty large eels and one thousand medium eels yearly." In 1439, the Archbishop's lease was amended to the receipt of sixty large and forty thousand medium eels per annum. "The lease to the Bishop of Derry was withdrawn in 1439." | Account by Mr Bernard Fitzpatrick;
cited in The Fairy Thorn (1984), pg. 86. See also entry under 1439–1609, "From the registry of Primate Swayze, ..." |
| 1410 |
A great famine
in Ireland. |
Famines of the World, by Walford (1879). |
| 1430 – 1439 |
"The
rent [of the Manor of Kilrea] was afterwards changed, for
we find the
Primate in 1430, Archbishop Swayne, receiving sixty large
and forty
thousand medium eels annually. The lease to the Bishop of
Derry was
withdrawn in 1439." |
Account by Mr Bernard Fitzpatrick; cited in The Fairy Thorn (1984), pg. 86. |
| 1433 |
Famine of great
severity. |
Famines of the World, by Walford (1879). |
| 1400s |
Ireland was not immune from the depredations of the Black Death,
and the population of Kilrea and environs
suffered many losses. The parishes
of Drumagarner and Tamlaght O'Crilly were
merged. |
Research by Mrs Kathleen Gillen; cited in The Fairy
Thorn (1984), pg. 81. |
| 1400s |
"[T]he monastery [at Kilrea] was occupied by
the Franciscans and was called Father O'Dimon's
monastery." |
Research by Mrs Kathleen Gillen; cited in The Fairy Thorn (1984), pg. 81. |
| 1439–1609 | (1) At Kilrea, a
parson and a vicar lived on two acres of Glebe land
pertaining to the Abbey of SS. Peter and Paul of Armagh. (2) Kylrey.--"The parish of Kilreagh, contayning ten balliboes, wherein are both a parson and a viccar presentative, and the presentation of the said parson and viccar for the space of 170 yeres past (i.e. since 1439), have appertayned to the abbott of Peter and Paule of Armagh, and likewise the tiethes were paid unto the said abbott and his predecessors."--The said abbott was seised "of and in the 4 towne lands called Killreaugh in possession of the herenagh O'Demon, and twoe parts of the tiethes thereof, and of and in all the tiethesof the fishinge for eeles near adjoyninge to the same, and also the 2 townlands called Monaghgrane."--Inq. To the same religious house belonged the 4 balliboes of Athgieve, now Agivey, an extraparochial district having a cemetery and ancient church, on the river Bann, north of Kilrea.--(O.S., 12.) From the registry of Primate Swayze, circ. 1430, it appears that the bishop of Derry was then a tenant of the see of Armagh in this parish: Dominus Primas percipit ab episcopo Derensi pro manerio de Kylree in episcopatu Derensi sl.s.; mille anguillas mediocres, et sexaginta grossas, per annum (fol.60a). |
(1) Account by Mr
Bernard Fitzpatrick; cited in The Fairy Thorn (1984), pg.
86; and,
Kernohan (1912), pg. 6. (2) Acts of Archbishop Colton (1850), pp. 75-76. |
| 1447 |
Great famine in
the spring. |
Famines of the World, by Walford (1879). |
| 1491 |
Great rain and
floods all the summer, and such a famine that it was
called "The Dismal Year." |
Famines of the World, by Walford (1879). |
| 1497 |
Intolerable famine throughout all
Ireland--many perished. |
Famines of the World, by Walford (1879). |
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