==A Few Further Points== 

 I don't get many messages anymore so I'm not sure if anyone is paying me any attention, but in the interests of our national heritage etc ... 

 1 - I changed the recent edits on the medieval-early modern headings as they were'nt really kosher. Got rid of the term petty kingdoms before I realised what it meant, and so put it back. Sorry. I disliked it - and still do - because the wording appears to suggest that they were not 'real' kingdoms, merely 'tribal' chiefdoms or some such. We know otherwise, and I guess I have being overzealous in trying to keep that in place. Sorry!  

 2 - Anyone know who made the maps? Eh, I have a few things to say (no one will ever speck to me again when I'm finished ...) about them. As follows: the 1014 map.  
 *A - Osraige, buffer kingdom between Leinster and Munster. Wherefore? 
 *B - All of what is now Co. Clare (then Thomond) was  in Munster.  
 *C - All of west & central Brefine was in Connacht.  East B. still part of Oirel.  
 *D - S. Ui Neill kingdom was called the Kingdom of Mide 
 *E - N. Ui Neill kingdom was called Ailech (see Kings of Ailech).  

 Okay, and as for the map of Ireland A.D. 1300 ... 
 *A - All of Connamara free of Anglo-Normans. 
 *B - Ditto Erris, Achill, north-west and north Mayo. 
 *C - Ditto north & central Roscommon, area around Lough Allen. 
 *D - The O' Moores of Laois were never subduded either.  

 That's about it. The tide had turned against the Anglo-Normans by then, though we really were a push-over at first. Over the next hundred years they lost way more, God help them. Cheers.