Annalistic References
The Annals of the Four Masters contain a few references to the Castlebar area, then known as Claenglais:
- 1524. Great inclemency of weather, and mortality of cattle, in the beginning of the year.
- M1535.8. Mac Auliffe gained a great battle, in which were slain the Lord of Claenglais and Mac Gibbon, with a large battalion of the Clann-Sheehy. Maelmurry, son of Brian Mac Sweeny, was slain in the commencement and fury of the conflict.
- 1576. 13. Edmond Mac William Burke, of Castlebar, joined the sons of the Earl; and the consequence to him was, that the Lord Justice took Castlebar from him, and banished himself, with his wife and children, into Clanrickard.
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