[Toirdhealbhach Sacart Ua Conchobhair] Co 1231.2 Feth fo lige ingen Conchobair Meic Diarmata ben Murcertaig Mumnig meic Toirdilbaig moir h. Conchobair [unrelated] mathaír Magnusa meic Murchertaig Mumnig & Conchobair Ruaidh & Tuathail & Toirrdelbaig Sacairt .i. prioir reclesa Petoir & Poil ["Feth fo lige, daughter of Conchobar Mac Diarmata and wife of Muirchertach Muimnech son of Toirrdelbach Mor O Conchobair ... mother of Magnus mac Muirchertaig Muimnig and Conchobar Ruad and Tuathal and Toirrdelbach the priest, prior of the church of Peter and Paul"] Co 1250.8 Toirrdelbach mac Murcertaig Mumnig h. Conchobair prioir reclesa Petair & Poil At times during the 1470s, Wicklow's Gaelic Irish and their allies threatened to eradicate any influence the Dublin government had in the marches. In 1470 Fitz Maurice's parliament commanded Saggart's townsfolk to surrender their truce with Edmund mac Theobald O'Toole. Harold's Country, between Saggart and Kilmashogue, was rebellious. Collection of parliamentary subsidies there was impossible. Many collectors feared the Harolds would deliver them to the Gaelic Irish.
Saggart paid the ultimate price for its acceptance of this decree. The O'Byrnes and O'Tooles destroyed Saggart in 1471-72 and several inhabitants fled. To counter this, Saggart was enclosed with defensive ditches and a defensive dyke was dug from Tallaght to Saggart. Gaelic Irish predators continually crossed this dyke to raid. Sir Robert Dowedall's Ballinateer lands were raided by Fitzeustaces in 1474. Much of the Gaelic Irish wrath was directed at the Walsh family. Most Walsh lands lay within the modem Dublin barony of Rathdown. Maurice Walsh of Kilgobbin bitterly complained that O'Byrne, with Edmund mac Theobald, ravaged his lands and demolished his castle of Jamestown during 1476-77.
Witness charter of 1447 by Patrick de Cumry to John de Cumry, for lands in Cumry (de Cymru), Kapaleany, Glenmayok. Page to Lord Drummond.. Scribe to Lord Drummond. Bands of caution, witness or named. Raid with Lord Ruthven and Protestant lords on Leith, 1547. Declared rebel for raid on Livingstones, 1580. Died at Craigneich, or was there. Born at Craigneich megalith in Perth and Kinross, or was there. Took John Makintalgart prisoner. Took 100 pounds Scots money, three milk cows, and household goods. Charged with Malcolme MacGregor and others. Born at Craigneich, or was there, Died at Craigneich, or was there. Fined for deer-hunting at Spittalsfield, Capputh Parish. Records of the Privy Council, Registrum magni sigilli regurn Sc. orurn jacket II. 1646, three years before the regicide: King Charles is back in the cold embrace of Scotland's Presbyterians. Lord Calvert, struggling to keep his colony. Alexander MacGruther a traveler not found on any map. Nor any deed. Nor any regiment. Nor any bill of lading. At Preston, 1648, Dunbar, 1650, Worcester, 1651: Scots prisoners in large numbers. And not to be idle burdens to their captors: one hundred fifty Scots prisoners transported, via Barbados. 1652: Alexander Macruder, my servant. 1654: Alexander MacGregor takes oath to receive. Land. In the Royal colony.
In 1535, after the rebellion of Silken Thomas, it was one of the places where war was waged between the forces of the Crown and the Geraldines, who had been granted an interest in the place under the King. At the close of that century the men of name in Saggart included the Dens, who appear first as residents at Saggart in the reign of Queen Mary, the Founts, and the Prestons; and earlier in that century we catch a glimpse of less important inhabitants in a pardon granted to an Irish kern and a tanner of Saggart for respectively stealing and receiving two brass pots.
After the rebellion of 1641 in Ulster, at the joining of London-Derry, the manor of Saggart, which had been granted in 1620 to Sir William Parsons, already mentioned as obtaining much property in the neighbourhood, and the other lands now comprised in Saggart parish were for a time completely under the dominion of the Irish party. Throughout the remainder of that century, and in the following century, the Dens continued to be the principal inhabitants in Saggart. In 1682 Thomas Den was given the right of holding a weekly market and three yearly fairs there, and in 1705 John Den, and in 1741 Philip Den, died there. Both Breffnys in Leitrim and Fermanagh anciently formed part of Connaught, but the new county was incorporated with Ulster.
East Breifne was often called Breifne O'Reilly, from its princes of chiefs having from remote ages borne that name: they were tributary to the O'Nial of Tirowen long before the arrival of the English. Two of the boroughs that were created and received these grants were Cavan and Belturbet, and the other 250 acres were to be given to a third town, to be erected midway between Kells and Cavan, on a site to be chosen by the commissioners appointed to settle the plantation; this place was Virginia, which, however, never was incorporated.
The Annals of the Four Masters, thought to have been written by Cu Choigcriche O Cleirigh, one of the Four Masters, Roscommon and Galway head of the Tirconnell sept of the O'Clerys (O'Donovan); held the lands of Coobeg and Doughill in the barony of Boylagh and Banagh, Milford, Co. Donegal, from 1631 to 1632, at which date he was dispossessed of his lands and removed, with other Tirconnell families, to Ballcroy, Erris barony, Co. Mayo, under the guidance of Rory O'Donnell, son of Col. Manus O'Donnell, slain at Benburb, 1646. Carried with him his books, his most treasured possession, and later bequeathed them to his sons, Diarmait and Sean. Cu Choigcriche's son Diarmait had a son Cairbre, who removed to the parish of Drung, Co. Cavan, and was the father of Cosnahach (1693-1759). His only son Patrick O'Clery had six sons, one of whom, John O'Clery, removed to Dublin in 1817 bringing with him the Leabhar Gabhala, the Book of Genealogies, the Life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell (Donegal Castle)and the Topographical Poems of O'Dugan and O'Heerin, all in the handwriting of his ancestor, Cu Choigcriche.
The prebend, which was held by the Dean of Kildare, William Cleburne, was valued at £30 per annum, and although there was no church in which to hold service, the prebendary appointed curates to serve the parish. In 1630 the Rev. Robert Jones, the Vicar of Lucan, is returned as the curate, and from 1639 to 1647 the Rev. John Heath, the curate of Crumlin, was in charge. From that time the history of the Established Church in the parish merges in that of Rathcoole, and there is only the site of the church, near which a font was found, now to be seen.
Settlers to Londonderry in the 17th century often spent many years in German universities and returned to Antrim. Communities with a Catholic or variant spelling are sometime Scotch-Irish or Borderor.