jdmccafferty<p>26 July 1577: Sir John Norreys carries out a massacre on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Rathlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rathlin</span></a> Island off the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Antrim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antrim</span></a> coast: the MacDonnell garrison of 200 men & also 300-400 women & children who were there <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a></p>
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jdmccafferty<p>23 May 1603: Having submitted to Lord Deputy Mountjoy in Aug 1602, Randal MacDonnell is granted his extensive <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Antrim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antrim</span></a> territories by the viceroy <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> </p><p>These were confirmed in 1604 & with <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Rathlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rathlin</span></a> island added to the pot (Kenneth Allen)</p>
jdmccafferty<p>28 Sept 1575: Henry Sidney writes <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> of Sorley Boy MacDonnell that his lands were "full of corn & cattle" & he himself "very haughty & proud by reason of lack of victories he hath had" Soon after <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Rathlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rathlin</span></a> was handed back to Sorley by Sidney.<br>(National Trust images)</p>
jdmccafferty<p>26 July 1577: Sir John Norreys carries out a massacre on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Rathlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rathlin</span></a> Island off the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Antrim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antrim</span></a> coast: the MacDonnell garrison of 200 men & also 300-400 women & children who were there <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a></p>
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