TIME LINE
RORY CEACH AND RORY OGE O’MORE
1538: Rory Oge O’More is born.
1546, July: Patrick O’More invades Kildare.
1547: Patrick O’More declared a traitor. Kedach O’More, Chief of Leix, died in prison in London. Rory Ceach becomes the new Chief of Leix.
1550: Rory Ceach in active rebellion; continues until 1553.
1555: Patrick O’More kills his brother, Rory Ceach, Rory Oge’s father. Connell O’More, Rory Oge’s uncle becomes Chief.
1556: Dublin Parliament summoned to seize Leix and Offaly lands as “Crown Lands”.
1557: Conell O’More, Chief of Leix, is captured and put to death.
1558: Rory Oge O’More becomes Lord of Leix at age 20. Patrick O’More dies while in prison in London.
1565, February 17th: Rory Oge O’More receives a pardoned by Lord Deputy.
1571: In company with O’Connor, again wages war on English.
1572: Aides the escape of Gerald Fitzgerald, Earl of Desmond, from English custody in the Pale.
1572: Prosecuted by Thomas Butler in absentia for treason against the Crown.
1573, March: Piers Butler FitzEdmond, kills Tirrelaghe More, a leader of Kerne.
1573, April: Lord Deputy requests of Lord Burlghy for aid in recovery of Leix from the O’More. Additional request for ability to exterminate the entire clan.
1574: Lord Deputy takes Lysagh MacKedagh, Neal McLisagh and Melaghlin O’More Captive.
1574, August: Callough O’More granded Manor of Ballina, County Kildare.
1574 ,November: Surprised by English troops and taken captive to Dublin.
Released shortly by Sir William Fitzwilliam, the new Lord Deputy.
1575, March 15th: The Crown gives Leix to Sir Francis Cosby to hold.
1576, June: Again in open rebellion against Enlgish in company with Clanrickard’s sons.
1577, January 1: Massacre of Mullaghmast, near Athy in Kildare.
1577, March 3rd: Burning the town of Naas to the ground. No life lost.
1577, May: Piers Butler FitzEdmond, at Castle of Galyne in Leix, kills Edmond O’Dewie, Edmond Riogh O’Kelly and Edmond Loaghlor, all confederates of Rory Oge’s.
1577, September: Rory takes Sir Henry Harrington and Alexander Cosby hostage. Harrington is the nephew to Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy. Cosby is Francis Cosby’s son. House attacked by English troops under Robert Harpole. 26 of Rory’s men killed, plus Rory Oge’s wife, and his marshall Conor O’Connor and his wife. Harrington gravely injured by survives.
Rory Oge escapes alone with Shane MacRory reagh O’More.
1577, November: It is reported by the Lord Deputy that through his actions in the field, Rory Oge O’More cost the English Crown the sum of 200,000 pounds for that year.
1578, June 30th: Rory surprised and killed by Brian Oge MacGillapatrick of Ossory.
1578, September 30th: Shane macRory O’More submits, along with Teig McGilpatrick O’Conor, at Castledermot in Kilkenny.
from the Clan moore website
