The famous cities of Ireland . nce to it inIrish history was Bangor, on the south side of Bel-fast Lough, where was one of the greatest monasticsettlements. At Belfast itself, John de Courcy, theNorman conqueror of Ulidia, built a castle, and hiswife was the foundress of Greyabbey, a few milesdistant in County Down. But the importance ofBelfast Castle was always overshadowed by the greatstronghold at Carrickfergus, which remained con-tinuously an outpost of English power even whenBelfast fell into Irish hands. Under the sway of theONeills, its existence was a challenge to Carrick-fergus, and G
The famous cities of Ireland . nce to it inIrish history was Bangor, on the south side of Bel-fast Lough, where was one of the greatest monasticsettlements. At Belfast itself, John de Courcy, theNorman conqueror of Ulidia, built a castle, and hiswife was the foundress of Greyabbey, a few milesdistant in County Down. But the importance ofBelfast Castle was always overshadowed by the greatstronghold at Carrickfergus, which remained con-tinuously an outpost of English power even whenBelfast fell into Irish hands. Under the sway of theONeills, its existence was a challenge to Carrick-fergus, and Garrett Mor, the great Earl of Kildare,destroyed it in 1503, and again in 1512; yet it didnot really pass into English possession until the closeof the sixteenth century. In 1604 it was granted toSir Arthur Chichester, who had been Governor ofCarrickfergus for some years. The region sur-rounding it both to the north and south was calledClandeboye, that is, Clann-Aedh-buidhe, the Clanof Yellow-haired Hugh, one of the ONeills. In.
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