Connaught

Thus they had secured a monopoly in Munster and an effective competition with us in poor Connaught.

Fitzwilliam announced that Connaught would soon be quiet, for there would be no one left to resist the rebels.

Athlone Castle was actually entered by the rebels, and Connaught was left to its own devices.

They came out of Ulster and traversed Connaught in companies of twenty at a time.

In Connaught and other Irish districts ‘the godly,’ as the few Protestants esteemed themselves, thought it prudent to hide.