to materialise, and for most Irish the Scots were little better, if not worse, than the English settlers with whom they were familiar. A Connacht tract of this time refers to "Scottish foreigners less noble than our own foreigners". In the end, rather than acting as a true High King, Bruce could wield power in only parts of the north, and he was held there by problems of provisioning and supply. The opportunity to attempt an extension had to wait until 1318, when the weather, and the harvest, improved.

Faughart