"Richard de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster, usually called the Red Earl, the
most powerful subject in Ireland, and general of all the Irish forces in
Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Gascoigne, was a great soldier and
statesman. He founded the Carmelite monastery at Loughres, built the
Castles of Ballymote, Corran, and Sligo, and eventually retired to the
monastery of Athassil