Imaal

Imaal lay in the western Wicklow Mountains around Glendalough. The O'Tooles, descendants of the kings of Leinster, had settled in the highlands after the Anglo-Norman invasion and held the lordship of Uí Máil by the fourteenth century.

From the glens the O'Tooles and O'Byrnes raided the English Pale. In 1642 English forces took Carrickmines Castle and massacred more than three hundred Walshes, O'Byrnes and O'Tooles. The Wicklow clans' independence was broken during the Cromwellian conquest.