one incident during the war had given aedh cause for concern: his erstwhile allies, the normans of leinster and munster, had invaded south connacht ""and slew all the people that they caught, and burned their dwellings and villages."" aedh was furious at this because it was not by his command, and because the normans ""were themselves excited by envy and rapacity, as soon as they had heard what good things the lord justice and his english followers had obtained in connacht at that time."" it was a sign of things to come.