CITY OF LONDONDERRY. 
William Hogeson, bachelor of divinity and a Dominican friar, was advanced to this see by the 
bull of pope Leo the 10 th, dated the 8th of August, 1520. Of this bishop, who has been omitted 
by Ware and Harris, nothing more has been preserved : he held the bishopric but a few years, as 
xve find another in his place in 1529.—(See Be Burgo ; page 484). , 
Rory O’Donnell succeeded 1529, died 1551. But little is known of this prelate more than 
that he was sometime dean of Raphoe, and that he filled this see in September, 1529, as appears 
from the registry of George Cromer, archbishop of Armagh. According to Ware he died on the 
8 th of October, 1551, but the Annals of the Four Masters place his death in 1550, adding, that 
he took on him the habit of a friar, and was interred in the Franciscan monastery of Donegal. 
He was the son of Donogh, the son of Hugh Roe O’Donnell, prince of Tirconnell. 
Eugene Mac Genis, is placed next in succession by Ware, but without quoting his authority, 
and he adds, that he was not able to discover either when he was consecrated, or when he died. 
If appointed to the bishopric, it is probable, that he was never restored to the temporalities, or 
there would scarcely be wanting further notice of him in connexion with Derry. There can be little, 
if any, doubt that he was the same person who was appointed to the see of Down and Connor by 
provision from pope Paul the 3rd, in 1641, and who continued in possession of those sees in 1559. 
The year of his death is not known. 
Redmond O’Galchor, or Gallachar, died 1601. Of this bishop, who appears to have been the 
last Roman Catholic prelate in possession of the see, but little is known, except the unhappy cir¬ 
cumstances relating to his death. De Burgo states that after the death of Elizabeth, O’Galchor 
at about the age of seventy (or according to some accounts eighty), being taken by a heretic band 
of the o-overnor’s soldiers (Prcesidariis Excursoribus heereticis), he received from them many 
mortal wounds, of which he died in the year 1604. But this account appears to be erroneous 
in two important circumstances, which for the sake of humanity should not be left uncorrected ; 
namely the reign of the monarch, and the year in which the unhappy event occurrea—circum¬ 
stances which, if true, would give a much higher colour to the transaction than it deserves, as the 
period thus assigned to it was one of peace and law in the country, and which could otter no 
palliation for an act of this nature. The fact, however, seems to be that this unfortunate man met 
his end three years earlier, during the period of the Tyrone rebellion at the close of the reign o. 
Elizabeth, and that his death was one of those unhappy occurrences so characteristic of the 
horrors of a desolating civil war. In the accurate annals of the Four Masters, compiled m the 
adjacent county of Donegal but a few years after the event, his death is recorded as follows at 
