HISTORY. 
John De Courcy was thus engaged Hugh Boy O’Neill sailed with five ships to Kill-Latharna, 
[Lame], burned a part of the town, and killed eighteen of the English. The English of 
Moylinny and Dalaradia mustered three hundred men who marched against Hugh. Hugh had 
no intimation of their approach, until they surrounded him, while in the act of burning the 
town [Larne,] and a battle ensued in which the English were defeated. The English were 
routed five times before they took to their ships. Hugh lost only five of his people. As soon as 
John De Courcy had received intelligence of this, he left Derry.” 
1203. “ Derry was burned from the burial ground of Saint Martin to the well of Saint 
Adamnan.” 
1211. “ Thomas Mac Uchtry, [now Oughterson,] with the sons of Randal, who was son of 
Samhairle [Mac Donnell,] came to Derry with a fleet of seventy-six ships; and, after having plun¬ 
dered and destroyed the town, passed thence into Inishowen, and destroyed the whole peninsula.” 
1212 . “ Donnell O’Davine [now Devine], was slain by the sons of Mac Loughlin, in the porch 
of the church of Derry.” 
1213. “ Thomas Mac Uchtry, and Rory Mac Ranal, plundered Derry, and from the middle 
of the church of Derry carried off with them to Cuil-raithen [Coleraine] all the jewellery of the 
people of Derry, and of the north of Ireland.” 
This Thomas [Mac Uchtry, Mac Uchtred, or Gothred,] who was the brother of Allan de Gallo- 
way, got a grant from king John in the following year of O’Neill’s country of Tirone [which then 
included Derry], excepting the cantred of Tullaghog, retained by the king. In the charter he is 
styled Thomas de Galloway, earl of Athol.— Roll. ex. John xv. 1214; see County History. 
“ O’Kane, and pip na Cpaoibe [men of the Creeve~\ , came to Derry to storm the house 
of the sons of Mac Loughlin. The vicar of the church of Derry, who interposed to make peace 
between them, was killed. God and Saint Columbkille wrought a miracle upon this occa¬ 
sion, for Mahon Magaithne, the person who collected the army, was killed in the porch of the 
church, called Duv-llegles, in defence of Columbkille.” 
“ 1215. Donogh O’Duibhdhiorma, chief of Breadach, died at Derry, in the church called 
Duv-Regles.” 
1222. “ Niall O’Neill plundered Derry, and the daughter of O’Kane ; God and Saint Co¬ 
lumbkille took revenge for this crime, for O’Neill did not live long after the perpetration of it.” 
1250. “ The upper end of the great church fell to the ground on the 8 th of February.” 
1259, “ Hugh O’Conor went to Derry to espouse the daughter of Dubhgall [Dugald], the son 
of Somhairle [Mac Donnell].” 
1261. “ Sixteen of the most distinguished of the clergy of Tirone were slain at Derry by 
Conor O’Neill and the Kinel Owen, together with Conor O’Firgil. Conor O’Neill was slain 
soon afterwards by Donn O’Breslen, chief of Fanad [Fannet,] through the miracles of God 
and Saint Columbkille.” 
1281. “ Donnell Oge O’Donnell, lord of Tirconnell, Fermanagh, Oriel, and the greater part 
of the Irish of all Ulster, and nearly all Connaught, and the entire of Breifny—the most illus¬ 
trious man of the Irish for hospitality, feats of arms, pre-eminence, and nobility in his time, and 
the most distinguished warrior of western Europe, was slain in the battle of Oipeapc oa cploc 
[Desertcreat, in Tyrone,] in the 41st year of his age, and interred in the monastery of Derry, after 
gaining victory in goodness until that time.” 
1310-11. The king [Edw. II.] appoints the bishop of Connor to inquire on the oaths of 
proper men of the vicinage of Derry, Bothmen, Moybyle [Moville], and Fathun-murra [Fahan], and 
the crosses of Ulster, whether or not the king or any other person would be prejudiced if he should 
grant to Richard de Burgo, Earl of Ulster, that he might retain to himself and his heirs for ever 
the city of Derry, 2 townlands in Bothmean in Inclietum [Inch Island], 2 messuages, and 8 caru- 
cats of land in Moybyle and Fathun-murra, and the advowson of the moiety of the church of 
Inchetum [Inch], which are held of the King, in capite, as aforesaid, and which the said earl has 
obtained in fee from Gofridus [Mac Loughlin], bishop of Derry, with the consent of his chapter, 
but without the license of Edw. I. 8 th Feb.”— Rot. Rat. de anno 3 et 4 Edw. II. 
1311. The king grants the towns of Derrecolumkille and Loughlappan [in Inishowen,] to 
Richard de Burgo, Earl of Ulster.— R. Pat. 4- Edw. II. 
These two last notices indicate that, previously to the revolt of O’Neill, in 1333, Derry, as 
well as Antrim, was under tolerable government. (See County History). 
1318. “ John, the son of Donnell O’Neill, was slain by O’Donnell, [Hugh, the son of Donnell 
Oge,] at Derry; and Mac Donnell, and many others, were slain and drowned.” 
1537. “ The son of O’Dogherty, [Niall Caoch, the son of Gerald, who was son of Donnell, who 
was son of Felim,] was slain in a nocturnal aggression, by Rory, the son of Felim O’Dogherty, at 
6 aile na 5 -cananac [the town of the canons], in the termon of Derry.” 
Churches, fyc —The Irish annals of Derry, preceding its occupation by the English, terminate 
here. Meagre, as already acknowledged, these notices are, but they afford striking evidences of the 
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