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1601. REDMOND O’GALLAGHER, BISHOP OF DERRY
(From Bruodifl’S propugnaculum, p. 467)
HE was a native of Ulster and Bishop of Connor.[1]
(This is a mistake. He was appointed Bishop of Killala in 1545 and transferred to Derry in 1569.)
He was attacked at night in his own house by some English soldiers of the garrison of Lough Foyle, and with three other priests cruelly put to death.
He was in his 9Oth year and in the 60th of his episcopate.
A State Paper, dated July 28th, 1592, says:
In Ulster is one Redmundus O’Gallagher, bishop of Derry, legate to the Pope and Custos Armaghnen, being one of the three Irish Bishops that were in the Council of Trent.[2]
(The three Bishops were Donald McCongail of Raphoe, Thomas O’Herlihy of Ross and Eugene O’Hart of Achonry.)
This Bishop used all manner of spiritual jurisdiction throughout all Ulster, consecrating churches, ordaining priests, confirming children, and giving all manner of dispensations riding with pomp and company from place to place, as it was accustomed in Queen Mary’s days.’[3]
(He received a faculty from the Pope to exercise a certain jurisdiction in Armagh during the Primate’s absence.)
The Annals of the Four Masters under the date 1601, says Redmund O’Gallagher, bishop of Derry, was killed in Oireacht Ui Chathain.’[4]
(O’Kane’s territory, which included the present baronies of Tirkeeran, Keenaght, and Dungiven, in Co. Derry)
He was put to death on March 15th.
The spot where he was slain is on the high road nearly midway between O’Kane’s Castle and Dungiven.
See also Sander, Rothe, Copinger, O’Sullivan, Ward, Porter, and De Burgo.
[1] This isa mistake. He was appointed Bishop of Killala in 1545 and transferred to Derry in 1569. See Brady’s Epis. Succ., li.173
[2] The three Bishops were Donald McCongail of Raphoe, Thomas O’Herlihy of Ross and Eugene O’Hart of Achonry.
[3] He received a faculty from the Pope to exercise a certain jurisdiction in Armagh during the Primate’s absence. Ibid.
[4] O’Kane’s territory, which included the present baronies of Tirkeeran, Keenaght, and Dungiven, in Co. Derry
Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!
May the martyrs of old inspire us all.
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By Manus Mac Meanmain(From Bruodifl’S propugnaculum, p. 467)
HE was a native of Ulster and Bishop of Connor.[1]
(This is a mistake. He was appointed Bishop of Killala in 1545 and transferred to Derry in 1569.)
He was attacked at night in his own house by some English soldiers of the garrison of Lough Foyle, and with three other priests cruelly put to death.
He was in his 9Oth year and in the 60th of his episcopate.
A State Paper, dated July 28th, 1592, says:
In Ulster is one Redmundus O’Gallagher, bishop of Derry, legate to the Pope and Custos Armaghnen, being one of the three Irish Bishops that were in the Council of Trent.[2]
(The three Bishops were Donald McCongail of Raphoe, Thomas O’Herlihy of Ross and Eugene O’Hart of Achonry.)
This Bishop used all manner of spiritual jurisdiction throughout all Ulster, consecrating churches, ordaining priests, confirming children, and giving all manner of dispensations riding with pomp and company from place to place, as it was accustomed in Queen Mary’s days.’[3]
(He received a faculty from the Pope to exercise a certain jurisdiction in Armagh during the Primate’s absence.)
The Annals of the Four Masters under the date 1601, says Redmund O’Gallagher, bishop of Derry, was killed in Oireacht Ui Chathain.’[4]
(O’Kane’s territory, which included the present baronies of Tirkeeran, Keenaght, and Dungiven, in Co. Derry)
He was put to death on March 15th.
The spot where he was slain is on the high road nearly midway between O’Kane’s Castle and Dungiven.
See also Sander, Rothe, Copinger, O’Sullivan, Ward, Porter, and De Burgo.
[1] This isa mistake. He was appointed Bishop of Killala in 1545 and transferred to Derry in 1569. See Brady’s Epis. Succ., li.173
[2] The three Bishops were Donald McCongail of Raphoe, Thomas O’Herlihy of Ross and Eugene O’Hart of Achonry.
[3] He received a faculty from the Pope to exercise a certain jurisdiction in Armagh during the Primate’s absence. Ibid.
[4] O’Kane’s territory, which included the present baronies of Tirkeeran, Keenaght, and Dungiven, in Co. Derry
Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!
May the martyrs of old inspire us all.