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Dromore Parish Located in the Southwest of Tyrone County, Ulster
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Dromore Parish Located in the Southwest of Tyrone County, Ulster
Dromore Parish Located in the Southwest of Tyrone County, Ulster
Cornamucklagh Phelemy m’Kevir, Torlogh o’Mughan
Tattycor Edmund o’Gorman, Daniel o’Dolan
Cranny & Kieldrum Edmund m’Ardell, Cormick m’Sorley
Tummery Edmund o’Kelly, Patrick m’Kilreavy, Connor m’Canny
Dergany Art o’Dally, Brian o’Cassedy, Terlagh m’Gilterny
Drumskinny James Stewart
Mullaghnagoagh
&
Magheragart James Stewart, Andrew Steel, Mathew Fleming
Aghlisk & Drumconnis Quen Magrah, Patrick Magrah
Gardrum Shan m’Guigan, Donachy m’Caverra
Mullanboy Phelemy o’Neill, William Woods
Oughterard James m’Quead, Neal m’Glaghlin
Aghadarra Art o’Conally, Phelemy m’Glaghlin
Drumderg & Coyagh Rory o’Dorygan, William o’Dorygan, Quen o’Soraghan
Shaneragh Fereagh Macosker, Neill o’Mulavell, Cormick o’Connellan
Aghadulla Conn o’Neill
Mullaghban & Goland Adam m’Quad, Torlogh m’Quad
Drumlish Patrick Clarke, Henry m’Quade, Brian o’Barron
Grennan & Dressogue John Anthony, Shan O’Neill, Hugh m’Kilmay
Dullaghan & Letteree Rory o’Neill, Torlogh O’Donally
Corbally Phelemy o’Quine, Morish m’Canny
Lettergesh Robert Woods, Francis Clarke
Corladergan Edwards Woods, Hugh o’Boylan
Apart from the alleged burning of the old parish church on Dromore Brae (then used for Protestant worship by the colonists) and the alleged killing of some English here by the natives, there is no evidence of any action here during the war of 1641, when most of the old Irish of Tyrone followed the flag of Owen-Roe O’Neill.97 The native Irish were defeated and suffered under Cromwell in the 1650s. Many Irish landowning gentry lost their lands then, some fleeing abroad, others taking to the hills to join the bands of outlaws who continued to raid the homes of the Planters.98 This Irish outlaw was known as a tory
(a hunted person) or a rapparee (a robber). After Cromwell came the restoration of King Charles II in 1660. During his reign tories were a real threat, especially here in Tyrone, where at the “Assizes in Dungannon, at one time no fewer than a hundred of these outlaws were placed in the dock”.99 Monsignor Tomas O Fiaich tells us that they were mostly members of the old Irish landed families, evicted from their homes and, in the 1660s,
they were strong enough to carry on a guerilla war over a large part of Ulster and
Connacht. Some of them, like the redoubtable Redmond O’Hanlon and Patrick
Fleming, succeeded in maintaining a code of honour and a patriotic purpose amid
their violent activities, but others degenerated into common highwaymen and
97 S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London 1837), I, 508. Not the most reliable of works, it is followed in this reference by W. C. Trimble, The History of Enniskillen (Enniskillen 1919), I, 116.
98 T. O’Hanlon, The Highwayman in Irish History (Dublin 1932), 3.
99 Ibid., 27