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(Thus by deceit <em>and promises never intended to be honourably
 kept</em>, was the foundation of the present City of Derry laid
 in an expenditure of human sufferings and much bloodshed, every
 stick and stone of which was besmeared with falsehood and
 deceit, and a total disregard for the feelings and lives of the
 native Irish owners.)

(We believe it was after the battle of the Curlews, where
 O'Doherty was one of O'Donnell's chief leaders, and where he led
 the successful charge of foot against Sir Conyers Clifford.)

(But it was as easy to put one's head into a lion's den or one's
 hand in- to a griffin's nest, as it was to attack Seaan Oge, so
 long as favourable conditions were on his side or on the side of
 his earthly lord [O'Donnell].)

(O'Clery's record says "That the death of him who died then was
 sad and doleful, for there was hardly a chief of one cantred
 [district] in the island of Ercmon [all Ireland] in late times
 who was braver or more active in deeds of war and arms than
 he.")

(Lady Rosa O'Doherty is a matron of the most ancient nobility,
 singularly distinguished for her marriages with two renowned
 princes, and still more so by reason of the vicissitudes she has
 undergone for the Catholic faith.  Her mother was daughter of
 the great John O'Neill, Prince of Tyrone : and her father John
 O'Doherty, the illustrious chieftain of Inis-Owen, who after
 signal services during the war waged for the Catholic faith to
 be related hereafter succumbed to hardships.  The first husband
 of this lady was Cathbar, son of the most excellent Hugh
 O'Donnell, Prince of Tirconnell, a man renowned for many
 victories over the enemies of the faith. He and his two
 brothers, Hugh Eufus O'Donnell and Rory O'Donnell, Princes of
 Tirconnell, and that most invincible Hugh, the great O'Neill,
 Prince of Tirone, together with the Catholic nobility, carried
 on the fifteen years' war against Elizabeth of England
 victoriously and unflinchingly for the sake of the Catholic
 religion. Towards the close of that war, when the Irish
 encountered some reverses, the foresaid Hugh O'Donnell sailed to
 Spain with a hope of getting reinforcements from the Catholic
 King, and there died.)

(But to the last almost alone he preserved his arms and upheld
 his sword unscathed, protecting and defending his native land,
 and in the guardianship of the territory of Inis-Owen and
 Tirconnell, which duty had been entrusted to his keeping by his
 earthly lord, Hugh Roe O'Donnell.  In the exercise of this duty
 as became the representative of a long line of ancestors, he
 valiantly fought, till borne down by sheer physical debility,
 which was the effect of many a hard fought conflict and two
 years of miserable torture as a prisoner in the fetid cells of
 Dublin Castle, under the venal Lord Deputy, FitzWilliam, who had
 to be bribed to suffer Seaan to escape.

 Peregrine (or Cuchogry) O'Clery in Ms. in the "Life of Hugh Roe
 O'Donnell" in Irish, summarizes the battle Cruachaneun, in
 language that may be translated thus :- "The poor unfortunate
 corpulent English when they came face to face with O'Doherty,
 they attacked each other restless with hatred.  The English were
 defeated by O'Doherty, who gained over them a complete victory.
 Their colonel and leader, with many of the army were slain.  He
 was a famous knight, named Sir John Chamberlain."

 "Alas ! This was the last victory Seaan Og gained over the
 English while defending from them his patrimony and the
 territorial possessions of his fathers, his lordship [of
 Inis-Owen]. In a comparatively short time afterwards, he was
 seized with an excessive disease and sickness, which he bore
 patiently till his spirit passed away, on the 27th January,
 1601". O'Clery bestows on Seaan Og a tribute of praise, as one
 specially brave and renowned in "deeds of war and arms, in
 hospitality and fame. He was as a girdle of steel in unbending,
 energetic, undaunted and vigorous in attack. Hugh Roe O'Donnell
 received the news of Seaan Oge's death with much grief and great
 sorrow."

 Seaan Og Ua Docartaig

 We have seen that the death of Seaan Oge O'Doherty took place in
 Tirconnell.  We have not been able to ascertain with sufficient
 accuracy in what place the last independent chieftain of
 Inis-Owen died.  Peregrine O'Clery's record says :- "That the
 death of him who died then was sad and doleful, for there was
 hardly a chief of one cantred [district] in the island of Eremon
 [all Ireland] in late times who was braver or more active in
 deeds of war and arms than he.  As soon as the sid tidings of
 his death were conveyed to Hugh Roe O'Donnell [who was at the
 time in his camp on the West bank of the Finn, and on the East
 side of Bearnus], his sorrow was so great that he rested not,
 but left his camp, and taking but few with him, he collected all
 the vigilant nobility of the Clan Fiaman, [i.e. he collected all
 the chief leaders of the race of Fiaman, the clan name of the
 O'Doherty's] at the place of honour and counsel, at
 Baile-Aighidh-Chaoin", now Balleeghan.  Its Irish name would be
 pronounced Bal-eye-keen (eye in Irish is face or surface, and
 keen, pleasant or delightful).

 The place of meeting "of counsel and honour" is
 called "Ard-na-taoisigh, i.e. \"the hill or height of the
 chief\"."  Balleeghan stands about 164 feet above the level of
 the Swilly that washes its western boundary, and on the bank of
 which there are the ruins of an abbey, and a burial ground.  The
 only name now existing that might preserve a similarity
 to "Ard-na-taoisigh" is the place known on the Ordnance Survey
 as Ard-na-itian, Ard, the hill, na, of the, id, ring, collar, or
 chain, and ion, a circle.  Thus we have the height or hill of
 the circle or ring, i.e. "jurisdiction".
 
 )

(the three powers of old Ulster, the O'Neills, the O'Dohertys and
 the O'Donnells)