Donogh Dáll Ó Derrig, aka Blind Donogh O'Derrick, was an Irish rapparee, executed December 1656. Ó Derrig was a rapparee active in

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in the early 1650s in the aftermath of the

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held at

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on 23 September 1653 found Murtagh Cullen and his wife guilty of sheltering Ó Derrig. Sentenced to death, they were allowed to draw lots to decide which of them would die. Upon Mrs. Cullen drawing the lot of death, the sentence was deferred on account of her

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. In July 1654 he led his band of outlaws and killed an Irishman working as a

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. In March 1655 he captured and afterwards hung eight

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s of Sir William Petty ''as accessories to a gigantic scheme of ruthless robbery.'' A price of £30 was put on his head and that of his

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, Dermot Ryan. In the autumn, Ó Derrig's wife was one of thirty-seven people rounded up and

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. They arrived there in May 1656. By then, Ó Derrig had been captured at a house in

, summarily tried and executed. Dermot Ryan escaped and survived for another two years.

References

* ''Hell or Connaught! The Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1652-1660'', Peter Berresford Ellis, pp. 52–53, 112, 156, 161.

External links

* http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/SirWilliamPetty.php * http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID= {{DEFAULTSORT:O Derrig, Donogh Dall People from County Kildare Irish highwaymen 17th-century Irish people People of the Irish Confederate Wars