Michael "Galloping" Hogan was an Irish

rapparee Rapparees or raparees (from the Irish ''ropairí'', plural of ''ropaire'', whose primary meaning is "thruster, stabber," and by extension a wielder of the half-pike or pike), were Irish guerrilla fighters who operated on the Jacobite side du ...

or brigand following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. He was born in the parish of Doon, at the foot of the Slieve Phelim hills in East Limerick, and was possibly a relatively wealthy landowner before becoming a rapparee. Under his expert guidance in 1690,

Patrick Sarsfield Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, ga, Pádraig Sáirseál, circa 1655 to 21 August 1693, was an Irish soldier, and leading figure in the Jacobite army during the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland. Born into a wealthy Catholic famil ...

and 500 Jacobite troops blew up the Williamite siege train at

Ballyneety Ballyneety () is a village in County Limerick, Ireland, located approximately 10 km from Limerick city. The village has an 18-hole golf course, petrol station, multiple takeaway restaurants, a pub, a post office, a garden centre, a car de ...

, Co. Limerick. One eyewitness account says that Galloping Hogan was given the honour of lighting the fuse. The Williamite war continued until the

Treaty of Limerick }), signed on 3 October 1691, ended the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland, a conflict related to the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War. It consisted of two separate agreements, one with military terms of surrender, signed by commanders of a French ...

was signed in October 1691. But Galloping Hogan refused to accept the Treaty and carried on the struggle for a further six months before leaving Ireland from Cork in late Spring 1692 with the last contingent of '' Wild Geese''. He went to France, where he became a general. In 1706 he was forced to leave France because of killing a fellow officer in a duel in Flanders, and fled to Portugal, where he continued his military career. Years later he ended his career as a senior officer in the Portuguese army. In May 1712 he contributed to the victory of the Portuguese Army against the Spanish at the battle of Campo Maior, Portugal. He remained in Portugal until his death, and reared a distinguished family whose descendants still live in Portugal.

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