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may help to throw some light upon the date of the period
at which the Bally-castle collieries were originally worked,
as has been mentioned before, from the lime used in the
castle walls having been burned with sea-coal,”‘ some of
the cinders of which are discoverable in the mortar.
In the beginning of the fifth century, “ Saint Comgall
“landed on this island, with an intent to erect a cell ; s but
“he was instantly seized by a band of thirty military
“ men, who, holding his hands, drove him out of the
“ Island.” VVe are notinformed by whose orders this holy
man was so inhospitably received and so rudely treated;
but St. Columba, the founder of the Abbey of Derry,
A. D. 546, succeeded: he founded up church here, and
placed over it Colman, the deacon, the son of 1101- Dr.
Lannigan attributes the foundation of this chapel to Sc-
genius, Abbot of Hy, in the year 653. In the year 795,
this island was invaded or infested by the Scandinavian
free-booters, vulgarly called Danes, who pillaged the
church, and burned and destroyed what they could not re-
move ; and in 973, these ruthless despoilers crowned with
martyrdom St. Feradach, the holy abbot of this church.
In 1551, it was invaded by the English, who were re-
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:g. ‘ , J pulsed with the loss of one vessel ;1‘ and in 1558, the Scots
‘Z’ i Z J. took possession of Baghery, but were soon after expelled,
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:71 f with dreadful slaughter, by the Lord Deputy, Sussex, who
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4 perpetrated here some years back by the Highland clan of
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1 Amongst the English captives was found Captain Bagnal, a person
of some rank,’ who was afterwards exchanged for:Sor]ey.boy, then a
-3:3 prisoner in the Castle of Dubliurt s .
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