Donogh Dáll Ó Derrig

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Donogh Dáll Ó Derrig, also known as Blind Donogh O'Derrick, was an Irish robber active in County Kildare after the Irish Confederate Wars. He was executed in December 1656. A Kilkenny court-martial on 23 September 1653 found Murtagh Cullen and his wife guilty of sheltering Ó Derrig. They were to die, but Mrs. Cullen drew the death lot and the sentence was postponed because she was pregnant. In July 1654 Ó Derrig led his group and killed an Irishman who worked as a constable for the English in Timolin. In March 1655 he captured and hanged eight surveyors of Sir William Petty as accessories to a huge theft scheme. A price of £30 was set on his head and on his lieutenant Dermot Ryan. In autumn Ó Derrig’s wife was among 37 people taken from Wexford to Barbados, arriving in May 1656. By then Ó Derrig had been captured at a house in Timolin, quickly tried, and executed. Dermot Ryan escaped and lived for about two more years.