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Tudor

Docwra and Niall Garbh: Raids through Londonderry and Tyrone

1602
Londonderry, northern_ireland
Era
Tudor
Battle Type
Raid
Location
Londonderry, northern_ireland
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
Irish (O'Neill / O'Donnell)
VS
Victor
English Crown
Outcome
During the winter campaigns of 1601-1602, with Hugh Roe O'Donnell absent in Spain (where he died), Docwra and Niall Garbh O'Donnell raided across Londonderry, the Foyle valley and into Tyrone as part of the wider English scorched-earth strategy under Mountjoy, Docwra and Chichester, which 'systematically cut down standing corn, seized or burnt harvested crops and butchered or carried off livestock'. The resulting Ulster famine of 1602-03 is estimated by Irish sources to have killed as many as 60,000 people.
The Battle

History & Significance

Docwra and Niall Garbh: Raids through Londonderry and Tyrone was a Tudor raid, fought in the area of Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 1602. English Crown prevailed over Irish (O'Neill / O'Donnell). During the winter campaigns of 1601-1602, with Hugh Roe O'Donnell absent in Spain (where he died), Docwra and Niall Garbh O'Donnell raided across Londonderry, the Foyle valley and into Tyrone as part of the wider English scorched-earth strategy under Mountjoy, Docwra and Chichester, which 'systematically cut down standing corn, seized or burnt harvested crops and butchered or carried off livestock'. The resulting Ulster famine of 1602-03 is estimated by Irish sources to have killed as many as 60,000 people.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Docwra and Niall Garbh: Raids through Londonderry and Tyrone lies on Southern Highland Group, bedrock that formed in the Middle Cambrian. The rock here is psammite and pelite.

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Scheduled Monuments near Docwra and Niall Garbh: Raids through Londonderry and Tyrone

Eglinton, grocers' buildings. plantation village site
Eglinton, grocers' buildings. plantation village site
Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~3.5 mi

Eglinton grocers' buildings plantation village site is a post-medieval settlement located in Derry, Northern Ireland. The site preserves evidence of the grocery trade buildings that formed part of the planned village settlement established during the plantation period in Ulster. Archaeological in…

Church gable
Church gable
Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~3.5 mi

Church gable is a post-medieval ecclesiastical site located in Derry, Northern Ireland, protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference HB26:011925. The monument lies upon bedrock of the Roe Valley Group, a geological formation dating to the Tournaisian period, composed of sandston…

Standing stone
Standing stone
Scheduled monument · PREHISTORIC · ~5.7 mi

Standing Stone, Derry is a prehistoric standing stone located in County Derry, Northern Ireland. The monument is recorded by the Historic Environment Division under reference 11848. Standing stones of this type are typically monolithic pillars of stone raised upright in the landscape, belonging t…

Rough fort. counterscarp rath
Rough fort. counterscarp rath
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~6.2 mi

Rough Fort is a counterscarp rath located near Limavady in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. This early Christian earthwork comprises a roughly circular enclosure defined by an outer bank and ditch arrangement characteristic of the rath form. The monument sits upon bedrock of the Roe Valley G…

Domnach dola. church & graveyard
Domnach dola. church & graveyard
Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~6.8 mi

Domnach dola is a post-medieval ecclesiastical site consisting of a church and graveyard located in County Derry, Northern Ireland. The monument sits upon bedrock of the Southern Highland Group, a sequence of psammite and pelite formed during the Middle Cambrian period, which gives the underlying…

Dungiven castle. dungiven castle (part of walls)
Dungiven castle. dungiven castle (part of walls)
Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~8.8 mi

Dungiven Castle is a post-medieval fortification situated in Limavady, Northern Ireland, occupying bedrock of the Roe Valley Group formed during the Tournaisian period. The underlying geology comprises sandstone, conglomerate and subordinate argillaceous rocks, which would have provided locally a…

Giant's grave. wedge tomb
Scheduled monument · NEO/B.A. · ~1.4 miles
Barrow
Scheduled monument · BRONZE AGE · ~1.6 miles
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