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castle, which was occupied by
Confederation forces, and told to call on them to surrender. He chose instead to exhort them to hold on and as a result was hanged from a nearby tree. The garrison surrendered shortly afterwards. MacEgan's body was later buried in the local churchyard at Aghinagh.
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Cromwell's landing in 1649, MacEgan became very active in rallying the Confederation forces and organising defensive measures. He then joined David Roche's force of untrained men who were intending to relieve the siege of Clonmel. They were however intercepted near
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in north-west County Cork and educated in France and Spain. He returned to his native
Munster as a Franciscan friar in the 1630s and was promoted to several positions of importance in the Franciscan order.
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by the nuncio himself and consecrated at
Waterford in 1648, but probably never gained access to his see, which remained under Protestant control.
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and put to flight. MacEgan himself was captured and taken the following day to the walls of
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Boetius MacEgan, Bishop of Ross By Father CANICE MOONEY, O.F.M
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