1641 Depositions - Trinity College Dublin

The deposition of William Sterlin, of Ballymoney, saith “That about the fifthe of January, 1641, one John Hunter escaped from Carnkerin, in Derrykeighan parish, stript naked and grievously wounded. That for cure of his wounds, he came into this examinate, who professes Chirurgery. And this examinate saith that the said John Hunter had receaved fifteene or sixteene stabs with a pike in his back, and being asked where he receaved these wounds he told this examinate that he and his father and many more after the murder at Portrid were flyinge unto Ballentoy, and that at Carnkerin aforesaid his father, John Hunter, was murdered before his eyes by Toole McAllister, Coll McAllister, and Donell O’Cahan, and theyr associates and followers, and that himself was also stript and wounded by them, and left for dead ; and, further, this examinate saith there was about the same time above one hundred Brittish of men, women, and children murdered at Carkerin and Ballylusk by the said Toole McAllister, Coll M’Allister, and Donell M’Cahon, and theyr followers, as aforesaid, as the said John Hunter, who escaped wounded, as aforesaid, told him.” “Robert Fathy, of Ballymoney parish, said he was a Lieutenant in Capt. Robert Stewart’s Regiment, and that Patrick Collier and his wife and about forty persons more went to Toole M’Allister’s house at Carntrim (Carnkerin) in Derrykeighan parish next day after the murder at Portna, and also he heard that Patrick Collier’s wife ran into Toole M’Allister’s house in Carntrim and gave him six pounds and a bottle of aqua vitae to save her and her companions’ lives. After that Collier and his wife with about forty more of the British were close by the said house murdered by Toole M’Allister, Coll M’Allister, and his son, Donnell O’Cahan, his son-in-law. “The deposition of Janet Neaven, parish of Billy, “That the Irish rebels marched through the parish of Billy towards Ballentoy. She lay on the moors with her child twae days and twae nights, and that one M’Neill since dead saved her life, and that the third day after her father, mother and many more British were murdered. She came into Mounister in Derrykeighan parish, where she heard from the Irish and Highlanders there that her brother, John Neaven, was murdered the night before by Anthony Logan, who took him out of Terlough MacRichard O’Cahan'’ house, where Anthony is still living in Derrykeighan parish.”