Eleven years earlier, in 1259, Áed O'Connor married a daughter of Dugald MacSorley in Derry, returning to Connacht with a war band of eight score soldiers under the command of Alan mac Ruadhrí mhic Raghnall. These, the first of the galloglasses, were therefore in Connacht before the battle of Athankip. See Gerard Hayes-McCoy, Scots mercenary forces in Ireland (1565–1603), (London 1937; repr. Dublin 1996), 21.