Michael "Galloping" Hogan was an Irish rapparee or brigand following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
[1] He was born in the parish of Doon, at the foot of the Slieve Phelim hills in East Limerick, and was possibly a relatively wealthy landowner before becoming a rapparee.
Under his guidance in 1690, Patrick Sarsfield and 500 Jacobite troops blew up the Williamite siege train at Ballyneety, County Limerick.
But Galloping Hogan refused to accept the treaty and carried on the struggle for a further six months before leaving Ireland from Cork in late Spring of 1692 with the last contingent of Wild Geese.
In 1706 he was forced to leave France as he reputedly killed a fellow officer in a duel in Flanders.