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The Side Chapel was a gift in memory of the lrvine family and services are held daily here. The old side table beside the altar is made of wood from the original gates of the City finished in 1618. The carved oak screen between the chapel and the chancel-was the gift of the Michaels Memorial Fund and the then Dean and Chapter of 1953. Beyond the Side Chapel can be seen the memorial window to the Bishop Alexander, later Archbishop of Armagh, who died in 1911.
Inscription on the Tablet on sill of S.E. Window in Side Chapel
'This City was besieged by the Irish army the 18 of April, 1689, and continued so till the first of August following, being then relieved with Provisions by Major General Kirk. On the 7th of May, about one in the morning, the besiegers forced ye out gards of ye Garrison, & Intrenched themselves on the Windmill hill, commanded by Brigadier Generall Ramsey. At four the same morning ye Besieged attacked ye Irish in their trenches, and after a sharp Engagement ye Enemy gave ground & fled. Ramsey, their Generall, was Killed with others of note, the Lord Netterville, Sr Garret Aylmer, Lieut. Collonl. Talbot, Major Butler, Son (of) ye Lord Montgarrett & several others taken prisoners with five colours, two of which fell into ye hands of Collonl. John Michelburne, who placed them as they now stand, with the consent and approbation of his Lordship Willam King, then Lord Bishop of this City, now his grace Lord Archbishop of Dublin,. ye said Collonl. Michelburne, being at that time Governr, to perpetuate ye memory of which Siege, when ye colours shall faile, his Lordship John Hartstong, now Ld. Bishop of Derry, at ye request of ye said Collonl. Michelburne, is pleased to give leave that this inscription be placed under the said colours in remembrance of the eminent and extraordinary service then performed.
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