 Colonel Oliver Stephenson and part of the old Confederate army, mostly from County Clare, took up quarters.However these southern Confederates were not fully trusted by the townspeople, particularly after the fall of Carrick on Suir due to treachery.Ormond arrived in person at the end of the month and the Clare men were replaced by experienced soldiers from Ulster under Hugh Dubh O'Neill, a veteran of siege warfare in the Thirty Years' War.