 In that same year Phelim O'Neill burned Strabane Castle and sent him Jean Gordon, his brother Claude's widow and her children who had been living in Strabane Castle.On 2 February 1642 the Knockaunderrig Silver Mine, which Sir George operated together with Sir Basil Brooks and Sir William Russell, was attacked by local rebels under the leadership of Hugh O'Kennedy and 32 Protestant English miners seem to have been killed.In September 1646, during the Irish Confederate Wars while he was elsewhere, Owen Roe O'Neil, a Confederate leader, attacked and captured Roscrea Castle where his wife and children lived.