Philip de Braose had helped Cogan and Fitz-Stephen to effect their settlement in Desmond; they now went to help him to gain possession of Limerick. As the three adventurers and their little band of Welsh followers reached the bank of the Shannon, the citizens noticed their approach and fired the town before their eyes. De Braose lost heart, and “chose rather to return safe to his home than to try the risks of fortune in a land so hostile and so remote”;[67] and it does not appear that he ever obtained any footing in the country. Cogan and Fitz-Stephen held their seven cantreds in Desmond and the city of Cork for five years; then, in 1182, Cogan was slain by an Irish chieftain,[68] and the natives rose at once throughout the district. They besieged Fitz-Stephen in Cork; his nephew, Raymond the Fat, went to his rescue by sea, and managed to throw himself and some troops into the city; while King Henry, as soon as the news reached him, despatched Miles Cogan’s brother Richard, with some soldiers, from England to take Miles’s place.[69] In 1183, or very soon after, Fitz-Stephen died;[70] Henry then appointed Raymond sole constable of Cork, and Raymond contrived to restore at least some degree of “English”--more properly to be called Norman-Welsh--ascendency throughout the cantreds occupied in 1177, of which the western ones were apparently now held by Richard de Cogan as heir to Miles, while Raymond was recognized by Henry as tenant-in-chief of the eastern ones in succession to Fitz-Stephen, who had no heirs.[71] The temporary loss of ground in the south in 1182 was more than counterbalanced by the successes of John de Courcy in the same year at the opposite extremity of the island, where he seems to have effected a permanent settlement in Dalriada, though probably only along the coast.[72] [Illustration: III. IRELAND _A.D. 1185_. {CONNAUGHT is outside the area marked as being claimed or held by the English Crown. As is ULSTER, except for the East coast (_John de Courcy_) and MUNSTER, except for the South coast (_Raymond the Fat?_) and (_Richard de Cogan_) WATERFORD, and the areas around Dublin and Wexford are marked as the Domain of the English Crown. MEATH (_Hugh de Lacy_), and LEINCESTER (_Isabel de Clare, Ward of the King_) are both marked as held by the English Crown.} _Stanford’s Geogˡ. Estabᵗ. London._ London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.] [Sidenote: 1181–1185]