the dún at gallimhe was being held and defended by aedh ua flaithbertaig, who still held for aedh mac ruaidri (ua flaithbertaigh had been exiled into iar connacht by aedh mac cathal for his rebellion) . apparently de burgh was just reaching the dún (and a highly apprehensive ua flaithbertaigh) ""when aed mac ruaidri came to his help with the connachtmen, including the sons of muirchertach o conchobair." at some point in the fighting aedh seems to have lost, or ceded possession of, the dún, because the annals of connacht states that ""they were on the western bank of the galway river and the galls on the eastern."" however, this does not seem to have been a decisive factor for de burgh; as much as a week passed with ""much fighting ... between them every day, and in this condition the galls remained, obtaining neither pledge nor hostage nor submissions from the connachtmen."" dissatisfied with the inconclusiveness of the conflict, de burgh cut his losses and left in the direction of cong ""to pursue the cattle and folk which had fled into the mountains and recesses of the countryside and the sea-islands.""