94 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
to be plentiful in Ireland down to the seventeenth 
century, but the exact date of their extinction he 
was unable to ascertain.” 
Many places in Ireland are called after the Wild 
Boar, as Sliabh-na-muice in Tipperary ; Gleann-na- 
muice-duibhe near Newry ; Ceann-tuirc in the Co. 
Cork. Muckross and Tore, also, at Killarney, are de- 
rived from the same root. The word Muckalagh 
enters largely into Irish topographical names, and 
signifies a place where pigs feed—probably on acorns. 
(Wilde, /.c.) 
Tusks of Wild Boars, dug up in Ireland, according 
to Thompson, are often of goodly dimensions.t 
Several attempts have been made to reintroduce 
these animals for the purpose of hunting, but, from 
various causes, none of the experiments proved very 
successful. In some instances they throve weil and 
increased, but the opposition of those whose crops 
they damaged was fatal to their existence for any 
leneth of time. Charles I. imported some from 
France,{ and turned them out in the New Forest, 
where, according to Aubrey, ‘‘ they much encreased, 
and became terrible to the travellers.” However, 
‘‘in the civill warres,” he says, ‘“‘ they were destroyed, 
* “ Journ. Geol. Soc. Dublin,” vol. i. p. 226. See also Wilde, 
** Proc. Roy. Irish Acad.,” vol. vii. p. 208. 
+ “ Nat. Hist. Ireland,” vol. iv. p. 36. 
¢ Gilpin says “from Germany.” He confirms Aubrey’s statement 
as to their increase in the New Forest, and adds that “there is found 
there at this day (1791) a breed of hogs, commonly called forest pigs, 
which are very different from the usual Hampshire breed. and have 
about them several of the characteristic marks of the Wild Boar.”— 
Forest Scenery, vol. i. pp. 168-169 (ed. Lauder). 
