198 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
In an account of the British Islands, published at 
Nuremberg in 1690, the wilds of Kerry are referred 
to as harbouring Wolves and foxes;* and in the 
reign of William and Mary, Ireland was sometimes 
called by the nickname of “ Wolf-land.” Thus in 
a poem on the Battle of La Hogue, 1692, called 
‘* Advice to a Painter,” the terror of the Irish army 
is described :— 
A chilling damp, 
And Wolf-land howl runs through the rising camp. 
“Three places in Ireland are commemorated, each as 
having had the last Irish wolf killed there—namely, 
one inthe south, another near Glenarm, and the 
third, Wolf-hill, three miles from Belfast.”t The 
one in the south is probably that referred to in 
Edwards’s “Cork Remembrancer” (p. 131), wherein 
the following entry occurs: ‘“‘This year (1710) the 
last presentment [to the Grand Jury] for killing 
wolves was made in the county of Cork.”{ In the 
old ‘Statistical Account of Scotland,” however, 
edited by Sir John Sinclair, it is stated (vol. xii. 
p- 447) that the last was killed in Ireland in 1709. 
The great woods of Shillela, on the confines ot 
Carlow and Wicklow, now the property of Earl 
Fitzwilliam, are said to have held Wolves until 
about the year 1700, when the last of them was 
destroyed in the neighbourhood of Glendaloch.§ 
* This work we have not seen. It is quoted by Macaulay, in his 
“ History of England,” vol. iii. p. 136. 
+ Thompson, “ Nat. Hist., Ireland,” vol. iv. p. 34. 
£ See also Scouler, “‘ Journ. Geol. Soc.,”’ Dublin, vol. i. p. 226. 
§ Mackenzie’s “Natural History,” p,20. This volume, published in 
_London in modern times, is undated, 
