200 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
cattle and sheep were driven for protection from 
Wolves, are still to be seen in many parts of Ireland, 
especially in the south. One of these, in the county 
Tyrone, will be noticed presently. 
In Harris’s edition of Sir James Ware’s ‘‘ Works” 
(Dublin, 1764), the editor, commenting upon the 
passage, “I shall but just hint at the eagerness of 
the Irish in the chase, as in hunting Wolves and 
stags,” remarks in a footnote (p. 165), ““So said in 
the year 1658. But there are no Wolves in Ireland 
now.” This statement in turn may be controverted 
upon very respectable authority, but the conflict of 
evidence renders it very difficult to fix with certainty 
the precise date at which the animal became extinct. 
The following account is given of the destruction, 
by a noted Wolf-hunter, of the last Wolves in the 
county Tyrone :— 
“Tn the mountainous parts of the county Tyrone, 
the inhabitants suffered much from Wolves, and gave 
as much for the head of one of these animals as they 
would now give (1829) for the capture of a notorious 
robber on the highway. ‘There lived in those days 
an adventurer who, alone and unassisted, made it 
his occupation to destroy those ravagers. The time 
for attacking them was at night. There was a 
species of dog kept for the purpose of hunting 
them, resembling a rough, stout, half-bred grey- 
hound, but much stronger. 
“In the county Tyrone there was then a large 
space of ground enclosed by a high stone wall, having 
a gap at the two opposite extremities, and in this. 
