1 98 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



In an account of the British Islands, published at 

 Nuremberg in 1 690, the Avilds 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 in the 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."J 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 1 709. 



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. 



f Thompson, " Nat. Hist., Ireland," vol. iv. p. 34. 



J 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, 



