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<lied at a very advanced age in 1793. Ho was suc- 

 ceeded by his nephew, the Very Reverend Holt 

 Waring, Dean of Dromore, who was born in 1766, 

 and whom I had the honour to know. With him I 

 happened to be travelling through the Mourne moun- 

 tains, in the county of Down, on our way to the Earl 

 of Roden's, about the year 1 834 or 1 83 5, when the con- 

 versation turning upon the social condition of Ireland 

 in the previous century, he told me that a foal belonging 

 to his uncle had been killed by a Wolf in the stable 

 at Waringstown, and that he, when a boy, had heard 

 the occurrence repeatedly adverted to in the family 

 circle. The dean was a man of singularly acute mind 

 and accurate memory, and unless this statement of his 

 be altogether a delusion, this would seem to be the 

 last recorded appearance of a Wolf in Ireland. " 



The last piece of evidence collected has reference 

 to a communication which appeared in The 

 Zoologist for 1862 (p. 7996), under the heading, 

 " Wolf Days of Ireland." On applying to the writer, 

 Mr. Jonathan Grubb, of Sudbury, for further parti- 

 culars, he obligingly replied in a letter, dated June 6, 

 1877, as follows : 



"I am now in my seventieth year. My father, 

 who was born in 1767, used to tell the Wolf stones 

 to us when we were children. His mother my 

 grandmother related them to him. She was born in 

 1731. Her maiden name was Malone ; and her 

 uncles, from whom she received her information, were 

 the actors in the scenes described at Ballyroggin, 

 county Kildare. She remembered one of thorn, 



