316 THE FOWLER IN IRELAND. 



Dr. Harvey, in a letter dated 6th October, 1840, 

 remarked that the Red-deer was, and I believe still 

 is, in small numbers, in the Galtee Mountains, co. 

 Tipperary." The late Lord Lismore, of Shanbally, 

 who died in 1857, often spoke of having seen the 

 last Red-deer that was killed in these mountains. 

 Lord Bantry's gamekeeper, George Jackson, at 

 Glengariff, stated in 1850 there were some Red- 

 deer there. 



Thompson evidently considered that at the time 

 of penning his own remarks the Red-deer was 

 extinct in Donegal. 



Mr. Richard Glascott Symes, of the Geological 

 Survey of Ireland, has been at some pains to collect 

 information regarding the last Red-deer in Erris, 

 and thus relates the result of an interview which 

 he had in 1874 with an old man living at Nephin 

 More, ten or twelve miles east of Nephin Beg, who 

 well remembered the deer there. He says : " Old 

 Tom Daly, of Nephin, is seventy-eight years of 

 age, and is as hale and hearty as I am at thirty- 

 four, and has wonderful retentive powers as to 

 things that happened years ago ; still, of dates he 

 is ignorant, always marking the time a thing hap- 

 pened, not by the year, but by some remarkable 

 transaction, such as the year of the great snow, or 

 the year the big smuggler came into Achill. From 

 careful questioning, I elicited the following, of which 

 he has not the slightest doubt as to the accuracy : 

 The last deer he saw was in the Valley of 

 Dorragha, which lies between Newport and Nephin, 

 and opens towards the east. Two were seen here, 

 and this was during the year of the big snow, which 



