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This, of course, was only so long as Wolf-hunting was an 
amusement and a royal sport. As soon as it became a necessity, 
and a price was set on the animal’s head, it was killed whenever 
and wherever it could be found. 
The price paid for Wolves’ heads in Ireland during Cromwell’s 
protectorate was something considerable. By an Order in Council, 
dated at Kilkenny, April, 1652, the exportation of Wolf-dogs was 
prohibited, and the following year another Order in Council 
directed that whoever should capture or kill a Wolf and produce 
the head should receive, from the Commissioners of Inland 
Revenue, £6 for a bitch-wolf, £5 for a dog-wolf, £2 for a full- 
grown cub, and 10s. for a young one. 
It would naturally be supposed that the offer of so high 
a reward would speedily bring about the extermination of the last 
Wolf in Ireland, but it was not so; great numbers were killed, 
but numbers still survived, so much so, that even ten years later, 
as appears by the Journal of the House of Commons, Sir John 
Ponsonby reported, from the Committee of Grievances, that a 
Bill should be brought in to encourage the killing of Wolves and 
Foxes in Ireland. 
In 1700 there where still Wolves in the great woods of Shillela 
between Carlow and Wicklow, and in 1710 rewards were paid for 
the destruction of some in Kerry. Richardson, the author of a 
work on ‘‘ The Dog, its Origin, Natural History, and Varieties,’ 
knew an old gentlemen, in 1841, whose mother remembered 
Wolves to have been killed in Wexford between the years 
1730—40 ; and Sir J. Emerson Tennant was informed by the 
Very Rev. Holt Waring, Dean of Dromore, who was born in 
1766, that he perfectly well recollected, when he was a boy, 
a foal belonging. to his uncle being killed at Waringstown, 
Co. Down. 
This places the extinction of the Wolf in Ireland at a much 
later date than is currently accepted; and the same may be said 
of Scotland, for, although one of the last Wolves in Scotland was 
killed more than twenty years before it became extinct in Ireland, 
this was more than sixty years after the date fixed by Pennant 
for its extirpation in Scotland. His statement that the last of its 
race was slain in 1680 by Sir Ewen Cameron, of Lochiel, must 
be taken to refer only to that particular district in which Sir 
Ewen Cameron lived, and not to the whole of Scotland, for 
