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Wolves in Ireland.—The following order, copied from the Common- 
wealth Records, shows that Wolves were troublesome in Ireland as late as 
the year 1659 :— 
Capt. Tomlins to take) WHEREAS some mony hath been issued upon 
fay Lapa ned Accompt to Coll. Daniell Abbott and others for 
brought from Green-| providing of Toyles for taking of Wolves, which 
hill, &.,toMr.Hunt-) have been brought over for publi use, and 
g er for publique 5 
understanding that part thereof is at present at Greenhill, near Kilcullen, 
Ordered that Capt. Tomlins, Comptroller of ye Trayne, do forthwith take 
care that ye sd Toyles and other materials thereto belonging bee brought 
from Greenhill or any other place, and layd in the publique stores, and 
there kept untill further directions shall be given concerning ye same. 
Dated at Dublin, 29 Augt. 1659.—Tuos. Hersert, Secretary. 
Extracts from ‘The Ulster Journal of Archeology.’ 
About twenty years since a person from the County Tyrone, named 
John Russell, was employed here as a farm-labourer. This person repeatedly 
affirmed that the last Wolf seen in Ireland was killed at a place called 
Glenelly by a mare in defence of her foal! He could not, however, give the 
date. This fact might lead to an answer to the inquiry of your corre- 
spondent Senex.—J. Brix, Prospect, Ballymoney.—Vol. ii. (1854), p. 281. 
An oulde Church made into a new Fort, Derry.—This conversion of the 
abbey church into a fort and magazine gave high offence. O'Sullivan 
tells the tale how a large and hairy Wolf caused the explosion which 
followed.—Vol. iii. (1855), p. 281. 
In the first year of the reign of Queen Anne..... The colony was 
now in its infancy..... The Wolf * and the Wild Cat, the Martin (sic) 
and the Red-deer, were beating an orderly retreat; while the O’Dempseys 
had bequeathed to their successors, in the Irish names in the immediate 
district, .... memorials significant of the wild animals, and indicative of 
the household of an Irish prince. Thus we have Kilbracken, the wood of 
wolves, &c. These translations are taken from Mason's ‘ Practical Survey 
of Ireland.’-—Vol. iii. (1855), p. 215. 
* We have seen an order of Cromwell’s time “ to send to Greenhills, near 
Kilcullen, for the toyles of the Wolves.” J. Howel, alderman of Cork, in a 
letter dated 1698, writes thus :—‘‘ Wolves indeed we have, and Foxes, but 
these indeed are now rather game and diversion, than noxious or hateful.” 
The wolf-hunting implied by Howel terminated in 1714, by the death of the 
jast of the race [in that county]. 
