On the Introduction of the Squirrel into Ireland. 621 
It is remarkable that the wood at Luttrelstown, where Rutty* 
states the squirrel was said to be found in 1772 (and where no 
one else has seen it from his time until 1876), is identical with 
Lord Annaly’s demesne, at Woodlands, where the squirrels let 
loose by Mr. Shackleton multiplied quickly in 1877. 
Since 1876 squirrels have been recorded from Maynooth, Cel- 
bridge, Straffan, and Lyons. These may have originated from 
Lucan, but as the Wicklow squirrels, advancing over Dublin, 
would probably have reached these localities at the same time, 
the question is an open one. 
The late Mr. J. R. Kinahan, having had occasion to refer to the 
squirrel incidentally in a papert on Daubenton’s Bat, says, many 
doubt its ever having been indigenous; and, having quoted 
Rutty’s locality, adds, “and there is a tradition that it used to be 
found near Clondalkin.” 
Mr. G. H. Kinahan sayst{ :— 
“Years ago I heard my brother say he saw them at Hampton Ho, 
near Balbriggan, county Dublin, and my mother has told me that over 
seventy years ago they were at Cloverhill, Clondalkin, in the same 
county, having been introduced by her grandfather, Sir James Bond. 
There is no evidence to show that squirrels existed in either of 
these localities recently ; and, as it is not stated they were plenti- 
ful, perhaps they were killed or died before they had time to in- 
crease, or it may be there was but one sex set free. 
CENTRE No 3. 
Turning to the county Carlow, Mr. R. Clayton Browne, jun., of 
Browne’s Hill, has been at some pains to collect information for 
me, and has supplied a separate centre of introduction for that 
county. He says,§ the gamekeeper at Oakpark, the residence of 
Mr. H. Bruen :— 
“Tells me that some thirty years ago, the late Colonel Bruen intro- 
duced some squirrels, that they became very numerous, but after a great 
storm they disappeared, and now they are very scarce. It is nine 
months since he has seen one.”|| 
* Nat. Hist., Co. Dublin, 1772, Vol. I., p. 291. 
t Dub. Nat. Hist. Soc. Proc., Vol. I., p. 69. 
t In lit. to Mr. A. G. More, Ap., 1880. 
§ In lit., Feb., 1880. ; , 
|| This is almost the only instance of decrease in any locality, and may be due to local 
causes. Squirrels were thinned in three or four districts by the great frosts of 1878 and 
1879. 
