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(the slender) held Lenieon Castle, and Dermod, Dunlough. Conor died in 1513, 

 and Finghin Caol succeeded as chief, and is named in the report to Henry YIII 

 two years later. Little is told of the chiefs during the mid-sixteenth century. 

 The Mahonys did not obey the summons of St. Ledger. In 1537 Dermod of 

 Dunloch, his brother, and Dermod's nephew, Conor Finn Oge, seem to have 

 been chiefs. In 1562 Donall, son of Conor, the owner of Eossbrin, was tried 

 for felony and executed at Cork, his estate being forfeited. The castle (value- 

 less to the Government, as no English tenant would live there) was given to 

 Mahony Finn and Cornelius, his son. In 1571 Perrot gave the castle to 

 MacSweeney, a gallowglas ; and in 1576 we find a pardon to Teige MaeConor 

 Mahony for rebellion. After 1584 Omahony came to terms with the repre- 

 sentatives of the Crown. The Chief, Conor Finn, died in 1592, not long after 

 the surrender of his lands to the Government. Among the chiefs who left 

 for Spain early in 1602, we find Connor Mahony, of Lemcon in Ivaghe, 

 Connor, son of Sir Finghin O'Driscoyle (of whom we had much to note in 

 a preceding paper 1 ), O'Sullivan Beare's son from Beare Haven, Shane 

 MacGillicuddy Shoulaghane of Beare, and Collo MacSwyne of Carbry. 



A number of maps of the early seventeenth century, or the last ten years 

 of the sixteenth, mark these districts, if imperfectly. Besides the interesting 

 sketch-plan of the siege of Dunboy, we have maps with Scoolehaven, 

 Crookhaven, Donmanyes, Loghan, the Sound of Dursey, and Kenmare. 

 Hugh Norton, " a gentleman appertaining to Lord Thomas Howard," made 

 surveys and soundings of the harbours for Carew. 2 His charts of Baltymore, 

 Beerehaven, and Bantry are preserved. 



Carew also gives a list of the forces of the chiefs in "West Cork. Mahon 

 of Ivagha had 26 horse and 120 kerne; Mahony of Brin (Eossbrin) 46 and 

 100 ; O'Sullivan Bere, 10 and 200 ; O'Driscoll, 6 and 200. 3 On what this 

 computation was based the writer does not say. The impression given by 

 other sources suggests a greater Irish force than about 600 kerne and under 

 90 horse. 



Schull. 



The little town of Schull (less properly spelled Skull) lies on its sheltered 

 haven with a fine outlook over the Calf Islands to Cape Clear and Sherkin. 

 Calf Island East has a long islet called Dooneen, a shore rock, on its north- 

 west flank. I have seen it through strong glasses, so that I could even 

 see a railing beyond it, but saw no fortification. It ought, however, to 



1 Proc. R. I. Acad., vol. xxxii, p. 110. 



2 Carew mss., p. 222. 

 * Ibid., p. 205. 



