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strong peel towers ; most, indeed, were " taken by paper pellets," notes 

 demanding surrender. "We read in Pacata Ilibcrnia that an officer and party 

 of Captain Eoger Harvie's men recovered the Castle of Lemcon, near Crook- 

 haven, from the Irish. Conor surrendered at discretion ; he and his men 

 received quarter, and he migrated to Spain, July 7th, 1602. ' The Carew 

 Manuscript says wrongly that Conor Mahony, of Lemcon, one of the 

 Mahons of Ivagh, left for Spain with the consent of the English in 1601. 

 It was granted to Captain William Hull, but the building was retained for 

 the use of the soldiers, and even on October 15th, 1612, he had to ask that 

 he might be recompensed, and that his tenants might not be abused. He 

 writes that the Castle and Island of Limcon have been taken from him by 

 Captain Pory, and that the soldiers had buried many pipes and hogsheads 

 boards, so he asks that he may enjoy the grazing, as the king's services 

 require the castle for the time. The Mahonys were still connected with 

 Lemcon in 1622, for the representatives of Connor leased certain ploughlands 

 there to Sir W. Hull, and in 1631 Finin mac Cnoghor mac Ganekard 

 Mahoune held the castle, vill, and lands. The latter had, by a settlement 

 of April 8th, 1617, enfeoffed Donagh ODriskoill and Walter Coppinger of 

 these, and by another deed, April 25th, 1625, feoffed Finin Oge, his son, in 

 other lands. He died 10th May, 1627, and was succeeded by his son, 

 Conoghor, who, on April 1st, 1630, demised Lemcon to Hull. Finne na 

 Cnoghir mac David Mahoune, late of Lemcon, died 10th July, 1626, leaving 

 a son, Cnoghor, of full age, and married ; Dermot, his son, appears in another 

 demise to Hull, October 4th, 1622. The family, like so many others, fell into 

 trouble in 1641, and Connoghor O Mahowny, of Leamcon, was outlawed. 

 Sir William Hull has left a deposition giving a long account of events at 

 the outbreak of the civil war. He says that on December 5th, 1641, he was 

 robbed of goods worth £769, and profits of lands and leases £1148. He 

 names O Mahowne, of Killmoo, in the Parish of Crookhaven, in West Carbry, 

 and others there, and in Scull Parish. I will only select those resident at 

 the places here described. Dermond Cartye was of Dunbeacon Castell, and 

 the O Mahownes held Lymcon. John Mac Dermond, of Long Island, and 

 some 700 or 800 persons, came about Christmas, and besieged the castle and 

 town of Crookhaven, and took all the goods of the townsmen, save what were 

 stored in the castle. The deponent then names Daniel Canty, the landlord, 

 of Donkelly. The long items of losses include the ten ploughlands of 

 Lymcon, held by Hull, £183. The house was fortified with towers and 

 works (p. 254), and was well able to defend itself against four or five 



1 Pacata Hibeinia, Book III, chapters ix, x. 



